Everyone was in high spirits along the way, so I told them several times to talk and laugh more. I didn't know what was wrong with them. We were going to fight, but why were they acting like it was New Year's Day? But I wasn't much better, and I was getting more and more excited.
There were eight people on a sled, pulled by two horses. It was quite fast on this ice field, but some of us also overturned. We could only ignore it and leave it to them to solve the problem themselves, because we couldn't delay as it would be daybreak within two hours.
I also started a conversation with the people in my car. I had to find something to do during this half hour. What I was interested in was how they spread the story about me, but I still beat around the bush until they told me how they spread the story about me, but the answers I got were still all kinds of strange. For example:
"General Xie, do you eat the opponent's flesh and blood every time you fight? Each person only takes one bite, and only takes one bite on the left neck."
"My Lord, will this weapon of yours turn into a 32-foot-long, 7-foot-tall wolf that can charge into the enemy's formation and bite them? So you only need to bring a few thousand people with you each time, and they will just have to wave the flags and cheer you on, and beat the drums to cheer you on?"
It was even more mysterious than before, and I wondered how many people had passed on this information. However, even though I was so scary, why did they still dare to follow me and not even hide from me
"Ah, no wonder, no wonder he only brought so many people like us. Many people envy us for being able to follow the general." Some people actually believed it, which was really troublesome.
I asked my sister to let me lead only 2,000 men. After all, others were attacking from the front with a large force, while I was going to attack from behind, so it would be easier with fewer people. Besides, my sister was in charge of the main camp, so some soldiers had to be left there as well.
"Second Young Master, can I ask if you are the spirit beast Xiezhi who appears in human form? Let me take a look. Hey, everyone, come and see. Second Young Master, there is really a mole here."
"The car is going to flip over! Go back to your seats and sit down." I quickly ordered everyone to sit down, "Where do I have a mole?"
The soldier pointed at my Tianmen. (One inch above the eyebrows, depending on the width of the individual's Mingtang, author's note)
"I have a mole there? I've never noticed it before, so how did you know about it?"
"Someone else told me." Everyone gave the same answer.
"It's your sister's." An old soldier was right next to me. He originally had nothing to say, but now he suddenly spoke up and revealed the reason.
"I've been rumored to be so terrible, why aren't you afraid of me?" I smiled. It seemed to me that my sister knew me better than I did. I didn't know why my sister did this. But I didn't dare to ask her what else she was saying. My sister must have been drunk to say this. Did my sister drink too
"Your sister often talks to us and asks about our family situation. Sometimes she talks about you. You are very easy to get along with, young and capable. There are always many people who spread rumors about you and ask us not to believe them. But you should know that the more these things are spread, the more people think they are true. According to you..."
"That's enough, do I still look like a human being?" I quickly asked them to stop, otherwise one day I would be awakened by my nightmare. Everyone laughed.
"What do you think of my sister, your commander?"
"The princess? The princess is so amazing. We were all a little skeptical at first because there was no precedent of a female commander in our dynasty or the previous dynasty. But the princess is so nice, looks like a fairy, and is very capable. We never lost a battle in Wu, and there were very few casualties. Later we were completely convinced... Uh, Lord Ping An Fengyun Hou, is she really your sister? We all think she doesn't look like her!"
"You bunch of monkeys, if it wasn't cold and you were in the swamp now, I would kick you all down." I threatened viciously with a smile.
My eyesight is not very good, if the coachman hadn't pointed it out to me, I wouldn't have noticed the snow piles protruding from the ground as signs, but they told me to sit down and not stand up all the time. As expected, as long as I lowered my body, I could see these protrusions.
The sled moved very fast on the snow, and in less than half an hour, we had reached the mountain road entrance behind Mufu Mountain.
There was no wind, but I couldn't hear the shouting and fighting on the mountain. There was only the rustling of snowflakes falling slowly. Of course, there were also the sounds of people falling down the carriage. I pulled the reins of the carriage and asked everyone to pass the message to the back, abandon the carriage, and lead the horses up the mountain.
I hung the wolf on the horse and led the horse in the front. I knew the enemy would appear at any time, but I believed that my soldiers were much more nervous than me. Once the enemy appeared, they would naturally rush forward and beat them to pieces. The enemy's group of bumpkins should be quickly defeated by the Yellow Turban Army, which had experienced many battles and learned the fighting techniques of the Spartans.
