Chapter 4: The Return (10)

"Wow, wow, wow......" Countless crows, flapping their wings, flew through the sky, shattering the tranquility of the night.

Zheng Ziming stood under the starry sky, motionless. Like a thousand-year-old pine, it stands tall and quiet, deaf to the noisy crows overhead.

"Let's go down and rest for a while! this place is remote enough, and the Khitans can't easily find it!" Shi Chonggui stepped on the mountain stone and slowly walked up, raised his hand, and put a wool cloak on his son.

The night breeze is not cold, and the wool cloak does not keep out the mountain humidity. But Zheng Ziming's back swelled with a trace of warmth. Turning his head sideways, he smiled at his father and whispered, "It's not time for the changing of the guard yet, and I'm not tired." What about you, why don't you sleep a little longer!"

"People are old, they can't sleep!" Shi Chonggui stretched out and yawned in response. "That's why I thought I'd come up and see you, or I'd feel like I'm dreaming!"

"It's not a dream, I'm standing in front of you, don't believe it, you can pinch me, or pinch yourself!" Zheng Ziming smiled, very considerate and comforting.

"Well, that's a good idea!" Shi Chonggui nodded, really raised his hand, and gently pinched his son's tanned face, and then pinched the root of his thigh. It wasn't until a tingling pain surged up in my heart that I grinned with satisfaction and sighed in a low voice, "Well, it's true! I didn't expect that in my life, I can still see you, and I can still accompany you to watch the stars freely." Erbao, there are so many days like a human being, Dad is content!"

"You, what nonsense are you talking about, the days to come will be long!" Zheng Ziming was taken aback by his father's sudden goodbye, and quickly lowered his head, stared at the other party's eyes and said: "Let's hurry up in the middle of the night, and before sunrise tomorrow, we can reach the junction of the Liao River and the Sancha River." There's a big ship tied up there, and there are five or six brothers on board watching, and it's not going to be swept away by the flood easily!"

"I know, I know!" Shi Chonggui looked up at his son, his face full of happiness. The son has grown up and grown into a hero who stands up to the sky. If he returns to the Central Plains safely, with his glorious deeds of fighting thousands of miles in Liaodong, even if he can't be crowned king and worship the prime minister in this life, no one will dare to touch him again. The premise is that he does not threaten the ambition of others.

"Dad knows, you are sure enough to take Dad back to the Central Plains!" Without waiting for Zheng Ziming to continue to speak comfortingly, Shi Chonggui quickly added, "But, Erbao, what will you do after Dad goes back? This time, someone must be unwilling to let Dad go back, so he deliberately leaked your whereabouts to the Liao people." Daddy if he goes back with you......"

"Don't be afraid, I've calculated it carefully. The person who leaked the news should not be Guo Wei, Guo Wei is not so shameless!" Zheng Ziming smiled, showing a bit of determination on his face. "Besides, the edict you passed on to Liu Zhiyuan has long been known to the world. If they can't even tolerate an old man like you, who has no soldiers, Guo Weijun's mind will be too narrow-minded, what qualifications do they have to reorganize Kyushu? What qualifications do they have to regain Yanyun from the Khitans?!"

"This ......" I didn't expect my son to say so domineeringly, Shi Chonggui was stunned, and he had half a night of words in his stomach, and he couldn't say a word at once.

That's right, if even an old man with no power and no soldiers doesn't have the heart to accommodate him, how can such a person be a good emperor of the Central Plains? How can such a faint monarch drive the tiger and wolf to reorganize Kyushu and recover Yanyun? After his son returns, he wants to have a place and prestige, and he has a group of brave and warlike brothers under his command, so why should he be afraid of him?

Suddenly, a fanatical thought surged from the bottom of Shi Chonggui's heart, burning his blood. However, he suddenly remembered that after he was pushed to the throne, the Shi family's children and grandchildren deliberately alienated him, his uncle Du Chongwei's defection before the battle, and the suffering when the country broke and the family died, the blood in his whole body quickly became cold.

"Erbao, ...... you in the future" With a little temptation and a little fear, Shi Chonggui asked cautiously. lest he say the wrong word, so that the father-son relationship that he finally found back will instantly turn into fine sand and slip away from the gap between his ten fingers.

"I don't have any big ambitions, just be a festival envoy who leads the troops. It's free. My sworn brother Chai Rong should be able to be a good emperor, I don't plan to meet him in battle!" Zheng Ziming smiled again, held up his father's arm, and responded in a low voice as he walked down, "Besides, as long as he is there, no one will dare to beat my idea." ”

"I'm afraid it's the hearts of people ......" Shi Chonggui hesitated for a moment, and reminded him very unbearably. "Erbao, the emperor's family, the emperor's family has always had no family affection. As soon as the word widow came out, he was alone, and from then on, all the brothers became courtiers. ”

"Don't be afraid, I still have Cangzhou, and the east of Cangzhou is the sea!" Zheng Ziming's answer was still calm and firm, as if he had already prepared a way out, worry-free and fearless. "Don't worry, I said that if I can keep you, I will definitely be able to save you. ”

"Erbao, are you going to ......" Shi Chonggui was stunned, and was about to ask again, but saw Li Shun hurriedly running up from the bottom of the mountain.

