PS: Thank you to the book friend drug addict man for being the helmsman of this book! There is another chapter later

In mid-November, Qinyi near the Qilu border.

The snow that covered most of the eastern part of the country had long since stopped, and at this time, from near to far, the open space under the city, the open land outside the city, the long painted road, and the fields and trees in the distance were white.

The gates creaked, the ice fog burst open, and hundreds of horses wrapped in non-slip cloth galloped out, leaving dirt and snow behind. The horses were saddled to keep the riders sitting, and the young light knights were in high spirits, wearing warm kudzu linen coats with sleeveless leather armor in the center, and the officers wore a fur coat. Its commander Zhao Wuxian took the lead, and the dark color was churning behind him.

A few days had passed since the attack on Qi's baggage, and after Zhao Wuxian and his team succeeded, they immediately headed north along the Tu Road to avoid Qi's reinforcements.

He had already sent all the wounded to Zhenyi, and after using the spare war horses, there were still more than 700 horsemen left to fight. Without caring for his own main force, he destroyed the grain stations set up by the Qi people along the way in turn, and occasionally encountered hundreds of Qi grain squads slowly traveling south. Along the way, they did not encounter any opponents, and captured hundreds of Qi soldiers and people, most of whom were escorted to nearby cities.

But the danger has been hanging over their heads since the snow that day, and behind them are more than 3,000 reinforcements from the Qi State, Zhao Wuxian specially sent Yu Xi as a supplement to take more than 100 horsemen to the southeast, climbing to the highest point that can be found, in order to observe the movements of the Qi reinforcements behind him. Once he found that the Qi people had any abnormal movements, Yu Xi would blow the bronze horn to warn him.

However, to Wuxian's surprise, the Qi army seemed to be chasing Zhao Wuxian's whereabouts, and it was only more than ten miles away from him at the nearest time. But it doesn't seem like there is a plan to pursue the battle. There are fewer troops without mercy, and there is no rout in this army as a drag. The mental state is good, and it should be an elite soldier. He didn't dare to rashly launch a surprise attack to increase his senseless casualties.

The two sides were so careful to guard against each other, and arrived at the Qilu border one after the other, and at this point, Zhao Wuxian led the army to the west and simply entered Qinyi. And that Qi army actually returned to the territory of Qi without regard for it, which made people confused.

"This Qi army has strange intentions, I really don't know what it is doing, it is strange but it is a demon. Even if they enter the Qi realm, we must be careful. ”

During this period, there was almost no contact between the two sides, and Wuxian did not know that the commander on the other side was Chen Heng, one of his several important enemies in the future......

Doctor Qin Yi saw a dense crowd of 40,000 people when the Qi army crossed the border, and he was almost frightened to surrender the city, but fortunately, Qin Shang and Qin Fei, two disciples of Yang Tongue Rong and Confucius, admonished him, and at the same time emptied his military power, which did not lead to a big mistake. Now as the winter snow falls, there is news that the Qi people have begun to retreat. And Zhao Wuxian even cut off the weight of Qi's food and captured the prince of Qi, so Doctor Qin Yi turned to admire Zhao Wuxian, but he was the only one. I don't know, I thought he was actually a vassal.

So the cavalry was well replenished in the Yi, and the captured Prince Yang Sheng of Qi was thrown to the Yi Temple without mercy. Let the sheep tongue and Mucha, who have taken over the defense of this place, watch.

Now they continued to set out, but split the riders in two. Yu Xi continued to hand over two hundred horsemen and stared at the Qilu border. And Zhao Wuxian took five hundred and began to turn around and go south along the original road. It's uncomfortable to find the 40,000 troops of the Qi country.

"Now there are about 40,000, the snow is not cold, the snow is cold, since the snow stopped that day, the temperature is lower than a day, presumably Qi people are hungry now, lack of food and clothing, one foot deep and one foot shallow in the snow, very uncomfortable!"