It was dark ahead, and only the faint light reflected by the snow on the ground allowed us to vaguely make out the conditions of the road. Now we could only feel that we were walking in a groove, and according to the direction indicated by the map, we were heading south.
I paid attention to the road and it seemed that someone had been here a few hours ago. They must have been patrolling enemies. Now I guess many people have huddled down in warm places.
Fortunately, it snowed recently, so we can still see some clues from the footprints. If it was snowing more, we wouldn't know when the other party came. This would always make me nervous. Now at least I can rest assured, because I don't believe that anyone can stay in the snow piles on both sides of the mountain road. Even if he can stay, he should be frozen like a stone by now, so we don't need to worry about him.
However, our journey was so smooth that it was incredible. We had walked for half an hour. Although the road was bad due to the snow, we were still strong enough to walk four miles into the mountain and climb more than 3,000 feet, nearly half the height of the highest peak (1,596 meters). Up to now, we had not encountered anyone, no resistance, and no objects that we could attack.
To the right is probably the dark shadow of the main peak of Mufu Mountain. After crossing the ridge in front, we can go down to the mountainside of the main peak of Mufu Mountain.
The ridge was quite steep everywhere, and the horse I was leading obviously had no experience climbing, so it was very hard to lead it. It didn't appreciate my help in pulling it, and its mouth was shaking from side to side, which made it very difficult for me to pull it.
My head must have been covered with snow, and snow water dripped into the ends of my hair from time to time. But after walking such a long way, I was also very hot, but the cool snow water seeping into my neck still made me feel uncomfortable.
Just as we were about to cross the ridge, I suddenly saw a glimmer of fire shining through the snow ridge, which made me quickly stop the march below.
The firelight was getting brighter and brighter, and the red snow even made me look back and see the faces of the soldiers around me. They were also covered with water drops, and I didn't know whether they were sweat or snow. Everyone was obviously looking at the red line reflected on the edge of the snow, and even the air was breathing heavily.
"General Zhang!... Are there any brothers here? I was sent by the Marshal to get reinforcements!" A very familiar accent came from the direction of the main peak, which is the southwest.
It seems that the attack from the south is going smoothly. This person must have come here with a torch to ask for reinforcements, so this must be a barracks of Qu Xing. However, no shouting or screaming can be heard from there.
I suddenly remembered what kind of accent this was. This is the accent around Changsha. It seems that people from this place are rebelling. Could it be that I did not manage things well here back then? Suddenly I thought about whether I was the one in charge, but that would make me feel even more uncomfortable because my sister was the one in charge.
I quickly gathered my thoughts, thought for a moment, and decided to see where he was going first.
I took the wolf off the horse and asked someone else to hold the dishonest guy for me. The guy even grunted, which made everyone nervous.
The messenger called out again, but still no one answered. This time the voice came from closer. It seemed that the barracks was to our left.
I used the Tianlang to support myself in the snow on this side, and then attached my body to the snow on the other side. I used the strength of my left hand to support the Tianlang and slowly let myself move upward along the snow. This skill is not something that ordinary people can do. It requires extremely strong waist, abdomen and arms. I felt like I was deliberately showing off.
The snow collapsed! A big hole suddenly appeared in the snow next to my head! A large piece of snow rolled forward and the messenger was hit by the snow about ten feet below me and sat on the ground. The torch was also hit by a ball of broken snow, and suddenly only a flame was left at the top, flickering in the wind and snow, about to go out.
We were suddenly frozen here. I was afraid he would yell, and was thinking of a plan. I was also hoping that he couldn't see me clearly, so he would come over to see what was going on, and then I would beat him to death. But he was completely stunned, sitting there motionless.
Suddenly, the wind picked up, extinguishing the last of his flames. At the same time, a wolf howled!
“Ah…” He yelled miserably and started to run away, but after he had taken a few steps, the wolf howl became louder with the wind. This guy fell to the ground, groaned a few times, and then stopped moving for some reason.
I was almost scared to death, because the long howl came from the wolf-tooth stick behind my head! I looked at it and felt each silver spike trembling, and my hair was attached to it. I found that my horsetail had completely turned into silver threads, which might look like a white wolf's tail, so it scared this guy silly.
The whistling continued for a long time until the wind died down.
“Oh…” When the car stopped, the people behind him exclaimed, looking relieved.
I was also a little uncomfortable, I pulled my hair aside and looked at the thing in my hand for a long time, then waved my hand to let everyone move forward quickly. I was the first to rush over the ridge and immediately ran to find the person who was probably fainted by shock.
