"That group of damn chariots..."

As the sky approached dusk, on a flat and vast plain, a Qin soldiers named "Tan" cursed secretly.

Tan is 10 or 9 years old this year. He lives in Lantian County, on the banks of the Bashui River. His father died on the battlefield five years ago, and his elder brother also died on the battlefield three years ago.

He is the second son of the family, and now he has an old mother in his fifties, two younger brothers, a younger sister, and his sister-in-law who remarries him after his brother's death.

Or, should you be called a wife?

He is a woman from the village next door. She looks pretty and can endure hardships.

"The commander of the brigade has orders, go to the forest ahead to rest for a while."

Right ahead, soldiers came to convey the command of the brigade commander.

After hearing this, the Qin soldiers around Tan complained one after another.

"I can finally rest for a while..."

"Those damn chariots really don't treat me infantry as humans. Don't they know that we have to rely on our legs to rush our way?"

"Those guys are so arrogant that they can't pay attention to us?"

"Ha ha……"

The complaints of the Qin soldiers revealed their dissatisfaction and ridicule towards the chariots, but in fact everyone knew that they all envied the chariots.

He walked to the forest ahead, Tan sat down under a tree, put the long spear in his hand aside, reached out to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and then calculated his military achievements solemnly.

According to the "Shangjun Law" promulgated by Qin State, ordinary Qin people, namely, the civilians without titles in Qin State, could obtain a first-level title, namely "Kingshi". This title was obtained by Tan's father, and at that time his family also obtained houses and 100 acres of land.

In Qin State, it is not difficult to improve the M-rank title by killing enemies. The difficulty is to maintain the title, because if you want to maintain the title, you must kill a certain number of enemy soldiers on the battlefield. Therefore, there are many people who have been promoted from civilians to third-level titles after a battle, but they were demoted to second-level titles and even first-level titles. This is because he failed to obtain the prescribed number of enemies killed in subsequent wars.

This is how Brother Tan was. He suffered a defeat in the war against Wei in the Qin State two years ago and was surrendered. So much so that Tan inherited military merits after his brother's death and was just a magistrate.

However, in this war, Tan has accumulated enough achievements to be promoted to the slainiao.

Even a fourth-level title is "not updated". As long as he reaches this title, he will not need to serve in military service except that he still has to serve in the military and will have more time to help his family do farm work and accompany his family.

Suddenly, Tan seemed to remember something and took off a cloth bag on his back.

After the cloth bag was spread out, I saw many Korean cloth coins and round coins inside, a whole pile of them, some broken copper, and a copper bracelet that looked a bit old.

Seeing this, a smile appeared on his Tan's face.

He picked up the bracelet, and immediately recalled the process of his snatching it from a woman.

“…”

After looking at the bracelet carefully, Tan did not find any blood on the bracelet.

Well, it has been washed with water and it is very clean.

『She should be very happy...』

Fantasizing about the scene when he gave the bracelet to his wife at home, a smile appeared on his calm face again.

He missed his hometown a little.

The main reason is that this battle was too difficult. Although it defeated the main force of the 180,000 Wei army at one time, the Wei army was very tenacious. Even after being defeated, they still fought tenaciously with their Qin army with only half of their remaining troops, and even forced them to South Korea in turn.

But the Qin army was not so easily defeated. If there was no food, then we would rob the Koreans of food.

"The brigade commander has an order to quickly fill his hunger. After a moment, he will continue to rush to chase the front army."

Another soldiers came to pass the orders in the distance, which caused the wailing of the Qin soldiers around him.

"Do you still have to catch up?"

"It's getting dark, can't we just rest for a night?"

"Those damn masters ignore us infantrymen..."

『…』

He glanced at the whining robes around him, Tan packed up the cloth bag, carried it back on his back, and then untied the other cloth bag he tied to his waist.

Spread the cloth bag and saw a rice ball as big as a fist inside. It was very irregular in shape, with some wood ash on it and some dark brown things.

"Is this one left?"

Looking at the dark brown marks on the rice ball, Tan frowned slightly.

He knew what it was. It was originally bright red human blood, but it turned into a dark brown color after it was dry.

After hesitating for a moment, Tan finally picked up the rice ball with his hands, took a bite expressionlessly, and slowly chewed the hard rice grains.

While chewing, he felt a trace of unusual fishy and salty smell in his mouth. He forced himself not to think about it carefully, thinking about the bean soup cooked by his wife at home.

