The Bamboo Horse Dressed as the Emperor

There is a hearth built with stones on the city tower, which is also a kind of fortification.

If the enemy army climbed the tower to attack the city, set fire to a pot, burn a pot of boiling oil, and pour the boiling oil directly from the tower, it would burn people directly from the city wall.

It's just that the aliens who grew up on the grassland are not very good at climbing, so these stoves have never been used.

But this time, it is obviously different from the previous wars.

General Liu immediately ordered someone to set the stove on fire, put a big iron pot on it, and with a bang, several bags of wheat were poured into the pot.

When the wheat is heated, it will soon make a crackling sound and also emit a sweet smell.

At this time, there was a loud shout outside the city gate, and the enemy army had already arrived at the bottom of the city tower, and was about to set up a ladder to climb the tower.

Sitting in the car at the rear, covered by curtains, the people inside seemed to see through Xie Chen and Song Jiao's intentions, and said a word to the people outside the car.

They immediately blew their horns and ordered the frontliners to retreat immediately without delay.

But how could a group of beasts that haven't had enough to eat for several months obey the horn's orders after smelling the aroma of grain?

They climbed up the ladder desperately, following the smell of food, like instinct.

The horn behind him was still sounding muffled, but no one could be called back.

So the horn changed its tone again, asking them to change formation and keep their distance.

It was still useless, the people who smelled the fragrance worked hard and climbed up the city tower. On one climbing ladder, there could be more than ten people standing.

The ladder was staggered under the pressure, and before any movement was made on the tower, the ladder would break, and the person on the ladder would fall off the tower.

The people in the car saw that the situation was not good, and said a word to the people outside, so they turned around pushing the car like this, leaving behind the soldiers on the front line, without even looking back, they just took the rest of the car with them like this. People, turn around and leave.

It was also at this time that the fastest climber of a foreign race arrived at the top of the city. The moment he was about to climb up the tower, a few soldiers from Qi State held a long halberd, and with just a slight push, they overturned him and put him on the wall. The climbing ladder on the tower was also overturned.

There was only a bang, followed by countless sounds, accompanied by screams.

On the tower, Xie Chen covered Song Jiao's eyes and ears.

Xie Shen said in a low voice: "This is how wars are fought, and our people died at their hands."

After thinking about it, he still said to Song Jiao: "Don't be afraid."

A small battle, soon over.

The defeated generals fell to their deaths, and those who fled escaped. General Liu sent someone out to clean up the battlefield, turned to Xie Chen and said, "Brother Shen, this method is really good. It doesn't take much effort. There is still lunch at noon. I will give you one hundred military merits."

Xie Chen slowly let go of the hands covering Song Jiao's eyes and ears: "Then thank you, General."

"What are you being polite about?" General Liu's expression became serious again, "It's just that this battle has been won, and I'm afraid this method won't work in the future, and we don't know what the man in the carriage will plan."

"It should be someone from the Central Plains, maybe Qing Guo specially sent them here to make trouble."

Xie Chen lowered his eyes and looked coldly at the remnants of the defeated generals below: "Give Prime Minister Song a copy of the report, and he will send someone to investigate. From today onwards, the number of patrols will increase from one army to ten, and the number of patrols will increase from two to two a day. The number of vigils was increased to three times a day, and the number of night watchmen increased, and the armor was not removed at night. Those who removed the armor had thirty sticks, and drinking and gambling had fifty sticks. stop."

"Yes." General Liu agreed, and suddenly realized, "Brother Shen, who is the general among us?"

Xie Chen turned his head and glanced at him: "You are."

"how about you?"

"I'm His Royal Highness's attendant." Xie Chen hugged Song Jiao from behind, "Your Highness seems to be a little frightened, so I'll take him down first."

"Okay." General Liu waved his hand at him, saw Song Jiao's pale face, and asked, "Your Highness, it's all right, brother Shen saw his head blooming for the first time, and it's like you. You can't take it easy for a long time, so stay here for a long time." You will get used to it once you get used to it. Do you want the military doctor to come over and take a look?"

Song Jiao regained his composure, and shook his head: "No, I'll just go down for a while, thank you."

Xie Chen helped him back to the room. Along the way, Song Jiao didn't respond at all. When he returned to the room, as soon as the door was closed, he walked softly and ran to pick up the spittoon.

This was Song Jiao's first time facing such a bloody battlefield, and he had just passed his 15th birthday.

