Chapter 778 Provoke Your Anger

A Ming chose to run, and in this situation, running was really the only option left.

After all, the situation was clear, it was simply… impossible to win.

If you can't win, then retreat, isn't that normal?

Cahill also thought it was normal, and he was afraid that A Ming would leave him behind in order to escape faster, so he quickly changed his tune:

"Oh, Lord A Ming is right, we are noble vampires, how can a noble life be easily explained here... Oh, oh, oh, oh!!!"

Towards the end, Cahill screamed almost convulsively, his body also beginning to spasm.

Because A Ming was rapidly extracting his blood to enhance his movement technique for escape, it was so violent, so reckless.

Fortunately, A Ming did not fall directly into the encirclement, and it was also fortunate that this was in the mountains and forests, and even more fortunate that this was a group of infantry, not encountering a cavalry unit on the plains.

Although he was surprised that the running speed of this infantry unit seemed a bit astonishing, A Ming finally managed to escape.

Of course, there was also the reason that the other side didn't seem determined to capture him.

Next to a frozen stream, A Ming used his fingernails to break the ice, pulled out the arrow and a flying knife stuck in his back, threw them down, and then washed his wound with stream water.

Cahill was already pale, lying on the side, he had been drained of his body, his eyes full of hopelessness.

"Cough..."

A Ming coughed, trying to restore some key positions on his body, the other injuries could be delayed, what was important was not to affect his movement.

He got up and glanced back, there were no pursuers behind him.

"I almost killed him." A Ming muttered to himself.

Just a little bit, and the commander of the Chu State front line would have died in his hands.

Cahill, who didn't have a single drop left, began to focus his gaze,

Extremely weakly said:

"Thank you, Lord A Ming's... mercy."

This was not sarcasm, Cahill didn't have the guts;

If the forbidden spell level had been higher at the time, the scale larger, a little more blood drawn, or even if he had unhesitatingly sucked Cahill dry at the beginning in exchange for the strongest blow;

Nian Yao,

Should have died.

However, there was nothing to regret, not choosing to do so at the time was A Ming's own decision, rather than a greater certainty of killing Nian Yao, he was more willing to keep his blood bag around for a while longer, reluctant to part with the bag.

Most importantly, he didn't know that there was still a hidden army behind the hillside.

It was already absurd that he was digging graves there to find wine to drink,

That Nian Yao ordered that no one should act without authorization, causing his subordinates to truly obey orders and prohibitions, was absurdity within absurdity.

There were too many regrettable things in the world,

Missed,

Is missed.

A Ming bent down and carried Cahill on his back again, the blood bag was temporarily useless, and would have to be nursed back to health for a long time.

Cahill murmured:

"Wine..."

He was still distressed about the many jars of peach blossom wine.

That's right,

If he didn't feel sorry for the wine, what else could he feel sorry for,

Feel sorry for Guo Dong, Pi Si and others who were left behind and not even glanced at when they fled?

……

"General, the person was not caught, the other party's movement technique is peculiar, not like a human, but like a demon in human form."

"A demon beast?"

Nian Yao shook his head,

"I've never seen such a powerful demon beast, haha."

Unlike the Yan people who only cultivate and breed Pixiu beasts, the Chu people are more obsessed with taming demon beasts and know more about them.

"Forget it, we can't delay on him, leave the mountain immediately, it's not easy to hide here, we can't waste this opportunity.

Pass the order down,

Let everyone show off their mountain-running skills,

Let the Yan people open their eyes,

And see how fast our two legs can run!"

"The General has ordered, full speed ahead!"

"The General has ordered, full speed ahead!"

The soldiers began to run quickly, their running posture was exaggerated, and their skin color and appearance were also very different from the traditional Chu people. The Chu people were actually the traditional faces of the Xia people, but these people were obviously not.

In addition, they also did not have the hairstyle that the Chu people valued most, many of them had shaved their heads.

This was not an army of Chu people, strictly speaking, not a Chu army composed of genuine Chu people, but an army formed by a certain tribe of the Mountain Yue.

In the poor mountains and bad waters of Chu, was the last habitat of the Mountain Yue tribe. After the Regent came to power, along with the Fifth Prince leading Wutong County to submit to the imperial court, coupled with a series of policies of the Regent, the Chu people and the Mountain Yue tribes began to rapidly undergo a kind of passive or active integration.

