?In the territory of Shangming County, Yingzhou, Zhou Faming led several servants to escort a carriage on the official road towards Yongyang in the southeast. A group of barbarian soldiers chased after him.

Zhou Faming was the third brother of Zhou Fashang, the former governor of Shunzhou. His second brother Zhou Fashang was transferred to the position of the Huangzhou General Administration a month ago. After settling in Huangzhou half a month ago, he asked his younger brother who stayed in Shunzhou to escort his mother over.

After receiving the letter, Zhou Faming took a hundred servants to protect his mother in a carriage and set off from Shunzhou through Yingzhou in the southeast to Anlu. He never thought that he had just arrived at the boundary of Shangming County in Yingzhou and encountered the Tongbai Mountain Baman who was raiding down the mountain.

Fortunately, the other party was just a few small troops. Zhou Faming fought and retreated. Now there were only a dozen people left by his side. The road was rugged and the carriages were not moving fast, and the barbarians were still following closely.

"If I had known, I would have gone south to Suizhou." Zhou Faming was a little annoyed, but there was no regret medicine in the world. There were no decent cities at least twenty miles ahead. Some villages alone could not withstand the impact of the barbarians.

Except for the carriages, they all walked, and the horses and other carriages had lost all their losses in the previous few breakthroughs, and even the arrows were shot out. Baman lived in the mountains for many years and walked on the mountain roads like walking on flat ground. This foot strength was not comparable to them. If they continued to chase this way, they would probably not be able to reach Yingzhou.

The wind blew over the mountains and forests on both sides of the road, and some grass and trees were all soldiers. If the barbarians were not following Zhou Faming closely, they would have wanted to lead the group to hide in the mountains and forests and wait for the wind to come out before coming out.

As the saying goes, the house is raining all night long. After a few days of bumpy carriage, it finally couldn't support a wheel breaking. Zhou Faming was so anxious that he sweated heavily and helped his mother up and let a few decent servants run away quickly. He turned around and pulled out his knife and shouted, leading the rest of the servants to meet the barbarians in an attempt to win time.

I thought I could protect my mother Zhou Quan before he could even get caught here, so I would just die in battle!

Just as he and his men were about to fly into the fire, suddenly there was a loud sound of breaking through the air on both sides of the road, and many feather arrows roared and shot the barbarians to the ground. Some of them who were lucky enough to die were chopped over by the soldiers who rushed out with long swords.

In the blink of an eye, more than 40 pursuers were wiped out. Zhou Faming, who survived the disaster, looked gratefully at the soldiers who suddenly appeared from both sides of the road for a moment, then came back to his senses and ran to his mother to check the situation.

"Be careful not to attack Baman!" Several teams were directing the soldiers to guard the situation. Zhou Faming looked around but saw the soldiers wearing armor and smiling constantly:

"Li Dagang, why are you proud of? You have the ability to hold a steady bow and shoot arrows on the battlefield. Don't shoot arrows at that time, and then you will be amazed by the wind!"

"You can tell the master of Xiong Zhuang that you are so slow, even if you grab shit, you can't grab a bite of hot food!"

Zhou Faming looked along the winding official road, and there were many soldiers and carriages. The wheelbarrow appeared and came here. Several generals dressed in horses were walking in the front of the team.

"Next Zhou Faming, Zhou Fashang, the governor of Shunzhou, will be his brother. I wonder if your army is?" Zhou Faming saw the other party approaching and quickly came forward to introduce himself and inquire where he came.

When the first person threw a whip and got off the horse, he walked back and forth, and introduced himself that it was Yuwen Wen, the Duke of Xiyang County. He trained the new recruits and marched, and then he set up an ambush when he saw a barbarian army coming. Could it be that Zhou Langjun's appearance was a disaster in the Baman world ahead?

Zhou Faming nodded and said yes, Baman has besieged Shunzhou, and the people of many counties are worthy of caution. The mountain road is rugged and I don’t know how many ambushing soldiers have set up along the way.

"I led my army all the way to support Shunzhou." Yuwen Wen directly expressed his original intention to avoid any unrealistic expectations from the other party. He talked with Zhou Faming for a moment and roughly explained the current situation.

They assisted the governor in Yongyang, Yingzhou Prefecture to defeat the five thousand attacking Bamans, and then headed northwest to support Tuzhou and help the counties along the way to repel the barbarians. Tuzhou governor had already repelled the barbarians, so they continued to go to Shunzhou.

