Chapter 104: Scarlet Waning Moon
The moonlit sky was bright, and the bright moonlight spread on the snow of the cold valley, glowing with a glossy light, illuminating everything around them, like day.
Gu Qingming took in Bo Bing's expression, but he still didn't have any uneasiness, as if there was an enemy surrounding me thousands of times, and I was immovable.
"Bo Erbing, I don't understand, since you have such a group of powerful dead soldiers in your hands, why didn't you use them before?" Gu Qingming swept around before asking, "If you had shown your hole cards earlier, you wouldn't have fallen into the situation you have today." ”
"Gu Qingming, now is not the time to say big things, you are the one who has fallen to this point. Boer snorted coldly, "Actually, these dead soldiers have existed a long time ago, and when I assassinated you in Ji'an County in the past, I brought dead soldiers with me." It's a pity that there were no conditions back then, and all the dead soldiers cultivated were lost in your hands, and I have been secretly training in the past few years to get such a group of people, I don't believe that you can still get out of the whole body tonight!"
The moment the words fell, Bol Bing waved his hand and motioned to the dead soldiers standing around him to besiege Gu Qingming.
The dead will not talk about any morality, they will not feel that it is not enough to bully the less, all they want is to complete the task and complete the master's orders.
Therefore, about thirty dead soldiers rushed towards Gu Qingming together, leaving only four or five people around Bol Bing to protect him, and the black pressure in the encirclement was overwhelming, only the blue figure in the middle, like a god under the moon, was so different.
Gu Qingming turned around and dodged a wave of attack, his toes were light, he flew up, the long sword in his hand flew up, swept out of the air, and the powerful sword qi hit the bodies of the few black-clothed dead soldiers in the front, but in an instant, the air was filled with the smell of blood, and the few dead soldiers who were swept by Gu Qingming's sword qi quickly fell, and the knife in his hand still maintained the offensive action, and he was not blind.
This move quickly frightened the enemy, because these dead soldiers were also good at killing, but none of them were confident that they could kill four people in such a short period of time, with sword qi alone.
Gu Qingming's strength once again refreshed their cognition, especially Bol Bing, when he saw this scene, his eyes were about to split, and an unbelievable light flashed in his eyes.
If a few years ago in Ji'an County, he could still confidently tie with Gu Qingming, then now Gu Qingming is no longer within his reach, even if he does not lose all his martial arts, even if he is still at his peak, he will still not be Gu Qingming's opponent.
Gu Qingming's martial arts improved so quickly that he was shocked. He even thought that the last time he captured Gu Qingming in the Beidi camp, if he hadn't known the identity of the detailed work in the Beidi army in advance, and used this fine work to sneak attack Gu Qingming, causing him to be injured, and then besieged by him and Ge Shufang, supplemented by bows and arrows and poison, it would be impossible for them to catch Gu Qingming!
But this time, he won't give Gu Qingming a chance to escape again, because if he wants to attack Daning, Gu Qingming must die.
Daning lost one Gu Qingming, the entire country would lose more than half of its combat effectiveness, and there would be no one in the north who would be able to stop his soldiers and horses from going south - this was the reason why Gu Qingming had to die!
The fight continued, Gu Qingming's figure was as fast as lightning, and he shot mercilessly, as if this was not killing, but a sword dance like a rainbow in the snowy night under the moonlight.
Bright red blood and white snow complement each other.
There were more and more corpses lying on the ground, and there were more and more wounds on Gu Qingming's body, and as the black-clothed dead men fell one by one, Borbing's face became more and more ugly.
At the same time, Akagi's soldiers and horses began to move.
According to Gu Qingming's arrangement, all the generals performed their duties and attacked the Beidi military camp thirty miles north of Chicheng.
Soon, the firelight surrounded the Beidi camp, and Ge Shu led the troops to meet the battle, and the sound of killing shook the sky in an instant.
For the soldiers in the north, this will be a sleepless night, their god of war is fighting bloodily in places they can't see, fighting for their lives, so they must not live up to Gu Qingming's hope, they will definitely beat the Beidi people in one fell swoop, and at least let them dare not invade Daning again for ten years!
The night is thick, and the battle is in full swing.
This battle lasted for a total of two days and two nights, and the soldiers of Daning cooperated tacitly according to the tactics left by Gu Qingming before, and advanced and retreated to a certain extent, and the Beidi people who fought had no power to resist, but they still had no intention of stopping, even if they killed a thousand enemies and lost eight hundred, they were willing to sacrifice their lives, just to protect the territory and the peace of their family and country.
All the soldiers were red-eyed.
On the morning of the third day, when the first rays of morning light spread over the snowy land, the war finally came to an end.
Beidi's general Ge Shu's mad true qi was exhausted, and he died of exhaustion, the left and right vanguards were shot by random arrows, and both were killed in battle, and Beidi was two-thirds of the 50,000 soldiers and horses killed and wounded, and the corpses were piled up all over the vast land.
Of course, among the corpses of Beidi, there were tens of thousands of Daning soldiers.
Seeing that the commander and the two vanguards were all killed, one of Beidi's lieutenants hastily withdrew his troops and fled northward, without having time to straighten out the formation, and those backward stragglers were beheaded by the Daning soldiers who were pursuing by victory.
This battle, although hard and embarrassing, is worth it, because ...... Victory!
