On the way to the Northern Regions with his troops, King Yuwen had already received a tip-off that he knew that the Tufan Kingdom had moved its capital to Gulu Pass, so he thought that it was no longer meaningful to go to attack the Yindu Mansion again. So whether to continue the attack and reclaim the Gulu Pass? This question made him think for a while.

Gulu Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, now Tufan has moved the capital to this city, must have been transferred to defend heavily, plus more than a dozen cities on the periphery of the northern region are in the hands of Tufan, the common force is not less than 300,000, if you send troops to attack Gulu Pass, you can't take it for a while, you will be surrounded by Tufan country's defense forces here, the situation will be very dangerous.

At this time, he received a quick horse report sent by General Chen, and only then did he know that Chen Jinchao had taken Xingjing County, and would directly attack Yindu Mansion through the large mountainous area in the northwest. The letter also asked him to make a feint to attack Gulu Pass in order to cooperate with him in capturing Yindufu.

After reading the letter, King Yuwen decided to drive his troops to Xingjing County first, instead of going to the feint attack on Gulu Pass, because Chen Jinchao asked him to feint and cooperate, in order to attract enemy troops, and now the enemy has deployed heavy troops in Gulu Pass, and Yindu Mansion must be very empty, General Chen can easily take it down, there is no need to feint and cooperate.

King Yuwen inspected the location of Xingjing County on the map, and he thought that it was very good to have such a stronghold in the northern region, like a thorn in the enemy's internal organs, which could not only contain the enemy's operations on the front line, but also gradually disintegrate Tufan's control in the northern region. Thinking of this, King Yuwen ordered the troops to march towards Xingjing County, and ordered the heralds to immediately notify the rear army led by Zhao Jian to follow up. After the arrangement was made, he immediately repaired another book, asked the herald to hurry up, and quickly handed over the letter to General Chen Jinchao.

Near noon the next day, the troops arrived at Xingjing County, and the people in the city went out of the city to welcome King Yuwen's troops, as if they were looking forward to a savior. Everyone has rumored that King Yuwen has returned to the Northern Regions, and we are no longer afraid of the Tufan Northern Barbarians.

The deputy general who stayed behind came out of the city to see King Yuwen, welcomed the troops into the city and settled down, and arranged for King Yuwen and his party to be stationed in the county government.

After King Yuwen undressed and changed his clothes, he was discussing with the chief soldier Wang Changyi in the hall, and the doorman came to report, and General Chen's wife, Chen Wang, came to see.

King Yuwen greeted him out of the lobby and saw two women coming in at the door, a middle-aged woman, who was Chen Wang, the wife of General Chen, and another young woman accompanying her, looking good, but with a sad face and a worried look.

When the two women saw that the king personally greeted the general, they immediately knelt down in the courtyard and bowed, and King Yuwen hurriedly stepped forward to pick it up and said, "Mrs. Chen doesn't need to be polite, please get up quickly!"

After Mrs. Chen thanked her, she got up and introduced to King Yuwen that the little girl she was carrying was a civilian in the county, named Lan Mei'er, whose brother was extremely brave, and led all the officers and soldiers in the city to desperately resist the invasion of the Tufan soldiers, so as to ensure that the city was not lost. Thanks to this clever and clever little woman, she helped her brother to win many victories, and because of her good manners, the couple had adopted her as a righteous daughter.

Lan Mei'er stepped forward to see King Yuwen, and King Yuwen saw that this girl was really well-behaved, and there was no lack of wit in her charm, but somehow, there was some sadness hidden in her eyebrows.

"The little girl is really not a layman, but why is she so preoccupied?" asked King Yuwen.

