Xu Ying glanced at him angrily, and continued: "What do you know, my father once told me in the past that the most powerful weapon of the Mongolian Tartar is the bow and arrow, and this silk shirt is made of the best silk in Huzhou, with strong toughness, and it can be worn close to the body. Speaking of this, he sighed lightly and said: "Fortunately, my father left Yingtian three days before Feng Shuai and their departure and went to Shanhaiguan to inspect the construction. ”

When Zhu Quan heard her say this, his heart warmed, and he was very moved, and he wondered: If it weren't for me, how could she come to Liaodong, where the weather is cold and frozen, to suffer? Thinking of Xu Ying's statement that the silk clothes could block arrows, she couldn't help but ask with concern: "Then did you wear that silk clothes?" As soon as the words came out, seeing Xu Yingyu's face cold, he was busy coming to his senses, and he asked a woman if her underwear was silk, which was extremely inappropriate, so she was busy and didn't say anything, turned around and went out of the tent, but saw two young men dressed as generals in the distance, who were Lan Yu and his deputy Wang Bi.

Zhu Quan saw that there was no way to avoid it, so he had no choice but to nod.

Lan Yu snorted, and said angrily: "Your Highness is not in Yingtian, but why bother to suffer in this Liaodong battlefield?" ”

Xu Ying heard Lan Yu's voice in the tent, afraid that he would have a conflict with Zhu Quan, so he hurriedly got out of the tent.

Lan Yu looked at Xu Ying and said angrily: "Sister Ying, when you return to Yingtian, you have to ask Uncle Xu to strictly control you, lest you run around without knowing the depths." Without waiting for Xu Ying to answer, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the "General Banner" who led him here, and said sharply: "As the General Banner, there are people of unknown origin under him who have mixed into the team, but it was only at this time that he learned that he would go to the Sima of the Chinese Army to receive ten whips." ”

The "General Banner" knew that Lan Yu was extremely strict in governing the army, and he could save a life at this time, so he secretly called it a fluke in his heart, and hurriedly bowed down and took the order.

Lan Yu turned to Zhu Quan and said, "Please follow me to camp near the Shuai tent." With that, he turned and rode away.

Zhu Quan smiled helplessly, knowing that at this time, only Lan Yu was respected in the 30,000 army, and even if he was a prince, he had to obey, so he asked Jing Jun and Sima Chao to take the "dark clouds and cover the snow", and Xu Ying followed Lan Yu.

When he came to the Chinese military tent, Lan Yu divided his tent left and right, and then turned to the two personal soldiers and ordered: "Your two brothers will follow His Royal Highness King Ning step by step from today onwards and protect him at all times. After saying that, he walked away.

Zhu Quan couldn't resist, looked at the two soldiers in front of him with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and their faces were very similar, and asked, "You two are brothers, right, are they so similar?" ”

The man on the left side smiled, bowed down and said, "Back to Your Highness, the villain's name is Wang Dahu, this is my brother and second tiger." ”

Zhu Quan heard Wang Dahu's unique tone, and couldn't help asking, "Where is your hometown?" ”

Wang Erhu said with a smile: "Back to Your Highness, the two younger brothers are from Shaanxi and moved from their hometown to Liaodong last year to serve in the army. ”

Zhu Quanqi said: "Moved to Liaodong to join the army? ”

"Not only the villain, our whole village came to Tuntian from Shaanxi to join the army." Wang Dahu paused and continued: "As far as the villain knows, there are not a few people who have migrated to Liaodong like villains. ”

Zhu Quan saw that the two of them were not stupid people, and he was secretly happy in his heart, and sat with the two of them by the fire in front of the tent and chatted.

Three days later, Lan Yu's army of 30,000 had already arrived at a wilderness more than 200 miles away from Gyeongju and set up camp.

In the past three days, Zhu Quan and Dahu, the two tiger brothers have become acquainted, but they have also been entangled with headaches, it turns out that these two people have been strictly ordered by Lan Yu to follow Zhu Quan all the time. When Zhu Quan slept, the two of them slept on the side, even if they wanted to go to Xiaojie, the two of them followed closely and gave Zhu Quan a headache.

In the evening of that day, Zhu Quan looked around the dark camp, returned to the resting place, watched the two Wang Dahu brothers check the two firearms, and said angrily: "Why do you two have to follow me like?" ”

Wang Dahu fiddled with the fire hammer and said with a helpless wry smile: "No way, General Lan has issued a military order, asking my brothers to protect His Highness and not leave for a moment." If he sees that my brothers and sisters do not follow His Highness, I am afraid that they will cut off their heads as well. ”

Zhu Quan smiled bitterly in his heart, and said: These two boys only know General Lan, but they treat me, the prince, as a prisoner. If Lan Yu gives the order, I'm afraid that they will immediately take a gun and destroy me. Looking at the two of them, he couldn't help but ask, "I see that the two of you have to check the fire gun every day before going to bed, but why?" ”

Wang Erhu said: "General Lan ordered, every day before going to bed, the cavalry must tie the war horse in front of their camp, but we must prepare weapons such as firearms and knives and guns and place them on our sides for use." I've used this thing a few times, but I've never used him to shoot anyone, so I don't know if I can hit it accurately. ”

"Haven't you killed the Mongol Tartars yet?" Zhu Quanqi said.

