Guan Tong was the old general of Nai'er Buhua, and was abandoned when the Yuan army fled in the wilderness.

He didn't know what it meant to serve the emperor, and he didn't know why he wanted to dedicate himself to Sheji. What he cares about is whether he and his family can fill their stomachs and whether they have a stable life.

The emperor of the Yuan Dynasty did not treat him well, his wife and son were starved to death, and only a skinny daughter was left in the family, who grew up to ten years old but looked like a five or six-year-old daughter.

The country changed hands, and he naturally became a soldier of the Ming army.

Shi took Dao Yan and Zhu Di into the tent where Guantong was.

The watch boy was so immersed in the joy of the tortillas that he didn't notice the movement around him.

"Guantong!" The stone shouted.

"Here!" Guan Tong stuffed the remaining half of the cake into his mouth, lest he would miss it.

Under the gaze of the six eyes brushing together, Guan Tong puffed out his cheeks and did not dare to chew.

"Huh! Eat your bread first! Zhu Di said with a smile.

"Yes!" Guan Tong's voice came through the cracks of the tortilla crumbs and reached the ears of the three of them indistinctly.

They looked at each other and smiled.

"Your Highness, he was once a subordinate general of Na'er Buhua." Stone said.

Zhu Di stared at the stone with wide eyes, not because there was an old general in his army who did not spend money, but because the stone actually noticed this person.

Dao Yan touched his beard with a smile, and he already knew in his heart how Shi planned to surrender without a fight.

"Guantong, are you willing to work for Da Ming?" The stone asked Guantong.

"I swear to die for the Ming Dynasty." Guan Tong replied without hesitation, this is just a habit as a soldier, and there is no need to think.

"Good! Our army has found out that Naier is not stationed in the capital. When our army arrives in the capital, please go and persuade you to surrender. Stone's eyes were full of anticipation.

"Persuasion?" Guan Tong was taken aback, never thinking that such an incredible task would fall on him.

He is now in the service of the enemies of the old master, to whom he is a traitor. If you go and persuade you to surrender, won't you throw yourself into it?

"I don't know...... Na'er is willing to surrender if she doesn't spend it? Guan Tong made a muffled sound, even though his tortillas were all in his stomach.

Shi knew what Guan Tong was worried about, and said with a slight smile: "Guan Tong, you don't have to worry, His Highness has already made a full plan." We will surround the Yuan army first, and Na'er will definitely panic if it doesn't take a moment. Tell him that we are ten times as numerous as theirs, and that the two sides are outnumbered, and that he will surely be defeated. If he surrenders, the emperor will definitely treat him and his family, as well as his subordinates. I know that he loves soldiers like sons and will not sacrifice their lives in vain. ”

"The general is right, but he ...... What if it doesn't fall? "Guantong understands that Naier does not spend. He does love soldiers like sons, but he is also loyal and courageous.

Between allegiance to the monarch and protection of the soldiers, Guantong is unsure of Nai'er's choice of not spending.

"If he really doesn't come down, we'll catch turtles in an urn!"

"Wonderful!" Dao Yan couldn't help but applaud.

Guan Tong lowered his head, the problem he cared about was still unsolved, who cared about the life of a nobody like him.

Shi Shi took out a walnut-sized object from his bosom and handed it to Guan Tong: "This is a small poison smoke ball, you carry it with you, if you encounter danger, throw it, you can escape in the smoke." Remember the smoke to come out, don't breathe! ”

Guan Tong's dim eyes suddenly lit up, and he quickly took the poison smoke ball and said loudly: "Guan Tong promises to complete the task!" ”

"Guantong, if the persuasion is successful, there will be a heavy reward!" Zhu Di was overjoyed.

The stone gave Zhu Di surprise again and again, and Zhu Di never expected that there were countless surprising ideas hidden under the childish face of the stone.

Just added Dao Yan's left arm, and now he has the right arm of the stone, he seems to have wings, and he believes that he will definitely change something.

Fu Youde, the Duke of Yingguo, received the notice of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and was so anxious that he walked around the tent.

Zhu did not heed his instructions, and now he has gone deep into the grassland and is nowhere to be found.

He expected that Zhu Zhu had not found the location of Na'er Buhua, and with his decades of combat experience, this was tantamount to fishing for the moon in the sea.

If Zhu Di is willing to listen to him, even if Zhu Di can't find Na'er and doesn't spend it, Fu Youde can secretly send someone to pass the information to Zhu Di after finding it.

Now Zhu Di has found that Naier is not spending time in the capital, and Zhu has disappeared in the vast grassland, and victory or defeat is a foregone conclusion.

Is it just like this to watch Zhu turn a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for meritorious service into a stain?

Zhu and him are both prosperous and loss-oriented. Fu Youde was unwilling.

He faintly felt that his years of experience in the Mobei campaign could help Zhu Yi, and the idea that Zhu had to win this competition was pervasive, and he could even sacrifice half of his life for this.

Zhu Di, the king of Yan, led the army majestically and marched towards the capital with high spirits. The soldiers did not take off their armor and horses did not leave their saddles, and hurried from the middle road with stars and moons.

A day and a night later, Fu Youde, the Duke of Yingguo, came to Zhu Di.

