43. Where there is silver, there is a way
Dozens of miles outside the Great Wall.
Meng Zhong took the border army and went to Daqingshan to support Zhao Zheng.
Meng's serious injury has healed, and the doctors among the hundreds of schools have heard that they can live and die with the ability of human flesh and bones, and only the chest penetrates, which is not a major injury, and he has also reached a half-step product with the help of his father Mengwu's residual qi machine.
He looked down at the armor on his body.
Light armor instead of the iconic heavy armor of the past.
Offense and defense have changed shape, so why defend hard?
Only the border army marched to the north, and the twelve guards such as Gongsun Qi and Xiahou Mang were still circling in the desert.
"General, why divide the troops? Directly pressed by the army together, General Gongsun and His Majesty are both the same product, even if they are not crushed, they have a seventy percent chance of winning, right? ”
Zhao Yan is being Mengzhong's lieutenant general, this result is not bad, my father is corrupt and colludes with people, he can be promoted, and he is really good to kill his relatives in righteousness.
"The human heart is unpredictable."
Meng re-changed his light armor, and he was still so concise.
Zhao Yan instantly understood, isn't it just that the grass on the wall has two intentions? I'm familiar with this!
The little emperor has shrunk for ten years, even if he is a heavy man on the border, he has complained before, not to mention the twelve guards?
Even if it is not a collusion with the people, it may also collude with the remnants of the Six Nations or other unsubordinate forces.
These people will not let the great cadres annihilate the Meng people and dominate the desert so smoothly.
The little emperor rode alone to break the camp and return to Yanmen, which is not entirely self-confidence in personal force, but also uneasy about the twelve guards.
If you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens, and if you suddenly come out of the ghost, it will be a big loss if you don't wipe out the whole army.
Gongsun Qi and Meng Zhong both knew this, and now the only soldiers and horses that can be trusted are actually the 10,000 people personally selected by the little emperor, and the border army that eradicated the inner ghosts after a screening.
Therefore, the two had a tacit understanding to divide the troops, Meng Zhong led the border army to support, and Gongsun Qi and the Twelve Guards together, seemingly attacking the east and west, smashing the royal court, but actually going around in circles.
Actually, they really don't know the way, how can Wang Ting be so easy to find? Everyone has their own thoughts, so let's not seriously find a way, let's go around in circles together!
"General, are we lost?"
Zhao Yan took off his helmet and looked dazed.
The border troops were also lost.
The most difficult thing in conquering the desert is not to kill the enemy, but to find a way.
can recognize the way, that is the champion Hou, who smashed the royal court and sealed the wolf.
If you are lucky, you can meet the army, that is, the Marquis of Changping, who went out of Saibaili to fight the right Xianwang, and inexplicably ran into Shan Yu with a baggage to send people to the head.
If you can't recognize it, then you can only get lost, and take whoever you want to get lost.
Meng Zhong looked around, it was really terrible.
Originally, he had been sticking to the Great Wall for more than ten years, but when the Great Wall was gone, he could also return to the Central Plains, and he could get a knighthood and fish up a dozen glazed bricks, but now they are all gone.
Everywhere you look, the desert evokes a sense of despair, with long stretches of yellow sand stretching from your feet to the horizon, and the surrounding scenery is exactly the same, as if you can't climb out for a lifetime.
In this case, not to mention finding someone to find a way, it is difficult to find a dog.
"Where's the military guide?"
"The guide is also lost!"
Meng Chong's old face turned red, he originally wanted to fight on the border for more than ten years, and once he got out of the jam, he got lost.
He suddenly understood why the little emperor only defended and did not attack for ten years, it was really difficult to fight the Great Wall, he got lost a few more times, wasted money and food, and with the national strength of the great cadres, he couldn't afford to fight at all, and only the common people suffered.
"By the way, Prime Minister Cao Cheng still has one last tip, tell me to open it when I get lost."
Zhao Yan was suddenly overjoyed, Lao Cao gave him three tips, each of which was just right!
