On the 20th day of the first month of the 71st year of the Great Qiankang Dynasty, the time of the unitary period, Shaanxi East Road, Xichuan Mansion, Xixiakou.

The convoy of the Qin cha of Li Jin, the king of Wei, braved the severe cold, traveled all the way to the northwest for another five days, and had already arrived in the territory of Xichuan Mansion in Eastern Shaanxi Province, and then hurried forward for about a day to return to Chang'an.

Since Li Jin, the king of Wei, set out from Chang'an on December 23 last year and was ordered to go south to raise grain, he has been running back and forth outside for nearly a month. At this time, the cadres of the Qincha Guards were extremely happy at the thought that they would be able to return to Chang'an to reunite with their relatives at home in just one more day. Although there were snowflakes in the sky and the road was muddy and difficult to walk, they all breathed a sigh of relief and hurried hard, hoping to return to the capital as soon as possible......

At this moment, King Wei's convoy had reached the mouth of the West Gorge, twenty miles southeast of Xichuan City. It is a canyon with steep peaks on each side. The canyon is deep and long, and the road is winding and difficult. Xue Tao looked around, looking around him, the mountains were high and the roads were narrow, and he couldn't help but feel a little worried in his heart. After all, he is also a veteran who has served in the frontier for many years, and he knows that this kind of terrain, if there is a strong man in ambush, his side is stuck in a narrow road, and it is difficult to deal with it.

Xue Tao drove at a gallop, constantly going back and forth between the head and tail of the convoy, and loudly reminded all the soldiers to be careful to deal with it, in case of a strong attack, be sure to protect the king of Qincha Wei.

At this time, the north wind was as cold as a knife, mixed with ice and snow and fluttered on everyone's face. The snow fell more and more fiercely, covering the sky from all directions, and the sky and the earth were already white. The towering peaks on both sides also seemed to be covered with a layer of silver felt, and the eyes were full of white. All the rocks, grass and trees have long been covered with snow. There are no birds flying in the valley, crows are restless, and the occasional "snapping" sound from both sides of the mountain road is also from the large white snow falling from the pine and cypress trees. The narrow mountain road in the canyon is also covered with thick snow. The convoy passed through the snow, leaving behind it a few long ruts, as well as horseshoe prints and footprints of varying shades. Between heaven and earth, heavy snow is falling, cold wind is howling, at this moment, it seems that only from these ruts and footprints, can be seen, in this snowy mountain road, there are still people struggling to move forward......

The time is coming to an end, the sky is already dark, and many people have already eaten dinner and hid in their warm quilts early. How many people just look at the boundless snow through the gaps in the curtains, and they can already feel the cold of the wind and snow in their hearts. How many people would have thought that at this time, there was still a team of people and horses, who were braving the wind and snow, forging ahead......

Although the wind and snow are fierce, and the road is difficult, the road that should be walked still has to be walked, and the road that is difficult has to be passed!

As long as you have dreams in your heart and beliefs in your chest, what is this ordeal?!

Only after the wind and snow, the rainbow on the horizon is more dazzling! Only after the difficult trek, the broad road is more gratifying!

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Seeing that he could get out of the gorge in less than half a mile, Xue Tao rode to Xu Ke's side again, and shouted loudly: "Disease-free brother, this mountain road looks dangerously tight, our brother has to be careful!"

Xu Ke responded, at this time he saw that Xue Tao's eyebrows and beard were covered with snowflakes, and the whole person was like a snowman, and suddenly felt funny, so he said:

"Brother Xue, you look like a white-bearded old man now, but you can look like the old scholar in my family......

Xue Tao said with a smile: "Brother, don't you look at yourself, is there anything left on your body that is not white? I see that you, the white households in Tsing Yi, have become 'white hundred households'!"

Xu Ke saw the entire Qincha convoy at this time, from the carriage to the people, all of them were covered with snowflakes. Although he himself didn't feel cold, looking at the dozens of pro-soldiers around him, his teeth were chattering and his body was so cold that he couldn't do it, but he still tried his best to support it and struggled forward......

"Be careful!" Xue Tao shouted, swinging his spear forward, knocking down a crow feather arrow. But immediately afterward, more than a dozen feathered arrows were fired from the hillsides on both sides......

"There is an ambush! Quick! Sword and shield hand, protect Qincha!" Xue Tao shouted and ordered, and immediately twenty sword and shield soldiers with shields in their hands formed a shield phalanx, protecting the carriage of King Wei from both sides.

