Loyal heart travels a long way

Fortunately, the mountain pass is in the territory of Dazhou. Although half of the whole mountain is Tatar, the mountain pass has always been guarded, and the Tatars may not really know the wind direction of the mountain pass so well.

Gu Zhiyao always felt that he was not in the bottom line, and Chu Dancheng also felt that this was a hidden danger, so he specially sent his cronies to send a secret letter to Mobei to Zhu Chengdong and the old general, in case the Tatars set fire to the grassland after the wind direction changed in a few days.

These days, when Gu Zhiyao had nothing to do, he would watch the Book of Changes or something, but unexpectedly, it actually came in handy.

He watched the stars at night, expecting that the wind direction would probably change in the next few days, and it did change after the first spring rain.

The south wind turned into a north wind overnight, and the wind from Mobei could even blow to the capital.

The secret letter from the two was sent in time. After reading the letter, the old general and Zhu Chengdong immediately ordered people to sprinkle water on the surrounding grasslands at fixed times every day. Not easy to burn.

Not only that, the two also sent a lot of manpower to patrol the north of the barracks, and if they found any Tatars making trouble, someone would report back to the camp as soon as possible, so they could deal with it as soon as possible.

After that, the Tatars were caught and were about to set fire to a prairie fire five miles north of the Da Zhou military camp.

When Zhu Chengdong learned about this from the captured Tartars, he dropped the teacup in his hand to the ground, gnashing his teeth: "The fire was set five miles away. Fortunately, our people discovered it early! In order to prevent We found out that you Khan is willing to spend your money, and you have abandoned the lives of so many herdsmen!"

The prisoner was not only not ashamed, but proud, with his head held high and his face full of arrogance: "They are just some untouchables. I don't know how many people in this Mobei intermarried with you Han people without permission, and the offspring were all bastards. What is there to be pitiful about?

Zhu Chengdong had never heard such remarks before, and his eyes were full of disbelief: "If you marry a Han Chinese, you are a bastard. Don't you have any Han ancestors in five or ten generations?"

"If we are also such bastards, it is not a pity to die!" The Tartar who was pushed to the ground was full of hostility: "You Han people are the most cunning, but you just occupy a favorable position. How can you compete with us on the grasslands? On the same level as the eagles on the earth? Sooner or later, these lands will belong to us Tatars!"

Tatars have a temper as tough as their bodies, Zhu Chengdong can't really kill this Tatar to make an example to others, then Mobei, which has just been peaceful for a few days, will start fighting again.

But the Tartars have been bullied to the door, so they can't just let it go, or they will think that Da Zhou's Erlang is easy to bully.

Zhu Chengdong and Old General Chu decided to take revenge no matter what, let the Tatar suffer the consequences, and know what it's like to be burned.

A few days later, Jingzhong received the good news from Zhu Chengdong.

Da Zhou sent people disguised as Tatars to set the fire. They ran to the Tatar barracks to cooperate with Zhu Chengdong, and burned all the food and grass in the Tatar barracks.

As soon as the news arrived in the capital, everyone was shocked. Da Zhou guessed that the small countries around him were staring at each other, and the battle with the Tatars had never been too much. After all, as long as one side was under the influence, the war would have to be fought several times. years.The Tatars have never cared about Da Zhou like this.

Most of the herdsmen on the grassland are relatively staunch, and they don't have to think so much about Da Zhou's concerns.The surrounding small countries and Tatars are all barbarians, and they always have to be more partial to Tatars.Moreover, the land of Tatar is not fertile, but there is a lot of fertile land in Dazhou. They always want to get some benefits from Dazhou.

The great victory in this battle, firstly, did not hurt Dazhou's military strength, and secondly, it made it too late for the Tatars to take action against Dazhou in a short period of time. Make times every week.

The cleverness of this strategy is that it treats the person in the same way as the person. The Tatars took the first step, and there is really no position to say that Da Zhou's attack was too dark and the strategy was too poisonous.

An Zimu was overjoyed when he got the news, Zhu Chengdong and General Chu and his wife are both in Mobei, it's not too extravagant, rewards can't be sent to Mobei, and Qizhou is far away.Besides, Gu Zhiyao's reminder is also the biggest help in this game. Thanks to his recent reading of many so-called miscellaneous books such as "Book of Changes" and "Qi Men Dun Jia", he has learned how to observe the stars at night. Fortunately, Send all the rewards to Fuyuan.

Chu Dancheng and Gu Zhiyao had a lot of private property, so they simply put half of the reward in Chu Mingyue's dowry, and only waited for the old general to come back so that Chu Mingyue could be married in a splendid manner.

For the remaining half, Gu Zhiyao will keep it for Song Ruyue. Song Ruyue will leave the palace sooner or later, and she cannot be allowed to marry Chu Qingfeng empty-handed. Although the Chu family doesn't care about this, Song Ruyue is a must As for her face, Gu Zhiyao didn't want her to be too ugly.

Back then when she came out of Fu Garden penniless, it was Song Ruyue who took the monthly money she saved and gave it to Gu Zhiyao.Speaking earlier, when An Ru dreamed of using gold and stone medicine to harm herself, Song Ruyue tried every means to help herself avoid that harmful thing.

Even if they are not blood relatives, in Gu Zhiyao's heart Song Ruyue is still his sister.

Tatar's plan to set fire to assassinate Da Zhou was miscalculated, and Gu Zhiyao was relieved.Keep an eye on it during this time. After a while, the grass will grow and the ground will be humid, making arson more difficult. At that time, no matter whether it is the south wind or the north wind, you don't have to be as worried as you are now.

After the ice and snow melted, these plants grew quickly. In about half a month, the yellow on the grassland was gradually replaced by emerald green, and new tender grass grew out. After another month, the grassland was basically green. , Even the branches of poplars and willows are no longer withered and yellow, and the weather is warmed up at this time.

Spring came earlier in the capital than in Mobei, and the poria cocos flowers on the small pond in Fuyuan also formed buds, and everything seemed to be moving in a good direction.

But the world is always impermanent, sometimes you look as if everything is good, the days go by, the expectations in your heart are getting closer, but there are always some unexpected things that will shatter your dreams.

After the great victory in Mobei, Fuyuan was full of joy, just waiting for his relatives to win the final victory, and to bring Haoerlang of the Great Zhou home in triumph.

However, an urgent report broke all this.

It was a letter that was urgently delivered within eight hundred miles. The outside of the letter was stained with dark red dried blood. I don't know who it was, but it was shocking enough.

The biography was sent directly to the palace, An Zimu read the biography and summoned Chu Dancheng and Gu Zhiyao to the palace together.

With a heavy face, he ordered the eunuch to hand over the biography to the two of them so that they could read it by themselves.

The content was very brief, and only one message was stated: Old General Chu and the old lady were ambushed and unfortunately died.