The fourteenth day of the lunar month, the time of Yin.

A group of Hu people were fiddling with the corpses in the oil pot, muttering words in their mouths, not laughing twice, as if they had found something interesting, a team of more than ten Hu people hung their heads slightly, and walked up to the city gate quietly.

"Hey!"

Suddenly, a bearded man shouted, and the team stopped, and the leader looked sideways, his helmet obscured the light of the torch, and most of his face was shrouded in shadows.

“@￥#……%… ￥#%%”

The Hu man took two steps forward, and he didn't know what he was saying, and the leader raised his hand and pressed down his helmet, and without answering, he walked quickly up to the castle tower with the people behind him.

Only then did the man realize that something was wrong, and turned back to talk to his companion, and wanted to strike the gong, but a short arrow shot straight into his neck, and the man covered his neck with wide eyes, and his heart was unwilling, but his body fell to the ground weakly, and he could vaguely see a commotion above the castle tower.

There were a lot of troops at the gate of the city, Lu Ji did not choose to attack, but turned back with the people, and stripped the clothes on the Hu people before and wanted to mix up with the city tower, but he didn't expect to be found here.

But they have all come to this point, and there is no reason to retreat and turn back!

Lu Ji immediately drew his sword and rushed up to the city tower, stabbing the person who came towards him.

The pot of boiling oil and the fried corpse just now stimulated him and the dozen or so people behind him, their chests were burned by the monstrous anger, wrapped in the unstoppable momentum of gods and demons, raised their swords to seal their throats, and killed a bloody path very quickly.

Those Hu people hadn't recognized who Lu Ji was, but they guessed that he was here to save Lu Xiao, and seeing that they couldn't resist it, they drew their knives and were about to cut the rope that hung Lu Xiao.

The rope was as thick as a baby's arm, and when the man raised the knife, he was seen by the person behind Lu Ji, and when he threw the sword, the man's wrist was pierced by the sword, and he screamed and changed his left hand to continue cutting.

Lu Ji's eyes were cold, and he stepped on Hu Ren's shoulder and rushed over, kicking the man's head.

The knife still fell, cutting the rope in half, and although it had not yet been cut, it was already in danger.

Lu Ji grabbed the rope and wrapped it around his arm a few times, pulling Lu Xiao up while confronting those Hu people with one hand.

More and more Hu people poured into the city tower, and Lu Xiao brought all the dozen or so people to gather to block the Hu people for Lu Xiao, so that Lu Ji could concentrate on saving people.

Lu Ji abandoned the sword, and pulled Lu Xiao up with all his strength, the rope was not stable, he heard the sound of the golden armor rubbing against the city wall, but he couldn't hear any sound from Lu Xiao, no one knew, his hands were a little trembling, and his palms were covered with sticky cold sweat.

Hanging upside down on this city wall was his father, whom he had admired for more than 20 years, but at an age when he should have been living for the rest of his life, his father had to face a fire of gunfire and suffer such inhuman treatment!

Daddy, my son is here to save you!

Lu Ji said in his heart, a firelight roared, he subconsciously pulled the rope hard, and the arrow with fire did not hit the rope, but passed through the gap in the armor and nailed into Lu Xiao's right leg.

Not!

Lu Xiao snorted, Xu was too painful.

Lu Ji's heart swelled with joy because Lu Xiao was still alive, but it was exploded by that arrow.

"Daddy!"

Lu Ji shouted, speeding up the movement of his hand, and in the darkness, the fire struck again, but this time it was three arrows.

The three arrows aimed at Lu Halberd, Rope and Lu Xiao.

It was still dark, and I couldn't see who the archery was, but Lu Ji was sure that that person was Kukeduo!

He stood in the dark, happily watching Lu Xiao's bait, fishing out the hidden soldiers in the city who refused to surrender.

The chest cavity was invaded by severe pain and monstrous hatred, Lu Ji didn't hide when he heard the sound of breaking the sky, but only lowered his head and persistently pulled the rope up.

