Chapter 4 Return (Nine)

A crescent moon slowly climbed up to the top of your head, spreading the cold light over every ditch on the ground.

"Slow down! Eat some more and let the war horse recover its strength." Although he was reluctant to have both his wings, Zheng Ziming still decided to stop the team and rest first.

The ancients said that if you fight for profit for fifty miles, you will be defeated by the general. Although the brothers around you all looked energetic on the surface, Zheng Ziming knew in his heart that everyone had reached the end of their strength. After all, three days have passed since the last encounter. Although everyone tried their best to avoid the large number of enemy troops in these three days, they went 400 miles more unjustly, and each of them had been exhausted.

"See a way to boil some hot water and soak your feet and thighs!" Shi Chonggui suddenly opened his eyes and replenished weakly.

Eight days, back and forth, thousands of miles, the young and strong man could not bear it. What's more, he, a prisoner who had been a prisoner for many years, had been destroyed to the brink of collapse, both physically and mentally?

"I'll fight a few living creatures to make up for everyone!" Tao Dachun gritted his teeth, as if he had an irreconcilable hatred with all the wild animals in the world. "Brothers, I guess they rely on the last breath to hold on now, and continue to rush forward unless we can't meet any enemy troops from now on."

How is that possible? After saying a word, he couldn't help but shake his head, "I think we'd better stop rushing tonight, otherwise, a few seriously injured..."

"I know, let's see what's happening around me later!" Zheng Ziming quickly turned his head and glanced, and a tingling pain surged in his heart. If there is no medicinal materials and tools, if you continue to delay, someone will definitely not be able to hold on to the next night.

Tao Dachun knew that he wanted to return to the big ship when he came early and used the "magic technique" to save the lives of several seriously injured people. After he hesitating, he whispered: "Since yesterday, I have always had a very ominous premonition, that is, I am afraid that boarding the ship is not easy. Tonight, if the Khitan cavalry behind us do not chase us, we will slow down our pace, find a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack on the way, set up camp and rest for a few hours..."

"It's not easy to board the boat?" Zhou Xin walked out of nowhere, sat on the ground and asked with a breath, "Is General Tao afraid that someone will intercept him in front?"

"I can't say it. I always feel weird and very uneasy!" Tao Dachun looked around and shook his head hesitantly. "We have killed so many people from the Khitan Khitan Eastern Army. In theory, Yelu Dilie should not let us go for the sake of face. But in the past two days, the teams we have seen are all under the banner of other families, and we have not met any of the troops from the Eastern Army!"

"Hiss--!" Zhou Xin poured the cold salt water directly on the arrow wound at the base of his thigh, and inhaled vigorously while pouring it down, "Yes, the Khitans should have discovered the bodies of the Eastern Army long ago. They are so familiar with the terrain and the flying eagle sending letters. Yelu Dilie should have gone crazy now and looked for us all over the world. Why did he take the initiative to withdraw his troops?"

"I'm afraid I'm not very mean!" Tao Yong also walked forward, took the water bag from Zhou Xin's hand, lowered his head to help him clean the wound. "But it's useless to just guess. We can only try our best to prepare and deal with it when the time comes!"

"Indeed!" Hearing that several of his confidant generals suggested taking a break before continuing on the road, Zheng Ziming had no choice but to follow the advice. "After discovering the surrounding situation, we will find a valley to shelter from the wind to rest. Then see if we can go straight and take a shortcut to the intersection of Liaoshui and Sancha River."

"Stay for half a night, and then march again in the middle of the night. The Khitans slept soundly in the middle of the night!" Shi Chonggui, who had been sleeping all the time, raised his head again and whispered.

As a former horse emperor, although he lacked the ability to change his ambitions, he had a lot of experience in fighting. He knew that in addition to rushing to the road, everyone should also be ready to fight at any time. Therefore, no matter what, he must always keep his physical strength and spirit above a certain baseline, otherwise it would be equivalent to self-destruction.

When Zheng Ziming heard this, he became more and more determined to restore his brothers' physical strength first. He nodded to his father, Tao Dachun and others, and whispered: "Then let's rest from now on. Dachun, you and everyone stay here. Dachun, go and catch some prey. By the way, go around and see where is suitable for camping!"

