Chapter 2126 Flowers and leaves are flying
Dahan Taixing four years.
September.
Osmanthus fragrance.
Thin and small petals, the lingering breath floats lightly and lightly for miles away.
Because the surrounding area is really smelly.
So this little fragrance is very precious.
Ever since Sun Quan and others returned with the elites from Jiangdong, and even Xu Sheng fled under the pressure of the plague, there were no high-level generals and command systems in the Jiangling area of ??Jingzhou Southern County. What Jiang Dongbing insisted on was the desire for life and the awe of death.
Yes, they are eager to use their own death to bring life to their family members.
Wu Long is from Yangzhou.
In the yard of Wu Long’s home, there is an osmanthus tree.
Among this group of Jiangzhou soldiers, he has the highest official rank.
Before he was a Cao under the Kuaiji sect, but now, he is a fake military marquis.
Although it is late autumn, it is not known whether the temperature in the air has not dropped, or whether Wu Long and the others have too high body temperature, and they are always sweating after walking for a while. After passing Jiangling City and heading north, there were almost no people on the road or in the mountains. Occasionally, there was a scorched smell in the wind. Wu Long knew that it was the smell of burning corpses.
In such a scorched air, the scent of sweet-scented osmanthus is even more precious. It seems to remind people of something...
Wu Long didn''t send any scouts, and there were no scouts to send.
He has been here before and walked this way. Ever since Jiangdong soldiers captured Jiangling, this area has been cleaned up wave after wave. At that time, the roads were congested and the torches stretched out, almost lighting up the entire night sky. The cries and screams seemed to still echo in my ears.
Now…
Is it our turn? Wu Long smiled wryly, and propped the handle of his spear on the ground.
Going forward, you can occasionally see some charred corpses, and I don’t know when they left traces. The chest and abdomen of the scorched corpse seemed to have been pulled apart, exposing some colorful paintings that seemed to be paintings of wild dogs or jackals.
Further forward, there is a small bridge. On the right hand side of the bridge, Wu Long remembers, there is a village.
On the small bridge, several of the wooden piles that originally hung the corpses had collapsed, and the corpses on the remaining wooden piles were completely rotten, and they were full of carnival flies, even Wu Long and others Passing by, that is, two flying up a little bit, it seems to be just for fun, and it seems that they don''t care about these larger guys at all...
Is it because we end up being dishes for these flies too?
Wu Long kicked away a head full of maggots on the ground, and then stepped forward.
The charred and unburned corpses appeared shockingly in front of my eyes. This was a mountain village that had been massacred and burned for most of the night.
No one alive.
The man was captured by Jiangdong soldiers, and the corpse was also left behind by Jiangdong soldiers. Woolong thought they would never come back to this place again, but now they are.
Some houses ahead have collapsed.
The road through the village was also blocked. Wu Long led his men around the collapsed houses. No one in the entire Jiangdong soldier queue spoke, only breathing heavily.
As a soldier, his hands were more or less stained with some blood.
Even massacres.
But at that time, it was someone else who died, but now...
『Today…here…take a break…tomorrow will be…Jingbei…』
Wu Long pointed to the few remaining houses in the village.
Exhaustion, like a boundless wave, washed over wave after wave, until Wu Long was about to be submerged. Originally, these distances were nothing to Wu Long at one time.
When the sun rose again the next day, Wulong was rewarded, and three more people couldn''t walk anymore.
『Give...ahem, leave them a knife...』
Wu Long didn''t go to see those people, because he seemed to know in his heart that he might meet these people again soon, so what''s the point of going to see them now?
Yeah, what''s the point of coming to Jingzhou by yourself? for what? What is it for now?
Wulong''s head hurts very much. It started to hurt a few days ago, and now it is getting more and more painful. It hurts so much that Wulong wants to cut the back of his head with a knife to see if it is full of maggots. , was gnawing at his brain, so he couldn''t think too much, only one thought remained.
died in Jingbei.
