When the fifth Lun arrived in Lantian County with more than a dozen private guests, hundreds of people who wanted to go south with him were already on standby.

"The subordinate of the Northern Army, the Yue Cavalry Battalion, Sima Chengzhong, has seen Knubo!"

Cheng Zhong is thirty years old, much older than the fifth Lun, I heard that this filial piety fifth lang is quite young, and when I see it today, I only envy his smooth career.

Cheng Zhong has a habit of calling himself "after the former Kailing Marquis of Kailing" after seeing people, which makes the fifth Lun stunned, he is not a scholar who specializes in remembering the family history, how do you know which of the hundreds of marquis of the Han Dynasty, only flattering: "It turned out to be the descendant of the Marquis of Kailing!" Look up for a long time. ”

In fact, what Cheng Chong said was that the Kailing Marquis Cheng Mian during the Han Dynasty, who had cooperated with Ma Yuan's ancestor and Hou Ma Tong to attack the Xiongnu and besiege the Gushi Kingdom in the Western Regions.

The two were talking, and Cheng Zhong also took the fifth Lun to see the three hundred people who were going south, it seemed that Cheng Chong was named Jun Sima, but in fact it was only equivalent to a military candidate.

However, Zheng Tong and Zang Nu, who came with the fifth lun, looked at each other and said secretly: "It turns out that the Northern Army also eats empty salaries?" ”

The establishment of the world's well-known northern army started from the former Han Dynasty, has always been the central army, a total of eight schools, respectively, the middle base, tun cavalry, infantry, Yue cavalry, Changshui, Hu cavalry, shooting, tiger ben, a total of tens of thousands of people, in the internal peace of the princes, outside the battle of the Huns in the battle has made great contributions. Ma Yu, who was about to be called the "second master" in the fifth Lun, was once the lieutenant of the middle base, but it was a pity that he went to Yangzhou.

The team in front of him belongs to the Yue Cavalry Battalion.

Wu Lun asked curiously, "Are there any Yue people in the camp?" ”

Cheng Zhong said: "During the Han Dynasty, it was indeed the Ouyue people who moved north to be selected, but then there were no Yue people, only the name was retained, and most of the soldiers were children from the south, especially the right team and the front team. “

After entering the camp, Zheng Tong and Zang Nu, who were guarding around the fifth Lun, widened their eyes, the Yue Cavalry Battalion deserved to be the Central Army, and the equipment was many times better than their Zhu Tu Yong, look at the dark two-dang armor, and the red cherry blossom hood was covered on the head, so that everyone was neat from outfit to expression.

The spears, halberds, and swords they held were all the best choices, but they were no better than the broken copper and iron that they had to pick up in their arsenals for decades or even hundreds of years, and almost everyone had a crossbow and one or two horses.

Zang Nu only secretly envied: "If we had this kind of armament, how could we let the Hu people run away easily?" ”

Although he followed the fifth Lun to fight a battle in Saibei, but standing in front of the regular army, he will still be a little ashamed, Zheng Tong is not, as a brave soldier who took the lead in the battle of crossing the river, although he is also greedy, but he refuses to admit it: "Don't look at the armament, it is not necessarily who loses and who wins in a real fight." ”

There were a total of 200 apprentices, a hundred knights, who were said to be apprentices, but in fact there were also horses to walk, which meant that they would be very fast when they went south this time, and they would no longer have to rely on their poor legs to trek through mountains and rivers.

After inspecting the fifth lun, he said: "I see that the horses ridden by the soldiers are different from the high-headed horses seen in Saibei, and they seem to be a little ...... Undersized. ”

This is not that the air salary of the northern army has eaten the head of the war horse, Cheng Zhong explained: "My department is different from the three battalions of Changshui, Hu Cai, and Tun Cai, and most of the horses used are the horses of the south, which are the descendants of the horses of the Tang Dynasty in the Spring and Autumn Period. ”

In the subsequent journey, the fifth Lun saw the skills of these southern horses, and said that Lantian is located in the southern edge of the Guanzhong Plain, and it is also the last Pingchuan land

Later, the avenue became a small road, only a gap between the mountains.

