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Chapter 251 Body and Soul

The next two days and two nights will be a purgatory for the Tang Dynasty Shuofang Army guarding Shuozhou.

Everyone, including the wounded who could crawl slightly, had never closed their eyes once, and had never stopped even a moment of fighting. It is true that Shuozhou has an ancient Great Wall Pass, but there are a hundred thousand Turks. Standing on the high beacon tower, there are endless people.

Cheng Wu quite suspected that if the terrain had not limited the huge number of Turks, they would have charged forward, and each of them would have spit into a flood that would have drowned thousands of Shuofang Army.

After the fall of Shuo Dai, the grains and grass were gone, and the food and grass in Shuozhou City were about to be exhausted. Previously, it was all relying on the supply from Bingzhou in the rear. However, in the past one or two months, the supply from the rear has been slower and lesser than once.

Cheng Wu hadn't figured out the reason yet, but he thought that most of the main forces in the rear consumed too quickly, and the transportation of food and grass was difficult. He understood Li Chongyi quite well and advised his soldiers to suppress their emotions and wait for Marshal Pei's main army to arrive.

Now Cheng Wuting understands that Li Chongyi has been wearing small shoes for him!

Perhaps Li Chongyi was unlikely to collude with the Turks, but he should have transferred Li Duozuo and Li Jinxing's troops who remained in Bingzhou to the two frontlines Shuo Dai Prefectures to strengthen the border defense. However, Li Chongyi did not take any action for a long time and repeatedly delayed the supply of food and grass.

Li Chongyi clearly wanted to hold Cheng Wu in a desperate situation, and it would be best to let him defeat him and even die at the hands of the Turks! - In short, he must not be allowed to return to Chang'an for the use of the queen, posing a threat to Li Shangdan, who was in charge of the Imperial Guard!

Cheng Wuting couldn't tell these things to his generals. Because some false "political struggles" would kill so many of his subordinates and endanger the border defense of the Tang Dynasty. Cheng Wuting felt very uncomfortable. He knew his own weight very well. No matter how powerful the general led troops to fight, even if he had the truth, he could not fight the pen on the hand and the mouth on his face of the border officials who held authority.

If Shuozhou falls and Cheng Wuting's entire army is gone, how will the battle situation be reported to the higher level is Li Chongyi's power. No matter what the truth is, Li Chongyi only needs to move his pen, and Cheng Wuting will easily become the second Cao Huaishun who "destroys his troops and humiliates the country".

Of course, the court would only listen to the report of Li Chongyi, the chief official of the border, and would not pay attention to the defenses made by the defeated general for himself - if Cheng Wuting could still be alive to argue for himself!

"General, that yellow-haired boy Li Xiantong is so arrogant!" The stubborn and arrogant generals cursed, "We shouldn't have let him go. It's the most enjoyable thing to slash him on the spot! If you don't help, you must detain him and let him be with Shuozhou together!"

Cheng Wuting shook his head indifferently, "What's the point of killing something worse than a pig or a dog?"

"It's good to vent!" The fierce generals had nothing to say, and they all gritted their teeth in hatred and cursed: "We, the martial artist, have already prepared to sacrifice our lives for the country, and are not afraid of death! They were just framed by villains such as Li Chongyi and Li Xiantong - unjust!"

"That's not bad for Li Xiantong." Cheng Wuting said, "If we lose the battle and lose Shuozhou, Li Chongyi will probably describe us like Cao Huaishun with a big stroke, but at most it will be defeated. If we kill Li Xiantong, the military inspector, to vent his momentary anger, he may be sentenced to the unforgivable crime of mutiny and rebellion. If we die, we will die, and we will not seek to show the heroes of the family, nor will we expect to be famous throughout the ages, but at least we cannot harm our family. We will leave the name of disloyalty and unrighteousness in the alchemy of history and bear the criticism of future generations!"

"..." The generals were speechless, and they all gritted their teeth with hatred.

Cheng Wuting shook his head, "That Li Xiantong pinched our life gate and was so fearless. Otherwise, he would not dare to come to Shuozhou at all. This man was only thirty years old, and his scheming was so deep and vicious... No matter how brave we martial artists were on the battlefield, we could not fight against such officials who had been studying power and conspiracy since childhood!"

When the deputy generals heard Cheng Wuting say this, they suddenly woke up and said, "If the Chenglu commander is here, there might be a way! - We all know that he is Xue Shao. Isn't he also a child of a eunuch family, who is wise and conscious of change?"

"Wisdom? Constituency?" Cheng Wuting smiled bitterly, "That's indeed something that only people like Xue Shao can play with. To be honest, Xue Shao and Li Xiantong fought to the death in Chang'an, and then they still fought to the frontier. Li Xiantong was defeated in Chang'an for a while and was forced to leave Zuo Fengchen Guard who had been working for ten years. The position of general he was about to get was also robbed, and his arm was taken off. He has not yet recovered. Therefore, Li Xiantong was desperate to kill Xue Shao!"

