Since the Jisang army attacked Yecheng, the war has not stopped at all, and it is finally coming to the last moment. Jizhou Army, Yanzhou Army, Youzhou Army, Hebei Thieves...... The total number of warriors exceeded 100,000, and they quickly approached each other on the Hebei Plain, approaching each other to the point of blade exchange. The change in the military situation, which used to take a few days as a cycle, has rapidly accelerated to a cycle of several hours, which is the place where victory or defeat is decided, and the time when a warrior dies after meritorious service.

Although Ding Shao was full of confidence in victory, he did not dare to neglect the slightest bit in specific military command. After determining that the main force of Hebei thieves had arrived in Guangzong, he immediately personally drafted a letter and sent envoys to the north and south to report to the military horses of Youzhou and Yanzhou.

Although the armies of Youzhou and Yanzhou are friendly forces, their relationship with Jizhou is quite delicate, so the selection of envoys must be cautious, and their status should not be too low. In the end, Ding Shao was assigned to contact the Youzhou Army, and it was the mastermind that Ding Shao particularly valued, Jiang Lun and Jiang Xuzhi, a Lingling man from Jingzhou who served as the general of Ningbei; And the person in charge of contacting the Yanzhou army was the young Junyan in the Ding Shao shogunate and the chief secretary of Jizhou, Huan Yi.

The two of them immediately received the order, and after selecting a few guides at night, they prepared to set off. When he was about to set off, Lu Yao, who was listening in the tent with Ding Miao, suddenly suggested that the thieves had many war horses and were accustomed to widely distributing reconnaissance horses, and their actions were fast and fast, and they could come and go in and out of the tent, and they might encounter the envoys. Therefore, both messengers must be obeyed by warriors, otherwise their safety will not be guaranteed.

There is some truth to this view. It's just that the Hebei Plain is so vast, the chance of colliding with the thieves' rangers is not big after all, and it is completely unpredictable how large the thieves' cavalry will be. If there are many factions, it will inevitably weaken the already stretched number of cavalry in the Jizhou army; If there are fewer people to send, there will be no way to deal with emergencies. Ding Shao hesitated for a moment, and Lu Yao recommended himself, willing to lead more than ten people from his family to meet the Yanzhou army with Huan Yi.

Lu Yao's more than ten servants are all one person and two horses, even if they are defeated by thieves, there is no problem in escaping and dying, which is a good idea. It's just that today's Lu Yao is not comparable to a few months ago, is it appropriate to ask General Ying Yang, who is in charge of the military and political power on behalf of the land, to serve as a mere servant? Ding Shao hesitated.

Lu Yao obviously didn't care, he even bluntly said that this trip was just to be able to see the powerful Yanzhou army in the Central Plains with his own eyes, and he would never interfere in the affairs undertaken by Huan Yi.

In this case, Ding Shao has no reason to disappoint it. After thinking about it for a while, he assigned Song Yu, a well-known cavalry governor in the Jizhou army, to lead his cavalry to escort Jiang Lun to show fairness.

Half an hour later, a corner gate behind the camp was secretly opened, and two teams of cavalry rode out and quickly disappeared into the vast night.

The Yanzhou army was ordered by the king of the East China Sea to assist in the encirclement and suppression of the Hebei bandits, but in the previous months, they were not aggressive, but garrisoned in the southwest corner of the plain country, on the south bank of the Great River, Chiping County, watching the battle situation.

Chiping is one of the important ferries in the lower reaches of the Great River. In the past, Confucius will defend the country into the Jin Dynasty, and it is here that he heard the news that Zhao Jianzi killed the wise man Dou Mingqi and Shunhua, so the master sighed near the river: "The beautiful water, the ocean, the hill is not good, and this life is also a husband." Then he returned to the east and returned to the kingdom.

