The Dragon Turtle Temple is boiling up and down, and in the dense forest on the mountainside, Jing Keqin is waist and takes ten soldiers to shuttle through it.

Looking back at the ten soldiers with nervous faces, Jing Keqin's heart couldn't help but jump up. On a whim, he promised Guo Ruke the bold words of "ten people take the Dragon Turtle Temple", and at that time he was confident, but when he really reached this stage of implementation, his heart somehow "rubbed" down.

It is true that what he promised was not a military order, even if he did not take the Dragon Turtle Temple, Guo Ruke, who was also the "thousand president", did not have the right to directly dispose of him, but it must have caused an extremely bad impression on Guo Ruke. Such an end is undoubtedly contrary to his idea of bringing Zhao Ying's upstart closer to him. In Jing Keqin's plan, Guo Ruke was the staircase that helped him ascend the stairs in Zhaoying, and no matter what, he couldn't block the road with his own hands. From this point of view, this operation can really be said to be a victory and not a defeat.

As the number one cadre under Yuan Tao in the past, Jing Keqin is familiar with every grass and tree in Yuan Tao's sphere of influence. Just like the Dragon Turtle Temple in front of him, if he hadn't led the crowd to attack it at the beginning, it would not have been managed into Yuan Tao's new lair now.

The focus of Yuan Tao's development has always been in the Bazhou area, so although the large and small fortresses in Yingshan County have always been in the hands of Yuan Taojun, they have never concentrated on strengthening and developing. It was only after Yuan Tao's recent failure to escape south that he re-attached importance to the Dragon Turtle Temple and its surroundings. There was very little time in between, and there was no room for any big moves. Therefore, Jing Keqin observed everywhere when he went up the mountain, and found that the garrison arrangement, large and small paths above and below the Dragon Turtle Temple were not different from those in his memory.

There were bursts of violent cheers from the mountainside from time to time, and Jing Keqin knew that it must be Yuan Tao, who was on the front line, showing off his might. Among the stick thieves, there are many myths about Yuan Tao and the leaders, and it is said that they are heavenly and earthly. Under this brainwashing effect, as soon as the "noble and mysterious" Yuan Tianwang appeared, he could naturally arouse the great enthusiasm of the stick thieves.

In order to consolidate his rule, spreading rumors and secretly making his cronies tout his ability to do everything he could, Yuan Tao's best trick was Yuan Tao's best trick. These deceiving and ignorant stick thieves and soldiers can, how can they deceive Jing Keqin and other leading generals who have been with him day and night? Therefore, the greater the cheers from the mountainside, the more Jing Keqin's anger burned.

Turning two large trees, the road is blurred by a mix of shrubs in front of you. One soldier was worried, "I'm afraid there is no way out from here." ”

Jing Keqin saw the worry and fear in his eyes, and scolded: "The road hasn't come out of a person yet? This road Lao Tzu walked, through this thorn, can reach the flat land on the mountainside. After speaking, his eyes showed a fierce light, and he tilted the knife that he had been holding in his hand, "This time there is no advance or retreat, someone dares to rub half a step, first see if the treasure knife in Lao Tzu's hand nods!" ”

He spoke ruthlessly, and no one dared to rebel again, but everyone was beating a drum in their hearts, doubting the meaning of giving up their lives and following this Jing Qian to go behind enemy lines. Jing Keqin looked at everyone, and said: "Wait a minute, Lao Tzu is going to do a big deal now." It's done, Lao Tzu swears with his head, the brothers under the mountain don't have to work hard, and they will all be rewarded! ”

When everyone heard this, they all said: "Obey the order of the thousand!" ”

Jing Keqin suppressed the restless soldiers, but he was also worried in his heart. He opened the way first, slashed left and right to remove the thorns, and at the same time kept asking the rear: "Is there any movement of the enemy?" ”

The soldier observed and replied, "The enemy is looking down the mountain, and no one is paying attention to us. ”

Jing Keqin nodded, and then every fifteen steps or so, he asked a question, but if the soldier's answer was slightly wrong, he made everyone stand still. In this way, I asked more than ten times in a row, and I also walked one or two hundred steps in the bushes. After a short while, he stood with his big hand and suddenly whispered: "Don't move!" ”

The soldiers had already had a reflexive reaction, and when they heard him, they all became wooden people. The mountain wind rose slightly, blowing the "rustling" sound of the trees, Jing Keqin and the ten soldiers of the Zhao Battalion were as straight as the mountains and rocks, and they were stunned and did not move.

