a pillow in autumn

Zhou Mubai covered Shen Xianxun's body, his figure paused for a moment, and immediately pulled the delicate body covered by the brocade quilt, and said in a loud voice: "Wait a moment in the front hall, you will come when you are isolated." They kissed each other and said comfortingly: "Don't be afraid. I will arrange for the generals to guard the inside and outside of the mansion, and then let the county guard send a team of soldiers over. You have someone lock the door, just in case."

Xian Xun nodded, the flush on his face hadn't faded yet, Mu Bai had turned over, opened the curtain, and jumped off the bed.Shen Xianxun covered her pajamas casually, followed her to wait for her to change, and called the servant girl to bring hot water, Mu Bai took the towel and wiped her face in a hurry, Xianxun and Wen Sheng rushed over Shuyao put on the light armor for her together, Mu Bai squeezed the slender and soft hands, nodded slightly, turned around and walked out.

The five relatives and guards of Prince Rui's Mansion were all waiting in front of the door, and Shen Youtang was stomping around in the front hall. Seeing Zhou Mubai coming in with a sword in his hand, he hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down on one knee to salute, "It's really an urgent military situation, and my subordinates only stayed late at night. Come here and disturb His Highness and Wangfei, please forgive me."

Mu Bai asked him to get up, and walked out of the front hall with him, asking as he walked, "What's going on?"

With a green stubble on his face, Shen Youtang replied: "The tea soldiers attacked at night, and they are already under the city now, there are about ten thousand people."

"More than ten thousand people? Why did they attack the city suddenly? Where are our spies?"

"A few days ago, there was a report that the Tu tribe horse team harassed our border villages and towns. There were thousands of people, and most of them were looting in the villages. However, in five or six days, they swept through more than ten towns in four counties. The soldiers of this county went to encircle and suppress, but the thieves were quick and quick, always avoiding the army, and they did not love to fight. The soldiers did not catch them, but the villagers lost countless money. General Wei sent several teams of spies out, and came back to say that the cavalry was not a team. Instead, several forces rushed across the prefecture, and the number may not be less than ten thousand. General Wei was worried that these cavalry raids were just to cover up people's eyes and ears, but they were actually spying on our army, so he personally brought half of the Red Wing Army to Ren to encircle and suppress the day before yesterday." Shen Youtang paused. After a pause, he went on to say: "I don't know that the horse teams of the Tu tribe went to the vicinity of Ji County together last night as agreed, and I will receive a report from the army. I am afraid that the horse teams are disguised by Tu soldiers. He hurriedly ordered all the ministries in the battalion to immediately set up troops to garrison outside the city, and then sent people to the four fields to report to the general of the guard. Now the Tu army is approaching the city."

The two said they had reached the dismounting stone in front of the mansion, Zhou Mubai took the whip and got on the horse, protected by several personal guards, they ran towards the city gate together.

When I got to the top of the city tower and looked into the distance, I saw that there were troops of tea soldiers and horses all over the city outside the city, but they were not formed into a square formation, but scattered in a scattered manner.Shen Youtang frowned in confusion: "Why are there so many more people?"

Shen Yan and Shen Lan jumped up the tower and reported back together. Within an hour, several teams came one after another, with different numbers, different banners, and no one to fight.From the looks of it, he looked like a bandit from the Tu clan who specialized in robbing people and property.

Zhou Mubai waited and watched for a while, and asked, "How much military strength do we have in Ji County now?"

"General Wei led away half of the Red Wing Army, and there were 5000 people defending the city with the deputy generals. Ji County originally had 2 defenders. If you add the soldiers from all over the place, there will be nearly 4. People. But there are only [-] cavalry among them." Xu Youci stood on the top of the wall and reported one by one, holding a book in his hand.

Zhou Mubai thought about it intently, and then ordered all the lieutenants to go up to the tower with the military officers such as the garrison general of Ji County and Captain Zhechong. She pointed to the horse soldiers of the Tu tribe who were approaching not far away, and said, "There is about to be here. There are more than [-] soldiers, which is equivalent to the number of elite cavalry in our army, but in order to prevent other thieves from gathering in the future, the lonely king wants you to take all [-] soldiers to attack, so as to wipe out the enemy army as quickly as possible."

All the soldiers led the way out.

The sky had already dawned, Zhou Mubai stood on the top of the city with his sword in his hand, and saw the army of the Rui Kingdom coming out of the city in full force. The central army had 1 cavalry, and the left and right wings had [-] soldiers.The tea soldiers fought bravely at first, but perhaps they were mobs with different dispatches. After fighting back and forth several times, they left many wounded soldiers and scattered and retreated.

