Chapter 66: Crossing the Enemy Territory
From the time he rushed to Khitan by boat, Lin Feng never thought about returning by boat, especially now, he had gone deep into the territory of southern Shanxi, if he followed the route of the Northern Han Dynasty-Liaoguo-Sea Route and turned back to the past, not to mention the precious time, he also missed an opportunity to train through the enemy territory.
Therefore, after the overall situation of Jinzhou was stabilized, after Lin Feng served as the chief worker of the defensive position of Jinzhou City for two days, he immediately set off with a group of brothers in disguise after finding someone to ask Liu Chengjun to send a message to Liu Chengjun in the Northern Han Dynasty.
Originally, Lin Feng intended to divide one hundred soldiers into ten groups, each group chose a different route, and agreed to meet together in Shouzhou, south of the Huai River, to learn about the garrisons, defensive patterns, and living conditions of the people in various places along the way, but after the unexpected loss of five brothers in Jinzhou City, Lin Feng was depressed for a while, and completely changed the original plan - the hundred brothers were divided into three teams, each team was ten miles apart, so that they could take care of each other; Ten people in the front team, pretending to be the Hou Zhou cavalry, opened the way in the name of returning to Beijing to report the military situation or report the battle situation; The squadron of fifty people, pretending to be a team to go to the northwest to sell horses and do business, Lin Feng played the role of a big merchant who inherited the family business, collected eight carriages in Jinju City, and rotated the military horses as the horses to pull the carts, carrying the wounded brothers, all the belongings and the weapons that were eyesore, and the other accompanying brothers pretended to be the caravan guards; The rear team of forty people, dressed uniformly, made a few flags, and played the role of a group of dart masters who were returning to Luoyang, Xijing, after completing the task.
Affected by Lin Feng's depressed mood, the group of people kept a low profile and hurried away, and they were safe and sound along the way, successively passing through Zezhou (now Jincheng, Shanxi), Huaizhou (now Qinyang, Jiaozuo, Henan), Mengzhou (now the southwest corner of Jiaozuo, Henan), and after collectively renting a boat to cross the Yellow River, and then Zhou Xijing (now Luoyang, Henan), Xuzhou (now Xuchang, Henan), after walking through the city of Chenzhou (now Huaiyang, Henan), the soldiers who opened the road in front of the head and Lin Feng's squadron encountered trouble successively.
Leading the team was Wei San, who was born as a guard in King Zheng's mansion, and was more comfortable in handling mundane matters, alternating between rhetoric and arrogance along the way, fooling and scaring off a lot of harassment along the way.
On the morning of 20 February, when Wei San led his team around Chenzhou City all the way to the south, he was confronted by a group of people galloping wildly on tall horses, all with bows and arrows on their backs, both in military uniforms and without military uniforms, and the leader was a young man in a gorgeous uniform.
Seeing Wei San's blue and blue horses under their seats, the young man in Chinese clothes tightened the reins, his eyes flashed with envy, and he pointed at the horsewhip inlaid with gold in his hand, and a guard dressed in family clothes immediately stepped forward and asked loudly: "My young master sees that your horses are not bad, can you sell them to us?" Whatever it takes! ”
Wei San was angry and ridiculous, pointed to the military uniform on his body, and said loudly: "Emergency military situation, idlers immediately get out of the way, otherwise it doesn't matter if you kill!" ”
The young man in fancy clothes muttered, looking at Wei San who was about to draw his sword one by one, he reluctantly pulled away his horses, but he couldn't wait to grow his hand in his eyes and snatch these horses directly.
Wei San led the team to beat the horses through the team, and after running a certain distance, he motioned for everyone to restrain the horses, and ordered Ge Chang and Chen Lifei in the team to turn back, secretly embellishing this group of gentlemen. These people even wanted to buy the soldiers' horses, and once they saw Lin Feng's good horses, they would definitely have bad intentions.
Just as Wei San expected, the group of people moved forward again, and they bumped into Lin Feng's large team not far away, and immediately dispersed and surrounded this caravan.
Seeing this situation, Lin Feng immediately quietly typed a secret signal to his brothers to prepare to do it, and then stepped forward and gave a light salute: "This young master, a businessman from Yedu, is going to go to Caizhou (now Runan, Henan) to purchase tea for my master, and I also ask my master to make it convenient!" ”
"Your lord? Who is it? The young man in Chinese clothes jumped off the horse, played with the luxurious horsewhip in his hand, and kept spinning around the Khitan horse that Lin Feng was sitting on, reaching out to touch the smooth horse's hair.
