Along the way, the cold wind was biting, and the thousands of troops led by Lu Fei walked on the mud and ice, passing some military forts along the way. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The 10,000 horse army is surging, but no one knows what the purpose of this trip is, only that it seems to be very serious, and there is a new very popular figure in the army as a general, Lu Fei, the whole army is familiar with this name and feels unfamiliar, the army is still unknown when it sets off from Bianliang, and even today's officials have issued an order to praise and promote the officers in the blink of an eye, which has also greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the soldiers, as long as there are military merits, the name will sooner or later reach the ears of the officials.

When he just set off from Jinzhou, Li Jilong also cooperated with the Liao army in the past six months to report the troubles of the Liao army to the south, in a word: the Liao army has repeatedly harassed, has caused more than 1,000 border people to die, livestock has been plundered more than 10,000 people, the border people can not bear to be disturbed, the last general Li Jilong has ordered the first army of the left chamber to command Lu Fei to lead the army to the border for armed patrol, in order to curb the arrogance of the Liao army, six or seven days will be built, the rest of the division has been ordered to return to Beijing.

This piece of paper has already pushed Lu Fei into danger, if it provokes a border provocation, it means that Lu Fei does not listen to orders and acts without authorization, and Li Jilong is at most unable to restrain him.

Just a few hours after Lu Fei and the others went north, Li Jilong ordered the whole army to be divided into divisions, leaving only the rest of the First Army of the Left Chambers to wait in Jinju.

The scenery of the northern country, thousands of miles of snow, Lu Fei led 10,000 horse troops, along the Yellow River to the north, from the collapse of the Great Wall gap into the territory of Shuozhou, Liao, the Liao army has no defense here, this is also thanks to Kou Zhun's sound of the east and the west, Kou Zhun sent a spies as soon as they arrived in Shuozhou City, they took a big walk, saying that the Song army will not soon use Yanmen Pass as a springboard for the Northern Expedition, whether this matter is true or not, the Liao army in Shuozhou has to pay attention to it, send someone to inquire, sure enough, Yanmen Pass is like a great enemy, and the pass is to add several times more defenders, Because Yang Yanzhao, the general of the Song army stationed at Yanmen Pass, also heard the rumor, saying that the Liao army would invade the south in a big way, of course, he could not ignore it, and immediately sent spies everywhere, and ordered troops and horses to go out of the city to inspect.

In fact, this kind of rumor can't be hidden for long, and it won't take three or five days for both sides to know that someone is deliberately spreading it, but Lu Fei only needs these three or five days to be enough, and as long as the Liao army's eyes in Shuozhou are attracted by Yanmen, he can pass quickly.

It's not that the Liao army's defense in Shuozhou is empty, but since the founding of the Liao State, there has been no record of the army of the Central Plains Dynasty to Shuozhou for almost a hundred years, and it is only a small factor to beat it, the biggest reason is the geographical location of Shuozhou, which is at the intersection of agricultural civilization and grassland civilization, and after Shuozhou is an endless prairie, the Han Dynasty wants this kind of land that cannot grow crops is useless, and it is not interested.

For various reasons, Lu Fei passed through Shuozhou calmly without doing any hiding, and he didn't need to hide, the black pressure pressed the 10,000 horse army that was grounded in the sky, and he was on the edge of the sparsely wooded grassland, so he couldn't hide if he wanted to, so it was better to swagger over, fortunately, the attention of the Liao army was all on Yang Yanzhao who came out of Yanmen Pass at this time.

After Shuozhou, it is a flat river, only one day, Lu Fei and other ten thousand troops have rushed for more than two hundred miles, and suddenly appeared under the bare hillside outside Wuzhou City, and there are still piles of ice and snow left on the surrounding grasslands that have not completely melted.

The army was quickly assembled, Lu Fei only roughly counted the number of people, there were more than 100 people less, it is estimated that he did not follow during the march, this is not important, Lu Fei immediately ordered everyone to rest temporarily, everyone was well fed, and at the same time sent a few spies to disguise themselves and sneak into Wuzhou City.

Lying on the frozen iron hillside, Lu Fei and a few brothers stared at the hazy Wuzhou city a few miles away, and they couldn't see it really, but judging from the banner on the tower of the city, the Liao army was not as prepared as the enemy, and there were still groups of herdsmen and caravans coming in and out of the city.

