It is said in the world that the weapon of a soldier is a last resort for a saint.

But the truth is often like clouds in the sky, floating in the air, brilliant and dazzling and untouchable.

If they hadn't been able to see everything in front of them with their own eyes, Yunluo and Lu Qixing might not have been able to truly understand what war meant.

The silent and uninhabited villages, collapsed houses, charred black land, and the faintly visible rotting corpse stumps made Yunluo understand almost instantly why the military god of Beiyuan was unwilling to go along with Emperor Yuan's plan for the southern expedition.

War is never a pleasant thing.

In other words, it has never been the masses of living beings, the common people, who can feel joy from war.

The horse's hooves were as slow as their mood, and the two of them looked around silently, as if they could still imagine the roosters and dogs barking that had happened here.

The old men sat under the big tree at the entrance of the village and chatted with each other about the past that was gradually unknown, and the children were playing up and down the trees, and they were playing around, and the smoke of the cooking stove was rising, and the woman in the apron smiled lightly and welcomed back to the man who had worked in the fields for a day, and then immediately straightened his face and pulled his naughty child home by the ear.

The wisps of smoke were now gone, and the shouts of the whole village could no longer be heard at the sound of a voice, replaced by a deathly silence.

This is the once stable and peaceful party state in the Qiuyan Pass.

Suddenly, Yunluo and Lu Qi's expressions moved, and after glancing at each other, they pretended to walk forward imperceptibly.

From behind a forest, a group of homeless people suddenly flashed out, viciously blocking the way of Yunluo and the others.

Yunluo saw the outfits of these people and the blades in their hands, and his originally tense expression became a little bitter.

I saw that the robbers were all scrawny, their faces were dark, their clothes were dirty and torn, and they held in their hands some kind of blades, hoes, sickles, and sticks, and there were one or two scimitars that had been notched.

In such a dress, even if he pretends to be vicious on his face, he can't hide his weak nature, and he can't put any pressure on people's hearts.

Yunluo deliberately pretended to be stupid and said, "Folks, what are you doing here?"

"Stop talking nonsense, hand over the money obediently, and spare your two dogs' lives!" said a slightly stronger man, seeing that he could hold a knife in his hand, thinking that he was the leader of the group.

Yunluo shook his head, "The two of us, just spare a dog's life, that's not good!"

The man was stunned for a moment, "I just said something wrong, two dogs' lives, hurry up and pay the money." ”

Yunluo still shook his head, "Where is the money for dogs?"

Lu Qi, who was veiled to keep out the wind and dust, finally couldn't help but laugh, and the person next to the man whispered: "Boss, I feel like he's entertaining us!"

"How daring!"

The man shouted angrily and rushed over with a knife.

A moment later, Yunluo floated away with the man's collar, leaving behind a bunch of kneeling backs who didn't dare to look up.

didn't go far, Yunluo put the man down, "Okay, I'll ask what I should ask." You go, the year is not good, just think about how to survive first, and then think about how to make life better, don't do those robbery things. ”

He commented heartily, "What's more, you don't seem to be very suitable." ”

The man hurriedly nodded yes, and as soon as he looked up, the two horses had already walked away.

He squeezed a bag of silver in his hand, looked grateful, and hurried back to where he had been.

Everyone immediately greeted them, and a young man asked, "Boss, the immortal master didn't kill you?"

The man kicked him on the waist, "I wish I was dead, wouldn't you?"

He shook the small bag in his hand triumphantly, "Not only did the immortal master not kill me, but he also gave us life-saving rations!"

In the cheers of everyone, the man said in a deep voice: "I have decided, I want to join the army!"

"What kind of army is there! Where else is there any army in this Jin country!"

"That's it, look at those who are soldiers, we are bullied by the Beiyuan barbarians, and we don't even dare to come out and put a fart, and I will also fart from him!"

Hearing these objections, the man was not angry, "Who said that I am going to the army of the imperial court, I want to join the righteous army! I want to follow the righteous army and drive out the Beiyuan barbarians who destroyed my homeland!"

The man looked in the direction where Yunluo had gone, where he might be able to meet two kind-hearted immortal masters.

Yunluo looked at Lu Qi and arched his hand, "Thank you Senior Sister Lu for your help, otherwise you will be shy in your pocket, but it will be a joke." ”

Lu Qi chuckled and glanced at him, "You asked the direction of Wang Siling's army, why didn't you ask anything else?"

