Chapter 103: Brother
After General Chen Jinchao asked Lu Guangcai to lay an ambush outside Gulu Pass to rescue Zhao Jian and others, they took Wu Kui and Putong, two giants rescued from Tufan, and prepared to return to Xingjing County along the mountain road from the northern mountains along the original road.
After entering the deep mountains in the north, Zhao Jian and Lu Guangcai led a large army to march in front, and Lan Mei'er, Wu Kui, and Putong followed behind with a smile while playing.
Lan Mei'er jumped all the way through the forest, very excited to collect flowers and plants in the forest, Wu Kui and He Putong followed behind, one tall and one short, gesturing, talking and laughing, looking very intimate.
When the group was about to reach the dense forest where Wu Kui disappeared last time, Lan Meier looked back and saw that the two people who followed behind were nowhere to be found, and she had to go back to find the two of them.
After walking a short distance, I saw Pu Tong sitting next to a big tree with his head in his hands, motionless, while Wu Kui was scratching his ears and cheeks on the side. When I asked, I knew that after walking here, I thought of my family, in the last round-up of the Tufan soldiers, she was lost with her family, I don't know if they were captured, and I don't know their life and death, she suddenly wanted to look for them in the mountains, and didn't want to go down the mountain with Wu Kui and them.
Lan Mei'er stepped forward and stroked Putong's back for a while, trying to comfort her, Wu Kui tried to persuade Putong to continue with them, but Putong seemed unmoved. Finally, she finally stood up, stared at Lan Mei'er and Wu Kui for a while, and then turned and walked into the forest without looking back.
Lan Mei'er and Wu Kui had no choice but to stare at the back of the flutter, watching her until she disappeared into the depths of the forest, and then the two looked at each other, silently turned around and walked down the mountain.
The two of them rushed to the front troops, one after the other, but Wu Kui, who usually walked like a fly, was slow at this time, and walked forward with two steps and one stop.
Lan Meier no longer had the mood to enjoy the scenery and flowers at this time, she walked in front, from time to time to look back at Wu Kui who was slowly following behind, after thinking for a while, she turned back to Wu Kui and said to him: "You better go with her, in case she doesn't find her relatives, it's pitiful to be alone, you can bring her back when the time comes, with us." ”
"Well, yes, you, you're right!" Wu Kui was overjoyed when he heard Lan Mei'er say this, "Why, I'm going to look for her!" After that, Wu Kui patted Lan Mei'er on the shoulder with his hand and said, "You go back with the troops and wait for me first, I will bring her back." Then he turned and ran up the hill.
Looking at the back of Wu Kui leaving in a hurry, Lan Mei'er's mood suddenly improved a lot, she smiled, turned around and rushed to the front troops.
After returning to Xingjing County, Chen Jinchao immediately summoned Zhao Jian and Lu Guangcai and conveyed to them the deployment and orders of King Yuwen.
Zhao Jian and Lu Guangcai immediately gathered 40,000 soldiers and horses, and prepared to attack the two county towns of Heqing and Jiangxing.
After Chen Jinchao arranged the important tasks of defending the city, he was also ready to lead 20,000 people to conquer Jinbei County.
General Chen was worried about his family and wanted his wife to take Lan Mei'er to go on the expedition with him, but Lan Mei'er refused, she wanted to wait for Wu Kui to come back in the city.
Lan Mei'er said to General Chen: "Godfather, don't wait a few more days, my fifth brother will go to the mountains to look for giants, maybe he will bring you back a powerful helper." Seeing General Chen's hesitant expression, he said: "Isn't my godfather preparing to outwit the county town of Jinbei, if my fifth brother brings back a giant, and let them hold the giant armor at that time, wouldn't it be easier to deceive the enemy city gate, and with the help of giant warriors, we will increase our chances of victory." ”
General Chen listened to her very reasonable, he thought about it for a while, thinking that after Zhao Jian and Lu Guangcai sent troops to attack the two counties of Heqing and Jiangxing, and then attracted enemy soldiers to help, it would take a lot of time, and it was indeed a bit too early for him to march to the county seat of northern Jin, so he agreed to Lan Meier's request and determined that the troops would be drawn in five days.
At about noon on the third day, Lan Meier suddenly heard the noise of people on the street, and it was very lively, so she went out to watch the movement.
When she came to the street, she was really surprised. I saw that in the middle of the street, three giants were holding each other, moving forward like a mountain, and the surrounding area was surrounded by people watching the excitement, all of them looking up and looking at each other, and their mouths were open.
Wu Kui and Pu Tong were about one, and in the middle was a giant covered with hair, the giant was a head taller than Pu Tong, but it seemed that his leg was injured, and with the support of the two, he limped forward. The three of them were like a hill together, and the streets and houses on both sides seemed small.
It turned out that after Wu Kui returned to the mountains to find Putong, he accompanied her to search in the mountains for two days, and finally found Putong's younger brother - Tammy on the edge of a small ditch.
The two siblings hugged their heads and cried for a while, and the younger brother told Putong that his parents and brother had been captured by Tufan's soldiers, and he broke free and escaped, but his leg was injured by Tufan's iron weapon.
Only then did he find that there was a thick iron thorn on his younger brother's calf, which was deeply pierced into the flesh, and the iron thorn exposed to the flesh had rusted, and the wounds around it had ulcerated and blackened, and it was soaked in pus.
Wu Kui looked at the wound and felt that it was very serious, and if he didn't treat it, he was afraid that it would be life-threatening. He immediately went to the woods to collect some blades of grass, gave them to Plop, and asked her to mash them on the big rocks. He took out the flint and set fire to a pile of dead grass, and then he put an arm-thick branch into the fire and burned it until it burned until it burned through.
He walked up to Tammy with a red-hot branch in one hand, and after he motioned to help suppress his brother's injured leg, he pressed the charcoal-like branch in his hand against the wound, and with a miserable howl from Tammy's brother, Wu Kui pulled out the iron thorn with all his might.
Although the pain was unbearable, Tammy also knew that this was saving his life, and he desperately held back until Wu Kui burned all the necrotic wounds on his legs, and the air was filled with the smell of barbecue.
When he was done, Wu Kui asked Po Tong to paste the mashed straw slurry on Tammy's brother's wound, and then ripped off a strip of cloth from his body and bandaged Tammy's leg, saying that it was a piece of cloth, but in fact it was almost half of Wu Kui's clothes.
Wu Kui said to Putong: "Your brother's leg injury is very serious and needs immediate treatment, otherwise not only will his leg not be saved, but he may also die." Now the only way to get him to the county seat as soon as possible may be saved. Of course, Pu Tong couldn't bear to lose his brother, so he and Wu Kui took Brother Tammy out of the mountains.
After General Chen received the report, he personally stepped forward to arrange the two siblings, and quickly asked the military doctor to treat Tammy's injuries.
That night, General Chen received a report from the front that Zhao and Lu had captured the cities of Heqing and Jiangxing, and Tufanguo was mobilizing troops from several cities in the north to come to the rescue.
Early the next morning, General Chen ordered 20,000 soldiers and horses to set off for the county seat of northern Jin, five huge carriages followed the troops, four of which were escorting giant armor, one cart pulled the inconvenient Tammy, Wu Kui and Putong followed, Lan Meier accompanied the general's wife Chen Wang to sit in a beautifully decorated carriage, and the group followed the mighty army to advance to Jinbei County.