It was really cold in the mountains. Members of the condolence group wearing a full set of warm clothes also buttoned the buttons on the front of the cloak. Even so, this was not enough. All members chose to walk and exercise to make themselves feel warmer. The only mules who remained calm in the team were probably the only ones who were silent. These silent guys set off from the warm Aegean Sea, carrying oak barrels and bags of jerky meat hanging. They crossed mountains and ridges with the condolence group, step by step towards the camp of the East-West Roman coalition.

The team walked around for seven or eight days, and ran to the mountains and died. Looking at the two mountain roads that were close to each other, it is very likely that a deep canyon suddenly appeared between the two mountain roads that were close to each other. It takes seven or eight miles to walk around the straight line of dozens of meters. The most annoying thing is that there is no local person leading the way here, and the condolence team relies on the guides of various soldiers. Sometimes these Eastern Roman guides can lead the wrong way themselves.

After finally reaching the resting military station, the members of the condolences walked into the gate with heavy steps, without saying a word. The guards in the military station enthusiastically helped them unload the goods, arranged mules, and led everyone into their temporary residence. Everyone had long since failed to expect treatment in the city, and the large wooden house with leaks felt very good in everyone's eyes.

There were rows of three-story camp beds in the large wooden house. As soon as the exhausted people put their marching beds, the soldiers asked everyone to soak their feet. The pool was not big or deep, and the hot water had just covered their ankles. The ratio of men and women was about 2 to 1. Thirty people were divided into two groups according to their gender. They sat on a long wooden bench next to the pool without saying a word. The feet slowly warmed up, and their bodies slowly warmed up. The guards of the soldiers brought two buckets of hot water and added them to the two pools. Everyone rolled up their trousers and continued to soak their feet.

When they were getting better, the singer girl in the condolence group sang the newly learned song softly, "The mountain road here is eighteen bends, and the water road here is nine chains..."

The singing was heard, and the tired people raised their heads, and many of them had smiles on their faces. This was a song brought by the fleet from the Song Dynasty on a regular basis. The girls in the Jiaofang were naturally the earliest learners. Listening to the girls singing local songs of the Song Dynasty in literary and artistic performances is already the spiritual sustenance of those wanderers from the Song Dynasty in the Europa Province. In this terrible place, there is nothing that can make everyone feel more gratified than songs from their hometowns.

After singing, there was already laughter and joy on the other side of the girl. Everyone came out to wash their hands and washed their hands. They were in a much better mood when they were eating. After dinner, a fire rose in the big room and felt the warmth in the room. Everyone invited the singing girl to sing another song, but the girl did not refuse. She stood up and thought for a moment, and then sang: "In that place where the peach blossoms are in full bloom, there is my lovely hometown. The peach trees are reflected on the clear water surface, and the peach forest embraces the beautiful village..."

Many people hummed in a low voice with the singer girl. This is a military song composed by Zhao Guanjia during the Northern Expedition of the Song Dynasty. Everyone in the army and officials could sing it. Among the ten recognized most popular military songs, "In the Place where Peach Blossoms" ranked fifth or sixth. The rankings are all the opinions of the people, just like who is the first in "Singing the Motherland" and "My Motherland", there is never a final answer to this debate.

No matter what the ranking is, everyone likes these vernacular songs. The song describes the scenery that everyone has seen, which is particularly intimate. The Europa Province of the Song Dynasty is a real territory of the Song Dynasty, and the Song people of the Europa Province did not feel this way. The land with peach blossoms, poplar trees, rivers, and rice flowers in the song is the hometown they agree with.

After singing this song, everyone applauded. Everyone was in a happy mood and had a rest, so they talked about whether to continue moving forward. They were talking, as it was dark outside, they heard the sound of rain not long after they heard it. Everyone knew that they would definitely not be able to leave today. This is the case in the mountains of the Mediterranean in winter. I don’t know where the gusts of wind came from, and soon after entering the mountains, it brought rain.

There is no single room in the marching camp. At night, men and women lay on the three-story marching bed with their clothes. It was not until the sound of the guard bell rang out, and some people woke up in a daze. The men turned over, pulled out their weapons under the dim oil lamp, and rushed out of the door. There were only more than 30 people in the camp. If a large number of enemies attacked at night, hiding in the house would be dead.

The sky was pitch black and the rain had stopped. The wet and cold wind blew on the face, and everyone was chilling and completely lost their sleepiness. I heard the sound of shouting outside, and the camp guards raised several strings of lit lanterns from several tall poles on the wall, and it was immediately brighter inside and outside the camp. The shouting outside the camp immediately became more intense, and screams rang one after another, and the battle situation should be extremely bloody.

After the screams completely ended, a call rang out outside. After communication, the camp door opened, and the open door was out of nowhere. With the sound of horse hooves, the fully armed cavalry stepped into the camp from the darkness. Even though they knew that these people were friendly troops, the people in the condolence group felt a chill on their backs.

