The terrain in the northern part of Guanzhong is on the high side, and the entire surface is occupied by some large and small mountain ranges, and the so-called Loess Plateau is not an empty word. In the middle of these mountain ranges, rivers flow vertically and horizontally, and the main veins and branches of these rivers cut the mountainous areas, forming a series of flat terrain and convenient irrigation valleys, these river valleys stretch for hundreds or even thousands of miles, reaching the Hetao grassland, and the small ones are also dozens of miles, forming a cluster of villages and towns surrounded by mountains. In those longer river valleys, wider roads were built, and these roads connected states to states, forming a network of transportation arteries in northern Shaanxi.

The main traffic arteries extending from the city are Yanxia Road extending along the Yanhe River valley to the northwest Xiazhou direction, the Qinzhi Road (Yansui Road) along the lower reaches of the Yanhe River turns through Fenglin Mountain along the tributary river valley all the way to the north, the Qinjin Road along the lower reaches of the Yanhe River valley that merges into the Yellow River valley, the Gyeonggi Road that enters the territory of Yanzhou to the south, and there is a valley road to the northwest, but it is the salt road that goes directly to Yanzhou.

These roads are built along river valleys, so they are not straight, but wind along the flow of the mountains. Among them, the two avenues of Yanxia and Qinzhi directly connect Yanzhou and the Dingyan military area, the intersection of Yanxia Road and Suiqing Road is a river valley formed by the two mountains in the south and narrow in the north, these two mountains form an extremely narrow gourd mouth at the south end, and the town guard officials of Yanzhou in the Tang Dynasty built a pass here. Because these two mountains separate Xiazhou, Suizhou, and Yanzhou, this pass is actually the northern border of Yanzhou.

The situation of these two mountains is very similar to two gates piled with loess, covering the wind and sand blowing from the desert plateau in the north, so these two mountains are called "Tumen Mountain", and the pass in the middle is called Luzi Pass.

Luzi Pass and Weiping Pass are the two major gateways in the north of Yanzhou, and there are frequent wars during the five dynasties, and these two Xiongguan have been destroyed after many wars and have lost their original appearance. Since Gao Yunquan took charge of the military administration of Yanzhou, the soldiers were tired and weak, and the troops of three teams to one battalion were basically retained in the two passes during the original careful time, but this rule has been abolished in recent years, so it is becoming easier and easier for the party to go south, and it is becoming more and more unscrupulous.

But that was usual, in the middle of winter when the road was closed by heavy snow, both the party soldiers and the Gao family soldiers obediently hid back in the house to keep warm, and they would freeze their noses and ears when they ran out in this kind of weather.

It stands to reason that there should not be any people on this road north of Tumen Mountain today. However, in the winter of December of the first year of Guangshun, it changed slightly because of the appearance of a traverser.

After a long journey of nearly 14 hours, the team led by Li Wenge finally reached the outside of Luzi Pass and walked to the northern border of Yanzhou.

As soon as Luzi Pass came out, although theoretically there were more than ten miles of ground under the jurisdiction of Yanzhou, but in this war era, living in this area was undoubtedly looking for death, so this place had already become a barren mountain and wilderness, strategically, the party people have always regarded this triangle at the junction of the three states as a buffer zone between the Dingyan Army and the Zhangwu Army.

So it's an incredible thing to see a dead horse here.

In an age when horses were worth more than people, it was common for them to die of starvation (one brother was lucky enough to be one of them), but horses that froze to death were extremely rare.

When Li Wenge saw the horse, part of the horse's body had been buried in thick snow.

After several soldiers dug out the horse's body, Li Wenge's expression immediately became solemn.

Without the slightest hesitation, he gave the order for all to rest on the spot, and then instructed Li Hu'er, who was blue from the cold: "Gather all the officers to come over for a meeting-"

More than a dozen officers gathered around the horse's corpse, stamping their feet and looking at each other.

Li Wenge said while warming his hands: "Everyone has seen that this horse is fat, obviously not starved to death, there are no wounds on the body, and it is not injured and died, so there are only three possibilities: death from illness, running or freezing to death......

