Chapter 417: Camping in the Mountains
The sky is getting dark, the wind and snow are getting tighter, the mountain road is bumpy and slippery, the Gongzi camp horse team is slowly walking between the white water of Montenegro, and the leader Fan Jiaqian frowned deeply, and sent four groups of people to explore the road in succession.
The reason why he was so careful was because he had found someone snooping on several times in just a few dozen miles into the mountain.
After Chang Yu crossed the sword hall, his face was solemn, and he secretly regretted in his heart that he was a little careless and unprepared.
When he left Beijing and went to Taiyuan a month ago, he was just a little eunuch with no name, and no one thought about him at that time, even if all the towns along the way could be escorted by soldiers and horses, he still scraped together nearly 2,000 troops from the capital to accompany him.
And now, the governor of Dongchang is so powerful that the people who want to kill him are lined up from the imperial city to outside the Yongding River, and even at all costs, he only takes more than 600 people to pay Yinbei out of the border pass.
This is Kanwai!
Thieves are rampant, robbing homes and houses, killing people like hemp, and doing all kinds of evil.
Isn't it too big, at least when you leave the Shanhaiguan customs, you should let Gao Di send a team of people to escort you, at least the scene is huge, and the shock is small.
However, between the black mountains and white waters, the jungle cliffs, and thousands of rocks, I don't know how many killing opportunities are hidden.
Torches began to light in the palace camp, and a fiery dragon winded through the mountains.
"It's rare for bandits to fight the army, this place is unusual" Wu Zhong immediately slowed down, looking around vigilantly. Chang Yu stroked the handle of the knife and sneered.
Li Tiezhu on his side snorted coldly: "Is it difficult to see that these people are obviously coming for the Overseer."
Wu Zhong was really confused, he couldn't see it, and he couldn't figure it out, the little eunuch was the commander of Dongchang, and the power was tilted towards the government and the opposition, who was so bent on his life.
There are too many people who want Chang Yu to die, if he laughs at those nobles in the capital, he will be killed once he is caught, but what if it is someone other than the nobles, especially the military......
The water here is too deep, too hard to guess, too hard to understand, and too hard to handle.
These bandits are unusual, and they must be pointed out behind them, and as for who they are, he doesn't know, and he doesn't want to know, or he doesn't want to know.
As for the purpose of this man, it is self-evident.
The palace character camp is out of the customs, 300 fine horsemen, nearly 600 people from more than 200 families, and 100,000 yuan.
Wealth moves people's hearts, but it also touches the hearts of thieves.
The thieves poured out of the nest, if there was a mistake in the palace camp, even if Chongzhen would not punish the crime and kill the head, but the account on the little eunuch's resume was clearly remembered, not to mention that the little eunuch's face was intolerable, what face did he have outside the pass, and the little thief could not help it, and came to supervise the army?
It's a slap in the face.
Who wanted to punch him in the face.
The trouble of bandits has always been a headache for the authorities, and it is related to the top priorities such as public order and people's livelihood under the government, but it is extremely difficult to suppress bandits, not to mention the expenditure of manpower and material resources for dispatching troops, it is to go into the mountains to suppress bandits and return empty-handed, and it is difficult to make up the time.
The thieves are cunning and rabbit three holes, it is not suitable to follow the tracks, some of the big cottages are guarded according to the dangerous places, easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if the officers and soldiers have worked hard to take it, he has run away, the mountains are reckless, where do you go to pursue the deep mountains and old forests.
You go and he returns, spring goes and spring comes again, and bandits bloom everywhere.
The sky has completely darkened, the wind and snow are urgent, the two wings of the mountain peaks are steep, the black pressure is really frightening to look at, the front of the Malay newspaper, twenty miles away is the county seat of Suizhong, three miles away there is a big river.
The big river is named Dog River, the estuary is wide and relatively flat, Chang Yu immediately beside the road, looking at the opposite bank from afar, the black mountain is reckless and does not see a trace of light, stretches out his hand to summon a spy, under careful questioning, the mountain road on the opposite bank is narrow, and the jungle beside the road is luxuriant.
Camp! The little eunuch immediately ordered.
Tie Zhu and the others were surprised, didn't rush overnight?
