Chapter Forty-Nine: Nephrite

The Taiping Army in Changsha fought two battles in one day, and there were many things that needed to be arranged after the war. The soldiers and horses on the south bank who pursued the Qing army came back one after another, and the Qing army on the south bank was either killed or taken prisoner, except for Taqib who led hundreds of Qing troops to flee in the direction of Liuyang in the east.

The original capture of more than 2,000 Qing army captives after a few days of hard labor, has lost all their strength, coupled with the persuasion of He Bin, Zhou Zhaoyao and others, to the point that most of the local soldiers in Hunan Yong removed their braided hair to join the Taiping Army, Xiao Yungui ordered Zhou Zhaoyao to disperse these people into various departments. Coupled with the fact that these days there are poor young people in the city to join, Xiao Yungui's soldiers and horses have reached more than 6,000 people.

Originally, he wanted to hold a banquet to celebrate, but the soldiers and horses on the north bank led by Lin Fengxiang pursued far away, and it was estimated that he would not be able to return to the army until tomorrow morning, so Xiao Yungui had to give up and ordered the troops to reorganize the soldiers and horses, properly take care of the wounded, and the dead Taiping Army soldiers were all properly buried.

After hastily eating in Li Kaifang's barracks, dragging his tired body, Xiao Yungui returned to the governor's yamen, and barely got to his own wing, and suddenly found that in addition to his own personal guard swordsman on duty, there were eight more heroic female soldiers at the door. Seeing the female soldier at the door, Xiao Yungui only then remembered that Hong Xuanjiao was still resting in the room, and remembered Hong Xuanjiao's beautiful face and bewitching posture, Xiao Yungui only felt that his mouth was dry for a while, and the tiredness on his body suddenly disappeared.

Before stepping forward and pushing the door into the house, Xiao Yungui coughed a few times and said, "Everyone is tired for a day, let's go down and rest early." He said this to the male and female guards at the door, but several male soldiers didn't say much, and went together with their fists and orders. Hong Xuanjiao's female soldiers just ate and laughed, refusing to move.

Xiao Yungui frowned and said, "Sisters, you should also go down and rest earlier, and you Commander Hong will be taken care of by me." ”

An older female soldier smiled and said, "His Royal Highness the King of the West, although this little Bie is newlywed, our commander has an order in front of her, she will rest in it and not let anyone disturb her." ”

Xiao Yungui couldn't bear it, and said hurriedly: "I am the King of the West, but I am not an outsider, and now I order you to go down and rest." ”

When several female soldiers heard the order, they had to hug their fists together and take the order loudly, but when they went down, several women were all stuttering and laughing, and it turned out that Xiao Yungui's anxious appearance made the female soldiers feel funny. Xiao Yungui didn't think there was anything funny about this, the people in the house were his daughter-in-law with a righteous body, and he pushed the door into the house at the moment.

There was no light in the room, it was dark, and the incense tent seemed to be hanging low on the side of the gums, and Hong Xuanjiao should still be sleeping peacefully. This wing room was originally Luo Bingzhang's bedroom, the bookcase, screen, curtain, Luo bed, desk, rattan chair are all available, since the capture of the governor's yamen, Xiao Yungui has been living here, the rest of the wings, guest rooms are occupied by the generals of the Taiping Army. In the morning, after Hong Xuanjiao and other female soldiers and boy scouts arrived in Changsha, Hong Xuanjiao was injured and could only be arranged to rest in Xiao Yungui's room first, and the rest of the female soldiers were arranged to live temporarily in the mansion of the Changsha prefect in the afternoon, while the boy scouts returned to their respective camps and lived with male soldiers.

There seemed to be a faint fragrance of women in the room, Xiao Yungui swallowed his mouth, and a strange feeling rose in his heart, not only the warmth of reunion after a long absence, but also the exciting feeling of stealing jade and stealing incense and engaging other people's wives, in short, at this moment, his heart was hot, and he reached out to touch the incense tent tremblingly.

Xiao Yungui's big hand reached into the tent, and did not touch the warm fragrant nephrite as he wished, a chill of iron was coming, Xiao Yungui subconsciously withdrew his hand, and a gust of wind swept through his elbow, only to hear a snort, the sleeves tightened, and the wrist guard at the wrist was loosened, and it had been cut off. …,

Xiao Yungui was startled, could it be that there was an enemy in the house? In a flash of lightning, the sound of the blade breaking through the air followed, and Xiao Yungui was not allowed to think about it, he hurriedly flashed, and the sharp blade swept against his chest, and the placket of his chest was cut open.