Song Jiao's legs were weak, so he simply sat on the ground and retched.But he hasn't even eaten breakfast, and he can't vomit anything.

Xie Chen knelt down beside him and patted his back: "Did you see it?"

"Hmm..." Song Jiao nodded and wiped his face.

Xie Chen didn't speak anymore, just squatted beside him, and gently patted his back.

Things like this happen on the front line every moment, anytime, anywhere, before they were born, that's it.

Xie Chen thought for a while, hugged Song Jiao into his arms, and rubbed his arms.

Song Jiao didn't eat much all day long, the system showed him a comedy movie all day long, and he went out for a few laps by himself to see the progress of the disaster relief, and use business to get the dead out of his mind. Slow down.

Throughout the whole day, General Liu asked his soldiers to strengthen the fortifications and kept busy until evening, when a group of people were free.

General Liu came over to invite him: "Your Highness, there are still two ways to cure snow that I talked about yesterday, and they are all urging to listen. Is Your Highness free tonight?"

Song Jiao nodded, picked up "Disaster Relief Book": "Okay, I'll go now."

It was still the same big tent. When Song Jiao entered, dozens of veterans had already arrived, sitting neatly, holding small notebooks in their hands. It was completely different from yesterday’s laziness. They were very serious today. , and even brought a pen, ready to take notes.

Song Jiao smiled and nodded at them, then sat down at the front table.

"Is there anything unclear about the three methods mentioned yesterday? You can ask me now, and I will make it clearer."

A veteran opened the booklet in his hand: "Your Highness, yesterday I went back and told them that there is a..."

Others also opened their notebooks.

"Your Highness, the tree planting yesterday, shall we start planting when spring begins?"

"Your Highness..."

Song Jiaowen smiled, and Xie Chen patted the table: "Come one by one."

Song Jiao first answered the remaining questions for them, and then began to talk about the last two methods.

Unknowingly, more and more people came to listen to the lecture, and the tent was full.Later, there was really no room to stand in the tent, and Song Jiao was about to be squeezed out. It was General Liu who stopped them and asked the people behind to stand outside the tent and listen.

Song Jiao spoke in a simple and funny way. When it came to the funny part, the people inside and outside the tent burst into laughter at the same time, almost tearing off the roof of the tent.

In the next few days, no foreign race came to harass, and the patrolling sergeant found nothing unusual.

The continuous light snow finally stopped, production and life in Pipazhou began to resume, and the methods in "Disaster Relief Book" began to be practiced one by one.

Song Jiao asked people to hang a few cowhide posters that he had drawn outside the tent of the commander in chief. They were very conspicuous, and anyone passing by could see them.

Song Jiao felt that the effect was good, so he drew a few more pictures and asked them to hang them in the dining hall.

This morning, the weather was fine, Song Jiao was wearing a small straw hat and tied up the hem of his clothes, squatting in the field, learning how to handle the crops with the farmers he brought.

A group of veterans followed him, taking notes in a small notebook.

Pipazhou needs to be self-sufficient and cannot always wait for other states and counties to come to the rescue. Eat dry food when there is dry food, eat more when there is more, and eat less when there is less.

If you can grow it yourself, of course you have to grow it yourself.

Song Jiao touched the newborn green leaves, then stood up: "Today is the tenth day, please record it."

So the veterans who followed him immediately stepped forward, took out a section of rope, and began to measure the length of the crops.

It is one thing for a farmer to be able to tend the crops, but it is another for Pipazhou to have a special climate.In the past, the crops on Pipazhou were always frozen to death. They were sown once in spring and harvested in autumn. Even the seeds could not be collected.

So in "Disaster Relief Book", one of the methods is to breed good seeds, and they are now selecting the first batch of the most cold-resistant seeds.

The veterans were carefully recording, Song Jiao walked to Xie Chen with hands behind his back.Xie Chen was holding his little notebook in his hand, and Xie Chen said to help him write it down.

Song Jiao leaned over to look: "...Brother Shen, what are you remembering?"

Xie Chen raised his head: "What you said, I have written down every word you said."

Song Jiao frowned and looked back: "Each sentence?"

"Yeah, 'Today is the tenth day, please...'"

Song Jiao said loudly: "Xie Chen is a little fool."

Xie Chen obediently held the pen and paper: "I'm not."

