The four sword slaves were resting separately, but they didn't know what they were complaining about Mei Wu, but Mei Wu was sneering and listening, just waiting for him to finish speaking, it was a violent beating.

However, Huanfeng, who was closing his eyes at this moment, opened his eyes in vain, a ray of light flashed at the bottom of his eyes, and his face became solemn.

"What's wrong?" Kun Shan asked in a deep voice, "Is there an enemy approaching?"

Huanfeng didn't answer immediately, but after contemplating it carefully for a moment, he shook his head and said, "Maybe I'm sensitive." ”

Although he couldn't detect whether the fleeting aura came from Xuan Xiu or not, but after that, Huanfeng was extremely vigilant, and the figures hidden nearby did not dare to easily reveal their breath to snoop, he underestimated the four figures wearing golden masks, and only a little bit before they would be completely exposed.

"Tsk, it's worthy of being an innkeeper, there are many masters around him. The figure sneered silently a few times, and then cautiously disappeared into the barren mountain.

Li Xunlian was in a good mood after receiving Gu Panxi's letter, jumped off the boulder, and came to the Four Sword Slaves, at this time Su had already finished nagging, Mei Wu grabbed his ears and scolded him again and again, Huanfeng and Kunshan were relatively quiet, but the two of them seemed to have something on their minds.

"What's wrong?" Li Xunlian asked as he collected his mood and stepped forward.

Huanfeng pondered for a moment when he heard this, and then said, "I suggest leaving here immediately and leaving here as soon as possible. ”

He didn't have Li Xunlian explain the reason, because he couldn't be sure if the previous perception was an illusion. But the more uncertain you are, the more you have to be careful, because if it is not an illusion, the owner of the breath must have the strength to surpass the wind.

Li Xunlian knows Huanfeng very well, he will not express any opinions easily, although the proposal at this moment seems to be headless and tailless, but there must be his reasons.

It's just that what happened made Li Xunlian very puzzled: "Huanfeng, have you noticed something?"

"I had a bad feeling. Huanfeng frowned and replied that he would not judge easily until something was out of bounds.

"Okay, then give the order, and we'll set off at once. Li Xunlian nodded, and immediately summoned Su and Mei Wu, who were fighting, and put the people in order, and everyone set off again.

Since there was not enough time to rest this time, the speed of advancement also became slow. Fortunately, the sky turned gloomy in the second half of the day, and then there was a light rain, and the soldiers walked less hot, and their feet sped up a little.

After about two days, the men and horses crossed the barren mountains and re-entered the plains.

On the plain, the field of vision is vast, and when I find a relatively high terrain and look into the distance, I can vaguely see a small city thirty or fifty miles away.

Since entering the south, they are accustomed to seeing big cities like Zhennanguan and Yuzhou City, and when they see that small city at this moment, they can't help but feel a little contempt.

Of course, it is taboo to underestimate the enemy, but not every time the consequence of the light enemy is failure, this is the case, Xijun is too small, although there are many troops, but only temporary reinforcements, and the run-in between each other is not enough, the defenders here can be called qualified but only qualified, and there is no Xuanxiu power in the city, Li Xunlian launched an attack that night, and successfully captured the defenders when the night was over, so that half of the city fell.

The reason why it is said that half of them fell is because the men and horses who came from Yonglin Pass did not buy it, they had their own general, and that general also took over the banner after the local defender was captured and killed.

But even so, panic is inevitable. The city defense is obviously very tight, but the guards are in a different place overnight, how can this situation not cause panic.

Li Xunlian's purpose was not to completely annihilate the enemy army, causing panic had been able to win a valuable opportunity for Zhu Tong, although the two did not have the duty to cooperate with each other, but Li Xunlian's capture and killing of the Xijun guards caused chaos was considered to have met the conditions of the gambling contract, because they had already said in advance that Li Xunlian only needed to capture and kill all the guards on his line.

In fact, this also indirectly helped Zhu Tong, and similarly, if Zhu Tong took the lead in breaking through Yonglin Pass, it would also bring great convenience to Li Xunlian to capture and kill the guards of the Western County.

