Chapter sixty-five
Maybe it was because God saw that Ran Fei was too pitifully suppressed, so he gave him a chance, a chance to increase the army.
Because the queen blew the pillow wind to the king of Qi, and always mentioned Tian Dan and Ran Fei's matter of saving the Qi country when the Qi country was in danger, the king of Qi gradually relaxed his surveillance on the north, so Ran Fei began to do tricks and feet on weapons, and there will always be many more weapons sent to the north.
On this day, the sun rose as usual, and the people of Jiyang yawned and got up to wash their faces and open the door.
"The northern border of Zhao was attacked by the Xiongnu and three cities had fallen, and the king of Zhao let Lian Po fall north overnight. Lian Po asked Qi for support. "The herald galloped all the way, reporting the message all the way.
As soon as he arrived at the Marshal's Mansion, Ran Fei asked the herald to go down to drink water, opened Lian Po's handwritten letter, and quickly read the content, Lu Zhonglian and the others were originally very worried when they heard the news, but they didn't want Ran Fei's face to smile.
Ran Fei hurriedly wrote a letter to report to the King of Qi, "The Xiongnu are powerful, although the Zhao State is also strong, but it has just experienced a fierce battle with the Qin State, and the large army is in the south, if the Qi State does not help, wait until the Xiongnu weaken the strength of the Zhao State, and the Qin State will be relatively stronger, and the ministers will order the troops." β
Three days later, King Qi replied, "Agreed!" The royal capital army drew 10,000 to help Zhao Guo! Ran Fei was very happy when he saw the letter, and now there is a reason to recruit soldiers.
In the name of needing a ministry to stay in Jiyang, Ran Fei recruited troops and trained soldiers, and on the other side, sent a herald to inform Lian Po of the rendezvous point in the north of Zhao State. After doing all this, Ran Fei set off with nearly 30,000 people.
Before leaving, Ran Fei wanted to say goodbye to Miss Shan, but he didn't want to find no one, Ran Fei thought about it, Miss Shan had Lu Zhonglian and others to take care of her, and it was okay, so she moved forward directly.
But he didn't want to, the night after the march, Ran Fei was busy with the day's work, and was about to sleep, but he was blindfolded, and then a familiar voice came: "Haha, you didn't expect it!" β
When Ran Fei heard the voice, he was very angry, and pulled down his blindfolded hands, "Why are you here?" Who asked you to come. β
The figure of the single girl noodles appeared in front of Ran Fei, and said mischievously, "What? Are you upset to see me? β
Ran Fei said with a serious face, "This is going to war, what can I do if you have a problemγγγγγγ β
Before Ran Fei finished speaking, Miss Shan covered his mouth, "What, are you worried about me?" β
Ran Fei's face flushed, in fact, since Ran Fei first saw Miss Shan, he liked this simple, kind and beautiful girl very much, but he was not familiar with it so he kept it in his heart.
"Ouch! I just went to see, and I didn't go to the battlefield. Miss Shan pouted.
"Swords don't have eyes." Ran Fei said, "What if the enemy army sneaks up? And we are facing the Huns, who are best at sneak attacks. β
Miss Shan was a little scared when she heard this, Ran Fei wanted to scare her and let her go back, but she didn't want Miss Shan to think for a while, and said categorically, "Hmph! I just want to follow you, anyway, now I can't go, and death will follow you. β
This answer made Ran Fei not know what to do, Ran Fei already felt that the situation was completely out of his control, and did not follow his own train of thought. He knew in his heart that Miss Shan was also affectionate to him, but he was destined to fight for the rest of his life, and he didn't want her to follow him to fight in the north and south and live an unstable life.
It's just that at this moment, the single girl has made up her mind to follow Ran Fei to the north to conquer the Huns, and it is impossible to forcibly let her go back, you can't knock her out and send her back! Ran Fei thought to herself, even if she did this, I was afraid that with her character, even if she was sent back, she would secretly follow her again in disguise. Ran Fei could only agree to her staying here.
Ran Fei sent Miss Shan away, immediately went to Zhang Dali, and reprimanded him, there is a strict inquiry system in the barracks, which can make it easy for a woman to enter, the only possibility is that someone is here as internal support, Miss Shan knows a lot of people in the army, but only Zhang Dali dares to do it behind her back.
