Will Ming

Chapter 690

It had only been four or five days since the heavy rain, and the ground was already dry after being exposed to the sun, as if it had been burned by fire.The wind rolled over against the ground, and the blown sand could easily get into people's eyes.The child hiding in the dense grass on a high slope rubbed his eyes. Although his face turned pale with fright, he was still staring at the extremely tragic fight on the plain below the high slope.

Hidden in this clump of grass are two or three half-year-old children, and two women and five or six men. They are all disaster victims who escaped from Hebei. When they came here, there was a fight, so they hurried to find A place to hide.You must know that the matter of swords and soldiers is the most dangerous thing in the world, and if you accidentally get involved in it, you will die without a whole body.

These dozen or so people hid in the grass and didn't dare to vent their breath, lest they offend the vicious gods below.

The child who lost his eyes turned around and asked his father, "Grandpa...who is fighting with whom? Why are you beating so fiercely? It seems that those surrounded by the innermost people are sure to die."

His grandfather is a lame man, and half of his face is obviously injured and missing a piece of flesh, so he looks extraordinarily hideous and ugly, but for some reason, he stared at the fighting scene below with something special in his eyes fiery.

"It's either the Tang Army or the Yan Yun Army surrounding the outside!"

The man said firmly, "But the person trapped inside must be Xia Jun."

"Grandpa, how do you know?"

the child continued to ask.

The man subconsciously lowered his head and looked at the gray livery under his tattered clothes... He didn't know how to explain to his children that he was originally a member of the army of the Sui Dynasty and belonged to Xue Shixiong, the general of the left guard. Under his command, General Xue Shixiong died in the battle of Juma River, and the [-] elite soldiers of the government were almost slaughtered. He was a survivor and later surrendered to Daxia. The battle broke his leg and was slashed in the face.

After that, he became a useless person, and there are no useless people in the army.He got a few good severance pay, found a village to pick up a woman who was also lame, and gave birth to this baby... He thought that he would live his life in peace like this, but who would have thought that the Great Xia Kingdom would arrest soldiers every day? There must be a boy in the family, and his children who are less than ten years old will also go to work as coolies in the supply camp!So he stabbed the official to death with a knife he had hidden for six or seven years, and fled to the south with several poor families in the village.

Some people have said that King Yan's rule was much richer and more peaceful than Great Xia's.

But after they crossed the river, they found out that the hundreds of thousands of Daxia troops were fighting with the Yanyun Army and the Tang Army in Dongjun County, so they had to turn around and flee, but they didn't expect to encounter another fight when they arrived here.

"Grandfather?"

Before waiting for the father's answer, the child called him again.

"Let's go, don't look any further."

The man rubbed the sore corners of his eyes and was about to leave, but his child pulled his corner and begged, "Grandfather, I want to watch for a while."

"Swords and soldiers are murderous things. You are not allowed to touch them for the rest of your life. Don't read them!"

The man lowered his voice and scolded angrily, and the child who was less than ten years old reluctantly glanced at the battle situation below, and muttered in a low voice: "Man, it's better to go to battle and kill the enemy! If I grow up, I will join the army. To kill foreign enemies, to kill Goguryeo people, to kill Turkic people, Huihe people, Tiele people! Instead of fighting back and forth by the Central Plains people themselves!"

The man's face changed drastically, and he was about to yell at him but was stopped by a man from the same village: "Xue Gui, don't hit the child! Let's go, if we are found by Rangers and we are mistaken for Xia Jun's secret work, it will be broken."

The man named Xue Gui sighed, dragged the child away.

It's just that when a few people turned around, they were stunned again, and their faces became extremely pale.Under the high slope behind them, at some point, there were densely packed soldiers in fine armor.The long spears are like a forest, and the black armor is connected into one piece, like a large black cloud falling to the ground.

As soon as they got out of the grass, they were surrounded by dozens of fine armored infantry.

"What are you doing here?"

A silver-armored general riding a tall horse asked gently.

Xue Gui knelt down with a limp leg, kowtowed repeatedly, and said, "Caomin and others are passing refugees, and they had to hide when they met the army fighting."

"Listen, why do you have the accent from the river east?"

General Shining Armor asked.

Xue Gui quickly explained: "There was a great change in the family, so I had to escape to seek a living. The ancestral home of the Caomin is indeed Hedong. Later, they begged all the way to Hebei, but after a few years, they encountered disasters and fled again."

"It's hard for you to escape from Hebei. What's your name?"

"My name is Xue Gui."

"The Xue family from Hedong can be regarded as a famous family."

"It's already broken..."

Xue Gui sighed and said, "The grass people are just passers-by, please spare us, General."

"Take off your coat."

The silver-armored general pointed to Xue Gui and said.

"Caomin... Caomin's clothes are picked up... picked up!"

