After all, he was still worried that Xiao Yanhan's temperament was too strong and others could not control him. Xu Huai did not dare to let her out of his sight at this time. Finally, he personally took the reins of the war horse that was humping her in his hand, and the two horses drove side by side.
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Even though he was in Kelan City at this time, before he got on the saddle, Xu Huai put aside his blue and black cloak and stared into the dark depths of the night, he still felt the coldness and signaled to Yin Peng and Tang Qing to take the lead.
A small group of sentry riders went first to the agreed rendezvous point to explore the way.
Xu Wuqi, Han Qi and others will also leave the city under their cover, then disguise themselves outside the city and sneak towards Datong immediately.
Guo Junpan and Pan Chenghu stood at the gate of the barracks to see everyone off.
Zhu Hangquan was appointed to oversee the military envoy, which was equivalent to the deputy envoy overseeing the army.
In addition to Zhu Hang, who represents the Supervisor of the Army and the Military Supervisor of the Yuan, besides him, Xu Wukun, Zhu Zhi, and the general of the Zhu family, Lu Wenhu, will all accompany him as Jun Yuhou to assist Zhu Hang in handling the affairs of the Supervisor.
Xu Huai led 200 elite troops and was mainly responsible for the important task of guarding.
Although the matter of Cao Shixiong and Cao Shili's attachment to the south was still top secret at this time, Xu Huai had no scruples to tell Pan Chenghu and Guo Jun thoroughly. However, the subsequent plan to raid Datong was theoretically only controlled by Zhu Hang at this time.
Xu Huai would not rush to talk to Guo and Pan, let alone reveal the Khitan conspiracy.
In any case, it is unlikely that Ge Boyi would personally lead a partial army to attack Datong.
The memory that emerged in Xu Huai's mind also clearly indicated that Ge Boyi sent other generals to join Cao Shili in attacking Datong; Cao Shixiong should have stayed in Shuozhou at that time.
Therefore, Xu Huai guessed that Ge Boyi would probably rush to Shuozhou to take charge; and Wang Fan, as the supervisor of the army, would inevitably advance and retreat with Ge Boyi at that time - Wang Kong, Guo Junpan, Pan Chenghu, Yuan Huidao and others would
He led the remaining three hundred soldiers and followed Wang Fan into Shuozhou.
Xu Huai did not expect Guo and Pan to lead two or three hundred men from Shuozhou City to rescue them after hearing the news that the raiding troops were defeated in Datong. But if they could use Wang Fan's name,
Or maybe Wang Fan is calm enough and gathers the Tongbai Mountain bandits who fled from the direction of Datong on the outskirts of Shuozhou, which will be of great convenience.
Xu Huai reined in his horse in front of Guo Junpan and Pan Chenghu, and pulled the horse carrying Xiao Yanhan close to him. When he saw that she wanted to look up, he stepped on her big butt without caring about her at all.
Pan Chenghu turned his head and looked over with hatred in his eyes. Discussing with Guo Jun, Pan Chenghu smiled calmly and said: "Brothers, please don't look downcast. Let's go first. If we catch the beautiful Hu Ji with big breasts and fat butt, we will definitely keep two of them."
The finest and beautiful goods are waiting for you to come and meet us."
"Then don't break your promise!" Guo Junfan and Pan Chenghu laughed.
None of them got the task of leading the guards. Of course, they knew that Wang Fan could not trust them much at this time. Their mood was somewhat complicated, but they were also glad that they had come to Xu Huai earlier to tell the truth.
Otherwise, they won't be able to benefit from both ends, and it will be extremely embarrassing.
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A curfew has been implemented in Kelan City in order to conduct searches among the enemy. The long street shrouded in darkness was deserted except for the soldiers on night patrol. From time to time, suppressed cries could be heard from the houses on both sides of the long street.
Xu Huai and others held forty or fifty rosin torches, illuminating the front and rear of the team. They could also see that some courtyard doors were smashed, and some blood was sprinkled on the thresholds and lintels.
With the transfer order signed by Ge Boyi and Wang Fan and the silver medal of arrows, the team took a lot of effort to come out from the west east gate, go north along the post road, and quickly arrived at the agreed rendezvous point.
This is a ferry on the Fen River.
In the early years, the Fen River was clear and clear, with green mountains and green fields on both sides, and the water was turbulent.
From the Han Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, all dynasties paid great attention to the repair of the dams on both sides of the Fen River, and from time to time spent huge sums of money to dredge the river. As a result, for hundreds of years, the Fen River from Lanzhou to Taiyuan, and from Taiyuan to Guanzhong, had prosperous river transportation.
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At the beginning of the Dai Viet Dynasty, Emperor Taizu diverted the Fen River to flood Jinyang (Taiyuan Prefecture) in order to capture Jinyang (Taiyuan Prefecture), which not only destroyed this thousand-year-old city, but also destroyed all the dams along the coast.
At that time, all Yanyun's homeland north of the Lan expedition had fallen into the hands of the Khitans. As a border state, the imperial court had always only focused on military defense and no longer bothered to manage people's livelihood.
Not only was the natural mountain pasture where hundreds of thousands of cattle and horses were grazed in Guanlui Mountain abandoned at its peak, but the waterway from Lanzhou to Taiyuan across the Luliang Mountains was no longer dredged. The dams were destroyed, and countless people were transported during heavy rains.
Silt floods river channels.
Over a hundred years ago, the upper reaches of the Fen River, where boating once thrived, have become so silted up that only small boats and rafts can be set up in autumn and summer. In winter and spring, earth bridges are used to cross the river. Some sections of the river can even be crossed barefoot.
At present, there are still some ferries in the upper reaches of Fenshui River, which are mainly used for ferrying merchants and horses on both sides of the river. The prosperous river transportation in the Sui and Tang Dynasties can no longer be seen; the transportation of grain and fodder from Taiyuan to Lanzhou also mainly relies on donkey carts.
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Ge Yu has led 500 cavalry and arrived here surrounded by Cao Shili and others.
These five hundred cavalrymen were all Ge Boyi's personal soldiers. Under the light of hundreds of torches, the five hundred men and horses also appeared to be extremely numerous.
At this moment, except for the chirping of horses and the sound of flowing water and the sound of tiny pieces of armor flapping, there were no soldiers whispering to each other. They were all quietly waiting for Zhu Hang to lead the troops overseeing the military envoy to come and join him.
This gives people a very strong sense of oppression.
Zhu Zhi subconsciously pulled the horse, not knowing whether to follow his father or not, and went over to exchange a few words with Ge Yu and Cao Shili.
The two teams formed a team and headed north. There were many specific matters that needed to be discussed. Xu Huai then directly drove his horse to follow Zhu Hang, Xu Wukun, Lu Wenhu, and Zhu Zhi to where Cao Shili and Ge Yu stopped.
When they got closer, under the firelight, they saw Yue Hailou, whom they had not seen for a while, and Zhu Xiaotong and others stopped on their horses beside Cao Shili.
Xu Huai guessed that when Cao Shili came to Lanzhou, he had to keep the secret absolutely, and there would be no guards to follow him. Going south from the Ningwu border wall, there were many obstacles that needed to be passed without disturbing the place. Most of them were arranged by Yue Hailou himself.
However, after Chen Zixiao was caught by him, he also said that he had not seen Yue Hailou for a while. It can be seen that even though Yue Hailou personally escorted Cao Shili to Kelan Prefecture, he himself did not participate in Cao Shili and Ge Boyi.
Guo Zhongxiong, Wang Fan and others met.
Xu Huai didn't know where Yue Hailou had been in the past two days. He guessed that he might have rushed to Daizhou urgently, and finally discussed with Liu Shizhong and Cai Yuanyou a plan to raid Datong?
The memory that emerged in his mind was clear enough about the information revealed in the raid on Datong, and Xu Huai had no intention of speculating on the details of Yue Hailou's meeting with Liu Shizhong and Cai Yuanyou.
Yue Hailou was a close general of the Cai clan. Even if no one told Xu Huai what mission he was taking at this time, his status would certainly not be lower than that of Zhu Hang.
Xu Huai reined in his horse and stopped aside, watching Zhu Hang walking over to talk to Yue Hailou and Cao Shili.
Ge Yu was obviously dissatisfied with the delay in the supervisory envoy's troops arriving to join him at this time. He sat astride a horse nearby with a cold expression, not even looking at Xu Huai.
It was determined that after arriving in Datong City, Xu Huai had no intention of living peacefully with these grandsons.
And after Ge Yu took away the Duke of Lu, he was able to massacre more than 30 people in Nuanxianglou in the street without any obstacles to confirm the search for the enemy. He did not feel that he was so cruel to this young man.
What kind of good looks does the guy need to give.
"snort!"
Xu Huai not only raised his nose to the sky, but also snorted loudly.
Who next to him wouldn't be arrogant?
Ge Yu's brows twitched. After a while, he couldn't restrain the anger in his heart. He asked Zhu Hang: "Why did you delay your arrival until now? If you are fighting against the enemy, don't you expect the enemy to wait patiently for you?"
Coming?"
Ge Yu was born as a general, and he had been with the Duke of Lu, who was very likely to ascend to the throne, since childhood. He had a high self-esteem, thinking that the Ge family would continue to flourish in his hands, and he would not take Xu Huai in his eyes.
Any grievances he had were directed towards Zhu Hang's head.
Zhu Hang was a little surprised, and was dissatisfied with Ge Yu's rude collision. However, in front of the surrendered general Cao Shili, he still thought about the overall situation and just said calmly: "When the economic envoy sends someone to issue the transfer order, the silver medal will go out through the east city gate.
The military officer on duty conducted a thorough interrogation, which delayed the situation for some time..."
Of course Zhu Hang would not say in front of outsiders that Xu Huai was delaying.
After the incident at Nuanxiang Tower, the generals of the Tianxiong Army were very repelled by the Supervisory Army Envoy. When they passed the East City Gate, they were indeed interrogated very carefully by the defenders.
Yue Hailou looked at Zhu Hang and Ge Yu in surprise.
After personally welcoming Cao Shili to Lanzhou, he indeed rushed to Yanmen to meet Liu Shizhong and Cai Yuanyou to finalize the final raid plan. At dusk, he hurried back to Kelan City and met with Ge Boyi, Guo Zhongxiong and Wang Fan.
, I still don’t know what happened in Nuanxiang Building last night.
Even though he was happy to see the discord between the Ge family and Zhu Hang, he couldn't fan the flames at this juncture. Weng Sheng said: "It's really getting late. Let's hurry up and hurry up. We can't put things in order until Qipan Mountain."
Woolen cloth……"
Cao Shili is indeed one of the few brave men among the Han generals in the north, but he is definitely not a fool of himself when he can represent the Cao family and sneak into Kelan to see Ge Boyi. The scene before him and his secret hiding in Kelan these past two days
What he saw and heard in the city made him frown slightly, thinking that if the generals of the Yue court were all like this, they wouldn't be much better than the Khitans!
