Chapter 65: All the Way
Stormy nights, when killing.
In the grove on the east side of the military camp in Yuyang County, five hundred and ten people have been assembled.
Just now, they suddenly received an order from their superiors, asking them to wait here for the next order, but their superiors did not say a word.
It's just that their superiors require them to obey orders and not disobey, otherwise they will be punished by military regulations.
In fact, it was not their superiors who deliberately concealed it, but in fact, their superiors did not know what the mission was this time.
When all the five hundred and ten people were curious about what task they would receive next, they saw two figures slowly walking from outside the woods.
Before they could ask each other's identities, Li Yi was the first to speak.
"From now on I am the commander of this operation, everyone must follow my orders, and if anyone disagrees, they can quit now."
These five hundred and ten people looked at the young man in front of them, and couldn't help but wonder about the identity of the other party.
After all, this is a person specially selected by Mu Fengxun, and his obedience is much higher than that of other soldiers, although they have questions, none of them have spoken out to question.
On the contrary, it was the ten Tugu people elected by Helian Yun who couldn't hold back.
"I don't know who you are, what is our mission this time?"
One of the ten of them was the first to stand up and asked.
"Who are you?"
Li Yi was not annoyed and asked.
"I'm Helian Dong, the deputy general of the Zhenhai Beggar's Army!"
The man said proudly with his head held high.
"You General Helian Yun don't have your arrogance when he sees me, it seems that I have to consider letting General Helian Yun change someone."
Li Yi's tone became colder and colder the more he spoke, and Helian Dong even felt a trace of murderous aura.
At the same time, he found that An Su beside Li Yi was holding a boring and squinting at him unkindly.
Seeing the unkind eyes of Li Yi and An Su, Helian Dong subconsciously shrank his neck.
"Now, there are five hundred sets of clothes in the box next to you, and now change them at once."
Li Yi pointed to the box next to him and said.
After a brief hesitation, the five hundred people still opened the box according to Li Yi's instructions.
When they saw the Tugu costumes in the box, one of these people finally couldn't help but ask.
"This lord, why do you want us to wear the clothes of the Tugu Clan?"
"Don't fucking talk nonsense, my son-in-law will let you wear it."
An Su said and took out two sets of clothes from the box, one was handed to Li Yi, and the other set was put on his body.
The ten Tugu people looked at these people in front of them with a stunned expression, and their heads were in confusion at this time.
"Tonight more than 500 of us will carry out a dangerous but very glorious thing, and if this happens, we will completely change the whole situation of the battle."
Li Yi said after seeing that everyone was dressed.
"You've probably heard of the Night's Sleep, but I don't know what you think of them. But I can assure you that if our plans succeed, we will be the object of all the night worship in the Hereafter. ”
Li Yi's tone was subdued and frustrated, making people sound like people were boiling with blood.
"My lord, are you planning to take us to raid the camp of the grassland tribe?"
At this time, Helian Dong had already understood Li Yi's thoughts.
He was really taken aback by Li Yi's idea.
"My lord, we only have a mere five hundred people, and in the past, there were at least a thousand people who did not return at night, and it was difficult for them to raid the camp of the grassland tribe, let alone us?"
A soldier from the Border Army asked, but the more he spoke, the quieter his voice became, obviously a little ashamed of his worries.
"We are not different from the past, first of all, a large number of people is not necessarily an advantage, although our more than 500 people are not a large number, but from another point of view, our goal is also small."
"Secondly, this time we are disguised as the Tugu people, and we are still conducting a surprise attack when they are attacking us, which means that we have chosen a different time than them, and tonight is still a rainy night, which is more conducive to our raid."
Li Yi spoke out about their advantages in order to completely dispel the fear in the hearts of these more than 500 people.
"My lord, are we mainly attacking their Khan this time?"
Helian Dong's eyes couldn't help but glow.
"Yes, our goal this time is not to kill or injure their army, but to take a decapitation operation to get rid of their commander, so that the war on the side of Yuyang County will be completely reversed."
Li Yi nodded in affirmation.
"Then there is a reluctant request below, and please allow me to personally kill Murong Qinyou, the king of the earth valley, at that time."
