Heaven is fearless

On the vast grassland, the waist-high grass has turned yellow. Contrary to the imagination of most people living in the south, the grass on the grassland is not the kind of fluffy and thin leaves that reach the ankles. It grows in the cold north. The grass branches and leaves in the new wind are straight, and a child can easily disappear if they burrow into it. Even an adult, as long as he pays attention to his whereabouts, he can hide in this terrifying wilderness like a primitive jungle.

It was late autumn, and the grassland began to enter the rest season. The nomadic Bei Rong had to chase water and grass deeper into the grassland, but this did not mean that the grassland was safe. The iron barrels guarding the main roads are like ordinary, and Wei's scouts have been unable to go deep.

Suddenly, a face slowly appeared among the blades of grass without any abnormality.

This face was extremely dirty, covered with thick mud and grass juice, only the eyes, mouth and a few mouths of the nose were left to prove that it was still a living person.

He looked out a few times, then slowly retracted into the grass, only then could he see that in the grass nest behind him, there were more than a dozen open-mouthed clay figurines exactly like him, sitting or lying, crowded together They leaned close together, exuding an indescribable stench.

"General, there is no movement, the group of Beirong people have passed by." The mud face who poked his head out to see whispered.

The mud figurine of the general sitting on the outermost side opened his eyes. As soon as those eyes opened, they showed that they were different from other people. They were all clay figurines. A little more expensive.

"Okay, let's tidy up, let's go deeper, today's goal is to reach Beirong Royal Court!"

With a slightly hoarse voice, Chu Zhang raised his hand first, picked up the mud under the grass roots beside him, and with a fierce air-pasted it on his face.

There are many wild animals in the grassland, and the Beirong people are good at driving dogs to find people. They have not been caught in the grassland for many days, and they rely on mud to cover their breath.

What's more, the grassland mosquitoes in the middle of the night are everywhere like fog, and they also contain toxins. Once bitten, they will be painful and itchy for a whole day, and sometimes they will bleed continuously. up.

And after a narrow encounter with a Beirong scout, the machete of the Beirong people left only a white mark on the dried mud, which made everyone enthusiastic about the great cause of muddying themselves.

Having said that, why did Chu Zhang take these people wandering on the grassland?

The matter has to go back to the day when he received Shao Tianhuan's letter to go to Changzhou to take up his post.

The Beirong people set up an ambush on the way and wiped out the entire food transport team. The infantry couldn't even organize a decent line of defense against the cavalry.

Chu Zhang and some soldiers were captured, pretending that he could cheat the Beirong people to open the Changzhou city gate to save their lives. On the way, taking advantage of the Beirong people's unpreparedness, they violently murdered and fled after killing their horses. Except for those scattered into the forest, there are only 1000 people who survived with Chu Zhang.

Moreover, the Beirong army that ambushed them probably lost their way themselves, and led them not to go in the direction of Changzhou at all, but went round and round and entered the grassland. They may want to detour Changzhou City and meet the army that is attacking the city from the front. Thinking of the many mountains in the Central Plains of Wei Dynasty, this group of Beirong people were dizzy, and directly pulled Chuzhang and the others into the grassland.

The periphery of the grassland is full of Beirong troops, and there are always scouts patrolling. It is impossible for Chu Zhang and the others to go out, so they simply gritted their teeth and did the opposite, walking all the way along the river to Beirong Wangting. .

They slept during the day and drove at night. When they encountered a small group of Beirong scouts, they rushed to kill and rob horses. After six days, each of these regular Wei soldiers had practiced the insidious trick of digging traps and tripping horses. When dismounting and resting, he jumped out of the river with a reed pipe in his mouth and bored them ruthlessly, turning himself into a seasoned bandit who murdered and robbed himself.

The disappearance of a small group of cavalry did not attract the attention of the upper echelons of Beirong. Chu Zhang was also very cautious and never made a big noise. The corpses were thrown into puddles or rivers. If they couldn't be dealt with, they imitated the bite of wolves When the wound came, he just killed more than a dozen cavalry soldiers under the noses of the Beirong people.

Chu Zhang sucked the dew from the blades of grass beside him to moisten his throat, and when he looked towards the wind in the direction of Changzhou City, there was an imperceptible worry in his smiling eyes.

It was no accident that the Beirong people ambushed the grain transport team. Langya's grain team was gone. What about the others?

If there is no food and grass, what will happen to Changzhou City?What should His Highness do?

All kinds of worries made him breathless, but he couldn't fly back to Changzhou even if he put on his wings, so he could only find another way - if something happened to the Beirong royal court, then the Beirong army surrounding Changzhou would have to withdraw even if they didn't want to withdraw their troops !

Chu Zhang once again looked at the surviving comrades beside him, feeling a silent gloom in his heart.

They all trusted him, entrusted their lives to him, and believed that he could lead them out of the grassland. Even if he said to go to the royal court, they would follow him without hesitation, but he took them to die...

