"Look over there!" Han Qing shouted, pointing to a series of points of light in the southern sky.

A row of silver-white points of light rose from the direction of the regimental city two hundred miles away, like a row of rising stars, although small, but in the dark night sky is very dazzling, it is a kind of siege weapon commonly used by the Phoenix Army, called Wind and Fire Chain Thunder, the range can be as far as ten miles, and the power is huge.

"Tuancheng?" Duan Feng wondered, "Do they want to attack Tuancheng?"

Tuancheng is the last gateway to guard the south gate of the imperial capital, once the Tuancheng is occupied, the rebels can drive straight into the imperial capital from the south, and the important town guarding the Tuancheng is a military fortress called Xixia Town, only twenty miles away from the Tuancheng, the fortress is located in the Xishan Canyon on the north side of Xiaoyun Mountain, and the Xishan Canyon is the only way for the rebels on the South Road to enter the imperial capital.

At this time, the battle between the east and west of the imperial capital was stalemate, and the two sides were evenly matched, and the elven legions in the north occupied Beihua County for some reason, and then moved the battle line to the Yuntai Mountain Range, which was five hundred miles north of the imperial capital, and stopped attacking, even so, they still contained the 200,000 troops of the official army.

As a result, the rebels had no choice but to attack from the south, where the number of troops was the most scarce, but the terrain was the most complicated.

It was Duan Tiande who was responsible for attacking the south, Duan Feng didn't expect him to come so quickly, the deployment of the official army in the south had not been completely completed, and several strongholds on the periphery of the entire Xishan Gorge had been uprooted, and the 300,000 troops led by Duan Tiande at this time were lined up in three columns along the narrow Xishan Gorge, of which the middle route was personally commanded by him, pointing directly at Xixia Town.

Under the leadership of Liu Nanchun, the West Road Column attacked the night ghost city along the periphery of the west side of Xiaoyun Mountain, the night ghost city was backed by the east side of the Tushan Mountain Range, the city was built on a platform on the mountainside, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the defenders in the city were 50,000, and the general who defended the city was a high-level qi master, named Sanxian Daoren.

Sanxian Daoist's original name was Liu Yunchuan, he was the general of the night city, this person was obsessed with cultivating immortals, so he escaped into Tushan to practice immortal law during his tenure, and was dismissed from his post by the emperor. With this person stationed in the night city, Liu Nanchun has no chance of winning.

The East Road Column was led by Duan Yun, there were no troops stationed on his opposite side, what he had to face was a thousand miles of Qingfeng Forest, the forest was full of miasma all year round, and monsters were rampant, if you wanted to pass through here, it was tantamount to suicide, therefore, since receiving the task, Duan Yun has been staying thirty miles outside the Qingfeng Forest.

Han Qing thought for a while and said, "They should be attacking Xixia Town, but it seems that they even used the wind and fire and thunder, I'm afraid Xixia Town is also in danger." ”

"Who is guarding the town of Xixia?"

"It is said that it is a qi master named Long Wenwen, who leads his three thousand dead soldiers. ”

"Why haven't you heard of this person?"

"This person has only recently appeared, he is a master hidden in the rivers and lakes, and he was recommended to the emperor by Ouyang Zhen, it is said that this person's spiritual power is unfathomable, enough to confront the current evil emperor, but, depending on the situation, the Phoenix Army is determined to win the regimental city this time. ”

The sky had already seen light, and a cold drizzle was floating in the air, and the entire imperial capital was shrouded in a gloomy night.

At this time, the emperor's envoy summoned the two into the golden hall, and the god of the main hall sat on the dragon chair, flanked by two ministers.

At this time, a middle-aged man stood out from the first column of the generals, and after saluting the emperor, he turned to Duan Feng and said in an arrogant tone: "Duan Feng, originally you were the son of the leader of the rebels, Your Majesty should have said that you should be sentenced to death, but Ouyang Dasi ordered to recommend it strongly, plus the empire is now in urgent need of talents, the emperor is benevolent, I want to give you a chance to atone for your sins, I hope you can seize this opportunity." ”

As soon as Duan Feng heard the man's tone, he didn't feel angry in his heart, but he was already used to these high-minded and pedantic temperaments of the ministers, so he didn't care.

"I don't know what Your Majesty wants the grass people to do?" Duan Feng asked with a bow.

"The Emperor has ordered you to go to the regimental city to help defend it, and if possible, I hope you will persuade your father to return to his lost path. ”

"This?" Duan Feng was a little hesitant, if he wanted to say that he had nothing to say about defending the city, but it was probably impossible to persuade him to surrender, because it was not his father, but now that he told everyone this, the emperor would definitely think that he was deliberately prevaricating.

"What? you want to resist!" the man rebuked haughtily.

"Don't dare! ”

Duan Feng and Han Qing led the poor five thousand iron cavalry allocated by the emperor to take advantage of the gloomy Liming Dynasty to march towards the city.

The rain stabbed on the armor of the armies like ice needles, Duan Feng looked back at the already tired troops, and felt a trace of sadness for them inexplicably in his heart, he didn't know how many of them would survive in this battle.

After three hours of rapid marching, Duan Feng and others rushed to the city of Tuancheng, with the emperor's warrant, Duan Feng called to open the city gate, and came out to greet a ranger captain, with a team of more than 200 people, belonging to the local garrison, so he was sent to the back to guard the north gate.