Heliandong knelt down on one knee and pleaded.
"If there is such an opportunity, I will comply with your request."
After everything was ready, Li Yi took the five hundred and ten people to the southernmost section of Yuyang County.
Because it is far from the city gate and close to the mountain wall, there are relatively few people on guard.
At this time, there were no soldiers stationed on this section of the wall, and there were only a few people waiting on the wall.
Led by Song Shilong, the deputy general of the Yuyang County garrison, followed by Jing Ziyi, Qi Chao Qi Ning and Jing Zizheng.
"You can think clearly, once you leave the city, you will not have a chance to return to Yuyang County until the war is over!"
Song Shilong looked at the very young man in front of him and couldn't help but remind that although he supported this sneak attack plan, he still felt that the chances of their success were very small, and their chances of survival were very slim.
"General Song, I have already thought about this matter very clearly, you don't need to persuade me anymore, whether we succeed or not, we will try to come back alive."
Li Yi pulled the robe on his body and said.
"In that case, I am here to thank you for your loyalty for the 60,000 border guards and the hundreds of thousands of people in Yuyang County."
As he spoke, Song Shilong bowed deeply towards the more than five hundred soldiers.
Everyone didn't expect that the dignified Pengzhou Army Vice Admiral would give them such a big salute, and they couldn't help but feel their blood surging.
Then, Keiko took out a book, took out a brush, asked the name of each person and wrote it down carefully.
When all the names were written, there were five more of them left on the walls.
Looking at the empty city walls and the ropes hanging between the battlements, the five of them couldn't help but feel a little gloomy.
"We may be witnessing the rise of a legend, and maybe Ansu is right."
Keiko was looking into the distance, but unfortunately the sky was completely dark at this time, everything he could see was darkness, and only the whirring wind in his ears muffled the sound of galloping horses' hooves.
And Qi Ning clasped his hands together, as if praying to the gods and Buddhas of the heavens.
Although she usually likes to argue with Li Yi, just as Li Yi disappeared into the darkness along the rope, she realized that her heart seemed to be suddenly missing.
It was a feeling she had never experienced before.
Song Shilong and Jing Ziyi sighed, then turned around and went to the city wall to command the defense.
"Sister, don't worry, Li Yi, this kid will definitely not die easily, when he comes back, I will go and tell my uncle to ask him to ask his mother to marry you to him."
Qi Chao smiled and comforted his sister who was a little sad, but what he ushered in was Qi Ning's murderous eyes.
Qi Chao couldn't help but shrink his neck, followed Song Shilong, and they ran away.
It's a pity that he didn't see that when he turned around and ran away, Qi Ning's face showed a look of shame.
All of this was seen by Keiko who was in a group of people who were sorting out the books.
"Look at what you see, watch your eyeballs!"
When Qi Ning found that Jingzi was looking at her with a smile on her face, she immediately changed back to that fierce state.
Jing Zizheng also learned from Qi Chao's appearance, and also shrank his neck, and then ran away.
At this time, only Qi Ning was left standing in place on the city wall.
"I hope you come back alive, I'm here waiting for you to come back."
Qi Ning finally said what he wanted to say in his heart but didn't dare to say it in the uninhabited city.
They all said that they had a good heart, and they didn't know if they could communicate with Li Yi, and whether he would be able to hear what he just said.
At this time, Li Yi, who was riding on the war horse and galloping, couldn't help but sneeze, and he couldn't help but lower his body a little.
It was only then that he realized how wise he had chosen to wear the clothes of the Tugu Clan.
You must know that the clothes of the Dayu Dynasty are generally made of cotton or linen, which is breathable and sweat-absorbing, but it cannot block the invasion of the wind at all.
As a nomadic people, most of their clothes are made of sheepskin, although they do not look as gorgeous as the costumes of the Dayu Dynasty, but they are unusually resistant to wind and warm in this cold and windy weather.
If they were still wearing the costumes of the Great Yu Dynasty, they would have been shivering from the cold at this moment.
An Su looked at Li Yi at the front of the team and couldn't help but sigh at Li Yi's extraordinary.
