Chapter 42: Hostility
The next two days and one night of marching was smooth in a sense, in fact, Hongze Lake is not wide, this distance, if you gallop on horseback, you can run a pair of lanes in one day. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
It's just that the war horses of this year are very expensive, when the Northern Song Dynasty Qingming went to the river, flowers were brocade, and the fire was cooking oil, how rich, gathering the wealth of China, and more than 10,000 cavalry were formed. This kind of strategic weapon is equivalent to Mercedes-Benz and BMW in modern society. This time, 300 cavalry and 600 war horses were dispatched, which was simply two Mercedes-Benz G series off-road vehicles for one person. It can be seen that Li Cheng has taken out all his family foundations this time.
He has few soldiers and a small territory, and he can't withstand the long-term confrontation with Li Yu, and is consumed little by little by people using crowd tactics until he runs out of and urine.
It is necessary to use a lightning strike to remove Li Yu's head using the decapitation tactic.
Qualified war horses are much more valuable than people, and they carry so many materials, so they naturally have to take care of horsepower. Along the way, everyone led the horses and walked, so the speed naturally could not go up.
In addition, the water of Hongze Lake has dried up and scattered into several small lakes. Some places on the road are dry, some places are thin, and no one knows what is under the bottom of the foot. After two days, everyone was covered with dust and mud, like mud bodhisattvas, and they were too tired to work.
To be honest, Wang Shen is also beating the drum in his heart. After all, the ancient Hongze Lake is very different from the modern society, if you go the wrong way and go around the wall in the lake, how can you make a deal with Li Cheng. If that's the case, don't talk about Li Cheng, Chen Lanruo would have stabbed him first.
In the Song Dynasty, Hongshuize Lake was much smaller than in modern times, and it really became larger in the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty after the Yellow River seized a large amount of Yellow River water and merged into the lake. In order to be safe, before leaving Pingyuan Town, Wang Shen racked his brains, dug out the deepest memories in his heart, and drew a detailed map of Hongze Lake.
After setting off, he took the map and found his way.
It is also about the favor of God, although there are many discrepancies between the map and the real landform, but in general, it is correct.
And just like that, the team stumbled for two days and one night.
The weather was still cloudy, getting colder and colder, and the clouds were accumulating overhead, and no one knew when it would rain. Once the rain falls, not to mention that everyone will become the food in the mouths of fish and shrimp, how to go once the land is drenched?
It was nearly dusk, and it was time to camp. Wang Shen jumped off his horse with a "whoop" and turned over the dirt on the ground with his foot.
His eyes were still cracked on the ground, and as soon as his feet stepped on it, a puff of dust rose up, and he felt a little at ease.
After taking a sip of water, I felt that the muscles and bones in my body were soft.
Li Chengjun's cavalry had a rule that they could not encounter battle, they were not in a hurry, they could not ride horses, and they could not put armor and weapons on the saddle. Wang Shen carried two armors of almost fifty catties on his back, and waited for the two Hequ horses beside him for two days, and his spirit was about to collapse.
I have nothing to do in the modern society to go to the wild to soak, climb the snowy mountains, cross the grassland, and am already a famous iron man in the circle, even so I still can't bear it, if I change to a small white-collar worker in the office, I'm afraid that I can't stand it for a day.
He sat on the floor, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and suddenly missed coffee and energy bars, which he needed a lot of caffeine.
At this time, the smell of boiling tea came from the wind, which made him can't help but stir his nose.
Then came Chen Lanruo's clear voice, she was directing her subordinates to camp and bury the pot to rebel.
Tanma went out fifteen miles, and cavalry kept coming and going.
The sound of horses' hooves, the soldiers holding their big bows, and the freshly shot birds on the tips of their spears, roared loudly, and sprinkled the smell of wine all the way.
Next to the campfire, someone carried a flask and poured it into the mouth of his companion. There were two fat soldiers shirtless, standing in a large circle drawn with knives, wrestling, next to loud laughter and gambling.
Wang Shen smiled bitterly in his heart: I am already Wang Tieren, these Guanzhong men are simply steel and iron bones, don't they know that they are tired? Other than that...... Chen Lanruo is a woman with a slender waist, but her strength is greater than that of a man, and she is only twenty-four or five years old. Everyone is the same age, how can she be so energetic?
When other soldiers were marching, she was also marching. The other soldiers camped and rested, and she was still busy, going out to reconnoitre, determining the direction, guarding and patrolling, and arranging food and accommodation.
Dangling in front of and behind the line all the time.
It can be seen that this female general marches and fights, has extremely rich experience in commanding soldiers and horses, and is an old man.
