- "Don't do anything, don't be nervous." Ling Li smiled a little reluctantly, then shook his chair and stood up, and after a few long deep breaths, he continued: "You just need to remember that we are still in a cooperative relationship now, and it is not good for everyone to lose either party."

Mo Ye's tense shoulders relaxed a little, but she didn't immediately come closer, still standing in place, and said in a tone that was calm to almost indifferent: "Then do you need me to help you do anything now?"

Ling Li said softly: "Your level of horse control can still rank in the middle among women."

Mo Ye remembered that his surprise attack just now was intended to get her off the horse, and the trace of annoyance in his heart surfaced again, and his tone was filial piety: "So what?"

"What happened just now...... "This is the first time in a few days that he has put down his posture, showing a very polite side, and waving his hands as he speaks, "...... I make amends to you. ”

Mo Ye raised the corners of his mouth slightly, but did not speak. The fall just now hit him hard, and he deliberately did it in front, and now with such a light sentence, it is not so easy to ask her to forgive.

And Ling Li's handshake gets up quickly and closes quickly, but in fact, he doesn't intend to make people fully accept it. At this time, he lowered his posture and just tried to make the cooperation between them as little as possible to take care of the overall situation. Lowering his hand, he got down to business, and said slowly: "Next, we will take the same ride for a while, but this time you need to change places."

When he collected the medicine bottle umbrella sword, retied his clothes, and rode on horseback with Mo Ye, Mo Ye knew that the change of position he said was to ask her to drive the horse and take her.

Mo Ye tugged at the reins in her hand and tilted her head awkwardly to make sure her nose didn't hit the back of the neck of the young man sitting in front of her. But she was well aware that it was at rest. She still had to work so hard to keep her distance from him, and when she galloped later, wouldn't her nose and face be swollen?

endured it, but she couldn't continue to endure it. He immediately asked, "Why do you want me to take you on horseback?" To tell you the truth, your riding level is more than a star and a half stronger than mine, and now is the time to seek speed, and I can't show such an awkward riding angle. ”

Ling Li, who was sitting in the front, coughed twice, and said in a weak voice: "If I hadn't been hit by you twice, I would have barely supported it, but now I can't." I can't even grasp my current state. I don't know if I'd ride the horse, and I'd take you with me if I had crossed a steep slope somewhere. ”

Mo Ye immediately remembered that when he fell off the horse just now, he almost took her down. The horse, which was still galloping, had slowed to pieces. She was choked enough to hold her body steady, and if that kind of accident happened during the gallop, she might have rolled down with it.

Thinking of this, her hand holding the reins tightened again, and she said silently in her heart: Although I won't deliberately kick you down halfway, if you want to fall down yourself, don't blame me for not taking care of you.

Ling Li felt that the silence of the girl behind her was a little strange. But he didn't explore it much, just said lightly: "Let's go."

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In another canyon more than 40 miles away from the mountain where Mo Yeze's horses were rushing, an army of about 10,000 people was slowly moving forward, but the soldiers who were actually in it could feel that the speed of the army was not slow. At this rate, it will take about another three days. You can reach the western Sichuan battlefield.

At this time, because of the need to pass through the Guò Gorge, in order to quickly pass through such an easy geographical location, the speed of the march was slightly increased on the original basis. In less than half an hour, 10,000 soldiers all passed through the canyon about ten miles long, and there was a smooth road ahead.

Before the army enters the canyon. The 500 soldiers who were personally brought by Li Gai to the geographical commanding heights not far away for reconnaissance also came back one after another and were included at the end of the army.

Lin Shan, who was at the rear of the army, lifted the curtain of the carriage and noticed that three hundred light horsemen had been included in the brigade, but two hundred light horsemen had not returned for a long time, and the key was that Li Gai had not returned. When Li Gai left the army and went to the high ground with five hundred light horsemen, Lin Shan was a little puzzled and felt that Li Gai had gone too far. In case the army is really attacked in the valley, it is easy for him to shake the morale of the army as the commander-in-chief but not in the army.

Military groups need a kind of momentum, and this kind of momentum needs a backbone, a person who can send and receive orders. The commander will not leave the camp, not because the commander is afraid of death, but because once the backbone of the army is missing, the army will collapse from the inside much faster than if it is attacked by external forces.

