Chapter Ninety-Seven: Return to the South
Looking at the moon in the night sky, Ning Que burst into tears, until he found that his cry was even worse than the wolf howl coming from afar, and he stopped with some embarrassment.
After waking up, the feeling of hunger instantly occupied his body and mind, and the empty stomach was like the heaven and earth vitality at the entrance of the cliff and cave behind the academy, constantly squeezing and torturing him.
Tong Guò had a clear and terrible hunger, and he confirmed that he had been in a coma for many days, no wonder his body was so weak. I found a few edible weeds from the grass around me, stuffed them into my mouth with the rainwater, chewed them until they were soft, and swallowed them with difficulty, and after a while, I felt better.
At this time, he didn't know that after the master ascended to the sky, there was a heavy rain in the whole world, and he looked at the water droplets on the meadow, and he didn't take it seriously.
When the moon disappeared in the early morning, looking at the morning sun and identifying the direction, Ning Que began to walk south.
He was depressed and at a loss, and he didn't know exactly where he was going.
Then let's go back to Chang'an.
His home is there, and the academy is there, although there is no one in the house by the old Bizhai or Yanming Lake now, although the old guy will never return to the academy.
After walking for a long time, he saw the snow-covered mountains and rivers in the distance, and he walked that way, and this time he walked into the night, and then to the moon and climbed into the sky.
Such days were repeated for a period of time, he traveled south by the mountains, watching the moon night and night, and occasionally suddenly lost his temper, crossed his waist and scolded the bright moon.
Ning Que knew that the teacher should still be alive, but he just changed his way to save zài, and he was still fighting with the thief in the sky, and the cloudy and sunny days of the moon were probably the concrete presentation of the battle.
But he still felt very sad and angry.
Because how the moon looks. It's not like a teacher.
"The face is like a full moon, that's a beautiful boy, where is it like you?"
Ning Que pulled out the Pu knife, laughing at the teacher in the night sky, and disemboweling and skinning a snow rabbit he had just caught. Yuan Thirteen Arrows and other weapons, all along with the black carriage, were left on the bank of the Surabaya River, and now on his body. Only that Pak knife. Sometimes I occasionally worry about how the big dark horse is now.
After cleaning up the freeman, he held it up to the air beside him and said, "Don't bake it. ”
He was shouting to Sangsang to roast the rabbit.
But now there is no Sangsan.
He kept his head down. There was silence for a long time, and then another shout.
"Sangsang. ”
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Waking up early in the morning, Ning Que continued to travel south at the foot of the mountain.
The snow-capped mountains. As long as you go south along the foot of the mountain, you can go to Minshan, you can go to Chang'an, and you can return to the academy.
On the way he met a small tribe of herders.
This tribe of herdsmen, who belonged to the court of the Golden Horde, recognized him as a Tang man by the accent of his clothing, and instead of inviting him to dinner, they tried to kill him and snatch the obviously extraordinary Pu knife.
So Ning Que killed all the people in the small herdsman tribe.
Afterwards. He ate a full meal of mutton, drank two bags of mare's milk wine, found a tent without the smell of blood, and slept soundly, and finally got some relief from the exhaustion and sadness accumulated these days.
When he left the herdsmen's tribe littered with corpses, he had an extra boxwood hardwood bow on his shoulder and an extra horse under him. He also led a horse with a rope, and the horse was tied with four legs of mutton.
A few more days passed.
Ning Que finally saw the famous gap in the Heavenly Forsaken Mountain Range, but his cry of joy swallowed back before he could say it, and the expression on his face suddenly became very solemn.
Helan City is full of elite cavalry of the Golden Horde!
Looking at that black oppressive picture, there are at least thousands of riders!
What really shocked Ning Que. It was four carriages in the rear of the steppe cavalry.
With his keen eyesight, he was able to see clearly. The gold, silver, and jewels inlaid on the carriages, and the discs made of stainless steel, all of which were densely lined up.
On each carriage, there were several grassland powerhouses with full armor, and the reason why they could confirm that those barbarians were grassland powerhouses was because the armor on their bodies was not leather armor, but extremely rare metal heavy armor on the grassland!
These steppe powerhouses are not the real protagonists.
They are just tasked with protecting the disc, and the people who use it.
