Hearing the faint sound of horses' hooves, Wang Qian, who had just dismounted and drank two sips of water, suddenly got up. Wang Qian, the military strength of Jiuyuan, Yunzhong, and Yanmen, knew very well that in order to deal with the attacking Xiongnu army, basically all the Jiuyuan troops were transferred to the vicinity of Jiuyuan City.

The whole county of Yunzhong County is just a soldier of the Jiuyuan Army with less than 10,000 people. And the Jiuyuan army, which is less than 10,000 people, are all foot soldiers, and there can be no cavalry. Since Jiuyuan Hou sent himself to personally lead the army to the clouds to intercept the Xiongnu barbarians who had entered the clouds from Jiuyuan, it was obviously impossible to send the cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army to come to the rescue. What's more, in Wang Gan's opinion, even with the help of the Vermilion Bird Army, the number of Great Qin cavalry gathered near Jiuyuan now will not be too much, and in the face of hundreds of thousands of Hun cavalry, there is not much spare energy to take care of Yunzhong.

Then there is only one explanation, I ran into the Hun cavalry.

Luck!

A glint flashed in Wang Qian's eyes. He had waited too long for this day, and the Vermilion Bird Army had waited too long. Since the death of his father, Wang Gan, who has always been the Marquis of Wucheng, has shouldered a great pressure that outsiders cannot imagine.

He sat on the position of the head of the Wang clan at the age of less than thirty, not only because of the compromise of the Wang family in the face of the pressure of the emperor, but more importantly, the compromise within the Wang family. This point is tacitly understood by the government and the opposition in Great Qin.

The Wang family urgently needs a person who can hold up the façade to restore the prestige of the Wang family, which is a family of famous generals of Great Qin. The battle of the Vermilion Bird Army going north to Jiuyuan is very important to Hu Hai, because this is the first battle of the lineage he created in front of the people of the world, the performance of the Xuanwu Army in the previous battle of Chengwu, and the ministers of Great Qin also know it, but after all, that battle cannot be declared to the public, but this time it is the first battle of the five major legions in the actual sense, and this battle is more important to Wang Qian and the Wang family.

"Blow the horn and prepare for war!" Wang Qian hung the water bladder in his hand on his waist again and shouted in a deep voice.

With Wang Gan's order, the desolate and long low horn sound sounded from the 20,000 Vermilion Bird army.

The Suzaku soldiers, who had originally scattered in all directions to seize the time to recover their strength, heard the sound of the horn, jumped up one after another, stuffed the last mouthful of dry food into their mouths indiscriminately, and ran towards their war horses who were still grazing leisurely without having time to drink water.

Since it was wartime, in order to deal with emergencies, they could fight at any time, and the saddles and stirrups on the backs of all war horses were not removed. However, even so, when all the Suzaku soldiers rushed to their mounts, they did not rush to step on the horse's back, but carefully inspected the weapons and armor on their bodies, and the saddles and stirrups on the horse's back before turning over and getting on their horses.

The devil is in the details. On the battlefield, any small negligence can cause irreparable consequences. The pre-war inspection was already a matter of deep concern for the Suzaku Army and even the five major legions from the Bashang battalion.

When the horn stopped, the 20,000 Vermilion Bird soldiers had all stepped onto the war horses, neatly arranged in two long columns and stood in front of Wang Gan, except for the sound of the war horses snorting, there was no noise.

From the sound of the horn to the pause of the horn, but in the time of a stick of incense, the Suzaku soldiers had already been prepared, and this performance made Wang Qian very satisfied.

Nodding lightly, Wang Gan's legs suddenly clamped the horse's belly, and with the word "driving", he rode out like an arrow from the string. Two long columns of the Vermilion Bird Army followed closely behind Wang Gan, and they rode their horses to follow, gradually spreading out into a huge fan shape in the gallop.

With the thunderous roar of horses' hooves, the 20,000 Suzaku cavalry galloped towards the east and west where the sound had just been heard.

The distance of more than ten miles, even if the Suzaku Army did not run with all its might, it was just tea time.

In the distance, a chaotic black and white color is rapidly approaching.

It was the Hun cavalry.

I don't know why these Hun cavalry took the initiative to catch up. Could it be that he came to die? This was the thought that came to the mind of the Suzaku soldiers when they saw that the Hun cavalry found that a large group of cavalry was approaching, and they did not choose to flee at the first time, but rushed towards the Suzaku army that appeared in the wilderness.

Sure enough, when the Hun cavalry was less than five miles away from the Suzaku Army, the Hun cavalry of more than 10,000 people seemed to find that the cavalry galloping on the opposite side was not their own family, and they hurriedly turned their horses' heads and drew a semi-arc and ran back in the direction of Jiuyuan when they came.

However, these more than 10,000 somewhat stupid Hun cavalry seem to have woken up a little late.

Three short and rapid horns suddenly sounded in the galloping Suzaku Army.

In an instant, the cavalry of the Suzaku Army galloping in a fan shape was divided into three groups, with Wang Qian and his 2,000 guards in the middle, and 9,000 people on the left and right flanks. The speed of Wang Qian's middle formation remained unchanged, and the speed of the left and right wings separated from the large formation accelerated sharply, forming two huge pincers towards the more than 10,000 Hun cavalry who were still turning around.