Some probes have already seen the instability of Xijun, and Zhu Tong's army took advantage of the situation to attack Yonglinguan. The battle between the two armies was dark, although Zhu Tong failed to directly capture Yonglin Pass, but also took advantage of the situation to capture the West County and North County, so far Yonglin Pass is lonely, and it is only a matter of time before Zhu Tong breaks the city.

According to the information previously investigated, it can be learned that Tan Wenfu, the general of Yonglin Pass, is a very good general, and he has the strength of Tianhe Realm, so he is really a rare talent.

However, excellence is not equal to loyalty, this person judged the situation and thought that it was hopeless to defend the city, and from the various changes since the king ascended the throne, he saw that he was like a tiger, and knew that if Yong Lin Pass was broken, he might not be able to be forgiven, but he was easy to be beheaded as a sinner.

So, Tan Wenfu turned his heart sideways and simply opened the city gate to welcome Zhu Tong's army into the city, and he led nearly 30,000 horses to surrender and surrender to Zhu Tong's account.

This result surprised Li Xunlian, he never expected that Tan Wenfu would choose to surrender, so that Zhu Tong's army would not only add a huge combat power led by a fierce general, but also get the help of the local army, which will also play a great role in the future conquest process.

However, Li Xunlian was just an accident. Zhu Tong's goal was originally to recover the southern land, Tan Wenfu's surrender was just the beginning, if the conquest of the king could be successful, all the soldiers in the southern land would have to face this outcome in the future.

What if you don't submit to it, you can't beat it, and it is nothing more than creating some trouble for the Qingxiao Imperial Court.

What's more, after surrendering, the official position will not be reduced, the original guard general or the guard, the original position or position, in fact, only the master has changed, and the others have not changed at all.

Of course, this is also the embodiment of Zhu Tong's strong self-confidence, he is confident that all the enemy generals who have submitted to him will not rebel again, so he dares to let them stay in their place. Although he hated betrayal, he only targeted his subordinates who betrayed him.

If this self-confidence is not arrogant, then his road to conquest will also be smooth sailing, after all, there are local garrisons stationed in the city, he does not need to allocate troops to stay, and he will always maintain a huge number of 100,000 troops in the future journey.

Moreover, the local defenders who surrendered to the enemy could reassure the local people, and there would be no such difficult situation of people fighting with soldiers, which would also be of great benefit to their royal family to take over the Southland in the future.

And the most important point, where he Zhu Tong passes, he will not remove the enemy from his official position, but Li Xunlian will kill the local backbone wherever he passes, and in the long run, the reputation between the two will be polarized. The resistance that Zhu Tong encounters will become smaller and smaller, while Li Xunlian will be more and more valued, and the process of advancement will become more and more difficult.

I have to say that Li Xunlian didn't expect that this time, he really fell into Zhu Tong's calculations.

In fact, this is not an idea that Zhu Tong came up with personally, there are really no capable people under him, but such as similar calculations, those old strategists can come up with as many as they have.

Yonglin Pass was overcome, and the next stop was Heishui Pass. There are not many soldiers in Heishui Pass, and the geographical location is not very difficult, Zhu Tong easily went to the next city, and Li Xunlian was slow to take the defender of the second city on the line by half a beat.

At this point, the two fought to a 3-3 draw, and neither of them was able to get the benefit of the other.

Since the beginning of the southern expedition, only about two months have passed, but the progress of the southern army is like a lightning speed, originally in the imagination of King Cheng, even if Zhennan Pass can not stop Zhu Tong's army, at least it will have to drag on for a year and a half, and it is only two months before arriving first, and even Yuzhou City, Yonglin Pass, and Heishui Pass have been conquered one after another.

He felt an incomparably strong sense of crisis, there were a total of thirteen levels in the south, and four of them had fallen to the enemy, and the situation could be described as extremely grim.

Compared with the anxiety of becoming a king, Qingxiao Emperor is much more comfortable. The good news was repeatedly transmitted back to the imperial court from the front line, and he was a little uneasy about Zhu Tong at first, but now it has all disappeared.

