The morning air is moist, cold and fresh.

Woke up in a daze, Qi Baoguo let out a short moan on the couch, and before his consciousness could return, his hand was held.

When he opened his eyes, his vision was blurred to clear, and sitting next to the bed was his wife, who had been with him for more than 30 years.

"How's the city going?"

"The enemy army shouted and cursed outside the gate today and then retreated." The woman held her husband's hand and shed tears in distress, "The heads of the three generals, Qi Wei has ordered someone to take them to be buried." Don't worry about the defense of the city, the three children can still defend the city. ”

"Hmm."

Qi Baoguo patted the back of his wife's hand, he leaned on the head of the bed, drank a few sips of soup, and was about to get out of bed, asking his old wife to put on armor for him, and he was always worried about his three sons.

Especially Qi Xuan and Qi Youhu, they have a strong temperament, because they let the Xirong people enter the customs, there is already a gap with him, and if they do anything behind their backs, the Qi family will be completely ruined.

He put on his armor, said something to reassure his wife, and went straight through the courtyard to the mansion gate, however, when he reached the middle of the courtyard, Qi Baoguo suddenly stopped.

Slowly turning his head, he looked at the ancestral hall in the middle on the right, where the Qi family's fathers and brothers who had died in battle for several generations were enshrined, and he slowly moved his steps over.

Chirping~~

The door was dragged open with an old moan, the yellow silk curtain hung down on both sides of the beams, and a huge table frame hung on the wall in the center, in which there were no pictures, only a few vertical words:

——Mountains and rivers and the country, the martyrs of the Qi family defend it, and their children and grandchildren will succeed them.

This is the family motto that the Qi family has adhered to for several generations, and it has never been wrong to this day, but today, Qi Baoguo looked at these words, and he suddenly couldn't look at it directly.

Under the family motto.

It is also more than ten spiritual positions side by side, from the very beginning of the ancestor of the Qi family, to the eldest brother and second brother of Qi Baoguo who died in battle.

He lit a stick of incense, held it in his hand and bowed to these spiritual positions three times, after inserting it into the incense burner, he saw a sandalwood box behind the incense burner, hesitated for a moment, he opened the wooden box, and inside was a plain silk.

It was a letter written by Grandpa Qi Xiu to his father Qi Huaimin.

Before, he had seen it once, and then he had been here for years, and now, for some reason, he wanted to open it and look at it again.

Father's book, to my son Huaimin.

"After being away from home for many days, is it safe at home? , my son is still young to take care of the affairs of the family, my father is ashamed, but the safety of the family and the country, the people are in danger, as a father as a guard can not be ignored, I hope my son will also have this idea in the future.

Xirong barbarians besieged the city for several days, fearless of death, every day in the city there are soldiers who fall forever, the battle is so fierce, I hope that my son, and even my children and grandchildren do not need to touch it, hoping that the war can end in my father's generation.

I received this letter, my father may have gone, my son does not need to be sad, for his father to guard the border and die, die as he deserves, for the people in the city and the countryside behind him die without regrets, you just need to live a good life to support your mother and take care of your brothers and sisters at home.

If my son misses me, let me come to the border and look at the city, where the souls of my father and my brothers are still guarded. ”

Finally, Qi Xiu.

The long incense lingered around the green smoke, slowly drifting past Qi Baoguo, he slowly folded the plain silk again, and unconsciously, his hands trembled a little, as if this plain silk weighed a thousand catties.

Coming out of the house again, Qi Baoguo took a deep breath, stood for a moment, and after calming down, he walked out of the courtyard, went out of the mansion, turned over his horse, and rushed to the east city wall with his henchmen and guards.

At this time, the three sons also wore armor and spears, and the commander of the soldiers would strengthen the city defenses and carry the wood, and he was relieved.

"What's going on with the rebels right now?"

Qi Baoguo summoned his eldest son Qi Wei, walked behind the battlement, looked outside the city gate and asked about the situation. In the line of sight, occasionally a few scouts are running on the field, or standing on the hill and looking this way, writing the terrain, city defense forces, etc., and there are also scouts rushing over, and the two sides immediately start scout battles in the forest and field.

"Back to my father, the rebels have not taken any other actions except for making siege equipment, presumably the next step must be to attack the city." Qi Wei handed over the information that had recently been sent to Guannai from his arms to Qi Baoguo.

