"Order, immediately count the Huns, except for those who must stay, and send the others away in the afternoon!" He gave the order decisively.

"I'll do it." Bai Qi took the initiative to ask for an order.

Wei Changfeng nodded.

Such a delicate and tedious thing can only be done well by Bai Qi.

It should be said that Bai Qi's ability to gain Wei Changfeng's trust is by no means based on personal relationships. At dusk, a thousand Han troops supervised the Xiongnu troops and set off. Bai Qi thought very thoughtfully, first selected the best riders to teach the Han army riding skills, and then selected some experienced hunters to help deal with wolves, and then selected some people who were familiar with the grassland, people who were familiar with the Xiongnu army, people with great strength, and even some people who would use limited materials to organize food and so on. Therefore, the 40,000 surrendered Hun troops left more than 5,000.

In fact, he also hesitated, it was already dusk, whether to wait for tomorrow to send the troops away, but he thought about it for a while, and felt that it was better to send it early than late, so he ordered 35,000 troops to take the excess military resources that the northern route army did not plan to send to the southern route army.

As it turned out, this decision was completely necessary.

It had only been half an hour since the troops left the camp when a messenger arrived. This messenger sent a special message: Zhu Shilang heard that the Northern Route Army had won a great victory and captured tens of thousands of Xiongnu soldiers, and specially instructed the Northern Route Army to treat these surrendered troops, and after Zhu Shilang arrived, Zhu Shilang would bring these surrendered troops to Chang'an to offer victory to relieve the holy worries.

Bai Qi and Wei Changfeng looked at each other and smiled.

Of course, they could send fast horses to chase the surrendered troops back, it was only half an hour away from the camp, and the Huns had no horses, they were just on foot, and they could completely catch up, the question was, was it necessary to chase?

Wei Changfeng said to the messenger seriously and seriously: "Please reply to Zhu Shilang, I'm sorry, because our army is unable to take care of the Xiongnu troops for a long time, these troops have been sent to the South Route Army." If Zhu Shilang needs it, he can go to the South Route Army. ”

Bai Qi tried his best to straighten his face, not to laugh, and nodded on the side: "Yes, Zhu Shilang is still halfway at this time, whether he is coming to the North Route Army or going to the South Route Army, in fact, the road is the same." ”

The messenger walked away dumbfounded.

Wei Changfeng laughed first.

Bai Qi didn't smile, he looked at Wei Changfeng, thoughtful.

Wei Changfeng realized that something was wrong and asked, "Brother Bai, what's wrong?" ”

Bai Qi shook his head: "It's nothing, I'm just thinking, why does Zhu Shilang have to come to our Northern Route Army instead of going to the South Route Army?" ”

Wei Changfeng was stunned for a moment, and also asked, "What is it for?" ”

He suddenly realized that the question that Bai Qi was talking about was a big problem.

The Northern Route Army went deep into the hinterland of the Xiongnu, the road was far away, and the danger was everywhere, the Southern Route Army was close to the Han Land, if Zhu Ling set off from Chang'an, it was extremely convenient to go to the Southern Route Army. This is almost risking his life to come to the Northern Route Army, and even seriously delaying the military plane for this! What exactly is this for?

Bai Qi shook his head, frowned and replied, "I can't guess this." ”

Wei Changfeng and Bai Qi were speechless for a while, and they both faintly felt bad.

"It's a blessing or a curse, it's a curse that can't be avoided." Wei Changfeng pondered for a while and said, "It doesn't matter what it is, it will always come anyway." ”

Bai Qi could only sigh.

In the next ten days, the former Xiongnu camp and the current Han army camp were in full swing.

The first is General Lee.

What General Li is worried about now is not the lack of crossbow arrows or manpower, but what to do with so many materials. In fact, the military resources left by the Northern Route Army far exceeded the actual needs, and first the subordinates left a batch of their own, and of course they did not tailor their own military resources when they stayed, but made as much margin as possible.

On the contrary, after making enough reserves, he sealed up the other materials and strictly ordered them not to be used, because no one knew where and how to use these materials in the future.

On the other hand, he was also experimenting with an invention of his own. Although this invention has been a small success, until the success is ensured, he is still quietly small-scale trial production, not large-scale production.

followed by Tong Haoran.

She was the busiest person in the entire barracks.

When she heard that the Han army was going to stay for ten days, she was first angry, and almost blurted out a scolding when she saw her expression, and then she was happy and told Wei Changfeng that in ten days, she promised to make the Han cavalry change greatly.

Wei Changfeng's reply was: "I need to turn infantry into cavalry." ”

Therefore, in the past ten days, Tong Haoran has almost been busy with his feet touching the ground. Fortunately, there are hundreds of Hun horsemen and her own horsemen to help, otherwise it would be difficult to turn the infantry into cavalry in just ten days. But in any case, when Zhu Ling arrived at the camp, the more than 30,000 infantry had become more than 30,000 light cavalry, which could shoot on horseback and fight on foot when dismounted, and half of them were equipped with crossbows, and the other half were armed with bows and arrows, and the combat capability of the Han army was unprecedentedly improved.

However, in the past ten days, Wei Changfeng has been a little difficult. In any case, he and Tong Haoran are newly married to Yan'er, and they can easily get ten days of space, but Tong Haoran is so busy that he doesn't even have time to eat, he returns to the tent every night and falls asleep, Wei Changfeng can only feel distressed silently, but he can't think about it, and he doesn't dare to "toss" her.

