twin moon

Chapter 185 No.20 Act Four Variables Five

In the early spring of the second year of Zhaoxi, the ice and snow had not yet melted, and the Shuobei grassland was still shrouded in white.It wasn't until the wind stopped and the snow stopped that day, and the warm sunshine shone on the person again, that the chill was finally driven away.

The herdsmen's herds came out of the sheltered mountain depressions one after another, digging some grass roots under the snow with their hooves, and chewed them happily.Brother Mu also took Ning Yue's reply letter to Jiang Yan, and flew back to Yanluoyuan on the first south wind of the new year.

However, the person who is currently taking the letter out of the bamboo tube is not the black-eyed boy, but Tuya, the princess of the Muyun Department.

"Gu Enji, this letter—is it written in Nanren script? Who sent it to us all the way?"

Wu Ren, who was preparing breakfast in the tent, approached curiously, but couldn't understand a single word.

"It's that red-haired girl in Mulu City back then, you should have seen it, Grandma."

The girl from Di Ren replied, but there was no smile on her face.

"Oh, you said her! When will you two communicate with each other? But this bird is really beautiful."

Wu Ren nodded thoughtfully, but found that Tuya in front of him looked gloomy, and even spoke in a lower voice: "It's just that this letter is not addressed to me..."

"Isn't it written for the princess? I remember that the red-haired girl was very close to Dahehan at that time, could it be—"

The mother-in-law, who was a little slow to react, suddenly realized, and slapped her hands suddenly.Unexpectedly, before she finished speaking, she saw that the princess had rolled up the book in her hand and threw it into the bonfire in the tent, allowing it to burn into a pile of scorched ashes.

"Gu Enji, why are you doing this? So, you can't keep Da Hehan's heart!"

Seeing Wu Ren come to persuade her, Tuya shook her head:

"I didn't do this to make Jiang Yan forget about that red-haired girl."

"Then why?" the old woman asked puzzled.

"The next few months will be a critical moment for the life and death of the Muyun Department and even all grasslands. Dahe rarely needs to go all out to have any hope of winning, and he must not be distracted. Besides, If he can't remove the threat from Yubei as soon as possible, and if he can't live to see the day when the spring is warm and the flowers bloom, even if Jiang Yan knows where the girl is now, it will only add a little more trouble!"

"But the princess will not fail to understand, if Da Hehan finds out about this—"

"Of course I understand! Just because I understand, only my grandma and I know about today's matter, and we must never disclose it to a third person!"

"Paper can't contain fire after all. If that girl from the south keeps sending letters, Da Hehan will find out one day!"

"Now, I can't control so many!"

Tuya closed her eyes in great pain, but she didn't want to hear Wu Ren continue talking.She cast her eyes on the prairie outside the tent, and between breaths, she was burning with worry——

Outside the tent, at the end of the snowy field full of cattle and sheep, thousands of heavily armored cavalry appeared vaguely.Most of the knights are herdsmen who have just passed the selection and put on the iron mountain armor.Under the command of Jiang Yan, this heavy armored cavalry, which had just formed an army, was carving out a huge circle in the snow.In the center of the circle, there are two teams, each with more than a thousand people.

Holding wooden sabers and spears high in their hands, the knights drove their respective horses and formed two long formations that were conducive to charging.Behind the long formations of both sides, there are two flags, one green and one white.As long as either side successfully captures the other side's flag, victory can be declared.

Right now, Jiang Yan is riding on Wu Chen's back, standing in front of the team holding the green flag, pointing the ground with a long knife, his eyes shining.Suddenly, he raised Xiao Tianmo in his hand over the top, and his extraordinary physical strength made the heavy Mo Dao stand upright like a steel needle piercing the sky, but it didn't shake at all.

Following the young man's actions, the battle drums in the formation immediately sounded, and the rapid drum beats sounded like thunder on the ground.

"Remember the formation I taught you before, and also remember the people around you! On the battlefield, only the sabers in your hands and the robes around you can make you come back alive!"

The young man shouted loudly, and suddenly chopped down the long knife in his hand.The drumbeat that was originally used to boost morale stopped immediately, and was replaced by two short, deafening horns.

At the same time, Tie Chongshan behind Jiang Yan also rushed forward aggressively following him.The riders tried to use the reins in their hands to control the pace of the horses' feet, so that the mounts could maintain the neat formation listed earlier.

