Chiwuxing

Chapter [-]-The trapped bird finally came out of the mountain, and the soldiers waited for the rabbit to face the battle

Seeing that the rain had stopped, the sky was clear, and the air was filled with clean coolness, the young man felt relieved.

The sleepiness of the night was also dissipated by the unique deep smell of the forest. He stood at the entrance of the cave and took a deep breath.

After being washed away by the air, he turned his head and said to the man who also stayed up all night, "Your Highness, Biao Xia has gone out to find the way."

Zong Zhengxi was still sitting in his original position. Last night in the cave, Fu Chen couldn't see his expression. After one night, he found that his face still had the expected ruthless expression.

Maybe it's because I'm so tired that I can't put on any expression, or maybe it's because I've been disheartened about many things in my heart, and it's hard to rekindle any enthusiasm.

Last night was just like an empty dream. When I wake up, the autumn wind is as usual, and the birds are uninhibited.

When Fu Chen saw the man, he couldn't help thinking wildly in his mind, so he could only look up at the natural scenery outside the cave, so as to suspend his thoughts.

Just as he was about to lift his foot to walk, he suddenly heard the man behind him speak heavily:

"The terrain of Mount Meng is curved and similar, so you can find your way along the stream without losing your way."

"...Thank you for your reminder, Your Highness."

Fu Chen adjusted the torn clothes, turned around and left.

He had seen Mengshan Mountain in the history books earlier, many people were trapped and died here, but most of them were historical rumors, and he didn't know the truth if he didn't study it carefully.However, it is generally recognized that it is steep and difficult to walk: on the one hand, there are many similarities in the landform, and it is often like stepping into a maze and forgetting the way. Sewage all over.Therefore, there are few people in this place, but there are many wild animals in various mountains and forests.

If it's the latter, it's easy to say, if you raise your vigilance, you can always find the way out slowly. If the former seems to have some doubts in the mountains, then Fu Chen is naturally familiar with him, and it's hard to say if he wants to go out of the mountains.One mountain came out and another went in. He had just found a target, but he didn't have the patience to spend the few remaining days in the mountains.

Fu Chen stepped lightly, listening to the movements around him with both ears.Animals in the primeval forest often live together, and he is not in the best condition at this time, and he does not want to fight head-on with the beasts.

He looked up and saw that the trees here were tall and covered the sky and the sun.When they led their troops here a few months ago, they marched along the only mountain road close to the edge. If they fell into the mountain from above, they must now look for a breakthrough in the direction they first entered the mountain.

In the shadow of the trees, only a faint light came through, and he really couldn't see the direction of the sunrise.After looking around for a long time, he saw a superstar tree a few meters away. He walked over and saw the longitudinal cracks in the bark.

He pulled out the dark dart at his waist and plunged into the tree trunk, using his strength to climb up, while trying to look up at the sky between the tree gaps.

He saw the lower branch on the side, positioned it well, kicked his legs up, his right knee protruding against the hidden dart, and at the same time pulled out the dart with his right hand, and pulled his left arm upwards, almost leaping into the air, In an instant, he picked up the branch, turned his legs and feet upwards, and just sat on the branch.

A few leaves fluttered down.

Fu Chen exhaled and looked up at the sky.Seeing that the rising sun was about to reach the sky, he felt dizzy for a while, and quickly covered his left eye, and the golden outline of the sun slowly appeared.He lowered his head again to set his position, and quickly kicked his legs down the tree.

Fu Chen casually found a stone on the ground, and drew a "day" on the land he had just positioned, with three horizontal lines facing the east.Fu Chen walked in this direction. There was no road here, but he was sure that this was the approximate direction of Tongzhou.

Stumbling through a dense forest, he looked nervous and slowed down, marking tree trunks and land as he walked.

The trees were planted in a mess, and Fu Chen walked for a long time without going out. He was anxious and began to doubt whether he was walking in a straight line.

Going around, he returned to the place where he had marked before.

He couldn't help recalling the childhood experience of wandering back and forth on the nameless mountainside, and felt the sweat on his body turn cold for a moment.

