Huaigui

In the dream, Gao Jing fell straight down the cliff, and Gao Jing suddenly opened his eyes.

Someone patted him on the shoulder. He got used to the foggy tone in front of him. It seemed that it was not yet dawn. He turned his head and said "hmm", and heard He Lan Mingyue asking him, "Are you awake?"

Gao Jing was taken aback for a moment, and then he realized that he was leaning on Helan Mingyue's shoulder.

What happened the night before was still vivid in his mind, just after he finished that sentence, He Lan Mingyue refused to answer, and only let him rest.He was too tired from traveling all the way, Gao Jing was sitting there leaning on a rock on his back, and then fell asleep and fell asleep, leaning to the side, he was so tired that he didn't want to look after being helped by someone in a daze, just fell into a dream middle.

When he remembered it, his cheeks and neck were burning red, and Gao Jing touched his hot earlobe: "It's not yet dawn..."

"It's time to go." He Lanmingyue also took off the cloak covering him, and stretched out his hand towards him, "Hua Mu's people have already chased after us. Let's go out of the canyon and go northeast. If we don't start, we will leave them to go around." Time for an ambush."

Gao Jing was half awake and still a little confused, he only saw his lips opening and closing to say something, but he didn't hear clearly, so he grabbed He Lan Mingyue with both hands, raised his face and looked in his direction.

When the surroundings quieted down their voices when they were preparing to march, Gao Jing still heard He Lanmingyue seeming to laugh.

His body lightened, and his whole body was hooked on his knees and carried on his shoulders.Gao Jing held Helan Mingyue's back unsteadily, but the man didn't seem to be affected in any way, and just carried him forward two steps until he was handed over to Lin Shang.

After sleeping with Gao Jing on his pillow for several hours, He Lan Mingyue didn't feel much, until she picked up Gao Jing and accidentally pressed on the wound just now.The blood hole began to ooze red marks again, and he frowned in pain.

Lin Shang frowned when he saw Helan Mingyue: "Your injury..."

Gao Jing keenly captured the message: "What's wrong with the injury?"

He Lan Mingyue shook his head silently, and Lin Shang said: "It's nothing, Your Majesty, I misread it." After saying this, although Gao Jing was skeptical, he couldn't confirm it, so he had to let them help him get back on the horse.

"The sun is coming out soon." He Lan Mingyue said, leading the horse by herself.

"Don't...you protect yourself."

Feishuang in her arms shook her injured wings and gave a slight cry as if agreeing with him. He Lanmingyue put on a clean cloth to cover the wound on her left shoulder and said to Lin Shang: "You take Shuang'er and go with him first, and leave it to us later." .”

Lin Shang and Gao Jing said the same thing: "Take care—where's Li Queshuang?"

Helan Mingyue turned her head and pointed not far away.

The departure was imminent, and Li Queshuang was affected by yesterday's accident, and the people who came along with him blinked their bones, and the impact can be imagined.Seeing that Li Ciyuan was going to be the queen again, his nostalgia that he had never shown before was all aroused, and he ran to Li Ciyuan's side involuntarily: "Father, let me be with you!"

"You?" Li Ciyuan patted his head, "Going to the battlefield will only become a drag, let the little emperor go."

Li Queshuang said stubbornly, "Isn't it my age that you joined the army for the first time?"

"You can't compare with me, let alone joining the army and going to the battlefield." After Li Ciyuan finished speaking, seeing Lin Shang looking this way, he immediately pointed to Li Queshuang and shouted at him, "Boy surnamed Lin, yesterday's mission Well done, let's continue to be responsible for protecting the children today!"

Lin Shang nodded and gestured to the hidden guard next to him. The man in the iron mask lifted Li Queshuang's collar with one hand, and dragged him away involuntarily with the other hand.

Li Queshuang kicked her legs wildly: "What are you doing! I want to be with my adoptive father...I want to protect him!"

As soon as the words came out, Li Ciyuan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly smiled: "I have no hair yet, and I still want to protect your father! Go away, wait until you get to Bingzhou and learn that set of marksmanship well before going to the battlefield!"

A bad premonition suddenly surged in Li Queshuang's heart, and before he could open his mouth, Li Ciyuan said again: "However, the adoptive father hopes that the world will be peaceful and there will be no more weapons. You can live a stable life, and you don't have to work hard like I did back then."

"Father?" Li Queshuang grabbed the struggling hand of the hidden guard for a while, and then cried out more and more, "I listened to you, don't do this...Dad, don't go, I will listen to you from now on, okay! Don't go……"

He has called foster father, Old Li, admired his brilliant career, and demoted the former general in his forties to nothing, but for several years, he seldom called Li Ciyuan "father".

As soon as he said a word, Li Ciyuan was surprised for a moment, and then strode forward, took off the dagger at his waist and handed it to Li Keshuang: "The sword that the commander gave me back then is here for you!"

He trembled and refused to pick it up: "Father, I..."

"Listen to your elder brother Helan." Li Ciyuan pressed it forcefully, and then turned around without hesitation.