The arrow quickly hit the front of him, but it did not hit the halberd, and a person next to him jumped out, raised his hand and cut off the three arrows with a sword.

This person had a belt wrapped around his waist, and the other end was pulled by his companions, and after cutting off the sharp arrow, he buckled Lu Xiao's armor, and worked together with Lu Ji to save Lu Xiao to the city tower.

"Protect the Princess!"

Everyone roared and killed more bravely, seeing that the Hu people were gathering more and more, and they wanted to exhaust their physical strength with wheel tactics, a thick fog and fire suddenly rose in the north of the city, and a sharp warning sound came.

Hu Ren was stunned for a moment, and then all rushed towards the north of the city.

The north of the city is a military camp, which not only contains the grain and grass left by the Yuanzhao soldiers, but also the Hu people.

The Hu people did not rush to reinforce again, and Lu Ji and they quickly fought their way out of the encirclement.

Lu Ji carried Lu Xiao on his back and quickly shuttled through the city, relying on his memory, and soon arrived at a pharmacy.

There was no one in the pharmacy for a long time, and after Lu Ji carried Lu Xiao inside, the people behind him immediately closed the door, leaving two people to defend, and the rest of the people entered the backyard together.

"Let's see if there's any living in the house, boil hot water, and bring all the medicine that can be used!" Lu Ji ordered coldly, raised his foot and kicked open a room, and put Lu Xiao on the bed.

"Daddy?"

Lu Ji called in a low voice, his voice was hoarse, his voice trembled uncontrollably, and he was a little at a loss of momentum, and he was afraid to see the body tortured by war under this armor.

Lu Xiao didn't answer, his eyes were tightly closed, his face was gray and lifeless, as if the muffled snort just now was just Lu Ji's illusion.

"General, I'll come!"

The person standing next to him couldn't bear to say, Lu Ji shook his head, suppressed the sharp pain in his heart and began to take off the armor on Lu Xiao's body.

His movements were extremely light, for fear of touching Lu Xiao's wounds, but after the armor on his chest was removed, Lu Ji was still stabbed red by everything he saw in front of him.

Lu Xiao had an incomparably hideous wound on his left shoulder, the wound was very large, it was already infected and inflamed, the flesh was flying, and the white bones inside could be seen at a glance.

Needless to say, Lu Ji had already restored in his mind how Lu Xiao was slashed at that time.

Lu Ji looked at the wound fixedly, and the person next to him couldn't help but walk over and hold his hand: "General Lu, let me come, I have studied medicine." ”

People on the battlefield, who don't know what to do with these traumatic wounds? I just think it's too cruel.

Of those wounds on Lu Xiao's body, didn't all of them hit Lu Ji's heart?

Lu Ji's hands were terribly cold, and he remembered the night Ah Zhan was born five years ago, his hands were full of blood, and the person lying in front of him was even more bloody and blurry.

"Good!"

Lu Ji nodded, took the armor and took a half step back, giving up his place to the person who spoke.

The man had indeed studied medicine, and his hands were skillful and gentle, and he was a little sharper than the halberd.

The hot water was quickly boiled and delivered, and the man helped Lu Xiao treat his wounds little by little.

Kukeduo's arrow pierced the back of Lu Xiao's right hand, and there was still fire oil on the arrow, which added burns to the wound, and the situation was even more complicated.

When the arrow was pulled out, Lu Xiao woke up in pain, his whole body was tense, and the wound that had just been wrapped was bleeding again, soaking the gauze, he was not very conscious, and his voice was extremely weak repeating two sentences: "...... Do not open ...... No ...... drop"

Lu Ji has been guarding the bedside, his eyes are blood-red when he hears the sound, but he can't bear to let himself get out of control, and promises word by word: "We swear not to surrender!" ”

Lu Xiao was so injured that he never woke up, and he had a high fever when it was almost dawn.

At the same time, the fire in the granary of the military camp in the north of the city was finally extinguished, and Hu Keduo looked at the rescued grain and grass with gloomy eyes and ordered: "Search the city!" Don't let one go!! ”

On the fourteenth day of the lunar month, the hour of the hour, the capital of the state of Suzhou.

