Better to live forever [Rebirth]

The lonely smoke in the desert, withered grass and yellow sand.

A battle had just ended, the Huns retreated ten miles away, and the soldiers outside the city gate were collecting the corpses of their comrades in arms, collecting weapons, and clearing the battlefield.Occasionally there is the sound of calling for someone to come over and help, and there are also scenes of crying silently holding the corpse and refusing to move.Zhu Dingbei and his party arrived at the border at this time.

A sentinel had already rushed back to inform that the food and grass were coming, Zhu Zhengbei led his entourage out of the city gate to meet him, and soon met Zhu Dingbei and Ning Heng.

"Brother!" Zhu Zhengbei drove forward and said happily, "I finally got you here. Did the journey go smoothly? Are you tired?"

Zhu Dingbei pushed his sword against him with a whip, and said: "This is not a place to talk, let's go first."

Zhu Zhengbei quickly agreed.

Under the gate of the city, the collected corpses were piled up into a hill, Zhu Dingbei jumped off his horse and said to the escort sent by the imperial court: "You go into the city with the army first."

Zhu Zhenliang was also under the city gate. In front of the mountain of corpses, he was reciting his eulogy. From time to time, soldiers raised their hands to wipe away their tears. The crowd stood up straight with solemn expressions.

"Erlang, go all the way."

After he finished his last sentence, he threw the torch into the mountain of corpses, and after a while, the raging fire wrapped the dead warrior in it.The crowd followed the commander in kneel and saluted, and escorted the comrades along this section of Huangquan Road, silently, only the sound of the burning fire.Brother Zhu Zhengbei followed and saluted, and they stood up only after the fire was slowly extinguished.

"Longevity! Here we come!"

When Zhu Zhenliang turned his head and saw his youngest son, he immediately showed a smile.

"Is the road going well? Are you hungry? Are you tired?" He asked repeatedly before he walked in.Zhu Dingbei laughed, "Father, I'm a little hungry, let's go to the city quickly."

Seeing that Zhu Zhenliang completely ignored Ning Heng beside him, he pulled Ning Heng's hand, and the latter hurriedly saluted, "Father..."

"Ahem!" Zhu Zhenliang cleared his throat heavily, and interrupted him: "Aren't you hungry, get on the horse! Your mother knows you're coming, and even cooked meat for you." He babbled , did not give Ning Heng a chance to speak at all, Zhu Dingbei had no choice but to follow him on his horse and rush back to the commander's mansion temporarily expropriated in the city.

After a full meal, the few people didn't have time to talk about family matters. When Zhu Dingbei asked about the battle situation, Zhu Zhenliang naturally explained in detail.

"Now we both retain our strength with the Xiongnu. We haven't sent out the most elite soldiers to fight, and the heavy armored soldiers of the Huns are still missing. But now that the food and grass have arrived, we don't have to worry about it anymore. When the battle starts tomorrow, I will kill them Go back. As for the new army sent to the states, I have already taken advantage of the opportunity of the branch army to go to Liangzhou to let them break out and go to Qinzhou, Yizhou and Pingzhou."

Now that the battle has not yet reached its peak, both sides have retained their strength. Neither the light armored cavalry of Zhu's army nor the heavy armored soldiers of the Xiongnu have yet entered the battle, and they have already tested each other first.Of course, only they themselves know whether each other has tampered with each other's military camp.

As for the million Xianbei new army, although it was only the third year of training, they were already better than ordinary soldiers.Xianbei was guarded by the Zhu family army. After 20 new troops went to Liangzhou, the remaining 80 recruits were too many. These people were secretly sent to Pingzhou and the southwest border by them. military response.

In addition to the 30 Zhu's army, the Xianbei Mansion also left 20 new troops. When the war is fully launched, it will be the time for these sons and daughters to make a name for the Dajing new army.

Zhu Dingbei nodded.

Zhu Zhengbei said from the side: "Changsheng, all the elite soldiers want to see you, and they are already waiting in the study."

Zhu Dingbei was stunned for a moment, then smiled slightly. It was time to see each other. The soldiers he had carefully trained had become famous on the border in the past few years. He should also see their growth with his own eyes.

The sound of breathing was so quiet in the study room, if one hadn't seen it with one's own eyes, it would be hard to believe that there were fifteen tall and burly men standing inside.They stood upright one by one, even in the city's commander-in-chief's mansion, they didn't relax a bit, but people couldn't feel that they had the murderous aura that should belong to the battlefield spears to wash blood, as if they were staying peacefully on the sword. It was like a sword with no sharpness in its sheath. It was not until Zhu Dingbei pushed the door in that they suddenly "lived".

"Subordinates refer to the lord!"

The voices of the 15 people were like one person, not too loud, but anyone could hear the excitement in their words.

Zhu Dingbei stood where he was, looked at them carefully, and smiled gratifiedly: "Get up, you have done a good job these years, and you have never let me down."

"Thank you, my lord!"

Such a simple sentence made the leaders of the fifteen elite soldiers look like children praised by their elders, with mottled joy in their eyes, which made Zhu Zhenliang and Zhu Zhengbei sneer in amazement.They have been in contact with these 15 people for some years. Although they are not proud of their talents, they are really deserted. They are usually like boring stones. They have no expression or take the initiative to say a word.

