Chapter 404: Old Friend of the Huo Gang
Ten days later, on August 29, the Huwei Army moved its camp south and launched a fierce battle to recapture Guying City.
Yun Chen personally jumped onto the drum platform and beat the war drum.
In general, when a military fights, drums, trumpets, and flags are three indispensable symbols. They are not only signals for conveying combat orders on the battlefield, but also important tools for boosting the morale of the entire army.
In ordinary armies, war drums are mostly made of wood, bones, and animal skins, and hammers are made of wood.
An army has eight drums, and eight strongmen-level soldiers are responsible for beating the drums.
But Yun Chen doesn't use those.
Her ears are now injured and her hearing is extremely poor, making it difficult for her to communicate with people.
The battlefield was noisy and chaotic, and she could not hear the normal drum sounds at all, so she ordered people to specially make twelve huge iron war drums, each 33 meters in diameter, and beat the drums with iron hammers.
The sound of the drum is as loud as thunder. Ordinary people cannot beat it at all. If they hit it, their internal organs will be shattered. Only those who practice internal force or Qi can beat the drum.
For this purpose, Yun Chen specially borrowed a dozen Wuyi Blood Guards from Shan Ji to beat the drums.
Every time they charged, twelve war drums would beat together, roaring like angry dragons, leading the soldiers of the Tiger Army to fight bravely.
The more intense the drumbeats and the more frequent the drumbeats, the higher the soldiers' emotions became, the more excited they were about killing, and the more frightened the Black Scale Cavalry on the opposite side became.
This kind of spiritual encouragement is far more powerful than the cannibalism of the Black Scale Cavalry.
In addition, there are Fu Lin, Rong Yi, Luo Dongdong and other fearless generals charging in the front, and "Cloud Tiger" is beating drums and sitting in battle formation under the red-eyed tiger-head flag.
With boiling blood, the soldiers fought for two days and two nights, captured Guying City in one go, and finally drove the Black Scale Cavalry back to the border.
At this point, all the lost territories and towns were recovered.
The news of the great victory spread throughout the country, causing thousands of people to cheer.
Looking at Guying City, after the battle, according to the old rules, the soldiers first cleaned up the battlefield and then rebuilt the city.
In addition, to commend the great victory, Yun Chen personally announced the lifting of the ban on alcohol.
Fu Lin, Rong Yi and Luo Dongdong finished their fight and immediately ran into the tavern in the city and disappeared.
Only Yun Chen was left alone, his armor stained with blood, standing under the gate of Guying City.
Looking at the plaque of "Guying City", and the word "Kun" faintly visible under the word "Gu", the excitement during the war gradually subsided, and the past memories slowly flooded into my heart.
Yun Chen couldn't remember how many times he had returned to Guying City.
This city buried too many loyal souls of good generals, and also contained too much of her and Huo Gannian's past.
For thousands of days and nights of life and death, she and he were tightly bound together, and they had endured the most difficult and desperate situations. How could it have come to this?
Are their feelings also so fragile that they can be easily beaten?
Her mind was in a mess and she was staring at the city gate in a daze when one of her personal soldiers came to report that an old friend from the Huo Gang wanted to see her.
"Huo Gang? There is no Huo Gang branch in Guying City anymore, so how could there be any Huo Gang members here?" After she said that, her heart suddenly tightened.
Could it be Huo Gannian coming?
She was thinking about him and missing him, and he came?
Come to congratulate her on the great victory in retaking Guying City, and come to see if she is okay?
Thinking of this, she said, "Send someone to meet me in my master's tent!" Then she hurried back to the tent, changed her clothes, and washed up.
When she put on her regular clothes, she noticed a deep and long wound on her forearm. Although it was not serious, it looked scary.
She had an idea and quickly rolled up her sleeves, revealing the wound. She adjusted the cuffs repeatedly, trying to make it look as natural as possible.
