ten 1
Meng Hu planned carefully, and the Ale tribe, Kyakhta tribe, Chuandenghui and Kazakhs arrived at Chelegou at nightfall. After the heavy rain last night, this day was a clear and good day. Under the moonlight, the road could be seen clearly without torches.
Everyone stopped at the end of the stroke of the character "人". Meng Hu asked Reyiza to lead the people of the Qiaktu tribe to the Tal Pass. Most of the people in the Lantern Festival changed into strange costumes and dressed up as gods and demons according to Yuan's description. Only Liu Qingye, Cheng Anren and Li Mingxin, who refused to put on makeup, were left. Meng Hu said to Dan Ying, who was still angry, "You have to be a warrior. I have a mission for you."
Dan Ying was delighted and asked, "What mission?"
Meng Hu said: "The terrain here is very steep. I want you to lead your men down to attack the Junggars. Can you do it?"
Dan Ying raised his head and said, "We Uyghur warriors only care about whether we do it or not, not whether it succeeds or not. As long as it can kill the Dzungar people, I will definitely do it."
Meng Hu nodded and said, "Okay, that's what I want you to say. If you agree, it will be easy. You lead everyone down and set two fires first. Burn as many as you can to death. Make sure to drive everyone out of the tents. Then you can lead those sentries to chase you. You can only lose, not win."
"Only defeat is allowed, not victory?" Dan Ying was stunned. "How can this be possible? Isn't this asking everyone to die? I won't do it."
Meng Hu said: "You just need to lead everyone to run to Lake Awak, and when the enemy catches up, you jump into the river."
Dan Ying said: "If you run away from the battlefield, what kind of warrior are you? I won't run away. If you want to kill me, kill me to death. Unless the Junggars kill me, I will never run away."
Meng Hu's face darkened. "Why, you just said that you would do anything to kill the Junggars, but now you're going to regret it? I want you to fail so that I can win a great victory today!"
Dan Ying was stunned. Although he was very unconvinced, he finally kept silent. Meng Hu said that she agreed. He gave Liu Qingye, Li Mingxin and Cheng Anren some instructions, and then asked everyone in the Lantern Festival to go west to find a way down the valley. Cao Mengsheng walked a few steps with everyone, turned around and said to Liu Qingye: "You... keep an eye on your junior sister!"
Liu Qingye didn't expect that his master would still talk to him, and he said hesitantly, "Yes... Master..." But before he could finish his words, Cao Mengsheng had already gone far away with his group.
Heya stayed behind to lead the way. Dan Ying waved at everyone and said, "Okay, the time for our revenge has come. Everyone follow me!" Then he rushed into the canyon first.
Liu Qingye, Moler, Li Mingxin, Asu, Zai and others followed closely behind. Wutan acted as the translator for the Uyghurs and Kazakhs and walked in the middle. Cheng Anren was the last one to leave, but he was not used to walking on the bushy mountain road and was always tripped by branches. He got angry and couldn't help cursing "son of a bitch" and "son of a bitch". Dan Ying simply asked him to use a machete to clear the way in front. He was happy to vent his anger, hacking and running all the way, moving as fast as an arrow. Although the Ale tribesmen and Kazakhs had no martial arts skills and it was a little difficult to walk on such a steep slope, they were determined to avenge their relatives and didn't care. After more than half an hour, everyone arrived in Chelegou.
Asu took out an arrow with sulfur saltpeter on the tip, aimed at the largest tent in the middle of the Tal and shot it out. With a "whoosh", the sulfur saltpeter rubbed against the fire and streaked through the sky like a meteor. Before the Junggars on guard could see clearly, the big tent had already caught fire. Then Zai, Moler and others also shot rockets. For a moment, there were fire everywhere, and the Junggar soldiers screamed and fled from the tents.
