Zhu Chongba took the reins, he was thoughtful, although the matter was urgent, he still remembered that those Tartar troops were not only fierce by nature, brave and abnormal, but also cunning and abnormal, and he didn't fall for that Tartar.

While he asked the farmer for two worn-out saddles, he saw that the peasant woman was quite fond of chatting, so he asked, "This sister-in-law, I don't know what kind of place this is, and how far is it from Haozhou City?"

"This village has no name, but there is a deep stream not far away, we call it Ghost Sorrow Stream, here along this path all the way forward, is the official road, along the official road from Haozhou City is less than 200 miles away. The peasant woman took two ingots of silver, and she was very happy, listening to Zhu Chongba's directions, and was busy pointing out them one by one, and she was very enthusiastic.

Hearing what the peasant woman said, Zhu Chongba knew that the Yuan soldier had not deceived him, and his heart was relaxed, "Sister-in-law, where does this official road lead from Haozhou City?"

Being able to ask these few words, Zhu Chongba was already satisfied. He nodded, turned over and rode on one mule, took the reins of another horse, said goodbye to the farmer's house, picked up two mules, and galloped quickly in the direction of Ma Xiuying.

Ma Xiuying was already impatient to wait, and saw Zhu Chongba get two mules over, which showed a little smile, turned over and got on the mule, and the two did not hesitate, and galloped forward along the official road.

When they arrived, they passed by a small town market, and the two of them added some silver to the town market, and exchanged the two big green mules for two horses, and they did not have time to eat, so they wrapped their stomachs with dry food on the way. After changing horses, I galloped for four hours before I saw a familiar city in front of me, which was Haozhou City.

At this time, Haozhou City was already on alert for the whole city, and there were soldiers patrolling the city and keeping vigil everywhere outside the city, and the two were still more than ten miles away from Haozhou City, so they were discovered by a team of soldiers patrolling the city and brought to the city.

When he entered Haozhou City, it was already a watchday, and as soon as he entered the city, before Zhu Chongba could speak, Ma Xiuying cheered, beat the horse and went straight to the marshal's mansion. Zhu Chongba knew that she had been away from her parents for so many days, and she had already experienced so many things, she was already on the verge of collapse, and it was not easy to persist until today, so she shook her head and followed behind.

It is really unseemly to go to see the handsome man with such tattered clothes and unkempt face, but the matter is urgent, and Zhu Chongba can't take care of a lot, so he quickly whips up his horse and turns a few streets, and it is the marshal's mansion.

It seems that Ma Xiuying has already returned to the house, and as soon as he arrived at the gate of the Marshal's Mansion, Zhu Chongba saw more than a dozen personal soldiers waiting for him at the door.

Seeing Zhu Chongba in the distance, these good soldiers on weekdays surrounded him, Zhu Chongba went to the door and turned over and dismounted, everyone was happy to clap their hands, but they didn't care about the old days, and after a few simple words, a personal soldier told Zhu Chongba that the marshal was already waiting in the military tent, and Zhu Chongba didn't care about anything else, so he hurriedly walked to the handsome tent.

The figure in the tent swayed, in fact, these days, everyone knows that the 700,000 army of Tokhtar is moving to Haozhou City, and Guo Zixing is holding a meeting in the tent all night and night to discuss the conquest.

Without waiting for the soldiers guarding outside the account, Zhu Chongba pushed to the door and broke in.

Sure enough, the handsome tent was crowded, and those familiar generals were there, and the two standing in front were Tang He and Peng Da, and the one sitting on the handsome chair in the middle was none other than Guo Zixing.

It turned out that Zhao Junyong saw that he was fooled, was seriously injured, and in a fit of anger, he released the witch knife to die with Peng Datong, and at that critical moment, the black and white double sword behind Zhu Chongba flew out immediately, broke the witch knife, and saved Peng Dayi's life.

However, the structure of the house could not withstand the huge energy emitted by the impact of the black and white double sword and the witch knife, and collapsed, taking advantage of the panic, Peng Da took the opportunity to throw Guo Zixing and Tang He into the tunnel that had been dug long ago, and ordered the soldiers who were in ambush around to rush in, slash Zhao Junyong with a knife, and rescued Sun Deya and several other people by the way, but Zhu Chongba and Ma Xiuying were missing, and everyone thought that they were crushed to death in the tunnel by the collapsed house.

No one would have thought that under this Haozhou city, there was actually a tunnel buried the year before last. That night, Ma Xiuying said goodbye to Zhu Chongba and Peng Da, pretending to be going back to the house, turned the street, and while the two were not paying attention, she sneaked out and heard the conversation between Peng Da and Zhu Chongba.

But I never thought that I didn't dare to go to the tunnel openly, and by mistake, I got into the thousand-year-old tunnel, so that a series of things happened later.

In the face of the 700,000-strong army of the Tartars, the generals all held their own opinions and argued endlessly.