The prairie people didn't need drums to march, but at this time, Jiang Yan improved the art of war he had learned from Xiang Baili, which not only allowed these originally chaotic cavalry to control their forward speed according to the drums, but also made the prairie people The familiar ox horn was played to the extreme.

Shuobei is flat, and the howling wind not only brings frightening frost, rain and snow, but also often overwhelms all the sounds that try to penetrate it.But even so, the prairie people who use the horns as their numbers can accurately find their companions even when the sky is full of wind and snow.And in the sound of the only horn that can penetrate the wind, Jiang Yan added the rhythm of drums, so that the cavalry, who were already wearing helmets and marching at high speed, could accurately hear complex instructions that could not be conveyed by human voice. , so as to quickly change the formation.

When the cavalry rushed about [-] paces, they heard three short blasts of trumpets.The two wings of the original long snake gradually moved back, and turned into a sharp arrow that shot into the enemy's formation, and the general flame was the deadliest point on the arrow's tip.

The two teams collided instantly.Jiang Yan's sudden change of formation obviously made the opponent's command overwhelmed.The rapidly advancing cavalry rushed straight into the opponent's formation in an instant, seeing that the white flag was already within easy reach.

However, the cavalry who had gained the upper hand suddenly began to lose their positions.They no longer continued to rush towards the flag according to the previous formation, but brandished their knives and guns, and fought with the opponents passing by.

In front of the thick armor of Iron Heavy Mountain, wooden knives and guns could not form effective killing at all.But this obviously slowed down the cavalry's progress, and the originally uniform formation instantly became disorganized and turned into a mess.

"Don't stop, keep up with my speed!"

Jiang Yan turned his head and roared loudly at the cavalry who were fighting indiscriminately, but the sound could not be heard very far, and was drowned in the wind.However, he did not turn his horse's head to join the fight behind him, instead, he clamped Wu Chen's abdomen with his legs, lowered his figure, and continued to accelerate forward, forward!

Before the sergeant guarding the flag who was waiting in full battle could react, the black-eyed boy flew through the line of defense they had set up on his mount.The opponent immediately tightened the reins and wanted to chase, but in the face of Wu Chen's speed, any pursuit would be futile.

Hearing a crisp sound, Jiang Yan used Xiao Tianmo to cut off the flagpole of the white flag.He raised the half-truncated flag high above his head, and watched the cavalry chasing after him stop their horses, with endless disappointment and unwillingness on his face.

However, to everyone's surprise, the young Hehan ruthlessly threw the flag in his hand on the ground.The victorious side who were cheering and cheering didn't know what the intention of this move was, but when they saw the young man glaring angrily, they suddenly lost their voice.

Standing on his horse, Jiang Yan scolded in the wind with all his strength: "Everyone thinks that this is victory? In fact, we have already lost, and the defeat was crushing!"

"Da Hehan, they are the losers!"

"Yeah, haven't you already captured the opponent's flag?"

A sergeant in the formation asked puzzledly, with obvious dissatisfaction in his tone.Some of them were twice the age of this southerner Hehan, but as Jiang Yan's fierce eyes swept over him one by one, they were still too frightened to speak any more on the spot.

"No matter how thick the armor is, it will be broken by a sharp weapon one day. The only way to make Iron Heavy Mountain defeat the enemy is to advance and retreat together and defeat the enemy with all your strength. However, what you did just now was to take an original The hard fists are dismantled into fingers that can be snapped off! If we really faced each other, we would have been divided and outflanked by the enemy by now, and we would have been defeated one by one! The strength of Yubei's army is far from being easily resisted by a suit of armor and a saber. Want to deal with They, all of them must obey the order and prohibit it! Return to their respective formations, change the front and arrow just now and do it again!"

There are no underdogs under the command of a brave general. After Hehan's reprimand, the originally proud Tie Chongshan lowered their heads one after another, but everyone's chest was filled with a sense of not admitting defeat.After the formation was completed, a new round of offensive and defensive battles began again.

Watching the battle drill gradually taking shape, Jiang Yan's frown was finally relaxed a little.And Yuan Ti, who followed him to stand on the sidelines to watch the battle, also took this opportunity to step forward, and bowed his hands to perform a standard Shuo Di military salute:

"If Dahehan could have come to this grassland earlier, perhaps the situation of the Muyun Department today would be completely different."

