1

The night rain was dripping, and the drum horns seemed to be separated by countless curtains, and the sound was a little hazy. The evening breeze is whining, and the torches are red and cold if they fall in late autumn. Although it is not very far away, the mist caused by the wet and cold at night makes the battlefield situation not very real, and only the sometimes rapid sound of horses' hooves can bring a little situation.

"General Shi." The scout with three white snowflake chess pieces on a blue background flew off his horse, and even in the night, this flag could be clearly distinguished from the square "One Yuan Panlong" flag with a red background and black circle on the red background of "Shuoguo".

The woman in the blue and white armor, who was observing the situation in the firelight, with a tall and thin figure and a slight look of age on her face, waved her hand, and then the scout finished talking about the situation in a few words, and then flew away.

"Do you want to do it?" After hearing the situation, the adjutant on the side asked.

The stone general pondered for a moment, glanced at the horse's hooves wrapped in sackcloth, and nodded.

The adjutant turned around, placed a bamboo stick between his upper and lower teeth in front of thousands of soldiers, and then bit it tightly. Immediately, all the soldiers put a similarly shaped bamboo strip in their mouths. Seeing this, the blue-and-white-armored General Shi waved his hand towards a place in the firelight.

2

The horse's hooves were like war drums, and a silver spear slashed through the black and red night, galloping through the alleyway mixed with mud and bluestone. Dressed in black armor pulling a red cloak that had been beaten a little heavily by the rain, the orange-red iron claw looked to both sides from time to time, but except for one step, there was only a dark alley, which was mottled by the rain.

Behind him were half-naked soldiers in half-armor, whose feet were unanimous in the sound of "popping" water, as if they could compete with the drums outside the town. More than a dozen torches swayed, illuminating them as dark red as the sky. When the street corner turned, Yuan Xian seemed to be a little distracted, and the horse almost slipped for a while. Fortunately, Mo Huan in the back calmed the horse in time, so as not to have any accidents in the panic.

"Is that in the way, General?"

"No problem." Yuan Xian replied to Mo Huan, and then looked at the soldiers who stopped behind him, and suddenly felt that the torches swaying in the wind were a little unclear.

Mo Huan noticed that Yuan Xian seemed to be in a trance, but she knew that Yuan Xian would not slow down at this time, so she thought of another sentence: "Wrap the horse's hooves, so as not to slip again." "The crowd could take a moment of respite.

Yuan Xian sat on his horse, and watched indifferently as the two soldiers slowly lifted their horses' hooves in turn, and then wrapped them in coarse cloth. She thought that this horse had not been in such a critical moment for several years, but he was distracted, perhaps because he had not rested well for several days. So several important battle scenes flashed in her mind, and suddenly there was something strange.

"General." The four horses' hooves were wrapped in a moment.

Yuan Xian did not return.

Just when Mo Huan was worried and thinking about what to say, Yuan Xian suddenly asked, "How many waves have you reported?" ”

"Two waves."

"Do you have an explanation of where the battle was fought and how many enemies were encountered?"

Mo Huan thought for a moment, "It seems that there are cavalry bows and crossbows in the second mile north of the town, but I don't know how many." ”

"Zhenbei ......" Yuan Xian heard this answer, as if a boulder in the water had been removed, and his spirit came back for a while. And so it was. Seeing that Mo Huan was even more confused, she explained: "The north of the town is the location of the pioneer tunza. If you were the commander of this night attack, where would you attack me? ”

"It should be a heavy load of grain and grass, and it will be burned to ...... Zhennan? "Although Mo Huan understood for a while, he would still be skeptical." What if the enemy is just attacking rashly? ”

"How can it be so presumptuous?" Yuan Xian immediately retorted, "I haven't seen anyone for two or three days after entering the country, and now it's midnight, how can I not come prepared?" Mo Huan was speechless, so she immediately ordered: "Quickly notify all the departments to reinforce the rear, and the rest will go with me." Mo Huan? ”

"General?"

"Continue to the north of the town, and if I am correct, lead them south."

3

"Enemy attack!"

"Enemy attack!"

A few desperate shouts were soon drowned out in the sound of soldiers, and the black and red flags fell in an instant in the wave of blue and white armor. Because the sound of drums and horns sounded in the north of the town earlier, only a small number of guards were left in the south of the town, and the rest were all on the way to support the north of the town, General Shi's attack seemed effortless.

"Quick, pour the oil on!" Although the cries of killing in the battle had not stopped, General Shi had already commanded the follow-up soldiers, and sprinkled flammable fish oil and kerosene from the horseback onto the piles of grain and grass baggage. From north to south, inside and out, this will prevent soldiers from getting lost in their own fires.

