Prairie people do not carry a lot of luggage when marching. Every ten people share a tent, and the only things they carry with them are a few pieces of dried beef, cheese, water and food, and three or five spare war horses. Under the leadership of General Yan, nearly
Thousands of Red Flame troops worked day and night, taking turns changing their mounts and advancing at full speed. They actually crossed the Pinjin River again in just half a month.
But even so, the horses under the knights' crotches are all running with blood-red eyes and foaming at the mouth. The sweat-soaked horse hair is knotted together and soaked by sweat again, but there is no time to clean and comb it.
. Even nearly 30% of the war horses fell down halfway because they were too tired, and died.
However, the exhausted Red Flame Army had no time to consider the immediate losses. Because if they were delayed on the road for one more day, their parents, wives, and children at home might be in even greater danger.
When the cavalry arrived at Yanluoyuan, the sun had just dawned. However, on the endless grassland, the rising sun that had never been absent for thousands of years was completely blocked by a large thick dark cloud that gathered in the sky.
Drive away the thick shadows left by the dark night on the grassland.
It was as dark as night all around, and the Red Flame Army even had to light torches. However, after they entered the entrance of Hulantai and went deep into the hinterland of Yanluoyuan, someone extinguished the fire in their hands. It seemed that this was the only way to solve the problem.
You can pretend that you haven't seen the tragic scene before your eyes. But even so, the unavoidable smell of corpses and blood in the air still makes your throat dry and your scalp numb.
The foothills of Lancang Mountain, where Niyu orchids once bloomed, are now littered with corpses. Among the dead are Tiechhongshan who is wearing heavy armor, an old man with white beard and hair, and even many women and children who have not yet worn armor. But everyone
In their hands, they all held weapons that were long, short, sharp, or blunt.
Among the Red Flame Army, some people began to identify their family members among the piles of corpses. The soft sobs one after another became increasingly uncontrollable and turned into heart-rending wails and roars.
Jiang Yan knelt on one knee next to a child covered in blood - the child was wearing a pair of armor that was extremely disproportionate to his body. But perhaps because of this, even though there were several holes in the armor, he was still strong
The earth survived this mountain of corpses and sea of blood.
The young Hehan took off the cowhide water bag from his waist, handed it to the child's lips and carefully poured out some water. However, there was a long wound on the child's face, from the forehead to the chin, which made him
I couldn't swallow at all. After coughing violently a few times, I struggled to open the only eye left in the socket and recognized the young man in front of me:
"Dahehan, I... did not embarrass the Muyun Department... When those giant wolves rushed towards me, I did not run away..."
As the child spoke, he raised his hand. What he held tightly in his hand was actually the short sword that Jiang Yan had given him before - Yue Yan.
Jiang Yan took Yue Yan and recognized him immediately. His throat moved, but he couldn't say anything, and he didn't know how to respond. He pursed his lips, unable to express any expression on his face.
He could only clenched the iron fingers on his two hands - in the troubled times, this child, whom he did not even know his name, had escaped the pursuit of the rebels and the Gar.
Hai besieged the city, but still could not escape...
The child failed to notice the other person's emotional fluctuations and continued to ask in an almost inaudible voice:
"Muyun tribe—the tribesmen—are all safe?"
Jiang Yan's heart tightened again, but he still nodded: "Don't worry. The warriors from the grassland are all back, and our people are all well now..."
The child's frown finally relaxed, as if the words of young people and Han were better than medicine that could cure serious injuries and make them disappear completely:
"That's good... I fought bravely with those beasts, and I should be able to go to the Immortal Heaven..."
The child's breath weakened rapidly, and before Jiang Yan could reply, he had already died.
The young He Han was trembling all over, trying hard not to let his emotions collapse, but two lines of hot tears still fell from his eyes. He reached out and picked up a blunt knife next to the child that was full of blood but could no longer be used. He solemnly
He placed the knife on his chest and closed the other person's bloody face with his palm, the eye that was almost unrecognizable.
At this time, his mind kept thinking of how just a year ago, he married the girl named Tuya on this grassland that was too beautiful to be described in words. However, the short period he spent here was...
The wonderful times are still vivid in my mind when I think about them now, as if they were yesterday. Presumably at the moment before his death, the child in front of him must also miss those good times in the past.
