"The Fourth Prince of Oirard, Qi Kedan?" Yun Zhong remembered the nobleman of Murowei who was stabbed to death by his own sword outside Water Wind City, "When will the Oirard army arrive?"

"Twenty thousand archers, and four thousand cavalry," said Jebe in detail, "had been assembled seven days ago, but Charren had only received a promise from the Great Khan of Temujin this morning, and it should be five days before the army was drawn up at noon this day, and it should be five days before it reaches the border of Mon Ho County." ”

Yunzhong nodded, but before he could speak, Mo Li asked, "What promise did the Great Khan of Temujin give them?"

Jebel smiled: "Oiral sent troops this time, not only will my Bojin Department not take advantage of the situation to attack Oiraar, but will also send a heavy cavalry of 2,000 people as reinforcements." ”

Mo Li was shocked and was about to speak, but found Yunzhong sitting there with a normal expression.

"What did Charlen say to the Great Khan?" asked Jebel.

"After the capture of Menghe County, sixty percent of the children of Jin Silk returned to the Bojin Department. "Jebel doesn't think he's happier than he is today in a few years, and he likes to talk to smart people.

"Congratulations to the Great Khan on my behalf, the 40,000 households of Oirard can receive the bag of the Bojin Ministry. Yunzhong saluted like Zhebei and hurriedly left with Mo Li.

Zhebei opened the door and shouted outside: "Send those women back, Lao Tzu hasn't had enough fun!"

"Send troops to aid the Virals, and tell you the military situation, what does the Bojin Ministry mean?" Out of the gate of the Drunken Flower Building, Mo Li finally couldn't hold back and asked.

"If the Oyrards win, the Bojin can get the booty and slaves promised by the Oirards, and if the Oyrards are defeated, the Bojin can take advantage of the situation to annex the Oirards, and the Great Khan of Temujin is sure to make a profit. Yunzhong sighed.

Mo Li was dumbfounded.

"On the whole, though, Temujin wanted the Great Merchant Army to win, and for him, unifying the Murwei steppes was much more important than acquiring hundreds of thousands of slaves. ”

"So?"

"So he will secretly help the big merchants when the time is right, but the battle must be fought by our big merchants themselves. Yunzhong said in a deep voice.

When he returned to Shouqiu Pavilion, he met Cao Hua with Xu Minghui and Wang Zhong, Ma Yan and others, Cao Hua came to send the money for those horses in the clouds, Wang Zhong and Ma Yan and four or five other guards wanted to join the Flying Fox Regiment, and the clouds were in a hurry, but these recruits were arranged under the hands of Chu Yiren, and then let Helian Peng and Cao Hua sign a long-term contract for the purchase of military horses, which made Cao Hua very happy.

After arranging these things in a few words, Yun Zhong ordered Mei'er to go to Xiuqing Zhai Tuntian Army to find his master Sun Cheng, and he took Mo Li and Fei Na to Water Wind City quickly, day and night, and only arrived at the Taishou Mansion of Water Wind City at noon the next day.

When entering the main gate of the Taishou Mansion, Mo Li suddenly stopped, held down the long sword, and stared at the two stone beasts guarding the door, shocked.

Yun Zhong pulled her and continued to walk forward, and said: "Those two stone pigeons have formation arrangements on them, which can be regarded as a kind of puppet, if a foreign enemy invades here, these two stone pigeons can be used as two masters of the peak of the heavenly rank." ”

Mo Li sighed: "The inheritance of the Great Shang Kingdom for tens of thousands of years is really amazing, and such a remote and small county also has such an arrangement. ”

Yunzhong went straight into the inner room and met Taishou Gongsun Du.

"King Charlen of Oirard, what kind of small fish and shrimp dare to jump out and bully me Menghe County!" Gongsun Du punched the case and roared angrily.

"Lord Taishou, we still have about four days, how many troops can you mobilize to meet the enemy?"

Gongsun Du sighed: "Sun Cheng's five thousand people there, you have already informed them, they should be able to reach the border soon, I can still send a thousand people in Water Wind City, the rest is a group training in various places, and it is estimated that about three thousand people can be gathered in four days." ”

Yun Zhong said: "With the addition of 800 people from my Flying Fox Regiment, we can gather nearly 10,000 people in total. ”

Gongsun Du nodded: "It's a pity that the elite troops have all arrived at the front line of the Rakshasa side, and most of the troops here are rabble. ”

Yun Zhong said: "We will try our best to delay time, Lord Taishou should hurry up and ask Lord Ziyu for reinforcements." ”

Gongsun Du sighed and nodded.

Yunzhong got up and said goodbye: "In this way, I will go to the family teacher first." ”

Gongsun Du got up and arched his hand: "There is Commander Lao Yun, I will order my two dogs to lead a thousand soldiers to arrive later." ”

Out of the gate of the mansion, Yunzhong said to Mo Li: "Fei Na and I are going directly to the Tingshui Village on the border to have a round with my master Sun Cheng, you go to the capital first, let Helian Pengchu affectionately bring all the Flying Fox Regiment who can go to the battlefield, and then fight with us." ”

Mo Li stood still and didn't move: "Why don't you take me to the front line and let Fei Na gather the troops, it should be that my martial arts are a little higher than Fei Na, right?"

