Zhao Chong looked across the roaring river, and saw that a row of Hun cavalry sitting on gray and black horses had been standing neatly on the opposite bank, one by one with their scimitars out of their sheaths and across their chests.

Zhao Chong sighed in his heart, now he is surrounded by these Qiang soldiers, and the back road is blocked by the Huns. Although he didn't know how many Qiang soldiers there were in front of him, he could see that there were three or four thousand on the battlefield for many years, and he only had more than two hundred people. Although the 200 horsemen on their side are all elites trained by themselves, everyone rushed back to Lingju City from Sili all the way, and chased them to the Qiang land before they stopped, but the Qiang people waited for work and set up an ambush here. It is precisely because the enemy is strong and we are tired, and our army is already at the end of the crossbow, and there is no reason to be invincible.

"Zhao Chong, Zhao Chong! I want you to fight the horse for half your life, but you have committed this taboo, you have been arrogant after a few victories in the past few years, and you have underestimated the enemy, arrogant, just thinking that there is no wise man among the Qiang people, but today's defeat is really a slap in the face to you. With just one defeat, you will lose your life and half of your life's wisdom, and even these two hundred brothers will accompany you to die as a barbarian...... Alas...... "Thinking that Zhao Chong's fighting spirit had disappeared by half at this time, he was disheartened......

After a while, Zhao Chong's mind flickered: Let's delay for a while, and after a long time, Wei Ju will feel that something is wrong, so he will raise a large army to rescue. After making up his mind, he said to Jia Ying in front of him, "Zhao doesn't know when the Qiang Department hooked up with the Huns again, but this Huns are too insincere, and there are only a few hundred horsemen here, and they can't stop me from waiting!" ”

Jia Ying still smiled and said, "Captain Zhao, you may not have looked carefully enough, you can take a look at them again to see if they are really as bad as Captain Zhao said." ”

Zhao Chong was also puzzled, and looked at the Hun cavalry on the other side of the river. Originally, when he crossed the river before, he saw these Hu people fleeing in fear, panicking like lost dogs, how did he know that they would go and return, at this time, look at the majesty of these Hun cavalry, the army is strictly organized, where is the rabble that runs and surrenders when they see the enemy, it is clearly the elite of the Huns!

"Wolf Knife Ride!" Zhao Chong's heart suddenly remembered the name of a famous royal guard of the Southern Xiongnu tribe.

At this time, it was almost noon, and the spring sun shone on the scimitar of the Hun Hu soldiers on the opposite bank, dazzling and dazzling, so that people avoided their eyes, even so Zhao Chong still pulled his head and looked around, he wanted to confirm this conjecture in his heart.

"Sure enough! ......" Zhao Chong's heart was half cold, and he saw that the scimitars of those Hun cavalry seemed to be extremely long and curved, and they turned into a semicircle, which was the blade used by the wolf knife cavalry. Generally, the scimitar used by the Huns is shorter than the Han knife, so it is light to use, and the knife is very fast, but the carrying strength is quite insufficient. When the cavalry was used, they charged with a scimitar, and the blade of the sword, combined with the momentum of the horse, could easily cut off half of the enemy's armor.

It is said that when they wield long knives, they wielded them as freely as they wielded short knives, and they also had the strength of long knives. This semi-circular scimitar also has another unique feature, that is, the handle of this knife actually penetrates deep into the inside of the sword, if these people are encircled and the war horse cannot stand out, they can hold the inside handle of the knife and use this knife as a half iron ring to fight the enemy in close combat. Legend has it that when you see the "Wolf Knife Rider" holding his hand on the inside hilt, you will not see the sun on the grassland tomorrow morning.

The "knife" in the name of this "wolf knife ride" is finished, and the other one is this "wolf". The Huns live in the Mobei grassland, and the easiest thing to see on this grassland is also the last thing the Huns want to see, which is this steppe wolf. The wolf is cunning and ferocious by nature, but also very patient and tough, once you are targeted by this wolf, you will follow you closely if you are far away for dozens or hundreds of miles; They wait for an opportunity, and when they see that you are numerous, they will only follow you but do not move forward easily, and if you are alone, they will bite you by the throat when they find the opportunity, unless you kill it first.