"Good guy, the old Yuan family's first place is really not in vain." General Shi roughly estimated the number of baggage in front of him, and saw more than a dozen crossbows, thousands of hard bows, hundreds of bundles of arrows, more than 1,000 sets of spare shields and armor, as well as horse harness, hunting tools, repair tools, etc., but the grain and grass seemed very ordinary. When she noticed this, she ordered a focus on "taking care of" the grain and grass of the fruits.

While she was pleased with the victory, the sound of galloping horses' hooves came from far and near, and as she looked, a man in black armor and red cloak was galloping towards her, and a silver spear was even more striking in the firelight.

"Isn't it the girl of the Yuan family?" She was watching, and Yuan Xian seemed to notice her and looked over here. When they looked at each other, she suddenly felt her hairs stand on end, and she hurriedly ordered to retreat while setting fires. Just as the soldier hesitated to give the order, Yuan Xian's horse flew in front of her, and a spear pierced the door in front of her with a firelight.

"How fast!" She was busy with her guns, but her reaction was half a beat slower.

"Oops!"

Quickly tightened his scalp, and a stream of heat flowed down the arch of his eyebrows from the top of his head. Yuan Xian and Ma brushed their bodies, and a gust of wind blew their foreheads very cool. For a moment, she seemed to feel that she was far away from this world, until the clanging sound of the steel knife falling to the ground in the distance made her feel that she was still standing in front of Yuan Xian.

"General!" Seeing this, the soldiers on the left and right rushed up to cover it, and when she saw this opportunity, she moved her numb hand with shock, and desperately turned her horse's head and retreated.

Yuan Xian killed left and right, and for a while, more than a dozen green and white armors fell in a pool of blood, and she was about to pursue, but the fire that she didn't want to ignite made her lose her way for a while.

"General Yuan, can you catch up?" The soldier who arrived later asked.

"No need, I don't know if there is an ambush yet, and it is important to put out the fire now."

Reinforcements came from all directions, and as the fire had just started and it was still raining, everyone was able to quickly control the fire.

Mo Huan's reinforcements arrived last. As Yuan Xian guessed halfway through, after the fire broke out in the south, the drums and horns on the north side quickly stopped, and when he looked into the past, it was only a few hundred people from the footprints left, which was just enough for the number of military musicians.

"Does the general know who is coming?" Seeing that the fire had eased, Mo Huan and Yuan Xian understood the situation with each other.

"I haven't seen this person, but I've heard someone call her a general, and she has a pair of swords, and she's a female general." Yuan Xian pondered and recalled the situation just now, and the stimulation of the feeling of removing the armor of the steel gun had not yet subsided from his hands. "There should be only one named Shi Fei in the North Forward."

4

Besides, this General Shi is the Shi Fei guessed by Yuan Xian. Although there were no pursuers behind her, since the retreat to the south of Zhenzhen, she ran out for more than 30 miles in a hurry before slowing down the horse's hooves.

"Good guys, good guys!" After being able to catch her breath, she could finally speak. "It's a shame that this Yuan girl knows which is more important," she gasped for several breaths before continuing: "I didn't send anyone to catch up!" She cried out and lay down on her horse, and when they saw this, they hurriedly reined in her and brought her down together.

Shi Fei sat paralyzed on the muddy dirt road, if she hadn't given another order immediately, otherwise the blood that had left half of her face from her forehead to her chin and was about to dry would make people think that she was going to die of injuries.

"Take a break, let the brothers rest for a while." She shifted with great difficulty, and sat down with the soldier in a slightly drier part of the roadside, and a smile suddenly appeared on her face, the kind that came from the bottom of her heart.

Because she laughed out loud, and it lasted for a while, someone next to her finally asked her what she was laughing at. Because in the eyes of everyone, although this stop cannot be said to be a big defeat, it can never be called a victory.

"I'm laughing at you and me." Seeing that everyone around her was still suspicious, she said again: "Think about it, if we fight with her again, what are the chances of winning?" ”

"Five...... Thirty percent. ”

"Come on, no one will be fooled, and everyone will know. That's why I laughed, I don't have to have a ninety percent chance of winning with this Yuan girl. Shi Fei saw that many of his soldiers also understood what she meant, so he didn't say any more. Don't worry about resting, these days are optimistic about the exchanges between the Yuan family girl and his father, and some of them are busy! ”

5

In the early morning, the last bit of fire was extinguished, and green smoke rose low from the gray and black ashes, which mixed with the rain and mist before they could be high. The smell that should have been scorched and dry mixed with the wet air stirred up the last bit of sleepiness. Yuan Xian had been watching the process of extinguishing the fire, and the number of people here made it impossible for her to interfere, so she saw the ground from the horse, and then from the ground to the unburned haystack. Watch the fire burn, watch the fire go out, watch the smoke rise, watch a group of soldiers busy counting the rest of the belongings.

