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Chapter 214 Scout

On November 21, when Zhang Shicai fled to Xuzhou and Shi Jun hadn't sent people to notify the counties, Li Xia was on Pendao Ridge in Mahu County.

It has been less than half a month since Li Xia reorganized a team of 500 people, and he is still training intensively.

However, the battle of Mahujiang has reached its most intense point, and in case of a real defeat, the battle is just around the corner.

Almost everyone in Qingfu County believed that the Song army would win a big victory.

Only he heard Yi Shiying mention that "Zhang Shi is not good at water warfare, and Pu Shuai is deeply worried", thinking that Zhang Shi might lose.

There is no result in the partial war, so I can only tell a few people for the time being, otherwise, if the morale of the army is shaken, it is not a small crime.

Li Xia didn't want to wait for the news, so he planned to go to the battlefield to take a look in person. If he judged that Zhang Shi would lose, he might as well fortify the wall and clear the field as soon as possible.

To this end, he trained a team of cavalry scouts.

It can only be led by Li Xia himself. In terms of riding skills, prestige, and experience, he can't find a satisfactory candidate for the time being.

When selecting these cavalry scouts, a small incident happened. A recruit named "Yang Ben" wanted to be selected.

But Li Xia thought that Yang Ben's enlistment time was too short and he didn't obey the discipline, so he pushed him back.

In the end, only twenty of the five hundred patrolmen satisfied Li Xia, and he appointed two chief officers named "Song He" and "Yu Bing".

Song He and Yu Bing are two kinds of people.

Song He was very silent and ordinary-looking. His riding skills, archery skills, and performance on the five-foot road were all ordinary, but Li Xia obeyed every order he had, and carried it out without compromise;
Yu Bing was an exile. He used to raise horses for a tea horse farm. He was very good at riding. He was ugly and had bow legs. He talked a lot, and he could think and ask questions...

This westward trip to Mahu County was their first investigation.

Last night, they walked to Bidao Ridge, but they dared not go any further. They climbed up the mountain and watched for a while under the moonlight, but they couldn't see clearly.

When the sky was getting dark today, Li Xia had already brought people to stand on the top of the mountain to look out.

A ray of sunlight shines on the far away river, more than [-] boats are moored, and people on both sides of the river come and go like ants.

"What's going on?"

Yu Bing rubbed his eyes and murmured: "Is it too calm? Why didn't you fight? This is... let the Mongolian army aboard?"

Li Xia didn't speak, her figure seemed to be integrated with Pen Dao Ridge.

Song He didn't speak, and looked at Jiang Mian for a while, and Li Xia for a while.

"It doesn't make sense." Yu Bing said: "County Captain, this doesn't make sense. There is only one explanation... The navy was captured by the cavalry? But, this is impossible."

Still no one answered him.

"Impossible." Yu Bing shook his head and said, "Impossible. How could the navy be captured by the cavalry while fighting on the river? Am I dreaming? I can't even dream of such a situation... Zhang Dutong is a famous general. .”

After a while.

It was still Yu Bing who asked, "County Captain, is it too far away to see clearly? Maybe they are still fighting? Let's take a closer look?"

"No need." Li Xia said: "The navy was captured by the land soldiers."

"The county lieutenant is right." Song He said.

……

Li Xia knew that Zhang Shi was not good at water warfare.

But he never thought it would be like this.Countless analysis, analysis of the environment, arms, and combat power, no matter what, this result should not have appeared.

For a long time, Li Xia could only utter one sentence about the result in front of him.

"It's just... outrageous."

~~
"Let's go, hurry back to Qingfu, fortify the wall and clear the field."

"Yes."

They went down the mountain and it was noon.

A group of people crossed the Guan River, returned to the east bank, rode their horses and ran eastward for a while, and suddenly saw billowing fireworks in the distance.

Yu Gang quickly reined in the reins and said, "Is this the Mongolian army sending a small group of people to start looting the village?"

Li Xia looked up for a while, and said, "Go, go around and take a look from the north."

"Yes." Song He replied.

"County lieutenant, I don't know how many men there are in the Mongolian army, should I inquire first?" Yu Bing asked.

"No, just go there."

After a while, they detoured to the road entering the village from the north.

Li Xia reined in the reins, dismounted and squatted down by a small pool, looking at the horse's hoof prints and horse dung on the ground.

"Can you figure out how many men and horses there are in this Mongolian army?"

