Travel to the Water Margin

Chapter 213

The terrain of Xixia is high and flat, with a vast territory consisting of undulating hills, plains, deserts and mountains.

The Gobi Desert is located in the southeast of Xixia. It is seriously short of water and has become a natural barrier between the Song Dynasty and Xixia.

In this vast desert area, the most precious things are grass and water, which are the basic conditions for survival, and both are indispensable.

Because having water and grass can solve the problem of raising livestock and form a life with ease of supply.

On this day, Lin Youde and Lin Chong led a group of soldiers to leave Hulao Pass and head towards the inland direction of Xixia.

According to the current time difference, the remnant Xixia soldiers who were defeated at Hulao Pass and fled in all directions will go back and wait for Xixia and Song Dynasty to receive the news. It will take at least a few days.

"General, there is a nomadic camp ahead, do you want to search it?"

Su Di pointed to the front which consisted of several tents and a group of small temporary shepherds and asked.

Lin Youde looked forward, then nodded and said, "That's right, Lao Su sent someone to ask politely."

"Yes, my lord."

Lin Youde led more than ten Xixia soldiers this time, and he was very cautious. After all, to mix among the Xixia people, there must be enough Xia treacherous people, right?

So people are looking for, but keep a low profile.

Su Di didn't refuse and led the people inside.

It was quiet in the camp, and there was no excitement when the herdsmen and Su Di met each other. Under Su Di's deliberate arrangement, every tent and hiding place was carefully inspected.

He couldn't hide it, so he just walked along the road until he reached the end of the village. Finally, they found a foreign object in a tent. Su Di immediately ran over and handed it to Lin Youde.

Lin Youde saw that this was Wu Song's headband.

Waving their hands, Su Di and Lin Chong immediately led the soldiers to disperse, search door to door, and drive out the herdsmen.

There are still a lot of people in this herdsman camp. Although it is close to the border, these people's ancestors have lived here for generations. They were born here, grew up here, and just want to die here, even though the place is very barren.

So when they were driven out, Lin Youde didn't see panic on their faces, but a blank expression.

These herdsmen are old and young, male and female, but without exception, they are skinny, with ragged clothes, some children have no clothes at all, and come out wrapped in old quilts.

Lin Youde frowned slightly, and said to Su Di who came forward: "They are all bitter herdsmen, just ask where Wu Song is going."

Su Di grinned and nodded, "Understood, the general doesn't need to worry."

Lin Youde glanced at the dull-looking herdsmen, saw a few young girls with yellow and hungry faces, and said, "Well, you are my soldiers, so you must understand my rules, and you must not burn, kill, or loot."

Su Di nodded and said: "Understood, we assure the general that we will never offend."

As soon as Su Di finished speaking, he heard a cry from there. It was a delicate and big girl: "Master Bing, please forgive us..."

Lin Youde raised his brows slightly, Su Di had just boasted to Haikou, and now hearing the news, he wondered if some soldier was going to bully the woman, so he couldn't help cursing, and hurried away with Lin Youde.

Lin Youde rushed there and saw a soldier dragging an older girl by the arm. The older girl kept pleading, "Soldier, I didn't lie to you. I really don't know him."

Lin Youde saw that the situation didn't look like a certain situation, and asked, "What's the matter?"

The soldier turned his head and saw that it was him, knelt down quickly, shook off the big girl with his arms, and said: "General, my subordinates were ordered to search and bring everyone out, but this man used the excuse that she was suffering from a strange disease and couldn't see her." , blindly obstructing, presumably there is something weird."

"Oh?" Lin Youde looked at the older girl. She seemed to be in her early twenties. Although her face was a little haggard, she could still tell that she was pretty.

Lin Youde asked: "Sister-in-law, what's wrong with you that you can't see the light?"

The eldest girl was so frightened that she crawled to the ground and threw herself at his feet. She cried and begged: "Master official, please do a good job and let this villain go. My family is extremely poor and both parents are dead. How can I What are you hiding, Song Bing? I don’t dare to deceive me. I have been suffering from a strange disease since I was a child. It looks normal, except that I can’t see the sun. As long as I am exposed to the sun, I will get blisters all over my body. If it doesn’t happen, my whole body will fester and I will die. Danger."

Can you say such nonsense?Su Di suddenly became furious: "Nonsense, people are still afraid of the sun? Is this a human or a ghost? Come on! Let me go in and search!"

The eldest girl trembled with fright when he yelled at her. As soon as several soldiers were about to rush in, Lin Youde stopped her with a wave of her hand.

Instead, he bent down to help the big girl up, and said: "The general is here to find a friend. According to your behavior, I guess he should be inside? What? Are you afraid that I will hurt him?"

The big girl was taken aback and didn't answer.

