Great Han Arrow God

Chapter 360 Regret
Waking up in the middle of the night, the fire in the tent was a little dim.Liang Xiao got up with his clothes on, and added a few pieces of firewood to the fire to stir up the fire.When he got back under the quilt again, he lost his sleepiness and simply picked up the volume of pamphlets written by Wu Guinian and flipped through them.

He is not very familiar with poetry and Fu, and because of this he has been despised by Dongfang Shuo many times.However, Wu Guinian's poems are not as wanton and expansive as Han Fu, they are written very straightforwardly, and he can roughly taste some taste at his level.For example one of them:
"Walk toward the Tianchi Lake, return to the Huren Valley at dusk. The sound of geese is like broken jade, and autumn thoughts are like torn silk. There are more threads in the torn silk, and there is no return date for the dead."

One more song:
"My country is thousands of miles away, and the war is unknown. My ears are full of nonsense, not the local accent."

Liang Xiao read a few of them, and felt that Wu Guinian's poem was at the level of doggerel, and the name didn't match the truth.Wu Guinian is probably a pseudonym, which means "no return to mind", but there is no meaning of no return to read between the lines in his poem, it is simply yearning, thinking about going home all the time.For some unknown reason, he couldn't go home.

Fortunately, Mo Ya can only speak a few simple Chinese, and doesn't recognize Chinese characters, otherwise, seeing these poems, she doesn't know how sad she will be.No matter how much she gave her sincerity, in Wu Guinian's eyes, she was just a barbarian.

"Master, are you awake?" Xi Ya woke up, rubbed her eyes, and remembered.

"Lie down." Liang Xiao pressed her. "It's not dawn yet, I can't fall asleep, so get up and read a book."

"Oh." Xi Ya replied, and lay down again, leaning against Liang Xiao, looking at him, as if she wanted to say something, but she didn't.

Liang Xiao glanced at him. "What's wrong with you, what do you want to say?"

"Hmm—Master, do you miss Sigma again?"

Liang Xiao was stunned for a moment, but didn't say anything.He was in a bad mood when he mentioned Sigma.Thinking about it now, this raid on Wutu Valley was actually unnecessary.Perhaps according to Li Danghu's suggestion, it would be safer to withdraw from Dabancheng and rush to Puleihai to meet the Pulei people before Youxian King's army arrived.Facing the tens of thousands of troops of Youxian King, he wanted to spend four or two thousand gold to win more with less, but in fact there were not many opportunities.

There is a saying in the art of war: Those who were good fighters in the past were invincible first, and waited for the enemy to be victorious.It is up to me to be invincible, but it is up to the enemy to be victorious.He is not strong enough now, and it is wishful thinking to pin all his hopes on King Youxian's "victory".

King Youxian just detained Dongfang Shuo, and easily destroyed the crucial part of Kucha in his plan.Maybe You Xian Wang saw through his plan, maybe he didn't see through it, but he took a fancy to Dongfang Shuo's talent, but it was a blow to his plan.

Even if it succeeds in the end, so what?King Youxian was supplemented by the property of the Kucha people, so even if he couldn't attack Daban, he could still return to the grassland without hesitation.If he can't take the Cheshi, he can still go east to Puleihai.With the strength of Pu Lei people, they dare not stop him at all.

After so much effort, taking so many risks, and paying such a high price, this is the result of the battle.

and then?Wait until autumn, what if King Youxian comes again?
In the south of Tianshan Mountain, the overall strength is not strong, and there are Wusun and Yueshi standing side by side. How many troops can I gather to fight against King Youxian?Perhaps Wusun and Yueshi would attack him without waiting for King Youxian.

In this way, it was not worth the trip, and Sigma's sacrifice was not worth it.

Seeing Liang Xiao's silence, Xi Ya shrank her neck, her voice was a bit vague. "Master, I miss her too. We grew up together, trained together, and have never been separated. This is the first time we have been separated, and I never thought it would be a farewell."

"It's my fault." Liang Xiao put down the letter and hugged Xi Ya in his arms. "Sigma wouldn't have died if I hadn't been greedy for success."

"No." Shia shook her head. "We are all Amazons, we are all warriors, and we are not afraid of death. I just feel sorry that she practiced so well with arrows and wanted to fight, but she didn't die on the battlefield, but was frozen to death in the valley. "

Liang Xiao was speechless for a moment.He didn't know how to comfort Shia.

"Compared to this regret, I believe her biggest regret is that she failed to serve the master." Shia wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes. "She wanted to wait until the month of Sargrion, when she worshiped Apollo, the sun god, and Artemis, the goddess of hunting, to dedicate herself to her master again, but she didn't expect..."

Liang Xiao felt even more regretful.He knew that the month of Sarglion that Shia mentioned was roughly May and June in the Gregorian calendar, and according to the Central Plains calendar, it was April.It was already the end of the twelfth lunar month, and there were only three months left before Sigma was ready to dedicate himself.

He doesn't covet Sigma's body, but he feels pity for Sigma.If he hadn't forced himself to practice archery like an ascetic, it is estimated that Sigma would not have to stick to it until then.

"Xia, how many of you Amazons are there, and where is your hometown?"

