Jiaozhi Plain is the Jiaozhi Road, this road is quite wide, even some official roads are not comparable, the Jiaozhi City is also the important city of the Qin Dynasty, located in the southward direction of the Qin Dynasty, the city is located in the place where the left limb of a country is coiled, so it presents the scene of the carriage and horses extending in all directions.

Before entering the Cochin Road, the roads in this area are divided into forks, one leads directly to the Cochin Plain, one goes deep into Gangneung County, and the other leads to the southern Manjun area, which should have many merchants on this road on weekdays, but today because of the obstruction of an army, many carriages, horses and pedestrians who should have entered the Cochin area were blocked out.

This is a strong iron cavalry, the size of about a thousand people surrounded this fork in the road, each cavalry showed a cold and proud color, because they are the best light cavalry in this Jiaozhi battlefield, even if they did not achieve great feats in the previous battle, but they all held a wave of anger in their hearts, waiting for their general Li Zhengxing to give them the opportunity to correct the name of the greedy wolf cavalry.

Li Zhengxing and Kou Xiuyong sat in front of the road, looking at the south, as if waiting for someone. Under the cover of Luo Yaohua's three generals, they secretly traveled out of Jiaozhi City and came to this fork in the road to complete a rather serious task, but this incident did not seem to block the eyes of Wohua Mountain.

Kou Xiuyong's eyes scanned the cavalry team sharply, and said coldly: "General Li Zhengxing, I noticed that a few of your cavalry members left the team without permission, but they returned in a short time, I am afraid that they are spies in the army, although I can't find out which queue they are in now, but I still have many ways to find them." ”

Li Zhengxing frowned when he heard this, and said: "I have known these for a long time, in fact, there are many secret spies in Wohua Mountain in our military camp, although it is possible to expose our whereabouts, but Governor Pang has not thought about cleaning it up. I once asked the Governor why, but the Governor said that the conspiracy is not as good as the conspiracy, and leaving these spies who do not involve the higher levels of the Dao can sometimes promote the victory of the war. ”

The corners of Kou Xiuyong's mouth lifted a cold smile, and said: "The governor is really skilled in the art of war, this kind of thinking is already too much better than us, at this time, this mission needs to be carried out secretly, if the group of mountain bandits in Wohua Mountain knows, it will inevitably come to get involved, what does the governor mean? Isn't it that he wants them to take that person away directly?"

Li Zhengxing said: "It shouldn't be, that person is one of the best people in the barbarian county, and it is His Majesty's intention to escort him to the capital. The Governor had just strategically won a battle in the northern mountains, and he should not have used such a risky method to do so. ”

Kou Xiuyong said with a smile: "I think it's possible, Governor Pang's previous battle made me and others extremely admired, although a few of us did not kill a few of the commanders of Wohua Mountain, but the Governor secretly Chen Cang smashed the grain plank road of Wohua Mountain, and opened all the passes in the south that hindered the entry of barbarians, this achievement has a strong role in strategy, and has laid the foundation for our army to win the battle." This time, most of the generals in the Wohua Mountain military camp are in a state of recuperation, and there are not a few other seven-stage generals left, it is the opportunity for our army to take the opportunity to take this mountain bandit, and the governor naturally thinks that if it is according to my intentions, he will definitely use another means. ”

Li Zhengxing was slightly surprised, although he had been in front of Pang Lu for so long, how could he not seem to be as good as this new general governor, he couldn't help but sigh: "Brother Kou is really vicious, the governor is superb, I don't understand the governor's intentions at all, according to Brother Kou's conjecture, what do you think we should do to escort this cage this time?"

In the barracks, he does not use the position and rank to be commensurate with the rank, but changes the title to "brother", which is enough to see Li Zhengxing's sincerity, Kou Xiuyong, as a foreign general, was originally lower than the governor's personal guard generals in his position, and was so respected, so he naturally responded with a courtesy, and only said: "Then I will express my humble opinion privately, and if there is anything inappropriate, I hope that Brother Li can correct it." ”

"Brother Kou, please speak. Li Zhengxing said.

