Volume 1 Born at the Right Time Chapter 4 Sadness Like a River
The sun had not yet risen, and the sky was covered with red glow
Xiao Jiansheng straddled a tightly wrapped narrow bag behind him and began to hit the road, walking alone along the way, stepping on the early morning dew and rushing to Yuntian City worriedly.
It was past noon, Xiao Jiansheng came to Yuntian City out of breath, after he saw the notice of Anmin at the gate of the city, he inquired with the surrounding merchants and shops, and learned that the large army led by Wei Xiangwu had left Yuntian City early the day before yesterday.
In order to catch up with the large army, Xiao Jiansheng entered the city non-stop, and finally ruthlessly after walking around the horse market, he spent eight taels of silver to buy a jujube red stagecoach that had been retired in the early years, he didn't have much time to prepare, turned over and went straight to the outside of Yuntian City.
Out of the Yuntian City is the vast and boundless grassland, under the long white clouds, a wide horse road trampled by countless horses' hooves trampled and wheeled into the distance, at this time Wei Xiangwu led by the eight thousand military horses stepped out of the horseshoe prints are still clearly discernible.
Xiao Jiansheng rode a horse for the first time, there was no way to control this sturdy stagecoach to run, at the beginning he did not fall on his heels, one person and one horse walked quite hard, almost after walking more than ten miles, he slowly adapted to the bumps on the horseback.
Although the stagecoach is a little older, but he has seen a lot of the world, more and more human, and then there is almost no need for Xiao Jiansheng to slap and shout, just hold the reins and clamp the horse's belly with his legs, and the horse will run forward steadily, with the wind whistling in his ears, the Yuntian City behind him will soon become smaller and blurred.
In addition to the special military position, Yuntian City is actually not big, backed by the Moshan Mountains that stretch for thousands of miles from east to west, the vast territory of the Fengtian Dynasty in the south of the mountain, and the Dajin Empire in the north of the mountain.
Xiao Jiansheng followed the traces left by Wei Xiangwu and them all the way to the southwest, running from sunrise to sunset, and then from dusk to the starry sky, he and the army were separated by a day and a night, in order to catch up with the army as soon as possible, he gave up the time to eat and sleep, as long as the horse could run, he would not dismount.
One man and one horse ran for two days, there was still no shadow of the large army in front, the red horse nose sprayed white mist, Xiao Jiansheng stopped Mahler, and lay quietly on the horse's back, staring at the front with his eyes.
At dusk on the third day, the grass became thinner and thinner, and the terrain began to rise and fall, and the horse was so overdrawn that he was running slower and slower, and he had to stop and let the horse nibble on the listless grass on the side of the road for a while, and by the way he took out a piece of dry and hard something from his bosom and put it in his mouth and chewed it.
At this time, Xiao Jiansheng suddenly heard the neighing of a horse in front of him, and he quickly grabbed the reins, held his breath and looked forward. He found that about two miles away from him, there was a lush and green forest that could not be seen, and a group of people and horses gathered on the edge of the woods, they were wearing uniform uniforms, which were basically the same as the soldiers he saw in the martial arts arena a few days ago, and the crowd was busy in groups of three or five, some were supporting military tents, some were building fires, and they were very happy, and it seemed that there were more than 30 people, among whom there was a woman in white who did not participate in it, and hid far away.
Xiao Jiansheng observed carefully, then looked at the surrounding terrain again, and patted the horse into the woods in a big circle.
There was still some time before it got dark, and after Xiao Jian gave birth to the horse, he found a crooked neck tree and tied the reins to a live buckle, and he also found a dry and hard place to sit down and carefully calculated.
Unconsciously, the sky has darkened, a round of toothless moon hanging coldly in the sky, it seems that the wind is rising, the head of the tree with the trunk swaying from side to side, the leaves above the head rustle, Xiao Jiansheng felt the wind blowing, found that the camp was just in the direction of the headwind, so he stood up, the cat bent his waist like a beast that found its prey, extremely cautiously leaned towards the position of the camp, about fifty or sixty steps away from the camp, he found a place to hide and squatted down, slightly poked his head out a little and looked at the soldiers in the camp quietly。
Although he didn't know what it was like to camp at night during the march and war, he found that these tents were not set up haphazardly, as if there were officers and soldiers, the most comfortable one was supported in the middle, the other six were scattered around, and one looked a little broken, and all around were full of holes and eyes were squeezed outside.
