The rain line covers the whole mountain, the county seat Wu'an, the ancient city wall weathered and fell bricks and stones, the solid rammed earth inside was exposed to the torrential rain, the cart creaked through the muddy water, occasionally fell into the deep pit of silt, the figure of the cart rushed from a distance, and the mixed screams of people sounded outside the city.

The driver of the car looked terrified, kept waving his whip and shouting angrily to move forward, far away on the official road crowded with muddy water, waiting for the passing convoy and porter stretched out densely for several miles, in the rain could not see the end, the soldiers on the city wall and near the city gate carried the slaughter of war.

In April, Jizhou sent troops to attack Shangdang County, Wen Chou led all the way to the noble god to quickly take the country Maocheng, and now he is ready to move the baggage back camp to the vicinity of the mountain city, so as to facilitate the need for a longer period of operations, in the war, there is no one who exists justice and evil, after capturing Maocheng, a large number of people began to move into the deeper mountains, and the struggle for control of the main road will inevitably kill and injure some, but in the end the road is smooth, but at this juncture, it will rain heavily, hindering transportation.

"It is necessary to speed up the journey, inform the team in front of you, cut down branches and pave the road."

All the way forward, Wen Chou was dressed in a robe, the built-in iron armor looked burly and stout, carrying a turtle-backed camel snake heavy spear, and the tiger whiskers on his chin were dense, like a lion, he pointed to the direction of the western foothills, surrounded by cavalry running back and forth, from time to time with the heralds around him to give orders, the war to attack Shangdang County has started, but the road in the mountains is difficult to walk, and it is even difficult to set up a military formation, the role of the cavalry is even more insignificant, seeing more than a month, the entire large-scale offensive circle is just shrinking like a turtle speed, which makes him feel anxious, If the war in Xuzhou ends, once Cao Cao and Gongsun stop the class, they will be fortunate to suffer for so long and sacrifice so many lives, they will almost have lost.

“.…… Yan Liang crossed the shore pavilion, to cross the Huzong Ridge, Zhang He went out of the song, crossed the Lugu Mountain to attack the big mountain, I don't know how the process was, Gao Gan from Wu County, Bingzhou, faced with the sheep's head mountain, no road is flat, once Gongsun stopped to help, or Shangdang County sent troops to fight even more stalemate. ”

"But we've already split Taihang Mountain in two." The person who spoke next to him was called Han Qiong, who was the nephew of Han Rong, the king of guns in Hebei, and was also a disciple of his own lineage, and he was quite good at martial arts, and Han Rong was a person who could be compared with Tong Yuan.

"That's right, but my three-way soldiers and horses can't be stationed in Taihang for a long time, once they retreat, Yu Poison will make a comeback, and I'm annoyed, in fact, I'm more worried about Gao Gan's side, Xu Rongnai, who guards Yanmen County, knows the art of war well, once he moves, Gao Rou, the scholar who stayed behind, is afraid that it will be difficult to parry."

Speaking of the battle here, he and Yu Poison have also fought twice in the rest of the month, winning and losing, the other party is like a nail nailed in a stone, which is difficult to pull out, and the battle in the mountains, the other party seems to be more comfortable.

It's mid-May, and there's not much time left for the three sides to attack Shangdang County. And a moment after the two of them spoke, a scout walked through the rain curtain and came to the foot of the mountain from afar, Wen Chou read the news on Su Silk, his brows furrowed, and Han Qiong next to him approached: "General, what happened?" ”

"The Montenegrin army went out of the mountain again, and it actually made the first move."

Wen Chou said something on horseback, and then shook the tiger's whiskers and laughed: "Brother Yan's deputy general Ying Shao was ambushed by the other party in the Fox Sect Ridge, and more than 3,000 people were defeated. ”

"Such a defeat, General Wen shouldn't laugh."

"I'm laughing because the other party can't move, and now that I'm out, I can just have a good fight."

