Without the Song army as a-stirring stick, there are no garrisons in Yanjing City, and it is almost an empty city, such an opportunity is tantamount to a "Seven Stars Alignment", so Zhou Nan went down the mountain overnight after receiving several messages from Zuo Xiaosi.

Yang Keshi chatted with Zhou Nan for a while, and when he saw that it was late at night, he said to Zhou Nan: "Then you still live in this courtyard, I will sleep next door to you." ”

"Sleep on what?" Zhou Nan was still sitting, and said to Yang Keshi: "Don't sleep, gather the horse army, and go together for a while-I forgot to tell you, Brother Gao will come with two thousand horse troops in a while, if you can't gather people after he arrives, just wait to give Brother Gao a joke." ”

"You didn't say it earlier, but you gossip with me here. You sit down first, and I'll go and gather the cavalry. As soon as Yang Keshi heard that Gao Yuan arrived with two thousand horse troops in a while, he knew that Zhou Nan had a plan, so he turned around and went out.

In the past, when the army traveled, it was necessary to prepare for a few days, and when the grain, grass, people, weapons and ordnance were all ready, they would choose an auspicious time to go to the war. Since Gao Yuan also led the soldiers and horses, it is completely different from Yang Keshi's approach, what he seeks is speed. Not to mention that the soldiers are not allowed to be like uncles, the soldiers under Gao Yuan, in addition to armor, weapons and other equipment, have two more things than Yang Keshi: food packs and medicine packs.

The food package is to give a person enough food for three days according to the amount of food for a normal person, including fried noodles, dried meat, dried milk, and dried pickles, which are packed in a cloth bag. The medicine bag was even simpler, containing some herbs and cloth to stop bleeding and heal wounds, repel snakes and insects, and teach soldiers simple wound bandaging.

Armor, weapons, food packs, and medicine packets, these four things, in addition to drills, are uniformly managed. Once the troops are going to march and fight, they will be issued uniformly. There is no need for any people, no grain convoy or anything. A cavalry army of 2,000 people can take people out of the city in the time of a hot tea. The infantry army is basically also equipped with these equipment, and it can also be used to fight at any time, and there is no longer the shackles of those miscellaneous servants. Such soldiers and horses, just watching him march and assemble, you know that it is difficult to deal with.

After Yang Keshi saw it, he invited Gao Yuan to drink two meals, and Gao Yuan sent Shi Yue over to assist Yang Keshi in transforming the soldiers and horses of Zhuozhou City according to his own methods. After more than half a month of drilling, even Yang Keshi himself felt that the march like before was too slow.

So when Yang Keshi heard that Gao Yuan had already brought people here, he immediately went to gather the cavalry, so as not to be ridiculed by Gao Yuan, the "master".

Jokes aside, as soon as Yang Keshi walked out of the courtyard, his expression was straight, and he said to the soldiers who followed: "Go to Beiying to give an order, within a quarter of an hour, bring all the equipment, and ride to the street outside the gate of the left-behind mansion." In addition, let Da Chun and Zhao Heshou come to see me immediately! The soldier immediately took the order and departed.

Sure enough, as Zhou Nan said, Gao Yuan took the two brothers Gao Shouxiao and Gao Shouzhong into the city and came directly to the gate of the Left-behind Mansion. I saw that on the street outside the gate of the left-behind mansion, 2,000 cavalry soldiers lined up in three rows, and the tail of the line had been thrown out of the corner of the street. Everyone stood next to the war horse, and the horses' back were full of weapons, food bags and other things. Both men and horses are motionless, welcoming Takato's arrival.

"What a big head Yang! I'm about to surpass my master! Gao Yuan shouted, threw the horse to Gao Shouzhong, and dodged into the Liushou Mansion. He didn't stop at all along the way, and even when he was about to arrive in Zhuozhou, he ran into the city like a race with the two brothers Gao Shouzhong, in order to get out of Yang Keshi's ugliness. Who knew that Yang Keshi had gathered the people and horses.

"Okay, don't laugh. Now that everyone is here, I'll arrange it. Zhou Nan saw Gao Yuan come in and said to everyone in the house.

At this time, Yang Keshi, Yang Dachun, and Zhao Heshou were already sitting in the house, Gao Yuan hurriedly sat down, he received the news from Zhou Nan and came to Zhuozhou with the cavalry, but he didn't know what Zhou Nan was going to do this time.

Zhou Nan glanced at everyone and said, "Brother Gao, can the matter of Yizhou be arranged?" ”

Gao Yuan said: "Don't worry, Da Lang, it is enough for Shi Yue to lead the infantry army to defend the city." ”

Zhou Nan nodded and said, "Zhuozhou City is guarded by Yang Dachun and the infantry army led by Zhao Dachun. But if you want to hold Zhuozhou steadily, you don't have to think about going out of the city to kill the enemy. ”

Yang Dachun stood up and replied: "Don't worry, the villain must obey the orders of the master of the village, and guard Zhuozhou for the lord of the village and for the Yang system." ”

Zhou Nan said to Zhao Heshou again: "Please, Commander Zhao." ”

Zhao Heshou didn't dare to say again.

Zhou Nan stood up and said, "Brother Yang, you find two brothers who are familiar with the terrain and lead the way in front, and we will go north overnight to reach the Yuhe." ”

Yang Keshi naturally knew that the Jade River was further north of Liangxiang, just west of Yanjing City, and it was only more than thirty miles away from Yanjing. It's not easy to go north overnight. He looked at Zhou Nan, opened his mouth, but swallowed it back again, and said, "Don't worry, Dalang, I will lead the way with the Zhuozhou cavalry, and you will follow later." ”

Zhou Nan nodded and said, "Let's go." ”

The group mounted their horses and came out of the south gate, where two thousand cavalry were already waiting. Yang Keshi also came out of the city with the cavalry, and Zhou Nan said to Yang Keshi and Gao Yuan: "This time Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi led the troops to fight against Liu Yanqing, facing each other across the river on both sides of the Lugou River, Yanjing City must be guarded empty, you two each bring two thousand cavalry, go north with me, and you will be able to capture Yanjing!" ”

Yang Keshi said to Zhou Nan: "Da Lang rushed overnight, but he wanted to attack Yanjing City? "In Yang Keshi's mind, since the defense in Yanjing City is empty, his four thousand cavalry is not too much, but it is much less, of course, it is the easiest to use a sneak attack to save effort and be the easiest to get.

"Steal what? I'm going to get in with dignity! Zhou Nan said loudly: "Let's go!" ”

Yang Keshi saw that Zhou Nancheng was in his chest, and was greatly encouraged, rode forward, and led his 2,000 cavalry to run to the west. This was followed by Zhou Nan and his own 300 elite soldiers, and finally the 2,000 cavalry led by Gao Yuan. Yang Keshi, who was familiar with the terrain, led the way in front, and more than 4,000 cavalry spread their horses' hooves and marched forward as fast as thunder, and soon disappeared into the night.

The west gate of Yanjing City "squeaked" opened, taking advantage of the moonlight, I saw a cavalry quickly rushing out of the city gate, the number was not large, there were more than 300 people in total, but everyone carried several torches behind them, but they had not yet lit. After more than 300 people came out, the city gate behind him was closed tightly.

One of the men at the head shouted: "Cheer up, listen to my orders later, and light the torches together!" ”

"Yes!" The rest of the people responded in unison.

"Let's go, go to the front first, find a mound, and wait for the king's signal!"

(End of chapter)