choke element

Chapter 20 Turmoil
Yang An'er has no son, only Yang Youjiu has been with him for several years, and loves him like a father and son.Yang You's martial arts are quite true to Yang An'er, he is especially good at spear skills, and he has few opponents when practicing in the army.

But he is young after all, so he is only a short-term governor. When it comes to leading troops in battle, Yang An'er is surrounded by veterans and soldiers, and Yang You rarely has the opportunity to participate.

This time it was luck.The veteran generals led their troops separately, Yang An'er faced Tang Kuo and fought together without any hesitation, and finally hit Yang You.

Yang You excitedly took the order and ordered troops to set off immediately.

What Yang An'er sent to Yang You was the elite of his headquarters, a fully staffed centurion.All of them wore armor and hemispherical iron helmets riveted with armor leaves. Apart from long spears and long knives, half of them carried bows and crossbows.

When Yang An'er returned to the imperial court in Shandong, she really didn't have such equipment.In the end, he came to Hebei, and armed himself to the teeth by picking up the weapons abandoned by the defeated soldiers on the battlefield.

Because it was ordered to set off temporarily, it took some time to prepare food, tents, vehicles, etc. When the group finally set out on the road, Liu Quan, Li Siwen and other generals had already gone far ahead.

"The stragglers are the most treacherous. Once Mr. Liu and Uncle Li make a move, Anzhou Zuojin will get the news very soon. We have to hurry, lest Guo Ning slip away!"

Yang You repeatedly urged the soldiers to speed up their pace.

The team leader in charge of leading a hundred soldiers is a short man from Zizhou, Guo Yaoer.He is about the same age as Yang An'er, less than forty, but his head is full of white hair, his sparse beard is also gray, and his waist is a little bent, like an old farmer.

He was a pawn of the Sheliang Army, and there was a row of tattoos on his face. Due to the vicissitudes of time, the handwriting was no longer legible, and it was blurred into small bluish-black circles.

Guo Yaoer waved his hand vigorously.

The guide hurried to the front of the team, and the soldiers also quickened their pace.

The slightly populated Dingxing County was quickly left behind.

On the road from Dingxing County to the south of Ansu Prefecture, there are Yishui and Laishui crossing. Counting the tributaries such as the Fu River, there are six more rivers.It is these rivers that irrigate the land and support the prosperous Hebei.

But two consecutive years of drought and military disasters have almost destroyed everything on this land.The originally dotted villages and rice fields have shrunk to a minimum; the well-maintained ponds have dried up in large numbers, while the swamps and reed marshes are expanding disorderly.

There are only a small number of people, relying on the force of various sources, or relying on the complicated terrain between the water and the lake to survive.Other than that, Yang You saw desolation in his sight.Even some apparently well-tended fertile fields are now thick with thatch and brambles; here and there a few stalks of wild wheat grow to chest height.

On the third day after leaving Dingxing County, at dusk.

A group of people were wading through the mud, crossing the semi-dry channel of the Fuhe River, not far upstream, relying on the direction of the Guchengdian of the Great Wall of Yan State in the Spring and Autumn Period, suddenly there was the sound of fighting.

Guchengdian is the old site of Dingxing County, which was previously occupied by a group of rout soldiers.Since last year, many people have attached themselves to them one after another, forming a small village that barely survives.That group of rout soldiers kept Yang An'er's troops at arm's length, but they had no hostility. Once Yang You passed by the Gucheng store and ate a meal of wine and meat from them.

That group of rout soldiers was one of the stragglers that Yang An'er wanted to make an emergency landing.The person responsible for the specific implementation should be Ji Junli, Liu Quan's subordinate.

Right now Yang You is standing at a low place, unable to see what's going on in the town.But he could smell blood, burnt houses, and hear threats, shouts, and groans.

Yang You didn't care too much and moved on.

In the past few days, he has encountered such a situation several times.Ever since being incorporated into the Tiewa Ganzhan Army by the imperial court, the soldiers have been depressed for a long time.This time Yang An'er ordered that all the ministries go out to attack and kill, and use their minions to their fullest, it is inevitable that they will act a little more violently.

Not long after, the sound of the soldiers' footsteps stepping across the water was mixed with the heart-piercing cries of women and children.

It seems that the conditions were not agreed, and if the soft ones fail, they have to be tough.Ji Junli played tricks and killed people wantonly.

War is so cruel.

Since ancient times, coercion and coercion of strong men, can they still be persuaded with good voice?Most of them have to be ruthless first to cut off their way of life and concern.Ji Junli is a veteran in the battlefield, especially skilled in these things.

I just don't know, among the thirty or fifty strong men in the Gucheng store, how many of them will be left alive for me to use?
Yang You shook his head, quickened his pace and rushed to the front of the team, Xun Guobai'er talked to the guide.

Guo Yaoer was also looking towards the direction of Gucheng Store, with a gloomy face.

Yang You's heart skipped a beat, and he trotted to him.When he was about to speak, a thin figure suddenly jumped out of the grass, holding a stone in his hand, and threw it at Yang You.

Yang You was taken aback, and quickly drew his sword.

Guo Yao'er's reaction was quicker, and instantly stabbed straight, piercing the figure like a chest.