It was still early, and before dawn, there was a knock on the door, and the doorkeeper yawned and opened the door: "Who's early in the morning?" ”

As the words fell, his eyes were dazzled by a bright golden thing, and he looked at it, and there was a word 'Yu' engraved on it.

Yo, why is there someone in the Imperial City again?

The gatekeeper rubbed his eyes, and saw that the hand holding the token should have been slender and white, but now it was covered with bruises and chilblains, and in some places it was even cracked and bleeding, and some of them were seeping.

The gatekeeper was startled, and with a terrifying picture in his mind, the person who came looked up and showed a beautiful face: "I have something important to find the state capital." ”

"Yes, yes, please inside!" The gatekeeper hurriedly turned sideways, and the visitor stepped in, followed by seven or eight people who looked like guards.

The gatekeeper was a little surprised, and looked up to see the appearance of the leader man, just when a gust of wind blew, blowing off the hat, and the morning sun sprinkled down, shining a hideous scar on the woman's face.

The gatekeeper gasped, suppressed the exclamation in his throat and couldn't help muttering in his heart: Which girl is this, how did she toss herself into this appearance?

Su Li didn't know what the gatekeeper thought, and she didn't care about the greetings of those subordinates in the state capital, and walked straight towards the backyard, someone wanted to stop her, and the secret guard behind her immediately drew her sword and stepped forward.

"I have something important to find your governor, where is he now?"

Su Li asked softly, her face calm, but extremely tough, and the people were so frightened that they stepped aside and pointed to one of the courtyards.

"Thank you!"

Su Li took the time to thank her, but her steps did not stop at all.

All the way to the courtyard, looking at the direction and layout, like the concubine's room, afraid of seeing any indecent pictures, Su Li glanced at one of the secret guards, and the secret guard easily climbed over the wall into the courtyard, and after a while, the woman's screams and the scolding of the state capital came from the courtyard, and after another quarter of an hour, the state capital was dressed and carried out.

"Who are you?"

Before, the envoy group passed by, Chu Huai'an startled him in the middle of the night, and asked him to clean up the people in the dungeon, in the past few months, he has been afraid of retaliation, and finally had a good night's sleep, and now he is being picked up again, he is almost scared to a nervous breakdown.

"This is not the place to talk, let's go to the study."

Su Li whispered, and without waiting for the state government to answer, the two secret guards immediately set him up, covered his mouth and walked to the study.

After rushing for so long, these secret guards and Su Li have already run in a tacit understanding, and they can guess what Su Li wants to do without saying much.

All the way into the study, the two secret guards pressed the state capital to the desk and sat down, while the others rummaged through the study, just like their own backyard.

"You are bold! How can you rummage through the official's study? Someone ...... coming."

The state government wanted to call someone, but the dark guard unloaded his jaw with one hand and held a dagger against his neck with the other.

The state capital is afraid of death and pain, and immediately frightened his face turned pale, trembling, and tearful, seeing him like this, Su Li showed the Jin Ling in his hand and said softly: "The state capital is optimistic, we are now acting on orders!" ”

As soon as he saw Jin Ling, the eyes of the state capital flashed with consternation, and there was a flash of panic, Su Li saw it clearly, and deliberately raised his voice to the others: "Look carefully to see if there is a secret room and prison, and whether there are any letters of treason against the enemy in those books on the shelves!" ”

Surrender to treason, this hat is too big.

The cold sweat on the forehead of the state capital fell down, and he wanted to open his mouth to defend himself, but he was helpless but couldn't speak.

Suzhou is not as good as Xunzhou, the forces of the underground city are intricate, An Jue was here to try to kidnap Su Li before, and An's family can have grain shops in Xunbei County to forcibly collect grain, and the sphere of influence in Suzhou is only wider.

There are not a few days away from the border pass, and Su Li plans to collect some grain and grass here to bring to the border for emergency, and the grain and grass will be delivered one after another.

The most important thing is that she doesn't know what the situation is at the border gate now, if she rashly transports a large amount of grain and grass over and is intercepted by the Hu people, wouldn't it be even worse?

If you want to find out the current situation in Suzhou, the first thing is to take the capital of Suzhou!

The guards were all well-trained, and they searched all the corners and corners of the study, but they did not mess up the contents of the room, and before long, a pile of silver tickets and a few papers were thrown on the table.

The silver ticket is quite rich, and after a cursory look, there are at least 100,000 taels.

Su Li only glanced at the silver ticket, and then reached out to open the papers.

The time limit of the document began three years ago, all of them allowed foreign businessmen to open various shops in Yuzhou, these businessmen's names are different, their ancestral homes are different, at first glance it is normal, nothing special, but the lower right corner of the document is covered with a small red seal, the chapter is a small Anzi, carved around the delicate begonia flowers, and the queen mother's later chapter echoes.

As expected, these marked foreign businessmen are all people who have settled down, and when you look at a few letters, you will find that there are 23 shops in Yuzhou.

Grain shops, oil shops, grocery stores, and even a horse farm, none of these shops are very profitable, but all of them are daily necessities.

Su Li was shocked, but her face was not visible at all, and she silently wrote down the location of these shops in the city.

Although the An family is destroyed, these merchants seem to have nothing to do with the An family, Zhao Hanzhuo naturally can't come here to arrest them, and these shops should still be open and doing business normally.

If these people were loyal to the An family and knew in advance about the Hu people's plan to attack the city, then they would most likely find a way to stock up on some grain and grass for the Hu people's army, after all, the 100,000 army needed a day to store grain is very amazing.

This is destined to be a tough battle, even if Kucodo is confident that he can break through the border city, once the battle line is extended, the advantage will become a disadvantage.

He dared to attack him like this, there must be something that gave him such confidence.

But now it seems that this confidence is actually a double-edged sword.

Thinking of this, Su Li closed the paperwork and looked at the state capital with a leisurely face: "Your Majesty has seen through the plan of the Hu people and the An family to collude, why are we here today, the state capital should know it, right?" ”

The state capital was soaked in cold sweat, his hands and feet were cold, and the dagger on his neck had not penetrated an inch, and he could even clearly feel blood gushing out.

He blinked frantically and signaled to Su Li that he had something to say, but Su Li ignored it and continued: "I don't know what benefits Hu Renhe and the An family have promised you, and I don't know if you have any dissatisfaction with the royal family, to tell you the truth, we came today to take your dog's life!" ”

Collusion with outsiders, defection to the enemy and treason, harm to lives, saying that it is a dog's life is an insult to a dog!

Su Li scolded secretly, propped her hands on the table, leaned over slightly, and looked at him condescendingly and compassionately: "You are dead, so much evidence in the house is still there, what we want to know will be found soon, but I remember that you seem to have twins who have just turned one year old, although the adults are guilty, but these two children are innocent, do you think I am right?" ”

The governor nodded again and again, his body softened into a puddle of mud, if it weren't for the secret guard grabbing him, he was afraid that he would have fallen under the chair long ago.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Su Li gave the dark guard a look, and the dark guard raised his hand and helped the state government put his chin back.

The state government moved his chin cautiously, and was relieved to make sure that it really didn't hurt, and the next moment, Su Li threw the pile of documents in front of the state government: "Are the twenty-three shops on the documents still doing business normally recently?" Did they transport anything out of town? Where are they shipped? ”

Su Li asked bluntly, the state capital was surprised, it seemed that he didn't expect Su Li to ask this question as soon as he came, he picked up the document and looked at it, and then heard Su Li say: "When you go out of the city, you will get the customs clearance documents, these are all things that can be checked, you better think about it clearly." ”

The state capital's face turned pale, and he didn't pretend to look at those documents anymore, trying to defend himself: "These are indeed businessmen who have been specially taken care of by the An family, but they are all small businesses, and I just make some money from them, and I don't do anything else." ”

"I asked you if you had any oil and water?" Su Li asked coldly, seeing that the state government still wanted to hide something, she spoke again: "The state capital doesn't seem to be able to understand my words, so I'll ask instead." ”

Su Li relaxed and leaned on the table, and after waiting for a while, the two dark guards came in with a pair of twins.

These two children followed the appearance of the state capital, born white and fat, with small faces, sleeping soundly, and did not cry when they were carried in.

Seeing the child, the state government subconsciously wanted to stand up, but with this move, his neck was stabbing again, and he immediately gasped and didn't dare to mess around, and looked at Su Li with only one eye.

"These shops that do business will transport things out of the city every once in a while, and they will be ...... Xia Guan really didn't know what the girl was asking! ”

The state government said with a crying tone, helpless and innocent, Su Li nodded, and asked instead: "Last time I found traces of Hu Ren and the remnants of the An family in the dungeon, Lord Hou asked the state government to be responsible for the killing, has the adult finished killing?" ”

Su Li's eyes were clear, and he stared directly at the state capital, so that he didn't dare to look at Su Li until he lowered his eyes.

"Cunning ...... Cunning, the lower officials have tried their best to kill, but they don't know how to ...... And there are no remnants. The state capital stammered and said that it lacked confidence.

has been an official for so many years, and he has seen some big scenes, he always leaves a way out when he talks and does things, and he doesn't easily say it to death at this time.

"Isn't it clear whether there is a remnant party or not?" Su Li retorted, with a shallow smile on her face: "What I just want to ask your adult is whether these remnants have colluded with twenty-three merchants recently to transport anything outside the city, such as transporting some horse feed, rice and grain to the border pass!" ”

The question had already been asked very bluntly, and the flesh on the state capital's face trembled uncontrollably, and his expression was distorted, as if he was frightened.

Su Li didn't continue to ask, looked at the child in the arms of one of the secret guards, and wiped the child's face.

The child slept very soundly and was ignorant of the world, Su Li actually didn't want to use such an interrogation method, but the situation was serious, and she couldn't have any compassion for the two children at this time.

I'm sorry!

Su Li said something in her heart, twisted it on the child's arm, and the child was disturbed, opened his eyes dimly, and then cried.

There is telepathy between the twins, one child cries, and the other child cries along.

The study, which was originally quiet, was immediately occupied by the crying of the two children, which made people panic.

The state capital is even more eyelids, Xu has done a lot of bad things over the years, he has no children under his knees, until last year he was happy to have two sons, he regards these two children as eyeballs, usually afraid that the child will bump into it, at this time I heard the child's cry, of course, it was like a heartbreak, and it hurt so much.

After listening for a while, the state government finally couldn't hold it anymore, and said in a low voice: "These twenty-three shops each have a branch along the way to the border pass, and the branch warehouse has a lot of grain, after the envoys entered Beijing, they each bought grain at a high price in the city, and each family had almost a thousand stones, and about a month ago, they took this grain out of the city to the border pass. ”

One thousand stones, twenty-three families, that is, twenty-three thousand stones!

"They? The same people who attacked me in the dungeon last time? How many people are there? How many wagons were hired to transport so much grain out of the city? ”

Su Li asked, her face was solemn, if those people left Yuzhou a month ago, even if there was a snowstorm to stop them, I am afraid that they would not be far from the border now.

At the beginning of the words, the state capital had nothing to hide, he nodded and said: "It was those people last time, there were about two hundred people in total, and eighty-four carriages were hired. ”

Two hundred, twice as many as the secret guards brought by Su Li.

And Su Li has fought with them, and those people's skills are not very bad.

"How many troops are there in Yuzhou now?"

Su Li asked, the state capital's eyes widened, and he hurriedly spoke: "The state capital garrison cannot be transferred at will, there must be His Majesty's golden decree and holy decree and ......."

"I ask you how many people there are?"

Su Li asked by the collar of the state capital, her patience was about to run out.

