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Chapter 117 Giant Beast
What caught Si Zhai's eyes was a bright black hill, but if you looked closely, you would find that it was a huge head.

Si Zhai took a deep breath, it was the first time he had seen such a huge existence, only the head was so big, how big is the body in the water!
The giant beast roared furiously, and the ice surface of Lake Baikal shattered into countless pieces of ice with its roar and movements. The water surface was like a tsunami, with continuous waves.

However, the giant beast didn't pay attention to their side, nor was it inclined to go ashore. It seemed that it was just losing its temper.

Si Zhai looked at the behemoth that lost his temper, and frowned: Why does this big head look so much like a seal...

Si Zhai took a closer look, and it really looked like a seal's head, but it was magnified countless times.

"Hiss, hiss! Hiss, hiss!"

Benben next to him stuck out his tongue vigorously, sniffing the air greedily, and fixed his eyes on the giant seal.

Si Zhai followed its gaze, and a red light flashed.Si Zhai blinked, and looked again, only to see a blood-red gemstone inlaid behind the head of the giant seal.

The ruby ​​is about the size of a fist, so tiny that it can be ignored compared to the huge head of the seal.

But the flame that has been burning on it clearly shows its identity - the core stone!

Si Zhai frowned, he didn't expect the energy of the core stone to be so strong that it could create such a huge monster.

And Benben next to him couldn't move his eyes when he saw the red center stone, and the corners of his mouth dripped to the ground.

Si Zhai guessed that Benben might have been attracted by this center stone. After all, wolves have a very strong sense of smell, not to mention that Benben, a mutant wolf, might have already smelled the smell here from far away. .

Although the stupid look seems to want to get the center stone, but it is obviously impossible.

Si Zhai kicked it with both hind hooves, and then it came back to its senses, and looked at Si Zhai blankly: "Oh?"

Si Zhai stretched out his hoof and pointed in the direction of Suwu's camp, then pointed at the giant beast, then shook his head, expressing the meaning: go home, don't go to the giant beast.

Stupidly understood, he lowered his head and drooped his tail.

Si Zhai shook his head again in warning, and then walked towards the camp first.Benben behind him reluctantly glanced at the giant beast, then at Si Zhai, and finally followed behind Si Zhai, walking back obediently.

The winter days on Lake Baikal are very short, and when Si Zhai and Benben returned to Su Wu, it was almost evening.

When he returned to the camp, Su Wu had just emerged from the tent, stretching with disheveled hair, as if he had just woken up.

Seeing Si Zhai and Benben coming back from outside, Su Wu was stunned for a moment, scratched his head, wondering: "Are you going out?"

Si Zhai: ...The co-author lost the sheep for a day, and you haven't noticed yet...

Si Zhai ignored him, and led Benben back to the ice sheep pen surrounded by snow.

The lambs inside were just taken aback when they saw Si Zhai coming back from the outside, as if they didn't know what happened the night before.

Si Zhai felt that those who stole the sheep probably gave them sweat medicine.

Life went on as usual, neither Su Wu nor the lambs noticed that seven or eight companions were missing. Only Si Zhai knew what happened that day.

……

Half a month later, Shanyu Wangting or the original Chanyu Wangting.

A Han Dynasty army came here.

In the army camp, Li Guangli was sitting on the commander's seat, discussing with Li Ling and Gongsun Ao.

Li Guangli looked at the map with some anxiety, and said slowly: "The tribes of the Huns have moved to the north, and now we need to make a decision, whether to continue to pursue or return to the dynasty."

Li Ling and Gongsun Ao were also a little silent. The current situation is indeed very pessimistic. Due to the heavy snow blocking the mountain, the food transport team behind was blocked in the rear, and now they have not enough food.

If they continue to chase, if there is no food, there will be a mutiny in the barracks. At that time, they will be defeated without fighting.

But if they go back... the emperor will kill them...

For a while, the three were silent.

Li Guangli is now riding a tiger. He is the commander of this expedition. Until now, the enemy has not seen a single hair, and the military expenditure has caused the people to complain. If he goes back empty-handed, the emperor will definitely kill him.

He is not the kind of person who takes care of his family and country. In his eyes, everything is inferior to his own life.

In the current situation, he is more inclined to continue to march, and at worst he will surrender if he is defeated.

But Li Ling and Gongsun Ao obviously didn't think so. Their families were both in the Han Dynasty, and they had more Gu families than Li Guangli.

Although he knew that going back empty-handed might mean death, but it was still a lesser crime than continuing to move forward and dragging the army to death.

You must know that if the army is defeated because of their reasons, the emperor will put a big hat on them, and the one who welcomes their family will be destroyed!
Therefore, they are a little inclined to withdraw from the army. Compared with killing the whole family, they would rather die only by themselves.

It's just that the three of them couldn't open the mouth. After all, whoever opened the mouth bears a lot of responsibility.

Just when the three of them thought that this time it would end in silence again, a messenger entered the tent.

"General Qi, the spies in front came to report and found a huge number of Hun corpses, as well as many broken weapons and traces of burning. According to the captives captured there, conflicts broke out between the tribes when they divided up the spoils. As a result, the coalition forces were disbanded, and civil war broke out. At this time, the Xiongnu Shanyu was fleeing to the North Sea with his troops, and was chased by the coalition forces of the seven tribes."

Li Guangli was stunned for a moment, then ecstatic. He sent some spies to check the situation ahead, and then asked people to bring in the captured prisoners one by one.

The captives were not from the same tribe, so Li Guangli let them come in separately and listened to their story.

Although the versions of the captives of each tribe are different, there is one thing that is the same-the uneven distribution of spoils and fights.

After the prisoners went down, Li Guangli looked at the two people who were equally happy: "What do you two think about this matter?"

Li Ling said: "The general thinks that we should catch up and catch them by surprise!"

Gongsun Ao narrowed his eyes and said, "I agree with General Li."

Li Guangli smiled and said: "Okay, when the spies come back and confirm that the situation is true, let's continue marching!"

Outside the camp, not far from the camp, dense footprints and horseshoe prints were shining brightly on the snow, extending to the southeast.

Countless soldiers came and went from there, passed by countless times, but no one noticed, as if they didn't see anything, they walked from there and came back...

(End of this chapter)