An hour later, the eagle flew back from the direction of the west wind, its claws landed on Zhao Hu's arm bracer, put away its wings, and its mouth chirped non-stop, Zhao Hu seemed to be listening carefully, and when it finished chirping, the soldiers brought a piece of fresh mutton and handed it to Zhao Hu, and Zhao Hu took it and fed the eagle.

A subordinate general asked curiously next to him, "General, what did the eagle say?" ”

Zhao Hu said while feeding: "It said that it conducted a reconnaissance in the northwest direction at a depth of one hundred miles, and found nothing!" ”

The general was puzzled: "Even if Ziad's Great Food Army is all cavalry, it is impossible for them to go so far in such a short time!" It's strange, didn't they go in the direction of Scorpion Ridge? So where did they go? ”

Another general also frowned: "Yes, if they don't go in the direction of Scorpion Ridge, where can they go?" The last general had just checked the belongings of the corpses and the contents of the horses, and found that they had no water at all, and if they couldn't find water to drink in a day, they would die of thirst! ”

The third general was a little skeptical about the eagle owl's reconnaissance ability: "General, will the eagle eagle miss something that has not been investigated, or the eagle army has deviated too much from the route and has not been discovered by the eagle owl?" ”

The first general shook his head: "Impossible, the eagle eagle is very smart, it flies very high, it can see far away, and the left and right sides are within its line of sight within thirty miles, if the big food army really goes to the direction of Scorpion Ridge, even if they deviate from the route, they will definitely not deviate too much, and it will not be beyond the line of sight of the eagle eagle reconnaissance!" Could it be that they will not be able to go to heaven and earth? ”

Zhao Hu thought of something at this time, turned his head to look south, and said, "I want to ?????? If they want to find a source of water, the only way to go is to return to the original lake, which is the only lake within a radius of hundreds of miles except Scorpion Ridge to replenish water, and they have nowhere to go except there, unless they want to die of thirst in this desert! Order, the army pursues south, quick! ”

"Yes!"

The Western Qin army, under the leadership of Zhao Hu, quickly pursued southward, and after two hours, he once again released the rested eagle eagle and flew south to conduct high-altitude reconnaissance.

In less than half an hour, the eagle eagle returned and reported the investigation in his own unique way, and the general next to him asked, "General, what is the result of the investigation?" ”

Zhao Hu sighed: "Ziad really returned to the direction of the lake with his men and horses, and the eagle said that it found two armies in the sky, one to our side and the other to the south, and the two armies were separated by more than twenty miles and staggered, and they did not encounter. I thought it must have been Ziad deliberately avoiding Han Zhangbu, who came to meet us! Han Zhangbu came after the trail of the Great Food Army, Ziyad knew this very well, so he and his people took the initiative to avoid the encounter with Han Zhangbu, they must be twenty miles west of Han Zhangbu! The order went down, and our army advanced twenty miles to the west and then turned south! ”

The generals agreed: "Yes, General!" ”

After that, Zhao Hu immediately asked people to take pen and ink to write a line of small characters on a small piece of paper, and then quickly rolled it up and stuffed it into a small bamboo tube, tied the small bamboo tube to the eagle's left foot, stroked the eagle's feathers and muttered in a low voice for a while, then patted its back, and raised its arm upward: "Go!" ”

The eagle eagle spreads its wings and flies high and soon disappears into the sky.

After marching more than twenty miles to the west, the forward sentry quickly returned and reported to Zhao Hu: "General, we have found a large number of horseshoe prints and horse manure a few miles ahead, they extend to the south, and the brothers have tracked them down!" ”

Zhao Hu said to his generals: "The Great Food Army is really going south, and the whole army is ordered to turn around and pursue south!" ”

The generals clasped their fists and said, "Obey!" ”

At this time, Han Zhang's department, which was advancing to the north, was actually not far from the Qiyad department, only more than thirty miles at most. Han Zhang took out the water bag and poured it into his mouth, wetting his chapped lips and throat, and was about to order the army to speed up, when a sharp chirp came from the sky, and he couldn't help but look up at the sky, and immediately stopped his horse.

A lieutenant shouted, "General, it looks like an eagle, wait for the humble duty to shoot it down!" ”

"Wait!" Han Zhang immediately stopped, he found that this eagle eagle kept hovering in the sky, the sound of the chirping was somewhat familiar, and he suddenly remembered, "This is General Zhao's eagle!" No one is allowed to release arrows, and those who violate the order will be killed! ”

After speaking, Han Zhang stretched out his arm, and the eagle saw Han Zhang stretch out his arm, his figure leaned down, and in the blink of an eye, the glider came down, and landed firmly on the bracer on his arm and retracted its wings.

Han Zhang laughed: "Sure enough, it's General Zhao's eagle, hey, it has a letter on its feet!" As he spoke, he reached out and took out a small paper scroll and unfolded it to look at it, and soon his heart understood, and after feeding the eagle a few pieces of beef jerky, he sent it back and flew back.

