Chapter 43: The Year of Disaster

Gu Du told Jin Lan that the reason why he was looking for Tie Jue to fight the knife was because he remembered that one year, a person found Tie Jue with a broken knife and asked if he could connect it, Tie Jue asked for five taels of silver and took the knife. Gu Du thought, it's easier to fight a knife than to pick up a knife, right?

Gu Du often squatted next to the blacksmith shop, because the blacksmith shop was burning on fire and warm, so he could see this matter, and because of this, although the iron shop bullied him so much, he never thought of killing the iron shop, because he remembered Tie Xuan's kindness.

Of course, the two little followers of Tie Dapu, Gu Du really wanted to cut them with a thousand knives.

Jin Lan stretched out her hand to hold Gu Du's hand, looking at him with pity.

Gu Du smiled and said: "It's all over, isn't it good now, I have a house, land and silver, maybe in two years I will become a soul master, and I can marry a beautiful daughter-in-law." ”

Jin Lan's face turned red, and he withdrew his hand and said angrily, "Then congratulations in advance." ”

From the next day, Gu Du taught Jin Lan to use a knife, using Chu Qin's method, he took a rattan himself, and let Jin Lan use a horizontal knife to cut him.

Unlike Chu Qin, Gu Duzhuan slapped Jin Lan's buttocks, and after the beating, he had to give a dressing, Jin Lan was ashamed and annoyed, and shouted for the maid to give the dressing, but Gu Du was not allowed, either he gave the dressing or it hurt.

Jin Lan endured it for three days, unable to resist him from beating him to one place every day, and finally gave in.

However, although this trick is dirty, it has a miraculous effect, Jin Lan is more focused every day to avoid being hit by him, although the two are happy, but this kind of thing is still panicked.

The January period is approaching in a flash, and the night before returning to the palace, Jin Lan hugged Gu Du to sleep, very reluctant, but only in his arms.

Back in the palace, Li Xia waited in the courtyard, and directly threw the horizontal knife used for sparring to him, Gu Du stretched out his hand to catch it, Li Xia was already close and slashed over.

There was a clanging sound like a rapid rhythm, and the two had already fought for thirty years.

Li Xia stepped back and said, "Senior brother has grown a little. ”

Gu Du said: "It's only a month, even if you don't practice, you won't regress much, not to mention that I practice every day." ”

Li Xia rushed up again, and there was another jingle sound, Li Xia stepped back again, and said, "I thought that my senior brother was drunk and lying in the gentle township, and I didn't know how long the night was." ”

"!" Gu Du reprimanded: "Jin Lan is also the daughter of a good family, how can she be what you think!" ”

"It's good if it's not!" Rexia rushed up again.

After fighting for half an hour, both of them were tired and out of breath, Gu Du asked, "Okay, right?" ”

Rexia snorted and turned to enter the house.

At the beginning of the vine month, the local emergency reports are still frequent, this year's drought in the world, the summer grain harvest has become a foregone conclusion, and many places are almost out of harvest, which leads to rampant banditry, and there are even riots in many places!

In less than half a month, the military report arrived, and the rebels gathered 30,000 people and approached Rizhao Pass in the northeast.

Most of the soul masters were sent to various places to quell the chaos, so the burden of going out with the army fell on Chu Qin's shoulders, in fact, this was also expected by the high priest in advance, the rebels were all over the spirit country, and in such a rare year of catastrophe, the rebels would inevitably take advantage of the chaos, so they deliberately left Chu Qin in the imperial city to prepare for war.

Because Rizhao Pass was far away, the day after receiving the military report, Chu Qin didn't have time to wait for the army to assemble, so he rushed to the border with Gu Du and the others.

Gu Dudu's face fell all the way, and Lixia asked him: "It's only been a day since you came out, and you miss Jin Lan?" ”

Gu Du replied: "It's so far away, I don't know how long it will take to see each other again." ”

Rexia said sourly, "Far away? Some people are thousands of miles away, but they are close to their hearts, and some people are close to their pillows, but they are far away from the end of the world. ”

Gu Du pursed his lips and didn't answer.

Xiaoxing stayed overnight, five days later, the smoke and dust in front of him, the sound of hooves was scattered, and someone shouted: "Get out of the way!" Six hundred miles expedited! ”

Chu Qin said loudly: "I am Chu Qin, the yellow-robed soul master, but the Rizhao Guan Military Report? ”

The person who came came close to rein in his horse, looked at Chu Qin and asked, "What is the basis?" ”

Chu Qin took out his waist card.

Seeing the word "Imperial Soul" written on the waist card, the post messenger turned over and dismounted, presented the letter box, Chu Qin removed the wax seal, took out the letter and read it, and then covered his own private seal in the blank space of the letter, put it back in the letter box, and then sealed the letter box with wax, handed it back to the post messenger and said: "Go ahead." ”

The post man turned on his horse and galloped away.

Shangguan He asked, "Are you okay?" ”

Chu Qin replied: "Something, the rebels have attacked the city repeatedly, the garrison has suffered heavy casualties, and the enemy army has a wolf formation. ”

Shangguan He's eyes widened and asked, "Wolf formation?" Wolves can also attack cities? ”

Chu Qin shook his head, he had never seen or heard of it, and said, "Let's go, the military post in front will change horses." ”

The four of them urged the horses to gallop wildly, changed horses without changing people, and rushed to Rizhao Pass in one day and one night.

At this time, the sky was dawning, and Tang Shuo, the guard of Rizhao Pass, was standing at the head of the city, covered in blood and haggard, looking at Chu Qin expectantly and asking, "Have the reinforcements arrived?" ”

Chu Qin replied: "No, there are only four of us." ”

Tang Shuo's eyes dimmed, there were only four people, it must be a fast horse, the reinforcements were still far away, and most of the 30,000 garrisons had already been killed and wounded, and the fire oil and arrows in the pass were about to run out, and this pass was afraid that it would be difficult to protect.

Chu Qin said: "I encountered a six-hundred-mile rush on the way here, and the enemy army has a wolf formation? ”

Tang Shuo turned to the outside of the city, looked at the enemy's joint camp and said: "Yes, this time the main force of the enemy army attacking the city is the wolf, you look at those wooden planks, the enemy will put these planks on the city wall, let the wolves rush up and bite, these wolves are wearing iron armor, sharp teeth and claws, not only the speed is extremely fast, the arrows are also difficult to hurt them, days of fierce battles, our army has been killed and wounded most of the time, and the enemy army is only these beasts!" ”

Chu Qin frowned, when he came over, he saw the corpse of the wolf, it was indeed wearing iron armor, although the iron armor was extremely thin, but with the speed of the wolf, it was difficult for the arrow to hit, and even if it was shot, it would slip away.

Tang Shuo suddenly turned around, his eyes became warm again, and asked, "Master Chu, can you control the wolves?" ”

Chu Qin shook his head, the soul control technique is not a martial art, and the wolf is not a sword, a gun and a club, and it is not something that can be used if you take it.

Tang Shuo's eyes dimmed again, the enemy's wolves seemed to be endless, and if they continued to consume like this, even if they could kill all the wolves one day, the remaining defenders would not be able to resist the 30,000 army.

"Woo......" A horn sounded in the distance.

Tang Shuo was visibly trembling, and his voice became panicked: "The enemy army is about to attack the city again." ”

Then he turned around and shouted, "Get up!" Get up! Burn the oil! Archers in position! Fast! Fast! ”

Chu Qin looked at it, the soldiers on the city wall all stood up, all of them were gray-faced, their clothes were in tatters, most of them were wounded, everyone's faces were full of desperate looks, everyone knew that this was a battle that could not be won.