The sky is getting brighter, Yang Yuanba and they have chased out more than a hundred miles, they are now in the northeast, on the map, this area should not be far from the old town of Yudujin, at this time they don't care about looking for the old town of Yudujin Mountain, they want to catch up with the Turkic ten-captain, it is related to the whereabouts of the Sui army, and they must not let him escape.

After chasing for more than a hundred miles, the Turkic ten-captain has gradually been caught up, he is a single horse, and Yang Yuanba and others are double horses, although the Turks are good at equestrianism, but after all, the horse's endurance is limited, they saw a few miles away, a small black dot crossed a low grassy hill, disappeared at the end of the grassland.

"Catch up!"

Yang Yuanba whipped his horse fiercely and led the other four to chase away, in addition to Yang Sien, Liu Jian, and Wei Chidun, another scout Fat Fish also followed them, and the other four stayed in the woods to clean up the battlefield and interrogate the Sogdian prisoners of war.

The fat fish is called Yu Hongquan, he is quite obese, cheerful and humorous by nature, good at cooking and medicine, and his martial arts are so-so, but his water nature is excellent.

He is also a native of Luoyang, his father is a famous ship doctor, and Zhang Jinsatin fellow villagers, in order to avenge Zhang Jinsatin, he also followed all the way to chase, five people rushed up the grass slope, only to see a small river a few miles away, there are two Turkic tents, there is a fence behind the tent, there are dozens of sheep.

But the target they were looking for was gone, and only the Turkic ten-captain's horse fell not far from the dome, foaming at the mouth, and several people looked at each other and surrounded the dome from all sides.

When they were still dozens of steps away from the tent, they saw a Turkic herdsman running out in a panic, his face and body covered in blood, waving and shouting at them.

"What did he say?" Yang Yuanba couldn't understand Turkic.

Yang Sien said in a deep voice: "He said that there was a man who rushed into his house to kill someone, and he killed him. ”

Yang Yuanba urged him to step forward, and saw the Turkic ten-master in the dome tent lying in a pool of blood from a distance, holding a long knife in his hand, Yang Yuanba breathed a sigh of relief, and gave Liu Jian a look, Liu Jian turned over and dismounted, and walked quickly towards the dome tent.

At this time, Yang Yuanba suddenly found a little Turkic girl crawling out of the tent, very small, like a kitten, only about two or three years old, with her hand in her mouth, trembling with fright.

"Fire Chief, he's dead!"

Liu Jian's voice came from inside the big tent, "There's nothing on me." ”

At this moment, the little girl glanced at the Turk in horror and ran away, no! She should have thrown herself into her father's arms, how could she be afraid? Yang Yuanba turned around sharply and shot his gaze at the Turk.

Almost at the same time, the Turk ran two steps, took the little girl in his arms, and laughed as if to comfort her, but the little girl cried and struggled desperately.

Yang Yuanba suddenly realized, at the moment when he raised his bow and arrow, a short knife appeared in the hands of the Turks, against the little girl's neck, the smile on his face had disappeared, and it became extremely hideous, and the wolf-like gray and cold eyes stared at Yang Yuanba.

The sudden change made the other three people stunned, and at the same time, they also reacted, urging them to step forward and surround the real Turkic ten-division commander.

Yang Yuanba slowly pulled out the bow and aimed at the forehead of the Turkic Ten, the bowstring did not hesitate to loosen, and an arrow shot out strongly, the Turkic Tenmaster did not expect him to really release the arrow, he was taken aback, and raised the little girl as a meat shield, but it was a slow beat, the little girl only blocked his throat, but the long arrow grazed the top of the little girl's head, 'Poof!' An arrow pierced his forehead, and the tip of the arrow penetrated the back of the head.

He stood motionless, staring blankly at Yang Yuanba, the luster of life gradually disappeared from his eyes, the short knife fell to the ground, and he fell straight on his back.

The little girl cried "Wow!", Wei Chi ran forward and took the little girl away from him, the little girl struggled to get off the ground, and ran to the other side, at this time, a young woman led a few horses, she was the mistress of the house, went to the river to drink horses and escaped, she saw a few strange soldiers at the door of the house from a distance, her heart was suspicious, and when she saw her daughter running towards her, she hurriedly picked up the child.

