After a long journey of nearly half a month, Fan Ning and his entourage arrived in Yan'an Mansion, and the military and political officials of Yan'an Mansion specially picked up the wind and washed the dust for Fan Ning, and early the next morning, Gao Zunyu, the governor of Yan'an Road, personally accompanied Fan Ning to the Suide Army.

Gao Zunyu is the eldest grandson of the famous general Gao Qiong, and also the uncle of Zhao Zongshi's princess Gao Taotao, when Fan Ning got married, his brother Gao Zunfu sent Fan Ning three thousand taels of silver as a gift, which is exactly what Gao Zunyu meant.

As a result, the Gao family obtained the right to mine Kunzhou gold, and they have really made a fortune in the past two years.

Because of several layers of relationship, Gao Zunyu was also extremely enthusiastic about Fanning's arrival, accompanying them all the way, and two days later, they arrived at Mijiayu, which is close to the border.

Here is a typical Loess Plateau, the mountains are undulating, there are many mountain cols, Mijiayu is one of the largest mountain cols, the width is more than ten miles, stretching for nearly 100 miles, and then go more than 50 miles to the east, you can reach the station of the Suide army.

"Although the Western Xia signed an alliance with the Great Song Dynasty, it does not mean that they will stop, large-scale wars are gone, but small-scale frictions often occur, called threshing grass, learned from the Khitans.

A few days ago, hundreds of cavalry of the Western Xia army crossed the border to rob slaves, fought a fierce battle with us, killed more than 100 Western Xia cavalry, and we only killed more than 40 people, which was really fucking happy. ”

"How often do conflicts like this happen with hundreds of people?" Fanning asked.

"This is not necessarily, mainly in summer and autumn, in the summer to rob people, in the autumn to grab food, almost every few days, especially those castle garrisons are very lonely, they will take the risk to rob women."

"How far can you go deep into the Song Realm?"

"It won't be far, they are also afraid if they go too far, we will cut off their back road, generally at most fifty miles, mainly at night, at first we are tired, but now we have found the law, they are coming, we ambush them on their retreat, and fight their ambush."

"But the people are miserable like this, and they will only go back if they succeed."

"There is no way, but there are very few Han people in the frontier, and the Han people have entered the city, and the area near the border is mainly Qiang people, and the unlucky ones are also Qiang people."

As soon as Gao Zunyu's words fell, a soldier pointed ahead and shouted: "General, look ahead!" ”

I saw the dust in front of me, the rolling yellow dust like a burning smoke, gradually approaching this side, Gao Zunyu's face suddenly became grim, and after a while, nearly a hundred horseback riders in the distance rushed closer, both men and women, and children in their arms.

The soldiers immediately recognized, "General, it's a Qiang person." ”

"No, there are pursuers behind!"

Behind these more than 100 Qiang people, there was still dust, and Gao Zunyu immediately realized that they had encountered the sentry of the Western Xia army beating the grass.

"Come with me, everyone!"

Gao Zunyu turned around and rushed towards another path, there were only more than thirty of them in total, especially with the high-ranking officials of the imperial court, they really didn't dare to take risks.

The path ran higher and higher, and finally went around to the top of the mountain, where the eyes were open, and I saw that more than ten miles ahead, sure enough, there was a cavalry rushing towards this side, about two hundred people, all dressed in black clothing.

"Is it the Iron Harriers?" Fanning asked in a low voice.

Gao Zunyu shook his head, "The Iron Harrier Army is a heavy armored cavalry, there are not many of them, they are only responsible for protecting the king, there will be no appearance here, this should be a captive army." ”

"What do you mean by the Capture Army?"

Gao Zunyu sneered and said: "It is an army that specializes in catching slaves, the nobles of the Western Xia like to store slaves, use slaves to mine salt, and slaves have always been a means of making money in the Western Xia, so the Western Xia specially set up an army to capture slaves, which is called the Capture Army, there are about tens of thousands of people, I don't know how many Song Dynasty people have been captured over the years, and there are more than 100,000 salt slaves alone." ”

Gao Zunyu was very cautious, he didn't want to be targeted by the Western Xia cavalry, so he waved his hand and said, "Let's go!" ”

The group turned their horses and left the top of the hill and galloped north, and they had to make a detour to the Suide army.......

Two hours later, they bypassed the Western Xia capture army, came down from the top of the mountain, continued to travel north along Mijiayu, and walked out for more than 20 miles, in front of which was the exit of Mijiayu, Gao Zunyu suddenly restrained the war horse.

