Lu Youling and Qin Miaoshi followed behind Dong Taiping, I don't know why, Miaoshi doesn't like this old man very much, she has prejudices about the people of Yundu, and Mrs. Dong has been famous among the Three Kingdoms for a long time, which makes Miaoshi even more disgusted: Isn't this Dong Taiping what people often call 'three family slaves'?

Dong Taiping didn't care about these two children, he didn't forget to put out a small sundial to check the time at any time along the way, and then a moment of time Shen Shi will pass soon, so that the extreme way is not lacking and should restore his nature, but the poison in him has not been completely removed, if he is left unchecked, he is afraid that it will still endanger his life. He, Dong Taiping, is a medical idiot, since he has already prescribed the right medicine, how can he let the patients he has treated with his own hands die?

"Grandpa Dong, why don't we take the moon to hurry?"

Lu Youling is mortal, compared to Dong Taiping, who is nearly seventy years old, and Qin Miaoshi, who is a woman, are much better than him. "I can't walk anymore, let me rest. ”

"What about you, Your Royal Highness the County Lord, do you want to take a break?"

"The endurance of this palace is very good, unlike that ugly-looking boy, Yue'er is a moon lice beast, not a big Wan good horse, you say to ride it for you, you don't ask if it is willing!"

"Alas, let me ride it as long as it wants, right? You said it earlier, come on," Lu Youling approached Yue'er, stretched out her right hand and gently scratched at the webbed between Yue'er's five fingers, Yue'er actually lowered her head that had been looking up, and her long and huge mouth seemed to move, and her up and down slightly closed.

"Do you see that you big meat worm is still quite obedient? Alas, go home and tickle and scratch the loaches for you to eat, will you be willing to fly us off later?Well, that's a good ......" Qin Miaoshi looked at everything that happened in front of her in a daze, and the usually majestic Yue'er actually ignored her hot gaze, lowered her head and rubbed Lu Youling's head with her chin to show favor.

"Hey, can you respect my Yue'er a little bit!" Qin Miaoshi felt that if she didn't scold Lu Youling's behavior, Yue'er would not belong to her.

"I said His Royal Highness the county lord, what do you give your family Yue'er to eat on weekdays, I just heard it say that it didn't eat three meals at your place, and his hungry eyes were dizzy, so he only humped me and Grandpa Dong later, you can only run after us with grievances, anyway, you also said that your endurance can keep up." ”

"You ......" Qin Miaoshi glared at Lu Youling, and suddenly realized that this kid is so close to the moon lice, even my Yue'er can make a heart-to-heart connection, it must be Lao Ke who passed on something to him.

"Amu, come here!"

Miaoshi's temperament changed sharply, "Do you really understand what the moon lice are saying?"

"Of course, I also heard Yue'er say that you are a person, you are too angry, you have a good-looking skin, if you have half of your sister's tenderness, you can find someone to marry in this life, but it's a pity that you can only die alone. ”

"You!"

Qin Miaoshi's face suddenly turned pale, and her face was red and white.

"This palace has to clean you up today!"

After speaking, he was about to sacrifice his satin heaven ayaluo, Lu Youling was so frightened that she hugged her head and shouted: "The evil girl is going to take people's lives, come and save people's lives!"

"Shhh

Dong Taiping suddenly scolded, seeing that he was about to be caught by Qin Miaoshi, Lu Youling stopped and made a silent posture.

"Don't make trouble, didn't you hear Grandpa Dong say that someone was coming?"

"I'll clean you up later!" Qin Miaoshi whispered.

The three of them carefully hid in the grass beside the road, and Yue'er obediently closed her eyes, its complexion was no different from the surrounding rocks, and she couldn't notice it if she didn't look closely.

"Moon lice actually have the function of changing color and concealing, tsk. Lu Youling couldn't help but be sincerely surprised.

"You've only been in contact with moon lice for so long that you think you know them well? ”

At this time, a group of people came to the road, about twenty or thirty people, each of them was armed, and the leader of the man had a feather on his hat and helmet, and he was wearing an official uniform.

Qin Miaoshi whispered: "This is Rizhao's horse infantry army, and the leader is a guard, it's strange, the good news hasn't come out yet, why did they start to retreat to the rear?"

I saw a soldier carrying a flag in the team running forward and said to the leading guard: "My lord, now that the decisive battle is imminent, we will retreat from the forward position before we fight, if the monarch knows about it, won't he ask us for sinking?"

