Chapter Five Unnamed (seven blows) "What?!" Luo Yi stood up suddenly, grabbed the lapel of the elder Shi Qinyong and shouted at him. He was tall and strong, and his physical strength was beyond the reach of a human being. Even though he was exerting force with one hand at this moment, Qin Yong could not be beaten.
Qin Yongdeng, who was forcibly lifted from the ground and strangled by his collar, turned black from suffocation. His arms were waving helplessly in the air until several colleagues stepped forward and grabbed Luo Yi's arms before he gasped.
After a breath, tears streamed down his face, "Bu, Bu Xiaowei committed suicide!"
"Commander Infantry, are you talking about infantry?" Luo Yi weakly let go of his hand, took half a step back, and fell back to his seat heavily.
"It's the infantry general, the strong infantry general!" the elder Shi Qinyong wiped his face and murmured in response
"Are you sure? Is it him?" Luo Yi was still unwilling to give in, and asked with some anticipation.
No one answered his words, and there was a desperate silence all around. In the silent sadness, Huben General Luo Yi's back quickly hunched down. After a while, he raised his hand with a wry smile, "Stop standing here.
Come on, come with me to see off General Bu."
The generals nodded lightly and followed Luo Yi slowly out of the Shuai Mansion. The sky was gradually starting to get warmer. Several early spring apricot flowers poked their heads out from the corners of the wall. When illuminated by the lights, they were as bright as fire blowing through the wind.
, petals like snowflakes immediately fell, wrapping around the body and sleeves, refusing to disperse for a long time.
There were already people standing near the school grounds. The soldiers who came after hearing the news surrounded the temporary residence of the infantry. They did not believe that the infantry general, who was always famous for his bravery, committed suicide. The infantry general was upright, brave, and always rushed in battles.
There is such a person at the front of the team who is not even afraid of death. Why would he commit suicide to escape reality?
Seeing Luo Yi's arrival, the brothers silently opened a passage and watched their coach walk into General Bu's residence. If there is anyone with higher prestige in the hearts of the Huben Army brothers than General Bu, it is only coach Luo Yi.
In everyone's impression, General Luo was more upright and brave than the current Infantry General, and would rather break than bend.
But two equally upright people may not get along well. Qin Yong and others who followed Luo Yi knew that General Zhuangwu's infantry had been ignored by the commander for more than a day or two. These days, everyone is paying attention to the military camp intentionally or unintentionally.
, lest the strong-tempered General Bu do something desperate because he was reprimanded by his coach over and over again, but no one expected that he would use this most violent way to protest against the coach's stubbornness.
As a traditional soldier, suicide is a very cowardly act. As the saying goes, "literary death advises" and "martial arts fight to the death". Real warriors do not need to be like counselors, who defend themselves with their lives and tell the truth because they are ignored by their lord or their advice is rejected.
Their right and their destination should be on the battlefield. Even if they are suspected, even if they have unbearable grievances in their hearts, they should rush into the enemy alone, fight vigorously, and fall violently, instead of quietly like now.
Silently wiped the neck!
But no one among the generals in the Huben Army dared to look down on the choice of infantry. Even an arrogant young man like Cao Yuanrang, although he usually disdained the pedantry of the veteran generals, when facing the corpse that fell peacefully, there was a look in his eyes.
Also full of awe
Perhaps out of nostalgia for his more than twenty years of military service, before leaving, the warrior infantrymen had carefully wiped their armors from shoulder pads to shin guards. Almost every armor leaf was wiped spotless, and all armor components and
The helmet and face shield are placed in the corner of the low table, upright and within reach, as if the owner of the armor can put it on at any time if he smells the war drums and returns to the battlefield.
However, the body that fell in front of the armor could no longer hear the sound of drums. The sword that the infantry general who had killed countless enemies in his more than twenty years of military service was equally clean and sharp. According to the red-eyed soldier, at that time
They only heard a slight sound of metal falling to the ground. After rushing in, they saw the fallen body of their general. It was not that everyone did not want to stop it, but that the infantry general did not give anyone a chance to stop him!
"Did he say anything special before he went?" After listening to the cries of the soldiers on duty next to the corpses of the infantry, Huben General Luo Yi sighed and asked unwillingly.
