Seven or eight partial generals and thousands of households walked out of the camp tent, and the soldiers who had been waiting outside the tent for a long time hurriedly greeted them and put on warm clothes for the heads of each family. In the past few days, after the Northwest Wasteland has fallen into the night, the cold and heat and the day have gradually expanded, and it is really a little unbearable to wear only a single armor.

After Li Jingyu, who was holding his breath, walked out of the narrow tent, he leaned on the baggage cart next to him and gasped for a long time.

It wasn't until the cold wind froze his hands and feet that his head finally cleared up.

Du Rui, the captain of his own army, hurriedly pulled his cloak and asked him, "General, shall we go back to Qubai City overnight?"

Li Jingyu picked up the dark green cloak with a velvet inside and tied it around his neck, and said with a smile: "You dare to look down on me?"

"The general has been in that tent for seven or eight hours, and he hasn't eaten. ”

He stepped over the black horse that his own soldiers had brought to him, threw his feet and pedaled up, leaned down and touched the horse's mane.

"Everyone has a lot of thoughts, and they all want to grab a big job. General Li said this quickly, but he did not deliberately lower his voice.

Du Rui smiled, stood up with his right hand and waved, and the crowd immediately changed formation after turning over and horses, and guarded General Li to the middle.

Li Jingyu put his hands in front of his mouth and sighed: "Hurry up, don't stay here to attract suspicion." ”

So twenty or thirty horsemen grabbed pine oil torches, urged the horse's hooves from the command camp outside Shehong County, and ran towards the border city of Qubai.

The night sky in the northwest hung high, as if pulling the heavens and the earth apart.

In front of him, Li Jingyu looked at it and could clearly see that the distant mountains disappeared into the sky with the wilderness. In the dome, the bright moon sprinkled the moonlight, and it just poured into the Weishui in the south with the starlight.

You still remember that it was such a world that welcomed him to the Sunset Pass eight years ago to enlist in the army.

"Dury, I heard you're going back to Kannai next year?"

The captain of the pro-soldier turned his head towards the Wei River, and pulled the reins in his hand with some embarrassment.

"The daughter-in-law is urging urgently, and the children at home are still young. ”

Li Jingyu looked at this pro-soldier captain who had followed him for five or six years, and felt a little lost in his heart.

"Just go, if there is anyone at home who wants help, they must come to me. ”

"Thank you, General. Dury's voice was small and inaudible.

Seeing this, the next few riders pulled the distance away a little.

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"Give me the back, Lao Tzu is a tiger?"

The two centurions nodded and quickly shook again, while the other soldiers held back their smiles and did not dare to speak.

"How many more will be back in Kannai next year?"

The crowd hesitated for a moment, but soon five or six older people shook their torches.

Li Jingyu had a little sand in his eyes, and he reached out and pulled the cloak on his back and rubbed his eyes.

The month before last, he received a secret letter from Brother Feng from the military department, if nothing else, the military department will transfer him back to Kyoto next year to serve in the Red Lotus Army.

This is a good thing, it means that the wish he had dreamed about eight years ago is finally coming true.

But for some reason, the more he came to the end, the clearer the scene of the day he had just enlisted in his mind.

He remembered that day he had his head down.

With hundreds of recruits raising their heads and singing, they lined up in a neat array and stepped into the sunset Xiongguan in the light of the rising sun.

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Li Jingyu pulled his helmet angrily, "It's boring! Who will sing a song to General Ben?"

"General, a big man like us can't compare to the delicate girl in the Taiyuan Red Mansion!" Du Rui bit his lip and laughed.

"It's all rough men with handles, where can they sing any songs?" a few people on the side echoed and coaxed.

"The soul song that Feng Dashuai taught us to sing, have you forgotten it?" Li Jingyu's voice sounded a little stern.

"I don't dare. ”

Twenty or thirty men were silent and listened for a while to the cold wind whistling in their ears.

Li Jingyu glanced around the wilderness and hummed softly in his mouth.

"The wind is fluttering, and the lonely city is vast. "It's a northern tune, but he uses a southern singing voice.

"The mountains and rivers are majestic, and the earth and the sea are vast. The singing was still not too loud, but there were already rough voices of military men around him.

"Draw the bow to be strong, and use the arrow to be long. ”

"Twilight Snow Gate, the red flag is not dead. ”

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The voices of the men in the Xiuzi camp were still a little jerky at first, but gradually they all rose, becoming more and more high-pitched and vigorous, and at the end of the singing, it almost became a howl accompanied by the cold wind.

