Zhang Yunzheng, Ji Wenzhao, Shen Wen and others hiding behind the rocks waited and waited, but nothing happened. Shen Yi didn't come back either, the surrounding was quiet, but no one dared to go out. As the sun rose high into the sky, Zhang Yunzheng and Shen Wen looked at each other, and really wanted to go out to have a look, but Ji Wenzhao knew what they meant, and shook his head vigorously at them, expressing that they would not let them move.
It was cold in winter, and everyone was unable to move around, and their hands and feet were all frozen. Duan Zeng kept opening and clenching his hands, motioning for them to do the same. All the horses in the col were bited and their hooves were covered, otherwise they would not have been able to keep silent for such a long time.
They waited and waited, until noon, and finally heard the thin sound of horseshoes. The sound of the horse's hooves was very slow, almost like pacing. Zhang Yunzheng couldn't help it anymore. He glanced out, then retracted, but after thinking about it, he poked his head out again. After he did this, the others quietly got up and came to his side, looking out.
At the mouth of the mountain, a group of people walked over, and there were only a dozen of them, some of them were supporting each other, and they were in a mess. There is only one colorless horse, carrying a man lying on its back.
They walked over like turtles, walking with difficulty. As soon as it entered the mountain depression, the horse suddenly knelt down on its front legs, and several people rushed to support the man on the horse and lifted him down. Just as he was half-dragged and half-lifted off the horse, the horse's hind legs buckled and it rolled over to the ground. A man walked up to the horse's head, touched the horse's nose, then patted the horse's neck, and sat down beside the horse's head.
The others also sat on the ground. After a while, the man next to the horse's head drew a knife, cut the horse's neck, bent over to drink the blood, drank a few mouthfuls, got up and wiped his mouth with his sleeve, signaling for others to come. The others drank the horse's blood in turn, and several began to carve up the horse's body.
Shen Wen frowned, she was afraid that these people would look for branches to make a fire, and if they walked to the side, they would find people in ambush. She originally thought that a group of people would come on flying horses, chasing after them. Only now do I know how much I took it for granted. They escaped from the far north, and they must have passed through the rare grassland like Shen Wen and the others along the way. Horse is not easy. Originally, this horse might be able to support them to cross the mountains and reach their loved ones...
After noon, these people cut up the horses. Maybe they didn't want to stay here any longer, or they were afraid of being exposed. Maybe they didn't have the energy to look for branches. They didn't light the fire and only ate some raw horse meat. Although the winter sun is bright, it has no warmth. Someone wrapped the bloody horse's back, and some men carried the wounded man in a fur cloak, and continued walking up the mountain.
In the distance, there is a faint sound of horseshoes. The men looked back and only picked up their pace a little. They had no horses, and they carried one person, and the others supported each other, so they couldn't walk fast at all. The sound of horseshoes approached, and these people walked up the hillside for a certain distance, occupying a high place, the thinnest and shortest of them, a man in black, stood behind a rock, said a few words, and made a gesture , the others untied their quiver and put it beside him.
Shen Wen and the others exchanged surprised looks: Everyone expected this god-like figure to be tall and burly, why is he short? Really shattered!
Others walked up the mountain again, and the people who were being carried seemed to say something, and these people didn't leave. The man in black behind the rock turned his head and gestured to them, but these people stopped walking and stayed by the rock near the man in black.
The man in black made some hoarse shouts, which could be faintly heard by people far away, but those people did not move anymore.
The sound of horseshoes became louder and louder. These people waited quietly, and Shen Wen and other people who were hiding did not dare to show their anger.
Soon, a large group of people appeared in the distance and quickly approached here. Shen Wen roughly estimated that there should be less than 200 people, so don't worry. The pursuers stopped for a moment beside the skeleton of the dead horse. The horse lingered in place, with its head raised and neighing. The leading men pointed to the hillside, and then came at a gallop.
Shen Wen felt as if he was watching the dusty history unfold before his eyes: the man in black put an arrow on the string, but did not draw the bow and arrow. It wasn't until the pursuers rode up the hillside that he was only a few dozen steps away from the boulder where he was hiding, that he drew his bow and shot the first arrow.
A pursuer fell off his horse in response, and then the man in black shot out arrow after arrow, extremely fast, and the arrows never missed. For a moment, there was chaos on the hillside. Someone shouted loudly, and the pursuers turned their horses and retreated. After running out of range, the people got off their horses and spread out. Under the cover of the rocks, they crawled towards the hillside. rushed.
