"Those damn pawns......

It was approaching dusk, and on a flat and vast plain, a Qin pawn named "Tan" cursed secretly.

Tan is 10 and 9 years old, his family lives in Lantian County, on the bank of the Bashui River, his father died on the battlefield five years ago, and his eldest brother also died on the battlefield three years ago.

He was the second son in the family, and now has a mother in her fifties, two younger brothers, a younger sister, and a sister-in-law who remarried him after his brother's death.

Or should I call it a wife?

It's a woman from the next village, very good-looking, and very able to endure hardships.

"The brigade commander has an order, go to the forest ahead and rest for a while."

Directly ahead, a soldier came to convey the brigade commander's order.

Hearing this, the Qin soldiers around Tan complained one after another.

"It's finally time to take a break......

"Those damn chariot pawns, they really don't treat me as a pawn, don't they know that we have to rely on our legs to get on our feet?"

"Those guys are 'made from above', how can they pay attention to us people?"

"Haha......"

The whining voices of the Qin soldiers revealed their dissatisfaction and ridicule of those chariot soldiers, but in fact, everyone knew that they were all envious of those chariot soldiers.

Hurrying to the forest in front of him on foot, Tan sat down under a tree, put Changge in his hand aside, stretched out his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and immediately counted his military exploits so far with a solemn expression.

According to the Shang Emperor Law promulgated by the Qin State, ordinary Qin people, i.e., untitled commoners of the Qin State, only need to kill one enemy to obtain the first-class title, the title of "Gongshi", which was already obtained by Tan's father at that time, and his family was given a house and a hundred acres of land.

In the Qin State, it is not difficult to improve the title by killing the enemy, but the difficulty is to maintain the title, because if you want to maintain the title, you must kill a certain number of enemy soldiers on the battlefield, so there is no shortage of people who have been promoted from civilians to the third-level title "hairpin" after a battle, but after a short time they were demoted to the second-level title "Shangzao", or even the first-level "Gongshi", this is because he failed to obtain the required number of kills in the subsequent war.

Brother Tan was like this, he was defeated in the war of Qin against Wei two years ago and was demoted, so that Tan inherited military merits after his brother's death, and he was only a public servant.

However, in this war, Tan has accumulated enough merit to rise to the hairpin.

Even the fourth-level knighthood "no change" - once he reaches this title, he does not need to serve in the military, except that he still has to serve in the military, and he can have more time to help the family with farm work and spend time with his family.

Suddenly, Tan seemed to remember something, and untied a cloth bag on his back.

When the cloth bag was opened, I saw that it contained a lot of Korean cloth coins and coins, a whole small pile, some broken copper, and a copper bracelet that looked a little old.

Seeing this, Tan's face showed a little smile.

He picked up the brass bracelet and immediately remembered how he had snatched it from a woman.

“……”

Looking closely at the bracelet, Tan didn't notice any blood on the bracelet.

Well, it's been washed with water, and it's clean.

"She'll be happy......

Fantasizing about the sight of giving this bracelet to his wife at home, Tan's face smiled again.

He's missing his hometown a little.

The main reason is that this battle was too difficult, although the main force of the 180,000 Wei army was defeated at one time, but those Wei troops were very tenacious, even after the defeat, they still fought stubbornly against their Qin army with only half of the remaining troops, and even forced them to Korea in turn.

But his Qin army is not so easy to be defeated, and if there is no food, then rob the Korean people of their rations.

"The brigade commander has an order, quickly fill his hunger, and continue to rush after a quarter of an hour to catch up with the front army."

In the distance, another soldier came to give an order, causing a wail from the surrounding Qin soldiers.

"Do you want to catch up?"

"It's getting dark, can't you let us rest on the spot for the night?"

"Those damn Shangzao don't pay any attention to our foot soldiers......"

『……』

Glancing at the wailing robes around him, Tan packed up the sack and put it back on his back, then untied the other one he had tied around his waist.

Spread out the cloth bag, and saw that there was a fist-sized rice ball inside, which was very irregular in shape, and it was stained with some plant ash and some dark brown things.

"Is this one left?"

Looking at the dark brown marks on the rice ball, Tan frowned slightly.

