Dingjiangshan

Fan Wu had been waiting for his order, kowtowed on the ground when he heard the words, turned his head and jumped into the deep forest several times, leaving only the rustling sound of the wind.

Ning Huaijin hadn't dealt with Yingwei much, and Qin Liu and Shili, who were more familiar, were used to being in front of people, and they had never seen such orders and prohibitions, and they were not talkative.

So much so that until Fan Wu's figure completely disappeared into the forest, Ning Huaijin was still a little dazed.

"He's gone?" Ning Huaijin asked.

Shili listened to the movement, and replied, "It's already gone far."

Shili thought about it for a while, thinking that he was afraid that Fan Wu would not be able to take on this job, so he explained: "Your Highness, you can rest assured, since Brother Wu said that he can break out of the siege, it will definitely work."

"I don't worry about this." Ning Huaijin felt a headache again as he spoke. He leaned against the cold mountain wall, frowned and panted, and said in a low voice, "...the king just misses His Majesty."

Shili was slightly taken aback.

The shadow guard always only knows how to follow orders, but knows little about the world. For ten miles, he didn't understand the meaning of Ning Huaijin's words. He only felt that Ning Huaijin's energy and energy were all weak after saying these words. A few points.

Ning Huaijin hadn't finished speaking when there was a very light rustling sound from a small road behind the mountain wall. Shili's eyes flickered, and he shortly took out an extremely sharp dagger from his boot, and held it in the palm of his right hand .

The bush as tall as a person swayed for a while, and a figure hunched over and got out of it with some difficulty. Before showing his face, he called out to the prince in a low voice.

Shili Wensheng breathed a sigh of relief, inserted the dagger back into the boot, and covered it with the hem of his clothes.

Ning Huaijin tilted her head in this posture. The visitor had already climbed down the cliff and landed on the small bluestone platform where Ning Huaijin was standing.

The person who came was Xie Jue's personal guard, who was also Ning Huaijin's lieutenant general for this expedition. His name was Meng Changxun. When Ning Huaijin was in the border town to check Ningzheng, she also had a chance encounter with him.

Shili was not used to appearing in the eyes of others, so he quit when Meng Changxun came down, and turned down the mountain wall.

Ning Huaijin never knew where the shadow guards were hiding in the dark, but Zuo Ke was nearby, so he didn't care when he saw it, and let him go.

"My lord." Meng Changxun walked over with a clump of dead branches, and said, "It's almost time, why don't you go down and eat something."

Ning Huaijin felt a headache and didn't want to move for a while, so she patted her side and motioned for him to sit down first.

"How are the soldiers below?" Ning Huaijin asked.

"You're all in good spirits, and no one said anything depressing." Meng Changxun rubbed his hands, and said, "Everyone save some dry food, it's enough for a while. Seeing that the subordinates haven't encountered any chasers in the past few days." The soldiers, presumably Feng Yuan can't afford to waste so much, and they should be withdrawn in a few days."

Ning Huaijin was not as optimistic as Meng Changxun, he looked at the clouds and mists in the distance with a bit of melancholy and sighed.

"This time, the king didn't think carefully." Ning Huaijin said, "It hurts everyone."

"How can you say that?" Meng Changxun subconsciously wanted to pat Ning Huaijin on the shoulder, and then remembered that this is a pampered prince, not his general who can joke around at will. Putting the back of his head, he persuaded: "When marching and fighting, it is common to lose and win. When it comes to the right time, place and people, it doesn't matter who wins by a single trick."

Ning Huaijin shook her head.

That's not the case, Ning Huaijin thought.

In order to subdue him this time, Feng Yuan must have taken out all the defenders in the surrounding small towns to beat him so helplessly.

On the battlefield, there is a certain number of formations and formations. You can't ignore other defenses for the sake of fighting a battle. Feng Yuan's deployment of troops like this is equivalent to giving up three or five cities in the west to Xie Jue.

Dare to take so much effort to stop him, if Feng Yuan didn't have Ning Zheng's instruction, it would be absolutely impossible.

Although Ning Zheng is not as good as Ning Yan in terms of planning, he is not the kind of fool who will ignore the overall situation for the sake of winning or losing a battle. Ning Huaijin couldn't figure it out at first, but after staying in the mountains for two days, his mind gradually became clear and he responded Here comes Ning Zheng's intention.

——Ning Zheng wanted to use him to severely injure Ning Yan.

Everyone in the world knew that he was Prince Gong whom Ning Yan valued, but only Ning Zheng knew that for Ning Yan, Ning Huaijin's weight in his heart was far more than what the world imagined.

Ning Yan did so many outrageous things for him in Beijing back then, not only biting his temper and refusing to accept concubines, but also forced himself into Ruan Yin's tricks for him. If Ning Zheng didn't receive the news, Ning Huaijin would die Do not believe.

That being the case, whether Ning Zheng captured him on the battlefield, or Feng Yuan simply slaughtered him in the deep mountains and old forests, for Ning Zheng, it is a matter of steady profit and no loss.

If it was the former, he could take Ning Huaijin to negotiate terms with Ning Yan. If Ning Yan valued him so much, he was not afraid that Ning Yan would not be taken advantage of.If it was the latter, Ning Yan would be able to take advantage of Ning Yan's grief.

