Wrapping the cloak made of torn linen cloth on his body tightly, Tian Lei looked up at the goose feather-like snow still flying in the air, the snow was mixed with the wind, dancing in the air irregularly, and his vision was blocked within dozens of meters.

It's cold, it's too cold. This is the only thought in Tian Lei's heart, the torn linen cloak is full of small holes, and it can't help too many things, although his hands are wrapped with messy strips of cloth, they are still covered with frostbite, and when he rides on a horse, the whole person feels that he is about to stiffen. Tumming his hands under his armpits, warming them with the faint warmth emanating from his body, he felt like he couldn't hold the hilt of the knife at all.

He is an old cavalryman, excellent equestrianism, only with his legs between the war horse, can still control freely, but the war horse under the crotch also seems a little weak, in recent days, the logistics because of the heavy snow non-stop, has been unable to supply sufficient food, the horse has been unable to eat, there is still a little beans left in the pocket, usually this is the amount of a horse meal, but now, it is two days of quantity, there is no sufficient food supplement, in this snowy day, it is difficult to even find some grassroots, seeing the horse lose weight rapidly in the past two days, Tian Lei was annoyed.

Attacking on such a snowy day is simply a lonely throw, once it fails, there is not much chance to escape, and the horse can't run at all.

As an experienced old cavalryman, Tian Lei was sent out as a scout, and he brought ten cavalrymen under him, but Tian Lei did not have any confidence in these rookies, and there were fewer and fewer veterans like himself over the years, so they had to be split and used, but in this way, the combat effectiveness dropped sharply. These recruits have little experience of surviving on a brutal battlefield, and they are the first to die when they encounter an enemy.

Tian Lei didn't like this war, and to put it more simply, he didn't want to fight the Han people again. He was a survivor of the last Qin-Han war. As a cavalryman, the confrontation with the Han cavalry in the last major war made him really frightened, and the Han cavalry, especially their Hun cavalry and Donghu cavalry, had much more experience than them in this kind of ice and snow battle.

But he is a soldier, and when he gives an order, he can't go without fighting, and Qin's law is strict. The punishment for deserters is extremely severe, not only for the soldiers themselves, but also for their families. Tian Lei's current home is in Shannan County, and there are still his father and mother in the house, plus his wife and two daughters, he can be regarded as a big family.

Earlier, because his wife did not give birth to a son for him, he was not less angry with him, and when he was angry, he would even reward his wife with a few punches. But in the past two years, he has been much better to his wife, because of the fellow countrymen and companions he once envied. Their sons had to be drafted into the army before they were adults, and after every war, a black pass was sent to their village. Looking at the grief-stricken expressions of those fellow villagers and listening to their heart-rending cries, Tian Lei suddenly felt. In this day and age, having a daughter is really the right choice, because they don't have to go to war, and every time they come home, they can see the family get together and share that little bit of food, which is not a kind of happiness.

Another worry made him uneasy in the past two years, his daughter grew up year by year, but he could not find the right boy of the right age to marry, they had either died in battle or had already set foot on the battlefield, and Tian Lei did not want his daughter to marry a soldier again, because then they could become a widow at any time.

Wait, or the war is coming to an end, and when the war is over, they will find a family for them, and they don't have to look at the man's family situation, as long as they can live well. They have not yet reached the age of eighteen, and although they are already old girls in the township, they can wait for two years, two years, and the war should be over.

He is already over forty, and after this battle, he can either retire from the front-line troops and transfer to the logistics unit to serve, or he can become a cavalry instructor, and experienced cavalry like himself are becoming less and less common in Daqin.

The premise is, survive.

Pulling a slightly slight hand out of his armpit, he lifted the reins, today's patrol is almost over, and it is time to go back, although the temperature in the camp is not much better than outside, but at least it can block the wind.

Ten days, the main attacking force in front of the ten days did not defeat the enemy in front, which gave Tian Lei a very bad feeling, this feeling is too familiar, as if it was the same last time, the front repeatedly attacked, and then the Han cavalry troops came in a big way, cutting off the back road of the Qin army, cutting off their supplies, and finally tens of thousands of troops had to fight for their lives, and finally disappeared in the encirclement of the Han people. He shivered violently, this time not because of the cold, but because of the cold.

The war horse under the crotch suddenly stopped, and kept arching the snowdrift in front of him with his mouth, in Tian Lei's eyes, there was nothing abnormal about this snowfield, but the horse's sense of smell is always more reliable than human eyes, he jumped off the horse, stretched out his hand and gouged up where the horse arched, and after a while, he only felt that the blood in his body was solidified.

