Chapter 4 Suspected Immortals

Duan Fei also noticed it at this time, and turned over to Qi Haoyuan's bed, and the two of them looked at the thin man intently.

The thin man smiled bitterly and said, "I believe that here, apart from the two of you, everyone else joined the army as a last resort. Do you know the way, now in the north corner of Yongzhou, except for the soldiers of the Great Yan Dynasty, it is estimated that it is difficult to find a young and strong man. ”

"Why do you say that?" Qi Haoyuan was puzzled.

The thin man glanced at Qi Haoyuan and said, "A few escaped, and most of them died." Immediately, he asked, "Do you know how big the northern corner of the road is?"

The two shook their heads.

"The northern corner has nearly one-third of the area of Yongzhou, with a population of more than 100 million, and more than 50 million young and middle-aged men, and less than 10% are still alive today. ”

The man said very plainly, but the expressions of the two of them instantly stiffened. What kind of concept is this? Tens of millions of lives, even the most terrible natural disasters of human beings, it is impossible to destroy so many lives! Presumably, the man must know a lot of things that they don't know, Qi Haoyuan's expression became serious, and he asked, "What is going on?" Can you explain it more clearly?"

The man sighed and said, "The war in Yongzhou has lasted for almost a year, and the Great Yan Dynasty has been constantly recruiting soldiers, and every once in a while they will go to every village to arrest people, and all men over the age of fifteen and under the age of forty must join the army and fight on the front line. However, the chances of the recruits surviving on the front line are slim, and the men in the northern corner are all killed in this way. ”

"How can there be so many casualties in a war, what kind of war is this, why are there so many casualties?" Duan Fei couldn't help but ask.

50 million lives, what a horror this is! In his memory, in the Second World War, the number of Chinese military and civilian casualties was staggering, and it was far less than the astonishing figure of 50 million.

The man shook his head and said, "I'm afraid this problem can only be known on the battlefield, this is a special period, the Great Yan Dynasty is forbidden to talk about this war, but one thing is certain, this war involves powerful monks, as well as immortals, we mortals participate in the war, and we mortals will die in the end, so I want to remind the two of you that when the time comes, you will run away when you have the chance, don't be stupid to send you to death." So many people have died in the north corner, and they are worthy of the Great Yan Dynasty, but the Great Yan Dynasty doesn't care about the life and death of us poor people at all. If it weren't for my parents, wife and children, I would have fled a long time ago. Now I can exchange my life for the safety of my parents, wife and children, I admit it. ”

The thin man's expression was very unwilling, he was still young, but when he stepped on the battlefield, life and death were unpredictable, and he might never come back.

Qi Haoyuan and Duan Fei were stunned, and after a long time, Duan Fei squirmed his lips and muttered, "Immortals......? What kidding!"

"Immortal?" Qi Haoyuan's eyes lit up, at this moment, he had completely forgotten everything the thin man said, and there was only the word "immortal" in his mind.

The two glanced at each other very tacitly at this time, and their eyes were wonderful. The Heaven-Locking Array Diagram seals a mythical human civilization, and now there are immortals in this world, so everything is explained.

The two were about to ask about the monks and immortals that the thin man had spoken of, when several soldiers entered the tent, and by looking at their delicate armor, they knew that they were veterans, or more established and experienced soldiers. Seeing the veteran come in, Qi Haoyuan didn't continue to ask, and everyone else sat up.

"You recruits listen to me, tomorrow is the battle, it's dinner time, you have a stick of incense time to eat, after a stick of incense, the school will gather, those who are late will be dealt with by military law!" The leading veteran said with a look of superiority, in a very disdainful but very stern tone.

After saying that, several veterans also ignored the reaction of these recruits and turned to leave the camp.

"Let's go, why are you still stunned, maybe this is our last dinner, we have to eat, don't treat yourself badly." The thin man had already stood up and put his military uniform on his body, and the others had moved.

Qi Haoyuan and Duan Fei followed the others out, and the state of both of them was a little confused, and they were still thinking about "monks", "immortals", and "ancient myths" in their minds!

Eating in the barracks was very casual, and the meals were all twisted from wooden barrels, and they were lined up one by one to eat. The portion is quite sufficient, but there is no oil and water, and if you barely eat it, your stomach will definitely be full. Everyone hurriedly finished eating and returned to the training ground.

There are veterans entering the command, there are more than 5,000 recruits today, plus those who were arrested a few days ago, at this moment, the recruits gathered in the entire training ground are a full 30,000 people, lined up in six phalanxes, each phalanx has 5,000 people, Qi Haoyuan and they are in the sixth phalanx.