It was just dawn, and with the order to move forward, the old troops who had fought last night followed Li Ciyuan and ran in the opposite direction of the road ahead.Li Queshuang's eyes were wide open, unable to stop the tears from falling.

Helan Mingyue went straight away: "Fourth Uncle, I'm not seriously injured!"

Li Ciyuan glanced at him up and down and said: "But if I get another new injury today, I'm afraid this arm will be useless! Can't you tell which is more serious? What did I tell you last night?"

Marching at dawn the next day, Hua Mu led his troops to intercept them, and then the large troops left from the back of the valley, while the old troops of the Western Army followed Li Ciyuan to defend the enemy outside the valley, opening a bloody path for them——

It sounds feasible, but everyone knows that before the queen is different this time, it may be too difficult to escape all dangers.

He Lan Mingyue gritted her teeth: "Are you...really going to do it your own way?"

"You know what my attachment is, Mingyue, so you have to keep my affairs in mind." Li Ciyuan said while looking at the direction Lin Shang left, "Shuang'er has been wandering since she was a child, and when she settles down, help me Take care of him."

Helan Mingyue couldn't listen at all, he felt his heart was clenched tightly, his eyes were blood red: "Fourth Uncle, you haven't seen your father's injustice case...you have to live!"

"Ha!" Li Ciyuan laughed, "Do you think I really care about the little emperor's edict? Even if the world misunderstands that he is a traitor, my heart will not change."

"But you waited so long—"

"That's right. I've been hiding in Tibet for too long, and I'll pay any price to be a commander-in-chief. My reputation will last forever. It's not as good as being alone in a corner in the past. I hope I have seen it."

It seems that it is useless to say anything at this point, He Lan Mingyue's throat is slightly choked: "Hope?"

"You will do it, Mingyue, you must wait until that day."

And a soldier has been a soldier all his life, if one day he was exhausted and died in the Huangsha Gobi, and his soul returned to his hometown, the apricot blossom branch, it would be a good place!

After saying that, Li Ciyuan raised his whip and rushed towards the entrance of the valley.

Helan Mingyue was stunned for a while, seeing him unable to recover for a long time, Tang Feiyi beside him couldn't bear to interrupt the overly heavy atmosphere: "Shall we start?"

"I want to help him," Helan Mingyue murmured, "but if I go, he will definitely be angry."

Tang Feiyi said: "He wants you to live."

"It's a dead end."

"That's why he wants you to finish the journey for him."

Helan Mingyue looked at the dark mass of remnants.

Most of them followed Li Ciyuan from the Western Army to Yinzhou City, and they are the "Western Army spirit is immortal" in Xu Xin's mouth.After today, will the Western Army still exist?He Lan Mingyue doubted whether he could take on this burden. Li Ciyuan had helped him carry it a few years ago, and he didn't know how heavy it was.

"Teacher of the world" sounds glorious, but when it is distributed to my shoulders, it is only a few hundred or a few thousand lives, which is overwhelming.

He Lanmingyue watched them turn the side road, turned to Tang Feiyi and said, "Let's go, go faster, go..."

Before the words fell, the shouts of killing from outside the valley almost pierced the sky.

The battle is getting farther and farther away, and the air is full of blood.Chasers followed from time to time, and arrows and rain flew in the smoke and dust. His injured left arm clenched the rein tightly, biting the wristband and tightening it tightly. Build a second line of defense.

It was only the vanguard last night, but the elites of the Longyou Army were encountered today.Seeing more and more chasing soldiers pouring into the valley, but behind him was his own side who was exhausted from running, he suddenly felt a little desperate.

Could it be that they can't get to the snow pass and have no way to retreat?

So after a gamble, the word "rebellion" is still engraved on the pillar of shame in the end?

His mind suddenly became clear, and he forced himself not to think about those pessimistic things, and he tried his best to cut off an arm of the chasing enemy.Meteor guarded him left and right, and the feathered arrows that tried to shoot it fell on the enemy one after another. He Lan Mingyue let out a clear whistle, and Meteor ran back again.

"They have already left the valley, let's go!" Tang Feiyi patted Helan's mount, "You are injured, I will stop the pursuers!"

"Do not……"

Before he could say anything, there was a loud noise behind him.

Helan Mingyue and Tang Feiyi both stopped for half a beat, and they couldn't help but turned their heads. The huge rocks on both sides collapsed, and a brilliant spark exploded in the middle——

I don't know who shouted sadly: "It's the fire oil burning!"

The golden light carried a scorching temperature, and at the same time, the fiery red sun jumped up from the whitening mountains and rivers in the east.

The sudden fire made the chasing soldiers into a mess, and then the flames burned higher and higher, with the smell of burning, the sound of dead branches breaking, and painful wailing, mixed with smoke and dust, and the source could no longer be seen clearly.

The high temperature almost hit Helan Mingyue's face.

He suddenly realized something - all the kerosene painted on the arrowheads yesterday was ignited, and those soldiers raised the torches with their bodies, sending them off with a big fire.

"Fourth Uncle...!" He Lan Mingyue was about to turn around like crazy, Tang Feiyi pressed his knife on his back and cursed:

"Don't be impulsive! If you go back now, you won't let him down!"

