Lu Bu’s Life Simulator

Chapter 157: Survival from desperate situation

Zhao Yun was at the end of his rope when facing Wusun's army, and Zhang Liao was also in trouble. The trouble came not from the enemy, but from the fact that they had run out of food on the road.

Zhang Liao had to enter the Altai Mountains before Wusun's army arrived at Jiaohe City. In order to facilitate transportation, they drove cattle and sheep into the Altai Mountains.

Without a map, we could only explore the road while walking. No army had ever been able to cross the Altai Mountains. Even if someone was lucky enough to cross this mountain range occasionally, it would be difficult to remember the road, but Zhang Liao wanted to take a gamble.

But now it seems that the situation is not optimistic. The cattle and sheep have been eaten, and the dry food brought with them has also been eaten. What's more terrible is that the weather is getting colder. Even the Bingzhou soldiers who came from the north are staying in the Altai Mountains. It felt surprisingly cold.

No one knows where they went, but they have been without food for two days. If they can't find a way out, they will have no choice but to attack the sitting horses.

For cavalry, war horses are not only a second life, but also an emotional bond. All things have animism. After getting along for a long time, animals and people will become bonded and dependent. It may be more painful to do something to your own horse than to kill them. .

But there is no other way. If you want to get out of this desperate situation alive, you can only kill the horse.

"General, eat something." Li Hei kneaded a ball of hay and handed it to Zhang Liao. In the past two days, he had been very hungry and just had something to eat. In this season, there were very few prey in the mountains. The brigade here When people and horses cross the border, even the wild beasts in the mountains dare not approach.

Zhang Liao took the hay ball and swallowed to moisten his throat. When he swallowed it, he cut his mouth.

"General, a few brothers are not up. If they don't eat, they may not survive. The brothers asked me to ask, why don't they boil their horses." Li Hei watched Zhang Liao swallow the hay balls and couldn't bear it. He swallowed and then said.

Zhang Liao stopped chewing and fell into silence. These soldiers were unwilling to touch their horses even if they were starving. He could understand the emotion, but people cannot die.

Zhang Liao looked at his horse with bloodshot eyes. It was a dark red horse given to him by Lu Bu. It was a famous horse from Dawan and had been with him for several years.

After a long time, Zhang Liao stood up, walked step by step to the red horse, stretched out his hand to touch the horse's head, spit out the half-chewed hay and handed it to the horse's mouth.

The red horse ate the hay, licked his hand, and nuzzled Zhang Liao affectionately with its head. Zhang Liao covered its eyes and reached out to pull out the dagger from his waist.

"General!" Li Hei grabbed Zhang Liao's hand and looked at him in surprise: "This is the BMW my lord gave you!"

The surrounding soldiers also looked this way.

Zhang Liao glanced at each soldier, took a deep breath and said: "Since I have brought all the soldiers in, I have to bring you out alive. Although the horses are good... but no life is precious! Let go!"

After saying that, he shook his arm and threw Li Hei away. Looking at his beloved horse, he gritted his teeth and was about to stab him.

"Report~"

At this moment, the scout horse that was sent out galloped back and shouted to Zhang Liao: "General, there is the Wusun tribe ahead."

Zhang Liao's dagger almost struck him. Hearing this, he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and silently took back the dagger. When he turned around, he looked at Tan Ma with his red eyes: "Lead the way!"

"Here!" Tan Ma was startled by Zhang Liao's look and quickly agreed.

Zhang Liao looked back at the soldiers: "Soldiers, we may have climbed over this damn mountain. Everyone, get up and have something to eat!"

This time Wusun Chanyu sent troops and took away almost all Wusun's string control men. Now among the tribes in the rear, most of the remaining ones are old, young, women and children.

A large group of cattle and sheep were driven down the mountain to graze by a few herdsmen. Suddenly they heard movement. When they looked up, they saw a group of thin and yellow-faced people rushing toward them with scarlet eyes.

The look in his eyes was as if he wanted to eat someone. Several herdsmen were stunned by the other's appearance. Some turned around and ran away, while others sat down on the ground. The aura alone frightened these people into losing their belief in resisting. .

The next moment, Dan saw that this group of men ignored them and jumped directly into the sheep, hugging their sheep and gnawing them.

"Quickly, light the fire and eat it when it's cooked!"

They ignored the herdsmen. Now these soldiers only had food in their eyes.

A few herdsmen were frightened at first and their legs were trembling. However, seeing that these people were just robbing the sheep and not caring about them, the brave ones moved out in small steps.

Whoosh~

The next moment, the herdsman running outside was shot through the body by a flying arrow.

"Everyone, please stay. My general has something to ask!" Li Hei picked up a bloody leg of lamb and took a big bite. The fishy smell in his mouth was no longer so unpleasant at the moment. He looked at several pale faces. "Herdsmen," Li Hei said coldly.

Obviously these herdsmen didn't understand, but that didn't matter. It was enough that they knew that tampering would lead to bad consequences.

A fire was quickly set up on the grassland, and the sheep were roasted one by one. Groups of Han soldiers gathered together and wolfed down the half-cooked mutton.

Zhang Liao touched the mane of the red horse, turned to look at the mountains that had been left behind by them, and grinned: "I didn't die on the battlefield, but I was almost trapped to death by this hill!"

