In order to avoid the rangers sent out by the Turks to capture the ropes, Zhao Shishi, who acted as a guide, led the two sentinel guards around the foot of the mountain. Most of the roads at the foot of these mountains are narrow, muddy and slippery paths hidden in the woods and grass, some of them are not even roads, but only sparse footprints hidden in the barley vines, and in some places there are no footprints in sight, just a barren beach paved with hazel-hazel pebbles.

Because they were still at the foot of the mountain, several small villages along the road had not yet been sacked by the Tuqi people, but there were no human figures in the villages, no dogs barking and chickens mooing, and only the chirping of birds in the treetops and forests was so quiet that only the chirping of birds in the treetops and woods remained. Occasionally, one or two lonely black pigs can be seen in the low mud courtyard, drooping their ears and arching their long beaks under the courtyard wall, snorting and looking for food; In the fields where green shoots have just emerged, you can occasionally glimpse the goats pulled down by the farmer when he fled for his life, and he is not afraid of people, staring at the team with red eyes, and then burying his head and sticking out his pink tongue to harm the young seedlings. From the beginning of the descent to noon, in two hours I met only one local farmer, and the man showed his head in the middle of a bush of trees far away, and immediately retracted with a frightened face, and disappeared into the depths of the mountain forest in the blink of an eye.

About three o'clock in the morning, the team left the foot of the hill and marched straight southwest without hesitation, following a small stream that was deep and shallow. The dozen or so people who opened the road in front of them had a machete from the house of an uninhabited farmer, cutting branches and cutting grass while exploring the road, and where there were stones on hard ground, they made a mark with the tip of the knife, and where there was nowhere to stay, they put on weeds and branches, and paved a road on the muddy river beach. Rao is like this, more than 200 people have not walked out of the three or five miles, and they all rolled into mud monkeys.

After such a rapid march, by the beginning of the year, the team had reached a narrow river seven or eight miles away from the county seat of Yixian. There are steep slopes on both sides of the river that are more than two people high, and the willow trees with the thickness of the bowl mouth on the ditch ridge slide out for two or three miles to the south and north, and the green and green new willow branches are swaying with the wind in the spring rain. Under the cover of the willow trees, the soldiers who opened the way in front of them climbed the hurdle silently, and in the blink of an eye, a captain slid down the hurdle on the slope with the water-soaked weeds, and ran back along the line with a knife.

In the blink of an eye, the captain who had just run over turned back with the captain who led the team. The lieutenant gave an order as he walked: "Give the order to the front and back: rest on the spot for half an hour." Don't move, don't talk, and pull quickly after saying that there is and urine. ”

As the whispered orders came out one after another, the lines that were drawn into a single line immediately stopped one after another.

"How far is it from the county seat of Yixian?"

The captain immediately said, "About eight miles." The guide said that if you go around the river to the south of the city, you will have to walk an extra twenty miles. If the road is still as smooth and peaceful as in the morning, it will be possible to reach the Nanguan camp at about three o'clock. ”

"What's up ahead?"

"You can see the county town from the station. Too far away to see the situation clearly. Four miles to the north is Liujia Zhuangzi, with 80 families and more than 20 villagers. There is also a Taihe town in the south four miles, which is larger than Liujia Zhuangzi, with one hundred and forty households and more than seventy villagers. Zhuangzi in the south didn't see any movement, and Zhuangzi in the north had just left the cavalry. It was raining, and there was a forest of fruits, so I couldn't tell whether it was the cavalry of the officers or the Turbids, and I couldn't count the number of people, but from the time of the soldiers, I estimated that there would be 300 horsemen. ”

"Have you sent out the spearheads?"

"Sent out. I went to the direction of the county seat where the guide took three people, two went to the south, and two went to the north. ”

The lieutenant nodded and did not speak again, but walked a few steps to the place where he went up, and when he was about to jump up with the arm that one of the soldiers on the hill had bent down and handed down, he saw a short soldier with his spear in the mud, crouching by the stream and holding two hands to hold water to drink. He threw his hand over and lifted his leg with a kick, kicked the soldier aside, and scolded in a low voice: "I don't want to live anymore!" Dare to drink this muddy water?! Whose soldier is this? A chief with a waist knife hurriedly ran over, and before he could explain, the captain scolded with his head and face, "How do you teach soldiers?" Do you dare to drink the raw water in this ditch? Not afraid of the bacteria and microorganisms in the raw water to eat it and make your stomach upset? If he's really sick, who will take care of him at this time?! Reaching out and taking off his water hyacinth, he fell into the soldier's arms, stared at Shi Chang and said, "Both of them have a small one." If you dare to drink raw water, you will wait to be whipped from the skin! ”

When they got up to the steep ridge on the shore, there were soldiers who observed the movements around them and gave up their positions to the two commanders. The captain half-squatted and half-knelt behind the willow tree, and carefully looked at the three directions, and knew that the captain who led the team to explore the way was arranged exactly one by one, and the Zhuangzi on the north and south sides could not see the figure shaking, but he could vaguely hear the barking of dogs in the east and west; The faint white smoke from the rooftops of several houses dispersed in the light breeze and drizzle. The county city wall in the distance is like a shadowy yellow line, quietly rising on the horizon.

