Chapter 109 I miss him(1/2)
Seventeen-year-old Xie Xiu didn't like this small border town at first, and he didn't understand why the family sent him to such a place where birds don't poop.
Even though the family members explained a lot to him, he still didn't understand because he didn't think about understanding in his heart, and he just resisted.
Compared with other borders in Xijiang, this small pass, called Xifeng Pass, is more miserable, poorer and less interesting.
The people here all look like they are yellow and yellow. Not to mention people, half of the world here is yellow and yellow, except for the sky.
At first, he just sat high every day and looked up at the sky in a daze, and he was dazed for half a day.
Because in his opinion, except for the sky, it is all dirty, outrageously dirty, and out of place with him.
But after nearly a year, he suddenly realized that he had changed. He felt that it was particularly interesting to tell some dirty jokes to those rough border soldiers. No, it was funniest.
They have no knowledge, and many people don’t even know each other, but they know what it means to live up to.
Their emotions are so simple, and things that have been identified will not be changed easily.
They didn't like Xie Xiu at first, and they thought that the children of this aristocratic family were too pretentious and thought that he always looked down on others, so they were too lazy to pay attention to Xie Xiu.
This situation was not until one time when General Xie Xiufeng ordered a team of scouts to go out to find out the news, and was besieged by the Western Regions halfway, and it was changed after a fight.
That day, he didn't know why he stood up and stood in front of his men, perhaps because of the regiment commanding military uniforms, or perhaps because of his arrogance.
Those big guys always say that he just came to the frontier and went through the motions and added a single mark on his resume, and he would have a high official and generous salary when he returned.
They also said that people like Xie Xiu will not become real brothers of life and death with them.
Even if the border soldiers do not regard each other as brothers in places like Xifengguan in Xijiang, they may die faster.
They were caught up by the Western Regions people who were ten times more than themselves and surrounded by a forest. The big men in Xie Xiu's eyes looked at him, waiting for his instructions.
But Xie Xiu could see that they looked at him, but there was no expectation in his eyes.
Just because he was led by a regiment, the iron rule of the border army was to obey military orders.
"Get out, I'll take the lead."
Xie Xiu only said these six words and then got on the horse.
That day, his arrow seemed to have been given power by a god. The arrows killed the enemy, and the big and rough eyes began to brighten.
That day, when Xie Xiu took the lead in breaking out of the siege and turned around and saw three of his men being chased and besieged. He turned around and killed him without hesitation. The big and thick eyes emitted a dazzling light.
The same goes for them, and they followed the team leader to kill him without hesitation.
He screamed like a group of wolves.
In that battle, their eyes turned red and temporarily escaped from the siege of pursuers.
But on the next day, more enemies came to chase them, and they were already trapped and were besieged by at least six or seven hundred Western cavalrymen.
This time when Xie Xiu went out, he only brought a team of ten people out, and six or seven hundred people surrounded them. No matter how he looked, he would definitely die.
Xie Xiu said...I'm sorry, I've implicated you.
He said, if it weren't for me, the general would definitely come to save you, because the general didn't like me, and he felt that I was not the same as everyone else.
He also said, I know that you don’t like me, and they all think that I and you are not the same person, but today, since I have implicated you, I will die before you.
Then, they saw the black battle flag of the Great Chu border army.
Their general came, and brought three hundred cavalry to the end, and then came back, plowing again like a plow.
Three hundred elite cavalry killed 70% of the Western Region cavalry and injured 700% of them, and the rest fled in panic.
When he returned to Xifeng Pass, the general toasted him with a glass of wine. Everyone knew that this was recognition.
But he said, I thought you wouldn't come to save me.
The general said, I do not like you, but you are my soldier and my brother of the border army and will not give up any comrades.
From that day on, he and his brothers from the border army practiced, wrestled, and struggled in the sand.
He and his brothers from the border army squeezed on the earthen kang together, talking nonsense at night about what a woman should feel like.
They are really rough, and the women in their words are just a luxury.
Everyone brags about how powerful they are, but in fact, when they really see women, they don’t even dare to say anything.
Xie Xiu often thought that these buns are really rustic, but being with these people is really terrible.
After becoming open-minded, Xie Xiu understood why the family arranged him to such a small place.
Because although this place is so hard and poor, remote and small, it is safe.
