When Zhu Shou saw Ma Qinglian, Zhou Dai also saw the whole view of the Hidden Soldier Valley.
"Are you here?" On the top of the mountain, a Mongolian with a hat covered with snowflakes, holding a long bow but without an arrow, looked at Zhou Dai quietly and asked loudly in Chinese.
Zhou Dai didn't answer. He pulled out a short ax from his back and made a clever move. The ax made a smooth arc and slashed towards the Mongolian.
On the top of a steep mountain, a foreigner suddenly appeared. Regardless of whether he was a friend or an enemy, Zhou Dai's normal reaction was to hack him to death first.
This is the common sense of survival he learned at the border: only the dead are the safest friends.
The Mongolian man drew his long bow in a circle and hit the handle of the hatchet. The ax deviated from its original trajectory and struck the big tree on his left.
Zhou Dai pulled out the short knife from his belt and held it in his hand, then looked at the Mongolian carefully.
I saw that the man was about thirty years old, with a leopard-like head and eyes, a nose like a gallbladder, a full beard, a very strong build, and his manners were quite typical, unlike ordinary herdsmen.
"I have been waiting here for most of the day. If you don't come back, the military information you brought back will be useless," the Mongolian man said with a smile, "your martial arts are good, and you are considered a first-class hero among the Ming Dynasty.
You didn’t make me wait in vain.”
"Who are you?" Zhou Dai asked in a deep voice.
"I am a dead man. I won't mention my past name. You can call me Mengli Ke," the Mongolian man replied. "A man is not a horse. He can become famous all over the world without sweat and blood."
Zhou Dai is not a Mongolian, and does not know what the name Menglik means to the Mongolians. Yesugei Tuoguren, the adoptive father of Genghis Khan Temujin, the father of the great shaman Kuokuochu of the National Normal University, a Mongolian named
With such a pseudonym, he has a very high self-esteem, and his original identity and status must be extremely unusual.
"It's good that a man is not a horse." Zhou Dai did not relax his vigilance, but he also did not attack Meng Liq again. Instead, he asked with a smile, "Do you want to give me the military information of the Mongols? You can do it just by standing here.
Have you seen the Hidden Soldier Valley clearly?"
"You Han people have an old saying, which is to build the plank road in the open and cross the Chencang secretly," Meng Lik pointed at the Valley of the Hidden Soldiers at the bottom of the mountain and said, "Look carefully at those tents and horses."
This place is far away from the Mongolian camp. We can only see the tents covering the valley and countless herds. There are many herdsmen taking care of their livestock, and their loud singing can still be vaguely heard.
"What's weird?" As soon as Zhou Dai finished speaking, he suddenly slapped his thigh with his hand, "There is indeed something fishy!"
Although all the Mongols are soldiers, there is still a big difference between the shepherds who take care of the army's food and the soldiers who go into battle when they go on an expedition. Even though it is strictly forbidden to move around in the military camp, there are not even a few decent patrols in the huge camp.
, that’s too strange.
"I have been waiting for you since the horse drying platform, but I didn't meet you until here because I wanted you to see with your own eyes the reality of the Hidden Soldier Valley." Meng Lik stared at Zhou Dai and said slowly.
"You are a Mongolian," Zhou Dai replied coldly, "how can you help foreigners? What if I am not the one here?"
"Mongolians are human beings, and Han people are human beings too. If you cut them with a knife, the blood will be red," Meng Lik said with a smile. "There are good people and bad people among the Mongolians, and there are good people and bad people among the Han people. If there are traitors among the Han people, the Mongolians will not be allowed to do so."
One or two people were raped? It was not you who came, so of course I chopped them off with a knife and threw their heads down the mountain. You will always come up."
Zhou Dai couldn't help but be stunned after hearing the other party's shocking remarks. He was born in a farmer's family in Henan. He had never read any books and was literate. Thanks to the martial arts academy run by Zhu Shou, he only had in mind the loyalty, filial piety, and benevolence taught by the academy.
, national justice, I only feel that there is something wrong with Meng Liq’s remarks, but I am unable to refute...
"I am just a small trial hundred households. There are thousands of households, commanders, governors and other high-ranking officials above me." Zhou Dai came back to his senses and just said, "I guess you are also a big shot among the Mongols. Even if you tell me that Mongolia
Even if you don’t know the detailed military information of a person, if you use our sword to kill your enemy, I’m afraid you won’t be able to achieve what you want.”
Meng Li Ke laughed loudly and said: "Who knows the name of the one-eyed wolf? This Shanxi-Hebei border passes from Xuanfu in the east to Taiyuan in the west?"
Zhou Dai looked at the other person calmly, but tightened the dagger with his right hand. Although his talent was insufficient, his intuition gained from life and death told him that this person was very dangerous.
"If you are really desperate, I can take your life at any time ten feet away," Meng Lik said with a smile. "My archery skills are also somewhat famous in Mongolia. Within three feet, if it is a horse fight, you are still not
My opponent, if we fight on foot, I am sure I can kill you in the snow; the only place where you have a chance to defeat me is in the water, because I don't know the nature of water."
Zhou Dai didn't want to have a verbal argument with him and asked in a deep voice: "Is this what you want to say?"
Meng Lik shook his head: "I just want you to know that there is no need to kill you. Batu Meng's army is currently stationed in Jiulong Valley and will set off south in seven days."
"Jiulonggou?" Zhou Dai was startled, "The little prince dares to kill Hu Kou?"
Shahukou was renamed Shahukou in order to ease ethnic conflicts in later generations. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, this place was second only to the Fangshan area in importance and was also the place where the Ming army gathered heavily.
