"Mr. Wu thought that when you return to the Han Dynasty, you would be regarded as a loyal minister like Su Ziqing?"

When Wu Zongnian tied the wooden stick he had cut and peeled together, and was in a very uncomfortable position to rest on the horse's back, it was both humiliating and sad, and I couldn't help but remember what Li Ling said to him.

Two years ago, at the foot of Jinwei Mountain, the kings of the right Xiongnu held a meeting to worship the gods and discuss revenge on Wusun.

At that time, Wu Zongnian had married a Hu wife and gave birth to a child. He gradually won the trust of the Right King. He often asked him for advice. Wu Zongnian took the opportunity to tell all kinds of Central Plains allusions, trying to assist in the reform of the Right Army, and acted as if he was determined to stay in the Huns.

It is precisely because of this that Wu Zongnian proposed to farm in the north of Baishan and where Cheshi was fertile, so he was approved by the Right King.

Farming gave the Huns more food and prepared for attacking Wusun. It seemed to be beneficial to the right. The kings did not doubt that they had him, but they were seen through by one person.

That is King Jiankun and Li Ling who showed his face at the Jinwei Mountain Conference!

"Mr. Wu is bullying the Huns. If Wei Lu is still there, you will never be able to hide your trick."

When the kings were drunk after the meeting, Wu Zongnian went to toast Li Ling, Li Ling said slowly, almost scaring Wu Zongnian to death.

But Li Ling did not expose Wu Zongnian, but instead let him go. Just when Wu Zongnian felt aroused in his heart and wanted to lobby Li Ling to return to Han together, he was ridiculed by King Jiankun, who was over 50 years old.

"In the past, in order to protect Song from being attacked by Chu, Mozi walked for ten days and ten nights to Yingdu, fought with Gongshuban, removed the belt and used the certificate as a weapon, Gongshupan Panzhan to set up a change of attacks. Zi Mozi was separated from him and persuaded the King of Chu to stop the army and not fight."

"In theory, Mozi saved Song and should have been welcomed by Song State with courtesy and regarded as a hero?"

Li Ling's words were a little sarcastic: "However, when Mo Zi returned to Song, it was raining heavily. He went to Lumen to shelter from the rain, but the guardians of Song State did not accept it. Mo Zi could only stand outside the Song State, which was saved by him alone, raised his head and was covered in rain."

"Those who rule over God do not know the merits; those who fight for the wisdom do not know it. Mr. Wu, even if a man like you and me is in love with a great man and does something secretly, he cannot get on the table and is not known to the world. However, the fact that we surrender to the Huns is well known to everyone."

"Even if you do it, it will be difficult to tell your contribution clearly. If the ink is stained with white silk, people in the world can only see black spots, no white background, and they can't get rid of them even if they wash them many times."

After drinking the wine that Wu Zongnian was honored, Li Ling patted him on the shoulder: "Mr. Wu, don't bother me, remember this sentence first. Gui Yier, I'm afraid I will be humiliated again, what can I do?"

Now it seems that Li Ling is unfortunately convinced. The memories come to an abrupt end. The horse stops, and Wu Zongnian is rudely pulled down.

A hemp rope was tied in his mouth, and two Han soldiers were in front of him. Looking around, it was dark. They had already left Xin Tang's vanguard who was going to chase the Huns. They did not return to the camp, but stopped in the empty weeds.

It was not until the two men pulled out the ring-headed sword that Wu Zongnian realized what they wanted to do, wouldn’t they take him back?

He wanted to speak out, but the hemp rope in his mouth turned into mumbling.

"I really want to kill him?" Xiao Jianjia was still hesitant. After all, the other party was a Han man, not a Hu Guan.

"This is Xin Qu's life." Little Bing Yi was eager to try.

"But he said he was a false surrender." Xiaobingjia kept remembering this sentence, but Xin Qu was drunk at that time and had a bad temper and dared not say it.

Xiaobing Yi cursed: "Then Li Ling, who surrendered to the Huns, is coming back now. He has been surrendering for more than 20 years. Do you believe it?"

"I am a native of Chengji in Tianshui. I am in the same county as the Li family. Li Ling surrendered to Hu, and the whole county is ashamed of it. I hate the people who surrendered to the Huns the most. I deserve it if you kill him. If you don't dare, then I will do it!"