"Haven't you already read Master Cui's secret order, and asked Lao Tzu what he is doing? Since they have all chosen to take this step, what else is there not to do! Hurry up and see if the rear team is keeping up!"

The flag-bearers ran backwards, and in a few moments another battalion of phalanxes came from the main road, and everyone's faces were full of dissatisfaction and fatigue. Lu Youling counted the number of people in the phalanx, and there were really a lot of people this time, not to mention one or two thousand.

Dong Taiping asked Qin Miaoshi: "Looking at the flag, it should be from the Tiger Camp, right?"

"That's right," Qin Miaoshi replied, "The Tiger Battalion is the sharpest of the infantry army, and it is on par with the strength of Qin Tiancang's Garrison Longxiang Battalion, and they are called the Blue Battalion and the Red Battalion respectively. Because of the appearance of the Moon Lice Pioneer Battalion, the infantry army as a whole was weak, but the soldiers of the red and blue battalions were all put into the establishment of the Ma Bu Army and became the trump card of the Ma Bu Army. The Blue Camp used to be in charge of my father, and after his death, the Blue Camp took back the Chaoyang Palace and returned to the Red Camp as an assistant. ”

Lu Youling hurriedly said: "It turned out to be your father's old army, since it was sharp, why did you withdraw from the front line, could it be that the war is over?

Qin Miaoshi muttered unhappily, "You ask me, how can I make it clear, it stands to reason that I shouldn't have won the battle so quickly." ”

Dong Taiping said: "I heard that the leader said that it was Master Cui who ordered to retreat, this Master Cui had met with him in Anlin before, and he was a person who understood the general situation, but he privately ordered the army of the Blue Battalion to evacuate, which was very suspicious. ”

"Mr. Dong is right, Cui Shang was originally my father's subordinate, after my father's death, he gave up the blue camp to Qin Tiancang, causing all the soldiers and horses of Rizhao to be returned to Qin Tiancang's hands, before his father died, Cui Shang saddled before and after the horse, did everything, bowed down and did it himself, after his father died, he began to shoot Qin Tiancang's horses, and his style of wall grass was clearly revealed, my father's death was only afraid that it could not be separated from this person!"

Lu Youling frowned: "Please, can you not treat everyone as a suspect?" Your father has been dead for so long, and as the county lord, didn't you think to ask Cui Shang in person?"

"Isn't this an obvious fact? It's just that Cui Shang didn't expect that Qin Tiancang had always been suspicious of him, Cui Shang was given the position of commander of the division, and it seemed that he was in charge of the second red and blue battalion and the moon lice pioneer battalion, but in fact, he was Qin Tiancang's staff, and he was just conspiring and conspiring by his side, and he was just hungry for his teeth, and the deployment of the three military camps all required Qin Tiancang's signature to dispatch before he could act. ”

Lu Youling sneered: "Who said that people can't command the army, hasn't this blue battalion been deployed by Cui Shang?"

"Yes...... What the hell is going on?"

Dong Taiping stroked his beard, and then said: "Although it is not clear what the reason is, it is certain that the soldiers and horses in the sunshine in Yundu do not increase but fall, and there is still a trace of vitality in Yundu, so it is possible to turn defeat into victory. ”

Dong Taiping told the two to be careful on the road and not to startle the snake. Lu Youling deliberately stepped forward and rubbed Miaoshi's arm with her elbow, and Miaoshi asked angrily, "What do you want to say?"

"It's nothing, I'm just curious about your current thoughts, on the one hand, you want to kill your adoptive father, so you hope that Yundu and Rizhao will fight as chaotic as possible, but on the other hand, as a native of Rizhao, you are helping us against the anti-Japanese army, don't you think it's contradictory to do this?"

"Who said I was helping you? Now it's not you who kill people, but your guy who is called the most righteous guy, and if I meet him, I will definitely not let him go, and as for revenge, I have never had a bottom in my heart. ”

"Are you afraid that you won't be able to kill your adoptive father?"

"No," Qin Miaoshi suddenly lowered her head, a pair of affectionate eyes with a little tears, like crystal clear dew at the corners of her eyes gently turned, "As you said, Qin Tiancang killed my father, and I hate him to the core, but I was brought up by him, and I also call him my father like Miaoyin." I'm not his heir, and the throne of Rizhao has nothing to do with me, and he doesn't really owe me anything to me, and I'm worried that I won't be able to do it. ”

Looking at the cramped and restless Miaoshi, Lu Youling couldn't help but think that the girl in front of her was actually only fifteen years old, no matter how stubborn she was when she was a child, but her heart was not bad at all, if it wasn't for the hatred she was carrying, maybe she wouldn't be quite unreasonable now.