"Okay!" Tao Dachun responded without hesitation, and then quickly shook the reins.

Zheng Ziming took him away with his eyes, then turned his eyes to Zhou Xin and Tao Yong, and ordered them to greet everyone to take a break for the time being. Then he turned his eyes to his father, opened the water bag, served the other party and drank a few sips of water, and said a few words that would make the latter relieved. Finally, he stuffed the kettle into a Cangzhou arm with severe colours, shook the reins, and quickly rushed to the nearby hillside.

The night wind brought a coolness, which made him feel refreshed. Looking around, there were no figures or lights around him. There was only a blue sky like a pot lid, which was buckled from the top of his head and pressed against the entire wilderness.

"Ao, ao, ao--" In the howl of the wolf, several meteors quickly fell from the "pot lid", and the world in front of me suddenly became bright, and then it quickly became darker, and everything was silent!

"Look, the stars fell from the sky!" After a nameless hillside fifty miles away, several generals of the Mohe tribe jumped up and pointed at the direction where the meteor was falling.

"Someone is going to die, God sent someone to pick him up!" A guy dressed in an aide was obviously drunk by the bonfire, squinting his eyes, and the saliva flowed out of the corners of his mouth.

"Don't let your mother go, you're going to die. I'll kill you now, so that you won't let you curse me all day long! None of you Han officials is good. They are like Shi Chonggui! I can't even sleep in peace!" Several generals of the Moe Clan immediately became angry, turned around, came to the bonfire, and punched and kicked the Han staff.

Finally, I didn't have to fight this year. I was thinking about letting the family livestock breed more cubs, and I also took the opportunity to let the wife give birth to a baby for her. Unexpectedly, a few days ago, news came from outside that Shi Chonggui was rescued by Zheng Ziming. Immediately afterwards, everyone was temporarily recruited and rode war horses all over the world to search for it.

If there is hope to capture Shi Chonggui and his son, it would be fine, but the emperor would give the rewards, and everyone would be able to share some of them. But the day before yesterday, Yelu Chasu, the king of Taining of the Great Liao Kingdom, suddenly joined forces with Yelu Dilie, the governor of the Eastern Army, and Han Kuangsi, the Privy Councilor of the Southern Court, to issue an order requiring other Khitan troops to follow and drive them away after seeing Zheng Ziming, and not to kill them on the spot. Otherwise, they would be punished for disobedience!

What's the reason for this? It's true that the great contribution of killing the two fathers surnamed Zheng has been booked by two generals Yelu and one general Han, and the others are exhausted and have no choice. And it's fine if the two generals Yelu are just descendants of Emperor Taizu, and they are just a good woman. What kind of person with the surname Han is? What qualifications do you have to climb onto the heads of the Moehe people and point fingers?

He was holding a sense of anger in his stomach, and the several Moe tribe generals naturally became a little more ruthless. When he was eye-catching, he beat the Han staff to his head covered in blood and lay on his back, unable to even make a cry.

"Enough, don't beat him to death. After all, he is a sixth-rank civil servant. If he is beaten to death, it is difficult for the emperor to explain!" A man with his arms open and his feet drinking with his feet suddenly threw the wine bag out and shouted loudly.

"Yes, General Xiao! If you say you don't fight, we will save his life!" Several generals of the Mohe tribe who were committing violence immediately stopped fists and kicks. They turned around and scratched their heads embarrassedly, "Isn't this idle or nothing to do? This kid's surname is Han, not a good thing. If he gets ambition in the future, he will definitely be a good guy with that Han Kuangsi!"

"Nonsense, he is a junior of Duke Lu, and he is not the same as Han Kuangsi in Youzhou at all!" The general surnamed Xiao had a single name, Qiang, and was from the queen of Liao. He was knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and could be regarded as a Zhongyuan master. He waved his hand vigorously and responded loudly. "Okay, get some cold water to wake him up, and then find a tent to throw it in. If someone asks about it tomorrow, he will say that he has drunk too much and I don't know who he has a dispute with. When you find him, you are already like this!"

"Yes, the general is wise!" The generals of the Mohe clan understood it, laughed and dragged the unconscious aide to Han, and threw the man into a wet empty tent.

