Chapter 117： Save people

Hidden behind the rocks, Zhang Yunzheng, Ji Wenzhao, Shen Wen and others waited and waited, but nothing happened. Shen Yi didn't come back, the surrounding area was quiet, but no one dared to go out. The sun rose to high altitude, Zhang Yunzheng and Shen Wen looked at each other, really want to go out and have a look, but Ji Wenzhao knew what they meant, and shook his head vigorously at them, saying that they would not be allowed to move.

It's cold in winter, and everyone can't move around. Duan Zeng opened his hands tightly and motioned them to do the same. The horses in the col were all chewed up and wrapped in their hooves, otherwise they would not be able to remain silent for such a long time.

They waited and waited until noon, and finally heard the thin sound of horseshoes. The sound of horseshoes was very slow, almost like pacing, Zhang Yunzheng couldn't help it anymore, took a look outside, then retracted, but after thinking about it, he stuck his head out again. When he did this, the others also quietly got up to him and looked out.

At the mouth of the mountain pass, a group of people came over, and indeed there were only a dozen people, and some of them were still holding each other in embarrassed clothes. There is only one horse of invisible color, carrying a man lying on the horse.

They walked over, struggling to walk. As soon as he entered the col, the horse suddenly knelt down on its front legs, and several people rushed over to support the horseman and lift him down. As soon as he was pulled off the horse half-dragging and half-lifting, the horse's hind legs also buckled and rolled over to the ground. A man walked to the horse's head, touched the horse's nose, patted the horse's neck, and sat on the horse's head.

The others also sat on the ground. After a while, the man near the horse's head drew a knife, cut the horse's neck, leaned over to drink blood, took a few sips, got up and wiped his mouth with his sleeve, and motioned for someone to come. The others took turns to drink the horse blood, and several people began to split the horse's body.

Shen Wen frowned, she was afraid that these people would be looking for branches to start a fire for a while, and if they could not walk to the side, they would find people in ambush. She originally thought it would be a group of people flying over, chasing after the soldiers. Now I know how much they take it for granted. They fled from the far north. They will inevitably pass through the rare-traveled grasslands like Shen Wen and others. They encountered several times with the chasing soldiers, and they have long consumed the horses. There is still another one. The horse is not easy. Originally, this horse might be able to support them over the mountains to reach their relatives...

At noon, these people cut the horses open. Maybe they didn't want to stay here, or they were afraid of being exposed. Maybe they didn't have the strength to look for branches anymore. They didn't set the fire and only ate some raw horse meat. Although the winter sun is bright, there is no warmth. Someone was wrapped in **** horse meat, and several people carried the injured person with a large cloak, and continued to walk towards the mountains.

In the distance, there was a vague sound of horseshoes. Those people looked behind, only speeding up slightly. They have no horses, and they are carrying individuals. Others are supporting each other, making it difficult to walk fast. The sound of horseshoes approached. These people walked up the hillside for a while and occupied a high place. The thinnest and shortest among them, a man in black stood behind a rock, said a few words, and made a gesture. , The others took off their quiver and put them beside him.

Shen Wen exchanged surprised eyes: Everyone expected this god-like figure to be tall and burly. How could he be a short man really shattered!

Others walked up the mountain again, and those who were being carried seemed to say something, and these people stopped leaving. The man in black behind the rock turned his head and gestured to them, but these people stopped walking and stayed beside the rock near the man in black.

The man in black brought some hoarse shouts that could be faintly heard by people far away, but those people did not move anymore.

The sound of horseshoes became louder and louder, these people waited quietly, and the people waiting for Shen Wen didn't dare to speak out.

Soon, a large group of people appeared in the distance and quickly approached here. Shen Wen probably estimated that there should be less than two hundred people, so he was relieved. The chasing soldiers stopped for a moment beside the skeleton of the dead horse. The horses wandered in place, raised their heads and neighed, and the leading men pointed at the hillside, and then galloped in.

Shen Wen felt like watching the dusty history unfold before his eyes: the man in black put an arrow on the string, but did not pull the bow. It wasn't until the chasing soldiers rode up the hillside that he was only a few dozen steps away from the boulder where he was hiding, that he opened his bow and shot the first arrow.

