Not only Zhou Kaihuang, Deng Ming also noticed the whispers in the crowd, and the whispers became higher and higher. Some people began to question whether it was a scam, and they also mentioned that the thieves were absolutely not trustworthy. Seeing that Li Xinghan remained silent and did not agree with these questions, Deng Ming didn't know how long Li Xinghan's superficial neutrality could last.

The increasing pressure made Deng Ming feel that he had to gain further trust, but he didn't know what to say, so he had to ask Zhou Kaihuang: "Mr. Zhou Qian, how did you know?"

Deng Ming hoped that Zhou Kaihuang would help him make up his lies and give him a reasonable explanation - he would definitely not be able to do so, so he hoped that Zhou Kaihuang would use his urgent intelligence again to overcome the current difficulties.

Zhou Kaihuang frowned and muttered in his heart: "If you don't want to say it, don't say it, no one can force you to say it. The Li Xinghan's expression seemed to have believed it, and his subordinates were noisy, so naturally there was a leader in taking care of them and suppressing them. But what you asked was like a confession with me and asking me to give you a reason."

However, since Deng Ming asked, Zhou Kaihuang replied: "Of course I know..."

Zhou Kaihuang felt that Deng Ming and Yuan Zongdi had a lot of conversations in the camp in Chongqing before, and Deng Ming had almost admitted his words.

"Your Highness, don't you have a string of beads? We've seen it..."

Zhou Kaihuang suddenly recalled the praises of Yuan Zongdi and Zhao Tianba for the string of beads. They guessed that Deng Ming had a noble background based on the rare treasures in the world. Maybe there are so many people in the Tanwen Department who know the goods?

"Why don't your highness take out the bead to avoid everyone's suspicion."

Zhou Kaihuang thought that Deng Ming seemed to be unwilling to admit the identity of the third prince, and this identity was indeed too sensational, and the questions raised may not be less than those that have been calmed down. Since Yuan Zongdi and Zhao Tianba both said that beads were so amazing, as long as someone with insight on the other side could convince everyone?

When Deng Ming heard Zhou Kaihuang talk about the pearls, he felt relieved: "It turned out to be this string of pearls! I didn't expect my pearls to be valuable? Maybe in this era, pearls are all naturally generated, and no one has heard of the basic breeding technology. Pearls are still very rare. No matter what, I listened to Zhou Kaihuang, and I will pass this level first, and then apologize to Mr. Li Qian after getting out of danger."

Thinking of this, Deng Ming took the beads off his neck and handed them to Li Xinghan: "Please look by Mr. Li Qian."

Li Xinghan's ancestors were ordinary people who were well-behaved, but they did not participate in the robbery of the palace like Yuan Zongdi or Zhao Tianba's father, nor did they see royal treasures. He took Deng Ming's pearls with both hands and looked at them with a completely amateur eye. Because of the coating, the artificial pearls have more dazzling surfaces than natural shells, which makes people think they are good things at first glance.

"A good bead is worth a lot. I have never seen a single bead, not to mention a bead, even an ordinary bead." Li Xinghan held the beads and looked at it, muttering in his heart: "This Mr. Deng just took such a big string at will. I guess he is a great deal. Maybe he is really a high-ranking."

Thinking of this, Li Xinghan no longer looked at it and respectfully returned the beads with both hands: "I thank Your Highness for your reading."

Li Xinghan didn't understand, and others didn't understand, but he just knew that Deng Ming had an amazing thing. Amid the singing and amazement of everyone, Deng Ming put the beads on his neck again.

...

After seeing the ceremony again, everyone put away the big stick and wooden stick, the soldiers sat down to rest, and the officers sat around under the tree, allowing Deng Ming to sit in the center. Li Xinghan and other officers of the Tan army accounted for half of the number.

"How many of you have?" Li Xinghan asked.

"More than one thousand, two hundred." Zhou Kaihuang did not hide it.

"How many swords and guns?"

"Three hundred and twenty swords, twenty swords, forty-six spears, fifteen bows and more than three hundred iron-headed arrows."

"We have fifteen swords, more than two hundred knives and eleven guns. We picked up some axes on the way (from the farmers' homes)," Li Xinghan took the initiative to report to Deng Minghui after listening to Zhou Kaihuang's introduction: "There are still three muskets (three-eyed guns). Although there is no gunpowder, they can still be used as hammers."

