led 20,000 Han troops and left Chengdu, and Zhuge Jun advanced all the way to Nanban.

Xu Huang and others, who arrived in Nanban earlier, chose a village as their station.

The village they chose was a small, uninhabited village far from the mountains.

The Nanban people live in the mountains and forests all year round, and they know even more about the mountains and forests than the monkeys in the forests. Fighting with them between the woodlands, the Han army will never have the slightest chance of winning.

Although the number of people was small, Xu Huang and the others were stationed in a small village far away from the mountains and forests, and when the southern barbarians came to attack, they still had some confidence that they would be able to support it for a little longer.

led more than 1,000 Han troops and stationed in the village for more than ten days, but Xu Huang never waited for the news of the arrival of the Han army's follow-up soldiers and horses.

On this day, in the evening, just as he was about to rest, he rushed in from the entrance of the village and rode a fast horse.

The soldiers of the Han army on horseback shouted loudly as they rushed into the village: "Quickly report to the general, the Southern Barbarian army has arrived!" ”

Just as he was about to rest, before he could really lie down, Xu Huang heard the sound of hurried horses' hooves and the shouts of the soldiers outside, and hurriedly rushed out of the door and looked in the direction where the shouts came.

In the darkness of the night, he saw a war horse that had entered the village and had not slowed down, rushing towards him.

The Han army on horseback saw him from a distance, slowed down the speed of the war horse, and when he was still more than ten steps away from him, he suddenly lifted the reins, and the war horse neighed and stood up.

When the two front hooves of the war horse landed, the soldier turned over and jumped off the horse, ran quickly in front of Xu Huang, hugged his fists and bowed to him and said: "General Qiyu, the Southern Barbarian army is approaching, and it is only thirty miles away from our army!" ”

"Thirty miles?" Hearing that the Nanban army had arrived only thirty miles away from them, Xu Huang was taken aback, and hurriedly asked the soldier, "Why was there no news about the Nanban before?" ”

"General Hui, the Southern Barbarian soldiers and horses are coming from the mountains and forests!" Maintaining a posture of clenching his fists and bowing, the soldier said to Xu Huang: "The Southern Barbarians are good at walking through mountains and forests, avoiding our army's scouts, and only appearing when there are no mountains and forests. Therefore, our army did not find out that the Southern Barbarians were coming! ”

Hearing that the Southern Barbarians came through the mountains and forests, Xu Huang frowned tightly and asked the soldier who reported the news, "How many people are they coming?" ”

"It's huge, I'm afraid it's not seventy or eighty thousand people!" Still maintaining a fist-hugging posture, the soldier answered.

Hearing that seventy or eighty thousand people came, Xu Huang gasped.

If the southern barbarians only came seven or eight thousand, or even more than 10,000 people, he would have six or seven percent certainty that he could be defeated.

But the other party actually came with 70,000 or 80,000 people......

Such a huge army is simply not something that the more than 1,000 people under his command can contend with!

Pass the order, the whole army is ready, ready to meet the enemy!

Although he secretly gasped, Xu Huang knew that in this case, he had no choice at all.

There are only two choices before him, fight or flee.

Leading the army to contend with the southern barbarians can block the barbarians at the border of Yizhou, so that the people of Yizhou will not suffer from the invasion of the barbarians.

If he retreats when he learns that the Southern Barbarians are coming, not only will the door of Yizhou be opened wide and the people will be exposed to the eyes of the barbarians, but even the army that will come later will probably be caught off guard by the Southern Barbarians!

Tightly frowning, when Xu Huang gave the order, he almost didn't think about it.

"General, what's wrong?" After receiving the order from Xu Huang, Shi Jian also walked out of his room, and when he came to Xu Huang, he saluted him with his fists and asked, "Could it be that the Southern Barbarians are here again?" ”

Turning his head to look at Shi Lian, Xu Huang was solemn, and said to him: "If General Zhuge doesn't send troops to come again, I'm afraid we will have to bury my bones here!" ”

When he said these words, Xu Huang's tone was unusually solemn.

From the tone of his voice, Shi Jian couldn't hear the slightest hint of jokes, and immediately frowned, and asked Xu Huang, "How many people are here?" ”

"Seventy or eighty thousand!" Looking at the entrance of the village, Xu Huang said with a solemn face the number of people who had just told him about the soldiers.

Just like when Xu Huang heard this number, Shi Jian gasped and hurriedly asked: "General, seventy or eighty thousand barbarians are coming, and we will not be able to defeat the gift, what is the general's intention?" ”

"What can I do?" Turning his head and glancing at Shi Lian, Xu Huang said: "If you retreat further, it is the boundary of Yizhou, once you enter Yizhou, the barbarians will drive straight in, and the people of Yizhou will have to suffer a lot." Moreover, our reinforcements do not know where they have arrived, in case the barbarians meet our reinforcements halfway, the reinforcements will be caught off guard, and they will definitely suffer a big loss! ”

"But I'm waiting here, there's no danger!" Looking around, Shi Jian said with a worried face: "If we forcibly resist the barbarians, I'm afraid that our army will eventually be wiped out!" ”

"I am equal to fighting in the mountains and forests, and I am definitely inferior to the barbarians, but here is a flat river, fighting with the barbarians, or there is a glimmer of life!" With his brows furrowed, Xu Huang said: "Tomorrow the barbarians are approaching, I will wait for the first move and kill him for a while!" ”

"No!" Knowing that Xu Huang was a wreck, and Bo was on this one, Shi Jian hurriedly hugged his fists and responded.

