Pingquan Pass, Liaoxi County, Youzhou

Xiao Yangdao, the governor of Pingquan Pass, walked out of his official office. After Emperor Xuan fought north to destroy Yan, he built Pingquan Pass here to defend against the tribes of Hanhai in the north. Because the mountains and ridges were separated by the steep mountains and ridges of Dazhou and Hanhai tribes, there were only Shanhaicheng, Pingquan Pass and Juyong Pass. Therefore, the military status of Pingquan Pass was naturally unquestionable, but since the decades of Emperor Xuan, there has been almost no war between the Great Zhou and the barbarians in the north. Pingquan Pass has gradually become unwilling to care about it.

Xiao Yangdao was over fifty years old. He was sent to Pingquan Pass as a guard general because he was evil in Shendu. Since he became the guard general of Pingquan Pass, Pingquan Pass was a military city and had no ordinary people. There was no case to be tried, and there was no important official business to deal with. When he was idle, he could only train troops day and night. The more than a thousand military troops in Pingquan Pass made him very brave.

In addition, I practiced for dozens of nights without collecting it, and divided it into arrays and wandered around the grassland outside the pass day and night to collect information.

As soon as I left the official office, I saw smoke and dust on the opposite road from afar. A team of women wearing Hanhai leather robes and wearing pointed leather hats unique to Hanhai people. At first glance, it looked like Hanhai cavalry slowly coming. Walking in front of the team was a tall heroic young general who was fiercely-eyed. He saw that his Hanhai leather robes were wearing the Dazhou standard bright light armor, with long swords hanging on the waist, and the bows and arrows on both sides of the saddle were fully equipped. Under the saddle on the left, a crossbow that Dazhou Ye didn't accept the favorite use of. This young general was his second son Xiao Feng.

Seeing that Xiao Feng was about to leave the seclusion, he asked, "Feng'er, why did you lead the team out of the seclusion today? Where is your elder brother?"

Seeing that it was his father Xiao Yangdao, Xiao quickly grabbed the horse and jumped down and said.

"My father, brother, he went to patrol the camp. Is it because my son wants to go out and let go?" said General Zhu Shen.

Xiao Yangdao nodded and said:

"You must pay attention to safety. If you have something to do, go back to the city quickly!"

"Boy, understand." Xiao Feng quickly clasped his fists and said, getting up, and leading Ye to leave the city without taking it.

...

In December, the grassland was filled with wind and sand, and it was rustling. As soon as it came out of the clearance, dozens of nights were separated and they immediately split into three teams, dispersing, and facing east and west. Xiao Feng personally led a team toward the Duoyan River. It was noon. The winter sun shone on the grassland, making people feel a little warm. Xiao Feng jumped his horse and whipped it first.

Soon, we arrived near Duoyan River. It was only more than 60 miles away from Pingquan Pass. Because the grass on the Duoyan River is plump and fish and shrimps can be caught, it is one of the best pastoral areas in Hanhai Country. Hanhai Snow Country sets up sixteen tribes of Hanhai on the grassland, and sets up grazing areas for each Hanhai tribe, and strictly cross-region grazing. The grassland of Duoyan River is distributed to Duoyan tribe, one of the three most powerful tribes in Hanhai.

When they arrived at the pastoral area of ​​Duoyan tribe, Xiao Feng and the others became more and more careful. Sure enough, they soon encountered a group of Duozhan soldiers with more than a dozen people. Because Xiao Feng and his clothes were all dressed like Hanhai people, when they looked from a distance, the Duoyan people naturally could not recognize their identity, so they could only hold the war horses, draw their bows, and wait for them to get closer. At the same time, they loudly used Hanhai and shouting to ask about their identity. Xiao Feng also responded in Hanhai language, saying which department he was and which Wanhu household he was.

But the Duoyan people did not leave, and they still stared at them tightly, which made Xiao Feng and others feel nervous. Xiao Feng frowned slightly. The Duo* soldiers I met when I came out of seclusion were just routinely asked and would let them go. Today's action made Xiao Feng wonder. Xiao Feng's eyes turned and he signaled to Yebusu next to him. The young Yebusu looked at Xiao Feng and then rode out, and went to Duoyan people, chatting in the Hanhai language, and then suddenly pulled out the long sword and cut off the two Hanhai people who were talking to him. The Hanhai people were shocked. While drawing their swords to fight, they wanted to escape, but Xiao Feng had already led the remaining Yebusu to surround him.

Xiao Feng took the lead, and with a crossbow, he would have to fall the leader of the ** man.

The war horses were neighing, and the crossbow arrows shot sharply. Amid the cursing screams, a fierce battle of swords and arrows began instantly. In just a moment, half of the dozen soldiers were wiped out. The rest escaped with their light cavalry and fast horses. Pingquan did not take two people slightly injured at night, and the others were fine.

Xiao Feng observed the survivor left behind carefully and suddenly his face became solemn. Because the cavalry was not wearing leather armor that Duoyan often wore, but blue cloth nail armor. This was the armor that only the Qixue Army, the Khan of the Hanhai Kingdom's Khan's personal army, could wear.

Something must have happened, Xiao Feng's face was cold.

Twenty nights didn't stop, everyone knew in their hearts, and everyone looked at Xiao Feng, wondering if they had to go deeper?