He knew what it was, it was crimson human blood, which had dried up and turned dark brown.

After hesitating for a moment, Tan finally picked up the rice ball with his hand, took a bite with an expressionless face, and slowly chewed the hard rice grain.

As he chewed, he felt an unusual fishy and salty taste in his mouth, and he forced himself not to think about it, thinking about the bean soup cooked by his wife at home.

To be honest, the bean soup is far from being so delicious, but at this moment, Tan dreams of drinking a mouthful of the bean soup cooked by his wife at home.

In this way, after a while, Tan swallowed all the rice balls, but he still felt unfinished.

Sadly, however, there was no more food left on him to satisfy his hunger.

But even so, he was still luckier than some of the Qin pawns around him, at least he still had the last bloodstained rice ball, and some of the Qin pawns, they could only endure hunger.

There was no way, the food they looted in Yangcheng was simply not enough to feed the entire more than 50,000 Qin troops, so that everyone could get very little food, and they could only barely keep them from starving to death.

"It's time to go, right?"

Tan looked around.

And at this moment, another soldier came to order: "The brigade commander has an order, rest in this forest tonight." ”

"Hooray!"

The Qin soldiers couldn't help but cheer, but Tan felt a little strange.

He asked the robe not far away, "What's the matter?" Isn't it chasing the convoy? ”

"I don't know."

The robe shook his head and said, "It seems that the people sent by the brigade commander have not yet found the whereabouts of the convoy." …… God knows where the cavalry that chased after Wei were. …… In short, the brigade commander told us to rest. ”

"Oh."

Tan nodded, hugged the cloth bag that he had been carrying on his back, and closed his eyes to rest.

When you can eat, you can let go of your stomach to eat, and when you can sleep, you can hurry up and hurry, this is what Tan taught him when he was in the military intermediary, but unfortunately, those old soldiers who look fierce but are very kind are killed in the battle of Yique Mountain a while ago.

He was ruthlessly killed by the soldiers of the Wei army.

While closing his eyes and resting, Tan heard the robes whispering around him.

"Today's Wei cavalry, I suspect that the Wei army's first scouts are here to find out the movements of our army...... They have discovered our whereabouts, and it may not be a few days before the main force of the Wei army will chase after us......"

"What about catching up? It's a big deal, just fight with them! I heard the brigade commander say that the Wei army chasing after us is only about 60,000, and we also have 50,000, so there may not be no chance of victory. ”

"You know what? It was because there was no chance of winning that we fled to South Korea...... Those Wei troops are very powerful. ”

"Yes, it's strange to say, those Wei troops were obviously defeated by us, but the result turned out to be even more powerful than before...... Could it be that the Wei army has any other famous generals besides Xiwu? ”

"I don't know...... But there shouldn't be a more powerful general in Wei than Xi Wu, right? ”

"What's the use of you saying that? I just want the army to take that ...... as soon as possible Fox City, let us let go and loot some food in the city, damn it, Lao Tzu hasn't eaten anything since last night, and now he is so hungry that he can swallow a cow......"

"Hahahaha......"

Then, the robes' voices became softer and softer, and Tan Yi gradually fell into a deep sleep.

In the dream, he dreamed of his wife.

I don't know how long it took, but Tan faintly heard some panicked voices around him.

He opened his eyes suddenly, only to find that it was already the early morning of the next day, and it was very bright, and for some reason the robes around him were a little panicked.

"What's going on?"

Chang Ge beside him, Tan also said a little nervously.

"Something's wrong."

Pao Ze, who was questioned by him, said with a shocked face: "A person sent out by the brigade commander sent back the news that the chariot was defeated...... No, they were slaughtered and wiped out, and when the men sent by the brigade commander arrived, there were only corpses and broken carriages everywhere, and the weapons and armor of those chariots were gone, and their horses, dead and alive, were gone......"

『…… I guess I was dragged away and eaten, right?"

Thinking of the taste of horse meat, Tan, who felt hungry, subconsciously swallowed his saliva.

He asked, "The convoy ...... I remember a hundred tanks, right? Are they all dead? Who did it? Could it be some cavalry of those Wei troops? ”

"I don't know."

