Chapter 17: Snowy Night

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On this day, the sun was shining, forty miles east of Zhangjiakou at the gravel valley, Zhai Zhe sat on the ground with more than a dozen people in the car, and the noon sun dispersed a little cold, so that it was not so cold.

Running in from outside the forest, a cavalryman shouted on his horse: "Coming! ”

Zhai Zhe immediately turned over and got on the horse, and the people around him moved quickly, following closely behind. Since killing the two disobedient horse thieves, the attitude of the people in the cottage towards Zhai Zhe has been much more respectful. Everyone understands that there is no more comfortable horse thief in the Duoyan Grassland.

Along the mountain forest, a knight in the distance cautiously ran towards him.

Zhai Zhe led more than 20 horsemen to meet him.

"Ge Feng!" Lao Yuan Zhai Zhe opened his arms.

"Second master, I didn't expect us to meet here!" Ge Feng dismounted and saluted respectfully.

Zhai Zhe jumped off the horse and helped him up, saying, "Fan Dongjia asked me to bring you a message, the matter is done, you can go back to the set." ”

"After doing this, I won't be able to gain a foothold in the grassland anymore!" Ge Feng got up and sighed, and couldn't help but scold: "Lu Fuyou, this old thing, is vicious in his heart, and he must not die well!" ”

After more than a month of living in the nest of horse thieves in the grassland, he realized how happy he had been. There is wine and meat, and occasionally he can go to Yixiangyuan to hug women, but he is also the number one in the line in the guards, and there are more than 20 cronies under his hands.

After escaping into the grassland, there was no qiē, because of the previous relationship, there were horse thieves who were willing to accept him, but after a month, seeing that he no longer had the value he had before, he slowly stopped taking him seriously.

"After receiving the news, I was secretly preparing, and when the mountain harrier heard that I could return to Jizi, he was polite to me again, and in vain I had passed so many messages to him before."

"You remember the location of the old camp of the Harrier over the mountain!"

Ge Feng nodded again and again: "I remember clearly, I also drew a road map." There are more than 300 harriers in the mountains, and they are one of the best horse thieves in the Duoyan grassland! There was a hint of doubt in his tone, and he didn't understand why the business in Zhangjiakou would act against the horse thieves in the grassland, which was not like the behavior of a businessman.

The target of the attack was not chosen by Zhai Zhe, and he had already felt the ambition of the Jurchens for the Duoyan Grassland after so many years in Zhangjiakou, and he knew the shape of Liaodong and the grassland well, and this place abandoned by the Chahar people would become the starting point of the general trend of the world.

This summer, Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao, in order to keep the Chahar tribe staying, did not hesitate to violate the imperial court ban to give rice to the Chahar people privately, and finally failed to tempt Lin Dan Khan.

The situation in Liaodong was very delicate, and the Jurchens were very strong, and since Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao, took office, he had been implementing the strategy of uniting with the Mongol Lin Dan Khan to resist the Jurchens. Although Lin Dan Khan has always been arrogant, he has always been very firm in the matter of resisting the Jurchens. Yuan Chonghuan reciprocated the favor and opened a mutual market in Guangning City, and the weapons, grain and grass needed by Chahar could be exchanged for war horses, and he supported Lin Dan Khan openly and secretly.

But the two sides are not of the same mind, Lin Dan Khan did not go all out when the Jurchens captured Guangning City last year, resulting in the fall of Guangning City, and the direct contact between Liaodong Town and the Chahar tribe was severed.

Zhai Zhe now understands a little, no matter how unreliable and arrogant and greedy the Mongolian Lin Dan Khan is in the eyes of the Ming people, Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao, still chooses to cooperate with him.

As long as the Chahars remained in the Duoyan grassland, the Jurchens could only choose the Ningjin defense line to attack the Ming Dynasty, and the rear would also face the threat of Mongol cavalry. But the Chahar people are gone, the Duoyan grassland has become a blank, and the town of Daming Jiliao not only has to face the murderous Jurchens alone, but more importantly, the Jurchens can choose to avoid the strong Ningjin defense line

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FOC enters the city of Koujing from the Great Wall along the grassland.

On the way back to the old camp, Ge Feng kept chattering, and Zhai Zhe barely listened to a word. The shape of the Duoyan grassland is very clear, the Chahar people who stay behind will definitely not be able to resist the adjacent Jurchens, this will be the sphere of influence of the Dongyu, and the only thing he can do is to strengthen himself and stand by.

The lid has been lifted! He knows the ultimate mystery, but he has to stand on the opposite side of the general trend.

