Chapter 34: The General Died in a Hundred Battles (Part II)
At the thought that the war would end in the spring, Shirazen was still very happy. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info At that time, he was still thinking that when the war was over, he would have a good talk with Xiling Ye and let him teach him how to make pear blossom wine.
So, he suddenly interjected and said, "Xiao Ye, can we catch up with the pear blossoms in Jiangnan when we go back?"
Xiling Ye smiled and said: "The pear blossoms in Jiangnan may not be able to catch up, but Chang'an's will definitely be able to catch up." ”
Bai Qian naturally didn't have much interest in Chang'an, but he was quite happy at the thought of catching up with Pear Blossom.
And so it was a few more months, and spring was not long in coming.
The remnant snow has not yet melted, and there are already small grass buds that cannot be pressed to sprout, fresh and tender, and as soon as the wind blows in early spring, it is shivering from the cold.
In Xilingye's marching procession, there was a little girl.
The long and lost prince Yu Wenze has a virtue, ordinary, and no characteristics.
The only characteristic is probably a woman. Still a young woman.
Bai Qian knew that Xiling Ye was soft-handed, but his intuition told him that this little girl was not simple.
The best thing about the little girl's whole body is a pair of innocent eyes, but unfortunately she is blind.
She is so weak and blind, Xiling Ye is used to picking up children, so she naturally doesn't dare to let her go alone.
God knows how she was blind, when Xiling Ye picked her up, she was covered in blood, seriously injured, and lying in the snow with her breath dying. Seeing that if she is not saved, it will immediately become a lunch for wild wolves.
Xiling Ye's heart softened, so he brought it, at that time, he had just come here, and the battle was going well.
It's also very evil, since this girl came to Xilingye's side, Xilingye hasn't won much.
The war has been dragged on for a long time, after all, the labor expedition has dragged on for a long time, which is a very bad thing for Xilingye.
But with the arrival of spring, Xilingye is getting happier and happier these days.
Because Bai Qian pretended to be the prince and fought a few battles that were not really big victories, the old emperor was happy and put together a lot of rewards, and everyone finally had a decent year.
Xiling Ye looked like he was about to win the battle and go home to marry his daughter-in-law every day, and it also infected the three armies, and everyone's morale was very high.
On another moonlit and clear night, Xiling Ye brought the last pot of moonlight to Bai Qian to chat.
It can be seen that Xiling Ye is in a particularly bright mood today, smiling easily, as if they are already playing the piano and watching songs and dances at home.
At first, Hakuzen thought he was crazy.
The Xiling general he knew, always sad and serious, worried about the country and the people, couldn't sleep well.
Especially although everyone's morale is very high, morale is not as good as sword energy, and it can't kill people, so the battle situation has not been fundamentally reversed, and it is still a stalemate in Yumen Pass.
Xiling Ye ignored Bai Qian's confused eyes, sat on his couch, and said, "Bai Qian, this is our last pot of moonlight, after drinking this pot, we can drink new wine next time." ”
Wine, the older the better, what is the rarity of new wine.
Fortunately, Bai Qian still understood what he meant, and he probably meant that they would go back soon. Bai Qian had long been fed up with the dead cold weather in this place, and this ghost place was so cold that he even felt that the summer when his hometown could bake eggs was extraordinarily gentle.
In addition, Bai Qian didn't care much about the national economy and people's livelihood, he is the kind of person who is poor and can be alone, or the kind of person who can barely be alone if he sees that he can rest for a lifetime. His goal is not to cause trouble for others, and he feels useful when he can do a favor once in a while.
Bai Qian learned a good kung fu from his father, and his specialty is killing, but he doesn't like killing people very much, which is very embarrassing. As a result, he has been adrift for many years, but he has not had a stable and serious livelihood.
This meal was very happy, Xiling Ye said a lot of things, Bai Qian basically didn't hear a word, he was drunk too fast.
The next morning, Xiling Ye went out with his troops.
At noon, there was a sudden fog and a strong wind.
Bai Qian slept until it was dark, and then slowly woke up.
He was still lamenting that moonshine was really good wine, and when he didn't have a headache with such a hangover, he suddenly felt that the atmosphere in the barracks was not quite right.
When he came out, he felt that the whole camp was a little chaotic, and there was an atmosphere of unease.
When he lifted the curtain, he saw Wei Qichen standing respectfully at his door.
Shirozen: "What happened?"
Wei Shuchen: "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, General Xiling led the army out in the morning, and he hasn't come back yet, everyone is a little worried." ”
Bai Qian: "Where did he go?"
Wei Qichen: "My subordinates don't know. ”
Bai Qian: "Did the general say when he would come back?"
Wei Qichen: "No, eighty percent will not come back." ”
Bai Qian's heart: "What, Xiling Ye will also be a deserter?"
A cold current ran through the whole body for no reason, and Bai Qian shivered inexplicably. He quickly understood that the phrase that he would not come back meant that he would not come back.
