Winter has arrived. Snow has long since fallen in the north. The cold in Kyoto is not as cold as that of the Kushikawa, but it is also a little unbearable.

Today's Kyoto Imperial Palace seems to be very deserted, and the daily government is also pretentious, and the officials are panicking, especially ...... The newly appointed Emperor Star General is actually a woman, how can a woman be worthy of a big responsibility? Could it be that Great Qin is finally going to fall?

Baiguan thought so, but his face was calm as usual. It's just that the little emperor is always in a good mood, and it seems to be better than in the past, as if there is no war, as if there are no rebels and thieves in Lianqingshan City on the banks of the distant Long River. Even the little emperor often entertained hundreds of officials, perhaps to make this deserted palace more lively.

Everything seems absurd.

Compared to the small town of the Imperial Palace, the big city of Kyoto is still very lively, as if people know that the south is safe, but why not the north? Winter in Kyoto is very lively, especially this year, many people choose to come to Kyoto to spend the coldest winter, eat mutton hot pot and sing songs here, and then wait for the battle between Qin and Chu to end.

The idea of the people and the people of the rivers and lakes is always very simple, even if there is a war, they can't hit the capital, right? Even if it hits here, it won't kill innocents indiscriminately, right? What's more, Lianqing and Kyoto are too far apart.

The winter in the Nanban Secret Realm is also for this reason, and it is very lively.

Especially when many people in the rivers and lakes learned that the last building inn that shocked the rivers and lakes to save the martial arts last year was located in the Silver Moon Country, many people from the rivers and lakes came one after another. Some hermit masters really came to taste the craftsmanship of the chef Ding Qiliang, but more laymen still came to inquire about the inn's intentions.

About this war.

Except for the Xuanji Sword Sect, which had already sided with the Chu Army, the rest of the factions remained silent. Strictly speaking, the standing of the nine major factions means the standing of the Jianghu people in the eight city regions, which is not the power of Weimo, but the power that the empire and the Chu army will fight for to determine the victory or defeat.

But no one knows who the huge force of Jianghu martial arts will lean towards.

Then people remembered the son of the former dragon general's first loyal general, the scholar who exposed the conspiracy of Yan Xing.

The scholar was actually a little surprised, and the rest of the inn was the same, although with a group of people from the rivers and lakes, the cook thought that the ghost inn had finally gotten rid of the deficit crisis, but he really didn't expect that there would be so many people coming, the inn could accommodate dozens of people, and when winter came, this huge inn was full every day.

Scholars have to sigh, the shopkeeper looks dull on weekdays, and he doesn't do anything, but he manages a few idle things that are very important, and a person who is so quiet and quiet has been recognized by the rivers and lakes in just one year. Should it be said that a famous teacher produces a high apprentice, or is the shopkeeper an extraordinary person?

It's just that the scholar didn't express his position, and the most sentence that the scholar left to the people in the rivers and lakes was: Eat and drink well, as for what the various sects will think, you will know when the fight starts.

The scholar really didn't know how the various martial arts forces stood in line, the master of the Bajian Sect was missing, the Xuanji Sword Sect stood in line, but there was no performance so far, and the people of the Iron Lion Sect in Linhui City, the people of the Xuanwu Gate of Fujin City, and the people of Yunci Valley in Donghai City were all silent. As for the Anliancheng Buddhism of Wulin Taishan Beidou, Ye Yangcheng Taoism, it is to refuse tourists and close the valley. As for the Hanyin Sect in the northernmost Frost River City, it has always been indifferent to the world, and people only say that they are afraid that the war will start, and the Hanyin Sect will not ask.

So people don't know the movements of these behemoths in the rivers and lakes, but people think that there is a saying that is true.

That is the choice of the last floor inn that can influence the people in the martial arts.

The Iron Lion Sect of Yunci Valley is friendly with the Molou Inn. And if the Yunci Valley Iron Lion Sect takes sides, then a series of reactions will follow. The group of heroes gathered in Nanban to know what would happen to this battle between Qin and Chu.

They are Jianghu people, but they also understand one thing, this war that has been dull for 30 years will not spare any corner of this land and no one is a spectator.

But the scholar didn't tell them what to do.

Although the scholar already had an idea.

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The confrontation between the two armies was dull and boring. But such boredom is mixed with a lot of danger.

Guo Luchuan was a little anxious.

He has always pinned his hopes on Feng Zhan, although this former young master is indeed unsuitable for being an emperor in Guo Luchuan's opinion, Feng Zhan does have a certain fascinating leadership temperament. This ruffian man is informal, and he does things fairly, and he acts recklessly.