Li Gai wouldn't have been unaware of this truth, but what did he do when he galloped for so long?

The three hundred light horsemen who came back this time had calm faces and plenty of arrows, and it seemed that they had been ordered to return to the team, as if they had been attacked.

Lin Shan was puzzled, and saw another group of ten light cavalry, slightly behind the three hundred soldiers who came back from the front, coming down from the mountain road and about to return to the team.

Lin Shan immediately stopped the ten men and asked a few questions, and then he got out of the carriage, summoned the guards to come from the horse, jumped on the horse, and asked the ten light cavalry who had returned to lead the way, and galloped towards the position of Li Gai.

When he arrived, Li Gai was no longer there, and the more than 100 light cavalry who had not returned were nowhere to be found. The horses' hooves on the ground were relatively neat, and there were no traces of fighting, and it seemed that the more than 100 light cavalry should have been taken away by Li Gai.

The height of this piece of land where Li Gai rode a horse, the location he chose was really good, the vision on three sides was very wide, looking down on the canyon they had just passed, there were almost no big dead ends. However, Lin Shan looked around the field and did not find Li Gai's figure.

How far can you run in just half an hour?

Lin Shan called a cavalryman who had just followed Li Gai to reconnoiter here, asked a few questions briefly, and then he took a long cylinder from the guard beside him, stretched it slightly, and looked towards the northeast corner of the heights.

This kind of bamboo long cylinder belongs to the precious military utensils, and is also called "clairvoyant mirror" in the army. The inside of this kind of utensils is embedded with a number of concave and convex discs polished with natural crystal stones, and it is thought that the crystal discs used in the "clairvoyant mirror" are extremely demanding and can not contain a trace of impurities, so the cost is high.

But it has to be said that this thing is extremely useful, it can stretch the human eyesight to hundreds of miles. Whether in wartime or in preparation for war, if you can detect the enemy's situation one step earlier, you may have one more chance of victory and one less loss for your own convenience -- it is because no matter which team is more willing to invest more money to polish the reconnaissance arms -- but in the eyes of experienced generals, even if they only see a vague shadow thousands of miles away through this mirror. It can also judge whether it is friend or foe, cavalry or infantry, so as to make defensive deployments in advance.

Lin Shan, who was standing on the high ground, held the "clairvoyant mirror" and looked carefully in the direction of Li Gai's departure, suddenly. His eyebrows furrowed slightly. Ninety percent of the transparent crystal pieces reflected a mountain forest dozens of miles away, where there were no more than a hundred light cavalry led by Li Gai, only one single horse, but two people on horseback.

The man on horseback was somewhat familiar......

Lin Shan's eyes narrowed slightly behind the mirror tube, and he was about to confirm again, but he saw that the two of them rode alone and dodged, and disappeared behind a dense shade.

Although the "clairvoyance" can help people to elongate their vision, it cannot make people's vision penetrate obstacles. The shade of the trees stretched into the distance, and it was estimated that it had shaded the road for at least twenty miles. There is only a slight gap a few feet wide. If someone rode by, it was only a matter of an instant. Even with the help of the function of the "clairvoyant mirror", people's eyesight can no longer see clearly.

Lin Shan did not continue to pay attention to the fleeting shadow, but moved the direction of the long cylinder slightly, searching for Li Gai's figure in the mountains and forests elsewhere. Sure enough, it didn't take long. He saw a hundred horsemen rushing out of a tree, rolling up like smoke and dust, and stopping on a sparsely wooded hillside.

The distance between this place and that side is not too far, so the images reflected on the crystal mirror are more delicate, including the gestures made by Li Gai when deploying the task to the accompanying cavalry, and the bending and stretching of each finger, which can be seen clearly. Of course, Lin Shan understands military order gestures. Combining the gestures given by Ligai, it can be concluded that he was preparing to return, but left thirty people there, as if looking for something.

What will you be looking for?

If it was an enemy situation, it would not be pursued so far.

If it's the two people who were riding together just now. Who will be the two people? So that Li Gai attaches so much importance to it? He arrived here half an hour before himself, and he should have looked very carefully, so let's ask him directly!

Lin Shan thought so in his heart, so he didn't stay any longer, and drove the horse back to the brigade.

