Jiaohua

Chapter 1559 Continue to Kill

Half an hour later, Xia Zhaoyi led the Xia family army and parted ways with Sun Congli.

Sun Congli soon discovered that most of the one hundred soldiers she left behind were sick or injured.

Sun Congli was troubled. It turned out that he wanted someone to go back with him to recuperate.

Qian Dahe was very happy: "General A-li is so funny!"

Sun Congli cursed: "Your elbow is turned outward!"

Then he looked at Xia Zhaoxue: "Your elbow is crooked too. You usually don't talk, but once you meet the Xia family army, you start to protect them!"

Xia Zhaoxue had a blank expression on his face, thinking to himself that it was a case of elbows being bent outward, and it was not even clear who was more "outward" than who.

Qian Dahe tilted his head and looked at Xia Zhaoxue: "I feel the same way. How come Ding Xue seems to have become more lively?"

Xia Zhaoxue glanced at him, turned and walked towards his mount.

Qian Dahe clicked his tongue and said, "Forget it. It looks like this will only last a short time."

Xia Zhaoyi led his troops northwest along the Batiantel Ridge. Along the way, they met civilians and herdsmen. The Xia family army did not take action again, nor did they enter any village.

The entire army marched quickly in the wind and snow, and only rested for three hours at night before setting out again.

On the evening of the second day, the sky darkened quickly, and before the hour of You, the entire world looked like splashed ink.

Xia Zhaoyi was wearing a purple shirt and a dark cloud cloak. He was holding a horse in one hand and standing on the Eagle Star Mountains, silently gazing at the Zaburen barracks in the distance.

This is the largest military camp under Shang Taiyu's command. The camps stretch out to the corner of the sky, but in the darkness, they seem so small.

Many people say that the Xia family army has 150,000 troops, which is actually inaccurate.

At that time, the 150,000 troops led by my father were a northern expeditionary force assembled from various armies, and the Xia family army was just one of them.

At that time, General Weng Ying's Dading Army counterattacked Yi Shurong, and my father's front battlefield was against the Northern Yuan Emperor Shangtai Zhenli.

His father was a hard rock. Shang Tai Zhenli not only could not break through it, but also made steady progress in the following six months.

If it weren't for the information stolen by Tao Lan, and the Tangguan defenders who colluded with Tao Lan to open the gate to let the Northern Yuan soldiers enter Longchang, his father, brother, and 60,000 northern expeditionary troops would not have been ambushed and killed in the Huangze Valley.

This 30-year-old Zaburen Barracks was a gift from Shang Tai Zhenli and Shang Tai Yu's father, Shang Tai Pingxia, the former emperor of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, to Shang Tai Yu.

In the war that year, the Zaburen Barracks served as one of the main forces of the Northern Yuan army, and fought back and forth with the Northern Expedition Army.

Now, the Zaburen Barracks is right at our feet.

Xia Zhaoyi took a deep look at the scattered lights in the camp, then turned and left.

The three thousand soldiers of the Xia family army were ready to go on the leeward slope, and finally waited for the girl to come back.

Xia Zhaoyi said solemnly: "The army in the barracks has left, and there are less than 10,000 soldiers and horses left. We will attack at night and take it down as quickly as possible, and then destroy the entrance to Eagle Star Fort in one go."

"Yes!" the veterans responded.

Xia Zhaoyi jumped on the horse and took the lead in whipping the horse.

With Xia Xingming's sharp whistle imitating that of a falcon, the entire army set out.

Shang Taiyu had fought in battles all his life, killing people like flies, wielding the butcher knife countless times, and also outflanking from behind countless times, catching people off guard.

But tonight, it was the first time that his home was raided.

The Xia family army was extremely fast, and they sprinted towards the Zaburen barracks in the wind and snow.

Unlike the Han soldiers who were accustomed to setting up marching towers and deploying archers in front of the barracks, the Northern Yuan people did not have this habit.

What’s more crucial is that no one in the Zaburen Barracks would have expected that the Han troops would dare to penetrate deep into the Northern Yuan Dynasty, bypass the Eagle Star Fort, and directly attack their camp.

By the time the guards in the northeast of Zaburen Barracks discovered the unusual movement of the ground, the Xia family army had already approached to within five hundred steps of them.