Fu Chen wiped his face, and suddenly remembered the suggestion that the man told him to walk along the river before he left. At that time, his mind was full of random thoughts, and he responded casually. It seems that he still has to obey the man's words now.

He told himself in his heart not to rush, while continuing to follow the mark just now to find the border of the dense forest, while paying attention to the sounds around him.Suddenly, the sound of water came from his ears, and he was overjoyed, and quickly ran towards the sound of the water.

After being trapped in the forest for several hours, he finally found the source of the sound of water. A waterfall several feet high hung in the mountains. He walked down the source, wondering where there was no height difference. Fall?Did the place where they fell happen to be a basin...

The sun was getting hotter and hotter, and it was noon in a blink of an eye. Fu Chen smelled a rancid smell, as if... corpse smell?Is there any sign that someone has been here?

Fu Chen searched around, and finally found a group of corpses lying on the ground in a gravel pass, and they were wearing the brown-red armor he was most familiar with.

He hurried forward to see, after the rain and the sun, the faces of the soldiers were black and bloodless, and the blood around their bodies was also washed away. There were large and small exposed wounds on their bodies, and some of their heads had been bruised. Cut off and separate the head from the body.

Fu Chen recognized the faces one by one, and found that these soldiers were not the five hundred cavalry they had brought before, but the red armored soldiers from other battalions, some of them met by chance but couldn't remember their names.

Why are they here?

Maybe it's been a long time, and he can't see the traces of the fighting around him, but judging from the injuries on his body, it's obviously an unnatural death after the battle.Could it be that there is another war with the barbarians here?

No, there were less than a hundred corpses that fell to the ground here. If it was a normal battle, they would not bring such a small number of soldiers, but if there were survivors, it would be impossible to let the brothers' corpses lie in the mountains and ignore them.

Could it be...

Fu Chen guessed in his heart that with such a small number of people, either the team came to explore the way, or they came to the mountains to search for traces of King Yu.In contrast, this place is not the main battlefield, so naturally they did not come for the former.

Ever since Zong Zhengxi told him those words last night, he has faintly felt a strange rejection of Chi Jia, a group that he has been in awe of and keeps a distance from at all times. This subtle rebellion is accompanied by a dull sense of strangeness.

Fu Chen was stunned for a moment, letting the smell spill into his ears and nose, and then returned to his thoughts.If it is really as he guessed, then this place must not be far from the place where the mountain came out.

He left the body for now, and searched for the open space he could see.

Zong Zhengxi looked at the scene outside the cave. It should be the hottest time in the afternoon, but the bright rays of the sun could only cast a few exploding spots on the ground.He stared at the shadows of the sun on the land, turned his hands that had not moved for a long time from his knees, and took out his belongings one by one from his sleeves——

A dagger, two dark darts, a few wishful beads, and a blood-stained handkerchief.

The first few are his own, and the last handkerchief is also his, only the blood on it belongs to that young man.

At that time, the little boy had wounds all over his body, except for a few fatal incisions involving meridians, and a wound on his wrist. He didn't plan to take care of that narrow wound at first, but it didn't matter after it healed a scar.It's just that in the beginning, every time the young man brought the washed nuts, there were always bloodstains on the fruits, which were not very obvious, nor did they seem to be intentional.

He also wondered at that time, how could a small scratch on his hand be more difficult to heal than a knife wound on his body.Naturally, he didn't bother to ask him about such details directly, and only later gradually noticed that every time the young man hunted some wild game such as birds and hares, he always had to wash it by the stream for a long time.Although he couldn't see clearly from a distance, he could vaguely see him putting the fresh meat aside and washing the blood off his hands and darts.He has no common sense, but he also knows that the surface of the dart is smooth, and it can be cleaned by simply rinsing it in the stream, so why spend so much time wasting the dart for washing.

He only gave him the handkerchief, saying that he didn't want to eat wild fruits stained with human blood all the time.

The young man took it with a sneer, still with that hypocritical smile.

After that, I only added an additional hand-wiping action after washing my hands. The things handed over were indeed free of blood stains, and the rest remained as usual.

