Aspirations for Nation and Beauty: Chapter 31: The flames are rolling (1)

The Senge Plain under the setting sun is extraordinarily beautiful. The brilliant clouds are rippling with magnificent colorful colors under the reflection of the sun. The group passed by, and the threat of war did not seem to have had a great impact on the countryside. At least in the Kashhar countryside on the eastern border, it still maintains a scene of peace and a good harvest.

What you should worry about is the aristocratic gentlemen who should live in the city or in the manor of the market town. The poor people have to live as they should. I heard that the Tik army has come to the market town. It seems that this place is too remote. It's too small, no one came to ask, at least Rhodes thinks so, and life hasn't changed much. Put the shredded tobacco in the cigarette pouch into the cigarette holder, take a good puff, and spray two puffs of green smoke from the nostrils Come out, this feeling is really good. The wheat is about to mature, and I don't know what changes will happen when the Tik people come. Will the land tax increase? Will there be more labor? Rhodes untied the turban on his head and wiped the sweat stains on his neck. The weather was really hot.

The faint sound of thunder came faintly from the eastern sky, and Rhodes turned his head to look east with some doubts, what's going on? How can there be thunder in April and May? Even if the rainy season is advanced, it is impossible to advance so much time, right? The sky is still bright, it doesn’t look like it’s going to rain, everything seems to be calm again, as if nothing happened, I’m probably really old, my ears are useless, and I’m going to hear strange noises in my ears just sitting here like this, Rhodes shook his head in frustration, and knocked the pipe on the stone under his buttocks, sparks splashed out and fell to the ground.

He patted himself on the head in frustration. Why was there another buzzing sound? Rhodes turned his head angrily, but was stunned for a while. There seemed to be a ripple line on the horizon in the distance. It's like ripples and slight fluctuations on the vast water surface. It seems that the thunder after another is transmitted from the intersection of heaven and earth in the east. What is it? Rhodes stood up, squinted his eyes, and tried hard to see what the overlapping corrugated lines were.

The faint sound of thunder became clearer and clearer, and gradually changed into a somewhat chaotic muffled sound, while the ripples rolling from the sky gradually turned into countless small dots, and then became clearer and clearer. Rhodes, like many neighbors who heard the sound and ran out from home, finally saw clearly and heard clearly. They were cavalry soldiers wearing armor and helmets. The metal blades on their chests and the long knives waving in their hands shone dazzlingly in the setting sun, and the muffled noises were not thunder at all, but The roar of countless horseshoes trampling on the black ground.

Could it be the Tik people? Rhodes and the neighbors looked at each other in fear, what are they going to do? Did he come to rob his own home? But there seems to be nothing worth visiting in my village. The only rich man, Master Olaf, also lives in a city hundreds of miles away. Except for the occasional visit during the harvest season, it is rare to get here once a year. .

The faces of the galloping and jumping cavalry reflected Rhodes' faces one after another. Except for the few people in front who looked like their compatriots from their clothes, the heavily armed soldiers looked like they were no matter what. It doesn't look like people living on the Senge Plain, but they are somewhat related to those Tang businessmen who wander around. Are these people from Tanghe?

Rhode stared at the scene in front of him with a little panic. It's a pity that no one paid attention to the psychological feelings of this Hyderabad farmer. It was like a hurricane blowing, and almost the entire space was filled with the loud noise brought by the whizzing horse team, except for the endless neighing of horseshoes, which could only be heard occasionally. I heard one or two words that Rhodes couldn't understand. A large field seemed to be swept by locusts, leaving only the bare and crushed wheat straw. At this moment, Rhodes and the neighbors in the village realized that there was nothing else to worry about, and they hid in a panic. In their respective homes, fortunately, an unknown number of troops swept past but did not affect the villagers in the village. This made the villagers who had been hiding under the covers shivering finally spend a sleepless night.

"Udaier, where have you been? Where's the scout team you sent out? Why haven't you come back yet?" Cursing as he walked out of the tent, an officer with a loose helmet and armor pulled his belt with his bulging belly. Roaring there.

