The moon tonight is extremely dark, and tonight is also extremely long.
The battle ended too quickly. Everyone came and left quickly. In just two quarters of an hour, the 852 Leopard tribesmen were all extinguished. As the torches in the camp were all extinguished, no one would mention them anymore. Missing them, only the beasts in the mountains tore and chewed the corpses after smelling the bloody smell that excited them. Dust to dust, dust to dust.
Everyone returned to the quiet wilderness, got on their horses, and began to head west, cautiously advancing along the periphery of the mountain forest, waiting for the horses to be released to search for clues.
Zhou Tong and Xi Zhi, who were originally extremely worried, looked away. Han You was not the kind of utilitarian person who would give up his military service easily to save the children of the royal family. As he said, he obeyed fate and did everything he could. I don’t blame everyone for not dying, I just blame Zhou Xiao for being too damn capable.
Walking westward along the mountain forest, riding a horse, Han You also gradually changed from being nervous and worried at the beginning to thinking that Zhou Xiao would die as soon as possible and everyone should go back to sleep as soon as possible.
Even now, Han You still likes fairness, because it was too unfair in his previous life. Fair, fair, what is fair? More than five thousand people came to the enemy's territory in the middle of the night just to get a prince. This is unfair. thing.
Time passed by minute by minute, and unknowingly we had walked for more than two hours, and we were nearly two hundred miles away from Nanguan.
Han You looked around and saw that no one was embarrassed to say anything, but he couldn't help it after all.
"No more chasing, just keep chasing for six seconds and then go back to the pass."
The friends were dumbfounded. The emperor's army, who should care most about the comfort of the royal family members, was the first to express his intention to give up.
Yi Junyi looked embarrassed. In fact, this matter was quite taboo.
Zhou Tong is a prince, and he is still a eldest prince. He will not see people alive or corpses, so he should go back. The question is who should say this first. If the emperor asks who proposes to go back in the future, the person who proposed it will be unlucky.
This was different from before. Ren Canglin issued a military order just after dark, and there were rules at the border. At that time, there was no blame for retreating. But now they are chasing until late at night, and if they return without success, it will be easy to blame them.
"Brother, do you want to try your luck again?"
Yi Junyi knows the cavalry under his command. Not to mention this kind of stop-and-go march at night, it is no problem to even attack all night and fight a few times. The brothers have a lot of physical strength and their horsepower is not consumed much. They all pray to you eighteen times. Okay, this last shiver is not missing.
Besides, they don’t go into the mountains and forests anyway. The cavalry can be used to its greatest advantage in the wilderness. No matter how many people the Leopard Division has, no one will ride on them. Even if they encounter them, not only can they run away at any time, but they can also “play” with them before running away. .
Han You turned around and looked at Zhou Tong and Xi Zhi who had pleading expressions on their faces. He cursed and said nothing, thus agreeing to continue tracking.
Yi Junyi was still cheerful.
This is the advantage of Qingqi. If you don’t go into the mountains, it’s easy to say that you can fight the barbarian aliens. You can fight in the mountains and forests. If you rely on your legs outside the mountains and forests, they are living targets. As long as the arrows are enough, theoretically speaking A group of thousands of elite cavalry can kill a group of ten thousand barbarians alive.
Han You turned around and hooked his fingers, Xi Zhi pinched the horse's belly, nodded and leaned over.
"Major General, would you like to call me?"
Along the way, Xi Zhi also heard a lot about Han You's deeds, and deeply realized Han You's status in the hearts of Nanguan, from the commander down to the army.
Xi Zhi suddenly felt that Han You seemed to be living the way his highness Zhou Xiao wanted to live.
Be loved by the military, rather than become an upright walking joke because of his "youthful" faults.
Lead the elite and gallop on the battlefield to fight.
The most important thing is that the emperor trusts him to an unbelievable level. He gives him three military talismans, two packages of imperial edicts, and the damn ones are blank, so he only needs a dragon robe.
Xi Zhi had heard some rumors before, about Han Bairen in the Han Mansion.
Before Zhou Ke came to the throne, Xi Zhi was Zhou Xiao's subordinate and knew that Lao Ba and Han Bairen had nothing in common.
Many people suspected that Han Bairen seized the city and palace for Lao Ba. Lao Han had already taken refuge with Lao Ba. Xi Zhi laughed after hearing this.
Now seeing how much the emperor trusted Han You, Xi Zhi began to wonder. It turned out that it wasn't Lao Ba's bad luck, but that Han Bairen had really taken refuge in Lao Ba.
