The vultures in the sky hovered high in the sky for a long time, and there was no expected gluttonous feast in the Shangdang Basin, but they still persisted and did not leave, and there were thousands of dead bodies on the ground that had broken through a few days ago, and the buzzing sound of disgusting green-headed flies was inexplicably upsetting.

Among them, the corpses that were trampled by the horses' hooves were unrecognizable, the white bones were clearly visible, the corpses quickly decayed and deteriorated under the high temperature, and occasionally a few hungry vultures flapped their wings to scare away flies, picking up carrion and swallowing it like chewing wax, and the greedy eyes were indeed staring at the Qi army camp when they looked up.

"Damn, it's the fifth day!"

"In order to take care of this group of Qi soldiers who have no eggs, the people and horses of our town have stayed here for five whole days, I am afraid that it will be Ji, and the battle on the Yingchuan side will be over, and in the end, I am afraid that I will not be able to drink a mouthful of soup over there. ”

The red-clothed and black-armored Liangzhou veteran outside the Qi army camp scolded very unpleasantly.

"His grandmother has a leg, and I don't know what General Bai thinks, my Lao Liu is obedient to him when it comes to fighting, but is it possible to be true right now, waiting for King Qi of Nalaoshzi to send us a ransom?"

The soldiers who claimed to be Lao Liu held back their words, and now they didn't vomit or feel unhappy, and they poured beans and said it generally, and in the end, they were all soldiers from Liangzhou, and there was nothing difficult to say.

"But speaking of which, although the lives of soldiers are not valuable, they are very numerous, even 200,000 pigs have to spend a lot of silver, and most of those generals are from their families, and there is no shortage of silver. ”

The veteran beside him answered.

"Hey, if you want me to say, there aren't a lot of land in Liangzhou that no one has cultivated, so it's better to send it all to be used as labor, and spend that effort?"

The old soldier stood on the guard tower and looked at the Qi soldiers in the barracks below, whose faces were as pale as paper, and sneered.

"I don't know about the other soldiers in the world, but our Liangzhou soldiers have never heard of a person with a wound in the back since His Majesty led the army, let alone surrender!"

"No matter what kind of battle this battle turns out, victory or defeat is one thing, but surrendering is his mother's spineless, his grandmother's, the thing in the crotch is white, and he is worried that he can't carry it on his shoulders and can't pick it up, and his grandmother has a leg. ”

"Don't say it, wait for it, according to General Bai's temperament, I don't think this matter is so simple, maybe I still expect these 200,000 soldiers to let Qi State cede land and pay compensation, how to deal with these people is decided by the big man above, let's worry less about this." ”

"Let's get down to business, how many heads did you cut off on this southern expedition?"

The old man lit a dry cigarette and asked casually.

"Twenty or so, speaking of which, this trip is luck, when General Bai was planning to give those new melons and eggs a bloody battle, we just chose to press the formation, they couldn't beat it, our old brothers are on top, and there are a total of about 20 people after a few battles. ”

Lao Liu scratched his head and laughed twice.

"Damn, when I went out on this expedition, it was decided, an ordinary Qi army had seven taels of silver for the head, and this one hundred and forty taels plus other military merits Lin Lin was afraid that there would be two or three hundred taels of silver, and I went back to Liangzhou to buy a big house, and there were still some leftovers after marrying a few aunts. ”

The veteran on the side smoked two puffs of dry tobacco and joked.

"Look at your little bit of talent, our sons are all half-old, and they are married to Raushzi's concubine, Lao Tzu's life is still reserved for his own doll to have a good future, but he can't waste it on a woman's belly. ”

"You said that these eggless things, if they didn't surrender, I would be dignified on the battlefield, I killed forty or fifty people to make up enough for a hundred, what kind of official can I be?"

"It's estimated that there is no problem with changing the captain, but after all, everyone has surrendered, and the killing of prisoners is unknown, not to mention that there are 200,000 people in the world who can afford this infamy?"

Lao Liu sighed abruptly.

"That's it. ”

His eyes fell on the vultures outside the camp, and Lao Liu subconsciously frowned and bent down to pick up a stone.

"Bang ......"