More and more warriors of the Mountain Yue tribe also began to be organized by the imperial court and entered the Chu army sequence.

The Qian people had also done this before. Marquis Zheng had also seen the indigenous soldiers conscripted by the Qian people back then. Those indigenous soldiers were also swift as the wind and fought bravely, recklessly. When the Qian people put down local rebellions, they also liked to use indigenous soldiers.

But on the real great power battlefield, the shortcomings of the indigenous soldiers, such as lacking command and being too easy to get carried away, would be exposed without a doubt. Marquis Zheng relied on the indigenous soldiers of the Qian Kingdom to reap a wave of heads when he first started his career.

But it was obvious that this "mountain infantry" formed by the Mountain Yue people under Nian Yao's command had been personally trained by Nian Yao, which was equivalent to making up for the shortcomings, and their advantages could be exploited as much as possible.

In fact, the real area where the Yan people and the Chu people's scouts and sentries clashed was in Shanggu County and the Wei River line. This mountain range seemed to be much more peaceful, because Marquis Zheng had personally walked through here. A small number of people could come over, but it was basically impossible for a large army to pass through here, because both warhorses and mules would be ruined by climbing mountains and wading through rivers. At the same time, even if the army really came out of here, logistical supplies would not be able to keep up.

Just like walking through the Tian Duan Mountains into the Snowy Plains, 30,000 soldiers almost exhausted the reserves of Shengle City at that time, and at the same time, they could only store food along the way on the way there. After the army left the mountains and entered the Snowy Plains, even if there were mountains of grain piled up in the rear, it would be too late to transport them out from here to provide relief.

Guo Dong's team was arranged here for a reason. Xu An was still taking care of his brothers, and did not send them to the area with the highest mortality rate.

But who would have thought,

That General Nian, ridiculed by the world as "Old King Eight Nian", would actually lead less than 3,000 infantry soldiers in person, quietly cross the mountains and ridges, and really come out of here.

Once a well-organized army appears, it is impossible to be silent after losing the cover of the mountains and forests.

Roving cavalry and sentries discovered them, and quickly issued a warning to their superiors.

A captain stationed nearby personally led his hundred or so cavalrymen to intercept them. Years of victory in foreign wars had led to increasing underestimation of the enemy by the Yan army, and this Yan captain might have been thinking of blocking and harassing them to await reinforcements, but in his heart, he might also have had the idea of expanding the results of the battle with a hundred cavalrymen.

After all, his own Marquis had created the brilliant record of breaking a city with a hundred cavalrymen back then! The example was right there!

Everyone is greedy, but the problem is that he was facing Nian Yao, and the troops led by Nian Yao this time were obviously not ordinary.

In the end, the side on horseback was surrounded. Subsequently, only a few knights were able to escape, and the captain was killed on the spot.

For a time, the rear was shaken.

Gongsun Zhi, who was stationed in the rear and was also required by Marquis Pingxi to be responsible for the defense and vigilance of this mountain range, personally led his troops out of the stockade after hearing the news.

The time delayed in between was not long, only one night, but when Gongsun Zhi led his troops over, and the other two troops under his command also outflanked them to form an encirclement, they found that the Chu army had evaporated from the world, and they couldn't even catch a single hair!

Gongsun Zhi felt a chill in his heart,

At the moment, there were two possibilities.

One was that the Chu army retreated back to the mountains along the same route;

But this was obviously unlikely. They had worked so hard to cross the mountains and ridges, how could they go back in dismay without suffering any major losses?

And the other possibility was…

They had already run out of their encirclement in advance.

Gongsun Zhi clenched his back molars,

At this time, what he thought of in his mind was not the consequences on the battlefield, but the reprimand he might receive in the end because of the loopholes in his deployment.

This was the first time that the Marquis had gathered his generals and mobilized his troops since the establishment of the Marquis's mansion. It was very likely that a chicken would be killed.

"Order Cui Sheng to go north, and the other departments will follow me west!"

He couldn't care less about whether he was the chicken or not,

Gongsun Zhi knew,

That the army was currently gathered on the front line, and although there were troops in the rear, they must be extremely lax.

Most importantly,

That Chu army,

Was really fast!

