twin moon

Chapter 133 No.16 Scene [-]

The battle between Cheng Ye and the two countries gradually became fierce.In just half a month, the two armies had confronted no less than a hundred times on the Yeliang Plain. The formerly prosperous northern Wanzhou had also been completely turned into a devastated, starving purgatory in the successive fierce battles.

In recent days, the key to the contention between the two armies is a narrow and long strip with a radius of more than ten miles centered on Huxieping.In addition to casualties and downsizing in the Ye army every day, there will also be a large number of deserters, and the number is far from enough to continue to stretch the front line and deploy defenses.If he loses again, he may have to retreat to the city.

Now walking on the official road, you can see dead bodies everywhere.The bodies of the fallen soldiers not only showed signs of gnawing by wild beasts, but also stubbles left by passing hungry people who shared food with knives and axes.All the armor on his body was also removed, the useful weapons and money had gone to nowhere, and the useless clothes were thrown aside in a mess.

Flocks of vultures also gathered over the plain, numbering in the thousands.These big birds, representing death, were killing the last bit of morale left by the soldiers and civilians of Ye Kingdom day by day.

In the 12th year of Yuansui, on the fourth day of February, a group of more than ten Qingharrier cavalry once broke through the defense line of the Ye army, pushed in to a place less than ten miles south of Mulu City, and then retreated quickly.But even though the situation was so critical, Ye Guogong still did not order to abandon the city, and seemed to have made a plan to live and die with Mulu City.

The Yeliang Plain is one of the most densely populated areas in the entire territory of the Dasheng Dynasty, and the distance between villages is often no more than ten miles.This provided a large amount of supplies for the long-distance Chengguo army, and going out to raid has gradually become a must-have pastime for them.

In the evening of this day, the dusk was dark, and the crows circled the trees.Under the bloody setting sun, a group of Qingharrier cavalry belonging to the Weima camp were returning one after another with the spoils they had just captured.The villages they raided today are quite wealthy, and the trophies include not only a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry, and jade jewelry, but also several young and beautiful girls.

Wanzhou women are as gentle as water, and they are not as aggressive and uninhibited as Cheng Guo women. Since they were tied up, they have been crying and crying.However, this action aroused the men in the army to become more and more beastly. They simply tied several girls to the flag posts in the camp, took several large jars of strong wine, and humiliated them in turn by taking advantage of the wine.

However, the cavalry were in high spirits when they suddenly heard a few loud noises from outside the camp gate.The sound sounded like thunder before the rainstorm, but at this time, the red sun was on the mountain and the sunset was all over the sky. How could there be a thunderbolt in the clear sky?
The leading cavalry general put down the wine cup in his hand, and looked outside the camp in the direction of the thunder.Facing him, he saw several black and round objects flying towards him from outside the gate.Before he could react, those things had already flew in front of him, and they were actually several iron bullets the size of a human head!

The cavalier got up quickly in fright, but he was too late to dodge.An iron ball ran straight over his legs, smashing his calves into a pool of blurred flesh, and even his tibia was twisted into several sections.Then the iron bullet changed direction, bounced violently on the ground a few times, overturned the brazier filled with red charcoal in front of the tent, and firmly buckled it on the body of a soldier next to him.

No one in the camp knew exactly what happened, until the cavalry general who had just lost his legs was smashed beyond recognition by another iron bullet, and his whole body sank into the soil, finally the horn of enemy attack sounded from all around.But before the soldiers got ready with their harnesses and weapons to meet them, the weird thunder broke out again, and it was even denser than before, and it was even closer to them!
It was night, in Chengguo Daying, one hundred and thirty miles east of Huxieping, Yin Qujian, who had just fallen asleep, was suddenly awakened from his sleep by an urgent report from outside the tent.

Half a month since the start of the war, this was the first time that there was such an urgent military situation in the camp.Cheng Guogong faintly sensed that the situation was wrong, so he opened the tent without even a shoe cover, and rushed out barefoot.

Outside the tent, the ordering shop soldiers half-kneeled on the ground, holding a bloody silk book in their hands: "My lord, I just received an urgent report from the Weima camp, saying that I was attacked by the enemy at dusk today..."

Yin Qujian narrowed his eyes, but he couldn't see whether it was anger or worry on his face: "The [-] soldiers and horses in the Weima camp are the elite vanguard of our army. So flustered? How is the battle ahead now?"

