Western regions.

The black Caozi flag whirred in the gale, the horns and camps rose one after another, the huge loess city wall stood alone on the barren grassland, and the white sand spread in the distance.

"See these traces of knives and axes?"

Ning Rong wore soft armor and a sword at his waist, inspecting the city defense of the army.

"There is some desolation ...... this city"

Zhao Yun, who was following behind, looked at the newly reinforced city wall and said with a solemn expression.

"With such a city, it is a little difficult to resist Liu Bei's alliance army!"

Ning Rong, who heard this, immediately turned around and asked.

"Oh? What's the news lately? ”

"Liu Bei's alliance army has not moved, and the alliance army of the thirty-six countries has all been stationed on the road to the west of the Great Moon Clan since the last retreat!"

Zhao Yun shook his head and said, and immediately a trace of surprise appeared on his face.

"But...... This Liu Bei is really strange, according to the news of Sima Yi, the assassin of Liangzhou, before our army set out, the alliance army was still ready to move, and swore not to return it if it did not break the city

But when we got out of Yumen Pass, Liu Bei actually led the army to retreat! ”

Zhao Yun looked at Ning Rong's face, trying to find an answer in his face.

But......

Ning Rong just smiled, as if he didn't care about this.

"Hey! What is this, let me say, it must be Liu Bei who was afraid of Hou Ye, Hou Ye led the brothers to dominate the world back then, and he never fought any evil battles, so many heroes and heroes

has become the soul of the Beifu Army, and now Liu Bei is afraid of it! ”

Liu Ruo, the commander of the Beifu cavalry, said behind him.

"Makes sense!"

When Zhao Yun heard this, he nodded subconsciously.

Maybe...... It's really for this reason, Liu Bei is afraid of Little Brother Ning.

"Hehe......"

Ning Rong still smiled indifferently, but this time there was a trace of disdain on his face.

"Your words are not wrong, but they are not the main reason!"

"Could it be that Liu Bei has other reasons?" Zhao Yun was stunned when he heard this.

"Of course! Because Liu Bei never thought about fighting us at all! ”

"That can't be? Although Liu Bei retreated, his alliance army was strictly guarded, and he was fighting hard every day, which was completely a confrontational posture! ”

Zhao Yun shook his head and retorted, his years of experience in the army told him that Liu Bei would never stop there!

"Hmm!"

Ning Rong nodded lightly, agreeing with Zhao Yun's statement.

"To be exact, Liu Bei chose the battlefield, but he didn't choose the time of the war!"

Ning Rong's voice continued to sound, but the people behind him were even more confused.

"Do you know where this city came from?" Ning Rong pointed to the loess city under his feet and asked everyone.

"This place used to be inhabited, but then I couldn't stand the arduous environment, so I moved to another place!"

Liu Ruo said thoughtfully, when the army first came, it was the city he led the Beifu army to clean up, and he knew more than others.

"The Protectorate of the Western Regions!"

Ning Rong nodded and shook his head, and said word by word.

"This was once the capital of the Western Regions, the strength of the Western Han Dynasty was not only written in the history books, this city is also a witness of the Western Han Dynasty, since Zhang Qian sent an envoy to the Western Regions, the Han army

Since the Wolf Desert, in order to strengthen the control of the Western Regions, and more importantly, to protect the western country, Emperor Wu ordered the garrison of the Western Regions to build a capital protection mansion, and to settle the people in Tuntian as a captain! ”

"It's just a pity......"

Ning Rong spoke, stretched out his hand to pat the deep stone pillar of the ravine, looked into the distance with awe-inspiring eyes, and continued with emotion on his face.

"This city only existed for more than sixty years, and then the power of the Loulan Kingdom expanded, just in time for the death of the first emperor, and the energy of the dynasty was not in the Western Regions, which led to the lack of follow-up strength

Small countries such as Loulan have taken advantage! ”

"Later, when the Central Plains was stable, Han Li, the new governor of the Western Regions, came here, and then he killed Loulan and other small countries and fled westward with strong means!"

"There is the blood of our ancestors in this city, and their spirits are here, although they have been dead for a hundred years, their souls have always been here to watch, and they don't want to come to the west

The people of the domain stepped into the Central Plains half a step! ”

Ning Rong's voice suddenly deepened, and he turned to look at the few people in front of him.

Zhao Yun, the general of the left army who followed him on the expedition.

Liu Ruo, one of the cavalry commanders of the Six Armies of Beifu.

Zhang Yue, the daughter of Zhang Jiao, the great virtuous teacher, once led the Yellow Turban Thieves to roar through the two states of Qingyan, and was in the limelight for a while.

Ning Wu, the child who was taken in by Ning Rong back then, has now grown into an iron-blooded man, and this time he commanded the Ning family's personal guards to go out with Ning Rong.

Zhou Budo, a genius boy in Jingzhou and a top student of the academy, was brought to the Western Regions by Ning Rong.

And also...... It is some of the recruits in the Ning family's personal guard, they are all the sons and nephews of those veterans, but as the years go by, some veterans' physical strength can no longer support them

The trek of the expedition was over.

"Ning Wu, you say...... Is Ben Hou right? ”

Ning Rong's eyes suddenly became cold, and he stared at Ning Wu tightly and asked.

"Huh?"

Everyone was surprised by Ning Rong's sudden question.

You must know that Ning Wu and them are also old acquaintances, and speaking of which, Ning Wu still grew up with them.

But it was precisely because of this that they felt weird, because Ning Wu's temperament had always been taciturn.

But I don't know......

"You don't know?"

Ning Rong looked at Ning Wu, who was silent, and didn't think about letting him go.

