Add Bookmark | Recommend this book | Back to the book page | My bookshelf | Mobile Reading

Free Web Novel,Novel online - All in oicq.net -> Historic -> I am the king

Text Chapter 1,467: Han Banners in the World (157) Battle in the Heavy Snow (Part 2)

Previous page        Return to Catalog        Next page

    Wrapping up the cloak made of torn linen tightly around him, Tian Lei looked up at the goose-feather-like snow that was still flying in the air. The heavy snow was mixed with the wind and danced irregularly in the air. His sight was blocked by dozens of people.  Within meters and moving forward, you can only see endless white.  It¡¯s cold, it¡¯s too cold.  This is the only thought in Tian Lei's mind. The torn linen cloak is full of small holes, which can't help much. Although his hands are wrapped with random strips of cloth, they are still covered with frostbite. Riding on the horse, his whole body is covered with frostbite.  Everyone felt almost stiff.  He put his hands under his armpits and used the weak temperature radiated from his body to warm his hands. He felt that he could not hold the handle of the knife at all.  He is an old cavalryman with excellent equestrian skills. He can still control the horse freely with only his legs holding the horse. However, the horse under his crotch also seems a little weak. In recent days, the logistics have been insufficient due to the heavy snow.  The ground supplies food, and the horses are no longer full. There is still a little beans left in their pockets. Normally, this is enough for the horse to eat for one meal, but now, it is only for two days. There is not enough food to replenish it. In this snowy day  It was difficult to even find some grass roots. Seeing the horse losing weight rapidly in the past two days, Tian Lei was very annoyed.  An attack on such a snowy day is simply a lonely one. Once it fails, there is not much chance to escape, and the horse cannot run at all.  As an experienced veteran cavalryman, Tian Lei was sent out as a scout and led ten cavalrymen. However, Tian Lei had no confidence in these rookies. Over the years, there were fewer and fewer veterans like him.  .  It had to be separated and used, but in this way, the combat effectiveness was greatly reduced.  These new recruits have little experience of survival on the cruel battlefield. Once they encounter the enemy, they will be the first to die.  Tian Lei doesn¡¯t like this war.  To put it more simply, he did not want to fight with the Han people again.  He was a survivor of the last Qin-Han war. As a cavalryman, he was really frightened by the confrontation with the Han cavalry in the last war. The Han cavalry, especially their Xiongnu cavalry and Donghu cavalry.  For this kind of battle in the ice and snow.  The experience is much richer than theirs.  But he is a soldier, and he has to go to war when given an order. Qin's laws are strict, and the punishment for deserters is extremely severe, not only for the soldiers themselves, but also for their families.  Tian Lei's current home is in Shannan County.  There are father and mother in the house, plus my wife and two daughters, so we can be considered a big family.  Earlier, he was always angry with his wife for not giving birth to a son for him. When he was angry, he would even punch her a few times. But in the past two years, he has been much better to his wife, because the fellow villagers he once envied  ,companion.  Their sons had to enlist in the army before they reached adulthood and set foot on the battlefield. After every war, there would always be a black letter sent to their village. Looking at the grief-stricken expressions of the fellow villagers,  Listening to their heart-rending cries, Tian Lei suddenly felt.  In this era, having daughters is really the right choice, because they don't have to go to the battlefield. Every time they come home, it is a blessing to see the family gathering together and sharing the little food.  Another worry has made him uneasy in the past two years. His daughter has grown up year by year, but he cannot find a suitable boy of the right age to marry. They have either died in the battle or have already set foot on the battlefield, and Tian Lei is not  I hope my daughter will marry a soldier, because then, they may become a widow at any time. ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Outline: Maybe the war is about to end. After the war, we can find a husband-in-law for them. It doesn¡¯t have to look at the man¡¯s family situation, as long as they can live well.  They are not yet eighteen years old. Although they are already considered old girls in the countryside, they can still wait for two years. In two years, the war should be over.  I am already over forty. After fighting this battle, I can either retire from the front-line troops and serve in the logistics troops, or I can become a cavalry instructor. An experienced cavalryman like myself will be able to  There are already fewer and fewer people in Da Qin.  The premise is to survive.  He took out his slightly warmed hand from his armpit and picked up the horse's reins. Today's patrol was almost over and it was time to go back. Although the temperature in the camp was not much better than outside, at least it could block the wind.  It has been ten days. The main attacking troops at the front have not defeated the enemy in front of them for ten days. This gives Tian Lei a very bad feeling. This feeling is too familiar. It seems that it was the same last time. The front could not be attacked repeatedly, and then the Han people  The cavalry troops came in large numbers, cutting off the Qin army's retreat and cutting off their supplies. In the end, the army of hundreds of thousands had to make a desperate attempt, and finally disappeared amid the siege of the Han people.  