He is obviously doing cruel things, yet holding on to good intentions, and he is unworthy of pretending to be cowardly.

He admits to taking a subtle interest in him, beginning with sneering disdain.It's a pity that he always speculates about other people's purpose and intentions with the worst malice, and he doesn't believe that that person will actually find the exit in this maze-like road, and then deliberately turn around and take him out.

The corner of the man's lips raised a hint of meaninglessness, and he also has self-knowledge in the impression he will present in front of others.

Looking down, there are only a few things he has on the ground, including him, and he has returned to such an ending.

He closed his eyes, covering his eyes.

Nearby, there were deep and shallow footsteps, with some haste, and he realized that at this moment he had already determined that it could not be someone else.

Zong Zhengxi opened his eyes.

……the third time.

He saw him coming towards him.

Is it expected or unexpected?

The young man approached Zongzhengxi panting, and without waiting to look at each other, he squatted down with his back, his clothes full of scratches outlined a tough spine, and his breath was still unstable:

"Your Highness, we have found a way out."

Wei Xu kept an eye out for the arrival of the barbarian army in front of the [-] army. All the generals sat on the ground on the slope and rested their feet under the trees.

At dusk, he was still concerned about Liao Hui's situation. The rumors that Mengshan never came back were tested by their own soldiers with their lives.As soon as the person left, he regretted it more and more. That old bastard still said that he was reckless all day long, and he didn't care about doing things by himself!

Wei Xu paced back and forth with a knife in his hand.

Jiang Zhong winked at the soldiers at the back and the soldiers around him, then stepped forward and said, "Brother Xu, General Liao went out early this morning, shouldn't he come back if he was investigating the terrain? The one who came from Tongzhou here There are few other terrains along the way, this day has passed, should we go back?"

Wei Xu glanced at him coldly: "It doesn't matter so much! Why don't you use your strength when the barbarians come over in a while!"

Jiang Zhong was rushed by his sudden temper, and thought to himself, this Wei Xu used to be just arrogant on the face, but now he refuses to talk to them, and the whole thing has become a stinky Hard latrine stones!

Cursing secretly in his heart, he still smiled and said: "I was thinking that it just rained last night. If they wait for the rain to stop before going out, wouldn't it be troublesome to have a night battle now?"

"I was just waiting to fight them!" Wei Xu looked at the mountain pass and said angrily, "I can't fight without him? Then what do you guys do?"

Seeing that Wei Xu didn't know why he was agitated at this time, and he didn't want to talk to him in detail, Jiang Zhong stopped worrying about himself, and returned to the position just behind, and winked at the few soldiers around him just now. Raising his eyebrows clearly, he averted his gaze.

Wei Xu's original worry was mobilized by Jiang Zhong's question, and he frowned to pay attention to the distant sound.

I don't know if it's an auditory hallucination, but the sound of trees everywhere, he suddenly felt the movement of an army marching, his eyelids twitched suddenly, he stepped on the horse beside him, and drove the horse to the hillside.

Before the soldiers who were close behind could react to the situation, they saw Wei Xu riding a horse.

Just as he was about to step forward to ask questions, Wei Xu immediately jumped off his horse and shouted: "All the red armored troops are ready to fight! The reinforcements of the barbarians have arrived!"

Liao Hui originally drove his horse to the foot of the mountain, and there were no emergencies, and the journey was barely smooth.Later, as I got deeper into the rocks, I gradually realized that the stone road here was narrow and muddy, so I simply pulled my horse aside and ran straight into the mountain.

When Fang entered the mountain from Yiquekou, his nose was choked by an unspeakable stench. The stench was wet and rotten. He had been fighting all the year round, so he naturally recognized what the smell was. Pass.

Walking a few steps further, he saw corpses lying on the ground. Although their faces were unclear, they were obviously wearing the same brown-red armor as him.

Liao Hui endured the grief in his heart, and hurried forward to inspect it carefully.

Looking at the intact corpses of more than a dozen people around him, he searched over and over for identification cards. Even though he had already admitted it in his heart, he had to find something from the rotting corpses.After a lot of work, he was convinced that this was indeed a red armored soldier whose name was recorded in the camp.

