Even if they couldn't catch up with the large army that had left, the border guards still rose up to kill the enemy, and only by killing these Hun soldiers and horses that were entangled with them could they return to the city to save each other. Maybe at that time, the already barren town has been plundered, and maybe you can still see the corpses of the people who are everywhere in the city and do not want to leave, but no matter what, they will kill them and take a look. Even if the city is slaughtered, it is necessary to find out if there is a way out.

The shouts were terrifying, and even the legendary Wen Weak Journey burst out with unprecedented power with a passion at this time. The torches that burned day and night in the tent were cut to the ground, and the smoke mixed with the billowing yellow sand burned brightly.

The battle was drowned in the firelight, and until the last wisp of the fighting sound disappeared in the sky above the long yellow sand, out of the firelight came out of the old general Shao and dozens of generals behind him. They killed all the Huns who were entangled in them, but they did not win. How strong the departing Xiongnu army was, they saw it with their own eyes. However, they are not afraid, even if they know that there is no way back, this is their mission as a soldier.

Old General Shao turned over and got on his horse, and a hoarse voice sounded: "Back!" ”

Dozens of horsemen and horses crossed the rolling yellow sand and rushed into the pass. As far as the eye could see, there was no imaginary mess, and the few people in the city were bowing their heads and whispering, their faces full of surprise and disbelief that had not yet had time to rein.

General Shao stopped a few passers-by who were whispering: "What about the Huns? ”

"Let's go...... Let's go. "A few people, you look at me, I look at you, all look shocked, even they themselves can't believe this," they rushed into the city, except for knocking down some street things, and passed through the city, ignoring us at all. ”

The border is not stable, even if there is a lot of stability in the town of General Huang Shao in recent years, but they still remember the encounter in the past few years: those people came from the barren land, the purpose was to fight, every time they rushed into the city, it would be accompanied by burning and plundering, such as today, they have never seen it.

"What are they going to do as they walk through the city?" The adjutant general's body was covered with blood stains left by the battle, and he didn't care, he spat on the blood, and his face was full of confusion.

Old General Shao squinted at everything he saw. The dusk and low old stone houses, the people who are exposed to the wind and sun all the year round, and the few things that remain unchanged all year round. He was not a local, in fact, most of the soldiers who were sent here to guard the border pass were not locals, and the closer he was to the border pass, the more barren and the population was not large. He still remembers that when he was young in the army, his parents and elders cried reluctantly, thinking that they had come to live a "hard life", and it was really hard to join the army, but they persevered here for decades or even a lifetime with their enthusiasm.

They can stay here with their blood, but what about the Huns? In order to compete, they have seen the prosperous appearance of Chang'an, such a place, will they still pay attention to it?

For a while, he didn't know whether he wanted them to stay here or to go to the more prosperous hinterland of the Central Plains, no matter where they were, they were all the people of Great Chu, there was no doubt about that.

"I don't know what they're going to do, maybe they want a lot more than we think." Old General Shao said, "Hurry back to Chang'an, I'm afraid things are in trouble." ”

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Even in the fastest way, the news cannot reach the people who want to know it right away.

Near noon, the soldiers and horses of Linlu Pass had arrived, and General Wang, who led the troops, was a capable and bloody commander, and immediately slashed down with a knife to the temptation and provocation of the Huns. The war was about to break out, and before General Wang started, he had already sent a part of his men and horses to the north gate of Jinan City, and entered through the city from the north gate, firmly guarding the entire Jinan City inside and outside.

Originally, they thought that the Huns were going to attack the city, and the people of Jinan, who were trembling, were relieved. This general Wang was really a noble soldier, and he rushed over before the battle began.

Ye Xiuyuan, who had been nervous for a few days, was also relieved, and his mood was much lighter: "General Wang has read through the classics of the military family, although he is not as good as General Huang, but he is also a powerful person, he has made a lot of achievements in war when he was young, and he has only retreated to Linlu Pass in recent years to guard it. ”

Wei Yaoqing has already obtained the information of General Wang: he is indeed a powerful person, he followed Chen Shanping and Chen Wang to rebel when he was young, and he is also a great general, and later Chen Shan was named the Marquis of the Southwest to guard the southwest, and he wanted to take him to the southwest. He refused with a small southwest side, why should he have so many soldiers and horses, and went straight to the border pass to guard the pass, and it was not until the past two years that he grew older, and his physical strength was not as good as before, and he retreated to Linlu Pass as a general in command of the pass.

