My years as a soldier

Before the battle started, more than a dozen wounded soldiers from the Sixth Regiment were already standing on the high ground on the north bank of the river, ready to watch the battle.

Most of the wounded soldiers who followed were slightly injured, and when it was really a last resort, they could still fight off the field.And only Hu Jiuzhang, no matter how you look at it, should not continue to join the army.But he also persuaded Wang Zheng to come with the large army on the morning of his departure.

Because he knew that it was impossible for Li Muyun to be left alone in Tongguan, so he had to follow him, even if he couldn't help much, it would be good to know the progress of the battle in the first place.

And this time, they were very lucky.Lu Kuang's army was assigned to the high ground, so they didn't need to fight, and the vision on the high ground was excellent, with a panoramic view of the entire battlefield.In the past, this was an excellent viewing position that only the generals could enjoy. Now that he was able to witness this decisive battle here, Hu Jiuzhang couldn't help feeling that he still had a little bit of luck in all the misfortunes.

Most of the people in Lu Kuang's army were sent to beat the drums, and only a small number of wounded soldiers from each regiment were left standing on the bank with the passers-by, watching in the direction of the battlefield.

Hu Jiuzhang was held by two wounded soldiers, each holding one arm, and took him to the railing outside the cart to sit down.

Seeing such a mighty Tang army lined up on Xiyuan, and when the drums were beating together, even Hu Jiuzhang could not restrain his eyes from getting wet.The hot blood in his heart has already boiled up.

With such a battle, maybe we can really win...

Hu Jiuzhang thought to himself, but obviously, at this moment, none of the soldiers watching the battle on the north bank was delighted by the huge advantage of the Tang army.

Seeing the [-] elite soldiers rushing into the enemy's formation, the battlefield was instantly filled with deafening noises.Amidst the roar of war drums, Hu Jiuzhang's ears were almost filled with all kinds of roaring noises, but he didn't mind it at all, but instead stared intently at the battle between the Tang army and the rebels in front.

As everyone expected, facing the [-] elite soldiers of the Shang Tang Army, the formation of the rebel army was disrupted not long after.On the side of the Tang army, the infantrymen were in groups of five and three, and with the cooperation of shields, knives, spears and spears, they pressed forward step by step.

The thousands of rebels who first came into contact with the Tang army quickly dispersed. Hu Jiuzhang alone saw hundreds of them. In the first quarter of an hour, they became the souls of the Tang army.

The Tang army's elite soldiers became more and more courageous, and the speed of the rebel army's retreat gradually accelerated.

The Tang army's battle line advanced rapidly, and the follow-up [-] troops followed the [-] pioneers who led the way amidst the sound of war drums that pierced the mountains and rivers beside them.

The battle lasted less than half an hour, and the front line of the rebels was already in disrepair.Hu Jiuzhang saw with his own eyes that the command flag of the rebel commander in the distance issued an order to retreat. As soon as the order came out, the dispersed soldiers turned to the east to evacuate at an extremely fast speed as if they had made an agreement.

The officers and soldiers of the Tang army were all red-eyed. Seeing that the enemy was about to flee, they would not let it go.Several generals in the front line ordered to pursue with all their strength, and for a while, the sound of war drums on the river bank became louder and louder.The big drum behind Hu Jiuzhang made him tremble all over, but he was already immersed in the fierce battle before him, and he was unaware of the roar in his ears.

The main force of the Tang army drove straight in, and it took another half an hour. The 10 elite soldiers in the front line had already chased the retreating rebels, and they ran out of sight.

further on...

Hu Jiuzhang thought to himself.

He has traveled this road leading to Shan County.Although the process was extremely painful, he did not dare to forget what he saw and heard.

Further on, there is a long and narrow mountain road seventy miles long. On both sides of the main road, there are high mountains and canyons on one side, and a rushing river on the other. Wan Dajun is marching here, but...