In the second year of Chongzhen, perhaps because of the drought, the winter snow on the grassland came a little late, but it finally came.

At the end of November, the north wind whipped the snowflakes and turned the grasslands silver, and the snow continued to fall for a whole day until the evening. After this snowfall, the caravan would not travel for a short time, and Fan Yongdou maintained great patience.

In the evening, a messenger was brought from the sentry post of Zhai Zhe's resettlement office at the gravel valley.

Half an hour later, almost all the horse thieves in the old camp in the valley set out to prepare their horses and weapons and walked out of the mountain covered with snow.

There is no torch lighting on the snowy night, and the mountain road is very difficult to walk, but this time there are no horse thieves on the road to complain, and Zhai Zhe has prepared cotton clothes for them for the winter in this month.

Ge Feng exhaled hot air and muttered, "It's such a cold day." ”

On such a cold day, it is indeed a convenient day for sneak attacks! Horse thieves would never have imagined that on such a day, someone would not be able to stay at home and disturb them for the winter.

At midnight, two hundred people came out of the mountain, and there was snow in the grassland, but it could not stop the footsteps of the war horses.

Ge Feng and the messenger walked in the forefront, all the way to the east, under the cover of heavy snow, many terrain has changed its original appearance, the two carefully identified along the way, the team walked very slowly, I don't know when it started, the snow came down again, and everyone was covered with a layer of snow white as they walked.

The silent procession had been gone for more than an hour, and some of them were already dozing off their horses, when the messenger stopped and pointed to a forest not far away, saying, "Our men are ahead." ”

Zhai Zhe ordered Meng Kang and Che Feng to lead the brigade to wait on the spot, and went forward with the messenger with Xiao Zhiyan and Ge Feng.

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ooo came to the outside of the woods, under the cover of the wind and snow, Zhai Zhe could hear the low voice, and he could faintly see some firelight.

The outer side of the woods was dense, and the four dismounted entered on foot, their leather boots creaking on the ground.

"What people!" There was a shouting from inside.

The messenger raised his hand and stopped, replying: "Snow Night Walk!" "This should be a code!

Two people jumped down from under the tree twenty or thirty paces away, and complained: "Why did you come back, the head of the house is already in a hurry!" ”

"The road is slippery in the snow, and it's not easy to walk!"

The two glanced at the three Zhai Zhe behind them, and beckoned, "Go in!" ”

Walking a hundred steps into the woods, the trees were more lush, the snow on the ground was not thick, and a dozen bonfires were lit in a circle, and four or five tents were set up on the edges, where about two hundred people were hiding to keep out the cold.

"Master, the wild dogs are back!" The two of them shouted inside on guard. Wild dogs are the nickname of that messenger.

A man stood up in the crowd, and the scar on the right side of his face was particularly eye-catching.

Zhai Zhe walked in directly at the front, and the horse thieves sitting on the ground got up one after another to give way.

"Zhai Gongzi!" Eruzhuo's voice was muddy, mixed with heavy breathing, and his ears were indistinct, and he was not very proficient in Chinese.

"Big boss!" Zhai Zhe did not call each other by name, this is the second time the two have met. The connection with the Jurchens Fan Yongdou is very tight, and a lot of Zhai Zhe's news has to wait for him to pass on, and the Jurchens trust Fan Yongdou more.

Eruzhuo raised his hand to signal the people around him to prepare to clean up, and said to Zhai Zhe: "You guys are late!" ”

"Slippery roads on snowy days!"

"Out at this time, arrive at the old camp of the harrier who climbs the mountain, and the sky will be clear!" Eruzhuo was very unhappy.

"One qiē depends on the arrangement of the master!" Zhai Zhe kicked the ball back.

"Let's go!" Eruzhuo took the lead, and the thick-backed knife hanging from his waist swayed with his body.

The horse thieves in the woods led their horses and put out the bonfires with snow water, followed them, and went out.

The two groups of horse thieves re-embarked on the road, they were not familiar with each other, and they kept a distance of 100 steps from each other, because Ge Feng needed to lead the way, and Zhai Zhe and the others walked in front. In that short moment just now, Zhai Zhe carefully observed Eruzhuo's subordinates, the people there were very mixed, there were Mongols, Han Chinese, and there should also be Jurchens.

The wind was so strong that no one spoke along the way, and the two cavalry walked southeast for about half an hour before turning into the mountains.

The snow gradually stopped, and Ge Feng walked all the way to identify the road, hard and anxious, and a layer of sweat appeared on his forehead in such a cold weather.