Chapter 255: Fight Again
The two cages were red and white, and since these ten dragon guards appeared beside Wang Gan, these two cages have been growing behind their war horses.
As the Vermilion Bird Army stopped galloping, and more than a dozen dragon guards rushed up the low hill, the black eagle hovering above the Suzaku Army suddenly let out a high-pitched eagle roar, and its wings shook and fell from mid-air like arrows off the string.
Seeing that the black eagle was about to smash on the head of the dragon guard who was waiting for him, he saw the black eagle's wide wings wave suddenly, and landed steadily on the black cage in the long hair of more than ten dragon guards.
Black Hawk's sharp eagle eyes swept over several dragon guards, and then he cleaned the feathers from his neck.
Several dragon guards seemed to be surprised by this, and when they saw the black eagle falling, they hurriedly took out several pickled strips of meat from the package they carried with them and carefully put them into the cage.
Black Hawk saw that the meat strip no longer cleaned his scattered wings, and without saying a word, he picked up a piece of meat and devoured it. Seeing the black eagle eating the meat strips, the leader of the dragon guard carefully put on two thick deerskin gloves on his hands, and reached out to untie the small bamboo tube tied to the eagle's legs. Apparently afraid that the Black Hawk would hurt his hand with his hook-like hawk's beak.
These black eagles, the entire Dragon Guard knows, except for the winning six who have been raising them, even the current Dragon Guard Commander Win Yi has to be cautious when approaching these letter eagles. A hook-sharp olecranon can make a few cuts in your arm or body.
And after opening his mouth, he can't scold these noble flat-haired brutes. Everyone knows that these letter eagles are not only the hearts and livers of the six commanders to win the six, but also the hearts and livers of His Majesty the Second Emperor today. Even if you are pecked, you can only endure it.
Therefore, every dragon guard who waits on these letter eagles is cautious at all times.
Fortunately, today the eagle seemed to be very satisfied with the performance of the dragon guards, or rather, it was tired and hungry, and several long strips of meat were quickly swallowed by the black eagle. The sharp eagle eye swept towards the dragon guard who had just fed it.
Although the black eagle could not speak, the dragon guard immediately understood what it meant, and hurriedly took off the strips of meat that he had been carrying in the horseback package and threw them into the red cage one after another.
Long Wei, who took off the bamboo tube, couldn't take off the deerskin gloves on his hands, turned over and got on his horse and ran quickly towards Wang Gan. Although Long Wei is responsible for surveillance, it is only private. For the regular correspondence in the army, especially the letters and newspapers sent by the letter eagle, they are never read first, and they are all presented to the chief general in good condition.
Suspiciously, he took the bamboo tube presented by Long Wei, and Wang Qian quickly opened it and took out the letter inside to look at it carefully. As Wang Gan's eyes moved, a look of surprise and excitement appeared on Wang Gan's face.
Handing the letter in his hand to the two lieutenants who followed him, Wang Qian looked at Long Wei, who was still wearing deerskin gloves in the bamboo tube and said, "Can you send a letter to Master Jiuyuan Taishi?" ”
Obviously, Wang Gan saw the difficulty and caution of Long Wei taking off the bamboo tube just now, so he asked such a question.
"Back to the general, yes!" When Long Wei heard Wang Gan's words, a look of embarrassment flashed on his face, but he still said with certainty.
"Okay, come on, prepare paper and ink!" Wang Qian didn't say anything more.
A moment later, Wang Qian had already written a letter to Meng Tian, folded it and handed it to Long Wei, who was still wearing deerskin gloves, along with the bamboo tube. That Long Wei was not pretentious, he glanced at it casually in front of Wang Gan, and then carefully put the letter and newspaper scroll written by Wang Gan into the bamboo tube and sealed it with fire paint, and then bowed to Wang Gan, turned around and ran towards the hill where the black eagle was.
After a while, the well-fed black eagle spread its wings from the red giant cage and soared into the sky in an instant, leaving only a black dot farther and farther away in less than a few breaths.
At this time, the letter from the Great General Meng Tian from Jiuyuan had spread rapidly throughout the entire Suzaku Army through the mouths of the two captains.
