Chapter 458: Marquis Wu's Life in the Mountains
Before dawn and the snow had not stopped, dozens of little eunuchs rode out of the east gate, and after walking a few miles close to the coast, they turned south and prepared to detour into the west mountain.
Five miles to the southeast of the city, I saw that the reef was abrupt, the trees were lush, and the cold land in the north was blue, and I was a little surprised, but I was surprised to hear the sound of shouting in front of me, and a few soldiers who were exploring the road in front of me actually found the enemy's traces.
Chen Wangting and Jiang Fa and others immediately drove their horses to the front to surround Chang Yu in the center, Li Tiezhu and Guo Ren were on guard with knives on the periphery, but Tu Yuan and Jia Waixiong brought a few guards to kill him.
The shouting in the distance continued, Chang Yu ignored it, it was nothing more than some Tartar probing horses hiding here to avoid the cold, there were only more than ten of them, as long as Tu Yuan and Lao Jia Zhiwei caught up, they would definitely be slaughtered clean.
He took the opportunity to look at his surroundings to see why the trees were so lush and there were green leaves.
After riding a horse in a circle, I realized that there was a hot spring here! I vaguely remember that Tang Gao, the champion poet in the Ming Zhengde period, passed through this place when he was ordered to go to North Korea, and also wrote a poem: "The spring is like a rotten soup, and the ground does not burn and the gas rises"
It is rumored that this hot spring has always been more than 70 degrees Celsius and can treat dozens of diseases, and more than 50 sanatoriums were built here in later generations, but at this time it was a wilderness.
After retreating from the enemy, when he came here to soak in the dark, Chang Yu dismounted and washed his hands, the water temperature was slightly hot, the water was cold, and the ice and fire felt slightly cool.
The Qing army was invincible, but it was a good hand to escape, Tu Yuan and Jia Waixiong chased closely but could not let go, Chang Yu had to eat this group of spies for the hidden whereabouts, so that Guo Ren led the crowd to help strangle.
Chang Yu took the lead under the escort of Li Tiezhu, Chen Wangting and others, and after a few miles of difficult travel, he turned west and went straight to Xishan.
The mountains have their own scenery, stepping on the snow and looking for plums seems to be at ease, but after all, it is not as comfortable as the soft bed of Houfu's brocade clothes, jade food, silk and satin, Wu Weiying has nothing in Yaxing day and night, and the ancient cave in the deep mountains eats and lives with thousands of people and horses, although the cave is wide and well ventilated, but the smell of and horse urine spreads and the marquis who sleeps hay and drinks spring water is really unbearable.
When the infantry battalion and the elite cavalry of Jin Wuwei went out of the mountain to ambush, Wu Weiying was free in the mountains, and Hu Ling led his family to arrange fortifications in the mountains and ignored him.
At the end of the day, there was also a small harvest, and the family caught some game, which was supposed to be barbecued on the spot, but was reprimanded by Hu Ling, who followed the trace, and no fire was allowed outside the cave.
How can the subordinates of the Demon King of Dongchang have good stubble, not to mention that they have been on the battlefield to kill the day, they are also people who serve the royal family on weekdays, and the little Hou Ye really put it in his eyes, and he reprimanded Wu Weiying, which can sweep the face of the Hou Ye.
He didn't dare to face the big demon king, his eunuchs were so arrogant, Wu Houye felt that he couldn't bear it, but after enduring it for a long time, he gritted his teeth and endured it.
Fighting, the infantry battalion is not the more than 200 Ding in Huling where he carried a dozen Ding?
Even if the infantry battalion dared to be transferred to fight? Dongchang's can press n charges on him at any time, not to mention that the military power has been released by the Fan family, and he can't be adjusted.
The only protest he could now express his displeasure was not to go into the cave, not to eat and sleep with the people, and to camp with him.
The heart was moved and immediately acted, Wu Weiying immediately asked the family to learn those dark piles to build a shed in the forest, seeing that the house was in a good mood, he couldn't help but be overjoyed.
Happiness was very short-lived, in the dead of night, Marquis Wu finally pulled down his face and returned to the cave, the reason he didn't say, but Hu Ling knew that he couldn't stand the wind and cold, I hope he can understand the hard work of those secret whistles at this time.
On the second day, hearing the sound of cannons in the distance, Wu Weiying was very interested, climbed to the top of the mountain and hid in the dense forest to look north, heard the sound of killing in the distance and broke through the sky, and vaguely saw the scene of thousands of troops and horses fighting on the side of Tengjialing, according to Hu Ling later secretly told Fan Jiaqian, Wu Houye's legs trembled all day.
