"Alright, alright, I'll go with you!" Lu Xuanbo surrendered.

Zhao Junsheng asked his soldiers to prepare a horse-drawn sleigh and dry food and dried meat jerky, and summoned Pei Jin, Gao Xiu, Gao Xu, Xue Andu and others to the tooth tent to explain the relevant matters.

Before leaving, Jiao Yunzhe, the head of the craftsman team, handed Zhao Junsheng a crossbow, "Captain, this is what I made according to the style of the repeating crossbow, after some improvements, the size has doubled, but the lethality and range have not been weakened at all, it can not only hide on the body for self-defense, but also shoot out a cross hook for climbing, it can be regarded as more practical!"

Zhao Junsheng took the crossbow and looked at it, tied it to the outside of his arm, wrapped his body in a cloak, and no one could see that he had such a sharp weapon hidden in his body.

"Let's go!" Zhao Junsheng got up to the sleigh and sat down, wrapping himself tightly with a thick cloak.

At his command, Lu Xuanbo put on his hat and drove the bantam sleigh out of the camp with a whip.

Passing by the gate of the camp of the garrison, Zhao Junsheng asked Lu Xuanbo to stop, and he stepped down from the sleigh to hand a letter to the guards, asking him to forward it to Wandugui.

He wrote this letter to ask Wan Dugui for leave, and he told Wan Dugui in the letter that he decided to follow behind Mulan, one bright and one dark, which was not only convenient for rescuing Wan Yutong, but also to protect Mulan's safety.

After leaving the Jinling camp, following the direction of the horse-drawn sleigh driven by Mulan, Zhao Junsheng instructed Lu Xuanbo: "Speed up and keep up with them, don't be too far away from them!" ”

Lu Xuanbo whipped the bantam horse pulling the cart with his whip, and the speed of the sleigh increased a little.

There are clear traces of sledding passing on the snow ahead, as long as you follow this trace, you can always follow Mulan and the others, Zhao Junsheng hopes that the weather will not change too much.

Today's weather is still not clear, but the wind has stopped, but the temperature is still very low.

Everywhere there are snow-white glaciers and snow-covered areas, the low plants on the earth are almost covered with snow, and the trees have lost their leaves, and the branches are covered with ice, and the whole world is white, and there is not a trace of green in sight, a scene of depression, decay, and slaughter.

Zhao Junsheng leaned on the back of the sleigh, his body swaying with the sleigh, and asked, "Old Lu, why did you say that the strongman who kidnapped Miss Wan chose to let General Wan take the gold to Coyote Gully to ransom her?" ”

Lu Xuanbo drove the carriage and said: "I think there are several possibilities: first, Coyote Gully is at the junction of the Rouran and Wei forces, once the situation changes, the other party can calmly retreat into the control of the Rouran forces; Second, they may also want Wandu to think that they are Rouran! In fact, those strongmen are probably not Rouran people, because they are going to Miss Wan, and their purpose should not be Miss Wan, but Wandu Gui himself, which can be inferred from their request that Wan Dugui personally go to Coyote Gully with gold to redeem the hostages! How did Rouran people know that Miss Wan was Wan Dugui's daughter? How could it be that she happened to know that Miss Wan was going to return to Shanwu County? ”

Zhao Junsheng thought thoughtfully, Lu Xuanbo's analysis was reasonable, there is a high probability that the strongman who kidnapped Wan Yutong was sent to someone who was very familiar with Wan Du Gui, and the other party's purpose was not just some gold, nor Wan Yu Tong, but Wan Du Gui himself, otherwise Wan Yu Tong would have been killed a long time ago, and the other party would not have to leave the life of a soldier to let him run back to report the news.

Zhao Junsheng asked casually: "Why can't it be a robber?" ”

"This is impossible, now that the army from the north and south of Yinshan Mountain is gathered, there are Rouran rangers and detectives from the Great Wei everywhere, which robber dares to come here to find death?"

The horse-drawn sleigh walked for more than an hour, Zhao Junsheng saw a small black spot in the distance in front of him, it seemed to be a horse-drawn sleigh, and knew that there was Mulan sitting on it, so he immediately said to Lu Xuanbo: "It seems that there are a few Mulan in front, slow down a little, just follow them from a distance!" ”

Lu Xuanbo did so, and the speed of the horse-drawn sleigh slowed down a little, but it always maintained a certain distance, and the two sides could only see each other as a small black dot.

