Chapter 0——①The troops are approaching the city
It is said that six years before Bai Feng started walking in the world, he was still childish on his face and was playing with his friends by the river as usual. Drenched all over, he lay carefree on the grass enjoying the sunshine, surrounded by unknown bright flowers. The fragrance they emitted mixed with the smell of the grass and the river, making people feel relaxed and happy.
The young man was walking home slowly, dragging his wet clothes. Halfway there, he suddenly saw his mother walking towards him angrily in the distance.
"You brat, you went to play instead of working again, and you even made your clothes wet!"
Seeing her mother so angry, Bai Feng ran in the opposite direction, and her mother was naturally chasing after her. The boy's light steps were now as fast as those of an adult man. When he walked to a crowded place, he could completely leave his mother behind.
I saw him ducking past the uncle carrying firewood on his left, and avoiding the aunt holding the child on his right; sometimes he passed between a pair of young lovers, and sometimes he jumped over the snack stall table. Everywhere they passed, they caused commotion.
However, Bai Feng felt particularly happy. Such rogue mischief was one of his usual ways of having fun. Although it will bring a lot of trouble to parents, most people will not take these things seriously. Not only because Bai Feng is born with a lovable skin, but also because of his unique childlike innocence and cuteness in his dealings with others.
After a lot of destruction, he would usually apologize to others in person with great remorse, looking pitiful and unsophisticated. No matter how hard-hearted the "judge" was, he would not punish him severely, let alone in this folk custom. In the simple Xiangyang Village.
Bai Feng fled to the outskirts a few miles away from the village, where dense trees provided natural shelter for wild animals. When passing by Yangshan, a big mountain next to the village, he suddenly remembered the legend of the "Yangshan White Snake Fairy": According to legend, there lived a huge white snake in Yangshan. It cramped and stripped the bones, and cast spells to imprison him. It ranges from a disability to a mental disability, so I dare not continue to stay at the foot of Yangshan Mountain.
When he was about to turn back to the village, his keen intuition told him that something unusual was happening on the road ahead. Immediately afterwards, a group of black crows in front were frightened by unknown reasons and flew away in the direction of Bai Feng from a distance. The boy held his breath and wanted to find out, and the best way was to find a high place. He plucked up the courage and walked up Yangshan Mountain. When he reached a good observation position, he saw strange dust rolling up in front of him, and in the dust was the Xianbei army!
"The rebels are coming!" Bai Feng said in shock, "I want to go back and tell the people in the village!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Feng ran towards the village.
"Everyone, hurry up and flee into the city. The rebels are almost at the village!" Bai Feng repeated this sentence loudly as he ran in the direction of his home. As if he was about to exhaust all his strength, when he got home, he poured the water from the porcelain pot on the table directly into his dry throat and body, and then said to his puzzled father and mother: "Dad, Mom, the rebels are coming soon, let’s run away!”
The three members of the family followed the hurried flow of people into Yangcheng and gained temporary safety. The sound of the Xianbei army's iron hoofs had already reached Yangcheng, as if the whole earth was shaking. After a while, thick black smoke rose from Xiangyang Village outside the city - the enemy was burning the villagers' houses. They set fires while making sharp and strange shouts, which made the villagers in the city panic.
"Can the city wall really be defended?"
"This is the emperor's feet, shouldn't it be safe?"
"Buddha bless, Buddha bless..."
The Xianbei army began to attack the city that day. With a large number of people, complete equipment, and high fighting spirit, they were simply unstoppable. The morale of the Yangcheng garrison became increasingly low. Many people chose to abandon their armor and flee, and some even chose to join the Xianbei people. As a result, there were many Han Chinese faces in the Xianbei army, or they had been recruited along the way. Many people have chosen this path. Every time the Xianbei siege ram hits the gate of Yangcheng, the people in the city become more desperate.
