In the evening, the orange sunset dyes the vast green and yellow grassland with a brilliant blood-colored glow.

The babbling stream, the green grass, the thieves, the swift hares, the flying pink butterflies, the hovering black eagles, the quiet prairie seemed so peaceful and peaceful at this moment.

A hurried sound of horses' hooves came from behind a small slope.

"Turning this small dirt mountain is a river, stay on this dirt mountain for a night at night, and go back to Jiuyuan tomorrow. Drive! ”

"Okay, tomorrow Xiao Wu will be able to go home to see his beloved." "Haha!" "Drive!"

With the words, a black-armored knight appeared on the earth mountain, and it was the scout team that had set off from Jiuyuan before.

Seeing that there was indeed a small river at the foot of the dirt mountain as the man had said before, the ten black-armored knights suddenly let out a cheer, and rode down from the dirt mountain with a wolf howl and rushed towards the river.

Leaving only a messy slogan such as "Shi Chang is wise" and "Shi Chang is mighty", Shi Chang looked at a group of happy team members with a wry smile, "A group of little rabbit cubs, am I so old?" Then he rode his horse down the hill.

He told the bunny to forget his equally youthful face.

Xiao Wu and the others who rushed down earlier had already dismounted and were ready to bury the pot to cook, and they could finally eat a hot meal with water, and two or three black-armored knights jumped directly into the river with their clothes to wash, attracting the same shouts and scolding from Xiao Wu and the few people who were ready to cook.

The narrow river suddenly became lively.

The young Shi Chang went down to the earth mountain, and when he saw Xiao Wu and a few people preparing to make a fire to cook, he hurriedly said, "Have you forgotten the rules?" There is a plain above the grassland, you can see dozens of miles away at a glance, and now we are deep into the grassland, if the smoke of the fire exposes our whereabouts, our surname is small, and we will die if we miss the military situation. Don't make a fire, or eat dry food, just wash it. ”

"What's the length, I've been walking into this grassland for hundreds of miles, and I haven't even seen a single hair, how can anyone find out about me? In the past few days, I have been eating dry food and waiting for the birds to fade out of my mouth, but now that there is water, let us have a hot meal if you are okay with your old man. ”

A sturdy soldier who was washing in the creek and drinking water with an iron helmet said aggrievedly,

The other two or three soldiers also persuaded one after another, and Xiao Wu and a few people who were about to make a fire to cook saw that Shi Chang had a straight face and did not speak, and quietly put the pot away.

"Brothers, it's not that I don't want to eat a hot meal, but when you think about it, I've been nearly 500 miles deep into this prairie now, but I haven't even seen a flock of sheep grazing, will this be the case in the past?

My Great Qin soldiers never plundered the herdsmen grazing on this grassland, and I said that I could see the Huns grazing in less than a hundred miles from Jiuyuan, is it normal now? That's why I took my brothers to go deep into the grassland north of Yin Mountain for 500 miles.

So far, I have not seen a tribe, a single cow or sheep, although the Hun cavalry has not been found, but now this abnormal situation can show that the Huns will definitely take action against my Daqin, and we can't wait for carelessness. Shi Chang said earnestly.

When the rest of the ** soldiers heard this, they were not in any mood, and they packed up one after another, silently gnawing on the unpalatable dry food.

The sun had gone down and it was getting darker.

The scouts also went up to a col in the small dirt mountain to rest, and the chief went to the river alone to carefully clean up the traces of horse manure and horseshoe prints, and then returned to the col to lie down.

"What's the length, are the Huns really going south?"

A bass voice sounded softly beside Shi Chang, it was Xiao Wu who was sleeping next to Shi Chang.

"I have a feeling that the Hun army is in front. It's a pity that we don't have enough dry food and can't go deeper. Shi Chang looked at the darkness of the north under the cover of night, and said in a condensed voice.

"That ......"

"Shh

Shi Chang interrupted Xiao Wu's words, made a silent motion, and listened intently.

The faint sound of thunderous horses' hooves came from the north and gradually became clear.

The rest of the scout team also heard the sound of horses' hooves coming from the north at this time, and they all opened their eyes, clenched their weapons, turned over and sat up.

"Go! Tie the mouths of all the horses and wrap the hooves of the horses in cloth. Hurry up. The chief ordered in a deep voice. Hearing the commander's order, the rest of the soldiers hurriedly went to action, and after a while, they all dressed up and returned to the chief's side.

"Who, who is it?" Xiao Wu asked softly.

