The dark night sky descended on the land, and the endless dark forest was as silent and empty as a bottomless abyss.

In the forest, a warhorse that still had some breath fell to the dry grass covered in blood. Blood slowly trickled down from the wounds of the dying warhorse, dripping into the dead grass in the snow.

Looking at the remaining blood stains on the ground, a bloody man covered in the smell of fish was staggering through gritted teeth. Even if the Blood Man knew that the pursuers behind him had been thrown away, he did not dare to stop his movements, and walked towards the endless depths of the forest.

With the hazy moonlight in the dark night, you could see this man's extremely red eyes and hideous face, and I am afraid that even the appearance of a fierce beast could not be compared with him.

"Alive......" The man's chapped lips were stained with black and red blood, and his reddened eyes looked deep into the forest, his whole body trembling slightly from the injuries on his body.

Slowly, the man was completely covered by the darkness that shrouded him, leaving only blood marks in the dead grass in the snow.

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Yicheng

In the barracks marshal's account

Xu Muchuan, as an accompanying supervisor, sat in the first position on the left side of the barracks. And the first one in the middle is sat by a general who is nearly 100 years old, he is the general who guards Yicheng, the general of the second grade, Hu Feng.

"It's unreasonable!" Hu Feng clutched a letter in his hand tightly in the palm of his hand, slammed his fists on the table fiercely, and his eyes were full of anger.

"What's written on it?" Seeing this, Xu Muchuan couldn't help frowning.

Hu Feng's face was darker, his mouth was full of black and white scum, after he heard Xu Muchuan's question, he subconsciously glanced at Xu Muchuan, and then handed the crumpled letter in his hand to Xu Muchuan: "Lord Xu, take a look for yourself!" ”

Xu Muchuan unhurriedly flattened the crumpled stationery, and then lowered his eyebrows.

The content written on the letter paper naturally wanted Xu Muchuan and others to obediently open the door of Yicheng. Otherwise, the corpse of Wen Zeyu will be dismantled into eight pieces, and then thrown into the forest to feed to the wild dogs.

"Beam! Forever! Abundant! Although Xu Muchuan was not as angry as Hu Feng, his indifferent eyes instantly flashed with fiery anger, and he gritted his teeth and said in a low voice.

The generals in the camp didn't know what Xu Muchuan and Hu Feng were angry about, but they all guessed that there was nothing good written on the letterhead.

Then, Xu Muchuan handed down the paper letter, and a group of generals gathered together curiously and suspiciously, and saw what was written on it.

"Presumptuous! He Liang Yongfeng dared to do such a villain's plan. After a while, a burly general with five big and three thick suddenly scolded angrily regardless of his image.

"General Q Rong Ma will never be insulted like this all his life, I will definitely take back General Q's body, and I can't let General Q be bullied after death."

"Don't say that he Liang Yongfeng, even when his old son Liang Wen was still alive, he was asked to kill the old general and retreated. Liang Yongfeng marched like this, which really fell into the majesty of Liang Wen, the king of Liang. ”

All of a sudden, all kinds of disgruntled words rang out in the tent. The generals all thought that the corpse of Wen Zeyu who died in battle would be bullied, and they couldn't calm down at all.

"Quiet!" Hu Feng already had two big heads, but now he was still caused by the quarrels and scolding of the generals, and he immediately slapped the table and shouted.

As soon as Hu Feng's words fell, the generals who were still talking noisily just now stopped their voices and looked at Hu Feng with big eyes and small eyes.

"The city gate can't be opened, if Yicheng is lost, then Shu will break through the most important defense line of my Beiyuan country. At that time, the four realms of my Beiyuan and even the imperial city will all appear in the sight of Shu, and at that time, my Beiyuan will really be slaughtered by Shu. ”

Hu Feng pondered for a moment, analyzed the pros and cons, and then turned his gaze to Xu Muchuan's body: "Lord Xu, what do you think we should do?" ”

"Yicheng has a total of 60,000 soldiers and horses, and the Shu army is only about 50,000 horses at the moment, if a war is ......" Xu Muchuan slowly raised his eyebrows and looked at Hu Feng solemnly: "General Hu, how sure are you that you can win?" ”

"Absolutely not!" Without waiting for Xu Muchuan's words to dissipate, Hu Feng immediately jumped up and stood up, and said without hesitation: "Yicheng is the throat of my Beiyuan Kingdom, and there must not be the slightest risk of losing it. Lord Xu wanted to fight with the Shu army with all his might in order to ask the corpse of the old general, but it was simply a small loss, and the general would never agree. ”

Hu Feng's voice kept echoing in the tent, and the generals were all silent and their eyes dimmed, and no one refuted it. Yi Cheng is the top priority of the Northern Yuan Kingdom, and he can't afford to lose the slightest risk, and the generals naturally know the stakes.

"This official is very curious, according to General Hu's meaning, he wants to use the momentum of the city wall of Yicheng to defend Yicheng? With the strength of the two armies equal, General Hu was indeed able to hold Yicheng. However, if the Shu army increased its strength and came directly to Yicheng, constantly piling up human lives, then how should General Hu defend it? ”

Xu Muchuan was expressionless, facing Hu Feng with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and his momentum was not lost at all.

"Lord Xu, the Shu army can increase its forces to attack the city, is there no way for my Beiyuan Kingdom to mobilize troops from other places?" Hu Feng glanced at it and replied coldly.

"So this official is asking General Hu, how many times can this city gate block the Shu army's charge? Even if there is a large army to defend it, will it really be able to hold this Yicheng in the future? Xu Muchuan said in a deep voice.

There was silence for a while, and no one spoke. At this moment, everyone could hear their own heartbeats and breathing, and the scene was quiet and tense for a while.

"The future affairs, Ben will not want to pay attention to it, at least this Yi Cheng must not be bad because of Ben General's negligence." Hu Feng seemed to have anticipated the overwhelming picture of the Shu army attacking the city in the future, but when the picture of Yicheng being stained with blood came to his mind, he quickly snuffed it out and didn't think about it anymore.

"General Hu, you are really pedantic." Xu Muchuan didn't know how to describe Hu Feng's temperament, so after taking a deep breath, he shook his hand and left the barracks.

Seeing this, the generals retreated a few steps back and made way for Xu Muchuan.

Looking at Xu Muchuan's back, Hu Feng gritted his teeth and sat back in his position.

As long as he remembered that Wen Zeyu's body was still lying in a pool of blood at this moment, Hu Feng and other generals were silent and didn't know what to do. According to Liang Yongfeng's request, it is absolutely impossible to open the city gate.

In addition, if you want to bring back Wen Zeyu's corpse, you can only send a team of people to test it. However, as long as Liang Yongfeng is not stupid, he will definitely set up an ambush along the road leading to Yuxiao Pass.

"Alas!" A deep sigh slowly rose from the tent and drifted out in all directions.