Montenegro led everyone back to the place where Zhao Jun was besieged just now, and the sky was already dark. An officer of the Zhao State came over and asked, "May I ask who your general is!" Our general wants to see it! ”

Montenegro replied: "I am, the Qin army's thousand cavalry generals Montenegro." Who is your general? ”

"Uncle Le, the deputy general, the general is already waiting at the bonfire in front! General Montenegro knew when he went over," Uncle Le said, and pointed to a bonfire not far away!

Montenegro turned over and dismounted, and the meatloaf immediately stepped forward to take the reins. "You clean up the battlefield, I'll go over there and have a look." Montenegro said to everyone.

Shi Fatzi and Baturu immediately dismounted and followed, following behind Montenegro.

By the bonfire, there stood a general who was more than eight feet tall, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, a fur hat on his head, wearing cowhide armor, staring at the black black country with a goatee on his face, and a smile that made people feel awe!

"Hahaha, Qin Guo is really a hero!" General Zhao Guo laughed and praised Montenegro.

Seeing that the other party was alone, Montenegro turned to Baturu and the dead fat man and said, "You go and clean up the battlefield, and the sentry will be released for ten miles, and don't let people come within a hundred paces of here." ”

"No!" The two of them left in response!

"The junior Qin army's thousand cavalry generals Montenegro have seen the general! What is the name of the general? Montenegro bowed to the other party and said.

"Zhao Guobian General Li Mu. Please sit down and have a drink! Li Mu did not return the salute, and asked Montenegro to sit down after reporting his name.

"Could it be General Li Mu, who beheaded more than 200,000 Hun cavalry troops in World War I more than ten years ago?" Montenegro was shocked that such a world-famous general was sitting at the same table with him.

"Is there a second Li Mu in the world?" Li Mu looked at Montenegro with a smile.

"The general is the first general in the world, and he is in danger of the safety of Zhao State, and he actually risked his life and went deep into the Huns, and he didn't pay for it!" Montenegro replied.

"I went into the territory of the Xiongnu to investigate, I don't know how many times, I have more than 30 years on the border, and I have won more than 100 battles against the Huns. Maybe this is the last time I will enter the Huns in my life! After Li Mu finished speaking, he let out a long sigh! There were tears in his eyes.

Montenegro knows that in the next year or so, Li Mu will go south to fight a decisive battle with the Qin army, and next year he will die at the hands of Zhao Wangqian and Guo Kai, a traitor of Zhao State! I sighed with emotion in my heart: "It's a pity that Zhao has 200,000 invincible divisions, and there are generals who have won a hundred battles, but there is a pair of dead monarchs and ministers, one general in the world, and the power of non-generals can stop it." ”

"There is a thousand cavalry generals of the Qin army in Ru District, and the milk smell has not dried up, why do you know so much about the general trend of the world?" Li Mu looked at Montenegro in surprise.

"I also know that you will give up the two counties of Jiuyuan and Yunzhong, and lead the army south to resist Qin! It's just that I heard that the Huns gathered hundreds of thousands of cavalry, and they couldn't let go of the people in the border areas, so they went deep into Mobei to explore the truth! "These are all recorded in the history books, and of course Montenegro knows it! He said in a vague way: "As long as you carefully analyze the situation of the order, it is not difficult to know.

"To be able to analyze the world's major events so inwardly, it could be that Black Mountain is also a disciple of the Guigu Sect." Li Mu remembered that Montenegro had just besieged and killed the Huns, and he obviously knew the art of war! He asked.

"Under the tutelage of the Confucian Meng Zhao. If you are not a protégé of Guigu, dare to ask General Li Mu, I see you secretly set up a three-horse cone battle formation, I don't know who your teacher is? When Montenegro heard Li Mu's question, he also wanted to know who his teacher was!

"I promised the teacher never to mention the master, just said a little bit of leakage, to tell the truth, I am a disciple of the Guigu Gate, and the three-horse cone battle method was created by my uncle Qin Wu Anjun Bai Qi, and later passed back to the master, I naturally learned. It's a pity that when Qin and Zhao Changping faced off, I was only seventeen years old, the same age as you, and I was recommended by Zhao Kuo to come to Yunzhong County to be a thousand cavalry generals, and I couldn't meet Uncle Bai Qi! It's been almost 30 years. When did Confucianism also teach the art of war and the study of vertical and horizontal? Li Mu said.