Several high-ranking generals, led by General Deng, straightened out the remaining living soldiers, supported the wounded soldiers, and returned to Chicheng in triumph.
Immediately after that, settle down to treat the wounded soldiers, collect the bones of the heroes who died in battle, and everything is carried out in an orderly manner.
The bones of the soldiers who died in the battle were all found and buried in a large pit in the east of Chicheng, which is a heroic grave belonging to all the soldiers of Daning, and it is also a place for future generations to worship the souls of heroes.
By the time he had done all this, seven days had passed, but there was no news from Gu Qingming.
In the commander's tent, all the generals were present, with serious faces, discussing how to find Gu Qingming. In the end, it was decided to divide the troops into three routes, and conduct a carpet search in the east, west, and north directions.
I don't know when it started, and heavy snow fell in the northland.
It's already December, and it seems that the really biting cold winter has just arrived, and for the border soldiers, even if they win the battle, there is no joy on their faces, because Gu Qingming has not yet been found.
Not only Gu Qingming, but even the king of Beidi, Bolbing, was nowhere to be found, because when the Daning soldiers were searching for Gu Qingming, they also happened to meet the Beidi people who were searching for Bolbing.
On the twenty-ninth day of the second year of Cheng'an, the soldiers under the command of General Deng found Gu Qingming's sword at the cliff a hundred miles northwest of Guiya Mountain, and the handle of the sword was still tied with an acacia knot made by Yun Yao. Dropped near the long sword, there was also the jade wrench finger carried by the king of Beidi, Borbing, which was a token of the king of Beidi.
There are signs of collapse on the edge of the cliff, and even though it is covered by heavy snow, the missing part cannot be faked. Anyone who has been fighting in the snow for many years and has experience can see that someone has fallen here.
"General Deng, General Gu, he ......" A little soldier couldn't hold back and wanted to ask.
"Put away the saber and jade wrench, go back to Chicheng, and I will personally write a recital to the emperor. General Deng interrupted the little soldier and turned away from the cliff.
The general of the god of war who is clear in the moon and the breeze, for the victory of Daning and the stability of the border, sacrificed his own general king, may never be seen again.
On the thirtieth day of the second year of Cheng'an, in the Hehuan Hall of the Daning Palace, Yun Yao watched Lu Yingquan walk out of the inner hall in a gorgeous suit, so she greeted him, planning to go to the Fenglai Water Pavilion to participate in the palace banquet together.
But just as Yun Yao stepped out of the door of the Hehuan Palace, a black shadow fell from mid-air and landed in front of Yun Yao with a bang.
"I've seen Madame. Gu Chen stood respectfully in front of Yun Yao and saluted, but with an anxious expression on his face, "Madam, Gu Yan has returned from the northern border, and he has also brought back the general's letter. But Gu Yan was assassinated by a dead soldier halfway, and now he was seriously injured, and Teto's subordinates handed over the letter to his wife. ”
Yun Yao's mind was full of the words "general's letter" and "assassination".
She panicked for no reason, and she couldn't tell why, she snatched the letter from Gu Chen's hand, and didn't care that Lu Yingquan was still waiting next to her, so she opened it and hurriedly looked at it-
Beloved wife A-Yao, seeing words is like meeting.
When you read this letter, maybe I was fighting with the dead soldiers under Boer Bing, these dead soldiers were strong in martial arts and ruthless, and several of my generals in Daning were lost in their hands.
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For me, all my life, I am worthy of heaven and earth, but the only person who is worthy of it is you. I once said that I would accompany you hand in hand to go through this life, I remember everything I promised you, and I will try to bring myself back alive. If the heavens are not beautiful, I can only pray for the next life, and you and I can live in a prosperous world, throw off the shackles of the mortal world, and continue the frontier.
Qing Ming is a masterpiece.
In a long letter, the cause and effect of the incident were explained very clearly, Gu Qingming told Yun Yao that as the general of Daning and the descendant of the Gu family's loyal martyrs, he had the responsibility and obligation to protect the border people from foreign invasion.
Therefore, he once again risked his life and solved the danger in the north with the strength of one person.
In an instant, Yun Yao seemed to have lost all her strength, and the letter in her hand fell lightly to the ground, but she didn't realize it, and the word "masterpiece" was like a heavy hammer, smashing on her heart, making her unable to breathe.
"Yun Yao......" Lu Yingquan looked at Yun Yao's swaying body and couldn't help but worry.
"Queen Mother, I am not feeling well, I am afraid that I will not be able to participate in today's palace banquet, please allow me to retire first. Yun Yao came back to her senses, saluted Lu Yingquan, then picked up the letter on the ground, turned around and walked towards the outside of the palace.
Lu Yingquan didn't stop it, she looked at Yun Yao's somewhat weak back, went directly to Changming Palace, and told Shen Che what happened just now.
Shen Che hadn't received the news from the north yet, but after he listened to Lu Yingquan's words, his expression, which was originally a little joyful because of the palace banquet, also became dull.
"It stands to reason that the battle report from the north should be coming soon, don't worry, I'll tell you when the war report comes. Shen Che comforted Lu Yingquan, "I believe in Qing Ming's ability, he will be fine." ”
Such a thin comfort did not make Lu Yingquan feel much better, Yun Yao's pale face kept appearing in her mind, and the uneasiness in her heart gradually expanded.