But when the soldiers and horses passed by, and he quietly returned, he saw a bird landing on the monument, as if pecking at something.

Those birds are so annoying! The boy shouted that the general had eaten half of his bread, and that they had eaten half of it, and that they had pulled a bubble of bird droppings on it.

But it was a piece of bread, wiped clean, broke off and ate a small piece, and hid the rest in his arms, and he could eat it for days!

"What about your parents?" She asked, "Where are they?" ”

"Aya and Brother have been taken to the city," said the child at once, "I heard that there is a need for work there!" ”

"Where's Mother?"

The face rolling in the mire looked at her in a daze, her mouth opened for a moment, and her lips trembled, "My aunt ......"

The child didn't know how to continue, but the two tear stains that washed his face were clearer than any words.

So she understood right away.

"I know," she said gently, "Huai'an City will be recaptured by us in a few days, and you Aye and Brother will both come back." ”

"Really?!"

She nodded.

"Then why didn't the general go and attack the city?! Why go north?! ”

"The man who killed your whole family is on the north side," she said, "and I must catch up with my soldiers." ”

"Catch up with him!" The kid repeated a little nervously, his voice was very sharp, but still shaking badly, "Catch up with him!" ”

"Yes."

The child's whimpering voice suddenly turned into a cry that wanted to be suppressed, but could not be suppressed.

Is that fear? Is it hatred? Is there relief in it, or tears of anticipation?

"Why did they come to us?!" The child was crying and asking intermittent questions, "Why did they kill my mother?!" Why did you rob me Aya and my brother?! Why did you burn down our house?! ”

In fact, these questions can be answered with "strong walls and clear fields", Yu Ban does not want to leave any civilians who can serve the enemy army near Huai'an City, and does not want to leave any materials that may be used for siege.

In this era, this person's reputation is not bad, she thought, he is not a thirst for killing, he kills only those who he thinks should die-as for whether those people are farmers who have worked hard in the fields all their lives, honestly cultivated the fields, and supported their parents, wives and children, whether they have their own lives, whether they want to die so miserably, Yu Ban doesn't care.

"There will never be anything like this again," she said soothingly, "until we defeat them......

"They're never going to come again?" The little boy exclaimed, "I heard they've been here three times!" ”

The sunken eyes, which had not eaten for days, stared at her with grief and indignation, waiting for her to say something.

Therefore, Lu Hangyu was silent for a long time.

"They will never come again," she said, "if the Yanzhou people want to come to Xuzhou, they must lay down their weapons, they must be harmonious, like your neighbors, like those merchants who walk in the countryside, like the attitude of one big Han man to another big Han people, and we will allow him to come to Xuzhou." ”

The little boy didn't seem to understand such an analogy, but he was still persuaded by her earnestness.

"Well, that's good," he wiped his cat-like face, "General, are you going to continue north tomorrow?" Are you fighting on the road? ”

"Well, well," she wasn't going to say much, just nodded, "probably on the road, but maybe on the side of the road, it's not certain." ”

"More than 20 miles to the northeast, there is a mud forest, the general has to be careful!"

“…… What is it? ”

"It looks like a forest from a distance, and there are a lot of trees, but in fact it is all mud, but it is deep! A few years ago, someone in Chenzhuang went over there to visit relatives, and the child was greedy for fun, and ran into the forest, and it is said that he fell into it and couldn't find it! Especially when you get up early, there is a poisonous miasma, which scares people to death! General, you have to be careful......"

The little boy was still babbling about "the unpopular geography that only the local countrymen know", and while she listened attentively, her mind diverged a little—

What about Yu Ban? Does he know?

Chapter 264

Autumn nights are getting longer.

When they set up camp next to Chaohu Lake, the sky was already bright, and the lake surface was glowing with orange-red and inky blue intertwined waves, and gradually when the orange-red morning glow revealed golden light, the soldiers who got up early to change the guard could stretch their muscles and bones against the morning sun, and go to the lake to see if there were a few fish in the net. After making sure that there was any food to eat, he slowly went to lie down in the tent, while his comrades were still asleep.

But now it was also the end of the day, the soldiers silently got up from the couch, put on their clothes, stepped on straw sandals, and tied their legs tightly with rags, and finally lifted the curtains, and when they went out one by one, the torches outside were still crackling, and the pungent smell of tung oil was emitted.

Through the bursts of black smoke from the torches, there were still many stars in the sky who refused to leave, still standing high in the sky, staring coldly at the military camp that had awakened and was about to be fully equipped.

After a tiring day of marching, it was undoubtedly painful to get up at this hour.

But there were people who were more miserable than them, such as Tai Shici, who couldn't sleep soundly at all, and the soldiers around him, who were exhausted physically and mentally through an unprecedented bloody battle.

But fortunately, they persevered until the fall of night, and fortunately, Ban was a very cautious person, unwilling to arrange a night battle under the premise of being very sure.

The soldiers buried their pits to make rice, and the morning meal consisted of two cakes, and a bowl of broth, which had been boiled and tasted like soaked paper, and some sheep that had been brought out of the swamp with some difficulty, and after being slaughtered, the mutton did not have time to be roasted, so it was cut into thin pieces and thrown into the pot.

Therefore, this pot of broth was foaming with blood, fat and fishy, and it was extremely unpalatable.

But the soldiers ate with great relish, and even the blood foam drank with great cherishment, and perhaps some of them were not accustomed to this taste, but none of them would show it so delicately.

Such a hearty meal represents the upcoming war, so if you eat a little more meat, you will save more strength and have more certainty of survival.

As for the two cakes, the veterans were not too busy to eat them immediately, but only ate one, leaving one in their arms.

"It's not okay to eat too much during a war." And so they exchanged heads.

