Chapter 478: Eastbound

Before the sun rose, the light cavalry of the mountain battalion was ready to go. Each person carried a week's worth of dry food, as for what to eat after a week, they didn't have to worry about it, this is something the Lord needs to consider, Fang Xie has already told them the destination, even if they run non-stop without any obstacles, they will have to run for a month, but the cavalry is absolutely unable to carry the food and grass needed for a month.

Changing into a robe, Fang Xie glanced to the east when he went out.

That's the direction in which the sun rises, the direction of light.

In addition to Shen Tianfan, the other two women, Mu Xiaowaist and Wanyan Yunshu, also changed into armor. Mu Xiaowaist was wearing the standard armor of the Great Inner Guard, red leather armor, red cloak, leather helmet and riding boots, looking heroic. Wanyan Yunshu wears a thin-ring chain armor, which can effectively block feather arrows, and the cost of this chain armor is enough for a middle-sized family for several years.

Give the camp, the flying fish robe.

Fang Xie took more than 100 of his cronies out of the residence and got on the horse, and set off after joining the light cavalry of the Shanzi battalion, and the more than 1,000 horses looked quite immense. Sun Kaidao, Xiahou Baichuan, Chen Yishan, Lu Fenghou and other generals got up early in the morning and waited outside the gate, and when they saw Fang Jie, they all hugged their fists and saluted.

"Have a good trip, General!"

Sun Kaidao slammed to the ground.

Fang Xie had nothing to explain again, nodded and then urged the horse to rush out of the camp. The light cavalry behind slowly increased speed and rushed down the spiraling mountain road. On this trip, because there was no cold riding camp to follow, everyone was a little unconfident, but they knew what kind of character Fang Xie was, and they would not do anything rashly to send them to death. When the army goes out, the soldiers will unconditionally believe in the general.

There were about seventy or eighty people in the flying fish robe, ten people in the battalion, and fifty people in Fang Jie's personal army, which were Fang Jie's cronies, and more than 1,100 light cavalry from the Shanzi battalion behind. These elite infantrymen, who were once left and far behind, have been completely transformed and are now qualified cavalry. They did what Fang Xie had given them at the beginning, and treated the war horses as if they were their comrades.

Soon after descending the mountain, the team went up the official road and marched southeast along the flat road.

"Newspaper"

Less than ten miles away, the scout in front suddenly rushed back and reported: "General, five miles ahead, Wanyan Chongde led the men and horses to intercept the road ahead. ”

Hearing this, Fang Xie was slightly stunned, and then smiled gently at Wan Yan Yunshu. The latter's face was full of worry when she heard the news, and Fang Jie's gentle smile warmed her somewhat cold heart again.

"Keep going"

Fang Xie waved his hand and urged the horse forward.

Turning around a forest, Fang Xie was far away and saw a group of cavalry in the distance blocking the road ahead on the official road.

"You stay here, I'll go by myself."

Fang Xie commanded, Tima walked forward, Wanyan Yunshu knocked the war horse to follow, Fang Xie glanced at her but did not stop her.

In front of those cold cavalry, Fang Xie restrained his horse and looked at Yan Chongde.

Wanyan Chongde waited for a while and didn't see Fang Jie, then smiled self-deprecatingly: "I just want to persuade you again before you leave, Yun Shu, you should know what kind of choice you made." You can imagine how angry and disappointed Father Khan would be if he found out, the reason why I didn't go to you again last night was to give you a night to calm down. Now I have to ask you seriously, is there really no room for return? ”

Fang Xie shook his head, as if he didn't even bother to speak.

Wanyan Chongde looked at his sister, but saw that his sister's eyes had been looking at Fang Xie with fascination.

