Chapter 2261 Disguise (March Monthly Pass Plus 12)
General Meng held his stomach and took a deep breath. After the pain subsided, he asked, "Have the people who asked for help left?"
Lieutenant General Nie said: "They left early. There were three of us, on light cavalry, and we only brought food, water, and letters. We should be able to reach Gaochang for help within three days."
General Meng breathed a sigh of relief. After praying to all the gods and Buddhas, he suddenly remembered, "Is there a monk in your convoy... No, a high monk."
Manbao: "Yeah, what's wrong?"
General Meng coughed lightly and said, "Please invite him over. I'll pray to the Buddha and Bodhisattva in front of him, okay?"
Manbao and his friends: ...
They didn't think it was a good idea, so they rode away.
When General Meng saw that they had all left, he curled his lips and leaned against the car, looking a little depressed.
Zhou Man and Zhou Liru were in the team, and they brought enough medicinal herbs, so everyone recovered well. After two days of walking, most of those with minor injuries were able to gallop on horseback.
Of course they were not fully healed, but the pain was within the tolerable range and they could still wield swords, so General Nie let them mount their horses.
He felt that the Tibetan reinforcements that might catch up at any time were a very serious crisis. Even if they were injured, they had to try their best to survive and let others survive, so they had to adapt to riding the horse even if they were injured.
Their marching speed wasn't very slow, and since they had intentionally shortened their lunch break, their progress was quite good. On the third day, Lieutenant General Nie stood on a high desert spot on his horse, looking into the distance. He said, "If nothing unexpected happens, we'll reach Gaochang tomorrow. I can almost see Gaochang City from here."
Manbao also rode beside him and looked up for a long time. "You must be seeing things. There are only clouds over there."
Bai Shan silently pointed to their right and said, "Gaochang is over there."
Manbao was embarrassed for a moment, turned around and looked, and after looking for a long time, he nodded in a serious manner, "It's still far away, I didn't see anything."
Nie Canjun's face flushed, but because of his dark complexion, it was hard to see. He glanced at Zhou Man and then at Bai Shan secretly. Feeling that he was not being laughed at, he nodded and said, "Yes, it's still far away, so I can't see anything."
The convoy passed under the sand slope. Bai Erlang lifted the curtain and took a look at the high sand slope, then immediately lowered the curtain. The wind has been a bit strong recently, blowing the sand everywhere, which is very annoying.
Bai Erlang wanted to go out and play, but he didn't want to go out in the sun. "It's so sunny. What are they talking about on the sand dunes? Why did they talk for so long?"
Yin Huo said, "If you're interested, you can go and take a look."
Bai Erlang glanced outside and shook his head, "Forget it, I'm not General Nie who doesn't have any sense at all."
Yin Huo couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Nie, who Bai Erlang considered to be tactless, was about to walk down the dune with a smile, leaving this space for the two of them, when suddenly Daji pointed to the distance and asked, "Master, Miss Man, look at this."
The two of them turned their heads and looked in the direction he pointed. Because it was too far away, they couldn't see anything specific, but they could still see the dust that was raised.
But General Nie was experienced, and he could tell at a glance that it was the sound of a large number of troops coming.
He glanced in the direction of Gao Chang, then turned his head to look in the opposite direction. He immediately said, "It might be an enemy attack. Let's take cover. Quickly—"
It's all desert, how can they hide?
But Manbao and the others still rushed down the sand dunes quickly, shouting to warn others.
Lieutenant General Nie also knew that they could not hide in the desert, so he turned around and said to Zhou Man, "Sir, leave your luggage behind and go to Gaochang to seek help immediately."
Man Bao said, "I am the chief officer. How could I abandon the team and run away?"
"But you are a civil official, not a military officer," said Lieutenant General Nie. "Sir, this time we are on a mission to the Western Regions, we must do something only you can accomplish. Finding a remedy for smallpox is crucial."
Manbao pursed his lips and couldn't help but look at Baishan.
Bai Shan didn't want to run away by herself, so she took her hand and said, "Let the master and the others go first, and we will stay with you."
General Nie couldn't help but glare at Bai Shan, thinking that this beauty was a disaster.
As expected, as soon as Bai Shan opened his mouth, Man Bao immediately became firm and said, "I will stay."
After thinking for a moment, she comforted him, "If there's really no other way, we'll just run away. Don't worry, we won't care about you."
General Nie: "...That's not necessary."
Master Zhiren also rushed over and said to them, "If they are Tibetan soldiers, I might give them a try."
"How do you try?"
Zhiren said, "I can use the Dharma to inspire them."
Manbao and his friends: ...
Zhiren couldn't help but smile when he saw this. "But we'll need some disguises. You should all change out of your armor and robes. Don't bring anything with the Jin army logo. We'll also need to modify a car. Do you have any Buddhist artifacts in your luggage?"
Manbao and Baishan looked at each other and found that there really were some. When they were dividing the spoils and suppressing the bandits, they took almost all the Buddhist artifacts.
Because they knew that the countries in the Western Regions believed in Buddhism, they thought it would not be a loss to take the Buddhist artifacts to the Western Regions, and there were not many of them, so they chose it.
At this time, Zhiren needed it, so Manbao nodded to indicate that he had it.
Zhiren just asked, but he didn't expect them to actually have one. After a moment of surprise, he said, "That's even easier. How about this? You pretend to be the boys and girls serving me. This team is mine. You keep a close eye on Jin Kuian and the others, and leave the other Turkic captives outside. Well, it's best to change them into better clothes..."
Because they were still a little far away, Zhiren gave more detailed instructions. After listening for a while, Bai Shan finally understood that these people were servants serving Zhiren and Jiechen.
He and Manbao looked at each other, and although he was not sure whether it would work, he turned around to make arrangements.
Liu Huan's carriage, which had not been specially modified, was dismantled. Manbao took out brightly colored silk and gave it to the guards. They removed the green cloth cover and hung the silk on it.
Zhou Liru carefully manipulated the silk and gauze to make them look more natural and beautiful.
Mr. Zhuang also changed his clothes and after communicating with Master Zhiren, he understood what he was going to do.
He turned around and glanced at the bewildered captives, then said to Manbao, "Have the guards take out their best clothes for them to change into, and they will change into the captives' worn-out clothes."
Manbao went to convey the order in a daze.
The guards, looking confused, tried to snatch the clothes from the prisoners, and then gave them their own good clothes with a look of heartache.
God knows how unwilling they are. These people haven't taken a shower for who knows how long. You can smell the odor even if you don't get close to them, not to mention that they have no clothes to wear now.
See you at noon
(End of this chapter)
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