Chapter 12: The Prince

The wind and snow are like a curtain, covering the sky. Three miles away from the inn, the Xianbei people braved the wind and snow to arrive from the northwest, and 30,000 Xianbei men came to Feilong Pass for Yun Lan, the proudest daughter of the Xianbei tribe, in this cold climate, and risked being attacked by other tribes.

The eldest prince Tuoba Wudi immediately stood at the head of the formation, looking at the dark front, he couldn't see anything, he couldn't see any inn, he couldn't see any lights, people couldn't help but hold his breath, not for the upcoming bloody battle, but tonight is related to the future of the Xianbei clan! Turkic prisoner Zhou, Yun Lan sent a letter, as the future heir of Xianbei, he cut off his sister's message for help with the mentality of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, but he didn't expect the news of Yun Lan's death to come immediately after, and his father Tuoba Ludang knew about it. Tuoba Law immediately made a decision, contacted Li Yungu, and agreed to fly outside the Flying Dragon Pass.

Li Yungu. Tuoba Wudi thought of this name, and couldn't help but purse his lips, and his face was even more solemn. Venerable Moyun once said that his sister Yun Lan could be kept fresh and prosperous for three hundred years, but after marrying Li Yungu, it was a self-inflicted end. Li Wenhou, a dignified disciple, the first marquis in the world, and the unparalleled Li Wenhou actually had to rely on the death of his own woman to ask for help!

Tuoba Wudi raised the wolf tail knife in his hand, and the response of the horse's hooves on the snow sounded behind him, and the wolf tail knife drew an arc in the wind and snow, pointing forward, and the 30,000 Xianbei men behind him rode their horses without hesitation. After a while, only the figure of Tuoba Wudi riding alone was left. Not far behind him, a cloud of snow and mist rolled in, and behind him it was a huge white wolf, its mane was white, wrapped in wind and snow, and it was majestic, not like a mortal beast.

It looked at the Xianbei soldiers and horses in the distance, howled towards the sky, and a group of wolves appeared in a large sleigh, saying that the sleigh was similar to a tent, and was pulled by dozens of wolves to gallop in the snow, and also stopped beside Tuoba Wudi. Tuoba Wu got off his horse and walked to the tent and said, "Father, in front of you is the inn agreed by Li Yungu. ”

The door of the tent was lifted, revealing the lights and the sound of singing, dancing and laughter inside, and a woman's voice said: "Back to the eldest prince, the king said, hurry to the inn as soon as possible, he wants to see his half-son Li Yungu." ”

Hearing how harsh and harsh these words were in Tuoba Wudi's ears, he straightened up and said sharply: "Father, you must kill Li Yungu today and avenge your sister Yunlan!" After a while, the woman said again: "Tuoba Wudi! Why your sister died, you should know it!" After speaking, the door curtain was lowered, and the warm light and singing and laughter disappeared.

Tuoba Wudi lost his mind for a moment, felt his eyes look at him, and saw that it was the white giant wolf, and he suddenly smiled bitterly: "Yindi, you also see my jokes." Yindi scratched his ears noncommittally, and turned his head to Tuoba Wudi's mount, which meant to stop grinding and go quickly.

Tuoba Wudi rode a horse and galloped in the wind and snow, Yindi went hand in hand with him, one man and one wolf crisscrossed the wind and snow, Tuoba Wudi's mood was re-invigorated: the old and the young guarded the book, the second one expanded the territory, and each performed its own duties, so what? The eldest brother is his Tuoba Wudi, the future king of Xianbei must be him, and his sister died, although it is a pity, but the real one who keeps the Xianbei line is still the Xianbei man to go into battle, not relying on the daughter of the family, nor relying on the relatives!

Tuoba Wudi quickly caught up with the large army, and Tuji, who was in charge of intelligence, reported to him that an adult and a teenager had been found in the snow, and that the adult was covered with bruises, because he had been trampled on several horses by the boy, and he was lying on the ground panting, and he had not taken in his breath. The young man sat beside him, dagger in hand, and did not let anyone come forward.

Tuoba Wu dismounted and walked directly to the adult lying on the ground, ignoring the dagger in the young man's hand. He patted the snow on the person on the ground, saw that the other party was dressed in a fur coat, and there were blade cuts on his arms and legs, and then reached out and touched the other party's chest and belly, and looked at the young man.

The young man held the dagger in his hand, and he seemed to be protecting himself by holding it on his chest, and looking at Tuoba Wudi's eyes with a little expectation, he said, "Can you save him? I have a good for you." "The accent is the official dialect of Da Zhou.

