After hearing this, the soldier first looked up to the left and right, and saw that there was no one else in the council room, and then he replied:

"The two generals of Qiyu, the army arranged by Lord Wanyan to pretend to be a defeated soldier on the border and plot to go north to rob grain, was ambushed by the villagers in the valley, and our army was completely annihilated! General Wu Yue died on the battlefield! ”

After speaking, he lowered his head and remained silent.

There was a dead silence in the conference hall, Wang Huaiyi frowned, and after a long silence, he looked up at Yan Shuo and said, "My lord"

Wan Yan Shuo's eyes narrowed slightly, but his face did not make too many waves, he waved his hand at Wang Huaiyi, then stood up, paced back and forth a few steps, turned his head and said to the soldiers:

"Can our army be wiped out, this village is not simple, do you know who the leader of the village is?"

After thinking for a moment, the soldier replied: "General Qiyu, led by an old man, the villain doesn't know his name, but he only hears that the villagers call him 'patriarch'. ”

When Yan Shuo heard the word "patriarch", his eyes flashed, as if his voice trembled a little for a moment, he sighed, turned his head to Wang Huaiyi and asked:

"Lord Wang, do all the villages in Yan Kingdom call the village chief 'patriarch'?"

Wang Huaiyi shook his head and said: "Although the Yan Kingdom is an uncivilized and barbaric area, the official system is no different from the empire, even if it is at the level of a small village, it is the same as the empire, and it is called 'village chief', and there is no 'patriarch'. ”

After hearing this, Yan Shuo frowned deeply, nodded after a while, and said to the soldiers: "You go down to rest first, this matter must not be leaked out, otherwise the military law will deal with it!"

The soldier fell to his knees in panic, and even claimed that he was.

Wan Yan Shuo waved his hand, and the soldier understood, got up and saluted and bowed down.

Only Wan Yanshuo and Wang Huaiyi were left in the room.

After Wang Huaiyi waited for the soldiers to leave, he turned his head to look at Wan Yan Shuo and said, "My lord, what should we do now?" ”

Wan Yan Shuo said: "Wait and see, although there are losses, but for my Northern Expedition army, it may not be a bad thing," Speaking of this, he suddenly paused, and said to Wang Huaiyi: "You set off immediately, order 10,000 soldiers and horses, and march north, not surprisingly, the 'patriarch' will give us a big gift." ”

Wang Huaiyi had a puzzled look on his face, he opened his mouth but did not speak, but arched his hand and bowed his head in response: "Yes!" Subordinates will do it! ”

After speaking, he retreated to the door, and just as he was about to walk out of the door, he heard Yan Shuo's low voice to himself:

"Hey, patriarch? Time flies, how many years, I can't imagine that I can meet the legendary characters of the empire here, since this is the case, let me know for a while that even the emperor will never forget the former prince Tuoba Hong, what kind of ability does he have to reach the sky. ”

Wang Huaiyi was stunned when he heard this, but he didn't dare to stay longer, turned around and closed the door and retreated.

On the way back to his camp, Wang Huaiyi thought for a long time, and finally gave up the idea of sending the news back to Pingyan, but turned around and walked straight to the depths of the barracks.

Behind him, a figure flashed—

The eternal wind blows from the north, and the yellow sand gradually rises, and it does not stop.

A few days later, outside the city.

Wan Yanshuo personally led the Northern Expedition army in a military formation, raising his eyes to the north.

The north wind blew, bringing a layer of yellow sand to the face.

Wan Yan Shuo lifted the reins, stepped off the war horse and neighed in a low voice, and stepped forward, as if there was an irrepressible expectation, Wan Yan Shuo took a deep breath and looked up to the north.

I saw the north, and the line of sight stretched until the heaven and earth intersected, and the place where it was entangled into a line was vast and vast, as far as the eye could see, as if there was no end in sight, and there was no boundary.

There is a faint yellow sand between heaven and earth, like a layer of yellow gauze floating in the air with the wind, which is spectacular.

Outside the Dingbian City, thousands of soldiers and horses are silent, but between this heaven and earth, in this land of rivers and mountains, and opposite the crowd, there is a silent sense of slaughter, like invisible flowing water, flowing quietly.

That's the murderous aura of the Predator.

Behind them, the people in Dingbian City also poured into the streets, waiting for news, wanting to verify the "rumors" that began to circulate yesterday - when the defeated army of Yan fled to Zhongliang in the northern city, they tried in vain to ransack the village, but they were ambushed, so that the whole army was annihilated, and now the villagers in order to prevent the defenders of Zhongliang City from going south and avenge the fleeing soldiers, they took refuge in Dingbian as a whole and wanted to use the power of the guards to avoid the disaster.

Wan Yan Shuo, the commander of the border garrison, agreed to their request, sent 10,000 soldiers north to meet them, and personally led the army out of the city to meet them today, and with great sincerity, accepted this village that was about to be in danger.

Everyone is waiting at this moment!

I don't know what Murong Chui, the emperor of Yan State, who was thousands of miles away, would think about when he got this news, and whether he would regret it and regret using Dingbian City as a bait to implement his huge and complex strategy of defending the dead?

Wan Yan Shuo raised his head, his eyes narrowed slightly, and looked to the north, and it would not be long before they arrived.

The patriarch, Tuoba Hong, will surprise him?

He sighed softly when others were not paying attention, the wind from the north, blowing in his face, with a desolation, it was the wind blowing from the wilderness of the northern country, and it made people want to go up and conquer.

