Chapter 17 The Tomb
In the early morning, the sky was gray. Although there would not be another heavy rain like yesterday, the grass moss branches and leaves in the wild were full of water. At this time of frost, they slowly penetrated out and condensed into dew when the frost was heavy at dawn.
Di Lie, Yang Zhechong and Ye Dieer were lying on the wet dew grass, unaware of the dew and staring at the distance. Because an extremely strange scene appeared in front of them.
About a hundred feet away from their ambush, there is a wide river. According to Yang Zhechong, this is the Huan River in Xiangzhou. When summer comes, the water is abundant, and yesterday's heavy rain caused the water surface to rise and the water flow is turbulent.
At this time, on the other side of the river, behind a small mound, at least hundreds of men dressed in numb and dressed in a torn-like Song people kept throwing various long strips of backpacks on their shoulders into a huge pit.
Because the distance was too far and the sky was still dark, Yang Zhechong and Ye Dieer couldn't see clearly what the "package" was thrown into the pit. But on this side of the river bank, Jin cavalry holding torches were patrolling back and forth from time to time, so that they did not dare to get too close.
What surprised the two of them was that in such a dark vision, Di Lie actually held up the magical Qianli Mile Mile Mile Mile and observed without any obstacles - Could it be that this precious mirror could ignore the darkness and make no decisions?
Yang Zhechong was about to look at Di Lie with a shy face and asked Di Lie for a sight. As soon as he turned around, he saw Di Lie put down his sight, frowned tightly, and said hard: "You guys are waiting here, I'll go ahead to explore."
In Yang Zhe Chong's eyes, Di Lie crawling forward was weird and ugly, but he had to admit that this kind of sneaking method of snakes and rats was extremely effective. Seeing Di Lie fast and slow, he suddenly moved quickly, and sometimes he was still unable to move. In less than a stick of incense, he broke into the underworld of the Jin soldiers. The Jin soldiers who were closest to him were less than fifty feet away, and he looked down from a high place, making him more likely to be discovered.
Yang Zhechong and Ye Die'er behind both hearts were in their throats, and they knew in their hearts that it was the darkest moment before dawn, so the Jin soldiers' patrol failed to find Di Lie's traces for a while, and once the sky was bright, it would definitely leak.
They were able to touch the camp of the Jin army so quickly and accurately, and they had obtained the confession of the Jin army prisoner. From the captain's mouth, they confirmed everything Ye Die'er said.
The camping outside Xiangzhou City was the first batch of Jin army returning north, led by Meng'an Guxin. It was escorted with more than 2,200 noble relatives of the Song Dynasty, more than 3,400 women, more than 1,000 strong people, and tens of thousands of mules, horses, cattle and sheep. On March 27, the second year of Jingkang, he set out from Qingcheng Village in the southern suburb of Bianjing City and walked slowly. It took more than ten days before he arrived in Xiangzhou.
Yesterday's heavy rainstorm that was rare in the north not only delayed the rescue time of Di Lie and his three men, but also blocked Gu Xin's army's itinerary and had to stay there for an extra day. It was also because of this heavy rain that the Jin army's posters reduced their troops and only released a team of people within a range of ten miles. This made Di Lie and his three men not encounter any obstacles after defeating the small team of Jin army posters and entered the central camp of the Jin army.
To a certain extent, this heavy rain actually won time for Di Lie's rescue operation and cleared obstacles, and also created a favorable opportunity.
But what did this heavy rain mean to the thousands of prisoners, especially the more than 3,000 women? At this time, the three of them didn't know.
After receiving the confession, Yang Zhechong naturally sent the Jin soldier who was tortured to the point of dying, but was then severely scolded by Di Lie, who explicitly ordered him to deal with the prisoners next time and had to ask for instructions. Although Yang Zhechong was very puzzled, he still agreed in a depressed manner. Of course, he did not know that Di Lie's attitude towards the prisoners was still in another state of time and space. You can use any means to fight on the battlefield, but once the prisoners are captured, there is no special situation and you cannot kill them at will.
At this time, Di Lie treated prisoners of war with the humanitarian spirit of another time and space.
Just as Yang Zhechong and Ye Die'er looked at the gradually brighter sky, and then looked at the figure of Di Lie that was looming in the mist, and were anxious. A slight sound came into his ears, and the dense weeds were pushed apart, and Di Lie's quick figure appeared in front of the two. Ye Die'er was intimate, so he was naturally anxious. As soon as he saw Di Lie come back, he asked: "What did you see..."
Di Lie raised his hand and made a gesture of silence, his face was so solemn that he was afraid of others. Then he made a gesture of leaving: "There are too many Jin soldiers patrols, and now they don't have a chance, so I'll withdraw first."
It was noon when the retreat was not seen in the scope, and the three of them returned to the lurking place in the morning. At this time, a quiet sect had been restored on both sides of the Huan River, and the Jin army camp was stationed in a place called Yesonggang on the north bank of the Huan River. It was still seven or eight miles away. As long as it was just a river, there was no danger for the time being. Of course, they were not here to travel. Although they had to cross the river, they also had to cross the river if they were not at risk.
