Chapter 166: Preparing for War
Meng Jiaqian intercepted Lu Shiyu's department at a distance of 60 miles from Yanbodu.
Lu Shiyu and Cheng Meizhu couldn't believe their ears when they received the notice, Cheng Meizhu personally beat the horse out of the battle, and saw Meng Jiaqian, who was holding a fox fur and with a pale face, standing alone in the middle of the road with a cane, and when a thousand elite horses stopped more than ten feet behind him, they were also stunned for a while, and then said: "General Yunlu is not in Yizhou City to recuperate from his injuries, why did he come here?"
"I want to see Lu Shiyu. Meng Jiaqian's face was pale as paper due to serious injuries, but his eyes were as if he hadn't closed his eyes for a few days and nights, full of bloodshots, he was dumb and straight to the point, "One hundred thousand urgent, in addition to seeing Lu Shiyu, there is also the princess of Mizhen County!"
Cheng Meizhu didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd, and was about to test it again, but he saw Meng Jiaqian striding towards him, and sneered: "I'm going to see them alone, it's hard for so many of you, are you still afraid?!"
General Yun Lu laughed. In front of everyone's eyes, Cheng Meizhu naturally refused to weaken his momentum, turned over and dismounted, stepped forward to help him, and said with a smile, "In fact, since the general is inconvenient to move, he brings some personal guards, and our army does not care!"
However, in private, he made a few covert gestures, reminding the soldiers to hurry up and tell Lu Shiyu, so that the people around Sheng Wei and Aunt Qiao's nephews were on guard.
Although Meng Jiaqian is now alone and has not recovered from a serious injury, considering the weakness of Sheng Weiqiao and Xuan Yu Feng, Cheng Meizhu thinks it is better to be cautious.
As for the person who said that he would see Sheng Weiqiao at the same time as seeing Lu Shiyu, Cheng Meizhu pretended not to hear it...... Unless Meng Jiaqian has an extraordinary reason, and he is communicating loudly outside of the layers of protection, this is impossible!
"Ruru has three thousand elite horsemen secretly infiltrating the western frontier!" However, after Meng Jiaqian saw Lu Shiyu, he split his first sentence, which made Lu Shiyu and Cheng Meizhu change color at the same time, "It's three thousand top elite horsemen! The old Khan King's former beloved son, and now the Khan King's eye is a thorn in the flesh, that Fu Zhen, you should all be familiar with it! He made a bloody investment this time, pulling out all the family resources where he had settled down, not to mention, it is said that he also reached a very harsh agreement with Dengchen Liyu in exchange for Dengchen Liyu's support for his raid!"
Exhaled, he said expressionlessly, "That Fuzhen's target is the princess of Mizhen County!"
The name Fu Zhen is unknown in the Central Plains, and many bigwigs in the court have probably not heard of this person, but for Lu Shiyu and Cheng Meizhu, who have been in the north for many years, they are old acquaintances.
In particular, the struggle of this person who rose from many hardships and hardships and almost pulled Ruru's current Great Khan Dengchen Liyu from the throne of Khan, Ruru who supported Na Fuzhen saw his indomitable and intelligent and resolute virtues, and Ru Ru, who opposed Na Fuzhen, saw his ambition and insidious cunning.
For the Northern Frontier Army, this means that the old opponent has another difficult master!
What's worse is that I don't know if it's because I planted the biggest heel in my life when I first fought that year, so that I changed the fate of my life, that Fu Zhen's interest in strength is more than intrigue and trickery.
The three thousand horsemen under his hand, resting in Ruruli, who is good at riding and shooting, are also first-class elites!
Otherwise, he wouldn't have been a thorn in the side of Dengchen Liyu for so many years, and he would still be in power.
Although the 5,000 elite cavalry of Lu Shiyu's department and the 1,000 cavalry brought by Meng Jiaqian at this time have twice the strength of Na Fuzhen, this battle is not optimistic.
After all, Lu Shiyu's side still has to protect Sheng Weiqiao and Xuan Yu Feng's side, and they can't draw all their strength and mind to fight the enemy.
Especially this time, it was actually Na Fuzhen who attacked in person......
"Where is Fu Zhen now?!" Lu Shiyu's expression changed sharply, and after a while, he asked in a deep voice, "Where did you hear this news, and why did you come to tell us?!"
"You all saw that firework just now, right?" Meng Jiaqian's body trembled slightly, his smile was more ugly than crying, he kept rubbing the tip of his cane, lowered his eyes and looked at the ground, before he raised his head and said, "That fireworks is to point out the direction for that Fuzhen...... At that time, he was half a day's journey away from Yanbodu. ”
Cheng Meizhu quickly calculated and exclaimed: "Doesn't that mean that he will arrive in an hour?!"
"It's two hours. Lu Shiyu corrected in a cold tone, "We haven't arrived at Yanbodu yet!"
He turned his head, "Detective!"
"Yes!" the soldier who was listening to the order on the side understood, and whipped straight to the west, searching for Ruru's traces.
"Everyone immediately dismount and prepare for battle!" Lu Shiyu hurriedly gave various orders, and finally ordered Cheng Meizhu, "Lijie, you go and command...... General Yunlu, although the time is urgent, I still have to ask ......"
Meng Jiaqian interrupted him with a miserable smile: "The Gao family is mad and selfish, Tong Ruru, the general was seriously injured, and only then did he come to his senses, find out Gao Yiyi's secret rape from among the soldiers, and torture him to find out the information...... Is that okay?!"
