Ma Chao was stunned for a moment, and asked in a deep voice, "Why?" ”

Liu Xin's subordinates are not allowed to have private soldiers, and not only that, but those wealthy families are not allowed to have private soldiers. However, wealthy families can be guarded by family members, but they are not allowed to have bows and arrows, spears and other weapons, only allowed to be equipped with clubs, waist knives, etc., and they are ordinary waist knives, like those standard weapons equipped by the Han army are absolutely not allowed to be owned by private individuals.

Although his subordinates were not allowed to raise private soldiers, Liu Xin did not hesitate to allocate corresponding personal soldiers according to their ranks, because these personal soldiers were uniformly deployed by the Ministry of War and could be rotated at any time, and the salary and silver were also paid by the Ministry of War, so there was no need to worry about them being regarded as their "private property" by those civil and military personnel.

However, this personal soldier next to Ma Chao is a little different, his name is Lin San, he has been following Ma Teng when he was in Xiliang, and he is Ma Teng's cronies. Ma Teng was arranged by Liu Xin to serve in the Ministry of War, and it was not difficult to arrange Lin San to be a pro-soldier by Ma Chao's side. However, Ma Teng came to Liu Xin's command as a general, and he was naturally cautious in his actions, but the matter of arranging Lin San as his own soldier was agreed by Liu Xin. Liu Xin also knew that although Ma Chao was a school captain, he was still a seventeen-year-old boy, and it was normal for parents to be relieved.

Ma Teng arranged for Lin San to be Ma Chao's personal soldier, not just to take care of Ma Chao's life. Lin San was able to become Ma Teng's cronies back then, and he had his own merits, Ma Teng arranged for him to come to Ma Chao's side, and he also had the meaning of letting him mention Ma Chao from time to time.

Lin San saw that Ma Chao seemed to be displeased, and hurriedly arched his hand and said: "General, this is the king's tent of the Huns, and the general is still ......."

When Ma Chao saw Lin San's appearance, he immediately understood what he meant, and couldn't help laughing and said, "What about the Hun king's account?" Their orders are gone, and what royal account is there! You don't think of him as a king's tent, he's just a bigger tent. If you can't live in such a big tent, can't you squeeze a small tent? Don't worry, the lord is wise and martial, not the kind of person who is cautious. ”

Lin San had to persuade again, Ma Chao had already thrown off his arms, lifted the curtain of the tent, and strode in. Lin San only sighed, shook his head and followed.

On the snow field, the Hun cavalry released by Zhao Yun was returning to their respective tribes in despair, and the largest group of them was the young and strong of the Yufu tribe, who were not injured and only suffered some minor injuries, adding up to more than 3,000 people, which was not much worse than the average medium tribe.

Kemaian was cut off a leg, which was a very serious injury, and he should have stayed in the Han army's barracks to continue healing, but he was the leader of this group of cavalry, and now he chose to surrender to the Han army with everyone, and he had to go back to give Yu Fuluo an explanation, so he insisted on returning to his tribe, and Zhao Yun went to him.

Among this group of released captives, although Kemaian was a cripple, he was still their leader, and his words were even more effective than in the past, because this leader was appointed by Zhao Yun, and no one was willing to go against the Han army anymore, and naturally they did not dare to disobey Zhao Yun's orders, and no one dared to have any contempt for Kemaian, a cripple.

Kemaian was lying on a stretcher, and a few sturdy Hun men took turns carrying it, anyway, in this snow, the horse could not go fast, and he did not have to worry about slowing down everyone's speed. He was content now, a cripple like him would not be used by the tribal leaders in the future, nor would he be treated well by the tribesmen, and although he was once a close confidant of Yufro, it would not be long before his family would be bullied by others. Now, he is the tribal leader appointed by Zhao Yun himself, and even Yu Fuluo can ignore it. He has made up his mind that he will die to be a loyal Han Shunmin in this life.

Suddenly, a Hun cavalryman came from behind and said loudly on his horse: "Oh no, there seems to be a wolf behind." ”

Although Zhao Yun equipped them with horses and dry food, he only equipped them with a few pairs of bows and arrows, and even their scimitars were detained, and most of them only had meat knives on their bodies, and there were no other weapons for self-defense. The wolves on the steppe are very ferocious, and on the snowy field, their horses can't run fast at all, and one by one, they are exhausted, and their proud bows and arrows are gone.

Kemai Anqiang calmed himself down and shouted in a deep voice: "What are you panicking about! Do you see clearly, how many wolves are there? ”

The cavalryman's face was embarrassed, and he snorted: "It's too far away, and only a faint black dot can be seen, which should be exploring the way in front of the wolves." ”

Kemaian hesitated for a moment, on this snowy field, they could not outrun the wild wolves, but there were so many of them, they did not need to be overly afraid of the wolves, so he said: "Let everyone stop, bow and arrows ready." ”

The five pairs of bows and arrows that Zhao Yun gave them were for them to defend themselves on the snowfield, of course, they couldn't guard against the attacks of other tribes, and they could only guard against a small number of wild beasts. There are not too many beasts on the snowfield, but once they appear, they are hungry and more vicious. The black dot was slow, as the team stopped, and finally got closer and closer, but it was still difficult to see whether it was a wolf or something else from a distance.

