The setting sun was like blood, reflecting the redness of the earth and turning it back to the color it was when the blood was first spilled.
Wow wow wow.
The sad and strange cries came from the crows circling on the branches and in the sky. His black eyes quickly turned to look for a place to eat below. It was originally a feast for them down there, but then a fire broke out and the best fresh blood food was thrown into the fire and burned. It was a pity and helplessness.
Li Youjun raised his head and glanced at the crows circling overhead with a frown. He was very tired of their cries, which made his already exhausted body even more headache-like.
I couldn't help but threw up a stone with my hand and killed a crow, but it didn't change anything. The shrill screams of wow were still coming from all directions. After all, compared to the death of one or two of the same kind, the temptation of food emanating from the corpses below is what fascinates them the most. fear? Temptation has been forgotten.
"Why!"
Sighing, Li Youjun lowered his head again and manipulated the dharma plate in his hand to continue to stimulate strong flames, providing the possibility for the piles of corpses to continue burning. Otherwise, it would be impossible to burn so many corpses just by relying on the firewood around the pile of corpses. And there are no trees around that can be used as firewood.
However, even if there are spiritual stones inlaid on the Dharma plate, for Li Youjun at this time, it is more difficult to control it with his mind. He even had injuries on his back. He didn't know if the previous blow had damaged the bones or the organs.
Looking around, there are many people doing the same thing as Li Youjun in the thick smoke and disgusting environment. Some were fellow students of Li Youjun, and some were members of the military.
"Ahem, cough, Master Li, please take a rest. I will burn it next."
Suddenly there was a cough around him. Li Youjun tilted his head and then refused: "Old He, it's you who should rest. Have you taken the healing medicine I gave you? Why is your coughing worse than before?"
"Ahem, Mr. Li, where is the medicine you gave me? That's a pill, and that thing is for life-saving. I just hurt my organs now, and there is some bleeding. I have used the method to control it. Wait a moment Just drink some medicinal soup. Just keep the elixir to save your life if you get seriously injured later."
Li Youjun wanted to say that he still had a lot of these healing elixirs in his body, but thinking about the current situation, he suddenly realized that maybe he didn't have enough elixirs in his body. So I opened my mouth a few times but in the end said nothing.
With the addition of Lao He, the mountain of corpses on Li Youjun's side was burned down a full hour faster than expected. Although not all burned to ashes. But it's fine if it's already burnt.
Then the two of them retreated only two miles, then found a dry place to sit down, took out water and poured it into their mouths. Even Li Youjun, who had already entered the Mysterious Vein Realm, was now feeling chapped and thirsty. Before that, he really didn't want to eat in a place where corpses and bone meal were scattered everywhere and smell the burnt smell. Even just water felt hard to swallow.
After drinking all the water in the kettle in one breath, Li Youjun felt a little clearer. At this time, he turned around and found that Lao He beside him was already holding a kettle. He drank only half of it before he stopped making any movement. If you listen carefully, you can hear slight snoring.
Li Youjun smiled silently. Only then did he realize that the muscles on his face were stiff, and it seemed that his face was covered with a thick layer of black mud, which was a mixture of smoke, blood mud, etc., like The kind on Lao He's face.
"call!"
Following Lao He's example, Li Youjun leaned against the wall behind him, allowing himself to relax. Then he took out a spiritual stone and absorbed it in his hand. At the same time, he began to use breathing techniques to restore the spiritual energy in his body that was almost exhausted. .
His body followed the inertia and entered a state of full recovery. Even though he was mentally exhausted, Li Youjun still knew that if he wanted to survive, he couldn't fall asleep like Lao He. He was in a different situation from Lao He. Lao He didn't have the means to deal with this situation, but he did. This is the difference in background between the Imperial Sect's Yun Sect and ordinary military Qi practitioners.
The body is busy, but the mind is really free. This is also the first time in the past six days that Li Youjun has not thought about words such as murder, corpses, enemies, etc. in his mind.
It can even be said that since Li Youjun has lived to his current age, he has seen many times more dead people in the past few days than he did in the previous twenty years combined.
Before coming here, Li Youjun had thought that it would be very hard and difficult to fight against the Yunyan barbarians in the south, and he would probably die on the front line. But after arriving in the south, he was stationed in the military fort on the front line of Pengshan City and did not go directly to Pengshan Pass.
Listening to the daily battle reports from the pass, and watching the dying soldiers being carried down one by one, Li Youjun imagined the tragic battles on the pass in his mind again and again. But you can never see it with your own eyes.
Later, after holding on for more than half a year, Pengshan Pass was lost due to the destruction of the pass defense array. Li Youjun understood that it was time to fight on his own. But what we waited for was "safe and sound" for nearly a month.
Just when Li Youjun thought that the war would continue to be eerily quiet, suddenly, Yun Yan's army moved.
Instead of directly attacking the middle of the hilly line of Pengshan City and creating a breakthrough and cutting the gap in the defense line as everyone thought, they chose to attack in the area at the edge of the entire defense line.
At that time, including Li Youjun, almost everyone believed that the edge area of the offensive defense line was Yunyan Barbarian's trick to attract the defensive forces of Pengshan City to the front line, and then take advantage of the lack of power in the middle to pounce.
Because compared to the strategically important central axis of the defense line, even if the edge areas are captured, they cannot shake the stability of the entire defense line. There is even the danger of rashly inserting it into the backpack clip in the end.
But for three days in a row, Yunyan just attacked the edge of the defense line without any sign of wanting to attack the middle area. Even though Li Youjun was not qualified to obtain first-hand information in the military, he could guess what kind of difficult decision Commander Li Zhou was facing at this time.
Finally, the fort on the edge of the defense line was captured, and two groups of Yunyan's cavalry began to cross the first line of the defense line and enter the back along these two openings. Only then did some people speculate that Yun Yan's move might be to open a hole so that his spies could enter the hills behind and even the Tianfeng Plain behind to investigate the situation. Although the two forts that failed to defend the edge were not a big deal to the entire defense line, they were a heavy loss.
Then Yunyan continued to attack the edge of the defense line, eating away at the integrity of the defense line bit by bit without any rush. The frontline defenders of Pengshan City were forced to rearrange their forces. The reserve forces at the back were put into the first-line edge forts in advance to strengthen defense, in the hope of forcing Yunyan's army to turn to the center.
But Yunyan refused to touch the middle of the defense line, and gradually sent more troops to the edges to continuously attack the city and take out the forts one by one. It doesn't seem like progress is going very quickly. But after just two months, the entire Pengshan City's hilly defense line had been chewed to pieces, and it no longer looked as impregnable as it did at the beginning. There is even a feeling of being confused by this completely unconventional way of playing cards.
It was during these repeated bloody battles that Li Youjun realized why Yunyan Barbarian was so changeable.
(End of chapter)
