choke element

Chapter 467

Wanyan Luqi nodded again and again, lifted a stone slab in the corner, and took out several sets of clothes and other trivial things.

The two of them didn't talk much, and immediately changed their appearance, put on their clothes, took some things, and hid a jug of wine underneath.The two opened the jug and poured some on their bodies, causing the smell of alcohol to overflow.

The Mongols were brutal and careless, and knew nothing about the operation of cities in the Han region. Zheng Rui and Wanyan Luqi were not afraid of them.However, the Khitan Shi Mo Yexian who recently served as Dalu Huachi in Beijing and actually controls Dading Mansion is a shrewd and capable person.

Just now the Mongols slaughtered the Lifang and left, but Shi Mo also dispatched manpower to tidy up the Lifang first, and by the way, allowed his subordinates to seize the dead man's property as an additional subsidy.

But these days, there were a lot of bandits on the way of caravans, Zheng Rui and Wanyan Luqi were quite courageous, so they brought a few fine military equipment produced in Shandong with them for emergency use.However, when they arrived at Dading Mansion, both of them acted with bare hands in order to prevent the Mongols from finding out their flaws.

A few swords and two bows are usually kept by another hidden stake in the caravan, Xiao Mu, a Han Chinese cook, and piled up with his bone-eviscerating knives.But this can only be hidden from ordinary people, since the caravan has been slaughtered, Shi Moxian's soldiers will pay attention to it when they divide up the property.

Since Zheng Rui and Wanyan Luqi arrived in Liaodong, they have encountered ambushes and distress many times, but they were all resolved in the end.But surviving near death again and again made them more alert than ordinary people, and they understood Mu Huali's tyrannical methods better than ordinary people.

It was the Dajin Kingdom officials who saw three or five swords and a few strong bows here, but pretended they hadn't seen them at all, so they could just fool them.

Mu Huali, on the other hand, didn't mind causing trouble when he governed the area.Although he is a Mongolian, he is eager to learn, so he often focuses on one or two things and checks them endlessly.So the officials under his rule are also like this, but if the wind blows and moves early, they will definitely investigate immediately.

Therefore, time is tight and no delay is allowed.

Immediately, the two changed into shabby clothes and loosened their hair. One held a basket in one hand, and the other held an iron fork in one hand, and staggered onto the street.They cannot walk too fast, otherwise they will attract attention; nor can they walk too slowly, otherwise they will not be able to grab the short time before the swords, guns and bows are discovered.

For a moment, the two felt nervous, and sweat dripped from their foreheads.

Fortunately, most of the passers-by were panic-stricken, some rushed to the butchered Lifang, some had weak feet and staggered away all the way, no one paid any attention to them.

In just half a moment, he was driven to the east gate by these two drunken men.When he was about to leave the city, Zheng Rui slammed on the Sumeru seat of a stone pagoda twice, and smeared the ashes on his face with one hand.

The guard at the city gate is not known to be a Han soldier who charged his subordinates.Because Shi Mo was the first to run the army strictly, even if they had nothing to do, they still checked the people who came in and out one by one, very carefully.

Of course Zheng Rui and Wanyan Luqi couldn't take out the letter talisman for the caravan to enter the city.When the thing is exposed, it can be escaped, and immediately there will be cavalry chasing it. It is really hard to distinguish the advantages and disadvantages.

So when the soldiers asked, the two clapped their tongues and clapped their chests and shouted: "Aban Dama, I can't let you go!"

This is Khitan language, which means, we are servants of adults, just sobered up.

The soldier approached and took a look, and smelled a strong smell of stench and alcohol. He felt disgusted, took two steps back, and shouted: "What are you doing out of the city!"

Zheng Rui continued to shout: "Bosu! Bosu!"

Zheng Rui was also from the defeated army in Northern Xinjiang, and his Jurchen language is very fluent, but his newly learned Khitan language is not very good. "Bosu" means to drink, which is wrong.

Wanyan Luqi thumped him violently, and said with a grin: "Bote! Bett!"

"Bote" means fishing.

Zheng Rui nodded again and again, raised the iron fork in his hand, and shouted: "The red tile does not stab! Chu Gu!"