"Why don't you remember? Didn't you say that you must remember every word I say?"

"This is not necessary."

"This one."

Song Jiao was very angry, and looked at him angrily, his eyes were about to burst into flames.Xie Chen had had enough of teasing him, so he quickly turned to the front page of the book and showed it to him.

"I forgot, don't be angry."

But Song Jiao seemed to be even more angry, he folded his hands and looked at Xie Chen.

He turned his head and said to the veterans: "You all remember, 'Brother Shen is a little fool'."

The veterans bowed their heads together and wrote: "Yes, Your Highness."

Xie Chen tried to stop him, but someone blocked him first.

"Your Highness, how do you write the word 'stupid'?"

Song Jiao took the pen and wrote the word "stupid" on the booklet: "By the way, can you write the word 'egg'?"

The veteran shook his head: "No."

So Song Jiao helped him complete the sentence, returned the booklet to him, and the rest gathered around.

"Show me, I can't write 'Dumb' either."

When they took notes, they copied each other back and forth, and when they returned, they would lend them to friends who were not here today to copy.

The words "Brother Chen is a little fool" will soon spread in Pipa Island.

Song Jiao clasped his hands, looked at Xie Chen proudly, and raised his chin at him.

After the veterans had finished copying, Song Jiao said, "Let's go out of the city and look at the trees planted a few days ago."

This is also one of the methods in "Disaster Relief". They planted trees at the mouth of the valley north of Pipazhou to prevent wind and sand.

Also record the growth of the tree species daily.

The soldiers guarding the city opened the city gate for them: "Your Highness went out to look at the tree again? We saw it during our patrol last night, and it looks pretty good."

Song Jiao clasped his fists at them: "Thank you, but I still want to take them out to have a look."

"Then be careful, Your Highness."

"it is good."

Song Jiao got on his horse and led a group of people out of the city.

There are two or three rows of short saplings at the mouth of the valley, not much higher than the weeds.

If he could bring the saplings directly, Song Jiao would not bring the tree seeds, but Pipazhou is too far away, and it is already difficult to bring food. If he wants to bring the saplings, the saplings will turn into a pile of dry wood up.

In front of the dwarf saplings, there is a row of taller branches.

That was Xie Chen's suggestion. He said that to plant trees, it is better to get local materials directly, so they went to the mountains around Pipa Island, broke off a dozen branches, and put them here for craftsmen to make cuttings.

Song Jiao got off his horse, followed by a dozen or so veterans at the same time. In groups of two, they went to the saplings he was looking after and recorded their growth.

Song Jiao and Xie Chen squatted beside the saplings in the row where the cuttings were in charge. Song Jiao took out the rope and measured the height of the saplings.

"It seems to have grown a little taller."

The two of them finished measuring all the saplings in a row, and Song Jiao was just about to put up the rope when, suddenly, there was the sound of horseshoes in the distance.

The veterans immediately put down the things in their hands, fell on the ground, put their ears on the ground, and listened carefully for a while.

"Your Highness, there is a change ahead, we have to go back immediately."

Xie Chen pulled Song Jiao up and put him on the horse: "Let's go."

A group of people hurriedly got on their horses and returned to the city quickly, but the sound of horseshoes behind them was getting closer and closer.

In the valley, it was deep and quiet, except for the sound of horseshoes, suddenly there was another substandard Chinese——

"Wait! Wait a minute!"

Song Jiao glanced back, and saw a [-]-year-old foreign child wearing a loose robe amidst the rattling of horseshoes, shouting anxiously, and behind the child was a group of foreign people, four in total. five.

Song Jiao was afraid that he was going to be trampled to death by the horse, so he quickly reined in the horse and turned around, shouting, "Wait a minute!"

The child's red face and black grape-like eyes met Song Jiao's eyes, and he knelt down with a "plop".

He should only be able to say "Wait" in Chinese, and he can't speak anything else. He can only say a word of his own tribe, and then put his hands on the ground and kowtowed to Song Jiao and the Qi soldiers.

Song Jiao was puzzled.

Then, like him, a group of aliens who followed behind him got off their horses, knelt down and kowtowed, shouting words Song Jiao couldn't understand.

But this time Song Jiao saw clearly that they were not the same tribe as the tribe that attacked a few days ago.

People in the previous tribe had pierced ears and agate earrings. People in this tribe have no piercings and no pigtails, just furry clothes.