During the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, this place was the hardest hit area of the river bursting and flooding, with this place as the center, north to Xindu Bohai, south to Dongjun, and violent floods often occurred. The longest flooding began in the first year of Emperor Ping of the Han Dynasty, almost for more than 60 years, and the fertile land of several counties was only left with the vast Daze of "rippling and overflowing, unpredictable shores, swinging extreme hopes, and not knowing the outline and discipline". After Emperor Yuan, the big river branched out into a tributary of the Mingli River here, and the two rivers flowed side by side for hundreds of miles.

The severe floods have brought about a complex topography of hills, soil slopes and lake and marsh depressions, disrupting local agricultural production. Therefore, after the founding of this dynasty, a number of pastures were set up in Chiping to raise military horses, and nearly 10,000 military horses were raised at most, and the rations of horsemen in Hebei, Yan, Qing, Henan and other states depended on this. But no one expected that due to the rebellion of the herdsmen in the pasture, most of these horses eventually fell into the hands of Hebei thieves.

In recent months, the Yanzhou army has been stationed here with a considerable number of troops, and the general who led the troops was Gou Chun, the younger brother of Gou Xi, the general of Zhengdong. Lu Yao had heard of Gou Chun's name, it is said that he fought with his brother for many years, although the use of soldiers is not as good, but the power of torture and killing is still excessive, in the counties of Yanzhou, is a powerful person who is famous enough to stop children crying at night.

The route chosen by Huan Yi this time was to walk along the division between Yangping and Qinghe County, then cross Liaocheng and Boping, and finally cross the river to Chiping to meet Gou Chun. According to the news from Tanma a few days ago, the Yanzhou army has taken the initiative to cross the river to the north, so maybe you can see this general in the middle of the way.

The group rode south, ran for about two hours, and the sky gradually brightened.

Perhaps because it ran out of the range of rain clouds, the heavy rain stopped at some point, and the road surface gradually became dry. Looking up, the sky was cloudy, but the rising morning sun was faint behind the clouds, and it was clear that the weather was going to improve.

Lu Yao, Huan Yi and others marched along the official road on horseback. In addition to Lu Yao's personal cavalry, there was also Huan Yi's brother, Huan Yi, who held a military position in the Jizhou army. The young man rode with a bow and a horse, but he was also a little sharp.

Huan Yi doesn't speak much, he has a calm bearing beyond his age, although he faces Lu Yao, whose status is much higher than him, he is neither humble nor arrogant, and his words are very organized. The two of them talked casually, and then passed through the jurisdiction of several counties one after another.

There used to be many villages and dock forts on both sides of the official road, but now they are full of broken walls, and occasionally one or two corpses that have not been eaten by wild beasts can be seen in the overgrown weeds, and the black and red carrion and white bones are stacked in one place, which is particularly shocking.

Such a tragic situation may be because of the ravages of thieves in Hebei, or it may be due to the actions of a certain imperial army and horses. Who can say what destroyed what should have been a peaceful village, and who can say in this chaotic situation.

Huan Yi was very familiar with this neighborhood, sometimes pointing to a certain wreck along the way, saying the name of the cottage and who the husband should be, and sometimes simply jumping through the ruins on horseback, looking around, and sighing gloomily.

Lu Yao waited a little at this time. In Lu Yao's eyes, this young civil official has an extremely white complexion and a slightly thin figure, but he controls the reins and rides the horse with one hand, showing extremely superb riding skills, and he does not look nervous when he is among a group of fierce warriors. Even when he sighed and seemed to be about to cry, he did so with pride and poise. Although I don't know what this humanistic and martial arts talent is, in terms of demeanor alone, he is really a top-class person that Lu Yao has seen, and he is almost not under Wen Qiao.

Speaking of which, the Qianjun Huan clan is not a big family of people, since the previous dynasty was involved in the Gaopingling Revolution and was sentenced to Dasi Nong Huanfan, there is no special talent, but Lu Yao couldn't remember for a while that he had seen this gentleman's name and surname in the history books. Perhaps in the period of history that Lu Yao was familiar with, the surging turmoil that came soon finally swallowed up this heroic young scribe.