The little soldier Yi got closer and closer, and the knife was already crossing his neck. Wu Zongnian only felt that this was a great irony. He had thought countless times that his conspiracy was discovered by the Huns and died under their bows and arrows, but he never expected that he would die from the sword in the ring!

He never dreamed of this way of "going home".

"Let's wait!"

Fortunately, a cavalry rushed over and stopped the two pawns. They were military officers wearing black clothes and black crowns, covered with red leather armor, and covered with sheepskin fur. When he approached with a torch, Wu Zongnian recognized him. He was the young man who had been standing next to Xin Tang before in the pasture of King Yiwu, but had not said a word for a long time.

Two soldiers saluted to this man: "Why is Wen Juncheng here?"

"Some things need to be interrogated again." Wen Zhong is the "Sima Cheng of the Military Song" of Xin Tang, that is, the military judge.

Xiaobing Yi hesitated and said, "But Chief Xin Qu told the governor that the governor again asked the team leader to lead the team. The commander ordered the leader, and the governor called me and said that he would be executed directly and there was no need to be retried..."

Wen Zhong waved his hand: "Xin Quchang was drunk at that time, and was drunk and talked nonsense. He didn't think about some things carefully. How could we sit down and watch him make a mistake?"

He asked the second soldiers to guard the other side, and he approached Wu Zongnian, untied the hemp rope that tied his mouth, handed it over the water bag, and let Wu Zongnian, who had been thirsty all night, take a few sips.

"Wu Zongnian, you said before that you are the deputy envoy of Fu Jiezi, the Marquis of Yiyang?"

“That’s exactly that!”

Wen Zhong had his own plans and touched his chin and said, "Then you should know the Marquis of Xi'an, Ren Hong?"

Wu Zongnian was still dripping with water. He knew that his life might be all about Sima Cheng, a military officer named Wen Zhong. He learned to be smart now. Knowing that Ren Hong is famous and could speak in the court, he immediately said: "I am a friend of Mo...against all the friends!"

Although the two of them didn't say a few words during the mission, only Ren Hong understood his feelings. If it weren't for Ren Hong's words, Wu Zongnian would have asked himself that he would never have been able to stick to the present.

"By the way, Xi'an Hou also knows about my false surrender!"

"Marty of Xi'an knows you are pretending to surrender?" Wen Zhong's eyes lit up.

Wu Zongnian briefly told Xin Tang that he had not had time to tell Xin Tang: "Where than Tiemen Pass, more than 10,000 cavalry of the Xiongnu besieged the Han soldiers, the Marquis of Xi'an wrote a secret letter to me, pointing out that I was in the Huns and my heart was in the Han Dynasty! It was me who assisted the Marquis of Xi'an to alienate the Right Xian King and the King of Youguli, and to make them turn against each other, so that Quli Tiemen could rescue the siege."

Wen Zhong nodded. At this moment, he had become kind and loosened the rope behind Wu Zongnian. Wu Zongnian also regretted: "It's all my fault. I was too anxious before and could not explain the reason clearly with Xin Qu..."

"Luckily, Mr. Wu did not let Xin Quchang know about your friendship with the Marquis of Xi'an, otherwise the head would have already landed!"

Wen Zhong was so sad that he didn't want to help them solve this "misunderstanding". He whispered in Wu Zongnian's ear:

"Mr. Wu didn't know that in the battle of Cheshi, Xin Tang attacked Jiaohedong Gate and suffered a great loss, but Cheshi King asked the Marquis of Xi'an to send someone to climb up the cliff and capture it. In the end, the Xin brothers had to assist and wanted to slaughter the city and vent their anger, but were stopped by the Marquis of Xi'an. Xin Tang felt unpleasant and threatened that 'those who work hard are the second best, and Dunhuang's first best'. Xin Tang could make a decision for the sake of personal grudges."

Leaving Wu Zongnian to think about it himself, Wen Zhong used an official voice and scared the two soldiers, asking them to take Wu Zongnian back to the camp with him. He went up one by one, and called the garrison commander who directly took Xin Wuxian's military order and discussed with him: "I think Wu Zongnian cannot be killed for the time being."

