The news of the Han army's battle was like a drop of water falling into a hot oil pot, and the sound of "crackling" made everyone blind. The Xianbei people have been on their own for decades, and began to attack each other with the Han army, although the Han army is defending more and attacking less, the Xianbei people have been in the initiative, but the Han army also has the opportunity to take the initiative. With the decline of the national strength of the Han Dynasty, the Han army has not taken the initiative to fight for nearly 20 years, the most recent one is the Beizhong Lang general Zhang Huan led the troops to attack, but beheaded 200 levels, after that, the rise of Tanshi Huai, the power of the Xianbei people turned prosperous, and the Han army has been at a disadvantage of passive defense. Xianbei people are coming, ensuring self-defense, and being able to avoid major losses is a victory, and if they can fight back and gain, it is a commendable victory.

took the initiative to go out to fight, except for those elderly soldiers, ordinary people have no such impression at all. This time, the Han army attacked in five ways, swept through the western Xianbei, and returned with a full load, which surprised many people who were afraid of the Xianbei people.

The Xianbei people were also very surprised, they always thought that the Han people did not dare to go out of the fortress, including Liu Xiu, whether it was in Macheng before, or later in Bingzhou, they all lured the Xianbei people to fight to avoid the shortcomings of the Han army after the Han army could not continue to fight, although the Xianbei people were planted in his hands, but they did not think that Liu Xiu had the courage to go out of the fortress, so they felt safe when they moved the tribe north for hundreds of miles.

This misunderstanding made them suffer huge losses, more importantly, the Han army went out to fight, swept the Xianbei tribe at the same time, but also rescued a large number of captive Han people, these people have taken advantage of the gap to kill the Xianbei slave owners, do everything possible to escape back to the border fortress, after suffering in the land of the Xianbei people for so many years, once again saw the battle flag of the Han army, eat a hot meal, many people were in tears, their gratitude made many Han soldiers moved, more feel that the burden on their shoulders is heavy, morale is even higher.

In the face of the impatient attack of Xianbei, the Han army fought tenaciously and defended the border fortresses one by one.

At the same time, the confidence of the Xianbei people was greatly frustrated, especially the wild wolf tribe and the wild sand tribe that had suffered heavy losses, and in the hopeless situation of captivity, they had to ask for help from Danhan Mountain, their cattle and sheep were either eaten by the Han or burned to ashes, without the support of Danhan Mountain, they could not survive this winter.

Their demands embarrassed the sandalwood, and their accusations made the sandalwood furious. Tan Shihuai ordered a full-scale invasion of the Han Realm, to teach Liu Xiu a lesson, and for a while, there was wolf smoke on the border of thousands of miles from east to west, and golden drums everywhere.

When the sandalstone acacia was thunderous, Liu Xiu returned to Yangshu Lake, the five-way army had all returned to the Saine, the results were quite rich, but the losses were minimal, the most prominent was Lu Bu's department, out of the fortress for two thousand miles, sweeping nearly 100 tribes of all sizes, killing more than 1,000 enemies in total, but he had no casualties, from Lu Bu to every ordinary soldier was highly motivated, shouting that this battle was both enjoyable and not enjoyable, enjoyable is like a bamboo, enjoyable, but the fun is not to meet a weighty opponent, the victory is too easy.

Liu Xiu is not as easy as them, he is paying attention to the news from all over the country every day, the Xianbei people invaded, if they are allowed to attack the Sai, not only is his achievements out of the fortress this time not worth mentioning, but the results of this year will also be ruined, and whether the border stoppers can block the attack of the Xianbei people has become a crucial test. If the Xianbei people can be stopped, then the people of Tuntian and herding will believe that they are safe, and they will do things with peace of mind in the future, if the Xianbei people kill them again, then a large number of people will definitely flee from this place next year, and Tuntian will become an empty word.

Therefore, Liu Xiu ordered to strictly defend the fortresses, and the cavalry was ready to attack at any time to relieve the threat of the Xianbei people.

At night, Liu Xiu rubbed his sore eyes, straightened his somewhat stiff legs, and leaned back. Feng Xue hurriedly handed over a pillow, picked up Liu Xiu's leg and rested it on his lap, and skillfully pinched him. As her slender and powerful fingers pinched, a sour numb was released, and her tense body slowly relaxed.

