Ren Jia led the army to bypass Longquan Pass, the largest border pass, and rode lightly along the way, not in a hurry, which was regarded as giving the soldiers time to rest well, so as to eliminate the fatigue and rush of the previous while.

"Lord Governor, it's summer, and if we go further north, we'll enter a swamp in the grassland, and I'm afraid it will be very dangerous." The supervising army who followed Ren Jia held the freshly made broth and sent it to the commander, remembering the direction of their march in recent days, and opened his mouth with some concern.

"Don't worry, I'm in charge." Ren Jia glanced at the overseer with a sad face, his expression was calm, and he took the broth and nibbled on the dry food.

The swamp in summer is indeed very dangerous, but this is the only way to go directly into the hinterland of the grassland without passing through Longquan Pass, which is very easy for her strength, but it is a bit too severe for these northern men under her command.

She has high hopes for the elite army of only more than 300 people in her hands at present, this is the core force of her real leadership and defense in the future, and she must really adjust and train before she can return to Yuanjing, no matter how many people with different intentions among these people, as long as she can do the order and prohibit it under her command, she doesn't care about those small actions in the dark.

From the beginning of the original plan to take charge of the left and right leading guards, she took the road of Yangmou, which is a road that no one dares to think about and can't do, leading the troops as a woman, making meritorious contributions, relying on her strong force, even if Wei Lixin searches all over the world, she can't find a second person to lead the troops to train like her.

No, maybe there is a person who can, thinking of Pei Yuansi in the Liang Mansion, Ren Jia smiled slightly, if this person intends to be her enemy, it will really make her sleep.

"Bring the guide I found a few days ago, and I'll have something to ask him." Ren Jia drank the broth and instructed the servants beside him.

The guide was a local who they took care of when they passed through Longquan Pass, and it was said that they were very familiar with the swamps in the grassland, which was also an extra talisman that Ren Jia added to these soldiers. After carefully talking to the guide about the swamp conditions in the depths of the grassland in summer, Ren Jia left half of the war horses and a dozen weak soldiers before he really led the troops deep into the grassland.

The swamp in summer is very dangerous, whether it is the hot and humid climate or the flying poisonous insects, Ren Jia and his guide passed through the dense forests and small lakes, and finally took everyone out of the swamp area after half a month.

"Find a suitable place to repair for a day, and then select half of the good soldiers to follow this seat to grab some war horses and come back." Ren Jia frowned and looked at the stains on his body, waved his hand to signal the herald to hurry up and pass the military order, and he found a clean place to freshen up.

"Order!" The herald followed Ren Jia for more than a month, and he had already surrendered to his boss, and immediately took the order when he heard the voice.

Looking at the red sunset on the horizon, Ren Jia smiled happily, it seems that the weather will be very good tomorrow, and it is a good day to go out.

Longquan Pass as an important pass guarding the border, twists and turns along the mountain, there are many passes, it is the place where the heavy troops of the dynasty are stationed, and it is also an important checkpoint to resist Rong Di going south, and Rong Di loses tens of thousands of lives under this pass every year.

"Lao Chen, I heard that the Black Phoenix Tribe has recently moved again, and the old boy of the Feng Shang is said to have united with the ghost party to go south again," the young man who spoke with a rough and hoarse voice, looking at the colleagues who were patrolling the city wall beside him, "These turtle grandsons have started tossing around blindly, and if the grain and grass in Beijing drag on for a while, it is estimated that we will have to go into battle hungry." ”

"These grandsons have to go south every year, if we weren't here, we would have gone to Xuzhou to spread the wilderness, and the vassal kings and the family would be in the mood to continue to fight in the court, and our army of hundreds of thousands can't afford to wait," the weather-covered colleague looked at the potholed city wall and snorted, his words were full of gnashing of teeth, "If it weren't for the marshal's prestige and high pressure on those mongrels who made trouble, the army would have mutinied sooner or later because of the lack of food and grass." ”

"Who says it's not," the man patted his colleague on the shoulder, and his expression was not worried, "Those grandsons are fighting for power and profit every day, and they will hold us back at a critical time, if it weren't for the fact that the border passes are inseparable from people, I will follow the marshal sooner or later to step on those moths that are dragging their feet!" ”

"Okay, it's better to train the troops well if you have time to talk about these, so as not to be scared when Rong Di goes south," the colleague was reluctant to continue to talk about this depressing topic, and changed to another topic, "If I hadn't stopped you last time, you guy wouldn't know which pit to wait for someone to burn paper money now!" ”

"Fart!" The man's face was flushed with anger when he was mentioned by his colleagues, "Last time, it wasn't Lao Tzu who brought people to help, your entire team had to be explained, and now you are here with the eldest master to pretend to be garlic, I think you don't know how many pounds and taels you weigh!" ”

"Hey, you kid has a kind of comparison with Lao Tzu, see who saves whom!" Not to be outdone, the two of them moved their hands in the midst of the dispute, and instantly surrounded a circle of soldiers who were not afraid of the excitement, cheering and cheering for the two.

