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"Zhong Lixiu go, take your life!"

Someone suddenly shouted in the midst of the flames, and everyone turned around to see a strong man nine feet tall, carrying a spear and running towards everyone. Without waiting for everyone to react, the strong man raised his hand and shot straight towards Qin Lang's door. Qin Lang hesitated, and saw Zhong Li snatch Chang Xun from Qin Lang's hand, turned around and took the shot with his scabbard.

The strong man withdrew the gun and was stunned for a moment, stared at Zhong Li and said, "It turns out that you are." ”

Zhong Li looked at his tattered Beifeng officer's clothes and replied, "Haven't you seen the Quartet generals come to be meticulous?" He saw that although this man was burly, he was agile and his steps were very light, and he was a good martial artist. However, he was not wearing a military uniform, and his clothes were very torn by the fire, and half of his hair was burned by the fire. "Are you Xiao Ming?"

"Exactly, Xiao Ming, the partial general of the former army of the North Front. Do you dare to fight me? ”

Zhong Li smiled, "There are countless generals under my Yingchuan Zhong Li's knife, so what's the matter if you have one more?" ”

The flames roared, turning the alley red, and the flickering light made the weapons of the two seem to flicker. Xiao Ming stared at Zhong Li's gaze, and at the same time paid attention to the tip of his gun, the moment the tip of the gun darkened, he suddenly stepped forward, shook the head of the gun, and the gun seemed to disappear into the firelight, and there was no place to go.

Everyone was frightened, only to see Zhong Li take half a step towards the head of the gun, and a blue-white light and shadow between his hands, and then saw the disappeared tip of the gun appear on Zhong Li's left side, which was blocked by him with his hand, and Xiao Ming's face was a slender blood mark, from the left cheek to the back of the right ear.

"Poof", before everyone could react, Xiao Ming's huge body fell into the orange firelight, and the floor was gradually soaked in the blood gushing out.

"That's the end of it?" Qin Lang didn't seem to see what was going on, and the guards around him didn't seem to be happy either.

"What, how long do you want to bake here?" Zhong Li shook off the blood from the tip of the knife and put the knife into the scabbard. "Let's go, it's all here."

Several people followed behind Zhong Li, but Qin Lang still couldn't help but ask: "General, is this Xiao Ming in vain?" ”

"You think so?" Zhong Li picked up Chang Xun's scabbard and showed it to everyone, "Do you see this strength?" "When they looked closely by the light of the fire, it turned out that the hardwood scabbard had been almost completely cracked.

"And how did the general win so easily?"

"It's just fast, it's not easy. In fact, the moment he shot just now, I should have been like you who didn't see the position of the gun clearly. ”

Everyone put on the same look of surprise, "Then how can the general win?" ”

"I just guessed it." Zhong Li then explained: "I listened to his nickname of the pear flower gun, and saw the way he held the gun at the end of the gun, so I knew that this person was good at attacking and defending with the gun. Coupled with the fact that he had been watching me and keeping an eye on the tip of his spear from the beginning, I knew that he was going to take advantage of the split second of light and shadow to attack, and the best way to attack was to shake my feet and go straight to the door. ”

"But if I did, I wouldn't know what to do, because I couldn't see it."

"You don't need to see it, just know that if he is roundabout, you will be faster than him if you take it directly. He stepped forward to attack because he was afraid that I would not see the tip of the spear and retreated, but I went up to the front to shorten the gap in the length of the sword and spear, and the difference between straight and curved was instantly visible. ”

"That is, the general won after guessing his moves?"

"It's because he's too familiar with his moves." Zhong Li then said: "I'm afraid he has been practicing for a long time, and he has never seen a suitable opponent, and there are not a few people who die on the battlefield because they have figured out their own routines." If these people can adapt to the situation, I am afraid that they can live a little longer, just like the genius, if he wants to enter the tug-of-war stage, I may be the one who suffers. It's a pity that the rookie always thinks of a trick to cut the veteran under the horse, so as not to have many dreams at night, but I don't know that the real spicy place of the veteran is to see through the opponent's mind. ”

Qin Lang and the guards beside him also laughed when they heard Zhong Li's explanation, everyone knew that it was his usual style to blow a little after the war.

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Fuli's siege battle was known in an instant, but what Zhong Li didn't expect was that the biggest trouble now was the fire he had caused. During the battle, because there was no one to put out the fire, the fire took the opportunity to spread from the treasury to the houses in the city, and then to the whole city except the barracks due to the fierce westerly winds. Although the Daling River was on the edge of the city, thousands of people were busy until late at night, and the fire still did not reduce by half, so Zhong Li had no choice but to abandon the city, place the people in the city in the barracks upwind, and lead the troops back to the old camp outside the city.

Back in the barracks, Zhong Li saw the big tent burning with lights from afar, and when he walked in, he saw that it was Gu Yu. She had changed into a dress early, a small blue-gray jacket with plum blossom dark stripes on the top, and a light emerald straight-hem skirt on the bottom, and was sitting in the tent by the stove, next to a neat tea set. In contrast, Zhong Li was gray-headed and tattered, looking very embarrassed.

"Why did you get back here first?" Zhong Li asked when he entered the account.

Gu Yu replied while boiling water: "I know that this city can't be entered tonight when I look at that posture, but it's a pity that the dumplings in the city inn are gone." ”

"Didn't you say that the dumplings were fishy, why did you remember them?"

