Volume 1 The Wind and Cloud of the Northern Plains Chapter 17 Sweeping the Tail
After the enthusiasm, Wang Rui threw out a question: "What if we fight a tough battle and can't help Zhou Zhe?" Liu Dabeard stood up and said:
"I think so, our team has its own specialty, and we can practice it, and Brother Zhou can also respond to the urgent situation. "I have to say that Liu Dabeard's method is good, and some sergeants immediately said that he is good at playing with hammers, and his knife is sharp, and the atmosphere is enthusiastic. In the end, Wang Rui decided on the candidate, and Liu Dabeard was now useless in teaching cavalry and archery, so he taught Zhou Zhe some easy-to-learn disassembly and assembly skills, failure prevention methods, and maintenance weapons and the like. Ma Dabao, a sergeant who controls horses well, taught Zhou Zhe to ride a horse, after all, Zhou Zhe's riding skills are too bad, in addition to the blood that is ground out of his thighs, his waist is also easily injured. If it is really an escape, and the horse does not run bad when accelerating, the person will run badly. After Wang Rui finished assigning the task, he went out and didn't come back until the evening, still holding a flower pot in his hand, which was planted with spiritual grass, which was said to be exchanged for silver and a familiar officer, which could help Zhou Zhe comprehend the doorway of spiritual power cultivation. Lin Xiaoer was treated the same as Zhou Zhe, many sergeants envied Lin Xiaoer's good life and followed a good big brother, but the sergeants still taught Lin Xiaoer very seriously, because they believed that this upright and even a little stupid fat man would be the first to rush up and fight hard when Zhou Zhe was in danger.
"This is the money I lost, I am willing to gamble and lose, Liu Dabeard is also here, don't be polite to my brother, the days will be long! When everyone was scattered, Wang Rui gave Zhou Zhe a bag of silver, which was very heavy, about thirty taels. Zhou Zhe opened the bag and looked at it, there were whole and zero, but he didn't know how the purchasing power was.
"What is generally good to buy with money?" Zhou Zhe still asked clearly.
"The land price in Longquanguan is cheap, the cultivated fertile land is only five taels and one acre, and the sheep are only one or two. If you want to have a good weapon, you have to depend on luck, and occasionally there are merchants from the capital who sell some better weapons and crossbows, which may not be enough. If you want to eat and buy something to eat, leave some money to go back and marry a wife!" Wang Rui teased.
"Eh~ aren't you going to marry a wife? Your savings have been spent, right?" Zhou Zhe was still very moved with the heavy money, at least here, this is a huge amount of money.
"Marrying a wife, of course, I have to take a fancy to it. Wang Rui laughed haha.
"Well, I took it, Lin Xiaoer, I will take care of your money, and I will settle down and buy a house from here in the future. Zhou Zhe laughed and shouted at Lin Xiaoer.
"Hmm, can I take it when I want to eat?" Lin Xiaoer asked weakly.
"Count as much as you can on food. "Zhou Zhe gave the green light aggressively, this kid is righteous, very good brother.
"Okay!" Lin Xiaoer smiled very happily, he simply thought that eating was a very expensive thing, and this, the further he went, the more it cost money.
After three days of repair, the rest of the light cavalry recovered their combat strength, and the content of Zhou Zhe's learning was good except for equestrianism, which always allowed everyone to regain some confidence. The north side of Longquan Pass was attacked once by the main force of the king's tent, and it was said that it was an attack, but it was more a feint, in order to put pressure on Longquan Pass, so that they could not go all out to search for Mengge's whereabouts. The news of the mouths of the big mountains came back one after another, and after attacking a few times, Meng Ge returned in vain and continued to wander on the cold plains, but no one knew his specific movements, Zhou Zhe looked at the snowflakes falling from the sky and guessed that Meng Ge must now be broken into pieces and return to Beiyuan from the small mountain passes that were not guarded or had weak guards, otherwise even if the weather does not turn cold, the supplies grabbed will not be enough to eat, because in previous years, they all went back with lightning speed to grab a wave, and often earned a lot of money. And this time, in order to target Chen Yuanhou, he initially just hid his whereabouts and went south, and when he finished fighting on the plains, he found that there was no place to rob, and there were villages and towns to continue south, but hundreds of miles away, it is estimated that he had already starved to death before he arrived at the place, and at this point in time, the people had already hidden what they should have hidden.