"Waste!" Xiao Qiang, a man who snatched his feet, curled his lips disdainfully, grabbed a wine bag, and drank as quickly as possible. If it weren't for the sake of Duke Han Yanhui of Lu, he wouldn't bother to care about the life and death of the Han aide. He was not good at studying and had no courage in war, but he became arrogant again. He always felt that he would be wronged if he could not become the king of the South Court. If his son had long been knocked to death with a big stick, he would have dragged him out to feed the dog, so that he would not have kept him in the world!

"General Xiao, when will King Yelu and others catch Zheng Ziming?" Several generals of Moe came over again and accompanied the general surnamed Xiao to test with a smile. "In such a hot day, mosquitoes are everywhere in the grass..."

"What are you doing in a hurry to go back? You want to catch a woman and take a baby!" General Xiao Qiang stuffed a sip of mutton, grabbed the leather bag of wine and took a big sip of wine, and said with disdain, "I've only been out for a few days now. Shimi Lie, I'll swallow it, Tuoba Hong, you guys are just here to make a fortune!"

"No, no, no, no, that's not what we mean!" Several generals Mohe were all servants who were conquered and accepted when Yelu Deguang was in power. They had the courage to beat Han aides. In front of the Khitans of the rear tribe like General Xiao, they only dared to arch their waists and talk, "We are not worth it for you? We run around every day in the face of the sun, but in the end, they are in vain!"

"Which is busy, who is not sure who is busy?" Xiao Qiang, a big man who snatched his feet, threw the wine bag aside again, curled his lips and sneered loudly, "Don't just think about eating tiger meat, you have to carefully fill the tiger's mouth. Do you think Zheng Ziming is so easy to catch? If he was really easy to catch, it would have fallen into someone else's hands long ago. But look, have anyone touched a piece of hair in the past seven or eight days? Apart from a large pile of corpses, what else did Yelu Dilie and Yelu Cha cut two of them? "

"That's true!" Several generals of the mohes nodded repeatedly when they heard this, but deep down, they were still a little unwilling to let go. After hesitating for a moment, they whispered, "Okay, but we have dispatched more than 100,000 troops. Then, no matter how powerful Zheng Ziming is, he will be exhausted one day!"

"So what?" The general surnamed Xiao curled his lips and looked disdainful. "Do you think this is a glorious thing for a hundred thousand troops to capture the father and son? Even if you can catch the person surnamed Zheng, the five horses will be dismembered. No matter who raises it, you have to give a thumbs up and say that the person surnamed Zheng is a hero and has great ability. Whether Yelu Dilie or Yelu Chashi, they all become foils for others!"

"This..." Several Mohe generals never thought so deeply, and were stunned for a moment, with a little confusion in their eyes.

The Khitan Iron Cavalry is invincible in the world. This is the "truth" that was engraved into the depths of their bone marrow by their conquered people since childhood with a knife, and they never dared to question it. The Han people in the south are rich, timid and cowardly, which is also the "fact" instilled in them by tribal elders since childhood. They have never doubted it, and they also have no courage to doubt it.

But today, they suddenly discovered that "truth and facts" seemed to have had a huge deviation. More than 30 Han people from the south actually turned Liaodong upside down! They actually needed the Liao Kingdom to dispatch an army of 100,000! If the number of brothers around Zheng Ziming at this moment was not more than 30, but 300, or even 3,000... How could there be a Great Liao in this world?

"Okay, go and notify the brothers, take another stick of incense time, and then get up to work!" General Xiao stood up and patted his stomach, feeling restless: "After eating, digest food. Tuobahong, you will be here to guard the camp with your own troops. Others, come with me to find Zheng Ziming later. Remember, the shouts should be loud and the posture should be full." Then, he burped hard and quickly added, "Uh! By the way, I lit the torch for me. Remember, just pull the posture away. No one should leave the brigade, let alone make contributions. If you make a contribution, it is not yours! Once Zheng Ziming is forced to jump over the wall, I don't want to collect the corpses for you!"

"Yes!" Several generals of the mohes seemed to understand and agreed loudly to perform the task.

"Woooo...woooo..." The low horn sound suddenly rang out, instantly resounding throughout the wilderness.
Chapter completed!