The galloping war horse finally rushed into the city before the city gate was about to close, and Li Li's hanging heart could finally be put down.

Escaping death is always exciting and scary.

When Li Li untied the belt tied to him and jumped off the horse, he felt that his legs were trembling slightly.

The other soldiers in the city hurriedly helped Song Yu down on the horse.

Li Ligang wanted to show off his equestrian skills to Song Yu, but when he turned his head, he saw blood spilling from the corners of Song Yu's mouth.

Li Li, who was originally excited, suddenly felt that his body was cold, as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

"Song Tou, what's wrong with you?"

Li Li rushed forward with a quick step, and asked in a panicked tone while holding Song Yu.

"Hey, old Song Tou, he was shot."

A soldier next to him sighed.

"Where did you get an arrow? How did you get an arrow? ”

Li Li immediately got up and went to find the place where Song Yu was hit by the arrow.

When he saw Song Yu's back, he really saw a feather arrow being stuck in Song Yu's back.

This feathered arrow is a typical steppe tribe's wolf's tooth arrow, with several unknown feathers sticking to the tail of the crude shaft.

At this time, the arrow had already penetrated deeply into Song Yu's flesh.

"Hurry up and find a doctor in the army to treat him!"

Li Li's emotions were very excited.

Soon a military doctor with a medicine box came to Song Yu, he carefully checked Song Yu's condition, and finally got up helplessly and shook his head.

"This feather arrow has already pierced the lungs of this strong man, and the old decay is powerless to save the sky."

He was used to seeing life and death after years of fighting, and although he also regretted that Song Yu's life was coming to an end, he didn't feel much sadness.

In an environment like Biansai, a soldier who can survive to Song Yu's grade is already considered old.

"Doctor, you still have a way, right, please find a way to save him."

Li Li immediately knelt down in front of the doctor and pleaded.

He thought that if he hadn't tied Song Yu behind him just now, he wouldn't have been shot by an arrow.

This is equivalent to using Song Yu as a shield, thinking of this, Li Li is very annoyed, if Song Yu is really dead today, then it can be said that he killed Song Yu.

In the days to come, Li Li may live in regret forever.

Just as he was kowtowing to the doctor, he felt the corners of his clothes being gently pulled.

He raised his head and found that the corners of his clothes were being dragged by Song Yu.

Song Yu was saying something to Li Li with his mouth full of blood.

Li Li immediately put his ear next to Song Yu's mouth.

"I'm older······ I can't move anymore······ It's not a good thing to die at this time, don't blame yourself, it's all fate······"

Song Yu said these words intermittently.

He said it very hard, and his voice was very weak, but Li Li heard it clearly.

"Song Tou, don't say anything discouraged, there must be a way to cure you."

Li Li said with a crying voice.

"I ······ eight years ago Damn, it's already earned to survive until now······"

Song Yu said with Li Li gently pulled.

"Song Tou, don't talk."

Li Li's other hand kept wiping the blood that overflowed from the corner of Song Yu's mouth.

But no matter how much you wipe it, you can't wipe it clean.

"I'm Song Yu······ Emperor Shengwu's five Chinese New Year's Eve did not return to the cavalry, and now he has to find ······ His Majesty Emperor Wu and his brothers went to ······ Reported ······"

Song Yu used his last strength to shout out the last words of his life.

This is also the word he should be most proud of, but he has been silently buried for eight years.

He never left the Frontier or the battlefield for eight years, but he never told anyone who he really was.

Because in his heart, only those comrades who died are qualified to be called night and do not return, and his own is just a lucky guy.

He felt that he could not compare himself to his comrades who had died in battle.

Although Song Yu's voice was not loud, and his tone was not domineering enough, it was the words shouted by this dying veteran before he died, which made everyone present in awe.

They were all shocked by Song Yu's words.

Even the Yang caravan who was unloading supplies here was deeply shocked.

"This old man is really hidden, he is already a legend as a surviving night never return, but he completely hides his glorious past, which is really commendable."

Jingzi was looking at Song Yu and couldn't help but sigh.

At this time, after Song Yu finished his last sentence, his face suddenly turned flushed, and then a large mouthful of blood spurted out from his throat.

Then the body straightened and finally slowly relaxed.

"Song Tou!······"

Li Li knelt beside Song Yu and cried bitterly.

"This veteran surnamed Song is a real hero, and he is really an amazing army that does not return at night."

Li Yi bowed deeply in Song Yu's direction.

"That is, to put such a force side by side with those beasts in the Night Wolf Battalion is the greatest insult to the Night Wolf Battalion."

