"Heh-" The soldier Wu Zhen stood on the watchtower in the center of the Jinling camp, spread his legs, raised his hands and stretched his waist, and exhaled a breath of turbidity.

It was about to be dawn, and after it was too dark, he would change his guard and go down to rest, and he would have a good night's sleep after breakfast.

At this time, a ray of red light came into view, and he opened his eyes wide and looked into the distance, only to see a raging fire rising from the top of a mountain more than ten miles away in the north, and the firelight illuminated the scene of billowing smoke rushing into the sky.

Wu Zhen's face changed, and he immediately ran to Xiao Zhong's side, grabbed the rope, and rang the alarm bell.

"When, when, when······" The rapid alarm bell sounded throughout the Jinling camp.

All the sleeping soldiers were awakened, whether they were fighting soldiers, cooks, grooms, and coachmen, not one of them did not run out of the camp, and many of them were still disheveled.

With such a hurried bell, something big must have happened, Zhao Junsheng turned over and shouted: "Guo Yi, Guo Yi!" ”

The entourage Guo Yi ran in: "Dutong? ”

"Suit me in armor!" Zhao Junsheng shouted.

Guo Yi immediately put the armor on Zhao Junsheng's body as quickly as possible, tied a rope, put on a helmet, hung a waist knife, and ran out of the tooth tent with a spear with him.

Zhao Junsheng ran to the watchtower and shouted: "I am Zhao Junsheng, why did the sentry ring the bell and what happened?" ”

Sentinel Wu Zhen shouted to the below: "Dutong, Baolin Fengsui lit the beacon tower, the flames soared into the sky, and the smoke billowed out!" ”

"What?" Zhao Junsheng's face changed greatly, and he immediately turned his head and shouted: "Guo Yi, blow the horn!" ”

"Yes, Totong!"

Guo Yi agreed, and immediately took off the horn from his waist and blew it, "Woo-woo-woo-"

The soldiers assembled in the school yard a few minutes later, Zhao Junsheng stood on the platform with the hilt of his sword, and ordered Xue Andu, Gao Xiu, Gao Xu and others: "Bendu will go to see the commander, everyone is fully armed and on standby!" Order the men to make a fire and cook the food as quickly as possible, and let the soldiers eat it! ”

"Yes!" Gao Xiu and the others clenched their fists and agreed.

Zhao Junsheng ran down the point platform, stepped on the war horse and galloped outside the camp, the camp gate guard immediately opened the camp gate when he saw this, and Li Bao and the others rode out of the camp after him.

Soon came to the marshal's camp, and An Yuan's personal soldiers were about to go out of the camp to find Zhao Junsheng to inquire about the situation, and when they saw him coming, they immediately said: "Zhao Dutong, the marshal is about to ask you what happened!" ”

"Take me to see the big handsome!"

When he came to the tent, An Yuan was already walking anxiously around the door of the tent with a sword in armor, and there were also marshal staff around him: Zhizhong Engaged, Supervisor of the Army, Zhu Bo and others.

Zhao Junsheng jumped off the horse and hugged his fists and said, "Humble to meet the handsome!" ”

Yasuhara immediately asked, "Zhao Dutong, what happened?" ”

Zhao Junsheng said in a deep voice: "Marshal Qiqi, the beacon tower of Baolin Fengsui was ignited, and the sentry only rang the alarm bell, which shows that there is a Rouran army that has crossed the front defense line, whether they have broken through the pass fortress, or opened a path on the mountain to come over the mountains, we only have half an hour to prepare at most!" ”

Everyone's hearts are cold, now the Jinling battalion is empty, the only thing that can come in handy is Zhao Junsheng's three battalions of baggage, but these people are infantry, if the number of Rouran cavalry is not large, it can be a battle, but if the number of Rouran cavalry is huge, Zhao Junsheng's three thousand baggage soldiers will not work.

