The Prince of Qin was seriously wounded and killed in the melee, and the former Qin army was leaderless, and the remaining former Qin troops were grateful for Shi Ning's help and asked to be joined by Shi Ning's subordinates. Shi Xiang was overjoyed and wanted to accept it, but Shi Ning didn't allow it.

Shi Ning said: "The Qin Heavenly King and the crown prince unfortunately died, and I naturally arranged their subordinates safely, and I promised the Heavenly King to treat his soldiers well. ”

Shi Xiang retorted: "The Great Qin State has gone, and after this battle, although Yao Chang fled, the Qin army has been torn apart, either taking refuge in Yao Chang or Murong Chong. ”

The former Qin soldiers knelt down and begged: "We don't want to be rebels, we don't want to be prisoners of the Qiang and Xianbei people, please take us in!"

Shi Ning looked at the begging former Qin soldiers and was silent.

Seeing this, Shi Xiang did not mention the matter of incorporating the former Qin army for the time being, so he said: "Your Highness, the King of Heaven said before his death that whoever repelled Yao Chang's Liangzhou soldiers for him would reward him with the crown, and now His Royal Highness has led the soldiers to repel the rebels, and he will naturally get the crown!"

Former Qin soldiers, look at me, I look at you, at first I didn't dare to speak, until a few people nodded in agreement, and then they dared to say loudly: "Please Xiangguo Gong abide by the last wish of the Heavenly King and confer the crown!

"Hooray! Hooray!" the soldiers shouted.

Shi Ning hurriedly waved his hand and said: "The meaning of the Heavenly King giving the crown is just a reward, not to give up the throne!" Shi Ning thought that there was Muyang Tianshi in the crown, and said in his heart: "This crown originally belonged to Emperor Taiwu, and it belonged to my Shi family. Moreover, it was a promise made by Fu Jian, the former king of Qin, before he died, and he deserved it.

As for these remnants of the former Qin soldiers, Shi Ning asked for the opinions of the former Qin soldiers, and no one who was willing to return to their hometowns was given ten to five hundred gold according to their rank, and the rest of the required ones were collected by Shi Xiang, and the recruited soldiers were sent by Taiwutang to find the Heavenly Stone, but they could not be used in war.

That night, Shi Ning ordered Taiwutang to summon the outstanding blacksmiths of the Qin State to smelt the Muyang Stone in the crown of the Qin Heavenly King.

Suddenly, there was a "rumbling" sound in the hall, and I saw a man in a wheelchair emerging from the crowd, and the man's face was wrinkled, showing the vicissitudes of life.

His wheelchair is made of pure iron, and he does not turn the wheels, but he can move freely by gently flicking the small mechanism on the wheelchair.

The vicissitudes of life in the wheelchair said: "Your Highness doesn't need to recruit a blacksmith from the Qin State, the best blacksmith in the world is in Taiwutang." ”

Shi Ning was curious about his wheelchair, stepped forward to look at the wheelchair, touched it from time to time, and said, "Dare to ask who you are?"

Before the vicissitudes of life in the wheelchair could answer, Shi Xiang replied first: "Your Highness, this person is the seventh horse of my Taiwutang, in charge of the logistics armory. ”

Shi Ning looked at the vicissitudes of life in the wheelchair again, and saw that his two trouser legs were empty, obviously missing two legs, and said: "I have heard that the eighteen horsemen of Taiwutang can ride war horses and gallop on the battlefield, but this knight can't even walk without legs, how can he ride a horse......

The seventh rider of the vicissitudes of life laughed, ordered his subordinates to take a pair of iron legs, quickly replaced them, and said proudly: "Don't talk about walking, as long as I want to fly, it's not a difficult thing!"

The seventh rider used his iron legs to walk around the temple like a fly, and he was more flexible than a normal person's legs.

Suddenly, the seventh horse started to charge and jump, and after landing, the floor tiles were smashed out of two big holes by his iron legs, which are still a powerful weapon!

After a long neighing of the war horse, a black war horse galloped towards the main hall, and the seventh horse did another backflip, went around to the big pillar of the main hall, and jumped on the back of the war horse by a pull back from the big pillar of the main hall.

"Fetch my gear!" said the Seventh Rider.

After a while, his warriors brought saddle stables, weapons, etc., and the seventh horseman "drove" on the ground, and the horse ejected, and he picked up a spear, picked up the saddle stable, and climbed under the horse's belly, and in an instant the saddle stable was installed.

The saddle stable on the war horse was not ordinary, and the seventh horse pressed the mechanism lightly on the stable, and the stable actually fired ten arrows from both sides of the horse's belly, and the brush hit the big pillar of the main hall!

Shi Ning was dumbfounded, and hurriedly applauded, and said happily: "The seventh horse is really a warrior with a hundred, such a powerful mechanism!"

The seventh horseman got down from the war horse, knelt down and said, "Thank you, Your Highness, for the compliment!"