In fact, he was a little suspicious. In his memory, the person who could make him feel familiar at a glance so far away was enough to count it with one palm. And among the few people, if it were not a man, it would be the child.

It's just that she is staying in Kyoto safely, how can she appear in this wild and wild place?

I hope it's just that I've seen it myself, and after three years of not seeing her, her appearance should have changed a lot, right? It can't be the same as it was three years ago.

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"Have you remembered everything that was delivered to you?"

Half an hour ago, on the hillside where Mo Ye and Ling Li had briefly stagnated, Li Gai, who was sitting on horseback, swept his eyes over the thirty light cavalry in front of him, and there was a hint of coercion in his tone.

There was an accident in Kyoto, and he and Wang Chi both decided to not inform Lin Shan, but at this time, since he saw the child run away from Kyoto, he couldn't turn a blind eye. But he also knew very well that he had a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, and it was impossible for him to leave the brigade for too long, so he could only entrust this matter to his subordinates.

In order to find a child and protect her to return to Beijing, leaving behind thirty light cavalry is a lot of consumption. You must admit that each of these light cavalry is an elite soldier that he has spent years of time and energy polishing, and at this time he uses them for non-combat missions, and it must be admitted that this is a disguised waste. But he had to do it, because that child was the emperor's blood after all.

Receiving the commander's scrutinizing gaze, the thirty light cavalry responded in unison: "Remember the commander's orders!"

Li Gai said again: "Repeat the detailed rules."

These thirty light cavalry were just now divided into six groups of five men each, and a commander was temporarily appointed to these six groups. Now the six tentative Wu Commanders spoke in order, repeating the detailed rules that Li Gai had just ordered.

"The military order task, escort Miss Mo Ye back to Kyoto, and hand it over to the Commander's Mansion. If the road encounters an obstruction, it can be killed on the spot, but the arrows must not be missed to prevent the military information from being leaked. ”

This military order was restated by each of the six provisional commanders, word for word.

Li Gai nodded with satisfaction, said no more, picked up the reins and rode his horse, and returned to the direction of the brigade with the remaining one hundred and sixty light cavalry.

The thirty light cavalry, who had been given the special task, were only a little slower, and they also rushed in the two directions that the Governor had just instructed. These thirty light cavalry actually carried three times as many arrows as the standard equipment, which was also the greatest support that Li Gai could give.

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However, Li Gai, who was riding a horse, returned to the brigade with more than a hundred light cavalry. When he was still a few miles away from the group, Li Gai saw Lin Shan, riding at the end of the group. His thoughts intertwined. A set of rhetoric was quickly put together.

More than a hundred light cavalry were disciplined and marched into the rear of the brigade in a neat phalanx. Lin Shan had already lifted the reins to the side when he heard the sound of rumbling horses' hooves behind him, and slowed down, waiting for Li Gai to come closer. Meanwhile. The baskets of more than a hundred light cavalry were about half empty, and they all fell into his eyes.

Li Gai quickly approached, and the two walked side by side.

Lin Shan glanced sideways and said calmly, "You don't have to have to go to the commander in person every time to scout the terrain, right?"

Li Gai noticed the strange tone in Lin Shan's words, but he deliberately pretended not to notice it, and asked instead, "Since it's a trivial matter, what are you doing running out?"

Lin Shan didn't answer him, but asked again, "Who did you see on the high ground?"

Li Gai had expected him to ask this, and he was ready to deal with it, and said in a tone without any stagnation: "It seems to be the boy of the Bu family." I don't know whose daughter I kidnapped, but I ran to this neighborhood. This place is close to the west of Sichuan, and bandits are rampant, so I sent thirty people to find out. Master Bu cherishes this son very much, and that kid does have some talent for riding horses. In case Bai Bai falls in the hands of bandits, it is a pity, if you can help, you can help! ”

Lin Shan smiled slightly and said, "The commander explained so carefully, it seems that he attaches great importance to this son. I remember that he had a single name, and he hadn't seen him for many years, and he was still so obsessed with riding horses?"