Qi Ning smacked the ass at a Night Wolf Battalion soldier who was carrying goods with an angry face.

She almost kicked the guy and ate the.

When the Yang caravan escorted the supplies to the border fortress, Jing Zizheng immediately found his eldest brother and reported that they were attacked by the Night Wolf Camp and turned defeat into victory.

Jing Zizheng's eldest brother was also overjoyed when he heard that they had caught the night wolf in the night wolf camp.

Later, Adjutant General Song Shilong received them and took the night wolf Cao Jiangyun and most of the night wolf battalion and the Hopeless Army soldiers into custody.

However, considering the current tense situation at the border pass, he did not have so many manpower to help the Yang caravan move and unload the goods, so he selected some people from the Night Wolf Battalion and the Hopeless Army to help unload the goods.

"I heard my brother say that two or three days ago, the 1,000 people they sent went to the grassland to attack the Chinese army tent of the grassland tribe without returning at night, but they failed, and they did not return for a thousand nights."

Keiko was whispering to everyone what she had heard from her brother.

"Iron bones don't return at night, and he looks like a good man who dies."

Since coming here, Sai saw these rough soldiers who were sharpened by the north wind and sand, Li Yi admired these soldiers from the bottom of his heart.

Maybe their armor is torn, maybe their clothes are ragged, maybe the environment around them is harsh, maybe they live a hard life, but they work hard to guard the border.

They still use their blood and lives every year to guard the border fortress of Dayu and the safety of the people of Dayu.

Maybe every year, some parts of the Great Wall's defense line will be breached by these barbaric grassland tribes, or the people in the border area will be captured and killed by the grassland tribes.

But can the defenders of the Sideways really be blamed for this?

Obviously not, Li Yi felt that in the face of such a situation, they could barely maintain the entire Great Wall defense line from collapse, and it was already the limit of the border defenders to be able to control the losses to a certain extent.

"Senior brother, you said that this Pengzhou army has not changed its guard for ten years?"

"Yes, this Pengzhou army has not changed its guard for ten years since Emperor Shengwu was stationed in the Yuyang section of the border fortress in the second year."

Jingzi was looking at the Peng Zhoujun who looked like beggars more than soldiers around him and sighed.

"How did they hold out for ten years under the attack of the steppe tribes?"

Li Yi was very curious, most of these Pengzhou soldiers knew at a glance that they were veterans.

Although their faces were full of torn clothes, their hands holding weapons were solid and powerful, his eyes were as sharp as knives, and his momentum was like that of a tiger.

These guys know at a glance that they are perennial killers.

"Don't look at these guys like this, once they go to war, they are even more ferocious than the wolves of the steppe."

Keiko said proudly, although he was not one of them, it did not prevent him from worshipping this army.

"In addition, every year, the Dayu Dynasty will also send a large number of feudal towns and vassal kings to help in the war."

"But I don't seem to have seen the feudal towns and vassal kings you mentioned until now?"

Li Yi looked around curiously.

"Don't look for it, these guys will be a day or two late every time, and now that the grassland tribes have begun to attack, it is estimated that they are almost at the border, maybe he will arrive tomorrow."

Jingzizheng grabbed Li Yi, who was looking around, and said.

"Jing Gongzi, I heard that every year, there will be beggar armies from all over the country who will also come to participate in the war, right?"

Qi Chao asked curiously.

"That's right, every year there will be beggars participating in the Dao battle."

"The Beggars? Is it a force made up of steppe tribes? ”

Li Yi once heard his master Tai Jizi talk about this army, and he once commented on the beggar army Tai Jizi: the icing of the prosperous times, the source of the troubled times.

In Taijizi's opinion, if it is not my race, its heart must be different, although the beggar army obeys the orders of the Dayu Dynasty, but this is all based on the fact that the Dayu Dynasty can let them be attached.

As soon as the Great Yu Dynasty began to weaken one day and could not suppress these beggar armies, they would immediately show their fangs and tear off a piece of fat from the dying Great Yu Dynasty.

It's just that most of the people in the Dayu Dynasty don't think so.

They believed that the beggar armies of these steppe tribes were extremely fierce on the battlefield, much stronger than the soldiers of the Great Yu Dynasty.

They fight their own people on the battlefield without sparing the slightest hand.

And the war on the battlefield can also try its best to consume the power of these beggar armies, which can be regarded as a perfect conspiracy.

