The city gate was wide open, and Li Mao and Li Jian each rode out on a war horse, and the horse's hooves stepped on the corpses on the ground and bypassed the crackling and burning chariot ladder to Qiu Feng's approach.

Li Jian observed the enemy commander at close range for the first time, and couldn't help but look at it curiously, and saw that Qiu Feng's face was very fair, and his long eyebrows and eyes were quite handsome, but a lock of gray beard and slightly loose eye bags made him look old.

Li Mao saw that there were blood stains on Qiu Feng's armor, so he asked curiously, "Why are you so embarrassed?" ”

Qiu Feng lowered his head and looked at the blood stains on his armor with some disgust, and said lightly: "There are a few cowards who escaped back, let me behead." His voice was a little soft, and after speaking, he looked at the blood stains on Li Mao's armor and asked, "What about you?" ”

Li Mao said: "Thanks to you, the old man has cut people with a knife today!" ”

Qiu Feng said: "It's a pity, if you can go further, I can't say that I will be able to get drunk with Brother Li in this Luojing City today." ”

Li Mao laughed and said, "If you want to drink with me again when you enter the city, you can only pour it on the ground, and no one will want to enter this Los Angeles City without crossing me." ”

Qiu Feng sighed and said, "I can't help myself, I'm the same, if I want to go back, in addition to taking your city, I can only lie in the coffin and let the soldiers carry me back." After speaking, he glanced at Li Mao, stared at Li Mao's gray hair carefully, and said, "We are all old, and it seems that it is an extravagant hope to have a good death." ”

Li Mao also stared at Qiu Feng and said, "Is there anything else you can't see?" Why don't you let me go with you and get drunk in your camp? ”

"Want to watch my big camp, dream!"

"Hahahaha, that's not as good as this, how about you follow me into this Los Angeles City, and let's drink three hundred cups together? Rest assured, you will not be delayed to continue the siege tomorrow. Li Mao said.

Qiu Feng hesitated, looking quite moved, but finally sighed and said to Li Mao: "Forget it, you know, I am a person with a lot of right and wrong, if I am still alone now, I will definitely go into the city with you to get drunk, but unfortunately, there are still a large number of people in my house, and I can't help myself, I can't help myself!" ”

Li Mao looked at Qiu Feng and said lightly: "You are all asking for a lot of right and wrong, who is to blame?" ”

"That's true, that's true!" Qiu Feng nodded and sighed, turned around and took something from his guard, handed it to Li Mao, and said, "I have buried nearly twenty years of good wine under the roots of the plum tree in my house, and there are few jars left. ”

Li Mao didn't hesitate, he reached out and took it, sniffed it through the mud seal, thanked him sincerely, and then handed it to Li Jian beside him.

Qiu Feng looked at Li Jian, he thought he was a guard, but when he saw it clearly, he found that it was actually a child, although he and Li Mao met and greeted, but the place was full of corpses, hideous and terrifying, and the bloody aura rose to the sky, but this child was calm and abnormal, not fake at all, and the look on his face was the politeness and restraint that a child who accompanied his parents to meet another elder should have, and regarded the blood stains everywhere as nothing.

"What is this?" Qiu Feng looked at Li Jian and asked in a deep voice.

"My grandson, Tiankai's child, called Li Jian, come, give a salute to Qiu Shuai." Li Mao said.

Li Jian held the wine jar on the horse and bowed to Qiu Feng.

"Brother Li, your Li family is really a talent from generation to generation!" Qiu Feng looked at Li Jian and praised.

Li Mao stared at the corpses left and right in front of him and said, "I'm afraid that it's not necessarily a good thing!" ”

"Then why not let the child get out of this sea of suffering?" Qiu Feng squinted at Li Mao and asked.

"Break away, how to get out, what bad idea do you want to fight, the old man has found someone to calculate this child, this child not only has a long life, but also has a deep blessing, and he will definitely be able to eat you to death!"

Qiu Feng laughed when he heard this, and only after laughing did he say to Li Mao with some sadness: "I'm afraid that at that time, you and I won't be able to see it." ”

Back in the city, Li Mao asked Li Jian, "What do you think of this Qiu Feng?" ”

Li Jian immediately said without thinking about it: "Like an old woman!" ”

Li Mao heard a burst of laughter on the horse, and the laughter was so loud that Qiu Feng, who was about to arrive at the Jin army camp outside the city, could hear it, only to see him slapping his thigh while laughing, attracting all the soldiers passing by on the road to look at him curiously.

