Yundale is located in the middle of Yunzhou, the terrain is flat, and there have been few wars that have affected it for many years. It's just that this time, the Qinwang coalition army and the Yunzhou army launched a fierce battle in this city, which lasted for half a year, especially when the city was broken, and the corpses were everywhere. At this moment, the traces of the battle are gone, but there are tens of thousands of soldiers neatly lined up, but the costumes are different, it can be seen that the soldiers who are quietly arranged belong to two camps, standing in the open space outside the city, forming two distinct phalanxes, ready to go.

Xiao Mu walked quickly to the head of the city, and it was Suo Pingzhang who walked down head-on. Suo Pingzhang was dressed in armor, with a warm and polite smile on his face, and nodded slightly to Xiao Mu: "Hello prince." ”

Xiao Mu's face was gloomy at this time, which was in stark contrast to Suo Pingzhang's warm smile. He frowned, but still bowed his head and said, "General Suo, you are going to be a class teacher today?"

"Exactly, Marquis Di of Shajiang City is still waiting for Suo to go back to his life. Suo Pingzhang replied, "In this expedition, Suo Mou has really benefited a lot from working with the prince, and maybe there will be a chance to fight side by side with the prince in the future." ”

"Yes, I'm afraid that if we say goodbye today, Shajiang City and Benhai City will be east and west, and this king and General Suo will never see each other again. Xiao Mu said casually.

Suo Pingzhang was still smiling, smiling confidently and proudly, but there was an indescribable weirdness: "No, the prince will definitely see Suo again." ”

Xiao Mu was stunned for a moment, not knowing why. But he didn't come to chat with Suo Pingzhang this time, and he didn't have the heart to speculate on the meaning of his words. Xiao Mu nodded and continued to walk towards the city. He was alone along the way, and the doubts and resentment in his heart had nowhere to pour out, only urging him to move faster and faster.

Zheng Fang died in the battle in Cloud City, and Xiao Mu's face was gloomy for a long time. He has long been accustomed to chatting with Zheng Fang for a few words and analyzing when he has nothing to do. Now that he has lost his right-hand man, he can't find a suitable personal retinue, so he can only be alone, but every step makes his mood worse and worse.

When he went up to the top of the city, he was already standing by the city wall, wearing an armor made of pig iron, and the sleeves of his shirt were indeed as red as blood, and his sword was tied around his waist, looking at the phalanx of soldiers displayed under the city, looking full of spirit.

Xiao Mu looked at this figure, snorted coldly, and walked in slowly: "This king thinks that Ye Xiaowang is a person who believes in his word. He thought that this young man he admired was a young hero, but he didn't expect that he hadn't even made a promise to be a gentleman, and he couldn't help but be angry.

"Hengqiu is indeed so. Ye Hengqiu turned around and bowed to Xiao Mu, who walked up to the city.

Xiao Mu's face was still very ugly: "What Ye Xiaowang promised me that day, is it child's play? This Muzhou tens of thousands of troops are ready to go, if the target is not Zhongzhou, are you blind or a fool when you are the king?"

Xiao Mu rarely got so angry, but Ye Hengqiu seemed very calm. He looked at Xiao Mu with calm eyes and said, "That day, Hengqiu promised the prince that no matter whether this battle was successful or not, not a single soldier under Hengqiu would set foot in Zhongzhou, right?"

"Oh, so you remember. Xiao Mu sneered.

Hengqiu remembered, so tens of thousands of people in this city would not set foot in Zhongzhou. Ye Hengqiu said word by word, "These people will only be stationed at the Wind Gully Pass, cutting off Zhongzhou's way out and supplies from the east." I swear in the name of my family that these people will not set foot in Zhongzhou, and if they violate it, they will be dealt with by military law. ”

"Wind gully pass?" this answer was unexpected by Xiao Mu, but he was faintly uneasy in his heart.

"Exactly. The one who will really put the scythe on the head of the royal family is the father. ”

Xiao Mu's pupils contracted suddenly, revealing an expression of disbelief: "Ye leaning him...... Is he going to wade through these troubled waters...... Ah, I should have thought of ......"

"My father knew that the prince was kind-hearted and would not be an enemy of the royal family, and my father also understood the prince's position, so he never asked Hengqiu to persuade the prince to join us. The father didn't want to fight with the prince, so he had another sentence to bring to the prince. Ye Hengqiu said lightly.

Xiao Mu looked at Ye Hengqiu and didn't speak, but Ye Hengqiu was asking.

"My father said that the royal family has been accumulating shortcomings for a long time and is on the verge of death, whether it is officialdom or people's livelihood. Helping them survive is nothing more than poisoning all the people. Rather than letting the throne go aside, it is better to fall on a person who the prince understands and trusts, and who really has royal blood. After Ye Hengqiu finished speaking, he quietly watched Xiao Mu's movements.

Xiao Mu just smiled, and his smile seemed a little vicissitudes: "Hehe, that old guy is really ...... I don't want to be my enemy. This king also knows that he will enter this chess game sooner or later, so when this king sees you, he is thinking, what will this king do when this day comes. ”

Ye Hengqiu stood silently, waiting for Xiao Mu's reply.

