Lu Haoshan encountered the biggest enemy since entering Shanxi, and this enemy was not people, but the weather, ready to say rain.

As the name suggests, the Xiaoice River refers to a relatively cold period, but it is warmer than the main ice age, and the Xiaoice River has a distinctive feature of the high frequency of extreme weather, sometimes extremely hot, sometimes extremely cold, sometimes extremely dry, and sometimes extremely waterlogged.

Lu Haoshan felt that he was a little ignorant, in his impression, the climate of the Xiaoice River is dry early and little rain, thousands of miles of red land, but the heavy rain for several days let him know: There is also rain during the Xiaoice River, and it can also rain very much.

Rain, so heavy rain, from a distance the rain seems to be a continuous line, with a pouring of heavy rain to describe the absolute appropriate, there is no cement in ancient times, most of the road is muddy, as soon as it rains, it becomes muddy, greatly lagging behind Lu Haoshan's marching speed, the horse's hooves are stuck in the mud, every step is very difficult, encounter a soft place in the mud, the soldiers have to get off the horse, reduce the weight of the horse, lead the horse forward, a foot of water and a foot of mud, the temporary clothes can not stop the downpour, one by one the whole body is warm.

"My lord, why don't you find a place to shelter from the rain, or your brother won't be able to bear it." Tang Qiang said to Lu Haoshan with a worried face.

Tang Qiang's position is the chief of the guard, but he also has two part-time jobs, instructors and counselors, in addition to protecting Lu Haoshan's safety, he also has to teach his soldiers and remind Lu Haoshan with his rich battlefield experience when necessary.

Lu Haoshan wiped the rain from his face, and asked in a hoarse voice: "Tang Qiang, it's raining so heavily, are the brothers okay?" Have the sick soldiers been accommodated? ”

It rained so heavily, the clothes couldn't stop it at all, there was no dry place in the body, and illness couldn't be avoided, and Rao is subordinates were carefully selected. But under the double attack of fatigue and rain, there are still people who fall ill, and they fall ill with a cold and fever for more than 30 at once, Lu Haoshan is a little worried, and if he continues like this, the damage will be even greater, but the military department strictly ordered to arrive in Shouyang within the specified time, and listen to the next order, Lu Haoshan, who wants to make contributions here, can only bite the bullet.

The military order is like a mountain, and that's what it says, if you don't do it well. Then no matter how good the back is, it can't be brilliant.

"It's all arranged, entrust them to the squires or people's families along the way, and leave the money and silver to take care of them, please rest assured." Tang Qiang said respectfully.

Lu Haoshan nodded, and said a little helplessly: "This ghost weather is really torturous. ”

"It's not," Sun Xiong said a little depressedly: "This foot is deep and the foot is shallow, and it is uncomfortable to walk." ”

Zhao Gongchang said on the side: "These are nothing, the worst thing is that we have lost contact with the intelligence team, this is windy and rainy." It's hard to find someone, and we can't use flying pigeons to pass on information, we haven't been in touch with them for four days, I don't know what they're doing now? ”

Such heavy rain. Not only are people and horses difficult to walk, even flying pigeons can't fly, and the rain warms the feathers, and they can't fly if they want to. Lu Haoshan could only ask people to wrap the cage containing flying pigeons with oilcloth to protect these "treasures" responsible for transmitting information as much as possible, and Lu Haoshan also laughed at himself. The sharp weapon that I have always relied on is not all-weather.

"It is estimated that there are activities in Shunde and Zhending" Lu Haoshan said calmly: "Now a large number of anti-thieves are operating in that area, there are not many thieves in Shanxi, there is no need to put energy here, I ordered them to go deep behind enemy lines, by the way, what is the vigilance range of our scouts now?" ”

Zhao Gongchang, who was in charge of guarding, smiled bitterly and said, "If you go back to your lordship, it will be ten miles." ”

In order not to get lost, we had to narrow the warning range, changing the regular 30 li to 10 li.

Even Lu Haoshan also felt that in such weather, if there was a task, no one would be idle and bored on the march.

"Alright, stay vigilant and keep on your way." Lu Haoshan ordered.

