White Feather Huaisha

The moonlight is clear, and the wind that has been frozen for a little night finally rises, carrying thin old snow, accompanied by the new wind, and going straight into the flesh and blood.

The jackdaws hovered above their heads, their squeaks tearing apart their emotions, and the "200 people" who just thought it was more than enough lined up in the mountain depression, staring blankly at the black army that came quietly in the quiet night.

Like the tide, like the waterfall, like the wind that twists the beams of the river—Su Yu never thought that there would be so many people in this world, never thought that there would be so many people in Beiji.

Su Yu swallowed hard, his mind went blank.

With the sudden opening of the throat, fragmented images rushed up—the girl's wrist clenched on her arm while the fire was extinguishing, Ma Sha's extremely shapeless lips in the ice and snow, and deep in memory, he put Yanyan Lifted it from the water tank, and then he took Yanyan to Jinling...

Jinling.Jinling.

In the late spring, Xie Huai scolded people while eating together: "Can you not curse the country in your brother's family?"

It seems to say so, his country.The skinny and ancient apricot blossoms sprout new pistils, and a hundred thousand stars are dazzling on the top of the mountain, but the city is dimly lit.

The great battle back then only existed in legends, and Yuan Gong who wiped his sword may be the last witness.But for the juniors like them, it's mostly a small fight, but they have never really put themselves in their shoes and thought about what "war" is.

For Su Yu, the situation may be even more difficult to accept: he has no "home" for a long time, only "country". The word "country" originally entrusted more fantasies to him, and now the heavy and square character is even more added. It is Xie Huai, who can stand upright and be a pillar—if the sky collapses , what will happen to that beam?

Su Yu had a vague premonition that the comfort of the past was about to disappear, and the "sky" itself was about to be shattered by the scorching sun like a dream in the middle of the night.

Two hundred Qingzhou troops waited quietly until the young Ying Yangwei pursed his pale lips, put his index and middle fingers together, and divided them into three groups, "Ten people report back to the camp, 50 people will delay with me, and the rest will go." The refugee village escorted the villagers to the camp to join them."

The Qingzhou Army each took orders, and the general who went to the refugee village asked one more question: "When we arrive at the camp, what next? Can we fight?"

He just asked casually, but when Su Yu turned his head and glanced at the Beiji army in the distance, he turned his horse's head and turned back. Spring and Autumn strokes. I’m going to say it straight.”

There is obvious sincerity and urgency in those dark and bright eyes, but the tone of voice is as steady and firm as cast iron, "First do human affairs, and then ask destiny. The important thing is not to know, but to do it."

The general pondered for a moment, and took the order with his hands clasped in fists.

Su Yu steered his horse back, gripped the golden knife tightly, pulled down the Beiji-style mask again, and ordered: "Spread out, set up an ambush."

When the Beiji Department entered poverty, the Longzhou camp was still suffering in the boundless silence.Thousands of pairs of eyes, not blinking, stared at a long sword that pierced through the human body.

With a soft "chi", Fengrui penetrated into the flesh, and twisted lightly.

Li Cunnian lowered his head with difficulty, and saw a large piece of blood red quickly blurring on his chest.

The joints of drastic changes are often only in an instant, and I don't know when Li Tan untied the rope.He stood up abruptly and stood sideways in front of Xie Huai.Taking advantage of that subtle gap, his elbows sank slightly, and he pushed the long sword in Li Cunnian's hand away. At the same time, the short knife in his hand wedged deeply into Li Cunnian's throat!

There was a "boom" in the court, leaving only a circle of silence around Xie Huai, which made the voice of the dying person especially sharp and piercing.

The lotus in Li Cunnian's throat resounded, his words fell silent, the sound of his breath turned into blood gushing out of his lips.

Li Tan couldn't hear what he was talking about, but he would rather wishful thinking that he could guess it.This person is heinous, but it is also the same person who gave him a stable life for several years and high ambition for the rest of his life.

