Volume 1: The Seven Stars of the Twilight of the World Chapter 256 The General's Hundred Battles

Yang Sheng didn't understand what "the last drop of blood was" until he was picked off the head of the king spear that he had taken off, and at first countless wounds on his body, large and small, were oozing blood. The further back you go, the less blood will be pumped out of those newly opened openings.

Tokhtar was originally a fierce general, but he didn't find his war horse at the beginning, and his mind was all on the severed king spear, and he had no intention of fighting. When he was neatly dressed and faced against the tiger general of Great Xia, who was a moth to the fire, in addition to anger, there was also indifference in his eyes, and indifference to this Great Xia elite cavalry general who dared to offend his dignity.

The Emperor's Spear, with the hatred of the king, broke the armor and opened the flesh, cutting Yang Sheng's lower abdomen.

The other remnants of the Tiger Elite Riders were also completely submerged by the tidal wave of rangers that surged up afterwards.

The eldest prince, who was still unsatisfied, jumped off the war horse, stepped forward to check Yang Sheng who had fallen to the ground, and was sure that this tiger general still had a breath left, so he waved at the men behind him, and ordered in a cold voice,

"Hang this guy who doesn't know whether he is alive or dead!"

Immediately, someone stepped forward and tied Yang Sheng's hands and feet with ropes, passed through the two pillars, and hung the already bloody body.

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Chang Po's iron spear stabbed down a few of Chang Sheng's foot soldiers who retreated around him, only to find that all the soldiers on the front line ignored their own obstacles as if they had agreed, and continued to fade away from their side like a tide.

This made the old man really show his fatigue, he didn't want to believe the scene he saw in front of him, the countless battles he had in his impression, or victory, or defeat, but he never saw the warriors of the Great Xia Empire in front of him, like driven fowl, facing invisible fear, like a tide.

The guard with the golden arrow in his arms is the entourage who followed Chang Poyu from the forbidden city of Sheng'an all the way to today. Along the way, he witnessed the cruelty and domineering of the southern invasion of the beast army, witnessed the tragedy of countless victorious northern armies spilling their blood, and watched the dozens of brothers who set off together disappear one after another, and their bones are gone. At this moment, in the face of the victorious soldiers who retreated like a tide, there were not many waves in the heart of the guard, he just stepped forward to support the old general who stood still like a sculpture.

The guard inadvertently touched the back of the old man's hand, and was surprised to find that the hands were as cold as a piece of ice, so he began to call uneasily,

"General, general, the soldiers have killed a lot of caravans and burned a lot of grain wagons, general, everyone has done their best, we can go back." ”

The old man, who was originally as tall as a mountain, was tired at the moment, and the guards who were holding the old man were even a little suspicious of his eyes, as if he saw that the old man was like a deflated skin, withering rapidly, and even the gray beard was rapidly withering and losing its luster at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"General!" An ominous feeling grabbed the guard's heart suddenly, making him can't help but open his mouth wide to adjust his difficult breathing, but when he turned around and saw the old general's face, even his heartbeat stopped in an instant - the face was wrinkled, and there was no longer the general's former demeanor, and along the inner corner of his eyes, two lines of blood and tears were slowly flowing down the lines of his nose.

The guards were horrified, grabbed such a withered "corpse", shook the veteran's shoulders, and called out repeatedly,

"General!"

After a long time, the stiff "corpse" reacted slightly, "Alas~" sighed,

"My eyes can't see it, don't make a noise, by the way, Yang Sheng, help me release the firebird......"

The voice gradually weakened, and the last sentence exhausted all the strength of the old general, and his stiff body suddenly became soft, but it seemed to have been torn off his muscles and bones, and he fell down completely limp......

Boom!

With a loud bang, the "fire bird" used to transmit the message jumped into the sky from the cracked bamboo pot of the guards, and pulled out a long tail flame behind him, and the constantly expanding body seemed to incite a pair of burning wings, and the piercing explosion in mid-air was more like the angry roar of a firebird, and the flames and flashes were transmitted to several miles away, and the storm gradually calmed down in the camp of escape.

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"Is it a firebird? Finally waiting for a firebird?"

Yang Sheng, who was hung in the air by the rope and was already blurred with flesh and blood, seemed to hear this roar from the firebird, and his hanging head shook a few times, as if he wanted to raise his head and take a look at the expected firebird.

As long as the Firebird appears, at least General Chang's strategic intention has been realized. This body, whose facial features were already fragmented, did not have the strength to lift the door, nor could he use the eyes covered in flesh and blood to see the last figure of Chang Sheng's "Fire Oriole".

"The eldest prince?" the rangers who were guarding the escape, their hearts pounding at the roar of the firebirds. Although the information returned showed that the offensive of Great Xia had stopped, nearly half of the grain plundered by these southern grain cavalry was burned, and even the prisoners who were going to be brought back were mostly damaged and escaped.

Everyone wanted to retreat as soon as possible, so as to distance themselves from the victorious army that was charging under the rain of arrows like madmen in Great Xia.

The captains of several 10,000-strong teams also hung up some colors, and the embarrassed ones who lost their armor relied on their courage to persuade the red-eyed prince to get rid of it and enter the desert and sea of the Northern Wilderness as soon as possible to be safe.

"Ready to pull. "Tokhtar is also a battle-hardened general, although he is angry, but he has not completely lost his mind, he knows what many of his subordinates are looking forward to in their eyes, so he has to order to keep the remaining grain and grass, and return it as soon as possible.

