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Chapter 600: The Magical Eunuch

The palace urged to travel several times, Shen Ao was busy with delivery, Yang Lin was watching in Honglu Temple, and the Wubei Academy also had to explain the recruitment of captains, and also selected Hu to join the army and horses. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

First, the cavalry is fast, and the Western Xia side is full of deserts, and according to hundreds of miles of uninhabited places, it is more convenient to take the cavalry. Second, the cavalry instructor Li Qing is also from Western Xia, and with him by his side, he has more to take care of.

Li Qing heard that Shen Ao ordered him to go, and he was stunned for a while, according to common sense, he ended up flowing with the blood of the Tangut people, and if he was someone else, suspicion was inevitable, just like when he was in a border town, but whenever he fought with the Xixia, he deliberately avoided him and transferred him to the rear to supervise the transportation of money and grain, but Shen Ao did not shy away from it at all, and regarded him as a confidant.

Li Qing solemnly bowed to Shen Ao and said, "Humility must live up to the high expectations of the prince." After that, he stepped back and prepared to travel.

This thousand horse military cadet has been practicing for a year, this year, every day for more than seven hours on the horse, whether it is eating, training without leaving the horse's back, has already achieved the realm of prohibiting on horseback, the habits of the war horse are gradually familiar, how to rest the horsepower, the measures of the war horse epidemic, and the communication with the war horse, these are no longer a problem.

The rest of the practice time was to practice archery constantly, first sitting on a horse and shooting at a horse, and then galloping and shooting, which was very hard but fruitful.

According to Li Qing's words, the combat power of these cavalry is a few points stronger than that of the Western Xia cavalry, and the Western Xia cavalry is also elite, so that the border towns have suffered many losses, but in the end, the result is not so hard, it is still the blood and strength and the skillful control of the war horses. However, the lieutenants of the Ma military academy did not agree, their control of the war horse was no longer under the Western Xia cavalry, and even better in riding and archery, and they could do the order and prohibition, as long as they experienced a few actual battles, they were an elite iron cavalry that was enough to compete with any cavalry.

Except for the captain of the Ma Military Academy, the rest of the people Shen Ao did not bring any of them, this trip, in general, was just an envoy, or even just intervened in the selection of a son-in-law, but inside, it was to provoke Jin Xia's national relations, and the future was very dangerous, and one more person would only be one more burden.

Shen Ao entered the palace and said his final goodbye to Zhao Ji, Zhao Ji comforted him, and Shen Ao resolutely left the palace and went to Bianjing City. The first 1,000 elite horsemen outside the city were already on standby, divided into three columns, and raised their banners, just waiting for Shen Ao's order.

He was accompanied by Li Yong, the envoy of Western Xia, who saw these captains, first shocked, then disdainful, he saw a lot of this kind of flowery frame, just like the forbidden army of the Chinese New Year's Eve Song, they looked burly, but they were useless when they really fought.

Shen Ao walked around in front of the team, and then said, "Untie the cable." ”

"Untie the cable." Li Qing roared on Chinese New Year's Eve and led the flag team to follow behind Shen Ao.

From Bianjing to Xixia, you have to go through the Yongxing Military Road first, go out of the customs from Weiqiang Village, enter the border of the Xixia Kingdom, and then Longzhou, Yanzhou, and Huaizhou into the Xingqing Mansion of the Western Xia Kingdom, fortunately, this is an envoy, there is no need to bring too many equipment, you can get supplies along the road, and there is no need to carry a baggage, and ride lightly, it took only four days to cross the Jinggi Road to the Yongxing Military Road, to the Yongxing Military Road, all the way over, the castle gradually became more, some places, just a lonely earthen fortress, inside is the camp, the earthen wall is erected outside, the flag, Military horses are everywhere, these are the box troops under the jurisdiction of the border army, they have already obtained the order of Tong Guan's general, and when they saw Shen Ao's men and horses coming, they immediately opened camp to greet them.