Without waiting for Lan Mei'er to answer, Mrs. Chen hurriedly took over and said: "The king doesn't know that General Chen's strategy of leading his troops through the northern mountains to attack Yindu Mansion directly was offered by the little girl, and asked his brother Wu Kui to personally lead the forward into the mountains to lead the way, but the day before yesterday, the troops came back to report that Wu Kui suddenly and mysteriously disappeared in the mountains, and no one has been seen in life or corpse, which makes the little girl very worried and anxious, and I don't know what to do." ”

King Yuwen hurriedly comforted Lan Mei'er and told her not to worry, he sent troops up the mountain to search on the same day, and he would definitely be able to find out when the time came.

At this time, the letter soldiers came to report that the follow-up troops led by General Zhao Jian had arrived, and the troops intercepted several Tufan transport vehicles on the road and seized a number of materials. Now the vehicle has been pulled outside the county yamen, and General Zhao Jian is waiting outside the gate for the king to review.

King Yuwen then led everyone to the gate of the county government, Zhao Jian hurriedly stepped forward to meet, and reported: "The last general encountered several transport vehicles of Tufan Kingdom on the way, and quickly intercepted them, after investigation, this car came from Duolan County in the northeast of the Northern Regions, and the goods pulled were sent to the front line of the Central Plains. And they saw that there were four large carriages lined up in the streets, covered with homespun cloths, and all four wagons were full.

"The strange thing is that the purpose of the materials on the car is not clear, the porter and the soldier who escorted the car are not clear, I have been looking at it for a long time, and I have not figured it out, so I want to ask the adults to find out. Zhao Jian added, and after speaking, he motioned for the soldiers to take the goods from the car.

The four soldiers struggled to lift two things from the car and put them down in front of King Yuwen and the others.

I saw that these two things, one large and one small, were made of cast iron, and resembled the shields used by the infantry, but they were thicker. The larger ones were the size of the floor shields used by pikemen, nearly a man tall, and the smaller ones were slightly larger than the hand-held shields used by broadswordmen.

King Yuwen asked the soldiers to turn over the two objects to take a look, and when they turned them over, they saw that there was no handle for holding at the back, but only a few thick ropes woven from cowhide, which could be seen that they were not used as shields, but as if they were to be tied to something.

At this time, two more soldiers carried over a large iron pot, at first glance, this thing is an iron pot, but it doesn't look like it on a closer look, one is that the pot body is too thick, in addition, on the left and right sides of the pot body, there is a small bag protrusion, just like the pot has two ears, it is very strange.

King Yuwen looked down at these things, pacing back and forth, muttering for a long time, unable to figure out what these objects were for.

At this time, Lan Mei'er suddenly stepped forward in front of the pot, looked left and right, and circled around twice, as if she had discovered something.

Lan Mei'er looked at it for a while, and said to Zhao Jian, please let people take off all the things in the car and put them on the ground.

The soldiers carried down the contents of the cart one after another, and there were about a dozen of them on each cart, all of which were shield-like objects of different sizes, and they were arranged on the ground one by one.

At this time, Lan Mei'er stepped forward and instructed the soldiers to put these objects of different sizes in different places, this one here, that one there, and constantly adjust the direction and position until she was satisfied.

After this object was laid out on the ground, it occupied a large area, and the surrounding soldiers all stepped back and gave up their positions.

In the end, Lan Mei'er asked the two soldiers to carry the big iron pot to the top of the pile and place it in the center.

After placing it, Lan Meier came to King Yuwen and asked him to take a few steps back and stand on the stone steps at the entrance of the county government to watch.

King Yuwen looked at Lan Mei'er suspiciously, and retreated to the steps of the county yamen, when he raised his eyes to look at the pile of things on the ground, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he couldn't help but be shocked by the thing he saw in front of him.

The pile of things in front of him was lined up in a huge human shape on the ground, and those large shields were clearly pieces of armor on the giant's body, and the iron pot was obviously a helmet.

"Is this a pair of armor, who can wear it?" King Yuwen muttered to himself.

"If it's smaller, it's just right for the fifth brother to wear it. Lan Meier replied.

Hearing Lan Mei'er's words, King Yuwen turned around and looked at her in surprise.