Tuoba Wudi smiled, reached out and grabbed the young man's dagger and stabbed it into the leg of the man lying on the ground, and the man coughed and spat out a few mouthfuls of blood. The boy nervously shouted, "What are you doing?"

Tuoba Wudi said to the boy in a stiff Chinese dialect: "He was kicked here by a horse. Tuoba Wudi patted his chest with his hand, and continued: "This is more powerful than any martial arts, and no matter how good the martial arts are, they can't resist the advancing horses' hooves." ”

The young man's eyes flickered a few times, and he slammed his hand to snatch the injured dagger of Tuoba Wudi, which was his, and it was only right for him to take it back. Tuoba Wudi dodged away suddenly, shook his head with a smile and said: "You used a knife at someone else, and others didn't hurt you, they just took the knife away, and you still have to rob it." With that, he turned and walked towards his mount.

The young man stood up suddenly, holding a jade plaque and said loudly: "Stop! I, I am the crown prince of the Great Zhou, and my Great Zhou is your Xianbei Shangguo, and I now order you to take me to the inn outside the Flying Dragon Pass." ”

Tuoba Wudi stopped abruptly and turned his head, the wind and snow were too strong, the torches shone brightly on the snowflakes, and the thin figure of the young man stood in the wind, crumbling. Tuoba Wudi stretched out his hand, and a soldier handed over a torch, and Tuoba Wudi slowly walked to the young man's side.

The young man saw the anger in Tuoba Wudi's eyes, and shrank slightly, but quickly stood up straight and held the jade plaque again, and said: "Stop! I order you to stay put, don't come! bold ......" Before the word bold could be finished, Tuoba Wudi grabbed him and held the jade plaque.

The torch reflected the fine blood jade, Tuoba Wudi was stunned, and then pulled the young man towards him, the fire turned the ice and snow on the young man's face, and a pair of frightened and angry apricot eyes.

"Let go of me!" the boy struggled, and Tuoba Wudi let go of him, but pulled the blood jade from his hand.

The boy exclaimed, "Give it back to me." ”

Tuoba Wudi had turned over on his horse, and the young man grabbed his reins and shouted, "Give it back to me!"

Tuoba Wudi didn't look at it, but pulled him sideways by the collar of the boy to the horse, and rode away. At the beginning of the boy's struggle, he was willing to fall off his horse and die, but Tuoba Wudi held the reins in one hand and held his back with the other, so that he could not move. Not long after, the boy stopped moving, and Tuoba Wudi slowed down his horse slightly and held the boy in his arms. The young man opened his eyes and wanted to roll off the horse with Tuoba Wudi in his arms, but Tuoba Wudi was like a big mountain on a horse, standing still. The boy beat Tuoba Wudi, who brushed off the boy's felt hat and covered it with a cloak, and then accelerated the speed of the march.

In the process of the Tuoba army marching towards Feilong Pass, on Yannan Mountain in Hongyan Pass, Wuhou and a group of generals sat in the big tent and waited for information. When the news of the Xianbei army passing by, all the generals stood up and looked at Wuhou. Wu Hou turned his back to everyone and kept staring at two military maps, one was the border map of the Turkic invasion, and the other was the map of the Turkic Ministry secretly handed by Wen Hou. Looking at this picture alone, I can't see any real chapter, after all, there are many and chaotic tribes in the periphery, and they have been annexing and fighting each other for many years, killing endlessly, and sometimes it is common for a small tribe to be wiped out overnight.

But was that all Wen Hou's intentions were? Wu Hou had been looking at the map for nearly two nights without closing his eyes, and when the Tuoba army passed through the Hongyan Pass around the Turkic army, he seemed to see the light of ingenuity in Wen Hou's heart.

"Lord Wuhou, King Xianbei is Lord Wenhou's father-in-law, this time he must have come to help the Great Zhou, but why do you cross the Hongyan Pass and not attack, if you can join forces to attack inside and outside, you will be able to turn defeat into victory, so that the Turks have no return!"

All the generals in the tent were stunned when they heard this, and the Marquis of Wu glanced at everyone and said majestically: "In the court, where is the momentum of the hoarse voice and the strength of Chen Chen's desire to start a war?

Wei Ran said: "Lord Wuhou, so far, I, Wei Ran, have to say a word, the reason why everyone is fighting against Chen is not because you are fighting with Lord Wenhou? Now so many Great Zhou men are trapped in Hongyan Pass! Great Zhou is in danger!"

