Army of the Undead in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 87 Hope
"Huns?" Yu Ji turned pale with shock. He no longer cared about the burning of the corpses, and ordered the junior officer to explain in detail: "About how many troops are there? Where are they now?"

"General Qi, there are about 5000 Huns, but there is one strange thing: they actually drove ten thousand head of cattle, sheep and livestock, and the marching speed was slow. At this time, they had just crossed the Hangu Pass. Hurry to Hongnong City."

"Bringing cattle, sheep and livestock. These Huns are not going to die. Could it be that they want to come to our Han territory to graze?" Yu Ji was full of thought, and shouted to the left and right: "General Xu Rong, please go to the commander's mansion to discuss matters, and the whole city is on guard. You go down and lead reward."

The little school and the two guards responded, then turned and left.

When the population of the city reached [-], the city had obviously undergone tremendous changes. Due to the sufficient number of people, the whole city was running rapidly like a machine, the city walls were repaired, and the city gates were reinforced.

In the previous wars, Hongnong City harvested a lot of materials such as war horses, weapons and armor, enough to equip all the soldiers.Moreover, Xu Rong's nature was hard to change, and he actually ordered those idle people to cut down trees to make a lot of defensive tools, which greatly improved the defensive strength of Hongnong City.From Yu Ji's point of view, it is absolutely impossible for the five thousand Huns to pose a threat to the current Hongnong City.

At this time, in the dilapidated Hangu Pass, [-] Xiongnu cavalry were driving cattle, sheep and livestock, heading towards Hongnong City one after another.In front of this army, a red-haired cow with red hair and horns bent like sharp blades moved forward, like a guide, leading the way without rushing.It is tall, fully twice the size of an ordinary bull, and has red hair without any variegation. It is majestic and majestic. From a distance, it looks like a ball of flames in action!
"General Yu Fuluo, Hancheng Hongnong is not far ahead after passing the Hangu Pass. Do we really want to move on? You know, these cattle and sheep are the only hope left in our clan, so we can't miss it." A young general drove his horse forward, and said to the burly man who was about forty years old the year before the army.This person is the leader of the Huns - Yu Fuluo.

"King Zuo Xian is nothing more than worrying," Yu Fuluo glanced at the young general indifferently, not caring about his noble status at all: "The red-haired cow, the sacred beast in the clan, is well-versed in the world, and can always find a way to avoid danger every time. Drought is no exception, and the path it leads must be correct. I believe that the remaining cattle and sheep in my family will be able to eat delicious fresh grass and drink cool water soon."

Although Zuo Xianwang is the prince of the Huns, he dare not put on a show in front of Yu Fuluo. The head boy can compare.Immediately smiled quickly, shook his hand and said: "I'm not questioning the sense of the red-haired ox, the sacred beast in the clan, but there is a Han city in front of us, and there are only [-] soldiers and horses in this area. Soldiers and horses, take that city in one fell swoop."

"Hahahaha!" Yu Fuluo laughed loudly, and immediately patted Zuo Xianwang on the shoulder vigorously, almost slapping the thin young man off his horse: "It turns out that Zuo Xianwang is worried about this. It's okay, the last general has sent People have done an investigation on Hongnong City, and there are only three or four thousand soldiers in the city, and with my five thousand elite soldiers, we can definitely take it down in one fell swoop, Zuo Xianwang is too worried."

"However, this batch of cattle and sheep is the last batch of food left in our clan, and it will have a great impact. The general needs to be cautious."

Before Zuo Xianwang finished speaking, Yu Fuluo interrupted him with a wave of his hand, turned his head away, and stared at Zuo Xianwang's eyes with a pair of tiger eyes: "Since Zuo Xianwang knows that these cattle and sheep are related to the lives of everyone in my clan Why, you should know that they will not survive for two days under the condition of lack of water, how can they wait any longer? I have made up my mind, King Zuo Xian will not say more."

After speaking, he sat down on his horse, ran forward, chased after the red-haired ox, and ignored him.

Zuo Xianwang sighed, knowing that Yu Fuluo was strong and good at fighting, and besides, the combat effectiveness of those Han people was already low, did he worry too much?

