The sky is still blue and the sun is still dazzling.
What was even more dazzling than the sunlight was that everywhere on the snow was red, and there were bodies that had fallen on the snow.
Li Jinglong stood at the height of Liugenberg, squinting his eyes and looking at the moving black spots in the distance.
"The Tatars should have come from the north, and those below should be the vanguard." His deputy, Wu Gao from Jiangyin, solemnly said from the side, "There has just been a snowstorm, and it is estimated that all the roads around are blocked.
Now, the Tatars are several times larger than our army. And our reinforcements will definitely be delayed due to heavy snow. How will we fight this battle in Zhentai?"
"Cao!" Hearing this, Li Jinglong smiled contemptuously, "What else can I say? When the white knife goes in, the red knife comes out!" After saying that, he smiled again, "Tell the brothers, we have guests, greetings." Then,
Then he pointed down the mountain and said, "We are not in a hurry, they are in a hurry."
After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the military formation, saying as he walked, "Let brothers check the food, muskets, match ropes, projectiles and gunpowder, crossbows and stones, artillery and broadswords, don't be careless at all!"
"Yes!" replied the general behind him.
"Let the brothers stand in their respective places as planned in advance and pass on my order. If one person retreats, kill one group. If one group retreats, kill one hundred households. If one hundred households retreat, kill one thousand households!" Li Jinglong's words were filled with murderous intent.
, "Military law is ruthless, implement continuous sitting!"
If one person retreats in fear, kill everyone in his team.
A small group retreated and killed a hundred people.
A unit of 100 people retreated, killing a thousand people.
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As soon as Li Jinglong turned a corner, he saw Mr. Li slap his obedient son with a slap on his face.
"Damn it!" Mr. Li's big hand fell heavily on the back of his son's arm.
Li Xiaowai turned a deaf ear to his father's big hand, and instead struggled towards the place where the Ming army's corpses were at the bottom of the mountain, as if he wanted to rush there.
"What's going on?" Li Jinglong asked sideways.
Li Laowai laughed dryly and said, "No...Master, this little beast is disobedient, I'll fix it a few times!"
"Big...wang! Big...wang!" Li Xiaowai cried until he was out of breath.
At this time, another soldier said something into Li Jinglong's ear, and the latter immediately grimaced.
"So are you!" Li Jinglong scolded Mr. Li, "Can't you just give that kid a hand for something convenient? Seeing that he's gone like that?"
Li Laowai quickly explained, "It's not that we didn't save the little one. When the little one ran down, Li Dawang had already thrown two Tatars and fell into the snow shell. The little one guessed that he was in serious danger.
The Tatar pursuers are so close, so small..."
"Okay, okay, okay!" Li Jinglong interrupted him impatiently, and then looked at Li Xiaowai, who had been sobbing, "Don't let him cry, it will disturb the morale of the army, and neither the family nor the military will spare you!"
Although in the eyes of outsiders, Li Laowai and other private soldiers of the Li family who changed their surname to Li, they actually looked more like domestic slaves. But in the eyes of a noble general like Li Jinglong, such a servant and his family had no identity at all.
respectively.
Moreover, such a person is the most reassuring person, someone who will risk his life to save you and will never betray you.
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"Dad! Dad!"
"Damn it, stop howling!"
Facing his son's crying, Li Laowai slapped him directly in the face. With that slap, Li Xiaowai stopped urinating, and Li Laowai felt extremely distressed.
He had been fighting all his life, and he only had such a son when he was forty years old. He treated him like a treasure. Apart from a few curse words, he had never been willing to fight like this in these years.
This time he was following Li Jinglong in sending troops. He didn't want to bring his son with him. But then he thought about it. His son was old and if he couldn't follow the family leader in sending troops, he would probably be reduced to an ordinary servant in the house in the future.
Originally, this child was always bullied because he stuttered and was not popular in the house. If he really had no military merit at all, how would he live in the future?
"Okay, put away your tears and cry, no one will die in a war!" Li Laowai comforted his son, "If Dawang's life is not good, if you think about him, just burn more paper money later!"
Li Xiaowai lowered his head and sobbed silently, making no sound.
His mind was filled with the scene just now of Li Dawang desperately pushing him forward in the snow. If it weren't for Li Dawang, he would have been killed by the Tatars long ago. If it weren't for him, Li Dawang might have been able to escape.
Growing up, Dawang was his only friend and first friend.
Suddenly, the sobbing Li Xiaowai stood up and stared at the foot of the position, the patch of snow where his father had just pulled him back.
A figure crawled hard in the snow. Behind the figure, several Tatars also got up from the snow and chased after him ferociously and staggeringly.
"Hey, there's someone alive down there! Damn it, they're ours!"
Beside, there were soldiers shouting.
Mr. Li, who had just turned around, turned his head crookedly, his heart bursting with fear in an instant. His son slipped from the position with a swish.
Whizzing!
Along the slope of the ice, Li Xiaowai slid to the foot of the mountain as fast as flying. He rolled on the snow for a long time before turning over and standing up.
"Dawang!"
Once again, he did not stutter, drew out the knife, stared, howled and ran towards several Tatars to kill them.
A few Tatars had just caught up with the Ming army who was crawling hard on the snow, and their scimitars were pointed at the back of the Ming army.
Suddenly I heard a shout, and immediately after that, a short ax flew towards me.
I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been freezing for a long time and my body is stiff.
