Mo Lin heard Fu Minglou say that the little bell was the snow demon, and suddenly became nervous.

The legend of the Snow Demon is well known even to the people of Rouyuan, especially when the cold winter comes, parents will tell their children stories about the Snow Demon at night.

When Childa led the team into Ruiyuan and encountered the snow demon, it had already spread throughout the Torth Department.

Seeing Mo Lin's nervous appearance, Childa stepped forward and said, "Don't be nervous, the colt is not an ordinary person, that's why I waited for him to investigate the general's death."

Mo Lin had to nod, but his eyes always fell on Tang Xiaohao, who was packing up the Linglong machine box.

Perhaps, all the legends I heard about the colt were true.

After Tang Xiaohao invited the little bell, the little bell glanced at Mo Qi's corpse, and immediately stepped forward, stretched out his hand and carefully slid over the surface of the corpse, stopping when the palm moved to the position of his chest.

Then, the little bell gently raised his hand to suck something out of it, then turned around and walked to Tang Xiaohao and spread his hand.

Tang Xiaohao looked closer and found that there was a needle in the palm of the little bell.

"Needle?" Tang Xiaohao motioned for Childa to step forward and use a torch to illuminate, "General Mo Qi was killed by a hidden weapon?"

The little bell said, "It's not an ordinary needle, it's an ice needle, and this ice needle is like a stone in your fire talisman gun."

Tang Xiaohao immediately understood: "In other words, this needle has been injected with demonic power in a special way, and it is the demonic power of the snow demon."

Little Bell nodded, "Yes, when Mo Qi is hit by an ice needle, the magic power will start to freeze his whole body from the inside, but to use this ice needle, you must use the same magic tools or weapons as the fire talisman gun."

Tang Xiaohao looked at the ice needle and asked, "Is it possible that someone with magical or internal power can throw a secret weapon into General Moqi's body?"

Little Bell shook his head: "There is absolutely no way, unless it is a snow demon itself, otherwise, any other monster or person who touches this ice needle infused with demon mana will be injured or even killed."

Tang Xiaohao asked again, "Then what kind of tool can launch this kind of ice needle?"

The little bell said, "I don't know."

After that, the little bell clenched its five fingers, and when it was released again, the ice needle had turned into ice dust and slowly drifted away.

The little bell then asked, "Do we need to settle this matter before we can cross here to Ruiyuan?"

Tang Xiaohao said, "Yes, now all the troops outside the gate are the Yan clan."

The little bell stood on the rock next to him, looking at the fire-lit Yan army camp in the valley: "Ice Barbarian ......"

Tang Xiaohao also jumped on the rock: "Are you in a hurry to go back to Ruishan?"

The little bell looked at Tang Xiaohao and said, "If I was really in a hurry, I would have left alone, and the reason why I am willing to ride the carriage with you is just because I want to stay with you for a while longer."

Tang Xiaohao's face was full of surprise: "Isn't it? How do you feel like you've changed again, you were so cold before, and now you're suddenly talking so numbly."

Little Bell's tone was cold: "It's not that it's flesh, but I want you to see me more, because I won't be able to see it in the future."

Little Bell's cold words made both Gilda and Mo Lin a little stunned, because it was obviously not a joke.

Tang Rongrong, Zhan Tianya, Dongshan Xiao, and Li Tingxian in the credit spirit pot all sighed in unison.

Tang Xiaohao acted calmly instead: "I know."

The little bell was slightly closer to Tang Xiaohao, and the lights in the valley in front of the two of them were like the reflection of the twinkling stars in the sky.

Beneath the rock, Cerda gestured for Mo Lin to leave a torch before the two left.

But the little bell turned his head and said, "You don't have to go, I'll go back to the carriage right away."

Hearing this, Gerda and Mo Lin had to stop in embarrassment and stand there with torches in hand.

The little bell looked at Tang Xiaohao and said, "If the sadness is a bucket of water, I can help you pour it out."

Tang Xiaohao smiled and said, "What can't be poured is already frozen."

Tang Xiaohao was accustomed to the indifference of the little bell, because she was a snow demon after all, since she could freeze her painful memories in the past, she could also freeze her emotions now.

Because that's a kind of protection for the unknown ahead.

After the little bell left, Tang Xiaohao jumped off the rock and put on the Linglong box again.

Then, Tang Xiaohao asked, "Now, take me to see the place where General Moqi had an accident, and I will also be a patrol to arrest the Yamen."

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The place where Moqi was killed was on the ridge south of Gucheng Pass.

The walls of Guchengguan are all built along the ridge, and the ridge is just from north to south, and it can also extend to the east, just enough to form a condescending encirclement of the valley in the east.

The slopes of the mountains around Gucheng Pass were very steep, and although it was dangerous to climb and not to the advantage of the attackers, well-trained soldiers could still climb the steep walls to the bottom of the walls at night.

Tang Xiaohao stood at the position of the arrow stomping on the city wall and looked down, and threw down a torch to measure the distance between the arrow stomping and the cliff below.

"At least a foot tall, right?" Tang Xiaohao stared at the torches below and the surrounding places, "Even if someone crawls there, they won't be able to use the mechanism tool to punch the ice needle into General Moqi's chest."

Childa asked Mo Lin, "Where was the general standing at that time?"

Mo Lin pointed to his feet, "Right where I'm standing."

Tang Xiaohao walked up to Mo Lin and looked at the location of the arrow stampe: "There is still at least two feet away from the arrow stampe, unless the general stands directly at the mouth of the arrow stampe, otherwise, it is absolutely impossible."

