Mu Chun rode his horse for about ten steps and noticed that there was no familiar sound of horse hooves behind him. He turned around and found that there was no supporter among him. None of those "brothers" followed him.
Not only that, even the ten guards and a military doctor sent by his father Mu Ying, who usually followed him like a dog-skin plaster, stood there motionless.
Mu Chun knew very well that he alone could not rescue his young mother.
Lian Muchun is smart enough to understand this, and others understand it even better - as long as they don't be stupid enough to follow him, he won't impulsively run out of the city to save people alone.
So everyone tacitly agreed to remain still.
Mu Chun cursed inwardly and cordially expressed his condolences to everyone's mother on this un-festive day.
Just when everyone was waiting for him to "admit his mistakes and return", Mu Chun suddenly spurred his horse and rushed out of the damaged city gate, shouting: "Brother, remember to burn paper for me on this day next year!"
After saying this, the man rode away on his horse.
Everyone immediately understood why Xiping Hou Mu Ying beat his eldest son as soon as he saw him. This idiot deserved to be punished!
He is so willful and never changes his ways. I have told him to "be patient" at least ten thousand times, but he still rushed to save people!
The eleven people sent by Mu Ying were the first to follow Mu Chun out of the city. Their mission was to protect the young master. If the young master died, they could only return with his head to report. They would die anyway, so they might as well die.
At that time, Bai Hu also went with him and said to the remaining six centurions of Jiangxi bandits: "I'm leaving first. You don't have to go. Leave a descendant in Guaishiling. Remember to burn paper for your brothers during festivals."
There were three Jiangxi bandits following Captain Shi.
Half of the Yingyang Guards also went, about fifty people.
Chen Xuan, the mountain king of Shibazhai in Zhuoying County, Xi'an, performed well in a battle against the 5,000 soldiers of the Qin Palace. Ji Gang took him to surrender and guard the border with 500 bandits.
Chen Xuan was born into a military family. His father was the commander of the Right Guard of Chengdu, a third-rank military officer. His family fell into decline due to being involved in Hu Weiyong's rebellion. When he was exiled to the border, he could not bear the abuse and was forced to join the Eighteen Villages.
He often claimed that bandits were not devils, so he led the bandits to open an escort agency and change his career. After cooperating with the Jinyiwei to uncover the true face of □□, he took the opportunity to "wash his feet ashore" and became a small centurion at the border of the Ming Dynasty, starting his official career from scratch.
Mu Chun was born into a noble family, but he was born with a rough and unruly temperament, which particularly attracted the bandits. Chen Xuan joined his account. Mu Chun did not discriminate against his subordinates.
Chen Xuan admired him very much for treating the second generation of the Eagle Guards, who came from a superior family, and the bandits of the Eighteen Villages equally.
Now Mu Chun was going to the border alone. Chen Xuan did not agree with it rationally, but his passion was ignited, and his emotions prevailed. He also mounted his horse and said to his men, "It is dangerous to go there. Those who want to follow can follow, and those who don't want to follow can stay here without shame."
About three hundred people followed Chen Xuan to chase Muchun.
Dust was blowing outside the Great Wall, blurring the vision. Everyone covered their faces with triangular scarves, leaving only their eyes exposed. Chen Xuan was worried that Mu Chun had run too far and he could not catch up with him, but he quickly gave up the idea.
Mu Chun had already dismounted in front of him, leading two hounds. He put a piece of baby's clothes close to the hounds' mouths and let them smell the milk. "Smell it well, take us to find his mother."
Mu Chun already had four bandit captains and fifty or so loyal elite soldiers of the Eagle Guard. When he saw Chen Xuan bringing three hundred people to reinforce, he immediately smiled and said, "Very good, the number of people has exceeded my expectations. Let's go."
It turns out that he was not alone, but had set up a trick to trick them. Muchun never intended to die alone.
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment: Ah, we've been fooled! Is it too late to quit now? Forget it, we're already here...
The two hounds followed the scent of breast milk and rushed to the northeast. Mu Chun took the lead and chased them, "Let's go, quick battle!"
Everyone followed them, and just as Mu Chun had judged, the other party was robbing property and young women and walked slowly, so Mu Chun and his friends soon caught up with them.
The Northern Yuan army was a little surprised as they did not expect the Ming army to fight back. Mu Chun bent his bow and shot an arrow on horseback, and the arrow pierced his chest.
The Northern Yuan army began to fight back and the two armies engaged in battle.
The looting team this time was 500 people, among them were many grassland herdsmen who took advantage of the situation. Mu Chun's men were all elite and well-equipped. When the two armies faced off, the strength of the two armies was immediately apparent.
The Northern Yuan army felt that things were not going well, so they blew ox horns and retreated. However, they could not escape fast with their property and people, so they abandoned the looted things and retreated under the cover of wind and sand.
