The two peony horses of the royal car were also handsome, and they traveled north from Bayang to Mayi, with no less than 3,000 miles of twists and turns, and only traveled for half a month. If Hulan is full of such divine horses, then it is necessary to guard against Hulan's roundabout iron cavalry.

Seeing that the car trails were far away, Xu Ruyu sighed, turned around, looked at the messy horses' hooves and rut marks on the road, and felt the light of the past half a month. After being stunned for a long time, he folded into the dense forest in the west, there was little snow in the woodland, Xu Ruyu circled a few times, and saw that the traces he left on the ground changed from deep to shallow and almost unrecognizable, and then swept back to the original place, hiding on a giant tree, and secretly thought: Wu Meng left, he wanted to kill me; When Meng Tu or Mr. Wen came, it was Wu Mengli who wanted to kill me.

After half a month together, the two didn't know each other's names, and others couldn't believe it, maybe they both knew in their hearts that there would never be a time to meet again and drink and talk.

There was a mess of horses' hooves in the distance, and Xu Ruyu looked over, and Montu and the Mr. Wen turned from behind a low slope side by side. Walking to the parting place, the two turned over and dismounted, carefully identified the footprints on the snow, and found the dense forest, the dense forest was covered with little snow, covered with loose needles, and the footprints became lighter and lighter. ”

Mr. Wen looked at the moss in the forest and said: "If he leaves us, he will definitely go to the city of Mayi to settle down, let's rush over, didn't Master Wu tell us to go to the city to do some things?" ”

"Doing things in the city, what do you know?"

"We don't need you and me to do it, we just meet him by chance and give him my mount?"

"Didn't Master Wu let us get rid of him, why did Mr. Wen give him a mount?"

Mr. Wen smiled and said, "Although there are not many people in Mayi City who know our details, it is not nothing. He fought with us, and then rode a god horse that was difficult to buy, and he was afraid that he would not even be able to walk out of the ground in Xinzhou. ”

Montu frowned and said, "Since Gongzi respects him so much, how can he be willing if he succumbs to your cunning?" You have become less and less like a native of the Central Plains over the years. ”

"Killing with your own hands is killing, killing with a knife is killing, General Meng, you are becoming less and less like a Hulan person over the years."

Montu glared at him, snorted coldly, stepped on the horse, clamped the horse's belly, and galloped towards the city of Mayi. Mr. Wen was not annoyed and followed suit.

Xu Ruyu saw the two leaving, got down from the giant tree, and secretly thought: This horse is not bad, but I don't know who in this horse can send the horse back to Jiangning.

Jiangning is in urgent need of good horses, looking for all over the jurisdiction, the good horses obtained are only 3,000, and the pure-blooded good horse is only Jue'er's jujube red horse, and there is no way to talk about improving the horse breed.

When he left Jiangning, he decided to set up the Northern Five Counties Division, although the geographical location of Mayi was important, but he was not sure that important people had sneaked to Mayi at this time.

After thinking about it for a while, I decided to go to Mayi first to take a look at the situation, and then I took the horse back to Wuyang first. Thinking about it like this, I can't help but take care of each other for half a month. He found a high place, identified the location of the city, and after dark, he sneaked into the city and entered the city through the dilapidated northern wall.

A hundred years ago, the old dynasty fought with Hulan in Xinzhou, and the soldiers went out of three ways, all the way out of the partial pass, all the way out of Ningwu, all the way out of Daiyi Yanmen, and the three route armies merged at the foot of the Black Camel Mountain to defeat the Hulan Iron Cavalry. After 30 years, Chen Gui chose a place to place Mayi in the southeast of Black Camel Mountain, and expanded the land to the north for 500 miles to place Shuozhou Mansion, which was the outer barrier of Yanmen, Ningwu and Yatou Sanguan, and Hulan had to retreat to Pingcheng and Yinshan.

It was a famous town in the old dynasty, but now it is dilapidated.

The mossy green tile roof was covered with snow, Xu Ruyu swept away the snow with his sleeves, sat on the ridge with his legs bent, looking at the mountains on the northeast and northwest sides, the night moon was like water, and the mountains in the distance left only a faint black shadow.

Most of the pavilions and beacon sentry posts in the mountains were abandoned, and the city of Mayi had not been repaired for many years.

Xu Ruyu sighed and secretly wondered: Ma Yi is in dilapidation, how can he resist the Hulan Iron Horse?

If Ma Yi is lost, the Hulan Iron Horse will be able to go straight to the front of Yanmen Pass.

