readx;?readx; Chapter 547: Life or Death

When it was almost dawn, Qin Li returned with the pursuing troops. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The camp was much quieter than in the middle of the night, the soldiers were asleep, the men had already cooked rice, and the cassava rice mixed with the aroma of minced meat made the returning officers and soldiers swallow their saliva directly.

The soldiers on night opened the camp gate and welcomed the exhausted cavalry troops in. The noise of horses and neighing broke the silence of the camp, but the soldiers who had been lying on the ground turned over at most, cursed a few words in a dream, and continued to sleep, but not one of them got up to see the excitement.

No matter how the people in the camp arranged their subordinates, Qin Li threw the reins of his horse to his own soldiers, and strode to the Chinese military tent.

The black-clothed guard saw the eldest prince coming over, and whispered: "Your Highness, my prince has just fallen asleep......"

"I'm awake." Before Qin Li could answer, Qin Lei's voice came from inside: "Big brother, come in." ”

Qin Li lifted the curtain and entered the battle, and saw that Qin Lei was indeed dressed neatly, and there was a stone dare in the tent, who was packing up the sleeping bag and covering it.

"I'm done cleaning up and I'm going to bring my uncle some breakfast." Qin Lei commanded softly.

"Yes." Shi Dang agreed, and hugged the bedding that had been rolled into a ball.

"Sit." Qin Lei calmed down and said leisurely, without the slightest interruption of his sleep.

Looking him up and down, Qin Li said strangely: "I haven't seen you all night, you seem to have changed." ”

"Maybe," Qin Lei pulled his back, sat down on the bench, and said with a smile: "After yesterday's ups and downs, anyone's mentality will change a little." ”

Raising his eyebrows, Qin Li sat down opposite him, no longer dwelling on this issue, and said in a deep voice: "Don't you ask about the results of our pursuit?" ”

"Don't ask." Qin Lei said calmly: "I thought you would come back at noon. ”

Qin Li's face was stagnant, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Zhao Wuyi turned around and put on a desperate posture, the soldiers had more than enough heart but not enough strength, so we had to come back." As he spoke, he took the hot water from the guards and said, "A total of about 100,000 enemies were destroyed in this battle, which is not satisfactory." ”

Bowing slightly, Qin Lei said softly: "Everyone has worked hard, the purpose of this battle is to defeat the Qi army, and now that the order is defeated, I can't ask for more." ”

Holding the cup to warm his hands, Qin Li said in a deep voice: "What about those guys in Muye City? Why haven't you seen it yet? Before setting off the night before, Qin Lei sent Xu Tian to go around to Makino City to deliver a letter, hoping that the four forbidden armies in the city could participate in this battle, and then they would be flanked back and forth, and a victory might be expected.

Flicking the letterhead on the table, Qin Lei said softly: "Look at it, as I expected, counting on broken shoes and broken feet, this group of fools has been tricked." ”

Qin Lihu suspiciously picked up the letter paper, quickly browsed it, and saw that the book said: 'Humble Luo Yun, Che Yinguo, respectfully Cheng Taiwei, and the two highnesses: We and other people who are panicked and uneasy, after receiving the edict from His Royal Highness the Prince, without a moment of slackness, they ordered the army and horses, and traveled under the stars and nights, wanting to go south to help the battle. However, the Qi thief Zhao Wuyi was scheming, and preset the ambush in the area of Yanhou Valley, and when we passed, he would go down and ambush the troops everywhere to block the pace of our army. ”

"We and other criminals were in a hurry, neglected to supervise for a while, fell into tricks, and unfortunately suffered heavy losses, and were not allowed to advance an inch. In desperation, he had to retreat to Makino City, stick to the city, sweep the couch and prepare food, waiting for the arrival of the king. The ministers knelt facing the south, praying that God would bless me Daqin, my Majesty, and my 100,000 soldiers......

"Humph!" Slapping the letter paper fiercely, Qin Li said angrily: "A bunch of waste! ”

Shaking his head, Qin Lei put the letterhead back into the letterhead, put it away carefully, and said slowly: "Even if there are thousands of angers, we have to wait to return to China and send it again, and now we must unite." ”

"It's indispensable to settle accounts with them!" Qin Li nodded and said, "Don't talk about this, is there any news from my father?" ”

"I don't know," Qin Lei shook his head and said, "The big river separates the north and the south, who knows what the situation is on the other side of the river?" ”

Qin Li's brows tightened when he heard this, and after a while, he said in a deep voice: "What do you say Zhao Wuyi will do?" ”

At this time, Shi Dang came in with a bowl of rice with minced cassava, and presented it to His Highness with both hands.

Qin Li was already so hungry that he took a big bite of rice when he took it, and said to Qin Lei: "You said yours, my ears are idle." ”

Qin Lei smiled and said: "His army has lost its armor and collapsed, and it can't be slowed down without ten days and half a month." Qin Li nodded and motioned for Qin Lei to go down.

