The sunset in winter does not have a trace of warmth, and it is even more warm to the anxious soldiers in Dongchang City, and the sun slowly falls on the mountain outside Xicheng. At this time, Dongchang was temporarily marshal, and in the study, Zhu Di was discussing with the generals how to resist foreign enemies next.

There was a sound of footsteps from afar, and the sound seemed to be extremely urgent, and in the blink of an eye, he came to Zhu Di's approach, he picked up his clothes and knelt down and said: "Lord Qiqi, General Cheng has sent a letter back" Everyone heard this, and their eyes suddenly showed joy, they were discussing why the messenger had not returned for a long time, and suddenly heard this sentence, as if they had seen the dawn in the dark night.

Zhu Di hurriedly said: "Where is General Cheng, take me to see him quickly" The reporter said: "The general is in the front hall" and led everyone to the front hall. As soon as he entered the door of the hall, he saw a person standing in the hall, this person was dressed in a green robe, and his body was stained with red blood, unkempt, and his face was covered with blood.

The only thing that makes people feel that this person is extraordinary is the pair of dark eyes and the big knife in his hand.

Seeing Zhu Di coming in, he hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Lord Wang, the last general is late to report the news, and I hope to forgive my sins" Zhu Di didn't recognize it at first, but after looking at it for a while, he realized that it was his beloved general Cheng Teng, and Cheng Teng's embarrassed appearance really startled Zhu Di.

At this time, he listened to Cheng Teng's words and said with a look of surprise: "General, why do you look like this, please sit down quickly" said and personally moved a chair for him to sit down.

Zhu Di said to Cheng Teng: "General Cheng, this trip is hard, I don't know if I can move to rescue the soldiers" Zhu Di knew that Cheng Teng was covered with blood and didn't know whether it was himself or the enemy, and he must have fought many times when he broke into the camp, so he ended up in such an embarrassed appearance.

The reason why Cheng Teng hadn't come back to see his brother before he came directly to the hall to see Zhu Di was because he also knew that the military situation was urgent.

glanced at Zhu Di's anxious demeanor, took another sip of water, and said unhurriedly: "Lord Wang, this time I will fight my way out of the encirclement..."

Cheng Teng was already quite good at words, coupled with the urgency of the matter, everyone listened to it thrillingly, and in the end, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, revealing a rare joy.

Cheng Teng was ordered to kill the southern army layer by layer encirclement, he was a careful person who knew that he would be followed, and like Ling Xiao, he grabbed the horse and deliberately went around a few circles, went around a few hills to get rid of the chasing soldiers who were following behind him, and then rushed to the northwest in the direction of Beiping.

After about an hour, he found that the road was getting more and more deviant, and the road in front of him was full of rocks and mountains, and when he dismounted and looked closely, he did not see many horseshoe prints, and the road was so narrow that it did not look like a marching route.

When I opened the map, I found that there were two forks in the road, one to Hebei, and the other to "Haijin Town" (when Zhu Di transferred the imperial palace to Beijing, it was changed to today's Tianjin).

And if he crossed Haijin Town in Beiping, it would be much closer, and he never thought that he would go in a different direction in a hurry. patted his forehead and cursed secretly, turning the horse around and delaying it for nearly two hours.

After taking out the drawings again to confirm that they were correct, he pressed the anxiety in his heart and ran to the sun, his journey was much more difficult than Ling Xiao's, and it was quite far.

After running for more than 400 miles, I saw that the sky was about to get dark, and the horse's physical strength was gradually exhausted, if it weren't for the fact that the Southern Army had fed the horses quite well in the past few months, and the horse was in the prime of life, otherwise it would have been driven away by Cheng Teng's whip, and it would have been paralyzed to the ground with exhaustion.

It is Cheng Teng who has decades of internal skills, and after supporting more than ten hours, his sideburns also saw hot sweat, and said lightly: "Good horse, you hold on a little longer, and wait for me to find a family to feed you" The horse seemed to understand people's words, and unconsciously ran a little faster.

Cheng Teng also hoped that he could meet a family earlier, but the surroundings were deserted, not to mention someone's house, and he didn't even see a single figure. He also knew that the war in recent years had caused people to panic, and the original residence had been abandoned, and his current road was a remote road that Zhu Di deliberately found in order to avoid the eyes of the Southern Army.

After walking more than ten miles, Teng knew that if he didn't stop, he was afraid that the horses would be exhausted to death, and when the time came, he would not know when he would go on foot without horses.

The sky was completely dark, and I couldn't find anyone, so I had to find a place with grass to rest, take off the dry food in my bag, grab a handful of snow in the grass on the spot, and swallow the dry food, which was quite desolate.

He thought to himself: "I think of the scenery of my three brothers, but today I have fallen to the point of sending letters to others" sighed, put away his thoughts, and fell under the tree to rest for a meal, only to see the moonlight gradually peeking out of the clouds in a silent night, and the faint light shone between the branches.

Cheng Teng rested for a moment, shook his spirit, patted the soil on his body, turned over the horse, and continued to ride the horse forward by relying on the only moonlight, and walked for more than 20 miles, when he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves. At first, I thought I had heard the wind in my ears wrong, but suddenly I saw a tall horse approaching, and I saw a thin pawn in a swallow suit sitting right away.

When Cheng Teng saw the comer, the other party also saw him, the two horses did not stop, and the two horses felt that something was wrong, so they stopped one zhang away. The two turned around, and without waiting for Cheng Teng to shout, the soldier on the opposite side shouted first: "Hey, who is on the other side?"

