Chapter 169: The Frozen Uncertain River
Dugu Xin led the troops to Chen on the south bank of the Wuding River, hunting with battle flags, flying in the snow, full of spirit, listening to the endless congratulations and celebrations of the generals, but he only nodded slightly, and on his handsome face, he still couldn't help but smile a little.
Then he turned around and looked at Wei Xiao: "I don't know how General Wei evaluates this battle?"
"This battle completely annihilates the Demon Clan's sailors, and the enemy army is now only 400,000 foot cavalry, and our army still has 120,000 troops, facing the enemy across the river, although the strength of the two sides is slightly different, it is also in a state of stalemate, so," Wei Xiao groaned for a while, and said: "This battle can be a key battle to turn the situation between the two armies, General Dugu has a good command, and his contribution is indispensable!"
"Yes, yes!" Xu Yanda couldn't hide his joy: "More than 200,000 enemies were killed in this battle, and the morale of the enemy army must have been greatly damaged.
"No!" Dugu Xin waved his hand: "The one that our army relies on to break the enemy is the sharpness of the sailor, and now that the demon sailor is frustrated, he must be strictly guarded at this time, and he will not easily fight on the water, and the strong attack at this time may not be effective." ”
What General Dugu said was exactly what Wei Xiao thought in his heart. Wei Xiao nodded in agreement, but frowned.
Dugu Xin looked at him: "Our army has won a complete victory this time, and the whole army is happy, why is General Duwei sullen?"
Wei Xiao turned his head and looked at the Wuding River, it was evening at this time, the sky was blue and gray, and it seemed to be lowering more and more, above the river, the drums and drums were fighting, floating on the water, the shouting and killing during the day, the sound of boats and oars, the sound of drums and horns, and the shadow of ten thousand lights and swords, seemed to be gradually gone, only the ancient ferry port of tens of millions of years, silent as before.
Only the snowfall of the sky, from morning to night, kept falling, and it seemed that the sky was also singing an endless elegy for this tragic battle.
"Poor and uncertain riverside bones, like a person in a spring boudoir dream. ”
Wei Xiao faced the Wuding River and groaned, as if there was snow falling in his eyes.
Several generals, who were originally beaming, fell silent.
They remembered the soldiers, subordinates, brothers, and the martyred General Fu Huang who died in this battle.
"In the war, there is no thick burial, and besides, all the soldiers in the water war have also sunk, so it should be a water burial arranged by God!" Dugu Xin was silent for a moment: "They are all good men in my phantom clan," and ordered: "Go and prepare paper candles, I will wait here and conduct a water sacrifice for them!"
After a while, by the Wuding River, paper candles were placed, the stone was used as the table, and the soil was used as incense, and several generals and soldiers held a special water sacrifice for the soldiers who died in the water battle.
This night, Wei Xiao returned to the camp tent, but the whole tent was empty, silent, and after a while, Dugu Xin's subordinates said: "Miss Jia Luo was drunk yesterday, and her body is still very weak today, and she vomits when she eats. ”
Wei Xiao responded: "Got it." Then he waved his hand and sent the soldier away.
He lay alone in the big tent, only to feel that the tent was extremely cold, and he could hear the sound of snow falling on the snow outside the tent at night, thinking in his heart that in this war, the phantom warriors who died were still worshipped, and those demon warriors were not the dream people of the women in their homeland thousands of miles away?
Although the demon army has lost a total of nearly 300,000 people, Ye Chen still has 400,000 troops in his hands, which is enough for this demon general to kill the gods, and although the phantom army only seems to have lost more than 60,000 people, it has greatly damaged its vitality-
Who is the loser and who is the real winner in this war?
and Bai Qianyu, since she came back from a trip to Chaisang, her attitude towards him seems to have changed subtly, and she no longer talks about everything......
Wei Xiao thought about it over and over again, listening to the sound of snow falling in his ears, and the occasional sound of breaking branches outside the tent, knowing that the snow was falling heavily at night, crushing the branches, he listened and listened, and he only felt that there seemed to be thousands of troops and horses on the pillow, stepping on the sound of breaking through the glacier, and fell asleep unconsciously.
In his sleep, he could still hear the sound of breaking the ice, Wei Xiao still felt that he was still in a dream, and suddenly his chest was cold, it seemed that there were two pieces of ice pressed on his chest, and the two pieces of ice were still moving in his chest, and the cold air through the bones woke him up from his dream.
Wei Xiao was startled, turned over, instinctively retreated, pushed the girl away with one palm, grabbed the iron armor and draped it on his body, but saw the girl being pushed by him and sat down on the ground, covered her face and cried: "Wow, people are kind enough to get up in the morning and call you to get up, how can you bully people like this?"
Her voice is as crisp as a silver bell, even if it is accompanied by crying, it is also very good.
Wei Xiao then remembered that this girl was Dugu Xin's little sister Dugu Jialuo, and she felt very sorry in her heart, so she hurriedly walked over and helped her up with both hands: "I'm sorry, Miss Jialuo, I'm ...... I didn't hurt you, did I?"
"It's hurt, it's hurt!" Dugu Jialuo sat on the ground, his two hands were still covering his face, and secretly looked at Wei Xiao's anxious and worried appearance for her from between his fingers, he only felt very interesting in his heart, but he still cried on his mouth: "You push someone's sake, it's so heavy!"
"I ......" Wei Xiao hurriedly squatted down and looked at Dugu Jialuo's body: "Where did I push you, let me see." ”
Dugu Jialuo suddenly let go of his hands and said with a smile: "I scared you!"
