Chapter 117: Bad News

Yuan Fang followed what Yang Xing pointed at, that's right, that was Liu Fu, also from Huanyu County, and he could be regarded as half of Yuan Fang and Yang Xing's fellow countrymen. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Liu Fu, in his early twenties, is honest and down-to-earth, and is polite to everyone, what impressed Yuan Fang the most was his snow-white teeth, the young man was very talkative, every time he saw Yuan Fang and Yang Xing, he would chat a few words, but he didn't expect that the war had just begun and fell under the enemy's arrows.

The alarm has been lifted, the standby has been canceled, Yuan Fang and Yang Xing ran to Liu Fu's side, only to see Liu Fu with a feather arrow deeply inserted in his chest, almost out of his back, and a bloody mark on his left cheek, which should have been scratched by an arrow.

Yuan Fang stretched out his hand to touch Liu Fu's neck, there was no pulse, sighed, stretched out his hand to brush his eyes that remained frightened and nostalgic, and took off his helmet: "Brother, go all the way." ”

Yang Xing's eyes were red, he also took off his helmet, and reached out to wipe the blood on Liu Fu's cheeks: "Go all the way." ”

As the corpses were carried off the city wall, everyone stopped talking and quietly looked at these dead comrades, the atmosphere became dull and depressing, and there was fear of death, sadness of losing comrades, and hatred for the enemy.

For a whole afternoon, the east and south walls were much quieter than before, and seeing the cruelty of the war with their own eyes, the recruits became silent, and some of them were psychologically fragile, and they could not bear such great pressure and stimulation and had a nervous breakdown, shouting that they wanted to go home, constantly shouting the names of their relatives, and what awaited them was the most severe punishment, or being put in a cell, or being punished with military sticks, and even being directly executed.

Yuan Fang can understand the severe punishment of the generals, if these people are allowed to make trouble, it will affect more people, not to mention the damage to morale, once the soldiers have a fear of war, the consequences are unimaginable, and the psychological quality is the biggest weakness of these new troops.

In the next few days, there was no movement from the Ningyuan invading army, and both sides remained silent, but behind this silence there was an undercurrent.

Cao Ping is a restless guy, and he knows a lot of people who have good communication skills, and he runs out every day to inquire about news whenever he has time.

It is said that he heard from a herald fellow that a war had started in Guzhong County, and that the 50,000 troops of the invading army of Ningyuan had stormed the county seat, and the Imperial State Army had not retreated, and they had fought several times in two days, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.

Hearing this news, Yuan Fang suddenly realized and slapped his thigh: "I know, these guys outside our city are not here to attack the city, but to contain us and prevent us from sending troops to reinforce Guzhong City." ”

Qiao Dazhuang woke up like a dream: "So that's the case, I'll just say, 20,000 against 30,000, let's defend the city, it's impossible for them to attack it, so that's the case." Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this.

Yuan Fang pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said, "No, no." ”

Yang Xing was stunned: "Boss, don't be surprised, what's wrong?" ”

Yuan Fang raised his head and looked around at everyone: "Something is wrong, didn't you say that the county city would send reinforcements over?" It's been so long that I haven't even seen a single figure. ”

Qiao Dazhuang blinked his eyes and said, "Maybe it's going to the side of Ancient Bell City, didn't you say that there was a fight over there." ”

Yuan Fang looked at Cao Ping: "Really?" ”

Cao Ping shook his head: "I don't know, I haven't heard about reinforcements." ”

Yuan Fang glared: "Then what are you still doing in a daze, go find someone to inquire." ”

Cao Ping said with a bitter face: "It's not fake. Yuan Fang looked at Qiao Dazhuang.

Qiao Dazhuang scratched his head and asked, "Is this useful?" ”

Yuan Fang nodded firmly and said, "It's useful, of course it's useful." ”

Qiao Dazhuang hesitated for a moment and said to Cao Ping: "Cheng, I'll give you my leave, you kid go." ”

Cao Ping smiled and said, "Okay, let's go." After that, he got up and left, he likes to go out and hang out and find someone to talk to.

Qiao Dazhuang asked Yuan Fang: "Tell me what you think." ”

Yuan Fang frowned and said, "I'm not sure yet, let's wait for news." ”

Yuan Fang felt that the whole thing was strange, first of all, he gave up Nanzhou at the expense of the near and far, and then he sent these recruits who had not even completed the basic training to the front line, and as soon as they arrived, they were sent to the front line, Yuan Fang always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it specifically, and the matter of this reinforcement made Yuan Fang feel that this might be a conspiracy, a huge and ruthless conspiracy.

On the way here, everyone can see clearly when passing through the county town, the county town is heavily guarded, and there are many people stationed outside the city, among which there are two well-organized and well-equipped forbidden troops, the number of which is 10,000, what is the forbidden army, it is the most elite army in the empire, it is a real professional soldier, and the miscellaneous cards of the state army cannot be compared with others at all, just a rabble.

Especially the heavy cavalry in the forbidden army, which is quite fierce, all brave and good at fighting, and the heavy infantry, which is the nightmare of all cavalry, with them, the enemy's cavalry will never be able to cross the line half a step.

In addition to the forbidden army, along the way also encountered a lot of Dongzhou native state troops, these state troops and Yuan Fang they are different, they guard the border all the year round, often have some skirmishes with the Ningyuan Empire, rich combat experience, belong to the kind of soldiers who have really been tempered by war, although the equipment is not as good as the forbidden army, but the combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.

