The sun is setting.

Not long ago, there had been a heavy snowfall, and the white snow covered the ground, which looked like a pure and immaculate white paper. And on this blank piece of paper:

scattered armor;

corpses pierced by spears, severed heads, and mutilated limbs;

There are still lingering warm and colorful intestines;

dark red bloodstains;

a hideous-faced, deadly head;

have unconsciously become the embellishment of this blank paper.

It was originally a picture of the white snow of the wasteland, but now it has been born into a painting of purgatory on earth.

In the snow, the barbarian cavalry, whose legs had been cut off and his chest pierced, and who had only one breath left, crawled silently on the snow, dragging a few feet of bloody path behind him, twisting and winding.

Shout!

Lao Li stepped on the thick snow, stepped on the snow with hideous eyebrows, raised the knife in his hand, stabbed the brute vest with a knife, and pierced out of the chest.

The brute twitched a few times, and completely stopped moving.

"Whew~"

Lao Li kicked the barbarian's corpse away, and slashed twice on his neck with the blade of his hand, making sure that the barbarian cavalry would never live anymore, shaking the long knife expressionlessly, bending his forearm, and dragging the blood-stained long knife in the elbow socket...... Rustling!

The dirty blood was wiped dry, and Lao Li put the knife back into the sheath and turned to leave.

Zheng Jiajun traveled all the way and finally arrived in front of Yalaso Mountain.

Along the way, they were harassed by the barbarian cavalry eleven times, and Zheng Haoran was assassinated by the barbarian assassins twenty-six times.

Although these encounters and assassinations are ultimately thrilling.

But the purpose of the barbarian was not really to use the harassment or assassination of Zheng Haoran by a small group of cavalry to completely exterminate this Northern Expeditionary Army.

"They wanted to delay our arrival at Mount Alasso, and they wanted to make us tired of the march. Therefore, he did not hesitate to send thousands of dead soldiers to fight with death, so ruthless. ”

Zheng Haoran also saw the other party's plan.

In this way, he can be more sure that, as the secret letter of the national teacher said, the wolf king has already arrived at the front, laying a net behind the canyon, wanting to compete with Zheng Haoran in front of this critical moat.

"Lao Zheng, the situation is a little bad."

As the commander's deputy general, Lao Li Tou confirmed that the small group of cavalry had not survived, and after turning around in the army, his face was gloomy, and he walked back to Zheng Haoran's side. Zheng Haoran did not take off his armor, sat on a stone in silence, and looked at the army.

Lao Li Tou squatted down beside Zheng Haoran, took out the whetstone, and unsheathed the long knife.

Swish!

Swish!

Swish!

Lao Li stroked the blade of the knife and brushed it on the whetstone, making a rhythmic sound.

As he sharpened his knife, he said:

"There are more than 100 brothers who are infected with the wind and cold, and the high fever does not go away, and it is difficult to go into battle."

"Sixteen brothers have frostbite on their feet, and if they go any further, their feet will be wasted."

"Little Sun ......" Lao Li Tou's voice was a little choked, he gritted his teeth, lowered his voice and said one thing to Zheng Haoran: "Do you remember, that young man in his early fifteenth years made a marriage with the little girl in the next village before he set out for the expedition, and bragged to his brothers before going out that he would get married when he went back." ”

"The new gang leader, Xiaohua, the young bald man, knows a little fur medicine, and dealt with them, the chilblains are finished, and the bald man scrapes the chilblains of Xiao Sun, and he said that he has shaved them before. Alas, bloody, I saw the bones of the white flowers. ”

"When you shave...... Xiao Sun is a man, biting the soft armor, leaving teeth on the soft armor, almost biting the soft armor through, he didn't shout out a sound, saying that he was afraid of Lao Zheng, you think he is a bad seed. ”

Zheng Haoran was silent for a moment, wiped the snow slag off his face, and nodded: "I'll go see him later." ”

"There are more than a dozen brothers, burned in a daze, talking nonsense in their mouths, always saying that they saw something, fell into the water or something, their eyes opened and closed, they didn't pay attention, they would say that they pushed a door, and they would say that they were walking on the green grassland."

Lao Li Tou sharpened the knife to the stirrup, got up and walked around the army with Zheng Haoran.

Wounded, feverish soldiers lay on improvised sleighs, dragged by war horses.

The little grandson who scraped off the chilblains fell asleep with a pale face, muttering "Cuihua" from time to time.

Lao Li Tou added on the side: "His daughter-in-law who has not passed through the door is called Cuihua." ”

Not far away, the monk carried a large cauldron on his back, washing the blood from his hands with melted snow.

Zheng Haoran did not wake up Xiao Sun, but walked towards the monk.

"You know how to heal?"

"I understand a little." The monk folded his hands, a little shy.

"That's just right," Zheng Haoran patted the monk's shoulder: "From today on, you will be our military doctor." ”

"Huh?" The monk was also dumbfounded, but after thinking about it, he nodded in response, arched his hand, and said loudly: "Yes!" General Zheng! ”

Zheng Haoran raised his fist at the monk.

