With a "clang", a cold light came into view.

Tuoba Tao only felt a chill in his throat, and when he looked down, a bright sword was pressing against his throat, and the owner of the sword, Mulan, was staring at him with murderous eyes, as long as his hand stretched forward a little further, he had no doubt that Mulan would stab the sword into his throat.

"Mu, Mulan, I, I'm going to heal you······" Tuoba Tao stammered.

Mulan's face was pale from excessive blood loss, and cold sweat broke out on her forehead because of the force she pulled the wound, but the hand holding the sword did not tremble in the slightest.

"Get out!"

The two ruthless words were full of murderous energy, and the expression on Tuobatao's face kept changing, as an emperor, he had never been pointed at with a sword like this, except for his dead father, no one had ever dared to speak to him in this tone.

Tuoba Tao remembered that Hua Mulan didn't care about her life to save him, and she still insisted on escorting him to a safe place even though she was seriously injured, and her heart couldn't help but soften, her face softened, and she said softly: "Mulan, the imperial doctor said that your injuries are very serious, and if you don't deal with them in time, you will be worried about your life!" But you are a woman, and the imperial doctor is not good at ignoring the difference between men and women, and there are no women here, so I can only take care of your wounds with my own hands, you can rest assured, I will make you a concubine! ”

"Not every woman wants to marry the emperor! Your Majesty also thinks too much, the last general has no love for men and women for His Majesty, only the righteousness of the monarch and the minister! ”

When Tuoba Tao heard this, his heart felt like he had knocked over a five-flavor bottle.

Hua Mulan looked down, her hair was scattered, and the wound on her back was faintly painful but cool, presumably someone had already dealt with it, she showed frost on her face, and said coldly: "You dealt with the injury on my back?" ”

"No, it's the Imperial Doctor!" Tuoba Tao hurriedly said.

Hua Mulan gritted her silver teeth, and the sword in her hand pushed forward again, and the tip of the sword had already pierced into the skin of Tuobatao's throat, and shouted: "I will deal with my injuries myself!" Get out or I'll kill you!" ”

At this moment, the guards outside the tent heard the movement, and the two guards immediately drew their swords and rushed in and shouted: "Be bold, don't put down your weapons yet!" Escort, fast escort! ”

Suddenly, several sword lights flashed in the tent, and with two "dangdang" sounds, the two guards who rushed in painfully covered their bloody wrists and took a few steps back, looking at the extra middle-aged swordsman with a cold face in the tent in horror.

The middle-aged swordsman held his sword and stared at Tuobatao: "My young lady wants to heal, and the idle people are waiting to go out!" ”

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, it's not good, the worms are going to attack the mountain!" Outside the tent, there was the shouting of Zongai.

Tuoba Tao's face changed again, he turned his head slightly outside the tent, looked at Hua Mulan with a resolute face, and then looked at the middle-aged swordsman who felt extremely dangerous to him, and said to Hua Mulan in a slow tone: "Since you can heal your own injuries, I can rest assured!" With that, he turned around and walked out.

The two Ouchi guards immediately picked up the weapons that had fallen on the ground, and ran out of the camp in panic with Tuoba Tao.

Seeing Tuoba Tao leave, Mulan couldn't support it anymore, and the sword in her hand fell to the ground.

"Young lady!" The middle-aged swordsman looked at it, and asked anxiously on his face, "How are you, young lady?" ”

"It's okay, it's just a little out of strength!" Hua Mulan was a little weak, looked at the middle-aged swordsman and asked, "Old Lu, why are you here?" ”

Lu Xuanbo remembered something, took out a porcelain bottle from his arms, poured out a pill the size of a little finger and handed it to Mulan, "This medicine has the effect of greatly replenishing qi, blood and vitality, please take it quickly!" ”

Mulan didn't hesitate to take it and swallow it in her mouth.

The effect of the pill was extremely significant, and after only ten breaths of swallowing, Mulan's pale face gradually turned bloody.

"When I set off from the Jinling camp that day, the young master was very worried about the young lady's safety, so I kept secretly guarding the young lady, except for going into battle, I have been near the young lady on weekdays, but the young lady didn't notice it!"

After Lu Xuanbo finished speaking, he put the porcelain bottle on the ground and said: "The young lady has lost too much blood, and if she doesn't recuperate, she is likely to fall into the root of the disease. ”

"Thank you, Lao Lu! Please go outside and keep watch, I'm going to take care of my injuries! ”

"Young lady, don't worry!" Lu Xuanbo hugged his fists, put away his sword, turned around and walked out of the camp.

At this time, a large number of shouts and killings were heard from the bottom of the mountain, and countless arrows made a snorting sound in the air.

Hua Mulan turned a deaf ear to this, and she looked down to see that the tattered armor on her body was gone, presumably taken by the imperial doctor who had healed her.

There were still two arrows stuck in her chest, and Mulan gently touched the shaft of half of the arrow, and a piercing pain spread to her brain, causing fine sweat to break out on her forehead again.

Judging by the pain, the depth of the two arrows into her body was not deep, and she should not have penetrated her chest, and she peeled off her coat to reveal a close-fitting silk tight.

She crumpled her clothes and bit them, pulled her silk tights out, and with a "poof", one arrow was pulled out, and after a few breaths, she pulled another arrow out.

Mulan was very glad to wear two silk tights, if she didn't have these two clothes that could defend against arrows, I was afraid that she would have become a corpse at this moment, and the location where these two arrows hit one was in the right lung and the other in the left chest, both of which could be fatal.

