The northwest was already chilly in mid-September.

Xu Maoxiu had been lying on the hillside for a long time, his legs and feet were a little numb, and someone slowly crawled over from the side.

"How?" Xu Maoxiu asked in a low voice.

"The fire pit is still warm." Fan Jianglin said in a low voice.

"I didn't leave anyone behind, and I was all gone, what was it for?" Xu Maoxiu said in a low voice, looking at the valley in front of him with a probe.

There were not many trees in the valley, and they were all cut down to prevent surprise attacks and to facilitate their own defense.

At a glance, the tent cloth bags are still there, but it is quiet and unpopular, only the echo of birds in the mountains.

Xu Maoxiu frowned, thinking of something.

"It's not that far from here to Ryugu City," he said.

"What?" Fan Jianglin asked.

"It's very convenient if you go on a raid." Xu Maoxiu said.

Fan Jianglin glared.

"Raid? The head of the Fujiang tribe is in Ryugu Castle! He rebels only if he's crazy! He whispered.

"What if someone else is going crazy?" Xu Maoxiu said.

Fan Jianglin wanted to say something, but Xu Maoxiu waved his hand to stop it.

"Let's go back and tell the adults, and they'll decide." He said.

The two of them slid down the hill and galloped away with their horses.

The atmosphere in the camp five miles away was relaxed, although the journey was easy, but the long journey was still very tiring, there were still dozens of miles away from the castle to be reached, and the soldiers and generals were very happy to think that they could eat and drink comfortably when they were going to enter the city.

"What do you say? Is Dragon Valley City in danger? ”

A conductor frowned and looked at the two in front of him and asked.

The march was customary to send outposts, but it was a decoration all the way. After all, the banner of the imperial court generals is here. Which hairy thief who doesn't have long eyes dares to come and send him to death.

You're about to reach the castle. The two proximists went so far as to say that the castle was in danger.

Dragon Valley City is the largest fortress on the northwest front, and it has always been heavily guarded, and the western thieves do not dare to take offense.

"If Dragon Valley City is empty, it's not impossible," Xu Maoxiu said.

Can Ryugu City's troops be empty?

"You know the." The commander scolded, waving his hand to drive away, "Get out." ”

"My lord, we have been in Longgu City, and it is not that Longgu City has not encountered this kind of sneak attack..."Fan Jianglin said.

This side of the dispute. Attract the attention of others.

"What for?" Several generals asked.

Xu Maoxiu raised his eyes and saw that among the people he had seen was Liuliulang.

But Liuliulang didn't even look at them, as if they never knew each other.

The commander hurriedly stepped forward to say what Xu Maoxiu and Fan Jianglin said.

"How is that possible?" Several generals also didn't believe it when they heard this, and shook their heads, "If there is no one in the submissive Tibetan department, it can be considered that it is a sneak attack, and maybe someone is out to hunt." ”

Maybe they're thinking too much.

After all, I haven't been here for almost two years.

Xu Maoxiu and Fan Jianglin glanced at each other, lowered their heads and retreated.

"It's okay anyway, so let's go and take a look."

Suddenly, someone said.

Xu Maoxiu looked up and saw that it was Liu Liulang who spoke. But he didn't look at them.

"....both adults are here, so it's better to be cautious." He continued. "It doesn't hurt to take a look anyway."

He accentuated his tone at the two adults, who had been walking all the way, although they were friendly on the surface, but in fact they were pulling and pulling at each other, otherwise they wouldn't have taken so long to get here.

In case this matter is reported by someone with a heart, there will be no trouble.

After quickly agreeing, it was decided to let Xu Maoxiu take someone to check first.

"I disagree!"

Liu Kui shouted, glaring at Xu Maoxiu.

"My lord, this is useless at all."

Useless work?

Several generals frowned.

"If there is really a surprise attack, these people have been gone for a long time, and our cavalry has no chance of catching up." Liu Kui snorted.

The long-distance action has a great loss of the four hooves and hooves of the war horses, and they have walked so far, and the horses can no longer gallop quickly, let alone catch up with or even surpass those people, and then check the results and then run back to report....