The monk seemed to have known Zheng Haoran's "quirks" for a long time, and raised his fist to touch it hard.

Bang!

There was a loud bang where their fists collided.

Lao Li's hair was blown a few strands, and he was stunned for a while.

Zheng Haoran's eyes widened, and then he laughed: "Not bad! ”

Accompanying military doctors mainly deal with trauma.

After General Zheng left, Lao Li Tou told the monk what the military doctor had to do.

The monk took note of it carefully and kept nodding his head.

At the end, Lao Li Tou did not forget to advise: "By the way, since you have become a military doctor, you don't have to rush ahead when you fight with the barbarians, the last military doctor is too brave." ”

Only then did the monk learn that the last military doctor had died in the charge.

After Lao Li left.

Zheng Xiu, who was secretly listening to the conversation of several people not far away, led the monk to no one with an unkind face.

"Why do you know a little bit about medicine?"

The monk's eyes wandered and replied: "The little monk used to be in the Yunliu Temple, and he learned some by himself. Big brother, look, wasn't my leg injury also cured? ”

"Are you cured?" Zheng Xiu knocked on the monk's skull one by one, and there was a bang: "You have a special physique, and your legs are long and fleshy!" ”

The monk smiled: "But the little monk can't see death without saving it." ”

Zheng Xiu pursed his lips and asked rhetorically, "You forgot what I said?" ”

The monk shook his head: "I haven't forgotten." As he spoke, he smiled slightly, folded his hands, and calmly said, "But Brother Zheng, do you still remember what happened when we stopped in Jingtang Town?" ”

Zheng Xiu frowned: "Which thing?" ”

The monk smiled:

"The people of Jingtang Town have suffered from centuries-old insects, and they have burned pregnant women to cure the 'cotton moult' since ancient times."

"Later, because the little monk did not understand the world, he rashly intervened, but more pregnant women died."

The little monk felt guilty in his heart.

"At that time, the eldest brother said something, which made the little monk suddenly open."

"Big brother, you said, it is difficult to distinguish between good and evil, and it is difficult to distinguish between black and white. The little monk did something wrong. ”

"The little monk blames himself, you scold the little monk, it's wrong, it's wrong."

"But in the end you say,"

The monk's eyes were clear and clean, and he looked at Zheng Xiu brightly: "You just need to be worthy of your heart." ”

Zheng Xiu was stunned.

He never expected that the monk would remember what he said casually.

……

Zheng Haoran ordered someone to count the supplies of the army.

The rest of the food, plus the food of going out to hunt game, can barely last ten days.

Zheng Jiajun camped at the foot of Yalaso Mountain and rested for the night.

Early the next morning.

A blood-red crow flew in from the south and circled around the Zheng family's army camp.

"It's a raven."

Zheng Xiu didn't close his eyes for a night, he turned over vigilantly, stared at the familiar raven and moved his fingers, almost couldn't help shooting the raven down.

The raven hovered in the sky for half a moment, and finally fell into Zheng Haoran's hands.

Lao Li rubbed his bloodshot eyes, and his tired expression suddenly perked: "There's news!" ”

He turned around and saw Zheng Xiu's vigilant expression, and patted Zheng Xiu on the shoulder: "Don't make a fuss, it's a letter crow raised by the national teacher to convey military information." ”

Zheng Xiu nodded silently, and followed Lao Li towards Zheng Haoran.

Lao Li Tou wanted to say that such secrets in the army could not be mixed by a small soldier like you, but he saw Zheng Haoran beckoning to Zheng Xiu and Lao Li Tou from a distance.

Zheng Haoran couldn't hide his joy on his face.

The military information transmitted by the ravens is a piece of good news.

Because Zheng Haoran led the army to the north and went deep into the hinterland of the Northern Barbarians, it really made the wolf king feel like a great enemy, for fear that when he led the army to fight, his hometown would be taken out by Zheng Haoran. After getting the news, without saying a word, he led an army of 10,000 people and rushed back to the rear to defend.

The wolf king took away an army of 10,000 people in one go, and the remaining main fronts were empty, and the remaining generals guarding the frontier recovered pieces of lost territory in a short period of time, and actually knocked the invading northern barbarians out of the national border.

At the end of the secret letter, there is a small volume of the thickness of the little finger, the dense scroll is dyed yellow all over, and it is sealed with fire paint.

"Holy Secret Decree."

Lao Li Tou saw Zheng Haoran take out the emperor's secret decree from the letter tube, and consciously wanted to avoid suspicion, so he took a few steps back.

Zheng Xiu leaned his head forward.

"You!"

Lao Li Tou couldn't wait to slap this ignorant kid unconscious, the emperor's secret decree, is that anyone who can read it?

"Out of the way!"

Zheng Haoran glanced at Zheng Xiu and waved his hand grinningly: "Anyway, no outsiders see it." ”

Lao Li thought that this was also the case, and he also put his head up.

On the emperor's secret decree, only four words were written.

Zheng Xiu was furious: "! ”

Lao Li's lips trembled.

Zheng Haoran silently tore up the holy decree.

Four words: swear to kill the wolf king.