Shi Xiang said: "The Seventh Rider was originally born as a blacksmith, and these organs are the hard work of many years, and with his forging process, he will definitely be able to smelt the Muyang Stone in the Heavenly Crown." ”

Shi Ning said: "In this way, there is no need for me to recruit excellent blacksmiths with great fanfare, and the matter of smelting Muyang Stone needs to be done in secret, so as not to cause trouble and provoke people from all over the world to come to Liangzhou to compete for Tianshi." ”

Outside the city, several copper furnaces were set up in a cave not far from the outskirts of the city, and the seventh horseman led a hundred blacksmith warriors from Taiwutang to smelt the Heavenly King's crown overnight, and another eight Taiwutang knights and two hundred warriors guarded the cave day and night to prevent foreign enemies from coming to snatch the Heavenly King's crown.

Shi Ning was very eager to refine the Muyang Stone in the Heavenly King's Crown, and he came to the smelting ground early the next day to inquire about the smelting situation.

"Please forgive Your Highness, we have been smelting all night and melting the Heavenly Crown three times, but we have not been able to refine the Muyang Stone!" the seventh horseman knelt in front of Shi Ning and said timidly.

Shi Ning said disappointedly: "Is your method wrong, or is there no Heavenly Stone in the Heavenly King's Crown?"

The seventh rider said: "Your Highness, with my many years of smelting experience, the Heavenly King's Crown is indeed ...... There is indeed no Muyang stone. I can't go wrong with my methods, and I'm willing to vouch for my life!"

"Thank you all for your hard work", Shi Ning sighed, just wanted to leave disappointed, and suddenly remembered that he had promised Ran Shu to give her a golden hairpin, and now that this Heavenly Crown has been smelted into a different state, why not let the Seventh Rider forge it into a phoenix crown and give Shu'er a big surprise! Shi Ning thought secretly, and couldn't help but be ecstatic in his heart.

So he commanded the seventh horseman, and gave an account of the matter, and gladly rewarded the blacksmiths with silver, and went away rejoicing.

Returning to the palace, Shi Ning saw that Shi Xiang was discussing the western expedition with the knights of Taiwutang, intending to destroy the Qiang State led by Yao Chang.

Shi Ning informed his uncle Shi Xiang of the smelting of the Heavenly Crown, but he did not mention anything about forging the Heavenly Crown into a phoenix crown and giving it to Ran Shu.

Shi Xiang said: "It is not an overnight thing to find the Heavenly Stone, since there is no Muyang Stone in the Heavenly Crown, then let the Seventh Horse reforge the Heavenly King into a crown suitable for His Royal Highness, and when the Great Zhao Kingdom is restored, His Royal Highness will be crowned when he ascends the throne of the Emperor of Zhao State." Shi Xiang was very calm when he said that there was no Muyang Stone in the Heavenly Crown, as if he had already known that Muyang Stone was not in the Heavenly Crown, and when he said that Emperor Zhao was on the throne, he was very yearning and looking forward to it.

Several warriors outside the hall reported that Ran Shu's whereabouts had not been found in Liangzhou City.

"It's just Liangzhou City, it's only twenty miles away, and you can't even find a girl?" Shi Ning said angrily, and some blamed the Taiwutang warriors for their incompetence.

These warriors who went out to find Ran Shu were subordinates of Wang Ying, the fifteenth cavalry of Taiwutang, who were specifically responsible for detecting detectives and had extraordinary search ability, and Wang Ying himself had been looking outside for a day and a night in order to find Ran Shu as soon as possible, and he had not returned.

At the beginning, Shi Xiang took Ran Shu to Liangzhou City, settled in a small inn not far from the outskirts of the city, put him under house arrest, and sent Taiwutang masters to guard him. That day, Shi Xiang brought Shi Ning to see Ran Shu, but unexpectedly, there was no trace of Ran Shu in the inn.

Shi Ning hoped that Ran Shu had escaped by herself, rather than being robbed by someone else.

But with Ran Shu's martial arts, how could he easily escape alone from under the noses of the master of Taiwutang? There must be someone else who kidnapped Shu'er.

The more Shi Ning thought about it, the more worried he was about Ran Shu's safety, so he drank some stuffy wine alone that evening, carrying the Liangyi Sword through the streets and alleys by the moonlight, hoping to find a trace of Ran Shu.

After a few more turns on the outskirts of the city, he only remembered the direction of going to the cave smelting field on the outskirts of the city, but it was difficult to find the way back to the Liangzhou City Palace, and simply went to the smelter.

The smelting ground is still brightly lit, in addition to smelting the Heavenly Crown, it is also stepping up the forging of weapons for the Western Expedition to the Qiang Kingdom.

The seventh rider didn't expect Shi Ning to visit late at night, so he hurriedly greeted him and complimented: "Your Highness, the phoenix crown you ordered has been forged, and I wanted to send it to your palace overnight, but it was getting late, and I was afraid of disturbing you, so I made an initiative and ordered my subordinates to send it early tomorrow." ”

With that, the two smelting warriors carefully presented the forged phoenix crown to Shi Ning.

Shi Ning picked up the phoenix crown, looked at it carefully, it was shining with golden light, very exquisite, and thought: "Shu'er must like it when she sees this crown! But where is Shu'er now?"

Shi Ning held the empty phoenix crown, and couldn't help but feel sad and lost.