Chen Zhen sat on his war horse, looking at everything in front of him with a solemn expression, silent. At this time, he was eight miles away from the south gate of Huqin City, the country of the imprisoned ox, and the battle in front of him was raging, but he was not affected in the slightest, it was obvious that this man was not in the center of the battlefield, but just pressed the formation.

The man was covered in a silver heavy coat, and the horse under his crotch was also fully armed, his hooves kept scraping the ground, and a thick wheezing sound came from his nostrils. The heavy wheezing sound of his own mount was extremely pleasant to Chen Zhen's ears, especially when combined with the roar of the battle, it was simply an auditory feast, and Chen Zhen had been happy with it for twenty years.

He is a general and the absolute commander of the army of the Mocking Wind Nation on the expedition against the Prisoner Ox.

In the army of the country of mocking winds, Chen Zhen is known as the "White Bone Killing God". This title is not false, it comes from the fact that he has been going out in silver armor for many years, and he must personally supervise the battle in every big battle, but also from his killing enemies without blinking. The army of the country of Jairus has always been called "mad dogs", because they slaughter cities every time they win, and they eat people like mad dogs to sweep the land without spitting out bones, and for many years they have played their own terrifying style, which is terrifying. And what about the "White Bone Killing God"? It is even more terrifying. Chen Zhen's horror is not in the slaughter of the city, on the contrary, he never hurts young women and children and the elderly, but at the end of each war, he will take out the enemy defenders or the strongest in the barracks and fight them alone, if anyone can defeat him, he will be taken under his command, if he can't defeat him, then all the enemy troops will be beaten into slavery, tortured half to death and sold to other countries.

Of course, he never lost.

Before going on the expedition, the monarch of the Mocking Wind Country had also thought about whether to set up Chen Zhen as the commander in this war against the country of the Prisoner Ox, after all, he was looking at the realm of the Nine Kingdoms and wanted to be the emperor who ruled the world, and Chen Zhen's style of leading troops could be regarded as extremely ruthless, if what this person did after capturing Huqin City really damaged the benefits of the Mocking Wind Country, then it was obvious that the gains outweighed the losses. But at that time, the Mocking Wind Monarch thought about it, the strongest person in Huqin City was also the biggest minister, that was Shaohong, the only sage in the Nine Kingdoms who had been famous for a long time. And against the Sage, of course, it is impossible to expect another Saint Realm powerhouse to defeat him head-on, but instead he has to rush to his strongest means to win, at any cost. So to this day, Chen Zhen rode a horse and stood eight miles outside the south gate of Huqin City, personally supervising the battle.

Personally supervising the battle is Chen Zhen's habit of being in the army for more than 20 years, but to his disappointment, he was a little disappointed that he could not see Shaohong on the distant city wall in front of him, which made him feel a little depressed and made him not very happy.

The sound of horses' hooves at a gallop sounded from Chen Zhen's right, and he didn't distract himself from looking at it but stared at the situation on the battlefield. The area within a radius of several miles outside the south gate of Huqin City had become a Shura field at this time. The battle formations used by both sides were the same, with the cavalry rushing to follow, and finally the archers pressing the formation. The army of the mocking wind has not yet been able to attack the city wall of Huqin City, so at this time, the corpses and bones outside the south city gate are everywhere, and they are miserable. But life after life is still disappearing here at a rapid pace, and there is probably no more appropriate adjective than this.

After the herald finished his report, he quickly left, and the lieutenant general beside him rode around and turned to Chen Zhen's ear, and whispered into his ear: "General, it seems that the country of the imprisoned ox is ready to use those warlocks of the half-saint realm. ”

"Oh? Are you sure?"

"Sure. Just now, the herald came to report, and he had seen three half-holy warlocks who appeared in the face paint in a row ascend to the top of the city, as if they were calculating and preparing something. ”

"Good. Hearing the news, Chen Zhen immediately said: "Order the rear army to carry the eight sky-bombing cannons prepared for us by the monarch to the front of the battle." Please prepare for battle, and order the front army to retreat and prepare to fire the cannon. ”

"Yes. ”

"I want to see what kind of tricks Huqin City can play without Shaohong's Array. Aim the blasting cannon at the walls and prepare to fire!"

Wang Xiaoqi was forcibly conscripted, although he didn't want to fight, although he still had an old mother at home, and although he hadn't married a wife yet, he was still sent to be a soldier.

The day the government came to arrest people was considered humane, and before leaving, he threw 20 catties of white rice and white noodles into the yard of his house, probably because he thought that the government was great if it was rich, and if it was rich, it could do whatever it wanted. Twenty catties of white rice and white noodles are probably enough for his mother to eat for a while, right? Since the beginning of the march across the Mocking Wind Border, Wang Xiaoqi has been thinking about this matter. But what should I do after I run out of rice and noodles? Twenty catties, even if I save money, I can't eat it for two months, and after two months, my mother will probably have to worry about food again. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but start to worry.