Before this departure, although the young man left two thousand elite men to guard Tuya, he stubbornly took all the more than ten thousand knights to the south. However, who could have expected that he would finally successfully resolve the threat from the north.
Later, those galloping wolves that were dormant in the deep mountains, as if they had long since disappeared into the vast tundra, would actually attack in a large scale when the Muyun Department's troops were at their weakest and people's hearts were at their most unprepared?!
But even if he wanted to blame it, he could only blame himself for being too impulsive and only caring about one thing and not the other. Now, not only could Ning Yue be found, but many innocent members of Muyun's tribe had also been implicated and lost their lives.
"There's something moving on the northern slopes!"
Suddenly, someone shouted loudly in the wilderness, causing young He Han to turn his head to look. In the dimness, he could see a few blurry black figures running quickly towards the col, but he didn't know whether they were enemies or not.
friend.
"It could be a wolf, be prepared!"
After seeing the killing scene in Hulan Taichung and the tragic death of their relatives, many people in the Red Flame Army became as frightened as birds. They immediately roared and bent their bows and arrows, aiming at those shadows. But Jiang Yan saw it clearly.
, raised his hand and pressed down the bow that was being pulled creaking in the hands of the nervous sergeants:
"This is a herdsman from the ministry. Follow me quickly to greet him!"
Those shadows were indeed several seriously injured herdsmen. They seemed to have been hiding on the mountain for a long time. They saw the light of the fire in the col and then boldly came down the mountain.
As soon as they saw that the visitor was the Yamato Hantong Red Flame Army who was leading the army south, the herdsmen burst into tears and knelt on the ground for a long time, refusing to get up. The Yanming people brought water and food, and while watching the other party gobble it up,
Asked anxiously:
"The one who attacked the camp was really a wolf?"
As soon as he heard the word "wolf", one of the herdsmen was so frightened that he almost dropped half of the cake on the ground, but he nodded like crazy:
"It's a wolf, a giant wolf as big as a tiger! There are thousands of wolves, and they are pouring out all over the mountains and plains. Even the heavy mountains can't resist it! I have never seen it on the grassland, and I have never seen so many wolves! Even though
In a severe drought year, even if all the wild wolves in Lancang Mountain are dispatched, it would be extremely difficult to do so!"
"What about Tuya? Where are Tuya and the old general Yuan Ti now?!"
"Princess and the others led thousands of people to break through and headed west. A few of us couldn't follow. We were afraid of encountering wolves on the way and turning back, so we hid in the mountains and didn't dare to show up easily again!"
Hearing this, Jiang Yan and the Red Flame Army on his left and right held their breath. After a long time, they continued to ask: "Besides Hulantai, are there any other attacks on the grassland now?"
The herdsman nodded again: "It is said that such terrifying giant wolves appeared near Caobo and in the Linxi Corridor at the same time. Chuoluo, Yimu and Qingzi, I don't know what happened to them now...
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Jiang Yan would never have imagined that in just over a month, the situation on the grassland would have developed to such a dire situation. However, before he had time to think about how to deal with it, he heard a sentry not far away again.
Several red flame troops on patrol sounded the urgent alarm:
"Wolves! To the west!"
Looking west from the dark and gloomy col, the continuous ridges are like the remains of a giant beast, lying in front of young and Han. And in this almost indistinguishable dark gray, something is ready to move.
. There were two, four, ten, or hundreds of wolves with green eyes. The wolves stood densely on the hillside, raising their shoulders and looking at the crowds at the bottom of the mountain, whining.
growled.
It turned out that they had already climbed over the ridge when the Red Flame Army first entered the pass. Now, using the dark sky as cover, they quietly approached to a place only a few hundred steps away from the living people!
"Array, array!"
Jiang Yan shouted at the top of his voice, ordering the Red Flame Army scattered for miles around to regroup at his side. He himself also drew Xiao Tianmo, and immediately stood at the forefront of thousands of soldiers with his sword hanging.
However, when the herdsmen who had just come down from the mountain saw this situation, they were completely frightened. Instead of obeying Young Hehan's orders, they got rid of the few knights who escorted them away and rode towards them on horseback.
Escape into the mountains!
This move seemed to give an order to the wolves on the hillside to charge. I heard a wolf howl that echoed through the sky, and all the wolf eyes in the distance suddenly moved. As if in the darkness, they rushed out.
