Chapter 61: The Rooster Cries 3
"Your Majesty, please eat." Warm corn, fragrant chicken soup and crispy sunflower vegetables. The food was nothing special, but it was so delicious that after a few bites, Xiong Jing noticed that someone was watching him. It was the Wei girl who had been kidnapped into the room, and she peeked a few times, then quickly turned her head away.
"Give her a copy." Xiong Jing looked at Changjiang, Wei Nu seemed to be the daughter of a doctor, and she was also a nobleman.
"The king of Wei helped Qin to abuse, and the two countries of Chu and Wei are at war, so if they don't do it, they will oppose the guest." Chang Jiang brought in the food and put it on a low table, and at this time Xiong Jing spoke. "The Wei people are not servants, they are resentful, they are not resentful, and they do not care. He only wanted to stay in the Mulberry Tunnel for a few days, so that the horses could be fodded, the knights could be fed, and the wounded could be cared for. Killing, if it is not necessary, does not want to. ”
The rice was placed in front of Wei Nu, and it was also yellow corn, steaming chicken soup, and boiled sunflower vegetables. She didn't move, and Xiong Jing didn't say anything more. His own group was still in danger, and what he was thinking about was how to get out of trouble.
Based on the observation of that day, the cavalry of the Qin army had at least two or three thousand people, although it was no cavalry, but the ants bit the elephant to death, as long as they were entangled by these people, the result was not optimistic. Not to mention the rest, as long as you shoot the war horse, you can't escape. The crossbows of the warrior knights may not be able to do this, but the bows of the Yiqu people are easy.
When the car was already suspended, smoke rose from the mulberry tunnel where the gate was closed. Half forced and half ransomed, the women in the city boiled water and boiled, killed chickens and cooked dogs, and were busy with their feet not sticking to the ground. The money is paid in cash, although there is no Wei sword and currency in the army, but there is Chu gold, whenever someone sends corn, chickens, ducks, sheep and dogs, they will use a huge blade to cut a little gold to them.
The copper kettle and pottery mustache were all gathered. Naturally, the meal is not only eaten by knights, but also eaten by other people after the knights have eaten. After a full meal at noon, the children in the town have begun to fight again, or go to see the knight brush the war horse. If it weren't for the language barrier between the two sides, anyone would think that this was the Wei cavalry stationed here.
"Why do you eat three things in this mulberry tunnel?" The smoke curling from the Mulberry Tunnel in the Lu Li Mirror, the cavalry commander on the horse went to the Mulberry Tunnel at noon to inquire, and the Yi people were afraid to close the Yi Gate, and the Yi Ling said that the Chu cavalry had not been seen. But he always felt that something was wrong, and now he turned around and looked again, and then he remembered that he smelled the smell of meat outside the Yimen at noon, and the mulberry tunnel actually ate three foods, how could this be possible? Although the corn harvest is said in September, isn't there a shortage of grain in Wei?
"Report to the general, the Wei people have different foods." The horsemen who had searched north returned to the camp and reported immediately.
"Wei people's three foods?" Xin Sheng was already in Yiyi, Chu Realm, south of the Mulberry Tunnel, and he thought that the King of Chu would go south to Xixian through Yiyi, or cross Rushui to the east to Xincai, and Wei Realm in the north only symbolically sent a hundred and ten people to search.
"Yes, yes." The cavalry ran for dozens of miles before returning to the camp, and as soon as he returned to the camp, he hurriedly told Xin Sheng. "The last general thinks that King Jing should be in the Mulberry Tunnel, which is the closest to the Horse Valley."
"Definitely." Another rider immediately spoke out against it. "The last general Gao Chun met the Jing people on the west bank of Rushui, his people were not afraid of death, and after the battle with the last general, they all jumped into Rushui, how could they be in the Wei realm?"
"Has the general seen the wounded of the Jing people?" Yu Fen, who was sitting on his feet, asked. He frightened the king of Chu away, so Li Xin didn't want to see him again.
