The boundless ink, wandering in the dark, seems to be immersed in an extremely viscous liquid, and it takes a lot of energy to move a little.

His chest was so tight that he was about to suffocate, someone in the chaos was shouting his name, a little light blooming in the dark, and he stretched out his hand to the light with all his might.

"Brother Wei, Brother Wei, wake up, it's three poles on the sun. ”

Someone slapped his face hard, and Wei Changpan slowly opened his eyes, it was Liu Ziyi who was haggard and tired.

"It's too risky to walk under the noses of barbarians during the day. Wei Changpan gritted his teeth and dealt with the raw horse meat strip in his mouth, which was obtained from a team of barbarians who really couldn't avoid it a few days ago, and now they don't dare to make a fire, so they can only eat it raw, "The people and horses can't hold on, this forest is quite hidden, it's better to rest here for half a day, take advantage of the twilight after sunset, and arrive at the city overnight." ”

The barbarian nobles had lost the eagle they had used to search for them, but they did not know what else awaited them.

"The remaining three were no better, but the best one was the white horse. Mei Su came back from the tree where the mount was tethered, "It is better to say that the man is hungry, and the horse will be carried to death for another two or three days, and then we will have no more horses to ride." ”

The raw horse meat strips have been around for a long time, and when they are cut and chewed freshly, there is still a hint of sweetness, and they are covered with sweat and smell when they are attached to the side, and it becomes more and more difficult to swallow.

"On such a freezing day, it is not a way to make a fire, pick up some dry wood and come back to make a fire, and then cover it with dust, it can heat for several hours, and there will not be much smoke. Liu Ziyi let out a "hiss" sound when he took off the sheepskin strip wrapped around his hand, and the pus and blood from the chilblains soaked the material and froze into ice along with the flesh and skin.

It was almost the warmest time of the day, they all took off their boots and gloves, frostbite of varying severity was not treated in time on the grassland, and the first thing the four of them asked the doctor after returning to Yuancheng was how many fingers and toes they would have to spare.

"Why did I go to the north, the daughter-in-law and the baby are all fine at home, why do you want me to go to the north, what the barbarian thinks about all day now is how to kill me...."

Wei Changpan looked at Yu Gaogao, who was still a little lady, and had a headache, and Mei Su and Liu Ziyi were also tireless, Yu Gaogao was a warm-hearted person who often did his own thing and even did their own things, but at this time, he cowardly made all of them can't help but frown and look down on him.

"You slept so hard last night that you didn't hear this guy talking about it for most of the night. Before Wei Changpan could stop it, Liu Ziyi kicked on Yu Gaogao, who was curled up and leaned against a birch tree, and Mei Su, who was the most polite, only watched coldly.

The gap between the four of them was the last thing Wei Changpan wanted to see, so he hurriedly got up and separated between the two, "We are all people who have been born and died together, why bother to fight for such a trivial matter." ”

"Even if you beg the barbarians for mercy now, they will trample you to death with horses' hooves! Lao Tzu saw with his own eyes, you killed more than two! All the way here, when did you see the barbarians and still have a living mouth? All the dead!" In the middle, Wei Changpan and Liu Ziyi still had to point their noses and scold Yu Gao, "You walk out of this forest now, you can't go far to be a barbarian!"

Yu Gaoao couldn't stand such an insult, got up and wiped his snot and tears, "The government doesn't care if we live or die, we will go to the north with fifty people, and now there are only four of us who can still stand here, even if we die here, who will care? If the barbarians want to kill our Yao people, we still have to do things for the Yao people?"

As the general of Jinzhou, Song Zhiwen promised before they left that if the facts and the border passes of Yuancheng have not been fully broken, then there will inevitably be people and horses in several places, but since even the Yushan Pass has already been broken, then this promise has already become empty talk. As time passed, Mo said that it was these rangers from Jinzhou, and even Wei Changpan also had a grudge against them, and even had Song Zhiwen who didn't plan to let them go back alive at all.

But they have to believe something, and if they don't believe anything, why are they dragging their weary bodies here?

"In the round city, General Song is still waiting for us to triumph. Wei Changpan leaned down and grabbed Yu Gao's shoulders with both hands and shook it, he forced himself to believe this set of rhetoric, "When I return to Yuancheng, I will be able to see your mother-in-law and baby, as well as your father, knowing the news of your victorious return, maybe your body will be better." ”

"My family is in the village north of the city!" the eldest man roared, "He, General Song, can take a, we have burned so many barbarian ordnance to attack the city with one fire, why hasn't he been able to drive the barbarians back to the north! How many of his General Song's words are true?"

"Those high-ranking people have ever cared about our life or death!"

Liu Ziyi's clenched fists were released, and the son of this famous chef in Jinju also understood that what Yu Gaogao, who was born in a Zhuang family, said was the truth....

But he still punched Yu Gao in the face.

