Before Yang Lian could speak, Chen Tie had always been bold, and said: "Privy envoy, Chen Decheng is in front of stealing horses, and Lei Zhen is provoking behind, although he was injured, he is to blame, why do you want to apologize?" ”

"Who are you?" Li Zhenggu narrowed his eyes and looked at Chen Tie, this kid is also a stunned young man, why doesn't he understand my kindness?

Yang Lian hurriedly said: "Privy envoy, this person is a subordinate of the last general, surnamed Chen Mingtie, upright by nature, always lacking a tendon when speaking, and I hope that the privy envoy Haihan." Today's events are all impulsive and have nothing to do with others. ”

Li Zhenggu touched his beard, nodded again and again, and said, "Okay, dare to be bold, be above board, and not lose a man." ”

From the clues of Li Zhenggu's speech, some clues can already be seen, but many people can't understand that the privy envoy seems to have the meaning of protecting Yang Lian, why is this? Although Chen Decheng and Lei Zhen are also wrong, Yang Lian's behavior is too much. The impact of openly fighting at the station is too great.

Zhu Kuangye was quite able to calm down, and he didn't speak, and he also knew that if he spoke at this time, the situation would be unfavorable to him. After all, Chen Decheng and Lei Zhen are his subordinates, and the crime of stealing horses can be big or small, depending on how the privy envoy decides.

However, Li Zhenggu obviously wants to be a good person, although the Privy Council is in charge of the military, but this is the first time he has led the troops, the main responsibility is to supervise, after the end of the Tang Dynasty, from the tooth general to the festival envoy, from the festival to the emperor or the king There are too many examples, Li Yu is on the Ninth Five-Year Honor, and Li Yu has made reforms, often leading the army or supervising the army with the Privy Council. However, Li Yu once died, most of them died down, unlike now, when the Son of Heaven frequently attacked, wanting to expand the territory, it was just luck to check it.

Yang Lian was shocked, but simply apologized, in the eyes of everyone, Yang Lian had taken a big advantage. Li Zhenggu had an attitude of settling the matter and solved the matter, Zhu Kuangye also felt ashamed, although he hated Yang Lian, he had no choice but to find another opportunity.

Gao Shensi couldn't wait to turn the big things into small things, and he also agreed with Li Zhenggu's approach.

This matter was temporarily suppressed, but there was inevitably a lot of discussion in the army, and Yang Lian's name resounded throughout the army, and everyone knew that this person was a stunned young man and could not be easily provoked. The army stayed in Changzhou for two days, and from Runzhou, another 3,000 men arrived, bringing a large amount of grain and grass baggage. Together with the defenders of Changzhou, Li Zhenggu's subordinates suddenly numbered more than 15,000 people.

Two days later, the army of the Southern Tang Dynasty was mighty, beating gongs and drums along the way, and went straight to Suzhou. On the Wu and Yue side, Qian Wenfeng, the envoy of the Sino-Wu Jiedu, has already received the news that although the two countries stationed troops on the border last year, they have been at peace with each other, and in winter, the transportation of military rations is inconvenient, and the two countries have withdrawn their troops. Now that the Southern Tang Kingdom has sent troops to come, Qian Wenfeng did not dare to slack off, and led the troops to inspect the defense of Suzhou while sending people back.

After waiting for five days, the Southern Tang army arrived at the border between the two countries from Changzhou and stopped, because the area around Suchang was almost unsafe, only the river crisscrossed it, Qian Wenfeng built a fortress on the border between the two countries, and planted trees on a large scale to achieve the purpose of defense.

After Li Zhenggu arrived in Wangting Town, he did not rush to attack the fortresses in various places, but sent troops to inspect everywhere. This gave Qian Wenfeng time. Qian Wenfeng personally commanded 10,000 soldiers, stopped west of Qin Bodu, and still stuck to the camp, sending countless scouts every day to spy on the military situation.

It stands to reason that the Southern Tang Army should take the initiative to attack, but in fact, in addition to the scouts who routinely go out every day, Li Zhenggu hid in the big camp and only inspected the training of soldiers every day, which was more calm than Qian Wenfeng. Not only did Qian Wenfeng not understand Li Zhenggu's attitude, but even the soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty felt strange.

However, Qian Wenfeng had to station the army here and block the footsteps of the Southern Tang Army, otherwise the Southern Tang Army would enter the hinterland of Suzhou, and Suzhou's economy would inevitably be greatly damaged. Especially at this time, it is already spring, it is the planting season, the land in Suzhou is fertile, if the cultivation is affected, the military rations of Wu Yue Kingdom will be greatly reduced in the coming year. The national strength was affected, which was also the reason why Qian Wenfeng gave up defending the city.

Although the two sides did not officially start a war, there were many temptations between each other, and scouts came and went every day, bringing news and casualties.

Because the Southern Tang Dynasty and Wu Yue did not produce horses, there were few war horses on both sides, and many of the so-called war horses were only more than half a person tall - this is why Chen Decheng was moved when he saw Yang Lian riding a high-headed horse.

Due to the lack of war horses, all the soldiers who had war horses, mainly Du Tou and his personal soldiers, as well as some wealthy generals Yu Hou and others, temporarily formed scouts to spy on the military situation.

Yang Lian was also recruited, and because of his tall horse, he was specially appointed to the position of temporary fire chief, in charge of more than a dozen small soldiers.

