No one expected that Tong Guan would send 3,000 cavalry to the south on August 14, and he had to arrive at the city of Anqing before August 15.

But on second thought, it is impossible to say that the military order of the Privy Council is to pass through the city of Anqing on August 15, but the 50,000-strong army is like a turtle, and the cavalry can only be sent to advance as a last resort.

It's just that no matter what Tong Guan's original intention is, now he wants the lives of Huang Jie and others!

On August 15, Tong Guan's army arrived at the city of Anqing, but the grain and grass in Huangzhou were still in Taihu County.

For a while, Ma Wan, Yao Rong and others were so anxious that they jumped to their feet, Sun Li and Sun Xin were also full of sadness, even Di Hao, Wang Tietou and Ren Sanniang, these new partners, also frowned, everyone knew that military orders were not child's play, and there were also Sun Huang and Tong Guan's previous dirty foundations, if it really happened, it was not as simple as eating some hanging!

Huang Jie was naturally taken aback, he was not an immortal, so he naturally didn't expect Tong Guan to come to this trick. Besides, I haven't thought about a similar situation in the past few days, but Tong Guan's army is nowhere to be seen, and he can't just take hundreds of messengers and people to Anqing City, right?

"What's the hurry?" Huang Jie saw everyone's expressions, so he shouted: "There is a way for soldiers to block, water to cover the earth, afraid of a bird!" ”

Yao Rong also asked, "Da Lang has thought of a way?" But even if the convoy is rerouted now, there are still 180 miles from Taihu County to Anqing, how can one day and one night be enough? ”

Huang Jie shook his head and said, "I haven't thought of a way yet, but I don't have to put on such an anxious posture." Lost the morale of the army in vain! Yes! Uncle Hurry up and arrange the meal, whether there is a way or not. It's only right to settle the transfer team first! ”

Yao Rong was also speechless, so he listened to Huang Jie's arrangement. Then Huang Jie asked Sun Xin: "The second brother has been exploring in the past few days, and there is no trace of the stone-breaking army on the line from Tongcheng to Anqing?" ”

Sun Xin thought about it and said: "There are also spies in the Broken Stone Army, and now there are three thousand cavalry rushing south, but I am afraid that he will not dare to stop it!" ”

Everyone is right to think about it, this is a cavalry team sent by the imperial court, and there is only such a cavalry force of 3,000 people among the 50,000 troops of Tong Guan, and the team of more than 10,000 people is known as the Broken Stone Army, but I am afraid that 300 cavalry may not be able to make it up. So what's going to stop a cavalry of 3,000 people, foot soldiers?

"What should I do?" Huang Jie's head was immediately big, and he immediately searched his stomach and thought about it, but it was a pity that what he had seen and heard in the past, as well as many strange dreams he had had, could not provide him with a feasible solution.

It is now the 14th of August, and counting the 15th of August stipulated in the military order, it can be extended at least until the night meal (dinner) at the latest, which is around the time of the first shift (戌時). There are only fourteen hours left, and fourteen hours have covered one hundred and eighty miles...... It's just an impossible task!

Wait a minute!

Huang Jie's brain flashed, who said that a donkey and mule cart couldn't walk 180 miles in 14 hours? The old man didn't drive the mule cart in the first place. If you walk empty, you can run forty or fifty miles in an hour, but you can walk slowly because the load is too heavy.

Immediately, Huang Jie slapped his hand. Shouted: "There it is! Hurry up and get the team up a few steps, I've got a way! ”

Immediately, Sun Xin also jumped on the horse that Zhu Gao had just ridden. rushed to the transfer team, and Huang Jie hurriedly asked Ma Wan to inform Liu Yu of the summoning of the Japanese sergeant. also asked Di Hao and Wang Tietou to call the minions, and even asked Lao Taotou to gather the young people among the victims.

