Chapter 3 Chapter Two

In the thirty-second year of Qin Shihuang (215 BC), General Meng Tian led an army of 300,000 to conquer the Xiongnu. This was the first confrontation between the Qin Dynasty that unified the Central Plains and the powerful northern nomadic peoples.Meng Tian crusaded against the Huns troops in various places, and finally regained the Hetao area, which had been plundered by the Huns for many years, and set up a county system in the area. Meng Tian then proceeded to build the Great Wall from Lintao County (Linzhang County, Gansu Province) to Liaodong County, which stretched for more than 10,000 miles.Therefore, the Xiongnu no longer invaded the Qin territory with large armies as usual, but repeated small-scale wars in vain.

In the thirty-seventh year (210 BC), the first emperor died, which was the sixth year of Meng Tian's crusade.Prime Minister Li Si and eunuch Zhao Gao conspired to establish Hu Hai, the second son of the first emperor, in order to gain power, so they issued a false edict to bestow death on Meng Tian and Prince Fusu.Fusu slayed himself, and Meng Tian also died in Yangzhou by taking medicine.Only four years after this incident, Qin suffered the tragic fate of subjugation. In the final analysis, this accident should be the basic reason for the subjugation. For fear of affecting the morale of the people, the death of Prince Fusu and General Meng Tian was kept secret among the northern border guards. However, half a year later, the news was learned by some of the Great Wall defenders in the Hetao area closest to Shangjun. Once spread, it immediately turned into two fire dragons, one east and one west along the stretching Great Wall line, and spread slowly but at a definite speed, just like the fire of a prairie fire.

All the fortresses fell into chaos.The suicide of General Meng Tian and Crown Prince Fusu was a more serious and personal matter to the generals guarding the frontier than the death of the first emperors, especially the feelings that General Meng Tian’s suicide brought to them. Even more complicated.Leaving aside the soldiers who are made up of such bold and reckless men and desperadoes in the world, for the generals who are hundreds or even thousands of men at any rate, if they lack the embrace of Meng Tian in their hearts Without admiration or fear, it is impossible to survive every day of this difficult battle in this wild and foreign land.Some soldiers regard Meng Tian as a god. His love and justice for his subordinates, his integrity, bravery, and loyalty are the amulets for them to survive in the northern frontier, but in the eyes of others, Meng Tian is simply a cursed evil spirit. ; He did not hesitate to die for the sake of success, and he let his army stand outside the Great Wall in order to crusade against Rongdi, suffering from wind and frost.He has strict discipline, and often sacrifices the lives of more than a dozen people in order to maintain a law.

Some soldiers mourned Meng Tian's death, while others aroused a strong feeling of returning home.The confusion created by this shock, however, was nothing more than mere confusion, though all kinds of speculations and doubts swirled here and there, none of which ever manifested in any concrete way.They were stationed far away from the capital, so they could neither know the truth nor understand the trend of the whole era. If you want to know the fact that the news of Meng Tian's death directly changed the actions of the troops, only the troops stationed at the foot of Yinshan Mountain were the most unlucky among the entire Great Wall garrison.

On this day, a thousand soldiers under Lu Chenkang's command were stationed five hundred miles north of the Great Wall, and after fighting hard with the Xiongnu for a month, they finally got such a day's rest temporarily.The Huns have fled northward, and there is no sign of the enemy nearby.However, Lu Chenkang has no intention of letting the troops stay here for a few more days. He plans to march north again tomorrow. Although he understands the danger of long-distance pursuit better than anyone else, he still thinks that he must wait until the assault is completed. After that tribe is burned, the war will be considered over; this is the order given to him by Shangfeng, and it is also the only way to eradicate the wavelike sexual aggression of the Xiongnu.At the same time, the season has reached the beginning of winter, and there is a possibility of snowfall at any time, and everything has to be settled before it snows.