He didn't draw out the short knife, half of it was powerless, and half of it was reluctance.Just like this, he held the handle of the knife and squatted down with Li Cunnian's slipping body, leaned forward slightly, and put his forehead against the stubble-covered chin of "father".

The surface of the tongue is straightened, once it touches the lower teeth, and then touches the upper jaw.The word "Father" was so quiet that there was only a gust of air left, which easily passed away in the last breath.

The torches in the court were dazzling, some people were silent, and some were indignant, and they were in a mess.It took a lot of effort to kill a spy, but there is a battalion of soldiers who have yet to be appeased and deterred.

It's been a long night, and this is just the beginning.

Before he had time to explain that Li Cunnian was a spy, Xie Huai let out a long breath and asked, "Why did you come here?"

Xiao Bing's bloody courage just now turned into shivering, "Your Highness, Bei, Beiji..."

He stuttered when he was nervous, and seeing Xie Huai looking down at him, he suddenly remembered the scene of thousands of people walking a tightrope just now, and he was so nervous that he couldn't speak.

Xie Huai frowned, "What happened to Beiji? Could it be that the little emperor died?"

Xiao Bing quickly shook his head, feeling his tongue was blocked so that his heart almost jumped out of his chest, unable to speak in panic, he slapped himself hard in a hurry.

The crisp slap sound was particularly harsh in the silence, Xie Huai slightly looked away, "Li Tan, tell me."

Li Tan let go of his hand, stood up silently, and filled in for him: "Half an hour ago, Beiji attacked at night and was led to Qingzhou Army."

Xie Huai lowered his eyes and nodded, pinched the tiger's mouth of his right hand with two fingers of his left hand, and waited until the pain became dull, then he opened his mouth and said, "Half an hour? The people from Beiji are coming. Tell Yan Yufei to come in."

Li Tan turned around and took a step, then stopped suddenly.

The slight tremors under his feet were not hallucinations, and the broken swords of the soldiers buried in the loess even trembled almost imperceptibly.

I don't know who shouted in a panic: "...the ground is moving!"

The horn blares outside the camp, it is the return of the Qingzhou Army's scouts.Yan Yufei shouted loudly outside the camp: "Beiji strikes!"

The Qingzhou Army and the Longzhou Army were all in front of them, so a night attack would not be a cause for concern, but they didn't know where Su Yu was.Li Tan waved his hands to call several capable subordinates, walked out, and shouted at the same time: "The foreign enemy is at hand, and the Longzhou Army obeys the order to form a team!"

Ying Yangwei, who had lost his appearance and lost his glory, was still a young master, and the Longzhou Army reluctantly and hesitantly gathered together.

Before their rags and rotten metals were unsheathed, there was a "bang" sound, and the entire outer fence of the camp was trampled off, crushing an unknown number of human bones.

The army of Beiji entered in quietly and pervasively like the tide of the East China Sea.

The Longzhou Army and the Qingzhou Army flanked each other, but the vitality of that team was astonishing, as if bamboo knots broke through the ground, they arched layer by layer toward the Chinese army's tent, and the lights of fire and swords rang together.

Xie Huai still maintained the posture of using the sword as a stick, watching the Beiji people and the newly formed Qingzhou army and the desperate Longzhou army gnaw at each other.

Yan Yufei was outside the formation and couldn't catch up, so he swung his whip and pointed at the formation, "Archers!"

There was a sound of the bow string being tensed, and it was released at the same time, and the iron arrows opened a huge gap in the array like a hailstone.

Strange to say, this arrow array is not inescapable, but that column was strangely sandwiched between the two wings of the Qingzhou Army and the Longzhou Army, losing troops all the way.Like a rabbit falcon without a brain, only half of the so-called "big army" was left at the gate of the camp. When they passed through layers of blocking arrows, there were only a few hundred people left.

The leader, wearing black armor and holding a golden knife, galloped his horse across the withered grass that reached the sky, blocked it casually, and folded an iron arrow.

