"One Sword Immortal" Du Motian went through a lot of hardships and finally handed over a letter of only a few words to the tired marquis.

Since the tired Hou went north from the army, Du Motian sent away his grandson Du Chuanyun, and he moved out of the Tired Hou Mansion, and the well-known heroes in the capital every day, and the days were pleasant, ten days ago, the old eunuch He Yi of the Hou Mansion suddenly came to the door, invited him to drink, and after getting drunk, handed him a letter, and conveyed the request of Mrs. Tired Hou.

It was from then on that Du Motian found that he was being followed, he did not set off immediately, waited for two more days, and continued to call friends until he offended a high-ranking hero in the rivers and lakes and had to "escape" from the capital.

Along the way, Du Motian received the help of many old friends in the rivers and lakes, and was also hindered many times, and even suffered two assassinations and a public challenge, Du Motian had to abide by the rules of the rivers and lakes, so he accepted the challenge, but did not win.

"One Sword Immortal" is old after all, and his energy was exhausted by several days of running, and he lost to his opponent in the competition, so he could only choose to return to the capital.

Therefore, the person who handed over the letter to Han Ruzi was not Du Motian, but a friend he entrusted before the competition.

This man was in his twenties, and he didn't have any customs clearance paperwork with him, so he somehow got into the Shenxiong Pass, and patrolled in front of the yamen for half a day, without looking for any messengers or guards to report, until dusk, when he saw Meng E, who was leaving the house with the general of Zhenbei, he stepped forward to speak.

Meng E's pseudonym Chen Tong, dressed and even looked and behaved like male guards, occasionally speaking, others could not hear the flaws, followed the general Zhenbei for many days, never been recognized by anyone, but the young man who sent the letter recognized at a glance that this was a "Jianghu man", and shouted from afar: "All brothers in the four seas, can brothers enjoy food?" ”

Meng E was taken aback, stopped the guards who were about to arrest him, invited this person into the mansion, and after asking him in detail, he took him to see General Zhenbei.

The young man straightened up and didn't bow, looked Han Ruzi up and down a few times, handed over the letter, turned around and left.

Han Ruzi wanted to stay, but was stopped by Meng E, "You are not from the rivers and lakes, so you don't need to deal with them." ”

If he had time, Han Ruzi really wanted to ask what kind of Jianghu people Meng E, who wanted to return to the country, and what benefits those Jianghu people who behaved strangely could get, but after glancing at the letter, he was not in the mood to think about Jianghu people.

It was indeed Cui Xiaojun's handwriting, but the process of sending the letter was incredible, and the strange young man refused to even reveal his name, and he told Du Motian's experience too briefly.

Han Ruzi had already sent Du Chuanyun back to Beijing, apparently not meeting his grandfather Du Motian on the road.

Han Ruzi took the letter and thought for a long time, in the entire Shenxiong Pass, the only person who could discuss it was Meng E, "Do you believe this person?" ”

"I believe he has no ill intentions, but I also know that many innocent people will be taken advantage of, and I don't know what happened until they die."

Such an answer was not helpful to Han Ruzi, he smiled, brought the letter close to the lit candle, hesitated for a moment, and burned it, "Let's assume that everything is true, Xiaojun is naturally not seriously ill, she did not write it, I guess there is someone else who is seriously ill, either the queen mother or the emperor, so Uncle Wu and the champion Hou are in a hurry to return to Beijing." But when Xiaojun wrote this letter, he didn't know about the invasion of the Huns, nor did he know about my situation in northern Xinjiang......"

Han Ruzi fell silent, he was talking to himself, Meng E didn't speak, he stayed aside, his eyes slowly turned, and his ears listened to the sound outside.

"Xiaojun wants me to return to Beijing, I must be prepared, but General Fang is right, as soon as I leave Shenxiong Pass, the Chu army in the broken iron city is likely to collapse, and the Huns are a big disaster, a real big disaster......"