However, before leaving, he still had time to do one thing - let the Great Xia Elite Cavalry General who was hanging in the air pay for what he had done.

"Set up firewood!" Totoh commanded his subordinates to begin to prepare for Yang Sheng's punishment, and several of his subordinates were familiar with the firewood they had stolen from the territory of Great Xia at Yang Sheng's feet. Along Yang Sheng's heels, drop by drop of blood slowly stained the whitened firewood.

But it seems that the eldest prince didn't want Yang Sheng to die so easily.

"You have some courage. Regardless of whether the lifeless body could still hear his own voice, he still interrogated Yang Shenglai with his own care.

shouted a few more times, Yang Sheng still didn't react, "Wow~" A scoop of cold water slammed towards Yang Sheng who was standing in mid-air, and Yang Sheng's body trembled under the stimulation of the ice water.

"Oh, it doesn't look like he's dead? The anger on Toto's face seemed to have melted away a lot as Yang Sheng was woken up by the ice water, and he began to raise the rattan whip in his hand and slammed it on Yang Sheng's body.

Before being hoisted, the rangers who were sentenced to punishment had already stripped Yang Sheng's broken armor clean, and now Yang Sheng's body was only left with some close-fitting clothes, and the strips of cloth that had been glued together with flesh and blood were difficult to detach.

The leather whip that was taken off was a torture whip specially used to interrogate prisoners, and it was made of old vines with thorns for many years, and each whip would tear off a lot of meat strips from Yang Sheng's already bruised body.

More blood dripped down, and the pile of firewood had turned red from the soaking of blood.

"Great Prince, we are still in the territory of Great Xia, it's time to ......go," Tucker behind him couldn't help but step forward to remind.

"Don't worry, I didn't expect that there would be such a hard bone among these pigs and dogs in Daxia, and it's not too late to play with him. Say, how many men and horses have you come, how many horses are there, and who are the generals leading the team?"

唰~唰~唰~

Tokh seemed to be interrogating Yang Sheng, but it was better to add some fun to the execution, every time he asked, he didn't wait for Yang Sheng to respond, he just whipped a few more whips to vent his anger, and tore a lot of flesh and blood from that body. If Yang Sheng hadn't died, he should have been able to confidently reply to Chang Po,

"General, what you told Yang Sheng, I have already done it, I saw the firebird, and I have already shed the last drop of blood......"

"Great Prince!" Tucker urged again, "We don't know how many pursuers there are in Great Xia, once they set up an ambush before we enter the desert sea......

Totoh was probably also tired, and he let out a bad breath, and then spat fiercely, threw the blood-stained rattan whip at the pyre, and said lightly to the entourage next to him, "It's ordered." ”

The attendant then began to stab the torch into the middle of the red wood, but it had been drenched in cold water and soaked with too much blood, and the firewood burned with difficulty, and at first it was billowing smoke, which wrapped the blood-soaked body.

In the gloomy sky, a manic north wind suddenly howled. The north wind carried the yellow sand in the sky, mixed with the snow falling from mid-air, and soon brought an illusory feeling to the whole world.

Iron Arrow Tucker looked back, and seemed to see the corpse of the Great Xia soldier that had been wrapped in rising flames tremble. He pulled out the last iron arrow in his quiver, set up the bowstring, and with a muffled thud, the iron arrow pierced through the wind, sand and snow, and pierced the heart that was still beating tenaciously.

The escaped Northern Wilderness rangers, with the last remaining grain and grass, left behind the corpses of countless rangers, and withdrew to the desert Hanhai, and the high spirits when they set off, these soldiers in the north also did not have the enthusiasm to take by force, nor the excitement of trampling on the Great Xia, only the little grain and grass obtained, and a body of pain and exhaustion.

Unexpectedly, this year's wind and snow were so violent that they actually crossed the five hundred miles of Hanhai Desert all the way and began to erode to the ground in the northern part of Great Xia. It's just that unlike those tired rangers who are bent on returning home, this blizzard contains endless power, never tired, and the wind and snow that cries and howls can completely engulf the northern ranger figure in the blink of an eye.

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"Eat something, General Chang, our carrier pigeons are sure that the ranger barbarians have completely returned to their territory. ”

For several days, General Chang Poyu was silent or eating. Blind, he had to get into a carriage that he had never been in before. In the carriage, the old general's withered palm tightly held the golden arrow given by the first emperor.

The golden arrow still shone with a golden cold light, but its owner could no longer see it.

In the battle of Great Xia to recover northern Xinjiang, the rangers and horses did not suffer much losses, but they lost most of the stolen grain, grass and prisoners, and the wooden carts and camel teams that transported grain were also harvested by the border troops of Great Xia.

In addition, the cavalry of Great Xia broke into the camp of the Chinese army, cutting off the king's spear spear, which symbolized royal power, and also greatly damaged the morale of the rangers. There were also many seriously injured ranger soldiers, who turned into zombies in the snow on the way back to the north in the snow because of fatigue. Great Xia is not as vulnerable as they imagined, those Great Xia border troops are not lambs to be slaughtered, but predators with fangs and claws like the rangers.

And Great Xia, lost nearly 10,000 hoarding infantry regiments. Especially with Chang Poyu's withdrawal from Tianyao, the last tiger general of the Great Xia border army, the fast horse Yang Sheng, and the tiger horse who launched a thunderous blow with Yang Sheng against the camp of Tokto, were all consumed.