Chapter 6: Wind (Sixth)

After winning the battle, they lost their own coach. What is the point of winning like this even if it is brilliant? Immediately, Tao Dachun and Pan Mei were both frightened and threw the horses to one side after finally collecting them, carrying weapons on the battlefield to dig three feet.

But for the sake of military morale and morale, they could not publicly tell their brothers that the inspector was gone and everyone needed to find them together. They dared to circle around like two headless flies, and circle around the east and west. When they met those who were curious, they had to explain seriously: it was dark and the snow was thick, and they were afraid that the Khitans would hide under the snow and pretend to be dead, so they must prevent problems before they could happen.

"Two, sirs, you guys, aren't you looking for an inspector?" The more you fear something, the more people don't open the pot and pick up any pot. They take the initiative to catch up and stammer and test.

"You, you're talking nonsense!" Pan Mei was so scared that she shivered, turned her head, and scolded decisively, "What am I doing with the inspector? He is so skilled in martial arts, he is not a child anymore! Don't be sarcastic! Shunzi? Is it you? Did you see the inspector just now?"

"Yes, yes! I'm talking nonsense, I'm talking nonsense!" Li Shun'er was frightened and retreated repeatedly, and then heard Pan Mei's questioning, and added with a sad face, "It's me, it's me! I, I just saw the inspector chasing the northeast. There seemed to be two enemy soldiers over there, running faster than anyone else. Seeing that you were all busy, the adults chased after him with a steel whip!"

"You, why didn't you say it earlier?" Pan Mei was angry and anxious, and raised her gun and thrust at Li Shun'er. The latter had no courage to resist. She hugged her head with both hands, dodged, and shouted loudly, "You, you didn't ask me! I, I chased you for a while before catching up with you. I, I asked you several times what you two were looking for. You, Brother Dachun ignored me!"

"Then, then you should have known us sooner!" Pan Mei knew she was in the wrong, so she poked her spear to the ground and reiterated her grievances in anger. "The sky is so dark and the snow is so thick. If you make a mistake, you will never redeem it!"

"How is it possible? The adults are very skilled in martial arts, and one beats them ten!" Li Shun grinned and highly praised Zheng Ziming's skills. "Besides, who is more familiar with the surrounding terrain than our adults? Within a radius of three hundred miles, he hasn't stepped on some place with his feet!"

"If you are not afraid of ten thousand, you are afraid of something! Do you know that you can't push a mad dog into the poor alley? Although the adults are very skilled in martial arts, the other party will die at all!" Pan Mei saw that he dared to talk back, so she picked up the gun and wanted to beat him.

Tao Dachun regained his calmness before him, and used his weapons to whisper, "Stop fighting, what's the use of killing him now? Hurry up and chase him, so as not to be careless and be retaliated by the defeated soldiers!"

"You stay here to command the brothers to clean the battlefield, I'll chase you!" Pan Mei immediately came back to her senses, looked at Tao Dachun with gratitude, and discussed in a low voice, "You can't let everyone lose their backbone, Brother Dachun, you stay here to stay. Just let Shunzi go with me, he knows where Zheng Ziming is going! Shunzi said just now that there are only two opponents. Even if they double, Ziming and I can deal with it!"

"Okay!" Tao Dachun thought for a while and nodded decisively.

The enemy army had already completely collapsed, and the possibility of being reorganized in a short period of time was very small. As long as Zheng Ziming was not careless and had two or three defeated soldiers, he was indeed an appetizer under his command. If Pan Mei, a clever ghost, was sweeping around, basically, Zheng Ziming would have no possibility of capsizing the gutter.

After the two reached an agreement, they immediately took action. Tao Dachun took over the command of the entire team from Li Shun, and quickly began to gather people and clean the battlefield. Pan Mei and Li Shuner took short weapons and bows and arrows in their hands, and chased Zheng Ziming in the direction of disappearing as quickly as possible.