After thinking about it, he couldn't help but wonder, if these soldiers were sent to search for King Yu, they shouldn't have died in this mountain pass.Just when he was about to lean down to examine his injuries carefully again, he suddenly heard the sound of heavy footsteps coming down the slope. When Liao Hui raised his head, he met a pair of familiar looking eyes.

Seeing King Yu here again, he stopped breathing and said in a hurry, "Your Highness!"

Immediately left the corpse on the side, staggered downhill, half slipped and half jumped, to Zong Zhengxi: "...Your Highness! You are still alive!"

Seeing the man's dirty and haggard face, knowing how hard it is to survive these days, Liao Hui's heart twitched.

It was already a catastrophe to see a man gouged out of his flesh when he was sober, but now with the addition of the past few months of living in the mountains, King Yu has been a soldier for half his life, and his status is honorable, why should he suffer this crime one after another!

Seeing Liao Hui appearing here, Fu Chen was stunned for a moment, but the man behind him was still silent. With a hoarse voice, Fu Chen hurriedly said, "...General, did you bring your troops here?"

It was only then that Liao Hui could clearly see the man below him with his head hanging down and his back on his back. His black hair was all gone and he couldn't see the face below. In addition, the two of them were generally dirty and messy, and he didn't notice that this man was also missing as before. Fu Chen, seeing that the two of them who had been worrying for a long time are still alive, is still lucky in the midst of misfortune. He turned his head tremblingly, and said to Zongzheng Xi: "This time, the last general came here alone. He came here earlier." Several groups of brothers... all died here."

Liao Hui was silent for a moment when he recalled the corpse he had just seen.

Only then did Zong Zhengxi speak heavily, without any disturbance in his eyes: "Go back to the army first."

"it is good."

Seeing the young man carrying Zong Zhengxi on his back, Liao Hui clenched his teeth and lips, wanted to speak instead but didn't know what to say, so he walked ahead to lead the way.

After walking up the slope, it was unavoidable to see the corpses on the ground again. Liao Hui bit the bullet and said: "...Your Highness, when the last general just came over, he saw the brothers who came to the mountain to rescue him on this slope. Here, it has been put aside for a long time..."

Zong Zhengxi looked at the lying corpses of different sizes on the sloping ground, and said slowly, "...Why did you die?"

"Mark when you come this afternoon—"

"I didn't ask you."

Seeing Liao Hui's pause, Fu Chen was about to explain what happened during the morning's wayfinding, but was interrupted by the man, so he remained silent.

"...Rong Mo will go down to investigate carefully," Liao Hui went forward to find some details, and while he was puzzled, he walked back to King Yu and replied, "It should be a fight to death, maybe here... I met a barbarian. Army ambush?"

Fu Chen's previous question was also raised, and he said, "Why did you meet the barbarian army here?"

Zong Zhengxi pondered for a moment, and said, "Go back first, and then send someone over for a proper burial."

Fu Chen walked along with him, and Liao Hui walked beside him and said, "Your Highness, now that the barbarians have captured Tongluan Prefecture, Admiral Jia is now sending a general to ambush Kuaiji Mountain with [-] troops."

Fu Chen was startled when he heard it, he really didn't know the time of day and night in the mountains, because he expected that the barbarian army had already invaded Tongzhou during these days, and what happened to the previous reinforcements.

"The arrangement this time is to lead the barbarian army to the main battlefield outside the city, attack from all sides, and annihilate the barbarian army."

Fu Chen couldn't help asking: "The general abandoned the army and came here alone?"

"Hey, the admiral previously issued a death order not to allow the brothers to come to die again. In the end, the general will be regarded as disregarding his duty, and he will receive the punishment after returning to the army." Liao Hui sighed.

"Stop."

Fu Chen paused, and heard the man continue to order: "I'll wait here first, you two go back to fight first."

Before Fu Chen could react, Liao Hui said in shock: "How can Your Highness be here alone?"

Zongzheng Xi said: "I have survived for a few months, not bad for these few days."