"The wind is flying, the flag is raised, the horns are blowing, and the swords and guns are sharpened. ”

"Xiaoxiao rain, strong and strong. ”

"The body is dead, and the burial is far away. ”

"Returning to the homeland to support the health of relatives. ”

"Come back to see the mountains and suns.

"Returning to the country is embarrassing, to be an country. ”

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"With an country!"

The hoarse song rose to the sky in the wilderness, and the dragon who did not regret even though he died nine times, accompanied by the galloping firelight, burned all the way from the wilderness to Qubai.

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When Thirty rode to the north gate of Qubai, there was a group of people who had already waited here.

At this moment, the giant with his fists clenched stood under the city gate, but he was a head taller than the knights sitting on the black horse beside him.

Seeing that Chen Chong was a little anxious in the firelight. Li Jingyu kicked on his feet and took the lead in rushing to the city.

Chen Chong hurriedly waved to the people on the city tower and asked them to open the city gate.

"General, there was a murder in the south of the city, and the dead were all headed. Chen Chong said as he took out a small notebook from his arms and handed it to Li Jingyu, which was painted under his sketch on the spot.

Li Jingyu didn't say a word, and took thirty horsemen to fly up the hooves and ran directly towards the south of the city.

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"Father, how long are you going to press the city defense army?" Chang Qiushi, who was standing behind Changdu County, turned a little red, and the lights on the table reflected his face flickering.

"Wait for General Li to come back. ”

Chang Qiushi knew what his father meant, but he was still angry in his heart.

"Just let those rebels get away outside, and we'll hide here and be a shrunken turtle?"

"Chang, Qiu, Shi, do you know how to write the word Wuwei?"

"The child doesn't understand. ”

Chang Weirong lowered his head and scolded in a low voice: "I'm protecting myself." ”

The young man sneered: "Make sure that the assassins kill you in the head!"

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Chang Dujun snapped his fingers, and then a palm pierced through the darkness and knocked Chang Qiushi to the ground.

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In the dark night, most of the streets in Qubai were very deserted, but when Li Jingyu and the others walked quickly to South Street, the surroundings were slightly more popular.

Although it was dark, the residents on both sides of the street who loved to watch the excitement were still tiptoeing at the moment, desperately looking towards the few houses shrouded in darkness in the distance through the human wall composed of officials and officials.

Today, there were murders in two or three adjacent shops on South Street, and the victims died in a terrible state and lost their heads, which is unconsciously reminiscent of the massacre in Shehong County half a month ago.

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Twenty or thirty horsemen came with thunder, and the people and officials on both sides hurriedly got out of the way.

There was still some distance from the shops where the incident had occurred, and Durry was now caught on his horse, looking down to examine the small arrows in the general's customary crossbow. The two soldiers behind him suddenly argued, and although the voice was not loud, everyone in the horse team could still hear it clearly.

One said there was a man standing on the roof on the right, and the other said it was clearly a python perched on it.

Li Jingyu turned his head and looked at the two pro-soldiers, and he also looked in that direction.

"That's what you're talking about?"

"General, you see that black shadow obviously has legs, it must be a person. ”

Li Jingyu opened his eyes wide and looked at the darkness on the roof in the distance, and there seemed to be a long shadow creeping on the roof in the faint distance.

Durry shouted at the dark shadow.

The shadow turned, facing them head-on.

"General, this person has a long piece of hair on his head, shouldn't he be a woman who wants to commit suicide?" Du Rui said this, and still pulled out the Pu knife in his hand and stood beside him.

One of the soldiers behind him still insisted that it was a snake, because if it was a human, the proportion of the head seemed to be smaller.

Li Jingyu stretched out his right hand, "Bring the bow!"

The pro-soldier next to him hurriedly handed over the hard stone bow.

Li Jingyu casually threw the torch high vertically, the flames were still rising in the air, and the arrow in his hand had been pulled into a full moon on the bow.

A few of the surrounding soldiers secretly cheered in their hearts, in the hands of the general, is the hardest standard Asahi bow in the army not also played so casually?

Seeing a torch rise into the sky, many people in the distance naturally looked over.

The flames ignited in a band of light in the night sky, just up to the height of the dark shadow.

Everyone saw it.

The cheers of the pro-soldiers came to an abrupt end, and there was a commotion among the people in the distance.