Through Time Chapter 219

Two days later, Yunzhong County.

On the grassland outside the Great Wall, several groups of Qin cavalry are also on the hunt.

Of course there are only some sheep here.

So the rehearsal means more.

Zhao Lang watched with a group of Qin foot soldiers leaning against the Great Wall.

Everyone was more of a spectator as well.

“Brother Long, what’s the point of watching with just this many people?”

Hu Hai, who was on the side, said lazily.

They were just so many cavalrymen.

Having seen the Xiongnu cavalry in great numbers, he naturally could not be interested.

Zhao Lang smiled as he greeted the cavalrymen who were showing off their force below, his mouth lightly saying that

“If you say one more word, I’ll throw you down from here.”

Hu Hai looked at the height of the position, then wisely shut his mouth.

He began to call out to the cavalry below.

The cavalry below also perked up and chased the head sheep from side to side.

It was as if they were besieging the enemy’s cavalry, which looked extremely intense.

And to give the foot soldiers on the edge of the Wall a better view, they also came this way.

Suddenly, Hu Hai’s face changed and he spoke to Zhao Lang, saying

“Brother Long, that sheep of theirs is going to the place where the pit was dug!”

He had only fallen not long ago, but he had specifically asked where the pit was dug.

And he knew how heartlessly these folk had dug the pit!

Each one was deep enough to break a horse’s hoof and was covered with grass.

If the first sheep ran in, the cavalry behind would have broken at least a dozen horses, even if they had found them in time.

Not a small loss for them either!

By this time there were already people running over to show the alarm and others shouting, but the cavalry below just thought everyone was cheering for them.

Instead, they got even more energetic.

It looked as if the men were about to chase the head sheep and enter the pit area.

Suddenly, a dark shadow descended from the sky.

In the next instant, the head sheep was nailed to the ground with a sharp arrow.

All the hors*men also stopped in the process, unsure of the direction the arrow had come from.

They saw that, high above them, Zhao Lang was slowly putting away his recurve bow.

The crowd looked at the sheep, and then at Zhao Lang, who was at least two hundred paces away.

They could not help but be stunned.

Hu Hai was even dumbfounded as he looked at Zhao Lang, who was holding a bow at one side.

How far was this distance just now? At least two hundred paces!

Although standing on high ground would have a bonus to the archery distance, but at such a distance, he was actually able to kill the scurrying head sheep, with a single arrow.

It was simply unreasonable.

Instead, Zhao Lang just put his bow and arrows away extremely naturally, as if he had just done an extremely insignificant and trivial thing.

“Brother Long, you…”

Before Hu Hai could finish his shocked words, a fast horse ran over and shouted to

“General! The Huns are attacking!”

Hearing these words, Zhao Lang’s face sank like water and he spoke in a deep voice to

“Gather the men and return to camp!”

Zhao Long had expected the Xiongnu to attack.

He had sacked Boldon’s tribe and captured the wives and children of others.

It’s a wonder they wouldn’t come over to retaliate!

Soon all the thousand generals were gathered together.

“The Huns have arrived at two hundred miles, and the scouts say at least three thousand hors*men are coming towards us, and ten thousand more have gone in the direction of Jiuyuan.”

“And there are cavalry joining them all the time, the final total strength should not be less than 20,000.”

Zhao Lang said indifferently.

Hearing this news, however, everyone did not panic too much.

“General, it’s a tradition of the Huns now that they also loot supplies for the winter before it starts.”

“It’s just that in recent years they don’t dare to come here anymore.”

“I didn’t expect that this time their courage has returned.”

One of the thousand generals spoke up.

They hadn’t been afraid since they faced the Huns.

“General, I will go to the counties to tell them to prepare to close the city.”

“Let the people in the wilderness, prepare to enter the city.”

Another general of a thousand men spoke up.

This was the conventional way.

The Huns never play hardball with them!

And every time they plundered, the other side entered in small groups of cavalry through different gaps and then burned and looted.

If you had more men, the others avoided you, if you had less men, the others ate you.

It was insurmountable!

Back then, Meng Tian all but destroyed the Xiongnu in one fell swoop by raiding the other side’s royal court so that they had to meet the battle.

Zhao Lang didn’t take it lightly, it was all about the lives of the peasants, and had a thousand generals go and inform the counties.

He himself also sent someone to inform the Great General.

“Brother Long, we have dug so many pits, there should be no problem, right?”

Hu Hai said.

He could always remember the suffering of that time.

Zhao Lang, however, shook his head and

“The trench is only a temporary protection, once the other side finds out, it can be solved with just dirt and planks, and it’s not all over the line.”

If the whole line was really hundreds of kilometres, the folk would not be able to bear digging a pit like that.

A way had to be found to get the other side to follow him.

Suddenly, Zhao Long’s heart struck him and he said.

“Lu, find me one of the cavalry who speaks Hunanese.”

Soon, Hun scout horses appeared one after another around the Great Wall.

Inside Jiuyuan County, Meng Tian also received the news.

“What do you think.”

Passing the information in his hand to Fusu and Gao at his side, Meng Tian asked indifferently.

These days, he had been teaching the two men about the military.

After reading the intelligence, Fusu pondered a little and then said that

“Great General, although the Xiongnu are raging, they are only 20,000 in number and are not much of a threat.”

“Let’s just hold on, well, we can also send some reinforcements to Yunzhong County.”

After hearing this, Meng Tian was noncommittal, and then looked at Gao.

Gao returned at this time and

“Great General, I see that this time the other side is more like a revenge, the other side’s main target is actually in Yunzhong County. ”

“It’s for what General Zhao did last time when he smashed their tribe.”

“So, I also think we need to support them.”

There were many high generals in Jiuyuan County, and this little bit of Xiong Nu cavalry could not make any waves at all.

It was then that Meng Tian nodded his head and said that

“You have all seen well, the other side’s main target this time, in Yunzhong County.”

“Then do you all think he can hold it?”

Fusu hesitated and returned.

“Great General, if we meet the Xiongnu hard, General Zhao has five thousand men and relies on the Great Wall, then there must be no problem.”

He had never had any doubts about Zhao Lang’s battle prowess.

“It’s just that the Xiongnu won’t fight us hard, and on General Zhao’s side, the five thousand men are mostly foot soldiers, so I’m afraid it will be difficult to resist.”

“When the Xiongnu cavalry enters the country, I’m afraid that Yunzhong County will not fare well.”

Meng Tian said, laughing at once.

“That is a good point, in that case, we will go and see how he will handle it.”

He went to see how Zhao Lang would deal with the enemy he was facing.

Two days later, Meng Tian appeared in Yunzhong County with a large number of cavalry.

Only when he was close to the edge of the Great Wall, he was appalled to see that Zhao Lang was riding alone, standing at a relatively flat gap in the Great Wall.

And opposite him was a crowd full of Xiongnu cavalry.

Ordinary people who saw this scene would have been too frightened to move.

And not only could Zhao Lang move, but he was extremely unafraid of death, making provocative gestures.

It was as if he was afraid that these Xiong Nu cavalrymen would not come and charge him.

It seemed like he wanted to fight a thousand hors*men with one man’s strength!

And in the next instant, the Xiongnu cavalry in the distance were surging towards the gap like a tidal wave!