Zhurou

Chapter 31 Whip
It was early morning at this moment, and there was no wild wind, but the sky was low and cloudy, and it was like rain and snow. Although the corpses on the ground were not rotten, there was a bloody smell lingering and stagnant in the mist, which lingered for a long time.

Zhao Mingzhi endured the nausea, and besides the nausea, salivation suddenly appeared at the base of his tongue.

She didn't want to make more troubles, but she couldn't restrain herself for a while, she was about to get off her horse, when she turned her head, Li Xun suddenly said, "Sit still."

At the same time, he stretched out the whip, and whipped the back of the horse she was riding in the void.

The firecrackers flashed, but they didn't hit the horses, but it was like a firecracker exploded in the air, scaring the horses to gallop one after another.

Zhao Mingzhi was caught off guard, and quickly grabbed the reins with one hand, and supported the saddle in front of him with the other, and finally stabilized, when he heard the sound of the whip behind him again.

If they were driven by the sound of whips, after running for a quarter of an hour, the horse gradually slowed down.

At this time, Li Xun looked around, looking for a gap, and finally paused for a while.

He stretched out his hand to grab the reins of Zhao Mingzhi's horse, and pulled it aside for three or four feet. After finding two clumps of dry bushes, he steered the horse back for seven or eight steps, pointed to the water bag beside her saddle, and said, "Rinse with water first." Rinse off."

Just now Zhao Mingzhi was frightened like that, but his nausea and discomfort disappeared inexplicably. Now that he relaxed again, he recovered quite a bit.

When she heard the words, she wanted to act accordingly, but just after removing the cork of the water bag she was carrying, a puff of white steam rose from it—it turned out that the hot water she had just poured in when she had breakfast in the morning had not been used in the past. After a long time, Mo Xiangte found out the water sac. After the skin was tanned, it was stacked thickly and hammered into an unknown number of layers.

While hesitating, Li Xun saw the clue and took off the water bag beside his saddle, handed it over and said, "I have never used this water bag before."

Zhao Mingzhi reached out to take it, opened it and saw that it was filled with cold water.

As soon as the water entered her throat, she was so cold that she shivered. Finally, she felt sober and more comfortable. When her mind turned, the first thought that popped up was extremely strange—it was freezing cold in winter, how could Li Xun be so early in the morning? Just drink such cold water?Are his internal organs made of iron?
But she didn't ask any more questions, she said "Thank you second brother" before returning the water bag.

Li Xun didn't say much, he hung it back on the saddle casually, and said: "Yesterday's battle was not a big one, but the situation was miserable. There are still two or three miles in the middle of the battlefield. It's hard for ordinary people to bear. Mo Saying that you are not an army soldier, or an ordinary soldier, it is normal if you can't stand it—you might as well cover your mouth and nose, close your eyes, and the two of us will lead you forward."

Zhao Mingzhi didn't hold back, nodded and said: "Please trouble the second brother Tong Chengyan."

After finishing speaking, without any delay, he wiped the corners of his mouth clean with the handkerchief in his sleeve, sat down again, and said, "I'm done."

Li Xun nodded, turned the reins, returned to the road, turned to Wei Chengyan and said, "Let's go."

And Wei Chengyan just held the rein and waited at the side, watched the two people's actions and words for a long time, and wanted to intervene several times to comfort Zhao Mingzhi, but he couldn't find a chance.

He used to talk a lot, but at this moment he couldn't utter many good words, so he had to swallow them again, like a bubble of urine that had been held back for a long time, he was finally able to let loose, and when he touched the exit, he was forced to suppress it, blocking it Feeling flustered.

Wei Chengyan wanted to stomp his feet, but in desperation, he had no choice but to keep up, looking at Li Xun with a little more aggrieved eyes.

Although Zhao Mingzhi didn't close his eyes, he only looked at the mane on the neck of the horse below him, not daring to turn his eyes away.

The horse was running fast, and she couldn't help but think of the scene she had just seen without looking at the road.

At the beginning, the corpses on the ground were all Di soldiers, with scattered Jin soldiers interspersed.

Halfway through the journey, almost all of them were Jin people.

The Jin people there are exactly the escort team. The weapons and equipment, as well as the clothes of the fugitive civilians, are all correct.

They were either killed by arrows or by knives and guns, and the direction of the corpses was disorderly. It should be the same as the scene she saw when she was running away with her box. They were killed by Diren cavalry while fleeing for their lives.

But when Di Bing died, almost all died of arrows.

The tail of the arrow on Di Bing's body looked very familiar, it was different from ordinary wooden arrows, but it was the same as what was shot by the so-called "probably Di Bing's centurion" the night before, it was a wooden feather arrow.

Along the way, although she couldn't count them in detail, among the corpses she saw, there were at least a thousand Diren infantrymen, and there were at least a few hundred armored cavalrymen. It was also very concentrated, almost all of them fell in one place.

The Di people would not just sit and wait to die, they stood still and let them shoot.

It must be arrayed with divine arm bows and salvoed from a distance to be able to do this.

Although Zhao Mingzhi didn't understand the art of war, she had seen the imperial army's god-armed bow formation to defend against the enemy when she fled south. Tactics, tactics, and combat power were all indispensable. The cavalry on the opposite side seized the opportunity and counterattacked.

To be able to annihilate such a large number of Di soldiers within one or two hours of her leaving, at least dozens or even hundreds of magic-armed archers must cooperate tacitly to do it.

But how easy is it to train a well-coordinated bow team?
Even among the Forbidden Army who have a rich family background and can be carefully selected from all over the country, there are only a few hundred.

Now, the ordinary Xiang army from Junzhou to Dengzhou to change defense is actually so elite, has it been able to temper the magic arm bow team?
If so, why did everyone tell her that apart from Jingzhao and Fengxiang Xijun, the rest of the Jin army's military discipline is corrupt, and they are useless and useless?

Thinking back to the statements made by several veteran officials in the Privy Council, other officials who wrote letters, and many supporting evidence, Zhao Mingzhi always felt that they were not lying.

And when passing through Dengzhou, I also saw the Xiang army there, which was obviously the same as the soldiers escorting the luggage this time, and it was enough to praise them for being tired.

The two places often switch defenses, how can they be so incompatible and completely different from each other?

But now that he saw it with his own eyes, it is impossible for the corpse to be a fake?
Although she couldn't find the reason for the time being, she had already made a note of the matter, and she was determined to ask someone to find out when she returned to Caizhou.

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Besides, the three of them rode their horses for a long time, and they were tired. When the sun was high, they happened to pass a small stream with some dry grass and trees on the left and right, so they stopped for a while to rest.

When Zhao Mingzhi hit the ground with his feet, he was almost unsteady. After a while, he was about to sit down on the spot, but he was stopped by Li Xun just as he touched the ground.

He frowned and said: "After running for half a day, your blood vessels in your legs and feet are all stiff, don't sit still, get up and walk around."

Zhao Mingzhi was really unable to move around, and now being stopped like this, he wished he could lie down on the spot and show him.

The only problem is that the two just met each other after all, and they have nothing to do with each other, and the opposite is still a man, so they can't be obedient and coquettish at all, and they don't even dare to show embarrassment.

She gritted her teeth and tried to get up, but she couldn't hold on for a while, so she sat back down again.

On the other side, Li Xun sighed, and finally put the whip in his hand in front of Zhao Mingzhi within reach.

　Thank you Dandelion 2017 for giving it to me... What is it called? I don't know how to convert the number of help... Be careful, right?

　　thanks b? The peace amulet that useeye gave me :)

　　
　
(End of this chapter)