Chapter 334 No one can be immune

War always leaves death and ruins as its tentacles, taking away countless brave souls.

The victors toasted each other in a sea of ​​blood and mountains of corpses, and sang praises with piles of bones.

While everyone was still regretting and grieving over giving up Southeast, Rong Yi was staring blankly at a dark and hideous corpse, with tear marks on his face that were almost frozen.

That was the "Rong Jiang" that Huo Gannian had snatched at all costs. He tied it on his back and escaped from the burning rebel grain depot. He killed the rebel general Gao Junjie and returned to the Shiwei Army after a narrow escape.

Everyone said that General Huo was a man of loyalty and righteousness. Even in such a dangerous situation, he still carried Rong Jiang's body back with him.

Only Rong Yi gritted his teeth and said nothing.

He wiped his eyes vigorously over and over again, and turned up Rong Jiang's collar over and over again to confirm the "Rong" badge that had been burned and deformed. He was unwilling to believe that this was the brother who had taken care of him all his life.

His blood-related brother.

He thought there was someone in this world who would never leave him.

Rong Jiang died just like that.

No one was surprised by this.

On the battlefield, many people die every day. The safety of the general cannot be guaranteed, let alone Rong Jiang.

Several soldiers who were familiar with Rong Jiang gathered around, cried for a while, and hurriedly carried the body into the coffin, placing it side by side with Hua Jue's coffin.

A soldier took out a brand new, bright red reward order, saying it was just issued by Huo Gannian, posthumously conferring the title of general on Rong Jiang. However, Rong Yi fiercely opened it and growled:

"roll!!"

Several soldiers shook their heads helplessly and slowly left.

Rong Yi stared at the reward orders scattered on the ground. He felt that the characters were extremely glaring. The general's seal with the word "Huo" at the end made his eyes red, as if they were about to spit fire.

In an instant, Rong Yi wanted to jump up and rush to Huo Gannian to question him!

Was Rong Jiang, who was so cautious! Was he really, as Huo Gannian said, besieged and burned to death by a few rebels?!

Or did Rong Jiang discover some monstrous conspiracy? Huo Gannian noticed it, so he took the opportunity to silence him?

Just when Rong Yi wanted to rush out and question Huo Gannian regardless of everything, a pale and delicate hand gently pressed on his shoulder.

Yun Chen handed over a piece of brown candy and said, "Eat some. Qiangwei gave it to you."

Rong Yi turned his head and saw Qiangwei looking at him not far away, with a worried and nervous look on her face, twisting the handkerchief in her hand anxiously, much like a lonely and helpless little lamb.

The anger in his heart immediately dissipated, and Rong Yi understood Qiangwei's fear.

He followed the Lion Army all the way out of Guying City and escaped from the southeast. He was Qiangwei's desperate choice and her only support now.

Qiangwei was worried that something bad would happen to him like Rongjiang, and was extremely afraid of losing him.

In an instant, Rong Yi gave up the idea of ​​questioning Huo Gannian. He shook his head and smiled bitterly, feeling childish for his suspicion.

If it was really Huo Gannian who did it, why did he bother to carry Rong Jiang's body back?

It would be much cleaner to just throw it into the fire. Why carry it back and arouse suspicion?

Rong Yi looked towards Yun Chen, into those eyes that were never covered with a trace of dust, and felt inexplicably sad in his heart, and couldn't help but shed tears.

He sobbed and put the brown sugar into his mouth, swallowing it with his tears.

Yun Chen rolled up the big red reward order and placed it next to Rong Jiang, saying "Rest in peace, General Rong", then closed the coffin lid and hammered the nails around it with his own hands.

She touched Hua Jue's coffin beside her, then looked into the distance, pointing at the long procession circling the snow-capped mountains in the distance, and said to Rong Yi:

"Look, it's a flag with a thunder cloud pattern. They're going to the southeast to suppress the rebels and hold the defense line."

Rong Yi looked in the direction and saw a large dark blue flag standing out on the snowy mountain.

He had heard that Ye Yan and Buyan went to Youzhou to recruit a militia army, and rode horses from the Yun family's pasture and arrived at the rebel line.

The second batch in front of us was added later. Almost all of them are veterans when the Xuanjia Army was founded decades ago. They are all old soldiers who have returned to the team even though their grandchildren are not willing to join in the team.

The average age of the team is fifty years old, a few years older than Rong Yi's father.

In addition, there are 120,000 cold-resistant horses, carrying heavy food and winter clothes, heading towards the Lion Army.

I heard that the Yun family sold all their property to donate the money, and they didn’t charge the Lion Army a single cent.

"Who is the head coach?" Rong Yi looked at the blue flag and felt sincere admiration in his heart.

"Yun Zhongjun, Huo Leiting." Yun Chen pronounced the two names in a correct manner.

Rong Yi was stunned: "That's not...that's not..."

Yun Chen nodded, "It's my father, and Anian's father."

Rong Yi's eyes widened and he asked in surprise:

"But I heard that General Huo is already over seventy, over seventy years old. General Yun, the 'Horse King', is also over fifty..."

"Fifty-nine. My birthday falls on the third day of the third lunar month at the beginning of the year." Yun Chen took over.

She stared fixedly at the winding team on the snowy mountain, looking back and forth, as if trying to find a familiar figure, but unfortunately she couldn't distinguish them, and could only see small dots like ants.

"Oh, I haven't given Dad a birthday gift yet." She sighed softly.

Rong Yi seemed to understand, but he grumbled and suggested:

"How about we go and catch up now? If we go this fast, we should be able to reach the snowy mountains in seven days, and catch up with the team in another six days. It will take about ten days to get back."

It would take too long to go north, Yun Chen shook his head.

Her eyes gradually became soft, longing, and full of pride.

Not sure if she was talking to Rong Yi or comforting herself, she said:

"Wait until they return victorious, wait until we go north and defeat Luojiang... wait until we can all sit down together at the same table... I believe that day will come. Really."

She used words with conviction, but Rong Yi could clearly hear the suppressed fragility in her voice.

Looking at the team marching in the wind and snow on the snow-capped mountains, it was like an old but stubborn dragon. Then I looked at the two coffins behind it, with thin wooden boards wrapping close friends and relatives.

Rong Yi was heartbroken, but he also understood that in this chaotic world, no one could remain immune.