Li Cheng's cavalry unit came from the Western Army, the Western Army has always been arrogant, and the cavalry is even more invincible.
The prestige of female generals in the army is also extremely high.
However, this man's temper is just too bad, as if he has a vague hatred for him Wang Shen.
In the past two days, especially when he saw Wang Shen looking around with the map in front of him, and hesitated, Chen Lanruo shouted angrily and scolded him, if he hadn't seen that he was not his subordinate, he was afraid that he would have already whipped it over.
Wang Shen was already a skilled person, and after sensing the hostility of the other party, he could only endure it. This kind of woman can not be provoked, and she can hide as far as she wants. Even if you want to take care of the face, it is business, perfunctory.
Good men don't fight with women, and they may not be able to fight others.
When he cut off Chen Lanruo's head with a knife, Wang Shen may not have no contempt in his heart, feeling that women are limited by physical conditions, and their strength, reaction, and martial arts are always worse than men. It wasn't until he saw that in a competition, Chen Lanruo overturned the four soldiers with a wooden stick, that he secretly screamed a fluke: Fortunately, I didn't have a conflict with her, otherwise I would have been beaten all over the ground to find teeth, and it is not unreasonable for Chen Lanruo to be able to deter three hundred cavalry.
She belongs to this era, to war.
Unable to resist the temptation of tea, Wang Shen reluctantly stood up, walked to Chen Lanruo's side, asked the soldier for a bowl of tea, and tasted it carefully. As soon as the tea is in my mouth, I only feel cool to the sky.
couldn't help but praise: "Lao Guo, I can't see that you cook a good tea soup, refreshing!" ”
Indeed, the tea juice boiled out of this tea cake is more mellow than those who can't tell the way out of the later generations, but Wang Shen came to the interest, took out a stainless steel cup from the baggage he carried, scooped a spoonful of tea into it, and put in some white sugar and creamer, and stirred it carefully with a spoon. Steal half a day of leisure and come to have afternoon tea.
Hearing Wang Shen's praise, Lao Guo was very happy and said: "Yanai is really a particular person, and there are so many ways to drink some tea." "Nominally, Wang Shen is a native of Zhang Junmen, and Zhang Xiang is now building a mansion, and Wang Shen is naturally called Yanei by everyone.
Lao Guo was born in the Huanqing Army, and his family died in previous wars. He was a wonderful man, and he liked to raise animals and pick up horses. After arriving in Huaibei from Kaifeng, he also raised a hen in a basket to lay eggs to nourish his body. However, the hen died of plague a few days ago.
Although he is old, his physical strength has declined, and his martial arts are no longer complete, he can still be seen to raise horses single-handedly, and he still stays in the cavalry camp with excellent treatment.
In addition, he loves to talk, and Wang Shen has been chatting with him warmly these days.
At this time, Chen Lanruo snatched the cup from Wang Shen's hand and threw it on the ground. Said coldly: "Yanai is useful, and can you swallow this tea?" It's been two days and one night, and seeing that it's going to get dark again, let me ask you, when will you find Li Yu? Eat and eat, eat a ghost chicken and dog, don't tell me you don't know either...... Hey hey ......"
This...... It's so rude, it's going to slap me in the face. Wang Shen is used to being arrogant in front of employees in modern society, where can he bear it, and raised his eyebrows to look over: "It is estimated that it should cross the entire lake and arrive at the battlefield." Li Yu's old camp should be seen early tomorrow morning, since I have promised to find Li Yu in front of the Heavenly King, why should the son-in-law worry? ”
"Do you remember that you found Li Yu within two days, and now two days have passed, what do you say?" Chen Lanruo also turned her eyes sideways: "You don't have a word of truth, but your father believes you." Don't think I'm blind these two days, you look at the picture while walking, I'm afraid I'm not sure about myself, right? Hehe, today we were taken by you to take a lot of detours, do you treat me like a three-year-old child? ”
With that, he put his hand on the hilt of the sword.
Lao Guo saw that the situation was not good, he knew the temperament of this aunt, and he was the most stubborn, once he was angry, he dared to enter with a white knife and a red knife out. It is also because of this that these three hundred sharps were shocked.
He hurriedly stood up and stopped between the two, and did not stop arching his hand: "Miss, General Chen, everyone should say a few words, and everyone should say a few words." According to his subordinates, Yanai doesn't look like he's deceiving us, he's really trying to find a way. ”
Chen Lanruo raised her hand and slapped it, slapping it on Lao Guo's arm. The cuffs of her linen shirt were raised, and the red, green, and green tattoos tattooed on her arms were dazzling: "Get out of here, it's not your turn to speak here." Don't you have brains, the one surnamed Wang is a lobbyist, and he can only coax his father-in-law and you. Who knows where he came from, taking us around on this lake, and once it rains, we will be killed by him. You rammers, you only know how to recruit and recruit all day long, how happy we were before, how safe are you? ”
She is the commander of the cavalry army, and the ancient army was highly hierarchical, and the non-commissioned officers and officers were personally dependent. Beating his subordinates has nothing to do with outsiders.
