I played as an assistant in ancient times

Chapter 240 Chase

Shen Xiaoye understood. These people were arranged by the emperor to dig for gold. No wonder there were no prisoners brought back when the army came back to rest. So they were sent to mine, right?

She didn't ask any more questions, but went to her uncle to find out if there was any news about Lu Guan.

Shen Changsui said: "Yes, but you can't go with us.

Your Majesty has already ordered the wounded and the infantry without horses to be sent back to Kaiping for recuperation.

You go with them, go home and look after my grandparents, and the boy or girl born to my eldest sister-in-law."

"No, I have to take some spoils." Shen Xiaoye was not without desires. She said, "If I take the cattle and sheep back and sell them, I can get a lot of money."

"No, all the cattle and sheep received by the soldiers must be made into military rations.

No one is allowed to move without permission." Shen Changsui immediately put an end to her thoughts.

Shen Xiaoye said, “I heard that the cattle and sheep of Dada’s tribe are many times more than those of Baya Khan. I can wait until the government army defeats Master Alu.

Uncle, you don't need to persuade me. I will go to clean up the battlefield next time."

Then she changed the subject and said, "By the way, the one who shot you with an arrow during the last battle with the Mori tribe was Wu Er's personal guard.

Qiqige told me these past two days that she had seen the arrow."

"I know, and Wu Er and his men have died on the battlefield." Shen Changsui found out before her.

“Since you want to stay, just help out in the medical tent. Remember to go with Xuan Miao and the female soldiers. If you need anything, you can go find Master Lin.

Take advantage of the time these days to rest and maintain your strength, because next we will have to march day and night again."

Shen Xiaoye agreed repeatedly, and when the emperor set out again, she finally understood what her uncle meant.

The emperor was really swift, and once again he led three light cavalrymen on horseback to pursue.

Those of them who belonged to the rear team basically could not catch up with the front. Starting from the second day of June, they had to march for nine hours a day, and the time for three meals and resting and feeding the horses was only two or three hours at most.

Many of the civil officials could not hold on any longer and quit the team.

Scholar Lin called Shen Xiaoye to his side to take care of her, "If you can't bear it, stay."

Shen Xiaoye was referring to this wave of making money, "It's okay, in recent months I have developed the knack of marching day and night.

Working day and night is not something only men can do. Look at the people behind me, they are all women, the oldest is no older than 25."

The senior sister who surpassed me hasn't come back yet.

Xuan Yue, who was being talked about by her, was now sleeping soundly under the crescent moon. She was too tired from drawing continuously.

"You are all good kids." When he was young, Mr. Lin often worked in the fields. When he had free time, he asked the elders in the village to teach him some martial arts, and he has never stopped doing so.

So after seven days, he still had energy and spirit.

But the other two scholars who have persisted until now are not so relaxed. One of them just said, "Why don't we take a break?"

There were excited shouts from the team in front, and the soldiers marched quickly with torches in hand.

"What happened?" Bachelor Lin and Bachelor Jin asked in unison, but no one could answer.

Only Shen Xiaoye said: "Caught up with Dada's master?"

"No, look, the torches in the center of the army are not lit." Scholar Jin looked at the fire ahead. In fact, he was not sure if he could see the center of the army. "Shall we spur our horses to take a look?"

As a Grand Secretary who records the daily life of the emperor's northern expedition, he cannot be left behind and unable to see the emperor.

"I suspect that Your Majesty is not in the central army, but has gone to the outpost again." Scholar Lin agreed. He knew too well that the emperor was a restless person and would become extremely energetic when fighting a war.

But the other scholar really couldn't run anymore. He felt really sad to see Shen Xiaoye, a half-grown girl, catching up.

Although the government army was far away from them, Shen Xiaoye and his companions only needed to increase their horse speed and march quickly with the help of torches, and they were able to catch up with the central army before dawn.

Just as Mr. Lin said, the emperor did not stay in the central army. However, everyone was too tired from chasing him, so they could only wait until dawn to rest for dinner before continuing.

However, today the military order was to continue to march quickly, and everyone started eating as soon as the sun rose.

It was June now and all kinds of dry food were almost gone, so the only thing left was hard and salty dried meat to fill the stomach.

Shen Xiaoye chewed it so hard that her teeth were tired and sore. This thing was fine to just eat as a snack on a normal day, but if you really eat it as a staple food with cold water for several meals, only you who have eaten it know how it tastes.

In public, it was difficult for her to take food from the space.

Xuan Miao handed over a bag of goat milk, "Drink some of this?"

Shen Xiaoye shook her head like a rattle. She was not herself anymore. She had grown up drinking goat's milk and had gotten used to it.

One of the most taboo things during a march is having a stomachache, and since she is a girl, it is even more inconvenient.

Xuanmiao said: "I think the central army is moving pretty fast. If you are really tired, just wait for the rear team's car to take a ride."

Shen Xiaoye drank some cold boiled water. To be on the safe side, she would boil several bags of water and cool them down every time the cooks stopped cooking. "I'm not that squeamish. Last night, the rear team caught two Dadas who were spying on the military situation. I guess the Aru tribe is not far away.

It's a decisive battle, we finally caught up with it, we have to take a look."

"Haha, unless you are on a high place, you can't see the real situation of the two sides except for the sound of fighting." Xuanmiao told the truth.

The fact was just as Xuanmiao said. When they arrived at the vanguard of the army, the soldiers stopped at the side of a steep mountain. The emperor himself was already occupying that commanding position and looking at the Dada headquarters not far away.

I heard that this mountain originally had no name, and was named Feiyun Mountain by Your Majesty.

Shen Xiaoye could not compete with His Majesty for the position, but she did witness a strange piece of history.

Dada's Grand Tutor, who was known for his wisdom, did not take the opportunity to attack the Zhou army that had come from afar, but instead let his nephew tie himself up and surrender.

When the emperor was having an audience, Shen Xiaoye saw Lu Guan and Xia Huwei among Aru's nephew's personal soldiers, and they really had sneaked in.

Afterwards, the two of them were imprisoned separately from other personal soldiers, and Shen Xiaoye followed her uncle to secretly find Lu Guanlai.

Lu Guan, who hadn't had a good meal for a long time, still couldn't get any ready-made food here, and all he was given was dried meat.

When he saw Shen Xiaoye coming, he wanted to eat first. Fortunately, the space was still, so he could take out the fresh food and eat it right away.

Lu Guan finally had a bite of the fruit, and he said with satisfaction that he would not exchange it for a piece of gold.

Shen Xiaoye asked: "Aru doesn't think that His Majesty can't see that his nephew is pretending to surrender, right?"

"Of course not, but his indecisiveness has come back again. He doesn't want to fight, and the fact that he's been caught up now is just to buy time for the tribesmen, young and old, to escape.

But there was not a single king of the other ten tribes who didn't want to fight, so he ordered his nephew to pretend to surrender if he wanted to delay the time." Lu Guan ate most of the pear, and ate the rest very carefully, fearing that he would finish it in one bite.

Shen Xiaoye sighed and took out another one for him: "This is the last one." Everyone was trained during this trip to the grassland.

Shen Changsui shook his head and laughed: "Your Majesty also wants to delay time so that the soldiers can rest."

"We can't keep talking to Aru's nephew." Shen Xiaoye spread his hands.