Su Di stepped forward and clasped his hands and asked tentatively: "General, can this subordinate go in and search?" After saying that, he kicked open the door and broke in.

However, in the next second, Su Di was kicked out with a wailing cry, and a figure rushed out, stepped on Su Di, glared at the crowd angrily, and was stunned in the next second.

That man was Wu Song.

"My lord?"

"You really made it easy for us to find." Lin Youde looked at Wu Song with a strange expression on his face.

"Hey hey hey."

"Have you been here these past few days?" Lin Youde followed into the tent and asked doubtfully as he watched the eldest girl hiding behind Wu Song.

This time, the eldest girl spoke: "He has always been here, he has never done anything bad..."

"Hmm." Lin Youde asked, "What's your name?"

"My name is Hang'er."

In an instant, the two already knew the ambiguous relationship between Wu Song and Gu'er.

Half an hour later, Lin Youde and his party left here, and Wu Song left Lin Youde's badge and stood beside the herdsmen to send Lin Youde off respectfully.

"My lord? Why didn't you bring Brother Wu with you?" Lin Chong drove his horse to Lin Youde's side.

"Isn't it good? Hulaoguan is alone with Monk Fanghua, and I'm a little worried. Now that I found Wu Song, I gave him my token. Wu Song naturally knows what to do." Lin Youde lay on the big horse with his head resting on his back. Hands smiled.

"Hey, Brother Wu made a lot of money this time." Lin Chong smiled knowingly.

"Hey"

"My lord, Zangdi City is ahead!"

When the sun was finally no longer so hot, Lin Youde led his team over a mountain range, and when he saw the city, Lin Youde was stunned, and the more than 100 soldiers he led were also stunned.

Under a majestic city in front of you, there are endless camps. In the camps, the army flags are like clouds, and the drums are like thunder. Countless soldiers wearing red tasseled caps are fighting and attacking the city around the city. The huge stones thrown by the stone machine bombarded the earth like a meteor shower.

"Woo~ang~"

The loud and unique sound of the horn sounded, and the pupils of Lin Youde and the others tightened, and they looked into the distance.

I saw a black mass of iron cavalry over there, already arranged in a neat formation. Thousands of war horses advanced slowly in neat steps, crushing towards the Xixia town in front of me like a mountain.

In the town, a group of Xixia soldiers rushed out, and a general patted Yao Pingzhong in front of him, raised his arms and roared, his ferocious black face showed a strong murderous intent, like an evil spirit killing god who chooses people to devour.

A loud roar continued to be heard.

"Chop off their heads and stab their chests!"

"kill!!"

"Blood battle to the end!"

"Attack!!"

All the Xixia soldiers followed suit, even though their voices were hoarse, they were still roaring at the top of their lungs.

This kind of hysterical roar might not help them kill the officers and soldiers, but it could give them courage. When thousands of people gathered together and shouted frantically, the frantic momentum was enough to make their blood burn.

The black-armored cavalry in the distance began to accelerate. Thousands of flying iron hooves struck the cold ground endlessly, making a continuous rumble. The spears in the hands of the front row cavalry pierced the sky, and the spears followed the horses. The undulations and contractions of the running are cold and frightening.

Zhong Shidao rode his horse like flying, and the iron cavalry behind him followed closely like a shadow.

The killing intent is blazing in the eyes of Zhong Shidao, he likes the taste of the battlefield, he likes the cold brilliance of the flickering weapons, he likes the chilling killing of the Song Dynasty's iron hooves smashing the land of Xixia, the Song Dynasty's iron cavalry, rule the world!All Xiao Xiao will be crushed into powder by Da Song's cavalry, no one can resist! .

"Come to me!!"

Zhong Shidao shouted up to the sky, and a thousand cavalry responded, and the cavalry charged like a tide, and with a strong inertia, they slammed into the Xixia soldiers camp who were waiting in full force.

In an instant, bright blood flowers bloomed, human bodies flew, war horses screamed, and the cold light of weapons continued to reflect. The dark red blood stained the land, and the life was not as good as a dog.

"kill!"

Yao Pingzhong slashed on the heavy spear with all his strength, and finally blocked the thrust of the galloping Xixia cavalry. Between the two horses, Yao Pingzhong's horse-chopping knife passed the Xixia cavalry's neck lightly, blood splattered, and the head flew up.

Suddenly a tearing pain came from his left shoulder. Yao Pingzhong immediately felt that the left half of his body was numb, and the unhealed wound burst open due to this hard blow.

"Dry!"

He killed the attacking Xixia cavalry with a backhand slash. Before Yao Pingzhong could take a breath, another Xixia cavalry came roaring towards Yao Pingzhong and went straight for Yao Pingzhong's throat.

"Chong!"

Yao Pingzhong's steel knife and the Xixia cavalry's spear smashed together again.

