In the end, Zhao Wuxian came to the courtyard of the township temple where the soldiers gathered and rested. ：／

The morning sun was about to rise, the dew on the dry grass in the stone crevices began to steam, and the little wheat cake that had been eaten yesterday had long since been consumed, and everyone was hungry and thirsty.

In response to last night's promise, when the cooks were killing outside, they were also sharpening knives on leather belts and killing sheep and slaughtering sheep. This will make a fragrant broth and soft and delicious water cakes, served in a large cauldron to treat everyone, and a few salty meat sauces, which are full of meat.

For a moment, the whole yard was only the sound of sucking and swallowing, and the "gurgling" sound of drinking soup. Occasionally, when the chopsticks caught the meat piece halfway through the meal, they suddenly thought of the enemy they had assassinated with their own hands last night, as well as the charred corpses in the explosion, and suddenly felt nausea and vomiting.

These people were scolded and kicked out of the courtyard by the military officials, and asked them to go to the toilet by themselves to solve the problem, don't be disgusting here, which caused a burst of laughter.

After eating, the exhaustion of a night's hard work came up, and everyone's eyelids were heavy, and they all wanted to lie down and sleep at once.

"Boom!"

However, at this moment, a rapid gong sound was heard from the back door.

"There's an enemy coming!?" The crowd fell asleep and immediately stood up, scrambling to grasp the weapons that had been thrown aside.

"Don't panic! Or rest in batches, half of them stay, and half of them come with me. ”

Having said that, along the way, Zhao Wuxian's mood was still a little heavy. Although he vowed to make the people who attacked Chengxiang pay the price, if the enemy counterattacked so quickly and came back with reinforcements, Chengxiang would probably not be able to fight alone!

However, when he arrived at the back door, through the ruins, Zhao Wuxian looked out, but there was only one person and one horse in the distance, running and stopping in this direction, while still looking left and right. Looks very wary.

Zhao Wuxian saw clearly who the person on the horse was, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"Sneaky, I thought it was an enemy spy, Musha, go out and summon him in!"

……

Yu Xi rode alone. Driving his horse over the ruins and into the back door, which had been completely destroyed by the collision and explosion, Zhao Wuxian saw that his mount was covered in sweat, presumably because he had galloped all the way.

"Gentleman, where are the robbers?" Yu Xi's horse was picked in the lower palace stable. The bow and arrows were placed in the saddle at his disposal, and he was still cautiously observing, wondering if this Chengxiang was in the hands of his own people, or if he had fallen to the enemy.

Seeing the tragic scene here, with arrows and blood all over the ground, and broken weapons, he was even more uneasy in his heart.

It wasn't until Mucha walked out and lifted the curtain that Yu Xi's heart was put back in her stomach.

But all the way in, Yu Xi was a little stunned, according to the news he got before, didn't he say that nearly two thousand thieves came to besiege him? From the words of several doctors in the lower palace. He also heard that this was not an ordinary thief, but an elite disguised as a hostile Qing clan.

"I have long been beaten by us, killed, caught, and only a few people escaped without their lives!" After Tian Ben interrogated the captive, he came over to report to Zhao Wuxian, so he pulled Yu Xi and wanted to take him to the neighborhood to see the mountains of corpses.

Zhao Wuxian kicked the evil boy away angrily. After asking, I learned that Yu Xi took his token last night and went to ask for help, crawling on the mountain trails along the way. It wasn't until the middle of the night that I arrived at the lower palace.

The lower palace was also in a wartime state, very vigilant and efficient, and after waiting for half a moment, Yu Xi was summoned by the four doctors, and he said what Zhao Wuxian had told him as it was.

The doctors talked for a while, and then went out together for a half moment under the whisper of a black-clothed guard. When they came back, everyone was smiling and decided to send troops to the rescue immediately!

Yu Xi was overjoyed and immediately volunteered, he asked Jia's cavalry to stay behind and lead the way for the reinforcements of the lower palace, while he rode to the front on horseback to take charge of the detectives.

Jia Sima Post Wuzheng guessed that this was an attack launched by the hostile Qing clan pretending to be a thief, so there would definitely be a backhand, perhaps, there would be an ambush in the middle of the road.

So although they agreed to the rescue, they were also careful everywhere, and sent many spies in all directions, and Yu Xi was one of them. He was worried about the safety of Chengxiang, so he relied on his skillful horse skills and ran directly towards the most dangerous avenue.

Along the way, however, he encountered no enemies, except for a few spots: horse manure, ruts, and scattered footprints. But those footprints were swept away by the branches, and he could not see where they were heading, only that he knew that a large group of men had been stationed here, but for some reason, he hastily withdrew before dawn.

