Chapter 700: Raid
Although the snow didn't fall heavily, it still turned the world into white. A big bird flew from a distance and landed on the top of a big tree. With its landing, the branches trembled a few times, and the snow powder fell, revealing the verdant inside. After observing the top of the tree vigilantly, the big bird fell to the ground lightly, leaving a long claw mark on the snow. Its long beak was held on the ground and held on the right. After a moment of effort, it actually found a bug in the snow. Its mouth was held on the big bird again and landed on the canopy. It did not eat the bug that it had found. Its one in its mouth seemed to be like a family member at home who needed him to feed it.
A sudden sound of horse hooves came from a distance. The bird turned its head and looked in the direction where the sound came. Several black shadows appeared in his field of vision, getting closer and closer. The whistling sound of feather arrows came from the air. The bird flapped its wings and flew high without looking back.
The sound of the vibration of the bowstring is not unfamiliar with it, but many companions fell with this sound and never soared freely in the air again.
The horse knights certainly had no energy to pay attention to the big bird because they were running for life. Behind them, a cavalry team was chasing them.
Chen Fu pulled the iron bow in his hand, and accompanied by the howling sound of feather arrows, a knight crashed and dismounted.
Chen Fu's real name is Chen Changfu. Although his archery skills are not as magical as his brother Chen Changping, he is also outstanding among archers.
The sound of arrows, and the last escaped knight also fell off his horse.
The cavalry stopped, turned over and dismounted, walked to the knights who had fallen horses, swung their swords mercilessly, and added another knife to the men, before dragging the bodies aside.
Chen Fu made a gesture, and the cavalry that caught up behind him spread out to the surroundings again. After a moment, they disappeared into the vast snowfield.
Zhu Youzhen led 15,000 troops to raid Wuning with Cao Bin as the head coach, and Tian Guofeng was the pioneer.
In the first battle, Tian Guofeng won the unprepared Wuning Quan County without any speed. Then the three thousand cavalrymen ran wildly and rushed towards Guide without any stop.
Guide City, Guide County, is the main goal of their cavalry team this time. Where is there a regular army stationed in Wuningjie Town with more than 10,000 people.
Taking down Guide and defeating this team will open the door to attack Xuzhou.
In order to ensure the suddenness of the attack, the cavalry team advanced almost day and night towards Guide. The cavalry advanced rapidly along the way, and Tian Guofeng was too lazy to take a look at some small towns and towns.
After the initial shock, the places that were skipped by Tian Guofeng remembered to send people to report the news to Guide. But first, they had already landed behind the cavalry, and secondly, even if there were people with excellent cavalry skills who had crossed the path to Tian Guofeng's cavalry, they could not bypass the scout team led by Chen Fu. These people eventually fell under the arrows of these scout teams.
Thousands of cavalry approached Guide in the wind and snowy sky, but Guide was still ignorant of all this.
Zhou Qun, the governor of Guide County, is also the patriarch of the Zhou family, the largest wealthy family in Guide. At this moment, he was not in Guide City, but in a manor outside the city to celebrate his 70-year-old mother's birthday.
Located in the Zhou family’s luxurious manor in Zhouzhuang, there are lanterns and a joyful atmosphere. The red lanterns hang from several miles away from the village to the village. The big trees with leaves all fallen are also wrapped in festive silk and tied with beautiful silk flowers.
The road was cleaned and the convoy was gathering here from all directions.
It is rare for people to live in seventy years. This year, Zhou Qun celebrated his old lady's birthday with great fanfare. He naturally had to make a fuss. Anyone who consciously had some identity and who could enter the manor would come to the door with carefully prepared gifts.
Many of them are afraid that Zhou Qun will not recognize them at all.
Of course, this is not important for the gift giver. The key is that your name is just on the gift list. It is correct to give it, if you don’t give it, or you will be in trouble at that time.
Zhou Qun's eldest son Zhou Zhen stood at the gate to welcome guests with joy.
Any important person would be welcomed to the inner hall in person and then received by his father. Those little people or those who are purely here to curry favor with him will greet him with a smile and then hand him to the newly built greenhouse in the manor. There was a flowing mat inside long. These people came to give gifts, show their faces, have a meal, and of course they could leave.
The horse's hooves were so good in the distance that Zhou Zhen immediately greeted him with a smile on his face. If there was anyone in Guide who could be on an equal footing with his father, he would naturally be the only one in front of him, Lu Meng, the general of the Wuning Army stationed in Guide.
Lu Meng, who was in his early forties, was in his prime and had excellent martial arts skills. He was the confidant general of the Wuning Jiedushi Pang Xun. He led 10,000 Wuning troops to command Guide City and guarded the southern gate for Xuzhou.
"Uncle Shi, I have worked hard all the way. In such weather, you are still working hard to come in the wind and snow." Zhou Zhen smiled and greeted him, holding the reins of Lu Meng, and personally helped Lu Meng turn over and get off the horse.