The fire in the canyon illuminated Dan Ying's face red. She whipped her whip and shouted, "Let's go kill these bandits!" As she spoke, she rushed towards the sea of fire . The Ale tribesmen and Kazakhs also responded, shouting and killing, and rushed towards the Junggar camp. Zhiheya said, "Lead them to Lake Awak!" But before she finished speaking, everyone had gone far away.
Liu Qingye rushed into the camp and just felt the heat of the flames when two Junggar soldiers swung their knives at him. He had a chest injury at the moment, and any movement of his arms would cause the wound to move, so he leaped between the two soldiers and stepped on their faces with both feet. The two men fell down without a sound. Before he could stand firmly on the ground, he suddenly heard a "swish" in his ears, and another enemy attacked him. Without thinking, he tilted his head and sideways, stumbled with his left leg, and tripped the man. At the same time, his right leg was as fast as a whip, and "slapped" the enemy's temple.
Before he could catch his breath, he saw Wu Tan holding a big knife in his left hand, struggling with three enemies. Wu Tan only had one arm, and he was in danger. Liu Qingye immediately jumped up and stepped on the enemy's back, then raised his elbow to hit another enemy, and Wu Tan took advantage of the situation and chopped off the head of the third enemy.
"Thank you," Utan said, but then he shouted, "Watch out!"
Liu Qingye quickly dodged, but heard Cheng Anren laughing loudly. He chopped the sneak attacking enemy into four pieces with two snaps, and cursed: "Damn it, what are you two talking about? Do you want to die or not?"
But before he finished speaking, Liu Qingye shouted, snatched the knife from Wu Tan's hand and slashed towards Cheng Anren's right. Cheng Anren turned his head and saw a puff of dirty blood spurting out. He knew that he was almost ambushed, and he couldn't help but say repeatedly: "Damn it, damn it, it's really damn damn it!" Then, he didn't dare to say anything more, and swung his knife to kill the enemy again.
After Liu Qingye helped Wutan, he soon separated from him. Trapped in the enemy's camp, he didn't know where the others were. Sometimes, he saw Moler waving his dagger wildly, sometimes, he heard Asu shouting and killing, and more often, he was surrounded by incomprehensible Mongolian, with only a few loud "damn it" from Cheng Anren from time to time. He cursed without caring whether the Junggars could understand him or not.
Liu Qingye searched for Dan Ying's figure amid the flashes of swords and sabers. He couldn't find it, he could only vaguely see a flash of golden light somewhere, and when he cut a bloody path through, Dan Ying had already gone somewhere else.
This lasted for about a cup of tea, as more and more Junggars appeared, and everyone was completely trapped. At this time, Liu Qingye saw another rocket in the sky, with a wind whistle on the tail of the arrow, and a strange "whoosh" sound, which was the signal from Meng Hu and others, indicating that Dan Ying should retreat to Lake Awak immediately.
This was agreed upon at the beginning. When everyone saw this, they retreated towards Lake Awak while fighting. The two sides separated for a while, with the Ale tribe and the Kazakhs retreating and the Junggars chasing. Liu Qingye saw Dan Ying, who was still trapped in a group of enemies, with blood gushing out of a wound on his shoulder.
Liu Qingye punched an enemy and flew away. He leaped over and stomped down in the air, creating a gap. He pulled Dan Ying and said, "Junior sister, let's go!"
But Dan Ying whipped him back with a whip and forced him to retreat, saying: "If you want to leave, go ahead. I want to kill the Junggars." As he spoke, he grabbed the enemy's long sword with his left hand, snatched it away, and slashed with his backhand, killing two more Junggar soldiers.
Liu Qingye dodged Dan Ying's whip and said, "Dan Ying, don't be willful - this is Uncle Meng's plan -"
Dan Ying said: "What plan? I just want to kill enough bandits. Who cares about the plan? We are Uyghur warriors and we will not lose the battle!" She did not stop for a moment. Although her moves were a little slow due to the injury on her shoulder, she still danced with the golden whip with murderous intent, and each time she danced, she pointed directly at the enemy's vital points.
