Chapter 966 – The Roads May Be Different, But They’ve Never Been Far Away

The battlefield of Zuoyun Mountain was coming to an end.

In fact, from the moment the wolves arrived, the defeat of the expeditionary corps was predictable, and all that was left was to harvest the battlefield.

The Qing nano warriors led by Luo Lan had killed all the way from the south to the north, how could the barbarians, who had already been routed themselves, be a match for this elite force, not to mention that they were equipped with 2,000 40mm caliber gun-mounted howitzers.

If it was Qing’s frontal battlefield combat definitely wouldn’t be so focused on using gun-mounted howitzers, but right now, this troop was as if it had been turned on, beating those routed expeditionary regiments to the point where they didn’t even have the courage to fight back.

And on the side of the 6th Combat Brigade and the Wolf Pack, both sides cooperated to continuously squeeze the space for the Expeditionary Corps to move, until there were no more living barbarians in the battlefield.

Hassan and the others patrolled the battlefield on their sturdy horses, and their eyes lit up when they saw the barbarians’ giant axes: “This thing is good!”

With that, they immediately organized manpower to return all the axes as trophies for the steppe people.

Although Qing had provided the prairie people with firearms, the quantity was still ultimately too small, and the prairie people themselves didn’t have much ability to produce armaments, so naturally, they would be overjoyed to see the axes.

At this time, when P5092 and the others saw that the war on Zuo Yunshan had ended, they drilled out from behind their makeshift shelters one by one and headed towards the steppe people.

When Hassan saw them, he led the prairie people to warmly welcome them.

Hassan was very clear about one thing, this was the troops led by his master’s brother, so it was a family.

However, after both sides approached, the prairie people froze, they learned from Hassan that the barbarians in the north had been besieging this place for more than ten days, and in their minds this should have been the Central Plains people and the barbarians engaged in an evenly matched battle, right?

Therefore, they felt that the troops of the Central Plains people here should also be a very elite presence.

As a result, when they saw the soldiers of the Sixth Combat Brigade, they only saw that each and every one of them was gray, and some of them had to lean on their firearms to stand still.

The number of the Sixth Combat Brigade was a bit less than expected, the clothes were worn and dirty, and the look was wretched.

Servant Lanzi asked from the sidelines, “Is this all of you?”

P5092 smiled, “What, too few?”

Servant Lan Qi looked at the thousands of soldiers of the Sixth Combat Brigade, they had also fought with the Expeditionary Corps in Salt Pond, and had seen the barbarians’ fighting strength when they scouted later, so it was hard for him to imagine that it was just such a small number of people in front of him who had dragged the 70,000 barbarians of the Expeditionary Corps here for more than ten days.

Servant Lanqi walked up and patted P5092’s chest, “You are honorable hans, if you have a chance to go to the grassland, we will definitely entertain you with the best horse milk wine.”

P5092 didn’t mind either, he smiled and said, “Thank you for coming over to support us, if it wasn’t for you, we wouldn’t have lasted long. But now is not the time to talk about this, we still have to rush to the north.”

“Just in time, my master has also gone to the north, just in time to travel with us,” Servant Lanzi said as he turned around and shouted to the steppe han behind him, “Bring the horses over!”

For the sake of the long journey, each of these grassland hans had driven two horses over, lest one horse could not withstand such a long distance.

Now, they were willing to give up their horses for the soldiers of the 6th Combat Brigade to ride, which was also a way to express their respect.

……

At this time, north of the Zuo Yunshan battlefield, Yan Liuyuan looked at Ren Xiaosu in a daze, he didn’t think that what he had been worrying about for so long seemed like nothing at all in Ren Xiaosu’s eyes.

Ren Xiaosu said: ”Inside the Zong Clan’s war, I killed thousands of people at least, and then went to Barrier 146, where an entire combat brigade was almost lost. At that time, when Barrier 146 broke, there must have been civilians injured as well.”

“And then there was the fall of Zhou’s Barrier 73, East Lake, although the barriers didn’t collapse, right, the commotion wasn’t small.”

“Then there was the Kong Clan’s barriers that also killed several hundred people, and Luo City also killed thousands of people ……” Ren Xiaosu recalled, “Now that I think about it, I myself feel like a calamity, as if wherever I go, the barriers are destroyed to wherever ……”

Yan Liu Yuan didn’t say anything for a long time, he suddenly realized that the people Ren Xiaosu had killed could be much more than himself ah!

Ren Xiaosu suddenly said, “I told you that just don’t want you to go astray, but do you remember what else I said, to be a human being you have to ask your heart to have no shame, and if you have a shame, convince yourself not to have it. In fact, none of us are hero material, so we don’t need to carry such heavy shackles on ourselves, protecting the people around us to live well is the most important.”