Yunluo smiled bitterly, "He dares to answer, you and I dare to believe it?"

Thinking about the recklessness of the man

bumped into the appearance, Lu Qi also smiled helplessly, "Then let's continue to find a way to collect information." ”

The two walked in the direction of Shuozhou, and then turned to Lingzhou, where the camp of Wang Siling's righteous army is now located.

Approaching Shuozhou, it was already night.

Looking at the dark city with the city gate closed, Yunluo and Lu Qi still decided to sleep outside the city.

After all, they are easy to get into the city, and the horses are not easy to get into.

Yunluo quickly took out the luxurious tent from the square inch of goods given by Lu Qi, laid it out and sorted it out.

Lu Qi gritted his teeth, "One?"

Yun Luomian said casually without a red heart and a heartbeat: "It's a matter of urgency, a top is warmer." ”

"Oh, that's it! Lu Qi nodded lightly and walked to the tent, his face shy.

Before Yunluo could rejoice, Lu Qi got in, grabbed the curtain, only showed one head, and said with a sly smile: "This has just returned to the big end, and you have revealed your true form?

Yunluo scratched his head, and he fell short!

I had to sigh and take out a tent and nail it with a bang.

One night will be spent in such solitude.

If there are no uninvited people.

A slight noise of wheels and horses' hooves woke Yun Luo, and then Lu Qi as well.

Yunluo instructed Lu Qi not to come out for the time being, and he sneaked out quietly, hiding from the side and watching, only to find that the carriage was heading straight this way, and then stopped a hundred steps away.

The coachman in the carriage said in a low voice: "But Yun Gongzi, the old people of Hanyi City have come to the appointment." ”

Wintercoat City?

Mr. Wu!

Only then did Yunluo speak: "Yunluo is here." ”

As the carriage approached, the coachman removed Wu Youdao and his chair, and then silently drove the carriage to the side.

Wu Youdao smiled and arched his hand towards Yunluo, "Little lord, don't come to harm." ”

Seeing that it was really nothing, Lu Qi also showed up to see him.

Yunluo praised: "Mr. Wu is very capable, in just a short period of time, the intelligence has been so efficient. ”

Wu Youdao waved his hand, "Knowing in advance that the little lord is coming, making an inappropriate analogy is nothing more than waiting for the rabbit, which is not a good thing." ”

In the night, his eyes burned, "Seeing the little lord come as promised, Wu's heart is really excited, and when he comes in the starry night, he will report the small news collected over the past few days to the little lord for the little lord to choose." ”

Yunluo hurriedly thanked him, and then looked at Lu Qi, "Look, what do you want!"

Yunluo invited Wu Youdao into the tent, and cared about the coachman by the way, but Wu Youdao said no.

The sound of conversation in the tent continued into the night.

When the curtain was lifted, the carriage remained in place, barely moving.

Wu Youdao looked at Yunluo and Lu Qi, "Little lord, Miss Lu, the frost is heavy on the cold night, so there is no need to send each other." I'll say goodbye first, and after I'm going back to tidy up, I'll go to Lingzhou to meet. ”

Yunluo and Lu Qi said goodbye and paid high respect to this middle-aged man with crippled legs.

The carriage went away, and Yunluo said with a smile: "I didn't expect it, there are quite a lot of acquaintances in the northwest." ”

Lu Qi looked at the ground in a daze, "I admire Sister Yu a lot." ”

Yunluo's tone was also low, "It's more distress and sympathy, right?"

It is precisely because of the distress and sympathy that I admire it even more. ”

"Understood. ”

-

In the City of Eternal Life, these days are not very peaceful.

On the second day of Xue Yong's ascension to the throne, he was widely enclosed and granted amnesty to the world, which was all expected.

The festive atmosphere also enveloped most of the people in Immortal City.

But what no one expected was that Xue Yong, who was originally idle and indulgent, began to become tyrannical after sitting in that seat.

In just two days, the two Shangshu, the four squires, and the six powerful generals were all imprisoned or directly executed.

The reasons are absurd, either inappropriate words or disqualified behavior.

It would be fine if some eunuchs in the palace were executed for these reasons, but these are all important ministers of the dynasty, how can military affairs be such a child's play.

For a time, in the city of eternal life, everyone was in danger.

When it was the turn of the court meeting, the officials who entered the palace to meet said goodbye to their families, as if they were parting with life and death.