The stone hit the branch of the dead wood, and the vultures that were carelessly taking care of the hazel black feathers were suddenly startled, and in an instant, countless vultures flapped their wings and flew away from the dead wood and cast countless black shadows, and the dead wood also revealed its original color, and a little green appeared on the branches in a trance, but it had been suppressed by the vulture flock above that had stopped for a long time

It turns out that the dead wood outside the camp of the Qi army has been full of countless vultures, they have not left, they are very patient, the legend says that this strange bird can even quietly wait for the dying prey to slowly fall to the ground, wait for a few days or even more than ten days, now they have smelled the breath of death, obviously far from reaching the limit of their patience, not to mention that no matter how bad it is, it will be a carrion pad on the stomach.

"Lao Tzu doesn't like this thing. ”

"Although there are many times when there is no such thing on the battlefield, eating corpses is prone to plagues, but every time I look at its stumbling appearance, I feel inexplicably upset. ”

Lao Liu clapped his hands and looked at the vultures that had fallen back to the dead wood, shrugged his shoulders and looked helpless.

"Alas......"

"We don't like it either, it's a mess. ”

The old man took a deep breath of dry smoke, the thick smoke pressed into his lungs, closed his eyes, and the smoke exhaled from his nostrils, and the whole person was much more comfortable.

"Lao Liu ......"

"Woo ......"

The desolate horn sounded in the camp of the Qi army, and the old soldier silently extinguished the half of the cigarette in his hand, and kicked Lao Liu beside him, his body was straight, but the afterglow of his eyes fell, and the emotions in the eyes of the white-clothed and black-armored young man in the school field outside the camp were very complicated, with doubts and grievances, but more admiration.

"Lead a battalion of men and horses, go out of Yang Valley and enter Reject Lu County!"

Bai Qi looked at Zhu Yuankui beside him and said.

"Plans changed?"

"Don't wait for the gang of people in Qi to send a ransom?"

Zhu Yuankui said in surprise, the envoys sent to Qi in front of the 200,000 Qi troops a few days ago have already set off, and they should have reached the boundary of Yong'an City in the past two days, which is also an element of the safety of the soldiers in the camp, after all, they will be able to go back alive soon, and no one wants to cause trouble at this juncture, even if there is, they will be cleaned up by those who want to go home.

"The generals forgot what they said before?"

Bai Qi put his right hand on the iron sword at his waist and said softly.

"Go ahead, just let me know. ”

"The last general, take the order!"

Zhu Yuankui knelt on one knee, and when he turned around, cold sweat was already dripping from his forehead.

"Wait!"

A cold voice sounded behind him,

"What does the general command?"

"Notify the second office to boil today's porridge in advance. ”

"The general means ......"

"Yanggu Pass is still a few dozen miles away, and I don't want to see the body of a prisoner of war on the road. ”

"There were too few people killed in the breakout a few days ago. ”

"There are too many people in this camp, so that there will be chaos. ”

Bai Qi's voice was as cold as ever.

"The last general, save it. ”

Zhu Yuankui gasped, and finally bowed down.

This ransom is wanted,

This soldier is a big kill!

Compassion is not in charge of soldiers, righteousness is not in charge of wealth!

Now that Zhu Yuankui has realized the true meaning of this sentence, these 200,000 soldiers may have been labeled as death in Bai Qi's eyes.

"Out of the camp!"

"Out of the camp!"

"The prisoners of war of the Jiazi Battalion are out of the camp quickly!"

The shouts of the Liangzhou soldiers sounded outside the Jiazi camp.

In the camp,

Countless Qi soldiers who were paralyzed on the ground raised their heads when they heard the sound, and looked at the red-clothed and black-armored soldiers walking through the camp and subconsciously shrunk their necks, but there was still a glimmer of hope in their eyes, they could finally leave the camp, and after so many days, they finally came.

For five days, a meal of gruel a day,

Even the iron-beaten man couldn't bear it, and when he looked at the tens of thousands of people in the camp, he still struggled to get up and rush to the school field.

"You melon baby, what are you looking at!"

Behind him, a veteran soldier slapped a young recruit on the back of the head.

"Uncle, the king's ransom has arrived?"

