I made Daqin a prosperous world

Chapter 214 Slave Traces
Looking along the horizon, the sand buried half the bones of the horses, as well as the corpses of the Huns.

The horses buried in the sand could no longer see half of their flesh and blood, and the Huns were almost completely stiff, and their exposed skin showed signs of being bitten by poisonous insects and beasts in the desert.

Zhao Yun's expression changed slightly as he looked at the corpses of the Huns who were left with holes and sticking together.Before he could open his mouth, he heard the guide beside him say: "These Huns must have contracted a fever and were left to fend for themselves after being dehydrated. The horse bones beside them may have been used as food by those vicious Huns." Divided."

"In this way, the Huns should have run out of water. After all, they didn't think of stopping to get water when they fled."

Because Zhao Yun has no other acquaintances around him.The envoy became a temporary dog-headed military adviser, and the frequency of speaking naturally increased.

Zhao Yun immediately nodded his head, then called all the generals of thousands of troops, and said: "Our army has only seven days left to store water, and now it has passed one night. I think the Huns went half a day first, and now they have no food or water. I'm afraid we won't be able to go very far, you wait to send more people to step up the investigation, and report as soon as you have any news."

After the words fell, the generals of the Qian army left with their missions. Then, they saw several camel teams of ten people riding in the army scattered away. They must be scouts who went to find out the location of the Huns.

After watching the scout team leave, Zhao Yun looked at the guide and asked, "The scouts are scattered all over the place. If our army is still waiting in place, can the scouts return?"

The guide didn't expect that the little general of the Qin army would ask for his opinion, so he was slightly startled, and after thinking for a moment, he said: "Everywhere in the desert is like a place, and we can't tell the direction. Only at night can we find the way out. The scouts are scattered around ten miles away. You can find the original way to return within the distance, but if it exceeds ten miles, there is a risk of getting lost."

After the guide finished speaking, Zhao Yun was stunned for a moment, then his expression changed, and he directed to Qian Jun, "Quickly let the best soldiers in the army continue to dispatch, and place a scout every ten miles. The movements of the military scouts."

After Zhao Yun said these words, all the thousands of troops showed a strange look in their eyes.

Scouts, in the eyes of ancient soldiers, are death squads. For a useful intelligence, they can even run out in five or ten teams. As long as one person survives, it will be worthwhile.

But in doing so, the image of the general in the eyes of ordinary soldiers is the representative of the word cold-blooded.

Now, Zhao Yun was so worried that the scout would get lost, fearing that he might lose his life.Such behavior can be described as a model of love for soldiers in the eyes of mid-level officers like Zhong Duo Qian Jun.

There is a saying that subtleties can often hit people's hearts directly.

Therefore, under the influence of Zhao Yun's unknowing behavior, the cavalry that originally belonged to Meng Tian's Great Wall Legion became more cohesive than before.

Hearing Zhao Yun's arrangement, both the envoy and the guide instantly understood.

With a team of scouts ten miles away, you will always meet other scout teams when you return from a long distance. This can be regarded as a signpost placed in the desert, and it is not so easy to get lost.

In the blink of an eye, the army sent out two batches of scouts with the same number, and walked towards the direction of the previous scouts for half an hour.

Only then did Zhao Yun relax and observe the Huns who were buried in the dust.

After a while, Zhao Yun sighed softly and said, "Leave 2000 people in place to wait for the scouts to return, and the rest will continue to march along with us."

If Li Yu were here in the Badain Jaran Desert, he would definitely be familiar with it.

As one of the eight major deserts in the later generations, the main body of the Alxa Desert, the Badain Jaran Desert is vast, but it is also charming and changeable. There are many small lakes in it.

Under such a premise, and there are guides to guide the way, Zhao Yun should not have too many problems, and this is also Li Yu's reliance on Zhao Yun leading the battle alone.

But Zhao Yun himself didn't know the characteristics of the Badain Jaran Desert unit. Although the guide traveled to and from Qilian Mountain and Juyanze all the year round, they mostly traveled to the fringes.

Therefore, both of them acted cautiously when going deep into the desert.

But wait, it's not a good idea after all.

Right now the sun is slowly rising, if you don't take half a step out, I'm afraid it will only be more disadvantageous to find the Huns.

Fortunately, Zhao Yun led the main army to move forward at a slow speed. It didn't take long before he saw the standing team chasing up from behind.

Zhang Tie, one of the generals stationed in the army, looked happy, and hurried forward to report: "General, the Northwest scouts encountered the abandoned Huns and some horse bones twenty miles away."

Zhao Yun was overjoyed when he heard the words. If he didn't mention the corpse of the Huns, then he was not dead. He immediately asked, "How many people are there? Is there any talk of finding the Huns' headquarters?"

Zhang Tie grinned, and then said, "I'm going to tell the general about this."

"Those Huns numbered in the hundreds, all of whom had a fever attack and were thrown away in the desert to die, but some were still alive. After being coerced by their subordinates with drinking water, judging from the situation where the Huns pointed to the northwest, The Xiongnu Shanyu must have fled to the northwest."

northwest?

Zhao Yun's eyes flickered slightly, and then he looked at the direction Qianjun General Zhang Tie was pointing, and couldn't help being stunned for a moment.

It is difficult to tell the direction in the desert, how can we tell the direction?
I'm afraid the northwest mentioned by the general Qianjun is not the northwest on the geographical map.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yun immediately waved his hands and said, "It's hard to tell the direction. Those Huns may not run away to the true northwest, but right now, I have an idea, maybe we can find the Huns faster."

General Qianjun wanted to take credit for this, but he didn't expect a scoop of cold water to cool him down, and his face was a little disappointed.

But then Zhao Yun said again: "On the geographical map, the northwest of this place is Juyanze. If the Huns wanted to escape, where do you think the Huns Shanyu would think of first?"

Zhang Tie's complexion changed, and then he said in shock: "Juyanze! The Huns must not have known that our army raided Juyanze before going to the foot of the Qilian Mountains. The desert came to detour the original route to avoid being ambushed by our army again."

Unexpectedly, these thousands of soldiers are also clever and intelligent people, and instantly thought of the meaning behind the words, Zhao Yun's expression moved slightly, and he said: "Juyanze has thousands of our troops, if the Huns find a way out and go straight to Juyanze, we will Whether the merits of the army can be kept aside, even if there are merits, I am afraid that the success will be offset by the demerit."

Speaking of this, Qian Jun's complexion changed again, and then he said a little suffocated: "This is not possible, I, Zhang Tie, plan to follow the general to capture the leader of the Huns alive, earn some military merits and go home to marry a wife."

That's right, those who have climbed to the position of Qianjun already have a lot of heads in their hands, and now they can only rely on the credit of the big victory to go up the trend. If they can get mixed up with the partial generals, the beneficiary generals are of course the biggest success.

Zhao Yun naturally knew how rare it is for these low-level soldiers to earn their military positions with their hands and lives, so he nodded and said: "The Marquis sent us to chase the Huns this time, why didn't we want to study our army? Therefore, this general will naturally not allow this military achievement to slip away in vain."

After all, without giving Zhang Tie a chance to reply, Zhao Yun said casually: "It is true that the place where the scouts were investigating earlier was the place where the Huns passed by, and the Huns must not go far on horseback in the sand dunes. First investigate the situation, and use the scouts to stay behind as a guide, and wait for the general to lead the army to arrive."

Zhang Tie didn't talk too much, and immediately cupped his hands and said, "The last general will obey." He led a team of thousands of people to rush to the place where the Huns' footprints were found.

(End of this chapter)