On the way to the Northern Territory when King Yuwen led his troops, he had already received an intelligence report and knew that Tufan Kingdom had moved its capital to Gulu Pass. So he thought that there was little point in going to attack Yindu Mansion. So.

Should he continue to attack and recover Gulu Pass? This question made him think for a while.

Gulu Pass is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Now that Tufan has moved the capital to this city, he must have deployed heavy troops for defense. In addition, more than a dozen cities on the periphery of the northern region are in Tufan's hands, with a total strength of no less than 300,000. If he sends his own troops

If we attack Gulu Pass and cannot capture it for a while, we will be surrounded by Tufan's returning troops. The situation will be very dangerous.

At this time, he received a report from a fast horse sent by General Chen, and learned that Chen Jinchao had captured Xingjing County and would directly attack Yindu Prefecture via the mountainous area in the northwest. The letter also asked him to pretend to attack Gulu Pass.

To cooperate with him in capturing Yindu Mansion.

After reading the letter, King Yuwen decided to send his troops to Xingjing County first instead of going to feint to attack Gulu Pass because Chen Jinchao asked him to cooperate with the feint attack in order to attract the enemy's troops, and now the enemy has deployed heavy troops in Gusu Pass.

If it is closed, Yindu Mansion must be very empty. General Chen can easily take it down, so there is no need to pretend to attack and cooperate.

King Yuwen checked the location of Xingjing County on the map. He thought it would be good to have such a stronghold in the northern territory. It was like sticking a thorn in the enemy's guts, which could contain the enemy's frontline operations.

, it can also gradually disintegrate Tufan's control in the northern region. Thinking of this, King Yuwen ordered the troops to march towards Xingjing County, and ordered the messengers to immediately notify the rear army led by Zhao Jian to follow up. After making arrangements, he immediately

He revised a letter and asked the messengers to hurry up and deliver the letter to General Chen Jinchao as soon as possible.

Near noon the next day, the troops arrived at Xingjing County. The people in the city came out to welcome King Yuwen's troops, as if they were looking forward to a savior. Everyone spread rumors that King Yuwen had returned to the Northern Territory, and we were no longer afraid of the Tuban Northern Barbarians.

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The deputy general who stayed behind came out of the city to see King Yuwen, welcomed the troops into the city and settled down, and then arranged for King Yuwen and his entourage to be stationed in the county government office.

After King Yuwen had disarmed and changed his clothes, he was discussing matters with the commander-in-chief Wang Changyi in the hall. The guard came to report that General Chen's wife, Mrs. Chen Wang, came to see her. King Yuwen said, "Please come soon!" and immediately got up to welcome him out of the hall.

When King Yuwen came out of the hall, he saw two women coming in. One was a middle-aged woman who was General Chen's wife, Mrs. Chen Wang. The other young woman was accompanying him. She looked pretty, but she had a sad look on her face.

Heavy look.

When the two women saw the king personally welcoming him out, they immediately knelt down and bowed in the courtyard. King Yuwen hurriedly stepped forward to help him up and said, "Mrs. Chen, there is no need to be polite. Please get up quickly!"

After Mrs. Chen thanked her, she stood up and introduced to King Yuwen that the girl she was accompanying was a commoner from this county named Lan Meier. Her brother was extremely brave and led all the officers and soldiers in the city to fight to the death to resist the invasion of the Tufan soldiers, so that the city could not be lost.

Thanks to this little girl's cleverness, strategies, and clever tricks, she helped her brother win many times. Because of her well-behaved nature, the couple adopted her as their adopted daughter.

Lan Meier came forward to see King Yuwen. King Yuwen saw that this girl was indeed very well-behaved, and her charm was clever, but for some reason, there was some sadness hidden in her eyebrows.

"The little girl is indeed an ordinary person, but why is she so worried?" King Yuwen asked.

Without waiting for Lan Meier to answer, Mrs. Chen quickly took over the words and said, "Your Majesty, I don't know that General Chen's plan to lead his troops through the northern mountainous area to attack Yindu Prefecture was proposed by my daughter, and he asked his brother Wu Kui to personally lead the advance into the mountains to lead the way.

