Chapter 19 second quarter

Yu Chengye rode on the horse, looked back at the slow-moving convoy of supplies behind him, and kept sighing. ——Why am I here... It has been three years since I left the capital. Under the dredging of Yu Runsheng, he stayed in the rear for a long time: first, Zhenyang City in Ruizhou; after the "Three Realms Army" conquered the entire Yizhou, Ruizhou became the main battlefield, and he retreated to Peizhou further east. It is far away from the front line where the soldiers are fierce and dangerous. However, he never misses home. Life in the camp was good—all the generals above knew his special status, and they almost lined up to curry favor with him.There is no shortage of daily food and drink, and all the errands are the lightest, and there are even women.After Peizhou was taken over by the "Suppression Army", all materials were controlled by the military, and the prices of materials on the private black market skyrocketed.Many women are willing to dedicate their lives to the sergeants just to eat a few good meals, let alone senior officers like Yu Chengye.He has played with more women in the past three years than when he was in the capital.Even the concern for Rou'er has faded long ago...

Still, he wore the brass bracelet.He relied on it to remind himself: this will pass.He will go back soon, hug Rou'er again, and hug the capital again... The great battle in Ruizhou is about to break out, and he just wants to end it quickly - it doesn't matter how many people die.Kill those stinky farmers, or drive them back to the fields, so as to end all this chaos, those who plow the fields can fucking go back to plow the fields, and let me go back to be the heir of my "big tree hall"... The convoy is still moving slowly.No way, here is enough food to feed 30,000 horses for a month.Of course, he and his boss also deducted a lot from it, and then resold it on the black market.Money is not his goal, he just followed his father's instructions to buy connections in the army.

This is the first time he has been so close to the battlefield - the so-called "close" is actually not really close, as long as the food and grass are transported to Puhe City on the state border for delivery, he can go back immediately, which is far from Zhenyang, the center of the war. The city is still separated by more than a hundred miles.The colleague who was originally in charge had gangrene, so he volunteered to take over.Maybe it was because staying in the barracks was too boring and wanted to go out for a walk; maybe it was because knowing that his colleagues laughed at him as a "young soldier" behind his back, he couldn't help but want to do something for them to see...even he himself It is not clear why.

He regretted it when he came out.The hardships of marching are second, and the most frightening is the feeling of sleeping in the wild for a long time. Without the familiar sense of security in the city, the empty surroundings are full of dangerous smells.At night, he even recalled those distant days when he was sleeping with hungry people in the outskirts of Beijing when he was a child... He wished he had a whip in his hand and drove the convoy to speed up with his own hands.The squad of light cavalry guarding him looked listless in the hot sun. Yu Chengye picked up the water bottle next to the saddle again and took a few mouthfuls.Sweat soaked under the armor, and he felt as if his body had been soaked in a warm sewage ditch for a long time.He made a decision: After returning home, he would soak in a big tank of cold water with petals floating in it, and make love to two concubines in the water...

"It seems..." The head guard beside him suddenly said, "I heard some voices..." Yu Chengye woke up from his imagination.He looked at the plains in front of and behind the official road and on both sides, but saw nothing. "Don't scare people..." He reprimanded softly. "This is not the front line..." "Probably misheard." The head guard shrugged and continued to ride forward. Suddenly he took the reins again. This time even Yu Chengye heard it. Like the sound of distant thunder.But unlike thunder, the sound was continuous. "What?..." Yu Chengye didn't know how to react at all.

"Over there!" A guard pointed to the end of the plain to the north. Yu Chengye and everyone else saw it: a cloud of dust rose on the horizon. "What is it?" Yu Chengye rode to the head of the guard, pulled his arm violently and shook it, and pointed his other finger at the smoke. "See? What? What is it?" "It seems to be..." The chief guard's hoarse voice sounded like a moan. "Cavalry..." "Are you one of us?" Another guard shouted. "There are still more than fifty miles away from the state border, and bandits and bandits cannot appear here!"

"That's right..." Yu Chengye murmured, as if he was trying to convince himself more than reassure his subordinates. "It's a friendly army, nothing else... Maybe it's the people from Puhe City who came to meet him..." "But..." The head guard frowned and said, "...Why don't my own people take the official way, but go to the wild place?..." "God knows?" Yu Chengye yelled at the chief guard. "Damn, maybe they lost their way and traveled a long way..." The smoke and dust approached very quickly.The shadow of the cavalry has already begun to be discerned, but it is not sure whether it is an official army.