He couldn't help but sigh: "It seems that I don't need to ask this time again." ”

He drew his saber: "But I have to do something." ”

Fang Xie smiled gently at Wan Yan Yunshu: "You go back first, I'll solve it." ”

Wanyan Yunshu shook his head, looked at Wanyan Chongde and said, "Brother, I know that your heart is not happy, but I also know that you love me." But for the sake of the clan, you have to make the right choice, and that's what a good khan needs to do, so I don't blame you. But I won't go back with you, because I'm sorry for the people of Northern Liao, but I also have the right to choose my own destination. Brother, if you don't want to hurt me, can you please get out of the way? ”

Wanyan Chongde shook his head: "You're wrong......"

Wanyan Yunshu's face changed, and a thick sadness flashed in his eyes.

Wanyan Chongde suddenly laughed: "Before, I came to ask you as the heir to the Khan throne of Northern Liaodi, this is my duty and I must do it." But then my identity is only Wanyan Yunshu's brother, and I have asked Saerbei to return to the 100,000 Mountains with a large group of men and horses last night. These sons and daughters who stay are people who are willing to help you as friends, I am not here to stop you, I am here to protect my sister. ”

Wanyan Yunshu's nose was sour, and he couldn't help jumping off the war horse and running over, Wanyan Chongde dismounted, hugged his sister and said with a smile: "Do you remember what I told you when you were a child, I don't want you to be a beautiful white lotus blooming on a hundred thousand mountains, I would rather you be a little bird and be free." Now I have fulfilled my promise, and when I go back, I will persuade my father Khan, but now I must first be a good brother. ”

He raised his head and looked at Fang Jie: "Hey, I don't want to lose a friend." ”

Fang Xie smiled: "Me too"

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The cavalry dismounted and quickly cleaned up the battlefield, dragging all the corpses down and piling them together.

Qilin commanded loudly: "Be fast, take off all your clothes, bring the grain, grass and feather arrows, and don't want anything else!" ”

The light cavalry and the cold cavalry dismounted and tied everything they could in the camp to their horses.

It was an outpost set up by the Mongol Yuan people, and it was garrisoned by about three hundred cavalry. In order to make the rear road of the army unblocked, Meng Lie, who led the troops, left hundreds of people stationed every hundred miles or so. These Mengyuan cavalry built a camp on the side of the official road and did nothing all day. It has been three years since they arrived in the northwest, and the vigilance of these wolf riders has obviously relaxed a lot. They were accustomed to enjoying the food and meat sent by the rebels, and had not shown their scimitars for a long time, except for occasional hunting.

On the fourth day after descending the mountain, the scouts discovered this Mengyuan outpost, and Fang Xie discussed it with Wanyan Chongde, and then decided to eradicate it. That night, more than 1,000 light cavalry and about 2,000 Han cavalry baptized the feather arrows used by this outpost, killing the Mengyuan cavalry who were not at all guarded in their sleep. Most of the wolf riders were killed before they could put on their armor, and some knelt on the ground and begged for mercy but had no chance of survival.

Although this outpost is small, there is an abundance of food and grass. For the 3,000 cavalry, although they only collected barely enough food for three days, victory was always a joy.

"There will be such outposts in front of them, not just the Mengyuan barbarians, the closer we go east to the rebel base camp, the more outposts the rebels will set up. As long as we are careful, we are fast enough, and if we grab the grain and grass and leave, the rebels will not be able to catch up with us at all. ”

Fang Xie unfolded the map, pointed to it and said, "However, we will pass through Fengcheng in three days, and I passed by when I left Fan Gu for Chang'an. Fengcheng is the seat of Fengjun County, the city wall is tall and strong, and the rebels must be heavily guarded. We are all cavalry, it is impossible to attack the city, and there are only two ways to get there. ”

"The first is to go around Camel Mountain, which is about a dozen days longer. And on the other side of the camel mountain is the camp of General Meng Yuan's cypress, with 10,000 wolves to ride. The rebels have few cavalry, but the wolf riders are no slower than ours. ”

Wanyan Chongde nodded: "What about the second way?" ”

Fang Xie was silent for a while and said, "The second method is more dangerous......

"Let's talk about it"

Wanyan Chongde said.

"Do you remember that people left behind the clothes and banners of those Mengyuan cavalrymen before?"