Zhang Liao has fought countless battles in his half life, but in terms of danger, this is the most dangerous one. There are no enemies, but the confusion and despair of not knowing the way forward can drive people crazy, especially as the commander-in-chief, he is responsible for everyone. Life, the kind of pressure it endures all the time is unimaginable to ordinary people.

Others were also frightened when they heard this. It is really not an easy task for the army to cross the mountain.

Li Hei smiled and said: "General, if you do it again, will you pass it?"

"Go!" Zhang Liao took a bite of the mutton leg and his eyes became firm again: "If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you catch the tiger's cubs? In our eyes, what does Wusun have to do with that naked woman? the difference!?"

"Tsk~" Li Hei put his leg of lamb on the fire again to roast, and said with a smile: "Does the general miss a woman?"

Everyone around him couldn't help laughing when he heard this, but the sound of hooves in the distance made people a little disappointed.

"Are they from this tribe?" A general raised his eyes and looked at the enemy running towards this side. They were already very close, but the troops did not have any mood swings.

Having just experienced the most desperate moment in their lives, it is difficult for them to feel the impact of the enemy now, no matter how strong the opponent is.

Zhang Liao was eating his leg of lamb without even looking at it. He just asked casually: "Who is going?"

"I'll do it!" Li Hei put the leg of lamb farther away from the fire, got on his horse, and whistled: "Come here who are not afraid of death!"

"Hulala~"

All of a sudden, a group of people surged out and rushed away from the charging herdsmen. With just one charge, these Wusun people were killed and fled in panic.

Although the other party is a nomad and grew up on horseback, these are the elite soldiers around Zhang Liao. Not only are they superb in riding skills, but they are also equipped with double stirrups, saddles, crossbows, and leather armor. In a real fight, even if it is a hedge. It is difficult for these Wusun people to defeat them, not to mention that crossbows can be fired directly. Both the power and accuracy are much greater than those of cavalry archers. The most important thing is the mentality.

For these soldiers who have just experienced the most desperate moment in life, death is not a big deal. They are elites. At this moment, they have experienced a mental transformation. That kind of fearless momentum is the most deadly.

And if you put this kind of mentality and aura on the battlefield, if you are weak-willed, you may collapse just by facing it. And the Wusun people here obviously did not expect that all the people they let go at the end would have to participate in the battle, so their condition was naturally far inferior. These soldiers crossed the Altai Mountains.

The Wusun people fled in all directions, but Zhang Liao and the others did not pursue them. After having a hearty meal, Zhang Liao got on his horse, looked at the soldiers and said, "God can't take our lives, how can we take our lives?" Leave it to these Wusun people, soldiers, to kill with me!"

Zhang Liao didn't know how many tribes and people Wusun had. He just led his men and horses to destroy the Wusun tribes one by one. He circled the area occupied by the Wusun people and fought for more than 20 days for more than 2000 miles. , during the past twenty days, they rushed to find the Wushu tribe during the day and rested at night. During this period, they changed horses but not people. There were hundreds of Wushu tribes that they defeated, and they could defeat five tribes in one day on average.

In the entire Wusun area, hundreds of thousands of people were turned upside down by Zhang Liao's thousands of people because of the lack of unified coordination. Tens of thousands of young people alone were killed or injured.

When Wusun Chanyu received the news at first, he didn't take it seriously. After all, it was just a small group of troops. Wusun's hundreds of thousands of people were still afraid that this would not work and continued to attack the city.

Jiaohe City was crumbling under the successive fierce attacks of Wusun's army. This attack lasted for more than ten days.

But more than ten days later, Wusun Shanyu gradually realized that something was wrong. The battle reports coming from the rear became more and more urgent. Instead of being wiped out, the Han army became more and more aggressive. At this time, Wusun Shanyu could not sit still. , especially as the weather got colder, the vegetation withered, and the food they brought was gone. Jiaohe City was crumbling, but it still had such a resilience that it always stood firm, which also made Wusun Shanyu want to retreat. Let’s deal with the rear first, and wait until next spring when the flowers bloom, then it won’t be too late to attack again.

Finally, after besieging Jiaohe City for a month, Wusun Chanyu decided to retreat. On Jiaohe City, looking at the Wusun army retreating like a tide, the King of Chariots sat down as if he was exhausted. Who knows how they managed to hold on for this month. Yes, but these are not important anymore. What is important is that this time the crisis of Wusun has been resolved.

Not only him, but also other generals including Qin Yi, except Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun stood on the city tower, watching the Wusun people leave. He knew that Zhang Liao had made some move. He looked at the chariot master and said, "Your Majesty, please give me all the horses in the city temporarily!"

"General is leaving?" The Che Master King was startled and looked at Zhao Yun in shock.

Jiaohe City can be defended until now, and Zhao Yun has almost become the spiritual support of the soldiers and civilians in Jiaohe City. Now that Zhao Yun is leaving, what should we do if the Wusun people come again?

At that moment, the King of Cheshi pulled Zhao Yun and said: "General, the soldiers and people of Cheshi are all tied to the general. General, please don't leave me waiting!"

"Wusun's retreat must be related to the Western Region Protector. I have to rush to help. If Wusun can be defeated in this battle, Cheshi Kingdom will not suffer from foreign invasion in the next ten years!" Zhao Yun said helplessly.

After all, the Chariot King was finally persuaded and handed over the horses in the city. Zhao Yun took the 100 cavalry troops that had not been used much, with three riders per person and three days of rations, and chased the Wusun people in the direction they left. …

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