Lu Chenkang received an envoy sent by the friendly army Zhang Anliang's troops that day. They were also border guards, but Zhang Anliang's troops were stationed quite far behind.The messenger brought three hundred furs, a large amount of mutton, and a letter from Zhang Anliang.The messenger said that in order to find Lu Chenkang's troops, he once wandered around the wilderness in the early winter of Beifeng Shushuo for more than ten days. Lu Chenkang thought of the face of his long-lost friend with deep nostalgia.For the troops who had to spend the winter in the Yinshan region, fur and mutton were extremely precious gifts.Lu Chenkang held a banquet in front of the tent, treated the messenger generously, and opened the letter sent by Zhang Anliang on the spot.Lu Chenkang could hardly believe his eyes, because the bamboo slips wrote the fact that General Meng Tian was killed.

For Lu Chenkang, Meng Tian was an absolute existence; in the twenty-sixth year of the First Emperor, when Meng Tian made great achievements in defeating Qi, Lu Chenkang participated in the incident as the leader of a small army, and since then he has often served as Meng Tian's subordinate, Spend ten years between thirty and forty in the war against Rongdi.Lu Chenkang's status was not high enough to meet the general Meng Tian, ​​but once he was interrogated in person; that was in the autumn of 33rd year, when the Qin army who had recovered the Hetao area confronted the Xiongnu army across the Yellow River.Lu Chenkang crossed the Yellow River as part of the first batch of crossing troops. After three days and three nights of fierce fighting, he finally secured a stronghold on the opposite bank. At that time, Meng Tian came to condolences to the few remaining soldiers.Perhaps because of his burly appearance, he was particularly eye-catching, when Meng Tian saw him, he asked for his name as an exception.When Lu Chenkang reported his name, Meng Tian nodded deeply and said, "Your name is the name of a brave man." Famous for his bravery.Lu Chenkang changed from a centurion commander to a five hundred commander and became a thousand commander. He has been assigned to the most difficult post in the war. General Meng Tian naturally didn't know about this, but Lu Chenkang always thought that he was ordered by Meng Tian; He is willing to sacrifice his life, and he can endure even the most arduous tasks.

For such Lu Chenkang, General Meng Tian sent him to death for no reason, it was hard to understand, he couldn't believe what he said, the shock that this sad news brought to him was really that the world was dark and the earth's axis was shaken in a blink of an eye. That night, Lu Chenkang never closed his eyes.After thinking about it all night, the decision I made in my heart was to end the war and return to the dynasty.He saw no point in continuing the war with the Huns, nor any reason to stay in the land of Rongdi for the winter.For him, there is Meng Tian, ​​and there is everything, but now, Meng Tian has passed away.He didn't even think about what would happen after the teacher returned to the court; whether he would be asked to die because of this, he had already ignored it.Meng Tian, ​​who is a great general, is given to death without guilt, so what is he worth as a small captain of the frontier defense?

Lu Chenkang sent a letter to Zhang Anliang to thank Zhang Anliang for his friendship and generous gifts. Together with the gifts he received the day before, he remounted the messenger's horse and brought them back. In addition, he sent another hundred soldiers to escort them to a place hundreds of miles away. After the escorted soldiers came back, Lu Chenkang announced to all the soldiers the next day that he was ready to return to the imperial court.Of course, the soldiers did not have any objection, but no one dared to hope that the war beyond the Great Wall would end. Therefore, it took them a while to understand the legitimate meaning of Lu Chenkang's announcement. At the same time, they finally understood Even such an unlucky bunch as they keep heading towards the abyss of misery, there will be a time when they will finally come to the end.

On the morning of the third day after the envoy sent by Zhang Anliang left, Lu Chenkang led the troops to leave the field and headed south. It was scheduled to reach the bank of the Yellow River on the seventh or eighth day, and then resume on the tenth or eleventh day. Arriving at the Great Wall line, Lu Chenkang's troops have not seen the walls of the Great Wall for three years. The march was extremely difficult from the very beginning, and the whole day was trekking in the biting cold wind, and from the third day onwards, the wind began to mix snow powder and snow graupel with water vapor, which beat heavily on the soldiers. and the face of the horse.On the fourth day, as soon as the wind stopped, the snow increased in density to fill the void, and then fell continuously.Troops were forced to stop and go to find their way.For the 1,000 soldiers under Lu Chenkang's command, this is a familiar field they are used to walking, but they also know the horror that ice and snow can completely transform the field overnight.

