A drizzle has been falling for a whole day and a night, and the city in the drizzle and hazy echoes with the mountains in the distance like an ink landscape painting, rubbing together.

Whether it is on the mountains in the distance or on the outskirts of Chaona, except for the peach blossoms that the spring breeze blew on the night before, the rest of the place is still gray.

It doesn't matter if it's a withered weed, or a withered yellow leaf.

At the intersection of gray water and sky, a young man wearing a thick black coat walked on the road outside the county seat, he held a black oil umbrella, lowered his head and walked slowly towards the north gate of the city.

The hundreds of cavalry that followed him far behind him were like an extension of ink painting, which seemed a little abrupt in the painting.

After the last siege of the city, the army of Lihua repaired for three full days, and only under the cover of last night's hazy drizzle, it sent 3,000 people to touch the south gate of Chaona County, and took the south gate without blood.

At the same time, Lu Lihua deliberately launched a night attack outside the North City Gate, attracting the attention of the main rebel force and the Rong soldiers.

Although the two armies are not good at night fighting, but the small county town of Chaona is already quite familiar to both sides, so inside and outside the north city gate for a while, the sound of killing is everywhere, and the fire is everywhere, the two armies do not have the slightest intention to test each other's hypocrisy, and they will fight with all their strength as soon as they fight, one side fights hard, and the other side resists desperately.

Gao Yunce and Ma Yuan occupied the east and west gates respectively, and then killed the north gate from the city.

When Ma Yuan and Gao Yunce combined 4,000 troops from the city to attack the north gate of Chaona, it completely became the last straw that crushed the camel, and the Qin army killed in the city made the defenders of the north gate chaotic in an instant.

For a moment, the defenders couldn't understand why so many Qin troops appeared behind them.

In the midst of their hearts, the rebels, who were originally ordinary people, laid down their weapons one after another and fled in all directions in the city taking advantage of the darkness.

After the rebels dispersed like birds and beasts, the night battle ended after only one hour.

In fact, most of this hour was still used to destroy those Rong soldiers.

Holding a black oil umbrella, he stood in the middle of the city and watched the more than 300 captured soldiers kneel in a clearing in front of him.

He looked carefully at these fair-skinned but unusually burly Rong people, and after looking at them for a long time, he spoke:

"Which of you can speak Qin?"

One of these kneeling Rong people slowly stood up, looked at Zhu Lihua without fear and said:

"I will."

Wei Mu next to Lihua immediately recognized that this person was the leader of the cavalry he led the day before, so he walked up to Lihua and bowed his head and whispered to him.

After listening to Wei Mu's words, Zhu Lihua nodded, and then ordered Wei Mu to take this person to an uninhabited stone house near the city gate.

After arranging for Gao Yunce, Wei Yuanqi, Liang Qingshu and others to search for the fleeing rebels in the whole city, he went to the stone house alone.

After entering the door, Lihua felt that the stone house was damp and cold, and she couldn't help but sneeze several times.

It was already cold in early spring, and the stone house was particularly wet and cold due to the continuous rain for the past two days.

And Lihua had just come all the way from outside the city in the rain, so after entering the stone house, Lihua felt that he was showing some signs of illness.

The stone house is not big, except for the Narong people who are kneeling on the ground, Wei Mu, Ma Yuan and a few guards occupy the stone house to the full.

When these people saw Lihua walk in, they made way for the Lord to walk into the top.

For Zhu Lihua, whether it is Wei Mu or Ma Yuan's generals, soldiers are quite respectful, don't you look forward to following such a victorious general when you are a soldier.

When he entered the house, he saw that the straw had already been laid on the ground, and knew that it must have been done by his soldiers, so he sat down.

After he raised his hand and gently rubbed his sour nose, he raised his head and said, "You all go out." ”

"Brother",

"Adult",

After everyone heard what Lihua said, they were a little surprised, and they all wanted to give advice, but Lihua shook his hand and pointed to the kneeling Rong people.

"Isn't he tied up by you, what are you afraid of?

It's good to have Brother Lao Wei guarding the door, and if there is any accident, I will call you to enter the door.

Brother Ma, you quickly send soldiers to help capture the rebels, the most important thing at the moment is to stabilize the people's hearts, and you must not make any more extraneous branches. ”

After finishing speaking, Zhu Lihua touched his forehead with his hand, felt the brain that seemed to be shaking in the skull, frowned, patted his forehead with his hand, and then stopped talking.

When Wei Mu saw the appearance of Lihua, he bowed his head to Ma Yuan and said, "Ma Junhou can rest assured, Wei will definitely be the guardian of Lili Junhou safe and sound." ”

Although Ma Yuan was also a little worried when he saw Lihua's appearance, he knew that what Lihua said was the most important thing at the moment, so he stomped his feet and turned away.

