Longmen Memoirs

Petrova was stunned for a moment, and then Froststar heard her whisper.

"It can't be worse than it is now."

"It may not be much better than now." Frost Star looked at the snow monster, and after a pause, her expression softened: "But no matter what, the main thing we need to do now is to get rid of the pursuit of Ursus' army. , Tallulah is right, we cannot relax our vigilance after entering the Yan Kingdom. We have no allies in the Yan Kingdom's integration movement. To the Yan Kingdom and its residents, we are a group of foreign Ursus infected people. They do not Will accept us, and our roots will still be in Ursus."

"After entering the border of Yan Kingdom, find a place to settle down temporarily. The team needs to be repaired. There are many wounded and soldiers who cannot continue to move forward. If we continue to move at the current intensity, it will be too much for people."

Petrova nodded.

"I know."

Suddenly there was a shout from the front of the team, and what Shuangxing wanted to say stopped at her lips. She looked up and saw that the infected people standing at the front of the team on the slope stopped, and they were shouting something to the back of the team. , waving something in his hand.

There were gusts of cold wind on the wasteland, bringing with it the unique cold wind on the plateau and the dry cold of the grass. Accompanied by the cry, Frost Star stopped.

She gradually heard what was being shouted at the front of the team.

They had already seen the Blackwater River Plain belonging to the Yan Kingdom. Going up the Blackwater, they arrived at an important fortress at the junction of Yan and Ursus, the Ural Rift Valley.

"We are here, eldest sister. In front of us is the land of Yan Kingdom."

Petrova was just stunned for a moment. She turned to look at Shuangxing in surprise and said, the excitement in her words could not be concealed. Entering the boundary of Yanwu meant that they had successfully escaped the pursuit behind them. More importantly, they All survived.

The wind coming from the hillside blew Carters' white hair. She looked at the people waving their arms on the hillside. Under the gloomy sky, the cry of the snow monster gradually became blurry.

After coming to his senses a few seconds later, Shuangxing finally let out a breath of relief.

"That's good."

She thought that she had a lot to say, and their evacuation journey was finally over. She looked back, trying to find the person who wanted to say something to her the most, and then she remembered that Tallulah and some of the guerrilla fighters He remained in Ursus to cover the wounded and the larger force.

Then the happiness and joy in my heart suddenly dissipated a lot.

"Tell everyone, don't stop us from crossing the Yanwu border."

"I'm going right now."

Petrova had almost no hesitation. After days of fighting and rapid marching, even a snow monster could not bear the intensity of the load. Her excitement and excitement still remained on her face.

Just after running a few steps forward, Petrova suddenly stopped.

She turned her head, Froststar was still standing where she was.

"Sister, you..."

The snow monster looked at Shuangxing's figure. A few meters away, Shuangxing's face was still as dense as frost. She could not find any trace of Carter's face that finally relaxed.

"Tallulah and the others are still behind."

The tacit understanding developed by fighting side by side for a long time allows Snow Monster and Frost Star to guess each other's thoughts. But with just a look or a word, they can understand what each other is thinking.

Perhaps it was the news just now that made Petrova temporarily uninterested in this.

"We're going with you."

"No, you have to stay." Froststar retorted: "Have you forgotten what I just said to you? The Snow Monster must stay. The team needs someone to tell them what to do. The Snow Monster has always been an integrated movement. It’s a sign, if you are here, everyone will have confidence in their hearts.”

"Sister, you are the bottom of the snow monster!"

"That was before."

"The same now." Petrova's voice became louder, and she looked into Frost Star's eyes.

Frost Star wanted to say something, but White Rabbit opened his mouth and paused briefly【

"I thought so before." Frost Star said: "I always think about a question, Petrova, I think, am I afraid of death?"

Froststar said softly, looking at the snow monster in front of her.

"I heard that when we were in the tundra, the Ursus garrison described me as the princess of the Yeti, the god of death in the cold winter. In fact, Petrova, we all know it."

"We are just a few ragged teams, wandering around on the tundra, struggling to survive. My spells are powerful. This has been verified in the eyes of the enemy and you. I once thought that I was just like them. Like that, I am the god of death in the cold winter. I don’t hate my enemies and you calling me that, because it at least proves that I can protect you.”

She said that the white rabbit's hair was swaying in the dry wind, and she could even hear the wind blowing clearly in her ears. The wind in the south was not as biting as in the north, but it was still cold enough.

She couldn't feel the coldness coming over her face.

"I feel that I am special, not because of my illness, but because of the feeling brought by my frost. I don't like killing people, and I don't like seeing human bodies frozen into pieces by me, but I don't even like it. I hope those are you, so for a while, I began to see my ability as a blessing, but my father saw it as a curse."

