The flames that rose to the sky were reflected in everyone's eyes, and the bloody qi was desperately drilling into everyone's nostrils.

Different from the cruel scene under the city, ten miles outside the city, the eastern suburbs are a completely different and peaceful scene.

Qi An was dressed in a slow and light fur, looking at the wolf smoke billowing into the sky from the hill, and couldn't help but think of the scene that happened outside Lingzhou yesterday.

At that time, Qi An led his 20,000 personal guards to act as the front army to march first, and when he arrived at Lingzhou City, the people in the city heard that he was leading the army to encircle and suppress the rebels of Huan Guohou, and they knelt down to petition to stop it.

Combined with what he saw with his own eyes at the moment, Qi An couldn't help but whisper to himself, "I don't believe it either, he will be the thief in their mouths." ”

"What is Childe talking about?"

"Nothing." Qi An looked at Jincheng not far away, and lazily ordered, "Find a place outside the city where the Northern Qin army is stationed, and set up the catapult." And then...... Throw all this grain into the city. ”

"This, I'm afraid I can't do it," the deputy general didn't know the relationship between Qi An and Xi Yan, and hurriedly dissuaded, "Childe, they are all anti-thieves." ”

"I know." Qi An's words were quite impatient, "But to this day, they are still working hard for Da Zhao's country." Then at this moment, they are not the enemies of Da Zhao. You're all my personal guards, when did you start questioning me? If the King of Liao is to blame, I will bear it. Just go. ”

"My subordinates understood."

……

Jincheng Castle Head.

A guard ran and said, "General, there are people attacking the city in the east of the city!" ”

"Chengdong? Isn't the Northern Qin army already temporarily retreating, besides, they besiege the city and pay attention to the lack of one of the three sieges, how could they come from the east? How many people are there? ”

Xi Yan frowned, Fang Cai's fire attack had already caused heavy casualties to the Northern Qin army, and it stands to reason that it would be impossible to regroup so quickly. Moreover, there are many hills outside the eastern part of the city, and the terrain is not suitable for an attack.

"I can't see the number of people, only a few catapults."

"Revisit."

At this moment, another guard rushed over with a happy face, "General! Someone outside the city threw in grain and grass! We have reinforcements! ”

Reinforcements? Xi Yan secretly smiled bitterly, but said in his mouth: "Go and see." ”

Large bales of grain and grass crossed the city wall and fell directly into the city, and many of them had been scattered on the ground, although the amount was not very large, but it was enough to solve the urgent need.

Looking at these grains and grass coming from the city, Xi Yan smiled bitterly and said lightly: "I know it's you who came." ”

If you look closely, each sack of grain and grass is embroidered with a small "Qi" character with twine of the same color. Immediately, Xi Yan said to Liu Peiqi, who was following him, "Qi An is here, then the King of Liao is coming soon." But none of them is our reinforcements, but our enemies. ”

When it came to the enemy, Xi Yan didn't feel a little bitter in his heart, "When the time comes, we will either die in battle or be killed on charges of rebellion." I'm exhausted, let it be fate......"

When Liu Peiqi heard this, he knew that Xi Yan had nothing to do, so he could only remain silent.

If Xi Yan was willing to be obedient and make a decision early that day, then his people would have already escaped and left now, how could they be besieged to death. But combined with the military orders issued by Xi Yan in the past few days, Liu Peiqi hesitated a little......

The first military order given by such a son, who was not familiar with the livelihood of the Li people, was to open the city gate and let all the remaining people in Jincheng withdraw to Lingzhou, and even if the people wanted to take away the food and cotton clothes from their families in the city, he ordered the soldiers not to rob them.

Under this strict order, the soldiers strictly followed the rules, and some people also took the initiative to leave their own small food in the city......

At this time when the mountains and rivers are exhausted, Liu Peiqi really doesn't know if the soldiers in the city can survive this time...... I don't know if Huan Guohou's plan to stay can be completed?

"Do you regret it?" Liu Peiqi did not shy away from looking directly into Xi Yan's eyes, "When the Northern Qin army came to attack the city that day, if you leave...... There would be no death today. ”

"I don't regret it," Xi Yan's tone has always been calm, "Anyway, we have all been condemned as anti-thieves, but do you really want me to ...... Do you do what the thief did? I am stubbornly defending here, blocking the trampling of my Great Zhao people by Northern Qin, not for the eyes of others, what do I regret? ”

"Are you worthy of your brother?"