"First, can Xin Qu take it seriously after drinking?"

"Second, do you know what the relationship between Wu Zongnian and the Marquis of Xi'an? They went on a mission to Loulan and killed the robes of the King of Loulan. They were friends of life and death! The Marquis of Xi'an was the most protective of the situation. No one in the army knew that it was said that for the death of a small shuis four years ago, the little prince of the Huns who surrendered in the future in the Black Gobi Desert was killed, along with hundreds of his subordinates!"

Wen Zhong was good at speaking, which made Natun Chief realize the seriousness of the problem: "You killed this person with Xin Qu Chang's order. In the future, the Marquis of Xi'an will pursue it. Xin Qu has his brother to protect him, and it is natural that there is nothing wrong with us. The unlucky ones are not the minor officials who do things?"

The head of the village was frightened, but also complained: "There is such a thing. Why didn't Wenjun persuade him when Chief Xin Qu gave the order just now?"

Wen Zhong sighed: "Xin Qu has a good wine. Whenever he gets drunk, he will whip his soldiers or beat him to death. Even Sima Cheng of the Army has been whipped a few times before he speaks out, are you looking for a whip?"

Wen Zhong touched the deep whip marks on his shoulder. He remained silent when he was beaten, but he was hated! As for Xin Tang pointing at the tip of his nose, he insulted and scolded him, greeting the eighteen generations of ancestors, and saying that he would have had sex with his mother and wife, there were countless. If Wen Zhong had not been able to bear it, he would have snatched the knife and killed this guy long ago.

On weekdays, Xin Tang was protected by Xin Wuxian, but he could not find a chance to take revenge. Now, Xin Tang was seeking death by himself. I don’t know if he was really drunk or greedy for me, so he wanted to embezzle the map that indicated the location of the Huns, and even wanted his subordinates to kill Wu Zongnian.

If what Wu Zongnian said is true, then Xin Tang will offend the Marquis of Xi'an and Marquis of Yiyang to death! He is in trouble!

What's more, it is worth taking the chance to climb to the Xi'an Marquis. Since the army set out to conquer the Western Regions, Pu Lie has made the most contributions with the Xi'an Marquis. Who is not jealous? Wen Zhong is too lazy to serve Xin Tang. He wants to do something in the Western Regions. If he can get on the Xi'an Marquis and the Marquis of Yiyang...

Natun Chief was persuaded by Wen Zhong and agreed not to take action first: "We will ask Chief Xin Qu again?"

Wen Zhong shook his head: "Chief Qu is eager to make contributions. He has gone to pursue the Huns, and he may have been dozens of miles away at this moment."

"Then go and ask Captain Xin?"

Wen Zhong still disagreed. If Xin Wuxian knew about this, he might cover it up for Xin Tang: "This matter is crucial. You might as well hand it over to me. I will go directly to the camp and report it to Zhao Junzheng!"

Wen Zhong turned around and saw Wu Zongnian’s thin clothes trembling in the cold wind. He immediately walked over, took off his sheepskin fur and put it on him, and smiled and said, “Mr. Wu should wrap it tighter, so you can’t let the loyal ministers who are in a big heart freeze!”

...

Wu Zongnian only felt that this night seemed like a dream.

He first escaped from the Huns and was almost eaten by a wolf in the forest. He was happy when he met the Han army vanguard, but was beaten up. He tied his arms almost broke for another night, and even the Han soldiers were pushed against their necks with a ring-headed knife, almost losing their lives.

And after the darkest and coldest night, the dawn finally came.

Zhao Chongguo's camp was outside the capital of Xiqimi. They left Cheshi's surprise attack on Dongqimi, and they walked faster than Han Zeng. The red and yellow flags were still as dazzling as the sun, making Wu Zongnian unable to open his eyes.

After Wen Zhong left the system of the Jun judge to report it directly, Jun Zheng Zhao Guanghan had learned about this and was worried that he would come out to pick up Wu Zongnian by himself.

This Xun official, who was famous for his impartial law enforcement in Chang'an, had a slight face in the whole process. After entering the camp, he began interrogation and repeatedly asked about Wu Zongnian's experience over the years.

