In the early morning, a white drizzle shrouded the four fields, filling the treetops and shrubs, and some small animals stuck their heads out of the wet rain leaves and grass, and then quickly shrank back as if they had noticed something. ◢ With * dream * small ◢.1a

I saw a group of cavalry suddenly break through the rain and fog and appear at the edge of the forest, led by Gan Feng.

In the Han Dynasty, there was still some vegetation in Xiliang, not like the Gobi desert in later generations, perhaps because of the advent of the Xiaoice River period, the southern pressure of the freezing line, on the one hand, led to the great increase in the aggressiveness of the nomads, on the other hand, it also led to the settlement of the population in Guanzhong and even the Western Liang Western Regions, large-scale felling of trees for heating, and eventually led to irreversible serious soil erosion and desertification.

Gan Feng wiped the rain from his face, then turned his head to stare at the woods, and shook his head in a gesture.

After running such a road, you need to trim it, although you are bringing two horses, but after all, it is raining, for the war horse, the physical strength consumed is greater, and timely adjustment is naturally necessary.

Several of the Flying Bear soldiers understood, jumped off their horses, carried their swords and went into the woods, and after a while they returned to report that they were safe in the forest.

Gan Feng nodded, and then motioned to his subordinates to go into the woodland to rest, as for the imprint of the horse's hooves, there is no need to pay too much attention to it, such a rainy day, as long as it continues, the rain will naturally smooth out the imprint gradually......

This road is already the road that has passed Shangqi and is heading to Qishan, of course, to fight Han Sui stationed in Qishan, it is certainly not enough to rely on Gan Feng's twenty Flying Bear Army, and this trip has other intentions.

Rainy days, is not suitable for running horses, this is basically as long as you know a little bit of common sense of raising horses, in addition to because the rain will take away the physical strength of the horses, but also because the muddy water will stain the fur of the war horse, and even stick to the nostrils and eyes of the war horse, if it is not dealt with in time, it will make the war horse's eyes inflamed and not easy to treat.

Therefore, in addition to resting for people, it is more important to clean up the big guy first and wipe off the muddy water and eye droppings stuck in the corners of the mouth, nose and eyes......

The Flying Bear Army that came with Gan Feng was all old battle formations, and there was no need to give any additional orders, so when they entered the woodland, they took out a dry and warm kudzu cloth from their arms, and wiped the long big face for the big partner next to them first.

"Captain!" A Flying Bear Army on duty at the edge of the forest suddenly whispered a warning, "Someone is coming!" It's Xiliang Scout! ”

On rainy days, both sound detection and visual observation are somewhat disturbed, so when the Flying Bear Army notices that someone is coming, there is not enough distance to dodge.

"If they don't go into the woods, they don't care......" Gan Feng said almost without any thought, "if they stop, they'll all clean up!" Three crossbows are ready! ”

On rainy days, the bow and arrow are wasted, and even if it is a crossbow, it is not very easy to use, even if it is a crossbow machine with iron strings, it can no longer be exposed in the rain for too long, after all, wood will also absorb water, but in order to prevent it, it is still necessary to use it when it should be used.

Immediately, three Flying Bear soldiers with good archery skills took the oilcloth bag from the side of the horse, and then took out the crossbow machine and began to wind it, while the others drew their blades and hid sideways behind the tree, just like Gan Feng.

The wind and rain were blowing, and there was a rattle on the leaves and treetops.

Soon, there was a little noise outside the forest, and a team of Xiliang scouts came to the edge of the forest one after another, and a voice sounded: "Damn it...... It's getting raining harder, sir, are we going to stop? ”

It seems that Shi Changfa said: "So...... It's also good...... Go into the forest to take shelter from the rain and say......"

The ten Xiliang scouts dismounted in a daze and began to drag the war horses towards the forest one after another.

Gan Feng hid behind a tree and gave a few of his subordinates a look.

"What's the length!" Suddenly, a Xiliang scout pointed to the ground and shouted, "Look! It's ......"

"Do it! Not a single one to stay! Before the Xiliang scout could finish speaking, Gan Feng, who understood that his whereabouts had been exposed, shouted and rushed out first, stabbing the chief with a knife.

"Kill!" Several Flying Bear soldiers also rushed out and slashed at the Xiliang Scouts.

Under the sudden attack, Xiliang Shichang also roared angrily, sideways to avoid a knife stabbed by Gan Feng, pulled out the battle knife and slashed towards Gan Feng's side!

"Click!"

Shi Chang vigorously slashed a knife, but instead of slashing Ganfeng, because the movement was too big, the war knife slashed at the fork of the tree that grew horizontally and got stuck.

Gan Feng took a diagonal step, and at the moment when Shi Chang's knife didn't have time to pull it back, he slashed lightly, and the knife light swept between Shi Chang's neck, and the blood "poof" splashed a hazy red circle in the rain and mist, accompanied by a cold cold glow, and sank into the chest and abdomen of another Xiliang scout.

