Under the scorching sun of June, the northern land is even more desolate, and it has also experienced a series of wars, several slaughters, and there is no grass in a radius of more than 100 miles, and the earth is like a drought, cracking the cracks of different sizes. There were many corpses along the way, including wild beasts, birds, and even people. Some of the carcasses were not yet decomposed, and some goshawk vultures had come to fight for food. This situation was not alleviated until the border area of Helan Mountain, and occasionally a few trees were seen on the roadside, and the more you went to Helan Mountain, the more prosperous the trees became. Despite this, the weather was still hot, and occasionally a gust of wind blew, like a heat wave.

The border was already sparsely populated, and most of the survivors left their homes after the Mongol battle. Only a few elderly and disabled people with walking difficulties remain. Due to the last Mongolian battle, the defense with troops was strengthened, and the local people were restricted by the army, and the mountain roads and main roads were blocked.

On the other side of the avenue, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves, and Yin Zhiping, who had already set off to find the truth, raised his head slightly and looked ahead, only to see dust flying ahead. Yin Zhiping thought that he had encountered Mongolian soldiers, and hurriedly wanted to hide on the side of the road, and from time to time a horse team had already arrived in front of Yin Zhiping. There were about a dozen people on the horse, each wearing a gray military uniform, but it was a Mongolian soldier, and the young man sighed. The horse team was led by an elderly Mongolian soldier, and I saw him jump off his horse, and his skills were very agile, but he was not the same age as him. The old Mongolian soldier walked up to Yin Zhiping and asked, "Little brother, do you see a horse team passing by?" ”

Yin Zhiping didn't answer, but just stared at the water bladder on the old Mongolian soldiers and horses, the old enough to immediately understand, smiled slightly, walked to the horse and took off the water bladder and handed it to Yin Zhiping, Yin Zhiping immediately took it, and didn't even bother to say thank you, so he immediately drank it, and drank all the water from time to time. The veteran smiled slightly and said, "Little brother, you can answer me now, right?" Yin Zhiping returned the water bladder to the veteran, and then replied: "Horse team? Aren't you just a horse team? The veteran was stunned and smiled: "I'm talking about other horse teams!" Yin Zhiping shook his head and said, "I'm going north, the road is desolate, not to mention the horse team, I haven't seen a single figure." ”

Another older Mongol soldier in the cavalry said to the old Mongol soldier, "Centurion, it seems that they have not yet arrived, we can take the lead!" The veteran immediately jumped on his horse, smiled slightly, and threw another water bladder to Yin Zhiping and said, "Little brother, thank you." As he spoke, he rode away. Dozens of horses behind him were dwarfed, leaving only a trail of dust on the avenue, which could not be dispersed for a long time.

Yin Zhiping put away the water bladder and said with a smile: "This veteran is a good person!" As he spoke, he continued to move forward, and after walking about half a mile, he heard the sound of horses' hooves again, and from time to time dozens of horses came into view. Yin Zhiping felt strange in his heart, looked up, but saw that these people were also worn by Mongolian soldiers, but the military uniforms were cyan. I saw a middle-aged Mongolian soldier led by him, with thick eyebrows and broad eyes, and a bearded face, but I heard him shout at Yin Zhiping: "Hey, have you seen a group of horse teams passing by?" Yin Zhiping heard that the man's tone was arrogant, and he was not the same as the old soldier before, and he suddenly felt disgusted, but he didn't answer him and continued to walk forward.

The middle-aged Mongolian soldier scolded: "Damn, it turned out to be a dumb person!" A Mongolian soldier behind the middle-aged Mongolian soldier said: "Captain, according to the traces left by the horse's hooves on this road, I believe they have arrived at Helan Mountain, let's hurry up, otherwise we will let them win the lottery first!" The middle-aged Mongolian soldier nodded and said, "Okay!" As he spoke, the group rode away.

Yin Zhiping wondered in his heart: "What are these two groups of Mongolian soldiers for?" It seems that there is some agreement in advance, but I am afraid that the other party will arrive first. This bearded Mongolian soldier has an abominable face, he should not be a good person, and he seems to have bad intentions towards the old soldier. When he saw the bearded Mongol soldier talking to him, he decided in his heart that he was not a good man. Yin Zhiping thought again: "This veteran is not bad to me, and he gave me a bag of water bladders before leaving, should I go and report to him?" Besides, even if you don't have time to report the news, you can go over and take a look, the previous murder, that person is simply fierce and can't do it. Counting it, it has some connection with the things in the tomb of the Great Khan, and I can't figure it out for a while, so I'll talk about it after reading it first! Thinking of this, Yin Zhiping immediately turned around and ran in the direction of Helan Mountain.

Yin Zhiping chased all the way to the traces left by the horse's hooves, his foot strength was about the same as that of a horse, and it was already evening at the foot of Helan Mountain. At this time, the sun is shining in the west, although it is not as hot as noon, but it is still sultry. From a distance, Yin Zhiping saw dozens of horses tied to the bushes at the foot of the mountain, which was exactly the same number as the two groups of Mongol soldiers. Yin Zhiping ran out of breath, his mouth dried up, and he immediately opened the water bladder that the veteran gave him and drank it all, which quenched his hunger and thirst.

Yin Zhiping looked at a mountain peak in Helan Mountain filled with smoke, and he couldn't see where the peak was at all, he only felt that this mountain had been inserted into the sky, and said in his heart: "This mountain is so big, so high, I don't know where they went?" "When I think about it, I feel like I'm a bit troubled. But seeing that it is getting late, there may be a place to stay in this radius of a hundred miles, it is better to go up the mountain to take a look, and maybe find a place to stay overnight.

