Chapter XVIII Withdrawal of Troops

Fang Gu, who was so annoyed, slowly untied the rope for Jia Qianqian, but before the rope was completely removed, Jia Qianqian, who was in despair, jumped down without warning. Fang Gu was shocked and subconsciously grabbed one end of the rope. Nie Wuzheng, who was also standing on the high platform, also subconsciously grabbed Jia Qianqian's body. But he was still a little late, and only caught the rope on Jia Qianqian's body that he hadn't had time to completely remove.

Jia Qianqian's body was just a few loops of rope that were entangled, because Fang Gu and Nie Wuzheng only grabbed one end of the rope, and Jia Qianqian's body rolled and fell. The last loop of rope wrapped around her body was wrapped around the hem of her garment that was rolled up by the wind, slightly stopping the speed of her fall. Although the slightest stop did not cause her to fall immediately, her shoulders and head slammed into the wall with a sway, and the rope was completely removed from her. It was also because of this last lap that it was wrapped around the placket of the shirt and slightly stopped the speed of the fall, which bought valuable time for the dragon jie below. ‘

Long Jie, who originally raised his head to negotiate with Nie Wuzheng, witnessed Jia Qianqian jump down, although he was heartbroken, but he reacted quickly and he still used his strength on the horse, with the help of a ladder cloud on the horse's body, and quickly crossed a distance of nearly twenty meters, grabbed Jia Qianqian when she was only three or four meters from the ground, and then the two fell to the ground together.

Nie Wuzheng, who was on the city wall, threw down the rope after seeing that the rope had completely slipped from Qianqian's body, and jumped without thinking, intending to jump down and grab her. Mu Fanggu, who was grabbing the other end of the rope, shook the rope in her hand at a moment's notice, and the other end of the rope dangling in mid-air wrapped around Nie Wuzheng, who was lower. It was also thanks to Mu Fanggu's strong martial arts that she rolled up Nie Wuzheng and pulled him back to the city wall. The surrounding base camp disciples immediately rushed up to protect Nie Wuzheng.

All the people who witnessed this thrilling scene were stunned, and it was not until Jia Qianqian and Long Jie fell to the ground and Nie Wuzheng was caught back against the wall by a rope that they came back to their senses. Long Xiao roared angrily: "Go and snatch people back!" ”

The soldiers at the front immediately held their shields high and rushed towards the two Long Jie under the city wall.

Mu Sichen gave an order: "Release the arrow!" The archers on the city wall immediately rained down arrows at the rushing soldiers, but they did not release their arrows at Long Jie. Long Xiao's archers also immediately released arrows into the city, covering the soldiers in front of them to grab people.

Nie Wuzheng roared angrily: "Don't let go of arrows!" All the archers in Xuancheng were stunned for a moment, and immediately stopped firing their arrows.

Long Xiao only ordered to rob people, but did not order the siege of the city, so those sergeants raised their heads and hit the city wall and fell unconscious, Jia Qianqian, and Long Jie, who fell to the ground and fainted because he was protecting her, quickly retreated.

Long Xiao rushed over to check on the two. Long Jie fainted, and there was blood flowing out of Jia Qianqian's head, and his eyes were closed and motionless. Long Xiao only felt that his breath was suffocating, his heart suddenly tightened, and his hand trembled involuntarily. Taking a deep breath to stabilize her mind, she found that she still had a faint pulse, which rekindled her hope and immediately asked them to be carried back to the camp for healing. Then, looking at the high city walls of Xuancheng, the light in his eyes was cold and vicious, and he roared angrily: "According to the predetermined plan, go all out to attack the city!" ”

Now that Jia Qianqian is no longer in Xuancheng, he can attack the city without any scruples. Thus, a bitter and tragic siege battle began again.

On the wall of Xuancheng, Nie Wuzheng looked at Long Xiao's army with a blank expression, as if his soul was out of his body, allowing the rockets fired by the ballista bed and the stone projectiles fired by the trebuchet to continue to fall around him. Several guards stood beside him, nervously guarding him.

