Chapter 217 Lower Mouth
Jiuxia Beidi is surrounded by mountains, the climate is extremely cold, and the snow is covered in middle age, so it is also called Beichuan, in the middle of Beichuan, another ancient family, is the birthplace of the ancient family, and this place is also called Beichuan Town because of its location in the center of Beichuan.
In fact, Beichuan Town is not big, but the reason why this place is remembered by the Jiuxia people is because there is another ancient family here, the Beichuan Ancient Clan.
The Gu clan has lived here for generations, cultivating generations of strong men, some of them have walked out of Beichuan, and some have stayed in this land, which is also the land of the Gu Lin family.
The town of Beichuan is surrounded by mountains, and there are three roads that can be passed, one leading to the summer capital, one leading to the lower exit, and one leading to the northern exit.
The lower mouth and the north entrance are two dangerous places, there are two roads that are not wide and not narrow between the mountains, Jiuxia Wuzu has built a checkpoint in each of these two narrowest places, in this dangerous place, it is really a pass, and ten thousand people are not open.
And more than 100 miles out of the lower mouth is Xiayi City, and similarly, 150 miles down from the north mouth is Beining City, these two cities are located in the Beidi fortress, like two nails nailed there.
Outside the city is a frozen plain with no edge in sight, so if you want to attack Jiuxia, you must first pull out these two nails.
However, Xiayi and Beining are heavily surrounded, and the road to Xiayi and Beining has naturally been blocked by the army of the Northern Cold Kingdom.
Every day, Bai Zili would secretly leave the lower mouth by night, climb the high peaks of Beichuan and hide, observe the movements of the Northern Han Kingdom from afar, and record them.
As the captain of the Shimoguchi Scout Team, he knows the mountains and landscapes of Beichuan well, and through observation and listening, Bai Zili can often get some information that others can't think of.
Seeing the smoke and dust disperse, Bai Zili's heart tightened, he brushed away the snow on the rock, put his ear to the cold rock, and listened carefully.
"Oh no, the Northern Han Kingdom has increased its troops in Xiakou?!" Bai Zili's eyes flashed, he hadn't received information from Xia Yi City for more than two months, and a lot of bad premonitions suddenly appeared in his heart, "Could it be that Xia Yi City has been broken, responsible for this time, why did the Northern Han Kingdom add to Xiakou? Could it be that the next step is to attack Xiakou?"
"Huh?!" Bai Zili put his ear on the rock again, and suddenly, he looked back suddenly, and was overjoyed, "Reinforcements are coming!"
He saw a black dot coming from the south, but he couldn't see the number, Bai Zili hurriedly put away his things and quickly returned to the lower mouth.
When he came to the south gate of Xiakou, Bai Zili saw a black-armored general with a soldier entering Xiakou, and he couldn't help but ask the guards on the side, "Where are the reinforcements?"
The guard said happily: "I heard that it is the new army of the summer capital, called the Black Army." ”
"Black Army, haven't you heard of it!" Bai Zili frowned slightly, "Do you know who the reinforcement commander is?"
The guard shook his head and said, "How do I know? ”
"Okay. Bai Zili hurriedly bid farewell to the guards, rushed to the city tower, and saw Li Datian, the city guard of Xiakou, from a distance, at this time, Li Datian was greeting a black-faced man with a full beard.
Bai Zili rushed over, came to Li Datian's side and said, "Lord Li, today I noticed that the Northern Han Kingdom seems to have increased its troops, and they are all cavalry. ”
Li Datian asked, "How many people are there?"
Bai Zili said: "I'm afraid there are four or five thousand horsemen." ”
"Uh-huh....... Li Datian nodded slightly, and said: "The news of the Northern Cold Country is very well-informed, I'm afraid this is to specifically block our reinforcements." ”
"What's wrong?" Ma Zhengkun noticed that Li Datian's face was a little ugly, and hurriedly asked, "But what news is coming from Xia Yi?"
"Xia Yi has been blocked for more than three months, and we haven't received news for two months, so let me introduce it. Li Datian pointed at Bai Zili and said: "This is our scout captain, Bai Zili, this is the general of the Black Army Cavalry, General Ma Zhengkun." ”
"The general of the Black Army cavalry?!" Bai Zili, who was extremely familiar with the formation, looked at Ma Zhengkun with a strange face and said, "Is there still a general in Jiuxia?"
Li Datian explained: "Brother Bai, do you know that the Black Army is a newly built coalition army, composed of gangs and sects, so it is not a formal official position, but a military title within the Black Army. ”
Disappointment flashed in Bai Zili's eyes, he knew that this cavalry was just a ragtag army, and such a team was brought to the north to fight?!
At that moment, a soldier came running with a feathered arrow, and when he looked closely, he saw a letter stuck in it.
"City guard, this was shot by the scouts of the Northern Cold Kingdom just now. After taking the feather arrow and taking down the letter, Li Datian read it carefully and said angrily: "How can this be true!"
"Li Chengshou, what's wrong?" Ma Zhengkun stepped forward and asked.
"Alas......" Li Datian handed the letter to Ma Zhengkun and said, "General Ma, you better read it yourself." “
Ma Zhengkun took the letter and read it, and immediately became furious, "These arrogant Northern Han people dare to scold us for being shrunken turtles, and invite our black army cavalry to fight with them tomorrow. ”
Ma Zhengkun turned around, walked to a black-clothed and black-armored general, handed the letter in his hand to the black-clothed general, Bai Zili looked over, and saw a black horse led by the black-clothed general.
Seeing this black horse, Bai Zili shook violently, "This is ......!"
"The best sweat and blood jade horse!What is the identity of this black-clothed general? He actually has such a pure blood jade horse!Moreover, why does this horse general seem to despise that black-clothed general?"
After reading the letter, the black-clothed general handed the letter in his hand to a few people behind him, and when everyone finished reading, the black-clothed general nodded to Ma Zhengkun and said a few words.
After a short time, Ma Zhengkun strode back and said loudly: "Today, our black army will repair for a day, and tomorrow at noon, we will go out of the city to fight them, and ask Li Chengshou to help us return a letter and shoot it back to them." ”
"What? Do you really want to go out of the city tomorrow?" Li Datian dissuaded: "This is Beihan's strategy, can't you be at their mercy?!"
Ma Zhengkun said heroically: "It's okay, we are reinforcements, since they want to test us, why don't we want to test them, and we will fight with them tomorrow and test it, otherwise we will end up in a dangerous place, and we dare not fight, how can we rescue Xia Yicheng?"
"It's ....... Li Datian didn't want to persuade much, shook his head and sighed: "I don't want to persuade General Ma to do this, but the people of Beihan are brave, and I also ask General Ma and his subordinates to be more careful when they go out to battle tomorrow, and if they are not enemies, they will quickly withdraw to the lower mouth." ”
Ma Zhengkun smiled and said: "It's okay, Li Cheng can watch tomorrow and see the performance of my Heilin Iron Horse." ”
I saw Li Datian and Bai Zili exchange a look, and at the same time shook their heads slightly.