Chapter 60: The Storm
Yun Yanzheng's slightly upturned phoenix eyes flashed a few calculations, and after sorting out the entire situation and the strategic layout of the two sides very quickly. Make a decision at the right time, and the two powers will harm each other, whichever is less. This calculation seems complicated and vast, but for Yun Yanzheng, it is just a secret thought in a few steps forward. She summoned the scout and asked him to contact the spy to go to Suzhou City to inform Wenyuan, and when the Yu army was besieged, she fought and retreated into Fancheng to defend the confrontation, and tried to save the strength of the Nine Heavens Cavalry to avoid short-term contact with the Yu army, and the game of life and death.
The scout took the order and left.
Yun Yan Zheng then calmly got on the horse, inspiring the morale of the army to make more than 5,000 people regain their enthusiasm and high will, and the battle armor Kai Kai jumped on the horse together and took a shortcut to return to Huicheng.
However, a hidden worry rose in her heart, allowing Wen Yuan to lead the army to retreat into Fancheng, and You Zimo could naturally expect it; Whether Huicheng can be captured or not has a decisive relationship with the combat objectives of both sides. However, at this moment, she and the main force of the 5,900 Heavenly Cavalry Elite Soldiers led by her were sandwiched between the Yu army heading to Sucheng and the Yu army in Huicheng. If the commander of the Ulva Kingdom is killed in battle and the 5,000 elites are annihilated, what kind of heavy defeat will such news be compared to the Ul Army that is fighting in various places at this moment?
Yun Yanzheng's heart jumped suddenly, but his face was still calm as water, and he was as resolute as a mountain. Soon after, her suspicions were confirmed. The scouts in the front and rear reported one after another, saying that the Yu army was searching for their whereabouts and wanted to encircle and attack. Relying on the remote path described in her memory, 5,000 people wrapped the horse's hooves in cotton cloth, and quietly walked through the dense forests and mountains day and night, hiding her whereabouts as much as possible, avoiding the eyes and ears of the Yu army, and delaying the opportunity for the two sides to face the enemy head-on.
The Yu army had a large number of people, and while pursuing and encircling more than 5,000 of them, they could capture Huicheng and flank the Wenyuan army, but they could not afford to spend this opportunity and troops. Neither can the Yu army be prematurely discovered whereabouts, nor can it start a war with the Yu army, and has to find a way to go back to rescue Huicheng.
Two days later, they finally encountered a small detachment of the Yu army, although it was easy for the five thousand elites to eliminate such a small force. However, once killed, it will leave more traces for enemy troops to track. And for Yu Jun to be able to find their traces before the time she expected, Yun Yanzheng's worries were even deeper. And began to wonder if she would lead the five thousand people to walk on the path provided by the white-clothed young man, and lead them to successfully cross the mountains and return to Huicheng to snipe the enemy, or would she lead them into the abyss of the death hell that the enemy had already designed?
Yun Yanzheng took advantage of the moment when everyone was resting and reorganizing, and the thoughts in his heart were a little dazed, and he recalled and replanned over and over again. Layers of towering trees are intertwined with branches and leaves, blocking out the sunset in late spring, and the mountains are coming, and the air in the forest is becoming more and more shady, with the smell of decaying plants and trees on the ground. There are also the sounds and smells of animals hidden in the forest. In silence, the horses munched on the grass at the edge of the forest, drank the water from the stream, and the warriors silently wiped their blades, arranging their bows and arrows and dry food. None of them spoke up, they all knew what they were going to face, but none of them were panicked or depressed, they had the strongest will and the strongest will of any of the Nine Heavenly Riders.
Not only could they not expect other armies to come to the rescue, but the armies in all parts of the country were heavily guarded, and the soldiers and horses of several cities close to them would never risk being broken by the Yu army and send troops to disrupt the plans of the Yu army; Moreover, they could not be besieged by the Yu army in the mountains and watch the enemy army attack the city in the Wei Kingdom, so they had to fight their way out of the siege with the strength of a tiger and block the Yu army's attack on Huicheng.
After the 5,000 men and horses rested a little, they did not dare to delay the opportunity and continued to sneak in the wind at night. Yun Yanzheng no longer followed the path given by the care, but went to Huicheng more smoothly according to the other way she asked Qing Yan to find. However, the road will be more tortuous and delayed, but she must ensure the safety and survival of these 5,000 people, and she must keep this group of the most elite sergeants for the Wei army.
Wind or shine, along the way, I occasionally saw the detachment of the Yu army searching the mountains in addition to capturing and torturing the military situation, and the rest of the people were all wiped out without leaving any of them, and each time they carried a part of the clothes and weapons of the Yu army with them, and then threw the corpse of the lost armor into a hidden place. Under the persecution of Yun Yanzheng's personal guard Mu Dong to pick soft persimmons and various ways of training, he successively pried open the mouths of the Yu army generals and learned that they were divided into hundreds of detachments to search for their traces in the mountains: one is to urge them to keep moving forward, and the other is to continue to grasp their direction, so that the Yu army in Sucheng will pursue behind, and the Yu army in Huicheng is waiting for an opportunity to ambush in front.