Han Ruzi picked up another letter, which was sent by Chai Yue, which said that the Huns wanted to negotiate peace with the general Zhenbei, Chai Yue specially noted that he did not believe in the Huns very much, and it had snowed three times since the beginning of winter, and if he insisted for a while, even if the Chu army in Guannei did not have a large number of reinforcements, the Huns would probably retreat.

Probably, probably, somewhat certainly...... Han Ruzi came to understand more and more what Yang Feng had said: because the emperor had too much information, it was more difficult for him to make a decision than when he knew nothing.

Chai Yue is a general on the front line, and it is his responsibility to think of every possibility in advance, but he doesn't have to make a final decision.

Cui Xiaojun lives deep in the mansion, and it is her goal to seek the best interests for her husband, but she does not understand the crisis on the frontier and does not need to weigh the pros and cons.

Han Ruzi sat there, not thinking about what to do next, but thinking about how difficult and interesting it was to make a decision.

"I am still alone......" Han Ruzi suddenly remembered this sentence, in the past memory, his grandfather Emperor Wu sat in the shadow of the Qinzheng Palace, majestic and lonely, but now this scene has changed subtly, Emperor Wu is still sitting alone in the shadows, but he is not lonely, or he enjoys and likes that loneliness.

"Call Jin Chunbao." Han Ruzi said.

Meng E turned her eyes and was a little surprised, she was a bodyguard, and Tihou rarely gave orders to her. "Yes." She answered, walked to the door, and lowered her voice for the guards to fetch the master book.

Even the general who defended the city could not summon the prisoners with a casual word, and he had to issue an order and affix the official seal before he could go to the prison to collect the prisoners.

Meng E, who rarely participates in specific affairs, completed the whole process, took the official seal from the hand of the tired marquis, and pressed it on the paperwork.

Han Ruzi didn't speak, and he didn't even notice that he was asking Meng E to do the things of his entourage.

It didn't take long for Jin Chunbao to be escorted.

Kim Chun-po suffered a lot, and in order to confirm whether his words were true, the jailers tortured him, and after the right general Feng Shili was trapped, he was tortured again.

The eldest son of the former Guiyi Marquis was unrecognizable, and as soon as the guards let go, he knelt on the ground and shivered.

"The Hun army has attacked the city of broken iron." Han Ruzi only saw one lesson from Jin Chunbao: no vision will bring much trouble.

Jin Chunbao raised his head, and after a while, he recognized that it was Tired Hou, and said in a trembling voice: "Tired Hou save me......"

"You are a prisoner of the Chu army, no one can save you."

"I'm not a Hun anymore, I'll give me another chance to save the tired marquis, even if I stay in Dachu as a civilian or a slave!"

"If you want to be a subject of Great Chu, you have to fight against the Huns."

"I do, I do." Kim Chun-po is not a strong person, and when he heard that there was hope to break free from the status of a prisoner, he was so excited that tears flowed out.

"Take him down." Han Ruzi ordered.

The two guards took Jin Chun out, and when he arrived outside the house, he was still shouting: "I am willing to serve Da Chu......"

Han Ruzi said to the main bookkeeper: "It's really rude, we have been guarding the city together for many days, and I haven't asked the name of the master bookkeeper yet." ”

The main book said: "It is a crime of despicability to dare to ask the general." The humble surname is Hua, and the name is repaid. ”

"Master Hua's book was brought to Shenxiong Pass by General Wu, right?"

Hua Baoen's legs weakened, and he knelt down, the longer he got along with this young general, the more scared he was in his heart, "The humble post is recommended by General Wu, but the humble post is the master of the seven products of the Great Chu, and he eats the court and shares the worries of the country, and he does not dare to have the slightest selfishness." ”

"Please." Han Ruzi said with a smile, "Some time ago, when General Wu was away, Master Hua managed Shenxiong Pass very well. ”

How dare Hua Baoen get up, "Humble and stubborn to reprint, humble and useless, humble and capital crime." ”

"When it is extraordinary, when there is an extraordinary act, you can also go down."