……

The fire,

Had not yet been extinguished,

All around, there were corpses.

Marquis Zheng, wearing armor and riding a Pixiu, arrived at this military stockade.

This military stockade was originally a village, but because of the several battles in Jin, especially eastern Jin, a large number of people were displaced and looted. Even though Marquis Pingxi's mansion had absorbed people in Fengxin City in the past two years and restored prosperity, many places in eastern Jin, such as this village, had not yet recovered.

During the preparations for war,

The transportation of food and materials for the army required strongholds as support along the line, and this village was on this line. On this basis, a military stockade was established.

There were not many soldiers in the military stockade, only a hundred or so, and they were all auxiliary soldiers, not regular combat soldiers. The number of civilian laborers stationed there was quite large, about seven or eight hundred.

In addition, there was also a group of civilian laborers who had just completed a transportation mission, about four hundred people, resting here, waiting for the next round of transportation missions.

Now,

In the burnt military stockade,

Their corpses were everywhere.

Marquis Zheng dismounted from the Pixiu and looked around.

Although most of the military stockade had been burned down by the fire, it could still be seen that the defensive facilities of the military stockade were actually very simple.

Rather than calling this a military stockade, it was more like a post station;

Moreover,

The Chu people launched a night attack.

Most of the civilian laborers were asleep, the outposts were wiped out by the Chu people, and the Chu people were like soldiers descending from the heavens, rushing into this place.

If there were fortifications to rely on, more than a thousand civilian laborers would have been able to hold out for a long time, but the problem was that there were none.

Therefore, under the night, what happened here was a one-sided massacre.

How could a mob of civilian laborers without systematic training be a match for the well-prepared Chu army elite, especially since the commander of the other side was Nian Yao.

Marquis Zheng raised his head slightly and took a deep breath.

The smell of coke permeating the air, along with the aroma of grilled meat, easily caused people to feel physiologically uncomfortable.

At the same time, the night he encountered when he was a civilian laborer back then could not help but emerge in his mind.

They were all civilian laborers, but the civilian laborers here did not have his good luck back then.

At the same time, his side was indeed caught off guard, and there was no one like the Princess back then to timely kill and clean up the battlefield.

In the center of the military stockade, there was a pole, which was usually used to hoist goods. At this time, there was a person hanging on it. That person seemed to still be breathing, but his body was covered in blood.

Two agile personal guards planned to climb up and bring the person down,

Fan Li stepped forward, hugged the pole, squatted down, exerted force, and the pole was pulled out by him forcefully, and then slowly tilted.

The personal guards stepped forward and put down the seriously injured person.

Zheng Fan walked forward and looked at this injured person;

He was not wearing armor, his ears had been cut off, and two words were engraved on his face... Yan dog.

This soldier looked a little familiar.

Marquis Zheng couldn't remember who he was, even though he had personally conferred him the title of "Grave Robbing" Captain.

But that was just out of Zheng Marquis's twisted sense of humor. In any case, all kinds of miscellaneous captains emerged in the Yan army, and he had also been a merchant escort captain back then.

But this person obviously recognized Zheng Fan.

He opened his eyes and vaguely looked at Zheng Fan, and immediately opened his mouth and said:

"Marquis... Marquis..."

Zheng Fan squatted down, saw that he wanted to lift his head, reached out to hold Guo Dong's neck, and gently placed his other hand on his chest.

"Marquis... Nian... Nian Yao asked me..."

"He asked you to bring me a message, didn't he? Speak."

A cliché scene;

In the battlefield ruins,

Leaving a survivor.

"He...he..."

"Don't have any concerns, tell me everything as it is, and then you can go down and get treatment."

"He said..."

"What did he say?"

"You...are not worthy."

Marquis Zheng was stunned for a moment,

Then nodded,

And said:

"This Marquis knows."

"This subordinate... has disgraced the Marquis... This subordinate begs for death."

"Take him down and treat his injuries."

"Yes!"

"Please Marquis... grant me death..."

Marquis Zheng ignored Guo Dong's words, and after he was taken away, Marquis Zheng stood up.

The Blind was standing behind him.

"What are the losses?"

"Not big."

Zheng Fan nodded.