Zhang Dali was scolded by Ran Fei, his face turned red, he was a martial artist who couldn't stand the soft grinding and hard bubbles of the single girl, and he didn't expect the danger of the northern expedition to the Huns, so he quietly brought the single girl. Knowing the danger of this northern expedition, Zhang Dali felt very sorry, but the matter had already passed, and it could only be left like this. Ran Fei also showed an expression of helplessness.
Two days later, after passing through the border of Zhao State, because Lian Po greeted him in advance, Ran Fei's troops were not hindered in any way, and the road was unblocked, but not long after crossing the border line, Ran Fei had a bad premonition, and immediately ordered the troops to stop advancing, and asked Zhang Dali to send reconnaissance cavalry to reconnoiter the movement.
The cavalry soon returned, reporting that the villages ahead had been burned to the ground.
Ran Fei said: "I didn't expect the Huns to have extended here!" Which general was in command in the northern part of the Zhao State? β
The subordinates reported "Zhao Guo's general Zhao Hao!" β
"Humph! General Zhao Guo, just in name! Can you spot the traces of the Huns? Ran Fei said.
The soldier replied, "It has not rained for the past few days, so we can judge the time of the enemy's departure by the residual temperature of the burning, and when we arrive there is still residual temperature, we have scouted the horseshoe prints, and the enemy seems to have only made a tentative attack and retreated to the north." β
Ran Fei wondered, according to the usual style of the Huns, they would definitely take advantage of the victory to pursue, but why was it just a temptation? Don't? The strength of Zhao's northern army is still there? Otherwise, why would the Xiongnu be so timid? Or maybe something happened?
Ran Fei ordered, "Since the other party has not gone far, send all the scouts in the base camp and bring three days of dry food to reconnoiter the movements of the Huns." β
"Yes!"
With Ran Fei's order, the war horses in the barracks neighed, and the nearly white horses left the barracks one after another.
After Ran Fei saw that all the scouts had left, he ordered Zhang Dali's subordinates, "You take your department as the vanguard, if you find the Huns, you don't need my order, you can attack when you find an opportunity, the other party must be taboo about something, we must take this opportunity to attack suddenly and seize the opportunity." β
"Yes," Zhang Dali replied.
Every few years, the Xiongnu would go south to loot, plunder property, grain, and people, and the goods and grain were used and eaten, and the people were plundered as slaves.
Ran Fei did not go to the burned village, and went directly north with his troops. It was only five hours before the scouts returned, and the Huns' camp was found seventy miles to the north, a small camp of only a few hundred people.
Ran Fei was afraid that this was just the other party's advance team, so he immediately led people to follow.
The Huns of several hundred people were killed by Zhang Dali's elite in less than half an hour, rescued more than 100 people of Zhao State, and captured several Hun prisoners. It's just that the problem is that Ran Fei and the others are from Qi and don't have many wars with the Xiongnu, and no one knows Xiongnu.
The reconnaissance team continued to come back to react, and the Hun troops were found not far away, Ran Fei was a little panicked when he heard the news, and scolded the scouts angrily, "Why didn't you report earlier?" We've broken into the enemy's stronghold! β
The scout looked innocent, "General, General Zhang brought someone to touch him as soon as he received the news, and then you also brought someone to follow, we didn't have time to find you, you were already here." β
"!" Ran Fei scolded, the soldier thought he was scolding him, afraid of being killed by Ran Fei in a rage, and couldn't help but tremble, but Ran Fei didn't seem to care about him, and quickly said, "The Huns reacted quickly, and they must have begun to act at this moment, intending to surround us and catch turtles in an urn, but I can't figure it out, how could the large army of the Huns run so close to the border of my Qi country?" Forget it, is there a hillside jungle nearby? β
The scout replied, "Thirty miles to the east is a large mountain forest, and there is no end in sight." β
"Humph! There is salvation, the Huns are good at riding and shooting, if we fight in the great plains of our Qi country, we will definitely lose, but as long as we enter the jungle, even if he has great ability, he can't help me. Ran Fei said, ordering, "Zhang Dali, you lead 5,000 cavalry to break through from the northeast, involve the main force of the other side, and buy time for us to transfer, it only takes half an hour, just go to the mountains and forests in the east to converge after breaking through." β
"Yes!"
As soon as Ran Fei finished ordering, he heard a trumpet,