At noon, after lunch, Ma Xiao carried weapons on his back, with bamboo pieces to the school field in the east of the city, many soldiers on the school field have just eaten lunch, at this time into a dozen circles of all sizes are talking and laughing, more than a month, Ma Xiao has come to the school field every day to practice martial arts, has been familiar with most of these soldiers, and after greeting a few of them, he leaned on the haystack and closed his eyes to bask in the sun, not long after, a person dressed as a chief walked to the high platform of the school field and beat a drum, and then shouted to the people on the school field. Gather this morning with the military affairs!".

Under an order, dozens of people walked out of the crowd and came to the vicinity of the high platform, and the rest of the irrelevant personnel automatically avoided it, the chief on the high platform pointed to the people under the stage and counted them, Ma Xiao also stood in the crowd, and at a cursory glance, there were about forty people, just now, these people can see that something is wrong when they get together, a small half of them are the miscellaneous servants and gang leaders who are responsible for baggage and cooking in the barracks, and the rest of the sergeants are also old, weak, sick and disabled, and it doesn't look like a team to perform military affairs at all.

Even after the long count, he didn't say much, led everyone to set off, across the entire Taizhou City, came to the West Gate, at this time the West Gate has been opened, a group of people with curiosity and doubts out of the city, the military order is like a mountain, no one dares to ask for details, and dare not disobey, can only follow in a muffled voice, just walked out not far Ma Xiao looked back at the city tower, and saw a few people without armor standing on the city tower and looking down, Ma Xiao recognized the third son of Ning at once, as well as Fu Liusheng and several other children of the family who appeared together that day, Ning Junshan, who was standing on the city tower, saw Ma Xiaowang under the city, waved his hand at him, and then laughed with a few people around。

Ma Xiao saw this scene and understood, this time to go out to carry out military affairs is probably arranged by this damn son, there must be no good thing to go out of the city, but I don't know where to go out of the city this time, why are the people who are traveling with them are people who have no combat ability.

The team of more than 40 people stopped by the Peijiang River after traveling more than 10 miles in the wind and snow, a team of more than 10 cavalry people was waiting here with five carriages, and the chief of the cavalry who took everyone out of the city handed over the roster and returned along the same road, the leader of the cavalry was a fat middle-aged man, the flesh on his face almost covered his eyes, only a gap remained, and the armor of the whole body was propped up by the boss, but the war horse under the crotch was extremely thin, thinner than the horses of several other cavalry, and the horse Xiao suspected that this horse was slipped thin by this fat man。

The fat officer got off the horse, he was not tall, in order to see everyone had to stand on a horse stool, open the roster and start the roll call, all the names came forward, next to a small soldier on everyone's bamboo piece to draw a circle, after confirming that everyone was there, the fat man put away the roster, and said to everyone" In Xia Xu Qing, the newly promoted lieutenant of the Kangzi Battalion of the Xicheng Garrison, I summoned you here today to carry out an important secret military business, and the next time will follow me to the designated place, I can say ugly things in front, if anyone delays Lao Tzu's trip, don't blame the plate axe in my hand for not having long eyes." Saying that, he shook the big axe in his hand, and everyone was whispering below, no one could guess what military affairs were to be carried out, Ma Xiao muttered in his heart in the corner, he was thinking about whether to sneak away, obviously he appeared here The enemy specially arranged it, eighty percent of it was to take his life, and I don't know if the person who took his life is in this team.

After a short period of rectification, the fat lieutenant gave an order, everyone set off, first of all, to cross the frozen Peijiang River, this Peijiang River is known for its turbulent and steep, the whole northern border is only a small section of Taizhou City gentle, in the summer can be ferried, in the winter can pass the people and horses, so Taizhou City is a place where soldiers must fight, the team of more than 50 people marched on the wide river under the leadership of the cavalry, when they were about to reach the other side of the river, a big white bird flew over everyone's heads, and the soldiers knew that it was a snow eagle used to transmit news.

After crossing the river, the group continued to trek to the southwest, day and night camp, many places south of the Peijiang River have fallen, in order to prevent being traced, the team can not light a fire during the day, and can not show an open fire in the field when staying at night, and eat cold during the day. Within a few days, the poor people fell ill, and more than a dozen of them were sick in a row, but the fat lieutenant was unmoved, and still insisted on marching, and a few people really couldn't hold on, and fell on the side of the road, and everyone helped wrap them in blankets and put them on the carriage to continue to move forward.

