Turbulent Times Chapter 279: The first appearance of the skeleton army

Little Shizi smiled, leaned over to Wu San and said, "Master, we knew yesterday that the three captains had gone the wrong way, why didn't we remind them?"

Wu San knocked on Xiao Shizi's forehead and said: "Who made them so stupid that they couldn't tell that the military order was given to them by the enemy. Alright, let's go down and prepare to cook the meat for everyone Let's have a hot meal and drink some hot soup, the weather is getting colder."

Without much effort, the bonfire was lit. After the water in the iron pot boiled, the dozens of gazelles shot along the way were skillfully cleaned up by everyone, cut into pieces, and thrown into the boiling water. Sprinkle with a handful of salt, it is the best food. In the wilderness, salt is precious. Many horse thieves often eat meat without salt.

"After dinner, let's copy from the east, leave a marching route for Li Xiang, Su Changqing, and Jiang Mulang, three idiots, and continue to follow the army."

The order was passed on, and the two thousand horse thieves suddenly agreed, and they accelerated their eating speed.

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Until the evening, a scout found a big arrowhead on a large rock in the southwest direction, with the three characters 'Tuyuhun' written in front of the arrowhead.

Jiang Mulang, Su Changqing and Li Xiang rushed over as quickly as possible after receiving the report from the scouts.

"Did the general send someone over to help us?" Li Xiang scratched his head and asked Su Changqing, because this way of guiding the way was completely the style of their previous training in Gaotai City. They used to set up marching routes or training grounds in Gaotai City This is how Wang Junlin marked the direction.

"I don't know if it's someone sent by the general, at least it's not a trick of the Tuyuhun people! Move the big rock!" Su Changqing looked at the big rock for a while, shook his head and chuckled before giving the order.

Several soldiers pushed the boulder away with all their strength, and everyone found that there was a yellow parchment under the stone.

After the parchment scroll was opened, a simple map was drawn on it, and there was a marked route on it. This route was densely marked with very distinctive topography and landforms, but the words on it were not Chinese characters.

"Look, is it true!"

Su Changqing glanced at the parchment, then handed it to Jiang Mulang.

Jiang Mulang took the sheepskin roll and looked around. There was a small mound to the west. The windward side of the mound was covered with ravines. The tops of the ravines were all red sandstone pillars in the shape of steamed buns, which were very easy to identify.

I didn't walk towards the mound yesterday, but a little bit east...

Jiang Mulang looked at it for a long time, gritted his teeth and said, "You should go in the direction of Mantou Mountain. This map is real."

Su Changqing smiled and said: "Naturally it is true!"

Li Xiang opened his eyes wide and said, "How do you know?"

Su Changqing waved his hand to let the soldiers retreat a hundred steps away, then sighed, took the sheepskin scroll, pointed to a painted skull on the back of the sheepskin scroll, and said with a smile: "The mark of the skeleton army should be Lord Wu San Arrived in person."

Li Xiang and Jiang Mulang stopped talking after carefully looking at the imprints. They naturally knew about Wu San, but this was the top secret of Gaotai City, and they were not very clear about many things.

"Master Wu San should be nearby, but the existence of the Skeleton Army is the top secret of our Gaotai City. The three of us are qualified to know, but the others are not yet qualified, so Master Wu San can only give it to us in this way. We show the way."

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Xue Yantuo is the most powerful tribe among Tiele's tribes. Among the Dujin Mountains, it can be said that it is one of the largest tribes under the command of the Eastern Turks. The great chief of Xue Yantuo, Yi Shibo, is ambitious and has always wanted to replace Qiming Khan.

Perhaps Yi Shibo's ambition angered Changshengtian. A few days ago, a sudden cold wave hit Jinshan, and the blizzard raged for several days and nights, causing Xue Yantuo's cattle and sheep to freeze to death by millions, causing heavy losses. More importantly, they didn't have enough autumn grass to survive the winter. When Yi Shibo was considering whether to send people thousands of miles west to plunder the chaotic Western Turks, they received permission from Qiming Khan to go south to fight grass valleys. Order.

Yi Shibo also heard about Qiming Khan's sending a small number of silver wolf king riders to Yongzhou in the Sui Dynasty and suffered a big loss. Bobo didn't care at all. After all, compared to the Western Turkic tribes in the west who are not much richer than them, he prefers to rob the rich people of the Sui Dynasty, but because the Eastern Turkic Khanate and the Sui Dynasty formed an alliance, Qiming Khan also had strict orders for the tribes below. Before accumulating enough power, he didn't want to violate Qiming Khan's order, so he didn't pay the attention of the Sui people. Now that Qiming Khan took the initiative to order them to go south to rob the Sui people, how could Yi Shibo be polite.

So, after receiving the order, Yi Shibo immediately ordered most of the tribes to move south to the Yinshan area, which was already approaching the border of Yongzhou in the Sui Dynasty. At this time, the army sent back by Wang Junlin had already returned to the various military strongholds, and according to Wang Junlin's instructions, they sent scouts to the north to investigate. They discovered the news of the Turkic Tiele tribes going south in time, and all the border military strongholds made preparations in advance. And in the first time, the fast horse was sent to Wang Junlin and Jiang Yishan of Zhangye County.

Shifengzhai is located in Xifeng County, the northernmost part of Zhangye County. Since the Sui army defeated Xiturjue and Tuyuhun last year and took back Zhangye County, since the end of last year, the Sui Dynasty has begun to plan to move to Zhangye and Xiping. Among them, Xifeng County migrated more than 1,000 Han households from the prefectures in the Guanzhou during this year.

These Han people mainly live in the plains between Xifeng County and Shifengzhai. There are several rivers here, and it is easy to reclaim fertile land. So over the past year, more than a dozen villages have been formed according to the family.

The primary goal of the Yishibo people is Xifeng County, and if they want to enter Xifeng County, it is difficult to avoid Shifengzhai, the border army village.

Shifengzhai was originally guarded by a captain, but because he was Li Fengyun's confidant, he was ordered to lead most of Shifengzhai's troops to participate in the murder of Wang Junlin a few days ago, so he was killed by Wang Junlin in Yelugou. The guard of Fengzhai is Niu Jinda, the captain appointed by Wang Junlin.

Niu Jinda was born in the green forest and had never led a soldier before. He just followed Wang Junlin for the past few months. He was deliberately instructed by the latter and learned a lot from Zhan Peng and others. On the road with Shangguan Hu and his party of three thousand bandits.

As far as this is concerned, it is reasonable to say that it is not enough to be a captain, but on the one hand, Wang Junlin has no one in his hands for the time being, and on the other hand, it is because Wang Junlin knows that Niu Jinda will be the founding general of the Tang Dynasty in the original history. Absolutely has extraordinary talent in commanding troops to fight.

PS: The second update will be delivered, the third update will be a little later———