The robe shook his head and said: "According to the person who sent the news back, those people were all killed by arrows, even Xin Xi Xin Shi Marshal died, as for who did it, I don't know, maybe those Wei cavalry, right?" …… Or there are the rest of the Wei army in the vicinity. ”

『…… Even Master Xin Xi is dead?!"

Tan's face also showed a little shock.

Although his Qin army has lost countless soldiers and generals so far, it is a chariot convoy, a chariot convoy composed of a hundred chariots, how could it be suddenly killed by the other party? Don't even have a chance to escape?

At this time, the shouts of the heralds came from afar: "The brigade commander has an order, go!" ”

This order caused complaints from the Qin soldiers in the army.

"Go? The convoy was all killed, and our foot soldiers went up to die? ”

"That's it! That's a chariot convoy! A hundred chariots defeated our 500-strong foot soldiers, but they were all wiped out......"

"Retreat! Let's go back to the army......"

But no matter how the foot soldiers complained, the brigade commander's order remained unchanged.

In desperation, Tan had no choice but to step out of the woods with the other reluctant Qin pawns, walking aimlessly on the flat plain.

Why is it aimless?

Because they didn't know where the Wei cavalry was.

After walking like this for about an hour, suddenly a soldier in the ranks shouted: "On the right, on the right side, find that cavalry!" ”

"What?"

"Where?"

In the midst of the commotion, Tan turned to look to his right, and sure enough, he found that in the far east, there were more than 100 Wei cavalry standing on horseback from a distance, looking at them with fierce eyes.

"Their numbers...... Is it much less than yesterday? ”

"I guess I lost it in the battle with the convoy...... However, what kind of cavalry is this, is it even more powerful than the chariot team? ”

Qin Pawn whispered, and his uneasy mood stabilized slightly.

But soon, they were panicked again, because the Wei cavalry in the distance was more and more numerous, and in a blink of an eye, it reached more than 300 people.

"This amount...... It's not much different from yesterday. ”

"What's going on? Did those cavalrymen kill all the men of our entire 100 chariots without many deaths? ”

"How is this possible?"

"It's coming! They're coming! ”

Just when the soldiers and soldiers of Zhuqin were panicking, the brigade commander ordered sharply: "Don't panic! The whole army is in formation! ”

"Formation!"

Five hundred Qin soldiers quickly lined up neatly, and Tan was unfortunately the first column.

『…… Please bless me.'"

Thinking silently in his heart, he held his breath and held the one-and-a-half-zhang long Changge, thinking in his heart about how to hit the Wei cavalry on the opposite side.

"Don't panic."

An old pawn beside him whispered, "The cavalry is easy to deal with." …… I have fought with the Yiqu people, and the Yiqu also has cavalry, when those cavalry rush towards you, you just don't panic, you can poke the opponent with the Changge in your hand, the cavalry weapons are not as long as our Changge......"

As soon as he said this, a sharp arrow suddenly shot at him, and at once it shot through the leader of the old pawn, and the red and white sticky object splashed his face.

“……”

Tan opened his mouth slightly, looking at the old soldier who was still smiling and comforting them in horror, and in the blink of an eye, he turned into a corpse.

"Arrows, arrows!"

With a terrible shout from a Qin soldier, a rain of arrows came from time to time.

I only heard a series of wails and screams in the ranks of the five hundred Qin soldiers, and countless Qin soldiers fell to the ground one after another.

"Cavalry...... Did you attack with a crossbow?'

Tan was horrified to find that the experience of the old man was not useful at all.

The Wei cavalry on the opposite side was different from the cavalry of Yiqu, they used crossbow arrows!

"How, what to do?"

Tan was a little panicked, because the other party attacked them with crossbow arrows, and the shooting distance of the crossbow arrows far exceeded the length of Changge in their hands, more than ten times.

"Rush! Rush up and kill them! ”

The brigade commander in the army shouted with all his might.

Right!

Just rush up and kill those people!

calmly calmed down, and rushed to the Wei cavalry on the opposite side with the robes from the side.

Twenty zhang ......

Ten Zhang......

I'm about to get close to each other!

