In the cottage hall of Kotou Mountain, the ragged Li Li sat in the first place, Li Yi sat on the side, and Xiao Jiu stood in the open space in the center of the hall to examine several bandits in Kotou Mountain.

The gang of bandits led by Ah Biao has been captured by Xiao Jiu's men, and the remaining bandit minions who fled in a hurry and were about to slip away from behind the mountain were also captured by the cavalry who were ambushed behind the mountain.

Now Ah Biao is lying on the ground covered with injuries and moaning constantly, as if his condition is fine, and more minions have been killed on the spot directly when the cavalry battalion attacked the stockade.

These bandits didn't care much in Xiao Jiu's heart, and now they need to care about their old father-in-law's family, whom they have never met before.

It was the first time he had met Li Li, an old man, but the timing was a little inappropriate.

Li Yi's eldest brother Xiao Jiu has long been familiar with him, so naturally there is no need to say much, and the rest of the family members still need to be sorted out one by one in the future.

In addition, when Xiao Jiu rescued his father-in-law's family, he also got an unexpected news.

That is, the baby in his sister-in-law's arms was actually the crown prince of the dynasty, which made Xiao Jiu surprised and secretly wondered about the situation in Kyoto.

Although he heard Li Yiyan say that although the city of Kyoto was besieged, it was not breached for a long time, but since the emperor sent his young son out of Kyoto, it only proved that the situation in Kyoto was not optimistic in his heart, and he might even have a little will to die.

Of course, it is useless to think too much for now, and the most important thing at the moment is to think about how to soothe the anger in the heart of his eldest brother and win some favor in the hearts of his father-in-law.

Needless to say than Xiao Jiu, Li Yi, who was beaten into a pig's head, looked at A Biao's appearance and wanted to chop the other party to pieces.

"Big brother, what do you think of these miscellaneous pieces?"

Seeing Li Yi gritting his teeth, Xiao Jiu handed over the decision to the other party.

Li Yi was not ambiguous when he heard this, the anger in his heart had long been uncontrollable, and after getting Li Li's consent, he picked up the bench and smashed it against a group of bandits, until the other party was dying.

When Li Yi was tired, Xiao Jiu knew that the frightened Li Li family was unwilling to stay here longer, so he immediately ordered his subordinates to find a cart from the cottage and pull it down the mountain to the camp where they were stationed.

After the old man's family was properly settled, Xiao Jiu looked at the few bandits lying on the ground who didn't know whether they were alive or dead, and ordered Li Hao on the side, "Bury it." ”

After Li Hao got the order, he immediately took a few followers and began to clean up the mess, and set fire to the cottage after Xiao Jiu and the others went down the mountain.

Just when Xiao Jiu and his cavalry battalion were making a big move on Goutou Mountain, the rebel army in Yuzhou City had already heard the rumors, but they didn't make a move.

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Yuzhou City, the city lord's mansion.

On the second day of Xiao Jiu's cavalry camp on Goutou Mountain, in the study in the backyard of the City Lord's Mansion, Gu Chong, the high priest of the Fire God Sect, was lying on a rickety chair, looking at an old book without a cover.

"Elder Gu, the Yangcheng soldiers went to Goutou Mountain last night, and the fire on the mountain should have clashed with the bandits on the mountain."

Listening to the report of the young man under his hand, Gu Chong slowly put down the book in his hand and frowned slightly.

"Bandits? Is it that Ah Biao some time ago? ”

Listening to Gu Chong's question, the young man who came to report nodded in confirmation.

After receiving the affirmation of the young man, Gu Chong's doubts deepened.

He knew Ah Biao on Kotou Mountain, and there was Ah Biao among the various mountain bandits that the rebel army in Yuzhou wanted to recruit before, but the other party never responded.

But Gu Chong finally decided not to delve into it, and now the cavalry battalion of Xiao Jiu in Yangcheng has no action in Yuzhou, but the rebel armies from all walks of life in Kyoto have become the most worrying place in Gu Chong's heart.

Today's Divine Fire Cult is no longer a spiritual shelter for a group of victims who have been affected by the disaster and huddle together to keep warm.

As their own strength grew, the rebel armies of all stripes had long since forgotten these doctrines and dogmas.

If Kyoto is breached this time, I am afraid that by then it will not be a new dynasty, but will push the world into the abyss of chaotic war.

You must know that the current Great Xia is not only them, the Yuzhou rebel army, but also the local governors, county guards and even grass robbers with heavy troops in various states and counties will rise like mushrooms after the fall of Great Xia.

But now there are grassland Rong tribes eyeing the Great Xia, and the situation in this world is becoming more and more incomprehensible.

If the rebel army returned to the dynasty from Kyoto, wrapped in the power of destroying Great Xia, these leaders of the Divine Fire Sect would be as insignificant as a cloud of smoke.

Moreover, Gu Chong was not interested in the wealthy families of the Inner Zhou Dynasty in the Central Plains, and he had been with them before.

Unconsciously, these rebel armies in Yuzhou gradually split into two parts, one chose to cooperate with the family in an attempt to embezzle more interests, and the conservatives led by Gu Chong wanted to recuperate here.

At this time, Gu Chong did not intend to pay too much attention to Xiao Jiu who entered the territory of Yuzhou, and even had some plans to use Xiao Jiu to contain the internal division of the rebel army.

Throughout the ages, most of the forces that have perished have been caused by internal divisions.

