"Let's not say such polite words between us, we are also passing through here, and we want to attack the small town near the left. The sentinel found that the ghosts and spirits were dense here, so I brought my people to check it out. Unexpectedly, I encountered the Snow Bell and saw your artillery on the high slope, so I guessed that you must have been ambushed. Now that they've all been killed, only their man, who looks like the vein master, has fled in a hurry. We were worried that if there was an ambush, we didn't chase them, and by the way, how did they get here, and why did they attack you? Could it be that these people have also turned to humility? The leopard said.

Chao Xing nodded and looked at the frostbitten soldiers on the ground, and suddenly was very sad, and said in a trembling voice: "It's all my fault for being careless and letting my brothers die in vain." After counting the number of mercenaries, they found that more than 100 mercenaries had been killed in ambushes outside and inside the city. Almost all of the recently recruited recruits were killed, and only a dozen or so remained. Regardless of the sergeants who were hiding in the defensive formation or outside the formation, they were all injured to varying degrees in the two battles, and this battle can be described as a loss of troops, and the strength of the generals led by Fang Qingze has been greatly reduced, and there is no threat to the turmoil of the imperial court.

Ten miles east of the small city where the battle had just taken place, there was a group of men and horses at rest. There were men and women, each wearing different national costumes, and Tan Qing stroked a circle of silver jewelry on his chest, making a nice jingle sound. Suddenly, she took a small jar out of her sleeve, and she slowly opened the lid of the jar, shushing it twice, and then put her ear to it and listened. After that, I saw her stand up and say, "Let's go, go back to Beijing." ”

The lone wolf vein lord was slightly surprised and said, "What, we don't wait for the snow bell vein?" "That's right, thank you for the reminder, you should really leave some people to wait, the lone wolf vein master, you stay and wait for the snow bell vein master, but he is the only one, his disciples have been killed by the leopard and these soul eaters." Tan Qing said.

"What, how can this be, then we can't go back to Beijing, Lord Yu Qian has an order to destroy the leopard and Fang Qingze before he can go back." The beast exorcist vein master said, but when he saw Tan Qing looking at him deadly, he hurriedly coughed lightly and beckoned the disciples to obey Tan Qing's arrangement.

The lone wolf vein master shouted: "Beast driving vein master, you can't let Miao Gu be the master, don't forget that we have to obey the arrangement of the adults, how can we let these women be the masters now." Tan Qing looked at the lone wolf vein master and then snorted softly, and said coldly: "If you think that your lone wolf vein has enough strength to deal with the soul devouring beast, you can launch an attack yourself." ”

Saying that, Tan Qing waved his hand, and the women of the Miao family, who were laughing and resting, stood up and followed Tan Qing away, and the lone wolf vein lord looked at Tan Qing viciously, but he was helpless, he shook his head and took his disciples to stay in place and wait for the snow bell vein master.

Let's say Fang Qingze's side, everyone returned to a small city captured a day ago. After arranging for the treatment of the wounded, Fang Qingze and the leopards gathered together to discuss future countermeasures.

Fang Qingze said to the leopard with a male face: "Brother leopard, how should we act in the future." The leopard grinned and asked, "What do you say?" Fang Qingze didn't know how to speak, only heard the leopard say again: "I think it's better to join forces, your newly defeated troops are weak now, and you can't form an effective attack at all." If you encounter a large-scale attack by the defenders of the frontier, you may not be able to resist it, so joining forces is the best policy. Lu Yunzhi is my brother-in-law, you are also Lu Yunzhi's second brother, we are a family, you can rest assured that after we join forces, my people will also obey your orders. ”

Fang Qingze was stunned for a moment and said with relief: "Thank you, Brother Leopard, in fact, I was originally worried that there was a gap between your ghost eater clan and heaven, earth and people, so I proposed the policy of dividing troops to attack. I didn't expect you to be so generous when we were so weak, Qing Ze thanked me here. As he spoke, he was about to get up and bow, but the leopard pressed Fang Qingze and said, "Why have you become more verbose than my stupid brother-in-law now, I remember that you weren't like this before." I said that we don't need to be polite, we are a family and we have a common enemy, Yu Qian. ”

"Well, by the way, the two good nephews, what should we do next?" Chao Xing said with a pale face. Fang Qingze thought for a while and replied: "Now it seems that our strength has been greatly reduced, at most we have a lot of maneuvers with the large army of the border guards, it is nothing more than us seizing the city and attacking the city, and the cycle is just like that, it is not enough to attract reinforcements from the imperial court, let alone occupy the northwest, our front can only take one step at a time." ”

The leopard said: "I think that instead of waiting for the border guards to come to us to fight, it is better to attack directly, as long as the border army is entangled with us, maybe Timur and Yili will take action." At that time, the imperial court will have to send troops to reinforce in order to keep the frontier, so that our goal of involving the military strength of the DPRK and China will be achieved. What do you think is a good plan? ”

"It's a good idea, but it's dangerous. If these two vassal states suddenly attack on a large scale, and the frontier defenders will not be able to resist it at that time, leading foreign invasions to break the mountains and rivers, it will be more than worth the loss. Chao Xing said, his voice was a little lacking in qi, not as rough as before, Fang Qingze and the leopard were also rough people, so they naturally didn't notice it.

Fang Qingze said: "Let's take a long-term view of this matter, I have already asked the business community to start acting." According to the plan, in a few days, after the Northern Xinjiang Ghost and Witch and Ye first pressed the Northern Xinjiang, Zhu Jianwen should cause the first wave of impeachment. I have now sent a letter to the smugglers along the coast and lake, telling them to be ready to start a rebellion in a month's time. The day when the vassal kings of various places will take advantage of the suppression of bandits is close at hand, and when the time comes, after the banner on the side of the Qing monarch is erected, we will take more definite actions. If he couldn't involve the imperial court, he went to Kyoto to support the third brother's action. Their number is too small, and with this group of heaven and earth people relying on Yu Qian, I am worried that they will not be able to defeat Yu Qian. ”

The leopard and Chao Xing nodded their heads, and Chao Xing kept groping for his body, as if there was something wrong. Fang Qingze finally found out at this time and asked, "Uncle, are you not feeling well, were you injured just now?" Chao Xing shook his head and replied, "It's just some wolf-type ghost scratch skin wounds, I think it's fine, but I have a kind of indescribable soreness." ”

As soon as Chao Xing's words fell, a ghost eater ran in and shouted, "Report, just now the mercenaries and disciples of the Iron Sword line in the city have foamed at the mouth and fallen to the ground. "What?!" The three of them were shocked, stood up and walked out the door.

Fang Qingze and the leopard walked quickly, hearing a plop behind them, and when they looked back, they saw Chao Xing lying on the ground, foaming at the mouth and unconscious.