girl riding a horse

Chapter 918 Not All Because Of This

When Xie Yuan heard this, his sharp eyes flickered, and then he rolled his eyes at Shi Yu Hengjia, and said:

"Don't you speak softly? You come to translate, ask him where the address is, and point it out on the map."

As she spoke, she handed the map to Shi Yuhengjia.

Shi Yuhengjia looked at Xie Yuan's hand, scratched his nose a little embarrassedly, took it, and said awkwardly:
"...I learned a little bit many years ago, but after so long, I don't remember much."

Xie Yuan turned his head to look at him, his eyes revealed a little irritability and disgust, and then shouted at the messenger behind him:

"Go, ask if there is anyone in the team who understands Rouran's language, call here!"

Upon hearing this, Shi Yuhengjia quickly reached out to stop her, and said:
"I'm fine, I'm just kidding!"

Xie Yuan heard that he turned his face to look at him, frowning, the end of his eyebrows flew up, and asked displeasedly:

"Why are you so awkward and talk so much nonsense! Can you do it?!"

"It can be done!" Shi Yuhengjia didn't dare to talk anymore, for fear that Xie Yuan would put him down directly, and ran away with his people.

He took the map and said a few words to the guide of the creeps.

After the guide returned, he translated to Xie Yuan again:
"He said he didn't know a map, only the road..."

Shi Yuhengjia opened his innocent eyes, feeling very guilty.

Xie Yuan was shocked, looked at the guide again, pursed his resolute lips and said:
"As a scout, is there anyone who doesn't know the map? Just kidding, do you understand?!"

Shi Yuhengjia said with certainty:
"That's right, that's what he said. He doesn't have to be a scout. Besides, what's there to paint in the creepy man's territory? It's empty... Let me ask you."

Seeing that Xie Yuan obviously didn't trust him, he changed the subject and went to talk a lot with the guide of the Creeping Man.

Xie Yuan watched coldly with his lips pursed, one hand pressed on the saber at his waist, looking like he was always ready to cut someone.

After a while, Shi Yuhengjia said:
"He said he was a close friend of King Xiang's bodyguard. King Rouran sent someone over to ask about the situation. When he returned to the city, King Xiang asked him to follow him, so he knew where they were. Maybe we could meet them if we rushed there now. The court is mobile, and it is more reliable to track than remember the map."

Xie Yuan heard that, stared at the creepy man for a while, then relaxed his brows, and said:
"Let him lead the way. As fast as he can."

Shi Yuhengjia went to translate.

Xie Yuan ordered the scouts to disperse first, keep the marching distance, and expand the field of vision as much as possible to prevent ambushes ahead.

After Shi Yuhengjia finished translating, the guide turned his horse's head and jumped out towards the distant hillside.

Xie Yuan saw his sheepskin jacket turned upside down shaking in the wind, and quickly went up the slope.With a serious look on her face and a determined expression, she held the rein and ordered to set off in a low voice, and the soldiers behind her blew their horns.

Soon, three thousand cavalry galloped on the grassland, followed behind the guide, and galloped away towards the distance.

The grassland in winter is very cold, and the temperature difference between day and night is huge. If you spend half a day in the bitter cold wind, you will be completely frozen.

Although Xie Yuan was born in Wei State, she grew up in the south for most of her memory. She really didn't experience such extreme cold weather.

Moreover, this is a grassland, and the wind blows unobstructed... It is even more ferocious than in the territory of Wei State.

After running non-stop for half a day with the guide of the creepy man, the sun gradually set to the west and the temperature dropped... Her skin was completely red when she was exposed outside, and the skin on her lips began to dry out. A hard shell comes.

She turned her head and looked at the people behind her. The soldiers following her, including Shi Yu Hengjia, were no better than her, so they could only order to rest in place first.

When a man rests, a horse must also rest.

They found a small slope barely leeward of the wind, got off their horses, held the reins in their hands, and just sat or stood there.

And the creepy guide in the distance directly found a piece of ground and sat down, picked a grass root of an unknown plant in the yellow hay, and chewed it in his mouth, looking very leisurely.

Shi Yuhengjia took a sip of water, seeing Xie Yuan looking at the guide in front of him, he didn't know what he was thinking, so he asked:

"what happened?"

Xie Yuan pursed his chapped lips, frowned and said, "It's nothing."

Shi Yuhengjia saw that she seemed to be a little worried, but he didn't know what she was worried about, so he reminded her:
"Drink two sips of water, your lips are about to bleed."

Xie Yuan's Danfeng glanced at him, but he still didn't move.

He thought that Xie Yuan's water was frozen, so he stretched out his water bag and said:
"Is it frozen? You can drink mine... The hot water must be stuffed inside the cotton-padded jacket."

Xie Yuan said in a deep voice:
"I know, if I don't drink it, you can drink it. There is no water source nearby, so save some."

After she finished speaking, her eyelashes twitched, and she turned her head to let the messenger convey what she had just said.

Shi Yuhengjia looked at her and sighed sincerely: "You have done this, you really can bear it."

Xie Yuanmu said indifferently:
"It's not all because of this. After all, I'm a woman, and it's not convenient to pee. Men can pee on horseback, and I have to find a place far away from the team, which wastes time... I have to say, marching and fighting, men There are natural advantages."

When Shi Yuhengjia heard that, he almost choked on the sip of water he drank. He looked at Xie Yuan with an awkward light and admiration in his eyes. He didn't say anything for a long time, not knowing what to say.

But Xie Yuan was very calm and natural, and didn't feel anything wrong at all.She just turned her gaze away from the creepy guide in the distance suddenly, and asked him with a frown:
"Do you think our cavalry can run faster than the creeps? In terms of endurance and speed?"

Upon hearing this, Shi Yu Hengjia blinked, laughed, and said:

"Weren't you quite confident when you negotiated with Shu Biaoda? We were all shocked by you, why are you not confident now?"

Xie Yuan really disliked Shi Yu Hengjia's speech that never focused on the point, always used a frivolous tone, rambling about, but he couldn't change it for him, so he could only patiently explain:
"Facing the enemy, facing your own soldiers, you naturally have to show your aura, but you can't let your heart drift. It is a big taboo for military strategists to underestimate the enemy, don't you understand?"

Shi Yuhengjia felt Xie Yuan's dislike, and remembered that he had almost caught Xie Yuan's way because he underestimated the enemy, so he responded with a guilty conscience and said:
"That's true……"

He paused, thought for a while before saying:
"Wei's cavalry is not much worse than them, and your soldiers are all selected. No matter how well they adapt to the environment and can endure hardships and colds, they can't be all elites and every horse is a thousand-mile horse.

On the contrary, their environment is difficult, almost everyone is a soldier, and most of them have uneven qualities. If you really want to catch up... there may not be much advantage. "

(End of this chapter)