It's the middle of August, and the autumn is crisp and the weather is bright, which is the most comfortable and comfortable time of the year.

However, the ten Song knights who were on horseback and sentry in the southwest direction were all lazy and listless.

These ten sentry agents are the scout sentry sent by Wang Huan to open the way in front of the team of the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army, Henan and Hebei Jiedu.

The Hebei Forbidden Army has not fought for decades, and even if there are some years when the Liaoguo Hu cavalry will cross the border to fight the grass valley, it has never been active in Zhending Mansion, Hejian Mansion and Cangzhou, and has never penetrated into the border of Cizhou.

Therefore, although these sentries were born to do this kind of work and sleep, and they had to work hard all day long on horses and all the time, they were used to idleness, and they still felt quite hard and unbearable when they suddenly received such a task.

So a day later, these scouts were a little lazy and couldn't keep up, and after two or three days they began to complain and perfunctory.

Until now, three or four days later, there is still no enemy in front of them, and this group of people also calculated in their hearts that Xu is the envoy of the Shangdang Taiyuan Jiedu has rushed to the front of Tonglu County, and firmly blocked the Liangshan army.

In that case, then what are they trying to do, they just open the way and deal with the situation.

Under the scorching sun, the group walked for a while and rested for a while, talking and laughing, but slowly headed southwest.

After walking for a while, he saw a big tree next to the official road, and the sentry ten generals who led the team panted and fell off the horse, beating his legs from time to time, and walking like a duck, twisting and twisting.

"The mother, I have been on the horse for three or four days in a row, and I am afraid that the skin here is worn out, and it hurts to walk with my heart, and my legs are not as sore as my own! Prisoners, this sentry is not a man's work......"

These ten generals led the horses to the shade of the tree, and on the other hand, they completely removed the leather armor that had long been open on their bodies, and put it next to the roots of the tree.

"Straight thief, if you want to say that the old general is also deliberately tossing us, there is an army of 10,000 Xu Lao Ape in front of us, so can the Liangshan army still fly through Tongyu County? Didn't there be a military report two days ago that Liang Shanjun was still stupidly waiting for the imperial court to reply in Nanguan Town? I'm afraid that by this time, I have already run out of food, and I am so hungry that I can't walk.

The old general wants us to go ten miles out of the sentry and report it once an hour, isn't this a deliberate toss? ”

As soon as he mentioned this, the other nine scout scouts immediately chimed in, all of them feeling that General Wang was too cautious.

But these people also learned to be obedient, and every day they only went five miles out of the outpost, and when it was almost an hour, they sent two men back to report to the old general, and the others also walked and stopped in front of them, and marched slowly.

After resting for a while, the ten people drank some water, ate a little dry food and cakes, and talked about the coming of the Liangshan army.

"Boss, speaking of Liangshanjun is really good, at least the military salary is higher than ours, let's just say it's a little harder, it is said that they have to train there every day, but they eat well, three meals a day, and meat at a meal!"

"Erniu, who did you listen to?"

The second cow whispered: "Don't I have an uncle in the Yongjing Army?" I have a cousin who joined the Liangshan Army last year, and now he is still the captain of the squad, which is almost the same as you, the top ten generals.

Now his monthly salary alone is eight guan, not including all kinds of things that are usually issued, and the war and the capture are shared, and when the Liangshan army attacked Zengtou City in February, my cousin divided more than 300 guan at a time! ”

As soon as they heard that there was so much money in Zengtou City once, and they were about to catch up with their salaries for six or seven years, several other people suddenly had a light in their eyes, and felt that Liang Shanjun's treatment was so high, and he was also a skill, so it was better to vote for Liang Shanjun.

However, after being surprised, the ten generals snorted coldly and said, "What about the generous salary?" The Liangshan army is finished this time, and the 200,000 troops of the imperial court have laid a net to conquer the Liangshan army, but it is ridiculous that Lin Chong is still there to stand still, waiting for the imperial court to agree to exchange hostages, and miss the opportunity in vain. ”

Originally, the most dangerous place of this passage was the location of Fukou in the south of Wu'an County, where Fushan Mountain and Cishan were sandwiched, but the Liangshan army could not take this road after crossing the Taihang Mountain and arrived at Wu'an County, and took the direction of Handan instead.

It was to Wang Huan as a precaution, so he had to leave 4,000 rear troops to defend in the middle of the passage from Wu'an County to Shexian County, and he led 6,000 former troops to Tongqi County to join Xu Jing.

The scout detective named Erniu knows more about the Liangshan Army after all, and he wants to say that the Liangshan Army is so strong in combat that the imperial court may not be able to eliminate it this time, and it will take a year or two to determine the winner or loser.

At this moment, I faintly heard the sound of horses' hooves, and a companion who was still standing looked up to the southwest, and immediately shouted: "Chief...... There is a case! ”

The ten generals, together with Er Niu and others, immediately stood up, looked to the southwest together, and saw a horse galloping towards the direction of Licheng.

can be a scout sentry, the eyesight is naturally excellent, and everyone quickly saw that this person was the color of the Song army's uniform, with a pennant on his back, and at first glance he was a messenger who sent messages back and forth.

Seeing this man running so fast and so flustered, everyone was shocked, and hurriedly put on their leather armor, stepped on their horses, and greeted them.

"Come and stop, what's going on, but the battle ahead is tight?"

When the man saw these ten horsemen coming, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly reined in his war horse and asked, "Are you under the command of Wang Jiedu?" ”

"Exactly, you are Xu Jiedu's subordinate, I seem to have seen you!" Erniu hurriedly asked.

The man hurriedly said: "Exactly, I don't know where Wang Jiedu's army is now?" Please also take me to go quickly, the military situation is urgent, and the Liangshan anti-thieves are very urgent to attack Tongba County, and we will soon be unable to support it! ”

"It's just five miles away......"

Seeing that they didn't dare to slack off, the ten people hurriedly turned their horses' heads and rode towards Licheng together, and they couldn't stop asking on the way, so that they didn't miss anything when they saw Wang Jiedu's envoy next time, and they must be said to meet them ten miles away.

The group quickly whipped up, and soon came to Wang Huan, Wang Huan and Xu Jing for more than ten years of old friendship, as soon as he saw Xu Jing's handwriting, as soon as he heard that Xu Jing was surrounded by the Liangshan Army in Tongbi County, he was very anxious, and he did not suspect him, and immediately ordered the troops to hurry up the march, and crossed the Zhanghe River west of Licheng County in less than half an hour.

At this moment, I heard the sound of horses' hooves in front of me, and a group of cavalry suddenly turned out from behind the small hill on the west bank of the Zhanghe River.

This group of cavalry is about 100 horses, the first horsemen and horses are wearing two layers of armor, riding a divine horse to the extreme high-headed horse, straight towards a beard and hair, more than seventy years old veteran, from a distance bowed and said: "General Wang, the younger generations have been waiting here for a long time!" ”