A chaser fell off his horse in response, and then the man in black shot one arrow at a time. The speed was extremely fast, and the arrows were all shot. The chasers on the horse fell one after another, and the impact of the cavalry was contained. For a moment, there was chaos on the hillside. Someone shouted loudly, and the chasers all turned their horses and backed off. After running out of range, the people got off their horses, dispersed, and crawled to the hillside under the cover of the rocks. Rush.

The man in black yelled again, but everyone near him drew their knives and stared down the hillside.

The chasing soldiers pranced from side to side and surrounded them, and some people shot arrows at the rock where the man in black was. The man in black is close to the rock, standing on his side completely, and he always waits until the enemy is very close before he shoots an arrow, and every arrow will hit the spot. But many times, the enemy got too close, and several people pounced at the same time from different angles. He almost didn’t have time to bring everyone down. Once when everyone came in front of him, he shot an arrow into the opponent’s eye. The man fell in front of the rock.

Zhang Yunzheng frowned and looked at Shen Wen, Duan Zeng rolled his eyes and wrote "tired" on the rock. Several people nodded suddenly, and Duan Zeng could see from the other's behavior that the manpower was exhausted and he could only shoot arrows when the enemy approached.

The place of the man in black blocked the way up the mountain, no matter how the chasers attacked, they couldn't get past him. There were already nearly a hundred corpses on the hillside. Soon, the chasing soldiers stopped their rapid charge and approached slowly, carefully bending and climbing by the terrain, making sure not to show their figure, and some people left the main road to climb the side wall, rounding around.

The man in black raised his bow for a long time, and finally an arrow hit the forehead of an enemy with a probe. Others who were approaching saw it and hid behind the rocks. Then, the man in black put a bow on his back, turned and sprinted with a quiver, and ran towards the other people on the mountain. The enemies behind him shouted loudly, and arrows shot at him. The man in black ran to the wounded being carried, and the others surrounded them, the blade of the knife reflecting a little bit of light in the sunset.

The chasers on the hillside stood up and rushed up shouting.

Just as they were approaching, the man in black suddenly untied his bow, drew an arrow from the quiver, and fired a dozen more arrows. The charging people fell down again and again, and the chasing soldiers broke apart, each looking for concealment. Where. The man in black lowered his bow and drew a short knife from behind his waist.

The sun slanted west, and the shadows were long.

The chasers tentatively approached, and this time, the man in black never shot arrows again. While shooting arrows, the chasing soldiers approached the rocks where these people were hiding...

Suddenly, with a whistle, many people suddenly appeared from the bottom of the mountain. On the cliff on the side of the hill, someone shot down with a crossbow. The attackers on the hillside fell one after another, and the situation on the battlefield suddenly reversed. A moment ago the strong became the weak, and the murderer became the slain.

After the arrow rain, the people alive on the hillside struggled and ran back shouting, but their original horses were already full of people holding crossbows. There was an interpreter over there speaking loudly in Beirong. Shen Wen said to Ji Wenzhao: "We're going out too, it's up to you."

Their col is located behind the dozen people who escaped. As soon as they showed up, a dozen of them over there turned and held weapons against them. Ji Wenzhao yelled, and Duan Zeng asked, "What are you calling?"

Ji Wenzhao said when the call was paused: "We are here to help. We have a doctor who can heal people."

Duan Zeng proudly stood his chest down and said, "Look, I'm a golden sign at the critical moment!"

Zhang Yunzheng poured cold water again: "I don't think that person can move anymore, he seems to be dying, don't blow!"

Duan Zeng looked at Zhang Yunzheng: "Fortunately you didn't become a doctor, otherwise good people will make you angry too!"

They stopped by an arrow from those people, Ji Wenzhao said a few words again, the black man over there said a few words to a dozen people around him, they stepped a little away, but still held it. Weapon, Zhang Yunzheng also drew out the weapon. Ji Wenzhao shouted, and answered a few words over there. Ji Wenzhao said to Duan Zeng: "He said you should treat it well, otherwise it will take your life."

Duan Zeng was angry: "Fart! Dare to threaten me! I'm dead!" Turning around and leaving, Ji Wenzhao grabbed him, then shouted loudly to Duan Zeng.

After answering a few words over there, Ji Wenzhao said to Duan Zeng: "I told you over there that you are a genius doctor. If you are angry, he will definitely die if you are not cured. If you are cured, if he dies, it means that others will definitely cure him. No, let them take care of it. The archery man apologized and said that he shouldn’t say something like that. Please treat him well. If he is cured, he will listen to you for the rest of his life."

