Chapter 2 Veterans

When another dawn came, Xiao Tian got up and walked to Bianji City, and entered the city gate after being checked by the Chiye guards, and the city was peaceful, as if the big war outside the city had nothing to do with here, but if you were careful, you would find that in addition to the Chiye guards standing guard in the city, there was no one in sight, and the doors of every house were closed, Xiao Tian's current identity became a surviving soldier, no one knew that he was a slave, and who in the hundreds of thousands of troops could be familiar with whom? Even a spy could not set off the storm. After inquiring, Xiao Tian came to the Chiye military camp, the center of Bianji City, a radius of 50 kilometers, is a vast school field, yesterday in this school field Li 500,000 Bianji soldiers from here to the death, today really none of them can come back, this has become Chiye's temporary military camp, Xiao Tian found a sergeant major and successfully "returned to the team", and was assigned to the bread made of noodles and ate it wildly. Because the war went too suddenly, Bianji City did not have the trauma of war on the surface, and it was destroyed and surrendered in just one day, and the city did not look desolate and barren, which kept the remaining 500,000 Chiye troops from starving.

Hey, eat boy, what's your name? A veteran of about fifty years old came over and patted Xiao Tian,

Xiao Tian, he replied.

Begin to meet with me.

Xiao Tian swallowed the last bite of bread in response, and followed the veteran to the back of a line of fifteen people, and at the forefront was a powerful man, who was the captain of their seventeen-man team. The veteran muttered to him when he saw his face, the veteran's surname was Deng, and his name was Deng Xiaxing. Their commander was called Menhe, and the small army of thirty people before the war was less than fourteen after the first battle. They'll patrol Bianji City.

The whole street was full of Chiye patrols, smashing doors from house to house, not letting go of anything to eat, all the food of each household was cleared out, and the only old, weak, sick and disabled women and children in Bianji City were hiding in the corners of their homes and did not dare to move.

When there were only women and children left in the family, the women were also arrested and dragged to the school yard, lined up like slaves and sent to the palace where the Red Squirrel Cavalry and generals lived, I don't know what will happen if I go in, at least Xiaotian doesn't know.

In the midst of such a tumultuous plunder, the city was unexpectedly quiet, without futile resistance and quarrels, for these were in vain before the beastly army of the Akano, and these sergeants were only looking for food to fill their stomachs, and the killing and bloodshed did not want to be touched again after they came down from the battlefield, as if the corpses of a million or so yesterday had nothing to do with them.

Xiao Tian was numb to carry the food to the school yard warehouse like a porter, and most of the sergeants worked hard, because the more they collected now, the more food they could eat on their journey, and the better the chance of everyone surviving.

At night, Xiaotian lay on the school field like other sergeants, looking at the stars above his head, he was interested in counting the stars, and when he counted to 100, he didn't know how to count them, because he didn't know what was after 100. His mother only taught him to count to 100, so what's next?

Fortunately, at this time, the veteran Deng Xiaxing next to him spoke again, Xiaotian, do you say that people will become stars after death?

No way, if it becomes a star, shouldn't there be a lot more stars in the sky tonight?

Deng Xiaxing said: Yes, the dead bodies in the place outside the city are still lying. But why do I always think that the two brightest stars look like my wife and my son, who died in battle at the age of eighteen? You see they keep looking at me, and I don't know if they want me to go up, or if they don't like me to go up

Xiao Tian also looked at the two stars, but what he saw was his mother's familiar face, and the other one was very vague, but Xiao Tian felt that it was his father, and he couldn't see his face clearly.

Maybe people will become nagging when they get older, Deng Xiaxing is still talking about his son who seems to be talking and talking to himself, Xiaotian is already tired and sleeping, Deng Xiaxing doesn't care about Xiaotian's response, and still whispers

Different people cherish different things, how long has it been since Xiao Tian has eaten and slept well, he just wants to sleep, and Deng Xiaxing nagged as if he was afraid that he would never have a chance to speak in the future

On the morning of the fifth day, the rallying call of the barracks sounded again. Xiao Tian was excited when he heard this trumpet, and a feeling of blood rushed to the top of his head, for him, the five days in the military camp were the most comfortable time in his life. Yes, it is comfortable! When he was with his mother, he never had enough to eat, and when his mother was gone, he was even more displaced, being sold like an animal, and almost died of exhaustion while working. And in the past five days, he has slept extremely peacefully, he has never had a sense of security, once people solve the problem of food and clothing, he will have his goal, Xiaotian is the same, he secretly made up his mind that the road in the future will go in a good direction, although he is just a nobody.

When Deng Xiaxing heard the sound of the horn, his face was very gray, he had experienced many desperate wars, he knew that this meant that he had to embark on a road that was likely to have no tomorrow, and the peaceful time in the war was too short for him.

