In the past few days, Jiang Bin, Xu Tai, Wang Yong and others, who captured the last camp of the thieves in the valley, sent a large number of soldiers and horses to search for Song Nan's traces all over the mountains, and the guards in the dungeon were all killed, and there was no way to know Song Nan's life and death.

The corpse on the battlefield was rummaged through several times and Song Nan's body was not seen, and he didn't know where Song Nan was going; The thief leader Liu Liu disappeared without a trace, and it was Liu Liu who captured Song Nan, and everyone had reason to believe that Liu Liu must have kidnapped Song Nan and left, but since this Liu Liu had kidnapped Song Nan, why did he want to escape, but he did not show up to negotiate conditions with the officers and soldiers, which is unbelievable.

Among the generals, they were pessimistic as Lu Wan concluded that Liu Liuding didn't want to negotiate conditions with the officers and soldiers at all, and killed Song Nan directly, but these words were immediately reprimanded by Jiang Bin and Wang Yong, in the eyes of Jiang Bin and Wang Yong, Song Nan was impossible to die, or they never wanted to see Song Nan beheaded by Liu Liu in a certain place between the mountains and fields.

During the long and torturous four days, the officers and soldiers camp was dead, and the victory was victorious, but the commander disappeared, and this victory also cast a heavy shadow. However, it was impossible for the army to stay forever in the mountains, and even Xu Tai, who was emotionally inclined to believe that Song Nan was still alive, had to build a rational Jiang Bin that it was time to withdraw his troops from the mountains.

Jiang Bin's heart was anxious, the military rations had been almost consumed, and each person carried twenty days' food when he came, but this was food that came and went, and now the evacuation had to reduce one meal a day to get out of the mountain, and if it was delayed, the army would fall into a dilemma of running out of food; The camp of the thieves was also burned through, and the grain and grass materials were also burned to the ground, and there was no way to replenish them.

Jiang Bin found Wang Yong, who had just come back from looking for a few days, to discuss, Wang Yong insisted on staying and continuing to search, Jiang Bin said: "Brother Wang, I understand your feelings, but the army's food run out is not a trivial matter, our eight or nine thousand people are trapped in this barren mountains and mountains, if all of them freeze to death and starve to death, it is not a matter." ”

Wang Yong said: "Lord Jiang, you leave with the army, and in the Qianhu Battalion, who is the governor of the capital, you have to find the adults anyway, you have to see people in life, and you have to see corpses in death, otherwise after returning to Beijing, how can I explain to the brothers of the Jinyi Guard Yamen, and how can I explain to the old lady of the Song Mansion and the ladies of the Song family?" ”

Jiang Bin sighed: "That's what I said, I also feel sorry for Brother Song, so let's stay for another day, this time send more people to search along the mountain peaks and rocks one by one." If you can't find it again, I will go first with my soldiers and horses, leaving some dry food for you, and you will look for it again with your brothers from the guard camp. After I went out, settled the soldiers and horses, and then brought people in with dry food to meet you, and continued to look for Brother Song, and I would never stop until I found it. ”

Wang Yong nodded and said: "Lord Jiang, it is really his blessing for my family to have you as a good brother, if he is finished by landing, I am afraid he will leave a long time ago, and he doesn't care about the life or death of my Lord Song." ”

Jiang Bin said with a smile: "Lu Wan is a person from the outer court, how can he be as righteous as our brothers, the more books you read, the less righteous you are, this is the experience that my old Jiang summed up." ”

Jiang Bin and Xu Tai consulted the supervisor Zhang Yong and ordered that almost all the army be dispatched, radiating along the peaks around the valley, not sparing a single grass or tree, grating over the peaks and valleys on all sides like a grate, and began the last round of large-scale search.

Wang Yong and Jiang Bin took their respective men and horses to search south, and they were busy all day, and the exhausted people stood on the top of an unknown mountain in the south, watching the red sun slowly fall into the western mountain, and the sadness in their hearts was difficult to contain.

"It seems that it has been in vain, let's go back to the camp and see if there is any trace found in other directions." Jiang Bin frowned and sighed.

Wang Yong stretched out his feet to kick away a cloud of snow mist, sighed and was about to give the order to return to the camp, when he heard a brocade-clothed guard looking on the rock below shouting at the top of his voice: "Lord Jiang, Wang Qianhu, what is that black spot below?" ”

Everyone was startled, and looked into the valley below, only to see that in the shadow of the long mountain peak on the snow, a small black dot was walking along the snow valley to this side of the mountain, and it was not very real, like a wolf and a human.

Wang Yong's voice changed excitedly, and he said loudly: "Raise the fire, everyone shouts together." ”

The large bonfire was quickly lit, and black smoke rose above the mountain like a pillar of optimus, and at the same time, hundreds of soldiers shouted in unison to the valley: "Governor...... The Governor ......"

A huge echo echoed in the valley, the snow cover on the pine branch on the top edge of the earthquake fluttered, and the black dot below obviously stopped, and then suddenly waved his arm upward, although he couldn't hear the shout, but it must be Song Nan.

