Dawn is approaching, the east line of fish belly white, the sky is gray and blue, the four fields are silent, and the morning dew is slightly cool. The soldiers of the hussar battalion and the 3,000 soldiers of the county-by-county camp began to pull out the camp, and the brightly lit camp was full of people, and the shadows were long and short.

Six thousand Hun captives were lined up in a long line, winding out of the camp, like a long snake covered in scales writhing and twisting its body, lifeless. On both sides of the 6,000 Hun prisoners were 3,000 cavalry from county to county. Red robe, black armor, long knife hanging from the waist, and a cloak.

Because of a military order from Qincheng, last night, 6,000 Hun captives suffered inhumane physical and mental torture, and their bodies, which had no strength because of hunger, were forced to drain the last trace of strength. After a sleepless night, they were sleepy, hungry, and powerless to oppress each other, and the faces of the rough prairie men had long since lost the indignation they had at the beginning of last night, leaving only exhaustion and pain. Their slumped bodies were like bent bamboos, moving mechanically and slowly, and their eyes were empty without the slightest look, all of which told the misery they had suffered here.

The hussar battalion had already lined up in a neat queue, and the ranks of fifteen or six thousand people formed a neat phalanx under the half-bright sky, and the Qin halberd set up on the ground and the long knife hanging from the waist all showed the murderous aura of this team.

Scarlet cloaks, flying out of a neat queue.

Qin Cheng drove his horse to Ma Han, the commander of the county-by-county garrison, and his eyes, which were even colder than Qin Ji's blade, glanced at the half-dead six thousand Hun captives in front of him, and the voice without any emotion came into Ma Han's ears, "It's two or three hundred miles away from each county, when will such a speed be reached?" ”

"What does General Qin mean?" After yesterday night, Ma Han had a deep impression of Qin Cheng's "cruelty", and when he heard Qin Cheng's words, he knew that this group of Hun captives would not be able to live in peace today, and the corners of his mouth twitched at the moment.

"We have to speed it up." Qin Cheng's voice made the temperature, which had already fallen to the bottom of the day, drop a little again, "If they can't walk fast on their own, Ma Duwei shouldn't mind helping them, right?" After that, he glanced at the horsewhip in Mahan's hand, "The horsewhip can be used not only to drive horses, but also to drive people." ”

With that, Qin Cheng turned around and walked back to the hussar camp without hurrying.

Mahan looked at the horsewhip in his hand and did not move for a moment.

Qin Qingzhi, who was passing by Ma Han behind Qin Cheng, glanced at Ma Han, and a flash of dissatisfaction flashed in his indifferent eyes, "Isn't Ma Duwei merciful to these Hun soldiers who have countless blood stains on their hands from the people of Shanggu?" ”

Ma Han raised his head slightly distractedly, Qin Qingzhi had already rode past him.

Mahan looked back at a flat field at the edge of the town, where the neat and solemn tombstones formed a different kind of phalanx, a permanent and immovable phalanx, no matter the wind and rain, no matter the thunder, no matter the sound of the trumpet, no matter the general's shouting.

Duwei, who had almost no chance to fight the Huns, and could hardly see half of the Huns' shadow in his jurisdiction, was silent for a moment.

When he turned his head again, Mahan's eyes had a different meaning from before, and the horsewhip in his hand fell mercilessly on the Hun prisoners beside him, and at the same time shouted: "Go faster!" ”

It didn't take long for the sound of crackling horse whips tearing flesh and skin one after another, and the sergeant's shouting orders were much louder.

The Hun captives, who were already disheveled, were mostly ragged after a short time.

Occasionally, there are Hun sergeants who are dissatisfied, but the body really has no strength, and now it is already a subconscious action to be able to take steps, even if you want to resist, you can't start, if you are in the mood to look angrily, you will usher in a more violent whip from the sergeant of the county. Suddenly, the speed of the brigade has been increased a lot.

This kind of forced march also meant that the physical strength of the Xiongnu captives was accelerated.

Qin Cheng did not let the Dan Wolf go with the brigade of prisoners. The 6,000 Hun soldiers, if they had a leader, could become wolves, and without a leader, they could only be a group of docile lambs. This is just a small detail, but Qin Cheng has always been good at grasping details, the embankment of a thousand miles is destroyed in an anthill, and the battlefield is never a trivial matter.

The county-by-county army began to march south, but the hussar battalion headed north.

At least when separated outside of town.

Summer is approaching, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the sun is showing its face a lot more diligently. When the county-by-county troops set out early in the morning, it was still very cold in the field, and by noon, many people were already sweating in the hot sun.

On the way, Ma Han let the soldiers eat dry food from county to county, and then continued to hurry, the Hun captives naturally had nothing to eat, this was specially explained by Qin Cheng, although it was not enough to go to the county without food, but now it has only walked thirty miles, naturally there is no time to give the Hun captives food. Not to mention the food, even the water is not a mouthful.

