I don't know if it was the excerpt of the king of Zhenbei who went up to Jinling that played a role, or whether Nanchu had realized something. In short, in the next half month, Beiyan is obviously lacking in stamina.

This situation was actually expected by King Zhenbei, and he knew best what the situation was in Beiyan. If it weren't for the support of Nan Chu behind him, this battle would not have lasted so long.

The two cities occupied by Northern Yan were Yuncheng and Jincheng. These two cities are located in the northern Xinjiang Hebei Yan border, and have always been coveted by the Northern Yan people. But this time they still didn't hold on.

When the Xuanjia army entered the city, these two cities were really about to become veritable ghost towns. Because of the bloody slaughter of the Northern Yan people, the city had already been slaughtered. When the people of Beiyan withdrew, the entire city was empty as far as the eye could see.

Nalan Jinxiu rode a horse and followed Xu Jince, and when she saw the scene in front of her, she couldn't help but say, "Brother, do you want to bring some people over to settle down?"

"If something like this happens, I'm afraid no one wants to come. ”

Nalan Jinxiu sighed, she felt that the people of Beiyan were really unreasonable. Even if you want to fight, even if you want to grab territory, you won't slaughter the city!

"I don't know how many survivors there are in these two cities. ”

Xu Jince's expression was also very serious, and he gestured to An Shi behind him. And he sent men to gather together all the living in the city.

There were about twenty or thirty survivors, mostly women, and occasionally one or two children could be seen. They should have witnessed what the Beiyan people did in the city, so they were all very scared.

Nalan Jinxiu got off the horse, she walked up to the women, and her voice was gentle: "Take a look at each other, are they all acquaintances, are there any face-to-face people?"

She felt that the Beiyan people would not even let go of the old and weak women and children, and if they really wanted to leave women to serve them, they would either take them away or kill them when they evacuated. The people who stayed behind may really be the people of northern Xinjiang, but they do not rule out the possibility of meticulous work.

Xu Jince originally planned to ask An Shi to ask, but these women who were physically and mentally devastated were afraid when they saw the soldiers. That's why Nalan Jinxiu came down to ask.

The women listened to her words and really went to see the people around them, and in the end they all said that they knew each other. This does not rule out that they are not detailed, if all of them are from Beiyan, they will naturally be said to know.

"Yuncheng is occupied by the Northern Yan people, and we also have to bear some responsibility. You are all survivors now, and you will receive the subsidies you deserve. Now go over there and register, tell me who is in the family and how they died, and then we will give you the money according to the situation. ”

The officials of Yuncheng and Jincheng all died, and none of the local garrisons survived. However, the surrounding cities also have dealings with them, and they know a lot about their situation.

Xu Jince has already asked people to invite officials who know the situation of these two cities, and are ready to look for clues from the confessions of these people.

Beiyan people have always been careless in doing things, and it is impossible to achieve the ultimate in details. Therefore, as long as you are patient and repeatedly scrutinize and ask, you will definitely be able to gain something.

Nalan Jinxiu looked at the two children who survived, both of whom were seven or eight-year-old boys. looks smart, and at this time he stares at her with a pair of big eyes.

As soon as she saw the child, she could think of it, and her heart became very soft. She beckoned to the two of them and said softly, "What are you looking at?"

The two children gathered around and did not speak.

Nalan Jinxiu walked up to them, reached out and touched their hair, and asked, "Tell me, what is so good-looking, so that you two are fascinated?"

Seeing her mildness, one of the children gradually ceased to be afraid. He stretched out his hand and pointed to the jade pendant on her waist, and whispered, "This is a sacred object, it should be placed on the altar, not on the waist, this is a great disrespect to the gods." ”

The boy's voice was very crisp, even if he said it very quietly, Nalan Jinxiu still heard it word for word. She rubbed her jade pendant, which was patterned with a vermilion bird. Who would worship Suzaku as a fetish? She didn't remember.

At this time, the little boy's mother came over, pulled the child behind her, and looked at Nalan Jinxiu with sincere fear.

Seeing her defensive look, Nalan Jinxiu thought that maybe she was frightened, so she smiled at her. Then he took out an oiled paper bag from his sleeve and opened it, and inside were two pieces of puff pastry.

"Although these two pieces of dim sum are a little broken, they still taste very good, let's eat them for you!" Nalan Jinxiu looked at the two children unkempt and wanted to coax them with dim sum.

The child's mother did not move, still staring at her, and her appearance looked a little fierce in addition to being defensive.