"Fengxue, you've been much more diligent lately." Liu Xiu smiled, "You have never been so kind to me before. ”

Feng Xue pursed her lips and smiled, but did not answer him, and her two hands lightly tapped all the way from his legs. Although she has not yet received news from the Niutou Tribe, she knows that Liu Xiu's results are so brilliant that there is no reason for the Xianbei army attacking the Niutou tribe not to withdraw, and the crisis of the Niutou tribe is solved.

Hao Zhao walked in, glanced at Fengxue with a blind eye, and handed a battle report to Liu Xiu: "My lord, the battle report of Yunzhongsai, they repelled Yan Liyou's thirteenth attack, and more than eight hundred people have been beheaded, Yan Liyou's attack is weak, and they have retreated." ”

"Good." Liu Xiu took the battle report and quickly glanced at it: "This commander named Zhang Yang is a talent, remember his name, and remind me when I commend him." ”

"Whoa." Hao Zhao said with a smile: "He, like Gao Sai, is a brave and calm general. ”

"Yes, the Han Dynasty is full of talents, as long as you dig hard, you don't have to worry about no talents." Liu Xiu put the battle report on the case with relief, thought about it, and asked, "Is there any news from Guanglu City?" ”

"Yes." Hao Zhao took out another battle report and handed it over with both hands.

This is a battle report written by Xu Huang himself, although his handwriting is not beautiful, but it is very rigorous, and there is no reluctance. Xu Huang said in a plain tone that although there were more than 10,000 Xianbei troops surrounding Guanglu City, they did not have large-scale siege equipment, and the Xianbei people were not good at attacking the city, so they could only attack the city in the most primitive way of ant attachment. The soldiers of the Han army bravely killed the enemy, the morale was flourishing, and they had repelled the enemy's seventh attack, killing and wounding nearly 1,000 enemies, especially the heavy armor soldiers sent by Liu Xiu in the past, they were simply invincible, invincible killing gods, Xianbei people deserved to be invincible, and now as soon as they saw the heavy armor soldiers with iron armor all over their bodies, Xianbei people fled from the wind.

Liu Xiu smiled proudly and sent Guan Yu to Guanglu City, just to test the combat effectiveness of the heavy armor. Because of the cost of heavy armor, the cost of a heavy armor soldier is equivalent to two or three knights, which is equivalent to ten ordinary foot soldiers, and if they are not strong enough to fight, it makes no sense to spend so much money to equip them. Moreover, it is not suitable for these heavy armor soldiers to pursue the cavalry, it is best to defend the city, and with this hundred heavy armor soldiers to assist in the defense, the security of Guanglu City has been greatly increased.

"Looks like we don't need to go out again." Liu Xiu chuckled softly: "We can live a stable year." ”

"My lord, do you want to go back to Luoyang to report on your work?" Fengxue blinked and chuckled softly.

"I don't think I can go back this year, and I've asked Wang Beijia to go to Beijing to report on my behalf." Liu Xiu said. According to the rules, the state assassins must return to Beijing every year to report on the work of the past year. However, now that it is wartime, the responsibility of the general of Beizhong Lang he is heavier, and the post of assassin will naturally be put aside and replaced by Wang Yun. What's more, those accounts and political affairs, although he knows those situations, but when it comes to them, they are not as good as Wang Yun, and it is better for him to do it.

It is conceivable that Wang Yun's report to Beijing this time may not be simple, and he is likely to face the questioning of the three princes and nine secretaries. The change made by Bingzhou can be said to be a great change that has never been seen before, the government and the people signed an agreement, rather than being enforced by the government, which is probably a new thing in history, which involves too many aspects, whether it can find a basis in the sage scriptures to prove that this measure is legal and reasonable, it is a huge test for Wang Yun.

Liu Xiu twisted his fingers, calculated the time, and asked Hao Zhao to call Jia Xu. Jia Xu was next door, and most of the documents to be handed over to Liu Xiu had to go through him first, so he was busier than Liu Xiu.

"Wenhe, can the war end within ten days?"