In the evening of this day, Lu Chenkang took the right road and headed towards the mud houses of the Kalei tribe scattered at the foot of an unnamed hill. It was less than half the distance from the tribe that had planned to camp. Frostbite patients were even swept away by the wind and snow, so he decided to temporarily stay in the Kalei tribe and wait for the snow to stop. Needless to say, this was the first time that Lu Chenkang's troops stepped into the Kalei tribe. Before that, they had never even approached even close.The Kalei tribe is considered the most humble and special among the tribes scattered in this area. They have no contact with other races. The men are engaged in animal husbandry, while the women are engaged in farming. Their living standards are generally low and poor. All the men had tattoos around their mouths, and the women had their brown curly hair tied into a ponytail and hung long down their backs.They had a peculiar smell that people of other races regarded with distaste as a corpse stink. Lu Chenkang sent his subordinates to negotiate with the Kalei tribe, asking them to vacate 50 earthen houses to provide troops.Originally, 50 earthen huts were not enough to accommodate 1,000 soldiers, but more demands would most likely force the Kalei tribe to sleep in the snow.Although there are fifty mud houses, at this juncture, just because they have a roof that can shelter from rain and snow, it is already a great gift to these soldiers. Fifty houses were vacated, and the houses whose houses were requisitioned, as long as they were evacuated to the other half of the houses, it would not cause too much trouble. The troops stood at the entrance of the tribe's village for about half an hour, so they kept a neat line and drove into the Kalei tribe half buried in the snow.They were led by five men from the tribe. Under their guidance, the soldiers were divided into pieces and sucked into the vacated earthen houses; , The team gradually reduced the number of people, and moved slowly at the foot of the mountain where there was no grass on the snow, which looked like a large white mound. After Lu Chenkang watched all his subordinates being included in fifty households of earthen houses, he went into a earthen house that was also conscripted to serve as his dormitory.Inside the earthen house covered with ice and snow, embers of firewood remained in the stove on the bare ground, indicating that the owner of the house had not been away for a long time. There is a small room on the right side of the entrance, the floor is covered with dried reeds, and it can be seen at a glance that it is the bedroom of the family, but Lu Chenkang did not go into this room, there is a strange smell, maybe it is the The so-called corpse smell that people of other tribes dislike.A soldier came in to light the stove and then left. Lu Chenkang sat on a simple wooden stool by the stove, and he planned to get through the night like this.Half an hour later, two soldiers brought dinner and left.Dinner consisted of a steamed bun and fat mutton soup. Ever since he learned of Meng Tian's bad news, Lu Chenkang didn't let any of his subordinates get close to him. Now that the battle was over, he had nothing to discuss or talk to them directly.The subordinates also knew that it was safer not to take the initiative to approach the displeased commander. They knew too well that when he let the captured Huns stand in front of him and cut off an arm of each of them without saying a word How terrifying, it's a scene that I can't get used to even after seeing it dozens of times.Lu Chenkang treated his subordinates much more lovingly than any other commander, but just because he beheaded the Hun captives alone, they could not eliminate their fear of this officer in their hearts. After finishing the simple dinner, Lu Chenkang still kept leaning forward, staring at the fire.In the eyes of the soldiers who came to remove the dishes, the commander suddenly looked much older than his actual age of forty.However, Lu Chenkang did not grow old all of a sudden, the more he leaned forward, the more his eyes stared at the fire, the violent feeling in his heart became more violent and raging bit by bit; he finally restrained himself in this posture The desperate violent thoughts produced by Meng Tian's death.The wind and snowflakes blew in through the front door from time to time, and each time the fireside was covered with white powder.But he doesn't care at all. Lu Chenkang sat and dozed off, waking up from time to time from the cold air behind him.He added firewood to the stove, the firewood was