"When the younger generation was studying, I also read some military books, and later when I went north from Nanyang to the border, I passed by Wuguan, and just met Bai Tao, the grandson of Wu Anjun Bai Qi, the two of us were like-minded, and became brothers of the opposite sex, Bai Tao's eldest brother passed on some of my father's experience in using soldiers, I was just tired of understanding the fur, and I didn't dare to boast of knowing soldiers." Montenegro said modestly.

The two chatted back and forth, and Li Mu told Montenegro about his decades of experience in using troops against the Huns.

Li Mu said: "I have been fighting the Xiongnu in the north since King Zhao Huiwen, and I have gone through four kings so far, and the border army of Zhao is getting stronger and stronger, why not?" I raise soldiers with war, protect merchants with soldiers, and enrich soldiers with merchants. Therefore, my soldiers are nicknamed the Hundred Gold Knights. Today, I will tell you my decades of experience in guarding the border, and in the future, the north of China will be guarded by the soldiers of the Qin State! After Li Mu finished speaking, he was already in tears!

"General Li is Bai Qi's nephew, and Bai Qi's grandson and I are sworn brothers with different surnames, please allow the younger generation to call General Li Uncle Li!" Montenegro bowed deeply to Li Mu and made a junior salute!

Li Mu laughed, lifted the black mountain with both hands and said, "Great goodness! I have a young son named Li Zuoche, who is about the same age as you! Proficient in the art of war, it's just a pity, you are each your own master! ”

Montenegro knelt down on one knee, arched his hands and said solemnly: "Uncle Li, please listen to your nephew's advice." Zhao Wangqian is mediocre and incompetent, and the powerful minister Guo Kai is even more traitorous, and Zhao has been plagued by drought and locust plagues for two consecutive years! This battle will be destroyed by Qin, and Uncle Li alone can return to heaven. Besides, Queen Zhou You, the world has been in war and strife for hundreds of years, and the people of the world all want to be unified. Qin dominates the world, and it is already as powerful as the water of the Yellow River, even if there are countless twists and turns, it will eventually enter the sea and be unstoppable! Today, the Xiongnu gathered hundreds of thousands of cavalry and looked at the northern border of China. If Qin and Zhao face off in the Central Plains, the Xiongnu will take advantage of the void to go south. Hundreds of people will suffer. If Uncle Li is invited to return to Qin, then the Zhao State will surrender without a fight, and Qin and Zhao can join forces to defeat the Xiongnu again, and they can dominate the world within a few years. Blessings to the people of the world! Please think twice! Don't do it differently! ”

"I, Li Mu, am deeply favored by King Huiwen of Zhao State, King Xiaocheng, and King Mourning Xiang, how can I send Zhao State to Qin State because of King Zhao's mediocrity, so that the people of Zhao State will suffer from the violent Qin and be punished by the law?"

"Why is Uncle Li so pedantic, since the Shang Jun changed the law, more than 2 million people from the Three Jin Dynasty have fled into the Qin State, and those who fled from Qin to the Three Jin Dynasty have not been repaid. Whoever is violent and who is good, the people know in their hearts. My ancestors lived in Nanyang County, South Korea, and in my generation, almost all the people in the village had no clothes, no food, and no shelter from the wind and rain. Last summer, Nanyang County returned to Qin, and in winter, every family had surplus food and everyone changed into new clothes. At the beginning of this year, the construction of new brick houses began for every household. If you don't believe it, of the 100 people under me, more than 30 people are from the Six Kingdoms of Shandong, more than 60 are from Nanyang County, and there are also Huns, but none of them are from the old Qin people in Guanzhong, just ask! ”

"Hey~" Li Mu sighed: "There is no need to persuade the virtuous nephew, although Zhao Guo is now a traitor to the throne, there are also many loyal ministers, Li Mu will never sit back and watch Zhao Guo die at the hands of the traitorous ministers." ”

"Uncle Li just wanted to march in the name of resisting Qin, capture and kill Guo Kai, force King Zhao to move to the throne, and change Gongzi Jia to King Zhao." Montenegro still knows a little bit about this history! knew that Li Mu was involved in a coup d'état in history, so he was forced to commit suicide by Guo Kai. Just said Li Mu's thoughts!

