In May of the first year of Tongguang, Li Cunqiao succeeded to the throne in Weizhou, and then destroyed Liang and entered the Central Plains. In the autumn of the same year, Li Congjing went north to Youzhou and served as the envoy of the Lulong Festival. After recovering Pingzhou and repelling the army of Yelubei and Yelu's enemy assassination to attack Bianguan, the year also came to an end.

In the spring of the second year of Tongguang, Li Congjing was in the land of Lulong and Kyushu, and carried out the matter of Tuntian, which was the prelude to the rectification of Youzhou's military and political affairs. In the autumn of the same year, Youzhou had a bumper harvest, and Lu Long's treasury was full, so Li Congjing recruited 10,000 new soldiers and built the third place of Tuntian. In the depths of winter, Li Congjing took Wang Pu as his long history, rectified the rule of officials, and opened the curtain to completely change the military and political appearance of Youzhou.

It was also in the same year, the army of the Bohai State captured half of the eastern part of Liaodong, and the Khitan fought endlessly, after the winter, Daming An returned to the country, leading the military and political power of the Bohai State.

In the second year of Tongguang, after these things, it also came to an end. Datang is about to usher in the third year of Tongguang.

There is a lot of snow in the north in winter, especially in the land of Liaodong and Bohai Kingdom, and it is common for the snow to cover three feet in winter and not melt for days.

In the west of Bo Shan City, east of Jian'an City, there is a road connecting the Bohai Kingdom and the hinterland of Liaodong, and on this day when the wind and snow are tight, a horse team is burying its head in the road. This horse team numbered quite a bit, more than 300 people at a cursory glance, all of them were cavalry, and some cavalry even had a configuration of one man and two horses. More than 300 people were in a hurry, and horses' hooves ran through the snow, leaving behind pits of different shades, which converged into one and completely interrupted the original appearance of the snow.

Most of the knights in this horse team were all in blue robes, armed with swords, and carrying bows and crossbows. They came from the Bohai Kingdom, and judging by their appearance, they were going to the hinterland of Liaodong and even beyond.

At present, there is a man in white, who is young, and looks no more than in his early twenties, but he has a graceful demeanor, and his posture is extraordinary in the wind and snow. Beside him, there was a woman wearing a purple cloak that covered most of her body, and in the cloak was a strange winter coat, at first glance, the most striking thing about this woman was her long loose hair, and a striking eye patch on her face.

More than 300 people ran for a few days, and when there was a fork in the road, their footsteps stopped.

One of the three hundred horsemen walked out, and without a map, he said: "This place is a fork, two roads in the east and west, corresponding to two roads in the south." If you choose the road to the east, you will go 600 miles south to Duli Town after passing through the city. Crossing the sea by boat in Duli Town, it enters the territory of Pingzhou, which is the first road to return to the south. Choose this road in the west, then pass through Jian'an City, go west for four or five hundred miles, to Yingzhou City, and then go south through the whole territory of Yingzhou, enter Pingzhou through Bianguan, which is the second road to the south. How to choose, please ask Mr. Mo and Tao to decide. ”

Mo Li groaned: "Through the first road, you can avoid the Khitan army in Liaodong and Yingzhou, reach Duli Town unimpeded, and cross the sea to Pingzhou by boat. It's just that at this time, the sea is windy, the line of sight is not good, it is quite difficult to walk, and it is common for ships to be destroyed and people die. If you choose the second road, you will have to pass under the noses of tens of thousands of Khitan troops in Liaodong and the Khitan defenders in Yingzhou, and the risk is not small, and the advantage is that the risk is slightly controllable. The two roads have their own advantages and disadvantages, how to choose, and how to see the peach command? ”

Tao Yaoyao retied her messy hair, still in the back of her head, and said: "The risk of the first road is uncontrollable, and the risk of the second road is controllable, how to choose, it is already clear." I intend to choose the second road, cross Liaodong, Yingzhou, and go straight back to Pingzhou. ”

Mo Li nodded and said, "That's what I mean." He smiled, "I have fought with the Khitan countless times, and the sharp soldiers of our military intelligence department have infiltrated the territory of the Khitan, as if entering a no-man's land, and now it is my turn to be the leader of the military intelligence department, and you are the big boss of the military intelligence department, so naturally there is no reason to admit it." ”

"That's it over there!" Tao Yaoyao waved his horsewhip, "If there is not too much delay on the road, you can rush back to Youzhou for the New Year." Saying this, he took a sip and said very gentlemanly: "Last year's New Year in Bohai Country, it was really fucking terrible!" ”

Mo couldn't help but sigh, his legs lightly clamped the horse's belly, and he stepped into the western road with three hundred sharp soldiers of the Military Intelligence Department.