In fact, no matter how many people there are, there are only two kinds of opinions, the main battle and the main withdrawal. The two generals, Tang He and Deng Yu, tried their best to fight, and their reason was, first, there was no way to retreat. Further south of Haozhou City is Luzhou and Wuwei, these two territories are not the territory of Han Liner and Liu Botong, but the territory of Xu Shouhui, although everyone is a rebel, but after all, the two sides still have a mustard, hundreds of thousands of soldiers fled to him, parasitic under the roof of others, after all, it is not a long-term plan, not to mention, once retreated, the people in the city will inevitably suffer, even if they are not slaughtered, there will be many casualties.

Second, there is still a chance to survive in the last battle. Now, although the 700,000-strong army is unstoppable, it captured Xuzhou City in a few days, but after all, it is because the Sesame Li Army is unstable and has always been unstable on the left and right flanks, which gives Tokh a chance to take advantage of, and Haozhou City is currently united in one heart, far from being comparable to Sesame Li.

Besides, the further south the Yuan army went, the more unstable the people's hearts became. The people of Jiangnan have long hated the Tartars, and although there are 700,000 troops in Tokhtar, we and thousands of people may not be able to fight with them.

However, the main withdrawal side has another argument. First of all, the enemy's forces are larger, more than three times the size of our army. And the Tartars are all well-trained and battle-hardened real soldiers. On his side, most of them are poor peasants who have just thrown away their hoes, and then there are bandits and bandits who are mostly taken in, hundreds of thousands of troops, and less than 20% of the soldiers who have really been on the battlefield, how can they fight against the elite team of the Tartars?

And now the city is not united, that Sun Deya and a few other old thieves now seem to be the only ones who look at their own horses, but who can guarantee that these old thieves will not defect from the battle, at that time, it was a disaster to Xiao Wall, and it was too late to regret it.

What's more, the enemy army has just destroyed the sesame plum, just when the limelight is in full swing, and our army is cholera again and again, and the army's morale is unstable, why should we use mourning soldiers to fight against the enemy army? It is better for our army to temporarily retreat, avoid the enemy's edge, and wait for the enemy army to decline again, and when the three are exhausted, then turn back and kill back, at that time Han Lin'er's reinforcements can also arrive, why worry about the Tartar army not being destroyed?

The two factions quarreled for a whole day and a night, and no one could compete with anyone, at first you came and went, and then you slapped the table and stared, if Guo Zixing hadn't been there, I'm afraid he would have drawn his sword and fought each other.

Just now, Ma Xiuying ran into the handsome tent desperately, hugged Guo Zixing and cried, Guo Zixing was pleasantly surprised, knowing that Zhu Chongba was not dead, and he also brought back the latest information of the enemy, so he was overjoyed, and asked his daughter to go back to the back house to see the two ladies first, and he continued to wait for Zhu Chongba.

As soon as Zhu Chongba came in, the handsome tent suddenly fell silent, and everyone looked at Zhu Chongba in unison.

Zhu Chongba first arched his hand at Peng Da and Tang and the two generals, and after seeing the salute, he was busy giving Guo Zixing a big salute. Guo Zixing laughed, hurriedly stood up, picked up Zhu Chongba with his own hands, and said with a smile: "Zhu Chongba, you saved the old man and General Tang, we should thank you, what kind of gift did you do?" ”

Zhu Chongba's face turned red, and he said loudly: "If you want to save Dashuai and General Tang, it is all the credit of General Peng, his subordinates are clumsy and have low martial arts, and it is already good that he did not cause trouble to General Peng." The marshal said this, but his subordinates couldn't afford it. ”

Peng Da smiled beside him and said: "If it weren't for Brother Zhu going forward bravely and blocking Zhao Junyong that day, I, Peng Da, would have become the soul of Zhao Jun with a knife, and what to talk about saving Dashuai and General Tang, Brother Zhu has made great contributions, so don't be polite." ”

Tang He also nodded and praised on the side, saying that Zhu Chongba was not afraid of danger at that time, and it was indeed a rare calmness.

Zhu Chongba was still waiting to be humble, Guo Zixing laughed a few more times on the side, and said loudly: "Okay, everyone." General Peng and Zhu Chongba bravely planned to save the old man and General Tang, and killed Zhao Junyong with that thief, both of them were a great achievement. You two don't humble each other, Zhu Chongba, you first tell me what you have seen in the past few days and what has happened. ”

Zhu Chongba settled down and groaned for a while, only then did he fall into the tunnel from himself and Ma Xiuying, lost his way to someone who was suspicious, and then escaped from death to the two of them, and when he arrived at Shenmu Stream, he met the sect master, and was thrown into the ghost stream by the sect master, and it was the flying sword on his back that saved the two of them and rescued the two of them from the ghost stream. How did he meet the Yuan army, how did he and Ma Xiuying force the confession of the two Yuan soldiers, and what the Yuan soldiers said, Zhu Chongba repeated it without missing a trace.

Of course, Zhu Chongba's words are not entirely untrue. Of course, the words of the thousand-year-old covenant that the sect master told him, the bronze medal given to him, and Ma Xiuying's distress in the water, and how he fought bravely to save him, of course, did not mention a word.

Readers are encouraged to watch the next chapter, "Misfortune - Part I"