Chapter 295: The so-called book of descent
Although the national teacher of Mulan Kingdom respectfully submitted the surrender document, Mu Liran always felt that this national teacher was not so simple.
"I think there's something wrong with this national teacher." Mu Liran told Zhan Cangming about the doubts in his heart.
"From the first time we met, I felt that he was very unusual, coupled with my observations, the questions she asked me, and his eyes, although he looked respectful, but I always felt that everything was not so smooth."
Zhan Cangming also felt that this national teacher surrendered too smoothly, he had previously named and said that I wanted to see Mu Liran, and after I refused, he immediately came to the barracks to surrender.
The more Zhan Cangming thought about it, the more he felt that Mu Liran's suspicions were actually grounded.
Zhan Cangming called his secret guard and asked him to secretly observe the movements of the national teacher of Mulan Kingdom.
Mu Liran reminded the secret guards that they must be careful, and never be discovered by the national teacher, if they are discovered by the national teacher, they may cause them some trouble.
The dark guard carefully tracked the national teacher along the way, and saw that the national teacher did not make any strange moves along the way, the national teacher returned to his country's camp, and the dark guard kept observing outside, and did not leave a single step.
It didn't take long for the dark guard to see that the military camp of the Mulan Kingdom slowly began to pack up and prepare to leave, so the dark guard left the military camp of the Mulan Kingdom.
returned to the military tent of Mu Jin Kingdom.
Zhan Cangming saw the secret guard come back, and Zhan Cangming had successfully let Mu Liran go to rest.
"How? Did the national teacher make any strange moves? Zhan Cangming asked the dark guard.
"The national teacher didn't do anything, he went back to the barracks the same way, and his subordinates followed the national teacher all the way to their camp, and it didn't take long to see their barracks start to pack up their things, as if they were about to retreat." The dark guard told Zhan Cangming exactly what he saw.
Zhan Cangming asked the dark guards to continue to track, and if they left the border of the Mu Jin Kingdom, they could come back.
After receiving Zhan Cangming's instructions, the dark guard continued to track down the national teacher.
After the dark guard left, Zhan Cangming returned to Shatu and continued to study the terrain advantages of Mulan Kingdom.
Just when Zhan Cangming was thinking about whether to send a letter back to the capital to tell the emperor that the Mulan Kingdom had retired, another soldier came to report, and Zhan Cangming asked the soldier to come in.
"Report to the general, Zamulang sent someone to come and say that he wants to see you."
Zhan Cangming pondered for a while, isn't the country of Zamulang a country of Sennar? Why do you want to come to see yourself now, it seems that the war between your own country and Mulan has nothing to do with them.
Zhan Cangming then remembered that the Mulan Kingdom and the Zamulang Kingdom were not far apart, so let's see what happened to the Zamulang Kingdom when they came to see him.
"Go and proclaim the messenger of the Mulang Kingdom." Then the soldiers went down and brought the messenger of Zamulang to the camp of the war.
"I don't know why the envoy of the Zamulang Kingdom came to see this king?"
The envoy of Zamulang hurriedly smiled and said, "We are here to thank you for coming this time."
As he spoke, the messenger waved his hand to the attendants behind him, and the attendants immediately ran out of the tent.
"In order to express our gratitude, we specially brought some gifts over, this time to repel the Mulan country, it must have taken a lot of effort, these gifts can just replenish the vitality of the soldiers in the army, and it is not a valuable thing, it is some of the things that our Zamurang country produces to nourish blood and replenish qi."
As soon as the messenger finished speaking, even the attendant who had just gone out came in with a group of people, each with something in his hand.
Zhan Cangming looked at the envoy and said inexplicably: "I don't know what my Mu Jin Kingdom has done, and I will let Za Mu Lang Kingdom come to thank you."
"I heard that your army has won a big victory over the Mulan Kingdom this time, and it has solved a lot of problems for our Zamurang Kingdom, so I came to thank you."
"I see." Zhan Cangming looked like he finally understood.
Zamu Langguo left shortly after giving the gift, and when Zamu Langguo left, Mu Liran almost woke up.
Mu Liran sat up from the bed in a daze, not knowing that Zamu Langguo had come to thank him.
It was only after Zhan Cangming saw that she woke up that he told her about Zamu Langguo's coming to thank her.
Lifting the curtain of the tent, Mu Liran looked at the sky outside, which was almost dark.
"Have you heard anything about the Mulan Kingdom?" Mu Liran asked about the battle.
"No, I've already asked the dark guard to follow the national teacher, and I haven't come back yet."
Mu Liran frowned: "He hasn't sent a surrender letter yet, has he?"
In fact, the national teacher came to see Mu Liran before, and the book he brought was fake at all, no wonder the national teacher would sign the book so easily, and he didn't ask the royal family of Mulan to make it clear.
This is what Mu Liran found out that was wrong with the national teacher, maybe he returned to the camp tent, pretending to be collecting things, but in fact, he didn't do anything, just pretending, knowing that Zhan Cangming would definitely continue to find someone to follow him.
