Chapter Twenty-Six: If there are people in the mountains
In front of the narrow mountain road, an army of 500 men is displayed.
The formation is rigorous, and the armor is distinct.
In the front were two rows of archers, followed by shieldmen, pikemen, foot soldiers, and light horsemen.
On the field, more than 100 meters away, fourteen people on horseback formed a group.
Most of them were stained with blood and held scimitars. Two men were carrying crossbows, and one of them lay the blade of what appeared to be a short spear in front of his saddle. The girl in the center is holding a sword, clearly the leader.
More than 100 meters later, there were 500 elite cavalry lined up in a charging formation.
Three horses protruded in front of the formation, and Shi Jian in the center was wearing a helmet and armor, his face was grim and silent.
On the left is a middle-aged Taoist with a leisurely demeanor. On the right is a general, with his arms outstretched. In the cylindrical glass hourglass in the palm of the hand, fine sand is flowing into the lower layer like a line, from the upper layer.
The grass grows wildly, and the peanut trees are mixed.
It is a bright and good spring, but the fields are full of murderous atmosphere, and they are about to explode.
Before a stick of incense, the Zhennan army finally closed in front of the most remote mountain trail and blocked this group of people who rushed out of Qiyun City. The other party would rather die than surrender, and Shi Jian ordered to attack in a quarter of an hour.
Why wait a quarter of an hour? The general is quite strange.
Indecisiveness is really not the domineering style of the general in the past. Besides, in the face of more than a dozen hares caught in the net, how could his face be so solemn as if he was facing 100,000 heavenly soldiers, and he also invited the head of the sand road to come out.
Asha looked in both directions, put her sword into the sheath, and said with a bright smile:
"The Central Plains court said that people are like pigs and dogs, ignorant and barbaric, weak and despicable. But today, we barbarians went deep into the tiger's den in Longtan and killed dozens of soldiers to break out, which shows that they are not invincible...... It's a pity that the luck was a little worse, and the Nether Bell didn't kill Shi Jian. The horses were ambushed outside the city in advance, but they didn't expect that after the wolf smoke rose in Qiyun City, the camp in the south of the town blocked all the roads leading to Yunshan......
"But it doesn't matter, we're still young and we can grow...... Don't persuade you anymore, the goal of the Zhennan Army is Asha. If I continue to escape, everyone will be buried with me. Death is not terrible, but someone must go back to the mountain and tell Wu Lao that I agree to merge my clan into the Hou Fan. After listening to the order, I scattered in groups of two or three to escape and sneak into the mountains and forests. Although there are still nine deaths, there is a glimmer of hope for escape......"
There was a commotion.
Dasha and the second stupid urn said angrily: "Let's not go......"
Agui hurriedly said: "If you want to go together, you want to die together......"
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Asha made a pretty face and said:
"It's easy to die, but it's hard how to live. I decree in the name of the princess, and you don't listen either? ”
Everyone was stunned and said in unison:
"Yes."
After a few breaths of silence, Agui muttered:
"Princess, I have a sentence that I have always held in my heart, I am afraid that I will not have a chance to say it in the future......"
"Say."
"As long as Agui has a breath, he will avenge the princess and never marry for the rest of his life...... I also want to tell you that, actually, I, I, I ......"
Asha interrupted with a smile and said:
"Brother Gui, Asha has always treated you as her own brother. You don't have to avenge me, but you have to fight for your people. The girls of the clan like you, and the population is getting smaller and smaller. You have to marry and give birth to a whole bunch of dolls. We are young and vigorous, and we have repeatedly fought with Wu Lao. In fact, what he is concerned about is the rise and fall of the entire clan, and he has a long-term view, and he can't do that in the future. ”
"Yes......"
The two girls interjected and said in unison:
"We swore a heavy oath before the gods that we would never leave the princess for the rest of our lives. The Princesses will go, and we must follow. ”
Asha closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, she was full of tears, and said slowly:
"Good...... Ah Cao, Ah Miao, are sisters in this life, and sisters in the next life...... The three of us stayed, breaking off for our brothers. There is nothing to die, you can return to the arms of the gods, you can see Abba and Grandma...... If Asha fights to the point where he has no strength to commit suicide, you must do it, and do not let me fall into the hands of the enemy and suffer humiliation. Everyone, get ready, spread out the circle a little ......"
The Thirteen Horsemen spread out in a large circle, with their backs to the Zhennan Army.
