Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 1403
On the road again, Huan Yi felt that the atmosphere was much more dignified than before.

There are more than 500 people in the whole team. In addition to the 300-man supply battalion, there is also a fully organized 60-man soldier team.There were more than [-] carts and cattle and horses in the team. When they left the camp, Jize Camp also sent a light cavalry team of hundreds of people to escort them along the Jize branch channel to Fushui.

Fushui runs north-south and is a tributary of Zhangshui. Like other small waterways in Hebei, most of the river is silted up and dried up, and only a limited area can be crossed.

A group of nearly 30 people and goods did not go straight east after leaving Jizeying, but traveled northward along Jize Canal for more than [-] miles, and arrived at a simple ferry.At this time, there was still some time before dawn, and while the baggage battalion was transferring the goods onto the raft, the hundreds of cavalry first chose shallow water to swim across the river to investigate.

Huan Yi was in the team, so she didn't ask many questions, but she was inevitably a little nervous.Although he also heard that the situation on the right-wing battlefield was tense, he felt that the overall situation of Wang Shi should not be a big problem, but he didn't expect that even such a small-scale material transportation would need to be so cautious.

After a lot of busy work, after confirming 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 reached the other side, it was already morning.

"The thieves on the east bank of Fushui are cunning and flexible, and they are not careful. Please forgive me, Secretary Huan."

After crossing the river, the team turned into a forest with a large area, and the soldier and battalion leader walked up to Huan Yi and said to him.

Naturally, Huan Yi was not dissatisfied, but afterward the camp owner ordered someone to give him a pair of heavy armor to help Huan Yi put it on, so he couldn't help but asked: "The thieves in this realm are still so powerful. So rampant?"

Although the Wang division is well-equipped, if it covers hundreds of thousands of main combat troops, it will be difficult to be uniform.Generally, the logistics team does not have too high a combat mission, and as a rule, it 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 the past few months, so he has naturally accumulated knowledge. He can see that the armor on his body is the commander's configuration of the main force, and it is by no means an ordinary weapon.Now it is assigned to him, which 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 the specific identity of Huan Yi, but he was ordered to ensure his safety. After hearing the words, he just smiled: "It's better to be prepared."

The camp owner didn't want to say more, so Huan Yi naturally didn't want to inquire casually, but just obeyed the arrangement.

After the hundreds of knights from Jizeying escorted the team to this place, they left more than thirty war horses behind, and then returned along the same road.As for this baggage team, they didn't set out on the road immediately, and spent the whole day walking along the path in the forest for more than ten miles, and rested on the spot when they reached the edge of the forest.

Running around day and night, Huan Yi's spirit was also a little weak, so he just put on his clothes and went to sleep.After nearly three hours of rest, the team continued on the road when it got dark.More than [-] scouts rushed into the night and spread out on the road ahead. The slight sound of horseshoes in the night wind added a chill.

The road is not smooth, and most of the time it is bumpy in the wilderness. Fortunately, the supplies on this road are not heavy grains or ordnance, but should be cold-proof supplies such as hemp. Not heavy, because the speed of travel is not slow.

However, because there are no well-formed roads, there are many ditches in the countryside, and there are few designated torches in the army, from time to time, carts get stuck in the ditches.

When it was almost dawn, suddenly there was a fire rising from the night ahead, and a straight column of wolf smoke rose from the ground. Under the light of the fire, only a thick column of smoke connected with the flame could be seen.

"Oops, it's Xiaqiu Shu! These inexhaustible Jie thieves are really hateful!"

A soldier in the team cursed in a low voice, and immediately ordered several leading torches in the team to be extinguished, and the whole team turned in the dark and hid in a dry riverbed.As soon as the cars and drivers gathered together, the soldiers, driven by the soldiers, chopped down the surrounding reeds and vines, forming a blank area around them.

Nearly a hundred soldiers dug down in the wet part of the river bed. After digging into the mud, they threw many straw mats into it to soak, and then picked up and draped them on the cattle and horses and other animals in the team.In the dark, someone gave Huan Yi a water bag full of water, and quickly told him how to use it later.

According to this, Xiaqiu Shu is more than 30 miles away, which is also the destination ahead of this team.Being attacked at this moment, the team naturally couldn't move forward.Because I don't know how many enemy troops are there, and whether there are scouts scattered in the surrounding fields, once the enemy finds out that they are on the way, a fierce battle will naturally be inevitable.

But even if the enemy didn't find out, since they were able to move here, it didn't mean they were absolutely safe.Because it is very likely that the enemy army will set fire to the wild, and now in late autumn, the sky is dry and the things are dry, and wildfires are very easy to spread.

