Chapter 6: The Wind 6
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After winning the battle but losing their own commander, what is the significance of such a victory, no matter how brilliant it is? Immediately, Tao Dachun and Pan Mei were both shocked, and they threw aside the war horses they had collected with great difficulty, and began to dig three feet into the ground on the battlefield with their weapons. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
However, for the sake of military morale and morale, they could not openly tell the brothers that the inspector was missing and they needed to be searched for. I only dare to be like two headless flies, turning around in the east and in the west. If you encounter a person who is curious, you have to explain in a matter-of-fact manner: it is dark and the snow is thick, and I am afraid that the Khitans will hide under the snow and pretend to be dead, so we must take precautions.
"Two, two adults, you, you're not looking for the inspector, are you?" Take the initiative to catch up and stammer.
"You, you are talking nonsense!" Pan Mei shuddered in fright, turned her head, and decisively scolded, "What am I looking for the inspector to do? He is so high in martial arts, and he is not a child! Don't be a fool! Shunzi? Is it you? Did you see the inspector just now?"
"Yes, yes! I'm talking nonsense, I'm not telling you!" Li Shun'er was frightened at first and retreated, and then heard Pan Mei's questioning, and stammered with a sad face, "It's me, it's me!" I, I just saw the inspector and chased him to the northeast. Over there, there seemed to be two enemy soldiers, running, running faster than anyone else. When the adults saw that you were all busy, they chased after you with a steel whip!"
"You, why didn't you say it earlier!" Pan Mei was angry and anxious, raised the gun and pumped it towards Li Shun'er. The latter did not have the courage to resist at all, holding his head in both hands, and while dodging, he shouted loudly, "You, you didn't ask me! I, I chased you for a while just now before I caught up." I, I asked several times what you two were looking for, you, you and Brother Da Chun ignored me!"
"Then, then you should have informed us earlier!" Pan Mei knew that she was wrong, poked her spear on the ground, and angrily complained. "It's so dark, the snow is so thick, if an adult has a mistake, you, you can't redeem it!"
"How is it possible? The adults are strong in martial arts, one beats ten of them!" Li Shun grinned, and he greatly admired Zheng Ziming's skills. "Besides, who is more familiar with the surrounding terrain than our family? There is a radius of three hundred miles, and there is a place where he has not personally stepped on it!"
"If you're not afraid of 10,000, you're afraid of what happens! You can't force a mad dog into a poor alley, do you understand? Although your lordship is strong in martial arts, the other party is either life or death!" Pan Mei saw that he still dared to talk back, picked up the gun and wanted to whip again.
Tao Dachun regained his composure one step ahead of him, set up his weapon with a weapon, and reminded in a low voice: "Don't fight, what's the use of you beating him to death at this time?" Hurry up and chase after me, lest Ziming really be careless for a while, and be turned around and eaten by the rout!"
"You stay here and command the brothers to clean up the battlefield, and I'll chase after you!" Pan Mei suddenly came back to her senses, glanced at Tao Dachun gratefully, and discussed in a low voice, "You can't let everyone lose their hearts, Brother Dachun, you stay here and sit in charge." Just let Shunzi go with me, he knows which direction Zheng Ziming is going! Junzi also said just now that there are only two opponents. Even if it is doubled, Ziming and I can deal with it!"
"Okay!" Tao Dachun thought for a moment and nodded decisively.
The enemy army has long since completely collapsed, and the chances of being reorganized in a short time are slim. As long as Zheng Ziming himself is not careless, two or three routs are indeed hors d'oeuvres under his hands. If there is Pan Mei, a clever ghost, sweeping the formation, basically, Zheng Ziming will have no possibility of capsizing in the gutter at all.
When the two reached an agreement, they immediately took action. Tao Dachun took over the command of the entire team from Li Shun, and quickly began to gather men and horses to clean up the battlefield. Pan Mei and Li Shun'er took short weapons and bows and arrows in their hands, and chased them in the direction where Zheng Ziming disappeared as quickly as possible.