If you want to disguise your weakness, you must keep yourself from being approached.

Lu Youling didn't know how to comfort her, so he stretched out his sleeves to help Miaoshi wipe away her tears, he thought that Qin Miaoshi would viciously push his hand away, and then put down a sentence like 'not a good death', who knew that Qin Miaoshi actually stood indifferent and gladly accepted Lu Youling's outstretched arm.

"Do you understand the feeling?"

Qin Miaoshi asked weakly, and then she smiled. "You are a little flower, five years younger than me, how can you understand such feelings? Forget it, don't mention this. ”

Lu Youling saw that Qin Miaoshi was reluctant to talk about this, so she hurriedly nodded and agreed, and after a while, Qin Miaoshi returned to her previous arrogant face.

"After this woodland, you will enter the royal city, Lord Miaoshi, please let Yue'er stay outside the city, otherwise it will be easy to startle the snake. ”

Qin Miaoshi is right to think about it, her own identity is very easy to be recognized, and if she brings a huge moon lice, she will definitely be discovered. Qin Miaoshi took out the Yingluo ring and shook it lightly three times, and after Yue'er was ordered, she stretched out her wings and flew away from An Lin.

Lu Youling said: "Grandpa Dong, the master should be in the city, let's go in now." ”

"No, the situation inside is not obvious now, just go in like this for fear that it will cause conflict, it's getting late, let's wait until night falls to go in." The two of you can follow the old man!"

Lu Youling looked up at the city wall several feet high, swallowed his saliva, the high wall blocked, I am afraid that it is only feasible to enter through the gate, Yue'er left, what method can the three of them rely on to get in?

Lu Youling turned around, but he didn't notice a single figure, only vaguely heard intermittent sounds on the city wall, he looked up, only to find that Dong Taiping and Qin Miaoshi had already quietly gone up to the city tower.

Qin Miaoshi drove the satin sky silk luo to become slender like a rope, and then slowly threw the ribbon down, Lu Youling understood that the ribbon would be tied to her waist, Qin Miaoshi opened and closed her hands and pulled up, and Lu Youling was pulled up to the city tower by the satin sky ayaluo.

"When I came up just now, my heart was hanging, for fear that you would let go!" Lu Youling just stood firm, and couldn't help but be shocked.

"This palace is not interested in your life, but you really don't know anything, I really don't know what Mr. Dong has to take you for?"

Qin Miaoshi's words were obviously said to Dong Taiping, Dong Taiping was unmoved, his cultivation was extremely high, and naturally any abnormal movement in a hundred steps could not escape his ears, but the city tower was no different from the surroundings, and the afterglow of the sunset began to fade slowly, and the darkness was approaching the earth step by step, and there were no torches around, let alone soldiers guarding the town.

Dong Taiping found that there were several watchtowers on the city wall, which should be used for patrolling and sentry, but it was quiet inside, which aroused his suspicion even more.

He opened the nearest watchtower, and when the door was pushed open, Dong Taiping's body began to tremble slightly.

Qin Miaoshi and Lu Youling hurriedly rushed forward, the watchtower was pitch black, and they couldn't see the scene inside at all, but there was a warm current in the house that hit the outside, and the smell of blood was particularly heavy.

Qin Miaoshi pinched her nose, slowly took a step forward, and then opened the fire fold she was carrying, and when the flames lit up, Qin Miaoshi screamed and fell to the ground.

I saw a large number of corpses piled up in the watchtower, many of which had broken limbs, and there were pools of blood and broken limbs everywhere. Many of the heads were pressed under the corpses of others, their faces were black, their eyes turned out like fish swim bladders, and their black pupils looked like endless abysses.

Lu Youling's abdomen churned, her legs were numb, and she was paralyzed beside Qin Miaoshi. The mouth shouted, "This...... Are these dead people? Who ...... Who did that?"

Dong Taiping's old face trembled slightly, he stepped forward, turned out a bloody rag from the pile of corpses, and after carefully studying it for a while, handed it to Qin Miaoshi, who was sitting on the ground.

"The clothes worn by these people are painted with dragon ornaments, have His Highness Miao Shi ever recognized them?"

