The return of the son-in-law

"Your Highness, there is someone ahead!" A soldier who opened the way first ran back on a horse, "It seems to be Old General Shao!"

"Old General Shao?" Li Shaojun didn't expect Shao Fang to come to the muddy water this time, but he couldn't allow him to think too much now, so he said, "Don't stop, keep going. Pay attention to whether Tatar is chasing after you." Come up, don't let them lose us."

After walking another half mile, I finally met General Shao and his party waiting on the barren hill.

"Old General Shao!" Li Chonghao rode on the horse and bowed his hands to greet Shao Fang, "Why are you here?"

"The situation is urgent. I made my own decision without asking His Highness for instructions. Please forgive me." Shao Fang raised his right hand, and the elite soldiers behind him were divided into two lanes, clearing the middle road, "Your Highness, leave this place to us. Your Highness is also requested to hurry to Yongcheng, the child is already prepared in Yongcheng, and will definitely protect His Highness with all his might."

"What's the meaning of Old General Shao?" Li Shaojun glanced at Shao Fang, as if he had thought of something, then turned to look at Jiang Yannian who was always behind him, "What did you say?"

Jiang Yannian simply admitted: "Forgive me, Your Highness. Your Highness is a thousand-year-old body, and you cannot die here for no reason. We only have 3000 people now. Even if we enter the barren hills, it will be very dangerous."

Shao Fang then urged: "Your Highness, the Tatar army is coming, please hurry to Yongcheng, Your Highness!"

"No need!" Li Shaojun refused, "Now what about the traces left behind in the past? If Tatar followed the footprints of this road to Yongcheng, wouldn't it cause trouble for you?"

At this time, Shao Fang's subordinate who was good at listening and debating came to Shao Fang and said anxiously: "General, the Tatars are coming!"

Shao Fang looked at Li Shaojun again: "Your Highness!"

"It's too late, we're all going into the barren mountain!" After saying that, Li Shaojun took the lead and rushed to the entrance of the barren mountain.

Both Shao Fang and Jiang Yannian were helpless, the Tatar army was approaching, and as Li Shaojun said, if they left now, the traces left would not be eliminated in time, and the Tatars would most likely abandon the barren hills first and follow those traces all the way to attack Yongcheng.

"Go, into the barren hills!"

The so-called barren mountain is actually a mountain full of half-human high weeds. Because there are many mountain roads, people who are not familiar with it can easily lose their way and get lost in the depths of this mountain. Therefore, no one dared to enter the barren mountain in the past 30 to [-] years. .

No one has set foot on it all year round, so there is no trace of human smoke in the barren hills.Fortunately, after Shao Fang received Jiang Yannian's letter, he specially invited two local elders to inquire about the points to pay attention to after entering the barren mountain.

Although these two old people had entered the barren mountain when they were young, they only wandered around the mountain gate and didn't go too deep.Moreover, decades have passed since entering the barren mountain, and the two old men can only tell Shao Fang to be more careful about the poisonous snakes in the mountain; The tigers may be hiding in a deeper place. In short, they have never seen it, nor heard that others have seen it.

At this time, Shao Fang and others were in it, only to realize that the so-called barren mountain is not realistic.In this uninhabited land, do animals such as hares and mice scurry among the weeds that are half the height of a person?These animals have never seen people, but they all sensed the killing intent on them, so they quickly wiped the horseshoes and disappeared among the weeds.

About 9000 people poured into the barren hill together, and it didn't look crowded.There is no artificially excavated mountain road here, and the horses walking in it seem a little disorganized, and they can only step on the protruding stones and try to move forward.

At this time, the soldiers who occupied a high ground boulder to observe the situation in advance came down, and whispered: "Your Highness, General, Tatar has come in."

Li Shaojun and Shao Fang glanced at each other, and Li Shaojun asked first, "What's the general's plan?"

"What was your Highness' original plan?"

Li Shaojun smiled wryly: "It's just trying to hold them back, as long as they can hold it for a moment. Wang Jian and Sun Jinyong are waiting behind with their soldiers. When Tatars have all entered the barren mountain, they will guard the mountain gate, even if there is no other way." Kill all the Tatars, and trap them to death in the mountains."

"Your Highness, it's not time to burn everything. If Your Highness is willing, why don't you listen to the old man?"

Li Shaojun hurriedly said, "General, please tell me."

Shao Fang pointed to the surrounding soldiers and said: "This barren mountain is huge, and there are many big trees and boulders interfering with sight, why don't you set up a formation to let the Tatars get lost here."

Li Shaojun was a little worried: "Is there enough time?"

Shao Fang smiled and said, "Your Highness, I have been waiting for you here for two days, but I didn't just wait and do nothing."

Li Shaojun was overjoyed: "Old General Shao really deserves his reputation, but I am too immature and not thoughtful enough." Li Shaojun admired Shao Fang, and even changed the usual "my lord" to "I".