The Huanshui is the main source of drinking water in Xiangzhou City. The river surface is more than 30 meters wide and the water depth is ten meters in summer. With the heavy rain yesterday, the river water surged sharply and the water flowed rapidly. Of course, this could not help Di Lie. He and Yang Zhechong cut down some branches as thick as arms nearby with a short axe, tied them up to make a raft, and then cut two wooden oars. After everything was done, the three of them pushed the raft into the water and crossed the river.
All the horse supplies were left in a forest on the south bank. After all, they were just going to explore the situation of the Jin army and they had to return at any time.
Originally, the exploration work only required Di Lie to complete, and there was no need for the three of them to go out at the same time, especially a weak woman, but Di Lie signaled Ye Di Er to cross the river together. His face was always gloomy, and Yang Zhechong and Ye Di Er were worried and dared not disobey.
After crossing the Huan River, walking forward seventy or eighty feet, turning a small mound, and a mound of earth appeared in front of me, which was the size of a basketball court in the later generations. Yang Zhechong and Ye Dieer immediately recognized that this was the large pit I saw last night. However, it has now been covered with soil and turned into mounds. The soil in the mound is soft and wet, and it faintly reveals a strange and inexplicable smell, standing tall and huge, like a giant tomb.
In fact, this is really a tomb.
Di Lie and Yang Zhechong dig any place to mound the soil, and a creepy scene will appear: corpses, countless corpses, densely packed corpses... are all female corpses! Most female corpses are either tattered clothes or not, each corpse has obvious abuse marks and a messy lower body. You can imagine what they encountered during their lifetime...
Yang Zhechong was digging and finally threw the scimitar, sat on the ground with his butt, holding his head without saying a word, but clenched his fists with both hands, exposed his veins on his arms, and his teeth were cleaved.
Di Lie glanced at him and stopped, with a expressionless face, only a pair of eyes and eyes, as if two balls of fire were beating.
From the moment he saw the first corpse, Ye Die'er's whole body trembled like a slam, and her face was filled with tears. Her white little hands blocked her mouth. She did not hear the crying sound, but only saw red blood flowing.
Under the clear sky, three living people were filled with female corpses, and under the contrast, it was gloomy and gloomy.
I don’t know how long it took, Ye Die'er suddenly pounced on Di Lie’s arms, and used all hissing power to beat him like crazy, saying, “This is everything you saw this morning? You clearly saw it, but you didn’t stop it. You are so cruel…”
Di Lie let her beat her hard, her eyes full of pity. When she almost vented, she said softly: "They died last night, and what we saw this morning was just the corpse..."
I died last night, and so many deaths, what happened last night?
"Did you die last night?" Ye Die'er murmured to himself in a daze, as if he had exhausted his strength because of beating Di Lie, and his delicate body slowly fell down. "Sister, my sister..." Suddenly, he pounced on the big pile of soil and tried his best to dig the soil with his hands.
Di Lie was about to stop her from moving, but his eyes suddenly turned and he turned his head back. Almost at the same time, Yang Zhechong also jumped up from the ground, pressed the hilt of the knife, bent his eyes to the northwest, and said in a lost voice: "Golden Dog! It's the Golden Dog's verge! One, two, three... there are actually as many as one!"
"Not only, there is a team behind the side." Di Lie took a deep breath, suppressed the urge to shoot all the animals, and ordered quickly, "Retreat back to the riverside and board the raft and return to the south bank. The Jin soldiers had no rafts, so they could not do anything to us."
If there were only more than ten Jin soldiers, Di Lie would not mind erupting anger on them. But seven or eight miles away was the Jin army camp. It is estimated that there were no more than hundreds of Jin soldiers around him. If one of them was not entangled, he could swim across and run away. But what should Ye Die'er do?
"Miss Ye, leave quickly, the golden dog is here!" Yang Zhechong urged him again and again, but Ye Die'er seemed to be silent and pulled the soil regardless of the consequences.
Di Lie strode forward without saying a word, suddenly cut Ye Die'er's neck with a palm, then carried her soft body, greeted Yang Zhe Chong, and ran away.
Just like Di Lie and others discovered the Jin soldiers, the other party also saw three people from afar and immediately rushed over.
The Jin soldiers' patrol were at least two miles away from them, while the three were less than a hundred feet away from the river bank, which should be too late. But they had four legs, two legs, and they were carrying one person on their backs... Fortunately, Di Lie's ability to carry heavy loads and marching quickly was super strong, Ye Die'er was petite in shape, absolutely not more than fifty kilograms, so she just thought it was training.
Just as Di Lie passed by a pit, he saw something moving slightly at the corner of his eyes. Di Lie paused and whistled to Yang Zhezhong on the side, indicating with his eyes.
Yang Zhe Chong tapped his bow and arrow, carefully approached the pit, and slowly used the arrow to push away the weeds - a woman crawling on the ground, silent, covered in mud, and disheveled hair appeared in front of her.
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