very damp and not easy to ignite, but after smoking for a while, suddenly a red flame burst out.Lu Chenkang fell asleep again, and then woke up from the cold again, so repeatedly, suddenly he stood up and shouted: "Who is it!" He felt a movement around him, which was different from the sound of the wind. Lu Chenkang stood by the stove and listened for a while, then grabbed the spear, and abruptly opened the door of the spare warehouse opposite to the bedroom, which was also covered with hay and piled up with some old things.Lu Chenkang pushed aside the dried reeds with the tip of the gun, and when he saw the exposed floor, he shot it down quickly: "Come out!" Sure enough, there was movement in the cellar, and after a while, a piece of the floor was lifted, and Lu Chenkang held his spear and watched with bated breath. It was a woman who crawled out of the cellar, and although she couldn't tell her age, it was undoubtedly a woman.Lu Chenkang strode over, grabbed her blouse, and dragged her to the stove.Unexpectedly, before Lu Chenkang spoke, the woman spoke first. "I'm already a dead person, is it possible that you want to kill me again?" She said in a very naughty dialect. "Why are you hiding?" Lu Chenkang asked. "I didn't hide, I just didn't want to leave this house. My man died this autumn, and his soul is buried here forever, so I can't leave this house to sleep peacefully elsewhere." The woman continued: "My man I died in the autumn of 2010. Although I still have breath, it is only a living body, and the person has already died. My heart no longer likes anything, nor is it sad for anything. I am really a human being. Dead man, do you want me to die again?" The fire light dimly illuminated half of the woman's face. She seemed to be very young, only twenty at most, and her eyes were filled with the sharp light full of suspicion that is unique to women of this tribe. "You said that you are a dead person, and I am also a dead person. Nothing can make me like or sad." Lu Chenkang then raised his voice and said, "I have nothing to do with dead people. Go back to your bedroom." The woman raised her head tenaciously, threw her long hair back, and resisted: "I have to go out, so I don't want to stay here." "Where are you going out?" "Is there a need to ask? Of course it's outside." "Do you know the consequences of going outdoors?" Lu Chenkang looked at the door. The snow was still falling, and running into the snow in the middle of the night was undoubtedly tantamount to dying. "I've already said that I'm a dead person. Are dead people afraid of death?" The woman said and walked towards the door. Lu Chenkang grabbed her shirt again and dragged her back: "I'll let you go, go back to your bedroom." The woman raised her head solemnly again and said: "I don't like to live in the same room with men other than my husband. The only way now is for me to go out, or you to go out." Lu Chenkang looked at the woman sharply, and suddenly, completely unexpectedly, felt the sexual provocation from this woman. Lu Chenkang, who had put women behind him for a long time, stared at the woman as if he had suddenly come to his senses. The face of the young woman. He approached the woman and grabbed her clothes for the third time, but this time he intentionally dragged her into the bedroom.The woman resisted fiercely at first, but when she was thrown onto the dry reeds in the bedroom, she probably gave up, so she let Lu Chenkang manipulate her like a dead person without any resistance. Lu Chenkang woke up at dawn, and found himself wrapped in a room filled with corpse odor, hugging the carcass of a woman emitting corpse odor.Although the cold is threatening, as long as you hold the woman in your arms, you will not feel cold; the woman is sleeping, but the body is scorching like fire. Lu Chenkang got up and walked into the room, took the sword and thrust it into the dry reeds next to the pillow, and then hugged the woman again. He planned to kill him with a knife as soon as anyone entered the room. He couldn't let anyone Saw him embracing a Kalei woman.The woman woke up, resisted for a while again, and then gave up her will to let him manipulate her. Then she opened her eyes indifferently, motionless like a dead person. After daybreak, Lu Chenkang put the knife back into its sheath, dragged the woman to the cellar where she was originally hiding, and pushed her in. It still snowed all day.Lu Chenkang sat by the fire to pass the day.He gave half of his grain to the woman in the cellar, and the woman accepted it silently.At night, after predicting that it was impossible for his subordinates