Chapter 280

Yuan Zuozong looked at the Xiongnu charging toward him, a cold smile appearing on the corner of his mouth.

He raised the long sword in his hand.

The tip of the sword swept through the wind and snow in front of him, seemingly splitting the snowflakes in two at this instant.

The warhorse he sat upon immediately reared up high, and then charged toward the Xiongnu in front.

The Xiongnu man who struck first had originally thought that even if he were not a match, he could still retreat unscathed.

But he did not expect to be tightly suppressed by this Great Qin man.

The long sword in Yuan Zuozong's hand blocked the Xiongnu's attack at an extremely exquisite angle.

Then, he changed the angle and stabbed into the Xiongnu man's chest.

A slight cry of pain.

The Xiongnu man's chest was immediately stained red with blood.

The blood falling to the ground was like blooming plum blossoms.

On this icy and snowy land, it gathered into a picture of peerless beauty.

Yuan Zuozong withdrew the long sword in his hand without hesitation.

Blood sprayed out once again.

The scalding blood dripped onto the faces of the Xiongnu men behind.

Those people blindly touched their faces, their expressions seemingly dazed.

By the time they realized something was wrong, their boss had already gone limp and fallen off his horse.

This tall Xiongnu man looked blankly at the sky above.

The vitality in his body was slowly diminishing, and the cold swept from his limbs throughout his entire body.

Just as he began to drift off, a cold snowflake fell onto his eye.

The slight irritation slowly pulled his spirit out of his daze.

Then he saw the final scene of his life.

The brothers who had come out with him were all cut down by this group of Great Qin men.

Every brother's face revealed a look of pain.

The image in his eyes seemed to freeze there, and then he had no more breath.

After finishing off the eight Xiongnu in front of him.

Yuan Zuozong had people search the belongings on these Xiongnu.

Apart from a small amount of grain and grass, these Xiongnu did not carry anything useful.

"Go."

With a cold expression, he glanced at the corpses on the ground, and Yuan Zuozong withdrew the team.

He had originally hoped to find the Xiongnu's hiding place from these corpses.

Unfortunately, these Xiongnu seemed to be a bit too cautious.

They had been wandering on these grasslands for so long, and had only found this one squad.

But this squad did not seem to carry anything useful.

Leaving the bodies to rot in the wilderness was the best punishment for these Xiongnu.

On the other side.

Ever since Meng Tian learned about the village massacre, he had been wanting to find the Xiongnu and start a war.

However, for the past few days, the heavy snow had not stopped.

Let alone starting a war.

Even walking outside was somewhat difficult.

Meng Tian could only dismiss his thoughts and wait for this heavy snow to pass.

The first snow of early winter.

It should be a good omen of a bountiful year.

But there was no joy on Meng Tian's face at all.

Deep in his heart, he suppressed his anger toward the Xiongnu.

And even more, he felt worry for other villages on the border.

The number of villages near the border was too large, and they had no way to look after all of them.

And this gave those Xiongnu the best opportunity.

After all, these Xiongnu were hidden deep in the grasslands.

The entire team was not large in number, but they were exceptionally fierce and good at fighting.

Compared to ferocity, the Great Qin people were far inferior to these Xiongnu.

But if they were to disperse their forces to protect these villages.

That was definitely not a good method.

This was no different from breaking their greatest advantage into pieces, allowing the enemy to defeat them one by one.

Meng Tian immediately dismissed this idea in his mind.

"You all, tell me how this should be handled?"

In the military tent, Meng Tian looked at the several generals below him.

The faces of these generals also revealed the same expression as Meng Tian's.

"General, it is snowing heavily now, I fear those Xiongnu will not easily make a move."

"Once they appear, traces will surely be left in the snow."

A young man with a very scholarly appearance spoke up.

He was not a general under Meng Tian, but a military advisor.

Although young, his learning was quite good, which was why he could appear here.

"Qi Ziyi, do you know that with such heavy snow, in just a moment, the traces on the snow will be completely covered?"

Zhang Tian frowned and spoke.

As soon as he finished speaking, the young man named Qi Ziyi was somewhat speechless.

He was, after all, still a bit too young, only knowing how to talk on paper.

"The main problem I am considering now is how to protect the villages along the border line."

"But our forces cannot be dispersed to every village to protect them."

Meng Tian spoke.

His voice was somewhat gloomy and serious.

The several generals below returned to silence once again.

Because they also did not know how to prevent the Xiongnu's sneak attacks on these border villages.

"Can we not take the initiative to attack?"

One of the more hot-tempered generals could not help but ask.

He felt that no matter how one thought about it, it was just passively waiting for the result.

Only by taking the initiative to attack could they keep the power of decision in their own hands.

"The snow is too heavy."

"If we take the initiative to attack in this weather, I fear the soldiers will not be able to handle it."

Zhang Tian shook his head once again.

He had not followed Meng Tian from Xianyang City.

He was once Meng Tian's soldier, and now he was Meng Tian's deputy general.

He had always been stationed at the border and had never returned to Xianyang City.

It was only when Meng Tian arrived at the border that he became Meng Tian's deputy general again.

"Although these soldiers are stationed at the border, resisting the Xiongnu's harassment daily."

"But in such heavy snow, fighting on the grasslands, we have no advantage at all."

"If the number of people is too large, those Xiongnu will not engage us in battle."

"We will fall back into the passive state of the past few years."

"They simply cannot engage us, and we simply cannot afford to wear them down."

After Zhang Tian finished speaking, all the generals present frowned.

"Are we really left with no way to deal with this group of Xiongnu?"

One of the generals slapped the table and stood up directly from his chair.

His face was full of anger, and his eyes held undisguised annoyance.

"Then why don't we lure the Xiongnu into making a move?"

Qi Ziyi spoke up again.

"What idea do you have? Speak quickly."

The general who had stood up earlier immediately looked at this young man.

His eyes carried a sense of urgency.

Although they, as people who led troops in battle, looked down upon these scholarly men the most in their lives.

But they had to admit that once a problem arose, the brains of these scholars did indeed turn faster than theirs.

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