Shanye Village, the old tree outside the ancestral hall.
Jiang Caiwei sat 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 do not believe in God kneel down and worship God.
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"Report to General Xu, there is a large army ahead, all light cavalry!" In the wind and sand, a riding sentry turned his horse sharply and hurried back.
"I know, let's explore again!" Behind Xu Mu, Yu Wen raised the camp flag. In an emergency, the camp flag of the 40,000-strong Northern Expeditionary Army only embroidered a tiger emerging from the woods.
"General Xu should be from Hezhou."
"Zhao Qingyun."
Xu Mu frowned. He had been thinking of ways to deal with Hezhou. If you really don't want to let him pass, you can only kill him.
"Report to General Xu, ten miles away!"
"Horse-rejecting formation!" Yu Wen drew out his long knife, 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" and other words. Chang Wei also grabbed the pear blossom gun and put it on his shoulder nervously.
Xu Mu remained motionless, his eyes extremely cold.
The 20,000 light cavalry are estimated to be the horses collected from the last war. But Ji Ren was not good at riding and shooting, and the superficial knowledge that Zhao Qingyun learned from him was of no 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 square formation. 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 team of men and horses were nervously guarding the camp flag.
Tap tap tap.
The sound of horse hooves was getting 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, the dust in the sky was still there for a long time.
"Brother Xu!" Zhao Qingyun put on a smile on his face and hurriedly dismounted, "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 his ax. 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 are you doing this?" 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 the ingenious 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 shouted 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 if there is no war at the border, the Di people will 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 rebelling and treason. Brother Xu, rein in your horse at the brink."
Sighing, Xu Mu was basically sure that Zhao Qingyun really wanted to join Di.
He gestured 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 the long and narrow area, the return movement was obviously too late. When three waves of flying arrows were thrown down, three or four hundred people of light cavalry fell to the ground, including both men and horses.
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 give in?"
Zhao Qingyun paused on the spot, and for a moment, his voice became trembling.
"Go back to Hezhou. The army will go back to Hezhou first!"
Suddenly, the army of 20,000 people 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. In fact, there are many new recruits in the current army. , If we really take the dangerous path again, we will probably fall to more deaths.
Besides, time is too slow.
Zhao Qingyun's appearance just now was very verbose, but Xu Mu could only hear a little clearly. This bitch is 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 thinking of joining the enemy.
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"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."
"Daji is in chaos again."
Changshiro carried the pear flower wood 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. A 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.
"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 foreign kings and those Dingbian generals don't 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 be famous for eternity."
"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."
