Chapter 81: Embark on the Way Home
Han Xin remained silent and said lightly; "I'm not interested in any of this, it doesn't help us in our current situation, what I want to know is where is the gift you are talking about?"
"I know there's a shortcut to the south."
Han Xin was shocked, and his pupils dilated instantly, "Where is it?" ”
Kun Mo opened his mouth, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, and said with a smug smile: "General, I said you would be interested. ”
"But before you do, you're going to help me kill them all." Kun Mo looked at the few remaining Huns who were sitting on the ground on the side, none of them could understand what Kun Mo was talking to the Qin people, they just opened their eyes blankly.
A hint of viciousness flashed in Kun Mo's eyes, "These people saw me talking to you, so they must not stay." "He also pointed to the Tian Shi Road on the side like a fainting Yanshi;" I'm going to keep her, this general, and the rest please continue the execution. ”
In the makeshift tent, several generals and lieutenants such as Han Xin, Wang Jing, and Luan Ji gathered together, all staring at Kun Mo, who was sitting and eating.
Although the Qin army has abundant food, it will naturally not treat the captives so well, they just give them some inferior dried meat and kangguo, and after more than ten days, Kunmo is hungry, so the first thing he does when he enters the account is to open his mouth to eat the freshly roasted mutton.
Han Xin didn't urge, and patiently waited for him to stop after eating a whole leg of mutton before asking, "Have you finished eating, can you talk about it now?" ”
Kunmo burped and said contentedly; "It's been a long time since I've eaten so full, I really want to thank General Han for your hospitality."
Tian Shi, who was waiting a little impatiently, said in a rough voice; "Tell me, you little, where is there a way back."
Kun Mo wiped the grease stains on his mouth on his sleeve and said as a matter of course; "The way south is naturally in the Hanhai, so you don't need to ask."
Tian Shi said angrily; "Do you have to say that you are impatient to come and tease us?"
Kunmo ignored him, and said; "I see that you are heading west, you want to borrow the Daoyue clan to return to Qin, right?"
The corners of Han Xin's eyes jumped slightly, "So what." ”
Kun Mo shook his head and said; "I advise you to die of this heart. You don't know that the Yue Clan is at war with the quicksand to the south, and has no leisure to deal with the Huns. If you flee to the Yueshi, I bet they will not hesitate to hand you over to the Huns. If you want to know what you are doing in Touman, how can the Huns give up and take revenge. ”
Raising his middle finger and shaking it, Kun Mo showed a slightly evil smile on his face, "You people, it's not worth letting the Yue Clan and the Xiongnu go to war." That's why I shut up and didn't speak, I want to watch you go to Yue's to die, I don't want to continue to go back to Manchester City to be my hostage, good food and shelter, better than following you every day to eat unpalatable things to death. ”
Han Xin, Wang Jing and the others looked at each other, and they all thought in their hearts, 'It's so dangerous', if they crash into the Yue Clan Country, I'm afraid they don't know how they died.
Luan Ji thought carefully about Kun Mo's words for a long time, and then asked; "And what about the road to the south?"
Kun Mo smiled, his expression a little disapproving, "It's not simple, it's just to go directly through the Gobi Desert and return to your Great Qin's territory." ”
Luan Ji said in a deep voice; "Of course we have thought about all of this, but we don't know anything about the western part of the desert, let alone where the water source is. There are Huns chasing soldiers behind, and the Huns' experience in the desert is far better than ours, and we are exhausted by them catching up, and there is only a dead end. ”
A mysterious smile appeared on Kun Mo's face, "You people are really lucky, you don't know anything about the desert and can still cross the Han Sea, tsk, it's really lucky." ”
Tian Shi saw that everyone was looking at him, and he couldn't help but blush, the guide of this march was him, and the meaning of Kun Mo's words was obviously on him, so he defended; "Lao Tzu used to fall in Modong, this side is Moxi, thousands of miles away, how do I know this ghost place."
Han Xin waved his hand and smiled; "Everyone doesn't blame you, you can take us across the Hanhai Sea and have already made a great contribution, as for this place, you don't know it, so naturally I can't blame you."
He looked at Kunmo again and asked; "And what do you have a good idea?"
Kun Mo looked at him and grinned: "I'm a little worried, I'm worried that as soon as I finish speaking, I will lose my use value and be slaughtered by you." ”
Han Xin laughed; "It's up to you to choose, we have other paths to choose, and you're gone, if you don't say anything, I'll kill you right away."
"Say it, your conditions. Killing you doesn't do us any good, and I don't generally like to do things that don't have good. Keeping a prince with a ghost in his heart is not bad news for our Great Qin. ”
Kun Mo said without hesitation: "I want you to let me go, and give me the Yan clan, I want to use her to curry favor with Touman and gain his trust, so that he can let me go home." ”
"The conditions are reasonable." Han Xin nodded, "Deal." ”
"Can you say it now?"
Kunmo looked up at the tent, "Don't you notice that it's getting colder?" ”
"How's that going?" This time it was Wang Jing who spoke, and he was a little breathless.
"In less than three days, there will be heavy snowfall, and the desert will be full of snow, so do you still have to worry about getting water?"
