Later, Clan Master Zhou redeemed Sister A in Lefang. The two of them attached themselves to Clan Master Zhou and found some descendants of the Cui family, so that they could barely live like a family. Unfortunately, the eldest sister's health was affected by her illness in Lefang. She can no longer have children under the condition of Shumo. He is now the only relative of the eldest sister, and they depend on each other for life.
Cui Shizi felt the cold air in his heart and took another sip of hot tea. The eldest sister had no descendants, so he would be her child.
"Although I don't know which general of the Turkic Khan came to Huiyi City this time, but according to my understanding of their battles, those Turks must have backup forces, and it is absolutely impossible for them to all suppress Huiyi City." Cui Shizi said: "Besides, those grassland tribes are not monolithic on weekdays. If they are used well, there is a lot to be done."
"Shi Zi is right." Zhou Xu sat on a high-backed chair and smiled: "No matter how many people the Turks bring this time, there are expected to be two or three groups in the rear as a way to retreat."
"Now, what we have to do is." Zhou Xu tapped his hand on the table.
"Start early to cut off their escape route."
"Lord, I wonder which coach is leading the heavy armored cavalry this time?" Li Xun touched his beard and had some vague understanding of the battle plan. They were responsible for attracting Yi's attention, and the lord A mysterious heavy cavalry set out from Mojun to be the oriole, but Li Xun knew nothing about the mysterious heavy cavalry, so he was a little worried, because the heavy cavalry was the key point of this battle. , and the commander of the heavy armored cavalry is the top priority.
According to the news from their scouts, the cavalry gathered by the grassland tribes was about 20,000. The terrain of Huiyi was special. If they attacked directly, their Xuanjia Battalion would not only suffer a lot of casualties, but also there would be many casualties over time. When problems arise, they should be solved quickly.
In six days at most, their five thousand cavalry will arrive at Huiyi.
Li Xun felt that time was a bit tight.
Zhou Xuan and Zhou Lingzhi also looked at Zhou Xu.
Zhou Xudao: "It's Jin Ben."
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the military tent felt strange and familiar with this name. Except for Cui Shizi, whose expression remained the same, General Shi thought for a while before he remembered this person. His expression was complicated, as if he wanted to He said something, his lips moved but he still didn't speak.
Li Xun also fell silent when he heard the word "Jin Ben".
Zhou Xuan frowned and did not like Jin Ben. Zhou Lingzhi looked at his uncle and found that his expression did not change.
"Actually, General Jin is also a suitable candidate. After all, he knows everything about Turks best." Cui Shizi said.
Use the spear of the son to attack the shield of the son, and attack the heart first.
Li Xun said: "That's what Wen Ruo said."
If you think about it carefully, Jin Ben is indeed a suitable candidate, but it does not prevent everyone from having mixed feelings about him.
General Shi hesitated to speak. He wanted to remind Lord Jiedushi, but he felt that it was not appropriate to say this now.
After the people in the military tent leave.
Cui Shizi looked at the dark night in the distance, dotted with stars.
"Old General Shi just wanted to remind my lord not to be careless." Cui Shizi said: "After all, Jin Ben's status is very special."
"I know." Zhou Xuli straightened the things on the desk and made them tidy: "Jin Ben is a hybrid between a Turkic royal family and a Central Plains person."
Seeing his lord speaking openly, Cui Shizi rubbed his face with cold hands and murmured: "This time I recommend Jin Ben to my lord as the commander of the heavy armored cavalry. If Jin Ben betrays him temporarily, If I fall to the Turks, then I will kill myself in front of all my colleagues to apologize. After I die, my lord will not collect my body for me, so just let me stay here forever."
"When the time comes, please, my lord, please take more care of my sister and let her be a mother-in-law by my mistress's side."
Seeing Cui Shizi's gloomy mood, Zhou Xu said, "Are you two so unsure of Jin Ben?"
"Jin Ben has grown up in the Turkic royal court since he was a child. When you broke through the Turkic king's tent, he was already twelve years old and no longer an ignorant child." Cui Shizi calmly elaborated: "He understands the Turkic people. Everything, knowing their language, being familiar with the Turks is like being familiar with your own home, and even knowing the hidden whistles the Turks usually use when changing troops. He is the most suitable to serve as the heavy armor coach this time, and I will recommend him."
He was silent for a moment and then said: "But what if..." Although he had observed Jin Ben for a long time, he was very sure that his character would not act like that.
But everything should be done just in case, just in case the Turks have too profound influence on Jin Ben, just in case Jin Ben is just pretending...
"When I met Jin Ben, he was indeed no longer a child."
Zhou Xu took a sip of tea. Although fifteen years had passed, he still remembered when he saw Jin Ben.
Children in their early ten years are as fierce and cold as wolf cubs. Most Turkic people have no one. Chang Ganglun. Jin Ben’s biological father was a powerful man. Unfortunately, he died, and his mother was inherited by his father’s younger brother. Because she was really beautiful, This led to several struggles. When the first brother died, the second one took over...
