twin moon

Chapter 164 No.20 Act Two

In the early morning, the dew condensed into a white frost on the yellowed grass blades.The autumn insects on the grassland seem to be unaware that they are about to die at the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, and they are still chirping and jumping among the grass nests.

Accompanied by a rush of footsteps, the heavily armored knights in armor suddenly lined up on the grass field.At this time, the horn was not sounded, and the commander's loud order was not heard, but thousands of Iron Mountains had quietly assembled in just a short time.

Since the tens of thousands of troops from the Muyun Division retreated eastward, these heavy armored knights could hardly leave their horses, and their soldiers never got rid of their bodies, sleeping with their armor every day.Right now, they had pulled out their war horses from the stables, and the iron armors on the riders collided with the weapons at their waists lightly, making a rustling sound like the wind blowing leaves.

In a yurt not far away, Yan opened a corner of the tent door with Xiao Tianmo in his hand.Just now, the spies came to report that they had seen enemy troops flying the Crescent, Leopard, and Wolf flags less than ten miles behind the team.And this is also the main reason why he urgently ordered Tie Chongshan to prepare for battle immediately.

Looking at the black cavalry phalanx in front of him, the black-eyed boy didn't feel relieved at all.There were too many old and weak women and children in the retreating team, as well as all kinds of luggage and belongings on the carts.In addition, he had to be careful to cover up the traces left by the people and horses passing by along the way, so the speed of progress was much slower than he expected.

Now, although I can clearly see the ancient city named Garhai at the foot of Lancang Mountain in the distance.But there is a saying on the grassland: look at the mountains and run dead horses.According to the most optimistic estimate, it will take at least a full day's journey to get there.

But right now, the enemy is almost chasing up close to his back.At this speed, I am afraid that the other party will completely catch up and kill everyone without waiting until noon.

But if you keep going, there may be a chance.And if you stop, there is only one dead end.As a general of Hehan, all he can do is try his best to buy some time for the tens of thousands of copies to advance.

"Big brother, what are you looking at?"

Lying on the couch was the herdsman orphan who had just been rescued the day before yesterday.Perhaps because of the similar life experience, Jiang Yan took good care of this child.However, he never told his children the true identities of himself and Tuya.In the eyes of the other party, the two are not Hehan and the princess of the Muyun tribe, but just kind big brothers and big sisters.

"It's alright, just go back to sleep."

The black-eyed boy responded unnaturally, and then rolled up the tent and walked out.But the child on the couch suddenly yelled behind him:
"Is that the sound of Iron Heavy Mountain gathering outside? Are they—are they going to set off to meet the enemy?"

"The ears are quite sharp!"

Jiang Yan squeezed out a smile on his face, but still couldn't hide the seriousness in his expression.Seeing this, the child immediately struggled and jumped off the ground, intending to rush out of the tent.The young He Han hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop him, but the child kept kicking and beating in his arms, and the cry was like a sharp knife, piercing the young man's heart fiercely:
"Those bad guys killed Dad and Mom! I want to avenge them!"

"Don't cry! A man, how can you cry like a coward!"

Jiang Yan seemed to see the weakness in the child that he had tried to hide for many years.In desperation, he suddenly swung his palm and slapped the opponent's cheek heavily.The child was beaten so badly on the spot, but he didn't dare to cry anymore, he just covered his red and swollen cheeks with his hands, with tears in the corners of his eyes:

"Big brother, if I don't cry anymore, will you allow me to go?"

"That's not going to work. Now you can't even protect yourself. Going into battle is going to die. How can you talk about revenge? You know that if you die on the battlefield today, no one will remember your father in the future." And grandma, there will never be another chance to avenge them!"

Looking at the child in front of him, the black-eyed boy seemed to see himself who was lonely and helpless back then, and his heart suddenly twitched.After thinking for a while, he took out a dark blue dagger from his pocket, and handed it to the child:

"Hold this knife well. Remember, if you encounter danger in the future, you can learn from me with four fingers together, the blade facing outward, and hold it with your backhand. Only in this way can you pour all your strength into the blade. Come on. Even if your strength is not as strong as that of an adult, you can still exert the greatest power when stabbing!"

"Thank you big brother! Does this knife have a name?"

