Ningcheng was jubilant, and even Xia Yu, who was usually not smiling, showed a smile on his black face. The stone-throwing machine, which had been hidden in the snow for several days, was a great success for the first time, burning thousands of Huns to death, leaving the Xianbei people stunned, demoralized, and more importantly, beheading Dou Gui - the culprit was killed, and the remaining Xianbei people, who were not good at attacking the city, lost at least half of their combat strength.

Now Xia Yu is worried about whether the Xianbei people will retreat? Although the Xianbei people have been severely damaged, there are still more than 20,000 people outside the city, and although his more than 1,000 cavalry is equipped with stirrups and long soldiers, the combat effectiveness has been greatly improved, but they are not sure enough to hunt down and kill the Xianbei people who are ten times their size.

If you win, you will win a small victory, and if you lose, you will lose a big defeat, and Xia Yu still has a longer way to go if he wants to break this situation.

"Can you contact the Wuhuan people outside the city?" Xia Yu pulled Lu Min and Liu Xiu aside and said politely. This time he was able to win this big victory, thanks to two aspects, one is that Lu Min exerted his influence among the displaced people, and mobilized at least more than a thousand displaced people to supplement the front line, which not only reduced the loss of his troops, but also successfully made Dou Gui believe that the troops in the city were insufficient and made a risky decision. The other is the stone throwing machine built by Liu Xiu, without these stone throwing machines, he could not destroy the stone throwing machine outside the city, let alone throw the burning oil tank out of Feng Yuan, turning passive into active.

Be polite to useful people, this is Xia Yu's basic concept, although Lu Min is a little deviant, Liu Xiu is also a little unruly, at this time can be tolerated, winning this battle, winning this battle, now is the most important top priority.

Liu Xiu smiled silently and turned his gaze to Lu Min. Lu Min coughed, put away his smile, and said with confidence: "After they attacked Huaizong's baggage last time, they shouldn't go too far, once they know that the Xianbei people have lost the battle and the siege of Ningcheng is relaxed, they will definitely send someone to contact them." ”

Xia Yu thought about it for a while, and still looked at Lu Min with some expectation, Lu Min frowned a little embarrassed: "Or, the adults will send someone out of the city to take the initiative to contact them?" ”

Xia Yu replied: "Of course that's the best, it's just that these Wuhuan people have always paid little attention to the people in our school's Captain's Mansion, this time if it weren't for Lu Jun's face, coupled with Deran's means, they would not have been able to send so many reinforcements." If you want them to bow down to their orders, they still need to go out of the city once. He laughed dryly, and added, "Of course, I will also send someone to protect Deran and go with me." ”

Lu Min was very reluctant, he knew that his temper with Xia Yu was not right, if there was no Liu Xiu to mediate in it, they could have a conflict at any time, and with Liu Xiu here, he could also let Liu Xiu do some specific affairs, so that he would not be laughed at by others for his low eyesight, and he would only move his mouth - speaking of which, although he has made great progress now, in the eyes of those people, he is still a scholar.

Xia Yu saw that Lu Min was silent, and it was not easy to force him, so he had to knock on the side and say: "Sir, the affairs in the city, it is enough for Mr. to cooperate with me, and it is necessary to go out of the city to contact the Wuhuan people, but it is necessary to be virtuous." ”

Lu Min sighed, and was about to promise him, but Mao Yan suddenly trotted all the way over, and when she saw Lu Min, she didn't care that there were outsiders on her side, so she grabbed Lu Min's arm, and before she could speak, tears fell.

Lu Min was taken aback, Liu Xiu and Xia Yu also looked at each other, although Mao Yan is a woman, she has always been strong these days, no less than a man, to some extent, she is even stronger than Lu Min, she can go into battle, draw a bow, and even once took the soldiers of Zhuo County to fight, she has never been as weak as today.

Something is wrong! Liu Xiu and Xia Yu thought of it together.

"Zixing, Chengming was caught by the Xianbei people." Mao Yan couldn't cry.

Liu Xiu was shocked, Mao Zong was caught by Xianbei people? He was escorting the yellow-shirted girl Wang Chu to Liaodong, how could he be caught by the Xianbei people, so that Wang Chu girl...... Liu Xiu didn't dare to think about it anymore, he only felt a stream of cool air rising up. Mao Yan turned his head to look at him, as soon as he saw his eyes, he knew that he had guessed something, he didn't need to speak, just nodded, and Liu Xiu understood.

