Chapter 919: The Road Meets the Pioneer
From Zengtou City to Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, intuitively, in modern terms of later generations, from Dezhou to Beijing, this is a very close distance for the cavalry, and it only takes one day and night at most to arrive, because the speed of the cavalry's long-distance rush is basically half of the green train when the speed was not increased in later generations.
The green train needs to stop at each station for a long time, add water goods, and the cavalry will have to rest and repair in the middle of such a journey.
What's more, because the cavalry has to take care of the footsteps of the infantry behind, and can't be too far away from the infantry, so as not to be unable to echo in the event of an accident, this journey is at least a three-day journey for the Liangshan soldiers and horses led by Bai Sheng.
The first two days went very smoothly, Bai Sheng asked the army to deliberately avoid the urban areas of the prefectures and counties along the way, often bypassing the deserted suburbs outside the city, even though the local state capital had also noticed it, but after sending someone to understand it, he learned that it was the army that went to Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures to recover the lost territory, so he no longer pursued it. With a troop of this size crossing the border, the state and county armies don't have the ability to pursue it, the difference is only whether they want to report to Bianjing or not.
On the morning of the third day, the team had come to Jizhou, that is, near Tianjin in later generations, and when they were walking, Zhu Tong sent a probe horse in front of them to gallop back, saying that the forward cavalry had encountered a large force of Great Song Dynasty troops on the way, and the two sides had been clashing, and asked Bai Sheng how to deal with it.
Asking how to deal with this kind of thing is nothing more than two choices, one is to endure and avoid, and the other is to do it to death, but after all, the other party is the regular army of the Great Song Dynasty, although it is a rout, it is also a regular army wearing the uniform of the forbidden army, if it is done to the death, I am afraid that it will cause trouble for Bai Sheng.
After Bai Sheng listened to the report, he was very strange, it was obvious that the army had not moved the grain and grass first, if Tong Guan's army had already arrived in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, then what would they eat and drink? Will they eat and drink against the enemy? He believed that Tong Guan did not have this ability.
To feed the war with war, it will eat the enemy, that has always been the magic weapon of war for the nomads, the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty will not do this except for Di Qing of the year, if you go to the front to find such a talent, it can only be Huo Qubing of the Han Dynasty.
Therefore, he felt that this rout could not be Tong Guan's army, and Tong Guan's army should still be preparing to cross the river in Henan.
However, if this so-called forbidden army is not Tong Guan's troops, who should it be? Since it is the uniform of the forbidden army, it cannot be a local box army or a border army at the border pass.
Moreover, even if they were defeated, they should not run in the direction of Shandong, right? If they ran directly to Bianliang, they should not appear on this road.
With doubts, he instigated the jade lion of the night to meet him, and came to a hilly area, and saw from a distance that the two groups of troops were facing each other on the flat land next to the hills.
The two armies faced each other, and on the vacant field in the middle, there were many corpses lying on the ground, some of whom were not killed on the spot, and were still crying out in pain.
How keen his eyes were, without waiting for the guidance of the cavalry beside him, he had already recognized the leader of this group of routs, isn't this Zhanzhao's grandson Zhanrenlong?
How did he get to Tianjin? And he was beaten to a rout, by whom?
Zhan Renlong was talking to Zhu Tong: "Even if you are transporting grain and grass to the army, what if you dare to block the way of our forbidden army, I will dare to let my subordinates kill you!"
Of course, Zhu Tong didn't know what kind of person Zhan Renlong was, and he spoke very toughly: "Don't blow it, okay? Just because you defeated soldiers will kill people? If it weren't for the sake of your body, I wouldn't have persuaded these brothers of mine just now!"
It was not Zhu Tong who persuaded the cavalry not to kill people, but Hu Yanzhuo, who used to be the commander of the soldiers and horses of Runing County, and was one level higher than Zhu Tong, who was the head of the horse army in Yuncheng County? Of course, he knew that the forbidden army could not be killed, and killing it was tantamount to stabbing a hornet's nest.
At the moment when the two sides first encountered, the soldiers on both sides did not hold the fire, and fought directly, but when he saw that the other party was a forbidden army, he could not help but persuade his subordinates to retreat, he felt that only Bai Sheng dared to break into this disaster, but the premise was that Bai Sheng was willing to break into this disaster, what if Bai Sheng was unwilling?
"Isn't this the pavilion owner?" "Since Bai Sheng is here, he can't let Zhu Tong talk anymore, and Zhu Tong can't grasp the scale, he rode his horse forward, leading Zhu Tong by a horse's head, and continued: "The pavilion master is so superb in martial arts, how could he fall into such a field?"
As soon as Zhanrenlong saw Bai Sheng, he was angry, no wonder these rabble people were coaxing one by one, it turned out that you Bai Sheng was supporting them behind their backs, so he said: "Isn't this Bai Xianxian? What? Bai Xianfeng dislikes that our Great Song Dynasty's forbidden army is too capable of fighting, and it can't reflect your demeanor as a Great Song Dynasty god of war, so he specially recruited these naughty idiots to show their skills?"
That's right, when he was on the other side of the Yellow River outside Xingqing Mansion, he did accompany Tong Guan to witness Bai Sheng's bravery, and he was ashamed of himself, but now his identity is no longer what it used to be, not to mention who is higher in martial arts and who is low, only to say that the official position, now he is the pioneer officer of the front department selected by Tong Guan personally, and Bai Sheng's pioneer officer has become yesterday's yellow flower.
Everyone is a member of the Great Song Dynasty army, I Zhanrenlong is the vanguard officer, but you Bai Sheng is the grain supervisor, who is higher and who is lower, do you need to ask?
There is no need to talk about the level of martial arts, let's only talk to you about the size of the position, the official level will crush people, others will suppress it, and I will also suppress it.
It's just that he didn't say his latest identity for the first time, but wanted to mock Bai Sheng a few words first, and then show his official position when Bai Sheng was annoyed and embarrassed, so that Bai Sheng could not advance or retreat, and taste the taste of riding a tiger.
Sure enough, Bai Sheng's reaction hit his heart, Bai Sheng said: "Don't talk nonsense, when will you give me the Zhan Lu sword you owe me?" ”
The so-called beating does not slap people in the face, and scolding people does not expose shortcomings. Zhan Renlong didn't expect Bai Sheng to expose this shortness as soon as he came up, and his old face turned red suddenly, and he was no longer in the mood to tease Bai Sheng, and said in a deep voice: "Bai Sheng, do you know who you are talking to?"
"I'm talking to you, what's wrong? Could it be that you're not human, and you can't understand human words?"
Since he saw him for the first time in Jiankang City, Bai Sheng didn't know why, he was particularly annoyed by Zhan Renlong, so he was even more impatient when talking to Zhan Renlong.