"Report!" The inventory didn't take long enough to make her bored, and the objects were almost as detailed as they were. But all she cares about is the rest of the grain and grass.

"There are 524 stone left in the military rations......"

The number made her frown, which was enough for her army for three days.

Mo Huan also expected such a result, so he was the first to suggest: "Why don't you rectify the last day, and when the Chinese army arrives tomorrow, you will have a few more days with Yuan Shuai?" ”

Everyone knows that this is the safest way, after all, the Chinese army is only one day's journey, and after the Chinese army, it will quickly trek a distance. However, the reason why it is a suggestion is that everyone also understands how much Yuan Xian can't wait for this day.

"Half a day." Yuan Xian said, sure enough, "Order the whole army to repair on the spot for half a day and set off in the afternoon." In addition, he taught fast horses to the Chinese army, asked for three or five military rations, sent them by cavalry, and returned when they arrived. In this way, time will not be lost. "Counting half-day trimming as a good time, it can be seen that Yuan Xian has made a lot of concessions in time, so people don't suggest anything more.

In the afternoon, the weather was a little clearer, and Yuan Xian's mood recovered a lot after taking a nap, and after a vigorous march, he set the day's itinerary at twenty-five miles. However, as the sky got late, Yuan Xian's heart became more and more mentioned, it stands to reason that it is just the cavalry marching with food, and he can catch up at dusk. The path is predetermined, and we will not miss each other because we are walking together. So there's only one explanation for that – something has happened.

When he was about to prepare for the night sentry, Yuan Xian finally waited for the sound of horses' hooves, but this was only the sound of a few horses galloping. A fresh face was brought to her, informing her that fresh blood and the torn off flag horns had been found during the Chinese army's march today, and asking her if she had sent a communications corpsman today.

Yuan Xian's heart tightened when she saw this person, she had been restless since the afternoon, feeling that something would definitely go wrong this time when she begged for food, and at this time, this basin of cold water was finally poured over. However, the cold water did not make her feel cold, but instead stirred up a flame. The flame was not like a prairie fire devouring everything, but it burned so steadily that nothing seemed to quench it.

"General." Mo Huan listened to the words on the side, but was stopped by Yuan Xian, obviously both of them understood what the unspoken words were.

"We'll talk about it tomorrow." Yuan Xian let out a long sigh and stood up from the stool he had been sitting on for a long time. "So you can't be in a hurry." As she spoke, she felt that the fire in her heart did not flicker.

6

This night, Mo Huan, who has always been able to eat and sleep, actually had insomnia, but this was only insomnia for her, but in fact, she woke up more often, and every time she woke up, she could vaguely hear Yuan Xian constantly tossing and turning. By the fourth watch, Yuan Xian was completely awake, which was also the last time Mo Huan woke up this night, and soon after he heard the order to get up.

Mo Huan thought that he had been in front of Yuan Xian, but he didn't know when she gave the order for the cavalry to assemble. When she took care of herself at the normal time and was about to assemble, she saw that almost all the cavalry of the front army had gathered on the only open ground here. The "One Yuan Panlong" flag is played from the head of the line to the end of the line, there is one for every dozen people, and it is lined up in a mighty line, which is really like a fire dragon with black scales and red ridges. Yuan Xian's white horse ran from the dragon's body to the dragon's head, probably reviewing the procession.

Although it was the first time she had gone on an expedition with Yuan Xian, she had heard that Yuan Xian had a white horse named Chiyun who was not a fierce fighter or a horse. Today, I saw that this horse was not in good spirits, his whole body was white, and he was really like a cloud in the sky, but he didn't understand a deficit, maybe it was because of the red robe carrying Yuan Xian.

Seeing that the atmosphere was very different from the previous few days, Mo Huan felt that Yuan Xian had decided to make a big move, and then looked around, the whole battalion of foot soldiers was actually assembled according to the usual regulations like her, and was also surprised by the scene in front of her, and became an onlooker for a while. At this time, a herald rushed to Mo Huan's body and told Yuan Xian to let her step forward. At the same time, the captain passed it to the commander and then to the soldiers, telling them to prepare for the march as before, so that the unusual scene ended.

Mo Huan ran forward and saw that Yuan Xian was still looking at these thousands of cavalry.

"General?"

