Chapter 102 The mountain rain is coming, and the wind is full of buildings
v"How far is it?" Zhu Qizhen, who was already soaked with sweat on his clothes, stood up on horseback and looked at the uneven, undulating hills around him, where his vision was completely blocked by those hills.
"Then over this high hill, turn to the east five miles is a horse Pingchuan, run twenty miles to reach the Yutai Ridge, through the gap of the Yutai Ridge, run to the south less than ten miles, is the new opening fort of the Ming Dynasty, to the left, is the new estuary fort, both are more than 1,000 soldiers and horses stationed." The Weisha fox untied the skin around his waist and poured a sip of milk wine, squinted his eyes and looked at the surrounding terrain, and quickly came to a conclusion.
"It's finally ......" Hearing this, Zhu Qizhen, who was already physically and mentally exhausted, seemed to have been injected with a booster, straightened his back sitting on the saddle, and looked back, except for the few guards who were thrown down in the Hatuliu River, no one was left behind, and Nan Naren didn't seem to look tired, and ran to the back of the team from time to time, beckoning everyone to go faster and keep up with the team.
Seeing this scene, Zhu Qizhen couldn't help but feel a little ashamed, he was a big man, and his physical strength couldn't even compare to a woman.
No, the Weisha fox seemed to see the clue, and explained with a smile: "In fact, it is not easy for a horse to be so skilled in less than half a year like Your Majesty, but compared to us Mongolians who have grown up on horseback since childhood, it is naturally much worse and does not understand the method of force control, so Your Majesty will feel deeply tired." ”
Zhu Qizhen glanced at it, Yuan Bin and the others were similar to him, although those tile spur guards also looked tired, they could still talk and laugh freely, and the horse control was still relaxed and still had spare strength. "It is worthy of being a nomad, at least in terms of horsemanship, it does have the upper hand."
"Your Majesty, rest assured, we can support it." Yuan Bin rode to Zhu Qizhen, wiped the sweat on his forehead and said with a smile, although he was physically and mentally exhausted, but when he thought of setting foot in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, Yuan Bin and the others were in an extremely happy mood, and their bodies seemed to be full of infinite strength.
"Brother Zhu, do you want everyone to rest again." Naren also galloped over from the rear team at this time, and when she arrived at Zhu Qizhen, she couldn't help but ask distressed when she saw Ailang's tired appearance.
"It's okay, let's go, it's less than thirty miles, and it will take an hour or so to arrive, and we can't delay any longer." Zhu Qizhen gave Naren a smile back, looked at the sky and said. The sense of uneasiness in his heart became stronger and stronger, and Zhu Qizhen knew that this time the escape plan could be said to be full of loopholes.
However, this is the only chance, time, as long as you can rush into the territory of the Ming Dynasty before you can react, then you can become the final victor, otherwise, everything will come to naught.
Due north, about ten miles away from their small group of men, hundreds of horsemen were rapidly approaching in their direction. In the other direction, nearly 10,000 iron horsemen converged into an unstoppable torrent, approaching the direction of the Yutai Ridge violently...... -------------------- "Something is wrong! "Just after turning over the high hill and going eastward for several miles, and finally saw the flat open field, everyone present could not help but feel relieved, but the Weisha fox suddenly shouted, turned over and jumped off the war horse, quickly took down the quiver, poured out all the feather arrows in the pot, and put the quiver close to the ground, and attached it to it.
Seeing Na Weisha's fox's actions, the smiles on the faces of Zhu Qizhen and the others instantly stiffened, and their hearts were raised to their throats. They all stared at the fox with their eyes closed, listening intently to the fox.
"Cavalry, at least nearly 10,000, in the north and east, it seems that we have been discovered. No, Su He, you go back and see if there are any cavalry in our rear! The Weisha fox clung to the quiver and roared out one terrifying piece of bad news after another.
"There are cavalry in the rear, at least seven hundred and eight horsemen." Su He's horse galloped up the ridge, and after only one glance, his face changed instantly, and he immediately rushed back with his horse, shouting loudly.
Hearing the news, everyone became nervous, and Yuan Bin and the others were even more ashen, with a wordless despair in their eyes.
"How far is the cavalry in the rear from us?!" Zhu Qizhen's sword eyebrows were raised, and he asked loudly.
"Six or seven miles at most, they also happen to be on the mountain beam, so I can see it clearly." Su He didn't dare to slack off, and immediately replied. "But they are all riding in one person and two horses, and they are very fast, and they can get here with two pillars of incense at most."