Yasuhara asked in a deep voice, "What are you going to prepare?" How to prepare? ”

"Either retreat, or defend the camp, and then send fast horses to ask the court for reinforcements, there is no other way!"

The overseer servant Yu Gubi shouted: "Bastard, Jinling is behind me, if I leave, how can I face the spirits of the emperors in the sky?" You can't withdraw anyway, even if you die, you have to die here! Besides, even if I wait for the withdrawal, will I be able to live? Your Majesty and the princes of the court can spare me and others? ”

Zhao Junsheng said in his heart, you are loyal ministers of the Northern Wei Dynasty, isn't Lao Tzu, the first emperors of the past dynasties have a to me?

Other generals and officials were not as tough as Gu Bi, and someone said loudly: "Gu Bi, I think you are fucking crazy if you want to make meritorious contributions, and you don't need to joke with your life if you want to show loyalty to the emperor, right?" This Jinling camp only has a few pieces of wood as a wall, how can it stop the Rouran Iron Cavalry? I'm afraid that it won't take a day to be breached, and then we will all have to die! As the saying goes, a good man doesn't suffer losses in front of him, what use can you do now, and you won't be a corpse when the time comes? No matter how high your official position and wealth the emperor posthumously confers on you, you won't be able to enjoy it! ”

Another person said: "That's right, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood!" Dashuai, I'll wait to retreat to Jinling Mountain to defend the key mountain road first, and then send people to move the rescue troops, and the Rouran people can't do anything about us for the time being, didn't we do this last time? ”

"Okay, it turns out that the last time the Rouran people came in, you also retreated to Jinling Mountain, and the court didn't know about it, it turned out that you and others were hiding the news!" Gu Bi angrily pointed at the generals and officials present and shouted accusations.

Yasuhara's heart sank, if this matter was stabbed to the court, I was afraid that he would not be able to eat and walk around, this is a crime of bullying the king! For today's plan, we can only defend the Jinling camp and send people to bring rescue troops.

An Yuan looked at Zhao Junsheng and asked, "Zhao Dutong, your three thousand men and horses may block the incoming enemy?" ”

Zhao Junsheng clenched his fists and replied: "Dashuai, the 3,000 people who are humble are just heavy soldiers, and it is already very reluctant to be responsible for the vigilance and patrol and guard tasks for the Jinling battalion, if you let the soldiers and Rouran fight hard, I am afraid that they will not be willing, and the lowly does not dare to guarantee that once the order to defend the Jinling battalion is conveyed, will the soldiers run away soon!" ”

An Yuan's heart sank again, he had never felt so helpless, a commander actually fell to the point where there were no soldiers available, and now the only armed force in the Jinling battalion was only Zhao Junsheng's three thousand baggage soldiers, but he could only order them to escort the baggage and be responsible for guarding, and he had no right to let them participate in the battle, he could force Zhao Junsheng to accept the order by force, but once Zhao Junsheng was out of his control, would the three thousand baggage soldiers turn against him? Let the baggage soldiers participate in the war, after all, it is not right, and the words are not good!

The overseer servant Yu Shi Gubi was so anxious that he stomped his feet and shouted: "Zhao Dutong, the knives of the Rouran people are all on the neck, you are still prevaricating, do you think that if your baggage battalion does not participate in the war, Rouran will let you go?" I guess you have also read books, don't you know the truth that your lips are dead and your teeth are cold, and there are no eggs under the nest? We're grasshoppers on a rope now! ”

Zhao Junsheng was unmoved, "Do you think that lowly duties are greedy for life and afraid of death?" Or do you want to sit on the ground and save your strength? Everyone knows that the baggage battalion is not responsible for warfare, even if they are ordered to fight with the Rouran people, they will not necessarily listen, with low salaries, the worst food, not enough to eat, not warm clothing, are they willing to fight the Rouran people for this? If it were you, would you do it? Once the orders of the lowly are questioned, who else can command them? When the time comes, these people will turn against each other, and there will be no need for the Rouran people to attack, and we will be chopped into meat by them! ”

Everyone was chilled by Zhao Junsheng's words.

