Chapter 12 Meet Fang Kun at Night

In the evening, Zhang Zhentian, Yao Xiu and Zhou Peihu took the 200 cavalry assigned to them by Shanyuan and rushed to the village when they set out. After that, Zhou Peihu led most of the soldiers to camp in the village, while Zhang Zhentian and Yao Xiu took 20 soldiers to the hill to find Fang Kun and Su Tianxing.

"Mr. Zhang, you are back!" Su Tianxing heard the noisy footsteps behind him, so he turned around and looked behind him. When he saw clearly that Zhang Zhentian had brought someone up the hill, he came to Zhang Zhentian's side with his waist. "How's it going? Is everything going well together?"

"It's okay!" Zhang Zhentian nodded, and then looked at the mountain again, "Where did General Fang go?"

"He..." Su Tianxing hesitated a little, and then said, "General Fang followed the orc's cavalry." Speaking of this, Su Tianxing told Zhang Zhentian in detail about their two daytime discoveries.

"It's not good! It seems that the orcs have another camp behind us. After listening to Su Tianxing's words, Zhang Zhentian said in surprise, "Well! These 20 soldiers, led by you, continue to stay here to monitor the movements of the orcs. Yao Xiu and I went back to the village to inform others to take precautions to avoid being attacked by orcs.

"Good!" Su Tianxing answered, and then turned around and took Zhang Zhentian to lead the soldiers. They went to the top of the mountain together. Zhang Zhentian and Yao Xiu left the hill and returned to the village. Now that tents have been set up in the village, Zhou Peihu and the remaining soldiers brought by him are building a stable and some simple fortifications.

"General Zhou!" Seeing this, Zhang Zhentian quickly walked to Zhou Peihu's side. He told Zhou Peihu what Su Tianxing had just said to him. After hearing this, Zhou Peihu also felt very surprised. He looked at Zhang Zhentian in surprise, "Mr. Zhang, what should we do in this case?"

"Now we are too few to be tough with orcs." Zhang Zhentian pondered for a while and replied, "But it's good that it's getting late, and the orcs come from afar. They must not be familiar with the environment, so they must not do anything at night. Moreover, the orc cavalry did not appear near the village, and they must have gone to Yanzhou. Therefore, let's wait for General Ziqi's reinforcements to arrive before making other plans.

"It's okay!" Zhou Peihu listened to Zhang Zhentian's words and nodded, "Then I will arrange the soldiers to bury defensive fortifications around the village, so as not to catch us off guard when the orcs find us."

"Okay, just do as you think, General Zhou!" After Zhang Zhentian said this, he turned around and looked at Yao Xiu, "Xiuer, you are familiar with the road. I would like to trouble you to come with me again. I want to go to Yanzhou to have a look again."

"Okay, I'll go with you." Yao Xiu nodded and agreed, and then the two of them found their horses and went to Yanzhou together.

On the way, the sky has darkened. This is a mountainous area, so horses naturally can't walk fast. The two of them were careful to march towards Yanzhou. In this world, marching at night was originally a dangerous thing, but now they have to guard against orcs' attacks. Naturally, the two of them have to be more careful.

At midnight, the two of them had come a long way. On the way, they carefully checked the traces of roadside grass or gravel trampled by people or horses and livestock, but they could not find the traces of a large number of troops passing by.

"Brother Zhang, I think we'd better go back?" Yao Xiu squatted in front of the horse, and she checked another trace of being stepped on by a horse or animal. "I don't think the traces here have just been left. The stones in the distance have not loosened.

"How long will it take to get to Yanzhou from here?" Zhang Zhentian also got up from the ground. He looked at the surrounding environment and then said to Yao Xiu.

"It will take about an hour and a half!" Yao Xiu analyzed for a while and answered Zhang Zhentian, "There is a fork in the road not far ahead, one of which can lead to the west gate of Yanzhou, and the other can lead to Yunzhou along the ridge, but the road is very far."

"Then let's go to the fork in the road and make a rest!" After Zhang Zhentian finished speaking, he looked at Yao Xiu with a consulting look, "I think we have searched carefully enough on the road. It's not winter yet. If there are a large number of troops hiding around, I don't think we will miss anything.

"Okay! Everything is up to you." Yao Xiu listened to Zhang Zhentian's words and answered with a nod head. Although Yao Xiu was very fierce to Zhang Zhentian in front of people, she was more attached to Zhang Zhentian.

