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It's a pity that this person is now thousands of miles away, even if Luoyang sends troops, he may not be able to come with the army.

Thinking of this, Zuo Ying suddenly felt a little self-deprecating. She has never believed in the theory of gods and ghosts, but she didn't expect that at such a helpless time, she would become psychologically dependent on a "god stick". It's been a while, and I really miss him a little bit when I think of him as if he was pretending to be a ghost and as if he was really divining and interpreting hexagrams for her.

"It's not a way not to fight," Ashina frowned indefinitely, "Isn't this an admission that we are afraid of them?" Today, their witchcraft has almost succeeded, and there must be a lot of discussion in the army about it. If we can't hold on tomorrow, it will only make the army even more uneasy. ”

"The royal husband is right." Zuo Ying nodded, "In my opinion, they didn't use demonic magic against us before today, precisely because not all of these Six Dust Sectists are skilled in demonic arts. Like the general surnamed Xu who appeared today, it is estimated that he came from the mouth of the jade bottle. ”

"That's right, I'm going to interrogate the prisoner of war just now and see if I can ask anything." After Ashina finished speaking, he urged the doctor to quickly tie the bandages on the wound, put on his clothes and walked out of the door.

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At the door of a room not far from Ashina's indefinite residence, a maidservant girl came out of the room, holding a copper basin with water in her hand, and a wet cotton cloth on the edge of the copper basin.

When she saw a man passing by, she immediately bowed her head and saluted, "General Xu." ”

The person who came over was Xu Hong.

Although the skin injuries on his body have been healed in the past few days, under repeated requests, he has not been given the task of guarding him by Zuo Ying. I have nothing to do, I can only wander around.

"No courtesy. Who lives in this room? I've seen people coming in and out of the area these days. Xu Hong asked casually.

The maidservant replied, "Back to General Xu, here is a woman who doesn't know where she came from. That day, he fainted and fell unconscious at the foot of the castle, as if he had walked a long way to get here. I happened to be met by His Majesty. Ordered her to be brought back and rescued first. ”

"Oh?" Xu Hong raised his eyebrows curiously, and said to himself, "I don't know where it came from?" Could it be the victims who fled from the disaster county to seek refuge in Ziyang City? ”

"No," the maid thought for a moment, and then continued, "this man is a little strange. The clothes she wore were quite decent. It's not like a fleeing victim. The slave wondered if it could be a resident of the neighborhood who had been robbed on the road and fled here alone. ”

Xu Hong thought about it for a while, then showed a relaxed expression and said with a light smile: "It's possible." It's none of your business, go down and work. ”

"Yes, the slave and maid are gone." The servant girl bowed and hurriedly withdrew.

But Xu Hong did not leave. She watched as the servant girl walked away. After glancing at the absence of anyone around him, he quietly pushed open the door of the room, walked into the room quickly, and turned to close the door again.

I saw that in the small room where the man lived, a dim small oil lamp was enough to illuminate the environment in the room. There was a man lying on the bed facing the door. The man was covered with a quilt. His head was covered with a damp cloth, and he seemed to have a high fever and was still in a coma.

He crept over to the bed. And he saw a woman about forty years of age lying on the bed. Her hair was loose and her face was red, and although she looked sickly, she could see that her facial features were upright and beautiful, and she seemed to be somewhat familiar.

Xu Hong frowned slightly, and reached out to gently uncover the wet cloth on the woman's forehead, so that he could see her appearance completely.

Take a look. Sure enough, he found that he had indeed seen this woman!

A hint of murderous intent flashed in Xu Hong's eyes. He glanced to the left and right, then grabbed the quilt that the woman was covering with both hands, and pulled hard, and it was about to press the woman's mouth and nose!

At this moment, the door behind him was pushed open with a "dumb" sound. The maidservant girl who had gone out to change the water just now walked in.

She couldn't help but be startled when she saw Xu Hong in the room, "General Xu...... This is...... What's the matter? ”

Xu Hong immediately put down the quilt, pretending to be covered with a quilt on the woman's body, turned around unhurriedly, and said casually: "As soon as you walked away just now, I heard something in the room. I was afraid that the patient inside would accidentally reverse the oil lamp, so I came in and took a look. I didn't think there was anything abnormal when I came in, but I found that her quilt was not covered, maybe she turned over and lifted the quilt just now, so I came to tidy up her quilt. ”

"I see." The maid hurriedly put down the basin in her hand, walked to the woman's bedside, and smiled awkwardly: "The slave and maid are derelict in their duties. There is General Lao Xu. ”

Xu Hong glanced at the woman on the bed, although he had something in his heart, he had no excuse to stay any longer, so he could only turn around and walk towards the door.

"Hmm...... Your Majesty......"

As soon as Xu Hong took a step, he heard a muffled voice from the mouth of the woman lying on the bed.