But it turned out that after more than a year of hard work, and after the battle of Liaodong, Daming'an has now mastered the military and political power of the Bohai State, Mo Li and Tao Yaoyao went north to help Daming'an's scheduled task has been completed, and the two of them left Longquan Mansion not long ago under the urging of Li Congjing, and embarked on the journey back to Youzhou in the south.

Before the autumn of the season, Li Congjing sent 200 students from the Yanwu Academy to follow Meng Ping into Liaodong, and listened to the order before Mo left to help the Bohai army against the Khitan army. Later, the 200 students of the Martial Arts Academy have made great contributions, and they have been valued by Daming and rewarded many times. Behind this glamour, there is an unknown danger, the students of the Academy of Martial Arts often go to the battlefield in person, and even go deep into the Khitan control territory with the army scouts, and there are many people who have suffered accidents.

Not to mention anything else, the 200 students of the Martial Arts Academy who entered Liaodong that day have now lost a lot, and there are only more than 150 left. This battle damage can be said to be very high.

When Mo Li and Tao Yaoyao returned to Longquan Mansion with Daming An, the students of the Yanwu Academy did not accompany them, and because of the Liaodong War, although there was no major war for a while, but after all, the war was stalemate, and the Yanwu Academy did not withdraw from the Liaodong battlefield, they continued to be in various places, continued what they had done before, and sought a small or shocking victory for the army.

Fifty miles east of Jian'an City, in a dense forest beside the road, several young faces poked their heads out and looked at the Khitan military camp ten miles ahead in front of them from a wide field of vision.

Although these young faces did not wear the standard robes of the academy as they did when they were in the academy, they were the students of the Youzhou Performing Arts Academy, and they were the most elite among the students who went to Liaodong this time.

"How could a Khitan barbarian put such a big military camp here, this seems unreasonable!" A student of the Martial Arts Academy looked at the Khitan military camp in front of him and whispered to his companions.

The companion beside him was not tall and his face was not handsome, but the calm look in his eyes did not change at all even when facing unexpected situations at this time.

"I don't know why the Khitan barbarians set up a military camp here, but I know that because of this military camp, the purpose of our trip will be achieved, and it will be more than ten times more difficult out of thin air. But wherever there is a large army stationed, within a radius of dozens of miles, it is within its control, and it is almost impossible for us to go to Jian'an City through this place to find out the situation of the Jian'an Khitan army. The student of the Martial Arts Academy said.

"Tiehu, are you scared too?" The student of the Martial Arts Academy who spoke earlier teased.

"Zhao Hongyin, let go of your mother's fart, when was Lao Tzu An Chongrong afraid?" The student of the Yanwu Academy, who was called Tiehu by his companions, said angrily, but he immediately lowered his voice again, "But the gentlemen of the academy are right, it doesn't matter if you encounter difficulties, if you want to solve problems, you have to find the right way." At the moment, it is not realistic for us to force our way through this place controlled by the Khitan barbarians, and since this is the case, there is only a detour. ”

"Detour?" Zhao Hongyin pondered for a moment, "If it is a detour, it will take a lot longer, and the dry food we carry is probably not enough." ”

An Chongrong, who was in his twenties, sneered: "Not only is there not enough dry food, but under the delay of time, even if we arrive in Jian'an City, if we want to complete the planned tasks, I am afraid that if you and I want to go back to the camp for the New Year, we will have to go to waste!" ”

Zhao Hongyin pondered for a while, impatient: "Tiehu, don't talk about these useless things, it doesn't matter where you spend the New Year, it's not that there will be no next year after this year, this little thing is nothing." You say, Jian'an City, do we still want to go? ”

An Chongrong snorted coldly: "Zhao Hongyin, you kid has said it so clearly, can you still not go to Jian'an City?" When has Lao Tzu been more cowardly than you? ”

The two of them made up their minds, and asked the opinions of the other four people behind them, the four students of the Performing Arts Academy were originally headed by the two of them, and seeing that the two of them had unified their opinions, they naturally had no objections, and the matter was settled at the moment.

