golden scales

The horseshoes stepped across the dry official road, raising dust as high as a person.

Three knights and nine horses galloped along the official road in a zigzag shape.

The man at the head was wearing iron armor and was flying a flag inlaid with a red flag.The two behind are also in full armor, but they are holding green flags.

In the land of Jin, where the army gathered, there were coats and civilian husbands who transferred food and supplies everywhere.They didn't have the slightest doubt about this team that was obviously dressed as a Tangma. They only heard the sound of horseshoes and the fluttering of the flag, so they turned sideways and let them go first.

"I'll just say this trick will work." Zuo Shouyi lowered his horse's head, let the three riders stand side by side, and said to the two around him.

Neither of them paid attention to him, which made him rather bored.

Zuo Shouyi laughed at himself, and pointed to the post flag in front of him: "Fan Zhuang is ahead, let's eat enough, and no one can catch up to us after passing Yu'erkou."

The two still remained stern and did not speak, but they did not object to Zuo Shouyi's opinion.

Zuo Shouyi whipped his horse forward and ran straight to the gate of the post station before reining in the horse. He jumped and landed steadily, showing his superb riding skills.Yi Cheng had been waiting at the door a long time ago, he looked like a Han man who hadn't shaved his hair yet, and now he just looked at this tartar with a numb face.

Zuo Shouyi strode into the post station, and with just a glance, he had already caught everyone in his eyes, and secretly heaved a sigh of relief: there is no Manchuria Zhenyi.

Now there should be only about [-] Xianghongqi Zhenyi in Shanxi. If they want to be stationed in Datong and Taiyuan, it is definitely impossible to meet a few casually, otherwise it would be too bad luck.

Zuo Shouyi stood still and shouted magnificently in Mongolian.

Everyone looked up at him, not knowing what he was shouting.

Shi Xinsheng and Li Ersan also followed behind, and said loudly: "The uncle said, bring the wine and meat!"

Zuo Shouyi sat down on the table in the middle with a big horse, and took off the helmet on his head, revealing a small braid, and everyone was cleared of their doubts - it turned out that this was a Mongolian Tartar.

Zuo Guangxian served as the commander-in-chief of Guyuan, and Zuo Shouyi also learned some Mongolian there.After the Northern Yuan Dynasty collapsed and fled outside the Great Wall, the various tribes of Mongolia still lived a nomadic life in the form of tribes, and their accents were very different. Even if the pronunciation was incorrect, it would not be exposed immediately.What's more, there are no real Mongols here.

The reason for not pretending to be full of Zhou Zhenyi is that one is the language barrier, and the other is that shaving hair is really unbearable.Fortunately, the Eight Banners of Manchuria are not only Manchurians, there are also Mongols who defected earlier, so pretending to be Mongols has become the only choice.

Yicheng quickly brought the wine and mutton, and put them in front of Zuo Shouyi.This made the other Han soldiers present quite envious, but they all knew that the Mongols were half masters now, and they could only swallow their saliva while looking at the half-cooked bloody mutton.

Zuo Guang first let out a strange laugh, and inserted his ten fingers into the mutton, bringing out the oily and bloody gravy, tearing it up and down, just like a real Mongolian Tartar.

The inn quickly returned to its previous state, and there were voices of conversation all around again.

"I heard that Li Huping is going to set up a garrison and recruit [-] civilians to go there."

"The army has already passed, and there is a grain platform there."

"Li Huping heard that Manchurian soldiers will be transferred to guard it personally, but they will definitely not go to Yu'erkou."

"That's right, we Han soldiers always do things to die..."

Zuo Shouyi listened to the military plane leaked out of these complaints, but he didn't relax his mouth at all.He quickly gnawed away the meat on the bone, smashed open the bone with the handle of the knife, ate the bone marrow, wiped his mouth with his oily hand, and greeted Shi Xinsheng and Li Ersan to leave quickly.

Yicheng followed them all the time, wanting to ask for a certificate, but looking at the ferocious Mongolian Tartar, his mouth seemed to be glued together, and he didn't dare to speak in the end.

The three of them rode for two miles, and Zuo Shouyi finally said, "There is a mountain road to the north of Fanzhuang, which can bypass Yu'erkou, but horses can't. If you go through Yu'erkou, the road is easy, but you may be arrested." And we don't have a good excuse to get in."

Shi Xinsheng still pursed his lips tightly, not saying a word.

Zuo Shouyi sighed helplessly, and said, "Go, take the path." He knew that these two people might ignore him for a long time, but they didn't have the ability to go back by themselves, so they could only listen to him.

Who would have thought that Zuo Shouyi had just turned his horse's head when he heard Shi Xinsheng yell, "Drive!"

