It turns out that there is a local custom that if you give birth to a twin baby, it is a great bad luck. According to local tradition, the twin brothers could only survive one of them, and the other would be drowned immediately, or sent to a distant place where the two brothers would not see each other in this life.

At that time, Chu Feiyan's parents were reluctant to drown their own flesh and blood with their own hands, and it happened that there were Taoists in Taiping Dao who passed by and preached in the local area, and the Chu clan gave the newborn Zhang Yan to Taiping Daoist people to take away to avoid disasters. With such a reason, Zhang Yan was later favored by Zhang Jiao, a "great virtuous teacher", and accepted as a righteous son.

When the people of the world hear this kind of story, they will of course think that this custom is extremely absurd. However, in the Han Dynasty, or before modern times, this kind of thing was actually very common. Of course, Zhang Qi would not feel that if he had a pair of twin brothers, it would be unlucky in the army in the future, so he hired Chu Feiyan and arranged him to be under Zang Ba as a deputy general.

Half of Zhang Yan's kung fu is on the horse. Chu Feiyan's light body kung fu is also extremely good, but it is most suitable for jumping in rugged mountainous places. After joining Zang Ba's subordinates, Chu Feiyan's reckless habits are very similar to Zang Ba's ranger temperament, and the cooperation between the two sides is also quite pleasant.

In this attack, Zang Ba, for the sake of insurance, specially asked Chu Feiyan, who was agile, to serve as a scout of the front army. Hearing the news that Chu Feiyan brought back, Zang Ba stopped, thought for a while, and asked:

"Is it possible to lead a squad around in front of them and intercept them?"

Zang Ba's current location is on an official road leading to the Jizhou Prefecture Division's expedition camp. Due to the frequent passage of supply convoys of the Han army, the ice and snow on the entire road were swept away.

The speed of marching on such a frozen dirt road is actually quite good. But. If you want to make a detour from the snow-covered field to the front of the Han convoy, the obstacles on the way are still quite large. Anyone who has ever walked on the snow will know this.

But. Chu Feiyan's answer was very simple:

"To a certain team of skiers, and a certain will not be discovered by the enemy."

The so-called "skiers" refer to the good soldiers who ski in the army. These things that should not have appeared in the late Han Dynasty were all made up by arrogance.

After the snow falls in the winter on the Taihang Mountains, the road becomes extremely difficult to walk. In order to solve the problem of going out after the snow, Zhang Crazy had an idea and designed skis and snowshoes in later generations. for travel.

There is no doubt that as soon as these clever designs appeared, they immediately made the title of "Little Heavenly Master" on Zhang Qiang's head more and more convincing.

However, after these things are created, the role they play is not too big.

After all, the snow in the area of Taihang Mountain. Usually not too thick. There are many trees in the mountains, and the mountain roads are not smooth. If you slide up, you might bump into something unexpected. With the carpenter's craftsmanship in the late Han Dynasty, the snowshoes and snowboards produced were easily damaged. Moreover, operating skis requires a lot of individual skills. Not everyone can operate it easily.

Combined with the above limitations, these inventions of Zhang Qiang can probably increase the speed of the winter mobility of the Taixing Army by about 20%. And in line with the idea of suddenly using it in the future, "fiercely" at a critical moment. Insolence did not popularize these snow equipment in the army.

Therefore, under Zang Ba, the soldiers who have been trained in snow skiing add up to a total of only two hundred-man teams.

However, at a time when short assaults are needed, the speed advantage of skis becomes a key to the success or failure of the battle.

Looking at Chu Feiyan, who took more than 100 elite soldiers and skied all the way, Zang Ba sorted out the 300 soldiers who were ready to stop, and chased after the Han army baggage team in front of him unhurriedly.

A team transporting baggage, even if there is army protection, Zang Ba will not care. The reason why he took great pains to send Chu Feiyan around the front was to prevent the attacked baggage team from having the opportunity to notify the military camp twenty-five miles away.

"Qu Shuai, Chu Shuai has blocked the enemy!"

In order not to disturb the Han army's baggage team, Zang Ba led the main force and followed the enemy at a distance of two or three miles. When the scouts who were carefully observing in front reported the news to Zang Ba, a burst of excitement flashed on Zang Ba's face, and he turned around and yelled at the three hundred elite soldiers who followed:

"Brothers, copy the guys, and rush with me!"

After that, Zang Ba took the lead, maintained the speed of fast walking, and set off forward. Behind him, there was a group of untidy, but high-spirited men in armor. Just looking at the posture of their actions, they can only be described in one word, and that is:

-- Aggressive.