Everyone quietly left the place, led the war horse in the forest, and cautiously came to the official road, seeing that there was no one on the left and right, they jumped on the war horse one after another, and the horse whip was waved lightly, and the war horse rushed out in an instant.

The six students of the Yanwu Academy knew that they could not force their way through the place where the Khitan army was stationed, and they had already made up their minds to make a detour, however, although their plan was correct, they ignored one point, or one thing that they could not change, was that they were very close to the Khitan camp at this time, and had entered the control of the Khitan army camped here.

An Chongrong, Zhao Hongyin and others had just mentioned the speed of the horse, and before they had run far, they had just turned a corner on the official road, and suddenly found that in front of them, at the end of the road, a Khitan cavalry of more than ten horsemen was rushing towards them!

"It's not good, it's a Khitan ranger!" Zhao Hongyin had good eyesight, and he was the first to spot the enemy troops that appeared on the opposite side.

In order to facilitate going deep into the enemy's territory and investigating the military situation, An Chongrong, Zhao Hongyin and others all changed into Khitan clothes, and now they are wearing the robes of Khitan rangers. But the shortcoming of these six of them is that none of them can speak Khitan! That is to say, when you encounter a Khitan ranger, you can bypass it, or you can pass by without speaking, and it is still possible to get through the confusion, and once you speak, you will inevitably be exposed.

"The speed of the horses is the same, ignore them!" An Chongrong's face turned a little pale, and his heartbeat became faster, but he still thought calmly, "Look at the situation, be ready to do it at any time!" ”

Several other students lowered their heads slightly, they were all military leaders who had experienced battlefield battles and had military merits in hand, walking between life and death, their hearts were naturally calmer than ordinary people, and there was no panic at the moment, Wenwen controlled the war horse and rushed towards the other party.

When they were a hundred paces away, the Khitan rangers on the opposite side suddenly lowered their horse speed and shouted to them in Khitan dialect: "A group of Bohai army rangers have been found ahead, there are many of them, don't go any further, go back with us!" ”

What the Khitan barbarians said, An Chongrong, Zhao Hongyin and others didn't know, and their speed did not decrease.

Seeing that An Chongrong and the others didn't speak, but just buried their heads and ran forward, they were puzzled, they simply stopped their horses safely and blocked the middle of the road, and the Khitan centurion at the head of the group, his face changed slightly, "Why don't you speak, whose soldiers are you?" ”

In the blink of an eye, Zhao Hongyin, who had already rushed to them, raised his head before the other party could react, and suddenly screamed.

The Khitan centurion was stunned, "What did you say?" ”

He was stunned and lost the last chance to react.

"He said he fell in love with your mother!" An Chongrong suddenly pulled out the long knife, and raised it without bother, after the long knife was unsheathed, he slashed upward, and the blade directly swept over the neck of the Khitan centurion, bringing out a puddle of flesh and blood!

Zhao Hongyin and other students of the Martial Arts Academy, almost at the same time as An Chongrong, slashed at the Khitan rangers who could not cope with it in front of them, a burst of sword light and sword shadow, under the screams of the Khitan barbarians, An Chongrong, Zhao Hongyin and others did not spend much effort, and they all killed these Khitan barbarians here.

The reason why they want to kill the other party is that on the one hand, they don't want to be pursued by them and be shot behind by these Khitan barbarians, and on the other hand, they are afraid that after they return to the camp, they will dispatch the Khitan army to pursue them. Killing them all will not be spared from discovery, but it will delay the time and give everyone time to escape.

The six students of the Performing Martial Arts Academy killed more than a dozen Khitan rangers in front of them, and the price they paid was only a slight injury, and the student of the Performing Martial Arts Academy took out the medicine he carried with him, pasted it on his shoulder, and then wrapped it with a strip of cloth, and the whole process went smoothly, and it didn't take a little more time.

"Let's go, our whereabouts will be discovered sooner or later, and we must rush to a safe position before the Khitan brigade chases them out!" An Chongrong said.

Everyone was aware of this problem, and several other students of the Martial Arts Academy raised their whips one after another.

