After a long time, the general's order finally came down.
More than 200 barbarian soldiers were killed, and the remaining women and children... were let go!
After hearing such an order, Leng Qian, the commander of the forward battalion, immediately came forward to persuade: "General, these people cannot be released. Now we are in the wilderness. If we release these women and children, we will probably leak our whereabouts..."
"Then you go kill those children, go!"
Before Leng Qian could finish his words, Yue Jian roared with his eyes widened, and the muscles on his cheeks were trembling slightly, which showed that he had made such a decision with great determination.
As a general, he knew the consequences of letting go of these prisoners, but he still did it because he couldn't do anything to those ignorant babies.
After receiving the order, Leng Qian struggled for a moment, then suddenly stood up and said: "Yes!"
After saying that, Leng Qian took the knife and walked towards the women, children and the babies of the barbarian soldiers.
I came to a barbarian woman. The woman was very thin, and she was followed by a four or five-year-old little barbarian. When the little barbarian saw Leng Qian coming, he shrank into the woman's arms in fear, and then secretly used one eye to
Looking at Leng Qian, her pure eyes were innocent, frightened and frightened; and the woman was also trying hard to protect the child in her arms and exposed her back. She seemed to want to use her body
Come and shield the child from the knife.
What's wrong with being a child!
Seeing this scene, Leng Qian's newly hardened heart suddenly softened again. He tried to raise the knife several times, but he couldn't do it.
At this time, the babies in the arms of other women nearby seemed to feel the danger. They were stimulated by the suppressed breath and cried out with a "wow". Hearing the cries of these children, Leng Qian couldn't help it anymore.
The army next to them also fell silent.
After all, they were all humans, not beasts. They had no problem letting them fight with a group of barbarians, but when they were asked to kill these children and women, they couldn't do it.
Even Su Ping'an shook his head after being silent for a long time and whispered: "If this happened to me, I'm afraid... I wouldn't be able to do this!"
"It's too dangerous to let go of these people, and I can't do it without letting go, so I'm afraid the general will be the most difficult person to make this decision!" Long Cheng couldn't help but cast his eyes on the dark golden figure.
Yue Jian's decision was wrong intellectually, but it was right emotionally, so there was no way to care about this matter.
In the end, Yue Jian said nothing more, but turned his horse's head and left directly.
When the other soldiers saw this scene, after hesitating for a moment, they soon followed Yue Jian to the wilderness side. They also wanted to find the tribe of barbarians and continue to slaughter the barbarians in order to delay the gathering of the barbarians.
speed.
After Leng Qian stood there for a long time, he yelled at the army behind him, "What are you still doing? The general has left, why don't you hurry up and follow him!"
After seeing Leng Qian take back the knife in his hand and ride away, Su Ping'an and the others also breathed a silent sigh of relief.
Obviously, even a few of them didn't want Leng Qian to take action just now, but when they were about to leave, they felt a trace of regret in their hearts.
So sometimes I have to say that human psychology is really weird.
"Forget it, let's go, don't think too much, the decision has been made anyway..."
Long Cheng let out a breath, then put away his knife and left.
Before Su Ping'an left, he took another look at the barbarian women and children. His heart felt heavy for a moment, as if he was being pressed by something. But in the end, he didn't say anything. He just got on the horse, clamped the horse's belly, and then took the horse with him.
Xiong and the others quickly pursued the army.
After running around in the wilderness for another two days, the five thousand cavalrymen killed several waves of small troops that were about to join the barbarian army. After this fight, everyone in the five thousand army was infected with a strong smell.
The strong murderous aura makes him look even better than the tiger and wolf warriors.
But just in the early morning of the third day, when the army was preparing to return to camp to recuperate, suddenly the scouts in front hurriedly came with the news, "General, it's bad, there is a force of no less than 30,000 barbarian cavalry fifty miles ahead.
, is approaching us quickly."
When Yue Jian heard the news, he immediately ordered, "Everyone mount their horses and continue to retreat immediately, quickly!"
Hearing this, Leng Qian reminded: "General, we are going back to the camp. If we retreat now, we are going deep into the wilderness!"
"You don't need to remind me, just send the order quickly!"
Leng Qian immediately clasped his fists and said, "Yes!"
The army continued to advance and quickly rushed into the depths of the wilderness.
During the march, Su Ping'an rode his horse to catch up with Zhang Bin, and then said with a trace of doubt and worry: "Centurion, since we left the camp, our march has been very secretive. How did the barbarians catch up with us?"
, is it really because of those barbarian women and children that were let go that day?!"
Zhang Bin, who usually valued Su Pingan very much, his eyes turned cold after hearing these words, and then he only replied, "Don't worry about things that shouldn't be yours to worry about. Just do your best at this time."
Just divide it up, do you understand?!"
After saying that, Zhang Bin stopped talking to Su Pingan and just continued to drive forward with a cold face. However, Su Pingan could feel from the other party's breath that his guess just now was right, otherwise Zhang Bin would not be able to do it now.
His face is so cold.
Then Long Cheng and Feng Shaoyang also came over, and the three of them communicated and discussed for a while.
Long Cheng said: "I'm afraid that this time we were chased by the barbarian army, it really has something to do with letting those women and children go. Otherwise, we have killed no one alive these days, and those barbarian soldiers would not have been able to chase us so fast.
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Su Pingan: "Is this the last battle mentioned in the biography, the battle where Yue Jian was defeated and the entire army he led was annihilated?!"
Feng Shaoyang nodded, "Nine times out of ten, so from now on, let's be ready to fight with all our strength!"
Although no one of the three looked down on the other when they were in Wen Palace, and they were all in competition with each other, but now that the situation is critical, they have to temporarily put aside their differences and fight together.
Behind them, the barbarian army chased very fast and pressed hard. They kept closing the distance. When Su Ping'an looked back, he could already see the smoke and silhouette of the barbarians. If they continued to chase like this,
, the army will be caught up sooner or later.
"No, there is a huge disparity between us and the enemy. It would be too disadvantageous for us to fight in the wilderness..."
While riding the horse, Yue Jian also felt that something was not good. He hurriedly took out a map of the wilderness and quickly glanced at it. Then he quickly discovered a stone forest on the map. He immediately gave an order with a sharp look:
"Turn to the right. There is a stone forest three kilometers ahead. Since we can't escape, let's prepare to fight to the death with these barbarians here!"
