Yang Hu knew that this was a critical moment to re-energize Qi Ren's morale, and he suddenly laughed when he saw Qi Hou being silent for a while.

"What's so hard about this, bring the widow's horse!"

Qi Hou gave the order, and Dong Guoshu and the others next to him immediately complied, and the warrior Li Mi led the majestic red horse into the clearing.

"Let everyone know that this is the head of the horses that the widow loves, and the horses that pull the carts."

Indeed, Yang Hu saw that it had slender legs, sharp ears, and was extremely intelligent. As if smelling death, the red horse immediately rolled his eyes, raised his front feet, and neighed incessantly, and it took the strength of several men to subdue them.

Qi Hou pulled out the sword at his waist and said loudly: "Today, the widow does not love horses but loves the people, so he will kill them as soldiers!" ”

In full view of everyone, Qi Hou first reluctantly stroked the horse's neck, then gritted his teeth, slashed the blade fiercely, and cut its noble head. The horse screamed, and fell to the ground on all fours, trembling violently, and blood spurted out of the wound like a red spring.

Qi Hou really killed his beloved horse, everyone was shocked, and then the horse was divided, and pieces of bright red horse meat were passed over one by one in the cold winter, making people hold it in their hands and salivate, they will be roasted by the fire to fill the hungry stomach.

"As for the unclothed...... Qi Hou waved his hand, and the Vertical Temple took the clothes he usually wore.

After Qi Hou took it, he personally draped it on the person who had just raised objections and called the cold and hungry.

"The widow has a lot of clothes, and he can't wear so much, superfluous. and give it to all the nations. ”

Qi Hou's performance is very good, whether it is holding horse meat. It's still clothed, and it's all from the heart. Moved to tears, bowed to Qi Hou in the snow, and bowed to the first salute!

Qi Hou still had an expression of sorry for the soldiers: "This time, all the widows and horses were killed, except for some of the cattle and horses that pulled the carts, the horses of the rest of the ministers and military officials, and those who had frostbite and could not walk and pulled the carts were killed." If the doctor has extra clothes, they will all be distributed to the subordinates, and they will continue to talk, and I hope everyone will hold on for a few more days! ”

Yang Hu watched the whole process. During the period, he nodded endlessly, after all, he was a monarch for nearly fifty years and lived in the dictatorship of the previous strong ministers, Qi Hou was not without talent, but he was useless in the right place on weekdays. As long as he pretends to be good and shows those things that Yan Yingjiao has cultivated, just like in Yiyi, he can still regain the morale of the army.

In that year, Duke Qi Huan led the army to march thousands of miles and expedition to the north. Cut the lonely bamboo country, trapped in the snow-covered mountains on the way back, lost his direction, and finally returned with the old horse. Now Qi Hou is trapped in the winter snow of Pubei. So killing horses and pawns, undressing and warming people is enough to become a good story for the ages.

Really. Under the performance of Qi Hou, Qi Renshan called the king to be virtuous. The exhaustion and despair of everyone were swept away, and the speed of the march was even much faster......

But Yang Hu knew. The meat of these animals is spread evenly on everyone's head, and it is only half a meal at most. From October last year to this summer, he was besieged in the glamour by Meng Gong Yang and tasted hunger. Hunger never stops, it is endless, it will crush a man cast of iron and bronze from the inside out, from the stomach to the skin and bones, and he can grovel at the sight of a ball of corn.

He guessed that tomorrow, at most, the day after tomorrow, if the situation did not improve, the morale that had been stimulated with great difficulty would still be low, and eventually the Qi army would fall apart!

So I still have to think of a way to get out and survive, Yang Hu is not willing to be a ghost in the chaotic army.

……

A day later.

At night, the world is grey, and the smell of pine and moss, with a hint of chill, wafts in the wind. A pale mist rose over the land, and the riders of the warriors laboriously navigated through the rubble and timber and climbed the hills.

Here, they could see the warm fires scattered like pearls in the fields at night. There were so many of them that Zhao Wuxian couldn't count: thousands of bonfires formed a swaying ribbon of light, accompanied by the milky white stream that flowed slowly on the side, and it looked like two rivers, one ice and one fire. This scene is a magnificent landscape that has never been seen in a previous life.

However, it was a scene created by the enemies, and the more bonfires, the less loss the Qi people suffered from starvation and cold along the way. The neater the fire, the more it shows that their morale is not completely broken, and their organization is still there, and they can launch a counterattack, which is not worthy of admiration and joy.

"In the snow, fire is the source of life." Wuxi's soldiers, who were also a little shivering from the cold, slowly explained: "It's also the way to die." ”

According to his instructions, since they began to approach the Qi army, the cavalry did not make open fire. They feed on raw and cold cured jerky, fried corn and harder fish breasts. When they slept, they huddled under their cloaks and furs, and kept each other warm to avoid being discovered by the Qi army, so that the cavalry would lose the opportunity to assault what they were best at and needed.

He pointed to the small forest opposite and said, "Raise a fire in the leeward and shake it three times." ”

The men did so, and the opposite side quickly responded, followed by a carriage of more than 100 soldiers, slowly driving along the path. There was a tall passenger in the car, covered in a bearskin coat, and he himself was like a bear. Zhao Wuxian was still a little unaccustomed to the little cousin's vain tall body and physique, and he was stunned for a moment before remembering that this should be Zhao Guangde.

According to the agreement, the main forces of Wuxian and Zhao Ying will meet again on this farmland and wilderness to complete the "encirclement" of the Qi army, and Zhao Guangde was sent to contact.

Seeing Zhao Wuxian from afar, Zhao Guangde got out of the car and saluted him, and exhaled a large white breath from his mouth: "Cousin has worked hard." Even his voice was a lot rougher.

