The first navigator of the Ming Dynasty

The night is like ink, and the sky is full of stars.

On the grassland, only the noisy insect chirping outside the wooden prison remained, and it was quiet all around.

The torches in the Northern Yuan camp were burning silently, and the sound of patrolling soldiers walking in unison and the rustle of armor rubbing against each other came from a distance, faintly audible.

In the wooden prison, sixteen prisoners of war in famous clothes, dressed only in close-fitting white clothes, covered in bloodstains, tattered clothes, with scattered hair, curled up in the corner.

Ma He went to Fu Youde's garrison with ten soldiers, only to find that Fu Youde's garrison had disappeared.

The Ming army garrison instead became the garrison of the Northern Yuan army, and they were captured by the Northern Yuan in this way.

Ma He, dressed in bloodstained white, looked at the familiar back of the wooden prison door, he got up lightly from the ground, walked to the door, and whispered, "Xiaohai, what are you doing?"

"Xiaohai, you can actually open it!" Ma

He looked surprised, and when he saw the chain on Zheng Hai's hand, he understood everything.

"Get up, get up, be quiet.

Zheng Hai gently woke up the sleeping soldiers, these soldiers were all Ming cavalry who were captured with them, a dozen in total.

Except for the four soldiers who were captured with Zheng Hai, the other captured soldiers all had flesh wounds on their bodies, presumably caused by severe torture.

Taking four soldiers who were not injured out of the cell, Zheng Hai cleanly killed several Beiyuan soldiers guarding the horse pen and snatched back the horses.

The wounded soldier mounted his horse, and Zheng Hai came to Ma He's side.

"Sanbao, does your injury matter?" Ma

He sat on the back of the horse and replied softly: "Xiaohai, don't worry, it doesn't matter if I am injured!"

Zheng Hai looked at Ma He and nodded, and then he stepped on the horse and said to everyone: "Brothers, we are ready to rush out of the camp." However, if you want to escape, you must listen to me, otherwise you are likely to fail, do you understand?"

"We all listened to you, you saved us. We all listen to you, you speak!" the soldiers responded.

"Okay, wait a while, the brothers who are more seriously injured will follow Ma He, and the ones who are not injured will follow me. After dawn, we met in the valley over there. Zheng Hai divided the soldiers into two groups.

"Let's go!"

Zheng Hai let out a low shout, and everyone rode together and galloped away outside the camp.

As soon as they left the camp, the guards and patrol soldiers of the Northern Yuan raised the alarm: "The captives have fled

!" Zheng Hai turned back to the soldiers who followed him and said, "Brothers, if we want to successfully escape from here, we will make some trouble for them! You go with me!"

Zheng Hai did not run away with Ma He, but killed in the other direction of the camp. He set up a bow and released arrows, shot an arrow to kill a Northern Yuan soldier, rode his horse straight forward, and cut down a Northern Yuan soldier with another knife.

"Put a few fires on them, burn their tents, drag them down, and let the brothers run away!" In

the Northern Yuan camp, five tents were on fire, and the war horses in the horse pen were also released by Zheng Hai and others.

Running horses, firefighting soldiers, pursuing soldiers, there was a mess in the camp.

"What's the matter?" The Liao King Aza Li, holding a gold-inlaid treasure sword, stepped out of the big tent, and asked loudly

: "Is it the enemy who has come to attack the camp?" "Report!" The king, it was not the enemy who attacked the camp, but the Ming prisoners who fled! He also set fire to a few barracks..."

"Damn! Capture them back for me!" The Liao King Aza Lili shouted loudly: "We must not let them escape! I must see people alive and corpses when I die!"

In the vast grassland, the dark cloud wall in the east has dissipated. The sky was white, and it was no longer dark.

Four Ming soldiers were holding steel knives, and they were discussing in a whisper, and there was a person lying on the ground not far away.

The expressions of the soldiers varied, some were fierce, some were hesitant, and some were frowning.

A soldier questioned: "Zhang Er, do we really want to do this?" The soldier Zhang

Er's face showed a ruthless face: "This is an order from above, otherwise how should we explain when we go back!"

"But Brother Zheng saved us, if we do this, how can we live with our conscience?"

Someone echoed: "Li Mao is right, if it weren't for Brother Zheng, we might have died in the prison of Pseudo-Yuan..."