The little soldier was talking, with a pair of eyes, and he saw Cheng Teng in the dust, but if he could walk on this road, he must also be a person under King Yan, but the person in front of him was dressed in civilian clothes and didn't know what his identity was, so he wanted to ask about the origin before making a decision.

Cheng Teng was very polite when he heard this person's words, he was a very well-cultivated person and smiled slightly: "The right general under the account of the prince under Xia Nai, I don't know who the little brother is?"

Sure enough, the soldier heard that Cheng Teng was actually a general, so he didn't roll off the horse, so he hurriedly dismounted and saluted: "The general forgives the sin, the villain has no eyes and looks at the general, don't blame" said and glanced at Cheng Teng, it turned out that as long as there was an official position in Zhu Di's army, there would be a token, and this pawn really had a bit of an eye.

Cheng Teng saw that he glanced at him, how could he not guess his thoughts, he took out a gold medal and threw it to the little soldier, and said angrily: "Those who don't know are not to blame" The little soldier took it in his hand and saw that it was indeed the general's waist card, and hurriedly kowtowed.

During the conversation, Cheng Teng learned that this person's name was Zhu Lai, and he was a close confidant of the general Zhu Neng, and the surname Zhu was given by the general. Zhu Lai was ordered by Zhu Neng to go to Dongchang Mansion to report the news, and in Zhu Lai's narration, he knew the reason for the delay in the arrival of the army.

It turned out that the person who sent the letter before did send the letter to Beiping, and Zhu Neng ordered 100,000 troops to march to Dongchang the next day after hearing the news that Zhu Di was trapped.

There are more than a dozen places along the way, and I don't know if it was because of the melting snow, the landslide, or someone deliberately making trouble, so it was delayed for a lot of time.

And Zhu Nengzi also knew that the military situation was extremely critical, and he was worried about the anxiety of the prince and others, so he sent his cronies to Dongchang to deliver the letter, so Zhu Lai rushed to Dongchang overnight in the first step, not wanting to meet Cheng Teng here.

Cheng Teng put down his identity as a general, and the two discussed, and decided to hurry back to discuss the military situation with the general before making further plans.

So Zhu Lai took Cheng Teng on his horse, returned the same way, because of the consideration of the horse's physical strength, he rested twice on the way, and at dawn, the two rushed to Zhu Neng's army, Zhu Neng saw Zhu Lai return with a surprised face, and when he was about to ask, Zhu Lai introduced Cheng Teng.

The two greeted each other, Cheng Teng handed Zhu Di's letter to Zhu Neng from his arms, Zhu Neng took it in his hand, opened the envelope and looked it up and down carefully. How could Zhu Neng not know that the military situation was extremely tense, but when he saw Zhu Di's letter that he was short of food and rescuers, he was so anxious that he wished that he was the Da Luo Jin Immortal, and used his magic power to send the soldiers into the city immediately to relieve the siege, and he blamed himself in his heart and secretly scolded himself for being incompetent.

After all, Zhu Neng is a careful person, and he knows that it is useless to complain at this time, so he discussed a few words with Cheng Teng, and Cheng Teng said that "it is all up to the general". If Zhu Di had a mistake, Zhu Neng would have repented of breaking his liver and sausage, so he passed down the military order: "Rest for an hour, bury the pot on the spot to cook, and set off after an hour, if there is a disobedience to the military order and troublemaker, behead"

Cheng Teng has heard a lot of rumors about Zhu Neng, but it is the first time he has seen him, the so-called people can't be good-looking, Zhu Nengsheng looks like Zhang Fei, and this order alone is enough to see Zhu Neng's heroism.

In the midst of the uproar of everyone, Cheng Teng and Zhu Neng discussed countermeasures, and Zhu Neng was going to arrange for a deputy general to go to the camp to deliver a letter, and report to Zhu Di his plan to cooperate with the outside world.

Cheng Teng thought: "This is my chance to make meritorious contributions, and besides, the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Southern Army can break through with this deputy general, and there will really be any problems at that time, and his backer and future can be said to have turned into nothingness."

So he automatically asked Ying to break into the camp by himself, and Zhu Neng also knew Cheng Teng's background, and knew that the prince was very important to the high-rollers in the rivers and lakes, since this person had already broken through Nanying, he must have had extraordinary means. So he agreed, and wanted to arrange a few entourages for Cheng Teng, but he also refused.

Cheng Teng traveled a long way, and even his iron body couldn't stand it, so he rested with everyone for an hour. These days are also thanks to God's blessing, the original snow inch ice and snow weather, but in exchange for the golden sun, shining on the snowy land of Kaikai has a unique scenery.

At this time, Yan Jun was in the mood to pay attention to the scenery beside him, and changed Cheng Teng to a fast horse, and said "Be careful" to each other Cheng Tengyang spurred * Chang to go back, and I don't know if the horse was too slow yesterday, or the horse that Zhu Neng gave was too fast.

After a short rest on the way, I arrived outside the tent of the Southern Army just after noon. Seeing the strong and abnormal lineup of the Southern Army, he suddenly admired himself a little, and thought: "How did I break out of such an unbreakable camp?"

In the past few days, the Yan army has repeatedly broken into the camp, how can Sheng Yong still be stable, he has strengthened the patrol team several times, taking turns on duty, without slackness, even if there is a disturbance, it can be discovered, let alone a person.

If it is said that the first time to break into the camp was due to luck, at this time, in this kind of southern army team that can't even fly into the winged bird, it is the time to show its true strength.