Long Jie woke up in the rear camp and tried to stand up, only to find that his right arm was broken, and he was strapped to a splint. "What about Qianqian? Qianqian, what's wrong with Qianqian? The sergeant standing beside him gestured to the man lying on the improvised wooden bed next to him. Long Jie turned over and rushed over, and saw Jia Qianqian, whose head was wrapped, his face was pale, his eyes were closed, and he seemed to be lifeless. "Qianqian, Qianqian!" Long Jie only felt like falling into an ice cave, and trembled his fingers to probe her snort. The doctor accompanying the army on the side hurriedly said: "Third prince, this girl has been seriously injured in the head and is still in a coma. Only then did Long Jie breathe a sigh of relief and settle his mind. Is she dangerous? ”

The doctor said, "The danger is certain, but it is not hopeless. ”

Long Jie gently stroked the pale face with his left hand, and whispered viciously in her ear: "Qianqian, your parents only have a precious daughter like you, if you don't want them to be sad and desperate, give me back life!" ”

The doctor persuaded on the side: "Third prince, your injuries are not light, let's lie back first." ”

Only then did Long Jie realize that he was in pain all over his body, and he was about to lie back, but he heard the commotion outside. I only heard someone shouting: "Call all the doctors to come, we have killed and injured a lot of people again." ”

Long Jie was stunned for a moment, and immediately asked, "Could it be that the imperial brother is still attacking the city?" ”

A soldier hurriedly replied: "Back to the third prince, the eldest prince is leading the army to storm Xuancheng. ”

Long Jie's brows suddenly furrowed, this Xuancheng City is a fierce soldier, if it is attacked like this, I don't know what price to pay, now that Qianqian is no longer in Xuancheng, why don't you withdraw your troops? Thinking of this, he immediately went out of the military tent, took the holy decree, mounted his horse and ran to the front.

Along the way, a steady stream of dead and wounded soldiers were being transported to the rear, which showed the fierceness of the battle on the front line.

Rushed into the Chinese army, stood in front of Long Xiao, and said in a firm voice: "Long Xiao, as a supervisor, I now order you to stop the siege and withdraw your troops immediately!" ”

Long Xiao looked at Long Jie and said coldly: "No! Xuancheng must be breached, and it is still an endless aftermath to keep it. ”

"Father's decree clearly states that I have the right to order you to withdraw your troops, do you want to resist the decree!" Long Jie's voice also turned cold.

A sneer appeared at the corner of Long Xiao's mouth, "Outside, the military order is not subject to it!" ”

"Long Xiao, are you crazy? Qianqian is already in our hands, there is no need to bury the lives of these soldiers in vain, now is not the best time to get rid of Xuancheng, you hurry up and order to stop the siege! ”

Long Xiao looked at Xuancheng in front of him and snorted coldly, "When is the best time?" Timing is created by people, and the best time is to be able to conquer it. ”

Long Jie looked at the extreme and stubborn Long Xiao, and suddenly said to Yang Tingshan on the side: "General Yang, this is a holy decree, and you also know what is written on it, now I order you to immediately collect the military power of the eldest prince!" ”

Yang Tingshan hesitated for a moment, bowed down and said to Long Xiao: "Great Prince, the holy order cannot be violated, let's Mingjin withdraw the troops." ”

Long Xiao's eyes instantly turned gloomy, "What if I disobey?" ”

"Long Xiao!" Long Jie roared angrily, "Although my father has always tolerated you, it doesn't mean that you can challenge his authority. Will you be able to capture Xuancheng in a while? As long as your recital of resistance to the decree is on the court, your father will personally give the order to withdraw the army, and when the time comes, what will you get? ”

In fact, Long Xiao didn't know this truth, he was just angry with his father's arrangement, and angry that Long Jie could suppress him. As Long Jie said, Xuancheng will not be able to be captured in a while. If it is really attacked, I am afraid that the price paid will be quite amazing!