Seeing the 15 people of the Tang army chasing the general all the way towards the narrow and long road, the sound of drums on the north bank position also stopped.The armed forces on the north bank immediately dispatched scouts to chase east to check.

I don't know how long it took, only to hear continuous loud noises suddenly coming from the depths of the narrow road, and the loud noises were accompanied by the hysterical shouts of thousands of people.

At first, Hu Jiuzhang thought the voice was his own auditory hallucination. He looked at the wounded soldiers around him and asked casually, but the other party also showed surprise on his face.

"I did hear... there were screams."

Another person beside him affirmed.

"How could this be?"

Hu Jiuzhang frowned.

The voice came so suddenly that not only him, but most people on the North Shore didn't know how to react for a while.What's even more frightening is that the loud noise gradually subsided, but the screams of people intensified instead, and lasted for a long time.

"Could it be that I heard it wrong?" Hu Jiuzhang didn't give up.

"We are too far away, maybe this is the sound of killing?"

"...I don't know."

For a moment, everyone on the north bank fell into a daze.

The shore sent out scouts one after another to check, but before the scouts returned, the shouts in the distance stopped, replaced by the familiar shouts of killing from the soldiers.

"This is the sound of shouting and killing."

Bing, who had just talked to Hu Jiuzhang, stood aside and added something.

"Then who was calling just now? Is it us or them?"

"...it's... who knows, but it's better to be them."

This time, the shouts of killing gradually gained the upper hand.I don't know how long the sound lasted. The [-] Tang soldiers on the north bank waited and waited, and they all stood impatiently, but no one from the former army came back to report the news.

Around noon, black smoke rose from the east side of the narrow road all over the sky.The smog continued from noon to sunset, and during this period, the shouts of killing from the east continued in an endless stream.

Also starting at noon, scouts from the east came back one after another, but Hu Jiuzhang and the others had no way of knowing the situation on the front line. They only knew that although the situation on the east side was extremely weird, none of the three generals on the north bank wanted to order them To move forward, or to retreat.

The war drums are still set up correctly, and from time to time, the soldiers who beat the drums will be asked to beat for a while to boost morale.

As the sun set, until the afterglow of the setting sun cast a red light on the West Plains, finally, someone standing in the easternmost line uttered an exclamation.

"They're back!"

This exclamation quickly spread throughout the three armies on the north shore.

Hu Jiuzhang stretched his neck, and finally saw the soldiers in the uniforms of the Tang Army, running desperately towards the North Shore Brigade.That appearance is not a retreat, but a rout.

At first, there were only a dozen people who fled, but soon, hundreds of thousands of deserters seemed to be fleeing from some kind of great fear, and they were all desperately running towards Tongguan.They saw the [-] Tang troops on the north bank, but they ignored the uniform army formation here, and instead went straight to the direction of Tongguan, treating the army on the north bank as nothing!

Seeing this scene, everyone was shocked.

"Could it be that...the 15 troops have all been wiped out?" The soldier beside Hu Jiuzhang suddenly spoke, with a slight tremor in his voice.

Hearing his words, Hu Jiuzhang swallowed hard, and his face turned pale.

"Wait for the general's order. If all the 15 people in the front line are wiped out, we still have at least [-] people here, and we can return to Tongguan in time."

"But they've all come to us!"

The voices of the soldiers on the side became hoarse, not just him, the entire north bank fell into panic as the number of fleeing Tang troops increased.

Less than a quarter of an hour later, the sound of ringing gold came from the high ground on the north bank.

"Retreat! Retreat!!"

Hu Jiuzhang heard Wang Zheng standing on the slope, shouting loudly to the more than two hundred people in the regiment.

"retreat!!!"

The sudden order made the already terrified Tang soldiers even more anxious. They saw the remnant soldiers running back from the east, and they all fled towards Tongguan desperately. How could they maintain a unified retreat formation.They were all afraid that if they slowed down a step, they would be swallowed alive by the nameless fear chasing after them.Even though the commanders of the various legions were trying their best to maintain order, even the [-] Tang troops on the high ground were in a mess amidst the panic atmosphere of the blood-stained sun.