Wuhou glared at Wei Ran angrily, Wei Ran didn't look at Wuhou, but said to the other generals in the tent: "Everyone, I, Wei, have a secret letter from King Xianbei here, he has reached an agreement with Lord Wenhou to join forces with us to deal with the Turks, just tonight we can rush out and kill the Turks without leaving a piece of armor!" After speaking, Wei Ran handed the letter in his hand to the soldiers beside him.

The generals in the tent looked at it one by one, and the seal of the king of Xianbei was clear in the firelight, and finally the secret letter was presented to Wuhou, and Wuhou also looked solemn when he saw it. At this time, a bucket suddenly flashed behind him, and the big man took a step forward, took the letter, tore it up and stuffed it in his mouth without looking at it, chewed it and spit it on the ground, and said: "Damn, Tuoba Lao'er is too poor, and he used such inferior straw paper and stinky ink to send a secret letter." Then he pointed to Wei Ran and said: "The surname is Wei, you little white face, you have been trapped in Hongyan Pass for more than half a month, everyone is worried about the military situation, and you can't sleep at night, but you look like a dog during the day, and you have taken a panacea?"

Seeing that the most important secret letter was destroyed, Wei Ran laughed instead of anger, and said: "General Tan, no panacea can save you now, tearing up the secret letter of the monarch of a friendly country is like bullying the monarch, and it should be executed by Ling Chi, this is a military camp, I think Lord Wuhou will be kind to give you a good time." ”

Hearing this, the generals looked at Wuhou with complicated expressions, and several young generals flashed in their eyes, as if they were just waiting for Wuhou to give an order, and then stepped forward to kill General Tan on the spot, while several veteran generals hesitated, obviously aware of the changes in the situation in the army, but they didn't think about how to deal with it for a while.

General Tan Shen laughed, hugged his fists and said: "Wuhou, I, Tan Leopard, have a horizontal meat, and a small knife cuts me, then it will be at least half a month, and the rations of the brothers are enough, but everyone wants to go home, and I might as well send me as a pioneer if I cut it with a knife! I will kill a few more Turkic dogs, and maybe a few more brothers can return home early." ”

As soon as Tan Bao's voice fell, a veteran knelt down and begged for his life: "Wuhou, I also want to ask for my life to be a pioneer, kill a few more Turkic dogs, and let the brothers return home early!" Then several veterans knelt down together to ask for their lives, and several young generals finally knelt down and asked for their lives, and the atmosphere in the tent was full of blood and anger.

Wu Hou stared at Tan Leopard, his hands clenched into fists, Tan Leopard was his henchman, he was the wild child he raised from the mountains and forests in Luozhou, although it was described roughly, but in fact it was rough and fine, and the atmosphere in the tent was brought back with a few words. Tonight, Wuhou is indeed going to attack the Turks, but he has to find a way to unknowingly attack the Turks with one group of people, and then cover another group of people from the foothills of Yannan Mountain.

The Xianbei army went to Feilong Pass, which was told by Wenhou in a secret letter, although the reason was not said, but Wei Ran's actions tonight made Wuhou feel like seeing the bright moon through the clouds, and everything was bright!

Wei Ran saw that the situation was reversed, and his eyes rolled and he knelt down and said: "Lord Wuhou is wise, he can join hands with Xianbei to deal with the Turks together, protect me Da Zhou, and when he returns to the dynasty one day, Lord Wuhou will definitely be able to overpower Wenhou and become the first marquis in the world." But the war is imminent, the secret letter is destroyed, and only Tan Shen will die to set the record straight!"

As he spoke, he turned his head and bowed to Tan Bao and said: "General Tan Shen is a hero, and he should also understand Wei's hard work, the brothers in the army are strong, and they will inevitably question the plan to cooperate with Xianbei, but now that the secret letter has been destroyed by General Tan Shen, once the trouble starts, the consequences will be unimaginable, Tan Shen will die to deter the public, and the brothers will understand General Tan's hard work when they return to their hometown!"

Wei Ran has been mixed with the army for a long time, clever and good at drilling camps, and he was promoted to deputy general in his early thirties, but he will repay his eyes, his popularity is extremely poor, and he is not reused by his superiors. Several veterans looked at each other, knowing that Tan Bao was born in a barbaric background, his behavior was crazy and grotesque, and he was only good to the people under his command. Tan Leopard's face was ugly, as if he was about to be angry, but he also knew that he was really going to make trouble, and he would make the fake come true, and he would cut it with a knife.