Chapter 46: Three Thousand Horsemen
At the platform of the small hillside, next, the two conveniences discussed the specific details and transportation methods of mining veins, most of which were discussed by Lu Yi, Gu Xuan, who was the leader of this side, did not participate too much, for this kind of competition for the distribution of benefits, let his subordinates do it, what kind of identity is he, if he ends up directly, it will also be the face of the royal family, which is not only something that he himself understands, but also what Lu Yi specially requested.
Just when the two sides had already discussed about it, a few soldiers under the command of Wanyan Keni who were patrolling outside suddenly rode their horses and rushed over in a panic from the other side.
After everyone on the hillside heard the movement, they immediately looked at each other, and after looking at each other again, they knew that something big should be wrong, otherwise how could a well-trained Xiong Zhen army soldier behave so panicked.
Seeing the soldiers under his command like this, losing their own faces, Wanyan Keni's face suddenly sank, and he said angrily: "What kind of system is it that is panicked? What is going on?"
As soon as his voice fell, the soldiers on the opposite side had not yet spoken, Gu Xuan's ears moved, and he suddenly rode his horse to the top of the hillside, and looked into the distance with one eye, although there were large woods in the distance as a cover, but the sound of horses' hooves could be faintly heard.
Only then did a few soldiers finally find an opportunity to report: "Report to the general, a large number of cavalry are coming from the north!"
"What?"
"This 。。。。。。 ”
"What's going on?"
After Mo finished talking about Yan Keni, Jinglong and the others standing next to him all changed their faces, and there was a faint panic in their expressions.
Lu Yi, who was standing in the middle of the crowd, seemed to notice something, he stood with his hands down, turned his head, and took a deep look at the side that seemed to be flustered, but in fact, in the depths of his eyebrows, there was a hint of joy in Wanyan Keni, knowing that there must be something strange about this matter, but he didn't take the initiative to break this point, just stood calmly in place, waiting for the situation to change.
After going through so much, Gu Xuan also became too calm, he sat upright on the horse, his face sank like water, he didn't have too much panic, but he was a little puzzled: "The location here is extremely remote, it is not an important place, although we met a group of rogues last time we came, but it will not attract a large number of cavalry to come over, could it be that the news leaked in advance?"
Wanyan Keni suppressed the joy in his heart, and didn't dare to leak it out, he also frowned, and pretended to analyze: "Those who come from the north must not be from our Liang Kingdom, and if there is a large-scale movement of troops and horses nearby, it is impossible to hide it from me." ”
This is the truth, first of all, the location of this place on the map, is in the middle of the two states of Yanzhou, he is the border of Yanzhou, the commander of the soldiers and horses of Hulan County, sitting in the county town of Kanmeng'an, the power is not insignificant, near the station under his jurisdiction, if there is a large-scale movement of troops and horses, whether it is a private secret operation of the imperial court, or an open exercise, in short, it is impossible not to notify him in advance.
This is also to prevent the enemy's spies from taking on their identities and sneaking in, so the mobilization of troops and horses in the imperial court naturally has to notify the people below in advance, after all, everything must be a rule, and the upper and lower levels must be ventilated, and most of the time, the following people are required to cooperate.
Once there is a large-scale crossing of soldiers and horses near the station, and he has not received advance notice from the imperial court, it is easy to misunderstand, and there will be a situation where friendly troops fight each other, and then after fighting for a long time, he will find that they are all his own people, which is not beautiful.
Jinglong was standing on the hillside, but seeing that the situation was wrong, regardless of the dust on the ground, he leaned down directly on the spot, put his ears on the ground, carefully felt the vibration of the earth under his feet, and according to his own experience, he calculated that the people who came from afar had at least gathered a thousand horses, and quickly stood up at the moment, his face was full of anxiety, and turned his head to Gu Xuan and persuaded: "To avoid accidents, prince, let's hurry up and retreat first!"
Gu Xuan's brows furrowed deeply, he drove the horse forward, and ran to the edge of the hillside in a few clicks, squinting his right eye, and trying to look into the distance, only to see the yellow sand rolling in the distance, covering the sky and the sun, and the sound of horses' hooves rumbling like a thunderstorm, getting louder and louder, and the other party was obviously approaching quickly.
Gu Xuan turned his head and shouted, "Go down the mountain!"
Short and powerful two words, under his order, the others also reacted quickly, and hurriedly followed him, riding their horses and galloping down the mountain road when they came, the terrain here is different from the Yannan Mountain Range where Gu Xuan and Jinglong were attacked before, the mountains here are relatively low, although the vision of standing on the mountain is not wide enough, but fortunately, the mountain road is very wide, not crowded, before the situation is clear, they are ready to go down the mountain, and retreat directly towards the avenue.
In fact, even if it was from Liangguo, they had to leave quickly, after all, a prince of the court with a fief outside the fiefdom secretly met with the general of the border army who had military power in hand, which was unreasonable.
It's just that the leader of the cavalry of the brigade who came from a distance at this moment was none other than Wei Chidun, who was not dead and wanted to make up for his mistakes.
Although he was previously aware of his thoughts by Duanmu Shuofeng because of the incident in Qianyun Tower, and also knew about his borrowing of troops, he was severely reprimanded by him, and afterwards grabbed him and solemnly warned him, telling him not to act rashly, and everything would wait for Wu Heng to come back from the Jin Kingdom.