Yan Liu Yuan nodded after thinking about it, “Uh-huh.”

“Right, tell us about your time in the grasslands,” Ren Xiaosu said, “Was life hard there?”

“It’s beautiful there,” Yan Liu Yuan said, “When I went there a snowstorm turned the entire grassland into a white capped piece, it looked unusually magnificent, when winter turned to spring, the snow melted and converged into streams, the rivers on the grassland were clear and curved, it was like a sky blue scarf on the grassland, the cattle and sheep were scattered on the grassland. The cows and sheep are scattered on the grassland grazing, while the herdsmen ride on their horses and fling their whips, and when a gust of wind blows, the grassland is as rough and tumbling as the waves of the sea.”

“On rainy days, everyone would gather in their respective tents to raise fire pits; outside was the sound of rain, while the fire pits warmed their clothes to dryness and comfort.” Yan Liu Yuan continued, “But there aren’t any vegetables to eat there, and I specifically had Hassan make a trip to the northwest to find a horse bandit called Su Lei to trade with.”

Ren Xiaosu froze for a moment, why did the name Su Lei sound very familiar, it seemed like he had also encountered such a horse bandit.

However, in Yan Liuyuan’s words, Ren Xiaosu was more concerned about the other party’s look and tone, he clearly understood that Yan Liuyuan loved it there.

Before this, Yan Liuyuan had also traveled to many places, but Ren Xiaosu had never seen Yan Liuyuan like a place so much from the bottom of his heart.

Yan Liu Yuan said softly, “My favorite place in the past was the market town outside Barrier 113, even though the days were hard, I would feel close every time I thought of it, but brother, we can’t go back can we.”

With Barrier 113 all gone, the market town of 113 would no longer exist, Yan Liuyuan’s words had a meaning to them.

Ren Xiaosu looked at Yan Liuyuan and asked, “Come with me to the northwestern part of the country, there are ranches there as well.”

In fact, Ren Xiaosu already knew the answer, but he still couldn’t help but ask again.

However, right at this moment, there was the sound of hoofbeats in the south, and the crowd that appeared on the horizon was like a small black dot, rapidly approaching.

Yan Liu Yuan stood up, and when those who had rushed over saw their own master and the Wolf King, they sped up their horses and one by one let out earth-shattering cheers.

By the time the hans of the grassland, the 6th combat brigade came before the two, the formation of the grassland people and the 6th combat brigade were clearly separated, all of them looked at their leaders separately, although they were cordial with each other, there was always an invisible line separating the two sides, even if the line was only one meter.

Yan Liu Yuan looked at Ren Xiaosu, ”Brother, I have never dared to come to see you before because I was a little worried that you would be very disappointed in me, this time I came because in the past, it was you who protected me, and I was looking forward to the day when I could protect you in turn for once, and I did it. Not only did I do it this time, I will do it again in the future, but I already belong to the grasslands.”

Ren Xiaosu silently looked at Yan Liuyuan, yes, little Liuyuan had finally grown up.

Before this Yan Liuyuan became the new king of the grassland, with his own independent identity and power, he was no longer that little boy who would only follow Ren Xiaosu’s back, but a real man, a king of the grassland.

But at that time, his personality is still not complete, because he is afraid to see Ren Xiaosu, there is always a shadow in his heart. In order to escape that shadow, he even wanted to cut off his past feelings.

And now, he faced all this squarely, and made his own decision without the slightest fear or avoidance factor, at this moment, he was considered truly complete.

Ren Xiaosu knew very well that a king on the grassland was already an eagle in the sky, how could an eagle hide under someone else’s wings to survive?

The prairie people are a complete community, such a community to the northwest will inevitably have all sorts of contradictions with the 178 fortress, Yan Liuyuan will not be willing to his own people to go to the fence.

Therefore, Ren Xiaosu understood Yan Liuyuan’s choice.

At this moment, the grasslanders and the Northwest 6th Combat Brigade stood side by side, the crowd spreading out into the distance on the vast wilderness, the sky and the earth high above.

Both of them eventually have their own lives and paths, life is not necessary to be tied together to be considered perfect, to see off their loved ones and friends to faraway places, but also most of the adults must experience life.

The growth of the two teenagers, from experiencing suffering together to now have a complete and independent personality, no longer avoid the past all the unpleasant, frankly embark on their own path.

Ren Xiaosu smiled, “Then will you come to the Northwest as a guest in the future?”

“Of course I will,” Yan Liu Yuan said with a smile, “Brother, in the future, if you guard the Northwest, then I will guard the North for mankind well, give me three years, after three years I guarantee that no more barbarians from the North will ever cross the grasslands. And the grasslands and the northwest, will always be the best friends.”

The paths were different, but never far.