Duan Zengqi hummed: "Why did I send him to fight? I don't want to fight! Let them all get out of the way! I don't want anyone to stabb me from behind!"

Ji Wenzhao said a few more words, and the people around the man in black dispersed, revealing the person lying on the ground.

Zhang Yunzheng said: "We still have to guard against it."

Ji Wenzhao nodded and said, "Yeah, yeah, just stay behind Duan Langzhong."

Shen Wen said: "I will guard with you."

Ji Wenzhao led the people walking while waving his arms and shouting, the people over there stepped back a bit, and beside the lying person stood only the man in black who had just shot arrows.

They walked closer, Zhang Yunzheng faced the Beirong people who stood guard, and Shen Wen looked back and forth. Over there, Shen Yi has completely surrounded Bei Rong's chasing soldiers. If someone in Bei Rong takes up a weapon, someone on Shen Yi's side will shoot arrows, so in the end, neither of them will move, and there will be a stalemate.

Duan Zeng walked to the lying person and squatted down, only to find that the opponent was lying on his side, a long arrow passed through the chest, the arrow was exposed from the front, the tail of the arrow was cut off at the back, and the blood penetrated the front and back of the shirt. Duan Zeng closed his eyes for a while, then opened his medicine chest and said to the fourth prince Ji Wenzhao who was standing beside him: "Come and help!"

The two heard that they squatted down beside the wounded. Duan Zeng handed a pair of scissors to Ji Wenzhao and said: "Cut all the clothes near the arrow! The back is also exposed!" Ji Wenzhao immediately assigned the task to the four princes: "You help."

The four princes cooperated with Ji Wenzhao and cut two big holes on the front and back of the chest. Zhang Yunzheng said to Shen Wen: "Go over there and watch it."

Shen Wen said: "No, I have something to say."

Zhang Yunzheng said: "Then don't look at him!"

Shen Wen was too embarrassed to look at a big man with his back exposed, so he looked up into the distance.

Duan Zeng first pierced a few acupuncture points on his back with a silver needle, then took a small pair of pliers, and took out a white towel from the medical box, folded it into four squares, and handed it to the fourth prince and said, "I draw an arrow. , You will plug the wound."

The four princes trembling hands, took the towel, only nodded, Duan Zeng said to Ji Wenzhao: "You hold his body, don't let him move!" Ji Wenzhao nodded, and held the injured shoulder with his hand.

Duan Zeng frowned and clamped the arrow with pliers, then closed his eyes and began to slowly pull the arrow out of his chest. He drew very lightly, sometimes stopped and twisted the arrow slightly. The four princes of Ji Wenzhao and the four princes looked terrified: Where is the man in black who closed his eyes and drew the arrow and clenched the knife, Zhang Yunzheng also lifted the sword slightly.

Under the arrow shaft, the coagulated blood gushed out. The fourth prince was afraid to interfere with Duan Zeng's hand, so he dared not move, but stared at the wound nervously. Finally, Duan Zeng pulled out the arrow shaft. As soon as the arrow shaft left the body, a stream of blood spurted out, and the fourth prince hurriedly covered the handkerchief, but after a while, the handkerchief was soaked and the blood stained the hands of the fourth prince. The fourth prince yelled in fright: "What to do! So much blood! Get the hemostatic medicine soon!"

Duan Zeng opened his eyes and said, "Don't panic, don't panic! Just cover it!" He put down the remaining arrows and pliers, and took up the silver needles, piercing acupuncture points one by one, and then took out more than a dozen points. A small bottle of medicine came and said to the fourth prince: "Take me away and have a look."

The fourth prince moved his hand and saw a wound cracking, but the blood flow was much slower. Duan Zeng said triumphantly: "Look, it's not bleeding much, so I can only apply the medicine now, otherwise the medicine will be washed away by the blood..." As he said, he poured the medicine powder carefully on the wounds on his chest and back. Place. The fourth prince only looked at the injured face at this time. Although he had a sparse beard with a sideburn, he should be about twenty years old. With his eyes closed, his face was covered with dust and muddy with sweat, and his nose moved. Do not move……

When Duan Zengzheng turned around and put the medicine bottle in the medicine box, the fourth prince stared at the wounded and said, "I think this person seems to be out of breath..."

