The sound of hurried footsteps faded away, and the cicadas in the mountains began to make noise again, chirping and eating.

It had just rained in the jungle, and Wang Ping was lying in the grass, his body had already been soaked in muddy water, and there were a few grass clippings and fallen leaves on his head. In the woods and jungle near Wang Ping, hundreds of Wudang Flying Army lurked on both sides of the mountain road, seizing the time to recover their strength while waiting for the pursuers to come.

Wang Ping asked the adjutant general who followed him: "Did the scout go out?" ”

"It's out."

"Let everyone rest."

"No." The adjutant general responded, got up from the muddy water, and conveyed the commander's order to everyone.

After the lieutenant left, Wang Ping also closed his eyes and forced himself to take a nap.

But he couldn't sleep.

A simple task of picking up people actually provoked a large group of enemy troops to chase and kill, which Wang Ping did not expect.

disguised as a caravan and went to Guzang to pick up Jia Xu's family, the first half of the journey was smooth.

Arriving at Guzang, Wang Ping visited Jia's house according to the address.

Jia Xu's home is not in the city, but in a village not far from the county seat.

Wang Ping didn't understand at first, why Jia Xu didn't live outside the city but didn't live in the county seat, and it shouldn't be difficult to bring his family into a relatively safe city with Jia Xu's status. Later, I learned that it was for security reasons.

Many ethnic groups live together in Liangzhou, and the blood of all ethnic groups has flowed into rivers of chaotic wars for many years, and the hatred is as deep as the sea. It is not uncommon for a city to change hands, and after a city is captured, it is common to search the families of the opposing faction, kill them to vent their anger, or imprison them for ransom, or exchange prisoners of war and captured families with the other side.

All in all, Jia Xu believes that living in the city may not be safe, and there may be nowhere to run when something happens.

On the contrary, it is much safer to choose to live outside the city, and the village where the Jia family is located has villagers who build their own dock forts to protect it. When a small group of enemy troops arrives, before the dock fort is breached, the county troops can come to support, or temporarily enter the city to take refuge; When a large number of enemy troops come to attack, the target must be the county town that is close at hand, and they will not compete with the village fort with all their strength, at most they will forcibly collect some food, and they will basically not storm the fort to kill people and set fire. Therefore, according to Jia Xu's judgment, it is safer to set up his home outside the city.

On the other hand, it is far easier to live in the village and dig tunnels or burrows in the ground than in the city.

That's right, the Jia family secretly dug tunnels and shelters, and prepared drinking water inside......

Wang Ping still learned about these situations from Jia Mu's mouth.

Jia Mu is Jia Xu's eldest son.

Jia Xu has three sons and one daughter, in addition to Jia Mu, they are the second son Jia Ji, the youngest son Jia Wan, and the daughter Jia Zhu.

Jia Mu is twenty-five years old, Jia Ji is twenty, both of them are adults, and Jia Wan, who is the third in line, is less than ten years old. Daughter Jia Zhu is just fifteen years old, not a heavenly fragrance, but she also knows that she is young and moving, but she is strangely unmarried, you must know that in this era, it is a very embarrassing thing for a woman to be fifteen years old and not married, and she has to pay more taxes to the imperial court. Jia Xu is not in a hurry at all, the Liangzhou army has always been poor, Jia Xu's Yulu is not rich enough to support his family, and paying more taxes will obviously increase the economic burden, but Jia Xu does not plan to pay this tax, he is also a rare intellectual in the Liangzhou military system, and the local officials dare to charge more taxes from his family, try it?

Wang Ping came to visit and took out Jia Xu's handwritten letter, Jia Xu's family didn't say a word after seeing the letter, and they were ready to stop after a while, as if they had practiced countless times, and their actions were so neat that Wang Ping was speechless. However, it took almost no effort to receive someone, and Wang Ping was deeply pleased, which meant that Feijun could go back early. The flying army then turned south, preparing to move south along the Guzang-Cangsong line, passing through Jincheng County into Yizhou.

But before they could get out of Guzang County, something happened to them.