He can't come back.
It's still the kind that you can't see people in life and can't see corpses when you die.
It was getting dark, and he couldn't even see the expression on Wei Qichen's face clearly. He felt that the wind in the valley was so cold that he took several steps backwards into the big tent.
Bai Qian stood at the door of his tent in a daze, staring blankly at the camp and the busy soldiers in front of him, and did not speak for a while.
Then he spoke slowly, in a somewhat cold tone. He said, "The general is on the march, what are you doing?"
Wei Qichen: "My subordinates are ordered to protect His Highness here. ”
Bai Qian: "Then, did the general leave anything behind?" he didn't really want to ask, as if asking it was equivalent to acknowledging his departure, and his voice became lower.
Wei Qichen: "My young master is free and easy by nature, if he dies, he will find a place to bury it, if he can't find it, then forget it." ”
Bai Qian didn't expect Xiling Ye to be so hasty to explain the aftermath, wait, what should I do if there are still more than 100,000 or 200,000 troops here? What should I do about this unfinished battle?
Bai Qian: "The three armies can't go without a commander for a day, he did this without thinking about the consequences?"
Wei Qichen: "Your Highness, we still have you." ”
Bai Qian: "I don't believe it, he's so powerful, probably trapped, I'll go find him." ”
Wei Qichen: "You can't go!"
Qi Chen's attitude was very resolute, and he was in front of Bai Qian, and now the only way Bai Qian could take was to roll back into the big tent.
Bai Qian thought for a while, and under a little moonlight, he went to the corpses everywhere to look through the scene of Xiling Ye, and felt quite heroic. To be a brother and do this, Xiling Ye should be very pleased.
So he still wanted to go to him, but Xiling Ye didn't give Bai Qian this heroic opportunity.
He's back.
Although he was lying down, he was still out of breath.
But the corpse didn't get cold.
Several remnants of the defeated generals fought with their lives to snatch the general's body back, along with the blind little girl.
Everyone doesn't understand that the general still brings a girl to fight, and it doesn't matter if he brings a girl, the key is to be blind.
Of course, everyone is still immersed in great sadness and helplessness, and no one notices this strange detail.
Xiling Ye, who was lying on top of him, looked extremely peaceful, if it weren't for his broken armor and blood, he would have just fallen asleep.
Everyone would rather believe that he was just asleep.
Bai Qian trembled his hand to probe his snort, naturally there was none.
To probe his pulse, naturally there is none.
Bai Qian sent someone to wash and change his clothes, and put him quietly on the couch without preparing for burial.
Then he followed his last words and buried the little girl. He didn't know her well, so he buried it very casually, and he never found a grave until later.
Probably this is the so-called mourning soldiers will win, and Bai Qian won the battle with the remaining 200,000 soldiers who were grief-stricken. Thanks to Xiling Ye's previous raid, he tore a big hole in the enemy's tight defensive line, and also rescued the deputy general who was very bad with him before.
When the adjutant general saw that the general had died in order to save himself, he was so moved that he couldn't help himself, and he was busy avenging the general.
Bai Qian had a flash of inspiration when he saw the bamboo flute on the desk in his tent, remembered the marching plan that Xiling Ye told him the night before, and also understood that Xiling Ye was sent to death when he went, and he was not only not afraid of death, but also seemed to be quite happy.
That raid and his own death were all part of Xiling Ye's plan, but the rest needed to be carried out by Bai Qian, the pseudo-prince.
In the final battle, the two armies faced each other.
The battle between the princes of the two countries can be regarded as a rare event that is rare in a century.
If it weren't for the war, everyone really wanted to move a bench over to watch the two of them fight.
The prince of the Xiongnu on the opposite side had a high nose and deep eyes, a fair complexion, and heavy hair. Although the races are different from those of the Central Plains, they are still quite heroic.
Bai Qian is not uncommon, just when the other party thought that he was going to fight alone, Bai Qian raised the crossbow machine left by Xiling Ye and shot it with an arrow.
The Xiongnu prince died on the spot. Death was so caught off guard that no one came up to help him when he fell off his horse.
Bai Qian seemed to suddenly become a bloodthirsty evil ghost, and his eyes were red. Cut down when you see someone, whether it is a leader or an ordinary soldier, whether you have a weapon in your hand or not, anyway, you will kill an enemy soldier when you see it.
The battle lasted for three days and three nights, and the Xiongnu and the Xiliang coalition army lost in a mess.
The entire Han army was as red-eyed as Bai Qian, it was still strange and terrible, the loss of the leader before the battle was already panicked, and after the battle, the ambush soldiers led by the deputy general burned the grain and grass, and they all felt that it was useless to resist, and some of the desperate enemy troops even began to cut off on their own. Probably because he felt that it was better to hack himself to death than to be trampled to death by a horse.
The scene was very chaotic, and the corpses were all over the field after the battle, and Bai Qian thought that he still hadn't found Xiao Ye's Longyuan Sword.