Near noon, Guo Kui couldn't help but have mixed feelings when he watched Li Buqi lead more than 6,000 troops out of the city from the tower of the West Gate. Especially the scene of the march that accompanied Li Buqi to see him to join the army yesterday, it seems that his name is Dong Renzhang, and after leaving the city gate, he turned back to the city and stared deeply at the city, and then resolutely turned around, urging the horse to keep up with the team, which touched his heart even more.

This person naturally knew Li Buqi's plan, and he must have known the risks of this business, but he still went without hesitation. He Guo Kui has always thought highly of himself, but now that he admits that the courage to die generously, he is really not comparable to these literati whom he once looked down upon.

The Song army in Baozhou went out of the city every day, and the Liao people were accustomed to riding it. When they saw Song Jun coming out today, they immediately ran away and only watched from a distance. Anyway, their task is to monitor the movements in Baozhou, and if something happens, they will quickly run back and report it. These Song troops in Baozhou are different from the Song armies elsewhere, and it is inevitable that they will be unlucky if they get close, and after suffering several losses, the Liao rangers have now learned to be obedient.

Since the Gaoyang Pass side has already sent troops, some of the rangers went to the direction of Gaoyang Pass to harass the Song army, and the rangers on the Baozhou side are a little thin. But today, Li Buqi still did not give up, and sent a large team of cavalry to find the Liao cavalry, as if he wanted to sweep away the Liao rangers. As a result, the Liao rangers were driven away again.

When Li Buqi led his army ten miles west of Baozhou City and turned north to the walled fort thirty miles away from Baozhou, the Liao rangers sensed that the atmosphere was wrong, so they hurriedly flew horses to report to Yeluzhen, the general besieging Suicheng.

"How many Song people are there? Infantry geometry? Yeluzhen was shocked and hurriedly asked.

"There were two or three thousand cavalry of the Song people, and there were hundreds of vehicles, but I didn't see any infantry." The tanma hurriedly reported.

"Huh? What are the Song people going to do? Jeruzhen frowned. In his mind, even if the chariot of the Song people is very powerful, but what are you doing with such a small number of troops?

Two days ago, Tanma also reported to him that a Song cavalry came out of Baozhou and marched north for more than 20 miles, which seemed to be coming towards Suicheng. But the Song people have not advanced a single step since that time, and when he reached the halfway point, the Song people retreated. He caught up with the Song people, but the Song people were only a dozen miles away from the city, and the formation was tight, he was worried that he would fight the Song army with his own undominant forces, and the main force of the Song army in Baozhou would come to the aid again, and he would steal the chicken instead of eating rice. So he could only watch the Song army retreat into the city.

With the lesson of running in vain last time, he was much more cautious this time. Because even if there is only a distance of ten miles in the middle, as long as the Song army, which is full of cavalry and chariots, wants to leave, the thousands of cavalry in his hands alone will not be able to leave the Song army at all. So this time he decided to take a prudent approach, simply ordering his cavalry to assemble and wait, and then ordering the messenger to report to Jeremi.

At this time, the sky had already darkened, and the Liao rangers had to get closer to reconnoitre, and then they were ambushed several times. At this time, the Song army changed direction again, and many Liao rangers were thrown away.

Tai Lu Da originally led five nights to monitor the front of the Song army, but the Song army suddenly changed direction, and it was dark again, and they lost their target. They had no choice but to hide in the woods and wait for the Song army, which had so many men and horses and vehicles that they could easily spot the Song army even in the dark with their keen hearing. But when the left waited for the Song army to come, and the right waited for the Song army to come, he sensed that the situation was wrong.

After finding the other teams to discuss at night, Tailu answered that they spread out in a fan and slowly searched forward, only to find that the Song people had turned to the west at the fork in the road ahead. After a few nights of deliberation, he sent a man back to report to Jeruzhen, and then turned to the west to search. On the way, they found the bodies of several teams of Liao Guo who had been killed at night, and judging from the situation at the scene, it was obvious that they had been ambushed.

