Yang Hao rode Jian from the ground to Luheling, and secretly moved his hands and feet for fear of breaking the imperial qing, leading them to take the wrong road, and Ye Dashao, who had just arrived in Fugu City, also followed back.

Leaving Fuzhou for three days, the world gradually became more open, as far as the eye could see, there were endless wilderness everywhere, on the distant high mountains, from the foot of the mountain, the mountainside, the top of the mountain, the trees in different areas dyed the distant mountains into different colors, this magnificent landscape, as if a giant of the gods splashed ink, rendered a landscape painting.

Sometimes, it is a loess plateau where there is no grass, and the mountain is all loess, which has been washed by the rain for many years, and the splitting mountain wall has been washed out of a strange-shaped ravine. Looking at the vicissitudes of the loess high slope, I don't know how many years have passed, still standing there quietly, maybe there are often travelers passing by, but no one has ever paid attention to them.

"Yang Qincha, ahead...... It's about to enter the boundary of Luhe Ridge. ”

The military capital Yu Hou Ma Zongqiang pointed forward: "You see, the wind blowing from the ridge in front has naturally divided the geography here into two sections. This section does not grow an inch of grass, the loess covers the ground, crosses the ridge, but it is the green grass and the sky, and then it is not far away, there is a big river, that is, the Lu River, which leads directly to the Lu River Ridge. The river is extremely wide, but the whole river is hidden in the reeds, and it is difficult to find with the naked eye as far as the eye can see. ”

Yang Hao glanced at Ye Zhixuan, and Ye Zhixuan nodded quietly to show that what Ma Zongqiang said was correct. After bypassing the mountain range in front of me, the green grass in front of me suddenly opened up, like the ocean. The green meadow was like a brightly colored satin, undulating to the horizon.

Several hills lie quietly on the grassland, some also covered with green grass and small trees, while others are bare, probably because of the different soil quality. But with the weeds as green as the ocean at the foot of their mountains, and the clear blue sky without a trace of impurities, it is not desolate. The arrival of this group of men and horses occasionally startles the wild beasts and birds in the bushes, showing the vitality of this land.

Yang Hao secretly thought to himself: "This is indeed a fertile land, if there is no factor of war, how many people can be fed in this land for clearing land and grazing?" The land here is fertile and rich, more than a hundred times stronger than the barren land where they used to live, and if there is no competition from all sides, this place will become a paradise for those Northern Han people to settle. However, if it weren't for the competition between various forces, such a livable and fertile land would not have been idle until now, right? ”

Yang Hao believed in Ma You, his mind was released, and he thought: "If you can't properly take care of the interests of all parties, it will not help you to rely on righteousness." Standing on different standpoints, we are considering the interests of different parties, and this is true all over the world.

Was the Great Song Dynasty and the Northern Han Dynasty just? Or was it just for the Khitan to attack the Great Song Dynasty? No, it's just for the sake of their own national interests. It's still the case in Fuzhou, in fact, the Zhao official family has the heart to cut the domain, how can I not know? Unless the family is willing to give up Fuzhou and go to Kaifeng Mansion to live in a public service, it is understandable that they will take some preventive measures. I, Yang Hao, want to change my mind and resettle these immigrants, it's difficult. What can I do when I go to Luheling? Playing a table to the official family, and the imperial court will put pressure on the folding family? The Zhe family is now listening to the tune and not listening to the announcement, and in the current situation, the Zhao official family will not force the Zhe family too tightly......"

Looking at the width of the world, Yang Hao's eyebrows frowned tightly. He took the career of an official and sought to be an official, in order to have a personal vendetta, but now he has returned to Bazhou to take revenge and revenge, and there are heavy tasks that he Yang Hao can't bear at all, and problems that he can't solve are constantly falling on his shoulders, and he can't turn a blind eye. Thinking of Cheng Dexuan, who was still drunk at the Fuzhou Post Station at the moment, Yang Hao smiled bitterly in his heart, and suddenly felt a little envious of that Master Cheng.