"At that time, we were crossing a deep mud swamp, and the ice water soaked my legs. I couldn't feel the cold. The old man still didn't allow us to go to the battlefield, but his soldiers had already suffered many casualties."

Shuangxing didn't know what she was thinking of, but Petrova rarely saw a smile on her face, a lonely smile.

"One night, he lit an oil lamp alone and sat quietly at the table. I thought the old man was crying, but I couldn't prove it. I didn't know whether I should comfort him or whether he needed me. comfort."

"I have never seen him smile. After all, he is getting old. He has a lot of things in his heart that he doesn't want to talk about and has slowly turned into an old stubbornness that is hard for me to understand." Shuangxing withdrew her gaze and lowered her eyes slightly: "In the fifth year, I summoned a cold wave in front of the enemy for the first time. One soldier was frozen into ice blocks, and the other accidentally fell on his ice block, and both of them shattered into ice slag."

Froststar raised her head, looked at Petrova, and looked past her to the team behind her. She vaguely saw the figures of other snow monsters, who supported each other and crossed the hillside.

She smiled.

"Since then, I have joined the battle. The soldiers looked at me with awe. My brothers and sisters are proud of me. You and other infected people said, - This is our eldest sister, she saved all of us." Life."

"Do you know what I was thinking at that time?"

"I thought, did my spell really save anyone? The children who came out of the mine carried the source stones I made, and we became the Yeti Team. Those source stones exuded my coldness, and we combined revenge and frost. It was brought to the enemies of those infected, but it was still cold... just cold."

"Petlova, cold will not give birth to new life, the cold in winter, but even so, I feel lucky because my brothers and sisters can survive and survive on this land."

"So we came to the south from the tundra with Tallulah. Of all the words and ideas Tallulah said, I only wholeheartedly agree with one thing. We must give each other a belief and give the infected a belief. This belief can be Tallulah, she can be me, she can be you, and she can become anyone in the future."

White Rabbit held the staff, and she turned around to look in the direction she came from.

"Huh, that's all she said to make me less opposed."

It is natural to be afraid of death, which means that people still have nostalgia for this earth, and there are still many things that can be done. People who are not afraid of death probably don’t have much attachment to this earth anymore. , or, sometimes, there are many things that are far more important than human life and death.

4:20 local time

Yanwu border, south of the Ural Rift Valley, and the Blackwater River Basin plain.

Dayanwu Wangwei, the temporary base of the Xuanjia Heavy Mobile Battalion

Ten minutes ago, news came back from the forward scout team that a team of unofficial personnel was approaching the border from the direction of Ursus. It was visually observed that the unknown group was armed to a certain extent. The scouts speculated that they had previously After experiencing quite intense fighting, there were many wounded in the team and there were visually infected people. It can be inferred that it should be an armed resistance force of infected civilians in Ursus. The reason for being close to the Yanwu border may be because they are avoiding Ursus. The pursuit of the SARS garrison has a very high probability of illegal entry.

Cao Jianzhi still remembered that there was no look of surprise on His Highness's face when he received this news 10 minutes ago. This reminded him of the actions of the Xuanjia Battalion after receiving orders to leave the camp a few hours ago. Perhaps their purpose here was It is related to this Ursus infected person resistance organization that appeared on the Yanwu border.

Cao Jianzhi did not ask. Although he had already guessed a certain possibility in his mind, in the army, the general's orders were unquestionable. As the commander of the personal guards, Cao Jianzhi never thought that there would be any problems with His Highness's orders, even if the orders were given at this time. Cao Jianzhi would not have any objection or hesitation in letting the Xuanjia Battalion cross the Great Yan border to confront the Ursus Legion head-on.

One of the responsibilities of the Dayan border army is to expel or deal with these illegal immigrants. The border army has the right to deal with the intrusion of all dangerous forces that are judged to be likely to endanger the people of Dayan and the security of the territory, including but not limited to the military forces of other countries. , illegal armed forces, as well as spies and rioters.

After these people enter the cities and counties under the jurisdiction of Dayan, the local officials will make their own decisions. However, it is also possible that they are unlucky and encounter the border guards patrolling the border. According to law, they are illegal foreign forces encountered by the border troops. and armed personnel will be handled by the border troops themselves.

In other words, the Xuanjia Battalion at this time has every reason and condition to kill or expel this illegally infected organization belonging to Ursus on the spot after they enter the country. The difference between this is entirely determined by the army commander. Judge for yourself, the way to deal with problems in the wilderness has always been more direct than in the mobile city.

Perhaps after these illegal immigrants enter a certain city in Dayan, local officials will not arrest and deal with them, but will prohibit them from entering and drive them out of the city.

