He is not a murderer, but he has picked up a butcher's knife, of course, he is a butcher.

The grain bales on the wagons were stacked like bulging hills.

The barbarians and militiamen drove the grain carts in the direction of Yinshui Town, and the team was like a long dragon on the wide road.

Beside the river that had just become a battlefield, the black dragon stretched its neck and stretched its horse's mouth towards the still reddened river.

The black dragon stretched out his tongue towards the river and licked the water in the river.

"Poof!"

The horse snorted, shook its head, and spewed a string of white spit into the river.

Liu Heng stood quietly beside the black dragon, with a root beside him, squatting on the ground.

"If we hadn't rushed first, more people would have died, wouldn't we?"

Yougen sighed and muttered.

"Huh. ”

Liu Heng stretched out his hand and gently wiped away the blood on his right cheek, revealing the bloody wound.

"The mortal body is weak, and if you want to hurt the enemy, you must use weapons and crossbows. ”

"But the sword has no eyes, and life and death are in the sky. ”

Hearing this, Yougen frowned and stood up.

"Can you put your own life and death out of the equation?"

"Of course. ”

Liu Heng's face showed a sympathetic smile, but there was a trace of ease in his compassionate expression.

"I've seen too many dead people. ”

The blood floating in the water, in Liu Heng's eyes, was like the undulating sea of blood outside the Ningchuan Pass.

"Of course I'll die, sooner or later. ”

Raising his head, he looked away from the flowing river and looked up at the sky as it was approaching dusk.

"There is twilight in the sky, and there is a last year for people. ”

All things have an end.

At this time, the dim light in the sky is like the thin light of the morning sun, like the purple lotus flower blooming on the sky, gorgeous but not dazzling.

But death is not necessarily the end. ”

With his left hand behind his back, he stretched out his right hand, and looked at the heavenly dome with three fingers, his face was indifferent.

"The second step is over, and there's the last step. ”

"Step three. ”

Zhou He led the troops to chase Wen Short, and Wen Short led the troops to converge with most of them.

More than 20,000 men and horses belonged to two camps and camped in the wilderness to confront each other.

In recent days, there has been constant friction between the two sides, and the smell of Mars is full.

The two sides fought over every hill around the wilderness where troops could be stationed, and every riverbank pasture where soldiers could be deployed.

The big battles have not started, and the small battles have continued.

Zhou He knelt on the high platform in the barracks and said to Zhou Ming: "There are 500 cavalry soldiers in Wen's short army, but our army only has 300, but our army has more soldiers than the enemy. ”

"The situation is urgent, and I want to fight a decisive battle, and I will do my best to inflict heavy damage on the enemy, but I do not want to fight with him. ”

"The general is reassured. ”

Zhou Ming, who knelt on the beast mat, clenched his hands into fists.

"Our cavalry has all been placed in the hills, and when the two armies are to be brought into battle, they will surely become strange soldiers. ”

"When the enemy cavalry is not out, our cavalry should not come out, and when the enemy cavalry is out, our cavalry will wander around the flank of our army, waiting for the opportunity to move. ”

"The subordinates understand. ”

Nodding slightly, Zhou He pondered for a moment, and said again: "Go down and prepare, tomorrow I will send someone to deliver the battle book." ”

"Yes. ”

As soon as Zhou Miao's words fell, there was the sound of footsteps outside the tent.

The curtain of the camp gate was lifted, and a soldier with a dusty face rushed into the barracks.

"Report!"

Kneeling on one knee, the soldier saluted Zhou He with a fist.

"Speak!"

Frowning, Zhou He's face was grim.

"Our army grain truck has been hijacked!"

"What!"

In the barracks, Zhou He and Zhou Mian shouted in unison.

After the applause, there was a brief silence.

"The short department of Wen is trapped by our army, and it will not be them who steal food. ”

"Who is it?"

"Who is the one?"

After a short silence, Zhou He's face changed drastically, his eyes widened, and he asked sharply.

