With such a high city wall, even the longest ladder is estimated to be difficult to reach the top of the city wall, and even if it is lengthened, the ladder is too long, the stability becomes poor, and it is relatively much more convenient to defend. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the same time, under the city walls, the wide moat was lined with various sharp antler-shaped wooden thorns. In front there were three protective ditches, all wide and deep, to prevent the heavy siege weapons from approaching the city walls.

Looking up again, there were rows of soldiers on the city wall, waving their flags.

They slowly crossed the not wide moat suspension bridge with the flow of people, and arrived at the city gate. It was found that the city gate was also unusually thick, and the city gate was tightly wrapped with iron sheets. The gates were also nailed with huge iron nails with pointed ends facing outwards to prevent them from ramming the gates.

The inventory of Jinyang City was extremely strict, but because they did not carry a sword in the car, and they were two women with extraordinary bearing, they were released after the inspection.

When she entered the doorway, she felt that the doorway was very long, and it could be seen that the city wall was very thick.

When they entered the city, they saw that there were no buildings within a dozen zhang of the city wall, but a hill of various rolling logs and stones. And barrels of crude oil, covered with lids.

During the Song Dynasty, they had mastered the burning properties of oil, and used oil to ignite the city and burn the enemy troops besieging the city.

It seems that the Northern Han is fully prepared for defense. The Great Song Dynasty may find it difficult to gnaw on this hard bone.

It was freezing cold, and the snow was thick on the ground, and their carriage stopped at an inn that was considered good in the city, and after sending the coachman away, they entered the inn, and registered a suite to live in.

Qiuyue saw that it was still early, so she asked the crown princess to wait in the house, and went to find Prince Wende by herself.

With the lesson of encountering a master without permission the previous time, this time, Qiu Yue did not dare to sneak in without permission, and after finding out the situation, she must enter in a planned way, and she can't turn around, and now her martial arts are far from enough to make her run rampant.

She hired a carriage and went around the entire Jinyang City, keeping in mind the terrain of the city and the layout of the Yamen barracks.

She turned to a barracks and saw a large group of soldiers leaving the barracks and heading out of the city. One of the leading generals, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, thick eyebrows and big eyes, holding a spear, is particularly energetic.

What shocked Leng Yue was that she saw the aura rising from the general's body was actually dark purple.

Seventh-level purple qi powerhouse!

This general in the military camp of the Northern Han Dynasty was actually a seventh-level purple qi powerhouse, which was the most powerful powerhouse Qiu Yue had seen so far. In addition to the eighth-level black qi powerhouse who was walking with the sword in the sky outside the imperial city of the Great Song Dynasty, he had seen the highest level, that is, the sixth-level blue powerhouse Demoissa Weng and the gray-robed old man Ben Lei Weng who was guarding Li Hanqiong's mansion. And this general of the Northern Han Dynasty is one level higher than Lisa Weng.

Qiu Yue secretly thought in her heart, it seemed that her caution was right, if she blindly broke into the barracks at night like last time to look for it, once she ran into this seventh-level purple qi powerhouse, she was three levels higher than herself, and the hope of escaping and surviving was extremely slim.

She found that there were eight barracks in the city. There were four of the four cities, and four of the king's palaces on all four sides of the city.

She went to another barracks to see if there were any masters in this barracks. As a result, I saw a big-shouldered and round-waisted Northern Han general entering and leaving the barracks with soldiers. Similarly, like the previous one, he also had a dark purple aura lingering on his body, and he was also a seventh-level purple qi primary powerhouse.

Two seventh-level powerhouses, which made Qiu Yue break out in a cold sweat on her forehead.

She went to several other barracks, squatted and guarded, and spent three days before and after, and found that each of the seven barracks had a seventh-level purple qi powerhouse, and a number of sixth-level, fifth-level and other powerhouses of different levels.

What made her heart palpitate the most was the barracks next to the front gate of the palace, a general with a white beard, holding a golden sword, although he was very old, he was majestic and murderous. And there was a dazzling black aura lingering on his body!

Eighth-level black qi and high powerhouse!

He was even a grade higher than the eighth-level black qi powerhouse flying with the sword above the Great Song Imperial City.

When Qiuyue saw them entering and leaving the barracks, she asked the people on the street who it was, and it was easy for a beautiful girl like her to ask questions. So it was soon found out that the old general in the barracks in front of the palace was the father of the other seven generals and powerhouses, named Yang Jiye, and the other seven sons, from Da Lang to Qi Lang (the Yang family general at that time was surnamed Liu, and later changed his surname to Yang. For the convenience of writing, they are collectively referred to as Yang. ）

Qiu Yue came here not to explore the defense of the Northern Han Dynasty, but to ask by the way after seeing it. The main question is about Princess Wende, but when she found that every barracks and the entrance of the palace were defended by strong people far beyond her strength, Qiu Yue didn't know what to do for a while.

In this case, if you sneak in again, I'm afraid that even a small life will have to be taken. On the eve of the imminent war between the Great Song and the Northern Han, any invasion could be seen as an enemy spy and be killed in one fell swoop.

The only thing she could do was to privately inquire if there was any news related to Princess Wu Yue Wende's coming to take refuge.