On the tenth day, Zhu Ling arrived. This Zhu Shilang also practiced his words this time, saying that ten days would be ten days, and he would not come a day earlier.

He didn't come alone, though.

He brought with him 15,000 elite soldiers, all of whom were cavalry, and 500 school swordsmen.

Fifteen thousand cavalry was naturally to supplement the consumption of the Northern Route Army, but five hundred school swordsmen were by no means a good thing.

When will a school knife hand be used? Answer: When executing a high-ranking general.

So as soon as they saw the five hundred school swordsmen, the faces of Bai Qi, Tong Haoran and the others changed.

What is Wei Changfeng's crime? Is it just because he is Wei Qing's descendant that he should be executed? If so, then they are determined to rebel!

Zhu Ling didn't care about the hostile gaze of the generals, and entered the big tent proudly.

After entering the big tent, he stretched out his hand and took out a copy of the military order, glanced at the generals, and said in a loud voice: "This official brought the order of the military department this time, and the generals listened to the order!" ”

All the generals listened silently, no one responded, no one shouted "get the order", they wanted to see what this military order was going to do with General Wei.

Zhu Ling was a little embarrassed, but he could only pretend not to know, unfold the military department document and read it out.

At the beginning of this document, it was naturally a lot of official tones, praising the generals, and then said that the Holy Governor was in urgent need of cavalry to fight against the Xiongnu, so he specially selected 20,000 cavalry, and considering that the losses of the Northern Route Army were not small, 15,000 people were sent to the North Road and another 5,000 people to the South Road.

This distribution is also reasonable, after this distribution, the southern and northern second route armies each have 60,000 people, a total of 120,000 people, and the northern route army's combat power is even stronger, 5,000 charioteers, 5,000 Hun coolies, 40,000 troops that can be used as infantry and light cavalry, and 10,000 elite cavalry, which is only high but not low compared with the Xiongnu military strength.

Next, it is a reward, the first is Wei Changfeng, who is promoted to General Fenwei, and the second is Bai Qi, who is promoted to General Dingyuan. Others also have their own rewards, such as General Li Shen was promoted to a tooth general.

The eyes of all the generals showed doubt.

Since he has been promoted to the official of Wei Changfeng, he shouldn't have come to arrest Wei Changfeng, so why did he come with a school knife hand? Could it be for showmanship?

Zhu Ling said that he would be rewarded, and suddenly his face sank, and he said sharply: "Tong Yun, the former secretary of the Ministry of War, leaked the military plane without authorization, so that Zhu Ling, the former squire of the Ministry of War, personally led the troops to attack and failed miserably, and the special general Tong Yun was sent to prison to be investigated, and it was found that his girl Haoran was now in the army, and the Ministry of War issued a special order: Tong Haoran was taken down for questioning." Come on, take down Tong Haoran! ”

"What?!" The generals blew up together.

Is this Zhu Ling too much of a bastard? actually pushed his defeat to Tong Shangshu, and arrested Tong Haoran? Even if Tong Yun is guilty, what is Tong Haoran's crime?

With a swipe, General Li Ya had already drawn his sword out of its sheath and shouted angrily: "I see who dares to arrest General Tong!" ”

Zhu Ling had already expected this situation, he reached out and took the sword from his waist, raised it high, and shouted: "Shang Fang's sword is here, and those who violate the order can correct the law on the spot!" ”

Wei Changfeng was furious, stepped forward, and shouted: "Then please ask Zhu Shilang to correct the law first!" ”

Zhu Ling sneered and replied: "General Wei, this official is here with soldiers and horses this time, the special order of the military department, if there is a rebellion, see one to kill one, see two to kill a pair, the outside must first settle inside, even if the Huns are released first, we must first rectify the army, General Wei should not bring humiliation on himself!" ”

As he spoke, dozens of school swordsmen had poured into the tent, forming a confrontation with the generals, and there was also a noise outside the tent, and the tent guards and school swordsmen scolded each other, thinking that they were fighting for control of the big tent.

Hearing the sound of weapons, the generals in the tent drew their swords and swords, standing beside Wei Changfeng, ready to fight desperately at any time, and the school swordsmen surrounded Zhu Ling, nervously opposite the generals.

In a fit of tension, Tong Haoran sighed lightly, walked out of the crowd, stretched out his hand, and said, "Zhu Shilang, tie it up." ”

"It's called Zhu Shangshu!" The leader of a school knife hand shouted.

Tong Haoran smiled: "Oh, it turns out that Zhu Shilang has been promoted to Shangshu, no wonder the military department has such a strange order." ”

Where did Zhu Ling listen to this, and shouted: "Tie up Tong Haoran!" ”

Wei Changfeng's hand stretched out directly to the Tai'a sword.

One hand pressed Wei Changfeng's hand, strong and stable.

"Brother Wei Xian, don't." Bai Qi said in a low voice, but although the voice was low, everyone in the big tent could still hear it.

Wei Changfeng's hand trembled, and after a long while, he finally slowly let go of the hilt of the sword.

Bai Qi called him "Brother Wei Xian" in front of so many people, and he understood what this was for. This is to convince him that Bai Qi has another way, and it is the trust between brothers.

Seeing that Wei Changfeng was a little calm, Bai turned his head to see that a few school swordsmen wanted to tie up Tong Haoran, took a step forward, and said indifferently: "Zhu Shangshu, the end will be the head as a guarantee, General Baotong will not run away, please Zhu Shangshu open the net, how about not tying General Tong first?" ”