If there is still a little worry, it is caused by Li Xunlian. In Emperor Qingxiao's thoughts, asking Li Xunlian and Zhu Tong to conquer the southern land together this time was nothing more than two calculations.

First, take the opportunity to sple the strength of the inn, after all, the eight thousand Gu Xuan disciples are a force that cannot be ignored, and if they can lose a few layers in this battle, it will not be a good thing.

Second, Emperor Qingxiao thought that Li Xunlian did not have the ability to fight on the battlefield at all, and he and Zhu Tong experienced the battle together, and they would see the gap between themselves and Zhu Tong in repeated failures, so that their attitude towards the imperial court would change in their hearts.

However, things have developed to this day, and the situation that Qingxiao Emperor expected did not even happen at all. Li Xunlian's men and horses were the ones he trained in Li Yue Xiaozhu, and he didn't use the inn foundation at all. And the repeated defeats did not appear in Li Xunlian, but this son connected several cities with 1,500 people, causing everyone in the southern garrison to endanger themselves, for fear that one day he would suddenly die in the hands of Li Xunlian.

Qingxiao Emperor is a person who understands, and he knows what it means. Let's talk about the 1,500 guards first, Li Xunlian only spent about a year cultivating them from the recruitment and training to this campaign. And they have never been in battle before, so it is really impressive to be able to achieve what they are today.

Just imagine, this is only the beginning of the war, if the southern expedition is over, what a terrifying amphibious combat force these 1,500 people will become. The Xuan cultivation realm is the lowest solid Xuan, and the battlefield experience is rich enough, where to put it at that time, I am afraid that the Qingxiao Emperor will feel dazzling.

Then there is the case of Li Xunlian who has beheaded several generals in several cities, or that sentence, Qingxiao Emperor is a person who understands, how can he not understand that Zhu Tong's seizure of Zhennan Pass, Yuzhou City, and Yonglin Pass are all inseparable from Li Xunlian's actions. If Li Xunlian hadn't caused the enemy to panic first, although Zhu Tong could have conquered the city, it would never be so simple.

Needless to say, the loss of troops is a lack of confidence, and it may not happen. After all, Zhu Tong was an extremely proud person, and if he thought that 3,000 people could take this city and die one more, it would be a failure.

When he realized that Li Xunlian was more threatening than he had previously thought, Qingxiao Huang started his strategy again, in fact, he had already planned it long before the moon, and the release of the Red Devil was one of them, and since he has been more than a month now, the Red Devil's move has not yet seen results, so the second step is to fall in advance!

There is a thick fold on the table, a few wisps of high-grade incense candles that exude a refreshing fragrance are slowly burning, Qingxiao Huang's eyes are slightly closed, leaning on the large chair carved gold and jade as if sleeping, and several eunuchs beside him gently fan the fans in their hands, not daring to slack off at all.

After a while, Emperor Qingxiao opened his eyes, and a pair of dragon eyes were full of thought, "Inform Zhang Songxi and tell him that no matter what, no matter what means are used, Li Xunlian must be prevented from entering Dragon Bone City." ”

I don't know who he said this to, but the little eunuch only heard a sound like flies and mosquitoes somewhere in response, and then fell silent again in the study.

Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, this is the first rule of survival in the palace, although curious, but the little eunuch can only hold back.

This shows that he is smart, because the Shadow Guard of the Qingxiao Emperor, even Zhu Tong, has never seen it. Even speaking, no one knows about this Kyushu continent, if you insist on finding a person related to this mysterious force, then in addition to the Qingxiao Emperor, there is only the Shadow Guard itself.

Just now, Qingxiao Emperor mentioned a name - Zhang Songxi.

Who is this Songxi?

At this moment, thousands of miles away in the southern city, at the end of a secluded alley, a certain teahouse was thriving on its own, seemingly unaffected by the war.

The owner of the teahouse was a middle-aged man with a shiny face, his fat and fat face was full of smiles, and a pair of small round eyes almost narrowed into a slit, and the reflection in his pupils was a glittering gold bar.

"Tea boss, be careful, don't always take out your family background to show off, if you are favored by the gangsters, be careful that the third watch will cut you to death in the middle of the night and take it away. A guest in the hall quipped.