Duan Zeng said, "Why did that arrow pass by his heart and only scratched his lungs..." After looking back, the person's face really turned gray, and Duan Zeng grabbed his wrist. The pulse, yelled: "Asshole!"

He picked up the needle bag in one hand, hurried needles into the back of the man’s chest and put them in his head. He said, "You stupid! How dare you ruin my reputation! I've come from such a distance." Here, after eating so many dry pancakes, passing through the cannibal zone, frozen like a grandson, I used half a bottle of the hemostatic medicine that I finally prepared, just to make you die in my hands! ..."

Zhang Yunzheng added fuel to the fire and said: "Look, those people are going to rush over and play with us! Let you don't be too big, if you don't believe it, put people to death, now we are all tired!"

Ji Wenzhao said to Zhang Yunzheng: "Don't poke his heart."

Duan Zeng was anxious and cursed at the person lying down: "Are you in the same group as that bastard! He said you would die a long time ago, but you listened to him!"

The young man next to him also knelt on the ground, took a hand of the lying person, cried and yelled in Beijong, Duan Zeng put the last needle near the person's heart, his hands were empty, and angrily fiercely. He patted that person's face and said, "Wake up! You wake me up! You cheeky! Don't play this set with me! Or I will kill you!"

Shen Wen didn't look back, closed his eyes, and massaged the person's heart with consciousness.

The man finally coughed and vomited a mouthful of blood. Duan Zeng patted his face again and said, "That's good!" He let out a long breath and sat down on the ground.

The fourth prince was also sweating and trembling all over. He saw that this man's clothes were full of holes, and he tremblingly said, "Hurry up...hurry up and bandage it up, it's cold."

Duan Zeng knelt up again, looked at the wounds on his chest and back, and slowly pulled out the needles one by one. Seeing that no blood was gushing from the wound, it was confirmed that his medicine was effective. He took out a new white towel and a piece of white silk from the medical box, and motioned to the fourth prince and Ji Wenzhao to sit up with the man in his arms. He took off the tattered clothes, then put a towel on the wound and wrapped a white silk around his chest. The person waiting next came with a leather jacket, and the person in black took it and gave Duan Zeng. Duan Zeng motioned to the fourth princes of Ji Wen Showa to help put on the clothes.

The fourth prince probably only learned how to dress and undress himself this time. Now he has to do things for others, which is very clumsy. The other party seemed to be waking up soon, and they touched the other side's injury, and he gave a cry. The four princes were so frightened to apologize, but thought that the other party did not understand, he could only learn the only Beirong dialect he had learned: I wish you health, repeated it several times, let the black man next to him look sideways.

In the end, Duan Zeng wrapped the extra white silk around the outside of the clothes two more times to keep him warm. Only then did Duan put the injured person flat and let them lie half on the black-clothed man's lap.

Shen Yi walked over with Qi Conglin and asked Shen Wen, "What should we do over there?"

Shen Wen asked Zhang Yunzheng: "Did he put on his clothes?"

Zhang Yunzheng nodded and said, "I'm putting it on."

Shen Wen turned his face back, just catching up with the wounded man opening his eyes in confusion, looking at Shen Wen idiotically.

The sun had just set, a new moon appeared in the sky, the earth was in twilight, and Shen Wen's face was as calm as water in the soft light.

Daiqin Khan remembered this moment all his life: the goddess descended from the sky and treated him tenderly.

A moment ago, he tried his best to stay awake, urging his people to escape and let himself die here, and then heard that someone came to heal him, he felt relieved, and fainted...woke up again, the sky is new Under the moon, he saw such a peaceful face, she was dressed in shabby clothes, but he felt that this was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen...

He asked his beloved sister, Princess Tana, who married overseas about the whole story, and knew that this woman was the second daughter of Bei Rong’s archenemy, Zhen Beihou, who was not well-known at that time. On the surface, she prayed for blessings in the temple, but she moved to the border, and then led the soldiers to rush for thousands of miles, saving their lives. If this is not a divine mission, he doesn't know what else in the world can be called a miracle.

Unfortunately, when he knew her identity, he had no possibility to approach her. Throughout his life, he never saw her again. This short side made him remember to death. In his old age, the second Miss Shen in his heart is still youthful, looking at him compassionately under the new moon...

