Shanye Village, old trees outside the ancestral hall.
Jiang Caiwei was sitting under the tree, with neither sadness nor joy on her face. In front of her, many people from the village were coming and going, probably about to leave again.
She asked Jia Zhou what he was going to do.
Jia Zhou said that she would conquer a city and offer it as a gift to her Xu Lang when he came back from the border.
"Ji!" Jiang Caiwei raised her hands, bowed and knelt down.
People who don’t believe in God kneel down and worship God.
…
"Report to General Xu, there is a large army ahead, all with light cavalry!" In the wind and sand, a riding sentry turned around sharply and hurried back.
"I know, let's investigate again!" Behind Xu Mu, Yu Wen raised the camp flag. In an emergency, the camp flag of the 40,000 Northern Expeditionary Army only embroidered a tiger emerging from the forest.
"General Xu should be from Hezhou."
"Zhao Qingyun."
Xu Mu frowned. He had been thinking of ways to deal with Hezhou. If he really refused to let him pass, he would have no choice but to kill him.
"Report to General Xu, ten miles away!"
"Horse-rejection formation!" Yu Wen drew out his long sword, pointed forward and roared.
It didn't take long for the troops at the rear to quickly form a formation, with shields in the front, guns in the middle, and archers in the back with bows and arrows, aiming coldly at the front.
Si Hu pulled out the double-edged ax and cursed "a greedy dog". Chang Wei also grabbed the pear blossom gun and carried it on his shoulder nervously.
Xu Mu remained motionless, his eyes extremely cold.
The 20,000 light cavalry are probably the Di horses gathered in the last war. But Ji Ren is not good at riding and shooting, and the superficial skills that Zhao Qingyun learned from him are not of much use at all.
Even if he rushes to kill, Xu Mu is not afraid.
"Don't worry, General Xu, even the caltrops have been laid." Yu Wen rode back, raising the knife in his hand.
Xu Mu turned around and glanced at the camp flag in the phalanx. The tiger emerging from the forest on the camp flag seemed to come alive with the strong wind.
"Wei Xiaowu, hold on tight as fuck."
"Chen Baishan, I don't need you to speak!"
A small group of men and horses were nervously guarding the camp flag.
Tap tap tap.
The sound of horse hooves got closer and closer, and in an instant, they were already in front of me.
The dust kicked up by the 20,000 Qingqi suddenly filled the sky. When they all stopped their horses, the dust still filled the sky for a long time.
"Brother Xu!" Zhao Qingyun put on a smile and hurriedly dismounted his horse, "I heard that Brother Xu was coming to Hezhou. I was so happy that I didn't even eat anything, so I hurriedly came to greet Brother Xu."
Xu Mu laughed lightly.
Si Hu, who was nearby, was so anxious that he jumped off his horse and struck Zhao Qingyun with an axe. Zhao Qingyun was so frightened that he waved his hands repeatedly, and hundreds of mounted guards came running to block him.
"Si Hu, come back first."
Sihu cursed muffledly and walked back dragging his giant axe.
"Brother Xu, Brother Tiger, why is this happening?" Zhao Qingyun straightened his robe and armor, his mouth full of grievances.
"Si Hu likes to beat dogs. When he sees a dog, he can't help but beat him."
Hearing this sentence, everyone around Xu Mu smiled.
Zhao Qingyun regained his composure, got on his horse, frowned and said, "Brother Xu, why did you lead troops into the border this time?"
"Are you really stupid? Or are you pretending to be stupid?"
"There was no fighting at the border. It was Beidi who wanted to knock on the border before, but then backed off for some reason."
Xu Mu smiled and said, "Zhao Qingyun, you have neither the courage of a tiger nor a brilliant strategy. I don't understand. Are you trying to become a prince by just relying on repetition and opportunism?"
"Brother Xu, I am General Zhengbei. I know more about my family and country than you do. When we were in Changyang, I said that you are equivalent to my sworn brother——"
"Shut up!" Si Hu yelled again.
Zhao Qingyun was dismayed and closed his voice.
"I will only say this once, get out of Hezhou. You can be like a dog and huddle in Hezhou City, but many people are not willing."
"Brother Xu, I told you that there is no war at the border and the Di people have retreated long ago. Otherwise, I would have reported it to Changyang. Furthermore, I heard that you have resigned from the position of prime minister and assistant and gathered as a commoner.