Xiao Jiansheng's eyesight is excellent, he squints his eyes and looks at each face carefully, and with the convenience of the wind direction, he can still hear some movement intermittently.
At this time, a soldier with a scar on the left side of his face, a white cloth wrapped around his chest, and a very strong soldier should be the small head of this group of people, he was surrounded by a group of people like stars holding the moon, they were eating meat in large chunks around a fire frame higher than the military tent, and the Xiao Jiansheng who watched it was rumbling in his stomach, leaving only a girl in white clothes who looked very lonely, and the girl in white had black and heavy iron shackles on her hands and feet, holding her knees and bowing her head far from the crowd.
When he saw the scarred face clearly, Xiao Jiansheng's face was extremely cold, especially when he saw the long knife in Scarface's hand, which made his eyes red. He struggled to suppress the urge to kill people, and tried his best to control his emotions and prevent himself from making the slightest movement.
He saw a soldier who couldn't cut two taels of flesh up and down his body was holding a wine utensil in the shape of a cow's horn, his face was full of sincere smiles and was talking, the wind was blowing towards Xiao Jiansheng, he could faintly hear the soldier's words mention a person named Shangguan Yunting, and also mentioned Shangguan Yunting's daughter, and then he found that the girl in white quietly turned her back when the soldier spoke.
Hearing this, Xiao Jiansheng suddenly remembered something.
At that time, there was a pair of words hanging on the mud wall of his adoptive father's house that had lost his white skin - retreat from the enemy for thousands of miles, and then die.
Although the words are not written in the style of everyone, they are full of ruthlessness, and later he learned that this pair of words came from after his adoptive father was drunk, and those eight words were related to Shangguan Yunting.
Later, he asked his adoptive father, what kind of person is Shangguan Yunting, it is worth a person with four walls of family to waste such a big piece of paper, from that time, Xiao Jiansheng, who was still young, had a sense of admiration for Shangguan Yunting, he felt that Shangguan Yunting was a big hero, but it was a pity that a big hero with countless military exploits ended up being beheaded.
Next, Xiao Jiansheng heard some things about Shangguan Yunting from the mouths of other soldiers, and it seemed that which uninhibited soldier also said that he wanted to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, which made Xiao Jiansheng vaguely guess the identity of the girl.
The night was getting deeper and deeper, and those soldiers, including Scarface, were already a little sleepy, yawning and the atmosphere was weird, and after seeing that Scarface had exhausted the last sip of wine in the pot, he said a few words with a playful face and then got into the middle of the military tent.
Not long after Scarface returned to his military tent, his subordinates also scattered with a lewd smile, Xiao Jiansheng watched the girl in white return to the dilapidated military tent at this time, leaving only four night watchmen in place, two of them carrying spears and bows back and forth in the camp, and the other two were responsible for adding wood to the fire.
The fire swelled with the wind, and the flames pierced the night sky, and the wood inside burned red and crackled.
I don't know how long it took, Xiao Jiansheng found that there were only two of the four night patrol soldiers left, and after a while, the remaining two people did not move their nests, they looked around cautiously from time to time, and then pricked up their ears to listen to the movement, and then laughed and chatted while roasting the fire.
Xiao Jiansheng quietly untied the bag behind his back and put it on the ground, took out a black cloth from it and covered his face, only his eyes were exposed, he took out a wide wooden-handled axe from inside, and tried the blade with his thumb, and after doing this, he tied the bag behind him, which was all his net worth.
Then Xiao Jiansheng cautiously moved to a more hidden position, just as the scar-faced military tent could tightly block the sight of the two night patrol soldiers.
Xiao Jiansheng observed for a while, he felt that the opportunity was ripe to be able to do it, just when he was about to get up and sneak over, he suddenly found that the curtain of the military tent in the middle was suddenly lifted, and then a sturdy figure shook out of the military tent with a bright long knife in his hand.
Scarface glanced at the two dutiful subordinates, and after waving his hand at the two of them with satisfaction, he signaled that they could go to rest, and the two exchanged glances without raising their heads and walked towards their military tents.
Xiao Jiansheng frowned, his eyes staring at Scarface, until Scarface bypassed the fire frame and came to the military tent of the girl in white, he looked at the long knife in Scarface's hand, his heart was beating suddenly, and his eyes were getting colder and colder.