"Dead." This was the same conclusion I and several soldiers came to, but I immediately became more cautious and looked through the man's clothes. They were all single clothes, just three layers of clothing.
Well, I came at the right time today. As expected, I didn't have enough winter clothes, so I put on all the clothes I could get to keep warm.
It's just that this guy was scared to death. Although we avoided violence, it was not a good thing. However, I quickly gave an order to let a captain surnamed Sun from the old Yellow Turban Army lead nearly two thousand soldiers to follow the footsteps of that man and attack the enemy army from behind. I took more than a hundred people and followed the flatter road in front of me to the east to attack the so-called General Zhang's camp. After coming up, I found that this road was too obvious. There were trees on both sides, but no trees on the road. According to the map, this is the road. If you walk this road for less than two miles, you will reach a big hill. This hill is famous for the juhuā all over the mountain in autumn. There is a cave on the hill, which is said to be quite wide. I guess their so-called camp is this cave, because according to this map, there is really no place to camp. Then the opponent's troops stationed there are only one or two hundred people. If we solve these worries, there will be no place to station troops in Nanshan. We will attack the opponent's back together, and then this battle will basically be won.
The snow on this road had obviously been cleared, and the opponent seemed to be very diligent, which saved us a lot of trouble. In some places there were obviously sentry posts, but now there was no one.
I kept an eye on both sides of the road, but I still wondered if I had overcomplicated a simple matter. I also felt that the various signs during this period showed that Ou Xing was a fool, so he wouldn't be so smart as to ambush me in this place. Compared to me, I was more worried about Captain Sun's group. Because I was not there, I always felt that something would happen, and I wondered if I was too conceited.
I finally found one of my strengths, which is that I can reflect on myself three times a day; but I may not necessarily change after reflecting on myself.
"Fire!" I heard the words of the people next to me, and then I moved my eyes from both sides to the front. I also saw that the places with fire in the snow were particularly obvious. I could see the entrance of the enemy's cave, which was almost opposite the exit of the woods. There was a wooden fortress covered with snow above the entrance of the cave. There were many torches on the entrance and the fortress. It really made it impossible for the attacking enemy to hide. However, they didn't seem to move. Although there were trees above to block us, the sound of our horses' hooves stepping on the snow should at least be heard by their sentries.
No one came to greet us, which made me even more confused. I ordered people to go up to the fort to check, but there was no one there. Could they be sleeping today? This gave us a ready-made advantage.
The entrance to the cave should be a simple door made of wood, but now the door is covered with ice and snow, leaving only an outline on the corners. The door is also buried two inches under the snow, and it seems that no one has entered or exited for several hours. I sighed softly, it seems that the opponents really can't stand the severe cold in the early morning, and all of them have huddled up to sleep. But they still have to light torches like this, which really makes us who attack them feel flattered.
I laughed, without making any sound, but the corners of my mouth curled up slightly. I suddenly thought, would it be better if I ordered people to pile up stones, soil and snow to completely cover the door? There would be no casualties, no worries. But burying so many people alive is too inhumane. Maybe there are some strong men who were forced to surrender among them, or they have a way out. But I don’t know what kind of scene I will face if I go in like this.
But I didn't want to delay any longer, so I made a quick decision and swung up the Heavenly Wolf and smashed it. I believe everyone turned their backs. A burst of snow flew, the door was shattered into pieces, wood chips and dust flew, and I didn't know what it was made of. I vomited several times and always felt that there was something dirty in my mouth. There were also burning torches close to the door, but there were only a few faint flames below. I took the torch handed to me from behind and lit it in the brazier, and then the area nearby became bright.
I felt the air was stuffy inside, and I felt something was wrong. I asked someone to guard the door, and I walked in front of everyone to search slowly downwards. Even if the cave was wide, only ten people could move in parallel, so there wouldn't be many opponents, so my initial idea was right. Before I was fifty feet away, I saw someone, and the sound of killing immediately came from behind, but I stopped them immediately.
Because there were dozens of people sleeping here, old and weak, completely without weapons, wrapped in rags and huddled together against the wall. This was Qu Xing's army. Did we do something wrong? I suddenly felt that we had done something wrong, completely wrong, and I was disappointed. After seeing clearly, the soldiers behind me obviously couldn't do anything to them. We were just standing there stupidly.
"Lord Sirius? ... Ah, we are all civilians, captured by them to serve them, please don't kill us, we really don't dare to rebel." One of the shivering old men shuddered. Hearing a new title from me, it seemed that they had also heard my story.