Wei Xiao breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay if the girl is fine." ”
Dugu Jialuo stood up from the ground, Wei Xiao saw that she was fine, turned around and wanted to get the cloak, and said: "Miss Jialuo, please go back if you have nothing to do, a few generals will come in in a while, and they will discuss military affairs." ”
There was no movement behind him, Wei Xiao turned around strangely, but saw Dugu Jialuo standing in place, frowning lightly, stomping his feet and saying, "I'm in trouble!
Wei Xiao had no choice but to step forward: "Where is the girl injured?"
I saw Dugu Jialuo raise a finger like a spring onion, pointing at his heart, his mouth pursed, as if he was about to cry: "Here, I'm injured here!"
"Then ......" Wei Xiao was stunned: "Then how can you be happy?"
Dugu Jialuo laughed happily: "Brother Wei Xiao, you come to play with me!"
She jumped forward, took Wei Xiao's right hand, and ran out of the tent, her braids were beating with her figure, which was extremely cute.
Wei Xiao was pulled by her, so she had to follow her out involuntarily, and when she got out of the tent, she saw that the outside of the tent was already icy and snowy, and it was silver and white.
They stepped on the snow outside the tent as deep as a foot, and the snow fell overnight, and the cedar trees were soft and soft, and when they stepped on it, it was a deep footprint.
Dugu Jialuo pulled Wei Xiao, laughed all the way, and ran all the way forward, the giggles like silver bells sprinkled all the way, and also sprinkled a series of footprints in the snow.
They made their way to the Wuding River.
At this time, the heavy snow that had fallen overnight had already stopped, the sky was blue-white, and there was a thick layer of ice on the Wuding River!
The frozen surface of the river, the ice shines with a cold light, as far as the eye can see, smooth as a mirror.
Dugu Jialuo dragged Wei Xiao's right hand with both hands, stood by the river, and exclaimed: "It's so beautiful!"
Yesterday's bloody battle, the corpses, shipwrecks, drums and flags, were all covered in a thick layer of ice, the sky was blue and white, as if the sky used a huge pen like a rafter to erase all the tragedy of that day.
The surface of the river, several zhang wide, was all condensed into an ice mirror, and in the center of the mirror, there was a faint small black dot, motionless.
Dugu Jialuo looked intently and found that it was a sika deer frozen in the middle of the river by ice, the smoky brown deer hair was dotted with small white spots like snowflakes, and the antlers were still swaying slightly, like branches.
"Brother Wei Xiao, look, there's a deer frozen there!" Dugu Jialuo pointed to the sika deer and turned his head excitedly: "Shall we go and save it?"
She took Wei Xiao with one hand and was about to run to the middle of the river.
was tightly held by Wei Xiao.
"Jia Luo, no, it's very dangerous!" Wei Xiao stared at the other side of the river and said in a deep voice: "Do you know that the hundreds of thousands of demon army are on the other side of our river at the moment, and now that the river is frozen, they can rush over at any time!"
"But," Dugu Jialuo reluctantly looked at the fawn frozen by the thick ice, the fawn's head swayed from side to side, as if it was still struggling to die: "If we don't save it, it will die!"
"Please, Brother Wei Xiao, let's go over and save it, okay?" The girl grabbed Wei Xiao's hand, swayed, pouted, and coquettishly unforgivingly.
Behind him, Dugu Xin's cold voice came: "General Wei, little sister Jia Luo has such a small wish, can General Wei bear not to fulfill it for her?"
"General Dugu!" Wei Xiao turned around: "The general got up early!"
"No way, after my father died, over the years, I haven't slept very well, and I woke up early," Dugu Xin held his hand to his mouth and coughed lowly: "The first glow after the snow is a rare scene, Jia Luo has been lonely since he was a child, I, as an elder brother, only focus on labor and military affairs, and rarely play with her since I was a child - Jia Luo rarely has a favorite person, General Wei, I think you can play with her for a while!"
"This ......" Wei Xiao turned his head to look at the frozen river, a little embarrassed, but in an instant he understood the meaning of Dugu Xin: "Wei Xiao heard the sound of breaking ice outside the tent early in the morning, could it be General Dugu......"
Dugu Xin coughed lowly: "General Wei, but it's okay to go, Jia Luo will be handed over to you!"
Dugu Jialuo cheered, took Wei Xiao's hand and ran away in an instant, shouting in his mouth: "Thank you, brother!"
In an instant, he jumped down from the shore of the ice, the ice was really thick, and the two of them jumped down, but they did not crack at all, Dugu Jialuo pulled Wei Xiao, ran all the way to the center of the river.
"Slow down, Miss Garo, slow down!" Wei Xiao was dragged by this lively girl, for fear that she would run too fast and fall on the ice, reminding her all the way.
On the bank of the river in the distance, on a small dirt slope, there sat two figures, one man and one grass, staring at the frozen river.
"I said, little white girl, don't you feel bad when you see the two of them like this?"
"I ...... I don't know," Bai Qianyu looked at the two figures running on the ice, his eyes were as if he was burned, and lowered his eyes: "Actually, in this other world, I am just a creation god-like existence, and I shouldn't be involved in this world, let alone affect Wei Xiao, right?"
"However, you have already intervened," Clover said prophetically, "Moreover, you have also influenced Wei Xiao, don't you know how much you have influenced him?"
"But...... Alas!" Bai Qianyu sighed, straightened a dead grass in his hand, folded it, straightened it again, and finally simply kneaded it in the palm of his hand, and his heart was like this mess: "I don't want to affect Wei Xiao's fate because of my intervention, what I designed for him was originally a happy ending!"
"Is it with Dugu Jialuo?" Shamrock asked.
"No, it's Cinnabar, the daughter of the Emperor of Heaven. Bai Qianyu replied.
"But," Clover thought for a while, and finally asked a question that even Bai Qianyu couldn't answer: "How do you know who Wei Xiao is with will be more beautiful and happy?"