Chapter 25: The Northern Expedition
"My son, see the letter like a meeting. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Dai Jinchi corpses are countless, if you want to find the bones of your mother, press your hand on the bloody palm, shout 'my sin', three times, you can summon ghosts. There is no way to summon ghosts, and it comes from the heart. ā
The note was small, densely packed with these lines. When Han Feng saw the word "Blood Palm", he suddenly remembered the red palm print at the bottom of the boulder by the Daijin Pond, which his father should be referring to. Looking at it this way, the girl who wrote poems is really not an ordinary person, and the bloody palm more or less has the mental power she left behind. And the eight characters of "summoning ghosts without skills, starting from the heart", Han Feng felt that he couldn't figure it out. No ...... Then there's no way, how can this be?
After he returned to the army, he thought about this sentence for most of the night before he fell asleep from exhaustion.
I got up early the next morning, and after the army was reorganized, someone finally reported the cause of the war between Rong Qian and Xing Hou.
Regarding the matter of the Rong people and the peace of Shahou marquis, there are also two opinions within the Rong people. One faction agreed, but the other faction felt that Xing Hou, who had always hated the Rong people, had another purpose. However, Xing Mange is a well-known beauty in Pingsha City, and Xing Hou's handwritten letter was sent, and at the same time, Xing Hou also promised that there would be a thousand grains in his sister's dowry, and Rong Qian Khan was naturally moved.
He ruled out public opinion and waited to marry a beautiful woman. Unexpectedly, when the marriage was in the cave room on the night of marriage, Xing Mange, the "heroine of Mobei", used "armed means" again, hid a dagger under the auspicious suit, and boldly assassinated Rong Khan.
"Hey, let me tell you, Xing Mange has long had a leg with Huang Ji, but Xing Hou doesn't know. It was a small soldier under Luo Xing who passed the word, and when everyone was ready to go, he secretly nested among more than a dozen people and broke a fierce message.
Han Feng heard what he said about Huang Jidu, and hurriedly looked up in the direction of the "yellow sandbag", and saw the bearded sweat standing in the distance, looking north, and he didn't know what he was looking at. The prodigal son's military discipline is not good, these people have been making noise since they got up in the morning, and they are all spreading the gossip of Huang Jidu and Xing Mange. However, if this is true, then Huang Ji will return alone, presumably Xing Mange died on the side of the Rong people, isn't he sad?
Thinking of this, Han Feng suddenly remembered something.
Willow Springs!
Liu Quan had been acting as Huang Jidu's personal soldier before, and he should have left the capital with Huang Jidu, so did he accompany him on this trip? If he did, did he also die on Hongyuan?
Thinking that Liu Quan might have died, Han Feng suddenly felt a bitterness in his mouth, and his heart was empty. Regardless of whether Liu Quan betrayed him or not, since he was a child, he has always treated Liu Quan as a brother. Thinking that he had exhausted all his efforts and finally left the capital, but maybe he died inexplicably after not leaving for long, he only felt sorry for Liu Quan.
Han Feng was sighing to himself, but when he heard Huang Jidu, he suddenly shouted: "Don't be sluggish!
After listening to Huang Jidu's military order, the prodigal soldiers, who were still laughing, became stern at the time. Han Feng handed over the Pu knife he used yesterday to a soldier beside him, and he picked up the captured saber - last night Marquis Xing ordered Huang Ji to collect all the blades on the battlefield, a thousand swords, and distribute them from the side lieutenant, and he naturally received one as well. This saber is one-third shorter than the Pak knife, but the edge of the knife is sharp, and a single knife can cut off the head of a wolf rider. At this moment, he wrapped a cold iron sword around his left arm and a saber in his right hand, and he was much more courageous.
It's just that when he heard about the "Northern Expedition", he was still stunned.
In the five hundred years since the founding of the country, the country has been prosperous, but no one has ever dared to kill the sheep intestine pass, and compete with the Rong people on the Hongyuan. If he wins, then Xing Hou will be famous for eternity, but if he loses, most of them will be lost after these prisoners, and there is not much loss to the troops of Pingsha City.
Xing Hou is really a good idea.
Han Feng sighed lightly and looked up at the sky. The winter day was hidden behind the clouds, and it was hazy, and the light was not dazzling, but like the starlight of the plague star at the top of the firmament in the middle of the night.
There is not much difference between the scenery north of Yangguguan and the south of Yangguguan Pass, but it is drier, and the grassland in the north of Daqing Mountain is much more yellow than that in the south.
Beneath the withered grass is the loess. Because the battle had just been fought yesterday, the ground was littered with the footprints of wolves and horses, and on both sides of the road, there were still some corpses of beasts that had been seriously wounded and died.