to visit again, Lu Chenkang pulled the woman out of the cellar and dragged her to a room covered with dry reeds.He stuck the knife into the pillow again, and fell asleep with his arms around the woman's surprisingly warm body. On the third and fourth days, the troops were unable to break camp and leave the Karei tribe.The snow stopped and fell, but the gray sky was still hanging heavily.Lu Chenkang embraced the woman every night, defending his behavior with the unsheathed sword.He is extremely sensitive to any slight movement.Anyone who broke in and saw him sleeping with a woman, no matter whether he was a soldier or an officer, had to kill him on the spot. During the day, when he was alone by the fire, Lu Chenkang would often bring his arm to his nose to sniff. He was worried that he had already acquired a woman's body odor, which was almost like a corpse.However, at night, I still couldn't help but hug the body of the woman who exuded this corpse smell under the sword guard. On the fifth night, when the woman spoke for the first time, she asked, "Why did you stick a knife in your pillow?" "If someone sees us sharing the bed, I will kill him." Lu Chenkang replied. "Then why?" The woman asked further. After all, Lu Chenkang couldn't say it out, so the woman said: "I don't want to force you to tell the reason. However, I understand that you are ashamed to share the same bed with me, and I agree with that." Same. If people of our race want to have sex with people from other races, they would rather die. Therefore, I also use a sword to cover up my shame. I was the first to kill with a knife." Although the eyes of the woman looking at Lu Chenkang are still indifferent and full of monk hatred, at this moment, Lu Chenkang feels almost love for the woman who stinks of corpses at this moment; That's probably it. On the sixth day, the continuous snow for days finally stopped.Logically, Lu Chenkang should give the order to set off, but it was delayed for another day.But that night, as he embraced the woman, an inseparable feeling arose spontaneously. After the woman committed herself to him, she said to him in a calm tone: "The matter between us should be settled tonight. I hope you will leave this tribe tomorrow." "You don't need to tell me that I already have this plan. Apart from the heavy snow, there is nothing that can stop the troops from moving out, and this snow will no longer fall." The woman said: "How could it be heavy snow that prevented the troops from leaving? As long as I have that intention, I can keep you at will, but I can't do it." Speaking of this, the woman burst into tears, and because she kept crying, Lu Chenkang couldn't help wondering what was wrong with her.The woman seemed to have cried all her tears dry, and then she said: "The reason why I don't keep you is because I don't have the heart to turn you into a beast; there has been a legend in our race since ancient times, saying that anyone who wants to have sex with someone from another race Seven times, you will become a beast. Today is the sixth night, if you stay one more night, you and I may become beasts." Her words made Lu Chenkang startled. He was not shocked by being reduced to a beast, but because he felt the woman's affection for him from her words.And this night, the woman was also different from the past, with a hint of tenderness in her demeanor. "You said we would become beasts, so what kind of beasts will we become?" "What kind of beasts can we become other than wolves? We have always used swords to guard the behavior between the beds. If someone breaks in and bumps into our behavior, I am afraid that you and I will jump up and attack each other: I heard Wolves are like this. When a male and a female are mating, if they are encountered by other animals, no matter what kind of animal it is, the wolf couple and wolf wife will attack it and follow it day and night until they kill each other. You said, apart from changing Besides becoming wolves, what else can we become? Because you and I already have the heart of wolves." The woman replied. That night, before dawn, the woman left Lu Chenkang's side and returned to her own cellar. Before leaving, she asked Lu Chenkang to leave quietly so as not to disturb her.Lu Chenkang agreed.He also thinks this is the best. The next day, the troops left the poor and squalid tribe of the Kalei who had stayed there for six days.The snow has stopped, the wind has stopped, and it is a peaceful day.Lu Chenkang led the horse forward, and the cavalry team and the foot team were formed alternately, leaving the white enamel with luster and hardness