……

It was indeed not a good day at all, it was a dark, cold, hungry day, like yesterday and the day before yesterday. The snow kept falling and melting, and there was ankle-deep snow everywhere, and the cold wind whirled in from the west, carrying the snowflakes as it blew through the frozen ground.

Yang Hu used the abandoned wall of a dwelling as his home for tonight, and he used flint and copper to make a fire, and it was easy to make a wisp of green smoke. The flames flickered, spreading on scraped bark and dead and dried pine needles. It was cold and frozen, and the warm flame was the most beautiful thing, and in the eyes of Yang Hu, it was as lovely as a shy bride, and the beauty of a flower made people admire.

When the Qi army began to turn around and evacuate, there was only one and a half days of food left, and it was barely enough for two and a half days to eat. Yang Hu, as a guest of Qi Hou, his treatment is relatively high, even at this difficult moment, he was given a dried fish and a bowl full of corn yesterday, but today there is only half a bowl, and the dried fish also has the fattest belly, only a crunchy head and a shriveled tail.

But Yang Hu didn't complain, the food of ordinary soldiers was even worse, he had seen it, they drank gruel like clear water, and there were only a few leaves floating in it. So he secretly congratulated himself that he was not a prisoner, and then raised the bowl high, and the chopsticks quickly squeezed it, devouring the corn that was gradually losing its temperature, and chewing and swallowing the bones of the dried fish into his stomach one by one, so that they could generate the heat that allowed him to calm down.

I don't know what kind of food Qi Hou's case is? Or is it not the standard for a double chicken in the day? I don't know if he can still swallow the sweet rice wine in his bitter mouth.

This is destined to be a failed adventure, in Yang Hu's view, if the Marquis of Qi can not covet the full merit of annihilating the Zhao soldiers after conquering Yiyi, but cautiously go to Puyang first to join the Wei people, in the case of the three secretaries of the Jin State each have their own thoughts, this war Qi State is a sure winner. But looking at Qi Hou who was on the rise, Yang Hu chose to remain silent.

Even if he goes south to Xilu, he should turn around and head on the road before the snow falls, if he can do so, at least the losses can be minimized, and now he may have returned to the Qi country. But at that time, looking at Gao Zhang, who was reprimanded for being admonished, Yang Hu chose Mingzhe to protect himself.

He is a deceased minister of the Lu State, why should he worry so much about the Marquis of Qi who turned his hands and covered the clouds and rain?

As a result, the Qi army fell into the embarrassing situation of nearly 1,000 people dying of freezing and starvation, and the number of frozen people is still increasing sharply every day.

Or, is it because the Zhao father and son's plan this time is too beautiful? Yang Hu himself had suffered Zhao Wuxian's losses, and after the fall, he was used by him for more than half a year, erecting targets in Guanyi, so that Sanhuan's attention was focused on him. Can't work together to crowd out shirtless.

In fact, in Yang Hu's heart, there is a way to save his life. That is, with 40,000 people, it took a day or two to go west to conquer Zhenyi. Or maybe it's a hill. Although this will cost thousands of casualties, at least you can get the food in the city after the city is broken, so that the Qi army can rest and recuperate, and wait until the snow melts before thinking about whether to continue the war or withdraw the army.

But the Zhao clan obviously did not give the Qi people this kind of opportunity, not to mention that the defenses of these two cities were very cautious and stable, let's just say that Zhao Ying, who had already crossed the Pushui, had been hovering twenty or thirty miles behind the Qi army, like a wolf waiting for the prey to run out of strength and pounce on it. Once the Qi army intends to attack the city. I am afraid that it will be attacked from inside and outside, and the consequences will only be worse.

Chen Heng, who went north to find the baggage and the unlucky captured son, did not reply to the message for a long time, and now he has almost become the only hope of the Qi army. I don't know when the next grain will arrive, anyway, the grain station that I passed along the way has been completely destroyed, and the grain has burned to the ground.

