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Zhou Jinyu had been lurking in Donglan for a few years after all, so after Jiang Nian asked this, she remained calm, as if she knew she would ask this.
But they were still in the enemy's carriage, and if he gave it to him directly, it would be a bit too blatant, so he just smiled meaningfully at Jiang Nian.
Glancing at Zhou Jinyu's familiar finger-bending motion, Jiang Nian immediately understood a little.
However, even though she knew that someone would accompany her until Xiao Yingzhu came to rescue her from the military camp, Jiang Nian still felt nervous and uneasy.
It wasn't that she didn't trust Zhou Jinyu's skills... rather, if she were alone at this moment, without anyone to accompany her, that would be the most dangerous situation. But the situation ahead was still unclear.
Jiang Nian couldn't guess where in the military camp Na Lu would send her.
However, Lu planned to send her to the military camp, which meant that he trusted the guards in the camp and was convinced that they would not let her escape.
“…”
But wouldn’t that be a bit too complacent?
She lowered her eyes and subconsciously rubbed some flammable materials in her sleeve pocket for a moment, which could burn under certain circumstances.
From the capital to now, during the time she was kidnapped, too many people had treated her as harmless, a mere weakling. It was precisely because of this that they had given her so many loopholes to exploit.
This flammable material was made in the forest leading to the border.
The leaves wrapped around the flammable material, and the angular shell was placed in the palm of her hand.
Once she found a way out of the military camp and the location of the military food supplies, she could set fire to the food supplies used by the army during the food famine in Donglan, and the army would collapse without a fight.
Jiang Nian lowered his eyelashes, carefully considering how to minimize mistakes in each step of the plan. Across from him, Zhou Jinyu, seemingly reflecting on something, said, "The winds in Donglan are not blowing strongly in the near future. If you want to 'cut off the firewood from under the cauldron,' you'd better hurry."
He lifted the curtain next to him and turned to look outside.
The clusters of wooden stakes in the forest flashed past his sight, and a fantasy flashed in Jiang Nian's eyes.
Soon, this seemingly endless forest road will turn into an endless plain. Looking further ahead, under the continuous blue sky, there is a vast and lifeless plain.
This place is suitable for land travel. If we march quickly, we will reach that open space in a few days.
Jiang Nian stared at the area ahead for a moment, then suddenly frowned. "Is that still the area where Huandu is located?"
Zhou Jinyu nodded: "Yes, there were also many light infantry or scouts deployed in that forest just now."
What Xiao Yingzhu could anticipate, Emperor Changde would also have anticipated.
Now their journey has been too smooth. If it is not due to the poor control of the soldiers in Huandu, then it must be intentional.
Emperor Changde...
Did he want to use himself as a useful and effortless chess piece?
If he could get out of the military camp alive and burn all their food and supplies, he could return to the capital and become a good breed ambassador. If he didn't get out of the military camp alive, it would be much easier. He could just reward Xiao Yingzhu according to the original plan.
Jiang Nian closed his eyes, calmed his heart which was beating a little fast, and took a deep breath.
Feeling Zhou Jinyu's silent gaze on her, Jiang Nian paused for a few seconds, opened her eyes, and gave him an embarrassed smile: "I'm still a little nervous... When will this carriage reach the enemy camp?"
The road the driver took should be far away from the border garrison, but it would require a longer detour. She would have to listen to the conversations of the people she met along the way. After that, she would be tied up with her hands and blindfolded with a cloth, thrown into the team prepared in advance, and sent to the enemy camp.
But she didn't know how to do it specifically.
Therefore...when the carriage was about to approach the flat ground, her brief reunion with Zhou Jinyu would have to be separated, and they could only wait until they met in the camp.
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The scenery outside the window gradually became wider, and the pass and beacon tower could be seen on the endless plain ahead of the garrison.
The curtains rustled in the wind. Jiang Nian withdrew his gaze from that area and then looked into the empty carriage.
The carriage stopped at a secluded place where there was no sunlight. The driver was talking to Zhou Jinyu. Their voices were blown away by the wind, and it was impossible to hear what they were saying to each other. After a while, one could only hear the driver nodding repeatedly. Soon, it became quiet outside.
The time when Zhou Jinyu came to her to pass on the information to her happened to be that tonight was the day when the coachman would hand her over to others.
The footsteps outside the carriage were approaching, and Jiang Nian covered his eyes with the cloth again.
During this journey, she had become familiar with tying a knot behind her head. Then, by pretending to be unconscious while half-lying in the carriage, she could avoid the eyes of the not-so-careful driver.