"There is no hope." This thought flashed through the hearts of almost everyone in the city. The Hu people have always been notorious for their fierce and bloody style, but Yangcheng is located deep in the Central Plains and has always been in a corner. Not to mention the Hu people, they have not even seen a real war in the past few decades. But from the day the city gate was breached, Yangcheng signed a contract with war and rebellion for nearly ten years. Overnight, Yangcheng almost became a racecourse for the Xianbei people. The smoke rising from the ruins nearby was just a bonfire to cheer them up, and the fire seemed to illuminate the endless night; the dead bodies everywhere, the women, children, and the men who were fighting were the playthings in their hands. This is a massacre, in which ordinary people are ravaged by the strong like ants in human eyes in the face of a meaningless power struggle.
On the night when the city gate was breached, His Majesty the Emperor was beheaded and his head was hung in the city to deter those who still wanted to resist. Bai Feng's family and all the people in the city were captured. Anyone who tried to escape or resist would die.
In order to eliminate the captives' desire to survive, the victors usually use "softness" or "intimidation" methods. The Hu people who have not been sinicized are a bloodthirsty and warlike nation. For them, "intimidation" is not a method, but a hobby. Unfortunately, Bai Feng's mother was chosen as a target to scare the monkeys.
More than a dozen soldiers, mixed with Chinese and beards, were guarding Bai Feng and his group of captives. A tall, dark-skinned and strong Xianbei warrior wearing leather armor was pacing among the captives, staring at the one sitting on the ground tremblingly as if he was selecting the best goods. people. After a moment, his eyes focused on the family of three. Bai Feng and the others watched him slowly walking towards this side. Bai Feng's father instinctively protected his wife and children behind him, and asked loudly: "What do you want to do!" The Xianbei warrior turned a deaf ear and kicked him in the cheek. , and then dragged Bai Feng's mother to the prisoners. The Xianbei warrior raised and lowered his hands on her, making obscene moves to violate her, which angered Bai Feng's father who was kicked away by him.
Bai Feng's father saw the sword on the soldier beside him and snatched it away with lightning speed, but the soldier actually had no intention of stopping him. The man holding the sword rushed directly towards the Xianbei warrior. A cold arrow flew out of nowhere and hit the man's knee. Bai Feng's father knelt on the ground helplessly and howled in pain. The Xianbei warrior let go of Bai Feng's mother and walked towards Bai Feng's father, punching and kicking him until he could not get up. Finally, the Xianbei warrior pulled out the arrow from Bai Feng's father's knee, thrust it directly into his back, and then looked up to the sky and laughed wildly. The barbarians were not even willing to hold weapons in their hands, just to show that killing a prisoner was as easy as trampling an ant to achieve a more perfect intimidation effect.
At the same time, the young Bai Feng was completely stunned by this scene. He stared at his father who died tragically in front of him with wide eyes. He used all his strength to stand up reluctantly. His trembling body still wanted to rush towards the father who killed his father. Enemies. At this time, a pair of gentle hands hugged him from behind, took Bai Feng into his arms, and covered his eyes with his hands. The mother who saw her father being killed cried hysterically and threw herself on her dead father. Then a Han soldier approached the two men, picked up the sword on the ground and stabbed Bai Feng's mother. The crying stopped suddenly. Bai Feng still saw this moment from the gap in that hand. In that instant, countless emotions and tears poured out: fear, helplessness, anger... He passed out because of this.
The soldier who stabbed Bai Feng's mother to death threatened loudly: "Your emperor is dead. This is the consequence of resistance! Obey orders, women stand here, men stand over there!" The young woman holding Bai Feng in her arms Carry him on your back and follow the procession.
After an unknown amount of time, Bai Feng was awakened by the "sizzling" sound of burning wood beside him. He looked outside the house and found that the fire was still burning. When he woke up completely, he realized that he was hiding in a haystack. When he was about to remove the hay and go out, he suddenly heard intermittent moaning and gasping sounds coming from outside. He poked a small hole in the haystack to observe, and found that the back of the Han soldier who had just killed his mother was facing him. Violate a woman. Then I saw a sword lying next to the soldier, so I wanted to take the opportunity to draw the sword and kill him!