After another half day, the weeds are more luxuriant, under the blue sky, as soon as the breeze passes, the waist-high weeds roll the waves, layer by layer ups and downs. In my ears, the breeze brought the sound of the river flowing, but I could not see the shadow of the river, and not far from the right was a man-high reed bush, the reeds were dense and impermeable, and the big river must be hidden in the reeds.

Ye Zhixuan suddenly said: "Yang Qin, look at it, that mountain, have you seen it, it is Luhe Ridge, and behind the ridge is a valley surrounded by mountains, it is said to be a valley, but in fact, the plain is huge, and it is not a problem to live in many people." ”

Yang Hao looked up and said excitedly, "Let's go, let's speed up." ”

On the side, Ma Zongqiang smiled and said: "Yang Qin is not in a hurry, Wangshan runs a dead horse, although it looks close, there is still a long way to go." ”

Yang Hao had also heard this sentence, but he had just forgotten for a while, and when he heard him say it, he saved himself a little unbreathed, and couldn't help but smile, but his heart had already flown to Luhe Ridge.

When it was getting dark, I finally arrived in front of the ridge. The war horse under Yang Hao's crotch unconsciously sped up and rushed forward with Ma Zongqiang, Bisu, Ye Dashao and others. Seeing that he was about to reach the bottom of the ridge, he suddenly found that a fierce battle was going on on the grassland ahead. At the foot of the mountain, more than 1,000 Song army foot soldiers held guns and pointed forward, lined up in a dense formation, firmly blocking the entrance of the mountain range, and more than 100 warriors dressed in Song army or civilian uniforms were dancing swords and guns, riding war horses, and fighting with hundreds of knights.

These Song soldiers or Hanfu Minzhuang on horseback obviously also knew that their weakness was that they had few people, and it was very disadvantageous to shoot long from the other side or let the other party line up in a charging formation, so they were all brave and brave enough to enter the enemy formation, and the enemy caught and killed, this time the opponent's peripheral men and horses could not use their strength at all, so they had to ride their horses and circle, while shouting and cheering, while paying attention to the movement of the Song army under the ridge, to prevent the foot soldiers from approaching.

Those Song people who rushed into the enemy formation were too brave, each individual was like a tiger, a horse like a tiger, rushing around in the enemy formation without falling behind, and when they saw that suddenly hundreds of Song troops appeared, and most of the Song soldiers who appeared this time were cavalry, those enemies finally panicked, someone whistled, and hundreds of knights retreated into the distance.

Yang Hao took a closer look, only to see that although the horses under the crotch of those knights were tall, they were all dressed in rags, and most of them wore a worn sheepskin jacket diagonally in this hot summer, just like many herdsmen on the grassland who were too poor and only had one dress all year round. Among them, there are only a few people who wear rudimentary leather armor. The weapons they use are even more varied, and some of them are simply forks for herding horses and sheep to defend against wild wolves.

As soon as he saw the enemy attack, Ma Zongqiang immediately gathered a cavalry team to rush up to support. In fact, those enemies were blinded by the sudden arrival of this cavalry brigade, most of the Song army was only on inferior horses, and could not gallop to fight, and only more than 20 horses could really be used for battle.

As soon as the steppe herdsmen got the order, they immediately began to retreat, and several of them were dressed in simple leather armor, obviously the leaders of this team, and their swords and guns were also sharp, and at the critical moment, they were responsible for breaking the rear, and fought with the Song knights to cover the retreat of the brigade. Only then did Yang Hao see that the Han men in civilian costumes who fought with the herdsmen were the more than ten big men under Li Guangcen.

These great men are skilled in equestrian skills, strong in martial arts, and everyone has the ability to fight against ten, especially Mu En, who makes a powerful iron halberd, wide open and closed, vertical and horizontal, like a violent storm, suppressed by a knight in half armor who fought with him.

Most of those steppe knights had fled, and a few people after the break had already fled, seeing that the man was being chased by Mu En and it was difficult to get out, one of them wore short armor and wore an iron helmet on his head that he didn't know what dynasty style it was in the Qin and Han dynasties, and suddenly turned around and rode his horse and rushed towards Mu En, raising his hand and stabbing him in the back of the heart with a spear, wanting to relieve the siege for the young general who was entangled by Mu En.

