Chapter 20 Burning City

Chapter 20 Burning the City

Near the early morning, everything had been arranged. Zhao Gu opened the small door of the courtyard and found that Su Yong was still looking at the book from the old man in the candlelight. His eyebrows frowned, as if he were thinking about something.

"General, everything has been arranged and everyone has been gathered." Zhao Gu whispered.

Su Yong put away the book, squinted at the small yard, sighed, patted Zhao Gu on the shoulder, and walked out with him.

Twenty thousand sergeants of Yanlong silently led the horse covered with cloth. Although some of their bodies had not recovered, many people couldn't help but straighten their chests when they saw Su Yong come out.

What should be said has been said by the following generals to his subordinates. Su Yong, Xiao Changfeng and others just looked at the army slightly and waved to let everyone get on the horse.

The gate of the city was quietly opened, and everyone walked south against the wall in an extremely low-key way. The sound of fine horseshoes tied to the grass roots, and even a few roosters standing at the head of the city were not shocked.

It was still early before dawn. It was not until the last person gently closed the two gates, and nothing unusual was found. Probably the people in the sunset grid did not have the habit of getting up early, or since they were occupied by the Yanlong people, they knew that their movements were limited, so they simply slept more.

Therefore, it was not until dawn that the fire was ignited in the place where the Yanlong people were stationed. Those panicked Yanmeng city residents still did not dare to open the gate, but just looked from afar and talked with their fingers in consteration.

After all, in their opinion, the guard soldiers in the city don't care. Why are they so anxious? Can you help the Yanlong people put out the fire?

How did they know that those Yanlong soldiers who seemed to be majestic and unmoved in the city were just scarecrows!

Su Yong and others led the army to go south, far by far by the relatively dense tribal area in the west, and then turned to the east and walked in the direction of Imore. It was not until they saw the traces of the Gurahu Mountains and turned back to see the lighting light of the sunset in the distance.

And they didn't know how big a fire it seemed to be on the sunset grid at this time!

Although the Yanmeng people in the city watched the fire getting bigger and heard the screams from the fire, but these days they have witnessed the power of the Yanlong army. Those old and young women and children have been watching. They are still wondering why there are no Yanlong people to put out the fire, and where did those screams come from?

It was not until the fire ignited the garrison into ashes and gradually spread around, that they woke up from the surprise that no one had put out the fire and quickly ran home to picked up the bucket water plate. However, it was too late, and the fire was out of control. It was not until half of the sunset was about to be burned out that it was saved by these poor old and young women and children.

Although the Yanmeng leading troops outside the city saw the fire in the city, they didn't know why. Although they sent scouts to explore, they were afraid of the power of the 20,000 Yanlong army in the city. These days, they were used to being "pastorals" but did not dare to go too close. After all, those motionless "soldiers" in the city seemed to be staring at themselves.

It was not until someone opened the gate and shouted that they woke up like a dream.

As Su Yong expected, these people rushed into the city and found that it was just an empty city. The Yanlong people left no one left, and took away all the food and fodder and horses. They immediately reacted, leaving only a small number of people to clean the place, and most of the troops immediately reinforced Nancheng and Beicheng nearby.

Only this small number of people searched the sunset grid, except for the ashes and the shocking charred corpses somewhere, nothing was found.

And most of the Yanmeng soldiers were busy for more than a whole day. When they could see their own city, they were finally relieved: it seems that the other party did not attack this side, and the unlucky thing was another place!

Unfortunately, they didn't guess. No matter Nancheng and Beicheng, there is a two-day distance between them. At this moment, even if the two sides immediately send personnel to exchange information, they will not know the truth in two days.

Su Yong led 20,000 soldiers and came to the ridge of the Gurahu Mountains, the highest and longest mountain range on the Yanmeng grassland, in the afternoon.

The Gurahu Mountains, seen on the map, are like the two curved beards of the Yanmeng people. Er, they are two beards connected together, but there is a fold in the middle. The other side of the beard on the left is Yimore, the capital city of Yanmeng, built against the highest peak of this steep mountain range, Tang Buku Peak.

But don't think it's just a mountain apart. It's very fast. I'm afraid that the length of these two beards will have to run for two days before you can go around.

Crossing through the mountains? Although this Gulahu Mountains is not as steep and towering as the blood mountain outside Phoenix, it is everywhere on the cliff. The mountains are high and forests are dense and there is nowhere to go, and the Tang Buku Peak is even more accessible to ordinary people. Flexible hunters may be able to climb mountains and wade, and use rope tools to walk for a while, but the army... What's more, the army with war horses can't pass anyway.

Even if you can pass, you must abandon the war horse and have to graft countless ropes to find the way... In this way, it's better to walk on the horse for two days. It is more said that most of the wolves, the invincible group on the grassland, live in the mountains, and they can't take this risk.

At this moment, everyone is burying stoves and cooking under the mountains. Countless brothers who have not yet recovered are also surrounded by their companions. The military doctor is busy with re-examination, and they also seize this rare time to have a necessary rest.

Su Yong remembered the records in the book he saw last night, and asked Zhao Gu for a map of Yanmeng, and read it carefully.

"Do you remember the guy you met in the birch forest?" Su Yong looked at Sun Shangwu and smiled and said, "The old man said in the book that he had been to the Gurahu Mountains, and there is a way to go in this mountain." The last few pages of the book "How Steel is Made" are no longer about array exercises and cracking, but several Yanmeng travel notes, including the Gurahu Mountains.

The old man said that he had been in the mountain for two days and almost found the way to Tang Butu Peak, but because of the heavy snow at that time, he had to go back.

Sun Shangwu looked up and looked at Tang Buku Xuefeng, who was high into Yunshan, and shook his head: "Maybe there is a way, but the war horse certainly can't go, and without the war horse, there can't fight on the grassland!" Sun Shangwu has been in the frontier for many years and is an old scout, but this is the first time he has come out of the grassland. He doesn't know much about the terrain and doesn't agree with taking risks.

Su Yong nodded and looked down at the map, but the Gurahu Mountains on the map are just a curve, and Tang Buku Peak is just a triangular sign. No matter how he looks at it, what can he see?

However, Xiao Changfeng sat down beside him at this time and smiled, "I've heard of this Gurahu Mountains before, and I have also bought a specialty in this mountain range."

Su Yong's eyes lit up: "What specialty?"

A snow fox. That was a few years ago. A store that had goods with Yanmeng people all year round sold it to me. He said that only Tang Buku Xuefeng on the Gulahu Mountains of Yanmeng Grassland has snow foxes. I haven't worn the hat made of the snow fox several times, but it killed me a lot of money!"

Looking at Su Yong frowning, Xiao Changfeng smiled and said, "I know what you think. Since someone hits the snow fox, it proves that there must be hunters in the Gurahu Mountains. But don't forget that even if we can find the hunter, but the other party is Yanmeng, who knows if he will spread our news, even--"

He paused and sighed, "It's not necessarily necessary to deliberately take us to a dead end in the end!"

Su Yongmo thought for a long time and shook his head and said, "I think the opposite of you."