"Brother Junsheng!" Hua Mulan was waving vigorously to Zhao Junsheng on the side of the wall battlement on the city tower in the midst of the rocks.

Zhao Junsheng cried with joy, pulled out a dagger from his waist and flew down.

"Ahh

"Uncle!" Hua Hai's face changed dramatically and exclaimed.

The other two dozen soldiers shouted in unison: "General! ”

These people were half frightened to death, but they saw Zhao Junsheng jump off the wall and wave his hand violently to stab the dagger into the outer wall of the city wall.

"Sneer-" The dagger slid downward under the gravity of Zhao Junsheng's body, rubbing a large number of sparks against the wall, and the speed of the body's descent was greatly reduced, and the distance of nearly twenty meters high easily reached the ground.

Zhao Junsheng fell on a stone, dropped the dagger, turned around, and ran quickly towards Mulan.

"Brother Junsheng, you're going to scare me to death, how can you jump so high?" Mulan patted her chest to meet it.

Zhao Junsheng hugged her tightly in his arms and never let go.

With so many people watching from behind, Mulan was shy, but she could feel Zhao Junsheng's excitement, and she knew that he thought she was burned to death, so he was so out of shape when he saw that she was still alive.

Hua Mulan didn't push Zhao Junsheng away, although there were so many people present, she let go of the weapon in her hand, let the weapon fall to the ground on the stone with a clanging sound, and stretched out her hand to hug Zhao Junsheng's waist.

At the moment when the fire burned, she also thought that she would be burned to death, thinking that she was going to leave Zhao Junsheng, and she had a deep reluctance and attachment in her heart.

I don't know how long later, a shout came from above: "General, general!" ”

The two parted from their reluctance, Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan both smiled and stared at each other, he turned his head and shouted to the cloud tower: "Li Bao, put down the rope and pull us up!" ”

"Good!"

Zhao Junsheng turned around and asked Mulan, "Mulan, I thought you were all ······ How are you hiding here? ”

Hua Mulan said: "The Yan army has been besieging us from yesterday morning until late at night. Just now, you launched an attack on the city, and the Yan army wanted to transfer the troops here to reinforce the city wall defense, but they could leave us here alone, they couldn't attack it, so they thought of this fire attack method and wanted to burn us all to death and roast in the cloud building! ”

"I thought we were going to die, but then we thought of a way, which was to collect some clothes and connect them into ropes and put them down on this side of the wall, so we slipped down the ropes, and then the fire got bigger and bigger, and when we all went inside, the ropes connected by the cloth were also scorched into ashes, and after the fire was extinguished, we wanted to climb up, but there were no ropes, and there were cliffs in front of us, so we were trapped here!"

Zhao Junsheng heard that he glanced at the cloud tower, "This time it is your fate, you must not take this kind of risk in the future, if the city wall on the mountain is so easy to attack, don't the Hu people want to enter the pass as if they were entering the vegetable garden?" ”

Hua Mulan said: "We are already about to kill the Wangri Tower of the main city wall, if it weren't for the extraordinary force of a general of the Yan Army, who was equal to me and restrained my martial arts, we would definitely have succeeded!" ”

Zhao Junsheng shook his head and said: "I knew you would say this, you can't be superstitious in martial arts, force can't be omnipotent, even if there is no general who is comparable to your martial arts, the Yan army will definitely have other ways to deal with you, you and these soldiers are good at cavalry tactics, and these Yan army foot combat methods are well-trained, in terms of the battle for the city wall, you are not opponents at all, I heard Lao Lu say, the Yan army general does have more troops than you, but when you encounter on the city wall, there are only a few people in face-to-face contact between the two sides, A large number of troops does not necessarily give you an advantage, haven't you noticed that they are very careful to cooperate in their operations? You've been being pressed and beaten all the time, haven't you? ”

Hua Mulan thought about it, the city wall is so two zhang wide, no matter how many troops are invested, there are only seven or eight people who directly confront, she led people to climb the city wall very smoothly, because she encountered only a small number of defenders, but after encountering the three hundred people led by Chang Kuntong, she was deflated, Chang Kun let her force not play a role, can not cause damage to other defenders, and the other Yan troops cooperate with each other, and the Wei army without foot combat training can not resist.

Li Bao's voice came from overhead: "General, we put the rope down, you just hold on to the rope, we will pull you up!" ”

As soon as the words fell, eight ropes hung down.

Hua Mulan immediately waved her hand and shouted to the sea of flowers and soldiers behind her, "You guys go first!" ”

This time it was a narrow escape from death for these people, and the soldiers were not polite, they walked over one by one, the first batch of people tied the ropes around their waists, and the pro-soldiers on the cloud tower pulled the ropes up, and soon pulled the first batch of people up, followed by the second batch, Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan were the last batch.

Finally returned to the cloud tower, Hua Mulan felt that it was the rest of her life after the catastrophe, and she breathed a sigh of relief, and followed Zhao Junsheng downstairs.

In Lu Longsai's garrison office, Tuoba Su and the generals and officials of the Northern Route Army were surprised to see that Hua Mulan was still alive, and the cloud building could still live if it burned like that?