He paused, and said angrily: "Let's talk about it, what do you think!" ”

"Report—" Liang Xuan shouted again.

Li Wenge waved his hand: "The officer meeting, not training, no need to shout a report!" ”

Liang Xuan blurted out: "This horse is definitely running to death, you see that there is white foam at the corner of the mouth......"

"That's not white foam, the corners of your mouth are frozen, and the white flowers are snow, right?" Lu Xun retorted on the side.

Wei Xun stared at the horse in a daze, and didn't say a word.

Ling Pu thought for a moment and said, "Whether it is frozen to death or exhausted, this is very likely to be a party horse." We have few horses in Yanzhou, and this kind of weather will not be released. Only party members could run out in this weather, maybe they ran here and ran out of horsepower, or maybe they were too cold and the horses didn't eat for a long time, so they collapsed here. ”

Li Wenge nodded, and glanced at the tall man with encouraging eyes: "Very good, is there anything else?" ”

Ling Pu shook his head: "I thought of this for a moment!" ”

Li Wenge looked at the people around him and asked, "What are your opinions?" ”

"Don't guess, this is indeed a party horse."

It was Shen Chen, who had been looking around, who had been looking around, and he said in a firm tone: "The accessories such as the halter chew and the saddle on the horse are all things of the party members, and the bird-like decoration on the stirrup is called 'harrier', which is a very fierce bird with extremely sharp eyes, it is said that there have been cavalry in all dynasties to use this bird as an eye, but it is just a legend, and I have never seen this kind of bird......

He paused and said, "There is such a stirrup in the lowly family, which is the spoils of war captured by the lowly father. ”

Li Wenge looked at him and said with a smile: "There is indeed such a bird, it is said that Emperor Taizong Wen of the Tang Dynasty once raised such a bird......

"Really?" Liang Xuan asked curiously.

"Really!" Li Wenge nodded, and swallowed the next half of the sentence without saying it.

It's just that the bird was calculated to death by an extremely boring old man surnamed Wei......

"What are you doing with this stuff in stirrups? What is it used for? Liang Xuan asked, scratching his head.

Shen Chen's mouth moved, but he didn't speak, and set his eyes on Li Wenge.

Li Wenge looked at him and smiled slightly: "The most brave and fierce cavalry scout in the party army is called 'Harrier'. ”

When everyone heard this, there was a hint of nervousness on their faces.

Scouts are generally the most elite and brave warriors in the army, equipped with the best weapons and equipment, which is common knowledge in the army.

The Dangxiang are nomads, and only the bravest heroes of the tribe are qualified to be scouts of the great army.

"Harrier", a fierce and powerful flying scout, makes people's hearts furious just thinking about it.

Li Wenge was looking at the equipment on the horse and sighed, the party members did not have enough resources and strength to wrap these scouts' war horses with armor, and when they had the conditions to do so decades later, the weak and low combat effectiveness of the Song Dynasty border army would encounter the most formidable enemy, the Iron Harrier.

"Jun Ting, you are familiar with the scout situation of the party members, tell everyone!" Li Wenge said lightly.

"The party cavalry scouts were generally armed with three horses each, dressed in simple armor made of leather, and their main weapons were a lacquered spear, a long-bladed thick-backed knife used on horses, a bow, and thirty-six arrows." Shen Chen said.

"Thirty-six arrows?" Yang Li suddenly gasped, "There are only thirty-nine of us in total, if the opponent's arrow is accurate, there are only three people left to fight with the other party in the end......"

"Party cavalry scouts have always acted in pairs, and they are generally not left alone." Shen Chen said coldly with an expressionless face.

Everyone was even more speechless, the party was originally a good horse archer, and its scouts were selected from countless good hands, and it was undoubtedly a naïve fantasy to expect the party cavalry's archery skills to be bad.

Lu Xun looked around, and said with a dumb smile: "But today is different, such a big wind and snow, five or six steps away, there will be no human figure, if the harriers of the party can see people through such a big wind and snow, they will see the hell......"