The sky was getting darker and the range that the eyes could search around was getting narrower. Fortunately, the snow on the ground was thick enough, and there were rare traces of people in the wilderness, so according to the footprints left in the snow, Pan Mei and Li Shun would not have lost their target. However, it was basically impossible to meet with Zheng Ziming immediately. The snow that was less than the deep calves made the two of them unable to raise their running speed at all. If they were not careful, their feet slipped and they would fall into the eyes of Venus!

They stumbled and staggered, and didn't know how many falls, and didn't know how long they had been chasing. Before the two felt that their limbs were numb from the cold and could fall down and turn into a zombie at any time, they finally saw Zheng Ziming's lonely figure behind a raised boulder.

Squatting behind the boulder, he was motionless as if he was frozen. The faint starlight sprinkled from the gaps of the clouds, illuminating the faint outline of his face. From the side, the edges and corners were as hard as a knife and chopped the axe. "Shh--" Before Pan Mei and Li Shun'er could cheer, he had turned around first, his fingers were on the side, and he whispered, "Shuh, they are below!"

"My God, you really have it!" Pan Mei crawled over with her hands and feet, and complained in a low voice, "I asked me to find this, if Shunzi hadn't told us where you were going. The morale of the army would have to be in chaos tonight!"

"Blame me, blame me! I thought it was only half a incense stick!" Zheng Ziming's face turned slightly red, he raised his hand and apologized in a very low voice. "All guys are all right, are there any big casualties, brothers today?"

"You finally remember who you are here!" Pan Mei was angry and hated, and she glared and continued to protest in a low voice. "Don't ask me, I don't know! Brother Dachun'er is cleaning up the battlefield. What's going on today? Even the two defeated soldiers can't handle it!"

"This..." Zheng Ziming was slightly stunned by the question, and a trace of desolation suddenly appeared on his face. But soon, he hid the desolation, shook his head, and explained in a mosquito-like voice: "It's not that I can't clean up, but I'm considering whether to let them go. If none of them escaped, it would be irrelevant to Youzhou!"

"This..." Pan Mei was stunned for a moment, and a little hesitation appeared on her face. Today's battle was undoubtedly a refreshing victory for the Inspection Office. However, for the huge Liao Dynasty, the disappearance of hundreds of soldiers was not worth mentioning at all. Even without a battle, the Liao Dynasty soldiers who escaped in a mess or died in the internal struggle of the army every year had to be thousands of. What's more, the Khitans who were eliminated today were once under the command of Yelu Liuge. They were originally in Liao, and they were the targets that needed to be cleaned as soon as possible.

"Okay, but they both seem to be officials!" Li Shun'er's thinking was not as complicated as Zheng Ziming and Pan Mei. She poked out from behind the huge rock and looked into the wind-loose valley below, and emphasized in a hoarse voice.

This condition immediately affected Pan Mei's judgment. He also poked half of his head out of the huge stone, and he quickly looked down. He saw two Liao people, who were about the same age as him, huddled together to keep warm with each other. One of them was wearing Khitan generals, was already drowsy. The other guy in Youzhou uniform pressed the hilt of the knife with one hand, and the other hand used the picked branches to keep stirring the firewood in the bonfire, so as not to be frozen in the cold wind after nightfall.

"Shunzi, I'll deal with the awake one. Go and kill the sleeping one! Ziming, just sweep the formation for us!" After taking a deep breath, Pan Mei lowered her throat and began to plan the next attack.

Zheng Ziming seemed to be frightened, quickly turned his head to look at him, but in the end he didn't say anything. Li Shunze agreed quietly and slowly pulled out the horizontal knife from his waist.

"First rub a few ropes and tie them to the bottom of the boots to avoid slipping!" Pan Mei nodded at Li Shun and continued to set up in a low voice. From beginning to end, she did not take a look at Zheng Ziming.

Zheng Ziming is good at everything, but sometimes he feels inexplicably soft-hearted. Pan Mei could vaguely feel that the reason why Zheng Ziming had not taken action was that he suddenly started to "get out" again. However, Pan Mei didn't want to expose it. She just planned to solve the problem for the other party quietly. This is his duty as a friend and his obligation as a confidant!

