On the night of the fifteenth day of the sixth lunar month, the full moon was in the sky, and the bright moonlight shone down, reflecting a cavalry team of more than 7,000 people slowly walking on the mountain road.

The mountain road is narrow and can only be passed by alone. The long line winds through the mountains, with no limit at a glance.

The group of people rushed on the road silently, even the horses were wearing horse chews. If it weren't for the horse's hooves occasionally stepping on the rocks, even if they were within a hundred feet of the range, they had excellent eyesight, so they wouldn't be able to easily discover these people.

These thousands of men were naturally the joint forces of Xiangcheng and Chenxi Island led by Chu Zheng.

In order to avoid leaking whereabouts, the entire team did not lit the torch and could only walk in the moonlight.

But now we are getting closer and closer to Li Shimin's army, and the risk of being discovered is increasing. In order to ensure that we can reach the destination as soon as possible and achieve tactical suddenness, we must ensure an emergency marching.

As long as the terrain allows, the team almost trots.

Fortunately, the scouts who were leading the way in front were selected from elites with excellent eyesight and no night blindness. The five hundred cavalry of the Chenxi Army added an egg every day to the meal at the beginning of its establishment and underwent special night training, and almost no night blindness.

Because the Xiangcheng Army was relatively harsh, nearly centuries had night blindness to one another, so Chu Zheng arranged two Dawn Army and a group of (ten people) Xiangcheng Army to form a team, supporting each other in the night, so that the team's nighttime travel speed did not drop much.

The two teams were originally somewhat competing with each other, but after two days of running-in and helping each other at this time, they became harmonious.

Of course, it is inevitable that no one would be embarrassed in front of the famous Shuai Chu.

Hu Jing is one of these Xiangcheng Army.

He has been an old corps and has been in the Xiangcheng Army for more than five years. Under the offensive that Mongolia almost once every two or three years, Hu Jing is naturally outstanding.

In fact, his family has been a horseherd for generations, and his father taught him to ride a horse since he was a child, which made him not inferior to the Mongols in riding skills. It was precisely because of this riding skills that he not only saved his life through several attacks, but also killed two enemy heads and promoted him to the captain of the team (the captain of the ten-person team).

At this time, the mountain road became more and more rugged, and the brothers in front had already dismounted and led the horses.

Hu Jing turned over and dismounted, rubbed his thighs that were a little swollen and painful, and turned around and ordered his twelve people (two more Chenxi Armys joined) to dismount and walk together. Seeing that the brothers were walking deeper and shallower, the two men on Chenxi Island were stable, Hu Jing could only feel envious.

It was said that he had only learned in the past few days that Chenxijun's food was so good, with eggs and meat every day, and rice was full.

You should know that in Xiangcheng, you can only eat 80% full only during the war. It is good to be able to get 50% full in normal times!

Of course, he didn't need to be jealous for long. He heard from the superiors that after fighting this battle and defeating the Li family, the Xiangcheng army would all join the Young Commander's Army, and would enjoy such treatment, and the salary would be five times higher.

When Hu Jing thought of this, he felt a little hot, and his legs, which were originally tired and a little numb, became a little more intense.

After all, he has an old mother who is sick in his family, a thin second brother who is only good at studying, and his wife and children who have to provide for him.

Hu Jing didn't know the significance of this battle with Li Shimin's army, but in the past two or three days, the superiors actually sent "instructors" to each gang to inform everyone in detail and repeatedly, so that a rough man like Hu Jing who could fully understand the meaning, strategy and goal of this battle.

This is simply unprecedented. In war, the superior generals always do whatever they order, even if the hero Guo Jing leads his troops.

But Chu Shuai was obviously a disciple taught by Guo Jing, but his style in this regard was completely different.

But it is strange that after knowing the overall plan and significance of this battle, Hu Jing felt that there was some extra pillar in his heart. He was not as confused as before, and only knew how to kill the Mongolian Tartars.

Hu Jing couldn't help but look at the young man walking in the front from afar.

It has been nearly a day and a half since we left yesterday. At any time, as long as we look up, we can see this straight figure leading the way forward.

The young commander did what he said in public four days ago, enduring hardships first and enjoying later, without any special treatment, and even carrying all his luggage, weapons and armor.

During the break, Chu Shuai was also inspecting everywhere, visiting some soldiers who were injured by rushing to the night. When eating, he sat in a crowd of people, and pulled the soldiers at the bottom to chat with the family matters in a low voice.

