But it's easy to say, there are more than 30,000 cattle, sheep and horses here, which is not so easy to manage.

From here to the territory of the Great Wall, if you go directly south, there is more than a hundred miles, but you will run into the main force of the Wuhuan army. If you go back the way you came, the distance is more than doubled, and the risk becomes greater.

Qin Wen sighed, this credit is not so good.

"Hey, you bastard, you have something in your arms, hand it over!" A Han soldier dragged out the captive bones and put a knife around his neck.

Ah Gu still clutched the half-baked meat in his arms, no matter how the soldiers threatened, they just wouldn't let go.

If it had been before, he might have succumbed now, but today this meat was obtained by him who had not eaten for a day, and if he handed it over, he would starve to death.

These Han Dynasty people wanted to rob him of his flesh, and he would rather die than agree.

Then several soldiers came up and grabbed his hand and forcibly pulled it away. After some tugging, the flesh in Ah Gu's arms fell to the ground.

He desperately broke free from the soldier's grasp, and lay directly on the ground, grabbed the meat and put it in his mouth.

In this case, Ah Gu plans to eat it first, so that no one can snatch it.

"You bastard, I slaughtered you!" The soldier was so angry that he thought it was something that made this captive so desperate, it was just a piece of meat.

He was about to chop down with a knife, but was stopped by Qin Wen's personal guards. It turned out that Qin Wen, who was not far away, saw the commotion here, so he sent someone over to inquire about the situation.

"General, it was a riot caused by a herdsman captive. One of the soldiers thought he was hiding something dangerous and wanted to search for it. As a result, the captives desperately resisted. ”

"Oh," Qin Wen asked casually, "Do you know what that captive is hiding?" ”

"Just a small piece of meat."

"That's it?"

At this time, the guide standing next to him spoke: "General Qiyu, there is still a difference between those people and herdsmen. The herdsmen had their own property, but they were all slaves, and the slaves themselves were the property of the tribal nobles.

The slaves on the steppe are the lowest existence, they are in a state of hunger all the time, whether they have something to eat or not depends entirely on the mood of their masters. Such a small piece of meat is life for him. ”

Qin Wen thought for a moment and said to the soldier, "Go and bring that person to me." ”

It didn't take long for Ah Gu to be brought to Qin Wen. Qin Wen looked at him and said, "What's your name?" ”

After the guide translated, Ah Gu replied with some cringe, "Ah... A bone. ”

"He said his name was Ah Gu."

Qin Wen nodded, and said again: "I see that you are very hungry, do you want to eat enough?" ”

After listening to the translation, Ah Gu nodded vigorously. This action that is common to the north and south can be known without translating Qin Wen.

"I have a mission here, as long as you complete it, you will be able to eat every day in the future."

After listening to this, Ah Gu immediately knelt on the ground and said a lot of babbling. It means "please command, and the little one must be completed by swearing." ”

Qin Wen was very satisfied with his attitude, so he said his thoughts: "I want you to take the captives and bring all the livestock here back to the Great Wall, if you can do it, you will not only be fed in the future, but you will no longer have to be a slave." ”

Being able to eat means not having to die, and not being a slave means having your own property and family.

Without any hesitation, Ah Gu immediately agreed: "The villain, like those slaves, can only herd and drive the herd to graze anywhere, which is the most skillful thing we do, and we will definitely complete the mission perfectly." ”

In order to catch up with the water and grass in the season, it is not difficult for them to drive livestock for thousands of miles, let alone go to the Great Wall.

Qin Wen was very happy, in this way, this great credit was basically in his hands. He immediately arranged for it and ordered several knights to set off at once.

One went to the main force of the Han army and reported to Zhang Hao what he was doing now; The remaining few went to the pastures of Wuxi, Xiandu, Fangxian, and Xiangping counties to collect pasture grass to maintain the fodder needed by the herd to move south.

After the trivial work is done, there is only one thing to do now, which is to resist the crazy counterattack of the Wuhuan people in the process of driving this herd of livestock back into the Great Wall.

Qin Wen didn't forget that hundreds of people had just escaped, and it was only a day's journey from the Wuhuan camp, which meant that the Wuhuan people would soon know that their grain and grass camp had been taken. This is their food, and they will definitely fight for it.

……

And when Qin Wen succeeded in seizing the livestock, it was the third day of the confrontation between the Han army and the Wuhuan army outside Wangping City.

Ever since Qiu Liju learned that the main force of the Han army was coming, he knew that the greedy king had failed. He immediately ordered that all the surviving people in the city be killed, and the women he originally wanted to bring back to the grassland were gone. And emptied everything in the city that could be used and taken away, even pots and pans.

After all, the grassland is scarce, and any waste is shameful.

After Zhang Hao arrived, there was only an empty city left in Wangping City, and corpses everywhere. Qiu Liju re-led his soldiers and horses out of the city.

Among the corpses in the city, Zhang Hao found Gao You's broken corpse. Before he died, he still maintained a faint smile on his face.

There is the joy of the arrival of the main army, the ridicule of the Wuhuan people, and the guilt of the people.

Zhang Hao put Gao You in his arms, slowly closed his eyes with his hand, and said softly: "Although you betrayed the yellow scarf before, I know that you will not betray me." Gao You, you are good. ”

After that, Zhang Hao led the Han army to confront Qiu Liju outside the city, and ordered hundreds of soldiers to dig a tomb in the south of the city and bury the people of the whole city in it.