"No, no!" the team member on duty sniffed and choked in response, "Usually after inspecting the military camp, the infantry general is used to sitting alone for a while and recording what happened that day. We sharpened the ink for him, and then
Withdrew! Then, then..."
He couldn't talk anymore, feeling sad and fearful at the same time. If the general died in battle, all his bodyguards would have to die in battle. However, the general ended his military career in this way.
As for the bodyguards, what should everyone do? Should we fight to the death together? But look around, where is the enemy anywhere?
"Stay back first and don't go too far!" Luo Yi sighed again, and whispered to him to quickly walk to the desk of his favorite general, hoping to get some relief from the words left behind, but found that the other person was only on the desk.
There was a pile of clean tissue paper left on the desk, as white as snow, with a few sporadic splashes of bright red.
Those few dots were as red as sparks, burning people's eyes. In an instant, almost everyone understood the infantry's thoughts, except General Huben Luo Yi himself.
If you choose to die in battle, the infantry general will face the Boling Army in the next battle. He will rush into the Boling elite who are resisting the Turkic Wolf Cavalry from behind, use his long spear to assassinate dozens of people guarding the Great Wall for him, and then
Being chopped into pieces by the opponent with random knives out of contempt
That is definitely not the destination that the infantry captain hoped for! "There are gaps in the Great Wall, and the tigers and tigers are unparalleled." With these eight words, the then Tiger General Luo Yi officially attracted countless young people like infantrymen to his command.
Luo Yi, the general manager of Youzhou, can throw his oaths into the garbage heap, but as a member of the cavalry, the infantry cannot trample the self from behind twenty years ago.
However, apart from defending his ideals, what effect can he achieve by doing this? General Luo will not give up his ambition of hegemony, and other generals of the Tiger Cavalry cannot forget the hatred of the Boling Army for killing their sons.
The hatred caused by the struggle for the world has already sprouted in people's hearts, spreading wildly, covering people's hearts. If mouths and eyes cannot see the destruction of Li Zhongjian, reason will not return to those people.
Coming from the body
After lingering around the body of his beloved general for a long time, Huben General Luo Yi ordered his subordinates to bury his beloved general with military honors at the foot of the Great Wall in Anle County. There was a section of the Great Wall that was breached by the Baoqiu River, and the infantry was buried there.
Just enough to fulfill his wish of guarding the Great Wall to life and death.
With Luo Yi's permission, more than a dozen soldiers on duty at the infantry residence that night all retired as punishment for poor protection. They would spend their entire lives guarding the tomb of their general, living in a house in order to replace the deceased who was buried here.
To relieve the loneliness of the general, the soldiers transplanted many wild apricot trees around the mausoleum. As the weather got warmer, the apricot blossoms on the whole tree began to bloom, fall one after another, and sprinkle on the tombstone. They were clean and spotless.
With the efforts of caring people, the turmoil caused by the whole incident was quickly eliminated. Soon, the Youzhou soldiers no longer discussed the cause of the death of the infantry general and whether he had any unfulfilled wishes. Their attention was already burned to the doorstep.
The flames of war attracted the past, and the daily discussions revealed tension and excitement.
"Wang Xuba and Dou Cong fought to the Yang River and defeated more than 2,000 Xinghe tribe warriors who had gone south in advance, and plundered more than 13,000 livestock!" In addition to being excited, the speaker's tone also contained a hint of emotion.
A trace of envy. In previous years, these punitive actions that could both gain fame and bring huge profits were all carried out by the tiger and ben cavalry. Five hundred cavalry came out with the spring breeze, and they could make grassland within hundreds of miles under the hooves of the horses.
tremor
But this year, they can only watch the excitement and always pray for the victory of their former enemies, beating up the Central Plains soldiers who went out to clean up the fortress and fleeing in panic. This feeling of changing positions between the enemy and ourselves is very absurd. It is so absurd that many people want to hide in a secluded area.
But thinking about the increasingly violent temper of Huben General Luo Yi since the death of the Infantry General, everyone still chose to endure it silently.
In February of spring, similar news came from another place that everyone is familiar with. This time, Boling Jingjia attacked a group of Shiwei tribe with as many as 30,000 people at Liushu Slope, 60 miles north of Wanquan Guard.
