The military situation is like fire, and life and death are urgent.

Bao Yuanqian was woken up by a tight sound of gongs and drums in his sleep, and everyone turned over and got up, not caring about sleepy eyes, all of them took knives and wore clothes and armor, and their movements were extremely experienced and fast.

They have been in the army for a long time, and they all understand what the sound of gongs and drums means.

Just a moment, everyone in the sentry battalion was leading horses in formation, the horses were snorting white gas, and the sergeants were holding torches, swords and guns were bright, and they were ready.

At the end of the sentry cavalry camp Baihu Zhangshan, he turned his horse in front of the battle and said loudly: "The cliff pass is lost, and the commander ordered me to wait for the sentry cavalry camp to go first to investigate the enemy's situation, and he led the army to arrive and set off!" ”

As soon as he raised his horsewhip, he led more than 100 people to gallop out of the camp and galloped straight to the outside of Jiayu Pass!

Although Bao Yuanqian did not understand the battle situation and did not know what enemy he would face, he had become accustomed to it in the past five years.

Because the sentry cavalry battalion has a horse in his hand, moves like the wind, is vigorous, and offensive like fire, it is a sharp blade for spying on military intelligence and breaking through the enemy's weak points.

The rear army was a mix of infantry and horses, so the march was slower.

Iron hooves trampled on the dust, and more than 100 people rushed out of Jiayu Pass like this, and went up the river to the west bank.

In the dark night of the Gobi outside the Guan, the black fog is dark, the moonlight is in the sky, and even if you are lighting a torch, you can only see a rough outline of things in the distance.

Bao Yuanqian galloped for dozens of miles, seeing that the outline of the foothills of the remaining veins of the Qilian Mountain in front of him was becoming more and more obvious, and he knew that he was not far from this cliff mouth.

Along the way, they could occasionally see a few corpses of the Ming army, presumably the sergeants who fled from the hundred households, and they were exposed to the wilderness like this, roasted by the hot sun of the day, and they were rotting very quickly, and they could faintly smell a little stench.

However, they could not collect their bodies, they were alone in the depths of the army, spying on the enemy, which was not their duty.

Bao Yuanqian looked from a distance, and saw a large village on the mountainside outside the gate of Dongzhai a few miles away, which was brightly lit, and it was obviously a new camp of the Qiang people.

A camp of this size in the heart of the road, to say the least, has thousands of people up. However, since these Qiang people have taken the hundred households at the mouth of the cliff, why don't they defend it to the death, but occupy the key place in this half of the mountain?

While he was thinking, a strong wind flew past the tip of his nose, and he was so cold that he trembled all over, only to hear a wail from a person on the left, and an arrow in the neck fell from his horse!

Countless wind-breaking sounds followed, and Bao Yuanqian immediately left the saddle, hid in the pedal, and hid on the side of the horse, only to hear several people unable to dodge, and fell off the horse one after another.

"Beware of the Northwest Arrows!! Drop the torches and spread out!! Zhang Shanduan slashed off an arrow and shouted.

Bao Yuanqian and other officers and men threw the torches in place and scattered their horses away, leaving the range of the torches.

The enemy is in the dark, they are in the light, and they are holding fire to shoot others in the dark, which is a living target.

Bao Yuanqian hung on the horse's side, poked his head out and looked at the place where the arrow came from, only to see that there were as many as 100 people densely packed, not less than them, and the cat was already in the dark, as if waiting for them.

"Sentinel of the Qiang people! Kill them!! Zhang Shan sounded the bow in his hand, and when he shot over a black shadow in the night.

The Suzhou Guard Sentinel Cavalry Battalion was originally an elite, although it was cold and suffered a loss, but after everyone gave up the light source, it was dark to dark, and after a few rounds of projectiles, the black shadows in the northwest direction of a hundred paces away fell off their horses one after another.

Bao Yuanqian's riding and shooting at such a distance of 100 paces is simply his specialty, he shot three arrows in a row, the bowstring sounded loudly, and he saw three black shadows fall off his horse one after another!

It was just that the Ming army had the advantage, and the group of Qiang sentry cavalry obviously did not expect this group of Ming troops to be so brave, and began to turn their horses and flee to the camp.

The defeat is like a mountain, and the battle in the era of cold weapons, if one side of the army is defeated and the formation is scattered, then the other side pursues all the way, and does not need to pay any casualties at all, it can win a lot, pure pursuit of the massacre.

"Scratch a few tongues!!" , Zhang Shan was very skillful, abandoned the bow and brandished a long lance to catch up with a few single horses, and knocked four or five Qiang soldiers off their horses without hurting their lives.