"Can we go back?"

"I don't know how the old lady at home is doing well these days, this trip to the head of the trouser belt on the belt, thinking that she can earn enough money to go home, to see a doctor for her, this trip is estimated to be ......"

The young soldier looked up at the Liangzhou soldiers walking through the camp, his eyes fell on the swords on his waist, and he subconsciously swallowed a mouthful of spit......

"It's not to blame others for what you do. ”

The old pawn who was accustomed to life and death behind him sighed.

In the final analysis, it is also his own Qi people's bones are cheap,

It's like Qianguo is a beauty, and now that the family has suffered a disaster, the door has not had time to be repaired, and the white flower body can be seen from afar.

happened to let the neighbor "Qi Guo" outside the door see it, and he coveted other people's bodies.

I was afraid that something would go wrong, so I called the "Wei State" next door to go to harm the beauty, but who would have thought that the thing in the crotch had just been taken out, and before I could do the right thing, I asked the family to take the scissors and cut them off with a click......

Do you say that this matter is resentful?

"Gua baby, bury your head low!"

The old soldier of the Qi army snorted in a low voice.

"Uncle ......"

"Can we really go back with all the tails on this trip?"

"Don't look at what you shouldn't see, don't ask what you shouldn't!"

The old pawn pulled the young soldier's body behind him.

Half an hour later,

On the school grounds,

Tens of thousands of Qi soldiers gathered, hundreds of cauldrons were tumbling in the middle of the school field, bursts of tempting aroma of rice wafted out, and the sound of swallowing saliva came and went.

"Eat!"

"Let's eat!"

"Only when you are full do you have the strength to hurry!"

"Today, General Bai is gracious, let you eat a slimy meal!"

In front of the cauldron, a man with a beard on his face shouted, and the lid of the pot was lifted from the sticky rice grains in the pot, which made the Qi army prisoners on the school field look straight in the eyes.

"Look at it!"

The man casually inserted the chopsticks, and the sticky rice porridge was piled up, and the chopsticks stood upright.

"Give me a bowl!"

"Give me a bowl!"

......

"Damn, it's been five days, and I'm finally eating sticky. ”

The old man didn't care about burning his mouth, so he lifted the bowl and poured it into his mouth, and drank until the end of the bowl looked at the rice grains at the bottom of the bowl, his tongue stretched out, and his slap turned around the bottom of the bowl, and then he put it down satisfactorily after licking the clean bottom of the bowl.

"Uncle, in the past, it was so rare that you could see the porridge water at the bottom of the bowl, why do you eat this today, I heard that the prisoners in the prison will have a good meal before they go on the road, we won't ......"

The young soldier curled up in the corner of the wall with a bowl, and his frightened gaze wandered over those cold Liangzhou soldiers, but he didn't dare to put it in his mouth.

"You melon baby!"

"If there is fish and meat today, we really don't shout to eat, but this porridge you put your heart in your stomach, it is estimated that there is a hundred and eighty miles back to Chaoyang County, how can you have the strength to go back if you can't eat enough, this porridge doesn't say how full you are, it can also make us move and save them some energy." ”

"You can drink it boldly!"

The old man picked up a dog's tail grass and subconsciously picked his teeth, and finally remembered something, and threw the grass in his hand with a wry smile.

"Once you've eaten, let's hit the road. ”

"Dare to ask the general where he is going this time?"

"Chaoyang County!"

The man said in a deep voice.

"Is this true?"

The questioning soldier was beaming.

"His grandmother's, can he still lie to you?"

"Your envoys of Qi are about to arrive in Chaoyang, and our General Bai thinks you are wasting food, so it's better to send them away as soon as possible, so as not to stay in the barracks all day long to eat and drink in vain. ”

"Your Jiazi camp is the first batch, and the brothers behind are coming soon. ”

The man laughed and cursed, and when he turned around, his face was indeed gloomy, and his rough fingers slowly sharpened the hilt of the knife, and his expression became resolute when his eyes fell on the boy in the middle of the school field.

"Thank you, General. ”

"Let's not waste your army's food, go home and eat our own. ”

"Be conscious when you tie the rope later, don't play any tricks on the road, you can get to Chaoyang County tomorrow, don't lose your life." ”

"Hey......