As of today, it is the third day, and all the small groups of barbarian soldiers who have passed by have been wiped out.

More than 2,000 people were in a tight military force and could not divide the troops to send Zhou Langjun and some people to Yongyang, Yingzhou. If there were too many people, it would be better not to send him. Yuwen Wen tried to persuade Zhou Langjun and his mother and others to act together.

Zhou Faming was confused for a moment and discussed with his mother for a while and decided to go with the army. There were only a few people left on his side who would meet even a small group of barbarian soldiers.

Yuwen Wen was a little excited when he saw the other party making a decision because he felt that this meeting would definitely trigger some hidden mission.

This Zhou Faming is not a simple character and his second brother Zhou Fashang have two tricks. He is a historical figure who has been famous in history books.

Zhou Fashang, his grandparents and grandchildren, were all very capable of fighting. Two years ago, Zhou Fashang was falsely accused of rebellion and was desperate to take his stepmother and younger brother across the river and went north to join the Northern Zhou Dynasty and was appointed as the governor of Shunzhou. In the original history, Yang Jian was valued by Zhou Fashang in the Sui Dynasty.

He served as the governor of Bazhou and the general manager of Huangzhou. He was appointed as the Duke of Qiao County. When the Sui Dynasty destroyed Chen, he managed Jiangnan. After the destruction of Chen, he pacified many barbarians and rebelled in Lingnan to become the general of the Wuwei.

In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, his son Zhou Shaofan, as the leader of the imperial guards of the imperial palace, responded to the Qin King Li Shimin's launch of the Xuanwu Gate Incident, and then made great achievements and was named Duke of Qiao. He is really a tiger father without a dog son.

Zhou Faming occupied Huangzhou during the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and observed the changes in the situation. Later, he joined the Tang Dynasty and was named the chief supervisor of Huangzhou. He was accidentally assassinated and died while suppressing the rebellion.

This is not the point. Zhou Faming and his brother lived in Shunzhou for two years. He should have a good understanding of the surrounding terrain. If Yuwen Wen wants to "surprise" Baman who attacks Shunzhou, he needs a "leader" like him.

That day, Yuwen Wen in Yongyang City, despite the resignation of the Yingzhou governor, insisted on going to support Shunzhou. He used both soft and hard work from the other party and found several officials who were familiar with the terrain as guides, following the official road to march towards the northwest.

If you don’t move quickly, you won’t be able to do it. If you leave late, you are called back to Anzhou by someone sent by the old man. How can you copy the copy?

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“Raising?”

After hearing Yuwen Wen's intention, Zhou Faming raised his eyebrows. The other party asked him about the surrounding terrain of Zhiyingcheng, Shunzhou Prefecture, and said that if the time was right, it would be planned to attack the Baman army besieged Yingcheng.

Regarding this idea, Zhou Faming felt that if he was the leader of the army, he would definitely attack him, because those Bamans were just a group of garbage, but they only depended on the large number, but if they were the soldiers under Yuwen Wen, it would not work.

Because he felt that these soldiers were not much better than garbage, he kept complaining.

What is the "Raic" phalanx, and the infantry and cavalry are killed, and no one can get close to you as soon as the spear comes out, and there are also the ridiculous spear advances. Could this Xiyang County Duke have too many flying eagles and lackeys and thought war was a joke?

I dare not fight with my body and delusions to win a battle by stabbing a broken gun from afar. Which bastard taught you? Why don’t you care about your father when you train in this way?

Zhou Faming's grandfather Zhou Lingqi was the general of the chariot and cavalry of the Southern Dynasties. His father Zhou Jing went through Liang and Chen dynasties in his career. Now, the six prefectures in Jiangbei under the jurisdiction of Huangzhou General Administration were his father who fought from Beiqi and joined the territory of Chen State. Then he captured Yuwen Liang, the general manager of Anzhou General Administration of Zhou, more than a year ago.

He just refused to accept it: If my father had not died of illness at that time, how could his father have taken over the six prefectures in Jiangbei so easily!

Zhou Faming has the arrogance of being a general. His mother is Chen Gaozu's princess and Zhou family's Xuxian, so he is with his eldest brother and his second brother is half-brother of the same father. But he admires his second brother Zhou Fashang very much.

