Chapter 378: The Men on the Snow Mountain
However, Wang Qi, who was going to take a small road directly and enter the Khitan royal court, led Lu Jin and his rapid march of nearly 2,000 people, and was struggling on a steep snowy mountain.
This group has been walking for nearly half a month, and in front of them, they have swept several small strongholds of the Khitan barbarians and seized a lot of cattle and sheep. Kill all the men who resisted there, and let the women and children go.
According to the intention of Chen Yong, the deputy commander at that time, all these people should be killed and the grass should be cut down to prevent them from reporting.
But Wang Qi disobeyed his order and let the remaining women and children go.
For killing these defenseless and powerless women, the elderly, and children, he can't do it, and it's not his Wang Qi's style.
Of course, he didn't take this stubborn Chen Yong in his eyes.
Chen Yong couldn't help but be furious when he saw that Wang Qi didn't listen to his orders, and even pulled out his knife and slashed at Wang Qi. But he was not Wang Qi's opponent at all, and in the end, if it wasn't for Wang Qi's mercy, Chen Yong would have been his sword ghost a long time ago.
Of course, Wang Qi also knows how to be proportionate, after all, he is his current boss, he can't make a mistake and have a deterrent effect, it's still okay.
Later, Chen Yong could only hold back, holding back a lot of strength in his heart, ready to wait until he returned to the camp before cleaning up Wang Qi.
Fortunately, they didn't get nothing this time, Wang Qi and they got the map of the Khitan king's account.
As long as they can climb over this snow-capped mountain in a certain amount of time, they will be able to go straight to the heart of the Fanbang royal court and catch them off guard.
Wang Qi had already inquired, and the Khitan royal court at this time was almost an empty court. Most of the people have already followed them out to fight with the prince of Turile.
What they didn't expect was that this time, the Khitan barbarians actually gathered nearly 150,000 men and horses to attack their Jingyu City and Doluo City.
These people and horses are 50,000 more than theirs, and after getting the news, Chen Yong finally has some brains and sends two groups of people to deliver the news back.
So the importance of these 10,000 people is shown.
No, the latter two had a disagreement on the battle plan.
The reason was that Chen Yong insisted on taking the big road and directly attacked the Khitan royal court. Walking from the steppe, they are fast and have easier supplies. In addition, the weather is getting colder, and the damage to the soldiers will be reduced a lot.
Wang Qi's opinion is exactly the opposite of him. He believes that the more this time, the more careful you should be. Approaching the position of the net, with the insidious cunning of the prince of Turile, it is impossible for him to be careless.
And the small harassment activities in front of them may have been noticed by the other party. Maybe I'm already thinking of a way to deal with them.
How could he let his soldiers be targets on other people's swords.
Wang Qi thinks that if they just kill them so brazenly, maybe they will be cleaned up by others before they can clean up the Khitans.
Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years, and the more critical the time, the more careful you must be.
Chen Yong didn't listen to Wang Qi's words, thinking that he was too careful. After all, he is a young man, but he is tender, how can he be old.
He thinks that the Khitans are pouring out, and he has more than 8,000 elite soldiers in his hands, all of whom have been trained by Wang Qi for a period of time and are familiar with the formation, so it is appropriate to kill them by surprise.
And the more he gets there first, the more he can make a fortune. Therefore, when Wang Qi proposed to copy the path and climb the snow mountain, he vetoed it in one fell swoop.
"If you want to go, if there are people who are willing to suffer with you, go all. I don't pull you. ”
Seeing that Wang Qi and him disagreed, Chen Yong couldn't wait, and they went separately. He always thought that Wang Qi was lucky, he was stained with his light, and he was promoted from a recruit to the position of a general in a short battle.
So he and Wang Qi parted ways, and he took 8,000 men and horses and walked from the grassland. Wang Qi took 2,000 soldiers and prepared to cross the mountains.
These soldiers who followed Wang Qi admired him as a person and were ready to follow him with determination.
Wang Qi originally thought that there were not many people willing to follow him, but he didn't want to, but there were nearly 2,000 people.
This also touched him very much. "Don't worry, I won't let you down. Today, we have endured hardships and burdens, and he will earn them back every day. ”
Seeing that Wang Qi was filled with righteous indignation, Chen Yong only sneered in his heart, climbed the snow mountain, and crossed the ridge. Lack of food and clothing, in this cold weather, that is the act of looking for death.