If it is a lone wolf, it is fine, but most of the time it is a wolf pack, although the wolf pack is more numerous, but it is more disciplined, strictly obeying the order of the head wolf, as if it is one, and the attack is a clear division of labor, not afraid of death, vowing to kill the prey. If you drive the wolves away with a large number of people, they will be extremely vindictive, and they will seek revenge on you twice in three days, bite you to death a few cattle and sheep, and take advantage of your loneliness to go up in one fell swoop. Therefore, as soon as the Xiongnu herdsmen encountered wolves, they had to sigh that their fate was not good.

And this "wolf knife soldier" is like this wolf pack, extremely brave, and the order is extremely strict, so that the surrounding Xianbei, Wuhuan and other big tribes are frightened, only obey the order of the Xiongnu alone. Legend has it that these wolf sword riders were ordered to strangle the wolves for the herdsmen, only to kill the wolf head and wolf limbs all over the sky, the wolf howl miserably, and the wolves ran away with their tails between their tails when they met them again. They are wolf-like, and more fierce than wolves, so they get the word "wolf" in their name......

"That's not right! I've never seen these cavalrymen use this weapon before, otherwise I wouldn't have been careless! Zhao Chong remembered that the blades handed over by these Hun horsemen when they surrendered were ordinary Hun scimitars, not this long knife. And when they surrendered, they had already searched their bodies, in their pockets, on their chests, under the saddle, and even in their boots, not to mention such a long scimitar, not even a dagger could be hidden, how could these Hu soldiers hold long knives in their hands, and their hearts were terrified.

Suddenly, Zhao Chong suddenly said, "Waist!" "Yes, it must have been these Huns who wrapped this scimitar and attached it to their waists, and the shape of this scimitar was semi-circular, just fitting with the belly, and wrapped around the belt. If they hadn't known in advance, how could they have taken off their belts to check it, but they were so negligent that they caused today's catastrophe.

"These wolf sword soldiers did not have the order of the Xiongnu king, and they would never go far away from the grassland to operate near Bingzhou, and let themselves be captured, all of this is a conspiracy of the Hun and Qiang!" Zhao Chong realized at this time that this matter was far from being as simple as he thought, and he was stabbed in the back.

Zhao Chong remembered the capture of these 600 Hun Hu cavalry three days ago, and he was ordered to lead his troops a month ago to help the Xiongnu Zhonglang clear the Masai and surrender the remnants of the Xiongnu in the area of Si and the Prefecture. According to the secret decree, Ma Sai will attack the Southern Xiongnu in a few months, expelling it so that it will be unable to invade our Han border for decades or even more than 100 years.

In this way, Zhao Chong swept and suppressed the rest of the month, and had cleaned up dozens of remnants of large and small parts in the rear area, and these remnants were only a few dozen people, and at most only more than a hundred people, but Zhao Chong did not lose many soldiers. Just as the sweep was completed, the Holy Decree asked him to go back to the west directly, and he did not have to return to Beijing to resume his life.

Zhao Chong went straight to the west, led the army through the junction of the state and the Hu people, was met with the six hundred Hun Hu cavalry, Zhao Chong felt that this month has not really fought any war, is idle hands itching, so he wants to take these hundreds of Hu cavalry to test the knife, so let the soldiers come forward to call the battle.

How do you know that as soon as these Huns heard the name of Zhao Chong's army, they threw off their armor and ran away, where could Zhao Chong let them go, so he waved the army forward to surround them, and the slow runners had been caught up by the Han cavalry, stabbed with guns, and these Huns fell off their horses one after another. A few of them simply stopped running, fell off their horses, turned around and kowtowed to the Han army, and spoke in Xiongnu language, and their voices were hurried, obviously frightened. The Han army laughed, and when the rest of the people saw that someone had surrendered, those who were close also dismounted and kowtowed and surrendered. After a while, these hundreds of people stopped resisting one after another, and only surrendered with their hands tied.

Zhao Chong was also happy to surrender these Hun cavalry without a fight, and seeing that they were still quite numerous, he let his sergeants accept their surrender, and there were 600 people under the count. Zhao Chong wondered in his heart, this is also the majority of the remnants of the Huns he cleared, how could these Hu soldiers surrender without resisting, but they saw that these Hu soldiers were full of embarrassment, and their faces were full of dust, as if they had been running for a long time. Could it be that these Hun cavalry fled from the north and were driven here by the Masai army, and they were frightened, and they swept dozens of tribes in a few months, could it be that these Hun soldiers heard the news and were afraid that the generals would be in danger and surrendered without a fight? Thinking about it, it was not unreasonable, so he took these Xiongnu tribes with him, and wanted to return to the west to integrate them into the army.