There are high mountains on both sides of Shahukou facing each other, and the terrain is very steep. The open valley between the two mountains has been an important passage between the north and the south since ancient times. At this time, Shahukou Pass has not been officially built, but the Great Wall here is long and wide.
The height and thickness are different from other places, and there are several protective walls.
In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, fighting continued here, and it was attacked by the Mongols many times. However, if the Ming army defended it effectively, the little prince Batu Munch would have to pay a huge price to capture this place even without assistance.
"What is there that he dares not do?" Menglike smiled and said, "Batu Mengke is a man of treacherous and changeable nature. The people he uses as his pioneers are either Han Chinese or Tumati tribe. Unfortunately, like a father, he must be like a father.
His son, I cannot guess what Parsopolo is thinking."
Balsu Polo is the third son of the little prince Batu Meng. He is now 19 years old. He was sealed in the Hetao area and commanded Tumat and other tribes. In the official history, he later changed Tumat to Tumo.
unique and created its own brilliance.
"Han people?" Zhou Dai was a little confused. How could there be Han people in the Mongolian army?
Meng Lik glanced at him and explained: "There are many Han people in Hetao, all the remnants of your Taizu Dynasty left there. Aren't there also many Mongolians among the Ming army?"
Chongba Ge swept across the Yuan Dynasty. In order to defend against the Northern Yuan Dynasty, Dongsheng and other guards were established in Hetao. After the Tumu Fort Incident, the Hetao was completely occupied by the Mongols. In order to recapture the Hetao, the Ming Dynasty also set up the first assistant in the official history.
Xia Yan's old life finally came to an end.
"Then if you want to take down Sha Hukou, you have to sacrifice your life." Zhou Dai didn't understand the little prince's strategic intention.
Meng Li Ke knew that this young man was a muscular man, so he had to explain in detail: "If someone deliberately releases water, killing Hu Kou is not a natural danger. Batu Meng Ke went all the way south, and the soldiers pointed at Datong Fucheng, not where the Emperor of Ming Dynasty was located, but
Yingzhou in the south!"
Zhou Dai did not discuss the issue of internal agents with Meng Lik, because it didn't matter who the internal agents were. In the Ming-Meng war, there were more than one or two. Even if one or two hundred traitors emerged, it was normal.
When he was in the martial arts academy, old man Xu Jin said with emotion: The Great Wall is big and useless. A ninth-grade official can make it useless. In this world, the pass is usually the easiest to be breached...
"Why did he attack Yingzhou?"
Meng Lik smiled faintly and said: "Force the emperor to flee the capital from Yanghedong."
Taking Yingzhou cut off the main transportation route between Datong and Taiyuan. If Zhu Shou did not want to be trapped in the isolated city, the only way was to take the North Road and return to Beijing from Yanghe along the Great Wall.
Take the Sanggan River and turn to the ancient flying fox road? Don't even think about this route. Yingzhou is south of the Sanggan River. As long as Yingzhou is captured, Zhu Shou's army will have no chance to escape eastward along the river.
"What good does this do to Dayan Khan?" Zhou Dai didn't understand the little prince's strategic intention at all.
"Leading the wolf into the pass, there are suspected soldiers from the Hidden Soldier Valley. It is impossible for the emperor not to escape, otherwise both roads will be cut off, and Datong will be an isolated city!" Menglike laughed, "Chasing the emperor's ass and beating him, forcing him to
Reinforcements from various parts of the Ming Dynasty had to come, and these reinforcements could not arrive at the same time. Naturally, they could be defeated one by one. By then, the entire land of Hebei would be robbed by him. After the robbery, they would return to the grassland from Xuanfu north. At this time, each
Lu Mingjun has already lost his courage, so naturally there is no danger."
"Of course the generals in the court can see through this plan," Zhou Dai said disapprovingly, "Is this what you want to say?"
Meng Lik sighed: "Of course everyone can break this strategy, but you know, if you lose the army, you will lose your official position; if you lose the emperor, you will lose your life, so even everyone can see through Batumon."
Although no one dared to follow Ke's trick and used the emperor as a bait, they could only obediently send him to his door and completely destroy the army in his hands."
Zhou Dai thought for a while and then realized that although it was bitingly cold on the top of the mountain, a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back: Yes, the emperor's life is much more important than hundreds of thousands of troops.
"You just said that Parsopolo of the Tumat tribe is not of the same mind as his father, and by the way, there are also those Han people!" Zhou Dai was anxious, his intelligence suddenly opened up, and he grabbed Meng Liq's hand.
Thinking loudly, "Is this the military intelligence you want to send?"
"Only the Tumat tribe! But that's enough," Monlik said with a smile, "Don't count on those Han people anymore. Isn't there an old saying among you Han people that if you are a barbarian, you will be a barbarian? How many of us Mongolians are we?
After ten years of working as herdsmen, they killed you people in Guannei, even more ruthlessly than us Mongols."
Zhou Dai was furious when he heard this: "How can any of our Chinese descendants be willing to be barbarians? Don't say anything more. I will convey your words to the superior officials. As for whether they believe it or not, I am not a pawn who can help you."
Already."
Meng Li Ke smiled bitterly and said: "That's all I have to say. I also hope that Brother Zhou will be careful all the way. The scout Baihu you killed is the only son of the commander of the suspected army here. Those of you who stayed in Mao'erzhuang may have been poisoned."
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After Zhou Dai said goodbye to him with clasped fists, he swung the rope in his hand and climbed down the mountain along the crack in the cliff.