The wind blew through the grass, Jing Keqin's heart beat wildly, and he carefully stretched out his hand to remove the branches in front of him. Looking through the small gaps, I saw a circle of people in a high platform near the cliff more than ten steps away, one of them was wearing gold armor, holding a sword, wearing a purple and red python robe, wearing a crown of cupola, and the streamers on the upper and lower parts of the body were like wisps, extremely bright and dazzling, who was not Yuan Tao?

This is exactly what Jing Keqin is all about.

Longgui Temple is not easy to fight, Jing Keqin, who is well versed in the geography of this place, reminded Guo Ruke before, but it did not attract the attention of Guo Ruke, who was high-spirited at that time. It was not until the attack on the mountain was blocked one after another that he once again proposed a roundabout victory. In his opinion, with only Guo Ruke's 3,000 people, it is impossible to take the Dragon Turtle Temple, which has a considerable number of troops stationed in a short period of time.

How can Yuan Tao be beheaded? Easier said than done. Yuan Tao was very cautious, even if he appeared, he hid far away on the mountainside, and the distance from the nearest Zhao battalion soldier position was hundreds of steps, the middle road was winding, and there were countless sentry posts stationed in it, and the most elite soldiers in the Zhao camp were on it, and it was afraid that it would be difficult to break through for a while. Therefore, it is not feasible to kill Yuan Tao head-on, and if you want to kill Yuan Tao, you can only find another way.

Jing Keqin dared to ask Guo Ruke for his life to attack, relying on nothing else, just the remote path he had walked at the beginning. He vaguely remembered that the high platform where Yuan Tao was located had a forest path leading to the side, but it was difficult to determine. In normal times, Jing Keqin was never as decisive as today, but he was determined to perform in this battle, so after a little consideration, he decided to try his luck. After all, once successful, the benefits are huge.

Such a covert action, a large number of people will be bad, and ten people are enough. Jing Keqin's selection of these ten people is not a blind selection. These ten people, all of whom are the best at shooting in the army, are all armed with strong bows and crossbows, waiting for Jing Keqin's order at any time.

Yuan Tao was more than ten steps away. Jing Keqin was secretly glad that his memory had not gone wrong, and at the same time, his nervous heart also raised his throat. He looked back at the soldiers behind him, and saw that they were all staring at the gap with their eyebrows in focus. The prey was right in front of them, and these highly experienced hunters were already tense.

"Bow up." In the distance, on the high platform where Yuan Tao was, the cheers were like a tsunami, wave after wave, and it was very lively. Jing Keqin didn't hear it, and his brain was blank. As soon as his hand was raised, including himself, seven bows, four crossbows, and eleven sharp arrows were aimed at Yuan Tao, who was more than ten steps away, in an instant.

"Put!"

Jing Keqin was excited, and he felt that his voice was not tight, but Yuan Tao, who was immersed in the command Fang Xuan, and the surrounding stick thieves, no one heard this shout.

Between the lightning and the fire, the eleven arrows were almost simultaneously brushed towards Yuan Tao, who stood out from everyone and was independent of the heights, and the speed was so fast that even the trajectory was difficult to find. So much so that when Yuan Tao fell on his back, he didn't know who shot the arrow that first took his life.

