Chapter 90: Gatekeepers and Warlords
"The princess, in just a few days, Xingyuan will pass through Nanzhou and arrive at the border of Chuzhou. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info [Burning ^ Wen ^ Book Library] []. [774] [buy]. Liao Xian sat beside Rong Qing, looked at the sergeant who was walking with him by the cane, and finally nodded secretly.
"We can pass through Nanzhou and travel most of the way before the year, and I'm afraid Gongsun Cang and they won't worry about it anymore. However, the footprints of the march still have to be handled well, Liang Ye is not stupid, don't let him see that we have expanded a lot of manpower. ”
From Tongzhou to Chuzhou, there are two other states in between, but they are staggered boundaries. The route Rong Qing and the others took was the junction line between Nanzhou and Bingzhou, which went from west to east. In this way, you can avoid those big forces and not attract people's eyes. On the land of Kyushu, the major forces are very deep, and Rong Qing can only be a man with his tail between his legs now.
Fortunately, with Liao Xian as a guide, he finally didn't encounter any disasters along the way.
"That's it. And now that his grandson Cang has to worry too much, I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to fly over to restrain me. Rong Qing smiled, glanced at his team, and gradually settled down.
"A hundred miles behind us is the ferry port of the Dacang River in Bingzhou. If Lord Liao guessed correctly, now is the day when the main force of the Green Eyebrow Army crosses the river in a big way. Then Liang Ye followed all the way, if his luck is not very bad, it is very likely that he will hit the head of the gun, right?"
"Exactly. Liao Xian laughed, it turned out that the strategy they had set was to calculate the timing and let Liang Ye crash into the main force of the Green Eyebrow Army!
Along the way, Rong Qing also heard that the power of the Green Eyebrow Army was not just an ordinary rogue. If it was just an ordinary rogue, it would be absolutely impossible to turn Dajin Kyushu upside down. This shows that there must be relics of the former dynasty like Cheng Fu in the Green Eyebrow Army, mountain and field heroes, and even some of today's generals with different aspirations, and even generals!
The main camp of the Green Eyebrow Army, if there were no generals, would have been wiped out by all kinds of military horses a long time ago, where could it still make trouble until now. Pen '¥' 'Idiot' '¥' in '¥' text
"Now it's coming to the end of the year, and the weather is getting colder and colder day by day, and if it snows again, it will really be a heavy snow covering the mountains, and we have to wait until the beginning of spring. Liao Xian pointed to the end of the plain with his hand, where the ruggedness of the mountains was already faintly visible.
"The border between Nanzhou and Chuyang is the remnant of Dalian Mountain, and it is no longer a plain. Among them, there are also counties and towns, although they are not prosperous, but they can also be sheltered, and our backlog of grain and grass can completely survive the winter. After the heavy snow closes the mountain, it will not be easy for them to embarrass the lord again, so let those generals and generals fight a few battles, and we don't care about anything!"
"Okay, that's it!" Rong Qing really admired Liao Xian a little, it seemed that he had thought about these things many times before he found himself. Rong Qing believed that if something changed, he would definitely be able to come up with other strategies. Looking up at the gloomy sky, Rong Qing exhaled a breath of white air, as if he had finally seen his hope.
"It's another winter! That is, last winter, I met Brother Yanyun...... Alas, don't be lamented by these things, now that the New Year is approaching, I still have to buy more grain, grass, and materials along the way, and fill these forty carts of wooden oxen and horses. Since these sergeants are following me, they are my soldiers, and it is not right to let them starve. ”
Whoa! Whoa......
While Rong Qing was pondering these things, a sudden sound came from a distance. She had been in the barracks until now, and she could immediately hear the sound of military horses. "Well, there seems to be a military horse marching ahead?" Liao Xian was also in good spirits, so although they had been picking the safest route, they couldn't be sure that they wouldn't encounter anything.
"Everyone stop the carriages and horses and form a defensive formation!" Liao Xian waved his hand, and more than 100 sergeants immediately took action, combining forty wooden oxen and horses together, wrapping Rong Qing's line. At the same time, they all hid behind the carriage, and each of them drew a sword, or a crossbow, in less than ten breaths.