He Duo Luopi didn't smile, "General Hua is really fateful, congratulations to General Hua on his safe return!" ”

"Thank you!" Hua Mulan replied with a straight face, and said to Tuoba Su with a fist: "Lord Wang, the last general was not thoughtful, not only failed to assist in breaking through Lu Longsai, but was also besieged in Yunlou, and now there are only more than 20 people left in the two hundred brothers, it can be said that there is not one in ten, and most of the brothers have to die, this is the result of the last general's underestimation of the enemy, please punish the prince!" ”

Of course, Tuoba Su could not be punished for this, and he could not be punished for the crime of his generals because he did not win the battle, he said: "It is agreed by this king that you lead your troops to attack the city wall on the top of the mountain, and if you want to punish the crime, you must first cure the king's sin?" Those soldiers who died in battle also died well, and I can't blame you for this! ”

"Thank you for your grace!" After Mulan, she clenched her fists and stepped aside.

Tuoba Su looked at the generals and said: "To go out of the pass from Lulongsai to Longcheng, the mountain road is rugged, and it is difficult to travel with heavy wagons and horses, so my northern route army can only abandon the baggage and travel lightly, this king decided to stay for another three days, prepare ten days of dry food and bean material for the war horses for the army, and the grain will be distributed to the armies by the quartermaster later, and you must let the men prepare before the pull!" ”

At the signal of Tuoba Su, his staff Wei Jun stood up to the generals: "Next, let's talk about the march route after the pass, please look at the map, after leaving Lulongsai, even if we enter the territory of Pingzhou of Yan Kingdom, we will go north along the wet water, and then turn east along the wide river to the northwest, first hit Baitan, and after the battle, the soldiers are divided into three roads, all the way to Pinggang, Jiyang County, all the way to Yangwu County, Jiande County, and then all the way to Fancheng, and then the army waved east into the white wolf, and when we arrived at the white wolf, the terrain was slightly flat, The cavalry of my army can go straight to Longcheng to join His Majesty's Southern Route Army, I wonder if you think this deployment is feasible? ”

Zhu Xiuzhi, the general of Yunzhong Town, did not speak, and the leading general He Duoluo agreed loudly: "I agree, just do it, Lord Wang, after defeating Baitan, the last general will ask to lead troops to fight Pinggang!" ”

Hua Mulan frowned, clenched her fists and said: "Mr. Wei, such a deployment of troops is too scattered, if the Yan State gathers heavy troops in the area of Pingzhou and Bingzhou (the annexation of Northern Yan), our army will be easily broken by each one!" Lord Wang, the last general suggested that after defeating Bai Tan, he would directly attack Pinggang, and then wave his army to the east to fight the white wolf, regardless of other counties and counties, and rush to Longcheng in one go! With the strength of more than 30,000 people of our Northern Route Army, even if there is no Southern Route Army, our Northern Route Army can still fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Yan Army in Longcheng! ”

Wei Jun's face was a little ugly, he turned his head to look at Tuoba Su, and seeing that Tuoba Su didn't make a sound, he had to explain to Hua Mulan: "General Hua, if you follow your strategy, our army may be in danger of being cut off!" Even if the Yan army continues to the rear of our army, if our army is engaged with the Yan army encountered in front, what if the Yan army in Fancheng, Yangwu and other places comes to attack the back of our army? ”

Hua Mulan retorted: "Didn't the prince say it just now? The army abandons the baggage and light equipment, and without the baggage, how can we come to the danger of being cut off? To abandon the baggage is to abandon the logistics supply, we can only advance and not retreat! There are only a few roads to Dragon City, after we defeat the White Wolf, as long as we send troops to guard the White Wolf River, what can the Yan army in Yangwu, Fancheng and other places endure me? When our army captures Dragon City, the Yan army in other places will collapse immediately! ”

The generals looked at each other, what Hua Mulan said seemed to make sense, why waste time on attacking the city and plundering the land? There is only ten days' dry food, and if the army is divided to attack the cities, will it not be without food if it cannot be attacked for a long time?

"Ahem!" Zhao Junsheng covered his mouth and coughed twice, pulled Hua Mulan, signaled her not to say any more, and hugged his fist at Tuoba Su and said: "The prince's strategy is very good, the last general agrees, if the other generals have no other opinions, just do it!" ”

The generals looked at each other, what was going on? Zhao Junsheng actually agreed to this strategy, and sang the opposite tune with Mulan?

Hua Mulan was a little angry, and she wanted to fight with reason, but she was stopped by Zhao Jun.

Tuoba Su nodded: "Okay, since you don't have any other ideas, then it's decided, and after defeating Bai Tan, we will decide how to attack the soldiers and horses from all walks of life, and they will all disperse!" ”

"The last general will retire!"

The generals withdrew one after another and dispersed.

After walking out of the lobby of the Lu Longsai Office, Hua Mulan was very angry and said to Zhao Junsheng: "Brother Junsheng, can't you see that there is a big problem with King Changshan's strategy with your eyes?" Before arriving at the white wolf, the road is dangerous all the way, the march is very difficult, our army is almost all cavalry, if the Yan army blocks us with infantry on the march, we can only be beaten passively, if we want to get rid of this embarrassing situation, the only way is to ignore the Yan army of other counties and counties, and kill directly to Longcheng as quickly as possible! If the county is fought slowly, the Yan army will have enough time to transfer troops! ”

Zhao Junsheng smiled and said, "Of course I know that your idea is right, but ······ You only consider it from the military aspect, not from the political level, the king of Changshan is also helpless to deploy like this, the emperor is the emperor this time, the emperor needs military merits, if the king of Changshan steals the limelight of the emperor, the emperor is afraid that he will be very unhappy! ”