3. We think we know the name of the flower we saw that day
"These ghost-like guys are really haunting."
"I think your wording is very inaccurate. What do you mean by these 'ghost'-like guys? Those bastards are obviously a group of 'ghosts'. Otherwise, why would I have chopped off the same guy's head five times?"
"But speaking of it, even with such a group of ghosts, we were able to escape from their hands. This should be considered a big miracle."
"I never think this is a miracle, but these guys can run so fast on the snow. They are really a bunch of 'ghosts'. I wonder if they have any weight. Why can't they sleep in such fluffy snow?"
Live them."
"Yes, I walked through it as if I didn't feel anything. I obviously tried it before."
"Let's not talk anymore. We are going to catch up. Let's prepare to fight."
"But in this environment, are we really capable of defeating our opponents? The current snowfield is completely our enemy."
"Even if you can't beat me, you have to fight, otherwise you will be laughed at by those who left first after you die."
"Do you think those people across from you will remember your appearance? Anyway, I can't recognize you anymore."
"I'll kill you first before they kill you again!"
"Wow! Is this going to cause internal strife? Is this going to cause internal strife?! This is going to cause internal strife!!!"
"At worst, I'll kill you after I kill you. Just be happy that I'm with you on the road to hell, you bastard!"
"What kind of terrible statement are you making? Even if you really plan to find someone to spend time together in the underworld, don't fall in love with me!"
"Damn it, I actually caught up with you, so let me chop off the heads of you 'ghosts'!"
The battle on the snowy field did not last too long this time. The reason is...
Naturally, it was because reinforcements appeared again.
It's just that this time it may not be called a "reinforcement", because this new force is not so much a reinforcement that has arrived in a hurry. It is more like an ambush that has been waiting for the arrival of the enemy, and that one looks like it is coming.
The fleeing troops are actually just bait to lure the enemy to a specific area to surround and annihilate them.
Different from the last time, this time this unit can be said to have high fighting spirit, and the physical loss is not enough to make them lose the power to pursue.
But the same as last time, this time the enemy still seemed so calm and unhurried when retreating. It seemed that he didn't care at all about the angry pursuers behind him. It was infuriating but also helpless at the same time.
After all, this time the enemy has another desperate advantage over them - Treading Snow without Traces (fake).
Of course, this does not mean that everyone in the enemy masters the legendary Qing Kung Fu or something. This is not a martial arts plane, but even if you step on a very soft snowdrift, it is difficult to leave any traces, unlike here
If the Xianbei cavalry had not carefully surveyed the route before, in this season when the snow is still falling, I am afraid that the horses would have been trapped in the snow and unable to extricate themselves. And what such consequences mean, no one needs to emphasize them.
It's all very clear.
Because of this, if the enemy wants to escape, there is really nothing these Xianbei cavalry can do against them.
However, we finally won again, and most of the people survived.
"Speaking of which, I feel like the enemy is still so difficult to deal with recently, but when we engage in battle, it seems... a little easier."
"And there seem to be fewer familiar faces. But I always felt it was an illusion before. Even if you mentioned it like this, I didn't think it was an illusion. But I felt that maybe I should say it."
"So what changes have happened to us recently?"
"The biggest change is actually the thing that the boss tinkered with. Although I didn't believe that the boss could succeed at first, but when you put it like that, it does seem that the recent battles are much easier than before."
Another voice participated in the post-war discussion, and soon more and more people began to participate. After all, in this vast snowfield, only this way can truly highlight the fact that they are all still alive.
Legions composed of the dead usually have a deathly silence that suits the identity of the dead.
"Leader Yuwen is indeed very capable, but we must not forget our own changes. I don't know what other people are like. At least I step onto the battlefield with the determination to die every time I fight. But this does not mean that I only want to
To die, but to fight with a stronger hope of living..."
"That's just your mentality. I don't think as much as you think. Anyway, I have sold my life to the boss. As long as the boss asks me, I will do whatever it is. As for the result, I can't even think about it.
So much, anyway, I survived."
"It's a pity that the injury you suffered is the most serious among all the people. It's a shame that you can still survive until now." Someone immediately complained.
"Jealous, you are jealous. Besides, I have survived with the help of many people. I have to see the day of dawn on the grassland for them. How can I die so easily?"
"It's just a pity that Leader Yuwen has been preparing for so long, but those guys still managed to escape most of them."
