In Suizhou City, the autumn colors are very vivid.
A small town located on the southern border of Shangqi, Suizhou City was affected by several wars during the war, and even in the most severe period, it was besieged by Zihao soldiers and horses. , there were neither reinforcements nor food, but the defenders fought tooth and nail to defend the city. Even the people in the city rushed to the city one after another and defended the city with the remains of their houses and earth. However, there were no reinforcements inside and nothing outside. The enemy's situation was such that they stood still for three months before the Qi soldiers and horses retook the border areas and then sent reinforcements.
After this incident, Suizhou City was also called Xiaobianguan. Even today, when many old people in Shangqi talk about this small town with a reputation that is rarely seen in the world, they still call it Xiaobianguan. Perhaps it is for this reason that there is a martial spirit in Suizhou City, but it is incompatible with the whole city.
It is rare that there is peace and war in the world at the moment. The autumn harvest has passed in the farmland outside the city, and almost every household has had a good harvest. There is no longer the scorching heat wave in the summer inside and outside the city. Therefore, there are many people cooling off and drinking in the city, and there are women knitting and washing clothes. They gather in groups with nothing to do, chatting, picking tea, and picking some weeds from the leaves. Men often practice martial arts, young and old, although they are not in Shangqi Border Pass, but their days are still leisurely. However, since peace is rare, it is a blessing from God. Being able to accept this blessing with peace of mind and live the time in front of you well is the best choice.
However, there are always careful people who can notice that in the past, there were only three or two people on duty at the head of Suizhou City. Today, for some reason, there is almost a city guard, busy around the city gate, and there is some news. He said that the people would be evacuated from this city soon.
Two tavern keepers who were always difficult to deal with in Suizhou City were sitting under the eaves to drink.
These two people are only about the same age, but they have been fighting for more than 20 years. They are enemies in the same business. What's more, they happen to drive on both sides of the long street. They are almost in the same business. The most incompatible, but I don't know that these two people are incompatible with each other. People suddenly experienced something that was equivalent to life and death. In the end, they walked around frequently and regarded each other as close friends. The sky was gloomy for two days, with cold rain coming from time to time. They both happened to be walking on the tea road when they were young and fell. Several old wounds often couldn't hold up whenever there was a little bit of autumn chill, so they hit it off right away, and the two of them prepared strong drinks and drank together. As for whether the wife at home could spare her life in the future, Since magical powers are useless, it all depends on the fortune.
"There has been no fighting in Suizhou City for many years, and there has never been an increase in troops. However, something has gone wrong in the past two days. Everyone knows that the city lord is a warrior, and I heard that his skills are not bad. Except for the city lord, In addition, he still has a military position, and he often has to torment the surrounding border guards, but his official rank is really not high. The number that can be dispatched to cooperate with the training of troops in the city is three to five thousand, but they are not part of the headquarters at all, they are just borrowed. , why now it seems that the number of borrowed troops really doesn’t match up.”
After three rounds of drinking, the two of them were close to the threshold of drunkenness, so they tacitly understood each other, slowly moved from glass to glass, and talked incoherently.
The other person heard this, but he didn't take it seriously. He shook his head and answered, "There's no need to think too deeply about it. There's war in the world. It's unlikely that it would come to our heads so quickly. What's more, I heard that recently Zihao is quite honest. I am afraid that he was a bit militaristic back then, but now he is unable to succeed, so he has no choice but to be thick-skinned and befriend the superiors. Although they all have their own private thoughts, it may still be some years before the thread is broken, maybe. If you and I can really live in peace, why not do it."
Not only the entire city of Suizhou, countless people in Qi Dynasty have such thoughts,
"That's right. Hasn't that person in your family done anything weird recently? I have to say that I was well-groomed when I was young, so why did I fall in love with such a bad-tempered woman?" The one who spoke first always seemed a little a bit nervous when mentioning this matter. The meaning of gloating is exactly the same as taking advantage of the drunkenness, pointing to the forehead of the person next to you, grinning and saying, "It seems that you and I went out drinking two days ago, and were scolded by the wife, and were beaten like this?" The latter quickly covered his hands. He smiled narrowly on his forehead and said it was because of the strong wind outside. He knocked the courtyard door to his forehead and asked the former why his nose was so red. The answer he got was the same, all tacitly understood. ..
At such an age, when the children are growing up and going elsewhere to put all their talents to use, my wife can often play some tricks.
Qi, no matter how you think about it, is quite a joyful thing.
So the two of them, who were already drunk, exchanged glasses and drank two more glasses, and then they all lay down at the table. There was a continuous cold autumn rain outside, and the two of them almost fell asleep with their heads down. In the early years, All the so-called old grudges have long since disappeared.
But after all, there is no way to avoid the retribution that should come.
Before the warm wine in front of the two men had cooled down, the two shopkeepers' wives looked around and saw that most of the jar of wine was consumed, with only three or two plates of side dishes as food. Her husband dragged her husband back home, but it was because of face after all. When they sat down in pairs and glanced at their husband, they became even more angry. But in the end, they didn't do anything. Instead, they took the soft hand in their hands. The blanket was covered behind each husband's back, and when he looked up, it was supposed to be three hours after sunrise, but the sky was gloomy.
