When he was approaching the son, he was in Yuan's hometown.

The scout team has been bunched up. Yu Zhilong no longer has a family left, so he simply cleaned up and took Wu Side and a few companions to the north, and traveled more than 20 miles, without seeing anything abnormal, and the marks left by the sentry in front of him along the way showed safety.

In order to prevent the mark from being discovered, altered, and used by the enemy, the mark conveyed by the scout often has several ways according to the purpose, and some changes are made from time to time according to the change of the operation, and even if the enemy finds it, it is difficult to use it because he does not know the specific order and content.

Along the way, everyone watched the surroundings vigilantly, dismounted from time to time and climbed the tall trees, carefully observed the distance, and quietly listened to the sounds of birds and insects. Although the night is getting darker, there is a bright moon in the sky at this time, and you can vaguely observe the movement around you.

After walking another six or seven miles, he encountered a member of the sentry who was moving forward, and reported that there was no abnormality ahead, Yu Zhilong took everyone to change a nearby path and continued to search and move forward. After traveling for about six or seven miles, he saw that there was no abnormality, so he ordered one person to turn back to Zhao Shi to report. A few people dismounted, found a hidden bush to get into it to rest, and the centaurs first drank saliva and ate some dry food.

The road is not very steep, but the road is tortuous and uneven, and in order to explore, they often pass through the forest, and the speed of the sentry is not fast. Slowly, I saw the moon tilting westward, the sky gradually brightened, and I arrived at the Qingshui River for more than 40 miles ahead.

Yu Zhilong felt a little anxious, went to a tree to relieve his hands, and came back to see that everyone was lying or lying, mostly in a hurry to rest, and a person had climbed a big tree in front of him, and was sitting on a branch on a high place to guard. Yu Zhilong hurried to eat some dry food, drank a sip of water, and told Wu Side to let everyone rest more, and only brought a young man named Sun Xing to the neighborhood to investigate first.

The two slowly groped forward to observe, walked and stopped, and gradually walked for another three miles, here has been deep into the area of Tiger Hill, according to the preliminary investigation, Tiger Hill has about a hundred people to suppress, the actual number of people will not be more than eighty, the role of defense is far less than the role of the military post.

Yu Zhilong and the others listened carefully to the movements around them, observing the abnormalities around them through the gradually hazy morning light. From time to time, stop to see if the dew drops on the leaves and grass next to you have slipped and whether the grass stems have broken. Sun Xing looked at the people around him, and asked softly beside him: "Less than a head, how sure are you that you will go north this time?"

Yu Zhilong looked around carefully, and there was really nothing to find, the two of them stopped and said softly: "We have been recuperating here for half a month, and the surrounding officials and troops are gradually surrounding now, and it is time to transfer." There is no problem going north, the key is which direction to go after crossing the Qingshui River. Meng Lao Thief's soldiers and horses are blocking the road in front, although his sons are not aligned, but with Meng Lao Thief alive and in charge, they can still echo each other, most of them have already sent commissioners to Yidu Road to supervise the war, and further north is where Meng Lao Thief's family lives, Meng Lao Thief will definitely be much more active than before. So it is not a good choice to continue north after crossing the river. ”

"In the past few days, the number of old thieves Meng has increased significantly, what do they want to do now?" Yu Zhilong couldn't help but ponder.

Yu Zhilong never imagined that just as he was thinking about the situation in the north, a Yuan court cavalry had already crossed the Qingshui River, meandered down from Zichuan, galloped day and night, bypassed the scouts of this rebel army heading north, and approached their large army from the northwest. The main reason for being able to avoid the eyes of the probe horses is that Yu Zhilong has fewer horses, and there are fewer qualified war horses, so there is no way to take into account the four directions, so they can only focus on the north, and the reconnaissance force in other directions will inevitably weaken. Moreover, this official army is a regular Mongolian Tanma Red Army, with one man and two horses, all swords and arrows, and the supply of forage is solved at the military stations along the way, so the marching speed is much faster than that of ordinary officers and soldiers.

