Duan Feng was a little surprised by the sudden change in the temperament of the old wonton, the current old wonton was like a weathered warrior, and at this time, the wind found that there was a faint scar on the old wonton's face that was more than two inches long, hidden in the wrinkles of the ravines.

Old Wonton suddenly asked in a deep tone, "Childe just asked about the origin of this town?"

Duan Feng glanced at Han Qing, and then looked at the old wonton suspiciously: "Does the old man have anything else to say?"

The old wonton still turned sideways to Duan Feng, but his body was more straight, and said: "As for how this town came about, I can't remember exactly, but I have a story here, I don't know if the two sons are willing to listen to it." ”

Duan Feng sat down and said, "I want to hear about it." ”

The old wonton picked up a section of the wick in the oil lamp with scissors, and the whole room instantly brightened up, and then he took another sip of wine and told the story that had been hidden in his heart for half his life.

It was said that it was forty-three years ago, it was a cold winter, and the East Fence Kingdom had just ended the war against the Northern Demon Army, although the East Fence Kingdom lost several generals, but after all, it won the war, and the entire northern border was at the beginning of peace and tranquility, which coincided with the Qiu Ze Continent encountering a once-in-a-century cold wave, that day the north wind was howling, the sky was snowing heavily, and the northern frontier was covered in silver.

At the same time, in the Fengtian Hall of the Imperial Palace, thousands of miles away, a song and dance were leveled, the emperor was celebrating the victory of the war with the ministers, the ministers were talking about wine, drinking spirits, and beauties were accompanied, and the entire imperial capital was full of laughter.

Suddenly, a seriously wounded messenger was carried into the inner city of the palace by two royal guards, and it was not until the end of the banquet that the messenger was summoned by the emperor to enter the Fengtian Palace, and the news he brought immediately caused an uproar in the originally happy Fengtian Palace.

According to the rumored Xinbing, Su Hongfang, the general of the pass guarding Yongding Pass in northern Xinjiang, colluded with the Demon World to lead the army to rebel, and in just three days, the rebels have occupied 36 towns in northern Xinjiang, and the entire Beihua County and the northern part of Yunshang County have fallen into the hands of the rebels.

When the emperor heard this, he was furious, and his ministers dispersed unhappily, leaving only a few generals and strategists to discuss countermeasures.

"Do you Aiqing have any good strategies to retreat from the enemy?" the emperor glanced at His Highness with those small eyes.

There was silence in the audience, and all the ministers lowered their heads, lest the heavy task of countering the rebellion fall on them.

"Emperor Qi, Weichen recommends one person, if he goes out, he will definitely be able to quell the rebellion. ”

The ministers turned their gazes to the speaker, but no one spoke.

The speaker is none other than Mu Ziyi, the great secretary of the Imperial Capital Military Division, who is a Qi Master of the Qi Saint Realm, and a silver soul spear is all over the world, and no one can break it.

"Who is the Mu Qing family talking about?" the emperor asked coldly.

"Phoenix City Lord Yue Zifeng, this person has been stationed in the south all the year round, fighting against the beast tribe all year round, and he has many qi masters under him, so he is the best candidate to deal with the demon army. ”

"What do you think?" the emperor continued to glance at His Highness's ministers.

Everyone in the audience wished that someone would take the initiative to fight, and now that someone recommended it, of course they nodded again and again.

Then the emperor immediately issued an order to order Yue Zifeng, the city lord of Phoenix City at that time, to lead the army to quell the rebellion, in order to avoid Yue Zifeng's family from becoming dominant, and also in order to deal with him, the emperor also sent Ouyang Yi, the commander of the Imperial Forest Guard at that time, to lead 50,000 Royal Forest Guards to Cloud City.

At that time, the rebels were already approaching the border of Yunxia County, and it stands to reason that the defenders closest to the rebels should be sent to meet them, but at that time, the city lord of Yunjian City was Su Hongfang's cousin Su Hongzhen, and it was precisely because of this that the emperor decided to send Yue Zifeng of Phoenix City, which was far away from Yongding Pass, to quell the rebellion, and Ouyang Yi's task was to monitor Su Hongzhen and Yue Zifeng.

At that time, the rebels were huge, and with the support of the Demon Realm, they quickly took the 36 towns in Northern Xinjiang, and the troops were on the border of Tianxing County, and the nearest place was only 300 miles away from the imperial capital.

At the same time, the main force of the rebel army bypassed Xiaoyun Mountain and went straight to Yunjian City, in an attempt to divide the Eastern Fence Kingdom into two halves, east and west, and completely cut off the connection between the eastern and western reinforcements.

At that time, the reinforcements of Phoenix City were blocked by the army of the Demon Realm on the south side of Xiaoyun Mountain, which was one hundred and fifty miles away from Cloud City, and they could not advance or retreat.

Outside the city of Yunjian City, the rebels attacked fiercely, and soon all the strongholds on the periphery of Yunjian City were uprooted, and the rebels came to the city, but under the constraints of Ouyang Yi, the defenders in Yunjian City were strictly ordered not to go out of the city to face the battle, although Su Hongzhen explained in every possible way, but Ouyang Yi just refused to let go.

At that time, there were three sworn brothers under Su Hongzhen, and as for what the names were, no one could remember them because it had been too long. At that time, the eldest of the three brothers said to Su Hongzhen: "Lord, now there is only one way for you to prove your innocence. ”

Su Hongzhen said, "What way?"

