Chapter 49
As it was getting dark, news came from the front line again.
The army was stationed outside the border town of Tu State. The enemy began to resist stubbornly and prepared to defend the city instead of attacking.
The situation on both the offensive and defensive sides was clear, and Yun Mian's heart, which had been hanging in the air, finally slowly settled down.
She led the group over.
From a distance, the strong and pungent smell of blood stimulated the war horses to neigh restlessly.
Yun Mian reined in his horse and looked at the battlefield ahead where countless torches were erected.
Under the light of fire and moon, the ground was littered with corpses and blood.
"Help clean up the battlefield and be careful." After giving the order, Yun Mian also dismounted and walked over.
All that was visible was the smelly, glaring blood, blood-stained arrows, blood-stained tattered military flags, blood-stained armor, and blood-stained broken limbs and corpses.
There were corpses of people and horses. Every time they stepped on the soil, it was soft and had long been soaked with blood, turning it into a rotten mud pit.
The system flew silently beside her, watching her struggling to pick up the corpses and drag them into the burial pit, one step deep and one step shallow.
"Little princess, please go to the front and leave this place to us." Someone wanted to persuade her to leave this place.
Yun Mian shook her head and wiped the sweat from her forehead. The blood was also smeared on her face. She said softly, "It's okay. You don't have to worry about me."
She bent down and pulled out the arrow from the corpse. In the flickering firelight, she saw that the corpse's military uniform was soaked in blood. It was a soldier from the Tu Kingdom.
After dragging him into the pit, Yun Mian stood up and took a breath, but the air was filled with the strong stench of blood, which was nauseating.
If you smell this smell for a long time, you will inevitably feel dizzy. Yun Mian looked around the battlefield, closed her eyes, and then continued to walk over to collect the bodies.
When they encountered the bodies of Tuguo soldiers, they dragged them into the pit. When they encountered the bodies of Daqing soldiers, they first searched the bodies and picked up their blood-stained family letters or other items that could prove their identity. After the war was over, they would take them back to their families when the court issued compensation.
That night, Yun Mian felt that she was about to lose her sense of flesh and blood. She silently dragged away one cold, slimy corpse after another.
Apart from the corpses lying on the ground on the battlefield, the people coming and going were all soldiers responsible for collecting corpses and searching for the wounded.
This battle was undoubtedly a victory for Daqing, so among the wounded who fainted from the pain and were awakened by the pain, only those from Daqing could receive better treatment.
As for the wounded of Tu State, the Daqing soldiers will tie them up and carry them back. After simple treatment, they will be taken as prisoners.
Yun Mian squatted down and reached out to feel the breath of the soldier in front of him. It was hot, but... intermittent and weak. His mouth and nose were full of blood and his breathing was blocked.
Yun Mian withdrew his hand and did not ask anyone to carry him away for treatment.
He is going to die.
Yunmian didn't remember whether she knew this soldier, but she recognized the military uniform he was wearing, which was the uniform only worn by Daqing soldiers.
Yun Mian knelt on the soft bloody ground, leaned over and half lifted him up, allowing him to take a few good breaths before he died.
“Little…little…”
He seemed to recognize her.
But he couldn't say more.
He took a few deep breaths of thick air, and then completely lost his breath in her arms.
Yun Mian hugged the soldier who seemed strange and yet particularly familiar. After being stunned for a moment, she climbed out of the mud pit, held him under his armpits with both hands, and slowly dragged his body, which was not yet stiff, to the edge of the pit.
There were already many bodies buried in the pit, and those that could not be buried were piled aside. Once the battlefield was cleared, they would be burned into muddy ashes by a fire.
"Little princess." The soldier standing by with his face covered with cloth reached out to take the body she dragged over.
Yun Mian felt a little exhausted. Since she was covered in blood and mud, she didn't care whether she was clean or not. She sat down beside him, tilted her head back and closed her eyes tiredly.
I am so tired. My body is tired and my heart feels heavy and anxious.
Raising his hand to rub his sore shoulder, Yun Mian sat quietly beside the pile of corpses with his knees hugged. The flickering flames on the battlefield were clearly reflected in his clear eyes.
This is only the first day of the war. There will be a long siege next. After the siege, we will have to enter the city, appease the people, take over the defense of the city, etc...
There was inevitable death and bloodshed during this period.
And this is just the border of Tu State.
When it comes to unifying the world, I always feel that it is easy and high-spirited. The ambition of a young man is to travel thousands of miles of fertile land, and the sky is high and the sea is vast, so he can always fly freely. But when blood spurts out of the body, when a living person's expression freezes and slowly falls down, when the warm body becomes stiff and cold...
Everything became realistic and cruel.
It turns out that the unification of the world requires the accumulation and construction of countless lives.
"Little Cotton." A familiar voice came from her ear. Yun Mian turned her head and saw Bai Lie standing not far away waving at her.
When he came closer, Yun Mian could see clearly that he had taken off his armor and his body was covered with sticky bright red mud just like her.
Bai Lie then sat down beside her in an ungraceful manner, took a deep breath, and then lay down in a panic with a sigh.
“My hands don’t seem to be my hands anymore.”
"My nose doesn't seem to be my nose anymore."
"Little Cotton, do you know what I was thinking when I went to the battlefield?"
Yunmian turned her head to look at him, "What are you thinking about?"
"I don't know." Bai Lie's voice gradually lowered: "Everyone was shouting, wailing, and charging. I was caught up in countless soldiers, like a drop of water in the rushing waves. I had no thoughts of my own. I was forced to move forward and raise my sword. All I could see was blood, and all I could hear was the sound of the blade piercing flesh. My mind was blank. Apart from swinging the sword and chopping people, I seemed to know nothing and hadn't thought about anything."