The jurisdiction of Dayan's government is its towns, while the border army is responsible for the security of the entire Dayan border defense line and every city on the Yan Kingdom's border.

But at this time, the Xuanjia Battalion neither sent soldiers to warn them away, nor took any measures against this Usas infected force that had crossed the Yanwu border. It only sent out scouts to pay close attention to their movements.

This is very abnormal, but Cao Jianzhi has probably guessed their purpose of stationing here and paying attention to this team of infected people. Due to the intensifying local border conflicts between Yanwu and Wushu during this period, Ursus' large-scale The mobilization could not be hidden from Yan Guo's eyes and ears.

It was only a matter of time before this war started, and both sides wanted to take the initiative before the war started. At this time, an infected force belonging to Ursus fled into the territory of Great Yan, pursued by the Ursus army. It is uncertain whether the Ursus army in the rear will risk being discovered by the Great Yan border army for illegal intrusion and pursue the fleeing infected in depth.

After all, not all border troops will wait somewhere in advance just to catch others when they make mistakes, and hunting down illegal immigrants within a short period of time is a tacit thing in all countries. The border is so vast that it is impossible to do it everywhere. They can deploy troops to respond in time. As long as they evacuate before the other side's troops react and are not caught on the spot, no one can use this as an excuse.

Even when the situation is heating up, perhaps it is because of the heating up that subordinate troops are prone to make wrong judgments due to the negative emotions accumulated between the two sides in recent days.

Cao Jianzhi even guessed that there might not be the shadow of Dayan's frontier army behind this organization of illegally entering Ursus infected people. Of course, it was impossible for him to tell, otherwise they would not have known the news in advance and were waiting for Yan Kingdom and Ursus. border.

So much so that how Ursus later claimed that the Yan Kingdom conspired to attack Chernobog and took the lead in illegally using force to invade Ursus, and what they said was justified has become a thing of the past.

One conspiracy after another, either man-made or fabricated, constitutes a huge war in the north. Before the war begins, no one can predict how it will end. Everyone tells themselves that we are justified.

Chapter 45 Xuan Jia goes to Ursus at night

The fighting started in the desolate wilderness of Ursus.

10 minutes ago, the cavalry squadron of the Third Ursus Group Army Ihoborich was ambushed by the infected armed organization fleeing eastward. The two sides fought fiercely on the plain, and the heat wave of the spell ignited the entire grassland. As time went by, the temporarily organized infected team gradually showed its decline under the encirclement and encirclement of the Ursus Cavalry Squadron.

Five minutes ago, Vaifan, a suspected commander in the infected team, tried to attack the chief of the cavalry. Her flames melted the saber in the hand of Lieutenant Ursus Cavalry. If it weren't for a cavalry, he would have driven his horse to block it. Catching the approaching flames, the leader of the squadron was already burned to ashes by the flames.

The Ursus cavalry had already determined that the spell caster was an important member of the infected team. They did not choose to rashly use the speed of the cavalry to attack the army in front of them. Perhaps it was the spell just now that made the cavalry officers frightened. The Sars cavalry squadron surrounded the infected team in the center, blocking their escape route, and constantly harassed them from all angles, making this team exhausted.

This is one of the most common methods used by cavalry to deal with turtles in the urn, hunting.

What can be confirmed is that there is probably a pair of coordinated Ursus infantry behind this cavalry unit, and even if the infantry and cavalry are not far away, they can still use the speed of the cavalry to call the nearest border garrison camp at any time. Comparing the two, , lacking supplies, no reinforcements and being exhausted for a long time, the infected team cannot compare with the Ursus cavalry in front of them in terms of physical condition and morale.

What I have to admit is that compared to the crooked picket team, the quality, training intensity and fighting will of the Ursus regular army far exceed that of the infected army in front of them, not to mention the physical condition, equipment and nutritional status.

Although the infected have made great progress compared with before, there are still only a few warriors among them who can be called elite. And even among them, the warriors who can be called elite can be put into a system, scale, and The Ursus troops, who have considerable combat experience and military education resources, are far from being considered a strong army.

In any country on this earth, as well as the regular legions in any country, what supports their strength is strong logistics, training, and huge combat experience summed up in countless battles. Soldiers train in a systematic manner and interact with each other. Tacit understanding and proficiency with equipment, including their combat qualities and ability to deal with various unexpected means.

Those infected still have a long way to go.

It doesn't mean you can be called a qualified warrior by picking up a weapon, nor can you be called a soldier by putting on an Ursus uniform. But you can't blame the soldiers of the Integration Movement for this. After all, they established Time is still short, and there is no logistics base to provide them with support, let alone factories to produce and support weapons, training schools, hospitals, or even supplementary soldiers. They have too many plans that need to be realized, but they lack the ability to realize them. time for these.

