If it weren't for glancing at him, he lowered his head and stopped talking, and said in a low voice: "Mu Gongzi, this matter, I think you should ask the young general in person." ”

Mu Zixiao saw him like this, and smiled bitterly: "Your young generals are gone, where can I ask, anyway, now we are all staying in Beijing, and no one can leave, you might as well tell me, I also care about him and want to know." ”

If it weren't for thinking thoughtfully for a while, he finally sighed and said, "Okay, there was a riot in southern Xinjiang that year. ”

The emperor decreed that General Huo should go, but the young general was young and vigorous, and he felt that he was completely competent for this battle, so the emperor allocated a group of elites led by the young general to the south.

Yan Feng and I are the henchmen of the young general, so we naturally followed him left and right and went south with him, although southern Xinjiang is a bone that is not easy to gnaw, but the young general is born a rare general, and we have Mr. Pei's method of breaking the Gu, less than ten days in a row to capture two cities, after repairing a day, everyone is bound to win the southern city, and the morale is high.

Just when the young general was about to take advantage of the victory to pursue, Yan Feng took a ragged person into the camp tent, Huo Nanqi was dressed in armor and majestic, although he had been fighting for several days, his face was still radiant and magnificent, and he was talking to the other two.

"See Major General for subordinates." Yan Feng leaned over and saluted.

"Well, it's just in time, tomorrow we're... Well? Yanfeng, why did you bring the people here? Huo Nanqi was originally discussing tomorrow's route with the deputy general and Ruofei on the map, but suddenly noticed that there was a rickety figure standing next to Yan Feng, and he raised his head and frowned.

"Major General Hui, this person is a common man of the Zhou Kingdom who lives nearby, and I don't know whether to talk about something or not." Yan Feng turned his head to look at the old man beside him.

"If you have something to say, what are you doing?" Huo Nanqi put down the dagger in his hand and said.

"This..." The wind paused.

The old man looked at the wind and stopped, and then looked at Huo Nanqi Xu knew that this was the leader, and knelt down with a plop, Huo Nanqi saw this and stepped forward to help him, "General, please save us!" ”

Huo Nanqi helped him up and said, "You say." ”

The old man opened his mouth intermittently: "General, I was originally a villager from a nearby village, you fought for the Zhou State, we originally wanted to hide, but we never thought that just yesterday the Southern Army captured all the people in our village, and now we are locked up in the dungeon of Nancheng, please save us!" Then he knelt down again.

Huo Nanqi helped him, his brows furrowed, as if he had doubts: "Then how did you escape." ”

The old man choked up and said: "When I came to arrest people, I was picking pickles in the cellar of my family, and I heard a cry, I was very scared at that time, and I didn't come up, so I escaped this catastrophe, General, you will save them out, right?" The old man looked at Huo Nanqi with teary eyes and a pair of longing eyes.

Huo Nanqi said: "Then how did you know that it was the Southern Army?" ”

"General! Who else but them! If you suspect that I am lying to you, you can kill me, anyway, my old woman and my son and grandson have been captured, and I don't want to live! The old man cried and cried, and reached out to grab the sword from Huo Nanqi's waist.

"Old man, don't get excited, when I find out, I will definitely save them." Huo Nanqi said in a deep voice: "Yanfeng, you take him down to settle down first." ”

"Yes!" Yan Feng took the old man out of the tent, and the old man leaned over and glanced back at Huo Nanqi from time to time.

"What do you think about this?" Huo Nanqi turned his head and asked.

If it weren't for the words: "Young General, there are a lot of doubts in this matter, not to mention whether there are any of these arrested villagers for the time being, this old man stumbles when he speaks, it makes people wonder if this is a trap." ”

The adjutant general also said: "Major General, if I don't have the same opinion, we will march into Nancheng tomorrow, they may have learned the news and deliberately set up a trick here!" Who in the world does not know that the young general has always avoided the people in war, and if he can not hurt the innocent, he will not hurt him. ”

Huo Nanqi thought for a moment and said: "Huo also feels that this person's words are not credible, it is not strange that ordinary people are ragged even if they have patches, but the mud marks on the clothes on this old man's body seem to be intentional, and when Yanfeng comes back, he will know when he goes to this village." Before he could finish speaking, the tent curtain was lifted again.

"Major General." Yan Feng Dao.

"Are you settled?" Huo Nanqi said.

"Yes, they have settled in a tent near the grain and grass." Yanfeng replied.

"Well, Yanfeng, where did you see this person?" Huo Nanqi said.

Yan Feng took two steps forward and replied: "When my subordinates went down to Nancheng Road at night, they passed by a village with flames, but it was quiet and a little abnormal, so my subordinates sneaked in to check it, the village was smashed and burned, and not a single villager saw it, until my subordinates heard an intermittent cry that they found the people hiding in the cellar, and they didn't dare to delay bringing him after asking a few words." ”

Huo Nanqi thought for a moment and said, "There is no one else except this person?" ”

"Yes!" After Yan Feng finished speaking, he took out an object from his waist and handed it to Huo Nanqi, it was a short scimitar, with blood stains on it, and the words were engraved on the handle, Nan, this is the unique short dagger of Southern Xinjiang: "Major General, this move of the Southern Army must have captured these people as a threat, so that we will not be able to do it tomorrow." ”

"Vicious! How is it good to use unarmed civilians as shields, Major General? The deputy general spat angrily: "Damn the people of southern Xinjiang!" ”

"Major General, what about tomorrow?" If you don't ask.

