Loyal heart travels a long way

The atmosphere in the military tent was very solemn. Zhu Chengdong sat at the top of his hand, rubbing his fingers on the map.The map was snatched from a Tatar city, and it was exquisite and smooth, but because of its age, the surroundings of the map were somewhat yellowed.

Several people sat in the military tent and no one spoke, the atmosphere was extremely solemn.

Zhu Chengdong drew a few times with his fingers, and finally pointed to a location - the place where they are staying now.

This city was captured not long ago. Some time ago, Tatars were caught setting fire to the north of the Dazhou military camp more than five miles away. Ying Er changed his appearance into that Tatar's appearance, entered the city of Tatar, and then cooperated with Zhu Chengdong and the others, and set fire to Tatar's granary.

Then the Tatars had no time to supply food and grass, and the morale of the army was slackened. The old general and Zhu Chengdong discussed to capture the city in one fell swoop, and pushed the Tatars back another [-] miles to the north.

This was a good thing, but now it seems that all of this is a series of tricks made by the Tatars.

"Report—!"

"Come in!" Hearing that the soldiers had something to report before they came to the tent, Zhu Chengdong's face darkened instantly, and his whole face was frighteningly gloomy.

The little soldier who came in to report the letter was obviously scared by Zhu Chengdong these days. As soon as he entered the house, he first knelt on the ground, and then said in a trembling voice: "General, the siege outside has not been reduced, but some people are going to set fire to it." The posture of the city."

The city is called Ulanqab, which means Red Mountain Pass in the Tatar language.Now that it is occupied by the Great Zhou, the Tatars will set fire to the city, turning the Manhan Mountain next to it into a crimson mountain.

Now that the grass has grown and the ground is very damp, it is not easy to set fire, but the Tatars have tung oil for some reason!

Tung oil, isn't that something unique to Da Zhou?Where did the Tatars come from? Just think about it and you can guess that there is something out of character in this court, which is actually in collusion with foreign countries!

"General..." The soldier was obviously panicked, but there was still news that he had to report. His knees were almost unsteady when he was kneeling on the ground. Horse steps can make people tired like this.

"Say." Zhu Chengdong took a deep breath, and suppressed the urge to go into battle with the Tartars, not letting himself vent his anger on his subordinates.

"Those Tartars tied up all the herdsmen and peasants, poured tung oil on them and threw them at the gate of the city. They threatened that if no general surnamed Chu or Zhu left the city at noon, they would be set on fire together with this Ulan Chabu." They were all burned."

Zhu Chengdong took a deep breath, his eyes full of disbelief: "Threatening us with your own people? Did I hear it wrong, or is their khan crazy?"

The little soldier didn't dare to speak, shrank his neck and knelt on the ground into a small ball.

Both Zhu Chengdong and the old general didn't want the war to affect ordinary people. The other party made such a move because they were sure that their people in Dazhou had such a temperament.

Originally, Zhu Chengdong and General Chu were worried that the Tatars were planning to invite the king into the urn, so only Zhu Chengdong took Ying Er to occupy Ulanchabu, and the old general and his wife were still waiting for news from Zhu Chengdong.

How did they expect that they guessed the invitation to enter the urn, but they didn't guess the tung oil in the hands of the Tatars.

Tung oil will catch fire even if it is splashed with water. Not to mention a little grass, even if tung oil floats on a river, it can burn.

The soldiers led by Zhu Chengdong had been besieged in Ulanqab for several days. At the beginning, Yinger and himself burned down other people's granaries, and they didn't want to cut off their own food.Old General Chu and the old lady were in the north of Ulanqab, and now it was a northerly windy day, so there was no time to rescue them if something happened.

According to the lightness skills of Zhu Chengdong and Ying Er, this Ulan Chabu certainly couldn't trap the two of them, but with so many people and so many soldiers brought by him, shouldn't they be ignored?

What's more, what if you just use your lightness kung fu to get out of the city?There are so many Tartars outside watching, even so many ants can kill an elephant, not to mention that those outside are all soldiers who have been fighting in the barracks for so many years. Can you break out of the encirclement?

"What time is it?" Zhu Chengdong turned around and asked.

The little soldier cautiously retreated outside the screen to look at Genglou, and then came in to report again: "Return to the general, there is still half an hour to noon."

Zhu Chengdong closed his eyes, opened them after a while, gritted his teeth and said, "Chuan Gaoxin to come in."

Ying Er seemed to have a premonition that Zhu Chengdong had made a decision, and he looked up at Zhu Chengdong after bowing his head in silence for a while, almost staring at Zhu Chengdong.

Zhu Chengdong ignored Ying Er and only looked at the tent door.

Gao Xin is Zhu Chengdong's confidant, with average skills, very good at rushing and escaping, and has his own set of tricks to save his life.His name is Gao Xin, he is actually not tall, barely reaching Ying Er's chin, and he is even more incomparable with Zhu Chengdong's boastful figure.

Seeing Gao Xin coming in, Zhu Chengdong directly raised his hand, telling him that he didn't need to be more polite, and said lightly: "I will meet the Tartar general when I go out of the city gate, you take this opportunity to protect my brother to go out of the city. Others can't make any mistakes , Aren’t you going back to your hometown to marry a wife after you’re discharged from the army and returned to the fields? After protecting her, go to the capital to ask Chu Shangshu for money, and he can give you the dowry you want to give to Xiao Cui’er.”

"What the hell are you..." Ying Er frowned and muttered, but before he could finish speaking, he heard Gao Xin's voice sound like a firecracker.

"General, you can't go. The other party has made it clear that he is against us. Even if he dies, I, Gao Xin, can't be a deserter of Da Zhou! It's agreed that the brothers will stand side by side together, how do you drive me away?"

"You are not very big, so why are you talking so much?" Zhu Chengdong was upset, too lazy to talk to him, and said directly: "You are the youngest among the brothers, and Xiao Cui'er is still waiting for you to go back in Qizhou."

"I can't wait for her father to promise her a good family." Gao Xin was not happy to be thrown off by Zhu Chengdong, and raised his eyebrows: "I made an agreement with her father before leaving Qizhou. If she can't go back in five years, let her Find a better family. I think we are going to talk about a new in-law’s family right now, and if we don’t get it right next year, we will have a big fat boy in our arms. Anyway, I don’t have a family and I don’t care about it, let Brother Qiu take the young master away!”

"Are you finished?" Ying Er reckoned, it was the first time he had his own thoughts after being a slave all his life.He has never been so irritable like today: "Why are you going? Did Shang Shu raise me to escape? My life was saved by you. If you think I'm a drag, you can't make me drive me like this. A Tartar back? "

"You can't do it!" Zhu Chengdong felt irritated, and gave Yinger a look, "You have to live!"

"You're going to go to righteousness, do you care about my life?" Ying Er didn't give in at all, looked back at Zhu Chengdong, and raised his head.

"You said that I saved your life, you can't die if I don't let you die!"

Gao Xin watched these two people confront each other, his mind was confused for a while, he didn't understand how to be a good Tuogu at the Hongshan Pass, what happened to it turned into a closed-door quarrel, the quarrel was quite fierce, and he probably would start fighting if he stayed for a while.