The Queen of the Prairie and I

I thought that the horse I got was a fast horse. As long as I rode fast enough, I would not be overtaken. As long as I left early enough, the army in the city would have no time to chase me.But I still underestimated the speed of the Dalu cavalry, or overestimated my half-way monk's riding skills.I didn't even notice two cavalrymen chasing after me because I was tired.

"Miss Ningsheng left without saying goodbye. Don't think about the tiger and wolf knights, but also think about your brother, General Li?"

Admonitions like this started when they stopped me.

"It's not that I don't care about the second brother, but I have nothing to do staying here, and it's a burden to you, let alone being honest, isn't it?" I finally couldn't stand their chatter, and opened my mouth to express my real thoughts.

"What pretext?"

"It's not that I speak badly. You all know that I have a great relationship with Donatia. After a few months of my arrival, Dronatia ran away. My second brother sent me away. Then there was another big war in Weining and Haibei. Who They will all suspect that I came to the Lu Jun barracks with evil intentions."

"Nonsense, the whole army also knew that Miss Ningsheng was poisoned with a poisonous crossbow when the Anzu assassins took away Zhuonatia, and her life was hanging by a thread. How could they doubt it?"

"If it's just that, it's really not worth doubting, but after the second brother and I are criminals, it's hard not to doubt it? It's not like I'm arrogant. Donatia can't see me, it's too The reason for her madness." After staying in Lu Jun's barracks for nearly half a year, the biggest impression is that there are many factions in the frontier army, tit for tat, and the second brother is also deeply disturbed.When I say this, the soldiers will understand.

"...Miss Ningsheng's words are not unreasonable." Another older soldier said. "But the girl is wounded, so you can't escape Weining Haibei with this little thing."

"I once walked from Danning Mansion to Weining Haibei by myself. Why can't I go from Liaoxi?"

"From Danning Mansion to Weining Haibei, through Shanyuan, Kaiping, and Huohu Pass, there are many people passing by along the way. There are inns, post stations, wild temples, and barracks for self-cultivation and shelter. Miss Ningsheng must know that she went by herself. But Liaoxi arrived. Weining and Haibei, the way through Monan is Hutu, not to mention that there are no people in the hundreds of miles, and there are many wild wolves and beasts. Now it is a war, and it is not uncommon to be killed by soldiers who do not recognize people. The girl is a relative of General Li, and also I Hulangqi is the flesh and blood in his heart, so he can't take this risk."

"It's not going to go, it's not going to go, what do you want me to do?" His words did make sense, so that made me a little annoyed.

"The girl wants to leave, we really shouldn't stop her, but if she walks like this, she will definitely die on the road, that is to die. Why don't you go back to the stockade with us, I, Wang Baihu, promise to arrange escorts and escorts for the girl, and write a letter to escort her to Cuckoo The German camp, they will definitely accept the girl, so everything will be fine, it's better than being killed by panicked soldiers all over the wilderness without thinking."

"Really? If you dare to lock me up then, I'll bite my tongue and kill myself."

"Don't dare, take everything seriously."

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Dronatia's big tent was made into a huge caravan, which was pulled by ten horses and oxen, advancing steadily among the tide-like cavalry, commanding the entire army heading east.From time to time, she took out a pinch of hay from a small pouch, smelled it and put it back, which made the general reporting in the tent very puzzled.

"What's the matter? Why didn't you speak?" Donatia asked when he saw that he was silent.

"No, this subordinate just saw that His Majesty has been smelling dry grass, a little puzzled..."

"This is the hay from Lu Jun's dungeon." She replied in a low voice and put it away.

"Why do you keep smelling the dry grass in the dungeon?"

"You don't understand, this hay is different, it has a captivating fragrance left on it." Dronatia's words made the general puzzled.She had been staying alone in the dungeon before, and the general really couldn't figure out why Zhuonatia remembered so much about Lu Jun's dungeon where she was once imprisoned.

"By the way, Queen, General Ronghua wrote back."

"Such an important thing to talk about now?" Dronatia raised her head. "What did the crazy girl say?"

"General Ronghua sent a messenger to bring a message, saying that he is willing to go through fire and water for the queen at any time, and has already led an army of [-] out of Liaodong, and will go straight to Lu Jun's various gates in Liaoxi along the Nen River."