Different places have to use different moves, perhaps on the battlefield, the full force of the open and close slash is of course the most effective means of killing the enemy, but in the case of many tree forks in the forest, slashing and killing naturally becomes the way to die.

Soon, the Xiliang scouts who stepped into the woodland were killed, and the two Xiliang scouts who were still on the edge of the woods, who had not yet walked in, saw that the situation was not right, and immediately climbed on their horses and turned around and ran!

The scout's first task is intelligence, and then it is to kill the enemy, not to mention that even the chief is lost here, and it is pointless to fight hard.

But the fate of these Xiliang scouts was already doomed the moment they stepped into the forest.

"Boom! Boom! ”

The sharp arrows of the crossbow arrows drew a transparent straight line in the rain, and then sank into the backs of the two Xiliang scouts who fled on horseback......

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On the outskirts of Tianshui.

Cheng Gongying, who fled in defeat, learned that Tianshui had gathered the Xiliang tribes, so he fled all the way here, thinking that he could defeat the Guanzhong reinforcements of the general Zhengxi with the strength of the Xiliang tribes, but he didn't expect to encounter Tiangong and start to rain.

Rain is a very normal thing, there has been no rain for a long time before, and now it is raining, which will also help the ears of Zhuang He before the autumn harvest, which is a great thing for farmers, but for Cheng Gongying, it is a rather headache.

God wants it to rain, and no one can do anything about it, and he can't stop it.

"Fighting?" Duan Xuan looked at the rain outside the tent with a serious face, and then said, "General Cheng Gong is not playing Yu?" With such rain, how can you fight? ”

When Duan Xuan's voice fell, Zhang Heng echoed and said: "That's it, in such weather, the horse can't run, and you still have to fight a ball...... Is it possible to abandon the horse and fight on foot? Hehe, haha......"

The other Xiliang tribes, although they did not express their position clearly, also laughed with Zhang Henghaha, obviously not very much in favor of fighting in the rain now.

Cheng Gongying looked at everyone and said patiently: "Everyone, everyone, it is precisely because everyone knows that this kind of weather is not conducive to horse warfare, so the cavalry of the expedition to the west will not be guarded, and there are many of us, as long as we surround and trap it here, we will definitely be able to win in one battle!" ”

"Hah!" Liang Xing sneered unceremoniously, then twisted his head to the side, and said to Cheng Yi on the side: "Brother Cheng, I heard that you went hunting in the mountains when it didn't rain two days ago?" Nice takeaway, right? Did you hunt any good goods? ”

Cheng Yi laughed: "It's just some hares and pheasants or something, and there are no big guys......"

Liang Xing nodded and said: "Brother Cheng is modest, is this hunting, you still have to be a veteran, at least you won't have to catch a single hair, but you will lose a lot of people and horses, right?" ”

Cheng Yi raised his head and laughed a few times, knowing what Liang Xing meant, but he didn't continue to talk.

Yang Qiu stretched out his arms, raised them to both sides, gestured, and said, "General Chenggong is also kind, everyone might as well listen carefully, at least let people finish speaking......"

Ma Yu said: "Yes, General Chenggong, you continue to talk ......"

Cheng Gongying bowed his hand and thanked Yang Qiu and Ma for playing, and then did not look at Liang Xing, but continued: "Now that the expeditionary troops are divided into two places, it is a good time, if we can work together to exterminate the expeditionary cavalry, we can settle the Dingguan in one fell swoop, and you will naturally ...... at that time."

"Naturally, there is nothing."

Zhang Heng said with an expressionless face, "Anyway, the ugly words are in the front, a certain army has run through the Guanzhong several times, and there is no merit and hard work, but so far there is no benefit, but it has lost a lot of soldiers, horses, grain and grass......"

Cheng Yin frowned and said: "Brother Zhang, it's too much to say that, everyone is a brother, and it's interesting to always talk about this benefit and that benefit?" ”

The candidate also said: "That is, it is good for the whole day, as if you can't live without benefits......"

Zhang Hengyi slapped the table: "Who the hell are you talking about?!" ”

The candidate also slapped the table: "Lao Tzu said what's wrong with you?!" ”

As he spoke, the two of them were about to fight, but the others next to them hurriedly stepped forward to dissuade them, and pulled them outside the big tent while persuading.

Duan Xuan looked at it coldly, and did not dissuade it, and waited until everyone was out of the big tent before he sighed slowly, and said: "So-and-so should go and see, don't make a mess, General Chenggong, retire ......" After speaking, he arched his hand, and Shi Shiran also left.

"Hey......"

As soon as Cheng Gongying stretched out his arm, wanting to keep Duan Xuan, Ma Yu on the side also stood up, shook his head and said, "General Cheng Gong, I didn't say it, it's all here, so I expect some pretty words...... Well, you'd better think about it before you talk about it......"

