Like a pack of wolves driving away Emperor Zhang's flock, the Hanlou coalition pursued the Xiongnu rout until outside the mud city.

During this period, many Hun cavalry scattered and fled, with no rules, no direction, no organization, only the fear of the sharp blades in the hands of the pursuers behind them, and the desire to survive. At this time, the panic in the heart of the Hun cavalry overcame everything and penetrated into the bone marrow, making them forget that they were elite.

When it comes to escaping, there is no distinction between elite and non-elite.

When Qin Cheng led the Hanlou coalition army to arrive at the Xiongnu camp outside the mud city, the Xiongnu camp had already boiled into the sky. The nearly 2,000 cavalry of the Xiongnu who stayed in the camp discovered them when the Xiongnu rout was still far away from the camp, and also found the Hanlou coalition army behind them shouting like wolves and tigers.

The lieutenant general left behind in the battalion organized the remaining cavalry and tried to turn the situation around. But they were shocked by the news that the Huns had brought back.

"What, the Great King War is gone?"

After the adjutant general learned the news of Guludu's death from the mouth of the rout, his first reaction was not to believe it, but when he saw Guludu's head, he shook his whole body twice and almost fell down.

"General, withdraw!" The routs persuaded, "If you don't retreat, it's too late!" ”

"No, you can't withdraw!" The adjutant general's face was bloodless, and his eyes were empty, "The king has not been fighting, I will die if I retreat, and if I don't die, I will be a slave!" He drew his long knife and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Fight and avenge the king, maybe there is a glimmer of life!" ”

The adjutant general's order received a positive response from some people, because they could imagine the tragic fate of returning home: either they were brought to justice or they were separated from their slave wives. They hurriedly gathered the cavalry that could be gathered, and before they had time to form a formation, they rushed to the outside of the camp gate, ready to fight desperately with the Hanlou coalition army.

The morale of the Han-Lou coalition army is very high, not to mention the hussars, the Loulan army has a grudge against the Hun cavalry for a long time, once turned over, the shame suffered in the past can now be intensified and returned, at this time there is no need to greet people who are willing to work hard. Moreover, today is a good tailwind, there are a lot of cheap military merits to pick up, but there will be few such opportunities in the future, who doesn't want to seize the opportunity to seek a possibility of promotion?

The two armies collided in a military formation near the gate of the camp, and it was inevitable that there would be a lot of fighting. Originally, the Hanlou coalition army should have been greatly affected by its fortifications when it approached the main camp, but the Hun cavalry that had returned from the previous rout had scattered and moved most of the horses and other settings, and the trench had not been able to play its due role. The Hanlou coalition army basically entered the camp gate unimpeded.

The Hun army failed to block the Hanlou coalition army outside the camp for arrow rain cover, it has lost the opportunity, and now the cheap Hanlou coalition army rushed in unimpeded, they hurriedly assembled, the formation is not very strict Hun cavalry, where can they beat the momentum of the Hanlou coalition army?

It didn't take long for the Hun camp to burst into flames, and from the gate to the Chinese army's tent, countless tents were reduced to ashes in the firelight. The collapsed tents covered the corpses on the ground, or the soldiers who had not had time to get up from the ground, and then they were cremated alive.

The figures of the cavalry ran through the fire tents burning on all sides, and countless sergeants covered in flames ran and rolled on the ground, and some of the lucky ones died under the sword of the cavalry, and the unlucky ones were burned alive.

The battle was not fierce, and the great battle, which had nothing to do with the tragedy, quickly alarmed the mud city. The unique shouts of killing, screaming and neighing of horses on the battlefield woke up the people and officials in the city, and also made the king of Loulan, who had not yet fallen asleep, hurriedly run out of the palace and stepped on the city.

When the king of Loulan stepped on the city, it was when a group of Loulan civil officials returned to the city, and the king of Loulan asked people to open the city gate, and he walked down the city wall in a hurry, and roared to the civil officials who came back: "This king asked you to go to the city to receive the Han envoys into the city, how can you fight with the Huns now?" And rushed into someone's camp? If you don't know whether you live or die, do you still want to drag the people of the whole city to give you a burial?! What about the general, where is the general, didn't this king tell you not to fight the Huns, are you looking for death? ”

The civil officials were silent, and they all shrank down and lowered their heads and did not dare to look at King Loulan, still dripping from their faces with sweat, cramped and uneasy. Hearing the king of Loulan call the general, the leading civil official said in a low voice: "General...... The general was killed in the line of duty. ”

"Killed in the line of duty?" King Loulan was stunned, then pulled the collar of the civil official, and said angrily: "What did you say? Do you tell this king again?! ”

"The king's wrath!" The civil official hurriedly bowed down and said bitterly: "The Huns attacked our Loulan army indiscriminately, and the general had no choice but to lead all the soldiers to resist hard, and the army was in chaos...... The general unfortunately failed. ”

King Loulan was stunned there, his expression stiff, and his eyes were blank.

..............................................................

After driving out all the Hun cavalry in the Xiongnu camp, Qin Cheng did not order a pursuit. Now that the threat of the Xiongnu to Loulan's soldiers has been temporarily lifted, and the purpose of Qincheng has been achieved, the number of beheadings is only a secondary issue.

There were not many Hun cavalry killed in the big battalion, and more of them surrendered. The Hanlou coalition army came too fast and rushed too fiercely, and many Hun cavalry had no time to get out. And out of fear of being punished by military law after returning to the desert, many people didn't bother to run that far, and simply surrendered on the spot.

Qin Cheng asked the Xike teaman to call the Loulan army to collect the prisoners, demolish the camp building, and bring everyone to the mud city to visit the king of Loulan.