Shen Wen didn't realize the enthusiasm of the injured person at all. She looked at the man's somewhat sluggish gaze, sighed and said to Ji Wenzhao: "I think he is confused, maybe his head has been bumped. You can ask first. He, what to do with those chasing them, we don’t want to kill."

When people’s language is not good, it’s easy to use hand gestures. Ji Wenzhao chirped and said, even pointing with gestures, very excited. After speaking, he stared at the injured person, and the injured person slowly came out. With a sigh of relief, Duan Zeng hurriedly grasped his wrist pulse, and then said with a sigh of relief: "I was scared, I think he is going to be out of breath again!"

Shen Wen looked at Ji Wenzhao suspiciously: "Are you really good at speaking Bei Rong dialect, aren't you trying to catch us?"

Ji Wenzhao looked at Shen Wen angrily: "If you don't understand yourself, don't you just think that others don't understand it, okay! It's easy to offend others!"

Shen Yi frowned: "Then why doesn't he answer you?"

The wounded man was weak and half closed his eyes and said a few words to the man in black next to him. The man in black yelled a few words to the man standing there, and those men agreed a few times and confronted Shen Yi's soldiers. The chasing soldiers walked over.

The four princes of Shen Wen, Zhang Yunzheng and Shen Yi all looked at Ji Wenzhao, and Ji Wenzhao frowned: "He said...that, if you surrender, don't kill them, tie them up and take them away as coolies. If you want to escape, kill them."

Shen Yi turned and left, and said to Qi Conglin next to him as he walked: "Pass the message, as long as you don't let people run away, let them solve the rest by themselves."

Shen Wen said: "It seems that he is not confused yet. Then tell him again, this winter is not counted. When the third winter from now comes, there will be war on the border, and the Tugu Khan will gather half a million. Everyone, go all out to attack the Southern Dynasty. You make it clear to him that if he wants to take advantage of the fire, he must do it only two months after the gunpowder smoke. This point must be emphasized. Within two months of the beginning of the war, you must never attack Tuguke. Behind Khan!"

Ji Wenzhao spoke slowly for a long time, and gestured several times with his fingers. The person lying there looked at him from under his eyelids, and finally blinked.

On the hillside, people yelled loudly. People here **** the enemy with ropes. Sometimes some people ran away, but they were all shot down by Shen Yi's soldiers, and some people would step forward and make up for it.

Shen Wen looked at the sky and said to Ji Wenzhao: "You tell him that we will leave them some dry food, but we will take some horses away. They don't need many horses to climb the mountain anyway. No one on either side of us. I don’t owe anyone, I wish them good luck."

Ji Wenzhao said again, and the injured man closed his eyes wearily.

Ji Wenzhao said to Shen Wen: "You see that they are so sturdy, if they really replace the Tugu Khan in the future, will they come to us ungratefully?"

Shen Wen frowned and thought for a moment, and said, "People's hearts are unpredictable, but we can only take one step to see. We don't know if they can really attack the rear and take Tugu Khan's nest. I don't know if they are. Be able to gain control of northern Xinjiang. If they do all of this, we can talk about whether the two countries can have a good relationship. Peace is naturally the best result, but if we really do not save the good people, then we will fight again in the future. ."

Ji Wenzhao said angrily: "What you said is lightness! You are not here to fight!"

Shen Wen smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will definitely help." After speaking, he left with Zhang Yunzheng and went to meet Shen Yi who was commanding the slope.

Zhang Yunzheng said to Shen Wen as he walked: "Don't worry about how old you are then, tell me what to do, I will tell them, let them fight by themselves..."

Ji Wenzhao looked at their backs and said dissatisfied: "Look, it's not a matter of hanging up high. At that time, she probably ran to the island with Shen Jiajun, how can I help?"

The fourth prince frowned and said: "I will persuade the third...fourth prince to tell the third prince how to keep a few people from the Shen family."

Ji Wenzhao nodded and said, "Yes, you can see that the woman cares about her family. She has long hair and short eyes! She will come only if there are people from the Shen family on the border..."

Duan Zeng interrupted and said, "Don't always think of people so badly. It's just as if we are Mr. Dong Guo and have saved a white-eyed wolf. I have healed so many people, so I can tell you. Most of them are good people. Those who are saved will be grateful. Because everyone has a conscience, it will be painful to be ignorant of the conscience."