Kou Xiuyong straightened his clothes and said: "The governor's soldiers are divided into three ways as bait soldiers to attack the Wohua Mountain military camp, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that these three are not the real main force, and the team of nine thousand people is not enough to break through the military camp in Wohua Mountain, even those mountain bandits, they can come up with clues after a little thought." What's more, there are many secret spies of mountain bandits hidden in our military camp, and there are also many places in Jiaozhi City, so it is almost impossible not to expose the news that we are secretly out of the city. ”

"And there are more than 20,000 people left in the Wohua Mountain military camp, and the generals are also seriously injured, they naturally will not fight us head-on, even if they have a killing weapon like heavy cavalry, they do not want to be consumed in vain. Although they can only meet the enemy in the face of our bait, it is impossible for them to send their main force, and in the end it is only possible that two bait soldiers will intersect, and they will not be able to fight in real consciousness. ”

"In this way, our team has become the key, although we have very few soldiers and horses, but most of them are Brother Li's elite greedy wolf riders, as long as we are attacked, we can quickly react and counterattack, coupled with the ambush we have done, even if those bandits in Wohua Mountain are cunning, they will inevitably be suppressed most directly, Li

Brother, do you think they will dare to fight us again?"

Li Zhengxing pondered for a moment and said: "If I am from Wohua Mountain, I will first take a group of soldiers and horses to hide in the shadows, check and test our true details, and then report to the barracks. ”

Kou Xiuyong said: "That's the case, they will definitely do this, as long as they can be sure that what we want to escort is worth selling, they will definitely send a large number of soldiers and horses to surround and suppress us." Although rescuing this person is not beneficial to Wohua Mountain, it can contain our troops, which is also indirectly convenient for the mountain bandits in Wohua Mountain. The soldiers and horses they came to investigate must be the elite of the battalion, and they have excellent insight skills, and what we have to do is to let this army accurately detect the news. ”

Li Zhengxing was puzzled: "Brother Kou, I don't understand what I said, since our purpose is to assist the Bian family in escorting the barbarians, and what we want to ensure is that the people in the cage can be safely sent out of the Jiaozhi City area, then why do we want to let the mountain bandits in Wohua Mountain find out the accurate information?"

Kou Xiuyong said: "Brother Li, you have ignored what I said before, in Governor Pang's plan, we are the key to the plan, if we are the key, then why is the task given to us only to block the harassment of Wohua Mountain and send the people in the cage out safely? ”

Li Zhengxing is very clear that the greedy wolf cavalry is a light cavalry, and the ability to play on the plain is definitely several times better than in other places, and the more open and flat the area, the more the advantages of the light cavalry can be brought into play, and the comprehensive combat power that can be shown on this Jiaozhi Road is less than half of the original, so in this case, where is the purpose of Pang Lu?

Kou Xiuyong continued: "The governor is not a person who does not know the importance of importance, even if the people in this cage escorted are wanted by His Majesty the Emperor, and if there is a mistake in the escort, it will be very implicated, but compared to one thing, this matter is insignificant, that is, another victory in the battle with Wohua Mountain. ”

Li Zhengxing frowned, listened to Kou Xiuyong's explanation quite seriously, thought for a moment and asked: "This truth is easy to understand, but how to win the battle again is a big problem, and the governor's plan this time does not seem to be able to hit Wohua Mountain hard." ”

Kou Xiuyong said: "Naturally, we can't do this, but the person in the cage can. Does Brother Li know who is in that cage?"

Li Zhengxing said: "It is said that he is a pivotal figure in the barbarian county, isn't he the commander of one of the eighteen barbarian lands?"

Kou Xiuyong said with a smile: "What Brother Li said is very right, but he also has another layer of identity, the current younger brother of the Barbarian Emperor. ”

Li Zhengxing exclaimed: "What? That half-step nine-stage killing god in the barbarian county, the ten-barbarian commander Gan Yaliu?"