The daughter pointed to the big tent and wept, and the hostess was taken aback, and rushed into the big tent, and soon heard only the miserable cry of the woman in the big tent, and the person who was killed in the tent was her husband.

In just two days, Yang Yuanba has looked down on death, only the death of his partner will make him feel sorry, he shook his head, stepped forward to rummage through the items of this Turkic ten-master, and actually found a gold medal from his arms, Yang Sien stepped forward to take a look, he was taken aback, "Huo Chang, his name is Ashina Boli, it seems to be Datou's nephew." ”

Yang Yuanba sneered, "No wonder this person is so good, it turns out that he is not an ordinary Turkic soldier!"

At this moment, Wei Chi Dan's roar suddenly came from behind him, "You let go of her!"

As soon as Yang Yuanba turned around, he saw that Wei Chi Dun pulled out his bow and arrow and aimed it at the tent, gritted his teeth with hatred, and at the same time heard a woman crying, Yang Yuanba was stunned, got up and walked towards the big tent, only to see Liu Jian riding on the young Turkic woman, tearing off her clothes, the upper body clothes had been peeled off, revealing a plump and snow-white body, Liu Jian ignored Yu Chi Dan's threat, he sprayed rough air in his mouth, staring at the woman's full chest, and his eyes were bloodshot.

Yang Sien couldn't stand it, and frowned and shouted: "Lao Liu, forget it!"

"No! this woman must do it. ”

Liu Jian tore the woman's clothes and shouted, "Everyone take turns, Lao Tzu is the first to go." ”

Wei Chidun turned around and shouted to Yang Yuanba, "Stop him, he is violating military discipline!"

Yang Yuanba walked to the front of the tent and said coldly: "Liu Jian, if you can't control yourself, you won't be able to be the leader of the group in your life!"

Liu Jian was shocked, the tearing action on his hand stopped, Yang Yuanba's words were very simple, but he hit him to the point, he suddenly roared, stood up and walked out, 'Bang!' knocked over the wooden stake at the door of the tent with a punch, and ran into the distance like crazy, only to hear him look up to the sky and yell, "Lao Tzu is going back to the capital to find a hundred women!"

Yang Sien stepped forward and touched Yang Yuanba's arm, gave a thumbs up, and his eyes were full of approval, "This is the first time he has defeated himself." ”

After speaking, he took out his dagger and walked towards the big tent, Wei Chidun became frightened and grabbed Yang Yuanba's arm, "Huo Chang, can't, can't kill them!"

Yang Yuanba was also taken aback, "Yang Sien, are you going to kill this mother and daughter?"

Yang Sien stopped, glanced back at Yang Yuanba, and said lightly: "The fire chief stopped Liu Jian to help him, but as a scout, he must not leave any hidden dangers, and the fire chief should understand this." ”

"No, they are just women and children, Yang Sien, you can't kill innocents like this. ”

Wei Chidun ran to the tent door and stopped Yang Sien, and said very firmly: "I will never let you kill them!"

At this time, the Turkic woman knelt down with her daughter in her arms, crying and pointing at her daughter, although Yang Yuanba could not understand the Turkic language, she could understand what she meant, she was willing to die, begging for mercy from her daughter.

Yang Yuanba glanced at the frightened little girl who was hugging her mother's neck tightly, he couldn't help but sigh secretly, kill her mother, this little girl is only two or three years old, and she can't live either.