After Wang Dahu finished checking the firecracker, he didn't take off his armor, he lay down satisfied, and said, "The villain brother was only incorporated into General Lan half a year ago, and I haven't seen what the Mongolian Tatars look like." ”

In the wilderness outside the barracks, it was pitch black, and the cold wind howled. A few miles away, a hillside was flooded with black shadows that had only dead grass but no trees. Looking at the costume, it is the Northern Yuan cavalry.

He looked at the horse sitting down with white steam in his mouth, and instructed the lieutenant general beside him in Mongolian: "Pass my general's order, the horse is wrapped in hooves, the person is ranked, lead the horse, quietly approach, wait to solve the Ming army sentry horse, enter the distance of an arrow, and then the whole army will assault." "This person is the Taishi barbarian of the Northern Yuan Emperor Timur, the number one powerful general of the subordinate Hailanda, and his deputy general Timur.

After Timur passed the general's order, he returned to Hailanda's side and asked puzzledly: "General, why did Master Taishi only send more than 5,000 of our light horsemen to Liaodong to reinforce Nahachu?" If we have 30,000 people, wouldn't it be easy to raid this Ming army that has no wooden fence to set up camp in such a dark night? ”

Hearing this, Highlander couldn't help but snort in her nose, and said in a deep voice, "Did you choose to ambush the Ming army here by accident?" There are only barren grass but no trees in a radius of dozens of miles, and the Ming army wants to build a fence but there are no trees to cut down. He said this, but he secretly smiled bitterly in his heart, and said in his heart: Since His Majesty received the urgent document from Nahachu, the Taishi of Liaodong, the Taishi has repeatedly asked His Majesty to send 50,000 elite cavalry to help, but His Majesty has never agreed, even these 5,000 light cavalry are also dispatched by the Taishi without His Majesty.

Since the King of Liang in Yunnan defeated Zarawalmi and more than 100,000 people under his command to the Ming Dynasty general Fu Youde, Liaodong, who supports his troops and respects himself and disobeys the emperor's holy decree, has become dependent on Mobei Wangting. His Majesty's refusal to send heavy troops to help has its own deep meaning. It's just that these words are not suitable to be said to his subordinates, and he said in a deep voice: "If tens of thousands of troops come, can they hide from the eyes and ears of the Ming army?" The Taishi is so dispatched, and he has his own reasons.

After a while, seeing that the five thousand light horsemen under his command were about to stop, Highlander pointed to a few torches that were wandering outside the military camp, and said in a deep voice: "Send a few shrewd and capable scouts to sneak in and deal with those ranger sentries." Speaking of this, he paused, pointed to the Ming army camp, and continued: "Try not to let the torches fall to the ground, so as not to be detected by the sentinels in the Ming army camp." After speaking, he waved his hand, and led his thousands of cavalry to lead the horse and quietly came towards Lan Yu's camp.

About a mile outside the camp of the Ming army, a soldier in thick clothes, but still shivering in the cold wind, was holding a torch, riding a horse, patrolling back and forth, every once in a while, he waved the torch in his hand a few times, and reported to the five-zhang high guard tower in the barracks that he was safe. He muttered curses from the Mongol Tartars to the few accomplices who had won him by betting on the dice earlier and harmed himself. Riding the horse slowly, but heard a slight sound in his ears, turned his head to look, but saw a figure suddenly burst out of the deep grass on the side of the horse, rushing towards him, in a panic was about to make a warning, only to feel a cold throat, was pierced by a feather arrow through the throat.

It was the Mongolian scouts under the command of Highlander who rushed to the front of the Ming army, only to see that he was quick to take the falling torch, stretched out his hand to tear the corpse off the horse, turned over on the horse, and continued to pretend to be the Ming army patrolling, and also painted a gourd to learn the appearance of the Ming army sentry, and waved the torch in his hand.

Dozens of paces away, the Northern Yuan cavalry was the one who shot the sentry, he waved his hand behind him, and a large group of Northern Yuan cavalry continued to lead their horses and approached the military camp.

Timur, the deputy general of the Yuan army, led the army to a place about 200 paces away from the camp of the Ming army, and was about to order everyone to get on their horses, only to feel that a taut rope had stumbled under their feet, and secretly screamed in their hearts, only to hear a sharp neighing not far away from their ears, which was obviously a specially made arrow, piercing through the clouds and sending out a long piercing roar in the quiet night.

As soon as Timur shouted "get on the horse" from his mouth, there was a flash of fire on the ground three feet away from him, and there was a loud bang.

Timur felt as if a red-hot arrow had pierced his chest, and he fell on his back. It turned out that around the camp, there were not only specially set up arrows, but also soldiers crouching in the dug pits, holding fire guns, specially guarding against sneak attacks.