On each carriage sat a thin old man, three of whom were dressed in bright royal court costumes and necklaces made of human bones around their necks, except for the old man in the back carriage who was dressed in ordinary grassland clothes and had some special decorations on his body.
"High Priest!"
Ning Que looked at this scene and frowned, although he had not seen the high priest of the Prairie Royal Court on the battlefield, he had heard the description of these people by General Duoma and the rest of the officers.
The Tang army relied on the battle of the formation master runes, and the battle of the grassland royal court relied on these sorcerers who could communicate with the vitality of heaven and earth with the disc, and they were called priests by the royal court. Only priests who are truly powerful and can communicate directly with the steppe are qualified to be called high priests and are endowed with precious metal discs.
It was difficult for Ning Que to understand why the Golden Horde Court dispatched three rare high priests at one time, and looking at the old man in the carriage at the end, he was afraid that his status was still above these three high priests!
"Could it be that there are any important people in Chang'an City in Helan City?"
He didn't think that these steppe cavalry and high priests were attacking Helan City, because no matter how powerful the high priest was, it would be difficult to break through Helan City, which had been transformed by the corresponding rune array at the beginning of construction, and as for those steppe cavalry without siege equipment, let alone thousands of horses, even if tens of thousands of horses came, it was meaningless.
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After the heavy rain stopped, before the people of Helan City could make a decision, the cavalry of the Golden Horde came to the city with those four strange and gorgeous carriages.
Helan City has been besieged for many days, and the atmosphere in the city is very low and depressing.
At this time, there were more than 10,000 Tang Dynasty iron cavalry in the city, as well as masters like Master Huang Yang, and several strong men in the army, so it was logically impossible to be surrounded by thousands of grassland cavalry.
But it's true.
When the Iron Cavalry of the Zhenbei Army had just arrived at the city, the Iron Cavalry of the Zhenbei Army launched a powerful surprise attack out of the city, and that raid was also the closest to success among the several attempts afterwards.
Because at the time of that raid. The high priest of the royal court on the four carriages had just begun to use his means.
The grassland had already been flooded by continuous heavy rain, and the four high priests of the Golden Horde, who did not know what means they used, actually made the large grassland in front of Helan City even more soft and muddy.
The foundation of Helan City has been transformed by the formation master, so that it can not be affected by the high priest, but the grassland is several miles outside the city. It's completely swampy ground!
How can the Tang cavalry fight well. Brave and fearless, the horse's hooves fell into the grassland ground, and they couldn't rush into the opponent's camp at all. He can only die by shooting at the enemy.
"A few years ago, when the desolate people went south for the first war, the priests of the Left Tent Court used this trick, and the military department sent a military order from Chang'an City. Asked the army to discuss how to deal with it, and the generals thought, my Datang Iron Cavalry is different from the deserters, and it is a mobile route, and it will never be surrounded by a piece of grassland......"
General Han Qing stood at the head of the city, looking at the dense grassland cavalry under the city, looking at the four carriages, and looking at the corpses of the Tang army, his face became extremely ugly. said: "However, we have forgotten one thing, this kind of demon method is used to trap Helan City, but it is very suitable, and now it seems that these four wizards of the Golden Horde Court are obviously much stronger than the wizards of the Left Horde Court back then!"
If it was before, Helan City would have stored enough grain and grass. No matter how the Golden Horde court besieged the city, the Tang army would not have any fear, but now the Zhenbei army was also in Helan City, and the grain and grass in the city were already on the verge of exhaustion, and the city was besieged by the enemy at this time. It is very dangerous.
"According to the general, it is necessary to make up his mind early. Through the mountains and turns to the east wilderness, and then bypass Yanbei and return to China, only in this way will you not be trapped here for life and death. ”
Han Qing looked at the queen mother standing on the side of the city wall and said in a deep voice.