"Yes, it is said that this time it is His Royal Highness the King of Hu's troops who support our Yuyang section, as well as the beggar army led by the one-eyed tiger's big sand tiger."

"The one-eyed tiger is the one from the Moon Clan who saved His Majesty the Holy Martial Emperor?"

It was clear that Qi Ning had heard of this big sand tiger.

"In ancient times, Xiahou drew arrows and swallowed his eyes, and the existing Mu Yizheng broke through with one eye, which are rare stories."

Qi Chao also said excitedly.

They had all heard of the Great Sand Tiger being shot blind in one eye in order to save Emperor Shengwu, and they all admired this kind of great hero who was loyal and unparalleled and bravely crowned the three armies.

But Li Yi did not blindly worship this big sand tiger.

He thinks that the hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle is all for profit, and how can the general of the grassland tribe risk his life to save the other party's emperor without interests.

Even if his own relatives were wiped out by the Khan of the tribe, he would have been able to take refuge with other rival tribes.

"That is the case, why did this Great Sand Tiger or the leader of the Beggar Army, now known as Mu Yizheng, not get promoted before the death of Emperor Shengwu, but still succumb to the Beggar Army?"

Li Yi thought that the Shengwu Emperor at that time probably also realized that this Mu Yizheng was not as loyal as he imagined.

"That's because the ministers of the court and China at that time were opposed to the appointment of people from the steppe tribes."

Qi Ning saw that Li Yi was suspicious of General Mu Yizheng, so he immediately defended.

"Ministers against? That's a good reason! ”

Li Yi couldn't help but smile.

"Senior brother, what do you mean by this?"

Jing Zizheng was also a little confused by his words, and he could hear some extraneous sounds from Li Yi's words.

"Senior brother, if you think about it carefully, what a brilliant and strategic man this Emperor Shengwu was, he punished eunuchs and ministers internally, and even made all the vassals in the world bow down to their ears, and externally he launched a major counterattack against the grassland tribes several times, causing heavy casualties to the grassland tribes. Such an emperor will be swayed by a few words from his ministers? ”

As soon as Li Yi's words came out, Jing Zizheng and the Qi family brothers and sisters were all silent.

They had always believed that Mu Yizheng could not enter the regular army of the Dayu Dynasty because he was feared by the ministers.

But as Li Yi said, if Emperor Shengwu really wanted to get Mu Yizheng into the army of the Dayu Dynasty, even if the ministers objected, according to Emperor Shengwu's character, they would definitely stick to their opinions.

The fact is that Emperor Shengwu took Mu Yizheng with him to teach him for a period of time, and also let him go to the battlefield of Biansai to train for a period of time, and then transferred him out of his personal guard camp.

As for letting him establish a beggar army and let him go to Shanghai to eat, it seems that it is to monitor Mu Weizheng, the king of Hu, but from another point of view, this is not a kind of distribution, and it is also to let the king of Hu monitor Mu Yizheng.

"When you say that, I think it's really like that."

Kei Zizheng's brows furrowed.

It stands to reason that with Jing Zizheng's intelligence, he shouldn't be unable to see the strangeness in this.

But Jing Zizheng is good at everything, but he attaches great importance to the set of monarchs, ministers, fathers, sons, and sons, so he has never thought about these issues from the perspective of Emperor Shengwu.

"According to what you say, His Majesty the Holy Martial Emperor deliberately suppressed Mu Yizheng?"

Qi Ning still didn't believe Li Yi's statement.

"Miss Qi said carefully, you must not slander the first emperor, if this is heard by the eunuchs of the Northern Division, you will be punished."

Keiko was looking around nervously and whispered.

"That's not right! Emperor Shengwu also gave Mu Yizheng the surname and name of the country, which can completely show that His Majesty trusted him very much at that time. ”

Qi Chao thought for a while and gave his thoughts.

"If you think about it carefully, Mu Yi didn't enter the guard camp because he was given the surname of the country, and he was ordered to form the beggar army after entering the guard camp for a period of time?"

The three of them thought about it carefully and found that there was nothing wrong with the logic that Li Yi said.

"So my guess is that after he was given the surname to join the guard camp, Emperor Shengwu found out that this Mu Yizheng was really a person, but at that time he had been praised as a heroic model by Emperor Shengwu himself, and Emperor Shengwu could no longer depose him, otherwise he would be slapping himself in the face, so he could only find a reason to form a beggar army and exclude him from the Dayu army."

"Then what does this Mu Yizheng really look like?"

Qi Ning asked curiously.

"You ask me, I ask who to go."

Li Yi rolled his eyes.