In the evening, the rain finally stopped. Looking for a high ground, Li De jumped off his horse and stroked his war horse with some pain. The war horse was splashed with mud ideas. The war horse that had been following him for many years also turned his head intimately with his big head arching Li De. In fact, Li De himself is not very good now, and the original color of the armor can no longer be seen in the lower body.

It is a painful thing to march on such a road. The Wu River floods, the more you go north, the more serious the situation becomes. Now you can’t see the road at all.

"It's ruined, it's completely ruined!" Li De felt a little sad, "The harvest of a year is all over."

Since the Tang army broke through the Yellow River defense line, they marched all the way, and Liu Xinda retreated very quickly. In a blink of an eye, he ran to Linzi. When Li De passed these places earlier, he could still see scattered crops. Now, he went back again and saw nothing else except the yellow mud.

"General, let's have something to eat first!" The personal soldiers handed over a hard bun and a pot of clean water.

He took a bite of the bun and put it in his mouth to make it softer. Then he chewed and swallowed it, and then took a bite of water. Li De, including his subordinates, had long been used to such days. Such weather may be a torture for other troops, but for Li De and his Rangers, it was commonplace.

They don’t know how many days they have passed. In the north, they climb ice and snow, and sometimes they often don’t see a figure for more than ten days. At the worst, they have been dying grass roots, catching insects, lying field mice, and earthworms to survive.

Of course, as Li Ze became stronger day by day, it gradually became a precious memory and experience. Later, although the logistics was safe and he would never be shocked to live such a life, Li De still regarded this as an important subject for soldier training. Especially the newly added rangers, survival training was even more indispensable.

Li De used this as a necessary skill for Rangers, requiring every soldier to master it.

After all, the Rangers are not like other troops. They often take on special combat tasks that are far away from the local area and the base camp. It is common for them to have no logistics supplies.

A thousand Rangers were thriving on this high ground with sanity, and then they began to pick the mud on their bodies for their war horses. They marched about seventy-eight miles a day today, and it was getting dark when they saw it. Looking around, I was afraid that this place is now suitable for camping.

Of course, they did not bring tents or anything else. Apart from the necessary weapons and dry food, the Rangers would not bring these things they thought were burdensome. If you have the strength and place to load tents, it would be better to bring more weapons and dry food.

Their cloak is specially made, and its biggest feature is rain protection. In such an environment, wrap the cloak on your body and pour it on the ground and you can sleep soundly.

The saddle was removed, and the war horse probably knew that it was like this today. He raised his hooves and raised his head easily, and neighed endlessly.

Li De is also preparing to rest here today.

Just after eating the steamed buns in his hand, he saw the scout he sent out was returning from a distance.

"General Li, I discovered this!" A scout immediately took a bag of things and placed it in front of Li De.

"Military ration!" Looking at the words vaguely exposed on the bag, Li De's face changed slightly. He reached out and scraped hard a few times, completely cleaned the soil on the bag, and the handwriting on it was clearly revealed.

It is military rations transported from Dizhou.

"Where did you find it?" he asked with his head raised.

"The edge of a stream ten miles away was caught by branches." The scout replied.

Li De's face changed slightly, "It's a bit bad. I'm afraid our grain transport team has encountered a flood. Didn't you find anything else?"

"We searched nearby for a long time, and only saw one of the food bags, some damaged vehicles, dead livestock, and a few dead people," the scout said.

Li De calmed down a little bit: "It seems that he has only lost a part of it. You guys have a rest, change a group of people, go out and inquire again."

"Abide by the order!"

Seeing the new group of scouts struck away again, Li De pondered for a long time, and finally issued an order for the entire army to set off again. It was certain that the grain transport team encountered a flood. Since they found the food bags near the corner, they must not be too far away from here. It would be best to find them earlier.

The Rangers are no strangers to such overnight march. After giving the order, the soldiers immediately began to reinstall their swords and saddles, turn on their horses, and follow Li De slowly.

As night fell, the Rangers searched for some dead branches and thatched trees, made them into torches, and lit up the marches of great fanfare. These places should now be considered the rear of the Tang army. Large-scale established enemies no longer existed. Of course, there must be small groups of enemies, but after seeing their cavalry of this size, these people were afraid they would have disappeared.

At the second update, the scout who was exploring the way rushed back in a hurry.

