"Oh!"

Wu Shun's expression collapsed suddenly, and even his mood had a low meaning.

"What's wrong? It's not that a husband hasn't been to a war, and which time has he not returned victoriously unscathed? ”

Li Yuanba comforted Wu Shun, kissed him gently on the forehead, and said:

"Besides, the Lonely Cloud Village in White Horse Mountain is just a village where mountain bandits gather! For the husband, even the hinterland of Xue Yantuo can go back and forth, if you want to destroy a mere mountain bandit village, you won't waste any energy at all, you just relax! ”

"But ......" Wu Shun was still a little unwilling, she said: "But this leader of the army to fight, where is there any victorious general, the concubine only hopes that her husband can guard the homeland ......"

"Guarding your homeland, you have to solve all the troubles first?" Li Yuanba chuckled and said, "If the homeland is surrounded by bandits, how can you say that you can keep it?" ”

Li Yuanba saw that Wu Shun's face was still worried, so he continued: "Don't worry, after this matter is resolved, I will definitely rush back to Chang'an City as soon as possible, and I won't let you worry about it!" ”

In this way, Li Yuanba said goodbye to his wife, and ordered Bai Fu Haosheng to take care of the mansion, and went directly to the outside of the city to set off with the large army.

……

Li Yuanba's group of tens of thousands of horsemen and horses are all well-fed and lightly armed, and White Horse Mountain is not far from Chang'an City, only one or two hundred miles away.

With the speed of these good horses under the Shenwu Guard, plus the fact that they are on the official road, if they are not in a hurry, they will be able to arrive in a day or two.

Li Yuanba doesn't care, but he can't help these unlucky children grinding in Li Yuanba's ears all the time.

That's really grinding, my brother took several turns to bombard Li Yuanba's side, and wanted Li Yuanba to order the army to speed up and reach the territory of White Horse Mountain as quickly as possible.

It seems that this is the first time that these children have been on the battlefield in this form, otherwise, how could they be so anxious?

……

The Qinling Mountains are revered as the dragon vein of Chinese civilization. It runs between the Wei River and the Han River, bounded by the Ba River and the Danjiang River valley in the east, and ends at the Jialing River in the west.

The Qinling Mountains are about 1,600 kilometers long and are the watershed of the Wei River, a tributary of the Yellow River, and the Jialing River and the Han River, tributaries of the Yangtze River.

If Li Yuanba and the others choose to take the waterway, I am afraid that the time will be faster, but it is inevitable that they will have to meet with the officials of the local counties and counties along the way.

Li Yuanba is worried about extraneous branches, and second, he is troublesome. Therefore, in this way, it is more convenient to take the official road to march in a hurry.

White Horse Mountain is very close to Taiyuan, the place of origin of Li Tang's family, and in the early years of Li Yuan's reign, he set up governor's offices in the counties around White Horse Mountain. There are more than ten counties under its jurisdiction, including Jinju Taiyuan.

Later, Taiyuan was changed to the government and became the northern capital of the Tang Dynasty, and the governor's office became a state, with a total of five counties under its jurisdiction, but it was still an important state and county in the land of Jin annexation, so it was very prosperous.

Shenwu Wei hurried like lightning, and finally arrived in the Qishan County of Jiangzhou near Baima Mountain in the early morning of the second day.

This Qishan County is the most prosperous territory in Jiangzhou, not only the construction of the city is extremely imposing. Even the various buying and selling transactions in the city are very prosperous.

On a hill a few miles away in Qishan County, Li Yuanba held a telescope taken from the Shenji Mansion in his hand and looked at the huge city from afar.

After a while, he handed the telescope in his hand to Su Dingfang, who was standing beside him. Said: "Dingfang, look at it!" ”

Su Dingfang picked up the telescope, looked at it very skillfully for a long time, and then said, "Lord Wang." Why did you stop when you saw that you were about to get to the city? ”

Li Yuanba's face was slightly condensed, and he said: "This Taiyuan Wang clan has been operating here for dozens or even hundreds of years. Whether the civil and military officials in the city will be surnamed Wang or surnamed Li, this king is not easy to say! ”

"Not really!" Liu Renliang, who was curiously fiddling with the telescope in his hand, said with some astonishment, "This subordinate official of Jiangzhou, take my Datang Yulu and be my Datang official, is it possible that he is still the same as the Taiyuan Wang family, and he wants to rebel?" ”

"It's just that the benefits are not enough, and if the benefits they are seeking are enough, who can say for sure?"

Li Yuanba shook his head and said, "That's it, Dingfang, later you pick some of your brothers, change into civilian clothes and go to the city to find out the news!" By the way, don't forget to go to the 'Zhongtang Pharmacy' and get something for this king! ”

"Lord Wang, I don't know what it is?" Su Dingfang said curiously.

Li Yuan said domineeringly: "You'll know when you go, and then you only need to show your token, and they will know what you're going to do!" ”

"No!" Su Dingfang responded, and went down to prepare.

……

After about two hours, Su Dingfang, who had changed back into the black training uniform of Shenwuwei, appeared in front of Li Yuanba in the dust.

"How's it going?" Seeing Su Dingfang's slightly tired face, Li Yuanba asked.

"Lord Wang, things are not as bad as you think!" As Su Dingfang spoke, he took out a small bamboo tube from his pocket and handed it to Li Yuanba.