"Small savings, all for the sake of comprehensiveness. ”

"Tie us up and have some peace in our hearts. ”

The veteran oily didn't think much about it, and rubbed his hands and joked.

......

"It's time, let's go. ”

Bai Qi looked up at the dim sky and said loudly.

The right hand is raised,

The Liangzhou soldiers in the field turned over and got on their horses,

The soldiers marched through the field and tied ropes around the wrists of the prisoners of war.

......

Looking down from the sky,

Tens of thousands of people are staggering on the road, and thousands of Liangzhou soldiers riding tall horses behind them are guarding the surroundings, like jackals, tigers and leopards driving flocks of sheep.

silent

silent

It's a dead silence,

It had been three hours of traveling, and the Qi prisoners on foot were exhausted, and the thick porridge in their stomachs had been exhausted, and they hurried forward weakly, like the walking dead, but it was not very appropriate, compared to the numb walking dead, there was a little more in their eyes, and it was called hope, because they thought they could live.

"Uncle, I don't feel right. ”

The young soldier looked up at his surroundings and felt inexplicably familiar.

"Uncle, isn't this the way to Yanggu Pass?"

The young soldier looked around and said.

"Shut up!"

The old soldier looked at the frightened faces of the young soldiers, gritted his teeth and shouted in a low voice.

"You kid don't want to die!"

"When I went out of the camp, I was surrounded by cavalry and the sky was dark, so I couldn't see the direction clearly!"

"But now that you've reached this realm, you can see that you still want to die!"

"Uncle, this ......"

"Dog, I heard from my uncle, this trip is estimated to have an accident!"

"It's impossible to go back to Chaoyang, most of them are sent to the territory of Qianguo to do labor to repair bridges and pave roads, but it's better than losing your life!"

The old pawn looked at the Liangzhou soldiers in the distance and sighed.

"I can't escape, and my uncle can't hold back at this age, but you're still young, if you have the opportunity to return to your hometown in the future, remember to tell your aunt Wang that I'm sorry that she didn't let her have a few days of peace, and she was miserable." ”

"If it's possible,"

"Uncle said that it is possible, remember to bring Uncle's body back to the south, and people will pay attention to the roots of the leaves......"

"Uncle ......"

"Don't say it, remember to follow Uncle on the way later!"

"Uncle gave up this old life to protect you all the way. ”

......

Yanggu Guanxia,

Through the moonlight, the mottled city walls can be faintly seen,

In the distance, the soldiers of the Qi army looked up and watched,

"Why are you back in Yanggu Pass again?"

"Didn't you say that Chaoyang County was good?"

When the outline of Yanggu Pass came into view, the Qi army captured the disaster in an instant, and the bustling sound was endless.

"Where's your general?"

"Let your general come out, fuck it, Lao Tzu?"

Someone in the crowd shouted out of nowhere, and when the words fell, they were even more excited, and countless captives with ropes in their hands crowded and crashed into their horses.

"Silence!"

The red-clothed and black-armored Liangzhou soldiers separated a gap,

A young man in white clothes and black armor slowly rode up,

Didn't speak,

A gaze that was colder than the blade swept over the faces of the Qi army captives,

The hand is raised gently,

Thousands of Liangzhou soldiers drew out the long knives on their waists,

"Loud noiser, slash!"

"Don't stop, slash!"

The young man's cold voice came into his ears, and the soldiers who had been rioting only felt a cool breath rising from the soles of their feet and rushing to their brains.

"If you go, you will die, if you don't go, you will die, the master will fight with you!"

Someone in the crowd shouted violently, the tiles hidden in the cuffs had cut off the ropes, and the body suddenly rushed out and went to Baiqi, swift and neat, this is a good hand hidden in the Qi army, and it has been a long time since this moment.

"Bang ......"

This is the sound of a corpse falling to the ground,

The brave soldiers put their swords in their sheaths,

Look closely at the corpse on the ground and cut it open,

The colorful intestines flowed all over the ground, but the person was not dead, the upper half of the body struggled, the fingers were scratching on the ground, and the facial features were already twisted in pain.

