Chapter 126: Clear the way for the mourners and move forward for the survivors
The sun gradually faded, the western clouds burned with a red glow, and the birds were flying overhead from the east, chirping non-stop.
Su Chen stood on the chariot and heard footsteps. He looked away and looked to one side. Xia Houyuan was coming over. He looked at the ancestral coffin and saw that someone was not outside, so he came closer. .
He looked a little bad, and asked Su Chen in a low voice: "General, has Yuan Gang come here, have you offended me? Please also tell me, everyone is leading troops to fight, why am I guarding here alone? Here? Chu Dianwei alone is enough!"
Hearing this, when Dianwei puffed up his chest next to the car, Su Chen got out of the car and glanced at the inside of the car, holding back the smile on his face. , let Xia Houyuan follow.
"General Xiahou has wrongly blamed me. I didn't want you to lead the troops!"
Su Chen gestured to the car, "The King of Wei specifically asked me to punish you."
"Why?"
"Say that even though you have a strategy, you don't care about the importance. You shoulder big responsibilities, risk your life, and repair some antlers. That's why Huang Zhong killed you and died an aggrieved death."< br>
Hearing this, Xia Houyuan was immediately speechless and did not dare to refute, so he could only walk aside dejectedly with his head hanging down. At this time, the scouts who delivered the news came back, and there were still several groups of them.
"Victory!"
"General, our army has won!"
"The commander of the imperial court was beheaded by General Lu!"
Scout Pegasus sprints , before running back to the central formation, he screamed on horseback from a distance. The loud words made the surrounding troops from Yantangguan and Longyang County cheer.
Su Chen was no longer able to stand, so he quickly got on the ancestral hearse and asked the soldiers driving the carriage to move forward quickly. The more than 10,000 soldiers and horses guarding the central formation also followed suit, spreading for several miles.
The dozens of miles along the way gradually made Su Chen's happy mood sink. The corpses of soldiers came into view at several battlefields he passed. Especially on the middle road, it was a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, with pieces of corpses. It occupies the field of vision, blood soaks into the soil, and thick plasma can be squeezed out by wheels and human footsteps.
As the army marched over, countless crows flew up from the ground and landed on nearby treetops. They looked at the passing carts and soldiers and let out an ominous neighing sound.
“Wu Zixun.”
On the cart, Su Chen called the second-generation ancestor who was riding behind. The latter’s face turned pale at this time. He rode up and listened to Su Chen’s instructions. He said: "Leave it to four thousand people to clean the battlefield, bury the corpses, and transport all our soldiers to the front."
"Okay...Okay, I'll go right away."
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Wu Zixun endured the smell of blood, took a commanding officer and left here quickly, but wherever he passed, there were almost such tragic scenes.
Youshi.
The rays of light shone across the wilderness, and from time to time I saw lone Xiliang soldiers, or Bingzhou soldiers trudging forward carrying their injured comrades on their backs. There were soldiers here who hurriedly stepped forward to lend a hand and help. Carrying people, cleaning wounds, and bandaging.
I also encountered a few Xiliang soldiers, escorting more than a dozen surrendered imperial soldiers. When I saw the formation moving over here, I handed the prisoners over to them, turned around and ran towards the front line. .
When asked by the soldiers in the center why they were running, they loudly replied: "The war is urgent, we will go over and fight!"
They didn't know that the war there was basically coming to an end.
"These soldiers are very good!" Xia Houyuan couldn't help but admired.
Su Chen nodded and said nothing. After walking for another two miles, he saw more than two hundred wounded soldiers who had been trapped in the camp before. Su Chen left a group of people to take care of them, and the team continued eastward. Advance.
Arrived here, in the dusky wilderness, there were occasional sporadic fightings, but there were not many anymore. It was almost dark, and we finally arrived at the place where victory or defeat was decided.
The flames cling to the weeds and trees are still burning, and black smoke rises in the sky.
Human and horse corpses were being cleaned up, and large areas of mud on the ground were dyed crimson with blood. Soldiers from Bingzhou and Xiliang were collecting and scraping the corpses, and applying wounds along the way. Injured comrades were being pulled from the pile of dead bodies. Come out and hand it over to other people who come to help you, and take it to a clean place for treatment.
Besieged, more imperial soldiers knelt down and surrendered. They were divided into more than ten groups and were guarded in several places, with the help of raw slaves.
When Su Chen came over, the corpse and head of Guo Xin, the enemy coach, were placed on a cart and pushed in front of him. After confirmation, Su Chen had someone take him down to dig a hole for burial. .
We were enemies in life, and there is no need to desecrate the other party's body after death.
Su Chen got off the car, pressed the handle of the knife at his waist, and looked at the surrounding scenes. At this time, many soldiers were exhausted, sitting on the ground with their eyes closed and dozing off. "Let the troops from Yantang Pass and Longyang County surrender to take over the defense, guard the prisoners, and set up camps...Tell them to be more vigilant and beware of some defeated troops who are unwilling to give up and come back to fight."
