choke element

Chapter 89 Outpost
Ever since Yicha Chucai came to the Feijunhe camp, he has been responsible for many military and political affairs, and has become Guo Ning's right-hand man.But in fact, in the eyes of the defeated soldiers in the three states, the real ones are always those comrades who have fled together.

Therefore, when Guo Ning led the army to the south, Luo Monk and Wang Shixian, who were in charge of staying at the Feijunhe camp and acted as the commanding authority, were the true confidantes.

Monk Luo's temperament is careless and rough, and he always speaks with his fist as big as a bowl of vinegar, but in fact there are subtleties in roughness.That kind of pure reckless man had long since died in the fiasco and collapse of the past few years, and he would not survive today.

And Wang Shixian has a gentle appearance, even a little soft, but he has a team of Wang Gu people, which is the one with the most cavalry under Guo Ning's command.

In the early morning of this day, before dawn, Monk Luo went to see Wang Shixian. On the way, he probably saw some soldiers who were loose and in a bad mood. After leaving Wang Shixian's camp, their faces were still livid.

After a while, Wang Shixian was probably sprayed by Monk Luo, and he raised his tent in disgrace. Then he ordered the whole army to gather urgently and prepare for marching training with full equipment.

This kind of training is often organized by Guo Ning.The generals felt troubled at first, but gradually realized the beauty.Through marching training, not only can the physique and will of the soldiers be tempered, but also the mutual help friendship between soldiers and officers and soldiers can be cultivated. Through the competitions and competitions in different capitals and different places, the cohesion of soldiers and soldiers can also be enhanced.

Marching training is divided into several specifications, the common ones are light-armed raids, and there are also heavy-armored forced marches.These two kinds of training are almost done at least once every ten days. The soldiers have trained until now, and all of them have already familiarized themselves with the terrain of Anzhou and other places.

The less training is the full-loaded marching training equivalent to emergency camping, and of course this is not neglected.However, although most of the facilities in the camp are temporary and easy to disassemble, it is not a pity to abandon them.However, every time a full-suit march is made, it is inevitable that there will be a few days of continuous tossing, so this training has been done, but not many times.

At this time, Wang Shixian suddenly gave the order to prepare to pull out the camp. The soldiers in the camp and the people who gradually gathered all lamented, thinking that Wang Shixian was troublesome. Did he use the tiger skin as a banner?Someone relied on his seniority and ran to Wang Shixian to complain a few words, but he was immediately dealt with by Wang Shixian with military law, and he was pulled out and beaten twenty sticks.

Now everyone knew that Mr. Wang was serious, so they didn't dare to be negligent, and they all took orders to come out.Each department prepares tents, armor, weapons, dry food, drinking water, horses, vehicles, tools, etc. to be carried during the march by itself.

According to the military order, all preparations must be completed within half an hour, and they must return to the central army tent to report.

Someone noticed that Monk Luo was one of the two lieutenants, but he was not in the Chinese army. It was his younger brother Monk Pei who participated in the military council instead.

When preparing to leave the camp, someone will inevitably ask a question.Monk Pei wrote lightly: "Brother has something to go out."

At this time, Monk Luo had quietly left for a while.Just now he got an urgent message, which represented a certain possibility.But he didn't want this kind of possibility to shake the morale of the army at will, so he went out quietly and went to investigate in person.

He led more than ten pro-riders, one with two horses, along the beach beside the Feijun River, and marched upstream rapidly.At the west edge of Wuguandian, he met Xu Ting, a famous local shop owner, and his party, and then continued north along the inaccessible path in Shuizejian, and entered Suizhou at full speed.

Suizhou, like Anzhou and other places, were all military fortresses built by the Song Dynasty to fight against the Khitan.In the early years, there was a Jingrong army in Liangmenzhai, and a Weilu army in Suicheng County. Both places had the reputation of being dangerous.For hundreds of years, it still has the reputation of Tongliang Gate and Tie Sui City.

Today, Liangmenzhai and Suicheng County are almost deserted.Suizhou was originally a small state, with only one Suicheng County below it, and there were many ponds and swamps in the county, but little cultivated land.In the past two years, the young and strong in the county were taken away, and then they never came back. It is estimated that they all died in the frontier, so the old and weak people in the county went to their relatives and fled.

Since last year, the governor of Suizhou has been vacant, and the court probably didn't bother to pay attention to it, so it has been making do.This year, Anzhou Guo Ning, Yizhou Miao Daorun, Dingzhou Zhangrou and other strong men have risen one after another, each attracting people, turning most of Suizhou into a no-man's land.