The Qiang soldiers fell off their horses, and before they could get up, they were grabbed by the Ming sentry who followed the horses and placed them in the saddle, and straddled their necks with their legs, so that they could not move.

During the chase, Bao Yuanqian's eyes were sharp, and he found that one of the Qiang soldiers had a white fox fleece hanging from his hair.

Immediately clamped the horse's belly, he rode very well, the speed of the horse is much faster than the average person, a few breaths to close the distance, he will pull the Mongolian horn bow in his hand like a full moon, "Collapse!" ", one stone!

"Shhh , the horse neighed and fell to the ground, and the pursuit battle was to shoot the horse first, and the Qiang man was lifted by the horse and fell to the ground.

Bao Yuanqian was overjoyed, and went to capture this person with a Pu knife, but the Qiang man seemed unwilling to be captured, so he rose up and pulled out his waist knife to cut Bao Yuanqian's horse legs.

Bao Yuanqian stopped the horse, and the horse raised its front hooves to dodge a knife.

He held the Pu knife in both hands, leaned over and squeezed, and the man withdrew the knife.

Bao Yuanqian sneered, and the Pu knife flipped in his hand, and the blade was picked up and the man's waist knife was flown away.

The knife momentum returned to the belt and swept away, and a bloody light was lifted!

"Ahh The man clutched his empty wrist and fell to the ground and cried out in pain, bleeding profusely.

Zhang Shanduan led people to chase for two or three miles, and when he saw that he was too close to the Qiang camp, he stopped his horse, and he wanted to retreat with the prisoners.

The encounter ended with only half a burnt incense, and the Ming army's sentry cavalry battalion cut off sixty-five heads at the cost of nine killed, captured eleven people alive, and one person had a white fox fleece on his head, apparently an officer.

Facts have proved that as long as there is no slight operation, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is first-class, but the major affairs of the military are often bad in the hands of laymen and insiders.

Just as Bao Yuanqian and the others were about to leave, a 'corpse' lying on the ground suddenly arched!

Everyone was shocked and turned their bows at this man!

"Don't, don't, I'm the Ming Army, a sergeant from the Yakou Hundred Households, my name is Chen Er....."

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Just when Bao Yuanqian was fighting a bloody battle outside the Guan, Suzhou Weiguanyi.

As the army marched out, the staff officials who commanded the yamen followed Deng Ping, except for one person.

It is the commander of Nawei, Li Chengen.

At this time, Li Chengen opened the official post to be on duty for 100 households, and went straight into a large room on the second floor alone, pushing the door in.

I saw a woman in a Mongolian robe inside, it was the princess of Beiyuan who was snatched back to the customs by Bao Yuanqian, Sa Renya.

Seeing Li Chengen pushing the door in, Sa Renya frowned slightly and said, "Master Li, what are you doing?" Don't you want me to change my residence? ”

Li Chengen smiled, unable to see the emotion, "How did Her Royal Highness the princess know?" ”

Sarenya's jewel-like eyes lit up, and the corners of her mouth smiled slyly: "In the past few days, your officials from the Ming Kingdom have wanted to come in several times, but they have been stopped, I think you, a guy with a bad stomach, must be hiding something from them." ”

On the first day of Sarenya's arrival in the Acropolis, she had seen this Li Chengen, and she had no good impression of this person, but seemed to be a complete conspirator.

This is not polite, but Li Chengen is not angry, but he didn't expect this Sa Renya to be so smart.

"Your Royal Highness Princess, you guessed right, I want to change places for you....", Li Chengen said briefly.

It turned out that he wanted to put Sarenya in a rented mansion in the acropolis, change her into the clothes of a Han woman, and use a sergeant to pretend to be a family to guard her, so as to hide people's eyes and ears.

Sa Renya laughed when she heard this, raised her eyebrows coldly, and looked at the sealed window with Li Chengen behind her back and said, "Big house? Sounds better than this cage-like place. However, you Han people have an ancient saying, called Jinwu Zangjiao, I don't know what Master Li means? ”

Li Chengen smiled lightly: "Her Royal Highness the princess just go with me." ”

In his heart, this Sa Renya can indeed be regarded as hiding with a golden house, but not because he loves her as a person, but because he loves the value and future that her identity brings to him.

Sa Renya remained silent and looked at the window for a long time, "Master Li, I can listen to you, but you also have to meet one of my Sarenya's requests." ”

"Your Royal Highness, but please speak up."

"I'm going to ask you for someone, let him watch over me, and give him a petty official, otherwise I'll be really boring, and I will look at this high-walled compound every day, when is it a head?"

"Who?"

Saren Ya turned around, her jet-black hair flicked to her chest, and she swept away the gloom and smiled.