"General, what did General Zhao say?" A lieutenant asked.

Han Zhangwu said with regret: "The big cannibals have learned to be cunning after fighting with us for so long, they actually turned back to that lake, we staggered with them just now, and we were only more than twenty miles away!" ”

The lieutenant said regretfully: "It's a pity, if the reconnaissance and probe posts on both wings expand the reconnaissance range for another ten miles, they will definitely be able to be discovered!" ”

Han Zhangzheng said: "General Zhao ordered us to turn back immediately and return to the lake as quickly as possible, hoping to intercept them before they get water and leave!" Pass the order, the whole army will turn around, return as fast as possible, and be sure to intercept them! ”

"Command!"

Facts have proved that the marching speed of the Western Qin army with two horses is much faster than that of the cavalry of the Great Food Army, and the number of war horses in the Western Qin and Great Food Countries is compared, the number of war horses in the Western Qin Kingdom has reached 880,000, while the Great Food Country is less than 300,000 horses, on the one hand, because the Great Food Country has much less grassland for raising horses than the Western Qin State, and on the other hand, the cost of raising war horses is huge.

Western Qin is now the country with the most war horses, in the north, the West Qin has a vast grassland, these grasslands are used by the kingdom to raise war horses and grow forage, in addition to raising horses in the official grassland, the West Qin State also distributed the war horses to the common people to raise, the price is to exchange adult horses for foals, that is to say, the people can rent horses from the government, borrow an adult horse, and return a foal in the second year, and the adult horse belongs to the people themselves, so that the people have livestock for farming, At the same time, it also provides a steady stream of newborn horses for the government.

After turning around and speeding up the march for half a day, Han Zhangbu finally arrived at a position ten miles away from the lake, at this time the outpost had already discovered the location of the Great Food Army, and the outpost of the Great Food Army had also discovered Han Zhangbu, the two sides were ten miles apart, and the location of the lake was only ten miles away.

Han Zhang looked back at the soldiers under his command with tired faces, the war horses were already seriously overdrawn from the long march, and he asked loudly: "The big cannibals are only ten miles away from us, they must be going to fetch water, can the soldiers still fight again?" ”

A subordinate general said tiredly: "General, the brothers can fight again, but the war horse has no strength to run anymore!" ”

Han Zhangdao: "We must fight this battle, if we let the big cannibals fetch water by the lake, they can escape again, tell the brothers, although we are tired, but the big cannibals are even more tired and tired, each of us has no strength to run, the big cannibals only have one horse must be worse than us, according to the investigation of the outpost, the big cannibals are advancing at full speed to the lake ten miles away, they must take water, we must compete with them for time, do not let them succeed in taking water!" Pass my orders and go full speed ahead! ”

The generals clasped their fists and agreed: "Obey!" ”

The distance of ten miles is not too far, but for the Western Qin army, which has been fighting for several days and has not rested for three days and three nights, this road is really long, and the war horses really can't run at speed, and now they can only barely trot forward, but Han Zhang believes that the big cannibals must be worse than them, after all, they only have one horse.

As Han Chang had guessed, Ziad and his men were really miserable, and on this section of the march, all the spare horses were reimbursed, and not only that, but hundreds of people lost their horses and could only ride a horse with the lighter soldiers.

Ziad only felt dizzy, his eyes were dizzy, the strength of his whole body was disappearing little by little, he couldn't lift his spirits at all, his lips had cracked several times, smoke was almost coming out of his throat, and the war horse under his crotch had begun to swing, and he was about to walk unsteadily.

He moved his tongue, wanting to give birth to some ** in his mouth, but his mouth was dry, and he couldn't even secrete a drop of **, and there was a cut on the neck of the war horse, which was cut in order to drink the horse's blood, and it was closed after drinking, and it had been repeated several times, and the war horse was sucked and couldn't support it, but the horse's blood became hotter and hotter the more he drank, and he didn't quench his thirst at all, but it could provide some heat and physical strength.

Just now, the sentry rushed back to report that the Western Qin army was found ten miles to the east and died on the spot, and now that the sentry is gone, Ziad knows that he must get water, and they have no strength to fight with knives anymore, and they must drink water to recover some strength.

Ziad turned to his subordinate Herram and said, "Heram, we must get some water anyway, otherwise we will die of thirst without fighting." Many of us are almost unable to walk now, you see who else can still run their war horses, take them to the lake to get water first, be sure to get some water before the arrival of the Western Qin army, I will take the rest of the people to the west of the lake ten miles away to wait for you, you must get water, otherwise we will all die, this is an order! ”

Herram was also thirsty and dying, and he had lost more than half of his strength, but he was young, so he could only grit his teeth and speed up with more than two hundred soldiers who could still run on war horses to get water.

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