When a person dies, he leaves. At the moment of the uproar in Yuan Tao's army, Jing Keqin and others quickly retreated the same way. The panicked stick thieves all flocked to Yuan Tao, who suddenly collapsed, and no one looked for the trace of the perpetrator in the first place. Then, when they searched all around and struggled to clear the thorn vines, Jing Keqin fled with more than ten people and retreated.

Dozens of miles away, in the same dense forest, Yang Kexin kicked Li Xiaoshan to the ground.

Today, looking at each other again, Yang Kexin suddenly found that Li Xiaoshan's seemed to be thinner than before. Come to think of it, I haven't seen him up close for a long time, and the cheeks that I thought were so familiar that they couldn't be familiar anymore now seem a little unfamiliar.

From sleeping in the same bed and Enruo brothers, it has evolved into incompatibility, until now when the swords and soldiers meet, sometimes thinking about it, Yang Kexin can't remember what it was because of the first fall out with Li Xiaoshan. Some hatred is not an overnight outbreak, but a backlog that accumulates over time, Yang Kexin firmly believes that he hates Li Xiaoshan, but now he can't say the specific source of this hatred.

"Hey, hey......" The grizzled Li Xiaoshan's helmet was tilted to the side, panting roughly, which made him look even more embarrassed. His soldiers and horses were ambushed on the way back to the northern camp, and from the moment he engaged, Li Xiaoshan knew that he had set up a match for "his own people".

"You have today, too." The situation on the battlefield was completely under Yang Kexin's control, he looked at Li Xiaoshan, who had no power to turn over, and sneered coldly, "Didn't you say that you want to make my head into a wine bowl to eat wine?" Now let's see, whose head fell first? ”

Li Xiaoshan shook his head, his eyes showed a hint of despair, and he sighed, but he didn't say a word.

This showed Yang Kexin's expectations, he thought that Li Xiaoshan, who was plotted by himself, would not be able to swallow this breath, not to mention fighting to the death with himself, and he would never show weakness in his mouth. But now, Li Xiaoshan, who has been depressed for a long time, has greatly reduced Yang Kexin's desire to conquer.

"Aren't you annoyed that I killed you?"

"Win and lose. Since the day you and I broke up, I knew that there would be such an ending between the two of us. At this time, Li Xiaoshan spoke, and his eyes were full of discouragement, "I am defeated, you kill me; If I win, I'll kill you. It's not what it should be, but what is there to annoy. ”

Yang Kexin listened to him quietly, and his heart was full of mixed feelings. Those experiences that have long passed are vivid in my mind. Li Xiaoshan looked at him with a dull face, and he was indecisive, and reminded: "You can do it, so as not to have too many dreams at night." Zhao Ying attacked the mountain, the outcome was unpredictable, if Yuan Tianwang rescued him, the situation was reversed, and I would not show mercy to my subordinates. "Anyway, he pulled off his neck armor and exposed his neck, which was a bit of a death-oriented style.

Yang Kexin was stunned for a moment, and then nodded: "Thank you." Remember, it is only because you were my brother that I have to kill you today. ”

Li Xiaoshan listened, laughed dryly and said, "I know." ”

Half an hour later, Li Xiaoshan's head was sent to Qin Jinxiao, who was stationed in the northern camp. An hour later, Guo Ruke succeeded in attacking the Dragon Turtle Temple, and the news of Yuan Tao's death also arrived.

"Got it." came to make his eyebrows flutter, and was about to add oil and vinegar to tell Guo Ruke's story of capturing the Dragon Turtle Temple, Qin Jinxiao raised his hand and interrupted him impatiently.

The envoy stood there embarrassed, a little at a loss, but he didn't know why Qin Jinxiao had a black face on the occasion of this great victory.

