The official road from Xizhou Prefecture to Mingtai County has a branch road to Quyang County in Guizhou, which is on the upper slope of a three-character intersection.
There are two small teahouses beside the road. The tables, chairs and benches are all in the open air. If it rains, a large tent will be set up on site.
The soil is moist and everything is soft in spring. Two carriages are parked on the side of the teahouse near the mountain stream. From time to time, the sound of little puppies can be heard beside the carriages. The little fat little dog is running, lively and active, and keeps playing with people.
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Zhili sat on a long bench with his cheek in his hand, staring at the intersection, and occasionally looking at the chess game played by Yang Fugui and Li Man next to him.
Even the little fat boy was tired of playing and wanted to get on the carriage to find his owner, but there was no one at the intersection.
Zhan Ning went over and carried the little fat dog into the carriage, and it got into the car curtain on its own. Xia Zhaoyi opened her eyes from her dream and saw the little puppy with its back to her, sitting upright on her feet.
"Little Fatty." Xia Zhaoyi shouted.
The little fat boy immediately turned around, stood up with his tail wagging happily, and wanted to pounce on her.
Xia Zhaoyi picked it up with one hand and opened the curtain with the other.
The sky was bright and clear, and there were only ordinary passers-by on the official road in the distance, and there was no other movement.
"Miss," Zhan Ning appeared outside the car window, "Did they change the route temporarily?"
"This is the only way to Mingtai County." Xia Zhaoyi said.
"Then maybe the time has been changed? Maybe they won't go to Mingtai County today?"
Xia Zhaoyi solemnly said: "It is possible."
"Otherwise, should I go back to Xizhou Mansion to explore?"
At this time, Ye Zheng and Wei Dongyou galloped over from the end of the official road.
Xia Zhaoyi looked at them, paused, and said, "It's probably not that the time was changed, but... it was cut off."
Zhan Ning looked around.
"Go to the foot of the mountain quickly," Xia Zhaoyi said solemnly, "let Uncle Xia come back with his troops."
"yes!"
Ye Zheng and Wei Dongyou came over and they really talked about "cutting off the Hu".
Zhili was supported by Yang Fugui and came forward. When they met, he asked where Shen Lie was. Wei Dongyou said: "Not many soldiers and horses came this time, but there were more than 500 people. Now they have shown their faces. The young master personally took them from Leigong Mountain."
Go to Guizhou."
"Ah, it's Brother Shen's Yan Jun!" Zhili's eyes lit up, "Are you going to meet me later?"
"Um."
"Senior sister!" Zhili looked at Xia Zhaoyi, who was sitting outside the carriage with the little fat boy in his arms, "Let's join him too!"
"Didn't you say we would meet in Guizhou?" Xia Zhaoyi said.
"Brother Shen must have gone to settle Yan's army this time. He will wait for us after the settlement is complete. Then wouldn't I miss out on seeing the soldiers and horses brought out by Brother Shen personally?"
Ye Zheng and Wei Dongyou looked at each other and thought to themselves that there was nothing to see from those soldiers and horses.
This group of guys had marched hundreds of miles before, only to have half their lives left, and had been fighting horse bandits in the northwest for recent months. All of them had slovenly and rough faces.
Moreover, they have not been able to correct the habits they developed in the Tanzhou and Shanjingcheng barracks. Now, the entire Yan army can be described as ruffian, wild, wild and crazy.
Xia Zhaoyi looked at Zhili's body and looked at Li Man and Yang Fugui: "Zhili still can't ride a horse, so you can only carry him in a carriage. We will meet in Guizhou."
Li Man responded and quickly went to fetch the carriage.
"Senior sister, won't you come with us?" Zhili was a little disappointed.
"Well, I won't go now." Xia Zhaoyi said.
She did not tell Zhili that Xia Jiajun was also here. Since she had been "cut off" now, there was no need to tell her.
Since the two groups of soldiers and horses came quietly, they naturally had to go quietly. It would not be appropriate to take the same road one after the other.
After Li Man brought the car, Xia Zhaoyi told Zhili to remember to put extra pillows on his back if there were bumps on the road.
On the one hand, Zhili was looking forward to seeing Shen Lie's army, but on the other hand, he was reluctant to leave his senior sister. However, thinking that they would meet soon, he cheered up and waved to leave.
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~The following anti-theft~
~Replacement in the early morning~
In addition to Dai Yu, Dayan's army here was led by a general called Ruan Guoliang, who was selected from the original Tanzhou army.
He was also the one who took the worst blame. Because he was implicated by his subordinates, he was scolded and punished every day.
Now when he heard the shouts of the horse bandits, Ruan Guoliang couldn't understand them, but he felt unhappy when he heard them. He shouted loudly: "Are you the only one who knows how to shout! Brothers, we shout at them too! We still have to rush over and kill them. them!"
"rush!"
"Kill them!"
"Just do it!"
The soldiers of the Dayan army who had not yet reached a tacit understanding cursed and became confused, and rushed forward following Ruan Guoliang.
The horse bandits were divided into two groups, and one group galloped to greet them. However, the horses' hooves trampled on the uneven corpses on the ground, which inevitably caused bumps.
Another small team, following Ye Heli, rushed towards Shen Lie in front.
Shen Lie also suddenly drove his horse to gallop, waved the silver gun in his hand, and the sound of breaking wind was clear and refreshing, and the clang was long.
"Brothers!" Ruan Guoliang shouted, "throw it!"
Several rows of soldiers behind, plus the village men further behind, immediately took out a bowl, quickly scooped up a bowl of thick snow on the ground, and threw it vigorously at the oncoming horse thieves.
Parabolas were drawn roundly in the air, and hundreds of bowls raised boiling snow and mist. The leaders, Dai Yu and Ruan Guoliang, stabbed their spears angrily and rushed forward with the soldiers in the front row.
The vision of many horse bandits was interrupted for an instant, and many bowls were thrown at their faces. In the next moment, the spears of Dayan soldiers knocked them off their horses.
Those horse bandits who followed closely without being disturbed and whose hoofs did not hit the hollows of the corpse became furious and chopped them off with their sabers.
Dai Yu used his spear to deflect a saber and roared: "Attack the horse!"
The life-and-death confrontation was instantaneous, and the soldiers did not care about their mounts, and attacked their horses as fast as they could.
At the same time, three hundred cavalry led by Le Wei rushed from the south and charged into the group of horse bandits.
The cavalry had an absolute advantage over the infantry, but the hundreds of corpses on the ground and the additional horse corpses turned this advantage into a disadvantage.
Dai Yu was kicked to the ground by a horse. Fortunately, several villagers helped him up. They worked together to kill a horse bandit. Dai Yu didn't bother to breathe and raised his head to look towards Shen Lie.
There was a melee all around, swords and blood shadows, and snow and fog that greatly obstructed his vision. As he fought, he ran in that direction and saw that Shen Lie was entangled by more than forty horse bandits and was breaking out of the encirclement.
These horse bandits are all absolute masters of Xiyiheng. Their mounts are not bad, their riding skills are not bad, and their ability to slash on horseback is not bad either.
Shen Lie came up and killed three people, enraging them all.
Ye Heli was even more furious.
The horse bandits' usual tactics are to encircle them, and to circle around their "prey" and shout at them to attack their minds, but none of them are working right now.
Wherever Shen Lie rode his horse, they could quickly intercept him, but there was no way to get behind him and achieve the purpose of a surprise attack after encirclement.
Two more people were shot off their horses by Shen Lie, one was seriously injured and the other was killed on the spot.