They knelt on the ground and continued to shout that sentence.

Song Jiao turned to look at his companions, and the veteran who knew a few foreign languages ​​stepped forward and explained in a low voice: "Your Highness, what they said was 'ask Lord Azsuna for medicine', and Azsuna is the religion that their tribe believes in. A god of life and death."

"Their tribe is not the same as the tribe that fought with us a few days ago. The previous tribe was called Cangmu, and this tribe is called Haona, which means 'sheep'. They are very docile and have not fought with us for so many years. There were conflicts."

"That child is dressed luxuriously. He should be the child of some important person in the tribe. The people behind him are all his followers."

Song Jiao still didn't quite understand: "But what do they mean... asking for medicine?"

"We don't know that either."

Song Jiao pulled the rein back and tried to drive the horse forward, but was stopped by the soldiers.

"Your Highness, no."

The child looked up and saw that Song Jiao wanted to come, so he quickly stood up and took a large package from the person behind him.

He put the parcel on the ground, opened it, and there were many gold and silver jewels inside.Then he asked someone to push a car up, lifted the blanket on the car, and signaled Song Jiao to come over.

But he and four or five followers put their hands on their chests, bowed to Song Jiao, expressing that they were not carrying any weapons, and then slowly backed away.

The soldiers stopped Song Jiao: "Your Highness, let's go and have a look first."

As soon as the words fell, a soldier declared himself brave and stepped forward to check.

At this time, the child and his entourage had retreated fifty paces away.

The soldier lifted the blanket and took a look, then turned his head and said loudly, "Your Highness, he is a dead man."

"Ah? A dead person?" A veteran also stepped forward, and then knocked another soldier on the head, "He's breathing, not a dead person."

He inspected it, and then told Song Jiao loudly: "Your Highness, the clothes on this man are similar to that of the child, and he should be his brother. This man has wounds on his legs, as if he was shot by an arrow, and he wiped the herbs on the grassland , but it’s useless, the wounds are rotten. It should have been delayed for more than ten days, and if it continues, people will disappear.”

He lifted the gold and silver on the ground: "This kid asked us to treat his brother's wounds, so he brought a bag of things over here, Your Highness, shall we save him?"

Song Jiao turned his head and told others: "Go and inform General Liu, and invite some military doctors. Since they didn't have conflicts with Qi before, and this kid is so sincere, he should be able to be saved."

Before General Liu came over, the child and the foreigner kept their hands folded and placed on their hearts. Song Jiao saw that they had no malicious intentions, so he led them forward.

Seeing Song Jiao pass by, Hao even heaved a sigh of relief, with a happy expression on his face.

Song Jiao and Xie Chen also went over to take a look. As the soldiers said, the person lying in the car was also a foreigner. His face was pale, his breathing was weak, and there was a large ulcer on his leg.

A soldier reached out and touched his forehead.

"I'll go, it's so hot that it can boil water, if it's rescued, it will be burnt stupid."

Song Jiao tried to poke the system: "Tongtong, can you give me some anti-inflammatory medicine?"

The big yellow dog is too old, the little Persian cat is too young, and the system is floating in the air for a while.

"Save someone's life." The system thought for a while, then flew to Song Jiao's hand, and quietly handed him a white pill.

Just at this moment, General Liu and the military doctor arrived.

"What's going on? What's going on?"

While everyone was looking back, Song Jiao quickly opened the mouth of the man in the car and stuffed the pill into his mouth.

The movement was done in one go, very quickly, without anyone being—

Xie Shen asked in a low voice, "What did you feed him?"

Song Jiao put her hands behind her back and shook her head innocently: "No, nothing."

General Liu pushed aside the crowd and stepped forward: "That's it? Isn't this the eldest prince of Haona?" He turned his head to look at the child in the distance, and the child also saluted him: "That's the second prince, what happened to them? "

Song Jiao said: "The eldest prince is injured, the second prince took a pile of gold and silver, and came here to ask us to save him."

General Liu nodded: "Okay, let's save it. There is no festival at ordinary times, not to mention they have paid. Military doctor, come. Everyone spread out and let the military doctors come in."

The people in the car were like gossamer, General Liu brought two military doctors, one to check his pulse, and the other to check the wound.

Both of them shook their heads: "It's hard, it's all burned like this, and the wounds are rotten. We can only try to dig out the carrion, feed him some medicine, and let fate."

