A cow's cry of "moo" woke up Yan Xing.
He stood up and looked up at the sky.
Gastrodia was bright.
Looking around, he saw that the soldiers were lying on the ground and sleeping soundly.
Their clothes were wet with dew.
They were too exhausted to notice.
The war horses were eating weeds in the distance, and even further away, a few cattle that the Xianbei people had not taken away in time when they migrated were slapping their tails and munching on weeds.
"Come here, come here, come here" Yan Xing called three times in a row.
One of the soldiers jumped up and was on alert to attack with his sword in hand.
He didn't realize the situation until he came back to his senses.
He quickly stepped forward and clasped his fists and said: "General" Yan Xing ordered: "Wake everyone up and ask the cooks to light a fire and make rice quickly."
"Yes, General" The surrounding area soon became lively, and the soldiers were woken up one by one.
Li Ru, as the military advisor, began to order the army to assemble after waking up, and ordered all ministries to count the number of people and calculate the losses.
Just when the food was cooked and the soldiers were eating, the counting results came out.
He calmly walked to Yan Xing and cupped his hands and said: "General, the losses in yesterday's battle have been counted.
More than 3,900 people were killed. , there were more than a thousand people injured to varying degrees, and there were less than 10,000 horses left, more than half of which were killed or scattered, and the baggage was not lost in the rear team."
Yan Xing's face was a bit ugly.
He had more than 10,000 men, and half of them were reduced in this battle.
This was the biggest loss since the war with Tuoba Xianbei.
He asked with a gloomy face: "Military advisor, should our army continue to pursue now, or should we stay and wait for the lord's army?"
Li Ru thought for a while and held up his hands and said: "General, for the sake of caution, Ru recommends staying where you are for the time being, so that the soldiers can fully rest and wait for the lord's army to rendezvous."
At this time, a riding sentry came galloping from the north.
The sentry reined in his horse and stopped in front of Li Ru and Yan Xing.
He jumped down, clasped his fists and bowed on one knee, saying: "General Qi, brothers have inspected yesterday's battlefield.
After preliminary inspection, A rough estimate shows that the Xianbei people lost about 6,000 people in yesterday's battle."
About six thousand people are equivalent to half of the Xianbei army.
"We lost half here, and Tuoba Jiefen also lost half.
Hey, this battle was fought."
Yan Xing said, his face straightened, and he ordered in a deep voice: "Come here, pass the order, and give everyone a moment after eating."
After a quarter of an hour, we set off to continue chasing Xian.
Poor man.
The fifth school stayed to protect the wounded and waited to join the lord's army again.
The remaining people were all organized into the first, second, third, and fourth schools, each equipped with two horses, and an additional thousand horses as backup. , bring ten days’ worth of dry food, dried meat and three days’ worth of water.”
"Yes, General" Li Ru opened his mouth, but Tracker still didn't say anything to dissuade him.
After eating, the soldiers quickly went to collect dry food and dried meat, and filled their water bags with three days' worth of drinking water, ready for the expedition.
Four thousand cavalry were ready, a total of nine thousand horses.
Yan Xing and Li Ru sat on the horse and looked at the soldiers lined up in a neat square formation.
There was a big flag in front of each school.
The marching Sima rushed over and clasped his fists, saying: "General, everything is ready."
Yan Xing raised his hand and waved: "Then let's go" "Yes" the marching Sima clasped his fists in agreement, turned his horse around and faced the military formation, and shouted: "The general has an order, the scout team will first track the enemy's fleeing direction, and all units will start in accordance with the sequence and set off."
The army began to move.
The first to set off were dozens of detective sentries with rich tracking experience.
Each of them was equipped with three horses with full endurance.
Each horse had a saddle and stirrups on its back, which could be used while riding.
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The first, second, third, and fourth schools set off accordingly.
Yan Xing and Li Ru were at the front of the first school.
The fifth school was left to protect the wounded and wait for Liu Cheng's main army.
An hour later, Yan Xing's army arrived at yesterday's battlefield.
On the south bank of the Yuwu River, there were corpses all over the ground, as well as black vultures lying on the corpses to eat.
Swords, guns, swords and halberds were stuck on the corpses. and on the grass , some of the ground and corpses were full of arrows, and some corpses were in strange shapes when they died.
Some were nailed to the ground with spears, some were cut into pieces, some had their heads separated, and some were held by both the enemy and ourselves.
They stabbed each other to death together and fell to the ground.
"Quack, quack, quack"
As Yan Xing's army left and returned, the vultures lying on the pile of corpses were frightened and flew into the sky.
They kept circling in the sky and making dissatisfied cries.
Vultures and crows are both regarded as ominous creatures, and people believe that death will occur wherever they appear.
Vultures are also known as grassland scavengers, specializing in cleaning up dead bodies and garbage, and can prevent the occurrence and spread of some plagues.
Yan Xing jumped off the horse, knelt down on one knee, clasped his fists and said loudly: "It is Yan Xing's fault that I can't collect the bones of my brothers.
I will catch up with Tuoba Jiefen and behead him before I can apologize to my brothers."