Failing to do this, this thing is really useless...

The generals present were silent.

"You're looking for a chance to escape!" Liu Kui said with a glare.

Xu Bang snorted.

"Our horses can." Suddenly, someone said.

Everyone looked back and saw that it was one of Xu Maoxiu's brothers.

Xu Sigen took a step forward, his face flushed, and he seemed to be a little excited.

"Our horses can." He said again.

Liu Kui snorted again.

"What's the difference between your horses, besides, you're not two horses." He said.

When they set off from Beijing, the soldiers were equipped with horses, and Xu Maoxiu and the seven of them gave seven horses because of Cheng Jianniang, but they did not get the treatment of two horses, and not long after walking, the official horses were taken back by making excuses.

"It's different." Xu Sigen said, who has always been not good at talking, because he was a little clumsy because of excitement, "Our horses are different, our horses, the hooves are intact." ”

This caused everyone to be stunned.

"How is that possible?" Everyone frowned and said.

They walked slowly because the two adults couldn't stand the long journey, and because after walking more than halfway, the horse's hooves were injured and they had to slow down.

Everyone's horses are damaged, but their horses are not damaged? Are their horses Pegasus?

"This is the horse our sister gave us! The horse our sister gave us was a very powerful horse! Xu Bang mallet shouted.

It's her!

Saturday Lang suddenly, I see.

Chasing in the middle of the night, how can it just be to send a few ordinary horses!

But those horses, everyone has also seen them quietly and curiously in private, and they are indeed very ordinary...

Xu Sigen had already led the horse over, and pointed to the horse's hooves excitedly.

"Look at our horses, their hooves are not damaged." He said.

Everyone present gathered around. I didn't pay attention to it before. At this point, he looked at it. Sure enough, I saw that there was more black stuff on the hooves of the seven horses.

"What is this?" A general asked, reaching out and touching it.

Ferric...

"This is...."Xu Sigen opened his mouth but couldn't say it, his sister didn't say the name, then on the horse's hooves, it was iron, "It's the horse's hooves falling!" It can protect the hooves from wear. ”

"Just these few pieces of iron?" Someone asked in surprise, and when he looked short, there were a few pieces of pig iron, which seemed to be branded on the horse's shoe. Other than that, there is not the slightest trick.

"It's these pieces of iron." Xu Sigen nodded and said, "Coupled with my careful care, the horses will not be damaged at all along the way." ”

Although they saw it with their own eyes, the expressions of those present were still hesitant.

"Alright, without further ado, I'll talk about it later, since your horses are undamaged and can run quickly, then go quickly." Saturday Lang said.

"Xiao Zhoulang, this matter is indeed a bit out of order. Just because the Tibetan tribe is gone, I speculate that his heart is wrong. If you get into trouble, are you responsible? A general asked lightly.

The court of these obedient Tibetans has always given preferential treatment and pacification in order to ensure the stability of the border.

If a person is accidentally charged with sabotage, it is not fun.

Xu Maoxiu and the others looked at Liuliulang.

"I'm in charge." Liu Liulang said without hesitation, his eyes still didn't look at Xu Maoxiu and the others, "I believe her." ”

He said and turned away.

Believe him?

The people present looked at Liuliulang, and then at Xu Maoxiu and the others, looking stunned.

Do they recognize?

"Needless to say, if you don't believe us, who do you believe, we're also your brother..."Xu Bangmallet said, grinning.

Brother?

Those who stood close to hear it were even more stunned.

Xu Maoxiu glared at him.

"He doesn't believe in you or me." He whispered, "Yes, believe her." ”

"Who is she?" Xu Bangmao asked.

"Sister." Xu Maoxiu glared at him, turned over and got on his horse, "Hurry up." ”

Xu Bang mallet laughed and followed the horse.

The other brothers also picked up bows, arrows, knives and guns and mounted their horses, but when Xu Sigen got on the horse, he was violently pulled away.

"Hey, what are you doing?"

Xu Sigen shouted.

The man had already run away on horseback.

"I'll watch you guys! If you want to run, grandpa will shoot you first! Liu Kui turned around on his horse and shouted, raising the three-foot bow that Xu Sigen was carrying on his horse.