"Where are they?"
"Are you sleeping down there?" We've all arrived here, and there's not a single sound. These guys must be having a great dream.
But I didn't hesitate after hearing this, and left some people to protect them, which was actually to monitor them. I let others hold the torches, and I walked ahead quickly. The road in this cave was easy to walk, and with the lighting torches following closely behind, I walked smoothly all the way.
But I was still angry along the way.
"Sa!" I don't know why I made this sound. Maybe I wanted to kill, and I was too excited and changed the tone. But I don't want to admit this meaningless mistake, and I think this sound is still very powerful. After a long time, I still don't understand why I shouted this sound. But since then, I like to shout it out in battle, and I feel that my whole body is excited.
But I didn't even understand why I shouted. The people behind me stopped for a moment, and then followed me when they saw that nothing was wrong, but they obviously kept a longer distance from me.
This cave is quite deep, but so far no one has come to fight me, which makes me feel worried. I am afraid of the dark, but I am embarrassed to show it.
It couldn't be that they were lying in ambush and waiting for me to arrive, but there couldn't be anyone on the stone walls on both sides, which only made me feel more and more puzzled.
"The man with the surname Zhang, bring your men out to fight against my Han Ping An Feng Yun Hou!" He shouted loudly, and I felt the stone wall trembling, but the fire behind me seemed to be farther away from me.
But now I am not afraid anymore. It seems that shouting out loud is more courageous. I am even more confident. I feel that I have the Heavenly Wolf in my hand. I am not afraid of any number of people. I rub the long pole in my hand, waiting for someone to rush over at any time. The more I curse, the more excited I become. The more I curse, the more I feel that I can scare my opponents to death. My legs are even soft, because my brothers' legs seem to be getting softer and softer.
"Come out! Your grandpa Xie Zhi hasn't killed anyone for a long time. Tianlang has been thirsty for a long time since he drank blood. Come out!" I felt like a butcher when I said this.
But apart from the echo of the stone wall, I still couldn't hear anything. I only knew that the fire behind me was half a foot away from me. The fire behind me made me look like a very long figure, which probably scared the people in front of me to death.
"Tah!..." I don't know how I made this sound, so I just repeated it to make it clear that I didn't make a mistake. Later, this sound became the one I often shouted. "Tah!"
"Come out!" I felt like my voice already had a begging tone. If you want to be beaten, just come out right away. What was this supposed to mean
The final situation was absolutely beyond all of our expectations. Under a set of artificially built stairs, in a huge stone-walled hall that we had never imagined, there were nearly a thousand people sleeping in rows! Weapons were scattered on the ground, but they didn't care about our arrival. They were still sleeping, and no one got up! I turned my face to the back and said in a joking tone: "Someone go wake them up!"
But the soldiers were obviously not in the mood, and a group of people quickly dispersed, and the first person who went down cut off the head of a bandit with a knife. Then, the soldiers took advantage of the other party's sleep and started to slaughter them, tearing open the quilt and hacking them, and when they saw that they couldn't do it, they would switch to the one next to them. I really didn't expect there would be so many people here. If they were all awake and fought us head-on, it would be unimaginable.
But this scene still makes me feel uncomfortable, after all, they are also human beings. Although they are enemies, being slaughtered like animals without resistance still makes me feel uncomfortable. But in my heart, I am still glad that the opponent is lazy, and I am afraid of my rash and ignorant division of troops, but I can quickly return to normal.
"Wait, stop."
"We can't stop, General. They outnumber us ten times!"
"You are stupid! They died a long time ago!" I came to the conclusion with certainty and shouted at the top of my voice, shaking the entire hall with the echoing sound.
The soldiers were stopped by my loud voice, and many of them immediately put their hands to the mouths and noses of the enemies.
"Are you stupid? You've stabbed him dozens of times and he's dead, so why are you still trying to find his breath?" I scolded some of them harshly, but I didn't know what I felt in my heart when I scolded them.
"Dead, all dead." Everyone kept reporting the same situation from near and far. No wonder no one came to fight us, but the key is how they died. I picked up a torch and looked at the walls and the part. The dome was very high, and I couldn't see anything with the torchlight. There was no problem with the stone wall either.
"Is there a doctor among you?"
"I know medicine!"
"Hurry and see what's going on!"
The doctor then began to look at the condition of one of the men among the torches. He also asked two people to squat and shine the torches close to the corpses to make it easier for him to see. After all, they were experienced in many battles, so all the soldiers did not panic. They stood around with torches to watch. The people in the outer circle were still on guard, but I was still standing on the steps, waiting for new discoveries.