The Donghu people were attached to Daqin, and the Xiongnu Shan Yumaodun led more than 100,000 Xiongnu cavalry to flee to the direction of Yunzhong in panic, wanting to break through the Great Wall from the direction of Yunzhong and escape back to the grassland. Now, under the leadership of the general Meng Tian, he chased after more than 100,000 Hun barbarians who fled in the direction of Yunzhong. How exciting is this news?
Everyone knows that more than 100,000 Hun barbarians are not the most important, the important thing is that the Huns in the Hun army are single in Maodun. There is also a series of chain reactions after the Donghu people were annexed to Great Qin.
"The general ordered us to turn around at once and hurry to the rendezvous. But if the tens of thousands of Huns who have escaped into the clouds are not killed, they will definitely make the lives of the people of Daqin miserable, so the generals are determined to get rid of this group of Huns first and then return, do the generals have any objections? After Wang Qian finished speaking, he added two more sentences to explain.
"Please give the general an order!" The dozens of generals at all levels of the Suzaku Army gathered shouted in unison.
"Okay, give the order, the whole army will march at full speed, defeat the Hun barbarians and return to Jiuyuan!" Wang Qian watched the black eagle disappear, retracted his mind and shouted suddenly. Without this letter eagle and the blank paper, even if this God-given opportunity appeared, it would not be able to achieve any results, and it would even allow the Huns to slaughter several counties in the clouds of Great Qin.
"The last general obeys!"
The speed of the advance of the more than 20,000 Suzaku troops increased sharply, and then they rushed wildly without scruples. The time given to them is very small, the distance from Yunzhong to Jiuyuan is at least more than three hundred miles, even if Meng Tian is now leading the army from Jiuyuan to the direction of Yunzhong, but they still have to search for the traces of Mao Dun, and the speed is naturally not very fast. If the two armies want to converge tonight, they must hurry up and deal with this Hun cavalry that is already very close to Yunzhong City.
The thunderous sound of horses' hooves resounded throughout the land.
At this time, if someone can look down from the sky, they will find that the Hun cavalry, which was originally more than 20 miles away from the Vermilion Bird Army, does not seem to have gone far after this period of time. From time to time, there were bursts of silver laughter in the cavalry formation, as well as the screams of women, and the Hun cavalry who stopped and stopped were still slowly rushing towards the direction of Cloud City, not knowing that the Grim Reaper, who was asking for his life more than 20 miles away on their flank, was approaching rapidly.
When the distance between the two armies was ten miles, the Hun cavalry, which was moving slowly, finally heard the roar of horses' hooves approaching rapidly from the rear.
This group of more than 20,000 Hun cavalry was obviously much more alert than the Hun cavalry that the Suzaku Army encountered before. After discovering the roar of horses' hooves coming from the flanks behind, more than 100 Hun cavalry immediately rushed out of the formation and rushed to the place where the sound of horses' hooves came from the rear. The rest of the Hun cavalry reined in their horses, stopped Yinle, and gathered the captured Daqin women in the center of the big array, waiting quietly.
However, judging from their expressions, they also didn't seem to expect that it would be the Qin people attacking, but more like they were hiding something, like guarding against thieves.
The Xiongnu barbarians were not monolithic, and after entering the territory of Great Qin, they not only snatched the Qin people they considered precious from the hands of the Donghu people, but even between their own people and different tribes. In particular, the robbery of small tribes by large tribes is commonplace.
More than 100 Hun cavalry came out of the formation and came to investigate in the direction of the Vermilion Bird Army's attack, and immediately there were Suzaku Army scouts who followed the Hun cavalry all the way to report to Wang Qian. The rest of the Suzaku Army scouts gathered together, from places where the Huns could not see, and followed the white jade Hun cavalry from a distance.
Soon, a group of more than 200 flying horsemen from the Suzaku army formation galloped from the brigade crossed the formation, and under the leadership of the Suzaku army scouts who came to report the news, they greeted the more than 100 Hun cavalry who came to investigate.
(To be continued)