In this way, he can be regarded as killed in battle.
Because, those who died of illness have no money.
When the sun was over the treetops, Wulong and the others heard human voices.
At one time, Wu Long thought it was a hallucination caused by his own headache, but after asking a few people around him, he realized that these tiny noises were really human voices.
『Arrived...Jingbei...』
『It’s here...』
『We... have reached the end of the land...』
Wu Long looked around slightly, and smiled, "This place...is pretty good..."
There are mountains, water, and fields.
It would be even better if there was another osmanthus tree...
『Get on…』
『Huff...Huff...』
Wu Long led his men forward.
In Wu Long''s imagination, they are with an indomitable momentum, holding up their knives and guns, carrying billowing smoke and dust, and killing fiercely forward...
But in fact, people like Wu Long are dragging their feet, shaking, stumbling forward...
An exclamation sounded.
『Ghosts...there are ghosts...』
Are you scared? Wu Long wanted to laugh, wanted to laugh out loud, but he no longer had the strength to laugh, only the sound of heavy breathing was left, and then the "rapid sprint" also exhausted his little strength. Knowing whether his legs were weak or he was tripped by rocks and clods, Wu Long rushed forward with a groan, fell to the ground, and couldn''t get up for a long time.
The figure swayed, as if someone had surrounded him.
『Ma Ma, look, that man has a lot of bugs on his head...』 Someone seemed to be pointing at Wu Long and yelling.
『That’s not a worm, it’s a maggot! 』
You have worms, you have maggots!
Wu Long howled, jumped up, brandished a knife and gun, shook out one by one gunshots, rushed into the crowd, and then his opponents fell one by two...
In fact, Wu Long, who was still lying on the ground, just made a wheezing sound, struggling to stretch his spear, and assassinated the opponent in his imagination.
『They are Jiangdong thieves! Koto dog! "Finally someone recognized it, "Kill them to death!" 』
The figures became noisy and shook, and then countless stones, sticks, rakes, etc., fell down and hit Wu Long''s head and body...
Wu Long didn''t seem to feel any pain in his body at all, but felt that the surrounding world was slowly dimming, as if night had fallen. Is this death? Did I finally die in Jingbei? I don''t know how to get it at home...
The stone smashed on Wu Long''s head with a scream, and a loud bang interrupted Wu Long''s thoughts. At the last moment of his life, what appeared in front of Wu Long was the sweet-scented osmanthus tree at home, a small smiling face under the tree, accompanied by a wisp of fragrance from the petals.
『Little girl, Daddy can’t accompany you to see the sweet-scented osmanthus...』
...
In such an autumn, Wei Yan and others went all the way to the southeast along the river, crossing mountains and ridges, and went straight to Yidao. The closer you get to Yidao, the more dead bodies you see along the way.
In the air, there was even a faint cry.
Even the river beside him seemed to be whimpering.
Just as the sun was about to set, Wei Yan and his party had already arrived at Yidao. At this time, the city gate of Yidao was half open, and sporadic people came in and out.
The news of the plague also spread to Yi Dao at this time, followed by the fleeing of nobles and powerful people, all the rich and powerful fled, leaving only the people who could not go anywhere to form a mess in the city.
The invasion of the Jiangdong soldiers caused a huge wave in the entire South County of Jingzhou, and the plague was like a second wave, completely submerging ordinary people. After there was no public order, whether it was all kinds of rumors or thieves who were known to steal chickens and dogs, the situation further deteriorated, and because the refugees continued to swim to Sichuan and Sichuan, many things in the city fell into chaos. middle.
Refugees poured into the city. At the beginning, these refugees just wanted to eat, but then...
Some people saw the empty houses left by some people in the city after they fled, so they broke the door locks and went in to search and occupy them, and then more people joined the ranks, and even began to knock on the doors of other people who were still in the city. , overthrew the courtyard wall, broke into the house, began to not only eat and drink, but also more, more...