After laughing, Li Maocai said to Li Jian: "When I was young, I saw him for the first time and felt that he was like a girl, he was angry and drew his sword to cut me, I can't imagine that decades have passed, the first time you saw him, he actually said that he was like an old lady, it can be seen that what the old man said back then was true, this Qiu Feng really voted for the wrong mother's fetus!" ”

After that siege, the Jin army temporarily stopped the siege, the reason is very simple, Qiu Feng's army no longer has siege equipment and no wood to build siege equipment, and they are all destroyed in the siege. So the Jin army began to release people to cut down forests everywhere to get wood, because the nearby mountains and forests were all destroyed, so it would take more time to cut down wood.

However, Qiu Feng was really treacherous, and actually sent cavalry to swagger out of the camp among the people who cut down the forest, hiding the ears and eyes of the Liang army's sentinels, and then gathered around the road and ran to Li Mao's grain road, and attacked the Liang country's team to transport grain to Luojingcheng, which really made them succeed and burned a lot of grain, and when Li Mao sent people to help, these Jin cavalry did not know where to run for a long time. This made Li Mao a little headache, originally the Liang army in the city had suffered a lot of casualties due to several battles, and if he sent more people to guard the grain road, the troops in the city would be even more stretched.

In addition to attacking the grain road, the Jin army was more rampant at night, during this time, the Jin army continued to take advantage of the unpreparedness of the defenders to secretly climb the city wall, but they did not sneak attack on the city, but sneaked into the city, waiting for the opportunity to assassinate the Liang army generals or set fire to the grain in the city, these people are the outlaws in the Jin army who are not afraid of death, and it is difficult to catch after mixing into the city.

For this reason, Li Jian led people to patrol the city day and night, and although he also killed a few Jin troops, there were still many hidden in the city. Li Mao had no choice but to send additional manpower to patrol the city. Li Jian felt that the Jin army seemed to have a big move, and the Liang army defending the city could always find the fine work to enter the city, but there were not many who caught and killed it, so many Jin troops were careful and forbearing, then they must have a big goal worthy of them, as for who the target is, it is naturally self-evident.

As time passed day by day, the sound of axes and saws in the Jin army camp sounded again, and all kinds of built ladders, rushing cars, stone throwers and other things could be seen on Luojing City, and Liang Jun knew that the day of the next siege of the Jin army was getting closer and closer.

That night, Li Mao inspected the city defense according to the usual practice. Li Jian did not go with him, he was worried about the Jin army that had infiltrated the city, and led a group of soldiers to patrol the city. After walking around the city and approaching the city gate, he saw a group of men and horses with torches coming from a distance, and Li Jian recognized at a glance that his grandfather was riding on a horse among them, so he greeted them.

As he approached Li Mao's team, suddenly, without warning, Li Jian's body stiffened suddenly, and he felt the palpitation of his heart in front of the sharp arrow that had been shot at his grandfather a few nights ago, only this time the feeling was more violent and clear, and he could even feel the source of his uneasiness.

Li Mao also saw Li Jian, these days and nights in the city back and forth, this child has obviously lost weight, Li Mao is a little distressed, secretly blaming himself for not letting him work so hard. When he got a little closer, he saw a different flush on Li Jian's face, and when he was strange, he saw Li Jian quickly draw a bow and arrow from the saddle and shoot it towards a dark ridge, and there was a scream immediately.

"There are assassins!"

Li Jian shouted at this time, and then drew an arrow from the quiver hanging from the saddle and shot it at another place in the night. As early as when Li Jian opened his bow and shot the first arrow, Li Mao's servants hugged him with shields and protected him tightly.

Through the gaps in several shields, Li Mao saw his grandson's arms like a windmill shooting arrows in all directions, and every time the arrow was fired, a scream came from the darkness. A large number of soldiers quickly appeared around with torches, and suddenly the snow shone brightly.

These soldiers who came out of nowhere shouted with weapons to chase after the lurking Jin assassins, and after a while, the dead bodies were dragged over, and some were seriously injured and immortal, and they were thrown to the ground and groaned, and there were still those who were caught on the run, and the soldiers of the Liang army were still shouting and chasing, Li Jian's face was flushed, and he still had a sharp arrow on the longbow in his hand.

Li Mao is the second time to see his grandson's strange ability, it is said that it should not be strange, but it still makes him feel surprised, the Li family does not have this kind of ability to pass on to future generations.

He lined up the crowd, urged the horse to get close to Li Jian, and when he got closer, he said to Li Jian, "Well done!" ”

Who knew that Li Jian didn't pay attention to it, suddenly raised his head, his eyes swept over Li Mao sharply, his two arms were also raised, and the arrow on the hard bow flashed with cold light and aimed at Li Mao's abdomen, and then quickly moved up, chest, neck, head, and a few points up to release the bowstring.

