Yang An'er has no children, and for several years only Yang You has been with him for a long time, loving his father and son. Yang You's martial arts skills are also somewhat inherited from Yang An'er, and he is especially good at spearmanship. He has few opponents when practicing in the army.
But he was young after all, so he only acted as an empty commander, leading troops in battles. Yang An'er was surrounded by many veteran generals and soldiers, and Yang You rarely had the opportunity to participate.
This time it was luck. The senior generals went to lead their own troops. Yang An'er faced Tang Kuo and fought together. There was no room for hesitation, so he turned to Yang You.
Yang You accepted the order excitedly and immediately ordered his troops to set off.
What Yang An'er sent to Yang You was the elite of his headquarters, a full hundred-man team. All of them wore armor and hemispherical iron helmets riveted with armor leaves. In addition to long spears and long knives, half of them
They all carry crossbows.
When Yang An'er returned to the imperial court in Shandong, he did not have such equipment. As a result, he went to Hebei and armed himself to the teeth by picking up weapons abandoned by defeated soldiers on the battlefield.
Because they were ordered to set off at short notice, it took some time to prepare food, tents, vehicles, etc. By the time the group finally set out on the road, Liu Quan, Li Siwen and other generals in front had already gone far.
"The stragglers are the most cunning. Once Mr. Liu and Uncle Li take action, the people around Anzhou will get the news soon. We have to hurry up, lest Guo Ning escapes!"
Yang You repeatedly urged the soldiers to speed up their pace.
The general responsible for commanding hundreds of soldiers is the short Zizhou Renguo Jie'er. He is about the same age as Yang An'er, less than forty, but he has a full head of white hair and a sparse beard under his chin.
, the waist is still a little bent, like an old farmer.
He was a soldier in the Sheliang Army, and he had a row of tattoos on his face. Due to the vicissitudes of life, the handwriting was no longer legible and blurred into small blue-black circles.
Guo Jie'er waved vigorously to signal.
The guide quickly ran to the front of the team, and the soldiers also quickened their pace.
The slightly populated county town of Dingxing was quickly left behind.
On the road from Dingxing County to the south of Ansu Prefecture, there are Yishui River and Laishui River running across it. Counting tributaries such as the Qihe River, there are six more rivers. It is these rivers that irrigate the land and support the prosperous Hebei.
However, two consecutive years of drought and military disasters have destroyed almost everything on this land. The originally dotted villages and stretches of streets have shrunk to a minimum; the originally carefully maintained ponds have dried up in large numbers, while swamps and reed swamps have
Disorderly expansion.
There are only a small number of common people, relying on various sources of force, or relying on the complex terrain among the swamps to survive. Otherwise, Yang You's sight is desolate. Even some fertile fields that have obviously been well cared for are now densely covered with thatch.
and thorns; a few scattered wild wheat plants grew to chest height.
It was dusk on the third day after leaving Dingxing County.
A group of people were wading through the mud and crossing the semi-dry channel of the Qihe River. Not far upstream, in the direction of Guchengdian, which was the Great Wall of Yan State in the Spring and Autumn Period, the sound of fighting suddenly came.
Guchengdian is the former site of Dingxing County. It was previously occupied by a group of defeated soldiers. Since last year, many people have continued to rely on them, forming a small village that can barely survive. The group of defeated soldiers stayed away from Yang An'er's troops.
, but there was no hostility. Once, Yang You passed by Gucheng Restaurant and had a meal of wine and meat with them.
The group of defeated troops was one of the stragglers whom Yang An'er intended to make a forced landing. The person responsible for the specific execution should be Liu Quan's subordinate Ji Junli.
At this moment, Yang You was standing at a low place and could not see the situation in the town. But he could smell the pungent smell of blood, the burnt smell of the houses being burned, and he could also hear threats, shouts and groans.
Yang You didn't care too much and moved on.
In the past few days, he encountered such a situation several times. Ever since he was incorporated into the Tiewagang Army by the imperial court, the soldiers had been depressed for a long time. This time Yang An'er had an order, and all the tribes went out to attack and kill, using their claws and claws to their heart's content. It was inevitable
Be more intense.
Not long after, the footsteps of the soldiers rushing across the water were mixed with the heartbreaking cries of women and children.
It seems that the conditions were not agreed upon, and if the soft approach failed, the tough one would have to be used. Ji Junli showed his cruel tactics and killed people wantonly.
War is so cruel.
Since ancient times, strong men have been coerced and coerced, but how can they still be persuaded nicely? Most of the time, they have to be ruthless first to cut off their livelihood and worries. Ji Junli is a veteran in the battlefield, and he is especially skilled in doing this.
I just don’t know how many of the thirty or fifty strong men in the Gucheng store will be left alive for me to use?
Yang You shook his head, quickened his pace and rushed to the front of the team to talk to the guide.
Guo Yao'er was also looking in the direction of the Gucheng store with a gloomy expression.
Yang You's heart skipped a beat and he hurriedly ran up to him. When he was about to speak, a thin figure suddenly jumped out of the grass, holding a stone in his hand and threw it at Yang You.
Yang You was startled and quickly drew his sword.
Guo Jie'er's reaction was faster, and he stabbed straight through the figure in an instant, piercing the figure through the chest.
