The siege has been ten days, the Han Gui Wang army organized wave after wave of attacks, has not been able to break through the east city, the east city is built on the mountainside, is the Tang Dynasty to build the city to make Zhu Lingqian built, it is also this city caused last year's Han riots, it is different from the local rammed earth low wall, the city wall is made of all the color granite, built tall and strong, and occupy the geographical advantage, plus the Han people siege weapons backward, so the Han Gui King has no way to take it, can only use the siege method to make it cut off food, and finally succumb.

On this day, the king of Hangui looked at the city as usual, until his eyes were sour, and then he returned to the castle sullenly, his castle was built temporarily, the structure was simple, and only a hundred people could live, but this was because the king of Hangui was not suitable for living in a large camp and was specially built for him, which was inhabited by his wives and concubines, and on both sides of the castle was a continuous camp tent, which was full of brave Han warriors.

"Father, is there any news from the leopard?"

As soon as King Hangui returned to the door of the room, his son Han Shouyu was impatient to come forward to ask, King Hangui glanced at him, saw that his eyes were full of eagerness, and his heart felt slightly unhappy, so he shook his head and ignored him, but Han Shouyu did not give up, and still asked: "The leopard has been gone for almost ten days, and it will not be impossible to catch people and dare not come back!" ”

King Hangui stopped, stared back at him, raised his eyebrows, and reprimanded, "You are also thirty years old this year!" is still so immature, what else do you want besides a woman, so many soldiers are fighting bloodily, is it just to win a woman for you? ”

Han Shouyu saw his father angry. He lowered his head in fright, and didn't dare to say a word, he didn't understand, Father Wu was still discussing with him the possibility of the leopard catching Awandi, why did he turn his face at this moment? Seeing that King Hangui was frightened by a few cruel words from himself, his heart was even more angry, so he pulled him to sit down and glared at him fiercely. said: "You remember, that Ah Wan caught it and sent it back to Pi Luo Ge, not for you to enjoy." ”

"But we've worked hard, isn't it. After the fire, the second half of the sentence was swallowed back.

"Stupid!" King Han Gui slapped the table, "Even Duan Rujian knows that I am using the topic to play." You are my son but I don't understand, I see that you have a pig's brain, go back to Anxi City for me tonight, I don't want to see you again. ”

After speaking, King Hangui walked towards the door angrily, lifted the curtain, but bumped into a soft body head-on, he raised his fist to smash, and when he saw the coquettishness on the other party's face, he flew to the country of Jawa with anger. Turning around, he glanced at the room out of the corner of his eye, and another kind of fire rose in his chest and abdomen. He stared at her chest with burning eyes and whispered, "Why are you here?" ”

It was Piloco's eldest daughter who was hit by him. is called Ruyu, according to the arrangement of Pi Luo Ge, she married the son of the king of Hangui, that is, the cold guard just now, she was born with a thin waist and plump buttocks, and she was born with a good appetite for men. Back and forth, the guards around her even her father-in-law had a leg with her. Although her skin is white but a little dry, her apricot eyes are springy, her thin eyebrows are provocative, and she looks quite like her sister Awan, but she is not as sought-after as Awan, no wonder, if you want to marry such a woman, I am afraid that few men are willing.

In addition to seducing men, Ruyu also has another ability, eavesdropping, her ear power is beyond ordinary people, it belongs to the kind of 'wall has ears', of course, in addition to listening to other people's husband and wife's secret affairs, she often brings a lot of useful information to her father, for example, just now, she heard the Hangui King's 'borrowing to play', but the Hangui King came out quickly, and she didn't dodge.

Listen to the king of Hangui and ask her why she is here? Ruyu trembled and smiled, and gently poked her father-in-law's forehead with her bright red jade fingers, "Old ginger, what do you say?" ”

After speaking, her waist swayed slightly, as if with a hook, and slowly led King Han Gui into her room.

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It had just rained, a gloomy full moon hung over the black and lush mounds, the abandoned village was filled with dust and mist, the broken doors and windows were beaten in the wind, the dense pine forests rose and fell with the wind, making a loud and hollow sound, the weeds were stepped into the mud, but the large pieces of dirt were turned out, exuding a fresh and fishy smell, this is the East Plateau, a secret path winds through the river valley to the south, this is the shortcut for wolves and deer to step out, from here you can go directly along the river through the narrow valley between Qixing Mountain and Nipple Mountain, bypassing the East City, Straight to the cold and return to the king's nest Anxi.

A group of cavalry galloped along the wolf's path, splashing the muddy water on the road in all directions, "Stop! Li Qing made a move, and the hundreds of cavalry behind him stopped when they heard the sound. Go and wait in the pine forest over there. The cavalry turned and galloped toward the mound, and through the shallow water, splashing black and bright waves, and vanishing without a trace in an instant as they quickly left the trail and bent towards the river.