Although Qin Jinxiao is brave, under his fierce appearance, he is wrapped in a heart that is not too broad. For a long time, he has been the pride of heaven in Shizhou Zhonglu, even if he submits to Zhao Ying, it is rampant, and even Zhao Dangshi sometimes has to give in three points. Qin Jinxiao, who once considered himself the first fierce general of Zhao Ying, gradually compared to the powerful Guo Ruke during this period, and his heart was naturally unhappy. When Zhao Dangshi appointed Guo Ruke as the main force of this battle and Qin Jinxiao's response, Qin Jinxiao's heart was a little unbalanced.

originally expected to win the main position with the achievements of the north and south battalions in a row, steal the limelight from Guo Ruke, and prove that he is the first fierce general of Zhao Ying. Who knew that although the two battalions in the north and south were successfully taken, Guo Ruke's side also succeeded, and he also killed the head of the enemy army, Yuan Tao, the king of heaven, on the spot. Thinking like this, the joy of the original victory was instantly washed away.

Qin Jinxiao was upset, sent away the messenger who reported the victory, and was thinking about arranging the aftermath in a depressed mood, but Guo Ruke came again.

"This guy is a monkey looking in the mirror, and he doesn't look like a person!" Qin Jinxiao was very annoyed, "Don't you just accept a stick thief, what do you have to do?" ”

Even if he is angry, Guo Ruke is also the main general of this attack, and Qin Jinxiao can only receive the envoy.

The new envoy also seemed to be immersed in the joy of victory, and walked with Gu Panshengfeng, which aroused Qin Jinxiao's disgust even more.

"There are still a lot of military affairs in the camp, if there is no urgent order from Mr. Guo Qian, Your Excellency will be exempted from Chrysostom!" didn't wait for him to speak, Qin Jinxiao said a word first.

The new messenger was talking happily, and without thinking so much, he said in a loud voice: "There is something important, there is something important!" ”

"Then there is a ......" Qin Jinxiao almost blurted out a sentence of "If there is a fart, let it go", but the words were still forced to go down, "Say it quickly." ”

The new envoy nodded and said, "Our troops have captured the Dragon Turtle Temple, and the stick thieves have surrendered in a big way, and now there are nearly 2,000 descendants. Mr. Guo Qian needs to go back to the camp to report on his work, so he wants to bother Mr. Qian to help him take charge of the management of the front-line prisoners. Wait for the arrangement on the lord's side, and then hand it over. ”

"Two thousand captives?" Qin Jinxiao, who was sitting, leaned forward, and was furious, "Lao Tzu, there are still a thousand captives who have not settled here, and you have stuffed another two thousand." Lao Tzu has only 2,000 people in total, how can these nearly 4,000 people be managed? ”

2,000 people are in charge of more than 3,000 unarmed and low-fighting prisoners, or for a short time, in fact, there is no big problem. It's just that Qin Jinxiao is angry, and he feels that Guo Ruke himself went back to invite credit and used himself as a trash can, so his dissatisfaction overflowed.

The messenger obviously didn't expect Qin Jinxiao to have such a strong reaction, which was really very different from Guo Ruke and his previous expectations. Suddenly, he was also stunned there, looking at the angry Qin Jinxiao period Ai Ai didn't know what to do.

Qin Jinxiao looked at the envoy's cramped and uneasy appearance, and felt a kind of mischievous relief. The arrogance came up, and he wanted to say a few more words of humiliation and humiliation to this messenger, but Peng Guang outside the hall strode over.

"What's the matter?" Qin Jinxiao rolled his eyes and asked.

Peng Guang glanced at the messenger and whispered a few words to Qin Jinxiao. Qin Jinxiao's expression was very grim at first, and then slowly eased. The messenger looked at the changes on Qin Jinxiao's face, and the second monk was puzzled.

After Peng Guang finished speaking, he flashed to the side, Qin Jinxiao pondered for a long time, and suddenly changed his face and said: "Your Excellency, don't mind, I just joked casually." I will accept the 2,000 prisoners here, you go back, and let President Guo Qian prepare for the handover as soon as possible. ”

The messenger was full of doubts, but he answered a few times, and did not dare to ask again. It was completely unimaginable for him to imagine why Qin Jinxiao's attitude had changed drastically in just a moment.