"King Yan, the physical exertion of the grassland battle is extremely high. At this time, we have not yet encountered the enemy, and we must not let the army get too tired, and we should now rest on the spot. ”

Fu Youde was the only general among the soldiers of King Yan who participated in the Northern Expedition.

Zhu Di thought to himself, although it was common to travel overnight for two or three days when fighting in the Central Plains, there were too many variables on the grassland, and he still had to obey experienced generals.

So he ordered his army to rest on the spot.

A few wisps of green smoke burst out of the improvised stove that the soldiers had just set up, and rushed impatiently towards the vast sky.

"Not good!" Stone threw away the kettle in his hand, hurried to the stove, and shouted, "Don't make a fire!" Extinguish now! Don't start a fire! Extinguish now! ”

The soldier who was holding a dead branch and preparing to light a fire was stunned, not knowing what had happened. The soldiers, who had already lit the fire, overturned the pot, spilled water, and scrambled to extinguish the flames.

Zhu Di and Dao Yan hurried over: "What's wrong?" What happened? ”

The scene was a mess, as if it had gone out of water.

"Your Highness, just now I saw smoke rising from the cooking stove, and I realized that we should not build a stove on the ground to cook rice. This creates a large amount of smoke that rises into the clouds and is easily visible to enemy sentinels. Stone gasped and palpitated.

"I'm glad you caught it just in time." Zhu Di gasped, "This is an endless grassland, there is no shelter, and the smoke is easy to see." In the past, the area where I fought was very mountainous, but I neglected the problem of cooking rice and stoves. ”

"Skipping meals then?" Dao Yan made a bitter face and shrugged his shoulders, "I'm fine, the soldiers still have to fight, what should they do?" ”

"Master, Your Highness, we can dig holes in the ground and cook rice. This way the smoke will be much smaller, and it won't be very high. "Stone Road.

"I learned it from local hunters when I was in Honesty Valley. Local hunters like to go up to the mountains to hunt in groups, and they will come down for more than ten days. During these ten days, they could not only eat dry food, but also had to make a fire to cook to ensure that they were energetic. The hills around Honest Valley are covered with dwarf shrubs. The dwarf shrubs are very shading, and they can easily be detected by their prey, so they dig holes in the ground to cook. ”

"Brothers," Zhu Di said to the soldiers, "dig a bigger hole in the ground, build a simple stove in the hole, put cooking utensils on it, and try not to let the smoke get too big, so as not to alarm the 'rats'!" ”

"Yes, His Royal Highness King Yan!"

The soldiers quickly picked up all kinds of utensils and began to dig holes in the ground, and then lit fires in the holes to cook.

The cooking smoke turned a corner, drilled out of the hole, lost the momentum of going straight to the sky, and weakly rushed up a foot or two before dissipating without a trace.

Zhu Di and Shi walked ten zhang away, and they couldn't see the smoke, so they were relieved.

"What is Honest Valley?" Zhu Di asked curiously.

"A paradise, beautiful and beautiful." Stone's heart was filled with melancholy.

"Your Highness, we don't care about paradise for now. There is a problem with this Fu Youde. Dao Yan frowned.

"What's wrong?" Zhu Di asked.

"He has made four northern expeditions, so he should know that he can't cook on the ground, right?"

"Well, it stands to reason that you know." Zhu Di said.

"He must know." Shi looked around, but Fu Youde was nowhere to be seen, as if he had deliberately kept a distance from them.

Stone continued: "Cooking on a stove is very important in war. The number of troops can be judged from the number of stoves. Soldiers also often use stoves to defeat the enemy. The soldier is treacherous. The real is the virtual, and the virtual is the real. In order to provide the other party with wrong information, when the number of people is small, there are many stoves, and when there are many people, there are fewer stoves. This can achieve the effect of retiring or luring the enemy. Fu Youde, as a general who can fight well, is brave and strategic, he must be familiar with these. ”

"Why did he turn a blind eye when the soldiers were lighting a fire on the ground just now? Could it be that he betrayed the country and collaborated with the enemy? ”

The hot meal had already been served to the three of them, and none of them had the heart to move their chopsticks.

"Probably not." Zhu Di shook his head gently, "He has followed his father since he was in the Red Turban Army. For the establishment of the Ming Dynasty made great achievements, the north expedition to the desert, the west to Bashu, the south of Yungui, year after year of conquest, loyalty. The imperial court also had a generous grace to him, not only adding officials to the title of Duke of Yingguo, allowing his descendants to be hereditary, but also granting him an iron coupon to avoid death. With such wealth and glory, is there any need for him to be treasonous? ”

Shi nodded and said, "Fu Youde really doesn't need to be treasonous. The Yuan army is just a poor man now, and Fu Youde will not be stupid enough to betray the powerful Ming Dynasty and take refuge in the Yuan Dynasty regime, which will perish at any time. ”

"No matter what the reason, Fu Youde is doing this, he definitely doesn't want us to catch Nai'er and not spend it!" Dao Yan's nose let out a snort of disdain.

"Report!" The spy hurriedly walked into the camp, "Your Highness, King Jin entered the grassland half a month ago, and now his whereabouts are unknown. ”