Li Mumeng stood up suddenly, his eyes were like lightning, staring at the black mountain, and said, "This matter is conspired by me and Sima Shang, how did the virtuous nephew know?" Could it be that the plan has been leaked? ”

"Zhao Guobing's tradition of admonishing has existed from generation to generation, and the world knows it, I have guessed the conspiracy of Uncle Li and Sima Shang, not to mention the treacherous Guo Kai? You gave up the two counties of Jiuyuan Yunzhong, and you also wanted hundreds of thousands of Xiongnu cavalry to contain the main force of the Qin army for you, so that the Qin army had no time to use troops against Zhao for the time being. You have time to admonish. Montenegro persuaded: "Uncle Li, the trend of unification of the world is clear, even if your coup is successful, it will only delay the time of unification, and it will only increase the innocent deaths and injuries of the people in the world!" ”

"Virtuous nephews don't need to persuade again, it's not complacent, what you say is exactly what I plan! Zhao's survival is all about me. I am forty and nine this year, and I have fought more than 30 years on the battlefield, and I will win every battle, and this life is enough. Li Mu took a sip of wine at the skin bag and continued: "Qin generals Yang Duanhe and Fan Yuzhi attacked my Zhao State on two routes, and I have received an order from the King of Zhao to abandon Jiuyuan and Yunzhong two counties, shrink the defense line, and lead 200,000 border troops south to resist Qin. ”

"Could it be that Zhao Guo wants to give up the people of the two counties and let the Xiongnu kill them?" Montenegro was shocked.

"Bring me the map!" Li Mu shouted.

Uncle Le, the assistant chef nearby, immediately ran over, took out a cowhide cylinder with a strap sewn, took out an old sheepskin map from it, and put it in front of Montenegro.

Li Mu pointed to the map and said: "The south of the two counties of Yunzhong and Jiuyuan of Zhao is the northern and upper counties of Qin, and I will defend the two counties for Zhao, and even more so for Qin. This map has followed me for more than 30 years, and it contains the terrain, mountains, rivers, roads, and rivers of the entire Xiongnu that I carefully mapped, as well as the winter and summer camps of the Xiongnu, as well as several secret camps where our army went deep into the Xiongnu. I've got it over to you today! After Li Mu finished explaining the map, he solemnly rolled it up, put it into a cowhide tube, and handed it to Montenegro with both hands.

Montenegro took the cowhide tube with both hands! With mixed feelings in his heart, he said, "Thank you Uncle Li for the map!" ”

"I'm not giving you a map, I'm handing it over to you! You must defend the north for Huaxia, and don't let the Xiongnu go south to harm the Chinese people. The Xiongnu gathered three or four hundred thousand cavalry this time, and the original target was Jiuyuan or Yunzhong County. The people of the two counties, if you want to go with me, I will take them all, and if you don't go with me, you have to make sure that they are safe, please! After Li Mu finished speaking, his face was already full of tears, his hands arched, and he bowed deeply to Montenegro.

Montenegro was deeply moved! With tears in his eyes, he replied: "I will definitely report to General Meng Tian, he will be able to inherit your cause of fighting against the Huns, defend the northern frontier of China, drive the Huns outside the fortress, and do not call Hu Ma to cross Yin Mountain!" ”

The blazing bonfire reflected the faces of two men, an old man and a young man, full of tears and relatively speechless.

"Since you call me uncle, I will give you the saber as a gift for our uncle and nephew! This knife has been with me for almost fifteen years, and it was obtained when I broke the Huns, and I used it to cut off no less than a hundred heads of the Huns. You just continue to use it to cut down the Huns! Li Mu untied the knife at his waist and handed it to Montenegro with one hand.

Montenegro took the heavy scimitar with both hands, and the handle and scabbard were engraved with exquisite patterns and inlaid with a few rubies, which looked like a valuable sword. Montenegro pressed the live buckle on the scabbard, a crisp sound of gold and iron, the treasure knife had jumped out of the scabbard for a few minutes, Montenegro pulled it out, "Zheng" a crisp sound, the aftermath was long, the curved blade was as smooth as a mirror, the blade was like frost, and there was a blood groove on each side.

