Tang Ge

Chapter 96 The Battle of the Rat Valley (1)
Xiaohe was shocked, the uneasiness in his heart just now became more and more serious. If there was a civil uprising at this juncture, if they really took away all the food and grass of the three armies, the consequences would be unimaginable.The terrible thing is that Li Yuan is still in Baibi now, if there is something wrong with him, oh my God!Xiaohe hardly dared to imagine what the result would be.

"But..." Xiaohe turned his head to look at the team, "But now in Jiexiu, the Gaobiling area is raging with war and the road is blocked, how can we get to Baibi?"

The leader hurriedly said: "There is a trail in Queshu Valley that can cross Jiexiu. Gaobiling leads directly from Haozhou to Luzhou, then we follow the water route from Fenshui to Jiangzhou, and then go straight to Baibi on horseback. This can save two days of travel. , we will be able to reach Bobi at this time tomorrow."

Cheng Qutong nodded, "There is a small road in the Queshu Valley, which was blocked by heavy snow a while ago. The weather has been warm these days, so it is probably cleared. Emergency rescue is like fighting a fire. You should eat something and get ready to go on the road. I will prepare horse food and grass for you, and I will bring you [-] more people. The military situation in Haozhou is urgent, and it is really difficult to tell them apart. Fortunately, it is relatively safe for you to walk along the path. Xiao Deng, go and get the girl's Changqiu. Come on, it's still cold at night."

"If you want to go, let's go now. It's not easy to go when the road is dark at night. We have brought dry food to eat on the road." The envoy suddenly said: "The fewer people, the better. Our goal is small, and the action is more convenient. What do you think? Sample?"

Xiaohe rubbed his belly that had been drinking a bowl of porridge since morning, and answered bravely, "I'll just listen to you."

Xiaohe and Wei Liang, who claimed to be the chief historian next to Li Yuan, were galloping along the small road in the Queshu Valley, with master guards at the front and rear, and the group rode their horses and whips, and galloped towards the north at lightning speed.

At this time, their people and horses were far away from Haozhou, and they were completely in the barren mountains, but the mountains on both sides did not have the beauty of the fragrant grass and the singing of birds and flowers in the early spring of Hedong.On the contrary, there are strange and abrupt rocks everywhere, full of a sense of chill and desolation in the dark night.Everyone looked serious, like bowstrings stretched to the brim, making people breathless.

The cold wind blew past Xiaohe's ears, her face and limbs were almost frozen and stiff, the wide cloak fluttered up and down behind her, and the galloping horse's hooves stirred up the yellow sand all over the ground .They had been running for almost a day without resting for a moment, and they didn't even drink a drop of water.The sun gradually went down, and the sky became darker and darker. Xiaohe's hands were red and swollen from the cold, and he could barely move except for holding the horse's rein.Her eyes were hazy, and she could hardly see clearly. She just mechanically manipulated the horse and galloped away behind everyone.

"Stop!" Wei Liang suddenly reined in the horse, and the group of people stopped. Only Xiaohe, with his ears pierced by the wind and his face covered in smoke and dust, didn't realize it for a while, and rushed out of several stalls before stopping. .

"Girl, let's rest here for a while and have something to eat."

Xiaohe nodded her stiff neck, and wanted to jump off the horse, but she stayed on the horse for a long time, and her body was already frozen. With a little force, she fell headfirst.

"Haha!" There was loud laughter all around, and the guards who followed Xiaohe rushed up from the side to help Xiaohe up from the ground, and the rest all turned their heads and glared at the laughing soldiers.

"Girl," a guard bent down to shake off the yellow sand stained on Xiao He's body, and said, "Are you alright?"

Xiaohe shook her head, looked around with cold eyes, and glanced coldly at the laughing soldiers, and then heard those people stop making a sound as if swallowing a fly.Wei Liang coughed lightly, jumped off the horse and walked over, reaching out to help Xiaohe.Xiaohe quietly dodged to the side, and went to find a stone by herself. The guard beside him hurriedly stepped forward to take off his cloak and spread it for her. The legs are stretched back and forth.

"Girls are seen as well as they are, and they are just a bunch of old men who have never seen anything in the world."

Xiaohe smiled, but didn't say anything, a gust of wind was blowing from the south, Xiaohe looked up, and saw that the place where they stopped was a mountain road that must pass through the Queshu Valley, surrounded by dense and dark rainforest. It's an ideal place for a sneak attack.

A strong uneasiness slowly rose from Xiaohe's heart.

People in Li Shimin's camp have always respected Xiaohe, how could this be so?

"I don't know that the general's subordinates belong to the king of Qin? Why do I look so strange?"

Wei Liang said with a smile: "We all came with the Holy One. We have only been in Hedong for two days, so it's no wonder the girl hasn't seen her before."

"Oh?" Xiaohe chuckled, "The general is really a hardworking man. He remembered the terrain here so clearly when he first arrived in Hedong, didn't he put in a lot of effort?"

When Wei Liang heard this, he looked a little embarrassed.

"The salary of eating the king, the thing of being loyal to the king, it should be."

Xiaohe smiled, but didn't answer any more, just took out a piece of dry food from his pocket, swallowed it with some water.

After a while, everyone finished their rest and stood up to go on their way again.Xiaohe gave a few words of advice to a leader of the guards beside her, and just as she was about to mount her horse, Wei Liang suddenly stepped forward, walked up to Xiaohe, and said with an apologetic smile: "Girl, don't be angry with us because of what happened just now, we all They are soldiers, and those who march and fight have never seen women all year round, they are all used to being dissolute, girls must not take it to heart."

Xiaohe smiled faintly after hearing what he said, but she couldn't help but panic in her heart, and she finally thought of something wrong.

It is impossible to take a woman with you when marching and fighting, and it is even more impossible for Li Shimin to take Yang Jier when he goes to fight Liu Wuzhou.If this is the case, then with Li Daozong's mind at this time, he will definitely use Yang Jier, who looks exactly like Xiaohe, to appease the rioters. Why do he have to go through many wars to bring himself from Haozhou to Baibi?There must be fraud in this!
Xiaohe was in a state of confusion for a moment, and the most frightening thing was that she didn't know the other party's background and details, and what purpose he had.For a while, even on such a cold spring night, she was still sweating coldly from shock.

"Is Miss Ji'er's illness still serious? If it's not serious, she can deal with this kind of civil disturbance, and the general doesn't have to work so hard and take so many risks to pick me up."

"This..." Wei Liang was obviously taken aback, but immediately smiled again: "Miss Ji'er's illness is still the same, otherwise there is no need to come to find the girl, it's getting late, let's hurry up and get on the road."

Xiaohe raised her eyebrows, and said with a smile: "Okay." She walked towards her horse, and just as soon as she moved, she suddenly frowned, turned her head and smiled at Wei Liang who was on the horse: "General Wei, my hands and feet are all dead. I'm frozen, can you help me? Can't I climb up?"

Wei Liang was taken aback for a moment, then jumped off the horse and walked over with a smile, laughing as he walked, "It's cold and windy, even a rough-skinned and thick-skinned old man like me panicked from the cold, no wonder the girl couldn't bear it."

(End of this chapter)