"Lao Tzu beat you, not for anything else, just for you to move the mind of the barbarians, no one in the government cares about our life or death, it's not the reason for us to drop those beasts!" Liu Ziyi also wanted to throw a punch, but Wei Changpan stopped him and couldn't help himself, so he had to give up, "General Song chose someone like you, and he is really blind." ”

After that, Liu Ziyi broke away from Wei Changpan and walked away, to pick up some dry firewood to make a fire, and Mei Su also went with him.

Seeing Yu Gaogao sitting on the ground with a nosebleed, Wei Changpan didn't know what to say to comfort him, Yu Gaogao was telling the truth, and Liu Ziyi's words made him unable to refute.

They are Da Yao's people, and Wei Changpan's bottom line is that they can't stand on the side of the barbarians and take a knife against the Yao people.

"I'm going to untie my hands. He took out a handkerchief from his bosom and stuffed it into Yu Gaogao's hand, "Wipe the blood from your face." ”

Yu Gao looked up at Wei Changpan's back as he walked away, and held this handkerchief embroidered with flowers and birds in his palm.

....

"What about Yu Gaoren?" Liu Ziyi and Mei Su put down the large bundle of dry firewood, and the former tricked out a piece of earthy yellow dry firewood with the thickness of a baby's wrist full of bearded hair and waved it in front of Wei Changpan, "Look at what I brought back? ”

Liu Ziyi and Mei Su were full of joy, they dug up the rhizomes of these wild kudzu for so long empty-handed, but fortunately, what they got was really gratifying, in the past, let him Liu Ziyi take a look at the poor ingredients that were difficult to see, but at this time he had prepared more than ten kinds of methods in his mind.... But it's just a matter of thinking, not to mention frying, cooking, and frying, only the method of burying it in the ashes is feasible.

"Brother Wei, Brother Wei, help dig a pit, the bigger one is more spacious, there are many wild kudzu that are stuffy, Mr. Wei builds a fire, lays a layer of leaves and then puts kudzu, and finally burns a layer of firewood and buries the ashes. I couldn't wait for Wei Changpan's action, Liu Ziyi and Mei Su were busy, "Don't forget to throw two more horse meat into it, although it will stink for us, but if it is cooked, it can be regarded as a piece of meat..."

Yu Gao fled on horseback. ”

"What?" The two of them were so busy that they didn't listen to Wei Changpan's words. ”

"When I came back, I saw that there was a horse missing, and Yu Gao didn't know where to go...."His face was as pale as a dead man, Wei Changpan muttered, "He really is..."

Yu Gaogao really went to vote for the barbarians?

"This place is not good for long. Mei Su hurriedly went to bring the remaining three horses over, "Yu Gaoao may reveal our whereabouts..."

The sound of the arrow was near, and Mei Su was only halfway through his words, when a familiar carved arrow once again took the life of a Jinzhou ranger.

Then the arrows were like locusts, and like rain.

"It's an arrow! Get on the horse and go!" Wei Changpan shouted to Liu Ziyi beside him, "I'll be there later!"

Mei Su on the ground swallowed his last breath, Liu Ziyi rode a horse through the birch forest, Wei Changpan leaned against a birch tree, and there were hundreds of arrows stuck in the ground within a radius of five zhang beside him, he couldn't help but laugh at himself a little in his heart, when did he become a big man who had to spend so many arrows to kill? The barbarian can afford to look down on himself.

The horse that was closer to him had been pierced into a hedgehog by an arrow, and he had no bow or arrow by his side to counter it, and even if he had, what could he do alone.

It's a bit of a walk to walk such a long way and die in this place.... Unwillingly.

The rain of arrows has stopped, and I don't know when those people will come up, and how many will he be able to kill then?

If only there was a horse....

The white horse, which had not yet been shot, was seventy paces away and flicked its tail with a long neighing that seemed to be a contempt for Wei Changpan's embarrassment.

There is also a horse! Wei Changpan was ecstatic and whistled two or three times in succession, probably to know that there were still living people in the forest, and the barbarians' arrows were falling like rain, this time Wei Changpan was not so lucky, the two arrows were tied to his shoulders and calves, he pulled out the arrows in a painful way, and then wrapped a cloth around the wound to stop the bleeding.

He didn't have any more gold medicine, so the strip of cloth he was wrapped in still flowed down his calf after sucking blood.

If he doesn't escape, he won't be able to escape, and the place where he is becoming a place of death step by step, but he can't escape.

Another arrow pierced his calf, but it did not enter the flesh, but it cut a gap that was not short, and the barbarian warriors were also stingy with their lives, if they could kill the enemy with arrows, why should they fight with swords close to each other.

He felt that all his strength flowed out with the blood, and Wei Changpan roared hoarsely, but Lu Ma was still unmoved, unwilling to be in the rain of arrows.

"O Lu me!" he no longer had hope, and tore a ball of cloth from the placket of his coat and put it in his mouth, he saved the horse, but the horse did not come back to save him, he got up and half-hid behind the tree, and the barbarian warriors who were approaching while shooting arrows were less than a hundred paces away from him, and if the horse had been at this moment, it would have been impossible to escape the barbarian bows and arrows.