Chapter 19: The Long Song Should Be Crying
"Horns, Amy and Daqingshan, what about them?" Mo Ye and Horns had only met once, and they were not very familiar, and Takashi squeezed out of the horse team.
"Uncle Long, they're in the back, they'll be there soon. Horns called these fathers uncles like Amy and Daqingshan.
"Are you all out of danger?" Long frowned, and half-bent down to grab the dwarf's shoulders - Long knew Horns quite well, this was a dwarven warrior who could be compared to Amy and Daqingshan in terms of combat skills, but now he was covered with the smell of blood, and his brown sè's beard was stained with blood and small pieces of flesh that had not yet had time to clean up, and the blue sè axe that was slanted behind his back was wiped out by the blood clots coagulated with black sè, and the wet sweat that also dipped his back from the shawl of brown sè's hair and shawl. The same was true of the small mercenaries behind him, and most of them were wounded. Long and Mo Ye's hearts immediately rose to their throats.
"I ...... I've been in front, and Daqingshan is in charge of the back. But...... Amy's girlfriend was seriously injured, Master Reg and Lu'er seemed to have run out of mana, and Daqingshan knew better about the casualties of the mercenary group. There was a deep uneasiness in Brown Sè's eyes, and Horns didn't know what to say. From last night to now, he had little time, or more accurately, did not dare to look back at the wounded of the rear army.
Amy's girlfriend The two middle-aged people looked at each other for a while, an important person who had not yet heard of it, a girl who could enter Amy's eyes would not be too bad in any aspect, such a girl was seriously injured under the protection of Amy and the others......?
At this time, the Chinese army and the vulture swordsman battalion also arrived one after another, and the little mercenaries silently flashed a gap, letting out the main responsible persons such as Amy, Da Qingshan, Lei Ge, Chi Aotian, Sha Ruo, and Balbas.
Long and Mo Ye walked in directly along the crowd: "Daqingshan, Amy, 8284, you all came out?" In this slightly trembling voice, it was impossible to tell whether it was joy or worry.
Daqingshan was mostly in the rear army, and there was less blood on his body, so he clubbed his shield on the ground: "Uncle Long, Uncle Mo Ye, we all came out, but it seems that the small mercenary group has suffered heavy losses...... Many mercenary brothers seem to ...... "two hesitant in a row."
Compared with Amy, Daqingshan, etc., Long and Mo Ye are both battle-hardened, and have brushed shoulders with death on the battlefield countless times, and they are used to having comrades-in-arms disappear around them after every big battle...... Whether it was Mo Ye, Long or Balbas, who had broken through, it was the first time that they had prayed so silently not to see the scene of death, because most of the young people in this team that had just broken out of the death line were their children and nephews.
In any case, they don't want to see a white-haired person send a black-haired person.
Pity......
"Brother......" A little girl's heart-rending cry came from the back of the line, and the miserable and desolate voice pulled everyone's attention.
At the back of the line, a girl in a blue sè magic robe fell onto a simple stretcher, and a pale young man's face was revealed under the thin blanket on the stretcher. Next to the stretcher, the priest of the small mercenary group squatted with an extremely gloomy expression on his face.
"Brother, open your eyes and look at me......" The girl shook the boy's arm desperately, "Brother, you can't leave me like this...... You promised Mom and Dad to take care of me...... Brother ......"
Seeing that Amy, Da Qingshan and others were all around, the old priest gently wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his hand: "It was okay just now, and he said that he was going to buy food for his sister, who knows...... Who knows...... It's that fast. ”
"How many people have gone?" Long's feelings for these children for two years were beyond words, and his voice trembled visibly.
Daqingshan silently pushed away a few mercenaries, and behind them, dozens of climbing plows were placed crookedly, and on each climbing plow lay the corpses of several dead mercenaries of the small mercenary group.
Long and Mo Ye seemed to be 30 years old all of a sudden, Long's body shook slightly and walked through the middle of the climbing plow, cautiously for fear of alarming something, he whispered the names of the mercenaries he knew: "Linda...... Joseph...... Hanbo ...... Eliza ...... Small neutron ...... Akai ...... The fourth elder of the Birming family ............ "Sometimes he crouched down and closed his eyes for the dead mercenaries, and tears the size of beans fell.
"Rumbling...... Don't read it, please......" Balbas said in a choked voice.
In front of a climbing plow at the rear, Long's body suddenly panicked violently: "Little Bean?"
Mo Ye heard it, looked at the climbing plow in front of Long in disbelief, staggered over and pushed Long away and squatted down, Balbas also pounced: in the middle of the climbing plow, there was a 14 or 5-year-old boy who was sleeping soundly, holding the big sword tightly in his side with one hand, and the other hand was half-stretched in his arms, with a trace of blood hanging from the corner of his mouth, and his body was covered with a black blanket.
The man doesn't talk lightly when he has tears, but it's still not time to be sad.
The eyes of the three big men were filled with mist at the same time, and tears were dripping onto the climbing plow.
Amy, Daqingshan, and Horns' hearts seemed to be stabbed by knives, and the three boys remembered at the same time that in the autumn of three years ago, outside the west gate of the frozen fortress, Mo Ye shouted the same at a dilapidated small house: "Xiaodou." ”
A boy who was a little over ten years old walked out and saw them, with a smile on his yellow face, and greeted his parents one by one: "Uncle Mo, Uncle Wulanfu, Uncle 8284, hello." ”
I still remember that Mo Ye squatted down and picked up the boy named Xiaodou. "Where's your mother?"
Remember, Xiaodou reached out and touched the long sword behind Mo Ye's back, "She went to work for others." He looked envious.
