I’m The King Chapter 1467: : Han Banner World (one hundred and fifty-seven) the battle in the heavy snow (…

Tightening the cloak made of torn linen tightly around his body, Tian Lei looked up at the goose-feather-like heavy snow that was still flying in the sky. Within tens of meters, all you can see is endless white.

It's cold, it's really cold. This was the only thought in Tian Lei's mind. The tattered linen cloak was full of small holes, which didn't help much. Although his hands were wrapped in messy cloth strips, they were still covered with chilblains. Everyone feels that they are going to be stiff. Tucking his hands under his armpits, using the faint heat from his body to warm his hands, he felt that he couldn't hold the handle of the knife at all.

He is an old cavalryman with excellent equestrian skills. He can still control the horse freely with only his legs between his legs, but the horse under his crotch also seems a little weak. In recent days, due to the heavy snowfall in logistics, There is no +pig+pig+island+novel ww.zhom to supply enough food, the horse can no longer eat enough, and there are still some beans left in the pocket, usually this is an extra meal for the horse, but now, it is It was two days' worth, and there was no sufficient food supplement. In this snowy day, it was difficult to even find some grass roots. Seeing the horse's rapid weight loss in the past two days, Tian Lei was very annoyed.

Such an attack in a snowy day is simply a lonely throw. If it fails, there is not much chance to escape, and the horse can't run at all.

As an experienced veteran cavalryman, Tian Lei was sent out as a scout with ten cavalrymen under his command, but Tian Lei didn't have the slightest confidence in these rookies. The less they are, the more they have to be used separately, but in this way, the combat effectiveness will drop dramatically. These recruits have little experience in surviving on the cruel battlefield. Once they encounter the enemy, they will die first.

Tian Lei didn't like this war. To put it simply, he didn't want to confront the Han people again. He is a survivor of the last Qin-Han war. As a cavalryman, the confrontation with the Han cavalry in the last war made him really terrified. The Han cavalry, especially their Hun cavalry and Donghu cavalry, have more experience in this kind of battle in the ice and snow. They are so rich.

But he is a soldier, and he has to go to war as soon as he is ordered. The Qin law is strict. The punishment for deserters is extremely severe, not only for the soldiers themselves, but also for their families. Tian Lei's current home is in Shannan County, and there are parents, wife and two daughters in the house, which can be regarded as a big family.

Earlier, because his wife did not give birth to a son for him, he was not less angry with him. When the anger was not going well, he would even reward his wife with a few punches. But in the past two years, he has treated his wife much better, because of those fellow villagers and companions he once envied. Their son had to be drafted into the army before he was an adult, and set foot on the battlefield. After every war, a black pass would always be sent to their village. Looking at the grief-stricken expressions of those villagers and hearing their heart-piercing cries, Tian Lei suddenly felt. In this era, having a daughter is really the right choice, because they don't have to go to the battlefield. Every time they go home, they can see the family gather together and share the little food, which is a kind of happiness.

Another worry has made him uneasy in the past two years. His daughter has grown up year by year, but he can't find a suitable boy of the right age to marry. They have either died in battle or stepped on the battlefield. Tian Lei didn't want his daughter to marry a soldier again, because then they might become widows at any time.

Just wait a little longer, or the war is about to end, and after the war is over, find a husband's family for them, regardless of the man's family status, as long as they can live well. They are not yet eighteen years old. Although they are old girls in the village, they can wait for two years. After two years, the war should be over.

I am over 40 years old. After this battle, I may retire from the frontline army and transfer to the logistics force to serve, or I may become a cavalry instructor with experience like myself There are fewer and fewer cavalry in Daqin.

The premise is to survive.

Withdrawing the hands that were a little bit weaker from the armpit, lifted the reins, today's patrol is almost over, and it's time to go back. Although the temperature in the camp is not much better than outside, at least it can block wind.

It's been ten days, and the main attacking force in front hasn't taken down the enemy blocking the front for ten days. This gives Tian Lei a very bad feeling. This feeling is too familiar. It seems to be the same as last time. , Then the cavalry troops of the Han people came in large numbers, cutting off the back of the Qin army and their supplies. In the end, tens of thousands of troops had to make a desperate fight, and finally disappeared in the encirclement of the Han people. He shivered violently, this time not because of the cold, but because of fear.