Huo Nanqi thought for a moment with a short scimitar, and said: "Tomorrow we will continue to attack the city, if we really use the people as a threat, we will withdraw our troops and repair them in situ, and I will bring a group of people to save people first." ”

The adjutant general looked at Yan Feng and said, "Yan Feng, are you sure you saw it with your own eyes, and this short scimitar was also picked up in the burned village?" ”

"What do you mean?" Yan Feng was puzzled: "You doubt me? ”

"Young General, there are a lot of doubts about this matter, how could it be that by chance, Yanfeng happened to pass by, and happened to meet the old man hiding in the cellar?" The adjutant general didn't answer the wind and turned his head to look at Huo Nanqi.

Huo Nanqi lowered his head for a moment and said: "Shao Jie, although this matter is suspicious, but the style of speech is a cronie around me, he will never frame me, if he can be sure that this is done by the people of southern Xinjiang, this group of people, we must rescue them first." ”

"Major General, please go and investigate again!" Shao Jie raised his voice.

"Vice General Shao, you!" Yan Feng's face was ugly, blue and red, and after saying a word, he shook his arm and said, "I'll take you there!" Major General, subordinates retired. ”

"Okay, Major General, the last general will retire." Shao Jie then followed Yan Feng out of the camp.

"If not, count twenty people out tomorrow and follow me to explore the southern city at night." Huo Nanqi said.

"Major General, for some reason, my subordinates always feel uneasy." If Fei Dao scratched his head, he continued: "What Vice General Shao said is right, there are indeed many doubts in this matter, and Feng should not lie if he grew up with us, but it is better for his subordinates to visit Nancheng tomorrow and night, and the major general will stay in the army to guard in case of emergencies." ”

"If not, how can little Nancheng withstand me? You can rest assured, go and rest early, and go ahead tomorrow as planned. Huo Nanqi patted Ruofei on the shoulder, signaling him to feel at ease.

When Shao Jie and Yanfeng came back that night, Shao Jie was also dispelled because of what he saw with his own eyes, and the second day of Jingdai arrived.

Under the South City Gate, thousands of troops and horses, mighty, black and oppressive soldiers are surging, Huo Nanqi led by Huo Nanqi rode on a group of dark brown high-headed horses, a military uniform was heroic, and a shouting person stood on the South City Gate and shouted: "Huo Nanqi!" You are optimistic about whether you want to step on the corpses of these people to break through the gate of my southern city! Before the words fell, a row of men, women, and children fell on the city wall, each with a thick hemp rope tied around his waist, and fell into the air.

Huo Nanqi looked tight and said loudly: "The two armies are fighting, and they will not hurt the people of the two countries, and now they are holding some people as shields, you people from southern Xinjiang are not gentlemen!" ”

"Hahaha! Gentleman? The people at the city gate immediately cut one of the ropes, and with a "bang", a figure fell heavily on the ground in front of the city gate, and the flesh and blood were blurred.

Huo Nanqi's face changed slightly, and he scolded in a low voice: "Wang Ba Lamb." Then he said loudly: "Say it! If you let these people go, what are the conditions, I promise you. ”

"Major General, Nancheng is bound to win, why put up with this moment." Yanfeng said in a low voice.

"Yanfeng, didn't you see that the people hanging on the city wall are all the people of our Zhou Kingdom?! How can we storm the southern city with their corpses? If it weren't for pulling Yanfeng's arm, he said in a low voice.

The people above the city gate laughed and said, "General Huo is refreshing!" You can withdraw your troops and return to Zhou, and I guarantee them their lives. ”

"How do I know that after I withdraw my troops, you will let them go? Do you think I'm a three-year-old? Huo Nanqi shouted.

There was silence at the south city gate for a while: "It's better to be like this, I'll let a few people leave first, and then how about you retreat?" After that, the city gate was opened, and more than a dozen people stumbled out of the city gate in a panic.

Seeing that the people were evacuated safely, Huo Nanqi said loudly: "Today, Huo Mou will retreat and set up camp first, until you release all the people in the city, and Huo Mou will withdraw from the army." ”

"Major General! The people of southern Xinjiang must not be trusted! Shao Jie said urgently.

"Don't worry." Huo Nanqi waved his hand.

"Good! Three days! Major General Wanghuo's words count! Close the gates! The men on the southern wall said they departed.

Huo Nanqi raised his right hand to signal a temporary retreat, and the 50,000 soldiers said in unison: "Yes!" He turned around and left, and after a while, he waited in place not far from Nancheng to rest.