Here, the Heishui people are still anxious about the internal regime change and the funeral of the concubine after the death of the old Khan, and they have no time to take care of other things.

On the other hand, the palace of the Western Dynasty, thousands of miles away, caused an uproar because it received a terrible news.

"What do you say? Our Western Dynasty army was plotted by the Guran outside the city of Heilan, and one of the leading generals was captured and one was killed? ”

Above the court, the face of the old general Wu Zuogu was extremely solemn.

Wu Yuanzhou, who was on the side, first showed deep shock and disbelief, and then began to ponder something, and suddenly asked with an anxious face: "Are you sure the news is true?" ”

The dusty messenger knelt down in the golden hall, pressed his head against the gold brick floor, and his voice was incomparably heavy: "Your Majesty will never dare to talk nonsense about such a major matter related to the country!" ”

"Who, exactly, was captured? And who died? ”

"His Majesty got the news from the scattered soldiers, General Helian led the troops to frustrate the spirit of the Gulan, and seriously injured the Guran general Ahmed, but who knew that the Guran were cunning and deliberately used the fake Ahmed to deceive the silver lieutenant general to pursue, and the general Helian learned that the firearm was fake and went to save the silver lieutenant, but Ahmed's treacherous villain was hiding in the dark, and when General Helian saved the silver lieutenant, he released a fire bomb, and finally the captured seemed to be ...... Silver charge, silver vice-general! The messenger was a little cramped when he said this.

After hearing his words, Wu Yuanzhou's expression immediately became excited: "You are talking nonsense! How could Ah Che ......"

"Rebel!" Wu Zuogu raised his eyebrows and glared at Wu Yuanzhou, "How dare you make a mistake in front of the Holy Lord!" ”

The father and son turned their eyes to look at the golden chair where the golden dragon was entrenched, Li Yuanlin sat there, with a serious expression on his feminine face, his thin lips were closed, his eyes revealed a deep dark color, and a pair of white and slender fingers curled up into a fist, propped up on his knees, and the spirit of a king was awe-inspiring.

At this time, the court officials were full of angry discussions, only Liu Shilang stood up and said worriedly: "Your Majesty, the old Khan King of Heishui has just passed away, and the battle for succession within Heishui is intensifying, I am afraid that I can't take care of the alliance with my Western Dynasty, in order to prevent the Gulan people from taking the opportunity to sneak attack Heishui and cause it to fall into the hands of thieves, in order to consolidate our borders, we need to make a decision as soon as possible." ”

As soon as the words fell, Wu Yuanzhou stood up, clasped his fists and said in a sonorous voice: "Your Majesty, the minister is willing to lead the troops to go and swear to exterminate the Gulan thieves!" ”

After saying this, someone said: "But this time the troops of Heishui did not send a request for help, and they rushed to send troops, for fear that they would be regarded as a threat by Heishui." ”

So what to do? Reach out to the letter to show that you are there to help?

That also seems unrealistic, after all, the war took place in Heishui, and it was the land of Heishui that was ravaged.

The courtiers of the palace were in a dilemma, and they all looked worried, and looked at the king, hoping that he would make a holy judgment.

Li Yuanlin, who had been silent, looked at everyone at this time, his eyes were cold, his thin lips were lightly opened, and he said slowly: "It is inappropriate to rush to send troops, but it is a righteous act for our Western Dynasty to assist Heishui to defend against foreign enemies, and Heishui will never be allowed to be perfunctory on the loss of our soldiers!" They are all warriors who fight to help Heishui, no matter what the internal affairs of Heishui are, they have to give me an explanation to the Western Dynasty, tell them that no matter what means they take, the 60,000 troops and two generals I sent must live to see people and die to see corpses, otherwise, it will be regarded as Heishui's dishonesty and tearing up the friendship between the two states, and the Western Dynasty will no longer have to fight for Heishui to defend against the enemy, and I will also seek justice for the 60,000 soldiers and two love generals! ”

Li Yuanlin's voice was majestic, and cold ice burst out from the depths of his pupils.