Even his own life and death seemed to be out of control at that time.
Not afraid of death, nor afraid of living in pain, my heart and eyes are filled with enemies, blood and flesh...
His voice became lower and lower, and when it disappeared completely, Yun Mian looked down and saw that he was so tired that he fell asleep.
Yun Mian shook his head helplessly and did not move him. He just found a relatively clean piece of clothing to cover him, and after instructing the soldiers next to him not to burn him as a corpse, he stood up and entered the battlefield again.
Later, she didn't know whether she fell down due to exhaustion and was picked up by someone, or whether she walked back in a daze. In any case, when she woke up with aches all over her body, she found herself lying in the big tent.
After washing herself thoroughly, Yun Mian yawned and walked out slowly.
The sky outside was bright, and the spring wind had blown away much of the strong smell of blood from yesterday. The large muddy and bloody field from last night was no longer visible, and her mood brightened as well.
"woke up?"
Yun Mian looked over in the direction of the voice, her eyes lit up: "Mother!"
The little girl jumped over, put out her arms to hug her mother and rubbed her affectionately, finally calming down her uncomfortable mood from last night.
Yun Peijin rubbed his daughter's slightly damp hair and asked gently, "Are you feeling better? I know everything about yesterday. Little Mianhua did a great job."
I was praised by my mother!
"Mom is great too~" Yun Mian smiled with her eyes curved, and the look she gave her mother seemed to be filled with tiny stars.
"Where's Xiaobai?" She looked around but didn't see anyone. She frowned a little worriedly: "He wouldn't really be burned as a corpse, right?"
Yun Peijin: "...I'm waiting for you to eat, so stop talking nonsense in the future."
Yunmian blinked slyly, "Whatever mother says, Mianmian will obey obediently."
So she promised not to talk nonsense anymore!
"Xiaobai, do you still remember what you said last night?" Yun Mian asked while eating a piece of pancake.
Bai Lie drank a bowl of porridge in one breath and asked back, "What did you say? I was so tired yesterday that I couldn't even lift my hands. How could I remember what I said?"
Yun Mian nodded in realization, and when he picked up another bowl of porridge and wolfed it down, she said softly, "It seems that what you said yesterday about your empty head was true. It's only been one night, and you've forgotten it again."
The symptoms match!
Bai Lie choked on a mouthful of porridge and couldn't get it up or down his throat. He choked and coughed for a long time before swallowing it down. His face flushed as he asked, "When did I say my head was empty?!"
The child being questioned raised his hand obediently and repeated: "You said you don't have your own thoughts, your mind is blank..."
Bai Lie took a deep breath, and then another breath, and roared: "That's not an empty head!!!"
"What is that?" Yun Mian asked without any hesitation.
"That is..." Bai Lie opened his mouth, confused.
Oops, my mind seems to be blank again? Otherwise, how can I not think of how to answer? !
Yun Mian seemed to have guessed what he was thinking. She moved closer and whispered to him, "See, I'm not talking nonsense, am I? You really have an empty head~"
Bai Lie: “…”
The boy's eyes were red with frustration. He racked his brains for the whole morning while holding his bowl, but he couldn't think of a better explanation than having an empty head.
So under Yun Mian's innocent and pitying gaze, Bai Lie held the bowl and gulped down a mouthful of porridge with a bit of grievance, and began to fall into a new round of self-doubt.
Did he really say those words last night?
Is his head really empty?
Could it be that he was frightened silly on the battlefield yesterday?
Scared your brain?
Otherwise, why did Jin suddenly become stupid?
Or... have I always been stupid and just discovered it today? ? ?!
Yun Mian admired her friend's gradually collapsing and self-doubting expression, and smiled secretly, forcing down the corners of her lips that were curling up wildly.
Poor Xiaobai, when he was a child he boasted that he wanted to be her military advisor.
It's all over now. Stupid Xiaobai can only be a charging soldier and a brave general, but he can never be a resourceful military strategist!
And she, Yun Mianmian, was destined to become an unrivaled general. She also possessed the mind of a military strategist. She was also well-behaved and obedient and never talked nonsense.
Tsk, thinking about it this way, she suddenly envied her mother for having such a perfect, flawless, well-behaved and sensible baby daughter~
system:"……"
It coughed dryly, helplessly interrupting its host's beautiful vision: "Mianmian, Bai Lie has gone to your mother to complain, why don't you go and take a look?"
Yun Mian woke up with a start and saw Bai Lie walking out in a threatening manner.
The future general Yun Mian rolled off the stool, rushed over, grabbed Bai Lie's claws and dragged him back with all his might.
"Why are you breaking the rules? Don't complain. If you do, I will write a letter to Master!"
"Come back, come back. I was wrong, okay? I will never say that you have an empty head again. Really!"
"Xiaobai, General Xiaobai is the most tolerant and kindhearted general in Daqing. You can't bear to see me being punished by my mother, right?"
"I swear, you're not stupid at all, really, I'm stupid, I'm just a huge idiot!"
"Xiaobai...are you not angry anymore? Then, then what did you mean by what you said last night?"
system:"……"
When it comes to courting death and being inhuman, no one can compare to his host.
Many years later, the second brother asked Bai Lie: "Why do you always quarrel with Xiao Mianhua in the court?"
Bai Lie: (starts to draw his sword) Because she never speaks to me like a human! She is just a piece of cotton!!!
Second brother: ...Sister, it turns out this is what you deserve.
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
I want to eat something 30 bottles;
20 bottles of sweet and sour fish;
5 bottles of Yunjiang;
East ear in north, dragon, OvO 1 bottle;
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