The knife was on the neck, but the three of them were not nervous, Ye Yan and Zhang Jiu had been in contact for two days, and they naturally knew in their hearts that the identity of the other party was definitely not ordinary, not like an ordinary hunter.

Not to mention the "collection wall" at home, just to say that his skills are not comparable to ordinary soldiers, and to say that he is not from the Northern Xinjiang military, I don't believe that Ye Yan was killed.

Sure enough, I saw Zhang Jiu and didn't look at the knife on his neck, and said loudly to the herald behind him, "It's Zhang Jiu, a person from the Death Battalion, who told General Liu that Qi had a plan." ”

When the herald heard this, the battalion was immediately startled, and then immediately shouted to the soldiers in front: "You divide a team and watch them return to the city, and I will report to the general to verify the authenticity." ”

The herald rode back to the city first, and this group of soldiers spontaneously divided thirty people to guard and headed in the direction of Yuzhou City.

On the way, Ye Yan thought secretly in his heart: "Dead word camp? Spy or death squad?"

No matter what era the army can be named after the word death, it is undoubtedly not a brave and fierce general with the will to die, they put life and death aside, and at the cost of their lives for a goal.

Just when Ye Yan was thinking about it, Shi Kong patted him on the shoulder on the side, and said in a tone that was not sad or happy, "It's just a plate organized by a group of poor people, don't think about it." ”

After speaking, he strode forward and walked side by side with Zhang Jiu, the black robe looked so mysterious in the sunlight.

"It seems that the master is also a man with a story."

Without thinking about it anymore, the group stepped on the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and walked for more than an hour for more than ten miles, and finally saw Yuzhou City, the gateway to northern Xinjiang.

On the ten-meter-high city wall stood the sharps in armor and guns, who were one of the few fully equipped soldiers in Yuzhou City.

When they came to the city gate, a guard stopped them, and after the guard explained a few words to the patrol army, he led Ye Yan and the three into the city, and the escort soldiers returned the same way.

After entering the city, Ye Yan looked at everything in the city, and there were dilapidated houses on the wide streets, some of which had been repaired, and some of which were completely destroyed, as if they had experienced a major war.

There was not a single ordinary person in the city, but there were groups of soldiers everywhere

Some of the soldiers are training, some are clearing the snow, these people's equipment is almost the same as the patrol soldiers, the only difference is the shoes on the feet, although the patrol is also poorly equipped but fortunately there is a pair of cloth shoes, but most of these soldiers in the city are still wearing straw sandals, the bare feet have long been frozen red, but their eyes are firm, the breath is fierce and seems to be not afraid of all difficulties.

After walking for about a quarter of an hour, Ye Yan still didn't see a single person, so he couldn't help asking, "Why don't you see people in the city?"

The young guard in the lead glanced at Ye Yan when he heard Ye Yan's question, and his tone was flat with a touch of sadness: "I died in battle." ”

Ye Yan was stunned when he heard this, and said in disbelief, "The whole city died in battle?"

Zhang Jiu sighed beside him: "Yes, I died in battle, in the great battle a few years ago, the people of Yuzhou City and more than 10,000 defenders joined forces to resist.

In the face of 80,000 well-equipped Qi soldiers, they held for 20 days, because it was a surprise attack and when General Liu arrived from the national capital, there was no one of the tens of thousands of people in the city.

There were only a few young children waiting to be fed and some children of seven or eight years old, who were standing at the head of the city with kitchen knives and wooden guns in their hands, and their faces covered in blood.

Later, the female monarch was afraid that the people of northern Xinjiang would go to the battlefield again, so she ordered that before the war ended, Yuzhou was not allowed to move in the people, and it became a military city. ”

"Amitabha."

Shikong uttered a Buddha name, and recited Buddhist scriptures silently with a sad face.

"They are just a group of ordinary people, as long as they don't go to the battlefield, there is the Qi Guoren Party, those Qi soldiers will not slaughter them, but these fools ......." The young guard looked sad.

