Twenty miles away in the southern suburbs of Yecheng, twelve carriages were parked on the side of the official road, more than 100 guards led the horses to rest on the side of the road, and at the front of the convoy, Yuwenwen was seeing him off, saying goodbye to Liu Zhuo, a scholar he recruited, and Liu Yang, a Taoist priest in alchemy. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Xi Sheng's assassination case tossed for several days, he finally cleared the suspicion and did not need to stay in the embassy to show his innocence, and the day when Liu Zhuo and Liu Yang went south finally came, so Yuwen Wen specially went out of the city to see him off.

Liu Zhuo took his family, his suite, his personal servants, and a batch of newly purchased books according to his book list, accounting for a total of seven cars.

Two of the remaining four carriages contained the things Yu Wenwen had bought, including gifts for his family and some odd and miscellaneous items, and the other two were filled with things bought by Zhou Faming and Tian Yilong.

The entourage sent back to Shannan by each family is on horseback, and the officials sent by the imperial court to Shannan on business together will join forces along the way, and the whole convoy will reach the scale of 20 cars, and the accompanying escorts are hundreds, and it is very appropriate to walk on the official road, unless they meet the army, the general horse bandits dare not provoke.

Normally, no official is willing to piggyback on inexplicable people along the way, so as not to be "suddenly attacked" by the other party on the road, but Yuwen Wen entrusted the relationship and asked the government to come forward to match, and made up enough people for the "tour group" to Shannan.

From Yecheng to Shannan Anzhou, according to the current route to calculate about more than 2,000 miles of distance, there are cars and horses to travel also to spend more than a month, now it is late July, the convoy arrived at the end of August or early September in Shannan.

What is reassuring is that all the way is in the territory firmly controlled by the Zhou State, there are post stations and post houses along the way to rest, horses can be replaced and there are places to repair if the vehicle is broken, but just in case, Yuwen Wen sent a few clever guards to accompany him all the way and dot along the way.

Most of the guards of the convoy were transferred by him to his father-in-law, Wei Chishun, and of course Yu Wenwen was responsible for the round-trip expenses.

"It's a long way to drive, and Daochang Liu has to take care of his body." Yuwen Wen told him that Liu Yang had been refining pills for decades, and it was indispensable to take pills with excessive mercury and lead, and his health would be somewhat affected, so he was more worried that he would not be able to stand the bumps in the road.

"Don't worry, Lang Jun, you are used to traveling in all directions, and you will be fine."

"If you feel unwell, don't brace yourself, the accompanying escort will arrange accommodation, rest for a period of time and then go on the road." Yu Wenwen is still a little worried, this Liu Daochang adheres to the belief of "hearing the Tao in the morning, and dying at night", and must go to Bazhou to pursue the way of chemistry, he is afraid that the other party will be overworked and drive west as soon as he arrives in Bazhou.

The alchemy that appeared nearly a thousand years in advance was a unique skill that Liu Yang accidentally discovered, although the detailed method had been written to Yu Wenwen, Yu Wenwen still hoped that this one could have more development.

Although the alchemy Taoist took the wrong technical route, he was a very experienced 'chemist' in this era, and he and Liu Yang were more relaxed about many things, while the orphans adopted by Yu Wenwen himself had yet to grow up, and their basic chemical qualities had not yet been cultivated.

Chemistry is the icing on the cake for Yuwenwen, and the army that can be fought and sufficient food is the charcoal in the snow, but since he has some spare strength, he feels that it doesn't matter if he tries to explore it.

Yuwen Wen and Liu Yang talked, and on the other side, Zheng Tong said goodbye to Liu Zhuo, and presented Cheng Yi with some chat according to the custom, Cheng Yi is the travel fee, and it is rude not to send some Cheng Yi to say goodbye this year.

The delivery is to be sent, but how to send it is a problem, this time Liu Zhuo took his family to Shannan Bazhou, and all the expenses were Yuwen Wenbao, so if he personally sent Cheng Yi, it would be a little difficult for Liu Zhuo to receive or not to accept it.

The solution is through Zheng Tong's hands, copper coins are also available, and scattered silver is also available, anyway, it is enough for Liu Zhuo to spend extra money on the road, not to mention any local products, delicacies or rare scriptures, that is, to meet the little lady who sold herself to bury her father, and it is enough to be merciful two or three times.

Yuwen Wen was originally going to send some Cheng Yi to Liu Yang as well, but he didn't want it, so he sent it to the accompanying guards in case of any need on the road.

The hour has come, the car of the court officials going to Shannan arrived, Yuwenwen greeted him with a few words of Cheng Yi, and waved goodbye to the crowd, looking at the mighty southbound convoy, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart:

Stay for more than a month and I can go back!

After seeing him off, Yu Wenwen was not in a hurry to return to the city, he was a little depressed these days, he couldn't kill Xi Sheng, and he couldn't get too angry when he tossed the Qiu Mansion, so he had to go on an outing and walk around to relax.

Yemagang is about twenty miles away from Yecheng, and it is said that there is no need to send it so far, so Yuwenwen is going out under the pretext, he looked at the terrain around Yemagang, and his instinctive reaction came again: "This place is a little dangerous, if it is a march to fight, it seems that you can set up an ambush." ”

"What the envoy said is that the official road is in the middle, with woods and mounds on both sides, and if the army passes by without guard, it is very easy to be ambushed." Zhou Faming agreed with Yu Wenwen's point of view, today it was Tian Yilong who entered the palace to tell the story to the Son of Heaven, so he escaped.

The officials who accompanied Yuwenwen on the trip began to explain the allusion to this wild horse gang, which is named after the shape of a horse galloping, and is often a hunting place for the powerful of Yecheng, of course, the hunting ground will not be near the official road.

