“Here I come.”

Just when Chai Duo was racking his brains to think of how to tactfully persuade the helper not to seek death, he suddenly heard these words coming from the side.

Chai Duo:?

What's coming?

Before he could ask his question, he was pushed to the ground by someone, "Lie down here and don't show your head. I won't bury you if you die!"

As the man said this, he had already jumped out from his hiding place.

Chai Duo:!

——Stop! Help! ! !

Being left here alone and helpless in the base camp of the Hu people, Lord Chai's heart, which was already not in good condition, began to beat again. Cold sweat poured down his face and his face turned pale in an instant.

Trembling, he clutched tightly the dagger that the elder brother surnamed Sun had dropped before he left. He couldn't help thinking in his mind, "What if I'm discovered... should I commit suicide? Should I commit suicide? Should I commit suicide?

At least do it yourself and get it done quickly!

Lord Chai was trembling all over. He had already imagined in his mind 108 ways of dying. He even thought about how his old wife would burst into tears when the news of his death was reported back to the capital, and how the beautiful concubines he had just taken in before leaving the capital would end up in the arms of other men. He was suddenly overwhelmed with grief and burst into tears.

At this moment, the ground shook.

——The earth dragon turned over? !

Lord Chai tremblingly added this one more way to die, making it now one hundred and ninth.

But the sudden shouting in the camp brought him back to his senses. People in the court naturally disdained to learn the language of the barbarians, but he understood two words from the shouting -

"Northern Peace"!

Chai Duo’s first reaction was “Those people were discovered?”

But he soon realized something was wrong. If he was really discovered, these barbarians would have been angry and pursued him, instead of speaking in a tone of panic and...fear that was hidden but still revealed...

He realized something and slowly turned his head towards the direction where the vibration came from.

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The general was wearing armor and holding a sharp weapon, with the red tassel on his head fluttering backwards in the wind created by his horse. The flames shooting up into the sky cast light and dark colors on his face.

Unlike the panic of the enemy and the excitement of the soldiers following behind him, there was no extra expression on his face and no need to show any emotion.

He was just there, like an unmatched spear or an indestructible wall.

This is completely different from the other party's usual temperament in the army. If we were to describe it, it's like a napped lion finally opening its eyes, or like a patrolling wolf showing its sharp teeth and claws when hunting... The momentum is overwhelming, making people hold their breath.

Chai Duo had only seen this general in armor once before.

It was the time they first met... He was forced to faint by the other person's aura.

But this time, not as the pre-set opposite, but as a friend, as a person being rescued...

A huge sense of relief came over me in an instant, and the relief of being saved even made the physical discomfort caused by the fright disappear before my reasoning.

For a moment, he even understood the fanatical, almost religious expressions of the followers behind him.

With this person around, how could we lose?

How can I lose if I follow this person? !

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The overwhelming victory could indeed make one's head go wild. When the horses' hooves stopped abruptly and turned back, Chai Duo almost couldn't help but ask "Why don't you chase?". With the little bit of rationality that was brought back to him, he managed to suppress the question that was about to come out of his mouth.

The principle of “don’t pursue a desperate enemy” is well known to everyone, even those who have not read military books.

But knowing is one thing, and being able to do it when you really encounter it is another.

Chai Duo suppressed the surging emotions in his heart and looked at the blood-stained dagger in his hand.

He realized belatedly that he had just killed someone, a Hu person...

Chai Duo was indeed not a good man, but this was the first time he had taken someone's life with his own hands. Blood spurted out, splashing all over his head and face, and for a long while, everything in front of him was red.

I was so excited at the time that I didn't think anything of it, but now that I've calmed down, the scenes in my memory flashed clearly...

Chai Duo couldn't help but hold on to the tree trunk beside him.

"vomit!"

It wasn't because of the disgust of being covered in blood, but because of another kind of discomfort that came from the bottom of his heart because of depriving his fellow man of his life. For the first time, he realized that the structure of the human body was so fragile that as long as the knife was inserted and then pulled out, the bleeding would never stop...

The treatment of prisoners was not very good. He had not eaten or drunk anything for the half day and night he was captured. He retched for a long time but nothing came out.

Tears slid down his face, but for a while, he couldn't help but cover his face and laugh out loud.

The laughter grew louder.

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Chai Duo thought that he had become cold-hearted and hard-hearted after all these years of struggling in the court.

What's wrong with climbing up the ladder mindlessly? How much gold and silver can a little conscience buy? How much power can it bring? No, that kind of conscience can't even make people live.

Old memories vaguely appeared before his eyes.

Several young people slammed the table and shouted angrily:

"The barbarians are going too far!!"

