Jiaohua

Chapter 1593 Bathed in Blood
Seeing Meng Jinci running towards them, the returning remnant soldiers sped up.

They dismounted one after another and knelt before Meng Jinci.

"General, we wanted to gather and evacuate, but we were ambushed by the Han army!"

"The Han army has far more troops than us, at least 40,000!"

"General Ulitran was defeated. He was afraid that we would lead the enemy to the general, so he led the main force to Xiluo Lake."

"General Ulitlan sent us here to report to you, General, hurry up, the Han troops may chase us!"

……

Meng Jinci looked at them, not daring to think about how many soldiers he had lost.

A deputy general who caught up also heard this.

The deputy general looked at Meng Jinci fearfully and said, "General, so what A-Li sang was not an empty city plan. There are real soldiers at Qingji Pass. If it weren't for the general's prompt decision, I'm afraid we would have been completely wiped out by now..."

The deputy general dared not say anything more.

One of the soldiers who came back said, "General, let's go!"

Meng Jinci did not move. After a while, he looked up at the sun in the sky.

It was the best light in the morning. The heavy snow stopped, the wind stopped, and the warm sun shone on the vast land. The reflection of the snow was dazzling, and his eyes were a little painful.

Meng Jinci narrowed his eyes, and in the circles of light, he seemed to see the faces of his father, his mother, his brothers, his wife and his son.

He has never been afraid of the word "lose" in his life, but he doesn't want to lose to Ali.

Meng Jinci's eyes suddenly turned red and tears rolled down.

"General!" His men surrounded him.

Meng Jinci opened his mouth and roared towards the sky.

This was the first time he cried out loudly since his family was destroyed.

Qingji Pass is still empty.

All the men were sent to chase the Northern Yuan troops.

Only about three hundred people were left to clean up the bodies inside and outside the fortress.

Xia Zhaoyi also chased out.

She led five hundred soldiers from the Falcon Battalion and chased two thousand Northern Yuan soldiers.

The enemy had not noticed that her forces were few and far between, and in the end they killed more than 300 of her men, and another 200 were cut off to survive. In the end, 1,500 of them escaped.

Xia Zhaoyi did not chase him any further.

Her physical strength was highly depleted, and even if she caught up with the opponent, she would not be able to fight with him to her heart's content.

It was already noon when we returned to Qingji Pass.

She used up her last bit of strength to get off the horse. Sun Bichun, Zhu Xiaohua, Zhao Lingxiu and other female generals had already returned.

Seeing Xia Zhaoyi, the female generals smiled happily, ran over, and shouted excitedly: "General!"

Xia Zhaoyi smiled: "We won the first battle, thank you for your hard work."

Sun Bichun's voice was very loud: "It's so cool! I didn't dare to kill people before, but now I find that killing people is really fucking satisfying!"

"It has to be an enemy!" Zhu Xiaohua said, "Killing people is not good, but killing an enemy is a good thing."

Seeing that they were all injured, Xia Zhaoyi said, "Go and rest first. When you are well rested, come back to me tomorrow."

Zhu Xiaohua asked worriedly, "So, General, how about you? Are you injured?"

"It's just a minor injury." Xia Zhaoyi said with a smile.

She looked around, wondering if Shen Lie and her second brother had returned.

Then she heard two familiar voices calling her, "General!"

Xia Zhaoyi turned around and saw Feng Anan and Tu Xiaoxi.

The two men were wearing armor from the Falcon Camp and were running very fast.

Feng Anan got a lot tanned.

Tu Xiaoxi has fair skin and is very sun-resistant, so she still looks white.

Xia Zhaoyi smiled and walked towards them.

A voice rang out from the other end, delicate and panting heavily: "Miss Ali!"

Shi Baijin was holding a big knife in his hand and running very hard. He waved as he ran: "It's me, Miss Ali!"

When they saw her, the faces of several generals changed.

Xia Zhaoyi paused and changed direction to walk towards her.

"I'm so tired!" Shi Baijin put his hands on his hips and panted, "I'm so tired from running. This knife is so heavy! Miss Ali, look, I'm really going to look for the Falcon Camp!"

Zhao Lingxiu frowned and said, "Shi Baijin, you insist on joining the Falcon Camp. Now that you have joined, you need to change your words. General A Li is the commander of the Falcon Camp. How can you call her Miss A Li?"

Shi Baijin was covered in dust and looked aggrieved. He looked at Xia Zhaoyi and said, "General A Li, look at her!"

Zhao Lingxiu took a breath of cold air.

The other generals and their lieutenants were all angry.

Xia Zhaoyi smiled and raised his hand to Tu Xiaoxi who was running over: "Do you have a clean towel?" "Yes!" Tu Xiaoxi took it out immediately.

She is a civilian officer in the army, following Zhao Lingxiu, and currently serves as Fang Changshi.

She was also the cleanest one. Except for the blood and dirt on her trouser legs, her whole body was clean.

Xia Zhaoyi took the towel and handed it to Shi Baijin: "Wipe it off, your face is covered with dirt."

Shi Baijin smiled sweetly: "Yeah!"