"It's cold. A soldier behind Han Feng rubbed his hands, looked at the corpses of the beasts, and snorted fiercely, "It would be better if I could peel off this skin and make it into a leather coat and hat." ā
When Han Feng heard this, he couldn't help but look at those corpses twice. The wolf ride is bred by wolves and mastiffs, and the fur is shiny and shiny, which makes people feel warm when they look at it, and if it is really made into a coat and hat, it should be able to keep out the cold. The north of Daqing Mountain is much windier and the weather is much colder. Exhaled, the white mist was almost filled with ice slag, making people feel that the heat on their bodies was also frozen. In the midst of such coldness, even his body trembled,
And Luo Xing interjected: "Don't think about it. Hurry up, hurry up and finish the battle, just wait until you go back!"
Han Feng couldn't help but glance at Luo Xing. Luo Xing always laughs on weekdays, but at this point, there are two clear water snots frozen under his nose, and he looks a lot embarrassed when he shrinks together.
"Go back ......" Han Feng snorted secretly, Luo Xingxu was frozen in his brain, since he had already left the capital, how could he still think about going back. No matter what, he can't go back, this Northern Expedition, he must survive, and then roam freely in this world, one day, he will no longer be bullied by others, and he will no longer work for others!
The little soldier didn't reply to Luo Xing, he sighed twice at his hand, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "Partial Captain, you say, if we win the battle against the Rong people this time, won't we be able to snatch back those women before?"
Luo Xing and a few others also lit up, thinking that the Yi girl who had been snatched away by the Rong people before could be snatched back, and they only felt hot all over. But Han Feng was stunned.
If it weren't for this little soldier's reminder, he would have almost forgotten about it, but Yi Nu is delicate and weak, and she can't live long in Lidu, let alone the bitter cold Hongyuan in the far north. After more than half a year of torture, how many people can be left of those thousands of Yi women? What's more, even if he snatches them back, thinking that Liu Quan said before that "Yi women are poisonous", he doesn't plan to touch them.
Everyone just talked about it, and when it was noon, the sun was overhead, and the whole body felt a little hotter. Hongyuan couldn't see the edge at a glance, and after walking for a few hours, the scenery he saw turned out to be the same, and many people had the illusion that they had been standing still, and the more they walked, the more tired they felt. Huang Jidu saw that the army was sighing and sighing, and his morale was completely lost, so he ordered to rest in place and make a fire to cook.
The lunch was very rough, but to everyone's surprise, there was meat in the rice.
Large slices of beef jerky, sandwiched in steamed buns that have been frozen and hardened, are roasted by the fire, and the aroma is fragrant.
The prodigal soldiers did not have high dietary requirements, and they used to be in Lidu before, and they often only saw a little meat for several months, but at this time each person was given a slice of beef, although it was dry and could not be swallowed in the mouth for a long time, but for these young people, it was delicious.
After lunch, everyone's belly was warm and warm, and their bodies were warm. However, at this time, the town army at the end of the brigade let out a loud scream.
This scream made everyone tremble, and Han Feng jumped up at once, drew his saber and protected it in front of him. Many people around him were like him, everyone thought that the wolf riders of the Rong tribe had attacked from the rear, but after getting up, they saw that the grassland behind them was calm and peaceful, and there were only them, the prodigal soldiers, where did the enemy come from.
Huang Jidu came on horseback, waved his hand to the crowd, told them to sit down in peace, and then rushed to the town army.
But the screams among the townsmen never stopped, and the screams were so miserable that people felt like their heads were going to explode when they heard it.
Everyone waited for Huang Jidu's message, and waited for more than half an hour before news came from the town army to the whole army.
Someone in the town army was poisoned.
Four or five prodigal soldiers fell at the end of the line, and while no one was paying attention, they secretly cut a piece of meat from the corpse of the wolf rider, and planned to roast it at noon. As a result, after eating for less than a moment, they foamed at the mouth, clutched their stomachs and cried out in pain, until they drank some salt water and vomited all the bile, and the few people came back.
When he heard the news, Han Feng was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that the Rong people would be so cunning that they would put poison on the dead mounts, but how did they know that these prisoner soldiers would not die when they saw the meat, and would definitely cut it off and eat it?
The blood and liver of the wolf rider are naturally poisonous, and the whole army is not allowed to tamper with the corpse of the wolf rider.
Hearing this news, the soldiers beside Han Feng who wanted to use the fur of the wolf rider to make clothes also stuck out their tongues, and they no longer dared to fight the idea of the wolf rider. And Han Feng finally understood why the Rong people would recklessly leave those corpses behind: they couldn't use them as military rations in the first place.
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