It was the height of summer, and under the scorching sun, the speed of the army was not fast; The battle report from the front showed that Zhuang Langwei had been lost, and the Ming army retreated to the territory of Nian Bosuo, holding on to the southeast bank of the Datong River, preventing the Tartar soldiers and horses from rushing south to attack Xiningwei and eastward to attack Yongjing, which can be described as very critical.

But Song Nan did not order a rapid march, he knew that the focus of the final battle would be hit around Ningxia Town, from the strategic location, from the breakthrough of Jiayu Pass to the southeast all the way to the approach, the Tartars have penetrated into the territory of the Ming Dynasty for nearly a thousand miles, such a distant route to its supply line of great pressure, when the Tartars go deep into the southeast of Gansu Town, they will be the first choice to attack Ningxia Town, because taking Ningxia Town can shorten the supply line to the shortest, and can use this convenient supply line as a springboard to extend the tentacles hundreds of miles southeast of the tentacles.

Therefore, Song Nan ignored all the news of interfering with the distress and calling for help, and the army ignored it left and right, and went straight to the area of Jinglu and Guyuan in the south of Ningxia Town in the hinterland of Shaanxi. He also ordered more than 40,000 soldiers and horses of the Ming army to retreat in concealment and build a defensive line in Jinglu and Guyuan in advance.

This decision was unexpected, even Yang Yiqing and others who got the news were very incomprehensible, and Lu Wan, who was on the front line, was even more furious, saying that Song Nanren was cowardly before he arrived, and before he arrived on the battlefield, he lost a few guards first. Pledged to escalate the matter. Song Nan unceremoniously issued an order in the name of the general of Zhenguo to dismiss several generals who had delayed and refused to retreat, so that no one listened to Lu Wan's words, and in seven or eight days, the soldiers and civilians on the southeast bank of the Datong River retreated to the area of Jinglu Guyuan, which was hundreds of miles behind, and began to build fortifications relying on the hilly loess landforms of the two places.

In fact, all people's hearts are hanging, Song Nan's decision is not only to give up the Nian Bo and its left guards, but also to let go of the south bank of the Datong River, the Tartars are likely to attack Xining Wei in the south, because there is no Ming army resistance in the north of Xining Wei. But the explanation given by Song Nan is that it is unlikely that the Tartars will attack Xiningwei, and if they want to attack, they will also divide their troops to attack, and it is entirely possible for Xiningwei to defend with their own strength, and if the Tartars attack Xining with the whole army south at this time, it will actually be worth the loss.

Even if Xining is captured, the Tartars will have to delay at least half a month, and at this time, what the Tartars want to do is to quickly capture Ningxia Town and ensure the passage of the supply line, and the senseless half a month will almost kill them.

Song Nan came to such a conclusion is not without purpose, after the fall of Gansu Town, the Fan Zhenwei who was alone in the Tartar encirclement was only guarded by more than 10,000 people, but because of the dangerous terrain, the Tartars attacked for a few days and then chose to give up, leaving more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Fan Zhenwei to stay there, the Tartars were not unable to capture Fanzhen, but they were unwilling to waste this time. The soldiers and horses of the Wan Ming army did not dare to show their heads at all, and they would be eaten as soon as they showed their heads, in this case, it was better to let him stay there, and after taking Ningxia Town, he could breathe a sigh of relief and slowly turn back to clear the Ming army behind him.

Seven days later, Jiang Bin's Zhenwei battalion arrived at Jinglu first, and 3,000 cavalry marched into the small city of Jinglu and joined Yang Yiqing and others, while Song Nan and his brigade of soldiers and horses were still fifty miles behind, and they could not reach Jinglu until dark. The generals in the northwest were anxious to see Song Nan, especially Yang Yiqing, who had not seen Song Nan for several years, and had doubts about Song Nan's strategic arrangement, so everyone waited for the lantern night, the wine and food were cold and hot, the martial arts training camp arrived, the Shenshu camp arrived, and the outer second army also arrived, but they didn't see the shadow of Song Nan and a thousand brocade guard cavalry.

Everyone was anxious and asked Xu Tai, the commander of the military training camp, who said that at noon, Lord Song left the team with a thousand soldiers and horses, and gave a military order to come down and ask the army to arrive in Jinglu as planned and camp to rest.

Everyone's eyes are wide-eyed, the white of their eyes are flying, the Tartar is already a hundred miles away, but the boss is missing, what is going on? Although the generals in the northwest who are not familiar with Song Nan's style of acting are slanderous, Jiang Bin Xu Tai and other close people who are familiar with Song Nan's style of acting all understand that Song Nan must be secretly doing some surprising things, and maybe when Lord Song appears in the city, he will give people a big surprise.

