The next morning, Li Xiuzhu woke up in the arms of Li Canghai's fourth daughter.

Li Xiuzhu gently broke free from the restraints of these beautiful girls and walked out of the room.

I didn't sleep for long, but I felt full after an hour.

Everyone had a consensus that women who served in the emperor's bedchamber should not be asked to sleep, so no one called Li Canghai, Chen Yuanyuan and others.

After Li Xiuzhu finished his breakfast, he was blocked by the two men before he could go to see the people digging the river.

"Master, have you forgotten something?"

Huang Rong also reminded him, "Your Majesty, are you going to break your promise?"

Obviously Li Xiuzhu underestimated the competitive spirit of the two women.

"Now?!"

The two people's noncommittal looks made Li Xiuzhu's mouth twitch.

He thought for a moment and said, "You guys go find the ingredients first. We'll eat whatever you can find in the next two days. It doesn't need to be too much, just one dish a day."

"I only have a limited amount of seasonings with me, and I didn't give you a chance to practice."

"I'll send a letter later and ask them to send a few bottles of seasoning over."

Li Xiuzhu only had soy sauce, MSG, cumin and chili powder on him. He didn't bring anything else, which can be bought at a pharmacy or spice store.

The two nodded and flew outside. Li Xiuzhu quickly sent a message, "I'll go to the river first and come back before noon."

Li Xiuzhu didn't care about the two of them anymore. He stepped on the ground and walked away with Du Sanniang in the breeze.

Those people haven't known about his return yet, but it's only temporary. The news from the capital has arrived long ago, so even if he's late, the other party will know about it in a few days.

Therefore, the two did not appear directly inside the military camp, but appeared outside the military camp.

Most of the soldiers had seen Li Xiuzhu before, so when the two of them arrived, they called them "Prince" and let them go.

Li Xiuzhu frowned and said nothing.

It was obvious that there was something wrong with him being able to come in so easily with his face, but it was hard to say. Would he let people interrogate him every time? There were only two things on him that could confirm his identity. One was the emperor's gold medal, which was temporarily given to Huang Rong, and the other was his jade seal.

The imperial seal is not only used by the emperor, but also by princes, ministers, and even celebrities.

However, the carved objects and characters on the jade seal are different.

The royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty is the dragon, and the prince is the unicorn.

Li Xiuzhu’s is the Kirin Jade Seal, an icy obsidian jade seal that looks a bit like brown glass and has good light transmittance.

This has gone off topic. The only things he has to prove his identity are two things. If they are checked, as soon as they are separated, except for him and Huang Rong holding the gold medal, no one else will be able to move.

Therefore, although Li Xiuzhu thought of the drawbacks, he did not think of correcting them.

Anyway, if a military order is issued, something to prove one's identity will still be needed. Even if someone comes in with his appearance, the most they can do is to spy on military intelligence or set fires.

Arson may seem serious, but generally speaking, food and grass are stacked separately. Unless many people set the fire together, it is impossible for the fire to go unnoticed for a long time.

As they were thinking, they saw the river ahead.

The river channel at this time was just a large wet pit. There was a light rain last night. Although the soil in the river channel became a little more muddy, it was much softer.

The amount of unearthed today is at least 30% more than usual.

Li Xiuzhu nodded with satisfaction and smiled as he looked at the river which was only ten miles away from Heluo.

This section will be completed in about three days, and we just need to build the other side...

"The other two battalions are on alert and ready to provide support at any time."

Li Xiuzhu's voice was mixed with his surging internal energy, and could be heard clearly within a radius of ten miles.

For a moment, the people in the canal pit no longer cared about digging and quickly ran towards the military camp.

Li Xiuzhu's face was very dark. He didn't expect these people to come again. They really didn't take him seriously.

It seems that the lessons learned from the Sun family before were not enough.

When the two sides fought together, Li Xiuzhu suddenly realized something was wrong.

The formation of these charging people was disorganized, and they were just shooting mindlessly like bandits. This was different from what Huang Rong told him last night.

Huang Rong told him that although those people seemed disorganized, none of them shot more than 30% useless arrows, and that was why she felt that those people were absolute people.

What happened? Did Huang Rong make a wrong observation? No, it was impossible. Huang Rong had assisted in the battles at Dashengguan for so many years. It was impossible for this to happen. Could it be that she knew he had joined the camp and deliberately played him? Li Xiuzhu actually guessed correctly. The officers and soldiers had indeed played themselves, and these people were real robbers.

Their leaders met with the others in private, offering weapons, money and food in exchange for three attacks on the other side.

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

They don't need to fight to the death, just need to delay the people who come to kill them.

To put it simply, it is to implement a harassment tactic of advancing when the enemy retreats and retreating when the enemy advances.

In this way, even if Li Xiuzhu went to investigate, he would only find the bandits, not the army.

Of course, this is only one aspect. If Li Xiuzhu is not careful, there will be a bigger gift waiting for him.

Li Xiuzhu said to Du Sanniang with a sullen face, "Sanniang, you stay here, I'll go to the other side and take a look."

There are eight camps, four on each side of the river. Before, there was only one direction to attack, so Du Sanniang was able to cooperate with the soldiers to defend.

If Li Xiuzhu does not take action in one of the two directions at this time, the other direction may suffer heavy losses.

Because the Sun family in Suzhou and Hangzhou rebelled, 30,000 garrisons were left in Suzhou and Hangzhou to guard the city. One purpose was to disrupt the rebels and reintegrate them into the team, and the other was to prevent any forces from stealing the city while Suzhou and Hangzhou were empty.

Therefore, this makes it impossible for any single battalion to fight against so many bandits.

Li Xiuzhu hurried on his way while frowning at the bandits.

What's going on in Heluo? There are nearly 10,000 robbers on either side. How can the merchants passing by Heluo support two such large groups of bandits?

Moreover, Heluo had never reported these two large bandit groups to the imperial court.

Hmm? Li Xiuzhu narrowed his eyes slightly and was stunned for a moment after realizing something was wrong.

But now was not the time to think about those things. A green phantom appeared under his feet and quickly moved towards the other side of the river.

As he approached, Li Xiuzhu shouted.

"Follow me to the south and southeast. Extend the defense line to the east and don't let the enemy cross the river."

Li Xiuzhu's voice immediately made these soldiers realize something.

"Your Majesty, it's Your Majesty. Follow Your Majesty to kill the enemy."

It was a rare case that Li Xiuzhu did not charge directly into the enemy group. Instead, he used his lightness skills to get on a warhorse and led the team out of the camp.

Each battalion had cavalrymen, with 2,000 men in each battalion. This time he left, he only took 4,000 men with him.

Although his number of people was not as large as the others, with 4,000 cavalrymen plus him, he could only catch up with nearly 10,000 people, so the advantage was his.

(End of this chapter)