A torrential rain made the roads muddy and made it difficult for the army to advance. But it also made the pursuers lose their traces in the heavy rain, so that Qin Zhao's troops temporarily got rid of the pursuit of the Xuanwu cavalry.

The soldiers are very tired, since they have been out of Tongguan, they have not been bedded, basically the ground is the bed, the sky is the quilt, as long as the order rests, many soldiers roll off the horse and fall asleep, and sometimes, they can only sleep while marching on the horse.

Now Qin Zhao is very grateful to the soldiers of Qianniuwei for the shame and lesson that the Yuan Cong Janissaries gave him, and he fought with the other party continuously, and after the failure of the competition, Qin Zhao learned from the pain and made up his mind to reorganize the soldiers and horses.

He imitated Qianniuwei's recruitment methods, and most of the soldiers he chose were ordinary people, but some of the officers were still from Xungui, of course, he could be selected by him, and they were also a group of self-motivated people in Xungui.

If it weren't for the grinding of more than a year, he couldn't imagine what kind of scene it was now. Or not long after leaving Tongguan, the original batch of soldiers and horses will be scattered as birds and beasts.

Now although he also suffered heavy casualties, but at least, the soldiers have passed the initial panic period, and entered another stage, which can probably be called the numb period, the soldiers seem to have accepted their fate, fight with the enemy, sacrifice death, bravely move forward, win, then bury the remains of their comrades, take off a certain relic of their comrades and tie it to their horses as a souvenir, and then continue to move forward, if defeated, it is natural to flee in embarrassment.

But no matter whether they were victorious or defeated, the atmosphere of this army was always warm, and when they were free, everyone was happy to have fun with each other, looking for every opportunity to make themselves happy.

Everyone is living today as their last day.

This is a good sign.

At least in Qin Zhao's view, such an army is the army he dreams of commanding.

Although he only has about 1,500 people left, they are even stronger now than when they first came out of Tongguan.

He took out a handful of dried sweet potatoes from his bosom and fed them to the mouth of the war horse, which they had copied from a town the other day after they attacked it. Now all their supplies are basically robbed, sometimes robbing the Xuanwu Army's grain transport team, and when they can't grab the grain transport team, they rob the common people.

In order to survive, Qin Zhao no longer cares about military discipline. The only emphasis is that when robbing the common people, no murder or adultery is allowed.

He was reluctant to eat the dried sweet potatoes himself, so he left them all to his war horse. War horses can't just eat grass, if they just eat grass, it won't take a few days, and War Horses will lose weight and lose energy. People are much better, they are really hungry, and they can carry it for a while if they eat a handful of grass.

The thick tongue of the war horse rolled a handful of dried sweet potatoes into his mouth and chewed, Qin Zhao rubbed the horse's head lovingly, and then took out a brush from the bag next to the saddle, scooped a helmet full of water back, and vigorously brushed his war horse's body. In an earlier battle, the body of the war horse was stained with a lot of blood, and it has been condensed on the war horse at this moment, which will make the horse very uncomfortable.

And at this moment, many soldiers are doing the same thing as Qin Zhao.

The war horse enjoyed Qin Zhao's service very much, chewing dried sweet potatoes while rubbing Qin Zhao's body with his huge horse head from time to time.

After serving the horses, the warriors finally began to give themselves food.

A rainstorm just now brought them a lot of unexpected food. Now there was a large pond not far from the place where they were resting, and after the rain had passed, a large number of kings had crawled out of the pond and crawled clumsily in the grass. The soldiers easily picked up these things that they didn't usually eat, and cleanly cut off Wang Ba's head, first drank a few mouthfuls of Wang Ba's blood, and then lit piles of fires, and threw Wang Ba into the fire and burned them. When I smelled the fragrance, I took it out and ate it in a big gulp.

Other soldiers made some simple nets out of twigs and rattans, then took off their armor and jumped into the pond to catch fish, and the harvest was very good, and they always caught a few large fish in one net. Looking at this appearance, I am afraid that when they leave, I am afraid that even the small fish in this big pond will be cleaned by them.

A few of the soldiers went the other way, weaving a net but not going down into the pond, but running into a ditch on one side, blocking one end with a net, and then one soldier jumped barefoot into the ditch and flowed all the way down from above. At first, Qin Zhao didn't know what they were doing, but it didn't take long for him to see that the water in front of the soldiers in front of him began to boil, accompanied by cheers, a net full of loaches, and the eels were taken out by the soldiers and thrown to the ground.

There are many fields next to it, and there are many ditches between the fields, and many soldiers have begun to catch loach eels in this way.

Although there is no salt or oil, and the smell of fish is heavy, this is also an opportunity for their team to improve their food.

This time he came out, and Qin Zhao was also an eye-opener.