For this reason, Fengzhan's final choice was the inn, Guo Luchuan regretted it, but he always thought it was reasonable.

It's just that this friendship between Chu Jun and Feng Zhan really doesn't play a role?

In this war, on the surface, the empire and the Chu army were evenly matched, and the two armies seemed to be not much different in terms of military strength. And in terms of generals, the Divine Soldier Absolute General Battalion may be talented, but after all, it is not the opponent of the eight generals of Eastern Chu, and there are only three Emperor Star generals left, although the strength of the dragon generals can even surpass all the eight generals, but the strength of the new young master Feng Jiang, who has awakened the blood of the wind god, is now unknown, and may still not be Xiang Wu's opponent, but it can definitely be contained.

In this way, there is nothing to be afraid of in this war.

But Guo Luchuan's anxiety is also because of this.

The Empire's reaction was too calm, and even in the past, the Empire's attitude was very serious in the face of the Tieli people who were much weaker than themselves.

And this time, the empire is also very serious, but as the most feared existence of the empire, it has been suppressed almost everywhere in the past thirty years, and now it is finally really fighting against the empire, and the empire's reaction is reasonable to everyone, but for this wise man, Guo Luchuan thinks that the empire's reaction is too calm.

This means that the Empire may have some terrible power hidden and unused.

And the appearance of the dragon vein warrior also shows that it is inextricably linked with the empire, Guo Luchuan deduced dozens of times, and determined one thing, the dragon vein warrior must be hiding a secret, and this secret may be the root of the catastrophe in the rivers and lakes.

And the dragon vein warriors must have received some kind of help from the Qin State, or there was a deal between them. Otherwise he would not have appeared by such a coincidence of time. It happened to appear when Chu Jun was alive.

So......

Could it be that among the strong men in the entire rivers and lakes, or among the famous heroes and celebrities who can influence the people in the rivers and lakes to make decisions, none of them can match their own ideas and then lead the heroes to help the Chu State?

Naturally, there is.

Guo Luchuan thought that person was the shopkeeper of the inn, but he didn't know that the affairs of the inn were rarely thought about by the shopkeeper, and they all fell on an account.

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Long River Insurance.

Northerners are not good at water warfare. Therefore, the confrontation of this war has become long, and in the past two months, the empire and the Chu army have had some extremely minor frictions and confrontations, mainly reflected in the intelligence department.

There are more than a dozen people in the empire who died at the hands of Zhang Xiaofeng, and these people are all good at light skills and assassination that the empire has cultivated for a long time. But they were all solved by Zhang Xiaofeng one by one, and in the end, the empire gave up infiltrating the Chu army in this aspect.

Among the Chu army, there are assassin masters second only to Akasi. This is Ouyang Xi's judgment. As a result, the people of the Divine Soldier Absolute General Battalion and the Spy Battalion were no longer dispatched.

In this war, the empire wanted to ask for some tricks at first, the Chu army is different from the empire, the empire can still operate even if there is no dragon general. If there are no eight generals of Eastern Chu, the fade out army is an empty shell.

So at the beginning, the focus of the empire was not on confronting the Chu army head-on, but on how to kill the eight generals of Eastern Chu.

This is why the Empire issued a secret order to Akas. Akasi could do it, but Akasi chose not to respond. Now the people in the Divine Soldier Absolute General Battalion have also understood one thing, this Dongchu Eight General is by no means an idle person.

Feng Tili's life was very bumpy, and the head of the eight generals of Eastern Chu had died just after the year of the Mandate of Heaven. But with his efforts over the years, all the generals found in the Chu army are also masters with strong abilities.

The head of the eight generals of Eastern Chu is tired of leaving, and the corresponding past is the dragon general of the empire.

Now that Xiang Wu is the commander of the three armies, he has to admit that although he is dead, everything he has done for the Chu army is no less than his own contribution to the empire.

Whether it is a military general, a spy general, or a general, in Xiang Wu's view, the eight generals of Dongchu are all extremely outstanding talents.

The resistance formed by such a group of people will be very difficult to deal with.

It is difficult to win on the left side, and if you want to defeat the Chu army, you must only depend on the battle itself.

But this long river is dangerous, difficult to overcome, the Chu army's archery master Meng Chai, the strength is much stronger than the commander of the divine general battalion crossbow battalion, and the more than 10,000 archers led by Qi have also been taught, if the empire crosses the river by boat, the loss will be very heavy.

