Chastity Layman

  Chapter 522 Huo Qubing Rebirth

  West down the mountain.

  The melted snow water from the snow-capped mountains converges into streams, winding and flowing on the vast grasslands below the mountains.

  By the clear river, dead bodies are everywhere.

  Xi Jun bought a horse and slowly patrolled the battlefield. He looked at the tribe conquered by sword and fire with satisfaction, shook off the blood left on the knife, and called his subordinates.

   "Send a letter to Duke Wei, saying that we have wiped out another team in the Nori Department."

  Since crossing the Gansong Mountains, Qin Lang has led three thousand light cavalry to go deep into the Barrens, and entered the nest of Dangxiang Qiang's hinterland, as fast as the wind and as fierce as fire.

  The party members, who are elusive, swift as the wind, and young and strong, crossed the Minshan Mountains and entered the Tang Dynasty to plunder, were stunned.

  As Qin Lang expected, he hardly met any decent resistance along the way.

   One man and three horses, criss-crossing the grasslands and valleys, without luggage, plundering supplies on the spot, supporting the war with war, in this cool summer season, it is really cool and refreshing.

  Xi Junmai played forward as usual. Counting this small tribe today, with his 200 riders alone, he had already conquered 17 small tribes and killed more than 3,000 people.

  A Guanzhong disciple came over, "Are there still no survivors?"

   Jun Xi put the knife back into its sheath and nodded, "Carrying it is a burden, but keeping it is still a disaster. Kill them all."

   "Leave one left ear and go back to ask for merit."

  The knights in Guanzhong had no objection to this order. They came to retaliate against the invasion of the Qiang people, so naturally they would not show mercy.

  A group of Qiang people were escorted to the river.

  The knights conducted a final interrogation on them, asking about the location of nearby tribes, the number of people, cattle and horses, roads and rivers, etc.

  Participate in the military, gather the information you get, and verify each other, and then mark it clearly on your own map book.

   "Okay, I don't need it anymore, I'll leave it to you." The bearded joiner closed the map and said rightly to the team.

The    team was nodding, and came to the team of Qiang prisoners with a knife.

   "In the next life, don't be a Qiang thief again!"

With an order, a flash of saber light flashed, and the knights swung the sabers in their hands, cutting off one left ear of all the prisoners in that row, screaming again and again, the knights raised their sabers again, and dropped them again, this time It was a knife that broke his neck and his head fell to the ground.

  The smell of blood is everywhere.

  The knights kept their expressions unchanged, and stepped forward to kick the separated heads and corpses into the river.

  The clear river water that melts from the snow-capped mountains is instantly dyed red.

   "Third son, pick up your ears, don't miss out."

The   team shouted at a young knight, turned around and left with a knife in hand.

  The young man responded, picked up a bag, and began to bend down and squat on the ground to pick up the ears that had just been cut off.

  The head is inconvenient to carry, and the captives are even more difficult to carry, so they simply leave only one left ear, so that it is easy to carry and can be taken back to ask for credit as a certificate.

  Put an arrow in a hole in each ear, tie up ten of them with a string, and throw them into your pocket.

  By the time Qin Lang arrived, Xi Junmai had already gone deep with his subordinates, leaving only a knight who presented a more detailed map and a large bag of left ear.

   Qin Lang felt a little headache looking at this ear.

  He has now accumulated dozens of pockets of ears, and there are thousands of them.

  Although a left ear is easier to carry than a head, it can add up to a lot, and the thousands of them are quite cumbersome.

   Now the accumulation is increasing, and more than a dozen horses are needed to pull it. Although it has been pickled with lime, it will inevitably start to rot and emit a foul smell.

   "Liu Jishi, count these ears, and then throw all the ears here, and seal a mound with some mud. If you have time, find a stone and stand it next to it, carve some words, and briefly introduce it."

"In the ancient wars, many people headed to watch. Today, Wei Gong is innovative. It is also a miracle to get a left-eared Beijing watch." Liu Jishi laughed, and he was very excited about this matter, so he hurriedly shouted Then call someone to go.

  Qin Lang looked at the map.

The map in his hand is more detailed than the one bought by Xi Jun. Since he crossed Gansongling, Qin Lang kept dividing his troops along the way, with three thousand troops. Now Xi Junmai, Su Dingfang, Liang Jianfang, Gao Kan, and Gao Zhensheng each lead hundreds of troops. His own Chinese army is getting smaller and smaller, and now there are only 800 troops left.

In the beginning, everyone kept a relatively short distance, that is, a distance of ten or twenty miles, but now, the more they killed, the more joyful they were. Hundreds of miles away.

  Seeing that the knight under Xi Junmai's command, turned around and mounted his horse, and galloped north to catch up with Xi Junmai, Qin Lang couldn't help being amazed.

   This is Tang Jun.

  Datang was neither rich nor long, nor had any glorious history and art at this time, but they were full of incomparable self-confidence.

   They straddle their horses and dare to go all over the world.

   No matter who dares to face Datang, Tang Qi dares to kill with a horizontal knife.

  Dang Xiang Qiang, how old is he?

  Dare to fight with Datang Ziya, you will seek your own death!

  For more than a month, Qin Lang and the others continued to go deep without fear, and they had already reached the foot of Xiqing Mountain. If they went northwest, they would cross Jishi Mountain and enter the territory of the Tuyuhun people.

  Dangxiang tribes along the way were cut down one by one.

  The Beijing Temple of Human Ears has also been repaired from the first to the ninth.

  Behind them is the silent grassland valley, the party members are dead and animals are destroyed, and the camps are destroyed.

  Where it passes, not a blade of grass is left.