This style is truly unique among the generals and commanders, and is completely different from Guo Jing's previous "uneven but powerful" commander style.

After getting along for a few days, the deified aura of this young commander seemed to have weakened a lot, and the image of the powerful god on the first day was also fading.

During the rest period, many soldiers even dared to make fun of him, but he was not annoyed, but just showed a tolerant smile.

Just looking at his gentle and handsome appearance, it is really hard to associate the invincible "the world's number one master" in the rumored world, and seize a large island by one, destroying 20,000 yuan in Lijia Navy with him.

Originally, Hu Jing thought that such a commanding style would make Xiangcheng Army, which has always been serious, uncomfortable.

But to his surprise, the soldiers of the Xiangcheng Army seemed to like Chu Shuai's way of doing things very much, and even his already numb steps seemed much lighter to reach.

Even Hu Jing had a similar feeling. He had been traveling for so long, but he didn't feel bored and tired, and it was incredible to think of it.

Maybe it was because the coach accompanied everyone from beginning to end, and everyone felt relieved. Besides, this battle is of great significance and it is another battle of justice? Hu Jing thought to himself.

Hu Jing looked at the light chain armor on his body again, which was well-made, but except for the helmet, he could only protect the vital points of his chest and abdomen.

The light armor on the chain is covered with linen cloth, which is not reflective at all, and the sound made when walking is much smaller.

The weapons were also covered with linen to avoid reflection. Everyone was wrapped around the branches and leaves, making it difficult for them to pay attention to the long team traveling between the mountains at a glance even if someone stood on a distant mountain during the day.

It is said that these measures were proposed and arranged by Chu Shuai.

Hu Jing became more and more curious about Chu Shuai, who had a unique style.

At this time, a friend beside him fell into the air and almost fell down. Hu Jing was anxious and grabbed him, preventing him from spraining and leaving the team. This is also the responsibility of being a mate and veteran.

Almost as Hu Jing reached out, a person next to him also reached out, and the two of them grabbed the fallen soldier together.

Hu Jing looked at it, but the soldiers from Chenxi Island who were temporarily joining his group. The Chenxi Army soldier smiled at the two of them and slowly withdrew his hand.

Hu Jing also smiled back, asked his partner about nothing, and then continued on his way.

Such small episodes are very common in this team that has just been integrated.

The speed of thousands of people in their ranks is fast and slow. The speed of people and horses is adjusted according to different road conditions. On average, they only rest for a quarter of an hour every two hours, including drinking water and eating dry food, and sleeping for three hours after walking for a whole day.

Because I didn't bring a tent, each group of soldiers could only rely on each other to sleep. Fortunately, it was a summer night, and the temperature was not low, so I could barely get it.

The soldiers remained silent and had no complaints, because they saw Chu Shuai and the senior generals not even sleeping time, either discussing something on the map, or checking the road conditions at important nodes, or going to the team to the end to see if there are any people who are out of date.

Hu Jing also noticed that there were more than a dozen tied people in the team. Seeing that they were dressed as woodcutters and doctors who went into the mountains to collect herbs, of course, they were not ruled out that they were spies from the enemy. In order to avoid leaking the news, these people were captured and followed the army.

I walked for half a night, and as the sky was getting brighter and I was only half a day away from my destination, I suddenly sent an order from the top, and everyone was resting and waiting for a while, and could eat and drink water, but not speak or make any sound.

Hu Jing saw that Chu Shuai and a group of generals were listening to the scouts whispering something. The scouts were sweating profusely, and Ge Feng, Zhu Chaoge and other generals also looked solemn.

Hu Jing couldn't help but feel a little confused. What happened before? Could it be that an enemy spy discovered the traces of our team?

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"Ship Chu, the fifty cyclists in front of him should be the scouts of the Li family. But I see that they are walking slowly, not as if they have discovered us, but more like patrolling along the route." The scout gasped and tried to lower his voice, "I didn't see them when we came to explore the way last time."

Now it is less than forty miles away from Li Shimin's tens of thousands of troops. In order to avoid the sound of hooves, all the scouts have already set off their horses and rely on their light body skills to investigate and report back and forth.

Chu Zheng nodded slightly: "Okay, you have done a good job. Judging from your experience, if they continue to move forward, will they discover us?"

The scout hesitated for a moment and replied, "The possibility is not small. They are obviously coming towards the mountain road here."