"But Qi State is not just these troops," Qin Lei clasped his fingers, supported his jaw and said, "He will definitely use other troops to make some trouble." ”

"Do what?" Qin Li said vaguely.

"Intercept us again, or go south to reclaim the Tiger Pass." Qin Lei muttered: "The former is more likely to be larger, and if you want to come out of the shadow of defeat, the best way is to defeat us." ”

Qin Li quickly finished the rice in the bowl, drank a few sips of water and washed it down, and then said with a long sigh of relief: "Comfortable...... You're right, I also think that Zhao Wuji will mobilize troops and launch another encirclement and suppression against us. ”

Nodding with a wry smile, Qin Lei said in a low voice: "Kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred, we can't fight again in a short time." The soldiers said that the key was that the horses needed to regain their strength, and it would take at least five days before they could run again. ”

The speed and endurance of the warhorse far surpass that of ordinary soldiers, but there is a fatal flaw, which is that the recovery ability of this thing is far inferior to that of humans. If the young people are exhausted, they can rest for a day at most, but the horses cannot, and the price of a day of galloping is five to seven days of rest, and they have to eat beans and other nutrients.

"There is a war in front of us at the pass." Qin Li touched his beard, took off a grain of rice, put it in his mouth without thinking about it, and said in a deep voice: "The letter said that in the area of Yanhou Valley, there is a large army of Qi State. ”

"The threshold is whether this so-called army exists or not." With a chuckle, Qin Lei slowly shook his head and said, "The frightened bowed birds who are shrinking in Makino City can be frightened when they hear the sound of the bowstring. ”

"You say Yanhou Valley is Zhao Wuyi's bluff?" Qin Li's eyes widened.

Qin Lei didn't answer directly, but handed another piece of paper on the table to Qin Li, and said in a deep voice: "I calculated the accounts for Qi Guo before I went to bed, and found that he Zhao Wuyi was just taking his pants as a bag, and he couldn't make up the 'army' on Yanhou Valley." ”

Qin Li took a look, only to see a series of unknown characters written on it, and suddenly said: "Tell me, I don't understand your ghost painting peach talisman." ”

Qin Lei then remembered that he was using Arabic numerals, he smiled, and did not explain, so he said softly: "Qi has a total of 1.1 million troops, except for the 200,000 who guard the northern frontier, the 200,000 who guard the Great River, the 200,000 who garrison the two capitals and thirteen prefectures, and the 100,000 who guard the line from Chaoge to Huguan, the rest of the troops are all considered Zhao Wuyi's disposable forces. ”

"Before the war, Zhao Wuji transferred some troops from all over the country," Qin Li shook his head and said, "So it's more than 400,000." ”

"That's right," Qin Lei nodded, "He transferred 50,000 troops from Northern Xinjiang and Dahe, and 100,000 garrisons from the two capitals and thirteen prefectures, which is the source of those 600,000 troops." "On the Luoshui Plain, we annihilated 120,000, Tiger Prison Pass and Muye City, a total of 40,000 enemies, plus the few skirmishes I had before, the Qi army has lost 150,000 before sniping our army. ”

"And when Zhao Wuji launched a general attack, the number was 400,000." Qin Lei sighed and said, "There are still fifty thousand left, which should be south of the big river." ”

"Why?" Qin Li's face became very cold.

"Zhao Wuxian said." Qin Lei said quietly: "He said that Zhao Wuyi arranged for Chen Liefeng to hide in the area of Wuchao and form a two-way interception network with Xin Jiazang on land and water to prevent our army from returning to the Tiger Prison Pass. ”

"Father is in danger!" Qin Li stood up and said suddenly.

"With the Dongqi Water Master here, we can't cross the river, and we can't do anything about whether our father is in danger or not." Qin Lei said calmly: "Now the pass is to go north, and bring my Great Qin's elite back to China." ”

Qin Li sat down, squinted at Qin Lei and said, "Your heart is hard enough." ”

"Since you can't help, you'd better take care of yourself." Shrugging his shoulders, Qin Lei said softly: "Big brother, go back and rest, I will order the camp to be pulled out from time to time." ”

"What if my father is in danger?" Qin Li's eyes looked at Qin Lei Dao intently.

"The Son of Heaven has God's blessing." Qin Lei lowered his eyelids and said, "It's going to be fine." ”

"Open the skylight and say something!" Qin Li said slightly roughly.

"Let's talk about that day." Qin Lei said softly.

Seeing that Qin Lei avoided his questions several times, Qin Li laughed and said, "It turns out that you are not worried!" ”

Qin Lei didn't answer.

"Gone." Qin Li got up and walked out of the tent.

Throughout the morning, Qin Lei nested in the tent, discussing the marching route with Yang Wenyu, and then went out of the tent to move his hands and feet, prepare lunch, and then set off from the camp.

Walking around the camp at will, he unconsciously arrived at the territory of the Longxiang Army. Qin Lei found that the soldiers looked at him with admiration and fanaticism...... There seems to be a hint of begging.