"Then we pulled us up to the back?!" The generals were surprised.

"That's not." Cheng Wuting waved his hand, "Li Xiantong didn't know that Xue Shao was going to attack Heisha. He came to Shuozhou to use military law to arrest Xue Shao and take him back to Bingzhou for private interrogation. If he wanted to take us together, Li Xiantong wouldn't have come."

"Then why didn't Li Chongyi send troops to rescue Shuozhou?" the generals asked naturally.

"..." Cheng Wuting was speechless and smiled bitterly: "Maybe they think that not only Xue Shao deserves to die, but Cheng Wuting and Shuofangjun should also deserve to die? The two were originally irrelevant, but now they are together. So killing two birds with one stone at the same time, which is just enough to save trouble and effort."

"I'll fuck his grandma!!"

The generals cursed.

After cursing, they raised their swords and guns and went to defend the city and fight again.

Cheng Wuting was both moved and guilty. He had always been very clear that for the upright, loyal and strong Tang guards under his command, there was nothing more important than "fight".

Seeing these brothers rushing towards Chengguan without hesitation to fight with the Turks in bloody battles, Cheng Wuting, who had been in the army for 30 years, had shed blood and shed no tears, closed the door and cried.

"Brothers, you are the bravest guards of the Tang Dynasty! You are the most selfless heroes in the world!"

"It's me, Cheng Wu, who has implicated you!"

"If there is a next life, let Cheng Wuxing be the pig, dog, cattle and sheep you raise, and repay you!"

...

There were a total of 121 people when the Three-Dao Brigade set out, plus a total of 1120 Yuesubs who arrived later.

So far, there are seventy left.

There are fifty-two tombs in the nameless graves of the nameless village.

Xue Shao felt very sad. Compared with those of Kuang Sandao and others, the sacrifices of the new recruits he brought out made him even more heartbroken and sad.

This feeling cannot be described specifically, it is probably like... a person who has lost his closest relative and loved one.

Of course, the new recruits felt even more uncomfortable. After all, it was the first time they had experienced the loss of the intimate robe. After three months of sharing the joys and sorrows, they are now heading to the mountain of swords and seas of fire and experiencing this life and death. After all, someone took the lead.

When Xue Shao and Xue Chuyu received the recruits and guards who had retreated one after another, they first cheered loudly, and then they cried loudly without any concealment, crying like children.

Xue Shao did not stop them and let them cry unrestrainedly. The more ruthless the cry, the better.

Xue Shao remembers what his company commander said to him when he was still a new recruit—

Whether a man is mature does not depend on his age, but on what he has experienced.

Whether a man is a real man should not look at what he has, but what he has lost!

In war, it is impossible to avoid death.

Soldiers are destined to face many separations of life and death.

Just as girls have to experience the first pain before they become women, soldiers must also become men after experiencing the tragic pain of "losing comrades-in-arms who are close relatives"!

Become a man who stands tall and is a real steel guard!

After crying, the guards of the Three-Blade Brigade's eyes became more determined, and their fighting spirit became more vigorous. Because Xue Shao told them, from now on, you are not only living for yourself, but also fighting for yourself.

For those who give their bodies to the enemy, but leave their souls to you - robes!

Compared to the speed of the wind and the speed of the lightning when he was going, Xue Shao and his group had a difficult return journey. The journey between the two thousand miles was nearly two thousand miles, and the iron man and the iron horse were also trapped. Besides, there were more prisoners and many wounded people.

Xue Shao counted the manpower and found that among the seventy remaining people, only three were injured.

Xue Shao, Xue Chuyu, and Yuenu!

It is not surprising that the recruits were not injured by the devil brigade coach Xue, who was like the gods. However, the big girl "General An" was not hurt at all, and even captured two prisoners alive, which was worthy of the recruits' sarcasm and amazing.

For a time, General An, who was admired for his special status, became the absolute idol in the minds of everyone in Sandao Road. He was so popular that he seemed to be more than Erxue.

There is no doubt that the guards of the Three-Dao Brigade regarded Yuenu as part of the Three-Dao Brigade's collective and as their own intimate robes.

What is robes?

Same hatred with your son!

Fight with your son!

Live and die together!

...

Finally, 30,000 brigades walked into the large desert, near the military forbidden area of ​​the Great Wall.

A 100,000 Turkic army attacked Shuozhou. Xue Shao and others naturally found out that such a big disturbance. This incident was not beyond Xue Shao's expectations, but the Turkic people actually dispatched so many troops, which still shocked him a little.

Just imagine, if the Turks were not in full bloom, but had more people stayed in the tent, how could they succeed?

It seems unlikely to go back to Shuozhou directly.

Xue Shao decided to take these people with him for a while and wait and see what happened. After calculating the time, the Turks should have known about the attack on the Black Shaya Treasure. Unless they really gave up the grassland and were determined to fight to the Central Plains to dominate the world, they would definitely withdraw their troops!

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