His Majesty, who was sitting in the palace, did not care at all, and all the government was handed over to his cronies, and he still indulged in his lust, and on the basis of the concubines of the emperor, he ordered the selection of beautiful women, and forcibly selected dozens of young and beautiful women from the city of eternal life

The woman enters the palace.

This has caused public resentment to boil.

What's even more ruthless is that Xue Yong also issued an edict and set up a sticky rod office, and all the functions were set up after Daduan Si Wencao.

Xue Rui, the third son of the first emperor, was the first leader of the sticky pole.

As soon as he took office, a terrifying wind blew up and down the Beiyuan court.

Every day, officials of all sizes are invited into the sticky pole to drink tea, perhaps because the tea there is so delicious that few officials who go in come out again.

Some of these people were taken away on the way to the court, some were taken away from the office office, and some were taken directly from their beds at home.

Endless torture, tricky charges, and almost unlimited power made the sticky pole unbeatable for a while, and Xue Rui's name soon became a new treatment for children's night crying.

Yang Qing and Eile stood side by side on the high roof again, Eile raised his eyebrows, "Why don't you persuade me to take care of it this time?"

Yang Qing pursed his lips, "It's my business." ”

He stopped talking, and now it was Yang Qing's turn to sit still, "But I'm a little curious why you didn't care? ”

Le looked ahead, looking at death as if he were home, "It's your business. ”

Yang Qing was furious, "Aren't you afraid that I will wash the Immortal City in blood?"

He was unmoved, "If you can do it to these civilians, then you have been by Ling Qingyun and Xun Ange's side for so many years. ”

Yang Qing immediately lost his momentum like a seven-inch snake that had been hit, he looked at the lights of Immortal City, and sighed, "In this world, everything is generally dirty!"

"It's dirty. Eile said lightly.

The cattle and sheep market in Eternal Life City is located in a corner of the southern city, and the influence of day after day makes the air here permeate the air with a fishy and foul smell all the time, dissuading people who want to hang out here.

In the evening, there were hardly any more guests, except for the cattle and sheep waiting to be picked up the next day.

The shops next to the cattle and sheepfolds were still lit with dim lights, and they were the men or shopkeepers of the night watch.

No one wants to stay here, but there's always a reason why they have to stay here.

Everything is forced by life.

For the few people sitting in black cloaks in one of the same dimly lit shops, stepping into a place that they have never set foot in their lives is also forced by life.

When the last person quietly pushed open the door, the rest of the people looked at him worriedly, "Didn't you get seen?"

The man shook his head, "Don't worry, be careful all the way." ”

When the man sat down, one of them whispered, "Let everyone take such a big risk and come here, I think everyone knows very well, I don't need to say more." ”

Immediately, another voice said: "But that soldier is in power, and the power is so difficult to control that it is useless to rely on his lips alone." ”

"I heard that the old prince and Ge Leng will leave for the Liubu grassland today, and Ma Qi's army will also return to their own territory, so it will not be difficult to control the military power at that time. ”

"Don't forget, he didn't take any of our two strongest troops. ”

"The Xianbei Iron Cavalry seems to be trapped in the northwest of Daduan, and it seems that he didn't even rush back with the eldest prince. ”

"What is the attitude of the Blizzard Wolf Cavalry, Wu Weihou hasn't said a word until now, it's a bit surprising. ”

"Not to mention that Marquis Wuwei didn't speak, the Yuan family, who scared the second prince enough before, hasn't that old Yuan Lord also come back yet?"

"Old Yuan heard that he has a good relationship with that person, can he still oppose him?"

"The struggle for power, does it still depend on personal relationships?"

"Ahem!" After listening to the gossip of everyone present, the first person to speak cleared his throat, "The reason why everyone was called overnight is that the current eagle dog and his subordinate eagle dog are perverse, putting everyone in danger, and we must think of ways to save ourselves." The second is that I received two letters. ”

He looked around, his voice lower, "One is a letter from Lord Yuan. ”

"What did Master Yuan say?"

The man paused, and said slowly, "What is King Jing?"

"What about the other one?"

The man beckoned to a few people, and in the shadow formed by the heads coming together, he said softly, "Boss." ”

There is only one Grand Governor of Immortal City.

The largest city on the grassland is rarely obscured by dark clouds, and the lights are dimming, and from the air, it looks like it is shrouded in a huge fog, making it difficult for everyone in it to get a full view of it.

The clear situation that had finally settled down, the undercurrent began to surge without warning.