The body has been buried, Yang Yuanba also washed the blood stains on his body by the stream, he did not rush into the cave, but sat on a big rock, and killed for the first time today, which made him feel a little uncomfortable in his heart.

Although he knew that this day would come soon, when it really came, Yang Yuanba still felt a kind of inner disgust, it was too sudden, and he was not mentally prepared at all, especially the moment when the Turkic man's eyes turned from bright to dead ashes, and the feeling of the disappearance of life made it difficult for him to calm down in his heart.

"Fire Chief, every soldier will go through this level!" At some point, Wei Chi Dun came to his side, sat down on the big rock next to him, and comforted him in a low voice.

"I'm fine. ”

Yang Yuanba's heart has gradually calmed down, and the feeling of killing is like a spider silk wrapped around his heart, which has been melted by his heart and melted into his blood, and he can't feel its existence.

"Yang Sien is right!"

Yang Yuanba smiled bitterly, "If I don't kill him, I will be killed by him, I have already figured it out." ”

"Actually, I haven't killed anyone, but I'm not afraid of death, whether it's killing or being killed, I'm very calm. ”

Wei Chidun bit his lip, picked up a branch and threw it into the stream, his bright eyes looked at the branch floating away, and said lightly: " If I guessed correctly, the fire chief should be a nobleman in the capital, only the children of the nobles who rarely see death will take life so seriously, for us, death is just a part of life, for soldiers, to die on the battlefield, it is also a kind of glory and happiness, can bring compensation to the family, bring land to the younger brother, can make the parents very proud to say to the villagers, my son died on the battlefield, to be honest, I would rather die than return to my hometown with a disability, become a burden to my parents, life is better than death. ”

Yang Yuanba was amazed that his mind was so delicate, so he smiled and asked him, "What do you do at home? Do you have a younger brother?"

"My family is farming for generations, I have six brothers, an older sister, and a younger brother, but all six elder brothers have died of illness, almost one a year, our family is like a disease, men do not live to be eighteen years old, I estimate that I can't live, so to join the army to fight, die on the battlefield, can also mix a pension. ”

Wei Chidun glanced at Yang Yuanba, and saw that his expression was a little surprised, so he smiled and said: "Actually, I am only sixteen years old this year, my father is a soldier eagle slave, he is old, and it is his turn to defend the Beijing Division, so I took his name and came to the Beijing Division to guard for him, but I didn't expect the war to break out, and I also went to the front line in confusion." ”

Yang Yuanba couldn't help but smile a little dumbly, his subordinates are all strange, Yang Sien and Liu Jian are deserters, but this Wei Chi brother is in the army for his father, I don't know if there are any problems with others?

"Aren't you afraid that I will report you?" Yang Yuanba smiled slightly.

"I know you won't!"

Wei Chidun laughed a little slyly, "I think I will look at people, the first time I patrol with you, I will know who you are, you didn't even sue Yang Daxiong and Liu Jian, will you report me?"

"Huochang mutton is roasted!" came the shout of Zhang Brocade in the distance.

"I'm hungry, let's go!"

Yang Yuanba stood up and patted the branches and leaves on his body, Wei Chidun stood up, pouted and whistled sharply, a falcon appeared in the sky, circled and fell, and stopped on Yu Chiduan's shoulder, Yang Yuanba and this falcon were already very familiar, so he reached out and touched its head.

The falcon turned his head and quickly pecked him on the back of his hand, but it was not a real peck, they were a fire man, except for the master, it was slightly better to Yang Yuanba, which was also because Yang Yuanba shot a hare along the way to feed it.

Yang Yuanba scolded with a smile: "You flat-haired beast, you actually dare to peck me, why don't you peck when you feed you meat?"

Wei Chi Tang gently stroked its head and smiled: "It is already very good to you, even my brother does not dare to touch it." ”

"Well, Wei Chi, what is your real name, you just said that you are in the army in the name of your father. ”

"Don't ask, my name is Wei Chi Dan, remember?"

Yang Yuanba walked into the forest quickly, and Zhang Jinjin handed over a roasted leg of mutton as if flattering, "Huo Chang, I have already put the seasonings ready." ”

Zhang Jinjin is a native of Luoyang, a ferryman on Luoshui, he is quite big, but he is the youngest and most useless of the nine subordinates, because he is very good at water, especially good at rowing sheepskin rafts, so he was transferred to Yang Yuanba's men.

He is very good at flattering Yang Yuanba, of course, he has only one purpose, to take care of him a little during the war, his son is still young, his wife and children have to rely on him to support, of course he doesn't want to die.

