At the end of September of the eighth year of Zhao Hou, it was mid-autumn, and a huge cavalry was encamping here on the grassland at the northern foot of Yanshan Mountain, hundreds of miles north of Daijun. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info the night outside the plug has been cold, but the soldiers who have experienced many days of marching can not sleep on the ground, but vigilantly patrol the night. They had already left the familiar land, and after going deep into the grassland, they realized that it was vast, and the darkness around them seemed to indicate the unknown future, not to mention what they had experienced in the past few days......

"Master, what should I do?"

In the largest tent, looking at the general who was dying on a stretcher, the Lingque healer whispered to the teacher with a pale face.

Glancing at the dark face of General Yu Jun, the old doctor who has been practicing medicine in the army for more than ten years is also a little helpless.

He shook his head and said, "This is the poisonous curse of the Donghu people......"

It turned out that after the autumn of this year, the Donghu people who chased water and grass and migrated began to enter the north of Yan and Dai to raid the grassland tribes vassal to Zhao, but when they were vicious and tried to cross Tu He and go deep into Dai County to kill and plunder, they were severely attacked by the Zhao army!

In August, Daijun received an order from Zhao Wuxian to repel the invading Hu people, and Daijun Sima Yuxi believed that the Daijun cavalry had recovered after three years of recuperation. According to the intelligence, the Donghu people are at most twice as large as the Zhao army, and they are equipped with bows and crossbows.

So after Yu Xi repelled the invading enemy, he took 2,500 Zhao cavalry, and recruited 2,500 cavalry from Tu He, Wuzhong, and Dai, and resolutely went out of Zhangyuansai (Zhangjiakou) to find the main force of Donghu! Strive to complete the battle!

At the beginning of September, the Zhao army went smoothly after leaving the fortress, first defeated the Donghu rangers near the Baihe, took advantage of the victory to cross the river, and captured a small leader of the Donghu, and asked him about the whereabouts of the Donghu king Liuhe, the Donghu leader said: "Liuhe heard that the army was going north, and fled north in panic, only thirty miles away from here. ”

Yu Xi was overjoyed when he heard this, and decided to let the army gallop there to prevent the king of Donghu from escaping.

In the subsequent pursuit, he really found the tail of the Donghu tribe, but the main force was still missing, and the Hu people were defeated and retreated in every battle, with the progress of this pursuit battle, the Zhao army has been farther and farther away from Daijun, and began to go deep into the hinterland of Donghu, not far from Chishan.

At this time, the cautious generals began to persuade Yu Xi to stop and find out the truth of the enemy army before sending troops to pursue. However, Yu Xi, who was bent on making meritorious service and being named the county monarch and making his family a family like Dong and You, refused to accept it, insisting on taking the leader of Donghu as the township guide, and going straight to the position where the king of Donghu might be.

But he pounced again.

Annoyed and angry, Yu Xi dismantled the lying Donghu leader into eight pieces, and then concluded that Donghu was afraid of the Zhao army, so he chose to flee. If the ghosts and gods can't run away from the temple, he decided to kill Chishan in one go and destroy the place where the Donghu people sacrificed to the sky, so that the Donghu tribe that had just been pinched together could split itself without attacking.

Tu He Ren Xinzhi Dog immediately admonished: "The general believes the words of the captives, the lone army goes deep, and the enemy army continues to show weakness and temptation, and if you advance again, you will inevitably fall into a disadvantageous situation, it is better to retreat temporarily, return with the whole division, and wait for the next spring to fight again." ”

Yu Xi didn't listen to this, and said sharply: "Those who disobey the order will be killed!" ”

However, things are getting more and more wrong.

Late September is the end of autumn season, the warmth on the grassland has not yet dissipated, this is also the last golden season of abundant water and grass, the cattle and sheep on the grassland should be desperate to graze all the time, try to make themselves more fat to survive the next long and difficult winter.

However, in this vast grassland, Zhao Jun did not see cattle or sheep, and it was just empty as far as the eye could see.

"It must be the Donghu people who drove the cattle and sheep to the north." The new child dog guessed that this was extremely unfavorable news, because Zhao Jun's food had been almost depleted.

"Naturally, there are countless cattle, sheep, dogs and horses in the Red Mountain waiting for us to pick them up, and they will be wiped out back then, isn't it also a thousand-mile attack to establish miraculous feats?" Yu Xi is now in a dilemma, he insisted on leading the army to gallop, and the generals had no choice but to follow.

Zhao Jun walked on the grassland for half a month, but he didn't even find the shadow of the Donghu people, and even had some difficulty in drinking water.

However, there were also sensitive soldiers who noticed the strange smell in the water and informed the Lingque healer in the army, but when the healer came to stop it, it was too late, and more than 1,000 people in the former army had already drunk the water in the river......

A disease spread among the soldiers who drank water, and even the chief general Yu Xi was not spared, and the first day he was fine, but the next day he vomited and diarrhea, and on the third day he was too weak to get on his horse.

Zhao Jun had no choice but to stagnate in this strange grassland, and after the doctors diagnosed and treated, they asserted: "This is dysentery!" ”

"Dysentery!?" The new young dog and the generals were shocked, the diseases caused by this gastrointestinal infection are mainly concentrated in the hot south, and there are not many on the grassland, how can you get this kind of vicious disease?

