"Stop, if you go any further, the gun will start."
Outside the cavalry camp, a patrol of cavalry riders stood guard outside the camp, one of them holding a gun in his hand.
Chen Wen didn't dare to go any further. He reined in the reins and said nervously: "Don't do anything, I'm one of my own. I'm Chen Wen. I'm here to find my brother Chen Wu!"
A rider outside the camp whispered to the person next to him: "We are here to find Chen Wu. Go and call Chen Wu."
The rider turned and ran into the camp.
After a short time, Chen Wu followed the other party out.
"Brother, why are you here?" As soon as Chen Wu left the camp, he saw Chen Wen riding on horseback.
Chen Wen beckoned: "Come here quickly, I have something to ask you."
Chen Wu said hello to the patrolling riders, then ran to Chen Wen and asked in confusion: "Brother, is there something wrong with you coming so late?"
Chen Wen, who was riding on horseback, leaned down and whispered: "Hurry up and pack your things and follow me. We can't stay here anymore. Let's go back to Xinpingbao overnight."
"Ah! Why?" Chen Wu looked puzzled.
Chen Wen urged: "There is no time to explain. Hurry up and pack your things and bring your horse. If you have anything to say, we can talk on the way."
"No, I won't leave." Chen Wu shook his head.
Chen Wen's tone became urgent and said: "Brother will not harm you. Listen to him and return to Xinpingbao with him as soon as possible."
"Brother, if you don't say anything, I really can't leave with you." Chen Wu took a step back.
Seeing that Chen Wu didn't want to leave, Chen Wen had to lower his voice and said: "The Tiger Flag's convoy was targeted by horse bandits. Horse bandits will attack in the next half day. We are just the guides they invited. There is no need to accompany them." The people wearing the Tiger Flag will die together."
"Then I won't leave even more." Chen Wu said, "I am a member of the tiger-character flag horse team. Now the tiger-character flag is in danger. As a rider of the horse team, how can I retreat before the battle? The horse bandits are really coming to rob me. Plunder the convoy, I will face the horse bandits directly with the rest of the cavalry team."
"You are confused." Chen Wen hated him for not arguing, "Do you know how many horse bandits came this time? There are four groups of horse bandits, more than 700 horse bandits. No matter how powerful the people of the Tiger Flag are, how can they stop so many horses? Bandit, if you stay, you will accompany them to die."
"Then let's die together." Chen Wu said, "Brother, you don't have to persuade me. Now that I have joined the Tiger Flag, I am a member of the Tiger Flag. It is impossible for me to see the Tiger Flag encounter danger and be alone. As for escaping, I can’t do it and I won’t do it.”
"You..." Chen Wen pointed his finger at Chen Wu bitterly and said, "You are my duu. As your aha, I cannot watch you die."
"Brother, you don't need to persuade me." Chen Wu said, "And I can't leave even if I want to. The Tiger Flag has its own rules."
Chen Wen said: "Why can't you leave? I have already greeted Mr. Zhao and he allowed us to leave."
Hearing this, Chen Wu shook his head slightly and said, "Mr. Zhao definitely didn't ask me to follow you."
Chen Wen said: "Mr. Zhao didn't mention you, but I can leave, and you can do the same. The two of us were sent to Tiger Flag as guides by the General, but now we are just leaving together to return to Xinpingbao."
"That was when I first entered the grassland." Chen Wu said, "Now that I have joined the Tiger Flag, one of the rules is that you are not allowed to leave without permission, otherwise you will be treated as a deserter."
Chen Wen's brows knitted together when he heard this.
Chen Wu continued: "Brother, you should know very well what happens to deserters when they are caught!"
"The Tiger Character Banner is just a mule and horse farm. It has no right to kill people indiscriminately." Chen Wen said clearly.
Chen Wu did not answer his words, but said: "Brother, what do you think of these soldiers of the Tiger Flag? What do you think of the riders of the cavalry?"
Although Chen Wu didn't understand why Chen Wu asked this, Chen Wen still said truthfully: "The soldiers of Tiger Character Banner are very strong. They are all trained according to Jia Ding's methods, but the rules are greater than Jia Ding's, and they don't know their boss." How did they train these hundreds of strong soldiers? As for the cavalry, they are far behind. Except for a few people who are pretty good, most of them can only be regarded as riding horses. They are far behind compared with us at night. But their cavalry The knights' armor is much stronger than that of Ye Bushou. In this regard, even the servants around the generals are not as good as them. Not to mention the breastplates they wear, those sabers probably cost twenty kilograms of refined iron to forge. Hit a saber weighing three kilograms."
Chen Wu asked: "Brother, do you know how many soldiers there are like Tiger Flag?"
"How many such strong soldiers can there be!" Chen Wen said, "These are just a few hundred people! The General's personal soldiers only have about 200 people."
Chen Wu sneered and said: "The soldiers who came to the grassland this time are just a brigade of the Tiger Flag. There are five more soldiers like this with the Tiger Flag. How many people do you think there are?"
"What? There are so many people, it's impossible." The first thought in Chen Wen's mind was that it was impossible.
He had noticed that one brigade of Tiger Character Banner had more than 300 people, and six brigades had more than 2,000 people. Even the general army could not afford to support so many servants.
Chen Wu added: "Even if the Tiger Character Flag does not have five brigades, there should be one or two. There are more than 700 soldiers in the two brigades. If I escape with you, with the Tiger Character Flag Liu Dongzhu and the General's Relationship, what do you think will happen to me?"
"But..." Chen Wen hesitated.
The Tiger Flag had such strength and connections that crushing them to death would be as easy as crushing an ant, especially since they all came from military households and were not as good as ordinary people.
"Brother, please go back to Mr. Zhao's convoy!" Chen Wu said, "If you leave alone, it is easy to encounter horse bandits chasing the convoy. It is safer to stay in the convoy, even if the tiger flag behind is no match for the horses. Bandit, you also have a chance to escape on horseback.”
Chen Wen said: "I will beg Mr. Zhao to let us go. As long as Mr. Zhao asks, we will definitely be able to return to Xinpingbao."
"Mr. Zhao will not agree." Chen Wu said, "I have been in the cavalry for a few days. I heard from people in the cavalry that Liu Dongzhu attaches great importance to rules. The military regulations and orders of the Tiger Flag were promulgated by Liu Dongzhu himself. How could he allow it? Someone blatantly violated it.”
Chen Wen argued: "But you are different from them."
Chen Wu shook his head slightly and said: "Now the war is coming. Brother, you are just a guide, so you can leave naturally. I am a rider of the cavalry. If I leave, it will shake the morale of the army. I am afraid that if I walk on the front foot, I will be caught on the back foot to sacrifice the flag. And I I don’t want to leave either, they are just some horse bandits, they may not be our opponents of the Tiger Flag.”
Chen Wen rode on horseback and didn't speak for a long time.
He could feel that Chen Wu would not follow him, and he didn't know what kind of magic the people in the Tiger Character Banner had cast, but he actually allowed himself to be willing to accompany them to die.
"well……"
Chen Wen sighed and rode back to the convoy with a disappointed look on his face.
Since Chen Wu doesn't want to leave, he, Aha, can only stay with him. If he encounters danger, he might be able to help.