"These stinky boys, they can't live hungry!" Yunlu General Yu Guangqi looked at the group of cheerful soldiers below, and scolded with a smile.

"It's okay like this, it's better to have depression in your heart and radiate it directly than to hold it in your stomach and make trouble." You'an River smiled slightly, and motioned for his old friend for many years to go up the city wall with him.

The city wall of Longquan Pass was originally the strongest of the many passes in the border pass, here is the most critical line of defense to resist Rong Di going south, it is an important cornerstone of the great dynasty behind him, and it has always been the top priority of the border army's supply, but unfortunately as the vassal king and the family sit big, the power struggle in Yuanjing is becoming more and more intense, even if there is His Majesty Xià every way around, the grain and grass and supplies obtained by the border army are not as good as a year, the last time the city wall was repaired was seven years ago, and now the city wall of Longquan Pass is dilapidated, If Rong Dizhen is determined to unite multiple tribes to go south again this year, as stated in the intelligence, I don't know if he can survive again when there is no food and grass.

"If Jingzhong doesn't allocate grain and grass again, I'm afraid that the next time Rong Di attacks, we will have to fill in with the lives of the soldiers." You Anhe touched the cold masonry on the city wall with a bitter expression, thinking of the comrades who had fallen year after year to protect this city wall, and his chest was unbearable.

"Those goddamn bastards, it's not to pinch you by cutting off our food and grass, who doesn't blush with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses here!" Yu Guangqi said in a mocking tone, as indignant as his old friend, "If you want me to say, you should really raise troops to go south to destroy those grandsons, so as not to be coerced by them all day long, if we hadn't reacted quickly last time, I am afraid that we would have been instigated by those spies to mutiny in the army!" Once the border army is unstable, their happy days will come to an end, and it will be up to them to see how they deal with those unconscious barbarians! ”

"At this age, your temperament is still so big, no wonder Jianyuan and his mother always don't worry about you." You Anhe patted his old friend on the back and motioned for him to dissipate his anger, "You just want to be happy, if you can really leave this errand on your shoulders, I'm afraid you are still unwilling to go, to put it mildly, or I, the boss, am incapable, so people are stuck with grain and grass, and now even the border army is short of food and grass, which shows how severe the shape of the court is." A while ago, I also heard that the King of Liao applied to the imperial court for disaster relief on the grounds of the drought in Yuzhou, and choked the taxes paid to the imperial court. ”

"I think about how beautiful the Tai-Zu was when he founded the country with martial arts, but who knew that it had fallen to such a point now......" Yu Guangqi sighed heavily, unwilling to continue. The more I miss the glory of the past, the more bleak I am now, and I don't even know where to start with heartache.

"Marshal, there are unknown soldiers and horses galloping forward fifty miles ahead!" The soldiers in the lookout noticed something unusual in the distance and immediately summoned the marshal and general on the city wall.

"Unidentified? It's strange, we know Rong Di's grandsons very well, besides them, there are other soldiers and horses here? Yu Guangqi was instantly aroused by the news from the soldiers, "Pass my order, immediately send scouts out of the customs to find out the identities of these people, and if there is any abnormality, immediately reply, don't act rashly for the time being." ”

"Order!" The messenger took the order and found a scout team to go out to investigate.

"If you talk about the soldiers and horses that may be here," You Anhe's eyes flashed, and he looked at his old friend and smiled slightly, "If you think about the news that has spread recently, you can probably guess that eight to nine is not far from ten." ”

"What's new?" Yu Guangqi's intelligence is not as good as his old friend, and he thinks about the express report he received recently, "In addition to Feng Shang leading more than a dozen tribes to prepare to go south, that is, a few days ago, I talked about Liang Yiyun's daughter Liang Yiyun's appointment as the left and right leader of the army to lead the troops to suppress bandits...... You mean Liang Yiyun went to the grassland with hundreds of soldiers! Yu Guangqi's expression was full of surprise, a little unbelieving, "Even if they really go north along the Qixing River, they must pass through Longquan Pass to enter the grassland, and if they go out of the customs from other places, they will undoubtedly take a long detour, and there will definitely be news coming out, will you think too much?" ”

"You forgot a way," You Anhe looked at the approaching black shadow in the distance and smiled calmly, "If they go out of that way, they will definitely not alarm anyone, but it is Liang Yiyun, a little girl, who makes me a little frightened." ”

"It's summer now, and even we don't dare to go into the swamp lightly, this little girl is so bold!" Yu Guangqi is not one of those scholars who is full of benevolence and morality, and he does not care about the identity of the daughter of Liang Yiyun's eunuchs, and he hates those ambitious vassal kings and powerful families more than Liang Yi, who controls the Imperial City Division.