On this day, the weather was fine, Yang Lian and Lin Renzhao, Chen Tie and others went out to inspect, Qian Yuanxiao, Qian Wenfeng father and son ran Suzhou for more than 30 years, there were many fortresses along the way, and then the river, and many trees were planted, which is also the relatively flat terrain of Suzhou, only in this way can the defense capability be enhanced.

Yang Lian was on the road while drawing something on a piece of white cloth, Lin Renzhao walked over and saw that he was drawing a map, a little farther away Suzhou City, Changzhou, Changshu sandwiched between them, located in the northeast.

Yang Lian painted very carefully, and even painted according to the proportions, if there are lakes and mountains, they will be represented in different ways.

Limited by the technology of this era, Yang Lian is also on the expedition for the first time, so he can only do this step temporarily, but he is thinking in his heart, how to improve? Fighting a war should be about the right time and place, every place, if the geography is explored clearly, high and down, you can see the overall situation, water sources, wind direction, and even climate have a great impact, these things seem to be details, irrelevant to the overall situation, but in fact they are very important, details determine success or failure, this is Yang Lian's first time fighting, can learn a lot of things, naturally will be very attentive.

Lin Renzhao didn't expect Yang Lian to be like this, and he couldn't help but look at Yang Lian with admiration, he, a person who had fought a war, didn't expect this, which made him a little ashamed.

A group of twenty people walked slowly along Qin Bodu, stopping from time to time to investigate. Yang Lian stopped beside Qin Bodu.

Qin Bodu existed as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and later became part of the Grand Canal, which experienced wars at the end of the Tang Dynasty and was damaged in many places. Moreover, due to military and political considerations, the Wu Yue people blocked a section of Qin Bodu located in the territory of Wu Yue Kingdom, making the Southern Tang Dynasty's attempt to use Qin Bodu to transport military rations in vain.

Qin Bodu should have not dredged for a long time, the river is full of silt, when the weather is fine, you can see the depth of this section of the water, only two or three feet, it is impossible to sail at all, to achieve the purpose of using Qin Bodu to transport troops, or military rations.

After walking for about half a mile, I saw a stone bridge, which was covered with traces of knives and axes, you can imagine what kind of great war took place here, I am afraid that at that time, there were dead bodies everywhere, and the water of the Qin Bodu River was also dyed red.

Yang Lian waved his hand and said, "Let's go, let's go over and have a look." ”

Lin Renzhao, as the fire leader of the other fire, naturally nodded in agreement, and more than 20 people cautiously crossed the stone bridge and arrived on the other side of Wu Yueguo's territory.

Wu Yueguo's Suzhou covers an extremely wide area, including Suzhou, Kunshan, Changshu and other places in later generations, as well as a part of Wuxi.

When Yang Lian crossed the stone bridge and walked seven or eight miles, he found a stone tablet standing not far away, with the word Changshu written on it.

Everyone actually walked a short distance, at least more than 50 miles, and they had already gone deep behind enemy lines.

Looking at the sun's westward inclination, Yang Lian waved his hand and said, "Go, go back." ”

The group turned the horse's head and went back from the other side, walking three miles, and saw a mountain in the distance. It is said to be a mountain, but it is not very high, and it is only seventy or eighty zhang high, so it can only be a hill. However, Suzhou does not have too high mountains, such places are all high.

One soldier said, "This place seems to be called Yushan." ”

Yang Lian nodded, Yu Shan, it seems to be a little impressed, but I don't remember it clearly, it seems that I heard of it when I traveled in my previous life. I didn't think it would happen at this time.

Yang Lian narrowed his eyes and took a closer look, although this place was not high, it was enough to look down on the surroundings, and a sentinel could be established here.

Just thinking about it, suddenly, a group of people suddenly appeared in front of him, about twenty or thirty people. Looking closely at the armor on their bodies, it should be Wu Yueren.

The group of Wu Yue people were also taken aback when they saw Yang Lian and the others. Before they could react, Yang Lian had already pulled out his long knife and shouted, "Brothers, kill with me!" ”

As he spoke, he gently clamped the horse's belly with his legs and brandished his long knife to kill it.

"Kill!" Chen Tie also shouted, dancing with a long horse lance in his hand, and killed it, and the rest of Lin Renzhao and others also rushed up.

On the territory of Wu Yueren, that group of people obviously didn't expect such a group of guys wearing the armor of Southern Tang soldiers to appear, and they were suddenly a little panicked. But after all, there were many of them, and under the auspices of a person dressed as a scribe, the group of people quickly formed a sharp arrow formation, intending to fight against the Southern Tang soldiers.

The sound of the hooves of the war horses instantly resounded at the foot of Yu Mountain, and the soldiers stepped forward to fight without fear of death. Yang Lian narrowed his eyes, and as the distance got closer and closer, Yang Lian had already seen the group of people raise their bows and arrows in their hands, preparing for a rain of arrows.

Yang Lian sneered and put away his long knife, although he was not good at archery, but when the two armies faced each other, archery was secondary, and the front was densely packed with people, and if he shot an arrow, he was afraid that he would be able to shoot it.

Lin Renzhao also took out his bow and arrows, and immediately, when the distance entered the firing range, the soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the soldiers of Wu Yueguo shot a rain of arrows almost at the same time.

"Dangdangdang." After shooting the rain of arrows, Yang Lian did not stop at all, took out the long knife, and cut down all the arrows that came from the horse, and hurriedly looked back, there were several robes screaming, they were hit by the rain of arrows, some people had fallen off the horse, some people were shot in the shoulder, or thigh. This fight, after an unexpected encounter, unfolded fiercely.