18. Dreams

The meaning of Yan Xing's words naturally couldn't be clearer, and Ma Lin's eyes widened, as if he had been enlightened. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info while Gan Ling was thoughtful and silent. After Yan Xing encouraged everyone a few words, the occasional argument on the way was overturned, but everyone in the team felt that they had gained something.

"Come, take a break, and drink saliva!"

In the makeshift camp in the wilderness, Gan Ling took a water bladder, walked straight out, came to Ma Lin who was guarding outside, and stretched out his hand to hand it over.

Ma Lin glanced at Gan Ling, hesitated for a moment, and finally solemnly took the water bladder, poured it into his mouth, and let out a refreshing sigh before saying:

"This clear water is not as good as our Xiliang spirits, Gan Thin Man, when you return to our camp, I invite you to drink spirits!"

"Good! When the time comes, you won't be allowed to leave without getting drunk! ”

After speaking, the two laughed relative to each other, and the little crack before faded with the laughter.

Yan Xing didn't know that his two subordinates had shaken hands and made peace, and he was in the makeshift camp at the moment. After all, they were already close to the territory of Huaili at this time, and if they swaggered on the official road again, they would soon be targeted by the pavilions along the road in Youfufeng, so Yan Xing wisely chose to stay in the remote wasteland to rest first. Everyone has enough energy and regains their strength before making plans.

Yan Xing sat under the humble wooden shed, holding a silk in his hand and calculating, as Gan Ling said, there are five people in the army in one tent, and there is a bonfire between the five tents, and the number of Chencang defenders is about two thousand if the number of eighty-seven bonfires is counted.

However, there are some places in the camp that do not only leave a bonfire, such as the main general's tent and the location of the defenders' grain and grass, which are all heavily guarded, in addition to strict inspections at night and more torches, several bonfires will be lit around to ensure that people can be found from a distance at night.

So excluding these, the actual number of defenders in Chen Cang should be around 1,000. However, Chencang is located at the west end of the Guanzhong Plain, where the north goes to Longyou, the south goes to Hanzhong, and the west goes to Chang'an all the way to the smooth, which can be described as a place where soldiers must fight, so the defenders here are relatively elite, and the camp patrol of the guards is also in line with the art of war.

As for the defenders of Chang'an, compared with the former Han Dynasty, Jing Zhaoyin of this dynasty changed from an official who had both the imperial court and the local government to an ordinary magistrate, but his functions were still different from those of the general local county guards. In addition to the right of independent elimination, administrative control, recommendation, and sacrifice at the beginning of Jingzhao Yin, because of the continuous war of the three auxiliaries, the military functions of Jingzhao Yin were constantly strengthened at this time.

According to their observations, there were also 2,000 soldiers and horses stationed in the military camp outside the city. In addition, Chang'an City is densely populated, if you can't use stratagery to capture the city, it is indeed difficult to take it purely by force.

After calculating the number of garrisons and the gains and losses of attack and defense, Yan Xing wrote down in detail with a brush, and when the ink was dry, he carefully folded the silk and put it in his arms. After doing this, Yan Xing picked up the sheepskin map he had been carrying and put it in front of him to examine it.

Those maps only depict the mountains and rivers in a few places in Jincheng, Longxi, and Hanyang, and it can be said that they are completely blind in the Sanfu area. Therefore, with the assistance of the light man who had been a ranger in the past, Yan Xing began to depict the topography of the mountains and rivers seen along the road again.

It's just that they are new to the city, and they deliberately avoid the Tingbu countryside along the way, so there is no way to find the locals to ask in detail, so the newly drawn map is also quite rudimentary, only indicating the cities and rivers that pass along the way, and writing the estimated distance data, and nothing else.

However, for Yan Xing himself, this map was the biggest gain he got from going deep into Sanfu this time.

After many days of running around, being in danger, and being on alert at all times, coupled with the fact that he was rushing overnight last night, although Yan Xing was full of energy, he was not iron after all. Looking at the cluttered and dense signs and words on the sheepskin map, Yan Xing's eyelids gradually increased, and the font patterns that came into view gradually blurred, his strong body could no longer withstand it, his head drooped, and he actually fell asleep against the wooden shed.

In a trance, Yan Xing seemed to have fallen into a kaleidoscope that was constantly changing, and scenes of the warm scenes of the past surged in his mind.

"Big brother, I'm here, come and catch Wan'er!" The little sister with the corner of her skirt ran around the yard like a cheerful bird, and frequently turned her head and shouted Yan Xing, Yan Xing smiled, and was about to raise her legs to chase after her, when the laughing little sister in front of her suddenly disappeared, and became a slightly red eye and a shy look back when she parted.

