The Great Han Dynasty: From Feng Lang Juxu to the Eternal Emperor

Chapter 43 Desert Ghost
The night was slightly cooler, the hook-like crescent moon hung in the sky, and the faint moonlight shone on the earth.

Under the moonlight, among the army, a small team of about a hundred people was cutting through.

The thin-scaled general at the head was particularly fierce, and almost no grass grew wherever the spear in his hand passed.

The fighting power of the group of light cavalry behind him was equally brave. They closely followed the charging general in front, like a huge knife lying across the army, cutting a gap through the thousands of cavalry.

Gongsun Ao was exclaiming, but no one around him could help him.

No one knows where this light cavalry came from, like a ghost in the night.

Each of them had a tacit agreement to remain silent. Even if they were injured or dead, they never heard a single cry from the beginning to the end.

Judging from their armor and weapons, they looked like Han soldiers, but if they were sent by General Wei, it would be impossible for them to say nothing.

Gongsun Ao was stunned, and the Huns were frightened.

At first, the Huns with thousands of horses thought that they were bound to win and would definitely eat up Gongsun Ao's army tonight. Even if these hundreds of horses came, it would be of no use to the Xiongnu in charge.

What a joke, what can a hundred riders do?
A hundred riders can make them afraid!Let them be frightened!Make them fall back!
Wei Ning looked back indifferently, lowered his voice, and said to Gongsun Ao: "Want to annihilate the entire army? Why don't you leave?"

Only then did Gongsun Ao react.

It turned out that the other party was opening a gap for himself to rush out.

"it is good!"

Gongsun Ao didn't talk nonsense at all. He shouted loudly, pointed his sword at the gap in front, and roared: "Come out with me! Drive!"

He charged towards the gap with only four hundred of his remaining cavalry.

After they broke out of the encirclement, they saw the dark Hun cavalry behind them attacking the hundred cavalry again.

Gongsun Ao looked back and saw that the hundred cavalry were like mud sinking into the sea and were instantly submerged by the Xiongnu army.

Gongsun Ao blushed and said sternly: "Go to General Wei quickly and rescue them!"

……

When Gongsun Ao and Wei Qing met and briefly informed Wei Qing of the situation, Wei Qing was shocked.

"Is it Huo Qubing?!"

But as soon as he said it, he rejected it. If it was Huo Qubing's cavalry, it was impossible for him to have no communication with Gongsun Ao.

But his infantry and cavalry never left the main army.

So where did this hundred-man light cavalry troop come from?Who could it be?

Wei Qing put too many doubts in his stomach for the time being, and Wei Qing immediately led his army to charge towards the area thirty miles away.

When the army rushed in, the place was already littered with corpses, and there were no more men or horses.

Gongsun Ao personally took his soldiers and held torches to count the number of people, but when he came back, there was panic on his face.

"General..."

Gongsun Ao said tremblingly: "Only, only..."

He swallowed and said: "There are only corpses of Huns, a total of [-] corpses of Huns."

"That army has disappeared, it's impossible, it's impossible!"

They only had a hundred riders, more or less, but Gongsun Ao was certain that their number must not be large.

But what they faced was the Huns cavalry numbering [-] people.

In this case, they killed nearly a thousand Huns, not to mention that none of them died?No body left?
This is so weird!
That's why Gongsun Ao's expression became extremely frightened.

Wei Qing was silent for a long time, and then said solemnly: "The person was taken away by them."

hiss!
Gongsun Ao took a breath.

People were taken away?Was the body taken away by them?Faced with being surrounded by such a large army, they actually haven't given up on their companions?
What kind of monsters are these?

No wonder there aren't any bodies left here. It's impossible to even tell how many people they sacrificed, let alone identify who they are!
These people... are so cruel!
Faced with such a large encirclement, they actually chose the most dangerous way to break out. Not only did the living people have to break out, the dead people were obviously a burden, but they still didn't abandon them!
Gongsun Ao was stunned for a moment. He no longer knew how to describe this ghost cavalry!
Wei Qing walked into the mountain of corpses, held a torch, and looked at a dead horse for a while, frowning: "Is the horse a Dawan horse, Yu Lin riding?"

"Is it really Huo Qubing?"

Wei Qing murmured softly.

The Han Dynasty's BMWs were extremely precious, and Yulin's horses were all rewarded by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

It is worth mentioning that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty loved horses and beautiful women for 10 minutes of his life.

He didn't know how many good horses he had hidden in Shanglin Garden in Chang'an. This time Huo Qubing went on an expedition, he didn't even think about it, so he equipped each of Huo Qubing's Yulin Cavalry with a Dawan horse.

Wei Qing doesn't get this kind of treatment.

The horses that Wei Qing sent to Wei Ning were just ordinary military horses, the best of the military horses, and incomparable to the Dawan horses.

The problem is, this doesn't make sense.

If it was really Huo Qubing, there was no need for him to hide it. Where did Qingqi come from?

Wei Qing couldn't figure it out, and the combat quality of this light cavalry was so terrifying.

What Gongsun Ao couldn't break through with a thousand cavalry, they accomplished it with a hundred cavalry!

Gongsun Ao said tremblingly: "General, I have heard a lot of strange things about Monan. A few days ago, an old man told me that there are ghosts here..."

"To shut up!"

Wei Qing stared at Gongsun Ao coldly, disrupting the morale of the army and causing the army to panic. Wei Qing gave Gongsun Ao a murderous look, and Gongsun Ao immediately shut up.

"Set up camp and cut off the flesh of the horses that died in the battle to use as baggage for the army."

"Here!" Gongsun Ao cupped his fists.

Wei Qing stood on the endless desert with his hands clasped behind his back, looking into the distance thoughtfully, his eyebrows slightly furrowed, and racking his brains he couldn't figure out where this group of men came from, or whose command they were.

According to Gongsun Ao's description, the combat effectiveness of these hundred cavalrymen was so fierce, and the contribution they made this time was not small. Even if he wanted to show off his merits, he didn't know who to show off for.

……

Hundreds of miles southeast.

Panting, Wei Ning turned over and dismounted, "Zhao Ce."

Zhao Ce also walked over panting. The two of them were protected by fine scale armor and were not injured, but their physical strength was almost reaching its limit.

"How about the casualties?"

Zhao Ce said in a muffled voice: "Twenty-three brothers died, three were seriously injured, and 23 were slightly injured."

Weining twitched the corner of his mouth slightly, and spending time together day and night made him and this group of people have feelings for each other. He felt like he was being pricked by a needle, but he didn't show it on his face.

"Sparks, ashes put into cowhide pot."

Zhao Ce hesitated and refused: "General Wei, a fire in this place will attract them here."

"Do it!"

"Here."

Zhao Ce trotted away.

During their charge and battle, no one spoke. They were all silent. Even though they were seriously injured, they didn't speak. It wasn't that it didn't hurt, but they couldn't harm Weining.

There are soldiers in Wei Qing's army who are familiar with them and their voices. Once they speak, they will definitely be recognized.

This will let them know that Wei Ning is out of the way, and Wei Qing will definitely be held down by Wei Ning, and even dealt with by military law.

(End of this chapter)