The man in black shouted again, but everyone around him drew their knives and stared down the hillside.
The pursuers leaped from side to side and surrounded him, and some people also shot arrows at the rock where the man in black was. The man in black leaned against the rock, his body was completely sideways, and he always waited until the enemy was very close before shooting an arrow, every arrow must hit a vital point. But many times, the enemy was too close, and several people rushed up from different angles at the same time. He almost had no time to knock down everyone. Once, when everyone was in front of him, he shot an arrow into the opponent's eye. That The person fell down in front of the rock.
Zhang Yunzheng frowned at Shen Wen, Duan Zeng rolled his eyes, and wrote "tired" on the rock. Several people nodded suddenly. Duan Zeng could tell from the behavior of the other party that the man was exhausted and had to wait for the enemy to approach before shooting arrows. The place of the man in black blocked the passage up the mountain. No matter how hard the pursuers charged, they couldn't pass him. There were already nearly a hundred dead bodies on the hillside. Soon, the pursuers stopped their rapid charge and approached slowly instead, leaning over and climbing carefully by taking advantage of the terrain, making sure not to show their bodies.
The man in black raised his bow and aimed for a long time, and finally shot an arrow in the forehead of an enemy who was probing. Others who got close hurriedly hid behind the rocks when they saw this. Then, the man in black put his bow on his back, turned around and ran with a quiver in his hand, and ran towards the other people on the mountain. The enemies behind him shouted loudly, and arrows shot at him one after another. The man in black ran to the side of the wounded being carried, and others surrounded them, the blade of the blade reflected a little bit of light in the setting sun.
The pursuers on the hillside stood up shouting and rushed up.
Just when they were about to approach, the man in black suddenly untied his bow, took out an arrow from his quiver, and shot more than a dozen arrows in a row. where. The man in black lowered his bow and drew a dagger from the back of his waist.
The sun is setting, and the shadows are long.
The pursuers tentatively approached, but this time, the man in black never shot again. While shooting arrows, the pursuers approached the rock where these people were hiding...
Suddenly, there was a whistle, and many people appeared from the bottom of the mountain. On the cliff beside the hillside, someone shot down with a crossbow. The attackers on the hillside fell one after another, and the situation on the battlefield suddenly changed. The strong man a moment ago has become the weak man, the murderer has become the slain man.
After the rain of arrows, the living people on the hillside struggled and shouted to run back, but the place where their horses used to be was already full of people with crossbows. There was an interpreter talking loudly in Beirong language, Shen Wen said to Ji Wenzhao: "We have to go out too, it's up to you."
Their col is located just behind the dozen or so people who escaped. As soon as they appeared, the dozen or so over there turned around and pointed at them with weapons. Ji Wenzhao yelled loudly, and Duan Zeng asked, "What are you yelling?"
Ji Wenzhao said when he paused in his shouting: "It is said that we have no malicious intentions, but are here to help. We have a doctor who can treat people's injuries."
Duan Zeng proudly puffed out his chest, and said, "Look, at the critical moment, I'm a golden sign!"
Zhang Yunzheng poured cold water on him again: "I don't think that person can move anymore, he seems to be dying, so don't blow it!"
Duan Zeng looked at Zhang Yunzheng: "It's a good thing you didn't become a doctor, otherwise good people would make you mad!"
When they stopped within an arrow of those people, Ji Wenzhao said a few words again, and the man in black over there said a few words to the dozen or so people around him. Zhang Yunzheng also drew out the weapon. Ji Wenzhao yelled loudly, and the other side answered a few words. Ji Wenzhao said to Duan Zeng: "He said you must treat it well, or you will die."
Duan Zeng was furious: "Fart! How dare you threaten me?! I'm dead!" Turning around and leaving, Ji Wenzhao grabbed him, shouted loudly, and pointed at Duan Zeng vigorously.
After answering a few words over there, Ji Wenzhao said to Duan Zeng: "I told the other side that you are a miracle doctor. If you get angry, if you don't cure him, he will definitely die. Even if you cure him, if he dies, it means that others will definitely treat him too." No, let them figure it out. The archer apologized and said that he shouldn’t have said that, please treat him well, he will be at your disposal for the rest of his life.”
