Mulan gritted her teeth and walked along the streets of most of Pinggang Castle, where you could see the corpses covered in snow at any time, and the houses and shops along the street were completely looted.

At this time, several soldiers escorted a middle-aged man with a haggard expression and thin yellow muscles.

"Let's go, let's go!" The general with the waist knife shouted, and the middle-aged man was escorted to Mulan.

The general reported to Mulan: "Princess Qiyu, the brothers found this person in a house, and when the general saw that he was acting suspiciously, he took the brothers to arrest him!" ”

Hua Mulan glanced at the middle-aged man and asked the general: "In addition to this person, have you found anyone else?" ”

The general said: "The last general led people to search the whole city, but only found this person!" ”

Hua Mulan looked at the middle-aged man and found that although this person had a yellow face and thin muscles, his eyes were very bright and profound, and asked, "Who are you?" ”

The middle-aged man looked up at Hua Mulan and asked indifferently, "Who are you?" ”

"Bold!" The general was furious, and he reached out and grabbed the hilt of the knife to draw the knife.

Hua Mulan raised her hand to stop it, and said to the middle-aged man: "Yan Wang Zhao Junsheng is my husband, my name is Mulan!" ”

Hearing this, the middle-aged man hurriedly knelt on the ground and said, "Yu Huachun, the black-clothed guard Pinggang General Banner, greets General Hua!" ”

Hua Mulan felt a little complacent, the world heard that her reputation was not because she was Zhao Junsheng's wife. Although this person claimed to be the chief banner of the Black Guard in Hiraoka, Mulan couldn't easily believe him and asked, "What proof do you have?" ”

"There is a waist card in the arms of the lowly position, and the identity number of the lowly position is Ding Geng 5315, although the Jiyang 100 households have been destroyed, all the backups of the 1000 households in Yingzhou can verify the authenticity of the lowly identity!"

The organization of the black guards is extremely tight, the hierarchy is strict, everyone has a waist card, in addition, each person has a number, this number is not only known to the person, only the relevant superior official office and the black guard headquarters have archives, and the detailed identity information of all members is also recorded in the archive for easy verification.

This is just the general black guard on the surface, the black guard has a large number of secret agents and fine work, these people also have two most important identity verification procedures, one is the connector code, which is used to connect with the superior when performing tasks, and the other is the identity verification code.

The number of any black-clothed guard is lifelong, even if he dies, this number will not be erased, it can only be completely sealed, and officials with relevant authority can turn over the file to investigate the case.

However, the connector password and authentication code are not permanent for life, and can be changed under special circumstances, such as reconnecting, after the identity is exposed, and so on.

Li Bao, who was standing next to him, walked over and took out a waist card from Yu Huachun's arms and looked at it carefully, one side of the waist card depicted Yu Huachun's appearance, vivid, extremely similar and expressive, and the carving was simply superb; The other side is engraved with Yu Huachun's official position and the yamen to which he belongs.

This waist card is cast with copper, copper is easy to carve, using a special mold, ordinary people want to imitate it is easy to see the real fake.

Li Bao said to Hua Mulan: "General, the waist card is real, as for the authenticity of this person's identity, you still need to send someone to find people from thousands of households in the camp for verification and identification."

After hearing this, Hua Mulan said to Li Bao: "Then send someone to Yingzhou, first ask Gao Xu why Pinggang City was destroyed, Yingzhou knows that no one has been sent to check it yet!" Then go to Yingzhou Qianhu to find someone to come over to check the authenticity of Yu Huachun's identity! ”

"Yes, General!" After Li Bao agreed, he turned around and arranged for someone to go to Yingzhou.

Hua Mulan ordered the partial general standing next to her: "Pass on the general's order, order the Flying Bear Army to start taking over the city wall deployment, vigilance and patrol; ordered the Shenwu Army to clean up the corpses and ruins, and try to find and rescue the surviving soldiers and civilians; ordered the Longxiang army to plan camp barracks in the city, pull out the cordon, and arrange accommodation for each army, and the general's office should also be arranged; Ordered the Whirlwind Army to send elite scout sentries to investigate and arrange light and dark guards within a radius of twenty miles, and if there was any disturbance within this range, they would have known it in the first time! ”

"Yes!" The general clenched his fists and agreed, turned and left.

Hua Mulan motioned to the soldiers to let go of Yu Huachun, returned the waist card to him, and asked, "When did the incident happen here?" Who did it? Are there any other survivors in the city besides you? ”

Yu Huachun bowed down and clenched his fists and replied: "General Hui, five days ago, five thousand people and horses of Kumo Xi braved the heavy snow to attack here at night, it was very cold that night, and it snowed heavily, it must be that the soldiers and generals of the city defense were slack, and the vigilance and patrol should not be done in accordance with the usual requirements, otherwise it would not be easy for Kumo Xi to succeed!" After the successful sneak attack, Kumoxi quickly captured the four gates, and no one could escape, they slaughtered and plundered for a whole day and two nights, and only after the heavy snow had stopped the morning before yesterday did they leave with all the livestock, food, goods, and goods they had looted. In the whole city, there were only forty people alive, except for the lowly duty, and all of them were hidden in the cellar of the house where the lowly duty was captured! ”

Mulan immediately ordered; "Go get everyone out of the cellar and get them some food and hot water!"

There was a general next to him who agreed and sent a man to the cellar to rescue people.