He flipped through a few notes, compared the hours, and handed them to the deputy general to put away, "Send an order to go down, recruit the young people in the pass, help strengthen the city wall, and repair the equipment guarding the city!" ”

Generally speaking, unless it is absolutely necessary, the people will not be mobilized to help defend the city wall, Qi Wei wanted to persuade him, but it can be seen that his father's face is serious, and he can only swallow the words back.

Soon after, the news was sent that many of the people who had settled in the pass were transferred to the head of the city, trembling to help the generals do things. Seeing this scene, Qi Xuan and Qi Youhu hurried towards their father's location.

The young son Qi Youhu's tone became more and more unkind: "Dad, what are you doing?" If the rebels suddenly attack the city, these people will not have time to retreat, and many people will die! ”

"They won't attack the city, at least not today." Qi Baoguo turned his head and his eyes were sharp: "Now the city defense is extremely labor-intensive, if you don't hurry up and strengthen the defense, how can you hold this pass!" ”

Boom!

Boom!

When the words fell, the sound of war drums was already heard in the distance, and the three young men who were busy in the city, the soldiers, and the father and son of the Qi family all turned their heads to look outside the pass.

The black banner with 'Xiliang' written on it flew hunting, and the 10,000 people were divided into five military formations, slowly advancing towards the city wall with the sound of drums.

"The siege is on!"

"The rebels are taking the city!" Qi Youhu shouted loudly, he ran up at the head of the city, waving his arms: "The people in the city quickly go down the city wall to hide!" ”

Qi Baoguo stood in place, looking out with a stunned expression.

"Is it really a siege?"

In his field of vision, on the field outside the city pass, a military formation of five or two thousand people occupied several miles of land, spreading towards this side, and there were dozens or hundreds of light horsemen or scouts on the left and right of each military formation, galloping between the mountains and forests and fields on both wings.

In the dense formation, there were ladders carried in the hands of people, and in the middle there was a battering ram made of giant wood, which was pushed forward by dozens of people.

Guan Yu closed his eyes and stroked his beard, sat on the back of a horse, in his memory, he attacked Fancheng and defeated Maicheng not long ago, but he didn't expect to open his eyes again and lead his troops to attack the city again.

"Second brother, what do you want?" Zhang Fei rarely did not rush and shouted to attack immediately, "Thinking about the previous life like a dream? Or is it a dream now? ”

Guan Yu closed his eyes, but a smile appeared on his face, "Yes, as long as I am with my brother, Yu hopes that this dream can be longer." ”

"Hey, hey." Zhang Fei laughed, he pulled the reins, and lowered his head emphatically: "I am the same!" ”

"But if I can do it all over again with my brother, I want to live again." Guan Yu opened his eyes on the war horse and looked at the approaching Chengguan, "To be able to fight with the heroes of this world, hehe, Guan Mou is also happy in his heart!" ”

"What the second brother said, I think the same thing in my heart, but the Qi family in this city is not a hero...... Well? Zhang Fei raised the snake spear heroically, his thick eyebrows suddenly wrinkled, and the raised snake spear pointed to the south, "Second brother, there are cavalry coming from the south, it should be reinforcements from Ding'an City...... Hey, the man in the lead is so familiar with his clothes! ”

When the words fell, Guan Yu also turned his head to look in the direction that Zhang Fei pointed, dust and smoke were everywhere, and a group of cavalry advanced like a surging tide, and the number of three thousand was placed wherever it was placed, it was an existence that did not dare to be underestimated, like waves of huge waves rising from the tide.

When he got closer, Zhang Fei saw the first two people, one of them with a golden crown and a chain of armor swallowing his head with a beast face, and when he sat on a red horse, Zhang Fei's voice was raised: "The three family slaves are also here!" ”

Guan Yu slammed down on the Qinglong Knife, and his phoenix eyes narrowed slightly: "Yide can't be reckless!" ”

"Second brother, it's Lu Bu, and the white-armored man beside him looks like a dragon...... Wait, it's Ma Mengqi, I fought a few times back then! ”

Zhang Fei excitedly urged the horse to pass, but the cavalry rushing over there did not come, but rushed straight to the bottom of Yantang Pass, and the soldiers above were suddenly facing the enemy.

Before Qi Baoguo could give an order, the cavalry group with the sound of rumbling and trampling hooves rushed along the pass, throwing something in his hand and throwing it under the city wall like rain.

Lu Bu's voice roared.

"Listen to the people who are closed, the barbarians who are waiting for Rongzhou to be killed here!"