"We can't kill them all anyway, so why bother so much. Compared with that kind of thing, there are bigger problems for us to solve."
I looked up at the dark sky, which was still covered with goose feathers and heavy snow. Everyone's hearts were as gloomy as the sky.
Yes, compared to the enemy who is constantly nagging, but has already got used to it, the sudden and continuous snowstorm is the real big trouble for these Xianbei cavalry. Even Yuwen Tuo has not updated
Good idea.
In the face of the power of nature, human beings are sometimes extremely insignificant.
Although those weird Xianbei infantry and the "ghost men" who are suspected of being Hun cavalry are strong enough, as long as they want to resist, it is not an unsolvable problem for them. There is even more than one solution. After all, they have
Yu Wentuo is like a god, a strong man who is outstanding in both intelligence and martial arts, even in the Central Plains.
But even the man who made the royal court of Danhan Mountain change his mind lost his magic in front of the flying snow.
"Now it seems that the only way to make frozen meat from frozen livestock is to make frozen meat as soon as possible, and maybe keep it for a little longer. Otherwise, when the snow melts in the coming spring, it will not only become more difficult to handle, but may even cause a plague. Right on target
The enemy's plan."
"Brother Tuo, how long do you think we can sustain it? Even the livestock and tribe members that the tribe relies on for survival are not surviving in this heavy snowfall that is probably rare in a hundred years. The old man is fighting for the survival of the young man.
, except for a few shamans and witch doctors who must stay as inheritance, the rest have chosen to die under the sword of young people, because they are afraid that if they just leave, they will become like many enemies who are obviously trying their best to protect and destroy the tribe.
They were heroes, but they became the executioners who destroyed the tribe they protected."
"This heavy snowfall is indeed beyond my expectation, and it will indeed make our situation more difficult. But even if this is the most critical moment, it also means that a turning point is coming..."
"But I'm afraid we won't survive this winter!"
"I know that brother has some thoughts in his heart, so he might as well say it outright."
"Brother Tuo...where is the sword that I kept beside you before?" Yuwen Cishan hesitated for a long time, but in the end he did not choose to go straight in as Yuwen Tuo expected. Maybe the new patriarch of the Yuwen Department also has
With your own concerns.
"I have given it to the person who can inherit the sword."
Although he didn't look at his eldest brother, Yuwen Tuo could feel the huge change in his eldest brother's expression after he said these words.
"Why!"
Yes, why?
Yuwen Tuo thought over and over everything that had happened that day, which made him feel incredible. At that time, his entire movement was so natural, without any intention of stopping. It was as if everything should have happened this way.
When I raised my head, the sky was still shrouded in haze, and the swirling snow was flying freely above my head. Unknowingly, the tops of the two men's heads, the corners of their eyebrows, their shoulders, their coats, their trouser legs... everything was covered in pure dust.
covered in white.
Beautiful and pure white, but with a cold and cruel taste. Just like the mourning clothes worn by Han people during funerals.
Who are they mourning for?
Originally, Yuwen Tuo wanted to find traces of the stars in the sky that silently guided people, but what he saw was himself and his eldest brother, who had always been in love with him, hidden under the covered "filial piety clothes" woven with white snow.
His face became cold.
The man who was born with different eyes was born with a lack of smile, but when did the man who seemed to be smiling all day long lose the smile that had never left him?
Some people say that although most things cannot resist the magic of time, some things have the magic to resist time. Even after the passage of time, they remain as new as ever. However, good wine requires strict conditions to become fragrant, friendship and
Family love must also meet perhaps the same very harsh conditions before it can become what the world praises.
When did all this start to change?
Is it a situation that seems to be getting more and more corrupt, or is it because he handed over the sword that seemed magical to outsiders to another man who was their mortal enemy, or...
Pushing the timeline forward, it was the night when he first met the man who accepted his sword, which gave him the throbbing of death.
So after the night when they first met, similar throbs always appeared in the bottom of his heart. Even when all the changes occurred, the first thing he thought about was not that he had any way to solve this change, but what if
That person got his sword and should be able to find a way to defeat this mutation.
Such thoughts often appear in my mind when I dream back in the middle of the night. I may not have cared about them at first, but over time, due to my confidence in my own will, it has become a subconscious mind lurking deep in my mind.
