Zhang Mingyue has been in the army for half a year, and he already knows how many troops are and how large they are, and there are more than 10,000 troops on such a scale, and this 10,000 is really just a horse thief? Just the sound of horses' hooves dozens of miles away made the entire pass tremble, Zhang Mingyue no longer cared about killing pigs and cattle, and rushed back to the camp as quickly as possible, just like that, the four hundred soldiers in the camp had returned to their positions, and the beacon tower of the West Chu border pass was lit everywhere in the distance, the melodious and rapid horn continued to sound, the war horses neighed, and the weapons clanged.

"Suddenly, there were so many people, and no one in my Xichu border defense found out. ”

The general and battalion commander had already returned to their positions, and Xue Pingchuan's face was solemn.

"It's no wonder that I'm a soldier of the Xue Zi Army, who would have thought that the previous rogues would gather so much at one time this time, and even more so at this close season, it was because we were not prepared, and now the soldiers are hastily prepared, but my Xue Zi Army has never been proficient in large-scale operations, and I am afraid that this battle will suffer a big loss. ”

The battalion commander, who weighed at least two hundred pounds, worried.

"No matter how big the loss is, you have to give me all these enemies who come to attack outside the gate. ”

Xue Pingchuan turned over and got on his horse, the silver spear in his hand was folded and shining, but in a quarter of an hour, the soldiers of Western Chu on the border had assembled and stood by, a battalion of 400 people, and a battalion of 200 people pulled out a long front to protect the entire tiger and wolf behind him.

"Zhang Mingyue, I ordered you to lead 500 people to guard the rear, and don't let an enemy enter the customs. ”

For the first time, Xue Pingchuan showed the courage that he really had as a general, but this time he actually asked Zhang Mingyue to guard the rear, although the young man did not like to hide at the end when he was fighting, but he also knew that there was no time to delay at this moment, so he immediately said coldly.

"The general can rest assured, Zhang Mingyue is here, and the tiger and wolf are here. ”

For this young man's arrogant and seemingly confident rhetoric, many veterans in the battalion have long been accustomed to it, in fact, in terms of qualifications, no matter how seniority is calculated, it is not the turn of the young man in front of him to take command, but now there is no flaw to take care of others, who is in charge is not all the same difficult to survive?

Then Xue Pingchuan hurried out of the camp, with a long border line behind him, and tens of thousands of soldiers looked at death as if they were at home.

The general raised his gun and pointed it to the sky, and the sky descended on the university, and the cold wind was cold.

"Brothers, are you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid. ”

Tens of thousands of soldiers shook the sky in unison.

"Fart, I'm not afraid it's fake, even Lao Tzu is worried in his heart, and a fool can see that these guys in front of him are regular soldiers, which is definitely bad news for our army that is only good at guerrilla warfare. ”

It was the first time that Xue Pingchuan, a general on horseback, was so vulgar, but how could it be so if he wasn't really worried?

"But what's the bad news? Could it be that Lao Tzu can watch these bastards rush into my Tiger Wolf Pass, burn, kill, and loot? Watching these dogs play with our mother-in-law and daughter? No, absolutely not, we can only kill, kill a piece of armor and leave nothing behind. ”

"Only when you die in battle and return to your hometown, dare to call the tiger and wolf not to enter the customs. ”

"Kill. ”

The general was hysterical, his eyes cracking.

"Kill. ”

The sound of tens of thousands of soldiers trembling the heavens and the earth.

"Kill. ”

The general is in front, and the black robe is hunting.

"Kill. ”

Tens of thousands of soldiers are fierce soldiers, and the black armor is like a torrent.

The third killing word is already excited, and the sky and the earth change color.

The two torrents collided, and the border guards opened.

The young man stepped on the war horse and quickly retreated straight to block the tiger and wolf pass, the people in the pass had already hid in their own cellars when they lit the beacon tower, and then looked at the distant armor all over the sky, the enemy army was menacing, but the border guard line was too long, under the 10,000 iron armor just met and was scattered, and the reinforcements in the distance were coming, but the far water could not quench the thirst, so it was leveled under the collision of at least two or three hundred border guards, the general Xue Pingchuan and the battalion commander suddenly fell into the torrent and waited for the reinforcements to arrive, under such a long battle line, there were at least three or four hundred armor breaking through the camp and coming straight to the tiger and wolf pass。

Xue Pingchuan left Zhang Mingyue with only a few hundred people, Zhang Mingyue's face was solemn, and although he was a mile or two away, he could still feel the strong wind blowing on his face.