Tie Hammer chewed on the withered grass and asked, "Big brother, why don't we stop, look at this, we can catch him off guard." ”

Lu Fei nodded and said, "Having said that, in the end, it is an attack on Jiancheng, and the Liao army around here is more than ten times our size, and if one is not careful, it will be eaten by everyone." ”

Cao Keming rubbed his red nose and said: "Big brother's news is strict enough, even our brother doesn't know what we're going to do until now, in fact, I've been guessing all the way, but I didn't expect that big brother would make such a big move, but big brother, the court has issued an order to cut down Liao?" I haven't heard of it. ”

Lu Fei smiled and said: "If the court doesn't let us fight, we won't fight, whether a few of you can be promoted and make a fortune depends on this battle, rest assured, if you defeat the official family, you will cut off my head, it has nothing to do with you." ”

Tie Hammer grinned, gave a thumbs up and said: "Big brother is righteous, this is also a lonely battle, big brother, this one rushed into the city together, did we snatch the girl, I have heard, this Wuzhou City is the base camp of the Liao army, the money and grain are piled up, we sent it this time." ”

In the ancient wars, the most important thing for the monarch was to drive the country, and for the generals, victory was the most important, and for the whole army, how much food and money they could grab in the war was their only motivation, especially in siege warfare, there was almost an unwritten rule: after the city was broken, the rebellious soldiers could rob and slaughter unscrupulously. This is the best way to boost the morale of the whole army, and the chances of promotion are too slim after all.

Lu Fei saw that the spies could not return for a while and a half, and the battle order could not be issued now, but the military order or the pre-war mobilization order could be said now, but it could not be too public, this was in the territory of Liao, Lu Fei lurked the sentinels a mile away from the army, and he gathered the five brothers around him and made a brief pre-battle order.

Lu Fei said: "This operation, the risk is very high, once the battle starts, within half a day the Liao army iron cavalry in Yunzhou will come to reinforce, so, a moment into the city, no one is allowed to loot privately, although this Wuzhou City is Liao, but the people in the city are mostly Han Chinese, less innocent killing, only allowed to act according to the plan, the order is prohibited, if I give a withdrawal order, everyone must give me to withdraw from the city, don't leave your life in this other country for a little money, presumably everyone knows what kind of place Wuzhou City is, the former is Yunzhou, and the latter is Shuozhou, On the left is Yin Mountain, if the Liao army is blocked in front and back, we will not have enough people to stuff people's teeth. ”

Tie Hammer muttered, "Then let's take such a big risk, what are we going to do?" ”

Lu Fei said: "Trying to get promoted, don't keep thinking about making a fortune on the battlefield, look farther, as long as this battle shows the prestige of our Japanese army, then I'm afraid that there will be no war in the future, I want to let the officials in Bianliang think of fighting and think of us supporting the Japanese army, we are a banner of the forbidden army, and we must fight hard." ”

When Luo Cheng on the side heard this, he said with a blank face: "It's so good, but if it really goes on like this, there will be a few more of our brothers left in a few years." ”

Lu Fei snorted and said unhappily: "Look at what scares you, we are soldiers, if you want a future, you can only fight with your life, if you are afraid of death, go home as soon as possible and hug your daughter-in-law, don't say that it is Lao Tzu's brother in the future." ”

Luo Cheng smiled embarrassedly: "Big brother, don't worry, don't I say it casually, our life is worth a few dollars." ”

Lu Fei glanced at him and continued: "I understand, I heard the drum and marched, Mingjin retreated quickly, coming and going like the wind, Wu Zhou City is not going to fight down, it is useless for us to have this place, the hundreds of thousands of stone grain and grass hoarded in the city are the target, and when the spies come back, I will give you a battle order, and now you go separately to your respective armies to pass the order, just one sentence: 'Do not fall in love, obey the order, and the violator will be killed'." ”

The brothers knew their own and retreated, a few hours later, the spies finally came back, and briefly explained the situation in the city, as expected, Wu Zhou City was peaceful, and there was no defense at all, even the guards of the city gate were not much, and there were few Liao army guards on the city wall, which was not surprising, the inner city, and not in wartime, how could there be strict precautions, who would have thought that the Song army would appear here.

It's just that the time is in a hurry, the spies failed to find out the cloth army in the city one by one, and it seems unlikely to be detected, according to the early reports, this Wuzhou is a small city, west of the Yellow River, standing on three sides, into a crescent shape, the circumference is only eight miles, the garrison is less than 10,000 people, not at this time not in wartime, it must be scattered in the city to rest.

The red sun is sinking in the west, and the night is the best offensive cover in the wilderness, Lu Fei took out Kou Zhun's clever plan before leaving, but it was only a short four words, and a simple map of Wuzhou City, it can be seen that this is Kou Zhun's hand-drawn, the map is easy to see, it is a map of the internal and external structure of Wuzhou City, indicating the approximate location of the Liao army's grain and barracks, according to the arrow on the map, the army first raided the most prosperous place in the south of the city, that is, the settlement of the Liao nobles, the northern city, and attacked the place where it must be saved, but this is only a feint to contain the defenders in the city, the main force of the forbidden army advanced rapidly, directly took the grain storage in Dongcheng, one battle and one special heir set fire, a quick battle, and it was best to end the battle before dawn.

Lu Fei had to admire Kou Zhun's strategy, feeling that this kid had long been familiar with the layout of Wuzhou City, no wonder people claimed to be traveling the world, presumably all the mountains and rivers in the world and the construction of cities were in his head.

Defeating Wu Zhou, Lu Fei is not very worried, the only difficulty is how to retreat, looking at the four words left by Kou Zhun on the back of the map, 'Strong man breaks his wrist', Lu Fei is faintly unbearable in his heart, in fact, he also thinks so, but it is really too difficult to do, he is not Dane, Dane can not hesitate to exchange 20,000 lives for a victory, he does not have this choice, but since Kou Zhun has said so, presumably even he has no way to get out of the way.

Abandon the car to protect the commander, after the goal is achieved, Lu Fei will quietly retreat, leaving some people who are completely unaware of it to fight with the Liao army there, as if this scene Lu Fei is familiar, there is a movie called the assembly number, which is about the story of the small team to cover the withdrawal of the large army and all the heroes, although it is tragic but so unavoidable.

After reading Kou Zhun's deployment, Lu Fei made a difficult decision in his heart, collected the letter, and made the deployment of the army.

With thirty people as the vanguard, disguised as ordinary people, the whole was divided into pieces, lurked into the city first, waited for the opportunity to move, captured the south gate, and after succeeding, raised the fire as a signal, opened the city gate, and led the army into the city.

Soon, thirty death squads have been selected, take off their military uniforms, change the clothes of the people they met along the way and watched the detainees, pretend to be peddlers and pawns, and go towards the south gate in twos and threes, without slacking off any weapons, this is the Liao country, there are many caravans or herdsmen who dare to come from all directions, these people are equipped with weapons, and the knives and arrows used to hunt in the market are also sold everywhere.

After the death squad left, Lu Fei summoned generals at all levels, briefly sketched a schematic map of the battlefield on the remaining snow, and the three armies were grouped again, and after the city gate was fired, he took the iron hammer as the general, commanded two thousand men and horses, and directly took the Khitan aristocratic area in the northern city, which was also the military camp of the Liao army, and was not allowed to withdraw from the battle without an order; After the battle in the north city, Cao Keming commanded 5,000 men and horses to take the granary of the east city, attack the enemy as the second, set fire to the top, and quickly withdraw from the south city after the task is completed, and no love is allowed; Lu Fei, Luo Cheng and Zhang Jiang stationed a total of 3,000 people in Nancheng to defend the retreat of the forbidden army entering the city.

At the same time, a large number of spies were also sent to the direction of Yunzhou and Shuozhou to monitor the movements of the Liao army's reinforcements at any time.

After the order was given, the brothers looked nervous and excited, and it was really exciting to play this big move in the hinterland of Liao, and there was a feeling of dancing on the tip of a knife.

Lu Fei asked all his entourage to retreat, leaving only the five brothers by his side, his expression was heavy, his cowhide boots trampled on the map veins on the snow, and then he looked up at the gray sky, it was going to be dark soon.