Everything that happened that day was probably just a subconscious action controlled by the outburst of subconscious.
What Yuwen Tuo didn't expect was the series of chain reactions that would result from losing the sword.
"Brother, what do you mean, is Yuwen Tuo doing something wrong?"
"... Tuo Di, my father and I both believe that you are the most special one. Maybe you should not have appeared on the grassland, in this place where they have been restraining you in various ways. You have never smiled since you were born.
, maybe it’s because you shoulder some heavy responsibilities that we don’t know about, but...but. As a brother, I also hope that you, Tuo brother, can trust me and come with all of us! Don’t always keep everything in your heart.
, we, we all trusted you so unreservedly!"
Silence, long silence, long silence...
This private conversation between the two brothers. Except for the two of them, no one else knew what happened. However, some thoughtful people could sense from the expressions of the two men that the outcome of this conversation was probably unhappy.
Let's go.
But everything was not important anymore, because when the wind and snow subsided the next morning, when the Xianbei people cheered to welcome the rare good weather in recent times, a thunderbolt suddenly fell from the blue sky and hit the people who were constantly in the air.
The struggling bodies on the grassland also hit their hearts.
"Haven't you found it yet?"
"No. I didn't find it anywhere. His horse is still there, and all his belongings are still there!"
"No need to look for it, just look at this."
Yuwen Tuo is missing.
He left behind a lot of things that he carried with him, including his armor, the books he liked to read on weekdays, and the fact that he had followed him for a long time and probably became extremely humane under his influence. His whole body was pure black except for his forehead.
A little white and beautiful war horse.
A war horse that had been listless since morning. It even refused to eat, as if it was very clearly aware of the fate of being abandoned.
Maybe this horse knows something else. Because many people have seen the tears that keep falling.
It's a pity that the Xianbei people no longer care about the feelings of animals. They all gathered around a thin silk silk and stared at the silk silk full of words with countless pairs of eyes. This was another piece left by Yuwen Tuo.
The items were found by Yuwen Tuo's elder brother Yuwen Cishan from a place he was familiar with and where he often looked through his brother's various books.
And that place was also the place where Yuwen Cishan often threw books on the ground that he could no longer read after reading them for a few times. Although his face was still as expressionless every time, he would tidy up the books very seriously.
However, it is impossible to know whether what he values is those books that are extremely precious even among the Xianbei tribe, or whether it is for the... relatives who once sat there.
Silk is not large, and the text it can hold is also very limited.
In this silk book, Yuwen Tuo did not talk nonsense. In addition to a few sentences asking everyone to strengthen their faith and wait for victory, they also gave various suggestions for the future direction of this group of Xianbei people, including going south.
, including traveling westward, it also includes temporarily returning to the cold but fertile vast sea in northern Mobei, which once gave birth to the ten Tuoba tribes and is now an important part of the backbone of the alliance, and then quietly waiting on the grassland
Various chaotic endings.
Obviously, the Han people's control over the grasslands is limited after all, and the tribes like Tuoba and Yelida who were put on the grasslands by Li Shushi are also limited after all. If they still want to fight back, the price they have to bear is very small.
"This bastard!" After looking at this piece of silk, everyone's hearts were filled with conflicting emotions, and maybe even a little panicked.
They were all once extremely outstanding young people on the Xianbei grassland. They were not convinced by each other and competed with each other. However, in this dissatisfaction and competition, they were only convinced by Yuwen Tuo. For this strange-looking man, his strength far exceeded them.
The man surrendered from the bottom of his heart, so he rallied around him, even if Yuwen Tuo chose to part ways with Qian Man in Danhanshan, he would never leave.
No one can do this anymore, not even the resurrection of Tanshihuai.
Nowadays, their leaders, both substantive and spiritual, have abandoned them, leaving only a guideline.
They looked at each other. Although no one had a different mood at this time, what is certain is that this originally united alliance may not take long to split. Some people's hearts are called "Ambition"
Even at this moment, the fierce fire can no longer be concealed.
Sighing heavily, Yuwen Cishan's eyes gradually became hollow while holding the silk. Even though the hand holding the silk was trembling slightly, he didn't seem to notice it.
Yuwen Tuo did not designate anyone to take his place, and did not even leave any hints. In other words, they did not understand it after studying for a long time. Everyone was not sure what this meant, because they did not think their brains were clear.
