One hundred and ninety-fourth setting sun, what is the meaning of the empty city
Northwest of Jinzhou, Yushanguan Pass.
This was one of the last passes that the prairie people conquered. The two thousand soldiers and horses under the command of Yushan Guanxiaowei were all veterans of the Jinzhou Army. In addition, the city pass was dangerous and easy to defend but difficult to attack. It was also abundant to stockpile grain, grass, arrows and other armaments.
, the captain of Yushan Pass is one of the best generals among the captains of Jinzhou Border Pass. Otherwise, it would be difficult for him to hold on to the city gate for more than a month with no support.
However, with all the Jinzhou state army retreating into the city walls of various places in the state, even though the Yushanguan school captain's deployment of every soldier in the city gate was almost complete, the barbarian army was pressing down on the border, which was far from the Yushanguan school.
A single tree can support it, so the city gate was broken and it was expected by everyone.
The barbarians did not leave any garrison in the Yushan Pass. Of the 2,000 defenders in the city gate, only dozens of seriously injured people were left on the day the pass was breached. They set themselves on fire together with hundreds of other people on a high platform inside the city pass. The rest of the people in the pass were all wearing armor.
The slaves, after plundering all the supplies in the pass, set fire to all the houses in the pass.
According to the number of routes that the grassland people used to invade the south, they often ignored the other passes after breaking through the customs, but now they have cleared almost all the city passes in northern Jinzhou. Is it possible that the barbarian army has now expanded to such an extent that they don't need to worry about attacking the city.
At least twice as many casualties as the defenders?
The warriors of Jinzhou could not figure out the connection, but it was an indisputable fact that Yushanguan was broken. Large areas of collapsed city walls and traces of smoke and fire on them, as well as broken arrows and weapons and numerous
The bones all showed the brutality of the fierce battle that lasted for more than a month. The barbarians who had cleared away everything they could use did not bury even the corpses of their own soldiers, leaving them exposed on the city gates.
The barbarians, who had limited siege means, mostly plundered the countryside in the past and rarely attacked the city. Even when they broke through the pass and headed south, they would pick out some weakly defended troops and send small groups of troops to pretend to be traders. If they could not deceive the gates, they would have to
They were piled up on top of the city one by one based on human lives. Anyway, the people who were attached to the ants were all slaves under the nobles' accounts. In the eyes of the nobles, the lives of slaves were not worth as much as the value of cattle and sheep, so they died as long as they died.
However, the large piece of collapsed city wall does not seem to be able to be destroyed by human power. Sure enough, there are still some siege equipment that have been used to break down the gate, but I don't know how many there are.
It is an extremely cold season now. I don’t know when the Yushan Pass was broken. The bodies of those who could not tell whether they were Yao people or barbarians have not completely rotted, but have shriveled up. But the smell is disgusting when you get closer.
Sensing that someone was approaching, all the owls that had been pecking at the carrion on the corpses flew into the sky together, covering the sky like dark clouds. A few old and thin wolves were nourished by these corpses and became fat and strong.
When people come, they don't rush to escape. They stand in the distance and look coldly at these uninvited guests.
Wei Changpan tried his best to avoid those bones, but he was in the dilemma of only avoiding the man's chest with one foot and crushing one of his hands with the other. In the end, he had to act casually.
When they came, they took a remote path and did not take the main road that had been blocked by the barbarians. They took a look at Yushanguan from a nearby high place. At that time, the barbarians were attacking the city day and night. They climbed to the wall of Yushanguan several times but were driven down by the defenders.
,At that time...it seemed that there were no siege equipment.
As they rushed towards the nameless valley, they happened to pass by the barbarians transporting siege equipment. Wei Changpan couldn't help but feel lucky that he had not encountered the barbarian team transporting the equipment.
After several days of walking on the vast snowy plains, the warriors of Jinzhou realized what the young barbarian Mo Chiha meant when he said that the road ahead was not easy to walk. Even though the weather cleared and there was no snowfall, the daily journey was still difficult.
I could have traveled dozens of miles more, but during these long journeys, except for two troubles from wild wolves whose belly was so hungry that it was sticking to my spine, I had not seen any living creatures twice.
This group of people who had saved some wild sheep and wild deer as rations earlier had to start carefully calculating their daily food. In the past ten days, they had been hungry and full, and everyone looked sallow and thin. When they arrived at Yushan Pass
They had already run out of food in two days. If they hadn't snatched half a yellow sheep from the mouths of a few wolves on the way to make a meal, they might not have been able to reach Yushan Pass.
There are also prairie horses. Although they are much more majestic than Yao horses when riding and charging, they cannot travel such a long distance. In addition, many Jinzhou rangers do not know the temperament of these difficult horses, and the oats they bring with them are not enough to feed them.
Even though he had enough to eat by day, six horses escaped in one night. When he set out, he had calculated that there would be enough for one person and two horses, but he was immediately stretched. With seven people and nine horses, even if one of them was lame on the way, he could not bear to kill and eat meat. From the rations
Squeeze out some oats and serve him well, hoping that this horse master will be able to walk like flying again tomorrow.