"Ah, she's awake." The servant girl who took care of her hurriedly stepped forward.

I saw that the woman's eyelids were throbbing, her eyelids were slightly open, her fingers were also moving slightly, and her mouth was blurred and intermittent: "Your Majesty...... I want to see Your Majesty...... I'm Pingzhou Taishou...... Shi Guoliang's wife...... I—I want to see Your Majesty......"

The maidservant looked at the woman anxiously, and then turned her head to look at the doorway behind her, as if she wanted to go out and call someone, but she could not relax and leave the patient alone and go away.

"You go and call the doctor, I'll watch it for you here." Xu Hong took the initiative to say.

"Thank you so much, General Xu." The maid nodded, and hurriedly ran out of the room to find the doctor.

"I want, I want to see Your Majesty...... I have important information...... Intelligence, to report...... "The woman on the bed was still struggling to open her eyes, and her hands were already swinging slightly away from the mattress.

When Xu Hong saw it, he hurriedly grabbed the quilt covering her chest and pressed it her head!

The woman under the quilt struggled feebly for a moment, and soon fell silent.

By the time the maid led the doctor into the door, the quilt on the woman's body had been restored to its original state. Xu Hong flashed to the side, waiting for the doctor to come up and rescue him.

As soon as the doctor approached the bedside, he saw that the woman's lips were white and her body was stiff. After a few more moments of probing her neck artery, she shook her head with a solemn look.

"Dr. Lin, how can this be? I was already starting to wake up. The maidservant said anxiously.

This Doctor Lin was the one who had just finished bandaging Ashina's wound indefinitely, and he sighed and said, "Her wound is seriously infected and her life is in danger at any time. ”

The maidservant said in a pitiful tone: "But she obviously spoke just now, and said that she wanted to see Your Majesty......"

"Want to see Your Majesty?" Doctor Lin frowned strangely, "She is an ordinary person, what do you want to see Your Majesty?" ”

"Maybe it's a lawsuit." Xu Hong accosted: "She must have been robbed by the bandits of the Six Dust Cult on the road, and the first thing she did when she woke up at this time was to complain." Ordinary people may think that the bigger the official, the more useful it is, and when she heard that His Majesty was here, she said that she wanted to see His Majesty. ”

"Then should we report this matter to Your Majesty?" The servant girl hesitated.

"There is no need to disturb Your Majesty at all for such a trivial matter." Xu Hong showed a little impatient expression and said: "She is now working hard for the matter of defending the city, and no one should disturb His Majesty's rest with these trivial things." Immediately find someone to bury her. ”

"Yes, General Xu." The maid hurriedly bowed her head and agreed, and exited the room.

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At the same time, thousands of miles away in the suburbs of Luoyang City, a team of people was marching towards the Luoyang City Gate.

The group numbered about a hundred men, with a cavalry force of sixty or seventy men in the front, guarding a solemnly furnished four-seater carriage in the middle, followed by a number of attendants on foot and wagons pulling their suits. Several flags were raised in the procession, and the word "Helan" was prominently written on the flags.

The curtain of the four-seater carriage was gently lifted to a corner, and a man's calm voice came from the carriage, "How far is it?" ”

The sergeant on horseback next to him stepped forward, lowered his head and said respectfully: "Back to Taishi, there are less than three miles to the city gate." ”

The curtains were lowered again.

At the moment when the curtain fell again, there was a sudden "pop" sound on the wooden beam on the roof, as if something had slammed it. The sergeant, who was still by the window, suddenly raised his torch and looked up, and saw that it was an arrow with flames, which had sunk into the wooden beam and burned along the cloth on the carriage!

He was so shocked that he was about to turn around and shout a warning when another arrow flew in front of him and stabbed him into his throat, splattering blood. He fell on his back against the wall of the carriage and rolled off his horse.

Immediately afterwards, countless arrows were shot from the dense forest on both sides of the road, and the carriages of the four-seated carriage suddenly became like hedgehogs, and many people around were also hit by arrows, and others also threw down their suits and carriages, screaming and running and making a mess.

"There is an ambush! Protect the Master! "It happened so suddenly, that by the time the soldiers reacted and had already been overwhelmed by the arrows, they had already been shot under their horses before they could get close to the ambush, or they had been cut down as soon as they entered the jungle.

When the rain of arrows stopped, a masked and armored man with a sword poured out of the dense forest, and rushed into the crowd of countless casualties.

By this time, the carriage of the four-seater carriage had already burst into flames. The heat frightened the horses and horses, and they were about to run forward. The ambush soldiers stepped forward and swung their swords to cut off the wheels of the carriage and free the horses so that the carriage would not be pulled away.

They saw a man lying in the carriage with the curtain burned off, with several arrows in the vital parts of his body, and his clothes were stained with blood, and there was no movement.

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