An Yuan shouted at this time: "Come on, bring out all the belongings in Ben Shuai's account!" ”

Some of the soldiers walked into the tent and quickly carried out boxes of gold, silver and jewelry and placed them in front of Zhao Junsheng.

"Zhao Dutong, the baggage battalion does not have the obligation to fight for the imperial court, but the commander used a heavy reward to let the baggage battalion send troops, now you always have the name of sending troops, right?"

Zhao Junsheng is really a strange commodity to live in, except for his 3,000 heavy soldiers in the Jinling battalion, there is no other military force, and the remaining 2,000 wounded soldiers will not work at all, and he has become a sweet tooth now.

Zhao Junsheng also knew that it was impossible for him to refuse to send troops, Gu Bi was right, his lips were cold and his teeth were cold, if the Rouran people broke through the Jinling camp, he and his three thousand heavy battalions would not be able to run, everyone was cavalry, how could he outrun the cavalry? It will soon be hunted down and wiped out.

Zhao Junsheng took a deep breath, hugged his fists at An Yuan and said: "Okay, since the marshal is willing to reward the soldiers with his wealth and goods, he will do his best to persuade the soldiers to defend the Jinling camp!" The laborious commander sent people to send these goods to the baggage camp camp, and only by letting the soldiers see the goods can they be sure of their humble duties! ”

Yasuhara nodded and waved his hand to the soldiers, who immediately carried the goods onto the wagons and transported them to the baggage camp.

Zhao Junsheng hugged An Yuan and the others with a fist, immediately turned around and got on the horse, beat the horse and galloped outside.

When Zhao Junsheng rushed back to the camp with Li Bao and others, the sky was already white, and 3,000 people were still on standby on the school grounds.

"Toto!" Gao Xiu and the others hugged their fists and saluted Zhao Junsheng, who had already jumped off the horse and was walking onto the platform.

Zhao Junsheng nodded, and said to everyone: "It has been decided, we must defend the Jinling camp, even if we don't defend it, our two legs will definitely not be able to outrun the four legs of the Rouran cavalry, and we will be caught up in less than an hour." So, we have to fight this battle! ”

Gao Xiu and the others clasped their fists in unison: "We are the only ones who obey the order!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said loudly to the three thousand people in the audience: "Brothers, the Rouran people are coming, it is less than ten miles away from us, and now only our baggage battalion still has the combat strength of the Jinling camp, if we don't fight with the Rouran people, the Jinling camp will be over." We can run, but we only have two legs, and the Rouran Iron Rider will soon catch up and strangle us, so we have to fight the Rouran! If you don't fight, you will definitely die, and if you fight, there is still a glimmer of life! The marshal has already issued a heavy reward, a reward of 1,000 yuan for killing a Rouran soldier, a reward of 100 gold for killing a Rouran handsome, and a reward of 100 gold for killing a general! After the war, regardless of life or death, as long as there are those who have made meritorious contributions, all the rewards will be sent down with a lot of money, and even if people die, Bendu will arrange for someone to send your family back! ”

At this time, the people sent by An Yuan had already brought the goods over, and boxes of gold and silver treasures were moved down and placed on the edge of the school field, and none of the soldiers and soldiers in the school field doubted that Zhao Junsheng would not fulfill his promise.

"Is breakfast ready?" Zhao Junsheng asked Pei Jin.

Pei Jin arched his hand and replied: "It will take another quarter of an hour!" ”

"Don't wait! Now I order: Gao Xiu, Gao Xu, and Xue An will each lead their troops out of the camp and set up eight golden lock formations in the wide area two miles north of the camp! Pei Jin, when the meal is ready, let the men immediately transport it over in a carriage so that the brothers can eat and fight hard with the Rouran people! ”