She curled up in a small ball in Gao Su's waist, and heard the whirring wind in her ears.

Gao Su's riding skills are very good. He has been on the battlefield since he was a teenager and has been a handsome man all his life, both past and present. Therefore, even in this undulating col, he still rode his horse smoothly, making people feel like they were walking on the ground.

She rubbed her eyes, yawned slightly, and called, "Chang Gong." ”

Gao Su looked down and saw a small ball shrinking into his waist, occasionally rubbing his eyes, his eyes were hazy, as if he was a little sleepy. He remembered that Yun Yao had stayed in the Hun camp all night before, and had accompanied him for most of the night last night, thinking that he should be tired.

Gao Su felt a burst of apology in his heart, and asked gently, "But tired?" Just sleep for a while. ”

Yun Yao shook her head, rubbed her eyes again, and muttered indistinctly, "You pay attention to the road in front of you!" …… Changgong, I have always wanted to ask you, how do you know which water source the Huns will go to first? ”

She picked a suitable place in his waist and looked at him with hazy eyes.

Gao Su glanced ahead, rode his horse past two craggy stone piles, and then said, "I don't know which one they will go to first." ”

Yun Yao stretched out a little finger and poked his waist unhappily.

"But before you left, you swore a military order with General Wei." She said gently, "You said that you must be able to find out, otherwise you will have to get fifty military sticks." I heard it outside General Wei's tent. If they go somewhere else first, then you-"

Gao Su laughed lowly, wanting to touch her, but suddenly remembered that she was now a soul body, and he couldn't touch her.

He took her to his waist with one hand, lest she roll about outside, though it seemed to be of no use, and then whispered, "When I get out of this col, I will scatter the sergeants and inspect them separately at the five water sources." And the place where I myself am going is the closest to the Huns, so they are most likely to go there first. Now A-Yao can rest assured? ”

After he said that, he looked down at the small dumplings rolling around in the waist seal, and there was some ridicule in his eyes.

Little Yun Yao grabbed his waist seal with his hand, and the whole person seemed to float up, and nodded blankly: "I see." ”

She was indeed floating. Because she had no body, Gao Su couldn't touch her, so she could only float. Just now Gao Su tucked her into her waist, so she followed this posture and slowly floated forward. Floating, drifting, getting used to this speed.

She leaned on his waist and peeked out between his fingers. Outside, there is a rolling mountain range, and a lush forest that seems to never end, mountains, mountains, dense forests...... Layered at a glance, full of greenery.

There was a deep darkness around her, except for the occasional glimmer between his fingers.

She rubbed his fingertips, lay on his waist, and slowly fell asleep.

Gao Su laughed heavily. He really loved her now, small, soft, and hidden in his waist like a rolling little ball, so that he could carefully and properly hide it, so that no one could see her, and he was the only one who could enjoy it.

He's the only one.

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Gao Su rode his horse over two cols and came to a vast wilderness, before he reined in his horse and stopped.

Dozens of sergeants gathered around, waiting for his orders.

Gao Su took out a roll of maps from the cloth bag on his horse's back and spread it loosely on the horse's back. The map depicts rudimentary mountains and landscapes, and five water sources are carefully circled with charcoal. Pointing to the five places, he said, "Twelve of you are a group, and you are going to each of these five places." The day before yesterday, I received a report from Xizuo, saying that the Huns wanted to release epidemic poison here. Therefore, if you see the Huns, or the people of the eyes, or the sorcerers and guards coming with dead cows, horses, and witch bones, you will kill them all. ”

The sergeants answered the promise in unison, and dispersed in twos and threes, and went to the five places.

Gao Su himself took eleven people and galloped towards the last water source marked on the map.

In front of him was a plain with a wide view, and the undulating hills and valleys were left behind. The plain was lush and green, and the grass half a foot high was crushed to the ground by the wind. A river meanders across the plains, flowing slowly forward.

The place they were going was in the upper reaches of the river.

The Twelve Han Cavalry Army was like a lightning speed, and a faint black shadow swept out of the plain. The sound of horses' hooves went against the direction of the river, leaving deep horseshoe prints in the wet soil. There were no horseshoes yet, so they relied on the two pairs of fleshy palms of their war horses all the way to the upper reaches of the river, the source of the deadly water.

The field of view slowly narrowed, and the sky became darker and darker.

Night is coming.

Gao Su fixed his horse and commanded in a deep voice: "Rest here for the night, and then hurry tomorrow." ”

There was still some distance from the Huns' camp, and Ah Yao could easily float over, but they couldn't. He once asked Ah Yao how fast she could be when she was in an out-of-body state, and Ah Yao thought about it at that time and said, "It's probably like taking a plane...... I mean, I'm going to walk back and forth between here and Chang'an City in two hours. ”

So now, they can only rest here for one night, and let the horses rest for one night, and wait for tomorrow to go again.

Fortunately, the Huns were farther away from that water source, and if they wanted to go over and poison, it would take at least three or two days.

Even if they rest here for a night, they won't miss anything.

The Han army soon set up a simple dwelling in the meadow, burned the moist land with fire until it was half dry, and finally caught some fish from the river, and nibbled on some dry food, after which they brushed off the fire and slept on the slightly dry and hard-burned earth.

The man on the night watch, feeling anxious, left for a while.

A small ball floated out of Gao Su's waist and slowly turned into a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl.

She rubbed her eyes, her gaze hazy, as if she had just woken up. She hadn't slept well for the first two nights, and it wasn't until today that she nestled in Gao Su's waist seal and slept all the way in a daze. She could vaguely feel the temperature between Gao Su's fingers, so even in her sleep, she could follow him in a daze.

She glanced at her body to make sure no one could see her, before she floated down to Gao Su's side.

Gao Su looked very peaceful when she fell asleep, and even if she had seen two whole lives, she still wouldn't get bored. She stretched out her hand and put it over Gao Su's countenance, wanting to touch him; But she was still a soul now, fluttering, and couldn't touch it at all.

She sighed leisurely, then suddenly turned around and floated towards the upper reaches of the river.

- They will wake up in at least three or four hours. In that case, she might as well go there and have a look first.

- If she is lucky enough to find a place, she can still show Gao Su the way after dawn.

Yun Yao thought so in her heart, so she drifted all the way upstream in the direction of the river. The grassland was silent at night, and the faint moonlight pierced her body and shone on the pebbles in the river. Occasionally, you can hear two chirping of insects, and there is a slight sound of wind.

She drifted upstream for three quarters of an hour, and her vision narrowed again.

This is one of the tributaries of the upper reaches of the river, and the small murmur of water flows out of the stone pile, into the rather wide river, and then winds slowly to the east. At her feet was a rocky beach, and a little further upstream, you could see steep rocks in the distance.

This is it. That day in the Xiongnu camp, the place where the eunuch pointed to it was here.

She settled down, remembered the location of the rocky beach, and floated all the way in the direction of the Hun camp.

If the Huns were to come, they would probably go in a straight line, because most of the place was grassland and rocky beaches. If she drifted in the direction of the Hun tent now, she would most likely collide with them head-on. It would also be helpful to be able to estimate the speed and distance of their march.

Soon, Yun Yao saw a blazing bonfire, as well as the Hun warriors who were keeping vigil next to the bonfire.

The Huns also set up a simple tent on the grass and lay down in the tent to rest. There were about twenty or so samurai and two wizards. The wizards had strange oil paint on their faces and bone vessels in their hands, as if they had just finished praying.

Yun Yao suddenly remembered that the eunuch had said that day that before casting the plague, he should pray to the gods for three days.

- That is, they went all the way and prayed all the way for three days?

She hissed softly, and floated back to a large wooden cart outside the tent. The cart was loaded with two dead cows and two dead horses, and the cows and horses were also painted with strange oil paint. They looked like they had just died, and they showed no signs of decay.

She steadied herself, turned around, and drifted back to the rocky beach along the same path, silently estimating the distance.

Then she floated down the river all the way downstream, until she reached the place where Gao Su was, and also estimated the distance.

The distance on both sides is roughly the same, but the Gaosu side is slightly shorter. According to the speed at which Gao Su rode his horse during the day, he should have been able to arrive an hour or two earlier.

Yun Yao breathed a faint sigh of relief, and then floated into Gao Su's arms, turning into a small ball.

She couldn't sleep now, so she pillowed on Gao Su's chest and listened to his steady and powerful heartbeat, again and again.

When the sky was slightly white, the last Han army on the night vigil woke everyone up. They wiped out the traces of the previous night, nibbled on some dry food, and prepared to continue their journey towards the water source.

Yun Yao floated to Gao Su's ear and told him about the situation last night.

