"You get up for Lao Tzu!" Xue Zan pulled Wang Chong up, tugged at his collar, and scolded: "What are you crying about!" Wipe your little bit of horse urine clean for Lao Tzu! ”

Wang Chong was scolded by Xue Zan, and immediately stopped crying, quickly stopped choking, wiped the tears on his face, and then picked up the water bladder and dry food, and said to Xue Zan: "From the first day of joining the army, the major general told me to share weal and woe with all the brothers, so general, how can I see that you are hungry, and I eat these dry foods alone?" ”

Xue Zan didn't expect that Wang Chong, this kid, usually looks stunned, but he is still such a person who values love and righteousness, and his heart suddenly had a warm current, and the hand that was originally holding the collar unconsciously let go, patted Wang Chong's head with a wry smile, and scolded with a little care: "Stinky boy!" ”

Wang Chong suddenly burst into tears and laughed, and handed the dry food to Xue Zan. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Xue Zan took the water bladder and the cloth bag containing the dry food, then opened the cloth bag, took out the only corn ball, and then broke half of it for Wang Chong.

"The corn is rough, easy to be full and hungry, so let's eat it!" Xue Zan smiled at Wang Chong and said.

"It's good to have something to eat, I used to be hungry a lot, and when I really didn't have anything to eat, I ate all the grass root bark, which is much better than the grass root bark!" Wang Chong said with a puffed mouth while eating corn balls.

King Xue Zan shook his head with a smile as he gobbled it up.

After the continuous rapid march, the soldiers were already extremely tired, and after drinking horses and feeding grass, many fell to the ground and fell asleep.

Xue Zan smeared and checked one by one whether these soldiers were covered with felt, so as not to get cold at night, and Wang Chong followed behind Xue Zan. Looking at Xue Zan's back, Wang Chong began to admire this seemingly ruthless general in his heart.

After following Xue Zan to inspect, Wang Chong lay down next to Xue Zan to rest. The tired body made him gradually confused, and he soon fell asleep.

I don't know how long it took, Wang Chong was pushed awake in his sleep, he opened his eyes, and Xue Zan had already lifted the felt and sat up.

"What's the matter, General?" Wang Chong's eyes were hazy, and his consciousness was not yet awake, so he asked while rubbing his eyes.

Xue Zan got up and looked around, then looked up at the direction of the moon and the Big Dipper in the sky, and said, "I can't sleep anymore, I have to get up and hurry immediately!" ”

When Wang Chong heard this, he hurriedly got up to tidy up his clothes, and asked at the same time, "How long have we been sleeping?" ”

Xue Zan replied while packing up his things: "I estimate that it will be dawn in more than an hour, and at noon today, the major general will attack the Qiang people, we must rush to the river as soon as possible, destroy the pontoon bridge, and cut off the retreat of the Hu people." ”

"I didn't expect us to sleep for so long! Then I'm going to get everyone up! ”

"Go!" Xue Zan ordered.

Wang Chong hurriedly went to wake up the others one by one, and it didn't take long for everyone to get ready to go.

What Xue Zan didn't know was that at this time, there was already a group of Qiang people guarding the pontoon bridge on the side of the big river.

Almost at the same time, another group of men and horses had already approached the Qiang camp under the leadership of Shi Min.

"Major General, visit the Malay report, the camp of the Qiang people is less than ten miles away from us." Zhang Mufeng rushed to report to Shi Min.

Shi Min looked at the sky and said, "Finally let us catch up, everyone rests in place, waiting for my order!" ”

"Rest now? Wouldn't it be better to sneak up on the Hu people before dawn? Zhang Mufeng asked while reining in the horse.

Shi Min dismounted and explained: "I estimate that General Xue Zan and they have not rushed to the river to destroy the pontoon bridge at this time, and it is true that they can be caught off guard by attacking the Qiang people now." ”

Speaking of this, Shi Min paused, looked at Zhang Mufeng and continued: "However, even if they can be caught off guard, there will always be people who cross the river and escape, once they cross the river, it will not be safe for us to chase them again, what I want is that they are all wiped out, understand?" ”

Zhang Mufeng nodded and before he could reply, Shi Min said again: "Don't forget, in the hands of this group of Hu people, there are blood debts of our Han people!" One by one, they must all die here, so that they can be worthy of the woman who died in the wilderness, and in order to avenge the people in the clouds who died in vain under their swords! ”

"The young general is right, this group of brutes must all be killed!" Zhang Mufeng said indignantly.

