"I'm not leaving."

When I said this, I only felt that the raging fire in my heart burned all over my body, and tears fell down one by one, I gritted my teeth fiercely and said: "I want to watch you avenge General Chang, I want to see how Shengjing's people fail!" ”

Yuan Yichu and Yang Yunhui both looked at me silently, with a slight shock in their eyes.

I raised my head and looked at Yuan Yichu: "You, you'll let me see it, right!" ”

......He was silent and did not speak, and after a long while, he stretched out his hand and took me into his arms, my face was tightly pressed against his chest, and the surging tears immediately wet his clothes, but the tears still flowed down, I grabbed his clothes, and stubbornly said, "You must let me see!" ”

"Yes."

His deep voice sounded above my head, and the hand holding me strained slightly: "Yes! ”

He gave me only two words of assurance, but to do these two words, it is not so simple to say, Shengjing's troops to the south are so strong, and the preparations for the siege are indeed sufficient, in comparison, Dongzhou, which has been ravaged by several months of war, really looks a little tired.

But even so, he still couldn't give up like this, Yang Yunhui immediately led a group of men and horses to re-strengthen the city tower, removed the soldiers who were seriously injured and could no longer fight, and urgently recruited a group of militia in the city.

I helped take care of a few wounded soldiers downstairs in the city, and the situation was not so urgent, so I was about to go back to find Yuan Gongzi, and was about to say something to Yuan Yichu, but I saw Yang Yunhui walking to his side, and said something in his ear, while speaking, the two of them looked at me at the same time, I was a little inexplicable, Yuan Yichu had already walked over: "Just now at the West City Gate, who are you with?" ”

"Huh?" I was a little stunned, I didn't expect him to ask this, but when I looked at Yang Yunhui, I also understood that it must have been someone over there who told him, and I replied: "A son surnamed Yuan." ”

"The son surnamed Yuan? Who is he? ”

"I don't know, I met him accidentally a while ago, he was injured to protect me, by the way, I want to go back to him."

He looked at me deeply, there was something strange in his eyes, and said, "Okay, I'll go with you." ”

“……？” I looked at him quizzically.

Before, when I guessed that there might be an internal response sent by Shengjing in Dongzhou City, and later saw Yuan Gongzi appear at the West City Gate, I did suspect him, because when this city would fall at any time and was in danger, there were still people who came back to buy houses, which was extremely abnormal; Although he said that he came back for his sweetheart, these days, I haven't heard him mention that girl again, so I have doubts about him.

But when the West City Gate was attacked, he did not defect, but protected me, if he was really an internal response, how could he do this.

However, I still have some uneasy speculations about him, his lifeless protection of me, and his attitude towards me, as if I had known him for a long time, and even had an unusual relationship.

Now even Yuan Yichu is going to find him--I thought about it and said, "Do you know who he is?" Who the hell is he? ”

"Who is he?" Yuan Yichu looked at me, his gaze became very deep, and said, "When we find him, let him come and sue you." ”

Hearing this, I was almost sure that Yuan Gongzi and I, and him, must have known each other in the past.

Could it be that he is what Yuan Yichu said before - Yuan Xiu?

Are they brothers, or ......

I got on Yuan Yichu's horse with all kinds of uneasy speculations in my heart, and after a while, I rushed to the earthen wall where I had just hidden, but when I got closer, I found that there was no one there, only a pool of blood.

Yuan Gongzi, already gone?

Did he leave with such a serious injury? I turned over and got off the horse, looked around, but I couldn't see him at all, Yuan Yichu also walked over slowly, looked at the pool of blood, and turned his head to look at Yang Yunhui: "Is it really him?" ”

Yang Yunhui immediately said: "Listening to the description of the soldiers guarding the city, it should be correct. I'm afraid he'll already be in the city on the day we arrive. ”

Yuan Yichu grinded his teeth and said, "He really didn't even want his life, just for-"

"If it weren't for her, I'm afraid the West City Gate would really not be able to hold it."

Yang Yunhui glanced at me as he spoke, for some reason, what he said was obviously a fact that I saw with my own eyes, but what he said seemed to be a little sarcastic.

What do you mean?

Yuan Yichu didn't speak, just looked back at me, and there was a fierceness in his gaze, which made me faintly feel a little chilled.

"Send the order to go down and search for his whereabouts immediately, whether he is dead or alive, he must find it!"

"I'm afraid that he will take advantage of the chaos and have already left."

"Then chase him back to me!" Yuan Yichu gritted his teeth and ordered, Yang Yunhui nodded, and was just about to turn around, when he suddenly remembered something again, and said, "By the way, if he wants to leave, someone may come to answer him." I'm afraid that the one who came to pick him up was—"

Before he finished his words, Yuan Yichu's face had already sunk.

