"Hu! Hu! Hu!" Under the shadow of the arrows flying over, I see father controls the horse and catches mother"s body. He then turns the horse back and rushes back. Under the rain of arrows, father controls the glaive with one of his hands and another hand tightens the rein. He tightly protects mother"s body in his embrace. Suddenly, his brows crease and his lips are pursed. His body has also gone stiff.
"Father!" Brother kicks the stomach of the horse and bring me along to aid father.
Father"s face is pale as he carefully embraces mother. He then takes out an embroidered cloth from under his golden armour and hands it to brother shakily: "This is the towel your mother gifted me before leaving. Hurry and tie your sister to your chest and leave this place immediately as you protect her!" Blood stains can be seen on the white silk.
"Father! You"re injured!" Brother grips onto father"s hand, "Hurry and bring mother away, I will stay here and fight the enemies!"
"Xiao Er!" Father widens his eyes and pain can be seen within it, "Do you want the whole family to die here? Do you want Qing Qing to go through what your mother went through?"
"Father, Qing Qing is not scared!" I hold in my tears and straighten my body.
"You"re not scared, but I"m scared!" Father vomits blood out of his mouth, "Do you want your mother to not be able to rest in peace?"
Brother heavily sighs and takes the towel, tying me tightly to the front of his chest. Seeing the war chariot being completely built and layers and layers of corpses piling up, there is no fear on the face of the soldiers of Han family. They kill numbly as they climb up the ladder. Under the lead of their Field Grade Officer, the middle formation attacks the tower gate. Suddenly, hot oil with steams coming out of it falls down the tower and yells of pain can be heard no one cares about their comrade that is struggling on the ground and continues to flood in as they subst.i.tute the missing places as they pushes the log rush to the gate.
This, is war; this, is the Shura h.e.l.l.
My body is suddenly pulled to the back and my pet.i.te body is tied tightly onto brother"s chest with the towel. When he is about to control the horse to leave, a loud shout can be heard: "General!"
A Field Grade Officer with blood on his face flies over. And when gets nearer, his body slants one side as he shakily falls down the horse: "General, the military of the Jing Country launched a sneak attack on our men from the back!"
"What?!" Brother"s eyes widen, "Aren"t they our ally? Aren"t they supposed to be guarding our back?"
The Field Grade Officer supports his body with his sword and with cold sweats on his head, he loudly says: "But it was the soldiers of Jing Country! There"s no mistake!"
Father closes his eyes and heavily sighs: "Jing and Yong Country might have joined their hands together long ago. They try to convince us through drastic measures with Jing Country"s sudden call for a.s.sistance and Yong Country pretending to send their troops out. They want to annihilate our Han Family Military and weaken the strength of You Country!"
"No wonder Jing Country was not able to send war reports over, no wonder the raid was dragged back for ten days." Brother holds onto his spear and opens his mouth, filled with grief, "They were waiting for mother and sister, these brutes!"
Father hurriedly hold his glaive horizontally and shouts: "Pa.s.sing my order, the Three Militaries shall disperse in groups, do not fight in any way!"
I look at father"s tall body and my lips tremble: I see, so, father was struck with arrows! So, he used his body to protect mother!
"Father!" Brother calls out to father nervously, "Father, hurry and leave this place with mother, I shall guard your back!"
"Xiao Er!" Father looks at the soldiers that leave with order and looks at brother with heated gaze, "I"m the commander of the three militaries. How can I escape alone?" After that, he lowers his head and looks at mother with gentle eyes: "I will bring you mother back, back to You Country."
"Kill!" The gate of Qian City suddenly opens and the soldiers wearing mud-yellow coloured uniform floods out. "Kill!" At the same time, a shout so loud that makes the heaven and ground shake can be heard from the back of our military.
Father raises his glance and looks far away; he then heaves a deep sigh: "Seems like escaping is not possible!" After he says that, his face becomes firm and he raises the glaive on his hand, giving out orders loudly: "Han Shuo listen to my order."
The Field Grade Officer that was scolding Bai Zi Qi comes running over on his horse: "This officer is here!"
"I order you to lead the left military, and breakthrough the south-east corner!"
"This officer receives the order!" Han Shuo raises his long sword and roars, "The left military shall follow me to attack the enemies!"
"Yes!" The soldiers in green uniform run to somewhere quickly and orderly.
Father coughs out another mouthful of blood: "Han Qi!"
"This officer is here!" A Field Grade Officer with beard replies strongly.
"You will lead the right military and retreat from the north-east of Jing soldiers!"
"This officer receives the order!" The bearded man holds his fist and turns his horse to leave.
Father then suddenly calls out to him: "Han Qi!"
"General?"