Almost at the same time as the arrow, Li Jian's body twisted on the horse.

At the same time that Li Jian's arrow almost flew past Li Mao's helmet, a short shot against Li Jian's waist was fired, if it weren't for that twist, Li Jian would definitely be hit by the arrow, and the short missed shot missed, falling on the stone road behind Li Jian's horse and hitting a ball of sparks.

With a scream, a man in black fell from a tree with dense branches and leaves above Li Mao's back, and with that person fell a hard crossbow, the man's head was shot through by Li Jian, and he was already out of breath.

At this time, Li Jian's face returned to normal, and said to Li Mao: "This is all right." ”

Li Mao looked at the unusually fast soldiers around him and asked Li Jian, "You have already arranged it?" ”

Li Jian immediately replied to Li Mao: "Exactly, the Jin army has been sneaking into the city for a few days, but not many have been caught, and the child is thinking that if I arrange this matter, I must assassinate the generals defending the city at the moment before the siege of the city can be the most beneficial to the siege, so I have been paying attention to the movements of the Jin army outside the city recently, and I have made the arrangements that they are about to attack the city. ”

"Yes, that's good." Li Mao nodded, and remembered the assassin's last arrow, if that arrow was aimed at him, he was afraid that he would be in a catastrophe tonight. But it's not aimed at himself, it's obviously to take the life of his grandson, which is a little wrong.

As if seeing what Li Mao was thinking, Li Jian said: "Maybe that guy was bad by me and hated me in his heart, so he wanted to shoot me to death in the end." ”

Li Mao nodded, but he didn't take Li Jian's words to heart, assassins and dead soldiers, they do things with a hammer, how can they change the target of the assassination because of this little thing, but they can't think of any other reason, so they tell Li Jian to be careful. Then he looked at a few seriously injured and captured assassins on the ground and said: "Ask first, if you can't ask, it's useless to keep it, just kill them all, show the beast to the public." ”

Li Mao rarely returned to his own line, since Qiu Feng led the siege of the city, Li Mao almost never took off his armor, when he was tired, he found a place to rest, after a long time, his body was already rancid, this time back to Xingyuan, the guards made water, he also washed comfortably, and then ordered someone to wake himself up early, and fell asleep.

Li Jian almost stayed awake all night, killing the assassins who tried to assassinate his grandfather at night, and the arrangements in other parts of the city also yielded, which made him excited, tossing for a night, and finding a random place to take a nap, before it was dark, it was only four o'clock, and he went to his grandfather's whereabouts.

Before he arrived, he heard the Liang army on the city wall shouting, and when he looked up, he saw that the air dragged a long flame of fire bombs straight towards Luojing City, it seemed that the Jin army that had stopped for a while was about to attack the city again. At this time, he saw a soldier of Liang riding on a horse, and the sound of hurried hooves rushed towards the general's line before him, presumably to report the news, and he followed with his legs in the saddle and the belly of the horse.

Li Mao had already gotten up, had eaten some food, and was putting on his armor with the help of a guard, when he heard the movement outside the city, he went inside the house to the courtyard to watch.

The Liang Jun who came to report the news got off the horse and ran into the courtyard with a grunt, and the soldiers guarding the door did not stop him, probably knowing that this person was here to report the news.

Li Mao also saw Li Jian outside the door, but he didn't get off the horse, he rushed to the courtyard with his horse, and the two guards holding the door seemed to want to stop him with spears.

When Li Jian passed through the door, he drew his sword and waved it left and right, and blood gushed out from the necks of the two gatekeepers, and then he killed Li Mao in the door with red eyes.

Li Mao was stunned for a moment, almost immediately erased the idea that his grandson wanted to kill himself, and at a glance he saw that the soldier who seemed to be coming to report had pulled out the long knife at some point, and rushed to himself with a cruel smile, Li Mao was empty-handed at this time, and was about to look for a weapon, when he saw that the soldier who rushed over to assassinate suddenly stabbed a long sword in his chest, the man's footsteps suddenly froze, he looked down at the long sword that came out of his chest, and screamed and fell to the ground, it turned out that Li Jian saw that the situation was critical and threw his long sword at the assassin.

"Protect the General!" Li Jian yelled, turned over and rolled off his horse, grabbed a shield from the weapon rack in the courtyard and rushed towards Li Mao.

