Xu Huaigu didn't see the military parade in Tanglin Pass in the early morning of the second day, because in the middle of the night, an urgent messenger flying sword was sent to Tanglin Pass, which was sent by Lu Zijin, saying that a gourd pass in the west was attacked by the demon clan, so Xu Huaigu rushed to support it overnight.

The fighter plane could not be delayed, and Xu Huaigu didn't even have time to say goodbye to Yu Qin, so he hurriedly stepped on the flying sword and rushed to the Hulu Pass in the west.

When he was still ten miles away from the gourd pass, he could see the fire in the sky, and the sound of killing was deafening.

Xu Huaigu didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, and quickly stepped on the city wall with a flying sword, only to see that the flying demons were raging on the city wall, and the soldiers guarding the city were attacked by the flying demons from the air one after another, either pierced through the chest by sharp claws, or pushed off the city wall, and suffered heavy casualties.

There are very few of the most important arrows that can defend against the flying demons, and the flying demons are even more rampant. Xu Huaigu swung his sword and flew towards the flying demons in the air, and then sacrificed his natal flying sword and rose into the air, and in the blink of an eye, dozens of flying demons fell one after another.

He was about to deal with the flying demon in the air wholeheartedly, but there was a loud cry for help from under the city gate, the attack of the demon clan was too fierce, and even the city gate was in a hurry.

Soon, a large number of soldiers gathered behind the city gate, resisting the city gate with their bodies, and the demon clan outside the city gate was not idle?

If you talk about brute force, people are naturally no match for demons. Sure enough, it didn't take long for the city gate to resist the collision outside, and the ground shattered with a bang, and the demon clan outside rushed in like a river flood, and the soldiers guarding the gate were trampled into flesh in a blink of an eye.

This is the first of the seven passes in the south of Dayu Kingdom to be breached. At this time, the situation at the city gate is more serious than on the city wall, as soon as those demon clans enter the city gate, they will go around killing rings, on the other hand, the soldiers guarding the city, although they are brave in battle, but they are not the opponents of the demon clans in close combat, but after a long time, the city gate is already full of corpses.

The shouts, killings, and screams in his ears were endless, and Xu Huaigu looked heavily at the city wall. After weighing it, he had to abandon the city wall, jump down, and fight with the demon clan that rushed into the city.

The other dozen or so monks guarding this pass also came to the city gate one after another, and they did their best to stabilize the situation at the city gate.

Xu Huaigu didn't have time to care about which monks were still in the gourd pass, so he only cared about taking out his sword to deal with the demon clans that poured into the pass like a tide, sword after sword.

The blade of the sword was covered in blood, and he gradually became red-eyed, and he couldn't care about anything. Among them, there were also a few great demons of the Six or Seven Realms who rushed into the city gate, but they were all stopped by him.

The battle continued until the sky gradually lit up in the distance, the demon clan's offensive weakened, and the defenders recaptured the city gate, and the demon clan began to retreat.

After the demon clan left, a craftsman immediately came forward to repair the city gate, Xu Huaigu took a breath, wiped the sword blade clean and put it back into the sheath, but there was a woman's cry in his ears.

He was wondering where the woman came from in the gate, and when he looked back, he saw a female monk crying on the ground, and the body of another male monk lying on the ground, blood staining the white robe.

Xu Huaigu felt a sudden sadness in his heart, this should be the first monk to die in the war. There was a Tsing Yi sword cultivator walking towards him, and Xu Huaigu saw that it was Li Siqing, and then he knew that Li Siqing was guarding this gourd pass.

