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Xinzhou was victorious, Xue Yuxiao used this as a place to station, the troops were repaired, she planned the route, and the documents of the imperial court Jingzhao were constantly exchanged.

Xinzhou's neighboring Shuozhou and Yulin are both territories belonging to the Three Princesses Tuoba Baby, Xue Yuxiao did not chase after the defeated Four Princesses, she wants to maintain the state of mutual consumption of the two parties and the mutual suspicion of the thirty-two departments, and she will never easily destroy one of them.

"How?" Li Qingchou was in front of her case, holding his hands against the topographic map, and asked with great interest, "Continue to take Shuozhou, and then you can force into Yanjing!" After Shuozhou, it will soon be the boundary of the old capital, and the people there are looking forward to it, making poems to send to our army, and I think it is simply a blow to the ground——"

"Clear your sorrows." Xue Yuxiao leaned against his chin, stared at the topographic map slowly, and said lightly, "The closer you get to Yanjing, the more urgent the mood of the soldiers becomes. ”

Li Qingchou was slightly stunned, and said: "There are many northerners in the army who volunteer to serve in Qiaozhou, and their hometown is right in front of them, so how can they not be in a hurry?" ”

Xue Yuxiao said: "Even you are a little anxious. ”

She slowly raised her head and met Li Qingchou's eyes.

Li Qingchou looked at her calm and silent gaze, as if she had been splashed with cold water, she suddenly sobered up, and felt that she was indeed impetuous, so she couldn't help but press her forehead with her hand, and slowly spoke: "Look at Yanjing's Futu Tower...... In my heart, it is inevitable to feel it. ”

It was a very tall pagoda with the name of Futu.

Xue Yuxiao nodded lightly and didn't say much, but ordered that soldiers who had violated military discipline should be strictly dealt with and forbidden to participate in the war. Before the edict was issued, Li Furong, who led the lead of the troops, opened the big tent and knelt on one knee under the case.

Xue Yuxiao raised his hand to excuse himself, and Li Furong simply stopped talking about the scene, and said directly: "A group of envoys who have captured the Xianbei Royal Court will send a letter to the chief general of my army." ”

The main general? Xue Yuxiao raised her eyebrows slightly, stretched out her hand, Li Furong stepped forward to hand her the letter, and said, "But that team of messengers is very embarrassed, their clothes are stained with mud, and they seem to have come all the way...... It seems that there is a lot of suffering. ”

Unfold the letter, on which is Tuoba Baby's own handwriting. Xue Yuxiao smiled softly from the beginning to the end, and handed it to Li Qingchou instead, saying, "How can it not be hard?" The direction they came from probably happened to hit the direction of Tuoba Han's escape, and the people who came to us were all second-hand documents...... Come, you sit. ”

Li Furong sat beside her with her back straight, staring ahead, expressionless, but after a while, she silently and seemingly turned her gaze to Xue Yuxiao.

After Li Qingchou finished reading, he said, "Hongmen Banquet? She actually wants to ask you to meet. But in the words, it is called ...... The main general, General Lee. ”

Xue Yuxiao said: "If she knew that I was here, how could she use this kind of trick?" She expected that our army was eager to win, and she was eager for Yanjing's hometown, so she used bait to lure the main general to take risks. I'm scheming in her mind, so she won't send me a letter to invite me. ”

Li Qing said sorrowfully: "Why do you still have a bit of a smug taste when you say this?" ”

Li Furong added: "The four words of scheming are replaced by wise and martial, which is in line with the tone." ”

Xue Yuxiao coughed lightly and said helplessly: "One singing and one harmony, I don't like this." ”

"Tuoba Ying also said that if she didn't want to go to the banquet, she would also negotiate peace with us without war, but she would use Xinzhou, where we are located, to attack the foundation left by her fourth child in Fengzhou. After the deed was completed, Yanjing was also returned. Li Qingchou put the letter on the table.

"It's tempting." Xue Yuxiao sighed, "Even I was moved for a moment when I heard it. It doesn't cost a soldier, as long as you borrow her to cross, you can get your homeland. …… Too good to be horrible. ”

She smiled again and said, "Could it be that Tuoba Ying is really the emperor of the dead country?" ”

The two immediately realized the irony in Xue Yuxiao's words.