He could surpass that man. But Yuwen Cishan thought more.
Although, even as Yuwen Tuo's elder brother, he has never seen through his younger brother from beginning to end, even though he can master so many more things than others.
For this small Xianbei league, this rare morning sunshine is destined to be the last ray of sunset before the end.
And just when the Xianbei Alliance was brewing something, the man who directly caused all this had appeared in another place that no one could have imagined.
Daqingshan.
This is the birthplace of the Huns. The towering Jiufeng Mountain was once the holy mountain in the hearts of the Huns.
However, with the deepening of the exchanges between the Huns and the Central Plains people, the place now only has the function of being close to the Yellow River and having rich pastures. As for the place that was once used to offer sacrifices to heaven and the northern Xuanwu, it has long since decayed.
But looking from a distance, especially on this day after the snow, the Jiufeng Mountain under the sunlight looks like a bride about to get married. She is a little shy in her beauty, but proudly shows off her elegance and erectness to the guests.
posture.
It's a pity that the visitor who broke the tranquility here seemed to be like a man from Lu. He didn't stop to admire the beautiful scenery in front of him at all. He just walked vigorously and had the same figure as those "ghost people", as if he was completely unaffected by the mountains.
Troubled by the snow, he moved quickly towards the top of the mountain, even if the dangers along the way tried to stop him for a moment.
On the top of the mountain, there is a fairly open platform. This is a trace left by the predecessors, even though the former glory has been reduced to the current ruins by the cruel magic of time. But I am still satisfied with the visitor.
Cleaning up doesn't take much time, at least for the man who disturbed Xuefeng.
After simple cleaning, he took out one bronze pot after another from his pocket.
As if his arms were like Doraemon's pocket, he took out sixteen copper pots in one breath. The shape of each golden elephant inlaid pot was about the same, about one foot high (made in Han Dynasty. The same below)
, the diameter at its thickest part is only about one-third of a foot, and various patterns are drawn on the body of the pot using gold inlays.
There are birds and animals, the sun, the moon, stars, and various plants and people. On the lid of the small pot are bronze statues of different creatures, including a one-legged bird, a ferocious glutton,
Naturally, there are blue dragons standing tall and tall, and there are many of them, but none of the creatures on the pot lid are exactly the same.
These sixteen golden elephant inlaid pots are placed in a special way, forming a faint pattern or a special formation. Anyway, this kind of thing is completely incomprehensible to most people.
, even if it is considered to be thrown around casually, it is not necessarily true - if the person who placed it in this way is not the magical Yuwen Tuo who is famous in the North.
After doing all this, Yuwen Tuo did not choose to rest for a while, but immediately started the next action.
Of course, before continuing with the next action, he still took a moment and looked up at the sky.
The sky is a slightly hazy gray-blue, which still gives people a depressing feeling, and in the northeastern sky, you can faintly see a touch of black that makes people feel uneasy.
It seems that nothing has changed much, but after today, everything will change.
Yuwen Tuo's face showed a rare smile with a hint of warmth.
Unfortunately, what was not commensurate with this heart-warming smile was the white snow all around, which represented deathly silence, and the blood mist with the scent of blood that gradually began to spread around him and seeped out from the golden elephant pots.
Just when Yuwen Tuo looked up at the sky, the blood-colored mist gradually enveloped Yuwen Tuo's body. Originally, he could still see some vague things and feel the remaining trace of warmth. But not long after, even this feeling
Also completely disappeared.
It's as if the character Yuwen Tuo has never appeared in heaven and earth.
Rumble...
That day, a felt earthquake occurred around Jinyang.
On that day, violent earthquakes occurred in the northern parts of Wuyuan County, Yunzhong County and Xihe County, causing the houses and forts that were already overwhelmed under the weight of heavy snow to collapse one after another, and even the two counties of Xianyang and Linwo near the epicenter.
Part of the city wall also collapsed, causing numerous casualties of people and livestock, and extremely heavy economic losses.
On the same day, many soldiers and civilians living around the northern area of Shuozhou, including the Xianbei Alliance who were migrating westward, noticed that at the same time as the earthquake occurred, a flower suddenly appeared in the sky, which was very familiar to the people of the grassland.
The large thistle flower bloomed in a magnificent bright red color.
Then, the sky, which had been shrouded in haze for a long time, finally showed the clear azure color it should have originally. (To be continued...)