Chapter 18: The Dilemma

Ying Zheng led the remaining less than 2,000 men and horses through the Hun brigade and fled all the way north, leaving the Huns far away. It is also hard for many people to believe that the horses fed with grain and forage in the Central Plains are far less running space than the horses on the grassland, but they are much better than the horses on the grassland in terms of physical strength and speed. After all, the key to feeding is to let him eat well and eat well.

Ying Zheng led people all the way to the north, and coincidentally encountered a larger army halfway through! And just from what can be seen in the eyes, you can find that this army is much more elite than the Huns encountered before. Ying Zheng only had 2,000 soldiers and horses at this time, and almost all of them were wounded, so he couldn't confront an army of this size head-on. So he immediately turned around and fled eastward.

But at this time, Yingzheng had already led people to run for a few days and nights, even if one person was paired with two horses, giving the horses enough relative rest. However, he still couldn't avoid a large loss of physical strength, and several times he was caught up by the Hun cavalry behind him. But fortunately, Yingzheng and martial arts are world-famous, Flame Lingji has special abilities, and the soldiers around him are also brave and good at fighting, and finally temporarily escaped from the pursuit of the Huns.

The pursuit was not overstayed for long, and after all, it was trapped by two groups of Huns in an abandoned earthen city that was established at an unknown time. At this time, even if Ying Zheng was on the side of the Flame Spirit Ji, there were less than a thousand people left. Many of the horses were already exhausted to death as soon as they arrived in the earthen city. At this time, Yingzheng and his party were already sleepy, and they hadn't eaten for several days, so they had already exhausted their physical strength and sat down together.

Ying Zheng looked at the Flame Spirit Ji beside him, at this time, the Flame Spirit Ji had gone through dozens of battles before and after, her hair was already scattered, her skin was covered with dust, and her charming and bewitching clothes were also torn a lot. Although it still does not lose the color of the city and the country, it is no longer the posture of being as unstained as a fairy in the past.

"Why are you coming along?" Ying Zheng asked Flame Lingji.

Flame Spirit Ji looked at Ying Zheng and said with a wry smile: "Didn't I say that I came to help you." ”

"Even if you help, you don't have to risk your life like this!" Ying Zheng said with a little anger, "The thing I regret the most in my life is to let you get into danger back then." After eight years of no news, I regretted letting you go out alone. But you're still here, and it's even more dangerous. ”

Flame Spirit Ji listened to what Yingzheng was saying, but she had an indescribable familiarity with what he said. It's as if she really experienced it herself. But Flame Spirit Ji could only say, "You recognized the wrong person, I haven't experienced what you said." ”

"We admit our mistakes!" Ying Zheng said angrily, and with his anger, the entire Tucheng trembled slightly. The soldiers in the earth city were all startled, and it was like the earth, and the whole earth shook with it.

"I won't admit it! It's been eight years, and I can see your face just by closing my eyes. Although you have changed a lot in eight years, your eyes, and your smile are always the same as before. Ying Zheng said that his mood calmed down a lot, "In the past eight years, I have done everything to practice martial arts and cultivate literature, so that one day I can break through the cage of Xianyang Palace and go to the ends of the earth to find you."

You may say that a teenager has no children's affection, and knows what is long-lasting and rotten. Actually, I didn't think about it so much. I'm just angry at what happened to you when you went missing. Thinking of those pairs of hands that pressed me the ground, my heart was all unwilling. Maybe it's because of this that I can't forget you, and I always keep you in my heart. But since I met you once, it all seemed to change, and I don't know what was going on. ”

Ying Zheng said to himself, and he didn't know if he was saying it to Flame Spirit Ji or to himself.

Flame Spirit Ji listened to it on the side, not knowing what it was like, anyway, it made her very uncomfortable. I kind of wanted to admit what Ying Zheng said, but Flame Spirit Ji didn't want to deceive him. She really didn't remember any of what he said.

Ying Zheng said to himself: "When you say that you don't remember anything, I feel like I want to spend eight years dreaming of my own, waking up from the dream, and there is nothing." Eight years, not long, not short, but how many flowers in this earthly world have been rejected by me, I just want this dream, a dream that I have never woken up, and all other things in the past eight years have been excluded from my life, waiting for one day to meet you again. But some of them are just a dream. Do you know? I really wanted to kill you at that time! And almost did.