"Big brother, remember to come back early・・・・・・"

Yan Xing's heart moved, and he was about to speak. The picture is a change again, in Chen Cangcheng next row of troops are marching, between the various phalanxes the soldiers and soldiers are shining brightly, flying horses galloping back and forth, when the army ranks stop together, the soldiers have shouted loudly, the sound of the four fields, the swords, guns and halberds they raise are like a dense forest dancing. In the distance, continuous company camps were scattered everywhere, and the familiar sound of horns between the barracks came and went, as if a huge monster was roaring in the sky with its bloody mouth open.

Hearing the passionate and majestic sound of the horn, Yan Xing felt that the blood in his whole body was boiling, and he couldn't help but shout along, so that he ran towards the current military camp with all his might. But as soon as he approached, the heavily guarded company camp suddenly turned into a puff of yellow sand rushing towards him, and Yan Xing was so frightened that he stopped and hid his face to block the wind and sand.

When he put down the hands in front of him, he was terrified to find that everything around him had changed again, the well-groomed army and the heavily guarded company camp were gone, and the soldiers from Xiliang were in chaos, and the soldiers from Xiliang were rushing to the wolves, and a group of cavalry falling from the sky were constantly chasing them behind, and a Xiliang warrior on his side was quickly cut off by a knight with a saber, and blood splashed on his face, Yan Xing reached out and touched it, it was actually hot.

The next moment, he was horrified to see that the saber that was still dripping blood was pointing diagonally at him, and Yan Xing subconsciously shouted: "Ganling, Ma Lin, come with me!" But no one responded to him, and the knight urged the horses, the speed was getting faster and faster, Yan Xing could even see his hideous and evil face clearly, the distance was getting closer and closer, Yan Xing wanted to dodge sideways, but found that his whole body seemed to be drained of strength, and there was no way to exert his strength.

The next moment!

"Shaojun!"

Suddenly, a loud voice woke him up, and Yan Xing jumped up and reached out to touch the ring knife on his waist. When the handle of the knife came into his hands, it was as if an invisible force had entered Yan Xing's body from the hilt, and he was in a certain state of mind, and the whole person came to his senses, and he raised his head and asked:

"What's wrong?"

Ma Lin, who ran over to report it, was also startled by Yan Xing's startling, calmed down, and hurriedly said:

"The brother who sent the sentry came back to report that there were two groups of people fighting in front, and one of them seemed to be the Han army on the right side of the wind!"

"What!"

Yan Xing's heart suddenly accelerated when he heard this, this place was already close to Huaili, if he was discovered by the Han army here, it would be basically difficult to get out. He spun around his head quickly, searching for any clues that had been exposed these days, but found nothing, so he simply said:

"Let the big guy straighten out the weapons and horses, and you take a few people to follow me to see what is going on!"

After speaking, Yan Xing tidied up his weapons and clothes, walked out quickly, and looked around, his subordinates who were resting were already on high alert, running back and forth in the humble camp, ready to deal with the sudden appearance of the enemy. Outside the wooden shed, his subordinates had already brought their mounts, and Yan Xing did not hesitate and immediately turned over and got on the horse.

Seeing that Ma Lin and several other people were also ready, Yan Xing nodded and said, "Let's go!" So he took the lead and ran out.

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Soon, under the guidance of the troops who had discovered the enemy's traces, Yan Xing and several people came to the vicinity of the place where the battle was taking place, and dismounted from a distance and approached under the cover of grass and trees to find out what was going on.

I saw that in the wasteland not far away, there was a group of twenty Han soldiers galloping back and forth, constantly provoking the people surrounded by them with foul language, but they were surrounded by a group of more than 30 people, among them there were horsemen, slaves, and maidservants, who looked like a group of wealthy and noble families, and at this moment they were hurriedly protecting the old and weak women behind, while all the men were standing outside around a carriage in formation, indifferent to the provocation of the Han cavalry.

Yan Xing was secretly surprised in his heart, seeing these Han cavalry galloping back and forth on their horses to make various provocative movements, it was obvious that they were experienced and skilled in equestrianism, and seeing that their armor and weapons were also the equipment of the regular Han army, they didn't know why they had to surround the team of people and horses dressed up by rich and noble families in front of them.

Could it be that these besieged people are also military spies sent by the Liangzhou coalition army, Yan Xing's heart suddenly popped up this idea, but it was quickly vetoed by himself, and regardless of the fact that the coalition spies would never be able to match the entourage of slaves and maids, even if they were really matched, I am afraid that such a swaggering pass through the market would be seen in less than half a day, where could they run so far away from Huaili.

Although he wasn't sure what was going on at the moment, just in case, Yan Xing immediately ordered one of his subordinates to go back and gather all the men to come over here, while he and Ma Lin stayed here first to see what was going on.

After Yan Xing's order was given here, his subordinates had just left. There was a woman's "ahhhhh

A flying feathered arrow was nailed to the outside of the carriage, causing a series of screams from the maidservants behind her.