The first navigator of the Ming Dynasty

Zheng Hai, with a bow on his back and a knife in his hand, walked down from behind the hillside and walked straight towards an ownerless war horse.

Seeing Zheng Hai, the four Ming cavalrymen looked surprised and were speechless.

The soldier Li Mao came to his senses and shouted at Zheng Hai, "Brother Zheng, it turned out to be you! You saved us again!"

"What about the horses and them?" Zheng Hai looked at Li Mao and asked.

"We didn't meet them when we came, but, according to the puppet Yuan cavalry of Fang Cai, they have been arrested!" Zheng

Hai said to the four Ming cavalrymen: "I'm going to save Ma He, you can go back by yourself." Soldier

Li Mao said: "Let's help you save Ma He together."

Zhang Er's face was reluctant: "How can we rescue them from the puppet Yuan army? Let's go back and move the rescuers."

Zheng Hai shook his head: "Go back by yourself, I'm going to save Ma He."

Li Mao looked at Zhenghai and said, "I'll follow you to save Grandpa Ma." The

other two soldiers hesitated a little and looked at the soldier Zhang Er.

Zhang Erdao: "I'm going back to move the rescuers, so I won't go with you!"

Zheng Hai didn't say anything, took the feather arrow from the quiver of the corpse on the ground, put it in his quiver, and took a few knives from the ground.

The other soldiers also packed their bags and prepared to set off again.

"Who of you still has water? I've been running for a day and a night, and I'm dying of thirst. Zhang Er walked over and threw away his empty water bladder.

A soldier removed a water bladder from a horse and replied, "There is a water bladder here, and there is some water in it."

Zhang Er took the water bladder, shook it gently, heard the sound of water, smiled on his face, opened the lid, and drank it with a grunt: "It's so cool! I'm so thirsty!"

Zheng Hai took out his waist knife, wiped the blood from the knife, inserted it back into the scabbard, and tied the collected waist knife and quiver to the saddle.

Suddenly, the soldier Zhang Er clutched his throat and knelt on the ground with a painful face: "Ah, ah, ah, this water... Poisonous...... Poisonous!" Zhang

Er's mouth and nostrils were bleeding, and he fell to the ground and died.

How could this water be poisonous?

Li Mao and the others looked at it, and they all felt that the water bladder beside Zhang Er was a little familiar.

Zheng Hai took it and took a look, it turned out to be the water bladder he used before.

Zheng Hai looked at Li Mao and asked lightly, "Don't you want to explain?"

The soldier Li Mao looked ashamed and explained, "Brother Zheng, we can't stand you... We can't help ourselves, too..."

"Okay! Don't talk about it, I've already heard your conversation. You were sent by the Lu brothers. Zheng Hai glanced at Li Mao, his expression was unwavering, and he didn't seem to blame them.

The sun was sinking below the horizon, and the steppe sky was getting darker.

The horse's hooves no longer galloped, the swords no longer clashed, and the night of the steppe became quiet.

The night in the prairie was quiet, except for the chirping of insects in the grass, only the cooing of owls.

Torches were lit in the barracks, and a stove was lit in a wide square.

In the square, six crosses stood on which were six scarred soldiers. These soldiers were captured Ming soldiers.

Four Northern Yuan soldiers stood by the cross, and there were other soldiers patrolling back and forth in the Northern Yuan barracks.

In the darkness, a pair of sharp eyes were staring at the four Beiyuan soldiers in the square, like an owl on the grassland watching a mouse in the dark night.

The four soldiers guarding the square handed over every two hours, and each time they walked out of the soldiers' tent not far away, and returned to the tent after the handover.

In the second half of the night, the owls in the prairie seemed to fall asleep, and the cooing stopped.

In the dark night sky, only a crescent moon remains, like a soldier's half-squinted eyes when he dozes off, and a dark cloud drifts past and squints.

Four soldiers, dressed in Northern Yuan uniforms, walked into a soldier's tent.

A soldier got up from his feet and asked in a daze, "Isn't it time yet?"

before he could finish speaking, his mouth was covered, and a sharp dagger slashed under his throat, and he struggled twice and then stopped moving.

A sharp-eyed soldier glanced at the sleeping soldiers in the tent, then at the three soldiers beside him, and he made a throat-slitting motion.

In the soldiers' tents, there were only a few snorings, and no other sounds. After a while, there were a few slight muffled grunts, and then there was no sound at all.

"Remember, when we go to change the guard later, everyone should be so neat and tidy!" Zheng Hai, who was wearing the armor of a Northern Yuan soldier, whispered to everyone.

Soldier Li Mao and the other two nodded, wiped the blood from the knife, and inserted it back into the scabbard.

Four soldiers in Northern Yuan costumes walked out of the camp tent and came to the square where the six Ming prisoners were guarded.

"You're finally here! it's time for us to go back to sleep...,"

they answered with four steel knives, and before they could react, they were asleep forever.

Zheng Hai successfully eliminated the guards, and gently cut the rope tied to the horse and body with a knife. He patted Ma He's face lightly and asked, "San Bao, are you okay?" I'm Xiaohai, I'm here to save you."

Ma He woke up from his trance and said weakly: "Xiaohai, is it you? Why are you here!" A

soldier who got up at night to pee found the blood stains near the camp tent and shouted loudly: "Oh no, no good! Someone has taken the prisoner!"

The camp of the Northern Yuan Dynasty became lively, and almost all the guards in charge of patrolling were dispatched.

A Northern Yuan general reported to the Liao king Aza Lost: "Report to the king, no trace of the captives has been found, and they may have fled." The

King of Liao angrily patted the armrest of the throne and said loudly: "Go and find out for me! Who did it to snatch prisoners from our army twice?

King, it is better to invite everyone out of the camp tent, search it thoroughly, and you will definitely be able to find out where the captives are hiding!"

the king of Liao nodded in agreement, and the camp of the Northern Yuan army was full of fire, and the soldiers searched the camp tent one by one.

Not long after, a soldier came to report: "Report to the king, they have been found, they are hiding in a soldier's tent, and they are currently being captured!" Outside a soldier's tent,

the Northern Yuan soldiers surrounded Zheng Hai and them.

Zheng Hai, Ma He and others held knives, fought side by side, and slashed at all the Northern Yuan soldiers who wanted to get closer.

Ma He asked Zheng Hai beside him: "Xiaohai, what should I do?" There are so many of them, we are afraid that we will not be able to escape

!" Zheng Hai's expression was a little solemn, and he replied seriously: "Sanbao, do you remember the oath we made when we worshipped?"

"Remember, we share blessings and hardships

!" "I don't want to be born on the same day and month of the same year, but I want to die

on the same day and month of the same year!" Ma He glanced at Zheng Hai affectionately and echoed emotionally: " I don't want to be born on the same

day and month of the same year, but I want to die on the same day and month of the same year!" Zheng Hai shouted to all the Ming soldiers who were surrounded together: "Brothers, we live

and die together!" "Live and die together!" All the Ming soldiers responded in unison.

Zheng Hai stared at the Beiyuan soldiers in front of him with a pair of sharp eyes, and shouted loudly:

"Kill!" and "Kill!"