Chu Zhang was so overwhelmed by the heavy guilt, all he could do was try his best to let them live a little longer, and then... die in the royal court together with them.

Suppressing his full of thoughts, Chu Zhang grinned, and patted the guy next to him who was still wiping mud carefully: "Are you putting on rouge?!"

The people around laughed secretly, holding the knife gleefully and booing: "My mother-in-law is not so careful in applying rouge."

"...After the third son marries a wife, the two of them can apply rouge together."

"Hey hey hey, what's this called, boudoir love?"

A group of people were chattering and joking about their colleagues, relaxing in their rare leisure time. The three sons being ridiculed were the youngest among them. Chu Zhang was already eighteen years old, and he was only 17 years old, replacing his father. Hearing this, the man who came to serve in the military rolled his eyes. In the dirty mud, his eyes were white and bright, round and big: "I don't have the same knowledge as you."

As the sky gradually darkened, Chu Zhang waved his hands towards them, and a group of people shut their mouths, like ghosts, amidst the rustling of grass leaves, they swam out of their hiding places like ghosts, and once again turned into sharp blades in the night, Pounced on the unsuspecting Beirong people.

******

In Changzhou City, Shao Tianhuan sat in front of the couch with a heavy expression, staring at the bowl of porridge in front of him.

The porridge is clear and transparent, and half a bowl of rice under the water can be clearly counted. On the side of the black lacquered plate are a few pickles for the porridge, which is so shabby that it makes people feel sad.

Shao Tianhuan looked at the bowl of white porridge, his hands were trembling with anger, he lifted and put down, put down and lifted, but he still didn't dare to overturn the table.

At the beginning, when the guards served him rice mixed with bran, he once overturned the table, and it turned out that he had nothing to eat that day. Eat to be hungry.

The crown prince of Great Wei kept his promise, Shao Tianhuan finally gave in after being hungry for two days, but today, he felt that he couldn't take it anymore.

But forget about rice mixed with rice bran, it can fill your stomach anyway, and the food delivered is getting more and more perfunctory day by day, until today, it has been replaced by gruel!Do you think he has no temper and is easy to bully!

Shao Tianhuan gritted his teeth and asked, "What does he mean by that? Even if you want to humiliate me, you should use some tricks that are on the table!"

The guard who brought the food was unsmiling, and said sternly: "The second prince has misunderstood. The army has been short of food these days, and His Royal Highness eats the same way. He didn't treat you very harshly."

"What did you say? He also eats this?" Shao Tianhuan didn't think the other party was lying to him, after all, it was meaningless to lie to him.

He sat up straight and thought for a while: "There is a shortage of food in the army? What does this mean? Has no one brought food?"

The guard looked a little surprised, as if he didn't expect that the idiot-like second prince could ask such a well-organized question. After thinking about it, he replied softly: "A few days ago, the food delivery team made a mistake. COFCO's grass reserves have bottomed out, and His Royal Highness ordered to reduce the diet and give priority to supplying the soldiers who are fighting the enemy."

Shao Tianhuan's expression changed again and again, and finally he was fixed on a flustered channel. He suddenly reached out and grabbed the clothes of the guards: "Father, did you send reinforcements?"

The guard paused for a moment and replied politely: "Changzhou has been besieged for many days. There is no communication with the outside world, and no reinforcements have been seen. Everything in the city is cumbersome. If there is any failure to take care of it, please forgive me."

He almost said that everyone is busy, so please stop making trouble.

Shao Tianhuan didn't know if he heard what he meant, he lowered his head and thought for a while, his face was cloudy, and finally he slowly picked up the spoon and started to drink the porridge. The guard stood aside for a while, seeing that he had no other orders, Quietly backed out.

After listening to the guard's report, Shao Tianheng put down the document in his hand, picked up the bowl and drank his share of porridge, motioned him to remove the bowl and chopsticks, and poured himself a glass of water: "How is the situation of the soldiers below?"

The guard replied: "The situation is not bad. Everyone's emotions are very stable. They know that food and grass are limited, but they are not overly panicked."

Shao Tianheng breathed a sigh of relief.

When there is a shortage of food and grass, the most feared thing is the mutiny of the soldiers at the bottom. If the soldiers on the front line defending against the enemy are in a different mood, it will be difficult to defend Changzhou City.

The lack of food could not be hidden from others, so Shao Tianheng simply explained the matter clearly, and at the same time hinted that the reinforcements were on the way, and as long as they defended Changzhou, they would be able to survive.

But where did the reinforcements come from? He didn't expect Wei Di's stupid old man to send reinforcements at all. He might as well have counted on Bei Rong to suddenly receive an order from the royal court to withdraw his troops.

Now, it's all about which side consumes more energy.

Shao Tianheng lowered his eyes, changed a pen, spread out the paper, and began to write a letter to Chu Zhang who didn't know where he was as promised.

******

Blood was splashing on Chu Zhang's face like scorching flames. He held a Beirong scimitar in each hand, and wore a leather robe unique to Beirong people, and rushed forward with his head muffled.