In addition to following the march, Ma Xiaotian also secretly observed everyone in the team, and privately asked Xiaoba to help confirm that there was no malicious person in this group of people, so he put his mind at ease, and at night he found a corner to practice the exercises of luck and the exercises to enhance the divine thoughts, and now it is the coldest time of the year, and others have to bake the fire to drive away the cold, but he is sweating all over his body to cultivate qi, not afraid of the cold, it is strange to say, since he went out of the city, he has been cultivating in this ice and snow every day, and the speed of absorbing and refining the vitality of heaven and earth is actually a few points faster than usual, and it seems that the harsh environment can stimulate the potential of the human body more。

At noon on the 10th day, the team of soldiers who carried out secret military affairs found a forest and stopped to rest and eat after climbing a low hill Sitting on the ground and nibbling on dry food, Ma Xiao leaned on a birch tree and sat down, although the intensity of this march is very large, but for himself now it is a piece of cake, Ma Xiao feels more and more the benefits of Qi cultivation, especially after being able to store the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi into the body, his body is much stronger than before, much stronger than his peers and even a few years older than himself, watching others gnaw hard yellow cakes, Ma Xiao also took out dry food to eat, but he can also take out a piece of dried sweet potato from his arms from time to time, A few peanuts, a date, a few pieces of dried fruit or sour plum are stuffed into his mouth, and his arms are like a grocery store, all thanks to the errand in the room, he hides a little bit in the cloth bag on his body when he has nothing to do, so that he can eat it in the ice and snow.

Just as everyone was eating and complaining, the scout who was exploring the way in front rode back on horseback, came to the near place and shouted, "Rangers, thieves' rangers!" This voice directly blew up the people who were eating, and they quickly put away the cakes one by one, grabbed their weapons and got together.

The fat lieutenant ripped off the scout and asked, "Grandma, do you see clearly, this damn barren mountains and forests, there is no village in front and no store in the back, how can there be a cavalry of thieves, you are fucking stupid."

The scout was pulled off his horse directly, almost fell to the ground, and quickly replied, "I can see clearly, the cavalry of more than 100 people, just talking, it seems that it is still an elite."

"Grandma's, hell, everyone, pick up the guys, prepare to meet the enemy" After giving the order, the fat lieutenant took the lead on the horse, and he was not surprised to blame, in this cold winter season, the cost of fighting is extremely high, and the people do not have much combat effectiveness, and often the attrition of the wounded and hungry is much higher than the attrition of the battle, so winter is the season of truce, and their route is also the ridge road that bypasses the large towns, and it stands to reason that they will not encounter the rangers at all.

Under the urging of the cavalry, this tired and dirty squad formed an extremely loose and chaotic formation, half of them had never fought in the field at all, and they didn't know where they should stand, thinking that they might be safer in the middle of the crowd, so a group of people were all squeezed into the middle under the drive of a few people, pushing and insulting each other, and before the enemy arrived, they were in chaos first.

The fat lieutenant angrily scolded everyone, and before he could scold a sentence, he heard the sound of war horses not far away, and everyone was no longer crowded and pushing, one by one clenched the weapons in his hands, stretched his neck to look at the enemy army from far and near, only to see a white-robed and silver-armored young general riding a tall horse, majestically rushing in front, followed by a team of black cavalry, too many people, coming very fast, a burst of snow flew in the snow, the momentum was violent, and the legs of several timid miscellaneous servants were softened, but those soldiers who had been on the battlefield all leaned down at this moment, and quickly rubbed their hands, because it was winter, their hands were almost frozen, and everyone took this opportunity to warm their hands, a good weapon for a while.

The cavalry of the Chu army slowed down when they rushed to a distance of seventy or eighty paces, and the fat lieutenant stepped out of the front of the formation and shouted loudly, "Who is the person in front, report the name!"

The white-robed young general did not answer, when the cavalry behind caught up, lined up fifty paces away, it was noon, more than a hundred war horses galloped all the way, the hot air from the mouth and nose and the sweat on the body rose in the air A burst of white clouds, extremely spectacular, the white-robed young general lined up in formation, Tima took the lead and walked out, the cavalry behind followed, the whole team advanced like a wall, and the Peijun team here saw this scene, and they all swallowed and foamed.

Seeing that the other party didn't answer, the fat lieutenant said angrily, "Dog's thief, don't anyone dare to answer to grandpa?"

The white-robed young general who walked in front laughed and shouted, "The master is Zheng Weixiong, the vanguard general of the Chuguo Tiger Army, and today I am here to take your dog's life." After saying that, with a wave of the whip, the war horse under the crotch suddenly increased speed and rushed towards Peijun, and the cavalry behind also howled and urged the war horse to charge, more than 100 war horses charged at the same time, scared that many of the Chu soldiers here were about to retreat, and when he heard the name of the white-robed general, Ma Xiao chuckled in his heart, how could there be a few families surnamed Zheng in this Chu country, how could it be so coincidental, met here, and then thought of the smile on Ning Junshan's face when he went out of the city, Ma Xiao suddenly woke up, it seems that his ten-year-old baby soldier came out to perform military affairs was specially arranged, so the team's marching route must have been deliberately leaked, just to use the Zheng family to solve themselves outside the city。

As soon as the fat lieutenant saw the other party charging, he turned around and shouted, "Copy the guy, kill me!" After speaking, he rushed towards the other party with more than ten horses, and the soldiers behind also knew that they couldn't run, and under the drive of the people in front, they held the weapon shield and rushed up, Ma Xiao held a round shield in his left hand in front of him, and his right hand drew a javelin and held it and rushed forward, dozens of steps away, and the two armies received the soldiers in an instant.