The four princes nodded quickly and said: "This is true! I... have been helped by a doctor, and I will not forget it."

Ji Wenzhao said: "You are all good people, so naturally you will not forget..."

Duan Zeng handed the small bottle of medicine to the man in black who was guarding him, and motioned to Ji Wenzhao and said, "You tell him that if he bleeds, he will take some more."

Ji Wenzhao said in a gesture, Duan Zeng took out a small packet of pills and said: "This is to cleanse the poison and nourish the blood. One pill a day will do. He is lying down and resting, don't get angry easily. They will make a stretcher to carry him. Don’t let him walk. After half a year, he should be able to walk on the ground. If he can live peacefully, he will live to seven or eighty years without any problem. He usually eats less greasy vegetables and more vegetables, so he has little desire..."

Ji Wenzhao said impatiently: "Do you know if you have endless things that are difficult to translate"

Duan Zeng was angry: "What a genius, you can't translate it so ordinary. I haven't said anything like'Ying Wei Qi and Blood' or'Nourishing Yin and Extinguishing Wind'!"

The man in black who was supporting the wounded on one side suddenly and slowly put the wounded on the ground, knelt on the ground and offered a big gift to Duan, and said, "Thank you for saving my life!"

Duan Zengji Wenzhao and the four princes were shocked, and said in unison: "You can speak Chinese!"

The man in black sullenly said: "My mother and concubine can speak Chinese and taught me." The three people stared at each other, and they all opened their mouths.

The man in black said again: "My brother can also speak Chinese."

The three of them looked at the lying young man at the same time, and the man closed his eyes.

The man in black gritted his teeth, staring at them fiercely and saying: "My brother is not ungrateful! We are also good people!"

Ji Wenzhao just said bad things in front of others, his face was a little bit uncontrollable, and angrily said: "How can you...how can you do this! Isn't this kidding me!" He got up and walked away, as if slipping away. Up.

Duan Zeng said, "Then you all understand what I'm saying, just take care of it." He started packing up his suitcase and was about to leave. The fourth prince was still holding a blood-soaked towel in his hand, and he hesitantly asked Duan Zeng: "Do you want more?"

Duan Zeng shook his head: "Why do I want it?"

The fourth prince handed to the man in black next to him: "This, you can wash it, and it can still be used."

The man in black took it with both hands. The fourth prince saw that although his face was dusty, but he still saw black eyebrows, but he was only seventeen or eighteen years old. He said that Beirong people also have good looks, not all of them. With blue-faced fangs like Fire Luo...

Duan Zeng raised the medical kit and got up. The man in black holding the blood handkerchief said, "Healer, please stay."

Duan Zeng saw that the other party was wearing Bei Rong's clothes and hair styles, but he was fluent in Chinese, and felt very strange. He frowned and looked at Duan Zeng blankly. , I will listen to the doctor's dispatch in the future."

Duan Zeng waved his hand and said, "Why do I send you? I didn't hear what you said. Didn't the little brother Wen just say it? We need to take some horses away, so we will cover the cost of the consultation. We should make money. Come on" He looked at the fourth prince.

The four princes shook their heads and said, "I don't know, we have been traveling for a month and so many people, but the horses are very expensive, and we can't buy them. It's hard to tell who earned..."

Duan Zeng said: "Then tell that little brother Zhang, take a few more horses."

They said they were about to go together, and the people on the ground said with difficulty: "Wait...wait..."

The man in black was busy slowly raising his elder brother from the ground, and the injured man looked at the fourth prince with difficulty and said: "Go...tell that...woman...if I can get...beijing sweat... Not to fight with the Southern Dynasty..."

The four princes smiled and nodded and said, "Well, I'll tell her. Then I wish you success!" Saying goodbye to the habit, and walking into the nest with Duan Zeng.

The man in black behind them said loudly, "I will find you!"

Duan Zeng looked at the four princes, and the four princes shook his head quickly and said, "Why is he looking for me and I haven't saved anyone."

Duan Zeng turned his head and said: "Don't find me! Save you is the fairy dance arranged by the woman just now. I let her cheat in. I was forced!"