Motionallying the scout to continue to go back to investigate the information, Chu Zheng asked Ge Feng and Zhu Chaoge beside him: "What do you think?"

Ge Feng said: "The road conditions ahead are relatively open. If they find something wrong, they will escape quickly, it will be difficult for us to intercept and will expose our traces."

He frowned. The biggest advantage of the coalition forces now is that they are unexpected. Once Li Shimin's army finds that they are approaching and prepare in advance, their raid will fail.

At that time, we have to face the tens of thousands of Tiance Army that were famous in the world. With the more than 7,000 cavalry on our side, there is really no chance of winning.

Zhu Chaoge spread out the map in his hand and stroked his fingers: "If we want to avoid them, we have to change our route immediately, turn from the fork here to the west, and then go back to the front, and walk more than thirty miles, and cross the Chunhe again, for fear that we would not have time to launch a sneak attack tonight."

Their original plan was to touch Li Shimin's army at noon today, rest for a long time to accumulate energy, and then launch a sneak attack while Li Shimin attacked Shengcheng Pass at night.

Once you take a detour, you have to spend more day.

Who knows how many variables will be if you have more than one day?

Especially such a rush marching must not last long. Now the two days and two nights of travel have made the soldiers feel quite tired. If you go around for thirty miles more, it is even more of an overdrawn physical strength.

Chu Zheng said in a narrow voice: "We cannot change the road. We are not sure if there are also scouts from the Li family on the other road. Being led by them will only make us even more exhausted. I will deal with these fifty horses."

"Ship Chu, let us take a hundred people there, we will definitely complete the task and not let them escape alone!" Ge Feng and Zhu Chaoge were not willing to let the coach take risks themselves, so they hurriedly volunteered.

Chu Zheng smiled and said, "I am 100% sure, don't worry, I can kill three in and three out of the thousands of troops in Mongolia. What is the only 50 cavalry of the Li family? You stay to calm the morale of the army, so that everyone can hurry up and rest and recover their physical fitness as soon as possible."

All the generals had no choice but to accept the order.

Chu Zheng summoned Dongfang Bai and A Qing, took the two girls to spread their body skills, and climbed up directly from the steep mountain wall.

This was the first time that the generals saw Chu Zheng’s two sword spirit girls. Unexpectedly, they were such delicate beauties. But when they saw them climbing the cliff with Chu Shuai, they couldn’t help but be astonished.

Chu Zheng took the two girls to the top of the mountain as fast as possible, stood on the top of the mountain, and with the slight bright morning light, he saw fifty riders from afar observing and walking forward, and the direction was indeed the valley that was about to pass through.

Chu Zheng also noticed that these scouts were divided into three batches, each with about sixteen or seventeen people, each of which was vaguely arranged into a small formation, about fifty feet apart. Once a raid occurred, the two teams in front could block it for a moment. The last team could quickly escape and return to report the news.

Just from the actions and arrangements of these scouts, we can tell that Li Shimin is really very good at managing the army. It is not easy to rely on Chu Zheng alone to capture all of these people without missing a single one.

The most troublesome thing is that I don’t know if there are any other scouts behind me. Once all of these fifty scouts are captured or killed and no one returns to the camp, will Li Shimin find out inappropriately?

Chu Zheng thought for a while and said, "Little Dongfang, A Qing, this time we must seal all these people to capture alive. None of them can be allowed to escape, let alone hurt them and the horses. I am responsible for the farthest batch, Xiaodongfang is responsible for the front batch and the middle batch to A Qing. Can you do it?"

Dongfang Bai snorted and said proudly: "What can I do if I can capture just a dozen soldiers alive? I just can't kill them directly, which is a bit unpleasant enough."

Her dress was fluttering like a fairy. I don’t know if Chu Zheng hadn’t had time to accompany her these days, but she looked a little unhappy.

Chu Zheng hurriedly comforted the leader of the Oriental.

But Ah Qing said, "But I can't pin the acupoints."

Chu Zheng was speechless and hurriedly taught her how to close the acupoints of the human body, and let her identify three acupoints.

Fortunately, Ah Qing was extraordinary and learned it very quickly.

Seeing that the scouts of the Li family were about to approach the valley where their army was hiding, Chu Zheng whispered: "Take it!"

First, it turned into a phantom and rushed towards the dozen or so scouts at the farthest.

Dongfang Bai and A Qing also flew out.
Chapter completed!