The war horse under its crotch stopped suddenly, and kept digging the snowdrift in front of it with its mouth. In Tian Lei's eyes, there was nothing unusual about this snow field, but a horse's sense of smell is always better than a human's. With reliable eyes, he jumped off the horse, and stretched out his hand to plan where the horse was arched. After a while, he only felt that the blood all over his body was congealed.

Under the snow, there were some burnt charcoals. Among the black charcoal ash, he smelled a smell of barbecue, which was the smell of dried meat from Niuguan. Tian Lei had seen it before. It is a standard configuration of the army. The beef and mutton are made into jerky, marinated and dried, and carried with you. During the march, it will soften when heated and become a kind of dry food. Tian Lei had personally captured Han soldiers, and he had seen this kind of equipment on them. And this is impossible in the Qin army.

Cold sweat kept coming out all over his body. Tian Lei lay on the snow, desperately pawing the snowdrift left and right. in front of the eyes.

The actions of the captain aroused the ideas of other soldiers. Everyone jumped off their horses and followed Tian Lei to pick up the floating snow. One after another, such residues were dug out. , There is no doubt that this is the trace left by the Han army. Just looking at the traces they dug out, there is at least one company of the Han army. The company is the establishment of the Han army. A company has nearly two hundred people.

Tian Lei's hands were trembling. Since the Han army had already appeared, it would definitely not be a small company. There must be a large army. How did they appear here? Moreover, Tian Lei didn't see the horse dung, not at all. Even if they burned the horse dung, the smell of horse dung would still be left in the residue, but there was no such smell. Could it be that the Han troops were all infantry? How did the infantry cross the vast snowfield and suddenly appear behind most of the Qin army? How did they avoid the patrolling cavalry of the Qin army?

Tian Lei knew that there were hundreds of cavalry patrols like him on this snowfield, in order to prevent the enemy from infiltrating and destroying their food roads.

"Captain, we have to go back immediately and report to the general." A Qin Jun beside him said to Tian Lei, who was a little lost.

"Yes, go back, go back." Tian Lei reacted suddenly, the appearance of a large-scale Han army meant that the Qin army would repeat the previous failure.

Just as Tian Lei jumped up, there was a very subtle whistling sound in the wind and snow. For young soldiers, it was impossible to notice this abnormal sound mixed in the wind and snow, but For a veteran like Tian Lei, this whistling sound exploded in his ears like a thunderbolt.

It was a crossbow of arms, which was used by soldiers of the Han army. The body that had just stood up straight suddenly fell short, and the rein in his hand was tightened. The horse that had been with him for many years immediately knelt down in the snow. .

"Get down, get down!" Tian Lei yelled.

But the young soldiers who followed him obviously didn't understand anything. Tian Lei felt his face was hot. The back was shot, the front chest was exposed, and the blood brought out by the crossbow arrows sprayed on his face.

The soldier snorted and threw himself into the snow, the white snow under his body was invaded by the rapidly spreading blush. The whistling sound of the crossbow arrows suddenly became denser, Tian Lei suppressed the great fear in his heart, and lay down tightly on the snow, using the cover of the horse to avoid the shooting of the crossbow arrows, he did not dare to raise his head, but he could Hearing the heavy crash and the screams of his soldiers, those familiar voices were full of pain and fear.

The attack time was very short, and he was the only one left in the entire patrol team. Strange rustling sounds came from around, Tian Lei raised his head slightly, and in the wind and snow, white figures approached clumsily one by one, each of them had a long board on their feet, and a tie on their wrist. Holding two sticks and holding a crossbow in his hand, he was approaching him step by step.

The whiteness of the whole body blends them with the heavy snow~IndoMTL.com~ snow field, each of them only shows two eyes, scanning the corpses on the ground vigilantly.

"Is there anyone alive?" A voice of inquiry came from behind.

"Looks like it's gone." A soldier in front responded.

"Be careful, everyone shoots another arrow, don't capsize in the gutter, **** it, is this the first group of Qin scouts we killed?"

"Company commander, this is the fourth wave." A soldier responded with a smile, raised the crossbow arrow in his hand, and aimed at Tian Lei who was lying on the ground.

Tian Lei was terrified to the extreme, he knew that the shooting of this crossbow arrow would be the end of his life.

Can't hesitate anymore, Tian Leiren lay on the ground without moving, but raised his hands high.

"Don't shoot arrows, I surrender, I surrender!" Tian Lei doesn't want to die, he still has parents who are over sixty years old, two unmarried daughters, and love each other, he has suffered a lot of grievances but never complained One sentence wife. (To be continued.)