There was a jar of wine next to her, some of which had already been used, and Mulan endured the pain and carefully cleaned the wound with a clean cloth dipped in wine, and found a needle and thread from the baggage brought by Oiran to stitch up the two wounds.

After bandaging the wound, Mulan took clean clothes from the bag and changed them, put on her outer clothes, tied her hair, and relaxed her heart, a feeling of extreme tiredness hit her, making her fall asleep unconsciously.

Six hundred miles east of Huangyan Mountain, Zhao Junsheng rode in the front, followed by more than 3,000 cavalry, and 2,000 infantry also rode on both sides to guard the baggage team.

Gao Xiu took a map and looked at it, and said to Zhao Junsheng: "Dutong, there are at least six days to go from the camp of the Western Route Army!" ”

This marching speed is already far beyond the speed of the ordinary baggage team, Zhao Junsheng is not short of horses, this time in order to hurry as soon as possible with a full 20,000 horses, everyone has enough horses to change, even the horses pulling the cart can also be changed.

Zhao Junsheng was quite helpless, "This is already the fastest speed, the carriage has broken down a lot, the marching speed can be increased a little, but the carriage can't bear it, no matter how fast it is, the carriage will lie down!" ”

"Chirp-" There was a sudden eagle roar in the sky.

Many people can't help but look up at the sky, where an eagle is circling in the sky.

Zhao Junsheng had a bad premonition, and generally only in extremely urgent situations can he use the eagle to summon the message.

This eagle circled in the sky a few times and landed on Zhao Junsheng's banner, why Xinying was able to find him was because of this eye-catching banner.

A pro-soldier ran to the banner with a strange cry from his mouth, stretched out his arm with an iron armguard, and the eagle spread its wings and landed on the pro-soldier's arm.

The soldiers took out a small paper scroll from the small bamboo tube tied to the eagle's left foot and handed it to Zhao Junsheng, "Dutong, this is urgent news from the right army!" ”

Zhao Junsheng took the small paper scroll and unfolded it to look at it, and his face changed after reading it.

After thinking for a long time, Zhao Junsheng gave an order to Gao Xiu: "Order the whole army to stop advancing and rest in place for an hour!" ”

"Yes!"

The team stopped, the guard posts were dispatched, and the soldiers dismounted and ate the river water, and fed the horses water after eating.

Gao Xiu knew that something must have happened, and after he gave the order and sent a guard post, he came back and asked, "Dutong, what happened?" ”

Zhao Junsheng said with a worried expression: "The emperor sent most of the soldiers and horses out to search for the Rouran people, the troops in the camp were empty, and the Rouran people caught the flaws and sent heavy troops to raid, when the news came, the emperor was already in the enemy formation, and Mulan was left in the camp with five hundred men and horses to guard."

Gao Xiu's face changed, "It will take a day for Shinying to find us, which means that this happened yesterday, and I don't know what the situation is now!" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought about it again and weighed it, "Come on, go and call Gao Xu!" ”

When Gao Xu arrived, Zhao Junsheng told Gao Xu about the situation, and then said to the two: "I plan to take the cavalry to the rescue, no matter what, rush over as quickly as possible!" Gao Xiu, you go and tell all the horses of the three cavalry and thousand cavalry to prepare three horses, seven days of dry food, three days of fine food, three days of drinking water, bring enough arrows, and set off in one hour! ”

"Yes!"

After Gao Xiu left, Zhao Junsheng said to Gao Xu: "You stay and lead the infantry to escort the grain and grass, and rush over to meet me within seven days, if you find that you can't do anything, we will return the same way!" ”

Gao Xu clenched his fists and agreed: "My subordinates obey!" ”

All the generals felt strange about the new orders, but no one questioned them, they had become accustomed to the rule of only carrying out orders and not questioning them.

When the time of an hour came, the cavalry of three thousand cavalry was completed, Zhao Junsheng rode and stood in front of the soldiers and said loudly: "There is a little situation in the Western Route Army, we must rush to the rescue in the shortest possible time, the distance of more than 600 miles, the plan of the capital is to arrive in two days, that is to say, at least 300 miles a day, do the soldiers have confidence?" ”

"Yes!" More than 3,000 people shouted in unison.

"Good! There is only one time a day to dismount and rest, and the rest of the time is spent on horseback to eat, drink, and sleep! Now listen to the order of the Pontus commander, the 1,000 cavalry will set off first, the 2nd and 3rd thousand cavalry will follow in turn, and the reserve will be the last! ”

The army soon set off and gradually disappeared from the sight of the baggage team.

On the way to the camp of the Western Route Army, everyone changed horses every other hour along the way, ran all day, marched at night, and only stopped to rest for three hours at night, and continued to set off again in the early morning.

On the third day, the army was still on the road, and it had already run more than 600 miles in the past two days, and although the soldiers were sleeping on horseback, the quality of sleep was definitely not good, and they all looked a little tired.

"Report-" A scout rode and galloped over to report to Zhao Junsheng: "Your Majesty, you have discovered the Western Route Army, twenty miles away, they are surrounded by the Rouran army on a hill, and they are being fiercely attacked at this time!" ”

This is good news for Zhao Junsheng, at least the Western Route Army has not been wiped out, and Hua Mulan still has a great chance of being alive, he was in great spirits and ordered: "Gao Xiu, send a hundred-man team from the 1,000th cavalry to the front to clear the guard ranger posts deployed by the Rouran people on the periphery of the battlefield, and clear the obstacles for our army's rescue!" ”