When the fifth Lun looked back, he also recorded what he saw and heard along the way when he arrived in Shangluo County, according to Chengzhong, more than 200 years ago, Liu Bang walked this road when he entered the customs. first broke through the Wu Pass, and then sent Li Shiqi to carry gold silk to negotiate with the guards of the Pass, and at the same time obeyed Zhang Liang's plan, planted flags all over the mountain, and laid suspicious soldiers to shake the heart of the Qin army. In the end, "go around the pass, cross the mountain, hit the Qin army, and break the south of Lantian".

The next stop away from Shangluo is Shang County, which has been subordinated to the right team county (Hongnong County), which is the hometown of many people in the Yue cavalry camp, but as far as the fifth Lun can see, the military discipline of the central army is not much better, although there is Cheng Chong'er who does not dare to abuse the people, but walking on the road and trampling on the green seedlings from time to time, the fifth Lun is not like the head of the hair when he went north.

No matter how much hair there is, there is a time when it is cut, unlike the pig Tu Yong who knows the grace of the newspaper, the more the cavalry battalion looks absent-minded, it is strange not to make him bald, not to mention that he is only responsible for the envoy, these Yue cavalry have nothing to do with him a dime, and they are bribed and trapped...... The price is too high, and the Central Army is not a slave and a maid, why haven't you seen it?

Fifth Lun only thought secretly: "I'd rather have a group of Yongli slaves practice from scratch than accept this arrogant soldier." ”

And when the Yueqi camp passed through the county seat of Shangxian County, a merchant hawker with a flat burden was on the side of the road, this person's name was Du Wu, when he saw the army passing by, others had already slipped away, but he had the courage to shout: "Persimmons, persimmons as sweet as honey, don't you taste them?" ”

But he was violently pushed to the ground by Yue Qi, and the load of goods was smashed, and the persimmons he sold fell to the ground for a while.

This is the family worked hard to change food, Du Wu was distressed, and hurriedly lowered his head to pick it up, some persimmons rolled on the road, and were wantonly trampled by the Yue cavalry, so angry that he scolded and scolded.

However, the fifth Lun, who was at the back of the team, saw this scene and asked Zang Nu to give Du Wu a piece of cloth that he carried with the car, and he regarded it as if he had bought it all. He took the few remaining fruits in Du Wu's hand and tasted them, and said with a smile: "It's really sweet." ”

Du Wu held the cloth and thanked Dade, but before he could catch up and say thanks, the fifth doctor's car had already driven away.

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In the first half of March, "the turn of Qin and Chu, according to the danger of mountains and rivers" of Wuguan Wuguan has been left behind, this place is quite dangerous, into Lantian and the right is dangerous, the road to Nanyang and the east moves, the imperial court specially set up Wuguan Duwei to guard.

After a short rest, the group set off again, and they walked on the "Wuguan East Road". This is the road opened up along the Danshui River Valley, east of the Bears Ears Mountains, within hundreds of miles, it is generally a big mountain and long valley, narrow and difficult to walk.

Fifth Lun understands that this so-called right team county (Hongnong) is a patchwork bulk county. The territory is basically mountainous, and the counties are distributed next to the Yellow River, Luoshui, Danshui and other river valleys, although the straight-line distance seems not far, but it is separated by a towering watershed, and it is extremely difficult to communicate with each other. For example, in Wuguan, you have to go over the mountains and mountains for a month to go to Yiyang, the county capital, and it is not as convenient as Chang'an and Wancheng.

Since the traditional "Guanzhong" range, Chengzhong and the Yue cavalry camp have also become vigilant, and the relatively stable Gyeonggi, the outside world has been chaotic, pedestrians and businessmen dare not go out of the county, officials to go to the post must bring enough private armed, otherwise it will be cheap along the way of the mountain kings, this road is a good place for ambushes.

For more than ten days, the fifth Lun has been kind to the itinerary and accommodation, and did not let Chengzhong and the Yue cavalry camp be embarrassed, but today he issued an unbelievable order.

