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I saw her silently picking up the broken blade, her expression not showing the slightest disturbance, as if she had expected it and accepted the situation calmly - she had failed.
With the broken blade, Shen Qiongzhi returned to the camp to rest. After a while, there was a pleasant sound coming from behind the tent, and following the sound, Bai Feng was seen standing outside the tent playing music.
The young man turned his back to the military camp, facing the sky, the earth, and the vast wilderness, and conveyed his thoughts with the sound of the flute. The sound was sometimes distant and sometimes solemn, as if he was expressing his grief and paying homage to the deceased.
Shen Qiongzhi stood quietly behind him. When the flute sound stopped, he stepped forward and asked, "What instrument is this?"
"Zhuxiao, haven't you seen it?" Bai Feng said: "I just finished discussing the next countermeasures, and I specifically wanted to come out to relax."
"I..." Shen Qiongzhi held up the broken blade and walked to Bai Feng, and said with a slight guilt: "The sword is broken, I can't do your test."
Bai Feng took the broken blade and compared it carefully. After confirming that it was chopped off alive, he exclaimed: "Good job. In the past three days, you have swung the sword thousands of times at least, right?"
"What's the use? In the end, I can't even chop down a wooden stake." Shen Qiongzhi replied: "I thought about it for a long time and found that I was really impulsive before... I don't know why I want to I went into battle to kill the enemy, and I just...suddenly didn't know what to do."
"Want to try it?" Bai Feng took the broken blade in his hand, handed the bamboo flute over, and said, "Music can soothe people's hearts. You can try it."
When Shen Qiongzhi saw the other party's good intentions, he naturally accepted the kindness and blew hard at the blow hole, but he could only hear the sound of wind but not the music. He pushed harder until he was almost out of breath and still didn't make a single sound.
"Hahaha..." Bai Feng revealed his true meaning at this time, and sneered repeatedly: "I think you just think too much and do too little!"
"You!" Shen Qiongzhi blushed with embarrassment. She didn't know if it was because she felt guilty or because she couldn't catch her breath. Anyway, she had no choice but to return the bamboo flute to Bai Feng, and then sighed: "Yes, I just have little experience and have never done anything. Thing! Ever since I was adopted by the holy aunt since I was a child, I have been taught how to become a saint and how to educate the people of the sacred tree. Apart from that, I can't do anything else."
"It's good if you understand." Bai Feng said: "Come with me and show you."
After that, the two of them returned to the school grounds one after another and stopped in front of the wooden pile together. But when Bai Feng looked at it for a moment, he took an iron melon hammer from near the wooden pile and hit it hard against the wooden pile.
The originally neat and smooth surface of the wooden pile immediately shattered, sprinkling sawdust everywhere, and the few inches of scars cut by Shen Qiongzhi were instantly replaced by an extremely exaggerated crack.
"This!" Shen Qiongzhi was shocked: "How come..."
"There's more next, haha!" Bai Feng exerted a little force and swung the hammer to hit the crack, and the upper half of the wooden stake was immediately knocked away a few strokes away.
"Incredible..." Shen Qiongzhi stared at the iron melon hammer in Bai Feng's hand and exclaimed, "What is this?"
"This is a weapon specially designed to deal with heavy armor. It is used to break wooden piles. It is simply overkill." Bai Feng waved the hammer in his hand, finally put it on his shoulder, and continued: "Workers want to do their job well. You must sharpen your weapon first, I have already placed the best weapon beside you, how can Miss Shen turn a blind eye?"
"It's not like you don't know, I... I've never seen this before, what is this..." After saying that, Shen Qiongzhi lowered her eyebrows and looked at her head, shrinking back. After this incident, she obviously didn't dare to act like this again. He contradicted Bai Feng as freely as before.
While the two were talking, Huang Yixiao also walked out of the camp, saying that something happened.
After Bai Feng heard this, she looked at Shen Qiongzhi for a moment, then threw the iron melon hammer in front of her and shouted: "Catch it!"
"Yeah!" Shen Qiongzhi took the heavy hammer and almost lost his footing.
"Didn't Miss Shen just say that she 'suddenly doesn't know what to do'?" Bai Feng explained: "Now that the opportunity has come, it depends on whether Miss Shen is willing to do it."
Huang Yixiao echoed from the side: "For some reason, Rouran suddenly gathered an army of tens of thousands in the west and rushed towards our army. It looked like it was bound to fight a decisive battle with us. Brother Bai, are you serious about Miss Shen?" Want to go together?"
"Don't worry, didn't the captured prisoners give their account?" Bai Feng replied: "They were ordered to speed up the construction of the corridor, which means that the Rouran people have no intention of entangled with us. In other words, they just want to scare us away. It’s just us.”
Shen Qiongzhi kept staring at the iron melon hammer in his hand, hesitated again and again, and murmured: "I...I'll go too."
"Miss Shen?" Huang Yixiao asked, "This time we are going to the real battlefield. There are tens of thousands of enemy troops, and our army only has 5,000 troops. If we really want to fight, I won't care. you!"
"I want to find what I have always wanted to find in the battle...use this hammer!" Her tone became more determined, and she took a step towards Bai Feng: "Brother Feng, please let me go with the army. !”
Bai Feng smiled happily and said: "Okay, then you will serve as an aide and follow Brother Huang? I bet General Huang Quan won't refuse, right?"
"Me? How could I refuse!" Huang Yixiao hurriedly approached Shen Qiongzhi and looked at her: "I have always said that she can fight, but Brother Bai refused..."
"Okay, okay, let's discuss it between you! I'll go and deliver the transfer of the camp to Yan'er first." Bai Feng wisely left early, wanting to be a matchmaker for a pair of beauties.
However, Huang Yixiao's boldness is always unexpected. He has already begun to ask about Shen Qiongzhi's body size, because he wants to order a pair of women's armor for Shen Qiongzhi and try to have it done before leaving for the battle tomorrow.
After Bai Feng heard this, he was just silent.
Suddenly, the young swordsman returned to the Taoist camp and sat there waiting for a long time until Murong Yan returned from the wounded soldiers camp under the cover of darkness.
The two of them looked at each other with heavy expressions, as if they both had something on their minds.
Murong Yan held an oil lamp and sat next to Bai Feng and asked: "But we are going to war again?"
"Yes." Bai Feng said slightly sadly, "I know you don't like it, but there is no way..." After saying that, the two hugged each other and made love for a while.
"One more thing, I need you to lead the remaining disabled soldiers to this location." Bai Feng pointed to the map on the table and said, "If I guessed correctly, this place has been exposed now."
"Okay, I'll listen to you." Murong Yan agreed immediately.
Bai Feng asked doubtfully: "Yan'er, don't you wonder why there are only disabled soldiers left in the camp?"
"I won't ask about things I don't understand." After saying that, Murong Yan was about to pick up the oil lamp and go back to her bed to rest, but Bai Feng's confession instantly froze her in place.
"I'm afraid there are tens of thousands of enemy troops. Our entire army attacks, but it's just an egg against a stone. Although in my judgment the Rouran people are not willing to fight to the death, this is still a duel with great disparity in strength."
"I don't understand what you're talking about, but the herbs in the camp are almost exhausted. If we can't go to the city to resupply, all of us will suffer from illness and death." Murong Yan's words were like a thunder, making Bai Feng wake up.
"The decisive battle is imminent. We don't have time." The young man walked up to Murong Yan, held her face and kissed her: "You have worked hard during this period. I promise that I will come back to you alive with a victory!"
