Chapter 3: The Princess's Marriage 3
"Don't you know ...... too"
"We can't do anything." She said.
"Yes, we can."
The light in her eyes suddenly gathered, "Here we are." β
"What?" I asked.
It soon became clear to me that a massacre without a declaration of war was imminent.
Through the groom's shoulder, I saw the first nightmare of my life, a dense mass of wolves, their green eyes lit up by the gray sky.
The groom was so frightened that he fell from his horse, and the horses of our carriage were frightened, and he trembled as he ran, and I could feel his fear as I leaned against the wall, and there was no regulation under the horses' feet, and so did the people.
I took a step forward and pulled the horse closer and patted the horse in front of me gently to calm it down.
There are so many pairs of eyes, count them carefully, there are hundreds of pairs, and the wolf on the grassland is so earth-shattering in one dispatch.
I squatted on the carriage and held the reins with one hand, "Jimoyi, you come." β
She looked up at me, "You want me to ride the horse, and you go to the princess?" β
She's so smart, it's easy to see what I'm thinking.
Before leaving, my mother repeatedly told me that Princess Jinglu and her relatives are related to the peace of the two countries for decades, and no matter what happens, I will try my best to protect the safety of the princess, and I must not let this peace and relatives fail.
"Can you hold the horse?" I looked at her thin palms.
"Don't go." Ji Mo Yi said suddenly.
Was she scared too? At this life-or-death juncture, I wanted to laugh.
"I'm going to Princess Jinglu to protect her."
Ji Mo Yi walked out of the carriage, "She has General Sun, who has experienced a hundred battles, and thousands of Qi Wei troops by her side, so she doesn't need you to send her to death." β
"Soon there will be no more than a thousand." I said as I looked at the wolves' towering tails like sword hilts.
In a few moments, our send-off and pick-up teams were broken up in front of these natural hunters, and once everyone began to flee, it was equivalent to giving the wolves a signal to attack.
In the tribe where my mother was born, people fought against wolves, and people in the tribe said that when they faced the wolves, they would tear apart if they saw the slightest cowardice. The crowd began to flee, and the massacre was about to begin.
The leader was a silver-white wolf king with a chest, and I stared at it, and I always felt that it was also staring at me, and it was like a round bow, which could run at us at any moment.
I didn't know if the wolf king had attacked first, but when the wolves rushed towards us, my mind suddenly went blank, because wolves don't howl when they attack people, they come running silently like arrows from the string.
There were cries and cries for help all around, whose cries reached my ears, and just like that, I recovered from the shock, took Jimo's hand, and forced the reins to her, "Get out of here!" β
"You're going to find the princess?"
"Yes!" I said firmly.
The crowd was dispersed by the wolves, and the remaining people around the sedan chair in front of them were only seven or eight hundred, and I knew that it was the circle that protected Princess Jinglu, and I was going to be with them to protect the safety of His Royal Highness.
"Jimojiao, you don't need to go to her at all, so many people protect her, if you can't keep her, it won't be useful for you to go."
"I made a promise to Your Majesty, a promise to my mother, and even Chen Meiren asked me to protect her Princess Jinglu well, and if I fail one promise, I will fail all of them."
She grabbed my wrist, "You're going to die, I'll go with you." β
I suddenly couldn't understand this Jimo Yi, she was obviously against me just now, and she was going to go with me in the blink of an eye, "Okay, come with me." β
Zhu Dong trembled and grabbed Jimo's shirt, "You...... You guys...... Don't ...... Don't leave me alone......"
At this juncture, I still couldn't help laughing, "You're going too?" β
She steadied her voice, "Swear...... Swear to defend Your Highness to the death. β
The three of them had determined their goal, and I drove the carriage to the princess's sedan chair, and the horse seemed to be stabilized by me, without the slightest hint of fear.
It's getting closer and closer, it's getting closer and closer, there are only a few dozen steps, there are three or four hundred soldiers around the princess's sedan chair, the first man-wolf battle has been missed by us, most of the wolves are full of people lying on the grass to rest, dozens of wolves surround the north, south and west of the human circle, and the east is General Sun, who broke the armor, he killed the red eyes, and the wolves automatically avoided him.
Both men and wolves confronted each other motionlessly, and only our horse, which walked smoothly towards them.
I straightened my back, while suggesting to myself that these were no different from the wolf dogs raised in the palace, and that there was no need to be afraid, and a few wolves slowly walked behind our carriage and followed us leisurely, and my hand holding the reins slowly oozed cold sweat.
"What should I do?" I whispered to Jimo in the back of the carriage.
I don't know why I believed that she had a solution, but she gave me a kind of confidence, a kind of courage.
She said, "Stop here." β
So we stopped in front of General Sun, his eyes widened, and he couldn't understand why the three of us had to come back to die when we had the opportunity to run for our lives.