This is indeed the case. Wang Qi imagined that the status quo was cruel, but the actual situation was even more severe than Wang Qi thought.
Because of the low pressure weather and altitude sickness, many soldiers have been in the mountains since they went up
While they had to hurry, they also had to send some people to take care of the wounded. Under such difficult conditions of lack of food and clothing, and rugged mountain roads.
Some people haven't even arrived, and they're already dead.
In the first few days of Wang Qi, he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, unable to sleep all night long. In the end, he ordered everyone to drink all the medicinal herbs they had prepared in advance, whether they were sick or not.
Fortunately, they also seized some of the booty of the Khitans, and they dealt with it like this, and most of the time passed.
And Wang Qi also created a set of boxing methods called body boxing at this time, which was specially used for soldiers to strengthen their bodies. These people have to punch several times a day.
With the passage of time, there are fewer and fewer sick people among them, and everyone's cohesion and physical fitness have gradually improved.
It's just that they have been over the mountains and mountains for more than half a month, and the rations for 2,000 people are really not easy to maintain.
In the end, they had to take turns going into the mountains to hunt wild animals, or kill the horses they carried with them to fill their bellies.
The mountain was full of white, and the snow alone was going to bury them to their knees.
Wang Qi also taught the people to tie up the branches and make sleighs. In this way, they can walk with a lot less effort.
On this day, they had already climbed this snow-capped mountain, and for 20 days, they saw that everyone was about to run out of ammunition and food, and they were exhausted.
Wang Qi asked everyone to rest in place while he studied the map in his hand.
With the map leading to the Khitan royal court in his hand, and looking at the white peaks in front of him, Wang Qi made a calculation, and he could almost calculate that as long as they climbed over this last mountain, they would be able to reach their destination. Thinking of this, his eyes also showed a gleam.
Rushing for days has made everyone hold back some resentment in their hearts, and the recent days have been very hard, so everyone must have held back a lot of energy in their hearts.
At this time, Wang Qi stood on the snowdrift that was frozen harder than a stone, and said to the soldiers on the side. "Soldiers, everyone has stood up, as long as we climb this last mountain today, the Khitan royal court will be in front of us. At that time, we will uncover the old nest of the Khitan barbarians. The wine and the beauty and the money are ours. ”
Speaking of fine wine, women and money, the soldiers who were already weak, all had a strange light in their eyes, and they all stood up as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and waved the rotten sticks in their hands. I only heard someone shouting loudly: "Lao Tzu is going to kill those Khitan dogs, Lao Tzu is going to drink a lot of wine and sleep with women, these days are almost suffocating." ”
Hearing the man shouting like this, one of them couldn't help but shout, "Yes, let's all rush in and take their nest." Let them never get hard again. ”
Some people also chimed in: "I heard that there are many beauties in Khitan, and the most beautiful one is, of course, for the eldest brother, and the others are one for each of us." ”
"No, how can one person be enough. Damn, Lao Tzu has to sleep with him at least four or five times a night, otherwise it will be too much of a loss. ”
Hearing the man say this, a hairy boy on the side couldn't help but tease: "Old Brother Ma, you want so much, don't be afraid of flashing your waist." Or you have a few younger brothers. ”
", you kid hasn't grown up yet, and you want to sleep with a woman." was kicked in the ass by the rough man called Lao Ma, who was talking to him.
The young man named Xiaozheng couldn't help jumping. "Oh, why are you kicking me, I'm telling the truth. I'm a man now, too. ”
"You're a man, so have you slept with women, do you know how many holes they have?" These people are all hob meat, and the words in their mouths are very thick.
When Xiao Zheng heard this, his face couldn't help but turn red, thinking that he had slept until the morning two days ago and found something strange on his pants, he also vaguely knew something in his heart.
couldn't help but raise his head and said: "Of course I know, if I don't wait for my door to go down the mountain, let's find a mother-in-law and show you." No, when I get to the royal court of the Khitan dog, I will definitely sleep with their princess, and see you still laugh at me. ”
"Yo, you kid, you are so capable, you even want to sleep with other princesses. That princess is what you can sleep with, and if you want to sleep, we can sleep with Brother Qi. ”
Wang Qi is young here, but his ability is indeed obvious to everyone, so most people call him a big brother. There are also people who call him his position, and the people who generally call him the eldest brother have a good relationship with him.