What about

General Lu's order?" Seeing that everyone was a little dissatisfied, Zhang Er said again: "If we go back like this, we won't be able to make a difference! It's better for everyone to kill him together, otherwise we will be dealt with by military law when we go back!" "Haven't

you already drugged him? This is also considered to have completed the general's explanation, so it is better for us to let him go

!" "No! If he does not die, General Lu will punish us!" Zhang Er rejected Li Mao's proposal.

He glanced at Zheng Hai, who was still lying on the ground, and said in a low voice: "Everyone make a decision, he fell asleep in the middle of the night, he was sleeping soundly at this time, and it was best to start at this time!"

Soldier Li Mao said in a low voice: "I have an idea, it's not as good as us..."

A drop of dew on a blade of grass slid down from the tip of the leaf, and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves shattered the sweet dreams of the morning.

Zheng Hai got up from the grass, only the waist knife under his body and the bow and arrow beside him, and the horses and other Ming soldiers were gone.

There was no one around, and Zheng Hai was obviously abandoned by the four Ming cavalrymen, and his horses were taken with them.

In the vast savannah, it is almost impossible for him to get out of the steppe without horses. Once he encountered the Northern Yuan cavalry, he had almost no chance of escaping.

There was a sound of horses' hooves, and Zheng Hai hurriedly lay on the grass.

A group of Northern Yuan cavalry rode from a distance and ran towards the river valley where Zheng Hai and Ma had agreed.

On the flat grassland, there is almost no hiding place, and the not-so-tall grass and the occasional low soil slope can only slightly conceal the figure.

Zheng Hai bowed all the way and walked cautiously to avoid being discovered by the Northern Yuan cavalry that might appear at any time.

After some trekking, Zheng Hai came to the promised river valley. No sooner had he climbed the low slope than he heard a noisy sound of weapons striking in the valley.

"Brothers, we have been discovered by the enemy! If we are caught again, we will definitely be executed, we will fight with them!" Kill!" The

two teams of men and horses fighting in the river valley, one was the cavalry of the Northern Yuan, and the other was the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty.

Zheng Hai knew those Ming cavalrymen, and one of the soldiers was Zhang Er, who begged him for water.

"Don't tie your hands and arrest it, you have already been surrounded!" Another

Ming soldier recognized by Zheng Hai was named Li Mao, who was pulling out his waist knife at this moment and said loudly: "The left and right are dead, and there may be a glimmer of life if you fight." Brothers, kill!"

the four Ming cavalry were surrounded by ten Northern Yuan cavalry, and the two sides were in the middle of a battle. The Ming soldiers were one against two, and although their courage was commendable, they were obviously at a disadvantage.

A cavalry captain of the Northern Yuan Dynasty was holding his waist knife and raising it high, about to slash at the soldier Li Mao.

This knife was cut down, Li Mao was either dead or wounded, and Li Mao was blocking the big knife of another Northern Yuan soldier, and he was powerless to block this knife at this time.

At this moment, with a bang, a feather arrow struck from behind.

Feathered arrows pierced the helmet of the captain of the Northern Yuan cavalry from behind, and arrows sprang out from the front of his neck, with splatters of blood.

The cavalry commander opened his mouth but could not speak, and blood poured from the corners of his mouth and neck. His face was full of astonishment, his eyes were round, and he bowed his head, threw himself forward, and lay motionless on his saddle.

A Northern Yuan cavalryman was stunned for a moment, and after reacting, he shouted: "There is an ambush!"

The Northern Yuan soldiers were a little flustered, and some of the Northern Yuan cavalry turned their horses' heads and wanted to look around for the archers who attacked them.

Another soldier of the Northern Yuan Dynasty had a blood flower on his chest and a feather arrow inserted into it.

The soldier's body shook, and he fell from his horse, his eyes fixed on the moment he looked down at his chest.

Two more Northern Yuan cavalrymen fell from their horses.

Feathered arrows came from different directions, but the archers did not show their figures. The Northern Yuan soldiers didn't even know who the other party was, where they were hiding, and how many people there were.

The unknown is always the most frightening.

Having lost four people at once, the Northern Yuan soldiers completely gave up the idea of looking for archers.

Now they are only two more numerous than the Ming cavalry in the valley. If they stayed any longer, they might wipe out the whole army, and they took the initiative to get rid of the entanglement with the four cavalrymen of Daming.

"Retreat, retreat, there is an ambush!" The

Northern Yuan cavalry left four corpses and left in a panic.

In the river valley, only four Ming cavalrymen were left looking at each other, cautiously vigilant, and they didn't know who saved them.