Yang Hu touched the head of the mount lovingly, this black horse is a good horse given to Yang Guo by Ma Yi horse dealers, this kind of tall war horse is not many in Yang State, and it is generally specially provided to the most elite scout camp.

Yang Hu is a chief of the Yang Army's Pioneer Scout Battalion. Yang Guo's strength is less than one army, and there is no way to surround all the four gates of Jiang City, so there are often small groups of Jiang Guo's army out of the city at night to harass the rear of Jiang Guo's army.

Yang Hu's scout battalion must be within a radius of dozens of miles of the army, investigate and reconnoitre, and once a hidden enemy army is discovered, it will launch arrows to summon the army to encircle and suppress and protect the army's logistics and food routes.

The place that Yang Hu wants to explore today is the exit of the mountain road at the southern foot of Luliang Mountain. However, several wars have shown that this is not a good hiding place, and the reason is simple, because the terrain here is too narrow. Although there are woods on both sides, the terrain is very steep, which is not suitable for Tibetans at all.

When the Yang State and the Jiang State were evenly matched, they basically stationed an army on both sides of the mountain road close to their own country. Then the people in the mountain road will not be able to rush out to prevent the other party from passing through the mountain road and directly attacking the rear of their country.

This kind of protection is only effective against one kind of people, and that is the indigenous mountain people living in the Luliang Mountain Road, and only these people can enter and exit the Luliang Mountain Road through the trees on both sides of the steep mountain road.

However, since the defeat of Jiang two years ago, basically at the beginning of the war, both sides of this mountain road were guarded by Yang troops. Yang Hu's exploration this time was also to prepare for the arrival of the garrison behind.

Thinking of this, Yang Hu jumped off his mount and led his mount close to the mountain road, where the terrain needs to go uphill, and riding on a horse consumes a lot of horsepower. As a scout, it is an instinct to cherish one's mount, and only by cherishing one's horsepower at all times can one get on his horse and flee quickly when danger comes.

After approaching the mountain road, Yang Hu frowned slightly, there was a trace of uneasiness in his heart, and with a wave of his hand, another scout in leather armor came behind him.

"Tiger head, but what does it feel wrong?" The scout asked.

"Yes! The mountain road is quiet, bury the ...... carefully"

"Whew!" Before Yang Hu finished speaking, a crossbow arrow shot out from the woods on both sides of the mountain road and came straight to Yang Hu's door.

The crossbow bolt quickly enlarged in Yang Hu's pupils, and Yang Hu threw his head back sharply, dodging the crossbow arrow, but a scream immediately sounded behind him, and another scout was shot through the skull by the crossbow arrow, and died directly on the spot.

Yang Hu looked at the tragic situation of his colleagues behind him, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and looked back at the woods on the mountain road, but the next moment, his eyes immediately opened wider, because after that arrow, more arrows were shot in the forest, densely rushing towards their team.

"Withdraw, withdraw, fire the arrow!" After all, Yang Hu was an experienced old scout, and he greeted the other colleagues behind him, flicked one foot on the ground, turned over and got on the horse, and was about to beat the horse and leave. He believed that as long as his beloved horse ran, no one would be able to catch up with him, even the prince of Jiang Kingdom, Long Yang, would still follow him and eat ashes.

"Bang!" Yang Hu suddenly heard a loud bang behind him. Yang Hu had heard this kind of sound, and the sound of a human body falling from the city wall to the ground was like this, but here, unless someone jumped off the cliff of the mountain road, otherwise......

Although Yang Hu knew that he couldn't stop any longer, his strong curiosity still prompted him to look behind him. I saw that behind his mount, two horses away, there was a young man kneeling on one knee, holding a blood-red sword to support his body, and it seemed that he had really jumped off the cliff of the mountain road.

When Yang Hu looked, the young man was also looking up. Facing the pair of eyes as red as jade, Yang Hu seemed to feel that he was a lamb targeted by a fierce tiger, and suddenly his heart jumped wildly, his mouth was dry, and he waved his hand violently, patting the horse's buttocks hard, trying to urge the horse to escape.

"Sliding!" An indifferent voice came from behind Yang Hu, and with a cold feeling on his neck, Yang Hu felt like he was flying lightly for a long time. In the middle of the whirlwind, Yang Hu saw other colleagues at the mountain pass, they were lying or lying on their stomachs, with one or several long arrows stuck in their bodies, and only a few people were still alive**.

Not far away, a black steed was running hard with a headless corpse. Is that yourself? Yang Hu then felt that the darkness in front of him had fallen, and his thoughts kept sinking, as if he had fallen into a bottomless abyss, and there was no other feeling.

……

"Boss! The horses are all intact, and there are still three people alive, so don't you make up for it! Lu Yong said excitedly.

"Give them to Fang Mao, he knows what to ask, and then mend the knife!" Xu Mo replied lightly.