Luzhou is the largest state city north of the Xunshan Mountains, and the daily garrison should be about 10,000 people, which is the second line of defense from the border pass to Beijing.

Not only to move, but also as soon as possible, it is best to intercept the more than 20,000 stone grain before it reaches the border pass!

"You can't move these people, just in case...... In case the Hu people attack the city, what will happen to Yuzhou? ”

The state capital replied weakly, and his eyes dodged around in a panic.

Su Li's eyes were so cold that they could freeze: "I just want to borrow troops to recover those grains, how could the Lord of the State Mansion think of the Hu people attacking the city?" ”

The state government knew that he was speechless, his face was pale and trembling, and he couldn't speak.

He knew what the Hu people might do, but he let them carry the grain out of the city.

His heart can be punished!

Su Li gave Nazhou Mansion a punch, turned around and ordered everyone: "Find the talisman!" ”

"Yes!"

"How dare you ......"

The state government still wanted to stop it, Su Li raised his hand, and the dagger that had been against his neck was all gone, and blood gushed out, his eyes widened, as if he wanted to say something, Su Li looked at him expressionlessly: "The big mistake has been made, what the adults want to say will be kept and said to those dead souls!" ”

After speaking, he walked out of the study, and the strong smell of blood in the room permeated, disgusting and dirty......

At the time of the unitary day, 10,000 soldiers and horses gathered at the gate of the city, and the people in the city all flocked to the gate of the city curiously, not knowing what happened.

"The remnants of the An family are not dead, and they secretly collected food and rushed to the border to prepare for a recuperation and comeback, Your Majesty personally instructed to kill the remnants of the An family, recover the food, and pay homage to the prime minister after returning to Beijing!!"

A Qingyue passionate voice came from the front of the team, and everyone listened carefully for a long time and finally understood, it turned out that they were going to lead troops to kill the remnants of the An family, this An family was really restless, so many people had died, and they were still thinking about rebellion.

Everyone muttered in their hearts, seeing that the team was slowly moving, they reacted suddenly: Huh? It wasn't their state lord who spoke just now, why did that voice sound like a woman? When will women be able to lead troops to war?

Under the suspicious gaze of everyone, Su Li rushed to the border with 10,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Yuzhou.

There was still snow on the road, and the traces of the horse-drawn carts transporting grain and grass were much hidden, but fortunately they were not without a trace.

After following the trail of the carriage for five days, Su Li finally caught up with the grain cart in a small town.

By that time they were already very close to the border city, and it would take only two days to reach them on a hurried march.

After all, there are more than 80 grain trucks, and no matter how hidden they are, they are very eye-catching.

The men who were escorting the food were also on the road day and night, and it seemed that they had been repairing here for two days, and had no intention of marching again, but seemed to be waiting for someone to come.

After five days of rapid marching, the soldiers behind him were also tired, Su Li did not immediately go in to grab food, but asked everyone to repair on the spot and eat some dry food to replenish their strength.

It wasn't until night fell and the lights in the town went out that Su Li attacked, and in order to reduce casualties, the first to sneak into the town was the fifty secret guards who followed her all the way.

A battle quietly kicked off under the cover of night, and after a stick of incense, Su Li led the troops to start a formal attack.

The Hu people used 100,000 people to attack 30,000 soldiers at the border pass, and now Su Li with 10,000 soldiers and horses and 100 elites completely crushed the grain transportation team of 200 people.

The battle ended faster than expected, and they also grabbed two alive and escorted them to Su Li, who unexpectedly saw a familiar face.

Zhao Qi, that day in Yuzhou, he didn't die.

Compared with Su Li's surprise, Zhao Qi was more angry, he didn't expect that he had come here all the way, and he could still be intercepted by Su Li, and he was pressed to kneel in front of Su Li.

Zhao Qi was annoyed and angry, and wanted to resist, but the secret guard was afraid that he would hurt Su Li, and was just about to finish him off, but Su Li raised his hand to stop him: "Keep him, it will be useful later!" ”