When Zhou Xu saw him, he was stabbing the man lying on his mother's body with a knife. His hatred was so great that he broke the man's heart and chopped him into pieces. piece.
After killing the people, he also killed the half-children in the tent, slaughtering the people like pigs and dogs.
After killing them all, he ran to his mother and put some clothes on her. She was an elderly Central Plains woman. She put on her clothes with trembling hands. She heard the sound of killing gradually coming from outside, and heard the long-lost sound. Zhongyuan said, she rushed outside in disbelief, looked at the Youzhou army, and stumbled out.
Jin Ben was sitting in the tent with slightly curly hair. This unusual appearance made it obvious that he was a Turk.
Xu knew that he was going to be killed by someone outside, so he didn't react much. He just collected the gold from the body, buried a pit with a dagger, and sat on the pit.
He muttered to himself: I don’t know if grandma will come back or not. Grandma hates this place and he hates it too. People here bully grandma. If she comes back and grandma sees her body, Would she give him a hug?
If grandma hugs him, she will find the gold she buried. I heard that buying things in the Central Plains requires copper coins. He left so much gold and exchanged it for copper coins, which should be enough for grandma.
Halfway through her words, the Central Plains woman came back. She gritted her teeth and looked at Jin Ben, and then at the corpses on the ground. Jin Ben had always listened to her and would kill anyone she told him to. Anyone who had bullied her over the years had been punished. He killed many secretly.
The woman looked at Jin Ben, gritting her teeth and trembling with fear.
Jin Ben also looked at A Niang, as if he was stupid.
When Zhou Xu walked into the tent, the woman suddenly grabbed Jin Ben. Her lips were trembling and she couldn't speak, but she refused to let go.
Uncharacteristically, Jin Ben broke away from A Niang's hand. He was holding a dagger. He knew that the Youzhou army hated Turks, and he hated them too, but he was also a Turk.
If A Niang stands with him, the Youzhou army will be disgusted.
Jin Ben stabbed a dagger into his heart. He fell to the ground and saw A Niang suddenly running towards him. She hugged him and tears suddenly flowed down.
Jin Ben used his last strength to press A Niang's hand to the place where the gold was hidden.
Looking at the crying grandma, she suddenly laughed.
Grandma’s embrace is so warm.
That year, Zhou Xu was thirty years old. Looking at this scene, he saw for the first time a Turkic hybrid who was willing to commit suicide for the sake of his mother.
Later, Jin Ben did not die.
He was lucky that his heart position was a little farther away than others.
When he grew up, he would take his mother to see any sightseeing in Beijing.
In the end, the woman got tired of watching, and Jin Ben himself joined the military camp and became the executioner who massacred the Turks.
Because he wears a mask all year round, over time he is known as the Ghost Slayer.
Chapter 79
When Zhou Xu left the main tent of the army, the moon was already in the sky, but it was only autumn, and his breath had already condensed into a light white air. The bitter cold outside the Great Wall is not just to talk about, but it is indeed cold, especially when arriving. In winter, the Kamamu River is covered with ice and snow, and it gets colder as you go north.
Zhou Xu looked up at the sky full of stars, thinking that when he returned to Langge, he would take his wife to a hunting ground and hunt a black bear to make a warm cloak for her, so that she would not feel cold when she went out.
He had lived a rough life in the past few decades, and the things in the house were not complete enough for the family to enjoy. Zhou Xu thought for a while, and he seemed to have a hot spring resort in Langge, where he could take his wife to soak in it in his free time. Soak in the hot springs and drink some sake. In the morning, you can paint your wife’s eyebrows and lips, choose pearls and jewelry, or you can take a carriage to the plum garden to make tea and enjoy the snow...
Thinking about it this way, winter seems to be less boring and a little more interesting.
The more Zhou Xu thought about it, the more he felt that there was hope every day in winter.
When he returned to the big cowhide tent, he found Dongxue standing outside, with no trace of his wife.
Dongxue bent her knees slightly and told her about Brother Tuoba coming to visit his wife in the evening, and then repeated what his mistress had said, and finally told his mistress that she had gone to the military doctor.
After Zhou Xu heard this, he felt good about Tuoba Agu's behavior of respecting and caring for his adoptive mother. His wife was married by his matchmaker and she was the mistress of Youzhou. She should be treated the same as he was treated. She should not be disobeyed or contradicted. , don't be unfilial.
"When you return to Langge, you can give them more medicinal materials." Zhou Xudao.
"Wei." Dongxue responded with her knees bent.
"Okay, you go down and rest."
Zhou Xu walked to the military doctor's office. The injured Tuoba and Tiele tribesmen were all here tonight. There was a faint sound of extremely low screams, and the smell of blood was strong. He opened a corner of the curtain and did not enter. When entering Li Fan's tent, the military doctor was most afraid of anyone entering or exiting the tent.
Sure enough, he saw his wife.