How to cross the river has become a question that everyone in the Qin army is thinking about, and it has also become the reason why this confrontation has lasted for so long.

Winters in the south are cold, but not as good as in the north, especially because they don't snow.

The liveliness of Lianqing City is now almost the same as that of the capital city in the north. Although it seems that this city is the most dangerous, even if the Qin army crosses the river, it will still have to walk more than forty miles, especially because it is very easy to set up an ambush outside Lianqing Mountain, and it is extremely difficult to reach Lianqing City.

The Chu army now occupies the best position.

It's just that this war will eventually be fought, because the longer the Chu army exists, the less majestic the empire will be. No one knew how the Qin army would cross the river.

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Inside the tent of the Qin military camp.

Emperor Yun, Emperor Xiaoyu, Xiang Wu, and Emperor Yueluo were all in the tent.

Xiang Wu and Di Yueluo's expressions were quite calm, while Di Yundu and Di Xiaoyu were a little shocked. Because not long ago, when they were discussing how to cross the river with the people of the Divine Soldier Battalion, they received a secret edict from the Emperor of Kyoto.

After Xiang Wu read the secret edict, he let the rest of the Divine Soldier Absolute General Battalion disperse, leaving only three Emperor Star Generals.

And when all the Emperor Stars will see all this, it will be the reaction now.

Xiang Wu said: "What do you think? ”

Emperor Xiaoyu said: "This weather is still a sunny day, and your lord knows the time of day better than us. ”

Di Yundu has always been arrogant in the past, but in the face of Di Yueluo and Xiang Wu, he was also very restrained, and said: "These things, although they come from His Majesty's words, are inevitably a little distorted, the group of people in Qin Tianjian may not even be able to predict wind and rain in the past, this is ......"

Di Yueluo's expression was very light, and he said coldly: "Since the emperor ordered us to do this, we will just do it." ”

Calling His Majesty the Emperor, the tone of the courtiers said that this was a kind of disobedience, but the Emperor Star General was extremely arrogant, and Di Yueluo was the leader. So everyone is accustomed to it.

Xiang Wu took a deep look at Di Yueluo, and he remembered something.

That day in the palace, His Majesty was going to arrange for him to be in charge of the recruitment of the Emperor Star General, and at that time, Di Yueluo's expression was very abnormal.

Xiang Wu didn't say anything about it, and he secretly investigated it for a long time later, but Di Yueluo seemed to have lost his memory and stopped mentioning these things. Xiang Wu also knew that there might be a great danger hidden in it.

He didn't ask again.

Coming back to his senses, Xiang Wu said: "Di Yueluo is right, since Your Majesty asked us to do this, then let's do it." ”

"Tonight, in the middle of the night, cross the river."

Emperor Xiaoyu looked at each other, and in the end the two did not speak.

At nightfall. Chu Army Front.

From the beginning of the confrontation between Qin and Chu, Meng Chai and Wang Hongxi were in charge of the front line, Wang Hongxi was in charge of infantry and cavalry, and Meng Chai was in charge of archers. Meng Chai, who has the eyes of an eagle, can also see movement in the distance in the middle of the night.

Tonight was no different than ever.

Wang Hongxi patrolled the camp, while Meng Chai sat and lay on a big tree high up.

The fact that the Qin army had not assembled ships meant that there would be no fighting tonight as before. He was ready to go to sleep later.

But suddenly, Meng Chai sneezed.

"Why is it so cold?" Meng Chai didn't care about it originally, but just said something to himself casually. But soon, the calm old hunter sensed that something was wrong.

There was an extremely cold touch on his forehead.

At first, it was like a feather at the touch of a feather, and then ...... That frequency slowly gets faster. It's like the rain that is gradually coming up.

Meng Chai looked at the sky with wide eyes, his eyes full of incredulity.

Although he is not from Lianqing, he has come to Lianqing a lot of times, and Lianqing in winter is completely different from the north, it is only dry and cold here, but it is not cold.

Now at this moment, the temperature in the air is constantly getting lower, even if the realm is as high and profound as him, he also feels a little cold.

The most terrifying thing is...... Lian Qing actually ...... It's snowing.

Maybe it snows occasionally in Lianqing, but it's a little imperceptible snow foam. But this snow was completely different, Meng Chai only had a few breaths from feeling the coolness to realizing that it was snowing, and then a few breaths passed......

The wind and snow have become urgent.

He sat up and looked north, his pupils filled with horror.

River...... It freezes little by little.

(End of chapter)