Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Chapter 7
On the eighth day of the first lunar month, the weather was fine again.

Outside the camp in Yangquchuan, an altar rose from the ground. Gao Huan and Erzhu Zhaodeng made an oath to become incense brothers.

"If he violates the covenant, He Liuqin is willing to be punished by the heavens, and his descendants will be cut off."

Gao Cheng, who was standing with his horse under the stage, could not help but twitch his mouth when he heard the two people swear loudly.

He turned to look at his cousin Duan Shao:
"Can this be said?"

The scene was a little awkward.

Immediately, he grinned again and said:

"Well, why don't you count it?"

Duan Shao didn't know how to answer, so he simply pretended not to hear.

After the new year, Duan Shao is already seventeen.

On this expedition, he begged his uncle Gao Huan to join the army.

Out of love, Gao Huan appointed Duan Shao as the trusted governor to lead his personal guards. One of the important tasks is to take good care of Gao Cheng.

After all, Gao Huan and his son deceived Lou Zhaojun.

Perhaps because of his full confidence in this battle, Gao Huan agreed to Gao Cheng's request to accompany him on the battlefield.

Going to the battlefield soon, Gao Cheng was a little nervous, otherwise he wouldn't have nothing to say.

He was stroking the horse's mane tirelessly, trying to divert his attention.

This is a three-year-old black Hequ horse, who has been with him for half a year and has a docile temperament.

"Going to go."

Duan Shao reminded softly.

Gao Cheng came to his senses, looked up and saw his father Gao Huan approaching.

"Nervous?"

"Fortunately."

"Follow me to experience more battles in the future, and I will get used to it."

Gao Cheng hummed.

"Send Dou Tai to leave."

With the order of the military, the army moved out one after another.

Dou Tai led the cavalry as the front army. Unlike the galloping horses in the TV series, the former army cavalry led the horses.

Unless horses are abundant and there are special circumstances, few armies will march on horses. If they really have to waste their horsepower on the way, how can they fight when they arrive at the battlefield.

Gao Huan is really short of horses.

Except for the mounts of the generals, messengers, and scouts, Gao Huan allocated all the horses of the entire army to the various units of the former army led by Dou Tai, and only managed to gather a thousand horses.

War horses are more expensive than human lives, otherwise Gao Huan would not take the risk of breaking up with the Er Zhu family in advance and snatch the three hundred war horses from Er Zhurong's widow.

Gao Huan personally led the central army to follow, and the rear army was led by Duan Rong.

Compared with the Jinzhou army going north, only the headquarters of Lou Zhaoling and the soldiers from the six towns taken in yesterday stayed at the Yangquchuan Camp.

Gao Huan did plan to choose to be a young man, but not now.

At least not under Er Zhuzhao's nose.

A good wife and a tauren are two different things.

Each of the three armies has inferior horses to transport armor and other supplies.

Just as horsepower cannot be spent on marching on horseback, the same is true for people.

Duan Shao led his personal guards to accompany Gao Huan and his son, and even Gao Huan walked as an example.

On the east bank of Fenshui, the two armies of Gao Huan and Er Zhuzhao marched hand in hand, heading south towards Leping County.

Leping County is located in the east of Jinyang, adjacent to each other. Although Gao Huan and Er Zhuzhao's allied forces marched slowly, they finally entered the border of Leping before dark, and each set up their camps.

Er Zhuzhao was not short of horses, but considering the speed of Gao Huan's army, he could only move slowly.

You can't let your army rush to Leping to consume the thieves first, and then let Gao Huan calmly harvest it.

As for asking him to spare some horses, that would be worse than Er Zhuzhao's life.

For Er Zhuzhao, the most important thing is to defeat the Hexi thieves. It doesn't matter whether Leping County will be captured by the thieves.

It would be even better if the Hexi thieves ran away after hearing the news, and won a battle without bloodshed.

After all, in this era, sending gifts and deportation are often synonymous.

Gao Huan was very careful and scattered the scouts for twenty miles.

The scout team led by Xue Hu'er was one of them.

This detection area may encounter enemy scouts at any time, which is considered a dangerous area.

"Keep your eyes open. When you encounter thieves and scouts, you will silence if there are few people, and leave if there are too many people. Only one can get away."

In the dense forest, Xue Hu'er warned carefully.

"Understood, Head Xue."

"It's not the first day on the battlefield, Xuetou don't want to babble."

Xue Hu'er didn't say much anymore, just confessed that when the time came, he would go back to this forest to meet up, and immediately arranged two groups, a total of five groups dispersed with each leading a horse.

Accompanying Xue Hu'er was Fa Xiao Zhang Mo from Huaishuo Town.

Not far away, Xue Hu'er suddenly said:
"Tell me, what's the matter?"

"What is it?"

"Since you came out of Jinzhou, you have been absent-minded. You have been hesitant to speak when you saw me several times. Now that there are no other people, you can just say what you have to say."

"Well... that's right, that's right."

Zhang Mo faltered, blushing and said:

"Xue Tou, look, your little sister is getting old, and I am not too young, that is, can you see..."

"Stinky boy, I knew you missed my sister since you were a child."

Xue Hu'er laughed and scolded:

"It's useless for you to ask me about it. You can ask my sister when you go back."

"I've asked. She said that her parents are not here, and the eldest brother is the father. Let me ask you."

Xue Hu'er didn't understand that this kid must have fallen in love with his little sister without saying a word. He stared at Zhang Mo fiercely:

"When did you do it?"

"What to do? Ah! No, really no..."

"Okay, cheer up, you've really been plotted against, and there's no life left to talk about marriage."

As soon as Xue Hu'er said the word marriage, Zhang Mo knew that he had agreed to the marriage, and responded with a smile:
"okay!"

Along the way, Zhang Mo was full of energy, a little too excited.

The two checked carefully, but they didn't encounter any enemy sentry cavalry.

Estimated that the time was almost up, so they rode back, one of them went into the forest to meet, and the other waited outside.

The meeting is to check if there are any missing persons, and traffic information.

Leaving one person outside can not only keep watch, but also ensure that even if someone is captured and the location of the meeting is leaked, they will not be caught.

Xue Hu'er only saw three people in the forest, and one group did not come back.

"Wait for a quarter of an hour, if you don't come back, let's go right away."

Xue Hu'er squatted down and asked the other three people:
"Have you met any thieves?"

All three shook their heads.

At this moment, the sound of horseshoes came from outside.

"Xue Tou, I found out that the thief has sent a whistle."

A group of people exploring the southwest direction finally returned.

"How many people? Where are they?"

As Xue Hu'er asked, he checked whether the visitor had any new injuries.

"Only six, five miles to the southwest."

"Not found?"

"No."

After confirming that the other party had no new injuries, Xue Hu'er heaved a sigh of relief, and he ordered the other five people who were on guard outside the forest to be called back.

"How about it, do you do it?"

Xue Hu'er asked in a deep voice.

"Do it! There are only six people on the other side, what are you afraid of?"

Someone clamored for a hand.

"How many horses do they have?"

Some people also want to know the number of horses on the other side.

"Six people and six horses."

The messenger was very sure.

"Tou Xue, let's do it."

Everyone asked for a fight.

"Okay! Zhang Mo, go back and report to the military master that there are sentry cavalry in the southwest."

Xue Hu'er gave Zhang Mo an order, then turned to the messenger and said:
"You lead the way, we will start at once, before the six horses slip away."

Everyone laughed.

(End of this chapter)