The same is true for arresting and plundering aristocratic families. His Highness will have to rebel, bear infamy, and risk everything. Look at Han You again. He took a blank imperial edict and read it out in plain language, and then casually threw out a military talisman. , the younger brother directly rode on horseback and mobilized three troops to rush into the house and ransack the house.
"Let me tell you about His Highness the First Prince."
Han You really couldn't hold on any longer. The farther away from the border, the more anxious he became. He thought that if he knew more about the unfamiliar eldest prince, he would be more motivated to continue chasing with everyone.
"I wonder what the young general wants to know about my highness."
"Just say whatever you want."
"This..." Xi Zhi glanced at Han You's face and didn't know where to start, let alone what to say.
"Tell me about His Royal Highness the First Prince's original plan."
Han You was very curious about this matter: "He pretended to rebel against Zhou Tianfeng and the tribes surrounding the pass. Logically speaking, he should hide in the mountains and wait for the news to pass before returning to the pass. Why not do that?"
"His Highness said that this would lead to His Majesty being unkind and unjust."
Han You nodded, not surprised by this answer. He and other friends thought so too. After all, he killed so many aristocratic families as a rebel without even providing evidence. If this guy was given an ordinary life, he would be the emperor in the palace. Instead, you will get into trouble.
"Then what was his original plan, which was to raid various tribes, and then what?"
"Keep on killing, His Highness said, killing till the earth is turned upside down, killing mountains of corpses and seas of blood, killing a illustrious name in history books, and finally...finally..."
Han You whistled: "Did you die in the mountains and forests in the end?"
Xi Zhi said nothing and lowered his head in acquiescence.
Zhou Xiao didn't say it explicitly, but it was obvious that this was what he meant, and everyone was willing to follow him. They were all alone, so there was nothing wrong with going out and causing chaos.
It's a pity that he died before his ambition was fulfilled. He met his love just around the corner as soon as he entered the mountains. Xi Zhi didn't want his highness to die in such an unexplained way, so he returned to the customs to report the news.
"Hey, Silly."
Apart from these two words, Han You didn't know how to describe His Highness the First Prince.
Xi Zhi couldn't help but ask: "What does the word "silly" in the Major General's mouth mean?"
The friends next to him all turned their heads and looked at Zhou Tong.
Xi Zhi was thoughtful and understood a little bit.
"Young General, I have something to say but I don't know whether to say it or not."
"explain."
Xi Zhi asked cautiously: "If I find His Highness and bring His Highness back to the pass, I don't know what the Major General will do...how... I dare to ask the Major General if he can make the truth known to the world, so that the world knows that my Highness is a loyal person." He is a heroic man with integrity and courage, not a rebel who is despised by everyone."
"What did you say in your last sentence just now?"
Xi Zhi was stunned for a moment: "I'm humble and I don't know what to say..."
"One more sentence."
"Major General is stupid..."
"One more sentence. Also, pay attention to the sentence. It's a young general. Silly... forget it, one more sentence."
"Always…"
"Don't let this go. You said it yourself. If you rehabilitate His Majesty the First Prince, you will trap His Majesty in an unkind and unjust place. Remember this."
"Remember."
Xi Zhi lowered his head again. He was a martial artist and didn't understand many truths. He only knew that His Highness was a little paranoid. His original intention was good. He had sacrificed so much and he was a noble man. Why didn't he go to this world? Forgive him.
“You have to admit when you are wrong, you have to stand upright when you are beaten, and you have to pay processing fees for smoking bacon privately.”
Han You drank the water from his saliva bag: "This is the rule, do you understand? If I can find His Majesty the eldest prince, I will write to His Majesty as soon as possible. You don't understand Your Majesty, I understand, even if the palace will not do anything for His Majesty, Being ordinary will not cause His Highness to suffer any more harm, I can guarantee this."
Absentmindedly, Xi Zhi cupped his hands and said, "Then there is Major General Lao."
Han You laughed and thought that the title "Major General" was quite pleasant, much better than that of a remnant of the previous dynasty who wielded swords.
In fact, Han You also learned a lot about Zhou Xiao from the mouth of the second eldest son of the Zhou family, Can Gui.
As Zhou Ke's eldest son and the eldest son of the royal family, Zhou Xiao is very paranoid, paranoid to the point of morbidity.
When Zhou Tong went to the Zhou family to train troops, to put it bluntly, he was just trying to vent his anger with his father, Zhou Ke.
It would have been fine for an ordinary person. Unfortunately, when Zhou Ke came to power, the nature of the matter changed.
But Zhou Xiao has not changed. He is still stubborn, still paranoid, and still willing to fight to the death for his father.
