In the past two months, due to the weather, it is not suitable to launch large-scale operations, and the Ming army, except for some dispatched troops blocking the main roads, the rest is that the scouts on both sides want to kill each other.

One side wants to completely seal the connection between Yongdu and the outside, while the other party naturally doesn't want to be a turtle in Wengzhong, and wants to open up the channel to the outside. Large armies are not suitable for dispatch, and if they are dispatched, they may not work very well, so scouts and small groups of elite cavalry have become the mainstream.

The small groups of people on both sides wandering on this battlefield with a radius of hundreds of kilometers will end up in the end once they meet. At the beginning, the Ming army had the upper hand, but after two months, the Thunder Army, as the most elite force of the Qin army, finally matured, and after paying the price of countless blood and lives, they finally completed the transformation.

Little by little, they regained their disadvantage, and in this almost uninhabited place, the small army of the Ming army was finally evenly matched.

Yongdu is very large, but except for some Yongdu cities and some acropolis that protect him outside, he can no longer find smoke. Either they took refuge in the city or fled.

Hundreds of miles in circumference, deserted, in this big winter, there is nothing but thick snow.

Both sides were red-eyed, and as soon as they met, they didn't have anything to say at all, so they just pulled out their knives and started working. Both sides are cavalry, extremely mobile, and generally speaking, it is difficult for anyone to survive on the losing side.

Today is an exception, when the two sides met suddenly, but they confronted each other because of the hundreds of refugees in the middle.

Of course Cheng Xiaoyu didn't want to die. If the opponent attacks regardless of the ground, he will confess here today, of course he is not reconciled, he has not married the little lady yet.

The hesitation of the opposing general immediately made him see the opportunity.

If you can't beat it, then these hundreds of Qin people will become powerful bargaining chips in your hands. Of course, if the other party finally decides to kill them, even if he only has ten horsemen, he will not stand still. It's just that once the two sides fight, it is a question of how many of these refugees, who are now having some difficulty in moving, will survive.

As soon as the war began, killing the enemy to survive became the theme, and no one cared whether it was a soldier or a civilian in front of their horse, they would all destroy the speed of the horse to the extreme in order to get a faster killing speed.

Cheng Xiaoyu's bold move made the other party a little stunned, they looked at Cheng Xiaoyu who walked in in a daze, and they forgot to stop it, and they didn't even make a sound. It wasn't until Cheng Xiaoyu walked to a distance of only more than ten steps away from the Qin general that the man finally reacted. He slowly lifted the knife.

Cheng Xiaoyu's heart immediately rose to his throat.

He stopped and looked at the other man.

The other party was also looking at him.

Cheng Xiaoyu took a deep breath and piled up a smile on his face that he thought was very kind. He pointed to the trembling refugees behind him.

In front of him were the Thunder Army's hundred horsemen, and behind him were more than five hundred refugees, and behind the refugees were his ten subordinates. Although the faces of the ten people were all pale, the knife was still held steadily, and no one beat the horse and fled, which made Cheng Xiaoyu very happy, if they escaped, they were afraid that they would have to be stabbed in the next moment.

"They are all the people of the Twin Cities." Cheng Xiaoyu spoke, "It seems that Shuanglian City has no food, and it has to expel the ordinary people who have no combat effectiveness." Originally, there were more than 1,000 people, but now, only half of them are left, and the rest were frozen to death in the wind and snow last night. ”

Cheng Xiaoyu calmly narrated, he had completely calmed down, and even carefully observed the other party's reaction while speaking.

The face of the Qin general on the opposite side was a little twitching, they did not have such good protective equipment as the Ming army, many places on their faces were cracked by the cold, and the hands holding the knife were also covered with chilblains.

"No one can save them, except us." Cheng Xiaoyu said. "You have no food, no clothing, not even a safe place to stay, and they will only survive if they get to us."

"So you can choose to go to war, or I and my subordinates will die here, but you should also understand that if we die, these more than 500 people, but they will become funeral objects, even if they can survive the battle when we fight, they will not survive the next wind and snow, even if they are lucky enough to survive the wind and snow, without food, they will still starve to death after all."

Qin Jiang on the other side twitched his face even more, there were blood oozing from the blood on his face, and there was also some yellow water with frostbite and rupture, most of him and his soldiers were like this. It can be seen that their lives are extremely difficult.

