Chapter 81 Entering Qin
In Fanwuwu Anbo Mansion, Li Mu, who was exhausted and had not yet taken off his clothes, summoned the Ma Wei. He said, "You immediately lead a thousand cavalry out of the camp, quickly reach Jiuyuan County, and enter Qin along Henan. What you do in this trip is the King of Chu."
"The King of Chu has left the frontier?" Ma Wei looked at the fox baby who had just entered the tent, and was a little puzzled.
"You can just accept the order, why do you need to ask more questions?" Li Mu held the feather edict in his hand and stared at him.
"I will accept the order!" Ma Wei bowed without hesitation and wanted to take over the feathered edict from him.
"Slow." Hu Ying waved his hand, pointing the Chu Fan in his hand at Ma Wei. "You retreat first."
"The design of Xiangbang has been completed, why is the general like this?" Hu Ying knew that Li Mu wanted Ma Wei to save the King of Chu, but if he really wanted to rescue the King of Chu, the whole plan would not be successful. "And if the King of Chu was not dead, he would not know the suspicious thing?"
"If the King of Chu is not dead, Shang knows that our State of Zhao is not a beast and villain of a country." Li Mu thought a lot on the way back. Matou even turned to Qi once, but soon he turned around, so he was indifferent when he heard the words of the Fox Infant. "Ma Wei!" he shouted.
"The State of Zhao is not there, General..." Hu Ying sighed when he saw that he was stubborn, but when he saw Ma Wei enter the tent again, he could only keep silent.
"The King of Chu wanted to enter Qin, and he should be outside the Yan clan at this time, so your army would set up camp today, one man and two horses, traveling day and night." Li Mu looked at Ma Wei and instructed him again, his eyes following him until he left the tent.
Before the Qin army launched an attack, the 1,000 cavalry led by the Horse Guard could go to Jiuyuan County along the official road. Because there were post stations along the way, the journey was very fast. The real difficult place was Henan after crossing the Yellow River, which was also the reason why one could only send one thousand cavalry. In the clouds, it was difficult for Jiuyuan to raise thousands of military horses for a while. Without auxiliary horses to carry beans and wheat, the cavalry's strategic mobility was extremely limited - horses only took eight or nine hours to eat grass every day, and even could not compare to infantry.
When the Ma Guard led a thousand cavalry to leave Fanwu, Xiong Han, Gui Jing and others had just crossed the Yellow River on the grassland. Crossing the river was not costly. The people of Lin Hu didn't want gold and silver, so Gui Jing had to give up three dragon horses to cross the river. In addition to crossing the river, Chief Lin Hu, who got the god horse, also generously asked Gui Jing to replenish food and grass supplies in the tribe. Lin Hu did not grow beans and wheat, and the main supplements were jerky and puffs.
It was nearly October, and the weather outside the border became colder and colder. According to Wushuheng, the temperature suddenly dropped to minus ten degrees below zero. At night, because there were no pippens, someone was frostbite. Pippens is necessary, even if everyone was wearing a few sheep fur.
Cross the Yellow River, and then head south along the north-flowing Yellow River channel. The terrain is flat and the water and plants are abundant. Sometimes you can meet some grassland tribes. As long as you send some salt or gold and silver, these hospitality tribes can often allow everyone to spend a wonderful night: horse milk wine, roasted whole sheep, and tribal women are sleeping when they fall asleep.
"General Gui, Brother Wang knows that I am like this, so I need to punish me?" Thousands of miles away from Yingdu, Xiong Han felt a little scared. At the same time, he also missed his mother more and more, and missed the boring life of Yingdu.
"The king advocated courage and faith several times. His Highness made a brave move. The king must be very happy. How can he punish him?" The closer we are to Quyan, the more difficult it will be. The initial enthusiasm has disappeared, and worries have begun to surge in my heart. Gui Jing understands this psychology.
"Is it true?" Xiong Han smiled in a sad face. He admired Brother Wang, hoping that he could also play on the battlefield like Brother Wang, but now he suddenly realized that he was not Brother Wang, not as brave as him, nor as strong as him.
"Your Highness's brave and powerful ministers are obvious to all, how can the king ignore it?" Gui Jing comforted, "If there is a punishment, it is just a small punishment. But after this, who dares to say that Your Highness is unfaithful, and who dares to say that Your Highness is not brave?"
"General Xie Gui." Xiong Han's face shone red, his uneasiness and worry were swept away, and his face was full of smiles.
"Young brother is a wonderful statement." Gui Jing, who had left Xiong Han's tent, turned around and met Hong Mou. The sunset was setting and the golden light was shining. He could only see Hong Mou's unclear outline.
After Hong Mou and Wu Shi arrived on the shore, they did not achieve any great effect. The map and guide were enough to find the way to Qin. Gui Jing hoped that they could wait in Jieshi Port, but Hong Mou, who had seen all kinds of wind and waves, insisted on entering Qin with everyone. When Gui Jing asked him the reason, he answered not "for the king", but for killing people. He hadn't killed people for a long time, so he wanted to kill people.
"I tell the truth." Gui Jing smiled and explained. "Your Highness's actions are worse than me."
"How many days will it take to join Qin?" Hongmu nodded, still unable to see his face clearly. However, Gui Jing saw him holding a sword and the sword was sheathed. I think he was dancing a sword just now.
"It's been a few days since I arrived at the place where the river is bent." It has been more than ten days since the river crossing, and the team is getting closer and closer to Qin.
"The land of the river bend?" Hong Mou was puzzled. "The itinerary was October. The young master Mi told the temple that it had been completed, but you and I have not yet entered Qin."
