The Child Emperor

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As the sun rose, an army came from afar, raising the dust that covered the sky and the sun, and the rumbling of horses' hooves could be heard clearly on the mountain.

"Is it the Huns?" a Chu soldier asked, really not daring to have good hopes.

"It's the Chu army, it's the Chu army from the west!" Han Ruzi raised his bow and arrow again, and shot a straight arrow. The arrow crossed the battlefield halfway up the mountain and flew to the foot of the mountain. The momentum has disappeared, and there is not much lethality. "Help the soldiers come. Come on, let's rush down and work together inside and out!"

There were very few Chu soldiers left. Hearing that General Zhenbei was so sure, their confidence also increased. They threw down their swords and shields, picked up bows and arrows, and shot down the mountain.

Only Fang Daye was indifferent and turned to look at General Zhenbei.

"This is the rescue." Han Ruzi said with certainty.

Fang Daye finally pulled the bowstring, and the arrows shot even fell to the Xiongnu cavalry group at the foot of the mountain.

Han Ruzi walked down the mountain with twenty or thirty people, and stopped at three or four steps, then opened his bow and shot arrows.

The Huns also discovered the rapidly approaching army. Under the smoke and dust, there seemed to be tens of thousands of horses galloping in it.

Standing halfway up the mountain, the Xiongnu sword and shield soldiers directly felt the excitement of the Chu soldiers above. They turned around and saw the rushing smoke and dust. They were horrified and rushed down the mountain. They had just been sacrificed once, this time. , no one can stop them from fleeing.

The Xiongnu cavalry at the foot of the mountain were the most confused. They couldn't see the smoke and dust in the distance, but they could feel the panic of the cavalry outside. Although it was not lethal, it showed the unstoppable excitement of the Chu army.

There is only one reason why he can cheer up again when he is in a desperate situation, and that is that the reinforcements of the Chu army really come.

The chaos didn't happen all at once. Some Hun cavalry tried to stop the fleeing infantry, and even shot a few arrows, which resulted in a more frantic collapse. Hundreds of infantry rushed into their camp and dragged the cavalry off their horses. Get on your horse and run.

When Han Ruzi walked halfway up the mountain, the Huns at the foot of the mountain were already in a mess. From the generals to the soldiers, from the outer to the inner layer, everyone was running away.

When the Chu army rushed to this mountain yesterday, the Huns suspected that there would be an ambush.

Han Ruzi stopped the Chu soldiers and ordered half of them to continue shooting arrows, while the other half searched for the wounded.

Du Chuanyun was pulled out from under the two corpses, and an arrow was shot in the shoulder, but he didn't die. "Take it, take it easy, I'm bleeding. What happened to the Huns? Is that our rescuer? Haha, Don't die, don't die!"

The wounded were all gathered together, and Han Ruzi ordered everyone to stop shooting arrows and find all the dead.

Du Chuanyun still had an arrow on his right shoulder, holding the sword in his left hand, "Kill another time!"

Han Ruzi stopped him, "Don't chase after the poor bandits. Although the Huns have retreated, they still have the upper hand."

"There are rescuers, what are you afraid of?" Du Chuanyun was still eager to try, as if he could not feel the injury on his shoulder.

Fang Daye dragged Du Chuanyun to his side, "I will not defy my life." After saying this, he put one hand on Du Chuanyun's shoulder, grabbed the shaft of the arrow at the same time, and broke the exposed part with the other hand.

Du Chuanyun screamed in agony and almost fell to the ground in pain, not to mention chasing and killing the Huns.

The Huns have horses, even the infantrymen are no exception, but they are not around, so they want to snatch other people's mounts. They run very fast. The smoke and dust in the distance have just arrived at the foot of the mountain, and the Huns have already fled several miles away.

The excitement of the surviving Chu soldiers quickly diminished. They saw that there were not many people and horses in the smoke, at most three hundred.

Even this number is overestimated.

"Hey, reinforcements... not many." Du Chuanyun expressed everyone's doubts.

The reinforcements were only about a hundred people, and behind each horse dragged wine bags, helmets and other items to create a lot of smoke.

Chai Yue led the team up the mountain, jumped off the horse, and knelt down to Marquis Juan: "To frighten the general, the death penalty for humiliation..."

Han Ruzi stepped forward to help him up, "Who found you?"

"Isn't it me?" Cui Teng appeared on horseback, didn't get down, and kept looking eastward, "They sent the golden bracelet back to the city, I suddenly remembered that Chai Yue led the team to the northeast, and they should be returning, maybe not far away. , so I went to him. I guessed right, he didn't believe me at first. Let's go, the Huns may find themselves fooled sometime."

Cui Teng was right, the Huns were frightened away. Once they found out that the Chu army was not as much as they imagined, they would probably become angry and turn around and catch up.

The Chu army can stay and continue to stand firm and wait for the arrival of the Iron Broken City army, but at least it will have to wait until tomorrow morning, or even later. If there is a chance to escape, no one wants to stay, even Du Chuanyun hopes to get on the horse quickly.

In Chai Yue's team, there were more than 30 horses carrying things, and they just let them out. The soldiers who were not seriously injured all rode their own horses. It's too much trouble, I can only pile it there and clean it up later.