Zhou Fashang followed his father's military strategy since he was a child. After Zhou Jiong's death, Zhou Fashang inherited all the private soldiers of the Zhou family. Two years ago, he was framed by King Chen Shujian of Changsha, and immediately arrested Zhou Faseng, the Zhou family's father-in-law, and was immediately arrested.

Zhou Fashang had no choice but to take his stepmother and younger brother across the river to Northern Zhou. Chen State pursued the troops to kill him with his own hands, but Zhou Fashang used a small trick and beat him to the point of falling and falling water to capture thousands of people. Now Zhou Faming hates his second brother a month earlier than his departure. Otherwise, if the Zhou family's troops were in Shunzhou, Baman would not be a problem even if he came to 20,000 people.

The troops accumulated in the Zhou family's three generations of military careers are all veterans of a hundred battles. How could these people under your Xiyang County Duke compare to?

What kind of raid is, after all, it’s just a night attack. How many of your soldiers can walk on the night road? Don’t ask your own people to cut them off and Amitabha!

Zhou Faming complained deeply but didn't show it on his face. He was nineteen years old this year and was no longer a child. It was impossible for him to let his thoughts appear on his face.

However, the 'actual age' is twenty-four, no, the twenty-five-year-old Yuwen Wen has seen through what the kid is thinking. Seeing that the other party did not think the raid could succeed, he did not argue. Although Zhou Faming questioned the combat effectiveness of his new recruits, he still told him in detail the terrain near Yingcheng.

Yuwen Wen and his men thought there was a chance. The group of fish in Tongbai Mountain Baman who could not conquer the city suddenly because they had too many people to conquer the city. As the saying goes, Baman, who is very proud of the troops, could not have been able to siege Shunzhou quickly, would not know that Yingzhou was defeated and would not be wary of reinforcements suddenly appearing.

If you seize the time and march, you will definitely catch Baman off guard. If you attack at night, you will be a magical act!

Night marching is also a subject for Yuwen Wen to train new recruits, but the first problem he encountered was night blindness.

Night blindness is commonly known as "blind blindfolded". There is a modern saying that in ancient times, ordinary people were poor and malnourished, and they could not afford to eat all kinds of animals' livers, resulting in severe vitamin A deficiency. Most of them suffered from night blindness. Therefore, most of the ancient large-scale night attacks in history were fake.

This view believes that those who can conduct night attacks are basically personal troops who provide long-term food and drink, elite troops and servants. Only when they are not short of nutrition can they not suffer from night blindness, so night attacks can only be carried out by small elite troops.

However, Yuwen Wen found that among the soldiers he recruited, there were many people who usually eat wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger, but they did not suffer from night blindness. After thinking about it, it might be that those wild vegetables do contain vitamin A.

However, Yuwen Wen, who likes to burn money, doesn’t care about so many. As long as he can buy eggs, he will add vegetables to the animal liver for these rice buckets. However, night blindness is gone, but the night marching is still under great pressure.

Because it is really difficult to command the marching at night, if a hundred people are released and then taken back, God will know how many can be retrieved. Therefore, Yuwen Wen found that the biggest problem with night attacks was not night blindness, but large-scale night attacks were inconvenient to command, which could only be carried out by elite teams.

So is the size of 2,500 people considered an elite squad? Yuwen Wen used various training methods that are not suitable for children to turn the answer to this question into no doubt.

Seeing that the other party was ignorant of the importance of the matter, Zhou Faming was really planning a night attack, and Zhou Faming couldn't help but feel anxious: If they were going to die, they would invite him, but he could only follow the large army with his mother. What if these birds were playing night attacks and the whole army was wiped out?

I can stay and see if you are willing to die. At least I will ask a few horses to arrange for my servants to protect my mother and run away!

"If you want the horse to run away? If you want it, go and take it!" Yuwen Shiwu believed that this guy was afraid of death and did not dare to follow the army, but wanted to take his mother to escape. "When he arrived at Anlu, he said that he had picked up the horse. Don't say that he had seen me before!"

Zhou Faming heard the words and blood poured on his head. He felt that being looked down upon by a 14 or 15-year-old bastard would damage the Zhou family’s name: “I have never said I would escape in the last battle!”

"How many heads are enough for Zhou Langjun who is waiting for the night attack?" Yuwen Shiwu's mouth became more and more like the leader Yuwen Wen.
Chapter completed!