The four princes lowered their heads and laughed, and the two chatted and walked back to the horses. After finishing the cleaning on the hillside, the soldiers came back one after another, some resting, some preparing. They came out without casualties this time, they just hid aside and shot a dark arrow. Now that they are done, everyone is in a good mood.

In another half an hour, all the soldiers returned, and they also brought back the horses that chased the soldiers. Everyone got on their horses and was ready to return.

Ji Wenzhao asked Shen Wen angrily: "Why don't you know that they can speak Chinese and we also said those things in front of them!"

Shen Wen aggrieved: "There are few records of this half-brother of Tugu Khan in the history books. Who would know that his child speaks Chinese"

Now everyone is no stranger to the weird things Shen Wen said, thinking that she can understand the past and the present, and she will naturally read the history books in the future. The current situation is that they knew that the Beirong people they rescued could speak Chinese. Everyone was a little bit silly. They didn't want to go back to meet and be embarrassed, so Shen Yi came forward and kept some dry food for them. After the handover, Shen Wen led the team and the horse team rushed away.

The dozens of people in Beirong stood on the hillside, watching them go away, and forced the captives to dig pits to bury the dead bodies, destroying the traces of the battlefield. Then the stretcher was tied up, the injured person was supported on the stretcher, and the clothes taken off from the dead were covered. The group of people climbed over the mountains and disappeared on the other side of the mountains.

It took Shen Wen another ten days with the team to rush back to the border area where the Shen Jiajun was stationed, secretly cross the border, and meet Su Wanniang and Shi Helin who were waiting for them in the village outside Yancheng. They were warmly welcomed by Su Wanniang and Shi Helin. Su Wanniang was still crying with excitement, but Shen Yi and Ji Wenzhao, who had returned to Yancheng, ran into Zhenbeihou who was in full swing.

The imperial court’s intention to reduce its forces was passed to Yancheng at the fastest speed through the only remaining post.

Zhenbeihou looked at Shen Yi and Ji Wenzhao, both of whom had frostbite on their faces, and waved the paper in their hands: "Where have you been! Why are you coming back now! Look at this!"

Shen Yi took it, sneered after reading it, and passed it to Ji Wenzhao.

Zhenbeihou frowned: "What's wrong! Our army didn't get the royal army's salary, it was completely self-sufficient. Why should I think that reducing the army in the name of the court's saving is because the emperor has suspicion for me and wants to test it."

Shen Yi twitched his lips: "When did the emperor have no suspicion?"

Zhenbei Hou Nu said to Shen Yi: "It's all good things you did! At the beginning, I was close to the third prince in Beijing!..."

Ji Wenzhao quickly read, twisting his face, trying to show a calm expression as much as possible, and said to Zhenbeihou, "Master Hou, we took the soldiers to drill in the field for a month this time. They suffered a lot and suffered. A lot of tiredness, but Lord Hou, I can safely say that if we fight with a large number of cavalry in Beirong, we have no chance of winning at all." The subject changed.

Zhenbei Hou said angrily: "Then you can't reduce troops!"

Ji Wenzhao shook his head and said, "Master Hou, if there is a tough battle in the future, the number of troops need not be the main force. If someone assists the people to move, it will be advantageous for us to not enter Yancheng." There may not be enough food in the city.

Zhenbeihou frowned and thought: "You mean to lay off the weak and scattered among the people."

Ji Wenzhao nodded.

Zhenbeihou had a good discussion with Ji Wenzhao in the middle of the night, and finally decided to adjust the strength of the Shen Jiajun and reduce the army by 20%.

The reply letter was drafted by Shen Jian and written loyally, stating that he resolutely obeyed the instructions of the imperial court to immediately reduce the strength of the army, set out the timetable for the disarmament, and asked the Ministry of Households for pensions for veterans. If the Ministry of Households has no money to send in the future, it would be reasonable for those retired soldiers to stay at the border.

After the letter was sent out, because Shen Yi knew the details of Shen Jiajun's soldiers, Zhenbeihou asked him, Shen Jian and Ji Wenzhao to start reorganizing soldiers from camp to camp.

Shen Wen gave Zhang Yunzheng the scimitar and three-arrow bow and arrow design, and Zhang Yunzheng drew the detailed drawings to Yan Shi, who often slipped out of the city.

They had done everything they should have done, and they were about to leave for the south, but the fourth prince fell ill.