"The doctor has fallen ill!" In a moment, a piece of news came that made everyone panic.
"The brother who was holding the torch for the doctor has also fallen!" Another voice made everyone fall into complete panic and uncertainty.
"Corpse qi! Corpse qi is too strong!" In fact, I don't understand anything, but since it has happened, I must find an explanation, tell everyone a solution, and implement it quickly. "Everyone, hurry to the cave entrance and carry the fallen brother away quickly. I will cover your retreat. Everyone go up and be alert."
My order stabilized everyone temporarily. Everyone quickly and recklessly carried the unconscious brother and hurriedly went up to the cave entrance from my side.
Soon there were not many people around. I even wondered why I didn't leave. The main reason was that it was not a good idea to stay among a bunch of dead people. I looked around and thought that I almost threw away Tianlang. I turned around and ran away. But I had to save face. Although my courage was not proportional to my body size. But I still had some courage, and I was also very curious about what was going on. How could they all die here like this? I saw the fire, and I picked up a piece of wood at random, picked it up and looked at it. It was a very dry wood, and it didn't burn out completely, but it went out. The fire was still warm, which was really weird.
The cave was stuffy and uncomfortable. I felt dizzy after a while. I couldn't find any clues to explain it if I stayed any longer. Before leaving, I rolled up a few quilts. I hung on the wolf, carried the wolf, and walked back slowly with a torch.
The Yellow Turban warriors were good brothers. Seeing that I hadn’t come up for a long time, a group of them tore off sackcloth from their bodies, covered their mouths and noses, and came to find me, thinking that I had fallen there too.
I threw the blankets from the Tianlang to them, so that I could save some time. They asked me why I took the blankets from the dead. I didn't answer. When I returned to the group, I asked them to give all the blankets to the shivering old people and children.
"What happened?" It was a good thing to see several people who had fainted wake up. Although the situation was a bit strange, it was still a very good thing to eliminate all the enemies along the way without any casualties.
"It's okay, I just feel a little stuffy and dizzy." I felt the same way. There must be something wrong with the air inside.
"How's everybody?"
"Should we continue to attack over there and catch up with Brother Sun and the others?"
"You all don't seem to be feeling well? Can you take a break?"
"It's okay. With you, we will definitely win. Ping An Fengyun Hou, please help us finish the battle quickly and go back to celebrate the New Year."
Their confidence in me was probably related to the sudden death of all the other parties this time, because there was really no explanation, and I had no clue at all. It could only be attributed to the whistle, because a messenger had been scared to death before, and those people didn't seem to have any external injuries, but they died just like that, and more than a thousand people died at once.
I left a few older men in the cave to guard the patient who had just woken up, and I and the other cavalrymen continued on our way back.
The sky was already slightly bright, but it was still quiet here. The snow was still falling, but its power seemed to have come to an end. The snowflakes were becoming more and more sparse.
The wind picked up in the early morning, and my hand holding the reins felt very cold, so I had to keep changing hands, thinking that I must ask my sister to find me a pair of gloves in the future. Why did I ask my sister again? I cursed myself for being useless. I am an adult now, I can just find a pair myself. I grumbled for a while about this. Fortunately, the sound of horse hooves was urgent, otherwise someone would ask me what was wrong.
The snow in the early morning was light green, contrasting with the dark trees. In the dimness, it was almost impossible to see footprints, but after all, it was an army of 2,000 people passing by. Soon, I found traces of the march in the snow among the trees, and the shouting and killing finally became clear. At first, I even thought it was the howling of the wind in the pine forest. I immediately became inexplicably excited. I thought I must have a problem, but I felt that my cold body suddenly became warm, and my heart suddenly became clear.
After riding through a pine forest for more than a mile, we saw an open field in front of us, and the battlefield was right in front of us. After stretching our bodies, we looked up and knew which side our army was on.
"Turn left, follow me and charge the enemies on the left side of my Spartan formation." I pointed backwards with Sirius as the boundary. There were more than 20 people on the left and more than 80 people on the right. I pointed forward with my right index finger and issued an order: "Those on the right, charge the enemies on the right side of the formation. Let's attack now!"
"Sa!" I pronounced "Sha" as "Sa" again, but this time we didn't care anymore. Under the command of my Tianlang's Wolf Fang, everyone rushed into the enemy camp like a gust of wind.