Pei Xiu and He Fan didn't plan to take Zong Ze off at first.

Zong Ze immediately asked them, if you don't take me, can you know where those Han brothers live? If they had been rescued earlier, it would have been better than late, they had been waiting for twelve years! I don't know if I can hold on any longer!

Pei Xiuzhen couldn't bear to take Zong Ze to set off again, in the previous Zong Ze all the way to escape, because of the extreme low temperature of the heavy wind and snow in the Nanshui Basin, Zong Ze's hands and feet were frostbitten during the escape, even if he received the best treatment after meeting Pei Xiu, he still lost seven toes and three fingers forever.

After the doctor's treatment, it was not easy to save Zong Ze's arms, legs and feet, and he had to get the best rest, so as to ensure that Zong Ze's barely saved hands and feet would not have any more problems.

For Pei Xiu's suggestion, Zong Ze refused, there were three people when they escaped, but now they are the only ones who come to Hecheng alive, if they don't go back with reinforcements, He Fan They don't know the specific situation in the local area, and they don't know how much more time it will take to find out the specific situation of those Han people's locations.

In the face of Zong Ze's strong request, and considering the success rate, Pei Xiu and He Fan reluctantly agreed to Zong Ze's request, and when he set off, Pei Xiu specially equipped him with a sled, and four soldiers took care of it, and the sled was covered with thick cushions.

In order to prevent Zong Ze's severely injured body from being frozen again due to heavy snowstorms and low temperatures, He Fan also specially used more than a dozen wolf skins to make him a set of wolf skin bedding, and the top layer was to use a wide and thick bear skin to block all the wind and cold.

After such a hectic and thorough preparation, the army finally set off!

From Hecheng to the distance of hundreds of miles from the vicinity of Goguryeo's Shinmaru Mountain Fortress, there was no need for Zong Ze to lead the way, Wu Jian (Wu Jili) led a hundred grizzly soldiers to go first, and went five miles forward for the front army, while exploring the road and investigating whether there were any suspicious people around.

The Grizzly Bears knew that it was rare for anyone to go out in such weather, but in order to ensure the foolproof operation this time, they still carefully checked every location on both sides of the road ahead that could shelter from the wind and hide the Winter Hunters.

There is a great danger in the winter march, that is, many of the dangers that were clearly defined are covered by heavy snow, and the danger is even greater, and if the front army fails to detect these dangers in time and warn the large troops behind, it is very likely to cause a large number of accidental casualties.

Although there were nearly a thousand sleds when Pei Xiu and He Fan's army, which followed Wu Jianqian's army five miles behind, marched, but it was only used to pull heavy weapons, after all, it was only sled dogs that pulled sleds, and when they had to march hundreds of miles, if people sat on them, the sled dogs would soon be exhausted to death, which was not worth it.

Thanks to the popularity of sleds in the Xia army from the beginning of the raid on the Wa Kingdom, many soldiers can ski, especially in the land of Beji, which is covered with ice and snow for half of the year, and it is almost difficult to walk an inch without skiing, so they are not slow to slide all the way.

Nearly 2,000 soldiers slid on sleds, and with 10 sleds, plus 20 soldiers, as a small team, they quickly marched along the snow of the river beach near the difficult water, so that the march could avoid encountering sudden cracks in the ice and a large number of accidental injuries.

After all, it is April, and according to the normal season, the ice and snow are the season to melt, although it is still snowing heavily, the strength of the ice on the river is not as hard as it was in winter.

If you still have to walk on the ice at this time, then the vibration caused by the movement of these two thousand people will soon break the ice on the river surface, and thousands of people will disappear in the boiling river in an instant, so there is no water, and it is relatively flat, and the river beach covered with a thick layer of snow has become the best choice for the army to advance.

The wind and snow are still continuing, and it is indeed not a good weather for marching and fighting, but it is precisely because of this weather that the Tatar people and Goguryeo people along the way can relax their vigilance, and it can also allow Pei Xiu and the grizzly bear troops to better hide their tracks.

Despite the convenience of sledding, the days in the Beji Land are still very short in early spring, and in April the days are still only nine hours, so they have to ensure adequate food and calorie intake to protect them from the cold, which can be delayed for some time.

In order to prevent them from suddenly encountering some enemies along the way, they also had to maintain a certain amount of physical strength to resist the enemy, so that they could only travel less than 100 miles a day, and the whole journey was more than 500 miles, and they walked for seven days.

Of course, there was still a lot of time to cross some of the tributaries that flowed into the difficult water, and some wooden bridges had to be built that could be safely crossed, which also took some time, so they were actually moving forward very fast.

On the eighth day, Pei Xiu led his troops and the grizzly bear troops to finally sleigh and sneak into a forest only ten miles away from the mountain castle of Shinmarudu, no matter how much Goguryeo developed here, a large area of forest could not be cut down in a short period of time. Micro book bar

Now this forest of red pines and birch trees provides them with a good hiding environment, and the vines, grapevines, and shrubs that spread under the trees are also excellent cover for their movements, so they need to be especially careful here.

