On January 29, although it has warmed up in early spring, the night is still very cold, the walls of Huoyuan City are all fiery red, like a fire-colored giant mountain standing in the dark, it is said that the city bricks of Huoyuan City are quarried from special volcanic rock, so it is this color, hard and silky, not conducive to climbing, so that only less than 10,000 defenders of Huoyuan City blocked the attack of hundreds of thousands of Chen Yu's troops, so that Chen Yu had to give up Huoyuan City and go to the Blackstone Empire in the south.

If Huoyuan City hadn't been defended, I'm afraid Chen Yu wouldn't have suffered a fiasco in Hongyan Province.

The sky was twilight, and the veteran in the city held a wine jug in his hand, stared at the distance, and suddenly raised his arm, and said, "Ballista, archers are on guard, someone is coming!"

One of the chiefs couldn't help but laugh and said, "My lord is nervous again, Chen Yu's subordinates have already been defeated, and it is impossible for them to come back, who else will come now?"

"Look closely. ”

Sure enough, the dense and slow sound of horses' hooves on the official road came, and soon the big banner could be seen, it was a banner embroidered with the divine beast Bai Ze, and under the light of the fire on the city, at least tens of thousands of Bai Ze mercenary iron horsemen appeared under the city.

"Who is it?"

The guard shouted: "Huoyuan City has implemented a curfew, no one is allowed to enter the city at night, this is Marshal Gong Shangming's order, no one is allowed to disobey, please go back!"

Under the city, a girl in military uniform, who was originally riding on a war horse, suddenly flew up, flew to the position level with the city head, and said with a slight smile: "Why, Bai Ze mercenaries just helped you drive away the army of the Heavenly Absolute Empire, and now Huoyuan City has begun to refuse Bai Ze mercenaries to enter the city to rest?"

The veteran said: "I am Hua Qiang, the pioneer general of Huoyuan City, who are you?"

The girl smiled and said: "I am Sikong Yao, the old general of Huaqiang, I once saw you in Tianji City, have you forgotten me? You see, my Bai Ze mercenaries have run out of food due to heavy snowfall, and we have been unable to set up an ambush in the Forest of No Return, so now we are hungry and tired, and return to Xiping City through Huoyuan City, and hope that the general will let us enter the city for a little rest, provide us with some food and forage, and we will leave after a day's rest, to ensure that we will not commit any offence to Huoyuan Chengqiu." ”

"It turned out to be Miss Sikong Yao, disrespectful. ”

Hua Qiang arched his hand and said: "Miss Sikong Yao's Bai Ze mercenaries rushed to kill the main force of the Heavenly Absolute Empire at the edge of the province, with the first 50,000, which made the Heavenly Absolute Empire frightened, at this time, the veteran had already heard of it, but he didn't expect that Miss Sikong Yao's army would actually borrow from Huoyuan City, you have taken a long detour!"

On the side, a commander lowered his voice and said, "General Hua, the marshal's secret order clearly states that we want to hold Huoyuan City and wait for the garrison of the imperial army, and it is ...... The Bai Ze mercenaries who need to be guarded against the most, they are even more terrifying than the army of the Heavenly Absolute Empire, general, don't let them into the city, otherwise if something goes wrong, you and I will have to go to see the marshal!"

Hua Qiang frowned, and said loudly: "Gong Shuai ordered me to wait to defend the city, the veteran will not dare to open the city gate before getting the military order, it is better to do this, Miss Sikong Yao might as well lead the army to camp outside the city, and the veteran will order the Quartermaster Department to provide you with all the necessary food, grass and ordnance, I don't know if it is possible?"

Sikong Yao couldn't help laughing: "It seems that Gong Shuai has already started to guard against our Sikong Yao?"

"No, it's just that Gong Shuai is cautious. ”

Sikong Yao's face was cold, and he said: "What does it mean to be cautious, it is clear that you don't trust my Bai Ze mercenaries, Gong Shangming, don't forget, if it weren't for my Bai Ze mercenaries cutting off the grain route of the Snake Pan Road and cutting off the back road of the Heavenly Absolute Empire, would he Gong Shangming be able to win a million troops? I'm afraid that the current Gong Shangming is still eating human flesh in Dongning City!"

Hua Qiang's face was very ugly and silent.

Sikong Yao held the sword in his hand and said in a low voice: "You also open this city gate, if you don't open it, you have to open it, look at it yourself, I can't understand the situation in the city anymore, seven thousand old and weak soldiers, the armor is not complete, I'm afraid there are not more than 10,000 bows and arrows left, just because you also want to block the 50,000 iron cavalry of Bai Ze's mercenaries?"

"Fifty thousand iron cavalry ......" Hua Qiang trembled when he heard this, there was a black hole outside, and the iron cavalry team behind Sikong Yao was endless, and no one knew how many.

Liu Buyi's voice came from under the city: "Ah Yao, what are you doing so much with him, if he hesitates, I will order the city to be broken!"

Sikong Yao looked at Hua Qiang coldly, and said: "Old general, I just want to go into the city to rest, so that my soldiers can have a warm and full meal for one night, if you blindly embarrass me like this, then I can only come hard, but don't forget, being an enemy of me is an enemy of Tianji Sect, and I am the lord of Xiping, and my grade is five levels higher than you, you really want to stop me?"