Although on the way to charge, the robes on Tan's side fell to the ground in a steady stream of arrows, but he still gritted his teeth and rushed forward, just because the distance between him and the other party was getting closer and closer.

Suddenly, the expression on his face froze.

Because he was shocked to see that the Wei cavalry on the opposite side stopped shooting arrows after they approached, turned their horses' heads and retreated some distance, so that the distance between the two was restored to the original distance of about thirty zhang.

"Can't catch up, can't catch up......

At that moment, Tan understood that their group of foot soldiers, who only ran on their legs, could not catch up with the cavalry on the opposite side with horsepower.

The disappointment in his heart made him stop involuntarily, and it seemed that the robes behind him did not understand this truth, and still charged towards the cavalry in front of him under the order of the brigade commander.

And the fact is just as Tan expected, the foot soldiers could not catch up with the cavalry at all, those cavalry sometimes retreated a certain distance, sometimes shot arrows at them again, and after a few times, more than half of their five hundred Qin soldiers were lost, while the other party did not lose a single person or horseman.

"It's not a ...... at all War ......

Seeing that scene, Tan's face was full of horror, he had never encountered such a situation before.

Finally, the brigade commander of his army died, dying from an arrow.

"The brigade commander is dead......

"The brigade commander is dead......

The remaining two hundred or so Qin soldiers immediately collapsed, turned back and fled in the direction of the army.

Tan, on the other hand, did not hesitate to turn around and run away.

Said that the good cavalry is weak?

Those cavalry on the other side are clearly terrifying demons who kill people without blinking!

『…… Bless me, bless me for escaping from the hands of these horrible creatures.'"

On the way to escape, Tan prayed secretly

……

……

"That's it?"

Seeing the Qin army on the opposite side turn back and flee, a Wei cavalry was quite incredulous.

On the side, Tong Ze, who had him, said with a smile: "These Qin people can't outrun us at all, there is only a dead end in our hands, what do you expect them to do?" Anyway, these people are quite courageous, last night Lao Miao's team didn't find them, I thought they ran away, but after dawn, these people actually swaggered out......"

"Haha! That's why the damned can't escape! ”

In the midst of the giggling and chatting of the cavalry of the Zhuwei army, someone suddenly reminded: "The brigade commander is here!" ”

Hearing this, Zhu Wei rode with a retracted voice and a smile on his face, turned his horse to get out of the way, and watched Meng Hu and Cao Chun slowly come to the front of the formation.

"Good!"

After glancing at the fleeing Qin soldiers in the distance, Meng Hu smiled and praised: "It seems that you have gradually mastered the combat methods of cavalry, but don't be proud, in my opinion, as long as fifty excellent cavalrymen are enough, it is enough to kill all the more than five hundred people on the other side, which is not a big deal." ”

Hearing this, Zhu Wei felt a little incredible, but thinking about it carefully, yesterday they wiped out a convoy of the opponent's chariot without losing one person and one horse, and today they crushed a team of 500 foot soldiers without any damage, which shows that the fighting style of this cavalry is really strong - although it is very despicable, but it is really strong and invulnerable.

Therefore, according to what Menghu said, only fifty people are enough to kill all the more than 500 people on the other side, and the Zhuwei horsemen are not unacceptable.

Thinking about it like this, the Wei cavalry suddenly restrained the pride in their hearts, after all, they also understood that even if they were all Wei warriors, in terms of cavalry, they were still just inexperienced recruits.

"It is worthy of all Wei Wushu's background......

Seeing that the cavalry under his command quickly corrected their mentality, Meng Hu secretly praised in his heart.

Immediately, he smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll teach you another way of cavalry fighting, keep up with my ......"

After that, he slapped the horse's ass with the Changge in his hand, causing the war horse to suffer pain, and swooped out.

Seeing this, Cao Chun and the Zhu Wei riders followed closely behind.

"There are two main ways of fighting cavalry, the first one, I have already taught you, that is, to use the speed of the war horse and the long-range killing ability of the bow and crossbow to cause casualties to the enemy and seriously dampen the opponent's fighting spirit, as for the second ......"