After the team arrived, Pei Xiu, He Fan, and Wu Jian began to study the next action according to Zong Ze's account, in order to ensure the success rate of the operation, they must act cautiously, in case their actions caused a large number of Han people to be killed and injured, it is better not to have this action in the first place.

Thanks to the cover of the wind and snow, the Goguryeo people hid in their respective houses for the winter, and the Ya tribes such as Anguche and Bolu would not come to the place too close to the Goguryeo people for winter hunting because they were not suspicious of the Goguryeo people, which provided a good opportunity for the rescue team.

After preliminary investigation, they found that a total of more than 1,000 Han people were all living in a thatched hut near the Nanshui River, and that all the Han people who had been separated were finally in Shin-Marudu Mountain Castle.

Zong Ze has been away from this place for a few months, and the situation here has not changed, and the Han people still live in straw huts that leak everywhere, and if they hadn't learned the warm kang invented by Wang Ze when they were in Changguang County, I don't know how many people would have frozen to death throughout the winter.

Pei Xiu, He Fan, Wu Jian and others found those Han people very smoothly, but it was not easy to rescue these Han people smoothly, because there were still many Baekje people living with these Han people, although the two sides were not the same grass hut, the distance between the two grass huts was not far.

If the distance between the two sides was 100 meters, He Fan was confident that he would be able to rescue all these Han people without alarming the Baekje people, but these Han people and the Baekje people's grass huts were interspersed one by one, and the movement of thousands of Han people in the dark night was not small.

As a result, not long after some of the Han people left the hut, because there were too many people moving, they immediately alarmed the Baekje slaves who lived closely with them.

Although these Baekje slaves were oppressed by the Goguryeo people on weekdays, they were much better off than the Han people, and now when they saw that these Han people were about to be rescued, they suddenly became angry and began to make noise, and of course such a noise would not be small.

The Goguryeo army stationed in the nearby mountain fortress of Shinmaru was quickly alarmed, and at first they thought that these hungry slaves were making noise, but then they found a large group of Han Chinese slaves fleeing outside, so they pursued them one after another.

There were about 2,000 people in the Goguryeo garrison of the mountain city of Xinmaru, and they didn't notice Pei Xiu's army with the Han people, so they just sent more than 1,000 soldiers out of the city to pursue, and these Goguryeo soldiers were killed on the spot by Pei Xiu and He Fan, who were not doing anything endlessly, with more than 1,000 people.

Over there, Wu Jian saw that the Baekje people were reporting the news, and he was also fierce under his anger, and led hundreds of soldiers of the Grizzly Bear Army and the remnants of more than 1,000 Han people to kill all the thousands of Baekje slaves who were clamoring for the news.

Although the new Marudu mountain city is called a mountain city, it is actually not located on any mountain, but because the Goguryeo people have such a stinky problem, they like to call it a certain mountain city, and this new Marudu mountain city near Harbin in later generations is of course no exception.

The main purpose of attacking Shinmaruto Mountain Castle was to find warm clothing for the more than 1,000 Han people who had just been rescued, as well as some food supplies when they returned, after all, their total number had reached more than 3,000 at this time.

When they came to rescue these Han people, in order to ensure the speed of the march, the army only brought a part of the food when they came, and the food they went back had to be raised on the spot.

The mountain castle of Shinmaru was soon in ruins by the Xia army, and after some looting, they finally walked along the road with thousands of rescued Han Min slaves.

The sudden capture of the capital city by the Xia army would not attract the attention of the Goguryeo people, and when they returned, the Anguchabu and the Bolu tribe who were living nearby reported to the nearest Goguryeo army.

Annoyed, the Goguryeo army of course sent an army to pursue, but Pei Xiu and others were discovered by the Goguryeo army in the fourth day of their return because they carried a large number of Han people, which greatly affected the speed of the team.

In this way, the two sides pursued all the way, and finally at a distance of 200 miles from Hecheng, the Goguryeo people finally caught up with the large army of the Xia army, and the two sides fought a big battle here.

In this scene, Pei Xiu can be said to have shown his might, cooperating with He Fan and the grizzly troops of the military generals, burying all the 3,000 Goguryeo troops who were pursuing endlessly in the icy water, and only rescued thousands of Han people who had fallen for more than ten years with very few losses.

The action of the Xia army to rescue the Han people angered Gao Yangcheng, and the battle between the Xia State and Goguryeo for the land of Beji was already fierce over the years, and earlier Goguryeo also suffered several big losses in the hands of the Xia State one after another, and now the Xia State actually took the initiative to break the peace that had been maintained for seven or eight years, which made Gao Yangcheng unbearable, and he decided to retaliate against the actions of the Xia State.