When the fire in the stove pit was extinguished, all the supplies were loaded on the cart, and the soldiers raised their flags, took up their weapons, and prepared to follow her on, Lu Xuanyu made a rare stop.

"I have something to say to you," she said, "and today we are going to fight against Yu Ban, and I thought that this man was nothing more than Er'er, so I gave three thousand soldiers to General Taishi, and asked him to lure Yu Ban out of the city to attack him, but he was indeed very strong. ”

Behind her, a thick, dignified crimson appeared at the end of the horizon.

The soldiers looked at their general in silence, the long march was like a tree in the woods, and when the wind blew, there was only the rustle of clothes brushing, and there was no other sound to be heard.

"But that's all," said Lu Xuanyu, "can he beat me?" ”

She looked at the soldiers under her command, those who were more or less wounded, so they could no longer withstand the high-intensity battle, "If you can kill Cao Ren, you can also kill Yu Ban, but this battle is different from usual, you must follow my orders-"

"We all obey the general's orders!"

"The general wants the villain to die, and the villain will never hesitate!"

"No," she said, "I don't want you to die, I want to take you back to Qingzhou alive." ”

"General!"

"General!"

"Victory!"

"Victory!"

She glanced at the entourage beside her, and suddenly smiled, "Go find a carriage for me." ”

The sun slowly rises from the forest, illuminating the dew on the leaves, and occasionally a bird steps on the branches, and the crystal clear dew jumps gently under the shaking of the leaves, and then follows the veins all the way down, and falls on the forehead of the land hanging fish sitting high in the cart.

When she looked up, she saw the bird spread its wings, and with a clear chirp, it flew up from the forest and flew all the way to the northeast.

There was a special smell there, the smell of a feast, which attracted wild beasts, birds, and insects from all directions to go there.

That was the direction she was going.

Not long after the sun rose, Yu Ban and Tai Shi Ci had simply put their formations in order, Yu Ban still had more than 4,000 combat strength left, and Tai Shi Ci's side was even worse, there were only 2,000 soldiers who could fight, and the rest had been left in the tent behind because of their injuries.

When the sun shone on this blood-soaked battlefield, the war drums sounded one after another, and the soldiers' footsteps were also step by step, closer and closer, more and more urgent!

Zhang Liao rode his horse to Tai Shici's side, and when he saw this scene, he was not flustered, and only whispered to him.

"The scout has just reported that the general is coming," he said, "only a moment at most." ”

Tai Shi Ci looked at him sharply.

The soldiers may not have slept soundly that night, but he did not sleep at all, so that his eyes were immediately stained with a layer of blue and black.

"Those 3,000 soldiers and horses have been exhausted from the battle for a long time, and they are not as good as the one I led—"

"So the general wants to lose to him," Zhang Liao said softly, "As long as Ziyi is dedicated to defending, I will come to help." ”

The handsome but very haggard face suddenly bloomed with a ray of brilliance.

Although Lu Xuanyu could not write to Tai Shici because there were cavalry scouts patrolling back and forth on this battlefield, as long as she brought such a message, he immediately understood.

Yu Ban did not devote all of his forces to besieging Tai Shi Ci, and although he would have liked to, the scout reported that Lu Lian's troops were approaching, and he had to set aside a reserve to deal with her and prevent the enemy's plight from happening.

The fly in the ointment was that none of his scouts could get close to the soldiers and horses, and take a closer look at how the soldiers looked and whether their morale was high or low. Although the captives he captured claimed that all the soldiers led by Lu Lian were more or less wounded, Yu Ban still thought that he should not take it lightly, so he sent a dozen scouts to investigate, but each of them would be shot off their horses as long as they were within 200 steps!

Lu Lian actually has such a marksman by his side!

But those captives denied it again, they said that if the army talks about swordsmanship, it will naturally push Lu Lian, but if it is about archery, then only Tai Shi Ci is a unique master, now Tai Shi Ci is here, where is there another master next to Lu Lian?

Maybe it wasn't one person, but the trick of a dozen, or even dozens of sharpshooters, Yu Ban thought uncertainly, and a guess rose in his heart:

Since Lu Lian used such a method, he was naturally afraid that he would find out if there was something in the army.

But they've come from afar, their morale is low, and the exhaustion of their soldiers is no longer something to hide—so what is she covering?

remembered what the Yanzhou soldiers who escaped from the Huaishui camp said before-

"Lu Lian was also seriously injured, but unfortunately she was rescued by her soldiers!"

It has been less than ten days since that battle, if she is really on the verge of life and death, and she is barely rescued, can she go to the battlefield after only a few days of rest?

"General——!

The banner with the words "Qingzhou Don't Drive the Land" slowly rose from the end of the field.

Her soldiers walked slowly, but that banner gave Tai Shici's soldiers infinite courage in an instant!

"The general is here!"

"The general is here!"

"The general is here!"

Yu Ban turned his head abruptly, his brows furrowed, and he stared at the banner - Lu Lian actually had such a reputation, which was indeed something he never expected!

The soldiers had survived yesterday's hard fighting, barely holding up their scarred bodies, and it seemed that if he swung his troops forward with a gentle and dexterous swing, they would fall one by one, without any more power to resist.

But now I just saw the flag! These Xuzhou soldiers, whose blood stains had not yet dried up, burst out with endless courage from the depths of their bodies!

They are roaring against the formidable enemy in front of them! Even if you are seriously wounded, even if the blood is about to drain - as long as there is the last drop of blood left, as long as you can wait for the arrival of the general! They'll survive this battle!

Yu Ban took a deep breath, narrowed his eyes, and carefully examined the soldiers and horses that were getting closer and closer, and he quickly discovered a little mistake: