In the Hexi Corridor outside the northwest border of the Qin State, the plains were full of snow-white worlds, and the 100,000 cavalry led by Sima Cuo stretched for several miles, like a long black dragon, heading north.

"General, let the soldiers rest, after more than ten days of marching, they are already exhausted and their bodies are a little stiff, and if they continue like this, they will lose their lives. Huo Quai's lieutenant Li Ze spoke.

"No, if the army stops to rest, the soldiers will be frozen and unable to move, and I am afraid that if we don't see the enemy, we will already freeze to death. "Huo Qu's illness is not extinct.

Winter marching is a taboo for soldiers, and many soldiers in the army have been infected with the cold, and Sima Cuo has been discussing with the generals in the army about returning to Di Dao. When pursuing, I never thought that the snow would fall heavier and heavier, and it was really still better for people to be counted than to be counted by heaven.

Looking at the soldier who was walking with his hands on his chest and trembling, Huo Quzhi was also a little unsure of what to do. He was very unwilling to retreat like this, thinking of the tragic situation of corpses all over the field in Longxi County, he could not break the corpses of those Huns into thousands of pieces. However, Sima Cuo had already decided to withdraw his troops back to Longxi before there was any news of the Hun cavalry on the three days of pursuit, and he would consider it in the long run.

Sima Cuo led 100,000 cavalry to pursue the Xiongnu in the north only brought a month's dry food, has been chasing for 15 days, the food is not enough for 100,000 soldiers to continue the pursuit, even if the food is enough, can not be chasing, there has been a thing that someone has been frozen to death, if it continues, Sima Cuo can not predict the consequences, or decided to go back to Didao.

The front of the 100,000 cavalry was the First Army led by Huo Quzhi, the center was the Central Army commanded by Sima Cuo, and the second army led by Wang Jian was behind.

The Second Army led by Wang Jian was also tired and did not move quickly. Looking at the soldiers who were as stiff as puppets, Wang Jian was also concerned. Thinking back to the people of Qin who were killed by the Xiongnu, and then thinking that they might have to withdraw their troops, they were unwilling, but helpless. Full of grief and indignation, like a volcano that has accumulated to the extreme. Wang Qian, who was in his twenties, said in a loud voice: "As a soldier of Great Qin, I should be proud to protect my Great Qin, the Huns annihilated humanity and killed the innocent people of our Great Qin, and their crimes should be punished, and those who insulted the people of Great Qin should die." ”

The soldier next to him was stunned for a moment, and then Wang Jian was also aroused by the blood in his heart.

The deputy general beside Wang Jian took the lead and said loudly: "I am proud to protect the people of Daqin, and those who insult the people of Daqin will die." This sound woke up the soldiers who were still marching in a state of confusion and numbness, as if they had found the sustenance in their hearts, or the meaning of being a Great Qin soldier.

"Protect my people of Great Qin and be proud, and those who insult my people of Great Qin will die. This phrase sounded throughout the Second Army.

"Protect my people of Great Qin and be proud, and those who insult my people of Great Qin will die. "And then there is the Chinese army.

"Protect my people of Great Qin and be proud, and those who insult my people of Great Qin will die. "In and then the 1st Army in front.

"Protect my people of Great Qin and be proud, and those who insult my people of Great Qin will die. The 100,000 cavalry shouted in unison, and the sound resounded throughout the snow-covered grassland.

Three hundred miles away from the north of the Qin army, there was a large black and oppressive team heading north, the team stretched for more than ten miles, the number was no less than 150,000, looking at its dress, it was actually the Hun cavalry.

As if he felt something in his heart, the 150,000 Xiongnu commander Zuo Xian Wang looked south. A rough-looking Hun general beside King Zuo Xian said suspiciously: "Prince, what are you?"

Zuo Xianwang said uneasily: "I have a bad feeling, there is a man-eating beast behind me, which gives me a very dangerous feeling. ”

Hearing this, the general Shi Li laughed and said: "Prince, since you snatched 10,000 women from the Qin State, I heard that you are unhappy without women every night, don't you spend your energy on women and hallucinate." But don't say that the women of the Central Plains are more beautiful than the women of the Huns. As if he had thought of something beautiful, he continued with a look of reminiscence: "Zizi...... , the smooth skin, the seductive delicate body, the huge breasts. It's fascinating to think about. It's just too weak to help the wind, and it's really unpleasant that more than 30 women died in January. ”

The Xiongnu prince's face sank, and he said unhappily: "This prince is not joking with you. ”

Seeing Mao Dun's face drop, the general also became serious and said, "We have been away from the border of Qin for about a month, how can anyone chase after us." And this plan was put forward by the prince himself, and he agreed to mobilize 150,000 troops for the prince to implement this plan of killing three birds with one stone. The people of the Qin State may not know that it was our doing, as for the Qiang tribe, they have already sent an army of 80,000 to the Yue clan, leaving only some people to protect their own clan, and they will not leave easily, let alone chase after them. ”

After listening to Shi Li's analysis, Mao Dun felt that it was the same, could it really be that he was extravagant, mentally depressed, and hallucinated. Maudun was also suspicious of his own feelings. However, he was cautious by nature and gave the order to speed up.

150,000 horses carrying several bags of things, and at the end of the cavalry were the people of Qin who were guarded, and more than 20,000 people were carrying a huge burden and staggering forward. A whip sounded with a "snap ......", a skinny woman was wrapped and crushed into the snow, and a Hun cavalry ruthlessly whipped her horse. The back of the woman's uncovered burden has long been a blur of flesh and blood, and there is no good place at all. If a living person had been whipped by this, he would have screamed a long time ago, but the woman did not react in the slightest. The Hun soldier increased his strength and whipped it a few more times, but seeing that the woman still did not react, he stepped forward to skillfully untie the burden on the woman's body and gave it to a Qin man next to the woman.

Seeing the woman die, the rest of the Qin people were full of hatred but helpless, and when they saw the burden handed over by the Hun soldiers, the man's hand clenched into a fist was finally unable to let go, and he took the burden weakly and carried it on his body. His body became more rickety, and the footprints on the snow became much deeper. Glancing back at the woman's body, she headed north under the whipping of the Hun soldiers. The woman's corpse was gradually covered in heavy snow, and under this endless snowy world, I don't know how many homeless corpses remained.

On the second day, a team of five scouts of the 100,000 cavalry of the Qin State lay on a three-meter-high hill, looking at the white in front of them, and could not see any other colors, let alone the enemy.

A scout sighed and said: "Wu Chang, for more than ten days, we haven't even seen the shadow of the Huns, it stands to reason that the Huns are not so fast, is it that we are chasing the wrong direction." ”

Wu Chang said unceremoniously: "How can you know how to march and fight better than the general and several generals?" Hearing this, the other three held back hard, wanting to laugh but not daring to laugh.

The scout who asked just now glanced at the three of them and said stupidly: "How can I dare to compare with the generals." ”

Wu Chang scolded: "The unambitious boy, who does not have the courage to compare with the generals, how can he be in charge of an army alone in the future." ”

The four of them looked at their Wu Chang with some surprise, as if they were meeting each other for the first time, and they couldn't believe that their Wu Chang could say such insightful words. One of the scouts asked adoringly, "Commander, what kind of ambition do you have to compete with the generals?" ”

The other three also stared at Wu Chang and followed his answer.

Wu Chang said as a matter of course: "No." ”

The four of them fainted together, and they had a new understanding of the three words shameless.

Seeing the expressions of the four people, Wu Chang didn't care. Secretly said: The four of you have never seen the military ability of General Wang Jian and General Huo Quzhi, let alone Gan Mao, who was also the prime minister of Qin, and Sima Cuo, who destroyed Shu, is not a wonderful person.

The commander said to a young soldier, "Go and bring the horses here, and we'll look fifty miles ahead." ”

"No"

The horses hide behind the hillock, underneath them, in case there are shadowy scouts in front of them, this position is invisible to enemies in front of them, thus reducing their chances of not being spotted.

The young scout cautiously descended the hill and walked towards the position of the five horses. The young scout who was still about to move forward suddenly stopped, his eyes staring at a slender gray thing next to the five war horses, which was so striking in this white world, although it was not too clear because it was too far away, but for the young scout who had participated in several wars, his first reaction was that thing was a human arm.

There were too many corpses and broken arms on the battlefield, and he was seven points sure of his guess. So I hurriedly ran over to confirm.

Sure enough, this was a man's arm, only this arm might have been trampled and kicked by a horse, and the young scout knelt down and followed his arm to lay the snow away, it was a male corpse, and it looked like it was about thirty. There were a few whip marks on his face, but the clothes on his body were bright red, and at first glance he knew that they were stained red by blood.

The young scout turned it over, only to see that its back was frozen and pitted.

Seeing this tragic situation, the young scout took a breath of cold air, couldn't bear to look at it directly, and hurriedly turned it over.

But he also looked at the pair of dead eyes, and even the young scout who crawled out of the mountain of corpses and blood was a little drumming.

"It's ......"

The four of them waited for a while, and they didn't see the young scout move back for a long time, and the four of them looked down and saw that the young scout seemed to be fiddling with something, so they came down to take a look with some curiosity.

When I came closer, I saw the corpse in front of the young scout, and the probability of encountering a corpse in the grassland was very small, let alone in this snowy winter.

Looking at the pit in the snow, everyone understood where it had come from.

Several people got up to examine the corpse, and the scars on its body were also shocking.

"Look at the scars on his body, it's really miserable, the person who did it is so black-hearted!"

A scout also said: "He is wearing our Central Plains clothes and more like the clothes of our Qin State, it must be ......"

The five of them glanced at each other, and they all saw three words in each other's eyes: "Found it." ”

Wu Chang hurriedly came to the edge of the pit, and saw that there was a layer of snow under the corpse, and the joy on his face was even greater.

Commanded to the other four people: "Erniu, you and Ergou go south from here, be careful along the way, and when you see the raised snow bag, open it to see if there is a corpse, Xiaohu and I will face north and gather here at five o'clock." ”

"Captain Wu, what should he do. The young scout pointed to the corpse on the ground.

Wu Chang sighed and said, "Bury it!"

After a few moments, the five of them divided into two groups and headed for the north and south.