As excited as Xiao Tian was their Wu Changmen, his eyes radiated a beast-like light at this time, his whole body muscles were tense, and his steel-like body was as straight as a spear, this was a fighting machine, and he roared as if he was eager to return to the battlefield: Guys, pick up your spears and assemble in line!

This group of seventeen people gathered in a neat row towards the large team in the school field. Xiao Tian has been familiar with the people in the team in the past few days, and behind Wu Changmenhe is Bu Chuan, who is about twenty years old, with the same tall and burly body and resolute face, don't look young, but he has been fighting for four or five years, and his face is not a trace of young immaturity, but full of coldness and murderous aura. Behind Bu Chuan is a young man named Che Qing, who is one head shorter than Bu Chuan, with a heroic face and a sunny smile all day long, as if he is relaxing on the battlefield as if he were traveling. The fat man in the middle of the line called someone else Xiaofat, but he was already in his thirties, had great strength, came from a poor background, and was said to have enlisted in the army because he couldn't eat enough to do anything else. The mustachioed Zhao Kui in front of Deng Xiaxing is also almost thirty years old, he is a veteran oilman, and he is about the same size as Che Qing, but he has to be at the back of the line. And the back of Deng Xiaxing's platoon is purely a little afraid of death, plus the age of the front row will indeed affect the war, and behind him is Xiaotian, fifteen-year-old age with a height of one meter five, can only be "pressed" in the back.

It took nearly an hour for the rapid assembly of nearly 500,000 troops, and after the end of the training, there was no training, no mobilization and directly drove out of the city, leaving 10,000 soldiers in Bianji City, and the rest embarked on the journey again. After leaving the East City Gate, Wu Changmen informed them of their destination, Haoye, and the next thing to conquer was a big country called Haoye, and more than a thousand miles to the east, a big country about the same size as Chiye, Deng Xiaxing's face was a little darker after hearing this......

Looking back at Bianji City, which was suddenly empty behind him, Xiao Tian was a little confused about the war in Chiye. Perennial sent a number of armies to fight in the east and west, sweeping the entire western half of the Dongzhou continent, gradually unifying the original divided continent, each city was destroyed after only a few old women, women and children remained, but after a few years, these cities quickly regained their vitality and became prosperous in a peaceful environment.

The same is the march, Xiao Tian felt that the section to Haoye was much easier than the previous section to Bianji, although tired, but not to starve to death on the road, each Chiye sergeant brought twenty days of dry food, and on the eighteenth day of eating, Xiao Tian learned that he had arrived fifty miles away from Haoye City.

They felt that they would encounter the vast army tomorrow, and lying under the same starry sky that night, Deng Xiaxing said: Xiaotian, you must not be afraid of death on the battlefield, and you must rush forward with all your strength. The more afraid you are, the easier it is to die

Xiao Tian looked at his cloudy eyes, and there was a shadow of his father, but his mind was empty, and he didn't know what he would face tomorrow

When the sun rose again, Xiaotian and their army of Chiye stood opposite the vast army of millions, and the two armies looked at each other, and the vast army in dark red armor was like the morning glow that had not yet retreated on the horizon, covering the sky. Hold back 500,000 Akano troops. Xiao Tian felt a little confused, he didn't know what would happen when he came down, there was no slave cannon fodder in gray clothes, and the number was disadvantaged, but after thinking about it, he knew that this was not something he needed to worry about at all, all he had to worry about was whether he could live today and live until the sun set.

The vast army waited for work at ease, and its morale was high, and it took the lead in the charge.

Chiye's 500,000 black-armored soldiers formed a phalanx to meet the enemy, the forwards of the two armies met, and there was a sound of fighting, the whole Chiye army was like a black steel plate, allowing the red tide to wash wave after wave, either die and fall, or stab at the red spear, Xiao Tian saw that the black sergeant in the distance fell down in exchange for the lives of two or three Haoye soldiers, standing in the middle of the phalanx, he clenched the spear in his hand with a little enthusiasm, but Xiao Tian did not notice that the 50,000 squirrel knights in their team were not in the formation. Because he is small, he can't finish seeing such a large phalanx.

When the black phalanx fell by nearly a third, Xiao Tian heard the drums of the retreat, and the entire phalanx immediately turned, except for the original front row to block the enemy, the others quickly withdrew out of the dark red sea. Xiao Tian thought to himself, maybe he was afraid of being surrounded, although Chiye's casualties were much smaller than Haoye's, but if it continued to be consumed like this, the entire army would be wiped out, because there were countless reinforcements in Haoye's remaining 600,000 people.

More than 300,000 black-armored Chiye troops retreated in an orderly manner, Xiao Tian glanced at the black-clothed soldiers who fell one by one after the break, and he was afraid for a while, and his steps were faster