in the center of the snowy field. When they came to a place about twenty miles away from the Kalei tribe, the troops suddenly stopped advancing. It turned out that there was a change in the snow; in the far right front, the snow became a giant pillar soaring up into the sky, and then splashed all over the sky and landed. Falling to the top of the team, the horse jumped up, neighing and trying to run. Li, who was waiting beside Lu Chenkang, put his mount close to Lu Chenkang, and yelled amidst the snow powder that was splashed on him, "I heard the howling of wolves." In his opinion, the attack of wolves is far more terrifying than the whirlwind. much. The two horses immediately spaced apart and ran separately. Lu Chenkang watched the troops in chaos, and raised his ears to make sure of howling wolves.In this short period of time, several whirlwinds rushed up into the sky one after another, and then poured down like a waterfall. Lu Chenkang, who was covered in snow powder, suddenly heard it while galloping around, but what he heard was not the howling of wolves, but the bitter cry of a Kalei woman. "It's a wolf! I heard a wolf howling." Apparently another voice other than Li's came from nearby. Lu Chenkang listened again, but what came to his eardrums from a certain place in the gray space filled with snow and powder was still the woman's heartbroken wailing. After the movement fell silent, the troops set off again, but throughout the day, Lu Chenkang could hear the woman's cry, and the mournful cry followed closely, never leaving his ears for a moment. It was midnight that day, and Lu Chenkang brought his troops into a certain tribe to camp.He told an aide that he was a little unwell and was planning to go to bed early, and asked everyone not to disturb him. At night, Lu Chenkang quietly pulled out his mount and stepped on it, heading towards the Kalei tribe that he left this morning.The moonlight was shining on the endless field, and Lu Chenkang ran all the way non-stop; because he was worried about the Kalei woman, he planned to visit her again, and then returned to the place where the troops camped before dawn.The camp is not too far from the Kalei tribe, so it should be possible to do it. Lu Chenkang entered the Kalei tribe in the dead of night.After dismounting in front of the earthen house where he had stayed for six days, and tied the horse to the stake at the back door, Lu Chenkang immediately stood at the door of this family.There was a light leaking from the house, and there was no light in the house that night when he stayed, so it seemed to him that the whole house looked different from before. Pushing open the door, I immediately saw the back of the woman squatting by the fire.Lu Chenkang greeted, and the woman turned her head to look at Lu Chenkang in shock, and then said with deep emotion in a calm tone: "I didn't want you to come back, and I kept praying to God for this, but I didn't expect you to come back." Came here." The woman then threw herself into Lu Chenkang's arms, patting his chest caressingly: "I was already a dead person because of my husband, but now because of this predestined relationship, I hope to live for you, even if Become a wild beast, and hope to live." Saying that, he took the initiative to invite him into the dormitory. Lu Chenkang inserted the sword into the floor next to the pillow as he did several times in the past, and the woman's body still smelled of corpses, but at this moment Lu Chenkang didn't care at all; he only felt incomparable love for the woman who fell in love with him. With her face exposed under the dim light, Lu Chenkang tightly hugged the woman's body. At dawn, Lu Chenkang woke up, the lights had already been turned off, but he saw the blade of the knife next to his pillow shining coldly in the whitening morning light.Knowing that he had overslept, Lu Chenkang remembered his troops, he raised his upper body abruptly, only to feel that his body movements were different from usual.He got up and was about to reach out to get the sword, but found that his hand didn't reach out, but his face leaned forward, and he picked up the blade with his mouth horizontally.Lu Chenkang couldn't stop looking at his body, only to see that his hands, feet and carcass were covered with dark brown fur, and then he realized that he had become a wolf.Looking at the woman lying next to her, she was no longer what she looked like last night; she had turned into a she-wolf to the letter. The woman straightened her limbs, opened her eyes and got up after a while.Although the appearance has become a wolf, in Lu Chenkang's