The Jiangning army wanted to take the initiative to attack Mengjin to meet the Liukou, this news immediately shook Luoyang City, and even King Fu sent his son Zhu Yousong to inquire, but the results were still the same, and Yang Feng insisted on leading the army to attack.

In the face of Yang Feng, who insisted on this, Zhu Changxun had no choice at all.

Although he is the king of fortune, he can only be a blessing in Luoyang, which is an acre of three-point land, and if Yang Feng is really not a bird, he will not be a bird, what else can he do? I could only watch as the tens of thousands of troops of the Jiangning Army pulled out of camp early the next morning and set off towards Mengjin.

Weather December 28 in the 10th year of Henan Province

"Head...... Today, we have seen several groups of rogues to explore the outposts, it seems that the rogue army may appear at any time, now are we still moving in the direction of Mengjin? ”

The person who spoke was a young man in his twenties, with straight facial features and fair skin, and he didn't look like a soldier at all, but more like a white-faced scholar.

But in fact, this young man was a night boy in the Jiangning army, and his big name was Hu Buyang, but because his appearance was too deceptive, the robes gave him the nickname Scholar.

The twenty-eight or nineteen-year-old dark-skinned person in the middle who looked quite calm was a team officer (general manager) of the pair who did not accept the night, named Guo Shanqing, nicknamed the old knife.

There were still six or seven people around them who didn't collect at night, and at the moment their heads were around the old knife.

All of them are dressed in shabby sheepskin jackets and white felt hats on their heads, and they are no different from the locals.

Of course, if you look closely, you will see some drums muttering under the shabby sheepskin jacket, and a long strip of object hanging from the saddle that does not need to be wrapped.

Each of these people rode three horses, and they were also tall and sturdy warhorses, and they should carry all kinds of grain and baggage on the horseback mountain, which was enough to ensure that these people could be in the wild for a month without supplies.

Today's Jiangning Army can be roughly divided into two parts, one is stationed in Fujian and Luzon, and the other part is Jiangningwei who stayed in Jinling.

Needless to say, the troops stationed in Luzon and Fujian were killed by Yang Feng from the sea of blood in the corpse mountain, and they were absolutely iron-blooded divisions for the rest of their lives, and this part of the army stationed in Jiang Ningwei was recruited later, although they also underwent long-term training, but after all, they had not experienced actual combat, so they naturally could not compare with Fujian and Nanyang in terms of combat experience and combat effectiveness.

Everyone has the heart of comparison, seeing that the robes who followed Yang Feng to Liaodong and Nanyang were promoted one by one and made a fortune, these sergeants who stayed in Jinling were naturally envious and wanted to make contributions.

Lao Daozi and these people broke away from the main army five days ago and searched all the way to the Mengjin area along the official road, and their task was to investigate the movements of the Liukou along the way and send the news back to the headquarters in time.

From Henan Mansion to Mengjin, there are mostly mountains and rivers, and there are many rivers in the middle, like the old knife now, their activity in this generation is all over the mountains and rivers, and there are old forests everywhere, and the most strange thing is that although they relied on the telescope sent down to find several steps of the spies, but these spies did not move towards Luoyang to quickly investigate, but in this generation of non-stop wandering, immediately aroused the suspicion of the old knife.

The old knife pondered for a while before beckoning to everyone, and only after everyone gathered around did he whisper: "According to what we have seen in the past few days, the actions of the thieves are extremely strange, they are not in a hurry to advance to Luoyang, but they are constantly wandering around here to observe, there must be some conspiracy here." ”

"The head is right." The scholar also agreed: "The terrain in this area is complicated, even if tens of thousands of horses are hiding in this area, it is difficult to be discovered, and this is the only way to go to Mengjin, brothers, let's see, what tricks will the thieves have?" ”

"Ambush!"

Seven or eight people shouted in unison after glancing at each other.

"By the way, there's a good chance that the thieves are ambushing here."

The old knife glanced at the scholar approvingly, this kid has a flexible brain and good skills, and he is a good embryo who doesn't collect at night.

"Shhh...... This rogue is so clever that he would set up an ambush? A stout man asked with some surprise.

"How fresh, do you think that the thieves are all fools, and they will only hit our guns?" The old knife scolded curiously and funny.

The scholar interjected: "Head, the most important thing for us now is to find out the true intentions of the thief, so that we can report to the grandfather of the country." ”

The old knife said: "Yes, the scholar is right, we can't just guess, we have to get a few live mouths to ask, if we can catch their outposts, it would be better." ”

In this regard, several Ye Bushu very much agreed, as their peers knew very well that as the eyes and ears of the army, the sentinel knew no less than the average officer, or even more.

"Get on the horse, go ......"

The old knife jumped on the horse's back, grabbed the horse's belly, and the horse ran briskly up the hill in front of him.

Soon, the people reached the hillside, tied their horses to a sheltered back slope, and several people went up to the top of the hillside.

Looking down from the hillside, there is another official road in the middle of the canyon on both sides, which is the only way for Mengjin to pass through Luoyang, if the army of thieves passes by, it must pass through here.

Time passed little by little, and soon it was evening, this year is not modern, and no one dares to rush overnight at night, not to mention anything else, if you encounter a wild beast, it is enough for a person to drink a pot.

The night temperature in the field is much lower than that during the day, not to mention the current season, although he is wearing cotton clothes and cotton pants issued by Jiang Ningjun, and he is covered with a sheepskin jacket, the scholar still feels cold and cold, and his hands are a little numb.

He struggled to move himself, took off his gloves and rubbed his hands together, and it took a while to feel his hands lighten a little.

After he felt a little more comfortable, he looked at the old knife on the side, and found that he was still motionless in the posture he had just had, and his hands were still holding the telescope and slowly moving left and right.

Suddenly, the old knife said, "Here it is!" ”

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, and they all looked in the direction where the old knife was looking, but their eyesight was really limited, and they couldn't see clearly at all, after all, the telescope was a very precious thing, and the entire team only had an old knife as an officer.

After a while, only the sound of horses' hooves was heard, and about a dozen horses galloped out of a hill on the right and galloped in the direction of Mengjin.

"Head, those people are the outposts of the thieves." One of the nights shouted in a low voice, with an unconcealed joy in his voice.

"Let's go...... Keep up! ”

The old knife said a word, and everyone stood up, and soon went to the nearby back slope to fetch the war horse and followed it......