But Wei Chi Dian felt that since he had already caused a big disaster and had not completely solved it, he had left an extremely bad impression on Duanmu Shuofeng, if he didn't seize the opportunity to establish his merits, he might not be excluded by his own nephew in the end, and even become an apology to please Hu Yanshi, and secondly, he had listened to Wu Heng's words before, and he had always felt that this person had to be eliminated quickly, and now that he had the opportunity, he didn't know what Liang Guo was doing here, so he naturally wanted to stop the other party first.
Anyway, even if Mr. comes back afterwards, he will definitely support himself, and there will be no big mistakes, this is what he thinks about Wei Chidun, he is impulsive but not brainy, and after getting the news from Wutong Yuan, he naturally can't hold it back.
But at this time, if you want to borrow troops from Hu Yanshi again, you must not be able to borrow it, so he castrated Hu Yanshi's own brother, and the other party accepted the compensation conditions given by Duanmu Shuofeng because he was good at talking, in the final analysis, he could not help but not pursue him, or for the sake of Duanmu Shuofeng's face, now he was too lazy to touch a nose of ash, so he simply didn't do it, and he didn't stop, while he still had time, he wrote a letter and sent it home, and gathered a group of soldiers from Wei Chi's family, plus thousands of horse bandits they had been laying out in the desert, mixed together, and hurried over.
Among them, there is even the new star in the Qilian army, Xie Houyin, after coincidentally noticing Wei Chidun's movements, he did not report to Hu Yanshi or Duanmu Shuofeng, but took the initiative to come to him, and the two hit it off.
Qilian City's side, these years in the south of the arrangement of a lot of shadows, since the prince Duanmu Shuofeng left the capital, has always wanted to stand on his own, Duanmu Shuofeng this person, ambitious, has long been dissatisfied with the attitude of Weiguo has been sticking to his family's one acre and three points of land, but now because his father is still there, so he has not written to play, just waiting for the future to ascend the throne, it is when he set off the storm in the south.
Although the mayflies of the country are still reluctant to be used by him, he still established Wutong Yuan with the help of the Wei Chi family, and the power is not small.
Gu Xuan was injured by the other party with an arrow in Majia Village before, that kind of standard arrow is actually the armament generously provided by Qiliancheng, and most of the leaders of the horse bandits have already sworn allegiance to Wutong Yuan, not to mention these horse bandits, even the Rakshasa clan, the same.
Because he has not yet ascended the throne, Duanmu Shuofeng is not good to directly act on the Liang country, but while supporting the Rakshasa clan, for the sake of the troubled state, to contain the other party, it is still possible, although it is not possible to directly dispatch this group of kings in the desert, but it has made friends early, and has also given away a lot of free armaments and materials, the situation in the desert is complicated, far beyond what outsiders think, in the sand sea, in addition to the Rakshasa clan and horse bandits, there are various forces entrenched in it, but it is not enough for outsiders.
Today, Wei Chi and Xie Houyin together, led a full 3,000 horsemen, rushed over from the north, although only 300 of them are the elite soldiers of the Wei Chi family, the combat power is not bad, the rest, are only those who can rob the house, if you fight head-on, they are not into the stream at all, but they are better than the number of people, according to the news, the number of people on the target side will not exceed a hundred, unless this hundred people are the elite of the hundred battles in the bloody army, otherwise they have absolute confidence to annihilate it.
Wei Chi Dun has even begun to fantasize about the scene where he took that person's head back to ask for credit, and he wanted to prove to Duanmu Shuofeng that what even Wu Heng couldn't do, I, Wei Chi Dan, could do!
At this time, on the hillside, Gu Xuan and the others, who had received the news, were preparing to retreat, and the soldiers patrolling outside came back bad news one after another.
It turned out that Wei Chi Tang relied on his own large number of troops, and his troops were divided into two routes, and he had blocked the exit of the periphery in advance, in other words, Gu Xuan and the others were now surrounded by him on the mountain.
Looking at the crowds in the distance, the yellow sand was all over the sky, and the neighing of war horses continued, Gu Xuan was silent, he had already recognized where the other party was from, and he was even thinking about how heavy Qiliancheng's determination to kill him was, how could he gather a large number of people to rush over as soon as he smelled the fishy smell.
Wanyan Keni also observed the scene in the distance, and he couldn't see the slightest panic on his face, but said in a deep voice to Gu Xuan: "Lord Wang, prepare to break through!"
Gu Xuan turned his head to look at Wanyan Keni next to him, his sword eyebrows were upside down, and he shouted softly: "I will definitely check when I go back, how did I leak the news, now, break through!"
This time the situation was different from before, before the two of them faced hundreds of times the enemy, and the terrain was complicated at that time, they wanted to break through, and they couldn't even find an accurate direction, but now there were at least dozens of elite soldiers around him, and he was confident to leave.
Wanyan Keni nodded lightly, pointed to the left side of the mountain and proposed, "How about breaking through from this side?"
Gu Xuan turned his head to look at Jinglong.
Jinglong hurriedly said: "From this side, only fifty miles away from here, there is a fortress of the Youzhou army, as long as you get there, you will definitely be safe, no matter who the enemy is, you will never dare to go deep into the hinterland of my Liang country." ”
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It seems to be a bit watery, so I decided to add one more chapter