"Haha, no. If there is really a villain who wants to kill us, then we will make him a good pot of tea first, and after keeping the villain drinking it, he will be reluctant to do it. The tea boss laughed, although his words were exaggerated, they were also true. Nandi is a good wine, but he can earn a lot of money in a teahouse, and his tea ceremony attainments are high, which can be imagined.

Then the guest chatted with the tea boss a few words, the tea in the cup has bottomed out, and the tea here is at least ten taels of silver a bowl, rummaged through his pockets, he can't afford to drink, so let's leave.

The guest was still talking to the tea boss when he went out, and one of them bumped into the visitor who was looking into the door, and the two looked at each other, but the one who came later took the lead in apologizing, and then passed by and walked to the account to choose tea.

"Boss, what tea do you have here. "The guests were carrying hats, and the hats were pressed so low that it was difficult to see their faces.

"If you want to order tea, you can pick a place first, and our store has its own little two to greet you. The tea boss wrapped the gold bar in his hand, and then took out the broken silver and counted it.

"Xiao Er's flamboyant tongue, I have to see the tea with my own eyes. The man with the hat said again.

It was getting late, the teahouse was not yet lit, and the vision was slightly dim, through the not too spacious door of the teahouse, it could be seen that the corner of the sky was covered with dark clouds, and it was a bad weather with heavy rain tonight.

At this moment, there were still a few tables of guests in the teahouse, and people were chatting about tea in twos and threes, and no one noticed that the teahouse owner's facial expression suddenly trembled after hearing the phrase "seeing the tea with his own eyes".

"Is the guest officer a tea master?" asked the tea boss with a twinkle in his eyes.

"I understand a little, after all, I'm from Zhongzhou. A voice came from under the hat.

"Although Zhongzhou produces tea, it also has a place, I don't know where the guest officer is from Zhongzhou?"

"A village near the Imperial City, don't mention it. The hat was finally removed, revealing a frightened face.

This is a face with clear water chestnut angles, which was originally very heroic, but the two scars from the eyebrows to the chin are destroying it alive, and not only destroying the heroic spirit, but also the eyes, mouth and nose are split in half, although it looks like an old wound for a long time, it is still shocking.

The tea boss glanced at it a few times, and then called Xiao Er to take care of the account table, and said to the scarred face: "The tea is all in the backyard, please come with me." ”

"Sorry. Scarface arched his hand and followed the tea boss to the backyard.

Leaving the main hall and passing through several corridors, the tea boss stopped and asked for no reason: "The sword has no eyes, what does it matter if there are no eyes, what is the use of eyes?"

Scarface knelt directly on the ground when he heard this, and replied for no reason: "Gold and silver have passed, there is no need to keep it, how can you keep it." ”

These two sentences are very abrupt, and there is no one else at the moment, but even if there are others present, they will definitely not understand.

Because, this is the last code for the Shadow Guards to identify each other, the scarface is codenamed Cross Scar, and the tea boss is a fortune boy.

There are ten Shadow Guards in total, and the ten of them have never seen each other, and they don't intersect on weekdays, and even if they are on missions, most of them act alone, and they have never shown their true faces so directly this time.

At this moment, although Scarface knelt on the ground, doubts inevitably arose in his heart, no one who heard the name of the Fortune Boy would associate it with the body of a fat tea boss, but this person's code was all right, and there must be no mistake.

"Get up, may it be that there is some important order from the Holy Majesty that requires you to appear here. The tea boss changed his tone from the past, and his tone had a sense of awe unique to a killer.

"Back to the general guard, the commander came with a message, saying that he wanted us to join forces to stop Li Xunlian and be sure to keep him out of Dragon Bone City. Scarface replied.

The Chief Guard is the position of the Tea Boss, and his status among the ten Shadow Guards is second only to the Commander Shadow, and as for Scarface, he is just an ordinary member.

"Heh, Dragon Bone City, this mission is too simple, it's just a child, and there are nine major passes, it's also worth you and me to join forces?"

"It's not just you and me, the commander said that killing people is invisible, and they will also come from other places deliberately. Scarface was still on his knees.