In these two sentences, the first sentence is in Jurchen language, and the latter sentence is in Khitan language, both of which mean beating or stabbing.

For hundreds of years, various ethnic groups such as Jurchen and Khitan have gathered around Dading Mansion in Beijing, and their languages ​​are mostly interlinked. When Zheng Rui spoke, the languages ​​of the two ethnic groups came out together, which is very in line with the habits of the local people.Look at the iron fork in his hand, which is also used by local people for fishing.

It's not that fishing nets are not used here on Beijing Road, but that during the Dading period, the emperor issued a decree that fishing with nets was not allowed in Dongyue, fearing that the fish would be exhausted, so the Jurchens often used this kind of iron fork.

The soldier didn't notice anything wrong, waved his hand and let them go out.

The two walked outside the city, seeing that the gatekeepers were not paying attention, and their footsteps became faster and faster.He rushed out of Lixu in one breath, and heard the sound of gongs and clangs inside the city gate, and soldiers came from both sides and sealed the city gate, thinking that something happened to Dongchuang.

The two escaped from death and couldn't help laughing.

After laughing twice, I felt that I was still too close to the city, so I had to move away quickly.

After walking for more than ten miles in one breath, Zheng Rui turned to grinning: "Let's walk another two miles, and we will arrive at Basswood Pass. There is a newly built building there, which is maintained by only three or five old soldiers, and there are two horses. Let's kill and seize horses!"

Both of them are battle-tested fighters, even with bare hands they can kill like beasts.A few more caravan companions died just now, although they were suppressed for a while, their hearts were already extremely angry, and they were about to find an opportunity to vent their anger.

Immediately Wanyan Luqi agreed, and the two quickened their pace.

After a short walk, there is a three-way intersection ahead. To the north is Qijin Mountain, and to the east are Jianzhou and Xingzhongfu.

Although Mu Huali also recruited refugees and restored people's livelihood in Dading Mansion, the Mongols had absolutely no concept of agriculture, and they inevitably crossed the river by feeling the stones, so the local depression did not ease significantly.

Zheng Rui and Wanyan Luqi walked on the road and came to the present in one breath, but they didn't see any travelers, carriages and horses, and the fields on both sides of the road were deserted and neglected.Therefore, the two of them became bolder and more swaying as they walked.

At this time, the two stood at the intersection, and suddenly heard the sound of hooves rolling in the north, as if a horse team had appeared.

Generally speaking, the sound of horseshoes on the plain in winter travels extremely far, and the sound can be heard loudly, but in fact there is still a considerable distance, so the two of them ignored it and continued on their way.

Unexpectedly, every horse in the cavalry is one of the best horses in a million, and the riders on the horses are even more superb in riding skills. Everyone seems to grow on the back of a horse.

At this moment, the horses lost their temper, neighing and neighing, and their momentum was as fast as lightning, like flying through the clouds.In a blink of an eye, the team arrived beside the two of them. The iron hooves trampled on the ground, the sound was earth-shattering, and the smoke and dust billowed, obscuring their sight.

The two of them couldn't stand stably, they quickly covered their faces with their hands, and dodged backwards.Backed straight into the ditch on the side of the road, only to avoid the choking dust a little bit.

Wanyan Luqi choked and coughed several times before he breathed a sigh of relief and suppressed his tears.He complained casually: "The servant bird from there is so unscrupulous, I..."

As soon as he said this, Zheng Rui covered Wanyan Luqi's mouth, and pressed his whole body to the bottom of the ditch.

Wanyan Luqi was also quick-witted, knew immediately that it was not good, so he stopped struggling immediately, and the two of them were like clay plastic wooden bodies, leaning against the dry grass and shrubs on the edge of the dry ditch to hide them.

After a while, the sound of hooves sounded again.But this time the sound of hooves was too loud, almost deafening, so that Zheng Rui and Wanyan Luqi doubted their ears.They felt that it was not the sound of hooves, but the sound of the tide in the depths of the sea.

They soon saw the source of the tide noise.Just to the north, under the overcast sky, leaden gray clouds carried huge waves roaring in.

As the line of sight gradually became clearer, they knew that it was not clouds and huge waves, but thousands of cavalry and horses at least in multiples.