To be honest, bean soup is far from that delicious, but at this moment, I dreamed that I could drink a sip of bean soup cooked by my wife at home.

In this way, after a while, Tan swallowed all the rice balls, but he still felt that he was still unsatisfied.

Unfortunately, he had no more food to fill his stomach.

But even so, he was still lucky than some Qin soldiers around him. At least he had the last rice ball with blood, and some Qin soldiers could only endure hunger.

There was no way, the food they plundered in Yangcheng was not enough to support more than 50,000 Qin troops, so that everyone could get very little food, so they could barely prevent them from starving to death.

"It's time to leave?"

Watching around.

And at this moment, another soldier came to order: "The commander of the brigade has an order, so he will rest in this forest tonight."

"Long live!"

The Qin soldiers couldn't help but cheer, but they felt a little strange.

He asked the chazi not far away and said, "What's going on? Isn't it a chasing convoy?"

"Don't know."

The robe shook his head and said, "It seems that the person sent by the brigade commander has not found the whereabouts of the chariot convoy... God knows that the cavalry who were chasing Wei State have been chased there... In short, the brigade commander told us to rest."

"oh."

Tan nodded, held the cloth bag that he had originally carried on his back, closed his eyes and rested.

When you can eat, you will let go of your stomach and eat when you can sleep. When you can, you will hurry up. This was taught by Tan's old soldiers when he was in the military agency. Unfortunately, those old soldiers who looked very fierce but kind were killed in battle at Yique Mountain a while ago.

He was ruthlessly killed by soldiers of the Wei army.

While closing his eyes to rest, Tan heard the robes around him whispering.

"I suspect that those cavalry of the Wei State today are the pioneer scouts of the Wei army, who are here to inquire about our army's movements... They discovered our whereabouts, and it may be that within a few days the main force of the Wei army will chase after..."

"So what if you catch up? At worst, you can fight with them! I heard from the brigade coach that the Wei army was chasing us, and we had 50,000 people, so we might not have no chance of winning."

"What do you know? It's because we have no chance of winning that we fled to South Korea... Those Wei soldiers are very powerful."

"Yes, it's strange. Those Wei troops were obviously defeated by us, but they actually became even more powerful than before... Are there any famous generals in the Wei army besides Xiwu?"

"I don't know...but there shouldn't be any famous general in the Wei State who is more powerful than Xiwu, right?"

"What's the use of saying this? I just hope that the army will attack that...Fox City as soon as possible, so that we can let go of some food in the city. Damn, I haven't eaten anything since last night. I'm so hungry that I can swallow a cow..."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Then, the chastes' voices became lighter and softer, and Tan gradually fell into a deep sleep.

In his dream, he dreamed of his wife.

I don't know how long it took, Tan vaguely heard some panic sounds coming from beside him.

He suddenly opened his eyes, and then he realized that it was already early the next morning, and it was bright, and somehow the robes around him were a little panicked.

"What's going on?"

Tan also said nervously when he fucked Chang Ge beside him.

"What happened."

The robe who was asked by him said with horror: "The people sent by the brigade commander sent back the news, that the chariot convoy was defeated... No, it was killed and wiped out. When the people sent by the brigade commander arrived, there were only corpses and broken (chariot) cars everywhere, the weapons and armor of the brigade commander were gone, and their war horses were gone..."

"...It's probably dragged away and eaten?"

Thinking of the taste of horse meat, I felt hungry and swallowed subconsciously.

He asked, "The chariot convoy... I remember there were a hundred chariots? Are they all dead? Who did it? Could it be those cavalrymen of the Wei army?"

"Don't know."

The robe shook his head and said, "According to the people who came back, those people were shot to death by arrows, and even Xin Xi and Xin Shishang were killed. As for whom they did, I don't know. Maybe it was the cavalry of the Wei army?...or there are other Wei army nearby."

『…Even Xin Xi Shishuai is dead?!』

A look of horror appeared on his face.

Although the Qin army has lost countless soldiers and generals so far, it is a battle chariot convoy, a battle chariot convoy composed of a whole hundred fighting chariots. How could it be suddenly killed by the opponent? There is no chance to escape?

At this moment, the shouts of the messenger came from a distance: "The brigade commander has an order, set off!"

This order caused complaints from the Qin soldiers in the army.
To be continued...