Scouts, i.e., soldiers who scout the enemy. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Many people may mistakenly think that scouts are scouts on horseback, but they are not.

Scouts on horseback or on foot can be called scouts - if subdivided, scouts on horseback are also called scouts, and scouts on foot are called scouts, and there is no higher or lower status between the two.

In the eyes of the world, scouts are only responsible for patrolling hazards and enemy defenses, but in reality, good scouts are also responsible for mapping the landscape near their targets, finding water, searching for unknown mountain trails, and even, if necessary, dealing with enemy sentinels.

But in the Wei State, in the Su Wangjun, the form of existence of the 'scout' is slightly different.

Because in Zhao Hongrun's mind, he judged the "scout" as the most comprehensive elite soldier.

As a result, out of the personal preference of His Royal Highness King Su, the battle-hardened soldiers in his army were successively awarded a fine iron short sword engraved with two small seals of the Wei State of "Scout", and gave him the title of "Honorary Scout".

From then on, under the command of King Su, scouts became the highest honor for infantry and cavalry, and those who received the title of "scout" gradually became regarded as the elite of the elite.

Yes, under the command of King Su's army, there is no real scout team, because the work that those scouts are responsible for is all handled by the hidden thieves of the Green Crows, and these hidden thieves shine in the "Battle of the Four Kingdoms".

On September 21, hundreds of green crows set out to go straight to Yishan and Wangwu Mountain, and while being responsible for exploring the local landform and the specific reality of Pigao Pass, drawing a map of the battlefield, and assassinating the Korean army sentries patrolling the two mountains.

This move aroused the vigilance of the Korean general Jin Huang of Pi Jiaoguan, so that two days later, Jin Huang quickly added garrisons to Yishan and Wangwu Mountain, so that the number of Korean troops stationed in the two mountains reached two or three thousand, which made the search and assassination of the green crows blocked.

It was also at this time that Zhao Hongrun learned that the infantry of the Korean army was so well-trained.

Therefore, Zhao Hongrun each transferred an elite 1,000-man team from the Shangshui Army and the Yanling Army to prepare for a skirmish positional battle with the infantry of the South Korean army.

On that day, the thousand-man team under the command of Ran Teng, the thousand-man general who had vaguely become the first elite thousand-man team of the Shangshui Army, took over this task without giving up, carrying a bag full of food, and went straight to Wangwu Mountain.

Wangwu Mountain, is the most extensive mountain range in the area of Pigao Pass, the overall can be divided into five parts: middle mountains, low mountains, hills, basins, plains, the mountain is slightly gentler than Yishan, but because of the wide range of scale, and the forest is luxuriant, therefore, here is more suitable as a battlefield for scouts, unlike Yishan, the Korean army is defended according to the danger, even if it is the green crows, they can't climb up from the cliff under the strict defense of the Korean army.

Wangwu Mountain is located on the southwest border of Hedong County and Shangdang County.

Shangdang, since ancient times has the reputation of "with the sky for the party", to put it bluntly, the terrain of this land is generally higher in elevation, and it is precisely for this reason that the "Pigao Pass" built by the mountain is the same as "Tianmen Pass" and "Mengmen Pass", in recent decades, the Wei State has repeatedly tried to attack Shangdang County from Hedong County, all of which have hit a wall in these passes, and cannot advance an inch.

No, just halfway up Wangwu Mountain, the merchant soldiers of Ran Teng's thousand-man team all felt a burst of discomfort, obviously looking at Wangwu Mountain, which was not high, but they felt very tired when they climbed it.

It is no wonder, after all, the state of Chu from which these people were born, and the state of Wei where they currently live, have fewer hills and more hills, and most of the land belongs to the plains, so when these come to Shangdang County, which is generally at a higher altitude, they faintly feel that they cannot breathe well, and they are more likely to fatigue than usual.

I remember the last time this situation occurred, it was when the Su Wangjun won the "Battle of Wei-Qin Sanchuan" and crossed the eastern part of the Qinling Mountains in order to warn the Qin State.

Of course, the altitude of the mountains around Wangwu Mountain is incomparable with that of the Qinling Mountains, and the difference is too far. But you must know that the Qinling Mountains crossed by Su Wangjun at that time were actually only the eastern part of the Qinling Mountains, which was the part of the entire Qinling Mountains that were adjacent to Huashan in the narrow sense, in fact, the mountains there were only one or two hundred zhang high, and even lower than the Wangwu Mountain climbed today.

After arriving halfway up the Wangwu Mountain, Ran Teng's thousand-man team was divided into pieces and dispersed into ten hundred-person teams, and under the guidance of several green crows, they went deep into this mountain forest.

And Ran Teng, a thousand-person general, personally led a team of 100 people to act with him.

At noon, the hundred-man team found a place to rest, and the soldiers took out their bags their dry rations for the past few days: a bag of fried rice, a bag of bread as hard as a stone's palm.

The former was a regular food for the soldiers who left the camp, while the latter, the palm-sized bread, was a food that had only recently been added to the Su Wangjun's diet: this kind of bread was a slightly altered food on the Chuanluo's sheepcakes, which they made to the size of their palms so that the soldiers could eat them with one hand alone, and also thickened the thickness of the dough. Therefore, when this kind of dough cake is air-dried and dried, it is as hard as a stone, and it will fall off the crumbs when you bite into it, and it is even worse than the fried rice that you are already tired of eating.

The only good thing is to endure hunger, just like fried rice, eat a handful and drink half a pot of water, and make sure you don't feel hungry for most of the day.

