Chapter 69: Intentions
At least on the other side of the Poyi River, the Tang army did not have as many as 10,000 as Liu Ji said, but it was enough to fill a large river valley.
Three days after Tian Zhen's front arrived, Yang He's Khotanese army also arrived, and among his men, there were nearly 1,000 light horsemen, so they took on the role of patrol cavalry, patrolling the mountains and forests on the flanks and the surrounding areas.
In fact, everyone knows that the destruction of the Fujiqiao by the Tubo people is equivalent to cutting off their own news channels, but the military camp has the rules of the military camp, and once the war starts, vigilance is the top priority, and the closer to the battlefield, the more it cannot be ignored.
Yang Yu and his team arrived at Xu Guangjing's station first, but what they saw was a different scene.
The camp tents had been erected a few days earlier, and there were many sentry towers and fences and wooden barriers, but the soldiers had neither practiced in the camp nor set up their troops, but they all ran into the mountains and forests, cut down the towering trees, and dragged them into the camp.
"You Xu Shu, deputy of the army."
Yang Yu looked at the barren hillsides where only a stump was exposed, and called out to a sergeant, who was busy carrying wood, and did not lift his head without stopping, but just stretched out his hand.
Following the direction he pointed, Yang Yu saw Xu Guangjing at a glance, this guy was stripped off to only a hakama, and he carried a two-zhang long log alone, and walked striding without blushing or panting.
"Phew."
Yang Yu jumped off the horse, threw the reins casually, and followed his own subordinates, he followed Xu Guangjing, and walked all the way into their camp, but there was not even a patrol camp.
Except for those who cut down the trees and transported them, everyone else was here, and a few old men, who were obviously craftsmen in the back camp, were instructing the sergeants to do the preliminary processing of the logs that had been transported, cutting off the excess branches with knives and axes, and then piling them aside.
At the other end, several carpenters further processed the treated logs, and with the help of the sergeants, dragged the logs to the carpentry table, and sawed them all into long planks with a two-hand saw, and only by looking at the planks piled up next to them showed that the work had been done for many days.
What's going on? If you can't use it to siege the city, it's just to build a bridge.
Xu Guangjing put down the body of the tree that he had just chopped down, and asked his subordinates to take it over for processing, and as soon as he turned around, he saw Yang Yu following behind.
"Pre-Lang-kun, this is just arriving?"
"But no, it's all mountains, forests and valleys, and there is not even a smoother road, called cavalry, and it walks slower than foot soldiers, less than a hundred miles of road, but more than half of the time, we wait for it, eat it finely, where can we get up quickly."
Yang pre-posted a complaint, half-truths and half-truths, mainly to find a topic, for Liu Ji's old oil soldiers, he can't put up any internal shelves, and people won't eat this set, it's better to go straight and win some favor.
"Look at what Lang Jun said, this former enemy patrol and cover up the work of blockage, we foot soldiers can't do it, how much can you save here."
"They all say that you are a big horse stick, and you don't even want to eat the losses in your mouth."
Yang Pre smiled and scolded, Xu Guangjing smiled, if he didn't take this stubble, he was not stupid, he knew that the other party was definitely not idle and had nothing to do, besides, even if Yang Pre was very idle, he didn't have any idle work.
"Is there any news from Gorou?"
Yang Yu's words made him stunned and shook his head blankly.
"Hugh wants to hide it, if it's not Gorou, what are you doing?"
It turned out to be saying this, Xu Guangjing didn't hide it from him, the situation in front of him left and right, take a look at it, you can understand, Yang Yu will definitely go to Fujiqiao, and he can't hide it.
"You said this, the Tubo people pulled off the bridge, but they didn't cut the bridge, if we want to cross the river, we can't expect them to take it again, no, we can only find a way by ourselves, Lao Xu is stupid, so he only thought of this one."
Saying this, Yang Yu doesn't understand, Liu Ji has no news, so many days, I don't know whether he is dead or alive, I am afraid that it is also more auspicious, and there is no strange soldier, I am afraid that it will be hard.
Xu Guangjing is not stupid at all.
But if it was really going to be hard, Yang Yu himself walked across the bridge, don't look at the two people and rushed over, it was that the Tubo people were not prepared, and the defenders who were mainly locals didn't want to fight hard at all, and they wanted to catch them alive, but they didn't expect that they would be afraid of dying.
It's different now, people are waiting for it, even if they can rush over once, that bit of manpower is not enough for people to fill in the gaps.
Looking at the hot scene in the camp, Yang pre-extinguished his mind to ask again, and when he turned around to leave, he stopped again, just at this time Xu Guangjing also looked over, and the two thought together.
"No, Goro, his life is big, he could have escaped in such a situation that day, and he killed all the Tubo people, how could he take his life from the snow-capped mountains and ice fields."
These words were not only said to the other party, but also to himself, Xu Guangjing nodded even harder, as if it was not like this, it was not enough to show the belief in his heart.
Across the Poyi River, a small mountain village less than a hundred miles away, Liu Ji looked at the ice field not far away, and he didn't even notice that he was approached.
"Everyone's gone?"
"Let it go, with our people watching, they can't make any splash."
Now getting along with him, Zhang Wuyuan has become more and more natural, except for the matter that both parties are unwilling to mention, the cooperation between the two has gradually become tacit, with his help, Liu Ji is also happy to be leisurely, and his main energy has shifted from trivial matters in the army to more important directions.
This is also the purpose of Zhang Wuprice's coming to find him.
"Lord, what are your plans for the next step?"
No wonder Zhang Wuwei was puzzled, Liu Ji didn't dare to say at this time, with thirty people, he could easily take the vine bridge and take the army across the river.
Rest here for a few days, one is to recuperate from the wounded, so that those wounded can have a comfortable environment, and the other is to wait, Kang Laosi will go to He Bolao City, what kind of news will be found, no one knows.
Any decision can only be based on accurate information, so he has no clear answer to Zhang's priceless questions and the questions of his subordinates.
"Our lives have survived nine deaths, and we will never give it up easily, even if you are willing, I will not give it up."
Liu Ji's eyes burned, which reminded him of those past experiences, this kid always seems to give people confidence.
"The top priority at the moment is to think about it, to contact our people on the other side, whether that Bolu person can be trusted, and I have to take a look again, I can't see it, maybe it is the end of the death team, I have to be careful."
Zhang Wuwei understood that no matter what kind of thoughts he had in mind for this trip, if he could take the lives of his subordinates to heart, such a chief official would be worthy of his life.