"Since receiving this biography, there has been no news."

"Encountered the enemy at dusk, and it has been three hours so far, how could there be no news suddenly?" Yin Qujian seemed a little worried.

"My lord, since we are being attacked, the enemy army should come prepared. The Weima camp is still in fierce battle, but the officer has sent scouts there before, and I think he will report back with news of the Weima camp's victory soon. Already!"

The lieutenant beside him stepped forward, then waved his hand impatiently, sending the fussy soldiers away.However, at this moment, the latest battle situation came from a fast horse:

"Urgent report, urgent report! The whole army of Weimaying is wiped out, the whole army is wiped out!"

Seeing the scout's terrified face, as if seeing a ghost, Yin Qujian couldn't help being slightly startled, as if he couldn't hear what the scout said just now:
"You—you repeat—"

"Weima Battalion has [-] soldiers and horses, and none of them survived!"

"What nonsense! Ye's army has lost their minds for a long time, how can they organize such a powerful counterattack?" The lieutenant general's expression also changed.Yin Qujian stretched out his hand to signal him to be calm, and then turned to the scout and said:

"In the Weima camp, is it true that there is not a single living person left?"

The scout nodded tremblingly: "My subordinates have checked carefully, and the entire camp is empty, leaving only piles of corpses stacked in the middle of the camp, which were burned to charcoal. Even if some people didn't die at that time, they were already He was burned alive. However, my subordinates believe that there may be other reasons for this defeat."

“How come you see?”

"The subordinates dug out some unburned stumps from the pile of corpses, but the wounds on them did not seem to be left by ordinary iron arrows, but round blood holes the size of a thumbnail."

"A round—a blood hole..."

The scout's description reminded Yin Qujian of that spring five years ago when thousands of soldiers from Weiliang and Huaiyou fought against Huaiyou at the foot of Qinglan Mountain. However, the entire army was wiped out before the confrontation.He clearly remembered that at that time he sent scouts to quietly transport back to Dangpu several corpses, which also had strange round blood holes!
Cheng Guogong frowned immediately, suddenly waved his hand, and shouted loudly:

"Come to Master Xuan Guo immediately!"

After half a stick of incense, Yin Qujian in the big tent angrily questioned Kunjie who had rushed over: "Master, you already knew that Ye Kingdom has this armor-piercing weapon, why didn't you remind me earlier!"

"What did the unknown king say?"

The tall, lanky man, still wearing his baggy cloak, bowed politely.

"It's already at this time, and you are still pretending to know nothing in front of the widow! Five years ago, when Wei Liang and Huaiyou's 5000 people's horses were all wiped out at the foot of Qinglan Mountain, didn't you tell the widow that it was most likely Is Ye Kingdom playing tricks on it?"

"Back then, the ministers were only speculating, why would the lord suddenly bring up this old matter that has been separated for several years?"

"Ask knowingly! The wounds on the corpses of those soldiers who died in battle were exactly the same as those of the Weimaying soldiers who were attacked today. Since he, Qi Shouyu, may have mastered some kind of armor-piercing weapon that is unknown to the world, why didn't the national teacher remind him before?" My widow, have you persuaded me to attack rashly several times?"

Facing Yin Qujian, who was angry and gnashing his teeth, Kunjie's face remained calm:

"My lord's words are wrong. Back then, I only conjectured based on limited evidence, and I have not been able to obtain conclusive evidence. Besides, the decision to attack Ye country this time, wasn't it made by you, lord?"

"Isn't the national teacher afraid that the widow will punish you in the name of planning a disadvantage!"

Kunjie's attitude made Yin Qujian go crazy.But even so, the tall and thin man always maintained that expression of displeasure and displeasure, and responded lightly:

"The most important thing for the lord to do now is not to immediately send reinforcements back to the defense? If Ye Kingdom really has some armor-piercing weapon, it may soon change its current decline."

Yin Qujian stared at the man in front of him with his eyes wide open.At this moment, although he was furious, he also understood that what the other party said was reasonable, and there was no opening at all.Although the suspicion of Kunjie was still not dispelled, Duke Cheng had no choice but to follow his advice and ordered the 30,000 people who attacked the camp of Yugu Lake in Ye State to return immediately for help.