More than 10 cavalry rode up to Xiliang Tiecai, interrogated the details of the "caravan", claiming that some people in the army had been taken captive, and the Liangzhou army was searching everywhere and asked the "caraver" to cooperate with the inspection. In line with the principle that more is better than less, Wang Ping let the Liangzhou sergeant search, but he did not expect that the Liangzhou sergeant immediately turned his face after opening the carriage in which the Jia family was riding, and accused Wang Ping of plotting against him, and wanted to escort the "caravan" back to Guzang for interrogation.

The Fei Army secretly concealed ordnance and infiltrated the border of Liangzhou, and escorted back to Guzang for trial, and there was Jia Xu's family in the team, Wang Ping would not be arrested no matter what. Wang Ping was also a resolute and resolute person, and ordered the more than ten Xiliang cavalry to be killed on the spot, and the whole army accelerated to the south.

Killing more than a dozen Liangzhou soldiers is equivalent to lighting the fuse.

More Liangzhou cavalry roared back and forth on the official road, all murderous, looking for the murderer of Paoze. The Wudang Flying Army killed two more waves of rangers, and when they learned the truth from the captives, they were very annoyed.

The Liangzhou army claimed that someone in the army had been taken captive and launched an investigation, referring to Jia Xu's family.

The Liangzhou Army was poor, but the officers and men in the army were very united, and the cohesion of the troops was not comparable to that of ordinary troops. Because they knew that most of the other states and counties regarded the people of Liangzhou as vulgar warriors, and when facing a strong enemy on the battlefield, they could only rely on each other. In the chaotic Liangzhou, the Liangzhou army, which is not worth much and is difficult to match even armor and equipment, will do its best to protect the family of Pao Ze as much as possible, even including the families of the dead.

Jia Xu was attacked on the way to transport grain, although he did not find the body, according to the usual practice, there are many auspicious and few lucky.

Of course, considering that Jia Xu has always been afraid of death, and the future of the Liangzhou Army was still unclear at that time, Jia Xu's personality did not rule out taking advantage of the situation to hide and wait and see the direction of the wind, so Jia Xu was initially included in the missing list. But as the Liangzhou army captured Chang'an and took power, Jia Xu still did not show up, and his family was still in his hometown, and the possibility of Jia Xu hiding became smaller and smaller, so he entered the list of fallen soldiers.

Guzang is an area controlled by the Liangzhou Army, and Jia Xu's family is naturally protected by the Liangzhou Army.

Liangzhou soldiers can turn over, Jia Xu's original reminder is indispensable, Li Dao and others read their merits, and they are even more concerned about the safety of Jia Xu's family, and specially told Gu Zang Shou to secretly protect them. As soon as Wang Ping arrived at the door, Duan Xuan, the general of Wuwei, received the news, but Duan Xuan didn't expect the people of the Jia family to go so fast, and he was kidnapped, so he sent a ranger to chase him in a hurry, so a series of things happened later.

Strictly speaking, it was a misunderstanding.

But everyone was killed, and it was too late to explain.

What's more, if the Liangzhou Army knew that Jia Xu had joined the Zhulu Leader, it would be hard to imagine that he would give the Zhulu Leader a good face, and the intellectuals of the Liangzhou Army would have three or two kittens, and you also kidnapped a more capable one, are you causing trouble?

So Wang Ping could only bite the bullet and lead his troops to run wildly.

Knowing that he was being targeted by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, Wang Ping immediately led his troops into the mountains, hoping to use the flying army to get rid of the pursuers and take everyone back to the territory safely. Seeing the cavalry drilling into the mountains, it was obviously an extremely correct decision, if the Xiliang Iron Cavalry dared to chase them into the mountains, Wang Ping didn't mind giving them a profound lesson, mountain warfare is the strength of the flying army.

The Liangzhou soldiers were indeed not good at mountain warfare.

However, the Liangzhou soldiers mobilized the Qiang people and let the Qiang people enter the mountains to encircle and suppress.

The Flying Army is in a bitter battle!