Zhang Qian, Dou Fei and other officials had followed the heavy cavalry before, and later when the heavy cavalry ambushed Guludu, everyone hid in the Yang forest, and only then did they follow the army, and at this time they also arrived outside the camp.

Xike Chafu looked very excited, and when he left the camp, he said proudly: "The army of Guludu is the elite army of the Hun cavalry, and this time it was defeated by us in one fell swoop. Such a big victory, it's exciting! In the future, when the Loulan army faces the Hun cavalry again, it will not be afraid! ”

Liu Mu sniffed when he heard this, "The elite who can only fight with the wind, and the elite who only knows how to flee when they lose the battle, what kind of elite is it?" ”

"It's not that they're not elite enough, it's that we're too good." Xike Chafu felt very good about himself, "Today's night attack, even the elite troops can't resist it!" ”

"It's just that your army in the Western Regions can't resist it." Liu Mu said lightly.

"......" Xiko Teaman stopped talking, and Yanagiki's attitude made him a little angry.

Seeing Qin Cheng and the others coming out of the camp, Dou Fei and Zhang Qian both greeted them, and the two of them congratulated each other, "Congratulations to the general on his victory in the first battle in the Western Regions, this is a good sign!" ”

"Alright, don't scold me." Qin Cheng smiled and waved his hand, looked around at everyone, didn't see Yi Xue'er, and asked, "Where is Princess Yi Xue?" ”

"In the back." Dou Fei pointed behind him.

Qin Cheng followed Dou Fei's finger and saw that Yi Xue'er was alone and immediately far away, she was facing the unrecognizable Hun camp that was still burning, and she seemed very quiet. Because she stood too far away, the fire in the Hun camp could not shine on her body, which made her whole person seem to be immersed in darkness.

"Organize people to enter the city." Qin Cheng said to Zhang Qian and Dou Fei, "I'll call Princess Yixue." ”

"Okay, there you go." Zhang Qian and Dou Fei looked at Qin Cheng with understanding, and when they looked at Yi Xue'er, who was alone and independent in the dark, there was some sympathy in their eyes.

Liu Mu also watched in distraction as Qin Cheng ran towards Yi Xue'er.

Zhang Qian saw that Liu Mu was stunned, and laughed: "Do you want General Liu to go with the general to comfort Princess Yixue?" ”

Liu Mu glanced at Zhang Qian, "I'm going to do something, I'm going to go yourself." With that, he walked away with the horse's belly between his legs.

Dou Fei looked at Zhang Qian and smiled, "Brother Zhang, isn't he envious of the general's Yanfu?" ”

"Where is envy?" Zhang Qian said, "It's clearly jealousy." ”

..................................................

"I'm wondering now if it's too cruel to you to bring you to the Western Regions." Qin Cheng did not urge Yi Xue'er to enter the city, but grabbed the reins in front of her, looked at her and said seriously.

"Don't you think it's a bit redundant to say that now?" Yi Xue'er's voice was very calm, but she didn't look at Qin Cheng, her eyes were always fixed on the Hun camp, and after a pause, she said, "Do you know what I saw?" ”

Qin Chengfu looked at the blazing Xiongnu camp in the distance, the fence around the camp had been demolished a lot by the Loulan sergeant, which made it look even more dilapidated and a little unsightly. For a while, Qin Cheng didn't know what to say, so he could only remain silent.

Yi Xue'er didn't seem to want Qin Cheng to answer, she paused for a while and then said to herself: "You must wonder if I remembered the days when I led the troops in the desert, and whether I remembered the camp where I once led the Hun army to settle down." Then Ixher smiled, a lonely smile, "Actually, I didn't think of this at all. I think of my tribe when I was a child, my own tribe. ”

Qin Cheng looked at Yi Xue'er in surprise.

"In fact, I didn't think I was a Hun at all, and it wasn't my own will to lead troops to fight, just to be worthy of Yi Zhixian, who saved my life. My tribe was destroyed by the military ministers, but my life was saved by Yi Zhi. Icher continued, her voice flat as water, "You know, I don't feel very comfortable on a day like that. ”

Qin Cheng lowered his head and fell into deep thought.

Yi Xue'er looked at Qin Cheng, and her voice gradually softened, "I know what the reason and purpose of you brought me to the Western Regions. Of course, it's not because I'm familiar with the Huns, familiar with the steppe, so it's convenient to help you with anything. You can't rub sand in your eyes, and when you encounter a problem, you always go straight to solve it, and the same is true for me. You are worried that I will continue to cut off my feelings for the desert and the Huns, so you simply took me to the Western Regions, wanting me to face the Huns again, and then quickly cut through the chaos, right? Including recommending to His Majesty that I go to serve as the county guard of Shuofang County, does that mean? ”

Qin Cheng laughed at himself, "Now I know that it is superfluous for me to do this. ”

"No, it's not redundant." Icher shook her head, "If you hadn't put me in this position, I wouldn't have been able to figure it out. ”

"Want to understand that you don't actually care about the Huns? Don't have too much emotion? ”

"Hmm." Yi Xue'er bowed her head, and then showed a warm smile, "Actually, this is not what I really remember. ”

"What's that?"

"It's your intentions." Yi Xue'er said, "You are taking great pains, aren't you just worried that I won't be able to fit into the big man?" ”

Qin Cheng smiled, "Actually, what I'm worried about is that you won't be able to integrate into me." ”

Yi Xue'er glanced at Qin Cheng, "Can you not be so subtle?" ”

"Aren't the prairie people very direct!"

"Now I'm Han."