"Oh no! Who are they?" the guard exclaimed, "Something happened, who are they!!"

The guards turned and ran towards the camp. Three crossbow arrows were fired from behind them, piercing through the chests of three of them with great force.

"Can't you see me?" The girl's clear voice was very close, only a hundred steps away.

She nocked another arrow, drew it to full length, and shot at the other guards. The light from the fire at the entrance to the camp allowed her to aim very accurately.

When she entered the camp, she quickly put away her bow and arrow, raised her spear, and charged forward first.

Behind her, the Xia family army, who were following closely behind, roared like a tsunami, slashed with spears and swords, and blood spurted out, creating patches of hot red soup on the snow.

Many of the old soldiers of the Xia family army cried as they killed and cried amid the pleas for mercy and screams of the Northern Yuan soldiers.

Xia Xingming and Xia Junnan could even recognize a few familiar faces among the officers who hurriedly ran out of the tents to escape.

Xia Xingming was already old. He opened his mouth and cried loudly. He rushed over on his horse, swung his sword, and cut off a head.

In the melee, the brazier fell to the ground and the fire spread all over the tent.

The fire grew more and more fierce, and many soldiers who failed to escape in time were burned to death inside.

Two hours later, the Xia family army turned around and left, without any attachment to the messy and mottled battlefield, and headed straight for the entrance of Eagle Star Fort.

The noise coming from the Zaburen barracks could be heard from afar in the small town at the entrance of Eagle Star Fort. In the heavy snow and wind, it sounded like the howling of ghosts and wolves.

Many people in the Northern Yuan Dynasty didn't care and just snuggled up in their warm beds and continued to sleep.

Until the crying and wailing sounds were heard nearby, countless people woke up and ran out, but it seemed too late.

The soldiers of the Xia family army were already blood-thirsty. They rushed into the crowd, swinging their swords and slashing, regardless of gender, age or status. As long as they were from the Northern Yuan Dynasty, no one would be spared.

Xia Zhaoyi, half of his body covered in blood, sat on horseback, silently watching the carnage before him.

When she saw a mother using her body to block the butcher's knife to protect her child, she closed her eyes and turned her head to the side.

"Second Miss..." Zhan Ning was also covered in blood, and said with red eyes, "If you can't bear to watch, please step away first."

"It's okay," Xia Zhaoyi said lightly, "How can a commander-in-chief of an army not be able to see these things?"

She opened her eyes again and looked back at the mother. The child had also turned into a corpse, lying beside her.

Zhan Ning murmured in a trembling voice: "We can't be soft-hearted. They... must die. They must die."

Xia Zhaoyi didn't speak for a long time before she said, "In the future, we will have a better way to survive and get along with the Beiyuan people than killing each other, but before that, the killing in front of us has to exist."

"Will that day come?" Janine turned and looked at her.

"There will be," Xia Zhaoyi lowered her eyes, "but it will take a long time."

There is no conflict that cannot be resolved by time.

However, the people of Hejing could accept a new dynasty without a new emperor so quickly because Hejing had the right time, place and people.

Against the backdrop of the historical torrent that happened to arrive here, they just reached out and touched new perspectives.

All other contradictions are long-lasting.

When she talked about it with her master, her master mentioned that it took the world hundreds of years just to implement the imperial examination system.

The current struggle between China and the Northern Yuan Dynasty will inevitably last for hundreds of years.

In addition to the immediate hatred between the two places, there is also a competition for survival resources.

In other words, the current hatred arises from survival resources.

After hundreds of years, there will definitely be a way to quell the conflict between the two places, but that will be hundreds of years later.

Time will bear witness to the creation of the universe in the long river of history, but she cannot witness it. She is no longer a bystander, she has entered the game and is a party in the fight, so she must kill with her own hands.

If she was weak, then those who would have died under the butcher's knife today would have been her relatives, comrades-in-arms, and friends.

Looking at the affairs of the world, people fight for a hundred years, not for a breath, yet a breath is the beginning of a hundred years.

Horse hooves trampled every inch of land in the town, and more and more corpses fell.

At dawn, several soldiers led the way and pushed open the door of a small courtyard: "Second Miss, is this what you are talking about?"

In the brightly lit courtyard, countless eagles and pigeons were locked in cages, screaming wildly.

Xia Zhaoyi smiled faintly: "Yes."