He looked back slightly, and saw a column of soldiers in armor behind him, standing with their heads held high, like stone sculptures that would never move, standing there, guarding this city and guarding the land behind them!

What the blade is pointing at, that's the direction of the northern broken leaves!

Wan Yan Shuo bowed his head slightly, turned his head, and took a deep breath, not long after, the army will set off, where will his footprints be farthest away?

Just when he was a little stunned, he suddenly heard several generals around him whispering, his body was shocked, and he raised his head to look north.

I saw in the distance, where heaven and earth intersected, as if there were countless figures, slowly revealed.

On the Dingbian city wall, the people from all walks of life who were instructed by Wan Yanshuo to climb the city looked at the familiar scene and slowly clenched their fists.

At that time, the people who lived in the mountains to avoid the wind and sand returned to their hometowns every year around the city were after the beginning of spring, but now, they appear in the wind and sand.

Rumors, after all, are true.

Some people, a heart, gradually cooled down.

When the figure gradually moved south and was about to approach, Wan Yan Shuo stretched out his right hand and made a move forward, and the army shouted in unison, following the sound of Wan Yan Shuo's horses' hooves, stepping forward!

The sound of the army stomping on the ground almost made the city walls tremble!

The army lifted the curtain of yellow sand and passed through it, looking at it from a high place, as if a hole had been opened between heaven and earth, and the army crossed through it.

Soon, the two teams were together.

Under the escort of Wang Huaiyi's 10,000 soldiers and horses, the people saw Yan Shuo's army coming quickly, thinking that something had happened, and they were all shocked and inexplicable, and there were many discussions.

At the front of the team, the patriarch saw Yan Shuo coming on horseback, his eyes flashed, and after a moment of silence, he walked forward slowly, and after Yan Shuo approached, he bowed and saluted, and said loudly:

"The old man led the people in the village to take refuge in General Wanyan, and I hope the general will take him in!"

Wan Yanshuo hurriedly turned over and dismounted, took a step forward, helped the patriarch up, and replied in a loud voice:

"The patriarch can lead the crowd to come, it is a trust in my patriotic soldiers, why be so polite!"

After speaking, he let go of his body, made a gesture of please, and said, "Patriarch, please." ”

Seeing that Yan Shuo was so polite, the people behind the patriarch all breathed a sigh of relief, and the atmosphere instantly eased.

On the city wall, the people of Dingbian saw that Yan Shuo and the patriarch led the people to walk slowly under the escort of the patriotic soldiers, knowing that the previous news had been implemented, so they walked down the city wall one after another, and told the people in the city who were still waiting for the news of the result.

For a time, the status of the patriotic soldiers in the hearts of the people of Dingbian City has improved a lot, and the image of the Yan army has been severely discounted.

The voices of the people were scattered from inside the city to outside the city.

In the crowd, the patriarch was chatting and laughing with Wan Yanshuo while looking at the army displayed on either side of them, and he saw something different in this army.

It was the temperament of that mysterious army in the depths of memory, in a remote corner south of the Han Kingdom, forgotten by the Sacred Continent.

He frowned, and looked deeply at one of the soldiers, but before he could see anything abnormal, he heard Wan Yan Shuo next to him laugh in a voice that could only be heard by the two of them:

"I didn't expect that the patriarch had been away from his homeland for many years, and he could still feel the breath of the army he once commanded, which is really commendable, and it is no wonder that the Wu Yue army can be defeated and slaughtered by a group of rabble."

The patriarch's body was obviously shocked when he heard this, a trace of panic flashed in his eyes, and his steps staggered a little, and it took a while to stabilize his body and reply in a low voice: "Old man can't understand what you are talking about, Lord Wanyan." ”

Wan Yanshuo's eyes flashed when he saw this, smiled slightly, and replied:

"My Wanyan family is also considered to be the first in the world when I leave the country, and I know a little bit about many secrets of the royal family, before the Wanyan patriarch sent me to the Han Kingdom to assist Princess Tuoba Yu, he had already told me in detail about your deeds, patriarch, no, it's Tuoba Hong, Tuoba Prince, Wanyan Shuo is here to ask you for peace!"

The patriarch's eyes flashed, he shook his head, and replied: "Lord Wanyan is really a dragon among people, I didn't expect to be able to guess the identity of the old man in such a short period of time. ”

After hearing this, Yan Shuo smiled and said, "Heaven has its own arrangements, if it weren't for the perennial wind and sand on your side, I'm afraid that Yan Shuo won't be able to see you until he dies," Speaking of this, he suddenly paused and continued:

"I wonder if Prince Hong is still carrying out the tasks assigned by the emperor and the patriarchs? As far as the villain knows, Prince Hong, your task has not been completed. ”

Tuoba Hong's body trembled after hearing this, and he turned his head to look at Wan Yan Shuo and said, "You even know this, are you still a person from the 'Hidden Eagle'?" ”

Wan Yanshuo was noncommittal, laughed, suddenly pointed to the soldiers on both sides, and said loudly:

"Patriarch, please see, my patriotic army is neat, and the soldiers all have the ambition to go north to attack Yan, how can they be like Yan State, give up Dingbian and give up the people!"

After speaking, he stood up, turned back, looked at the "surrendered" people with different expressions, and said loudly: "As long as I am Wanyan Shuo, as long as there is my patriotic army, we will never allow the Yan thief to bully you again!" ”

As soon as the words fell, the surrounding soldiers responded in unison: "Swear to defend the Dingbian!" Protect the people! ”

A moment later, the people inside and outside the city echoed, and the sound was ten miles, and the earth trembled.