In just half a moment, the first thirty mule carts of the transfer team came to the front of the county seat, which also made Huang Jie recognize that the leader was a white official who was familiar with the Huangzhou Mansion, so he stepped forward and said: "Bai Guan'er is hard! Hurry up and let everyone enter the camp to eat some soup and rice to rest, and I will forward it to Anqing later. ”

On the way to come, Bai Guan'er should have heard Sun Xin say something, so he hurriedly crossed his hands and said: "It's all up to Huang Xiucai to decide!" ”

Then he hurriedly summoned the coachman and the escorted people to enter the camp to eat and rest, and Huang Jie also commanded the people from Taihu County to unload the mules and trucks. It was soon calculated that the total number of carats that came this time was 220 carts, including 188 mule carts and 32 donkey carts, carrying 1,200 stone of grain, 1,000 quintals of forage, 400 boxes of canned meat, and more than 10 carts of grain and miscellaneous goods along the way.

Immediately, Huang Jie asked everyone to unload the cart on the spot, 100 mule carts each loaded with only 5 stone grain and straw, 30 donkey carts loaded with 300 boxes of canned meat, and 50 carts with 300 loads of forage, but the remaining empty carts were loaded with pots and pans and a lot of dry firewood collected from Taihu County and nearby these days, plus the carts that the vanguard led by Huang Jie had loaded with various things, and reorganized a large convoy of 260 vehicles.

After letting Bai Guan'er and his people rest for an hour, he only needed to lead the coachmen on the road again, and Huang Jie also personally led Sun Li, Zhu Gao, Liu Qi, Di Hao, Wang Tietou, Ren Sanniang, and a hundred Japanese soldiers and more than 120 minions from the Chashan branch to accompany them on the road, leaving Yao Rong and Ma Wan to garrison.

After unloading, a mule cart only loaded five stones of grain, and carried two or three people, compared with the original load of more than ten stones, much lighter, walking naturally faster, plus encountered difficult road sections, Huang Jie also personally took his own soldiers down with everyone to help push the cart, and the efficiency of driving was also higher.

On the afternoon of August 14, Huang Jie set off at the end of the afternoon of August 14, and walked out of almost 80 miles that night, and then Huang Jie promised two hours of rest, and then went on the road again in the morning of the fifth watch, and finally arrived at Meilin Village, which was less than 10 miles away from Anqing Mansion City, at the end of the afternoon of August 15.

As soon as he arrived in Meilin Village, Huang Jie hurriedly assigned Zhu Gao and Wang Tietou to lead people to explore the movements of Anqing Mansion and the imperial cavalry, and then asked everyone to dig a stove and make a fire, boil porridge and stew, but in an hour, he prepared enough food for 3,000 people and horses, but when everyone was panicking, it was Zhu Gao who came back first, bringing a ridiculous news: the imperial cavalry came from Tongcheng early in the morning, but now it was blocked by a group of 500 stone-breaking troops in the Tongling Mountain Road ten miles north of Anqing, and it was cut off from retreating. Immobile.

Looking at the map, Tongling is ten miles north of Anqing, and Huang Jie is now in Meilin Village, ten miles west of Anqing, if you go to Tongling, the road is actually fifteen miles away.

What can I do?

Everyone was also stunned, and their brains made up that these 3,000 cavalry actually asked 500 foot soldiers to block the mountain road and couldn't move, and thinking about the rush all the way since yesterday afternoon, it really made people cry and laugh!

"Good thing! Now that the food is ready, let's eat and rest first! Huang Jie waved his hand and said to everyone: "We are just a transfer team, we have no combat power and no ordnance, how can we control the life and death of the imperial court cavalry?" It's better to take care of your own eating and drinking first! ”

As soon as everyone heard the reason, they also responded in an uproar, but Sun Li said: "Da Lang, seeing that the friendly army is trapped and not rescued, is not the way to general!" ”

Huang Jie rolled his eyes, then turned his head to Liu Qi and said, "General Liu, you send two clever sergeants to go over the mountain to find the cavalry, and tell him that we will prepare food and canned meat here, and wait for them to break the thief army to come and reward!" ”

Liu Qi didn't know when he found a sea bowl, the bowl was full of rice and a large piece of Dongpo meat, Liu Qi, who was fighting with food, listened, and chewed a mouthful of food and said vaguely: "Okay!" When I'm full, I'll go myself! (To be continued.) )