The Huns were still fleeing. For the Chu army, the situation was completely different from yesterday, and it was an extremely rare chance to escape.

One hundred forty or fifty men marched eastward, Han Ruzi led the army in the front, and Chai Yue led the army at the rear.

No one spoke on the way.

After noon, the horses had to stop and rest. Some of the horses were so tired that they were foaming. Chai Yue mobilized the ten strongest horses, appointed eight soldiers, and ordered them to protect the general Zhenbei and retreat first. It cannot fall into the hands of the Huns."

"No, I have to..." Before Han Ruzi finished speaking, Du Chuanyun and others had already put him on horseback.

Chai Yue said to Du Chuanyun, "Sorry, the injured should not follow the general."

Du Chuanyun didn't care, "Ha, I haven't played enough yet. I'm fine with staying, but one person must go with Hou Juan."

"Which one?" Chai Yue looked at the noble children in the team. Half of the eight people he had just designated were from aristocratic families, and he couldn't see who of the remaining people was qualified to accompany him.

Han Ruzi no longer refused, pointing to one person and said, "General Fang has to go with me."

Chai Yue was stunned for a moment, thinking that Marquis Juan was going to carry the flag of the general, so he said, "It's better to keep the flag of the general, as it can confuse the Huns."

"Leave the flag, people follow me."

What surprised Chai Yue even more was that the surviving soldiers and soldiers seemed to have the same idea as Hou Juan, and they stepped aside one after another with a respectful demeanor.

Chai Yue divided another horse, eleven horses for ten people, and one more for General Zhenbei.

After a short rest, Han Ruzi and the others set off, almost non-stop along the way, thinking about when the Huns would catch up with Chai Yue.

Soon after nightfall, Han Ruzi met the reinforcements from the Iron Broken City. There were more than 2,000 people in total, and almost all the horses of the Iron Broken City were brought out.

Han Ruzi and others changed horses and were escorted back to the city by 100 people. The remaining reinforcements continued to advance to meet Chai Yue.

It was late at night when he returned to the city. Han Ruzi was tired and hungry, but he couldn't eat or sleep. Under Zhang Youcai's persuasion, he reluctantly ate a little something and ordered someone to resettle the house.

Fang Daye was so old that he needed several people to support him even when he got off the horse. He fell asleep as soon as he touched the bed.

"Bring Jin Chunbao." Han Ruzi didn't want to wait.

Zhang Youcai couldn't persuade the master to rest, so he had to let the loach call someone. After a while, the loach hurried back, "Boss Jin was taken away."

"Take it away? Take it away by whom? Take it to where?" Han Ruzi asked a series of questions.

Loach scratched his head, turned around and ran out. Since he has served Marquis Juan, he still doesn't know the rules, but his legs and feet are neat.

There were 30,000 Chu troops stationed in the valley outside Shenxiong Pass, waiting to encircle and wipe out the Huns. Their generals stayed in Shenxiong Pass and sent messengers to Broken Iron City every day to report information, just in time for Jin Chunbao to be sent back, so the messenger took him with him. Walk.

Han Ruzi paused. He was still inexperienced. He forgot to issue a strict order to keep Jin Chun in the city. He hurriedly asked Zhang Youcai to prepare a pen and paper, wrote a letter, and ordered people to set off immediately to Shenxiong Pass.

In his letter, he reminded the generals of the Chu army: Jin Chunbao's escape was obviously arranged by the Huns, and the fact that the Huns were split up was unbelievable, it was probably a tactic to lure troops, and there might be more than 10,000 Huns left in the frontier fortresses. .

The messenger set off, but Han Ruzi was not at ease. Jin Chunbao's words were well-founded, but his rebuttals were all speculation. There was only one most powerful reason, but he couldn't elaborate.

If the Huns just wanted to seduce the Marquis Tien, they should use Jin Chuiduo as an excuse, just like Chai Yue, but Jin Cunbao said it was all about the Huns splitting again. General Zhenbei and Broken Iron City, but higher-ranking generals and more Chu troops.

Jin Chunbao was used unconsciously, thinking that what he said was the truth, which was more demagogic.

"The settled Huns are more and more similar to the Chu people. They not only learned the tactics of the Chu army, but also learned the same tactics." Han Ruzi said to himself, becoming more and more worried, and even regretted not killing Jin Chunbao at the beginning. But at that time, he wanted to use Jin Chunbao to move rescue soldiers, and there were not many options.

The Huns really did not hunt down Jin Chunbao, which proved that he was released on purpose.

Han Ruzi wrote another letter and asked the loach to find Lin Kunshan, who was looking for breath.

"Trouble Mr. Lin go to Shenxiongguan." Han Ruzi said all his guesses.

Lin Kunshan couldn't help nodding, and finally said, "I'll go now."

It was only at this moment that Han Ruzi breathed a sigh of relief, and it was more effective for Lin Kunshan to persuade General Chu.

Soon after dawn, a team of Chu troops returned to the city and brought the latest news. The reinforcements had already brought back Chai Yue and others, facing the Huns at a distance. The Huns immediately retreated. .

Han Ruzi breathed a sigh of relief, but he still couldn't let go of his heart. When the army entered the city one after another, he finally understood what he was suspenseful about.

He and the Chai family still have an unresolved account.