Han Xin was stunned and surprised; "Will it snow in the desert too?" Not only him, but almost all the generals of the Qin army showed puzzled looks, thinking in their hearts how it was possible to accumulate snow in such an arid place as the desert. ”
In fact, the reason why the desert was formed was not the lack of precipitation or no precipitation, but the evaporation was much greater than the precipitation, so the vast desert Gobi was formed.
Kun Mo's mouth pursed, as if he was too lazy to return to Han Xin's idiot question, but Tian Shi was a little embarrassed to explain, and the generals suddenly realized.
Luan Ji was old-minded, still uneasy and asked; "How do you know that snow will fall in three days?"
Kun Mo raised the corners of his mouth, in the end, he was a teenager, and said a little proudly; "I am the personal disciple of the great sage Sherdan on the grassland, what are these to me, you Qin people do not belong to the grassland, so you don't understand anything."
"Why should we trust you?"
"Believe it or not." Kun Mo said nonchalantly, "My head is here, if the snow doesn't fall in three days, just take my head." ”
Wang Jing nodded, thoughtful; "If that's the case, then we won't have a problem getting water, and we don't have to worry about the cold winter, we have a lot of leather jackets and winter coats in Manchester City, which are just right for us. Shall we go south immediately? ”
"Nope." Han Xin waved his hand and refused, a gleam flashed in his eyes, "The pursuers behind us have been chasing for more than ten days, and they have killed so many brothers, how can we just say goodbye without saying goodbye." ”
"Since it's snowing, it couldn't be better."
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The snow was pouring in almost without warning. At breakfast, the sky was still clear, and in the afternoon the north wind was bitter, and Maudun had to stop the march and order to camp.
At dusk, the goose-feathered snow fell one after another, and it took a moment for the ground to be covered with a thick layer of silver makeup.
Mao Dun looked worriedly at the snowy sky outside the tent, and his heart was full of worry. In the past ten days, he has recruited nearly 10,000 Xiongnu subordinates from the surrounding tribes, although it is a hasty army, but the men on the grassland are cavalry, and the combat power is naturally not weak. Moreover, he still has more than 2,000 elite Golden Horde horsemen in his hands, and he is naturally full of confidence in the total annihilation of the Qin army.
In order to fear that the Qin army would escape, he sent an envoy to the Yue clan early to ask the border guards of the Yue clan to cooperate. At the same time, the army was closely clinging to the Qin army, constantly sending elites to harass them, preventing them from escaping, and annihilating them in one fell swoop after the assembly was completed.
Unexpectedly, a sudden heavy snow suddenly disrupted his deployment, and the heavy snow not only stopped the Huns from chasing, but also completely erased the traces of the Qin army's escape. What worries Mao Dun even more is that he is only chasing with light horses this time, and the wolf riders are not wearing much, if there is a tent to shelter from the cold, it is good to go out to march and fight.
There was a shout of scolding from outside the tent, and it was the men who had been recruited by the tribe who were kicked out of the tent by the wolf riders, forcing them to go on night patrol. These wolf riders are all warriors among the Huns, how could they do such a lowly job, and naturally regard these 'untouchables' as envoys.
The men of those tribes did not dare to speak back, so they had to tremble and hold their weapons to patrol the night, swearing and swearing in their mouths. Just patrolling around the tent, from time to time to get in to warm his frozen hands, and refusing to go too far to patrol.
Mao Dun, who was out of the tent to inspect, frowned when he saw this, and was about to step forward to drink, but when he saw the thin clothes on those soldiers, he hesitated, and did not come forward after all.
Anyway, the heavy snow closed the road, and the Qin army must have been caught off guard, not to mention such a big snowstorm, how could it be possible to attack, but be careful not to freeze to death and frostbite the soldiers.
When he had finished his night patrol, he returned to his tent and fell asleep. In the middle of the night, he was woken up by a loud noise, and when he opened his worried eyes, he saw his own soldiers rushing in in a panic with the door open. At the moment when the tent opened, Mao Dun heard the earth-shattering shouts and screams outside the tent, and suddenly came to his senses.
The soldier fell to his knees and cried out; "King Zuoxian, the Qin soldiers are here, run away." Mao Dun rushed out of the tent, only to see the fire in the camp, the Qin army threw torches into the camp tent, and when the disheveled Hun soldiers rushed out, they stepped forward and hacked to death.
Mao Dun likes to use tactics in his life, and is not good at fighting bravely, and in a panic, he saw that the big tent had become a mess. Hurriedly summoned the neighboring Golden Horde cavalry to counterattack, but was discovered by the Qin army and defeated in one fell swoop, so he had to run wild and flee under the protection of his personal entourage.
Han Xin watched quietly in the firelight, and did not wipe his cheeks even if the wind and snow blew down, as motionless as an ice sculpture. suddenly opened his mouth and said to Qi Jiang beside him; "Let's go."
The horn of the Qin army sounded, and the soldiers stopped chasing and killing the Huns who had fled from their own places, gathered together and prepared to go, a slogan came out in the army, and finally almost all the soldiers mustered up their strength and shouted desperately: "Go home." ”
"Go home."
Han Xin raised his head and looked at the white expanse in the distance, his eyes blown by the wind and snow hurt, and he couldn't help but close his eyes.
You can go home, but where is my home?
The snowflakes are falling in front of you, beloved girl, will you be suddenly moved at this moment, worrying about me in the distance.