The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 113 The Order of the Scout

The setting sun is setting in the west, and the afterglow is golden.

On the grassy avenue among the mountains, more than a dozen fast horses galloped past, and then suddenly stood in front of a dead tree.

"You, go west!"

"You, Northwest!"

"You, Southeast!"

"..."

The leading soldier had four flags obliquely planted on his back, and ordered to play, throwing one of the flags heavily on the ground, "Go back fifty miles, gather here in half an hour!"

Then, more than ten riders scattered and ran away.

This is the scout of the Southern Song Army's stroke.

When the army moves forward, the scouts go dozens of miles to investigate the situation first, which is an indispensable link in ancient wars.

For scouts like this, the Southern Song Army often dispatched more than ten waves at the same time.

When a large army is to be stationed, it must not be too far away from the enemy, or there is a danger of being attacked.

Time passed slowly, and the half-person-high black flag stood on the grass, fluttering by itself.

After counting for 10 minutes, soldiers came back on horseback one after another, their faces covered with dust.

But the scout commander did not come back for a long time.

As the time limit of half an hour approached, all the scouts showed a little anxiety on their faces.

"Will the captain meet Yuan Jun?"

"It's not time yet, don't talk nonsense!"

"That's right, the soldier commander has great fortune and fate, and he is an old soldier, how could something happen?"

However, as time passed, the expressions of anxiety and worry on the faces of the soldiers gradually became more intense.

"The hour has come!"

"Why hasn't he come back, Captain!"

"What shall we do?"

"Want to wait any longer?"

"No, the military order is like a mountain, I will go back to the camp first!"

"go!"

A group of soldiers looked at the direction where the ten commander left, their eyes were full of expectations, but they were helpless.

A soldier took the lead in pulling his horse, and galloped towards the army behind.

Scouts are extremely dangerous. He has been in the army for several years, and he has seen many brothers leave and never return.

When the rest of the soldiers saw him pulling their horses, they all turned around and followed.

Only one soldier remained where he was, still looking at the end of the road.That ten husband is his elder brother.

After another few minutes, the end of the avenue was always empty.Tears flowed from his eyes, ran down his cheeks, mixed with dust, and became extremely cloudy before landing.

There are four brothers in his family, three of them joined the army, he was the third, the second died in the battle of Qiongzhou, and the fourth stayed at home to serve his parents. Now, it seems that the eldest brother will never come back.

He got off his horse, slowly pulled up the black flag on the ground, gritted his teeth, got on his horse again, and prepared to leave.

This is the sadness of being born in troubled times, he has no choice, even if he wants to clean up his elder brother's body, it is impossible.

Just at this moment, yellow dust suddenly filled the air at the end of the avenue.

He looked intently and saw a fast horse galloping towards him.

"Big brother!"

He shouted excitedly.

However, at the end of the avenue at this time, there are countless yellow dust flying, and dozens of horses roaring towards them.

Looking at their flags, it is clearly the Yuan army.

The head of the ten men rode ahead tens of meters and shouted to his younger brother, "Run!"

The soldiers stood still.

The ten commander shouted again: "Run! Report to the general that there are ambushes thirty miles ahead! The number is unknown!"

As soon as the words fell, he fell off the horse.

On his back, there were actually two shining arrows, and the arrow feathers were still trembling.

"Big brother!"

The soldiers shouted.

The Ten Commander was still alive, he raised his head and waved his hands: "Go quickly..."

Yuan Jun caught up, and several spears pierced him through in an instant.

"Big brother!"

The soldier let out another scream, hurriedly turned the horse, and turned around and galloped.

The scenery in front of me seemed a little blurry.

This is tears wet eyes.

His elder brother died in front of his eyes, which made him more distressed than his elder brother not coming back.If brother doesn't come back, at least he still has some hope in his heart.

"drive!"

"drive!"

The Yuan army behind was still galloping after him, unwilling to let him go.

The soldiers only felt that those spears seemed to be on their backs, and they kept lashing their horses with whips, letting their tears flow.

He must go back and report to the commander-in-chief that the eldest brother has discovered the enemy's situation.

The two streaks of yellow dust disappeared in an instant.

The sun sank lower and lower, as if hanging on the peak of the short mountain in the distance.

The soldiers looked at it, and suddenly remembered that the sesame seed cakes made by their mothers were also golden and delicious.

When he was young, his two elder brothers always fought with him, but now, no one in the family fights with his younger brother, right?

It wasn't until the sunset that there was only a trace of afterglow, and finally a black army appeared in front of him.This army is like dark clouds in the sky.