Qin Miaoshi gasped, tried to calm the fear in her heart, and then looked at the rags handed over by Dong Taiping. "This is the mark of the Longxiang Garrison Battalion, and these people who died are all from the Red Battalion. ”

Dong Taiping nodded, and then said: "Then let's go to a few other watchtowers to have a look." ”

Lu Youling also regained her strength and stood up and followed behind them, but Qin Miaoshi and Lu Youling no longer dared to walk in and witness the scene just now.

Dong Taiping checked it in turn, and his face became more and more ugly. "There are eight watchtowers here, each of which contains hundreds of corpses, and judging by the clothes, the dead are all from the Red Camp. ”

Qin Miaoshi said in shock: "Impossible, there are more than 1,000 soldiers in the entire red camp, if these corpses are all red camps, it means that the entire red camp has been destroyed!"

"Grandpa Dong, who would be so ruthless?"

Qin Miaoshi was also eager to know the answer, so she suddenly came over, and said viciously: "Could it be that the one who is extremely good at it?"

"No!" Lu Youling saw Qin Miaoshi pointing the finger at the extreme, and immediately scolded: "My master is definitely not a bloodthirsty person!"

"What is your explanation's explanation for your master's killing of my Rizhao soldiers in Yeyue City before? Now that he has lost his mind, he is crazy when he sees people, and the soldiers in my red camp must have been killed by your master!"

"You talk nonsense, my master won't be like that!"

......

"Okay, okay, you two don't fight," Dong Taiping saw that the two were already arguing, and hurriedly dissuaded, "Your Royal Highness the county lord, killing the people of the red camp will definitely not be extreme." ”

"Oh, why did Mr. Dong say that?"

"The reason is very simple, Ji Dao is still poisoned by your sunshine toad in his body at this moment, and it is quite difficult to kill the entire Red Camp with the strength of one person, and besides, even if he recovers his vitality and successfully destroys the Red Camp, how can he carry so many corpses and stack them in the attic on his own? So the murderer will definitely not be our Deacon of the Extreme Dao. ”

"It's still Grandpa Dong's analysis that makes sense!" Lu Youling glanced at Qin Miaoshi, but Qin Miaoshi ignored it and continued to ask: "Since it's not the best way to do it, who will it be?"

"The old man just took a cursory look at the deceased's complexion, and found that his eyebrows were blue and his cheeks were swollen, it seemed that he had been poisoned by soft tendons, and there was no way to accurately judge what kind of poison it was. There were traces of a battle at the scene, and they were all hand-to-hand, it seems that it was not left by the battle with the Yundu guards, if it was soft and loose, this poison was only weak after taking it, and when the old man pressed their abdomen, he found that there was food left in the abdomen, which showed that the poison was put into the army's meal. Since the murderer wanted to kill them, but did not directly put the deadly poison, it seems that the murderer was not preparing to destroy the camp in the first place. And it can carry the corpses of more than 1,000 people to the watchtower, and the perpetrators are definitely thousands. ”

"Thousands of ......" Lu Youling thought to himself in his heart, suddenly, a thought flashed, he hurriedly raised his head and prepared to reveal the thoughts in his heart, but found that his eyes met with Dong Taiping and Qin Miaoshi.

"Cui Shang is going to rebel!"

Qin Miaoshi was the first to say the answer in her heart, and Dong Taiping nodded: "No wonder we saw the soldiers of the Tiger Camp in Anlin in a hurry, in fact, they were ordered by Cui Shang to kill all the people in the Long Xiang Camp. ”

"Isn't this Cui Shang an important minister of the Rizhao monarch? What is his intention in doing this?" Lu Youling couldn't help but express the question in his heart.

"Cui Shang has always been at odds with Qin Tiancang's eldest son Qin Yu, the two have been fighting openly and secretly for many years, Cui Shang has always opposed Qin Yu's inheritance of the unification, but Qin Yu, as the eldest son, has long been privately appointed as the prince, and inheriting the throne is already a sure thing. Cui Shang must also know that once Qin Yu succeeds to the throne, he will definitely not end well, so this time he took advantage of Qin Tiancang's personal expedition to plot a mutiny. ”

"Then the king of Rizhao doesn't know at all?"