"Are you afraid?"

A recruit beside him who had only been in the camp for two days was no more than seventeen or eighteen years old, and although Zhang Mingyue was still only sixteen years old, he still asked in the tone of a veteran.

"Don't be afraid. ”

The recruit shook his head resolutely, but his trembling hands couldn't be faked.

"In the general's words, I'm not afraid it's fake, you came to be a soldier at such a young age for that little money?"

The big war is imminent, but Zhang Mingyue has no waves at all, except for the initial shock, she is now almost familiar with the road.

It turns out that I don't know when it began, killing people has become the most common thing, the only difference is that this time there may be a little more people killed than in the past, or this battle is not to kill, but to be killed.

"No, to defend the country. ”

The recruit's tone was a little excited, but he still couldn't hide the panic in his heart.

"Look at your hands, you shouldn't have held a knife before, you're a scholar?"

Zhang Mingyue was a little surprised, she had only heard of poor people who were the head soldiers, but anyone who had a little relationship in the family could get a good job in the army, and she had never heard of scholars coming to join the army to protect the family and defend the country, even if there are many kinds of scholars in the world, Sima Yunmeng Jingran is one, Da Ru Ning Zhiyuan is one, and the one in front of him who has not even held a knife is another, and it is also the most incompetent and despised one.

"What about scholars? Is it difficult for scholars to join the army? People in the world say that my generation of scholars have misled the country, but I am not convinced, I want to join the army to show them, and let them know that my scholars are also courageous. ”

The recruit Li Qiushu looked a little inexplicably excited, but Zhang Mingyue didn't bother to pay attention to whether you were Li Qiushu or Li Qiuxue.

This can't help but remind him of the old soldier who died in battle half a year ago, Zhang Mingyue said coldly.

"Anyone can say big things, and it's not too late to survive this battle and talk about these bold words. ”

The speed of the iron armor is only a few words have rushed to the front, the northern soldiers and horses are different from the south, because of the harsh environment, born to worry about their livelihood, and since childhood self-reliance, most of them are strong and brave and good at fighting, even ordinary horse thieves are not necessarily much worse than the trained regular army, the Chu knife is slender, but the Xixia knife is a heavy knife, a knife down ordinary arm strength people can't bear it at all, but Zhang Mingyue has long been practicing knives under the waterfall, arm strength has long been far beyond ordinary people, not waiting for the new recruit to be stunned, Zhang Mingyue horizontal knife in the chest.

"Don't let a person enter the customs and kill. ”

The left hand clenched the Chu knife, when the first knife even the black horseman's armor was split, suddenly blood splashed on the spot, blood stirred up the blood of the soldiers, hundreds of soldiers are carrying knives into the town, leaving a hundred people stationed in the last line of defense, the tiger wolf pass into the pass has a husband when the pass is not open, the border pass defenders are not good at offensive and defensive battles, only with a life for a life not to fight in order to block the enemy outside the pass, fortunately, although the border soldiers are not as strong as the northern soldiers, but also because they are accustomed to the tradition of the Xue word army, except for a few recruits who have just joined the army, almost all of them are ruthless characters, so the two offset each other, it is to completely stop the enemy army coming towards the pass at great speed。 Another knife cut off the right arm of the black horseman, Zhang Mingyue pushed it away, and the rookie scholar who didn't dare to open his eyes with the knife snatched the knife in his hand.

"That's not how you use the knife, if you're afraid, get out of the way. ”

It's just that he said such a sentence coldly, and the young man turned around and fell into the fight again, and the four hundred black horsemen all lay down for a quarter of an hour, losing more than half of their own side, and didn't care about the brothers who were talking and laughing in the past, Zhang Mingyue cut off a piece of black robe at will, and wiped the Chu knife that had cut a lot of gaps.

"It's not bad, it's not as big as I thought. ”

It's just that after a few breaths, another black horse broke through the border defense line and came towards the Tiger Wolf Pass at great speed.

The Chu knife can no longer be used, the young man threw out the long knife and cut off the hooves of the war horse in front of him, the seven or eight black horsemen turned over on their backs because they couldn't dodge, and the scholar had only heard from the market or seen the drunk and lying on the battlefield Jun Mo Xiao from the book, how could he really experience the heroism of the soldiers in this Xinjiang? But seeing the scholar recruits clenching their fists and walking heavily in front of the young man and horse.

"What, you're not afraid of death?"

Zhang Mingyue sneered.