"Forget it, fourth, don't go." Xu Maoxiu shouted, stopping the brothers who were going to chase and beat Liu Kui, urging the horse, "It's important to do the right thing first." ”

The night wind whistles, the battle flags are hunting, and the torches on the city walls are swaying with the wind and the smoke soars into the sky.

"My lord, my lord, my sons can't stand it."

A bloodstained soldier stepped forward and shouted.

Before he could finish his sentence, he was kicked down by an old man standing on the city wall.

The old man was about sixty years old, with a gray beard, a dark and wrinkled complexion, and a heavy armor, but this did not affect his agility in the slightest.

"When did my son-in-law never stand it?" He shouted sharply, "Dare to disturb the hearts of our army, behead!" ”

Before his words fell, the relatives next to him immediately raised their knives.

The soldiers didn't even scream, and the heads were separated and rolled to the ground.

There was dead silence on the walls.

"Light all the flags and torches, and all the men, including the miscellaneous servants, go up to the walls." The veteran shouted, pointing under the walls.

There was a sound of cheering on the city wall, accompanied by the sound of chaotic footsteps, and soon in the night, the city wall was full of flags and dense people like ants, almost filling the gate of the long Dragon Valley Castle.

But in fact, they only have less than 3,000 people in total, and nearly 100 people were injured during the day, plus the fierce battle for half a day, the powerful consumption of the war bow has made many soldiers sore and weak, and the arrows that shoot out are weak, it is conceivable that when the next wave of siege attacks, their bows and arrows are just a sound on the armor for the other party.

The old man stood on the city wall, ignoring the obstruction of his relatives beside him, and stared into the night wilderness.

Although there were only a few lights in the wilderness, the veteran's cloudy eyes seemed to be able to see the ten thousand thieves hidden in the night, their horses were fine, their armor was heavy, and their bows and crossbows were in full swing, staring at their city.

"My lord, the news has been sent out, why hasn't Lord Metropolitan Eunuch led the army back..."A pro-general said in a low voice, unable to hide his anxiety.

"Definitely got entangled, too." The veteran said.

"My lord, if there are still no reinforcements. We can't stand it," the general whispered.

The veteran didn't look at him. He didn't drink his life and kill him immediately.

He turned his head to look inside the city.

The city is also brightly lit. Although I can't see anyone, I can imagine the frightened look of the adult at this time.

"If you can't stand it, you have to top it." He said, "We will not allow the people of the city to die or be wounded until we die." ”

If the city is broken, then the entire northwest front will inevitably suffer a heavy blow, not only in terms of personnel and property, but also psychologically.

Of course, this veteran will not say it.

As his words fell, there was a commotion in the wilderness.

This is the Western Thieves who have begun to attack the city again.

The veteran was shaken in spirit. I was about to shout, but I heard a commotion in the city, and a puff of wolf smoke rose from behind.

Seeing this, the faces of the soldiers and generals present changed greatly.

There is a raid in the rear!

The veteran hurried to the other side of the wall, looking back.

"My lord, what should I do?"

The entourage could no longer hide their panic and shouted.

"What are you afraid of! One is a fight, and two are also a fight! It doesn't matter if it's a thousand or ten thousand, just hit it! The veteran turned and shouted.

The uneasiness of being attacked by the enemy on his abdomen and back suddenly dissipated, and he looked at the heavy night and was refreshed. Reaching out and tearing off his armor, revealing his shirtless body in the cold night.

Because of years of hard work. The sixty-year-old man was thin but still strong.

"War drums!" He stretched out his hand and shouted.

Knock knock! Knock knock! Knock knock!

The sound of drums shook the sky, and in conjunction with this, there was the sound of swords, shields, bows, crossbows, spears, and spears.

Wansheng! Wansheng! Wansheng!

The walls of the city shouted in unison, and the night wind blew out.

The momentum is like a rainbow, indomitable.

It's this kind of sound, it's this kind of sound, it's the sound that rings countless times in my dreams!

Finally heard! Finally heard!

