Wei Qing didn't know that Liu Che was planning to start searching for immortals after this war. If he hadn't said anything, maybe there wouldn't have been such a thing.
Qin Tian didn't know what happened between Wei Qing and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. After bidding farewell to Wei Qing, he continued to fly north for a while, and a small hill appeared in his consciousness.
There was actually a different flavor on the hill, which Qin Tian couldn't help but fall into.
The moment he saw the hill, Qin Tiandang realized that this was the place that attracted him.
Without any hesitation, Qin Tian went directly to the hill, sat cross-legged and meditated, and began to comprehend the great road.
He had long noticed that there were people around him, but he didn't pay much attention to them.
No matter who is here, it is not as important as his understanding of the Great Way!
After a while, Qin Tian finally understood what he was sensing!
This place is the front line of the fighting between the Xiongnu and Han armies. For hundreds of years, this place has been dyed red by the blood of countless people!
Under the nourishment of this blood, the vegetation here is actually very prosperous!
Absorbing the nutrients from the blood, the plants here grow vigorously!
The cycle of life and death is so perfectly integrated here!
The blend of vitality and death has a different flavor.
Human blood soaked the land, and the flesh rotted in the soil and turned into nutrients.
Those plants absorbed the nutrients from the soil and appeared particularly strong.
Even the flowers seemed more delicate and beautiful, as red as if they were dripping with blood!
Generally speaking, this kind of place should be barren of grass, because the murderous aura above the battlefield will make all plants trying to grow here lose their vitality.
But because this place is the front line, after every war, both sides will clean the battlefield and take back the bodies of their comrades!
Enemy corpses would also be quickly burned to prevent the plague from appearing.
This also caused the death energy here to be wiped out a lot. Even so, over time, people can still feel the gloomy death under the vigorous vitality!
Qin Tian felt the heaven and earth, and felt the joy, anger, sorrow and joy of the creatures that perished here.
There is glory, reluctance, nostalgia, and expectations...
A person's deepest obsession before death turns into emotions and surrounds this land.
But what struck Qin Tian was that on this frontline battlefield, hatred was the least popular emotion.
Maybe before they die, most people don’t have the time or energy to hate their enemies, right?
Qin Tian quietly realized the slightly strange balance of this place.
At this moment, the little white on his wrist started to fluctuate one after another, which suddenly interrupted Qin Tian's gradual improvement.
Qin Tian did not feel unhappy because of this, but sent out a ray of spiritual thought to try to understand what Xiaobai wanted to express.
After a moment, Qin Tian understood what Xiaobai wanted to express.
Xiaobai wants Qin Tian to resolve the resentment here so that the environment here can return to normal.
If this continues, this place may really give birth to something different.
But Qin Tian knew that it was really rare.
This frontline battlefield cannot be maintained for much longer.
Soon the Xiongnu will face one big defeat after another, and this place will no longer be like before, with countless dead people coming to fill the dead energy here!
Eventually, the dead energy here will be wiped away by the vibrant plants!
However, Qin Tian realized that if he could purify this place, he would definitely gain something different.
Therefore, he did not hesitate and was ready to deal with the anomaly here.
If you want to handle these exceptions, you need to find the key node here first.
The life and death are intertwined, and there are one or several key nodes that maintain the balance here.
Find those nodes and break the balance here. Only in this way can the death energy here be completely eliminated!
There are so many people who have died on this land for thousands of years. Even if Qin Tian wants to find the key node, it will take a long time.
Xiao Huang crawled quietly in Qin Tian's arms, motionless.
As if half asleep.
But only Xiao Huang knew that he could also gain a lot from Qin Tian's insights!
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Wei Qing led three thousand cavalry and galloped towards Dragon City.
When encountering a small group of enemy troops in the middle, they decisively stepped forward to eat them, seize their horses, and use grain as supplies!
Sometimes when he encounters small tribes, Wei Qing doesn't mind going to plunder them to ensure that his supplies are sufficient!
This is war, a cruel war.
The enemy would do the same thing when they came to the territory of the Han Dynasty, because Wei Qing had no burden at all!
There were only less than two thousand cavalry left to support him.