At this moment, the face of the last student of the Martial Arts Academy changed slightly, he glanced behind him, and then lost his voice and said, "The Khitan brigade has caught up!" ”

When everyone heard this, they looked back, and sure enough, they saw a Khitan elite cavalry of one hundred and ten people rushing towards them.

"How is this possible, how will they find out about us?!" Someone shouted.

Zhao Hongyin's face sank like water, "I'm afraid it's not that they discovered us, but they happened to come out of the camp and ran into us!" ”

"Don't talk about it, let's go!" An Chongrong greeted.

In fact, Zhao Hongyin guessed wrong, these 100 Khitan elite horsemen came for them. When they were lying in the forest to observe the Khitan military camp before, they happened to be seen by the Khitan rangers from afar, so they mobilized a large group of men and horses to chase and kill them.

An Chongrong, Zhao Hongyin and others didn't dare to delay any more time, shouted bad luck, and ran wildly one after another.

Mo Li and Tao Yaoyao led three hundred sharp soldiers of the Military Intelligence Department and gradually approached the control of Jian'an City. Unlike An Chongrong, Zhao Hongyin and others who went straight to Jian'an City, they didn't plan to intersect with Jian'an City from the beginning, and they originally took the road of detour. It's just that they didn't know at this time that the Khitan barbarians in Jian'an City would actually place a large army forty miles away from the city as an outpost stronghold.

However, who are Mo Li and Tao Yaoyao, they naturally will not wait until they are only ten miles close to the Khitan military camp to find out about the abnormality. Almost as soon as they entered the radiation range of the Khitan military camp, Mo Li and Tao Xiaoxiao sensed the subtlety of the situation through the horseshoe prints on the road, the surrounding people's tracks, and the difference in the environmental atmosphere.

"You can't go straight any further!" Mo Li and Tao Xiaoyao spoke almost at the same time, they gradually slowed down their horses, observing the surrounding environment, "I'm afraid there have been Khitan army activities around here recently, so it's better for us to change the course as soon as possible!" ”

Mo Li groaned: "It's strange, this place is still sixty or seventy miles away from Jian'an City, how can there be Khitan traces of today's complicated activities here, could it be that the Khitan army in Jian'an City is ready to launch a big war again?" ”

"Bo Yang City is very strong, and there is a clever plan you set when you left, even if the Khitan of Jian'an City really attacks Bo Yang City on a large scale, there is nothing to worry about." Tao Yaoyao didn't care, "For now, I'd better leave quickly!" ”

As the two were talking, the rangers in front reported that they found a Khitan elite cavalry of one hundred and ten people running towards this side, "In front of the Khitan elite cavalry, there are six people who are dying, looking at his clothes, he is no different from the Khitan barbarians, but on their arms, there are belts of students from the Yanwu Academy!" ”

The students of the Martial Arts Academy and the sharp soldiers of the Military Intelligence Department often go deep into the battlefield and behind enemy lines, and often need to change into the clothes of the Khitan barbarians, in order to avoid wrongful killing, but also to facilitate rescue at critical moments, but there are marks on their bodies, and this belt is the conspicuous mark.

An Chongrong and Zhao Hongyin have been galloping non-stop after being locked by the Khitan hundred and ten elites, but the war horses under their seats, with them leaving the camp to here, have run a long way, and they haven't had time to feed them, and at this time they were chased by the Khitan war horses, and there was really no way to outrun the other party.

After running for less than twenty miles, the distance between the two sides was already extremely close, and the Khitan elite cavalry began to shoot sharp arrows.

A student of the Yanwu Academy was unlucky, he was shot in the back of the neck by a sharp arrow, fell off his horse on the spot, rolled to the side of the road, An Chongrong and Zhao Hongyin turned around, just in time to see that the student was chased by the Khitan elite horse, shot into a hedgehog with random arrows, and fell down in despair and unwillingly.

"Ah Cheng!" An Chongrong and Zhao Hongyin's eyes were bloodshot instantly, but before they could make a move, another burst of sharp arrows flew in, this time the sharp arrows hit Zhao Hongyin's shoulders directly, and his body shook, but he didn't fall off his horse.

Zhao Hongyin scolded his mother, and the students of the Acting Martial Arts Academy next to him immediately scolded his mother, but he was also nailed to his back by two sharp arrows!

"If we continue like this, we'll all be finished!" An Chongrong was a little desperate, looking at the blood flowing from the wounds of Zhao Hongyin and the student, and the appearance of the two gritting their teeth and persevering, An Chongrong was panicked in his heart.

