It's still dark.
In Yangcheng's mansion, Bai Yan walked to the package and took off his clothes. The several wounds on his arms, back, and abdomen looked very hideous.
Bai Yan took out a piece of mended cloth from the package, put it on, looked at the armor and the wooden sign next to the package, turned around and came to a wooden frame with armor hanging on it.
The armor and Qin sword have not been washed away, but the blood stains are still there.
Bai Yan took off his armor and put it on himself, then picked up the Qin sword, opened the door, watched the moonlight gradually receding, and walked towards the outside of the mansion.
on the street.
Some people who worked up early in the morning and stayed late at night have also begun to set up stalls on the roadside. Obviously, the war during this period forced the people to choose a safer time to make a living.
Bai Yan looked at the people and remembered what his grandmother once said in the past. A long time ago, people used "Sun and China as the city". Because they didn't know the time, they chose the hottest and most recognizable day of the day to go to the city to communicate with each other. required.
As the number of people increased, merchants from all over the world began to travel to each other in several countries. Later, there were "morning markets" and "evening markets".
The market comes from time to time, and merchants are the main ones. In the sunset market, the market is dominated by men and women. My uncle and aunt in Linzi, Qi State, are one of them.
Bai Yan came to a shop selling millet cakes.
Rumor has it that millet cakes originated from Wen Zhong. When King Wu conquered Zhou in the past, King Zhou sent his grand master Wen Zhong to resist King Wu's army, so he used a kind of cake as dry food. Bai Yan didn't know if this was true.
Anyway, after hundreds of years, the cake has been passed down to this point and is already very fragrant.
As for delicious food, everyone says that Qi Pancake is the best among the Seven Kingdoms.
Next to the street.
When the vendors in the shop saw Bai Yan coming to the stall, there was a hint of fear in their eyes, especially when they saw that the armor on Bai Yan's body was still stained with blood. It wasn't until Bai Yan finished buying the millet cakes and left that he breathed a sigh of relief.
When Bai Yan finished eating and came to the main camp in the city, he saw some cavalry soldiers having breakfast. Some soldiers who had finished breakfast were already inspecting Qin crossbows and arrows beside their horses, and a dozen Qin officials were counting them. Food, grass and baggage.
Bai Yan's arrival made many famous iron cavalry officers look over.
All the cavalry soldiers knew clearly that Han soldiers would not let them send the food, grass and baggage to the Qin army like this. I am afraid that a fierce battle would be inevitable today.
Chai was following several cavalry generals to give instructions when he saw Yan and was a little surprised. He didn't expect Bai Yan to come to the camp so early.
"Yan! We can set off when the sun rises!"
Chai said to Bai Yan.
"I can't wait to escort the food and grass today."
Bai Yan said softly.
Chai and the cavalry generals were stunned and looked at Bai Yan in confusion.
The cavalry officers and soldiers around him also looked puzzled when they heard Bai Yan's words.
Outside Yangcheng.
At the main camp, tens of thousands of soldiers were still eating breakfast. At this moment, they suddenly heard the roaring sound of horse hooves coming from Yangcheng.
All the watchmen were a little puzzled. The cavalry army should be waiting for them in the city, why did they leave the city at this time?
With confusion, the guards looked towards Yangcheng one after another. After a while, they saw countless cavalry soldiers riding out of the city.
"Why did they get out?"
"Look, they don't seem to be heading here!"
"Why are you walking in that direction? Where are they going?"
A guard looked full of doubts as he watched the cavalry army leave the city, and then all rushed in another direction.
Look at the appearance of the cavalry army. Doesn't seem ready to wait for them! One of the guards stood up and looked at each other, both of them very confused. Logically speaking, shouldn't the cavalry army be with them? Now that the cavalry army has left, who will protect the food, grass and baggage? What if the Korean soldiers come to raid the grain and grass again?
"Could they be going for revenge?"
Among the countless watchmen, I don’t know which one was the first to murmur. And as these words appeared, more and more soldiers looked at the backs of the retreating cavalry army, and what the young man said yesterday suddenly came to mind.
What happened yesterday will be repaid with blood!
Thinking of this, all the guards quietly widened their eyes, looking at the cavalry army coming out in the distance, and vaguely guessed why those cavalry were not with them!
........
A place ten miles outside Yangcheng.
"Wake up!"
Next to a huge rock on the top of a mountain, a man patted another sleeping man with a sleepy face.
Both of them were ordered to monitor Qin's food and baggage. They slept at the foot of the mountain all night last night, fearing that they would be discovered, so they didn't even dare to light a fire. To guard against wild beasts in the forest, they didn't dare to sleep at night. They didn't go to the top of the mountain until dawn, where each of them could sleep for a while.
"Um?"
The man huddled under the boulder opened his eyes tiredly, and then saw that it was already dawn, and was about to ask.
suddenly.
The sound of thundering iron hooves could be heard in the distance. Judging from the sound, there were at least thousands of them.
The two men heard the sound and looked at each other. Their fatigue suddenly disappeared. They hurriedly hid beside the boulder and looked in the direction of Yangcheng down the mountain in the distance.
Soon, the two men saw a dense mass of Qin cavalry suddenly appearing at the foot of the mountain in the distance, numbering in the thousands.
"Is the Qin army setting off now?"
A man looked at the cavalry army carrying Qin flags and said, his words full of doubts. They knew that there was only one Qin cavalry in Yangcheng, and that the Qin State's grain and grass supplies were that one. Qin cavalry escort.
And this cavalry should be the Qin cavalry in Yangcheng.
"The Qin army has set off, I will go back and report!"
After a man finished speaking, he was about to turn around and leave.
"No, no!"
Another man stopped and looked at the cavalry army at the foot of the mountain in the distance. He noticed something was wrong.
Because looking at the marching speed of the cavalry army, the food, grass and baggage could not keep up.
"They don't look like they are escorting food and grass."
The man murmured, his face full of confusion.
The man who was leaving before seemed to have noticed something was wrong.
Boom boom boom~! ! !
Listening to the sound of iron hooves filling the sky, the two men continued to squat behind the boulder, observing the cavalry army in the distance.
Until a moment later. The two men suddenly saw that after the Yangcheng cavalry army passed by the foot of their mountain, at the fork in the road in the distance, the cavalry in the front turned around first and headed straight north!
"The new city is obviously in the east! Why are they going north? When they go north..."
One man muttered instinctively, then thought of something immediately, his pupils shrank, and he looked at the other man with fear.
The other man looked at him with wide eyes like him.
The two of them suddenly thought that that road could lead directly to their Korean soldiers' camp. At present, the Korean soldiers from Guangwu, Wanfeng, and Xingyang were all on standby in the camp.
If this iron cavalry is going to raid the camp...
"Probably not. How could the Qin army know the location of our camp? Besides, the Qin army doesn't know how many soldiers our Korean army has. How dare they go!"
A man murmured softly and comforted himself.
But seeing that all the Qin cavalry dared to go towards the north road, for some reason, the man still felt a little panicked.