There is also a disagreement between the Xiang army and the Xiang army, the Xiang army in the interior is really festering, but in this town, it is completely incompatible, just looking at their dusty appearance and a pair of calloused palms, you know that they are quite powerful. Shen Ao just asked them for horse food and grain, and continued to move forward.

The farther you go north, the more desolate it becomes, and the population becomes less and less, but there are many people on the official road who are serving in forced labor pushing grain carts to the north, but there are more and more earthen ramparts of the kind I have seen before.

The weather is getting colder and colder, and when I crossed the river, I found that there was a layer of ice on the surface of the river, which did not match the cold air in Bianjing, but when there was no wind, it was nothing, and when the wind blew, it was as painful as a knife.

Shen Ao found a soil fortress to rest, let the cavalry rest for a day, a local box army was the head of the company, treat Shen Ao respectfully, and specially gave Shen Ao a sheepskin wine bag, it is this weather to rush without drinking a few sips of wine can not bear, Shen Ao refused, drank by himself, but let other people watch dryly, did not violate the military regulations of the military academy, and could not hang on face. But it was Li Yong, the envoy of Western Xia, who entered this earthen camp, and looked around, Shen Ao didn't dare to let him stay privately, although this was not a military base, and he couldn't reveal anything when he looked at it, but he always felt uncomfortable, and always took him with him, and forbade him from going out of activities.

Li Yong was quite afraid of Shen Ao at first, but then he gradually spread his courage, and sometimes wanted to give his high opinions, such as seeing this earthen camp, he would know how we Xixia people were, which means that it is easy to break this earthen camp. After drinking the wine here, I thought that this wine was not as strong as the wine of Western Xia. All in all, there are countless faults that can be found in everything.

Shen Ao ignored him at all, rested for a day, and continued on the road, Li Qing was most familiar with the roads in this vicinity, and finally arrived at Xihe seven days later.

Xihe is an important frontier town, where the border army is located, and it is extremely rich in this Yongxing military road. The place accommodated by the majestic city wall is actually not Chinese New Year's Eve, but the urn city, the moat, the inner city, and the outer city are all complete, Shen Ao first asked a person to report, Tong Guan has personally led the border town army from the door hole to beat horses out and greet them three miles away.

For Shen Ao, Tong Guan can't afford to provoke and can't make fun of both. Fortunately, Shen Ao except for the last time he ended the preoccupation game, but he has always ignored Tong Guan, Tong Guan also knows that his family is already a heaven and an underground compared to him, and he has earned a little credit by eating ashes and bleeding here in the border town, where can he compare to a close minister like Shen Ao? Therefore, the mind is pursued with the intention of not being blamed as much as possible.

As for the generals on the side of the border town, they also have their own thoughts, and most of them don't think so, these people are all unruly and untamable, Shen Ao is training as a captain in Bianjing, they have long known it, and they don't think so in their hearts, let the scholars go into battle, this is not a joke, it will rob people of jobs in the future.

However, in front of the king of Penglai County, they are just ants-like existence, whether they are satisfied or not, who dares to do anything in front of him? It is more than enough to trample to death, and people don't pay attention to it at all.

Shen Ao came over on horseback, and the cavalry captain behind him also stopped at the horse, Tong Guan smiled and came over to meet Shen Ao, and arched his hand on the horse and said: "Lord Wang, the miscellaneous family is polite." ”

Shen Ao glanced at Tong Guan up and down, and suddenly overturned his impression of Tong Guan, he thought he was a white-faced eunuch, but looking at his martial appearance, there was actually a thick beard under his chin, and the whole person looked quite energetic and full of sharpness.