The carriage was much farther away from the princess than the maid's, but the maids had fled without a trace, and the rest who did not want to flee had been torn to pieces by the wolves and sacrificed their internal organs.
The man-wolf froze.
Behind me are Jimo Yi and Miss Zhu Dong, two steps in front of me is General Sun, his arm was bitten by a wolf, a copper coin wound is bleeding, a few steps forward is Princess Jinglu in the sedan chair.
I don't know if she was scared or calm at this time, this group of wolves indulged wantonly, and when they killed humans, they bit their necks, blood splattered everywhere, and Princess Jinglu's white curtains were also dyed bright red.
At this moment, the breath seemed to freeze.
The second battle was started by the wolves behind me, and I knew they must have grabbed our horses.
At the same time, a wolf was delusional about rushing into the Northern Qi army led by General Sun, and the tightly guarded sedan chair was obviously a toy that the wolves wanted, and they couldn't wait to rush in to bite and play.
The wolves lying down on the ground rose one after another, and the contrast between man and wolf was completely reversed, and half an hour ago we were much more than them, and after a slaughter and a full meal, they were only a handful of dead and wounded, and the remaining giant wolf's fur was shiny and refreshed.
Hundreds of wolves were rushing in our direction at the same time, and the three of us would surely be their belly meal with our bare hands.
I immediately made a decision, and before the wolves holding the back of the car turned their heads to eat us, I shouted to them in the car: "Run into the circle!" Fast! β
Zhu Dong and Ji Mo Yi jumped out of the car from the right hand side of my walk, and the wolves behind the two cars turned around and glared at me fiercely, and I saw that their teeth were still stuffed with the clothes and flesh of the palace people.
After they jumped out of the car and ran into General Sun's circle, I also jumped out of the car, and before I could stand up, the two wolves suddenly pounced on me.
The ground was full of dead soldiers' spears and long swords, I quietly held a blood-stained sword, the heat in my ears hit, turned around and stabbed sharply, accurately into the throat of the wolf, its blood sprayed my face, and the other wolf stared at me blankly, temporarily stopping its attack on me.
General Sun shouted at me, "Come here! β
Rolling and climbing, I finally ran into this circle of hundreds of people, and the long sword in my hand was still firmly grasped.
When I got into the chariot, she lifted the curtain to pick me up, and when she saw my bloody face, she was stunned for a moment, and then she took me by the hand and led me into the carriage, and the princess lay down on a splendid mat of gold and silver threads, as if she had fainted with fright.
Ji Mo Yi gave her a pulse and said the same, it seems that she was just too frightened, I let out a long breath, no matter what, Princess Jinglu is not hurt.
Around the carriage was the roar of wolves and the sound of soldiers fighting, and I don't know when this battle between man and wolf will end, or which side will end with victory.
Ji Mo Yi took out a meniscus dagger from his sleeve, unsheathed it neatly, and said, "When all the men outside are shattered, we will be the last barrier. β
Zhu Dong didn't speak, she looked at the bloody long sword in my hand, glanced sideways at the dagger, and gently and decisively pulled out a golden step on her head.
Courage on the cowardly will only die more and more, but if it is placed on the fearless, it will gradually accumulate, and finally erupt, and I and the brave of Jimo will take this squeamish little girl to meet a life-and-death struggle together.
My mother said that there is a god Tengger on the grassland, and I prayed that Tengger would help us live this time.
No one spoke, and of the four people in the car, one fainted to the ground, and the other three were ready to die.
We didn't lift the curtains, all three of us were waiting for the wolves to attack, and I heard the two of them tighten their hands gripping their weapons, and the air on their skin grew colder.
The battle suddenly stopped, and I closed my eyes and heard the breathing of a circle of wolves around me, and the smell of the huge steppe animal was approaching, and I was especially sensitive to the smell after killing the wolf.
Even Mo Yi knew that the moment had finally come, there was no sadness or joy in her eyes, and the cold sweat on my chin dripped down and fell on the mouth of the tiger holding the sword, and the color of blood was washed away for a while.
"We're surrounded by this pack of wolves." Zhu Dong said. Even she knows where we stand.
"Will you die?" Zhu Dong asked, I don't know if I'm asking Jimo Yi or me, anyway, I won't be asking General Sun, who has lost his breath.
My attention was highly concentrated, and I was ready to cut the throat of the wolf who pounced on me, and I had no energy to answer her life and death answers.
"Montafihaβ"
"Saiyuβ"
"If the cloth is goneβ"
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A high-pitched and long song came, and the sound of the horse's hooves was getting closer and closer, and even the sound of the horse's breath was clearly discernible.
Jimo and I looked at each other, and our eyes were full of surprise, it should be the local herdsmen who had arrived.
The sound of horses' hooves trampling, that is, Mo Yi said: "It is a large group of warriors on horseback." β
I don't know how she can be sure that they are a group of warriors of the steppe, but I am willing to take her word for it.