346 Regret
When he woke up in the middle of the night, the fire in the tent was a little dim. (The best experience in reading novels is all) Liang Xiao put on his clothes and added a few pieces of firewood to the fire, which made the fire more vigorously. When he got back into the quilt, he lost his sleepiness and simply picked up the book written by Wu Guinian and started to read it.
He was not very familiar with poetry and essays, and was despised by Dongfang Shuo many times for this. However, Wu Guinian's poems are not as unrestrained as Han Fu, and are written very straightforwardly. At his level, he can roughly taste some flavors. For example, one of them:
"Walking by the Tianchi Pool in the morning, I returned to the Hu people's valley in the evening. The sound of geese is like broken jade, and the thoughts of autumn are like cracked silk. There is still silk for cracked silk, and the dead have no time to return."
Another song:
"The family and country are thousands of miles away, and the war is unknown. The Hu language is full of ears, not the local accent."
Liang Xiao read a few articles and felt that Wu Guinian's poem was the level of limerick, and the name was not in line with it. Wu Guinian was probably a pseudonym, which means "no return", but there was no meaning of no return between the lines of his poem. It was simply thinking about it day and night, and he always wanted to go home. But he didn't know why, so he couldn't go home.
Fortunately, Moya only knows how to speak a few simple Chinese words and does not recognize Chinese characters. Otherwise, when she sees these poems, she doesn't know what she will be sad. No matter how much sincerity she gives, in Wu Guinian's eyes, she is just a Hu person.
"Master, are you awake?" Xiya woke up, rubbed her eyes, and then remembered.
"Lying down." Liang Xiao pressed her. "It's not dawn yet, I can't sleep, so I get up and read a book for a while."
"Oh." Xiya responded, lay down again, leaned beside Liang Xiao, looked at him, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything.
Liang Xiao glanced at him. "What's wrong with you? What do you want to say?"
"Well, master, do you miss Higma again?"
Liang Xiao was stunned for a moment and said nothing. When he mentioned Sigma, he was in a bad mood. Now that he thought about it, it was actually not necessary to attack Wutu Gu this time. Perhaps according to Li Danghu's suggestion, it was not necessary to withdraw from Dabancheng before the army of Youxian King arrived, and rushed to Pulehai to join the Pule people. Facing the tens of thousands of troops of Youxian King, he wanted to use a lot of money to defeat the more with less, but in fact there were not many opportunities.
The military strategy says: Those who were good at fighting in the past should first be invincible, and wait for the enemy to win. The invincible lies in me and the enemy to win. Now he is not strong enough, and it is a bit wishful thinking to pin all his hopes on the "victory" of the Right Xianwang.
The Youxian King simply deducted Dongfang Shuo and easily destroyed the crucial Kucha link in his plan. Perhaps the Youxian King had seen through his plan, perhaps he did not see through it, but he was attracted by Dongfang Shuo's talent, but his plan was a blow.
Even if he succeeds in the end, what can he do? The Right Xianwang received the wealth of the Kucha people. Even if he couldn't conquer Daban, he could still return to the grassland with a swagger. He could not walk the chariot master. He could also go east to Pulehai. With the strength of the Pule people, he dared not stop him at all.
It was such a result of hard work, taking so many risks, and paying such a great price.
Then what? What if the Right Xianwang comes again in autumn?
South of the Tianshan Mountains, the overall strength is not strong, and there are Wusun and Yuezhi together. How many people can he gather and fight against the Right Xianwang? Maybe there is no need to wait for the Right Xianwang and Wusun, Yuezhi will attack him.
In this way, this trip was worthless, and Sigma also sacrificed it very worthless.
Seeing Liang Xiao remained silent, Xiya shrank her neck and her voice was a little vague. "Master, I miss her too. We grew up together and trained together, and we have never separated. This time, it was the first time we separated, and I didn't expect it to be a farewell forever."
"This is my fault." Liang Xiao put down the Shujian and hugged Xiya in his arms. "If I hadn't been greedy for me, Xigma would not have died."
"No." Xiya shook her head. "We are all Amazons, we are all warriors, and we are not afraid of death. I just feel sorry that her arrows are so well trained, and she is eager to fight, but she cannot die on the battlefield, but is frozen to death in the valley."
Liang Xiao was speechless for a moment. He didn't know how to comfort Xiya.
"Compared with this regret, I believe that what she regrets most is that she failed to serve her master." Xiya wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes. "She wanted to wait until the moon of Salglion, sacrifice to the sun god Apollo and the goddess of hunting Artemis, and then offer it to her master again, but she didn't expect..."
Liang Xiao felt even more regretful. He knew that the month of Salglion in the Gregorian calendar was roughly May and June in the Gregorian calendar. According to the Central Plains calendar, it was April. It is now the end of the twelfth lunar month, and there are only three months left before Sigma is ready to devote himself.
He did not greed for Sigma's body, but he felt sorry for Sigma. If he had not forced himself to practice ejaculation like an ascetic, Sigma would probably not have to stick to that time.
