Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Expedition

Lushan, located in the southeast of Yunzhong City, there is the edge of Yunzhong County, in the south, is the middle of Zhao State, Yunzhong County is vast and sparsely populated, except for a few more prosperous cities, other densely populated places, that is, some villages and tribes.

This is the case with Lushan, a mountain range with endless mountains and mountains, where bandits often loot cattle and sheep from nearby villages, and even occasionally sneak attacks on military towns such as Jiuyuan City.

The existence of Yunzhong County was originally to defend against the Hu people in the north of Zhao State, and the appearance of the bandits on Lushan was equivalent to planting a cancer in Yunzhong County, and the Hu people were in the south and north, often robbing the food of nearby residents, making Li Feng miserable.

On this morning, the 3,000 soldiers of Yunzhong County poured out of the city and headed all the way towards Lushan.

These 3,000 soldiers are already the largest force that Li Feng can mobilize from the surrounding cities and even villages, in this era, all the people are soldiers, and in the event of a war, as long as there is a man who can use weapons, he will be conscripted into the barracks.

There are only more than 1,000 bandits on Lushan, and there are these 3,000 soldiers, as long as they command properly, it is not too difficult to capture the bandits' cottage, after all, if there are too many troops, then the defense of Cloud City will be weak, and if the Hu people attack at that time, it will be troublesome.

These 3,000 people were led by the commander of the first division, six brigade commanders under his command, the two brigades of the fifth and sixth brigades were cavalry, and the other four brigades were all infantry, and the second brigade was naturally among them.

This army bid farewell to Li Feng, left Yunzhong City from the south gate, and went in the direction of Lushan along the official road.

Out of the city of clouds, it is the south of the Zhao country, no longer have to worry about the attack of the Hu people, all the way, there are mostly mountains and rivers on the way, and occasionally there are some villages and tribes, but they are also very rare. The farther south we went, the population gradually increased.

"Commander Zhao, let's go on an expedition with the army for the first time."

Zhao Fan led the troops of the Nine Pawns and 2,000 infantry in front of the army jogging forward, while the other 5th and 6th Brigades, a thousand cavalry, were held back at the rear. At this time, Jiang Lvshuai suddenly fell beside Zhao Fan and asked with a smile.

"Hehe, indeed, this is the first time I have entered the barracks, and the only combat experience I have is only the battle with the Hu people some time ago." Zhao Fan turned his head to look at Jiang Lushuai and said with a smile.

Jiang Lushuai was noncommittal, he looked into the distance, and said: "In the past few days, I have sent someone to find out the situation of the bandits in Lushan, the leader of the mountain, named Bu Xu, is the leader of a tribe not far from the mountain. ”

Zhao Fan nodded, what Jiang Lvshuai said is not bad, throughout the ages, in troubled times, there were the most thieves, and ordinary people in order to survive, when they did not eat, they could only go up the mountain to be thieves.

Along the way, Jiang Lvshuai told Zhao Fan about some of the things he knew about Lushan, and the two talked, and the march did not seem so boring.

Although the army of 3,000 people is not large, it is also complete with three armies. The so-called three armies, in general, are strong men, strong women, and old and weak armies. The army of strong men was the main force of the battle, and the strong women were auxiliary to the construction of fortifications and labor, and the old and weak army was responsible for logistics and miscellaneous work such as army food and cooking.

Taking advantage of the time of the march, Zhao Fan also continued to enjoy the scenery along the way, in the pre-Qin period, did not receive the same environmental pollution as in the previous life, the scenery is naturally extremely beautiful, the surrounding streams are clear, the soldiers take water on the spot and drink, Zhao Fan took a sip, and felt unusually sweet.

At dusk, the brigade set up camp to rest, and in a clearing next to a small stream, hundreds of tents were erected.

In the process of today's march, Zhao Fan's training in the first few days showed results, this journey, walked nearly 100 miles, compared to the soldiers of other brigades, shouting tiredness and the like, the soldiers of the nine pawns, but the performance is much better.

The soldiers lit a fire on the spot to cook, sat together in twos and threes, sat on the ground, and chatted while eating coarse grains.

Zhao Fan, as a pawn commander, did not care about the dignity above his status, and gathered around with ordinary soldiers, eating the same things, sitting together, and listening to their conversations.

This expedition to Lushan, the little golden eagle also came with Zhao Fan, although the former originally wanted to give it to Li Bingbing and Zhao Yaer's two daughters, but the former was unwilling to do so anyway, so in desperation, he took it with him.

At night, when everyone sleeps in their tents, and there are soldiers outside who take turns on duty, the night on the steppe is not very quiet, and occasionally from afar comes the howl of wild wolves, and the terrible screams of night owls, and here thousands of people have gathered in the camp, and they are not afraid of wolves and other wild beasts.

The next morning, as soon as the sun had risen, the army resumed its journey. In this way, at noon on the third day, I finally came to a rolling mountain, and I only had to turn over the mountain in front of me, which was the foot of Deer Mountain.

Yang Shishuai ordered the army to stop advancing and trim and eat in front of a clearing, at this rate, before it fell, it should be possible to reach Lushan.

"Chief, you see the mountain cliffs here are towering and the bamboo forests are dense, I think this attack on Buxu is probably not so simple." On a raised stone, Li Mu held a sheepskin bag filled with water in his hand and pointed to the mountain road not far away.

Hearing this, Zhao Fan also nodded, it is indeed not easy to fight in this kind of dense forest, Bu Xu and other thieves have lived here for a long time, and they are very familiar with the terrain here, unless there are some good tactics, otherwise, it is indeed difficult to eliminate the thieves here.

"Wait until Lushan is watching, and then listen to Master Yang and their orders." Zhao Fan patted Li Mu on the shoulder and signaled him not to worry.

And the little eagle, in the few days that followed Zhao Fan all the way to Lushan, has grown up a lot, the eagle is a bird of prey that eats meat, but there is no meat in the ranks of the army. Fortunately, there are a lot of wild things in this era, and Zhao Fan caught some fish and shrimp and other things for it to eat on the way.

Its flying ability is also getting stronger and stronger, on the way, except for occasionally falling on Zhao Fan's shoulder for a short rest, most of the time it flies all the way, and the soldiers in the army know that this is the golden eagle raised by Zhao Fan, and they are also very envious.

This bird of prey grows to a certain point and will be so powerful that even wild wolves can kill it.

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