"Holy!" Liu Xiu didn't fight in one place, and reflexively kicked on the pillar of the house, kicking the tiles on the house rattling, and several clerks who were working inside thought that the stone thrower outside had thrown stones into it, so they instinctively held their heads and ran out.

"What's going on?" Xia Yu was confused.

Lu Min had a gloomy face, and as soon as he said the matter, Xia Yu stopped talking. With a wave of his hand, he asked the Xianbei envoy to be brought up, turned to the lobby, and sat down on his high couch. Lu Min, Liu Xiu and others hurriedly sat down and watched the development of the situation.

The Xianbei envoy came in, he was a man of medium stature, with a pair of slender eyes that were not in harmony with the square face, his eyes rolled around, his eyes turned around Liu Xiu and Lu Min's bodies, and he chuckled: "Liu Jun, my prince greets you." ”

"Thank you. Is his leg healed? Liu Xiu returned the salute without being humble or arrogant: "The loss of cattle and sheep is not serious, right?" ”

The envoy's eyes lit up, and then he realized that he couldn't be stimulated by Liu Xiu, and said with a smile: "Fortunately, the prince personally attacked, broke through, recaptured all the cattle, sheep and prisoners, and captured a large amount of baggage, and also snatched a few people from him. These people...... seems to be an acquaintance with Liu Jun. My prince didn't know if it was true or not, so he sent me to ask. If it is true, he intends to send them back, and if it is false, then my prince will kill them all to punish them for their nonsense. ”

Xia Yu kept a calm face and didn't speak, he was very unhappy with the Xianbei envoy's action of not taking him seriously, but it was not good to attack in person.

"Really?" Liu Xiu smiled silently: "Your prince is really affectionate and righteous, please thank him on my behalf." But I can't see anyone in your camp. ”

"It's okay, I brought a few tokens, and Liu Jun will know it at a glance." As he spoke, he took out a ribbon and a short knife from his arms, and handed them to Liu Xiu with both hands. Liu Xiu took it, tilted his head and looked at it for a while, shook his head and said, "I haven't seen these things." ”

Mao Yan stretched out her head to look at the back, tears fell again, and she was about to speak, but was stopped by Lu Min. Lu Min shook his head at her and motioned for her not to talk nonsense.

The messenger was stunned for a moment, and turned his head to look at Mao Yan in some surprise: "Does this girl know each other?" ”

Liu Xiu quietly handed the thing to Mao Yan, Mao Yan took it and looked at it calmly: "This is my brother Mao Zong's saber, this is my cousin's ribbon." ”

The messenger breathed a sigh of relief and smiled: "It turns out that they are right, but it seems that Liu Junjian has forgotten." ”

"It's not that I'm forgetful." Liu Xiu smiled: "I'm just a general friend with them, and I'm not very familiar with them in the first place." ”

The envoy hesitated for a moment, and looked at Liu Xiu for a while, hoping to see some clues from Liu Xiu's face, but unfortunately he was disappointed, Liu Xiu's face was calm, and he didn't look like he was lying. He was a little uncertain, Huai Zong asked him to come, mainly to negotiate with Liu Xiu, Huai Zong has always thought that the most difficult thing to deal with in this city is Liu Xiu, from the beginning of the wind and snow to the later raid on the wind crack before the battle, it was all done by this Liu Xiu, now he wants to exchange prisoners, of course, he also has to find Liu Xiu, I never thought that Liu Xiu said bluntly, I am not familiar with them.

If you're not familiar, how can you talk about it? He might exchange the wind and snow father and daughter for two unfamiliar people?

The envoy's momentum was choked suddenly, he swallowed his saliva helplessly, looked at Liu Xiu, then at Mao Yan and Lu Min, and finally looked at Xia Yu. Mao Yan also understood at this time, although there were still tears on her face, she didn't say a word more.

The envoy finally decided to take a gamble, since Mao Yan can sit here, at least she is not an insignificant person. Only then did he turn to Xia Yu and say, "Lord Captain, my prince wants to exchange hostages with you. ”

Xia Yuqiang couldn't help but laugh and said casually: "Oh, how do you want to change it?" ”

(To be continued)