All the cavalry guarding the convoy were extremely nervous.All the guards of the officers and soldiers cast their eyes on Chengye, waiting for him to give the command to fight. Yu Chengye glanced at the subordinates beside him. This should have been the moment he had been looking forward to for a long time. Thousands of people were waiting for his leadership, and the fate of many men was in his hands. It's like an exercise to inherit the "Dashutang" in the future. But at this moment, he discovered one thing: ——It turned out that I couldn't do it... The legs in the stirrups began to weaken.

This precious opportunity was wasted by Yu Chengye, whose mind was blank. The cavalry has reached a distance of five hundred paces. The rider at the front held a flagpole high. Waving flag in green, yellow and red. The baggage train uttered a cry of terror. --impossible!It is impossible for the bandit army to appear here out of nowhere!like a ghost... The convoy did not take any precautions at all, and still maintained the long queue when it was advancing.The cavalry of the "Three Realms Army" in a sharp cone formation pierced straight into the center of the convoy like sharp knives.Flying horseshoes and knives, scattered flesh and blood.

The cavalry passed straight through, and the convoy was divided into two by the middle. In this first charge, one-fifth of the guards were killed by metal and horseshoes. Yu Chengye only did one thing at this moment: kicked the horse's belly and ran forward, leaving all his subordinates and baggage behind. ——I don't want to die here! The cavalry of the "Three Realms Army" skillfully divided the formation into two, and attacked again from both sides.This time they slowed down and fought hand-to-hand with the officers and soldiers.There were still more than 2,000 guards in the official army, and they were not irresistible against the cavalry of about 3,000, but the force was spread too thin.What's more deadly is that the commander fled first, his morale completely collapsed, and the battle quickly turned into a one-sided massacre.