"Who else could it be? It must be the Huns. The strong soldier who had spoken in the river earlier said.

"Don't even speak. Check the bows and crossbows, and they are all good with crossbow arrows. There are more than 40 Hun cavalry scouts, everyone be careful, and wait to follow my orders. If there is anyone who does not abide by military discipline, he will be killed! ”

Shi Chang ordered in a deep voice, and Shi Chang, who had been dealing with the Huns for a long time, could easily distinguish the identity and number of people who came.

"Whoa!"

For the Hun cavalry scouts, these elite scouts of Great Qin are very well understood. Before each major battle, the first battle between the two armies was a small group of cavalry scouts, and like Daqin, the Huns' scout cavalry was also the most elite warriors of the Huns.

However, each squad of the Xiongnu scouts has at least more than forty people, while each cavalry scout squad of Great Qin generally has only ten people, of course, the establishment of these ten people is also exquisite, and the Qin army is well-equipped, so the battle between the scouts of the two armies in every major battle is extremely bloody and cruel.

Now that I heard that this group of people were the cavalry scouts of the Huns, all the scout soldiers hurriedly responded. They began to scrutinize their bows and arrows, crossbows, and armor.

The sound of horses' hooves came closer, and occasionally a few strange tones were heard, it was the leader of the Hun scout squad giving orders. All the Hun cavalry, except for the occasional order from the captain, the rest of the Hun cavalry were all silent, obviously well-trained elites.

In a moment, more than forty sturdy Hun cavalrymen with their hair scattered and dressed in simple sheepskin and white kan appeared in the twilight.

At this time, the Hun cavalry also discovered this narrow river, and a tall knight wearing simple leather armor at the head let out a strange shout, and suddenly more than 40 Hun cavalry roared and rode towards the place where the Qin army scout team had stayed at the foot of the small earth mountain.

The place where the Qin army scout team rested before was a small turn in this small river, facing water on three sides, and on one side of the small earth mountain was a flat land of more than fifty zhang wide, only the east side of the earth mountain could come down, and the other three directions were endless grasslands.

Obviously, the leader of the Hun scouts was very cautious.

The Hun cavalry had dismounted at this time, washing in the river, the head of the scout led the horse to look around a few times, and then shouted loudly and ordered a few cavalry, these cavalry heard the leader's words, justified a few words, next to a cavalry also wearing armor also said a few words, and then the leader seemed to give up something, also dismounted and began to wash.

Seeing that the leader gave up, several cavalrymen who were ordered laughed loudly and said something. The Hun cavalry took down the tents tied on horseback, lit fires and began to cook. There are quite a few wolves in the savannah, and these people are obviously planning to spend the night here.

The young chief in the col can speak the Xiongnu dialect, which is a necessary skill for the chief of the Jiuyuan scout.

He heard it very clearly, the leader wanted these children to go up to the top of the mountain to check around, but these cavalry were unwilling, and the cavalry who seemed to be the leader later said that this place was more than 500 miles away from the border of Jiuyuan, and the Qin army did not know that the Xiongnu were going south, how could there be enemies?

It seemed that the leader thought so, and then the leader gave up the idea of sending people to patrol.

The Qin army scouts in the mountain col couldn't help but glance at Shi Chang gratefully when they saw that the Hun cavalry scouts were camping in the place where they had just rested.

Everyone knew that if it weren't for Shi Chang erasing all the traces left by himself and others, then the leader just now would definitely be able to find himself and others, then he and others would definitely die more than they would have died and died in the face of the Hun cavalry that was four times their size, and fleeing for their lives was probably the only choice.

The Hun cavalry drank goat's milk wine, ate roasted mutton, talked and laughed loudly, and the small river was suddenly noisy. The col where the Qin scouts were hiding was less than fifty meters away from them.

"What's the chief, forty-two Hun barbarians, should we go or do it?" The sturdy soldier smelled the smell of roasted mutton in the air, licked his lips and whispered, his eyes shining with bloodthirsty light.

The rest of the scout guards heard him and looked at the young chief, each with the same bloodthirsty glint in their eyes.

The Great Qin soldiers have never been afraid!

"Have a vote! So that Xiao Wu can go back and marry a handsome lover! Shi Chang looked back at the soldiers who were full of fighting spirit and laughed in a low voice, but the murderous aura in his words did not diminish in the slightest.

"Get ready, do what I tell you to do!" The chief then commanded in a low voice.

"Whoa!"

(Thanks to ~情'╱☆ Brother 殤 for the tip.) )