Jia Xu thought for a while: "It should be no problem, judging from the news from the various Sai, the Xianbei people rushed out this time, which seemed to be fierce, but in fact there was no means of attack." After a year of rectification, the fortresses replenished their troops and food, repaired the relevant facilities, and were heavily garrisoned, while the three fortresses of Yunzhong, Wuyuan, and Gaoque, where the Xianbei people concentrated their attacks, were guarded by capable generals, and the Xianbei people had almost no chance to break through. ”

He paused, and said confidently: "I think the Xianbei people have become the end of the strong crossbow, as long as our army goes out of the fortress to shake the battle flag and beat the war drum, they will flee in the wilderness." ”

Liu Xiu smiled slightly and nodded: "Okay, let's prepare, let's drive the Xianbei people away, and then let Jingsheng write a good article to report the success, and boost the ambition of the prince." ”

Jia Xu smiled, "Liu Jingsheng can't wait, maybe the draft has already been completed." ”

"Hehehe......" they looked at each other and smiled. Jia Xu stroked his beard and thought about it again: "My lord, it would be great if I could get the letter of surrender from the Niutou tribe now." ”

Liu Xiu understood, waved his hand, and motioned for Jia Xu to go out first. Feng Xue pursed her mouth, lowered her head, and said in embarrassment: "It's impossible for my Abba to surrender." ”

"I know." Liu Xiu nodded, he also knew that Jia Xu's suggestion just now was actually for Feng Xue, he now has a deal with the Niutou Tribe, if the Niutou tribe can hand over a table, then what he will do in the future will be justified, otherwise this may be a hidden danger, maybe someone will sue him at any time. Of course, it's okay for the Son of Heaven to trust him now, but when the Son of Heaven doesn't trust him, it's hard to say.

Liu Xiu pondered for a moment: "Do you have a beautiful woman like you in your Niutou tribe?" ”

Feng Xue was stunned for a moment, looked at Liu Xiu embarrassedly, and then lowered his head shyly. Liu Xiu looked at her speechlessly, and the words that followed rolled in his mouth a few times, but he was still embarrassed to say it. It seems that we have to find another way to do this, and I can't get a result by asking her.

This time, the Han army went out of the fortress, in order to ensure the speed of the march, basically did not take prisoners, and when it came to the final return trip, some women were captured, these people as long as they were a little beautiful, they were all captured by her soldiers, and it was impossible to find a beautiful woman who could be dedicated to the Son of Heaven. And the exotic appearance of the wind and snow can't be concealed at all, and sooner or later it will be known by the Son of Heaven, who knows if the Son of Heaven will have any ideas. Although Liu Xiu and the Son of Heaven have not been together for a long time, they know his surname very well, and they are very generous when they are generous, but they are also very troublesome when they are stingy.

Thinking of the Son of Heaven, Liu Xiu suddenly felt a little weird, last time the Son of Heaven wanted to use him, and he had no intention of robbing Wang Chu, but he just deliberately wanted to give him a favor, so he let him mess around, and he snatched Wang Chu back, Fengxue is not like this, and the Son of Heaven is a good and fresh person, will he take a fancy to this exotic woman?

You have to stop him, and the best way is to offer him a few beauties from the Niutou tribe first, and set up an ambush first. But this kind of thing doesn't seem to be suitable for such a pure woman as Fengxue, it's better to talk to Feng Crack directly, he is a smart person, as long as it doesn't violate his principles, it should still be possible for everyone to cooperate with each other.

"Bodao, it's not early, let's rest early." Liu Xiu glanced at the leaky pot in the corner of the room and told Hao Zhao to rest early. Hao Zhao looked at the leaky pot in some surprise, and felt that Liu Xiu had slept a little early today, but he didn't ask anything, picked up the official document and walked out. Liu Xiu got up and closed the door, and didn't forget to take care of Jia Xu to rest early, and then tiptoed back to the couch, and said to Fengxue with some anxiety: "Hurry up, fetch water and wash your feet, I'm tired, adult, I have to go to bed early." ”

Feng Xue heard this, and didn't want to have him, so he hurriedly fetched water, mixed some hot water from the pot hanging on the fire pit, tested the water temperature, and brought it to Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu washed his feet and beckoned again: "You also hurry up and wash and rest." ”

