Chapter 49 Nanguanghua sent troops to Nanman Cao Mengde pacified Hebei (26
The 500 Dingjun walked cautiously for a distance, and the white shadow in the distance became clearer and clearer, and the human form could be faintly seen. Seeing the human figure alone could not determine whether it was a human or a ghost, so he ordered the soldiers to continue to move forward, but when they could see the figure and appearance of those people in white, they immediately regretted it.
I saw that the dozens of "people" in white had wide shoulders and thick backs, one head higher than ordinary people, and their heads were white and bright. From a distance, they looked like bald men, but when they looked closely, they clearly had skeleton heads. The positions of eyes, nose and mouth are several black holes of different sizes.
When Dingjun saw this scene, he was scared one by one. He was timid and sat directly on the ground, and a coquettish smell permeated the team. At this time, he was able to be sure that the singer was a ghost. How could a living person have a skeleton head? But it was too late for him to leave at this time, because the singing ghosts also found them, and the songs were heard in an instant, and dozens of skulls looked at them. For a moment, Dingjun couldn't hear anything but his banging heartbeat. Everyone stared at the ghosts with skeleton heads.
Just when the ghosts thought that the ghosts were going to rush over and eat him, the song suddenly sounded again, which was still the previous tune, but the lyrics were very different, and the song also turned into a roar, as if these ghosts were suddenly angry.
Shell, only the shell left, which is slaughtered. Empty eyes, no blood, no tears, no light. In the distance, look at the glory of the big town. Rotten glory...
Water, can't be washed off, old wounds on nails. Broken armor, can't hide, warrior's old beliefs. Hold the gun, then hold the gun, and return to the front. Where is the enemy and where is the hatred...
When the last note fell, Dingjun saw an incredible scene, and dozens of skulls flew in their direction. That's right! What they saw was not skeletons in white, but dozens of skeletons floating in mid-air flying directly over. This change scared Ding Jun at that time, and I don't know which soldier suddenly screamed "ah~". Then 500 barbarians shouted at the same time and turned around and ran away.
These soldiers never flinch in the face of the enemy on the battlefield and are not afraid of death at all. However, when they faced the unknown ghosts and gods, they collapsed collectively and hated their parents for having two fewer legs and running back for their lives.
Hua Beihe was stunned when he saw the scattered 500 Dingjun hidden behind a big tree. He didn't dare to believe it: "Is this scared away? My brother-in-law is awesome! Fifty people were sent to scare 500 people away, and this Ding army is nothing more than that!"
Zhang Baiqi explained behind a tree next to him: "This is the power of the ghost pawn. In my eyes, the ghost pawns rushed over, but those Dingjun, who were attracted by the ghost pawns in white, could only see skeletons flying towards them in the night. It was strange not to be defeated.
Understood the principle of the ghost pawn, Huabei added another layer of admiration for Nanye and asked, "Should I kill it at this time?"
Zhang Baiqi said, "No! The more troops fleeing back, the more chaotic Meng Huo's camp will be. Let these cowards run back and send me a message."
As soon as the words fell, Nan Ye, Huang Zhong and others led the mage's personal guards over. They just ambush behind the ghost pawn just in case. Even if the barbarian soldiers are not afraid of ghosts, Nan Ye has a back hand. Looking at the fleeing back of the Ding army, Nan Ye smiled and ordered people to clean up the traces of the battlefield and led everyone to hide into the mountains and forests.
However, it was said that after 500 Dingjun returned to the camp, he reported what he had seen and heard to Meng Huo. Looking at the uninhabited tingling in front of him, Meng Huo had to believe that there were really ghosts in the world. Although he did not see the floating skull with his own eyes, he heard the change of ghost songs in the camp, which was enough to prove that he did not lie.
Meng Huo sighed in his heart. He really didn't know how to resist a group of ghosts, so he asked, "How many people have you lost this time?" How did those ghosts kill people?
Ding Quchang was stunned when he heard the words. He ran all the way and came back to see Meng Huo. He really didn't have time to count the people, so he replied, "Return to the king, I didn't dare to fight after meeting ghosts, so I had to go back to the camp to report the news. I don't know how the casualties were."
Meng Huo understood as soon as he heard that these Ding troops did not fight, and they were directly scared and fled. It was just an excuse to say that he would return to the camp to report the news. Meng Huo wanted to be angry, but when he thought about it, he felt that it was common sense for ghosts to meet, so he suppressed his anger and comforted him, "You have worked hard! When the soldiers return to the camp at dawn, you can count and report to me. The dead will be buried heavily, and the injured will be rewarded. In addition, tonight's event must not be spread everywhere.