The Qin family was originally also a Zhong Ding family, but a martial arts family like him at the time of the founding of the country, after hundreds of years, gradually declined, but even so, the life of Qin Zhao was not comparable to ordinary people.

He was not as proficient as his soldiers in finding food at any time and anywhere in the field. Especially these soldiers who later he found from the people at the bottom, there are all kinds of strange ways to find things that are eaten in the stomach, some of which are simply incredible in Qin Zhao's opinion, obviously in his opinion they can't be eaten, these soldiers fiddle for a while, and then eat them in their mouths, but they find that the taste is actually good.

Qin Zhao's guards happily ran over with a grilled cockroach, which weighed more than a catty, and at this moment was pierced through the mouth by a branch, stabbed the whole body, and roasted to a golden brown, full of aroma, but Qin Zhao unconsciously swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva.

The guard took out an oiled paper bag from his arms, opened it carefully, and there was some table salt in it, carefully dipped some of it with his fingers, and smeared it on the body of the cockroach, and then handed it to Qin Zhao.

Salt is more valuable to them than what they eat.

Without salt supplementation, people will be sour and weak. This is simply catastrophic for the fighters.

Adjutant General Jin Shiyong nibbled on a big roasted fish in his mouth and walked over from the other side. The most obvious difference between Jin Shiyong and his companions around him is that he is bigger and taller, half a head taller than Qin Zhao, who is more than seven feet tall, and more importantly, he has long golden hair.

Qin Zhao heard that Jin Shiyong's ancestors came from a distant country called Rome, and after his ancestors crossed thousands of mountains and rivers to the Tang Dynasty, they were immediately fascinated by this country, and never left, and lived and worked in peace and contentment in the Tang Dynasty. After so many years, the appearance of their vein is approaching the Tang Dynasty, Qin Zhao has seen Jin Shiyong's grandfather, and there are two owl-like blue eyes, but when he arrives at Jin Shiyong, his eyes have become black, but this blonde hair, their family is in the same vein.

"General Qin, didn't you say that Your Majesty has already arrived at Huguan? Next, are we going to Huguan to protect Your Majesty? Gulping down the fish, Jin Shiyong was a little vague.

Qin Zhao smiled and shook his head: "What are we going to Huguan for?" There are enough people there to guard His Majesty, and there are enough people to guard Huguan, and we can't help much. ”

"But we are His Majesty's Yuan Cong Guards, and staying by Your Majesty's side is our most basic duty!" Jin Shiyong threw away the fish skeleton, wiped his mouth, and was puzzled.

"It is precisely because we are the closest people to His Majesty that at this time, we have to do our best to do our part for Your Majesty. At this time, to do our best for Your Majesty, it is by no means to go to Huguan, we wander outside, which is the best way to help Your Majesty. Qin Zhao said.

Jin Shiyong didn't understand, Qin Zhao said that he was wandering, but in fact, he put gold on his face, and they were wandering. And it was a purposeless flow, today it entered the territory of Luzhou, and tomorrow it turned a big corner and ran to the territory of Weizhou.

"Your Majesty is in need of manpower now, let's ......" Jin Shiyong spread his hands and said.

"Old Kim, is that army chasing after us now?" Qin Zhao asked with a smile.

"It is the most elite cavalry in Xuanwu." Jin Shiyong laughed: "They have been following us for ten days, eating our fart for ten days, and we have fought three times, all of which are our small victories." ”

"yes, if we run to Huguan, will they follow us too?" Qin Zhao said with a smile.

Jin Shiyong suddenly realized.

"Moreover, this to go to Huguan, it must have been a lot of dangers, these days, we have encountered a lot of enemy troops, they are all rushing to Huguan, fortunately, we are cavalry, we can always find a gap to pass through, but if we want to go to Huguan, we can't get around, we have to fight hard, you think, we fight all the way, how many of these brothers can be left?"

"The general is right!" Kim Shiyong nodded repeatedly.

"So, let's stay on the periphery, lead this Xuanwu cavalry to run around, and attack their grain team and attack their logistics lines when we have the opportunity, no matter whether we can succeed or not, we will always make them have to send more people to protect the logistics baggage, which is also to reduce the pressure on Huguan. Lao Jin, tell me, if we do this, will we be able to help Your Majesty more? ”

"It's still the general's foresight!" Kim gave a thumbs up.

(When I wrote this chapter, I remembered the experience when I was a child, the fishing mentioned in the text, catching loach and mecker, are all things that the gunman did, I went back to my hometown some time ago, and I wanted to relive the feeling of catching loach and toads when I was a child, but unfortunately, after a rain, I went away with a lot of excitement, and returned with a disappointment, the same ditch, the same handful, the same barefoot went to the ditch, and finally I didn't catch anything except mud and sand.) Where are the loaches and the croachs? ）