More than a dozen brothers of Mu En gathered around at this time, but they did not come forward, they seemed to be very convinced of Mu En's martial arts, but they all gathered around to watch the battle, only to see Mu En single-handedly, with a halberd in his hand, the war horse galloped, and the two teenagers fought with the two teenagers within a radius of dozens of zhang.

"Hey!" Mu En shouted, the halberd swept, the halberd tail swept the young man's helmet, the iron helmet was lifted into the air, only to hear the young man's exclamation, a long hair flew up. Mu En backhanded a halberd and a hook, and pulled the spear in his hand over, haha laughed in the stirrup, the two horses made a mistake, and when he leaned in, he grabbed the young man's belt, ripped him off the horse, and held him horizontally in the air.

The warriors around cheered in unison, and the knights of the Song army, who had joined forces to pursue the steppe knights in vain, had just rushed back, and they also applauded loudly when they saw this situation. Seeing this, the other teenager was in a hurry, and pounced on him like a mad tiger to grab people, Mu En smiled, and his hand holding the trophy had flashed out of the encirclement surrounded by everyone. As soon as Mu En went out, two big men pounced on him, and used their weapons to block the young man's attack, forcing him back into the circle, only to see them form a circle like cat and mouse, and no matter where the young man in the circle rushed, they used their weapons to force him back.

The circle became smaller and smaller as their horses approached step by step, and the young man who was caught by Mu En neighed: "Ono Ke'er, leave me alone, you go quickly." Yang Hao heard his voice from afar, like a girl's family.

Seeing that the encirclement was getting smaller and smaller, more than a dozen samurai in the four places had a tacit understanding, and they all took away their swords and guns, took off a lasso from the war horse hook, shook it in the air, and habitually issued a call like a drive in his mouth, the young man who was trapped in it rushed towards Mu En with red eyes, but he made the gun only block a few ropes, and the other ropes were very accurately set on his body, those big men laughed, and pulled hard at the same time, and the young man's whole person was firmly tied by the rope, and he was suspended in the air, The war horse under the crotch rushed straight out.

Seeing that the two were captured, the rest all fled, the Song army under the mountain range collected knives and guns, and some people also ran down from the mountain, Yang Haoce was seen by the people when he stepped forward, and saw Yang Qincha, who led them to escape through a lot of hardships, appeared, and the people cheered, attracting more people, and this relief had been spontaneously counted on Yang Hao's head.

Seeing that Yang Hao had stepped down and could still be so supported by the people, Chi Zhong and Ma Zongqiang's expressions moved slightly, and they invariably gave each other a look.

After greeting the tens of thousands of welcoming people, it was dark when the whole army returned to the valley, Yang Hao, Chizhong and Ma Zongqiang entered a cave that had been repaired halfway up the mountain, and Li Guangcen, who was known to everyone as Mu Laohan, was also invited. Now even ordinary people can see that this old man surnamed Mu has a very good background, this time to drive away those robbers, Mu Laohan's people are very powerful, they show superb horse kung fu, exquisite archery, strong martial arts, even Chi Zhong, Ma Zongqiang is also different.

The soil in this place is extremely clayey, Li Yuchang according to the mountainous terrain, try to use excavation, with a small amount of masonry and wood, has built a large number of houses, such houses are warm in winter and cool in summer, very suitable for the climate here, and extremely strong. They entered a house, sat down in turn, and had the two young men who had been taken taken up.

Sure enough, the boy who was captured by Mu Ensheng was actually a young girl. She wore a coarse kudzu blouse with brown leather trimmed around the edges, which protected her clothes. Still, because the garment was so old, her knees and elbows were worn out.

The girl is tall, with a slender nose bridge, wheat-colored healthy skin, and looks delicate and dignified, but her big eyes as clear as a lake carry a fierceness and wildness. When she looked at Yang Hao, Yang Hao had no doubt that if she was allowed to break free of the rope now, she would be able to pounce and bite her throat even with her bare hands.

Wolf...... She was like an untamed she-wolf. So, what about the teenager next to him?