After everyone left the stone house, Zhu Lihua lowered his head and said to the Narong people: "You are the commander of the Rong people." ”

The Rong man who was kneeling on the ground knew that Zhu Lihua was asking him questions, so he stood up and said without being humble or arrogant: "What the Marquis of Zhu Li said is true, I am the leader of the Xiyan tribe, Ximan'er, and I am the commander of a thousand commanders in the Great Xia army. ”

"Well, your master is good."

Hemaner was thinking about how to reply so as not to anger the Qin army commander, but when he heard Lihua ask like this, he didn't react, so he raised his head and looked at Lihua.

"I'm asking Yu Xin'er, you must know. Xiyan Wanhai doesn't have the ability to dare to stick a knife in the back of our army.

If I guessed correctly, I'm afraid that the Rong army of Yuantai and Hulin is attacking Qingyang at this time. ”

"Ah, how do you know?" After saying this, Seaman suddenly realized that what he said was to confirm Lu Lihua's guess, so he lowered his head and said in a low voice: "Whether you know it or not, Qingyang is probably occupied by our army at this moment. ”

"Oh? Is it? I had set up an ambush north of Qingyang before I left, do you think you can win? ”

After listening to what Lihua said, Ximaner seemed a little depressed, and after being silent for a long time, he said: "Marquis Lili, Xin'er once said that you have extraordinary skills, and I learned your power from the last attack on Qingshui and Qingyang and this time to guard the court, and it is not shameful for me to lose to you." ”

Lu Lihua suddenly raised his head and looked at the middle-aged Rong man kneeling on the ground with some strange eyes. "You call her Xin'er?"

The middle-aged Rong man laughed and said, "I know your intention in bringing me here. I can tell you that Xin'er is very good, and she has also told you many times before I told you, and I can see that the girl likes you very much.

In fact, if I had known that the Marquis of Yuli would lead his troops to defeat our army many times, I would have killed you with a stick in the birch forest that day. ”

After finishing speaking, he looked at the embarrassed Li Hua with a smile on his face and continued.

"But that's how the two armies are fighting, if I can kill you today, Xin'er won't blame me, so"

"So we shouldn't fight this war, you shouldn't go east, and we shouldn't be enemies."

"Little doll, no one wants to fight, not even Changshengtian wants to see his people kill each other.

However, not everyone can enjoy the well-being under the protection of the Immortal Heaven, and how can the monsters of the Dark Lands allow us to live in peace.

Therefore, this battle must always be fought, otherwise what will the people of my tribe eat and drink? ”

Lihua listened carefully to Heman's soft chatter as if he sighed, but when he heard Heman's talk about the monsters in the Dark Land, his whole body suddenly shook and he quickly asked, "Uncle, can you tell me something about those monsters?" ”

This Heyman didn't seem to be good at keeping his mouth shut, and when he heard Lihua ask himself this, he made a look of surprise and said:

"Well, this is absolutely unspeakable, the High Priest has warned us countless times.

But the name of uncle is not bad, and Xin'er's girl also called me like this. ”

Hearing that Heman didn't want to answer his question, he stood up and walked over to Heman's side and untied the rope that had been tied to him.

"Little doll, you have thought about it, although the uncle is old, pinching you to death is as simple as pinching an ant to death."

Seeing that Lihua was untying the rope for herself, Ximaner also looked a little surprised.

"Uncle, I will say to my people in a while, you have taken refuge in my Daqin, I will let you go back."

After listening to Lihua's words, Ximaner frowned, "Little doll, although we are friends and enemies, you are not a good general, do you know the consequences of letting the tiger return to the mountain." ”

"I know, but I also know that you kidnapped me but didn't kill me, did you ever think about the consequences of letting the tiger go back to the mountain?"

Lu Lihua did not stop his hands to untie the rope, but said softly and slowly.

At the same time, he also had a strong impression of the fierce-looking but upright Rong general in front of him.

"I know the consequences, that's why I remind you that if I knew that you would have killed thousands of my tribesmen later, I would have killed you that night."

Hearing this, he smiled, but he still did not stop untying the rope, and when the rope was untied, he looked up at Heman, who was a head above him, and said:

"Uncle, is Xin'er really a saint? Do you really want to sacrifice her to the worm? ”

After speaking, Lu Lihua looked at the stunned Ximaner and slowly lowered his head.

In the past few days, although Zhu Lihua pretended to be calm and still commanded the army to take the county seat lightly, he always had this thing in his heart that made him unable to sleep every day.

He kept thinking about what the worm was like, thinking about Yu Xin'er's tragic death after giving birth to an heir for the Worm King, and thinking about how to save Yu Xin'er.

He thought about it a lot, but in the end there was nothing he could do.

"Well, how do you know these things?

You must not say to anybody, no, no, I'm going to kill you, or you'll tell somebody else. If people know about the Holy Maiden, Xin'er will be in danger, once Xin'er is dead, then all the bones of my people in Daxia will be gone, no, no. ”

Heyman, who was a little excited, looked left and right, and when he found a piece of stone at the base of the wall, he hurriedly ran over, picked up the stone and was about to throw it at the motionless Lihua.