Helian, the second marshal who had been attacking for three days, looked at the sun that was about to set, and then looked at the slow-moving team behind him, and couldn't help but feel anxious.

But no matter how anxious and painful Helian was, there was nothing he could do about it, because the speed of the march was determined by the slowest part. The herds of cattle and sheep that provided food for the soldiers behind him completely slowed down the movement of the army.

At this time, Helian truly realized and understood the pain of the Han war, with these burdens, you can't be fast, if you travel at this speed, searching for Han thieves in the vast and outrageous grassland, it is simply an impossible task. And the longer the army is outside, the more cattle and sheep will be consumed, and the greater the consumption of their own strength, so that if the vicious circle continues, they will be consumed by these wars sooner or later.

"Red Map." Helian loudly summoned the leader of a small tribe, he sent 2,000 troops this time, and his combat effectiveness was okay.

Hongtu, who was drowsy on the horse, immediately urged the horse to run to the second handsome Helian: "Dashuai, do you have any orders?" ”

"You go out with your headquarters now, search the surrounding area, and find a place for our army to camp." Hearing that there was no longer a need for such a dull march, Hongtu immediately became excited, and immediately turned around and ran, but as soon as he turned around, Helian stopped him: "Remember, don't be too far away from the brigade." ”

Hongtu agreed, and then beckoned his three thousand subordinates and roared away.

With apprehension, when it was dark, Hongtu returned safely, and although his face was full of frustration, he still completed half of the task - found a place where he could camp with abundant water and grass.

The place is made up of a small river that forms a small lake, and the water is so clear and delicious that it can be used to feed the army and the cattle and sheep that accompany it.

The only fly in the ointment was that there was a charred land by the lake, which was also littered with tattered tents and headless corpses, which smelled of decay in the autumn tiger weather.

But at this time there was no need to take care of so much, Helian ordered the army to camp along Hu, and ordered the herdsmen to drive cattle, sheep and horses to graze in the land of abundant water and grass, and then prepare to rest for the night, so that tomorrow they could continue to search for traces of the enemy so aimlessly.

When everyone was hurriedly setting up the tent, the shepherd in the distance came from the sound of a horn one after another, which was the alarm sound of the enemy's attack, Helian was startled, hurriedly got on his horse, raised his eyes and looked at the pasture in the distance, this look, immediately made Helian surprised, and saw a group of Han soldiers in fiery red robes, who were wantonly slashing in their own flocks, and the screams of cattle, sheep and war horses could be heard clearly from so far away, and there were also scattered cattle and sheep running around, scattered on the boundless grassland.

These cattle and sheep are their own food, and this must not be lost.

Helian immediately made a decision and immediately ordered a pursuit, so the soldiers who were busy setting up tents threw away their work and picked up their scimitars, but the horses were handed over to the shepherds for grazing, so everyone could only spread their legs, shouted, and rushed to the enemy with the commander.

Seeing everyone attacking, the enemy's horn sounded, and in the blink of an eye it roared away, and by the time Helian ran like a dog and rushed to the herd, the enemy had long since disappeared below the horizon.

"Dashuai, I'll catch up with them and kill them." The red picture took the initiative to ask for help.

Helian looked at the darkened sky, but still shook his head and vetoed Hongtu's request: "It's about to get dark, don't fall for the tricks of the Han people and ambush you." ”

Then, regardless of the unwilling red picture, he called the shepherd leader: "How much do we lose this time?" ”

The shepherd leader replied with a dejected face: "I have just calculated, and there are not many cattle and sheep that have been killed, but more than a thousand. ”

Helian let out a sigh: "It's okay, we can eat it at night." ”

"However, the cattle and sheep were frightened and fled to the grassland, no less than 3,000, and most importantly, the soldiers' war horses also ran away."

Helian was shocked, the war horse is the legs of the steppe people, without the war horse, how can this battle be fought? "Come on, hurry up and ride the war horse, and find the scattered horses in the grassland."

The soldiers around him stepped on the remaining horses and rushed to the boundless dark grassland, looking for the lost horses.

But the enemy has already appeared in front of him, the enemy situation is unknown, the search for horses needs to be dispersed, if everyone disperses too far, it is possible to be broken by the enemy individually, so after a silent calculation of the time, Helian ordered the people to blow the horn of the army.

Fortunately, this time the enemy seemed to have just dispersed the depths, and then fled away, so there were no casualties in the sneak attack, but there were not many war horses found back, and this time, the enemy's simple surprise attack caused Helian's coalition army to lose a full 2,000 war horses.

"Return the cattle and sheep and horses to the camp, our enemy is not far from here, and if the cattle and sheep and horses are put outside, the night will become unsafe." Helian gave the order with a dark face.

Tens of thousands of cattle and sheep, and more than 40,000 war horses were driven back to the camp, making the already small camp even more chaotic, the smell of cattle and sheep, the smell of dung, can simply smoke people, Wuhuan people, there is no habit of night fighting, and at the same time do not know the strength and number of the enemy, the danger in the dark can only be endured.

But everyone also began to rejoice, that is, after all, they had already encountered the enemy, which was much better than searching around the prairie aimlessly.

The grassland is too big, and if you continue to search aimlessly like you did at the beginning, the result may be that your team will be dragged down, especially if you don't have some experience in logistics support, everyone's food alone can completely kill this team.

The second marshal Helian summoned his subordinate Qu Shuai Xiaoshuai and began to study the enemy's traces and arrange possible encounters tomorrow.

"According to the report of the previous warrior, the enemy we are facing now will have 17,800 men and horses, and the combat effectiveness is absolutely strong, so we must be extra careful when we advance tomorrow, and the marching formation must also be based on a horizontal offensive formation, once we encounter the enemy, we can immediately launch an attack on the enemy."

At this time, a Qu Shuai replied disdainfully: "Second Shuai doesn't have to be so nervous, Nanren, it's not like that when you say the sky?" The death of the eldest prince may have been an ambush trick of the Han people, and tomorrow I will take the lead and kill all those Han people in the south with real swords and guns. ”

The second marshal frowned and scolded: "Don't take the enemy so lightly, the death of the eldest prince's 20,000 elites is definitely not accidental, on this endless plain, the enemy can't call an ambush." Then solemnly reminded his subordinates: "Remember, our entire tribe is only 200,000 people, and we lost 20,000 before, and the 40,000 we led this time are almost all the elites of our tribe, and we can't afford to lose, so we must be extremely careful, even if we can't destroy the enemy, we must not let the enemy destroy us, we can't afford to lose." ”