Mu Chun had already ordered not to fight to the end, so no one pursued. Everyone withdrew their troops and counted the people they had captured. Most of them were teenagers and adult women. The men were used as slaves, and the women were taken away as wives or sold to nobles as slaves.
Muchun waved the baby's clothes and asked the shivering women huddled together, "Who is Wang Suzhen?"
No one responded.
The hunting dogs barked wildly in the direction of the fleeing Yuan army.
Mu Chun immediately realized that the Yuan army did not let the new mother go and dragged her away with them.
Mu Chun stared at the baby's clothes. It was a small piece of cloth, not even as big as his socks. The stitching was dense, and the raw edges were left outside so as not to hurt the baby's delicate skin.
This is a caring mother.
Mu Chun put his clothes into his arms and got on his horse. "You escort the common people back to the city, I'll go rescue them."
The eleven-man group sent by Mu Ying immediately followed. Captain Shi and Chen Xuan looked at each other and followed. Gradually, about fifty people silently joined this "suicide squad", and the rest of the team escorted the people home.
The wind and sand were getting stronger and stronger, and the sky was getting darker and darker. Without the hunting dog to lead the way, Mu Chun would have no idea which direction to go.
He now finally understood why all the large-scale wars between Ming Dynasty and Northern Yuan Dynasty were won by Ming Dynasty finding the Northern Yuan Dynasty's base camp and launching attacks.
The northwest is vast, with grasslands or deserts. The Ming Dynasty and the Northern Yuan Dynasty were like playing a death-defying game of "hide and seek". If they could catch the enemy, they would win. If they couldn't, the Ming Dynasty would be exhausted to death and become the loser.
The hound barked, it caught him!
Mu Chun bent his bow and looked for his target. In the wind and sand, he could vaguely see a horse, with two hunting dogs barking around it.
Mu Chun and others surrounded the horse and walked closer, only to find a young woman tied to the horse's back. The woman's mouth was blocked and she was lying on the horse's back, tightly tied to the saddle, unable to move or make a sound.
Mu Chun pulled out the hemp seed from the woman's mouth and asked, "What's your name?"
The woman said, "Suzhen, Wang Suzhen."
Muchun took out the baby clothes in his arms and handed them to the young mother, "I'll take you home."
At this time, Chen Xuan shouted: "Oh no, we have fallen into the enemy's trap!"
Chen Xuan pointed at the compass needle spinning wildly in her hand, "The magnetic field here is disordered, and the compass is out of order. The wind and sand blind us, and we can't use the sun, moon, and stars to find the direction. The enemy is familiar with the terrain, and they deliberately drove the women here, using hunting dogs to lure us in, trapping us, and they took the opportunity to escape."
Mu Chun didn't care and said, "Anyway, our purpose is not to fight, but to save people. The compass is useless. We can wait for the sandstorm to stop, identify the stars and walk southeast, and then we can go back. This sandstorm can't keep blowing."
Everyone felt that what Mu Chun said made sense and felt relieved.
About half an hour later, the sandstorm finally stopped—because it started to hail!
Hailstones fell one after another, some as big as goose eggs and some as small as grains of sand. This was a basin with only dead grass and thorns, but no trees. Everyone drove the horses to a mountain cave, covered them with felt cloth for camping, and then put up shields outside to block the strong wind and hail.
Bang!
Hailstones hit the makeshift wall made of shields, as if there was an energetic giant outside who kept hitting the wall with his pickaxe, fifty times with the big hammer and twenty times with the small hammer.
Muchun took the wine gourd off the horse's back and shared it with everyone, "Warm yourself up first, and we'll go back when the hail stops."
Half an hour later, the hail stopped and heavy snow began to fall!
Muchun had never seen such heavy snow. As the snowflakes fell, he could clearly see the hexagonal outlines of the snowflakes. They were white, soft, light and transparent, dancing in the wind.
With the help of the torchlight, Mu Chun opened the compass. The needle was spinning like crazy, and his heart was also in a mess. He closed the lid and comforted his men: "When it gets light and the sun comes out, we will be able to identify the direction and go back."
Bai Hu asked, "What if it's cloudy and we can't see the sun?"
Mu Chun said, "If you cut down a tree and look at the direction of the raised growth rings, you can tell the north from the south. I will definitely bring all of them back with you."
Although Mu Chun was as steady as a dog, he was worried: I didn’t see any trees along the way…
At this time, the eleven-member group sent by Xiping Hou Mu Ying looked at each other and took out their secret weapon - fireworks.
Mu Chun said: "Our people are too far away from here, and they can't see the signal."
The military doctor of the eleven said: "This is what the Marquis left for us to save our lives. It can be used to contact the scouts lurking in the enemy camp. They will come to rescue us."
