Lin Zhan and his entourage left the Mengyue River station just after dawn in the morning, first along the Mengyue River to the north, after three hundred miles, the Mengyue River turned west to the bend, under the guidance of Wei Wu and Wei Qian, the team of one hundred and six people left the bank of the Mengyue River and continued to go north.

Leaving the riverbank, the march slowed down. The jungle and artemisia shrubs everywhere make it almost impossible to walk. In this way, Xiaoxing stayed overnight, more than 1,500 miles, and it took 15 days to arrive.

This time, Wei Wu was very careful, and set up camp hundreds of miles away from the three ethnic groups. At night, Wei Wu, Lin Zhan, Xuan Liang and ten sturdy soldiers secretly went to three adjacent ethnic groups that were only twenty or thirty miles away to observe. It was not until dawn that he returned to the camp.

"Seeing that they guard the war horses so tightly, I'm afraid it's hard for us to do it. Once we accidentally alarm their troops, we will not be able to escape. ”

Lin Zhan analyzed.

"Shall we continue to explore the north and see if there are any more suitable groups to do it?"

Xuan Liang's brain is more active, and he builds yì Dao.

"We'll go back tomorrow night, and if we don't have a chance, we'll continue to go further north."

For three consecutive days, due to the very high vigilance of the three ethnic groups and the extremely strict supervision of the stables, Lin Zhan and his party could not find a chance to start at all, and one hundred and six people had to continue to travel north, hoping to find a group with looser protection. After bypassing the three ethnic groups in front of him, because Wei Wu and Wei Qian had not been here last time, they had to grope their way forward. In order not to be discovered by the local tribes, they instead marched at night and rested during the day. After five days of marching, a large river blocked their way. Not to mention the turbidity and turbulence of the river, the river was still very wide, and the group had to camp in the jungle on the bank of the river.

After several discussions, in the end, it was always believed that it was not advisable to go north, even if they temporarily set up a raft and crossed the past, after grabbing the war horse, it would be difficult to cross the river for a while under the pursuit of the other party, and it was bound to have a battle with the robbed tribe. In this unfamiliar place, and dragged down by the war horses that had just been grabbed and had not yet been tamed, they would never be able to escape.

"Brother Wei Wu, the last time you came, was it at night or during the day?"

Wei Wu didn't know why Xuan Liang asked like this, but he still told the scene at that time.

"We didn't dare to move during the day for fear of being discovered by the other party, and we all secretly approached and observed at night. It was also discovered by the other party at night. ”

"Then when they were chasing you, did they ride horses?"

"Nope. We didn't dare to go too far out of the jungle for fear of being overtaken by them on horseback in the open ground. ”

"Does Xuan Liang mean that it is not suitable to use war horses in the jungle?"

Lin Zhan seemed to understand Xuan Liang's intention to ask like this.

"Minister Lin, you see, the jungle here is so dense that it is very difficult for people to walk through it, and there is no way to ride through it."

"If Xuan Liang has any good ideas, say them quickly and let everyone discuss."

"Minister Lin, Brother Wei Wu, I think so. Didn't the emperor teach us a strategy called 'splitting plum blossoms'? If we divide into five tribes, four of them harass them from east, west, north and south, and lead them into pursuit in the jungle, while the remaining group takes advantage of the situation to sneak up on their stables, and by surprise, they should be able to snatch the horses. ”

Lin Zhan, Wei Wu, Wei Qian, Wei Tian, and Wei Fei all felt that Xuan Liang's plan was feasible, so they began to discuss the distribution of the five groups of people. In the end, it was agreed that Wei Wu would lead ten people to harass from the north, Wei Qian would lead ten people to harass from the east, Wei Fei would lead ten people to harass from the west, and Wei Tian would lead ten people to harass from the east. Lin Zhan and Xuan Liang led the remaining sixty soldiers to raid their stables after four groups of men and horses had attracted the warriors of the three tribes into the jungle.

"Where should we meet afterwards?"

"Don't choose the meeting place in the direction of going back, as it will be easy for them to guess where we came from. It is better to go west, so that the three groups think that we are from the west. ”

Although Xuan Liang is the youngest, his brain is very flexible. Lin Zhan felt that what Xuan Liang said was very reasonable, so he continued:

"According to what Xuan Liang said, after the four of you attack them and lead them into the jungle, don't rush to the west to join us, lead them to circle in the jungle more, and after Xuan Liang and I are far away, you will make a detour to the west. As for the specific meeting point, tomorrow we will first explore the way, and after we have chosen it, we will come back to act. ”

When he set off, Xiao Yiran's order was headed by Lin Zhan, so Lin Zhan's words were the final decision.

The next day, the group traveled westward, walked more than 300 miles, and chose the bank of a river that flowed from north to south as their meeting place. To the east of the river bank is a dense jungle, and along the bank there is an open area nearly a mile wide between the river bank and the jungle, where you can either hide in the jungle when pursued, or ride a horse along the river bank to the south. Once the meeting location has been chosen, return to the jungle to the east of the three groups.

"I'm afraid we can't sneak up on three groups at the same time. After observation in recent days, it should be that the ethnic group in the north is the most powerful and has the most war horses, and the ethnic group in the north is relatively far away from the other two ethnic groups, and it should be forty or fifty miles. Let's choose this group as a target for a sneak attack. ”

Lin Zhan's choice was agreed by Siwei and Xuan Liang.

"In this way, Xuan Liang and I will hide in the jungle west of the northern group, and you will hide in the east, west, south, and north directions after three days, and you will go out at the same time in the middle of the night on the third day. Don't fall in love with war, protect yourself, the emperor has ordered, whether you grab the war horse or not, people must go back safely. ”

For the sudden attack of Lin Zhan and his party, none of the local ethnic groups expected it. In the darkness of the night, the east, west, north and south were attacked by unknown people, causing the ethnic group to suddenly fall into panic. When the whimpering horn sounded, the leader of the four guards had already broken through the defenses of the soldiers on the outskirts of the clan. Wei Wu, who entered the clan station, suddenly had an idea, and used the fire kept in the station to ignite the grass hut where they lived, and the fire rose to the sky for a while. The screams and cries of women and children disturbed the hearts of the men of the tribe even more. In a hurry, no one organized the encirclement and interception of the four guards, but formed a chaotic situation of fighting each other. This couldn't be better for the four guards. They have bows and arrows to attack from a distance, sharp swords, and can fight in close quarters. According to the prior agreement, there was no fighting, and the four of them led their men, fighting and walking, and retreated to the southeast of the ethnic station.

The chaos from the northern tribes will naturally alarm the other two groups. Just as they were about to send someone to support the southeastern group of the northern tribe, they suddenly found that someone was attacking their station, and they retreated for a while, which just gave the four guards the opportunity and time to rush into the jungle.

More than forty people, just grazing the edge of the ethnic group in the southeast, plunged headlong into the dense jungle to the east. The northern tribes that were attacked, not only were most of the grass huts in the garrison set on fire, but many soldiers were shot or wounded by the incoming people, so they were naturally unwilling to let go of the sneak attackers. The northern tribe took the lead, followed by the other two tribes, and also burrowed into the jungle to launch a pursuit of the four guards.