As soon as the words fell, "boom" and "boom", there was a loud sound of the sky falling apart, even the sound of the rain could not be covered, everyone turned their heads to look at the sound, and couldn't help but be shocked: the section of the official road that had been walked by the mountain just two quarters of an hour ago collapsed suddenly, and the muddy water and huge stones flooded that section of the official road at once, and it looked very scary from a distance.

If it was two quarters of an hour slower, this team might be wiped out, and Dashan was even more frightened: just now he mentioned that Lu Haoshan should rest in the collapsed place, but Lu Haoshan refused and ordered the troops to speed up, and now it seems that his own lord's decision is too wise.

"This is too scary, if we slow down a little longer, we will either not be able to get through guò or where will we be buried, this thief, God, will not let people live?" Li Dingguo said with a worried face.

Can't get through guò, that is, can't be ready to reach the destination, the court blames it for not being good, if it happens to be flooded, the bandits who come out to suppress them don't die in the hands of the bandits but hang on the road, which is also too disgraceful.

Sun Xiong said angrily: "The sky doesn't open your eyes, Shaanxi is thousands of miles away, but it is raining so hard, is it easy for us to be soldiers, we haven't eaten a mouthful of hot food for three days, and if it goes on like this, we have to eat raw rice." ”

It's raining heavily, in addition to the difficult road, cooking is also a problem, even if you want to make a fire, you can't find dry firewood, how can you have a hot meal if you can't make a fire, fortunately, Lu Haoshan has foresight, dry food is very well prepared, and you don't need to eat raw rice for the time being.

"Originally, I thought it was a beauty difference, but now it seems that it is not a beauty difference." Dashan said a little depressed.

At the beginning, there was no fighting, everyone was like playing in the mountains and rivers, not to mention how comfortable, it didn't feel like they were here to suppress bandits, but like a tour, but being poured by this rain suddenly changed his mind.

Lu Haoshan said with a straight face: "This bowl of rice as a soldier has never been delicious, okay, let's go, the road behind has been blocked, and we have no way to retreat, so we can only keep moving forward." ”

"Yes, sir." When everyone heard this, they answered in unison, and continued to pull their horses forward with difficulty.

After walking for less than half an hour, suddenly a horse ran forward desperately, and the sound of whipping the horse penetrated the wind and rain to the ears of Lu Haoshan and others, and some people desperately shouted: "Give way, emergency military situation, let"

Urgent military situation?

Lu Haoshan heard that his heart was excited, he raised his eyes and looked forward, and faintly saw that there was a horse struggling to advance in the wind and rain, and suddenly the horse fell to the ground with a "bang", and the scout rolled on the ground a few times, but he immediately got up, and he didn't care about the horse running forward quickly, panting and rushing to Lu Haoshan, and said loudly: "Report, tighten the military situation." ”

"Say!" Lu Haoshan said briefly and forcefully.

"My lord, there is a large group of bandits in front, less than ten miles away from our army, led by Lao Hui Hui Ma Shouying." This time, the scout spoke a lot more neatly.

Old back? Lu Haoshan was shocked in his heart, this guy is not easy to deal with, not to mention that his soldiers are strong and strong, he is one of the powerful factions in the many righteous armies, this person is also resourceful, and has the title of "mastermind" in the rebel army.

Although he was shocked in his heart, Lu Haoshan was silent on the surface, and asked in a deep voice, "How many of them are there?" ”

"The rain was too heavy to count, and many of them were estimated to be in the thousands."

After a pause, the scout said with some uncertainty: "My lord, it seems that the enemy scouts have also discovered us, please decide." ”

Lu Haoshan saw that the scout's face was bloody, and the blood was constantly washed by the rain, which should have been injured by falling from a horse just now, so he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Okay, good job, you step back and find Lang Zhong to bandage the wound, and then reward him for his meritorious deeds after the injury is healed." ”

"Yes, Master Xie." The scout answered, and stepped back gratefully.

"My lord, what do we do now?" Li Dingguo asked with a solemn face, obviously he also understood Ma Huihui's strength.

Lu Haoshan looked back at the official road where the landslide was pouring down, and then said with a straight face: "We have horses and baggage, there are high mountains on both sides here, even if you want to escape, you can't escape, now you can cut off the way to retreat, you can only fight against the water, the brave wins when you meet on the narrow road, one word, fight!" (To be continued......)