"This must be Zhao Wuxian's handiwork." Yang Hu gritted his teeth in front of Qi Hou and said.

The hussars that had humiliated Yang Hu in the Five Fathers' Qu, with their speed twice that of foot soldiers and traveling sixty or seventy miles a day, had already arrived at the border of Qilu at this moment. If Zhao Wuxian turns around and goes south, he will cooperate with the main force of the Zhao clan that has already crossed the Pushui to attack from the north and south. The consequences are unimaginable.

It is true that the Qi army still has the advantage in numbers, but in the enemy territory, the more critical problem is that the Qi people have now lost their fighting spirit. Morale was close to collapse and could not even withstand a surprise attack.

Anyway, go on like this. The Qi army is finished!

This is the keen sense that Yang Tiger has cultivated in Pingyang for more than half a year.

If Qi Hou doesn't want to find a way again. Yang Hu has to find a chance to escape and survive on his own......

At this moment, there were bursts of exclamations from outside the tent.

"Zhao Bing is so eager to attack?"

Yang Hu was shocked. This was beyond his expectations, Zhao Bing should wait another day or two, wait until the southern apprentices and the northern cavalry converge, and then take advantage of the weakest Qi people. He held the sword and poked his head out to look, but it was not an attack, but something that Qi people were watching.

……

The camp of Qi is now like a drunk, staggering, and has long lost the spirit of Yiyi's victory.

When Yang Hu came out, he saw dozens of horses walking listlessly around in the snow, looking for the dry grass rhizomes under the snow. The soldiers, weary and huddled around the fire, spent most of their time marching outside in the snow and ice, and only when they rested could they roast their clothes and shoes and footwear by the fire that would never dry, and they did not want to move.

Yesterday and the day before yesterday there were still people hunting wild beasts around the camp, but unless they were hunters who had perfected their skills, it was obviously a luxury to find food in such weather. Yang Hu had seen many people who had secretly left the camp to forage for food and never returned, until the next day, when the group found their corpses frozen and half eaten by wild beasts by the Tu Dao......

So the best option is to lick the dry gruel with your tired eyes open and then look at the gloomy sky stupidly......

It wasn't until that movement that successfully attracted Yang Hu that it attracted their attention.

"It's your lordship!"

Yang Hu squeezed forward, but saw Qi Hou take off the thick fur that never left his body, this monarch who was over sixty years old was as thin and simple as ordinary soldiers, looking a little old, and the soldiers were faintly dissatisfied with Qi Hou before, and they suddenly disappeared because of this dress. Although Yang Hu knew that this was a temporary pretense, he couldn't help but sigh for Qi Hou's intelligence and acting skills.

But, what is he going to do?

But he saw that Qi Hou raised his hand towards the soldiers around him, and said with a pale face: "Lonely sky, can't do the emperor of heaven, make God angry, snow and rain fall, the three armies are tired, cold and hungry, the dead look at each other, can't be buried in Artemisia, the sin of the widow!" ”

He paused and said with emotion: "However, this place is only a hundred miles away from the Qi country, and it is a three-day journey, and I hope that everyone will do their best to move forward and return to the township as soon as possible." The widow has said here, all those who go out this time will have half of the tax reduced in their families, and they will not be recruited again within three years! ”

There was a sensation in the crowd, half of the reduction was given, and no more conscription was made for three years? They were faintly excited, this was a rare favor from the rampant Qi State.

But then someone howled: "The king is benevolent, but the most important thing for us now is the cold on our bodies and empty stomachs, and I hope that the king will have mercy on him and give him a full meal!" ”

Everyone reacted instantly, indeed, what tax reduction is half and exemption for three years is a matter of the future. As the poem says: "No clothes and no brown, why die?" "Now they are hungry, and it is difficult for them to walk back to Qi for three more days. Qi Ren, who had started to make noise again, suddenly fell silent, and looked at Qi Hou with eager eyes. (To be continued......)