The ministers immediately seconded: "That's right! ”

The messenger stepped back.

Li Yuanlin said again: "What the squire said just now is not unreasonable, in order to prevent Gu Lan from taking the black water into his pocket and taking this opportunity to invade our country's soil, in order to stabilize the border of our Western Dynasty, it is necessary to make a decision, what are the suggestions of the secretaries?" ”

The ministers discussed, Wu Zuogu pondered for a moment, and stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that a large army can be sent to garrison Jiayong Pass!" This would not violate the diplomatic relations between the two countries, but would also prevent a change in the situation. ”

Wu Zuogu's proposal was quickly recognized by the ministers, Jiayong Pass and Heishui are only separated by a city gate, which is the boundary of the Western Dynasty, since the army of Heishui is too abrupt, then the army of the Western Dynasty is stationed on their own land, and no one will say anything.

The serious expression on Li Yuanlin's face softened a little, and he said, "General Wu's proposal is very good, it's just ...... Who commands the army? ”

"Your Majesty! The minister is not talented! I am willing to die for the Western Dynasty with all his strength and liver and brain! Wu Yuanzhou clenched his fists, his tone was extremely firm, his eyes were full of hatred for the Gulan people, and he gritted his teeth fiercely.

At that time, Wu Zuogu said again: "Your Majesty, if you talk about the experience of leading troops to fight, in this full palace, I am afraid that no one is more suitable for this great task than the old minister!" ”

Wu Yuanzhou, who was next to him, couldn't help but widen his eyes when he saw that his father was going to work with him, and he was so anxious that he simply shouted: "Dad!" ”

Wu Zuogu glared at his back fiercely, ignoring his son's little emotions about to run away.

Li Yuanlin saw everything in his eyes and breathed a long sigh of relief: "General Wu Lao is right, among the secretaries, you are the only one who can take on this important responsibility, but this city of Gyeonggi is the head of a country, and it cannot be left unguarded for a day. ”

As soon as he heard this, Wu Yuanzhou, who was so anxious just now, immediately became happy.

"Your Majesty, this ......"

Wu Zuogu's face was worried, and he wanted to say something but was interrupted by Li Yuanlin: "I know that there are three generations of single heirlooms in General Wu's family, and there is such a lone seedling under his knees, so he is naturally reluctant to let him fall into a deep crisis, but the old general must also understand that one day he must learn to be independent!" Now is the right time, I am willing to believe in him and hand over the safety of the whole country to him, isn't General Wu willing? ”

It is undeniable that most of the reason why Wu Zuogu took the initiative to ask for Ying was Wu Yuanzhou, not only because he was his only son, but also because he was afraid that he would have no experience in leading troops to fight.

But even if you are anxious, what can you do? The emperor has already made his words so clear, if he persists any longer, he will not know how to lift.

After stroking his white beard and thinking for a moment, Wu Zuogu finally let out a long sigh and said, "Old minister...... Willing! ”

When Wu Yuanzhou behind him heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up with excitement.

At this time, a voice came from the golden chair: "In this way, I can rest assured, and hand over the safety of Gyeonggi to General Wu Lao, and I will go to Jiayong Pass with General Wu Shao!" ”

"What?!" Wu Yuanzhou was dumbfounded.

Not only him, but the hall was shocked, and the ministers were dumbfounded, all with expressions that suspected that they had misheard.

Go to Jiayong Pass with General Wu Shao? Does that mean...... The emperor wants to drive the expedition in person?!

Outside the city of Heilan, on the boundless sandy plains, a woman led a horse and walked hard in the manic dust storm wind, although her head was wrapped in a blue veil to weaken the power of the dust storm, but the wind that rolled the yellow sand still blew in her face like a blade, cutting her so painfully that she couldn't even open her eyes.

The crumbling figure is even thinner than before, and his face is as ugly as an overnight dish. The red lips were cracked and bleeding by the dry wind, becoming rough and pale, and even the skin on the body began to peel, and the whole body hurt badly when he moved slightly.