Muchun didn't believe it, "Does it work?"
The military doctor said solemnly, "Your Majesty won the third Northern Expedition this spring thanks to the intelligence provided by these scouts. They marched for seven days and seven nights, crossed the Yellow River, passed through Ningxia, climbed over the Helan Mountains, found the Yuan army's base camp, and defeated it with one strike. They are the unsung heroes of the Ming Dynasty, and we must believe in them."
Eleven people climbed to the top of the mountain in the snow and set off five fireworks in a row.
Afterwards, the people and horses huddled together to keep warm while waiting for pick-up. Mu Chun was half-believing and half-doubting, so he stood outside to block the wind and dozed off while holding his two hunting dogs.
In the early hours of the morning, the hound in his arms suddenly pricked up its ears and barked wildly at the shield wall.
"Be alert!" Mu Chun drew his bow and drew his arrow without even opening his eyes.
Outside the shield wall, there was a rhythmic tapping of shields, and a deep voice said, "There are cows harvesting milk by the green grass."
Mu Chun was stunned. The military doctor came running over and responded by knocking on the shield wall with his sheathed sword, and then said, "There are fantail sheep by the Black River."
The man outside stopped knocking and said, "Yan Beifei."
The military doctor said, "Look north." Then he winked at Muchun, "The contact has arrived."
At that time, Captain Chen Xuan and others removed a row of shields, and the man outside came in with a horse. He was dressed like an ordinary herdsman, wearing a wolf-head hat and a sheepskin robe. He took off his hat, shook off the snow on it, took out a handful of wheat grains from his pocket and fed them to the horse.
He had the traditional Yuan Dynasty haircut of three parts, which was the opposite of the hairstyle of Ming Dynasty children. Ming Dynasty children only had the hair on the top of their heads shaved off, but the Yuan Dynasty shaved the top and back of their heads, leaving the bangs and the hair on the left and right sides, forming three areas, so it was called a three-part haircut.
The man used a brush to clean all the ice and snow off his mount, and even fed it some wine, before turning around and saying to everyone, "After daybreak, I will lead you out of the Valley of Confusion, otherwise you will never get out. The Yuan army returned empty-handed this time, and tricked you into wandering around in the Valley of Confusion, waiting for you to freeze and starve to death, and then slaughtering you like cattle and sheep. This is their usual trick. Few Ming soldiers have been fooled, and I didn't expect you fools to fall for it."
Only when the man turned around did Mu Chun see his face clearly. His bangs looked like they had just been cut, as neat as a knife. Even with this devastating hairstyle, he was still a handsome man.
The young mother stepped forward and bowed, "It's my fault. I was tied to a horse by the Yuan army and driven to the Lost Valley. They were all trying to save me."
"Qi Liuhai" was very surprised: "For a woman, you killed a hundred Ming soldiers? Are you the daughter of that high-ranking official?"
The woman said: "I am just an ordinary civilian. They said they would take me home to reunite with my husband and children."
"Qi Liu Hai" asked: "Who is the leader among you?"
Mu Chun lowered his head and said nothing. He knew that he was too impulsive and almost killed everyone. However, his men all took a step back and isolated this foolish young general.
Mu Chun laughed dryly, "It's me. May I ask your name, great savior? I will repay you in the future."
"Qi Liu Hai" raised his hand, and no one went up to persuade them to stop fighting. They all waited for Qi Liu Hai, the great savior, to beat up the stupid little general and teach him a lesson.
Mu Chun retreated repeatedly, "A gentleman should use words instead of fists. If you have something to say, let's talk it out nicely. If you want to, you can scold me, but don't scold my mother. You can scold other relatives as you like."
Especially my dad.
The hand of "Qi Liuhai" fell on Mu Chun's shoulder and patted him, "Heroes have always emerged from youth. Ming Dynasty has a passionate youth like you who protects the people.
I think we can still win this Northern Expedition. We are not fighting for the sake of fighting, but to protect our country."
Meeting an old friend in a foreign land, Mu Chun was so excited that he hugged "Qi Liu Hai" and said, "You are really my confidant. How about we become sworn brothers?"
Seeing that Xiping Hou Mu Ying had a son for no reason, before the eleven-man group went up to stop the young master, "Qi Liuhai" simply refused, "No, as a scout, I must remain calm and cannot interact too deeply with others. You are just a task of mine, and I have no interest in you."
Mu Chun was cruelly rejected, but he still tried to get close to him, saying, "You praised me as a passionate young man, and you are also handsome and young."
She still looks so good with such a devastating hairstyle.
"Qi Liu Hai" put on his hat, mounted his horse and led the way. Hearing this, he sang a sad little song, "Young man today, old tomorrow. The mountains are still beautiful, but people are haggard."
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