The spearheads who went to the south to explore the way were the first to return. They only walked more than two miles before they found a hidden post in charge of guarding the Tuqi people, and found horseshoe prints and car wheel marks left after the cart was run over on the road.

After a while, the spearheads from the north also returned. Taihe Town is also stationed in the Turbid Soldiers. Because Zhuangzi was surrounded by posts, they did not dare to get too close, so they could only observe from the periphery. Looking at the density and number of various sentry posts and the courtyards where cooking smoke rises, there are quite a few Tuyi soldiers in Liuzhuang, and there may be an important stronghold of the Tuqi people. There are still many corpses in the fields outside the walls of Zhuangzi, both men and women, young and old, but mostly young and middle-aged men.

The lieutenant groaned and gave the order: "Send people to set up posts on all sides." Decree: The previous order to rest on the spot for half a quarter was cancelled, and everyone rested on the spot; No fire; Do not run out of water in the gourd; Keep knives and guns within easy reach. Immediately inspect the armor and leggings. The order went down, and the Turks were not allowed to move within a hundred paces. Find a few clever soldiers and follow the river south to find the bottom of the people along the way. ”

After arranging these current priorities, the lieutenant returned to the willow tree, squinting his eyes and carefully observing the town of Taihe a few miles away.

Even the sentry is a big tent soldier, and this Taihe must be a great man! If you poke it there, it will definitely change the current situation in Yixian County; If you can still take the big people in the town, cut down and chop up the prisoners, maybe the siege of Yixian County will be lifted one by one, maybe the siege of the entire Yanshan East Road will be lifted......

He curled his lips and stared at the cloudy sky. The rain was still falling, and there was no sign of a sunny day. A pale layer of rain mist floated on the land soaked in the cold rain, gradually swallowing up the trees, houses, and land near and far, making his sighs carry a damp chill.

Alas, he now had only two exhausted guards in his hands, and it could only be an unrealistic wish to raid the town of Taihe, where the Great Horde was garrisoned. If the six sentinels in his battalion were all there, and these 600 men had not gone through a rapid march of 400 miles, they might have been able to surprise the enemy and suffer some losses, and one by one it would only be a small loss for the big horde......

His gaze turned to the county seat of Yixian County farther away. The fog has completely covered the county seat, and now he looks in the direction of the county seat, in fact, he can't see anything except the white rain and fog, just as his understanding of the current battle situation in the entire Yi County is only ignorant one by one.

It's not all ignorance, either. When he listened to the situation reported by the top soldiers to Taihe Town, he had a rough guess in his heart, he felt that Yixian, which was only garrisoned by a sentry guard, was probably not in the hands of the Tuqi people. This is because of the rain, one by one, the army of Ci crossed the Panlong Ridge in the rain to besiege Yixian, and it is impossible to attack the city immediately after the weather, at least until the weather is fine, they will not attack the city; Second, because the target of the army was not a central county, they were aiming at the Yanshanwei Transshipment Division outside the Nanguan of Yi County, and the mountains of grain, grass, cloth, ordnance, and medicine in those camps...... There are also 200,000 military assets personally escorted by Sima of the Yanshan Left Army.

His heart suddenly jumped and he suddenly exhausted the army to besiege Yixian without fighting, could it be said that they actually knew the secret of the year pile in the big treasury of the Yanshan Wei Transfer Division?

He remembered that someone told him at the beginning of the month that the richest place in Yanshan is now the treasury of the Yanshan Wei Transit Division, which contains 200,000 yuan of military funds allocated by the imperial court......

How much is 200,000? His heart immediately beeped wildly. He, the captain of the seventh grade, has a month's worth of seven yuan, which is seven yuan, two hundred thousand yuan...... What does it mean if all of this falls into the hands of the Turks? What if even the grain, grass, cloth, ordnance, and medicinal materials in the camp of the Transshipment Division fell into the hands of the Tuqi people?

If this kind of thing really happened, what would the imperial court do with Yan Shanwei? Dismissal? Outcasts? Still is......

A few figures slumped through the field, jumping over in a puff of smoke, and before a few people who were running back and forth for more than ten miles had time to catch a few breaths, the captain split his head and asked, "How is Yixian?" ”

"County ...... County...... The county seat is still there. Shi Chang, who led the team, said with white vapor in his mouth. It seemed that several people were tired enough, everyone was steaming hot, and all of them were covered with beads of sweat on their faces.

"Still there?" The captain's eyes widened wide.

The chief took a few breaths, and his breath gradually calmed down, and he immediately said, "The county seat is still in our hands...... The north and south city gates are blocked with mud, we can't get in, they can't get out, the county commander shouted on the city gate, let you take people to the Nanguan camp immediately, one step later will have a big incident. He gasped for two more breaths and then said, "General Sima Li of the Left Army is now in the Nanguan camp. The Tuqi people have cut off the connection between the county town and the big camp, and are attacking the big camp in Nanguan with all their might......"

"How many soldiers are there in the Nanguan battalion?"

"The retreating guards and border troops and villagers everywhere are less than 1,800 people in the Nanguan camp......"

"How many Turks are there?"

"It is estimated that there are 10,000 people, and the big tent soldiers account for ...... 30 percent"

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