Liang Xiao experienced an arduous snow marching, and his cruelty was only comparable to being chased by King Hunxie for thousands of miles last time.↑,.

For seven or eight consecutive days, he and the mercenaries climbed ice and lie on snow. During the day, he marches on snowboards and dragged sleds. At night, he found a place to be leeward, dug a snow hole, and lie on clothes. When he was hungry, he ate two pieces of jerky meat. When he was thirsty, he ate two bites of snow.

There are no grapes and wine, no tents, no warm bonfires, only the admiring eyes of the mercenaries.

Everyone worked hard, but no one complained.

Liang Xiao cannot complain. Although he has modern ideas in mind, he is very frivolous and cannot rely on his thoughts to become an official and a title and live the life he wants. He can only start from the bottom. He is already very lucky to be able to reach this point within two years. He does not want to lose this opportunity. He wants to completely defeat Wudan and prove that he has the strength to protect Dayuan.

The mercenaries cannot complain. First, this is their own voluntary action. Only by cutting off more heads of the Huns and receiving more rewards can they make their families feel more comfortable. Second, as a Han envoy, Liang Xiao can share the joys and sorrows with them. As a mercenary, what else do they have to say?

The hardest part was the Alpha and the four of them. They had never suffered such hardships. However, they did not complain. Not only because they were Liang Xiao's maids and had no right to complain, but also because they were Amazon female warriors, and the dignity of their ancestors made them bear all the pain.

Everyone gritted their teeth and burped their heads forward.

As night fell, Liang Xiao and others stopped. There was endless snow fields around, without any cover, and there was no place to block the wind. Today, they will spend the night in the snow cave again.

Without orders, everyone stopped and found their own location to dig holes. Li Shuyun and Linghu each led some people outside, Tu Niuer and Pang Shuo led eighteen mercenaries, Alpha and Liang Xiao were at the innermost point, forming a triple round formation with Liang Xiao as the center.

With the help of Pang Shuo and others, Alpha and Beta dug three snow caves. The top of the snow cave is kept intact and the inside is connected to each other, like a cave. The snow cave is not big, and after laying the leather mattress, one or two people can only curl up and lie down.

Although there was no wind and not a single thick fur coat on his body, it was still very cold in the snow cave. There was no firewood on the grassland to make fire, so they could only rely on their bodies to carry it. After leaving the mountain, they marched for three days. Seventeen mercenaries had frozen to death. Every time they saw the frozen smiles on those people's faces, Liang Xiao felt that he was too cruel. For his achievements, he pushed them to the abyss of death, and was moved to inexplicably gladness.

Fortunately, these people are all strong men he carefully selected. If they were ordinary mercenaries, more people would have frozen to death.

Stepping on the thick snow, accompanied by Li Shuyun and Linghu, Liang Xiao carefully checked the physical condition of each mercenary. Many hands and feet were frozen, and many people's faces were frostbitten. The cheeks turned into two large black and purple spots, which probably would not be dissipated in their entire lives.

Seeing Liang Xiao patrol the camp, the mercenaries forced themselves to cheer and stood up to salute. Liang Xiao spoke kindly and comforted him and checked one by one. After the inspection, he returned to his snow cave and Liang Xiao sat cross-legged.

"Master, jerky." Sigma reached out from the snow cave next to her and handed over a piece of jerky.

Looking at the dried meat, Liang Xiao felt a stinging pain in his mouth. The dried meat was frozen and hard. He bitten like wood. When he swallowed it, he often smelled blood. His mouth was worn out, and every time he ate, it hurts like a torture. He saliva and blood were all over his mouth.

However, it is not OK to not eat in such weather. Maybe tomorrow morning, he will sleep in the snow and ice with that smile.

Liang Xiao reached out to take the jerky, but unexpectedly found that the jerky was very soft and it was a little warm when touched.

"How did you do it?"

"Hehe. Put it close to you, it can warm it up and soften it." Shigma retracted her head and could hear her laughter through the snow cave. "Master, it smells a little sweaty, don't blame me."

Liang Xiao took it to his nose and smelled it. It was indeed a stinky smell of sweat. Although Sigma was still a virgin, she also had a stinky smell of sweat without taking a bath for ten days. However, compared to the cold and hard jerky, the jerky smell was a bit sweaty, but it was soft and had a little body temperature, which was simply a delicacy.

"Thank you for your hard work." Liang Xiao took a bite of the jerky meat and chewed it slowly. "What did you think of it?"

"Those mercenary sects. They do this." Sigma poked her head out again, revealing her red face. "Isn't it very smelly?"

"Where did you put it?" Liang Xiao frowned deliberately. "Did you put it in your shoes?"

"No, no, I put it on my chest." Shigma said quickly, and patted her chest.

Liang Xiao smiled and blinked. "No wonder, it smells like milk."

"No, no, they haven't..." Shigma suddenly realized that Liang Xiao was teasing her, and suddenly turned red, quickly shrank back, and laughed again. Alpha, who lived with her, attached herself to her ear, muttered a few words, and the two of them laughed together and formed a ball.