Looking at the man's thin cheeks, Liao Hui asked, "Why is this so, Your Highness?"

Zongzheng Xi said indifferently: "Now that I'm gone, I can't help you much. It's just dragging you down. The overall situation matters."

Liao Hui still wanted to retort: ​​"However, the three thousand soldiers and horses have been arranged before the final general leaves. Even if the two of us are rushing now, we can only do our best. In comparison, Your Highness, you are more important. ...Why don't you be completely resettled at the end of the day?"

Fu Chen didn't dare to say anything about what he thought.

Sure enough, the man's voice was extremely gloomy in an instant, as if he had been bound by withered vines in the mountains for a long time and was hoarse: "The eight thousand guards in the red armor are the elite of the Yan army, and one person can stop ten thousand men from attacking key points. Since you are already lacking in mental ability, don't If you return to the army, please resign yourself."

Liao Hui's back shuddered for a moment, and he could only reply in a low voice: "...the final general will obey the order."

Hearing this, Fu Chen also leaned over and placed the man on a relatively flat rock, and heard the man whispering to him during the movement: "Don't forget my words."

A stream of heat in his ear disappeared in an instant, Fu Chen stood up and looked at the man in a daze, but Zong Zhengxi didn't look at him, as if he had experienced a momentary hallucination just now.

Liao Hui's heart was still sour. King Yu, who had always taken the lead, would stop his pace one day because he was dragging his legs. He also knew that men would be paranoid when it comes to related matters, so he agreed, frowned and nodded: "Your Highness will return to the camp at the end of the day." , Immediately send troops over to take His Highness back to the army."

Zong Zhengxi didn't respond, and from this perspective on the stone, he happened to be able to see the corpse not far away, which formed a black and red line.

Fu Chen walked away with Liao Hui, the man silently stared at the familiar brown armor down the slope, his right hand grasped his thigh, unconscious.

There is only a diaphragmatic sensation between the five fingers.

This is the last time, he risked his life.

Bet on two hearts that he also doesn't trust.

Fu Chen and Liao Hui rode together and hurried back to the army.Behind Liao Hui, what the man said to him just now echoed in his mind, as well as the secrets he revealed in the rainy night cave.

He actually believed in himself?

"Fu Chen!"

A shout in front pulled back his sluggishness, and he cowardly said: "General, general?"

"Didn't hear it just now? Why are you so dazed!" Although Liao Hui found someone, but the war has not ended, King Yu has not settled down, and the irritability in his heart is still there, so he lost his patience and asked, "...I asked How do you live these days? Are you seriously injured? How are you recovering now?"

Fu Chen was complicated in his mind, and responded: "The several stab wounds on my body have healed up. I have been hunting some wild animals in the mountains for the past few months, and I can barely get by. The mark is humble, but His Highness has suffered along with it."

Fu Chen heard Liao Hui's sigh in front of him melted into the fast-flowing air around him. In the blur, he saw the general's collar in front of him melted into a piece of black, and behind the darkness, there was a piece of red poured from blood.

When the voice whirled around, there were only bursts of fighting in his ears, Fu Chen was stunned for a while, when did the battle start?

Liao Hui chopped off the head of the barbarian in front of him, took his weapon, threw the bloody barbarian back, and said, "Fu Chen! Hold the knife!"

Hearing the sound, Fu Chen was shocked, and suddenly realized the situation in front of him from the confusion. He picked up the knife, got off his horse, and his movements did not freeze.

He stabbed a barbarian in the back from behind, pushed forward with all his strength, and the blade penetrated his body. The barbarian screamed in pain and fell from the horse.

Fu Chen got on his horse, wiped the neck of the barbarian who had just fallen from the horse, and drove his horse into the center of the killing formation.

Wei Xu was besieged by a group of barbarians in front of the soldiers. Obviously, the barbarians also realized that he was the leader of the Yan army, and wanted to kill him first and then quickly.

Wei Xu blocked with a knife, and was afraid that a barbarian army would take advantage of the gap behind him, so he drew his hands and turned around to increase the speed of the block.