Some of them sacrificed themselves to hide Wei Qing's traces and go to attract enemy troops.
Some of them went back to the city to resupply because they couldn’t keep up with supplies!
Another hundred miles away, only a day's journey at most, and the remaining more than a thousand cavalry will return.
At that time, only the three thousand people in Wei Qing's hands will really be left!
Dragon City was already in sight, and Wei Qing didn't hesitate at all. After a short period of repair, he started on his way.
His speed is not fast, because Wei Qing wants to ensure that his army still maintains combat effectiveness when it arrives at Dragon City!
For the remaining people, Wei Qing asked them to return first with the loot and some supplies along the way!
This war needs to be resolved quickly, and Wei Qing wants more than a thousand cavalry to clear the way back for them!
Otherwise, even if they win the battle, they will be stuck in Dragon City, unable to advance or retreat!
If possible, it would be best to call for reinforcements so that Wei Qing can truly capture Dragon City!
After capturing Dragon City, the Han Dynasty had a bridgehead against the Xiongnu attack!
Although the other four armies failed, the city was not lost!
If you capture Dragon City, then this expedition will not be considered a failure!
There was a hint of perseverance in Wei Qing's eyes!
"In this battle, we can only win, not lose!"
Wei Qing roared angrily and led the army to charge first.
However, what Wei Qing didn't know was that his more than a thousand cavalrymen were ambushed!
Obviously, the Xiongnu Chanyu was not just for a living!
After discovering the enemy's movements, he immediately mobilized troops to encircle and suppress Wei Qing!
However, Wei Qing was too slick with his troops. In his base camp, they failed to catch any trace of the thousands of cavalry!
Every time the battle report comes up, it only shows how many people have been lost and how much food and fodder has been lost!
Wei Qing did a great job. He burned the food that could not be taken away immediately, leaving nothing for the enemy!
This move also made it difficult for the Xiongnu army to move forward on their own territory!
Large groups of troops require a large amount of food and fodder to maintain their march, and the target is too large to be easily discovered by the enemy.
But a small group of troops would be quickly eaten by the enemy, and the Huns were in a dilemma!
Shan Yu was not unaware that Wei Qing's goal was Dragon City.
It takes time to deploy troops and generals.
They had just won the victory in the other three routes, and for a while they couldn't find any extra troops to support Dragon City.
However, he is not very worried. Dragon City only needs to hold on for three to five days. If Wei Qing does not retreat by then, he will be caught in a trap!
As for the discovery of more than a thousand cavalry on the road this time, it was an unexpected surprise!
The more than a thousand cavalry were at a disadvantage, with insufficient supplies, and even carrying trophies. It was obviously not cost-effective to confront the opponent head-on!
Therefore, they immediately abandoned all the extra supplies, carried only the necessary food, and retreated quickly!
The only solution now is to attract these people away and buy time for Wei Qing to attack Dragon City!
As long as Dragon City can be captured, these Huns will have no choice but to retreat under the attack from both sides!
The leading lieutenant is a smart man, he knows what he should do!
Even if the only way to survive now is to leave quickly and seek rescue, he can't do that!
Because he didn't dare to bet on whether the enemy would pursue him or return to Dragon City for support!
They still don't know that Wei Qing's goal is Dragon City, or they think that they are the large troops that have been plundering behind enemy lines!
No matter what the enemy thinks, the only help he can provide Wei Qing is to attract all these people away!
The deputy general led more than a thousand cavalry while fighting and retreating, and soon attracted the opponent's army of nearly 10,000 people away from Dragon City!
But in order to ensure that the enemy would not chase him away, he had to leave some soldiers behind!
In just one day, he had already lost three hundred brothers!
But just when the deputy general thought he had completed his mission, he discovered that there was an enemy force in the direction of his retreat!
The number of enemies is not large, only more than a thousand, including only two hundred cavalry!
But even if there are only so many people, they will never be able to directly break through the enemy's obstruction in a short time!
If they are caught on both sides, they will only die!
The deputy general immediately made a crazy decision!
Not only did he not try to lead his men to break out, he actually directly ordered the soldiers to station themselves and build fortifications, preparing to delay!