"General. ”

The body trembled slightly, and the dusty soldier lowered his head and looked frightened.

"We, we met two practitioners. ”

"They were so powerful that many brothers died, and later they met many brutes and foot soldiers. ”

"This ......"

Zhou Mian turned his head to look forward to it, his face full of panic.

"Barbarians, foot soldiers, cultivators?"

Raising his hand to stop Zhou Miao, who was panicked and wanted to speak, Zhou He's face was solemn and he spoke softly.

"Damn. ”

Zhou He gritted his teeth, frowned tightly, his cheeks bulged slightly, and the green tendons on his forehead were exposed.

"We've been calculated!"

"We've been calculated!"

Wen Short's face was gloomy, and he looked at the soldiers kneeling in the camp, and his eyes were already bloodshot.

"General. ”

Liyue's cheeks flushed and he looked excited.

Raising his head slightly, Wen Short closed his eyes and was silent for a moment.

"Set up scouts and scouts around the perimeter, scouts, and convoys to transport grain. ”

"The order is that tomorrow the whole army will retreat and return to the village. ”

"General!"

Li Yue got up, walked to the center of the barracks, and knelt on one knee on the carpet of the golden silk painted phoenix.

"Our army's battle formations in the surrounding area have been arranged, and the war is about to break out. ”

"Liyue. “

Wen exhaled a long sigh, and the depths of his bloodshot eyes revealed a complex look of resentment and helplessness.

"If we don't retreat, Zhou He will retreat. ”

Zhou He retired, just in the afternoon of the same day.

With cavalry as the left flank and archers, swords, and shields as the rear, the whole army quickly retreated towards the road from which it came.

Ignoring the barracks that had been built, and the baggage that could not be taken away from the barracks.

Wen Short did not let the soldiers pursue, and asked his soldiers to dismantle the barracks and move the baggage that they could carry that night.

The next day, Wen Short led his army back.

However, the two armies in this operation almost exhausted their already small amount of food.

The scouts of the two sides spread the news to Wen Short and Zhou He a few days later.

They found the convoy of grain and the town of Yinshui, which received the grain cart.

They also found 3,000 barbarians and 2,100 militiamen guarding the road.

However, Wen Short and Zhou He, who returned to the village, had no food available, and they could not afford to send troops to recover the grain trucks.

In the renovated wooden house, all the wooden houses are nailed with new brown planks alternately with old gray wood, making the wooden houses feel as if they have been patched.

The soldiers who returned to the wooden village cowered in their quarters.

At noon, most of the hungry soldiers had only wild vegetables and water in the porcelain bowls they had in their hands.

In the center of the wooden village, there is an attic with a white lacquered roof.

On the ground floor of the attic, a man in a silk shirt stood in the hall with a sword.

The sword was not inserted into the scabbard, and the sharp blade pierced directly through the thick plank under his feet, piercing into the earth beneath the plank.

In the right corner of the hall, in the space for boiling water, a raging bonfire burns wantonly.

The light of the fire reflected on Wen Short's body, elongating the shadow that shone through to the ground in front of him.

"General. ”

Liyue held the wooden basin and walked in front of him.

"Let's have a bite to eat. ”

"What to eat?"

Looking at the wooden basin in Liyue's hand, looking at the cover plate covering the basin.

Wen Xiao frowned, his face puzzled.

“...... Just now, the brothers found a nest of mice. “

"Then take it to the brothers. ”

"General. ”

Liyue's face was slightly red, his knees bent, and he knelt down.

"The brothers have all eaten. ”

"The roots of the turf are not easy to swallow. ”

Raising his head slightly, Wen Short raised his head and looked up at the roof of the hall, which was still dim in the firelight.

There was a tempting, longing-for smell of flesh from the nose, but the eyes were full of corruption and dampness.

I didn't smell the fragrance in my nose, and I looked directly at the rotten Wen Short with a solemn face and a focused look.

"The brethren have to open some meat so that they can have the strength to survive. ”