Liuzhou.

This ancient city located in the southeast of the Xia Kingdom was also a famous city in Huangzhou.

There was once a poem: The ruthless is the most ancient city willow, and it is still a ten-mile embankment.

Is the willow in Liuzhou more than ten miles?

Willow trees can be seen almost everywhere in the riverbank, in the fields, by the pond, and in the city.

Whenever the breeze blows, the soft branches sway with the wind, like a beautiful dancer, interpreting the rhythm of life.

Nowadays, many "dancers" in and outside the city are like being stripped of their pants, burned and broken, and there is no longer the same demeanor as before.

Yamen.

There are two people in the lobby, one sitting in the main seat and one standing in the hall.

The man on the main seat was wearing an official robe, forty years old, and looked like a civil official, but with that fat head and Xia Guo's peculiar hairstyle, he looked like a military general.

The man standing was wearing a black armor on his upper body, in his thirties, and had the same hairstyle, but he was closer to the Zhou people in terms of body shape and appearance.

These two people are the chief officials of Liuzhou, the call on the main seat is Tuoba Yong, and he is responsible for all the important military and political affairs in Liuzhou, and the standing one is named Ma Su, who is nominally in charge of the city defense.

Tuoba Yong stared at Ma Sudao's big eyes like copper bells, "Have you checked it out?" Who the hell attacked my Liuzhou? ”

"Uh......" Ma Su opened his mouth, not knowing where to start for a moment.

Tuoba Yong slapped the table and scolded: "Don't spit!" Say! ”

"From the dress and language should be the people of Takayama Country." Ma Su Dao.

Tuoba Yong didn't think about it, and scolded directly: "Let your mother's stinky fart!" The high mountain country is separated from our Liuzhou by a mountain range in the south, and those wild people flew over with wings? ”

Ma Su didn't dare to fight back when he was scolded, and said cautiously: "There is another discovery in the humble position, that group of people seems to be very chaotic, but in fact they have a clear goal and orderly actions, and non-trained cavalry can't do this." ”

Tuoba Yong's eyes narrowed into a line, and he said in a deep voice: "You mean, they are pretending to be Zhou Jun?" ”

Ma Su said: "Very likely. ”

Tuoba Yong groped his chin and analyzed: "The closest Zhou army to us is the defender army in the south, and the county in the south is hundreds of miles away from our Liuzhou, and there is also Zhangzhou in the middle. The defenders of this Zhangzhou are all fucking blind, and thousands of Zhou soldiers have been killed without knowing? ”

"My subordinates have asked Lord He Lian, and I haven't found a large number of Zhou troops entering the country in the past few days." Ma Su Dao.

Tuoba Yong said coldly: "So, there is still no way to completely determine their identity?" ”

Seeing Ma Su nodded, he said in a deep voice: "Then the fuck is strange, could it be that group of people is really a group of wild people who ran down from the high mountain country?" ”

Ma Su was silent, and he didn't figure out the true identity of that guy.

"No need to check! They are Zhou Jun! ”

At this moment, a voice sounded in the ears of the two of them, and then a figure appeared in the lobby.

It was an old man, with a wrinkled face and a thin figure like a bamboo pole, so that the green robe he wore on him looked unusually wide.

As soon as Tuoba Yong and the others saw this person, they immediately saluted: "Mr. Zhu! ”

Mr. Zhu nodded slightly.

Tuoba Yong didn't care either, and said bluntly: "What Mr. Zhu just said is that those guys are all Zhou Jun?" ”

"Not bad!" Mr. Zhu said.

Tuoba Yong and Ma Su glanced at each other, and Ma Su opened his mouth and asked, "How did Mr. see it?" ”

Mr. Zhu flipped his palm, and several more crossbow arrows appeared in his palm, and said, "These are enough to prove their identity." ”

Tuoba Yong and Ma Su's eyes were all focused on a few crossbow arrows, and they said in unison: "Iron arm copper crossbow!" ”

"Not bad!"

Mr. Zhu nodded, and continued: "The old man has already fought with them, and they must be Zhou Jun. ”

The two of them did not doubt the credibility of these words at all, because if the person in front of them couldn't see the identity of that guy, they wouldn't be able to find it in the whole of Liuzhou.

"Mr. Zhu, do you know where this group of Zhou Jun came from?" Tuoba Yong asked.

"This group of Zhou cavalry is well-trained, and the old man was discovered by them after following him for a while. They left some of them to deal with the old man, and although the old man killed hundreds of people, he finally let them escape. Mr. Zhu said.

Tuoba Yong said "It's a pity", in fact, he knew very well that it was not "escape" at all.

Thousands of well-trained cavalrymen armed with iron-armed bronze crossbows are so powerful that a single martial arts master can't stop them at all, and even their own lives will be lost if they are not careful.

After coming back to his senses, Tuoba Yong was furious: "Damn it! This week, people have eaten the courage of the bear's heart and leopard, and they dare to send people to attack my Liuzhou, so they are not afraid that I will send troops to attack in Daxia? ”

"My lord, we don't have enough evidence." Ma Su reminded on the side.

"Insufficient evidence?"

Tuoba Yong sneered: "Couldn't these iron-armed copper crossbows still explain their identity?" ”

Ma Su glanced at Tuoba Yong and didn't say anything, just said "It's difficult".