Liu Qingye said: "It's not a defeat, it's a trick to lure the Dzungars so that we can catch them all in one fell swoop..."
Dan Yingdao interrupted him and said, "Uncle Meng has his own plan. You just lead everyone to escape. I will not escape unless the Junggars kill me. Otherwise, I will fight them to the end!"
Liu Qingye wanted to say more, but a saber had already come in front of him. He had no choice but to lean sideways and chop off the enemy's wrist.
"Ms. Dan Ying - I'm here to help you!" Moller rushed up from behind and knocked the enemy away, "Liu Qingye, you lead everyone away."
The situation did not allow for any hesitation. Liu Qingye glanced at the two men, gritted his teeth, and rushed to the side of the Ale people. He grabbed two long swords and attacked left and right, chopping down the enemies who were approaching him, and led everyone to retreat towards Lake Awak.
At this time, the Junggars were extremely angry because their camps were burned, and they pursued them relentlessly without any slack. Many warriors from the Kazakh and Ale tribes were injured, but fortunately, Liu Qingye, Cheng Anren and Li Mingxin were the last ones to leave, and they retreated to the shore of Lake Awak.
Heya shouted: "Everyone, get into the water!"
Everyone responded by rushing into Lake Awak with a "plop plop", while the Dzungars were approaching, shouting and killing.
Liu Qingye, Cheng Anren and Li Mingxin were all on high alert, but suddenly they heard a strange sound of music coming from the lake. The three turned around and saw that the lake was brightly lit, and the people in the Lantern Festival were holding torches or musical instruments, and their strange costumes looked very strange under the light of the fire. There was also the monk Liaoyuan, who was dressed as a lama, mumbling to Fan Wen.
The Junggars who were shouting and killing loudly all stopped where they were, their mouths wide open - when had they ever seen the demons they feared so clearly in front of them? They didn't have time to think about it. The vajra looked like a pitchfork, the conch turned into a bull's horn, and the nectar vessel looked more like a watermelon. They were so scared that their souls flew away, howling and screaming, and ran back. The people who were originally running behind didn't understand what was going on. When they saw it, they immediately turned around and ran for their lives.
Although people and animals will not sink in Lake Awak, it is not easy to swim. However, the members of the Lantern Festival are highly skilled in lightness skills. When they encounter such a lake, they really feel like walking on flat ground. They strum their instruments and shout the strange spells taught by Monk Leyuan, and catch up with them like flying on the waves. Chen Luohui threw out a handful of iron lotus seeds, and the Junggar army immediately screamed. But these people were eager to escape, so they didn't care who was hit, and they didn't even help their companions even if they stepped on them. The Ale tribesmen and Kazakhs in the lake were very angry when they saw it - finally let this group of robbers taste the feeling of being hunted!
But Liu Qingye suddenly thought: Dan Ying and Moller were still behind, wouldn't he be trapped in this group of desperate criminals? His heart skipped a beat, and he took a deep breath and jumped back.
At this moment, the Junggar camp was ablaze with flames and soldiers were everywhere. The Junggar soldiers were all fleeing towards the northern hillside. How could they see where Dan Ying was? Liu Qingye rushed in the chaos, sometimes stepping on the enemy's head, and sometimes fighting hard with his sword in the battle array. He killed so many people that the blades of his two long swords became blunt, and his arms were so numb that they seemed not part of his body. "Dan Ying - Moler -" he shouted hoarsely.
A golden light flashed in the distance, and Liu Qingye's eyes lit up. He swung his sword to cut through the obstruction in front of him. It was indeed Dan Ying over there. After a long fight, her moves were scattered, but her sharpness was not reduced at all. Moreover, her moves were a way of fighting to the death, and she only attacked and did not defend. As the saying goes, "One man fighting desperately is more powerful than ten thousand men." More than a dozen Junggars did not dare to approach her, but she had countless wounds of varying sizes on her body, and it was obvious that she could not hold on for much longer.