I think of the sentence written in the "Geography of the Fifteen Counties" about Yanmen Pass: more than 40 miles north of Daiyi, there are two mountains facing each other, its shape is like a door, and the flying geese come out of it, so it is called Yanmen. The peaks and peaks are staggered, the craggy ravines are gloomy, there is a road, circling and meandering, build the city at the top of the Yanmen Mountain, the road passes through the city, it is extremely dangerous, it is the border of the heavy land for more than a thousand years, the Yanmen Guancheng, the circumference is two miles, the wall is two zhang high, the stone seat brick body, the pheasant moat is the tooth, the hole is threefold, it is said that the east gate, the west gate, the small north gate. The east gate is built on the platform, it is said that the wild goose building, the door forehead is inlaid with a stone plaque, and the horizontal book is "natural risk". There is a Yang Liulang temple built on the west gate, and the door is inlaid with a stone plaque, and the horizontal book is "geographical". There is no top floor at the small north gate, but the brick and stone structure is particularly majestic. The stone plaque on the front of the door is horizontally engraved: "Yanmen Pass" three words.

Hulan Iron rode through the Yanmen Pass, and he could go straight to the North Tang Dynasty, the name of the northern city.

Xun Zhuwu recruited 150,000 displaced people, and originally wanted to go north to Tunbian, but suddenly turned south in the Northern Tang Dynasty and raided Qinzhou Hedong Mansion.

Xu Ruyu looked at the moonlight floating on the snow on the roof in a daze.

There were also Jiangning's spies in this Mayi city, but Xu Ruyu didn't know how to find them, so he caught a ball of snow and wiped it on his face after dawn, floated down the roof where he had sat all night, and walked on the long street.

In the past ten years, Chu Shimi has eliminated Han customs and Hu customs in Hulan, and the trade between Mayi and Pingcheng has declined, and Mayi is not as prosperous as Xu Ruyu was when he was a child.

At the end of the long street, there is a restaurant, the book "Yuan Ju" on the card, the new lacquer book, this card seems to have just been done for a few days. With a flash of thought, Xu Ruyu remembered the Yuanju Building in Shangnan, and walked into the store with his legs raised, which was just an ordinary restaurant layout, and even if there was wine, it was just turbid wine. A few men from the single-run gang got together in twos and pounded the customs of the north, and when they saw Xu Ruyu coming in, they glanced up, and they ate cakes and drank soup again.

Xu Ruyu walked to the corner and sat down, asked for a few pancakes and ate them with millet soup.

The camel bell rang, and a caravan passed through the front of the shop. The horse's back was full of goods, and it was slowly closing the door north.

Xu Ruyu pulled over the running hall and asked: "Neibian and Hulan have long been cut off from border trade, except for private gangs, how can there be such a big horse team passing through Mayi?" ”

Ran Tang pointed to the horse team outside and said: "This is the private gang of the Han family in Daiyi, the Han family can speak well in Hulan and the Xun family, although it is just a private gang, in this Fen County, in addition to the Henan horse gang that took refuge in General Qingfeng, it is the most powerful Han family horse gang in Daiyi." ”

I have heard of the Han family's affairs, Daiyi is located at the junction of Youji, Hulan, and Fenjun, and the energy of the Han family should not be underestimated. Xu Ruyu thought to himself: Chu Shi is secret from Han customs and Hu customs, except for those who run single gangs, only a few private gangs can trade between Pingcheng and Mayi for profit. The route of the private gang into Pingcheng was strictly controlled, but they returned to Mayi, but they were very free. Hulan can use private gangs to distribute eyeliner to the five middle counties, but the eyeliner of the fifteen counties cannot penetrate into Hulan.

Xu Ruyu smiled and said, "Ten years ago, I came here with my father, and I never saw that the Han family had such a large horse team. There are more than 100 horses in the past, and many more have not. ”

"No, I heard yesterday that there were three hundred horses. In the past few years, the Han family's business in Tianyu has become bigger and bigger, and this time it is quite powerful, last month, the Han family's convoy came back from Pingcheng with a full 400 carts. ”

Xu Ruyu was taken aback and asked, "Where does this horse team spend the night, I'm afraid that several inns can accommodate so many people?" ”

"The Han family's horse team and convoy spend the night outside the city, pass through the city early in the morning, and never stay in the city."

I have to ask again, someone called each other, Xu Ruyu thanked him, and let him leave, after eating the pancakes, the horse team was not finished, so he hugged the door with the diners in the store and looked around.

The brave and brave people on both sides of the horses are evenly bone-strong and strong, and most of them are heavy weapons such as Pu Dao and iron halberds, and secretly think: If the Han family has the help of this team, it will be easy for Hulan to take the horse.

In the past, the horse team was guarded by more than ten horsemen, wearing half-body leather armor, iron spears, iron swords, iron tire bows hanging on both sides of the horses, and the breath was slight, all of them were rare and good.

"The Han family is ready to reorganize, and the horse thieves outside the gate must have avoided it again, hurry up and pack up and follow behind the Han family's convoy."