Duan Zeng said angrily: "Why should I dispatch him? I don't want to fight! Let them all get out of the way! I don't want someone to stab me in the back!"
Ji Wenzhao said a few more words, and the people around the man in black dispersed, revealing the person lying on the ground.
Zhang Yunzheng said, "We still have to be on guard."
Ji Wenzhao nodded and said, "Yes, yes, just stay behind Duan Langzhong."
Shen Wen said: "I will guard with you."
Ji Wenzhao waved his arms and yelled as he led the people. The people over there stepped back a little bit, and the man in black who was just shooting arrows stood beside the lying man.
When they approached, Zhang Yunzheng faced the Beirong people who were standing a stone's throw away with their faces full of vigilance, while Shen Wen looked back and forth. Over there, Shen Yi had completely surrounded Bei Rong's pursuers. If someone on Bei Rong's side took up a weapon, someone on Shen Yi's side would shoot arrows, so in the end, neither of the two sides moved and stood in a stalemate.
Duan Zeng went to the lying person and squatted down, only to find that the person was lying on his side, a long arrow pierced through the chest, the arrow was exposed from the front, the tail of the arrow had been cut off at the back, and blood seeped into the front and back of the clothes. Duan Zeng hurriedly closed his eyes for a while, then opened his medicine box, and said to Ji Wenzhao and the fourth prince standing beside him, "Come and help!"
The two people heard the words and squatted down beside the wounded. Duan Zeng handed Ji Wenzhao a pair of scissors and said, "Cut off the clothes near the arrow! The back is also exposed!" Ji Wenzhao immediately assigned a task to the fourth prince: "You help."
The Fourth Prince cooperated with Ji Wenzhao to cut two big holes on the chest and back. Zhang Yunzheng said to Shen Wen: "Go over there and watch."
Shen Wen said: "No, I still have something to say."
Zhang Yunzheng said: "Then don't look at him!"
Shen Wen was also embarrassed to see a big man with his back exposed, so he looked up into the distance.
Duan Zeng first pricked a few acupuncture points on his back with silver needles, then picked up a pair of pliers, and took out a clean white towel from the medical box, folded it into four squares, and handed it to the fourth prince, saying: "As soon as I draw the arrow , you plug the wound."
The fourth prince took the scarf with trembling hands and could only nod. Duan Zeng said to Ji Wenzhao, "Hold his body and don't let him move!" Ji Wenzhao nodded and put his hand on the injured shoulder.
Duan Zeng frowned and grabbed the arrow with pliers, then closed his eyes, and began to slowly pull the arrow out from his chest. He drew lightly, sometimes stopping and twisting the arrow slightly. Ji Wenzhao and the fourth prince were terrified: how can there be such a person who draws an arrow with his eyes closed? The man in black clenched his sword tightly, and Zhang Yunzheng lifted the sword slightly.
Under the shaft of the arrow, the original coagulated blood gushed out. The fourth prince was afraid of disturbing Duan Zeng's hand, so he didn't dare to move, and only stared nervously at the wound. Finally, Duan Zeng pulled out the arrow shaft. As soon as the arrow shaft left his body, a gust of blood spurted out. The fourth prince hurriedly covered the towel, but after a while, the towel was soaked, and the blood stained the fourth prince's hand. The fourth prince yelled in fright: "What to do! There is so much blood! Quickly apply the medicine to stop the bleeding!"
Duan Zeng opened his eyes and said, "Don't panic, don't panic! Just cover it!" He put down the broken arrow and pliers, picked up the silver needle, and pierced acupoints one by one. A small bottle of medicine came and said to the fourth prince, "Take it away and let me have a look."
The fourth prince moved his hand away and saw a wound open, but the blood flow was much slower. Duan Zeng said proudly: "Look, it's not bleeding much, right? You can only apply the medicine now, otherwise the medicine will be washed away by the blood..." As he spoke, he carefully poured the medicine powder on the wounds on his chest and back place. The fourth prince only looked at the injured man's face at this time. Although he had a sparse beard, he was probably about twenty years old. With his eyes closed, his face was covered with dust and muddy from sweat, and his nostrils moved. Do not move…
When Duan Zengzheng turned around to put the medicine bottle into the medicine box, the fourth prince who stared at the wounded said, "I think this man seems to be out of breath..."