The brothers didn't know why Lu Fei seemed so depressed, Cao Keming asked tentatively, "Big brother, what hasn't you finished?" ”

Lu Fei glanced at everyone, beckoned everyone to gather around, and said softly: "We are a lone army that has penetrated more than 200 miles into the Liao Realm, without any backup, I think you all know that it is easy to burn down the Wuzhou granary, but it is rare to just how to go back." ”

Cao Keming is also a person with soldiers, and he understood when he heard it, and whispered: "The eldest brother is as kind to me as a mountain, and I am obligated to break the matter." ”

Lu Fei smiled and patted him on the shoulder, no matter who stays behind, they will be surrounded by the Liao army, and it is impossible for anyone to survive.

Lu Fei said: "You have more experience in leading troops than me, and you are the only one who captures the granary, and it is ...... after the break."

Tie shook his shoulders and said: "I come, someone has to do things, I have to die, if I unfortunately die in battle, I will ask a few brothers to help me take care of the family." ”

Luo Cheng touched him with his elbow on the side, and said with a smile: "Can you give up your mother-in-law?" Let's do it, the Iron Hammer brothers didn't even leave a seed. ”

Zhang Jiang is timid, but he is also a man who has been forged in the war for many years, he will not admit it at this time, and was about to speak, but Lu Fei waved his hand and said: "Don't fight, our brothers are married to Jinlan, and we will go back together, I won't let you go after the break, it's not that I'm favoritism, no one should die here, but this is a war, iron hammer, the 3,000 people you lead must be nailed to the north city like nails, not allowed to retreat, see the opportunity to withdraw from the city after dawn, if you can run out of a few count a few, you, if you see the fire in the granary of Dongcheng, you quietly retreat, Meet me in the south of the city. ”

Tie Hammer understood immediately, stared at the crowd and suppressed the voice: "Didn't that sell them all?" ”

Lu Fei said helplessly: "There is a matter of importance, I can't do it all in one week, everything is left to fate, these two thousand people are veterans, and they will choose to surrender when they see that the situation is not good." ”

Luo Cheng also couldn't bear it, and interjected: "But ......"

"Don't be!" Lu Fei said in a deep voice: "Righteousness does not manage money, mercy does not command the army, if I have the ability in the future, I will definitely take care of these people's families, just like that, I am not allowed to leak the news, go down and prepare, iron hammer, keep an eye on Nancheng, once the brothers succeed, you will be the first to rush in, fight and kill, and attract the attention of all the Liao army." ”

It was dark, a few dim and unknown stars flashed in the night sky, and the dry and cold wind blew everyone's cheeks, cold.

Time passed very slowly, and Lu Fei's eyes had never left the dark and dreary city a few miles away, and suddenly, he only heard a faint noise coming with the wind, intensifying, and his brothers all stood up from the ground.

Lu Fei drew his waist knife and shouted: "Get on the horse and prepare to attack!" ”

Thousands of troops are ready to go under black.

After a while, I finally saw that the city of the southern city was in flames, and even the chaotic figures above could be seen, and I don't know which side of the people rolled down from the city from time to time.

When Tie Hammer saw this, he immediately picked up a pair of iron shovels and shouted on the horse: "Brothers, only the Liao army bullies us every year, and today we want to let these Khitans pay for their blood debts and go into the city with Lao Tzu." ”

The iron hooves of the army shook the ground, and in the black, like a black dragon running wildly on the ground, swept away towards the south gate where the fire was rising.

Lu Fei watched the battle at Gaocheng, only to see that the iron-pounded men and horses did not encounter any resistance at the city gate, and rushed directly along the city gate, and he immediately said to Cao Keming: "Cao Keming, take the granary of Dongcheng directly." ”

"No!"

The second wave of forbidden troops pounced again, and Lu Fei followed.

As soon as he entered the city, the city was already full of corpses, and there was not much fighting at the city gate, and it seemed that the defenders of the Liao army had not come to rush over to reinforce it, and the reckless man had already rushed down the street to the north city.

Lu Fei quickly controlled the defense of the south gate, climbed to the top of the city and looked, the city was already full of chickens and dogs, and the cries and shouts were continuous.