That night, in the south of Hanzhou City, nearly ten households ignited a fire, which illuminated half of the sky in Hanzhou City. The two veterans pretending to be patrolling on the city wall successfully responded, and the group of 30 people successfully evacuated from Hanzhou City as Xue Ziqin expected.
The sky was white with fish belly, and everyone had been resting by the river when they landed safely. Xue Ziqin was very satisfied with the result of this battle.
But Jiang is not good either.
Wei Lin had been holding Jiang Ye's hand. If he hadn't been watching and carrying, Jiang Ye might have stayed motionless in that bloody room until he was arrested as a murderer.
Zhao Zhinan was also observing Jiang Ye along the way, and what was wrong with him was too exaggerated. To be honest, it is impossible for him or Wei Lin to say that there is nothing strange in their hearts. But they all understand that if they choose this path, or if they have to take this path, then they have to accept it. Accept murder, accept arson, accept blood all over the sky, and even accept corpses everywhere in the future, accept the death of close relatives and friends in front of him.
This is the rule that everyone knows.
The blood on Jiang Ye's face had already dried up, Wei Lin wiped it over and over again, but there were always some bloodstains that had solidified that could not be wiped off. When he got to the riverside, Wei Lin didn't say a word, and dragged him to squat on the edge of the riverbed again.
"You can only accept it," Wei Lin said in a low voice. "You have to slow down while you rest."
Jiang didn't speak, and looked at Wei Lin dumbly. His pupils were out of focus, as if he was looking at Wei Lin, but Wei Lin knew that he was not looking at himself, but looked at a distant scene that he could not see.
He wanted to grab Jiang Ye's hand, but Jiang Ye's was very stiff, and he kept clenching his fists so tightly that even his knuckles turned white with excessive force. He opened Jiang Ye's hand one finger at a time, and then held it, trying to ease him a little by touching it like this.
There seems to be the aftertaste of blood in the mouth, and it will not dissipate for a long time; I can still see the expression of innocent family members dying in front of me; the woman's desperate cry and scream, and her ending... This little by little, piled up , piled up into a heavy door in Jiang Ye's mind.
Jiang also tried to open the door, but the fear that came from his heart made him unable to raise his hand, so he didn't dare to touch it.
Wei Lin kept talking to him, but he couldn't really hear what he was saying, only to see Wei Lin's lips opening and closing.
Jiang Ye's lips were pale, trembling slightly, and his expression was stiff, as if he couldn't hear Wei Lin's voice at all.
Wei Lin started to get anxious as he talked, he kept comforting Jiang Ye, let go of his hands, held Jiang Ye's face with both hands, and rubbed vigorously with his fingertips: "Look at me, Look at me, I'm here, don't be afraid..." The more he talked, the more flustered, Jiang Ye's appearance made him very anxious.
Just when Wei Lin was at a loss, Xue Ziqin noticed this for some reason. Jiang's performance in this operation was what Xue Ziqin expected, but Zhao Zhinan and Wei Lin's reactions exceeded his expectations. I saw Xue Ziqin strode straight towards the two of them, pushed Wei Lin away, and squatted in front of Jiang Ye. He looked at Jiang Ye's expression - he knew it, he had such an expression before. Then he sneered and sneered: "Afraid of waste like this?"
But Jiang was still the same.
Suddenly, Xue Ziqin moved quickly, grabbed Jiang Ye's shirt, and pulled him closer, forcing him to look at him: "Then what's the use of you saying that?" He just grabbed Jiang Ye's shirt. Pulled into the river, then let go of his hand, and turned to hold the back of his head, so he was pressed firmly in the water.
Jiang also finally reacted and struggled frantically, but Xue Ziqin's strength was astonishingly great, and he couldn't break free at all. Wei Lin saw the scene in front of him and immediately went up to pull Xue Ziqin's hand: "General, what are you doing! He will die! You let go!"
Xue Ziqin threw off Wei Lin again, completely ignoring him, and pressing Jiang Ye with one hand.
Just as Jiang felt hopeless to break free, and felt that he was about to drown in the water, a picture of a strong man raping the woman and slashing at Wei Lin appeared in front of his eyes.