This time happened to be the 28th hour after the North Yanze Border Pass was lost.
From outside Beiyanze to the middle of Beicheng, some people from the border areas have come to help. Some people are urging their horses to come, and some are just relying on their exhausted feet to rush to help several cities. After all, Beiyanze has breathed a sigh of relief. At the border gate, punches began to be fired in the direction of the monster. Among them, the first ones to open the way were not the exhausted masters stationed at the border gate in Beiyanze, but Yun Zhong and his four men who arrived at the border gate in Beiyanze and still had some strength left.
The pipa player almost broke all the strings of the pipa, which did not seem to be very solid, before he found such a way out among the remaining demonic tide that had not left, and made a smooth path through life and death. Hundreds of soldiers at the Beiyanze border hurried to the north city. Liu Dan still had a natural jade stone to protect him, so he carried the divine arm Lu Gong in front to kill him. Even Chu Xin had given up his life and did not know how to kill. After passing so many monsters, even though I am exhausted physically and mentally, I still have such a breath to hold on, so I haven't exhausted my strength yet.
The ruins and walls are broken, and everyone is frightened.
All the inner energy in Chilong's body has disappeared. Almost all of it was borrowed from the masters outside Beiyanze Pass. There is not much inner energy left. Fortunately, he still has swordsmanship at his side, and he can still follow Liu Dan and others to kill. , clean up the remaining monsters in several cities.
The Lu family alone has more than two thousand private servants. Together with most of the Lu family, there are only eleven people left. Even including Lu Chui and others who are in the cave and have little strength to hold themselves up. , the remaining people of the Lu family are only a few dozen. As far as the North City, except for ordinary people, nearly all the local warriors and private army servants had been killed in the city, and most of their bodies were not left. The same is true for the other high-ranking houses. Only the roots of future prosperity remain, and not one out of ten survives. And perhaps because these cities fought desperately, the monster did not stay too long, and only a few people suffered. Then it quickly separated from these cities into several groups and went to other places, so it was able to kill the people. Most of them were preserved.
Lu Chui stood up from the stone cave. He could not speak or hear. He just went to the areas of the city that had not been attacked and settled down with the people of the Lu Family Yukimura. He sat down slowly until his body became stiff. Beside the old family master, he looked around at a loss. He saw Zhibeicheng, which was very different from before.
Even though most of the monster tide has passed, the number of remaining monsters is still quite large. Yun Zhong and his party almost forced out all the remaining sporadic inner energy, and then they finally made a deer-like python with scales on its forehead. The south wall of the city was killed, and then there was no more power left. If it had not been for Lord Qingping who came after him and dragged to death the two remaining south walls in the city that were devouring corpses with his own strength, his life would probably have been lost in the city, and even Even the pipa players in the four realms were no longer able to survive. They fainted and carried Liu Dan behind him, charging from left to right.
Finally, Yun Zhong stopped at a desolate-looking courtyard fence and stopped his tired steps. However, his already somewhat numb expression suddenly dropped.
Zhu Ying's eyes widened with a knife-shaped face, and she thrust her spear through a flying head that was attacking from top to bottom. She pierced the spear head through the gap in its scales and nailed him to a stone wall. The force was so heavy that the stone Where the gun fell on the wall, there were many cracks, and beside Zhu Ying, there were six corpses of foot soldiers, all of which had their vital parts pierced by the gun head, smashing their internal organs into pieces. However, Zhu Ying, who was glaring with anger, had already died of exhaustion. , his throat was pierced by a barb stabbed by a soldier, and the blood had already flowed cleanly. There were countless wounds all over his body, and every place could cost a person half his life.
Yun Zhong, who was also covered in blood, stepped forward and tore off the seemingly ordinary wooden fence.
A trace of inner energy stirred up the familiar formation in front of him, and then he stepped aside, never raising his head again, but sat next to this man who had only met once and was a man of few words.
The fence is very spacious, enough to accommodate the people of a city. In this war, except for the people who had not had time to hide here, or who walked out of the formation on their own in the middle, almost everyone was able to save their lives. However, the price of exchange , everyone felt chilled.
Soon, many people saw the corpses of monsters, the corpses of the Lu family, the corpses of private army servants, and even the corpses of the Beiyan Ze tribe who came to the rescue. They also saw clearly the young man covered in blood, sitting down. They came to the side of a dead man with a knife-shaped face, but almost all the people did not speak. They just stayed silently in this freezing cold autumn and put their knees on the street stones in the city that were full of blood.
The blunt spear that Zhu Ying had been holding on to until her death fell instantly.
There were also many people who survived who saw Lu Chui, who was covered in mud sitting on the street, and the corpse of the old man who seemed to be sleeping peacefully next to Lu Chui.
As for Beicheng and several surrounding cities, it will be snowing today.
