More than 500 fishing boats were dispatched from Black Dragon City, led by the lord of Xiao City, the counselor of the Black Eagle Army, 2,000 light cavalry, 1,000 heavy cavalry, and hundreds of auxiliary soldiers There are sixty or seventy miles between the two sides. In Black Dragon City, the boat entered the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River, and the downstream water flow was slow, and the boat sailed up the river for dozens of miles before choosing a suitable location to land.

Not to mention how the Black Dragon City side acted, just talking about Chao Gai's way, a total of more than 4,000 people were dispatched, and Chao Wei and Yan Kuohai acted as guides and generals. The army went ashore and marched up along the Heilongjiang River Valley, which was very barren, and the grass on the grassland was more than one person deep, and the primeval jungle was everywhere. Sika deer, roe deer, wild boars, and pheasants can be seen running everywhere, and even fierce beasts like tigers and leopards are not uncommon here.

After landing on the shore, Chao Gai said: "The army is moving slowly, and someone needs to be the vanguard to explore the way, who is willing to go?" ”

Guo Sheng said: "I am willing to lead the troops. ”

Chao Gai said: "This is not better than elsewhere, the forward sentry should not be too small troops, you bring five hundred troops, guided by Chao Wei, mainly for the army sentry to explore the road, if you encounter the enemy rangers, kill them on the spot, it is not appropriate to keep your hands." ”

Guo Sheng said: "Chao Tuanlian rest assured, kindness to the enemy is cruelty to oneself, I understand." ”

"Okay, there you go."

Immediately, Guo Sheng selected five hundred light cavalry from his own team and took all kinds of weapons and tools to move forward under the guidance of Chao Wei, the forward is not easy, especially in this wild place, the population in this area is rare, but there are many wild beasts, and the grass is waist-deep, it is very difficult to walk, the soldiers take turns with machetes to open the road and walk forward for more than ten miles, suddenly bright, the green grass is only knee-deep, very suitable for war horses to gallop, soldiers walk while leaving road signs for the rear army.

There is a swamp in front, and the grassland is densely covered with large and small puddles, and the fish in the puddles weigh more than a dozen catties, Chao Wei said: "Vice General Guo, the puddles in the swamp are of different depths, some are very shallow and not dangerous, and some are very deep in the silt, and people and horses will be in danger of life when they fall inside, please restrain the soldiers not to enter the puddles." ”

Guo Sheng was a person who knew what was going on, so he immediately restrained the soldiers not to fish in the puddle, pay attention to safety, and at the same time mark the rear army.

Guo Sheng said: "Chao Wei, how do you survive in such a wild place. ”

"There are a lot of resources here, mainly because there are too few people during the investigation, otherwise there will be no danger. There are many kinds of food for deer, roe deer, rabbits, and fish, and the trouble is poisonous insects and wild beasts, and there are some barbarian tribes, some tribes live in isolation, and they have never seen outsiders at all, and they eat them as food when they see outsiders. Chao Wei said.

The march that day was only sixty miles, Guo Sheng's front and the army behind were separated by ten miles, and the ranger sentries reported information back and forth to communicate the military situation, and the road was still very safe, except for the beasts, and they didn't even see a human hair.

The next day, Guo Sheng's forward army was marching, and Chao Wei suddenly said: "Let the army hide in the artemisia grass, there are frightened birds ahead." ”

This Guo Sheng also knew that there were frightened birds indicating that a large group of people or beasts were coming, the grass in this place was too deep, it was still easy to hide a few hundred people, just find a bush to hide from the forest.

After a while, a huge tiger roared and ran over, but fortunately the distance was relatively far, and Rao was so frightened that the war horse was also frightened. Behind the tiger were dozens of cavalrymen, all on horseback, dressed in animal skins, with curved bows in their hands, and it was obvious that these dozens of cavalrymen were hunting the tiger.

Guo Sheng asked, "This is the Ranger of the Jin Kingdom." ”

Chao Wei said: "All the people of the Jin country are soldiers, and the strong men in the clan are soldiers. ”

Guo Sheng made a gesture, ordered everyone to bow and arrow, and flanked left and right and pounced. Dozens of cavalry saw that hundreds of cavalry suddenly attacked out of the grass, and they didn't care what kind of tigers, and they rushed forward with their weapons with a strange scream.

Chao Wei reminded: "This group of people is brave, don't die in battle, don't show mercy, since they fight, they can't let go." ”

Guo Sheng said: "Don't worry, you will see the strength of our light cavalry in a while." ”

Hundreds of cavalry were the first to release arrows, they took crossbow arrows, pulled the trigger, and the powerful crossbow arrows flew over, puff puff, at least half of the Jin country rangers fell off their horses, and even those war horses attached to the horseback were shot to death, the power of the god arm crossbow was too strong, shooting this kind of unarmored cavalry was like shooting tofu. Immediately after, bows and arrows rained down, and dozens of rangers were completely annihilated.