Xue Gui quickly bowed his head and said.

"You have a knife wound on your face, I can see that. The clothes inside you are Xia Jun's uniform, I can also see that, how do you prove that you are not a spy?"

General Yinjia waved his hand and said: "Take them all and hand them over to the military inspectors for a trial. If you are ordinary people, you will naturally not embarrass you. Sending you to Dongping County to farm fields will at least give you food and clothing."

"I want to join the army!"

Xue Gui's son suddenly stood up and stopped in front of his father: "My grandfather didn't lie either!"

"Ha ha!"

General Shining Armor laughed loudly, pointed at the child with a whip and asked, "How old are you?"

"Nine years old!"

"what is it call?"

"Xue Rengui!"

"Xue Rengui is, wait until you are weaned before joining the army!"

General Yinjia laughed loudly, and said with a smile to Xue Gui: "I can see that you are not secret agents, but as long as you are taken down, you can be interrogated by the people from the Military Inspection Office and sent directly to the farmland in Dongping County. It’s less laborious and safer to walk over by yourself.”

"Thank you General!"

Xue Gui thanked him sincerely and bowed his head deeply.

"Xue Rengui!"

General Yinjia pointed to a person who was tied up by Wuhuada in the distance and said: "Remember, if you join the army in the future, don't be like that. Be bloody. You would rather be a dead ghost than a lifeless slave!"

"I remember!"

The little boy puffed up his chest and repeated: "I'd rather be a war dead ghost than a life slave!"

Xue Gui subconsciously raised his head to look, and immediately felt a bang in his heart. He recognized that the war criminal who was tied up by Wuhuada was actually Cao Dan, the most favored general under King Xia's command!

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The place where the Xia army was defeated was less than [-] miles away from Xingluocang. There is a very elegant name here called Chu Fengting. It is said that a former sage once saw a guest here, and the guest was a Chu person, so it got the name.In the early years, there was indeed a pavilion here, but no one repaired it and it collapsed long ago. After many years, the pavilion may have turned into a handful of loess.

The terrain of Chufeng Pavilion is flat, which is suitable for a decisive battle.

It was here that Yuwen Shiji encircled with an army of [-], and slaughtered the tens of thousands of Xia troops brought down south by Cao Dan in one go.From the very beginning, he didn't give Cao Dan a chance to breathe, and killed tens of thousands of Xia Jun with the power of a lion on a rabbit.When Cao Dan came from afar, the soldiers were tired and exhausted. In addition, they were surrounded by surprise attacks and there was no resistance. Six out of ten they were defeated before fighting.

At the former site of Chu Feng Pavilion, Yuwen Shiji's men and horses trapped Cao Dan.

After a fierce battle, there were less than 2000 people left around Cao Dan.The Yanyun army outside surrounded them layer by layer, not to mention people, even a bird would never want to fly out.At this time, including Cao Dan, all the remnants of the Xia army knew that there was no chance of survival.All it takes is an order from the general in charge of the Yanyun Army, and thousands of arrows are fired, and the two thousand remnant soldiers will turn into dead bodies all over the place in an instant.

Bai Yu paves the ground, where is there any chance of survival!

But at this moment, Cao Dan surrendered unexpectedly!

Speaking of which, Cao Dan's special status is there. He himself once said that anyone in the Great Xia Dynasty can betray King Xia, but he cannot.Anyone can surrender and beg for life, but not him.Because he is Empress Cao's eldest brother, if he betrays King Xia, his sister will probably be implicated as well.

A while ago, because of Dou Jiande's plan to also make Xiao Yizhen the queen, Empress Cao was furious and brought people to make a fuss, and even slapped Xiao Yizhen across the face.Because of this incident, the emperor was very annoyed and almost abolished Empress Cao.But under the persuasion of Dou Hongxian and others, this matter was revealed.

Dou Jiande has always been known to be afraid of his wife, but now that he is an emperor, how could he allow his wife to make a scene in the court?

But the kindness between the two husbands and wives is still there, so there is no big trouble.But because of this incident, Dou Jiande must have disgusted Empress Cao.

That's why Cao Dan first asked for orders to lead his army to attack Juyeze in Dongping County, and then asked for orders to attack Xingluocang.If Empress Cao falls out of favor, he will also be unlucky. He must rely on military merits to make the emperor value him again, but his ability to lead the army is limited. He was killed in Dongping County and returned in a big defeat. The [-] troops fled back. Less than twenty thousand.This time leading the army to attack Xingluocang, it was another crushing defeat.

Everyone thought that he would die for the country, but they didn't expect him to surrender.

Yuwen Shiji, who was dressed in silver armor, gave Cao Dan a contemptuous look, and then ordered someone to take him down.

"Thank you, General, for not killing me! Thank you, General, for not killing me!"

Cao Dan hastily thanked