Li Wenge nodded approvingly and asked, "If you have any other opinions, you might as well say them one by one!" ”

"Now it's time to spread the guard post, we are already outside Luzi Pass, and the snow has not completely buried this horse, which means that this horse has not been dead for a long time, maybe not even a day, so it is likely that the party members are still nearby...... "Shen Chen said hurriedly.

Li Wenge nodded: "You go and arrange it!" ”

Seeing Shen Chen bowing down and taking the order and turning away, Li Wenge asked the officers again: "Think about it, if you are the boss of this party cavalry, what kind of military affairs will you come to perform if you send them out to Luziguan to perform military affairs?" ”

"Of course, it's to reconnoiter the actions ......of our Zhangwu Army," Yang Li blurted out.

"Luzi Pass has been unguarded for nearly five years, and there is not even a single soldier hair on ordinary days, but it snows so heavily that it comes to reconnoiter the enemy? Are the party members full of food? Li Dezhu on the side retorted.

"And what do you say they're doing?" Yang Li couldn't help but ask rhetorically.

Li Dezhu didn't speak, but Liang Xuan, who was relatively simple-minded, said: "There are two possibilities......"

"Oh?" Li Wenge was a little surprised, "Let's hear it-"

Liang Xuan said: "One possibility is that the party members are preparing to attack Yanzhou on a large scale, so they sent scouts to control Yanxia Dao and find out the situation at Luzi Pass by the way......"

"Are you crazy? This kind of weather is attacking Yanzhou in a big way? Are all party members immortals? Ling Pu shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Liang Xuan's face suddenly turned red with anger: "This possibility is very small, but since we can come here so far in such weather, why can't those party members come?" They have horses, and the outside of Luguan is all their territory, and our scouts don't even dare to go out of the state city on weekdays, so how dare they go far away to Luzi Pass, which is a hundred miles away. They have enough livestock to carry food, grass and supplies, but after this march, I am afraid that most of their cattle will not return alive......"

Li Wenge nodded approvingly: "Once Liang Dameng learns to use his brain, his mind is almost not inferior to Shen Chen, it's gratifying!" Well said, go ahead! ”

Liang Xuan nodded, with a happy look on his face, he pursed his lips and said: "Another possibility is that the party members are indeed here to investigate the truth of Luziguan, but it is not necessarily to investigate the reality of our Zhangwu Army. Perhaps there was something and reason that made the party members feel that they were in danger of being attacked, so it was necessary to send elite cavalry to Luzi Pass in the wind and snow to check it. ”

"Pap-papa-pa-" Li Wenge took the lead in slapping, "I really didn't expect that the laziest officer in the team, once he used his brain, would be so cautious and rigorous, and it would not be in vain for more than two months of hard study and hard training......"

He lowered his head and thought about it: "The second possibility that Liang Xuan said exists, there is a military situation you don't know, at the beginning of this month, the Zhejia army in Fuzhou has been stationed in Sanshui, and the party people are likely to think that the Zhejia army will come to Yanzhou, I estimate that the Suizhou guard general Shizhi ** is worried about this matter, so he sent scouts to keep an eye on Luzi Pass." Because they believed that once the Zhejia army took over the defense of Yanzhou, the first thing they would do was to send troops to Luzi Pass and Weiping Pass, and hold these two extremely important passes militarily in their hands. Suizhou sent scouts to know for sure whether the Zhejia army was coming or not, and they hoped to know about it as soon as possible, so that they could quickly come up with countermeasures. ”

"The Zhejia army is coming to Yanzhou?" Wei Xun, who had never spoken, asked in surprise?

"Zhejiajun won't come back for a while, it's just that the party members guessed that he might come—" Li Wenge replied as he looked at Wei Xun.

"If the purpose of the party members sending the harrier is really for this, then—" Li Wenge's face showed a serious and solemn look.

"Then they won't go far for a while...... Shen Chen's voice came, and it seemed that he had already arranged a guard post.