Duan Zeng said: "How could it be? The arrow passed by his heart and only scratched a little lung..." Looking back, the man's face really turned gray. Duan Zeng grabbed his wrist With a pulse, he yelled: "Bastard!"
He picked up the needle bag in one hand and stabbed the man's chest, back and head one by one, saying, "You idiot! How dare you ruin my reputation?! I came from so far away. I came here, I ate so many dry pancakes, I passed the cannibal area, I was as cold as my grandson, and I used more than half of the bottle of hemostatic medicine I finally made up, just to make you die in my hands ?!…”
Zhang Yunzheng added fuel to the fire and said, "Look, those people are about to rush over and fight us with their lives! Please don't be too arrogant, if you still don't believe it, put him to death, and now we will all be implicated!"
Ji Wenzhao said to Zhang Yunzheng, "Don't poke his heart."
Duan Zeng was out of breath, and yelled at the person lying down: "Are you with that bastard?! He said you would die long ago, and you actually listened to him?!"
The young man next to him also knelt down on the ground, pulled the lying man by the hand, and cried and yelled in Beirong language. Duan Zeng inserted the last needle near the man's heart. Pat that person's face and said: "Wake up! Wake up! You cheeky! Stop playing with me! Or I'll stab you to death!"
Shen Wen didn't look back, closed his eyes, and massaged the man's heart with his consciousness.
The man finally coughed and spit out a mouthful of blood. Duan Zeng patted his face again and said, "That's good!" He let out a long breath and sat down on the ground.
The fourth prince was also sweating and shivering all over. Seeing that there were big holes in this man's clothes, he said tremblingly, "Hurry up... bandage it up, it's so cold."
Duan Zeng sat up on his knees again, looked at the wounds on his chest and back, and slowly pulled out the needles one by one. Seeing that there was no blood gushing from the wound, he was sure that his medicine had taken effect. He took out a new white scarf and a white silk from the medical box, and motioned to the Fourth Prince and Ji Wenzhao to help the man sit up halfway. He took off his tattered clothes, then put a towel on the wound and wrapped white silk around his chest. The person waiting next to him came over with a leather jacket. The man in black took it and gave it to Duan Zeng. Duan Zeng motioned to Ji Wenzhao and the fourth prince to help him get dressed,
The fourth prince probably only learned how to dress and undress himself during this trip, and now he has to do things for others, which is very clumsy. The other party looked like he was about to wake up. They touched each other's wounds, and he groaned. The fourth prince was so frightened that he hurriedly apologized, but he thought that the other party couldn't understand, so he could only learn the only Beirong dialect he had learned: I wish you health, and repeated it several times to make the man in black next to him look sideways.
In the end, Duan Zeng used extra white silk to wrap around the outside of the clothes twice to keep warm, and then he laid the wounded flat, half lying on the legs of the man in black.
Shen Yi led Qi from Lin, and asked Shen Wen, "What should we do?"
Shen Wen asked Zhang Yunzheng: "Has he put on his clothes?"
Zhang Yunzheng nodded and said, "It's considered wearing."
Shen Wen turned his face back, just in time for the wounded man to open his eyes in confusion, and looked at Shen Wen bewilderedly.
The sun had just set, and there was a new moon in the sky, and the earth was twilight. Shen Wen's face was as calm as water in the soft light.
Daiqin Khan remembered this moment all his life: Goddess descended from the sky and looked at him tenderly.
Just a moment ago, he was still trying to stay awake, urging his people to escape and let himself die here, and then he heard that someone was coming to treat his wounds, he felt relieved, and passed out... When he woke up again, the new moon in the sky Looking down, he saw such a peaceful face, she was dressed in shabby clothes, but he felt that this was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen...
He asked his beloved sister Princess Tana who married overseas about the whole story about this matter, and he knew that this woman was the second daughter of Zhenbeihou, the enemy of Beirong, and the notorious Second Miss Shen at that time. On the surface, she was praying in the temple, but she went to the border, and led the soldiers to ride thousands of miles to save their lives. If this is not considered divine, he does not know what else in the world can be called a miracle.
Unfortunately, when he knew her identity, he had no possibility of getting close to her. For the rest of his life, he never saw her again. This short side, let him remember until death. At an octogenarian age, the Second Miss Shen in his heart is still in her youth, looking at him with compassion in her eyes under the new moon...