The stone and bones fell at Yang You's feet. Yang You looked at the figure stabbed under Guo Yao'er's long knife and found that it was a child. The military uniform he was wearing was very shabby, but it was very clean, and the bun on his head was also
A common short hair bun in the military.
The child struggled hard, and blood was pouring out from the wounds on his mouth, nose and chest, staining a large area of the ground red.
Guo Yao'er stepped on the child's belly expressionlessly and pulled out the long knife with all his strength. The child stared at Guo Yao'er, his struggle turned into twitching, and he slowly stopped moving. His eyes began to be scattered, but he still remained the same.
His eyes widened with bloodshot eyes.
Guo Jie'er wiped the blood on the blade with his sleeve and said in a deep voice: "Jiulang, something is wrong."
"What? What's wrong?" Yang You was confused.
"The defeated soldiers seem to be somewhat prepared. Their resistance is fierce." Guo Yao'er motioned Yang You to listen: "Many of Ji Junli's men died, but they were not able to contain them. Many people fled to the west.
Got it!"
Yang You tried it, but couldn't hear anything. But he recalled what he saw along the way and sighed: "I saw three fights yesterday, and three more today... Those slippery soldiers started to fight hard.
Come, be more difficult to deal with than ordinary people!"
Guo Yao'er nodded: "It's much more difficult to deal with... I'm afraid there will be trouble!"
Yang An'er's decision itself was not wrong. The method of attacking villages and kidnapping strong men wherever their troops went was an old trick that everyone had used in Shandong. The elite of the Tiewagang Army were used to separately attack the scattered troops in various places.
, it should not be any difficult to kill its leader and coerce his subordinates.
But what Yang An'er didn't expect was that the defeated soldiers were very different from ordinary people in Shandong.
The people are obedient cattle and sheep, accustomed to humiliation and patience. Even if they are walking on the road leading to death, they are still numb. That is why violent killings are needed to anger them and force them out with the choice of life and death.
The blood energy deep in the heart turns cattle and sheep into tigers and wolves.
The countless defeated soldiers scattered across Hebei Province all escaped from the mountains of corpses and the sea of blood. They had fought for their lives with the Mongols. They were tigers and wolves themselves!
In the previous years of brutal wars, these soldiers were in desperate situations countless times. They fled to Hebei and just wanted to live.
In the eyes of outsiders, although these people were brave, they were all in a daze, like zombies. Therefore, Yang An'er, who relied on his elite skills, did not take them seriously.
The plan to raise troops to march directly to Shandong was kept secret, and only a small number of close associates around Yang An'er knew about the entire arrangement. In order to avoid leaking the news and arousing suspicion of Tang Kuo's co-operation, Yang An'er even deliberately kept a distance from the leaders of the defeated army.
As a result, something went wrong!
Tiewa Gan's army suddenly took action, and these defeated soldiers were caught off guard. Every gathering point was defeated, but they did not give in easily.
The defeated soldiers just want to live. Who has time to pay attention to any big plan? What? Rebellion? Who believes in the nonsense told by the entire Jin Dynasty? Who is still a fool and will sacrifice his life for you without any evidence?
The defeated soldiers only know that whoever disturbs them will not let them live, and they will resist fiercely! Whoever uses swords to kill against them will face their revenge!
On the Anzhou side, Xiao Haohu himself was one of the powerful leaders of the defeated army. He knew the forces of the defeated army very well in Anzhou and was backed by the governor of Anzhou. He took advantage of the unpreparedness of the families and launched an attack. As a result, he was defeated by Guo.
A fierce tiger like Ning can fight back.
Are the defeated soldiers in Zhuozhou weaker than their companions in Anzhou?
Scattered among the defeated troops of the armies of various states in Hebei, there were some fierce warriors who dared to fight. They were caught off guard at first, but as time went on, the resistance would become more intense, and even more terrifying turmoil would brew.
Yang You couldn't clearly judge this sign yet, but Guo Jiaoer had been on the battlefield for a long time, and he had already felt it.
Guo Yao'er had a bad premonition. He vaguely felt that the defeated soldiers were not like the fat in Yang An'er's eyes, but a wild nest that could not be touched!
"Jiulang, let's go to the Gucheng Store first, meet Ji Junli, and ask about the situation. We will go to Xijun River tomorrow without any delay." Guo Yao'er said cautiously.
Yang You looked at Guo Yao'er in confusion: "Why not delay? What if Guo Ning ran away..."
"There is more than one Guo Ning to consider right now." Guo Yao'er insisted: "Jiulang, if something really goes wrong, many plans will have to change. Who can care about Guo Liulang?"
"...That's right. Let's go, let's go to the Gucheng store." Yang You was a little frustrated.
So the soldiers turned back and crossed the Qiu River again along the shallow road they came from.
The sky began to darken, and their figures gradually faded away. After reaching the other side of the river, they could no longer be seen clearly. In a dense bush about a hundred steps away from the road, the branches and leaves swayed, making a soft rustling sound.
The sound became more and more obvious, the branches and leaves spread to both sides, and first more than ten archers appeared.
More than a dozen people, all with arrows on strings, stood close to the roadside and were on alert.
Then two more people came out of the bushes.
Li Ting strode to the middle of the road and looked at the little kid whose body was already stiff. His face was extremely ugly.
Guo Ning came up slowly and stood next to Li Ting.