Don't look at his current equestrian skills are very good, but you must know that he has only been learning to ride a horse for more than ten days now, and his equestrian skills are still taught to him by people in the Yang family's caravan, but An Su knows this.
Li Yi led everyone to gallop on the war horse for about an hour, and until the speed of the horse began to decline, he stopped the war horse, and then let everyone rest for a while.
Everyone had never ridden for such a long time before, and they were all a little overwhelmed, only the ten Tugu warriors led by Helian Dong were not affected in the slightest.
After all, they were raised on horseback.
At this time, the rain clouds in the sky had completely covered the entire sky, and the darkness had completely enveloped the entire earth, and Li Yi and their surroundings were all as dark as ink.
In such an environment, the five hundred warriors were a little frightened, they were not afraid of the darkness itself, they were just a little afraid of the unknown.
"My lord, the surroundings are so dark at this time that we can't see the mountains in the distance and can't tell where we are at this time, and we can't see the stars in the sky and have completely lost our direction."
After some discussion with the other nine clansmen, Helian Dong reported to Li Yiyu.
Although the news was depressing, he didn't want to hide it.
In his opinion, the only thing his group can do now is to wait for the rain to stop and the clouds to disperse before they can find their way and find their location.
Li Yi didn't have much to do, he called a few soldiers, then asked them to form a circle, and then took out a fire fold and lit a piece of velvet with the fire on the velvet.
In the howling wind, the fire of the torch was stretched by the wind for a long time, as if it would be extinguished at any moment.
Li Yi asked a few people to get close to block the strong wind before stabilizing the flame of the torch.
Then he took out a small wooden box from his arms, and when he opened it, he found that there was a transparent thing like a crystal, and under this crystal was a thing with two pointed ends, one red and one blue.
The thing swayed back and forth in the flickering firelight, and soon remained still.
"It's north over there, and we're going in that direction right away."
Li Yi immediately closed the small wooden box and pointed to the north and said.
"Sinan?"
They looked at the small wooden box in Li Yi's hand curiously, they had seen Sinan, but they had never seen such a small Sinan.
"That's right, it's really Sinan, this thing was given to me by my master, and he made it himself."
Li Yi immediately put the small wooden box into his arms.
"My lord, although we have now found our direction, there is still no way to determine our location."
Helian Dong was still worried about whether his gang would run to the wrong place next.
"You can rest assured that I have already identified the direction before I set off, and I can basically calculate the approximate range we have now through the speed of the horse just now."
In fact, Li Yi has been paying attention to the speed of the war horse all the way, which is why he must ride in front of everyone, in addition to highlighting his identity as the leader, more importantly, he is controlling the speed of the horse to ensure the direction and distance of the entire team.
Immediately, he took out a folded piece of paper from his bosom, and after unfolding it, everyone realized that it was actually a map.
It's just that this map is very similar to the map they usually see, and the mountains on this map are made up of circles and lines.
And the shape of each circle is also a little different.
This was actually the contour line mapping method that Tai Jizi taught him at the beginning, and when Li Yi was studying, he felt that this method of drawing maps was much better than the traditional method, so he learned it very seriously at the beginning.
He had drawn this drawing in the afternoon while squatting on the floor of the barracks, and then he found paper and drew it on paper.
"We should be around here now." Li Yi pointed to a point that he had marked and said.
"Judging from your map, we should be in the area of Da Lenggou at this time."
A Tugu soldier who surrounded him said.
"Aren't we going in the wrong direction? Da Lenggou is on the east side of Yuyang County, we should go to the north! ”
Helian Dong couldn't help but be surprised when he heard that they were now in the Great Cold Ditch, he didn't expect his group of people to run out of the direction.
"No, we didn't run in the wrong direction, I was going to run east first."
Li Yi said with a smile.
"Isn't it the opposite of what I am?"
Some soldiers couldn't help but mutter.
"If we go directly to the north, we are likely to encounter the grassland tribes that are about to attack, and we don't have enough people for them to stuff their teeth!"
Li Yi put the map away, then looked at the wind in the sky that was getting stronger and stronger, then he took another long breath and closed his eyes for a moment before he opened them.
"After resting for half an hour, the rain in the north has already fallen, and the grassland tribe has already set off with the rain at this time."