"Split up into two teams?" Chengzhong felt inexplicable.

This is not a large army, but also needs to divide the army and fail to succeed?

What's more, the Fifth Lun first asked the team to slow down, and then ordered fifty men to dress up as civilians, hide their armor, and drive for miles ahead, while they walked slowly in the rear.

"Krupp." Cheng Gravity persuaded: "I heard that there are thieves in Xixian County (Xixia, Henan), so it's better to gather the crowd and get by." “

"Are you afraid of little thieves?" Fifth Lun insisted on this.

Cheng Zhong didn't know that the fifth Lun deliberately wanted to arrange it this way, so as to attract the thieves of the county to rob, and he also brought a few people from the fourth clan with him on this trip, and they confessed: "Last year, we were robbed in the county and robbed of all our clothes and money. ”

Wu Lun remembered it in his heart, and it happened that he was passing through Xi County this time, and there was a Yue cavalry camp around him to protect him, so he just came to lure the snake out of the hole to see who dared to rob his house.

By the way, we will also see if the combat strength of the Yue cavalry battalion is really worthy of their equipment, if the three hundred people are defeated by a smaller number of thieves, then the rebellion plan of the fifth Lun can be advanced.

On the road after that, Cheng Zhong acted in accordance with the strategy, Zheng Tong and dozens of people drove some distance in front, while the fifth Lun was behind, holding a crossbow machine, and his eyes fell on the dense forests on the left and right, and the howl of wild beasts was heard from time to time, and I don't know if the group of thieves would be fooled.

When they arrived at a corner, the front team went around and couldn't see the shadow, but Wu Lun saw a flock of birds soaring over a forest in the distance, but they didn't fall for a long time, and it was suspected that someone was there, so he immediately told Cheng Zhong to be careful.

Before the news arrived, they heard a drum beat, accompanied by a noisy shout of killing, the front team was really ambushed, dozens of ragged thieves rushed out of the forest, armed with rudimentary weapons rushed to the side of the road, they moved very fast, jumped over the ravine and jumped on the official road, and rushed directly to kill, while dozens of people in front hurriedly gathered on the road to resist, pulled the white clothes outside, exposed the armor, or took out the crossbow machine, aimed at the thieves who rushed over.

"How dare you rob it."

Cheng Zhong scolded and scolded, feeling that he had been greatly humiliated, and immediately summoned the Yue knights in the rear, whose horses were worthy of southern horses, and did not have to walk on the narrow road, but rushed directly from the rugged surface on both sides of the road to the front.

And the fifth Lun also abandoned the cart and got on his horse, and went forward with his private followers, but just as a group of horsemen approached the attacking thieves, there was another gong in the woods, and the thieves immediately turned around and ran, faster than when they came, and they only had time to catch a few tails, and the rest of them went into the dense forest.

"The front team counterattacked too quickly, and at a glance, you knew that there was fraud, and the other party was not stupid." Fifth Lun only said that it was a pity, but there was no way to take the thief, look at the surrounding mountains and deep gorges, the other party drilled into the forest, and the government had nothing to do.

However, this group of thieves is indeed different, and they actually use the golden drum to order their subordinates, so they come and go like the wind.

This is an ordinary thief, this is a trained thief!

I'm afraid it's not some powerful army, or even the official army pretending to be it, right?

Wait for the fifth Lun to bring the arrested thieves over, and let Zheng Tong interrogate him a little.

"Do you still remember that you and the other merchants who robbed the flag as the 'fifth' last year?"

"I've robbed so many times that I don't remember, I can only count from one to four, less than five...... Oops, stop, stop! Of course, I remember that the villain's clothes were picked up at that time. ”

"Who is your leader?"

"Hey, we all can't survive and spontaneously entered the mountains and forests, where did the leader come from...... Ahhh ”

They are not iron-clad men, and they can't stand the pain, so they truthfully confess who their leader is.

"The commander of our Qu is Deng Ye, a native of Nanxiang in this county."

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PS: The second chapter is at 13:00.