Yao Pingzhong's machete was thrown away, and Yao Pingzhong was knocked off his horse by the huge backlash. Anyway, this was Yao Pingzhong's first time riding a horse in his life. Under such a violent impact, he could no longer clamp the horse's belly with his legs. .

Yao Pingzhong fell off his horse in an instant, and another Xixia cavalry galloped over. The huge horse's hoofs had already slammed down on his face. Yao Pingzhong howled like a wolf and jumped forward with all his strength, barely avoiding this fatal step. The horse's hooves were only a short distance away from his body. If he had moved a little slower, he might have died.

The yellow dust rising in the distance covered the sky, and looking back in shock, I saw Zhong Shidao leading the hustling Great Song cavalry arriving.

"Haha, Ping Zhong, the old man is here~" Zhong Shidao laughed.

The Xixia iron cavalry who were beside Yao Pingzhong in an instant were divided into two parts by sharp spears and sharp horse-cutting knives, and some even fell to the ground and were crushed by iron hooves.

Countless Song soldiers fell to the ground, but more Xixia soldiers were howling.

The wind is blowing more and more urgently, and a setting sun tears the night.

Yao Pingzhong wiped the blood that overflowed from the corner of his mouth, took a deep breath, and shouted again: "Withdraw!!"

"Aw~~~" Thousands of Xixia soldiers howled wildly, slapping their chests with their weapons continuously, the killing intent in their eyes became more intense, the Great Song Army is not invincible!

Afterwards, Zhong Shidao and Yao Pingzhong fought a bloody path from the Xixia soldiers and withdrew from the battlefield, leading most of them out of the formation.

Amidst the sound of horns, the Song army began to retreat, when the cherry red disappeared on the horizon.

Yao Pingzhong, who was riding a big horse, couldn't hold on any longer, his legs gave way and he fell to the ground.

This time the siege, narrowly escaped death.

In the Song Dynasty army camp, the way of cultivating teachers is to use a knife pillar to ground, and their chests are constantly rolling. The morale of the Xixia soldiers is high, and the best time to attack Zangdi City has been missed.

Zhong Shidao looked gloomy, his thick eyebrows were already frowned, and his gaze towards Yao Pingzhong became more and more complicated.

Two days ago, the officials ordered Zhongshi Dao to command the Shaanxi and Hedong Seven Route Army soldiers to attack Zangdi City, stipulating that it must be conquered in ten days. However, they found that the enemy's defense was very strong, and they suffered heavy casualties in today's battle alone.

No one would have imagined that Zangdi City, which used to have less than 3 people, actually hid [-] Xixia soldiers. It was as if it had been arranged early in the morning. The defense was so strong that people couldn't stop talking.

The night was dark, and the lights in the Da Song barracks were brightly lit. Suddenly, a small soldier rushed into the big tent, disturbing Zhong Shidao and Yao Pingzhong's formation of troops.

"Hey! You bastard! How dare you break into the tent without reporting anything and seek death." Yao Pingzhong was furious and swung his sword to kill this blind soldier.

"Lord Yao! Forgive me! Important military situation!!" The soldier was so scared that he knelt down and begged for mercy.

"Slow down!" Zhong Shidao stopped Yao Pingzhong's long sword, looked at the soldier and frowned, and said, "What important military situation is there, tell me quickly!"

Xiaobing immediately knelt down and presented a golden token. Yao Pingzhong and Zhong Shidao immediately changed their faces when they saw it.

"Quickly! Go and greet!" Zhong Shidao was moved, and said excitedly: "I don't want the officials to care about us so much, go and greet!"

The two of them quickly walked out of the Da Song camp with their own soldiers, only to see Lin Youde, Lin Chong and Su Di wearing the armor of Xixia generals and packing their luggage.

"Who are they?" Zhong Shidao looked at Lin Youde and the others suspiciously, "Is this official's special envoy?"

"Let's go to Lin Youde," Lin Youde stepped forward and immediately cupped his hands. Just now, when they approached the barracks, they were immediately surrounded by hundreds of Song soldiers, treating them as scouts sent by Xixia.

Fortunately, Lin Youde took out the gold medal that Zhao Jinfu handed over to shock the soldiers.

Yao Pingzhong's eyes were cold, and he looked at Lin Youde without any expression.

The only thing he cares about now is Lin Youde's relationship with the official family.

"Lin Youde?" Zhong Shidao held his beard and thought for a while, as if he had thought of something, and then asked tentatively, "But Diji's husband-in-law?"

Lin Youde nodded: "Exactly."

Well, who made this identity louder?

"Haha, Concubine Lin, please come inside!!" Master Zhong laughed and patted Lin Youde on the shoulder, "Come here! Prepare wine! Treat our Concubine Lin! The number one scholar!"

(End of this chapter)