Chapter 956 The Wind Country is Coming
Han Mo's subordinates all held the sword tightly. Compared to the group of people coming towards him, Yan soldiers were naturally well-trained and advanced and retreated. Seven or eight soldiers had already stepped forward and formed a line of defense with shields. Other soldiers were holding spears or large swords, and several of them were also bent their bows and arrows to face the enemy.
In terms of the number of people, the opponent had more than 20 more people, but in terms of combat ability, the Yan soldiers naturally had the upper hand. They thirsty drink mountain spring water and hungry eat meat from the mountain. They are strong and energetic. The previous fatigue has long since dissipated. If they take action at this time, the opponent may not be able to take advantage of it.
However, Han Mo also knew that if he had fought with the other party at this time, he would not lose to the other party, but the military strategists had their own words, hurting the enemy by a thousand times and 800 times. The group of people coming towards him looked like they were all fierce. Look at them all with swords and bows, and they were definitely not ordinary people. When they started fighting, the brothers on his side would probably suffer heavy casualties. He immediately said in a deep voice: "Brothers, don't act rashly, I have everything!"
The forty or fifty people surrounded them in a fan shape and stopped more than ten steps away. Suddenly one of them shouted, "Oh, it seems to be a soldier."
When Han Mo and his group set out from Tingshui Pass, in order to cover up their eyes, they all replaced the captured Wei soldiers armor. Although most of the armors are damaged and blood-stained, and half of them have even taken off their broken armor and only wore short shirts inside, the other party can easily see that this is a group of soldiers.
Han Mo deliberately lowered his voice and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Who are you? Why are you blocking our way? Are you going to rebel?"
Then he saw a burly man walking out from there, wearing a short jacket, open his collar, revealing his furry chest, his arms were dark and thick, his face was covered with horizontal flesh, he hung a bow and an arrow box, and holding a copper fork in his hand, which seemed to be his weapon. The man was obviously the leader of the group of people. After walking out for a few steps, he whispered loudly: "Don't get me wrong, lords, we are all good people, not rebel."
When he saw Han Mo and his group's armor, he thought they were all soldiers of Wei.
Han Mo sneered: "Since it's not a rebellion, why should you point your bow and arrow at us? You are so brave."
The strong man hurriedly turned around and said, "I have let go, it's my family." Then the group of people put down their bows and arrows.
The strong man asked loudly, "Yes, where are the officials going? Judging from the officials, they seem to be lost. I wonder if we can help!"
Han Mo didn't talk much nonsense, stretched out a hand, waved to the strong man, and said, "Come here!"
The strong man was stunned, hesitated for a moment, and looked back at his subordinates. Seeing that he had many people, he was a soldier, and although the other party was a soldier, he should not dare to do anything to him. He walked over carefully, but he stopped four or five steps away, clasped his fists and said, "Little man Hou Biao, I have seen an adult."
Han Mo looked at Hou Biao for a few glances and said, "We are from the Shannan Army. I am the commander of the Shannan Army. You are the commander of the Shannan Army. You are the commander of the Laozi Commander Wei."
Hou Biao smiled and said, "It turns out it is Commander Wei, I have long admired him!"
Han Mo thought to himself: "If you have long admired my name, you will be a god." But his face looked solemn and said: "We fought with the Yan people, and later we got lost, so we came here."
Hou Biao thought it was true, and hurriedly said, "Commander Wei must have won the battle, so he got lost after chasing the Yan people."
Han Mo coughed and pointed at the large group of people and said, "Hou Biao, I am here to ask you, who are these people? What are you going to do when you are wearing swords and bows, and gather together?"
Hou Biao hesitated and did not speak for a while. Han Mo snorted coldly, and Hou Biao finally said: "Commander Wei, everyone is a civil servant. We are gathered together to go to the national crisis and contribute to the country!"
"Make efforts for the country?" Han Mo sneered: "A large group of people wandering in the valley. What kind of efforts did they do? I think you are going to take advantage of the situation here, right?"
Hou Biao waved his hand and said, "Mr. Wei misunderstood. To be honest, everyone used to do some unsupported business, but now that the country is in danger and the strong enemy invades, everyone is just thinking about working for the country. Originally, everyone was discussing going to Kyoto City to participate in the war in the next few days to resist foreign enemies...!"
Han Mo said lightly: "I want to go to Kyoto City, is that going in this direction?"
Hou Biao waved his hand and said, "Mr. Wei, I was going to go to Kyoto City, but yesterday I got a piece of news that a group of Yan people entered Shannan County, and I don't know what they meant. We are going to chase them."
"Yan Man?" Han Mo frowned, and the hands of Zhu Yan soldiers holding guns and knives were still steady and powerful.
"Yes, yes, we got the news. Someone sent a signal last night. There were more than 20 people on the other side. Although they were dressed up, they must be from Yan." Hou Biao affirmed: "Our people have followed them and left marks along the way. After I got the news yesterday, I gathered these righteous men and followed the marks along the way. Those Yan people must be the provocations of Yan. If they were caught and handed over to the government, hehe...!" At this point, his face showed unconcealed excitement.
