The boundless ink color lingers in the darkness, and the whole body seems to be immersed in extremely viscous liquid. It takes a lot of energy to move even slightly.
His chest was so tight that he couldn't breathe, as if he was suffocating. Someone was calling his name in the chaos, and a little light bloomed in the darkness. He stretched out his hand towards the light with all his strength.
"Brother Wei, Brother Wei, wake up, it's already three o'clock in the morning."
Someone slapped his face hard, Wei Changpan slowly opened his eyes, and it was Liu Ziyi with a haggard and tired look on his face.
"It's too risky to walk under the eyes of the barbarians in the daytime." Wei Changpan gritted his teeth and dealt with the strips of raw horse meat in his mouth. This was what he got from a group of barbarians who couldn't escape a few days ago. Now they don't want to
If you dare to light a fire, you can only eat raw food. "The men and horses can hardly hold on anymore. This forest is relatively hidden. It is better to rest here for half a day, and then take advantage of the twilight after sunset to reach the round city overnight."
The barbarian nobles lost the eagle they used to search for them, but they didn't know what means were waiting for them on the road ahead.
"The remaining three horses are not much better. The one in the best condition is the white horse." Mei Su came back from the tree where the mount was tied. "It's okay to be hungry, but if the horse is exhausted and carried for two or three days, it will be better."
From now on we will have no more horses to ride on."
The strips of raw horsemeat have been with me for a long time. When I first cut them off and chewed them fresh, they still tasted slightly sweet. When I held them close to my body, they smelled of sweat and became even more difficult to swallow.
"It's such a freezing day that it's not a good idea not to make a fire. We can just pick up some dry wood and make a fire, then cover it with dust. It can heat up for several hours without causing much smoke." Liu Ziyi took off his hands.
The sheepskin strips wrapped around him made a hissing sound, and the pus and blood from the frostbite soaked into these materials and froze into ice together with the skin and flesh.
It was almost the warmest time of the day. They all took off their boots and gloves. The frostbite of varying degrees had not been treated by doctors in time on the grassland. The first thing the four of them probably asked the doctor after returning to Bingyuan City was
How many fingers and toes do I need to remove?
"Why should I go to the north? My wife and baby are fine at home. Dad, why do you want me to go to the north? What the barbarian thinks about all day long is how to kill me..."
Wei Changpan had a headache looking at Yu Gaogao who was still acting like a little girl. Meisu and Liu Ziyi also took the trouble. Yu Gaogao was a Jinzhou ranger who did his own thing and often did theirs as well.
He was so warm-hearted, but at this moment he was so cowardly that all of them couldn't help but frown and look down on him.
"You slept so well last night that you didn't hear this guy talking there for most of the night." Before Wei Changpan could stop him, Liu Ziyi kicked Yu Gaogao, who was curled up and leaning against a birch tree, and finally
Even the scholar Mei Su, who was not very polite, just looked on with cold eyes.
The last thing Wei Changpan wanted to see was a gap between the four of them. He quickly stood up and stood between the two of them, "We have all been through life and death together, why bother to fight over such a trivial matter."
"Even if you beg for mercy from the barbarians now, they will trample you to death with horses' hooves! I saw it with my own eyes, and you killed more than two people! Along the way here, when have you ever seen where the barbarians passed and there were still people alive?
"You're all fucking dead!" With Wei Changpan in the middle, Liu Ziyi still pointed his nose at Yu Gaogao and yelled, "If you walk out of this forest now, you won't be able to go very far before you become a barbarian!"
Yu Gaogao couldn't stand such insults. He stood up and wiped his nose and tears, "The government doesn't care about our life or death. We all went to the north together, fifty of us. Now only four of us can still stand here. Even if we die here,
Who will take care of my son? If the barbarians want to kill us Yao people and ignore them, we still have to work for Yao people?"
As the general of Jinzhou, Song Zhiwen promised before they left that if all the border passes in Yuancheng and Yuancheng had not been broken, there would be people to respond in several places. However, since even Yushan Pass had been broken, then this
The promise has long been empty talk. As time went by, not to mention these Jinzhou rangers, even Wei Changpan also became resentful of them. Song Zhiwen even refused to let them go back alive.
plan.
But they have to believe in something. If they don't believe in anything, why would they drag their tired bodies to this place?
"General Song is still waiting for our triumphant return in Bingyuan City." Wei Changpan leaned down and grabbed Yu's high shoulders with both hands and shook him. He forced himself to believe this rhetoric, "We will see you when we return to Bingyuan City."
With your mother-in-law, baby, and your father, if they know the news that you have come back victorious, maybe your health will be better."
"My family is in a village to the north of Bingyuan City!" the eldest man roared, "General Song can do nothing to him. We burned all the barbarian siege weapons with one fire. How can General Song do that?"
They haven't been able to drive the barbarians back to the north! How many of his words, General Song's, are true?"
"Have those high-ranking people ever cared about our lives?"
Liu Ziyi loosened his clenched fists. The son of a famous chef in Jinzhou also understood that what Yu Gaogao, who came from a farmer's family, was telling the truth...
But he still punched Yu Gaogao hard in the face.
"I'm going to beat you, not for anything else, but because you want to subjugate the barbarians. No one in the government cares about our life or death, that's not the reason why we surrender those beasts!" Liu Ziyi wanted to throw a punch, but was stopped by Wei Changpan.