"The letter is ill-intentioned, and we don't have to worry about it." Li Furong said.

Xue Yuxiao shook his head, smiled, and said to Li Qingchou: "Come and don't be rude." Lao Fu Qingchou replied in your name, saying that he would go to the banquet, but the venue of the banquet was chosen in Qingzhou, which was too close to the Dongjun where Tuoba Han lived, and he was afraid that this person would attack without telling him. We met in Shuozhou, which is also Tuoba Baby's territory, and asked her to treat me well. ”

Li Qing was stunned, and then sighed: "You want to go in person?" Why don't you scare her to death. ”

Li Furong said expressionlessly: "When I went to the Hongmen banquet with the dignity of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, all the generals, and even the Fengge Zaifu who was far away in the capital, were all frightened by His Majesty when they heard the news. ”

Xue Yuxiao said: "Oh, look at your ......"

She worked hard to exert her eloquence, and finally got the two generals to reluctantly agree, and then stared at Li Qingchou to ghostwrite a reply.

After the letter was completed, he sent someone to send the Xianbei envoys out, telling them that they must be sent to Tuoba Ying.

It was late at night.

Xue Yuxiao wanted to undress and rest, and took off his robe halfway, when he suddenly felt like a blessing to his heart, and an extremely subtle sixth sense emerged. She stopped, and simply put her clothes together and went to sleep, waiting for the emergency military situation.

On this extremely cold winter night, Dugu Wuwei, who was far away in Dongjun, also couldn't sleep all night. She had removed her armor and stared blankly at the pitch-black ceiling, listening intently to the howling north wind outside the tent.

The sergeants had fallen asleep.

Outside the tent, there was only the clash of the patrolling soldiers' armor as they faded away, and the sound of the wind. Dugu Wuwei's mind suddenly appeared with the face of Tuoba Infant - it was the royal daughter she personally raised to ride and shoot, but because she was afraid of Xue Yuxiao and hated Xue Yuxiao, she was suspicious of her...... Gradually, she remembered that Tuoba Han, who had taken her in now, had taken her in by His Royal Highness, but had never reused herself......

Thousands of times, she remembered the arrow that shot at Xue Yuxiao. She galloped with feathered arrows in her arms, not retreating but advancing, like a sinister star Yama. The feeling of soreness and numbness in the spine that can't breathe makes Dugu Wuwei still have the blankness and fear in his mind.

Finally, it was the chanting of the 10,000 Qi troops.

Dugu Wuwei tossed and turned, the heart said, Triumphant Hou, with you alive, how could I be unharmed?

Just as she was thinking about it, faint footsteps suddenly sounded outside the tent.

Whenever she fell asleep or became sleepy, the sound was immediately drowned out by the wind. Dugu Wuwei was gradually approached by this deliberately suppressed footsteps, she stiffened for a moment, and then immediately made a decision, lightly got out of the quilt, pulled the deerskin boots and robe taken off by her side into the bed, and hid under the low bed she had built.

The four corners of the bed are made of bricks and stones, and the wooden planks are covered with a layer of grass and then bedding. She controlled her posture and breathing, and ducked into the gap between the narrow beds, leaving the quilt on top.

Slowly, a pair of iron boots walked in.

Dugu Wuwei's palms were sweating. She didn't wear armor, she couldn't fight, and she could only watch in silence and suppress all sounds.

The night was silent.

The person who came was a practitioner with a deep foundation. Dugu Wuwei heard a very light, very light sound of drawing a knife, which was the low and dark sound of the back of the knife slowly brushing the leather sheath, but this short sound was like a knife on her heavenly spirit cover, which made people permeate a terrifying chill all over her body.

Suddenly, Dugu Wuwei heard the knife slash down, slashing at the leather boots and clothes wrapped in the futon, and the bed board shook.

The visitor stood for a moment. Maybe it was because she hurt her right hand, so she used her left hand to draw a knife to kill someone, and some abnormal touch didn't remind her. The pair of iron plate boots walked away a few steps, pulled open the cabinet on the side, Dugu Wuwei knew that she was looking for a fire breaker, and wanted to light a candle to see if she was dead.