On the review stand, there stood a row of people, each wearing a long sword at his waist and a silver armor cloak, and his domineering spirit was extraordinary, and he knew at a glance that he was a general! Among them, the most central one, wearing a golden armor, reflected in the moonlight, refracted the light, and was the most eye-catching.

Qi Haoyuan stared at this person, this person must be the generalissimo in the army. But when he turned his head, he saw that Duan Fei's eyes were not on the review stand, but on the right hand side of the review table leading to the center of the barracks, so he asked softly, "Hey, what are you looking at?"

Duan Fei was stunned for a moment, and said softly, "Look at a few people over there, it feels so strange." ”

Qi Haoyuan looked over, because it was dark at this time, although there was a lot of fire in the barracks, but the light was faint, and he couldn't see those people clearly, but it was indeed as Duan Fei said, those people felt very strange, as if the water in a deep pool was bottomless. Especially the person who walked in the front, his long hair covered half of his face, and the half of his face was very handsome, but he was silently cold, without the slightest expression, and his temperament was dusty, and his walking seemed to be slow, but he soon disappeared from sight, as if he would shrink into inches.

"Could they be monks?" Duan Fei guessed.

"The freedom to enter and leave the barracks is obviously extraordinary, and the unfathomable feeling of being so far away seems to be quite significant, you may be right. Qi Haoyuan nodded and analyzed.

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The majestic man dressed in golden armor on the review platform has an extraordinary background, and he is an undefeated general Xue Yuan who was personally awarded by His Majesty the Apocalypse of the Great Yan Dynasty, commanding eight million soldiers in Yongzhou, and no more than ten generals have received this honor in the entire Great Yan Dynasty.

This time, the Great Yan Dynasty and the Barbarian Mongols went to war, and the battle lasted for a long time, and it seemed to be a stalemate on the surface, but it suffered heavy losses. This is the first time that the Great Yan Dynasty has encountered such a situation in more than 9,000 years since the establishment of the imperial dynasty. Xue Yuan bears the name of an undefeated general, which is the honor of the Great Yan Dynasty, and this battle must not be defeated, at all costs!

Xue Yuan's expression was cold and handsome, his eyes were sharp, and he glanced at the 30,000 recruits below over and over again, and the corners of his mouth twitched obviously, which was a trace of compassion, but he quickly adjusted, "All the generals listen to the order, and tomorrow they will fight the barbarian Mongolian clan again, and all the soldiers will go all out, and this battle will be won, so as to boost the undefeated morale of my Xue family army and raise the invincible divine power of my Great Yan Dynasty!

His voice was a bit serious, and there was no lack of appeal, but the recruits below reacted indifferently and did not cheer, and the scene was silent.

Xue Yuan didn't care, stretched out his hand and waved, and suddenly thousands of veterans entered the field, giving bowls and pouring wine to the recruits, and three bowls of spirits were already placed in front of him. In fact, these veterans are the Xue family army in the true sense, and with Xue Yuan's campaign for many years, the recruits are just sacrifices pulled over for some purposes.

In the past year, such a scene has appeared dozens of times, the initial scene is extremely grand, there are hundreds of thousands of recruits at every turn, you can fill three school fields, Shenwei is the world's first undefeated general personally ordered the troops, the morale is high, the recruits reacted extremely strongly, and the roar was deafening, but when batch after batch of recruits went out to fight, they never returned, and the subsequent recruits could no longer raise the slightest morale, let alone talk about the military spirit of the Xue family's army.

It's not just that the recruits have lost their enthusiasm as soldiers, but the generals on the review stand are not the same, and today's soldiers are just a form, and if even this form is omitted, then these recruits really don't even know why they died in vain, and whose hands they died in.

When everyone holds a bowl of spirits in their hands, they drink it all at the end, and the crisp sound of the bowl is the end of the last day.

Back in the tent, it was pitch black after the lights went out, but no one really slept, everyone was lying or sitting, thinking about their hearts, relatives and friends. Feeling the oppressive atmosphere around them, Qi Haoyuan and Duan Fei didn't talk much. In the middle of the night, a low crying voice can be heard.

There are so-called men who don't flick when they have tears, but in the face of the situation of nine deaths and one life, thinking of the lonely old parents at home, thinking of the children who have just been born, men's tears will not be angry.

"Woo-woo-"

The horn of getting up sounded, and the sky was just dark, and then a veteran broke into the camp tent and urged the new recruits to get up. Everyone didn't sleep much last night, their faces were very bad, some of them had red and swollen eyes, and there were tear stains on their faces. Despite the loud urging of the veterans, the recruits were still very slow, and they reluctantly packed their belongings into the package, and some of them were silently in a daze at some items.