The cavalry entered one after another and headed straight for the stable under the camp guards. When they passed by the condolence group, a faint smell of blood was emitted from the air. The cavalry remained silent and did not say hello to anyone. Some of the cavalry turned their heads and looked at the people in the condolence group. The cold light reflected in their eyes under the shadow of the helmet made the people in the condolence group feel cold.

The guards came to greet the condolence group, "The enemy has been killed, and now there are cavalry in the camp, so everyone have a good rest." Back at the residence, the girls who stayed inside whispered to ask what happened outside. The men did not enter the battle, so they could only talk about what they saw. The figures of the cavalry made them feel that this place was originally a battlefield, not a deserted mountainous area. So the narrative was also very brief.

Listening to the movement outside, everyone fell asleep again. The next morning, when they woke up, they found that there were only mules of the condolence group left in the stable. When they asked where the cavalry had gone, the guards said that they had rested for a few hours and set off before dawn. Many people also hoped to walk with the cavalry and use them to protect the condolence group. When everyone was disappointed, they heard the captain sigh, "These cavalry are really hard." The commander's sigh came from the bottom of his heart. He was chasing the barbarians in the mountains in such cold weather, and he couldn't even sleep well. The hard work can be imagined.

When they set off, the commander took everyone around and went to the place where the battle broke out yesterday. At first glance, the singing girls couldn't help but turn their faces away. They saw nearly a hundred corpses lying on the ground. The men walked up to take a closer look, and even gasped. The corpses on the ground were both men, women, young and old, and all of them were killed regardless of age or gender.

The Han people in the Europa Province of the Song Dynasty belonged to the "active service" system, and many of them served on the ship. They could see that many barbarians were not killed in battle, but were captured and cut their throats with a knife. The people who started were clean and neat and had no intention of sacrificing their lives. Can they be so cruel? The regiment commander who had just praised the cavalry not long ago had such an idea. Looking around, everyone else had an unbearable look on their faces...

No one wanted to stay in this tragic Shura field, and everyone set out immediately. After walking on the mountain road for two more days in the cold wind, they finally saw a camp. The camp was set up in a leeward valley, with two large flags on both sides of the camp gate. On the left is the golden double-headed eagle flag of the Western Roman Empire, and on the right is the golden black double-headed eagle flag of the Eastern Roman Empire.

The gate was guarded strictly. Even when the condolence group was guided by the guide and the reconnaissance force, a group of fully armed troops remained vigilant and came up to interrogate. After the exchange between the two sides, the condolence group was handed over to the guards at the gate. Everyone thought they would be taken into the camp, but they didn't expect that they were just arranged to be in an open space outside the camp. After waiting in the cold wind for a long time, they finally saw the European Provincial Teaching Team who was with the coalition forces to greet them in person.

When I entered the camp, I saw that there were not many people in the camp. During the conversation, I learned that the troops were sent out to wipe out the barbarians. Thinking of what I saw a few days ago, the condolence team leader couldn't help but ask: "Are you killing the barbarians?"

Hearing the subtle emotions in this sentence, the teaching team's face immediately became ugly. Sima Rong, the leader, said unhappily: "If you don't kill me, what should I do?"

After being criticized by his own people, the condolence group knew something was wrong and asked tentatively: "Are our people injured?"

"It's more than just being injured!" Yang Sixian next to him said angrily.

When the condolences group was so angry, they felt a little aggrieved. After entering the camp where the Song Dynasty teaching group was located, the teaching group read the letter from Yang Congrong Jiedushi and introduced the situation. During this period, the East-West Roman coalition forces worked hard to eliminate the barbarians. They thought that the number of barbarians was not large, and they were mainly concentrated in the Iron Fort area. Iron Fort is the only iron ore in the Serbian area. Without the output here, the barbarians could only fight with stone or wooden weapons. The initial plan was to attack the Iron Fort in one go, fundamentally weakening the barbarians' combat capabilities.

The initial extermination was similar to expectations, and the subsequent process began to deviate from expectations. The number of barbarians was more than expected, or much more. Wherever the coalition went, the barbarians retreated. When the coalition left, the barbarians harassed the logistics line. Initially, the number of barbarians was misjudged, and the pressure on logistics security was getting greater and greater.

A month ago, the local guides used by the coalition forces rebelled completely, which made the front line in danger. Speaking of this, Yang Sixian gritted his teeth, "We saw that there were barbarians who were pitiful, so we kept their lives and let them be guides. Unexpectedly, those barbarians found an opportunity to kill the three of us! They are really ambitions and must not be kept!"

The members of the condolence team were stunned. These three people must not be coalition personnel, but members of the Song Dynasty teaching team. The members of the Song Dynasty teaching team would not go to the front line to fight, but were in a relatively safe position. If three people died in such a situation, the coalition would definitely suffer considerable casualties.

"What's next?" The head of the condolence group asked quickly.

"After that? Then it will be completely solved." Yang Sixian's voice was full of murderous intent that could not be curbed.
Chapter completed!