Shen Wen didn't understand the passion of the wounded man at all. She looked at the man's dull eyes, sighed and said to Ji Wenzhao: "I think he looks confused, maybe his brain has been hit. You can ask him first." He, what about those who chased them? We don't want to kill people."
When people's language skills are not good enough, it's easy to use gestures. Ji Wenzhao babbled, gestured and pointed, looking very excited. After speaking, he stared at the injured person, and the injured person slowly walked out. With a sigh of relief, Duan Zeng hurriedly grasped his wrist pulse, and then said with a sigh of relief: "I was shocked, I thought he was going to lose his breath again!"
Shen Wen looked at Ji Wenzhao suspiciously: "Can you really speak Beirong dialect? Are you fooling us?"
Ji Wenzhao looked at Shen Wen angrily: "If you don't understand yourself, don't you think others don't understand, okay?! It's easy to offend people like this!"
Shen Yi frowned: "Then why didn't he answer you?"
The wounded man said a few words to the man in black with his eyes half closed, and the man in black yelled a few words to the people standing there, and those people agreed a few times, and confronted Shen Yi's soldiers The pursuers walked by.
The four princes Shen Wen, Zhang Yunzheng, and Shen Yi all looked at Ji Wenzhao, who frowned tightly: "He said... well, if they surrender, they will not be killed, they will be tied up and taken away as coolies. If they want to escape, they will be killed."
Shen Yi turned and left, and said to Qi Conglin who was beside him while walking: "Pass on the word, as long as people don't run away, let them solve the rest by themselves."
Shen Wen said: "It seems that he is not confused yet, then you can tell him that this year's winter is not counted. When the third winter from now comes, there will be war on the border, and Tugu Khan will gather half a million people. Crowd, attack the Southern Dynasty with all your might. Tell him clearly that if he wants to take advantage of the fire, he must do so two months after the gunpowder starts. You must emphasize this point. You must not attack Tuguke within two months of the start of the war. Khan's rear!"
Ji Wenzhao spoke slowly for a long time, gestured with his fingers several times, the lying person looked at him from under his eyelids, and finally blinked.
On the hillside, people yelled loudly, the people here were tying up the enemy with ropes, and sometimes some people ran away, but they were all shot down by Shen Yi's soldiers, and some people would step forward to make up for it again.
Shen Wen looked at the sky, and said to Ji Wenzhao: "Tell him, we will leave some dry food for them, but we will take some horses away, anyway, they don't need many horses to climb the mountain. Neither of us Owe no one, wish them luck."
Ji Wenzhao said again, and the injured person closed his eyes wearily.
Ji Wenzhao said to Shen Wen: "You see they are so tough, if they really replace Tugu Khan in the future, will they be ungrateful and beat us?"
Shen Wen frowned and thought for a moment, then said: "People's hearts are unpredictable, but we can only take one step at a time. We don't know if they can really attack the rear and take Tugu Khan's lair. I don't know if they are Can gain control of northern Xinjiang. If they do all of these, we can talk about whether the two countries can have a good relationship. Peace is naturally the best result, but if we really can’t save the good people, let’s fight again in the future .”
Ji Wenzhao said angrily: "You said it lightly! You didn't come to fight!"
Shen Wen smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will definitely help." After speaking, he left with Zhang Yunzheng to join Shen Yi who was commanding by the slope.
Zhang Yunzheng said to Shen Wen while walking: "How old were you at that time? Don't worry about it, tell me what to do, I will tell them, let them fight themselves..."
Ji Wenzhao looked at their backs and said dissatisfiedly: "Look, it's nothing to do with yourself. She probably ran to the island with Shen Jiajun at that time. How could she help?"
The fourth prince frowned and said: "I will go and persuade the third... Fourth prince, let him tell the third prince that he should keep a few members of the Shen family behind."
Ji Wenzhao nodded and said, "That's right, you can see that, right? That woman only cares about her family, she really has long hair but short-sightedness! She will only come if there are members of the Shen family left on the border..."
Duan Zeng interrupted: "Don't always think of people so badly, talk about it, as if we are Mr. Dong Guo, and we have saved a white-eyed wolf. I have healed so many people, I can tell you , the vast majority are good people. Those who are saved will be more or less grateful. Because everyone has a conscience, and the feeling of ignoring it will be very painful."
The fourth prince nodded quickly and said: "It's true! I was... helped by Lang Zhong, and I will never forget it."