I saw an army appear in front of me, about 1,000 people, led by a majestic general, the flag behind him was flying, with a big Song character written on it, they were indeed Song army.

"Hah! It's a farmer! ”

Gao Zunyu recognized the general who was the leader, waved his hand and shouted: "General! ”

The general on the opposite side also recognized Gao Zunyu, urged the horse to gallop, he turned over and dismounted, knelt down on one knee and apologized: "The last general will see the Kochi army!" ”

"General Plant, please, I will introduce you to a high-ranking official of the imperial court, Fan Zhiyuan, the doctor of Zuo, to inspect the Suide Army."

Fan Ning smiled and nodded, the general opposite was very surprised, he didn't expect this high-ranking official of the imperial court to be so young, he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, "The last general will see Fan Zhiyuan." ”

Gao Zunyu introduced Fan Ning: "This is the eldest son of the commander of the Suide Army, the general of the old general, Chong Shiheng. ”

Fan Ning suddenly realized that Chong Shiheng was the founder of the Seed Family Army, and his descendants were even more famous.

Fan Ning also saluted and said with a smile: "I will inspect Yan'an Mansion at the behest of the Son of Heaven to understand the morale of the army and the public opinion, especially to listen to the thoughts of the officers and men of the Suide Army, and I hope that the generals will cooperate more." ”

"I will do my best to assist Fan Zhiyuan."

After finishing speaking, he asked Gao Zunyu urgently: "Didn't the Zhijun encounter a Western Xia army just now?" ”

"Of course we met, but we took a detour up the mountain and avoided them, could it be that General Fei wanted to cut off the retreat of this Western Xia army?"

Chong Yu nodded, "I brought two thousand brothers here to annihilate this Western Xia cavalry. ”

"But you only have a thousand soldiers!" Fanning asked, puzzled.

"There are still a thousand soldiers lying in ambush on the other side of the valley mouth, waiting for the enemy to take the bait!" ”

At this time, there was a dazzling bright light flickering on the top of the mountain, which was a signal that the messenger used the mirror to reflect the sunlight, which meant that the enemy army had returned.

Chong Yu hurriedly said: "The enemy army has come, please wait in the back with Zhijun and Fan Zhiyuan, and see how the humble position can completely annihilate this army." ”

Gao Zunyu didn't grab the command, he nodded and said to Fan Ning: "Let's go to the back to watch the battle!" ”

He took Fanning and ran behind the soldiers, Fanning was very interested, although he also led the army to fight in Japan, but in the hinterland of the Great Song Dynasty, it was the first time he saw the Song army and the Western Xia army fighting.

Fan Ning smiled and said, "Let the brothers fight well, I will ask the Son of Heaven for their behalf!" ”

Gao Zunyu spread the word, the morale of the three armies was greatly boosted, and the border troops were afraid that meritorious service would not be rewarded.

Fan Ning looked at the valley mouth, it was five miles wide, but the Song army only controlled one mile on the right, even if there were still a thousand people in ambush on the left, but there was still a gap in the middle, how could they block it?

Gao Zunyu understood Fanning's thoughts, and said in a low voice: "The middle part is covered with thistles, and the war horse can't get through." ”

Gao Zunyu took out an iron thistle from the horse bag and handed it to Fan Ning, Fan Ning stared at this black iron thistle, in the middle is an iron egg the size of a quail egg, cast on three sides of a sharp and flat iron thorn, the three thorns are symmetrical, no matter how you throw it, there will be an iron thorn up after landing, which can be directly pierced into the horse's hoof, in the narrow passage, this sharp weapon is extremely powerful.

"If the shock fails, will they pull back?" Fanning asked again.

Gao Zunyu smiled slightly, "That's because you don't know the Western Xia army, they don't have the word to retreat, especially the cavalry, retreat means defeat, which is a huge shame for them, but they don't want to fight to the death, and when they find that they can't break through the encirclement, it's too late to retreat." ”

"The Kochi army knows the Western Xia army very well!"

"Of course!"

Gao Zunyu said proudly: "I have dealt with them for so many years, and I already know the roots!" ”

As he was talking, more than two hundred Western Xia cavalry appeared a few miles away, they did not catch up with the group of Qiang herdsmen, they also found Fan Ning and his party on the top of the mountain, which made this group of Western Xia cavalry a little worried, so they did not go deep into the Song realm, and after chasing dozens of miles to no avail, they turned around and returned.

The Western Xia cavalry group was getting closer and closer, and more than a thousand Song soldiers brushed the ground and raised their crossbows, aiming at the murderous Western Xia cavalry.

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