However, as soon as the ink crow flew away, the camp received a third urgent report.The person who sent the letter was the chief general of the reinforcements that Yin Qujian planned to dispatch.

According to the emergency report, [-] green harrier cavalry in Chengguo fought hand-to-hand with tens of thousands of enemy troops on the west bank of Yugu Lake.However, the opponent was not the main force of Ye Kingdom, but the Guan Ning soldiers who crossed the river overnight from the east bank of Mingshui!

"Wei Liang also participated in the battle? You bastard! If it wasn't for the deliberate deliberations, how could Luqiu Borong, who killed thousands of swords, drive tens of thousands of troops from Jingshu to the border of Ye Kingdom in such a short period of time! But who is he? Where did you know in advance about my plan to attack Ye country?"

Finally, the hand of the lord, who had gone through many battles and personally led his troops to defeat half of the country, began to tremble uncontrollably, and his tone of voice no longer had the confidence and arrogance that he used to have when he was sure of victory. ...

At the same time, in the palace of King Ye in Mulu City, from the lord to the officials, they are already celebrating with each other.The Wende Hall was just renamed the Wude Hall yesterday, and the newly made plaques still give off the pungent smell of turpentine.And Qi Shouyu, who was a little drunk, stood under the plaque, his cheeks were flushed, he raised the wine in his hand and laughed loudly:

"This time, I want the whole world to see clearly what kind of frightening power I, Qi Shouyu, hold in my hands! Yin Qujian, that yellow-mouthed boy, actually thinks that he can easily capture Mulu City? No Self-restraint!"

"God bless the Lord! God bless Ye Kingdom!"

His Highness and the ministers shouted.However, they still don't know what method the lord of the country used to defeat Cheng's Qingyong cavalry without harming a single soldier—even though just a few days ago, Ye's army suffered successive disastrous defeats. It is still fresh in my memory, but at this time, none of the civil and military officials dared to delve into the reason. They just echoed the lord who had just succeeded to the throne, but had thunderous means, and carnivaled to his heart's content.

However, after drinking for three rounds, Qi Shouyu, who suddenly received a report from the inner eunuch, quietly exited Wende Palace and returned to his bedroom.Before he could enter the gate, he saw that the bedroom was turned into a mess by someone, as if it had been robbed.

"Steward Feng! What's going on?!"

The smile on his face was wiped away immediately, and he raised his throat and shouted angrily.After calling for a long time, Steward Feng never appeared in the messy hall.

As a rule, Duke Ye's daily life needs to be taken care of by the guards of the inner eunuch in the palace.But Qi Shouyu didn't have wives and concubines by his side, and he didn't like women, so he didn't taboo men from entering the palace like previous kings.After entering the Shoucheng Palace, Steward Feng, who had followed him for more than 1 years, became the No. [-] person in the history of Ye Kingdom who was promoted to the chief inspector without cleaning his body.

Coincidentally, the firebolt blunderbuss used by the cavalry of Chengguo was also made in secret by Feng Steward for Qi Shouyu, and no third party knew about it.

A hint of ominous premonition suddenly rose in the heart of the chunky king.He went straight to the bed in his inner room, took out a short knife from his waist, and slashed open a hole in the pillow on the bed. The ancient map that hit the secret of the ancestors in his hand was hidden deep in the pillow by his own hands.

However, now where his fingertips touch, there are only cotton wool in his hands, but Tu has long since disappeared.Instead, it was a mass of creamy, soft, and somewhat wet stuff.Qi Shouyu angrily grabbed the thing out of the pillow, held it up in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully:

"This is - a piece of human skin?"

I don't know if it was because of nausea or fear, Duke Ye's hands trembled violently.And there was a little cotton attached to the spread, and the jelly-like thing fell to the ground with a thud.A face emerged from the translucent human skin, and it was vaguely recognizable as Steward Feng's face!
"Quickly order Liusha camp to send the fastest horse and the most capable manpower to arrest this three-headed and double-faced dog in Wanzhou! No matter where he hides, he must be brought back alive to the widow!"

Enraged, Qi Shouyu announced all the most powerful generals of the Liusha camp to his face, and gave orders with a roar.However, he did not explain to his subordinates why a small butler was so important, and even made Ye Guogong, who had never frowned when Cheng Guo's army came down, become so restless.

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