After another day of intense pursuit, the result was still nothing, and Tatun could only order to camp and rest.

The night was deep, and the wind began to howl in the north, and a chill hit people, making people feel pain and sorrow.

Seeing that Lu Peng's army, roaring around on this grassland, wantonly looting, and at the same time being forced by the increasingly cold weather, in order to immediately expel the enemy, the cattle and sheep gathered together were scattered for the winter, so, under the instigation of Ding Li's full force, he disregarded the fact that the internal strife had just been completed, and his vitality was greatly damaged, and then he pieced together almost the entire clan of men, integrated the army of 150,000, and began to chase Lu Peng, preparing to have a decisive battle with him.

However, this time he overestimated Lu Peng's character, he was not like a man at all to fight with the main force of Tadun, just relying on his fast chariot, drifting around the grassland, looking for every lone tribe, annihilating it as quickly as possible, so that Tatun's 150,000 army followed him to drink wind and eat soil.

However, the army of Tatun could not raise the speed, because this was not a battle in the place of the Han people, and they could rely on looting to meet their logistical supply needs, and now, things were the opposite, Lü Peng's troops began to become bandits, he abandoned his logistical supplies, and relied on looting to complete his logistical replenishment.

And he couldn't rob his own tribe, so he could only rely on the cattle and sheep brought out by the royal court to supplement, the speed of the cattle and sheep was very slow, which completely slowed down the speed of his pursuit, so no matter how hard he tried, he was always cunningly escaped by Lu Peng in the end.

"Mr. Ding Li, what should we do? We can't always chase after their butts like this, if we continue like this, within a month, our army will be dragged down by Lu Peng. ”

Ding Li looked left and right helplessly, the vast grassland was boundless, and there was a dead silence as far as the eye could see, fortunately, Lu Peng's chariot left a clear trajectory, so that everyone would not chase him, looking at the current trajectory in the past, it is already old, it is estimated that it was at least three days ago.

"Lu Peng is too cunning, who would have thought that he would re-excavate the chariot that has been eliminated in ancient times, and turn it into an artifact after transformation, now we are riding on a war horse and running bumpy, it is really exhausting, while the enemy is sitting in the carriage, very leisurely, even if we catch up, the two armies meet, we are exhausted, and the other party is recuperating, the Han people can't attack, but the formation defense is really a headache for us." Su Fuyan rubbed his sore waist and said how he felt.

Since the last time he helped Ban Dun exterminate the other two old brothers, now Su Muyan has clearly felt that he does not pay attention to himself, for example, this time, the 150,000 army that pursued Lu Peng, of which 70,000 were himself.

He is only more than 1,000 tribes, the population is only more than 200,000, the last internal firefight, he lost a full 30,000 horses, and tens of thousands of women and children, this time he transferred out 70,000, the age is already from fourteen or fifteen to fifty, now his own tribe, the rest are all old and weak women and children, almost naked standing in broad daylight, as long as there is a small enemy, in the blink of an eye, their tribe can be completely wiped out.

Now Su Muyan has regretted his original decision.

Since there is no regret medicine, I can only grit my teeth and endure it, but this endless rush has made everyone suffer enough.

"Mr. Ding Li, you have always prided yourself on being smart, and you have to ask you to think of a way, if you continue to delay like this, after half a month, we can only give up the pursuit of Lu Peng, and then huddle together, waiting to starve to death."

Seeing that Badun was so depressed, Ding Li secretly gritted his teeth in his heart: "Lu Peng, even if we don't go to him in the future, he has already become the great enemy of our grassland, taking advantage of his escape from the protection of the Han people's city, he has rarely entered our battlefield, we must seize this rare opportunity to annihilate him on the grassland and in the field." ”

"Of course you say it lightly, but if you want to annihilate him, you must capture him. This is a prerequisite. Su Fuyan retorted to Ding Li with a sarcastic expression.

He looks down on this yin and yang weird guy, and now he has every reason to believe that this infighting that has greatly damaged the vitality of the Wuhuan people was provoked by this guy, at least, let him be sure that the idea of forcing himself to send out 70,000 young and strong troops was this guy who came out, so as to avoid himself quietly copying the back road of the royal court. Now Su Muyan is already full of hatred for him.

"In fact, there is no way, it depends on whether Da Dan is reluctant to give up this bait."

The moonlight is very cold, the autumn in the grassland, it is even colder than imagined, I found a few sheepskins, walked to the only small tent in the middle of the camp, Lu Peng said softly to the tent: "Miss Wen Ji, the weather is cold, this is the place of the barracks, the materials are inevitably missing, please take one or two." ”

Cai Wenji replied lightly from this tent: "Extraordinary times do extraordinary things, and the general's kind little woman will keep it in mind." There was a pause: "Please leave the sheepskin at the door of the tent, and the little woman will go and get it later." ”

Lu Peng put a few sheepskins at the door of the tent, looked at the wolf riders with less than five hundred people around the tent, and couldn't help but sigh deeply.