I remember that Wu Lanfu looked worriedly at the thatched hut that had been blown off the roof by the wind: "Winter is coming soon, and your mother didn't tell you when to put the house in order? ”
The little boy said very sensibly: "My mother said: every year is sad, every year is hard, every year is hard, and it will be good when I grow up." ”
Daqingshan couldn't control it anymore, covered his mouth and squatted down, his shoulders and black hair trembling slightly from the breeze, and a low cry came out of nowhere. Amy didn't know what it was like in his heart, until today he didn't know that this big swordsman named Yasai who didn't like to talk was Xiaodou 3 years ago, I remember chatting with the mercenaries once, and casually talking about Xiaodou, Yasai was next to him at that time, but he didn't act like he was listening to someone else's story. What a good brother, who never mentions knowing Amy at any time, and who never likes to show himself in front of everyone.
Mo Ye slowly pulled Xiaodou's hand out of his arms, and his choked cry suddenly turned into a loud cry, and the boy's white hand held a small seal bone horn, one end of which was tied to a red sè string around his neck. Long and Balbas both know this horn, this is 5 years ago, Mo Ye in a border conflict battle from the Hami trumpeter, and then for a long time, at that time Mo Ye was not married, very much love Xiaodou, has been using a steel file to file a huge horn file more beautiful, while working while chattering to give him to Xiaodou, everyone also joked that if Mo Ye has a daughter in the future, Xiaodou can be recruited......
Mo Ye hugged Xiaodou's body from the stretcher in his arms, everyone exclaimed, Mo Ye looked down, and the whole person almost fainted: Xiaodou was assassinated by the half-moon-shaped fish scale array skillfully composed by the werewolf when he was attacking the Merlin Thousand People, and in that impact battle, each fallen mercenary was pierced by at least four sharp blades at the same time - the werewolf's half-moon-shaped scimitar almost cut off Xiaodou's body, and the front abdomen of the internal organs was exposed, and the blood was exhausted, and the red was white.
Viscount Fan and dozens of nobles stood far away, looking at everything in front of them, and their noses were sour. Viscount Fan walked in silently and patted Long's trembling shoulder: "People, let's go into the ground first." ”
The ploughs were gathered one by one, the corpses of the Prairie Jīng Ling clan were placed separately, and several elderly priests carefully wiped the blood from the corpses' faces with damp cloths, and as they walked past the corpses, they sang the Requiem of the Holy See in a low voice: "Return the holy souls to the distant Pure Land......
Takashi opened a bone jar from the package, poured some spontaneous combustion powder from it, and waved his hand and sprinkled it on the children's corpses, and later red sè seedlings were strung from the corpses, and all the climbing plows turned into fireballs.
Under the raging flames, the once vibrant beings turned into wisps of light smoke curling up - is there really a heaven in the sky? Will the Spirit Temple of the Grim Reaper take in these warriors who have carved a bloody path for their companions and exchanged their lives for the lives of the robes?
Mo Ye held the small horn in both hands, and the slender whistle of the horn was placed in his mouth, and a whimpering cry came from the horn - Mo Ye played a horn tune that was very familiar to the soldiers of the Northern Union of the Empire, which is said to have come from the Hami people, and this song was most commonly used in the Hami memorial ceremony, and most of the border guards had seen the Hami sitting there motionless with their dead brother in their arms after the war, humming this song in their mouths.
At first, as the flames rise, the song is euphemistic and long, as if reminiscing about the past with his friends, and then, a sad melody like a song and weeping runs through all the remaining parts. The horn in Mo Ye's hand was based on the horn used in the Hami military camp and was remodeled from the single horn used in the Bard's band, and the hardness of the seal bone added to the bard's desolation......
Long and Balbas had flames in their eyes, mixed with Mo Ye's horn, and sang the song of the Hami people—at this moment, Long and Barbas thought of the Hami people who were as immobile as dead people in the pain of their deaths, and perhaps they were like this at this time.
brothers
Your arms are green pines,
You say, shoulder to shoulder, we can go further;
brothers
Thou art the sea in thy heart,
How many nights do you think we slept together;
brothers
Thou art a body and a mountain,
Who wants you to promise to use your chest to block the sword that pierces you;
brothers
You who have turned into green pines, seas, and mountains,
Do you feel a sadness that I can't erase.
Brother, are you okay in heaven?
...... Below that is the obscure ancient Hami language, the exact meaning of which most people do not know, except for some Hami sacrifices.
At the end of the tune, Bai Sè's horn drew a curve and landed accurately on the plough of the little bean, and the flames suddenly skewered up and laughed and accepted the new offering.
In the autumn of the 4th year of the magic calendar, in the battle known as the famous battle of Xilin Island, the small mercenary group suffered a major blow unprecedented since its creation.
Yes:
The total number of small mercenary group headquarters is 623 people. Among them, there are a total of 302 people in the Great Swordsman Battalion, 90 in the Blocking Swordsman Battalion, 60 in the Demon Swordsman Battalion, 112 in the Vulture Swordsman Battalion, 52 in the Archer Battalion, and 7 in charge. A total of 601 people participated in the battle, and the other 22 were stationed in various treehouse bars on the continent of Eminole.
In this battle, the total number of mercenaries killed was 176, including 126 in the Great Swordsman Battalion, 24 in the Blocking Swordsman Battalion, 12 in the Demon Swordsman Battalion, and 14 in the Archer Battalion.
Number of wounded: 384 people, of which, 45 will leave the battlefield forever.
In a skirmish, the casualty ratio reached 80%, and if you only count this number, the victory of the small mercenary group can only be regarded as a miserable victory.
Later generations often refer to the victory with a total casualty of more than 60% as a "Xilin Island victory", and no one can withstand more than two Xilin Island victory, not even a dark rattlesnake with two heads.
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