Asha dismounted and picked up her sword, took off her boots, spread her arms, and shouted loudly to the sky.
"Are you there?"
Everyone was stunned, and even the general of the Zhennan Army, who was proficient in Fanyu, was inexplicable. Thought, she looked like a prayer god, but her tone was so strange, it looked like she was calling for a friend.
Asha spun around and shouted again:
"Brother Xin, are you there? Can you see me? Can you see your little sister Asha? ”
A dark cloud drifted in, obscuring the clear sky.
The girl's face showed shyness, but she didn't care:
"I met you when I was six years old, Brother Xin. Abba died in battle, and I was the only descendant. He was well protected by his clansmen and didn't have any playmates. Being with you that day was Asha's happiest time. Later, the fish jumped all over the stream, the birds covered the sky and the sun, and the beasts crossed the mountains and mountains. I was terrified, and I cried. You hugged me and said, there is a brother here, not afraid, not afraid......
"I 'buzzed' in my head and didn't know anything. When I woke up, I was lying in the stockade, crying and screaming to find you. But the old people in the clan said that it was the mountain god who transformed into a child to play with me, and also gave the birds and beasts that fainted all over the mountains as gifts. Later, when I saw the idol during the sacrifice, I cried so sadly. I'm afraid that you will become a white-bearded old man, and you will no longer believe in your brother......
"In three years, the two gods, the Black Tiger and the Panda, will begin to protect the tribe, and the mountains will be full of your legends. I always feel that you are always around, but you can't see anything. I wandered between the mountain streams, slipped out of the village on a full moon night, and imagined what it would be like for you to be a year older on every birthday......
"Those dark days were accompanied by fighting, flight, pain, death...... Whenever I can't hold on, when I think of you being with me, my heart brightens up and I am full of hope...... I searched for it, and after nine years of searching, I finally saw my back flashing. It turns out that you have also grown up. Whether it is the mountain god or not, it is always my brother who believes...... Today, Asha is leaving, leaving this world forever. I don't want to do anything, I just want to dance and sing a song for you......"
The people collectively dismounted and faced the center, returned the knife into the sheath, and bowed to the ground.
The generals are far away, and they are fragmented and confused. Think Asha prays to the gods for a while, and then brothers and sisters, could it be that her brain is deranged?
Fannu is amorous and unrestrained, not informal. Love is said out loud, and even after a bonfire, he goes with the person he likes. There is no need for the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker, and the auspicious period of the dowry...... He was reprimanded by the scholar as absurd and lascivious, and shameless.
The general has been suppressing bandits for many years, and he knows that this is not the case.
They are amorous but not abusive, and they are fierce and chaste. If you identify a person, you will not change your mind for the rest of your life. If men are negative, they will not cry and cry and be resentful women, but will pick up steel knives and Gu poison......
Ethereal and sweet singing wafts across the fields.
"If anyone is in the mountains,
was taken by the scorpion.
Both smiling and smiling,
Zi Muyu is good at ......"
Asha stood still for a moment, then leaned her neck and swirled around, singing and jumping up.
The lyrics are simple and elegant, meaning that there is a person walking through the mountain recess, and I am wearing a lily waist and a female dill to look at it secretly. Smile with affectionate eyes, will you like my beautiful slender?
Everyone froze.
The girl has been speaking Mandarin before, but this song is sung in the official dialect of the Central Plains.
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"The rest of the secluded seclusion will never see the sky......"
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"I can't be idle......"
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"The people in the mountains are full of flowers, drinking stone springs and pine and cypress......
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"The wind is sassy and the wood is Xiao Xiao, and the son of Si is away from worry."
The song tells the story of a beautiful and simple girl in the deep mountains who falls in love with a man she can't see. She waited infatuatedly, and even thought of reasons for the other party, and he may also miss me but is not free. The flowers disappeared year by year, the clouds drifted by, the rain fell, the leaves fell, and the person never appeared......
After singing and dancing, the people of Manchuan are quiet.
It's one thing to fight and fight, it's another thing to watch a woman die tragically. The sergeants were in a trance, wishing that the hourglass flow would be slower so that Asha could finish singing and dancing and fulfill her last wish.
The song stops, the dance stops.
The hourglass doesn't know when it's gone, and the general is shocked.
Why didn't the general give the order to attack?
He quickly turned his head and found that Shi Jian and Sha Dao Chang didn't pay attention to the hourglass at all, nor did they look at Fanren, but stared at the left front.
A masked man in the shape of a teenager was walking step by step into the field.