By the time Zhang Jiang and the others returned from Yanzhou, it was already early the next morning, and yesterday's scattered snowflakes had become heavy snow overnight, and the quiet balcony town was completely covered with snow. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Lu Fei came out of the hut, the snowflakes on the ground reflected the sunlight, shaking people dizzy, walking on the street where yesterday's fierce battle was fierce, and he couldn't see the bloodstains all over the ground yesterday, as if nothing had happened here.

Several horses came in the direction of Yanzhou with mist, and Zhang Jiang led a brother to turn over and dismount on Lu Fei's side, their faces covered with snowflakes and their faces were crimson.

Zhang Jiang said: "Lu Tou, I couldn't get out of Yanzhou last night, and I came back late."

Lu Fei nodded: "Come into the house and drink a sip of wine to warm up, and settle down."

The temperature outside the house plummeted, but the hut was warm, everyone sat around the fire, everyone was draped in several layers of thick felt, and there were several iron cups on the side of the fire, which were steaming and the wine was fragrant, Zhang Jiang picked one up casually, and said while drinking: "It's all arranged, head, what should we do now, the snow is blocking the road, and the whereabouts are easy to expose"

Lu Fei looked at the silver-clad north outside the house and said: "The army of the imperial court will soon follow, it doesn't matter if we don't have a goal, the army will be consumed here if we don't have a goal, and at that time, I don't know when we will be able to return to Bianliang."

Tie Hammer interjected: "No, I don't want to stay in this ghost place for a day, go home early and hug my mother-in-law."

Luo Cheng smiled: "You haven't hugged enough of your yellow-faced woman."

Iron Hammer sneered again and again: "Go, go, you know a lot"

Everyone laughed, and Lu Fei said: "Don't say it, get ready, let's go to Niu Xin Pavilion to see if what the party person said is true, veteran Wu, you are the guide"

There are only six people left in the house plus a temporary conscripted veteran translator, the veteran's surname is Wu, Lu Fei and all the brothers call him Wu veteran, at this time he already knows the identity of Lu Fei and others, and his heart is full of emotion, the court finally sent someone, he hated the party people, if it wasn't for Li Jiqian's rebellion, how could the prosperous border become a hell on earth.

A group of seven people collected the weapons and clothes of those party members yesterday, and if they didn't take off their fur hats, they really couldn't tell whether they were Han or party members.

The snow has stopped, but the cold wind has not stopped, the snowflakes that have been swept up by the wind are swirling in the air, and from a distance, it looks like a woman in white dancing in the wind, but no one applauds, everyone shrunk their necks, and everyone covered their faces with a black veil to avoid the snow and blindness, and a group of seven people were like a few pages of deflected boats floating in the sea of snow.

The small detachment of the Dang Xiang people was suddenly killed and could not go back, and it would not be long before they would send people out to search, and they had to find out before they found out whether this group of Dang Xiang cavalry was really stationed in Niuxin Pavilion, and perhaps they could find out the whereabouts of Li Jiqian's army there.

The wind and snow were blowing, leaving only a long series of horseshoe prints behind them, and the horses were running very slowly, and even if there were guides, the road was uneven, and not a single pedestrian was encountered along the way, and even the merchants were cowered in the inn in this kind of weather.

Through the gaps in the black veil, the endless peaks gradually appeared on the silver-covered horizon in front of him, Lu Fei reined in his horse and asked Wu Veteran loudly against the wind: "Brother, what is the place ahead?" ”

Old soldier Wu tore off the black veil and squinted at it and said: "About ten miles further is the Niuxin Pavilion, Fei Ge'er is not going to rest first, there are sentry horses of the party people here at any time."

Lu Fei looked around, take a fart, there is no shelter here, and you can't even find a leeward place, but you have to rest for a while, even if you can resist the horse, you can't stand it.

Lu Fei found a slope that could shelter from the wind, ate some dry food that was frozen like a stone, and drank a few sips of wine, only then did he feel a little warmth in his body, and took out the bud valley to feed the horses as well.

Lu Fei asked Wu veteran to roughly draw the shape of the Niuxin Pavilion on the snow, the Niuxin Pavilion is not a pavilion, there is no pavilion there, even the population is sparse, and it is not a pass with military value, it is just an inconspicuous place name on the Silk Road in the Han and Tang Dynasties, the desert in the north, the Central Plains in the south, in the middle of the Hengshan Mountain, more than 300 miles to the north is the Yinshan Mountain Range across the desert, less than 200 miles to the west is the Xiazhou City, the Great Wall defense line stretches along the Niuxin Pavilion from east to west, and extends to the east to the territory of Yunzhou occupied by the Khitans. But at this time, there was no Song army on the defense line of the Niuxinting Great Wall, and the Song army's battle line in this section shrank to the Yanzhou area, and after Hengshan was the endless sky and wild Ordos grassland.

Wu veteran used to be a soldier of the Great Wall defense line, he is familiar with the geography of the mountains and rivers here, a few simple sketches will make people clear at a glance, that day Lu Fei did not see where the Niu Xin Pavilion was on the sand table of the front division of the palace, the sand table was also very rough, only to see the general pattern of the entire Xiazhou to Yanzhou, today's field investigation only knew, the sand table is simply useless, for this reason Lu Fei is also walking while depicting the map of the terrain, although it is not accurate, but it is definitely clearer than the one Dane saw.

According to the confession of the party item, there are about 3,000 cavalry in ambush in the Niu Xin Pavilion, and I don't know if they are still there in this bad weather, if they come to surround and gather to annihilate, they can give the Western Expedition a good start and kill Li Jiqian's arrogance, of course, this is just Lu Fei's wishful thinking, he is only responsible for investigating the military situation, as for the layout of the battlefield, which to fight first and then which of these things are all decided by the upper-level generals, maybe Dane can't look down on these thousands of people.

Lu Fei looked at the sketches on the ground and said to everyone: "You can see it clearly, everyone recuperates here first, and then touches the Great Wall after dark, you are not allowed to fight, and you can't reveal your identity if you die."

This is equivalent to saying that if the other party finds out, they can only commit suicide, and if they let the party members know that there are spies from the Song army operating in Niuxin Pavilion, then this battle will not be able to be fought, and they will definitely flee again.

Wu Lao said: "Okay, I know that there is a small road that leads directly to the foot of the Great Wall on the south side, and if you walk along the Great Wall, you will go straight to the valley peak mouth of Niuxin Pavilion, where you can have a panoramic view of the situation in the valley."

Lu Fei nodded and said: "Listen to veteran Wu, after a while, everyone will hide all our own weapons, and all the scimitars of the party members will be on their bodies, Cao Keming, don't go, show us the horses, if we don't come back before dawn, you will go back to Yanzhou and wait for General Dai."

Cao Keming shook his head again and again and said, "I won't stay, I want to go with you."

Lu Fei was afraid that he would make another impulsive mistake, so he didn't answer, but said, "Okay, let's rest, let's leave after dark."

But at this moment, the pro-soldier who was in charge of the wind rolled down the snow slope, pointed forward with his mouth open and did not make a sound for a long time, and several horses on the side suddenly became frenzied and neighed.

Everyone straightened up and looked around, and this time it really made people's scalps numb, and they were stunned on the spot.

Veteran Wu exclaimed: "Don't move, wolf"