twin moon

Chapter 167 No.20 Act Two

"Send someone to investigate immediately, how many people are there in the enemy?"

Mu He pointed the long whip in his hand at the group of unknown horses and sternly said, but the expression on his face was calm.

However, the lieutenant beside him had already panicked, and the horse under his crotch was hurt by the rein he pulled so hard, and he kept digging his hooves on the ground and neighing.

Soon, the urgent report spread from the front to the ears of the elders, saying that the invading enemy was a cavalry team that came from nowhere!
"Thousands of cavalry? Whose flag is the opponent playing?"

Mu He couldn't figure out how the Mu Yun Department could ambush such a large number of surprise soldiers behind him.The scout on the opposite side shook his head:
"There is no flag in that horse team, let alone a rider! It's just thousands of wild horses, rushing towards our phalanx like crazy!"

"With no one to drive them, how can the horses dare to attack the army formation?"

"The reason is still unknown! As far as I can see, the leader is a young stallion. I have never seen a horse with such pure black fur!"

"Quickly release the arrow and force it to turn!"

"It's too late. The speed of the horses is faster than the wind, and the right army has been washed away!"

Hearing the scout's report, the corners of Muhe's eyes finally twitched uncontrollably.However, before he could think of a way to deal with it, the horses rushed into the formation of the Chinese army again, smashing the neatly arranged formation in a blink of an eye!

After a while, a warrior in the army came back to his senses, wanted to stop the rout, and raised his weapon to block the oncoming horseshoes.However, facing the warriors holding sharp weapons, the thousands of horses did not flinch in the slightest.Among them, the one who rushed to the front was slashed in the stomach and cut off the neck on the spot.But in the face of blood and death, the herd of horses is still like a torrent pouring down from the mountain, which cannot be easily stopped by manpower!

Soon, Muhe also saw the striking black among the horses.The head horse seemed to have just reached adulthood, and its jet-black body and limbs revealed the vigor of the blood spurting everywhere.The pure white circular birthmark on the horse's forehead is even more eye-catching like a morning star rising in the dark night!

As a last resort, the old commander had no choice but to order the army to change formation and try to avoid to both sides to reduce the unnecessary casualties caused by the frontal collision.However, as soon as the order was issued, he suddenly stood upright on the cart as if thinking of something, and looked towards the direction of the horses:

"Where are those heavy iron mountains?!"

What he expected was right, the horses indeed ran straight towards General Yan and Tie Chongshan who had been trapped for a long time.Under the pass, countless figures climbed onto the horses. They were the warriors of the Muyun tribe who were in a desperate situation.

The horses stayed in place for a while, then turned around and broke out of the pass.Even if the army behind them tried their best to stop them, they couldn't stop their pace. They could only watch the thousands of horses sink into the rising dust and completely disappear into the sky.

"Yue Zhang, is this the way to go?"

Qi Hezhen, who had led the crowd to fight in front of the formation, immediately turned his horse's head and rushed back to Muhe.Seeing that the other party didn't have the slightest intention to give an order to chase, he clamped his legs firmly into the horse's belly and wanted to attack again.

"Stop chasing!"

However Moo Hyuk opened his mouth to stop him.

"Why don't you chase after him? If you can't make a move, Yue Zhang, I'll clean up all the defeated generals of the Muyun tribe and come back and return to your command. Just pretend it's nothing!"

But before Qi Hezhen finished speaking, the elder on the opposite side waved his hand impatiently:
"It's just a few stragglers who escaped. Now nearly [-]% of the troops on the grassland have been concentrated in our hands. Even if that little southerner can escape with his life, where can he go to rescue the soldiers? Now that the road ahead has been opened, as soon as possible Conquering Garhai City is the most important thing, don't waste time on a few lost dogs!"

So, with the sound of horns one after another, the three-way army with the crescent moon, leopard head and wolf flag started again, stepped on the blood-soaked frozen soil, and continued to march towards the city of Garhai, which was less than a hundred miles behind the pass.

The new snow has arrived, fluttering down with the wind, forming a thin layer on the withered grass overnight.There was no shelter on the grassland, and the north wind howled all the way, blowing deep into the bone marrow.However, under this light gray sky, there is a little bright red standing in the wilderness at the foot of Lancang Mountain, as if frozen there by the wind and snow all over the sky.