"You damned invaders." General Qin finally spoke, looking at Cheng Xiaoyu, his eyes were full of disgust, "They originally had a home to withstand the cold wind and food to survive the cold winter, but it was because of you that they fell to this point, and now, you actually want to be a good person." How could they have ended up without you? ”

Cheng Xiaoyu spread his hands, "I don't know what you said, because I'm just a small soldier." But I can tell you that half a year ago, I was also a Qin person, and now, I have become a Ming person. But I never regret it, because I'm so much better off than before. Not only me, but also the Qin people in Qingzhou, Xingyuan, Danyang, Tiger Prison and other places, they are now very happy that they have become Ming people. I don't understand what kind of invasion is not invaded, but now in those former Qin lands occupied by the Ming Dynasty, the common people are very comfortable, well-fed, warmly dressed, no one is displaced, and no one freezes to death in the wind and snow. ”

Hearing Cheng Xiaoyu admit that he was still a Qin man half a year ago, the fierceness in General Qin's eyes became even stronger, "Traitor!" ”

A hint of ridicule flashed on Cheng Xiaoyu's face.

"I still remember when I was very young, there was a big family, father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, brothers, sisters, they were all very hardworking, working hard every day, but after a year, we still couldn't eat. It was also in such a snowy day, because we really couldn't pay the assessed taxes, the officials of Daqin kicked the family out of the house, and all the things in the house were robbed. ”

Qin Jiang's face changed slightly.

"It was also such a snowy night, and our family, except for me, froze to death. My grandparents, fathers and mothers surrounded us children in the middle, trying their best to protect us from the wind and snow, but except for me, my brothers and sisters froze to death. ”

Cheng Xiaoyu's eyes flashed with hatred.

"More than ten years have passed, I have grown up, and I have become a soldier in the border army of the Tiger Prison, but in the past few years, I can still see people freezing to death in the wilderness at any time, and some people being kicked out of their homes and becoming homeless because they can't pay taxes."

"We don't have high requirements, we just want to survive, but why can't we even meet such a simple requirement? But the Ming Dynasty gave me hope, they occupied the land of our Qin State, but the place they occupied, no one froze to death this winter, no one starved to death, and no one was expelled from their homes. In the past six months, I have traveled many places with the army, and everywhere I passed, I could see the officials of the Ming Dynasty pulling carts of grain and carts of clothes to collect the people who were separated by the war, helping them build houses and help them sow land. There is no apportionment, no forced labor, as long as you are willing to work, you can get the corresponding payment, this winter is the most comfortable winter I have ever seen the people of Qin, so I don't think I am treason. If you insist on thinking so, then I want to say, what if I betray such a Qin State that can't even fill the stomachs of the people and still lies on the people to suck blood and sweat? ”

General Qin was furious and raised the steel knife in his hand suddenly.

Cheng Xiaoyu looked up at him with a sneer, "I'm annoyed and angry, so what?" We could have fled, we could have fled before we found you, but we didn't, because because we were gone, and these hundreds of people were dead. I've been guilty of this, and I don't want them to die. But you raise your knife, you can kill us, but then, these hundreds of people will die because of you. This general, this is the difference between the Ming Dynasty and the Qin State! Our commander told us that it is our duty to protect the common people from being bullied by anyone. ”

Both sides raised their sabers, and the horses under their crotches felt the high-spirited fighting spirit and raised their heads and neighed. The atmosphere in the stadium was on the verge of a touch. At this time, as long as there is any inadvertent action on both sides, it may immediately trigger a battle.

Cheng Xiaoyu stared at the general opposite, and the general on the opposite side gritted his teeth, but he was also looking at him fiercely.

In the unsettling silence, a baby's cry suddenly rang out. The baby's cry is full of breath and loud.

The fighting spirit that had just burst out between the two sides, because of the loud cry of the baby, slowly dissipated in the air.

General Qin looked up at the sky, the falling snowflakes fell on his face and melted rapidly, water stains flowed down his face, and the knife he held slowly hung down.

He waved his arm, choked, and the steel knife sheathed.

He reined in his horse and walked away in silence.

More than 100 Qin soldiers, after taking one last look at the hundreds of refugees, also silently followed their generals and left for the distance in the wind and snow. The speed was getting faster and faster, and in the blink of an eye, they were already submerged in the boundless wind and snow.

Cheng Xiaoyu's clothes were already soaked, and just now, he fought several times in front of the Hades Palace.

The ten soldiers were also shocked, looking at the Qin army in the distance, all of them were lucky for the rest of their lives.

No one spoke, only the cry of the baby, which still echoed between heaven and earth.