Looking at the cattle and sheep driven by the army behind him, King Zuo Xian only felt that a mountain was weighing heavily on his shoulders. It was not just the cattle and sheep, but the lives of their entire clan!Because of this, Shan Yu—that is, his father knew that Yu Fuluo was acting too recklessly, so he excluded him as the warlord, but now it seems that he, the warlord, is just a decoration and has no effect.

No matter!King Zuo Xian whispered a few words to a trusted aide beside him, and then the trusted aide nodded, turned his horse's head, and went back to inform Shan Yu, who was camping on the grassland, to ask him to send someone to support him.

Because of the sudden drought, the fresh grass of the entire Xiongnu grassland withered and the rivers dried up, which made the nomadic life of the Huns face a huge crisis in an instant, and the genocide was imminent!
Originally, the Huns couldn't survive the long winter because of the cold weather, so they had to send scattered cavalry into the Central Plains to plunder in order to feed themselves.However, this natural disaster and drought immediately plunged the Huns who could still survive into dire straits: nearly half of the cattle, sheep and population died suddenly. Now all the cavalry of the Huns add up to less than [-], and the water sources are dry everywhere so that the horses cannot get what they need. Moisture and fatigue caused them to lose their original capital of looting everywhere.

So Shanyu, the king of the Xiongnu, had to ask two generals to follow the red-haired ox and the white camel, the mythical beasts of the tribe, and the only remaining cattle and sheep to scatter in search of water and grass. Zhong can also find the source of water by instinct, which is very strange.

The team led by Yu Fuluo and Zuo Xianwang actually followed the red-haired ox to the territory of the Han Dynasty. Fortunately, the villages were abandoned along the way, and there were no people living there, and there was no resistance.However, looking at the dry and cracked land, the occasional rotting and unburied corpses, and the dry wells, King Zuo Xian was secretly surprised: I am afraid that the land of the Han Dynasty will also be affected by this catastrophe. Will there be water sources and green grass?
Not mentioning the imminent battle in Hongnong City, but saying that Zhang Jiao led the undead soldiers and tools and things, and rushed back to the place where he was stationed when the sky was bright and the sun was rising. The scene in front of him was dumbstruck:
Following his gaze, he saw swollen corpses floating on the surface of the lake filled with green water. Looking around, there were thousands of people in densely packed rows!By the lake, the yellow-faced and emaciated people were drinking water and their stomachs were bulging. They were lying on the edge, crying intermittently, presumably they were relatives of the people who died in the lake.

How is this going?

At this time, Ling rushed up and whispered something to him. Zhang Jiao glanced around, and suddenly found that those people had more or less plague-infected wounds or yellow spots on their bodies. They were obviously a group of plague carriers!
It turned out that after these people were expelled from Hongnong City by Yu Ji, they came here and were attracted by the beautiful lake reflected by the moonlight. They were all thirsty, and some of them jumped into the lake to drink water impatiently!
However, the lake is formed from the top of the snow peak, melted by ice and snow, and the Frozen Throne has the characteristics of maintaining a constant temperature, so that the lake still maintains the temperature at which it melted at the beginning. The melted ice floats on the water, which is a wonderful sight in this hot weather.

These people jumped into the lake recklessly, and were immediately stimulated by the cold lake water, their hands and feet were frozen stiff, and the lake was nearly ten meters deep. Under this freezing, many people unknowingly became underwater ghosts.

Later, the drinkers were pushed away by the crowd who came last, stumbled and fell a lot, making this beautiful lake like a mirror become a place of ecstasy and death, and four thousand infected people who came here in one morning 1000 people died!

Under the morning light, those people did not show any panic. Perhaps they knew that being infected with the plague and being abandoned was a certain death, so they all looked up at the sky, feeling a little resigned to fate.

At this moment, a group of black butterflies suddenly flew up from the floating corpses in the lake and flew into the Soul Summoning Tower. Through the black iron helmet on his face, Zhang Jiao could vaguely see the black butterflies covered by a Shrouded in a layer of black mist!

(End of this chapter)