Now we are just waiting for news from Kyoto, if we really take Kyoto, the world will start a real troubled era, and only those who have soldiers and food in their hands will be qualified to control more power to speak.

Speaking of returning to Xiao Jiu and his camp outside Yuzhou, since Li Li's family was taken over, Xiao Jiu began to arrange the return itinerary.

Not to mention the fright that Li Li was received this time, it was said that the prince who was brought out of Kyoto also made Xiao Jiu uncertain about whether to continue to go to Kyoto.

Now that the news of Kyoto being breached has not yet come, Xiao Jiu's hesitation is reasonable.

In Li Li's tent, Xiao Jiu and Li Li's aunt and son-in-law had their first formal meeting.

No matter what Xiao Jiu's current identity is, he is somewhat nervous when facing his father-in-law.

Xiao Jiu, who has been a person for two lifetimes, knows that if he wants to have a harmonious and happy family in the future, the first thing is to pass the level of his father-in-law.

As for Xiao Jiu's son-in-law, Li Li actually had a lot of hesitation.

At first, when Xiao Jiu was still a mountain bandit, Li Li maintained a resolute attitude against his daughter's marriage.

But after that, Xiao Jiu gradually grew bigger in Lingshui County, and has become a military force that cannot be ignored in Neizhou, and his identity naturally rises, and he even asked the emperor to marry in person.

Li Li naturally did not dare to object to the emperor's marriage, and Li Luoyao also liked Xiao Jiu.

can marry his daughter to a mountain bandit, which always makes Li Li like a thorn in his throat.

The two looked at each other silently in the camp tent, and the atmosphere at the scene was a little dull, but in the end, Xiao Jiu broke the embarrassment.

"Father-in-law, I've suffered a lot all the way from Kyoto."

Xiao Jiu really didn't know what to say, so he could only talk awkwardly without words, and Li Li only bowed his head lightly when he heard this, and the scene fell into embarrassment again.

Fortunately, at this time, Li Yi, who had arranged his family, came in from outside the camp tent and chatted warmly with Xiao Jiu for a while, which relieved some of the tense atmosphere.

Hearing that Li Yiyan said that he was chased and killed by the rebel army after leaving Kyoto, Xiao Jiu also felt a little shocked.

It turned out that after Li Li's family quietly evacuated from the secret passage in the Kyoto Imperial Palace that day, because there were too many family members, they were soon targeted by the rebel rebels who were fighting the autumn wind everywhere.

These rebels did not hunt down and kill Li Li's family because they knew the special identity, but because the large amount of silver money carried by Li Li's family was accidentally exposed.

Originally, Li Li only thought of bringing more silver money for entanglement on the road, who would have thought that it was these things outside his body that attracted the pursuit of the rebels.

Fortunately, the Kyoto guards who followed Li Li's family out of the city resisted to the death and dragged those soldiers who were like mountain bandits, and Li Li's family escaped until Yuzhou.

originally thought that after withdrawing from Zhili, there would be a smooth road ahead, but who would have thought that he would be robbed by the bandits of Kotou Mountain again.

In Daxia, bandits are basically divided into two kinds, one is the mountain bandits who live by squeezing the annual food of the people in villages and towns, and these mountain bandits will not slaughter the people without authorization, so the court will not take care of it.

The other is to rely on robbing passing merchants for a living, bandits are generally robbing houses, killing people and goods, so it is easy to be surrounded and suppressed by the government, and Ah Biao obviously belongs to the group of bandits.

It's just that now the imperial court is divided and Yuzhou is occupied by the rebel army, which makes them so unscrupulous.

Listening to the experience of Li Li's family being displaced, Xiao Jiu sighed for a while, and then turned the conversation to the baby who was brought out of Kyoto.

"Then the prince, how are the father-in-law and eldest brother going to be placed?"

As Xiao Jiudi asked, Li Yi looked at his father who was sitting on the main seat, and Li Li's brows were twisted into a pimple at this time.

To be honest, the young prince has become a problem now, not to say whether Kyoto will be breached, but how to arrange the prince after bringing him to Yangcheng County.

Although Li Li was loyal to Great Xia and accepted Qin Yu's entrustment, he was not a dead-headed person.

Especially before leaving, Qin Yu's serious words to himself made it even more difficult for Li Li to choose.

Since Qin Yu asked Li Li to take the young prince out of Kyoto, he must have prepared for death in his heart, and he was not optimistic about the war.

But the problem is that now the world still nominally belongs to Great Xia, is it true that the prince is offered as an ordinary person in the small Yangcheng County incognito?

The three of them discussed for a long time in the camp tent, and Xiao Jiu decided to lead the troops back to Yangcheng County first, no matter what the situation was after that, now being able to receive the old man's family can be regarded as having an explanation for Li Luoyao.

Although Li Li wanted Xiao Jiu to go to Kyoto to help the besieged Kyoto City, when he thought of his upheaval along the way and Qin Yu's entrustment, he still decided to follow Xiao Jiu's advice and return to Yangcheng County first.

Early in the morning of the second day, Xiao Jiu summoned his generals to decide that the squad should go home, and these subordinates naturally had no objections.

Just as Xiao Jiu and his cavalry battalion were on their way back to Yangcheng County, the news of the investigation from the front finally came to Kyoto.

"Kyoto Castle has been breached?"

Xiao Jiu listened to the report of his subordinates and muttered to himself.