After a few minutes of silence, Yan Xing stood up, swung his cloak, mounted his horse and shouted: "Let's go!"
"Rumble" The army was gone in an instant.
In the afternoon, when Tuoba Jiefen was marching with his army, he encountered a herd of bison.
They rounded them up and slaughtered them and gave the army a feast.
Tuoba Jiefen ate the raw beef, his eyes flashing with light.
"Le Lin" Tuoba Jiefen called his son's name.
Tuoba Lelin came over and stroked his chest and said: "Abba" Tuoba Jiefen asked: "Do you think we can bring down the Han army?
Tell the truth and tell us what you think."
Tuoba Lelin thought for a moment and said, "Abba, I think if it was in the past, we could bring them down, but it's very difficult now."
"Why do you say that?"
Tuoba Lelin said: "Because we are not strong enough, we cannot get supplies in time and do not have enough time to rest.
Whether it is horses or warriors, if we want to defeat the Han army, we must have enough protection ourselves and be able to get supplies at any time."
We need to replenish soldiers and food, and have a hiding place for the horses and warriors to rest.
If we are being chased by the Han army like now, it is very likely that we will be overwhelmed before they can defeat them.
You see, we are now more and more numerous.
With less and less coming, the warriors are getting more and more tired and their morale is getting lower and lower.”
Tuoba Jiefen was silent.
In fact, he himself was aware of this problem.
In fact, all the elites of his Tuoba Xianbei people had been exhausted on the battlefield.
The only ones left in the scattered tribes were the old, weak, sick and disabled.
Women and children could no longer provide him with much help.
This was mainly because the Xianbei people's development time was too short and their war potential was insufficient.
After a long time, Tuoba asked: "Do you have any ideas that can change our current unfavorable situation?"
Tuoba Lelin thought for a while and said: "Abba, I think we should try our best to get rid of the Han army's pursuit now.
We need time to rest and replenish.
This requires a safe place where the Han army can't find it."
To a safe place, if we follow the current route to the north, the Han people are all smart Ming people, we can't compete with their wisdom.
They will definitely guess our destination.
Our marching route must be erratic so that they can't be traced.
It would be great if it rains heavily.
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Heavy rain can By washing away the traces left by our march, we can escape their pursuit."
At this time, a young commander came galloping on his horse, followed by dozens of Xianbei cavalry.
He reined up his horse and jumped down to report to Tuoba Jiefen: "Commander, there used to be a tribe nearby, but they are here He had already moved north, but there was still a shaman who stayed, and I brought him here."
Tuoba Jiefen stood up and asked: "Where is it?"
"Bring this person here" Xiaoshuai waved his hand behind him.
A disheveled shaman walked over with a wooden staff.
He was wearing black patterned silk, but it was very old.
There were some jingling copper and silver ornaments hanging on his clothes.
The top of the wooden staff in his hand was A wolf-headed skull looks a bit ferocious and terrifying.
"I have seen the Great Khan."
The shaman leaned on his wooden staff and bowed his head in salute.
Tuoba Jiefen was at the most helpless moment in his heart.
When he saw the shaman, it was as if he saw hope and a pillar of support.
He quickly said: "Shaman, I'm sorry.
I heard that all your tribesmen have left.
Why don’t you leave?”
The shaman said quietly: "The catastrophe is coming.
No matter how far you run, you can't escape it.
This is fate.
You can't resist, you can only obey.
If you stay, there is still a possibility of survival.
The more you run away, the faster you will die."
Tuobalelin frowned and said: "Shaman, why can't we understand what you said?"
The shaman said: "Wolves are always a threat to all creatures on the grassland.
When the hunters are tired or napping, they can hunt other creatures arbitrarily, but the hunters will not always be tired.
Once they regain their spirit and strength, the tragic fate of the wolves will come.
The wolf robbed their food and threatened them.
Threatening their dominance, once they are determined to get rid of all wolves, where can the wolves escape?
Do you think it will be fine if they escape to the north?
Don't take it for granted.
If the wolves can surrender and obey the hunters, they are willing to give them As a hunting dog, maybe the hunters will be happy to accept it.”
Tuoba Jiefen said angrily: "It's impossible for me to be a hound or a slave for them.
I, Tuoba Jiefen, am the king of the grassland.
It is impossible for the king to bow to the enemy, surrender and obey the enemy shaman.
I just want to ask you to divine whether it is dangerous to go north on this trip."
"Hurry and make a divination.
If the divination is not accurate, be careful, I will cut off your head and use it as a night pot."
Xiao Shuai threatened with a knife next to him.
The shaman could only sigh, take out an old mutton leg bone and throw it into the fire.
He leaned on a wooden staff and began to mutter words, and his body began to sway, dancing around the fire.
As he began to dance, the sheep bones thrown into the fire burned, and a light blue flame emerged.
The sheep bones burned with crackling sounds, and the flames swayed, but soon turned to the east, but the light blue flames The flame turned fiery red.
After the sheep bones were burned to ashes, the shaman stopped and said to Tuoba Jiefen: "Great Khan, there is a danger of destruction in the north":