Then he asked about Tan Hong's defense situation. Zhou Kaihuang explained what he learned in detail and talked about his action plan. Li Xinghan nodded silently. Since he knew Deng Ming's identity, Zhou Kaihuang's plan to pass the level is not difficult to understand. Li Xinghan found that this guy who broke into the camp was quite loyal and righteous, and his name also changed.

A simple defense map of Tan Hong was drawn on the ground. Li Xinghan lowered his head and thought for a while, raised his head and said resolutely: "Wait a moment, Brother Zhou and I will rush through the pass together, let Your Highness and that...the person from Xiying walk the mountain road together."

"Wait," Deng Ming became anxious as soon as he heard this. Why did he finally recruit more than a thousand reinforcements and still want to die in front of Tan Hong's camp? He said before Zhou Kaihuang could speak first: "Only a thousand days to be a thief, and no thousand days to guard against thieves, we can wait for the opportunity."

If you really can't die, of course it's better not to die. Li Xinghan asked Zhou Kaihuang again and said, "Do you have something to eat?"

Zhou Kaihuang shook his head. Yesterday, he caught a few small animals and some fish in the woods. Everyone just shared a bite. They were all hungry today. If they didn’t fight today and were blown by the cold wind in the evening, they would have no power to kill the enemy tomorrow.

This answer was expected by Li Xinghan. Their group also had no meals for a day, but just wanted to insist on escaping from danger and then find something to satisfy their hunger.

After pondering for a moment, Li Xinghan asked, "Is there a boat near Tan Zhe's camp?"

Tan Hong did not have many ships, and some of them were borrowed by Tan Yi. The remaining few were sent downstream to monitor Wen Anzhi's movements today or used to convey messages and orders to the north bank. Otherwise, Zhou Kaihuang and Li Xinghan would have been discovered long ago.

"I didn't see it, otherwise we wouldn't be alive now." Zhou Kaihuang replied immediately.

"There should be a few. You have to leave two for the messenger, or prepare to run for life in danger." Li Xinghan murmured, and reached out and clicked the location of Tan Hong's camp on the map drawn on the mud: "Did you hide beside the camp and you didn't see it?"

"Tan Zhe dug a trench and there are still people patrolling me. My people can't get that close." Zhou Kaihuang also felt that there was such a possibility.

"It's still possible." Li Xinghan sighed: "Our lives are saved by His Highness. After nightfall, I will lead the team to dive over to grab the boat for His Highness. If you grab your Highness, you can escape. If we can't come back, Brother Zhou will lead people to attack the camp and let Your Highness escape from the mountain road."

Unexpectedly, after their discussion, they turned the way to die from one to two. Deng Ming asked himself that he cooperated with Zhou Kaihuang to deceive people in order to get more Ming soldiers out of danger, not to have a chance to escape. Of course, Deng Ming wanted to escape, but he would not just see hundreds of people going to die in vain for his own escape.

Zhou Kaihuang and Li Xinghan saw Deng Ming's objection and knew that there was little hope for success, but they both knew that there was no chance to break through Tan Hong's defense and rushed over to escape. The encounter that Zhou Kaihuang and Li Xinghan almost happened just now made them realize this more clearly. Zhou Kaihuang could not efficiently command the entire army to launch an attack, and the same was true for Li Xinghan, and the latter army is still scattered on the road several miles long behind and has not all arrived.

The nearby terrain created a situation that was extremely beneficial to the defense. The only thing that the attackers could effectively use was the narrow river bank on the riverside. Other places were complex and difficult to move around, and it was conducive to hidden and ambushed vegetation areas. The attackers could not deploy their troops and could not communicate and command. Even if Zhou Kaihuang and Li Xinghan had enough weapons, they would go out of their physical strength and would be massacred by defenders who were waiting to work on their troops.

"You said my beads are very valuable?" Deng Mingteng stood up and asked Zhou Kaihuang anxiously. He had just remembered an allusion of escape, which was a bit similar to the current situation. Although he didn't dare to say that it would work, he should treat the dead horse as a living horse. After asking, Deng Ming looked at Zhao Tianba again: "Do you think so too?"

Zhou Kaihuang and Zhao Tianba thought to themselves: Don’t you know it’s priceless?

Seeing the expressions of the two, Deng Ming nodded slightly, took out the beads from his arms again, and asked Zhao Tianbadao: "How is your archery technique?"

