The Three Kingdoms: My Wife is a Great and Good Teacher

Someone is definitely needed to stay in the rear, and when it comes to investigation, the higher the military power, the better, so Zhang Liao is the most suitable candidate to stay behind temporarily.

Watching Liu Zhaoqing, Zhao Yun and Di Di leave, Zhang Liao remained silent for a long time, until a soldier called her to dismount and have a rest and eat something, she came to her senses.

Zhang Liao slowly exhaled a breath.

To fulfill the benefactor's ambition, even greater strength is needed...

For the first time, she was so eager to improve her strength.

But how can we realize God's gift again... or go further?

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On the other side, after Liu Zhaoqing, Zhao Yun and Zhen Mi came out of the forest, he asked Zhen Mi to ask Youyou if she could smell or sense the aliens.

Yoyo closed his eyes, moved his nose, and then growled a few words.

"Yoyo said that apart from some tigers and deer, there were only some small animals, and no human scent."

Nodding slightly, Liu Zhaoqing said, "Then let's continue forward and head towards Rushui."

The three people, two horses and one ferocious beast ran eastward for a while before they saw a "pile of earth" covered with green grass.

"This is..." Zhao Yun looked at the mounds with a puzzled look on his face, "It looks like a city wall?"

"This is the ruins of Baidan City, which was destroyed by the Hu people many years ago." Liu Zhaoqing said, "The map that the governor of Yuyang gave me specially marked this information."

Zhao Yun and Zhen Mi also fell silent after hearing this.

At this moment, Yoyo suddenly moved his nose, and then his eyes lit up.

"Roar!"

"Sir, Yoyo said that he smelled human scent." Zhen Mi said immediately.

"Roar!"

"Also, there is another person who has the same scent as that old man with a long beard...ah, it's Lord Bo'an. His scent is almost similar to Lord Bo'an." Zhen Mi was almost led into a trap by Youyou, and she was so scared that she immediately changed her words.

Chapter 174 Night Attack on Hu Camp

Liu Zhaoqing and Zhao Yun certainly didn't care about Zhen Mi's slip of the tongue at this time. All their attention was on the "similar aura to that of Lord Bo'an" in her words.

"This should be about Liu He." Liu Zhaoqing immediately asked: "Are there any more detailed information?"

Upon hearing this, Zhen Mi immediately looked at Youyou under her.

Youyou can understand human language but cannot speak it, so Liu Zhaoqing's words do not need to be translated by Zhen Mi. Zhen Mi only needs to convey Youyou's words.

Yoyo closed his eyes, slowly wagged his tail, and walked forward, as if he was continuing to sniff.

Liu Zhaoqing and Zhao Yun immediately rode their horses and followed behind. In order not to interfere with Youyou's sense of the breath, they and Zhao Yun deliberately avoided standing in the limelight.

After entering the old site of Baidan City which had turned into a pile of emerald green earth, Yoyo took a few steps and roared again.

"Yoyo said there were traces of someone staying there."

Liu Zhaoqing and Zhao Yun went forward and saw an extinguished fire on a green meadow.

There were some animal bones and some bird droppings next to the fire.

After Zhao Yun dismounted, he came to the fire and looked around. He picked up a bone with some meat residue on it and frowned as he said, "This bone should be from a wild deer. It was what the people of Yan had left over..."

At this time, Liu Zhaoqing, who had also dismounted, came to the feces and squatted down.

This surprised Zhen Mi, but fortunately, Liu Zhaoqing did not do what she imagined.

He just picked up a branch nearby and poked it twice.

"It hasn't completely dried yet, which means it is very likely the tribe we are looking for."

"But, what kind of beast left this? It doesn't look like an ordinary beast..."

Zhao Yun looked at it, shook his head and said, "I don't recognize it."

Before she became a captain, she practiced martial arts with her master in Changshan State. As Wenyuan said, she had never been to the northern frontier.

He could recognize the feces of ordinary animals and wild beasts, but he couldn't recognize this thing that was obviously left by a ferocious beast.

"roar~"

Yoyo yelled at this time, and Zhen Mi immediately said: "Yoyo said that this should be left by Shu Si. That thing is very common in places further north."

"How many?" Zhao Yun was puzzled. "What kind of beast is it? Could it be a tiger or a jackal?"

