"Send the order -" Hong Shitou's deep voice carried far through the night.
"Clean the battlefield immediately and rescue the wounded!"
"Replenish some supplies and burn all the rest!"
"Kill all the livestock left by the Qin people!"
The Chu soldiers all said excitedly: "I will obey the general's order!"
Regardless of whether the Chu soldiers knew Hong Shitou before tonight, the bravery of General Hong Qian just now has won everyone's respect.
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Five thousand elite soldiers immediately took action.
There were only a few dozen wounded soldiers, and most of them were slightly injured - the iron armor on their bodies protected them very well, and the wooden sticks in the hands of Qin Guomin's husband could not break the defense at all.
Those injured soldiers will be laughed at by others——
"The third son of the Liu family, you have to practice hard when you go back!"
"Can't even defeat the husband of the Qin people? Could it be that you slept too much last night?"
"Did you fall? But there are no pretty girls in this ice and snow, so why did your legs become weak after everything was fine..."
The injured soldier hung his head, very ashamed...but unable to refute.
The soldiers loaded as much grain and grass as possible onto the sledge, and piled the rest together, preparing to burn it all on fire.
Of course, the wounded in Qin will not receive humanitarian assistance... If they encounter an injured Qin, these Chu soldiers will pick him up with a sword and send him underground to reunite with other Qin people.
This is not because the Chu people were cruel - the main reason was that there was a deep hatred between Qin and Chu. Many Chu soldiers' neighbors had more than one blood debt with the Qin people.
Killing Qin people has no psychological burden.
And he knew it all with his feet - if the Qin people were victorious in this battle, they would not be merciful to Chu's wounded soldiers - they must have cut off the head with one sword and take the head to receive the reward.
The people of Qin had a paranoid pleasure in having their heads chopped off.
To take a step back and say——
The Chu army had a limited number of sledges, and each sledge was already full with five Chu soldiers. It was impossible to have space to bring back these wounded Qin soldiers.
You want to bandage these wounded and leave them in the snow?
Staying in the wild overnight in such weather, and being injured again... there was almost no chance of survival.
They either froze to death in despair or were eaten by hungry wild animals.
Killing him directly with a sword is the most merciful thing to do.
Instead, he was ordered to kill the livestock left behind by the Qin people... which made the Chu people feel the most distressed!
Cattle, horses, and livestock are a specialty of the north. If Chu wanted to obtain these livestock, they almost had to spend a lot of money to buy them.
You say you reproduce yourself? impossible!
Merchants in the north will only sell castrated livestock or female livestock to the Chu State. Male livestock that can be used for breeding, especially stallions that can breed war horses, are simply impossible to sell to you.
Therefore, living livestock are extremely expensive in Chu State!
Don’t you see that when Xiong Wuliang was in Yingdu, he just bought thousands of livestock and turned King Huai of Chu’s face green?
If this were placed in northern countries such as Qin, Zhaoyan, etc., would thousands of livestock be nothing? A slightly larger ranch has more than a thousand mules and horses.
Countries such as Qin, Zhao, and Yan all had well-organized cavalry units, but Chu could only afford infantry and chariots to fight together... Both in terms of mobility and flexibility, they were far from the cavalry.
This is also one of the important reasons why it is difficult for the Chu army to take advantage of the Qin army.
No matter what...the Chu soldiers swung their swords in pain and slaughtered all the livestock tied to Qin's baggage carts...it was as painful as cutting their own flesh.
Hong Shitou strode forward, raised his hand, and threw the torch on the baggage cart... After a while, the fire burst into the sky.
In this once-in-a-century snowstorm, a huge amount of priceless food was burned to the ground.
Countless Chu soldiers who were watching were grinning in pain...
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Huang Wu came to Hong Shitou: "General Hong Qian, the mission has been completed, when will you go back?"
Hong Shitou glanced at Huang Wu and grinned——
"go back?"
"Why go back?"
Huang Wu was stunned!
Hong Shitou ordered loudly: "Recover the arrows as soon as possible! Follow me and continue the ambush!"
The Qin people lost a large amount of food and grass, and Dan Yu's camp must have starved as a result...but it did not necessarily mean that they would withdraw like this.
What is more likely is that Dan Yu Daying tightened his belt and endured it, and at the same time, he raised a batch of grain and grass supplies from Xianyang direction as soon as possible and shipped them over as quickly as possible!
The morale of the five thousand soldiers under Hong Shitou's command is now high, with few casualties; firewood, grain and grass have just been replenished.
At least I can lie down in the snow for another fifteen days!
Hong Shitou wants to score twice for the Qin people!
Of course, the Qin people will definitely try their best to strengthen the security of the next batch of luggage... That is nothing to be afraid of!
From Xianyang to Danyu, a distance of thousands of miles, Hong Shitou could choose any ambush position - even if the Qin people were fully alert, there would always be times of negligence.
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Qin army, Dan Yu camp.
Qin's soldiers stood at the door of the camp, rubbing their hands and staring longingly at the dim sun.
In two hours, the sun will set again, and at the same time it will take away the generous warmth it gives to the vast earth.
Since the Qin soldiers who went out to cut wood suffered heavy casualties under the attack of the Black Feather Guards, the Qin soldiers who were sent out to cut wood now dealt with this task in fear - they did not dare to go far or outside the camp wall. Stay longer.
Every Qin soldier who goes out to cut trees must first make up his mind to die, and then take the risk.
Cut as much firewood as possible and return to camp as quickly as possible.
As you can imagine - the firewood cut down by the Qin soldiers is of course getting less and less... and the quality is also worrying.
Fortunately for the generals of the Qin Army, the firewood distributed was still in sufficient supply - it was just a hardship for the ordinary soldiers. The dry firewood distributed every day was only enough to barely burn for an hour, and then they had to watch the temperature inside the camp. Lower and lower, and finally fell asleep with chattering teeth.
The Qin army hated the Chu army so much that they didn't say much... Morale also dropped day by day with the shortage of firewood.
Outside the camp gate, there was the sound of horse hooves!
Qin's soldiers looked happy - calculating the time when the baggage arrived last time, the baggage convoy should be arriving now!
But...why is the sound of the horse's hooves so weak?
Why did the captain on the camp wall change his tone in fear?
The gate of the camp opened under the curious gaze of the soldiers, and a fast horse galloped in. On the horse's back sat a man who looked like a Qin soldier in armor.
The man's appearance was terrible - his body was covered with ice and snow, and his armor was in tatters. The armor was covered in blood, which had condensed into light red ice crystals, which was weird and terrifying.
Looking closely at his face, his bun is messy, and there is suspicious dirt on his beard and hair - can't you tell if it's blood? Or food scraps?
"That's the commander-in-chief of the rear army! General Ying Xiao!" The sharp-eyed Qin soldiers recognized the embarrassed man on the horse and shouted in horror.
The Qin soldiers exploded instantly!
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