"Open it and take a look!" Meng Zhong urged.
Zhao Yan opened the bag, and the front was the "road".
I understand it, a word on the front shapes a forced style, and there is an explanation on the back.
"Where there is silver, there is the way."
"What does that mean?"
Meng thought about it for a moment or two, and there was no eyebrow.
Zhao Yan guessed: "You mean that you want us to hire a guide?" Or is it to lure people with gold and silver to lead the way? ”
"In short, money opens the way, and that's what it means."
Meng Zhong was a little disappointed, it is a good way to use the Meng people to guide the way, the Meng people have lived in the desert since childhood, know where there is water, what is the trace of human activity, and know where the large settlements are.
It's a pity that I didn't expect it at the beginning, the little emperor was in a hurry again, and some of the captured Meng people were all killed by Gongsun Qi, and there was no one left.
After thinking about it for a long time, Meng Zhong reluctantly thought of a solution:
"Tell the whole army, find!"
"Find... Looking for? ”
Zhao Yan looked sideways, general, how did you say this kind of word so openly?
Even if it's not disgusting, it's unlucky!
"The Mengren herd cattle and sheep, the cattle and sheep will excrete, follow these excrements, even if you can't find the Mengren army, you can see the Mengren tribe, and when the time comes, you can find the way if you catch three or five people."
"General, high!"
Zhao Yan praised it.
"What is high, still not moving?"
Meng Zhong stretched out his hand with a big mouth, Zhao Yan was in pain, and got off the horse to find.
"The army listens to my orders, digs three feet into the ground, and looks for!"
The border soldiers struggled in their hearts and were reluctant.
But this is a military order, you have to listen to it, you have to move it, you have to move it, while digging, in your heart, comfort yourself with the gold and silver bricks of the Great Wall.
A moment later.
"General!"
One of the generals was extremely excited, so proud, and walked happily like a gust of breeze.
"Did you dig it?"
"I dug it!"
Meng Zhong took a few steps back, good guy, he was reluctant just now, but now he is triumphant, has he awakened some strange fetishes?
He raised his hands high, and presented the dug up for Meng to see.
Meng Zhong turned his head sideways, you just need to show the way, this thing smells big and disgusting, do you have to show it to me?
"Got it, you show the way, let the soldiers dig nearby."
"General, just take a look!"
The general is still so excited.
It's hard to be warm, Meng Zhong had to look at it, and this glance can't be removed.
"Silver... Silver? ”
"You stole the Great Wall bricks?"
The shape is wrong, the Great Wall is boxy, and there is a layer of soil to cover it, Meng Zhong quickly reacted: "You dug it out of the ground??! ”
The general was so excited that he couldn't control himself: "Over there, there are a few brothers who have also dug it out!" Snowflakes and silver! ”
Meng Zhong reached out and took the silver, and looked at it carefully:
"Daqian, in the second year of Tiantong, there is still the seal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs."
"It's Your Majesty's private money again."
Zhao Yan came and became enlightened: "General, I understand, where there is silver, there is the road!" ”
"That's what I mean..."
Meng Zhong sighed again and again, I don't know whether to sigh Cao Yufu's clever calculation, or to sigh that the little emperor has countless silver.
Even with the soldiers of the border army, they have the strength, and the digging speed is not only three times that of the previous one??!
"There's no silver here..."
"That's the wrong way."
"There's silver over there!"
"Go over there! That's the right way! ”
The soldiers walked briskly, shook their heads, and hummed softly to the side songs.
"Glazed tiles, gold and silver bricks~ The Long March has not been returned~ But the money is loaded with horses and horses ~ Hu Ma is not taught to go to Qingshan ~"
What a joy!
There is no sense of fatigue at all on the march, and if you meet a Meng person, you will fight five to say the least!
"Sleep for a while, and rest on the march."
"General, we're not tired!"
"I'm going to dig up silver... Find your way! ”
"Expanding the territory, killing all the people, and following His Majesty is the duty of our great cadres and soldiers!"
"For the sake of Daqian!"