The queen shook her head and said: "Since the Golden Horde Court Shan Yu dared to do something to me, and even invited the national teacher who had been hidden for many years, then his main cavalry had already gone south to invade the Tang Dynasty. ”
"I'm worried about the safety of Chang'an City right now. ”
The queen's expression was still very calm, and she said softly: "If it is just the Golden Horde family, if you add a few more guts to Shan Yu, he will not dare to go south and let go of the horse, so the situation facing Datang now is bound to be more difficult than we imagined, maybe it will be the situation of the whole world." ”
Han Qing said: "Then we should attack Yan Kingdom. ”
"The Eastern Wilderness is not very peaceful, it will take too long to bypass Yanbei, and attacking Yanguo will not be able to slow down the pace of other enemies at all, what we need most now is time, we must do our best to bring the Zhenbei army back, because the Tang Dynasty needs this cavalry more than ever." ”
The queen mother turned around, looked at Han Qing and the two generals of the Zhenbei Army, and said with a slight smile: "I know what you are thinking, thinking that the Zhenbei Army is now short of food and grass, even if you rush back, what effect will it play." ”
"You're wrong. The Zhenbei army stayed in Helan City, and there was no grain and grass, which was the burden and concern of the Tang Dynasty, and if we could return south and find grain and grass, we would be the force that the enemy feared. ”
She said slowly: "I don't know if Chang'an City thought of this, and I don't know if the grain team in the Northern Camp was burned by the royal court or didn't come at all, but it is obvious that the Golden Horde Wang Shan Yu saw this very clearly, so he would pay such a big price to trap us here." ”
General Han Qing was silent for a moment and then asked, "Niangniang, then what should we do?"
The queen said: "We must take advantage of the last grain and grass to highlight Helan City." ”
Han Qing frowned slightly, and the faces of the two Zhenbei Army generals were also a little gloomy. In fact, they all understand the truth of what Niangniang said, but the problem is that the remains of Tang Qi under the city wall prove the difficulty of this matter.
"It was enough to kill those three priests. ”
The queen looked at the city and the four gorgeous carriages behind the steppe cavalry, her eyes slowly narrowed, and the voice that flowed from her lips seemed to have become a little colder.
Master Huang Yang, who had been silent, suddenly smiled and said, "Or, I'll give it a try." ”
The queen shook her head and said, "The archery skills of the steppe barbarians are too good, and the master is too dangerous in the past. ”
A general of the Zhenbei Army gritted his teeth and said: "Niangniang, there are still several martial arts powerhouses under the command of the last general, if there are still clouds covering that strange thing tonight, let them try again." ”
The queen mother still shook her head and said: "I have tried twice before, since I failed, don't try again, the lives of these soldiers should have more important uses in the future, don't sacrifice here in vain." ”
There was silence at the head of Helan City.
At this time, the most noble status in the city is the queen Niangniang, before the death of His Majesty Xià has explained that the six princes will succeed to the throne, the generals are naturally only Niangniang Niang, but in the eyes of everyone, Niangniang is a weak woman after all, what can she come up with?
The queen smiled slightly, as if she remembered some memories from a long time ago.
Then she whispered, "I want to give it a try." ”
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Whether it was Khan Qing or the two generals of the Zhenbei Army, they thought that they had heard it wrong.
However, before they could react, they only heard the sound of the wind slightly, and the palace skirt on the city wall was fluttering, and the queen mother actually swept lightly and jumped out of the city wall!
Khan Qing howled miserably, reaching out to grab the corner of the queen's skirt, but only grabbed a handful of air. The two generals of the Zhenbei Army were directly frightened, and only rushed to the city wall after a while.
The people on the city wall thought that they would see the tragic death of the queen mother.
Han Qing cried and said: "I should know that His Majesty went so suddenly, how could Niangniang withstand this blow, I am afraid that she has long wanted to follow Her Majesty Xià, but Niangniang ......"
The crying stopped abruptly, and he looked at the picture he saw, rubbed his eyes, rubbed them red, and felt that the picture he was seeing was not real.
Looking at this scene, the eyes of the two generals of the Zhenbei Army widened, and their hands fell on the city wall, about to crush the hard stone bricks. Only Master Huang Yang's expression remained calm.
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The queen mother jumped from the high city wall, but there was no incense.
She hadn't fallen to the ground yet.
She still fell in the air, and after falling some distance, she would reach out and gently press against the hard stone wall, and the fall would be slow, and the hem of her skirt would rise slightly, and she would look like a fluttering flower.
After His Majesty's death, the queen's clothes have always been very plain, so this is a plain flower.
The queen's feet finally fell to the ground, and the hem of her skirt gradually fell.
The ground outside Helan was soft, like a swamp.
The soles of her shoes slowly fell downward.
The grass roots at the hem of the shoe are also collapsing.
She walked towards the Golden Horde cavalry in the distance, her expression was calm, as if she was about to review the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty.