Gao Jun and Fan Ying rode horses, pigeon cages were hung on both sides of the horses, and they only brought oolong knives to the Danhe River. At this time, everything was silent, the light was like washing, the unknown insects chirped in the grass, and the two of them had nothing to say all the way, as if they were afraid of breaking this rare good state of mind.

The Danhe River comes down from the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, winds for dozens of miles, first bypasses the west of the city from the north of Yanqi City, and the flow is very gentle when it reaches the south of the city. The river turns left and right here, as if lingering and reluctant to leave, and in the bend of the river is overgrown with willows and shrubs.

The tall man rode across the river to the south bank, where he dismounted at a quiet bend. "How's it going here? No one bothered. He tied his horse to a willow tree, and hung the pigeon coop on the branch. Regardless of Fan Ying, she took off her clothes and went into the water first. The river wasn't deep, but it was half a man's depth at the roundabout, "This is it." ”

After that, the tall man found a shallow place and lay flat on the side of the river covered with fine sand, with only his head resting on his two hands, and his head exposed outside the water. "Why don't you come down yet," asked the tall man without looking back.

Only then did I hear a squirming of undressing, and then the sound of water sounded a few times, and Fan Ying came down. The night has cooled, but the river is not cool. When Mr. Gao remembered to go to see Fan Ying, Fan Ying had already submerged her body in the water.

After lying down for a while, seeing that Fan Ying had not finished washing, the tall man said, "The water is cold in the depths, come to the shallow place," and said it twice in a row, before Fan Ying said, "The shallow water is not cold?" Deceitful. ”

After a while, Master Gao couldn't help it, grinned, got up from where he was lying down, and approached Fan Ying. Fan Ying didn't hide, and the tall man tilted his head and asked her in a low voice, "How is this better than Zhongnan Mountain?" ”

Fan Ying replied in a small, barely audible voice, "There are so many people there, I haven't tried it in the water...... You've fallen once, don't you know what it's like in the water? ”

Under the moonlight. Her neck and half of her shoulders were exposed on the water, like the most delicate white porcelain in the world. Master Gao couldn't help it, but said, "We have to wash quickly, I am suddenly worried that those people in the palace will take a ladder to climb the wall and escape!" ”

Fan Ying ignored him, lowered her head and washed with water, and then soaked her hair in water and twisted it with her hands. The tall man was so close that only she could feel that her face was on fire.

"There can't always be no one in the city, in case there are spies sneaking in at this time, I'm afraid those shepherds won't be able to deal with it......"

Fan Ying was silent. Only the sound of the water was dripping.

Master Gao seemed to have made up his mind and said, "Why don't I help you wash up randomly, we have to go back quickly." Regardless of whether Fan Ying agrees or not, she stretched out her hand in the water and rubbed it around her.

Fan Ying said, "Why does it seem that someone is coming...... Here it is...... Be...... Someone is coming! ”

Gao Jun listened attentively, and sure enough, he heard the sound of someone wading into the river not far away. The two sides are separated by a bend in a river and a forest. I only heard one person say, "What do you say when you go back?" There was a sound of squeezing water.

"What else can I say, anyway, my mother said it. You can't annoy Lord Luozhao, but you can't die for him. A man said in the water.

"My father and mother also said the same, they said that those Xizhou officials in the city are not bad, and they don't beat and scold the people in the city. She wouldn't let me wander outside. There was no one at home to take care of it, and there was no firewood or grass...... But I was afraid that Prime Minister Luo Zhao would come back to find the back account. ”

Gao Jun put a finger to his mouth, gestured to Fan Ying, and then gently came out of the water. Walk slowly to the riverbank. The horse tethered to the tree shaved its hooves, which frightened Fan Ying's heartbeat. I only heard one of the two people not far away, "What voice?" Why don't I sound like our two horses? ”

The two were silent for a moment, as if listening. One said, "Surprised, or you should go over and take a look." ”

The tall man didn't care about wiping the water marks on his body, and quickly got dressed, only to hear a person over there wading through the water and taking two steps to this side, "My heart is always blocked in my throat these days, and I think it's behind my ears." He stopped there to discuss with another person, "If you go back and tell me straightforwardly, the city gate is wide open and there are no soldiers, then won't the prime minister call back soon?" But I don't want him to do that. ”

The other said, "But he didn't just send the two of us to investigate, if he didn't say so, what if it was different from what others said......" The two of them seemed to be stumped by the question, and they actually coughed and sighed. For a long time no one spoke, only the sound of rushing water.

Master Gao had already put on his clothes, and when he heard the movement over there, he beckoned to Fan Ying in the water. Fan Ying also knew that the opportunity was rare, and walked gently to the shore.

The tall man borrowed the moonlight, and saw that Fan Ying's movements did not dare to be fast for fear of making the sound of water, and a jade-like body slowly rose up from the water surface one by one, until a pair of slender legs were also exposed. He waited for her early with Fan Ying's clothes in one hand and a handkerchief in the other.

When she jumped lightly to the shore, the tall man stuffed her hand towel and wiped it a few times, then helped her put on her clothes, and tilted his head to listen to the movement over there. I heard one man say, "Otherwise, we will go back and say, the gates of the city are wide open, and the drawbridge is also placed, but there are ambushes in the city, how about it?" ”

"Can this lie fool the prime minister? How did you get back from an ambush? A man asked in a different tone, as if he was imitating Luo Zhao. After a while, he resumed his original tone and said, "I know that there are no ambushes in the city, but I don't want to say it directly. ”

At this time, Fan Ying had already dressed before she had the heart to listen to the conversation between the two opposite. Hearing this, he whispered in the ear of the tall man, "If you let that prime minister hear this, dispel the idea as soon as possible!" ”

Xu was just out of the water, Fan Ying's body trembled slightly, and the tall man grabbed her shoulders and signaled her not to speak. But the horse snorted again under the tree. One of the people on the other side said suspiciously, "Could it be that I have a bad ear back?" How does it always look like there are horses in the woods! ”

The other was scared, too, "Shhh......h But just as we went back and said, we saw the gates of the city wide open outside the city, and heard horses barking in the city and in the woods outside the city, which was amazing! ”

The two of them made up nonsense, hurried ashore, packed up and rode west along the river. Hearing that people walked away, Fan Ying said, "These two spies made up nonsense, so I didn't take a good bath." ”

She suddenly remembered that the tall man had touched herself in the water just now. When he came ashore, he was completely exposed to him, so he stopped and said nothing. I couldn't help but recall the scene of Fang Cai, hugged the tall man's waist with both hands, and leaned his head on his chest without speaking. After a long while, she found that Master Gao was also silent, so she asked softly, "What do you want?" ”

"I'm thinking, it's fifteen in three days, why don't we come back in three days, the moonlight won't be bright tonight." He was serious. Fan Ying's hand pinched lightly in the waist of the tall man, "Let's go back to the city?" ”

"I had the intention to quietly follow them to investigate, but after listening to these two guys, I changed my mind. The two untied their horses and rode back to the city together, and the sound of hooves was heard far away in the night.

In the dense forests west of Yanqi City and on the west bank of the Danhe River, a team of eight or nine hundred people was waiting for Luo Zhao's final order, and these people were collected by Luo Zhao again after escaping from Yanqi City. Luo Zhao thought that he had escaped so much. He couldn't convince the king of Qiuzi, even if he sent a hundred troops so that he could make up a thousand. He was provided with only the weapons and horses of these men.

King Qiuzi said, "These things don't mean that we Qiuzi are involved in it and send troops?" That's not clear. It's you who provoked Xizhou, so you can do it yourself. ”

The two men he had sent to the south gate half an hour ago returned. He said that a man and a woman went out of the city to the river. Originally, he only had to send a team of twenty fast crossbowmen to shoot these two men in the river at the right time. But he didn't, and the feeling of letting people go didn't make him much comfortable. He wanted to hit it even more. Take back Yanqi with dignity.

Luo Zhao knew that a decent victory would mean that he could once again bring back the wavering men in the city, and according to his estimates, at least 2,000 of his original soldiers were stranded in the city.

This man and woman are nothing in his eyes! I have deceived them by a little trickery. Confusing the man in the official robe is almost equivalent to confusing the Tang Army in the city.

According to his estimates, the last time the Tang army was able to fight to that extent, it could not be done without 3,000 people, except for the five or six hundred people who escorted the governor of Xizhou out of the city, and at present Xizhou has at least 2,000 men and horses left in Yanqi City.

After coming back, the three gates of Qicheng were wide open, and they were all vague when they came back, and they couldn't tell how many men and horses there were in the city, the deployment of troops on the city gates, and the location of the enemy troops in the city. It sounds like these people probably didn't even dare to enter the city! But it doesn't bother him, he will estimate.

He saw that the time was only at the end of the day, and he had to wait. When the man and the woman went out of the city, they knew that they had slowed down the horse's hooves, and when they went back, they didn't care about it, didn't it mean that they were relieved? He planned to attack at the earliest, when the people slept heaviest of the day.

There have always been people staring at the movement of Yanqi City, there are no lights, no shadows, and he has come up with the most sure move, even if he can't win, at least he can ensure that he can retreat after rushing to the city and slashing for a while.

When it was finally time, Luo Zhao waved his hand, and the eight or nine hundred men and horses came out of the dense forest silently, and without a roundabout, they swaggered and slowed down their horses towards the south city gate.

Master Gao was hugging Fan Ying at this time, and the two of them were lying on the bed with their clothes together, and their swords were within reach. Before entering the house, the two of them went to the north city wall first, and told the people on duty to pay close attention to the movement on the street, and the people who slept were also smart. Master Gao said that if the enemy rushed in during the night, he was not allowed to make noise, but only waited for him and Fan Ying to arrive before listening to his orders.

Before lying down, the tall man released the second pigeon.

It was almost time, and Fan Ying leaned on the arms of the tall man and dozed off. Master Gao suddenly waved his hand and fanned out the lights, this was the first time in these days that the lights were turned off, "Sleep, let's sleep together." After Master Gao said this, the snoring sounded after a while.

When Fan Ying came back from bathing by the river, she saw that Master Gao's behavior was a little different from usual, and when she saw him put off the lights and fell asleep with confidence, her heart finally settled down.

Hearing that Fan Ying fell asleep in his arms, the tall man suddenly opened his eyes again. He didn't move, he lay there quietly thinking about things, listening with his ears pricked up. If things were not as he expected, then he would have pulled Fan Ying and these ten brothers and slipped away.

It's just that when I arrived in Xizhou to see Guo Dudu, my face was not very good-looking, maybe the new Xizhou Don't Drive Master Li will look down on him, and will say that he is still the one who couldn't get on the stage and couldn't do the right thing three years ago. Then the prestige that he had so desperately accumulated was lost, and the tall man sighed secretly when he thought of this.

But what is it? Let him bring his wife and a few people to fight hard. Besides, he single-handedly served as a town guard for them for more than ten days, and there was no merit and hard work, right? He blushed a little for these thoughts, and regretted that he rashly took Fan Ying out of the city at night to take risks, but he didn't dare to say it from the moment he found out, and he was afraid when he thought about it.

The two bathers didn't go down to the river at all, but just pulled up their pants and deliberately waded by the river. There is a discrepancy between being immersed in the water and standing at the water's edge, which can't be hidden from the tall man. Besides, the two spies knew that this place was only ten miles away from the south gate, and they dared to deliberately make a big move, and they said "those officials from Xizhou", and the ghost believed it.

Luozhao's men and horses stopped and watched the movement of the city, until they reached the south gate. His subordinates quietly came over and asked, "Prime Minister, no matter how you look at the city, there is no one!" The streets didn't look like they were in ambush, and we rushed in with a shout and cut them down in the bed! ”

Luo Zhao raised his hand to silence him, and commanded, "Reckless! Like you, 10,000 soldiers are not enough! Come. Cut the rope of the drawbridge for me, and the bolt of the gate was removed and thrown into the moat. "You can't do it if you want to close the door and hit the dog.

People split up and came back every moment to report, "Prime Minister, there are no ropes on the suspension bridge!" "Prime Minister, I don't know who split the bolt of the city gate!" The person who reported the city gate bolt came out of the city gate hole, yes, it was raised, and the city gate bolt, which was originally one and a half feet square and more than ten feet long, and was cut from a whole red pine wood, has now become a pile of chopping wood and piled up indiscriminately in the city gate hole. The ropes of the suspension bridge were cut into sections, and they were thrown everywhere!

Luo Zhao's mind was blank for a moment, "The Tang army is not in the city, most of the Tang army is outside the city!" That was the quickest conclusion he came to conclusion. Hardly without thinking, he shouted in a bad voice, "Withdraw, withdraw!" It's an empty city plan! Regardless of these people, he turned the horse's head, and the "horn horn" was three whips, and he got up and ran back and forth on the road without his life.

The eight or nine hundred people who came with him were so frightened that their souls were all gone when they saw the prime minister suddenly make such a big turn. The slow reflexes were still in the way, and those who were quick had already picked up their horses and ran away from them. Some were knocked under their horses, some were trampled by horses, and the shouts and neighing of horses became one, and the gang receded like the water of the ebbing tide, leaving only a jumble of hoof prints and a few people holding their legs and groaning outside the city gates. (To be continued.) )