As he spoke, Meng Hu, who was driving the war horse, caught up with a Qin pawn who had fled at the end of the line, and slammed the Changge in his hand towards the back of the opponent's head and neck.

Hearing a pop, the Qin pawn who had been hit hard fell to the ground in response, Meng Huce immediately stepped forward and pierced the opponent's body that fell to the ground with Changge, only to see the frightened Qin pawn holding Menghu's Changge with his bloodstained hands tremblingly, trying to pull it out from his chest and abdomen, but immediately, the Qin pawn lost his breath.

"It's like this." Pulling out Chang Ge and shaking the blood on the blade, Meng Hu looked back at the Zhu Wei cavalry behind him and said: "For the enemy troops who still have fighting spirit, shoot them from a long distance with a bow and crossbow, and deal with a rout like this who has lost their fighting spirit and only knows how to escape, chase after it, use horsepower to come behind the opponent's back, kill or knock down the opponent, and then make up for it." …… Do you understand? ”

"Understood!"

More than three hundred cavalry shouted in unison.

"Good!" Meng Hu nodded with satisfaction, and then raised his hand to point at the fleeing Qin pawns in front of him, and said lightly: "Kill them!" ”

"Wow——!"

More than 300 Wei cavalry shouted, as if a group of wolves had come out of the mountain, and they all drove their war horses to chase the fleeing Qin soldiers in front.

Pity those Qin pawns, at this moment, they are scattered, and they have no intention of fighting with the Wei cavalry chasing behind them, and they only know how to blindly escape, but how can they escape with only two legs?

Not surprisingly, the two hundred Qin troops were routed and quickly caught up by more than three hundred Wei cavalry and killed one by one.

"Catching up!"

"Those Wei cavalry are catching up!"

"Damn! Are they going to drive us out? ”

"Fuck, just fight with them!"

The ears of the Qin pawn named Tan were filled with the voices of the robes who were either angry or panicked.

He glanced back as he ran, and what he saw was the sight of those Wei cavalry slaughtering the robes of his army.

Whether familiar or unfamiliar, his robes were killed one by one by those terrible Wei horses.

Looking at the vicious and hideous expressions on the faces of those Wei Qi, Tan suddenly remembered the wolves he had encountered in the mountains and forests when he was young—the impression the two left on him was extremely similar.

The only difference is that this time there is no father who was born in the military, smiling and comforting him, saying: Don't be afraid, it's just some beasts who don't know whether to live or die.

"No! I don't want to die here......

Tan shouted in his heart.

And at this moment, he suddenly felt a heavy blow from the back of his head, as if something hit him the back of the head, making him dizzy and involuntarily falling to the ground.

At the same time, he felt a lightness on his back, and even heard Ding Ling's voice.

It turned out to be the cloth bag on his back, which was cut open by Chang Ge in Wei Rider's hand, so that the cloth coins, round coins, broken copper, and the copper bracelet in the cloth bag all fell out.

"No!"

Tan let out a loud shout, turned and rolled and crawled on the loot he had collected.

With the next breath, a cold blade pierced into his body.

"Damn, I was scared by this kid......"

"Hahahaha, you're really ...... too"

"I knew this kid was going to roar when he was dying......"

When he was dying, Tan heard several voices surrounding him, thinking that they were those vicious Wei cavalry.

He kept his eyes open, staring intently at the brass bracelet on the ground not far away.

"Dress ......"

Silently reciting his wife's name in his heart, he reached out to grab the copper bracelet, however, a Changge rushed in front of him and picked up the copper bracelet.

"Hey! See what I found? Good guys, a brass bracelet......"

"Damn, you're so lucky...... Wait a minute! These things were snatched from the Koreans by these damn Qin people, right? ”

"I avenged the dead Koreans, and I will take this as a reward! Didn't the brigade commander say that he could keep the loot captured from Qin's pawn...... Anyway, that's mine! ”

“…… You enviable fellow! Hey, I'll give you ten cloth coins, can you give me this copper bracelet? My mother-in-law gave birth to three fat boys, and I have to ...... Feed! Don't go...... Good luck bastard! ”

At this time, looking at the Qin pawn named Tan, his right hand still maintained the posture of reaching out to grab it, but it had lost his breath.