After An Xin and his companions left the city, they headed north against the wind and snow.

They searched for three days, sleeping in the open air.

At night, they found a sheltered cave in the mountains to rest, and ate dry food made from the grains that Zheng Xiaoling and her people bought, as well as the wild boar smoked meat.

During the years that An Xin traveled outside the capital, he experienced many days like this.

Zheng Xiaoling, who followed her, was originally a hunter. Hunting in the cold and snowy weather was a common occurrence for her.

There are also more than 200 personal guards of the two generals, who originally came from military camps and are looking for their own major general.

They came here under the orders of the two generals. No one dared to complain about being tired or suffering at this moment, otherwise the first people who would not forgive them when they return would be General Yuchi and General Gao.

The wind was blowing, and An Xin was chewing on the dry steamed bun in his hand. He stretched his neck every time he swallowed a bite.

After leaving the city, they basically didn't dare to make a fire except at night. Although this is the border between Daqian and Beiming, Chai Hongzhuang said that small groups of soldiers from Beiming came here many times to harass the border this winter.

If they light a fire, there will be smoke, which is equivalent to telling others, come and catch me.

Both generals had led troops in battles before, so of course there were scouts among the 200 guards they sent.

No wonder Wang Ergou was so smart. It turned out that he and another man named Shi Liang were the best scouts among the royal guards.

Three days were enough for them to find some clues in this vast wilderness.

When the two men brought back a few disheveled and miserable teenagers, An Xin remained silent.

"Master Jijiu, I'm sorry, it's us who have implicated the young general and his men.

If they hadn't been covering our main force, they wouldn't have fled in the opposite direction, and now we don't know if they have been caught."

An Xin recognized the boy who was talking. He was the young man who was sent to the army to train with Yuchi Yi and others by their elders when she was seeing them off one day.

Originally, everyone thought that it was safest to follow the general's son to train in the army.

Unexpectedly, Prime Minister Xiao wanted to trip An Xin up, so he attacked her two students, Yuchi Yi and Gao Tai, thus implicating these guys.

An Xin pulled a piece of grass from the snow and put it in her mouth. She had taught the two boys so much, but they didn't learn anything else. However, they understood the strategy of self-sacrifice and winning people's hearts.

In order to save the lives of the 500 soldiers who followed them out of the city to wipe out the enemy, the two men revealed their identities and attracted the pursuers away.

How could An Xin not know that her two students had such noble moral principles? It was a joke that they had something that she, their teacher, didn't even have.

"Xiaoling, do we still have any smoked meat? If you do, give some to them." An Xin looked at the starving boys in front of him and couldn't bear it, so he gave the order.

Zheng Xiaoling's eyes flickered, and she took out some from the cloth bag which had few remaining pieces and distributed them to the three boys who had followed Wang Ergou back here.

The three young men, who had not seen meat since their group left the city, saw the fragrant smoked wild boar meat, swallowed their saliva, and their eyes glowed blue.

"Eat." An Xin said.

In the final analysis, it was because of her that these young people who had never suffered any hardship were implicated.

After they finished eating, An Xin took his men and followed them to where the five hundred soldiers were staying.

It turned out that the reason they had not been discovered by the enemy forces of Bei Ming for such a long time was because the location they found was too special.

Looking at the small mounds of earth in front of him, An Xin didn't know what to say.

Should we praise them for their cleverness or their courage? Five hundred people actually hid in a cellar full of graves.

However, An Xin still asked out of curiosity: "How can there be such a large cellar in a place like this?!"

Hearing the noise, a soldier who had already climbed out of the cellar came out, with a slightly sad look on his face, and explained: "Twenty years ago, Daqian and Beiming were still on good terms.

In this place where the two countries meet, many people farm and grow crops.

After the previous king of Beiming died unexpectedly, the situation between the two countries gradually deteriorated and peace became no longer there.

This cellar was dug by the people at that time to store grain.”

An Xin could tell from the man's accent that he must be a native of northern Hebei.

Judging from his age, he was in his twenties or thirties, so he knew there was a cellar here. An Xin guessed that he must have lived in the surrounding villages when he was a child.

An Xin frowned slightly as she looked at the listless soldiers in front of her. She had already learned from several young men why they did not return to the city for help.

It turned out that after these soldiers were brought out, the people who were sent out to explore the way came back to report and found out that the team that Bei Ming sent to harass the border this time was a team of a thousand people.

When they wanted to pass this accurate information back, they found that as soon as their people approached the city gate, someone would shoot arrows at them.

An Xin sneered at Gu Fei, the captain guarding the city gate who was tied up and taken out of the city.

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Now she finally understood why they wanted to leave the city so early the day before yesterday, but by chance they were blocked there by this guy.

It turned out that the loyal dog of Central Guard General Ma Boteng had been watching the city gate to prevent the five hundred soldiers from entering the city.

An Xin looked at the hundreds of people who were tightening their belts due to hunger, thought for a moment, and suggested, "Staying here is not a long-term solution.

Although the cellar is hidden and not easily discovered by the enemy, it is also difficult to find enough food around it.

We can’t starve to death here for fear of being discovered, we have to go to a place where we can find food and fill our stomachs.”

An Xin looked around at the wilderness. It was not easy to find a place in this icy and snowy place with enough food to feed so many people.

Forget about food for now. Even if you want to rob, you need to be in good health.

For these 500 soldiers who were starving to death, going to the enemy to steal food would be like asking for death.

The only place with food now is in the mountains, whether it is tree roots, dead grass, or animals and beasts hiding in the mountains. They have no choice now.

The soldiers originally led by Yuchi Yi were the ones who had been in the barracks the longest, were the most disobedient and the most hated by everyone.

It was Ma Boteng who specifically ordered to gather them into this team and let Yuchi Yi lead them out to die.

There were some stubborn soldiers among them. When they saw An Xin coming, they wanted to take them away. However, they were rebellious and needed to be punished, so they immediately became unwilling to do so.

"If you want to leave, go ahead. I think this is the safest place. I don't want to follow you to die."

An Xin paused. According to her usual character, she would just let people like him die.

But An Xin couldn't do that at this moment.

Not to mention that these people were more or less implicated by her, An Xin could not give up on them and let them die here.

But An Xin didn't have the habit of spoiling children, so he waved his hand and said calmly: "Xiaoling, go teach them how to speak human language."

The two hundred guards following An Xin were stunned, and then looked at her with dissatisfaction and grievance. Could it be that they, a bunch of grown men, were not as good as a disfigured little girl?

Instead of using them, they let this girl named Xiaoling teach those troublesome soldiers who looked like they deserved a beating a lesson.