What to do?

An Chongrong, who has always been very assertive, found out sadly and angrily at this time that he had no choice!

Just when he felt extremely powerless and desperate, a team of Tsing Yi cavalry appeared in front of him.

Seeing the uniformly colored Tsing Yi, An Chongrong shouted in surprise, "Military Intelligence Department!" Someone from MI has come to meet us! Although I don't know how the MI happened to know that they were in trouble, and appeared here in time, An Chongrong was still so excited that he almost danced.

Zhao Hongyin and the others were also happy, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.

Everyone let them go to the side of the road, so that the sharp soldiers of the military intelligence department could pass smoothly, and a few people turned around and saw the scene of the three hundred sharp soldiers of the military intelligence department slaughtering one hundred and ten Khitan barbarians.

is used to seeing battlefield battles, An Chongrong, Zhao Hongyin and others are also embarrassed at this time, and they are very excited and happy. After all, Fang had almost lost his life, they looked at each other, An Chongrong and the two students who were not injured rushed out together and joined the sequence of attacking and killing the Khitan barbarians.

Not long after the war ended, An Chongrong and Zhao Hongyin dismounted one after another, and after asking the sharp soldiers of the Military Intelligence Department, they found the leaders of this batch of sharp soldiers of the Military Intelligence Department, Mo Li and Tao Yao, and thanked them profusely.

"To be hunted down and killed by Khitan barbarians in this kind of place, your ability is not small." Mo Li, who was on horseback, looked at An Chongrong, Zhao Hongyin and others, and joked with a smile.

An Chongrong and Zhao Hongyin were all ashamed and didn't know what to say.

A student of the Yanwu Academy was unlucky, he was shot in the back of the neck by a sharp arrow, fell off his horse on the spot, rolled to the side of the road, An Chongrong and Zhao Hongyin turned around, just in time to see that the student was chased by the Khitan elite horse, shot into a hedgehog with random arrows, and fell down in despair and unwillingly.

"Ah Cheng!" An Chongrong and Zhao Hongyin's eyes were bloodshot instantly, but before they could make a move, another burst of sharp arrows flew in, this time the sharp arrows hit Zhao Hongyin's shoulders directly, and his body shook, but he didn't fall off his horse.

Zhao Hongyin scolded his mother, and the students of the Acting Martial Arts Academy next to him immediately scolded his mother, but he was also nailed to his back by two sharp arrows!

"If we continue like this, we'll all be finished!" An Chongrong was a little desperate, looking at the blood flowing from the wounds of Zhao Hongyin and the student, and the appearance of the two gritting their teeth and persevering, An Chongrong was panicked in his heart.

What to do?

An Chongrong, who has always been very assertive, found out sadly and angrily at this time that he had no choice!

Just when he felt extremely powerless and desperate, a team of Tsing Yi cavalry appeared in front of him.

Seeing the uniformly colored Tsing Yi, An Chongrong shouted in surprise, "Military Intelligence Department!" Someone from MI has come to meet us! Although I don't know how the MI happened to know that they were in trouble, and appeared here in time, An Chongrong was still so excited that he almost danced.

Zhao Hongyin and the others were also happy, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.

Everyone let them go to the side of the road, so that the sharp soldiers of the military intelligence department could pass smoothly, and a few people turned around and saw the scene of the three hundred sharp soldiers of the military intelligence department slaughtering one hundred and ten Khitan barbarians.

is used to seeing battlefield battles, An Chongrong, Zhao Hongyin and others are also embarrassed at this time, and they are very excited and happy. After all, Fang had almost lost his life, they looked at each other, An Chongrong and the two students who were not injured rushed out together and joined the sequence of attacking and killing the Khitan barbarians.

Not long after the war ended, An Chongrong and Zhao Hongyin dismounted one after another, and after asking the sharp soldiers of the Military Intelligence Department, they found the leaders of this batch of sharp soldiers of the Military Intelligence Department, Mo Li and Tao Yao, and thanked them profusely.

"To be hunted down and killed by Khitan barbarians in this kind of place, your ability is not small." Mo Li, who was on horseback, looked at An Chongrong, Zhao Hongyin and others, and joked with a smile.

An Chongrong and Zhao Hongyin were all ashamed and didn't know what to say.