These people dare not fight against the powerful, but are willing to be violent against the weak. They hate their own weakness in the face of the powerful, but they are not relentless when they bully other weak people.
If Gan Ning hadn’t brought his men to Yidao, those damned guys might even be planning to burn everything to destroy the traces of their evil deeds.
Gan Ning originally wanted to go to Jiangdong, but these corpses along the way made Gan Ning change his mind. After all, Gan Ning still had some feelings in Jingzhou. After seeing these innocent people who died in vain, and seeing so many tragic scenes, Gan Ning''s perception of Jiangdong continued to decline. Even though Jiang Dong is Cao Cao''s opponent to some extent, not all the enemies of the bad guys are good guys, and there is a high possibility that they are another bad guy...
So Gan Ning simply turned around and prepared to go back to Sichuan and Shu, but to go to Sichuan and Shu, he had to pass through the Yi Road.
Some of Gan Ning’s subordinates have already left. Anyway, as Gan Ning said before, duckweed gathers and disperses in the rivers and lakes.
When Gan Ning arrived in Yidao, the city was already in chaos, and the ignited fire even began to spread, so Gan Ning didn''t have time to do too many things. On the one hand, he killed some thieves who did evil, and on the other hand organized the demolition Houses, clear out a fire zone.
Gan Ning was going to leave at the first hand, but was stayed by the people in the city. A large group of people knelt down on the street, men, women, old and young, crying and begging, Gan Ning''s character is quite soft and not hard, facing such a situation, he still couldn''t bear it. In the end, he became the temporary magistrate of Yidao County.
Gan Ning is a military general, even a relatively scientific general. In fact, he basically has no concept of commanding the ranks and developing people''s livelihood. Fortunately, the people of Yi Dao just want someone to protect them and curb the brutality of the thieves. What''s the matter is that the elders in the city and the village discuss it, and in addition to the current turmoil, the remaining people inside and outside Yidao City don''t expect anything extravagantly, just deal with it and maintain it.
Gan Ning is having a headache, mainly because he has no clue about the future.
Liu Jingsheng was defeated, his dog son could not see it, and now Jiangdong has also run away. Cao Cao is afraid that he will eventually win Jingzhou, so sooner or later he will come to Yidao, and when Cao Jun really comes, what will he do? manage? Even if Gan Ning can put down his face and offended Xiahou Dun, Cao Ren and others earlier, can he guarantee that no pair of small shoes will be handed to his feet in the future?
Gan Ning was suffering from a headache, and then Wei Yan came...
Gan Ning had no idea when Wei Yan came.
Wei Yan is also reckless, or to put it mildly, he is called bold with high art skills? Seeing that Yi Dao didn''t seem to be exactly what Yin Guan said, but he didn''t have any special defense system, so he went straight into the city without saying a word. The barbarians at the city gate saw Wei Yan and the others being aggressive, but they didn''t dare to offend them, and ran away one after another. As for the original guards at the city gate, Gan Ning didn''t have enough manpower, and secondly, he didn''t have any intentions. , so simply do not.
It wasn''t until Wei Yan approached the Yidao County Yamen that Gan Ning''s subordinates who were on duty at the gate yelled to stop him, and then it was too late, Wei Yan asked his subordinates to deal with those on duty, and rushed inside with a knife in his hand!
As soon as Wei Yan entered the hall, the sword light was like lightning in front of him, like a thunderbolt, and everything around him was white!
And behind this pale brilliance, a pair of blazing eyes flashed instantly!
This knife came so fast!
『Dang~! 』
The sound of metal and iron clanging suddenly oscillated in this small area, and the lingering sound of the loud noise reverberated in everyone''s eardrums, as if it continued to buzz.
Wei Yan took advantage of the momentum and took a small step back, exiting the hall.