The Hun cavalry of more than 10,000 people was already a little panicked at the moment. Originally, they heard the roar of horses' hooves approaching, thinking that the other three Hun cavalry had also arrived here, so they greeted them without thinking. They also all knew that the Qin people were all trapped in Jiuyuan City by the great Mao Dun Shan Yu and did not dare to come out, and only their own people appeared in the clouds at this time.

However, things changed in a way that they didn't expect. The Qin cavalry really appeared in Yunzhong County. The Xiongnu Wan cavalry commander who led the army was not a fool, and he quickly thought about whether this meant that the Qin people had already arrived with reinforcements? Regardless of whether it is or not, it is the most correct choice to turn around and return to the great Mao Dun Shan Yu.

The Xiongnu generals did not think of fighting with the Suzaku army at all. Not to mention that the Qin cavalry that appeared here was at least twice as large as them, even if the Hun cavalry was similar in number, it would not necessarily be an opponent. He knows this very well. So running away wasn't something he was very embarrassed about.

In the process of the Hun cavalry turning around and fleeing, seeing that the left and right wings separated from the Qin cavalry were chasing closer and closer, some things were thrown off the back of the war horse by the Hun cavalry, reducing the load, which naturally made the war horse run faster.

The things that were thrown from the horses by the Hun cavalry were originally wrapped in some broken black cloth, but after being discarded on the ground and rolling a few times, the black cloth gradually dispersed, revealing some white things.

After abandoning these things, the speed of the Hun cavalry suddenly increased. However, when the Hun cavalry who turned back with joy and love for the white flowers and things that he left behind, he immediately found that the distance between himself and the Qin cavalry did not seem to increase because of this, and the Qin cavalry was closer to him. In a short time, all the Hun cavalry were frightened.

The Hun cavalry who desperately beat the war horse under their crotch, wishing that the war horse under their crotch could grow eight legs. Unfortunately, the distance between the two armies is still shortening rapidly, getting closer and closer.

At this time, even fools of the Hun cavalry knew that the speed of the Qin people's war horses far exceeded the speed of the galloping horses under their crotches. After all, the Huns had no armor, while the Qin people wore strict black armor.

A war horse with a horseshoe is not the same as a war horse without a horseshoes, and the speed of galloping is naturally not the same.

Soon the Suzaku soldiers arrived at the place where the Huns threw things.

What the Huns left behind was not dead at all, but more than 100 living people, more than 100 naked women, covered with all kinds of blue and purple scars.

It is more than a hundred Daqin women who have been tortured and ravaged by the Huns, almost no human appearance, and now they don't know whether they are alive or dead!

This is obviously the Xiongnu barbarians who came from Jiuyuan along the way, and plundered the people of Jiuyuan or Daqin in Yunzhong County along the way. They were all women, and no man or child knew what was going to happen to them without thinking about it.

The eyes of all the Suzaku soldiers who saw the tragic situation of these Great Qin women suddenly turned blood-red.

Perhaps many of the soldiers of the Vermilion Bird Army had killed people before they became soldiers of the Great Qin, and even killed the Qin, Chu, and Han people of the same species and origin. The several months of training in the Bashang battalion cannot be said to have reborn everyone, but it also made them understand the mission they should have as a soldier of Great Qin.

Hundreds of Vermilion Bird soldiers at the gallop rode their horses one after another, turned over and dismounted, took off the red cloth that was originally covering the back of the war horse, and carefully wrapped more than a hundred Daqin women who did not know whether they were alive or dead.

The rest of the Suzaku soldiers didn't stop at all, but the speed of their gallop instantly skyrocketed by three points again.

Wang Gan's Chinese army quickly arrived at the place where the hundreds of Suzaku soldiers had stopped. At this time, the results of the inspection had already come out, and of the more than 100 Daqin women, only five of them were still breathing weakly, and the rest had already lost any anger.

"Blow the trumpet, hang the blood flag!" Wang Gan looked at the more than 100 corpses covered by red cloth, and his right hand holding the hilt of the sword at his waist rattled, and he spit out five words from between his teeth one by one.

Blood Banner, each of the five legions from the Bashang battalion has one, and it only follows the main generals of each legion. There is only one effect, as soon as the blood flag comes out, not an inch of grass is left. The meaning of the blood banner is known to every soldier of the five major legions.

Of course, the Blood Banner doesn't just appear on the battlefield. Each legion commander also has at least ten dragon guards with him. Every time the blood flag appeared, Long Wei would make a record of everything and report it to the emperor. This is also a necessary means taken by Hu Hai to prevent the indiscriminate killing of various legions.

Today, it is said that the Vermilion Bird Army hangs the blood flag, which is the first of the five major legions to hang the blood flag.

The blood flag is out, which means that no matter what price the Vermilion Bird Army pays, the more than 10,000 Hun cavalry that are about to be caught up by the cavalry of the Suzaku Army on the left and right flanks will definitely not have a single living mouth, let alone any prisoners.

(To be continued)