"Where did she get the [-] troops?" asked Dronatia.

"General Ronghua has been fighting for the Liaodong Nvzhi tribe for a long time. Many tribes are willing to send troops to help His Majesty, so she asked her to raise 4 people. By the way, it is said that Feng Yuliang, the Liaodong general of Lu State, recognized her as his adopted daughter. And support her forces."

"Life is so good? Don't you hate me for exiling their father and daughter?"

"After the old general committed suicide in Liaodong, General Ronghua believed every year that he would return to the grassland with his crimes and meritorious deeds. It didn't seem like he held grudges."

"I hope, I hope I didn't raise a Liaodong queen." Dronatia stood up, "Order the whole army to speed up."

"Also, Your Majesty, the vanguard officer has been restrained."

"Has been restrained? No one is exploring the way, are we blind? Whose Qianhu is the first, and the vanguard officer is slowed down and doesn't go to reinforcements?"

"Your Majesty, reinforcements have been sent in. Lu Jun's tiger and wolf cavalry held hundreds of vanguard officers. They harassed the vanguard camp several times. Although they were surrounded, they almost broke through several times. The soldiers in front were good and bad, and they couldn't wipe out the enemy in one fell swoop. The tiger and wolf ride."

"It's just a broken army, so capable of fighting? Who is the leader?"

"According to the report, it is Li Weiyi, the general of Lu Jun."

"Li Weiyi...wait a minute, Li Weiyi?" Zhuonatia's eyes widened, "Wen Liangyu has been in the same battalion, Li Weiyi who rides tigers and wolves?"

"Yes."

"Prepare the horse, I will personally lead the team to the front."

"Your Majesty, Li Weiyi won't be able to..."

"Prepare the horse right away!" Donatia seemed to be on fire, and there was no room for any doubts.Because she still remembered that Li Ningsheng once said that Li Weiyi was her lost relative, her second brother.Now that Lu Jun has been defeated but Li Ningsheng is nowhere to be seen, Li Weiyi must know where Li Ningsheng is.Thinking of this, she couldn't sit still no matter what.

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Li Weiyi's tiger and wolf cavalry fought fiercely and attacked everywhere. Although they won many times, they lost troops and lost their generals. There were only more than 200 tiger and wolf cavalry left.Li Weiyi knew very well that tiger and wolf cavalry could not defend, so he took the initiative to attack again, chasing another vanguard army of Bugude like hunting.Unexpectedly, after chasing for a while, the arrows on the hill not far away suddenly fell like rain, and for a while, many cavalrymen were shot and fell off their horses. Li Weiyi knew that he had been caught in a trap, and immediately ordered the tiger and wolf cavalry to turn around and evacuate, only to find that there was already a black cloud of cuckoo behind them. The German cavalry cut off their retreat.

Li Weiyi looked back and found that there was no way out, he pulled his horse's head and turned around, and found that there were Bugude cavalry figures in all directions, so he knew that this time he was going to die here.He originally thought that he would gallop like the wind with the tiger and wolf, and quickly cut off and destroy the formation system of the vanguard officers, so that they would not care about each other, and it would be too late to formulate countermeasures.But he didn't realize that he galloped, and the opponent also galloped, but the opponent still formulated an ambush strategy against the tiger and wolf cavalry.It should be a veteran who has used soldiers for a long time and guessed the tiger and wolf cavalry tactics. It is relieved to think so.

Just as Li Weiyi was thinking about which side he should choose to break out of the siege, he suddenly heard the sound of drums from the frontal formation.The Bugude cavalry branched out, and the men with the big banner rode out slowly.

Li Weiyi took a closer look, and saw that the leader was wearing a white robe and silver armor, with a circle of wolf teeth inlaid on the outside of his helmet like a crown, and the white canopy behind his back was blown up by the wind, revealing a thin machete like a crescent moon at his waist.The man had a handsome face, white skin and a thin waist, but he held his head upright, and a handsome big braid was exposed behind the helmet.On the left and right sides were escorted by General Bugude, Wu Yi was not taller and mightier than that woman, but far inferior to her in imposing manner.It was only then that Li Weiyi realized that this person should be Zhuonatia, the Queen of Cuckood, who he had been blocked by Wen Liangyu for half a year.