After a short time, Fang Mao returned to Xu Mo's side and said softly: "Chief, these scouts said that there will be a grain team passing by in two days, and there is another thing you want to inquire about......

After Fang Mao left, Lu Yong said worriedly: "Leader, these scouts are so easy to speak, will there be fraud, do you want to interrogate those Yang State scouts again?" ”

Xu Mo shook his head and said, "If those scouts can deceive in front of Fang Mao's methods, it will be useless if you go!" Don't be unconvinced, if you can also scrape a person into a white bone like Fang Mao, and that person can still not die, you will also believe that no one can deceive and hide something in front of you. ”

Lu Yong retreated, and Dinah came from behind with a pale face. Xu Mo glanced at her, sighed and said, "I told you not to watch it a long time ago, if you don't listen, what's the matter, what is the strength of these elites of Yang Kingdom?" ”

"These ...... Vomit...... These scouts are between 5-7 and are basically at the peak of our adult men in that world. In this world, it can be regarded as extremely strong, stronger than those bandits, similar to those hunters. There is basically a melee skill in hand-to-hand combat, and it is not as good as those hunters in long-range combat. Dinah wiped the vomit from the corner of her mouth and said.

"Yes!" Xu Mo nodded, and fell into thought again.

"Are we really going to sneak attack Yang Guo's grain team?" Dinah asked, a little worried.

"Not necessarily, let's go check it out first." Xu Mo turned his head to look at Dinah and explained, "We still have too little information about the Yang Army, but there will always be opportunities. ”

"Chief, what are you going to do with these horses?" Lu Yong happily led a black horse towards Xu Mo.

"Wait, no one can ride a horse, right?" Xu Mo asked with a slight smile.

"A certain person can ride a horse, and two or three people can, and everyone else won't, it's a pity to kill them, these are all good horses!" Lu Yong was embarrassed and said embarrassedly.

"Keep it, if you steal the grain, you will have the animal power to transport it back, but you must put the horse's mouth and hooves in place, and don't show traces when you are ambushed." Xu Mo sternly instructed.

"No! Chief, shall we hurry to the place where the food convoy is going to pass now? Lu Yong asked.

"Well, we have killed more than ten scouts of the Yang Kingdom, and the army of the Yang Kingdom will soon know, we must hurry up, have the people in the valley been informed?" Xu Mo asked calmly.

"It has been told that all the women and children will go into the mountains to take shelter for a while." Lu Yong replied immediately.

……

Two days later, in the evening, "How can there be so many?" Lu Chen gritted his teeth and said.

Xu Mo, Dinah, and Lu Chen were lying on the hillside on the left side of the official road, watching Yang Guoliang's team slowly moving forward on the official road through the weeds. There are more than 50 carts in the grain team, and more than 200 people carrying grain bags on their shoulders, but Lu Chen said a lot, but he did not refer to the grain, but to the escort army of the grain team.

This escort army has a total of five pawns, three cavalry pawns, and two light armored infantry, that is, more than 500 people, which is simply not something that their rabble of more than 100 people can eat.

But Xu Mo's face was not disappointed, after observing for a while, he showed a look of joy, waved his hand, and led a few people to retreat, after exiting a few miles, Xu Mo gathered everyone together to discuss.

"Chief, there are so many guards, I'm afraid we won't be able to do it!" Lu Chen said worriedly.

"Lu Yong, are you familiar with this area?" Xu Mo ignored Lu Chen, turned his head to Lu Yong and asked.

"Familiar, this area is about 50 miles away from Jiangcheng and only more than 10 miles away from Luliang Mountain Road. Lu Yong replied.

"Do they have a lot of food, and they can exchange it for wild animals?" Lu Chen asked strangely.

"Well, the land here is fertile, there are very few natural disasters, and there are generally good harvests!" Lu Yong replied affirmatively.

"Although this is not a battlefield, but it is close to the official road, haven't the armies of Yang and Jiang have harassed these villages?" Dinah frowned and asked a question that puzzled her a little.

"Two years ago, when Yang Guo and Jiang Guo fought, the people in these villages basically ran into the Luliang Mountain Road to hide, and the ten rooms were empty, how could there be no harassment. However, in the past two years, Jiang State has been protected by the army of Qi State, and the two countries do not dare to fight in the plains on the surface, and these villages have gradually recovered. Lu Yong said with a wry smile.

"How many villages are there, how populous are they, and where are they located?" Xu Mo's eyes flashed and he asked slowly.

"There are three of them, two not far from here and one a little further away, with about 200-300 people in each village. Leader, don't you want to ......," Lu Yong exclaimed.

"Hehe, Lu Yong, it's not wrong for the leader to think so, it's better to rob these villages than to rob military rations, no one's grain is grain, and the brothers won't have many casualties, since you have joined the cottage, you will naturally have to get used to this matter sooner or later!" Fang Mao on the side said happily.

Hearing Fang Mao's words, everyone immediately focused their eyes on Xu Mo's face.