That was Tuya wearing a cloak.Yesterday afternoon, she had successfully arrived at Garhai City with tens of thousands of Muyun tribe.However, the girl was worried about the safety of Jiang Yan and the three thousand iron mountains, so she couldn't sleep all night, and she stood here waiting before dawn.At this time, a thick layer of snow had accumulated on his head and shoulders but he didn't know it, he just stared blankly at the distant horizon.

Suddenly, a ball of orange light appeared in the darkness, getting closer and closer, it was a figure holding a suet lamp.The person came in a hurry, as if he had been looking for the girl for a long time in the wind and snow.However, Tuya didn't realize that someone was walking towards her, until the other person put a thick woolen blanket on her back, she trembled as if she was frightened, and turned her stiff neck to look over :

"Wu Ren—Grandma?"

"My Gu Enji, why did you run out of the city alone? In such a big snowstorm, you are not afraid of freezing yourself to death? Follow me back!"

Wu Ren's face was full of worry, but while speaking, he had already held the cold girl in his arms, and rubbed her back and hands repeatedly with a pair of thick hands in distress.However, Tuya gently pushed the other party away, and turned her eyes to the direction she was staring at just now, without saying a word.

"Gu Enji, rest assured, as long as you don't see the enemy for a day, it means that Xinhan and Tiezhongshan have successfully blocked the opponent's offensive. I believe they will come back safely, so hurry up and follow me into the city. Wanbu people still need Gu Enji, you must not fall ill at this time!"

Wu Ren persuaded in this way, pulled the girl up and turned around to leave, but he obviously felt that the other party's body tightened suddenly.When Xuanji went to look, he saw that Tuya was short of breath, she was shaking from side to side and was about to fall to her knees on the spot.

In the dark sky, there seems to be something moving under the horizon. At first glance, it seems to be just some snow dust blown up by the wind.However, amidst the increasingly powerful sobs, there was a faint rumbling sound like the low moan of a wild beast.With the appearance of that sound, the earth began to tremble slightly.On the horizon filled with white mist, a huge team carrying flags and riding tall horses gradually appeared.

But that team was obviously not General Yan who had returned from the front line with the Three Thousand Iron Mountains, because at this time, as far as the eye can see, the crowd is already vast and hard to find.Because the battle line was too long, several huge war drums had to be erected in the ranks to control the speed of advancement.Every time the drumstick fell, Tuya's body would tremble involuntarily.And the last hope in her heart for her husband's safe return was shattered with the sound of the drum, and when she raised her head again, tears were streaming down her face.

Wu Ren at the side didn't know how to persuade her, so she could only hug the girl's weak body and whisper.But Tuya suddenly raised her cuffs, vigorously wiped away the tears that were about to freeze on her face, and strode towards the city gate.Even though there were traces of blood on her face that had been cracked by the cold, she didn't frown, she just said word for word:
"Grandma Wuren, immediately after entering the city, send me an order to call all men over 12 years old and prepare to meet the enemy! Also, take out the bow I pressed at the bottom of the box, it can be useful!"

At the same time, in Muhe Camp, just over ten miles away from Garhai City, a gray-bearded elder was leaning against the middle of the large tent with his upper body bare.A doctor gently applied herbs crushed in a stone mortar to the wound on his shoulder, and carefully bandaged it with a clean muslin.

The bloody hole that was stabbed out by Jiang Yan before has been tightly stitched together with a needle and thread, and a thick layer of blood scab has formed on it.However, under the light touch of the doctor's fingers, one can still see the uncoagulated blood seeping out from the cracks in the hard scab.

Suddenly, a corner of the door curtain of the yurt was lifted, and then two round little heads poked in from the outside. It turned out to be a pair of boys with rattails, about six or seven years old.The children didn't feel awe of Muhyuk like the soldiers in the army, but smiled at him curiously.

Seeing this, the old man did not yell at him, instead he waved his hand in surprise to signal the doctor to leave first, then put on an unlined garment, and opened his mouth to call the children to come to his side:
"How could it be you two little guys?"

The child immediately giggled and got into the tent, surrounded the elder and chattered and asked:

"Why are you injured, Erbuge? What are you doing so far away?"

"Yeah, Erbuge, you've been away from home for so long, we miss you! Let's go home together, okay?"

