Zhao Yun originally thought that the trappers in the middle camp had killed the two captives who were carried into the dense forest by him, but in fact they were just stuffed with cloth in their mouths and hung upside down on the branches of the tree with rattan. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The trapper told Zhao Yun that people are usually the most afraid of the unknown, so he first used seemingly murderous means to scare the two captives in front of him, and interrogated them separately, so as to avoid the two collusion, and wait for the first two to confess, and it is clear whether the people behind him are telling the truth.

From this ordinary trapper, Zhao Yun felt that he had learned a lot.

The captives have already explained that they are soldiers under the command of Yu Poison, the commander of the Black Mountain Army, and were sent by the deputy marshal Yang Chou to find Kwaicheng in the mountains, preparing to use Kwaicheng as a stronghold. There are more than 10,000 people under Yu Poison's command, mainly occupying Shanyang, Yongcheng and the area of Shooting Dogs.

Judging from the confessions of these captives, Yang Chou obviously already knew about the existence of Kwai City, and even the general location was basically clear, as long as the specific location was determined, he would definitely send someone to camp here in the next step.

Zhao Yun left the captives in the care of the trappers, and he returned to report the situation to Song Xian.

Song Xian attached great importance to the military information that Zhao Yun had discovered, and he immediately urged his subordinates to quickly rush to Kwai City for defense, and at the same time handed over more important tasks to Zhao Yun. Song Xian ordered Zhao Yun to take nine people out of the mountain to conduct counter-reconnaissance near Yongcheng to determine the specific strength and deployment of the Black Mountain Army in the Poison Department, so as to provide accurate information for the first battle after the Flying Cavalry Battalion left the city.

According to the Han military system, one army is 5 people, and two soldiers are one, and Song Xian dispatched nine knights to Zhao Yun, which is equivalent to promoting Zhao Yun from an ordinary vanguard knight to a chief.

The vanguard knights under Song Xian's command were only three hundred horsemen, and Zhao Yun had been promoted to a chief in less than ten days after entering the camp, which showed that his ability was outstanding and was recognized by Song Xian.

Because this time they were going out of the mountain to counter the reconnaissance, Zhao Yun and the other ten people led the war horse to walk from the mountain, and when they arrived outside the mountain, they could ride a horse and move quickly. Xiahou Lan was also in the team of these ten people, and he was promoted by Song Xian to be the captain of the army, and Zhao Yun served as his deputy.

Zhao Yun led people to the south along the river bank, and walked out of the South Taihang Mountains in less than half a day.

At this time, the sky was dark, the wind was howling in the field, and the people were cut off. Zhao Yun led the team to find a village, and found that the village was charred and black, and there was still smoke in some places, and it was obviously burned in the past two days.

The soldiers saw dozens of charred corpses between the ruins, and Zhao Yun personally dismounted to inspect the corpses, and found that the skeletons of these corpses had traces of slashing with knives and axes, so he concluded that these people were killed first and then thrown into the fire and burned.

The vanguard knights of the Flying Cavalry Battalion were all battle-hardened warriors, and naturally they would not be afraid of dozens of charred corpses, but this was the first time they had seen such a brutal act of killing people first and then setting fire.

In the past, even if they used the most ferocious means against the Southern Xiongnu in Hedong, they would only directly kill the Southern Xiongnu who refused to surrender, but they would never set fire to the village.

It takes generations and decades of hard work for a village to build a place to stay, providing shelter from the elements. Lighting a fire can burn a village to the ground in the blink of an eye, but many people's hard work will be wiped out.

Zhao Yun led the team to continue walking at night, passing through several larger villages on the way, all of which were set on fire.

The hearts of the knights were a little heavy, and they remembered their hard work when they left Shijuntun, and remembered the difficulty of helping the homeless people to dig caves. Although Zhao Yun and Xiahou Lan had not experienced those things with the other eight knights, they had lived in the village since they were children, and they were even more disgusted and hated for such behavior.

Getting closer and closer to Yongcheng, Zhao Yun became more cautious and vigilant. It was the first time he had led his team on a solo mission, and he didn't want any accidents to happen to the knights who were following him.

The team eventually stopped three miles away from Yongcheng, where there happened to be a mound on high ground that could be seen clearly. Taking advantage of the darkness, Zhao Yun asked the knights to dismount and rest, eat some dry food, drink some water, and feed the horses some fine materials by the way.

An hour later, the sky grew brighter. Zhao Yun carefully observed the movements in Yongcheng and estimated the number of people in his heart.

The Montenegrin army, who was in charge of guarding the head of the city, seemed to see people and horses on the mounds outside the city, and they immediately reported the situation to Yang Chou, the deputy commander in the city. Yang Chou climbed to the top of the city to observe, and when he saw a dozen horses on the mound, he immediately had the greed to take it for himself.

Yang Chou hurriedly returned to the camp tent, asked his subordinates to dress him neatly, and then rushed out of Yongcheng with a thousand menacing.

As early as when Yang Chou ascended the city to look, Zhao Yun, who had excellent eyesight, had already discovered him, although he didn't know the identity of the person at the head of the city, but with the posture of this person calling forward and hugging, Zhao Yun could also conclude that this person must be the leader of the Yongcheng Black Mountain Army.

When Yang Chou went out of the city, Zhao Yun began to move westward with a piece of cavalry, although the number of the Black Mountain Army was large, but the two-legged one could definitely not compete with the four-legged speed.

Yang Chou saw that the small team in the distance was about to slip away, and he was suddenly anxious, he broke away from the big team with more than a hundred horsemen who came from a patchwork, and chased in the direction that Zhao Yun left.

Zhao Yun looked back at the Black Mountain Army behind him, and felt that it was not a way to let them chase after him like this. Moreover, before the main force of the flying cavalry battalion did not go out of the mountain, it was also necessary to try the real combat power of the Montenegrin army.

Zhao Yun ordered the team to stop advancing and turn the horse's head.

"Later, I will ride forward alone to test, and if I can kill the leader of the Black Mountain Army, you will rush up from behind and charge with me. If the enemy army is difficult, you turn around and keep going west, and I will stay behind! ”

After Zhao Yun finished speaking, he clenched his spear and urged his horse to meet the Black Mountain Army not far away.

When Yang Chou saw a horse coming in the distance, he immediately shouted to the entourage around him: "Everyone surround and greet this person together, don't hurt that white horse!" ”

Zhao Yun's face was calm, his eyes were like electricity, and his body was close to the horse's back, adapting to the rhythm of the war horse galloping at high speed.

The Montenegrin army on the opposite side had already spread out in an arc, and its intention to round up Zhao Yun was obvious.

The speed of the white horse could not be faster, Zhao Yun put the spear in his hand on the side of the horse's ridge, and stared closely at the leader of the Black Mountain Army.

There were two riders of the Black Mountain Army, one on the left and one on the right, and Zhao Yun rushed forward, stabbing the enemy in the throat on the right hand. At the same time, he leaned back, conceded a fierce blow from the enemy on his left, and then grabbed the opponent's long stick with his left hand and dragged him off his horse.

At this time, Yang Chou happened to have already urged the horse to rush to Zhao Yun's face. Zhao Yun slammed the horse's belly, the front hooves of the white horse took off, Zhao Yun took advantage of the horse's momentum, held the tail of the spear with his right hand, and stabbed the leader of the Black Mountain Army with a shot.

When the white horse's front hooves landed, Zhao Yun had already withdrawn his spear.

Two blood holes were exposed between Yang Chou's neck, and blood gushed out, and he fell off the horse.