This cavalry was subordinate to the Privy Council, and the leading officer was named Yan Chi, a thousand-household position, and this time he was originally ordered to follow the army south to participate in the crusade against Zhang Shicheng's rebellion in the Gaoyou area. The doctor sent to Yidu Road asked for support from the commander of Tokhtar before leaving, because the two had the same political ideas in the court, and they often echoed each other when making policies in the court, so after weighing the situation in Yidufu, the marshal decided to send a partial division, and when he went south, he turned a little way to destroy this short-eyed thief, and by the way, it also ensured the peace of the area here. Since it is a partial division, it is still necessary to take the elite soldiers as the key, and take the opponent with lightning speed. Therefore, the commander of Tokhtar directly allocated a fine cavalry from his subordinate Tanma Red Army, led by the love general Yan Chi, and walked to the road after leaving the capital, and went directly east.

Yan Chi is currently serving as a cavalry soldier of a thousand households, and when he got this opportunity, he hated to fly to Yidu Road, and cut off the heads of these rebels with his sword, adding a great credit to his achievements in going south to quell the rebellion. So after receiving the order, he immediately ordered the people and horses, slept in the open air, and arrived at Yidu Road in only four days. On the way, I received a military report that this rebel group had been stationed in Yuan's hometown for about half a month, and the officers and troops around it had gradually arrived in place.

Yan Chi couldn't help but be anxious in his heart, he came for merit this time, if he couldn't grasp the fighter plane, and the credit was taken away by friendly forces, not only would he lose face, but even if he got rid of the marshal, his face would not look good. Seeing that the enemy's military strength was weak, and the great fighters must not slip through their fingers, they urged them to move forward one after another, and had to temporarily leave behind the rear team with weak horsepower and slower speed on the way, and ordered them to follow behind, and he personally led the forward three hundred cavalry to go straight to the Qingshui River, and finally arrived at the Tiger Hill area on this night.

Yan Chi led the elite soldiers to the approach, deliberately bypassing Lushan, not converging with the officials and troops of Jinan Prefecture, but rolling up the banner, passing through the village and not entering, only stopping along the way to replenish grain and grass. In addition, it strictly controlled the conversation between his subordinates and the soldiers of the post station, and even if they were stationed at night, they camped in the wilderness and did not enter villages and towns, so as not to leak military aircraft.

Finally, when he arrived near the destination on this day, Yan Chi was about to let Ma Haosheng rest for a long time, and sent a letter to contact the surrounding officials and soldiers, so as to determine the timing of sending troops and act in unison. Unexpectedly, the scout reported that there was a team of scouts in front of him who met the opponent's scout at the Yellowstone Cliff, although he killed a few of the opponent by surprise and returned safely, but in the end he failed to capture all the enemy soldiers and escaped a few people.

Wu Side didn't expect that he would encounter the scouts of the Yuan Cavalry, and took Yan Chi's scouts for granted, as the men and horses of the Meng clan, after all, the current north is mostly the banner of the rebel army of the Meng thief.

After hearing this, Yan Chi was very worried that the opponent had received the alarm, so he took precautions in advance, so he decisively ordered to interrupt the rest, and the whole army got on the horse, stopped the flag, and under the leadership of the guide, along the slope of Tiger Hill, went around in a big circle, and secretly sneaked towards Yuan's hometown. Coincidentally, the scout route with Zhao Shi was staggered, and now neither side has found the other party's large army.

"Immortal God, bless your people with war swords to drink the blood of the enemy!" Yan Chi clenched the horsewhip in his hand and struck it on the horse's buttocks again, urging the troops to move forward. To eliminate the thief, the desire to establish merit stimulates the red eyes and red anger. Yan Chi, who was eager for meritorious service, did not even send anyone to greet the garrison troops of Tiger Hill and the Meng Clan Righteous Army, informing him of his actions so that he could respond.

Yu Zhilong and his entourage continued to move forward after resting, seeing that they were close to the town camp of Tiger Hill, this team of Yuan troops because they were mainly responsible for the role of post stations and early warnings, their combat power was not high, once the night fell, all the men and horses in order to prevent the sneak attack of the thieves, they all shrank in the village, closed the gate, and hung the lights. Originally, Mengjiashan's men and horses should have arrived here today and camped here, but unfortunately they were ambushed by Yu Hai on the way, and the losses were not small, and they retreated to a small town in the northeast, which was more than 40 miles away from the camp here. The Meng rebel army was mainly deployed on the north bank of the Qingshui River to strictly prevent the anti-thieves from crossing the river to the north.