Objective factors, he is always objective, the facts are in front of him, either turn the pieces into a whole, or freeze to death and starve to death in the plains south of Longquan Pass, the snowflakes that came earlier than usual have already shown that Chen Yuanhou urged them to go back, he wanted to celebrate the New Year.
The most terrifying situation on the battlefield is that you have a choice, and that choice is given by the enemy. Munger watched the snowflakes gradually decorate the plain white, and his heart was indignant, he had already done everything he could, but he was still a bad move.
"Announce the disbandment of the brigade, and the whole army will return to the army in small teams to find the mountain pass!" Meng Ge reluctantly ordered.
Chen Yuanhou is a treacherous and cunning man, and he will definitely not let go of such an opportunity, and he will definitely send cavalry to encircle and suppress him. "Houghton asked for his life.
"You have internal injuries on your body, I'll cut it off myself! Leave five hundred Praetorian Guards, and the rest will all disperse!" After Meng Ge decided to break it himself, there was another idea that it was not a reckless decision to eat one or two light horses, the Binghe Department was loyal and brave, and there could be no big losses here, and the second was that if you didn't kill a horse pistol, I am afraid that there would be heavy losses under the layers of encirclement and suppression. When Meng Ge made a decision, Yang Jue scattered in the plains and the internal guards finally searched for the traces of Xin Chai at the first moment in the world, after all, the huge strange bird was too easy to find. It's just that the number of internal guards is limited, and only then does the message come. So Yang Jue, who was waiting for news in Longquan Pass, took those internal guards and set off as soon as he received the letter eagle, and the purpose was self-evident.
At the same time as Yang Jue set off, the news was also reported to the light cavalry generals who were preparing to go out, but if they found anything, they should report it as soon as possible. The generals of the light cavalry battalion looked at each other, but this was not Yang Jue's order, but Chen Yuanhou's, which was worth playing, because their commander had never issued a similar ambiguous order, and the rough army was not clear. Li Bing and Li Hao brothers directly consulted Qu Hui and got a not very clear answer, the scalper discussed with Qi Lu, Qi Lu looked for Wang Rui, and finally became Zhou Zhe's analysis.
"Isn't it obvious? The marshal means that we are not allowed to fight hard with this person! Maybe he is a master of spiritual cultivation, and he is afraid that the generals will be accidentally taken advantage of by the small path for a while, how can the army be without a leader at that time?" Zhou Zhe said after analysis. Scalpers are not convinced:
"Don't you look down on me as a Longquan general, how can a mere young man tolerate me?"
"How does the general's martial arts compare with General Yang? If the general thinks that his ability is against General Yang, then I will be nonsense. Zhou Zhe was very serious and consoled.
"What Brother Zhou said is that General Yang is a cautious character, and he must not be a good person. What do you think?" Qi Lu played a round game, he knew the character of the scalper, and he ate soft rather than hard. When the scalper heard this, he understood that this person could be so valued, and it must be not a simple person.
"My old Huang is reckless, wait for this matter, I invite you to get drunk with you haha!" The scalper laughed, patted Zhou Zhe's shoulder, and almost didn't shoot Zhou Zhe away, Zhou Zhe scolded in his heart, the old scalper who doesn't eat grass, this is deliberate!