After being silent for a while, he said, "If it's really her, you must catch her!" ”

"Yes."

"Don't hurt her."

“…… Be. ”

Yang Yunhui glanced at me again, then turned around to give an order, Yuan Yichu and I stood under the wall, looking at each other in pairs, a cold wind blew with the smell of blood and dust, and somehow, I shuddered.

Before this, although I had doubts, I never really asked, why did Yuan Yichu come here to supervise the army? Chang Qing's sister is a concubine in the harem, why did she entrust him to take care of her before she died? Why did he, and that Yuan Gongzi, the two of them actually affect the battle between Shengjing and the Central Plains? And that Miss Nangong, what role does she play in between?

I looked at him and said slowly, "Who the hell is he?" ”

“……”

"Who are you?"

Before you know it, it's getting dark.

Under the dark sky is a silent plain, the city tower is still brightly lit, but this light can't shine far, the grassland and the cloud ridge in the distance have already blended into the night.

Everything was quiet, only the sound of the wind blowing.

However, the people of Dongzhou did not dare to sleep, because they were afraid that the enemy would come to attack at night, and everyone cheered up their spirits.

But my spirits were obviously not so good, and after taking some of the women of the city to cook supper for the lieutenants and soldiers, I felt that my whole body was weak, and I was leaning against the wall, and my eyes were constantly fighting.

One was not paying attention, and his head rested on Yuan Yichu's shoulder beside him.

He glanced down at me and frowned, "You go back and rest." ”

"Well, no." I hurriedly shook my head, trying to come to my senses: "I'm going to stay here." ”

"If the enemy comes, you can't help."

"I can't rest assured when I go back to rest." I said, looking into the dark distance, "I don't know when they'll come." ”

He looked at me with a frown, as if he was a little unhappy with my disobedience, and looked coldly into the distance.

Perhaps because he has been tired these days, he has also lost a lot of weight, and his originally clear outline looks more and more angular, but it is full of anger. He and Yuan Gongzi are actually men with excellent appearance, but Yuan Gongzi's gentleness and elegance are too different from his yin owl ruthlessness.

The slightly reddened eyes slowly turned to look at me: "What are you looking at?" ”

"No, nothing."

"You still want to know, who am I?"

“……”

"I said it, when this battle is over, you go back to the capital with me, and I will naturally sue you."

I said, "Aren't we husband and wife? Why can't this kind of thing be said here? ”

He said coldly: "Since you know that we are husband and wife, you should be obedient." ”

“……”

The two of them were talking, their tones stiffened again, I bit my lower lip, and after all, I didn't continue to argue with him, and at this moment, a few soldiers on the night patrol in front suddenly said vigilantly: "There is a situation!" ”

The people around immediately woke up, hurriedly ran over, looked carefully into the distance, in the dark night, faintly some dots of firelight flew towards us, like fireflies in the dark night, slowly getting closer and closer, more and more, gathered into a long dragon of flames.

"It's Katsukyo's people, they're here!"

The alarm of the gong immediately sounded on the city tower, and suddenly all the people in the city woke up, and the soldiers under the city tower immediately gathered at the gate with their swords unsheathed, and they all listened nervously to the movement outside.

The enemy was getting closer and closer, and countless horses' hooves stepped on the ground, shaking the ground and trembling slightly, at this time Yang Yunhui had already dispatched all the people below, and also arrived at the city tower, drew his sword out of the sheath, and looked into the distance with a solemn gaze.

Seeing that the enemy was no more than a hundred feet away from Dongzhou, suddenly, all those raging flames rose into the air, and after flying into the air, they flew towards us in dense form, like the stars falling from the sky.

If you look closely, it turned out to be countless iron crossbows tied with gunpowder and burning oilcloths!

"Be careful!"

I only heard the roar of the soldiers in front of me, those iron crossbows had fallen from the sky, and immediately caused explosions everywhere they went, and for a time there was a loud explosion on the city wall, countless wall bricks were blown apart, rubble was splashed, countless injuries were injured and sparks were scattered everywhere, and several camps below were immediately ignited.

However, Yang Yunhui did not panic, but immediately commanded: "Shield array!" ”

As soon as the words fell, a group of soldiers rushed up with huge copper shields, and put the shields in a row on the wall battlements, and immediately a group of soldiers rushed forward, stepped on the shoulders of the soldiers below, and put the copper shields up again, and so on, and a high shield mountain was built on the city tower to block the attack of the fire crossbow.

I only heard the sound of ping-pong outside, and the fire crossbows exploded one after another outside, falling down, and suddenly the city burned into a sea of fire.

After a while, the fire crossbow stopped.

And the sound of horses' hooves is already close at hand!