In the process of realizing these goals and prospects, in the land of the Ursus Empire, the empire, its soldiers, and its people will always be a hurdle that cannot be bypassed.

The scene before them would not be the first time they encountered it, nor would it be the most difficult one.

Tallulah could see the purpose of the cavalry in front of her. She could feel that the energy required to cast spells became more and more serious, and the intervals became longer and longer. The Ursus cavalry tried to use this kind of hunting. This method used to weaken the will of the infected to fight, so as to ensure that the group of infected people in front of them could be dealt with with the lowest casualties.

In the desolate wilderness, it is extremely difficult and dangerous for a small group of infantry to face the pursuit of cavalry that outnumbers them. The infected people can survive until now, partly because of Tallulah's spell and the attack on the cavalry lieutenant just now. The surprise attack made the Ursus cavalry avoid taking risks. On the other hand, the Ursus cavalry team probably understood the purpose of the infected. They could not catch up with the escaping infected, but they were able to kill them all here. After annihilating the remaining infected people, with this result, they will be able to give adequate explanations to their superiors and the Chernobog municipal government after they return.

The infected gathered together, and there were two ways to deal with the cavalry. One was to use an array of pikemen and crossbowmen, or an artillery unit to disperse the cavalry formation from a distance, and then use the assaulters to move forward and destroy the cavalry. Losing the speed advantage, under this condition, one's own side must have a larger number of people than the opponent. Another way is for two teams of cavalry to hedge.

Tallulah was unable to achieve either.

The possibility of them breaking out of the front cavalry's hunt was slim.

The short crossbows of the Ursus cavalry in the team continued to harass the outside. From time to time, someone in the infected team fell down with the sound of the crossbow arrows. They lacked crossbowmen and supplies. The few crossbowman teams were trapped in Chel. Norberg City failed to break out with them. During the three-day retreat, they had discarded a lot of unnecessary materials in order to speed up the march. The light armor equipped by the team might be able to block one or two crossbow bolts, but Usa The Cavalry's accuracy is very good.

They did not relax at all because of the retreat of the infected team in front of them. The torrent and iron hooves of the cavalry trampled the grass and gravel under their feet, keeping a well-established distance from the gathered team of infected people.

Time is passing as the Ursus Cavalry fights the infected.

During this period, Tallulah tried to distance the two sides, but unfortunately from the moment the cavalry discovered them, it meant that they had lost the opportunity. Ursus' cavalry team intercepted their rear in all directions. Although they did achieve a lot of results in the initial ambush, this is one of the reasons why Ursus chose the current fighting method now.

Looking up, it seems that every place can form a breakout point for the infected team, but looking up, facing the cavalry team that has the advantage of speed, the evacuation distance in every direction seems to be out of reach.

Tallulah didn't give up.

Maybe her end is doomed. Maybe to the Ursus cavalry in front of her, they are just an insignificant opponent she encountered in her military career. Maybe she can still have enough strength and strength to give up the soldiers behind her. I can evacuate from here.

Leaving this team of infected people as bait, the Ursus Cavalry will inevitably choose to divide their troops. Even when facing the infected people who are chasing them, Drac is still able to ensure that he can grab a war horse and escape from them unscathed. pursuit.

But this is not what she wants, to abandon the soldiers who trust her and live on with a dying breath.

Maybe, maybe.

"Don't be careless."

"Thank you..." The soldier clenched the weapon in his hand. His hand was very steady, but the figure of the Ursus cavalry in front of him filled his field of vision.

"Are we going to die here, Tallulah."

"Maybe, maybe, you're scared to death?"

"A little bit, but when I think about everyone dying together, I don't seem so scared anymore."

"Sorry, I couldn't help you survive."

"Don't say that, leader, you have done a great job. At least you are still with us now. To be honest, I never thought that one day we could die together."

"It's better not to think about this kind of thing."

The soldier turned his head slightly and glanced at Tallulah. He didn't know what he thought of, and he laughed.

"You are right." This time his words contained honorifics: "It is my honor to fight with you."

"me too."

They couldn't continue talking, and they didn't know how long they could last under the hunting of the Ursus cavalry in front of them.

Tallulah occasionally wondered whether Frost Star and the others had successfully evacuated to the border at this time. She also occasionally wondered whether it was worth going so far for a group of Chernobog infected people.

She already had the answer to the latter. If they couldn't even cross this step, let alone there would be more cruel and difficult battles waiting for them.

Their encounter will only become more dangerous. Even if they can live with their delusions, let alone trekking thousands of miles to the south.