"Roar." Yoyo shook his head and roared again.

"It's a bird." Liu Zhaoqing said without Zhen Mi's translation.

"When I was in Luoyang, I deliberately looked for and read a lot of rumors and strange records. I remember some of these." Liu Zhaoqing frowned slightly.

"But, I also remember that this Shusi should not be a vicious beast, and it is not friendly to mortals and mostly lives in the cold north. How could it be tamed by the Wuhuan Hu people?"

After mumbling, Liu Zhaoqing did not dwell on this question too much. He immediately asked again: "Yoyo, do you know the exact number of people who have stayed here?"

Yoyo closed his eyes again and sensed for a moment, then let out a soft roar.

"Yoyo said about two or three people."

Zhao Yun was stunned: "Two or three people, Liu Yu's men killed three of the five, this number just matches."

Then, it should be this tribe that abducted Liu He.

Liu Zhaoqing didn't expect to find the clue so easily. The key was probably that the other party no longer deliberately hid his tracks after leaving Yanshan.

This can be seen from the fire and bird droppings that were easily put out and not even buried.

And it is normal to think about it. Just as Liu Yu never thought about how the foreign tribes that he had been favoring and appeasing for many years would suddenly rise up in rebellion, the foreign tribes would certainly not have thought that a team of forty people in Youzhou, which has always valued peace, would dare to cross Yanshan Mountain.

After thinking for a while, Liu Zhaoqing made another judgment: "Since they left on the Shus bird, they can only retain their breath if they stop to rest like this. It will be more difficult for us to chase them if we continue."

"According to their route, they should also be heading towards White Wolf Mountain. Judging from the fire and bird droppings, it should have happened a day ago. These birds are too fast. We can't hesitate any longer, otherwise the tribe may move."

Although the possibility of this tribe moving was small judging by their unintentional act of covering their tracks, Mobei was too large and the grasslands were too vast. If they really ran away overnight, Liu Zhaoqing's trip to the frontier might have been in vain.

"Zhen Mi, you will stay ahead of the main group and I will focus on protecting you. If you see any signs of Hu people, please inform us immediately." Liu Zhaoqing said to Zhen Mi after he got on the horse.

This is equivalent to letting Zhen Mi and Di Di take on the responsibility of outposts, and Di Di, who can hide in the darkness and has agile speed and a keen sense of smell, is indeed very suitable.

The three of them immediately turned around and returned to the woods where the team was stationed.

After Liu Zhaoqing informed Zhang Liao of the news, although Zhang Liao felt that this was still dangerous, he also understood that opportunities for battle were fleeting, so he nodded in agreement.

They dared to come to Mobei with only forty light cavalry, which in itself meant seeking wealth and honor in danger. A little more danger would not be a big deal. Besides... Zhang Liao also felt that he had to be more courageous to find a way to break through.

He ordered all the soldiers who had just eaten a few mouthfuls of dry food to mount their horses that had drunk water. Then Liu Zhaoqing signaled Zhen Mi to go forward, and he pulled the reins, steered the horse across the stream, and continued on towards Bailang Mountain.

The horses of the cavalrymen behind them also jumped up one after another. This two-meter-deep stream that even ordinary horses could not stop was naturally easy for war horses.

Later, Liu Zhaoqing rode his horse across the relatively narrow section of the Rushui River, which was only ten meters wide.

The other forty or so horses leaped over one after another. The White Dragon ridden by Zhao Yun jumped to the other side without even a running start, and Didi was the only one that crossed on water.

If it weren't for these horses, the infantry would have been delayed for at least half a day when they encountered the Rushui River, not to mention a long-distance raid.

The importance of a good horse is also reflected at this time.

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The geese in the sky spread their wings and flew with the wind. Under the pitch-black night, among the towering coniferous forests, dozens of dark shadows were shuttling through the forest at an extremely fast speed.

The emerald green grass was crushed by the iron hooves, and countless small animals were frightened and hid in their nests. Even the geese that could see clearly what was in the forest tilted their wings and flew away from the shadows.

Liu Zhaoqing did not deliberately slow down the team to cover up their tracks. Now it was the best thing to do to speed up while taking advantage of the night.

And this night march paid off. When they were less than ten miles away from Bailang Mountain, Di Di appeared in the night.

