Although it is a cold winter, the sun today is unusually bright, especially the light emitted by the white snow, which is extremely dazzling, and seems to be more dazzling than the daylight overhead, so that people have to avoid the snow-covered roadside as much as possible.

After early morning scouts, Chang'an stayed behind Zhang Li finally sent troops, at that time, Zhang Li in the vanguard and baggage troops set off in advance, led an army that looked extremely tired, embarrassed to evacuate Chang'an City, all the way to the east, slowly gone.

On the snowy land, Zhang Li's troops were like a group of ants who had to relocate after a disaster, and the speed of the march was extremely slow, not only because of the climate, but more importantly, most of the tens of thousands of soldiers failed to eat a comfortable meal.

And there is another reason for this, that is, with this team, there is also a group of residents of Chang'an who are tied together by hemp ropes, although many people's clothes are still tattered, but they have not received any sympathy, not only that, but the soldiers who guard this group of people who are marching with the army will also wave the leather whip in their hands mercilessly from time to time, and whip them the people, making a series of curses like facing their own animals.

More than 200,000 defenders of Chang'an City, now brought out by Zhang Li are only seventy or eighty thousand, eight or nine out of ten are his original descendants, and the rest of the army leaders who originally divided Chang'an, or do not want to continue to follow Zhang Li and take their men to the Yellow River, or directly rely on the previous relationship, out of the west gate of Chang'an City, surrender to Shang Rang of the Shunjie army, and more forces are scattered again, becoming several chaotic soldiers, continuing to burn, kill and loot in Chang'an City, It seems that he wants to blow away the only wisp of vitality left in Chang'an City.

"General Zhang, the speed of our army is a little too slow!" From beginning to end, as Zhang Li's hardcore confidant, Zeng Xiu did not abandon Zhang Li even at the most difficult moment, and at this moment he was still doing his best in front of Zhang Li's saddle and behind the horse, but he did have some doubts about Zhang Li's arrangement of the march.

"Do you think that if we go on like this, it will be completely dark when we get to Tongguan?" Although Zhang Li was sitting on horseback, he didn't feel warm as the soldiers on foot, and after listening to the confidants who rushed to his side, he let go of the reins with both hands, rubbed back and forth a few times, took a deep breath, looked at the desolation in front of him, and actually showed a confident smile: "Actually, not only will you think so, even if it is **, you will think so!" It's so cold, how could they have expected us to launch a surprise attack? What's more, our scout team has already found out the dynamics of **, and now ** is also cowering in the camp because of the weather! Even if they wanted to break their heads, they would not have expected our army to suddenly withdraw from Chang'an City! ”

"That's what I said, but, but our army has no food and grass!" Zeng Xiu nodded approvingly, then looked back and forth worriedly, shook his head, and reminded in a deep voice: "General, you see the brothers below, they are all listless, they didn't eat a full meal when they went out of the city, and now they are walking to Tongguan in the bitter cold, what can I do in this battle?" ”

"It's okay, it's not too cold today!" Zhang Li opened his mouth and let out two breaths of white gas, first smiled, and then turned his head to Zeng Xiu and said: "Even if the temperature drops at night, as long as our army launches an attack on the city, it won't feel too cold!" And this is also a celestial phenomenon that I have specially asked someone to observe, although the sun is good during the day today, but it will change at night, but there will not be too much wind and snow, just suitable for our army's surprise attack plan! ”

"But, general, the brothers have nothing to eat, how can they withstand the cold?" Even Zeng Xiu didn't understand why Zhang Li suddenly thought of launching an attack on Tongguan at first, and then, with the questioning, Zeng Xiu's eyes fell on the people who were following the army, his brows suddenly frowned, and his heart was suddenly shocked, and he looked at Zhang Li with an incredible face, and asked in surprise: "General Zhang!" You're not, don't you think, you want to use those people? ”

"Huh? Why not? Hearing this, Zhang Li seemed to hear the dissatisfaction in Zeng Xiu's words, and his originally smiling face suddenly became gloomy, as if accompanied by the surrounding temperature, his tone was also affected to a certain extent, and he said coldly: "Since this kind of thing has already happened in Chang'an City, why not happen again now?" Or, General Zeng, do you have any other better way? Can these tens of thousands of brothers have enough food to fill their stomachs? ”

"This, I, I..." Zeng Xiu was stunned for a moment, facing Zhang Li, who suddenly changed his face, he knew very well in his heart that the current Zhang Li was no longer the person he knew before, and turned his head to look at the desolate surroundings, and all he saw was snow white.

Under the cover of snow not far away, a dead and silent village that had been completely abandoned appeared in Zeng Xiu's eyes, as if it was disturbed by this team, and several black and shiny crows fluttered their wings and soared into the air, leaving behind a few rough and hoarse 'wow, wow' cries, which, combined with the desolation around them, almost made everyone feel desolate, and extremely tired of it.

"Hey!" Looking at the crows flying into the distance, Zeng Xiu slowly retracted his gaze and let out a low sigh, as we all know, crows mainly eat rotten meat as their main food, and they have long become an ominous bird in everyone's hearts, and even Zeng Xiu can know without much suspicion that the village where the crow landed just now must have been ransacked by the rebels before, and there must have been no living mouth.

"Damn it!" Zeng Xiu was immersed in thoughts, and suddenly Zhang Li's deep curse came from his ears, and he couldn't help but subconsciously hurriedly raise his head, followed Zhang Li's cursing voice and gaze, and quickly turned his head, and the scene in his eyes couldn't help but surprise Zeng Xiu.

At least dozens or hundreds of crows flew up from the village just now, covering the clouds and the sun, covering a gloomy black shadow just above the head of the army, and even this group of crows was still hovering back and forth above the head of the army for a while, and the angry Zhang Li suddenly stopped his horse, waved his arms and scolded: "Shoot them down!" Bad luck stuff! Fast! Fast! ”

When they tried to shoot all the crows overhead, the crows, realizing that danger was coming, immediately turned around and fled in a hurry, leaving behind a miserable wail, hovering over the army and not dissipating for a long time.

"Wow, wow, wow. Wow wow... ”

The poignant and slightly old and hoarse howl added a gloomy atmosphere to this empty and desolate wilderness.