The barbarian army has a sufficient number of people here, obviously not afraid of the Yan soldiers' block, and attacked from all over the place.

Inadvertently, Wei Xu's arm was cut with a knife, he immediately switched to holding the knife, and then turned to attack the barbarian who had just sneaked up on him on the right.

Another barbarian on the left looked at the vacancy, and was overjoyed. Just as he was about to cut his knife, he felt a chill on his neck and a sharp pain hit him.When he stumbled and fell off his horse, he wanted to look back to see who appeared suddenly, but he saw only a flash of an unarmored gray figure, and the wind lifted a lock of curly hair, which was carried by every savage. Get familiar with the signs.

The barbarians on Wei Xu's side who were resisting suddenly fell down. He subconsciously tilted his head, and found a gray figure in thin clothes as nimble as a swallow among the crowd of armors. The eyes that shocked him, at this moment, there is nothing in them, only the bloodshot eyes that he is familiar with focus and ruthlessness.

He hurriedly rode his horse to his side, blocked a group of swords, and said to Chen in a low voice: "...don't rush to kill them all, there are too many of them, let's rush out and lure them to chase."

Wei Xu didn't wait for him to react, and took the brunt of the attack. He made a breakthrough from a place where there were few people, and shouted: "Chi Jia withdraws!"

The same words from Liao Hui sounded in the distance, and they seemed to echo: "Withdraw the troops!"

In the end, it was a sword with no eyes, and Fu Chen withdrew from the killing array in poor clothes, and was cut a few more times, excruciatingly painful.

He closely followed the figure of Wei Xu in front, and all the Red Armored Army gathered together and fled in front at this time, while the barbarian army in the rear followed closely behind, relying on their own superiority in numbers.

Fu Chen knew that he was invincible in physical strength just after coming out of the mountain, so he accelerated his horse and rushed forward.

"Put it on!"

Fu Chen, who was still thinking about the current situation, suddenly heard an order from the side, and a brown-red light armor jacket was thrown over, flying to his horse. He took it, and saw one of the soldiers in the same armor with a protruding upper body Wearing a black undershirt, it was Wei Xu who had just talked to him.

During the chaotic battle, his physical strength was low, and Fu Chen was not pretentious. He said "thank you" and put on his pockets, holding the reins tightly in his hand so as not to fall behind.

This battle armor is slightly larger, and it still carries the heat and bloody smell of the human body.

Wei Xu didn't look at him, but speeded up and came to Liao Hui in front of him: "General, just sent troops to the main army to deliver the news."

"Okay," Liao Hui said, "We will continue to implement the plan now."

The [-] cavalry in red armor were less flexible, and they drove the barbarian army away by a large margin in a short while.

Wei Xu turned his head and saw that the barbarian army was no longer chasing him, so he asked urgently: "I just saw Fu Chen came back, where is Your Highness? Didn't find it?"

"I found it," Liao Hui frowned, and said, "Your Highness is afraid of delaying the battle, so he refuses to follow... Once the battle over there is over, I will personally lead the troops to meet him."

Wei Xu nodded, and couldn't help but said: "...Fu Chen stayed in the mountains with His Highness for such a long time, why did the general take him directly to the battlefield?"

"I didn't know that the barbarian army moved so fast, they came here in one day! It's really Fu Xuan's style," Liao Hui spat, and said, "Fu Chen is the cavalry leader of Qingqi, and he is better than you. You should be optimistic first." It's up to you."

Wei Xu said: "The conditions in the mountains must be difficult, and they will kill people as soon as they come out..."

"Okay! Don't be a mother-in-law!" Liao Hui waved his hand, holding the rein of the horse with one hand, "When we get to the place, we will directly fight the barbarian army. Success or failure depends on one stroke, and there is no delay... If you are still here to pretend to be useless, go back This general will let that kid Fu Chen beat you up first!"

Wei Xu kept quiet, took a break from reining in the horse, and glanced back quietly.

The young man was dressed in a large brown armor, and he was as sleepy as he was in the corner that day. His hard curly hair was stained with blood, and only a pair of focused eyes that he was familiar with looked at him at this moment.