The boss said: "That is to fight a victory and express my heartfelt feelings to the emperor." ”

Su Hongzhen said: "Of course the old man knows this, but Ouyang Yi is guarding here, and it is strictly forbidden for me to send troops out of the city, what can I do." ”

The boss said: "It is definitely not possible to go out openly, we can go out secretly." ”

Su Hongzhen said: "Go out secretly, if Ouyang Yi knows, wouldn't it be just right for him to take control? ”

The boss said: "My lord, so far, do you think, even if the lord does nothing and succeeds in quelling the rebellion in the future, as Su Hongfang's elder brother, do you think the emperor will let you go? Even if you didn't participate in the rebellion, the emperor probably won't believe you anymore." Today, if you help put down the rebellion, you will not only have a reputation for righteous annihilation, but you will also be able to regain the trust of the emperor. If we send a surprise army to attack the rebels' food and grass areas, if we succeed, the tide of the battle will be turned upside down. When the time comes, will he, Ouyang Yi, still pursue your sin of sending troops out of the city without authorization? In case of failure, the lord can be said to be a small army that secretly went out of the city and surrendered, and was discovered and eliminated by you, and he Ouyang Yi can't say anything. ”

Su Hongzhen thought about it, there is some truth, but who would be willing to take this risk?

The boss saw that Su Hongzhen was a little tempted, so he took the opportunity to say: "If the lord can trust me, the last general is willing to lead the troops there." ”

Su Hongzhen was overjoyed when he heard this, these three brothers have been under his account for ten years, although they have not done anything great, but they have always been loyal to themselves, so they did not hesitate, so they sent two thousand cavalry to the three brothers. That night, Su Hongzhen ordered the guards of the other three city gates to be halved and all concentrated at the north gate, so that the rebels thought that the defenders of the city wanted to break through the north gate.

The three brothers led 2,000 cavalry to take advantage of the night to break out of the east gate and rush to the east, the rebels saw that there were only about 2,000 people, thinking that it was a rout that broke through the siege and escaped, so they did not send troops to pursue, and the second was to continue to attack the north gate. The three brothers led the cavalry around for more than 300 miles, arriving at the grain and grass supply station fifty miles behind the rebels before dawn.

The three brothers led their army to lie in ambush behind the hillside, secretly watching as truckloads of grain and grass were being sent into the barracks.

The second child asked: "It seems that the rebels' grain and grass are here, but it seems that the defenders here must have at least 4,000 people, can we succeed?"

The boss said: "If you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get the tiger." Why did the three of us brothers join the army at that time, wasn't it just to get ahead? But after 10 years, what have we got? Until now, we haven't even been mixed up with a deputy general. Now this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and once we succeed, we can soar. ”

The second child said: "But there are too many of them, and I'm afraid that if we fail, we will lose our lives by then." ”

"If you want to succeed, you have to take risks, and we've been waiting for 10 years, and I don't want to wait," the boss said. ”

The second child looked at the third brother, hoping that the third child could help him persuade the boss, but the third child has no opinions since he was a child, and everything was arranged by the two brothers, so when he saw the two brothers arguing, he could only watch and dare not interject.

The boss looked at it: "Don't say it, it's come to this point, and you can't go back if you want to." Besides, although there are many enemy troops, they are also relatively scattered, so we only need to quickly rush in and set fire to the grain and grass, and there is no need to entangle with the enemy, and we will withdraw immediately after lighting the fire, and we will be fine. ”

When the second child saw it, he knew that he couldn't persuade the eldest brother to stop, so he had to give up.

At night, the three of them with cavalry with torches quickly broke into the enemy camp, set fire, and suddenly the camp was full of fires, and the rebels were in chaos, as the boss said, everyone was busy fighting the fire, and some people remembered to resist the enemy, and only some sporadic resistance was repelled by the three brothers one by one.

For a while, the enemy camp turned into a sea of fire, and the three brothers immediately withdrew from the camp and sneaked back to the north of a ridge thirty miles away from Yunjian City, watching the movements of the rebels. As expected by the boss, before dawn, the rebels began to retreat in an orderly manner, and after sunrise, there was no trace of the rebels on the periphery of Phoenix. The three brothers led the army back to the city, and Su Hong was really overjoyed and personally poured wine for the three of them.

Ouyang Yi saw that although he was dissatisfied with Su Hongzhen sending troops out of the city without permission, because Su Hongzhen successfully retreated from the enemy, he did not hold him responsible, but reported the incident to the emperor.

Three days later, the emperor ordered Su Hongzhen to be appointed as the generalissimo of the rebellion in the north of the region, and led the army to pursue the rebels from the east, while Yue Zifeng led the army north to relieve the urgency of Tianxing County, and at the same time prepared to fight with Su Hongzhen to jointly destroy the rebels.

After the order came down, although Su Hongzhen was a little embarrassed, but out of loyalty to the emperor, he still accepted the order, because the three brothers retreated from the enemy, Su Hongzhen asked for the order to crown the eldest of the three brothers as the vanguard of the enemy, and led 50,000 elites to pursue the rebels.

On the same day, the eldest and the second led 50,000 elites out of Cloud City to pursue the rebels, while the third child was left in Cloud City to be responsible for raising grain and grass, which made the third child very frustrated. The three brothers are all orphans, they grew up together, they asked for food together, they learned martial arts together, they joined the army together, they never separated, and the third brother had no opinion on doing things, and he listened to the two brothers in everything.

However, the third child obeyed the eldest brother's orders, so he could only take over the position of grain transport officer.