"Steel knives." Montenegro blurted out. The weapons of this era were copper and iron, and the steel knife should have appeared a hundred years later in the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, so Montenegro was surprised.

"The virtuous nephew knows this knife?" Li Mu asked.

"I don't know this knife, but I know the material, this knife is made of fine iron and repeatedly quenched in a charcoal furnace a hundred times! This is called 100 refining into steel, using steel as a knife, which can cut gold and jade, and is extremely sharp. Black introduced. In later generations of steelmaking, as long as the molten iron is heated to more than 1700 °C, some calcium carbonate is added to the molten iron, and the impurities such as sulfur and phosphorus in the molten iron are chemically reacted and separated, which increases the purity of iron. The ancients did not know this truth, and the blacksmith could only keep refining it for several months to make a steel knife.

Li Mu heard this and said in surprise: "You still know this process?" I asked people to see it, and they all said that this knife was from the Western Regions. ”

"I also heard from someone from the Western Regions! Uncle Li, this knife is too precious, although you and I are commensurate with uncles and nephews, we meet in Pingshui! Montenegro didn't dare to accept this gift, so please ask Uncle Li to take back this knife! After speaking, Montenegro held the knife in both hands and bowed deeply!

Li Mu didn't take back the treasure knife, and sighed deeply! said: "All my life, I have dedicated my life to the northern frontier, for the Zhao State, no, for the north of Huaxia." Every grass, tree, brick and tile here has poured my Li Mu's life's work. In the future, whoever succeeds me Li Mu and guards the northern frontier of China will be my Li Mu's great benefactor! How can I, Li Mu, cherish a treasure knife, and how can I prevent a hundred deaths! A passage is both impassioned and full of the sadness of the hero's end, and the end is already full of heroic tears.

Black Mountain and Uncle Le on the side also had tears in their eyes when they heard it!

"Brother Ahei, come here!" Montenegro shouted at his men. After a while, Brother Ahi arrived in a hurry. Montenegro said: "Take out the song "Loyal to the Country" copied by the dead fat man. ”

Brother Ahei took out a scroll of wood from his bosom and handed it to Black Mountain. Montenegro took it and said to Brother Ahei: "All assemble, sing "Loyal to the Country", and march for General Li." ”

"No!" Brother Ahi answered and left.

Montenegro handed the wooden slip to Li Mu with both hands and said, "I wrote a song and lyrics, which was given to Uncle Li Xin in response to this scene." Please take it! ”

"You can also write lyrics and compose music? Oh, you're a disciple of Meng Zhao, the grandson of Mencius, no wonder! Li Mu took it, opened it, read it again, read it aloud, and praised: "It's so well written!" It's exactly what I'm feeling right now. It's just that I can't understand the word on it! ”

"That's called staves, and in the future, the world will be unified, and everyone will understand it!" Montenegro didn't have time to popularize the five-line music of later generations here, so he could only say it vaguely.

Not far away, Brother Ah Hei had gathered everyone and sang loudly this song composed by Chen Tao and populated by Zhang Hongtao:

The wolf smoke rises and the rivers and mountains look north

The dragon flag rolls, the horse grows, and the sword aura is like frost

The heart is like the Yellow River

Thirty years of vertical and horizontal, who can resist

Hatred is the direction of the long knife

How many siblings are buried in their bones

What a pity to die to repay the family and country

Endure sighs, even more speechless, blood and tears in my eyes

The horseshoe goes south, and the people look north

People look north, the grass is green and yellow, and the dust is flying

I am willing to defend the territory and reopen the territory

Dignified China wants to give way to the Quartet

Come to congratulate

This song is written in the later generations when Yue Fei was recalled to the south by the twelve gold medals. It is secretly in line with Li Mu's mood at this time. The singing is impassioned, and the chorus is magnificent! Black Mountain, Li Mu and the other Zhao Jun warriors listened to it a few times and sang together! Over and over again.