It turned out that in order to deal with Zhao Jun, the Donghu people threw the animals that died of the plague into the water source, and after drinking this unclean water, Zhao Jun naturally became ill, and at least five or six hundred people fell ill, and two hundred of them were as serious as Yu Xi!

"If it is in Yecheng, there is still a way, but this place is far away from the county, there is a lack of medical treatment, and only relying on the temporary collection of artemisia leaves, oak bark and other herbs, I am afraid, I am afraid that I will not be able to cure it, I can only do my best, and I will have a destiny ......."

It's a pity that the Mandate of Heaven is not here in Yu Xi, when half of the sick people drank the medicinal soup made of artemisia leaves and oak bark and the symptoms were slightly relieved, Yu Xi and more than 200 other people were already dying, and the medicine stone could not be saved.

When Yu Xi was dying, he regretted his rashness very much, he took the hand of the deputy general Xinzhi Dog, and instructed him: "I have the order of the prince, failed to repay the king's kindness, trapped the soldiers in danger, and deserved death. I only hope that the new child can return to Daijun with a large army, so as to fight against Donghu again in the next year. ”

Soon after the explanation, Yu Xi passed away, the son of the first to follow Zhao Wuxian among the generals of Zhao State, famous for his light riding and surprise adventures, but the good swimmer drowned, and after 20 years of majesty, he overturned on the vast grassland......

Although Yu Xi chose to trust the new childish dog, the rest of the generals and supervisors had doubts, because the new childish dog was Tu He Hu, not Huaxia, not my race, its heart must be different, and it must be guarded against!

Seeing that everyone's faces were different, the new young dog cut the skin on his chest, let the blood seep out, held Yu Xi's tiger talisman and flag, and swore in public: "Tu He is the descendant of Qingxiong, and the enemy of Donghu for generations, not to mention that I have served the prince for more than ten years, and I have regarded myself as a Zhao person, not just a Tu He person, this time the army is trapped here, lack of food and clothing, and the return journey is nearly a thousand miles, and I must be on guard against the attack of the Donghu people at any time, and I hope that the second and third sons can trust me, and help each other in the same boat and tide over the difficulties together!" ”

Except for the new dogs, none of the generals present had the qualifications and military titles to command the five thousand cavalry, and they could only serve as dead horses as live horse doctors, and each returned to his own troops, ready to leave the camp.

At the beginning of October, as a huge fire was lit on the banks of the Raoleshui River, Zhao's army, led by the new child, began to retreat and return.

When they came, it was the Zhao army that was looking for and chasing the Donghu people, but when they retreated, the people who pursued and retreated fell one by one, and the Donghu people began to appear on the grassland they were familiar with and harass the Zhao army. Fortunately, the new young dog has been fighting with the Donghu people for half his life, and is very familiar with the wolf pack tactics when they fight, cleverly avoiding or throwing bait for the Donghu people to compete. After all, the Donghu people are an alliance composed of many tribes, and they are quick to run, but it is still a little difficult to coordinate operations, although Zhao Qi is tired and has suffered some losses, but his strength is especially, after several attacks have not had much effect, no one wants to be the first to go up and gnaw hard bones, Donghu King Liuhe is helpless about this, he is the most unwilling to go up and die with his elite.

So all the way down, Zhao Cai's casualties were still within the acceptable range, 5,000 horses, one person and two horses out of the jam, about 4,000 horsemen and people with horses back to Daijun.

It's a pity that there are still more than 1,000 people and nearly 3,000 horses lost on the way home, and the loss of Yu Xi, the "Dragon City Flying General", is a huge loss for the entire Zhao Kingdom.

In November, when this bad news reached Yecheng, the Manchu Dynasty was shocked!

A few days later, Yecheng held a huge public memorial event, and Zhao Hou Wuxian also personally wrote the memorial text: "On the eighteenth day of the heavy snowstorm, the clouds gathered into lead, the forest was miserable, lonely and sad, and the general had passed away. When the north of the dynasty is still in the autumn wind? Pour liquor to sacrifice to the general, hate to sleep with the horse, hit Donghu in the northern desert ......"

At the end of the memorial text, Zhao Wuxian said with emotion: "The widow is independent and snowy, and he has been thinking for thousands of years. Feeling the general's martyrdom, tears fell into tears, the general's heroic soul has passed away, and Ande warriors are guarding the border for the widow? Cry out, if the dragon city flying general is here, he will not teach Hu Ma to do Yin Mountain! ”

More than 20 years of friendship between monarchs and ministers is not something that can be expressed by a piece of paper, and while sighing and crying for Yu Xi's death, Zhao Wuxian also made a difficult decision:

"It seems that the widow has to personally conquer the north!"

Although the courtiers dissuaded him, Zhao Wuxian was determined that he must beat the grassland jackal he had indirectly created back to its original form!

However, it will be necessary to wait until next spring at the earliest, and the cavalry of the upper county will not be able to go north, and before that, the Daijun will survive a harsh winter under the disturbance of Huma!