The tens of thousands of troops are rebels and rebels. Brother Xu, rein in your horse at the brink."
Sighing, Xu Mu was basically sure that Zhao Qingyun really wanted to join Di.
He waved his hand coldly.
"Advance two hundred steps and shoot with a walking bow!"
The 40,000-strong army behind them quickly moved into action.
Zhao Qingyun, who had just calculated the distance, was suddenly startled, and hurriedly turned his horse's head, thinking that the rear army would become the front army, and he would escape some distance first.
But in such a long and narrow area, it was obvious that the horse could not return in time. When three waves of flying arrows were thrown, there were three to four hundred people on horseback, including both men and horses, falling to the ground.
Zhao Qingyun gritted his teeth and raised his head coldly, "Brother Xu, think clearly. If you march forward, if Hezhou doesn't let you, you won't be able to pass."
"When I brought 3,000 people into the hinterland of Beidi, did you let me go?"
Zhao Qingyun paused on the spot, and for a moment, his voice became trembling.
"Go back, go back to Hezhou, the army will go back to Hezhou first!"
Suddenly, the 20,000-strong army did not dare to charge, so they turned back in a hurry.
"Brother Mu, why don't you chase me?"
"Brother Tiger, you can't outrun a horse." Yu Wen said helplessly.
Xu Mu also felt a little regretful in his heart. In the cold weapon war, the knowledge he had in his mind in his previous life was nothing more than the cavalry.
It's a pity that Chang Shiro spent all his efforts to gather the five hundred horses accompanying the army all the way from Laoguan.
"General Xu, what should I do now? Do we really want to continue to Hezhou?"
Although there is a dangerous road across Tuotou Mountain across Hezhou, many of the battle-hardened veterans of Qinglong Camp died when they crossed the dangerous road last time. The current army actually has many new recruits.
, if we really take the dangerous path again, we will probably fall to death more.
Besides, time is too slow.
Zhao Qingyun was talking a lot just now, but Xu Mu could only hear a little bit clearly. This bitch was hiding the war at the border and buying time for the Beidi people to enter the border. It can only be said that this old friend Xiao Xiaowei is really good.
I understand the thoughts of Tou Di.
…
"Seven Dingbei generals, three princes from other states, and myself, a big rebel, plus many leaders of defeated armies, the master of the Xia'er Hall who wants to rob the rich and give to the poor, and the aristocratic family who stores grain and recruits soldiers
Gate valve."
"The Daji is in chaos again."
Changshiro carried the Lihuamu bright silver gun on his back, raised his head, and looked at Changyang not far away.
"I guess Yuan An in the Jinluan Palace must be scolding us again, saying that we people have no fathers and no kings, and don't care about the overall situation."
“What’s the big picture?”
"The overall situation is that I dare to swear that everyone in the world will have food to eat. Does he dare?"
"He didn't dare. The most difficult thing in the world to see through is the human heart. I feel sorry for little Taotao. Little Taotao should have expected it, and had no choice but to let the little boss take the second path."
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In the palace, Yuan An shivered again and stood outside the Jinluan Hall for most of the night. An father-in-law approached and tremblingly helped him put on a large cloak embroidered with a golden dragon.
"Am I a foolish king?"
"no……"
"I didn't do anything wrong. It was the emperor's uncle who did something wrong. He shouldn't have praised a brewer so highly. When I stood with that commoner, the people would look at him instead of looking at me, the emperor!
"
Yuan An seemed to have forgotten that Xu Mu's first victory over Changyang was fought out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood with one sword and one sword.
"Uncle Huang probably didn't want to take me away back then, so he spent the whole night thinking about it in the house."
"I am a bereaved relative of the royal family! How can I be said to be a minister who cares about life? I am already twenty-three years old, and I still want to be led by the nose? If the bamboo book of later generations says that I am a puppet king, wouldn't it be an unjust death?
"
The father-in-law who was nearby did not dare to answer.
"Those people have no fathers and no kings. Those kings from other states and those generals from Dingbian do not listen to me. I only have less than 50,000 national salvation battalions under my command. What do they want me to do?"
Yuan An started to cry.
"They all think that I don't want to lead a personal expedition and become famous for all generations."
"Go tell Chen Changqing that I have agreed, and ask him to come over quickly to discuss moving the capital to Muyun Prefecture!"
"I, I want to slowly, slowly... Xu Tu dominates the world."