Mu Qiu has lost his human appearance, not to mention that he has lost a lot of weight, he is also very weak, his face is pale, spread out on the chair, his hair is scattered, his beard is unkempt, stains on his dirty clothes, blood stains have accumulated, and he can no longer see his original color.

Mu Qiu was already two hundred miles of land, with his own footsteps, three or four days to rush back, who would have expected that because of the last time the Donghu people encountered them, the other party also became vigilant, the patrol is more intensive, the first day of heavy rain is like a note of good, from the next day after the weather is fine, a team of patrols is galloping back and forth, although the patrol range is only more than a hundred miles range, but for Mu Qiu, who is deep in the Donghu control zhì district, it is a life-and-death juncture.

Fortunately, although he is young, he has experienced great battles, and the characters who have also turned around in front of the gate of the Hades Palace, the more dangerous they are, the more calm they are, and they go out day and night, and carefully approach the location of the camp.

Even so, he also endured all the hardships, and when he mustered up his last strength, he swam across the Liao River with a log in his arms, and when he saw the patrol of the Eastern Army, he was relieved and really fainted.

When Xu Yuan stepped into the door, Mu Qiu had just come to his senses, and when he saw Xu Yuan, he flicked up, stumbled, and almost fell, but he still held on and performed a military salute.

"Sit down!" Glancing at Mu Qiu's appearance, knowing that he had suffered hardship, Xu Yuan originally wanted to comfort a few words, but when he thought that this kid went deep into the enemy-occupied area on his own initiative, causing his fellow comrades-in-arms to go and never return, his heart hardened again, Mu Qiu is a young officer he values, but this temperament, if he doesn't learn well, he will really let it go out in the future, and it will not only harm himself and his own army, but also affect the real army.

Mu Qiu really didn't have the strength to stand anymore, and the guards on the side helped him to sit down just now, but Xu Yuan suddenly popped out again. "You're coming back alone, what about the others?"

As soon as Xu Yuan's words came out, Mu Qiu's body was as if he had been slashed, and his body was weak, but this time he knelt down and whimpered: "Please punish me, it was I who ignored the military order and entered the opposite bank too deeply, and ran into Donghu's brigade sentry cavalry, the five brothers who were traveling with me." It's all gone. As he spoke, he became even more sad, pounding the ground with his hands and shouting loudly.

looked at Mu Qiu's painful appearance coldly, knowing that this time he had learned a lesson, and he would be much more cautious in his actions in the future. But you can't grind too hard, if you lose your enterprising spirit because of this, it's not your intention.

"Thou hast miscommanded thy comrades, and thou hast caught thy comrades to death. Stripped of your officer position and still on an errand in the pro-soldier team, can you be convinced? Xu Yuandao.

"The subordinates are convinced, Commander Xie is not killed!" Mu Qiu whimpered.

"Stand up. There is no kneeling salute in the army, what is it to kneel like this! Xu Yuan snorted coldly.

Mu Qiu stood up and reached into his arms. took out the iron pipe that the group was desperately protecting, and offered it with both hands. "This is the map that the next team has discovered."

took the iron pipe from Mu Qiu's hand, unscrewed the lid, and the pipe interface was sealed with wax very well, but he was not afraid of soaking in water, took out the drawing, picked up the pen from the table, and added the map drawn by Mu Qiu to the large map on the wall.

This side of the terrain is added, and the large picture on the wall immediately appears to be much richer. Xu Yuan also felt that his heart suddenly brightened a lot.

"Although you have broken a few brothers, but in exchange for the terrain and landform here, it is not in vain that you gave your life, merit is merit, and it is passing, Mu Qiu, in this regard, you have made merit." Xu Yuan turned around and looked at Mu Qiu, "After using the map of this place, after Commander Sun's brigade arrives, if you use troops, you will have some confidence in your heart." The Donghu people are not soft persimmons, Mu Qiu, you didn't go on an expedition to Donghu with the governor, don't underestimate them, this time you went deep into the Donghu control area, you have the heart to underestimate them, you don't want to think about it, the guy who can leave the 100,000 army of Taiwei Zhou in this black mountain and white water, where is it easy, we are careful step by step, it is not an exaggeration to walk on thin ice, and we must not take the lives of ourselves and our brothers in vain because of arrogance! ”

"My subordinates can save it."

"You said to General Tao earlier that you have a heavy military situation, you don't just mean this, right?" Returning to his throne and sitting down, Xu Yuan asked.

"Commander, it is true that I am using heavy military intelligence, I was forced by the Donghu people, and I panicked, but I bumped into a place, where, I found a large number of tuntian fields of the Donghu people. And those who opened up the land and tuntian turned out to be the soldiers of the Yan Army who were captured last year. Mu Qiu said.

