The horse galloped towards him, and the man on the horse jumped off, ran forward a few steps, and shouted loudly, "My lord!"
"What's going on? Why are you coming back now? Where are the others? Have you seen Miss Yu?"
"My lord, we encountered robbers on the road, and all the brothers were robbed by the robbers!"
"What?" Chu Qiao and Xue Zhiyuan shouted at the same time.
Then, Chu Qiao asked in disbelief: "Why are the gangsters so arrogant? There are more than five hundred people in front of you, how could you be robbed by robbers?"
"My lord, although there are quite a few of us, there are more of us on the other side. There are more than seven thousand of them."
"Nonsense!" Xue Zhiyuan shouted in a cold voice, "You guys are so careless and blame the bandits. Now that there are rebels everywhere in Yanbei, where are there more than 7,000 bandits? You are clearly shirking responsibility!"
The personal guard raised his eyebrows, and immediately said righteously: "Lord Xue, although our brothers are not talented, they are also elites who followed His Highness to fight in the north and south. Even if they died in battle, they would not frown. What I said today , if there is one sentence that is false, I will definitely let a thousand arrows pierce my heart, and I will die!"
Chu Qiao took a deep breath and asked in a deep voice, "How are our people doing now? What demands do those gangsters have? Can we kill them?"
The guard regained his energy immediately, and quickly replied: "No, no one was injured. They were in an ambush, and even few brothers were injured. Originally, they were very fierce and threatened us to send them a message. Later, we heard that we were Your Excellency’s subordinates will have a much better attitude.”
Chu Qiao was taken aback, and asked, "What?"
"My lord, those people don't know who we are. They robbed our people just to find someone to send a message. They said they want to see you."
"Want to see me?"
"Yes."
Chu Qiao frowned and asked, "Who is their leader?"
"The man was in his thirties, and he fought very bravely. At first glance, he was no ordinary horse thief. He looked like a soldier who had undergone formal training. The quality of their entire team was very good. Regular military uniforms. They refused to reveal their identities, they only said that they did not have any malice, and as long as the adults saw him, they would know who they were."
Chu Qiao frowned and pondered for a while, then suddenly said: "Prepare the horse, let's go see him."
"You're crazy!" Xue Zhiyuan grabbed her hand.
Although the two have always been in a hostile relationship, they are comrades in the same trench after all. The man said in a deep voice, "Go out of the city now, do you want to die?"
Chu Qiao turned her head to look at him, and said with a serious expression: "My subordinates are in the hands of the other party."
"So what? Can you save them all by yourself?"
"Does General Xue want to send me an army? Not too many, 5,000 people are enough."
Xue Zhiyuan was at a loss for words, he was just a forward general, Cao Mengtong now wanted to preserve the strength of the second army, let alone 5000 people, even 500 people he couldn't mobilize.
Chu Qiao snorted coldly, climbed on the horse, followed behind the guards, and said coldly: "Drive!"
The war horse raised its hooves and headed for Juechen outside the city.
Xue Zhiyuan raised his eyebrows, just at this time a soldier came over with a horse, he snatched the horse, followed Chu Qiao, and galloped towards the west gate. The north wind was blowing, and the heavy snow like goose feathers was falling all over the sky. The surrounding area was so white that it was impossible to distinguish the north, south, east, and west.
However, even in such a bitterly cold night, a stream of people that can't be seen at a glance is slowly wriggling like a long dragon, and the wind is like a knife sprinkled with salt, roaring fiercely, cutting through people's eyes. On their faces, they could no longer keep their eyes open, but this did not dampen their enthusiasm for fighting. The people of Yanbei, after receiving the conscription order from General Cao of the Second Army, rushed to Beishuo City with homemade scimitars and the strongest horses in the family, to dedicate their lives to the Datong they dreamed of. Show your loyalty.
This is a sturdy nation, and the people living here have all been proficient in bowing horses since they were young. Chu Qiao knew that with a little training, a powerful and unparalleled army would be born in this land. But now, looking at these confident men who braved the wind and snow and sang the battle song of Yanbei, she was full of sadness. She wanted to stop them, but she only got some contemptuous eyes. Someone saw her and Xue Zhiyuan three The man ran westward, spat fiercely, and cursed loudly: "Deserters!"
"My lord, let's go." Yan Xun's guards turned around and said eagerly.
At this moment, Chu Qiao raised her brows lightly, pulled the reins hard, and the horse's hooves stopped suddenly. The soldiers ran for more than twenty steps before stopping, and turned around and asked, "My lord, what's the matter?"
Chu Qiao frowned, turned her ears to the side, and said to Xue Zhiyuan, "Did you hear that?"
Boom! Boom! Boom! The rolling sound like thunder came slowly, getting louder and louder, as if it was under the ground, pierced through the soles of people's feet, and climbed up from the spine.
Xue Zhiyuan raised his eyebrows, and immediately jumped off his horse. The young officer ran up the high slope and looked up. In an instant, he was stunned, looking far away to the west, motionless.
Soon, several people who heard the sound also climbed up and stood on the snow field.
Quiet, deathly quiet, and soon, someone turned around like a nightmare, looked around, stretched out his hand, pointed to the west and asked, "Is there an army? Is it our army?"
The sound of horseshoes came from the west, and a faint black shadow appeared under the horizon. From one line to the other, there were a huge number of thousands of people. The sound was like thunder, galloping from the distant Sunset Mountains!