"......" Lu Shiyu glanced at him deeply, "General Yunlu Gao Yi, the last general represents the whole army, thank you for the general's kindness today!"
But after all, he didn't say whether he would admit his statement that he would blame the Gao family for colluding with Ruru.
It's just that Meng Jiaqian didn't have the heart to notice it at this time, so he just said with a crying smile: "I just ...... I have already told my subordinates that after seeing you, they will also be under your control, and I am now in a very messed up, and my serious injuries have not healed, I can't ride a horse, and I can't command. ”
"Lijie!" Lu Shiyu nodded understandingly, turned his head and shouted Cheng Meizhu, Cheng Meizhu glanced at Meng Jiaqian, and ordered someone to send a capable lieutenant to control the Meng family's cadres outside the battle.
"By the way, what about the princess of Mizhen County?" Meng Jiaqian saw that Lu Shiyu and Cheng Meizhu were both in command, and they were not confused at all because of Na Fu Zhen's personal departure, so he was a little relieved, and asked Sheng Weiqiao with a frown, "The reason why Fu Zhen is so desperate this time is mainly because he remembers what happened to the old lady of the Sheng family back then...... After the battle for a while, you must protect the princess of the county!"
Lu Shiyu didn't answer his inquiry, but said, "General Yunlu, please rest assured." ”
He frowned again and scolded the guards on the left and right, "What kind of eyesight price? I didn't see that General Yunlu's injuries have not healed? Why don't you hurry up and help the general go to the military doctor to have a look?"
Meng Jiaqian knew that this "look" was not only for his own physical consideration, but also house arrest in disguise, which was not surprising, Meng Boqin and Zhao Shi had always fought fiercely in northern Xinjiang, and he had a different position from Lu Shiyu, and suddenly said such a major thing at this time, Lu Shiyu couldn't help but have doubts in his heart, so he naturally wanted to detain him in case of an emergency.
…… A quarter of an hour later, Sheng Weiqiao and Xuanyu Feng, who were deliberately isolated from Meng Jiaqian, were told that Fu Zhen was coming, and three sets of washed soldier costumes were sent at the same time as the news: "Please also ask the two of you to be wronged and disguise yourself as soldiers, so as not to be easily discovered by the enemy in the chaos of the army." ”
"What about Fu Zhen?" The two aunts and nephews hurriedly changed their robes in the tent set up by the soldiers, took off all the hairpin rings, combed them into men's clothes, and blackened the naked skin with soot, and finally Xuan Yu Feng asked his niece, "Did Old Man Sheng mention this person to you?" Looking at the movements of the soldiers around him, it seems that the person who came is not good?"
Sheng Weiqiao thought about it seriously, shook his head and said, "Grandfather used to love to tell us stories, but he never mentioned any Ruru's name. ”
She didn't know that this was because all Ruru in Sheng Shixiong's eyes was the same, they all deserved to die anyway, whether they had a name or not, what their name was meaningless to him, and thought that Ruru's name was not the same as Da Mu, Sheng Shixiong was afraid that his grandchildren would not be able to remember when they were young, and they would listen to everything in the fog.
At this moment, I regretted it a little, "I knew that today, I should have asked my grandfather more." ”
"General Lu, they have always been in northern Xinjiang, and they are certainly no strangers to this person. Xuan Yu Feng was relieved and said with concern, "What do you think now?" Since we have changed into the dress of soldiers, I am afraid that the next situation is not optimistic, if you have any discomfort, take advantage of the time to quickly teach someone to get a bowl of fetal pills to drink?"
While the two aunts and nephews were talking, Lu Shiyu was asking someone to get back the carriage they were riding in before, and disguised as a target to attract Na Fuzhen's attention.
Originally, Cheng Meizhu proposed that since Na Fu Zhen had not yet arrived, then he could send dozens of light horsemen to send Sheng Weiqiao and Xuan Yu Feng and Yi Shan to Yanbo Ferry first, and then destroy the boat, so that they could not only let go of the battle with Na Fu Zhen, but even if they lost, they could also send a signal to the other side of the ferry before the defeat, and let the light cavalry escort Sheng Weiqiao to leave first, so that Na Fu Zhen could not catch up.
However, Meng Jiaqian smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Why do you think my uncle would release fireworks near Yanbodu? He just came to see how the boats and the trestle were destroyed! Don't look at Yanbodu, which is not very wide, standing on this side, you can clearly see the situation on the other side, but this season the water is as cold as ice, and there are many undercurrents and turbulence at the bottom, and it is extremely difficult for no boat to cross the river! Otherwise, my uncle would not have chosen here!"
"And although the three thousand elite horses in my hand have been damaged, it's not like the one thousand left over there at this moment, where do you think the others will be? Ten out of ten are waiting on the other side!"
"Although I brought these people, I've been lying on the couch these days, and God knows if I've been co-opted by my uncle?!"
He lowered his eyes and said lightly, "Let's be honest, I'm not sure I'm going to convince them to listen to me right now." ”
"So you want to send Princess Mizhen over, I don't have any opinion, anyway, don't blame me if something happens. ”
"Speaking of which, what about the people in charge of Wu's family?" Hearing this, Lu Shiyu and Cheng Meizhu, who were engrossed in preparing for the battle, finally thought of something and asked in surprise, "The reason why Gao Jiyi released that fireworks was because he met the interception and killing of Wu Da's subordinates, so where did Wu Da's family go now?"