It is also such small details that let them see the reverence and enthusiasm of these elite soldiers for Zhu Dingbei as a god, and they can't help but wonder how his son Adi trained these people in less than three years. Become a peerless and capable soldier.

After Zhu Zhenliang and his son were seated, Zhu Dingbei sat down with Ning Heng. He took a fancy to his confidant and elite soldiers, raised his hand and said, "Sit down, how is the arrangement on the Xiongnu's side?"

Now is not the time to reminisce about the past, Zhu Dingbei has always been capable in front of his elite soldiers, and asked directly to the point.

And these elite soldiers came to see Zhu Dingbei without waiting for him to rest on the day when he entered and exited the border town. Of course, they were not all for the sake of seeing the lord.

Jiang Wenyu, the leader of the elite soldiers, replied: "My lord, everything is going according to plan, and we are only waiting for your order."

Zhu Dingbei thought for a while, and said: "Tomorrow, I will work with you. My father will only send troops to attack if he does not receive the news that I have asked people to stop before midnight tomorrow. At that time, the three cities south of the Xiongnu It's in our pocket."

Zhu Zhengbei clapped his legs and applauded: "Very good! This battle was neither painful nor pleasant. I can't wait for a long time. Dad, tomorrow night I will lead the troops to join forces with Brother Li Yingwai, and we will dedicate the three cities of the Xiongnu to you." Daddy!"

Seeing this, Zhu Zhenliang hesitated to let Zhu Dingbei take the risk himself, but he could only agree.

Ning Heng said: "Changsheng, I'll be with you—"

"No." Zhu Dingbei interrupted him, "Starting tomorrow, the frail and sickly Zhenbei Hou will be bedridden in his mansion because of the inaccuracy of the climate. You will distribute food and grass and rewards from His Majesty to the various armies, and you will have to inspire the troops on behalf of His Majesty." .”

Ning Heng came with the emperor's order, unlike him, and Zhu Dingbei didn't want to expose his identity prematurely, especially where his identity was hidden from the Xiongnu and Qiang, so they had an extra card.When Ning Heng heard the words, he had no choice but to give up.Seeing this, Zhu Dingbei and the leader of the elite army carefully discussed the matter of sneaking into the Xiongnu tomorrow and reuniting with his own hidden stake, until late at night.

It was not yet clear on the second day, and Zhu Dingbei and his party went out of the city gate to Kelan City, the main city on the border of the Huns.

Soon afterward, horns sounded on the observation deck at the gate of the border city—the enemy army is coming!

On the plain outside the border city, the Xiongnu soldiers who wanted to break through the city fought fiercely. Catapults were fired continuously, and the two armies fought like a raging fire.The leader of the Xiongnu, Gu Erqing, put down his clairvoyance—it was exactly the same finished product as Dajing's best clairvoyance, but he used the extremely rare Moon Crystal obtained by Dajing a few years ago!

Gu Erqing said: "What's the matter, Zhu Zhenliang is no longer leading the battle at the city gate today?"

Hearing this, the subordinates hurriedly sent someone to inquire about the news, and responded after a short while: "General, Zhu Zhenliang's most beloved youngest son was among the people who sent grain to the city in Dajing yesterday. I heard that he fell ill as soon as he entered the city. Diarrhea, Zhu Zhenliang and his son were frightened to death, not only he, but Zhu Zhengbei, the young commander of Zhu's army, did not come out to fight today."

"The most beloved youngest son?" Gu Erqing said coldly: "The king asked us to grab food several times on the way to grab Zhu Zhenliang's heart, but it turned out to be good! We didn't even burn a bag of food and grass, and let us They made it into the city! Damn it!"

The subordinates were trembling, who would have thought that Dajing's grain transportation team this time was so cunning, not only did they cover up the whereabouts of the real grain transportation team with a few pairs of disguised teams, but also killed every person they sent.The king was already furious because of this matter, they missed the best opportunity, it is not easy to destroy this batch of food and grass, and Zhu Jiajun's acquisition of this batch of food and grass will be like a tiger with wings added, which is extremely unfavorable to them!

The subordinate knew that the general was very angry, so he carefully persuaded him: "No one in the world knows that Zhu Zhenliang's youngest son was taken back to Beijing as a hostage by Emperor Dajing, and he was assassinated in his early years and became a sick child. But even a woman can't sleep, so what's the use? The subordinates guessed that his health might fail early in the morning. The emperor was afraid that his death in Beijing would cause the Zhu family's army to dislike, so he simply threw this trouble to the border. Whether it is life or death It has nothing to do with him. Looking at it this way, that kid won't be able to last for a few more days. When he dies, Zhu Zhenliang will be in chaos, and it will give us an opportunity to take advantage of it. General, don't be impatient. If you don't want to wait, it's your fault I will arrange for him to be sent to the underworld in advance."

The subordinate made a gesture of wiping his neck.

And this subordinate speaks in a very eloquent manner, with an awkward Hun accent. Compared with Changshengtian, he seems to believe in Buddhism.Looking at his facial features, it was clear that the one who was born was a Dajing man, not a Hun. I don't know what kind of experience made such a thin Dajing man become the most capable assistant beside the Hun border guard.

Seeing the hatred in his eyes, Gu Erqing couldn't help but smile from the bottom of his heart when he saw that he had murderous intentions towards a boy he had never met before.Very well, compared to the loyalty of this military adviser, what he wants more is his hatred, the hatred for Zhu Jiajun and Dajing!