He and Li Shun quickly cut off the hem of their clothes, rubbed them into ropes, and wrapped them back and forth on the surface of the boots and the bottom of the boots. At the same time, they quickly measured the distance between themselves and their opponents with their eyes.

From the time everyone hides in the boulders to the bonfire below, it is about twenty-six or seven steps away. The snow is a bit thick. In order not to fall halfway and end the battle before the enemy generals react enough, he must be fully prepared in advance and strive to hit the target with one blow.

Zheng Ziming turned his head and looked at the two of them silently, but still said nothing. He seemed to have no idea what he should say at the moment, or what he should not say. Pan Mei's decision is not wrong now, and his previous reasons were simply untenable. He knew, but he could not convince himself.

Next to the fire, the young Youzhou Army commander did not feel that disaster was coming. He still carefully stirred the bonfire and tried to keep the flame closer to his brother, even if half of his body was covered with white frost.

They are brothers, even if one dresses as a Khitan or the other dresses as a Han, they are still brothers. They are blood-connected to each other, and no external force can be cut off except death.

Suddenly, the young man stood up, holding a fire stick in one hand, and quickly pulling out his waist knife with the other hand. Pan Mei pounced on her at the same time, stepping on the thick snow, and her movements were as fast as a tiger and leopard. Li Shun'er followed closely with a horizontal knife in her hand, and her two thighs brought rolling snow along the way.

In just a moment, the winner was decided. Pan Mei cut a hole in his right arm with a knife, and blood was instantly flowing. The fire stick in his left hand was also cut by Li Shun who rushed forward and made two pieces.

At this moment, his only chance was to hand over the waist knife in his right hand to his left hand and fight and run away. However, what caught Pan Mei and Li Shuner off guard was that this man suddenly pounced over and blocked the sleeping Khitan general with his body. "Give up your life--!" While raising his waist knife over his head to resist Pan Mei's attack, he shouted mercy. His young face was full of begging for promises: "Don't kill my brother! Please! Don't kill my brother! Kill me alone is enough. I am Han Dexin, the nephew of Han Kuangsi, the Privy Councilor of the Southern Court. He has been given to outsiders since he was a child, and it is not worth it if he dies!"

"Don't kill him, kill me, I'm his brother. My head is more valuable than him!" The one wearing a Khitan robe jumped up next to the fire, spread her arms, and blocked Han Dexin firmly, "Kill me, don't kill him, keep him for ransom. No matter how much money his family can take out! Kill me, I'm a Khitan, he's a Han, just like you!"

"I think beautifully! Did I let a Han man go on the way when I came?" Li Shun'er grinned and raised his sword high.

The other party is a brother, and those who die at the other party's hands are not all orphans without parents and brothers! God has eyes, and blood debts must be paid back by blood!

He saw the fear and despair in the other person's eyes, chopped the sword down, and felt extremely happy. However, he suddenly heard in his ears "Dang!" "Dang!" and two crisp sounds, and the tiger's mouth numb. The horizontal knife accompanied Pan Mei chopping down another horizontal knife and flew into the sky one after another.

"What are you doing-?" Li Shuner and Pan Mei accused each other in unison.

"Let them go!" Zheng Ziming appeared by the bonfire at some point, and the muscles on his face kept twitching. The steel whip in his hand blocked the bodies of the two prisoners, and two knife marks appeared on it.

"Are you crazy? Do you know what you are doing?" Pan Mei screamed angrily, while Li Shun was stunned. The two prisoners survived and both turned into a pair of "ice sculptures". Their eyes were wide open and their mouths were wide open, but they could not make any sound.

"Let them go!" Zheng Ziming's eyes were red, his face was covered in tears, his arms trembled, and his body and thighs were trembling. "Get out, get out quickly, don't let me see you again in this life!"
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