Yang Hao's gaze turned to him, the young man's clothes were more tattered than the girl's, but the body wrapped in the tattered clothes was full of wildness and arrogance. His hands were cut behind his back, tied to someone who could decide his life and death with a single word, but he stood upright, as if he were standing on the top of a mountain overlooking the earth. Arrogance, arrogance. And his gaze is even more fierce than the girl, if the girl's gaze is fierce and wild, then his gaze is bloodthirsty at all.

Chi Zhong asked coldly: "Which part of the party are you?" ”

The two girls, a man and a woman, stared at him fiercely and said nothing, as if they could not understand his words at all.

Chi Zhong sneered. Originally nomadic in the southeast of Qinghai, the Eight Clans of Dangxiang approached the Central Plains since the Sui Dynasty, and by the middle of the Tang Dynasty, they had migrated to the northern part of present-day Shaanxi, and had very early contact with the Han people. The Tuoba clan in the eight clans of the party was once the royal family of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and after the Northern Wei Dynasty entered the Central Plains, they wore Hanfu and spoke Chinese. Now the Tuoba clan is the head of the eight clans of the party, and Chinese has become a lingua franca among the Dangxiang Qiang people, and there is no reason to understand it at all. Seeing that he didn't say anything, Chi Zhong sneered and said, "It seems that if you don't move the punishment, you won't be recruited." Someone's coming......"

"Wait!" At the critical moment, the red-faced singer came. Yang Hao stopped him with a smile, and said with a pleasant face: "Two, this official knows that there are often some disputes between the northwest departments. But having said that, whether it is Lord Li, the envoy of the Dingyan Army in Xiazhou, or General Yang of Linzhou, and General Fugu Zhe, they are all ministers of the First Palace, and they are all generals of the Great Song Dynasty. We are all the people of the Great Song Dynasty. If there are some disputes between the tribes, those of us who are officials can only try to calm down and resolve them, and we will not create greater enmity among the people. Who are you, and why are you attacking these people, can you say that you know with your own officials? If you have been sent by someone and deceived by anyone, this judge ...... It will be handled as discretionary as possible. ”

"Phew! Dog officer! The girl almost didn't spit on Yang Hao's face with a mouthful of saliva, Yang Hao touched the spit star on the tip of his nose, turned to Chi Zhong, spread his hands and said, "Red Army Master, you should ask." ”

Chi Zhong raised his shoulder and said, "Someone......

"Wait." The red-faced singer came again, and Li Guangcen, who was sitting on the side, turned his eagle-sharp old eyes on the faces of the pair of young men, smiled slightly, and said: "A few adults, the old man has a saying, although we are all people of the Great Song Dynasty now, but the customs and habits on the grassland should still be observed. ”

"That's, that's." Yang Hao became more and more curious about his origin, and nodded hurriedly: "I don't know what Mu Lao has to say." ”

Li Guangcen said: "The rules on the grassland, the two armies are at war, and the victor is captured, which is owned by his private owner, and he is a slave and a maid, and he is free to do it. According to the old man, these people are in rags and have outdated weapons, they should be some bandits on the grassland, what useful information can be asked from their mouths, there is really no need to waste any more effort on them, deal with them, and strictly prevent the bandits from coming back.

Yang Qincha, you have protected tens of thousands of our soldiers and civilians until we arrive here safely, and all the people are grateful for your kindness, but we have nothing to give to Lord Qincha, and our hearts have been very uneasy. The old man saw that although this girl was arrogant, her appearance was still a little pretty, and she was also tame after a good training. She was captured by my servant Mu En, and now I will make the decision to transfer her to Lord Yu Qincha, let her make a bed and fold quilts for you, serve tea and water, serve pillows, and hope that Lord Qincha will not refuse. ”

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the young man and woman suddenly changed, Yang Hao's eyes flashed, and he already knew the relationship between them, these two people should be a couple Undoubtedly, Yang Hao secretly praised Lao Mu's vicious eyes, so he also cooperated with him, turned his head and looked at the girl with a smile.

Although the girl was not afraid, she couldn't help but show some timidity when she was stared at by him like this. Yang Hao looked carefully from head to toe, and said with a smile: "Well, it's really not bad, it's good to dress up, and then change clothes, but she is also a pretty girl." Mu Lao had a good intention, hehe, Yang was born. ”