Chapter 354 Should be born or not, should die or not
Ye Hu took his cavalry and fled towards Julan City, while the slow-running infantry became chess pieces that could block the Tang army's offensive.
Duan Xiushi originally stayed at peace with his cavalry to protect Li Siye's rear. At this moment, the enemy army was defeated. He led the light cavalry and abandoned the rear formation to pursue. Most of the people were pursuing Quechu Teqin's Chinese army, but he noticed
This group of troops fled to Dulu Yehu in Julan City.
"Cavalry, chase the enemy with me, chase south! Don't let him enter the city!"
But the enemy's escape speed was very fast after all. The horses Duan Xiushi and the others were riding were horses that had traveled long distances to carry goods. How could they catch up with Shi Ren's horse? They could only watch helplessly as the opponent was about to run into the cave.
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He turned over, jumped off his horse, and asked loudly: "Who brought the crossbow?"
"I have!"
A soldier rushed over quickly, took off the crossbow and arrows from his back and handed them to Duan Xiushi. Duan Xiu pushed the tip of the knife against the tenon, adjusted the crossbow machine two spaces backward, removed the mountain, and stepped on the crossbow with both legs.
, almost exhausting the energy of sucking milk to wind the string with waist strength.
At this moment, the sky was dark, with only a trace of dim light remaining on the horizon, and the stars here began to appear. He squatted on the ground, held the crossbow in front of his eyes and raised it slightly, then raised it, and then raised it again, his pupils
It shrunk to a small point, aimed at the crossbow arm, and fired with a loud bang.
The feather arrow was thrown high into the sky from his crossbow, as if it shot into the stars and became one of them. But a moment later, the back of the wolf fur cloak in the distance suddenly tilted and lay prone on the horse. The Personal Guard Army
They screamed and rushed forward.
"Ye Hu! Ye Hu!"
Ye Hu must have been helped off the horse and entered the city cave surrounded by the crowd. Duan Xiushi was quite regretful. Under the current visibility, he could not penetrate the opponent's neck, and he did not know if he could kill him.
This should be an important figure, but now it is almost impossible for the Tang army with less than 2,000 men to attack the city.
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Under this star-studded night, the Qianquan Mountains are undulating and the snow peaks stand straight. Even if there is thick fog, it still cannot change its majesty when you look up. From the perspective of the snow peaks, human beings are like mediocrity.
The industrious and tireless ant.
These densely packed little people are chasing each other at the foot of the mountain, like a group of people chasing another group of people. At this moment, those who are running away and those who are chasing are not organized, but more like ants.
The chasing ants finally stopped, but the fleeing ants were still running away. They kept abandoning the unusable wounded soldiers in the team, and the stragglers were scattered like garbage, falling all over the route.
One side won the victory, and the other side suffered a heavy defeat. All wars for thousands of years have had these two outcomes.
Li Siye used the knife as a crutch. On the way back, his muscles all over his body felt like tearing pain. He didn't know how many arrows hit his back. He was stabbed several times during the charge. This silver-green mountain
The armor plates were damaged a lot and needed to be repaired and replaced.
Two soldiers came up to help him go, but Li Siye put out his hand to push him away: "You can go on your own, I can still withstand it."
They returned all the way to the place where Yan Xiaosi stayed, and saw a group of people standing desolately in the cold wind on the meadow. There were two corpses on the ground, and Chuulu was lying on them, crying bitterly.
Li Siye walked over with his knife in his hand and stared at the two people on the ground with his eyes wide open: "They are actually dead."
Yan Xiaosi bowed to the side and crossed his hands and said: "Both Shi Xin and his wife were hit by arrows. We can't stop the bleeding and treat them in this barren mountainous place. The princess was hit in the heart and lungs by the arrow, and Shi Xin was hit in the internal organs."
Li Siye threw down the Mo Dao in his hand and sat on the ground. He suddenly felt the absurdity and ridiculousness of life. All the 500 people Teng Mu led were injured and killed. Most of the four regiments of Diaohuan City who served as reinforcements were lost. His Qiuci jump
More than a hundred people from the Dang camp and the front team died in the battle, but the final result was that the target that the Tang army wanted to escort died on the last two hundred miles of the journey.
