Xiao Shizi chuckled, walked closer to Wu San and said, "Master, we knew yesterday that the three captains had taken the wrong route, why didn't we remind them?"
Wu San knocked on Xiao Shizi's forehead and said: "Who made them so stupid that they couldn't tell that the military order was given by the enemy? Okay, let's go down and prepare to cook the meat for everyone to eat."
Eat hot food and drink some hot soup, the weather is getting colder."
In a short time, the bonfire was lit, and after the water in the iron pot boiled, the dozens of yellow sheep shot along the way were neatly cleaned up by everyone, cut into pieces, thrown into the boiling water, and sprinkled with
A handful of salt is the best food. In the wilderness, salt is very valuable. Many horse thieves often eat meat without salt.
"After dinner, we moved over from the east, leaving a marching route for the three silly boys Li Xiang, Su Changqing, and Jiang Mulang, and continued to follow the army."
The order was passed down, and the two thousand horse thieves agreed with a loud voice, and they accelerated their eating speed.
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It was not until evening that a scout found a big arrow on a big rock in the southwest. In front of the arrow were the three characters "Tuyuhun" written on it.
Jiang Mulang, Su Changqing and Li Xiang received the scout report and rushed over as quickly as possible.
"Has the general sent someone over to help us?" Li Xiang scratched his head and asked Su Changqing, because this way of giving directions was completely the style of their past training in Gaotaicheng. When they set up marching routes or training venues in Gaotaicheng,
This is how Wang Junlin indicates the direction.
"I don't know if it was someone sent by the general, at least it's not a trick of the Tuyuhun people! Move the big rocks away!" Su Changqing looked at the big rocks for a while, shook his head and chuckled before giving the order.
Several soldiers worked together to push the big stone away, and everyone found that there was indeed a yellow parchment scroll under the stone.
After the parchment was opened, a simple map was drawn on it, with a marked route on it. The route was densely marked with distinctive topography, but the words on it were not Chinese characters.
"Let's see if it's true!"
Su Changqing glanced at the parchment scroll and handed it to Jiang Mulang.
Jiang Mulang took the sheepskin scroll and looked around. There was a not-so-high mound to the west. The windward side of the mound was covered with ravines. The tops of the ravines were all red sandstone pillars shaped like steamed buns, which were very easy to identify.
Yesterday I did not go towards the mound, but went slightly eastward...
Jiang Mulang looked at the map for a long time, then gritted his teeth and said, "You should go in the direction of Mantou Mountain. This map is real."
Su Changqing smiled and said: "Of course it's true!"
Li Xiang opened his eyes wide and said, "How do you know?"
Su Changqing waved the soldiers back a hundred steps away, then sighed, took the parchment, pointed to a skull painted on the back of the parchment, and said with a smile: "The sign of the Skeleton Army, Master Wu San has arrived in person.
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Li Xiang and Jiang Mulang stopped talking after carefully looking at the mark. They naturally knew about Wu San, but this was Gaotaicheng's top secret, and they didn't know many things very well.
"Lord Wu San should be nearby, but the existence of the Skeleton Army is our top secret in Gaotai City. The three of us are qualified to know, but others are not qualified yet, so Lord Wu San can only show us the way in this way.
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Xue Yantuo is the most powerful tribe among the Tiele tribes. It consists of two tribes, Xue and Yantuo. It is further divided into more than a hundred tribes, large and small. It has a fighting strength of 100,000 and is nomadic in Jinshan and Yudujin.
Among the mountains, it can be said that it is one of the largest tribes under the command of the Eastern Turks. Chief Xue Yantuo Yi Shibo is very ambitious and has always wanted to replace Qiming Khan.
Perhaps Yishubo's ambition angered Changshengtian. A few days ago, a sudden cold wave hit Jinshan. The blizzard raged for several days and nights, causing millions of Xue Yantuo's cattle and sheep to freeze to death, causing heavy losses. More importantly,
, they did not have enough autumn grass stored to survive the winter. Just when Yishubao was considering whether to send people thousands of miles west to plunder the Western Turks, who were in a chaotic situation, they received permission from Qiming Khan to let them go south to clear grass valleys.
Yishubao also heard about the fact that Qiming Khan sent a small number of silver wolf kings to ride to Yongzhou in the Sui Dynasty and suffered a big loss. He also guessed Qiming Khan's intention of letting people go south, but for Yishubo
But he didn't care at all. After all, he preferred to rob the wealthy Sui Dynasty people compared to the Western Turkic tribes in the west who were not much richer than them. However, because of the alliance between the Eastern Turkic Khanate and the Sui Dynasty, Qiming Khan also had strict orders for the tribes below.
, before Yishubo accumulated enough power, he did not want to violate the orders of Qiming Khan, so he did not attract the attention of the Sui people. Now that Qiming Khan took the initiative to order them to go south to plunder the Sui people, how could Yishubo be polite?
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Therefore, after receiving the order, Yishubo immediately ordered most of the tribes to move south to the Yinshan area, approaching the border of Yongzhou in the Sui Dynasty. At this time, the army sent back by Wang Junlin had returned to various military camps, and according to Wang Junlin's instructions,
Junlin ordered to send scouts to the north to investigate, and promptly discovered the news that the Turkic Tiele tribes were heading south. All border military villages were prepared in advance, and they would be sent to Zhangye County King Junlin and Zhangye County with expedited horses as soon as possible.
Jiang Yishan's hands.
Shifengzhai is located in Xifeng County, the northernmost part of Zhangye County. After the Sui army defeated the Western Turks and Tuyuhun last year and took Zhangye County back, the Sui Dynasty has begun to systematically immigrate to Zhangye and Xiping counties since the end of last year.
Among them, Xifeng County relocated more than a thousand Han households from the prefectures in Guan Nei during this year.
These Han people mainly live in the plain between Xifeng County and Shifeng Village. There are several rivers here and it is easy to cultivate fertile farmland. Therefore, over the past year, more than a dozen villages, large and small, have been formed according to their families.
The Yishubo people's first target was Xifeng County, and if they wanted to enter Xifeng County, it would be difficult to avoid Shifeng Village, the border military village.
Shifeng Village was originally guarded by a captain, but because he was Li Fengyun's confidant, he was ordered to lead most of the troops in Shifeng Village to participate in the murder of Wang Junlin a few days ago, so he was killed by Wang Junlin in Yelugou. Now Shifeng Village guards
It will be Niu Jinda, the captain appointed by Wang Junlin.
Niu Jinda was born in the green forest and had never led an army before. He had been with Wang Junlin for the past few months and was deliberately pointed by Wang Junlin. He learned a lot from Zhan Peng and others. The only big battle he experienced was with Shangguan on the road.
That time when the tiger and his party led three thousand bandits.
Logically speaking, these are not enough to serve as a captain, but on the one hand, Wang Junlin has no one left for the time being, and on the other hand, it is because Wang Junlin knew that Niu Jinda would be the founding general of the Tang Dynasty in the original history.
He definitely has extraordinary talent in fighting.
PS: The second update is coming, the third update will be a little later————