run!
Keep running!
Run as hard as you can!
Song Che runs faster than everyone else!
After passing Fengming Pass, he finally reached Daliangchaier. When he entered the pass and returned home, he would be like a blue dragon entering the sea, showing off his great achievements!
Everyone held this belief and kept running wildly in the snow. When night fell and dawn came, the majestic pass came into view.
"It's General Ma, and Mr. Song and the others!" Pang Wei and the soldiers and civilians in Wengcheng stood on the wall and cheered in unison.
Song Che was originally worried that they would fall behind, but he didn't expect that they would arrive earlier than him.
Victory lies ahead!
However, at this moment!
"Boom boom boom..."
A burst of snow mist arose in the distance behind them, the sound of horse hooves sounded like thunder, and rows of heavy armored cavalry roared towards them.
"Stop! Stop!"
The barbarians are catching up!
"Run! Open the door quickly!" Song Che shouted as he ran.
In the exciting moment, everyone's adrenaline levels soared, and their already exhausted bodies exploded with endless motivation.
The door closes and opens quickly!
"Come in! Come in!"
Song Che was the first to rush into the pass, followed by five hundred soldiers!
Seeing that they could no longer catch up, the Hu cavalry fired their bows and crossbows, "swish, swish, swish..." The heavy rain of pear blossom-like flying arrows hit the pass.
"Close the door quickly!"
"Boom!"
The gate of Fengmingguan was closed, keeping out the Hu cavalry.
"Ma Guocheng, how dare you attack our military camp and flee the city, you coward!" Hazai was furious and yelled outside the customs.
Song Che and Ma Guocheng climbed up the wall and looked around. There were about five to six thousand pursuers under the city, all of whom were heavily armed heavy armored cavalry.
There was already a shortage of fodder in winter, but it was all burned up by a fire. This was a huge loss to the Hu people who relied on horses to fight. How could he not be angry?
"Hazayi, you are also a veteran who has been on the battlefield for a long time. Why don't you understand the saying 'A soldier never tires of deceit'? You fell into Mr. Song's trick! Hahaha..." Ma Guocheng laughed with his hands on his hips.
"A common man! A coward! A defeated general! A general who abandoned the city! How dare you come down and fight me to the death!" Hazayi shouted angrily.
"Bold Hu Nu! Greedy and despicable people dare to come and make noise in front of Fengming Pass!" At this time, the guard general of Fengming Pass standing aside, calling him Lu Zhiwei, pointed angrily at the pass and yelled: "You must retreat as soon as possible. , otherwise thousands of arrows will be fired, and all of you will be buried here!"
The crossbowmen in the wall trench drew their bows and loaded arrows, ready to go.
Hazayi was obviously afraid. He gritted his teeth and waved his arms, and the cavalry slowly retreated back.
"Hey, your name is Hazai, right?" Song Che shouted, arrogantly taunting: "To be honest, the night attack on the military camp was Song's plan. I'm sorry, but I burned down all your family assets. , if you are not convinced, you can come and kill me at any time, but the prerequisite is that you have to pass this Fengming Pass."
Hazayi pointed angrily at Song Che and asked, "How dare you leave your name!"
"Why don't you dare?"
Song Che cleared his throat and said loudly: "I am Song Che, the important wanted criminal that most of you are looking for!
Listen to me, and I will tell you one more thing - your great Khan Timur was killed by me, instigating the second prince Kuimu, through a stratagem of alienation; ha! A group of barbarians from the Hu tribe also want to ascend the throne and become emperor. You are not worthy! "
"Ahhh...Song Che! I will kill you with my own hands!"
"Why are the dogs barking? Why don't you go back and tell Arhan! The biggest mistake he has ever done in his life is to bring me, Song Che, back to the capital of your country, Hahaha..."
Song Che raised his head to the sky and laughed wildly, and shouted at the Hu clan with a cold eyebrow and angry fingers: "Fire arrows to drive away the dogs!"
"Whoosh whoosh..." Thousands of arrows were fired in unison, causing the Hu cavalry to flee with their tails between their legs.
…
Song Che rested for a day at Fengming Pass, washed off the dirt on his body, shaved off the stubble on his face, and changed into clean clothes.
On the seventh day of the first lunar month, we left Fengming Pass and headed straight to Xiliang City.
"Mr. Song, who are you? Did you really...really, really kill the Great Khan of Hu State with a trick?"
Ma Guocheng, Pang Wei and other Wengcheng generals were all subordinates of Ma Wei, the prefect of Xiliang. Although it was for the sake of the people, they abandoned the city and fled. They thought about returning to Xiliang City to "please bear the thorns to plead guilty", so they teamed up with Song Dynasty. Che was acting as Song Che's bodyguard along the way.
"Hey, General Ma, you called me wrong again," Song Che nodded the big white mask on his face and said, "I have told you many times, my last name is Bai when I put on the mask, and my last name is Song when I take off the mask. "
Ma Guocheng quickly changed his words: "Got it! Got it! Mr. Bai!"
"Song... uh, Mr. Bai, from the first moment I saw you, I felt that you were not a common man. Last night, you used a surprise attack to burn down the enemy camp, which made the Confucian scholars admire you?" Pang Wei gave a thumbs up and praised, He also sighed to himself: "What a pity. Pang has been familiar with military books since he was a child, and he thinks he has a little bit of ink in his belly. But in front of Mr. Bai, he is like a sparrow and a swan, and a pheasant is better than a phoenix..."
After a lot of questions, he asked with a smile: "Mr. Bai, you must be a big shot, right?"
"If I were a big shot, I would have become famous all over the world. How could Commander Pang not know about it?" Song Che shook his head and smiled: "Bai is just a little-known person."
"Humble, humble..."
Two days later.
Xiliang City has a panoramic view.
But the closer to the city gate, the more refugees there were. They were wearing thin clothes, with yellow faces and skinny muscles. They were huddled on the side of the road, shivering from the cold.
Ma Guocheng said that these are people from small border villages and towns. When they learned that the Hu tribe was going to start a war, they had no choice but to drag their families with them and were forced to move to Xiliang City.
"Haven't the Hu tribe not attacked yet? Why are they escaping so aggressively? In this winter, there is no house to shelter from the cold. Even if they are not burned to death by the war, they have to avoid freezing to death." Song Che frowned.
The frozen bones, with no one to collect them, lay scattered in the snow. How could this scene be described as tragic?
"Mr. Bai doesn't know. The barbarians are much more cruel than Hanliu. The people in these villages and towns can't even gather the soldiers. Once the barbarians come, they can only be reduced to fish and meat. What are the barbarians? They are worse than animals. , the house was burned down, the men were killed, the things were robbed, the women were raped..." Ma Guocheng couldn't bear to even recount the story.
What else could Song Che do? He just sighed and let it go.
Come to the city gate.
The refugees lined up like two long queues, all holding bowls and chopsticks, and went to the soup kitchen at the city gate to receive porridge.
"Hey, when did Xiliang Mansion become so generous? Look at how thick and thick the rice porridge is, as well as the white flour steamed buns! We eat better than we did in Wengcheng!" Ma Guocheng said with emotion.
The soup kitchen is run by a group of women wearing veils. They work diligently and give soup. Their dignified and generous temperament, pure appearance, and virtuous character will make any man look at them twice.
"What a kind-hearted female Bodhisattva!" Ma Guocheng sighed again.
Song Che smiled knowingly, got off his horse and said, "Come on, let's go to these female Bodhisattvas to beg for a bowl of rice porridge."
