twin moon

Chapter 245 No.30 Act Three: Neither Enemy nor Friend II

Just when Young and Han led his army across the Pinjin River and set foot on the Shuobei Grassland again, there were already fine snowflakes like dust floating in the sky.Yanluoyuan in September should have been a time when the sky is high, the fields are wide, and the grass and trees are yellow and red.Cattle and sheep will also grow fat during this season, storing enough energy for the winter.The herdsmen would hunt in groups, produce high-quality leather for sewing clothes, and prepare more dried meat for the winter.

However, it is this fertile pasture that has provided protection to Mu Yunbu in the harsh winter for tens of thousands of years, but now it is barren.The wolf plague a few months ago brought countless killings to the grassland.The strong bloody smell soaked into the soil, and even made the veins on the newly sprouted grass leaves in summer and autumn tinge with a trace of blood-like bright red.

This bloody smell also scared away all the living creatures that originally lived here.Ground otters and hares, which should have burrowed in groups to store grass seeds and nuts, and red foxes and lynxes that ate them are almost extinct.Even the large number of wild horses, bison and wild sheep that were most popular with herdsmen and came here to escape the snow for the winter have never appeared again.

Even the prairie people who were once called "a million Shuo Di million troops" by the southern countries have now died out of ten households and nine.After being defeated in the Shuodi Rebellion, the Five Tribes of Shuobei, which had managed to repopulate and prosper under the rule of Hongji and Tieqin, suffered another catastrophe, making the sparsely populated grassland even more desolate. up.

Today, all the people in the Red Flame Army rode on the bare land, all looking downcast, and some even covered their faces and cried.If given a choice, they would rather fight bloody battles with their parents and relatives under the minions of the wolves than live in the current situation where Yin and Yang are separated.

"Since you have returned to your homeland, you should all disperse."

Jiang Yan tightened the bit in Wu Chen's mouth suddenly, turned his horse's head and gave orders to the red armored warriors behind and beside him in a loud voice.

No one in the Chi Yan army understood what He Han meant by this move, they all stopped and looked at him at a loss what to do.

The black-eyed boy turned around and glanced at the cart carrying Tuya's bones, and heaved a long sigh:

"Nowadays, there is no pure land in the world because of those ferocious beasts. Now I just want to find a secluded place to mourn my dead wife. If you firmly believe that your family members are still alive, then go find them, and I will work with Tuya for Your relatives pray for blessings. Or if your family members are also killed, then go to find their bones to pay homage, and let them know that you are still alive."

A little surprise appeared on the faces of the crowd, but no one left first.After a long time, people around the cavalry began to dismount one after another, saluted Jiang Yan and his late wife Tuya respectfully, turned around with their horses, and walked away in different directions.

More and more people left, and finally only the driver was left beside Jiang Yan.

"Do you—do you know the way back to the south?"

asked the young Hehan.However, the coachman shook his head vigorously:
"The villain is lucky in his life, and he has been rescued by Dahehan to be able to live until today. Now if the villain is ordered to go back alone, in case he encounters those ferocious beasts that eat people halfway - it would be better to stay by Dahehan's side to be safe! "

"Never mind."

Jiang Yan knew that no matter what he said, the other party would never leave, so he nodded and asked him to drive the cart again.After walking aimlessly for half a day like this, he suddenly felt someone following behind him.

The black-eyed boy turned his head, and saw that three or five Red Flame Army members who had left earlier were following in the distance.At first, he only thought that he was some fellow soldiers, so he continued to move forward on his own.However, after another three incense sticks, when he turned his head again, he saw that the horse team following him half a mile away had grown to more than a thousand people!

"I couldn't save the grassland, I couldn't save your relatives, I couldn't even save my own wife. Why do you still follow me?!"

Jiang Yan stopped his mount again, and shouted to everyone behind him, but his tone was filled with endless guilt and grief.

"My relatives in the heaven of longevity, I also hope that I will accompany His Royal Highness Princess Yamato Hantong!"

But someone in the crowd responded loudly, "If it weren't for His Royal Highness Princess Dahe Hantong, we might have died under the iron hooves of the rebels, or the swords and arrows of Yubei Saxueqi! Those fierce beasts, the brothers still walked from Changzhou to Yujing City, and returned to Yanluoyuan alive! Grassland people have always been hard-pressed to obey their destiny, and they will not surrender! Only Changge Liquor can save life and death!"

As the red armored warrior spoke, he sang the battle song of the Muyun Department again.The vigorous and simple tunes are like the white clouds and green grass that have been hidden on the grassland for thousands of years, and also like the sun, moon and stars that have been repeated in the sky for more than ten thousand years.

