(Thanks to Xu G and Weak Tea Rumo for the monthly passes) Chapter 267

In Xinping Fort, the siege entered the sixth day, and at dawn, the restlessness of the Tartars below attracted Song Nan's attention, and a team of Tartars withdrew from the wall, and another team of Tartars entered the walled fort.

Song Nan accompanied Zhengde to stand on the edge and watched the movement below, and Zhengde asked, "What is Tartar doing?" Do you move troops and horses back and forth for drills? ”

Song Nan frowned and said, "Your Majesty, this is not a drill, the minister thinks we have to hide quickly." ”

Zhengde said: "Why? ”

Song Nan pointed to a group of Tartar soldiers who entered the fort and said, "Did the emperor see the longbows they were carrying?" This is to bring in the archers, to shoot arrows from above, the longbow is high and far, this is to shoot us here to death. ”

Zhengde was shocked: "Can a bow and arrow shoot so high?" ”

Song Nan said: "The longbow can shoot a hundred steps away, and this beacon tower is only more than twenty zhang high, so it can naturally shoot up, but the accuracy may not be enough." ”

Seeing that Zhengde's face was pale, Song Nan comforted: "The emperor doesn't have to worry, the arrows that come up from the back are not to be feared in terms of accuracy or strength, and the ministers ordered people to build bunkers immediately, and the stones that were blown out can work." ”

Seeing that Song Nan was calm, Zhengde's face improved slightly and said, "I can't imagine that if I don't have you by my side on this trip, what will I do?" ”

Song Nan smiled and said, "Didn't the emperor say that we are good friends?" There is no need to be so polite between good friends, and it is also the duty of a minister to protect the emperor's safety. ”

Zhengde's eyes showed gratitude, and Song Nan shouted loudly: "All assemble, immediately pile up stones to build a bunker, and the Tartars will shoot arrows upwards."

The crowd also saw the Tartars' intentions, and they took action to build a bunker wall along the edge of the pit with piled stones, and still built a tent cloth on the top, and sprinkled dust and small stones on the top to prevent the falling arrows from penetrating the roof of the tent.

Liu Jin grabbed Song Nan in a panic and said, "Lord Song, I'm afraid we won't be able to escape this catastrophe?" Lord Song, if our family is shot and can't die for a while, can you please ask Lord Song to give our family a good time? ”

Song Nan embedded a stone at the top of the bunker, frowned, and said: "Gonggong Liu, you can't say such things at this time, you should pretend that nothing happened, you are like this, how can the emperor be at peace in his heart?" ”

Liu Jin shook his head and said: "Our family doesn't want to do this, but it's been six days, there is no shadow of reinforcements, water, and dry food are almost gone, and we are going to die." ”

Song Nan shouted: "Gonggong Liu, everyone is trying to survive, but you are saying frustrating words, if you really don't want to live, you can be freed by jumping, if you still want to live, take care of the little food and water, move them into the bunker, and the arrows will shoot through the bucket." ”

Liu Jin opened his mouth, knowing that on this peak, Song Nan was the absolute authority, and he was nothing at this time, so he sighed and left silently.

The Tartar archers below were ready, and Bald Man stood on the wall with an iron face, and said to a loud Tartar soldier in front of him: "Shout." ”

The Tartar soldier took a deep breath of the hot air, and shouted loudly towards the top of the beacon tower: "Listen, the little emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I, Dayan Khan of the Tatar Kingdom, have a warning, teach you to listen to it." ”

There was silence in all directions, the hot mountain wind passed through the mountains, and a small whirlwind carried the dust and withered grass to rotate violently and flip up and down, charming to the ears and eyes.

At the top of the beacon tower under the scorching sun, a group of dark-skinned and ragged figures appeared.

Bald Meng squinted at the group of people called Huazi on the peak, and he recognized that the small young man who was surrounded by everyone in the middle was the Zhengde Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The frowning young emperor looked wolf-like, his face mottled and gray and black, I don't know if it was a wound or a dirt, and an old eunuch beside him held a tattered tent cloth to shield him from the scorching sun.

In an instant, a sense of pride surged in the heart of Bald Mengke, facing the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, that is the pride of the sky that hundreds of millions of people look up to, his gentle words can make the heads of tens of millions of people roll, he sits on the fertile soil of the Central Plains, holds millions of soldiers, it is he and his ancestors who drove the Mongols who ruled the Central Plains to the cold and barren north.

But it is this noble son of heaven who is now as shabby and dejected as a lost dog, trapped by his own male soldiers on the top of this projectile beacon, and his condition is not as good as that of a beggar on the street; If he hadn't tried to capture him alive, he would have died like a wild dog.

A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he laughed loudly at the top of the peak, and said in a loud voice: "Respected Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Dayuan Dayan Khan can greet you." ”

Zhengde pursed his lips and said nothing, and the people around him also silently looked down at the Tartar soldiers and horses below, and no one spoke.