However, the news transmission of this era is always lagging behind, in the time when Wenchou entered the mountain all the way, on May 20, three thousand black mountain foot soldiers crossed the mountains and mountains, took shortcuts to the sheep's head mountain, and directly blocked the waist on the way to the middle of the mountain to penetrate more than 10,000 people of Gao Gan, Zuo Zhangba personally led the team to rush and kill, and killed Wang Lingshan, the deputy general of the state high cadres in the chaos, and the battle situation on Taihang Mountain was fiercely unfolded under this knife.

On May 23rd and 24th, the king of the Montenegrin army led 5,000 people out of Hukou Pass to arrive at the big mountain to set up defenses, and on the 30th day, Yang Feng, the poison leader, led Yang Feng with 6,000 soldiers and horses to sneak attack on the 2,000 Black Mountain foot soldiers in the Huzong Ridge, and Yu Zhuozhangshui launched a tug-of-war offensive against Wen Chou who entered the mountain.

Tianguang east to Jizhou Yecheng, heavy rain is still down here, after entering the summer, the weather gradually becomes hot, relative to the outbreak of war in Xuzhou, Taihang Mountains, here is still prosperous and lively, the streets and alleys pedestrians pass through, carriages, ox carts crowd the crowd past, occasionally friction and quarrels and scolding sounded, some people raised the curtain to watch, the road in the city is a little lively, some deserted, you will also see all kinds of small business vendors shouting, sometimes you will see the strong man, the warrior on the street fiddling with swords and soldiers to attract the people who watch to applaud.

In the crowd of people, in the vacant place, two rather young men played with knives and sticks, one of them was tall and vigorous, with a cold face, and the other person he wanted to compare, the body was a little thinner, the appearance was ordinary, but the arms were strong, and the blade waved and the companions were vigorous, and the crowd broke out into cheers again, and many people also threw one or two copper coins to reward.

The wall against the back is a big mansion, the wall is high and the courtyard is deep and you can't see the inside, here is a hard performance, from time to time there are servants in the wall who are attracted to quietly poke their heads out to watch, just when the applause erupts, the closed courtyard door is noisy, and suddenly opens a figure is pushed out, and then a woman's cry attracts the attention of the crowd of onlookers.

The two people who performed here had to stop, stopped and looked over, it was a woman with a disheveled hair, her dress was torn in several places, she looked pitiful, crying and kneeling on the ground, and kept banging on the closed door, and then opened it again, someone threw out a small burden and smashed it in the woman's face, and the door closed again.

"What's the matter with that woman...... Why did the family ...... her?"

He looked back at one of the men who had been playing with guns and sticks before, and said with a smile: "I heard that it was Liu Fu's concubine room, who was forcibly taken from someone else's house. ”

"I heard that Liu Fu died in Youzhou." The man asked again.

"It's good to be dead, that Liu Fu relies on himself to be Yuan Jizhou's brother-in-law, doing evil everywhere, and these women in his house are not necessarily from good families, you see that woman, she was all driven out, and she still wants to go back, she really feels unfair for her last husband."

On the other side, someone pulled him, "Don't talk nonsense, be careful that it is not good to be heard, I can't say that this woman was kicked out after stealing the Liu family's things." ”

"It's also possible to have an affair with a subordinate, after all, my husband is dead, and it's unbearable to be lonely at night."

The small and fragmented words were passed through the crowd, occasionally causing laughter to burst into a loud voice, but this kind of thing in the big family, everyone just looked at the excitement, and waited until the end of the afternoon dusk, and the crowd gradually dispersed, and the woman huddled in the corner next to the mansion with her baggage, as if waiting for the courtyard door to open.

There was inevitably a good thing halfway, the prodigal son who coveted the other party's appearance and figure came to tease, but most of them were scolded away by the woman, and her pungent appearance was very different from the pitiful look of Chu Chu before.

The afterglow of dusk hung on the clouds, and the streets became scarcely crowded, and the two performers over there also cleaned up and prepared to leave, when the thin man looked at his companion, who nodded in understanding, and walked to the corner with a stick, and handed a piece of cake in front of the slender figure.