The camp owner asked Huan Yi to be brought to his side, and while arranging the affairs, he also took time to explain a few words to Huan Yi.Similar situations are not uncommon on the east side of Fushui. Once a small-scale convoy like them is discovered and they cannot be rescued in time, it will be nothing less than a disaster.

The current situation is worse than being quiet, but if the enemy really set fire to the wilderness and spread here, cutting down those vines and weeds can be regarded as creating a temporary fire zone.But it is also necessary to prepare both hands. If the enemy still searches carefully in the ashes to find their traces, the cut vines and weeds will be used to burn the materials they transported, and they would rather die than let these materials fall into the In the hands of the bandits.

Hearing this, Huan Yi couldn't help but gasp in his heart. He thought that the master Wang would be pressing and the enemy army was retreating steadily, but he didn't expect that there would be such a dangerous attack on a specific small-scale battlefield. Situation happens.

However, since he dared to follow the general to the north to create meritorious deeds, life and death should not be taken too seriously. After several requests from Huan Yi, the camp owner ordered someone to give Huan Yi a sword, and comforted him a little: "Although Prepare with both hands, but extremely evil situations are rare. Although Ran Min, the leader of the upper white bandit, is ferocious, he is also cunning. There is no hiding place for the ears, eyes, minions, and teeth, and they will be surrounded and wiped out by our army..."

"Ran Min is also begging for work?"

Huan Yi has been on the front line for a long time, and he has also heard about the name of the Jie general Ran Min. Shangbai is one of the places where the begging army is entrenched, so I asked about it.

This is not an army secret, the camp owner sneered when he heard the words: "What kind of beggar is he, the Jie master just keeps a vicious dog. He was entrenched in Xiangguo earlier and was expelled by Ma Qiu. He came here without anyone to rely on." Guangzong leaned close to him, but Guangzong Qihuo didn't recognize him as a member of the same class, and took away the people of Shangbai and let him act as a barrier in the front line."

"However, this thief is indeed cunning, and he is not blindly vicious. He has attracted many wandering food and alms to drive him away. Our master Wang went north to kill Hu. It is strictly forbidden for all troops to kill good people and pretend to be meritorious, but people's hearts are in their skins. Good or bad I can wait and see. Several times when the camp was robbed, there were thieves who communicated, but they couldn’t kill all those wild people..."

Hearing the camp owner's anger, Huan Yi was also silent for a moment.The heart of Hebei, Wang Mingjiujue, especially those wandering in the wilderness, their information channels are scarce, and they have no concept of right and wrong. There are too many.

As for the general's advocacy of military discipline, not to kill innocent people indiscriminately, this is by no means the benevolence of a woman.Only when you go deep into Hebei, you will understand what the world here has been ravaged by the Jie Kingdom. There is at least one room in the ten rooms and nine empty rooms, but many places in Hebei are already barren.

Even if the territory is regained, there are no living people, not even people, so it is very difficult to restore governance.It is true that those ignorant wandering people have their ignorance, but they are just trying to survive the decades-long persecution of the world.As long as those real Jie thieves are killed, and then restrain people's hearts with cultivation and education, they will naturally understand the value of king's rule, and will not be easily instigated by Jie thieves.

The next period of time was spent in tension, only the night wind whimpered in the wild, and there was no sound of a large group of people bullying.

Waiting until dawn, the sun filled the earth, dispelled the darkness of the night, and also swept away some of the backlog of fear in people's hearts.At this time, the battalion owner hurriedly checked the team again, and after confirming that there was nothing lost, he dispersed the scouts to investigate the situation outside.

If so, after more than two hours, the scouts finally returned, and the ones who arrived at any time were more than [-] cavalry fellows.

Huan Yi went out with the camp owner, and the two sides verified their identities after checking the talisman order, and then they joined up and continued on their way.

"The Xiaqiu garrison was indeed attacked by the enemy last night. The enemy, numbering in the thousands, has been repulsed and fled to the north. Three thousand Qingqimen from the Yanping Battalion went north this morning to reinforce each garrison. In the short term, there will be no more enemy troops approaching. ..."

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

Because of timely reinforcements, Xiaqiu Shu is safe for the time being.Moreover, this place is already within the area successfully controlled by the right-wing master, so there is no need to rush to transfer it for a while, but Huan Yi only stayed in Xiaqiu Shu for a short night, and then left in a hurry.

He will go to Quzhou to take up his post on this trip, and Quzhou is a frontline theater closer to Shangbai. Although there was no danger last night, it also gave Huan Yi a big warning. Before taking office, he went to Yanping Camp to meet the general here. Hu Run, it is a relatively safe way to accept the opportunity of his face-to-face instruction.

(End of this chapter)