"I'm thinking that if some people who love food are buried in this fire, I can still find something to pay tribute to during the New Year's holidays. Unfulfilled thought that now the dumplings are dead, but people are alive and well. ”

Zhong Li heard that Gu Yu was trying his best to sarcastically mock him, so he also smiled: "Why don't you see your tongue so vicious today?" ”

"Who made me know today that some people think about how to spare their lives every day, but they don't spare their own lives."

"Why not fight on the battlefield and win with your life?"

"Then which Quartet general have you seen, leading more than 10,000 troops, all of whom have to take the lead and fight for their lives? It's not that I'm seeing heroism, it's that some people just think it's fun. ”

Zhong Li could hear that although Gu Yu was unhurried, and his tone was so calm that it made people fall asleep, there was a sense of gloom between the words. "Worried you?"

Gu Yu smiled briefly after hearing this, and poured a cup of brewed tea to Zhong Li. "I'm a soldier of the Xuanlong Army for you, and I feel a little sad." Seeing Zhong Li frowning, she explained: "I don't know what you think, but in my opinion, you seem to be deliberately seeking an opportunity to die on the battlefield, and where you can die vigorously attracts you." Then you won a great victory for the whole army with one death, and the more dangerous you became, the more you were loved by those under you. ”

Zhong Li listened to Gu Yu's words and drank the tea in one gulp. "Maybe your guess is good, maybe it's a good thing to have the support of your subordinates?"

"Look at you so thirsty, and you're so anxious to drink tea." Gu Yu poured another cup for Zhong Li in disgust, and then brought the tea that had been left for a while to his lips. "It's like a drug, it's obviously harmful and it's the most enjoyable. If one day you die first, and your death does not bring victory to your men, then you have left all your suffering to those who come after you. And your death has no meaning except poisoning itself. ”

"You're trying to persuade me to 'quit drugs'?"

"Drink if you're thirsty." Gu Yu felt funny when he saw that Zhong Li had been staring at the tea in the cup and didn't dare to make a move. "I can only say it casually, after all, I can't cure your man's poison. Now that you've won the bet again, isn't it all up to you to decide what to do next? ”

"I seem to be stubborn, don't you still help me now?"

"Don't use me as a staff officer, it's just to learn about the war in Liaoxi quickly, so that you can see Yuan Qizhi earlier."

Zhong Li smiled: "Come on, some people persuade others all day long, but they enjoy it, don't think I can't see it." ”

"It's boring at work."

"And what exactly are you doing?"

Gu Yu glanced at Zhong Li and handed a cup of new tea in front of him, "Didn't you talk about it before, but now you can't talk about it?" It's better to think about how to arrange next, but I heard in the market at dusk that your sweetheart has led troops to fight Xiaoling River. ”

"I can vaguely hear it in the treasury, and when you say this, it seems that eight or nine are not far from ten. If this is the case, I am afraid that Dai Ying will withdraw tomorrow, after all, today's actions in Fuli City have seen that he has retreated. Just now I have ordered people to collect the boats of thirty miles along the coast overnight, and burn those that cannot be brought back on the spot. Across the Daling River, I don't think this Dai Ying should be able to kill in front of him alone. In this way, just stare at him and don't run, and then wait for Yuan Xian's army to arrive. ”

As he was talking, suddenly a gust of wind entered the tent from the corner of the tent, blowing Gu Yu couldn't help but sneeze, and Zhong Li hurriedly taught people to get two fur cloaks. "The weather in western Liaoning is really cold."

"yes, but judging by previous years, it seems to be a little colder this year. In this case, your plan may not be as simple as you say. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

Seeing Zhong Li's question, Gu Yu borrowed Zhong Li's saber, sprinkled some tea on it, and simply wiped it with a rag, so that only small droplets of water were scattered on the knife. Then she put on her fur cloak and walked with Zhong Li to the outside of the tent, placing the knife horizontally in the wind. After a moment she stepped back into the tent and placed the knife in the light. "Come and see."

Zhong Li took a closer look, only to see a layer of frost-white ice crystals sparsely falling on the back of the knife.

"Is it really cold?" Zhong Li ran out of the tent again, only to see that his breath was white. "The river won't freeze right away, as the saying goes, three feet of ice is not a day's cold."

Gu Yu took off his fur cloak, put it on his lap, and boiled water on the stove. "Then look at the day again."

Zhong Li looked up and saw that there was not a single star in the dark night sky, only a thick cloud faintly reflecting the red fire light in the city several miles away. "Is it going to snow? Isn't there ten days left until the light snow solar term? ”

"How do I know? Maybe it was a fire in your city that succeeded in luring the dragon king. ”

Zhong Li also knows this principle, the fire causes the air flow to rise sharply, thereby accelerating the change of the surrounding weather system, and at the same time, the dust that rises is not provided by the condensation of rain, if the climate is wet, it can attract rain and snow, which is why people have always used fire to pray for rain since ancient times.

"Well, what will you do if there is ice on this river tomorrow?"

Zhong Li sighed and said, "Then I have to fight to the death with Dai Ying, and fight until Yuan Xian's army arrives." ”

Gu Yu smiled: "Wouldn't that be Xiang Yu on the edge of the Wujiang River?" This is not a war, but the heavens are going to kill me. If Dai Ying wants to know how to stop your sweetheart's army in the wind and snow, can't you Zhong Li think of it? ”