The small bamboo tube is only the thickness of the thumb and the length of the middle finger, and the two ends are firmly sealed with fire paint, and from the outside, it is obvious that it is used to transmit secret letters.

"Oh? Got it back? ”

Li Yuanba looked at the small letterbox, opened it without saying a word, and took out a wax pill from it.

It's a fire-painted letterhead again, and a wax pill to seal information, and this method of secrecy is quite in place.

crushed the wax pill, took out the small note in the small wax pill and took a look, but saw that there were only seven words on it: "People in the court, things can be done!" ”

Seeing these seven words, Li Yuanba smiled knowingly and said: "It's okay now, I thought that the civil officials and military generals in this city were all surnamed Wang, but I didn't expect it to be surnamed Li, interesting, really interesting!" ”

"Then the prince...... Let's go into town? Liu Renliang said in a deep voice.

"Well, anyway, the news of our arrival should have reached Qishan County, so let's simply enter the city generously!"

Li Yuanba nodded, waved his big hand, and said, "Let's go, the army is up!" ”

……

The group of 10,000 people immediately rushed to the direction of Qishan County after Li Yuanba's order.

After walking for about a few miles, and still three miles away from the county seat of Qishan, suddenly wisps of white cooking smoke floated from a dense jungle.

"Is this the woodland drained?" Li Su, who was at the front of the army and acted as a probe horse, raised his eyes and took a look, returned to Li Yuanba's side, and said, "Uncle Four Emperors, the forest and water are three hundred zhang ahead, let's take a detour!" ”

"Trees and water?" Li Yuanba frowned and said, "I'll take a look!" ”

Saying this, Li Yuanba picked up the monocular in his hand and glanced at it.

It doesn't matter if you look at it, it almost made Li Yuanba vomit blood, it's really fucking that the four bodies are not diligent, and the grains are not divided!

How could this white smoke be water? It is clear that there are people who are cooking in a pot here, and judging by the amount of cooking smoke, there are quite a few of these people!

"Three guns...... You go over and see what's going on? Li Yuanba was too lazy to take care of this eldest nephew who had just entered the battlefield and had zero experience points, and ordered Zhao Sanpao to go over and have a look.

"No, lord!"

Zhao Sanpao nodded in agreement, and then randomly selected a hundred soldiers to step forward first, and even brought Li Su and Li Yun, who also came up with dead skins.

There are still a lot of people living and cooking in this dense forest, there must be about a thousand people, and there are some relatively simple precautionary facilities around this woodland, but there are not many scouts and horses patrolling.

Zhao Sanpao and the others didn't go far before they were stopped by a team of scouts.

"Stop!"

A soldier dressed in Tang Mingguang armor shouted, "Who is coming, this is a military aircraft land, and you must not trespass!" ”

Before Zhao Sanpao could speak, Li Su, who had been following him, let out a loud shout and said:

"Blind your dog eyes, in front of you is General Zhao, the general of the Shenwu Guard! General Zhao is here, and you don't want to come to greet him quickly! ”

"General Shenwu Wei Zhonglang!"

Since Shenwuwei became a sensation in the night when Tubo colluded with the five surnames and Qiwang to rebel and rebel, Shenwuwei has become famous in the Tang Dynasty since then.

In addition, after the myth that the martial king Li Yuanba personally led the army of Shenwuwei to the hinterland of Xue Yantuo, slaughtered the barbarians, and returned without a single casualty, the myth spread throughout the Tang Dynasty, and Shenwuwei became a legendary existence.

Therefore, to them, Shenwuwei is like a cloud in the sky, they can't catch it, but now it suddenly appeared in front of them!

"We've seen General Zhao!"

There were about 30 people in this team of scouts, and after being sluggish in the class, they hurriedly turned over and dismounted and saluted Zhao Sancang.

Zhao Sanpao waved his hand and said, "Excuse me!" Who are you, and why are you encamped here? ”

"We are Jiangzhou Wei, yesterday I was ordered by Zhou Linzhou, the commander of Jiangzhou Wei, to come to Qishan County to attack the Guyunzhai mountain bandits in Baima Mountain!"

The soldier replied respectfully to Zhao Sanpao, raised his eyes and quietly glanced at Zhao Sanpao, and asked:

"I don't know what General Zhao is doing when he comes to Qishan County?"

Zhao Sanpao didn't expect that these soldiers turned out to be Jiangzhou Wei, and their purpose could be said to coincide with Shenwuwei.

He thought about it for a while, and then said: "I, General Shenwuwei, heard that there is a mountain near Qishan County, called White Horse Mountain. And on this White Horse Mountain, there is a village of mountain bandits, Guyun Village. The mountain bandits in this lonely cloud village are very rampant, and they can be described as burning, killing and looting in the Jiangzhou territory, and they do all kinds of evil! Therefore, the general wrote to His Majesty that he wanted to level this mountain bandit village, and my Shenwuwei army came to this Qishan County! ”

The soldier was overjoyed when he heard Zhao Sancang's words, and said: "This is very good, this mountain bandit from Guyun Village has already given our Jiangzhou Wei a headache, and the arrival of Shenwuwei is tantamount to sending charcoal in the snow!" General, wait a minute, I'll go and ask the deputy commander to come over!" ”

As soon as he spoke, the soldier ordered one of his men to mount his horse and fly towards the middle of the forest. (To be continued......)