The forced conscription of the country of the mocking wind this time is very strange, although it is clearly said that after the end of the war, all the unconventional troops - such as Wang Xiaoqi who was temporarily conscripted - will be paid eight taels of silver as military salary, and if he is martyred, he will be given twenty taels to his family, but it seems that everyone is rumoring that the so-called military salary is just a disguise, and there is no such thing. When everyone thought so, Wang Xiaoqi didn't think so, he was a relatively simple child, and he felt that the government would at least not deceive them, otherwise what would the government be and why would the government control them? So every time he thought that he would get eight taels of silver after returning home, he felt happy in his heart. How should I use these eight taels of silver? Buy a cow or buy a few **, so that I and my wife can live a more comfortable life, and there are eggs to eat at home. But every time he thought that there would be twenty taels after eight taels, he became worried. This is the first time in Wang Xiaoqi's life that he is worried about having a lot of money, after all, it is a big problem to spend too much money.

He was very simple, and this simplicity made him much easier than others when he was marching, and there was no one to bully him in the barracks. No one likes to bully a fool, and when you bully a fool, you don't have a sense of accomplishment at all, but it's better to provoke those veteran ruffians. At least provoked the veteran ruffian, even if he was beaten in the end, it was a kind of spirit of courageously moving forward without fear of hardships and daring to challenge "authority".

So half a month after the so-called urgent training, Wang Xiaoqi followed the troops to the battlefield and went to the front line. It's been half a month since they sent out their army from the Land of Mocking Wind to come here. The spirit of Wang Xiaoqi's optimism on the march made him very diligent. The croppers are full of strength and can't be used up. So in the barracks, he was idle and had nothing to do, so he helped others do this and that, and when anyone had work that he couldn't finish or was tired and didn't want to do it, he greeted "Xiao Qi, where is it?", and then Wang Xiaoqi appeared. couldn't say hello, and Wang Xiaoqi came after two or three sounds, so everyone liked him very much.

Among this group of soldiers, the person who likes him the most is called Du Wu, who is a regular soldier and can be regarded as kind-hearted. Du Wu has been a soldier for five years, and he is not a veteran oil, but he was also sent to be a centurion for these children who were temporarily recruited, commonly known as taking children. Du Wu has no dreams or pursuits, he doesn't even have the idea of being a leader, let alone a higher-level official. He is a dignified seven-foot man, and he looks half a head taller than Wang Xiaoqi, but he just has a sip of wine. This person asked Wang Xiaoqi to drink when he had nothing to do, but Wang Xiaoqi didn't drink it, so he used water as wine to drink with him. It was often that Du Wu was already drunk, and Wang Xiaoqi didn't have anything to do, but instead had to wait for others to sleep, and waited until the centurion fell asleep before he left.

Du Wuai is not looking for Wang Xiaoqi to drink for a while, but for someone who can talk. It's not that Du Wu can talk to Wang Xiaoqi or that Wang Xiaoqi can say something to Du Wu, it's just that Wang Xiaoqi doesn't drink and doesn't like to talk very much. Every time Du Wu chatted with him about something, he always responded with "En", "Ah", "Yes, yes". This kind of chat is actually not a solution, but Du Wu likes this bite. In normal days, he was a centurion, and although he was a soldier with him, he was too old to speak, and what about the old brothers who joined the army with him? Either they died in battle or had already been promoted, so they couldn't speak.

It's just because Wang Xiaoqi can't speak, so he can talk to Du Wu instead. Drinking, especially making friends at the wine table, is always a matter of being born and cooked twice. After coming and going, Du Wu became familiar with Wang Xiaoqi. Once Du Wu looked for Wang Xiaoqi to drink again, and when he went to the place where he slept, he didn't find anyone, so Du Wu looked for it in the barracks, but he didn't expect to find Wang Xiaoqi crying on the edge of the latrine.

Seeing his friend crying, Du Wu couldn't sit idly by, so he walked up and asked, "Xiao Qi, what's wrong with you?"

"I miss my mother, I want to go home. ”

Hearing this, Du Wu suddenly rushed up with an arrow step and directly covered Wang Xiaoqi's mouth. After covering the young mouth, Du Wu looked left and right nervously, and only after making sure that there was no one around him did he let go of Wang Xiaoqi's mouth and said, "Xiao Qi, you can eat nonsense, but you can't talk nonsense." Did you forget what you just said?"

"Yes...... But I just want to be my mother......" Wang Xiaoqi said aggrievedly, he was a dignified man, his eyes were swollen at this time, and he was about to cry, and this scene was also very melancholy for Du Wuqi.

"Xiao Qi, since I have said this, my brother has to tell you something off-topic. Seeing Wang Xiaoqi like this, Du Wu felt that it was time to say something now. So after he paused and sorted out his thoughts, he said with some seriousness: "Xiao Qi, do you know, you are too gentle, this is not good for yourself." ”

"Huh, brother, what do you mean by that?"