She looked around in the mirror, and after confirming that Huo Gannian would see the "serious injury" on her arm at first sight when he walked in, she couldn't help but feel her cheeks getting hot, and she began to think:
When he comes in, he'll definitely ask me how badly I'm hurt and if it hurts. Should I just pretend or go all out?
The more I think about it, the more shy I become, but also the more I look forward to it.
When the personal guard outside announced that the old friend had arrived at the door, her heart instantly rose to her throat and she began to stutter with nervousness.
"Come in, come in!"
Following her fourth "enter", a tall and thin figure walked into the tent with his head lowered.
Yun Chen jumped up from the stool with a bang as if he had a spring in his body, and looked at the person who came nervously.
But when she saw the pale face of the person who came, she was instantly disappointed, and like an eggplant hit by frost, she slid back into the chair dejectedly.
The man was about thirty years old, with an unfamiliar face. He was tall and thin, with a steady demeanor, and his face had the paleness of someone who had recently recovered from an illness.
He saluted Yun Chen and said with a smile:
"Brother Yun, long time no see."
Nowadays, the name of Yun Chen, the powerful female general, is known throughout the world. Although she still wears men's clothes most of the time in her daily life, she has long stopped concealing her female appearance, and no one calls her "Brother Yun" anymore.
This person seemed to have lived in the ancient tomb for three years and thought she was a personal guard of the Huo Gang disguised as a man.
But no matter what, since he called her "Brother Yun" and was wearing the Huo Gang's guard uniform, they were old friends.
In addition, the appearance and voice of the person who came were somewhat familiar, Yun Chen judged that this person's identity was true, and he was indeed the guard of the Huo Gang whom she did not recognize.
She put her disappointment aside and warmly invited the visitor to sit down and have some tea.
"You look familiar to me. Have we ever worked together in the Huo Gang before?"
The visitor laughed and replied, "We have never been on a mission together, but we have lived and died together once."
As he spoke, the man covered the lower half of his face with his hand and asked Yun Chen to think about it carefully.
Yun Chen looked at those eyes, thought for a long time, and finally slapped his head and exclaimed in surprise:
"Secret Guards! They were the ones who helped me divert the guards from pursuing me in the Dongyan Palace when I stole the Wind Erosion Grass!"
"Haha, it's my honor to be remembered." The visitor saluted Yun Chen again, "My name is Lu Liang. I have been recuperating in Zhao Kingdom. Now I am returning and passing through Guying City. I heard the good news that General Yun has recaptured the city, so I came to pay my respects to him."
Yun Chen excitedly slapped Lu Liang on the shoulder, and while calling on his personal soldiers to serve wine and food, he said happily:
"What kind of formalities are you using? Don't try to be so superficial! You're my savior, and half of the credit for that Wind-Scorching Grass belongs to you! I've never known who you are, but now that we've finally met, I have to thank you profusely!"
"I dare not!" Lu Liang declined repeatedly.
Yun Chen didn't care about him and forced him to sit at the table. After seven or eight glasses of wine, Lu Liang relaxed a lot.
Seeing that Yun Chen had become such a famous general, yet he was still the same sincere and simple man as he was in the Huo Gang, without any airs, Lu Liang slowly relaxed and toasted Yun Chen:
"General Yun, you are truly capable. Even though you were seriously injured in the Dongyan Palace, you were able to escape over the palace wall and safely deliver the Wind-Scorching Grass to the Young Master. I truly admire you!"
Yun Chen waved his hand. "That's not the case. When I escaped from the palace, I was almost dying. Thanks to the miracle doctor who saved my life, I asked Su Songlan to bring back the Wind-burning Grass. And what about you? Where have you been these past three years? Why haven't you heard from me at all?"
"No wonder you healed so quickly," Lu Liang said. "I was chased and cornered by the guards of the Dongyan Palace. I was stabbed over eighty times and thrown headfirst from the palace wall. The young master sent me to Zhao State to recuperate. I spent three years there and finally recovered last month."
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