Chu Qing has become accustomed to the strong wind at the border, the strong wind blowing the yellow sand.
But he was not used to waiting, and was used to waiting that was not long but extremely painful.
The brothers in Ma Gong Camp have not been allowed to eat meat, drink wine, and listen to operas, and they have not been allowed to feel that the frontier army is very good, but some frontier soldiers will never come back.
At night, Chu Qing couldn't sleep and didn't dare to sleep.
When I closed my eyes, I felt as if I could hear the sound of fighting, the sound of long knives cleaving flesh and blood, and the sound of arrows piercing through.
Wrapped in a blanket, huddled in the turret, surrounded by friends.
Sunset, moonrise, moonset, sunrise, Chu Qing did not dare to close his eyes all night. When he closed his eyes, he heard the sound of fighting, and when he closed his eyes, he saw soldiers covered in blood...
After finally making it to noon on the second day, the haggard Chu Qing looked at the horizon.
Come back, come back, come back soon.
He kept talking over and over again, just like the chattering of a woman without any opinion.
Yang Baobei, the leader of the Rui Shi Camp, climbed to the top of the city and looked at the crazy Chu Qing. He looked at Chu Qing who looked a little cowardly and a bit like a girl. After sighing, he showed a meaningful smile.
The same was true for the invincible General Chu in those days. Whenever his soldiers went to war, if they were unable to go to battle in person due to official duties, they would be like a junior brother who had never seen the world, anxiously pacing back and forth on the wall, chattering and cursing.
, make people laugh.
But Bian Jun likes people like this, people who really care about them.
Many important people came to the border. They stood on the general platform with passionate words and high ambitions, and sent the soldiers out to fight. After the soldiers left, they returned to their houses and went to sleep.
Their concern was not to wait day and night, but to show concern in words, and they were not even willing to show it for a moment longer, as if watching the border soldiers die was a condescension for them.
It is precisely because there are so many people like this that the border troops are becoming more and more chilled.
Yang Baobei stared at Chu Qing's profile, wishing that all the ministers in the capital were chattering like Chu Qing.
At the end of the line of sight, a shaking shadow finally appeared, slowly growing larger and becoming clearer.
Everyone was staring into the distance intently.
Chu Qing's blood began to flow faster and he was extremely nervous.
There are very few shadows, and the speed is very slow.
Chu Qing was like falling into an ice cave, with more than ten people, at most, more than ten people.
Yang Baobei's expression changed drastically, and he shouted in horror: "Why are there so few?"
The dozen or so riders were very slow and did not have the thunderous momentum they had when they left the city.
Yes, if there are only a dozen or so riders left, how can they be so high-spirited? With three thousand riders, how can they be so high-spirited if there are only a dozen or so riders left.
Chu Qing's body went limp and he almost collapsed to the ground. Fu San quickly helped Chu Qing.
Even the third brother showed a horrified expression.
There were only a dozen or so horses left out of three thousand. How could this not be frightening?
The man and the horse are getting closer and closer.
Blood, all blood. The one at the front, wearing full body armor, is Zhang Chengxiao, the commander of the Ma Gong Camp.
It was just Zhang Chengxiao, lying on the back of the horse. It seemed that he had been seriously injured and his face could not be seen clearly, but his armor was covered in blood. Everyone on the cavalry next to him was like this, as if he had been soaked in a sea of blood all night.
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The city gate opened, and Chu Qing's legs felt a little weak.
Ma Ying, who had been living at the border for more than a year, covered her mouth with both hands.
Changxian's eyes were blank: "People, where have all the people gone!"
"People!" Changxian yelled: "Who will tell me, where have all the people gone? Of the three thousand riders, why are only a dozen or so people returning? Where have all the people gone?!"
The archers on the city wall stopped and clenched their fists tightly.
The frontier troops had long ignored life and death, but this life and death was their own. Of the three thousand people who left the border, only twelve horses came back. They couldn't accept it.