A medical officer like Li Fan treated soldiers who were seriously injured and life-threatening, so the smell of blood in the tent was even stronger. Five oil lamps illuminated the tent brightly, and the soldiers were moaning or moaning in pain. The weak breathing smelled like death.
Xiao Luolan had already taken off her brown cloak and washed her face and hands before entering the tent. At this moment, she was wearing a simple mask made of brown silk cloth on her face, and she was using the steam from Gulu to remove the mulberry white threads. It was smooth and silky, and then inserted into the curved needle. She turned around and came to a bed frame. On the frame was the most seriously injured soldier. The upper body clothes had been removed, revealing the terrible wounds.
His left arm was chopped with a knife, and the skin was torn apart. Xiao Luolan concentrated on handling the wound. Warm blood spread from the bed frame and dripped on Xiao Luolan's body, followed by a continuous stream of blood. .
Xiao Luolan had sutured many people before. She sewed up the wound on his left arm before looking at Dr. Li.
This was a Tuoba man. He was severely injured. His stomach was cut open by a Turkic knife. He seemed to have fallen into a coma from the pain.
Li Fan calmly wiped his hands with real sesame oil to moisten the leaking intestines. When he was brought here, he had already spent some time outside, and the exposed intestines were slightly dry. After moistening them with real sesame oil, Li Fan Fan put it into his belly, everything was so fast and tense. At this time, Li Fan suddenly looked at his mistress.
Xiao Luolan looked along her hand and saw that it was about to be sutured.
She washed her hands and applied real sesame oil, then slowly pinched the wound, feeling the warm and greasy bloody touch. Li Fan quickly used a curved needle to sew from the inside out, and applied hemostatic medicine on the outside of the abdomen when closing the wound. The injured area is still covered with plaster.
Xiao Luolan sat next to the injured soldier. Until then, the treatment in this room was simply over. She looked at the Tuoba man. He was not very old, about twenty-two or thirty, but People in ancient times generally looked older than their actual age, maybe not yet twenty years old?
Li Fan wiped the sweat from his face and smiled at his mistress: "Thank you very much for tonight."
Li Fan really didn't expect that his mistress could do such a good job, mainly because it was her first time to treat a seriously injured patient. Li Fan was originally worried that his mistress would have trembling hands or be afraid, but it turned out that her mistress did a very good job and prevented infection. Because of the situation, the military doctor's tent could not allow too many people to come in and out, so there were only two of them in the tent. The mistress had a strong awareness of precautions and was very skilled in handling some wounds. More importantly, she was calm and fearless.
"No need." Xiao Luolan came back to her senses and found that her voice was a little hoarse: "No need to say thank you."
"Is he recovered?" Xiao Luolan looked at Dr. Li.
Li Fan was silent for a while and said truthfully: "We have tried our best, now we just have to look at him."
Xiao Luolan was at a loss for a while. They had done so much, but in the end they still resigned to their fate.
"If you hear a sound in the abdomen for a while, the intestines will return to their original position." Li Fan washed his hands and said amidst the smell of blood in the room: "But it's not good. We mortals can't see what's inside the abdomen. If you want to be really good, your grains should be normal. Therefore, after you wake up, take two or three mouthfuls of soju and smell the injured area. If the smell of alcohol is faint, it means that the person has no hope of recovery, and there is no need to boil other decoctions. It’s just a waste of time.”
Xiao Luolan listened to what Doctor Li said, but after waiting for a while she didn't hear any sound from the soldier's abdomen. She looked at his face again, and she didn't know if it was an illusion, but she always felt that there was a bluish-white color of death on it. Still very young.
Can't even pass the first level?
Xiao Luolan looked at it for a while, and suddenly remembered something she had dropped when she was undressing a soldier. She searched among the blood-stained clothes, and finally found a wood-carved hairpin. It looked like the hairpin had just been carved not long ago. , is just a rough prototype, the style is a simple crescent moon, Xiao Luolan thrust the hairpin into the hands of the soldiers.
She didn't know if it was useful or not, and she didn't know what the point of doing it was. For a comatose person, he couldn't feel anything.
Li Fan noticed this scene and sighed slightly in his heart. He looked outside the tent and saw Master Jiedushi standing there quietly.
The candlelight crackled, time passed little by little, and most of the injured patients had fallen into a deep sleep.
Xiao Luolan listened again, but still didn't hear the sound.
Wait until there is a little light in the sky.
Li Fan noticed that his mistress had not slept all night. She stayed there stubbornly, not knowing what she was waiting for. In her opinion, hope was already slim. Maybe she had seen too many dead people. Li Fan treated these things It seemed normal, but she still admired her mistress. After all, her mistress was not a military doctor who had been on the battlefield all year round.
"Mistress, please go and rest." Li Fan walked to the mistress and said softly.
Xiao Luolan blinked her dry eyes: "I'll wait and see." She lowered her head and listened again. She had done this action many times, with hope every time.