But I didn't have the ability to do it, maybe I haven't woken up from my dream yet, and I even want to force you to stay around. But I still gave up, I still think that you will remember it one day, or do you think...... Hehe~! Maybe it's not that I haven't woken up from my dream, but it's my dream that has gone deeper. Ying Zheng couldn't help but smile bitterly as he spoke.

Flame Lingji looked at Ying Zheng, she didn't know if she should say anything.

The Huns besieged the city for three months without attacking. Yingzheng and they have begun to kill horses and eat meat in Tucheng, and now they still have more than 100 horses left, but they can hardly stand up. They don't dare to kill the horses anymore, and once the horses are dead, they really have no life.

Flame Spirit Ji's lips had begun to dry out, and she was the most unexpectedly watery of the most people. Because of her fire ability, she loses water much faster than the average person. Ying Zheng stayed by the side of Flame Spirit Ji, constantly thinking about how to get out of it. Surrender? No way! Even if he is not the son of Qin, a dignified seven-foot man surrenders to the Huawai barbarians, he can't accept it. What's more, he had already seen what a soldier in war was like. If they surrender, what will Flame Spirit Ji do!

Ying Zheng came to the open space in the earthen city and sent a deep pit on the ground that was a few feet deep. Then he pressed his palm on the side of the pit, and he saw that the water source in the pit was popping up little by little, and finally the whole pit was filled. At the same time, all the vegetation around Tucheng died when the pit was full.

When the surrounding soldiers saw the water in the pit, they immediately rushed up and rushed to the puddle to grab water to drink. Ying Zheng scolded loudly: "Stop! Like what words! Are you still the light soldiers of Great Qin! ”

Those who will come up will hear Ying Zheng's words, and once show the strict military discipline of the Qin army, they have retreated back, but their eyes are still against the water in the pit.

Ying Zheng said: "Take water one by one, or you will be swept away in a short time if you rob the law." Ying Zheng said, took out a tea cup from his bosom, took out a cup of water from the pit, and left them alone. And these Qin troops also followed what Yingzheng said, once they went to the edge of the pit to get water, and they never rushed again.

Ying Zheng came to Flame Lingji's side and helped her feed the water to Flame Lingji and Xia. Flame Lingji was already delirious at this time, and after feeling the innermost water, she couldn't help but subconsciously reach out and drink it violently, and drank it in a few sips. Flame Lingji, who had regained a little sense, looked at the tea cup that had been dried by herself, feeling guilty and a little surprised. Ying Zheng's tea cups are all very precious, and each one is different. And this one is exactly the one that Flame Spirit Ji herself used. He has been carrying it with him.

Ying Zheng said: "You wait first, and then I'll go get some water." As he spoke, he put the flame spirit down first, let her lean against a mound of dirt, and went to fetch water first.

But who in this pit is enough to drink hundreds of people in a city, so Yingzheng diverted water into the puddle several times, and finally let everyone in the city drink to their hearts a few days later. After the last water was drained, Yingzheng's forehead was full of sweat, and the whole person walked up to the city tremblingly. Looking at the Hun army not far away, Ying Zheng was very anxious.

The reason why they have not attacked the city is because I waited for them to run out of food and grass and won without a fight. Although he relied on his earth-shattering skills to bring a ray of life to the people in the city, he had already brought all the water within a radius of a hundred miles to the city and used it up for the people in the city. And the power is about to run out, and if you want to draw water, you have to wait for ten days and half a month to sleep.

Flame Spirit Ji came to Yingzheng's side, looking at his current appearance, she was very ashamed in her heart. Gently wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "I'm sorry." ”

Ying Zheng held her hand and said, "It's me who is sorry for you, I should take you back to the territory of Qin first." ”

Flame Spirit Ji Mo told Ying Zheng the truth, but she didn't know what to say. Looking up at the Hun camp, Flame Lingji suddenly realized: "Hun Shan Yu!" ”

Ying Zheng was shocked when he heard this: "What did you say? ”

Flame Lingji pointed to a golden-domed tent in the center of the Xiongnu army and said, "That's the big tent of Xiongnu Shan Yu!" ”

"How do you know?" Ying Zheng asked suspiciously after hearing this.

Flame Spirit Ji lowered her head and said nothing.

Ying Zheng didn't have time to pursue more, so he immediately went to the city to gather people and prepare to fight to the death.

There is no need to do any heroic mobilization, and in order to survive in a desperate situation, they are willing to fight to the death.