But it's a big difference if you have boiling water, and this kind of dough fried in mutton fat is definitely a rare delicacy if you soak it in boiling water.

The embarrassing thing is that in this situation, the soldiers of Shangshui did not dare to make a fire to boil water, first, for fear of attracting the attention of the Korean soldiers in the mountains and forests, and because they were afraid of causing a fire in the mountains and forests.

While the soldiers were frowning and nibbling on the thick bread on the spot, Ran Teng, the leader of the Thousand Crows, was asking Duan Pei, the leader of the Green Crows, about the information of the Korean soldiers.

Duan Pei didn't say anything at first, just called a group of green crows and handed Ran Teng a large bag that he had already prepared.

Ran Teng took the pocket suspiciously, looked twice into the bag, and found that what was in the bag was actually a complete set of soldiers' equipment.

Undoubtedly, the equipment of the South Korean infantry.

He emptied the soldier's equipment out of his pocket and took stock of it.

A set of leather armor, a shield, a sword, and a crossbow.

Bending down, Ran Teng picked up the long sword from the ground and pulled it out of its scabbard.

Seeing that this long sword was slightly unsheathed, Ran Teng's face was a little wrong, because he felt that this sword was thick and sharp, and the texture was quite fine.

Frowning, Ran Teng clenched the long sword and slashed at the trees beside him.

With a "du" sound, the blade of the long sword was immediately embedded in the trunk of the tree, almost burying the entire sword body.

"What a sharp iron sword!"

There was a hint of surprise in Ran Teng's eyes, and after pulling the long sword out of the trunk with great force, he looked at it carefully.

He had a faint feeling that this iron sword made in Korea was not much inferior to his war sword.

Frowning slightly, Ran Teng called a soldier and asked him to hold the long sword in his hand, and then, he pulled out the war knife at his waist and slashed at the long sword.

Hearing only a "click", the long sword in the soldier's hand was slashed by Ran Teng, and it tilted downward, but it was not broken.

"Hold it!" Ran Teng said in a deep voice.

The soldier was stunned for a moment, and looked at the long sword in his hand with some surprise.

Because he had the impression that the enemy soldiers they had encountered so far were inferior to them in terms of their weapons and equipment, he felt that even a single sword would be enough, and the long sword would be cut by their weapons anyway.

Unexpectedly, this long sword did not break.

"Again." The soldier licked his lips and switched to holding the sword in both hands, raising the sword with all his might.

Seeing this, Ran Teng slashed at the blade of the long sword with force, blade to blade.

This time, only a "clatter" was heard, and the blade of the long sword was indeed split, but Ran Teng's frowning brows did not mean to soothe at all. Because he found that after cutting the long sword, there was also a crack in the war knife in his hand, about the size of half a fingernail of the little finger.

Ran Teng was a little incredulous, you know, their weapon, which had just been replaced, was the most sophisticated military weapon in the Wei State at present. Unexpectedly, this kind of Wei State's most sophisticated military-made weapon at present, against the long sword of South Korea, only has this degree of advantage.

"......" Ran Teng turned his head to look at Duan Pei, but saw Duan Pei said lightly: "Try the crossbow again." ”

Ran Teng frowned, picked up the Han crossbow from the ground, and with a few casual strokes, he loaded the crossbow bolt and aimed it at a tree ten steps away.

As he pulled the trigger, he heard a pop, and the crossbow bolt that shot out of Han's crossbow in his hand actually pierced the trunks of two trees, and was deeply nailed into the trunk of the third tree.

Seeing this, Ran Teng's mouth couldn't help but grow, because he felt that the strength of the Han crossbow was not much inferior to their Wei crossbow.

"Looks like it's going to be a tough fight......"

Putting down the Han crossbow in his hand, Ran Teng let out a long breath, then picked up another Han army's crossbow from the ground and looked at it carefully.

When he found that Han Jun's crossbow bolts were still two-winged arrows, he breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, Duan Pei told Ran Teng: "The melee infantry of the Han army is basically a long sword and a light leather shield, let's call it 'sword and shield soldiers', my green crows have dealt with them, and their strength is really not weak, although they are not as fierce as the Qin people, but you have also seen that the weapons and equipment of the Korean army are much stronger than the Qin people. Especially the swords and crossbows of the Han army are not inferior to my Great Wei...... Don't be careless. ”

As he was talking, a group of green crows suddenly rushed from a distance and said in a tight voice: "About 300 zhang away from the left front, I found a sword and shield soldier of the Korean army, with more than 100 people, coming towards this place. ”

"Hmm." Duan Pei nodded and turned his head to look at Ran Teng.

He was also a little helpless in his heart, because in the first two days, when the Korean infantry was not prepared, the green crows easily hunted and killed many Han soldiers who left the team, but in the last two days, the Korean army on this Wangwu Mountain was a team of 100 people, so that the green crows did not dare to easily pick up their tiger whiskers, so they could only wait for the elite of the army to come to support.

"Team of 100...... Is it? ”

Ran Teng licked his lips and instructed his soldiers to quickly prepare to meet the enemy.

The regular army of the two armies, the sword and shield soldiers of the Wei State should fight against the sword and shield soldiers of South Korea, who wins and who loses?

I saw that a moment later, a hundred-man team of the Korean army appeared in front of the left, because the mountains and forests were wooded, the soldiers of Wei and Han gave up their crossbows and directly started a white-edged battle.

"Up!"

Pointing to the oncoming Korean infantry in front of him, Ran Teng, a thousand generals, shouted.

"Oh!"