Jiang Bin laughed excitedly, and ordered: "Everyone go down the mountain, and camp down tonight, I'll just say, Ji Ren Tianxiang, Brother Song is so easy to die, so is he still Brother Song?" ”

Wang Yong also laughed, everyone quickly rushed down the mountain, an hour later, Wang Yong, who arrived first, had heard Song Nan's excited shout, and Song Nan, who had been missing for five days, finally returned to the army.

The bonfire burned violently, the aroma of roast beef jerky and dough filled the valley, and several large bags of wine carried by the soldiers were placed on the snow-covered snow table, with the stars in the sky, and Song Nan, Jiang Bin, Wang Yong and others drank happily in this vast mountain night scene; The soldiers were well fed and lay down by the fire around them, listening to Song Nan's adventure story.

Song Nan said that he was held hostage by Liu Liu, and was blocked between a mountain wall after encountering heavy snow, and the heavy snow sealed the cave without eating or drinking, Liu Liu wanted to kill himself simply, but he was introduced into the wolves by himself, and finally died in the wolf's belly, so that he was able to escape and return.

Song Nan said plainly, but everyone was shocked when they heard it, they were amazed by the wisdom and courage of the Metropolitan Governor, and envied the Metropolitan Governor's skillful maneuvering in the face of danger, but they didn't notice the confusion and regret in Song Nan's eyes in the bonfire. Song Nan didn't mention Liu Yuerong a word, he wanted to bury this qiē deep in his heart, so that people could not know that the thief Liu Liu still had a sister living in the world, so that Liu Yuerong could live quietly was the last thing Song Nan could give her.

Eight days later, the army out of the Taihang Mountain Ancient Road, came to the Fallen Horse Pass, after a short rest, the troops and horses returned to the station, Song Nan and the Chinese officer Zhang Yong took Jiang Bin, Xu Tai, Tan Zhang, Liao Ping, Lu Wan and other generals to return to Beijing in triumph.

The fast horse news has already been transmitted to the capital, and suddenly the court is jubilant and celebrating, along the way to the state capitals to greet them, set up banquets and hospitality, firecrackers, gongs and drums accompanied the footsteps of the triumphant people.

On the sixteenth day of the lunar month, the triumphant generals finally stepped into the boundary of the capital, far away twenty miles away, you can see the banner in front of you, twenty miles of the pavilion, the Jinyi Wei Han general led Wan Zhi, led hundreds of red helmets and yellow armor of the Jinyi Wei Han general to stand solemnly to greet him; When Song Nan arrived on horseback, hundreds of Han generals jumped off their horses in unison and bowed down to pay respects.

"Welcome Lord Song!"

Jiang Bin and Xu Tai smacked their tongues, what a beautiful faction, although they are all generals who command tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and there are many more people and horses under them than this, but these are Han generals, just a set of lines on these guys, their value can be worth dozens of ordinary border soldiers, not to mention that the people who are selected as Han generals can basically be regarded as military attachés, don't look at them are all ordinary Han generals, but any of them are people who enjoy the treatment of flag officer level, and they are at least a hundred households in the guard.

However, this is nothing, what surprised Jiang Bin and Xu Tai and their old hats was still behind, when Song Nan waved his hand and motioned for all the Han generals to get up and say goodbye, Wan Zhi, the commander of the Han generals, said something that made Jiang Bin and Xu Tai almost drop their jaws.

"Lord Song, I humbly wait for Lord Song and all the adults to triumph in front of the emperor's order, and at the Shili Pavilion in the west of Beijing, the emperor has set up a banquet to greet you, and invite Lord Song and all of you to go to the banquet."

Jiang Bin and Xu Tai almost got off the horse, the emperor actually led the civil and military officials to welcome out of the ten-mile long pavilion, this face is simply up to the sky, Jiang Bin can be regarded as seeing the emperor in the battle of Xinpingbao, and he still has a bottom in his heart, but Xu Tai has never even seen the emperor's face; The official position of the deputy chief soldier of the Xuanfu is not small, but he is still a little short when he wants to see the emperor, and today can be regarded as following Song Nan's scenery.

I thought that Song Nan would be grateful, but the clinker Song Nan just waved his hand lightly and said: "I know, lead the way in front of the head, and send someone to tell the emperor, I miss the drunken immortal brew in the capital Drunken Immortal Residence, let people prepare a few jars to enjoy it." ”

Wan Zhi smiled and said: "Don't worry, my lord, yesterday the emperor asked the adults what kind of wine they like to drink, and the humble position has already said that it is a drunken immortal brew, and there are not only a few altars on the banquet on the ten-mile long pavilion, but the humble position took a look at it in the morning, at least twenty altars." ”

Song Nan was surprised: "Wouldn't that make the emperor break the bank, the old owner of the Drunken Immortal Residence is dead asking for money." ”

Wan Zhi squeezed his eyes and said: "The emperor buys wine, and the old thing still dares to black the emperor?" ”

Song Nan blinked, looked at Wan Zhi and laughed. Laughing, he whipped the horse, galloped all the way, and went straight to the Ten Mile Pavilion.