With the support of Bi Khan, this group of Shiwei people from the depths of the prairie walked for a month and a half before they saw the Great Wall. Before they could even let out their cheers, they were killed by two outflanking Central Plains cavalry.
"Li's troops do not follow the rules!" In order not to exaggerate the ambitions of others, Youzhou generals scrutinized the behavior of the "enemy" with a critical eye. They were surprised to find that both the Boling Army cavalry and the Hedong cavalry had adopted the same tactics as those of the Hedong cavalry.
The Tiger and Ben Iron Cavalry have completely different tactics. They pursue speed excessively and almost give up on the defense of the horse. For the riders on the horse, the weight of the armor is also reduced again and again. The soldiers do not emphasize armor, and even the officers do not wear thick armor. They are like the wind.
Attack like the wind, cutting down the unprepared opponent, and then escape like the wind quickly before the reinforcements from the neighboring tribe arrive.
This wind with the smell of blood made the tribes who rushed to the "Grassing Valley" in the Central Plains frightened. It was only because Khan came to force his country this time that he had to prepare food and supplies for hundreds of thousands of troops, as well as supplies that were scarce on the grasslands.
Such a huge team of siege equipment cannot move too fast, and each tribe has only agreed on a general gathering area in advance. There are no detailed regulations on how to take care of each other. Once the other party counterattacks in advance, there is no time to find a suitable place in the rush.
response plan
"The man surnamed Li is a lunatic. Only a lunatic would come up with such an idea of fighting the fast with the fast!" Looking at the growing pile of military reports, General Liu Yifang stationed at Juyong Pass commented with a wry smile. If this continues, he will not be able to do anything.
If we don't dispatch in advance, we will create some trouble behind the Boling Army. Otherwise, I'm afraid most of the tribes who came to help will have to retreat before Shibi's army can "climb" to the foot of the Great Wall.
But how can we effectively contain the Boling Army and the Hedong Army without causing too much damage to the other side, thereby affecting the effectiveness of fighting against the Turkic Wolf Cavalry? Liu Yifang, who had a son-killing feud with Li Xu, thought distressedly
From his point of view, neither too light nor too heavy a strike by Youzhou soldiers is ideal. Too light may not force Li Xu to withdraw all the soldiers sent to plunder outside the Great Wall. Too heavy may cause the enemy to attack when the wolf cavalry arrives.
The previous vigorous counterattack depleted Youzhou’s vitality.
Just when he was so worried that he couldn't eat, and he couldn't sleep with hatred, a confidant who came from Jixian told him a very strange news: "Commander Luo has found out! Two days before General Bu committed suicide, he sent
A confidant went to Zhuo County to find Li Thief!"
"When? What useful military information did he send to Thief Li?" Liu Yifang was stunned when he heard this, and then hesitantly asked what a confidant could bring to Li Xu. Even if it was important, the effect would be very limited. And in Youzhou,
Before the infantrymen were transferred back to Jixian, Marshal Luo told everyone that many core secrets were not allowed to be revealed to him.
"It seems, it seems that he didn't bring any military information, it was just a gift. The man finished delivering the gift himself and hurried back. Marshal Luo has ordered people to arrest him. He is being interrogated these days, but so far there is no result!" The confidant said
Very smart, he picked up all the relevant details very clearly.
"What gift?" Liu Yifang was even more puzzled. He temporarily forgot the important thing he was thinking about and couldn't wait to ask.
"It seems to be Gen Changshan, which is what General Bu has always used. According to General Bu's confidants, when General Bu saw the man named Li for the first time, he knew that the other party was interested in his Changshan. At that time, General Bu was not willing to give it to him.
"Later, the man surnamed Li became an official and rose to prominence, and it was inconvenient for him to give it to him." His confidant smiled and commented with great disdain, "It's just a stick. The most expensive thing is only a few tens of dollars. The man surnamed Li is as rich as the country."
He didn’t even let go of this small amount of money!”
Everything about Li Xu must never be said well. This is the secret of flattery summarized by all Liu Yifang's cronies. But this time, his flattery was obviously not on point. After finishing his words for a long time, he did not hear the expected praise from his confidants.
He raised his head and saw his general looking at the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains outside Juyong Pass, his arms visibly twitching.
The spring breeze has turned the mountains that look cold in winter into lush greenery, and faintly, there is the sound of running water singing quietly among the clouds.