Bai Feng slowly walked out of the haystack, tiptoed there and pulled out the sword. He found that the murderous weapon was so heavy, so he had to hold the hilt of the sword and aim the tip of the sword at the soldier's back. Bai Feng raised the sword high, and almost the weight of the sword carried the boy forward.
"Ah!" After a cry of grief, the soldier turned around and knocked Bai Feng to the ground with a punch. As expected, the boy who had never used a sword was still incapable of killing people. The stab only penetrated the soldier's body with the tip of the sword, but it was far from causing any substantial damage to him.
The soldier took back his sword and prepared to kill the boy who resisted him with one sword, but he forgot that there was still someone behind him. The woman picked up a stone from beside her and hit the soldier on the back of the head. "Boom", the soldier fell to the ground. The woman looked at the blood-stained stone in her hand with a surprised look on her face, as if she didn't believe she could knock down the soldier.
The young man lying half on the ground looked at the woman in front of him who was only wearing a tulle. She was naked, and the delicate skin under the tulle was a symbol of her youth. Her lower body was covered with blood.
The woman nervously walked up to the boy, stroked his bruised cheek, and asked, "Are you okay?"
Bai Feng subconsciously avoided looking at her body and replied: "It's okay. Sister, please put on your clothes." The fragrance coming from the woman's body and the gentle hand made Bai Feng recognize that she was just now. People who stop themselves.
While the woman was changing her clothes, he asked, "Why does my sister want to stop me from avenging my parents?"
"You're not seeking revenge. You're clearly seeking death." The woman's dry eyes seemed to have dried up tears. She looked at the boy and said, "The barbarians are doing this to scare us and make us lose our minds. As long as we don't give up on life in our hearts. I hope I can escape one day."
Suddenly, an unusually noisy voice came from outside the house: "Catch them quickly! Don't let them escape!"
The woman realized that this was the best time to escape, and in a blink of an eye she took Bai Feng's hand and fled towards Xiangyang Village. What caused the chaos was the men who were forcibly recruited as strong men. They took advantage of the night to set fire to the residences of several soldiers! The two were not afraid of the legend of "Yangshan White Snake Fairy" and fled straight to the mountain. The torches of the pursuers behind them were densely packed at the bottom of the mountain, chasing the villagers who fled outside.
The two of them waited until the firelight at the bottom of the mountain dissipated before they dared to speak.
"What's your name?" the woman asked Bai Feng.
"Hakuho."
"My name is Tsubaki, and my family members were all killed. We seem to have the same problem..."
Bai Feng didn't respond silently, her heart still wandering about the tragedy just now. After a moment, he suddenly asked: "Sister Chun, do you think the legend of 'Yangshan White Snake Fairy' is true?"
Chun hesitated for a while and replied: "Well... no matter how scary the White Snake Immortal is, it should be far less than human beings."
"Ha." Bai Feng sneered and said, "I think so too." Bai Feng carefully recalled the actions of the Xianbei people just now, and the flame of hatred in his heart gradually rose, but if he had been impulsive, he might have died long ago. So he thanked Chun: "Sister Chun's life-saving grace, I can't repay her."
"You can live a good life, which is the greatest reward for me." Chun said with a smile.
"How can I live a good life when I have a blood feud..."
"So what can we do with revenge? Someone has to come out to end this troubled world so that ordinary people like us won't be implicated."
After hearing what Chun said, Bai Feng wanted to see her face clearly for the first time. The moonlight was bright and bright, and it reflected several bruises on Chun's face. Chun also looked at Bai Feng's appearance. The two faces seemed to be coated with black mud, which made the two of them laugh.
"From now on, we two siblings will depend on each other and survive together!"
