"This tea is good, isn't it?"

Blowing on the mist wafting from the cup, I asked Kohler with a smile, who was sipping the same hot tea from his cup with a sad face.

"The taste of these leaves is very strange, not delicious, but there is a feeling of indescribable aftertaste, very refreshing, very aftertaste, it is really difficult to describe in a few words, in short, it is very magical oriental leaves."

Khloe smacked his lips and shook his head in disbelief as the dark green leaves tumbled up and down in the cup.

"This magical oriental leaf is called tea, which is transported from an ancient and mysterious oriental country, such a long journey, presumably the merchants must have experienced a lot of difficulties and obstacles during the journey, so that we can sit in the house and taste tea so comfortably, where there is interest, there are merchants who chase after the smell, and the old liar Isaac is such a person."

Putting the teacup down, I looked at the men in the fort who were cleaning up the battlefield and the mountains of loot.

The moon had risen in mid-sky, and we had taken the Afens beautifully, and although the attack was frustrated for a time, in the end, at a small cost of twenty casualties, we were able to carry out the supplies that the Vipitano rebels had not had time to transport.

When I was counting the trophies, I accidentally found a few bags of tea from the East, and I hurriedly rescued them before the soldiers were about to throw them away.

However, it is not as sweet as Master Kong's green tea, but it is a little bitter, like my life at the mercy of others.

"It seems that the life of the rebels is very good, their commander must be a nobleman with a high rank, there are not many people who have taste and spare money to enjoy tea, you must know that selling tea from the East, only the additional cost on the road, is not something that ordinary people can afford, now there is a big fish in the city of Vipitano, and if it is captured alive, it can be extorted, oh no, it is to ask for a ransom fee, hehehe."

I excitedly banged on the rough tabletop, and analyzed it with Kohler, unable to contain the excitement in my heart, impatiently urging the soldiers who were still messing around to collect the spoils.

"Give me a little bit of skill, destroy everything you can't take away, don't want to take away any garbage, we can't take anything cheap, don't keep it for friendly troops, wait for Vipitano to loot well, it's a big city, rich and fat sheep are everywhere."

Kohler squinted at me and muttered, "You're so calm, the rebels are lambs to the slaughter in your eyes, you can easily handle it by going through the motions, and now you're thinking about how to distribute the spoils......"

I deliberately pretended not to hear Kohler's words, drank all the tea that was left in the cup in one gulp, licked my lips with great satisfaction, straightened my armor a little, took the reins handed by the guards, turned over, and pointed in the direction of Vipitano and said loudly:

"Little ones, you have eaten all the good wine and meat, cheer me up, and you must rush to Vipitano by tomorrow morning and go!"

Kohler rode after me and whispered to me, "What about the captives?" Carrying them will seriously slow down our march, but if you kill them, you ......"

Khloe didn't finish his sentence, but tentatively waited for my orders.

I could see Kohler's temptation for me, but I didn't say it explicitly, and besides, I have always been a slammer in making the best use of things, and keeping the captives and not killing them is my own plan.

"Kill them? Hehe, that's a waste, they are of great use to me! Let them all go, let them flee back to Vipitano, spread the news that we have captured Aphens, and deter the rebels, and by the way, further break the hearts of the enemy army and raise the momentum of our siege by spreading false rumors. ”

Kohler nodded thoughtfully, and rode over, not knowing whether it was sincere or complimentary: "Wonderful strategy, high!" It's really high! ”

The temperature in the second half of the night has dropped to an outrageous level, and the breath exhaled instantly condenses into ice crystals in the air, and the entire trachea is refreshed, numb and unable to distinguish between cold and heat, and can only feel the cold in the lungs.

There were noticeably fewer animals in the winter night, and in the darkness only the creaking and creaking of horses' hooves into the snow could be heard, as if the mummy had an indescribable strange sound in the Adam's apple when it was resurrected, and even the owl stopped cooing, and the moon quietly hid behind the clouds, but the snow did not feel dark at all, but there was some light of bluish, and we trekked through the night as fast as we could, and many of us were nervous and drowsy, and almost fell off the horse's back.

"How far is it?"

I shivered in my upper and lower gums, and asked the guide vaguely, but I wanted to cut him with a thousand knives, who said that the Italian winter is mild? Why did the bitter cold that I hadn't encountered in a hundred years catch up, is this an ordeal that must be experienced by crossing the crowd? Where is the great task that the heavens are coming?

The guide's snot froze on the side of his mouth, and when he spoke, he would move with the corners of his mouth, like the fangs of a wild boar, but not so hideous and terrifying, but a little funny and funny.

The guide squinted at the black woods in front of him, estimated the speed and distance of the march in his heart, and said to me for a long time: "Soon, there should be less than a mile to go, there will be a small river over there, according to my estimation that it is now frozen, and you can directly ride over it." ”

He pointed in one direction and gestured, and seemed to be very familiar with this area, and the party leading the way was quite competent.

I put my hands together and breathed hot, slightly regained some consciousness in my frozen fingers, and instructed the herald next to me, who was also frozen stupidly: "Send two scouts to contact the main force of the army that we arrived in advance, don't fight again in the dark, let the rebels see the joke in vain." ”

Kohler raised his eyebrows disappreciatively, the biting cold made his lips purple from the cold, but he still had to ignore the unforgiving damage to me: "In this kind of weather, you are like a god, and you dare to march overnight with such intensity, no one would have thought that the opponent would fall from the sky in the wind and snow, not to mention the physical strength of the soldiers, this kind of behavior is tantamount to suicide." ”

The words of using soldiers like gods were deliberately said by him very seriously, and the ingredients of ridicule were obvious, I laughed, and regarded his words as a disguised praise for myself, such a thing as a cheek, maybe only the sky is my limit.

I don't know how long we walked in the dark, as if time was frozen, and we stopped there, and in the distance we could see the bonfire lit by the besieging army, like a lighthouse to guide the way, telling everyone that victory was not far away, and we finally arrived at the small river that the guide said.

The edge of the bank was frozen, but the center was still not frozen, and the water was still murmuring, and the temperature must have been unacceptable if we waded across the river, so we had to go some distance upstream and find a narrow bay to cross the river.

Hans had received the news of my arrival, and led the men down the river to look for us, and when he saw us, he ran towards us.