Tens of thousands of war horses galloped, dyeing the entire field as far as the field of vision was black.In the huge black waves, countless metal helmets and shiny spears rise and fall, like the waves shining against the sun.

At first, Zheng Rui and Wanyan Luqi stood on four legs in the icy sewage. When the cavalry was running, the water trembled and rippled.As the cavalry brigade marched, the two subconsciously kept leaning on their bodies until their entire upper body was buried in the water, only their eyes, ears, mouth and nose were exposed.

The cavalry passed right above their heads, and the barbaric and fierce aura became more and more obvious, which made the two of them breathless.

With the trampling of the horse's hooves, clods of soil rustled down, splashing sewage onto Zheng Rui's face.Zheng Rui didn't mind the stench at all, he just rolled his eyes and looked up.

This angle is just facing the sun, so the running knight is like a dark silhouette.

The stimulation of the light made him shed tears soon.But he still tried to open his eyes wide, in order to see clearly.

"The Mongolian army is indeed here."

Amidst the sound of roaring hooves, Zheng Rui said softly.

"This is the state of the Mongols' march. It was Tanmachi who passed by just now, and now it is Huoerchi who is carrying a long and short bow and a quiver. Since Huoerchi is here, the main force of the Mongolian army should be there. Nearby, maybe Genghis Khan is also nearby."

"The horses ridden by Mongolians are generally bigger than before. They are all war horses captured from the herdsmen in Changzhou, Fuzhou and Yunneizhou. There are more than 20 horses. They are all tall and mighty. They were trained since childhood. Being able to obey orders and gallop in war without fear is now in the hands of the Mongols.”

"And their weapons. Those knives, guns, bows and arrows are getting better and better. In addition, from the package on the horse's back, it is obvious that they are armors. Judging by the appearance of the nail leaves exposed outside, some are leather armors, and most of them are armors. It's the ring beetle and the willow leaf beetle."

"There are so many armors!" Zheng Rui couldn't help but sigh softly.

He squinted his eyes and found that Wanyan Luqi had hidden his nose, ears and mouth in the water, apparently not hearing what he said.This Jurchen's complexion is also not good-looking.

In the past few years, the imperial court has lost nearly a million troops at the hands of the Mongols, especially the Meng'an Mouk Army, which is the foundation of the Great Gold, can be said to have broken its spine.

When the army of millions collapsed, it abandoned countless equipment, a huge number of horses, and even thousands of craftsmen.These are the wealth accumulated by the Dajin Kingdom for hundreds of years, but they were completely followed and used by the Mongolian army.

What is the total number of the Mongolian army?There are about a hundred thousands of households in their early years, or a hundred thousand people.

In the military academy before, Guo Ning specifically talked about it.

So Zheng Rui knew very well that if the materials brought to the grassland before were distributed to every thousand households, how plentiful and rich it would be.That can no longer be described as like a tiger with wings added, it can be said to be completely reborn.

The Mongols are ten times more ferocious and brave than the Jurchens, ten times more tenacious than the Jurchens, and a hundred times more flexible in tactics than the Jurchens.Many officers and men of the Ding Navy have seen this point, and they are deeply afraid.

When such a powerful enemy is equipped with ten times more comprehensive and perfect weapons and ordnance, the rare war beasts since ancient times will jump out.

This kind of army is different from the [-] households under the fourth prince Tuo Lei's army outside Haicang Town that day, and the [-] households under Chen Nayan's army on Huanglonggang.They completely digested the nutrients they grabbed from the body of the Great Jin Kingdom, gained additional sharp minions, and their combat effectiveness doubled!

Sure enough, the Mongols came...

But I don't know, is it Xianpingfu Road or Zhongdu Road that is the first to be unlucky this time?
But I don't know, if they come south this time, will there be any hindrance in Shandong?Does Guo Xuanshi have any countermeasures?
Zheng Rui was in a daze for a moment, but Wanyan Luqi turned his face carefully, and found a branch covered by dense vegetation on the other side of the ditch.He gently tugged on Zheng Rui's arm, and slowly moved there.

Zheng Rui quickly followed.

(End of this chapter)