Although the people of the Western Regions would come here to provoke, the border was too small, so small that the army of the Western Regions could not invade the Central Plains from here.
The family means that he can train in such a small place for a year, and then go back and find a job for him in the Ministry of War.
The battle happened nearly a year after he came to the border. To be precise, it was twenty-seven days before the one-year period.
Although life was still dull, Xie Xiu felt that it was becoming more and more interesting. When he planned to do so, he was extremely reluctant to leave when he had only three days left before he returned home.
But it was this day that the people of the Western Regions came.
Before the warning horn sounded, the brothers were planning for the general to meet the general's mysterious fiancée, how should the general be handsome enough?
They had seen that girl, she was so beautiful, but everyone was not jealous. Everyone even felt that only such girls were worthy of their general.
Even if their general is just a general who is barely able to be called a general from the fifth rank.
There were only 360 border soldiers here, but they wanted everyone to take out their favorite things and give them to the general and ask the general to give them to the girl.
The girl they called her sister.
Because the general said that after meeting this time, the marriage would probably be decided, so everyone felt that it would be too shabby to give gifts to other girls.
The people of the Western Regions came, without warning, and tens of thousands of troops came.
When the brothers climbed the city wall, the general found Xie Xiu and said to him... You should leave quickly, it is still time to walk now.
Xie Xiu shook his head and said, Why am I leaving? Does the general still look down on me?
The general was silent and said to him, I wanted you to leave because I had selfish intentions, and it was more appropriate for you to leave than others.
Xie Xiu didn't understand, so he asked why.
The general said that you are from the Xie family, and you will be entrusted with important tasks after you go back, and may even be transferred to the Ministry of War to be an official.
You have to let the people of the court know how the soldiers in Xifeng Pass died, and you have to let the brothers' families receive pensions.
If you don't do this, maybe no one remembers it, and no one will care about it.
The general also said that everyone might... die.
In fact, it is not possible. If you fight, you will eventually die.
There are too many enemies outside, hundreds of times theirs. They are all the best warriors. They will not retreat or be afraid when facing enemies ten times more than theirs.
But this time it was hundreds of times, and they didn't even kill so many enemies' weapons and equipment.
The general handed him a booklet and told him that this was a list of everyone in Xifengguan, and that everyone's name was on it.
The general saluted him and said that I begged you, brothers can die, but they can't die without even a splash. After they die, their families can't even get pensions.
After saying these words, the general grabbed his knife and rushed to the city wall.
Xie Xiu left, walked fifteen miles, then tore open his clothes and bit his fingers, wrote a letter on the cloth, asking his followers to take the blood book and take the roster back to the family, and ask the family to help give the brothers pensions.
The entourage fell to his knees and begged him, but he just shook his head and said, "I want to be with my brothers, and I want to be with me even if I die."
When Xie Xiu climbed up to the city wall, he saw many familiar faces that he had fallen to the ground, with feather arrows inserted into his body.
He was angry and roared and grabbed the bow and arrow.
When the border brothers saw him coming back, many people were scolding him, scolding him for why he wanted to come back, and scolding him for being a playboy when he came back and causing trouble.
But this time, Xie Xiu, who was scolded, was not angry, but just stood with his brothers with red eyes.
He shot out one by one, sending enemies one by one to hell.
He didn't know if there were any murderers who killed his comrades among the enemies he shot. He just wanted to kill all of these people.
A team of more than 300 people resisted the Western Regions army that had tens of thousands of people, but they held on for many days. When their arrows were used up, they were all broken gaps on their blades.
They hadn't even eaten for a day and a night, because the brothers who cooked in the Fire Head Army had already died by their side.
At this time, there were only a dozen people left.
The general looked at Xie Xiu and said, "Go away, no one looks down on you, no one thinks you are a coward."
Xie Xiu said, I'm leaving, I look down on myself all my life, and I feel like I am a coward all my life.
The people of the Western Regions rushed up again. From a distance, it looked like a flood covering the land outside the border city.
They had no feather arrows and held their already incomplete horizontal swords tightly, and more than a dozen people stood on the city wall.
The brothers looked at the general, and the general walked to the front of the queue.
Xie Xiu asked, General, how to fight?
The general said, attack the attack.
Just as the general was about to charge, they pressed the general down and forced the general to leave, because there was still a girl waiting for the general.
To be continued...