At this time, Zhao Chong hated himself for being so rash at that time, but he didn't expect that he had fallen for this series of tricks at that time. Only then did he turn around and say to Jia Ying, "But Zhao has looked away, your ministry actually got on a hook with the Southern Hun Julong Wusi Dadanyu, and actually sent this wolf knife rider to help you, what kind of conspiracy do you have to get together?" ”

Jia Ying still said with a noncommittal smile, "The reason for this is not enough for Captain Zhao to say." ”

"You let these Hun cavalry surrender to me, but also to lure me to come and cut off my back road, you wanted to put me Zhao Chong to death early in the morning, and everything you did was for me Zhao Chong alone, right!" Zhao Chong's question was so strong that people couldn't help but feel shocked when they heard it.

"Yes, yes, Captain Zhao is not confused, I think you have thought most of them thoroughly at this time, so let's add some details below. This plan began on the day you returned to Beijing......"

"What? This poisonous plan began to be laid out when I returned to Beijing. Originally, Zhao Chong was already prepared in his heart, but he couldn't help but be moved at this time.

"After you returned to Beijing, we originally wanted to arrest Wei Ju, the captain of the Qiang Guard, to do the internal response, but Wei Ju has been in the city for a long time, and he is extremely upright, so no matter how much coercion and temptation he can't make him submit to me. But the emperor lives up to his wishes, the people in our department are patrolling outside the border, but they happened to meet you engaged in the transaction between Ma Xuan and the first zero department, this is a pie that fell from the sky, how can we not continue, so I sent someone to capture Ma Xuan and used this handle to force him to surrender to my Qiang department, let him go back and let him design to lead three thousand Qiang prisoners across the river......" Jia Ying said.

"We will unite with the Southern Xiongnu Wusi Shan Yu and let him send hundreds of Xiongnu Hu cavalry to surrender to you, and as you said, cut off your back road. When you took these six hundred wolf sword horses under your command, we received the news from the Huns, so we calculated the time, according to the speed of your march, and arrived at Lingju in the early morning three days later, we asked Ma Xuan to start early in the morning after three days, and this Ma Xuan really lived up to our trust, so he brought these people here. And Captain Zhao, you returned to the West and sent someone to send an order to inform all the military orders of the Captain Huqiang Mansion, which had already been intercepted by our people in the middle of the road, so no one in the city knew that you were coming back, otherwise how could you come directly to the bank of the Yinhe River without waiting for you......" Jia Ying's voice was proud, as if he was appreciating a work of art.

"And I calculated that when you learn that these three thousand Qiang captives have come here to intercept and kill them in person, and that the army has been fighting for a long time, you will definitely let them camp in the city to rest, and only send this elite cavalry with you and these six hundred Hu cavalry who are still physically strong in comparison. And with your character, you will not let these Qiang prisoners return to the Qiang land to threaten the Han Dynasty, even if you cross the river to chase them to the Qiang land, you will intercept and kill them, Captain Zhao, you have walked into our encirclement step by step. Jia Ying stopped talking, Zhao Chong listened for a while, his face was pale, and for a while he had a face of shame.

"Okay, the story is over, is there anything else Captain Zhao wants to say? Let's go on the road without this! Jia Ying still said with a smile on his face, but the last sentence was full of murderous intent. He also knew that Zhao Chong was delaying time, but if he didn't finish this elaborate plan, he would be like a stalk in his throat as Zhao Chong said.

"I see...... I, Zhao Chong, said today that I can't go back alive, you are only for me in such calculations, can you let go of my two hundred brothers? Zhao Chong asked.

"Captain Zhao is still laughing at this time, do I want to put them back and wait for them to seek revenge on my Qiang tribe? Are you a three-year-old doll for me, our army is more than ten times larger than yours, and you are still afraid of these 200 people? Jia Ying sneered.

I saw Zhao Chong clenching the long sword in his hand, across his neck, and said to Jia Ying, "Zhao will die now, please let me go of these brothers!" As he spoke, he wiped it off his neck.

"General, no!" Several voices of the soldiers of the Han army who were surrounded by Qiang soldiers shouted, and no matter how surrounded by Qiang soldiers more than ten times their size, they drew their swords and slashed, they had to fight their way out and rush to Zhao Chong's side.