Xu Yuan stood up suddenly, "The soldiers of the Yan Army who were captured last year? How many people are there? Which Donghu tribe was there and how many garrisons were there? ”

Mu Qiu saw Xu Yuan's appearance, and knew that this time he didn't take a risk in vain, "Commander, after I found out about this incident, I didn't rush back, but continued to lurk there for three days, and carefully observed the situation there, where the Yan army in Tuntian took no less than two thousand prisoners, and the Donghu people guarding them only had about five hundred Donghu cavalry. I don't know which tribe it is, but I know that they have a three-headed snake painted on their banner. ”

"The banner of the three-headed snake?" Xu Yuan frowned, last year, he followed Gao Yuan's expedition to Donghu and fought with many Donghu tribes, but he had never encountered such a banner. "Someone, go and ask Lorey to come over."

Luo Lei is a member of the Buyi tribe, who has lived in this area before, relying on the Liao River and being close to the Donghu people, so he may know which branch of this Donghu tribe is.

"Two thousand captives, only five hundred horsemen to guard?" Tao Jiawang on the side couldn't help but be surprised, "They are not afraid of these captives rebelling?" ”

Mu Qiu also looked up at Xu Yuan, which was also a question he didn't understand.

"You don't know, these Yan army captives, the Great Yan court has reached an agreement with the Donghu people, will be returned to the Great Yan in batches within five years, the first batch of 5,000 people have returned to the Yan country with Zhou Taiwei, this person has hope, naturally will not take risks, and in Donghu, they will naturally not raise these people in vain, the Yan army tens of thousands of prisoners, there are craftsmen who know all kinds of techniques, but the most, I am afraid that they are all farmers, and the Donghu people naturally want to take advantage of them and pull them here to reclaim wasteland and tuntian, It seems that although Thorpe has not yet freed his hands to take care of this place, his eyes have finally turned. Xu Yuan smiled, "Very good, thousands of captives, getting them back has solved my urgent need." ”

Tao Jiawang frowned, "Commander, these people are looking forward to going home in five years, they have no hatred in their hearts, they have no will to fight, even if they get it back, they are afraid that they will not be able to withstand it." ”

Xu Yuan sneered: "Among the thousands of people, there are definitely some hot-blooded people, who can touch a few of them, besides, where are these thousands of people in Donghu people tuntian, can't we be here to tuntian?" Even if we can't fight, it's good to farm for us. ”

"I'm afraid that the Great Yan Dynasty will know these things and come to us to ask these people, whether to give them or not when the time comes, the pass here needs to be thought out clearly, otherwise it will cause some unnecessary trouble to the house." Tao Jiawang continued.

"The trouble of fart, the Dayan Imperial Court signed an agreement with the Donghu people, and it was about my expedition to Dongfu, these are the slaves we snatched back from Donghu, and the ones we snatched are ours, as for if you want them to go back, let them have a fight with the Donghu people." Xu Yuan was dismissive. "In short, when it comes to what we Zhengdong Mansion has in our mouth, can it still be spit out? You say this in front of the governor, believe it or not, the governor spits at your face. ”

Tao Jiawang smiled, "The commander is right. "The Eastern Army has always taken advantage of it, and if it is not cheap, it will think of making some cheap, and spit out the fat in the mouth, where is the style of the governor?

"Besides, the Donghu people have already begun to settle fields in this area, and we have to give them a little color, there are only five hundred cavalry guards, but they really haven't looked at us in the eyes. Go and destroy them, and give them a warning. ”

Tao Jiawang nodded, "That's how it should be, but Commander, Mu Qiu has already shown his form, where are the remains of the five brothers who died in battle, it is not difficult for the other party to judge which side we belong to, since we have been discovered, how can there be any reason not to reinforce the vigilance?" I'm afraid that now the reinforcements have arrived or are on the way. ”

"So we need to hurry!" Xu Yuan laughed, "The soldier is very fast, first hit him by surprise and then say, Zong Wang, I will take all the cavalry to attack the other party, and you and Ni Huazong will take all the foot soldiers to cross the river later, and after advancing for a hundred miles, they will set up an ambush, if the Donghu people have reinforcements to chase after them, they will give him a ruthless blow." ”

"Subordinates obey!"

As he spoke, footsteps were heard outside, and then Lore appeared in front of everyone.

"Commander Xu, General Tao!" Luo Lei clenched his fists and saluted the two, and glanced at Mu Qiu out of the corner of his eye, knowing that this was Xu Yuan's personal soldier for many years, but he didn't care much.

"General Luo, you have been living on the edge of the Liao River for a long time, do you know which Donghu tribe's banner is a three-headed snake?" Xu Yuan asked straight to the point.

"Three-headed snake flag?" Luo Lei was surprised for a while, "That's the Wusu Tribe, the Wusu Department is the maiden home of Mrs. Thorpe, the whole clan is about 5,000 tents, and it can pull out tens of thousands of cavalry, this is a big clan, but it has always been far away from here, why did the army commander suddenly ask about this army?" ”

Xu Yuan smiled, "It's not far, it's not far, we're about to face it soon." ”

That night, more than 1,000 cavalrymen of the First Army of the Northern Field Army were fully armed, sat on a sheepskin raft, and spent most of the night crossing the Liao River, and then whipped away. (To be continued......)