   People have to go too far, grass has to go too far, and even livestock have to be killed.

   This is destructive revenge. Although Qin Lang and the others can't eat a few livestock at all, they will not leave it to the Tuyuhun people.

   Do not take prisoners, do not capture cattle and sheep.

  Each person has three horses, one for riding, one for spare, and one for milk, meat and hay. Every time a stockade is breached, a new batch of horses must be replaced.

   The rushing water sounded in front.

  On the grassland, a wide river meanders.

  A knight ran back and shouted loudly.

   "Yellow River, Yellow River, we have reached the edge of the Yellow River."

  A group of Guanzhong men looked at the extremely clear river in surprise, "How can the Yellow River be so clear?"

  Qin Lang also excitedly drove the leopard head to the Yellow River. The Yellow River here is not as wide as it is in the Central Plains.

   "This is Hequ, the upper reaches of the Yellow River."

  Qin Lang looked at the winding river, admiring the beautiful scene in his heart.

  After flowing hundreds of miles south of the Jishi Mountains, the Yellow River will turn to the northwest and flow between the Xiqing Mountains and the Jishi Mountains when it reaches the foot of the Xiqing Mountains.

  West Qingshan, this is the watershed between the Tao River and the Qiang River, and also the watershed between the Yellow River and the Yangtze River.

  In the hinterland of the Dangxiang people, they ran from south to north for a month, and completely killed the Dangxiang Qiang area. In front of them, it was already the territory of the Tuyuhun people.

  As early as more than a month ago, Dang Xiangqiang began to chase and intercept this deeply trusted Tang cavalry.

  But they were still one step behind. Qin Lang led a total of three thousand soldiers and horses, and they were scattered into six groups. Sometimes they gather, sometimes they disperse, they come and go like the wind, their whereabouts are erratic, and there is no predetermined route goal at all.

  Among the vast mountains, rivers, valleys and grasslands, it is too difficult to intercept and block this army.

   This is especially true after the main party members have all gone east.

  Qin Lang and the others came whenever they wanted, left whenever they wanted, bypassed the big tribes, and bit the small ones, and never stayed in any place for more than a day.

  Continuous flow and rush, making the pursuit always one step slower.

Tuoba Chici, Xifeng Bulai, etc. only mobilized the left-behind tribes to encircle them from the beginning, but later they had to bring back soldiers and horses from the east. call back.

   Just to be able to surround this 3,000-man Tang cavalry.

   More than a month, from summer to autumn.

  Qin Lang spent most of his time on horseback. The strong ultraviolet rays at high altitude made Qin Lang darker, but the continuous marching and fighting also made him a lot thinner.

  From the jade-faced unicorn in the past to the copper-faced killing **** today, the person has become darker and thinner, but he is also stronger.

  Behind him is the ever-increasing gathering of Dangxiang Qiang soldiers. Now the entire Dangxiang Qiang is besieging Qin Lang and his cavalry. Over a thousand miles away, more than 100,000 horses are besieging them.

   It is said that Tuoba Chici even awarded a huge reward, saying that as long as anyone who captures Qin Lang, no matter whether he is dead or alive, he will be rewarded with a hundred catties of gold, a thousand cattle, and ten thousand sheep, and he will marry his young and beautiful little daughter.

   As for Tang Jun under Qin Lang, each of them can exchange ten horses and twenty cows. If the team is leading the brigade and other officers, they can get more rewards in exchange.

   It's just that, for more than a month, no party member has been able to capture even a Tang soldier, or even a corpse.

  Qin Lang fought deep into the heart of the party for more than a month. In fact, there were some casualties, but neither Qin Lang nor Su Dingfang left anyone behind. Even the brothers who died in battle would be cremated directly and carry the ashes on their backs.

   On the bank of the Yellow River, westward down the mountain.

  Qin Lang set up a banner.

   Within a day, Su Dingfang and other five generals each led their headquarters to meet up as agreed.

   While the fat difference is roasting, everyone enjoys a rare rest.

   "The party members have already retreated from Wenzhou, Xifeng Bulai is still in Fuzhou, and Tuoba Chici has personally chased us, vowing to drive us all to death."

  Qin Lang took a bunch of grilled mutton skewers that were sizzling with oil and slightly charred on the surface from the fire, grabbed some fine salt and sprinkled it on it, blew it a few times, put it into his mouth and ate happily.

  This mutton is very fat, especially with mutton tail oil sandwiched in the mutton skewers. Once the mutton tail oil is added and roasted on the fire, the oil will make the mutton more fragrant and tender.

  While eating skewers, he briefly introduced the latest military situation to the generals, deeply in the heart of the party, such information is not easy to come by.

  Su Dingfang was grilling a lamb chop, so he wasn't surprised by the news.

   "So we can't go back to Songzhou as planned?"

"Well, this road is blocked. Tuoba Chici still made a few blows. Now that he has become more aggressive, we have blocked all our escape routes. Now we only have one road left, which is to go northwest along the Yellow River. Enter the territory of Tuyuhun."

  Jishi Mountain in the southwest, Qingshan Mountain in the northeast and west, Qin Lang and his six groups of people were finally driven here by the party members, and there was even less room for flashing around.

Su Dingfang turned the lamb chops, "It's not that I look down on that old guy Tuoba Chici. Although he mobilized a lot of people and made a big show, his net is full of sieves. Where do we want to go?" Just go, don't try to stop us at all."

  Xi Junmai smiled and said, "I actually think it would be nice to drop by Tuyuhun to have a look. I heard that Tuyuhun has not infrequently violated our Tang border in recent years. Let's just go there and teach them a lesson."

  (end of this chapter)