The whip cracked in the air, and the good Mongolian horse under Shi Xinsheng's crotch moved suddenly and ran towards the road.

Zuo Shouyi reined in his horse, looked suspiciously at Shi Xinsheng who had gone away from Juechen, and said in a voiceless voice: "Is that rammed guy going to die!"

That road leads to Yu'erkou.

Li Ersan's tangled eyes swung between Shi Xinsheng's receding back and Zuo Shouyi, and finally he gritted his teeth and rode his horse to chase Shi Xinsheng.He didn't know if he was going to die by doing this, but between Shi Xinsheng and Zuo Shouyi, he trusted Shi Xinsheng more.

——I'm not a softie!I am not afraid of death!

Li Ersan thought in his heart, and twitched his whip faster.

When Shi Xinsheng heard a horse chasing him from behind, he leaned on the horse's back and looked back, seeing that it was Li Ersan, he was not at all excited.He shouted: "Go back and report the news quickly! Don't send me to your death!"

"That man will go back," Li Ersan followed Ma Lang up and down, "Since he doesn't believe me, I don't believe him either!"

Shi Xinsheng was silent.

Any fool knows the dangerous difference between killing a Tartar and stealing a horse.Zuo Shouyi didn't tell Li Ersan the real battle plan because he was afraid that he would run away before the battle, so that there was no one outside to support him.As a result, Li Ersan believed it was true and waited for most of the night, but was called in and said that the people had been killed, and he never thought of stealing the horse in the first place... Even a fool would know the reason.

If Zuo Shouyi called him a softie before, it was just a verbal humiliation, then he would have stripped him naked and hung him from a tree for public display.

Knowing Li Ersan's embarrassment and anger, Shi Xinsheng slowed down and said, "I'm going to Li Huping to burn the Tartar granary. You go to Yu County on the mountain road and hand over my military token."

"I'll go with you!" Li Ersan said firmly, "I'm not a softie!" As he spoke, his nose felt slightly sore, but his whole body was burning hot.

"Good brother!" Shi Xinsheng said no more.

——There is a reason that need not be said,

— To be a soldier is to go to the battlefield,

——If it is a tiger, it should walk in the mountains,

——If you are a dragon, you should overturn the world

Shi Xinsheng's heart echoed the song often sung in the army, and ran forward without hesitation.

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Zuo Shouyi was almost about to find the path back over the mountain, but his heart seemed to be tied by a hemp rope, as if he could see the heads of Shi Xinsheng and Li Ersan being planted high in the camp by the tartars On the sharp wood.

"Tamp the goods!"

Zuo Shouyi cursed, and with his horse's belly clamped, he chased after Shi Xinsheng and Li Ersan.

His riding skills were honed from fighting the Mongols. When he was in Guyuan, those who couldn't ride well probably died under the bows and arrows of the Mongols.Those who are not good at archery are unlikely to be selected as the personal soldiers of the commander-in-chief and become members of the Zuo family.

As the saying goes, people with high skills are bold. Although Zuo Shouyi doesn't have bows in his hands, as long as he has a knife in his hand, it may not be impossible to kill a bloody path.

Zuo Shouyi quickly caught up with Shi Xinsheng and Li Ersan with his superb riding skills, but at this moment he had already caught up with Li Huping's gate.

The soldiers guarding the gate had already straightened their spears, pulled on their horses, and shouted loudly for Shi Xinsheng and Li Ersan to stop.

Zuo Shouyi's flying horse passed between Shi Xinsheng and Li Ersan, and they almost stood up on their horses in shock.

"Get out of the way! Open the door!" Zuo Shouyi shouted in Mongolian.

The soldiers guarding the gate were still Han soldiers, and they couldn't tell the difference between Mongolian and Manchu.But now everyone knows that the Manchus are the boss and the Mongols are the second, as long as they speak the Tazi language, they have to listen.It is said that Manchurian Bannermen killed Han people and only paid for a donkey.If he was in the army, his death would be in vain.

"Urgent military situation! Where is Mr. Qian!" Zuo Shouyi deliberately changed his tone and shouted in Chinese.

It took only 26 years for Jiannu to deviate from the Ming dynasty.Anyone with a little knowledge knows that Manchurian, Mongolian and Chinese are trilingual in Liaodong, of which Mongolian has a great influence on Manchurian, and Liaodong military dialect is commonly used among Manchurian nobles.Only Yu Ding, a commoner who doesn't even have a coat of Aha, can possibly know no Chinese at all.

If Zuo Shouyi pretended not to speak Chinese at all, it would be a mistake.

Seeing Lord Tartar, two guards hurriedly opened the gate of the camp and invited the three of them in. (To be continued.)