"Throw away all the unwanted stuff on horseback. Take a look at your mounts, give up if you can't afford it, and switch to those empty horses! Naren, whose expression also became nervous, suddenly shouted loudly. Brother Zhu, you change horses immediately. ”
When Zhu Qizhen also knew that it was not nonsense, he immediately changed to an empty war horse because his master was tied to the Hatuliu River. And Yuan Bin and the others didn't need Zhu Qizhen's urging, and quickly transferred to those empty horses.
"Where should we go now?" Zhu Qizhen, who had changed horses, asked the Weisha fox who had already gotten up and was quickly putting the scattered feather arrows back into the quiver.
"Our men and horses are already very tired, and the pursuers are all one man and two horses, so we can only continue to move south, I hope that the Ming reinforcements you said can find the abnormality here and arrive in time, otherwise it will ......" Weisha Fox explained quickly while continuing to quickly arrange the equipment on his body, throwing all the blankets and other things on the horse's back to the ground.
"Got it." Zhu Qizhen took a deep breath, looked at Naren beside him who was looking at him with a worried face, stretched out his hand, shook Na Ren's slender hand, and then loosened the reins of the horse, and a group of dozens of horses galloped along the foot of the mountain on the west side, heading towards the south.
-------------------- Yutai Ridge is a mountain beam located in the north of Xinhekou Village, running east-west. There is a gap in the middle of the mountain beam that is about several miles long from north to south, which is another important passage connecting the upper and lower dams in history.
At this moment, Wang Jinchang led his 3,000 cavalry and his own 500 soldiers to garrison the troops at the north end of the gap, but since early morning, he has been waiting for five hours, but there is still no movement. "I don't know what's going on with the two sons." Wang Jinchang waved the horsewhip in his hand and whispered to the deputy general beside him.
"If there is news from the two sons, they will definitely report to the general in time. It seems that there should be no news yet. General, do you want to send another probe horse? The lieutenant general next to him took off the iron helmet, put his hand on the pergola, and looked to the north, but there was no movement on the flat horizon, and he couldn't help but feel disappointed.
"Let them send ten more horsemen to expand the area of the search to thirty miles to the north, if so...... Well? Before Wang Jinchang finished speaking, a small black dot appeared on the horizon, and it was rapidly approaching this side.
Seeing the black dot that was approaching rapidly, Wang Jinchang's expression suddenly became stern, and he shouted loudly: "Order the whole army, get ready!" ”
With the issuance of an order, Wang Jinchang's 3,000 officers and soldiers and 500 soldiers were all ready, and they all stared at the Ming scout cavalry who could already see the armor they were wearing.
"How? Saw something. Before anyone came to gallop closer, Wang Jinchang had already galloped forward, and asked loudly.
"General, the army of the Tile Thorns, with at least 10,000 soldiers and horses, is coming towards us." The scout, who was running out of breath, shouted breathlessly, "I also saw a small group of cavalry, coming towards us along the valley under the mountain beam on the west side. ”
"Does that small group of cavalry have a banner?" Wang Jinchang's heart jumped, and he shouted.
"No, but behind that small group of cavalry, there seems to be a force of hundreds of people chasing them."
Wang Jinchang couldn't help but gasp, and turned his face to drink. "The whole army immediately advanced, all the cavalry, first with the general to go quickly, the foot soldiers followed, Yu Adjutant General, immediately sent people to set off fireworks, signal on the beacon towers, order the soldiers of each fort, there is a big enemy attack!"
In a short period of effort, more than 3,000 foot cavalry all moved, the first was Wang Jinchang led 500 soldiers and more than 800 cavalry, first rushed to the north, and then more than 2,000 foot soldiers, in the shouting orders of officers at all levels, also galloped wildly.
"Beacon fire, second son, look!" The Yang Mansion General, who was standing on the top of a hill and looking out, suddenly shouted loudly, startling Yang Neng, who was lazily leaning on a boulder and pretending to sleep, couldn't help jumping. "Which direction?"
"To the west of us, it should be the side of Yutai Ridge." The general looked at it twice and replied loudly.
Hearing this, Yang Neng viciously spit out the grass roots chewing in his mouth, put the long knife that was resting beside him in his hand, and shouted to the soldiers who were sitting or lying down: "Brothers, get all Lao Tzu on the horse, General Wang is in trouble, I will immediately rush to Yutailing to reinforce General Wang, hurry up to Lao Tzu!" Inform Lao Tzu of my third brother......"
With the beacon tower being lit, the Ming soldiers of the several forts around Yutai Ridge and Yehu Ridge were all alarmed, and the forts that had already been ordered by Wang and Yang naturally did not dare to slack off, and immediately gathered the generals, raised their horses and whips, and rushed straight towards the Yutai Ridge with murderous spirit.
Until the two countries shook hands with the Ming Dynasty and the two countries, the border town of Xuanfu once again appeared in the wind and rain......
(To be continued)