"This is the foundation of our Great Chang, how can we abandon it and run away?!"

…

"The six arts of a gentleman include riding and archery. Although Kuai is just a scholar, he can also draw a bow and ride a horse..."

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"…If you want to…walk over my corpse…"

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Then--

The iron hooves really stepped on their corpses.

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Look, what passion and patriotism?!

It just teaches people to die faster!!

In the end, the only one who survived was this cowardly and despicable man.

In this world, the only people who can survive...are people like him...So what if his spine is broken? So what if he suffers the humiliation of being a tribute to the north every year?

After all, is there anything that can support this rotten world?

No! Not at all!!

Prepare for war? Head north again?

What a joke! What a joke!

People like him can climb to high positions in the military.

Military generals, ha, how did these military generals come about? If you give them enough gold and silver and have good relationships, even animals can sit on the throne... No, those who sit on the throne are only animals, animals that wag their tails and beg for mercy and bark in response to their superiors.

So what if he's a beast? At least he's still alive!

——Is he really...still alive?

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"What stimulated you?"

"Crazy?"

"...Isn't that possible...How dare you be so timid?"

…

There were whispers coming from the side, but Chai Duo paid no attention to them at the moment. He raised his sleeves to wipe the blood and mud washed away by tears on his face bit by bit, and looked carefully again at the army that called itself "Beiding".

The Hu people were defeated and scattered in an instant, and the Beiding army was now collecting the spoils in the camp.

Although Chai Duo was called a military officer, he had never led troops to fight a war, and he even rarely went to the military camp. However, this did not prevent him from knowing that this should be one of the most likely times for riots to occur in the army. Everyone wanted to take more and hide more, and it was just the time when they were chasing the enemy and were very excited. If they were not careful, it was possible that a major fight would start. In the last years of the previous dynasty, there were chaos everywhere, and many troops fell apart and even killed each other because of this.

But at the moment, there was no situation as Chai Duo had guessed.

Even at this time, the team was well organized and had a division of labor and cooperation based on established rules and regulations.

Chai Duo even had an absurd idea.

——This was even more like a regular army than the smoky and foul military camps he had visited several times in Nandu.

No, not “think”.

It is a fact that lies before our eyes.

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While he was looking around, someone came out, escorting a ragged young man.

The young man seemed to be frightened and was stammering as he explained something. He looked like an unlucky guy who was unfortunately dragged into the battlefield.

Chai Duo sighed for a while at the boy's bad luck, but he felt that he was not that unlucky yet.

After all, based on what he had seen along the way about the popularity of the Beiding Army here, he could infer their usual attitude towards the people. Most of the time, they would just be let go after a few routine questionings, and if they were lucky, they would even be escorted to nearby towns.

Unexpectedly…

General Xie just glanced at the young man twice, and without saying a word, he ordered his men to take him away.

Chai Duo:? ? ?

This is different from what he thought!!

Just as I was confused and puzzled, the person who was dragged away suddenly screamed.

However, the other party was so emotional that the language he shouted out was a completely unfamiliar system to him.

Chai Duo: ...!

It suddenly dawned on him: since the people in the Beiding army could disguise themselves as Hu people and cause chaos in the enemy camp, the Hu people who were unable to escape could of course change into Central Plains clothes and take the opportunity to escape.

After knowing the result, thinking back on the young man's actions just now, there were flaws everywhere.

The simplest point is that Chai Duo saw with his own eyes how "daring" the people in the north were. Even a three-year-old child dared to pull the trouser legs of the general to climb up. The timid look of the young man just now was clearly telling people "I have a problem" and "I am not right"...

Chai Duo: "..."

Chai Duo heard vague discussions about "big fish" and "not a loss" from the people around him, as if the young man who was not very good at disguising himself was some important person.

No matter what the original plan of that group of Hu people was, this time they really "lost both the wife and the army"!

This close-range battle originally took place in the second half of the night. By the time they finally cleaned up the battlefield and prepared to return, the sky had already begun to brighten.

Chai Duo looked at the sky which was gradually getting brighter across the horizon.

It was not the first time he had seen the sunrise, but this was a completely different scene from the one hidden by the city walls and tall buildings in the capital.

In the vast wilderness, from the farthest boundary between heaven and earth, it gradually turns red. It is a great power that is beyond human power and belongs only to nature.

It was as if he had witnessed a cycle.

After the deepest and darkest night, dawn finally arrived again.

So……

Will this rotten world ever get better?

Chai Duo couldn't help but look at the armored general in the front with curiosity.

——This General Xie...

Will he be the one to bring the dawn?

And who is this general...