Thinking of this, Wei Yaoqing said casually to Ye Xiuyuan: "General Wang's physical strength is not as good as before, it is not necessary to go to the battlefield in person, I am relieved to have him in command." ”

Ye Xiuyuan was busy straightening his face, and said to her: "The Great Heavenly Master's words are wrong, you haven't seen this General Wang, but the lower officials have seen it." Although he is not young, six out of forty, he has been fighting all year round, and he has practiced a good physique, and he is very energetic and brave. If these people have not suffered major internal and external injuries and have practiced martial arts all year round, what if they are six out of forty, then Chen Shan is not forty-five, how many people dare to go against Chen Shan alone? ”

"Is it so powerful?" Wei Yaoqing said strangely, the soldiers and horses of General Wang outside Jinan City have already begun to fight with the Huns besieging the city, and it is the deputy general who leads people through the city, so she did not have the opportunity to see this General Wang with her own eyes, and she originally thought that she had retired because of injury or illness, but she didn't expect that it was the time when she was in good spirits, uh...... It's just like Chen Shan.

Thinking of this, the girl blinked her eyes and asked Ye Xiuyuan: "It can be seen that he was a bloody man in the past, and the border has always been unstable, not only so bloody, but also so powerful, no injury or disease, and should stay in the Huns, just like he chose back then, why did he come to Luguan?" ”

"This ......" Ye Xiuyuan was speechless for a while, and after a while, he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Great Heavenly Master, Xia Guan didn't think about it so much. "Ordinary people should be happy to see General Wang, but how can this great heavenly master ask so many questions at such a young age? And it's not nonsense, it makes sense when you think about it. Who would have such a heart? It's like a sieve. Facing this great heavenly master was really like meeting several old ladies of the world, he said it casually, but she turned several corners.

After a pause, he sighed: "If the Great Heavenly Master suspects General Wang......"

"No, I didn't doubt him." The girl interrupted him without thinking about it, "General Wang has no problem, I just think it's a little strange." ”

"In short, General Wang's appointment was personally selected by Major General Huang." Ye Xiuyuan looked at her as he spoke, and said, "Great Heavenly Master, Xia Guan is now sixty out of twenty, but he is still the governor of Jinan Mansion, and he is still an ordinary person after all." It's not as talented as the Great Heavenly Master, I really can't think about it that much. If the Great Heavenly Master wants to know, if he has the opportunity, the lower officials can just ask when he sees General Wang. ”

Saying that she is a genius ...... "It's really weird, embarrassed." The girl smiled as she spoke, saying that she was embarrassed, but she didn't see any shyness on her face, but looked him up and down, and said, "Thirty old Ming Jing, fifty young Jinshi." Lord Ye understood the Yuan at a young age, and the apse tried to be the first emperor's hand-picked champion, which shows that the book is still a good read. ”

Such a compliment...... Not as much as Wei Yaoqing could bear, Ye Xiuyuan was a little embarrassed, and said with a red face: "Don't dare, don't dare ......"

"If the two of you praise each other, let's talk about it later......" Pei Zongzhi, who disappeared early in the morning, walked in from outside at this time and looked at Wei Yaoqing, "Some news has come." ”

Wei Yaoqing hurriedly asked: "Good news or bad news?" ”

Pei Zongzhi: "It's all bad news for you, there is no good news." With that, he took out a roll of paper with a red thread tied on the outside of his sleeve.

Ye Xiuyuan, who had not fully recovered from the Great Heavenly Master's "praise", was stunned when he saw it, and then panicked: "You...... You ......, "Shouldn't this be in the dark compartment of his desk in his study?" It was through this that he transmitted the news to the capital of the world.

Facing his panicked expression, Pei Zongzhi said lightly: "I got up early today and went shopping in the mansion. Seeing that Master Ye hurriedly went out in the morning, and the door of the study had not yet been closed, he did a good deed. Who knew that the person who served the tea walked in by himself, and he couldn't see it as big as me, so he put the things in Lord Ye's desk, and I took it for you for the second time in the day. ”

In just a few words, he told Ye Xiu how to spread the news and who was the person to connect with.

Ye Xiuyuan sighed and sat back on the chair, it's all like this, what else can it do? originally thought that between these two people, this Great Heavenly Master was more difficult to entangle, compared to the Great Heavenly Master, Mr. Pei just talked a little less and was a little more delicious, who knew that this person who usually doesn't stab Lou Zi came to such a critical time. He thought that next time he would return to a few old ladies to change the way of sending news.

"The bad news that Lord Ye received here is that the few Jianghu warlocks we arrested in Linjiang City are going to come to Jinan to find you to 'catch up'." Pei Zongzhi glanced at her as he spoke.

