Horse on the World

Chapter 78

Nuo Qi'a only brought dozens of personal guards, and flew back to Shanglin. On the way, he encountered an army going to Fuyuan to support him. He stopped 2000 people and ran all the way. It was the middle of the night, and the upper forest was brightly lit and peaceful, so he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing Nuoqia rushing back in person, a centurion staying behind was taken aback, quickly opened the gate, let Nuoqia in, jumped off the horse, and Nuoqia hurriedly asked: "How is it? Ri, is everything okay?"

The centurion named Terry smiled proudly, "General, don't worry, Shanglinli is far away from Dingzhou, and it is very safe. I have [-] elite men to maintain the safety here."

"Are the slaves here still calm?" Nuoqia was very worried about the thousands of slaves here in the upper forest. If they knew that the army had gone, there would be some commotion.

"These slaves are very obedient." Terry proudly said: "As soon as the army left, I immediately dispatched 100 people to guard the slave camp. With 2000 people coming back, I can sit back and relax.”

Nuoqia nodded in satisfaction, turned back and ordered his generals to release scouts, but he himself decided to take a good rest. In the past few days, people have not disarmed, horses have not unloaded their saddles, and today they ran non-stop all the way back to the upper forest , really exhausted.

"You've done a good job, but the defense in the upper forest needs to be strengthened, and the patrols should be doubled to be prepared for accidents." Nuoqia said while giving the horsewhip in his hand to the guard.

"Yes, General!" Terry bowed respectfully.

At this time, the seemingly peaceful Shanglinli slave camp was secretly surging, and several men were sneaking into the slave camps one by one.

"Brother Hu, why did you come to our place? Be careful if you get caught, your head will be beheaded, and the lightest one will be whipped." A young slave saw that Hu Dong touched his small group of slaves Zhonglai was immediately taken aback.

It wasn’t long before Hu Dong came to Shanglinli. He himself was Chang Sheng or a member of the Operations Department of the Survey and Statistics Department. It was discovered that the slaves in Shanglinli have always been calm and obedient, which made the managers here very slack. They didn't even do the most basic counting of the roster. After Hu Dong and others came to the slave camp in Shanglinli, they began to secretly Contacting around, a group of people gathered together.

"Brother Xie, do you know? General Li defeated Manzi in Fuying, even the two sons of Manzi Zuo Xiaowang were killed by General Li!" Hu Si said excitedly.

"Really?" Xie Ke also had a surprised expression on his face, "Brother Hu, is it true? How do you know?" Xie Ke was originally from Dingzhou, and his family had a small farm, which was much better than ordinary people. He could afford to study, and was going to take the exam, but he didn't expect that the barbarian army invaded and captured him, and killed everyone in his family. The hatred for the barbarian was deep in his bones.After several years of slave life, a white-faced scholar has changed greatly, with thick calluses on his hands and a weathered look on his face.

Hu Dong carefully looked around, lowered his voice, and said, "To tell you the truth, brother, I sneaked in voluntarily."

Xie Ke was taken aback, there were still people who voluntarily came here to be slaves, but what Hu Dong said next made him feel relieved.

"I am a member of General Li. Long before the battle in Fuyuan, General Li wanted to deal with the barbarians here. I have received news that a large group of people will soon attack Shanglinli." Hu Dong observed nervously Looking at Xie Ke, if Xie Ke's expression is slightly wrong, he will explode and kill him.

The surprise on Xie Ke's face lasted only for a moment, and then he showed extreme joy, "Brother Hu, are you really from the Dingzhou Army?"

Hu Dong chuckled, "I'm from Changsheng Camp, how about it, do you dare to do it with me?"

"What are you doing?" Xie Ke asked.

"When the army attacks Shanglinli, we will make a fuss from inside to meet the army and enter Shanglinli." Hu Dong said.

"Do it, why don't you do it? I've been waiting for this day for a long time. The barbarians who killed me these days killed my whole family. I swear not to stand under the blue sky with them." Xie Ke gritted his teeth and said.

"Okay, but brother, if you think about it, it will take your life, if you don't do it well, you will die."

"What's the big deal about death? What's the difference between living like this and dying?" Xie Ke clenched his fists and said bitterly, "As long as I can kill the barbarian, I'm willing to do anything."

Hu Dong smiled with satisfaction: "Okay, Brother Xie, you go to contact some people, you must be absolutely reliable, listen to the signal when the time comes, and if you see chaos on my side, your side will start at the same time."

Xie Ke nodded vigorously.

Hu Dong patted him on the shoulder, turned around and sneaked towards the next target.There are thousands of people in the slave camp, and more than a hundred soldiers can't take care of them at all. They can only stand on the high watchtower to guard. For Hu Dong and others who have received professional training, it is a piece of cake.

