"Humble position, then lead a group of men and horses to intercept it." Wu Dayong hurriedly said.

"What are you anxious about? Ben didn't let you go! "Sun Guoqing said;" You don't want to think about how many people you have to take to completely block them, and they are four-legged, and you can catch up with them with these two legs. ”

"General, what then? We can't just watch such a big credit slip out of our noses! If we let the lord know that we have not been able to intercept it, we will have to skin us at that time. ”

"We can't do this alone." Sun Guoqing said with his hands behind his back: "The best way now is for us to start at the same time as the lord, so that we can have a greater grasp." ”

"But general, if you want to report to the lord, I'm afraid it's too late!"

"So you have to take a shortcut and follow this road north to Chengji City, although the road is not easy to walk, but it can be reached in a day and a half at most." Sun Guoqing pointed to a route and said: "But this road has not been walked by any of us now, and it is dangerous and unknown along the way." ”

"Humble please, go and deliver the letter." Wu Dayong immediately knelt down on one knee and said.

"Except for you, it's really not safe to let someone else go." Sun Guoqing said: "All the horses and sergeants are all at your disposal, and the general will have a request for you, and the secret report will be sent to the lord in the shortest possible time." ”

"Humble duty, please rest assured general." After Wu Dayong finished speaking, he hurriedly left to prepare for departure.

In the early morning of the second day after Wu Dayong left, Sun Guoqing gathered all the Yongjun soldiers in the Daxiao field in Shangtai City, and selected 2,500 soldiers who could ride horses, ready to lead the army to raid Fuqiang; Thousands of the horses that these sergeants set off on were captured from the Chengzhou army.

"Newspaper, newspaper, newspaper...... General, thirty miles east of the city, there was a cavalry, numbering thousands. A sergeant came to report.

"Cavalry, and thousands? How is this possible. Sun Guoqing exclaimed; What banner did the other party play? ”

"General Yu, it's the banner of my Great Qi." The sergeant replied immediately.

"The military banner of Great Qi? Could it be that they have arrived? ”

"General, who are they talking about?"

"Great Qi Western Army." Sun Guoqing said without a good face.

"These grandsons, it's really timely, this time it's time for them to pick peaches after we have finished the battle." Zheng Guoyi said very angrily.

"If you don't say a few words, you can die!" Sun Guoqing scolded Zheng Guoyi and said, "You lead the cavalry to march west immediately,"

"No! Commanded by humility. Zheng Guoyi answered;" General, what about you? ”

"Humph! Ben was naturally going to meet with the generals of the Western Army. Sun Guoqing snorted coldly and said, "Don't look at the greetings of the lord before, but Ben will still not buy their account." ”

After arranging all the matters, Sun Guoqing led more than 100 guards to line up outside the gate of Dongweng.

"Drive, drive, drive...... Hoo, hoo, hoo ......"

A white-robed young general rode a white horse at a gallop, and tightly strangled the war horse under his crotch when he was about to reach the gate of the eastern urn of Shangtai City.

"Who's coming? Registered? Sun Guoqing took the reins and let the war horse under his crotch be equivalent.

"Under the command of General Xia Zhengrong, the forward general Zhao Yun; Dare to ask the general, but is it General Sun Guoqing? Zhao Yun thought about Sun Guoqing and asked.

"It's Sun Guoqing down there."

After hearing this, Zhao Yun immediately dismounted and walked towards Sun Guoqing; Sun Guoqing also got off his horse and took two steps forward.

Zhao Yun said very politely: "General Sun, I came to reinforce the general by the military order of His Royal Highness King Yong. ”

Sun Guoqing took a secret letter from Zhao Yun's hand, which contained a handwritten letter from Guo Qi to Zhao She, on which was signed and sealed by King Yong.

After confirming the authenticity of the handwriting, Sun Guoqing said to Zhao Yun: "General Zhao is late, the war in Shangqi City has ended, but in order to stabilize the people in the city, General Zhao is also invited to camp outside the city. ”

As soon as he heard that he was going to be stationed outside the city, Zhao Yun was of course unwilling, so he said very dissatisfied: "General Sun, I'm afraid this is a little inappropriate!" Besides, our army has strict discipline, and it will not cause any trouble to the people in the city, and it is too inappropriate for the brothers to live outside the city in this cold weather! ”

"If your army feels any dissatisfaction, you can report it to my lord; Before receiving the military order of my lord, your army is not allowed to set foot in Shangtai City for half a step. Sun Guoqing said with a very tough attitude.

Zhao Yun's face was pale, according to Zhao Yun's previous temper, he really wanted to start a fight with Sun Guoqing, but when Zhao Yun thought of his father's advice before leaving, he finally gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, our army is stationed outside the city, but please send your army food and grass supplies immediately." ”

Zhao Yun led his army back ten miles to the northwest and settled in a relatively large village, while the grain promised by Sun Guoqing arrived in an hour, along with dozens of pigs and hundreds of sheep.

"General, this Sun Guoqing is too rude! We were kind enough to reinforce him, but he wouldn't even let us into the city. The adjutant general said very dissatisfied.

"There is also a face to say, if it weren't for your procrastination and didn't catch up with the battle of Shangtai, we wouldn't have been able to enter the city! Don't think Ben doesn't know what's going on in your hearts. Zhao Yun said to the deputy general very dissatisfied.

At the beginning, before Guo Qi left Qingshui, he ordered Sun Guoqing to raid Shangtai City, but he was worried that Sun Guoqing's troops were not enough, so he asked Zhao Shi to send a cavalry to support, and the two armies joined forces to take Shangqi City; Zhao Shi immediately agreed, and sent Zhao Yun as the main general to lead this cavalry to support.

But the cavalry of the Western Army that was sent was really not very good, no matter how Zhao Yun urged, they stopped and stopped along the way, and finally became the current situation.

Besides, after Sun Guoqing returned to the camp, he directly handed over the defense of Shangqi City to his subordinates, and he himself led more than 100 cavalry to chase Zheng Guoyi, and the army went west along the Jihe River, turned north, passed through the vast mountains and finally arrived outside Fuqiang City two days later.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Sun Guoqing laughed and said, "Ha, ha, ha...... Finally let Lao Tzu catch up. ”

Sun Guoqing, who appeared in the south of Fuqiang City, saw that a huge herd of horses was driving towards Fuqiang City under the drive of Xirong cavalry, and there were also a large number of cattle, sheep and livestock with the horses; And this huge herd of horses is the goal of Sun Guoqing this time.

This huge herd of horses numbered seventy or eighty thousand, all of which were excellent Hexi horses brought from the Hexi Corridor by the Xijon Khanate; Originally, these horses were raised in the horse farm at the foot of the Qilian Mountain, but because Beidi was about to move south, Xirong Khan ordered the horses and some livestock from various horse farms in the Hexi Corridor to be sent to various parts of Longxi, and the Weishui Basin was its largest.

The reason why I chose this place is first of all because of the flat terrain and abundant water and grass; secondly, although it is far away from Beidi, although it is very close to Daqi; However, in the eyes of Xirong Khan, the Qi army retreated step by step after a few battles of the Xirong army, and it was impossible for the Qi army to counterattack the Weishui Valley located in the hinterland of Qinzhou.