Xu Maoxiu, who was crawling on the ground in the night, had red eyes, trembling all over, and his hands were scratching the ground.

"They're starting to attack the city," Liu Kui beside him whispered.

Everyone looked ahead, and in the night, the people who had been crawling on the dirt slope by the official road began to emerge like ghosts, and the people on the city gate still discovered their existence, and the footsteps did not need to be concealed, and the torches were lit, and in an instant, like sparks all over the sky rushed to the city gate behind Ryugu Castle.

"Damn" Xu Bang mallet is about to jump up.

Liu Kui held him down.

"You're crazy!" He whispered.

"You're blind!" Xu Bangmao also shouted in a low voice, and grabbed Liu Kui's arm fiercely.

"You're blind, there are only six of us!" Liu Kui spat Xingzi sprayed Xu Bang's mallet in the face, "There are hundreds of people in Fujiang!" ”

"Then watch them go and break the city?" Xu Bangmao shouted, and the smoky tone also sprayed Liu Kui's face.

Liu Kui shook him off fiercely.

"Your horses are blowing mysteriously, can they do it? Why hasn't the army arrived yet? He said hatefully.

The night wind hunted, and there were more and more shouts and screams ahead.

"Dragon Valley City must be empty, that's why it was raided." Xu Maoxiu said in a deep voice, "The only remaining troops must be in the front, and they have been fighting fiercely for half a day, and at this time, there are no enemies in the rear, and they don't have many people to resist at all..."

"It's up to you to say that!" Liu Kui scolded, looking at the city gate that had begun to ignite and cracked.

"Light the torch." Xu Maoxiu stood up and said, "Look for the dead branches around, find as many as you can, and light them up..."

Fan Jianglin and the others immediately responded yes and left.

"You're fucking stupid." Liu Kui shouted again, "Pretending again, how many can six people pretend?" Who can be scared? ”

Xu Maoxiu stretched out his hand to untie his bow and arrows and looked ahead.

"A few scared counts." He said.

The fierce drums of war continued to beat.

"Kill!"

"The wife and children are all in the city, and the brothers must not let this group of thieves break in!"

With a shout, twenty or thirty people on the city wall resisted the hundred people who attacked the city one after another.

The rain of arrows continued to spray, and one companion after another fell, one after another battle flags fell, and muffled screams continued one after another.

No, it's really not good...

"Command, look!"

Suddenly, someone shouted.

The voice was particularly harsh in the screams and shouts.

What to see at this time?

Everyone subconsciously looked up, and couldn't help but be stunned, although the price of this stunned was that the bow and arrow of the thief under the city shot a person's arm.

But the man felt no pain at all. Instead, he threw himself out of the walls. Staring into the distance.

In the distance, there seemed to be a ghostly glow of fire. At first glance, there are dozens of people swaying and swaying.

"There are reinforcements, there are reinforcements!"

The people on the city wall had goosebumps all over their bodies and shouted frantically.

As if to cater to their shouting, the chaotic sound of horses' hooves sounded not far away, although there was not much movement, but it must have been the vanguard cavalry.

"Damn, I've never been so ashamed in my life!" Liu Kui shouted, dragging a clump of branches behind him. The branches also lit a fire, pulling a flash of fire on the ground.

"Shame?" Xu Maoxiu, who was also like this not far away, shouted loudly, pulling his bow and arrows, "What is this called shame, who will die early later, and if you can't kill a few enemies, it's a shame!" ”

As he spoke, the arrows of his bow were shot, one after the other, without stopping.

Under the firelight, the bowstring in Xu Maoxiu's hand shook and turned into a phantom, and the screams of sharp arrows breaking through the air were endless.

If you stand opposite him and look. It's like a waterfall of arrows pouring in, and this. It's just a shot from one person.

As the saying goes, one person is worth ten people, which is probably what it means.

"Good fellow, archery is really good!" Liu Kui blurted out, not to be outdone, pulling out his bow and arrows.

This group of Tibetan tribes who came to raid the rear did not have a good armor leaf to protect themselves, and the three stone heavy bows in the hands of Xu Maoxiu and the others easily shot through their drapes, not to mention the extremely accurate killing parts, which quickly made a piece fall in front of the city gate.