Under the shock, Xiao Yungui's full of heat was suddenly extinguished, and he took a few steps back, knocked down the jade screen, and retreated to the outer room. A delicate figure on the bed flew in, and the blades broke through the air one after another, Xiao Yungui was caught off guard, so he had to retreat again and again, and the rattan chairs in the room did not know how many they had knocked down, and the sound of clanging was endless.

Through the glow of the window lattice, Xiao Yungui finally saw clearly that there was a long knife dangling in front of him, but the person who was chasing after him with the knife couldn't see his face clearly, and he could only vaguely distinguish that this person was bewitching, and it should be a woman!

"Xuanjiao! I'm Xiao ...... Xiao Chaogui! Xiao Yungui dodged and shouted at the same time, he almost said that he was Xiao Yungui, but fortunately he stopped the car in time and didn't say anything about it. There should be only one woman in the house, Hong Xuanjiao is in a daze, and he doesn't recognize himself in the darkness of the house, so he boldly lifts a woman's bed curtain, of course, she will be chased by others, Hong Xuanjiao is not an ordinary woman, and her martial arts are not weak in her impression

At that moment, he shouted to himself to get up, who knew that after shouting, the other party's blade became even more violent.

Isn't this woman Hong Xuanjiao? Xiao Yungui was suddenly shocked in his heart, could it be that someone sneaked into the room to restrain Hong Xuanjiao and deliberately waited here to assassinate himself? The opponent's blade was getting closer and closer, and Xiao Yungui retreated to the corner of the wall and had no way out, so he had to pull out the saber on his waist and parry.

Xiao Chaogui's knife skills are very good, so Xiao Yungui doesn't have to think about it at all, his body will naturally react, if he thinks about how to deal with it, his skills will become sluggish, and his mind is empty at the moment, allowing his body to react subconsciously, and he doesn't think about how to parry at all.

After Xiao Yungui also used the saber, the room suddenly made a sonorous sound, and after fighting a few moves, Xiao Yungui had a thought in his heart, the other party also used a knife! Xiao Yungui's knife is heavy and fierce, the woman's knife technique is smart and fast, often from a direction that she can't imagine, and the knife speed is extremely fast, her own knife technique is suitable for fighting on the battlefield, and the narrow place in this room cannot be used, and there is a faint tendency to be restrained by the opponent's smart and small knife technique.

"Someone! There are assassins! Xiao Yungui remembered the loss he had suffered in the morning, and immediately drank loudly, but he didn't expect that it was he who transferred the guard at the door.

Hearing Xiao Yungui's call, the sharp knife in the woman's hand sped up even more, Xiao Yungui's left and right blocks were dwarfed, and he gradually retreated to the side of the desk, and suddenly felt a pain in his left arm, as if he had been stabbed, and his left hand naturally shrank, not wanting to touch a purple sand incense burner on the table. Xiao Yungui didn't think about it, endured the severe pain in his left arm, picked up the incense burner and threw it over.

This incense burner weighed more than ten catties, and suddenly a strong wind flew in, and the woman didn't dare to take it hard, so she had to flash sideways. Taking advantage of this stall, Xiao Yungui roared, threw down the saber after blocking the opponent's sharp knife, and flew straight over, this pounce was very fast, and immediately pounced on the woman under him. He was secretly happy, his body's reaction was indeed good, the opponent's knife skills were exquisite, and he couldn't compete in the narrow room, so he could only win in hand-to-hand combat.

In the darkness, Xiao Yungui only felt that nephrite was in his arms, but he had no time to enjoy it, after identifying the other party's figure, he grabbed the other party's right arm holding the knife, not wanting the woman to be very clever, after the right hand was held, he reluctantly threw the knife in his right hand to his left hand, and then slashed at Xiao Yungui's waist, this woman can use a knife with both hands!

Xiao Yungui was already close, the woman's left arm had reached behind her back, and she couldn't turn left and right, the woman's left hand knife was fast and ruthless, seeing that she couldn't dodge at all, he sighed, and the lights outside the house suddenly turned on, through the light from the window lattice, Xiao Yungui saw that it was Hong Xuanjiao who was slashing at him with a knife in front of him!