In the late autumn of the eleventh year of Yuanfeng of the Han Dynasty, the Yumen Pass on the border of the empire.

Blood stained the walls red, soaking the land.

The general Cao Xianye stood at the head of the city, and glanced at the soldier on the left with an unpulled feather arrow stuck in his arm, his eyes were scarlet, and his face was hideous. The brother on the right was holding the long knife in his hand, his mouth cracking, and blood was flowing from the corner of his mouth.

He looked down at the mountains of corpses piled up at his feet, and smiled wryly. How many soldiers threw their heads and spilled their blood, guarding the Great Wall under their feet and the rivers and mountains behind them. The dignitaries and dignitaries who enjoy peace have ever known the coldness here?

Fortunately, they finally held on.

The people behind it can finally live a stable year!

It's just that I don't know what kind of good news those spies planted in the grassland can bring him back.

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Outside the Yumen Pass, a small mountain village that is not protected by the Great Wall, the people in it are struggling to survive. This is the place where the Han Dynasty and the grassland meet, and the Xiongnu invade the south every year to pass through here, and it is already a kind of luck to be alive.

At noon on this day, dark clouds covered the top, and it looked like it was about to rain down. There was a young man who was shuttling through the mountains and forests at this time. He holds a wooden horn bow in one hand and a bamboo pheasant feather arrow in the other. The body is vigorous and heroic.

This young man's name is Lu Zhao, and he looks sixteen or seventeen years old. It's just that there is no childishness on his face, and his eyes are full of determination.

Suddenly—

Hold the bow like a full moon!

Feathered arrows break through the air.

Soon, Lu Zhao had two more fat gray rabbits in his hands.

Ten years of practice has made his archery almost superb. The reason why he is so diligent is that he has a dream that he does not dare to speak to outsiders, that is, to exterminate all the Huns outside the Saiwai.

I really can't blame him for his young age, he has such a ruthless idea, from the age of five when he saw his father being tied to the back of the Huns with a war horse and dragged to death, he had such an idea. If it weren't for the elders in the village taking turns to raise him over the years, he would have left this world in ignorance. In the war-torn era when human flesh was clearly priced, he knew how difficult it was to raise an extra mouth in the village.

So when he was very young, he followed the hunters of the village up the mountain, learned to lay traps when he couldn't pull the job, and helped carry rabbits or pheasants when he couldn't do it, in short, he did whatever he could. This may be one of the reasons why the adults in the village are finally willing to raise him instead of abandoning him.

Lu Zhao is like a pine and cypress in the ice and snow, whether it is the biting cold or the continuous snow, he can't be overwhelmed. On the contrary, it will arouse his fighting spirit, pick up the burden of life, and strive to be a sunflower.

From the forest behind him, Yu Zhan's figure came out agilely. ran to Lu Zhao's side and praised: "Brother Zhao, your archery skills are really getting more and more amazing, I haven't seen you miss a hand in the past few years." ”

"How can you live?"

Lu Zhao said helplessly: "There are fewer and fewer prey on the mountain, and those who are still alive have simply become essences, you don't see that some of them have learned to move forward in a serpentine form, and they will run away without a trace of a negligence." By the way, how about the trap side, is there a catch? ”

"Dangdang, dang!"

Yu Zhan pulled out a pheasant from behind him like a trick, and said with a smile: "It's the same as my father said, it's getting colder and colder this day." Pheasants also have to come out to feed, and as long as they dare to come out, we can always catch one or two of the traps that are all over the mountains. ”

He took the rabbit in Lu Zhao's hand and put it in the back basket, so that once the prey appeared again, Lu Zhao could shoot arrows in time. After putting everything away, Yu Zhan sneaked close to Lu Zhao and whispered: "I heard my father say that the Huns are quite miserable this year. Thinking of the big Han fighting the autumn wind, I didn't expect that when attacking Yumen Pass, he was beaten by an old general, and he threw down an unknown number of corpses and fled back. ”

"Huns?"

Lu Zhao squinted his eyes, Yu Zhan's father was the village chief of the village, he had gone out when he was young and had seen a lot of things.

Hear such news. Lu Zhao couldn't wait to stand on the wall of Yumen Pass now, killing the Huns. He sometimes couldn't help but think that if only the village were within the Great Wall. Maybe his father wouldn't have died, and the people in the village wouldn't have suffered so much. When I was very young, I heard the old people in the village say that inside the Great Wall, the people live well, they have land to plant, clothes to wear, and they don't have to worry about whether the Xiongnu are looting and killing. It's really enviable.

Hey, I can only think about it!

He was in a trance for a moment, and when he turned around, he only heard Yu Zhan babbling beside him: "Brother Zhao, you said that the people in the village are too, no matter how much food you bring back each time, they never say a word of thanks to you." If it weren't for you going up the mountain from time to time in the past few years, they wouldn't have starved to death. ”

Lu Zhao shook his head: "I can't say that, my life was given by my uncles and aunts, it's not that they starved to death a long time ago." What's more, those of us who are juniors, it is appropriate to support our elders. ”

Yu Zhan pursed his lips, waved his hand and said, "You are right, you should raise them." ”

It's just that from his gaze, it is obvious that he disagrees.

Lu Zhao wanted to say something, but at this moment, there was a faint roar from a distance, which sounded a little terrifying. Yu Zhan's eyes widened in shock: "It's the Huns!" ”

Lu Zhao's heart was shocked...

These damned Huns are killing innocents in vain, just like when they killed his father, just to vent their anger. The war is over, and it is hundreds of miles away from the Yumen Pass, and the scouts of the Great Han will not appear here.

He shook the bow and arrow in his hand, twisted his neck and said to Yu Zhan: "You hide here and wait for me, if I don't come back in half an hour, you will go back to the village by yourself." ”

Lu Zhao decided to do something, but first he had to see the situation clearly.

"Okay, Brother Zhao, you have to be careful." Yu Zhan is also very familiar with the surrounding road conditions, and it is not difficult to find a place to hide from being discovered. And with Lu Zhao's ability, he is just a burden to keep up. Fortunately, there are many caves in the mountain, and you can get into one at random, and people who are not familiar with it can't find it.

Seeing that Yu Zhan was well hidden, Lu Zhao no longer hesitated. He threw the bamboo basket beside Yu Zhan and didn't bring it, only pinned a few wooden feather arrows to his body, so that even if something happened to him, it would not affect the village to be noticed by the Huns. A bow, a few arrows, who can judge his identity?

Lu Zhao leaned his waist and headed in the direction where the voice came from, like a cheetah ready to hunt. Wait for the opportunity to move, and kill with one hit. His steps were getting faster and faster, and the shouts of killing were getting clearer and clearer...

He took the bow in his hand, and his eyes were resolute.

If one day I will be a general. When leading the world's soldiers and horses, conquer the grassland. The Huns will be wiped out!