That night Zhou Mubai returned to the Red Wing Army barracks with the army, comforted the wounded and counted the results of the battle.Xu Youci and Zhang Minzhi led people to count the injured generals and reported back overnight.

A few tallow candles were burning in the middle camp, reflecting the inside of the tent like daylight.Standing beside Zhou Mubai, Shen Youtang looked at the distribution of the sand table with her, thinking that when General Wei Jinpeng came back, he would discuss with him, so as to root out these large groups of thieves.

The two chatted for a while, they were about to go back to their tents to rest, when they heard Shen Yan say outside the tent, Qu Bin came, begging to see Prince Rui.

From Ye Jun to Ji Jun, it takes two days of fast horse work, Qu Bin came late at night, could it be that something happened to the crown prince?Zhou Mubai and Shen Youtang glanced at each other, making people come in.

Qu Bin saluted and bowed his hands. The prince heard that there were Tu troops in the four counties of the border city causing trouble and disturbing the people, and the number increased, so he sent more people out. Judging from the news that the spies reported one after another, they must be the subordinates of King Jian of the Tu clan.The prince was worried that the Red Wing Army would suffer losses, so he specially sent Qu Bin to Ji County to gradually explain the situation of Wang's tribe to Prince Rui.

"Is the flag of the Jianjiang tribe a wolf head totem? There are several large flags in the wild today, all of which have this pattern on them." Shen Youtang asked with a frown as he recalled what happened on the battlefield during the day.

Qu Bin nodded and said: "Yes. The Jianjiang tribe is one of the four major tribes of the Tu tribe, just like the Rizhu tribe, but the king of Jianjiang is fierce and brutal. He often spends a lot of money to gather bandits and thieves everywhere, and then plunder them everywhere. Because of this gang The Tu soldiers were originally born as sinners. They burned, murdered, and committed all kinds of crimes. Gradually the tribe has a very bad reputation in the Tu tribe, but it is the most wealthy. His Royal Highness speculates that this time, gradually the king will be imprisoned. , disturbing my border towns and villages, it is very likely that the prince who is going to seize the throne is selected, and this method is used to establish prestige among the clansmen and also to collect money for the struggle for imperial power."

Zhou Mubai was meditating with his hands behind his back under the lamp, and suddenly said: "Most thieves are lunatics who don't hesitate to die, why did they throw away their helmets and armor before the damage was deep in today's battle?"

"Will it be to find out the strength of our troops first?" Shen Youtang also touched his chin.

Qu Bin waited for them to discuss for a while, and then said: "The crown prince ordered the humble minister to tell His Highness that the tribe has gradually become more cunning and ruthless, and has done things like massacre the city to collect money. Please, His Highness Prince Rui, take more precautions. And take care of yourself."

Zhou Mubai frowned after listening, and asked a few more questions about the prince's healing, and he was relieved when he heard that he was recovering.

Several people talked a few more words, and went back to their tents to rest.When the sky was getting dark and the first horn sounded in the camp, Qu Bin led the horses, took his leave and left.

Zhou Mubai stretched out his posture in front of the tent under the morning light, danced his sword once, and asked Shen Yan who was beside him for some sword moves, Shen Lan approached happily, but was thrown away by his brother's two swords.

Mu Bai smiled and watched them fight for a while, then put away his sword and went back to the camp.The pen, ink, paper and inkstone and the meals in the camp were already set up in the tent. Mubai had eaten breakfast, cleaned her hands, and unfolded a few pieces of ribbed heavy silver paper on the desk. She contemplated for a while, and wrote down the recent military affairs one by one. , handed it over to a personal guard, and his own military post envoy sent the handwriting back to the capital.

Shen Youtang's voice came from outside the tent, Zhou Mubai let him in, Shen Youtang raised the tent curtain, before entering the tent, he saw a soldier rushing to the tent, knelt down in front of the tent and said: "His Royal Highness, Jijunjuncheng last night Attacked, the county guard sent someone to report."

Zhou Mubai immediately got up and shouted, "Where are you!"

The soldier took a step back, and a person next to him knelt forward, crying and said, "Late last night, the Tu army joined forces from inside and outside, and ransacked most of the rich households in Ji County.

It turned out that after the mechanical battle outside the city yesterday, the Tu army feigned defeat and fled. They secretly sent Tu soldiers to pretend to be the people of the Rui country, and entered the city in the chaos. Thousands of fine cavalry who were eyeing the side were introduced into the city.

The garrison general received the news and immediately arranged for soldiers to resist. The Tu army was only for money, and he knew that the garrison would come quickly. After entering the city, he immediately scattered and searched for the big households in the courtyard. Evacuated.