Under the snow, there is some burnt charcoal, among these black charcoal ashes, he smells a smell of barbecue, it is the taste of the dried meat of Niuguan, Tian Lei has seen, this is a standard configuration of the Han army, the beef and mutton are made into jerky, pickled and dried, and carried with him, during the march, it will become soft when heated, and it will become a dry food. Tian Lei had personally captured the Han soldiers, and on their bodies, he had seen this kind of equipment. And this was impossible in the Qin army.

The cold sweat all over his body kept coming out, Tian Lei lay on the snow, desperately pulling the snowdrift to the left and right, the floating snow was lying on his stomach layer by layer, and more of this ash appeared in front of his eyes.

The captain's actions aroused the ideas of the other soldiers, everyone jumped off their horses, and followed Tian Lei to pick up the floating snow, one after another such residues were dug out, Tian Lei sat on the ground, the Han army, there is no doubt that this is the traces left by the Han army, just looking at these traces they dug out, it is enough to have at least one company of the Han army, the company, is the establishment of the Han army, and there are nearly two hundred people in one company.

Tian Lei's hands were trembling, since the Han army had appeared, it would never be a small company, there must be a large number of troops, how did they appear here? And Tian Lei didn't see the horse manure, he didn't see it at all, even if they burned the horse manure, there would be a smell of horse manure left in these residues, but there was no such smell, could it be that the Han army came to the infantry, how did the infantry cross this vast snowfield and suddenly appear in the rear of most of the Qin army. How did they evade the cavalry patrolling the Qin army.

Tian Lei knew that there were hundreds of cavalry patrols like him on this snowy field, in order to prevent the enemy from infiltrating and destroying their grain routes.

"Captain, we need to go back immediately and report to the general." A Qin soldier beside him said to Tian Lei, who was a little depressed.

"Yes, go back, go back." Tian Lei reacted suddenly, and the appearance of the Han army on a large scale meant that the Qin army would repeat the defeat of the last time.

Tian Lei had just jumped up, and suddenly there was a very slight whistling sound in the wind and snow, for the young soldier, he couldn't notice this strange sound mixed in the wind and snow, but for a veteran like Tian Lei, this whistling sound exploded in his ears like a thunderbolt.

It was the arm crossbow, the arm open crossbow used by the soldiers of the Han army, and the body that had just stood up straight immediately became shorter, and the reins of the horse in his hand were tightened, and the war horse that had been with him for many years immediately knelt down in the snow.

"Get down, get down!" Tian Lei yelled.

But the young soldiers who followed him obviously hadn't figured out anything yet, Tian Lei felt a hot face, he looked up, and saw the young man standing beside him with his eyes bulging, a crossbow arrow shot into his back, his chest exposed, and the blood brought out by the crossbow arrow sprayed on his face.

The soldier snorted and threw himself into the snow, the white snow beneath him being overwhelmed by a rapidly spreading glow. The whistling sound of crossbow arrows suddenly intensified, Tian Lei suppressed the great fear in his heart, and lay on the snow tightly, using the cover of the war horse to avoid the shooting of the crossbow arrows, he didn't dare to raise his head, but he could hear the heavy sound of falling to the ground and the screams of his soldiers, those familiar voices were full of pain and fear.

The attack was short-lived, and he was the only one left in the entire patrol team. There was a strange rustling sound around, Tian Lei raised his head slightly, in the wind and snow, a white figure approached here a little clumsily, each of them had a long board on their feet, two sticks tied to their wrists, and in their hands, they were holding their arms and crossbows, and they were approaching him step by step.

The whiteness of their bodies blended them with the snow and snow, and each of them showed only two eyes, and they were vigilantly scanning the corpses on the ground.

"Is there anyone alive?" In the rear, there was a voice of inquiry.

"It seems like there isn't." Ahead, a soldier responded.

"Be careful, everyone will make up for one more arrow, don't capsize in the gutter, fuck it, this is the first batch of Qin State scouts we have killed?"

"Company commander, this is the fourth batch." A soldier smiled in response, raised the crossbow arrow in his hand, and aimed it at Tian Lei, who was lying on the ground.

Tian Lei was terrified to the extreme, he knew that when this crossbow arrow was fired, it would be the end of his life.

Can't hesitate any longer, Tian Leiren lay on the ground and didn't move, but his two hands were raised high.

"Don't shoot arrows, I surrender, I surrender!" Tian Lei doesn't want to die, he still has parents who are over the age of six, two daughters who are not married, and a wife who has suffered a lot of grievances from him but has never complained. (To be continued.) )