"I'm afraid of death, but I'm afraid that I'm going to die today, it's better to die a little stronger. ”

Bloody and bloody, the tiger and wolf pass rarely have a complete body, can not distinguish whether it is an enemy or a friend, throughout the ages, the essence of war has always been a confrontation between people. The scholar picked up a Chu knife from the pool of blood and rode towards the black horse that was close at hand.

"Scholars are not greedy for life and afraid of death. ”

Just before he could take a few steps, the scholar named Li Qiushu felt pulled back by a hand.

"Not being afraid of death doesn't mean that you have to send your head to death, look at me. ”

Zhang Mingyue jumped up with one foot on the horse, pulled out the spare Chu knife on horseback, Tiangang thirty-six knives rose again, and the knife gang swept wildly, but the iron armor on the black rider saw that its texture was extraordinary, and the knife could not be broken, which Zhang Mingyue had already expected, if it weren't for the land immortals who opened the gate of heaven with a sword such as the old man, the only way to deal with these iron armor was to cause the greatest lethality to deal with these iron armor on a one-to-one basis.

"I will kill this wave of people, you should hurry up and rest for a while, this battle is by no means a quick battle. ”

The black cavalry has two or three hundred armor, at the beginning Sima Yun was a dignified master at the foot of Baijian Mountain, but he had to be shot by the old man if he broke a few hundred armor, although the iron armor in front of him was not Xuanyuan Hongtu, the combat power of the iron cavalry could not be underestimated, and more than two hundred and sixty armor were broken in half an hour, Zhang Mingyue was exhausted and couldn't fall asleep, and then looked at the border guards in the distance coming more and more, but how did Zhang Mingyue not know that although there were still 80,000 defenders on the border, the maximum 20,000 that could really be rushed from the station was already the top of the sky, after all, other passes must be stationed to prevent the enemy from attacking the east and west, and with 20,000 border defenders to 10,000 invaders, Xue Pingchuan did not get much benefit, The enemy is proficient in battle formations, and there are more distant and short-range troops fighting in batches, I don't know how many border guards who have not yet approached the enemy army are hiding under the archers at the rear, the black cavalry crossbow has a range of two or three miles, fighting and shaking the sky, the general is under siege, bloody clothes and blood guns, and now Zhang Mingyue finally understands why Xuanyuan Hongtu did not put the old man who has entered the land heaven and man realm in his eyes, this is only 10,000 black horses, and the most than 1,000 horsemen besieging Xue Pingchuan can make this Western Chu Guozhu who borrowed the Western Chu Qi to transport into the realm of heaven and man not be able to advance an inch, if it is really Xuanyuan Hongtu who does not hesitate to risk the crime of privately mobilizing the army and then transferring 3,000 iron cavalry to besiege the old manWhat about the realm of heaven and man? What about the land immortals? You can kill me 2,000 armor may not be able to kill me 5,000 armor, you can kill 5,000 may not be able to kill 10,000 people, and when you finally die of exhaustion, how many years will it take for the rivers and lakes to produce a land immortal?

Zhang Mingyue now remembered why the old man was reluctant to deal with the temple in the first place, and finally figured this out.

The anger of the martial artist is really insignificant compared to the anger of the Son of Heaven.

In a big battle, not just a land immortal can save the collapse, not to mention that this is not a battle, but a war.

Yes, this is a war, a war between Western Chu and the Far North.

The winter in Saibei is cold, but no matter how cold it is, it can't be colder than this war, the soldiers go to Huangquan in the state of going forward and successively, and the snow flies in the tiger and wolf pass but still can't cool the land of Saibei that gradually turns red, the blood is steaming, gathering into streams, and the streams converge into rivers, lakes and seas to warm the frozen soil of Saibei.

You don't see it, the water of Guangling comes up from the sky, rushes to the sea and never returns.

You don't see, there are many warriors in the northern frontier, and the dynasty is silver and white at dusk.

A battle to dawn, 20,000 soldiers finally at the cost of not hesitating a life for a life, or even two lives for a life in exchange for the victory of the Battle of Tiger Wolf Pass, the battalion commander who used to be at odds with Zhang Mingyue has also lost the price of his right arm to pick up a life, 20,000 soldiers are left only two or three thousand, the enemy army is all wiped out, the national pillar Xue Pingchuan is scarred, the silver gun is broken in the first battle, then he picks up the enemy's weapons and fights again, one person breaks the enemy's five hundred crossbows, is trapped in the trap and still does not retreat, vows not to let one person enter the pass, originally thought that the most difficult Tiger Wolf Pass to block hundreds of people team has become the team with the smallest casualty ratio。 But no one felt lucky, even the scholar Li Qiushu, who didn't dare to open his eyes when he killed the enemy.