"More than ten people and more than twenty horses." Song He said.

Counting the footprints on the ground, Yu Gang said, "It should be 12 people and more than [-] horses."

"How to be sure?"

"Look at the footprints of them squatting by the pool to drink water."

Li Xia nodded and said, "Go into the village and kill them."

"Yes." Song He still deserved it simply.

Yu Bing twitched his eyebrows, thinking that the county Weixing was a bit too vicious...

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Youlong Village.

Smoke was rising from a hunter's house.

The Orion was three brothers. They saw the Mongolian army entering the house to rob food, and they hid in the house and shot arrows at the Mongolian army.

The Mongolian army didn't bother to entangle with them, blocked the door, and set his house on fire...

The chief named "Zana" was a little unhappy, worried that he would alarm the nearby Song army.

But thinking about it again, he also felt that it was okay. There were no counties nearby, so how could there be any garrisons?Today, more than ten groups of people came out to hunt food, and they really met a small group of Song soldiers, and they came to support in time.

Zana ignored the burnt Orion and walked through the village with a scimitar.

"Hurry up and get the food! You don't have to play there! The city of Xuzhou is broken, and there are more gold and silver women..."

That being said, he wasn't in a rush.

Now that the navy of the Song Army has just been defeated and so many people and ships have been captured, the marshal is still preparing and the army will be stationed on the Mahu River for two days, so they are sent out to search for some food nearby.

Blood was splashed on the dirt walls everywhere, corpses fell on the ground, and women's screams could be heard from several rooms...

Ten people is enough to slaughter a small village.

Suddenly, there was the sound of horseshoes in the distance.

Zana frowned, thinking that fellow Nashi had come running over again.

But just to be careful, he still ordered: "Bo Ri Tie, you go to the entrance of the village to have a look."

After a while, the horse's hooves became more and more anxious, and Zana heard the sound of arrows piercing the wind.

"No... Hurry up! Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

Zana quickly pulled out a Ming Dy arrow and shot it towards the sky.

"Hey!" The long and sharp bird cry pierced the sky.

Zana got on his horse at the first time, gathered three Mongolian pawns in the fastest time, and ran towards the entrance of the village.

What came was a Song army of more than [-] people, with average archery skills, and they did not shoot Bo Ritie who was watching at the entrance of the village.

Bo Ri Tie wanted to escape into the village, but was crushed by arrows and hid behind a tree.

Soon, Song Jun rode his horse and rushed forward, chopping down with knives, killing Bo Ritie...

Zana was furious, shot two arrows in panic, and roared, "Come out! The enemy is attacking!"

He didn't have an advantage in numbers, and the array was not set up. He didn't dare to fight against the Song army, and he didn't dare to care about those Mongolian soldiers who were still in the cottage. Horses, fleeing from the other side of the village.

"How long! Our people..."

"Damn, I can't control it anymore, wait until I bring people around, and then kill them!"

More than [-] Song troops have already killed them...

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Yu Bing followed Li Xia into a cottage.

His mind was in a mess, and he felt that the county lieutenant ordered too fast and charged too fast, so he couldn't react at all.

The Mongolian army's Mingdi made him feel a little flustered, worried that he would be surrounded soon.

However, after rushing into this cottage, the scene in the main room was so exciting that the blood went straight to the forehead, and when the brain became hot, those messy thoughts dissipated in an instant.

From seeing the defeat of the [-] navy, he just felt incredible, and didn't realize what the defeat of the army meant.

Only at this time, when the corpses of the man and the child were placed on the ground in the main room, and the heart-piercing cries of the woman came, did Yu Bing know... the defeat of the soldiers and generals is to put these people on the ground. Let the enemy be ravaged under the butcher's knife.

The village women were still screaming and crying.

A Mongolian soldier lifted his trousers and picked up the scimitar.

Li Xia was already stepping on the blood all over the ground, and stabbed out with a sword, stabbing the Meng soldier.

Yu Shan roared angrily, rushed forward with the knife, and chopped fiercely.

"Puff puff……"

~~
In less than half an hour, more than [-] Mongolian troops surrounded Youyong Village again.

Zana rode his horse into the village, and saw eight almost chopped corpses of Mongolian soldiers lying on the ground, as if they were an arrogant provocation by the Song army.

On the ground, a row of bloody horseshoe prints pointed to the southeast.

"Chase! Kill them all..."

(End of this chapter)