Chapter 19: The Way Home

"Where's the handsome?"

Without waiting for them to finish speaking, Shi Erlei couldn't wait to ask - he didn't care at all about military rations or military rations, anyway, as long as he had food when it was time to eat, his Shi Erlei's duty was to protect the marshal.

Oh, by the way, of course, there is also the cutting of people - whoever stands opposite the handsome will cut whom, even the king of heaven and Lao Tzu can cut it right.

Usually, when the boss Lao Xu brought the handsome food box, he would also bring his share together, sometimes there would be two more chicken and duck eggs in it, and sometimes a big bone with a lot of meat.

This is not a stammer, like Erlei, Lao Xu is also a family member of Dashuai.

Lao Shuai helped Lao Xu - oh, it was still Da Xu at that time - to marry, but Da Xu was not blessed, a plague, and before a man and a woman were left, the mother-in-law was gone. Da Xu followed and served when the young master was still a young master, and the young master was not at ease after attacking the martial arts, and he couldn't stay at home without children and daughters, so he found it himself.

Gradually, Da Xu became Lao Xu. Lao Xu watched Shi Erlei grow up, with a son-nephew relationship.

The two knights didn't know about Sun Jie's situation, Shi Erlei didn't hesitate when he heard this, and said to Shangguan Fei: "I'll go find the big handsome!" "Hop on your horse and leave.

Shangguan Fei hurriedly said, "Wait a minute, I'll call a few people to accompany you." ”

Shi Erlei took a torch, tied two more spare ones to his back, and replied without looking back: "Let them catch up later!" "With his legs between the belly of the horse, he galloped away.

At night, the city is brightly lit.

In order to save troops, Sun Jie and Song Mingyi blocked the north and east gates with large stone bars a few days ago. At this moment, the big stones blocking the gate had been dragged away by the ox carts, and every gate was wide open, and the drawbridge was all lowered.

Outside the four gates of the city, a large stove was set up in each direction, and the baked brown dough and snow-white flowering steamed buns were piled up like a hill. The cauldron was filled with the smell of meat, and large bones were tumbling in the soup — I can't tell what kind of meat it was, but there were pigs, chickens, sheep and dogs — and anyway, people killed almost all the living creatures they could see around, cut them up and threw them in. In a long row of large baskets were pots and pans, chopsticks and wooden spoons taken out of their homes, all of them spontaneously busy, ready to greet the triumphant soldiers, and everyone's face was filled with smiles of joy that they had escaped death.

Although he did not go into battle to cut people with his own hands, the fatigue of the prefect Song Mingyi was no worse than that of the soldiers who participated in the battle: I don't know how many times I ran up and down the city - commanding the residents near the city gate to vacate their houses and prepare to house the wounded, checking the Lang Zhong to prepare wound medicine, organizing the official Ding Zhuang to tie up the stretcher, and lighting a huge fire on the four walls to show the direction of his pursuers - most of the soldiers were not locals, and there was no guidance from the firelight, and the brothers who were blind at night had to spend the night in the field if they couldn't say it well.

Although he had already arranged for the elder-eyed elder Li to look out at the head of Xicheng, every time he had a little clue about the work at hand, the Song prefect would personally climb up the city tower and look in the direction of Sun Jie's departure. Until I received a report or I suddenly remembered something, I hurried down to the city, and every time I left, I didn't forget to tell me: "Keep your eyes open, report to me as soon as you see the handsome, if you miss it, don't beat your dog's head!" ”

Lao Li hurriedly agreed. When the prefect walked away, the battalion soldiers next to him teased: "Brother Li, the prefect will say that if you miss the handsome, he will stand in the cage and kill you, and he will say that he will beat you to eighty boards, and now he will break your head, guess what it is......"

If in normal times, ordinary soldiers would never dare to be so contemptuous of the prefect's personal entourage, this battle of life and death has completely changed the relationship between people, and the distance between everyone seems to have narrowed a lot at once. Lao Li replied: "I don't need to be beaten by the master, I can't spare myself!" Da Shuai is the reincarnation of Prince Yue, and the lives of our whole city have been saved by Da Shuai! ”

The pursuers, holding each other in twos and threes, laughing loudly, carrying two or three or four human heads in their hands or tying them around their waists, appeared in people's field of vision one after another.

The heroes triumphed.

There are only about a dozen people around Guan Shengyun.

In the night, everyone led the war horse to walk with a deep foot and a shallow foot - the war horse has galloped to the point of losing its strength, and can no longer move people, and must have a good rest in the next few days, otherwise, it will be abolished if it does not die. Moreover, he has already run out of more than 30 miles in one go, which should be regarded as a temporary escape.

Guan Shengyun's indescribable indignation in his heart: Don't talk about fighting, I have never heard of this kind of! Moreover, I lost so badly in a daze, and now my mind is so chaotic that I can't figure out what went wrong at all.

After walking for more than three miles, there were a few dilapidated earthen houses. Well, it's just a few ruins - this is the place where Guan Shengyun swept when he led his troops over, and most of the men here should have died: so far away from the city, it is unlikely that they will be able to escape, an army of tens of thousands of people will drive over, and there is nowhere else to hide, they will definitely be caught in the cannon fodder team, and most likely die in the first few rounds of attacks. Women, who are slightly better looking, have been divided among the generals; Those who look bad fall into the hands of the GIs and don't live long. As for the elderly and children...... Guan Shengyun shook his head, as if he wanted to get these thoughts out of his mind: What time is it, and what are you still thinking about these irrelevant things?