Hu Jiuzhang saw it most clearly.

Because he couldn't escape himself, no matter how anxious he was, he could only sit on the crossbar in front of the cart and wait for the regiment to lead the troops to evacuate.

"What... what should we do? They won't abandon the wounded soldiers, will they?"

"Probably not, don't panic."

Even though Hu Jiuzhang said so, he unconsciously began to touch his waist.But his knife was confiscated by Li Muyun long after he was seriously injured.Originally, he was planning to retire from the army and heal his wounds with peace of mind, but now...

"They all ran away... what should we do?"

The dozen or so wounded soldiers beside Hu Jiuzhang also became agitated.But even though they were injured, they were still able to barely fight, and now they had to run. The cart they had been riding in before was obviously too clumsy, so they had to rely on their legs to run back to Tongguan abruptly.

Seeing the soldiers around them running away from the high ground one after another, the wounded soldiers couldn't hold back anymore.At this time, no one went to talk to Hu Jiuzhang anymore. They just looked around, found the area with the most concentrated flow of people, and ran down after them.Among all the retreating teams, I am afraid that only the hundred-man squad composed of the general's personal soldiers can barely maintain the defensive formation.

However, the generals who "evacuated" with the brigade did not care about their soldiers.At this time, the only thing they had left was to withdraw to Tongguan as soon as possible.Only by returning to Tongguan and doing things in the future can we make a long-term plan.

Not long after, it wasn't just the fleeing Tang soldiers who came running from the narrow passage to the east.

The brigade of rebels chased after them from the narrow passage, shouting and cursing all the way.They killed anyone they saw, and many Tang soldiers who fled for their lives were stabbed to death from behind.And if someone wants to go back and fight the rebels again, the ending may be even more unfortunate.

The Tang soldiers who turned around were either killed head-on by the rebels, or knocked sideways by their own comrades. They were completely unable to exert their due strength in the fleeing army.In the end, the only way left for them was to go to Tongguan.Even though the enemies chasing behind were getting closer and closer, almost all of them chose to flee in unison.Among the Tang army, no large-scale counterattack could be organized.

For a moment, Hu Jiuzhang was the only one left in the original position of the Sixth Regiment, and he was still sitting on the railing of the cart.He quickly glanced over the crowd of fleeing people, trying to find his own shelter in exchange for a glimmer of life, but even if he jumped off the cart with the strength of his arms, what next?What else can he do?

I'm afraid he can only be trampled to death by his own robes, right?

The palms of Hu Jiuzhang's hands were already soaked with sweat, but he never jumped off the cart.

He took a deep breath one after another, used his arms to drive his body, and slowly retreated into the car.

There is only a dead end to get out of the car, but if you stay in the car, you may be ignored by the chasing rebels and barely survive.

He thought so in his heart, but when he really moved, his arms couldn't stop shaking.It was an uncontrollable panic and fear from the heart.

Hu Jiuzhang has been a soldier all these years, where has he seen such a large-scale rout of the Tang army?

The chasing rebels were not fighting at all, but slaughtering!

For a whole day, what happened to those 15 Tang soldiers who were led into the narrow passage?So much so that the battle situation has actually developed to such an extent!

Hu Jiuzhang's figure had disappeared into the car, but it was impossible to say that he was not afraid.

As long as it is human, it will be afraid.His face turned pale with fear, and his arms couldn't stop shaking, but for the current plan, there was no other better choice for him, a wounded soldier who lost both legs, except to retreat into the car.In such a chaotic scene, it is simply unrealistic to expect others to come to rescue.

But in a daze, Hu Jiuzhang wondered if he had auditory hallucinations again. He suddenly heard someone calling his name outside the cart.

"Brother Hu! Brother Hu!"