Zhou Mubai became angry when he heard the news, and pointed to Xu Youci who had heard the news and asked how much the Red Wing Army had suffered yesterday, and how many fighters were able to fight today, and asked Zhang Min where he could be found now when he sent a letter to Wei Jinpeng the other day. Have you heard back.

Xu Youci and Zhang Minzhi bowed to answer, and suddenly another soldier rushed in, Yanji county urgently reported that Zhou Mubai sent someone to enter the account, the man knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and said with a mournful face: "His Royal Highness, Rui... Princess Rui was kidnapped by the Tu army."

Zhou Mubai was already standing behind the case. Hearing this, he put his hands on the table and said word by word through gritted teeth: "What's going on, tell the lonely king clearly!"

Seeing her angry eyes and deep voice, the messenger knew that she was extremely angry, and said tremblingly: "Yesterday, the Tu army sneaked into the city and attacked in the middle of the night..."

"Bang!" A sapphire pen container hit the courier's face, rubbed his forehead and smashed to the ground, and the courier immediately fell to the ground and kowtowed again.The blue veins on Zhou Mubai's forehead popped up, he clenched his fists and stared at him fiercely, and said: "The lonely king is asking the princess! What does it mean to be robbed!"

The messenger suppressed the trembling, and returned tremblingly: the Tu army had all retreated before dawn, most of the wealthy households in the city were robbed, and all those who resisted were slaughtered.The county guard and the general guarding the city sent people to count the losses, and when they heard that people from Prince Rui's mansion had come to report the news, they hurriedly took them to the other courtyard.

The county guard knew that a catastrophe was imminent, so he didn't dare to hide it. While arranging messengers to deliver the letter on a flying horse, he and the guard sent people along the retreat route of the Tu army to search.

His voice had already fallen, and no one in the big tent dared to answer.Zhou Mubai stood behind the table, pursing his lips without saying a word, clasping his fingers tightly on the table, almost sinking into the wood.

Shen Youtang could only call out: "Your Highness."

Zhou Mubai raised his hand suddenly, there was a sound of gold and stone falling to the ground, and all the four treasures of the study on the table were thrown under the table.

"Send Gu Wang's order, order troops immediately!" She said in a deep voice.

"Your Highness!" Shen Youtang took a step forward, stopped the commander who was about to go out, and said to Zhou Mubai: "Your Highness wants to find the princess? Where do you want to go first?"

Zhou Mubai turned his head sullenly, stared at him and said, "Go to Tu Jun!"

"Yesterday, the army that attacked the city was not the only one. It is still unknown where the princess was robbed. Your Highness sent troops rashly. I'm afraid that the result will be half the result." Shen Youtang frowned and said seriously: "And yesterday's battle, the Red Wing Army also had a thousand people Injury, your Highness, why don't you wait for the detection report to come back, so that you can hit the enemy with one blow."

"I can wait, Wangfei, can I wait?" Zhou Mubai held up his saber and was about to leave the tent.

Shen Youtang walked over the table with a few steps, knelt down in front of her and said anxiously: "The Tu army doesn't know that she is Princess Rui, she must be locked up with the kidnapped woman, her life will be safe. In the Red Wing Camp At this time there are only over ten thousand soldiers, if His Highness wants to lead people out, at least he has to wait for General Wei Jinpeng to bring his troops back, otherwise, if the army of the Tu clan attacks, who can command the army, and where can the army defend against the enemy?"

"Shen Youtang!" Zhou Mubai said coldly with red eyes, "She is the king's wife!"

"Your Highness! She is Princess Rui and my own younger sister. How could I not feel sorry for her?" Shen Youtang's eyes were flushed, but he still insisted: "It's just that Ji County has been looted once, if the army comes again, I am afraid that what is lost is not the gold and silver, but the door of our country." He kowtowed and said with a sob: "I beg Your Highness to put the overall situation first."

"The overall situation is the most important thing." Zhou Mubai smiled suddenly, the smile was shallow but gentle, she murmured in a low voice: "The world is on my shoulders, only she is on my heart." Then she ordered in a cold voice: "Everyone The deputy generals stand still! Shen Yan and Shen Lan, take the guards of the palace, and leave the camp alone!"

"Your Highness! The white dragon fish suit is tantamount to taking risks alone!"

"I've made up my mind! Anyone who dares to persuade me will be dealt with by military law!"

"Your Highness!" Shen Youtang knelt down on one knee, and suddenly pulled out the saber of a lieutenant beside him, and put it directly on his throat, "Shen Youtang's lifelong ambition is to assist the Lord of Heroes and bring prosperity to the world. Your Highness must do what he wants... just Step over Wei Chen's corpse!"

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