Han Zhan, who was lucky enough to escape, fled south with a group of cavalry in a panic. He galloped wildly for an unknown distance, until the horse could no longer run, and then stopped to rest.

The number of people was counted, and only eighteen cavalrymen remained, but all of them were wounded. Seeing this situation, Han Zhan's nose couldn't help but sour for a while, three thousand cavalry, and now there are only these people left. Rob was killed in front of him by an indiscriminate arrow; And Huang Zhong is now nowhere to be found. I don't know where Emperor Han Xian is now, if he has some accidents, he will lose his wife and soldiers this time.

A team leader surnamed Qin came to Han Zhan's side and asked him for instructions: "Lord, where should we go?" ”

Where to go? In terms of team rate, Han Zhan really stopped him. He looked around, and there were rolling hills everywhere, and he didn't even know where he was, let alone choose the direction of action.

Han Zhan knew very well in his heart that the more he was in a strange place, the more he couldn't run around, otherwise if he accidentally encountered the troops chasing and killing him, he would rely on the dozen or so cavalry under his command, and he would not be in the mouth of a tiger. He saw the shadow of a village on a hill in front of him, and said: "Qin team lead, there seems to be a village ahead, you send two cavalry to the front to explore the road, see if you can get some food to come back." ”

"Subordinates obey." The Qin team took the lead and called two clever cavalrymen, and ordered them to continue to advance towards the southern mountains, to see if they could meet the village, find out what kind of place this is, and get some food to come back.

After the two cavalrymen left, the team leader asked Han Zhan again: "Lord, after we replenished the food here, did we take advantage of the night to quietly turn around and head north, return to the river, and look for boats to cross the river?" ”

Regarding the proposal of the team rate, Han Zhan thought about it for a while, but still shook his head and vetoed it: "No, the army of Li Dao and Guo Yan must be waiting by the river at this moment, and we will return to the river now, wouldn't we be throwing ourselves into the net." We had to continue south, leaving our pursuers far away, and finally going around to the north to find a suitable place to cross the river. ”

The cavalry sent out to look for the village soon returned, and reported to Han Zhanyu with a depressed expression: "Lord Qiqi, there is a village in front, but only the ruins remain, and it seems that it has been destroyed very early. ”

Hearing that there were only destroyed villages in the mountains, Han Zhan couldn't help but feel a little headache, because in this way, he would have no place to replenish food. In this way, even if Li Dao and Guo Yan's soldiers and horses do not chase after them, they will not be able to escape the fate of starvation to death.

After learning that the front was just an abandoned village, Team Qin was also a little anxious: "Lord, what should we do?" If we can't find a place to resupply, we'll die of starvation, even if there is no enemy to chase us. ”

"There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain," in this case, Han Zhan could only gamble on his luck, and he said to Qin's team: "Even if there is no village, but food must be found in the mountain to satisfy hunger, let's go to the mountain first, otherwise we won't be able to jump out when Li Dao's soldiers and horses arrive." ”

Han Zhan had just entered the mountain trail with eighteen horsemen, and the two thousand cavalry led by Xu Huang arrived. The cavalry in front found the traces left by Han Zhan and them, and hurriedly shouted: "Qiqi Jun Sima, there is fresh horse manure here, it must have been left by the group of people we were chasing." ”

When Xu Huang heard his subordinates say this, he hurriedly rode his horse over, dismounted and carefully inspected the horse manure on the ground, and then remounted his horse and said, "They have been gone for less than a moment of incense, so quickly follow me, don't let them escape." ”

One of Xu Huang's military marquis pointed to the village on the hill in the distance and said, "Jun Sima, there is a village there, they must flee there." ”

After Xu Huang glanced in that direction, he shook his head and said, "That village has long been empty, there are ruins everywhere, even if they flee there, there is nowhere to live, let's continue to chase along the official road." ”

"Jun Sima," the military marquis couldn't help but be a little anxious when he saw that Xu Huang didn't pay attention to his discovery at all: "Please let me lead the people of Benqu and go to the village to find out." ”

Fortunately, Xu Huang is not a stubborn person, and when he heard that the military marquis insisted on his opinion, he nodded and said, "Okay, you will lead your soldiers and horses to the village to find out." The rest of the people come with me, and we continue to chase along the official road! ”