These days of searching day and night had made her forget how long she hadn't eaten, but she still didn't feel hungry, just desperate to find him as soon as possible.

But a big road leads to the sky, this way, let alone people, not even an animal has been seen, the more she goes, the more sad she feels in her heart.

Where the hell is Helian Che? What would she do if he was captured or dead?

Ye Lingyi led the horse and walked in the dust storm with difficulty, thinking sadly: Maybe he hadn't found him yet, and he would have been buried alive by this dust storm earlier.

The more I thought about it, the stronger the desire to survive became, and the hand holding the reins couldn't help but exert the greatest strength.

But he found that the horse suddenly refused to go, although Ye Lingyi tried his best, the horse resisted on four legs, and refused to follow her forward.

After some hard work, Ye Lingyi finally gave up.

Stroking the horse's head, he laughed self-deprecatingly: "Well, it seems that you don't want to follow me to seek death!" ”

Finally let go of the reins and patted the horse's back.

Feeling free, the horse immediately let out a long neighing sound, turned around and ran.

Seeing his only traveling companion along the way go away without any nostalgia, Ye Lingyi suddenly felt a lot more lonely and sad in his heart.

Looking up at the pale sun behind the "clouds and smoke" composed of sand and dust, tears wet her eyes and slid silently down her cheeks, and even she couldn't tell whether the tears were caused by being blinded by the sand and dust, or by anxiety.

She didn't know that at this time, on the other side of the sandplain, in a cave naturally formed by the natural accumulation of loess, there was a ragged and unkempt young woman wearing hanging beads on her head, looking blankly at the unconscious man lying on the ground with her snowy eyes.

He was covered in blood-soaked strips of rags, which she had torn from the dead soldiers the night she had picked him up, and there were horrible wounds underneath each strip of cloth.

The woman didn't know how to bandage it, but thought that by tying the wound with a strip of cloth, it would stop the blood from flowing from his body.

His face was haggard and pale, and even his eyes were blue and purple, and he lay on the floor covered with tattered clothes, and gradually became restless from quiet, and seemed to be awake and as if he was not, and began to mutter something indistinctly.

The woman leaned over curiously, but what she heard was a person's name - green kite?

She didn't know who it was, but she guessed that he was probably having a nightmare, and beads of sweat rolled down his cheeks on his forehead, and soon the whole person was soaked as if he had just fallen into the water and just been scooped up.

The woman was startled, and predicted that something was wrong, and hurriedly reached out to probe his forehead, only to find that it was very hot.

Hurriedly got up, ran outside the house to fetch some stored snow water, and touched a tattered garment, which she also picked up from the ruins of the war. Soaked in snow, wrung out, and carefully covered his forehead.

After doing this, he kept getting firewood and lit it.

When the warmth of the flame radiated from the heat, the unease on his face finally subsided a little, and the woman relented, sat down beside him again, hugged her knees and stared at him.

I don't know how long it has been, but in a daze, she falls asleep.

When I woke up, it was already dark outside, and the fire was only a pile of red charcoals, and the cave was warm.

The woman rubbed her sleepy eyes and stretched comfortably, only feeling very comfortable.

But at this time, the stomach was "gurgling" and drumming.

She was hungry and had to leave this comfortable place in search of food in order to save her life in such a harsh environment.

But just as she was about to get up, she suddenly remembered something.

Lowering his head, he saw the handsome face of the man immersed in sleep through the fiery red glimmer emitted by the charcoal fire.

Her heartstrings fluttered, and then she remembered: by the way, now she is no longer alone.

Time goes back to that night when the sky was full of sparks.

Away foraging, she stumbles upon a war, much to the excitement of the orphan girl who has been abandoned in the wasteland since she was a child, who has never seen so many people, or in her opinion, who should be called "the same kind" .......

She hid in a trench blown up by a fire bomb and watched a middle-aged man with long blond hair walk towards a lifeless "bloody man" lying on the ground in the center of the fire, reached out to probe his snort, and suddenly turned around excitedly.