Nalan Jinxiu was uncomfortable for a while, and was about to take back the snack. The two children ran up to her, snatched the snack, and stuffed it into their mouths at once.

The dim sum is not big or small, and Nalan Jinxiu usually eats it, and it takes about seven or eight bites to eat it. She saw that the two children were stuffed into their mouths at once, and she was afraid that they would choke, so she hurried to pat them on the back.

Xu was her action that made the child's mother feel the danger. She pounced on her like a crazy woman, and clasped Nalan Jinxiu's neck with both hands.

Mu Li was still holding the reins in his hand, and when he saw that something had happened here, he quickly came over, and easily restrained the woman with a skill.

The woman glared at Nalan Jinxiu viciously, and shouted hoarsely: "As the leader of the Northern Frontier, you let Yuncheng fall into the hands of the Northern Yan people, can you see if this can still be home?"

When she finished speaking, she began to cry out loudly, her voice was bitter and desperate: "What qualifications do you have to interrogate us now, you have caused all this! When you ask for military rations, we will give you food even if we are hungry ourselves." What is it for? Isn't it just to save my life? But what is the result? We are a family of thirteen, and now we are left with these two children and me. If I hadn't curryed favor with those Beiyan people, the two children would have been killed by them a long time ago. What did you do when they slaughtered the city?"

The woman's voice echoed through the city, accompanied by gusts of wind, sounding sad and infiltrating.

Nalan Jinxiu felt compassion for a while, she asked Mu Li to let her go, and then walked up to her and said to her in the gentler voice possible: "We are also very sad that this kind of thing happened, but it is finally over." ”

The woman kept her head down, and Nalan Jinxiu didn't notice that her smile was very gloomy. By the time she realized that something was going to happen, the dagger in the woman's hand was already on her neck.

"Xu Jince, you didn't expect it, did you?" The woman's voice was completely different from before, and her voice became more slender and soft.

Nalan Jinxiu was stunned, thinking that this person originally regarded her as a brother. She didn't know what she was going to do, but she was sure in her heart that this person was definitely not an ordinary ordinary person.

She was so sharp when she first shot, and she was obviously well-trained. And although her voice is beautiful, it is not difficult to hear the stiffness in it. Therefore, Nalan Jinxiu speculated that she should be from Beiyan, and she was also a killer.

The dagger around her neck cut through her skin without hesitation. In his ears was the woman's soft and coquettish laughter: "Let your people put down their weapons, otherwise if I go down with this knife, the Zhenbei Wangfu will be doomed." ”

Xu Jince had been watching them from the other side, and naturally knew what was going on. He gestured, and everyone lowered their weapons. The twenty or thirty women all changed their faces.

Each of them had a dagger in his hand, and his expressions were particularly cold. They gathered around Nalan Jinxiu, on high alert, probably afraid that something would happen.

It seems that the reason why these people stayed in the city was to wait for them to come.

Xu Jince gradually approached them and said coldly: "The person you arrested is a military doctor, not Xu Jince in your mouth at all. ”

The woman who held the dagger against Nalan Jinxiu first laughed, and then said, "I know his pair of sterling silver bracers, and there will be no mistake." ”

Xu Jince raised his hand to her, and asked with a steady expression: "Do you mean this kind of bracer? I won't tell you the truth, at least one-third of the people in the Xuanjia Army have such a costume. ”

When the woman saw Xu Jince's silver bracers, her body stiffened significantly. The dagger in his hand sank into Nalan Jinxiu's neck again.

Mu Li was terrified for a while, he was measuring the distance, predicting how much time he could reach them. These women standing in the middle don't seem to be easy to deal with, if they can't defeat the enemy with one move, then the county lord will be in danger.

"To tell you the truth, it's true that the one in his hand is not the young marshal, but he is my younger brother. I am the steward of this group, and you can mention to me what you want. ”

"I want all of you to retreat into that room. The woman raised her chin.

Xu Jince turned around and saw that the room behind him was very spacious, and it looked like it should have been a dyeing workshop before. He smiled: "This room is small, but the room is big, if you let us in, it will be difficult for us to get out." ”

"I don't want your lives, besides, you are a brave and warlike Xuanjia army, can it be that you will be afraid of us women?"

"I'm not afraid, but my brother is in your hands, and I have to do whatever you say. Xu Jince walked to the room first, and after taking two steps as if thinking of something again, he turned around: "It's better to exchange me for him, and I'll be your hostage." ”

The woman glanced at Xu Jince, and she could tell at a glance that this person's kung fu was very good. If it was him in her hands, maybe she couldn't control it, so she neatly refused: "No need." ”