Traveling through time and space and becoming a deposed prince, he just wants to survive!

Chapter 174 Ambush on the outskirts of Qingshui County

Following Sun Yue's suggestion, Qin Zichuan sent Wang Tieniu to lead the team and head straight towards a road to the east.

Mass grave, this is just a folk saying. The trees and weeds here are indeed lush, and it is difficult for ordinary people to notice if you hide here.

However, after staying here for a long time, one always feels that the eyelids are getting heavier.

"Chief, they're gone. Should we go back or what?"

"Rest for a while first. The trees are tall and the grass is dense here. It's not easy for the people from the Great Zhou to find us."

After hearing what their leader said, these people relaxed, put their horses beside them, and leaned against the trees to rest.

There were several secret sentries responsible for observing the outside to prevent anyone from approaching.

In another woods more than a mile away from them, there were more than sixty people hiding, also peering in their direction.

"Could it be that they discovered us? Why are they hiding inside and not coming out?"

Sun Yue was quite anxious. He encountered the Huns on his first patrol. From the initial nervousness to the current anxiety, it was an extremely long process for him. After this process, it is easy for people to become irritable and angry.

This condition is often called emergency stress disorder.

"Don't be anxious or nervous, just relax and wait." Qin Zichuan comforted.

In fact, he himself was quite anxious, but he knew that being anxious was useless.

Two more cups of tea passed, and there was still no movement in the woods opposite.

There is a road between the two places, with fields on both sides of the road. The crops in the fields have been harvested and the straw has been transported back home, so the fields look quite empty.

A charge was clearly impractical.

The best strategy is to lie in ambush here, wait for the enemy to approach, and catch them off guard.

So, everyone calmed down again, and the forest returned to peace again...

Since it is a mass grave, the animals and plants growing in it have mutated, absorbing the nutrients, cultivation and even resentment of the corpses, and turning into objects with spiritual energy. This may be the reason for the abnormality.

Therefore, those who rest here will be fine if they are upright. However, those who have been doing evil for many years will easily encounter unexpected things if they stay here.

The people inside were awakened by a chill, looked around, and saw that it was getting dark.

However, the red sun is high in the sky, but it no longer provides warmth on our bodies. Instead, the gentle autumn breeze gives us a feeling of a cold winter wind.

Let's go!

The Hun leader in the woods looked at the sentries and realized that these people could fall asleep while standing against the trees.

"Here they come." Sun Yue stood up, raised the crossbow in his hand, and looked at the group of people walking out of the woods opposite.

Qin Zichuan also saw the people on the opposite side. There were about forty cavalrymen who came towards them after coming out of the woods.

"Archers, prepare, listen to my command."

The rest of the soldiers took out arrows from their quivers, put them on their bowstrings, and prepared to shoot.

The recruits were armed with crossbows, and the distance was generally around fifty or sixty steps, so the archers Qin Zichuan mentioned did not include them.

As the enemy slowly entered the ambush circle, Qin Zichuan shouted: "Full bow, elevation!"

This is the instruction to the archers, form an arrow formation with an angle facing the sky, ready!

"put!"

"Thump, thump..." The sound of bowstring rang out, followed by the sound of arrow breaking through the air.

"Swish, swish, swish!!!" Sharp arrows shot out from the grass and flew towards the Hun cavalry. At least twenty people were hit by arrows, and some fell off their horses and died.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the leader squeezed his horse's belly and spurred it to escape.

"Swish..." A sharp arrow from a crossbow shot out and pierced his thigh.

The leader felt pain, but did not dare to stop his horse to check. He had to grit his teeth and continue moving forward, but several crossbow arrows flew in from the grass.

Several people beside him fell off their horses again.

The leader was glad that he was only shot in the leg and still had a glimmer of hope.

"Gee!" The Hun leader whipped the horse's buttocks with the back of his knife, urging the horse to speed up.

After running in an arc at an accelerated speed, the leader fled towards the northeast with a dozen people.

"Charge out and kill!" Qin Zichuan shouted and rushed out first. Sun Yue also drew his sword and rushed forward, chasing the remaining enemies.

There were several injured Huns who had fallen off their horses. Seeing Sun Yue's horse approaching, they tried to make a final struggle.

"Leave this person to Sun Yue, Yue Yue, it's time to start, you won't be afraid anymore!"

A wounded Hun fell to the ground and no longer had the courage to continue fighting against the cavalry. Sun Yue understood what the centurion meant, which was to let him build up his courage.

He put away his spear and instead rode his horse sideways to pick up a steel knife from the ground. Looking at the Huns in front of him who were running back from time to time, he drove his horse to catch up with them and cut off the enemy's head with one knife.

Qin Zichuan and his men continued to chase the enemy. The two sides were only a hundred meters apart, but it was not easy to catch up.

Wang Tieniu had somehow made a detour and returned, blocking the Huns who were trying to escape, and rushed forward. After a desperate battle, the remaining people were annihilated by Wang Tieniu and others, and no one escaped.

After the battle, Captain Qin looked at the land stained with blood, sighed softly, coughed up a mouthful of phlegm and spat it on the ground. After seeing Sun Yue, he walked over.

"Kid, how many have you killed? Are you afraid of killing someone for the first time?"

Sun Yue suppressed the urge to vomit and said stubbornly, "Don't be afraid. We are all the same. There is nothing to be afraid of."

"Haha, good job! I almost peed myself on my first time on the battlefield."

Qin Zichuan patted Sun Yue's shoulder, turned around and said to the crowd: "If anyone wants to dismount, do it quickly. Then clean up the battlefield and check their belongings."

When the two sides engaged in close combat, it was inevitable that some people would be injured, but fortunately, there were more people than fewer, and it was an ambush.

Looking at the injured veterans, Qin Zichuan felt that these people were quite skilled and should not be just ordinary scouts.

What exactly are these people trying to achieve by coming to Qingshui County?

Sun Yue found a place and urinated while trying to control the urge to vomit, tears coming out of his eyes.

This was his first time to carry out a mission and also his first time to kill someone. It would be a lie to say that he was not afraid. Thinking back to the scene of blood splattering everywhere, he was still a little scared. But he was a man of iron after all, so how could he show his cowardice?

Everyone cleaned up the battlefield and found a parchment scroll.

Wang Tieniu's men handed it over, and he muttered, "I can't even read, what are you doing for me?"

Then he came to Qin Zichuan, handed it over and said, "Look what this is?"

Qin Zichuan took it and unfolded it, taking a look. "It looks like a map. The characters on it are not from the Great Zhou Dynasty, and I don't recognize them. Forget it, I won't ask anymore. These people combined don't know as many characters as I do."

After thinking for a moment, he looked at Sun Yue who was tying his pants and asked, "Sun boy, can you read?"

"I can recognize about a dozen characters, but I can't write them."

"Do you know the numbers from one to ten? Haha~"

Wang Tieniu couldn't help laughing.

"Hey, the chief is smart. How did you know that?"

"Stop being so joking. Tieniu, take this kid back with you and report the situation here to General Chen, the garrison commander."

Qin Zichuan was not in the mood to joke with them, but handed the information to Wang Tieniu and gave orders.

Upon hearing this, Sun Yue hurriedly fastened his pants and tidied up his horse. There was obviously an extra knife on the horse's back.

After escorting them for a while, Wang Tieniu took Sun Yue away, and the two of them escorted a piece of information back, which shows how much Qin Zichuan valued this information.

It was noon at this time, and the sunlight from the sky shone on the earth. The land that had just been stained with blood slowly began to dry up.