The sky gradually brightened, and according to the plan, the large army of Yuan's hometown began to set off.

Yu Zhilong secretly estimated the time in his heart, Wu Side was chased and killed by the enemy cavalry they encountered, which made Yu Zhilong a little strange, after encountering Meng's Tanma in the past, it was mostly based on intimidation and drive, and rarely chased and killed, this encounter was quite strange.

Exploring all the way with questions and finding nothing, this result made Yu Zhilong more and more bottomless, and the more bottomless he was, the more empty he became, and he always felt that something was going to happen. Bypassing the stockade of the Yuan army, Yu Zhilong and the others traveled three miles, but still did not find it, so they said to Wu Side: "Brother Side, this place is not far from Huangshi Cliff, I want to go there again?"

If someone else said so, Wu Side would definitely roll his eyes, why, doubting Lao Tzu's ability? Rest while it's early!

However, Yu Zhilong has recently come up with a few good ideas, and the brothers have indeed suffered fewer casualties and more credit for acting in this way. If you want to survive in this kind of day of licking blood from the knife edge, you have to rely on real kung fu and good planning, especially the idea of Yu Zhilong last time, and hit Meng Jiashan in an ambush, and finally forced Meng's soldiers and horses to temporarily have to be stationed near the Qingshui River, and they did not dare to advance alone. Wu Side really admired it in his heart.

"Okay, Ma Face, Huang Er, you follow. Brother Yu, be careful, and come back immediately if you find something wrong. ”

"Okay!" After Yu Zhilong and the three agreed, they turned their horses and galloped towards Huangshi Cliff.

Along the way, Yu Zhilong and his entourage carefully explored, and finally arrived at the place where Wu Side was ambushed yesterday.

Yu Zhilong observed around, there is not much place to hide here, this is a sloping land, with high and low bushes, sometimes clusters of willows and locust trees, the woods are not dense, it is okay to hide two or three people, it is easy to expose if there are more, it seems that the two sides should have met unexpectedly at that time, and the other party made it difficult to move in advance.

"Ma Face, last time you said that the other party has all the armor and the leader's kung fu is good, and you still want to catch our captives?" Yu Zhilong Road.

"Yes, we suddenly ran into the Meng thief scout here, but I didn't expect the other party to rush over immediately. Boss Feng died first when he walked in front, and Elder Feng and the Yang brothers were also injured soon after. As soon as I saw that the signs were wrong, I hurriedly beckoned everyone to retreat, the gang of thieves were still chasing and releasing arrows behind, and Feng Lao Er was shot off the horse like this, and he saw that he was not alive. Fortunately, our masters remember the road well, and they got rid of them. ”

"Brother Yu, when I think about it now, these guys are tall and strong, and they are full of vigor when they fight, they don't look like Meng Lao's thieves, and they look like the tarthris in Yidu City." The pock-faced Ma Rulong added.

"Oh?" Yu Zhilong's heart moved, and he felt as if he had found something.

"Well, it will never be the Tatars of Yidu City, they were transferred to fight Zhang Shicheng in the middle of the year, and the east and south are Han troops, and I haven't heard of any Tatars joining. There are quite a few in Jinan Mansion in the west, but they are still in Lushan. As for the many officers and soldiers who have gone south from the capital now, there are many Mongol Tatars among them. Yu Zhilong said to himself.

"Could it be a branch of the Tatar army that went south, and came here specially?" This idea suddenly popped up, and the more Yu Zhilong thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible. In addition to vigorously calling on the local gentry to recruit troops to suppress bandits, he also issued a number of strict orders, and sent letters to the left and right divisions, asking for the dismissal of more than a dozen local officials, even including three people with color eyes, and the handling was strict, which had never been done before.

Since the commissioner was transferred from Dadu, it was natural that there might be some connections in the imperial court, and if he wrote to the imperial court, it was not impossible to transfer a unit to the east to suppress bandits. The combat effectiveness of the Han army has always been unreliable in the eyes of the Tartars, so it is more likely that the Mongol army will be dispatched.

Yu Zhilong called Ma Face, Huang Er and the others followed the traces of the other party's retreat, because it was only one day before the Zhongfu happened, and Yuan Qi still left some traces, which could barely be recognized.