feeling, what is revealed in the posture of this female wolf is no different from what the woman had before last night. "Do you know that you have become a wolf?" Lu Chenkang asked. "I understand. I knew it when I woke up in the middle of the night last night. I was shocked at the time, but now I don't lament anymore, because the end is done, and it is useless to lament any more," the woman said. Although Lu Chenkang couldn't see the problem as simple as a woman, but now that he has become a wolf, as the woman said, there is nothing he can do. Lu Chenkang walked out of the earthen hut. He didn't know why he had to step out of the house, but he soon realized that the reason he did this was because he was going out to hunt.The woman followed suit.Lu Chenkang came to the snow field outside the house, looked back at the female wolf who followed him, and felt the loveliness of a woman with the heart of a wolf for the first time; but for his love, to protect her from foreign enemies Lu Chenkang stared at the boundless snow field with his torch-like eyes for a long, long time. It has been six years since the Qin Dynasty perished in the seventh year of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty (200 BC), and it has been ten years since Lu Chenkang disappeared from the army.The era changed from Qin to Han. Zhang Anliang, who once presented animal skins and mutton to Lu Chenkang, was still outside the Great Wall, guarding the Great Wall as the commander of an army.During the civil strife at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the middle land was torn apart, and most of the soldiers guarding the Great Wall were scattered. Only Zhang Anliang never left his post. When he came to Gaozu's world, he still stayed behind in the form of the handover of the Qin Dynasty. on the original post. On this day, Zhang Anliang led three soldiers to leave the residence, and planned to travel for three nights and four days to visit the newly appointed commander of the Great Wall garrison in the region.The Xiongnu moved to the far north two or three years ago, and this area was thus freed from the threat of the Huns. On the first day, they chose a small lakeside in a wasteland for camping.It was the beginning of summer, the heat scorched the earth during the day, and it was as cold as winter at night, even so, this season was still the best time for this area. In the tent, Zhang Anliang was about to go to bed, when a subordinate came back from outside the tent and reported that he saw two wolves playing on a nearby hill.Zhang Anliang and the other two subordinates immediately stepped out of the camp.Outside the tent, Haoyue painted the ground into a vast expanse, and sure enough, they all saw two wolves playing on the hill not far to the right.The two wolves were clearly having sex, perhaps due to their behavior in the open field and under the moonlight, there was an indescribable desolation in their postures.One of the soldiers drew his bow and shot at the wolves. The moment the arrow fell on the hill, the two wolves shot left and right. At dawn the next day, an extraordinary scream broke Zhang Anliang's sleep, and he immediately walked out of the tent.I saw the soldier in charge of cooking lying in front of the tent, with unbearable bite wounds on his throat and flanks, and the flesh on his body was bitten to pieces. was attacked by wolves. Due to the loss of one of his three subordinates, Zhang Anliang had no choice but to lead the owner's horse into a nearby tribe that day, instructing the villagers where the corpses of the soldiers who had been ravaged by wolves were located, and begging them to bury them properly.Zhang Anliang and two other soldiers left the tribe immediately. Unexpectedly, that night, at a hilly campsite, the group encountered the same disaster again.This time it happened in the middle of the night, a soldier got up to go to the toilet outside the tent, but never returned.It wasn't until the next morning that Zhang Anliang realized that a soldier was missing.I searched all over the area around the camp, but still couldn't find it, only fragments of human flesh scattered in the grass. From this second unexpected turn of events, Zhang Anliang and the other remaining soldier realized that the wolves were following them, and only then did they feel horrified.They still detoured to a tribe that was half a day away, and left after entrusting them to search for the missing soldier. On the third day, they decided not to camp in the wilderness, but to live in a nearby tribe. The two rode horses and galloped all day.They heard howling wolves in the