However, the national teacher should not have thought that the tracking of Zhan Cangming has not stopped, and now that the secret guard has not returned, then the national teacher should not have retreated.
Since the secret guard hasn't come back yet, Mu Liran thought, then their side won't retreat so easily, but she wants to see what the hell the national teacher is doing on his side.
Mu Liran told Zhan Cangming what he thought in his heart, but in fact, Zhan Cangming and Mu Liran thought the same.
In this way, Mu Liran's side insisted on not retreating, and three days later, someone from the Mulan Country came over again.
Although he didn't know what they were doing this time, Zhan Cangming still asked his subordinates to take them to the camp.
The person who came was the first to speak: "I was asked by our national teacher to come and ask the prince of war."
Zhan Cangming looked down at the people on the ground: "What did you want to do?"
"Our national teacher asked me to ask, why our Mulan Kingdom has submitted a surrender letter, but the Mu Jin Kingdom is really unwilling to withdraw its troops?"
Mu Liran looked at the people on the ground suspiciously: "When the book was sent, why don't we know?"
The person continued: "The surrender letter has been quickly delivered to the hands of the Emperor of Mu Jin Kingdom, since we have surrendered, how can we not submit the surrender letter?"
"Report." Suddenly, someone came to report.
Zhan Cangming frowned: "So that's the case."
Zhan Cangming asked the envoys of Mulan to go back first, saying that they would withdraw their troops soon.
The envoy then returned to the country of Mulan.
The person who came to report was indeed sent by Zhan Lingxuan, and it seemed that the national teacher did not hand over the surrender letter to them, but gave it to Zhan Lingxuan separately.
Counting back and forth, it's almost three days.
Since Zhan Ling Xuan had already ordered them to return to the Mu Jin Kingdom, then they should go back, anyway, the Mulan Kingdom now has no energy to continue to harass the people in these regions.
The national teacher did not directly hand over the surrender letter to Zhan Cangming, which is not surprising to Zhan Cangming, the national teacher may be afraid that he will not withdraw even if he receives the surrender letter.
Or maybe the national teacher has some other plans.
Zhan Cangming thought, since Zhan Lingxuan had already ordered them to go back, then go back first. It's just that along the way, let the troops who go back slow down their pace, so that even if there is something next, their troops should not cause much loss after they arrive.
Then Zhan Cangming ordered the second-level leader of the army to finish his troops and prepare to set off tomorrow morning.
Early the next morning, Zhan Cangming set off towards Mu Jin Kingdom with his army, and the journey was smooth without any problems.
Zhan Cangming has already explained to the second-level leaders of the troops, and everyone has slowed down along the way, so that they can turn back if they have problems.
After almost half a day's journey, Zhan Cangming made the troops stop and rest, and the troops were stationed.
But it didn't take long for Zhan Cangming to feel that the atmosphere around him was a little wrong.
"I feel like I'm going to change." Zhan Cangming frowned.
Mu Liran looked up at the sky: "I knew that it was not as simple as this, it seems that Mulan Kingdom will make some moves next."
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the sky to slowly darken.
The sky gradually darkened, and the dark clouds swept towards Mu Liran and their side, and in an instant the wind and clouds surged, and the weather changed very much.
"All the troops, listen to my orders, we must hurry back now and get to the place where the barracks are, there is an anomaly over there."
At the sound of Zhan Cangming's order, all the troops immediately stood up and marched in the direction they came.
The large army advanced rapidly.
"We're going to get to that place before these troops, and we're going, maybe we'll know what's going on sooner."
Zhan Cangming and Mu Liran said their thoughts, so the two did not follow the footsteps of the troops and took the lead in coming to the camp.
Along the way, Mu Liran and they found that everything around them was quiet, and it felt like there was nothing alive.
When the army left the camp, they had to pass through a large village, and there were many villages like this around, but they were all smaller than the one they were passing through.
When they passed by the village, they found that the village was quiet, there were no people around, and it looked like a mess in the village market.
The stalls on the street that used to do business are staggering.
"Something must have happened here after we're gone." Mu Liran looked around.
The two continued on their way, they had just entered the village.
"Let's take a closer look." Zhan Cangming proposed.
When they walked around a street corner, they were startled by what they saw.
Mu Liran almost vomited, and in this place around the corner of the street, there were a lot of dead people piled up.
Judging by the clothes of this dead man, it was the inhabitants of this village, but now they were all dead, as if they had run to this place in a frenzy, and then they were surrounded and killed together.
It was just a little more disgusting than the siege, the corpses of the inhabitants were staggered, and their expressions were very painful, as if they had struggled before they died, and their expressions were painful, like those who had been executed in prison, and they were being tortured to death.
Zhan Cangming stepped forward, squatted down and looked at these corpses carefully, Mu Liran noticed that many of them were incomplete, and judging from their mutilated places, the mutilated parts of their bodies looked like they had been torn off alive.
Mu Liran felt a chill in his back.
"What the hell is going on here?"