"It's getting dark, so if you don't have anywhere to go, just follow me."

The depressed woman's eyes were raised, and in the twilight of the dusk, the man was handsome and majestic, and his eyes couldn't help but glow with autumn water, and he had a good impression, hesitated, but still reached out and took the cake, and devoured it into his mouth.

The woman patted the dust behind her skirt and hurriedly followed with the cake in her mouth. went out of the city with the other party, and walked all the way down, but he couldn't walk anymore, so he let the handsome man before carry it, and his face quietly leaned on the other party's back, "As long as Lang Jun doesn't dislike the concubine, the concubine is willing to suffer with you." ”

On the suburban path, another man with a knife next to him fiddled with the knife, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth. The red sky shone through the field path, and the voice of the man carrying the woman on his back suddenly sounded, and then his footsteps stopped and stood still.

"Do you remember a man from Zhao Ping?"

When the woman heard this name, her body suddenly stiffened, and when she raised her face, she was light, fell backwards, and was lifted directly to the ground, her eyes crossed with a frightened look, and her feet couldn't help but kick on the ground and move backwards, "You...... Do you know me? Know...... My husband? ”

"My name is Zhao Yun...... "The tall back slowly turned around in this sky, and the originally gentle eyes became indifferent, "....... If there are no accidents, I should call you sister-in-law. ”

“.…… No...... No...... Are you scared of the concubine, right......" The woman was already scared, after she married Zhao Ping, she also knew that her husband had a younger brother in Youbeiping, and there were letters every month, and then the letters gradually decreased, thinking that the other party might have died in battle, and after becoming Liu Fu's concubine, she didn't think about this matter, and now she suddenly saw the other party standing in front of her, and it was not clear what she was here for," ....... Are you scared of me, please don't say this, the concubine will be your mother-in-law...... It's okay to give you a baby. ”

"Ethics can't be messy, there should be differences." Zhao Yun stretched out his hand, and Xiahou Lan next to him handed over a knife, and he took the handle of the knife and put it in the woman's hand, "My brother is very lonely in Yincao, and there is no one to speak, you should go down and accompany him......"

"Please don't kill me...... Don't don't don't ......"

The woman's face was distorted and she cried, wanting to let go of the knife in her hand, but the other party's hand fixed the handle of the knife in her hand, slowly lifted it and pressed it against the white jade neck, the cold and the fear of death spread all over her body, tears and snot flowed out, and her feet kept kicking under the hem of her skirt.

"Don't be afraid, it doesn't hurt." Zhao Yun held her hand and wiped it towards his neck, and a stream of blood shot into his face, still warm.

The crying woman's words and expressions froze at this moment, a large amount of blood gushed out of the wound, and she fell down with a bang, her delicate body squirmed and twitched, and her wide lips made a hoarse sound of 'cooing' with difficulty.

Zhao Yun got up, took out a plain silk to wipe the blood on the knife edge and returned it to Xiahou Lan, glanced at the female corpse that had faded from the temperature with an expressionless face, and turned to look at the outline of the city in the afterglow.

"I heard that Yuan Shao is attacking Shangdang County, and this Yecheng has been poisoned twice, let's get it once, which can be regarded as relieving the pressure on Shangdang County."

"Well, the country is probably impatient to wait, and if it drags on for so long, it will be exposed sooner or later." Xia Houlan inserted the blade back into the sheath, "Now that my brother's revenge has been avenged, it is time for Zilong to put it down." ”

Picking up the wooden stick on the ground, Zhao Yun smiled at him, waved his hand, turned around and walked forward, his voice floating in the wind very softly, "I'm very good, let's go, don't let the country wait." ”

Soon, night fell, and the grudge was gone.

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At the end of May, in Xuchang, Yuzhou, the advance team had arrived a hundred miles outside the city, and the news of the return of the great victory had swept up in the city, and the summer rainstorm gradually spread.