Xu Ruyu heard someone mention the horse thief between Pingcheng and Ma Yi, and smiled slightly.

A person next to him whispered: "The Han family doesn't have these guards, and the horse thieves don't dare to touch him." ”

"As far as you know. The Han family is most jealous of others saying that he is involved with Hulan, so be careful of holding up the corpse at night. Before the words fell, he saw a knight in front of him stop, turned around and looked at it, and the cold light in his eyes made people palpitate.

Xu Ruyu lowered his head and avoided the man's gaze.

The man rode over, stopped in front of Xu Ruyu, and said, "Do you know Mr. Wen?" ”

Xu Ruyu looked up and said, "I've seen him a few times, but I don't know his name." ”

"Since Mr. Wen said that you are destined for Gongzi, it is not disrespectful to say his name. Mr. Wen is the captain of Pingcheng, and my Han family can do business with Hulan, and Mr. Wen has contributed a lot. ”

Xu Ruyu heard someone whispering "Wen Xianyong", turned his head to look, but saw Zhao Jingyun standing in the corner of the left hand hand and signaling to him. Xu Ruyu didn't expect Zhao Jingyun to come to Mayi in person, and thought: Maybe there is an eyeliner who will pass his itinerary back to Jiangning. smiled slightly, turned his head and said, "I also have a fate with Mr. Wen, I wonder if he has sneaked to Ma Yi now?" ”

When the diners around heard this, they immediately avoided the side, looking at Xu Ruyu's eyes with disdain and resentment.

The man's face changed slightly, and he said, "In the letter sent by Mr. Wen, it was mentioned that in Xia Han Zhishan, what are you calling?" ”

Xu Ruyu didn't mind his contempt, and said casually: "Li You, I'm afraid I will pollute Han Ye's ears." ”

Han Zhishan snorted coldly and said, "Mr. Wen said that Li Ye wants to return to the Central Plains, and he is afraid that you will be tired on the road, so let my Han family meet Li Ye on the road, so I will give Li Ye a horse with foot strength and some entanglement." You wait here for a while, and I'll have someone bring it later. "Let's ride up to the team.

Xu Ruyu looked at the flying dust raised by the horse from afar, and said loudly: "It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate, Han Ye thank Mr. Wen for me." Ignoring everyone's hostile gazes, he walked straight back to the store and said to the shopkeeper, "Is there a guest room on the second floor?" ”

The shopkeeper didn't dare to refuse, so he lowered his head and said, "This early morning, what store does Li Ye live in?" Besides, my store is only seen by the men who run the order gang. ”

"I don't know when Han Zhishan will be able to send this horse and coiled, I'm so quiet, I'm still waiting for him in the room."

The shopkeeper was helpless, smiled apologetically to the people around him, and led Xu Ruyu upstairs in front.

After a while, the window lattice beeped, Xu Ruyu opened the window, Zhao Jingyun turned over, and said, "Jingyun has seen adults." ”

Xu Ru smiled foolishly: "How can you be here?" ”

"After I arrived in Wuyang, the spies found that someone passed through the Wuyang field with six pure-blooded horses, I have never seen three pairs of pure-blooded horses, Jiang Ning is having a headache for improving the horse breed, and I followed the past to find out the adult. The cultivation of those people is so good that I can't get close to the adults, so I can only follow them secretly. Luo Boyuan, Peng Muqiu and others also sneaked into the city, whether the adults summoned them to see them. ”

"Not yet." Xu Ruyu asked, "The amount of the card in this store is newly written by you?" ”

"Because I couldn't get close to the adults, I had to come up with this trick to let the adults know that there were people in Jiangning in the city. However, Jiang Ning's eyeliner in Ma Yi is just a few men who run the single gang, and they can't make much effort. ”

Xu Ruyu nodded and said, "Do you know Wen Xianyong?" ”

Zhao Jingyun said: "Wen Xianyong has been attached to Hulan for more than ten years, and he was a guest of the Xun family at the beginning, so he joined Hulan if he had no ambition. When Xiangfan would make trouble in Fen County, Hulan took advantage of the Xun family's transfer of troops from the northern front to send troops to invade Mayi. Then the Ma Yi was returned to the Xun family, but it was agreed that the two families should not have more than 3,000 troops stationed in Pingcheng and Ma Yi. Although the Xun family claimed back Mayi, due to the limitation of the garrison, Mayi was regarded as an abandoned city, but Hulan regarded Pingcheng as an important town, and Wen Xianyong served as the captain of Pingcheng for nearly eight years. ”

Xu Ruyu said: "Hulan Iron rode as fast as the wind, and it was easy to invade Ma Yi, which had only 3,000 garrisons. ”

"There are no less than 10,000 horse thieves in this vicinity, but most of them are secretly controlled by Hulan, Wen Xianyong Mingli only governs Pingcheng 3,000 iron cavalry, plus more than 15,000 horse bandits between Pingcheng and Mayi."