Kemaian pricked up his ears and listened for a long time, but did not hear the howl of the wolves passing the news between them, and could not help but breathe a sigh of relief, and said: "Probably a hungry lone wolf, shoot it." ”

If it was a pack of wolves, he would not have given such hasty orders, because if the first wolf was shot, it would attract endless retaliation from the wolves, and the wolves were very resilient when hunting, and would drag their group to death.

The number of bows and arrows is limited, and those who can be assigned bows and arrows are the marksmen in this group. Hearing Kemaian's order, someone had already raised his bow and pulled it like a full moon, and with a "whoosh" arrow was shot over, and he saw that the black dot, which was already moving very slowly, suddenly stopped on the snow and did not move, obviously with one arrow.

Although wolf skin is not as valuable as other furs, it is very warm, especially in such a cold winter, there is nothing better to protect from the wind and snow than wearing a wolf skin jacket. When the sharpshooter saw that he had been shot by an arrow, he had already jumped up, and ran towards that side with one foot deep and one foot shallow, according to the rules of the grassland, this prey belonged to him.

The sharpshooter got closer and closer to the black dot, but saw the black dot move, and seemed to stretch out his front paws, no, it was clearly a hand stretched out, which was a lone wolf, it was clearly a person.

The man's hand stretched out to the front with all his might, as if he was begging for help, and as if he was unwilling, he finally hung down weakly, and there was no movement.

The archer ran in front of him, helped the man up and took a closer look, and couldn't help but be surprised, it turned out to be none other than Liu Bao, the king of Zuoxian! The arrow he had just now was very powerful, piercing through Liu Bao's forehead and coming out through the back of his head, he should have died a long time ago, and he didn't know where he had the strength to stretch his hand so far just now.

It was not easy for Liu Bao to escape here. He had no horses, no dry rations, no bows and arrows, and even his only scimitar he had abandoned in the middle of the road.

For the first two days, the crows had been hovering over his head, just waiting for the moment he fell. Finally, Liu Bao couldn't hold it anymore, he was hungry and sleepy, and his eyes closed involuntarily.

A crow swooped down, landed in front of Liu Bao, and suddenly pecked hard at his face. Liu Bao was awakened by the severe pain, almost instinctively grabbed the crow, and bit it down, a salty liquid flowed into his mouth, and his whole body was immediately full of strength. The crow fluttered its wings for a moment, and then stopped moving. Liu Bao sat up from the snowfield, tore it hard, and swallowed a crow whole with blood and internal organs.

The rest of the crows were probably frightened by this "cruel" human, and circled above for a while, and finally gradually flew away. After eating a crow, Liu Bao regained some strength and walked forward with all his might. However, the energy replenished by a crow did not last long after all, and he fell into the snow again.

At this time, Liu Bao longed for another crow to fly down, but he couldn't even see a bird in the sky. However, Liu Bao doesn't want to die, he still has many grand goals that have not been completed, he wants to sit on the throne of the Xiongnu Shan Yu, and he wants to lead the entire Xiongnu into the Huahua world of the Central Plains. He got up from the snow and walked with great difficulty in the direction of his tribe. Later, when he couldn't walk, he rolled and crawled in the snow, and then he could only use his limbs together, crawling on the snow, moving forward little by little.

With a strong desire to survive, Liu Bao actually caught up with Kemaian and them, which made him see the hope of life, he was speechless, only desperately stretched his hand forward, but ushered in a wolf's tooth arrow.

Liu Bao died, and his tenacious life finally came to an end. When the sharpshooter laboriously dragged Liu Bao's corpse to Kemaian, the eyes of the surrounding Hun cavalry burst into flames of rage.

If it weren't for this Liu Bao to come to Yu Fuluo, they would not have braved the heavy snow to go on the expedition, and there would not have been such a big defeat, all of this was caused by Liu Bao, how could they not hate Liu Bao?

Some people spat at Liu Bao's corpse, and some people kicked Liu Bao's corpse with their feet. Suddenly, Kemaian propped himself up half on the stretcher and said in a deep voice, "Stop! ”

The Hun cavalry, who were still angry, were puzzled, and said in unison: "Let him die like this, it's too cheap for him!" ”

Kemaian waved his hand and said, "Have you all forgotten?" That Zhao Yun had been searching for Liu Bao's whereabouts, obviously he already knew that Liu Bao had provoked this incident, so he wanted to catch him no matter what. It is precisely because of this that General Zhao will let us go. ”

After a pause, Kemaian continued: "God blessed, let Liu Bao fall into our hands, we will sacrifice him to the Han people to show our loyalty!" ”