He was led by Tang Feiyi to rush out of the valley forcibly, straddling the yellow sand speciously like beacon fire.

A voice came from afar: "The sunset of the Changhe River closed the lonely city, and the third watch of Longcheng... the sound of the horn. The family letter is still unfinished, and the north wind is blowing to me... Wartime clothes!"

The blood is even worse, and the songs are endless.

"Swinging the whip and breaking the dust, the gold and iron horses are never afraid!..."

"kill--!"

"Soul... When will the soul return to its hometown?..."

"Catch up, they won't run far!—"

"...Qiang Guan Youyou, Yue, Ji, Xi." (*

The crowd gradually emerged from the fire, He Lanmingyue was still sweating hotly on his face, and heard Hua Mu's voice coming from afar:

"Your Majesty! This is really helpless. If you surrender as soon as possible, not only will the Holy Majesty keep you safe, but also save innocent lives! Your family is under the control of the Holy Majesty, so you have to offend first!"

There was only a short pause, and as the crowd came out of the valley in black, the leader crossed a long spear, and several scorched bodies rolled off the horse beside him.Hua Mu raised the gun, and He Lan Mingyue recognized that it belonged to Li Ciyuan, her eyes burst into tears, and she vomited a mouthful of red blood!

Tang Feiyi said anxiously: "It's all right!"

The sharp tip of the gun was covered with sticky blood, but Feishuang wailed several times in Helan Mingyue's arms, as if she had sensed it.

Hua Mu sighed: "Your Majesty! You recognize this thing. General Zhenwei has already been shrouded in horse leather. If you surrender now, he can still gain a good reputation for protecting the Lord. If you insist on doing it... all the heroes will become enemies. Thief!"

"Fart your mother!" He Lan Mingyue shouted angrily.

His throat was sweet, and despite Tang Feiyi's repeated dissuasion, he swung his long sword and rushed towards the enemy.

The Longyou army in Xiangxiang was well-trained, and the arrows and shields rose from the same place. Tang Feiyi was not good at secretly, and shouted loudly: "Everyone in Baicheng follow me!"

The heroines turned their heads one after another, and even the Yinzhou elite who stayed behind were desperate, completely enraged by Hua Mu's words.The feathers and arrows were fired at once, paving a way for He Lan Mingyue beside him.

"Hypocritical villain..." He Lan lost all reason, the blade cut through the strong wind and galloped against the light, blood was hidden in the clear whistle, "I'll kill you, I'll kill you!"

With a wave of Hua Mu's hand, all the elite from Longyou came out to fight with the Baicheng crowd. Tang Feiyi tapped his toes and turned to land behind Helan Mingyue's saddle, holding his side waist to keep his balance: "Guard you to open the way!"

The uneasiness that had been suppressed in his heart since he left was unbearable when the fire started, and it broke out completely, and he could ignore the small wounds on his face and hands.Yan Shanxue was danced by him indiscriminately, and the iron bow was smashed randomly, and the broken limbs were flying. He Lan's breathing became heavier, but the blood in his bosom seemed to never freeze.

Tang Feiyi slashed left and right with a long knife behind him, He Lan Mingyue couldn't tell how many people's blood was on his body, and there was only one target in his eyes——

Hua Mu!

A short distance away, with countless flesh and blood spreading out the yellow sand road in front of him, the commander of Longcheng looked at Helan Mingyue in fear.He walked from the wasteland like a blood god, his pair of light gray eyes reflected the brilliant sky light at this moment.

But he is clearly against the light.

"Come on, come on! Protect the general—" the deputy general yelled at the top of his voice, when he was stabbed in the chest by a green dragon sword, and his body was thrown to the ground like a broken sandbag!

Before the charge, he never thought that they would dare to return. Hua Mu instinctively wanted to escape. He raised the long spear horizontally and was about to block Helan Mingyue. The tip was cut off immediately, but Helan Mingyue retracted her injured arm regardless, and struck the gun barrel with her inner strength mixed with true energy!

Hua Mu's tiger's mouth was split open, and when the spear fell in response, Tang Feiyi's extended arm hooked it back.

He opened his eyes in astonishment.

"The soul of the Western Army is on He Lan's body. I will not die, and the Western Army will not be destroyed." The young man's sword broke through the last gust of west wind, "I said, I will kill you!"

His throat was cold, this was Hua Mu's last feeling.

Before the head fell to the ground, it was thrown by Helan Mingyue's long sword to a person in Baicheng beside him. After catching it, the female general nodded in tacit understanding, hung Hua Mu's head on the flag and raised it higher, and shouted: "You should return quickly-" —!”

The sky is bright, and when the sun rises in the east, a thin crescent moon has not yet set.

As the battle scene without a leader draws to a close, Li Queshuang, who was escorted back by Lin Shang, burst into tears.He Lan Mingyue hugged the spear that Tang Feiyi handed over, tears streaming down her face.

When will the soul return to its hometown?

The long moon in the Qiang tube is already west.

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* Partial use of "Fisherman's Pride · Autumn Thoughts"