More and more warriors joined in the chants.The loud and clear singing resounded through the sky, gradually dispelling the dark clouds over everyone's heads, and also dispelling the despair and fear in their hearts.

To everyone's surprise, with the singing getting stronger and stronger, the mountains around Yanluoyuan actually sounded the faint sound of horns—that is the horn that only grassland people would wear with them.As the sound of the trumpet became clearer and clearer, a large group of people came out of the mountain depression one after another.Most of them are ragged and skinny.But everyone seemed to be inspired by the previous singing, with hope shining in their eyes.

It turned out that there were more than ten thousand herdsmen hiding in the mountains!The vast majority of them were members of the Muyun tribe who had fled in all directions when they were attacked by galloping wolves, and there were also many people from Yimu, Qingzi, and Chuoluo tribes mixed in.

A group of people waited to come down the mountain and bowed down in front of Jiang Yan.And among the fiery red soldiers, some actually recognized their parents, brothers, sisters, wives and children from the crowd, and all of a sudden they hugged each other and wept.

Night gradually fell.Under the starry sky, Yanluoyuan, which had been silent for many days, lit a bright and dazzling bonfire again.The fire light shines on everyone's face, pious and sad.In the dots of fire, there is also a high platform built of thick logs, which is more than ten feet high.

Standing on that platform were Tuya covered in white gauze, and the bones of the dead steppe people whose bodies could be found.

In one year, Shuobei Grassland spends nearly half of the year in the pinch of wind, snow and frost.Therefore, the grassland people worship the flame that represents warmth and light more than the people of the southern vassal states.According to the custom, people must be cremated at the foot of the holy mountain after death.And they firmly believe that only the flame can help the dead to get rid of the pain, fear, cold and hardship in life, and become a pure soul and enter the longevity heaven.Because of this, the wooden platform used to place and burn the remains is also called the Immortal Platform.

After staying on the grassland for these years, Jiang Yan, who originally believed that "it will be safe in the soil", has gradually accepted this kind of rhetoric. That's why he went out of his way to bring his beloved wife's bones back to Yanluoyuan Back to this piece of intertwined her love and hate, also let each other leave a short but good time, wild but extremely pure grassland.

"Dahehan, please see off Her Highness the Princess."

A warrior beside him brought Jiang Yan, who was staring at the high platform in a daze, back to his senses.He nodded, and took the ritual bow and arrow from the opponent's hand.

A flame ignited from the arrowhead wrapped in velvet soaked in kerosene.The flames danced, and an orange-red bright spot was reflected in the young man's eyes like ink.In a daze, Jiang Yan seemed to see his Jiefa wife come back to life in the flames.Standing on the high immortal stage, she smiled at her husband, smiling so sweetly and without regret.

"Jiang Yan, send me one last ride."

Tuya's vermilion lips parted slightly.Although the distance was far away, the young Hehan felt that the voice of the voice seemed to be ringing in his ears.He tried his best to smile at his deceased wife, but found that his face was full of tears, so he nodded solemnly and pulled the bowstring to its fullest, as if he wanted to pour all his thoughts into the arrow in his hand .

The point of the burning arrow pointed directly at the sky, and with the sound of "teng", it drew a perfect arc in the air, and flew straight to the immortal platform covered with kerosene.

"Go all the way. If there is a destiny, we will see you in the next life!"

Jiang Yan, who deeply engraved the other party in his heart, watched the raging fire suddenly erupting on the wooden platform, let the bow in his hand slip to his feet, then raised his sleeves to wipe away the tears that blurred his vision, turned around and left, never again. Didn't take a second look.

And standing under the Immortal Stage at this moment are fifty fully armed Red Flame Army soldiers who have already prepared well.They hold torches, and the horses on their crotches are majestic and solemn.In front of them was Jiang Yan's mount, Wu Chen.

Long before the funeral, the young Hehan heard that there seemed to be more than a dozen Woma tribe members who had fled from Shijinghai in the mountains.However, when the other party heard that Muyunbu and Hangui had returned, they did not dare to follow the others down the mountain.At this time, the boy sent his beloved wife away, calmed down a little, and planned to go to the mountains to meet these former rivals in person.

Half an hour later, more than [-] people from the Woma tribe quietly came down the mountain and were going westward under the moonlight, but were stopped at the foot of Lancang Mountain by General Yan and the Chiyan Army.The crowd was covered with wide cloaks. Although their faces could not be seen clearly in the firelight, they vaguely looked like frail old people, women and children.

