People in the Middle Ages, draw cards to get promoted

Chapter 616 Convergence
"Morning."

Jeanne stood on the pier, stretching her limbs which had been curled up for half the night.

Although it is autumn, the grassland, which has just experienced freezing rain, is still too cold compared to Egypt, which is already in late autumn and about to enter winter.

Last night, they rested on top of this pier. If they wandered aimlessly, they might as well find out where to meet up with Losa first, otherwise they might go in the opposite direction and get further and further away.

"Good morning, Miss... I'm sorry that you guys have to suffer in this cramped place."

"It's nothing. We are not ordinary people. According to what you say here, we are more or less Qigong practitioners or martial arts masters. It's good enough to have a place to shelter from the wind and rain."

Jeanna said very casually that when she led the Holy Knights to hunt down a "cannibal", they slept in the open air for more than ten days on the steppes of East Europe before going deep into the cave and judging the monster in the cave full of rotting corpses.

She has been through so many harsh environments.

After talking to Jeanne for a few words, Zhang San felt dizzy. Not to mention the village women he saw every day, even the concubine of the great official of the Li family, whom he had caught a glimpse of at market time and whom he thought about every night, was just a mediocre woman.

It would be fine if it was just this girl who was beautiful, but the women around her who were wearing veils, although their faces could not be seen, just by looking at the pointed chins and their figures, they must be beauties that are one in a million.

Are all the women in this foreign country so beautiful?
"Are you planning to meet up with your delegation next?"

"Yes."

"The delegation followed His Majesty the Emperor on his journey, but was forced to split up due to food and fodder constraints. They have already left the Great Wall, so it is not easy to find them."

Who knows, they might have been killed by the Tatars a long time ago.

Jeanna nodded: "So we plan to go to Tumubao to look for your emperor's carriage. Our delegation is not ready to return home yet, so we have to reunite with your emperor."

"That's it"

There was a hint of reluctance in Zhang San's tone.

The days of guarding the mound are hard. Not to mention women, even a hen or a ewe is hard to find on this grassland.

I wanted to do some needlework in private, but I could hardly imagine what a woman looked like.

"Girls, please wait a moment. I will go and inform our leader."

Zhang San walked into the pier and saw his boss yawning. His eyes were bloodshot, and it was obvious that he had not slept all night. "Boss, aren't you being too cautious?"

The flag officer lowered his voice and cursed: "You are all just like a bunch of animals. You can't move when you see a woman. All our guards have been killed long ago."

"Hey, didn't the fourth brother say that he asked the immortals? These are just a group of ordinary girls."

"Get lost."

The flag officer pushed Zhang San away in a bad mood, without even thinking about it. If Lao Si really served the immortals, why would he stay here with them? He would have been walking around the streets and earning money from those dignitaries.

Among these women, the armor worn by the leader is not simple, and the mount under her crotch is a one-in-a-million divine horse. How could she be an ordinary girl?
If they were really weak women, how could they have come this far? They would have been kidnapped by strong men and road bullies long ago!

However, contrary to the expectations of the flag officer, after preparing fodder for their mounts, the women dropped a few beautifully shaped coins and left in a neat and tidy manner.

Everyone watched them disappear at the foot of the mountain in the distance without making any unnecessary moves.

The flag officer breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhang San teased, "Boss, I told you that you are too cautious. How could a beautiful woman who makes the girl so heroic and generous be a bad person?"

The flag officer couldn't help but kick the idiot: "Idiot, didn't you see that after these Hu women entered the tower last night, even Erhu didn't dare to bark? Last time a wolf demon sneaked in, Erhu dared to pounce on it and bite it, why are you so afraid of these ordinary women?"

Erhu is a dog raised in the mound. He has a ferocious temperament and will bark non-stop once he senses a strange smell. He has saved more than one life in this mound.

"The boss is right. I didn't dare to do that all night last night. I was still holding the knife handle under the quilt."

"Hey, isn't that okay?"

Zhang San and his fellow soldiers did not take it seriously and gathered around him to express their doubts.

"Boss, you are well-informed. Tell us, are all Hu Ji so beautiful?"

The flag officer was speechless for a while, and then he cursed: "How can I say I am well-informed? If I were really well-informed, why would I lead you guys to guard the tower here?"

He paused and continued, "But these Hu Ji's looks and figures are indeed outstanding. It seems that even the ladies in the palace are no more than this, right?"

Nothing happened all morning.

Just when the flag officer thought that peaceful days would return to normal, a cry suddenly came from the lookout tower.

"Boss, come up and take a look, a large group of people are approaching!"

The flag officer took two steps at a time and climbed up to the observation tower. He looked into the distance and saw a row of cavalrymen in distinctive armor on a distant hill. They looked aggressive and had blood on their bodies, marching towards this side.

"What banner are they flying?"

"No, I don't recognize it. It looks like an eagle with two heads, and there are horizontal and vertical symbols."

"Wait, the young lady said before that their foreign delegation seemed to be flying this kind of banner!"

But then I saw two people riding horses out of the team.

It was hard to see clearly from a distance, but when they got closer, everyone gasped. The man in the lead was wearing a golden mask and distinctive armor, obviously the same style as the one the girl was wearing.

This is nothing, at most it makes people sigh at how majestic the general is!

What really frightened the soldiers guarding the tower was the huge horse under his crotch. The horse ridden by the "servant" beside him was also a good horse, but compared with the one under the knight's crotch, it was like a foal that had not grown up!
"Oh my god, how come this horse is so big? Has it become a monster?"

"Is this really the Hu people's delegation?"

Xiao Qi said coldly: "What are you still standing there for? Everyone, be on guard."

But the man following the giant horse knight shouted, "My fellow soldiers, I am Yebushou Xiaoqi of the Datong Guard. Your Majesty is trapped in Tumubao, and I have been ordered to lead the delegation led by the prince of Ha to rescue him."

The flag officer poked his head out and asked, "Do you have any proof?"

"The cards are proof!"

The man shouted, holding up the token in his hand.

Zhang San said, "Boss, they should not be fake. These foreign barbarians look very different from the Tartars and us. It is not easy to find someone to impersonate them. The armor they wear is also very novel, which is in line with their foreign identities."

The flag officer was silent for a moment, then shouted, "You are covered in blood, but have you experienced a great battle?"

The people below replied: "We just encountered a group of several hundred Tatar cavalrymen and have wiped them out completely."

Xiaoqi nodded and said, "I believe in your identities, but the pier is narrow and cannot accommodate you. Since you are the king's loyal army, if you need anything, we will do our best to provide it!"

The knight on the giant horse took off his mask, revealing a handsome face of a barbarian with short golden hair. "You are so cautious, but you don't even think about the use of my thousands of troops to trick your small tower into breaking open?"

"Send down some water. This is a reward for you."

As he spoke, the knight threw out dozens of gold coins, which were embedded in the stone pillar behind him like a strong bow and crossbow.

(End of this chapter)