Mourning is everywhere, and the surprise attack is frightening, so the raiders are also panicked when they are suddenly attacked.

The panic of the siege thieves further aroused the spirit of the defenders on the city gate, and the rain of arrows after the counterattack, and the fire in the distance made the three hundred troops who were bound to be orderly and orderly in the siege of the city become chaotic.

The news quickly reached the front door.

"There are reinforcements, reinforcements are coming! The back door is saved, the back door is saved! ”

The herald roared and spread the news to everyone's ears.

Reinforcements?

Shirtless, the veteran who sweated in the autumn night also flashed a trace of excitement and disbelief in his eyes.

The war drums in his hands were even more intense, and this news, coupled with the sound of this drum, shook the whole army, and the morale of the already declining army was greatly boosted.

The infantry on the city wall once again gathered in battle formation, aimed their swords and spears at the thieves who had climbed the city wall, and the archers who could no longer lift their bows and arrows in the rear also kicked their bows and arrows again, shooting waves of arrows.

The enemy, who had already stormed the wall, was defeated and could not break through the last line of defense, and the battle became a stalemate for a while.

I don't know how long it has been, the veteran's arm has become numb, he stares at the front, but his heart is left behind.

What about reinforcements?

What about reinforcements?

Why hasn't there been any movement for so long?

So, actually, there are no reinforcements at all......

This time, the city is still going to be broken....

The veteran's face was dwelled, I don't know if it was sweat or tears, more and more people fell around him, and those handymen holding battle flags also entered the battle.

Wansheng!

Wansheng!

It seemed that from the distant sky came a faint shouting sound, accompanied by the shouting sound, it seemed that there were thousands of horses galloping.

"Reinforcements are coming! Reinforcements are coming! ”

The voice sounded again, and unlike the last time, the herald pointed in one direction.

Far behind, in the night sky, the light of the fire reflected half of the sky.

Wansheng! Wansheng!

The shouting and the sound of the war drums became more and more clear, catering to the drums on this side, and overshadowing this side after the most lucrative back.

Finally, the sound of the trumpets of retreating troops was heard in the enemy camp, and the western thieves under the city walls retreated like a tide.

Retired, retired, saved, saved, he Zhu Lao has been in the army for seventy or forty years, and once again fulfilled his mission.

The veteran couldn't hold it anymore, and the whole person fell on the drums of war.

Lucky! Lucky!

………………………

Standing in front of Ryugu Castle, looking at the fires burning everywhere and the corpses everywhere, Liuliulang couldn't help but restrain his horse, and the seventeen-year-old boy Lang's expression changed under the torch.

Watching the hellish scene and smelling the blood in the sky is a feeling that you will never experience on the school field.

This is the front line, this is the battlefield, this is the fighting, this is the destiny of the generals and soldiers!

Saturday Lang couldn't help but roar, and shot the bow and arrow in his hand into the sky to send a rain of arrows.

"Who saved us?"

Looking at the open city gate, the soldiers and people who greeted them excitedly listened to the excited and hoarse shouts of the veterans led by them.

The young man was a little stunned.

Who saved them?

Of course, it was the hundreds of soldiers who came desperately, and the hundreds of soldiers who lit fire and beat drums along the way.

But how did these generals get here?

Originally, they should have been drinking and laughing on a bonfire dozens of miles away at this time, waiting for tomorrow's surname Cheng.

Saved a city ....

And all this in the final analysis falls on the seven horses that can run long distances.

Seven horses, no, there were only five left, and the two horses that had returned to call for help had one died of exhaustion on the way, and the other died of exhaustion when they reached the camp.

If it weren't for those horses...

None of this would have happened without the horses galloping to catch up with the rebels, and without the horses galloping back to report the news.

"It was the horse that saved you," Salturon muttered.

The scene was noisy and lively, and no one heard him.

Saturday Lang looked back at the distant eastern sky.

Seven horses... Saved a city...

That woman, did she think of it when she gave away the horse?

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One more, but enough fat. (To be continued......)