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"I just said it! It's not a little girl who hides behind the city wall all day long for life and fear of death, and even fights a silly battle! The commander also knows to lay an ambush, so his brain is not bad after all, it's not too bad! He If we had sent more people out early to steal the food and grass of the Xiongnu, or we would have killed a few hundred today in a surprise attack and lured the enemy to kill another hundred tomorrow, maybe it would have been over by now!" Zhou Jirong patted a young general on the other side. Said over his shoulder, completely ignoring the other party's request to invite him back to Hanzhou.

The other party probably had no hope of getting Prince Zhou to go back obediently, and if the persuasion failed, he would not bring up this matter again to make people hate him.Hearing Zhou Jirong scolding the commander in chief, the corners of his mouth could not help but twitched slightly. After hesitating again and again, he felt that he should make an excuse, and tried to explain: "It's not that the commander in chief doesn't want to take the initiative to attack, but there are few horses and cavalry..."

"Go grab it! Their horse is good, you can use it if you grab it," Zhou Jirong said naturally, and raised his hand maliciously to draw a circle, including the endless grassland in front of him. "However, it's not easy to find the horses until you go deeper. In the past two years, few people have been released south—I was scared of them all!"

There was some regret in his words, but his tone was quite complacent.Others were speechless.

"What are you going to do here in ambush...Forget it's a military plane, don't tell me!" He patted the other person on the shoulder and said, "You don't have to worry about me!"

For the sake of ease of movement, they only brought dry food for five days, and they planned to try to supply the rest along the way, but this trip was quite different from the original plan. If it wasn't for the small amount of food and grass that happened to be seized before, he would have to break it in two days go back.Now that the dry food is available, he still plans to go south according to the original plan and patrol the border.

Unexpectedly, two hours after he ran out, the young general who had been patted on the shoulder by him just now hurriedly chased after him.Zhou Jirong and the others were not slow in the first place, and it was really not easy for others to catch up. The horse was sweating profusely from running, and the young general's face was not very good. When he arrived in front of Zhou Jirong, he did not come to persuade him to return to Hanzhou.With a serious expression on his face, he presented a letter with the sign of an urgent military situation to Zhou Jirong: "My lord, there is an urgent message in the army!"

Zhou Jirong took it over and read a few more lines, his face immediately turned cloudy, but when something happened to him, he could hold his breath, read the whole letter quickly, and passed it on to Shi Weichen and the others , said: "Look at it too!"

No wonder they couldn't find anyone after all their hard work. It turned out that they had no intention of really trying to gnaw at the tough bone of Hanzhou.The harassment of the 20 horses was just a cover, and the Xiongnu Shanyu led another 10 horses, borrowed from the territory of the barbarians in the southwest, and went to Yantong without anyone noticing.Speaking of this way, a few days ago, a small group of people in Yantong sold themselves to the envoys of the Huns who came to Beijing to negotiate peace but dared not leave Zhou Jirong's territory.Now that the new Shanyu has suddenly emerged and has the royal power in his hands, it is natural for someone to show his favor to him with this news.

Looking at the date on the letter, it was sent out four days ago. At that time, two small towns close to the border had already been occupied. Now it is not known whether the situation is good or bad.

Zhou Jirong was also extremely depressed about this matter.He was ordered to guard Hanzhou, not Yantong. Although he was quite dissatisfied with the current situation of Yantong, it was not his fief after all, so it was really inconvenient to interfere too much.In fact, although Yantong is close to Hanzhou and Ximan, because of the high mountains, dangerous roads and dense forests, it is difficult for large cavalry to pass, so it has rarely been invaded by foreigners since ancient times.And because Yan Huan was staying in Yantong Town later, he was quite at ease.Who would have thought that such a huge loophole would be taken advantage of by not checking for a while.

But now is not the time to get angry and solve the problem. Zhou Jirong held his breath, but his thoughts were still calm. After a while, a few people got together to read the letter, and he didn't need to discuss with others, so he ordered: "First Go to Huangjiatun, talk on the way!"

After he finished speaking, he turned his head and looked at the young general who reported the message. He had already thought about how to use him, but then he realized that he was not the commander in chief now, and his original manpower was fine. The layout originally planned by others, and there are still 20 troops surrounded by several important towns, presumably they have already secretly made preparations for the end-to-end response, and they can't be careless.So Zhou Jirong swallowed back the words that came to his mouth, and just said: "You go back and act according to the military orders from above! In this way, this side probably won't be honest. And let them take advantage of it! If I can mobilize some manpower, ambush..." Thinking of the problem of insufficient cavalry mentioned earlier, I couldn't help but feel depressed for a while, thinking that I used to have so few men and not many cavalry, The battle was still going well, but now that there are more imperial troops, they are restrained everywhere, but these words don't have to be said in front of their eyes.He waved his hand and said: "Forget it, let's not mention this for the time being... Let the cavalry under my command be under the commander's command! I will explain the rest of the matter!"

The man quickly agreed, Zhou Jirong didn't wait to say anything, he gave an order, and everyone marched towards Huangjiatun.

Originally, the final destination of their trip was Huangjiatun, which was the border town where Bai Tingyu was assigned to be stationed.Going further south is the land of Yantong.The town is at the pass of two mountains, and there is a hilly area in the middle. The terrain is fairly flat, but tens of miles to the southeast is surrounded by mountains, making it difficult to pass.

This is a small place, but in recent years, whenever Zhou Jirong had two dollars on hand, he used it to repair the city walls and buy armaments. Even in such a place that is barely even a town, there are still walls with a height of more than three feet, and a moat outside the city. , There is no shortage of turrets and arrow towers on the top of the city. This place is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Originally there were still more than three days to go, but they traveled day and night and arrived in the evening of the second day.

This is the first place to hear the news about Yantong. At this time, Huangjiatun is ready for battle.Over the past two days, some civilians have escaped from Miaotong one after another, and the number is still small. Bai Tingyu's deputy left here ordered them to be resettled, and it didn't take much trouble.The local residents have experienced war, and the situation on the surface is fairly calm.

However, the deputy general breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Bai Tingyu came back, and when he saw Zhou Jirong, he didn't worry much for no reason.

He was relieved, but Zhou Jirong was not so relaxed. It had been four days since the urgent report was delivered to him, and it took nearly two days on the journey. He didn't know what was going on in Yantong, and there was no time to rest. Let's ask about the current situation first. .