Hua Baoen kowtowed and retired, and it took a while to ease up after going out, I didn't understand what General Zhenbei meant by saying these words to himself, I only felt a chill on my body, and I wanted to leave this place of right and wrong, but I didn't have the guts.

Meng E didn't understand either, and when there were no more outsiders in the room, she couldn't help but ask: "You know that you have read the roster and know the name of the main book, why do you have to ask again?" ”

It can make Meng E curious, this kind of thing is rare, Han Ruzi smiled: "I want to know this master bookkeeper, from now on, I will keep an eye on his every move." ”

Meng E was still puzzled, but she didn't ask, she preferred to keep her distance from what she didn't understand, "You also have to be careful, if someone from the rivers and lakes intercepts Du Motian, there may be people from the rivers and lakes who have been staring at you." ”

"Yes, but I'm sure you can keep me safe."

Meng E stepped aside, inexplicably a little vigilant in her heart, in the past, she proposed the conditions, and the tired Hou accepted, but now it was the tired Hou who ordered, she accepted it unconditionally, and there was neither a reason to refuse, nor the will to refuse.

Han Ruzi had already made a decision and did not act immediately because he was waiting for the result of Fang Daye.

On the fifth day of Fang Daye's journey to the Northern Army, he and General Zuo Han Tong persuaded the generals of the Northern Army that they would be able to lead 50,000 people to Shenxiong Pass within two days, and they would be able to support the Broken Iron City in less than two days.

After receiving the letter, Han Ruzi immediately ordered to personally lead all the soldiers in the city to the Broken Iron City, and the chief bookkeeper Hua Baoen stayed behind in Shenxiong Pass, with only dozens of yamen messengers under his command, and the only task was to welcome reinforcements and release them.

Jin Chunbao was ordered to follow the army, without armor and weapons, and his identity was still a prisoner.

Ever since he saw the hope, Jin Chunbao had been thinking about what he could do to help Tihou, so when he was leaving, as soon as Han Ruzi opened his mouth to ask, he gushed endlessly.

"I figured it out, Prince Zaheshan wanted to use me to lure the forbidden army into the bait, but what he said to me may not be all false, based on what I saw and heard in the Xiongnu camp, the Eastern Xiongnu were indeed divided, and some wanted to rob the cities and people of Dachu, so they settled in the pass, and some also wanted to live in the water and grass. Zaheshan and Da Shan Yu are both the former kind of people, although the latter kind of people are numerous, but they have no power in their hands, they have only one choice, set up another big Dan Yu, and they can't find a suitable candidate among the nobles in their own department, so they can only go to other Xiongnu nobles. The Huns who fled west during Emperor Wu's reign, they must still retain their traditions. When I was in the camp, I heard some people talk about the Western Xiongnu, and they were very nostalgic and friendly to the Jin family, which originated from the Western Xiongnu...... If I'm guessing correctly, the Western Huns are back. ”

"Why did the Western Xiongnu want peace talks?" Han Ruzi is most concerned about this issue.

Jin Chunbao couldn't say it, he gave the most daring conjecture, just to make meritorious service and save his life.

Han Ruzi browses a large number of front-line official documents every day, and has determined that the enemy in Hebei is the allied army of the Eastern and Western Xiongnu, "Does the so-called 'haunting' of the Xiongnu have any other meaning?" ”

It was when he met Jin Chunbao on the way to the service, and several Xiongnu herdsmen swore that the West was haunted.

Jin Chunbao didn't know much about the Huns, so he could only rack his brains to recall the conversation he had with the Huns, "If I'm not mistaken, the Huns don't distinguish between gods and ghosts, and hauntings may also be divine punishments, as for what the so-called gods are, I don't know." (To be continued.) )