Gao Su listened, his eyebrows twisted slightly. He spread his hand loosely over his shoulder, motioning for her to float into his palm. It wasn't until she floated down that he lowered his voice and asked, "You didn't sleep all night last night?" ”

There was a hint of pity and self-reproach in his voice.

She blinked, tiptoe circling around his palm: "I've slept enough during the day." I can feel the temperature on your body, so I won't lose my heart even when I'm sleeping...... Alas, alas, Changgong! ”

Gao Su turned on his horse, nodded to the remaining eleven Han soldiers, and then rode away against the direction of the river.

Yun Yao followed Gao Su's fingers and floated into his waist seal. The temperature between his fingers was transmitted to her soul, and she snuggled up unconsciously, as if greedy for his warmth, and slowly closed her eyes and fell asleep.

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Gao Su rode his horse all the way, going all the way up against the direction of the river, and the sound of the horse's hooves was particularly clear in the empty grassland.

Plain.

Wilderness.

Rocky beach.

He fixed his horse in front of the rocky beach, and looked down at the little ...... at his waist Little Yun Yao opened her eyes, rubbed her eyes with her small fingers, and asked with a hazy look, "Have you arrived?" Then he floated slowly to the horse's head and looked into the distance.

The sound of the Huns' horses' hooves was getting closer and closer, and there was an almost crazy sound of bone bells rattling, high and low prayers, the rumbling of wooden carts running over the steppe. The bodies of the cows and horses had been cut open, and the poisonous viscera were held in the palms of the sorcerers, who whispered incantations and prayers, and prayed in unison on the wooden carts.

Twenty or so Hun warriors rode on horses, dragging heavy wooden carts, as well as the corpses of oxen and horses on the wooden carts and wizards, all the way towards the desolate rocky beach. Two miles, one mile, one hundred zhang, fifty zhang, twenty zhang......

"There's a Han army there!"

"Damn who leaked the news!"

"Turn, turn! Go downstream! ”

The chaotic sound of horses' hooves, accompanied by the whistle that rose to the sky, was particularly clear in the open grassland. The high and low Xiongnu words drifted over with the wind, and then went away with the wind. The eleven Han soldiers all became a little anxious, and wanted to ride their horses to chase them, but where could they catch up?

Yun Yao turned around and looked at Gao Su with some confusion. She couldn't understand what the Hun warriors were saying.

Gao Su's eyes sank little by little, his expression was solemn, and there was a faint sharpness and slaughter in his eyes, like a lonely wolf finally showing its claws, reflecting a sharp and dazzling cold light in the sun.

He held down the quiver at his waist and took out two feathered arrows; And he took off the longbow from his horse, and put on his arrows, and pulled them.

The bowstring was like a full moon, and two feathered arrows shot out like a gale.

Whoosh -

Whoosh -

Laugh at.

Laugh at.

Two feathered arrows stabbed squarely into the necks of the two wizards, piercing two bloody holes, and blood gushed out.

As for those two wizards, they were already dead.

The sound of the Huns' horses' hooves became chaotic again, and there was a chaotic cursing of them. They had heard that there were people in the Han army who could penetrate Yang in a hundred steps, and they had heard that there were people in the Han army who could press two arrows with a bow, but when things really appeared in front of their eyes, they still felt an unbelievable ...... Fear.

It was a chill that rushed up from the soles of the feet, a more terrible fear than facing death.

They could even imagine that if that person did come to them, they would have no other choice but to face death. Even the strongest-minded man will tremble under the man's spear and arrows, and his brain will go blank.

The power of King Lanling's arrow is as powerful as this.

The Han army took advantage of the situation and rode their horses across the rocky beach, scattering the already chaotic footsteps of the Huns.

Gao Su covered her with his hand in front of her and said softly, "Don't look." ”

A short fight was soon over. The Huns, who had marched in a chaotic manner and had just gone through a long journey, were no match for the spirited Han army. The broken corpses of the cows and horses were mixed with the blood of the wizards, as well as the viscera held in the palms of the hands of the wizards, and there was a slight smell of decay.

"It's all burning." Gao Su commanded, "lest the plague spread to other places." ”

Vast expanses of fire spread across the grasslands, burning the carcasses of cattle and horses that had died of the plague, along with the pastures they passed along the way. Yun Yao floated to Gao Su's ear and said a few words to him gently. Gao Su frowned slightly, and then ordered:

"Boil the water and bathe. Along with the horses, they were also scrubbed. With quicklime over there. Remember not to touch the water source. ”

Yun Yao's small finger happened to point to a gray-white stone mountain.