It is very unreasonable for the Empire to have so many elite soldiers who don't need it, but to hand over two of the most cutting-edge military cities to these inexperienced recruits.

Also, the generals of the state armies who brought the troops over this time are also veteran generals and generals, and after they led the team to leave, the empire canonized a group of newcomers to serve as the state army generals of various states and counties, and the commander of the front line this time was actually General Dong Yunkai who was transferred from Nanzhou, so calculated, the two border military cities of Guzhongcheng and Dingbian City are all new soldiers and old generals, what does the empire want to do? Yuan Fang didn't dare to think about it.

Cao Ping came back in a hurry, and Qiao Dazhuang was stunned: "You kid inquired so quickly?" ”

Cao Ping panted and shook his head and said, "No, it's not." Then, he said to Yuan Fang: "Female soldier, female soldier is back." ”

Yuan Fang was inexplicable: "What female soldier is back?" Can you make that clear? Without waiting for Cao Ping to speak, Yuan Fang reacted and stood up suddenly: "You mean that the female riders sent out are back?" Cao Ping nodded vigorously, he went out just now, and only then did he walk near the west gate, and happened to meet the cavalry entering the city, knowing that Yuan Fang and Yang Xing had a good relationship with some female soldiers, and the two of them were chattering a lot these days, Cao Ping hurriedly came back to deliver the letter.

Yuan Fang asked eagerly, "How is it?" ”

Cao Ping relieved himself and asked blankly, "What's how?" ”

Yuan Fang said anxiously: "What do you think of their state? ”

Cao Ping sighed and said, "It's not good, I heard that not even half of the people who came back." ”

Yuan Fang couldn't stay any longer, and said to Qiao Dazhuang, "I'll take a look." After speaking, he pulled Yang Xing and left, Qiao Dazhuang raised his hand to say something, but in the end he couldn't speak.

Outside the camp of the female soldiers, Yuan Fang and Yang Xing begged bitterly, but the guards on duty just didn't let the two of them in, and in the end, they said that they were Xia Liang's fellow countrymen, and the guards reluctantly went in to report.

Yuan Fang and Yang Xing, who were waiting outside the camp, were like ants on a hot pot, spinning around, fidgeting, to talk about friendship, they knew Ma Lan and Wan Chunya's acquaintance time compensation, friendship is average, but I don't know why, Yuan Fang is very worried, worried about their safety, Yuan Fang himself doesn't know why, maybe he is too macho, always want to protect the weak, although Ma Lan They are not weak, but in Yuan Fang's heart, they are all weak women.

I don't know how long it took, Li Chunxiang's figure appeared in sight, and as soon as he left the camp gate, he was pulled aside by Yuan Fang, and there were a lot of questions about his head and face: "Sister Chunxiang, Ma Lan, are they back?" I heard that there are not many people coming back, how are they Ma Lan? Have you come back? ”

Li Chunxiang looked at Yuan Fang in surprise: "You, you can't be?" ”

Yuan Fang knew that Li Chunxiang had misunderstood, so he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't think about it, it's a pure friendship between us, and as friends, it's normal to show concern." ”

Li Chunxiang stared at Yuan Fang's eyes for a long time, Yuan Fang's eyes were firm, and he didn't dodge at all, so he believed Yuan Fang's statement, sighed and said: "It's back, Ma Lan was a little injured, but it's not a big deal, as for Wan Chunya, alas." ”

Hearing Li Chunxiang's sigh, Yuan Fang's heart couldn't help but hurt, thinking of the girl with a hot temper, a resolute personality and a little domineering, and the slightly shy smile when she was leaving, she couldn't help but feel sad.

Yang Xing said in disbelief: "Sister Chunxiang, do you mean Wan Chunya, she, she's dead?" ”

Li Chunxiang nodded, her eyes full of sadness: "It's not just Wan Chunya, this time Ma Lan brought three hundred sisters, and only more than fifty people came back, the others, the others were either killed in battle or captured." ”

Yuan Fang frowned: "Captured? How could he be captured? Didn't you talk about sneaking up on the enemy's supply lines? ”

Li Chunxiang looked around, lowered his voice and said: "I heard Ma Lan say that they were not found at the beginning, everything went smoothly, they successfully went around the rear of the enemy army, ambushed in a small valley, and waited for the night attack on the enemy's grain and grass after dark, but before they attacked, the whole valley was surrounded by enemy legions that came out of nowhere, they had no way to retreat and hold the valley, but there were too many enemies, and they did not have enough supplies, and when they desperately broke through, they were scattered by the enemy, and many people were trapped in it, Only more than 300 people escaped. On the way back, the cavalry of the Ningyuan Empire pursued closely all the way, and they lost more than a hundred people before they barely got rid of the pursuers. ”

From Li Chunxiang's story, Yuan Fang found a lot of doubts, but now is not the time to say those: "Is there anything you need our help with?" ”

Li Chunxiang hesitated for a moment and said, "Xiaomei is seriously injured, and Xiaolu doesn't seem to have much to do." ”

Yuan Fang asked, "Where is the injury?" Is it serious? ”

Yang Xing scratched his head: "Xiaomei, is it the female rider under Wan Chunya?" I seem to be a little impressed. ”

Li Chunxiang nodded: "That's right, she is Chunya's squad, she was hit by two arrows when she broke through, and she barely insisted on coming back, now the wound has suppurated and infected, the situation is not very optimistic, Yuan Fang, do you have a way?" ”