"Run!" A sharp female voice suddenly sounded.
Everyone was startled, Qi Qi turned his head to look, and saw a woman in military uniform sitting on horseback, she had pulled out her sword and was holding it in her hand, pointing to the west and shouting loudly: "It's Da Xia's army! Hurry up!" Run! Go in the direction of Beishuo!"
The crowd panicked for a while, but soon, someone questioned: "Why is Daxia's army in the inland of Yanbei?"
"Yes," someone echoed, "They are all outside Beishuo Pass!"
However, it was too late, the familiar way of controlling the horse, the familiar way of slashing and charging, at first glance, it was the formally trained Daxia border guards.
Chu Qiao's face was pale, and the palms holding the knife were almost sweating. Who are these people? Why were they able to break through Beishuo Pass and appear in the hinterland of Yanbei, where there is not a single regular army. If they are allowed to rush to the rear of Yanbei, what will happen
In an instant, all thoughts flew by like flashes of lightning. Chu Qiao raised her sword and shouted loudly: "I am Chu Qiao, a senior officer of the Yanbei General Staff Department. Everyone listen to my orders!"
The howling wind blew her voice away in the north wind, and I saw a black shadow in front of me, coming in a dense charge formation, tens of thousands, overwhelming mountains and seas, like a storm!
"How can it be?"
There was a sudden scream from the crowd. The men from Yanbei who had come all the way to join the army to defend their home and country in response to the call, suddenly encountered an enemy attack and panicked.
"Run!"
At this time, it was too late to run again, and she would only be frantically strangled in the collapsed escape. Chu Qiao turned around and shouted: "Don't run away! Go and intercept them!"
However, no one paid any attention to her at all. The guards rushed forward, grabbed her reins, and shouted, "My lord, run!"
"Beishuo base camp must be notified immediately!"
"My lord! It's too late!"
As if to confirm her words, the charge to kill the enemy sounded loudly. There is no doubt that it was the charge slogan of the Daxia regular army.
The frenzied horseshoes rushed to them, and in an instant they overtook the group of civilians who were running in a panic. The wind was so fast that the blade was unsheathed in an instant, just like lightning. Blood spouted out, and the head was immediately separated from the neck, flying into the air, the blood in the cavity splashed out, splashing on the white snow with a splash!
In short combat, under the opponent's fast horse speed and precise and fierce swordsmanship, the people of Yanbei have no power to fight back, and they will not fight back at all. The sharp screams were completely drowned out by the noise of the horseshoes, and they fell to the ground one by one, being trampled by hundreds of horseshoes.
Chu Qiao's eyes turned red, she was thrown into a turmoil when she suddenly encountered an enemy, under such a violent impact, her personal effect was negligible. A young man was running ahead on horseback, but his neck was chopped off by an enemy who was chasing after him. The blood splashed out immediately and sprayed on Chu Qiao's fur. She stabbed Xia Bing's chest with a sword. The awns are bright and snowy, bringing up a bloody flower.
"Xue Zhiyuan! Go back immediately! Notify the headquarters!"
There were more than a thousand cavalry in this team, all of them were dressed in regular military uniforms of the Great Xia with blue background and white stripes. They were busy chasing the fleeing civilians, and for a while, no one noticed that there were still a few fresh troops who could fight back. Xue Zhiyuan was surrounded by three Xia soldiers, Chu Qiao swung his sword up to rescue him, and shouted loudly: "Go!"
"Let a woman cover me? I can't do it!" Xue Zhiyuan is worthy of being an elite soldier who has experienced many battles. He is agile and fast without any fancy. He raised his knife and chopped off the head of a Xia soldier. The body is as swift and fierce as a tiger.
Chu Qiao frowned, and suddenly stretched out her hand to tear off the coat, threw it on the ground, and yelled loudly, "Shameless! Slaughter civilians! You should be killed!" After finishing speaking, she held up her sword and rushed towards Xia Jun resolutely. array of .
"My lord!" Seeing that, the guard's eyes were almost bloodshot, he rushed forward and followed behind Chu Qiao.
The two roared and rushed towards the army of thousands of people. This scene looked as ridiculous as a cartoon, but no one could laugh at this moment. The officers and soldiers of Da Xia seemed to have discovered Chu Qiao at this time, and when they saw the uniform on her body, someone shouted: "There is an official here!"
In an instant, the encirclement surged up like a tide. Compared with those ordinary civilians, the meaning represented by a Yanbei Army official is extraordinary.
Xue Zhiyuan was dumbfounded, seeing the officers and soldiers who besieged him instantly abandon him, he could only feel the blood rushing in his chest. He knew that Chu Qiao used her life to buy him time to escape, not for the so-called comrade-in-arms, but for the millions of soldiers and civilians in Beishuo City!
In the north wind, his eyes were red, he roared, turned around and galloped in the direction of Beishuo City.
He ran too fast, if he could wait a little longer, maybe he would see something different. But the fate is so strange, the moment he turned around, still in the far northwest, an iron-gray ink line appeared again. The earth was shaking, the wind was roaring, and the bloodthirsty murderous aura was floating in the long wind, filling every inch of the snowfield. In the cold moonlight, the team wearing all kinds of casual clothes swept over like a hurricane sweeping the earth!
(end of this volume)
Volume 6 Qinghai sky