Hua Qiang finally relented: "The county lord of Xiping really didn't commit any offense with our army after entering the city?"

"That's nature. ”

"Okay......"

Hua Qiang took a deep breath and said, "Come on, open the city gate and bring Bai Ze's mercenaries into the big camp in the city to rest." ”

"Yes, General!"

The gate opened slowly, Liu Buyi immediately rode a horse and led a group of Bai Ze mercenaries into the city, but at the moment of entering the city, he immediately controlled the city gate, and a cold sword pointed straight at the old and weak soldiers in the city, and Sikong Yao fell beside Hua Qiang, the sword was across his neck, and said with a smile: "I'm sorry old general, I will accept this Huoyuan City!"

Hua Qiang's face was dead: "Didn't the county lord say that he didn't commit any offense with my army?"

"This is called a soldier who does not tire of deceit. ”

Sikong Yao showed a girlish sly smile and said, "But the old general doesn't have to worry, we only need Huoyuan City and don't want your lives, this is indeed Qiu's innocence." ”

Hua Qiang gasped: "What does the county lord want to do? Isn't it enough that you already have a Western Parallel Province, do you still want another Huoyuan City? Although your Bai Ze mercenaries are powerful, they may not be able to defend it!"

"You won't bother with this. ”

Sikong Yao smiled slightly: "Immediately hand over the Taishou Seal Ribbon, this Huoyuan City will be in my charge from now on! Oh no, the entire Huoyuan Province has been handed over to me." ”

Hua Qiang's face turned pale, and he said in a trembling voice: "What does the county lord want to do? There are only four major provinces in the Tianji Empire, and you occupy the two major provinces alone, what do you want?"

"You don't have to worry about it, hand over the seal. ”

"In the hands of Taishou. ”

"Take me!"

"Yes......"

An hour later, he successfully obtained the Taishou seal ribbon and successfully took over the entire Huoyuan City, and finally Huaqiang left Huoyuan City before dawn with more than 3,000 remnants, and the remaining more than 4,000 defenders surrendered to Sikong Yao, for most of the local army, it doesn't matter who they are loyal to, what matters is who can give them stuttering, and if they have food, they won't starve to death.

……

When the sky was bright, a large number of high-level demon spirits that had transformed into human forms entered Huoyuan City and went straight to the Governor's Palace.

A group of people were wearing thick cloaks, their faces were invisible under the cover of the cloaks, and when everyone entered the mansion, Lin Muyu, Qin Yin, and Tang Xiaoxi also appeared.

The first graceful woman lifted her cloak, revealing a beautiful face, it was the female killer, she seemed a little apprehensive, and said, "Is there really no problem to take over Huoyuan City like this?"

"There will be no problem. ”

Sikong Yao said: "Your Majesty, next you need to order the high-level demon spirits to pretend to be human beings, blend into the army, establish an army that you can control to control Huoyuan Province, and then divide the jungle area in the city into a forbidden place for the demon spirits to live, and when the opportunity is ripe, you can issue a decree on your own to announce the peaceful coexistence between humans and demons, of course, the first thing is that you have to restrain the demon spirits, so that they will only eat grains and not humans from now on, otherwise...... Anything is false, and it is impossible for humans to coexist with demons. ”

The female killer nodded and said, "Don't worry, I will issue a decree, but if there is a demon spirit who does not obey the rule, there will be no mercy for killing, and there is no difference from the decree of the human race." ”

"That's good. Sikong Yao chuckled: "The distance between Huoyuan City and Xiping City is less than five hundred miles, and the cavalry will arrive in a day and a night, and our Bai Ze mercenaries can reinforce you at any time, and your demon spirit clan will be very quick to reinforce Xiping City." ”

"Well, just keep an eye on each other. ”

As she spoke, the female killer turned to Lin Muyu and took a deep look, and said, "Little girl, thank you for the gift of His Royal Highness Yu, if it weren't for your vision, I'm afraid the demon spirit clan wouldn't have a place at all." ”

"Your Majesty is gracious. ”

Lin Muyu said: "But now it's just our first step, and there are other plans next." ”

"What plan?" Sikong Yao and Qin Yin asked at the same time.

Lin Muyu smiled and said: "The current Tianji Empire is already surviving, Gong Shangming defeated Chen Yu, but the army in his hands is pitiful, plus the loss of taxes from two provinces in a row, the current Tianji Empire's national strength has declined to only 20% of the original level, and it is simply unable to compete with the Tianji Empire. The Blackstone Empire is to contend with, so our next opponent is no longer the Tianji Empire, but we should put our strategy on alliing with the Tianji Empire, expelling the Blackstone Empire, and then swinging the army south, capturing Qianshan City and Hongyan City, forcing the army of the Blackstone Empire to move eastward, so that they can grab the territory of the Tianji Empire, and fight to the death with the rest of Chen Yu. ”

Tang Xiaoxi smiled: "Mu Mu, you are really getting worse and worse, you can think of this kind of idea." ”

"This is just a relationship of checks and balances, and the Heavenly Pole Continent as a whole must reach a balance. ”

The female killer smiled slightly: "So, what about after reaching this balance?"

"Another force is needed to break this balance and re-establish the order of the Heavenly Pole Continent. Lin Muyu said confidently.

"What is this force you are talking about?"

"Naturally, it's the army of our Great Qin Empire!" Lin Muyu's words were full of pride.