Stopping, he asked a soldier of the Longxiang Army, "What's the matter?" Can I help you? ”

The soldier didn't expect the prince to pay attention to himself, and as soon as his knees weakened, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed, but when Qin Lei asked him, he only said that it was okay.

Looking around strangely, Qin Lei found that everyone's faces were different, only that these little soldiers saw that they were nervous, so they had to leave in a huff, and they didn't go far, but they heard the soldier kneeling on the ground crying blood: "Lord Wang, please, save my brother......"

Qin Lei stood still, but did not turn around and said, "Say." ”

The officer on the side, Long Xiang, glared at the soldier like a cannibal, trying to make him shut up. But the young man was clearly out of his mind: "They're going to kill my brother." I only heard him cry: "My brother killed five Qi soldiers yesterday, he is meritorious......"

"Why?" Qin Lei's voice turned cold, and he looked at the officer Long Xiang beside him.

The officer whispered, "Lord Wang, take a step to speak." ”

Qin Lei's feet took root, and he frowned: "Just say it here!" ”

The officer had no choice but to stumble and say, "Lord Qiyu, his brother is seriously injured and difficult to recover...... As is customary, someone will help him out. ”

Qin Lei's hands in his sleeves tightened, and it took a long time before he said slowly: "What about His Highness?" ”

"Your Highness sleeps in the tent."

"Take me to him." Qin Lei said in a deep voice: "Let the mending sword team rest first." "Although Qin Lei was elected as the commander-in-chief, all the armies of the forbidden army are ** individuals, and it is not easy for him to give orders directly, not to mention that Long Xiangjun is still his eldest brother.

The officer hurriedly did so and led Qin Lei to the military tent in the center of the camp. When Qin Li's personal soldiers saw that it was Prince Cheng, they hurriedly went in to report.

After a while, the boss's depressed voice came: "Okay, you Qin Yutian, I disturbed your dream in the morning, so you have to come back?" ”

"It's not rude to come." Qin Lei chuckled lightly and stepped into Qin Li's tent. looked at the boss, who was only dressed in a single shirt, sitting barefoot on the marching bed, sleepy-eyed and with exposed chest hair.

"Excuse me." Sitting down opposite Qin Li, Qin Lei said lightly: "Let's talk alone." ”

Qin Li said softly while tying his belt: "If you hear it, go out to guard, no one is allowed within three zhang." The soldiers in the house bowed and retreated, and after a while there was a cough, which meant that they were ready.

Qin Lei's expression became serious at this time, and he said in a deep voice: "Big brother, please do something." ”

"Please?" Qin Li said with a smile while wearing his coat: "It's rare, let's say, it's incumbent on you to do it." ”

"Can you kill a few fewer wounded ......" Qin Lei said softly: "At least those who can survive, just keep them." "For the Jingshan Army, he can ask not to give up any of them, but for other troops, he doesn't have the power yet, so he can only negotiate as much as possible.

Looking at Qin Lei in surprise, Qin Li stopped the movements in his hand and said strangely: "Brother, I heard you right, right?" Do you want to save those injuries? ”

"It's not all, it's just those who still have hope of surviving." Qin Lei said softly: "I know this is not in accordance with the rules, but since I have sworn in front of the officers and soldiers before the war, then I have to abide by it, right?" ”

After a slight groan, Qin Li shook his head and said, "You are talking about taking care of the families of the dead soldiers...... I have no objection to that. The implication is that the rules cannot be broken.

Sighing, Qin Lei said softly: "Maybe I'm a little pedantic, but among those injuries, many of them may just be disabled!" If it weren't for yesterday's bloody battle, how could they be disabled? Isn't the eldest brother afraid of chilling the hearts of the soldiers......"

"That's what you said." Qin Li said with a serious face: "But my Great Qin's national strength is limited, and ordinary soldiers can't afford to raise it, let alone so many wasted people!" Saying that, he looked at Qin Lei and said strangely: "I said that you are hard-hearted, why did you suddenly soften again?" ”

Sighing lightly, Qin Lei got up and said, "Please give me the wounded who can be cured this time, even if it makes my conscience better, anyway, the speed of traveling twenty miles a day will not drag down the army." ”

"Yes." Qin Li was still eager to do it, but after all, he was Qin Lei's eldest brother, so he had to add: "This is a big burden!" Even if 3,000 wounded people survive, you'll have to take care of them for the rest of your life! ”

Qin Lei suddenly smiled and said, "That's it......" and turned around and walked out of Qin Li's big tent.

Only His Highness was left in a daze.

Before the time came, the troops set off.

In the middle of the procession, there was a long convoy of baggage, and what was different from the past was that there were still some wounded numbers lying on the cart, adding up to about 10,000 people......

'Hypocrisy......' Looking at the grateful eyes of the soldiers, Qin Lei suddenly sighed lightly in his heart.