Yang Jue left in the morning, and the cavalry teams set off after receiving a report from the scouts that they had encountered several small groups of wolf horsemen. A team of 1,000 people was arranged in all directions, Wang Rui Zhou Zhe's 1,000-man team went to the battlefield again, this time Zhou Zhe was more fully prepared, although the quality of individual soldiers was not as good as a sergeant, but full preparation at least gave him a lot of self-protection ability. The lime mixed with pepper and paprika, the strip of cloth that could tie a hammer to his hand, the silk underwear that was stripped from the wolf rider who had been shot through his head, and the huge spider silk web that Yang Jue had captured from Horton had also been simply transformed by a few sergeants to make it easy to throw, at least this web that could not be cut by an ordinary sword could be blocked at least for a while. Feeling the green jade sword on his waist and the condensing pearl in his arms, Zhou Zhe's long-lost sense of security finally came back a little, and he was full of confidence and went out to fight with a group of sergeants.
After a whole morning's march, the whole world has become white, one by one the knights in white cloaks were ordered by Wang Rui to trim, Zhou Zhe's suggestion is that it is the best choice to ensure the physical strength and morale of the sergeants now, anyway, there are small groups of wolf riders, and the scouts will come to report, and the white cloak of camouflage color prepared in advance by Longquan Pass will give them an advantage over the unprepared wolf riders.
"Brother Zhou, do you still have pancakes?" Lin Xiaoer asked with some embarrassment.
"Yes, take it all, it's the time to grow your body, don't be embarrassed with my brother. Zhou Zhe gave all the pancakes to Lin Xiaoer, and also gave Lin Xiaoer some jerky, he estimated that this kid was growing his body, but he didn't think about it, it turned out that the food of several sergeants around him was also borrowed by him, Zhou Zhe finally promised to lend Lin Xiaoer the pancakes, please eat mutton after returning to the customs, which made everyone take the initiative to give Lin Xiaoer to eat.
"Eat slowly, no one will rob you. Zhou Zhe cared about Lin Xiaoer as a younger brother. The vast majority of the 1,000-strong teams have not yet made an indifference in this battle, and they have also rested well in the past two days, and it is a severe beating
At the moment of the water dogs, one by one fought bravely to be the first, like Wang Rui's thousand-person team, there was no one. Nearly an hour's rest is quite long, considering that he sleeps in the snow at night, Zhou Zhe looks at the map from time to time, preparing to find a suitable place to stay, such as the corner at the foot of a certain mountain where a fire can be lit, and a village where civilians have run out. At the same time, on the plain, Yang Jue, who had been searching for a morning, finally found Xin's trace by the woods at the mouth of a mountain. The cold bonfire proved that the person was gone, but the careful inner guard still found the fresh giant bird's droppings under the tree not far from the bonfire. Although the internal guards are well-trained, some are even veterans transferred from Longquan Pass, they still can't estimate the speed of Xin Chai, after a puff of snow and fog, the inner guard who was riding on the horse was kicked off the horse, wearing a veil Xin Chai did not hesitate to ride the horse and turned his head and ran, although the giant bird is not far away, but the giant bird has limited physical strength, it is impossible to take her to fly down in this bad weather, seize the horse and quickly pull away, is the best choice for Xin Chai.
"Inform General Yang, we will chase!" A squad leader of the internal guard gave an order and chased forward, and more than a dozen internal guards also followed, like maggots on tarsal bones, that is, they did not stay away, nor did they get too close, they were afraid of this famous assassin in the world. Xin looked at the knight of the inner guard who had been behind him, and the whistle that sounded, helpless and angry. She didn't want to harm people's lives, she just wanted to get the treasure of her family through this bounty mission, and this time, she provoked powerful internal guards all over the world, and Yang Jue personally came to hunt her down. The chase did not last long, and more knights of the inner guard appeared around her, still not close, just a hundred meters away, occasionally harassing with arrows, it was obvious that this was treating her as meat on the board, and when the strength was gathered enough, they would strike.
"Yang Jue, you come out for the old lady!" Xin Chai, who could not bear the humiliation, suddenly stopped his horse and shouted.