". Xiao Mu finally sighed tiredly, "Take your people, get out of the wind and gully pass, this king doesn't interfere." But the king has one more request. ”

"Lord Wang, please speak. ”

"This king knows that it is impossible to ask you to keep the emperor alive, but the spiritual seat of the first emperor, let your Lao Tzu keep it for this king, and you will have to worship it in person in the future. If it is destroyed, this king will also fight to Zhongzhou!"

Ye Hengqiu bowed down and saluted seriously: "As the prince said, the entire Yunzhou is left to the prince." ”

Xiao Mu waved his hand and stood at the head of the city, and did not look back until Ye Hengqiu left the city. He looked at the crimson phalanx in the distance and muttered to himself: "Old fellow, this time the king can not be ignored, but the crown is so heavy, the dynasty is so big, if you really want to stand in different camps in the future, what should you do? Your sword, is it still sharp......

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There was a noise outside the door, Yan Shu was a little unhappy, scolded, didn't want to pay attention to it, and handed a sip of wine to his mouth. Since he was demoted to Changyin Valley by Ye Dushan as a Xuanfu envoy, his life is far less nourishing than in the imperial city, and he has to inspect the border army every day and practice the city defense, so that Yan Shu has a short temper all day long, and often abuses his subordinates. Later, Yan Shu simply threw all these things to his subordinates, so if his subordinates didn't have something important, no one would want to come to him to scold.

Changyin Valley is located at the junction of Zhongzhou and Yuzhou, which is a strategic place, and alcohol is strictly forbidden in the military camp, but Yan Shu, as the Xuanfu envoy of Changyin Valley, never talks about the prohibition of alcohol, but brings some wine and puts it in his residence, and drinks two glasses from time to time, and no one in his subordinates dares to say anything.

The noise outside not only did not decrease, but became louder and louder, Yan Shu was upset, threw the wine glass in his hand to the ground, and walked out of the door to find someone to ask.

A young soldier in his twenties walked quickly, obviously the one who had come to report to Yan Shu. As soon as he saw Yan Shu, he called "Lord Yan", so he hurriedly lowered his head, worried about being scolded, although he had joined the army not long ago, the notoriety of "Yan Devil" had already spread.

Yan Shu frowned and asked, "What are you doing?"

The young man hurriedly replied: "Lord Hui, there was some movement in Changyin Valley just now, Lord Chen sent some scouts to check, but found ......" He panicked for a while, didn't continue, sweat trickled down.

Yan Shu said impatiently, "What did you find?"

"I found that outside the valley mouth, smoke and dust were billowing out, and there was indeed a large army pressing the border!"

Yan Shu was stunned for a moment and scolded: "Why didn't the defenders of Taniguchi send a message in time?"

The young man replied, "The scouts have already broken through the defense line of the valley mouth, presumably ...... Presumably, the defenders of Taniguchi are more auspicious and less auspicious......"

Yan Shu felt a chill crawling from his back to the back of his head. He walked briskly outside. The terrain of Changyin Valley is long and narrow, and the enemy needs to pass through a narrow valley to come to the front of the defenders' main formation, which should be easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the defenders of Changyin Valley only need to be stationed at the entrance and exit of Changyin Valley, and the entrance is used as a vanguard outpost to detect the enemy's situation, and the main force stays in the open space on the other side of Changyin Valley for reinforcements. But now that the enemy is pressing, Yan Shu, as the supreme commander of the defenders, learned the news that the movement of the entire army can be said to be lagging behind.

When Yan Shu arrived at the garrison, the officials of Changyin Valley were already waiting at the head of the city, waiting for Yan Shu to give orders.

Seeing the current situation, Yan Shu's wine suddenly woke up halfway, and asked, "How is the situation now?"

"Taniguchi's brother has not been heard from, and now he can faintly see the dust in the valley. The top priority at the moment is to consolidate the defense line of the front and stop the enemy here!" It was Chen Yue who spoke, the leader of the army, and also the Lord Chen in the mouth of the young people before.

Yan Shu nodded, and then asked, "Who is here?"

The scout said, seeing the military flag of King Pingnan of Muzhou. ”

"Ye Tian?" Yan Shu was a little surprised by this answer, he offended the emperor by advocating letting Ye Hengqiu cross the border that day, so he was relegated to this Changyin Valley. I thought that King Pingnan would give the royal family some face, but I didn't expect the army to come so quickly.

Yan Shu asked Chen Yue to go down and set up the defense line, and several subordinates put forward several suggestions, and he agreed to them one by one. He was going to lead the army to meet the enemy, but he did not dare to put on his armor and mount his horse, and stood at the head of the city and hesitated. In a matter of moments, the enemy army was in sight.

The two flags went first, the military flag raised high fluttered in the wind, between the two flags, a middle-aged man of nearly fifty years old rushed to the front, wearing armor, but he did not hold a blade, his hands were pulling the reins, his eyes were like electricity, through the dust raised, shooting directly, Yan Shu suddenly felt that his heartbeat was suffocating.

"King Pingnan......" Yan Shu looked at the army in front of him, and was a little distracted for a while.

Ye Tian rode his horse empty-handed, seemingly completely unguarded against the other party's sudden cold arrows. The army behind him followed him, stirring up billowing smoke and dust, like a divine soldier descending from the sky like clouds and mist, heading straight for the defenders of Changyin Valley.