It is said that in order to pacify the barbarian land, so that all the barbarians in the barbarian county recognize the identity of the barbarian emperor, he once went deep into a barbarian land to kill its commander, and killed more than 800 people, almost scared the people of that barbarian land, since then, the rule of the barbarian emperor has gradually entered the right track, and the eighteen barbarians have also expressed their obedience.

Li Zhengxing said: "Although the barbarian county is a county, it is actually a small country, if it is not for the continuous infighting in the barbarian land for many years, and in recent years, there has been such a force as Wohua Mountain to confront and balance with it, I am afraid that we will have to pay a great price to suppress it." The succession of the new barbarian emperor means the end of the barbarian county's infighting, and their nature is to invade and conquer, and it should soon be annexed to the territory under the jurisdiction of the Qin Dynasty, I don't know when they stretched out their hands and feet, why is this Ganyaliu, who can be called the first commander of the barbarian emperor's subordinates, into our hands?"

Kou Xiuyong said: "This matter is extremely secret, I am afraid that those big people of the Qin Dynasty are also afraid of the invasion of the barbarian counties in the north, so they secretly sent soldiers and horses to deter. I have a secret spy who happened to find out these news, and it was Yu Kongsang, the generalissimo of the western soldiers and horses, who personally took action to capture this Ganyaliu alive, but this matter can only be known to the big people in the DPRK and China, so it has not been passed on to us. ”

Li Zhengxing said: "Preemptively, holding the barbarian emperor's generals in his hands, and suppressing the barbarian emperor's invasion, it can be regarded as a strategic victory, but if we pass on this news, in case we let this Ganyaliu escape, it will cause a huge disaster." ”

"This is the subtlety of the governor, we can't let go of Ganyaliu from any angle, but if Wohua Mountain sends troops to let him go, we have the opportunity to get the help of the barbarian soldiers, and thus deal a heavy blow to the Wohua Mountain army. The Governor gave me something before leaving, and that's evidence. I saw Kou Xiuyong take out a black cylinder from his arms, handed it to Li Zhengxing, and said: "This is what the governor asked me to secretly hand over to Nagan Yaliu, he said that all the way to Gan Yaliu's eyes were covered with black cloth, earplugs of clay, and his limbs were tied to heavy iron shackles, he would not know which side of the soldiers and horses were escorting him, whether it was the Qin Dynasty or Wohua Mountain, there was a great reason to restrict the expansion of the barbarian county, as long as he was restrained."

Once unraveled, the man he sees is his chief enemy. And this black cylinder is a signal flare that only the senior commanders in the barbarian county have, as long as they pull lightly, they can rush into the air, attracting the attention of people dozens of miles away, and the barbarians also have spies in the Jiaozhi region, Brother Li, do you say that they will regard Wohua Mountain as the first enemy?"

Li Zhengxing said: "This involves the release of Gan Yaliu, so sending my greedy wolf rider on the mountain road is the most effective, and the information reflected to Wohua Mountain is the most true." But there is no way to hide that Gan Yaliu was captured by Yu Kongsang, will Gan Yaliu make Wohua Mountain an enemy after he gets out of trouble?"

Kou Xiuyong said: "From the perspective of geographical issues, the Qin Dynasty and Wohua Mountain have resisted the barbarian county in recent years, which is the reason why we and Wohua Mountain cannot become friends of the barbarian emperor, it doesn't matter who captured Gan Yaliu, their anger will only stay on the enemy they see at first sight, this is their aggressiveness." And the generalissimo of the western terracotta Yu Kongsang is the martial arts master of the Nine Stages of the Soul Realm, do they dare to provoke?"