Lin Feng quietly took the horse's head and blocked the hand of this young master with his body, and said with a smile on his face: "My master's surname is Wang Yin, and he is now staying in Yedu, Tianxiong Festival, and Tongping Zhangshi. Due to private matters, he did not wear a military uniform below. ”
"Wang Yin's envoy?" The boy was startled at first, but as soon as his eyes rolled, he immediately asked, "How do you prove it?" ”
Lin Feng smiled slightly, stretched out his hand to remove the hair on the horse's hips, revealing a brand of Khitan characters, and pointed to the brothers behind him with straight faces, explaining: "If it weren't for my Tianxiong Army, who would be able to capture the Khitans' high-grade war horses?" If it weren't for the king's subordinates, where would such a strong soldier be found in the world? ”
Hearing Lin Feng's words, Lin Renzhao and the others, who were sitting on the horse, threw off their coats, revealing the Later Zhou military uniforms and standard steel knives inside, which they had stripped from the captured soldiers of the Later Zhou in Jinzhou.
The young man in Chinese clothes still did not give up, pointed to the carriage that was protected by a group of people, and asked: "Why do you want so many carriages for the purchase of tea, it must be smuggled away!" The father of the family is the envoy to the Zhen'an Festival, and the young master has the right to find people and things that affect the safety of Chenzhou! ”
Lin Feng immediately straightened his face, stretched out his hand to stop the young man, and said in a cold voice: "Xiang Gongzi, the gift that my master brought to an old friend in Caizhou in the car, I don't bother you to check it." Besides, Xiang Gongzi should still be a white Ding, and he is not qualified enough to search our Tianxiong Army! ”
Lin Renzhao and others also jumped off their horses one after another and guarded the carriage.
As the son of the boss of Chenzhou, this Xiang Gongzi has always been used to being in the vicinity of Chenzhou, but today he met an even more horizontal one, and he immediately felt uncomfortable, his face was blue for a while, red for a while, and he was speechless.
A family member rushed over and said to Lin Feng: "What's wrong with your Tianxiong Army, my master is also a generation of famous generals who swept through the Shu Kingdom." My young master can afford you, can't he buy a horse with you? ”
In the last years of the Later Jin Dynasty, He Jian, the Qinzhou Jiedu, led the three states of Qin, Cheng and Jiezhou to rebel into Shu, and the Shu people took advantage of the situation to take Fengzhou again. Wang Pu, the prime minister at that time, recommended to lead the army to attack Gong. Xiang Gong and Fengxiang Wang Jing led the troops out of the Great Scattered Pass, even under the city, combined with the situation to cover the attack, easily pacified Qin, Feng, Jie, Cheng four states, was given a banquet Jin Xiang Palace, was given a raid clothes, gold belts, silverware, silk, saddle horses, and was also a member of the court.
Lin Feng smiled, pointed at these big horses, and said: "Horses belong to military goods, and I don't dare to sell them for any amount of money, so please forgive Gongzi!" ”
Lin Feng made a gesture, and all the brothers removed their coats, revealing the Houzhou military uniform, and all of them drew their swords in their hands, ready to rush.
The one who was difficult to ride a tiger to Gongzi was over, and a lieutenant behind him came over, whispered a few words in his ear, and Xiang Gongzi took the horse away, made way of the way, and returned without saying a word.
Lin Feng looked at the backs of this group of people in the distance, and immediately ordered a brother to hurry up and inform Chen Desheng of the rear team to wait for Pegasus to catch up with him, and beckoned Ge Chang and Chen Lifei who were answering in front, and everyone sped up and went straight to Yingzhou (now Fuyang, Anhui) in the southwest. When turning to the fork of the straight road in Caizhou, Lin Feng specially ordered to make some arrangements before adding horses.
As Lin Feng thought, just after half an hour, thousands of cavalry rushed out of Chenzhou City and chased after them along the way. However, at the fork of Cai and Yingzhou, one of the commanders who led the cavalry dismounted and observed the horseshoe prints on the ground, and led the crowd straight to Caizhou, naturally getting farther and farther away from Lin Feng and them.
These cavalrymen pursued their horses to Caizhou, a hundred miles away, at dusk, and of course did not find their target. At this time, Lin Feng had already led his team to rush through Yingzhou City and went straight to the Huai River, forty miles away, and Shouzhou (now Shou County, Anhui) in the Southern Tang Dynasty was on the other side of the Huai River.