"If Hulan invades south from Xinzhou, this Wen Xianyong will be Hulan's former army. Can you find out the identity of the boy who traveled with me these days? ”

"Chu Shimi has sixteen sons, only five sons are adults, Wen Xianyong is the third son of the Ze family, although it is far away, Jingyun can't distinguish it carefully, that person's ** of ten is Gongzi Ze. The most powerful of the sons of Chu Shimi to inherit the throne is the eldest son Lu, the second prince Ji, and the fourth prince Fu, but these three sons Ze have been weak and sick since childhood, but they can't learn martial arts when they worship the martial arts of the Heavenly Domain. The person wearing the high crown on his side is named Meng Li, the general of Hulan Biqi, and he is the only one among the generals of Hulan who is a close confidant of the third prince Ze. ”

There are twenty-four generals in Hulan, and these three princes really have no strength to compete for the throne.

Xu Ruyu nodded and said slowly: "That's him." Thinking of something again, he asked, "Meng Li is a disciple of Master Chu. ”

Zhao Jingyun shook his head and said, "Master Chu only accepts Hulan people when he gives apprentices, and before he leaves the surname, he is just a companion of Master Chu. The Battle of Ma Yi was his famous battle. ”

Xu Ruyu said: "Meng Li is very likely to be a descendant of the Boling Wu clan, and the pseudonym he reported to me is Wu Mengli, you are secretly paying attention to this matter." After thinking for a moment, he said: "Chu Shimi has five sons, and the four sons each lead a road of soldiers and horses when they are adults, of which the eldest son leads the troops to be stationed in Yancheng in the northeast of Youji, Yancheng has four partial flag generals, with 20,000 iron cavalry and 60,000 servant flag foot soldiers. The four princes led the troops stationed in Bohai City, there were four partial flag generals in Bohai City, with 10,000 iron cavalry, 60,000 servant banner foot soldiers, and 10,000 water camps. The second prince Jifu led the troops stationed in Wuyuan City, six partial cavalry generals, with 40,000 iron cavalry, 80,000 servant banner foot soldiers, in addition to the Suiyuan City in the city of Chu Shiduan personally led the Suiyuan army, this road army is the strongest, stabbing Suchuan, Qinzhou, and controlling the western countries. The fifth prince has just come of age, and the third prince Ze has only one partial cavalry general under his command, what do you think? ”

"In the eyes of the world: Hulan is still martial, Chu Shize is not proficient in martial arts, so he naturally does not like his father, I think at least Xun Kaitai and Cai Yi will think so."

Xu Ruyu did not hide his appreciation, nodded and said: "The first batch of people in the Northern Five Counties Division should be deployed in Pingcheng, Mayi, Yanmen, Ningwu, Daiyi, and Northern Tang, and you arrange it carefully." He also said, "The Han family is quite suspicious, if there is confirmation, you might as well secretly communicate with the Xun and Cai families to give a thunderous blow." ”

Zhao Jingyun asked: "Han Zhishan said that Bai Xianyong gave the horse ......"

Xu Ruyu smiled, told Zhao Jingyun what had happened in the past half a month, and also told the conversation that Wen Xianyong and Meng Tu had overheard in the forest about giving a horse to borrow a knife to kill people.

Zhao Jingyun sighed: "If it weren't for me, Chu Shize would really be admired by Jingyun." He smiled again, "Although Wen Xianyong is a little anxious, he is too underestimated to be an adult. What will the adults do if they want to send him to the horse? ”

Xu Ruyu said: "Wen Xianyong doesn't know my identity, and the plan to give away the horse is also calculated. If I hadn't coveted his horse, I wouldn't have come into the city of Mayi to meet you. Let Peng Muqiu change into the same outfit as me, ride a horse to Youji for a turn, and then let the Jun family send the horse to Jiangning. ”

"My lord wants to attract the eyeliner of the Youyan Cai family to Ma Yi."

"You can't help but guard against it, Ma Yi is outside Xinzhou, relying on Yanmen, Ningwu, and Biguan Sanguan natural hazards, at this time, Ma Yi's defense is the same as nothing, and the defense of only relying on the three passes is a little thinner. Let the Jun family tell King Beijing my identity. ”

Zhao Jingyun didn't know Xu Ruyu's life experience, and when he saw that he reported the secret of his life in Mayi to Cai Yi, the king of Beijing, but not Xun Kaitai, he thought that there must be other secrets in it, and he should inherit it together. He also said: "Wen Xianyong and Meng Tu are hiding in the city, and Boyuan and Mu Qiu are also in the city. ”

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