Under the canopy, the small western mountain flickered with shadowy points of light, the blood-red sword came out of the soul, and the roar of the beast pierced the sky.

Liu Xuanhe found Jin Jiaojiao and the others in a wet cave, comforting crying children while assisting the witch doctor in bandaging the wounds of the injured bandits.

Under the war, there is no daughter, only compatriots from the family and country who share weal and pain.

They were separated from Zhao Bingyu during the escape to take care of the people, and they hid in this cave in order to avoid the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese invaders.

When everyone saw the reinforcements, they let go of their nervous nerves a little, thinking that it was hope, but it was just a drop in the bucket, and a bigger crisis was still to come.

"Boom...... Boom ...... Suddenly, there were several loud noises outside, and the cave shook suddenly, and the rocks fell down.

Liu Xuanhe's pupils vibrated and he shouted loudly, "Everyone get out quickly, the cave is about to collapse." casually picked up the child next to him and instructed everyone to run out.

There were many wounded, many people were too busy to take care of themselves, Jin Jiaojiao rushed out with a milk baby in her arms, and suddenly swept to the side of the mountain rock and there was a wailing bandit, he had been wounded by a knife in the previous battle, and was unsuspecting and was hit in the legs by the suddenly falling mountain rock, unable to move.

Jin Jiaojiao retracted her gaze, hugged the baby in her arms, and continued to run out a few steps as if she didn't see it.

However, when she closed her eyes, all she saw was the man's expression of pain and sorrow.

Jin Jiaojiao's heart struggled.

"Auntie, protect the child."

With a heartbeat, she shoved the child into a woman's hand, turned and ran inside.

The injured bandit looked at the woman who was laboriously carrying the stone on his leg, he knew that this was the woman who was tied up a few days ago by the big boss, and at first glance, she was the eldest lady of a big family who had never suffered hardships, and she was really a living bodhisattva who repaid her grievances with virtue.

Seeing that the cave was about to collapse, the bandit was desperate in his heart, and he couldn't bear to persuade him, "Girl, run away and leave me alone."

The woman didn't even want to give him a look, and Jin Jiaojiao didn't bother to pay attention to him at all.

The bandits saw that she didn't get in and wanted to push her out, but Jin Jiaojiao took the lead in slapping him and scolded, "Save some effort!"

The bandits were beaten all at once, such a brutal weak rich lady. Until he was helped out of the cave tremblingly, he didn't dare to say anything more, and he didn't even dare to breathe too hard, for fear of offending this living bodhisattva again.

The crumbling cave collapsed completely, but fortunately, everyone ran out in time, and the casualties were not heavy.

The sound of bombardment came one after another, and Xiaoxishan became an incinerator burning in the shelling, and a pair of desperate and lifeless eyes were reflected in the firelight.

Jin Jiaojiao seemed calmer than others, and after settling the wounded, she sat alone under the big tree on the side, her ears ringing. Liu Xuanhe walked up to her, and she paused for a while before she realized that she was talking to her.

Zhao Bingyu's whereabouts remain unknown.

"My lord, my subordinates found out that this sneak attack was not done by the Japanese robbers, and it seems that Yamashita ...... It seems to be from the government." A spy came to report.

Liu Xuanhe clenched his fists and hit the tree wall, his expression was as solemn as the ice of the wax moon, "It's Tan Gu's people, a good trick to catch cicadas and yellow finches behind." He wants to wipe us all out and destroy all of us."

Behind Mt. Konishi is a cliff with a raging sea below. Only the front mountain is the only way down the mountain, and it has been surrounded by Tan Gu's people at the moment.

The camp where the Jiangnan Navy Division was stationed was not far from here, but no one had the life to jump into the abyss to ask for help, even if they had the life to reach the camp, they did not dare to rush to the army without the royal summons of the imperial court.

It's really the end of the road.

Looking at the artillery fire erected at the foot of the mountain, the ferocious would-be Woko knew that he had fallen into Tan Gu's trap, and roared angrily, like a vicious dog bitten by a poisonous snake.

The child in the woman's arms wept in fright.

Suddenly, the sound of artillery fire stopped.