It's just a two-to-three-mile journey, and for a strong man like Zang Ba who is used to walking mountain roads, it will be a moment. At this time, the enemies of Zang Bajun's army were panicking about the unidentified enemy that suddenly appeared in front of them. Zang Ba took the lead with his people, and actually approached only two hundred steps away from the other party, and the other party found that the main force of the enemy army had been copied from behind.

After Zang Ba successfully intercepted the enemy before and after, the outcome of this battle was decided. After all, there were only 400 civilians and 40 county soldiers in this baggage team. When it comes to combat effectiveness, it is not worth a hundred people under Zang Ba.

With just a charge, Zang Ba carried the head of the Han army and announced his victory to the other side. The people who were surrounded by the front and rear of the army, except for dozens of people who left the road in panic and fled to the snow on both sides, the remaining more than 300 people obediently chose to surrender.

Then, the people who surrendered witnessed how the group of "thieves" wearing strange "shoes" walked like flying on the soft and difficult snow, and easily cut down their fleeing companions one by one in the snow.

"Heavenly soldiers descend to earth!"

Some superstitious people have fallen to their knees and begged for mercy loudly. And the rest of the people, in the face of this chilling scene, also completely lost the idea of resisting. So in just two pillars of incense, the entire baggage team was in the hands of Zang Bajun.

The materials transported by the baggage team were not valuable goods, but military rations. Don't look at the 400 people in charge of transportation, that's because some of them were conscripted into the military camp to serve in the military camp, just by the way. A simple estimate of the military rations transported is about the supply of 3,000 people for ten days.

"Quick, change into the clothes of the people, and get ready to go!"

Zang Ba only glanced at the materials loaded on the cart of the baggage team, and hurriedly asked his subordinates to change their clothes and start the next step.

The captured Minfu and the county soldiers of the Han army, after picking out some leaders and conducting a brief interrogation, were guarded by Zang Ba's rear army. These people are useless to kill, and Zang Ba does not intend to do things to the end. When the battle is over, these more than 300 captives will be released and sent home.

The stopped baggage convoy, after an hour, finally set out on the road again. It's just that this time, the people who pushed the cart turned into a bunch of counterfeiters.

The guard of the Han army is still quite strict. On the road ten miles away from the camp, there was a beacon set up by the Han army.

The so-called beacon is the beacon tower. This ancient artificial alarm system, once attacked, set fire at night and smoke during the day as an alarm signal. In ancient times, when there was no air pollution, people could see the lit beacon signal from a distance of 20 miles.

It's just that the beacons of the Han Dynasty are basically located in the border areas. In the interior of Dahan, Zang Ba discovered this kind of facility for the first time.

You must know that the Han army camp here was only temporarily set up during the expedition. However, for the sake of such a temporary camp, the commander of the Han army actually set up a semi-permanent beacon on the side of the road in the area under his control. I don't know if this caution should be called timidity.

Now that Fengsui has appeared, Zang Ba naturally can't let its control remain in the hands of the Han army. However, this kind of trivial work does not need to be done by Zang Ba himself. Zang Ba didn't need to speak, just glanced at him, and the deputy general Chu Feiyan understood.

The baggage team arrived in front of the beacon, guarding the "beacon" of the beacon, and opened the gate at the bottom of the beacon early and greeted it with a smile.

This cannot be blamed for their low vigilance.

As a beacon in a safe area, every few days, you can see a team of baggage trucks going back and forth between the county seat and the camp. The supplies needed by the beacon were also provided by these baggage convoys. In such a situation, is it difficult for the beacons to be on guard one by one as if they were facing a great enemy?

However, when the baggage convoy approached, the beacons realized that something was wrong.

The escorts who walked in the front, the Fengzi didn't know any of them?

For no reason, the escort personnel of the baggage team will not be easily replaced. You must know that the supply of military supplies has always been a place of abundant oil and water. Escorting baggage is one of the beauty differences in everyone's eyes. Not to mention anything else, the allowable wear and tear along the way alone is enough for the escort to make a small profit.

Of course, the premise of making a fortune is that the person who transports the baggage has sufficient status and status. If you don't have anything to rely on, you can do such work, just wait for the family to be broken......

With such details in it, the escort with a heavy burden will not change it casually. Even if it does, it won't all change all at once.

Fengzi, who has an inflexible brain, is still thinking about why he was replaced; Fengzi, who reacted quickly, had begun to quietly retreat backwards. Chu Feiyan, who was walking in the front, looked at the few beacons that began to retreat, and knew that the enemy had already reacted.

I have to say that this is a flaw left by Zang Ba's thoughtfulness and carelessness. It's no wonder, though. It's the first time Zang Ba has done such a thing.

Therefore, in order to make up for the flaw, Chu Feiyan had to make a decisive move.

No, to be exact, out of the legs. (To be continued......)