However, everyone actually guessed wrong, Song Nan did encounter something, but it was a little difficult to talk about; When the army marched to Qingyang, Wang Yong told Song Nan in a whisper that there were two more people in the personal guards, and in Song Nan's surprised eyes, two people with beautiful faces and dressed in brocade clothes were brought to Song Nan, Song Nan recognized these two people at a glance, and couldn't help patting his thighs and scolding: "Nonsense, nonsense, this is a war, should you be playing in the mountains and rivers?" Wang Yong, you are not small, it seems that I am too indulgent to you on weekdays, you actually did such a thing, if this is spread, wouldn't I be unlucky? How can a large army go out with a woman? Messing around. ”

Wang Yong sighed, and couldn't argue, one of these two people was Ye Fanggu of the Song Mansion, and the other was Yang Yiqing's daughter Yang Qian'er, before the Song Mansion, the ladies of the Song Mansion summoned him to the mansion to speak, and asked to arrange for a person to secretly follow the army to take care of Song Nan's daily life.

How could Wang Yong agree, it is a big crime to go out to take his family on the expedition, Wang Yong naturally knew that this was a violation, but the reasons given by the daughters of the Song family were very sufficient, in view of the fact that Song Nan had the experience of risking life and death regardless of life and death in the battle to exterminate Liu Liu, Liu Qi and King Anhua, the women of the Song family tried their best to ask someone to curb Song Nan's habit; Mrs. Su'er of the Song Mansion was even more reasonable, and analyzed the possibility that Song Nan liked to be involved in danger, and asked Wang Yong if there was any way to stop it.

Wang Yong scratched his scalp and couldn't think of a way to stop Song Nan, Lord Song really likes to be a personal hero, and he likes to do it himself, and he doesn't feel at ease when others go. He is his subordinate, and it is useless to obstruct, Song Nan can shut up them with a military order; And now Song Nan's life is more precious than anything else, and he is facing a heavy Tartar army, and if he plays that dangerous trick, he is likely to play something wrong. If a woman from the Song family can stop Lord Song from doing risky things again, then it can be considered, as long as she is secretive and follows Song Nan, others will not be able to see it.

Helpless struggle, coupled with the various verbal stimulation and persuasion of the ladies of the Song Mansion, Wang Yong couldn't resist it at all, and finally agreed to their request in a daze, the candidate is naturally Ye Fanggu is the most suitable, she is old, steady, and has martial arts, she is the mother of Song Nan's two dragon and phoenix children, and she is the first person to follow Song Nan, and her weight is heavier than the little county lord in a sense.

After the matter was arranged, when the matter came to an end, there was another Yang Qian'er, and the reasons she gave were also very sufficient, I hadn't seen my father and mother for two years, and my father Yang Yiqing was on the northwest battlefield, so why should I go to see him by the way this time, otherwise if something happens, I won't even see the last one.

Wang Yong is also helpless, making an exception is like doing something, the man swears that he will only do it once, but in fact, there is one and there are two, and the first thought of the next meeting is to do that thing; Since it has been broken for a while, it will be nothing to break it a second time, and the psychological guilt is much lighter, so I simply prepared a set of Jinyiwei's costumes for Yang Kouer to accompany her.

In order not to let Song Nan find out, it was not until seven days later, when he was thousands of miles away from the capital, that Wang Yong informed Song Nan of the matter with the permission of Ye Fanggu, so there was the scene just now.

"You...... You...... It's too unusual, the woman's family doesn't stay at home, who will take care of Yi'er and Shuangshuang? What are you running around? Song Nan pointed at Ye Fanggu and said angrily.

Yang Qian'er was so frightened that she cried, Ye Fanggu Hula threw away her helmet, her hair was full of green silk flying in the wind, she ignored Song Nan at all, and said with a smile: "Oh, I can be regarded as being able to lose this Laoshizi, my scalp has been strained in the past few days, Sister Coo'er, take off the helmet quickly, it's very comfortable." ”

Yang Ko'er peeked at Song Nan and didn't dare to move. Ye Fanggu grabbed her helmet and took it off, and said with a smile: "How?" Is it comfortable? Find a place to wash your hair, my hair is rancid. ”

Song Nan puffed out his eyes like a big toad, looked at Aunt Ye Fang, who was ignoring him, and smacked his lips and said, "Grandma, are you teaching me to teach people to give them handles?" What are you doing with you? It's going to be a big battle soon, and you don't want to let me worry. ”

Ye Fanggu glanced at him and said, "What kind of feet?" Say ignore you for a long time, you're not endless, we're already here, what's the matter? Why don't you send us back to the capital? ”

Song Nan sighed and was speechless, pointed at Wang Yong and said, "This matter is handed over to you, how did you bring these two people, how to send them back." ”

Wang Yong twisted his ass and ran, and Song Nan shouted, "Where to run?" Do you dare to disobey? ”

As soon as the words fell, Wang Yong had disappeared, Song Nan looked at the two girls angrily, Ye Fanggu looked at him with a smile, and the three of them looked at each other with six eyes, and they had nothing to say.

After a while, Song Nan sighed and said: "Put on your helmet and continue to pretend to be a man, I don't want the generals to know about it, you follow me to stay at the end, wait for them all to sleep, and then see the situation and sneak into the city; Hey, it's really unreasonable to think that I, a dignified general of the country, was coerced by you. ”