After the victory in the First World War, I can't count how many corpses on the ground are frozen and tightly glued together, and I can't figure out who is who, and I can't even count the names of the dead soldiers.

Zhang Mingyue was ordered to be responsible for cleaning up the battlefield after the war, and sent those black horsemen who still had a breath on the Huangquan Road, and the battalion commander who had broken his arm before leaving the camp found him with a wound.

"My right arm is broken, I'm afraid I won't be able to use your knife. ”

Even the battalion commander with the pain of a broken arm was still talking and laughing, although this was a tradition that the border guards had always had, Zhang Mingyue couldn't help but feel a little sour in his heart.

"I know an old man who also had a broken arm, but no one dares to underestimate him now. ”

Zhang Mingyue didn't know what to say, and smiled at the battalion commander who splashed his head of water on him as soon as he came to the barracks, although the blood on his face was still there, it did not fill the two small dimples.

"In your words, are you comforting me?"

The battalion commander smiled similarly.

"Actually, you don't have to be like this, compared to those brothers who died in battle, I am already very lucky, and I can still leave a life, but I will definitely not use this knife, if you want to clean up the battlefield, use your knife, this knife will drink the blood of the world, and it will definitely be a self-generated sword in the future. ”

"That's not necessary, you keep the knife, I said I'd take it myself. ”

"Or do you want to use my neck?"

"What do you say?"

Zhang Mingyue chuckled, and turned around to take the scholar who had just entered the camp and was so unlucky to encounter the war, but was lucky to survive.

You keep the knife, I will take it personally, your head is mine, you must live well, live, so that I can Zhang Mingyue still have a trace of thought at this border.

Cleaning up the battlefield is an extremely troublesome thing, more than 20,000 corpses, to distinguish friend from foe, and kill the living enemy soldiers, it is indeed a test of human endurance, fortunately it is winter, most of the corpses are frozen, and will not decay so quickly, there will be no stench, but it can not avoid the vulture pecking from a distance or even farther away, it is said to clean up the battlefield, in fact, even if someone is lucky enough to survive the serious injury, it is absolutely impossible to escape the cold, what needs to be paid attention to is only those who pretend to be dead, from south to north from east to west, from early morning to dusk, from dusk to dawn, it took two nights to clean up the battlefield, and did not let any enemy escape this catastrophe。

Zhang Mingyue was completely numb, but the machine looked at the horrific corpses like rummaging through the cabinets.

It snowed heavily for three days and three nights.

Zhang Mingyue sat next to the small loess mound of the old soldier Xu Weiguan, and there was an extra recruit scholar with a little blood on his face beside him.

Zhang Mingyue only remembered that this scholar had been vomiting since the first day when he saw the corpse, and in the end he gradually became numb and his eyes were empty, but in fact, it was only a day.

When a person is accustomed to seeing death, death is already normal for him, and only those who have truly experienced death will exude a murderous aura that can make you shudder just by looking at it.

It's ridiculous to say that the scholar actually has a murderous aura, and what's even more ridiculous is that this scholar is not a scholar like Sima Yun.

"You are a scholar, you really shouldn't come to these places, otherwise you won't be unable to eat for three days, scholars should do what scholars should do, such as pointing out the country like Mr. Ning Zhiyuan Ning, this matter of conquest on the battlefield should still be handed over to us martial artists to do. ”

"You still look down on scholars?"

Li Qiushu said coldly.

Zhang Mingyue smiled dumbly.

"I've never said that, I admit that your previous performance really made me look down on you, but the past three days have made me look at you, at least you dared to kill someone, didn't you?"

Zhang Mingyue stood up and patted her buttocks, even though there was only soaked snow on her buttocks.

"From today onwards, I feel that the traditions of our border guards have to be changed, and war is coming. ”

It took three days to clean up the corpses of 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers, and finally all the soldiers were barely sewn together and hurriedly buried in the ground, unlike in the past, after this war, it was not as good as before that the names of all the soldiers could be distinguished, and even several battalions did not survive any of them, and 10,000 or 20,000 people were gone.

Zhang Mingyue was numb to this, and a bag of dry tobacco had been smoked.

It's finally the end of the year.

On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, the night before the New Year's Pass, the border soldiers were completely sensational.