But it's not a good signal, the autumn is high and irritable, and the fire is on

The prairie fire is enough to turn them all into corpse powder, and there is no need to waste gunpowder.

"Let's go down the mountain."

In the midst of the desolation, the voice of a mute woman sounded.

At first no one noticed that someone was talking.

"Let's go down the mountain together." She said it again, Jin Jiaojiao is looking for prestige, and she is Mei Qi's godmother Gu.

She stood up from the discouraged crowd, shook the dirt and ashes on her body, and pulled her scattered hair behind her ears, before she came over and knelt in front of Liu Xuanhe.

"This lord, the folk woman and Tan Gu are old acquaintances, or you can exchange the life of the folk woman for a chance of life."

The smoke and fire of the mountains burned her throat.

Gu's words and deeds are calm and orderly, and his identity cannot be as simple as a mountain village woman.

From the first glance, Jin Jiaojiao doubted her.

Liu Xuanhe looked at the coarse linen women kneeling on the ground, and looked at them one by one with compassion for the old, weak, sick and disabled who had long been displaced and had been war-torn in the war.

Believe it or not, he would never have put the lives of a group of people on a simple woman.

There is no such thing as a life for a life.

"Lord Liu." Jin Jiaojiao stopped Liu Xuanhe and said, "Now there is no way back, you and I are dead, it's just a pity for these children, some of them have just been born in this world, and they have never seen the various forms of this world."

Liu Xuanhe gritted his lower molars fiercely, only hating himself for being incompetent.

"My lord, the Gu clan is our only hope."

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At the foot of Xiaoxi Mountain, Tan Gu stood in Xuanyi, and the victory was in his hands.

He has been planning for a long time, for today!

That day, Liu Xuanhe and others were captured by Mei Qi, he deliberately did not move, and sold the information of the cottage secret passage to the Japanese Kou, Mei Qi has been dealing with the Japanese Kou all the year round, and has long become a thorn in their side and a thorn in the flesh. When the Japanese got the information, they were about to attack Xiaoxishan to get rid of Mei Qi, but what he wanted was for them to fight each other and lose both.

His Royal Highness the Third Prince has given him the final disc, saying that it is a disc, but in fact it is just a talisman.

Today he will annihilate everyone in one fell swoop.

Only by completely exterminating the people of Dali Temple can he turn the situation around.

Steward Tong said, "My lord, the account books may be in their hands, do you need to keep them alive?"

"No, even if it's in their hands, let them all be wiped out with this war."

The archers set up their arrows and prepared them to face the mountain.

Tan Gu raised his hand, ready to give orders, but he paused suddenly, and a group of people were killed in the fire forest in the distance.

The one he fought for the first time he knew, Yi Lin of Dali Temple.

The people of Dali Temple automatically formed a human-shaped protective circle, and there were seriously injured bandits in the circle, including the elderly, women, and children. Liu Xuanhe held a sword around a woman's neck and escorted her out of the protective circle. Chinese Net

Steward Tong and all of Tan Gu's subordinates all looked at them playfully, with an expression of dying to the point of death, and see what moths you can still show.

Except for Tan Gu!

No one noticed that when Tan Gu saw the woman, his steps trembled slightly under the robe, the chariot on his side could stabilize his figure, his eyes were fixed on the woman, as if he wanted to see through people, and the woman was also looking at him, with a faint smile on the corner of her mouth.

Her mouth opened, and Tan Gu immediately understood her lips.

"Wet"

It's his word.

It's been many, many years that no one has called him, so long that he has forgotten the high-spirited young man back then, so long that he thought that the young man named Mi Ze had died a long time ago.

He is Tan Gu, a powerful official who disregards the life and death of the people by unscrupulous means, and a minion of His Royal Highness the Third Prince, not the clear-eyed young man who was salvaged from the sea by the Gu family in Fuzhou back then.

Steward Tong didn't know what his master was thinking, but he was still proud, "Lord Liu, the little one persuades you to be arrested quickly, the people below are not serious, and you don't want the white-haired people in the hall to send the black-haired people without even seeing the whole corpse."

Everyone is waiting to see a good show.

"Let her go, it's all good to say."

