Xu looked at Lu Zixuan lovingly and said, "You haven't visited Grandma for a while. Do you miss her?"
Lu Zixuan nodded her little head and said in a sweet voice, "I miss grandma so much, but now I am learning etiquette with the nanny every day, and now I have to go to the prefect's house to learn music, chess, calligraphy and painting. I miss grandma, but I don't have time to visit her."
Lu Zixuan was also a little depressed. When she visited the military camp, she knew that her elder brother had found a way to let her study and play with the daughter of the prefectural government for her own good, but she felt so tired.
Xu knew very well that the girl was tired, but she would not say it. Life was already difficult for women, so it was better for her to learn more.
"Okay, your big brother is doing this for your own good. When you grow up, you'll understand. Let's go in. Where are your parents?"
"My parents are in the back, they are outside watching the yard, so I came in first."
"Okay, let them see it. It's our own house. Why can't we see it anytime? Come on, let's go in and not wait for them."
At the door of the house, Lu Mingyuan and Tan Yunniang walked in slowly. Yunniang liked this new house very much and kept commenting on the advantages of the house as they walked. Lu Mingyuan really didn't expect that his wife liked this new house so much. He thought it would be good to come back and live there often in the future.
Beidaying, Lanling County
Lu Zifeng had been in the military camp for three days. These three days were usually spent on training, but this training was nothing to Lu Zifeng. He had just washed off the sweat on his body and put on his clothes when he heard Situ Yi's voice coming from outside.
"Brother Feng, what are you doing? Let's go hunting in the nearby mountains. I heard that you are quite good at hunting."
Lu Zifeng glanced helplessly at Situ Yi who was standing at the entrance of the tent, "Can't you wait for me to get dressed?"
Situ Yi curled his lips and said, "We are all grown men. What can't we see? I have the same thing as you."
Lu Zifeng was too lazy to pay attention to him. After putting on his clothes, he asked, "What hunting are you doing? I heard that the Marshal will start fighting the Tatars in the next two days. Do you still have the time to go hunting?"
After hearing what he said, Situ Yi turned around and walked out of the tent to take a look. He came back and whispered in Lu Zifeng's ear, "The Marshal sent us hunting to investigate the enemy camp. He suspected it was just an empty shell. Some time ago, Prefect Tian severely damaged their leader. Now let's go and see if we can find out the truth."
Lu Zifeng glanced at Situ Yi after hearing this. "Does this guy mean to give me a chance to make a contribution? Everyone knows that I'm just a new recruit, how can I get the chance to carry out such a mission?"
Situ Yi seemed to know his doubts, patted his shoulder and said, "I think you have some doubts too, but let's not talk about this matter for now. We'll tell you when you know the truth!"
Lu Zifeng didn't think any more about it. Since it was the task assigned by the commander-in-chief, he would just do it. The two of them walked out of the tent together, took their bows and arrows, long swords, small daggers, and ropes, and rode their horses out of the camp with several soldiers and ran towards the nearby forest.
Half an hour later, the two of them arrived at the foot of the mountain. It was really like running a dead horse while looking at the mountain. The distance looked not far, but they didn't expect that it would take them half an hour to run. In later generations, that would be an hour.
This mountain range is called Yanshan Mountain Range, which is connected to the Pulao Mountain Range. However, this section of the mountain range is also called Yanshan Mountain Range because it contains a large amount of salt mines, so it is called Yanshan.
Leaving the horses at the foot of the mountain and asking the soldiers to guard them, the two men took their things and walked deep into the forest. Walking along the path, they soon saw several villagers chopping wood. After asking for directions, the two men continued to walk towards the back of the forest.
Along the way, the two men hunted a lot of wild animals, but they did not choose large beasts. They only killed a few pheasants and rabbits. Their most important task was to investigate the strength of the Tatar military camp. It was not until the middle of the morning that the two men vaguely saw the Tatar military camp not far from the foot of the mountain from the mountains and forests. In front of the military camp was the Qinghe River, which was more than ten feet wide. Now was the flood season, and the water in the Qinghe River was very turbulent. Now, let alone the Tatar army, even if the army of the Dayu Dynasty wanted to cross the river, they would probably need to find an opportunity.
"Zifeng, where are you looking?"
Lu Zifeng looked in the direction Situ Yi pointed, and saw that there were only about a few hundred people sparsely scattered in the Tatar military camp, and it seemed that there were not many people.
"Situ Yi, it seems the Tatars know it's flood season now. It would be very difficult for our Dayu Dynasty army to cross the Qing River, so they're not afraid. It's impossible for everyone in this camp to be hiding in their tents, so we can conclude that this camp is fake. So where did the rest of the Tatar soldiers go?"
"Perhaps they are hiding in this salt mountain, or they have already left and gone somewhere else, or they have retreated."
Lu Zifeng thought for a moment and said, "Why don't we go and test them, maybe we can find out their strengths and weaknesses."
After discussing it, the two men headed the other way, preparing to descend the mountain from that direction. Perhaps there would be a good harvest? Sure enough, they climbed over a lower hill and saw a valley below filled with tents. After a rough calculation, they both gasped. It turned out that the camp outside the mountain was really a fake camp. The real camp was here. If the Dayu Dynasty raided the camp outside the mountain and continued to pursue north, they would be attacked from both the north and the south. The result at that time was imaginable.
The two of them were not prepared to go any further and simply went back along the same route. At noon, they did not dare to make a fire in the mountains, so they could only eat a few bites of the dry biscuits they brought with them and then continued on their way back. It was not until dark that they came out of the forest and rode their horses towards their tents.
His Royal Highness Prince Jing was reading official documents in the big tent. When he heard that Situ Yi and Lu Zifeng had returned, he let them in.
"How is it? Have you found out?"
"General, just as you expected, the Tatar camp at the foot of the mountain is empty, with only a few hundred people. The rest have entered the salt mountain. Zifeng and I saw that there are at least 100,000 people in the Tatar camp in the valley."
After hearing this, King Jing looked at Lu Zifeng and said, "Zifeng, if we send a team into the mountains to ambush the Tatar camp, how many people do you think we will need? How will we ambush them? Have you memorized all the directions?"
Lu Zifeng really didn't expect King Jing to ask him this question, but he thought about it and expressed his own opinion.
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