That Xiaozheng listened, and when he saw Wang Qi looking over here, his voice was quieter, and he said, "Then I can sleep with the girl next to the princess!" ”
The others couldn't help but burst out laughing when they heard this. ”
"Phew, you stinky boy, don't study well." Someone on the side threw a stick at Xiao Zheng, and he jumped to his feet and flexibly dodged it.
Xiao Zheng is the youngest in this team, he is only thirteen years old this year, but he is not short, so he looks about fifteen or sixteen years old.
However, his background is also quite miserable.
Because his family lived on the border, when the Khitans came to attack, they burned down, his father and mother were hacked to death by the Khitans on the spot, and his sister jumped into the well because she was insulted by the Khitans.
That day, he was not at home because he went up to the mountain to cut wood, and he escaped. Later, because after hearing Wang Qi's name, he insisted on holding a wooden stick in his hand and fighting a tall man, and finally Wang Qi accepted him.
Because he was the youngest in the team, Wang Qi felt that he had good potential, so he stayed by his side to be a servant.
Wang Qi listened to everyone's laughter, looked at the steep mountains nearby, and thought that the lives of all the brothers were in his own hands, and he couldn't help but secretly sweat.
Instead of studying the map, he took out a woman's cloth from his bosom and looked at it again and again.
The texture of this handkerchief is rough, and the embroidery on it is also crooked, which is not a good thing at all.
But Wang Qi took him with him day and night.
Wang Qi couldn't help but feel a little annoyed, he should have asked Yang Ruo to make her a pendant or something and take it with him.
Thinking that his only memorial was still from someone, I couldn't help but feel a little melancholy. Thinking that she asked those people to bring a letter back, I don't know if Yang Ruo received it after all these days, what is she doing now, and is she doing well?
Wang Qi thought about it for a long time, but there was no answer.
Then he looked at a stunned trance. In his heart, he was thinking about the scene when he was with Yang Ruo on the day he left.
Thinking of the shy look on her face when she agreed to the price, her smooth and soft lips, warm breath, and smooth skin like satin, my heart couldn't help but stir.
He secretly said in his heart: Ah Ruo, you wait, I will go back to marry you soon.
Thinking of the excitement, Wang Qi couldn't help but use his fingertips to gently stroke the handkerchief, and the handkerchief was placed near the end of his nose, and there was a faint fragrance on it, which came out.
After smelling the smell, he seemed to feel better again, and the lost strength returned to him. And the melancholy on his face was diluted.
If Yang Ruo was by Wang Qi's side, he would definitely not recognize him at a glance. Because Wang Qi has a beard on his face, he looks much more mature than before. His eyes are embarrassed, his eyebrows are as thick and colorful as landscape paintings, and the bridge of his nose is high and well-defined, which also makes him more manly.
In order to walk lightly, they did not wear armor, but wore regular clothes. But those clothes were baptized in the wind and snow for more than half a month, and they basically became zoby and lost their original color.
And this Wang Qi was wearing a black civilian clothes, which set off his slender figure even more upright, and his clothes were also the cleanest and most spotless in this team. Maybe he was used to living in the wilderness, and he didn't find it much more difficult than when he was hunting.
After more than ten days of physical boxing practice, the soldiers' physiques have become more robust, and they will not feel particularly cold.
They can overcome the cold, but without food, it is very fatal. Moreover, the number of war horses that followed them has also decreased from five or six hundred at the beginning to more than three hundred now.
Wang Qi secretly thought about the current situation and decided to speed up, and they didn't know if Chen Yong and they would end up in the Khitan royal court.
If they arrive, they can solve the problem more quickly.
Thinking of this, Wang Qi stood up, walked to everyone, and said to them with a serious expression: "Everyone listen, throw away everything that can be thrown, only bring important things, and we will climb the snowy mountain later." Everyone checked the rope and iron hook on their bodies. We'll have to climb over this mountain before it gets dark. In the evening, we may be able to sit in the big tent of the Khitan barbarians, roast the fire by the fire, and eat the whole sheep. ”
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