Li Tan suddenly realized something - it's no wonder that this group of Beiji troops walked in a crooked way, it must be led by Su Yu!

He turned around suddenly, his vocal cords tightened, "That's..."

Before he could speak, Xie Huai in front of the tent suddenly frowned, took a step forward, and said loudly: "Slow down!"

It was too late to shout, but there was still an iron arrow flying out against the scorching air.

The man seemed to be in a hurry, knowing that there was an arrow, he didn't even try to dodge it, he just jumped and rolled off the horse's back, the whole person did two somersaults on the dirt and rocky ground, and finally stopped at Xie Huai's feet.

Xie Huai's eyes flickered, and he solemnly opened the sword in his hand like lightning, and "ding" to block the short-sighted iron arrow. At the same time, he quickly squatted down and touched his neck, with an expression that could be called panic, "Su Yu ? Why... Where did you fall?"

Su Yu's face was also scratched open by Liu Ya, and his chapped lips opened and closed anxiously, but he did not make a sound.

Xie Huai clasped the back of his hot neck, and put his ears on his lips.The young man's breath was weak and rapid, with a scorching temperature, and he said the same sentence silently over and over again.

After Yan Yufei roughly settled the battle situation, he galloped over and frowned, "Why is he biting your Highness' ears?"

Li Tan got close, and turned around with a pale face, "It's not a surprise attack."

Yan Yufei asked: "What is that?"

Li Tan squeezed the hilt of his sword tightly, "...it's not a surprise attack. Beiji has declared war."

The behemoth that had been dormant for many years on the north side of the kingdom finally opened its sleepy eyes and dispelled the last trace of kindness. It was about to cast an unpredictable fate on another country.

The camp was still shouting and shouting, and finally calmed down slowly, and the fear and uneasiness swayed away like the waves of the tide.

Xie Huai turned his head sideways, as if he wasn't too surprised, he gently rubbed his cracked lips with his thumb, "I see."

Su Yu gritted his teeth, pushed his chest to force himself to leave, then changed his posture with difficulty, and he knelt down.

The whole court watched in silence as he pulled out the golden wrong knife covered with gold powder from the back of his waist, held it in both hands, and dedicated it to the indifferent and arrogant eldest son of the emperor.

The voice of the young man was like oars slapping away the water vapor in the waves, and the whole sky emerged, "The family and country are still uncertain, and the wind and rain are raging. At the end, I am willing to drive for His Highness, and I will not change my ambition until my death!"

... In the distant memory, there seems to be such a sentence.

"Su Yu is willing to abandon his blade and kill all demons and ghosts for His Highness. Even if he destroys the world and dies in the rivers and seas..."

And then "Thank you, Your Highness, for your success."

The so-called acquaintance back then is the so-called promise today.Su Yu fulfilled him almost with the gaze of a mortal looking up to an immortal god.

In the middle of the eastern sky, the sound of the trumpet fell, and the sun gradually rose. Because of a short snowfall, the sky was reflected in a kind of gray mixed with silver red.

Xie Huai narrowed his dizzy eyes, only glanced at the vast sea of ​​clouds, and took the cold golden knife with his hands.Morning color condenses on the tip of the knife, cold and hard like a star, rushing into the morning light.

Yan Yufei, Li Tan and the thousands of soldiers behind them knelt down gradually. After a moment of silence, Li Tan's voice came over, "I will not change my ambition until I die."

Then there was a series of oaths and prayers, hitting the ancient Gobi, echoing layer after layer, "I will not change my ambition until I die!... I will not change it until I die..."

The future of the family and the country is boundless, and if you run out of personnel, you will have a place to die.

There are thousands of mountains and rivers in the Great Zhou Dynasty and thousands of wandering people. Whether to stand, how to stand, and where to stand depends on this thin and swaying breath-fortunately, although the breath is messy, at least there is still one breath left.

After tonight, the moon is dim, the night is cool, the sky is different, and the future is boundless.

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Mao Ning