Originally, the veterans only gave the recruits half a pillar of incense time to wash, but after a stick of incense, the recruits walked out of the camp listlessly. At this time, the training ground was already densely packed with people, and it could be seen from the military uniforms that they were veterans, and the veterans were practicing, and from time to time there was a sound of "ho! ha!"

"This is army life, like us, we are sending others to death!" Duan Fei looked at those veterans with disgust and laughed at himself.

In this environment, the mood of the two will naturally not be much better. Between life and death, the living do not know the fear of death, and the dead yearn for the glory of the living. The two of them also began to worry about life and death, and in Duan Fei's words, they were deceived by the daughter of the village chief who pretended to be pitiful.

The village chief's daughter was sincere, but she concealed the most important information, if she had known early that she would have died in the army, and that she was going to go to the battlefield so soon, and she didn't even have military training, the two of them would definitely not agree so simply. They are not saints and will never sacrifice themselves to save others. It was a serious decision-making mistake, and it's too late to regret it.

The breakfast was very rich, there was a lot of oil and water, and everyone had meat in their bowls, but when the cooking class cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, they found that everyone's bowls were almost not moving.

When the veterans' morning exercise was over, the recruits lined up on the school grounds, received their weapons, and the army slowly drove out of the barracks. In addition to the 30,000 recruits, there were 5,000 veterans, but the veterans were all in the rear, riding tall horses, and the recruits could only carry weapons on foot.

In the army, there was no Xue Yuan, only two cronies under Xue Yuan's command. But there were several carriages behind the army, and the carriages were quite gorgeous, and it was not clear who was inside, but it was definitely not Xue Yuan. If Xue Yuan went out with the army, he would definitely have a military uniform, so it would be impossible to ride in a carriage. Traditionally, only the Wenchen preferred carriage travel, and the soldiers usually rode horses.

The army went all the way north, crossed the northern border of the Great Yan Dynasty, Beiling Mountain, and entered the territory of the barbarian Mongols. It can be seen that the war between the Great Yan Dynasty and the barbarian Mongols was an act of aggression. The battlefield was not in the Great Yan Dynasty, and the resistance of the barbarian Mongolian tribe belonged to self-defense and counterattack. I don't know what method the barbarian Mongolian people used to make the army of the Great Yan Dynasty unbreakable for a long time, and they also lost tens of millions of soldiers!

The barbarian Mongolian people are a mixed race of the Northern Mongolian and Southern Barbarians, inheriting and carrying forward the fine bloodlines of the two races. The barbarian Mongolian people are born with infinite strength, burly physique, and are good at riding and archery fighting, but their intelligence is low, their brains are tendoned, and their development is lagging behind, and they still exist in the form of a tribe. It was only in recent years that a rising tribe of the barbarian Mongolian tribe conquered the east and west, and soon ruled more than ninety percent of the large and small tribes, vaguely wanting to unify the barbarian and establish a dynasty, which touched the nerves of the Great Yan Dynasty and raised troops to attack.

It's just that no one expected that this war would be fought so hard, causing the Great Yan Dynasty to lose its troops and almost lose the invincible divine power of the Dynasty.

The army was stationed overnight in Beiling Mountain, where there was a temporary camp of the Great Yan Dynasty, and an army of about 10,000 people was stationed there. On that day, Qi Haoyuan and Duan Fei escaped from a battlefield, and the big mountain they entered was this Beiling Mountain, but they entered from the other side of Beiling Mountain at that time, fortunately, they did not go deep into Beiling Mountain, otherwise I don't know if Lu Dao would be guilty of trespassing on military important places.

In the early morning of the second day, the army set out again, walked for a whole day, and in the evening, stopped at the Arno River in the territory of the barbarians. The water of the Arno River is like a moat, blocking the way forward.

The Arno River has been running for eternity, tens of thousands of miles long, and the river is across the north and south. With the North Ling Mountain as the boundary, to the Ano River, the vast land has become ruins, the road can be seen broken walls, broken mountains and rivers, this land used to have horses and sheep, there are tribes living in groups, now it no longer exists, disappears in the war. Only occasionally will the armies of the Barbarian Mongols appear to wage war against the armies of the Great Yan Dynasty in this land.

The barbarian Mongolian people who once lived in this land have all withdrawn to the north bank of the Ano River, and the barbarian Mongolian people are guarding the Ano River!

However, to stop the army of the Great Yan Dynasty, it is absolutely impossible to rely on a single vein of river water! But on the opposite side of the Arno River, the eight hundred miles of Yin Mountain is full of blood, like purgatory on earth, and the water of the Arno River is as scarlet as blood, perhaps this is the reason why the Great Yan Dynasty has not been able to break through for a long time!