"Don't look at your current situation, you are still bargaining with us adults......" Steward Tong's contemptuous smile froze on the old man's face, did he hear it wrong? The person across from me was talking.

"I didn't expect that Lord Liu of Dali Temple, who was in a high wind and bright festival, would be able to do such a thing to coerce innocent people to achieve his own goals!"

Steward Tong turned his head in disbelief and looked at Tan Gu who was talking, Lord suddenly this is? Didn't you fall for some evil?

Tan Gu continued, "In that case, let's make a deal. Today, if you let her go, I will spare your lives for the time being, and let you leave Yangzhou safely."

Liu Xuanhe whispered in a voice that only he and Gu could hear, "Offended, Aunt Gu." Then he pressed the blade close to Gu's neck, and shouted to Tan Gu without hurrying, "Lord Tan, are you negotiating terms with me?"

Tan Gu visibly panicked, and said anxiously and angrily, "The sword has no eyes, you put down your weapon first."

Jin Jiaojiao could feel that this Tan Gu cared very much about Gu's safety, even if she was hurt a little.

Liu Xuanhe was silent, and took two steps forward with the escort, Tan Gu's subordinates couldn't figure out the situation, and confronted Liu Xuanhe with a knife.

Suddenly, a flying arrow grazed the arm of one of the soldiers, and the pain caused him to immediately throw away the knife in his hand.

"Stand down." Tan Gu held his bow and arrows and commanded angrily.

The men immediately put away their weapons and dispersed.

Tan Gu threw away his bow and arrow and walked towards Liu Xuanhe, and Steward Tong wanted to grab him uneasily, but he didn't even touch one of his sleeves.

Now not only Steward Tong was surprised, but the other subordinates also felt that their adults' behavior was very abnormal, and they all said that Xiaoxishan has many jackals, tigers and leopards, could there really be any monsters possessed by Lord Tan, otherwise how could he not care about his own safety for the sake of an old and decrepit woman?

Tan Gu's eyes never left the Gu family, and the road dozens of meters away seemed to be farther than the mountains, seas and rivers that spanned a lifetime, and he stopped at a distance of five steps from Liu Xuanhe.

"Lord Liu, I'm sincere enough, right?"

Liu Xuanhe did not let his guard down.

Tan Gu asked, "Why, Lord Liu is still not at ease."

Liu Xuanhe said disdainfully: "Lord Tan is planning the abyss, this official has already been fooled once, will he go to the second time?"

The implication, old fox, that you are still cunning even if you are skinned.

"One life for one life, is Lord Liu satisfied with this arrangement?"

Tan Gu nodded himself and pointed at the Gu family.

The housekeeper Tong behind him was in a hurry, and he was already thinking about which Taoist priest to invite in his heart.

"Lord Tan, what do you think?" Liu Xuanhe has something to say.

"You!" Tan Gu was moved, but when he saw the knife that was clinging to Gu's neck with a cold light, he could only swallow his anger, "Don't take an inch."

They knew that Liu Xuanhe wanted not as simple as Tan Gu's life, and their ultimate goal was for him to identify the backer behind him.

He actually guessed that Liu Xuanhe's coercion of the Gu family was mostly just to scare him, but even if it was ten thousand years likely, he couldn't risk Gu's life.

"What is Lord Tan thinking? Let this official guess, think this official is intimidating you?" Liu Xuanhe chuckled nonchalantly, and did a good job, "There are so many bloody souls in your hands, we may all be buried here today." Lord Tan, I'm not as clear as you think, but one death is left and right, and the people who can pull Lord Tan care about to give us a funeral, and you can still hear about your wise deeds on the Huangquan Road, why not?"

"As long as I die, no one dares to threaten you, why is Lord Liu so stubborn, or do you think that if you use her life to blackmail me, I will be at your mercy?"

Seeing that he was stubborn, Liu Xuanhe suddenly came up with a plan and decided to deceive him, "Lord Tan, you are so smart, do you think that I will keep this hand? Didn't you notice that one of us was missing?"

Tan Gu looked around and found that there was indeed one missing, the one with the most powerful martial arts, that is, the new aunt of the Jin family.