The order went down, and soon after Lingqi conveyed the news, more than 11,000 people guarding the central formation immediately went down, led by Sima and Xiaowei at all levels, to replace the two troops from Xiliang and Bingzhou.
Even though the morale is boiling now, many Xiliang and Bingzhou army soldiers are still in the joy of victory, but they changed their defenses, put down their weapons, many people sat down on the spot, and then fell asleep.
After two days of non-stop marching and high-intensity fighting, not to mention them, even the generals were exhausted.
When Su Chen followed the lead of an order, he arrived at a simple camp. A bonfire was burning. In the light of the fire, most of the generals in the army were lying on the ground and fell asleep, snoring everywhere.
When they came in, Gao Shun, the only one who was awake, stood up, but Su Chen raised his hand to signal him to sit down, and asked Dian Wei to get some wound medicine to apply on him.
Then, he glanced around.
Zhou Cang was shirtless, with his arms and abdomen bandaged. He lay on the ground and fell asleep. Next to him was Guan Yu, sitting on a stone with his elbows on his knees and his fists on his forehead. He was already asleep. Go over; Zhang Fei is holding the spear, his head is leaning on Guan Yu's thigh, there are wine stains hanging on the corners of his mouth, and he is still holding the wine bag that he has not yet tightened in one hand.
Niugai curled up next to the fire, using the long knife in his hand as a pillow; Ma Chao was under a nearby tree, with his lion helmet at his feet, sleeping with his head raised, breathing evenly.
The Feiyan Red Cloud Horse was prostrate on the ground. Lu Bu was lying on it with his face facing the other side. He knew he was fast asleep without looking. Zhang Liao was sitting in front of the bonfire and opened his eyes when he heard the footsteps. When Su Chen and Dian Wei arrived, he lay down with peace of mind.
Not far away, there was Li Jue holding Iron Armor in his arms, shouting several times in his sleep: "Come on!" Dong Zhuo opened his bulging belly, occasionally scratched the hair on his belly a few times, and then grabbed a human head next to him tightly, reluctant to let go. open.
“Let’s go out and don’t disturb the generals’ rest.”
Su Chen waved to Dian Wei, turned around and exited the camp. Outside in the wilderness, Qi Youhu and his soldiers cut down a lot of wood and piled it up. Like a mountain, corpses of fellow comrades were being brought in one after another, and then more firewood was added, and they continued to be placed upwards, densely filling the field of vision.
Those who had not yet fallen asleep came over in silence.
Soon after, a soldier came over and handed over a torch. Su Chen walked to the front, walked around the mountainous pile of firewood, and looked at the peaceful faces on it. The previous numbness faded away, and some sadness was revealed. Come up at this time.
"Fellow soldiers, we have won the last battle today!" He said softly, "The imperial court's army of 150,000 people was defeated by you with one sword and one shot. Now Yanjing has been opened in front of you. You can sleep for a while and wait until Yanjing is defeated. Jing, I will let you overlook the entire Yanjing and see the entire Yan Kingdom you conquered!"
Drinks are handed over.
Su Chen picked it up and said, "Respect, to the heroic souls who fought all the way and died on the way! Respect, the gods and ghosts from all directions, hope to bring my soldiers' souls back home in glory!"
Drinks spilled At the pyre, Su Chen took a step back and threw the torch up. The flames slowly burned along the wine. In a moment, the entire pyre was ablaze with flames.
In the fierce firelight, the soldiers in the surrounding queues were solemn and determined. Most of them were people from the vicinity of Ding'an. Looking at the passing of the villagers, someone sang a folk song from the village, which attracted many people to sing along. , one by one the men cried, and even burst into tears.
The prisoners in custody had never seen or heard such a scene. Listening to the men's ugly cries, thinking that their friends and relatives had died in the battle yesterday or today, tears fell on their numb faces. Following that, The crying and sobbing on the side gradually turned into howls of grief.
"Send off the conquerors and clear the way for these soldiers who dare to fight!!"
Soldiers around them stepped forward and threw the torches in their hands into the other side of the pyre, which was densely packed. The crowd suppressed their cries, and then let out a huge roar. The cavalrymen wiped away their tears and blew the horns in their hands, which continued under the night sky.
In the night, Su Chen turned around, turned away from the firelight, and quietly wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and saw Zhang Liao, Lu Bu, and Guan Yu standing at the camp gate looking at him.
“Sand got into my eyes.”
Su Chen smiled at them, then turned back, and his inner energy spread with a voice.
"The soldiers who have been fighting for the past two days will rest on the spot. Tomorrow, we will take the corpses of the heroes who died in the battle and rush to Yanjing to show them the prosperous place of Yan Kingdom!"
< br>"Yes!"
The roar was like thunder, resounding throughout the wilderness.
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The sky was getting brighter, and the fast riders who ran for two hundred miles rushed into Yanjing covered with stars and moonlight. The terrifying message could no longer be intercepted at this time.
The whole city was in chaos this morning.
(End of this chapter)