The stone bones landed at Yang You's feet. Yang You looked at the figure under Guo Yao'er's long knife and found that it was a child.The military uniform he was wearing was shabby, but it was washed very cleanly, and the bun on his head was also the short bun that is common in the army.

The child struggled with all his strength, and the wounds on his mouth, nose and chest were bleeding out, staining a large area of ​​the ground red.

Guo Yaoer stomped on the child's stomach expressionlessly, and pulled out the long knife forcefully.The child stared at Guo Yao'er, his struggle turned into convulsions, and he slowly stopped moving. His eyes began to scatter, but they were still staring wide open, with bloodshot eyes in their sockets.

Guo Yaoer wiped the blood on the blade with his sleeve, and said in a deep voice, "Jiulang, something is wrong."

"What? What's wrong?" Yang You was at a loss.

"The rout soldiers seem to be prepared, and their resistance is fierce." Guo Yaoer motioned Yang You to listen: "Many of Ji Junli's subordinates died, but they failed to enclose them. Many fled to the west. Already!"

Yang You tried it, but didn't hear anything.But he recalled what he saw along the way, and sighed: "I saw three times of fighting yesterday, and three times today... those slippery soldiers are fierce, and they are more difficult to deal with than ordinary people!"

Guo Yaoer nodded: "It's much more difficult to deal with... I'm afraid there will be trouble!"

Yang An'er's decision itself was not wrong.The method of attacking villages and coercing strong men wherever soldiers and horses go is the old routine used by everyone in Shandong.With the elite of the Tiewa Ganzhan Army, it should not be difficult to attack the scattered soldiers in different places, behead their leaders, and intimidate their subordinates.

But what Yang An'er didn't expect was that the rout soldiers were quite different from ordinary people in Shandong.

The people are submissive cattle and sheep, accustomed to humiliation and patience.Even if they walk on the road leading to death, they are still numb.That's why violent killings are needed to irritate them, use the choice of life and death to force out the blood in their hearts, and turn cattle and sheep into tigers and wolves.

And the countless broken soldiers scattered in Hebei, all escaped from the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood, fought with the Mongols to save their lives, they are tigers and wolves themselves!

In the previous years of tragic wars, these soldiers were in desperate situations countless times. They fled to Hebei, just wanting to live.

From the perspective of outsiders, although these people have courage, they are all in a daze, like walking corpses.Therefore, Yang An'er, who relied on her elite skills, did not take them seriously.

The plan to raise troops to go straight to Shandong is a secret, and only a few cronies around Yang An'er know about the whole arrangement.Previously, in order to avoid leaking the news and arousing Tang Kuo's suspicion of fighting together, Yang An'er even deliberately kept a distance from the leaders of the defeated soldiers.

As a result, there was a problem at this time!

The Tiewa Ganzhan army suddenly attacked, these rout soldiers were caught off guard, and every gathering point was destroyed, but they did not give in easily.

The broken soldiers just want to live.Who has time to care about what big plans?What?rebel?Who believes in the nonsense that the entire Jin court said?Who is still a fool, working for you without proof?
The defeated soldiers only know that whoever disturbs them, if they are not allowed to live, they will definitely resist fiercely!Whoever kills them with swords will face their revenge!

On the Anzhou side, Xiao Haohu himself is one of the powerful leaders of the rout.He is well aware of the rout forces in Anzhou, backed by the governor of Anzhou, and took advantage of the unpreparedness of each family to make a violent attack. In the end, he was hit back by a fierce tiger like Guo Ning.

Are the defeated soldiers in Zhuozhou weaker than their companions in Anzhou?
Among the defeated soldiers scattered among the Hebei states' armies, some were ferocious warriors who dared to fight. They were caught off guard at the beginning, but as time went on, the resistance became more intense, and even more terrifying turmoil was brewed.

Yang You couldn't clearly judge this sign, but Guo Yaoer had already felt it after a long battle.

Guo Yao'er had a bad premonition, he vaguely felt that the rout soldiers were not like the fat in Yang An'er's eyes, but an untouchable wild beehive!

"Jiulang, let's go to the Gucheng store first, see Ji Junli, and ask about the situation. We will go to the Feijun River tomorrow without any delay." Guo Yaoer said cautiously.

Yang You looked at Guo Yaoer suspiciously: "Why didn't you delay? What if Guo Ning ran away..."

"Guo Ning is not the only one to consider right now." Guo Yaoer insisted: "Jiulang, there is really going to be trouble, and many plans will have to be changed. Who cares about Guo Liulang?"

"...That's right. Let's go, let's go to the Gucheng store." Yang You was a little frustrated.

So the soldiers turned back, followed the shallow road they had come from, and waded across the Fuhe River again.

The sky began to darken, and their figures gradually faded away. After reaching the other side of the river, they could not be seen clearly.In a dense bush about a hundred paces away from the road, the branches and leaves swayed and made a soft rustling sound.

The sound became more and more obvious, the branches and leaves parted to the two sides, and more than ten archers first appeared.

More than a dozen people all put their arrows on the string, sticking to the side of the road to guard vigilantly.

Then two more people came out of the bushes.

Li Ting strode into the middle of the road, and looked at the little baby whose body was already stiff, with an unusually ugly expression on his face.

Guo Ning came up a little slower and stood beside Li Ting.

(End of this chapter)