Legend has it that in ancient times there was a criminal law called the waist beheading,

People are cut off at the waist, the upper body is placed on oiled paper, the blood is not allowed to flow, the internal organs are not exposed, the wind and rain are not drenched, the person can live for half a day at most, and finally die of pain on the top.

"Keep moving!"

Bai Qi rode away, and a cold voice sounded in the field.

With the sound of horses' hooves and swords being sheathed, the crowd slowly left.

Half of the human body on the ground had been dragged a long distance, and the ground that had crawled was blood-red, and the intestines were flowing all over the ground.

At some point, a shadow fell over the man's head,

When he looked up, a strange and ugly bird was staring at him.

......

Outside Yanggu Pass,

There is a deep valley more than ten miles away,

The numb soldier looked at the deep valley and stopped,

"Into the valley!"

Bai Qi said softly,

The Liangzhou soldiers behind him once again unsheathed their knives.

The Qi prisoners of war pushed and shoved into the valley in despair, they didn't know what was waiting for them, looking at the bright sword soldiers, they had no way out.

"Uncle, is this the way to Qianguo?"

A slightly immature voice sounded in the gloomy valley,

"Dog......

The old soldier's hand was just on the young soldier's shoulder,

There was a roar overhead,

Countless rolling stones fell from the top of the valley,

The latter was stunned and stunned in place, and the latter swept to a notch under the cliff, and suddenly pulled the stunned soldier to rush there, but the cliff notch could only accommodate one person, and the old pawn smiled miserably and fell outside.

After a few moments the wails continued,

After a cup of tea, only a miserable moan remained,

Countless strange birds hovered and fell above the valley, and the terrible cries of the strange birds and the groans of the soldiers were like thousands of ghosts crying in your ears, with the coldness and despair of the nine deep depths, and finally turned into a dead silence, and no sound was heard.

"General, there are no survivors in the valley!"

The voice has not yet fallen,

There was a rustling sound in the valley,

A dozen torches were thrown into the valley,

In the light of the fire, where the wind blows,

I saw a poorly dressed soldier carrying a bloody corpse on his back, stepping over the rubble and staggering towards the valley, unable to see his face clearly, but the thin figure alone was full of sadness and despair to the extreme numbness.

Approached,

There was no expression on his face,

At this moment he is like a walking corpse,

The soldier beside him drew his sword out of its sheath,

In the face of the bright sword soldiers, the man regarded it as nothing,

Just walking south step by step,

for the man on his back only wanted to be buried on the south side,

Blood stains leached from the corpse, and the man's back shirt was soaked with blood, and the blood that fell from the corners of the clothes dripped violently with each step, splashing on the ground, and was quickly absorbed by the barren earth, leaving only dark red blood stains.

The knife has been swung,

Bai Qi raised his hand,

The knife stopped less than an inch from the man's neck,

When passing by,

The wind lifted his yellow, dirty hair,

A few young faces were revealed,

Everyone in the audience watched quietly,

The sound of grinding from the soles of the boots touching the ground and the yellow sand and gravel, the extremely subtle sound of blood dripping, and the whirring sound of the corners of the clothes being carried by the wind, the sound was in my ears.

I don't know how long it took,

The man had gone nearly a hundred feet away,

"Bang ......"

The man came to the earth,

The young face looks up at the sky,

The man's eyelids were already weak when he tried to open them, and finally he slowly closed, and the boundless darkness hit, and his head hung limply on the ground.

"General Bai, the last general ......"

The lieutenant who spoke up earlier wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

The young man in white and black armor looked cold, but his eyes did fall on the young corpse that fell to the ground and did not move away for a long time.

"How many people are there in the Qi army camp?"

"More than 191,300 ......"

"Hmm!"

"Continue in accordance with the original charter. ”

The young man withdrew his gaze, and his tone did not rise and fall for a while.

"The Qi army is only twelve years old, and the rest is in the camp!"

When the captain turned over and got on his horse,

There was a young man's cold voice behind him, and for some reason he felt a little more comfortable in his heart, and he breathed a long sigh of relief, and the captain ran in the direction of the party with his horse's belly.