The sky is getting darker and darker, and the range of search that can be searched around is getting narrower and narrower. Fortunately, the snow on the ground is thick enough, and it is rare for people to appear in the barren mountains and mountains, so according to the footprints left in the snow, Pan Mei and Li Shun will not lose their target. However, it is basically impossible to get together with Zheng Ziming immediately. The snow was not deeper than their calves, and the two of them couldn't even raise their speed to run. If you are not careful, the soles of your feet slip, and you will fall full of Venus!
Stumbling, stumbling, I don't know how many heels I've fallen, and I don't know how long I've been chasing. Before the two of them felt that their limbs had been numb from the cold, and they might fall down and become a zombie at any time, they finally saw Zheng Ziming's lonely figure behind a raised boulder.
Squatting behind the boulder, he was frozen and motionless. Faint starlight shone through the cracks in the clouds, casting a faint outline of his face, which, when viewed from the side, was as hard as a knife and an axe. "Shhh
"My God, you really have you!" Pan Mei crawled over with her hands and feet, and complained in a low voice in a hoarse voice, "Call me to find this way, if it weren't for the sharp eyes of Junzi who told us where you were." Tonight is going to be in turmoil!"
"Blame me, blame me! I thought it was just a matter of half a pillar of incense!" Zheng Ziming's face was slightly red, he arched his hand, and apologized in a very low voice. "All right, brothers, are there many casualties today?"
"Now you finally remember who you are!" Pan Mei was angry and hateful, her eyes widened and she continued to protest in a low voice. "Don't ask me, I don't know! Brother Da Chun'er is cleaning up the battlefield. What the hell is going on with you today, you can't even clean up two routs!"
"This ......" Zheng Ziming was slightly stunned when asked, and a touch of desolation instantly appeared on his face. But soon, he hid the desolation, shook his head, and explained in a gnat-like voice: "It's not that I can't clean it up, but I'm thinking about whether I should let them go." If none of them escaped, just the loss of a few hundred soldiers would be nothing to the Youzhou side!"
"......?" Pan Mei was stunned, and her face instantly showed a little hesitation. Today's battle is undoubtedly a hearty victory for the Inspection Division. However, for the behemoth of Liao, the disappearance of hundreds of soldiers is not worth mentioning at all. Even if there was no battle, every year the Liao soldiers who fled in confusion or died in the internal struggle of the army would add up to thousands. What's more, the battalion of Khitans that was wiped out today was once under the command of Yelu Liuge, and it was originally within the Liao State, and it was the object that needed to be purged as soon as possible.
"But, but the two of them seem to be officials!" Li Shun'er's thinking was not as complicated as Zheng Ziming and Pan Mei, and he leaned out from behind the boulder and glanced into the sheltered ravine below, emphasizing in a dumb voice.
This condition immediately affected Pan Mei's judgment. Half of his head poked out of the boulder, and he quickly looked down. I saw a pile of weak bonfires, two Liao people who were about the same age as themselves were huddled together to keep each other warm. One of the guys, dressed as a Khitan general, was already drowsy. Another guy dressed in the color of a Youzhou military uniform pressed the handle of the knife with one hand, and with the other hand, he kept stirring the firewood in the bonfire with the branch he had picked up, so as not to freeze in the cold wind after nightfall.
"Junzi, I'll deal with the awake one, you go and kill the sleeping one!Ziming, you just sweep the formation for the two of us!" After taking a deep breath softly, Pan Mei lowered her voice and began to plan her next attack.
Zheng Ziming seemed to be frightened, and quickly turned his head to look at him, but finally didn't say anything. Li Shun agreed in a low voice, and slowly pulled out the horizontal knife from his waist.
"Rub a few ropes and tie them to the soles of your boots first to avoid slipping!" Pan Mei nodded at Li Shun and continued to arrange in a low voice. From beginning to end, I didn't take another look at Zheng Ziming.
Zheng Ziming is good at everything, but sometimes he is inexplicably soft-hearted. Pan Mei could vaguely feel that the reason why Zheng Ziming had not done it for a long time was because he suddenly began to "convulsive" again. However, Pan Mei did not want to poke it. I just plan to solve the problem for the other party quietly. This is his duty as a friend and as a confidant!
He and Li Shun quickly cut off the hem of their clothes, twisted them into ropes, and wound them back and forth between the surface of the boots and the soles of the boots. At the same time, quickly measure the distance between yourself and your opponent with your gaze.
From the boulder where everyone was hiding to the bonfire below, it was about twenty-six or seven paces away. The snow was a bit thick, and in order not to wrestle in the middle of the fight, and to end the fight before the enemy could react enough, he had to be well prepared to hit the first blow.
Zheng Ziming turned his head and looked at the two silently, still not speaking. He didn't seem to know what to say at the moment, or knew he shouldn't say anything. Pan Mei's current decision is not wrong, and his own previous reasons are simply untenable. He knew, but he couldn't convince himself.
Beside the fire, the young commander of the Youzhou Army did not feel that the catastrophe was coming. Still carefully stirring the bonfire, trying to keep the flames as close as possible to his brother, even though half of his body was already stained with hoarfrost.
They are brothers, even if one is dressed as a Khitan and the other is dressed as a Han, they are still brothers. They are connected by blood, and no external force can cut them off except death.
Suddenly, the young man stood up, carrying a burning stick in one hand and quickly drawing his knife in the other. Pan Mei pounced at the same time, stepping on the thick snow, and her movements were as swift as a tiger and leopard pounced. Li Shun'er followed closely with a horizontal knife in hand, and her two thighs brought up billowing snow foam along the way.
In just a short moment, the winner has already been decided. The right arm of the young Youzhou army commander holding the knife was cut out by Pan Mei, and the blood flowed like an infusion in an instant. The burning stick in his left hand was also cut into two pieces by Li Shun, who rushed forward.
At this moment, his only chance was to hand over the waist knife in his right hand to his left hand, and fight and flee. However, what caught Pan Mei and Li Shun'er off guard was that this person suddenly pounced on him, blocking the sleeping Khitan general with his body, "spare your life!" While struggling to raise his waist knife above his head to resist Pan Mei's attack, he begged loudly, and his young face was full of begging: "Don't kill my brother! Please! Don't kill my brother! Kill me alone." I am Han Dexin, the nephew of Han Kuangsi, the privy envoy of the Southern Yuan, he has been given to outsiders since he was a child, and he is not worth anything when he dies!"
"Don't kill him, kill me, I'm his brother. My head is worth more than his!" Next to the fire, the one in the Khitan robe also jumped up, spread his arms, and firmly blocked Han Dexin, "Kill me, don't kill him, keep him for ransom." No matter how much money he has, his family can get it! Kill me, I'm a Khitan, he's a Han, just like you!"
"Think beautifully! When Lao Tzu came, did he let go of a Han man?" Li Shun'er smiled and raised his horizontal knife high.
The other party is a brother, and those who die at the hands of the other party are not all orphans without parents and brothers! God has eyes, and the blood debt must be repaid by blood!
He saw the fear and despair in the other party's eyes, and slashed with a knife, and his heart was extremely happy. However, there was a sudden sound of "dang!" and "dang!" in his ears, and the tiger's mouth was numb, and the horizontal knife accompanied Pan Mei to chop down another horizontal knife, and flew into the sky one after another.
"What are you doing?" Li Shun'er and Pan Mei accused in unison.
"Let them go!" Zheng Ziming didn't know when he appeared by the campfire, and the muscles on his face kept twitching. The steel whip in his hand blocked the bodies of the two captives, and on them, two knife marks flickered.
"Are you crazy? Do you know what you're doing?" Pan Mei shouted angrily, and Li Shun was dumbfounded. The two captives escaped death, both of them turned into a pair of "ice sculptures", their eyes wide open, their mouths wide open, but they could not make any sound.
"Let them go!" Zheng Ziming's eyes were red, his face was full of tears, his arms trembled, and his body and thighs trembled constantly. "Get out, get out of here, don't let me see you again in this life!"
"Don't kill him, kill me, I'm his brother!" In the dark, he seemed to see a fat guy, blocking the rushing war horse with his body, his arms outstretched, like a towering mountain.
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