"It's normal, I don't know what your highness has to do." Zhao Tianba looked proud and his waist was straight, which meant that his archery skills were quite impressive. This is also the real situation. The Yongli court selected him to escort important envoys to Sichuan because Zhao Tianba was bold and meticulous and skilled in martial arts.

However, Deng Ming did not understand his polite words very much. The conflict between the words and expressions made him a little confused. He frowned and asked, "Is it really ordinary or are you humble?"

This straightforward question made Zhao Tianba feel a little uncomfortable, so he had to explain clearly: "Please tell me that my humble duties will definitely be fulfilled."

"Okay, pick ten, well, no, twenty elite soldiers, put on armor and carry swords and guns, take another good bow and go see Tan Hong with me." This is the first time Deng Ming has given orders to others since his time travel, and he has to admit that this feeling is very good.

"What is Your Highness going to do?" Zhou Kaihuang and Li Xinghan asked loudly at the same time.

"Me?" Deng Ming chuckled, holding the string of orbs in his hand: "I'll buy a way for everyone."

...

The situation this afternoon made Tan Hong feel suspicious. The Ming army defeated soldiers who had been coming yesterday and this morning were captured and killed by his men. The number of people gradually increased as he expected, but the momentum stopped abruptly in the afternoon. From afternoon to dusk, Tan Hong never caught a Ming army again.

"It seems that an army is coming." Tan Hong smiled and made his own analysis of his master Qin Xiucai. The defeated Ming army in Chongqing had no place to settle down and had no food and clothing, so he would definitely march downstream as soon as possible. Based on the distance, Tan Hong believed that more defeated soldiers should be captured this afternoon, and the summit would appear tomorrow. Now that the defeated soldiers suddenly disappeared, there must be a Ming army that restored order to prevent the defeated soldiers from acting alone.

"Let them live one more day, haha." Although this judgment was made, Tan Hong was not worried about the entire Ming army. Today, the downstream report said that Wen Anzhi was retreating, which means that he had received the news of failure and stopped. Tomorrow, Tan Hong will be able to use the ships to investigate the upstream and find out the scale and strength of the remaining Ming army. Tan Hong's camp was filled with food, while the upstream Ming army could only drink wind and dew, and he was not in a hurry to attack.

Outside Tan Hong's camp, Deng Ming and Zhao Tianba and twenty other Ming soldiers walked slowly towards the post. They unintentionally hid their whereabouts and stood outside the ground with an arrow from the camp wall. The twenty soldiers shouted in unison: "The Prince of Han is here, please come out and meet with Xinjin Hou!"

After hearing this call, the soldiers on the camp wall did not dare to act without permission. Someone immediately went to the Central Army to report to Tan Hong.

"I know King Han. I was in Fengjie some time ago, but I didn't hear that there was a prince Han." Tan Hong was confused when he heard the report, but since someone came to shout like this, he decided to go over and take a look.

Master Qin Xiucai didn't remember a prince Han, who was also full of suspicion: "Is it an impostor? But what are the benefits of impostor? He wouldn't call himself Prince Han, let him go."

"It's okay to see." Tan Hong was also confused for a while.

When Tan Hong took Qin Xiucai to the wall of the camp, the soldiers beside him immediately shouted back: "The Marquis is here, let's talk if you have something to say."

Deng Mingyao looked at a brilliantly armored general on the camp wall and walked forward. Zhao Tianba dissuaded: "Your Highness does not have to take risks, just go to a low position."

"I'll go, and I bet they won't shoot arrows." Deng Ming asked the twenty guards to stay at a safe distance and walked to the wall with a swagger so that the other party could see his face clearly. Zhao Tianba followed him with a bow on his back.

After standing for a moment in the other party's scrutiny, Deng Ming said to the general: "I know that the Marquis wants to be a noble in the new dynasty. Everyone has their own ambitions. I can't force it. But my family has raised the world for three hundred years. I asked myself that he was still kind to the Marquis. I hope that the Marquis will let me and my guards live a life because of this friendship."

After saying that, Deng Ming slowly took the beads off his neck, held them high and asked Tan Hong to take a look first, and then said loudly: "This is a bead given to the Han Wang family by Emperor Taizu Gao. It has been passed down from generation to generation for three hundred years. Today I am willing to present it to the Marquis. I hope the Marquis will accept it with a smile and give me a boat that can carry me and the people around me."