If we had known this would be the result, why would we use so many lives to protect his own life? Is it true that the nature of human beings is to do useless work?
He could only comfort himself in this way. Most people in the world are doing most things in vain. The palaces they built will eventually be burned down and collapsed. The books compiled by the predecessors will be burned by future generations. Later people will find out what remains under the embers.
Chapters were added to the book based on the deeds and imagination of previous generations, but later people continued to trample and burn it.
But their death protection is not just for merit, but may also be for other reasons.
A silver-armored warrior who had just tied up his messy hair with a wooden stick squatted on the ground with his hands crossed, and whispered to Li Siye: "General, there is no need to blame yourself. The entire army is trying its best to kill the enemy. Although Shi Xin Khan failed to save him,
But the victory of more than 20,000 Tuqishi troops is indispensable. Even if His Majesty is angry, the merits and demerits can be offset by the merits."
Li Siye heard that this person's voice was familiar and turned to give him a cold look: "Who are you?"
This man lifted half a strand of black hair from his forehead and threw it back so that Li Siye could see his face clearly. He bowed humbly and crossed his hands: "Oh, my humble position is that of a junior lieutenant in the Longwu Army.
Fan Shao, General should remember me."
"Oh," Li Siye said coldly, "You are still alive."
Fan Shao retreated in shame and stood aside with several Longwu soldiers, who looked around with sullen expressions.
Li Siye didn't know what happened during the escort of the Tang Army. The few remaining soldiers carried Teng Mu's body and looked at the Longwu Army with their eyes full of resentment. At this time, he didn't need to ask, he knew that in this battle
What role did Zhonglong Wujun play?
Some strange thought came to his mind, what's the use of keeping these people? It's better to kill them.
Just as Si Ye was thinking this, Zhao Chonghuan strode over with a knife in hand. He stood in front of everyone with a gloomy expression, looked around at the soldiers, and then lowered his head to see the corpses of Teng Mu and Shi Xin on the ground. A faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth and he gritted his teeth.
He said: "I have just inquired about it. Someone, in the pursuit of ease during the march, actually led Shi Xin Khan and the escort to Julan City where the enemy was ambushing. Who did it? If you come forward, grandpa will reward him.
corpse."
He pulled out the horizontal sword with a loud noise, threw the scabbard to the ground, and held the bright blade diagonally in one hand with the blade two inches above the ground.
"Who is it? Come forward! You bitch, don't dare to admit it!"
Several Long Wujun looked at the ground guiltily, and Fan Shao lowered his head deeply.
"Come out or I will chop you all down!"
This explosive roar made the shoulders of the dragon warriors tremble, and at the same time they pushed Fan Shao out in tacit agreement.
"You..." Fan Shao glared at the subordinates who betrayed him, turned around and saw Zhao Chonghuan's fierce look, and suddenly fell to his knees and kowtowed with both hands: "It's not me, it's not me! We, the Longwu Army, all have a share.
General, spare my life, I was just seeking pleasure."
Tears welled up from Fan Shao's cheeks, and he kowtowed to Zhao Chonghuan: "General, spare your life! General, spare your life!"
As soon as Zhao Chonghuan took a step forward, Yuan Tao quickly came out to stop him: "General, you must not do this!"
"No matter who is right or wrong, no matter how they interfere with their duties and cause us heavy casualties, we have no right to deal with it. We should leave it to the Anxi Protectorate, and the Protectorate will leave it to the saint and Chen Xuanli to deal with it."
Zhao Yuantao didn't need to remind him to know that the opponent was the Longwu Army of the Saint, and it was not their Anxi Army's turn to deal with it. But if they had to kill them, they would kill all these people and report back to Fumeng Jiedushi that the entire escort team had been dispatched.
It was inevitable that the army would be destroyed. It was just his status that prevented him from doing such a thing. It was not worth violating the laws of the court because of such a few people.
The knife in Zhao Chonghuan's hand was raised very high, so he had to lower it slowly.
Fan Shao kowtowed repeatedly in joy: "Thank you, General, for not killing me!"
Li Siye put his hand on his waist and was about to stand up when Duan Xiushi hurriedly stepped forward to stop him and said: "General Li, don't be impulsive. What happened to Teng Mu is indeed sad and angry, but the general must not kill someone to vent his anger because of this, as it violates the law."