General Liu looked at Song Jiao, saw that Song Jiao had no objection, and said, "Okay, let's treat him like this. Hao Na must know his condition, and we can't blame us if he can't be cured."

"Okay." The old military doctor looked around, but before he could speak, there was another chaotic sound of horseshoes in the distance.

The soldiers fell to the ground again.

General Liu also listened for a while: "There are two groups of people coming, and one of them is always the enemy. Come on, let's go back to the city, we'll talk when we go back to the city."

As he was talking, two groups of people came behind him.

Those in the front are dressed in the same clothes as that child; the ones chasing behind are the same group of people who fought against Qi State last time.

Hao Na's second prince and his entourage obviously haven't figured out the situation yet, so they stand where they are, not knowing what to do.

"Quick, quick, your highness, get on the horse first."

General Liu helped Song Jiao onto the horse, and several soldiers pushed up the carriage in which Prince Hao was lying.

General Liu said again: "Hey, put it down, if Mr. Hao wanted to seek medical treatment, he would definitely not have sent these people over. It must be the second prince who brought them here on his own initiative. Now that Mr. Hao found out, I chased after him, and ended up attracting our deadly enemy, let's not get involved, let's go."

General Liu got on his horse and shouted "Drive".

Song Jiao glanced back at the child, met his eyes, and hurriedly said: "General Liu, if we leave the seriously injured eldest prince and the young second prince here, from now on, there will be more children in the Qi Kingdom." A deadly enemy."

Suddenly being pointed out by him, General Liu hesitated: "Then..."

Xie Chen said: "Push into the eldest prince's car, and take him back in time."

He was originally also riding on a horse, holding Song Jiao's hand, jumped up into the air, and landed steadily on Song Jiao's horse.

Xie Chen lashed his horse with the whip, and the horse ran towards the second prince.

Xie Chen said to General Liu: "Use Hao's words, let him mount his horse and enter the city, and his followers stay behind."

"Yes." General Liu used his hands as trumpets, and shouted in that direction. The second prince understood immediately, and when the horse rushed towards him, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the rein.

Seeing that he got on his horse safely, the soldiers of Qi State were also preparing to retreat to the city.

Xie Chen wrapped his arms around Song Jiao's waist from behind, and whispered in his ear: "Did you just want to save that child by yourself?"

Song Jiao didn't speak, Xie Chen said again: "No next time, I won't save anyone next time."

The soldiers of Qi State and the two princes of Haona entered the city, and the heavy city gate was closed to block all enemy troops.

General Liu immediately went up to the tower and shouted towards the tower: "King Haona, why are you crazy? Your second son came here to beg us to treat his brother, why did you bring Cang Mu to my door? ? Do you see what you are doing is a human thing?"

He spoke Chinese, and the team in front, led by King Haona, also answered him in Chinese, but it was not standard.

"I... I didn't know that he brought his brother to you? I thought he was messing around. I didn't know that Cang Mu was following me. I just came out to find someone..."

With King Haona's Chinese proficiency, it seemed difficult to explain this matter clearly, so he simply gave up: "Ah, I can't explain clearly to you, I will help you drive away the wolves, and I will talk about it after driving away. Can the head office do it? Can my eldest son be saved?"

General Liu said: "You drive away the group of people at the back first."

At this time, the Cangmu people who were chasing after him chased after him also caught up. King Haona came back to his senses, led all the people in the clan, and immediately became one with Cangmu.

General Liu stood on the tower, observing the battle situation. He originally wanted to help Hao Na, but they fought too chaotically, afraid of accidentally hurting the friendly army, so he didn't dare to make a move.

He looked back to the bottom of the tower and asked, "How is it? Can the eldest prince be saved?"

The old military doctor shook his head, tried the eldest prince's forehead again, and said in surprise: "It's not hot anymore?" He hurriedly said: "General, there is help!"

The second prince, who was eight or nine years old, followed the old military doctor's expression. Song Jiao looked at it and found it very interesting.

Xie Chen felt that it was very boring.

The second prince noticed that Song Jiao was looking at him, he hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward holding the hem of his clothes, and carefully patted the back of Song Jiao's hand to express his gratitude.

Xie Chen tilted his head and looked at him with dark eyes.The second prince quickly let go of his hands and took a few steps back.

Why is this man exactly like the wolf on the grassland?terrible!

Why is there such a fierce wolf beside the god Azsuna? !