"The wounded?" The rider recalled for a moment, shook his head, and said, "Not seen." ”
"The Jingren Iron Cavalry has been fighting hard with our army for several days, and there will be wounded." "If there are no injuries, they are not the horsemen of King Jing." ”
"If King Jing abandons the wounded, or King Jing leads a number of horsemen to go first...... "In this era, the monarch has no reliable medicine, let alone the foot soldiers on the battlefield. It is customary to die if seriously injured and abandoned when you die. "Our army has been chasing King Jing for several days, and King Jing should be terrified."
"The villain thinks otherwise." After all, Yu Fen is a Chu person, at least born and raised in Chu State. "The knights of Jing Kingdom are all princes, and the common people can abandon them, how can the nobles abandon them? King Jing once said that he would fight side by side with his soldiers, how could he go first? ”
In the end, it was the boy of the Yingdu Palace, who was literate and literate, and he was subordinate to Hou Zheng before Li Xin's recruitment. Hou first originated in the army, and then spread throughout the cities of other countries, and its main function was to conduct reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance on the battlefield. After Yu Fen finished speaking, his official Hou Zhengzao nodded and said to Xin Sheng: "General, I thought the Sang Tunnel was suspicious. ”
"The Mulberry Tunnel is Weiyi, if you don't open the city......" What Yu Fen said was not unreasonable, but Xin Sheng thought that the Mulberry Tunnel was Weiyi, and the cavalry under his command had no siege equipment, so it was impossible to pull out the Mulberry Tunnel in a short time.
"Shangcai has a large army, if King Jing hides in the Mulberry Tunnel and does not come out, the general can monitor and sue Shangcai at the same time." Hou Zhengzao said. "And I heard that there is a doctor Gongsun in the Sang Tunnel, so I can ask the doctor to see it in the name of the deceased."
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"Queen Mother! The king has news! The king had a message...... "In the palace is Wang Yinyou's excited shout, he stumbled up to the high platform, rushed into the tent and saw Concubine Zhao is pause, and then presented the secret letter on the pigeon's paws.
"The King?!" Concubine Zhao snatched the secret letter, it was full of numbers that she didn't know, Wang Yin woke up now, and hurriedly called someone to summon Ling Yin.
"The king is in the Mulberry Tunnel." Seisuke breathed a sigh of relief, the king was still alive no matter where he was.
"Where's the Mulberry Tunnel?" Concubine Zhao doesn't like Chengjie, but since her son has appointed him as Ling Yin, she can only endure it.
"Empress Dowager, the Mulberry Tunnel is in Weijing, more than 180 miles north of Xi County." Chengjie is no stranger to the Mulberry Tunnel, and he is a little puzzled: "If you can go to the Mulberry Tunnel, why doesn't the king go to Yiyi?" ”
"Empress Dowager, Ling Yin, the king ...... "I came to Ruoying Palace with Chengsuke, he knows about the carrier pigeon, but he doesn't know why Wang Yin only saw the pigeon flying back today." The minister thought that there should be a wounded in the army, and the king was reluctant, so he stayed in the Mulberry Tunnel, fifty miles east of the Mulberry Tunnel is Rushui, and the minister asked Yin Su to send a boat master to save it. ”
"The minister is willing to go to the Sang Tunnel," the general of sanitation is also there, and when he heard about the rescue king, he naturally took the lead.
"There are only two big wings left in Yingdu, can there be big wings in the mansion?" All the big wings that can be requisitioned went north to Chengyang, and the five big wings that remained in Yingdu were sent out by Chengjie today. There are only more than 300 armor soldiers in the two ships, and the stuff is only 400.
"A soldier can be requisitioned along the road." Don't worry about me, "Xincai to Sang Tunnel is only more than 100 miles, but it's a pity that Feixun ......"
The sun has set, and the flying signal cannot be used, so I shook my head again and again, even if there are so many big wings, it will take sixteen hours to reach the Mulberry Tunnel, which is too late. He glared at Wang Yinyou and blamed him for not spotting the carrier pigeon earlier. Wang Yinyou, who had already accused, was lying on the ground trembling. It wasn't a mistake on his part, either, the palace hall was completely demolished, and the pigeon cage was changed two months ago. The pigeons carrying the letter were all in the old cages, and if he hadn't been on patrol today, he might have been delayed for a few days.