It was too dark on this side of the bed, and there was no moonlight, so I couldn't see if there was any blood.

Dugu Wuwei crawled out from under the bed little by little, quietly and silently. She stared at the back of the person who came to rummage, and by the faint hint of moonlight, she could probably make out that the person's back was familiar...... But it didn't matter if she was familiar with it or not, she gently picked up the big bow placed at the head of the bed, and approached, and then closer-

Suddenly, Dugu Wuwei slammed the big bow down, and the bowstring quickly strangulated the opponent's neck, and it didn't enter his throat in an instant, and he didn't even let out a muffled snort, and immediately fell to death.

Dugu Wuwei's hands were covered with blood, and she noticed that the person in front of her was no longer struggling, so she slowly let go of her hand, lit the fire and took a look, and saw that it was General Wei Chi.

This person has no such heart, someone must have instigated it! Dugu Wuwei was horrified in her heart, she didn't know if there was a back hand waiting for her, so she immediately put on her clothes and left the barracks at night, she secretly led her horse, avoided the patrol, and fled for her life in the distance.

After galloping for almost a night, the horses were tired, and Dugu did not do anything to escape. She stood in the four fields, the sky and the earth were extremely desolate, and in order to identify the direction, she asked the local residents what kind of place this was.

I ran all night, and I didn't even know the way carefully in the dark.

The local Han people and the Xianbei people were half mixed, and a Xianbei peasant woman said: "My lord, this is the boundary of Xinzhou, don't go any further, there are Qi people in front, and a large army of Qi people is stationed there." ”

Dugu Wuwei heard this, stunned on the spot, she thanked the peasant woman, wandered at the intersection for a while, and let out a long sigh - between heaven and earth, there is only this place where you can go to Rong.

Smoke swept by.

In the early morning of the mist, Xue Yuxiao got up half-sleepily and half-conscious, she walked out of the big tent and glanced at the sunrise as usual, her eyes were just casually glanced, and the moment she glanced at the past, she suddenly paused, staring at a small black dot from far and near.

The attendant beside her asked, "Your Majesty?" ”

Xue Yuxiao raised his hand and made a silent movement.

The waiters on both sides were silent, bowed their heads to tie their cloaks and put their hair in a bun, but she didn't notice it at all, watching the black dot slowly approach, and didn't come back to her senses until the person was stopped by the guards, and quickly turned her head and said to Wei Qingyan: "Qingyan, let your people let her in." ”

Wei Qingyan answered, turned around and gave the order, and the sentry post in the distance let him go. She turned around to serve His Majesty, and when she saw Xue Yuxiao staring at the man, she couldn't help but ask, "Your Majesty, what are you looking at?" ”

Xue Yuxiao paused for a moment and muttered, "My SSR." ”

Wei Qingyan: "...... Yes? ”

Xue Yuxiao corrected: "My famous general! The great cause of national integration in the world is in my generation, and it is too monotonous to have only two General Li, and I also want a general with a compound surname to be under my command, it sounds so cool! ”

Wei Qingyan: "......"

She smiled and said, "Come with me to greet you." ”

Yellow dust and white sun (1)

Chapter 98

Facing the morning light, Xue Yuxiao walked towards the comer.

The guards on her side surrounded Her Majesty in the center, and Wei Qingyan held her sword in front of her side.

Dugu Wuwei ran all the way, and when he arrived dozens of steps away from Xue Yuxiao, looking at her figure standing there quietly, he felt a lot of emotions in his heart, and immediately turned over and dismounted, and walked over.

The person she wants to approach is the lord of the Great Qi Kingdom, and the guards around her are all elite, wearing armor and knives, and if there is any change, she can cut off her head at any time. Just as Dugu Wuwei stepped forward, Xue Yuxiao greeted a few steps with a smile on his face.

"Your Majesty." "Your Majesty......"

The left and right attendants are in a hurry to approach and support.