Mu Hyuk raised his uninjured right hand, gently pinched and pinched the faces of the two children, his eyes were full of love.No one expected that these two children, who looked like ordinary herdsmen's children, were actually the grandsons of the old wolf who smashed the wild goose and fell into the wild opposite!
"Ebuge came here to do some important things. You two should go back to Caobo and wait for me. When Ebuge finishes his work, he will go back!"

The elder kissed and kissed the foreheads of the two children, and let the grandchildren play and fight in front of him.However, the children have no idea that not long ago, their grandfather just recovered his life from Jiang Yan's knife, and they don't even know that in the days when their grandfather left, countless children of their own age lost their fathers and mothers forever , and even lost the right to continue to survive.

"Who on earth brought the two of them to the front line?"

Mu He smiled and glanced at the two children, and when he raised his head again, a pair of yellow-brown eyes showed a murderous intent, and he was not angry.

Several waiters standing outside the tent immediately fell to their knees and kowtowed, but none of them dared to answer his words.The elder wanted to press again, but suddenly heard a woman's voice from outside the tent:

"I brought my two grandchildren here! If I don't come now, I don't know when I will see you again!"

Before the words were finished, a woman dressed in a costume walked in slowly from outside the tent.Like Mu Hyuk, wrinkles have already crept up to the corners of her eyes and forehead, and her temples are also gray.However, she walks with her head held high, her back straight, and she is not like an ordinary woman who is nearly sixty years old in an ordinary herdsman's family.

When the children heard the woman's voice, they immediately surrounded her with a smile, like a flock of chicks seeing a mother goose.

Mu He never imagined that his wife, who had been staying behind closed doors for a long time, would travel a long distance with her two grandchildren to meet him at the foot of Lancang Mountain thousands of miles away, and immediately asked in surprise:
"You can't rest at home—what are you doing so far away?"

Seeing the expression on her husband's face, the woman couldn't help snorting coldly:
"If you come, why can't we come? You left Caobo eastward without saying a word, and you didn't even say hello to your wife or your two grandchildren. Don't you want others to worry? What?!"

Facing the woman's questioning, Mu He seemed a little unreasonable, but still waved his hand to prevent the other party from continuing:

"That's not a nonsense! Now Yanluoyuan has become a battlefield, no matter how worried you are, this is not a place where women and children should come, go back immediately!"

But the woman opposite obviously didn't intend to give up just like that, she shook her head vigorously and said:
"If you don't retreat for a day, my two grandchildren and I won't go back for a day! Over the years, I have never asked what you are planning, but don't think I can't guess! Since Pei Er left, you So he blamed everything on the Bakwuqin family, and kept thinking about avenging his son!"

"No! It's because I don't want our family and the heroic tribesmen under the wolf banner to be disappointed! The people of the Breu family must never compromise like this forever, and live under the command of an ignorant girl doll and a southern kid !"

Mu Hyuk seemed to be poked into his mind by the other party, and suddenly started drinking violently.The two grandsons had never seen their grandfather so angry before, and they hid behind the woman in panic.The woman raised her hand and pushed the two children out of the tent, but she walked up to the elder, stared at the elder's eyes full of anger, but with a little regret, and murmured:
"No one has ever been disappointed by this except perhaps yourself..."

"Yes, you are right. But now it's done. After so many years, my plan is only one step away from making the Bakwuqin family pay the price! Only in this way can I regain my heart free!"

"Freedom is given by yourself, not because of anyone, let alone because of anything!"

"No, you don't understand!"

"I'm your wife, and even Pei'er's mother. How can you not understand! Actually——you really admire that black-eyed southerner, right? Kill him to avoid future troubles? His eyes, and the unwillingness to admit defeat in them, are really similar to Pei Er..."

"Don't talk nonsense, Pei'er is gone, no one can replace her, no! I will order the three of you to go back to Caobo, and I will go back to accompany you after everything in front of me is over."

Mu He's tone became agitated again, then suddenly became low again, and it was hard to hide the turbulent waves in his heart caused by his wife's words.

"What does it mean to end everything? Does it mean that you died in battle on this barren tundra, or that you killed the last blood of the Bakwuqin family? Have you never thought that those who followed you to fight?" If your children die here, how sad will their parents and relatives be!"

The old woman was still persuading, but outside the tent, the horns of the army's departure had sounded one after another.Mu He was stunned for a moment, didn't pay attention to the other party, but stretched out his hand to grab the wolf fur cloak that was spread on the couch, and walked out of the tent without looking back.

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