"Hou ...... Hou Ye ......"

Ning Wu's eyes flashed with a hint of panic, and then his hand holding the knife tightened, and he calmed down again.

Zhao Yun's eyes flickered, and he moved forward quietly, and his right hand slowly put on the hilt of the Qingyu Sword.

"It's been more than twenty years since you came to Ning Mansion back then, right?" Ning Rong shook his head with some disappointment.

"Twenty-five years and three months!" Ning Wu suddenly said seriously.

"Huh! It turns out that you also counted the days! Ning Rong sighed a little helplessly and said.

"Also?"

Ning Wu's voice was a little hoarse, and he looked up and asked suspiciously.

"Yes! I think you couldn't help making this decision back then, after all, you were only eight years old back then, but ...... This year is already the year of its establishment, and there are some things that have not yet been seen

Got it! ”

Ning Rong's voice was empty, but everyone seemed to understand something.

"Ning Wu, you kid eats inside and out!" Liu Ruo suddenly pulled out his sword and pointed at the other party with an angry face.

"Uncle Liu, you are not my opponent!"

Ning Wu glanced at the sword, but said indifferently.

His voice was calm, but full of unquestionable confidence.

"Humph! Pei Yuanshao passed his mad demon knife to you, but he was really blind! ”

Liu Ruo's face changed and changed, of course he knew Ning Wu's skills, this guy may be due to his personality, Pei Yuanshao's mad demon sword technique is just right for him, and he has practiced it to win

Yu Lan is even a lot taller than Pei Yuanshao, he didn't hear Pei Yuanshao boast when he was in Chang'an, saying that the crazy demon knife has a queen.

Hum!

If Pei Yuanshao knew that his decades of glory turned out to be a traitor, I don't know what other face he would have to see Hou Ye.

“……”

Ning Wu heard Liu Ruo scolding Pei Yuanshao, his face showed a trace of warm anger, although he and Pei Yuanshao were not close, but the other party was sincere in taking him, which made him somewhat grateful.

"I want to know, is this Your Majesty's idea, or the meaning of King Qin, or Sima Yi's conspiracy!"

Ning Rong glanced at the strange knife in Ning Wu's hand and asked with a strange face.

"You...... You know? ”

Ning Wu showed a hint of surprise on his face, and asked subconsciously.

"Isn't it weird? You've been in Ning Mansion for more than twenty years, do you think you can hide these things from me? ”

The corners of Ning Rong's mouth rose slightly, but his eyes were full of pain.

"That's right! The name of the geek military advisor is enough to shock the world, but ...... What about the moonlit night on the twenty-fourth floor? ”

A strange smile suddenly appeared on Ning Wu's face, like a child showing off his abilities.

The rest of the people were somewhat confused when they heard the twenty-fourth floor, but Zhang Yue's body was shocked, and she had a frightened expression on her face.

"What's wrong?"

Zhao Yun asked softly, could it be that this twenty-fourth floor ......

"The bright moon night on the twenty-fourth floor is the intelligence organization I formed after the Yellow Turban Rebellion was quelled in Yanzhou!"

Ning Rong frowned, but still said it.

"Over the years, the twenty-fourth floor and the Nine Heavens spies have spied on each other, and there have been countless conflicts during this period, but not many people know about them in the dark, oh...... By the way, the Nine Heavens Spy belongs

Hanoi Sima family! ”

"What? It's him! ”

"Sima Yi turned out to be the controller of the Nine Heavens Spy!"

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, it was the existence of the Nine Heavens Spy, Jing'an Si who had returned many times.

"Isn't he ......?"

Liu Ruo and the others were really scary, they never doubted Ning Rong's words.

"I didn't expect you to come so far, Xiao Wu, you ...... Alas......"

Ning Rong sighed.

"I have no way to stay alive!" Ning Wu gritted his teeth and said.

"Do you know her? The reason why the army of the expedition to the west was able to break through Xishu was actually thanks to her? Because she has been lurking in Shu for ten years! ”

Ning Rong suddenly pointed at Zhang Yue and said to Ning Wu.

"What do you mean?" Ning Wu asked puzzled.

"Brother! Don't you understand! Hou Ye already knew that you had betrayed, if it weren't for Sister Zhang Yue, how would you come to the Western Regions! ”

There was a sudden unwilling crying sound behind him, Ning Wu was suddenly stunned when he heard this voice, but his face was full of incredulity when he turned around with difficulty.

Little sister Ning Ning was standing behind him with tears on her face!

"You...... How do you ......"

Ning Wu's lips trembled, he never thought that Ning Ning would be in the Western Regions.

"Xiao Wu, do you know why Xiao Ning has always been reluctant to marry? It's because she's aware of your identity, too! ”

"It can't be!"

Ning Rong's words made Ning Wu a little crazy, he had been trying to protect his family, he once thought that Ning Rong didn't want his sister to marry, but ......

"Brother! Hou Ye has the grace of saving lives for you and me, and the grace of recreation, you have forgotten how Hou Ye taught us back then!

At that time, you, me, Brother Lu Xun and Brother Prince, let's go to school together, but Master Hou was the most partial to me!

You have betrayed Hou Ye, I must be in Ning Mansion, there is my home, as long as Hou Ye takes him in this life, I will not leave, I want to forgive you for your sins! Ning Ning burst into tears

, choked up.

"Brother~ What are you for? Do you really want that ethereal glory and wealth? ”

"You don't understand! You don't understand! Your Majesty's methods are not something you can understand! You were young then! ”

Ning Wu muttered to himself, a painful look on his face. I want to talk about "The Hidden Marquis of the Three Kingdoms" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~