An Yan twenty-five years, autumn, Chudi.

My name is Nguyen Dan and I am 16 years old.

My father was a hunter and often took me to the mountains to hunt. Later, once my father went into the mountains to hunt and was injured and his leg was lame, so the villagers called him lame.

My mother was a gentle person who always liked to tell me and my brother stories, and I liked the story about the wild geese that my mother told me the most.

Mother said that the geese would fly south in autumn and back to north in spring, and they would form a formation in the sky and take turns to take the lead.

I remember when my mother finished telling the story, I said that I longed for geese to find a good place to live and see the scenery everywhere. I can see the scenery in the mountains, but I feel a little tired of seeing it.

When I finished speaking, my mother laughed.

I also have a younger brother, thirteen years old, very thin, very short and dark, and my mother used to say that three younger brothers can withstand one.

This year was supposed to be a bumper year, but unfortunately the taxes in Chudi were too high, and the family still had to live a hard life.

One day, the tax collector brought a person to his house, and the clerk said that the person was Baozheng and was responsible for recruiting troops for the Chu army.

That Bao Zheng said that each household should produce a man, my father was lame, and my younger brother was young, so naturally he couldn't enlist in the army, so I had to go.

The whole family was worried, so I smiled and said:

"Don't worry, so I can see the scenery elsewhere!"

They may think I'm comforting them, but I really do.

There were a lot of people on the day of departure, but I wondered why they were all tied together with ropes and shackled on their feet.

It's not what I thought.

I was chained in front of me with a child about my size, thin, short, dark.

Seeing that I was a little scared, he smiled and turned back to me and asked, "My name is Chu Ti, what is your name?"

"My name is Nguyen Dan. ”

I saw the corners of his mouth twitch and then asked me, "What do you like?"

I was stunned for a moment, and replied happily: "I like to see the scenery, I like the mountains, the big lakes, the big rivers, and I also want to go to different places to see different scenery!"

Chu Ti didn't say much, just smiled gently.

He was as thin as my brother, but it gave me the feeling of an elder.

We stopped and stopped along the way, and originally I thought it would be good to walk around and see more until that day.

The weather was nice that day, the cool autumn breeze was very comfortable on my body, and the surrounding green mountains and green waters, I loved this place.

Suddenly I heard a thud and my body was jerked by the rope, and when I stood firm and looked back, I saw that someone had fallen to the ground.

Leading the group, a man in leather armor, waved his hand, and several foot soldiers untied the ropes and chains of the fallen man and threw him aside.

Several people probed the snort of the man who had fallen to the ground and shook their heads.

"Keep walking!"

I looked at them in amazement, not understanding what it meant.

"Do they care about that person?" I asked in a low voice to Chu Ti in front of me.

"Yes, he can't walk. ”

"Then if I can't walk, can you let me go?"

I saw that he had half of his face sideways, and his eyes were a little blank, "If you are left behind, you will not live." ”

Although I am surrounded by familiar mountains and forests, and if I am left behind, I will definitely be able to find it, but when I look at the person who was left behind, I still feel cold.

I'm wondering if I'm going to run away.

The team doesn't stop because I'm scared, and I don't have the heart to enjoy the scenery along the way, and I seem a little distracted along the way.

"Look, there's a bird there, what did you say last time?"

"You see, there's a goose on the little lake over there, and it's pretty white. ”

"You see, the trees over there are so crooked. ”

"Look ......"

But Chu Ti kept talking to me and telling me about the scenery in his eyes, and slowly I became less afraid.

I think Chu Ti is a very gentle person, and he laughs every time he talks to me.

Although I know that he doesn't like to see the scenery at all.

By the time we arrived at Wanzhou City, the original team of dozens of people had been reduced by nearly half, and the fear hidden in our hearts had grown again.

"You're in such good health, what are you afraid of?" Chu Ti looked at me amusedly.

"I don't want to fight with people, I don't like to be depressed, I like to be relaxed. I glanced at the barracks, where the sound of drill was already coming from, and whispered, "I don't like it here." ”

I suddenly missed the mountain I frequented at the edge of the village.

When we entered the barracks, we were given weapons and leather armor, and after that, we practiced day and night.

According to the captain, Wanzhou City is the first important town at the junction of Chu and Shu, and the Shu army will attack the city soon, and our task is to defend the city.

"Ruan Dan, stab hard, you can't even pierce the enemy's iron armor!"

"Ruan Dan, run faster! Running fast can sometimes save your life!"

"Ruan Dan, swing the knife like this! You can't do it at all!"

......

"You're in good health. "Every time I finish practice, I have to say this to me.

"That's because you're working too hard. "I'm in good shape, but I'm also tired, and I don't like it at all.

It's oppressive, it's stressful, and there's an atmosphere that's so strong that I can't breathe, so I don't take my drills seriously at all, and sometimes I want to run away.

Chu Ti was thin, short and dark, and he would lie motionless on the floor of the tent every night, because he was tired.

One day I asked him, "Why are you working so hard?"