"Lord Liu has deceived the officials, and that son may have been buried in the sea of fire a long time ago!"

Liu Xuanhe raised his eyebrows, "How long do you think it will take for the Jiangnan Sailor to arrive here?"

"Without the will of the imperial court, how dare the Jiangnan Navy Master send troops without authorization."

"How does Lord Tan know that I didn't ask Your Majesty for advice before leaving Beijing."

Tan Gu fell silent, and Liu Xuanhe saw that the fish had bitten the bait, so he took advantage of the victory to pursue, "So Lord Tan, I'm not trading with you, I'm giving you a chance. If you take the initiative to confess and cooperate with us in investigating the case, I can still spare Gu's life. If you don't cooperate, when the Jiangnan Navy Master arrives, you may have to suffer a little flesh and skin, and this Gu family is a prisoner of war for me to suppress bandits, how to deal with it at that time, the court has its own laws!"

Liu Xuanhe said it clearly, Jin Jiaojiao even began to doubt, could it be that they had planned it a long time ago?

Steward Tong muttered, "My lord, don't listen to his slander, Xiaoxishan is surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside, and even a fly can't fly out, let alone a person."

Tan Gu suddenly laughed, "yes, I was almost deceived by you, he has to report the news, unless he jumps down the back mountain. Lord Liu, your trick is really big loophole."

Even if he was exposed, Liu Xuanhe still did not have stage fright, and deliberately bluffed, "Since this is the case, then I will kill the Gu family first, Tan Zhizhou is killing us."

Liu Xuanhe raised the blade of the sword, he was sure that Tan Gu would take the sword, and sure enough, the moment the sword fell, Tan Gu held the sword with his bare hands, and at this time, a melodious horn was heard not far away, and the ground shook, which was the movement of a group of horses running.

Everyone present was surprised that there was really a Jiangnan sailor who came to the rescue.

Tan Gu let go of his hand, blood flowed down his fingers, and the Jiangnan Navy Division surrounded them.

The general trend has gone, and with a plop, he bent his knees and knelt on the ground, "I beg my lord to let her go, and the lower officials will be at their disposal, and they must know everything and say everything."

Tan Gu surrendered, and his men also lost their armor.

"We are saved" I don't know who suddenly shouted, everyone hugged each other and cried, and then let down their guard.

Seeing the dust falling, several silver needles suddenly flew in the direction behind Tan Gu, which were blocked by Yi Lin, who was about to step forward to arrest Tan Gu.

"Alert, there's a hidden weapon!" Liu Xuanhe looked in the direction of the hidden weapon, and the two men in black mysteriously disappeared in the direction of the chariot.

"Don't chase it, settle the children and the injured people first."

"Aunt Gu, I have to wronged you for a few days for the time being, forgive me."

In case Tan Gu committed suicide or defected to the battlefield, Liu Xuanhe could only temporarily detain the Gu family.

Gu Shi turned his head to glance at Tan Gu, who was escorted down, retracted his gaze and said lightly, "It's okay, the women are willing to cooperate."

Tan Gu hung his head deeply, being pushed down like a puppet without a soul, no one knew what he was thinking, and no one knew what he was related to the Gu family.

Jin Jiaojiao was not interested in learning about the story between them for the time being, her eyes searched and shuttled among the supporting sailor troops, and Liu Xuanhe was docking with the commander of the sailor.

There was still no figure of Zhao Bingyu in the crowd.

Jin Jiaojiao looked at Xiao Xishan, who was filled with gunsmoke, squatted down weakly, buried her head deep in the crook of her arm, a dense tingling pain in her heart, her eyes were sour, and tears moistened her sleeves indisputably.

Jia Ming, where have you been?

Suddenly, a child walked up to her, touched her head and said, "Sister, don't cry, sister, you see."

Jin Jiaojiao raised her head, and a young man limped out of the small wooden forest with a blank eye, holding a little girl with a crying face in his arms.

The young man laughed heartlessly and went straight towards Jin Jiaojiao.

The black clouds in the eastern sky receded, and a red sun climbed up, and the purple light instantly sprinkled the earth, reflecting on everyone's face.