"General, there are traces of a large-scale military movement in front of you."

"Is it our grain transport team?" Li Deyi was happy and asked anxiously.

"It should not be." The scout shook his head and said, "According to the traces left, it should be an army of mixed infantry and cavalry. If it is our grain transport team, there should be ruts. And after we followed forward for a while, we found some footprints with shallow marks. The sole patterns on the marks showed that this should be a Pinglu army."

"How many people are there?"

“Not less than the size of a battalion.”

Li De's pupils contracted slightly and he whispered: "Extinguish the fire!"

In an instant, countless torches were pushed into the mud, and the entire army suddenly fell into darkness.

"Find out where this Pinglu army is going, they must have discovered our remaining grain transport team and attacked them."

"Yes!" The scouts with more people took the order and left. Li De led the other Rangers and followed behind quietly and slowly moved forward.

Li De felt a little heavy at some point. Although the grain transport team also had an escort army, it would only be a small army. After encountering this flood, it is hard to say how much combat effectiveness they still have. If they are hit by this enemy again, they will probably be difficult to escape.

He only hopes that this enemy army will be discovered and caught up with him as soon as possible. He doesn't want to be the one who collects the body of his comrades in the end.

Outside Niujia Village.

Liu Santong rode on the war horse and looked at the small village with the sparkling fire in the distance. The spy had been sent out, and now it seemed that everything was under control.

After a moment, the scout returned in a hurry.

"How many people are there?" Liu Santong asked.

"General, the other party has set up a lot of guard posts and cannot go deeper, but from outside, there are people in each of the seven or eight houses, and dozens of mules and carriages are parked outside. Judging from the scale, it is about hundreds of people. However, when they observe their open and secret guard posts, they are mostly young and strong. The guards should not have many guards, and they should be concentrated in one of them as the location of the temporary warehouse." Under the torch, the scouts drew out the general situation of Niujia Village. The place he suspected was a temporary warehouse was marked with a key mark.

"Prepare for the attack!" Liu Santong straightened up and made a simple arrangement. Such an attack did not require him to spend too much energy.

"General, the terrain around Niujia Village is sunken, with a lot of mud, the slope is soft and soaked in rain for a long time. It is not suitable for cavalry attacks, so it can only attack with infantry." The scout suggested.

"The cavalry stayed behind, Fu Cheng, take the eight hundred straits up and take me Niujia Village. I don't want anyone, and I can't lose a grain!" Liu Santong ordered.

"As for order!" Fu Cheng tightened his bracelets and lit up his men. Under the guidance of the scout, he went towards Niujia Village in the dark.

Their team had more than 1,000 troops, eight hundred infantry and more than 200 cavalry. They attacked at one time and threw all the infantry into it, and did not underestimate the logistics and supplies team of the Tang army in front of them.

Ren Xiaonian sat on the ridge, trying hard to open his eyes and look at the situation in the distance.

A large number of blurred black shadows appeared in his sight, and stopped outside Niujia Village for a while, then divided into two routes, touching them from the front, and the other route went around the village, without any errors from his earlier expectations.

This is the most common method, and it is also the most effective method according to the terrain conditions of Niujia Village.

He grinned and smiled.

Even if I only have 300 people, I can still break your mouth full of teeth.

Fu Cheng bowed carefully and approached the village. He did not see the Minggang secret whistle mentioned by the scout. He couldn't help but turn his head to look at the scout beside him.

"Maybe the other party was lazy and hid somewhere to sleep." The scout explained, but he was puzzled. Before a stick of incense, when he came, he clearly saw a sentry.

Mules and horses were tied to some trees beside the village, and some were even tied directly to the frame. When these livestock saw a large number of people touching them, they just ignored them and then lowered their heads as if nothing had happened. Occasionally, two horses raised their heads and shouted twice, which seemed very ordinary.

A large number of bonfires were burning in front of him, illuminating the way forward. Fu Cheng hesitated for a moment and decided to concentrate his efforts to attack the temporary warehouse first. Just after a moment of shooting, he had already seen the general layout of several houses. The bonfire set up by the enemy illuminated all the passages in a slight way.

There was no need to hide anymore, he straightened up and pulled out the knife with a choke.

"kill!"

Fu Cheng's hand, which raised the knife, froze in the air.

Because this killing was not what he called out.
Chapter completed!