In front of the desert cold water pass, there are camps of the Liao army everywhere, and it seems that the cold water pass is surrounded by water, which is only a few hours away from the previous siege, and the Liao army has already withdrawn from the camp.

In the cold water pass, Chaoping and Cao Xinyang and other generals are discussing countermeasures in the emperor's palace, and the generals report the previous military situation to His Majesty the emperor, and Chaoping is listening silently on the side, at this time the Youyun soldiers did not come with Chaoping, Chaoping left them at the post station, these people are idle, but they are also worried, I don't know when this kind of day is a head, in Chaoping's words, the cold winter will pass one day, can you wait until the spring flowers bloom to see if your life is long enough, maybe wake up, winter will pass。

After dealing with the military situation, the emperor asked Chaoping and said, "Ping'er, has Feiyan come back from the rescue?" Chaoping replied

"Father Qi, Feiyan has no news, presumably Feiyan didn't dare to pass the book to our flying pigeon, this Liao army fights in the desert all the year round, they are good at raising eagles and falcons, presumably there is news that will be intercepted by them. ”

"Don Ma, presumably you are too ambitious for others, and you will destroy your own prestige, how can this Liao army be as powerful as our Song army. Wan Li was very angry when he saw this partial general so unreasonable, and said, "Don't be rude." The little general didn't dare to say more.

Chaoping was not angry, and the emperor did not have a trace of angry expression, but said with a very calm attitude: "Okay, you just keep an eye on it, Feiyan must pick them up and enter the city safely when they come back." "Say it, Your Majesty went into the inner hall to rest, and Chaoping also returned to the post house, but these generals did not stay idle, but continued to be busy in the city, because the storm in the desert is coming soon, and the current wind and sand are enough to make people unable to see the enemy situation in the distance, but the enemy does not dare to come out, Cao Xinyang after all, he has used old soldiers, and has planted many traps outside the city, saying that the traps, among which Chaoping's credit is indispensable, before Cao Xinyang just wanted to send some teams outside the city to ambush and build an earthen platform, which was only used as a reconnaissance, but Chaoping told him that so many towers had been built before to observe the enemy's situation, and it was not necessary to build again, Cao Xinyang reluctantly said to Chaoping, There is no way, if you don't do that, the enemy sneak attack will soon be able to reach the city, although sending people out of the city, casualties cannot be avoided, and the effect of observing the enemy is not good, but this is also a way to no way.

Chaoping heard it and said to Cao Xinyang that he had a way, and soon he took out a few drawings from the post station, and told Cao Xinyang that this was a few miscellaneous books that he had read in the library at home when he was a child, but they were all drawings of the layout of the battle array weapons that were almost lost in ancient times, Chaoping changed a few places according to his own opinions, and he had nothing to do in the post station, and he deduced it according to the situation of Hanshui Pass, what should he do if he used a trap army formation, but Chaoping knew that if he did this, the enemy would see it at a glance, and it would be easy to destroy these traps, but now it is different, the wind and sand are very big, and the enemy will not dare to come rashly even if he sees where the traps are arranged, because they can't see clearly when they get to it, and they know that they will be fooled.

Cao Xinyang laughed when he saw it, thinking that this Chaoping had helped a lot, and Chaoping also explained: "No one thought that it would come in handy here. "Chaoping hasn't seen the Youyun soldiers since he returned to the post station, he doesn't know where the Youyun soldiers went, but he didn't care, because he knew that the Youyun soldiers would not encounter any danger, and they wouldn't go out of the city anyway.

Just when Chaoping was about to sit down, he only heard the sound of someone banging on the door outside, Chaoping hurriedly went out to take a look, only to see that the Youyun soldiers were back, and the third brother still had a knife on his arm, which was helped back by other brothers.

Chaoping was surprised and asked, "Where have you been?" How did you get hurt?" The boss of the Youyun soldiers was also confused, and said: "Master, we were separated before, the third and the eighteenth left, and a few of us went to the barracks to see if there was anything we needed help." At this time, the eighteenth sister said: " All blame me, willful, before you went to the palace, I happened to pass by the palace on the way back with the third brother, and I went in to find you, anyway, the guys in the palace are not high in martial arts, and no one found out, but we were fine with you from the main gate before, and something strange happened today, the two of us went in from the backyard, thinking that the gods were unaware, but who would have thought that as soon as I entered, a few people who looked like guards came out, and beat us indiscriminately, our third brother was afraid of causing trouble for you, so he thought about withdrawing early, at this time, how did he know that their martial arts were so good, and the third brother blocked a knife for me and it was like this now。 Chaoping shouted after hearing this: "Nonsense, how can you come and leave when you say you want to go, where is the majesty of the royal family, this is because you are not messing around, if you mess around, it may be more dangerous than now." The boss asked, "Master, do you know the origin of these masters, why haven't we heard of them before?" Chao Ping shook his head and said, "I don't know, I only know that there are masters around Your Majesty, and I don't know how high the martial arts are." At this time, the fourth child had been bandaging the wounds of the third child, and the eighteenth sister asked: "No matter how powerful the martial arts are, how can there be a master's martial arts, looking at the entire rivers and lakes, who can beat the master's martial arts." Chaoping said earnestly to the Youyun soldiers: "Don't say that, there are many talented people and strangers in the world, and my masters are right, they once said that there are not only rivers and lakes in the world, I didn't understand it back then, but after so many years of wandering in the rivers and lakes, I know that the people and things in this world are not just as many as we have seen." The boss arched his hand to Chaoping and said, "Master, our brother will never have this kind of thing in the future, and we will definitely not mess around without permission in the future." After that, the boss scolded the eighteenth sister again, telling her not to do whatever she thinks of in the future, which will cause a big disaster.

In the desert, Feiyan and the Luo family brothers, as well as the crane zhang, the storm they faced was difficult, but they never stopped if they could move forward, causing several soldiers to fall because they couldn't hold on.

They had no choice but to camp in the desert. In the camp, Feiyan chatted with Hezhang, as well as the Luo brothers.

"What, the colt wiped out all the Silver Wolf Guards?" Crane Zhang shouted in surprise. Feiyan said impatiently: "Yes, what's wrong with that, what are you shouting?" Hezhang sighed and said, "Alas, pity them, from now on there is only one Praetorian Guard left in the royal family." When Feiyan heard this, she asked, "Wait, what are you talking about?" Royal Praetorian Guard, are you talking about Tian leading them?" Hezhang snorted and said, "They don't have that ability, this is all an old thing, and it is a secret belonging to the royal family." Feiyan said, "What secret, you tell me." Hezhang stared at Feiyan with big eyes, thinking that he had said too much, and hurriedly said: "I slept, and I don't know about these things, but I heard, I heard." Feiyan asked again, Hezhang ignored her, but turned around and lay on the straw mat on the ground, Feiyan pulled out her sword at this time, put it on Hezhang's neck, and said: "This girl doesn't ask the third time, if you don't say it, if you don't say it, you will never say it." Hezhang knew that she was scaring herself, and said: "You girl, why did you turn your face so quickly, and you won't say anything about killing me." Feiyan immediately put away her sword and said with a smile: "Uncle He, just tell me, I don't say it, God knows, you and I and these brothers know, and we don't say it." Hezhang got up and said: "Okay, let me tell you, in fact, it's not impossible to say, but I don't know much, and the royal family has always wanted to hide this matter, and as time passes, no one mentions it, and I also heard about it." ”