Jeddah stood in the distance, the light of the torch beside him dazzling.
But I heard him say loudly: "Uncle Dahar, my nephew doesn't want to take the credit from you. How can my nephew dare to get a share of the great credit for catching the emperor of the Ming Dynasty? I just didn't expect that Uncle Dahar actually lost."
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Dahal cursed angrily: "Jeddah, don't attack quickly. If the young emperor of the Ming Dynasty escapes, the Great Khan will punish you and his son severely."
Jida sneered: "Uncle Dahar, you are being unreasonable. You have three times as many men as theirs, but you failed to capture the little emperor of the Ming Dynasty. You took your men with you in the middle of the fight.
You ran away. This is obviously your incompetence. How could you
The blame is on me and my father? The little emperor of the Ming Dynasty is right in front, why did you run back? My nephew suspects that you did it on purpose. Could it be that you were the one who wanted to let the little emperor of the Ming Dynasty go? No wonder you are in a hurry
By rushing forward, are you actually covering for them?"
Dahal stopped and looked at the tall and thin figure of Jida under the dazzling torch in front of him, and suddenly seemed to notice something.
He said solemnly: "Jeda, now is not the time to quarrel. The little emperor of the Ming Dynasty doesn't have many people, and they are at the end of their rope now. Catch him quickly and dedicate him to the Khan. You will have done a great job. This is
The credit is all yours."
Jida chuckled and said: "Uncle Dahar, my nephew is asking you something. Did you lose on purpose and wanted to let the little emperor of Ming Dynasty and others escape? You answer me."
Dahar cursed angrily: "What the hell are you talking about? It's obvious that you and your son have something evil in mind, but they are slandering others. Jeddah, I will report today's incident to the Great Khan. Your father and son must have colluded with Mingren. Otherwise, Mingren will do it."
Why did Lord Chao capture you, father and son, but let you come back? Don’t think that I don’t know that you, father and son, are disloyal to the Great Khan.”
Jida nodded slightly and asked in a deep voice: "Dahal, do you have any more shit to talk about?"
Dahar said loudly: "Little bastard, your father doesn't even dare to talk to me like this. You are afraid you are crazy."
Jida laughed loudly and said loudly: "How come our Duoyan tribe has such a shameless person like you who cheats on others, betrays the tribe, collaborates with the enemy for glory, colludes with outsiders, and slanders the commander-in-chief? How can we allow you to taint our Duoyan tribe?"
The reputation of the Yan tribe? Dahar, your death has come!"
Dahal was shocked when he heard this, suddenly his heart brightened, and he turned around to run away.
Jida waved his hand and shouted coldly: "Fire the arrow!"
The Tatar archers who had been prepared quickly bent their bows and shot out arrows. For a moment, arrows were scattered like locusts, and arrows fell like rain. The distance between the two sides was only thirty-four steps, and the bows and arrows were fast and dense, and they suddenly attacked.
He was caught off guard. In an instant, dozens of people around Dahal fell to the ground after being hit by arrows.
Dahal was hit by two arrows in the thigh and could not run. He knelt down on one knee and yelled and cursed: "Jeda, you son of a bitch, how dare you kill me? The Great Khan will cut off the heads of your father and son and use them as urinals."
.You are so brave, how dare you collaborate with the enemy?"
Jida had no expression on his face. He took off the bow and arrow from his back, bent the bow and pointed it at Dahal. An arrow shot out and hit Dahar's chest. Dahar looked down at the arrow that penetrated his chest.
Then he looked up and looked at the silhouette of Jida's tall and thin body illuminated by torches. He screamed and fell to the sky, his soul flying out of the sky.
Although Zhu Houzhao, Zhang Yanling and others were far away, they could see everything happening in front of them. When they saw Dahar and others being shot by their own people, everyone was extremely shocked and didn't know what happened.
Zhu Houzhao said softly: "Uncle, your mental battle plan seems to have succeeded. It's really unexpected. I thought it had failed."
Zhang Yanling also smiled and sighed: "Yes, I didn't expect that. Asbas is really scheming. He attacked the city so fiercely that I thought he would never agree to our conditions. But now it seems,
These may be all acting, or maybe a temporary change of mind."
Zhu Houzhao nodded and said: "But I don't know what they will do next? Will they block Batu Munch for us?"
Zhang Yanling was about to speak when he heard Zhang Yin say in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, Lord Marquis, someone is coming over there."
Zhang Yanling turned around and saw a tall and thin figure walking slowly across from him, holding a torch. He stopped among the broken limbs and corpses scattered on the ground dozens of steps away, and walked towards
Look this way.
Zhang Yanling said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, that's Jida. I'm going to see him. He seems to have something to say."
Zhu Houzhao nodded and said, "Okay, uncle, be careful."
Zhang Yanling nodded and slowly walked towards Jeddah who was holding a torch. Arriving a few steps in front of Jeddah, Zhang Yanling stood still with a smile and bowed his hands.
Jida also had a smile on her face, put one hand on her chest and saluted, "Jida has met the Marquis."
Zhang Yanling smiled and said: "Young Commander, you are polite. It seems that you have finally made a decision."
Jida smiled and said: "Yes, you have offered such good conditions, how can we live up to your kindness. The Marquis has also seen it, and many of us died in order to let you go."
Zhang Yanling chuckled and said: "The death of some people is not necessarily a bad thing. For the living, it is the price of a better life in the future."
Jida chuckled and said: "Master Hou is really good at talking. You Ming Dynasty people are indeed better at talking than us desert tribesmen, and what you say is very reasonable and touching. However, we Tatars only believe in one thing."
Things are actual actions, not words.”