Mu Dong was already alert and sharp, and after all these years, Yun Yanzheng deliberately threw him to Qing Yan, who was supposed to be the leader of the killer organization, to train him personally, and now his vision and methods are first-class. After repeated soft temptations and coercion, he finally came to such a military situation that was close to the facts. The look in Yun Yanzheng's eyes deepened, it seemed that You Zimo had made up his mind this time and wanted to put her to death. The previous layouts were all to make her leave Huicheng, and she fell into such a dilemma now, so that she could recapture the two cities of Yun and Lu in one fell swoop, and sabotage his strategy to stop the shame of the Yu army in Huicheng? The enemy army does not allow her to survive in this world, and there are people in the territory of the Ul Kingdom who want to kill her in the hands of assassination, and the layers of strong enemies join forces like a net to kill her.
According to the information obtained by the Yu army, the Yu army is attacking Huicheng and will not be able to overcome it soon, as long as they besiege her Yun Yanzheng and the five thousand elites of the Nine Heavens Cavalry in the forest. Su Cheng Wenyuan was defeated, the Nine Heavens Cavalry suffered heavy casualties, and the corpses of the Yu army were all over the field. After analyzing the truth, the truth and falsehood are mixed, I wonder if the enemy deliberately made these Yu army sergeants familiar with the trap bait in order to confuse them, lure them into the bait, and hit their will? Or is it really that the mountains have been in the world for thousands of years, they are hidden in the forest, and the outside world has long been full of holes, turned upside down, and unrecognizable? If the scouts who went out to inquire about the news do not return, they must have already been intercepted and killed by the enemy, and the enemy army will block all the news and make them lose the direction of their deployment strategy.
Although Yun Yanzheng was anxious in his heart, the expression in his phoenix eyes became more and more calm and firm, and a trace of resolute ruthlessness flashed between his eyebrows. She counted the time, estimated the results caused by the strength of both sides, and decided not to deliberately hide her whereabouts: instead, the troops were divided into two routes, one was a small part of the cavalry led by Xu Wei, one drove two or three horses to continue to wind around the forest to lure the Yu army to pursue and attract their forces; On the other hand, Yun Yan took the lead in disguised as the Yu army, divided into four fronts, fronts, left and right, and if the enemy army encountered, they could attack each other before and after, and along the way, they forced the survivors of the annihilated Yu army detachment to force them to say the secret signal of their clearance and sneak to Huicheng.
Yun Yan led his subordinates to travel and disappear along the way. Although he encountered several groups of Yu troops, with Yun Yanzheng's improvisation and proficient Yu Chinese, he successfully and quietly reached the boundary of Huicheng three days later under several dangerous situations.
Just when more than 3,000 people rode in four groups and nine days to breathe a sigh of relief, they met a group of Yu troops who came from a distance to patrol the mountain on the edge of the woods. The Nine Heavens Rider was loose on the outside and tight on the inside, secretly on guard, and the Yu army on the opposite side also suddenly slowed down. In Yun Yanzheng's eyes, they deliberately concealed nothing, and they didn't seem to want to meet them head-on, but it was inconvenient to change the route up the mountain at this moment, and the two teams of people and horses finally slowly converged and approached.
When the vision of both sides became clear, the expressions on everyone's faces were slowly changing, from wariness to disbelief, and then from confirmation to joy, and then everyone's steps involuntarily accelerated, and finally quickly merged together. Yun Yanzheng was also relieved, but he had to raise doubts. One of the people in the opposite team came out in line, walked quickly in front of her, bowed down, and said with joy: "See Yun Shuai!" This person has a handsome appearance and a hearty voice, and it is Lin Jun who was punished by her to assist in Suzhou City.
"How did you end up here? What is the situation in Sioux City right now? Has General Moon retreated to Fancheng? Although Yun Yanzheng changed into a Yu army uniform, she did not hide the sharp aura that naturally emanated from her body. After she raised her hand, she looked at the team of Yu troops on the opposite side, and most of them were the sergeants she had sent to Sioux City, and they were also the same Yu army team as they were pretending.
The soldiers of the Wei Kingdom saluted to the clouds, and in order to prevent the enemy from discovering their tracks, they all kept silent, but bowed silently.
After Lin Jun stood up, he replied respectfully: "Our army was surrounded by the Yu army in Sucheng, and General Wen ordered the army to fight and retreat, and more than 4,000 of us followed the general. The Yu army pursued relentlessly, and when our army retreated, small units were repeatedly encircled and suppressed, and General Wen was constantly injured. Just when the Yu army of Longyuan Valley caught up with our army and strangled it, Gu Junshi suddenly appeared and joined the battle group, replacing General Wen. General Wen returned to the front of the army and led the army to the Antenna Gorge, and Gu Junshi commanded us to fight with great familiarity, rushing left and right to disrupt the formation of the Yu army, but intentionally or unintentionally rushed behind the army formation to lure them to chase after them......"
Gu Junshi? Yun Yanzheng's eyes had a hint of inky coolness, and she didn't have time to savor her complicated feelings and analyze all kinds of doubts at this moment. For a moment, she thought to herself that he was back again, and when she had been looking for him to no avail, when she was in trouble with her Nine Heavenly Ride, when she was most caught off guard, he had suddenly returned.