Li Siqing walked to Xu Huaigu's side, looked at the dead colleague, and couldn't help but feel a sense of sadness for the dead rabbit and fox, and said with a long sigh: "It's from the Water Mirror Sect, the two of them were originally Taoist couples, and they specially made an appointment to guard the same pass, and now they ...... Alas. Xu Huaigu looked at the corpses all over the ground and persuaded: "There is no way to do it, if you fight, you have to die." You must take care of yourself, if you are not defeated, it doesn't hurt to withdraw the sword for the time being, stay in the green mountains, and you are not afraid of running out of firewood. Li Siqing shook his head with a wry smile and said, "I can go, how can the soldiers defending the city go?" If my sword is removed, what difference will I have from the deserter? Xu Huaigu had nothing to say, Li Siqing sighed and said, "I'll help them clean up the mess, I'm afraid I won't have time to drink with you today." ”

"It's okay, I have to go to Lu Zijin's side immediately to restore my life, and if we are free next time we meet, we will sit down and get together." Li Siqing nodded in agreement, and Xu Huaigu took one last look at the female monk who was raining down tears, and his heart was mixed.

He sacrificed his flying sword and was about to leave, but suddenly as if he had thought of something, he turned his head and asked Li Siqing: "An Xiaoyu who came with you, where is she?" Li Siqing replied: "She is in the easternmost Liyang Pass. ”

"Easternmost ...... That's a bit far from here. Li Siqing nodded and said, "Liyang Pass is more than five hundred miles away from Hulu Pass, and it is the imperial sword, and it takes more than a stick of incense to get there." Xu Huaigu said solemnly: "No matter what the battle situation is, please take care of your life." Li Siqing smiled a little reluctantly: "I will." ”

"See you next time, then." Xu Huaigu turned his head, stepped lightly on his toes, stepped on the flying sword, and suddenly the white rainbow pierced the sun, flying in the direction of Lu Zijin's tent.

In a few moments, he landed in the tent and walked briskly inside. It was still a familiar scene, no different from when I left two days ago.

Lu Zijin was still sitting in his original seat, in front of him was a large topographic map of the mountains and rivers in the south of Dayu Kingdom, and the soldiers in the camp came and went, and there was a thick pile of documents in front of him.

As soon as Xu Huaigu walked into the camp, Lu Zijin immediately raised his head, signaled the soldier who was reporting next to him to stop, and asked eagerly: "How is the situation over there in Hulu Pass?" Xu Huaigu's face was heavy: "The flying demon is rampant, and the city gate is broken." The defense is defended, but there are a lot of dead and wounded, I don't know how many people there are, I have to wait for the general over there to send a battle report, I estimate that there must be thirty or forty thousand. ”

"Thirty or forty thousand ......" Lu Zijin lowered his head and frowned, and was silent.

"One more thing, last night in the battle of Hulu Pass, a monk of the Water Mirror Sect died, how are you going to explain to the sect over there?"

"Fighting bravely in the battle to defend the city, preferring to die rather than retreat, and finally dying in battle, this is the explanation." Lu Zijin lowered his head and said in a muffled voice,

"Going into battle to kill demons is inherently risky. So many soldiers in Dayu Kingdom died on the battlefield, and the monks are also flesh and blood, and of course they will die. Xu Huaigu nodded, pulled up a chair in the tent, sat casually, and looked out of the tent, he still thought about the female monk who was crying on the ground this morning, and he couldn't help but be in a trance.

Not only her, but he gradually thought of Yu Qin, Li Siqing and An Xiaoyu, and Pingcui, Huang Shan and Yi Yun in Xingqing City.

If one day she dies in battle, what will happen to Yu Qin? What if she dies?

Xu Huaigu's heart was like a mess. After a long time, Lu Zijin finally finished dealing with the affairs, he looked at Xu Huaigu and asked, "How do you feel about participating in the two battles of Tanglin Pass and Hulu Pass in the past two days?" ”

"When I see someone die, I feel uncomfortable." Lu Zijin nodded and said in a deep voice: "There is no way to do this, what we can do is to reduce casualties as much as possible." Let me ask you again, what do you think is our weakness when defending the city? Or rather, where can it be improved? ”