When the child saw the dagger, he couldn't put it down and played with it immediately, and finally burst into tears.

"It's called Yueyan, and it was given to me by my elder brother's best friend. I hope it can keep you safe in the future!" Jiang Yan murmured, thinking of the girl in white clothes walking through King Ye's palace again. As a young man, "In this troubled world, no matter what, we must try our best to survive, for the living and for the dead!"

The black-eyed boy reached out and rubbed the opponent's head vigorously, as if he was telling the child in front of him, and also as if he was encouraging himself.The child nodded, and went back to sleep on the couch, holding the dagger tightly in both hands, as if he had never slept so peacefully.

Jiang Yan also turned around and left the yurt, and walked towards the assembled Tie Chongshan.As soon as he got out of the tent, he saw Tuya's figure head-on, and he had been waiting for him for a long time.

"The way you looked just now - a little scary..."

Princess Muyunbu was still wearing her red cloak trimmed with gold.Since the large-scale retreat, this red color is like a torch on the Yanluoyuan, which is covered with withered grass, and has always brought tens of thousands of people together.

"Did you—see it?" The young man embarrassingly smacked his face with his fingers, not daring to look into the other's eyes, "Am I being too harsh on that child?"

"I don't think you're wrong. In this troubled world, everyone must take care of themselves first, otherwise how dare they talk about protecting others?"

"Maybe—it's because every time I see him, I think of my past, and those people and things—"

"Is that the general of Ye Kingdom that you often tell me about?"

"No—it reminds me of my parents..."

As the black-eyed boy said, he suddenly lowered his head and looked at his toes.Tuya felt that the other party had become different from the past, so she continued to ask cautiously:

"You still...have never told me about your life experience."

"My parents, like that child, also died at the hands of villains. I once swore that in this life, I will find that enemy from back then, and personally tear him to pieces—"

Jiang Yan raised his head again, but he said every word as if he wanted to crush the teeth in his mouth.

However, soon, this young man who always acted like an angry black panther in front of people had red eyes and almost shed tears: "...But to this day, I still don't know the name of that enemy, I don't even know where the person is, and I don't even have a clue where I should start looking!"

There was a sense of desolation in the tone of the black-eyed boy.There was obviously some helplessness in that desolation, but there was also an endless struggle of unwillingness to resign to fate.Tuya didn't know how to persuade this big boy who was married to her but still very strange, so she put her arms around his waist, leaned her head on his chest and whispered:
"Today... I seem to get to know a different you again, but I don't know if you will still listen to me in the future? In fact, if some things are kept in your heart all the time, it will suffocate people... "

Jiang Yan didn't know why he chose this time to bring up his past with the other party.He used to think that, except for the red-haired girl and the white-clothed boy in Mulu City, he would never be able to fully open his heart to anyone in his life, and there would be no one in this world who could truly understand himself.However, at this moment, he could clearly feel the empathy from the girl's slightly trembling body.He suddenly realized that the girl in front of him really cared about him, and could truly understand the pain of bereavement hidden in his heart.

Even though he has now become Xinhan of the Muyun Department, commanding tens of thousands of people under his command, the feeling that all this brings to the black-eyed boy is not a power in his hands, but a responsibility that is about to overwhelm him.

If it is said that the previous marriage with Tuya was just due to circumstances, but when his first wife hugged him, Jiang Yan suddenly understood that he was no longer fighting for some irrelevant aliens.Everything he did right now was already for himself, for the girl in front of him.

The young man stretched out his arms and hugged the princess into his arms, and the two embraced each other silently, as if everything in the world had nothing to do with him at this moment.

I don't know how long it took before the boy came back to his senses, and pushed the girl in his arms away slightly: "You didn't come to me just to talk about these things, did you?"

Tuya nodded immediately: "I came to ask you, have you seen old General Yuan Ti? Since yesterday, I have been unable to find him anywhere."

"What do you want from him?"

"I think, he used to be a senior minister of Yubei, escorted his mother to the Muyun Department, and assisted his father for many years because of this. Needless to say, he knows Tie Chongshan, and his experience in leading troops to fight is unmatched. It is definitely not a long-term solution for us to run away blindly like this, but we have not asked him if there is any way to buy some time for the troops.”

