Chapter 490: Escape from the Town
"Husband, are you going to fight the barbarians?"
Su Liuye held his hand.
Probably because of the chill of the night, Chu Yan's hands were very cold, and there was a scar on the back of his rough hand. Even though it's healing, it's still scary to the touch.
This was left behind by Chu Yan when he came to the border and clashed with the barbarians.
Su Liuye knew the existence of this scar, and it was extremely distressing to the touch.
"Yes." Chu Yan's eyes were blazing, and although he looked at her with reluctance, his eyes were still resolute.
He pushed Su Liuye to the side of the carriage, and his hoarse voice was full of apologies, "Ah Liu, I'm sorry, I've been hiding it from you for so long." If something happens to me on the battlefield, find someone reliable to take care of you, and don't guard me. ”
At the beginning, he and Su Liuye were married partly because they were forced to be helpless, but after this period of getting along, he had already fallen in love with Su Liuye. However, before the two of them officially started to live, the barbarian came to attack, and it was absolutely impossible for him, as a man of the Great Xia Kingdom, to stand by and let the barbarian's butcher's knife cut at the people.
Su Liuye naturally knew Chu Yan's decision, and also understood the reluctance in his eyes.
"Husband......
With tears in her eyes, she didn't know what to say in a thousand words.
The noise behind him grew stronger, and a loud and dull crash came one after another, as if someone was banging on the city gate with something huge.
The cries of children and women were already heard in the town.
Although those who lived on the border had expected this to be the case, most of them were still filled with fear when the enemy actually attacked.
"Ah Liu, you go first!"
Chu Yan held her hand tightly, raised his eyes and looked at the side of the city wall, his expression was solemn, and he knew that he could not delay any longer.
He was not idle during the time he was recuperating from his wounds, and sent a number of people out to scout the enemy, knowing that the barbarians had been studying how to destroy the city gate recently, and they had come prepared this time, and he had to go there immediately.
Without waiting for Su Liuye to say more, Chu Yan took her into the carriage, which had already prepared dry food.
The coachman in charge of driving the horses was an old man in the town and a veteran of the barracks. Seeing that Su Liuye and Xiao Wu both got into the car, after he explained to Chu Yan, he immediately drove away without delaying for a moment.
Su Liuye sat in the carriage, watching the people behind her get farther and farther away from her, and finally rode towards the city gate.
The night sky on the other side of the city gate was already lit with a raging fire, and the bright red fire swayed into the sky, and the hearts of the people sank to see it.
"Madam, please sit down, I'm going to speed up."
The hoarse voice of the coachman was heard ahead.
Su Liuye came back to her senses, only to feel a drop of cold rain fall on her face. She looked up and saw heavy dark clouds churning in the dark night sky.
The rain falls from the clouds.
They were on their way at night, and if it did rain, it would be very bad for them.
Perhaps with this in mind, the coachman slapped the horse's back with his whip again and again, and the horse ran as fast as he could. The gale swept the cold rain and splashed on his face, Su Liuye looked gloomy, and sat back with the car window.
The carriage galloped all the way on the path, Su Liuye sat in the carriage, only felt a jolt, and I don't know how many times she was thrown and hit the carriage, if it wasn't for Xiao Wu holding her tightly, she would probably be hit even worse.
The carriage stopped halfway up the hill in the morning.
The coachman saw that the horses were tired, and that they were already a long way from the city gate, so that they would stop to rest and eat some dry food.
Su Liuye got down from the carriage, only to feel that the world was spinning, and her steps were frivolous and almost unsteady.
"Mrs. Chu!" Xiao Wu helped her in time and asked worriedly, "Madam, are you okay?" We'll have to walk a little longer to get to the camp, and it's dangerous to stay outside at this point. The barbarians have been prepared for a long time, and there have been people in the barracks who have been talking about the possibility of an undercover agent in the town, maybe there have already been barbarians who have quietly infiltrated the town. ”
"There are also soldiers guarding the camp side, and the barbarians don't dare to go there at will, but they may choose to intercept the people who want to go to the town on the road and catch the people as a threat, so we have to hurry over."
"Don't the barbarians even spare the people?" Su Liuye was shocked.
Although she had never been on the battlefield before, she also knew that the two armies fought without killing civilians or prisoners. The barbarians came up and tried to seize the threat of civilians, and everyone will be punished for such evil deeds!
"Madam, you don't know if it's your first time at the border." The coachman who was feeding the horses heard the words of Su Liuye and the others, and his hoarse voice was full of disdain, "Although the barbarians are good at fighting, they are far less in number than us, and the reason why they dare to attack again and again is all due to their shady methods. Every time, before the official start of the war, the barbarians started to capture the people of the town, and if they caught enough people, they used them to threaten the soldiers on the battlefield, and if they couldn't catch them, they wreaked havoc in the town! ”
Su Liuye looked in the direction the coachman said, and saw that there were several fires burning in the town at the foot of the mountain, I don't know if the soldiers deliberately let it go, or if the barbarians had invaded the town and were wreaking havoc.
Gale winds carried rain in front of you, and there seemed to be a noise mixed with heart-rending cries in the wind.
Su Liuye's face sank, knowing that these voices were coming from the foot of the mountain. They have horse-drawn carriages all the way, and they can run faster than others, but many people in the town have problems with food and clothing on weekdays, let alone find horse-drawn carriages.
Thinking that these people who were left behind would likely be caught up by the barbarians and become hostages of the barbarians threatening the Great Xia Kingdom, Su Liuye immediately asked the coachman to go back and send these people over.
When the coachman heard this, he was shocked, "Madam, this must not be! Mr. Chu asked me to send you to the camp safely, if you go back to pick up people at this time, it will take a lot of time! What's more, there are so many people fleeing, and the carriage is so big, we can't save them no matter what we do. You might as well get out of here, ma'am! ”
"No way!" Su Liuye was resolute, "Those people are also the people of the Great Xia Kingdom, if they are caught, they will definitely not end well!" They may be someone else's parents, or they may be someone else's children. It's fine if I don't know, but now that I know, I can't just watch them being left behind and become hostages of barbarians at any time! ”
The coachman was originally a soldier in the barracks, and when he heard Su Liuye's words, he was stunned and then clenched his fists violently.
But thinking of the task that Chu Yan gave him, he was still entangled, if something happened to Su Liuye on the road, how would he explain it?
"Let's go!" Su Liuye looked at the coachman with burning eyes.
The coachman glanced at the foot of the mountain and nodded vigorously as if he had made up his mind, "Okay!" ”