Li Rong took advantage of the night to sneak into Zhangchai Village.

It was just getting dark, and before it was time to go to bed, smoke rose from several cooking places in the village, and the soldiers were just preparing to eat.

"Get up quickly, there are thieves outside who have burned our grain trucks, and the general has ordered our battalion to guard around the village and block the main roads to prevent the thieves from escaping." Brigade commander Zhang Zhong walked to the soldiers of the Zuo Battalion who were sitting down and picking up the dishes and chopsticks to eat.

At this time, I didn't care that the soldiers were eating, and Pei Shoude specially explained the importance of Zhang Zhong's matter.

The soldiers' usual training is quite strict, and the rules are also strict, so the soldiers just complained a few words, so they could only helplessly form a formation and prepare to leave the village.

"It took a quarter of an hour from the beginning to the departure, which can be called well-trained, and it can be compared with the soldiers on duty in the Twelve Guards." Li Rong hid in a secluded place and stared at the first battalion of soldiers in action, and said in his heart.

The 12 guards of the forbidden army are the standing strength of the imperial court, the number is about two or three hundred thousand, and the soldiers from all over the country take turns to defend the Beijing division, and they have always been the main force in foreign warfare, well-equipped and well-trained.

Li Rong took a closer look at the village and found that the buildings in the village were very different from ordinary villages. There are no dwellings here or have been completely demolished, according to the method of arranging the camp in the army, built as the square camp commonly used by the Tang Army, with the village center as the Chinese army, standing in the middle, six camps are arranged around the Chinese army, like six-petal flowers, so it is also called the six flower camp, this camp is often used for "the plain Guangze, the place where there is no danger to fear".

"Where is Ling Meng?" Pei Shoude asked angrily.

Ling Meng is the team surnamed Ling, who is responsible for the transportation of grain, originally Pei Shoude's personal soldier, won his trust, and was sent to transport grain, ready to be promoted and reused after returning, I didn't expect this to happen.

The soldiers hurriedly carried Ling Meng over. Ling Meng was still unconscious.

Pei Shoude walked to Ling Meng's side, reached out to probe his snort, checked the injury, and found that Ling Meng only had a broken arm bone and fainted, and the others were fine, so he hurriedly woke him up.

"Ling Meng, what happened to the grain transport team?" Li Gui asked Ling Meng again what had happened.

Ling Meng saw the group around him, including the son of King Yue, his face changed in fright, and he trembled and recounted the incident again, which was similar to what the soldier said just now.

"Li Rong must have infiltrated the village by taking advantage of the chaos." Ander said from the side.

Under the panic of everyone, there was a fire in the grain cart, mules and horses were running around, and the attention of the soldiers on duty was attracted, how could a master like Li Rong miss such a good opportunity, not to mention that it was caused by him, and with his skills, he could also take the opportunity to sneak into the village.

"I have ordered Brigade Marshal Zhang Zhong to lead a battalion of men and horses to block the surrounding roads," Pei Shoude stepped forward and said, "If Li Rong sneaks into the village, we will just surround the village and search carefully, maybe we can catch a turtle in the urn and take Li Rong down." ”

"That makes sense," Li Gui said, "this time to see where Li Rong escaped?" Ande, you take most of the Xuanyi guards to wait outside the village, and Wang Gongzi and I go into the village to search for Li Rong, force him to the open space outside the village, and besiege him by a large team of men and horses, which will definitely kill him. ”

In this way, Li Gui took Pei Shoude and Wang Kun back to the village like a whirlwind, mobilizing soldiers to prepare for a battle.

After a while, the rest of the soldiers in the barracks ran out in a disorderly manner, and under the supervision of the commander, they gathered in the open space in front of the barracks and lined up in a neat formation.

Li Rong secretly hid on the roof of a barracks and looked at the soldiers below in surprise, "It takes no effort to get it, so I don't have to sneak into the barracks to check people." ”

"Counting the battalion that just left the village, there are five battalions of men and horses in the village, about 2,500 people," Li Rong said in his heart, "It seems that they have guessed that I have infiltrated the village and want to launch a search for the whole village, so I have to give them a little color." ”

Without waiting for the soldiers below to start moving, Li Rong turned over and jumped out of the barracks, and searched around the village for the stables.

"The stables are here!" Li Rong quickly found his goal.

The stable, which feeds hundreds of horses, occupies a wide area, the target is quite large, and the smell spreads for miles, and it can't be hidden from a master like Li Rong.

"What is it called, it makes me unable to eat," the groom scolded as he poured some water and hay into the manger.

Li Rong didn't say a word, walked up to the groom in one step, and chopped it with one palm and fainted.

"The interior of the Central Plains has never produced war horses, and it took a lot of effort for King Yue to get so many qualified war horses." Li Rong sighed as he looked at the huge stable in front of him.

There are dozens of horses standing in a row of stables, several rows in front and behind. With so many horses, there is a lot of excrement accumulated, and the smell is not so good.

Horses are also produced in the interior of the Central Plains, and there are a lot of mules and horses in Caizhou, but they are just ordinary horses, not tall, not strong, and can only be used as pack horses or ordinary people to ride, and cannot become qualified war horses, and cannot be used for battlefield fighting.