Ye Yan heard these griefs in his heart, how tragic the scene of the whole city should be, and in the end, only a group of children were left standing at the head of the city to guard the gate of the country.

Thinking of that scene, Ye Yanqing unconsciously said:

"Lying in the lonely city and not mourning, Shang Si is the national military wheel."

When the three of them heard Ye Yan's poems, they unconsciously stopped and looked at him.

The young guard general no longer had the cold attitude just now, and turned to Ye Yan with a fist and saluted, "Thank you, Gongzi, for giving poems to the people of the city." ”

Northern Xinjiang is a barren and small country in the eyes of other countries, and the people are even lower than the people of other countries in their eyes.

Zhang Jiu and Shikong were a little surprised, they didn't expect Ye Yan to be a cultural person.

In Northern Xinjiang or in all countries, all of them are scholars, and these people are often students of various schools, and they are unattainable, but no matter how they look at Ye Yan, they are not like the students of the hundred schools of thought, but like a monk of wine and meat who is still vulgar in a certain temple.

"The general's words are serious, and the northern Xinjiang temperament has shocked Zaixia, so he has a feeling." Ye Yan hurriedly hugged his fists and replied.

"I can't be called a general, my humble position is just a personal guard next to the general, and the son can call me Shen Qing."

Ye Yan asked Yan to clench his fists, "In the next Ye Yan." ”

After exchanging names, Ye Yan and Shen Qing gradually became acquainted, and unconsciously came to the mansion where Liu Xiong lived in a small talk.

Shen Qing pushed open the door, and what greeted him was just an ordinary mansion and mansion, without all kinds of rare flower beds, rockeries and flowing water

The small courtyard is decorated with only a large drum and a stone table, and then there are no other decorations to be seen.

At the stone table, an old man with silver hair and a light blue robe boiled tea, watching the bamboo slips sit quietly.

The old man heard the sound of pushing the door and raised his head to see Zhang Jiu and the others put down the bamboo slip and smiled loudly: "Zhang boy, the little monk hasn't seen you for a long time, where is Ye Xiaogui?"

Zhang Jiu Shikong heard Liu Xiong's words and walked quickly to his side, and just as he wanted to clasp his fists and salute, he was interrupted by Liu Xiong: "Don't engage in those false courtesies, sit down and talk about your situation in the past few years." Shen Qing went to fetch some charcoal and set up a brazier, and the kid over there should also come and sit. ”

Zhang Jiu and the others sat down when they heard this, Ye Yan came to the stone table and bowed and sat down one after another, and Shen Qing quickly ran to the house to get charcoal.

"How have you been in the past few years, what about Little Ghost Ye?"

Hearing Liu Xiong's question again, Zhang Jiu Shikong glanced at each other, and then the two of them looked sad: "The thirteen people in the Dead Word Camp are left with me and Dirty Ten, Ye Yi and they died in the Prime Minister's Mansion of Qi State, and Dirty Ten and I escaped because we went out." ”

Hearing the answers of the two, Liu Xiong's expression was stunned, he stood up and stared at the two of them in disbelief, and said in disbelief: "What, Ye Yi is dead?"

Then he sat down and asked with a solemn expression, "What the hell is going on?" ”

"Three years ago, we were ordered by the general to go to the Qi State to infiltrate the officials of the Ren Party, but Li Liu was greedy for power and betrayed the Death Word Camp, Ye Yi and other brothers were lured to the Qi State Prime Minister's Mansion to be killed, and we escaped because we escorted the young lady of the Ministry of Rites into the temple to offer incense.

When we returned to the city, we learned about this, and we didn't dare to stay in Qi any longer and retreated.

Later, when we returned to Dongshan from the Qi Kingdom, we found that the Qi soldiers were searching the mountains.

The two of us did not dare to leave the village for a long time in order to protect the people of Taolin, so they could not come to restore their lives, until yesterday when the troops searched the mountains on a large scale, and the villagers had no choice but to abandon the village and flee. ”