Yunzhong was stunned for a moment, and then said: "After entering the mercenary group, please learn to obey orders." With that, he called Fena and galloped away.

Mo Li stood there for half a minute before he stepped on his horse and galloped in the direction of Xindu City.

"Why don't you explain it to her?" asked Fena, walking side by side with Yunzhong.

"Explain what?"

"Let's go to the front first, we may encounter the vanguard of the Murowei people, and you asked her to return to the capital for her safety. ”

"And what about your safety?" asked Yunzhong, tilting his head.

Fei Na was stunned and said, "After entering the mercenary group, life and death have long been put aside." ”

Yunzhong smiled: "So you knew that I might take you to death, and you didn't hesitate at all?"

"Yes. Fina replied as a matter of course.

Yunzhong sped up, as if answering Fina and as if he was talking to himself: "Everyone has an obligation to live well." ”

Fei Na followed closely and said in a voice that she could only hear: "The world is harsh, sometimes life is not the most important thing, in order to protect what you want to protect in your heart, you are willing to die." ”

Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs.

Charron, King of the Oyrals, sat in a luxurious carriage and looked with satisfaction at the vast army behind him that could not be seen at a glance.

For the first time since he succeeded to the throne of the Oyrard five years earlier, he organized an expedition of this magnitude, and all the men of the 40,000 households of the Oirard who were capable of conscription were recruited, and their goal was also unprecedented in the history of the Oirard: to destroy a county of the vast Great Shang Empire.

"Surely Temujin is not a ghost?" Charron asked a man who was riding a horse and following the carriage, a man dressed in a gray robe, with a gray cloth covering his face, revealing only a pair of wolf-like eyes.

"Temujin sent his little cub to drag the mine and bring two thousand elite horsemen to help us fight, just to reassure us, as long as we win this time, he will never raid our nest, unless we lose the battle, hehehehehe......" The voice of the gray-clothed man was also as hoarse as a jackal.

"Of course, we can't be defeated, and there is only a group of old and weak soldiers left in Menghe County to defend it. Charron looked back at his army, full of confidence.

"Temujin will have Tuo Lei secretly inform the merchant army of our military situation. The wolf-like voice of the gray-clothed man sounded.

"Didn't you say he wouldn't be a ghost?" Charlen frowned.

The gray-clothed man smiled and said: "This is not a ghost, not even a conspiracy, this is a conspiracy, of course Temujin hopes that we will fail, we win, give him hundreds of thousands of slaves, he is only a small fortune, we lose, he is one step closer to the unification of the room." ”

"And he sent his little cub over?"

"Tuo Lei will be far away from the merchant army, and the merchant army will never attack Tuo Lei, even if Gongsun Du is drunk, he will not forget that Temujin has 400,000 elite iron horsemen waiting for him. ”

Charlen suddenly felt very aggrieved, and sat in the carriage without saying a word.

The man in gray said leisurely: "A country or tribe in a strong position can easily use diplomatic skills, and can obtain enough benefits without spending a single soldier, and even if it fails, there will be no loss, this is the way of diplomatic strategy." ”

Two days later, at noon, the vanguard of Oirard encountered the merchant frontier soldiers.

Under the leadership of the brigade commander Fan Gong, the three hundred merchant troops relied on the small castle on the border and fought fiercely with two thousand Oiral archers for two hours, and finally all of them died in battle, and no one survived, and the steel torrent of the Oiral iron cavalry poured into the border of the Great Shang.

The big tent of the Chinese army in Tingshui Village, Sun Cheng, the captain of the big merchant Tuntian, looked at the military newspaper in front of him, his face was solemn, the military report was sent by Fan Gong immediately after the arrival of the Weilar army, only a few lines of words: "Three hundred border soldiers are determined to serve the country, and the overall situation of the captain is important, and the situation is not to be lost, so as not to erode." ”

"General Fan Gong must have been martyred, but it is getting late, and the Oiraar army is tired, so they should rest for a night, and they will come to attack Tingshui Village tomorrow. Brigade Marshal Zhao He said.

"The people of the steppe, eat and sleep on horseback, a few days of marching are far from enough to exhaust them, and while the border army that has just eaten us and their morale is like a rainbow, they will inevitably come tonight. "It was Yunzhong who spoke, he was not a general in the army, but as a disciple of Sun Cheng, he was very familiar with the generals of the Tuntian army, and no one had an opinion on attending the military meeting.

"Then we can't just wait, in case the Ovals don't come, but in vain consume our army's strength. It was another brigade commander, Dong Liang, who spoke.

Sun Cheng said: "Divide our army into three groups, led by me, Zhao He, and Dong Liang, and each group will be on duty for eight hours, and I will be the first to be on duty tonight." ”