"Oh?" The tea boss was very surprised when he heard this, the ten of them were in charge of an area all the year round, he was Nandi, Scarface was Longchuan near Nandi, and the "Killing Invisible" was in charge of Huangyanzhou, which was adjacent to Longchuan.

In the eyes of the tea boss, since the establishment of the Shadow Guard, it is not unexperienced that the task is a hundred times more difficult than stopping Li Xunlian, and it is not necessary for the three of them to join forces at that time, how can this mission make the Holy Lord so excited that he actually mobilized three Shadow Guards to gather in one place.

"There are still some trivial matters at hand that will not be able to come until tomorrow night. Scarface said again.

Boss Tea nodded, he didn't care when the killing was invisible, he only cared about why this task would be taken so seriously by the Saint now, their strength Saint was aware of it, could it be that the Saint thought that the four sword slaves around Li Xunlian had the strength to compete with him, and even had to be joined by three Shadow Guards to settle it.

"Get up, don't kneel. The tea boss glanced down, and there seemed to be disgust in his eyes. In fact, the same is true for Scarface, they are used to acting alone, and they don't think that with their own ability, except for assassinating the shopkeeper of the first inn of Buddhism, there is nothing they can't do, and joining forces is really unnecessary, and even in the way.

However, Scarface has a lower status after all, so it is not easy to show it obviously.

"The Commander also said that there will be more than 100 new shadows at our disposal. Scarface added as he got up.

The New Shadow is their colloquial term, referring to those who have recently been selected by lottery to be qualified to undergo the Shadow Guard's Assessment. These people have a presence in all the regions that the ten Shadow Guards are responsible for, and this is also a side hustle when they are not on a mission. However, when they usually carry out missions, they all bring new shadows that they have trained themselves, but you can listen to the meaning of Scarface, as if this new shadow has to be specially selected from the commander.

"Don't need our own new shadow?" asked the tea boss with a frown.

"The Commander said, our new shadow...... Not very useful. ”

"Fart!" the tea boss suddenly became furious, and his fat face twisted. There are very few teams in this world that are not strife, and the only ones who can do this at the moment are the Dark Owl Iron Guard, the Black Dragon Guard, and the Li Family Guard, although the Shadow Guard's strength is far superior to these three groups, but they are not in harmony with each other.

For example, the Fortune Boy and the Shadow of the Ruler, these two people once formed a bond that could not be separated because of the competition for the position of leader. The Fortune Boy thinks that he is not inferior to the Shadow, and even surpasses the other party in all abilities, so when he heard the sentence just now, he had such a big temper.

"Don't keep saying it in front of me in the future, the leader said, I don't like to hear it. The tea boss relieved a little, but he still spoke very unkindly.

Scarface's nose shook a few times when he heard this, none of these ten people are easy to mess with, in terms of Xuan Xiu's strength alone, they are all between the best, and the difference in ability is mainly reflected in the control and details, so it is difficult for anyone to convince anyone.

"What's the matter, you're not convinced?" the tea boss poured all his evil breath on Scarface.

"Don't dare. Scarface gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice.

The tea boss was just about to snort coldly to show his disdain, but a giggling woman's laughter suddenly sounded above the eaves.

The two of them were shocked, and they didn't even say anything, they didn't look at it, they each waved their hands and shot out a strong energy, blasting in the direction of the eaves.

"The two have a good temper, they really scared the little woman to death. Not only did the woman seem to have a seductive demonic nature in her voice, but her face was also extremely charming, and she was only wearing a transparent light veil, and her graceful body loomed, and she was a peerless stunner that caused nosebleeds to flow wildly.

I don't see how the bewitching woman behaves, in short, the two energies are in vain, although the momentum is not stopped, but it can also steal a few words of time.

"The arrow passes through the invisible, and the invisible is like the wind, tangible...... Giggle, tangibly fall to the lower layer. The bewitching woman laughed stupidly, smiled and threw a wink at the two, and said: "My sister has made her identity clear, if you don't stop, my sister and I won't be able to resist it." ”

Killing is invisible, but it came in advance!

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