For a long night, the soldiers hurried the road and traveled sixty miles.

In the early hours of the morning, the morning sun began to appear.

Walking in the clear and white sky in the early morning, the barbarians and militiamen were all tired.

The few horses were left behind, but the road ahead was not easy.

Yougen walked in front of the soldiers on foot, and Liu Heng rode the black dragon back and forth between the teams, raising the morale of the soldiers with a loud and rich voice.

Skirting the gravel-blocked roadway, and climbing up the rugged and narrow valley up the towering and winding slopes, the soldiers circled back to the avenue.

Five thousand and one hundred soldiers continued along the road, and it was not until noon that the march stopped.

At this time, the soldiers had already trekked for twenty-four hours, a journey of two hundred and twenty miles.

As soon as Liu Heng gave the order to stop advancing, many of the soldiers immediately collapsed to the ground.

The slumped soldiers were quickly picked up by their companions.

The soldiers also built tents and camps.

But everyone has not drunk a drop of water for a long time, and has not eaten a single piece of rice, and they are already extremely tired.

After eating some raw corn for the first time, and building some cloth tents, both barbarians and ordinary people covered their heads and lay directly under the cloth shed.

"The enemy's main fortress should be less than two hundred miles away from our army. ”

Frowning, there is a pair of eyes narrowed, and a tired look.

"The enemy has already left the village, but why can't I hear anything?"

Liu Heng closed his eyes, and the vitality in the dantian surged to his ears along the veins, and he was silent for a moment before opening his eyes.

"I can't hear it either. ”

"General. ”

Yougen crouched down, frowning and muttering for a moment.

"After dinner, the soldiers rest in the afternoon, and after dinner, we will set off immediately, how about it?"

Liu Heng nodded, pulled the reins, and there was a faint "whoosh" sound from the black dragon's nose, turning the horse and carrying Liu Heng towards the soldiers behind him.

Wen Xiaojun was also eating.

All the soldiers gathered around the wooden village, fetched the water of the river, and boiled the harvest of the hunt.

There was not much prey, only a dozen fish and two dozen gray squirrels.

The fire burned vigorously on the firewood, and from time to time the soldiers in charge of the fire poured a little water into the porcelain bowl.

After noon, Wen Short and his soldiers ate the wild vegetables and grass stalks they dug around, but the soldiers who boiled the prey took bamboo fans to fan away the aroma of the meat that came out of the boiling.

The aroma is not strong, but it can also arouse the appetite of the hungry.

The slaves hiding on the backsplash of the wall, after smelling the smell of meat, secretly swallowed and foamed.

Compared to the more than 3,000 slaves, there are too few prey that can be boiled, and there are very few people affected by the aroma.

But in fact, the purpose of Wen Short to make people boil their prey is not to persuade them to surrender.

The slaves had no arrows, no rolling stones, and no sasswood.

In the afternoon, outside the wooden village, the soldiers holding shields and bundled dry firewood walked outside the wall.

The slaves watched nervously at the movement outside the village, and nervously saw the soldiers placing the firewood piles at the bottom of several walls.

After the firewood was piled up, the soldiers put the boiled fat into a small iron kettle.

Dozens of soldiers, holding iron kettles and torches, walked to the pyre under the wall.

There was a commotion among the slaves behind the wall, and some of the slaves stretched out their necks outside the wall, and then they were shot in the head by the archers who were ready to attack on the bank of the Zhaigou River on the opposite side.

After a few times, no slave dared to stretch out his head behind the wall.

The drawbridge at the gate of the village was full of bows and shields, and in the scorching heat, they were wearing armor but their expressions were focused, and their posture was like a lifeless pile.

"The slaves in the village, don't worry about it for the time being. ”

Wen Short pouted a handful of warm water and swayed the droplets into his face.

With water on his face, Wen Short rubbed his cheeks, which were quite clammy, with the palm of his hand, and stood up.

"Tomorrow I will go and recruit them, and if they do not surrender, I will pretend to set them on fire. ”

Turning his head, Wen Short looked at Liyue beside him, Liyue hugged his fist, and his face was sincere.

"When the grain and grass we borrowed arrived, we lured them with grain, not fearing that they would be disobedient. ”

"Yes. ”

As soon as Liyue's words fell, a horse suddenly flew in from afar.

Listening to the sound of horses' hooves behind him, Wen Short squinted his eyes and turned to look at the cavalry that drove past the barracks and rushed towards him.

The cavalry rolled over and dismounted, kneeling in front of Wen Short.

"General. ”

Slightly raised thick eyebrows, the text was short and his expression was slightly condensed.

"What's the matter?"

"The enemy is one hundred and sixty miles away. ”

Hearing this, Wen Short's eyebrows immediately furrowed.

"Got it, keep looking. ”

"Yes. ”

The cavalryman, who fell on one knee, rose from the ground, turned and led his mount, and headed for the way he came.

When the cavalry walked away, Wen Short turned his head to look at Liyue.

"Eight hundred sword and shield guards and a thousand bow guards are left here. “

"Go and gather all the remaining soldiers, let them be on alert, and our army will set out at once tomorrow morning. ”

Raising his head slightly, looking at the sunset that was about to sink in the west, in the dim light of dusk, Wen Xiaoshu unfolded the vertical lines on his forehead.

Bursts of red light were like raging flames, through the armor on his body, the purple cloak rolled slightly in the steaming airflow, and a smile slowly bloomed on his face.

The scorching waves came towards him, and Li Yue's face was solemn, and he clasped his fists and saluted.

"Yes. ”

After strengthening the vigilance at night, Wen Short Army was originally hungry and tired, and the soldiers who were full of water at this time seized the time to rest.

At this time, Liu Heng and Yougen took the soldiers who had a little rest and rushed to the road at night.

Although they have rested for a long time, the soldiers led by Liu Heng and Yougen are still tired and tired, and their pace is much slower than yesterday.

It was not until the early morning of the second day that the whole army had marched nearly forty miles.

The two armies were still one hundred and twenty miles apart.

This time, Yougen did not let Liu Heng motivate the soldiers to continue to advance, but instead led the soldiers to camp next to a stream and river.

"General. ”

Looking at the trickling river in the stream, Yougen frowned and looked at Liu Heng beside him.

"There was a camp not far away, but there was no one in it. ”

"Yes. “

Nodding slightly, the red glow in Liu Heng's eyes faded.

"There were no voices, no neighing of horses, only the chirping of insects and crows, and the gates of the barracks were open, and I saw no figure in them. ”

"It's an empty camp. ”

"General. ”

One turned his head, and the wrinkles on his forehead deepened.

"The enemy soldiers must have returned to the army to rescue their village, and our army must seize the time to rest, recover its strength, and no longer enter the army. ”

"That's right. ”

The eyes under his eyes were dark, Liu Heng's face became more and more solemn, but the depths of his eyes showed excitement.

"There's going to be a war. ”

At this time, every soldier led by Liu Heng carried four days' food in his hands.

The baggage team carrying the grain was still in the rear.

With the river water, he simply gnawed on the dry food, and Liu Heng followed Yougen's suggestion to let the soldiers build simple sheds, and dug several deep gullies around the crude sheds.