"General, five miles away, a passing cavalry appeared. Li Shun'er, who was in charge of the vigil at another outpost, ran profusely and gave a military salute to Zheng Ziming from a distance, and quickly reported.

"Don't hurry to wake up the brothers, come with me and have a look. Zheng Ziming groaned slightly, and then responded in a low voice.

"Hey, hey!" Li Shun agreed repeatedly, stepped forward to support Shi Chonggui's arm for him, "You can go, uncle will hand it over to me!"

"Okay!" Zheng Ziming nodded at him, and walked away. As soon as he took a dozen steps, Tao Dachun had already caught up quickly with a saber and a leather shield, "What's wrong?

"It's okay, I'll go out of the valley and take a look. Zheng Ziming shook his head, responded with a smile, and then gently patted Tao Dachun's shoulder, "You continue to rest for a while." ”

Tao Dachun didn't speak, slowly stretched his arm, and then continued to follow suit.

Zheng Ziming had no choice but to let him keep up with his footsteps. The two of them walked about four or five hundred steps towards the mouth of the valley, and then turned more than twenty steps south, quickly climbed two pine trees, and raised their eyes to the east.

A long red dragon of lights quickly appeared under the eyes of the two. It is hundreds of zhang long, crawling forward at high speed in the wide wilderness. The shouts of people, the neighing of horses, and the roar of horses' hooves hitting the ground came and went, and in the dark night, it was particularly noisy.

"The Khitan people have learned smartly, and they are no longer divided into teams to cast nets everywhere!" Tao Dachun smiled, his face showing a little pride.

The enemy forces in the distance, the size is at least three thousand. Obviously, the Khitans learned the lesson of being beaten all over the field a few days ago, and gathered their teams in one place, no longer giving everyone a chance to attack. But the grassland is so big, the more the Khitans gather their ranks, the wider the gap will be. As long as the Cangzhou warriors deal with it properly, they will definitely have a chance to drill through the gap between the two enemy armies and then soar into the sky.

Just as he was thinking happily, Zheng Ziming's voice suddenly came to his ears, "Go back and wake up all the brothers." Keep up with this group of Khitans and follow them!"

"What?" Tao Dachun was startled, his hand loosened, and he almost fell off the branch and smashed himself to pieces.

"It's dark under the lights, and the Khitans are on their way at night, so we just happen to be secretly following him. With them as cover, we won't need dawn tomorrow to rush to the place where the ship is hidden!" Zheng Ziming stretched out his hand to grab Tao Dachun, and at the same time quickly replenished.

"Good idea!" Tao Dachun woke up like a dream, and immediately fell to the ground in admiration, "I'm going now, thanks to this group of diligent Khitans!"

According to their original plan, the big guys set off in the second half of the night and hurried quietly under the cover of night. Along the way, you have to beware of being heard by the Khitan warriors of various tribes, and you can't run too fast. Even if you successfully reach the bank of the Liao River, it will be sunrise. And now, with a group of free laborers leading the way, they can get to the riverside at least an hour earlier. The darkness before dawn will be the best cover, and the chances of success on board will be greatly increased.

Both of them knew in their hearts that they could not miss the opportunity, so they moved extremely fast. After only half a cup of tea, he had already returned to his makeshift camp, woke the warriors from their sleep one by one, took up their horses, weapons, and dry rations, and quietly slipped out of the valley. Then, like a predatory civet cat, silently, behind the Khitan soldiers and horses who were hurrying away with torches.

"Grandma's, in the middle of the night, I don't even let me sleep peacefully, what kind of energy is I tossing!" Under the long dragon composed of torches and lamp balls, the White Horse Battalion on the left wing of the Khitan North Route Army commanded Yelu Damu, who cursed and muttered while driving away flying insects with his hands.

Like most of the other mid-level Khitan generals, he was not very interested in the task of hunting down Shi Chonggui's father and son. A former emperor of the former dynasty who had been captured by the Khitans, and a local military general who was not trusted by his own court, even if he returned to the Central Plains safely, what threat could he pose to the Great Liao? Can he devote all the strength of the whole country to hunt down these two flies? Now that he is good, whether the flies can be killed or not in the future, the face of the Great Liao Iron Cavalry will be lost. 100,000 people, 100,000 people fight two Alas, how majestic! How powerful! Shi Chonggui's father and son did almost nothing, and they all became peerless generals who were invincible to 10,000 people, and they became famous all over the world in the blink of an eye!