Ji Wenzhao said: "You are all good people, so naturally you won't forget..."
Duan Zeng handed the small bottle of medicine to the man in black who was guarding him, and motioned to Ji Wenzhao, "Tell him, if you bleed, take some more."
Ji Wenzhao gestured and said, Duan Zeng took out another small pack of pills and said, "This is for detoxification and nourishing blood, one pill a day is enough. He is lying down and resting now, don't get angry easily. They will make a stretcher to carry him , don’t let him walk. After half a year, he should be able to walk. If he can live calmly, he will live until he is seventy and eighty. He usually eats less greasy food, eats more vegetables, and keeps his heart free... "
Ji Wenzhao said impatiently: "Are you finished? Do you know that these are difficult to translate?"
Duan Zeng was angry: "What kind of genius are you? You can't translate such an ordinary word? I haven't said anything like 'Ying Wei Qi and Blood' or 'Nourishing Yin and Expelling Wind'!"
The man in black who was supporting the wounded man suddenly and slowly put the wounded on the ground, knelt on the ground and gave a big gift to Duan Zeng, saying, "Thank you, Lang Zhong, for saving my life!"
Duan Zeng, Ji Wenzhao and the four princes were shocked and said in unison: "You can speak Chinese?!"
The man in black said with a straight face: "My mother and concubine can speak Chinese, which taught me." The three of them looked at each other, all tongue-tied.
The man in black said again: "My elder brother can also speak Chinese."
The three looked at the young man lying down at the same time, and the man closed his eyes.
The man in black gritted his teeth, stared at them fiercely and said word by word: "My brother is not an ungrateful person! We are also good people!"
Just now, Ji Wenzhao spoke ill of him in front of him, and he couldn't help but said angrily: "How could you... How could you do this?! Isn't this playing tricks on me?!" He got up and walked away, which is considered a slip Lost.
Duan Zeng said: "Then you all understood what I said, right? Just take care of it like that." He began to pack his suitcases and prepare to leave. The fourth prince was still holding a blood-soaked towel in his hand, hesitantly asked Duan Zeng: "Do you want more?"
Duan Zeng shook his head: "What do I want it for?"
The fourth prince handed it to the man in black next to him: "This, you wash it, it can still be used."
The man in black took it with both hands, and the fourth prince saw that although his face was covered with dust, he could still see that he had dark features and beautiful eyes. Green face and fangs like Huo Luo...
Duan Zeng was about to stand up after carrying the medical kit, when the man in black with a blood handkerchief said, "Doctor, please stay."
Duan Zeng saw that the other party was completely dressed in Beirong style, but spoke fluent Chinese, and felt very strange. He frowned and looked at it. The man in black looked at Duan Zeng blankly and said, "May I ask your doctor's name, I told you , I will listen to the doctor's orders in the future."
Duan Zeng waved his hand and said, "Why did I send you? Forget it! I didn't hear what you said. Didn't Brother Wen just say that if we want to take some horses away, we will pay the consultation fee. We should be Have you earned it?" He looked at the fourth prince.
The fourth prince stood up and shook his head and said: "I don't know, we have traveled this way for a month or so, so many people's expenses, but horses are very expensive, and they can't be bought yet. It's hard to say who made the money..."
Duan Zeng said: "Then tell that little brother Zhang to lead a few more horses."
They said they were going to go together, and the people on the ground said with difficulty: "Wait... wait..."
The man in black hurriedly helped his elder brother up from the ground, and the injured man looked at the fourth prince with difficulty and said, "Go... tell that... woman... if I can get... the Khan position in Northern Xinjiang... I will never go to war with the Southern Dynasty... "
The fourth prince nodded with a smile and said, "Okay, I'll tell her. Then I wish you success!" He saluted and bid farewell as usual, and walked to the mountain nest with Duan Zeng.
The man in black behind them said loudly: "I will go find you!"
Duan Zeng looked at the fourth prince, who quickly shook his head and said, "Why is he looking for me? I didn't save anyone."
Duan Zeng turned his head and said, "Don't look for me! The woman who saved you was the Immortal Dance arranged by that woman just now. I let her trick me into it, and I was forced to do so!"