Zhang Yanling nodded and said: "I understand what you mean. Please tell Commander Asbas that I, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, will never go back on what I promised. But I don't know what you think. Do you want to become a prince of the Ming Dynasty or something else?"
Have an idea?"
Jida chuckled and said: "You Ming Dynasty people have a saying: I would rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail. We have different cultures and races. Even if we submit to your Ming Dynasty, we will not be trusted by you and will only be discriminated against by you. You
The people of the Ming Dynasty are very repulsive to foreigners. The saying that those who are not from our race must have different hearts is what you people in the Ming Dynasty talk about. Therefore, we do not want to be your subjects. We want to be the masters of the desert. We can live a good life.
Be more comfortable."
Zhang Yanling nodded and said: "I understand. Then I respect your wishes. Please tell Commander Asbas that we will fulfill our promise. When the Emperor returns to the capital, you can send someone secretly to sign a formal agreement with us.
.You must also make a commitment to be friendly to me, the Ming Dynasty."
Jida nodded and said: "Very good, we have an additional request."
Zhang Yanling said: "Please tell me."
Jida said: "Both my father and I believe that Mr. Zhang is a man of his word, so for future contacts, we hope to only contact Mr. Zhang so that we can rest assured. I don't know if Mr. Zhang will agree."
Zhang Yanling smiled and said: "Thanks to your trust, I will do my best."
Jida smiled and said: "Thank you, Lord Marquis. Then Jida would like to send Emperor Ming, Lord Marquis and others a safe journey. The Khan's troops are about to arrive, and you have to cross the river quickly. By the way, I have prepared something for you.
Twenty bamboo rafts are hidden in the grass under the embankment. They are my last gift to you."
Zhang Yanling was overjoyed. It turned out that Asbath had indeed been ready to agree to the promise for a long time, but he did not let anyone see it at all, and even himself, the client, was deceived. This shows that this person has a deep mind, or in other words, his actions
of caution.
"Thank you. I'll see you later." Zhang Yanling said with a cupped hand.
Jida saluted and said: "Goodbye, Lord Marquis. After some tea, we will attack, so you have to move quickly."
Of course Zhang Yanling understood what he meant. He had to pretend to be attacking in order to deceive Batu Munch. So he stopped talking, quickly turned around, and led everyone towards the shore.
Sure enough, among the long grass under the river embankment, everyone quickly found twenty bamboo rafts. The remaining manpower was only about two hundred people, and twenty bamboo rafts were more than enough. I wonder if it was Asbas's plan.
.Everyone immediately boarded the bamboo raft and rowed hard towards the other side.
Soon after, the shouts of killing rose to the sky from the shore, and a large number of Tatar soldiers and horses rushed to the shore. Torches were shining, and arrows came like rain, but they were not close enough. They fell into the river one after another. That was Jeddah.
Lead the men and horses in a feint attack.
Zhu Houzhao sat on the bamboo raft, looking back at the direction of Dushi City, silent and thoughtful. He felt a little regretful. His patrol almost caused serious consequences, thanks to Zhang Yanling's strategizing, and thanks to the lives of many soldiers.
Refuse the enemy, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous. It’s scary to think about it.
The bamboo rafts docked and the moment everyone stepped onto the river bank, everyone let out a long sigh of relief. The extremely exhausted soldiers lay on the ground, laughing loudly, and some even shed tears.
"Congratulations, Your Majesty, you are finally out of trouble."
"Your Majesty is blessed with great blessings, God bless you, thank God."
Liu Jin and others congratulated Zhu Houzhao who was sitting on the stone to rest. Naturally, they were very happy to survive this time. It was really a miracle that they could escape alive.
Zhu Houzhao didn't speak. He looked at Zhang Yanling who was standing on the shore and staring at the other side. Following his gaze, he saw the direction of Dushi City on the high hillside in the distance. The fire there was soaring into the sky, and the entire Dushi City seemed to be on fire.
There was a fire, and the red light lit up the night sky.
Zhu Houzhao stood up and walked over, standing behind Zhang Yanling and said softly: "Uncle, this time, thanks to you. Otherwise I might not have been able to escape this disaster. I thank you uncle very much. Maybe I shouldn't have come here this time. I
Some regrets.”
Zhang Yanling turned around and saluted: "Your Majesty, there is no need to blame yourself. There is nothing to regret about what you have done, and there is no regret medicine in the world. It's just that as the Lord of our Ming Dynasty, every action you take is very involved, so you still need to think carefully about it."
That's good. Your Majesty doesn't need to thank your ministers. I just did what ministers should do. But this time, the emperor has to thank them properly for the soldiers and civilians of Dushi City and the soldiers who died in battle."
Zhu Houzhao nodded and said: "I understand. I will learn the lesson from this time. I will give generous rewards to the soldiers and civilians who died this time. I will also erect monuments for them here and engrave their names to worship them."
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Zhang Yanling smiled and said: "That's what it is. Your Majesty, I'm afraid we have to leave quickly. Look, a large number of enemy troops have arrived at the shore. It should be Batu Monk's troops. Batu Monk shouldn't think so.
Give up. He will continue to cross the river to pursue us. We are not out of danger yet, and we have to go south as quickly as possible through the night. When we encounter our reinforcements, we will truly be out of danger."
Zhu Houzhao was surprised and said: "He still dares to chase?"
Zhang Yanling said: "Why don't you dare? A gambler is so jealous of losing that he can do anything. We can't give him any chance to make a comeback."
Zhu Houzhao nodded heavily.
Zhang Yanling turned to the people sitting on the ground and shouted loudly: "Brothers, grit your teeth and hold on, we have to travel all night."