"After all, I have been a soldier before, and once I integrate it a little, I can have such a reaction!"
Rong Qing was very satisfied with the more than 100 sergeants under his command. Although these soldiers are not strong in personal combat power, they are wearing cowhide armor and holding battle weapons, and they gather together to form a small formation, which makes Rong Qing feel at ease. Although the other party's footsteps were getting closer and closer, she was no longer as flustered as before.
Rong Qing is a person who has been in battle, and he knows that as a general, he can't do anything at all without soldiers, horses, and pawns.
"Lord, they don't seem to be military horses going out to fight, nor are they Green Eyebrow Army, just ordinary military horses escorting New Year's tribute. Seeing that those military horses were already very close, only a mile away at most, they passed in front of Rong Qing and them. This army of horses, which also looked like two or three thousand people, was two battalions, divided into many military formations.
Each military formation, all in the shape of a finished type, protects a vehicle that can only be pulled by four horses, and the footsteps and the sound of squeaky wheels are mixed together, which looks very imposing.
The first two officers were both middle-aged men, and their temperament and spirit were probably similar to those of Hu Chonghui and Zhou Tianjiao under Yang Xu. There are still patrols in the middle of the team, and they are all unified immediately after the break, and they are naturally all innate martial arts masters, and there are more than ten of them. The two grandmaster generals and more than ten innate martial artists are enough to prove that such an annual tribute will not be an ordinary annual tribute of the world.
Rong Qing has seen a family like Yin Mansion collect New Year's tribute, although it is abundant, it is impossible to have such an army battle.
"Ignore them, and when they're gone, we'll hit the road again. "Rong Qing naturally won't cause trouble, but right now they are weak and need to be kept in obscurity. This road is the junction of the state and the south state, and if you accidentally offend these two forces, it will be a big mistake. You must know that Gongsun Cang of Tongzhou is just a thorn in history, but the ruler of Nanzhou is the state pastor.
Although they all lead the foundation of a state, the history of the assassin does not open the government, and the state pastor opens the government! Rong Qing is not a fool, a state pastor who opened the government has a power several times greater than Gongsun Cang. It's as if Lu Teng is just a Taishou, but after being named a marquis and opening a mansion, the power is not under Gongsun Cang. To put it in layman's terms, the officials who do not open the government are just gate valves, and after the government is opened, they are warlords.
This is like when he was in Songxiang County, Taishou Cheng Ke wanted to promote Hu Pi and them, but he also had to report to his superiors. As a result, the court did not allow it, and he had no choice. However, the princes who opened the government and built the teeth had a set of small courts independent of the imperial power, and in their territory, they ruled the city, governed the army, had the people, paid taxes, and hired officials all by themselves, so it could be said that it was an independent small country.
This is quite a terrible thing! When the gate lord meets the warlord, it is a death.
In fact, with Rong Qing's current identity, he can also open a mansion, but he can't open it.
"Well, why didn't they leave?"
Just when Rong Qing's group of people were honestly staying on the side of the road, the team of military horses actually stopped. After a while, I saw a black corn horse riding like black satin, with a group of soldiers coming to the snow dozens of steps in front of them. This one glanced at Rong Qing and them, and found that Rong Qing was sitting on a rampage, with a big crank umbrella, but he looked a little shabby, and couldn't help but use a spear.
"What the hell!"
"This general, we are the generals of Tongzhou under the history of the assassins, and the general Liang Ye pressed the grain forward and marched forward. Liao Xian smiled and arched his hand. Not long after, several more generals with men and horses, together with a grandmaster general, also came over and stopped not far from Rongqing's military formation. The Grandmaster General glanced at them and sneered, "What is on Gongsun Cang's military horse?"
"Grain and grass are heavy. Liao Xian gave up again. The general sneered and said, "You people with suspicious deeds must be rebels! General Nian Ben is in a good mood today, and he can spare your lives by leaving his chariots and horses behind." After he finished speaking, a cold light suddenly flashed in Rong Qing's eyes.
"In the midst of this general's chariot battle, I am afraid that he has enriched the enemy state and county with heavy grain and grass, and he still wants to covet this little thing from me?"