After weighing it for a while, he finally squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "Pass the order, Mingjin withdraw the troops!" ”

Long Xiao's army retreated, and the children of the base camp defending the city on Xuancheng began to count the casualties and clean up the battlefield. Nie Wuzheng had been standing expressionlessly at the lookout on the city wall. Mu Fanggu walked over, and said with a resolute and stubborn look in her eyes: "Young master, Jia Qianqian was kidnapped by me, if you want to punish me, punish me." ”

Nie Wuzheng slowly turned around, looked at her, and said in an emotionless voice, "Do you think I don't dare to punish you?" ”

Mu Fanggu looked at him fearlessly, "You are the young master of Xuancheng, naturally there is nothing you dare not do, and you can even let all the people of Xuancheng accompany Jia Qianqian to bury him." ”

Nie Wuzheng, who didn't know whether Jia Qianqian was alive or dead, heard the word burial, and immediately became furious, "Someone! Drag Mu Fanggu to the execution table and execute him immediately! ”

Everyone froze, and then they all knelt down together.

Mu Sichen hurriedly came, and immediately knelt down and begged: "Young master, please forgive my sister's young ignorance and take back her life!" ”

All the leaders of the city also pleaded: "Please take back the young master's life!" ”

Lu Dong'er pounced over, knelt at Nie Wuzheng's feet, and pleaded with tears streaming down her face: "Young Master, for the sake of Aunt Fang, she just saved you, take back your life!" ”

Everyone knelt on the ground and begged, but Mu Fanggu, who was dressed in red, stood there proudly, with a faint smile on her face: "You don't have to plead, it's good, that's it, anyway, I don't want to live for a long time!" Only let me bury Jia Qianqian alone, and didn't let you be buried together, the young master is already merciful enough. ”

"Sister! Are you crazy? Stop talking nonsense! Mu Sichen was furious.

Mu Fanggu suddenly laughed: "I just want to say, hahaha... ”

At this time, Nie Kaiping, the commander of the inner city guards, seemed to have guessed Nie Wuzheng's heart, and hurriedly said: "Young master, after Miss Jia fell, she was caught by that Long Jie, she should be safe and sound." If you don't have to worry about running out of firewood, we will have a chance to bring her back in the future. ”

Nie Kaiping's words were very effective in calming Nie Wuzheng's heart that temporarily lost his mind for fear of losing Jia Qianqian forever again.

"Put Mu Fanggu in a cell!" , Although Mu Fanggu rescued Nie Wuzheng who jumped off the city wall at the last moment, Nie Wuzheng still didn't appreciate her at all, Jia Qianqian was tied here to get into the current situation, if it weren't for the fact that there was still a glimmer of hope for Jia Qianqian's life at this moment, he would really be desperate to let Mu Fanggu bury her.

The two base camp disciples hurriedly came over and took Mu Fanggu away, lest she say anything to stimulate the young master, and the situation would be even more difficult to clean up.

After Long Xiao's army returned to the camp, although Long Xiao was in a bad mood and didn't want to see anyone, he thought of Jia Qianqian, who didn't know life and death, and still didn't take off his battle robe, so he went directly to Jia Qianqian's military tent to recuperate.

Long Jie endured the pain all over his body and rode to the front line to stop Long Xiao from attacking the city. When Long Xiao ordered the withdrawal of the army, as soon as he relaxed, he naturally felt the pain in his whole body. Yang Tingshan immediately asked the soldiers to carry him back.

When Long Jie asked the soldiers to carry him into Jia Qianqian's military tent where he was recuperating from his injuries, he found that Long Xiao had driven out the doctor who was in charge of taking care of Qianqian, and he sat silently beside Qianqian alone, staring at Jia Qianqian, who was still lifeless!