At that time, if he hadn't done that... Wei Lin's smile appeared before his eyes.
Yes, if he hadn't done that, Wei Lin would have died.
He couldn't imagine how he would cry bitterly while holding Wei Lin's body.
Thinking of this, Jiang also struggled violently, several times stronger than before. Perhaps it was because of the desire to survive, or because Xue Ziqin was showing mercy, and finally, Xue Ziqin let go of his hand. Jiang also raised his head sharply and took a deep breath. He turned his head and glared at Xue Ziqin, and then his stomach began to turn upside down again, as if twisted into a ball.
He pushed Xue Ziqin away, rolled and crawled to the next big tree, knelt on the ground like that, and vomited.
—I did nothing wrong, either he died or Wei Lin died.
- I did nothing wrong, war is inherently cruel.
- I did nothing wrong, and I am not qualified to sympathize with others, nor to distinguish between good and evil.
Wei Lin's eyes were red, and he shouted at Xue Ziqin, "What are you doing! Are you going to kill your soldiers! What kind of bullshit general are you!"
After he roared this long sentence, he immediately ran to Jiang Ye's side, giving him the same air as before, his tone full of distress: "It's okay... just spit it out, I'm here..."
Jiang also vomited to the point where his stomach was empty, and after there was nothing left to vomit, he raised his head and smiled reluctantly at Wei Lin: "I'm fine..."
"It's nothing..."
The dozen or so soldiers who saw this scene didn't know what was going on, and they didn't dare to speak, especially Xue Ziqin's face was still so ugly.
"So, what is that? Over there at the camp?" Someone suddenly shouted. When Xue Ziqin heard this, he immediately looked up in the direction of the camp.
At this time, over the camp, thick smoke was ignited.
Xue Ziqin's face instantly turned ugly: "Something happened..."
"What's the matter?" the people around him asked in a frenzy.
Yes, what happened. There is no doubt that the thick smoke from the camp at this moment indicates an enemy attack. Xue Ziqin quickly went through the whole plan again in his mind, thinking about which link was the problem, he suddenly realized something, frowned, and cursed: "Damn it! It's a trick!"
"Everyone! Immediately return to the water, immediately! Immediately!"
As soon as Xue Ziqin's order came out, the soldiers who were still resting immediately went into the water one by one. They didn't know how to get in the water and hurried to find the log that they found, and followed them into the water.
But this return trip was much more difficult than the one from which it came. The entire team stretched for a long time. Under the resistance of the current, the soldiers who could not rely on the log were almost unable to move in the river.
Jiang Ye relied on Wei Lin to take him to swim in the water this time, and Jia Da Jia Er. Although they didn't know what happened to Jiang Ye, they didn't dare to ask more, so they could only take Jiang Ye in turn. swim over.
Xue Ziqin was right, Jiang also thought to himself, he is really a waste, he doesn't know anything, he just keeps bothering others and being taken care of by others.
The return journey took an hour and a half.
Xue Ziqin didn't care about giving orders to the people behind him. He went ashore first, put on the armor when he dug out quickly, and ran all the way to the camp. The soldiers behind them just kept their heads down.
By the time Xue Ziqin arrived at the camp, the camp was already in flames, and the soldiers of Sui Kingdom were already fighting with his personal soldiers. He casually pulled out a blood-stained long knife from the corpse at his feet and killed all the way in.
"General!!!"
Xue Ziqin followed the surrounding soldiers all the way to the center of the battle. Guo Linchong and his cavalry were fighting against the opponent right away. The moment Guo Linchong saw Xue Ziqin, he shouted loudly, at this moment, an arrow fell from the sky and pierced through the sergeant on the horse next to him.
The sergeant fell from the horse, Xue Ziqin flew onto the war horse without blinking an eye.
"what happened?!"
"General!" Guo Linchong said while fighting, "Not long after you went out, the bastards in Suiguo killed them, the patrolmen were defeated one by one, and we were killed without any precautions. !!!"
Xue Ziqin stabbed one knife at a time, and the knife was terrifying, and shouted loudly, "Damn it!"