With a bang, the Tatar fell on his back.
At the same time, Li Xiaowai from the other side rushed over desperately, and the knife in his hand directly hit Tatar's waist and abdomen.
Boom, the two of them fell into the snow at the same time, tangled and tumbling.
The last Tatar angrily picked up the knife on the snow, grabbed it and pressed it on his companion, vigorously stirring Li Xiaowai, who was holding the knife in his hand. At the same time, the knife in his hand was already aimed at his neck.
"Ah!" Suddenly, the Tatar let out a heartbreaking scream.
Li Dawang was like a wolf, biting the Tatar's lower body, shaking his head and tearing him apart, then dragged him down into the snow and rode on him.
"ah!"
The Tatar screamed in terror again, and Li Dawang bit his throat, devouring his flesh and blood like a wolf.
Li Xiaowai was exhausted and was pinned to the ground by the Tatars. The long knife in his hand was inserted into the enemy's waist and abdomen and could not be withdrawn.
The enemy's big hands strangled his neck tightly, making his eyes turn white and unable to breathe.
"Hoo! Hoo!" The enemy's hands became harder and harder, and his eyes became more ferocious.
It seemed that Li Xiaowai heard the sound of his neck bones breaking.
His hands struggled to hold the opponent's arm in vain, and his feet couldn't help but kick.
Suddenly, there was a pop, and the Tatar's movements froze.
Pfft, pfft, pfft!
Blood spurted out one after another, Tatar's body fell down, and Li Dawang's honest face appeared in Li Xiaowai's sight.
"What are you doing here?" Li Dawang scolded.
"Help, help..."
Li Dawang glanced behind him, and saw many Tatars chasing after him. He pulled Li Xiaowai up and said, "Quickly leave!"
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Creaking, crunching, the Tatars are chasing after them on the ice and snow.
Li Dawang grabbed Li Xiaowai's hand and ran ahead like crazy.
With a splash, his feet slipped, and Li Xiaowai was like a dog eating shit.
Li Dawang didn't wait for the other party to get up, gritted his teeth and said, "Get up!"
Just like carrying a big bag, he directly put the opponent on his shoulders and climbed up tremblingly along the reserved passage of the Ming army's position.
With a splash, Li Dawang's feet went weak and they both fell down at the same time.
At the same time, an arrow shot out, and Li Dawang screamed.
It turned out that an arrow was shot directly into his calf. The arrow passed through his defenseless calf and penetrated three-thirds of his flesh.
"I'm going down!"
Next to Li Lao Wai, a soldier of the Li family, who was about the same age as him and had grown up with Xiao Wai, roared and drew his knife and wanted to go down to respond.
The next second, he was held tightly by Mr. Li.
"Lao Wai, you don't want a son?" the soldier said angrily.
"Brother!" Li Laowai felt that his voice was trembling, "Son, we can't wait and see for the rest of our lives! Whether it's a dragon or an insect, we have to decide this time!"
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At the moment they fell, the Tatars came closer. Seemingly out of concern for the Ming army at a height, they stood still and fired arrows at Li Xiaowai and Dawang from a distance.
At that moment, Li Xiaowa blocked the enemy's bow and arrow with his back.
Dang, dang, dang, the sound of gold and iron.
Because he felt sorry for his son and because he was a servant of the Li family, Li Xiaowai wore fine fish-scale iron armor under his cotton-padded clothes, which could not be broken by the Tatar bows and arrows.
"Walk!"
Li Xiaowai used his back as a shield, pulled Dawang's neck, and crawled along the passage, using his hands and feet.
In this position above them, because there was no order from Li Laowai, all the Ming troops were gritting their teeth and watching, anxious.
But the Yuan army gradually lost their patience, and several brave Tatars followed Li Xiaowai's footsteps with knives in their mouths and chased after him.
Stinging, stinging, Li Xiaowai felt that he could no longer stand on the slope and was slipping downwards.
"Brother, put me down and go alone!" Li Dawang shouted.
"No no no no............."
"Be careful!" Li Dawang pushed Li Xiaowai away, took off the short ax from the opponent's waist, and threw it out with a roar.
Bang, the chasing Tatars had nowhere to hide and fell down screaming.
"Okay!" From above, the shouts of the Ming army soldiers came.
But at this moment, Tatars came up and grabbed Li Dawang's ankle.
"Death!" Li Xiaowai, who was on the slope, turned around and stabbed the Tatar in the chest.
"Fire the arrows!" Li Laowai from above finally ordered, and the Ming army's bows and arrows made the Yuan army at the foot of the mountain retreat slightly.
On the slope, Li Xiaowai and Li Dawang stood up with difficulty, supported each other, and continued to crawl.
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"Well done! It's man!"
As soon as he crawled back to his position, Li Xiaowai was hugged by his uncles who were yelling at him, and his hair was instantly messed up.
"Xiao Wai, I've made your father proud!"
"Dawang, good job, you have the talent!"
In the army, killing the enemy can earn the respect of your colleagues.
But sacrificing one's life to save one's brothers can earn eternal love.
These two little brothers just taught everyone what it means to be a brother right under everyone's noses.
"Damn it, your mother..." Li Laowai looked at his son, cursed, turned his face away, "Damn it, your mother!"
Li Xiaowai and Li Dawang, on the other hand, sat slumped aside, grinning at each other.
"The Tatars are coming!"
"Prepare!"
This chapter has been completed!