Chapter 17: A Thousand Horses Exit
Three days later, Ying Zheng led all his men and horses to the border. They were accompanied by Flame Spirit Ji and Gai Nie. Ying Zheng didn't know why Flame Lingji had the whim to go to the border with him to fight against the Huns, but Flame Lingji was rarely willing to stay by his side for a while longer, so Ying Zheng naturally wouldn't refuse.
And this time King Zhuang Xiang also took special care of Yingzheng, in addition to the soldiers and horses he brought were all carefully whirled elites of a hundred battles, since more than 10,000 of the 30,000 people were the most elite light soldiers of the Qin State, and they were also cavalrymen. With this force, Ying Zheng was sure to kill the royal court of the Huns.
It will take more than 20 days for Xianyang to go to the border pass, and during this time, Yingzheng will inevitably take the initiative to get close to Flame Lingji. But Flame Spirit Ji always looked like she was rejecting people thousands of miles away, as if the two of them were more distant than before. The brigade had three days to go to the edge of the Great Wall of Frontier Defense, and suddenly a knight hurried along the road ahead, stopped in front of Yingzheng's team, dismounted and bowed.
Ying Zheng saw that the person who came was dressed as Qin Jun, and he was covered in blood and seriously injured. Hurriedly dismounted, helped the man up, and asked, "What's going on up ahead?" How did you become like this! At this time, Ying Zheng was still in snow clothes and white armor, which was completely different from the mainstream attire of the generals of the Qin State.
The person who came easily recognized Ying Zheng from his clothes, and said: "Childe, the Xiongnu broke through the Great Wall the day before yesterday and took away tens of thousands of people from Qin, and even the seeds that are going to be laid down next year have been robbed together, and now they have fled outside the pass." Son, hurry up and make up your mind, otherwise my Great Qin Northern Frontier will be completely unable to let the Qin people live. Millions of displaced people will surely bring disaster to the whole country. ”
As soon as Ying Zheng heard this, he immediately stepped on horseback and said to the people behind him: "The whole army listens to the order, and the cavalry will leave the brigade and follow me to catch up with the Huns outside the pass first, and save the people of Qin!" After saying that, he rushed out first. Gai Nie Flame Lingji and the two followed, and the light soldiers rushed out together.
After a day and a night of chasing with people, he finally saw the traces of the Huns with the people who were taken away. But judging from the traces left on the road, there was at least a day's way to catch up, and Ying Zheng ordered again that all the light soldiers and dead soldiers should return to the Great Wall first as a response, leaving the horses, and the people under him were alternately used with two horses. Change horses on the road without changing people, and chase the Huns at full speed. In any case, it is necessary to catch up with these Huns and their brigades before they meet, and take back both men and seeds.
Ying Zheng, Yan Lingji, and Gai Nie chased after the Huns with the captive people with 5,000 cavalry. By this time, the Huns had already sent most of their men to find their own large army (the Huns were very backward in civilization, there was no written and systematic command at all, even the feudal hierarchy and bureaucratic management system), and only a few thousand people were guarding the plundered population and materials.
Ying Zheng saw the camp of the Huns in front of him, and ordered the cavalry troops behind him to immediately change into lightly armed horses with sufficient physical strength along the way. As soon as the order was given, he rushed to the Hun camp. This place is already hundreds of miles away from the Great Wall of Qin, which is normally beyond the distance that the soldiers of the Central Plains Dynasty can pursue, and they have already sent out people to find their own large troops. It doesn't take much time to converge. The Huns relaxed. When Ying Zheng led people to attack the Hun camp, the Huns were completely defenseless, and Ying Zheng easily broke through the camp, and the thousands of Huns defending the camp were wiped out in less than half an hour under the attack of the elite Qin army.
After eliminating the Huns who were defending the camp, Yingzheng began to arrange for men to help the captive people return to Qin with seeds and other supplies. After a while, I saw smoke and dust billowing in the distance to the north, and the cavalry of the brigade began to rush here. Seeing this, Ying Zheng had no choice but to arrange 2,000 cavalry led by Gai Nie to bring the people and supplies back first, and even the extra horses were taken away by the people to help carry some heavy supplies.
Ying Zheng took thousands of people and took the initiative to attack the Huns' brigade first. Ying Zheng looked back and saw Flame Lingji and several people riding horses and following him, rushing towards the Huns' brigade together. I feel a warmth in my heart, but this is not the time for children to grow up. Ying Zheng chose the relatively weak side of the Huns and killed him, Ying Zheng rushed to the front, grabbed the short spear of a Hun soldier, stabbed forward, and directly put the four Huns in a string and picked off the horse.
Flame Lingji jumped up from the horse and landed on a Hun starter, took out the fire hairpin and gently picked it up, and the Hun cavalry was burned to ashes by the flames. After repeating a few times, Flame Spirit Ji returned to his horse, trying to lean down and touch the dignity, but Flame Spirit Ji was not proficient in equestrianism, so she almost fell off the horse. Thanks to Ying Zheng's quick eyes, he quickly turned around and rushed up, grabbed Flame Lingji's waist and carried her to his horse.
Flame Spirit Ji was hugged by Ying Zheng on the back of the horse in front of her, looking at the war horse that was trampled to death because of her own operation error, she gasped, her heart fluctuated, and it took a long time to calm down. At this time, although the posture between her and Ying Zheng was very ambiguous, there was no sense of charm because of the special environment of the battlefield.
Thousands of Qin soldiers rushed into the array of tens of thousands of Xiongnu troops, and they have lost thousands of people so far. Ying Zheng has already picked out hundreds of Hun cavalry in his arms, Flame Lingji looked at the surrounding crowd left and right, looked back at Ying Zheng, and squeezed his eyes charmingly. And Ying Zheng was concentrating on fighting at this time, and he didn't notice Flame Spirit Ji's movements at all. Flame Spirit Ji rolled over and jumped behind Ying Zheng, her slender and powerful legs wrapped around Ying Zheng's waist, and she reached sideways to touch the ground.
Ying Zheng was slightly taken aback by Flame Spirit Ji's fragrant movements at this time, but he didn't care too much because he was on the battlefield.
Flame Spirit Ji Yu's hand gently brushed from the ground, leaving behind Yingzheng a path of fire a few feet wide and more than a zhang high. Although the horses of the Huns were fierce but poorly trained, they began to dodge uncontrollably to the side when they saw the fire, although the war horses of the Qin army were also afraid of fire, but because of sufficient training, they could still rush in one direction according to the command of the knight and no longer face the fire path.
In this way, the conscript, with less than two thousand men left, rushed through the troops of the Huns. At the same time, it also attracted the attention of the Huns, and all the Huns who surrounded them rushed after Yingzheng and their men, and no one cared about the people and materials that were taken away.