"Today, regardless of Qin Jun and Zhao Jun, regardless of Qin wine, Zhao wine, or mare's milk wine, take it all out, and everyone will drink it together." Montenegro's proposal was immediately met with a cheering response. Everyone knows in their hearts that maybe in the near future, they will go to the Central Plains to fight to the death, but in the north, everyone will always be brothers who fight the Huns together!

The sky will be bright, the wine will be empty, and the throat will be hoarse! The two armies parted. Li Mu headed southeast, while Montenegro returned southwest.

In the blink of an eye, the sky was about to darken, and according to the map given by Li Mu, Montenegro found a campsite commonly used by Zhao army scouts to spend the night.

"Baturu, that's not really, you go and interrogate the Hun captives, and then kill them. Rest early tonight and continue south tomorrow. Montenegro ordered.

The camp had ready-made dried horse manure, and soon, the smell of barbecue wafted through the camp. After a while, Baturu came to Montenegro's side, wiped the blood on his hands with his clothes, and was about to tear the roast mutton.

", wash your hands first, and then eat! As soon as you kill someone, you grab meat with blood-stained hands and eat it, and you're not afraid of disgusting! Montenegro kicked Baturu, who was about to grab meat to eat, and scolded.

Baturu is not angry either, hehe smiles! grabbed a few handfuls of snow on the side, rubbed his hands and said: "Those captives only know that the Xiongnu have gathered all the cavalry of about 400,000 this time and are ready to go south in the spring." They don't know exactly where to hit. ”

"They want to attack Jiuyuan or Yunzhong to avenge the defeat of Li Mu fifteen years ago! We must hurry back and report to the general. Montenegro said.

The next morning, the north wind blew goose feathers and heavy snow, blowing the sky dark, and everywhere was white, making it impossible to distinguish between the southeast and the northwest. Just set off for a while. The carpenter who was exploring the road hurriedly came to report: "I found a large group of Huns and horses in front, and there are five miles of land, so I don't want to stare at it." ”

"Baturu, black slave, come with me, the others are on alert." Montenegro commanded, leading the way.

Everyone came to the small hillside, picked up on the snow, and watched the team slowly moving eastward in front of them! It was not too late to report: "There are five hundred Hun soldiers, five or six thousand war horses, hundreds of wagons, and a thousand slaves. It seems that he is going in the direction of Shan Yuting! ”

"Look at the clothes of their slaves, they look like chariot masters. The Cheshi State, three thousand miles to the west, surrendered to the Xiongnu a few years ago. The black slave said.

"Go back, let's discuss how to eat them!" Montenegro said, turned around and got on the horse, and everyone immediately followed! Montenegro asked the slaves: "How far will we go back?" ”

"1,300 miles to the south can reach Daying City!" The black slave replied simply.

Retreating to the side of the team, Montenegro had an idea, and said to Baturu and Na Xiao: "We start now, it is Shan Yuting's scout, Baturu is the centurion, Na is not much, the black slave is the tun chief, everyone is not allowed to talk nonsense, only in Xiongnu." The three of you are in front, and we will follow, and we will go to the bottom of these people. If they asked for directions, they would say that Shan Yuting had already moved to the south. ”！ Montenegro explained to the three of them again. And the troop of men and horses rushed south!

After a while, he encountered the Hun army heading east. A hundred paces apart, the two sides stopped. Baturu and Na Choi immediately stepped forward to ask, and someone on the other side also came out to talk to Baturu!

"I'm the centurion of the scout camp under Da Dan Yu! Where do you come from? Baturu asked, patting his left chest with his right palm.

The other party also patted his left chest with the palm of his right hand and replied, "We have returned from the Cheshi Country, and we have been ordered to escort war horses and slaves to Shan Yuting. ”

When Baturu heard this, he turned around and pretended to shout loudly in Xiongnu to the Black Mountain side: "It's your own people!" Relax! ”

That's not very listening, let everyone pretend to relax and get off the horse to rest!

When the Huns on the other side saw it, they also bowed and put their knives into their sheaths and relaxed.

"How far is it from Shan Yuting?" The Huns asked again.

"It's not far away, you go south, 1,400 miles, and you will arrive in ten days!" Baturu said.

"The other day we were told to go northeast, why do we go south?" The Huns asked suspiciously.