After dark, Fan Jiaqian led the team back to the mountain alone, everyone was curious to inquire forward, seeing that his face was not good, Wu Weihua did not go to be bored, and when he saw that everyone in the infantry battalion was happy, he went to Pingfeng to inquire about the details, and he was shocked when he heard it, and his face changed.
After learning that Jia Waixiong was only injured and stayed in the city, Hu Ling breathed a sigh of relief, as for why Fan Jiaqian was so gloomy, there was no need to ask, the dozens of corpses brought back by the eunuch army were the answer.
In the first battle, more than 30 heavy armored cavalry were killed, which shows how strong the Qing army is, but this is still blocked in the field between the valleys and constrained.
The eunuch army who died in the battle was either buried on the spot or cremated and brought back to Beijing, but how to implement it respected their own choice.
Do you bury the barren mountains outside the bones and be a lonely ghost? Fan Jiaqian thought that if he died in battle, he should still want to return to the capital, even if it was buried in Zhongguan Village in the western suburbs, it would be better than here, so he brought these corpses back and cremated them as soon as the war passed.
Wu Weiying felt that it was his bottom line to be in a hole with these pawns and mules and horses, but now it was unbearable to sleep with the corpses, he originally wanted Fan Jiaqian to move those corpses outside the cave, but looking at the faces of those big eunuchs, he decided to lower his bottom line a little more.
This night, Marquis Wu slept very unsteadily, and in a daze, he always felt that those corpses were within reach of him, and he woke up many times, so that the family members surrounded him before falling asleep.
But early in the morning, he was woken up by the family and said that several big leaders of the eunuch army had come out of the hole, as if something had happened outside.
Hou Ye is very angry, and it doesn't matter if he is in the air, but if there is something, he has to say hello, in case...... To escape, you should also prepare a good felling in advance.
Early in the morning, the secret post notified that the Qing army had entered the mountain.
Hu Ling and Fan Jiaqian were shocked, could it be that the Qing army had discovered the hidden soldiers in the mountains?
But it's impossible to think about it, they go in and out of the Heifeng Mountain Valley in the west, which is extremely hidden, and there are many hidden piles in the valley, plus the heavy snow covers the mountain, how the Qing army explores the horses.
It was really a false alarm, the so-called Qing army was just more than ten horses, first at the foot of the West Mountain, after a circle of the platform, found that there was a mountain road into the mountain, so I wanted to explore the reality or find a shelter from the wind.
In fact, it was Wu Sangui who ordered troops to snipe the Qing army outside the city, so this group of people wanted to find a safe haven.
As soon as he entered the mountain, he was discovered by a secret sentinel and immediately warned him.
The mountain road is already rugged, and after Hu Ling, it deliberately set up obstacles, and it snowed again after entering the mountain from the palace camp, and there were no traces.
But they did not know that a mile further on they would come to an open valley, flat and open, with steep cliffs on both sides, and ambushes on them, and if they entered, they would be killed by random arrows.
This Qing army scout was lucky, Hu Ling and Fan Jiaqian's preparations were in vain, and they turned around and went out of the mountain.
But they were unlucky, not long after they came out of the mountain, they were blocked by a Ming army, and they chased and killed none of them.
The Great War is not far off! In a dark outpost in the bushes on the mountain, Hu Ling, Fan Jiaqian and Wu Weiying watched the scenery for more than half a day, and the Ming army chased and killed the Qing army spies outside the city.
The three of them were aware of the imminent trend of mountain rain, but the little eunuch was fishing outside the city.
The mountains are quiet and boring, but time flies quickly.
As soon as the morning dawned, there was another warning signal, this time from the Heifeng Mountain Pass in the west, and the people in the cave were shocked and immediately alerted, but then the warning signal was canceled, and the little overseer came.
It was still warm in the cave, and the little eunuch whose lips were purple from the cold smiled happily when he entered the cave, and sighed repeatedly, but in a blink of an eye, he frowned, and the taste was not so wonderful.
Nearly 4,000 people and hundreds of horses ate and drank here, and you can imagine the taste, even if the hole was wide, very large, and very long.
Wu Weiying saw that the little eunuch was extremely flattering, and praised him for his wisdom and bravery, and played the Qing army in the palm of his hand.
Chang Yu cooperated with him for a while, and then found Hu Ling and Fan Jiaqian in a secret discussion of something, from time to time with branches on the ground, Wu Weiying guessed that it should be formulating some military operations, and wanted to get over several times, but in the end he still didn't take that step.