Ning Huaijin knew that when the two armies confronted each other on the battlefield, the methods were dirty, and there were also cases where the enemy general's wife, children and family were threatened before the battle.But he never imagined that one day he would become what other people call "wife and children".

Ning Huaijin couldn't help but shook her head and smiled wryly.

He had always felt that what happened between him and Ning Yan was his business behind closed doors.How pleased Ning Yan was with him, and how partial he was, were all Ning Yan's flattery to him.Putting these aside, he is essentially just a side branch of the last page of the genealogy.

Therefore, whether it was leading troops to fight or anything else, Ning Huaijin never cared about anything, and only wanted to protect Ning Yan behind her.

But it wasn't until after the battle that he suddenly realized that in the eyes of others, he had already been tied to Ning Yan and became a "hidden danger" that could threaten Ning Yan.

——Efforts to gain wisdom, next time you can't risk your life like this, Ning Huaijin thought.

Meng Changxun saw that he looked sleepy, and thought he was blaming himself, so he coughed dryly twice, and wanted to change the subject: "How is the injury on the prince's body? This mountain is very humid, so don't leave any root cause."

"I'm fine." Ning Huaijin shook his head and said, "I just thought about it, and according to Zhaoming's temperament, I'm sure he won't act rashly. Even if this king is lost, he won't let go If you buy and sell cheaply, you will only bite off a piece of the opponent's flesh. With Zheng Shaohui watching over him, in the past few days, at least two cities can be captured."

Ning Huaijin leaned back on the mountain wall, squinted her eyes slightly to look at the clouds in the sky, and said in a low voice: "...I hope Zhaoming will be smarter, it is Nanxi and Yeji who are hitting."

Meng Changxun struggled to recall the location on the map in his mind, and it took him a while to realize that Yeji County and Nanxi County were on the left and right sides of Jinzhai, which happened to be able to form a triangle enclosing Jiuhua Mountain.

"Forget about Ye Ji, General Xie can still search here." Meng Changxun was puzzled: "But Nanxi is far away, so we have to go to the south of Anqing."

"We want to fight to the south." Ning Huaijin laughed softly, and said, "Ning Zheng is in Shunchang Mansion, and there is no one in the isolated city of Anqing Mansion. If Zhaoming leaves me alone and sticks to his camp, See if Ning Zheng should panic."

"You and I are trapped on the mountain now because Feng Yuan is guarding us from the bottom. But if there are not enough defenders in the rear, Ning Zheng orders him to withdraw, and the current predicament will be solved." Ning Huaijin dun After a pause, it seemed that he had gathered some strength, and then he continued: "... Ning Zheng originally wanted to put all his eggs in one basket, thinking that he could catch this king and get more chances of winning from His Majesty. Such a method of drawing salary from the bottom is not a long-term solution. As long as he doesn't kill me for a while, he doesn't have that much time to spend."

"Zhaoming's army is under pressure. He won't put all his chances on this king. He should retreat after a few days." Ning Huaijin seemed to be angry because Ning Zheng wanted to use him to threaten Ning Yan. , his voice became colder, and he sneered and said: "He is an idiot, not enough brains and more than greedy, he wants to draw the bottom line and also wants to capture this king alive, he deserves to be dragged by this king to this place where no shit is possible."

It was rare for Meng Changxun to see him so sharp, and he was startled for a moment by the evil spirit on his body.

But he was right, Meng Changxun thought, if Xie Jue had been on the opposite side, he would not have fought Ning Huaijin with real swords and guns at the pass of the mountain that day, so that he had to find a breakthrough to break out.

Xie Jue will definitely set traps on the left and right paths, and then let the Feiyu team shoot all arrows, no matter how many casualties he has, press here to kill him first.

Although a corpse is not as valuable as a living person, it is worse than what it is like now. It is difficult to catch people when you enter, and you are really at a disadvantage when you retreat. You can only fight here without going up or down.

To put it more seriously, on the battlefield, one hair can move the whole body, and a city and a pool weigh as much as a thousand weights. If Ning Zheng is really defeated in the future, how much of it is because of today's reasons, it doesn't matter. easy to say.

"But it's not enough to count on Zhaoming, and we can't stay in the mountains for a long time. It's luck not to encounter wild beasts these days, but if we do, it won't be so easy to get away." Ning Huaijin finally rested enough strength and used his hands Standing on the ground, he stood up staggeringly, and then said: "Furthermore, food doesn't matter. The pheasants and hares on the mountain are enough for the time being. The lack of medicine on the mountain is a big problem. The rest of these people are more or less dead. There are injuries, the weather in the mountains is not good, if not dealt with in time, I am afraid something will happen."

Meng Changxun also knew this truth, and asked: "Then what does the prince want?"

Ning Huaijin lowered her eyes and thought for a while, then said a time limit.

"Wait another three days." Ning Huaijin said, "If no reinforcements arrive within three days, we will break out."

Meng Changxun had no objection to his decision, nodded upon hearing this, and said, "Then the subordinates will go down and inform them, and find a dry and hidden place to hide in the next two days, and we will move down the mountain at night after two days. Move and move."