In fact, at this time, orders were issued to various parts of the Wei State from Kyoto City. Every citizen in the Great Wei territory, regardless of his status, could be rewarded as long as he could make achievements in this battle to protect the country. Even those bandits in the Yangtze River, as long as they were willing to serve the country and suffered hardships, could still forgive their previous crimes and not blame them for the past.
Because of this, there were so many civilians from all over the Wei Kingdom to Kyoto City.
Wei lived in poverty, and many people were forced to become bandits due to helplessness. In comparison, among the four countries, Wei's bandits were the most serious, and Shannan County, which is a mountainous and forested area, bandits were even more rampant.
Hou Biao is one of the bandits in the mountainous area of Shannan County. He also has more than a dozen brothers under his command. He is a brave man and has a reputation among the bandits in this area.
The bandits are a business that is not on the belt. If they were not helpless, no one would want to go on this path. Now the Wei court has issued an order, regardless of origin, as long as they can go outside Yanjing to gather and participate in the war, they can be exempted from all previous crimes, and will not blame them before, and make contributions and be rewarded.
When Hou Biao and others learned the news, they invited many colleagues to go to Kyoto City together to make contributions to join the army and find a good way out.
Just before we set out, we got news that a team of Yan men wearing weapons entered the mountainous area of Shannan County.
After learning the news, Hou Biao immediately felt that the opportunity had come.
He was short of staff and felt that the team of Yan people was difficult to deal with. For the sake of his completeness, he sent two clever subordinates to follow up and left marks along the way. He himself sent people to notify several other groups of bandits nearby and gathered forty or fifty people, feeling that they were enough to deal with the team of Yan people, so he followed the marks along the way.
These bandits knew in their hearts that if they could capture that group of Yan people, it would definitely be a great achievement and would definitely be rewarded by the government, so they were all extremely excited.
When they met Han Mo and his group of people, Hou Biao and others thought they had caught up with the group of Yan people, so they rushed up to take action.
Han Mo was confused at this time, not knowing who the group of Yan people they were chasing were, but he also wondered whether it was the Yan army spy sent by Han Xuanling to inquire about the news, so he said, "It's a coincidence that we are also preparing to go to Kyoto City. Since we encounter this, we must help you."
Hou Biao looked strange and smiled, "You are polite, you dare not bother with all the officials." He asked with confusion again, "Is Commander Wei going to Kyoto City? Are you not Shannan Army? Why are you going to Kyoto City?"
"Why do you still have to report to you when you go to Kyoto City?" Han Mo said coldly.
Hou Biao hurriedly smiled and said, "No, no, it's just that the people of Feng Guo entered, and they all thought that the Shannan Army was guarding the Feng Guo, and they didn't know that Commander Wei would go to Beijing!"
"The Feng Guoren came in?" Han Mo frowned, with a slightly surprised look in his eyes.
Hou Biao said, "I heard from other brothers that Feng was coming here, I don't know whether it was true or not. I just said that there are tens of thousands of troops in Feng Kingdom, which have entered our Great Wei Kingdom's border...!" He clenched his fists and waved hard: "Those barbarians are called taking advantage of the situation. In the past, they only dared to stay in their own holes and didn't dare to come out. Now when I saw that my Great Wei Kingdom was in trouble, I came out to break into a scoundrel. However, with your Shannan Army, those barbarians will soon run away with their heads in their arms."
Han Mo was very surprised. He knew that Feng Kingdom had always been in conflict with the world. After the turmoil of the previous dynasty and the world rose, the three southern counties broke out of control and established Feng Kingdom. In the past century, although they had experienced many wars, especially with Wei Kingdom, and even had several wars with Yan Kingdom, the people of Feng Kingdom had always fought on their own territory and had almost no history of leaving their own territory to send troops to fight. This time, they suddenly left their own country and entered the Wei territory, which was indeed surprising news.
In other words, if this news is true, then the Wei State will not only face attacks from the Yanqing coalition, but will face full attacks from the four other three countries of the Central Plains.
What surprised Han Mo was that as the supreme commander of the Yan State military and had a very complete intelligence network, he knew nothing about the news that Feng State participated in the war.
It is absolutely impossible for any country to launch a war on a whim, and it must make all kinds of preparations in advance.
Feng Kingdom sent tens of thousands of troops, which was obviously a dedicated effort. Such a large military operation must have been planned in advance, and other countries were unaware of anything in advance. This can only prove that Feng Kingdom kept the military attack plan very confidential and concealed it from many people.
Obviously, the Feng people must have deceived Sima Haoyue.
If it weren't for the judgment that Feng Kingdom would not send troops easily, Sima Haoyue would not dare to be so bold and would draw all 20,000 Shannan Army troops out.
The Feng people seemed to be really weird if they could hide it from Sima Haoyue's eyes.
He suddenly understood why the Shannan Army was frustrated in the attack of the front line valley, but suddenly evacuated. Now it seems that it is not that they want to evacuate, but that the military situation in the rear is urgent, so they can only withdraw their troops and turn back to deal with the threat from the Feng people.
Chapter completed!