Qin Dong was very happy that Duoyin could persuade Chris to return to obedience, and held a small banquet to entertain Chris in his Chinese army tent, and invited several major generals who followed the battle to participate in the banquet, and after eating half of the banquet, his wooden grid walked into the tent and muttered a few words in Qin Dong's ear, Qin Dong's face was solemn after hearing this, and the atmosphere at the banquet dropped instantly.

Qin Dong pondered for a moment and said to the generals present: "I just got the news that a few days ago, the Ostrogothic leader Diodormir learned that our army was attacking the Osijek Pass, and he had already led his troops to quickly march towards the Shamaz Pass, trying to capture the Shamaz Pass and the White Tiger Pass before our army opened the passage to Illyria. In this way, he will be able to keep our army under the city of Shamat or the White Tiger Pass, and prevent our army from moving south."

As soon as Qin Dong's words were finished, Zheli stood up and said loudly: "Your Majesty, in this case, time is pressing, we must capture Shamatz and open the passage to Illyria before Dior Demir arrives with his troops, please order an immediate siege of the city, and the last general is willing to lead his troops and horses to capture the city!" ”

After Zheli asked for battle, several other generals such as Faisal, Duoyin and others got up to ask for battle, and Faisal and Duoyin were very unhappy with Zheli, the cavalry general, robbing them of their business, originally, Zheli was a cavalry general, and he definitely did not have Faisal and Duoyin for siege warfare, he actually preemptively asked for battle, isn't this deliberately stealing the limelight?

Qin Dong waved his hand and said: "All the generals are a little restless, don't join in the fun, you just take your cavalry, let you use the cavalry as infantry, you don't feel sorry for me!" And is the White Tiger Pass so easy to fight? Knowing that you can't do it is a fool and a reckless man. Not a hero! We can't joke with the lives of our soldiers, and you have a lot to do to reduce casualties as much as possible on how to break through the White Tiger Pass. Is it a good way to break through the customs quickly? ”

When the generals heard this, they started to talk about it, and some people directly shook their heads and said that there was no such way at all, and they didn't have to think about it, the terrain of Baihu Pass was very high, and it was June, and the soil here was all rocky, so flooding, fire attack, and digging tunnels would not work. Unless the army can fly through the White Tiger Pass and enter its city, and the number of people must not be small, at least a thousand people will have to be able to take the White Tiger Pass.

Some generals have proposed a solution. It was to lure the enemy out of the city, and then seize the city, Qin Dong directly shook his head and vetoed it after hearing this, this method will not work. Intelligence shows that McLean, the commander of the 21st Legion of the Western Roman Empire, is a very cautious person. And compared to the 100,000 troops brought by Qin Dong this time, the strength of the White Tiger Pass is less than 4,000, and the difference in strength is huge, as long as it is not a fool, anyone knows that it is absolutely impossible to go out of the pass and engage in a field battle with Qin Dong, and only by sticking to the White Tiger Pass can Qin Dong's 100,000 army be blocked in the north.

After the proposals proposed by several generals were vetoed, no one spoke out, which made Qin Dong very annoyed, and he slapped the table and said angrily: "How capable they are usually." Why are they all dumb now? Isn't there any one of my generals who can come up with a way to break through the White Tiger Pass? ”

The generals in the big tent were silent, and at this time, Chris, who had just returned to the fold, stood up and saluted Qin Dong and said, "Honorable Majesty." The last general is newly returned to His Majesty, and he was canonized to the rank of colonel by His Majesty before he has made a big contribution, which is really a little ashamed, so that His Majesty knows that the White Tiger Guard General McLean is my own uncle, if His Majesty believes in the last general, please ask His Majesty to allow the last general to go to the White Tiger Pass to meet his uncle, and the last general will definitely persuade his uncle to put up a white flag to surrender to the Great Qin Empire and serve His Majesty! ”

"Oh?" Qin Dong was deliberately surprised: "McLean turned out to be your uncle? ”

Chris said, "Yes, Your Majesty! This matter cannot be faked, His Majesty can send someone to the prisoner camp to hear the news, and soon know whether what the last general said is true or false! ”

Qin Dong smiled and waved his hand, "No need, how could I not believe you?" Hmm, Chris, you are willing to persuade your uncle to surrender to my Great Qin Empire, I am very happy, you can say to your uncle, I promise, as long as General McLean is willing to lead his troops to surrender, I will canonize him as General Yangwei, the title of First Class Viscount, promote him to the rank of lieutenant general, and continue to command the troops and horses of the headquarters, the salaries and treatment of officers and soldiers are the same as those of other armies of the empire, but the army must accept the reorganization, re-determine the establishment, and the soldiers must be retrained. The specific number of troops and a series of other issues can be discussed, and this is the condition I give! It's just that I don't know how you're going to convince your uncle to lead his troops to surrender? ”