The arrows continued to shoot from both sides, and the carriage of the King of Wei was fortunately protected by the shields of the soldiers of the forbidden army, and the arrows shot on the steel shield made a "ding" sound, and all fell, and the King of Wei sat in the car, fortunately not injured. The crossbowmen who were ambushed on both sides of the mountain road were obviously few, and when they saw that all the soldiers were surrounding the cart of the King of Wei, they fired arrows in a row, shooting at the carriage of the King of Wei, and the spare carriage in which Zhao Yu was riding behind was not concerned.

"Brother without disease, the thief is in the dark, I am in the light, we can't be beaten like this......! You go take care of those archers!" Xue Tao shouted at Xu Ke as he swung his spear to block the flying arrows.

Xu Ke comprehended, answered immediately, and urged the yellow horse under his crotch to run to the left front. I didn't want to run to the edge of the mountain and rock, but I only heard a few "whoosh" sounds, and immediately a few feather arrows flew towards me. Xu Ke hurriedly swung his sword and knocked down the arrows in front of him, but two feathered arrows hit the horse's neck and forelimbs. I heard the yellow horse scream in mourning, and fell to the ground in a dejected manner, his eyes wide open, and he died of exhaustion. Black blood gushed from the horse's neck, and it was clear that the arrows were fed with poison......

Xu Ke jumped up, and his slender figure soared up like a giant eagle, and the person drew his sword in the air and swung it out, shouting "Breaking the golden potential" in his mouth! True qi condensed on his right arm, and a Kunwu sword raised a gust of wind, piercing through the flying snow in all directions......

Eight crossbowmen were in ambush on the hillside on the left, all firing arrows at the Chincha's convoy. When they saw Xu Ke flying in their direction, one of the leaders ordered the four crossbowmen on the left to shoot arrows at Xu Ke. These people were obviously born as marksmen, and they were also equipped with hard crossbow longbows that were special in the Great Cadre Army, and they shot a few arrows before shooting the yellow horse that Xu Ke was sitting on and fell to the ground. At this time, seeing Xu Ke flying down like a giant eagle spreading its wings, he quickly stood up and shot into the air with a hard crossbow......

What's the matter, Xu Keren has not arrived, and the sword qi has arrived. Although the swordsmanship taught by Yu Luweng only has one move and five potentials, how powerful the sword momentum is! The "breaking gold potential" should be in the word "broken," which is referred to by the sword qi, piercing gold and breaking iron, and it is unbreakable! Before the four crossbowmen could shoot arrows, they felt a pain in their chests, and the sword qi had already penetrated through the big points in the four people's chests. Before the four crossbowmen could react, they all fell to the ground and died in the blink of an eye.

The other four people saw that Xu Ke's sword moves were sharp, and they had already killed our four crossbowmen in a row with just one sword move. At the moment, he didn't dare to slack off, two crossbowmen shot crossbows at Xu Ke, and one crossbowman pulled out his waist knife from his waist. The leader of the eight people immediately lost the longbow in his hand, poked out from his back, took out a pair of iron short sticks, and when Xu Ke landed unsteadily, he took his legs directly......

"Cut off the water potential!" Xu Ke ignored the movements of the four people, he only felt that the true qi was condensed in the Kunwu sword, like heavy rain, like a wave surging, after the first momentum, it was naturally the second potential. The "broken water potential" takes the word "broken", the end is fast, to try as fast as lightning, only to see the heavy snow, the white light flashed, the bodies of the two crossbowmen have been broken into two, the person who drew the knife is even more miserable, a head was split into two pieces obliquely, each rolled to the ground......

The Kunwu sword given by the Son of Heaven has an extremely sharp edge, and the one-qi mixed yuan sword given by Yulu Weng has a fierce sword spirit. Xu Ke only felt that wherever his sword went, whether it was the bones of people's bodies or the bows, knives and clubs in their hands, they were like broken flowers and leaves, and they could be broken at their tentacles!

In the heavy snow, on the white and silver ground, nothing has changed, except for seven more corpses lying in the snow, and three corpses are already mutilated. Where Xu Ke's sword qi was drawn, there were seven blood stains like seven straight lines, which were spread out in the snow in different directions......

It won't be long before these red blood stains will be buried in this merciless snow.

The leader of the eight people stood in the middle of the snow when he looked at the bodies of his seven companions, and the iron rod that had been broken in two, and was stunned on the spot......