Nearly half of the officers and soldiers simply dropped their weapons and surrendered.But this sneak attacking "Three Realms Army" didn't intend to stay long at all, let alone take away any prisoners of war. Those who surrendered were also executed one by one, and half of the grain and grass carriages were also set ablaze. Among the "Three Realms Army", there was only one rider, who shot out like an arrow, holding a long machete upside down, and went straight to Yu Chengye to chase and kill him. Yu Chengye turned his head and saw: it was a tall and strong knight in black iron armor, even his face was covered in black, it was like an evil ghost emerging from the broad daylight.He was even more flustered, and hurried to drive the horse away. After running for a long distance, he turned back again. The black knight came closer. Just when Chengye turned his head back, the horse stumbled for some reason, and the saddle jolted for a while.Yu Chengye's riding skills have never been very good. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't keep his balance, and he rolled out of the saddle. ——Damn it, did you even lose your luck? ... There was a stabbing pain in the left ankle.His body was curled up in the middle of the official passageway, his hands hugged the sprained ankle tightly, and he clenched his teeth tightly.The hot sweat under the armor has long since turned into cold sweat. The black knight also slowed down his horse and walked over slowly.Yu Chengye breathed heavily, watching the gradually growing figure of his messenger. --I do not want!Don't die in this smelly place!I'm Yu Chengye!The future hall master of the "Big Tree Hall"! The black knight stopped in front of him.The fierce long knife was not raised. "Wait...wait!" Yu Chengye endured the pain in his foot and raised a palm. "Don't kill... me! Take me back! I... I'm not an ordinary officer! I'm from the 'Big Tree Hall'! Have you heard of the 'Big Tree Hall'? I'm a very important person in it...I Guaranteed, with my life, I can exchange a lot of military pay for you!" The knight's face was still hidden under the cold iron mask, and Yu Chengye couldn't tell whether the other party could hear him or not. He suddenly remembered: I seem to have heard in the rear that the bandit army does have such a masked general, who seems to be called "Xuan Wang"... Yu Chengye's eyes turned towards the mask, revealing a pleading look. At this moment, the knight stretched out his left hand, pulled down the iron mask, and hung it on his chest. "Don't you recognize me? Gou." Tears welled up in Yu Chengye's astonished eyes. --How could it be him?he?That sunspot?The guy who walked under my feet for so many years?Now he has become the "king" of the bandit army? ... "You?...how...why...you are here...is it you?" "Mother, and foster father, how are they doing?" Heizi's voice was very peaceful, and he didn't seem to have any killing intent. "Very good! Very good!" Yu Chengye dared not tell Heizi that he hadn't returned home for three years.From Heizi's voice just now, he heard a glimmer of hope. Heizi didn't speak any more, just sat on the saddle and looked down at him.Although Heizi's face hadn't changed much after so long, Yu Chengye still couldn't associate the majestic general in front of him with the kid in the past who could only obey orders silently. After a while, Yu Chengye couldn't bear it anymore, he asked tentatively: "Heizi... you won't kill me, right? We... grow up together no matter what... I know, I didn't treat you well in the past... " Heizi sneered. Yu Chengye suddenly bent his knees and knelt on the ground, and knocked his head heavily. "I was wrong! I admit defeat... I admit that you are better than me! My good brother... let me go?" "Do you remember a man named Huaquewu?" Heizi suddenly asked with a smile. "...I remember that Uncle Huamian..." Yu Chengye felt strange. "You were still young at that time, so you probably don't remember... He played with us when we were young..." "I heard what my adoptive father said later." Heizi said, thinking of Di Bin in his heart. "He told me a lot about the past... Do you know anything about Huaquewu?" "I know... I heard it from the uncle in the 'Big Tree Hall'..." "You look a lot like him." Heizi looked at Yu Chengye coldly, and put away his smile. "Yu Agou, you think you will become the second Yu Runsheng, but in fact you are just another Huaquewu." If it was normal, Yu Chengye's expression would have changed when he heard such words.Now he can only laugh along with him. ——I want to go back... Back to "Big Tree Hall"... One day I will make you look good... "Go away." Heizi said, pulling the rein. "You're not worth my killing. And I'm doing it for my mother's sake." Yu Chengye smiled brightly, and then shed tears again.He hadn't been this happy for a long time.The last time, when I was a child, I was carried by Yu Runsheng from among the starving people to the carriage of "Dashutang"... "Thank you...thank you..." He kowtowed again, then managed to stand up on one foot, raised his hands above his head and kept clapping his hands to Heizi. ——I am indeed destined to be the head of the "Big Tree Hall"!You can't even die like this... Heizi, you will regret it!wait and see... Heizi was about to pull the rein back to the horse when suddenly the muscles on his face tightened. There was a chilling chill in the pupils of the eyes. From the horse, he swung the long knife with one hand, and accurately slashed at the elbow of Chengye's left arm! Hot blood sprayed, and the severed hand flew out and fell to the ground. Yu Chengye, who was bathed in ecstasy, didn't know what happened until he saw the fracture of his left arm.His whole body collapsed limply as if his spine had been pulled out, his right palm was pressed against the cut, and blood continued to flow from between the palms. He felt as if the body no longer belonged to him. Heizi jumped off the horse, picked up the severed hand, and then walked up to Yu Chengye step by step, and stretched out the wrist of the severed hand under his eyes. "Why... why..." Heizi's voice trembled with anger. "Why... are you wearing this?" Yu Chengye's blurred eyes looked at the flying birds carved on the copper bracelet. "Of course... she... gave it to me..." Only then did the pain of the broken arm start to come in bursts, which instead made Yu Chengye sober up a little. --I'm dying…… Heizi then stretched out the severed hand to Yu Chengye's cheek. "Have you...touched her with this hand?..." Yu Chengye actually laughed at this moment. - dying...haha...is that it? ... "Answer me!" Heizi's angry cry echoed in the wilderness. "What did you touch?..." Yu Chengye's voice was very weak, but every word was like a hammer hitting Heizi's heart. "Her whole body...every inch...I have touched...she has long been...my...woman..." Heizi dropped the knife, reached out and tore the copper bracelet off his severed hand.He threw away the severed hand and touched the bracelet with both hands regretfully. "Haha... you... are jealous... of me, right?..." Heizi kicked Yu Chengye over with one leg, and then climbed onto him like a mad beast, his palms tightly pinching his neck. Heizi lost all his sanity, he should have many things to ask.What's wrong with Rou'er now?Why would she, who has already married into the palace... But he couldn't think about all this. He only knows that something that he has dreamed of for many years but can't touch, has been obtained by a guy like Agou... Heizi was still holding the bracelet in his hand, and the brass carvings were deeply sunken under the skin of Chengye's neck. So in the end, Yu Agou didn't die because of a broken arm and blood loss, but was strangled to death by Heizi's hands. Because of brain ischemia, Yu Agou had a short dream before he died. In the dream, Ah Gou went back to when he was only ten years old... It was that distant summer, my mother took the group of children back to her mother's house on the outskirts of Piaocheng to live for a month. One afternoon, Heizi secretly took Rou'er to a sandy beach by the floating river, saying that he would teach her to swim.Agou, who can't swim, overheard them and followed them quietly. Hiding behind a distant tree, Ah Gou watched them standing in the knee-high water.When Rou'er saw her brother stripped naked, she also took off her clothes. Under the bright sun, her undeveloped body looked like a smooth newt, and her wheat-colored skin emitted an indescribably beautiful brilliance... —Actually, I've been watching you all the time...