Hu Jiuzhang heard a few more voices, and before he had time to answer, he heard the voice getting farther and farther away.

It's Zhao Xiaoyang!

He recognized Zhao Xiaoyang's voice.But Zhao Xiaoyang probably didn't know that he was in a cart transporting wounded soldiers at this time.

Hu Jiuzhang quickly moved his body and sent himself out.But Zhao Xiaoyang's voice has gradually faded away.Hu Jiuzhang's tears were about to drip down following the disappearing voice.Regardless of the unhealed knife wound on his body, the bandages on his shoulder blades were bleeding, and he still tried his best to move himself out of the car.

"lamb!"

As soon as he saw the light outside the car, he yelled.

"Little sheep! I'm here! Little sheep! Zhao Xiaoyang!!"

Hu Jiuzhang yelled fiercely towards the surroundings, his voice was hoarse and out of tune, but he still couldn't hear Zhao Xiaoyang's echo.

……

Hu Jiuzhang let out a long sigh.

In just a split second, he felt that time was as slow as years.

The rebels on Xiyuan were still massacring the remnants of the fleeing Tang army.On the high ground in the north, there were few Tang soldiers left. Instead, there were thousands of war drums that had been put up to help out. It was like a joke, ruthlessly satirizing the blood-stained Tang soldiers on the western plains.

Hu Jiuzhang raised his arms again, and suddenly there was a throbbing pain from the cracked wound on his shoulder blade.At this point, even Hu Jiuzhang didn't have so much strength, so he retreated into the car.

"noob……"

He whispered Li Muyun's name, imagining how Li Muyun would be brought back to Tongguan by Lu Sheng and his son.

Surely they can escape back?

Hu Jiuzhang thought silently.

After all, Lu Kuang brought his own soldiers with him.No matter how chaotic the scene is, the general's personal soldiers will still swear allegiance to the death.

As long as Li Muyun can escape back, it doesn't matter what happens to him...

Looking at the setting sun in the sky, gradually disappearing beside the mountain road, Hu Jiuzhang just sighed lightly, as if the continuous massacres on Xiyuan had nothing to do with him.

After an unknown amount of time, the voice seemed to suddenly burst out from nothingness.Hu Jiuzhang's body shook, and he suddenly heard Zhao Xiaoyang's call from behind the cart.

"Brother Hu, Brother Hu!"

Hu Jiuzhang was in a daze. With one uninjured arm, he supported the edge of the car door and looked in the direction of the sound.

"lamb?"

The one who staggered from behind the cart was actually Zhao Xiaoyang who was fully armed.

Zhao Xiaoyang's complexion is still not good, and his body seems to have been drained of all nutrients, withered and thin.But at this moment, seeing this figure appear in front of him, Hu Jiuzhang only felt that it was a divine soldier descended from heaven.

"lamb!"

He responded with a voice that was already crying.

Before Hu Jiuzhang didn't notice, his hot tears had already slid down to the tip of his chin, dripping drop by drop onto the material of his clothes.

"Brother Hu! I found you! I'll carry you on my back!"

Zhao Xiaoyang was also very excited.The two didn't have time to embrace each other, and Zhao Xiaoyang grabbed Hu Jiuzhang's arm and pulled him onto his back.

"The strength is growing..."

Hu Jiuzhang didn't notice that he was crying until then.He supported Zhao Xiaoyang's shoulder with one hand, and with the other hand, he was wiping the muddy tears on his face in a panic.

"Obviously Brother Hu has become lighter." Zhao Xiaoyang said casually, his eyes were already filled with tears.

"How did you know I was here?"

"Gan Lvshuai told me. Brother Hu, let's escape first. I know this area well. This time, I will definitely not go the wrong way, I promise!"

After Zhao Xiaoyang finished speaking, he fled towards the valley to the west with Hu Jiuzhang on his back, and Hu Jiuzhang, who was lying on his back, was already so emotional that his throat was choked up, and he couldn't even say a word.