The bright world was suddenly filled with darkness. With the pill between his lips, a moment later, the curtain of the carriage was lifted. The driver saw that there was nothing unusual inside, so he relaxed and prepared to take a stroll nearby.
Lu's subordinates lurking here seemed unaware of the news that Meng Jian had left the Wu Mi clan and abolished the cooperation with Dong Lan halfway. They still treated Zhou Jinyu, who used to follow Meng Jian, as a big shot and answered almost every question he asked.
Fortunately, Zhou Jin and Jiang Nian got on the car halfway, otherwise Jiang Nian would not know how to squeeze out any useful information from these people.
The sound of the coachman's whistle was getting farther and farther away. Jiang Nian closed her eyes in the dark and opaque cloth. Only the sound of the wind blowing past gently brushed her loose black hair.
They were waiting for the night to fall and the darkness to hand her over to other people.
Then, during the patrol shift change, they would find a road with relatively fewer soldiers and send her out of the border area directly to the enemy camp outside.
Boring time always erodes her mind. Before long, her heartstrings, which had been tense all the time, slowly relaxed when no one was watching around.
The black and soft dreamland gently wrapped her up again. Jiang Nian's thoughts went blank and she fell into a bottomless dream.
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Military camp
After Meng Hao left the capital, he had to cross the forest and reach the plain to contact the garrison there. Even if it was a desert, he could reach the border.
Autumn arrives with the falling leaves and the beginning of falling into the snow, and in the blink of an eye, two months have passed.
The enemy's army was delayed at some point and stopped moving forward. When the stationed soldiers saw Meng Hao riding on horseback from a distance, they immediately went to meet him and reported to him the situation of the past few days.
The morale of the Donglan soldiers was not strong because of the poor harvest this year. They did not have enough food and fodder. As Huandu had an abundance of food this year, they did not have much energy to fight on the battlefield.
Even the soldiers recruited were militiamen who had not received much training.
Those elite soldiers - the puppet emperor seemed to be tired of the torturous demands repeatedly made by the Wu Mi people, and did not even send out symbolic elite soldiers. This was just a stupid show to deal with the demands of the Wu Mi people.
If the enemy is weak, it means that the game can end faster.
But Meng Hao knew that this war was just the beginning of the Wu Mi people's plot to invade Huandu.
What happens next...is far from over.
When the head of Donglan's puppet emperor rolled down from his high position, no one could tell whether this country, which had been corrupted by the evil cult, would face hell or be reborn.
Taking the letter containing enemy intelligence from the soldier, Meng Hao walked a few steps towards the military camp. Then, remembering something, he turned around and asked, "Is Duke Xiao here?"
He left the capital later than Xiao Yingzhu.
As for Duke Xiao, who had never paid much attention to military affairs, Meng Hao had only looked at him from a distance at some banquets in the past years, and there was no other unnecessary contact between them.
This year, the only reason he was able to talk to Xiao Yingzhu, who seemed extremely aloof and unapproachable, was because of the war at hand.
A war is about to break out over insect repellent.
But the insect repellent is just a superficial phenomenon. The real problem inside is the foundation that Donglan uses to shake Xihuang.
Their target will turn to the evil cult entrenched in Donglan.
Being controlled by a cult like this, you can see how miserable the people there are.
Meng Hao didn't mind conquering one more place where the imperial court was corrupt, in order to restore peace to Donglan.
After hearing Meng Hao's request, the soldier next to him conveyed Xiao Yingzhu's words to him without missing a single word, then turned around and headed towards the general's tent.
The icy world seemed to cover the plain with a layer of frozen frost.
The grass they stepped on was covered with a deep dark layer. The face of the soldier leading the way was red from the cold, and the steam coming out of his mouth turned into white mist when he spoke.
There was a fire in the tent, and the bright red light made the pattern on the letter paper on the table flicker. Meng Hao's eyes fell on the paper, his gaze fixed on Xiao Yingzhu's sharp and neat handwriting. He looked up for a moment and asked the soldier beside him who was waiting for his orders:
"Is he still here now?"
The soldier was startled by the question and looked directly into Meng Hao's resolute and unhurried eyes. After a long pause, he replied, "Yes! Duke Xiao said he had important matters to attend to, so he went ahead."
“…”
Meng Hao sighed softly for a moment, then thought of the meeting with Meng Zheng in the palace two months ago.
Meng Zheng, who had never spoken to him before, suddenly said something to him that sounded incomprehensible, but now thinking about it, what he said at that time was exactly in line with what Xiao Yingzhu was doing at the moment.
Although Meng Hao didn't care what Xiao Yingzhu was going to do, since the place Xiao Yingzhu was looking forward was related to the enemy camp, it would be better to find someone to watch over there.
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