However, things went against expectations. When they arrived at Yushan Pass, the horse's legs were still hanging in the air. Wei Changpan looked at the lame horse and let out a long sigh. He and the ranger named Liu Ziyi beside him smiled bitterly and said: "If you can't find it even in Yushan Pass,
For food, why not just kill this horse."
"This should have been the case a long time ago." The latter believed deeply. "Looking at the barbarians picking up complete pieces of armor, swords and guns all over the place, I guess there will probably be no food in the pass."
Someone poked the corpse on the ground with a nose and a severed arrow, and then said to Wei Changpan, "The one who died recently is probably not more than ten days old, and it has been so long that it is almost rotten to the point where only the bones are left, and nothing can be seen."
A group of people stepped into Yushan Pass. The closed door seemed to have been hit repeatedly by a powerful force that could not be resisted and fell down. By the way, it also crushed several Yao soldiers who were standing behind the door. The wooden door covered with pine wood and copper skin was full of swords.
There were traces of it, half of the door had been removed, and it was probably used by the barbarian soldiers as dry wood for the fire.
Although Yushan Pass is a border city pass, with a total of five thousand civilian defenders, the pass is empty at this time. A wisp of the setting sun shines on the damaged city top of Huangyang Pass and shines on this empty city.
Walking through the streets and alleys in Yushan Pass, the Jinzhou rangers shouted loudly in Dayao Mandarin whether there were any living people, and at the same time, they were alert to whether there were any wild beasts that suddenly jumped out around them.
Suddenly, Wei Changpan seemed to hear some noise in the house in front of him. The group of people hurried over and found a house that could barely shelter from the wind and snow in the ruins of the building that was probably once the Yushan Guanxiao Wei Mansion.
It was that room that made the noise.
The fire set by the barbarians in Yushan Pass did not burn down the side room of the captain's residence. Wei Changpan drew out his knife on guard. No one knew what was behind the crumbling wooden door. He had to go through so many hardships with so many people.
In order to find a way out, he was not allowed to be cautious in everything.
The movement in the house disappeared, but if you listen carefully, you can still detect the subtle and inaudible breathing coming from the house.
After adjusting his posture to the most suitable position for exerting force, Wei Changpan gestured to the Ranger on the other side of the door. After silently chanting three times in his mind, he broke through the door and entered.
The shaky wooden door could not withstand the sudden force exerted by the three-story martial artist, and fell down with a cry. Wei Changpan followed the first man's footsteps and ducked in.
There was a huge cloud of smoke and dust when the door fell down. It took Wei Changpan a while to see clearly the furnishings in the room. He originally thought he was
After two years of experience, he had gained enough courage, but the situation inside the house still made him shudder.
There were bones and corpses stacked up in mountains, and the stench inside the house was a hundred times stronger than outside. However, it was unbelievable that there were still living people living in such a house.
The disheveled man's face was covered by his long gray hair and beard. He was waving a thick club bone in his hand. He didn't know if it was a bone from a human leg or an arm. His voice was hoarse and frightened, but he didn't get up and run away. Wei Changpan was like this.
Only then did he notice that his thigh was completely broken, and his other arm was hanging limply by his side.
"Get away, you damn barbarian! You bitch! Get out of here!" The man's roar gradually became lower and lower, and finally he threw away the club bone and lay on the ground, begging for mercy in inarticulate sentences.
"The barbarians have left. Yushanguan is now an empty city. You are the only person we found alive in the city." Wei Changpan took two steps forward and kicked away the bones on the side, took out his skin bag and fed some water into the man's mouth.
"How long ago did the barbarians leave?"
The man suddenly raised his head. Where his eyes were originally, there were two black blood holes. Wei Changpan was frightened and took a few steps back.
The man who had obviously suffered inhuman torture was in terrible shape, and only one arm could move. No one knew how this blind and disabled man survived to this day. When the barbarians left, all the food in the city was plundered, and the wells were also used.
Block the stone.
Everyone looked at the white bones with faint bite marks in the room again, and couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts. They understood why this man was alive today.
Wei Changpan saw something they didn't see. If the man's tattered clothes were intact, they must be very shiny clothes. There were embroidery patches on them that had not been completely covered up by stains. It was barely visible that they were Biao's patterns.
The official rank of the school lieutenant at the border gate of Dayao was the sixth rank, and the official uniform was a red-bottomed Biaobuzi. There was only one school lieutenant at Yushan Pass.
"It's been hard work these days, Captain." Ignoring the stench emanating from this man, Wei Changpan came closer and bowed to him.
The blind and disabled man was stunned and asked in a trembling voice, "You...are you... Dayao's soldiers?"
"yes."
"You're too late! You're too late! Everyone is dead! Everyone is dead!" The high-spirited captain of Jinzhou Yushan Pass wailed, but there were no tears in his empty eyes.
"I led them to guard until the last moment! Where are your people! Where are your people! None of them came! Not one of them!"
No one could answer his words, and the man's cries echoed throughout Yushan Pass, incessantly.
The knights in Jinzhou silently listened to the cry of the border captain who had dedicated his whole life for Yao. Then, unprepared, the man who had survived to this day relying on the corpses thrown by the barbarians beside him hit his head against the wall beside him.
superior.
Remember to avenge us.
These were the last words left by Captain Yushan Guan before his death.