At this time, on the grassland, the Dingzhou cavalry army who passed through Jiming Ze was rushing towards the upper forest.

"General Lu, our troops have already moved forward to clear the enemy's sentries, and we are expanding the search area, trying to let Shanglinli know about our army's surprise attack at the last moment." Guo Shanfeng rode his horse and walked beside Lu Dalin.

Looking at Guo Shanfeng's majestic figure, Lu Dalin couldn't help but secretly praised him, what a big man, seeing Guo Shanfeng's skillful deployment of military forces, he couldn't help being curious, "Lieutenant Guo served there before, there is no reason for a hero like you I do not know?"

Guo Shanfeng smiled embarrassingly, "To tell you the truth, I was a bandit in Chong County before, and was captured by General Li. General Li was generous and did not hold me accountable for my past crimes. A surprise attack on Gu An made meritorious service, and he was promoted to Captain Yingyang."

Lu Dalin couldn't help laughing, Dingzhou is a military state, and it has always focused on suppressing bandits, and rarely recruited them. Li Qing uses talents eclecticly, and a guy like Guo Shanfeng is really a mighty fighter.

"General Li treats you well?" Shen Mingchen asked.

"That's it!" Guo Shanfeng said proudly, "General Li is not an ordinary person. Not only can he tolerate us former bandits, he even invited Mr. to teach us how to read, saying that we will become generals in the future. If we don't How can I know how to read? Guo Mou used to be illiterate, and couldn’t even write his own name well, but now it’s different, I can already write military newspapers by myself.”

Lu Dalin and Shen Mingchen glanced at each other, Li Qing really had a lot of ambition, teaching the generals to read, not to mention the Dingzhou Army, even the entire Great Chu Army, was a rare thing.

Looking at the expressions of the two, Guo Shanfeng thought that the two were worried that the attack on Shanglinli would not go well, so he said, "Don't worry, my lords, my general has already buried nails in Shanglinli. , the nails will be activated, instigating the thousands of slaves there to rebel, such a mile and a distance, with the two thousand soldiers and horses in the forest, what can be done, it is not easy to capture."

Lu Dalin was surprised and said, "General Li already made arrangements in Shanglin?"

"Yeah!" Guo Shanfeng nodded, "The infiltration into Shanglinli has started since the preparation of this plan, so this time it's going to be safe, the two adults can rest assured."

Seeing Li Qingchao's arrangement, Lu Dalin was more relieved, only Shen Mingchen was full of worries, and Li Qing was so far-sighted, so I don't know if he had any countermeasures for Xiao Dashuai's subsequent arrangement?
In the early morning, Nuoqia, who had a good night's sleep, got up and had nothing to do all night. He also laughed at himself thinking that he was a little nervous. For so many years, no Chu army had dared to go deep into the grassland to attack. With a face, he ordered the guards to prepare breakfast. He hadn't had a good meal these days, and today he could have a delicious meal of hand-caught mutton.

"Get the scouts I sent out yesterday, I have something to tell them." He said to the guard.

The mutton was quickly brought up with his hands, and he poured a glass of wine. Just as he was about to feast on it, the personal guard ran in in a panic, "General, none of the scouts sent out yesterday have returned."

With a bang, the wine glass in Nuo Qi'a's hand fell on the table. He sent out dozens of scouts yesterday, but none of them came back?problem occurs!Nuoqia stood up abruptly. If three or five did not come back, there may be a reason for the incident, but if dozens of them did not come back, it can only explain one thing. What I fear most and what I am most worried about happened. the enemy.

"General, general!" Another personal guard rushed in in a panic.

"What happened, did you find the enemy?" Nuoqia calmed down when the matter came to an end.

"Enemy?" The guard gave Nuoqia a strange look and shook his head, "It's not the enemy, General, it's Princess Nauf. She brought more than a hundred guards with her, and she has entered the upper forest now. .”

"What?" Nuoqia only felt his scalp tingling. Now that the enemy has appeared on the grassland, the purpose must be to go to the forest. Why is Princess Nefu running here at this time? Isn't this just adding to the chaos.

"Why did the princess come here, go, let the princess go back quickly." Nuoqia was furious.

"Nuo Qia, you are so bold, dare to say that about me." A small horsewhip inlaid with gold and jade was stretched out, and it was pulled into the curtain, followed by a face that seemed angry and angry appeared in Nuo Qi. In front of Ah, deerskin boots stepped on the carpet, staring at Nuoqia provocatively.

"See you princess!" Nuoqia smiled wryly and knelt down. It was really rainy in the house, and windy while sailing. At this critical moment, how could this aunt come and let me survive?
(End of this chapter)