The young He Han didn't dare to relax at all, and put Xiao Tianmo out of the sheath on his knee.However, before he could ask a question, the other party spoke first:

"Heaven and Harmony are auspicious and auspicious!"

The speaker was an old man with gray beard and hair.Jiang Yan looked at the other party coldly, with an unconcealable distrust in his tone:

"Why do you want to run?"

"Before, Muyun fought against the two tribes of Wuma and became enemies. Now that I see Hehan, I will be afraid in my heart."

"People who have never been on the battlefield, why should they be afraid? Could it be that after the rebellious beggar returned, he described me as an evil ghost who cannibalize people without spitting out bones?"

The young Hehan stared at him, and although his tone was not serious, it made everyone kneel down in fright, saying "dare not".Unexpectedly, the black-eyed boy still put the long knife in his hand on the old man's neck:
"So, the reason why you came all the way to Yanluoyuan, what is the reason you want to hide?"

"It's the galloping wolf, the galloping wolf raging on the grassland!"

The old man knelt down tremblingly, echoing the sound in his mouth, but he didn't dare to look up at the other person's face.

"How come there are galloping wolves at Shijinghai? The pack of wolves just went south two months ago and attacked Yanluoyuan, Tongsuiyao and Yujing in a big way. How could they run so fast? Besides—to the west of Shijinghai, isn't it? There is a Wuping Mountain where you can hide!"

Jiang Yan's eyes suddenly froze, as if he sensed something was wrong from the other party's words.However, no matter how much he asked, the old man in front of him always avoided answering why Chi Lang appeared in Shi Jinghai.

Until a childish voice sounded from the crowd:

"Please don't ask Tianhe Han again. We don't know why those wolves who were very well-behaved stopped listening to anyone overnight—"

Xiaowa may have been frightened by Jiang Yan's appearance, or remembered the tragedy of her relatives being killed by wolves, and suddenly cried out.However, before he finished speaking, the adults on both sides held his mouth and nose, and he couldn't say a word.

When Jiang Yan and Chi Yanjun heard this, their faces changed, and they realized that things were far from as simple as they thought.And the Woma tribe also knew that they couldn't continue to hide the truth, so they told the truth in every detail, but what they heard made people feel even more frightened and unbelievable.

"In this way, he begged Hezhen—no, it should be the entire Wuma tribe. Ever since Damuhe was still alive, he knew that there were people who raised galloping wolves in the ice and snow in the north? But this time the pack of wolves When going south to attack Yujing, there were also warriors from the Woma tribe involved?!"

The young Hehan asked sharply, but because he was so surprised, even his voice became sharp.

The old man on the opposite side hesitated again and again, and finally nodded to admit it, but he kept trying to get rid of the relationship: "...At that time, our clan was also coerced by others, so we went astray. Now, the wolves have settled near Shi Jinghai. Destroyed completely, I will come to seek refuge when I am really helpless, please be kind to God and Han!"

"Mr. Kun..."

Jiang Yan's heart trembled, and the name Mu He had mentioned before his death suddenly sounded, but he didn't vent the anger in his heart on the spot, he just took a deep breath, and with a suppressed, trembling voice Coldly said:
"You shouldn't have helped the bad guys to raise ferocious beasts back then, otherwise the grassland would never have turned into what it is now! What's more--what's more, if you hadn't been attacked by wolves today, you would still be in front of me, Did you say such regretful words?!"

After the young He Han finished speaking, he withdrew Xiao Tianmo from the opponent's neck, and started to ride down the mountain.

Seeing this, the hundreds of households of the Red Flame Army who led the team behind hurriedly chased up and asked how to deal with those members of the Woma tribe.Jiang Yan just waved his hand lightly:
"The purgatory on earth we have experienced, these people all have a share. They have long since lost their sincere heart as grassland people, and have become the sworn enemies of grassland people, so let's kill them all to comfort the heroic spirits. In addition, send A fast horse sends me an order, and all the Red Flame Army are ready! After I return to the camp, set off immediately!"

"Let's go? Where else is Hehan planning to go?" Baihu seemed a little puzzled.

"Shi Jinghai. Since those galloping wolves attacked the Wuma tribe last, maybe the person behind the scenes manipulating the wolves' attacks is still staying there with those man-eating beasts. We have to die for all The clansmen under the minions, seek justice!"

The black-eyed boy replied without looking back.One person, one horse, galloped away into the dark night with heavy snowflakes.

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