"Brother......" Xi Yan lowered his eyes slightly, and a wisp of silence appeared in his eyes, "He has his own choice, and I also have my choice." He chose to be opposed, and I chose to keep, even if he recorded a stroke on me in the Japanese history books, what could I do? All I need to do is be worthy of my own heart...... Men are born to be famous, and when they die, they are buried in barbarians, even if the ignorant swords, pens, and petty officials dance and write and ink to posterity, but what I do today ...... At least one day I'm watching. ”

Liu Peiqi said "um", in this cold winter, at the ruined head of Jincheng, he seemed to see the young general's determination to defend here to the death, and saw that his belief was so resolute.

However, in just four days, more than 100,000 troops came again outside the already dilapidated Jincheng.

The King of Liao took the lead, and behind him were He Fangping, Qi An and other generals. After that, there is the fierce 100,000 Yu Lin Wei, this is a brave athlete, has firmly occupied the east of Jincheng.

As for the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Northern Qin, they temporarily retreated from the arrangement of the north and south, and the Great Zhao army sandwiched Jincheng, an originally small city, in the middle of it.

The King of Liao rode on a tall horse, looking at the Jincheng not far away, and his heart was full of emotion for a while.

"In the past, Luan Jun was kind to this king, but now, this king still has to meet his brother in battle. Herald! The whole army is encamped! ”

"Why didn't Your Highness just order the siege of the city?" He Fangping looked like an old god was there, and said eloquently, "At this time, when the rebels are weak, it only takes a few rounds of attacks in a row to bring Jincheng into the bag." ”

The King of Liao snorted coldly, "The army that surrenders without a fight is the best policy." Anyway, the rebels are already unable to fly, and when they run out of food and grass, they will naturally obediently go out of the city and kneel to be bound. Besides, the Northern Qin thieves are still there, if the city is attacked, how do you know that Fu Mang will not give the order to attack us? ”

On the same day, when Xi Yan turned He Yan away from the Xi Mansion, He Fangping was still resentful, thinking that the Xi family looked down on the He family and wanted to take the opportunity to regret the marriage. But to this day, He Fangping can't help but feel deeply happy in his heart. Rebellion is a big crime, if He Yan is really married into the Xi family that day, then the lintel of the He family's glory for decades will be destroyed in his own hands when he arrives.

He Fangping secretly thought to himself in his heart, taking this opportunity, he must not show mercy to Xi Yan's subordinates, only in this way can he be loyal in front of the emperor, so as to dispel the emperor's doubts about himself. So Fang said: "Your Highness, if you start as soon as possible, you will be less variable as soon as possible, Your Highness will not be afraid of the comradeship with the thief Xi Luan in the past, right?" ”

"Presumptuous!"

King Liao's originally peaceful face suddenly turned like frost, and his tone became stiff, "Although Xi Yan harbors evil intentions, there are still many soldiers in the city who are loyal to my Great Zhao. We just want to punish Xi Yan and his henchmen, and the rest of the soldiers can still be used by my Da Zhao. Qi An, did you say? ”

Seeing the two of them looking at each other, Qi An seemed to smile and said, "What His Highness said is reasonable, why do you have to kill each other, right, General He?" ”

He Fangping saw that even Qi An came to target him, and he was immediately angry: "Master Qi, what do you mean by this?" What does cannibalism mean? Xi Yan is a thief! You defend him everywhere openly and secretly, could it be that you also have some different intentions? As far as the old man knows, you and the thief are friends! ”

"General Ho...... It's not such a way to spray people with blood," Qi An sneered, and met He Fangping's angry gaze without fear, "If according to what you said, then the three people here, everyone has a heart of disobedience?" His Royal Highness the King of Liao was once a comrade with Huan Guohou, and he was good friends with Xi Yan in Xia, but when it comes to intimacy, you have been married to Xi Fu, and Xi Yan still wants to call you a father-in-law! ”

"You!" He Fangping has never been confronted by juniors like this, and he is still on the battlefield, and he is about to flare up when he is angry, "You spit lotus flowers in your mouth, and the old man can't talk about you." If you really have the ability, then you will take down the thief, and the old man promises not to say a word! ”

Qi An glanced at He Fangping arrogantly, and sneered again: "I am only a deputy general, and General He is the hussar general appointed by His Majesty!" Could it be that General He himself admitted his guilt and thought that he didn't have the ability to take down the thief? ”

"Those who are good at fighting have no great feats! How dare you speak so quickly in front of this general! He Fangping glared at Qi An angrily, but Qi An didn't make any waves, and dissolved the veteran's burning gaze in his eyes.

"Enough," King Liao, who had been listening to the two of them arguing, finally opened his mouth, "You two are both my Great Zhao's generals, why haven't you fought with the enemy yet, and you quarreled first?" If this spreads, won't it be ridiculed by Xiaoxiao? ”

He Fangping saw that King Liao was secretly helping Qi An to speak, so he only snorted coldly, and then stopped fighting back.