Liu Qingye was anxious and distressed, and he could not even call out to her. He kept cursing himself for abandoning her. He thrust the long sword in his left hand into the chest of an enemy, and chopped off the head of another enemy with the long sword in his right hand. He hurriedly took two steps to Dan Ying's side: "Come with me!"
Dan Ying did not answer, but wound the whip around the neck of an enemy and strangled him, breaking his neck. However, when the enemy fell, he also slashed Dan Ying's arm. Blood spurted out immediately, but Dan Ying did not care and kicked the enemy in front of him.
Liu Qingye rushed forward, put his two swords against his chest, kicked the enemy away, and said, "Dan Ying, stop fighting, you will die, Senior Reiza will take care of them!"
Dan Ying turned around angrily to deal with the remaining enemies, saying: "Even if they die, they will die. I will kill them even if they die!"
Liu Qingye heard her words, thinking that they were going to fight to the death today, so he took a quick step forward and put his hand on Dan Ying's shoulder: "Dan Ying, don't make trouble anymore--"
"Why am I making a fuss?" Dan Ying shrank back, leaving Liu Qingye with only a hand full of blood. "It wasn't your clansmen who were killed, nor was it your father!" She shouted, "Snap" slapping a man in the face with a whip, "I just want revenge, I want to drive these bandits out..."
"Wait..." Liu Qingye held her down again, "You'll die. Come with me! War is not about impulse!"
"Let me go--" Dan Ying slashed at Liu Qingye's wrist. But Liu Qingye turned his hand and caught her. Dan Ying was so angry that he whipped Liu Qingye's face with the whip.
Liu Qingye turned his head to avoid it, but he didn't relax his grip at all. He glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw a Junggar man raising his knife to chop down the red eagle. He shouted "Be careful!" and pulled the red eagle towards him with all his strength.
Dan Ying became anxious and tried to break free, so he kicked Liu Qingye in the chest and leaped backwards.
Liu Qingye felt a chill in his chest and heart. It's over, a voice said.
In a flash, a man suddenly rushed out from the chaotic battle group, bumped into Dan Ying and pushed her away. The Junggar soldier raised his knife and blood spurted out. Liu Qingye and Dan Ying shouted at the same time: "Mole——"
Moller had already fallen in a pool of blood, but he still threw the dagger in his hand fiercely, stabbing it into the chest and abdomen of the Junggar soldier - at the same time, Liu Qingye's knife also stabbed him, and then the whip of Dan Ying came up. The Junggar man stared and fell backwards.
"Good...very good..." Moller laughed, blood gushing out of his mouth.
Dan Ying held him in her arms, never saying words of comfort, only whispering: "Mole, Moler..." But his body gradually became heavy, and no matter how much he called, it was difficult to save him. She wiped her eyes with blood and tears: "You... you wait, I will kill all these robbers... let you vent your anger... blood for blood!"
"Pa——" Liu Qingye didn't expect that he would slap Dan Ying in the face: "Do you want to die? Come with me!" Then he rushed forward and held Moller's shoulders. His palm was burning with pain, and he thought he must have hit her very hard. However, no matter what, he had to wake Dan Ying up and not let her die here - he promised Moller. He then shouted at the stunned Dan Ying: "Do you want his blood to be shed in vain?"
"Hey, Liu Qingye..." Moller actually still had the energy to laugh, "How could you hit Miss Dan Ying... If you bully her, I won't let you go even if I become a ghost!"
Liu Qingye was too busy fighting to answer, but he felt a lightness on his shoulders. He looked back and saw that it was Dan Ying who had taken on Moller's weight. He couldn't help but feel happy, and his fatigue was reduced. He danced the long sword in his hand again, and protected his friend and lover.
"You...you can't bully her..." Moller muttered, "If you don't say anything...I'll take it as your consent..."
Okay, I agree. Liu Qingye said silently in his heart. But he didn't expect that this was the last sentence Moller said.