The cavalry of the Qiexue army fled just now. The Qiexue army, who received the news, would inevitably immediately encircle and suppress them. If we continue moving forward, what we waited for would inevitably be a life-threatening life. A wise choice would of course be to turn back to Pingquan Pass and return the news of abnormal movements in the grassland to the superiors.

But the five words "there are abnormal movements in the grassland" are too general and it is impossible to know what happened on the grassland, so that the Khan of the Hanhai Kingdom's personal guards appeared in the pastoral area of ​​Duoyan's tribe.

This is obviously not Xiao Feng's temper.

Xiao Feng thought for a while, bent down and took off a waist card from the waist of Qie Xue Jun's corpse, stuffed it into his arms, and slowly said: "Li Heng's team stays, everyone else will go back, and I must remind my father to raise his vigilance."

"Second Young Master, you..." Everyone was surprised. Xiao Feng waved his hand and signaled to execute the order.

So everyone left, only the young Yebusheng carrying the pigeon cage and the other two were left. Xiao Feng ordered the three of them to put on Qiexue Jun's clothes and looked to the northeast. Xiao Feng said with a calm expression: "Let's try it forward!"

...

The figure of Dazhou Ye's unstoppable disappeared in the grassland, and suddenly the sound of horse hooves sounded loudly, and hundreds of cavalrymen rushed over like a whirlwind. However, except for the bodies of the companions who had died on the ground, the only cold northwest wind was left at the scene.

"General, I looked at the horse's hooves and horse manure, and pointed to Pingquan Pass. The Zhou people seemed to have fled back to Pingquan Pass..." A cavalryman in the Hanhai discovered the report to the commander of the Hanhai cavalry who led the team.

The commander shook his head and looked around and said, "The Zhou people are cunning, which is likely to be an illusion that confuses us. Now the soldiers are divided into four directions and chase me! We must find them!"

“Hohi……”

The cavalrymen in the sea responded in unison and scattered everywhere, continuing to search for the traces of the cavalry of the Great Zhou.

...

The Duoyan grassland is vast and it is not easy to find a few people in it, like looking for a needle in a haystack. But because it is vast and flat, once it is discovered by the Hanhai Cavalry and wants to get rid of the Hanhai Cavalry, it is almost impossible. Fortunately, Xiao Feng evacuated his subordinates and left only the four of them, with his goal greatly reduced, and the night provided them with the best cover, allowing them to successfully escape from the Hanhai Cavalry's encirclement and blockade. After nightfall, they found a safe place to go to the lee and dismount and rest.

"Second Young Master, it's very strange today. I didn't meet a nomad family along the way." Yebusheng, who was carrying a pigeon cage, said while feeding the pigeons.

Xiao Feng had noticed this a long time ago, so his face became even more serious. He took a sip of wine: "Don't worry, you will know what's going on tomorrow."

The temperature difference between day and night on the grassland is extremely large. In order not to be discovered by Hanhai people, Xiao Feng and the others dare not ignite the fire. Compared with the cold night, they are more worried about the uncertain future. So far, they have entered the grassland hundreds of miles and entered the core area of ​​Duoyan. There are Duoyan's herdsmen and patrol cavalry everywhere. If they are not careful, they will be wiped out and there is no possibility of survival.

In the early morning, the four of them got up early and headed upstream of the Duoyan River. Xiao Feng judged that if the Hanhai people made big moves, people would eat horses and use a lot of water, the Duoyan River was a place they could not avoid. As long as they walked up the Duoyan River, they would definitely know what the Hanhai people had made big moves.

At dusk, they arrived at the Yanshan area of ​​Duoyanbu. Yanshan was the only big mountain in Duoyanbu Khanting Duoyan City at the foot of Yanshan. At night, Xiao Feng and the other four hid in the dense forest on the mountain to rest. The next day, before dawn, they rode their horses upstream of the Duoyan River. As soon as they left the dense forest, they saw more than a dozen cavalrymen riding horses and there was no time to dodge.

"Who?" Hanhai cavalry shouted. Three Yebush's face turned pale, and his right hand instinctively held the long sword under the saddle.

Xiao Feng was calm and rode his horse to meet him, raised the waist sign in his hand, and shouted loudly in the Hanhai Speech.

There was the waist card in Xiao Feng's hand, and this was the core area of ​​the Duoyan Division. The Hanhai cavalry didn't think much about it. After asking a few questions, they rode away. After three nights, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in their hearts.

Two hours later, Xiao Feng and others came to the entrance of a bay in Duoyan River. Xiao Feng looked into the distance and saw that there were many Hanhai cavalry not far away drinking water or washing horses, but more Hanhai cavalry passed through the Duoyan River and heading north, crowded with people, and the flags were from north to south, endless.

Xiao Feng's face changed drastically, and the Hanhai Army was marching north. Needless to ask, their target must be Pingquan Pass.

"Brush, pigeon!"

Xiao Feng withdrew his gaze and said softly to the three nights.

Li Heng, who was carrying a pigeon cage, immediately untied the pigeon cage, opened the black cloth cover, opened the cage, reached out to take the pigeon out of the cage, and the other night did not collect it, took out the ink and paper from his arms. Xiao Feng took it over, picked up the pen and brushed it and wrote: An urgent report, the army of Hanhai Kingdom passed through the Duoyan River and headed north, with more than 100,000 people, and it is very likely to invade Pingquan Pass...

I wrote two copies in a row, rolled them up after writing, carefully tied them to the legs of the two pigeons, raised their hands and let them fly out.
Chapter completed!