Scarface hesitated for a moment, then raised his hand to lift the curtain of the girl's military tent, and Xiao Jiansheng tightened the handle of the axe in his hand and left the place.
Just when Xiao Jiansheng was less than ten steps away from the girl's military tent, he suddenly heard the scarface in the military tent say in his throat: "Little bitch, you have a stinky temper with your father Shangguan Yunting, I tried it a few times before just to see how much ability you have, and what about the cultivator, the sea of qi is sealed is a wasted person, come and come, accompany the uncle to be happy......
"Shameless!" Soon the angry voice of the girl in white came from the military tent: "Aren't you worried that I will kill you?"
"Kill me? hahaha. Scarface seemed to hear the most laughable joke in heaven and earth, and after laughing loudly, he continued: "If you can kill me, why do you have to endure until today, I advise you to take off your clothes obediently and let Uncle Ben enjoy it, maybe ......"
The sound of talking in the military tent stopped abruptly, and then there was a violent metal collision sound in the military tent, followed by a strong wave of air rushing into the sky, and the air wave tore the already tattered military tent into rags and scattered all around, at the same time, Scarface's strong body flew out upside down and smashed heavily on the ground next to the fire frame, and the woman in white also fell to the ground, the face that was enough to mess up the common people was as white as snow, and blood was splashed on the white clothes.
"That's all I can ......"
Scarface got up with a lewd smile, touched the blood overflowing from the corner of his mouth, and staggered to the white-clothed girl lying on the ground with a knife in one hand, at this moment, he suddenly saw Xiao Jiansheng with a black cloth covering his face a few steps away, and he was shocked, and shouted in a trembling voice: "Who are you, how many heads dare to break into General Wei's military camp, come to ......"
Before Scarface finished finishing the second half of the sentence, he suddenly saw the wood-chopping axe in Xiao Jiansheng's hand, the hideous scar instantly twisted and woke up for most of the time, and then turned around and fled without hesitation.
With a snort, the wood axe turned into a black shadow.
Scarface had barely taken a few steps when he suddenly realized that there was wind in the back of his head, and instinctively leaned over, trying to avoid the flying axe.
"Boss be careful......
This scene happened to be seen by several soldiers who woke up to check on the situation by the noise, and they saw a whirling black shadow slashing across the boss's neck, and flying straight towards the night patrol soldier who had just run out of the military tent.
At this moment, the night patrolman's eyes were almost out of the frame, he was shocked by the scene in front of him, and only saw a black shadow flashing in those frightened eyes, just feeling the position where the body and the head were connected, there was a trace of coolness, and the whole person fell headlong, blood sprayed.
At this time, Scarface's face had not completely fallen, and a headless sturdy body was pouring forward slightly, blood shooting straight into the night sky like a blowout, and the head was gone.
Xiao Jiansheng killed two lives with an axe, and he was stunned for a moment, and those murderous soldiers didn't want to believe the scene in front of them for a long time, and they couldn't make a sound when they opened their mouths.
At this moment, Xiao Jiansheng had come back to his senses, a few strides stepped in front of the fire frame and flew up, and in an instant, countless burning fireballs tumbled and flew towards the group of soldiers who didn't know how and those top military tents, the fireballs that rose against the storm rushed into the crowd, igniting two or three military tents around, the camp burst into flames, and the horses that were scurried together by the reins were overly frightened, their front hooves rose into the air, neighing and tearing off the reins and began to flee in all directions, some rushed to the fireball in a panic, and some rushed to their masters.
The originally quiet camp turned into a sea of fire in this instant, and in the sea of fire, horses ran and crowded, and the fire was full of smoke.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xiao Jiansheng turned around and ran to the girl's side to pick her up, he didn't stop for a moment and rushed towards the thin position of the crowd, first knocked over the two soldiers who had just reacted and raised their long knives to slash, and rushed into the night with a sigh of relief.
It was only then that those soldiers realized the seriousness of the matter, the boss was killed, it was General Wei's distant uncle, some people chased out with weapons in the direction where Xiao Jiansheng disappeared, some hurriedly rushed over to hug Scarface's body and trembled, and some drew their bows into the night, and the sound of fluttering was endless.
The vast majority of them have never experienced the bloodshed and changes of the battlefield, and the identity of the dead one is too special, all of them are as dead as ashes, and they are at a loss.