After Bai Ling left, Wang Meng and the others waited at the intersection again.

In the middle of the night, the sound of carriages and horses was heard on the ice road in the distance, and in a short time, a long army winding along the mountain road appeared in front of everyone—just as the herald had said before, this batch of firearms had indeed arrived at night.

So everyone unloaded and changed cars, and counted and reloaded the things on the ice road.

Thirty percent of the firearms were to follow Wang Meng into the two heads, and the remaining seventy percent continued to move forward through the ice road until they reached Yanzhou.

Although it has been delayed for half a day, as long as the army leaves on time tomorrow morning, it will not be difficult to arrive in Yanzhou on time.

Wang Meng raised his eyes from time to time to look in the direction where Bai Ling and Xue Ziping left, but it was more exposed, and the path was always silent.

The next morning, Wang Meng woke up, and the first thing he did was to ask Wei Songqing and Xue Ziping if they had returned.

The garrison shook his head silently, and did not forget to add at the end, "The twenty-three firecrackers who went out with them last night have not returned, not even men and horses." ”

Wang Meng lowered his eyes, and after a while, he frowned and said, "Straighten out your armament and prepare to set off!" ”

Because of the extra three percent of the baggage, the speed of the whole team slowed down significantly, and Wang Meng always paid attention to the movement behind him on the road, but he didn't want to come back from the front of the team with the scouts of the army in the morning light.

Wang Meng felt strange when he saw a large piece of dust in front of him from a distance, but when he saw the person coming clearly, his eyes lit up, and he immediately stepped forward.

"Adjutant General!" Xue Ziping dismounted and saluted Wang Meng.

Wang Meng looked behind him, Bai Ling and more than twenty firecrackers followed, all of them came galloping on horseback, and there was not half of the people in sight.

"Did anyone save it?" Wang Meng asked.

"They were all saved, and it went well," Xue Ziping replied with raised eyes, "We originally wanted to pick them up and look back, but we met General Shen's team on the way, so we handed over the people." ”

Wang Meng wanted to ask how he was saved, but when he heard this, he was suddenly stunned, "General Shen's team?" ”

"Yes, because a few days ago, when Zhuozhou City inspected the situation in the city, it was found that no one from Stone Monkey Town came, so the Shen Jiajun temporarily sent a team to the town to check the situation." Xue Ziping said softly, "But we still arrived one step earlier." ”

Wang Meng frowned, "Then why did you come back so late?" ”

Hearing some reproach in Shangguan's words, Xue Ziping glanced back at Bai Ling and said thoughtfully, "Well, it's because of ......"

Bai Ling smiled, didn't defend anything, and said softly, "It's all my fault, it's rare to meet General Shen's subordinates, I asked them about some old generals, so I delayed." ”

Wang Meng and the two guards behind him couldn't help but glance at Bai Ling, "Do you recognize General Shen?" ”

"I've met a few times before." Bai Ling replied softly, she turned around, holding the whip and pointing behind her, "By the way, Lord Adjutant General, we also captured more than 20 war horses of gold thieves......"

The large army behind Wang Meng slowly followed, and both Wang Meng and Bai Ling and his party retreated to the side of the road.

It was only then that Wang Meng noticed that there was also a group of horses returning with more than twenty firecrackers, who followed the back of the group, and one person drove them all the way back.

Previously, these horses were blocked by the firecrackers riding in front of them, and it was not until everyone dismounted and stepped aside that Wang Meng realized that the number of horses had doubled.

He walked towards the captured horses, and saw that they were born with thin heads and high necks, slender limbs, and fur as shiny as water.

"This is ......" Wang Meng suddenly recognized the horse in front of him, "Akhal Tejin? ”

Akhal-Tekin, one of the most proud horse breeds of the Jin people, has extremely thin skin, and the blood vessels on the neck erupt and bulge when running, and it looks like bloody sweat under the cover of sweat.

It is known for its incredible endurance and speed, but compared to other war horses, it is too slender to choose it as a mount for expeditions, and the generals on the battlefield tend to prefer the stout horses - except for the Hesta people in the northern steppes.

The Sweaty Horse is the totem of the Hesta people.

"The reason why these gold thieves didn't kill and loot is because they weren't ordinary gold soldiers." Xue Ziping replied, "Xia Guan has asked, they are the grooms of Hesta's new imperial horse, and they were originally going to rush to the Laldian grassland in the west, but they encountered a storm on the way, so they got lost, and they strayed into Stone Monkey Town. ”

"Hesta's new tribe ......," Wang Meng frowned, and repeated in a muttered voice, "is it the tribe that slaughtered the entire tribe by Arslan a few years ago?" ”

"Hmm." Xue Ziping nodded, "Exactly." There were too many horses, and we were afraid that we would delay the trip if we rushed them all back, so we picked up more than 20 of them to bring back. ”

"Okay." Wang Meng nodded, although he was indeed happy, his face was still calm, "Leave these horses to logistics, and you should also return to the team." ”

Xue Ziping clenched his fists and replied yes.

……

In the afternoon, the 8,000 army brigade carried the newly transported firearms and passed through the city gate looking south from both ends in an orderly manner.

Almost every team that traveled between Zhuozhou and Yanzhou would take a break at both ends, and the soldiers methodically followed the officials in the county town to a specific place to get supplies, and Wang Meng took the Xue brothers to the backyard of the Yamen.

The county magistrate who looked at both ends had a very good personal relationship with Wang Meng, so a banquet was set up in the courtyard for them to catch the wind.

Wang Meng originally didn't want to delay more at the two ends, so he ordered everyone to rest on the spot, and continue to go north when the inventory of the firearms was over, but because a group of teams from Yanzhou happened to transport a batch of grain to the two ends, the people in charge of the inventory in the county government could not come out for a while, and it was estimated that they would have to wait at least more than an hour than before.

So Wang Meng no longer shirked, and ordered Bai Ling and the Xue brothers to come to the county government to make an appointment - but Bai Ling refused.

She said that she had heard of the name of Liangwangwang a long time ago, and since she had only stayed here for an hour, she had to hurry up and take a good stroll around the county.

Wang Meng was not reluctant.

It's just that when he entered the county office, Wang Meng finally couldn't help but look at Xue Ziping, "How did you save the people last night?" ”

"Hmm...... They were just grooms, and although there were a dozen of them who were the guards of the Arslans, they were not a problem. Xue Ziping replied, "Last night, Wei Songqing first took us to solve a few sentries guarding the mountain pass, and after rescuing more than 20 families on the mountain, he took them to the town together. ”

"Going to town together? He took the people to the town? ”

"Well," Xue Ziping nodded, "After we entered the town, the firecrackers fired guns on all sides, and the people followed behind to beat the gong, shouting that the 'Changjia Army' had surrounded Stone Monkey Town, and the gold thieves in the town came out to surrender, and surrendered their weapons and did not kill." The thieves did not dare to resist, so they sent men out to negotiate, and then they surrendered all their swords and horses, and we returned. ”

"That's it?" Wang Meng couldn't believe his ears.