Seeing Meng Huo Kai's kindness, he did not blame himself for escaping from the battle and hurriedly thanked him, and repeatedly promised that he would restrain his subordinates not to talk nonsense. Unfortunately, there are some things that can't be suppressed artificially. Just when Dangding Qu told Meng Huo, the 500 soldiers scattered into the camp had already spread the news of the encounter with ghosts.
"Have you heard about it? The ghosts outside the camp are a group of skeletons in white. A barbarian standing guard asked the barbarian beside him.
"It's not just a skeleton in white! There is also a group of flying skeletons!" Obviously, another barbarian soldier also got a lot of news.
"I heard from the old witch doctor in the cave that these ghosts are ghosts who died in battle, ghost soldiers and ghost generals. They must have regarded me as an enemy in life. The barbarians continued to talk.
"I think the old witch doctor said it well. The ghost song is indeed like a ghost soldier singing. It must be because the king's reckless use of knives to anger the ghost soldiers, which made them mistake us as enemies. It seems that this battle can't go on!" A barbarian on guard lamented.
"Shh~ Be careful! You don't want to live! How can this be heard in the king's ears?" A veteran looked around cautiously.
Meng Huo's camp talked about ghost soldiers more than this sentry, and almost all the barbarians talked about it. Another sleepless night, the morale of the army plummeted, which made Meng Huo extremely angry. However, Meng Huo also got a good news. After dawn, after some statistics, many of the 500 barbarians who went out to explore the road at night returned to the camp.
Many of these Dingjun were injured. Some were blinded by tree branches in the forest when they fled, some fell and spratched their legs in the dark, and some hit the head of a big tree and broke the blood, but none of them were injured by ghosts and no one died. This strange situation makes Meng Huo feel incomprehensible and relieved. At least these living Dingjuns can prove that even if they encounter ghosts, it is not a mortal situation.
Now the news of ghost singing has been circulating in the camp, and Meng Huo can't suppress it. He simply let these 500 Dingjun appear and talk, hoping that they can improve their morale.
After making up his mind, Meng Huo gathered all the barbarians on the campus and let the 500 Ding army stand in front of the army, and then said, "Last night, I sent 500 warriors to trace the source of the night ghost song. As for the result, you may have heard of it. What I want to tell you today is that many of the 500 warriors have returned to the camp this morning, and those ghosts have not taken their lives. From this, we can know that people and ghosts are different. Maybe we can't compete with ghosts, but ghosts can't help me at all. The battalions don't have to panic. And those ghosts came out day and night, which showed that they were afraid of the sun. Today, I personally led the army to search the mountains to see where these ghosts came from.
After saying that, Meng Huo divided half of the people, led 5,000 people himself, and divided the remaining 20,000 barbarians into ten teams to search the mountains. Meng You stayed in the camp.
25,000 barbarians are indeed not a small number, but they are scattered in the mountains like a drop in the sea, and it is impossible to turn the whole mountain over. If these two-five thousand barbarians are scattered to pull the net to search, the area of exploration can be larger, but at this time, the barbarians are already like frightened birds. How dare they disperse again?
The effect of the eleven barbarians gathered together to search the mountain and eleven people to search the mountain is similar. What's more, except for Meng Huo's team's serious search, the other ten teams are hasty. They are afraid of hitting ghosts, so naturally they will not look for ghosts seriously. This search method of the barbarian soldiers was in the arms of Nanye, and Nanye and his party, who were hiding in the depths of the cave, easily avoided Meng Huo's search.
The whole day's search was fruitless, but Meng Huo was not frustrated. At this time, there is no result, but the best result. If a group of fierce ghosts are really saved from the mountains and forests and bite a team of people to death, it will make Meng Huo cry.
After leading the barbarian soldiers back to the camp, Meng Huo gave another speech, which once again emphasized the powerlessness of the ghost. There were no casualties in the 25,000-day search, which is the best evidence. I have to say that Meng Huo's hand is very smart. Since it is impossible to hide the existence of ghosts, try to minimize the influence of ghosts. Ghosts that can't harm people are obviously not worth fearing.
Encouraged by Meng Huo, the morale of the barbarian soldiers recovered a little. Meng Huo took advantage of the hot railway: "Although I don't know why there are ghosts, those ghosts obviously have no intention to harm us. I believe that as long as we don't pay attention to it, we can be at peace with ghosts. If they are willing to sing, let them sing. I'll plug my ears to sleep.
Meng Huo's words relaxed the barbarian soldiers a lot, and many barbarian soldiers secretly laughed out. But at night, Meng Huo and his barbarian soldiers couldn't laugh. For no other reason, the song was much closer to the camp. Combined with the previous two songs, all the barbarians found a problem, that is, the ghosts were moving in the direction of the camp. This perception filled the whole camp with panic again.