A rain of arrows came from the darkness, Li Jian's shield blocked in front of Li Mao, Li Mao was shocked, the shield in this kid's hand was all protected by himself, then wouldn't he be shot like a hedgehog! After a closer look, I found that the guard actually jumped out and protected Li Jian with his body, Li Jian was not hit by an arrow, and the guard was shot with an arrow on his back, and the corner of his mouth was bleeding and crumbling. At this time, more than a dozen people dressed as Liang Jun had already turned in from outside the wall, but when they looked at their fierce eyes, they guessed that they were assassins lurking in the Jin army. After they came in, they didn't speak, raised their hands and shot the bows and arrows in their hands at Li Mao's ancestors and grandchildren, and then drew their long knives and pounced.

Li Jian's yelling caught the attention of Li Mao's guards, who had already rushed out from everywhere, weapons in hand either to protect Li Mao or to stand with the assassins. Li Mao looked at it coldly, and couldn't help but take a breath, his guards were all selected by thousands of people, not to mention loyalty, even if they were all first-class, they even showed a trace of defeat in the case of numerical superiority, which made Li Mao angry in his heart, and secretly scolded Qiu Feng, you shameless horseman, so he took out the long knife on a guard and was about to go over to cut people, but Li Jian suddenly shouted "No" and held the shield and protected Li Mao's head and face, and heard a few "dong dong" sounds, and a few short shots actually shot through the wooden shield in Li Jian's hand, The half-cut was revealed on the other side of the wooden shield, and blood also flowed from Li Jian's arm, and several guards around Li Mao were also shot and fell. In a panic, many people jumped down from the roof, and slashed at Li Mao with a long knife that flashed with cold light, and the courtyard was suddenly in chaos.

Li Jian took out a long knife from the corpse, and killed the assassin with the knife in one hand and the shield in the other, while paying attention to Li Mao's safety, and on the other hand, he had to beware of cold arrows shot in the darkness outside the courtyard.

Li Mao also picked up the knife, his knife skills are sharp, and his experience is even more sophisticated, the assassin in front of him let him cut it within a few breaths, and look carefully in front of him, his guards are constantly pouring in, and they have gradually surrounded the assassins, but Li Jian was entangled by several assassins with superb martial arts and couldn't get out, but the kid was not flustered at all, or blocked or dodged, and he could raise his shield in time to catch the arrows that were shot, and he could make the opponent see blood with a knife in time, Li Mao nodded secretly in his heart, but at this time he was suddenly startled, Where is this assassination of himself, now almost all the arrows are shot at his grandson, and the good hands of several assassins are also besieging their grandson, and they are still extremely brave under the wounded, and they would rather die than retreat, what is the idea of this Jin army? Thinking of the last arrow last night, how do you feel that assassinating yourself is just a cover, and killing your grandson is their ultimate goal?

After all, it was in Luojing City, the general was assassinated, which was not trivial, and the soldiers rushed to support, and the assassin who released the cold arrow was found by the soldiers, and he became a hedgehog after a burst of random shooting. The Assassins in the line were also provoked by Liang Jun's spears, and when the last Assassin was cut off by Li Jian, he was chopped into meat by the Liang soldiers who rushed up.

At this time, the sky has been slightly bright, the corpses in the courtyard are full of blood, the fire bombs of the Jin army in the air still continue to smash into the city wall, the sound of roaring continues to come, Li Mao doesn't care about here, let people lead the horse to go to the city to command, before leaving, he looked at Li Jian and said: "This is handed over to you, I don't know if there is a fine work of the Jin army in the city, beware of them inside and outside, do you understand?" ”

Li Jian nodded. Li Mao hurried to the city wall with his people.

Looking at the corpse of the guard with arrows stuck in the vest, Li Jian sighed and instructed the soldiers to treat it well. He walked to the gate of Xingyuan and said to the soldiers who were left behind: "These two, you recognize them, I killed these two people in a hurry, I don't know if I killed them by mistake." ”

A captain stepped forward to take a closer look at the two gatekeepers who killed Li Jian first, and said: "Major General, the one who guards the door for the general, the villain has also seen it, these two faces are very raw, they shouldn't be here." ”

Li Jian nodded and said, "Then I didn't kill the mistake, the people who used to guard the door are estimated to have been killed by them, and when they stop looking nearby, it is estimated that they can find the body." ”

Li Jian also muttered a little in his heart, why did the two assassinations against his grandfather seem to be aimed at him? Could it be that the Jin army in this Luojing City has many ears and eyes, and he said that Qiu Feng was like an old lady The words reached his ears, Qiu Feng was narrow-minded and must kill himself to take revenge, shouldn't it, the general who commands the army doesn't need to get along with himself like this. The sound of fighting from the city wall reminded Li Jian that no matter what he did, he just had to help his grandfather guard this Luojing City.