The hall is narrow and unfavorable to use. Although Wei Yan doesn''t know who the opponent is, but with this knife, he should not be underestimated, and he dare not rush forward like before, "Who is in the house?" A certain is under the hussars, Wei Yan, the general who conquered Shu, and Wei Wenchang! 』
『Hussars? General Shu? Gan Ning frowned, "It''s Gan Ning, Gan Xingba!" 』
『Gan Xingba? 』Wei Yan licked his lips. It was the first time since Wei Yan entered Sichuan and Sichuan that he was directly forced back with a knife. Have the guts to fight a certain person? ! If you can make it to ten times under a certain knife, you will be spared and you will not die! 』
"Hahaha..." Gan Ning laughed, and then stood up, "It''s the first time I''ve been underestimated so much..." Gan Ning''s voice was very low, like a beast snoring in its nasal cavity, "If you are cut by a certain knife... don''t blame someone who doesn''t know how to keep people under the knife! 』
"what! 』Wei Yan took two or three steps back to make room.
『Look at the knife! 』Gan Ning didn''t say any more nonsense, just took a step forward, and immediately exerted force to slash Wei Yan with a knife.
Before that, Wei Yan suddenly broke out in the narrow space of the hall, so that Wei Yan couldn''t see Gan Ning''s moves clearly, but now, when Wei Yan faced Gan Ning''s saber again, the almost perfect movement was almost perfect. It is full of a natural feeling like a water flow, bringing out an indescribable beauty.
The saber pierced through the air, as if rubbing the air to create a shrill scream, the suffocating murderous aura rolled down like a huge wave, Gan Ning''s saber turned into a streak in Wei Yan''s eyes Dao Jutao continued to expand and expand until it filled the entire world.
"what! 』
Wei Yan felt the heartbeat and oppressive feeling that he hadn''t experienced for a long time, like a surfing athlete. After seeing the huge waves, he was not afraid, but excited and joyful. Facing Gan Ning''s knife, it was also a slash. Then, with the gust of wind, he accurately hit the real saber amidst the sword light all over the sky, and the two sides collided once again!
The two swords were entangled again, Gan Ning, who had been prepared for a long time, let out a low drink, his body matched his strength, not only did not press forward like a general general, but like a fish swimming, following the impact of the water, There was a feeling that Wei Yan''s saber was about to slip out from under the blade, and then it cut towards Wei Yan''s chest!
It was too late to switch the saber at this moment. In the midst of lightning and flint, Wei Yan was quick to gain wisdom, like a tiger descending a mountain, and he did not hide or evade. He increased his strength to suppress downward!
The huge power made Gan Ning''s agility like a swimming fish suddenly become frozen.
Because Gan Ning was cutting towards Wei Yan while unloading his strength, so his strength was not that strong, and Wei Yan was protected by armor. Under such conditions, even if Gan Ning cut Wei Yan, it might not be enough. The injury, and under the pressure of Wei Yanxiong''s strength, his figure is a little out of shape...
In desperation, Gan Ning could only change from fiction to reality, colliding with Wei Yan''s strength!
"Ding! 』
The loud sound of interlacing weapons made both of them tremble, and the strong wind rushed out in all directions, blowing up the dead leaves in the courtyard.
As soon as the figures merged, they separated, and the two confronted each other again.
"Not bad! ” Wei Yan stared at Gan Ning, “Come again, come again! 』
Gan Ning snorted, swung his knife forward again, and fought with Wei Yan.
But this time, perhaps because neither side took advantage of the previous two collisions of strength, both sides adopted the method of fighting fast. Coming and going, the sound of small collisions is endless, dots of fire are constantly flashing, and even blood splashes out in the light of the knife, lasing out!
In the courtyard, it seemed that it could not bear the intrusion and persecution of the knife wind. The withered leaves fell off one after another, and were immediately swept up by the two sword winds, flying in a circle, blocking the sight of both sides for a while...
Wei Yan shouted loudly, seized this fleeting opportunity, and slashed at Gan Ning with his saber in a fierce wind!
Almost at the same time, Gan Ning also slashed at Wei Yan!
(end of this chapter)