When Zhou Qingfeng saw Jia Gang, this ghost cultivator was locked in a prison with a chain around his neck. He was depressed and sat on the floor. In the past, he always had a gloomy face, or a black aura, but now he showed his gray and defeated true face, which made the Jurchen soldiers guarding him tremble.

"Brother Jia, are you okay?" Zhou Qingfeng stood outside the iron fence of the prison and said happily.

Jia Gang raised his head weakly, glanced at it and sighed: "Zhou boy, I admit it this time." I am willing to give you three months to forgive me for this life. I will do my best to help you for three months, and you will not disobey, and you will not bully or abuse me. After three months, you have to let me go, and you must not try to stop me. If you are willing to swear by your real name, I will give you a soul and a soul as collateral. ”

This ghost is also simply repaired, and he will play the hole cards when he meets. Zhou Qingfeng said happily again: "Why not six months or six years, or even a lifetime?" You know that you don't have a choice now, life and death are controlled with me. ”

Jia Gang snorted coldly, "The soul will be out of the body for a maximum of ninety-nine days, otherwise it will never be recovered." And if you are driven by it all your life, what is the difference between this and being a slave? I might as well be dead now. If you want to agree, you can agree, if you don't want to, kill me, I'll be happy. ”

Zhou Qingfeng really doesn't understand this, but he just feels that three months is too short, and he will have to come for a few years. But no matter how he bargained, Jia Gang no longer gave in, and bluntly said that if it was more than three months, it would be better to kill him.

Zhou Qingfeng simply stopped talking about the drive, and asked instead: "You seemed to be the first to escape last night, why didn't you escape?" ”

"Your spiritual power is very strange, and when you shoot an arrow, the spiritual power in my body will go retrograde, and the true yuan will collapse. I almost ended up on the spot, how can I escape? Speaking of which, Jia Gang was really annoyed, "Why does your spiritual power feel like a beam of light?" ”

Zhou Qingfeng's light attribute spiritual power was too special, and it directly restrained Jia Gang's yin ghost cultivator. He asked, "What is going on in Hetuara now?" ”

"After Chu Ying fled, Hetuala's city defense was much tighter." Jia Gang glanced at Zhou Qingfeng, "Your master Gu Yuanwei has recruited a lot of Jiangyang thieves in the Central Plains, famous outcasts, and many of them still have some skills. You're in no less trouble. ”

"Where's Nurhachi?"

"People are the Great Khan of Jianzhou, how can you let me know if there is any movement?"

"That's right."

"Zhou Qingfeng, this time Yang Jian is leading the team to assassinate you. If we hadn't been too reckless and bumped into you directly, it was still unknown who would win and who would lose? There will inevitably be more people who want to kill you in the future. Among the people recruited by Gu Yuanwei is a guy named 'Thorn', his real name is unknown, but he is very good at stealth attacks, don't you plan to guard against one or two? ”

"Leave you alive to be prepared?"

"I'm a ghost cultivator. Facing the enemy is not my forte, but I can secretly monitor and snoop, but I am more clever than other monks in poisoning and ambushing. With me by your side, you will be able to sleep soundly for at least three months, otherwise you will probably never be able to open your eyes again as soon as you close your eyes that day, and you will not know how to die. ”

These words moved Zhou Qingfeng, he had the intention of accepting Jia Gang as his younger brother, and he lacked a personal guard who could be trusted. Three months is too short, but it's better than nothing. So the two swore to each other with their real names, and Jia Gang handed over his soul to be received by Zhou Qingfeng, completing the temporary identification of master and servant.

Led Jia Gang out of the prison, but he was very uncomfortable in the broad daylight outside. He used a spell and simply hid in Zhou Qingfeng's shadow, which ordinary people couldn't see at all, but it didn't hinder the communication with Zhou Qingfeng.

Zhou Qingfeng also felt novelty about this, except for a kind of cool gloom around him, there was nothing else to do. Because the situation that Abahai said was still unclear, and some key points were deliberately concealed, he was still a little confused in his heart, so he hurriedly ran to find Chu Ying, wanting to talk to the other party at the strategic level.