Li Zhengxing sighed and said, "Since the governor has an order, he naturally really wants to do this, but we have let go of such a powerful opponent, and it will not be easy to capture him in the future." ”

Kou Xiuyong said: "This is not necessarily, the governor's command ability and wisdom and strategy are not under the three generalissimos, how can I not know that Ganyaliu will become a huge hidden danger of the Qin Dynasty, this kind of person Our best way to deal with it is to exterminate it, I think the governor has already arranged it." During the battle meeting this morning, I don't know if Brother Li found out, Sun Huan, Su Jie, Lu Chu, and Lou Zhong We didn't see it, and we didn't know what they did. ”

Li Zhengxing said: "The big war is about to start, they will naturally not be idle, it is enough to have Deng Zhun and Lu Xingyang two generals to protect the governor, they will be sent to various tasks in the future." ”

Kou Xiuyong said with a smile: "This is the subtlety of the governor's use of troops, I think it is not only the hidden danger problem after Ganyaliu escapes, but also the problem of the bait troops in the Jiaozhi Plain, these generals will show a great effect." ”

After Li Zhengxing heard this, he wiped his sweat with his sleeves, it turned out that he thought that Lu Xingyang had been working under Pang Lu for a long time, and he could already be called Pang Lu's right-hand man, but Kou Xiuyong suddenly appeared, showing that his understanding of Pang Lu's tactics was undoubtedly better, which made Li Zhengxing feel more like he was suffering from gains and losses, as if these generals from other military camps would take away his position.

"It's coming!"

A team of chariots and horses passed slowly, although there were only sixteen or seventy people, but they let Kou Xiuyong and Li Zhengxing stand together, what they were surprised was not the chariot and horse itself, but the person who led it, although the name was the capital of the Bian family, but they didn't expect that it was actually the cousin of the head of the Bian family, who had made countless contributions when he was young, and was called one of the "two silver spears of the Bian family", and his martial arts strength was also in the eighth rank.

Li Zhengxing saw Bian Jian and came up, actually dismounted and bowed, and said: "Uncle Bian Jian, I am Li Zhengxing, the eldest son of the capital superintendent of the imperial history, and I went to Bian Mansion to find Bian Daocheng to play with when I was young, I don't know if Uncle Bian Jian has any impression?"

Bian Jian's face was indifferent, and he seemed to maintain a solemn posture at all times, he frowned and thought for a long time, and said: "I have a little impression, the Li family kid who often bullied Cheng'er when he was a child is you, you are a good mix, and you even became a general of the fifth grade, and the governor of Pang Lu sent you to meet me?"

Li Zhengxing bowed his head respectfully and said, "It was General Kou and I who came to escort you across this road, if you need supplies, you can tell me directly." ”

"It's not in vain that I'm friendly with your father, this gesture is respectful, and I'm much more sensible than Cheng'er. Bian Jian wanted to say something, but Kou Xiuyong on the side also lowered his head and bowed his hands, Bian Jian looked at Kou Xiuyong for a long time, and said, "Your surname is Kou?"

Kou Xiuyong said: "If you go back to Bian Lao's hero, the last general is called Kou Xiuyong, and he is also a general under the Governor of Pang Lu, although he is also a general, but he is only a six-rank military general, and at this time, he obeys the task to escort Bian Lao's team." ”

"Good, good. Bian Jian had never heard of this name, and he knew that this person must have no backstage in the capital, so his official rank was lower, so he didn't have time to deal with it, so he said: "Originally, because of Cheng'er's matter, I wanted to find Pang Lu for an explanation, but the task was quite heavy along the way, so I had to stop thinking about these things." Boy of the Li family, I heard that bandits are rampant in Wohua Mountain in your area, how about the convoy being escorted by the two of you in the end?"

"Wait for Uncle Bian Jian's order. Li Zhengxing bowed, and there was no relaxation in etiquette, because he knew very well what Bian Jian was talking about, Bian Daocheng was originally under the Pang Lu tent, but because of the failure of the raid mission, he led the Xu Jiajia soldiers of Jiaozhi City to attack the Wohua Mountain military camp, and then was sent to the gate of Bian Mansion by the mountain bandits of Wohua Mountain.

The Bian family has been loyal to protect the country for many years, but it was ruined by such an incident, when the Bian family hated the bandits in Wohua Mountain, they also questioned the command of Pang Lu, so Bian Jian wanted to find Pang Lu to find an explanation is not just talking, the status of the Bian family in the capital is close to the Luo family, and the family is valued by the royal family, even if the official position is insufficient, but the prestige is not worse than Pang Lu.