Gao Zhandao had not yet returned, Li Qing decided to wait for his news in the black pine forest, and after about a quarter of an hour, there was a faint sound of horses' hooves, but it was Ah Wan and her subordinates.

"Proprietor Li, my young lady is invited."

Uncle Zhong panted and caught up, he began to have some doubts about Li Qing's identity, how could ordinary businessmen have such ability and ruthlessness, they actually killed more than 500 people in the tracking area, and even those who fell off the cliff and did not die were made up with an arrow.

Li Qing followed him to a clearing in the pine woodland, Ah Wan had just come off the horse, and the beads of sweat on her face could be seen faintly shining in the moonlight, seeing Li Qing coming, she looked at him with a little complaining and confused eyes, "It's okay if you don't want to go to Nanzhao, but you promised to send me back to Dongcheng, now it's long gone, where are you going?" ”

Li Qing smiled slightly: "Dongcheng has been surrounded by the King of Hangui, you can't enter the city when you go back, what I want to do now is to let you go home, don't ask too much, just follow us." Although the voice is soft, the words cannot be disobeyed.

Ah Wan's eyes showed worry, and she reminded softly, "But the direction you are going to is getting closer and closer to danger. ”

Li Qing smiled proudly, his waist was straight, his weather-beaten eyes were full of wisdom, and his tone was firm and confident, "Of course I know, if you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get a tiger!" Early tomorrow morning, I will let the King of Hangui stomp his feet and run back. ”

Ah Wan felt that there seemed to be a great deal of power hidden in his gray cloak, and she couldn't help but be stunned, thinking of her strange 'husband', two of the same age, one living under his father's wing, and the other leading a group of dead soldiers to go to the tiger's den to capture the tiger.

Under his tall figure, Ah Wan's long, straight eyebrows gradually curved into round, and her deep pool-like eyes revealed a rare weakness, she turned away silently and stopped talking.

"The proprietor, the high commander is back, and there is important information." Outside the pine forest, a soldier called him softly.

"Got it." Li Qing turned around and said to her again: "I will let you stay in a safe place, if I don't come back, you are not allowed to go anywhere!" ”

After speaking, Li Qing strode away from the pine forest, and Ah Wan looked back at his free and easy back in the distance, and couldn't help but sigh softly.

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The horse's hooves were wrapped in thick Shu brocade, a group of cavalry galloped quickly and silently in the starry night, the black rumbling world flew past them, the wind whistled in their ears, and at the second watch, they arrived at the silent city of Anxi, a wide river in the dim moonlight like a jade belt, passing through the city, surrounded by mountains, like a nest head towering in the east plateau

The drawbridge hung high, and soldiers could occasionally be seen dragging their tired bodies across the city walls, and in the quiet night, the sound of the watchman could be faintly heard, and he approached the city gate and turned back.

"We can sneak into the city from the river, I tried, the iron fence in the river is rotten, the water is cold, and there are water snakes to entangle your feet. Bai's face was still iron-blue, and his voice trembled a little, but at this time everyone's eyes were on him, and no one wanted to hear his complaint about diving, as long as he hurried into the water.

In desperation, Gao Zhandao had to take off his shirt, and in front of everyone, he led ten of his subordinates to leave the woods and run towards the river.

"General, I'll help him!" Wu Xingsu turned back to Li Qing for instructions, Li Qing nodded, Wu Xingsu immediately took off his shirt, revealing a dark and strong muscle, carrying a pot of crossbow arrows crosswise, holding a cold steel crossbow in his left hand, and running quickly with Gao Zhandao.

I saw more than a dozen heads popping up on the surface of the river from time to time, diving down again, and emerging again in a long distance, and the ten subordinates who stretched their swords all had martial arts, and they could also be called masters in the rivers and lakes, and soon they disappeared from everyone's sight.

Let's say that Gao Zhandao led his subordinates to swim close to the city gate, and the scolding mouth finally closed, there are not many defenders in Anxi City, only more than 800 people, but they are very conscientious, although it is the middle of the night, but the footsteps of the patrol team still come from time to time, especially the four city gates, which are the focus of their defense, and Gao Zhandao They want to enter the ground but it is a water gate. Adjacent to the north gate on land, small boats are allowed to enter the city during the day, and at night, the thick iron fence is lowered and stretches to the bottom of the water, which is difficult for ordinary people to cross when diving, but the basis of Gao Zhan's knife is that one of the iron bars of the iron fence has rusted and can allow him to enter sideways. He had found out a few hours earlier.

But when he groped for the iron fence again, an accident happened, and now the iron fence was different from just now, and when he looked up, he found that the iron bar that was about to be broken by him just now was hanging high in the air. There were actually two iron fences, and now they have been replaced with another, the iron bars are as thick as arms, and they are newly made, and Gao Zhan's knife actually shed cold sweat in the water, what should I do? Although it was not his responsibility, his overconfidence left him with no way back, could it be that this sneak attack failed? Or wait until daylight tomorrow to sneak into the city?