Yang Yuanba patted him on the shoulder and smiled: "Brocade, don't be like this in the future, they see it, and they want to look down on you, and I won't take care of you because of this." ”

Zhang Jinjin scratched his head a little embarrassed, and had to follow Yang Yuanba back to the cave, in the cave, a whole sheep has been roasted, roasted golden and fragrant, scout Yu Hongquan with a knife to everyone one by one, Yu Hong is obese, but the water is excellent, nicknamed Fat Fish, has a good cooking skills, barbecue is naturally his job, everyone sprinkled with salt, and squatted on the ground to chew.

Yang Yuanqing was gnawing on a leg of mutton, but his mind was not on eating.

"Lao Liu, what about Zhao Mingsheng, you went out together, why didn't he come back?"

"We went out and broke up, he went north, I went south, how do I know where he went?"

"Did you find any hostility?"

"No, I just smelled the barbecue and came back. ”

Everyone laughed, at this moment, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves outside, everyone stopped moving, as if they were fixed, and then, everyone threw away the meat in their hands and ran towards the horses, the horizontal knife was unsheathed, the bow was drawn and the arrow was opened, and the figure at the entrance of the cave flashed, and Zhao Mingsheng's anxious voice came, "Fire Chief, I found the Turkic patrol team!"

Yang Yuanba stepped forward and asked in a deep voice, "Where are the people?"

"Twenty miles to the north, there were twenty horsemen, all resting. ”

"Let's have a little more to eat, and then we go. ”

Yang Yuanba stabilized the tension in his heart, his first battle came quietly, everyone quickly ate a little mutton, and began to pack up weapons and items, everyone turned over and horses, and followed Zhao Mingsheng to the north.

The reason why their mission is called the death sign is not only to penetrate into the hinterland of the enemy army and find the main force of the enemy army, but more importantly, they have to face the Turkic outposts, which are the biggest danger, and the Turkic outposts are responsible for hunting down these Sui scouts.

When encountering a large group of outposts, they must learn to dodge, but when encountering small groups of outposts, it is best to annihilate them, and at the same time they can get information about the main Turkic forces from their mouths.

What they encountered today was a group of twenty Turkic outposts, that is, Turkic outposts that spent the night in the cave, Yang Sien's inference was not wrong, there were only ten people in the cave, and they joined another team of outposts in the forest during the day.

In a dense forest about twenty miles from the cave, they found traces of the enemy, where the Turks had rested just now, but they had now left, judging by the horseshoe prints, they must have gone north.

Ten scouts, like steppe wolves, followed the Turks all the way north

Night is falling, the night of the forest is full of danger, the moonlight penetrates through the branches, casting a miserable white silver into the forest, the trunks and branches and leaves and the grass are dyed with a strange luster, there are bursts of wolf howls in the distance, the feet full of rotten leaves, there are unknown things swimming in the rustle, the war horses snort from time to time, this is not fatigue, but inner fear, the scout cavalry does not speak, one after another through the forest.

After walking about fifty miles to the north, the Sui army finally found their target, and in the depths of the forest, a small fire, so dazzling in the dark fog of the night, showed the fear in the hearts of the Turks, who had not lit a bonfire in the cave last night.

About sixty paces away from the campfire, eight scouts hid behind several large trees, waiting for news of the fire chief Yang Yuanba and Liu Jian, although Liu Jian likes to tell some meat jokes, but he is the most experienced of this fire scout, he has been a scout for twelve years, he himself is a Huns, knows Turkic language, and knows the habits of the Turks very well.

More than a dozen Turkic soldiers were chatting and laughing around the campfire, and a yellow sheep was also roasted on the fire, each with a wine jug, a knife and a bow and arrow, but the spear was on a horse, and their horses were tied to a few large trees not far behind them, a swarthy group.

Behind a big tree about a dozen steps away from the bonfire, Liu Jianzheng whispered to Yang Yuanba about his discovery, "There are a total of nineteen people, with two horses, a single bow, and a range of up to forty steps, do you see, the easternmost two are their heads, this is the Western Turk!"

Yang Yuanba was looking at the two Turkic leaders, one was slender and long, the other seemed to be very young, his face was blocked by a tree, he couldn't see his face clearly, both of them had their hair scattered, their pigtails were combed, their leather armor was taken off, their clothes were open, the firelight reflected their bronzed chest muscles, and they each had a black belt around their waists, which was the sign of the Ten Commanders, and the two leaders indicated that these were two Turkic patrol posts.

Yang Yuanba frowned, "Why the Western Turks?"

"Do you see, there is a Sogdian sitting in the west, only in the Western Turkic army. ”

Yang Yuanba also discovered that there was a soldier with a different appearance from the Turks, with deep eyes and a high nose, not like the wide face of the Turks, but this is not important now, what matters is how he will eliminate these nineteen Turkic soldiers, and at least one person will be captured alive.

He quickly calculated in his heart, and probably had an idea, so he touched Liu Jian with his arm, and the two left quietly, and there was still the hearty laughter of the Turks in the firelight, and no one realized that the danger was in front of them.