"Master Wan, we shouldn't be on duty today, we should be on duty in the 20,000th team." He ran out of a tent in the distance with his trousers in his hands, and a sleepy-eyed officer greeted him with some displeasure. Let's talk. Damn, when is this, you know that you are happy, and you don't care about the life and death of the people underneath? I finally managed to get a woman, but I was disappointed when I first teased Xinger, didn't this mean to embarrass myself? Who told someone to be the commander of ten thousand and himself the commander of thousands?

"Udaier, I'm asking about the scout team you sent yesterday? Why haven't you come back in two days? Even if you go out to work, you should bring a letter back, right?" Staring fiercely at his own attributes On the lower face, the fat officer scolded unceremoniously: "Look at your virtue, you can't walk when you see a woman, and you even forget about the business. Do you still think you are not worthy of your commander? Tell me You, you have delayed a big event, be careful with your head! If you don’t go find it for me, what happened?"

"My lord, what else can happen to this Kashhar? The Hyderabadians and Solyans are still huddled in Bengal. There is no one who dares to resist in the whole of Kashhar. Are you still worried? What? I have never heard of mob riots in Keshhar. My lord, yesterday the brothers went out to catch a few women and came back. Two of them are still fresh, and they are only fifteen years old. Why don’t you try it, my lord? Try something new?" Another skinny man came up to him and said flatteringly.

Glancing at his deputy with some disdain, Udaier cursed secretly in his heart. He cursed angrily, but on the surface he had to nod and bow in agreement.

"Oh? Fresh goods?" The fat officer's obscene eyes quickly turned to the tent where the skinny man came out, "Is there any fresh goods after your hand?"

"Hey, what's the matter, my lord? Anyway, you have to keep good things for you, Mr. Udai, don't you think so?" Say to the fat officer.

The fat officer, whose complexion has improved a lot, smiled lewdly, and was about to answer, when suddenly a shrill scream came from the silent night sky in the distance, making people panic.

The fat officer's complexion changed, and he shivered. He looked around but found nothing. He listened carefully, but there was no more sound. He glanced suspiciously at the two subordinates who were trying to listen. , asked anxiously: "What is this sound? Why does it sound like a human scream?"

The flattering man also trembled in his heart, and turned his eyes for help to the commander who was looking around in confusion, "Master Udai, my lord is asking you something."

"Shut up!" Udale roared viciously: "Go and order the whole team to assemble, if there is a problem, hurry up!"

"Udaier, what's going on?" Seeing the other party's tough attitude, the obese officer was even more anxious, "What's going on?"

"My lord, I can't tell now. I have to get my people together first. I suggest that you better let all of our people gather just in case. I think this seems a bit wrong. Why only After one sound, there is no sound anymore? It seems to be the sound of someone being assassinated, I seem to have heard this kind of sound somewhere." Udaier, his boss, did not dare to be too presumptuous, and explained patiently~IndoMTL .com~ The flattering man on the side was about to refute, but he heard a sharp horn whistle sounding for the second time, and the three of them were struck by lightning. Like his own parents, he asked for help: "Udaier, what happened? How did this happen?"

At this moment, Udaier couldn't care less. Although he didn't know where the enemy attack came from, one thing he could be sure of was that the enemy was definitely not some armed mob or the first vulnerable The Hyderabad local troops dared to choose this time to raid the camp with three elite regular ten thousand troops, the opponent must have made up their minds to wipe out their own side in one fell swoop. While roaring and yelling at his soldiers to assemble quickly, he was secretly lucky that his unit was right in the middle of the camp. At this time, the sound of rumbling horseshoes had already sounded from the east, north, and south directions. He just listened silently to the sound of horseshoes. Udaier judged that it was impossible to do this. Such a large-scale cavalry attack coupled with such strict concealment means, except for Tanghe people or Luobei people, no one in this area could do it, and the Western Regions could not do it either. Udai excluded the Luobei people without hesitation, and the result could only be Tanghe people.

The continuous clusters of tents burned rapidly, and soon formed a sea of ​​flames. The downed lamp oil became the best material for igniting the fire. Bursts of cold and bright sword lights galloped across the barracks. The Tik soldiers who had just woken up from their sleep had no idea where they were. They were surrounded by heavily armed enemy cavalry. The screeching, dull sound is the passion of the blade piercing the body or cutting the bone, and everything is rolled up in chaos and confusion.