Dugu Wuwei was five steps away, took off his clothes and bowed, and made a courtesy of a foreign minister's visit, and said: "Dugu Wuwei greets Your Majesty." ”

Xue Yuxiao stepped forward to help her up with his own hands, looked up and down for a moment, and finally asked her face to face: "Is the general okay here?" ”

When Dugu Wuwei heard this, he smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, this is a heart-wrenching word. Such a greeting made it impossible for me to send an arrow in the camp, and although it was a concern, it also robbed me of my power! ”

Xue Yuxiao said: "The general's arrow in the past, I still remember it vividly. I hope the general will forgive me for this discord. ”

She paused for a moment, and then said, "But—being too scared to use you by a sentence is enough to see that Tuoba Baby and Tuoba Han are both suspicious." The general has always been loyal, why didn't he come to join after returning to the camp that day, but only came today? ”

Dugu Wuwei was slightly stunned, and asked in surprise: "Do you expect that I will ...... when I return to the camp?"

Xue Yuxiao smiled silently.

Dugu Wuwei was silent for a long time, and said: "The Fourth Highness treats me very faithfully, but it's a pity...... It's a pity that the strategist general in her camp can't tolerate me, and last night she wanted to kill me at night, but I escaped by luck. To visit Your Majesty today is to receive the unfinished death of the past! In this way, my innocence can be confirmed! ”

With that, she knelt down again and bowed her head.

Xue Yuxiao sighed: "Since General Dugu has already escaped, why should he ask for death again? You haven't done anything to be sorry for them, it's because they can't use you, but they can't bear you. Why do you want to prove your innocence...... What's more, the word innocence does not exist in the mouths of the public. ”

She paused slightly, and said, "It's better to live in Xinzhou." I know that you are in love with your homeland, and you have come to me out of desperation - Tuoba Han's subordinates will not kill you, and when you react, you will definitely order a wanted arrest, and only I can protect your safety and prevent you from hiding in Tibet. The general rests here, there is no need to send an arrow or an arrow for me, let alone face the Xianbei subjects, the Hu people here are not embarrassed, you can meditate and cultivate. ”

Dugu Wuwei was stunned for a moment. She knew that Xue Yuxiao was accustomed to the reputation of being favored by soldiers, but she didn't expect her to be so understanding and lenient. For a while, I suddenly felt that the grace was as heavy as a mountain, which made people dare not face it.

Dugu Wuwei was supported by her again, and then he stood still: "Your Majesty...... I'm ashamed. ”

Xue Yuxiao smiled: "As long as you don't shoot my phoenix again, it's enough." ”

Dugu Wuwei was very embarrassed, and subconsciously wanted to thank her again, but Xue Yuxiao grabbed her arm tightly, and did not let her salute, but said, "I ordered someone to take you to rest." ”

She turned her head to look, and a personal guard stepped forward and led Dugu Wuwei away. The other party turned his head several times and looked at Xue Yuxiao's figure, with a sense of relief between his eyebrows.

After Dugu Wuwei left, Wei Qingyan asked: "The master took her in, but didn't use her to deal with the Xianbei people, even if he bothered to recover it, it would be useless." ”

There was a hint of jealousy in her words. Since ancient times, courtiers have always been very concerned about the favor and trust of the emperor and his subordinates, not to mention that there are not a few people in the camp who want to get the blue eyes of the emperor and the lord.

Xue Yuxiao was in a good mood, turned his head to look at her with a smile, and saw that Wei Qingyan hurriedly retracted, and his face became simple and sincere again, so he said: "If it is really a fickle person who sees the wind and changes the rudder, I don't dare to take it in." It is Dugu Wuwei who has faith and a bottom line to keep, I will let her stay in the camp, this person refuses to add swords to the old master, because he has received his kindness, and now I treat her with great kindness, and she will also understand me. ”

Wei Qingyan nodded confusedly.

After getting Dugu Wuwei, Xue Yuxiao only let her rest in the city and teach archery skills, and did not let her go to the battlefield. This greatly alleviated her anxiety and pain of coming here with her betrayal, and the Hu people and Han people in Xinzhou got along harmoniously, and there was not much conflict because of the change of masters, and it also alleviated her prejudice against Eastern Qi.