Wuxian stepped forward with a smile, brushing the snowflakes and ice on his shoulders for him, with a kind attitude, the relationship between the Zhao family's big sect and the small sect has not been very good, and Wu Xian hopes that he can at least envelop Wen Di.

"My cousin is also hard, my father's army of more than 10,000 people has arrived? What about wear and tear these days? The fire in the Qi camp was so bright that they couldn't see the situation twenty or thirty miles to the south. ”

Zhao Guangde opened his mouth to prophesy, looked at the people around him again, and whispered in Wuxian's ear: "Cousin." Things have changed...... There are not more than 10,000 people in the uncle's handsome, only 6,000 people! ”

……

"What's going on?" Wuxian was slightly surprised when he heard this.

Zhao Ying's main force was five thousand less than expected. Did you engage with the Qi army in advance and suffer losses? According to Zhao Ying's temperament, he really couldn't help but do this kind of thing, after all, he had been chased by Qi Hou all the way before. suffered a lot of grievances. But with the old fox Fu Chau by his side, he should be able to admonish him, right?

Or maybe something happened to the south?

"However, just when luring the Qi people to Pushui and our army will cross the river again, we got the news that Punan has changed. After Wei Hou and Wang Sun Jia saw through Cao Bo's disguise as Zhao soldiers, they attacked Cao's army. Cao Bo was defeated, with a loss of nearly 1,000, and now he has retreated to Taoyi. He sent three requests for help to his uncle, claiming that the Wei army was about to cross the river to Punan, and Cao Guo was afraid that he would not be able to stop it. ”

"So my father divided his troops to support Cao Guo?" Wuxian understood the reason for the matter, and couldn't help but be full of regret.

As the saying goes, there must be loyal men in the ten chambers, and it is true that you should not underestimate the talents of the princes, otherwise they will surprise you from time to time.

On the other hand, Cao Guo, a pig teammate, is really unreliable. But the situation at that time was extremely unfavorable for the Zhao family. Qi Wei's army was in a posture of a boulder crushing eggs, and everyone felt that the Zhao family would be defeated, except for Cao Bo, who had a somewhat stupid personality, there was really no one else to count on.

Without shirts, you can imagine Zhao Ying's thunderous jump when he received Cao Bo's emergency. But in doing so, he was faced with a dilemma.

If the whole army crosses the Pushui River and goes north according to the original plan, wait for the people to finish their food and straw. Attack when you run out of energy and the organization begins to crumble. Optimistic estimates. In the case of father and son concentric, step and ride together. In addition, Wuxian mobilized various pavilion soldiers to pick up cheap, at least more than half of the 40,000 Qi troops could be left, although the Zhao clan would also pay two or three thousand casualties.

But in that case, the Punandi under Zhao Wuxian's painstaking strategy may be recovered by the guards in one fell swoop, and the bamboo basket will be empty.

If Zhao Wuxian was allowed to choose, he would still choose to hit Qi people hard. Because war, the first criterion is to destroy the enemy's living force, not the gains and losses of one city or one place, and the ears and eyes of later generations have given him this awareness. As for the lost territory, if it doesn't work this winter, it will fight again next year, and after the main force of the Qi people collapses, the defenders will naturally not be able to hold it for long.

He didn't know what Zhao Ying thought at that time, according to the temperament of this Qiangqing, he thought that he would choose the latter, but he chose to divide his troops to protect Punan.

So, what exactly influenced Zhao's judgment?

First, it may be the purpose of warfare in this era to conquer cities and rob people. Second, Wuxian guessed a possibility, that is, Zhao Ying's protection of his son - "How can the place where my son worked hard be easily lost?" Probably this mentality, which made Wuxian's heart warm and a little helpless.

In this way, he and Zhao Ying combined only had six or seven thousand people, and it was doubly difficult to eat the main force of Qi in one bite.

"What are the ingredients of the 6,000 people who are divided, and who will be the generals?"

Zhao Ying divided the army equally, but 6,000 people were against Wei Guo, who could transfer troops from Puyang at any time, and the cunning Wang Sun Jia. If the main general is not strong, maybe he will be taken advantage of by the cunning guards, and the five or six thousand people of Cao State, without compassion, can not be expected to contribute to the field battle.

Zhao Guangde replied: "Most of the people who go are Zhao Bing of Jinyang, and their master will be Ziliang Sima." ”

Wuxian breathed a sigh of relief, there is Post Wuzheng, the retainer who is the best at using soldiers in the Zhao family, Pu Nan should be fine, if the guards are not careful, it is difficult to say that they will be cut by Post Wuzheng.

No matter how sorry it is, everything has already happened, and we can only find a way to make up for it.

He looked at the orderly and chaotic bright bonfire in the chaos of the Qi State camp and fell into deep thought, although Zhao Ying only had 6,000 people, he had attacked the Qi people's squad to find food from time to time in the past few days, and also caused hundreds of casualties to the other party.

After half a ring, he made up his mind and said, "Cousin, go back and inform my father that I will attack the Qi army from tonight onwards, so that it will not be able to rest!" ”

Not only was the Qi army affected by the heavy snow, but also the Bank of China, Fan, Handan, and Wei all suffered from it, and even Zhao Wuxian's father and son were already barely persevering.

In short, the battle was nearing its end, and this wilderness farmland was located in the middle of the three towns of Qin, Zhen and Xiaqiu, and was only two days away from the Qilu border. Whether this battle can be brought to a successful end depends on whether the cavalry can bite off a piece of meat on Qi people like a wild wolf chasing a flock of sheep in the next two days! (To be continued......)

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