Although Zhao Guanghan heard Ren Hong mention that Wu Zongnian might have surrendered, he still treated him as a surrenderer for the enemy. From how Wu Zongnian was captured, why he surrendered, whether Quli's actions were consistent with Ren Hong's statement, why he planned to farm for the Youxian King, and then to marrying a Hu woman to having a baby, he did not miss any details.

After asking about Wu Zongnian what he did, he began to ask him what Xin Tang did last night and confirmed it with Wen Zhong.

Zhao Guanghan's clerk recorded every word Wu Zongnian and Wen Zhong on the bamboo slips he carried with him, as if he wanted to be presented as a testimony in the court.

"You said the map was taken away by Xin Tang?"

Wu Zongnian should have been very aggrieved before, but now Wu Zongnian has almost forgotten the fact that he was humiliated and died. The most important thing now is to see General Pu Lei soon. After King Yiwu found out that he had escaped, he would definitely send someone to inform the tribes to expel the livestock and the weak and flee. If he was late, he would not be able to catch up!

This was the only thing he had been lurking in the Huns for four years and could prove that he had done this trip.

"Although the map was taken away, I was in charge of the right side of the farming and the places were all remembered in my heart!"

Wu Zongnian took over the pen and spent a while on the silk to draw a map he secretly described and looked at countless times, while Zhao Guanghan presented it to General Pu Lei.

After passing Zhao Guanghan's pass, Wu Zongnian was finally able to meet General Pu Lei, but the guards were still wary of him. When entering the tent, Zhao Chongguo's old servant Zhao Jia asked Wu Zongnian to put down the bare cane that had been held in his arms because the bottom was sharpened.

But Wu Zongnian suddenly became stubborn and still hugged it tightly, as if more important than his wife and children, and his own life: "The scepter that Fu Gong sent me back then was taken away by the Huns. This is a remake of it. I just dare not add a yak tail, for fear that the Huns would see it. I can't throw it away. I... General, I only have it left!"

Zhao Jia silently withdrew his hand, and Zhao Guanghan also said nothing. Even Wen Zhong, who helped Wu Zongnian to retaliate and speculate, was a little stunned.

At that moment, although it was only a moment, Wen Zhong suddenly felt ashamed of his selfishness, and in front of Wu Zongnian, he felt that he could not raise his head.

"Let him bring it in."

Zhao Chongguo's voice sounded, the old general's hair was gray, and the long-distance march made the young people tired, but Zhao Chongguo still held on. When Wu Zongnian came to pay a visit, he had just finished his military affairs and soaked the naan in the porridge and had not had time to eat it. The dish was filled with soy sauce with soy sauce.

No one knows how to make this thing in the Western Regions and the Huns, but it is a must-have food at home in the Han Dynasty. Zhao Chongguo did not bring anything else when he went to war. He must carry a few jars of soy sauce behind the cart. He is old and has no food to eat without this thing, and he has no taste in his mouth.

When Wu Zongnian saw the black fermented black beans and smelled its pungent smell, he was appreciated by the Right King of the Huns and could eat meat almost every meal. Suddenly, he remembered that when he was young, he would always put a plate of fermented bean sauce on the table table at home.

After seeing Wu Zongnian, Zhao Chongguo found that he was sick and weak, with his cheek bones protruding, his bowed wrist marks broke his skin, and he limped and felt sad in his heart. He then stepped forward a few steps and supported Wu Zongnian with his iron arms.

"Daoyuan mentioned you to me. I am incompetent in the face of the emperor and I have let you suffer aggrieved."

Wu Zongnian shook his head quickly: "I dare not, I dare not, it's because Zongnian did surrender to the enemy. I'm really ashamed..."

"Otherwise, I have seen that map and ordered the guides of the East and West Qiemi Kingdom to lead their troops to attack. The area north of the Tianshan Mountains and south of the Jinshan Mountains is larger than a state in the Han Dynasty. With this map, you will not have to search for the Xiongnu tribes like a needle in a haystack. After this battle, you will definitely be able to defeat the right part of the Xiongnu and Deputy Envoy Wu. If this battle is successful, you will definitely remember your achievements."
To be continued...