There is a large area in the west of Yema Gang, there are not only woods but also rivers, because of the abundance of water and grass, there are many wild things such as hares, birds, roe deer and so on, there is a stream called Biao Stream, also known as Tiger Stream.

"Tiger Stream? Could it be that there are tigers in this stream? ”

"I don't know, but when Qi, the lord of Qi often went hunting here with the children of the powerful people close to him, and since Shi Zhao, many princes and princes buried each other in the east of Yemagang."

"This is the western part of the southern suburbs of Yecheng, so the army sent by Yang Jian to attack Yecheng back then, I'm afraid it also passed through here, right?" Yu Wenwen's focus was still on marching and fighting, and he was not interested in hunting, because he really didn't have time to think about such things.

"The envoy is right, three years ago, Yang Rey sent troops to attack Yecheng, and its marching manager Yu Wenxin took the lead in approaching as the vanguard, and the prime minister set up 3,000 elite soldiers here, but he did not expect to be broken by more than 500 cavalry."

"More than five hundred rides? Isn't it an armored horse? Zhou Faming asked, he was very interested in cavalry, and if there was an elite cavalry on the march and fighting, it would have the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort.

"I've only heard people say it, but the specific battle situation is not clear." The officer replied.

"This official remembers that the army sent by Yang Jian defeated the Duke of Wei'an in Qinshui, and then pursued all the way north, thinking that Yuwenxin was leading the elite light cavalry to pursue, the person should be armored, and the horse may not be, otherwise catch up for hundreds of miles, not to mention killing the enemy, the horse can't eat."

"Wouldn't it be nice to have one more horse... Hi, it's me thinking too much. Zhou Faming said to himself.

There are many horses in the north, and cavalry is commonplace with two horses or even three horses, and he initially thought that he could let a spare horse be equipped with armor and change it before the battle, but this did not work, because the preparation of horses had to carry a heavy gallop, and the distance was too far to bear.

"Don't drill the tip of the horns, the biggest advantage of the cavalry is speed, the armored cavalry charging formation is spectacular, but galloping three hundred miles day and night to raid the enemy's key points is the right way." Yu Wenwen began to talk.

In modern times, some history enthusiasts argue that it is impossible for horses to gallop 300 miles day and night and still fight, so the ancient cavalry surprise attack tactics are injected with water and meat, and of course there are many people who oppose it, so it is natural that a polemic broke out.

He can't intervene in this kind of debate in which the public says that the public is justified and the mother says that the mother is reasonable, but there are indeed many examples of ancient cavalry galloping day and night to raid and defeat the enemy army with superior numbers in one fell swoop.

Even if the ancient 'li' is different from the modern 'li', the raid tactics of the ancient cavalry running day and night are indeed very sharp, and how many armies have been 'shot into the soul'.

"It is easier for our army to deal with the Chen army in the Yangtze River area, and if we go to the plains to fight, it is the first priority to guard against the surprise attack of the enemy's cavalry." Yuwen Wen and Zhou Faming discussed, "Then the problem comes, if the sentinel range is to be expanded, there must be cavalry, that is, there must be horses..."

This kind of topic is mostly tears, the ancient march and war horses are not enough, that is a tragedy, not immediately or sooner or later, the generals of the Southern Dynasty do not know the importance of cavalry, but there are not enough horses.

Everyone knows that the success rate of opening a sister king to a sister is high, but if you can't afford it, you can only drive a small electric donkey, right?

Let's take a look and chat, Yuwenwen took a rough turn in Yemagang, and originally wanted to go to the feng shui treasure in the east to have a look, but everyone tried to dissuade him, after all, it was too unlucky to go to the cemetery for no reason.

The most important thing is that he is afraid that this person will cause something wrong, and the accompanying officials this time also brought more than ten cavalry, according to the orders of Yuwenwen's father-in-law, Wei Chishun, they want to "watch" Yuwenwen.

This kind of thing is very embarrassing, Yuwenwen is not something they can control, so they can only "move it with affection and understand it with reason".

Yu Wenwen and his entourage turned around and came to the southeast of Yemagang, but they saw a river flowing slowly in front of them, and the entourage said that this was Huangyi water, which entered the Wanjin Canal and entered the cormorant after passing through the southeast of Yemagang.

"You won't pass through any strange places upstream, like a cemetery or something, right?" Yu Wenwen asked.

"No, the cemetery is north of Huangyishui, not upstream."

"Then drink horses by the river, and then go back to the city later."

In fact, Yu Wenwen wanted to solve the problem, he saw that the entourage was drinking horses by the river, so he saw a big tree to walk over, Zhang Yu was worried that something would happen to this little solution, so he hurriedly stepped forward to open the way.

It's not that I'm afraid of meeting thieves, this ground is overgrown with weeds, Zhang Yu is afraid of any poisonous snakes, and if you take a bite on Yuwenwen's leg, everything will be over, not to mention on the ground, you have to pay attention to the trees.

Seeing Zhang Yu leading a few guards to fight the grass and startle the snake in front with wooden sticks, Yuwenwen smiled helplessly, it is not winter now, so he knows how to prevent snakes when walking in the grass, but he can't always solve it by the river, after all, a few steps downstream are the people and horses who drink water.

"It's not a small solution, you can't meet anything, it's not possessed by a god of decay, how can it be so down...' Yuwen Wen was thinking about it when he suddenly stumbled under his feet, and he almost fell to the ground, and the most important thing was that he almost couldn't hold back and wet his crotch.

"What's going on! Yes? What is it? (To be continued.) )