He shivered violently, this time not from cold, but from fear.  The war horse under his crotch suddenly stopped and kept licking the snowdrift in front of him with his mouth. In Tian Lei's eyes, there was nothing unusual about this piece of snow, but the horse'sFeeling is always more reliable than human eyes. He jumped off the horse and stretched out his hands to dig at the crotch of the horse. After a while, he felt that the blood all over his body had solidified.  Under the snow, there were some burnt charcoal. Among the black charcoal ashes, he smelled the smell of barbecue, the smell of dried meat from Niuguan. Tian Lei had seen it before. It was a weapon of the Han army.  A standard ingredient, beef and mutton are made into jerky, salted and dried, and carried with you. During the march, it will soften when heated and become a kind of dry food.  Tian Lei had personally captured Han soldiers, and he had seen this kind of equipment on them.  But this is impossible among the Qin army.  Cold sweat broke out all over his body. Tian Lei lay on the snow, desperately pulling the snowdrifts to the left and right. The floating snow was spread layer by layer, and more of this kind of ashes appeared in front of his eyes.  The captain's actions aroused the ideas of other soldiers. They all jumped off their horses and followed Tian Lei to dig up the floating snow. One after another such debris was dug out. Tian Lei sat down on the ground. The Han army was completely helpless.  Doubt, these are the traces left by the Han army. Just looking at the traces they dug out, there are at least one company of the Han army. A company is the establishment of the Han army. There are nearly two hundred people in a company.  Tian Lei¡¯s hands were trembling. Since the Han army had appeared, it would definitely not be a small company. There must be a large force. How did they appear here?  Moreover, Tian Lei did not see the horse dung, not at all. Even if they burned the horse dung, the smell of horse dung would still be left in the residue. But without this smell, could it be that all the Han soldiers came were infantry?  How did the infantry cross the vast snowfield and suddenly appeared behind most of the Qin army?  How did they avoid the patrolling cavalry of the Qin army?  Tian Lei knew that there were hundreds of cavalry patrols like his in this snowy field, in order to prevent the enemy from infiltrating and destroying their food routes.  "Captain, we have to go back immediately and report to the general." A Qin soldier next to him said to Tian Lei, who was a little lost.  "Yes, go back, go back." Tian Lei reacted suddenly. The large-scale appearance of the Han army meant that the Qin army would repeat the last failure.  Tian Lei had just jumped up when a very subtle whistling sound suddenly came from the wind and snow. For the young soldier, it was impossible to notice this strange sound mixed in the wind and snow, but for Tian Lei  For such a veteran, this roaring sound is like a thunderbolt exploding in his ears.  That was an arm-opening crossbow, an arm-opening crossbow used by Han soldiers. The body that had just stood upright immediately dwindled down, the reins of the horse were tightened in his hands, and the war horse that had been with him for many years immediately knelt down in the snow.  "Get down, get down!" Tian Lei yelled.  But the young soldiers following him obviously hadn't figured out what was going on. Tian Lei felt his face getting hot. He looked up and saw the young man standing next to him with bulging eyes, and a crossbow arrow shot into his back.  , his chest was revealed, and the blood from the crossbow arrows sprayed onto his face.  The soldier snorted and fell down in the snow. The white snow beneath him was invaded by a rapidly spreading blush.  The whistling sound of crossbow arrows suddenly became louder. Tian Lei suppressed the great fear in his heart and lay tightly on the snow. He used the cover of his war horse to avoid the crossbow arrows. He did not dare to raise his head, but he could  Hearing the heavy crash to the ground and the screams of his soldiers, those familiar voices were full of pain and fear.  The attack lasted only a short time, and he was the only one left in the entire patrol team.  There was a strange rustling sound all around, and Tian Lei raised his head slightly. In the wind and snow, white figures approached here awkwardly. Each of them had a long board on their feet, and tied around their wrists.  Holding two sticks and holding a crossbow in his hand, he was approaching him step by step.  The white color of their bodies blended them into the heavy snow and snowfields. Each of them had only two eyes exposed, and they were scanning the corpses on the ground with vigilance.  "Is there anyone alive?" A voice of inquiry came from behind.  "It seems there is none." A soldier from the front responded.  "Be careful. Everyone needs one more arrow. Don't capsize in the ditch. Damn it. How many waves of Qin scouts have we killed?" "Company commander, this is the fourth wave." A soldier laughed.  In response, he raised the crossbow in his hand and aimed it at Tian Lei who was lying on the ground.  Tian Lei's heart was filled with fear. He knew that when this crossbow arrow was fired, his life would end.  No longer able to hesitate, Tian Lei lay on the ground and did not move, but raised his hands high.  "Don't shoot arrows, I surrender, I surrender!" Tian Lei didn't want to die. He also had parents who were over sixty years old, two unmarried daughters, and someone who had always been with each other and suffered a lot of grievances from him but never complained a word.Grandma.  (To be continued.) Mobile phone users please visit http://m.piaotia.net
Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report