The blade pierced through the soft abdomen and chest of the human body, and brought out a splash of blood, which was poured on the cold ground. The comrades who followed him ran around the camp tacitly, and when they saw the tent, they set it on fire and chopped off the sheep. Thousands of cattle and sheep were driven out by the railings of the fence. The cattle and sheep, awakened by the swaying flames in the night, neighed in horror and rushed out one after another, like thunder leaping on the grassland in the middle of the night.

The oncoming man froze on a ferocious expression. Chu Zhang kicked his body away and wiped the blood on his face. He couldn't remember how many people he had killed. Escape, set fire, kill, escape...

He has done this set of procedures so well that he is still in a dream until now—he actually led seventeen people across the entire grassland and plunged into the strictly guarded royal court of Beirong.

The royal court of Beirong does not refer to a city, but refers to the tent where the king of Beirong lives. Every time Beirong moves to the royal court, it has to bring tens of thousands of cattle and sheep and sheep plundered from the Wei Dynasty to shepherd them. Slaves, the great nobles also brought their wives and concubines, cattle, sheep and slaves to migrate together. In this way, every move of the royal court was a huge project, so there would always be places that could not be taken care of.

Chu Zhang and the others put on the Beirong leather armor obtained from intercepting the cavalry and paired with Beirong's scimitar. The group was dirty and pretended to be a small tribe attached to the nobles, and they forced them to sneak into the center all the way.

——It is also because no one would have thought that there would be people from the Great Wei who would dare to sneak into the royal court, not to mention the cavalry that can be seen everywhere in the grassland, even the location of the royal court is a secret, if it wasn't for Chu Zhang's luck, he found the king of Beirong It is impossible for a direct descendant to follow them to find the royal court so successfully.

The turmoil they caused soon spread across most of the royal court, and it was still spreading wildly.

The madness of animals is unstoppable. Even the most daring Beirong warriors dare not face the terrifying scene of hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep galloping. They drove the sheep slaves to gather the cattle and sheep. He held his breath and lay down on the ground not far from the king's tent.

In the thick darkness of the night, the blind spot in the dark of the torch became his best protection.

The frenzied expansion of the situation finally alarmed the king of Beirong. Cattle and sheep are the lifelines of the grassland tribes. The fleeing cattle and sheep made all Beirong people anxious. Driving the horses to chase those cattle and sheep, the outermost protection of the royal court has been loose to the point that it is full of loopholes.

In the magnificent king's tent, the sleeping king of Beirong got up in his clothes and rushed out of the king's tent. Looking at the raging fire in the king's court, he was stunned and said: "What's going on?!"

None of them thought about the Wei people, they only thought that someone accidentally used fire at night and ignited the tent and caused a series of accidents.

"Order people to put out the fire! Don't worry about the cattle and sheep!" After all, the king of Beirong was a hero, so he quickly settled down and made the choice to give up the cattle and sheep without hesitation.

His Zuoxian King is fighting in the Great Wei, and the military report back is in good shape. As long as they can take down Changzhou in the Great Wei, they will be able to step into the Central Plains one step at a time. What kind of cattle and sheep will they raise then? !

The guards at Wang's tent received the order and quickly joined the firefighting queue. At this moment, a sudden change occurred.

On the side of King Beirong, in a shadow more than ten meters away from him, someone suddenly jumped up like a sharp arrow and rushed towards King Beirong. His movements were so fast, as if he had exhausted all his strength in a desperate In the last stroke, the blade in his hand was smeared with grass and mud, and there was no reflection in the night.

In this way, he slammed into King Beirong's chest suddenly and fiercely with a knife, as if throwing himself into a hug with great enthusiasm, King Beirong only had time to raise his hand before he was knocked back again and again.

Chu Zhang's strikes were extremely ruthless, and he stabbed several times with the knife in his hand. Every knife wanted to pierce through the body of King Beirong. With a low shout and a sudden growl, he threw Chu Zhang out!

Chu Zhang hit the ground with his shoulder and back, rolled over and stood up, and fled outside without a trace of hesitation.

The cold and fierce eyes of the assassin just like the wolf king still remained in King Beirong's mind, and a chill suddenly appeared in his heart, blood was still gushing from his mouth, and the lung injury made it difficult for him to breathe, but He still tightly grasped the collar of the guard who came to help him, and ordered intermittently: "...kill...you must...kill him...kill..."

If you don't kill him, Bei Rong will be in great trouble!

He tried hard to make his premonition clear, but in the end he only said half of it. Half of his body was about to be split open by Chu Zhang, blood gushing like a spring. In less than a moment, this man who led Bei Rong and troubled Wei Shi for several years The Xiongxiong opened his eyes wide and swallowed his breath.

Chu Zhang quickly mixed into the chaotic firefighting team, and shouted loudly in his new unskilled Beirong language: "The king was killed by King Youxian! Take revenge for the king!"

King Youxian, who was lying on the bed with Xinna's beauty in his arms, didn't know that a cauldron was falling from the sky in a menacing manner.

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