"I'm going to make a difference!"

I looked at Chu Ti in surprise, this is the answer I never thought of.

Although Chu Ti looked tired, the firmness on his face and the brilliance in his eyes made me understand that this gentle person had a fierce tiger hidden in his heart.

"Let's get away, I want to get out of here. I swallowed what I was meant to say.

said that the Shu army was going to attack the city in the near future, but in fact, there was no movement for a long time.

After half a month of training, our team was assigned to garrison a section of the city wall, which was facing east and corner, and it was said that it would not meet the attack of the Shu army head-on, which made me feel a lot more relieved.

I don't dare to look at Chu Ti, I think he might be a little disappointed.

One day, a horn sounded in the city, and I knew that this horn sounded to represent that the Shu army was about to attack the city.

I put my head out of the city wall to look west, but I didn't see the Shu army, only the smoke and dust in the sky.

I breathed a sigh of relief that the eastern part of the city was still quiet, and I was glad that it was still quiet.

However, the Shu army did not attack the city that day, and I heard that it was besieging Wanzhou City and camped twenty miles outside the city.

I couldn't see their camp, I could only see the dark clouds overhead.

I want to escape.

I glanced at Chu Ti beside me, but saw that he was full of energy and hidden anticipation.

I can't put it into words.

......

The Shu army besieged the city for more than half a month and did not attack the city, but one day I heard shouts of killing in the distance.

Later, I learned that it was the Shu army that exterminated a Chu army that came to help.

After that, I never heard the shouting of killing, and I guess Wanzhou City was abandoned by the King of Chu.

"Let's run. "I finally couldn't hold back.

"What?" Chu Ti looked at me in shock, grabbed my clothes and shouted, "You want to be a deserter?"

He was thin and short and dark, and he couldn't lift me, but he pulled me in front of him.

I didn't dare look him in the eye.

He didn't say anything more, pushed me away, and walked silently back to the wall.

It was me who was rejected, but he seemed even more depressed.

He never spoke to me again until the day the Shu army attacked the city.

On that day, black clouds overwhelmed the city.

I didn't understand how many 20,000 people there were, but we only have about 100 people in one village, and 20,000 people, so many villages add up.

Moreover, the Shu army that attacked Dongcheng is said to be the least, but it is still a black oppressive piece, and the shouts are deafening.

I saw countless people outside the city, trebuchets, battering rams, and crossbows.

I didn't dare to raise my head again, hid behind the city wall, and squatted and rushed to Chu Ti.

He was also looking at the besieging army in a daze, and I pulled him and cried: "Chu Ti, let's escape!"

I pulled him to sit down, his back against the wall.

He lost his mind for a moment, then turned around and grabbed my shoulder, gritting his teeth and shouting, "I want to make a contribution!"

I looked at his red eyes, clenched teeth, and couldn't say a word.

I silently returned to the corner of the wall, threw my helmet aside, and sat in the corner with my head in my hands.

The shouts of soldiers, the sound of arrows breaking through the air, the crash of thunder stones and rolling logs, the whistling of trebuchets throwing boulders, the roar of battering rams against city gates, and the screams of people.

These voices kept echoing in my ears, and I didn't dare to open my eyes.

I want to escape......

But there is nowhere to run.

The only thing I'm glad for is that Chu Ti and I are in charge of defending the corner, and there are no attacks here.

As soon as I was thinking this, I heard Chu Ti's angry shouting.

I looked up in a daze, and I didn't know when, a Shu army wearing iron armor and holding a horizontal knife was already standing on the city wall, slashing at Chu Ti with a knife.

Chu Ti stood up to block it, but was kicked and fell to the ground.

I watched as the Shu soldier raised his horizontal sword tremblingly, his face under his helmet as young as mine, his eyes filled with excitement and fear.

I wanted to run away, but I rushed over.

It's a pity that it was a little late, and his knife slashed at Chu Ti's body, and blood burst out.

I was so frightened that I forgot to draw my sword, so I had to crash into the Shu army.

I looked down at Chu Ti, a knife cut from my left shoulder to my abdomen, dripping with blood, but he looked at me and was still smiling.

I cried and looked at this gentle man, if I hadn't held my head and tried to run away, maybe I would......

As soon as I tried to pull out the knife, I felt a chill in my right arm.

Ignoring the severed right arm, he endured the pain and pulled out the knife on his waist, stabbed him in the surprised gaze of the Shu army, and pierced the heart with a knife.

I threw the knife aside, dragged Chu Ti with my left hand, and cried and said to him, "Chu Ti, let's escape." ”

"Hehe, what a meritorious achievement, in the end it is not as good as a deserter. Chu Ti said with a smile while spurting blood from his mouth.

"Let's run......"

As soon as I pulled Chu Ti up and walked two steps, I saw a broken boulder fly towards us out of the corner of my eye.

It hit my right foot and hit Chu Ti's lower body.

I looked at Chu Ti, who had no brilliance in his eyes, and looked at the place where he was lying just now.

If I hadn't run away with him......