The battle situation was obviously unfavorable. At first, he was killed without any precautions. The opponent was attacking and rocketing the camp. The main general was not there, and the morale was even lower.
Xue Ziqin swung the knife down on the horse and slashed into the enemy's chest. He saw the handsome flag of Sui country in the distance, and then he looked closely and saw the continuous ban, sitting on the standing horse, he was calm, half-smiling, as if he was enjoying the advantage at the moment.
"Go now and call Min Qiu and the garrison over!"
"But the general..." "Don't give my mother a lot of nonsense, just let you go!" After speaking, Xue Ziqin slapped Guo Linchong's horse's ass with the back of his knife. He took the reins and turned the horse's head, and just like Xue Ziqin said, he quickly drove the horse to the previously arranged garrison.
Xue Ziqin was still killing the enemy. He looked up and looked around, but he couldn't see his Xue family flag.
He, Xue Ziqin, was attacked like this, this is absolutely a great shame! If he hadn't been too cautious, afraid that the enemy would find out, and arranged the garrison twenty miles away, how could it be so miserable
I saw Xue Ziqin riding a horse in the firelight, killing everywhere, searching everywhere, and finally saw the military flag that fell on the ground. I don't know if it was injured by any weapon.
"You are good." As soon as he pulled the reins and picked up the long knife, he picked up the flag of the generals, held it in his hand, and then pulled the flag vigorously, ripped the flag off directly, tied it to his shoulder armor, and then lifted it up. He raised his long knife and shouted: "Xue Ziqin is here, bastards, don't be a coward! Just do it!"
The soldiers who were still working hard on the battlefield heard this roar, looked up and saw the flag behind General Xue swaying violently, the word "Xue" rolling in the air, as if it had brought some kind of courage and poured into them. in the body.
"Kill!!!"
Xue Ziqin took the lead and brought back a lot of morale. To fight a war, it takes more than morale. He couldn't turn the world around in one sentence, he could only lead by example and rush into the enemy line without fear of life and death.
When Wei Lin and Jiang Ye arrived, they saw the whole scene in chaos. Wei Lin and the others didn't even have time to put on their armor. They picked up the swords from the corpse under their feet and rushed in.
Wei Lin didn't look like a new recruit at all. He can even stab at the enemy's body at an extremely cunning angle from the armpit or crotch of the friendly army when the friendly army is slashed. In contrast, Jia Da Jia Er was unruly, flinching and dodging the enemy's blade for a while, and slashing people with dignity and awe.
Jiang also followed Wei Lin, holding a long spear that was torn from the corpse of an enemy or an allied soldier, his hands trembling all the time.
On the battlefield, the smell of blood mixed with the smell of something burnt, overwhelming.
There are roars, wailing, and intertwined roars in the ears.
He saw one after another with familiar or raw faces, falling in a pool of blood, or dying, or dying.
Wei Lin's figure was in front of him, his body was covered in the blood of the enemy, and he slashed at the enemy with one knife at a time. His movements were neat and tidy, dodging the enemy's attacks again and again, and slashing back with his backhand.
will die.
This is really going to die.
Jiang also thought that this day would be far away, at least they still have a few days to rest and prepare for this battle. But no, he just escaped from the ruined house a moment ago, and at this moment he is in a bigger place of death.
If death has a smell, it's about that.
He saw that Jia Da and Jia Er were not as stupid as usual, but fought bloody battles with Wei Lin.
Are they stupid? Even if Jiang didn't understand the art of war or marching, he also understood that they were clearly losing ground. Why not be afraid, why not flee, why fight
No one noticed that Jiang was also stunned in place, motionless.
There seemed to be thousands of people shouting in his ears, which was deafening; his feet seemed to be rooted, and he couldn't move a step; the spear in his hand seemed to weigh thousands of pounds and was about to fall to the ground.
The door in his mind became clear, it was a door piled up by countless wailing corpses.
It seemed that it was close enough that Jiang would be able to push it away, but it was only so close.
Wei Lin killed several people by himself. He turned around and saw that Jiang also opened his eyes to the limit and stood there like that. In front of Jiang Ye, someone raised a knife, and the shining tip stabbed Wei Lin in the eye.
"Jiang Ye!!!"