With just one glance, Li Weiyi understood why this person could sweep across the grassland within six or seven years, and also understood why his younger sister Li Ningsheng was so devoted to her, and he couldn't explain or explain.Feeling that a stone has fallen to the ground again, I don't know whether to say that the younger sister Li Ningsheng has vision, or this Zhuonatia has vision.

Donatia waved the generals to stop, turned around and dismounted.Dismounting is a way of showing weakness to others. The generals wanted to dissuade them, but she stopped them with a wave of their hands.The tiger and wolf riders were all speechless, and they saw that Zhuonatia moved away from his army step by step, getting closer and closer to the tiger and wolf rider.

"I am the White Eagle Queen Dronatia. Your General Wen once took advantage of my weakness and fatigue to capture me alive. Now that I am alive and well, who of you wants to try again? If you can capture me alive or kill me, absolutely No complaints, you can take me or my head back to ask for credit." Zhuonatia said in the Central Plains language.The tiger and wolf riders looked at each other, surprised that she could speak such fluent Central Plains dialect.

"I'm coming!" Before Li Weiyi could speak, a tiger and wolf knight soldier shouted. He was about to kill Zhuonatia with his horse, but suddenly he was hit by an arrow in the face and fell off the horse's back.All the soldiers were shocked.

"If you want to fight, get off the horse." Donatia said.A tiger and wolf rider felt angry again, dismounted and charged at Zhuonatia with a gun in hand.

As a result, someone from the Cuckoo German army shot an arrow at him again. As a result, Zhuonati Yaxi drew his machete out of its sheath, chopped the arrow to the ground with one stroke, turned around to avoid the stabbing attack of the tiger and wolf rider, grabbed the body of the gun, and swung the knife. Breaking off, he took the tip of the gun backhand and threw it out. The tip of the gun hit the wolf rider's neck, causing him to convulse and fall to the ground.

"Change me!" Another tiger and wolf knight dismounted and came forward with a knife, and just as he slashed at Zhuonatia, the flames splashed, and saw him drop his sword, and screamed while holding his hand.It turned out that it was the pair of knives that Zonatia picked up, and the scimitar jumped over the guard of his knives and broke three of his fingers.Donatia made another backhand strike, beheading him to the ground.In less than the time to drink a sip of water, two people were beheaded by her, and they couldn't stand each other for a while, which surprised Li Weiyi.

"That's all!" Li Weiyi shouted, "I'm coming!"

He got off the horse, drew a six-foot steel straight sword from the scabbard carved with a tiger's head, swung it a few times, and made a piercing whistling sound.

"You seem to be a person, and you have reported your name." Dronatia said, in fact, she had already guessed who this person was just by seeing his face.

"Tiger Wolf Cavalry Commander Li Weiyi." He said, "It's an honor and joy to be able to fight the queen."

After finishing speaking, she stabbed at Dronatia with a sword, but she backed away to dodge it, and the two of them fought swords together.The scimitar and straight steel sword come and go without giving in to each other. The two are agile, and their moves are deadly.

Li Weiyi's exhaustion had already gone beyond the sky.The Zhuonatia in front of me seems to be able to see an afterimage every time she swings it, like the afterimage of a scimitar piercing the air. She seems to be relaxed and casual, but in fact she relaxes her body by taking off force, so that every attack They are all the maximum distance that can be hit by fists and feet, and every blow is like a blow with all your strength, so you can't take it lightly.The more this is the case, the more strange it is. How could such a powerful person be captured by Wen Erniang?

Fighting vigorously, Zhuonatia didn't get tired but fought more and more courageously, and finally blocked Li Weiyi's slash with a knife, and returned the knife, only to hear a cry of pain, Li Weiyi's right hand holding the knife was chopped off to the ground.The bloody scimitar was aimed straight at his throat again, announcing Li Weiyi's defeat.

"General!" "General Li!" The soldiers shouted.But he also respected General Li's argument and did not step forward to interfere.

Seeing the bleeding profusely from the broken arm, Li Weiyi quickly pinched the wound tightly to stop the bleeding, and held back the pain.Li Weiyi also had a leather armguard on his arm, but it was cut off by Zhuonatia, which made him feel that he was not wronged.

"Li Weiyi, Li Weiyi from Danning Mansion, right?"