"Xia, how many of you Amazons are there? Where is your hometown?"
"I don't know other places. In Dayuan, there may be only a few hundred people. Most of them are arranged to be dowry for noble daughters in the royal family and the powerful and powerful families to protect their safety. As for our hometown, I just heard from the elderly that I don't know where they are. The Amazon people have left their hometown for hundreds of years, and their hometown is just a legend."
"Xia, if God protects us, we can defeat the Huns, I hope to take you back one day to see it, just like taking Old Andrew and the others to Greece. At that time, we will bring Sigma's soul, okay?"
"Is there really a day?" Xiya didn't believe it.
"There will definitely be." Liang Xiao took Xiya's hand and hooked her. "Alkapa will bless us."
"Alkapa bless us." Shia smiled with tears.
After resting in Wutugu for five days, when the soldiers eliminated their fatigue, Liang Xiao set off again and rushed to Liugu.
Compared with the previous difficult mountain road, this section of the road was very easy. In just three days, they rushed to Liugu and found the station of the Fox Hu people.
As Liang Xiao estimated in advance, the Hu Hu people were not prepared for any defense. Their young and strong people were all furious by King Zhengfa of Cheshi. They have not returned yet, and the tribe members are very worried. But they never thought that the Han people who were fighting against the Huns would appear here.
The Hu Hu people had no power to fight back at all, so they could only bow their heads and obey orders and serve wine and food. Liang Xiao also controlled his mercenaries and did not allow them to kill innocent people. In Wutugu, he was angry because of Sigma's death and killed many elderly and weak people, which made him regret it. There is still a way to kill the strong, but there is no need to kill the elderly, weak, women and children.
Liang Xiao found many old people to chat. In such a closed place, there was no book, the old people were the memories of the tribe. Through chatting with the old people, Liang Xiao learned about the evil deeds of many Huns. Judging from their attitude towards the Huns, the Huns' rule in the Western Regions was very unpopular.
However, what surprised Liang Xiao even more was that the Moya he met in Wutugu was actually the royal family of Cheshi, and she was the youngest sister of Cheshi Wang Mo and his youngest sister.
Liang Xiao was very surprised. His tent was very close to Moya's tent, and Xiya and Moya got along well, but they didn't feel that Moya had anything to do with the royal family. But then again, Cheshi is not a big country, and the royal family is not a royal family, so I'm afraid there is nothing to say about it.
Liang Xiao couldn't help but worry. Moya wouldn't inform Che Shiguo of his news, right?
Liang Xiao did not dare to delay any more, so he hurriedly set off to Jiaohe City the next day.
Under Daban City, the sound of war drums and horns echoed each other, and the soldiers on both sides fought fiercely.
After more than half a month of testing, the troops of the Oasis countries were exhausted, and only more than a thousand troops sent by Kucha were left, almost wiped out. The Right King also found out the truth of Daban City and finally sent the main force of the Huns to attack Daban.
The reason for this decision was because he had a feeling that Liang Xiao was not in Daban City.
Although "Liang Xiao" appeared on the city wall every day, crossing his legs, reading books, drinking wine, and two maids who were said to be Amazon female warriors stood beside him. After fighting for so many days, he never saw Liang Xiao take action again, nor did he see the archer who appeared with Liang Xiao that day.
None.
The Youxian King felt that this was abnormal. He asked Dongfang Shuo, but Dongfang Shuo insisted that Liang Xiao must be in Daban. The reason why he didn't take action was because you were not worthy. You can't even touch the city wall. Is it necessary for him to take action?
The Right Xianwang General was skeptical and immediately sent a wizard to follow the army to make a fortune. The Wubu gave an extremely vague result and did not give a clear answer.
The Right Xian King became even more uneasy and ordered a strong attack. He was worried that he could not see Liang Xiao. If he had been running away by Liang Xiao after such a big struggle, or was robbed of the title of King Rizhu in Shanbei, what's the point of even if he took Daban?
Under his strict orders, the Huns had to brave the dense rain of arrows and attack the Daban Fortress one after another.
This is undoubtedly a decision that requires extraordinary courage. Facing the strong Daban Fortress, it is not easy to succeed with the simple siege equipment of the Huns. They have no shortcuts to take except to fill in the corpse.
However, compared with the combat effectiveness of Kucha and Weixu, the Huns were at least two levels stronger. If the soldiers in the city had not trained for several months and had practiced in Kucha and Weixu, they had established confidence that it would not be impossible to conquer Daban with the military advantage and barbarity of the Huns.
Now, both sides have shown their true strength and started a life-and-death battle.
Seeing more and more Huns rushing under the city wall, Li Danghu smiled, smiling sinisterly.
"The crossbowman is ready to clear the target at a fixed point. The archer retreats and prepares for cover shooting."
"Here!" Alpha responded excitedly and waved backwards.
Li Danghu stood up, walked to the city wall, and made a gesture to Xie Guanglong. Xie Guanglong was overjoyed and shouted loudly: "Greek Armor Preparation"
"Here!" The Greek knights agreed-upon-
Chapter completed!