Yang Qiu also stood up, arched his hand, but didn't say anything, followed the horse play, and also came out of the big tent, leaving Cheng Gongying alone standing in the middle of the big tent, raising his arms empty, but speechless.

"Hey!" Cheng Gongying stomped his foot angrily, but he turned his gaze to the south helplessly, he didn't know that it would be better to be able to talk about something tangible, but the problem was that he was just a partial general under Han Sui, how much power could he have?

Han Sui didn't have authorization, what could Cheng Gongying promise?

"General! General......"

Cheng Gongying let out a long sigh, then shook his head, and looked up at the continuous rain, which was falling all over the sky.

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"The law of the husband to go to the camp, choose the place first. The good person of the land, there is grass on the left, there is a flowing spring on the right, the back of the mountain is dangerous, it is easy to be flat, and it is accessible to the woodwood, which is called the camp four preparations. Gongming's repair of this car camp is already quite methodical...... Li Ru and Fei Qian stood in the camp, looking at Xu Huang in front of him organizing people to strengthen the camp, and couldn't help but praise, "The team is out of the car, the camp is colluded, the cattle and horses are among them, the horses are excluded, the left and right compartment doors are set up, and the antlers are widely distributed...... It's a pity that the sky is not beautiful, otherwise digging the ground is a trench, and it will be more solid......"

"Gongming has the style of a general...... Fei Qian nodded and said, suddenly remembered something, and said, "Wen You, you have been living in Longyou for a long time, I don't know how the soldiers of Xiliang are?" ”

Li Ru said: "The Xiliang tribes seem to be powerful, but in fact, they are not. It is mainly based on recruitment, taking Han Wenyue as an example, it can be divided into three parts, a total of about 4,000, divided into the hands of Han, Chenggong and Yan, and another part of the army is stationed in Jincheng, mostly refined, about 1,000 people. ”

So Han Sui is only 5,000 people?

No, how could Han Sui be so few?

Before Fei Qian could ask questions, Li Ru continued: "...... The rest of the soldiers were recruited...... For example, Ma Shoucheng's wife is a Qiang woman, and her tribe naturally follows the Ma family, and the same is true of Han Wenyue. The Qiang people are riding Hu, grazing on weekdays, and recruiting during the war, Han Sui has a friendly relationship with Sister Qiang and Qiang when he burns, and recruits more Qiang people from his tribe as soldiers, if he does his best, there are more than 30,000 people......"

"Xiliang Zhubu, most of them are like this, there are only more than 1,000 people on weekdays, if you recruit relevant Hu cavalry, you can reach tens of thousands, and if you join forces, you can reach 100,000 people......" Li Ru said, "But Xiliang is bitter after all, if there are too many people and horses, the grain and grass can not be afforded, so it is ......."

Fei Qian nodded, understood.

Why did the court of the Han Dynasty repeatedly use troops against Xiliang, but never suppressed the Qiang rebellion, and even against warlords like Han Sui were helpless, in addition to some of the reasons of the generals and officials themselves, such a recruitment system actually has a part of the relationship, even if it defeated Han Sui and other Xiliang tribes, but did not give a heavy blow to the most important core part, it is like cutting off part of the earthworm, and did not harm the most critical essential part, the cut off earthworm can still surviveand then make a comeback next time.

"In this way...... Fei Qian looked ahead, that is, in the direction of Qishan, and said thoughtfully, "If you don't defeat it in one fell swoop and behead its leader, this Xiliang ......"

Sometimes life is so wonderful, in fact, the structural system of the Xiliang Tribes, which is mainly based on refined private soldiers and supplemented by the Hu Ren Corps that was raised, was actually the first to be used by Li Ru under Dong Fatzi at that time, but then it was also used by the Xiliang Tribes, but now I didn't expect it to become an obstacle to the current Feiqian.

Li Ru smiled hoarsely, and did not say anything about this system, but said: "...... Han Wenyue chose Qishan to fight, and he also brought his military luck to ...... In the land of Qishan, although the land is connected in all directions, it is not...... The general stays for a few days, and it is the time of Han Wen's death......"

"Really?" Fei Qian didn't understand what kind of medicine was sold in Li Ru's gourd.

"Nature." Li Ru said, "But at the moment, you need to beware of the Korean language about attacking the camp......"

Fei Qian looked up at the rain and said, "Wen You's meaning, Han Wen dates to send troops in the rain?" ”

"We are stationed here, and if Han Wenyue has other plans, he will definitely send troops to test ......" Li Ru nodded and said, "Within three days, there will be a ...... battle."

At this time, a group of scouts suddenly galloped from outside the camp, and before Fei Qianqian approached, he took out two tattered skins from his arms, and said: "General Qiqi, according to the general's orders, his subordinates went over the mountain to the Western Han River, but unexpectedly found this thing by the waterside......