"Nothing has changed. In recent years, it has been even worse, taking advantage of the convenience of Lord Bu's position, he has to spend half a month in Bailubo every year. Li Gai also smiled, and after a pause, he said: "After the affairs of Bailubo horse taming were completed this year, that kid finally couldn't escape, and first ate the family law. After a few days of stopping, before the skin had grown, he was driven out of the house by Lord Bu and sent to the 19th Army in Zhongzhou to report. ”

Lin Shan thought for a while and said, "The camp of the 19th Army in Zhongzhou is more than 300 miles away from here, to say the least."

Li Gai hurriedly took over the conversation and said with a smile: "This time, I will help Master Bu send his son back." According to that kid's temper, maybe you have to hold a grudge against me, it's not easy to be a good person. ”

Lin Shan smiled at this time and said, "Master Bu will be grateful to you, and this is it."

Li Gai's eyes showed a hint of novelty: "What do you say?"

Lin Shan turned his face to look at him and said, "I kidnapped a daughter-in-law and went back, although the method was rude, but if it was caused by true feelings, Master Bu would still be relieved in the end." Counting the years, Bu Yu should also start a family, and maybe after starting a family, his wild temperament can be more restrained. ”

"That's true, I've never been as detailed as you think." Li Gai echoed, but he was secretly shocked in his heart, he had just lied and almost goofed up. Fictional things are always easy to overlook some details.

After walking silently for a while, Lin Shan suddenly said, "You really didn't see which girl Bu Yu was kidnapping?"

Li Gai was slightly stunned, then he shook his head, and after thinking about it, he added: "Although that kid's temperament is a little wilder, his nature is not bad, and he must not do anything to force other people's daughters." If you move the real thing, you will eventually follow the regulations of three media and six hiring. ”

Lin Shan didn't know what he had in mind, sighed lightly, and didn't say anything more.

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Mo Ye was running while folding tree branches. She can't care about those thorns piercing her five fingers with blood, as long as she can save her life, is she afraid that this little injury will not be able to heal? She was just a little worried, with this thorn spike that had become a little fragile after wintering, could it hurt that puppet official? It would be nice if the copper coins on the body had not been searched, but it would be too difficult to hurt people's muscles and bones without metal instruments.

"Little girl, it turns out that you still have two hands, and it is becoming more and more attractive."

The words of the pseudo-official Tamashiro became more and more explicit, and his skills were more agile, and a few strides had already circled behind the thorn bushes, followed by another somersault, and he landed in front of Mo Ye.

Mo Ye was slightly frightened, and almost bumped into it, but he couldn't avoid it, so he had to wave his knife to meet it.

With such a clumsy sword, the cold light in Yushiro's hand flashed, and he pulled out a sharp short sword from sometime and where, easily blocking the knife that Mo Ye came with all his strength.

Mo Yeben didn't expect to be able to finish off this person with this sword, but with the strength of the short sword, he took five steps back in a row.

She stared at the short sword in the man's hand, and suddenly smiled, "Dagger?"

"It's a sword." Yushiro's tone suddenly became serious, and he was finally able to show a somewhat decent attitude towards the weapons that had accompanied him for more than ten years. In addition, because he only had one move to fight with Mo Ye just now, he felt that the weak woman in front of him was afraid that she had more than just two hands, which made him start to be vigilant.

Although Tamashiro has a perverted nature, he is not a person who is easily obsessed with lust.

For some reason, seeing Yu Shilang's serious talk, Mo Ye had a trace of evil thoughts in his heart, and blurted out: "Your sword is very short." ――

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ps: I'm worried that everyone's concept is vague, so let's make a note. In ancient times, one mile of road was equal to about 500 meters, and more than 40 miles of road was converted into 20 kilometers. The speed of running on a horse is about equal to the speed of today's electric cars multiplied by three (sixty yards), so twenty kilometers is whistling and coming back. The main brigade marched on foot, and it was only less than a quarter of the speed of the cavalry, so it was easy for Li Gai to run out halfway and delay for half an hour (that is, an hour), and catch up.

In addition, the speed of infantry marching is about two times the walking speed of ordinary people, six to eight miles per hour (about three kilometers). Excluding the sporadic time spent camping at night, cooking during the day, and resting and rehydrating in the middle, the infantry marched for about five hours (ten hours) a day, and the march was about 100 miles (50 kilometers) a day. The rapid march will be about 20% faster, and the pros and cons of the terrain will also have an impact on the speed, so this article chooses a compromise algorithm