Chu Ying has been helping the nobles in the city to train after arriving in Ekhkulun, and it is said that after his training, the combat strength of the more than 1,000 soldiers in the city has increased significantly. It's just that Zhou Qingfeng didn't find Chu Ying in the training ground of the Kulun people, but Wucha's personal guards hurriedly came to him, saying that the ministry was discussing major matters and asked him to come up with an idea together.

After going around, Zhou Qingfeng returned to the council hall in the city. The nobles in the city such as Wucha were there, and Chu Ying was also present. Seeing Zhou Qingfeng coming, Wu Cha said a lot of words, to the effect that "we are all very happy to hear that you are awake." It just so happens that we have something important to discuss, and I have asked you to come up with some ideas.'"

Even if Zhou Qingfeng has been growing up recently, he is still about ten years old. Having a ten-year-old child participate in tribal affairs ......, well, it's not a surprise to the Jurchens. When Nurhachi was dying, he also let his three favorite young sons directly serve as the banner masters of the three banners of the Eight Banners, and became the heavy soldier of Heshubele, that is, the three born by Abahai.

The youngest at the time, Dord, was only eleven years old.

Zhou Qingfeng's Manchu language is average, and some complicated words still need to be translated by Old Man Sun. However, his ability is outstanding, his status is also Baylor in the city, and he can also control the military formation, so no one in the other Baylor Bees present dares to despise him. Utza even went so far as to repeat what they had previously discussed.

"Now that our Ehekuren has begun to prosper, many wild maidens from the north have come to join us. But the Jianzhou Department in the west will definitely not sit idly by, and they sent people to assassinate the 'goat' Baylor in an attempt to sabotage, and they are only afraid that there will be a war within the year. We all come together to discuss how to respond. ”

Uca and the others must have already had a result of their deliberations. Zhou Qingfeng only thought that he was not small now, so he was specially pulled to refer to it. He felt a little smug in his heart, and after secretly speculating, he said, "I think you only have two paths. One is to hold on, waiting for the enemy to send troops all the way over the mountains and mountains to attack. ”

The road from Hetuara to Ekhkulun is really not easy, and Zhou Qingfeng has experienced it personally. Chu Ying had already anticipated this situation, just waiting for the enemy to finally come over and make a defensive counterattack.

Ucha and the others nodded .......

Combined with Abahai's suggestion, Zhou Qingfeng thought deeper, "If it's just for this matter, you don't need to gather so many people to discuss. I'm guessing you just want to sweep north and collect more wild Jurchens before the Jianzhou Department kills them. Those who are willing to join Ehkuren will be contained, and those who will not join will be attacked and plundered. You're planning to send troops in the near future, right? ”

Zhou Qingfeng guessed very accurately, and Ucha and the others laughed. Only Chu Ying was a little uninteresting, and this idea was probably his idea. After laughing, Utsa ordered a sheepskin map to be spread out, on which the terrain, rivers, and mountains around Ekhkuren were roughly drawn. There are annotations in both Manchu and Chinese characters on it, and it looks like it should have been drawn by Old Man Sun.

"We have thirteen stockades to the north and to the east. Now, at the end of September, we plan to spend ten days preparing food and troops, and by the beginning of October, we will be able to sweep all these stockades, which should be able to contain more than 5,000 more people. The food in these stockades also happens to belong to us. ”

Wu Cha said excitedly, and even set the allocation of troops, among which Zhou Qingfeng could even bring more than 100 troops and two or three hundred slaves carrying materials to rob and rob. This is actually exactly the situation that Zhou Qingfeng had envisioned when he expanded his military strength at the beginning.

But now is different from the past, Zhou Qingfeng has grown too fast. After he mastered the military formation, he had a strong combat power, and his eyes were no longer limited to those wild Jurchens in the north and east, but slid to the Jianzhou Department in the west, "Since sooner or later you have to fight with the Jianzhou Department, since you want to grab the population and food, why don't you go to fight the stockade in the west?" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone on the agenda was quiet, and even Chu Ying was stunned. No one expected this direction of attack, because the west is the territory of the Jianzhou Department - persimmons always pick soft pinch, and Ucha always chooses a weaker one than himself to attack.