"The temple has been finished, not the wedding will be completed immediately." Time is indeed behind the plan, and Gui Jing can only hope that the wedding day will be in late October. "The land of the river is the land of the bend of the river, and there is..." Gui Jing was still facing the west, but the sound of horse hooves made him turn toward the south, a team of cavalry was approaching. "Equipment!" He shouted hurriedly, "Equipment-Equipment!"
"It's Chu Qi." Hong Mou's eyes were better than Gui Jing. He quickly took out Lu Lijing and said, "It's Chu Qi, and there are people from Zhao."
"Chu Cavalry?" There were Chu Cavalry on the grassland thousands of miles away. Gui Jing was very unbelievable. When he raised Lu Li's mirror, the Chu cavalry in ring armor was truly displayed in front of him. He also saw the leader of the knight holding a military flag with the word "Yi".
"Marquis Yiyang?!" He opened his mouth in surprise, so big that he could swallow the entire Lu Lijing.
"Why is Yiyang Hou here?" Hong Mou also saw the "Yi" flag.
"I don't know." Gui Jing replied in his mouth, but thought of a possibility in his mind: the king secretly sent the Marquis of Yiyang to Qin to welcome the young master Mi. The reason why everyone didn't know was that the king didn't want the queen mother and the tutor to know.
The military flag with the word "Yi" was fluttering in the north wind, and soon the cavalry rushed to Gui Jing and others. The leading cavalry knew Gui Jing. After dismounting, he bowed to Gui Jing and said, "I am Yi Zui, and I have met General Gui. Please tell the king that there is something important to see."
"King?" Gui Jing was stunned for a moment. He didn't understand why Yi Zui asked to see the King.
"The Zhao people said that the King of King had gone out of the frontier and was about to enter Qin." Yi Zui looked at the accompanying Captain Zhao State in confusion.
"The king has not gone out of the frontier." Gui Jing whispered. No matter it is the king or the fierce prince, he does not want to disclose his whereabouts.
"Didn't go out of the frontier?" Yi Zui became increasingly puzzled. Three months ago, his father was entrusted by the king to go out to Qin. Because the Zhao army also went out to attack Qin, the two sides walked together. Before the Zhao army got the order to enter Qin, they could only wait for the order in Hequ. The Chu army then went first. Three days later, the Zhao army suddenly caught up and reported the news, saying that the king had also gone out to Qin. His father sent him back, but he didn't expect that the news from Zhao people was inaccurate.
"It's not the king who goes out of the frontier, but the fierce prince goes out of the frontier." Gui Jing pulled Yi Zui to one side to tell the truth.
"Why did the fierce prince go out of the frontier?" Yi Zui asked again. In addition to being in the frontier, the news he received was very limited. In addition to sending some news from Zhao Qi from Jiuyuan County, the Chu State spy who came out of the Yanshi Frontier reported the situation in the Qin State.
"Prince Wei shared the worries of the king, so he went north to the frontier to welcome Mr. Mi to Chu." A few words could not explain clearly Xiong Han and why he appeared here. Gui Jing could only briefly say. He asked again: "The temple has been completed, where did the Yihou go, and whether he entered Qin?"
Gui Jing was a general of the cavalry. If someone else was a different person, Yi Zui would definitely have some doubts. He heard him ask and answer: "It has not yet entered Qin. The people of Zhao said that the king went out of the frontier and wanted to enter Qin, so he walked slowly and waited for the king."
Yiyang can only be considered a small county, and there are only a few hundred knights to use. The king entrusted him to the king, and the Marquis of Yiyang led more than 300 knights to Zhao State. They only received the horses transported from the Horse Raising Island when they arrived in Fengzhou. The Zhao people suddenly reported that the king went out of the frontier. Knowing that it would delay the trip, the Marquis of Yiyang still asked Yizui to come to welcome the king.
When I heard Yi Zui say that the Marquis of Yi Yang was waiting for him slowly, Gui Jing felt happy and worried. What was happy was that Marquis of Yi Yang would definitely get help from the Master of Zhibing, and things should be absolutely certain. What was worried was how to explain to Marquis of Yi Yang why Prince Wei went north to the frontier? If the explanation was not good, with the Marquis of Yi Yang, he might be sent back to the country by him.
"Everyone goes out to Qin to welcome the young master Mi. Now that the temple has been completed, how can Yihou go slowly?" Gui Jing said as he looked at the knights who had already left the tent to welcome Yi Zui and others.
"General Gui means that the last general is to reply to me. Please come to Qin first?" Yi Zui asked. Since it is not the king who goes out to the frontier but the fierce prince, my father does not have to wait slowly.
"That's right." Gui Jing said. "Yihou was blocked into Qin by Yan's clan, and I was equal to Fangqu and entered Qin. After they all went south along the Jing River, why should I wait for me? After entering Qin, maybe I still have to wait for Yihou."
The large army could only go south along Qingshui to the Yan clan pass. Later, the Xiongnu Khan led 140,000 cavalry to harass the Han Dynasty (the fourteenth year of Emperor Xiaowen of Han, in 166 BC, when the Yan clan pass was called Xiaoguan), and he took this route. However, after entering the Yan clan pass, the Xiongnu went not to the Jingshui River Valley, but to the south along Liupanshui (that is, along the Weishui River Valley), and the vanguard pointed directly at Yongcheng.
Gui Jing had only more than thirty riders, and the beans and wheat were very sufficient for the horses to carry. He could not detour and cross the next door hundreds of miles without detours, enter the square canal from the Malian River, and then pass through the Yiqu to the Jingshui River. Gui Jing did not meet with the Marquis of Yiyang. In addition to time considerations, the other thing was that he had already entered Qin at that time. For the morale and military scheming, the Marquis of Yiyang could not send him back to his country.
"Since that's the case, I will return to the camp tonight." Yi Zui didn't know what Gui Jing was thinking, and he thought he was worried about entering Qin Taichi.
Chapter completed!