Chu Qing hit the city wall with his fist and stumbled down the tower.
As soon as the city gate closed, Chu Qing ran out as fast as he could, followed closely by the others.
The speed of the twelve riders was still very slow, and even the war horses were listless.
Perhaps even the war horses felt their master's sadness.
Chu Qing rushed over as if he was going crazy. Zhang Chengxiao, who was covered in blood, must have been seriously injured. He lay on the horse and slowly raised his head, his eyes narrowed into slits.
After distinguishing each other for a long time, I saw Chu Qing running over.
He dismounted slightly slowly, and Chu Qing also ran up to him.
"Fuck you!"
He was caught off guard and punched Zhang Chengxiao in the face.
With a punch thrown out, Chu Qing grabbed Zhang Chengxiao's armor and shouted: "Where are the people, Zhang Chengxiao, where are the people, why are you the only dozen or so bastards back? Where are the other border army brothers? They
Where are the people?”
Zhang Chengxiao, who had been punched, was originally furious, but looking at Chu Qing who was even angrier than him, and looking at Chu Qing whose eyes were already a little moist, Zhang Chengxiao suddenly became happy.
"What's behind?"
"Your mother, let me ask you about..."
Chu Qing was stunned for a moment. Before he could react, the ground began to tremble, like thunder, with the sound of dense horse hooves. It turned out that the closer he got, the densely packed cavalry appeared at the end of his sight.
Zhang Chengxiao couldn't laugh or cry: "Prisoner Chu thinks that all the general's sons have died in the battle?"
Chu Qing's face was dull.
"Master, go back to the city first, don't get knocked down by the war horse."
After Fu San finished speaking, Chu Qing remained indifferent and just looked at the approaching cavalry.
Seeing that Chu Qing was indifferent, Fusan directly carried Chu Qing on his back without saying a word, and ran towards the city.
Chu Qing did not struggle, he just looked at the cavalrymen galloping in the distance, raising his head vigorously, hoping that the people who came back would be like yesterday morning, with as many people going out as many coming back.
After being carried to the city wall, Chu Qing jumped down, stretched his neck nervously, and looked down.
The elite cavalrymen of Ma Gong Camp have returned.
Everyone was like bandits who had just committed a crime. Behind the horses were some goats, some alive and some dead. Many cavalrymen were covered in blood. There were no trophies and no horses.
There were only lambs and cloth bags full of blood, either hanging under the horse's belly or carried on the shoulders.
The cavalrymen were shouting and shouting, and everyone looked cheerful.
Fukusan had a confused look on his face.
The quivers of the cavalry are all full.
Zhang Chengxiao came up, very proud.
Fu San turned around, not sure why: "Didn't you fight?"
"What are you fighting for? The Flower and Tree Department are all old and weak. There are more than 80 people. Not a single arrow was fired. After they went there, they knelt on the ground and did not resist at all."
Chu Qing turned around with a look of surprise on his face: "No one is dead?"
"I've already said that if we don't fight, no one will die."
"But the blood on you?"
"Although his mother's flowers and trees are not young and strong, there are a lot of fat sheep. Hey my dear mother, there are at least five or six hundred of them. It's hard to bring them back alive. The sheep were slaughtered with blood all over them.
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Chu Qing opened his mouth wide, looked at Zhang Chengxiao who was covered in blood, and subconsciously asked another question.
"Then why were you lying on the horse when you came back? I thought you were injured."
Zhang Chengxiao started laughing again.
After slaughtering the sheep in the middle of the night, I was exhausted, so I lay down on my horse to rest for a while.
"No!" Fu San suddenly said: "The Flower and Tree Department is close to the border, why are they all old and weak? There is no reason for the young and strong in the department to leave..."
Before he finished speaking, the soldiers boarded the tower.
"The enemy attacked at Dongguan. The Iron Wolf tribe had 30,000 troops. The commander ordered all the major battalions to guard each pass."