"Archers." Xu Huaigu said almost without hesitation,

"The threat of the flying demons to the city wall is too great, and the city wall is in chaos, and they can't effectively deal with the demon clan attacking the city on the ground, so they attack the city gate even more rampantly, and then the city gate is lost, and the pass is about to collapse at the touch of a button. I think it's imperative to increase the number of archers to deal with flying demons. Lu Zijin nodded in agreement: "You're right, it's just ......" Then he showed a look of embarrassment, Xu Huaigu saw it, and hurriedly frowned and asked: "Since Mr. Lu also agrees, what is there to hesitate?" In the past two days, I have seen with my own eyes in the pass, the demon clan is attacking the city, and the flying demon is taking the lead, paving the way for the follow-up army on the ground, as long as the flying demon can be prevented first, it can stabilize the front and hold the city gate. If the city gate is not broken, the loss can be limited to a minimum, and the losses of the demon clan are definitely more than ours! ”

"I know, what you said is naturally right, Chu Xiuyang also sent me a letter to ask for arrows, but ......" Lu Zijin sighed,

"Although a lot of preparations have been made before the battle, the number of flying demons is still far beyond the original expectations, and now all the passes are asking me for arrows, and the arrow reserves have been almost depleted."

"No wonder ......" Xu Huaigu frowned,

"Last night I saw very few arrows shooting into the air in the gourd pass, so it turned out that the reserves had been exhausted. Speaking of which, the arrows that Chu Xiuyang asked you for were not delivered on time? ”

"She asked me for 100,000, and I only gave 30,000." Lu Zijin replied,

"This is still for the sake of Tanglin Pass being the most important pass among the seven levels, and the rest of the passes are sent fifteen thousand in turn, that's all. Now that the pre-war reserves have been depleted, I don't have a single arrow in my hand. Xu Huaigu's face was cloudy and unpleasant, and it was very ugly.

The flying demon is already flexible, and the arrows shoot into the air, one of the ten difficulties, and the arrows of 15,000 can only deal with about 1,000 flying demons at most, and the demon clan has at least thousands of flying demons attacking every time they attack the city, and this point of arrows is really not enough.

"So what? I heard about your plan from Lin Cangyang. Now that it has been about ten years since the war started, could it be that after holding for such a while, you have to abandon Qiguan and retreat north? Lu Zijin shook his head and said, "Not yet, there is still a way to go." ”

"What way?"

"Recently, a big businessman has come all the way from Central Earth to the front, and as soon as she arrives, we can buy arrows to solve our urgent needs."

"I also heard about this from Chu Xiuyang." Xu Huaigu is not very optimistic about this,

"I'm afraid that this person wants to take this opportunity to make a fortune in a national disaster. Besides, how many arrows can she sell? Even if there are 100,000, it is only enough for the border army for four or five days, which is far from enough. Lu Zijin smiled: "She has more than 100,000 arrows, if she sincerely wants it, she can have as many as she wants, it depends on whether she is willing to sell it." Now what I'm worried about is when she will arrive, now the arrows in the seven levels are only enough to deal with one demon siege, if the arrows are used up and she doesn't come, we can only retreat, we can't watch the soldiers die in the pass. Xu Huaigu couldn't help but be anxious and asked, "Who is this person?" The border is urgent, the time is urgent, Mr. Lu should send a message to her to come quickly! I really can't, you tell me where she is, I'll go find her! ”

"It's useless, you can't urge, she thinks the time is right, she will come." Lu Zijin shook his head and said,

"As for the identity of this person, I wonder if you have heard of Falling Cloud City?"

"I've heard of it, and it is said to be the largest place for monks to trade in the entire Middle Domain. What, she has something to do with Falling Cloud City? ”

"What's more, this person is the city lord of Luoyun City, Wei Caiyi." Xu Huaigu's heart was shocked. Regarding Wei Caiyi, he had heard about it from Li Zi before, and he was one of the few eleventh realm great cultivators in the entire Central Region!

And according to Li Zi, Wei Caiyi is still one of the most promising people to break through the Twelve Realms today, such a big man, even want to come to the border?

"Heh, what a coincidence, it's just there." Lu Zijin smiled and looked outside the tent,

"The people have come. Let's go, Xu Huaigu, come with me to meet Senior Wei. ”