"The old lady is on her 70th birthday, so she will come to enjoy her joy." Lu Meng laughed loudly: "Where is your father?"
"My father is talking with Hu Changshi and the others. My nephew has already asked someone to call him father." Zhou Zhen said.
"Why do you have to be so troublesome? Let's go!" Lu Meng pulled out a scroll from his arms and handed it to Zhou Zhen and said: "This is a central hall written by Pang Jiezhen himself, and it is given to the old lady to celebrate her 70th birthday."
Zhou Zhen quickly held the scroll with both hands and said, "I didn't expect that my old lady's birthday would even alarm Ji Shuai. I was really frightened."
"Zhou Fujun has always been the most capable and trusted person of Jishuai. On the old lady's birthday, Jishuai naturally has to express something." Lu Meng laughed and pointed to a carriage behind: "I have also prepared some gifts."
"It is a blessing for General Lu to come." Zhou Zhen waved his hand, and a group of servants rushed over and took over the work of driving the carriage from the soldiers: "Prepare a room for these brothers, and serve them with good wine and vegetable fields."
Lu Meng nodded with satisfaction. As Zhou Zhen just stepped into the gate, he saw Zhou Qun, the king of Guide Mansion, greeting him from the lobby with a group of officials and gentry from Guide.
In the Zhou family manor, laughter and laughter were heard. At this time, only thirty miles away from Guide City, the three thousand cavalry led by Tian Guofeng were doing their final rest. After serving their respective war horses, the soldiers sat on the ground, took out dry food from their arms, picked up some snowflakes from the ground, took out some snowflakes and dry food, and quickly finished eating, then wrapped themselves in a cloak, and fell asleep.
The battle is about to begin, and they must seize every time they can use and have a good rest to restore their strength.
Of course, the generals cannot rest.
At this moment, Tian Guofeng, Chen Fu and others gathered together to discuss the final offensive plan.
"According to the information provided by Shi Hong, Guide had a total of 10,000 troops stationed in Guide, and this 10,000 people were affiliated to the Wuning Army and led by the Wuning Army General Lu Meng. Well, Shi Hong said that Lu Meng was a very powerful general. In addition, there were about 1,000 soldiers under Guide himself." Chen Fu said.
"Is it so powerful? Ask me first!" Tian Guofeng smiled.
Chen Fu ignored him and continued: "These ten thousand people, one thousand of which belong to Lu Meng's personal army, were stationed in Guide City, and the other nine thousand were stationed in Sugezhuang, about ten miles away from Guide City. The focus of our battle this time is not to take down Guide City, but to slash the Sugezhuang military camp and annihilate the Wuning Army with lightning speed. As long as we defeat this Wuning Army, Guide City will definitely be our treasure."
"Sugezhuang is forty miles away from us. Half an hour later, our entire army set out. When we arrived at Sugezhuang, it was just dark, and this time should be their time to eat. Remember, after rushing into the enemy barracks, the first priority is to defeat them, drive them out of the barracks, and then chase them. These nine thousand people are all infantrymen. As long as they drive them out of the barracks and go to the wild, haha, let us be fish and meat."
"That's it." Tian Guofeng stretched, "Snap time to sleep, nourish your energy, and do a big deal."
"You go to bed, I'll be on duty. After half an hour, I'll wake you up." Chen Fu said with a smile.
"Then I'll have a hard time." Tian Guofeng laughed and lay down on the spot.
The sound of horse hooves came from afar. Chen Fu stood up. In the distance, two horsemen rushed over quickly, one was the scout he had scattered, and the other was wearing casual clothes.
The two cavalry rushed straight to Chen Fu and others. The man in casual clothes turned over and dismounted, raised a sign in his hand high, and said, "The villain is a subordinate of General Shi Hong. He is lurking in Guide City and has important military information reports."
"Say!" He took the sign from the man and looked at it carefully, Chen Fu said.
"Today is the 70th birthday of Zhou Qun, the king of Guide Mansion. Almost all the officials of Guide Mansion went to the Zhou family manor outside the city to celebrate the birthday of Old Lady Zhou, and even Lu Meng went." said Xiao Zuo.
Tian Guofeng, who was lying on the ground, jumped up.
Chen Fu's eyes were also shiny and said, "Do you know where the Zhou Manor is?"
"I know. Because the Zhou family is in great honor, Zhou Qun mobilized hundreds of soldiers to help prepare." said Xiu Zuo.
"I'll go to Zhou's Manor!" Tian Guofeng said: "I'm going to kill Lu Meng with my own hands. I only have five hundred cavalry, and the remaining two thousand five hundred cavalry will be taken to Sugezhuang and kicked their old camp."
"Don't rush to do something." Chen Fu nodded and said, "When I start to mobilize, someone will inevitably go to report the news. When these people come out of the manor, you will launch a sudden attack. A place like Zhou's Manor must be deep and solid. If you fight hard, it is not a good choice."
Chapter completed!