Feng Xue answered, washed his feet, poured water, and walked straight to his bedroom. Liu Xiu hurriedly took two steps, hugged her slender waist from behind, put it to her mouth, and laughed softly: "It's so boring to sleep alone, let's sleep together." ”

Fengxue struggled to turn her head, looking at Liu Xiu's evil smile on her face, only then did she understand Liu Xiu's true intention of being in a hurry to rest today, her face was suddenly flushed, and her ears were burning, she twisted for a moment, but she resolutely pushed Liu Xiu's arm away, and shook her hand again and again: "No, no." ”

Liu Xiu was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously glanced at her lower abdomen, and his heart would not be so coincidental. "Why?"

Lu ...... Mrs. Lu hasn't taught me yet, I'...... I can't ......" Feng Xue's face was swollen and red, his head shook like a rattle, and he couldn't say a complete sentence in a squeak, but Liu Xiu still understood. Mrs. Lu? She said that Fengxue is a good ding, but I don't plan to cultivate and become an immortal, no matter what good Ding you are or not, what if I will destroy the heavens?

Liu Xiu didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, rushed forward, hugged the wind and snow and ran to the bed. The more Feng Xue struggled in his arms, the more interesting he felt, and there was a faint evil pleasure in his heart. Tearing off the coat of the wind and snow, stuffing her into the quilt, taking off her own coat again, getting into it with a cheer, hugging the trembling body of the wind and snow, arching her nose excitedly, taking a deep breath, and exaggeratingly said: "It's so fragrant!" ”

"No...... No. Fengxue's face was red, and he wanted to push him away weakly, but he couldn't resist his brute strength, and he untied his clothes little by little in the struggle, and his silky skin was covered with goosebumps under Liu Xiu's touch, and her snort became thicker, but she maintained the last trace of calm, and insisted: "Husband, husband, I can't now." ”

"The husband has called, what else can't be?" Liu Xiu's eyes widened, his hand reached behind her back, and slid along her back into her dirty pants, ready to untie her last line of defense.

Feng Xue struggled to push Liu Xiu away, and said in a hurry: "Husband, I don't have the identity of a princess, nor do I have the talent of a sister of the Wang family, what can I do for my husband...... That's the only one, please husband......"

It's okay to mention the princess, but when Wang Chu is mentioned, Liu Xiu suddenly seems to have been drained of his main heart, the evil energy in his body disappeared without a trace, and the little evil pleasure in his heart also came to naught. He stared at the wind and snow in frustration, collapsed on the bed, and sighed wistfully.

"Husband, are you angry?" Feng Xue half-sat up, covering his chest in vain with one hand, and pushing Liu Xiu with the other.

"You've hit my death hole." Liu Xiu turned his head and smiled silently.

The wind and snow wanted to speak and stopped, and almost cried. When Liu Xiu saw it, his heart softened, he pulled her into his arms, patted her back gently, and said angrily: "What did that old witch tell you?" ”

After talking for a long time, Liu Xiu finally understood what was going on. Lu Shi said to Feng Xue, your body is very special, if you can practice the room technique with Liu Xiu, it will be of great benefit to Liu Xiu's cultivation. She also said to Feng Xue, you are a Hu person, you have neither the noble status of the eldest princess, nor the talent of Wang Chu, but you have unique conditions in this regard.

Liu Xiu gritted his teeth in anger, this Mrs. Lu is really good at making trouble, seeing that he didn't take the suite of Chinese medicine she said seriously, he came to bewitch Fengxue. Feng Xue is a very simple-minded person, otherwise he would not have been deceived by his nonsense husband's knife technique, and when he heard this, of course, he obeyed his words, and he had to learn some room techniques from Mrs. Lu to help him practice.

"I'm so strong, what else do I need to learn?" Liu Xiu defended without giving up.

"You are very strong, but you are dealing with the king, and you are still too far behind him." Feng Xue shook his head, and his soft blonde hair swept around Liu Xiu's nose, tickling.

"Is the sandalwood locust strong?" Liu Xiu said dissatisfied.

