Father can be an enemy to the country

Not far away, Zhu Di and Zhang Yu were sitting in a pit next to the stove to block the firelight, discussing their next move while keeping warm.

"It's getting colder and colder today." Zhu Di wrapped the animal skins around him and said, "The brothers are still wearing single clothes and rely on the captured animal skins to keep warm. It won't be a problem if this continues."

"The north wind blows the white grass on the ground, and it's snowing in August." Zhang Yu whispered: "Your Majesty, we can't go around in circles with them anymore. It's time to consider withdrawing our troops."

"I know, but I always feel that the Sudiel and Wala people will become a big problem." Zhu Di said with a worried look: "We have wiped out all the forces of Beiyuan this time, but we can't do it in a short time." The establishment of rule in Mobei left a huge power gap, which was bound to be occupied by Yesudiel."

"That is inevitable." Zhang Yu sighed: "The imperial court can only maintain the Ning Dusi, which is already the limit. It is impossible to extend the military line thousands of miles north, which will bring down the Ming Dynasty."

"Oh, who says it's not the case?" Zhu Di said cross-legged and solemnly: "That's why I wanted to see if there was any way to kill Yesudier. Of course, it would be best to kill all the Wala soldiers in one pot, but it doesn't seem to work. Reality."

"It's not very realistic." Zhang Yu said with a bitter smile: "At this point in the campaign, we are at the end of our strength and can no longer penetrate Lu Guan."

"Yes." Zhu Di looked up at the sky sadly and said, "Can we just let the tiger go back to the mountain and let it become bigger and stronger?"

"If it doesn't work, wait until next time." Zhang Yu said softly.

"After we go back this time, we will go south. I'm afraid we won't be able to go back to Mobei in this life..." Zhu Di shook his head, looking at the bright starry sky in a daze. He really hoped to bring this final battle to a perfect end.

"Huh?" Suddenly he let out a light sigh, pointing to a slowly floating bright spot in the sky and said, "Isn't that a star?"

"Probably not." Zhang Yu also raised his head and looked at the bright light in mid-air. He looked around again and found two, three, and a dozen or so similar bright lights in the night sky.

"Isn't it the Kongming Lantern?" He identified it carefully. In fact, the Kongming Lantern is not difficult to recognize, but no one would have expected to see this thing deep in the Mobei grassland. So I'm not sure for the moment.

"It's the Kongming Lantern!" At this time, more soldiers also discovered the little lights in the night sky.

"Who put this?" Ping An raised his head and asked.

"Anyway, they are not Oara people. They hate everything about the Han people. They must not have learned how to make Kongming lanterns." Togu Si Timur said with certainty.

"It must be one of our own!" Zhu Di jumped up from the pit and ordered in a deep voice: "Immediately send scouts to follow the Kongming Lantern. Be sure to pick up one or two."

"Yes!" Xue Liu immediately responded and took the people there himself.

~~

Under the same starlight.

Yesudiel and his leaders were gathering for a meeting and saw the same sky lantern.

"What is that?" Everyone was talking. They had lived in Moxi for half their lives and had never seen such a scene.

"Could it be a meteor?" someone speculated.

"Nonsense, whose meteors fly so low." He was immediately refuted.

"Could it be a firefly?" someone else guessed.

"Nonsense, whose fireflies can fly so high?"

"Could it be a will-o'-the-wisp?"

"Okay, stop guessing." Listening to their guesses getting more and more outrageous, Yesudiel said in a deep voice: "No matter what it is, it has nothing to do with us anyway!"

"Yes." The leaders then withdrew their gaze and returned to the gloomy reality.

The situation now is better than at the beginning. At least the Ming army can no longer get what they want, and they have almost fallen into the trap set by Mahamu several times.

But 'nearly' means that although it's very suspenseful, it doesn't mean it will happen. So they still have found nothing...

"I have been chasing them for so many days, but I still can't catch them. Everyone is exhausted." A member of the Ten Thousand Households bravely said: "Why don't we forget it, Your Majesty?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, I really can't catch up. Every day, my bones are falling apart." Many leaders immediately agreed.

"Boy from Choros, what do you think?" Yesudiel looked at Mahamu.

"I was wondering where the Ming army came from." Mahamu answered the question in a different way.

"No need to ask? Didn't Nie Yonglai say that the Ming army set out from Qingzhou, and after defeating them at Yuerhai, they chased them all the way." The leaders looked at him strangely.

"That is to say, the Ming army has traveled more than two thousand miles further than us. If they can't withstand it, it's them who can't withstand it first!" Mahamu said in a deep voice: "The Ming army can still persist, what qualifications do we have to say? give up?"

"This..." The leaders were speechless for a while.

"The boy from the Choros tribe is right." Yesudiel nodded and said: "Don't forget, we not only want to defeat the Ming army, but also take back the Emperor of the Beiyuan Dynasty and the jade seal in his hand!"

As he spoke, he waved his hands and said: "Our ancestors endured so much hardship to finally get to this day. Are we going to give up this opportunity that we have been waiting for a hundred years just because we are tired?"

"Can't..." The leaders could only shake their heads slowly.

"Keep on holding on!" Yesudiel encouraged everyone: "The Ming army must be more tired than us. As long as we hold on, they will be the first to collapse!"

After saying that, he continued to draw the cake and said: "As long as we capture Togu Si Timur and snatch back the jade seal, we can rebuild the Great Mongolia. By then, you will all be the founding princes, and I will treat you like the great Genghis Khan! "

“Yes.” The leaders’ voices were much louder this time.

Yesudel looked at Mahamu again and said sternly: “Next time, only success is allowed, not failure!”

“Yes!” Mahamu bowed and responded.

~~

In the other room, Zhu Di waited until dawn before Xue Liu came back.

“Did you pick it up?” he asked.

“This thing flew too far, and it was hard to pick one up.” Xue Liu took a flattened Kongming lantern from the horse’s back and presented it to the prince for inspection. “It’s all ghostly painted.”

“What ghostly painted?” Zhu Di looked at the white silk cover of the Kongming lantern in the dim light of the sky, and saw a big ‘6’ written on it.

He was overjoyed and patted Xue Liu's shoulder excitedly, saying, "This is the light that my Lao Liu put on!"

"Ah? Really?!" Now not only Xue Liu, but Zhang Yu and others also came over and asked excitedly, "Is it true?"

"Of course it's true!" Zhu Di pointed at the big '6' and said, "You illiterate people don't know it. This is the number invented by my Lao Liu! The arithmetic book he compiled for Guozi University uses this kind of number!"

"So what is this number?" Ping An and others asked with blinking eyes.

"Six, idiot!" Zhu Di laughed and said, "This is Lao Liu sending a signal to me!"