"That's right, they should still be somewhere nearby!" Li Wenge showed a slight smile, this long-distance field raid drill that had been planned for a long time seemed destined to receive unexpected gains.

"So we are currently faced with two choices-" Li Wenge said, "one is to turn around and go back, quickly retreat to Luzi Pass, preferably return to Yanzhou overnight, and the other is to search for the party cavalry scouts, pull out these two harriers, and then eliminate them!" ”

He paused and said, "If we return to Yanzhou, we don't need to discuss it." Now I want you to think about how we can find these two harriers if we are going to get rid of them. ”

One by one, the officers wrinkled their brows and pondered, and no one spoke for a long time.

After a while, Ling Pu shook his head and said, "The heavy snow is good for us, but it is also good for the enemy, and the wind and snow will also block our view, if the enemy comes to visit us, we can detect the enemy in advance by the sound of the horse's hooves." But if the enemy is hiding somewhere, as long as their horses don't make a sound, it's hard to spot them in this kind of weather. ”

Li Wenge thought for a while and said, "Then let's think about another question, where might the enemy hide in this kind of weather." ”

Lu Xun said: "The wind and snow are too big, the vision is blocked, the surrounding scenery is very blurred, if you walk around at will, it is easy to get lost." Therefore, the enemy should not dare to leave the avenue too far. But the avenue was not a hiding place after all, so he thought that the enemy might find a place to rest on both sides of the avenue, and from the direction in which the horse was lying down, the enemy's hiding place should be somewhere ahead. However, there are too few of us, and if we start a search, it is easy to lose contact with each other, and we are not familiar with the road, so if a soldier gets lost, it can basically be equivalent to losing his life in the wind and snow......"

Li Wenge frowned, Lu Xun said very practically, he brought these soldiers out in order to hone the will and endurance of these people, and he couldn't really put them to death.

"Accompany Rong, I have an idea for my humble position, I don't know if it's feasible-"

Shen Chen stared at Li Wenge quietly and said slowly.

"Speak—" Li Wenge ordered simply and simply.

"Since the purpose of the enemy scouts is to monitor Luzi Pass, that is to say, as long as there is no enemy situation in Luzi Pass today, then tomorrow the enemy scouts will still have to go close to the pass to investigate. I guess the snow hasn't fallen before the enemy scouts set off, so the cycle of a group of enemy scouts should be around five to seven days, which means that it may not be until three days later at the earliest that there will be new scout harriers to take over the enemy army. It doesn't matter if we can't find the enemy, as long as we grasp the joint of Luzi Pass, we will definitely be able to meet them. It is inconvenient to move at night, so the enemy's investigation must be carried out during the day, and it is conjectured that tomorrow or the next day in the morning or noon we will be able to wait outside the Luzi Pass to wait for the enemy scouts who are approaching the pass to observe......"

"Great idea!" Liang Xuan immediately clapped his hands, "It's still the brains of this great talent—"

"Yes, it's better to wait for the enemy to crash into him than to attack blindly...... Ling Pu echoed.

"Although Luzi Pass is broken, it is also a place where you can spend the night, at least you can restore your strength......

"Rather than us go to the enemy, we should wait for the enemy to come to us......"

Li Wenge silently looked at these Yanzhou officers who had been training with him for more than two months, and sighed with emotion in his heart, although it was difficult, but he, a future person, could still change some things in this era, for example, these people in front of him, he had at least initially transformed them from ruffians and gangsters to officers with a certain military temperament.

He pondered for a long time, and finally said, "Then we will do it!" Shen Chen, you find a few people to make an ambush plan together, try to think it out as thoroughly as possible, and don't make any mistakes. Liang Xuan, you also bring a few people to cut some horse meat from under the belly of this horse, tonight we have to rely on this to replenish our strength, pay attention to cutting the meat underneath, and after cutting, bury the horse again with snow. Lu Xun, you take your people to take charge of the broken queen, and you have to clean up our footprints all the way-"

He glanced at the officers and said in a deep voice: "The whole team, let's turn around, the target is Luzi Pass!" ”

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