Tens of meters away, the soldiers of the Yuan army stopped one after another, only took a look, then hurriedly turned around and galloped away.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"

The soldiers rushed straight into the formation of the army, holding black flags and shouting continuously.

There were several marks on his face, as if earthworms had crawled over them, where tears flowed and dust was wiped away.

Arriving at the formation of the imperial guards in front of the hall, the soldiers rushed up to the centurion and rolled down to the ground, "Soldier, there is an ambush from the Yuan army forty miles to the north, and the number is unknown."

Seeing that he was covered in dust, the centurion pulled him up from the ground, "Where's your brother?"

The soldier gritted his teeth and said, "Brother was killed by the Yuan army."

The centurion was stunned, "You two brothers, you have been with me for more than three years..."

As he said that, he patted the soldier on the shoulder, "Go and rest first, on the battlefield, I will ask my brothers to kill a few more Yuan troops to avenge your brother."

The soldier nodded and led the horse away.

Running back to the army from the wilderness forty miles away, his tears have already dried up.

"The old brother back then, now there are only you and me left..."

The centurion watched his leaving back, sighed in a voice that only he could hear clearly, then got on his horse and ran towards the front of the army formation.

In front of Su Quandang at the very front, he got off his horse and said: "General, there are Yuan army ambushing forty miles to the north, and the number is unknown."

"Ah."

Su Quandang nodded lightly, and gave some instructions to the guards next to him, and the guards galloped towards the guard formation of the Chinese army.

In such a short period of time, several waves of messengers ran to Zhao Dongting's chariot.

They told the flying dragon soldiers outside the chariot of the information they found, and the flying dragon soldiers ran to the chariot to report inside.

As for the ten commander who died in battle, his death was not even heard by the commander of the thousand.It will only be reported by the centurion to the soldiers in charge of the roster, and then the soldiers will cross out his name on it.

In the chariot, Zhao Dongting sat in the middle, Qin Han sat on the right, and Le Wuwei sat on Zhao Dongting's left with a sword, about two steps away.

Zhao Dongting heard the report from outside, looked at Qin Han, and said, "Three waves of spies have found ambushes in the canyon ahead."

It was already the tenth day since they left Haikang County.

Now the army has arrived in Tengzhou.

In Guangxi today, the military horses of the Southern Song and Yuan armies are intertwined with each other, and it is difficult to know each other's movements.

Qin Han said: "The front is the necessary place leading to Ruizhou. Presumably Ali Haiya has already heard the news that we led the army to come."

Zhao Dongting said: "Then set up camp here, the army will kill them tomorrow, break their ambush."

Now there are 34 grenadiers in the army, Zhao Dongting is not afraid of ambushes, he just uses grenadiers or arrow arrays to open the way.

"it is good."

Qin Han nodded indifferently.

He was still wearing sackcloth, and even sitting in the chariot, he was always holding a military book in his hand.

Seeing him nodding his head, Zhao Dongting shouted out, "Head the order, and the army camps on the spot!"

There was an answer from outside.

Soon, the flags of the tall female carriages were waved, and the flag of the Commander-in-Chief of the Three Armies was also waved, and the army spread out in all directions.

All the soldiers set up camp, and those who cooked the rice cooked, and they got busy.

Zhao Dongting sat in the chariot, lowered his head, and continued to ponder over the military book in his hand.

Walking with Qin Han these days, asking Qin Han about some things he didn't understand really helped him improve a lot.

It turns out that marching and fighting is not just a simple fight between the two armies.

Even, marching and fighting in ancient times was much more cumbersome than modern times.Take this spying information as an example, I don't know how many times it will be troublesome.

The fragrance of rice gradually spread in a radius of more than ten miles.

Zhao Da and Zhao Hu brought food into the chariot, but it was nothing more than simple white rice and vegetables.

Zhao Dongting told them when he set off that he would eat and live with the soldiers to set an example.

In fact, the food in the army of the Southern Song Dynasty is already top-notch in this era, and even many families can't even eat enough.

White rice is just vegetables, which is considered a rare meal in troubled times, and even more luxurious in the army.

That is to say, Zhao Dongting invented the grain transport truck, and there was enough food and grass to have the confidence to use this kind of food. It was the Yuan army, which occupied most of the Yanhuang land.

In ancient times, when marching and fighting, logistical supplies were really difficult.

After a while, the sky suddenly became dark, and people couldn't figure out when it was dark.

Bonfires were lit all around the barracks.

On the hills and grasslands in the distance, some soldiers lay quietly on their stomachs, with only their heads sticking out.

(End of this chapter)