After a few nights, the leaders became more vigilant, and one of the leaders said: "The Song people may still have an ambush, we must not follow too closely." We're just following from afar. ”

Tai Luda was a very responsible person, so he said: "Then the Song people may leave some cavalry to block us, and the main force does not know where it has gone." ”

The leader who had just spoken glanced at him and said, "There are more than 100,000 troops in the west, and I don't know how many people are waiting for the Song people at night." If the Song people keep going west, they will run into them, so we don't have to worry about it. We just need to be careful that the Song people don't suddenly turn back. ”

But Tai Luda was still a little uneasy, he said: "I'd better go to the front to see which direction the Song people are going, don't make a mistake." ”

The other leaders were silent, apparently thinking that Tairuda was too cautious. These Song troops are less than 10,000 people, will they attack the 200,000 army led by Yelu Yixian? Isn't that a bad brain!

The most important thing is that this place is close to the border, the Song people planted dense trees in this area to stop the cavalry, there are only a few avenues that are easy to walk, the trail is not nothing, but most of the trees are densely shaded, and they can't see their fingers at night, and they don't dare to raise fire to illuminate at night, and it is very difficult to go around to the front of the Song people through the potholed path at night.

Seeing that they were silent, Tairuda knew that he could not count on them, so he did not say anything, but only went into the woods with his own men.

This path is really not easy to walk, the Song people separated all the areas that were easy for cavalry to pass through with dense woods, not only can not see far, but also can not go fast, and they are confused as they walk. Accustomed to galloping across the savannah, Tairuda was cautious along the way, and could only be guided by the stars every time he reached the sparse farmland in the forest.

But fortunately, there are not many ways for the Song people to walk, Tai Luda took his subordinates Ye Buhui, and walked in the middle of the night with his memory of the Song people walking in the direction of the extension of the road, and finally came to a big road. But at this time, he was no longer completely sure whether this road was the one taken by the Song people.

Just as he was hesitating whether to search along the road or crouch on the spot, Ye Bushu, who was walking in front, suddenly let out the call of an owl.

It's just that the enemy situation has been discovered. They hurriedly flashed into the woods beside the road, gently reassuring the horses and preventing them from making a sound. After a while, I saw the light of a few torches coming along the road, and after a few nights, I immediately prepared my bow and arrows.

When the torches approached, Tairuda saw that a dozen horsemen were hurrying away with torches. When these cavalry ran to him, he saw it thoroughly that these people, whether they were dressed or had three horses each, showed that they were Liao.

So he shouted in Khitan in the dark: "Who are you? ”

This voice obviously startled everyone on the horse, and hurriedly reined in the horse, and some even raised their bows and arrows. But a big man stopped them, and then shouted in Khitan dialect: "We are the tribe of Yelu Mago, who are you?" ”

The nobles of the Liao State all had private soldiers, many thousands, and few hundreds. This time, many Liao nobles in Nanjing Province also wanted to take advantage of Hebei with their own private troops, so it is normal for Yelu Mage's troops to appear here.

Tai Luda asked again: "Are you from Bohai?" ”

"Yes. Who are you? ”

Only then did Tai Luda say: "I don't take it at night!" With that, he cautiously stepped out of the woods.

The Bohai man saw by the light of the torch that Tailuda was an officer, and hurriedly dismounted and saluted. Teruda asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

"Your Excellency sent us out to see if there is any grass valley to fight."

Not only did Tai Luda laugh angrily at this time, but several of his subordinates laughed when they heard it from afar. Tens of thousands of troops are bordering, and the Liao people are pursuing the three-light policy, how can there be any grass valley left for the later people to fight? This Jerman is also a fool.

But Tai Luda didn't care about the joke, and immediately asked, "What are you running?" But did you meet the Song people? ”

The Bohai man said, "Yes, yes." Encountering the Song cavalry a few miles away, several of us died. We had to flee for our lives. ”

"How many people are there in the Song people? In which direction? ”

"I don't know how many Song people there are. When I met it, I was walking in this direction, but there was still a fork in the road, and the Song people didn't seem to chase after it, so I don't know if it was a fork in the road. ”

Tairuda immediately said, "Take us over and see." ”

The Bohai people were second-class citizens in Liao, so they naturally did not dare to disobey Tai Luda's orders, and hurriedly agreed. Tairuda's men did not collect for a few nights, and they also returned to the main road and got on their horses. At this moment, only the sound of the bowstring was heard, and several of Tairuda's men fell off their horses without receiving arrows in the night.

Tai Luda was startled, but before he could react, he saw the scimitar in the Bohai man's hand stabbing at him, and he hurriedly leaned over the saddle to avoid the blade, but at the same time, there was a golden wind in the back of his head, and his eyes were black, and he didn't know anything.