"Do you still have any food and grass?" Shi Min asked in a low voice.

Zhang Mufeng touched his backpack, then shook his head helplessly, and replied: "The grain and grass are gone, our war horses have eaten all the grain and grass a few hours ago, and my dry food is gone." ”

Shi Min gritted his teeth, was silent for a while, and said to himself: "I didn't expect to encounter such a back-to-back battle on the first expedition. ”

"Major General, what did you say?" Zhang Mufeng didn't hear Shi Min's words clearly, so he asked.

"Nothing." Shi Min patted Zhang Mufeng's shoulder, and said, "Hurry up and rest, you can go into battle to kill the enemy!" ”

"Yes!"

Shi Min sat alone on a small dirt slope, holding the dagger that Shi Zhan gave him, still thinking about what Shi Zhan had asked him before he set out on the expedition.

In the current situation, for him, there is no way out at all, once Xue Zan fails to block the Qiang people, his soldiers may have no food and grass, and they must kill war horses to satisfy their hunger.

For soldiers, war horses are equal to their brothers, who would be ruthless to eat their brother's meat?

Thinking of this, Shi Min also had some worries in his heart. But now that such a deployment has been made, he now has no remedies left to do except pray that Xue Zan can successfully complete the task.

Seeing that the soldiers not far away had basically rested, Shi Min had no intention of sleeping. A few hours ago, he and his soldiers had eaten the only little dry food left, and at this time, the hunger in his stomach began to constantly fill Shi Min's body, and his stomach was "gurgling", Shi Min unscrewed the water bladder and poured a breath violently, wanting to make his stomach no longer mess up.

But how can water replace food?

Time passed quickly, the sky gradually brightened, and Shi Min shot out the probe horse again and went to find out the movements of the Qiang people.

As the sun had risen, the Qiang people by the river had arrived after dark yesterday, and according to the instructions of the attendant in Mudu, their purpose was to keep the bridge safe and allow their people to retreat to the other side of the river.

"General! Did you hear that? There is the sound of water! Wang Chong rode on horseback and said to Xue Zan.

"I hear you! Isn't it almost there? Xue Zan asked Wang Chong.

"It's only six or seven miles away! Bypass this hillside and you can see the big river! Wang Chong replied loudly.

"Wang Chong, you are familiar with the terrain, take a few brothers to investigate and see if the Qiang people have rushed to the river!" Xue Zan instructed Wang Chong.

"Obedience!" Wang Chong said, and led a few people to speed up and rush to the hillside not far away.

As for Xue Zan and the others, they slowed down, and the war horse ran for more than two hours, and now they are about to reach their destination, maybe it is more reliable to take a break and save some physical strength.

Xue Zan looked at Wang Chong's back, and seemed to remember the first time he followed Shi Zhan on the expedition, that year, he was still a hairy boy, and that extremely cruel battle, with countless casualties, still makes him remember it vividly.

When Wang Chong and several others were about to reach the top of the slope, they dismounted, ran over on foot, and lay behind a rock on the hillside, observing the situation from a distance.

After a while, Wang Chong took someone to report on the horse, Xue Zan saw his nervous look, and felt that Wang Chong saw what was expected, so he frowned and asked, "What did you find?" ”

"Report to the general, the situation is not good, there is a team of men and horses stationed by the river, it seems that it should be from the Qiang people." Wang Chong gasped and replied.

"What? They rushed to the river so quickly? How many people are there? ”

"There are not many of them, about three or five hundred, depending on the situation, it should be the Qiang people who sent people to explore the way!"

"It seems that the Qiang people also know the importance of this bridge, and they sent people to guard it here early!" Xue Zan said, unconsciously clenching his fists.

"General, what should we do next?" Wang Chong had no experience, so he could only ask Xue Zan.

"According to the estimation of the major general, the Qiang people have now started to go this way, and it won't be long before a large number of Hu people will arrive, we must hurry up and destroy this bridge as soon as possible and cut off their back road!"

"How to destroy it? There are also Qiang people stationed on the riverside! Wang Chong asked.

"There are only three or five hundred people by the river, what are you afraid of? Kill them all! Xue Zan said, pulled out the knife at his waist, and commanded the soldiers behind him: "Brothers, our time is running out!" There are hundreds of Hu people by the river, if we want to complete the task given by the major general, the only way is to kill the group of Hu people by the river, and destroy the pontoon bridge on the river before a large number of reinforcements from the Qiang people arrive! ”