The two walked forward for another half an hour, and a fork in the road appeared in front of them. During the half-hour journey, Zhang Zhentian and Yao Xiu did not disoate to inspect the situation on the road. First, because they need to rush back to the village before dawn, and second, because the surrounding terrain is relatively flat. If there is fire in the distance, they will easily see it.

"Xiuer, it's so far away. Why didn't you see any towns?" Zhang Zhentian immediately asked Yao Xiu strangely.

"This is a mountainous area. Although it is close to the national capital, it is not suitable for the original people to live in." Yao Xiu listened to Zhang Zhentian's words and replied, "Most of our original people are used to planting, and it is difficult to grow crops in these places. There is no one in the mountains. It's just that they are all scattered. With that, she pointed to the fork in front of her, "Brother Zhang, this is the fork in the road. It leads to Yanzhou in the southeast and Yunzhou in the west.

"Oh!" Zhang Zhentian agreed, "Is there usually a lot of merchants on this road?"

"Not much!" Yao Xiu replied, "Although this road from Yanzhou to Yunzhou is more recent than other roads, this road is based on mountains, and there will be a large number of monsters on several sections of the road. At the same time, there is no bustling market to rest or replenish on the road. Therefore, there are usually no merchants going from here.

"That road is..." Zhang Zhentian continued to ask.

"I don't know how this road came from." Yao Xiu shook his head, "However, the road conditions on this road are not bad. Maybe it is used to transport grain by the army?" She answered uncertainly.

While the two were talking, a horse followed the fork road to Yunzhou and quickly ran towards the two standing positions. When the horse arrived nearby, the immediate people obviously noticed the two of them. The man quickly took the blade from the horse and prepared for the battle.

"Who is it?" Zhang Zhentian held a water polo in his hand, and then asked in a low voice.

"Are you...Mr. Zhang?" When someone heard Zhang Zhentian's voice, he hesitated for a moment and asked in the same low voice.

"It's General Fang!" Yao Xiu, who was next to Zhang Zhentian, took the lead in recognizing the identity of the other party. She reminded him softly, "Brother Zhang, it's General Fang who is back!" After all, she is young and has an arrow training background, and her eyes are much better than Zhang Zhentian and Fang Kun.

"It's me! I'm Fang Kun." As the man took the blade, he raised his horse and came close to the two of them. "Mr. Zhang and Miss Yao, why did you two come here?"

"Oh, we found reinforcements from the grain transportation team and found that you were not in the village, so we came to look for you!" Zhang Zhentian saw that it was Fang Kun, and he replied with a smile, "How about it? Can you find out the whereabouts of those orcs?

"Yes!" Fang Kun nodded and said, "They are all hiding on the side of the road to Yunzhou. Now, about four or five hundred people have gathered over there. They are all cavalry."

"Ha ha, it seems that the commander of this orc is not an ordinary person." Zhang Zhentian listened to Fang Kun's words and replied with a sneer, "They have guarded the road to Yunzhou. They can not only block the reinforcements from Yunzhou when attacking Yanzhou, but also use it to be close to Yanzhou and be a strange soldier to attack Yanzhou."

"Mr. Zhang, I think they want to surprise Yanzhou." Fang Kun listened to Zhang Zhentian's answer, "I have noticed it. There were many robbed vehicles in their camp, and all the people escorted the vehicles were killed by them.

"Do they have no internal response in the city? Are they trying to hide in the car tent and enter the city? Zhang Zhentian listened to Fang Kun's words, and he muttered. After a long time, he looked up at Fang Kun again, "Well! General Fang, hurry back to the village and inform General Zhou Peihu and prepare him for defense. If General Ziqi leads his troops to the village, you can divide some of your troops to the fork in the road. But be careful not to be found by orcs.

"Okay! I'm going." After saying that, Fang Kun hit the horse in the direction of the village.

Zhang Zhentian turned his head to look at Yao Xiu at this time, "Xiuer, I have to trouble you again. You immediately rushed to Yanzhou to see if you could quietly find some rescuers from Yanzhou. In addition, I found Jiang Dongfang and Su Wanyue to explain the situation here to them. Let them pay attention to the car accounts entering and leaving the west gate.

"Good!" Yao Xiu agreed, and she turned her eyes to Zhang Zhentian again, "Then you must be careful!"

"Don't worry!" Zhang Zhentian smiled at her, "I'm fine! Don't worry."