But the strange thing is that whether she sat in the tea shop and listened quietly, or took the initiative to inquire, or even spent some money to buy the Northern Han soldiers to listen to the news, they were all the same answers, I didn't hear of any princesses who had been to Jinyang City recently, and there were no princesses to take refuge.

This is very strange, Li Hanqiong clearly said that Princess Wende fled to the Northern Han Dynasty with one of her lieutenants and dozens of people. And the letter left by Princess Wende also clearly said so, but how could there be no news of her in many ways? Could it be that the Northern Han Dynasty blocked the news?

If she couldn't sneak into the barracks, let alone sneak into the palace of the Northern Han Dynasty to investigate, she wouldn't know how to find Princess Wende.

She pondered for a long time, and discussed with the crown princess: "I can't enter the barracks, and I can't get any news outside, so the last resort is the usual missing person notice." ”

Of course, you can't post a search for Princess Wende of Wu Yueguo, but can only post a missing person notice that the princess can read.

After discussing with the crown princess, the crown princess came up with a solution, that is, to write down the poem "Ruan Langgui" written by Princess Wende when she was in the Wuyue Palace on paper and post it in the city.

This Huanxi sand poem is the proudest of Princess Wende, because this poem was praised by Emperor Wu Yue at that time, and also highly affirmed by her teacher, saying that this poem is quite talented. Therefore, if this poem is written and posted all over the city, it may be able to reach the ears of Princess Wu Yue and get in touch.

So, the crown princess took a pen and wrote this poem "Ruan Langgui" repeatedly on countless pieces of rice paper:

The spring breeze blows and rains around the stump branches,

Falling flowers have nothing to fly.

The small pond is cold and green,

The rain and sunshine are still in the west.

curtain half roll,

Yan Shuanggui.

Sorrowful and helpless.

Turning over and straightening out the remnants of chess,

Groaning should be late.

She wrote the first line of the poem, leaving the last sentence blank, indicating that if anyone could continue the last sentence perfectly, she would be rewarded heavily. If there is a continuation, please come to the inn where they are staying.

Dozens of them were written, and Qiu Yue posted them one by one on the main streets of the city.

The Northern Han Dynasty was prosperous, and it was not uncommon to solicit continuations. However, like her, the city posted notices all over the city to ask for renewals, and it was posted by a beautiful woman, so it quickly attracted speculation from Chinese people in the city.

There were many literati who thought they were talented, so they happily continued and came to the inn where they lived to reply.

Every time, Qiu Yue came forward to receive her, and the crown princess hid in the dark to watch.

But these people who came to solicit continuation words were all literati and writers, and there were no women. At the same time, there is no last sentence of Princess Wende's original words in the continuation words collected, and of course, there are many excellent sentences.

Those literati and writers went away happily when they saw that their continuation was favored by the beauties, and that there was money to be gained.

This matter has become the talk of the literati and writers of Jinyang City and even some good deeds after tea and dinner. Among them, the most talked about is why this beauty wants to collect the last sentence of this poem, so why, of course, there are all kinds of speculations, and the fragrant speculation of choosing a son-in-law is the most eye-catching and the most widely circulated.

As a result, most of the people who came to apply next were some unmarried young scholars, some of whom were mixed, and some of them were purely to see how stunning the woman who collected poems was. There are even media who came to say goodbye. Because this poem is extremely talented, and Qiuyue said that she wrote it herself, so she came to propose marriage because she loved Qiuyue's literary talents. Of course, Qiu Yue politely declined.

In this way, until the ninth day, there were waves of literati who came to apply every day, but they never waited for Princess Wende, nor did they hear any news of Princess Wende.

The two decided to leave the next day.

When they got up the next morning, the two of them packed their bags and were about to leave, when suddenly a bearded Khitan man came, and when he came in, he shouted, "Where is the person who collected the continuation words? I came to receive the bounty." ”

After the man told them the number of the room upstairs, the Khitan swaggered up the steps.

The shopkeeper had already been dotted before, so he led the way in front very diligently, and ran forward to knock on the door first.

In fact, they had already heard the voice of the Khitan people. The crown princess opened the door and saw that she didn't know her at all, and she was a Khitan, and she glanced back at Qiuyue.

Qiu Yue understood the meaning of the princess's eyes, so she took out a small ingot of silver and said to the Khitan people: "This guest officer, thank you, we are in a hurry to leave, thank you for your support, there is no need to say this continuation, this silver is for you." ”

The Khitan people were very happy to take the ingot of silver, but when they heard Qiu Yue say this, they quickly shook their heads like rattles and said: "We Khitan people are the most honest, and of course we have to say a continuation after taking your money, how can we collect money if we don't say it? We can't take your money for nothing, we are not greedy for money, if you don't listen to my words, I will return the money to you." Since I have taken your money, I must tell you about it......"

Qiu Yue listened to his nagging, and she had already finished listening to it for a long time, so she quickly waved her hand to interrupt and said, "Okay, you can say it quickly!"

The Khitans nodded and said, "That's just like words." Listen, the last sentence should be "Silence should be late", I don't know if it's right or not?"

Qiu Yue and the crown princess were both surprised and delighted, this was the last sentence of the poem written by Princess Wende.