, However, the day before yesterday, someone from the army came back to report that Wu Kui suddenly and mysteriously disappeared in the mountains, and no one has been seen alive or dead so far. This made the little girl very worried and anxious, and she didn't know what to do. "

King Yuwen quickly comforted Lan Meier and told her not to worry. He would send troops to the mountain to search immediately, and they would surely find out the truth by then.

At this time, Xinbing came to report that the follow-up troops led by General Zhao Jian had arrived. The troops intercepted several Tufan transport vehicles on the road and seized some supplies. Now the vehicles have been pulled outside the county government office, and General Zhao Jian is at the

Waiting outside the door for the king to review.

King Yuwen then led everyone to the gate of the county government. Zhao Jian hurriedly came forward to meet him and reported: "At the end of the day, I encountered several lagging transport vehicles from the Tufan Kingdom on the way and quickly intercepted them. After investigation, this vehicle came from

They came from Duolan County in the northeastern part of the Northern Territory, and the goods they pulled were sent to the front line of the Central Plains." Everyone looked and saw four large carriages lined up in order on the street. The goods were covered with homespun cloth, and the four vehicles were all

It is filled to the brim.

"The strange thing is that neither the porter nor the soldiers escorting the car are clear about the purpose of the supplies carried on the car. I looked at it for a long time and still can't figure it out, so I would like to ask your Excellency to investigate clearly." Zhao Jian added, after finishing his words.

, he motioned to the soldiers to get the goods from the car.

The four soldiers carried two things from the car with great difficulty and carried them to King Yuwen and others and put them down.

I saw these two things, one large and one small, both made of pig iron. They resembled the shields used by infantry, but were thicker. The larger one was as big as the floor shield used by pikemen, nearly a person tall, and the smaller one was larger than a large sword soldier.

The handheld shield used is slightly larger.

King Yuwen asked the soldiers to turn the two objects over and take a look. After turning them over, they saw that there were no handles for holding the objects at the back. They were just tied with a few thick ropes made of woven cowhide. It could be seen that they were not used as shields, but rather for binding.

What is it used on?

At this time, two more soldiers brought over a large iron pot. At first glance, it looked like an iron pot, but upon closer inspection, it didn't look like it. First, the pot body was too thick. In addition, there were holes on the left and right sides of the pot body.

A small bump protruded, like the pot had two ears on it, which was very strange.

King Yuwen looked down at these things, paced back and forth, pondering for a long time, but could not figure out what these objects were used for.

At this time, Lan Meier suddenly came forward to the pot, looked left and right, and circled twice, as if she had discovered something.

Lan Meier looked at it for a while and then said to Zhao Jian, please have someone take everything off the car and put it on the ground.

The soldiers carried the things off the cart one after another. There were about ten shield-shaped objects in one cart, all of which were different sizes. They were arranged one by one on the ground.

At this time, Lan Meier stepped forward and directed the soldiers to place these objects of different sizes in different places. This piece was placed here, that piece was placed there, and the direction and position were constantly adjusted until she was satisfied.

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After these objects were placed on the ground, they occupied a large area, and the surrounding soldiers all stepped back to make way for them.

Finally, Lan Meier asked two soldiers to lift the large iron pot to the top of the pile and place it in the middle.

After placing them, Lan Meier came to King Yuwen and asked him to take a few steps back and stand on the stone steps in front of the county government office to watch.

King Yuwen looked at Lan Meier doubtfully and retreated to the steps of the county government office. When he raised his eyes to look at the pile of things on the ground, his eyes suddenly lit up and he couldn't help but be attracted by what he saw in front of him.

The thing shocked me.

The pile of things in front of us were arranged on the ground to form a huge human shape. Those large shields were clearly pieces of armor on the giant's body, and the iron pot was obviously a helmet.

"Is this a piece of armor? Who can wear it?" King Yuwen murmured to himself.

"If it's smaller, it would be just right for Fifth Brother to wear." Lan Meier replied.

After hearing Lan Meier's words, King Yuwen turned around and looked at her in surprise.
Chapter completed!