Chris said with confidence: "Your Majesty, now the situation of my uncle's 21st Legion is extremely worrying, there are 100,000 troops of my Great Qin Empire coming to the city, and then there is the Ostrogothic leader Diordemir leading a large army to attack his back, if the 21st Legion does not want to be annihilated, it must choose one of our army and the Ostrogoths as the object of surrender, what is Diordemir?" He is just a tribal leader, with no more than tens of thousands of soldiers, no more than a few generals, and only one Illyrian province that has just been given his hands and has not yet covered the heat, whether he can gain a firm foothold in Illyria depends on two words, and His Majesty is the supreme emperor of the Great Qin Empire, the dragon of the desert, the god of the gods, the king of the universe, if my uncle's mind is still clear, the last general believes that he should know how to choose! ”

Qin Dong smiled and nodded, obviously agreeing with Chris's statement, and said, "What if General McLean would rather die in battle than surrender to either side?" ”

Chris was stunned when he heard this, but shook his head again and said: "Your Majesty, this is impossible, I know my uncle, he is different from other generals, he loves his soldiers very much, and he is not a Roman general, but only a general of Illyria, and now the governor has fled with his family and a lot of treasure, leaving Illyria and countless suffering people, my uncle will not be loyal for such a coward!" ”

"Okay, Chris, I agreed, you can ask for anything, as long as you can convince your uncle to surrender to my Great Qin Empire, I will definitely be rewarded!"

Chris said: "Honorable Majesty, the last general has no requirements, His Majesty has enough rewards for the last general, please wait for the good news of the last general!" ”

……

White Tiger Pass.

McLean was patrolling the workshops with a few wing captains, and the big battle was approaching, and he had to come over to see how the defense equipment was ready.

McLean was an old man with gray hair and beard, but this old man's body was still very strong, he was very tall, his waist was very straight, and his spirit was very good, which was completely different from other old men, if it weren't for the fact that his hair and beard were all gray, if it weren't for the fact that his skin was already wrinkled, he was almost indistinguishable from a young man.

"Legion Commander, Your Excellency Legion Commander!" A centurion rode over on horseback and dismounted and saluted: "Your Excellency, the commander of the Legion, the general of the Osijek Pass and your nephew, Captain Chris, is under the city and claims to see you!" ”

"What?" McLean's body shook when he heard this, and he immediately turned around and wondered, "Chris is still alive?" Are you sure it's him? ”

The centurion nodded in affirmation: "Yes, although I am not very familiar with him, I know him, and I believe that I will definitely not be mistaken!" ”

"Let's go!" McLean immediately walked out of the bow workshop, and the other wing captains quickly followed.

Soon, McClain and others rode quickly to the north city gate, climbed the city gate building, McLean looked down, only to see a person riding on horseback on the opposite side of the city gate jumping bridge, this person was wearing a tattered armor, the helmet was crooked, the tattered armor had already dried up blood stains, the original bright armor was now not only tattered, but also dark red, a lot of flies and mosquitoes flying around him, and then look at the appearance, not Chris?

Seeing McLean appear on the gate tower, Chris weakly called "Uncle" and fell off his horse, fell to the ground, and passed out.

McClain was in a hurry, and hurriedly said, "Open the city gate and carry Chris in!" ”

When Chris woke up, it was already dark, and upon hearing the news that he had woken up, McLean immediately rushed over to see him.

"Uncle!" Chris got up and screamed.

McLean hurriedly went over to stop him from getting up, and said, "You have a lot of injuries on your body, so let's lie down and recuperate!" ”

Chris smiled: "Uncle, I'm fine, it's just some skin injuries, it doesn't matter, I'm mainly hungry like this!" ”

McLean reacted and patted his head: "Don't you say I almost forgot, come on, prepare some food for Chris and send it over!" ”

"Yes, General!"

After Chris had eaten and drunk, McClain said: "Chris, my child, my uncle always thought that you had died in Osijek, and I was sad for several days, and I didn't know how to tell my sister about it, but I didn't expect you to sit in front of me alive, I was so happy, by the way, I listened to the soldiers who escaped from Osijek, you and some of the soldiers were trapped in Osijek, how did you escape?" ”

Chris said: "At the end of the battle, almost everyone died, and I thought that I couldn't die in Osijek, so I took off a set of Great Qin soldiers' clothes and armor from a corpse and put it on my body and lay down and pretended to be dead. At night, I was carried away by two Daqin soldiers, they were ready to cremate their soldiers' corpses, I crawled out of the pile of corpses when no one was around, and hid in a house in Osiyek for three days, at that time Daqin's army had already left Osiyek to come to the White Tiger Pass, and Osiyek became a logistics material hoarding point for the Daqin army, I found an opportunity to hide under the carriage transporting grain and grass and escaped from Osiyek with the grain transport team, my appearance can't let me show up, That's why I haven't eaten a loaf of bread or drunk a drop of water for two days."

After hearing this, McClain did not doubt him, nodded and said: "It's good that you can come back alive, don't think about anything else, take care of your injuries, if you need anything, you can directly order the people who take care of you, and if your uncle wants to arrange defense, he won't accompany you."

"Wait, uncle, my nephew heard a very important news when he was hiding in the Great Qin military camp." (To be continued......)