There was really no strength, so the group got off the horse and sat down to rest against a few broken walls. There were pro-soldiers who were going to be on duty for the night, and Guan Shengyun beckoned back: "Come and rest together." If the light is black, there will be no pursuers, and even if there is, there will be a fire, and we can see it. At this point, life and death are up to you. ”

Afraid of attracting the pursuing soldiers, they did not dare to make a fire, so some soldiers took out dry food from their arms and presented it to Guan Shengyun, and another person used a helmet to bring water from the small river. Guan Shengyun drank a few sips of water, although he had no appetite, he knew that if he didn't eat it, none of his subordinates would eat it, so he broke a small piece of bun and threw it in his mouth and chewed it slowly.

In the dark, everyone was silently thinking about their own thoughts.

"According to the most ideal estimate, even if we can gather all the routs in the next few days, and we can only put together another three or four thousand people—there is no need to think about the equipment, and those who can run away must be the first to throw away the armor and soldiers. There is no doubt that the Breaking Sky Battalion has been wiped out...... "Thinking of this, Guan Shengyun was in pain, and his heart was dripping blood: how many years of hard work is this!" Guan Jianlin, Guan Yehuo, Guan Si, Gu Baisong...... In comparison, the weight of grain and grass and the loss of tens of thousands of personnel and equipment are nothing.

Gu Baisong, who stayed in the Breaking Sky Camp, was definitely gone. What about Gu Baihua, how can he comfort him when he meets? In the battle of the counterattack of the dog officer army, more than half of the casualties of the Gangfeng battalion were almost broken, and it happened that Luo Yonghao, the main backbone of the army, was infected with dysentery and held out in the camp for a few days. These two or three hundred people are probably finished, right? The dog officer is not a bodhisattva, and it is impossible to raise useless wounded soldiers - if he can escape, how can he explain to his love general? Gao Tengdou's three flying beast camps were blocked at the south gate, and there were quite a few people, how could they collapse all of a sudden? The east gate of You Futian is a feint, and the dog officers and soldiers should have seen it a long time ago: the two-zhang high Sun Zi Shuai flag has been planted in the Xicheng Tower has not been moved, the deputy general flag of Zhangwu is sometimes the south gate and sometimes the north gate, and the east gate has always been the general flag of Zhanger. Theoretically, the enemy general defending the city may indeed avoid the real and make up for it, but it is clear that the absolute main force of nearly a thousand horses is rushing towards him! Gong Derun and Zhang Ding at the North Gate should be able to run away from a lot of people, right? Alas, the enemy will really have two hits, these few fights, each time he beat himself to a defeat, since his debut twenty years ago, he has never met such an opponent...... In his thoughts, Guan Shengyun fell asleep.

Not long after Shi Erlei lit the second torch, he faintly heard a human voice. Following the sound of galloping over, he finally saw Sun Jie.

Half of the group hung up the lottery, the two brothers lay on their horses, apparently not lightly wounded, and the two riders each carried two people—it was the tiger guard who tied the dead brother behind his back and brought him home...... Sun Jie's personal guards get along day and night, and their feelings for each other are much deeper than those of ordinary battalion soldiers, and, strictly speaking, they have a family relationship.

Seeing that Sun Jie was fine, Shi Erlei's hanging heart finally let go. Everyone followed the official road, returned to the camp, and said hello to Shangguan Fei, Sun Jie was so tired that he had no appetite at all, so he slowly rode back to the city.

Song Mingyi received the Pegasus report from Shangguan Fei's herald that "the handsome man is returning to the city without hindrance", and led everyone to the city gate to greet him.

The lanterns and torches are as bright as day.

Sun Jie and the others who appeared in everyone's field of vision, even the people and horses were like soaking in blood water: the horse's mane was coagulated into locks by dried blood, and even the horse's calves were black and red. Sun Jie, who was full of tiredness, smiled reluctantly at Song Mingyi: "Big brother, help me." My legs are stiff, and I'm afraid I won't be able to get off the horse. ”

Song Mingyi waved his hand to rebuke the soap officials who wanted to come forward to help, and together with the deputy general Shen Chenggang, he personally put Sun Jie off the horse......

"Handsome, handsome......"

When the sky had turned white, Guan Shengyun, who was still asleep, was gently pushed awake.

In a daze, he was about to get up, but he was held down by the guard's shoulder. The guard made a "shhhh Guan Shengyun poked out half of his head from the broken wall, and saw through the already bright skylight that there was a small black spot in the southeast and left - with years of experience in the army, Guan Shengyun immediately judged that it was twenty or thirty armored horsemen!

Broken! These broken walls will definitely attract their attention, and they will definitely come and search for them!

Sure enough, the armor riders were moving towards here. That is, about a cup of tea, the black dots suddenly gathered together, and then spread out again, rapidly growing in size, and gradually showing their outlines: apparently, they found the horses stumbling outside the wall, and urged the horses to come straight over!

"Dashuai, let's fight!"

The guards looked at Guan Shengyun one after another.

Guan Shengyun nodded-at this distance, you can't escape, and you can't fall down if the tiger dies! Thinking of this, he stepped out proudly.

The guards drew their blades one after another, lined up, and guarded Guan Shengyun in the middle.

In the sound of hooves, a little light flashed in the distant horse team—the armored horsemen also drew their knives in their hands and rushed straight over!