Yu Huachun continued: "After the Kumo Xi people left, the lowly people came out and searched the whole city and did not find a grain of grain, and after being very hungry, they could only look for mice and insects everywhere, but unfortunately the mice and insects also ran away in order to find food······ The inferior people also thought about sending people to Yangwu City for help, and even wanted to go to White Wolf City and Yingzhou, but the journey was too far, and there was no food, so they were afraid that they would freeze to death and starve to death on the way before they arrived, so they could only give up this idea, hoping that the nearby city could not receive the news that they could send someone to check it, but it continued to snow for the past two days, and it didn't stop until this morning."

Hua Mulan heard these words and ordered a personal soldier next to her: "Give him a few catties of dry food!" ”

The soldiers took out a cloth bag from their waists and threw it to Yu Huachun, who took the dry food, "Thank you, General!" ”

Hua Mulan instructed: "If the food is not enough, go to the quartermaster to get it, you go back to the hundred households to clean up there, and sort out all the news about Kumoxi that can be found to General Ben, and report to the general's office before dark today, Ben will listen to the report on Kumoxi!" ”

"Yes, General!" Yu Huachun knew that Mulan must have come with a large army to fight Ku Moxi, maybe Ku Moxi was just the first target to be attacked, so he hugged his fists and left after agreeing.

After the order was issued, the soldiers began to clean up the corpses in the city, sweep the snow from the streets, and clean up the empty houses for barracks.

When it was almost dark, Li Bao came to report: "General, news has come from the guard post ten miles outside the city in the east that Yingzhou has sent a thousand cavalry over, and the commander of the army is called Qi Baotian!" ”

Hua Mulan snorted coldly when she heard this: "Hmph, Pinggang City has been broken by Kumo Xi for more than five days, and Gao Xu finally sent someone after realizing it!" ”

Li Bao hesitated for a moment and said, "General, the last general thinks that Gao Xu can't be blamed entirely on this matter. Do you think that the barbarians are almost all soldiers, and Pinggang has less than 500 soldiers and horses, and there are less than 1,500 soldiers including the county soldiers, and the 500 people of the Zhenshu Army are not stationed in Pinggang City, and the Longcheng Army is only more than 3,000 people, our border is too long, if we want to ensure that the troops are sufficient to prevent the barbarian invasion, each city must deploy at least 3,000 people, we can't afford to raise it at all! ”

Hua Mulan waved her hand and said coldly: "You don't have to speak for him, if the defenders are not derelict in their duties, how can they be easily attacked by the Kumo Xi people?" Is the cold weather an excuse? What do they do? ”

Li Bao reminded: "General, the separation of military and government is practiced under the rule of the prince, General Gao is only a town general, and the state and county soldiers are under the jurisdiction of the government, and the dereliction of duty of the state and county soldiers should not be blamed on General Gao!" ”

"What about the Pingbei Garrison under the jurisdiction of the Zhenshu Army? When the Kumoxi people attacked, where were the people of Pingbeishu? Mulan asked rhetorically.

Li Bao clasped his fists and said: "General, the last general is about to report, and at the end of the morning, the general will send someone to Pingbeishu to check, and the Zhenshu army of Pingbeishu has already been wiped out, and no one survives!" If it weren't for that, how could the Kumo Xi people dare to cross the garrison of Pingbeishu and sneak attack Pinggang City? Aren't they afraid of being stabbed in the back by the garrison of Pingbeishu? ”

Hua Mulan didn't make a sound for a while, took a deep breath and instructed Li Bao: "After Qi Baotian comes, you bring him to see me!" Also, is Yu Huachun here? Let him in when he comes! ”

"Yes, General!"

Soon Yu Huachun walked in and saluted Mulan, he held a paper bag in his hand and reported: "General, when the Kumo Xi people attacked, the city was too badly damaged, and the black-clothed guard hundred households were no exception, many archives were burned, this is the humble duty to be able to find all the archives about Kumo Xi, many of them are incomplete!" ”

Hua Mulan took the paper bag and put it on the table, "You can roughly talk about the situation of Ku Moxi, General Ben listen, these archives will be read later!" ”

"Yes!" Yu Huachun agreed, "Kumoxi was originally a branch of the Khitans, they are now a tribal alliance system, the alliance chief is called Yu out of Kuzhen, from the Ahui clan, the Ahui clan is the most powerful among the Kumoxi tribes, so it has been leading the other departments, Yu out of Kuzhen was canonized as the king of Guishan by Feng Hong, the king of Northern Yan ten years ago, in addition to the Ahui clan, Kumoxi has five other departments, namely the humiliation of the lord, Mohefu, Qixi, Mukun, and Murod! ”

"The total number of people in Kumoxi's various departments is not very large, judging from the recent information obtained by our hundred secret agents, their current total population is about less than 20,000, but they are very scattered, and some even live in the deep mountains and old forests!"

After hearing this, Mulan said, "So the last time they dispatched more than 5,000 people, it was already the largest force they could dispatch, almost the number of all their adult men?" ”

"That's how it should be!" Yu Huachun nodded.

This is a soldier outside who walked in and reported: "General, Cui Gong asks to see!" ”

"Please!"

Cui Hao walked in, he was a military advisor and military advisor, he walked in and said: "Princess, the general's mansion sent an urgent official document, the prince already knows about the northeast, and ordered the appointment of the princess as the general of Zhengdong, the capital of Yingzhou and the military of Andong Prefecture, and also appointed the old general Guo Sheng as the general of Zhengman, and sent him to be the deputy general of the general to assist the general in crusading against the barbarians!" ”

"Bring it to me!" Hua Mulan said and took the urgent official document from Cui Hao's hand, and after reading it, she breathed a sigh of relief, Zhao Junsheng's appointment was solved and her embarrassing identity was solved, after all, there was no precedent for personally leading the army as a princess, and after all, this was against the system, and with this appointment, she would not be considered a private transfer of troops.