Qin Official

When he was in the military camp of Beidi County, Gan Chong heard such a story: A man wanted to go to the Kingdom of Chu, but he was driving north on the road, getting further and further away from his destination.

He now feels that he is a completely different person!

Six days ago, Gan Chong and more than a hundred Liangjiazi knights led by him discovered that the Huns had surrounded Feng Jie's Shangjun soldiers. In order to allow ten of them to go back and report to General Wei, the rest of them chose to ride in other directions to attract the attention of the Huns. .

He didn't know whether the ten knights had returned, but the Liangjiazi knights had really caused him big trouble by luring the enemy. Hundreds of Xiongnu cavalry followed them in hot pursuit. After several battles, their companions were shot dead or fell off their horses and captured. Only Gan rushed into the forest and was able to escape.

But his safety was temporary. After escaping, Gan Chong found that he had traveled many miles north, getting further and further away from the main force of the Qin army. Gan Chong tried to lurk for a while and then quietly traveled south, but each time he could not get far, he was discovered by the wandering Huns scouts, and then they chased him away...

The Huns had discovered that a Qin man had slipped through the net in this area, and mobilized more than a hundred horses to search. Gan Chong could only hide and run into the reeds by the river, and the group of Huns scouts who were chasing after him also followed. After the pursuit, they left their horses outside and entered the reed swamp with bows and arrows in hand to search.

Gan Chong's beloved horse was hit by an arrow, so he could only grit his teeth and give up. He also ran out of bows and arrows. Fortunately, Gan Chong was good at throwing rocks with his belt, and with a short sword at his waist, these were all his weapons.

Now, crawling and hiding in the mud puddles covered with reeds, Gan Chong could hear the chatter of the Huns. There were at least dozens of them, and they were surrounding him from all directions, blocking all his routes out. Gan Chong had no chance of winning. With just a few stones in his hand, he could at most break several people's heads...

Just when he decided to hide until a Huns approached and smashed his head, a Huns shouted on the other side. It turned out that these experienced hunters finally found Gan Chong's footprints, and then followed them to find his hiding place!

"What bad luck!"

Gan Chong had no choice but to get up quickly and escape. He pushed aside the reeds and walked desperately towards the direction of the water. The river was his only chance to survive!

Silt accumulated by the river, one foot deep and the other shallow, making it difficult to move forward. The Huns behind them were cursing, probably asking Gan Chong to surrender. Every few steps they took, they stopped and fired at Gan Chong. The arrows passed over his ears and hair, and struck into the reeds on the left and right. They scared away a group of gulls and herons, and also frightened Gan Chong. Sweating in a cold sweat, he was hungry and tired, and his steps became more and more staggering.

Gan Chong arrived at the river before he was caught by the Huns' lasso. He jumped into the water without hesitation!

At this time, Gan Chong had to thank the Beidi County Lieutenant. He was not a good swimmer, but in the past six months, in addition to practicing riding battles, the Good Family Soldiers were asked by the County Lieutenant to master a new skill: swim.

So after the training, the sons of good families played and competed naked in the mud river, which became a beautiful scenery in Beidi County. The Qiang women who shepherded the sheep often came to watch. Although many people laugh at themselves and say that there are no big rivers in the North, let alone water divisions, so what is the use of making soldiers familiar with water properties? But only now did Gan Chong realize that the lieutenant was not innocent, and at the same time he was glad that he was good at practicing water skills.

The river was not fast, but it had some depth. This was exactly what Gan Chong needed. He took a deep breath, dived under the water, and plunged towards the bottom of the river. Just a moment after his figure disappeared on the river, more than ten bows and arrows fell down in unison. The arrows penetrated the water net, bubbled and passed by Gan Chong. One even scratched his armor, and the thin arrows Blood mist spread in the river.

The only hope was to escape the arrows fired by the Huns, wait until they thought they were dead, surface again, and swim as hard as they could until they reached the other side.

But he didn't hold it for long. Gan Chong gradually found it difficult to hold his breath. The bubbles coming out of his mouth kept rising. He needed air.

When Gan Chong resurfaced, he found that he had swam for a long distance, but the Huns on the shore were still waiting for his body to float up before leaving. Seeing that Gan Chong was still alive, they couldn't help but scream in anger. Draw your bow and shoot at him again.

Gan Chong could only swim towards the middle of the river, but when he emerged again, he was disappointed to find that a group of Hun knights had heard the news and came to the other bank, waiting for him, a living target, to go and take arrows!

Now, he could only drift downstream along the current. The Huns followed him on horseback, chasing him back while trying to shoot arrows and mocking him loudly, as if Gan Chong was a toy.

Gan Chong's food these days was very poor. Birds shot down with stones and some suspicious shrubs and berries were all eaten raw. In the past few days, he had suffered from severe pain in his abdomen and was often weak. He struggled to flop in the water. If he goes down, even if he is not shot to death by the Huns' arrows, he will drown because of his weakness...

"If I die in this river, I'm afraid no one will collect my body, and there will only be an empty tomb in the Beidi County Loyal Cemetery!"

Just when he was desperate, the arrows fired from both sides of the bank stopped, and the Huns also stopped shouting. Gan Chong struggled to look out of the water and found that they had reined in their horses and stared dumbfoundedly up the river.

Several wooden boats with sails and swaying oars are coming through the waves! Several Qin soldiers wearing armor stood at the bow of the ship with crossbows in their arms!

…

Gan Chong was dragged onto the boat by Qin soldiers. He lay on Xiaoyi's side of the boat and vomited out a lot of cold water. Qin soldiers with Longxi accents gathered around and helped bandage the wound on his arm. The leader of the Five Hundred Lords also took off dry clothes and put them on Gan Chong.

"Why don't you say you have no clothes?" Lord Five Hundred smiled. At the camp, they had already heard that this group of promising knights had sacrificed their lives to lure the enemy, just to send the messenger back to the army. They admired Gan Chong very much.

"I share the same robe with you." Gan Chong was moved and took it.

There were also people delivering food, but what Gan Chong cared about most was whether the ten messengers had sent the message back?

The thing was obvious. The group of Huns who were chasing and hunting him had been dispersed by the crossbows fired by the fleet. Sitting on the boat and looking upstream, they saw a continuous stream of wooden boats coming up the river, full of heavily armed Qin soldiers. Soldier, move forward against the wind and waves.

The five hundred men on board told Gan Chong that they were just forward scouts, and there were two hundred ships behind them. They were originally transporting grain from Longxi County to Helan, but now they were ordered by Generals Li and Wei to carry soldiers, chariots and cavalry. March simultaneously.

On the west bank of the river, some Qin cavalry can be seen marching, while the main force of the Xiongnu is dozens of miles away to the east of the river. The Xiongnu has waiting cavalry hundreds of miles east, west, north and south. As soon as the Qin army appears, the Xiongnu must know...

Gan Chong sneezed heavily: "Where is General Wei?"

The Lord of Five Hundred said: "The Beidi County Lieutenant is a hundred miles away in the rear, commanding 20,000 infantry, already halfway!"

"Besides me, is there anyone else who is waiting to be rescued?"

Gan Chong hoped that a miracle would happen, but Lord Five Hundred lowered his head: "Only three messengers returned, and the rest..."

"I will kill hundreds of barbarians to avenge Pao Ze!"

With all his subordinates dead and unsure of life and death, Gan Chong gritted his teeth and pounded the ship's plank. What he hoped for most now was to quickly return to the army and kill Hu to avenge him in the next battle!

As he spoke, the boat had already passed the intersection of the big river and the Dusitu River, and the cavalry on the shore had no intention of stopping. Gan Chong couldn't help but be surprised: "The Xiongnu army is thirty miles upstream of the Dusitu River. Baiyang Mountain surrounds Shangjun soldiers, why don't they anchor here?"

The Lord of Five Hundred said, "General Li said that if we directly go to relieve the siege with thousands of people on foot, I'm afraid it won't help. It's better..."

He grinned and said: "Surround Wei and save Zhao!"

…

On the bank of the river, to the north of the Dusi Tu River, Li Xin's banner has arrived, and his vanguard Qiang Huang has brought two things back...

It is fresh manure from cattle and sheep.

Li Xin said to the captains and leaders around him: "The Huns have tens of thousands of horses to ride on. Horses can eat pasture, but people cannot eat only the meat and cheese they carry, nor can they rely solely on hunting."

"Therefore, when the Huns send out troops, they are always followed by herds of livestock."

These livestock herds were equivalent to the Huns' baggage, and they drank their meat or slaughtered them for meat. When they found the livestock herd, they caught the rear team.

Qianghuang reported that a large number of fresh dung from cattle and sheep were found more than ten miles to the north. Counting their number, there were more than 10,000 of them!

Li Xin immediately formulated a battle plan: "The Huns like to rob our army's food routes. If the invaders can do it, I can do it too! Attack their herds quickly, then cross to Hexi, and build a stronghold based on the hills and rivers. This will frighten the Huns and prevent them from concentrating on the encirclement." Even if the troops from Shangjun rushed to our reinforcements quickly, they would not be able to break into our stronghold. If the army loses its baggage, it will be depleted. This is the case in the Central Plains, and the same is true with the Xiongnu!"