After saying that, Deng Ming turned around and handed the bead to Zhao Tianba beside him. When the latter tied it to the arrow shaft, Deng Ming continued to explain loudly to Tan Hong: "My Lord Wu Lao sent someone to pick it up, and my chief officer would shoot it onto the wall of the camp. After a while, Marquis Lord Lao would send him away. Just send one or two people to row the boat out and hand it over to me."

Zhao Tianba tied the beads with a thin rope, checked them carefully, then bent his bow and arrow, and shot it onto the camp wall with a "swoosh".

After the arrow flew into the camp, someone immediately rushed to pick it up. Tan Hong looked at Deng Ming below with a serious look on his face and asked Qin Xiucai on his side softly: "What do you think?"

Qin Xiucai shook his head and said, "I don't know anything about it at all, but this young man looks pretty good and looks generous and calm."

Tan Hong nodded: "I feel this way, too."

"Marty!" A guard ran over and presented the beads and arrows together.

Tan Hong's eyes were straightened as soon as he got the beads. He had been the generals for generations. When he was a child, he saw his grandmother and his mother's jewelry. His grandmother had two pearl hairpins, and each hairpin had only one bead on it. It was grandmother's treasure and solemnly put it in the jewelry box. Later, the hairpins were passed to his mother and now belonged to his wife. When it happened to relatives' birthdays, weddings and other major events, they wore them out to show off.

"What is this?" Qin Xiucai didn't understand.

"This is a treasure in the sea, a real pearl! Look at it's silver, but you can see pink, blue, and yellow colors with just a sway. The beads grown in sea shells have such brilliance. Only the sea beads have such metallic luster." Tan Hong pointed to the beads with a layer of metal film and said, and he couldn't let go of it and gently stroked the pearls with a finger: "It's unheard of for such a big bead. This string is really a royal treasure, extraordinary!"

"Is this a royal property?" Qin Xiucai, who was ignorant of the goods, believed in Deng Ming's identity a little when he heard Tan Hong say so surely.

"How can this be found among the people?" Tan Hong said firmly, pondering for a moment: "Well, maybe it's still the Night Pearl."

As he said that, Tan Hong put the pearls in his palms and slightly loosened a small gap to see if they would shine in the dark.

Seeing Tan Hong so happy, Qin Xiucai quickly shook his head and looked intoxicated, and opened his mouth wide for a long time without closing it. The soldiers all came up to see how the Night Pearl shone.

Tan Hong looked carefully through the thin crack for a long time, but he was not sure whether the bead could really shine. However, a personal soldier behind him shouted: "Oh, it really shines. The little one is open to his eyes. He will never live in vain in his life."

With this acknowledgement, many voices also sounded, indicating that they had seen it. Even the personal soldiers of the outer area, who were far away, thought they had caught a glimpse of the pearl light and began to praise the venue.

"It's really shining."

"Night Pearl, it's still a bunch of them."

"One is priceless, then this string is worth at least one province."

Even Qin Xiucai vaguely felt that he saw the pearl light coming out of Tan Hong's palm, and immediately sighed: "The royal treasure is really eye-catching. The Marquis is really knowledgeable. If it weren't for the Marquis' advice, how could we recognize the Night Pearl?"

Tan Hong was suspicious when everyone said it. He felt that he didn't seem to see the beads glowing, but everyone praised him for his keen eyes to recognize the beads... Tan Hong looked harder, as if he also saw a glimmer or white light. I wonder if he was dazzled.

At this time, a foolish guy suddenly spoke. He stretched his neck behind Tan Hong and looked, but he couldn't see the pearl light: "Why can't I see it? The pearl is not very bright."

"Idiot!" several personal soldiers spat: "Do you think it will be as bright as the sun? Then it's not a bead or a torch!"

As soon as this was heard, Tan Hong felt it was reasonable. He just heard that there was a night pearl and never saw it. But as everyone said, no matter how good the bead is, it cannot be as bright as the torch. Since everyone has seen it, it is impossible to make a mistake. Anyway, there is time, and the bead can be read slowly all night in his hands. The most urgent thing now is-

When Tan Hong put the bead in his arms and looked at Deng Ming under the wall, his face was already full of evil light-

The author's note: There are really not many manuscripts, so there are 5,000 words every day. However, since everyone is anxious, I will update 10,000 words on the weekend, and the second update will be made at noon on Saturday. Then everyone vote for me more and remember to collect it.

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