Chapter 256 Gu Feibai, a white horse and a silver gun
Doctor Leng pushed the person in.
Gu Yu's pupils suddenly dilated and he subconsciously took a step back.
No wonder this person said he would scare her. Even though she was mentally prepared, she felt frightened in her heart.
The man's face was covered with scars, like frostbite or burns.
One of his eyes was missing, leaving only a dark hole, and his nose was cut off in half.
He was huddled up in the wheelchair, covered with a blanket. He was obviously an old man, but he was only the size of a child.
The old lady walked over and took off his blanket.
The man stretched out his hand, grasped the blanket, and shook his head at the old lady.
It was as if he knew that his body under the blanket was even worse, and he didn't want to scare Gu Yu.
But the old lady said: "She is a good child, let her have a look, it will be fine."
After opening it, Gu Yu saw why he was only the size of a child.
All the muscles in his body had atrophied, like a layer of dry skin hanging on his bones.
His legs were curled up on the wheelchair in an extremely twisted position.
In other words, it can no longer be called a leg.
Among the rotting flesh and skin, there were only white bones, connected by tendons.
The same is true for his hands. Only three of the ten fingers are left, and the traces of ulcers from that time can be seen.
Lengliu on the side turned his head. Despite his kindness as a doctor, he couldn't bear to look more.
Gu Yu suppressed the discomfort in her heart and asked: "Mother, who is this senior?"
The old lady said: "This is your father's lieutenant, Gu Feibai, who is known as the Silver Spear General."
Gu Yu's eyes widened.
No matter how hard she tried, she could not connect the heroic young man with a silver gun in the play to this terrifying old man.
As for who has the most reputation among the Gu family army, it is not her father, the tall and tall Gu Junyi, but the young silver spear general Gu Feibai.
Because he was young and born romantically, Gu Junyi got married early, while Silver Spear Young Master was alone "until he died".
He was accustomed to using a sharp silver spear. He once led 3,000 Gu family troops deep into the grassland, beheaded the Xirong Khan, and rode away in style.
When the martial arts actors on the stage played him, they could always attract a lot of applause, not to mention how enthusiastic the women back then were about him.
After hearing the news of his "death", several unmarried women from Yunying even gave him hairpins with white flowers for three months.
To this day, there are still young girls who regret that they were born too late and did not get to see the young man with a silver gun.
But didn't the Silver Spear general die at Sunset Pass just like her father?
Gu Yu murmured a sentence from the play: "Gu Feibai, a white horse with a silver spear, rides like a sword to reach Guanshan Mountain."
Gu Feibai smiled slightly, his remaining eye showing nostalgia for the past.
But when he smiled, the scars on his face made his face look even more ferocious.
Gu Yu said in disbelief: "Why?"
Why has it fallen to this point?
For military generals, they are not afraid of death and even regard being shrouded in horse leather as their best ending.
The once young general with a silver gun has now become a human being and a ghost. Why is he still holding on to his breath and lingering for a while?
The old lady said: "Yu'er, Lengliu, kneel down to your uncle Fei Bai. It was he who climbed all the way from Sunset Pass to Kyoto with one breath and brought back the truth about Sunset Pass."
the truth?
What truth?
What is the truth that makes a generation of romantic figures crawl back to Kyoto from Sunset Pass?
Gu Yu and Lengliu stiffened and knelt in front of Gu Feibai.
Gu Feibai stretched out his hand to help them up, but the palm he extended was too scary.
He stretched out halfway and then retracted, wanting to bury himself in the blanket.
However, the old lady grabbed his hand in time and motioned for Gu Yu to come closer.
Gu Yu walked a few steps on her knees, and the old lady gently put Gu Feibai's hand on Gu Yu's face.
Let Gu Feibai caress Gu Yu's face that resembled Gu Junyi.
Gu Yu looked up at Gu Feibai's ferocious face and said, "What's the truth?"
Gu Feibai glanced at the old lady, who nodded to him.
Gu Feibai took his hand back and said in a rough voice: "Back then, the Xirong army mobilized all the troops of the clan and pursued them all the way to Sunset Pass. The Gu family army held on for four whole months."
Gu Yu's eyes widened, how could it be four months?
Didn't Shao Wuji lead troops to reinforce the defense after two months?
Sunset Pass is the last line of defense between the grassland and the Yu Dynasty. If the Sunset Pass is broken through, Xirong's troops will invade the Central Plains and have a smooth road.
Therefore, the Gu family army can only defend and cannot retreat.
Gu Feibai saw Gu Yu's shock, and he said slowly: "With 80,000 troops, the Gu family's army blocked more than 100,000 Xirong troops and prevented the aliens from invading the Central Plains. The Xirong people could not afford it, so they tried their best to attack every wave.
In four months, there were only 10,000 Gu's troops left out of 80,000."
Gu Yu knew this. At that time, the Gu family's army was guarding various border areas, while the elite troops, led by her father Gu Junyi, were stationed at Sunset Pass to resist the Xirong.
The war started in the autumn. The people of Xirong knew that the autumn harvest was coming to the Yu Dynasty and there was a lot of food.
The most important thing is that the Holy Emperor had only been on the throne for a few years and the imperial court was unstable. The Xirong people wanted to take the opportunity to tear off a piece of the Yu Dynasty's territory.
So they gathered all the soldiers and horses of Xirong and tried their best to invade.
It was also at that time that the reinforcements carried by the Gu family army to the imperial court arrived. Shao Wu greatly defeated the Xirong and chased them to the hinterland of the grassland.
Xirong's vitality was severely weakened and he could no longer invade Kubian, so he paid tribute every year.
The Battle of Sunset Pass brought peace to the borders of Yu the Great, gave the Holy Emperor peace of mind, and gave Shao Wuji a status that was lower than that of ten thousand people.
As for the Gu family army, they have disappeared since then, and they only perform two or three performances throughout the year.
Gu Yudao: "Why is it four months? Didn't the imperial troops already set out when Xirong invaded?"
Gu Yu looked up at Gu Feibai in shock. His only remaining eye was like a dry well.
Dark and hopeless.
But Gu Yu could feel that he was crying, but there were no tears.
Gu Feibai said: "We did not reach Sunset Pass. One hundred thousand soldiers and horses of the imperial court were stagnant at Yongxue Pass. The messengers went to ask for reinforcements day after day, but none of them came back."
Sunset Pass is neither close nor far from Yongxue Pass.
It was so close that once the Xirong people broke through Sunset Pass, the imperial soldiers and horses at Yongxue Pass could successfully intercept them.
It was so far away that the herald was so fast that he could complete the round trip in half a month.
Gu Feibai said: "For four months, from autumn to bitter winter, the weather is freezing, food and grass are not available, and reinforcements are not available. The Xirong people are constantly attacking, and the Gu family's army at Sunset Pass has no way to survive."
Gu Feibai swallowed even more and trembled all over.
Those dark four months were a nightmare, a hell, and a human Shura field.
Gu Feibai couldn't control his emotions and only uttered a few words:
"People eat horses, grass, tree bark, rats and maggots, Guanyin soil..."
After saying that, he seemed to be possessed by something crazy. He kept shaking his head and his whole body twisted.
Doctor Leng hurriedly stepped forward and gave him a few injections before he managed to calm down his emotions.
He uttered two words that made Gu Yu also tremble: