On the road again, Huan Yi felt that the atmosphere was much more solemn than before.

The whole team has more than 800 people, in addition to the 500-strong baggage battalion, there is also a complete formation of 300 soldiers. There were more than 60 carts and cattle and horses in the team, and when they left the camp, the Jize camp also sent a light cavalry team of more than 100 people to escort them along the Jize branch canal to Fushui.

It is a tributary of Zhangshui, and like other small waterways in Hebei, most of the river is silted up and dried up, and only a limited area can be crossed.

After leaving the Jize camp with goods and goods, the group of nearly 1,000 people did not go straight to the east, but traveled north along the Jize Canal for more than 30 miles to reach a simple ferry. At this time, there was still some time before dawn, and while the baggage battalion was transporting the goods onto the raft, the hundreds of cavalry first chose a shallow place to swim across the river to investigate.

Huan Yi was in the team, and he didn't ask much about it, but his mood was inevitably a little nervous. Although he had also heard that the situation on the right-wing battlefield was tense, he felt that it should not be a big problem to take advantage of the overall situation of the Wang Division, but he did not expect that even such a small-scale transportation of materials would need to be so cautious.

After being busy and making sure that there was no danger on the other side, the sky gradually brightened, and the main body of the team began to cross the river. By the time everyone had reached the other side, it was already morning.

"The thieves on the east bank of Fushui are cunning and flexible, and they are careful, please be considerate of Huan Xiaoshu."

After crossing the river, the team turned into a large area of woodland, and the warrior battalion master walked in front of Huan Yi and said to him.

Huan Yi naturally didn't have any dissatisfaction, but after that, the camp owner ordered someone to send a rather heavy armor and let people help Huan Yi hang up, so he couldn't help but ask: "The thieves in this realm are still so rampant?" ”

Although the Wang Division is well-equipped, it is difficult to achieve uniformity if it covers the main combat force of hundreds of thousands. Ordinary logistics baggage teams do not have too high combat missions, and according to convention, they will not be equipped with main equipment. After all, no matter how profound the Xingtai is, it is impossible to arm all the forces.

Huan Yi has been following the main force on the front line for several months, and his knowledge has naturally accumulated, and he can see that the armor on his body is the commander configuration of the main force, and it is by no means an ordinary artifact. The fact that it is assigned to him now undoubtedly shows that the battle will happen at any time, allowing him to save his life at a critical moment.

The camp owner didn't know Huan Yi's specific identity, but he was ordered to ensure the safety of his people, and after hearing this, he just smiled: "It's better to be prepared." ”

The camp owner didn't want to say more, and Huan Yi naturally didn't want to inquire at will, so he just followed the arrangement.

After escorting the procession here, the hundreds of knights of the Jize camp left behind more than thirty horses, and then returned along the same route. As for this baggage team, they did not go on the road immediately, and spent the whole day just walking along the forest trail for more than ten miles, and rested on the spot after reaching the edge of the forest.

Running around day and night, Huan Yi's spirit was also a little weak, so he went to sleep directly. After nearly three hours of rest, the team continued on its way when it got dark. More than thirty scouts rushed into the night and scattered across the road ahead, and the slight sound of horses' hooves in the night wind added to the slaughter.

The road is not smooth, most of the time it is a bumpy road in the wilderness, but fortunately, the baggage materials on this road are not heavy grains or ordnance, it should be cold materials such as hemp, which looks not small, but it is not heavy, because the speed of travel is not slow.

However, because there were no formed roads, there were many ditches in the suburbs, and there was a lack of torches and other things in the ranks, from time to time large carts fell into the ditches, and even Huan Yi had to help carry them, and there was no lack of confusion.

Towards dawn, suddenly a fire rose in the night ahead, and a straight wolf smoke rose from the ground, and in the light of the fire, only a thick column of smoke connected to the flame could be seen.

"Oops, it's Xiaqiushu! These inexhaustible thieves are really hateful! ”

One of the captains of the ranks let out a low curse, and even though he ordered the torches leading the way in the ranks to be extinguished, the whole team turned in the dark and hid in a dry riverbed. As soon as the chariots were gathered, the soldiers, driven by the armor, cut down the reeds and vines around them, forming a blank space around them.

Nearly 100 soldiers dug down in the wet part of the riverbed, and after digging up the mud, they threw many straw mats into it to soak it, and then scooped up the cattle and horses and other animal power draped in the ranks. In the dark, someone stuffed Huan Yi with a water bladder full of water, and quickly told him how to use it in the future.

Xiaqiu Shu is more than 30 miles away, and it is also the destination of this team. Attacked at this moment, the team naturally could not move forward. Because I don't know the number of enemy troops, there are still scouts in the surrounding suburbs, once the enemy discovers their men, it is inevitable that there will be a fierce battle.

But even if the enemy doesn't find out, just because they're able to move here doesn't mean they're absolutely safe. Because it is very likely that the enemy army will set fire to the wilderness, and now in the late autumn season, the weather is dry and dry, and the wildfire is very easy to spread.