Chao Wei said: "Our cavalry is really good, I think there were also arrows just now, did anyone die?" ”

Guo Sheng said: "Look at the armor we wear, although it is light armor, but the front chest and back are made of steel plates, and the protection is very strong, and the cavalry bows and arrows of the Jin Kingdom are nothing more than white spots." I have to say that Jin Guoren has good archery skills, and he shot five soldiers in the chest just now, and he was not injured with armor protection. Another cavalryman was shot in the shoulder, and the medic was bandaging. ”

Along the way, Guo Sheng's 500 vanguard army fought three times, large and small, annihilating more than 200 Jin cavalry in total, and more than 10 casualties themselves. On the evening of the third day, we arrived at the outskirts of the pastoral area of Ulala, which was only a few dozen miles away.

Seeing that it was not early, Guo Sheng said: "I can't go any further, set up camp and wait for the army." ”

The army was still fifteen miles away, and Chao Gai also arranged for Liu Tang to be stationed in the camp. Gongsun Sheng said: "The soldiers are very fast, we are trying to fight with the military horses, not with the Jin people, we will go over to their nest tonight, and return with the war horses early tomorrow morning." ”

Chao Gai said: "Makes sense. Immediately ordered Yuan Lang to lead the army and Chao Gai to loot the horse farm, Gongsun Sheng, Liu Tang, and Lu Fang led the army to prepare to respond, and return immediately tomorrow morning regardless of whether it succeeded or not.

Chao Gai, Yuan Lang, Jiao Ting, Luo Yun, and a group of 1,100 people rushed to meet Guo Shengbu, and when they arrived at Guo Shengbu, Guo Sheng and the others were having dinner. Fearing that the enemy would find out, the army ate cold jerky and drank mountain spring water.

Chao Gai asked Chao Wei, "How far is it from the racecourse?" ”

Chao Wei said: "This is the edge of the horse farm, they will be here every day to herd the horses, and tomorrow morning maybe the horses will appear on the grass in front of them." ”

Chao Gai shook his head: "There are five hundred light cavalry guards in the horse farm, although there are not many of them, but these nomadic tribes have grown up on horseback since they were children, and they have excellent riding skills and excellent arrows, so it is inevitable that they will be killed or injured in a fight. ”

Chao Wei said: "Their horses are nomadic, and they don't have a decent stable at night, but they are only surrounded by a wooden fence, and there are still thirty miles from here. ”

"Okay, everyone is well fed, and they move in the middle of the night." Chao Gai said.

In the early part of July, the light of the crescent moon was a little hazy at night, and everyone was full of food and drink, and they also fed the war horses with concentrate. Then they began to sleep, and slept until midnight, and the army set out lightly, leaving their tents and baggage in their place, and then retreating again the next day.

This grassland is indeed a good place to herd horses, the grass is not too deep, and there are relatively few wolves. After the army had been walking for an hour, Chao Wei pointed to the fire in the distance and said, "That's it, it's about six or seven miles away, and the brigade will be found if they go again." ”

Jiao Ting said: "Brother, I haven't been active for a long time, let me go over and kill the sentries first and create chaos, and then you will charge on behalf of the war horse and snatch the war horse." ”

"Okay, Jiao Ting, you take eighty people to lurk over on foot, and after you succeed, shake the torch as a signal, and I will lead the troops to attack." Chao Gai said.

"Yes."

Jiao Ting dismounted, took eighty soldiers, and walked over. The guards of the horse farm can no longer be described as lax, although there are five hundred soldiers to defend, but this is the rear, and the soldiers are used to it comfortably after a long time. There were dozens of tents scattered around, there was not even a fence outside, there were four fires, and there were lamb legs on the fires that were barbecued, but the soldiers next to the fires were already asleep, and the harazi was old. With a wave of Jiao Ting's hand, more than a dozen soldiers lurked over, holding a military thorn in their hands, covering their mouths with one hand, and stabbing them with the other, killing them all in an instant. Jiao Ting picked up the torch and signaled to the rear team, and the rear team also shook the torch when they saw the signal.

Jiao Ting was not idle, everyone carried a wine bag with cowhide, but it was not wine, but refined fierce fire oil, opened the wine bag, threw it directly on the tent, and then threw the torch net, the fire was very big, and the people inside quickly found out, and ran out in a hurry.

There were four or five soldiers standing outside each tent, with long knives ready to go, and it was as easy as chopping melons and vegetables when they ran out.

Soon, the Jin soldiers inside found that something was wrong, and they didn't go out of the door, but directly broke the tent, and drilled out from the inside out, and it was not easy to get out from other places.

At this time, the galloping sound of horses' hooves sounded on the ground, Chao Gai, Yuan Lang, Guo Sheng, and Luo Yun led more than 1,500 cavalry to charge up, and there was no need to hide it at this time. The people killed by the Jin soldiers who rushed out of the tent in a panic turned over on their backs, and the idea of being proud and the burning of the fierce fire oil made the Jin soldiers confused, Rao is so, a few Jin soldiers who were not burned took their knives and guns, and killed the cavalry trained by the Jeju regiment in one place, but after all, there are too few people, just like a few sand against a sea, where it takes a moment to end the battle.

Most of Yuan Lang's troops were recruited from among the herdsmen, and they were very familiar with driving horses. They were in charge of driving the horses. Tens of thousands of medium-sized horses roam the enclosure and look particularly attractive. In the evening, the horses were easily frightened and should not be driven out, and it was decided that they would go again at dawn the next day.

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