The price of war horses in Datang is quite expensive, an ordinary horse has at least five to six runs, and a well-trained war horse has to go up and down ten times, this stable has three or four hundred war horses, and there are as many as seven or eight stables like this in the village, it is estimated that there are three thousand horses, and it takes 30,000 yuan according to a horse ten runs, which is still the price of horses in the side plug, transported to the mainland, and the cost of such a large number of gold silk is definitely not less than 50,000 runs, which is not counting the usual feeding costs.

While lamenting the wealth of King Yue, Li Rong used a long knife to cut off the reins tied to the horses' necks one by one, and even set the hay pile on fire, and the entire stable burned in a while.

"Horses, you're free." Li Rong chuckled softly, jumped into the tallest black horse, and rode out of the stable with a long neighing herd of horses galloping towards the village.

"The stables are on fire," said the village soldiers, who were lining up as they rose from the flames and smoke from the direction of the surviving stables.

"Li Rong is at the stable!" Li Gui shouted angrily, called Wang Kun, and Pei Shoude ran to the stable together.

If the entire stable burned down and the horses died, the losses would be great, and the plans would be greatly affected. These war horses were collected through various ways with great effort and gold silk, and it took several years of hard work, Li Gui participated in the whole process of buying and transporting horses, and knew that it was not easy.

Li Rong rode a black horse to the second stable, and set the stable on fire, causing the war horse to rush out of the fence, and the village became even more chaotic.

"Stop these horses and don't let them run." Pei Shoude had a headache and ordered the soldiers to step forward and stop the running war horses.

War horses are the soul of cavalry, Pei Shoude, as a cavalry general, knows that it is not too late for war horses, not to mention that he himself is also a horse lover, he attaches great importance to war horses on weekdays, and orders the soldiers to cherish war horses.

Wang Kun's expression remained unchanged, he was not sorry for the horses, but concentrated on looking for Li Rong's figure.

Li Rong hid sideways under the belly of the black horse, secretly controlled the direction, and guided the black horse to run towards the gate of the village.

"I still want to run," Wang Kun shouted sharply, his long sword unsheathed, jumped onto the back of the rushing horse, tapped the horse's back with his toes, and spilled a little sword qi to stab at the black horse.

The perception of the six-rank master is amazing, it is difficult to hide it from a master of the same level at such a close distance, Wang Kun noticed that Li Rong was hiding under the belly of the horse, so he made a brazen move.

Li Rong smiled, his body was like a spirit ape, the ape's arm was stretched lightly, and his body shifted to the other horse.

The sword light flashed, and the sword qi hit the horse's head. The black horse screamed, ran forward a few steps by inertia, and fell to the ground with a bang, causing chaos among the horses behind.

With this little respite, Li Rong turned over and jumped onto the horse, the dragon yin knife was unsheathed, his toes were light, his body was like a swallow, he swept through the space of about three zhang, and slashed towards Wang Kun who was rushing over with a knife in the wind.

"Lightning type," the knife light turned into a blue-white electric dragon, and the electric dragon found a branch-like electric light around the electric dragon, which caused the air to sizzle.

At this time, Li Rong didn't want to compete with Wang Kun for the subtlety of swordsmanship, but chose to break the enemy with strength, win with speed, and divide the victory and defeat in just a few breaths, or in order to force Wang Kun back, and the rest of Li Gui and others were not a problem.

"Zhenshen Head," in the face of Li Rong's astonishing momentum, Wang Kunning calmed down, his mind sank into the realm of "Mystery", and the long sword in his hand drew a mysterious trajectory, like a chess, sprinkling chess pieces all over the sky, and instantly swung out dozens of sharp sword qi, and lined up in a mysterious formation like stars in the sky. This sword is a type of "Zhenshen Head" in the "Heavenly Machine Martial Sword", as the name suggests, it can seal the head of the god in town, not to mention the martial arts of the mortal world.

The dense sword qi intersected with the blue and white electric dragon with fangs and claws, and the sound of "popping" exploded in the air, like firecrackers set off during the Chinese New Year. The blue and white electric dragon suddenly dissipated most of it, and the remaining electric light still passed through the sword qi block, hitting Wang Kun's long sword like lightning.

A sharp knife qi blasted into Wang Kun's body through the blade, making his meridians want to split, his true qi was stagnant for a while, and his body felt a burst of numbness, especially the arm almost no longer had a trace of feeling, and he couldn't help but take a few steps back, and the horse under his feet was like a lightning strike, and collapsed to the ground. Wang Kun was also helpless, unable to stop Li Rong's attacking sword qi, and lined it up on the horse under his feet, so that the horse died, his body was crooked and almost hit by the follow-up war horse, and he hurriedly gathered his true qi and jumped aside.

"The Heavenly Machine Martial Sword is really extraordinary, it's just that you are a little worse," Li Rongchang shouted, fell on the horse's back, and galloped away.

To say that the difference in strength between the two is not so big, Wang Kun can't even catch Li Rong's move, it's really a bit peculiar to the location chosen, both of them are fighting on horseback, they are unstable, and there is not much room to retreat, so that they can only fight head-on, and Wang Kun's strength and true qi are disadvantages, and the subtleties of his swordsmanship can't be brought into play, so he has no choice but to lose.