But she clearly saw that Lao Guo and Wang Shen had a close relationship, and she was angry at this old soldier.
Slapping people in the face in public, it's still the face of an old man in his fifties, this stinky is really not human.
Wang Shen pulled Lao Guo away: "Lao Guo, this is a matter between me and my son-in-law, don't worry about it." The hand was placed on the horizontal knife, and half of it was pulled out with a sonorous sound: "If I don't want to be this lobbyist, do I know that it is Li Tianwang's will to be called to An, if he hadn't sent Zhang Cong to His Majesty, wouldn't I stay in Jiankang well, and I would have to run to this chaotic Huaixi?" General Chen, what are you doing at me, and it has nothing to do with others. What kind of hero is bullying an old man? ”
Chen Lanruo sneered: "That's right, if you can do it, you won't talk nonsense." I am a Qin person, you are a Hebei man, we are a good man in the north, we should be so happy to be a man and do things. Today there must be a man between you and me who lies down and draws his sword! ”
With a sharp gaze, a clump of cold hairs stood up on the back of Wang Shen's neck, and he felt as if he had been locked by a female leopard and became her prey.
This woman's martial arts are too strong, but I am not her opponent. Come to think of it, although the little lady will not kill Lao Tzu, she will definitely let me lie in bed for ten days and a half months. It's really bad luck to meet such a Hedong lion.
However, if you can't beat it, you have to fight. Since it is in ancient times, it has to be done according to the rules of the game of the ancients. The ancients paid attention to fame, and the army despised cowards the most, if they shrank their eggs, how would they hold their heads up and be a man in the future, and it was estimated that they would cross the entire lake and arrive at the battlefield.
Li Yu's old camp should be visible early tomorrow morning.
How else to lead troops?
Seeing that the two of them were about to make a move, the other soldiers all came over and watched with great interest. Most of Li Cheng's troops were fierce soldiers, and there was no help but fight privately in the camp. There are often cases where two soldiers will fight each other without saying a word, and then they will drink each other on their shoulders and backs.
Chen Lanruo is a female streamer, but she can fight all the army, Wang Shen's ambassador to the imperial court, with only 200 crossbowmen, can carry Li Yu's 10,000 former army, which also makes everyone respectful. But I don't know who is stronger when these two fight.
Immediately, two cavalrymen each carried an iron armor and threw it over, motioning for them to put it on. With iron armor protection, the two people who fought would not have to worry about their lives, but of course injuries were inevitable. Fighting on the battlefield, with wounds on his body, just stitch some medicine.
took the armor and was about to put it on his body, when Lao Guo suddenly grabbed his hand.
Wang Shen raised his eyebrows: "Lao Guo, don't persuade me, it's useless to talk too much about today's events, you can only see the truth at hand." ”
Lao Guo waved his hand and said suddenly: "Yanei, even if you want to compete with the eldest lady in martial arts, I'm afraid you have to wait, and wait until today." ”
Wang Shenyiqi: "What do you say?" ”
Lao Guo: "Yanei, it's my turn to go out on patrol immediately, didn't you just say that this place is not far from Li Yu's lair in Anhe, and you have to lead the way, let's go more than ten miles to the northwest to see the situation." You are dressed in heavy armor, and the road is so long, the horses can't stand it. ”
It turned out that according to the rules of the army, once the troops were stationed, the cavalry had to send scouts to patrol and guard in several directions, changing groups every hour. This is true not only of Li Chengjun, but also of other armies. Otherwise, when the army marches forward, will it not become deaf and blind? In this era, all armies had tanma. There were iron harriers in Western Xia, there were far barriers in Khitan, and the Song army had Tabai, and when Lao Guo saw that the situation was not good, he immediately ran to Dutou and asked for an order.
Speaking of this, Lao Guo turned to Chen Lanruo again and again: "Miss, the military aircraft cannot be delayed!" The subordinates had already asked for an order with Shen Dutou of our capital, and he also promised to let Wang Yanei go together. If you hurt the Yanai, who will lead the way for the little old man. ”
"Shen Dutou doesn't have to listen to me? But whoever is surnamed the king will spare you today. Today, you won't have such good luck in the future. Chen Lanruo threw the armor in his hand on the ground heavily, glanced at Wang Shen sarcastically, turned around and strode away.