Liang Xiao smiled and finished eating the jerky meat. He picked some snow from the wall of the snow cave and put it in his mouth. He waited until the snow melted and became warm in his mouth before he swallowed it slowly. This was also learned from the mercenaries. If he swallowed the snow directly into his stomach, his internal organs would suffer from cold.

After eating jerky meat and drinking snow water, Liang Xiao sat cross-legged and began to regulate his breathing.

After learning ejaculation for two years, he had long known that meditation and breathing can produce heat, and he also taught others, but few and few people could persist in meditation like him. Just like he taught many people to practice ejaculation, there are only a handful of people who can truly persist for a long time. As for now, only Shigma can persist every day.

Therefore, the only one who has improved the fastest archery skills is Sigma. She has completed the foundation building for 100 days, and now she can draw a bow of 80 kilograms, shoot sixty steps, and score seven or eight out of ten. It won't take long before she can change to a stone bow.

Liang Xiao quickly entered a state of meditation. Everything around him became quiet, and the sound of breathing and heartbeat gradually became clear in his ears. The wind blew the snow particles and rolled over the snow layer above his head, rustling.

Wu Dan sat on the sled and watched a knight slowly tilt down from the horse's back, falling headlong into the snow, never getting up again.

There was no expression on his face. He was already used to this scene.

Following the advice of the wizard, he took more than a thousand guards and left the other soldiers and took away the remaining supplies. He walked all the way despite the fatigue of the people and horses. After only two days, one-third of the people fell off the team, and the rest were exhausted. As he walked, he often fell off the horse's back and died on the side of the road.

At the beginning, whenever he saw someone fall down, Wu Dan's heart was like a knife cut. These guards were his own confidants, and the strength he had accumulated over the years. Whether it was loyalty or strength, they were all selected from a hundred. When Liang Xiao attacked the camp, they were blocking Liang Xiao forever, which allowed him to escape from death.

They did not fall on the battlefield, but died in the wind and snow.

However, when more people fell down, Wu Dan's pain gradually weakened. It seemed that he was used to it, and his emotions were no longer turbulent, just as if he was watching a stranger who had nothing to do with him died.

As night fell, the team slowly stopped. Yiwuer, the commander of the guard camp, rode a camel. He bent down on the camel's back and looked carefully at Wu Dan's face.

"Master, are you okay?"

Wu Dan nodded and showed a rare smile. Yiwuer is his confidant and his playmate since childhood. Although the two are not brothers, they are even more close than their own brothers.

"I'm fine. How many people are there?"

"There are more than 600 more. There are more than 30 people behind today. I'm up tomorrow morning. I don't know how many will be missing. King..." Yiwuer's face was dark and he lowered his voice. "King, why should you listen to the wizard? In such weather, you should rest on the spot and preserve your physical strength."

Wu Dan lowered his face and was about to speak when the wizard walked over in the snow. Although the cold wind was biting, she was still barefoot and could not see that she was afraid of the cold. Wu Dan frowned, gave Yiwuer a wink, signaling him not to speak, stood up and stroked his chest and saluted.

"Great Wizard?"

"Can't stop." The wizard snapped: "We are not yet free from the shadow of the demon, and we must continue to rush."

Wu Dan was shocked and was about to speak, but Yiwuer said first: "It's dark, how can you leave? The wind is so cold that it can blow away people's hands and feet. If you don't find a place to rest, how many people will die?"

"It doesn't matter how many people die, but the king cannot die." The wizard narrowed his eyes and glared at Yiwuer. "Do you dare to disobey the oracle?"

Yiwuer blushed and furious. "Orhizome, oracle, is it just for us to die? We are all dead. Even if the king is still alive, can he control the Hunxie King tribe alone? If there is no one, he will die when he goes back."

"If you despise the oracle, you will definitely be punished by the gods. King, if you listen to his bewitching and violate the oracle, the gods will abandon you again."

Wu Shan hesitated. The wizard glanced at him and turned around and left. Yiwuer stared at the wizard's back and gasped. He exchanged a look with Wu Shan, but found that Wu Shan's eyes were empty, like a dead person.

"Master, what's wrong with you?"

Wu Dan was motionless. Yiwuer screamed twice, and Wu Dan woke up like a dream. He turned his head to look at the west, his eyes frightened. "I... felt danger. Yiwuer, we must listen to the great wizard and continue on our way."

Yiwuer widened his eyes and looked at Wu Dan, who was silent, fiercely. His thick lips moved and he spitted out a bloody saliva. "Master, you are frightened." After saying that, he shook the whip in his hand and shouted loudly: "Stop and rest!"

The north wind stopped for a moment, then blew even harder, and the Huns cursed and dispersed everywhere, looking for a place to camp.

The wizard looked at the dark night sky with his face gloomy, opened his arms and whispered. "God, please don't abandon us."

A few miles away, Liang Xiao in the snow cave suddenly opened his eyes-

(To be continued.)
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