The barbarians approached the village, and the soldiers of the Han army stationed in the village got the news, and they did not sleep very well at night.

There are only more than 1,000 of them, but the barbarians have 70,000 or 80,000 people, and with such a small number of people, it is tantamount to a fool's dream to intercept the barbarians.

The night was already very deep, and a Han soldier lay on the cover, tossing and turning, unable to sleep.

He always turned over, attracting another Han soldier next to him to pay a little more attention to him, and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?" ”

"I can't sleep well!" He turned over again, facing the Han soldiers who asked him, and the Han army whispered: "There are seventy or eighty thousand barbarians, and I am afraid that many people will not be able to see the reinforcements alive when we go to war tomorrow!" ”

"yes, I can't sleep either!" The Han soldier who asked the question sighed lightly and said: "Earlier, when we killed the barbarians, we only thought that the reinforcements would arrive soon, but I didn't think that now, I haven't even seen the shadow of the reinforcements, and there is not even any news." I don't know how many of us can wait for reinforcements to arrive! ”

The soldier, who couldn't fall asleep tossing and turning, sighed softly when he heard his companion say the same, and said no more.

"You two don't sleep, just sigh for a long time?" As the two were talking, there was an angry voice from the side.

"What's the chief, you said that I waited until tomorrow to go to the battlefield, can I turn back alive?" The two soldiers were not frightened by the chief's anger, and one of them even lowered his voice and asked the chief.

"Life and death are fate, wealth is in the sky!" Shi Chang was obviously more open than they thought, and was silent for a moment, and said to the two: "Tomorrow we will all be killed on the battlefield, you can only kill the enemy with your heart." After following His Majesty's southern expedition to the north and the south for many years, don't you know that on the battlefield, if you are cowardly, you will die faster? ”

The two soldiers, who had been discussing the battle of the second day just now, did not say anything more when they heard what the chief said.

In these years, they also knew that once a large army was defeated and the soldiers scattered and fled, it was when they were chased and killed by the enemy like pigs!

1,000 soldiers and horses against 780,000 barbarian soldiers, if the soldiers fought together, although the possibility of victory was not very great, but it would not be defeated by the enemy before they went to the battlefield.

The two Han soldiers who were lying on the bunk and couldn't sleep over and over again stopped speaking after Shi Chang spoke.

After a moment of silence, Shi Chang whispered to them: "It's not early, go to bed early, tomorrow you will fight with the barbarians, nourish your spirits, and let you go to the battlefield!" ”

"No!" The room was very dark, and the few people who spoke couldn't see each other, all they could see was each other's pale green eyes glowing in the dark, and the two Han soldiers looked at the direction where Shi Chang was, and answered softly in unison, lying flat on the bunk cover, and closed their eyes.

Although they still couldn't sleep, the two Han soldiers didn't speak again, they closed their eyes and forced themselves to sleep.

Like them, there are not a few soldiers of the Han army who stay up all night.

1,000 against 70,000 or 80,000, no matter who knows that they are in this environment, there will be some pressure in their hearts.

The quiet night passed quietly, and for many Han soldiers, it was a sleepless night.

Many of them thought about the next day's battle, and they all thought that maybe this battle would be the last battle of their lives.

As the morning sun rises, the night is dispelled by the dawn.

The darkness is removed, and a new round of the sun appears on the eastern horizon.

In the middle of the village, a Han army officer looked up at the rising sun in the east, his cheeks reflected in the glow of the morning sun.

"What are you looking at?" Just as he was looking up at the rising sun, another officer walked up behind him, tapped him lightly on the shoulder, and asked him a question.

was patted on the shoulder, looking at the officer who looked at the rising sun, hurriedly turned around, and saw behind him an officer who was familiar with him on weekdays, grinned, and said very calmly: "Today's battle, maybe there will be no chance to see the rising sun tomorrow, take advantage of this infinite sunrise, look at it twice!" ”

"Haha!" The officer who patted him on the shoulder laughed at him and said to him, "I don't know when you will become like this!" I've been fighting for many years, and one day don't I hang my head on my waist? In today's battle, even if he dies, he just loses this head hanging from his waist! Looking at Chaoyang like this, I don't know that Chaoyang will miss you and let you live a few more days! ”

The officer who looked at Chaoyang heard his companion say this, grinned a little awkwardly and said, "But just look at it, nothing else!" ”

While the two were talking, there was a sound of horns in the village, and Xu Huang gave the order to gather the soldiers, they glanced at each other, and quickly ran towards the place where the horn sound came.