He also dug a cemetery for Gao Youhe and the soldiers who died in battle, and erected a stone tablet with the words "Heroic souls are loyal to their souls and will last forever".

Qiu Liju naturally knew what Zhang Hao was doing, if he allowed Zhang Hao to make the martyr's tomb or something, wouldn't it be humiliating himself in disguise? Of course he wouldn't agree.

So in the past few days, the two sides have fought more than a dozen times around the two cemeteries, large and small, and they have won and lost each other. The cemetery was destroyed by Wuhuan and rebuilt by the Han army; The Han army was rebuilt, and Wuhuan came to destroy it again, so you come and go, and you don't let each other go.

The two sides are not simply fighting for the cemetery, but for morale.

The Han army had more infantry than cavalry and was good at defending, so that Wuhuan had no opportunity to take advantage of it for a while. Wuhuan cavalry has many cavalry and is good at attacking, which also makes the Han army dare not attack easily.

If Zhang Hao could inspire the soldiers' revenge through the death of his comrades-in-arms and the people of the city, it would greatly increase the chances of victory.

Similarly, if Qiu Liju destroys the mausoleum and demoralizes the Han army, with his cavalry, he will definitely win.

The so-called One Han and Five Hu also refer to the previous duel of the cavalry, and now the Wuhuan cavalry is more than five times that of the Han cavalry. Unless Wei Qing and Huo Qu come back to life, they will definitely not be able to do it with Zhang Hao.

But over time, fighters will come.

On the fifth day of the confrontation between the two sides, Qiu Liju was thinking about whether to shoot another cavalry to spare the Han army and go south to destroy. Hundreds of Wuhuan people who fled from the north entered the Wuhuan camp and met Qiu Liju.

"Khan, the mountain pool was attacked by the Han cavalry and has been breached." A man who had fled back cried.

"What about the livestock!" Qiu Liju was so angry at this moment that he was smoking, and his mouth seemed to be about to breathe fire.

"Both... They were all snatched away by the Han army. ”

Qiu Liju really sprayed, but it wasn't fire, it was blood. He didn't expect the Han army to dare to go out of the Great Wall and attack his rear.

He fell straight down, but the guards were quick to hold him up.

Qiu Liju still knows too little about history. The Han army left the Great Wall hundreds of years ago, but it has been quelling the rebellion for decades and has not fought abroad, giving Qiu Liju the illusion that the Han army does not dare to go out of the Great Wall.

"The livestock has been robbed, so what are you doing when you come back!" Qiu Liju stood up again, pulled out his golden knife, and directly cut off the head of the person who spoke.

He shouted at his subordinates, "Put them all to me to death!" ”

However, a tribal chief named Mulihu next to him dissuaded: "Khan, now that those livestock have been robbed by the Han Dynasty, there are only three days of food left in the army, so we must send troops to grab it back." It is better to let these sinners atone for their sins. Our Wuhuan warriors should die on the battlefield, not because of their mistakes. ”

Qiu Liju tried to calm himself down, but he couldn't, but this was the normal reaction when he was angry, he was just a Yidi chieftain, not a saint of ancient China.

In a tone as if he could kill someone, he shouted at the people who had escaped: "Since Lord Mulihu intercedes for you, Ben Khan allows you to atone for your crimes. Mulihu, you take your headquarters and these damned guys to take back our livestock. ”

"No, Mulihu obeys."

Just when Mu Lihu was about to lead the army to set off, Zhang Hao also got the news sent back by Qin Wen.

"General Qin broke through Wuhuan's grain and grass camp, and at this moment he is leading the soldiers and prisoners to drive up to 30,000 livestock to the territory. At the same time, General Qin also issued instructions to the pasture to prepare pasture. In the end, General Qin asked the general to lead his troops to meet him. ”

Zhang Hao was expressionless, and said to the soldiers: "I know, you go down first." ”

When the soldier walked out of the tent, Zhang Hao immediately became furious and kicked down the desk in front of him. "This Qin Wen is really a bastard, he dares to disobey my generals' orders, it's simply unreasonable!"

Du Ping on the side persuaded: "Why is the general so angry? General Qin Wen captured so many livestock, but he did a great job, and this credit is half of yours. And all the pastures in Pingzhou are not short of livestock, these can just be supplemented, which is a happy event. ”

"Happy event?" Zhang Hao looked at Du Ping angrily, "Where does the joy come from, originally as long as he killed all those livestock and burned them all, the Wuhuan army would collapse without a fight due to lack of food, and when we launched an attack, we would definitely win a big victory." ”

"But now, he has brought so much burden with himself, the speed of the march is slow, and the Wuhuan cavalry will fight for livestock at any time, and once the victory is unexpected, it will also lose the army."

"And we had to send troops to rescue, this is a great achievement, not only he Qin Wen knows, but the soldiers know it. If you don't go to the rescue and the livestock are taken, the credit will be exhausted, and all the soldiers will be distracted. When the time comes, we will lose! ”

The more Zhang Hao thought about it, the more angry he became: "I knew that I should have let him go if I had the task of guarding the Great Wall and staying in Wangping!" This bastard. ”