Shao Fang did not get flustered because of this, but said eagerly: "It is not too late, please give your Highness an order to let everyone abandon their horses, make a group of ten, and do as I say. Also, there are many snakes here and there , now it’s not too cold during the day, snakes like to come out to bask in the sun during the day, and then find a hidden place to hide at night, be careful, Your Highness.”

Li Shaojun nodded and said: "Don't worry, general, I understand." Afterwards, he summoned a few heralds, relayed Shao Fang's explanation to them, and asked them to pass the order quickly.

When everyone dismounted from their horses, Shao conveniently asked his elite soldiers to lead the 3000 men brought by Li Shaojun, and each of them went into hiding according to the previous arrangement.There are still hundreds of elite soldiers left, still riding on their horses, waiting for Shao Fang's next order.

Shao Fang saw that most of the soldiers had already hid, so he said to the hundreds of elite soldiers: "When the Tatars come, do as I said before, and be careful."

The leader clasped his fists and said, "Don't worry, general, please be careful with your highness!"

After Shao Fang finished explaining, he turned his head and said to Li Shaojun, Jiang Yannian and the others: "Your Highness, everyone, come with me."

The Tatar army followed the traces on the ground and chased them all the way. Facing a big mountain, they didn't take it seriously. It was still a long snake formation, and entered the barren mountain mightily.

There was no trace of Chu soldiers along the way, and some Tatar soldiers became impatient, taking out their anger with hares and cats passing by the road.The meat of these hares and wild cats, Tatar has the habit of eating wild game, so he doesn't waste it now, and doesn't kill these hares and wild cats in one go, he hangs his breath, picks it up and puts it in the bag tied on the horse's back, laughing He said to his companion next to him: "After killing those people from the Chu Dynasty, we will use their corpse oil to light a fire and burn it to eat."

There were too many people talking, and many Tatar soldiers who didn't mean it at first couldn't help but raise their hands. In their view, the soldiers of the Chu Dynasty were not opponents worthy of their respect, and for such opponents, Insulting their corpses wantonly became the best way to vent their killing intent.

It's just that they didn't expect that shortly after their entire team entered the barren mountain, a large number of soldiers from the Chu Dynasty surrounded several mountain gates and were on guard at any time.

The first Tatar soldiers saw the hundreds of elite soldiers left by Shao Fang on the heights, and they were overjoyed and said, "Boys, the enemy is right ahead!"

Many Tatar soldiers became excited, and the one behind urged: "Do you dare to go up! If you don't dare, leave the head to me!"

The one in front scolded: "Shut up your motherfucker!"

One of the two confidantes was more cautious, frowning and shouting: "Shut up! These people stand here and don't move, beware of an ambush."

At this time, the hundreds of soldiers on the height seemed to have just discovered the Tatar army, and hurriedly drove their horses to flee in all directions.

"Chasing!" Seeing the enemy running away, those behind were anxious, "I ran in from a long way, but don't lose anyone's head! Chase quickly!"

After the death of the great general of Tatar, each of the army had their own plans. The two confidantes were able to command this army with the reason of "revenge for the great general", but now they can no longer suppress it. up.For a while, many Tatar soldiers simply rode over the comrades in front of them, and hurriedly chose a direction in which the Chu Chao soldiers fled.

Some people wanted to stop them, but more soldiers had been dazed and couldn't listen to their persuasion at all. They drove past them one by one and chased after them!

The Battle of the Barren Mountains has lasted for five full days, and both the Chu Dynasty and Tatar suffered losses from each other.But the side of the Chu Dynasty took advantage of Shao Fang's early preparations and launched an ambush.Moreover, Shao Fang also ordered people to hide dry food supplies in some hidden places in advance, which was much more generous than the Tatar soldiers who only brought limited dry food.

After the Tatar soldiers realized that there was no way to defeat the Chu soldiers in the barren mountains, they decided to retreat.But exhausted, they met another batch of well-equipped Chu soldiers at the mountain pass.

Attacking from both sides, Tatar's generals decided to retreat to the barren hills after careful consideration - they would rather play hide-and-seek with the soldiers in the barren hills than face the sharp edge.

"General, do we want to go in?" In the Chu army outside, Sun Jinyong couldn't help asking Wang Jian, "His Royal Highness King Qin is still inside, and now Tatar has been beaten to death, go in at this time, and kill them all. Welcome back King Qin!"

"General Sun, have you forgotten what His Highness told you before?" Wang Jian looked at the bloody corpses in front of the barren hill and said, "Your Highness said, let us stay outside, and one of the Tatar soldiers will come out Kill one."

"Cut, they don't come out now, they're like turtles inside, how do we kill them?" Sun Jinyong was angry and anxious, "His Highness has been trapped inside for five days, and there were still fighting sounds at the beginning. Now we I can’t hear any sound. That’s His Royal Highness King Qin! General, if you don’t go in, I will go in and save him! Hehe, back then Zhao Zilong rode the savior alone, today I, Sun Jinyong, went into the mountains to find the king!”

"Presumptuous!" Wang Jian said angrily, "What are you? I'm still here, so I can't let you mess around! Someone, quickly capture Sun Jinyong, and absolutely don't let him hinder King Qin's plan!"