It is sixty miles away from Jinling camp to Coyote Gully, and under today's icy and snowy climate, it is absolutely impossible to catch up before dark, and Hua Mulan and Zhao Junsheng have to camp for the night on the way.

The sky gradually darkened, and Lu Xuanbo found that the horse-drawn sleigh in front of Hua Mulan and the others seemed to stop, and he immediately pulled the reins to stop the bantam.

"Young Master, Young Madam, they seem to be camping, presumably they are going to camp here for the night!"

Zhao Junsheng got up and stood on the sleigh to take a look, and sure enough, he found that the camp tent was set up in front of him, and he immediately ordered Lu Xuanbo: "Hide quickly, let's camp here for the night!" ”

The sleigh was driven by Lu Xuanbo to a low-lying area and stopped, Zhao Junsheng and he set up the camp tent together, set the curtain of the camp tent on the leeward side, and cleared the snow in the camp tent, and the two picked up some half-dry and half-wet firewood and a bundle of dry grass with moisture before it was completely dark, and lit a fire in the camp tent.

Use a small iron pot to boil a pot of snow water on the fire, wait for the water to boil, put in some dry food, and boil a pot into a white batter soup, the two of them each drank two large bowls, ate some jerky, and warmed their bodies.

After dinner, Zhao Junsheng said: "Let's take turns to guard the guard, you keep watch for the first half of the night, and I will keep watch for the second half of the night!" ”

"No, young master, you can go to sleep, just leave the vigilance to me!" After Lu Xuanbo finished speaking, he grabbed a handful of hay and put it next to the door curtain, sat cross-legged on the hay, put the sword on his legs, and closed his eyes.

Zhao Junsheng glanced at him, picked up a few long branches from his side, took out a knife and cut them into seven or eight sections, sharpened the ends of these wooden sticks, and then carried these wooden sticks to the outside of the tent and nailed the wooden stakes around, tied them to these small wooden stakes with the sewing thread he carried, and he took off the bell hanging from the neck of the bantam horse pulling the cart and hung it on the sewing line, so as to make a warning circle, as long as any creature touched the cordon, it would inevitably pull the bell and make a sound.

After doing all this, Zhao Junsheng returned to the camp tent and sat cross-legged by the fire to meditate and cultivate internal strength, shock qi and blood, as a nightly homework, this is something he will never forget, and his long-term persistence has also made his cultivation very progressive.

The camp tent of Hua Mulan and her two entourages was only more than two miles away from the camp of Zhao Junsheng and Lu Xuanbo, and in such a cold weather, they also had to clear the snow in the camp and raise a fire.

Mulan nibbled on the cold dry food, boiled a bowl of boiling water in a clay bowl and drank it slowly, after the two attendants ate, Mulan asked the two of them to take turns to guard at night, she finished eating, wrapped in a blanket and lay down by the fire to sleep.

After some time, a vigilant attendant crouched at the door of the tent and yawned, and without warning, a sharp arrow shot from a distance through his mouth and out of the back of his head.

The corpse fell and slammed open the curtain of the tent, and a cold wind blew into the tent from the outside, and the flames of the fire were blown tilted, and charcoal ashes flew in all directions.

Hua Mulan, who was sleeping on her side, suddenly opened her eyes, and within her sight was a corpse that had fallen to the ground, an arrow pierced the back of her head, and blood soaked the ground.

Hua Mulan instantly sobered up, and immediately rolled several times in a row, drawing her sword and piercing the camp tent in the rolling, and the whole person wrapped in a blanket drilled out of the breach and flew into the thick snow.

"Whoosh ······" A large number of arrows were fired at the tent from a distance, one after the other, without stopping, and there seemed to be a scream in the wind.

In an instant, the whole camp tent was shot to pieces, tattered, a fierce cold wind struck, the tattered camp tent was blown down with a bang, the fire in the camp burned the fallen camp tent, billowing smoke, and the pungent smell spread far and wide.

After the tattered camp was burning, a dozen white figures appeared not far away, one by one, carrying bows and arrows and stepping on the thick snow with sharp blades in their hands, slowly approaching the burning camp tent.