The woman in black stared at the mount angrily, and said coldly: "It was the prime minister of Ning Guo who forced his father to sacrifice the horse at the beginning, and the one under the mountain should be a pivotal figure in Ning Guo even if it is not him, go, keep an eye on him!" ”

One member of the team left at his orders.

At the foot of the mountain, Mei Xiaoren and Ye Zhi passed through the most complicated place with grain and grass, and when they came to the open area, they stopped the team and trimmed in place.

Mei Xiaoren found a flat boulder and sat down to rest, and the officials around her sighed secretly, they were powerless to bargain with General Sheng, but the identity of the adults was not ordinary, even if the adults did not shirk it, they had to repair the book and return to Beijing to report the matter to Lord Shangshu, and wait for Lord Shangshu to get an idea.

"He Qin, let's follow General Sheng now, so do you say that the captain we did a few years ago is better, or General Sheng is better?"

"Each has its own good, the former captain took us to eat meat and drink wine, and lived a comfortable life; General Sheng is also sympathetic to us, even in the event of a war and trouble. He Qin sighed, "Look at the previous battles we fought, the enemy was injured by 10,000 and suffered 8,000 losses, and the Xia State had an army of 100,000, if the general didn't storm once, we wouldn't be able to consume the Xia Kingdom." ”

Mei Xiaoren heard a few soldiers not far away talking about it, she looked up, and at first she didn't notice anything unusual, but her look attracted the soldiers to also look at her.

He Qin was the first to point to Mei Xiaoren and asked the people around him: "Look, does he look like the county magistrate in Qiushui County?" ”

Someone chimed in: "Like, I thought he looked like him at first glance!" ”

He Qin glanced at it a few more times, walked up to Mei Xiaoren boldly, and asked bluntly: "Dare to ask your lordship, have you ever been a county magistrate in Qiushui County?" ”

Mei Xiaoren looked at the visitor in a fog and nodded.

"Sure enough, it's you!" He Qin smiled and sat beside her without seeing it, "You are still promoted, so do you remember me?" I came to your yamen to ask for food. ”

Mei Xiaoren didn't think anyone was familiar at first, but after he reminded him, he immediately remembered the soldier boy who came to ask for food in the past, he was still a short teenager at the beginning, and after a few years, he has grown a lot taller.

She laughed it off: "What's so strange about my promotion, didn't you captain be promoted early?" ”

From Xuanzhou to Shangjing, she met a lot of enemies, and the festival with the captain was not an unforgettable experience for her, if it wasn't for meeting this little soldier, she would have forgotten that the captain had been promoted by Chu Yu......

He Qin frowned, "Who said that, Lord Captain has suffered." ”

"Suffering?" Mei Xiaoren was puzzled.

"Yes, he was arrested by Xiangye's people, but I don't know why, it is rumored outside that he was promoted to the capital." He Qin shook his head and sighed, "Actually, the captain was taken away by someone as soon as he returned to the barracks, I thought you were suing quickly." ”

Mei Xiaoren recalled the beginning, and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, it was the captain's bad luck that personally planted it in the hands of the prime minister.

He Qin saw a person sitting not far away, he also felt familiar, and asked, "Eh, aren't you his follower, and you have been promoted with your family?" ”

Ye Zhi didn't answer, and picked up the water bladder to drink by himself.

He Qin smiled again and asked: "How can I see that you are better than him now, didn't the general still let him listen to you, are you turning over?" ”

"Have you rested, you will be on the road when you are rested." Ye Zhi looked indifferent, and got up and got on the horse after speaking.

He Qin was confused, looked back at Mei Xiaoren, and saw that the adult who was pressed back by his attendant was looking at the floating clouds in the sky with his cheeks up, and he didn't seem to care about it at all.

The army advanced for ten miles, and there was no shadow of the Xia army. The spies sent to investigate reported that Xia Guo had withdrawn from camp, but he did not retreat, and was about five miles away from them.

General Sheng decided to strike while the iron was hot and preemptively attack tomorrow.

Mei Xiaoren has never experienced war, and it seems that she will not need to do anything in tomorrow's war.

In fact, General Sheng did not have a specific purpose for letting her stay, it can also be said that his purpose was to be prepared and beware of the shortage of people under his men. However, he really has a lot of cultivation for Ye Zhi.

The big battle was imminent, General Sheng and his subordinates discussed how to attack tomorrow overnight, she didn't join in the fun, but General Sheng invited Ye Zhi to participate.

Mei Xiaoren felt that General Sheng was not appointing Ye Zhi, but like teaching.

Therefore, she guessed that Wei Guogong should be behind the scenes. The purpose of Wei Guogong asking Ye Zhi to send Princess Haoyang to Xia was not to let him send his relatives, but to find him a master, and wanted him to take this opportunity to stay at the border pass and follow General Sheng to learn to march and fight.

Wei Guogong's arrangement may be due to the fact that there are no generals among the loyal staff of the Guogong Mansion.

The next day, Mei Xiaoren was awakened by the movement of the army outside. She got out of bed and lifted the curtains to look out, the sky was just white, and the soldiers came out of the tent one by one in armor and weapons, and gathered towards the front camp in dense groups.

After a while, the drums thundered and were very exciting.

In the past, when Mei Xiaoren heard that she had won and lost, she was only happy or sad in her heart, and there was not much turmoil, but now she is sitting here, her heart seems to be moving with the sound of the drum, hoping that Daning can win this crucial battle.

From sunrise to mid-day, the barracks were empty, and those who stayed in the barracks were all but the wounded soldiers.

Mei Xiaoren walked around the barracks and met Ye Zhi coming out of the main tent, which was not a place where anyone could enter and exit.

She asked the accompanying officials, and learned that General Sheng was a loyal person who only knew how to protect the country, and he didn't stand anywhere, and some people said that this was why there were so many generals in Daning, and he was asked to come to the border.

General Sheng is not a person from Wei Guogong, he is willing to teach Ye Zhi, and believes in him very much, perhaps out of appreciation.

When Ye Zhi walked out of the big tent, they inevitably glanced at each other, and then Ye Zhi moved away with an expressionless face, and she turned around silently.

When it was dark, there was movement outside, and the generals returned with their troops.

Mei Xiaoren walked out of the tent and was shocked by the scene in front of him.

Most of the soldiers who had returned were wounded, and they helped each other to their tents. Others lay on stretchers, their clothes soaked with blood......

None of the people who returned were smiling, and even the generals, their expressions were extremely heavy.

A general walked past her tent with his sword and head down.

Mei Xiaoren hurriedly stepped forward to inquire: "How is the battle going, did you win the war?" ”

The lieutenant immediately clenched the sword in his hand and said angrily: "The retreat of the Xia Kingdom is a bait-trap, we fell into the trap of the enemy, and almost wiped out the whole army. General Sheng told us to retreat first, and he took people to break the rear, but he hasn't come back yet......"

When Mei Xiaoren was shocked, a soldier hurriedly ran over and said in a hurry, "Captain, the two wings of the barracks have found enemy troops, and they are gathering forward and backward, it seems that they want to surround us!" ”