After all, it is important to hurry, and you can't delay more. Huan Yi quickly rode out of the ruins.

After walking a few steps, he suddenly heard the neighing of war horses, and then a tall horse jumped out from the other side of the ruins and galloped towards the ruins far away from the official road.

"That's the Bandit's Ranger!" Ma Rui, the captain of the personal soldiers who came to Guangning with Lu Yao this time, shouted loudly.

Everyone looked in the direction pointed by Ma Rui, and saw a knight wearing a longbow and a beard immediately, and glanced sideways at Lu Yao and the others a few times, and then calmly urged the horse to go behind the ruined earthen fortress.

If he lets this ranger go, he will be in trouble if he gathers a large group to kill him. With a shout, Ma Rui urged his mount to chase after him like lightning, quickly sinking behind the crumbling houses.

Ma Rui character Huaiwen, is a child of the Fufeng Ma family, since childhood, first served in the Luoyang Jin Army, and then went to the state, and later with outstanding riding and archery skills became one of the thirty warriors who accompanied Lu Yaodong out of Taihang. He made great achievements in several battles in Yecheng, Daidi and the grassland.

Originally, after the war, he should have been promoted to a position of being in charge, but because He Yun, Chu Kun and others successively served as the military masters in charge of a considerable number of troops, and the team lacked reliable generals to lead the army, Lu Yao specially called him back to serve as the commander of the army. Although the position of the commander of the pro-army is not high, this intimacy with the commander is difficult to find, and Ma Rui has no reason to refuse.

Seeing that there were thieves and robbers pretending to be a ranger, Ma Rui reacted very quickly, and took the lead in chasing the past, leaping through the wreckage, and quickly chasing the enemy cavalry as if he were walking on the ground.

The enemy cavalry was struggling between the rough roads, and they didn't expect that there were people among the Jin people who were so good at riding and caught up so quickly. As soon as he was stunned, he was driven closer, and hurriedly turned sideways to take his bow and arrows and shoot. Ma Rui is a master of shooting, and when he hears the sound of the bowstring plucking, he instinctively leans down on the horse's back to avoid it. The next moment, he only felt a chill on his scalp, his bun was suddenly scattered, and a strand of knotted hair was shaved off, and it flew up flutteringly.

After dodging the arrows, the two horses had already chased each other to the point where they were meeting each other. Ma Rui didn't care to fetch the lance again, so he simply threw the whip over, and the heavy wooden handle of the whip hit the enemy's side face, making a muffled "pop". Taking advantage of this unexpected blow, he leaned out with all his might, grabbed the arm of the enemy rider and pulled it with all his might. With the strength of his arm and the momentum of his horse, he suddenly flew it violently. While the enemy horse was still spinning, Ma Rui had jumped off his horse and struck him in the back of the head with the back of his knife, knocking the man to the ground.

It would be even better if he could find out the next move of the Hebei thief from his mouth. Ma Rui thought so, lifted this person with one hand, and was about to return to Lu Yao's side.

However, at this moment, another arrow shot fiercely.

The speed of this arrow was so fierce that it was beyond Ma Rui's imagination, and he didn't react at all, and the thief he was carrying in his hand was already an arrow in his eyebrows. And when he exclaimed, he saw that the huge fine iron arrow had almost split the thief's face in half, and the pure white tail feathers were still buzzing and trembling on his sparse face!

A group of ironclad cavalry came out like beasts from the end of a bush on the other side of the wall. The tall knight at the head was clad in dazzling and refined armor, and was casually carrying his black-painted longbow behind his back.

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The monthly pass for the new month is really heart-wrenching. Thank you to every reader and friend who supports me, crab again.

In addition, with a wry smile on the railing, your twenty-five monthly passes are too turbulent...... I feel like I'm going to suffocate! (Please be sure to make up for Ma Jingtao's roar of tearing his shirt)