The boy turned to look in the direction he had come, the morning sun had risen in the sky, and the earth was bathed in the early spring sun, warm.

"Childe is a good man."

As he spoke, the boy folded his hands and bowed in the direction he had come.

Then he walked into the shed, and he looked up at the body that was hanging in the shed and swaying in the wind.

He slowly moved a pile of stones, stood on tiptoe, parallel to his body in the wind, and plunged his little head into the rope that had been prepared.

Slipping on tiptoe.

"My mother really didn't lie to me, Panpan really didn't hurt anymore."

"But mother... Expect.. Hope.."

After watching the boy leave, Qin Shou squatted in place for a long time without any movement.

"Childe." Wang Jingjing had mixed feelings in his heart at the moment, looked at Qin Shou's quiet back, and hesitated to speak.

After a long pause, Qin Shou slowly stood up, looked at the closed gate of Yongzhou, and said in a cold voice: "Call the door, enter the city!" ”

The gate of Yongzhou City is very high and majestic.

But now it's tightly closed, like a dead city.

The team slowly walked to the gate of Yongzhou City, and Wang Jingjing took the lead in smashing the door.

"Qianniu Wei Zhonglang will Wang Jingjing, specially escort the prince to Yongzhou City, and bother the guards to open the city gate."

After a long time, there was no response from behind the city gates.

There was no intention of opening the door at all.

"Could it be that this Yongzhou City has been completely damaged?" Wang Jingjing's pupils shrank sharply, and the force of slapping the city gate was much heavier.

But there was still no response.

Qin Shou frowned, walked to the city gate, put his face on the city gate, and listened carefully.

After a while, Qin Shou stood up straight and said, "There are people in the city, but they just deliberately didn't open the door." ”

As soon as this remark came out, it caused an uproar among everyone.

"What are the guards of Yongzhou City doing here?"

"Could it be that you don't believe that the imperial court will send someone over?"

For a time, there were different opinions.

Qin Shou shook his head and frowned.

He did hear some movement behind the city gate, and someone was there, but he didn't open the city gate.

If they were afraid that they would enter the city with the plague, they would not go unanswered.

Thinking about it this way, there is only one possibility, and that is that someone is not allowed to open the city gates.

"Lord Wang, what do you think?" Wang Jingjing walked up to Qin Shou and asked softly.

Now that I finally arrived in Yongzhou City, I was turned away, which is not absurd.

Qin Shou took a few steps away from the city gate and said in a low voice: "In this way, it should be the Yongzhou Mansion Yin who ordered that the city gate should not be opened." ”

"After all, a large part of the plague is because he concealed it in the early stage and did not report it, so various localities failed to take precautions, which led to the spread of the plague."

"Father's intention is to sentence Yongzhou Mansion Yin to death, both horizontally and vertically, so he will close the city gate tightly, and he can live one more day."

"That's probably the idea."

Of course, Qin Shou was just guessing at this time.

Hearing Qin Shou's analysis, Wang Jingjing also gritted his teeth with hatred, "This bastard thing, until now, he still only thinks about saving his life, it's really damned!" ”

But then, Wang Jingjing was also full of helplessness, this Yongzhou city was built as solid as a spoon because of the distance from Chang'an, and they were helpless against this city with only their horses.

"I'll go back and ask Your Majesty to send someone over."

Wang Jingjing was also so confused that he said such a brainless thing.

Qin Shou stretched out his hand to stop Wang Jingjing and said, "It's not necessary, as long as we stay outside this Yongzhou City for a few days, they will naturally open the door." ”

"What does that mean?"

Wang Jingjing was puzzled.

Qin Shou took a deep breath, looked at the refugees in the distance, and said, "I'm afraid that the plague is still raging in Yongzhou City, and we only need to show the news that we are here to fight smallpox, and their hearts will naturally be shaken. ”

"When they see that we can get along with patients, they can't help it."

After that, Qin Shou asked, "How many days can our dry food last?" ”

A soldier stepped forward and arched his hand: "Go back to the prince, you can hold out for three days." ”

Qin Shou nodded, and then ordered: "All the soldiers set up camp on the spot and set fire." ”

And at this time, the Iron Eagle Guard led by Fan Li also came to the mountains near Yongzhou City.

"This mountain, it seems that there are people." After surveying the nearby terrain, Liu Cang came back to report.

Cheng Xuanying waved his hand and said: "There is a plague in Yongzhou City, naturally there are refugees fleeing, and it is not uncommon for someone to have someone. ”

"That's not what I mean." Liu Cang denied: "About thirty zhang away from here, there is a mountain path, which seems to have been deliberately carved out, and the bushes are neatly cut. ”

"When I led my troops to fight in the past, I was most familiar with this kind of trail, and the other side should be organized."

As soon as the words fell, Fan Li seemed to think of something, and said in a deep voice: "Do you still remember the purpose of the prince calling us here?" ”

"Of course I remember, it's to exterminate..."Halfway through the words, Cheng Xuanying's words came to an abrupt end.

The prince sent the Iron Eagle Guard to come in order to exterminate the nearby bandits, but Liu Cang said that there was a trail deliberately opened up by someone, so the answer was about to come out.

It's a bandit.

"Leave immediately." Liu Cang immediately made a decision and gave an order.

If there were indeed bandits entrenched on this mountain, then their movements must have been known long ago.

Although the Iron Eagle Guards are all battle-hardened warriors, at the moment I am in the light, the enemy is in the dark, and the terrain in the mountains is complicated, so it is easy to be sneak attacked.

There were only thirty Iron Eagle Guards, and not a single soldier should be injured by this.

The Iron Eagle Guard was well-trained, and after receiving the order, quickly evacuated down the mountain.

But at this moment, a sharp whistle suddenly sounded.

Then, there was a rustling sound in the mountains and forests in the distance, and it seemed that the other party had already ambushed here.

"Protect Lord Cheng and Mr. Fan." Liu Cang immediately ordered.

The Iron Eagle Guards raised their shields one after another, forming a circular formation, surrounding Cheng Xuanying and Fan Li in the middle.

At this moment, arrows shot in from all directions.

"Array!"

The shields were all purchased by Qin Shou from the system mall, and they were made of stainless steel, and the sharp arrows were like nothingness in front of it.

Don't say that penetrating the shield, even nailing the shield has become a difficult task.

"Big brother, something is wrong." On a large tree in the distance, the diminutive bandit frowned and said, "This shield is strange, and none of our arrows have been nailed to the shield. ”

And beside him, there stood a burly man, he crossed his arms, frowned, "This group of people is a little weird, looking at their armor, it is not the dress of the officers and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty." ”

"Besides, why should the officers and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty take such a mountain road."

The short man licked his lips, and said with a gaze in his eyes: "I heard that the emperor 'left' the Tibetan delegation in Chang'an City a while ago, could it be..."