After Zhou Qingfeng arrived at Ehekulun, he kept thinking about how to protect himself and how to escape under Chu Ying's surveillance. But as the power he mastered became bigger and bigger, he also had the urge to fight a real battle. Seeing that everyone was in a daze, he continued: "From Hetuara to Ekhkuren for hundreds of miles, it is impossible for the Jianzhou army to kill them directly.

Nurhachi had to use the villages along the way to hoard the grain and grass that the army needed for the march, and this grain and grass had to be prepared before the army was allocated. Chu Yingbeile once said that Nurhachi's first batch of troops was about 2,000, and the 2,000 soldiers had to bring at least 4,000 slaves along the way to supply, and the consumption of this man's chewing horses was not small.

I was thinking that if Nurhachi were going to go to war in November of this year, he might be able to start building military stations along the way and stockpiling food and grass right now. Why don't we let the fat of the west go and rob it, but rob the poor devils of the north? ”

Reminded by Abahai, Zhou Qingfeng set his sights on a more long-term perspective. He came from an era of highly developed information, and it was natural to draw inferences. Since he thought that the wild maidens in the north would come to Ekhkuren to join him, and that Nurhachi would try his best to cut off the troubles, it was inevitable to continue to think about the oil and water on that side.

The silence of the Kulun nobles such as Utcha deepened, they didn't think that the west was oily and watery, but they always thought that the Jianzhou Department in the west was stronger, and if they could not provoke, they would not provoke. But now, if war cannot be avoided, it is natural to find a way to create trouble for the enemy.

The biggest trouble of a long-distance expedition is eating and drinking, even if it is as strong as Chu Ying, he will become a soft-footed shrimp if he is hungry for a few days. How to make the enemy unable to eat and rest, this is the way of fighting with small costs and big benefits.

Wu Cha and the others were still pondering, Zhou Qingfeng turned his head to look at Chu Ying and asked, "Big Belle, what do you think?" Is this possible? ”

Chu Ying's body was dignified, and he even closed his eyes slightly. It took him a while before he opened his eyes and stared at Zhou Qingfeng and said, "When I first saw you, you couldn't even send a spell, and the true yuan couldn't awaken. But now you not only know the way of the military formation, but also the strategy of fighting is very convincing. You Han people have a saying called 'born to know', is that what you are? ”

This cowhide was blown up, and Zhou Qingfeng hurriedly denied it: "I wasn't born to know it, but I also learned it." ”

Wu Cha and the others didn't know Zhou Qingfeng's eccentricity, and when he was really a child, they admired and even shocked him for his far-sighted plan. Being able to find the weakness of your opponent when you are still weak and dare to attack is not something that ordinary people can do.

Wu Cha knew from his heart that Zhou Qingfeng was right, but as the head of the department, he didn't dare to bet. He said like mud: "Why don't we divide our troops, all the way to the west, all the way to the north, and see the harvest before making a decision." ”

You coercion, this is to let Lao Tzu explore the way and send him to death, right?

Zhou Qingfeng immediately looked at Chu Ying, and he felt that Chu Ying would definitely follow him all the way to the west. If Chu Ying didn't follow to the west, he would definitely open a bloody way to escape back to the Ming Dynasty.

Chu Ying stared at Zhou Qingfeng for a few seconds, but said, "I don't go to the west, I fight the north." ”

Hey...... the sun came out in the west.

Chu Ying, if you don't stop Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will definitely run away!

Zhou Qingfeng looked at Wucha again, and he thought to himself: Lao Tzu is so important now, you won't watch me go west alone, right? You're going to send someone to fight me all the way, right?

But Wucha also stared at Zhou Qingfeng for a few seconds, and then looked at the other Jurchen nobles who were discussing together. Everyone just looked at Zhou Qingfeng coldly and didn't react. So Utza said, "If this is the case, I am afraid that only the goat Belle will go west." ”

Goat, you're big!

Wait...... aren't you really stopping me?

Give you one last chance.

If you don't stop it, Lao Tzu will run away.

Lao Tzu will go back to Daming.

No, these Jurchen barbarians can't be so kind, they must have other plans that haven't been said.