distance at noon and dusk respectively.Entering a tribe that night, the only remaining soldier was afraid of wolves, so he fell down on the bed with a high fever. On the fourth day, Zhang Anliang rode his horse and galloped alone.It is expected to arrive at the destination of a certain village on the Great Wall line in the middle of the night.Zhang Anliang was a bold man, and he had no fear of the two wolves, but the fact that he went to the headquarters without an entourage was very annoying to him. In the evening, Zhang Anliang reined in the horse's head at the foot of a rocky mountain, so that the horse that had been running all day could get a full rest.When he jumped off the horse and sat on the ground, he heard a wolf howling not far away.Due to the successive accidents, Zhang Anliang got up immediately, and looked at the undulating low hills and endless fields. It was just when the blood-red sunset was about to sink, and all the hills, fields, and vegetation seemed rotten as far as the eye could see. red. Zhang Anliang sat down again.At this time, the howl of the wolf came again from a closer place than before, a wolf howl with a long tail, and there was something sinister in its shrillness. When Zhang Anliang stood up, he caught a glimpse of a wolf jumping onto the platform where he was standing.With its tail drooping deeply, the wolf crossed the platform obliquely, and hid half of its body behind the rock to face Zhang Anliang. It opened its mouth wide, and its long tongue was flickering. Zhang Anliang drew his saber, ready for the wolf to bully him and kill him with a single blow.He stared at it intently, in order not to show weakness to the beast. After an unknown amount of time, Zhang Anliang suddenly saw the wolf appearing from behind the rock, with its forelimbs aligned and a prostrate posture. "Are you Zhang Anliang?" For a moment, Zhang Anliang couldn't figure out where the greeting came from. "It's been a long time." Zhang Anliang had never been so shocked in his life, because he understood that the voice came from the mouth of the wolf in front of him.Frightened, Zhang Anliang couldn't say a word for a long time. Finally, he shouted: "Who are you?" The wolf was still panting with his tongue shaking, but he replied: "You may be surprised, I am Lu Chenkang: although for some reason I have been reduced to such a shameful appearance, but I am your old friend Lu Chenkang." Zhang Anliang remained silent, who could believe such nonsense.The other party seemed to be aware of this, and hurriedly said: "My old friend! Please listen to my voice carefully. You should be familiar with this voice, right? Didn't you and I spend countless nights drinking and talking together all night? You shouldn't Have you forgotten the voice of your old friend?" When the other party reminded him like this, he felt that the voice coming from Langkou was really the voice of his old colleague he was familiar with. "How did you become like this?" Zhang Anliang asked. "Please don't ask this. I can't say anything. Everything in the world has its own destiny. After becoming like this, you don't know how much I want to die, but fate is where I want to die. No, that's why I've been lingering on in this miserable state until now. But today, I'm glad I didn't die, because I'm alive to talk to you like this." The deep sadness in the other party's tone seeped into Zhang Anliang's heart, making him unable to help but sympathize with this strange fate of his old friend. "I said Old Lu." When Zhang Anliang called his old friend, there was another wolf howl in the distance.I saw Lu Chenkang's changed wolf straightened his front legs and stood up and said, "No, it's rare to recover a human heart, but when I heard my partner's howl, my heart couldn't help but become a wolf heart again." 。在我跟你这样讲着话的当儿，我这颗心正在一点一点的变成狼心，要不了多会儿，就会完全变成不折不扣的狼了，到时候管保会向你下毒手的。” 张安良眼看陆沈康变成的狼的眼睛泛起了凶光。 “我将变成狼，现在已经开始在变了。我的老朋友，我不能不除去你，因为阁下看到了我与妻子绝不能被人看见的行为，以狼的血统来说，那是绝对不可原谅的。张安良呀，我将变成狼来袭击你，你就把我斩杀了吧，千万不要低下身来，你一把身体放低，赢的可就是我们了。” 陆沈康变成的狼说完最后那句话，仰天长嗥只听另一只狼随声应和，那嚎叫已经比先前接近许多。 张安良看到了已然完全由凶暴武装起来的陆沈康这只狼，眼前是与昔日老友毫无关连的一头野兽。他摆起架势将刀尖对准陆沈康那只狼。他从对方身上感受到一股迫切的什么，迫切到令他不能不立意宰杀眼前这头凶猛的野兽。 张安良看到了，他看见一头狼从距离他所站的这座山丘相隔一片小盆地的另一座山丘斜坡上，飞箭一般的冲向这边来，而刚刚觉得它消失到盆地裹去，立时又以快捷得几令人无法相信的速度，奔上了他脚下这座山丘。 后来的这只狼一抢上台地，便作了一个大幅度的跳跃，而陆沈康所化成的另一只狼，也就是专等着这一刻的到来那样纵身一跳。张安良感觉到两只狼分别从头顶和侧面袭向他，他左砍右斩以躲避凶狠的袭击者，两只狼于是潜躲着刀尖，跳跃、纵落、奔上，而后冲撞过来。 这场人兽之间的死斗没有维持多久。张安良被岩石绊了一跤，下一个瞬间，两只狼同时一跃而起，其中一只一口咬上张安良的喉管，另一头则一口啃住了大腿，而一经咬住，那是死也别想叫它们松嘴了。 落日把台地渲成一片通红，而从张安良身上流出的大量血水，更加殷红的流到台地的地面上，转眼之间便与夕阳所造成的灼红打成一片。 距离这桩事故约莫半年之后，汉室给戌守长城的各部队下达了一个命令——迩来狼灾频仍，塞外将士万勿怠忽束缚腹带之劳。 时移事往，谁也不清楚所谓腹带是什么，以及在遭受狼袭的当儿，它能够发挥多大的防御作用。