"Sir, there is someone ahead!"

"Judging from the number of people, there are about three hundred."

More than three hundred...

Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun felt relieved after hearing this. With more than 300 people, even if they were all soldiers, they should be able to handle the situation with ease.

"Only three hundred?" Liu Zhaoqing frowned, not very satisfied with the number. After all, fewer people means fewer resources.

But you can't think too much at this time, the opportunity is right in front of you.

Liu Zhaoqing said to Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun:

"If there are only 300 people, there is no need for too many complicated tactics."

Then he looked at the cavalrymen and their horses in the night. Both the soldiers and the horses were tired from the continuous charge.

Then he took out a package from beside the saddle and threw it to Zhang Liao.

"This is……"

"This is the dragon blood that the great and virtuous master brought from the plains. Distribute it to everyone. Take one drop for yourself, one drop for the horse under your crotch, and keep the rest properly."

Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun were both shocked. They didn't expect Liu Zhaoqing to be so well prepared.

After everyone had taken the medicine, Liu Zhaoqing looked around at the soldiers and then shouted:

"All soldiers, listen to my orders. Do not disperse. Follow me and charge into the camp. Kill all the armored barbarians!"

"Here!"

The 40 cavalrymen who were then reinforced rushed to the high slope under the cover of night.

Seeing the brightly lit gathering place of tents on the flat ground below the slope, everyone's eyes flashed with murderous intent.

Chapter 175: Iron Cavalry Tramples the Hu

Among this group of cavalry, 30% were selected from the more than 20 soldiers given by Liu Yu to Liu Zhaoqing, and 70% were from the Yellow Turban people.

But now most of them are Yellow Turban Army, and many of them were directly killed by the Hu people, like Zhen Mi, who either lost their relatives directly or were robbed by the Hu people and had to join the army.

Compared to hatred, achieving success is what most people want.

Liu Yu's policy can be said to be one of appeasement, which allowed the people living on the border to live in peace and security, but nowadays he still sticks to the old ways, and there is no sign of a quiet change in the ambitions of the north.

People like the Yuyang prefect, although they also recognized Liu Yu's policy of peace, also had a fire in their hearts.

Who doesn’t want to see that no one dares to invade his country and his own soldiers are invincible?

A rich life does not mean happiness for the people. Liu Zhaoqing understood this truth deeply, otherwise there would not have been such history as the Song Dynasty in later generations.

Liu Yu tried to make the people live as healthily as possible, and to show favor to the friendly foreigners as much as possible so that they could be tamed and live a good life, but he did not care about the barbarians' wolfish ambitions.

I have been away from home for a long time, and when I return home, even a loyal dog will bark a few times from a distance and will not recognize me.

Not to mention foreigners.

The right way is to use both kindness and authority. If you only show kindness and forget about authority, you will end up like Liu Yu, who was not only barked at but also bitten.

But all this will change starting tonight.

The reputation of the Han people will once again resound throughout the northern frontier in the hands of Liu Zhaoqing.

In the pitch-black night in the distance, there was a Hu camp with at least a hundred or fifty tents gathered around a large tent.

On the plain at the foot of Bailang Mountain, there are so many tents gathered together, and they are guarded by armored Hu soldiers.

The people who stay here are certainly not herders who graze cattle and sheep.

This is the "military camp" of the Hu people. The people sleeping in the camp are naturally not "cattle and sheep", but Hu soldiers who are preparing to go south to plunder the Han land.

"I say, Alan, how long are we going to stay here?"

"How would I know that? I'm not an adult."

"Alas, we only have so many people in these tribes, and now we have no way out."

"What kind of escape route do the prairie boys need? And didn't Lu Xi complete the mission?"

"Mission? You mean Lu Xi brought the Han people who were shaking more frightened than a drowned dog?"

"Yes, Lu Xi said that the Han man is the son of Liu Yu. With him, our marginal tribes can join the royal court together and obtain the qualifications to pay homage to the Holy Spirit. Then..."

"Hush! Don't say that casually. Although our tribe has a good relationship, the other tribes are different. However, this kid Luxi is really good. Tsk tsk, maybe he can become the king of one side in the future..."

At the edge of the camp, two Hu men wearing leather armor and sabers on their waists were leaning against the wooden stakes of the camp and chatting with each other.