As soon as Yin Zhiping stepped on Helan Mountain, he felt that the wind was pretty, although it was so, it was still much more comfortable than the sultry feeling outside the mountain. Yin Zhiping immediately quickened his pace and went to the mountain. Helan Mountain is full of dense trees, ancient vines and strange grasses everywhere, and some are rare herbs, Yin Zhiping has only seen them in medical books. After walking for a tea time, Yin Zhiping heard the sound of fighting in the bushes in front of him from a distance, and immediately quickened his pace, hiding behind a tree to watch, but in the bushes were the two groups of Mongolian soldiers.

I saw the cold light flashing, the two knives clashed, and there was a crisp sound of "clang", and I saw that after the Mongolian soldier in Tsing Yi fed the false move, he immediately skimmed the knife to the left, but his body leaned down, stretched out his hand to clap his palm, the upper knife and the lower palm, and the knife palm was double-pronged, approaching the gray-clothed Mongolian soldier standing not far away. The gray-clothed Mongolian soldiers were a little younger than the Tsing Yi Mongolian soldiers, and when they saw this move, they didn't know what to do, so they stood on the spot. The gray-clothed veteran shouted, "Attack him." ”

After being instructed, the gray-clothed Mongolian soldier immediately drew his knife and leaned over to attack the Tsing Yi Mongolian soldier, and after several swords, the Tsing Yi Mongolian soldier was immediately defeated and fell to the ground. The bearded Mongolian soldier immediately said angrily: "The steppe man is in the competition, you are pointing on the side, it is really a bit of a victory!" The Mongolian soldiers in Tsing Yi immediately shouted and cursed. The gray-clothed veteran didn't care, smiled slightly, and said, "The person I taught me, as their captain, you can also speak, and the old man won't mind." ”

The bearded Mongol soldier said angrily: "What fairness is there in this way? We said that it was one-on-one, and you messed up the situation indiscriminately, did you see that we were bullied by the vanguard of the right army? The gray-clothed veteran still smiled and said: "The rules have always been set by the vanguard of your right army, and now that your centurion is dead, this rule should also be set by our vanguard of the left army!" The bearded Mongolian soldier said coldly: "Although this rule was set by our centurion, but it was also agreed with your captain back then, and both sides agreed, how can you say that it will be changed, and it is almost time, what rules are you still talking about." ”

Yin Zhiping saw that the Mongolian soldiers in Tsing Yi had lost a game, and secretly applauded, he just felt that the Mongolian soldiers in the vanguard of the right army were hateful, and he only hoped that the Mongolian soldiers in the vanguard of the left army could win. Yin Zhiping heard that the two of them were no longer fighting, but what they were talking about, such as midnight, and so on, he couldn't understand the words at all, and he felt very bored. From time to time, Yin Zhiping was already grumbling under his stomach, and his five organs turned upside down. Yin Zhiping immediately took out a piece of dry biscuit from his luggage, and as soon as he took a bite, he immediately stuffed the biscuit into his arms and scolded secretly: "It's the same as a stone, how to eat it?" But at this moment, Yin Zhiping looked up and saw three fist-sized red fruits on the tree where he was sheltering, like red pears, and immediately turned over on the tree.

Yin Zhiping often climbed over the wall and climbed the tree with his friends when he was a child in Shangjun, this tree is not too high, in a blink of an eye Yin Zhiping has climbed to the top, sitting on the fork of the tree, reaching out to pick the three fruits, who knows that the hand has just touched the fruit, only to feel a burst of heat, but only a momentary feeling, Yin Zhiping only felt extremely hungry, and did not care, from time to time has eaten all the three fruits, only the core remains, put it in his hand to play.

Although these three fruits could not completely solve Yin Zhiping's hunger, it was better than a complete empty stomach, Yin Zhiping had nothing to do, so he had to lie on the branch and look at the Mongolian soldiers under the tree. But he heard the bearded Mongolian soldier say angrily: "Since we can't reach a consensus, it's better to see the truth with our subordinates, and if you lose, you will go down the mountain immediately." The gray-clothed veteran smiled: "The old man has this intention!" Yin Zhiping saw that although the bearded Mongolian soldier was rough, he was very agile, and he couldn't help but pinch a cold sweat for the gray-clothed veteran.

Yin Zhiping was extremely disgusted with the bearded Mongolian soldier, and seeing that the knife was about to stab the gray-clothed veteran, Yin Zhiping had an idea, picked up three fruit cores and threw them at the bearded Mongolian soldier, shouting: "The hidden weapon is here!" "The bearded Mongolian soldier was negotiating with the gray-clothed man wholeheartedly just now, and he didn't even care that there were other people on the spot. As soon as he heard the hidden weapon, he immediately drew his knife and turned around, but saw three unknown objects flying down from the sky, but the speed was not very fast, and the bearded Mongolian soldiers did not use their hands to catch it, but only stabbed it with a knife.

The blade of the bearded Mongol soldier was more than a normal blade, and this stab actually pierced three fruit cores into a string. I only heard the bearded Mongolian soldier shouting, "What is the matter? As he spoke, he looked at the tree, but saw Yin Zhiping sitting on the branch, dangling his legs and laughing. The gray-clothed veteran was also strange, looked up, and hurriedly smiled: "It turned out to be you, little brother!" Yin Zhiping smiled and said: "Centurion, you are good to me, I heard on the road that this bearded man was coming to harm you, so I came to report to you." The gray-clothed veteran said in his heart: "Is he my opponent!" But he said to Yin Zhiping: "Thank you little brother so much!" Yin Zhiping hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Where, where, you send me water, I should report to you." ”