In fact, Tuoba Yong also knew that it was indeed insufficient evidence to provoke a war between the two countries with these few crossbow arrows alone, but when did he talk about evidence?

What he thought was to quickly find out the details of this group of people, and then exterminate them, the sooner the better.

"How do I feel that Zhou Jun is right next to us?" Tuoba Yong said in a deep voice.

Ma Su nodded and said, "The lowly position also feels this way, maybe they have a secret stronghold nearby." ”

Tuoba Yong's face gradually became ugly, and he scolded: "What does Helian do on the dog day? With so many Zhou Jun appearing nearby, he didn't even know about it in advance. ”

"Maybe the Zhou people have a secret passage in their hands to lead here." Ma Su guessed.

"It's possible!"

Tuoba Yong immediately said to Ma Su: "You immediately send someone to inform He Lian now, so that he must guard the border defense line and monitor every move of the Zhou army!" ”

He then added: "In addition, let out all the people in our hands, and search for Lao Tzu vigorously, and we must find out those people!" ”

"Yes!" Ma Su nodded.

The two of them moved quickly, and as soon as they decided on the matter, they immediately began to act.

A large number of people poured out of Liuzhou City, and began a carpet search along the direction outside the city near the Nanli Mountain Range.

Although they lost thousands of defenders last night, today they pulled up a team of 3,000 men from the city, plus the 2,000 defenders who survived, a full 5,000 men.

This is the war potential for building a state on horseback, with herdsmen on horseback and warriors on horseback.

If it weren't for the fact that 3,000 horses were snatched away yesterday, they would have been able to pull up more people.

However, thousands of people searched from the morning to the afternoon, and then from the afternoon to the evening, and still did not find Zhou Jun.

When Tuoba Yong learned of this result, he was so angry that he smashed the table.

"Search! Search hard for Lao Tzu! Lao Tzu doesn't believe that so many people plus so many cattle, sheep, and treasures will disappear out of thin air? These things must be nearby! ”

The soldier in charge of the report was so frightened that he didn't dare to raise his head, and hurriedly ran out of the lobby.

Tuoba Yong looked at Ma Su who was standing below and said, "What did He Lian say over there?" ”

"Lord Helian has arranged for people to block all the traffic arteries to ensure that no one wants to cross the border from Zhangzhou." Ma Su Dao.

"It's already arranged?!"

Tuoba Yong was angry again, and said angrily: "So, he didn't have martial law before? ”

Ma Su hesitated for a moment and nodded.

For He Lian's approach, he can actually understand it, Nanli County has just suffered a heavy blow, and it is too late to rest and recuperate, how can he have the energy to use troops against Xia Guo?

"Lord Helian said that it is not necessarily the defenders from Zhangzhou." Ma Su added.

"Not necessarily?!"

Tuoba trembled with courage and was furious: "Although he He Lian is not a soldier, he has been in charge of Zhangzhou for so many years, except for the Zhou army who left from the south, is it possible that the Zhou army flew from Wuping County?" ”

"Dog, he just wants to see Lao Tzu make a fool of himself! Don't think Lao Tzu doesn't know what is in his heart! ”

Ma Su bowed his head and didn't speak, his own adult and He Lian of Zhangzhou have always been at odds with each other.

There is no way, Liuzhou is really good, whether it is population or economy, it crushes Zhangzhou in all directions.

At the beginning, both of them were vying to be the chief officials of Liuzhou, but in the end, the forces behind Tuoba Yong were stronger and won this position.

In recent years, Tuoba Yong has been a big fisher in Liuzhou, and half of the gold, silver and jewelry robbed by Zhou Jun this time were looted by him.

That's his years of hard work!

I was robbed at once, so it's no wonder if I'm not in a hurry!

Tuoba Yong roared: "Search! Even if you dig three feet into the ground, you have to find those guys! ”

Ma Su really wanted to say, "It's going to be dark soon, and you can still find a fart!" But he agreed.

Night falls.

A group of Xia cavalry walked leisurely on the path, and this group of people searched from morning to evening, and they didn't even see the hair of the Zhou army, but they were tired enough.

"Damn! This black light is blinding! What can be found? Is our adult brain broken? ”

"Say less! Listening to the meaning of the adults, most of those Zhou soldiers are hiding around here. ”

"Hide a fart! We've been around here for most of the day, and if anyone had found out, they would have been discovered! ”

……

Several people swayed and complained.

As it got darker, they were so tired and sleepy that they could fall asleep on horseback.

"Woohoo!"

Suddenly, a burst of wind sounded, instantly waking up several cavalrymen who were about to fall asleep.

However, before they could make any moves, the bolt had already pierced their chests from the back of the heart, killing them almost instantly.

"Knock knock!"

As the men fell to the ground, the horses were immediately frightened, raised their hooves and prepared to gallop.

At this moment, several figures jumped out from behind them, grabbed the reins of the horses, and prevented them from escaping.

They were all dressed in black, and their hair was bandaged with a piece of black cloth, revealing only a pair of eyes, but they all held one thing in their hands - iron arms and copper crossbows.

There is no doubt that these people are Zhou Jun!

As a few people took control of the horses, a large group of people slowly walked out from behind them.

Each was dressed in red fish scale armor, with a war horse on his crotch, and he was stubborn and stubborn, so not majestic.

……