"Qin Tiancang has been pampering the Moon Lice Pioneer Battalion in the past few years, the matter of the second red and green battalion has long been handed over to Cui Shang for management, attacking Yundu must be the first to break the formation of the Moon Lice Pioneer Battalion, after the Ma Bujun Palace, if you ask how many soldiers and how many moon lice the pioneer battalion has lost, Qin Tiancang must know it well, but if you want to ask how many people exist in the infantry army and who are the generals, he doesn't know. ”

Dong Taiping sighed and said, "In this way, Qin Tiancang is commanding the attack on the front line and knows nothing about the things in the rear. Cui Shang took advantage of this juncture to want to annex the Red Battalion, but the Red Battalion soldiers still refused to betray the monarch after being poisoned, so they were all killed by the people of the Blue Camp and hid their bodies in the watchtower. ”

Lu Youling asked, "Then what should we do now?"

Dong Taiping suddenly stopped talking, and smiled lightly with his eyes narrow. It's just that his eyes have already pointed out, and Lu Youling followed the direction of his eyes and found that he was actually hinting that he was looking at Qin Miaoshi.

At this time, Qin Miaoshi was absent-minded, lowering her head and secretly thinking about something, without noticing that the two were staring at her. Lu Youling understood what Dong Taiping meant, and the most difficult choice in this situation now is Qin Miaoshi.

Cui Shang's rebellion can be said to have directly helped Qin Miaoshi a lot, so that she didn't have to work hard to avenge her father and kill Qin Tiancang. But once Cui Shang succeeds, Rizhao Kingdom will have to change its face from now on, the Qin family is no longer the national surname, and his mother, Miaoyin, Qin Yu and a group of princes and ministers will all become slaves of the country, and only God knows what the fate will be in the future.

With such a trade-off, Qin Miaoshi was difficult to decide, and Dong Taiping stepped forward to appease: "We can also understand the difficulties of the county lord, but as the saying goes, there are no eggs under the nest? The blue camp and the red camp were originally from the same family, but the methods of exterminating the camp were extremely cruel, and they did not miss the feelings of compatriots at all." Now that the blue battalion has withdrawn from Yundu, it must be marching to Hengyang City, there are no elite soldiers and horses in Hengyang City, once the blue battalion is in chaos, Chaoyang Palace will definitely fall into the hands of the blue army, and the lives of your mother and sister will also be in jeopardy. ”

"Yes, Mr. Dong is right, Miao Shi, you also said that you can't do anything to Qin Tiancang, you have taken revenge but let yourself suffer, why bother? ”

"Even you think so?" Qin Miaoshi looked at Lu Youling stupidly, and Lu Youling replied with a categorical affirmation.

"So what should I do now?"

"The blue camp is walking slowly, if His Royal Highness the county lord rides the moon lice, he will definitely be able to return to Hengyang City before them, and then notify Queen Zhen and the ministers of the court, close the city gate, and wait strictly, it is expected that the blue camp is only a few thousand people to capture the city's stable Hengyang City. ”

"And what are you going to do?"

"The old man is naturally looking for the extreme, and now he can only rely on him to eliminate the war. ”

"What about you?"

Lu Youling saw Qin Miaoshi looking at him, his cheeks were unconsciously hot, he didn't understand why Qin Miaoshi was so concerned about his whereabouts, especially when he inadvertently glimpsed her, her eyes were full of tenderness, which made him think for a while of the handsome and conceited boy dress when he first met Qin Miaoshi.

Lu Youling replied: "Naturally, I followed Grandpa Dong to find a master. ”

"What if you find it, and what if you can't find it?" Have you ever thought that if the clouds really perished, where would you go?"

"Then I naturally went to my parents, the country is gone, and the home is gone. ”

"In this way, it's good that you have a goal," Qin Miaoshi took out the Yingluo circle and began to summon Yue'er, "I'll leave for Hengyang City now, if you don't have a good place to go in the future, you might as well come to Rizhao to find me." Mr. Dong, Amu will be taken care of by you for the time being, no matter whether you win or lose this time, I hope you two can come back alive. ”

"This is natural, and the old man will definitely take good care of this kid. ”

"Okay, then take care, there will be a period later. ”

Qin Miaoshi stepped on the moon and flew over the clouds, at this time the moon shadow was turbid, the sky was dense, and there was rain falling from time to time. Qin Miaoshi glanced back at the city under him, and couldn't help but feel a lot of feelings, and muttered a small poem casually in his mouth: The cold dew and the chrysanthemum are alone, and the clouds and twilight rain in the fields are one after another;