No wonder this guy has some skills in managing the army, according to the early years when Tong Guan's army attacked Western Xia in the northwest, there was a Chinese New Year's Eve incident, and the Chinese New Year's Eve army arrived in Huangchuan, because there was a fire in the palace, Emperor Huizong ordered Tong Guan to return to the division. After Tong Guan read the edict, he folded it casually and stuffed it into his boots. The commander in chief asked him, what did the emperor write? Tong Guan replied: The emperor hopes that we will succeed as soon as possible. In this war, Tong Guan kept a low profile and quelled the rebellion of the northwestern tribes. At the celebration banquet, Tong Guan slowly took out the emperor's edict and passed it on to the generals in the army. When the Chinese New Year's Eve family saw it, they were all surprised by Chinese New Year's Eve, and asked him in fear why he did this? Tong Guan replied: "At that time, morale was at its peak, and if the soldiers were stopped like this, how would they fight in the future?" The Lord asked, "What if we are defeated?" Tong Guan: "This is exactly the reason why the miscellaneous family didn't show it to them at that time." Defeated, I will bear all the blame. At that time, all the generals "Hula" knelt on the ground at once, and the Chinese New Year's Eve family was all grateful and admired. At the same time, Tong Guan also adopted the children of the fallen generals as his adopted son, which moved the generals who fought in the field of life and death, and decided that Tong Guan was a boss worth working for.

Tong Guan may not have the skills of marching soldiers, but he is very prestigious on the side of the border army, and Shen Ao also owes him a good deal at this time, so he arched his hand at him and said: "Gonggong Tong is polite." ”

Let's fight horses and enter the city together, naturally first the dust washing banquet, and then Shen Ao and Tong Guan closed the door and chatted privately.

From the beginning, Shen Ao and Tong Guan were testing each other, at this time, the four eyes were facing each other, Tong Guan Chinese New Year's Eve Zhi already knew Shen Ao's nature, and said with a smile: "The last time Hua Shigang happened, if it wasn't for Wang Ye raising his noble hand, the miscellaneous family was only afraid that he would already be in a different place, this kindness, the miscellaneous family remembered clearly, there must be a picture report." ”

Shen Ao smiled faintly, it was obvious that he had rectified Tong Guan, but this Tong Guan had to be as if he was kind to him, but this scheming was much deeper than that Cai You.

Shen Aozhen said: "Okay, I entered this Xihe today, but I can see that Tong Gonggong has a good army, and the border army has rich combat experience, and this is what the martial arts academy lacks the most. ”

Tong Guan said: "The prince admonished, should the miscellaneous family dare to die?" ”

After greeting for a while, Tong Guan said straight to the point: "The princess of Xixia chose a son-in-law, originally, it was not a good thing, but the side newspaper here of the miscellaneous family heard that the king of Xixia had already belonged to the Jin Kingdom, and the prince went this time, but he was afraid of changes." His Majesty has sent a decree urgently, and ordered the miscellaneous family to adjust the military horses to be fully prepared, and to answer the prince at any time, the prince, this is going to Western Xia, once there is something, remember to send a messenger to send a message immediately, and the miscellaneous family can attack at any time. ”

Shen Ao smiled and said: "I'm afraid that I don't need Gonggong Tong, for those Xixia people, Shen is enough, Gonggong Tong is relaxed, Your Majesty is too hearted." ”

Tong Guan bowed his head and said with a smile: "It's good to be fine, the prince is in control, and the miscellaneous family will not be so depressed." ”

The two of them drank tea together, Shen Ao rested in Tong Guan's mansion, and continued to set off early the next morning, Tong Guan wanted to transfer a team of henchmen to accompany him, Shen Ao politely refused, and said with a smile: "It is enough to have a school captain." This tone made him very confident in the cavalry captain, and when Li Qing and the others heard this, they all immediately puffed up their chests.

Tong Guan said: "Lord Wang, after March, let's see you in Xihe." At that time, the miscellaneous family will celebrate the prince's success. ”

Shen Ao just nodded, then rode his horse and led the team, coming out of the Xihe, Shen Ao and Li Qing walked side by side, and said to Li Qing: "This Tong Guan is a powerful character, do you see the eyes of the general looking at him?" ”

Li Qingdao: "The humble also worked in this northwest border town, and the skills under the control of Tong Gonggong are indeed extraordinary, and the northwest border towns, if they are allowed to die for the Chinese New Year's Eve, they may wander, but if they die for Tong Gonggong, they are all rushing to go." ”

Shen Ao was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but say: "This person is serious and powerful. ”