"General Duan, General Long is holding a meeting with the generals in the Shuai tent, and a special dispatch has come down to greet him. ”

Duan Feng looked at the team leader, he was not tall, but his body was very strong, and his face was dark, like a hunter who walked in the mountains all year round, "Lead the way!"

Duan Feng and Han Qing arranged the army and led several of their vanguard lieutenants to the tent.

Shuai Tent is located in a makeshift converted liquor shop in the south of the city, less than five miles from the south gate, and the rebels' wind, fire, and thunder launchers can attack here with a slight move forward.

After the report, Duan Feng and the others were invited into the handsome tent, and as soon as they entered the handsome tent, Duan Feng was shocked by the scene in front of him.

Long Wenwen looked at Duan Feng with a smile on his face, waiting for him to come to his senses.

"Wen Bo?" Duan Feng couldn't believe his eyes, it turned out that Long Wen was Wen Bo.

"What? is it a surprise?" asked Long Wenwen with a smile, walking up to Duan Feng and pressing him to his seat.

"How are you?"

"I'll explain this to you later, and I'll introduce you to the generals here. ”

Then, Long Wenwen introduced the people in the account to Duan Feng one by one, but Duan Feng didn't care, his head kept buzzing, and he didn't hear the introduction of Long Wenwen at all, so he could only keep nodding his head.

All of this came too suddenly, which caught him a little off guard, but fortunately, he had already experienced too many accidents in the past year, and soon he was involved in the combat deployment of Long Wenwen.

"According to our intelligence, the rebels will not launch a larger attack on the regiment in the near future, because they are already short of food and grass, so we can take this opportunity to organize our armaments. ”

"Why don't we take this opportunity to fight back?" Duan Feng suddenly mentioned.

Duan Feng's proposal caused a stir in the crowd, but instead of anyone supporting him, it attracted a burst of ridicule.

"No, there are 100,000 rebels outside the city, and we only have 30,000 defenders, so we can't attack rashly, and the terrain here is not conducive to the deployment of the army. ”

Duan Feng felt his ignorance at this time, and his face was ashamed, he had never participated in this kind of legion battle, and he relied entirely on the content of the paper to march and fight, in the eyes of these experienced veterans, he was just a fledgling stunned boy.

"But we can't sit still. "According to intelligence, the rebels will have a convoy of grain and grass to support in the near future, and the convoy does not have many escort troops, and if we can rob or completely destroy this grain and grass, it will be of great benefit to relieve our pressure." ”

As soon as Long Wenwen finished saying this, all the generals present lowered their heads and discussed one after another.

When Duan Feng saw this scene, he sneered in his heart, these unruly generals who were usually bullish and unruly approached the war, and each of them turned into turtles with shrunken heads.

Long Wenwen glanced at the generals with cold eyes, but he was not angry, he had long expected this result, if it wasn't for the help of their troops, he would have thrown them out of the city a long time ago, so he asked the emperor for orders to transfer Duan Feng and Han Qing.

"Han Qing, what do you think?" Long Wenwen looked at Han Qing, Duan Feng had a more important purpose, and Han Qing was enough to complete such a thing as robbing and killing grain and grass.

"Me?" Han Qing was a little surprised, and after thinking about it at that time, he immediately understood the intention of Long Wenwen, "I'm worried that it will disappoint you." ”

"Don't worry!" Long Wenwen waved his hand and laughed, "I fully believe in your strength. ”

"Yes, Brother Han, I also believe in your strength. Duan Feng also echoed.

"You generals don't have any opinions, right?" Long Wenwen glanced at the circle of generals with unquestioning eyes.

"It's all up to the manager!" replied in unison.

That night, Long Wenwen specially called Han Qing to the tent and handed him a dragon slaying whip more than three feet long.

"This is the artifact of the ancient dragon clan, forged from eighty-one dragon whiskers, extremely sharp, and can be stretched at will according to the human mind, I give it to you to help you. ”

"It's too expensive for me to want. ”

"Don't be polite to me, now that you don't have the Weeping Ying Sword, you just need a weapon to take advantage of, this dragon slaying whip I have kept for decades and have not found a suitable owner, I hope you can control it. ”

"Then thank you. Han Qing is still used to calling Long Wenwen Bo, as for his true identity, Han Qing doesn't care.

"And. Long Wenwen took out a golden pill from a small box in his hand, "This is my special Baihua Pill, which contains a few Qi Yuan, you can keep it, it can come in handy at a critical moment." ”

Han Qing took the Hundred Flower Pill, this is a rare treasure, no Qi Master will let go of this elixir, if he refuses to do so, it will be too hypocritical, besides, this task is important, he needs this medicine to improve his spiritual power.

"In addition to these things, I will also give you half of my three thousand dead soldiers, and you take them with you, and act when the time comes. ”

Wen Bo's face suddenly became a little strange as he spoke, as if he was hiding something from him, Han Qing roughly understood in his heart that this robbery of grain and grass was by no means as simple as he imagined, otherwise Wen Bo would not have to send out all the dead soldiers who had come to maintain his strength.

"Don't worry, Wenbo, I'll do my best. ”

Before dawn the next day, Han Qing bid farewell to Duan Feng, and led 1,500 dead soldiers and 2,000 defenders to break out of the siege from the West Gate, detour to the north of Xiaoyun Mountain, and go straight to the East Fork Canyon, the only way for the grain transportation team.