The fourth prince lowered his head and smiled, and the two chatted and walked back to the horse herd. The hillside was cleaned up, and the soldiers came back one after another, some rested, and some were preparing. This time they came out without casualties, they just hid aside and shot a shot in the back. Now that they have finished their work, everyone is in a good mood.
Another half an hour later, all the soldiers came back and brought back the horses that pursued them. Everyone got on the horses and prepared to return.
Ji Wenzhao asked Shen Wen angrily: "Why didn't you know they could speak Chinese? We said those things in front of them?!"
Shen Wen said aggrievedly: "There are very few records about Tugu Khan's half-brother in the history books. Who would know that his child speaks Chinese?"
Now everyone is no stranger to Shen Wen's weird words, and thinks that she can understand the ancient and modern, so she will naturally read the history books in the future. The current situation is that knowing that the Beirong people they rescued can speak Chinese, everyone is a little embarrassing. They don't want to go back and meet embarrassingly, so they ask Shen Yi to come forward and leave some dry food for them. After the handover, Shen Wen set off with the team, and the horse team rushed away.
The dozen or so people from Beirong stood on the hillside and watched them walk away before forcing the captives to dig a pit and bury the dead bodies, destroying the traces of the battlefield. Then a stretcher was tied, the injured person was helped onto the stretcher, and the clothes stripped from the dead were covered. The group of people climbed over the mountains and disappeared on the other side of the mountain.
It took Shen Wen and his team another ten days to rush back to the border area where the Shen family army was stationed, cross the border secretly, and meet up with Su Wanniang and Shi Helin who were waiting for them in the village outside Yancheng. They were warmly welcomed by Su Wanniang and Shi Helin, and Su Wanniang was so excited that she cried, but Shen Yi and Ji Wenzhao, who returned to Yancheng, met Zhenbeihou who was furious.
The imperial court's intention to reduce its troops was conveyed to Yancheng as quickly as possible through the only remaining post station.
Zhenbeihou looked at Shen Yi and Ji Wenzhao, who had chilblains on their faces, and waved the paper in their hands: "Where did you go?! Why are you only here now?! Look at this!"
Shen Yi took it, read it with a sneer, and passed it to Ji Wenzhao.
Zhenbeihou frowned: "What's the matter?! Our army didn't get paid by the imperial court. We are completely self-sufficient. Why should we reduce our troops in the name of the imperial court's savings? Could it be that the emperor has suspicions about me? Try it out?"
Shen Yi twitched the corner of his mouth: "When did the emperor stop being jealous?"
Zhenbei Hou Nu turned to Shen Yi: "It's all because of your good deeds! Back then when you approached the Third Prince in the capital!..."
Ji Wenzhao read it quickly, twisted his face, trying to show a calm expression as much as possible, and said to Zhenbei Hou: "Master Hou, we have led the soldiers to practice in the field for a month this time. They have suffered a lot and suffered a lot. A lot of tiredness, but Lord Hou, I can say with confidence that if we fight a field battle with a large number of Beirong cavalry, we have no chance of winning." Changed the subject.
The Marquis of Zhenbei said angrily: "Then let's not reduce the troops!"
Ji Wenzhao shook his head and said, "Master Hou, if it is a tough battle in the future, the number of troops does not have to be the main force. If someone assists the people to transfer, it will be to our advantage not to enter Yancheng." There may not be enough food in the city.
Zhenbei Hou frowned and thought: "You mean to lay off weak soldiers and disperse them among the people?"
Ji Wenzhao nodded.
The Marquis of Zhenbei talked with Ji Wenzhao for half the night, and finally decided to adjust the strength of the Shen family army and reduce the army by 20%.
The reply letter was drafted by Shen Jian, and it was written loyally, expressing that he would resolutely obey the imperial court's instructions, immediately reduce the number of troops, and also listed the timetable for the reduction, and asked the Ministry of Households for compensation for retired soldiers. If the household department has no money to send in the future, it is reasonable for those retired soldiers to stay at the border.
After the letter was sent out, because Shen Yi knew the details of the generals of the Shen family army, Marquis Zhenbei asked him, Shen Jian and Ji Wenzhao to start reorganizing the generals battalion by battalion.
Shen Wen gave the design of the scimitar and the three-arrow bow to Zhang Yunzheng, and Zhang Yunzheng drew detailed drawings and gave it to Yan Shi who often sneaked out of the city.
They had done everything they should have done, and they were about to leave for the south, but the fourth prince fell ill.