In a language he didn't understand, he shouted at another bearded man who limped towards him: "General Ahmed, he's dead!" The Lord of the Western Dynasty is about to die! I knew it was a bit rushed, but it would work! General Ahmed, have you seen them all? ”

"Damn Even, what are you proud of! I'm not blind! The bearded man looked very annoying with bruises and bruises on his face, and sneered disdainfully: "Whoever dares to go against me, none of them will end well." ”

The blonde man didn't speak, but looked at the other side of the fire, a young man curled up in a ball and shivering, and asked the bearded man: "General Ahmed, what should I do with this deputy general of the Western Dynasty?" ”

"What can I do? Catch me back! ”

As soon as the bearded man spoke, two men in strange military uniforms came up and escorted the stunned young man down.

"Then this person's corpse, it is better to cut off the head and send it to the black water......" The blonde man wanted to do something, his eyes gradually became ferocious, and the knife in his hand emitted a piercing chill under the reflection of the fireworks left by the fire bomb.

The woman hid in the trench in fear, holding her breath, and although she couldn't understand what they were saying, she knew that those people were demons who wanted to kill people, and they must not be discovered.

The bearded man scolded loudly and unceremoniously: "Sooner or later, the second prince of Heishui will inherit the throne of Khan, which is equivalent to having half of the control of Heishui for us, there is nothing bad!" Right now, who are you trying to disgust when you cut off the head of this guy from the Western Dynasty? Instead of doing these useless things, it is better to kill a few more Western Dynasty troops who have fled! ”

The bearded man snorted indignantly, turned around and left.

The blonde man kept up.

Soon only the woman in the trench was left in the empty field.

She had not eaten for days, and she was so hungry that she thought she might find some food by venturing her luck in the ruins of war.

So like a little beast with all the grass and trees, she looked around with jealous and defensive eyes, and approached the center of the fire group step by step.

She rummaged through the corpses of the dead soldiers, thinking that even if she found half a bite of dried bun, she would be able to fill her stomach.

But what is frustrating is that the ruins after the war are only scorched earth and burning corpses, not to mention dry buns, and not even half of the saliva can be found.

Looks like I'm going to have to go hungry for another day.

Thinking of this, the woman was very sad in her heart, and she couldn't even care about the fear just now, and walked back in frustration.

But unexpectedly, when she passed by the "bloody man" who couldn't tell the difference, someone suddenly grabbed the edge of her pants with a blood-stained hand.

She lowered her head, and was shocked to see that on the face covered with blood and unable to distinguish the specific appearance, a pair of clear eyes looked at her with a look of extreme pain and exhaustion, and her voice was weak, and she said a few words intermittently: "Help...... Save...... I ......"

With that, the hand that grabbed the side of her pants fell weakly back into the sand.

The woman froze, unable to make up her mind for a long time, and her heart was entangled to the extreme, trying to save the poor man, and on the other hand, fearing that he would bring unimaginable disasters to herself.

In the end, she decided to save him because she thought of her tragic fate.

She was an orphan girl who was deliberately abandoned on the sand plain, her parents were nomads in the city of Heilan, because her father desperately wanted a son to take over the work, but the mother gave birth to four daughters in a row, and the family was afraid that they would not be able to support her, so they discussed taking the youngest out of the city and abandoning her, so since she can remember, she has lived alone in the cave of the mound, but there is nothing on the sand plain, and she can't even find anything that can keep her alive.

In the end, when she was thirsty, she could only drink water with the animals, and when she was hungry, she would gnaw on weeds and leaves.

It's all just a necessary means to survive tenaciously.

To live, such a seemingly simple thing is extremely luxurious for a person who is wandering in the ghost gate, and she understands this truth very well.

Looking at the poor person in front of her, who was praying for a way to live, a kind of empathetic pain welled up in her heart, and finally she still stretched out her hand......

The memory flashed back, the woman hugged her knees and hid the gurgling sound in her stomach, her eyes were as gentle as water, looking at the handsome face of the sleeping man, and whispered: "I am finally no longer alone......