In late October, the city of Cangzhou was in an uproar.

"King Yan is mighty! Mighty! Countless soldiers were shouting, and the earth-shaking shouts came and went, and the battle was very magnificent. Inside and outside the ruined city walls, there were Yan army riders surging everywhere.

King Yan rode a high-headed horse into the city, and his cloak fluttered high in the wind. The war horse swaggered towards the road, the king of Yan held his head high, and when he looked up, the banner of the Yan army was planted everywhere on the city tower.

A group of civil and military personnel knelt on both sides, trembling and trembling. Governor Xu Kai was tied up with five flowers, and several people knelt on the ground according to him.

Zhang Yu's face was flushed, and he said excitedly: "Lord Wang, there are a large number of heavy grain and grass in the city, and this time we even have grain and grass!" ”

King Yan nodded very calmly and glanced at Xu Kai with slanted eyes.

Xu Kai said angrily: "Yan counterattacks and sneaks up, and the victory is not martial!" ”

King Yan suddenly sneered on his face, "Just by your words, can you be the governor and lead the troops?" ”

This time, the Yan army suddenly broke through Cangzhou, and it did use tricks. The Yan army was about to attack Liaodong at first, but the cavalry suddenly drove south, catching Xu Kai off guard......

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"Good news! Good news! King Yan broke Cangzhou and captured the governor Xu Kai! "Good news......

Three war horses roared past the north and south streets of Beiping, and the knight on horseback shouted on the spot. This kind of military information, the more publicized the better, and the message of victory can stabilize the hearts of the people in Beiping City.

…… By the beginning of December, there was something new in Beiping City.

The Yan army broke the official army at the slippery mouth and beheaded the general Sun Lin of the official army!

Everything went smoothly, and when Zhu Gaoxu went to the Yan Palace, he also felt that Princess Xu was not too worried. After all, since King Yan started his army, although he has suffered losses in small places, he has never lost every time he fights!

King Yan used his achievements to strengthen people's recognition of the combat power of Yan soldiers.

As King Yan expected, the officers and troops did not even have decent cavalry, and before the battle began, they had already suffered a big loss in maneuvering and lost the initiative in the battle.

The weather was getting colder and colder, and Zhu Gaoxu also happened to use the excuse of the cold to suspend the helpless training task. The people he recruited were all spare soldiers and coolies, and many of them couldn't even shoot arrows, so how could they train their combat effectiveness for a while? At this time, the power of firearms was not strong enough, and it was still cold weapons that determined the victory, and the personal force and courage of the soldiers were very important.

A few months ago, Wang Gui bought a dilapidated house diagonally opposite Chiyueguan. Recently, Zhu Gaoxu also brought a quilt, mainly for Wang Gui to guard, and he also went over to change shifts from time to time.

This kind of life is quite boring, Zhu Gaoxu even remembers clearly the place on the side of the gate of Chiyue Guan, where the paint has fallen off, and sometimes he will hallucinate, imagining those colorful lacquer into various patterns, just like graffiti in childhood.

But the nobles of this era do not have the characteristics that Zhu Gaoxu just has, such as enough patience and the habit of enduring loneliness! In a previous life, a writer once said: Loneliness and poverty always go hand in hand. This sentence is very suitable for his previous situation.

One morning, something interesting finally happened.

In the winter of Beiping, the sky is very late, and the sky is just bright, and the night is foggy, and the light outside the window is even more blurred. Zhu Gaoxu was guarding the second half of the night, and he had already begun to doze off after watching for most of the night...... If it weren't for the "chirping" of the carriage, he might not have noticed that a carriage was coming.

Zhu Gaoxu rubbed his eyes and looked through a hole in the window paper.

The felt cart stopped at the door of Chi Yueguan, and a man wrapped in a cyan fur coat walked out of the carriage, even his head was wrapped in cyan satin, and his back was facing this side at this time, and his face could not be seen.

But as soon as the person walked around, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly concluded: She is Xu Miaojin! Even if you are wearing a coat, you can guess the movement of walking and the posture of twisting...... Xu Miaojin sent Zhu Gaochu out a few times, because the posture of twisting his waist was too soft, Zhu Gaochu looked at it very carefully.

Sure enough, when Xu Miaojin turned around to speak to the groom in front of him, a pair of charming apricot eyes appeared in Zhu Gaoxu's sight on the silk-covered mouth and nose. The dark coat and headscarf made Xu Miaojin's upper half of her face whiter, and her skin was indeed white.

Xu Miaojin whispered a word to the groom, then turned around and walked towards the door of Chi Yueguan. She knocked on the door, then suddenly turned around and looked around, even glancing at Zhu Gaoxu!

Zhu Gaoxu's heart suddenly tightened, but he was still calm, it was not completely dawn outside, and it was shrouded in fog...... The window was tall and small, and if she could spot herself through this little hole in the window, it would be a supernatural event!

As expected, Xu Miaojin glanced at it a few times, and as soon as the door opened, she went in.

Zhu Gaoxu stretched out his hand to cover the mouth and nose of Wang Gui, who was sleeping next to him, Wang Gui soon woke up, let out a "woo", stared at Zhu Gaoxu, and his gaze gradually eased again.

"There is a condition." Zhu Gaoxu said in a deep voice.

Wang Gui hurriedly got up, he didn't take off his clothes, his movements seemed very clumsy, and he immediately looked over to another small hole.

At this moment, the carriage outside still walked away.

"Go to the yard and get the wagon ready." Zhu Gaoxu ordered.

Wang Gui clenched his fists, didn't say anything, immediately jumped out of bed and put on his boots, and trotted out of the door.

Zhu Gaoxu said in his heart: The carriage came from Yanwang's Mansion just now, Xu Miaojin must have asked him to go back first and agree on when to pick him up...... Next, Xu Miaojin may change to go out.

He guessed correctly, and after waiting for a while, he saw the door of the Taoist temple open again, and a carriage drove straight out of the courtyard.

Zhu Gaoxu calmed down, waited for the carriage to go out, and saw clearly that it was going to the left, he immediately jumped out of bed quickly and put on his boots. Then he took off his wide-brimmed hat from the wall and put it on, and walked briskly to the courtyard.

He glanced at the horses in front of the carriage and Wang Gui who was sitting in front, so he didn't say much, and went straight to open the oilcloth curtain and walked up.

"Get out of the main door." Zhu Gaoxu said, "Turn right after going out." ”

The main gate of this broken courtyard is not facing Chi Yueguan, on another street.

The gate was already open, Wang Gui flicked it lightly, and the carriage began to move. The wheels pressed over the threshold, and with a "clang", Zhu Gaoxu also bounced in the car.

The carriage was quite old and dilapidated, and Wang Gui didn't know where to buy it, but it happened to be useful. There was a very strange smell in the carriage, sour and sour, like a person sitting next to him who hadn't taken a shower for half a year.

There was another whip outside, and the carriage began to swerve to the right.

Zhu Gaoxu picked up the dirty curtain and glanced ahead. He was also very curious: Where is Xu Miaojin going?

Anyway, he was faintly excited and looking forward to it, after all, Wang Gui and he had been in the broken house for two months one after another!

If it weren't for Zhu Gaoxu's repeated thinking about the previous events, he really wanted to find out what happened on Chinese New Year's Eve and what the reason was, he probably couldn't stand it and would have given up. However, human curiosity and the desire to pursue truth are indeed very powerful.