Yang Sien pressed the knife against the woman's neck, the dagger pierced the skin, a stream of blood flowed from her snow-white neck, the mother and daughter hugged each other tightly, the woman pressed her face against her daughter's little face, tears rolled down, Yang Sien did not relent, and said slowly to Yang Yuanba: "You are the fire chief, you can decide! Kill, I will give them a good time, if you don't kill, I will let them go." ”

Yang Yuanba glanced at the mother and daughter, and said to Yang Sien in a deep voice: "You are not wrong, sometimes Xinci will leave hidden dangers and harm everyone, if that's the case, I won't stop you, but now this mother and daughter are not as you said, it has reached the point where it cannot be solved." ”

He turned back to Fat Fish and said, "Fat Fish, I will give you a task to take this woman and children to the south and send them across the Yellow River, and this time I will give you the credit." ”

Wei Chidun was moved in his heart, and immediately said: "Huo Chang, I'll send them, I don't want the credit." ”

Yang Yuanba shook his head, "You are an eagle slave, you will be responsible for transmitting the message after discovering the enemy, or the fat fish." ”

Fat Yu stepped forward and saluted: "Huo Chang, I will send them across the Yellow River with this mother and daughter, but I don't want the credit of Huo Chang, because I don't agree to kill women and children, all Han people will not agree, only Hu people will treat people like grass mustard." ”

After speaking, he glared at Yang Sien with great dissatisfaction, Yang Sien is a Xianbei person, he snorted coldly, turned around and left, Yang Yuanba patted the fat fish on the shoulder and smiled: "This has nothing to do with the Han people and the Hu people, Wei Chi is also a Xianbei person, doesn't he disagree the same? Go and clean up the softness for this mother and daughter, and take them away!"

He instructed Wei Chidun again: "You also help them clean up together, it's simple, not too cumbersome." ”

He turned around and walked towards Yang Sien's back, Yang Sien was sitting on the grassland, chewing grass roots in his mouth, and was looking at the river in the distance.

"It's over, don't dwell on it anymore. Yang Yuanba sat down beside him and said lightly.

"I'm not entangled, I'm appreciating the difference between me and you. ”

Yang Sien sighed lightly and said: "I just saw that you were very decisive and ruthless when you shot the Turkic Ten Commanders, and I admired you very much in my heart, and I saw that you persuaded Lao Liu with one sentence, and I admired you for your insight into people's hearts, but you spared the mother and daughter, which surprised me, I thought you would kill them mercilessly, but I didn't expect that you didn't kill them, perhaps, this is the biggest difference between us, if it were me, I would not hesitate to kill them." ”

"I know exactly what makes us different?"

Yang Yuanba said slowly: "Yesterday I killed someone for the first time, and I felt uncomfortable for a long time, but today I killed again, but I no longer have the kind of uneasiness after killing, on the contrary, I feel a kind of pleasure of killing, very hearty! There is no feeling of soft-heartedness at all, to be honest, if you are riding on that woman, not Liu Jian, maybe I will pull Wei Chi away, these, I am the same as you, but compared with you and me, you do have one thing missing." ”

Yang Sien asked a little eagerly, "What is it?"

"You don't have a bottom line. ”

Yang Yuanba said in a light tone: "The husband should be happy and revenge when doing things, don't be bound by the so-called benevolence and morality, if you have the need and want to spoil her, I won't turn my face against you for a woman, but you just can't kill women and children, people are not beasts after all, you can not have morality, you can not be benevolent, but you can't have no bottom line, if a person can't even keep his bottom line, then he is destined to be unable to achieve great things." ”

Yang Sien nodded silently, and Yang Yuanba's words hit him in his heart, making him gradually begin to wake up, "Huo Chang is right, a person can't even keep his bottom line, it really can't be a big thing, I'm like this." ”

A trace of remorse flashed in his eyes, thinking of what had happened over the years, because he had not been able to stick to his original thought and evaded his responsibility, so that he even lost the position of general of the chariot cavalry, if he could have kept the bottom line at the beginning......

Yang Sien let out a long sigh, "Back then, if I could keep my bottom line, why would I be today?"

Yang Yuanba patted him on the shoulder, not disturbing his awakening, he got up and walked towards the big tent, and after walking a few steps, Yang Sien stopped him, "Huo Chang, do you want to tell Dashuai about today's incident?"

Yang Yuanba was stunned, he turned his head and stared at Yang Sien and asked slowly, "How do you know?"

Yang Sien smiled, stood up and patted his butt and walked towards the river, listening to his voice from afar, "The horse you gave me is engraved with the official position and number of the marshal." ”