Princess Di Ren looked worriedly at the herdsmen who were still moving forward not far away - after retreating for only a few days, the team has become more and more scattered.Now the people at the back of the team have just finished their rest and are ready to continue on the road, but the people in front have run so far that they can't even see their shadows.

Along the way, not only did hundreds of clansmen lose their voices, but even the mules and horses used to carry food, grass and luggage lost a lot.Even the few fresh water remaining in the team have already begun to be distributed according to the head among the troops.Tuya clearly sees the unspoken desire to survive that is revealed on everyone's face every day.

"Old general, he—" the black-eyed boy moved his lips, but he only spoke half of the words, but swallowed them back.

"Jiang Yan, do you know where the old general has gone?"

"The old general left the camp last night."

"Leaving the camp?! At this time, why did he suddenly leave without saying goodbye? Where did he go? I'll chase him back!" Tuya immediately turned to lead the horse.

Her husband's answer behind her caught her unexpectedly: "Don't chase after me, I let him go."

"How could you let him go? Why?"

"I asked him to do a very important thing for me."

"What is so important that you have to do it at such a critical moment?!" The girl stared into Jiang Yan's eyes and asked sharply.

But the black-eyed boy just shook his head, refusing to say any more: "In this critical time, it's better not to say more about some things for the time being."

"Can't you even tell me? Do you know that the unexplained disappearance of the old general has caused rumors to spread among the troops. Some say that he is a southerner after all, and he sneaked away by himself because he felt that the battle would be lost. Yes. Someone said that you might also abandon all of us at a critical moment. Even in Iron Mountain, some people began to talk about it, so that morale plummeted!"

"These are minor problems at the moment. People's hearts are disturbed, not just because of this incident. Right now, please tell me, Madam, how many days can Garhai City withstand the onslaught of the opponent?"

But Jiang Yan changed the subject and asked the princess in front of him instead.

"I—I don't know. It may last for half a month, or it may only last for three to five days. If the opponent uses a crossbow, it will be even more difficult to say. Although the bricks and stones used to build the city are frozen Frozen, it has been immortal for thousands of years, but no one has really fortified the city before, besides—”

"Three to five days will be enough. We just need to be able to let the troops enter the city smoothly before the enemy encircles us today."

The black-eyed boy was about to turn around and leave when he said that. Tuya instinctively stretched out her hand to pull it, but only after she pulled it did she realize that her husband was actually wearing a light armor under her leather robe!

"Aren't you planning to lead Tie Chongshan to break the empress?" The girl exclaimed.

Jiang Yan no longer concealed his intentions, and nodded resolutely: "There is no other way, but this is the only way."

Tuya suddenly became anxious: "No, you can't go! Do you know that if you go this time, you will use [-] cavalry to carry the opponent's army of [-]!"

"But we have no retreat in front of us! If we don't lead the team to attack, I'm afraid the enemy's main force will cover up and kill them in an hour. At that time, you, me, and everyone in the Muyun Department will be killed by them. Not one left!"

The princess in front of her wanted to continue to stay, but suddenly heard a loud horn in the wilderness, and then the warriors in charge of guard also shouted one after another:
"The vanguard of the enemy army has been killed!"

There were more than [-] herdsmen who were not ready to leave the camp, and they fell into chaos immediately.Seeing this, Jiang Yan immediately struggled to break away from the hand held by the other party, and ran quickly towards the Tie Chongshan formation that had been lined up. He never looked back, and just ordered loudly in his mouth:

"I and Tie Chongshan will try to delay each other as much as possible. You take the people on the road as soon as possible, lock the city gate after entering the city, and never come out again. Just hold on for three days, and there will be a turning point after three days!"

Tuya still wanted to chase after her, but the young Xinhan quickly disappeared in the team of heavy cavalry whose war horses neighed.The steed under Tie Chongshan's crotch rolled up an eye-catching dust on the grassland. With the sound of war drums and horns, it gradually drifted away and disappeared under the knee-high grass in the sky.

Behind them, Tuya felt as if she had just had a nightmare from which she could not wake up.She looked at her husband who was going away with the iron mountain, and suddenly put her hands together, and prayed devoutly to the blue sky:

"My ancestors in the Heaven of Longevity, no matter whether we win or lose today, please bless Jiang Yan to come back alive and come back to my side!"

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