A cold wave composed of dark gray fur!
Even General Yan, who had twice survived two wolves, was frightened by such a large wolf pack and could not help but feel chills running down his spine. Now he didn't know how many wolves there were, and he was even less sure whether the troops and horses under his command could survive.
It could withstand the bites of countless sharp teeth, and the cold sweat seeping out of the palms holding Xiao Tianmo had already soaked the gloves under the iron fingers.
However, at the moment, he and the sergeants around him knew that if they retreated, they would probably turn into a pile of dead flesh torn between the teeth of a pack of wolves. For this reason, they could only kill by moving forward.
Make a bloody path!
"For Muyun, for Shuobei Grassland!"
The young He Han suddenly raised the black-gold Mo Dao high above his head and shouted loudly. Behind him, thousands of the Red Flame Army who had assembled also shouted in unison:
"For Muyun, for Shuobei Grassland!"
The indomitable roar echoed in the mountain col, like a thunder on the ground. The wolves seemed to be intimidated by the formation in front of them. For a while, they did not dare to confront them head-on. Instead, they divided into two groups and faced the red wolf from the flanks.
The Flame Army launched a surprise attack. This was a common tactic used by packs of wolves on the grassland to round up horses. However, this time, the horses and the people on horseback they faced were all armed to the teeth.
Jiang Yan suddenly pinched Wu Chen under his crotch, and flew out like a sharp arrow from the string. Behind him, there were volleys of bows and arrows from the archers in the formation, and then the soldiers also waved their sabers, like a volley of arrows.
With a red-hot iron blade, he charged towards the wolves!
It was only then that Jiang Yan could tell that there were less than a thousand galloping wolves rushing out of the darkness in front of him. In one salvo, he had killed nearly half of them. But the speed of the scattered wolves was still extremely fast.
, did not retreat at this point, but without any regard for his own life, he plunged straight into the two wings of the Red Flame Army.
On the spot, dozens of Red Flame soldiers were knocked down by the giant wolf. However, more knights quickly changed their direction under the command of Young Hehan, forming a crescent-like arc.
Launched an attack on the wolves.
The cavalry armed with iron armor and sharp blades was like a steel meat grinder. They shortened the distance between each other's horses to only three feet, and the galloping wolf faced the tall Shuobei horse wearing armor.
They wandered through the gap in the horse's belly. However, the knight on the horse didn't give them any chance to bully him, and already slashed at the wolf's head with his sword.
After only one charge, only a few wolves were left. This undoubtedly gave the Red Flame Army great confidence. With the cooperation of another round of volleys and the cavalry's advance, in just one stick of incense, they
So they killed nearly a thousand giant wolves in the Hulantai Mountain Col, which was regarded as revenge for the tragic deaths of the Muyun tribe.
Under Hehan's order, the cavalry divided into teams of ten and beheaded all the fallen galloping wolves. Because everyone was worried that if not, these ferocious beasts might still take advantage of their unpreparedness and kill them.
Launch a dying blow.
Although the first battle was successful, the expression on Jiang Yan's face was extremely solemn. Because he knew clearly that what he and the Red Flame Army killed were just a small group of galloping wolves that cut off Tuya and Yuan Ti's retreat. Now
Today, his married wife is still running away somewhere in this vast grassland, her life or death uncertain.
However, the rapid march for days had already stretched the men and horses to their limit, and all the water, food and cheese they carried with them had been exhausted. They could no longer support the Red Flame Army of more than 10,000 people to continue the fierce battle.
The young man thought for a moment, and then he left most of his men at Hulantai to rest. He also ordered his people to disperse in search of survivors and bring them back to this mountain valley. Then he sent several people to the south, riding fast horses.
He went to remind Qi Ziyin to prepare early. And he, together with Meng Dun, led the 500 elite Red Flame Army riders over the mountain col, heading towards the depths of the grassland in the opposite direction from where the wolves had just attacked.
Although Jiang Yan didn't know what kind of fierce battle awaited him ahead. But he knew that even if Tuya and the tribesmen who fled with him had all been killed, he must find her whereabouts.
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After all, he had already made a mistake by leaving Yanluoyuan rashly before. Now even if it was the only possibility among ten thousand, he would bring his wife back together, no matter life or death!
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