imperial psychologist

Chapter 700 That's it?

After Bo Ling left, Wang Meng and others waited at the intersection again.

In the middle of the night, the sound of cars and horses came from the ice road in the distance, and after a while, a long army winding along the mountain road appeared in front of everyone—just as the orderer said earlier, this batch of firearms really Arrived at night.

So everyone unloaded the goods and changed cars, counted and reloaded the things on the ice road.

Among them, [-]% of the firearms will follow Wang Meng into the two ends, and the remaining [-]% will continue to move forward through the ice road until they reach Yanzhou.

Although it has been delayed for half a day, as long as the army departs on time tomorrow morning, it will not be difficult to arrive in Yanzhou on time.

From time to time, Wang Meng raised his eyes to look in the direction where Bo Ling and Xue Ziping left, but it was deeper, and the path was always quiet and deserted.

The next morning, when Wang Meng woke up, the first thing he did was to ask Wei Songqing and Xue Ziping if they were back.

The guard shook his head silently, and at the end he didn't forget to add, "The 23 firecrackers who followed out last night didn't come back, not even a man or a horse."

Wang Meng lowered his eyes, and after a while, he frowned and said, "Reorganize the armaments and prepare to leave!"

Because there was [-]% more luggage, the speed of the entire team slowed down significantly. On the way, Wang Meng always paid attention to the movement behind him, but he didn't want to see Bai Ling and his party come back from the front of the team with the scouts of the army when the morning light was twilight. up.

Wang Meng felt strange when he saw a large cloud of flying dust in front of him from a distance, but when he saw the person coming, his eyes lit up and he immediately rode forward.

"Master Lieutenant General!" Xue Ziping dismounted and saluted Wang Meng.

Wang Meng looked behind him, followed by Bai Ling and more than 20 firecrackers, all of them came on horseback, and there were not half of the people.

"Has anyone been saved?" Wang Meng asked.

"They were all rescued, and it went well," Xue Ziping replied, raising his eyes, "We originally wanted to take them back to the two ends, but we met General Shen's team on the way, so we handed over the people."

Wang Meng wanted to ask how he was rescued, but he was stunned when he heard this, "General Shen's team?"

"Yes, because when Zhuozhou City inspected the conditions of the winter in the city a few days ago, it was found that no one from Shihou Town came, so Shen Jiajun temporarily sent a small team to the town to check the situation." Xue Ziping said softly, "But we're still a step ahead."

Wang Meng frowned, "Then why did you come back so late?"

Hearing that there was some reproach in Shangguan's words, Xue Ziping turned his head to look at Bai Ling, and said after deliberation, "Well, it's because..."

Bo Ling smiled, without making any excuses, and said softly, "It's all my fault. It's rare to meet General Shen's subordinates. I asked them about the situation of the old general, so it was delayed."

Wang Meng and the two guards behind him couldn't help but look at Bai Ling more, "Do you recognize General Shen?"

"I've met a few times before." Bai Ling replied softly. She turned around and pointed behind her while holding the whip, "By the way, Lieutenant General, we also captured more than [-] horses belonging to the gold thief..."

The large army behind Wang Meng followed up slowly, whether it was Wang Meng or Bai Ling and his party, they all retreated to the side of the road.

It was only at this time that Wang Meng noticed that there was a group of horses returning with more than 20 firecrackers. They followed the last of this group and were driven by one person along the way back.

Previously, the group of horses had been blocked by the musketeers riding ahead. It wasn't until now when everyone got off their horses and stood aside that Wang Meng realized that the number of horses had doubled.

He walked towards the captured war horses, and saw that they had thin heads, tall necks, slender limbs, and fur as shiny as water.

"This is..." Wang Meng suddenly recognized the steed in front of him, "Akhal Tekin?"

Akhal Tekin, one of the horse breeds that the Jin people are most proud of. This kind of horse has extremely thin skin. When running, the blood vessels on the neck swell and protrude, which looks like blood sweat under the cover of sweat.

It is famous for its amazing endurance and speed, but compared with other horse breeds, their body is too slender, so Zhou people and Jin people don’t choose it as a mount for expeditions. Generals on the battlefield They all tend to prefer the sturdier horses—except for the Hestas of the northern steppes.

The sweat horse is the totem of the Hesta people.

"The reason why this group of gold thieves didn't kill and loot is because they were not ordinary gold soldiers." Xue Ziping replied, "I have asked, they are grooms for Hesta's new horse. We were going to the Lardian Grassland in the west, but there was a storm on the way, so we lost our way and entered Stone Monkey Town by mistake."

"Hesta's new tribe..." Wang Meng frowned and repeated in a muttering voice, "Is that the tribe that Arslan slaughtered the entire tribe a few years ago?"

"En." Xue Ziping nodded, "That's right. There are too many horses, and we are afraid that we will delay the trip if we rush all of them back, so we picked more than twenty stallions among them and brought them back."

"Okay." Wang Meng nodded, although he was really happy, but his face was calm, "Leave these horses to the logistics, and you all go back to the team."

Xue Ziping clasped his fists and answered yes.

……

In the afternoon, the [-] army brigade, armed with newly transported firearms, passed through the city gates facing south at both ends in an orderly manner.

Almost every team traveling between Zhuozhou and Yanzhou will take a rest at both ends. The soldiers follow the officials in the county to a specific place to get supplies in an orderly manner. Wang Meng brought the Xue family brothers to the Yamen backyard.

The county magistrate who looked at both ends had a very good personal relationship with Wang Meng, so a banquet was specially held in the yard to welcome them.

Wang Meng originally didn't want to procrastinate looking at both ends, so he ordered everyone to rest on the spot and continue northward after the counting of firearms was completed. Food, so the people responsible for counting in the county government will not be free for a while, and it is estimated that they will have to wait at least an hour longer than usual.

So Wang Meng no longer shirked, and ordered Bo Ling and the Xue family brothers to come to the county government to meet the appointment—but Bo Ling refused.

She said that she had heard the name of the two-headed watch a long time ago, and since she only had one hour to stay here, she had to hurry up and take a good look around the county.

Wang Meng didn't force it.

It's just that after entering the county government office, Wang Meng finally couldn't help looking at Xue Ziping, "How did you save people last night?"

"Well... they are just grooms. Although there are indeed a dozen of Arslan's personal guards among them, they are not dangerous." Xue Ziping replied, "Last night Wei Songqing first took us to deal with the few guards guarding the mountain pass. Sentinel, after rescuing more than [-] families on the mountain, he took them to the town together."

"To the town together? He took the people to the town?"

"Well," Xue Ziping nodded, "after we entered the town, gunfire soldiers fired guns from all sides, and the common people followed behind and beat gongs, shouting that the 'Chang Jiajun' had surrounded Shihou Town, and the gold thieves in the town Come out to accept the surrender, hand in your weapons and don’t kill them. The group of gold thieves didn’t dare to resist, so they sent people out to negotiate, and then handed in all their swords and horses, and then we came back.”

"That's it?" Wang Meng couldn't believe his ears.

(End of this chapter)