He couldn't exert any force in the hug, so he had to give up angrily, "General Song is really blind when he chooses someone like you."
After that, Liu Ziyi broke away from Wei Changpan and walked away to collect some dry firewood to make a fire. Mei Su also went with him.
Seeing Yu Gao Gao sitting on the ground with a nosebleed, Wei Changpan didn't know what to say to comfort him. Yu Gao Gao was telling the truth, and what Liu Ziyi said left him unable to refute.
They were from Yao, and Wei Changpan's bottom line was that they could not stand on the side of the barbarians and point their swords at the Yao people.
"I'm going to relieve myself." He took out a handkerchief from his arms and stuffed it into Yu Gao's hand, "wipe the blood on your face."
Yu Gaogao raised his head and looked at Wei Changpan's walking back, holding the handkerchief embroidered with flowers and birds in his palm.
....
"Where's Mr. Yu Gao?" Liu Ziyi and Mei Su put down a large bundle of dry firewood. The former took out a piece of khaki dry firewood with beards and hairs as thick as a baby's wrist and waved it in front of Wei Changpan, "Look at me.
What are you bringing back? Serious kudzu! It took me and Brother Mei for half an hour to dig enough for four people, but there was still some left to take with us on the road."
Liu Ziyi and Mei Su's faces were full of joy. They had dug these kudzu roots for so long with their bare hands. Fortunately, what they found was indeed gratifying. In the past, Liu Ziyi could not take a second look at the poor ingredients. Now they are here.
I have prepared more than ten methods in my mind...but it's just a thought. Not to mention frying, frying, and deep-frying, the only method that is feasible is to cook it in the ashes of fire.
"Brother Wei, Brother Wei, please help me dig a hole. It should be bigger and spacious. There will be a lot of kudzu in it. I'll make a fire underneath, lay a layer of leaves and put kudzu roots on it. Finally, burn a layer of firewood and bury it with dust." I can't wait.
When Wei Changpan made a move, Liu Ziyi and Mei Su got busy, "Don't forget to throw in two more pieces of horse meat, even if it's going to stink for us."
It’s cooked, but it’s still a piece of meat after it’s cooked..."
"Yu Gao Gao escaped on horseback."
"What?" The two of them were so busy that they didn't listen to Wei Changpan's words."
"When I came back after relieving myself, I saw that the horse was missing, and Yu Gaogao was nowhere to be found..." Looking as pale as a dead man, Wei Changpan murmured, "He really..."
Did Yu Gaogao really join the barbarians?
"It's not a good place to stay for a long time." Mei Su hurriedly went to fetch the remaining three horses, "Yu Gao Gao might reveal our whereabouts..."
The whistle of an arrow was approaching, and Mei Su was only halfway through his words when a familiar eagle-feathered arrow claimed the life of a Jinzhou ranger again.
Then the arrows fell like locusts and like rain.
"It's an arrow! Get on your horse and run!" Wei Changpan shouted to Liu Ziyi beside him, "I'll be there soon!"
Meisu on the ground breathed his last breath, Liu Ziyi rode his horse through the birch forest quickly, Wei Changpan leaned against a birch tree, there were at least hundreds of arrows embedded in the ground within a radius of five feet around him, he couldn't help but feel
Somewhat self-deprecating, since when did he become a big shot that he had to spend so many arrows to kill? The barbarians did think highly of him.
The horse that was closer to him had already been stabbed into a hedgehog by arrows. There was no bow and arrow around him that could counter it, and even if there were, what could he do with his own strength?
After walking such a long way and ending up dead here, I feel a bit...unwilling.
The rain of arrows has stopped. I don't know when those people will come forward. How many can he kill by then?
If only there was a horse...
The white horse had not yet been shot to death. It was swaying its tail leisurely about seventy paces away, and its long neigh seemed to be a disdain for Wei Changpan's embarrassment.
There was also a horse! Wei Changpan was ecstatic and blew two or three whistles in succession, probably to know that there were still living people in the forest. The barbarian arrows fell like rain. This time Wei Changpan was not so lucky, and the two arrows were separated.
Pricked on his shoulder and calf, he endured the pain to pull out the arrowhead, and then wrapped a piece of cloth around the wound to stop the bleeding.
He no longer had any gold healing medicine, so the cloth strips he was wrapped in were still flowing down his calf after absorbing blood.
If he doesn't escape, he won't be able to escape. The place he is in is turning into a dead place step by step, but he is unable to escape.
Another arrow pierced his calf. It did not penetrate the flesh, but opened a large gap. The barbarian warriors also cherished their lives. If they could kill the enemy with arrows, why bother to fight with swords.
He felt that all his strength was flowing out along with the blood. Wei Changpan roared at the top of his lungs, but Lu Ma remained unmoved and did not want to be exposed to the rain of arrows.
"It's my fault!" He no longer had any hope, he pulled a piece of cloth from his clothes and held it in his mouth. He saved the horse, but the horse didn't come back to save him. He stood up and half-hidden himself behind the tree.
The barbarian warriors approaching while shooting arrows were less than a hundred steps away from him. Even if they arrived on horseback at this moment, they would not be able to escape these barbarian bows and arrows.