Feng Anan pouted unconvincedly: "General A Li, everyone is dirty, why are you only concerned with taking care of her!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Tu Xiaoxi nudged her lightly with his elbow, indicating that she shouldn't say such things.

Zhao Lingxiu also looked at Feng Anan with dissatisfaction.

Xia Zhaoyi said, "Because you have been training in Hengxiang for a long time, she just joined the Falcon Camp in Guilai Town, Juezhou, and she is a new recruit. It is not easy for her to keep up with you on horseback without falling behind."

Shi Baijin said proudly: "General A Li, I killed three people today! Three! And I was not injured!"

Xia Zhaoyi smiled and said, "Good job."

Looking at Shi Baijin's face, Feng Anan rolled her eyes.

Xia Zhaoyi looked at her, then at Zhao Lingxiu.

Seeing that Zhao Lingxiu also noticed Feng Anan's eye roll, Xia Zhaoyi's eyes deepened slightly. Zhao Lingxiu quickly understood and nodded at her.

There were still many things to do, so Xia Zhaoyi did not stay long. After giving some instructions, he turned and left.

She was smelly and dirty, and her clothes had been wrung twice before.

Her sweat, blood, and the blood of her enemies turned into water and flowed down her clothes.

It is cold in winter, and I am wearing half-wet clothes. Once the wind blows, it is really cold and heavy.

But before changing her clothes, she went to visit the nearby wounded camp.

Four hundred people were guarding the pass last night, and there were heavy casualties. More than one hundred and fifty people died forever, more than two hundred were seriously injured, and the rest were slightly injured.

Later, several hundred soldiers from the Falcon Battalion who came to reinforce also suffered casualties, but the number was still okay because the troops from the northwest returned in time.

There were five cuts on Xia Zhaoyi's body, all on her arms, and she classified her injuries as minor.

There was a rush of people in the barracks, with countless stretchers coming and going.

Zhan Ning was helping to clean and bandage the wound. Seeing Xia Zhaoyi approaching alone, Zhan Ning quickly handed the wounded to someone else and ran towards her: "Second Miss!"

Xia Zhaoyi's palm-sized face was extremely pale, her lips were bloodless, and her lips were cracked after a night of north wind.

Zhan Ning was shocked and asked, "Second Miss, are you injured?!"

"Minor injuries," Xia Zhaoyi looked inside, "How are the injured? Are the seriously injured okay?"

Zhan Ning sighed, "Several of them are seriously injured and are dying. Over in Yan Jun's army, Zhai Jinsheng has half of his left arm broken."

Xia Zhaoyi was silent for a long time, then she nodded: "Yeah."

"Second Miss, go take a hot bath and have a good rest. If you collapse, we will be doomed!"

Xia Zhaoyi smiled faintly: "What nonsense are you talking about? Even if I die, there are still Shen Lie and Er..."

She paused, smiled, and suddenly changed the subject: "I wonder what Meng Jinci is feeling now."

"Him? I guess he's crying loudly somewhere!"

"If he knew who he was facing, he would find that he actually did not suffer any loss in this battle."

Zhan Ning was proud: “That’s it!”

"Go ahead and get busy," Xia Zhaoyi said with a smile, "I'll take a break and come help as well."

"Well! Second Miss, have a good rest. We are here!"

Hot water was always available, and Xia Zhaoyi took three small baths in the bathroom before she washed all the blood clots out of her hair.

Finally, she leaned tiredly in a corner of the bathtub and wiped her arms full of wounds, not daring to let the hot water soak into the wounds too much.

At the battle fortress of Qingji Pass, Zhao Lingxiu called Feng Anan away.

Tu Xiaoxi was worried and wanted to go with them, but Zhao Lingxiu sternly stopped him.

After a long time, Feng Anan came back with red eyes.

Tu Xiaoxi was worried: "What did Lord Zhao say to you?"

"It's my fault," Feng Anan whispered, "I know I was wrong."

Tu Xiaoxi thought about it and asked hesitantly: "An An, are you jealous because Miss Shi is pretty?"

"…What nonsense are you talking about? We have beautiful ladies in Qingxiang Village too, and I have never been jealous of them. I just don't like her always getting entangled with men. Lord Guan, Lord Fan, and Lord Liang, they were like seeing a ghost when they saw her. But Lord Zhao is right, this has nothing to do with me. Whether I like her or not is my business, but if I roll my eyes at someone, that would be an attack, and Miss Shi didn't do anything to me after all. This is how I realized that I am really petty."

Tu Xiaoxi smiled knowingly and said, "I finally understand why Mr. Du Xuan chose Mr. Zhao."

"Well, Lord Zhao also said that General Ali is the commander-in-chief of the army. She has the final say over the entire army and her authority cannot be questioned. And what I said was really offensive. If it were any other general with a bad temper, I might have been dragged out for saying that..." Feng Anan made a knife gesture in front of her neck.

"Just don't say it anymore. Although General Ali is not a bad-tempered person, we can't take advantage of her good temper to offend her."

"Ah."

The two sisters said this and continued to work.

Zhao Lingxiu looked at them from a distance and smiled with her lips curved.