"Wei Yangzun!"

Zheng Xiu almost used the strength to crush his teeth and squeezed out Wei Yangzun's name from between his teeth.

Lao Li sat on the snow and muttered: "I'll just say, the emperor's secret decree shouldn't be seen ......."

Wei Yangzun should have returned to the palace.

The message he sent out this secret decree was very clear: Zheng Haoran was like a magnet at this time, and his bravery and prestige attracted the main forces of the Northern Barbarians away, relieving the pressure on the entire front.

As the king of the Northern Barbarians, the significance of killing the wolf king is self-evident. And at this moment, the wolf king didn't know what kind of wind he was pumping, and he had the intention of confronting Zheng Haoran, Wei Yangzun learned about this and wanted to push the boat down the river and let Zheng Haoran find a way to kill the wolf king.

As soon as the wolf king dies, according to common sense, the northern barbarians will fall into clan infighting, and several major clans will be busy competing for the throne of the wolf king, and they will no longer have time to take care of invading Daqian.

In the past, what Wei Yangzun had said came to mind. Zheng Xiu confirmed history with what he had seen with his own eyes, and quickly deduced the real reason why Zheng Haoran died in battle.

Holy Decree!

Had to start with!

A complex emotion welled up in my heart, anger, helplessness, incomprehension, mixed together. Wei Yangzun has taken a lot of care of Zheng Xiu over the years and has been kind to the Zheng family. However, when Zheng Xiu saw this secret decree, he thought more about Wei Yangzun because he ordered Zheng Haoran to kill the wolf king, which indirectly led to the decline of the wolf king, and he was ashamed of Zheng Xiu, so he took care of Zheng Xiu, a pair of orphans.

In silence, a fist was raised silently in front of Zheng Xiu.

It's Zheng Haoran's fist.

"Come on."

Zheng Haoran shook his fist with a smile.

Zheng Xiu looked at the calloused fist and couldn't help but touch it.

Zheng Haoran didn't say anything more, and ordered the whole army to rest for two days and enter the valley tomorrow.

After camping.

Not long after, in Zheng Haoran's barracks, the sound of grinding guns came out.

And in these two days.

A couple of strange things happened.

There were a few soldiers with chilblains, and the chilblains on their feet were visibly dispersed a lot, not to mention jumping around, at least they could walk.

Half of the soldiers who contracted the wind chill had a fever and their eyes were clear on the first night.

They said that they had a dream about a winding path, some said that the road was in the mountains, some said that the road was in the forest, some said that the road was dark and could not be seen clearly, some said that the road was paved with thorns, some said that the road was the tip of a knife and a spear, and the scenery was different and different.

The only thing that is the same is that they walked the road and dreamed that they pushed open a door.

Then I woke up.

When Zheng Xiu learned about this, he was a little surprised for a moment, and then he took it for granted.

In the Zheng family's army, many people saw the door and pushed open the door in various conditions and sufferings!

Some people feel that they are infinitely powerful, some people think that they are smart and intelligent, and when some people wave their war knives, a faint white light appears on the blade.

Many more people are initially awakened to thaumaturgy without realizing it.

When Zheng Haoran learned about this, he laughed three times.

Soon it was rumored in the army that it was General Zheng Haoran's persistence and perseverance that moved the heavens, and a miracle occurred, and there was a shout of "God bless the great cadres" in the army.

Some people rejoice, some people are sad.

After scraping off the chilblains, Xiao Sun still didn't survive, and he broke off in the military tent the next morning.

Next to the corpse, he wrote two words in crooked characters: Cuihua.

Zheng Haoran put away Xiao Sun's military card, put it away closely, and buried the body and erected a monument.

Everyone in the army learned that they were going to enter the valley early the next morning.

Zheng Xiu didn't sleep this night, he always felt that something was going to happen.

Because tonight the moon is full.

The moonlight was shining brightly, and there were no clouds.

A burly figure like a beast, carrying a huge bow on its back, landed on all fours on the other side of Yalasso Mountain, and climbed to the top of the mountain with agility.

He looked down from the top of the mountain, looking at the Zheng family army camp stationed at the foot of the mountain outside the canyon, and sneered.

The figure slowly rested his longbow on the ground and pulled out a four-foot-long arrow from his back.

It is more appropriate to say "spear" than an arrow.

The figure rests his spear on the bow, filling it up little by little.

Collapse! Collapse! Collapse!

With each tightening of the bowstring, the giant bow made a terrible sound, as if it would break at any moment.

The figure's pupils shone faintly, and the deep reflections of his pupils were densely packed with small dots, like a candle flame.

He aimed at the hottest spot of light, and the spear fired.

Shout!

It was Zheng Haoran's military tent.

The spear was wrapped in a thunderous roar and shot at the tent.

Bang!

The sound was like thunder on the ground.

In the darkness, Zheng Xiu opened his eyes violently and flew up.

Another figure floated out of the shadows, took off his gloves, and slapped his palm at the spiral arrow.

Fengbei and Zheng Xiu, as if they had a spirit in their hearts, shot at the same time to protect Zheng Haoran.

(End of chapter)