"Oh, Mo Huan." Obviously she was called by herself, but Yuan Xian didn't seem to know that she was coming.

"What do you mean, General?"

"Yesterday I failed to ask the Chinese army for food, and today I should lead my men and horses to the Chinese army to get food, and I can't apply it back and forth for a day. Walk with the people, and I will arrive before dark. Because on the horse, Yuan Xian's voice was much higher than usual.

Mo Huan was confused, so he simply asked, "Why did the general call me here?" ”

"Oh," Yuan Xian seemed to remember, "it's not a big deal, it's just that I'm in such a hurry, I haven't had time to pack my luggage, I have to ask you for a favor." ”

Mo Huan still felt strange, so he asked again: "Why did the general go to get food in person?" Let the cavalry captain lead the troops, or let me go. ”

"I'll rest assured."

"But the general should command the whole army and focus on the overall situation."

"Isn't food and grass the most important thing for the whole army? The day before yesterday robbed the camp, yesterday robbed the heralds, wasn't it all for food and grass? ”

"Having said that, if there is no commander and there is no commander in the army, either side will suffer heavy losses if it is attacked."

"How come there is no commander and no soldiers? My 3,000 cavalrymen are not soldiers? Isn't the commander of the ministry a general? What's more, Shi Fei's department should only be a small department, and their real main force should be dealing with Zhong Li. If you are afraid of your hands and feet, how can you be the commander of the whole army? ”

Although Mo Huan had all kinds of reasons, Yuan Xian's intention had been decided.

"Alright, don't worry." Yuan Xian softened her tone again, "Remember to pack my things properly, don't leave them out." With that, she raised her whip and led the cavalry to pull.

It has been raining for several days today, and it seems that I know that I am tired, and the lazy interval actually makes the sun peek out of the clouds. Although it was sunny, the ground had been soaked with rain for a few days, and it was no easier for the horses' hooves than it had been for the previous days. However, there are still two things that are better, one is that you no longer have to soak your body in the cold rain with the iron shell, and the other is that your vision is finally open, and you don't have to worry about not being able to observe the changes around you with the naked eye.

About an hour, Yuan Xian saw a black and red flag on the horizon. Yuan Qizhi was naturally not in this visible vanguard army, and with his habits, he should be in the middle of the army after five or six miles at this time. The vanguard army came up, and learned from them that after passing the place where Yuan Xian and others settled the night before, they saw several battlefields, and yesterday's incident with the heralds, Yuan Qizhi speculated that the front army might have been robbed of grain and grass, and the position of the grain cart was also transferred from the back to a slightly front place.

But even so, it took some time to get grain and grass, and as soon as Yuan Xian came, he had to meet Yuan Qizhi in person; Second, she refused the transportation team prepared by Yuan Qizhi, not because of anything else, but because of the footsteps of these oxen and carriages, so it took a little time to load and unload the grain, and it was already past noon when she left the Chinese army.

Running all the way to noon, the anxious Yuan Xian finally refused to teach the group to dismount and rest, at this time the grain and grass were on the horseback, some warm sunshine was overhead, and the people were about to set off this morning. If you don't rest for a long time, you can catch up with the front army in another hour.

The crowd dismounted in a relatively open area, and because it was rare to see the sun, they hoped that they would be able to enjoy a lunch in the sun, although it was only dry cooking cakes. Although it is open, it is just a sparse place on the road. The road extends from southwest to northeast, with a barren farmland on the right, a broad-leaved forest at the foot of the mountain on the left, and a low hill to the north.

Unable to find so many stumps and stones to tie their horses, they had to stand beside their horses and lead their horses to eat, but standing on solid land for a while was a good rest for the cavalry. Although the north wind is slightly cold here, the sun is still warm, the wind blows down the fresh air in the forest, and the broad leaves fly like a flock of birds rise and fall.

Suddenly, the white horse "Red Cloud" let out a long roar, and Yuan Xian almost couldn't hold its reins. The sound of the horses was heard far and wide in such an open area that the whole army seemed to be startled by the sound. Not far away, a few birds flew up, and their arrows drilled into the sky. Yuan Xian became alert for a while, and everyone also observed the surrounding situation together.

Looking further away, a white line appeared in the field, and almost all the birds in the mountains and forests flew up at the same time, like a black curtain covering the sky and the sun. Then the sound of horses' hooves, rushing kills, and arrows whistling came at the same time, like a wave sweeping.

"Get on your horse and get out of here!" Yuan Xian hurriedly got on his horse and shouted loudly, but when he picked up the steel spear, the enemy army in blue and white armor was already close in front of him.