"Stop !!"

Zhang Xiu waved his hand and stopped the march.

At this time, everyone else also reacted and looked ahead.

I saw the dust and smoke in front of me, getting closer and closer, but there was no tendency to spread, and the shaking of the earth was imperceptible.

As a military general who was old enough to march in the army, Zhang Xiu studied with his uncle since he was a child, and before he met him, he was able to guess some useful information through these subtle changes.

"Pass the order, the whole army is on alert!"

Zhang Xiu didn't know what was going on in front of him, but he could see from the fact that the horses were rushing back that either the Yuan army was coming, or there was some accident. Generally speaking, the probability of an attack by the Yuan army is very high, and it is still a large Yuan army, and has cavalry, so that the exploration horses cannot deal with it.

"Report ............!!!"

In the blink of an eye, Tanma was in front of him.

"Say!"

Zhang Xiu looked at their red faces and red eyes, panting, and the blood that began to boil gradually cooled down, it seemed that it was not for Yuan Jun.

"There's an empty city ahead ......!"

"Empty city?"

I don't know why, Zhang Xiu's heart suddenly jumped, he thought of the Tatars, who first entered the Yuan Dynasty, because where the Tatars were stimulated, Zhang Xiu slaughtered a city, Jingguan was tired to ten meters, and finally Xu Rong did not blame him, but Zhang Xiu also restrained a lot.

But when he heard about the empty city this time, he couldn't help but think about the Tatars.

Zhang Xiu's prediction was confirmed, and the interrupted Tanma gasped for breath and said in one breath: "A newly dug earth pit was found outside the city. The Yuan army withdrew in a hurry, and the pit was not filled, after the subordinates and others dug it. A large number of corpses of Han Chinese people were found! ”

"Indeed!" Zhang Xiu's heart jumped violently, the whole person couldn't restrain himself, jumped off the war horse, walked to the front of the horse, and said directly.

"Subordinates don't dare to deceive the general!" Tanma's scalp was numb when Zhang Xiu saw it, and he swallowed his saliva hard, and his nervous appearance made Zhang Xiu sober up all of a sudden.

"Good. It's so good!! Zhang Xiu couldn't help laughing angrily, her delicate and handsome appearance became hideous, and her deep eyes were full of anger.

Zhang Xiu has followed Zhang Ji's side since he was a child. can fight well, accustomed to life and death, ordinary people naturally don't take life and death to heart, but as a border general. He was like many generals. It is a shame that you can bully the people, but you will never allow people of different races to oppress your own people and slaughter your own people.

"The whole army is moving forward, let me see how powerful they really are!" Zhang Xiu stepped on his mount and led the troops forward.

More than 1,000 Xihe elite riders followed the footsteps of galloping. The momentum became more and more dignified, from the initial swaying freely to becoming more and more dignified and tragic. Under the thick murderous aura, the animals within a radius seemed to sense the danger, and all wolves rushed to the chest, fleeing in all directions in panic.

In less than ten minutes of walking, a city appeared in front of Zhang Xiu and others.

The target was in front of him, and the speed of the Xihe Army couldn't help but slow down, and after galloping wildly for so long, the war horses also needed time to slow down.

Zhang Xiu slowed down and said directly to the scouts who were following him: "You continue to follow the trail and find the Yuan army for me!" ”

"Whoa!" The horses were ridden by one person and two horses, and the horses that were replaced were all the most sophisticated, and they were also the most abundant.

Not looking at the sparrow's nesting horse, Zhang Xiu looked at the small city in the distance.

It's bigger than a normal town, and if it weren't for the stone walls, it's a bigger town at most.

This may not be as good as a small town in modern times, but in ancient times, it could be called a city.

Zhang Xiu's preliminary estimate is that there are more than 10,000 people living in such a city, and there are at least seven or eight thousand Han people after deducting the alien races who live with it.

Zhang Xiu said to the Tanma who stayed behind to lead the way: "Zhang Cheng, you take a hundred people into the city to investigate, and the others will go directly with me to the place where the corpse is buried, I want to see it with my own eyes!" ”

The place where the body was buried was not far away, less than half a kilometer from the small city, and the mottled bloodstains along the way showed that the Han people were driven over. Zhang Xiu's eyes became more and more cold, he had already guessed the purpose of Yuan Jun, or Su Butai.

On the one hand, Zhang Xiu has a history of slaughtering the city. After the conscious propaganda of the Yuan army, those ignorant people did not care whether he was slaughtering aliens or Han Chinese. What's more, those places are still under the control of the Yuan Dynasty, except for a small number of people of insight, among the people, the reputation of the Xihe Army is ruined.

And this is also on the one hand, the blow to the Xihe Army is not direct, and the main reason that really makes Zhang Xiu angry is the training.

Yes, Subutai is using the lives of the Han people to train the recruits of the Yuan army.

Nothing transforms a soldier like blood, even if it's innocent.

After the soldier has seen blood, he will no longer be afraid of killing people, and he will no longer be bound by morality, and the survival rate on the battlefield will be greatly improved, as long as he survives, he can quickly transform into a veteran.

Zhang Xiu is not a calm thinker, never has been, so he wanted to kill, and even, without waiting for Zhang Cheng to come out, he took the Xihe soldiers and chased them in the direction where Tanma left.

The empty city was silent, and the emptiness made people feel frightened.

Listening to the clear sound of horses' hooves coming from outside the city, Zhang Cheng's face changed drastically: "I knew that this was the case, and the general would go crazy when he saw those people!" No, the general ran continuously and didn't even do a break, so he would suffer a lot against the enemy, if the Yuan army ......! ’

Zhang Cheng almost didn't dare to think about it, he called Zhang Xiu's personal guard Niu Er, and said solemnly: "Niu Er, the matter is urgent, I have a news related to the life and death of the general and me, no matter what accident you encounter, you must bring it to General Xu Ze for me, you know?" ”

"If my old cow dies, I won't let the general and brothers down!" Niu Er realized that the problem was strict, and it was rare that there was no big package.

"Good!" Zhang Cheng nodded, and now he only trusted Niu Er, and said: "The Yuan army slaughtered the city this time, I suspect that they want to lure the general, I am going to meet the general now, and persuade the general to be careful, but now the general is angry, and there is a chance that he will not listen, after you find General Xu Ze, you will tell General Xu Ze about the situation here, and let him lead the team to join our army as soon as possible!" ”

"Whoa!" Niu Er's heart was shocked when he heard this, and he hurriedly answered, and then directly stepped on the war horse, and his butt was on fire, and he rushed out of the city.

Zhang Cheng opened his mouth, he originally wanted to tell Niu Er to be careful of the Yuan Army's sniping, but when the words came to his mouth, he thought that it was actually the same whether he said it or not, the Yuan Army would snipe and snipe, Niu Er had such important information, so he would naturally be careful, if there was a real accident, there was nothing to be done.

"Alas, leave it to fate!" (To be continued......)