Although the plan was feasible, he was so strong that he shook his head, no! You must take the North Gate tonight. He looked up at the wall, about four feet high. The walls are so smooth that no matter how high they are, they can't go up.

"High Commander. I have a flying claw here," one of his men took a flying claw from his sac, the rope was long enough to stretch his sword, and he took it, crawled out of the water, and threw it at the wall, but after several attempts failed. You can't hold on to the inner edge of the battlements at all.

"Let me come!"

Wu Xingsu, who came later, took the flying claw from Gao Zhandao's hand and tied it to the crossbow arrow. Taking a few steps back, he leveled his crossbow, his eyes narrowed slightly, and aimed at a pair of thick wooden tripods on the city tower, and with a slight stroke of his fingers, the long parabola passed through the one-foot-wide tripod accurately, and the flying claws were firmly fixed in the gap of the tripod.

"It worked!" Everyone shouted in unison, their faces showing irrepressible joy, and they high-fived each other in celebration.

"Alright, let's get on! Easy to spot. Wu Xingsu was still expressionless.

Gao Zhandao jumped forward, grabbed the end of the rope, and with the force of the rope, climbed the city wall in three strokes, and disappeared into the night, followed by the second and third. Grilled frogs on skewers and hung long in the air.

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I don't know how long it took, the patrol soldiers on the city wall suddenly disappeared like a row of trees that were cut down at the same time, and then the drawbridge at the north city gate creaked and fell, and the north city gate also opened with a bang, Li Qing was overjoyed, pointed directly at Anxi City with a long sword in his hand, and roared in a low voice, "Take Anxi City, and those who resist will be killed!" ”

There is no need for Shu brocade hooves, the hooves of three hundred war horses are like thunder rolling over the ground, galloping into Anxi City, stepping through the silent night, waking up people's dreams, parents cover the children's crying, hiding in the house, listening in horror to the street from the sound of shouting and killing, on the street, arrows like oblique drizzle, in the air to draw an arc of death, intensively shot at the Anxi defenders.

Li Siye wielded more than 100 catties of Mo knives, the first Mo knife general of the Tang Dynasty, exuding a chilling murderous aura all over his body, like chopping waves, like a tiger like a flock of sheep, one foot tall, riding on a horse as if a god descended to earth, invincible in the cold army, and killed through an alley of flesh and blood.

And Nan Jiyun single-handedly, from the north gate to the south gate, he is like a white dragon swimming at low altitude, the gun is like a pear blossom flying, like Zhao Yun regenerating, where the bowstring sounds, someone turns over and falls off the horse, and the elite of the three hundred cavalry feather forest army will clean up the defenders of Anxi City in less than half an hour.

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"Light the fire, burn the grain depot, not a single grain is allowed to stay!" Li Qing gave the last order.

"Yangming, do you want the people to take the food away." Gao Zhandao looked at the warehouse full of nearly 10,000 stone of grain to be burned, and he was really distressed.

Li Qing shook his head, "Burn it, don't leave a single grain!" ”

Gao Zhandao wanted to say something, but Li Siye stepped forward and pressed his shoulder and said: "Yang Ming did the right thing, giving food to the people is equivalent to returning it to the king of Hangui, only by destroying the grain of the king of Hangui, this battle cannot be fought." ”

A moment later, thick black smoke rose from the city of Anxi, mixed with flames, soaring into the sky, as if it was a huge beacon tower, telling the Hangui King who was hundreds of miles away that his old nest had been eliminated.

The sky gradually brightened, the morning dawn dewed, the eastern sky was smeared with a faint golden light, hundreds of war horses galloped out of Anxi City, facing the rising sun on the plateau, galloping towards the most brilliant place of golden light.

After another two hours, the king of Hangui, who heard the news, began to withdraw his troops from Dongcheng, and a group of soldiers in black uniforms ran rapidly on the avenue, followed by hundreds of carriages, and there were tents and baggage outside Dongcheng that had not had time to be taken away, and the soldiers in the city stared blankly at this scene, not knowing what was happening, but soon, the cheers drowned out the entire Dongcheng.

On a hill, a dozen horsemen stood a young woman as beautiful as a fairy, looking at the army of the Hangui King retreating from a distance, her eyes were full of surprise and admiration, and his words echoed in her mind, 'Tomorrow morning, I will let the Hangui King stomp his feet and run back', her already numb heart began to warm, and a weakest heartstring was quietly plucked.

It wasn't until the army disappeared from her view that she noticed a heroic young man beside her, smiling and looking into her eyes, his high nose showing his confidence and pride, and behind him, hundreds of horsemen lined up, all with the joy of a victor on their faces.

Her face was flushed with shame, and she turned around suddenly, and Li Qing let out a long laugh, "Let's go!" I'll send you home now. ”

"Home!" Ah Wan's heart was bitter, as if she had fallen from the clouds into the cruel reality.