However, Guo Ning never neglected his vigilance in this direction, so Xu Wei was entrusted by him to send people to patrol from time to time.

After Monk Luo and Xu Yu entered Suizhou, they walked along the main road for a short time. Xu Yu reined in his horse and stopped: "Two teams of patrols I sent to Suizhou have not returned in time, and the third team reported back. , found this..."

Monk Luo followed Xu Ting's pointing, and saw a series of corpses beside the road.

The bodies were apparently killed while fleeing south.Most of them were disheveled and their clothes were disheveled. Obviously, the stronghold was suddenly attacked in the middle of the night. These people fled in a panic, but their two legs could not run with the horses.

There were knights chasing after them, and it took about a moment to kill them all, so about two hundred corpses were laid out on the road for two miles.

Xu Yu has a wide range of friends and knows everything, including autopsies.He got off his horse and looked at several corpses carefully.It was found that almost everyone died neatly, and the people who killed them were very skilled in riding and swordsmanship. The horrified expressions on the faces of the dead were instantly frozen.

Bodies were searched and money, food or better clothes were taken from them.

Monk Luo also dismounted.

He strode across the tall grass more than two feet high by the side of the road, and the direction he went was the corpses of a family.

The man who looked like his father turned back about halfway through the run, trying to hinder the enemy cavalry, but was stabbed in the neck, and his head fell immediately, leaving only a little flesh still attached to the body.

The mother died within a few feet of the woodland with an older child in her arms and a younger child in her arms.Both she and the older child were hit by arrows in their vests, while the younger child was held tightly in her arms, and both mother and child were trampled to death by horseshoes.

Monk Luo squatted down and touched the wound on the back of the deceased.

The cluster of arrows piercing the flesh was roughly pulled out, and the deceased probably struggled for the last time, and the wound was violently torn.Then the blood spurted out from the wound and solidified into tofu-like puddles on the ground.

"Master Huifeng!" Xu Yu called out, and showed Monk Luo an arrow cluster he had picked up: "This is the arrow used by the novice shooters of the Weijie Army in Zhongdu!"

Monk Luo glanced at it and stood up slowly.

"It's the arrows used by the Weijie Army, but it's not the Weijie Army's hands. The imperial army can't go around Jing'an people in the east, or Zhang Rou in the west. They fart hundreds of miles away. We You can hear the sound. It is not the army of the imperial court! This is the Mongols fighting with captured arrows, and the Mongols are coming!"

Xu Yu's expression froze, and she subconsciously said, "It's really a Mongol? But why did the Mongol come here..."

"Damn it, why don't you ask? Some pass in the north must have been breached, it's all trash!"

Monk Luo couldn't help spouting a few foul words.

He strode back to the road, looked back and forth a few times, and carefully searched for traces.Soon they found distinctive hoof prints on the road, and also found a water bag made of cowhide or sheepskin, commonly used by Mongolian shepherds.

Because the tanning was not complete, the water bag had a strong stench. It should be that the leather strap was broken during the slaughter, so it was discarded by its owner directly.Monk Luo also has such a water bag, of course it is much more delicate.It was the spoils of war he personally killed a Mongolian warrior at the risk of escaping to Hebei last year.

The specifications of this water bag are slightly different from those in Mongolia.Monk Luo recognized that this was the specific equipment belonging to his old opponent.

"It's the outpost fine cavalry under the Mongols, Al Jinchi from the Hongji tribe." Monk Luo gritted his teeth.

His huge body shook slightly, and spoke Mongolian in a deep voice.Then he turned to Xu Xuan and repeated in Chinese: "All the enemies are in front, we are willing to be the vanguard to charge up. When hunting cunning beasts, we are willing to be the pioneers to chase them down."

"This is Alqinchi, who is dedicated to driving the Mongolian Khan! They came here to find out for the army that a certain way can be entered, a certain way can be attacked, and a certain side has an enemy... The main force of the Mongols is in the rear. It will be far! They have come!"

Speaking of this, the countless terrifying scenes in the memory swept through Monk Luo's mind like a sea tide, causing the veins on his forehead to burst.

Raising his voice extremely rarely, he shouted sharply: "Light up the beacon smoke for me as a warning, and then we will leave immediately! Quick! Quick! Quick!"

If Monk Luo is like this, the subordinates are even more uncontrollably flustered.

After being drunk by Monk Luo, they dismounted in a hurry and gathered a large pile of branches and firewood.

　Note: Both "Alejinchi" and "Manglai" in Mongolian can be translated as vanguard, but since the main task of Aljinchi is to detect and cover battlefield communications, perhaps it is more appropriate to translate it into outpost?
　
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