Fengxue hesitated for a moment, leaned on Liu Xiu's bare face, and looked up at Liu Xiu: "Don't be angry, in my opinion, you are at most about the same as Brother Huaizong, perhaps, you are a little worse than him." She pinched her fingers and said cautiously, "Of course, it's just a little bit." ”

Liu Xiu crooked his mouth disdainfully: "Could it be that Huai Zong is so far worse than Tanshi Huai?" He glanced at Feng Xue, and when he saw the pair of jade peaks that Feng Xue had flattened because of his chest, he couldn't help but look a little straight, and the clone who was originally dejected by Wang Chu's name was a little ready to move.

"Hmm." Fengxue nodded vigorously, she felt the changes in Liu Xiu's body, and didn't dare to tease him anymore, so she hurriedly rolled aside, picked up her clothes and put them on randomly, and said while putting them on: "Although Brother Huaizong is a rare hero, his martial arts at the age of twenty are at most similar to those of the king when he was fifteen years old. If you can still be on par with Brother Huaizong now, then you won't be able to support even a round in front of the king. ”

"Is it so powerful?" Liu Xiu was taken aback and sat up, "Tell me how powerful the sandalstone acacia is." ”

"I don't know how powerful he is, I just know that no one on the grassland can stop his blow. Before I met the king, my father was also a hero on the grassland, but when I met the king, I willingly bowed to the king. Feng Xue's eyes flashed with admiration: "Uncle Murong is also like this, they are all rare heroes on the grassland, and they don't look down on ordinary people at all, but when they see the king, they admire it from the bottom of their hearts." ”

Liu Xiu was skeptical. Although he doesn't dare to say that his current martial arts are the best in the world, there is no problem at all against masters like Lu Bu and Guan Yu, and he doesn't even have the strength to fight back in the face of Tanshi Huai? Could it be that it was really just an accident to be able to defeat Huaizong in the first place?

Is this still human? Such a powerful person, why does he not have a reputation in later generations, according to his ability, he should have entered the Central Plains to be the emperor a long time ago.

"Fighting a war is not something that can be won by one person." Feng Xue disagreed with Liu Xiu's suspicions: "Your martial arts skills are very good, you can probably deal with twenty ordinary warriors at the same time, the king's martial arts skills are better, but he can only deal with two hundred ordinary warriors at most, maybe ordinary bows and arrows have no effect on him, but your Han crossbow is so powerful, you can shoot through the cowhide two or three hundred steps away, he can't always be on guard." ”

Liu Xiu felt that this made sense, when attacking in a small formation, the role of the individual may be obvious, such as Xu Yu and Guan Yu, a master like Xu Yu and Guan Yu against twenty or thirty enemies, and they can defeat the opponent with their personal strength alone, but if the army is against each other, and thousands of knights are hedged, at this time, the role of the individual is very limited, maybe you are faster and more accurate than ordinary people, and you can pick off the weapons of ten people in one bite, but what about the eleventh person? What about the hundredth man? There will always be one who will catch your flaws and slash you to death.

Thinking about Tanshi Huai, with an illegitimate son from an unknown background, unified the entire grassland in less than twenty years, integrated the Xianbei people who were independent, and established a large alliance of Xianbei tribes that was no less than the Xiongnu Empire established by Mao Dun back then, although this is inseparable from his intelligence, but the most respected thing on the grassland is martial arts, and it is reasonable that his martial arts are clever.

But Liu Xiu couldn't imagine what kind of person a person who could defeat him in one round, and what kind of martial arts his martial arts were. It's not that it's a little bit higher, it's not just that you can beat him, the gap doesn't seem to be on the same level.

Liu Xiu thought of Zhang Jiao's spell and Mrs. Lu's spell, and then thought of the green bull horn snatched from the fire fox and the short knife snatched from Huai Zong's hand. Liu Xiu took the short knife thrown aside and looked at it for a long time, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible.

"Artifact?" Feng Xue thought about it carefully, and shook her head affirmatively: "At least I haven't heard of any artifact from the king, if there is, it should be this short knife, because this short knife is the king's coming-of-age ceremony for Brother Huaizong." ”

After a while, she bit her finger again and said thoughtfully: "I heard Brother Huai Zong say that the king once told him that the most powerful weapon is his own body. ”

This sounds familiar. Liu Xiu thought to himself.

(To be continued)