"That's it, how can I tell you? People don't live for themselves. Or that no one can live completely according to their own way of life, and something is going to happen. Whether it's you or me, what you want to do is always to take into account what others think, what others think. Have you ever thought about what would happen if what you just said was overheard, or reached by the ears of the general?"

Du Wu is just a soldier, in fact, he doesn't know who the person who led the troops out to fight this time is, and of course he doesn't care much about this. Anyway, among the lowest non-commissioned officers in their group, it is always right to call all the people at the top "generals" and the people at the top always "generals".

After listening to his words, Wang Xiaoqi shook his head and said that he didn't know.

"You are shaking the morale of the army, you should be killed!" All of a sudden, Du Wu said a little viciously.

Wang Xiaoqi's body trembled suddenly, the night near the thatched house seemed to be a little too thick, Du Wu couldn't see the expression on his face clearly, but he could always hear him say in a trembling voice with a crying voice: "That...... Then Brother Du, what should I do?"

The man shook his head slightly, then sighed, as if there was nothing more to say. For such a young calf, Du Wu really has nothing to say. The best way for him to grow is to grow bigger and bigger, experience more and feel more, and the best growth is after he has experienced it himself.

It's a pity that this is a military camp, a place that is destined to grow rapidly, and needs experience and experience. No matter how difficult it is to produce a noble son from a poor family, this sentence is the same when applied to the army. How can a person who has no relationship, no experience, and no way of dealing with the world get ahead?

Speaking of this, Du Wu couldn't help but think of himself. Wasn't he just an ambitious kid who wanted to make a career out of nothing. But career is not easy to get, when you have nothing, what qualifications do you have to pray to the heavens for everything? He has indeed worked hard enough, but what is the reward, he can't imagine.

So in the end, Du Wu still sighed and said softly: "Say less and do more, so be it." ”

Say less and do more, what an easy-to-understand four words, what an easy-to-figure truth. These four words seem to Wang Xiaoqi, who is standing on the battlefield today, and it seems that it is indeed very simple, but the person who said this sentence will never see him again.

Half an hour ago, Du Wu died in front of Wang Xiaoqi like that, he died for him. At that time, the two armies were fighting, and a spear was inserted from the horizontal thorn and stabbed at Wang Xiaoqi's right arm. Wang Xiaoqi had just killed an enemy, and he had just gone to the stage where the old force had just gone to the stage where the new force was not born, let alone dealing with the strange soldier riding a war horse.

Of course, he felt the presence of the strange soldiers, but he was powerless to resist. This state of powerlessness is the most hateful and disgusting. At that time, a sense of powerlessness surged into Wang Xiaoqi's heart like a mountain of water, and he really felt that he was a piece of duckweed, like a small grass, which looked fragile and small under the crushing of the war machine.

He thought, he would never see his old lady again.

But at this moment, as if reinforcements had descended from the sky, Du Wu appeared beside him and blocked the attack of this spear for him with his chest. The long hair pierced Du Wu's chest and leaked through his back, and the blood splashed on Wang Xiaoqi's face violently, which made him stunned. Just when he was stunned, Du Wu in front of him violently waved the knife in his hand and cut off one of the front hooves of the war horse. Just when the war horse lost its balance and fell suddenly, Du Wu raised his hand and directly split the head of the cavalry with another knife, and the second smell of blood instantly spread.

Holding Du Wu, who had already passed through the spear, Wang Xiaoqi couldn't believe all this. He couldn't believe that the man, who looked like his brother despite being his centurion, was going to die in front of him like this. Wang Xiaoqi didn't have a brother, so when Du Wu appeared, he cherished it very much, and he was also a little timid. But now, cherishing and timidity are coming to an end, and he will not have this brother. The pain of loss is far from being occupied by the pleasure of gaining, and the two are completely opposite things. Everyone in the world has to pay for their own pleasure with double the pain, when Wang Xiaoqi first heard this sentence, he didn't understand anything, but today, he seriously felt a heart-rending and silent pain.

Although he was on the battlefield, Wang Xiaoqi's tears poured down and dripped on Du Wu's face, which seemed to give him a glimmer of vitality.

"Brother Du...... Why save me, I've already killed someone, and I don't lose anything, but why do you still save me!"

Wang Xiaoqi almost shouted this sentence with a roar, but his voice was quickly drowned out in the cry of life and death. It seems that he received Wang Xiaoqi's summons, and the blood hole on Du Wu's body is still bleeding, but there is a look of returning to the light on his face. Blood not only flowed out of Du Wu's body, but also came out of his mouth. He hung his last breath with his last bit of life, and gently pushed Wang Xiaoqi's head to his lips with his left hand, which had been mutilated, and then said:

"Stinky boy, keep your life and go back to see your wife. ”