Mo Lin asked his own question: "My eldest brother is wearing heavy armor and heart goggles, what kind of ice needles can penetrate?"

As soon as Tang Xiaohao was about to explain, the burial tower in the organ box spoke first.

Fu Minglou said: "That ice needle is infused with demonic power, not to mention penetrating armor, it is not a problem to penetrate a heavy city wall."

Mo Lin's face was full of shock, which was far beyond his cognition.

Childa asked, "Horse, it seems that it is really as the little general said, the murderer was at the scene at the time, and there was a female cadre inside?"

Tang Xiaohao looked at where Mo Lin was standing: "I'm thinking, what is the purpose of the murderer."

Mo Lin immediately said, "The purpose is naturally to kill my eldest brother and leave the dragons of Gucheng Pass leaderless."

Tang Xiaohao looked at Mo Lin: "So, do you think that the female cadre was sent by the Ruiyuan Yan clan?"

Mo Lin shook his head when he heard this, because it was almost impossible.

Chirda analyzed: "The generals and soldiers of Gucheng Pass, except for the generals, have to be rotated every year, and the rotating soldiers are all selected and drawn from the three armies of Rouyuan Wolf Cavalry, Tanma Cavalry, and War Slave Army. Besides, there is a clear difference in appearance between the Ruiyuan people and the Rouyuan people, and the female cadres can't be mixed in at all."

Indeed, because of long-term sun exposure, the Rouyuan people have black and red skin, and the cheeks are red, while although the Ruiyuan sun hours are also long, their complexion is like snow, and they look stronger and taller than the people of other plains, but they are not as strong as the Rouyuan people, and their height is naturally inferior.

The skin of the Rouyuan people is pale yellow, the eyes are light chestnut, the black straight hair, the hair is not obvious, the frontal bone is flat, the nose bridge is medium, and the inner corners of the eyes have special folds.

The Ruiyuan people were not originally local natives, and their ancestors were all prisoners who were exiled before and after the Kunlun Dynasty, so in addition to their fairer skin, they looked like an enlarged version of the Huayuan people.

In addition, the most important point is that the pupils of the Ruiyuan people are black and shiny, and they even look terrifying.

Tang Xiaohao looked at the camp of the Yan clan army in the valley: "If the Yan clan did it, then, after the death of General Mo Qi, they will immediately attack, you also said just now, when the dragonless army is in turmoil, it is the best time to attack, but why are they still holding still?" Isn't that strange?"

Mo Lin asked, "What do you think of the colt?"

Tang Xiaohao said, "The Yan Clan's army began to camp a month ago, and then marched in the valley, just to let you know that they are not

If you are not in a hurry to attack Gucheng Pass, you will come prepared, but as for when the attack will be launched, you don't know, in order to make the Gucheng garrison dare not relax, and anyone who remains nervous, even if he is well-trained, will face two situations."

Calla took over: "Either you will collapse or you will not relax completely, either way, in the face of a sudden attack by the enemy, you will face the dangerous result of the collapse of the whole army."

Mo Lin nodded silently, even if he didn't understand the art of war, he knew from experience that this was the biggest danger.

Tang Xiaohao asked again, "How many people are there in the garrison of Gucheng Pass now?"

Mo Lin hesitated, looking at Gilda.

Gilda said, "The colt is his own, so there is no need to keep it a secret from him."

Mo Lin replied, "Less than two thousand."

Tang Xiaohao was not surprised: "Gucheng Pass is only so big, and the mountain city built on the mountain can accommodate 2,000 people is already the limit, if I remember correctly, my father once said that the garrison of Gucheng Pass is more than 10,000 at most, and 2,000 people are stationed in the city, and the rest must be stationed in the valley near the direction of Rouyuan."

Gilda said again: "Don Ma, according to the scout's investigation, the Yan army is at least 50,000."

After speaking, Calla glanced at Mo Lin again, and the faces of both of them were a little ugly.

Two thousand against fifty thousand, even if they stick to the dangerous terrain in Gucheng Pass, even if the Yan army is piled up with human lives, they can pile up a ladder to climb the city wall.

At the height of the Tors Division, the whole army was claimed to be 200,000, but in fact it was 120,000 troops. The number of the Yan army, calculated according to the investigation of the imperial court over the years and the information provided by the detailed work, its total strength is almost close to 500,000.

Because all the people of the Ruiyuan Yan tribe are soldiers, men over the age of thirteen and under the age of sixty are all soldiers.

Among these 500,000, about 300,000 were in a state of combat readiness for a long time, which was an extremely terrifying number, and even the total number of standing troops directly under the court of the Dachang Dynasty could not reach 300,000.

In the past 10,000 years, the important reason why the Yan people have not been able to capture Rouyuan is that the Yan people are good at winter mountain warfare, and there are almost no mountains in Rouyuan. Therefore, the Yan army faced the flexible and powerful cavalry of the Tuo Er Division, and it could not take advantage of it, even if it reluctantly invaded the territory of Rouyuan, it was easy to be divided and surrounded by the Rouyuan cavalry and annihilated one by one.

Why didn't the Yan clan directly attack Gucheng Pass?

There are two main reasons, one is that there is the Jiang clan in Ruiyuan, and the Jiang clan has always spared no effort to stop the war, and the second is that if the Yan clan attacks Gucheng Pass, the imperial court will immediately send troops.