Anxious to go to the Nai He Bridge, the little eunuch sneered.
The palace camp dismounted and stood guard, and the family began to light a fire and set up camp, but it was not as casual as in the past.
Chang Yu ordered the family to cut down the trees beside the road to make several simple rejection horses, and stood on the front and back of the mountain road to press them with boulders, and arranged ten people to guard in each direction.
In the midst of the rejection of the horses, they formed a circle with chariots and horses, and put archers on guard, and then they set up camp in the circle to pay their tents, and ordered the family to make food.
In the tent under the palace character, Chang Yu sat and stared at the night sky, as if he didn't know when the wind and snow hit, and the iron pillar next to him asked in a low voice: "Is there going to be a battle tonight?"
The little eunuch shook his head lightly and couldn't deny: "At least it's not peaceful."
Wu Zhong was on the side, wiping the knife with his sleeve, the knife was as light as water, extremely cold, and he raised his head and skimmed the little eunuch beside him: "Your humble majesty once slaughtered more than 40 thieves in the village with a single knife."
Chang Yu turned his head and glanced at him, his eyes were full of arrogance, and the heat was monstrous: but it was extinguished in an instant: "This is not the rivers and lakes."
"As soon as you leave the palace gate, every step is full of rivers and lakes, and the governor doesn't know it" Wu Zhong raised his knife and waited, flicked his fingers, and the sound of the dragon chanting was endless.
"It's not that our family doesn't know, but people can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes!" Chang Yu pulled out the embroidered spring knife: "It is both a river and a lake, why is it big?" ”
Wu Zhong bowed his head and said in a loud voice: "If the overseer has figured it out, he will humbly hope that the superintendent will sword the mountain and the sea of fire, and capture the tiger and kill the Jiao."
Chang Yu sneered: "The rivers and lakes are small, the people of the dragons and dragons, what kind of dragon and tiger!" ”
All three were silent, sometimes speechless.
The Gongzi camp is camped at the mouth of the river bank with the mountain road as the center, the horses are rejected outside, and the carriages and horses are the city inside, Fan Jiaqian is on duty in the south, Huling is in the north, and Li Tiezhu is in the center.
The mountain wind is strong, wrapped in snowflakes and churning wantonly, in the dark night, it is difficult to see things a few meters away, and the eunuch army on duty in the horse does not dare to be careless, staring closely into the distance, for fear of missing something.
The archers arranged between the carriages and horses, covered with a layer of snow, did not dare to move around at will, but at most stretched out their hands to warm themselves on the bonfire, and if the situation changed, they would immediately set up their bows and release arrows.
There is wine in the palace camp army, as long as it is not wartime, you can drink, the biggest preference of the eunuch is to gamble and drink, and secondly, the eunuch's body is weaker than ordinary people, and drinking in winter can warm up.
However, although it was wartime at this time, the situation was special, and the military ordered a ban on alcohol.
Except for one person.
Chang Yu frowned and watched Wu Zhong dry the cup of Chinese wine in one gulp, and he really didn't understand what was so delicious about this bitter and spicy thing.
"Drink pleasantly, alcoholism hurts your body" Seeing Wu Zhong's unfinished appearance, the little eunuch opened his mouth to remind.
Master Wu smiled: "On the night of the killing of the wind and snow, the wine should be fun!" ”
Do your mother's best...... The little eunuch was just about to scold, but Hu Ling hurriedly walked over: "Overseer, there is a situation in the north!" ”
Chang Yu got up with a sneer, got out of the tent, and walked to the north of the camp, the eunuch army next to the carriage and horse had already set up a bow, and the patrol knife next to the horse outside had been unsheathed.
On the other side of the Dog River due north, a small fire dragon entered the river and stepped on the ice.
"More than 100, less than 200". Wu Zhong raised his eyebrows, and the little eunuch glanced at him sideways, slightly surprised.
Fan Jiaqian hurriedly came to report that there was also an enemy situation in the south, Chang Yu turned around and looked, and the fire was lit in the mountains to the south, and his face immediately became solemn.
"The stuff that makes you have fun is here" The little eunuch patted Master Wu next to him!
"There are a lot of people, a little scared!" As soon as Master Wu spoke, everyone looked disdainful!