Chapter Fifty-Nine

Zhang Jun didn't know that he was being talked about, and he was attracted by a pawn. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

I saw the little pawn sitting on the snow on the side, and a small string of black things was carefully held in his hand, counting them one by one.

Zhang Jun walked over and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

The pawn quickly stood up and exclaimed, "No······ Didn't do anything······"

"Count the ears?" This happened many times in the army, and at the beginning many soldiers hid their severed ears close to their bodies, and when they were resting, they took them out and counted them. But with the busy war, Zhang Jun has ordered that no more ears are kept, this thing will stink after a long time, and it is very easy to cause epidemics.

Zhang Jun had to ask Suo Sanjie to make a record, then collected his ears and set them on fire. But apparently the young soldier was secretly hiding something.

The pawn knelt on the ground and said in fear: "Master, I didn't hide my ears on purpose. That's it······ I just want to bring some back to my hometown and worship at the grave. ”

"Is there anyone in the family who is not in the Huns?"

"Well, my father and mother were all killed by Hun dogs."

"You take it, wrap it up."

"No!" The pawn bowed and said, "Thank you, Lord." “

"I remember you." Zhang Jun said: "In the first battle, it was you who knocked down a Hun and bit off his ear with your mouth, right?" ”

Seeing that the owner of the building remembered him, the pawn was not so afraid and nodded.

"What's your name?"

"Ergou, Li Ergou ······" The pawn whispered.

"That's a bad name." Li Ergou saw his owner shaking his head while touching the fluffy beard on his chin, and said, "Why don't I give you a name?" “

Without waiting for him to agree, the owner patted the top of his head and said, "From today on, you will be called Li Yi." After saying that, he saw that the owner of the building was also squatting on the ground, and wrote a word on the snow with his hand "弇" that he had never seen before!

The temporary intention to name a pawn is just that Zhang Jun wants to satisfy his own spoof of the following. What if this freshly baked pawn Li Yi gives birth to a son named Li Chang and a grandson named Li Song, isn't that the lord of Xiliang? Or ······ Could their descendants be Li Yuan? The ancestor of Tang Taizong was named by me, it feels very cool!

Just when Zhang Jun was secretly obscene, Zhou Tong hurried over and whispered something in his ear.

"Lord, fifty miles away, I found a large group of Hun elite horsemen!"

Zhang Jun was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly called Han Hu and said, "Order, all the generals in the building will come to discuss the matter." Also, put out the bonfire, be quick! ”

When Han Hu heard this, he knew that something urgent must have happened, so he hurriedly went to give the order.

Zhang Jun, accompanied by Zhou Tong, called the three people under the curtain to get together first.

The pawn Li Yi saw that the owner of the building was gone, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Don't look at the owner of the building is smaller than himself, but it always brings him inexplicable pressure. Li Yi wrapped a string of ears, stuffed them back into his arms, and whispered: "Father, mother, bless the child to kill a few more hu dogs to take revenge!" ”

The general school led by Zhang Jun has been trained very capably, and when he heard the order, he soon came to Zhang Jun to report here. The conditions were limited, and there were no tents for meetings, so Zhang Jun could only stand on higher ground so that his subordinates could see him.

He first asked Zhou Tong to repeat the situation to everyone, and Zhou Tong sorted out the language and said in more detail: "The scout team is scattered fifty miles away in accordance with the military order of the main building. Just now, two brothers came to report that a large number of Xiongnu elite horsemen had been found in the north and were searching for Taohe. ”

"How many centaurs?" Han Hu asked anxiously.

Zhou Tong summoned a dusty soldier and said, "When the official asks, you have to answer truthfully." ”

"No." This soldier was sent back by the scouts to report the news, and he was not timid in the face of the generals, and said: "The Huns are vigilant, the brothers did not dare to come forward, but just watched from afar. Looking at the dust and horse manure left behind, there were at least 1,500 horses. ”

"How's the equipment?" Song Peidao.

"All the horses are two-horse, with long knives and bows, and the men and horses are all in armor, which is very sophisticated."

"It's the Hun Iron Horse!" The generals talked about it.

Seeing this, Zhang Jun frowned slightly.

"Silence!" Han Hu shouted.

The generals shut their mouths and looked at the building.

"The lord of the building, the Huns are extremely strong in battle, and they cannot be defeated······" Han Hu whispered in Zhang Jun's ear.

Zhang Jun nodded, of course he knew that these horses under his command could not defeat the Huns, let alone the battle, even if they couldn't run. Compared with the ethnic minorities who grew up on horseback, the Han people have a natural disadvantage in riding. Although a lot of horses have been captured, less than 100 of the soldiers in this building will fight immediately, and the rest are infantry on horseback. If you charge, you don't need the Huns to ride and shoot, and you can be thrown off by the horse.

Zhang Jun calculated in his heart that the Hun cavalry was fifty miles away in the north, and it was searching and advancing, so the speed should not be fast. If you leave at full speed, you won't be overtaken.

Then he ordered: "Immediately straighten out the ranks, throw away the useless baggage, and bury them properly." Departure in a moment! ”

"No!" All the generals were ordered to go.

Taoshui, the second largest tributary of the upper reaches of the Yellow River (second only to Huangshui), has an open valley and gentle terrain that is now completely frozen.

Zhang Jun led the army on the river, and the horse's hooves stepped on the ice, making a crisp sound of "cluck" and "cluck".

In fact, in ancient times, most of the time on the march was in a hurry, because the land is vast and sparsely populated, the transportation is inconvenient, and if you want to complete the purpose of the battle, you often have to go far to find the opponent. Moreover, communication basically depends on the legs of horses and people, and it is impossible to get up fast if you want to.

The scout came back and reported that the Huns were fifty miles away, but when he returned, the Huns should have been thirty miles away, and by the time Zhang Jun had sorted out his team and set off, it was likely that the enemy was already close at hand!

Sure enough, scouts passed messages one after another, and the Huns got closer and closer, as if they knew where the Liang army was.

"Something bad!" In the team, Song Pei suddenly shouted.

"What?" Zhang Jun reined in the horse's head and turned around to ask.

"Lord, the scouts of the Huns are not much more elite than us, why haven't they found our scouts all the time, and let them report back and forth frequently?"

"I think it's weird, too." Suo Sanjie came up and said: "As early as outside Jincheng, there was no scout left from the Xiao cavalry army and the government army, how did you come to us and find out the news so clearly?" ”

Zhang Jun also realized that something was wrong, and said loudly: "Li Dashan! Li Dashan! ”

"In!" Li Dashan, who was born in the cavalry army, hurriedly rushed over, turned over and dismounted, hugged his fists and said, "What does the lord command?" ”

"Let me ask you, how far do the scouts of the Hun elite cavalry usually spread?" Zhang Jun asked.

"Fifteen miles or so!" Li Dashan thought for a while and said, "It's the same as usual, but if you want to expand the range, there are also thirty or forty miles." ”

"!" Zhang Jun flicked his whip and said, "We've been tricked." “