"Before, there was actually a lot of grain stored here, because the official road in front was not repaired, and it was easy to be blocked in snowy weather, and the road was difficult to walk, so it was easy to cause siltation here.

Some time ago, when the siltation was at its worst, nearly 10,000 civilian laborers and... a large amount of grain that was originally to be transported to Zhennan Pass were stranded here."

Marquis Zheng opened his mouth and said:

"I've opened my eyes. I used to burn other people's grain roads and cut off their rear lines, but this time it's good, I've been educated in reverse."

The Blind nodded and said: "Actually, the one who should feel the most pity in his heart is Nian Yao. The Chu people's scouts should have found out the situation here long ago, but when Nian Yao came over, he didn't see the mountains of grain."

Because,

The Pingxi Marquis's operation of this war was too efficient.

It was equivalent to Zheng Marquis saying he wanted to fight,

Oh no,

It was that Zheng Marquis hadn't said he wanted to fight yet, but the people below were already preparing in advance.

The main military equipment, grain, and so on were transported to the front line of Zhennan Pass in advance. When Zheng Marquis officially gave the order, a large number of civilian laborers were conscripted, but most of them were for reserve purposes.

Therefore, after Gongsun Zhi discovered that this Chu army had run out of their planned encirclement in advance, he did not think of this place in the first place, because this place had become a transit station and was no longer a grain storage point.

"What is the Chu army's movement?" Zheng Marquis asked.

"Going west."

"Fengxin City?"

"It should be in that direction."

"So, they want to knock on the door?" Zheng Fan asked.

Marquis Zheng didn't believe that just this little bit of Chu army could break into Fengxin City. Although his home was empty, it wasn't so empty that even Nian Yao could lead an army in.

Of course, just letting the Chu army run to the bottom of Fengxin City to show off their power would be enough to make him, Marquis Pingxi, lose face.

This was equivalent to the barbarians running to the front of the Zhenbei Marquis's mansion to let their horses graze.

"Lord." At this time, Si Niang walked over, "You can come and take a look under that shed."

Zheng Fan walked over.

The Blind also asked Si Niang curiously: "What is it?"

"Can't you see for yourself?"

"I'm blind."

"At this moment, the Lord is in a bad mood." Si Niang reminded.

Meaning, don't speak too "lightly" at this time.

The Blind didn't care and said: "The Lord can adjust himself."

On this point, the Blind was very confident in his master.

It was just being caught off guard, Nian Yao was still in Jin, probably in the west, and pursuers had already been dispatched.

Tian Wujing's closed disciple, how could he not be able to take this small loss?

But after walking to that shed and "seeing" a row of wine jars under the shed…

The relaxed look on the Blind's face disappeared and began to become solemn. At the same time, he used his mental power to transmit a message to Si Niang: "You shouldn't have told the Lord about the discovery here."

"Why?"

"Something will happen, dead people and dead people are different."

"He deserves it." Si Niang said.

"That's what you say, but..."

At this time,

Zheng Fan walked out of the shed,

And asked:

"Did A Ming come with us?"

"He came." Si Niang responded.

A personal soldier went to call A Ming over.

A Ming's condition was not very good, his face was a little pale, but there was still a smile on his lips.

He had reported before that he almost killed Nian Yao, just a little bit short.

"Lord, you're looking for me?"

Zheng Fan pointed to the shed behind him and said:

"Your wine is here."

A Ming glanced at those wine jars, nodded, and walked over, but as he got closer, his face suddenly changed, because he smelled a very familiar smell.

He opened the lid of the wine jar,

Inside the wine jar, there was a corpse soaking, to be precise, a human swine, also known as a human stick.

The limbs were cut off, the eyes were dug out, the tongue was cut off, the nose was flattened, and the ears were pierced.

A real human swine can live for a few more days after being made, but these were made more crudely and forcefully, and they were obviously made by force, and they died early.

A row of wine jars were opened, and the corpses were still wearing the armor of the Yan army, one of which was the garrison general here.

A Ming's eyes turned red,

Not because of sadness, nor because of grief,

But...anger.

On the battlefield, you kill my people, and I kill your people, that's normal.

But this kind of…

Was even placed in a wine jar.

Zheng Fan turned his back,

And said:

"Nian Yao wants to make me angry."

After a pause,

Marquis Zheng added;

"He succeeded."