Jiang Yan turned his head, but he was not happy with the other party's words: "The old general is overrated. Why do I feel that there is no deep meaning in your words?"

"Da Hehan has insight into the details, and the old minister does have something to say to you. However, this place is not suitable right now. Why don't you go further south with the old minister?"

Hearing this, the boy with black pupils immediately realized that the other party was so cautious, and what he was going to say next must have something to do with Yubei, so he nodded immediately.The two rode straight out of the camp, and walked another two or three miles. When they could no longer see the tents lined up behind them clearly, Jiang Yan asked again:
"Old general, is there any new change on the front line?"

The old general in white iron armor nodded, and gradually tightened the reins in his hand, walking side by side with the young man:

"Da Hehan's guess is correct. According to reports from the scouts sent, the Royal Northern Cavalry Army has marched northward in a large scale. I am afraid that they want to cross the Jin River before the winter snow melts. I was worried about affecting the morale of the army before, so I invited Go south with Hehan, let’s go and see for ourselves.”

After hearing this, Jiang Yan didn't say anything else, he just patted Wu Chen's neck lightly a few times, speeding up his progress.Soon, a team of guards arranged by Yuan Ti joined the two of them.Several people and horses galloped south, but the muscles on everyone's faces were tense.

"Old general, what do you think we will have a chance of winning in this battle with Yubei?" Finally, Jiang Yan was the first to break the silence.

"Hehan knows, what did the beggar do after he led the crowd back to Pingtung Gobi?" The old man who walked forward did not answer his question directly.

The black-eyed boy shook his head, and looked at the other party who answered the question in a strange way.Yuan Ti didn't seem to notice the expression on the other person's face, but just continued on his own:
"Qihe ordered all the herdsmen under his rule not to hand over any Pingtung horses to the Muyun Department. And the large pastures south of Shijinghai are now blocked by him, and there are heavy soldiers patrolling all day long. If Yanluoyuan If the spring grass does not germinate, our livestock and horses will soon fall into a situation where there will be no grass to eat."

"Didn't the Woma Department hand over the repaired documents a few days ago?"

"Dahehan, you also know that there are not a few people who want to be Tianhehan in this Shuobei grassland. Now, although he is submissive on the surface, he always has two hearts. Not only the Wuma one, Qingzi , Chuo Luo are the same."

"Do you want to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, and then reap the benefits of the fisherman?"

Jiang Yan snorted heavily in his nose, but he also understood the deep meaning of Yuan Ti's words - now in terms of Shuo Di's five tribes, the biggest enemy is not only Yubei from the south, but also from suspicion, strife, and killing inside for many years.Since it is impossible to ask all the ministries to help him sincerely, then it is up to Mu Yunbu himself to win the almost impossible battle in front of him. "

The black-eyed boy's complexion became more serious.However, when he was thinking hard about the strategy of retreating the enemy in his mind, he saw a huge team under the horizon that almost merged into the white snow, just like a curled up silver-white python, in the ups and downs. Snakes are running on the grassland.

"It's Saxue Cavalry! I just learned yesterday that their army is gathered in the south of the Jin River, and they have already arrived here today!"

Yuan Ti didn't seem to have expected that the enemy's marching speed would be so fast.

Jiang Yan, however, seemed to no longer feel any uneasiness about his own disadvantage. Instead, he turned his head and asked the other party: "Old General, you are about to go to war with your homeland. Have you ever had any hesitation in your heart?"

"The direction of the heart is the homeland. When the old minister went north with Mrs. Kezun to Muyun, he made up his mind to take good care of her and her flesh and blood. Since then, I am no longer a Yubei person."

"Are you no longer a Yubeiren..."

Jiang Yan murmured and repeated the last sentence of the other party—although he had already gotten used to the life on this grassland, he always felt that there was a voice calling in his heart, telling him not to forget the past and where he came from.He understands that if a war breaks out, it means that he will completely break with the dynasty that he once called his homeland.At this moment, even he himself couldn't tell who he was standing on and who he was fighting for.

The black-eyed boy turned his head and looked at the Zangdao Ridge in the sky where the dark black peak was exposed from the white snow, and gradually fell silent.But there are some things, only when you actually do it, can you know whether it is right or wrong.

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