"How bold, if you knew what this little girl had done, I'm afraid your eyes would fall in shock," Remembering the news from the informant, You'anhe smiled heartily, "You and I were not as good as a seventeen-year-old girl when we were young, and I am really ashamed to say it." ”

"Come on, come on, I'll take a look, you kid is still the same as when you were young, you like to hide everything." Yu Guangqi looked through his old friend's shirt with great interest, found a letter that had been opened and sealed with fire paint, looked at it at a glance and ten lines, and waited until he finished reading, his eyes lit up, "This little girl is interesting, I will definitely meet when you see me later!" ”

"Lord Dudu, there is Longquan Pass ahead, and the other party has sent scouts out, what should we do?" The face of the prison army has long been tanned by the summer grassland sun, which is much better than the weak appearance of the white-faced scholar a while ago.

"Prepare your troops on the spot and negotiate with the scouts before hitting the road." Ren Jia ordered, and hundreds of soldiers and horses were forbidden to stand by in place, and the actions were orderly. Compared with when she left Beijing, this elite army of only 300 people is already the elite appearance of Ren Jia's ideals, and it is in vain that she has led people to linger on the grassland for more than half a month.

The scouts who were ordered to come to investigate saw the other party's formation in place, cautiously and slowly approached, and when they saw the same military uniforms on this group of people, their vigilance had been dispelled a lot, but they still didn't dare to slack off, and began to shout not far away, "This is the light cavalry scout squad in front of the Dingyuan Army under the command of Marshal Longquan Guanyou, may I ask where your Excellency belongs to this army and horses?" ”

"We are under the command of the Governor of the Left and Right Guards of the Twelve Guards of Yuanjing, and we have come from Chongzhou on the orders of His Majesty Xià to go out of Beijing to suppress bandits," the pre-battle herald responded from afar, "Our Lord Governor is also here now, and I hope that Marshal You will make it convenient and let him go." ”

Several scouts glanced at each other, and found that the identity of the other army's army was really special, and after discussing with each other and sending people back to Marshal Tongbing, the rest continued to monitor the movements of this army in the same place. "We have sent someone back to the marshal, please wait a moment for the entry of the customs."

"It's okay, just keep waiting." Ren Jia motioned for the herald to respond, and he dismounted and found a place to take a walk, and now it was almost evening, the sunset was brilliant on the horizon, and the sun was gradually sinking into the horizon, making the summer twilight more and more beautiful.

After a great toss of many tribes in the grassland, Ren Jia is now the time to recuperate, although she does not see the force of the Rongdi tribe, but the ants bite the elephant to death, she took this army to kill a lot of energy, especially she refining this elite army will be of great use in the future, naturally she does not want them to be lost in the hands of Rong Di.

"As you expected, it's really Liang Yiyun's little girl's soldiers and horses," Yu Guangqi's face was eager to try, and he couldn't wait to see this elite team that had traveled thousands of miles and made a lot of achievements, "What did you say they went around the swamp and into the grassland?" Liang Yiyun, this little girl, is even worse than when we were young, and she dares to cross the swamp unprepared in the summer. ”

"Since you're so curious, just ask when you see someone later." You Anhe looked at the more than 100 soldiers and horses galloping not far away, his brows furrowed slightly, this momentum, this appearance, it is not like a soldier who came from Yuanjing to train only three months.

"It's an elite," Yu Guangqi said in a deep voice as he looked at the left and right leading guards who slowly walked into the city gate, "You have to fight with the soldiers and horses under our command who have survived a hundred battles, are you sure that what is said in the wire report is true?" Liang Yiyun's little girl only recruited some ordinary soldiers three months ago, and now she has been trained to look like this, I think it is more like she borrowed her father's hand to reserve a private army. ”

"Now that a person has entered the customs, he can see it face to face." You Anhe motioned his old friend to follow him down to the city tower to meet this little girl who joined the army as a woman, the atmosphere in the army has been a little depressed recently due to the lack of food and grass, and it is rare to have something new, he does not mind borrowing this little girl's hand to train soldiers.