A dozen people rushed up, surrounded Sun Jinyong, grabbed his arm and tore him off the horse. Someone brought a hemp rope and tied Sun Jinyong behind his back.

This happened in an instant. Sun Jinyong was unprepared. After being tied up, he widened his eyes, looked at Wang Jian in disbelief and said, "General Wang, what are you doing? You won't let me go Save King Qin?"

Wang Jian couldn't bear it: "If we go in now, there won't be enough troops here, and if Tatar comes out again, what should we do?"

Sun Jin hummed courageously: "General Wang, although I am a rough man, I still understand the principles of marching and using troops! Now that Tatar's morale is low, and he stayed in it for another five days, it is a good time to go in! You , You are trying to find reasons to prevaricate me and not let me in, what exactly are you trying to do?"

Wang Jian still didn't look at him, but said: "Your Highness has His Highness's plan, we can't disturb His Highness's plan."

Sun Jinyong was tied up, but he still refused to let go. He shouted: "Who, who wants to go in with me to save King Qin! His Highness King Qin is in danger for millions of people in the northwest. Who wants to come with me?" Go save His Royal Highness King Qin!"

A few soldiers were eager to try, but carefully looked at Wang Jian's expression, but they were all standing behind, how could they see Wang Jian's expression?

Wang Jian was still expressionless, as if he had never heard of it, but he sighed in his heart——

Your Highness, don't blame me, Your Majesty told me before leaving that if there is a chance, you will never be allowed to return to the capital alive.Wang Jian can only feel sorry for you, Your Highness.

In the barren mountain, Li Shaojun had only one breath left.No one has set foot in this barren mountain all year round, and the terrain is rugged. On the third day, Li Shaojun accidentally fell and cut a long cut on his left arm.Although there were military doctors with the team to treat him in time, because the weather in the barren mountain was hot during the day and suddenly dropped at night, the wound worsened with each cold and heat.

Now, Li Shaojun could not feel the wound on his left arm for a long time, but with the support of Jiang Yannian and others, he walked instinctively in the mountains.

"Your Highness, Your Highness take a break." Jiang Yannian wiped away the fallen leaves and gravel from the stone, let Li Shaojun sit on it, and called the military doctor to change Li Shaojun's dressing.

"A Nian, I'm afraid I can't do it anymore," Li Shaojun breathed weakly, barely opened his eyes and said, "You and Zhan An, I'm the one who can't stand you."

"What do you mean, Your Highness?" Jiang Yannian asked anxiously, "Your Highness, Old General Shao has already sent someone to find the way, and we will be able to leave the barren hills later. That brat Guo Zhanan is still eating and drinking in Xuzhou, we Just go to his house to recuperate and make him poor!"

"Him? Haha, it's ridiculous that I claim to be brave and resourceful, but none of you can protect me. I'm gone. How long can he hide what he did for the Northwest Army? Who can protect him? It's me I'm sorry for you." Feeling that his life was passing away, Li Shaojun rarely showed despair in his life.

"Your Highness!" Jiang Yannian had tears in his eyes, "Your Highness, we have to go back to the capital, the Queen and Queen's Aunt are looking at Your Highness from the sky!"

At the same time, Guo Zhan'an received a secret report first - Tian Geng had succeeded, two of the leaders of several big tribes of Tatar were killed and three were injured.

it's time!

Guo Zhanan got up and hurried to find Xie Bing: "Master Xie, His Royal Highness King Qin has been in the barren mountain for five days, please send a message to the capital as soon as possible!"

Xie Bing was rather reluctant: "This is a matter of the military camp, Mr. Guo, it's not easy for you and me to interfere."

"It's this time, is there still a division between civil and military?" Guo Zhanan asked anxiously, "General Wang Jian has led his troops to guard the barren mountains, regardless of other places in the northwest. Now, there are three places that have been captured by Tatar. If you don't ask His Majesty to send troops Reinforcement, the northwest is not safe! The lives and deaths of so many people in the northwest are now in the mind of the adults!"

When Xie Bing heard this, he also felt that the situation was not good, so he hurriedly said, "Master Guo is right, I will send someone to pass the message now!"

"It's work."

After Guo Zhan'an persuaded Xie Bing, he was still not at ease. Taking advantage of no major events at noon, he went home and called Huo Yu: "Yu'er, His Royal Highness Qin Wang and Jiang Yannian have been in the barren mountain for five days. A few days ago, Shao The old general asked the elite soldiers who escorted me back to stay, and I will hand them over to you now. With medicinal materials, bandages, food, and clothes to keep out the cold, you rush to the barren hills and play by ear. Remember, don’t Let others discover you, especially the people in the Northwest Military Camp!"

Huo Yu knew that Guo Zhan'an would not put himself in danger at ordinary times, and now he confessed himself so solemnly, which is enough to show how dangerous Qin Wang's situation is at this time.

"Brother, don't worry, I will definitely not let my brother down."