Fang asked.

Wanyan Chongde was stunned for a moment, and then shouted in a low voice: "Are you going to pretend to be a Meng Yuan person and just go through it directly?" ”

Fang Xie nodded: "The rebels are defenseless against the Mengyuan people, because of Li Yuanshan's strict orders, the rebels even offer the Mengyuan barbarians as ancestors. Let's change into these hundreds of sets of clothes, take the banner of Mengyuan people and go straight forward. As long as you don't show your big braids, you can't see much difference from the Mengyuan people. As long as we can enter the city, it won't take too long to rush out of the east gate along the main street, and if I'm not mistaken, Fengcheng is less than five miles east and west. ”

"What about the others?"

Wan Yan Chongde asked: "After all, we only have three hundred sets of Mengyuan people's armor in our hands. ”

"The others took off their armor."

Fang explained: "After the Mengyuan people arrived in the northwest, they plundered property and captured a large number of young and strong people as slaves. It is normal for a Mengyuan cavalryman to bring two or three servants by his side, as long as the weapons and armor are not exposed, those rebels do not dare to check the Mengyuan people too closely. ”

"It's too risky."

Wanyan Chongde pondered for a while and said: "Once we enter the city and are discovered, the cavalry will not be able to use it at all if we are blocked in the city. ”

Fang Xie nodded: "Wait for the news first, I have already sent scouts to infiltrate Fengcheng to find out the news." Let's first know how many rebels are stationed in Fengcheng before making a decision. Get out of here first, after all, there are still three days to go from Fengcheng. ”

After deliberating, the procession continued its journey, encountering few rebels along the way. It can be seen that most of the rebels' troops have been transferred to the front line of Xiangcheng, and the rear is extremely empty. On the third day, the team came to a halt thirty miles west of Fengcheng, where the scouts they had sent were already waiting.

It is not difficult for the people in the flying fish robe to sneak into the city, after all, this is still the rear of the rebels, and the city gate is not closed all day. Chen Xiaoru personally took a few flying fish robes and pretended to be the sons of a large family to sneak in, and after two days of exploration in the city, he came out again without any hindrance.

"There aren't many rebels in the city."

Chen Xiaoru said: "My subordinates took people to live in the city for two days, and found out that the guard of Fengcheng was called Liu Han, who was once the county guard of Fengcheng County, when Li Yuanshan led the troops to attack Fengcheng, the county Cheng committed suicide and martyrdom, Liu Han was afraid of death, and led people to open the door and surrender. But this person and Li Yuanshan's traitors are not all the way, and it is said that they take good care of the people. ”

"In addition, my subordinates also found out that just half a month ago, there were at least 30,000 rebels in Fengcheng, and half a month ago Li Yuanshan sent people to drain most of the troops, and there were only about 5,000 people left in the city."

Hearing this, Fang Jie's brows furrowed slightly.

Li Yuanshan has already begun to transfer troops from the rear, indicating that he is beginning to prepare for a counterattack. If Sun Kaidao's speculation is correct, the decisive battle will come soon.

"Get ready, go into town at once."

Fang Xie commanded, turned back to Wan Yan Chongde and said, "It's up to you, your people understand Mengyuan Barbarian and pretend to be Mengyuan wolf riders." I'll be at the front with you, and let the cold cavalry hide their big braids in their leather helmets and walk behind with my men and pretend to be servants. ”

Wanyan Chongde was inevitably nervous in his heart, and took a deep breath and said, "Follow you out, and your courage will be frightened." ”

Fang Xie laughed, changed into the clothes of Meng Yuan's cavalry, then brushed his beard and hung up his scimitar.

"Like it?"

He asked.

Mu Xiaoxiao smiled: "It's like I want to look at you with a knife." ”

Fang Xie snorted: "That's it, as long as the city gate is not closed, there are not many rebels in the city anyway, so it's a big deal to kill them." ”

The flag of the Mengyuan people was raised, and the flying wolf on the flag looked listless and reluctant.