The girl was stunned for a moment, and smashed the case table at hand to the ground with a slap: "Cui Jing is really useless, a few big people can't look at it, and the Cui family is really going back more and more." ”

Look like this...... Ye Xiuyuan was secretly frightened, and when he saw this, he hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Great Heavenly Master, is there any trouble?" Do you want help from the lower officials? "Reminiscing about the old and reminiscing about the old, it sounds good, I'm afraid it's revenge! Looking at the strange temper of this great heavenly master, he didn't want to offend people.

"No, it's just a private matter." Wei Yaoqing shook her head and refused, thought for a while and said, "Maybe they're here to help." ”

Still helping? Ye Xiuyuan involuntarily shrunk his neck, didn't dare to continue, and asked, "Mr. Pei, what about other than this news?" ”

"The mountain and forest pass of Los Angeles is in an emergency, ask for help from Linlu Pass, 10,000 soldiers and horses in Linlu Pass have passed, but such a few people may still be useless, and the city of Los Angeles is about to be broken." Pei Zongzhi said to her, "Maybe this is the reason why the Huns besieged the city!" ”

The girl fell silent, stretched out her hand behind her, and spread out a map of Da Chu in her hand, and several people in the room surrounded her, looking down at the clearly marked map.

"Isn't the main army of Great Chu still here? How can the Los Angeles Mountains and Forest Pass be in a hurry? The girl flipped through the book in her hand and said, "This art of war is too mysterious, I can't understand it." Saying that, he threw the book in his hand aside, Ye Xiuyuan instinctively reached out and took it, and saw that it was a copy of "The Art of War", read "The Art of War" at this time? What is called grinding guns in battle, he can be regarded as having seen it. However, this Great Heavenly Master doesn't seem to be able to do this on this path.

"It should be divided from Jiayu Mountain." However, Pei Zongzhi, who usually cherishes words like gold, spoke, and his slender fingers drew a line on the mountain range where the two armies were opposed, "Jiayu Mountain is dangerous, it is advisable to attack and defend, and it is impossible to outflank the opponent's rear road." But if Chen Shan's men and horses walked through the Jiayu Mountain Range, twenty miles ahead would be the mountain forest Guanluocheng. Not to mention that the main army of Great Chu was entangled in front of the main army of the southwest, and it was difficult to retreat. Even if you want to retreat, the main army of Da Chu is behind the broken canyon, to cross the canyon to go back to rescue, you must build a bridge, if you turn back at this time, as long as the main army of the southwest follows behind, take advantage of the main army of Da Chu to cross the bridge, and the Great Chu will be defeated like a mountain. Therefore, the main army of Great Chu could not be withdrawn, so it could only let Shanlin Pass ask Linlu Pass for help. ”

Wei Yaoqing dragged her chin and suddenly realized: "No wonder Major General Huang wants to send someone like General Wang to Linlu Pass, there are so many people in Linlu Pass, and there is a reason why there is such a great general." ”

"Yes, the two armies chose to garrison in Jiayu Mountain, the main army of Dachu is attacking the position, but Chen Shan is defending the position." Pei Zongzhi said, "So General Huang Shao can't retreat, he can only attack, don't you think it's a little strange that General Wang was sent here?" That's why. "The siege of Los Angeles, I think the main general, General Huang, is not without a plan to deal with it in advance.

Ye Xiuyuan was dumbfounded when he heard this, if it wasn't for the wrong occasion, he would really have to clap his hands and praise, before Mr. Pei came in, didn't the Great Heavenly Master shout "It's a little strange that General Wang was sent here"!

"But now General Wang has come to Jinan City to help." Wei Yaoqing, who understood, completely sank his face at this time, "If he turns his head to save the danger of the mountains and forests, as soon as he walks with his front foot, the Huns will inevitably besiege Jinan City with his back foot, and he will not be able to go." ”

At this time, Ye Xiuyuan's voice interjected: "Didn't the Huns send Lord Chen Shuo to be a lobbyist, I heard that the top ten Confucians in Wenyuan Pavilion are all extremely powerful characters, why don't you let Lord Chen Shuo go out and drag it out?" ”

Who cares about Chen Shuo at this time? However, as soon as Ye Xiuyuan mentioned it, Wei Yaoqing thought about it and said to him: "Your Majesty used to think the same way, and sent Lord Chen Shuo and thirty warriors to envoy the Huns as lobbyists. ”

Ye Xiuyuan casually answered: "What happened later?" ”

"Later, those warriors died, and Chen Shuo came to you."

Ye Xiuyuan only felt a chill behind him: he always felt that Lord Chen Shuo was like a broom star, ran to him, and brought the Huns over to besiege the city.