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Thirty years later, the northern desert city, surrounded by desert, is the junction of the two countries, on the left of the desert is the Qingqiu border, and on the right is the White Tiger border. In recent years, Qingqiu country has been in continuous drought, domestic food shortage, Qingqiu country often has people starving to death on the streets on the roadside, and the people are not able to make a living. The land of the White Tiger Country is fertile, the rain is abundant, the grain is abundant, there are many fish and rice towns, and the people have enough food and clothing.
The Qingqiu Kingdom has launched more than a dozen wars against the White Tiger Country, large and small. The people there are fierce, and they are a brave and warlike people. In order to expand the territory and alleviate the food shortage in the country, as long as they can rush through this desert, they can drive straight down and take several cities in succession in the White Tiger Country.
Of course, the White Tiger Country will not give up an inch of land. In the past few years, the whole country of the White Tiger has devoted the strength of the whole country to keep this desert airtight. Most of the Qingqiu Kingdom attacked, but he couldn't score another point. There is an obvious gap in combat effectiveness, but the White Tiger Country has been able to hold on for so many years, which has the factors of abundant grain and grass and complete personnel, and a bigger reason is that there is a guard named Jiang Gong here.
This guard general named Jiang Gong has experienced no less than 100 battles since he joined the army at the age of 20. He had just celebrated his thirtieth birthday on the battlefield. On the day of his birthday, he happened to encounter a sneak attack by the Qingqiu people and almost lost his life in Huangsha. It was at this time that a strange thing happened, which has been talked about by people to this day. And since that day, he has had another name, "General Cat".
That's right, when he almost let the enemy pierce his chest on the battlefield that day, a black cat that came out of nowhere pounced on the face of the Qingqiu general like lightning, and blinded the opponent's eyes with its sharp claws. It was precisely because of its help that Jiang Gong turned defeat into victory, took the man's head, and won the battle in a thrilling way. Jiang Gong's men and horses were almost wiped out. Since then, Jiang Gong has regarded the black cat as his savior, whether it is on the battlefield or on the battlefield, he must take it everywhere, eat and live with it, and be closer than his own brothers.
The black cat was napping in his arms at this time, stretched lazily, changed positions and continued to sleep. The black cat is Jiu'er, who has been looking for him for thirty years. After missing time in the underworld that day, she had been looking for his reincarnation in the human world, but she didn't expect him to run to this place where birds don't to fight. Thinking back to the scene when she saw him that day, she still sweated for him in her heart. If she came a little later, then his little life would probably have to report to Hades again.
This rational environment is a little worse, but it's okay like this, there are not so many complicated interpersonal relationships, not to mention that in this place where soldiers are horses, she can do whatever she wants, especially at night, she can go wherever she wants, and she has no scruples at all. As long as a small spell is cast, everyone here will fall asleep, and they will not notice anything strange at all. It's just that I don't know what he will encounter in this life, and whether he will be like the previous few times when he left the world, so that she can find it easily.
In the thirty years of looking for him, she searched all over the country, ten countries in the world, and found him. Before she found him, she didn't bother to pay attention to the whereabouts of the two stinky rats, and she didn't know where they were hiding. He was a guard now, and she couldn't leave him. The battlefield is unforgiving, he could die at any moment, and no one can hurt him again this time. She wants to help him make achievements in this place, so that he can have a great future, so that he can live the life he wants in the future, even if it is a happy thing to watch him marry a wife and have children.
There are some things that are predestined by God, and you can't do what you want. Jiu'er's wish was completely shattered on the day Jiang Gong turned thirty-four.
I still remember that day, because the Qingqiu Kingdom could not attack this desert for a long time, it gathered the military strength of the whole country, equipped with the most sophisticated weapons and the best war horses, and marched forward here. At this time, it happened that Jiang Gong sent people to escort the grain and grass to the next stronghold, and part of the troops were scattered, and it was when the manpower was reduced that the soldiers of the Qingqiu Kingdom attacked.
Jiang Gong quickly gathered all the men and horses, and also sent people to the front stronghold to transfer men, and he took the remaining troops out of the city to meet the battle. The battle was fought in the dark, and the ghosts wept and howled. Due to the large gap in numbers, Jiang Gong's men and horses have been wiped out, which is extremely tragic. In the end, he was the only one left struggling to support. Jiu'er on the side was very anxious in his heart. But in the face of these ordinary people, she couldn't use spells, she could only use the advantages of her cat body, jumping up and down, blinding all those who were close to Jiang Gong's side, so that they no longer had the ability to attack, and could only cover their eyes and howl.
Although Jiu'er has abundant physical strength and flexible body skills, no one can get close to her left and right, but the other party has too many people, and when a few people are besieging Jiu'er, the generals over there have already aimed their full bows at Jiang Gong. At this time, he had already killed his red eyes, and there were only those Qingqiu soldiers who rushed up in front of him, forgetting all about the enemy's rear, not knowing that others had already used him as a target. A galloping arrow pierced through the sky, passed the soldiers surrounding him, and thrust straight into his chest with ten percent of his opponent's strength with the sound of the wind. The arrow ran through his chest, and blood dripped down the arrow, dripping down behind him. After a while, the sand on the ground became a large wet, turning from yellow to dark red.
"No!" Jiu'er screamed when she was crazy. She looked at Jiang Gong who fell to the ground, her eyes were red, and her body was no longer under control. They killed him, and they all deserved to die. In that case, let's all stay and be buried with him.
Jiu'er's body gradually grew larger, and the soldiers around her were already frightened one by one when they saw her change like this, and everyone threw away their armor and fled for their lives. As they ran, they shouted in their mouths: "Youkai, youkai eat people, run!" "For a time, the whole army collapsed, and the people turned on their backs.
Unfortunately, it was already too late. The wind swept towards them with the yellow sand, and then Jiu'er stepped on it hard, and the entire yellow sand in front of them parted to both sides. The people who were still running on the ground all fell into the pit that was broken by Jiu'er. With a loud bang, a radius of twenty miles, it was razed to the ground. The horses, the soldiers, and the weapons they had brought with them on the ground were all buried in the yellow sand. The people who were struggling inside gradually became silent.
Half an hour later, there was no sound except for the sound of wind and sand. The thrilling killing scene on the battlefield just now, the shouts of slaughter that charged into battle, the neighing of war horses, the sound of blades colliding, everything disappeared without a trace. When the reinforcements arrived, they only had time to see the corpses of the soldiers of the White Tiger Country all over the ground, as well as Jiang Wu, who had been shot by an arrow and was stained red with blood under his body. What made them strange was that all the troops of Qingqiu Country had disappeared. It stands to reason that if they won this battle, they should have raced against time to take down this city, how could it suddenly disappear? And the twenty miles in front of it was razed to the ground, and a big crater suddenly appeared in the middle, what the hell is going on?
What happened in that famous battle is still unexplained. Because no one survived that war, including the black cat that had been following Jiang Gong, also died beside Jiang Gong. Jiang Gong was posthumously named the King of Baicheng by the White Tiger King because of his meritorious service in defending the city, and his tombstone stood in the center of the city, which was admired and loved by the world. The world also deliberately carved a lifelike black cat next to his tombstone, and the short life of the "cat general" came to an end.
It is said that because of the great losses in this battle, the Qingqiu Kingdom no longer had the ability to fight, so the whole country moved north for 200 miles, away from the border of the White Tiger Country. Because of this, Qingqiu and Baihu have been able to exchange for nearly a hundred years of peace, and in the past hundred years, there has been no war in the northern desert, and the people have lived and worked in peace and contentment.