"I don't know about other places. In Dawan, there may be hundreds of people. Most of them are in the royal family and dignitaries' homes. They arrange dowry for noble daughters to protect their safety. As for our hometown, I just According to the old people, I don’t know where it is. The Amazons have left their homeland for hundreds of years, and their homeland is just a legend.”

"Xia, if God's blessing allows us to defeat the Huns, I hope to take you back one day, just like taking old Andrew and the others to Greece. At that time, we will take Sigma's soul with us, okay? it is good?"

"Will that day really happen?" Shia didn't quite believe it.

"There will definitely be." Liang Xiao took Xi Ya's hand and made a hook with her. "Alcapa will protect us."

"Alcapa bless us." Shia smiled tearfully.

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After resting in Wutu Valley for five days, after the soldiers recovered from their fatigue, Liang Xiao set off again and rushed to Liugu.

Compared with the difficult mountain road before, this section of the road is very easy.It took only three days for them to arrive at Liugu and find the Huhu people's residence.

Just as Liang Xiao estimated in advance, the Huhu people had no defenses.Their young and strong were all sent to fight by Che Shi Wang Zheng, and they haven't come back yet, and the clansmen are very worried.But they never expected that the Han people who were supposed to be fighting the Huns would appear here.

The Huhu people had no strength to fight back at all, so they could only bow their heads and obey orders, offering wine and food.Liang Xiao also controlled his mercenaries, not allowing them to kill innocent people indiscriminately.In Wutu Valley, he was so angry because of Sigma's death that he killed many old and weak, which made him regret it.There are reasons to kill the young and the strong, but there is no need to kill the old, the weak, women and children.

Liang Xiao found many old people to chat with.In such a closed place, there can be no books, and the old man is the memory of the tribe.Through chatting with the old man, Liang Xiao learned about the evil deeds of many Huns. Judging from their attitude towards the Huns, the rule of the Huns in the Western Regions was very unpopular.

However, what surprised Liang Xiao even more was that the Mo Ya he met in Wutu Valley was actually from the Che Shi royal family, and she was the youngest sister of Che Shi Wang Mohe.

Liang Xiao was very surprised.His tent was very close to Moya's tent, and Shia and Moya got along very well, and they didn't feel that Moya had anything to do with the royal family.But then again, Che Shi is not a big country, and the royal family is not royal, so I am afraid there is nothing to say.

Liang Xiao couldn't help feeling a little worried.Moya won't inform Che Shiguo about him, will she?
Liang Xiao didn't dare to delay any longer, so he set off in a hurry the next day and rushed to Jiaohe City.

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Under Daban City, the sound of war drums and horns echoed each other, and the soldiers of both sides were fighting fiercely.

After more than half a month of testing, the troops of the oasis countries have been exhausted, and the [-] troops sent by Qiuci have only a thousand soldiers left, almost completely annihilated.King Youxian also found out the reality of Daban City, and finally dispatched the main force of the Huns to attack Daban.

The reason why he made this decision was because he had a feeling that Liang Xiao was not in Daban City.

Although "Liang Xiao" appeared on the city wall every day, with his legs crossed, reading a book and drinking wine, there were two maids who were said to be Amazon female warriors standing beside him.But after fighting for so many days, he never saw Liang Xiao attack again, nor did he see the sharp archer who appeared with Liang Xiao that day.

not even one.

King Youxian felt that this was abnormal.He asked Dongfang Shuo, but Dongfang Shuo firmly insisted that Liang Xiao must be in Daban, and the reason why he didn't make a move was because you were not worthy.You can't even touch the city wall, is it necessary for him to take action?

King Youxian was skeptical, and immediately sent a wizard with the army to divination.Wu Bu gave an extremely vague result and did not give a clear answer.

King Youxian was even more disturbed and ordered a strong attack.He was worried that Liang Xiao could not be seen.If Liang Xiao ran away after going through such a lot of trouble, or was taken away by the Sun Chasing King in the north of the mountain, then what's the point of winning Daban?
Under his strict orders, the Huns had no choice but to brave the dense arrow rain and attack the Daban Fortress one after another.

This is undoubtedly a decision that requires extraordinary courage.In the face of the strong Daban Fortress, it is not easy to succeed with the crude siege equipment of the Huns.They have no shortcuts other than filling them with bones.

However, compared with the combat effectiveness of Qiuci, Weixu and other countries, the combat effectiveness of the Huns is at least two levels stronger.If the soldiers in the city hadn't built up their confidence after several months of training and practiced in Kucha, Weixu and other countries, it would not be impossible to conquer Daban with the strength and barbarism of the Huns.

Now, both sides have shown their real strength and started a life-and-death battle.

Seeing more and more Huns rushing under the city wall, Li Danghu smiled sinisterly.

"The crossbowman is ready to clear the target at a fixed point. The archer backs away and prepares to cover and shoot."

"Here!" Alpha responded excitedly, and waved back.

Li Danghu stood up, walked to the city wall, and gestured to Xie Guanglong.Xie Guanglong was overjoyed and screamed: "The Greek cavalry is ready—"

"Here!" The Greek knights suddenly agreed.
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(End of this chapter)