In the battle to rescue Cai Wenji, most of the two thousand wolf riders were lost, but for such a sacrifice, none of the two thousand wolf riders made a single complaint.

But the behavior of the 60 Han women who committed suicide in the enemy camp deeply stimulated the hearts of these wolf riders, and they have now become silent, and they have a deep sense of guilt, in their hearts, failing to bring those girls out is a man's shame.

A few sheepskins were laid on the grass, curled up and nested in it, but in the second half of the night, they were still awakened by freezing, and their teeth involuntarily gurgled and rattled, if there was a bonfire at this time, and then a cup of hot water, it was definitely a rare enjoyment, but unfortunately, lighting a bonfire at this time was equivalent to pointing out the position to the enemy patrol, so the whole army could only endure desperately.

I couldn't sleep because I was really frozen, so Lu Peng groped to wrap the two sheepskins around his body and sat up, in the dark, Xu Jie's shining eyes appeared in front of him, a small copper kettle on the ground, Lu Peng took it, there was a temperature on it, unscrewed the lid, and a faint aroma of wine overflowed.

The temperature above is Xu Jie's body temperature, and this little bit of wine is his careful treasure.

Lu Peng's eyes couldn't help but be a little moist, this is not a matter of loyalty, this is a matter of friendship.

He took a small sip and handed it back.

Xu Jie also took a sip quietly, and then carefully hid the wine jug intimately, sighed, looked at the cold moonlight from afar, and whispered: "The moon in the world is as bright as the moon, shining here, it must also be shining in Youzhou, and I don't know if Juan'er is looking at the moon and thinking about me now." ”

Juan'er is Mi Zhu's sister and Xu Jie's wife.

When he mentioned it like this, Lu Peng was also a little sad, he also looked up at the cold moon, and whispered: "My Wan'er, now you must be sitting in front of the window, looking at the moon in a daze, he likes this kind of bright moon the most, even in winter, with such a bright moon, he will sit in the yard and be reluctant to go back to the house for a long time." ”

So the two of them were silent, because of this heavy sheepskin, in that fishy and unpleasant smell, they wanted to go to their sweethearts far away.

"You are so sad, do you regret coming to this grassland? If you regret it, tomorrow you can go back with some of the wounded, and I will no longer be difficult for you. Lu Peng said this from the bottom of his heart, because it was indeed a kind of torture for him to let a weak literati follow him to gallop back and forth on the thousands of miles of grassland.

Xu Jie smiled indifferently: "Although I am a powerless literati, but I know the responsibility on my shoulders, since that day I followed you, called you a lord, I will give it all to you, fortunately, my decision is wise, since with you and the four generals, three couples worship together to get married, I, a person who has long been ruined, really feel that from now on I am no longer lonely, I have a home, a wife, two brothers, life can follow you like this, For the peaceful and prosperous era you sketched for us, we fought desperately, and if the day came true, what more could we ask for? So, please take back what you just said, and I will follow you to the ends of the earth. ”

Lu Peng stretched out his hand and gently patted Xu Jie's knee: "Your Juan'er, my Wan'er, and the wives and children of countless border people, can enjoy this moonlight peacefully and happily in this quiet night, it is precisely because of us, iron-blooded men, in this grassland, fighting bravely with our enemies, I am willing to die on the battlefield for their comfortable life, I am unswerving, no regrets." ”

Xu Jie stretched out his hand and held Lu Peng's hand tightly: "To realize the ideal you sketched for us, I firmly believe in it and have no regrets." ”

The two hands clasped tightly together, and the silent one grew stronger.

At this time, Tai Shici, who had become the commander of a battalion, but still did not forget that he was the captain of the guard, quietly walked over: "It will be dawn in one hour, and we should set off." ”

Lu Peng shook off the sheepskin on his body, stood up, stretched a few lazy waists hard, and then shook his muscles and bones from side to side, and said to Xu Jie, who was jumping and jumping like himself: "Since we have come out, we must complete the goal we set at the beginning, and we must not give up halfway, because once I return to Youzhou, I will be entangled in many things, and if I want to enter the grassland, it will be difficult." ”

"If you don't beat the dog, you will be bitten by the dog, and now we have beaten him half to death, and finally kicked him the back, and completely killed this leprosy dog that has plagued our Han nation for hundreds of years, in order to solve our thousands of years of trouble, at this time, we must also hold on to what we say."

(End of chapter)