He believed in his general and believed that Wei Qing would definitely be able to completely capture Dragon City in a short period of time!
With the support of Longcheng and Shanggu County, these enemies will be completely defeated!
Don't look at the total of more than 10,000 people here now, but as long as he persists long enough, the deputy general believes that he can definitely attract more than 15,000 enemy troops!
With so many people, they already accounted for nearly one-third of the Xiongnu's military strength!
When the time comes to cooperate with Longcheng and Shanggu County to eat all these people, the Xiongnu will definitely be seriously injured!
But how long can 1,563 people hold an offensive of 10,000 people?
They even had less than two days of supplies left!
The lieutenant didn't know that maybe they would all be slaughtered in just an hour, or maybe they could persist for one or two days, or even three or four days!
But what is certain is that he will not have any reinforcements in the next five days!
Five days?
is it possible?
The deputy general didn't know, the only thing he knew was that he had to do this!
Soon, reality gave the deputy general a head-on blow!
The first line of defense he built only lasted less than an hour before it was completely lost!
The enemy seemed to want to eat these more than a thousand cavalry, so they did not rush forward!
Perhaps they also thought that these people were all the strength of the Han Dynasty, so they were not in a hurry to besiege them.
If they knew that Longcheng was being attacked by Wei Qing, they would be eager to eat these more than a thousand cavalry.
The lieutenant general breathed a sigh of relief as he deduced such information from the enemy's offensive.
What made him even more happy was that it was getting very late.
To launch an attack on a night like this, the attack must be at a disadvantage!
They rely on the terrain and fortifications to be stationed, and they will definitely be able to minimize casualties!
The enemy obviously knew this, so they did not launch a general attack at night, but continued to harass them at night!
The enemy can rest in batches, but most of the more than a thousand of them can only be vigilant to guard against the enemy's attack!
There had been a lot of noise outside all night, and naturally these people didn't get a good rest either!
This is what the Huns had in mind!
Continuously wearing down the enemy's energy and spirit, in a day or two at most, you can successfully eat all the Han's cavalry at the minimum cost!
The deputy general also realized this problem!
After last night's harassment, he lost another one hundred and twenty-three warriors!
The deputy general knew that he had stretched the front too far!
So he immediately gave the order and continued to build a defense line to the rear!
He deliberately gave up the outer defense line, as long as it could block the enemy!
The deputy general must shrink the defense line so as to give the soldiers time to rest and room for rotation.
A shorter defense line also helps to concentrate strength and avoid weak defense areas from being breached by the enemy as much as possible!
So in just one day, they abandoned three layers of defense!
The enemy was not in a hurry, harassing them from time to time, and even gave them some space a few times, allowing a few spies to break out of the encirclement!
The enemy just wants them to call for help!
Obviously, the Huns' support is also on the way, and they are trying to encircle the point for reinforcements!
The lieutenant general realized such an obvious intention instantly.
But what the Huns didn't know was that the spy who rushed out to report the news was not asking for help at all!
Someone rushed out with the secret message. Before the deputy general could breathe a sigh of relief, his heart immediately started to lift.
At night, the Huns' offensive was obviously much stronger than yesterday!
After a day of fighting, there were only 967 of them left!
In order to ensure that the spies broke out during the day, two hundred more cavalry were sacrificed!
They can no longer maintain even such a small-scale defense line!
The deputy general finally led the army to retreat to a hillside.
After two days and one night of fighting, their supplies were almost exhausted!
The good news is that there is no need to worry about food for the time being, because more than 900 people died out of 1,800 people, and the dry food of the dead people is enough to feed the remaining people for two more days!
If that doesn't work, he can still kill horses to satisfy his hunger and drink blood to quench his thirst.
But they won’t do it unless they have to!
The bad news is that their bows and arrows, as well as the materials to build their fortifications, are almost exhausted.
This also means that if the enemy rushes up again, they have no long-range means and can only fight with the enemy hand-to-hand!
No matter how much we save in the past two days, the few bows and arrows we have are all lost, broken, and there is no more supplies!
At this time, an atmosphere of despair gradually filled the camp!
(End of chapter)