The camp owner asked Huan Yi to lead him to his side, and while arranging affairs, he also took the time to explain a few words to Huan Yi. Similar situations are not uncommon on the east side of the water, and once a small baggage team like theirs is discovered, and no timely rescue is obtained, it is tantamount to a catastrophe.

At the moment, the situation is better than still, but if the enemy really sets fire to the wilderness and spreads to this point, cutting down those vines and barren grass can be regarded as creating a temporary fire barrier. But it is also necessary to be prepared with both hands, and if the enemy has to search the ashes carefully to find their traces, the cut vines and grass will be used to burn the goods they have transported, and it is better to die than to let them fall into the hands of the thieves.

When Huan Yi heard this, he couldn't help but gasp in his heart, he thought that the general trend of the Wang Division was urging pressure, and the enemy army was retreating one after another, but he didn't expect that there would be such a dangerous situation on a specific small-scale battlefield.

However, since he dared to follow the general to the north to make meritorious contributions, life and death did not have to be taken too seriously, and under Huan Yi's several requests, the battalion owner ordered someone to give Huan Yi a war knife, and comforted him a little: "Although it is prepared with both hands, the extremely evil situation is also rare." Although Shi Min, the head of the white thief, is ferocious, but also cunning, he has recruited the surrounding suburbs to travel and eat the rogue as his eyes and ears, intercept information, sit on the ground and share the spoils, once he sets fire to the wilderness, his ears and eyes have no place to hide, and he will be surrounded and annihilated by our army."

"Shi Min is also begging?"

Huan Yijiu was on the front line, and he had also heard of the name of the general Shi Min, Shangbai was one of the places where the beggar army was entrenched, so he asked.

This is not a military secret, and the camp owner sneered when he heard this: "What kind of beggar is he, the lord of the camp raises a vicious dog." Earlier, he was entrenched in Xiangguo and was driven away by Ma Qiu, and he came to Guangzong to take refuge without support, and Guangzong begged to recognize him as a fellow streamer, and took away the white people and let him make a fence in the front to obstruct him. ”

"But this thief is indeed cunning, and not blindly vicious, and attracts many pleasures to eat and give alms. Our king's division marched north to kill Hu, and all armies strictly forbade killing good and risking merit, but people's hearts are in their skins, and how can we wait and see whether they are good or bad. Several camps have been robbed, and there are thieves to communicate, but they can't kill all those wild people."

Hearing the camp owner's anger, Huan Yi was silent for a while. The heart of Hebei and the king's life have been extinct for a long time, especially some wandering nomadic people in the wilderness, they have a lack of information channels, and they have no concept of right and wrong, and a considerable part of them have fallen into the ears and eyes of the people without knowing it, and there are too many such situations.

As for the general's advocacy of military discipline not to kill innocents indiscriminately, this is by no means a woman's kindness. Only by going deep into Hebei will you understand what the world here has been ravaged by the Kingdom of Qian, and there is at least one room in ten rooms and nine emptiness, but many places in Hebei are already barren as far as the eye can see.

Even if the territory is recovered, there are no people, not even people, and it is very difficult to restore the country. It is true that the ignorant nomadic people have their own foolishness, but the world has been abusing for decades, and they are just trying to survive. As long as those real thieves and murderers are killed, and then the people's hearts are restrained by cultivation and weaving, they will naturally understand the value of the king's rule and will no longer be easily instigated by the thieves to stir up chaos.

After a period of time, they were all spent in tension, and there was only the night wind whimpering in the wild, and there was no sound of a large group of people approaching.

Wait until dawn until dawn, when the sun shines all over the earth, dispelling the darkness of the night and sweeping away some of the fears that have accumulated in people's hearts. At this time, the battalion owner hurriedly checked the team, and after making sure that there was no case of loss, he dispersed the scouts and went out to investigate the situation.

After more than two hours, the scouts finally returned, and they arrived with more than 300 cavalry comrades.

Huan Yi followed the camp master out together, and the two sides confirmed their identities after checking their own orders, and then converged to continue their journey.

"Last night, Xiaqiushu was indeed attacked by the enemy, and the enemy numbered nearly a thousand, and he had been repulsed and fled to the north. The 3,000 light cavalry of the Yanping battalion went north this morning to reinforce the various garrisons, and most of the enemy forces will not invade the surrounding area in the short term."

Knowing the situation of yesterday's battle from the mouths of the comrades who came to meet them from Xiaqiu, everyone sighed. When we arrived at Xiaqiushu, we could still see various traces of battle such as ashes and bloodstains, and there were also some corpses of enemies and war horses piled up around, which showed that the battle was fierce last night.

Because of the timely reinforcements, Xiaqiushu is safe for the time being. Moreover, this is already considered the scope of the successful control of the right-wing Wang Shi, and there is no need to rush to transfer for a while, but Huan Yi was thinking about the king's affairs, so he only stayed in Xiaqiu Shu for a short night, and then left in a hurry.

Although there was no danger last night, it also gave Huan Yi a lot of warnings, and before taking office, he went to the Yanping camp to meet with Hurun, the chief general of this side, and it was a relatively safe way to be instructed by him.