Bald Meng didn't mind the other party's silence, and said loudly to himself: "Ben Khan doesn't like nonsense, the current situation is clear at a glance, you have held on to the peak for several days, and you have already shown your courage." But Ben Khan wants you to know that your persistence is in vain, if it weren't for Ben Khan's memory of the friendship between Mongolia and Han, and the emperor's honorable status, and did not give the order to attack, you are afraid that you will not be able to hold out for a day. Now that Ben Khan's patience has been exhausted by you, and your ignorance of the times has cost hundreds of my Tatar warriors their lives, since you don't know how to adapt, Ben Khan will not be indefinitely tolerant. ”

A flying insect flapped its wings in front of Bald Mengke, and Bald Mengke reached out and grabbed it like lightning, crushing the flying insect into powder in the palm of his hand.

"You Han people have a saying called 'first salute and then soldier', Ben Khan thinks that benevolence is the end of righteousness, so this is the last chance, if the emperor knows the current affairs, he needs to come down and surrender immediately, Ben Khan promises not to touch the emperor Xi à a single hair, let's sit down and talk about the major affairs between Mongolia and Han, after reaching an agreement, we will send the emperor back to your capital, from now on you are still your lord of the world, Ben Khan will still go back to my country to spend our own days, what do you think?"

On the beacon tower, everyone looked down silently without saying a word, and tens of thousands of Tartar officers and soldiers under the beacon tower also looked up and waited for the Ming Emperor's answer, almost everyone was silently thinking, the Great Khan was really merciful, such a courtesy, if the Ming Dynasty emperor did not agree, it would be really crazy.

After a short silence, Zhengde slowly spoke: "The barbarian clan is also so clever, I am really surprised, how can I be coaxed by you in a few words, I know the intentions of you Tartars, and I will never fall for you." That bald and fierce, you remember my words, what you do now will become the cause of your and other destruction, if you are lost and return and lead the army to withdraw from my Ming territory immediately, I may consider opening up the net in the future. ”

The Tartar soldiers were buzzing like a fried pot, and they ridiculed the little emperor of the Ming Dynasty for having a bad brain, and he dared to say such a thing at this time, isn't this looking for his own death?

Song Nan raised his tall fingers and praised: "The emperor's slap is painful." ”

Zhengde smiled and said: "I can trade with the Tartars with Jiangshan Sheji, otherwise how will I see my ancestors and ancestors in the future?" ”

Song Nan said: "The emperor is right, the small sections are not informal, and the barbarian clan knows the integrity in the hearts of my Ming and Han people." ”

Liu Jin sighed, and said in his heart: You two don't know the height of the sky, and you don't have to worry about the green mountains without firewood, so what if you agree to them? But when he returned to the capital, he immediately repented and sent troops to fight against Xue Shame, and at this moment, for the sake of a momentary pleasure, I am afraid that they will all die here.

However, Liu Jin also knew that this kind of thing must not be said at this time, it is Song Nan who is in charge, and if he provokes him, he will kick himself off the peak, and his influence on the emperor has no effect on this peak. If he can return to the capital safely, he can't be soft on Song Nan, this person has become the first object to be eliminated by himself, because the relationship between him and the emperor is too good, and it is a great threat to himself.

The bald and angry face turned red, and sneered: "Okay, even so, there is nothing to say, respected Emperor Xi of the Ming Dynasty, I have seen you die, you will be covered with reed arrows shot by our Tatar warriors, and then I will be tied to the horse and dragged back to Ulaanbaatar, your body will be hung on the Baiyun Square in Ulabaatar, let maggots devour you, goshawks peck, this is the price of your ignorance." ”

Zhengde's body shook, obviously frightened by Bald Mengke's vicious words, Song Nan laughed loudly and shouted down: "Bald Mengke, do you only play tricks?" If this trick works, I will also use it, I heard that the eggs of the tartar taste good, and when he sets foot on the gate of your Ulaanbaatar on the other day, if you want to save your life, you need to cut off the eggs under your crotch and give my Ming Emperor wine. ”

Everyone was stunned, and then laughed, everyone didn't expect that Song Nan, who had always been silent, would say such disgusting and vicious words, Princess Kangning and Dai Su'er both blushed and looked at Song Nan with disgust; Zhengde also laughed and said, "Can you really eat the eggs of the Tartars?" ”

Song Nan smiled: "How do I know, but it's not bad to taste it, and it will definitely not die." Whoever calls this bald man can speak vicious words, if I scold him with the language of a sage, I am afraid that he will not understand, so I have to use foul language to foul language, which is called the tip of a needle to Mai Mang. ”

The crowd laughed again.

Bald Mengke's face turned purple, he scolded angrily, waved his hand and ordered: "Shoot them, shoot them." ”

The horn whined, with the long roar of the horn, thousands of Tartar archers bent their bows and arrows in unison, and thousands of black arrows pointed at the peak of the crowd, Song Nan waved his hand, and everyone immediately retracted their heads and jumped into the bunker to dodge, and after a while, a buzzing and low roar sounded, and countless flying locusts shot from below, as if a layer of dark clouds was shrouded in the sky, and they listened in an instant. Tuk Tuk Tuk ' rattled and rattled, and the feather arrows fell on the peak, shooting the dust and rocks on the ground into shallow nests, and the dust and gravel flew wildly, and instantly a cloud of smoke and dust steamed.