The captives were naturally angry, but they had no strength to resist, and most of the day they walked, and there were merciless whips from horsewhips, and some of them had already fallen from time to time. There are a very few people who are irritable and want to fight desperately, but Mahan decisively shot an arrow through the chest, and the team quieted down.

"It's all a little bit safe, and in the evening, there is naturally something to eat and water to drink! Don't worry, Ben Jiang didn't receive the order to starve you to death, and everyone can live a normal life when they get to the county, but who dares not to give Lao Tzu some peace on the road, don't blame Ben for being ruthless! Ma Han coldly put away his bow and arrows, and asked the sergeant who could speak Xiongnu to translate his words to the Hun captives in front of him, and then ordered the brigade to continue to move forward.

This walk is Shen Shi.

Heading south from the town, the terrain gradually flattens and opens, and half of the terrain is in the sub-plain zone. At that time, the team led by Mahan had gradually entered a relatively wide area.

The army walked very quietly, only the sound of horses' hooves and whips was heard, and the sergeants scolded for most of the day, and they were no longer in the mood to continue shouting. The captives didn't even have the strength to look at the Han army, so they were whipped and accelerated with the support of their companions.

The quiet post road suddenly sounded the sound of horses' hooves, which was different from the pace of the soldiers stationed in each county, and began to echo in the commotion of the people, striking the unquiet hearts of the soldiers and captives.

"General, a large group of Hun cavalry was found ahead, the number is unknown!" Immediately, there were rangers rushing back and forth from the front.

"Captain of the front, the long knife is unsheathed!" Almost when the sound of horses' hooves sounded, Mahan's shouting order also sounded, very hurriedly, as if playing in an ensemble with the rhythm of those cavalrymen who only heard the sound and did not see their bodies, "Concentrate the Hun prisoners, but if there are unruly ones, they will be killed directly!" ”

"Rear lieutenant, you transfer five hundred people, bow and arrow wound, capture but slow to move, there is no mercy!"

"The rest of the people, wait for the general, line up with the general, and prepare to meet the enemy!"

Mahan's military orders were issued one by one, hurried but not hurried. With that, he pulled out his long knife.

The soldiers began to drive the Hun captives and surrounded them in the middle.

Under the threat of long knives and bows and arrows, the weary Hun captives began to gather in the middle. They had long lost their strength, so they were given a long knife, and they could not necessarily afford it, so they wanted to run, but their staggering pace was no faster than the long knife and bow and arrow in the hands of the Han sergeant.

At such a panicked juncture, Qin Cheng's strategy worked, and these weak captives could only crawl together with a rolling belt, without the slightest ability to resist.

In this compartment, the Hun prisoners were rushed together, and in the other compartment, the Hun cavalry had already appeared.

"Front of the cavalry, array!" Mahan shouted again.

So, except for the Hun prisoners who were left with five hundred cavalry to guard the squatting horizontally and vertically, the rest of the people joined the ranks of the array.

......

Yi Xue'er saw the Hun captives who were galloping on the battlefield two days ago, but now they were gathered together like dead corpses, and their white robes were practiced like a big lake.

Those captives didn't move at this time, and Yi Xue'er knew that they wouldn't move in the next battle, and she couldn't guess the specific process of Qin Cheng's torture of them, but it was not difficult to guess this ending.

Of the 30,000 Huns, only 10,000 rushed to those county-by-county cavalry. The main force of 20,000 let Yi Xueer arrange it on the post road in the north. Although the rangers found no trace of the hussar camp, Ixel did not dare not fail to arrange it carefully.

Although the terrain here is open, it is not a grassland, not a plain, and Ixher's army of 10,000 cannot be deployed. So she only charged with three or five thousand cavalry, and the other cavalry, let her use it as infantry, had already been ambushed in the nearby wasteland, on the field, at this moment exposed, they shot the Han army with bows and arrows, and then rushed to kill the post road when necessary.

Anyway, the cavalry can't rush through the undulating wastelands and fields, and these temporary infantry are safe.

The Hun cavalry cavalry on the post road, the Hun cavalry on the plains and fields, and the Hun temporary infantry on the undulating wastelands and fields, like the tide of anger, swarmed to the Han army on the post road.

The heavy horse's hooves trampled through the heart of the earth, and the fierce shouts of killing shattered the bitter gall of the sky.

This is an inevitable battle.

All the powerless Hun captives, seeing the grassland warriors all over the sky, the joy in their hearts was indescribable. They knew that with so many people, it was more than enough to deal with the three thousand Han army, and they didn't need to move, they just needed to wait to be rescued.

"Arrows!"

"Put!"

With the order of the Xiongnu commander, the arrows on the wasteland and fields first rushed into the Han army's military formation, with the breath of cannibalism, shooting down a large number of cavalry.

"Kill! Don't look back, rush forward! Mahan leaned over the horse's back, and his roar was particularly violent.

It was the first time he had fought so head-on with the Huns, and he had enough reason to be violent.

The two armies intersected, the blood mist began to fill, and the sky changed color.

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(This chapter is the most satisfying chapter I've had in the last dozen chapters.) ）