"Since you lost, you can kill if you want." Li Weiyi squeezed his arm and said in pain.

"Is Li Ningsheng your sister?"

"I think you know all about it, so what else is there to ask?"

"Where is Li Ningsheng now?" Zhuonatia asked, putting away all expressions.

"Why should I tell you?"

"It means that Li Ningsheng is still alive, right?" She hurriedly asked.

"..." Seeing her becoming anxious, Li Weiyi suddenly felt that there was no need to be tense. "Yes, still alive."

"Is the injury serious? He was shot in the back." She said more and more worried and anxious.

"The wound is not deep, but it is poisonous."

"Poison??" She widened her eyes.

"But the poisonous blood was washed out in time, and the medicine was used to nourish it. There is no serious problem."

"Where is she? Not with you, could it be with Wen Liangyu?"

"She hates Wen Erniang. I sent her to a safe place long before you fought with us."

".……Yeah"

Donatia seemed to have finally let go of her worries, and let out a long sigh.

"You should be proud, you have a good sister." Dronatia said, "Let's go."

"Let's go?" Li Weiyi seemed to be irritated, "If you put my life here, are you deliberately insulting me?"

"If I kill you, Li Ningsheng will not be able to see his relatives, and if you lose the fight, I should punish you. It's not up to you to say." Zhuonatia put the scimitar back into its sheath, and picked up the steel with the severed hand. straight sword. "Today you fought me with force, and you lost. The reason I let you go back is to revive your strength, and fight again with the art of war on the battlefield in the future. You can accept that, right?" Dronatia brought the broken hand with her. The sword was handed to Li Weiyi, who put away his severed hand and put the sword back into its sheath.

"Why?"

"I'm not telling lies. It's for Li Ningsheng's sake. I don't have any hatred for you. You and I are her relatives. We should think about her." Zhuonatia said.

"I don't think you are my younger sister's relative." Li Weiyi gritted his teeth and said, "There will be a period later, I will ask for advice in the future." Turning around, he walked back to the tiger wolf cavalry formation.

"Brothers and sisters are really similar." She whispered to herself, "You have to coax everything." She turned around and walked back to her army formation, and ordered: "Let the road go, let them go!"

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It took more than a day to run all the way back to Taimen Village in western Liaoning with Wang Baihu and others, only to see a puff of smoke rising in the distance.The two soldiers couldn't shout well, so I left me to explore the way. Seeing that they hadn't come back for a long time, I followed.After approaching, I found out that it was the stockade that was on fire.The entire city was engulfed in flames, and the ground was covered with the corpses of soldiers, adults, children, women and children, as well as arrowheads stuck in the ground like wheat, and blood was still spilled everywhere.The air smelled of charcoal and grease.I don't know how many people were engulfed by the fire, and how many people turned into human carbon.

I also saw something white sticking out of the arrowhead.A closer look revealed that it was an ear.All swords have ears on their heads.The earthen walls are covered with spikes, and many heads of men, women and children are stuck on them, and blood flows down the wooden posts.

What kind of army is this?How could you do such a thing?

I still remember that there were so many people in the village, and there were also cuckoos.They were so kind to me, too, that I gave food to a tailor's boy before I left.

Are they all dead?

Although almost numb, I still want to ask myself why this kind of thing is as common as eating, such a terrible thing.

Not far away, I saw Wang Baihu and the others seem to have found a survivor, feeding water there, so I followed.

"Who is it? Zhuonatia's cuckoo soldiers? Have you killed them already?" Wang Baihu asked.The surviving soldier was covered in blood and just shook his head.

"It's not...it's from...from the east...army...never...haven't seen..."

"What flag? Is it the White Eagle Flag?" Wang Baihu continued to ask.

"A flag I've never seen before... a flag I've never seen before... like fire... and like flowers... upward purple patterns one by one..."

"What kind of flag is that?" Wang Baihu was also confused.

Otherwise, these people came here without knowing anything about it.

"I know." I said, and all three of them looked at me.

"That's a cashmere flag"

I sighed.

"A collateral branch of the White Eagle family, the family crest of the Aixin clan."

The offshoot of the White Eagle Familia that Donatia told me should have ceased to exist.

Now it seems that she lied to me, but why would she lie to me?