"How?" Siqin raised half of the corners of his lips and smiled mockingly, "Ben Khan thought that the head of the Lu family would have ideas, but he didn't expect to come and ask me when the matter came?" ”

Lu Heng shook his head with a wry smile, "Khan, don't be joking. I just took on an official position in the Great Zhou, in fact, the Lu family is just a merchant, and I am just a businessman. Do you think, how much insight can a businessman have? ”

"You don't have to be presumptuous." Siqin hugged his shoulders and said mockingly, "Now my Tatar warriors have been cornered. No matter how much money you have, you can't transport food and grass and bedding here. Don't you want to do something about it? ”

Lu Heng smiled bitterly, sighed and turned to the desert in no man's land. He pointed to the west side, and then to the east side.

"Over there, there is a castle, and you can enter the capital by walking straight. Here, it's a desert. Now this solar term, the weather in the desert is changing rapidly, and we people have no food or drink, and entering this desert is equivalent to a dead end. If it does not move, the soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou Dynasty will directly press up, or there will be the strength of a battle, if they retreat, they will either be buried in the desert, or they will retreat directly to Dadu. ”

Siqin shook his head impatiently when he heard this, "Aren't these situations you said obvious?" Either retreat to the capital, or stand here and die. I want to ask, if it were you, what would you choose? ”

Lu Heng held one hand behind him, his fists clenched.

"If it were me, I would naturally choose to carry it to the death, although I am not talented, I can't allow the soldiers and horses I am carrying to retreat, resulting in the people in the city suffering from the tragedy."

"I can't see that you are still a righteous person." There was a bit of sarcasm in Siqin's words, and the eyes looking at Lu Heng's back were also extremely cold, "I sometimes wonder if I have fallen into your trap by forming an alliance with you to defeat Da Zhou this time." ”

"Trap?" Lu Heng's heart jumped, but he still kept his face calm, turned around slowly, and looked at Siqin frankly, "What kind of trap can I arrange?" What's more, a wise and brave hero like Khan, if he really encountered any trap, he would have already seen through it at a glance, would he still allow me to run rampant to this day? ”

"I don't want to let you run rampant." Siqin approached Lu Heng with a smile, staring at Lu Heng with eagle-like eyes, and the smile on the corner of his lips added a lot of coldness, "You are really a good dog of the Great Zhou Dynasty, even if you are hunted down by your Son of Heaven, you still don't forget to put us together to lobby Ben Khan, saying that now is the best time to attack, taking advantage of the continuous natural and man-made disasters of the Great Zhou, just to take it down in one fell swoop." But now? ”

Siqin took a step forward abruptly and forced Lu Heng to take a step back.

"What kind of natural and man-made disasters you are talking about, they can't play a role in the production at all, what a famine, you loyal prince have the ability to get food for emergency relief. In the end, he can get so many soldiers and horses to fight against Ben Khan. What do you call it? Is this what you call a good time? ”

Lu Heng's face was really fixed, but he was already a little panicked in his heart.

Now that the war is unfavorable, Xiao Xiao and Ji Zeyu are menacing, and they seem to be in decline. If the Tatars are defeated, Siqin really needs an outlet to vent his anger. He and Siqin only had a cooperative relationship, not much trust, and now Siqin suspected him, which is not surprising.

It's just that when he was defeated, Siqin was so suspicious, if he was murderous, those under him might not be opponents.

Lu Heng's mind was only in the blink of an eye, he smiled slightly, and arched his hand: "Khan really thinks too much." I have long been a criminal minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the target of the Great Zhou Emperor's pursuit and killing, if I deceive the Khan, what good will it do to myself? ”

Siqin stared at Lu Heng's eyes, and the suspicion in his eyes was undisguised. It was as if I didn't know whether to trust him for a while.

Lu Heng said again: "The Khan can rest assured. My wife and my servants and I are only a small number of people combined, and now we are all living in the Khan's camp, and if the Khan thinks that I am lying, he can take my life at any time, what do you think there is any room for resistance with my little strength?"

Saying this, Siqin's face softened slightly.

But with his ability, he was losing ground at this time, as if the time and place were favorable, and he didn't occupy it. Such a trend of decline is really unacceptable.

Seeing that Siqin's face had eased, Lu Heng's hanging heart finally quietly fell back to its original position, and he stepped forward and said in a low voice: "Khan, in fact, I was just thinking, can I secretly send someone to Dadu for help?" If you can give the opponent a surprise front and back attack, there may be room for counterattack. ”

Si Qin's eyes were dewed.

"Khan, if the Great Zhou army directly presses up, our warriors are outnumbered, and it will be difficult to do it then."

Now there are 480,000 soldiers and horses in the Great Zhou, and they have only come to 200,000 elite soldiers from all over the country, and now more than half of them have been consumed due to war damage. Winning more with less is not unheard of in history, but if it really happens to you, it is not so easy.

If you don't do this, Siqin can't think of any other solution for a while.

But if he just listened to Lu Heng's suggestion, Siqin felt as if he was a marionette, led by the nose by the person in front of him.

"Ben Khan thinks again."

When Lu Heng heard this, he didn't persuade him anymore, and he should have given it up.

Siqin went back to the big tent with a calm face, and Lu Heng also hurried back to his tent.

As soon as Bian Ruohan saw Lu Heng coming back, he hurriedly got up and pounced: "You are back, you go and talk to them, I want to bathe." They don't even have hot water here, so how can they stand it without bathing! ”

Lu Heng was full of worries, and this time he added a guard against Siqin, for fear that Siqin would be angry with him if he was not defeated, but now Bian Ruohan came to stir it up again, and his heart was simply a mess, adding chaos to chaos.

"What is this place, where you can do whatever you want?"

Bian Ruohan stomped his feet, "Where do you say this place?" You didn't bring me with you in the first place! I am your wife, and you have to do your best to satisfy whatever I want, and if you can't satisfy it, you're incompetent. But you're coming to me, aren't you? I just want to bathe, what's wrong with me! ”

"Bathing, bathing." Lu Heng grabbed Bian Ruohan's neck, pressed her head and walked out of the tent.

The curtain was lifted, and immediately Tatar soldiers followed.

Under their close surveillance, Bian Ruohan was also frightened and speechless for a while, so he was pinched by Lu Heng's neck and taken out.

After stumbling away for a moment, it was Lu Heng who pushed her to the ground.

Bian Ruohan sat down on the ground with an "oops", and when she raised her head, what broke into her sight was an endless sea of sand.

The dim sky, the foul air, the wind blowing, and the yellow sand flying all over the sky, even if you don't walk into that desert, you feel a visceral suffocation.