So, Yu Xi just stopped and went until he reached Chengxiang, because he had been robbed in Shanyang before, so he cautiously changed to Shanyin.

On Tian Ben's side, he took advantage of the power of the "heavenly thunder" and even frightened and beat him, forcing some captured enemy officers to tell the truth. After interrogation, the captives confessed that they were indeed the family soldiers of the Fan and Zhongxing clans, and the so-called Lu Liang group of thieves were also instructed by the two families.

"Sure enough, it's Fan and the second secretary of the Bank of China, I will take revenge for this revenge!"

After listening to Tian Ben's report, Zhao Wuxian was not only angry in his heart, but also puzzled.

After last night's battle, he had people repair the walls non-stop and made preparations to meet the enemy again. Who knows, everything was calm this morning, and I couldn't help but be surprised by the actions of Fan and Bank of China.

Yu Xi was pulled by Tian Ben, who was covered in wounds, and boasted about the battle of last night, as well as the loud noise that terrified the enemy. Hearing this, Yu Xi stomped his feet, and said bluntly that he had missed a great opportunity for meritorious service and insight.

After hearing that there was no enemy situation along the way and that reinforcements were coming, everyone relaxed again, yawned for a long time, and just wanted to go back to sleep.

"Don't be careless!" Zhao Wuxian was reminding himself and everyone that the nature of this attack was very obvious, and it was a fire robbery by Fan and Zhongxing when Zhao Ying was unconscious.

He once thought that the Qing civil war had broken out, but looking at the performance of Fan and Bank of China after the failure of the night attack, it didn't look like a posture to start a big war.

"Fan Ying, and Zhong Xingyin, these two cunning greedy wolves, what are they thinking?"

After Zhao Wuxian let Yu Xi rest for a while, he took a few horsemen from Chengxiang to inquire about the news in all directions, and greeted the arrival of reinforcements from the lower palace.

……

Zhao Wuxian speculated on the strange actions and intentions of Fan and Bank of China here, while Bank of China Heiqiu and Fan Jia, after Mingjin withdrew their troops, they fled down the mountain unwillingly but fearfully.

The reason why they attacked the township at night was that they were red-eyed and shirtless, and they had relied on wheat flour and porcelain to make a lot of money in the past six months; The second is to listen to what Fan Yingxin said, and want to test Zhao's reaction. to see if Zhao Ying is really "dead"; The third is to trap its territory, block the road, cause chaos in the Zhao family, and take the opportunity to do something elsewhere.

But after all, because Fan Ying was not in the capital. I am also worried that the rumors that "Zhao Qing is dead" are the conspiracy of Dong Anyu, a doctor in Jinyang. Therefore, before the intelligence was confirmed, before Fan Ying returned, they did not dare to attack the Zhao clan with open fire, so they borrowed the origin of the Lu Liang group of thieves.

According to Zhong Xingyin's original plan. If you pull out Chengxiang, you will be able to choke Zhao's throat and seize the initiative. If you can lure the Zhao reinforcements and annihilate them in one fell swoop, then the Zhao family will be in the vicinity of Xinjiang.

Because in a radius of 100 miles in Xinjiang, and even in the Hedong region, Bank of China and Fan have large areas of connected territory. Compared with the Zhao family, where the Lingyi and the small sects were scattered inside and outside Taihang, or on the northern border, the two families had an absolute advantage.

But who knows. In the first step of the plan, there was a problem.

Chengxiang is not a piece of fat meat to be slaughtered, but a hard bone!

According to common sense, with 500 thieves, with 1,000 carefully selected Fan and Zhongxing soldiers, and let the Zhongxing Heiqiu, who is known as a knowledgeable soldier, personally lead, it is enough to easily crush this hundred small towns.

As a result, the robbers lost more than 200 of them, and only more than 500 of the soldiers of the two families escaped, and nearly half of them were killed or captured.

This is something they had never expected before. If you lose the battle, that's it. But that inexplicable loud noise made the soldiers of Fan and Zhongxing clan in the shadow of defeat, and they were also infected with a feeling of fear.

So. When Fan Jia and the Bank of China Heiqiu arrived at the planned meeting ambush site with the remnants of the soldiers, they exaggerated and frightened everyone waiting here.

"The power of ghosts?"

Sima of the Zhongxing clan, who set up an ambush on the road and was ready to block the reinforcements of the Zhao clan in the lower palace, had a gloomy face, and he looked at the pale faces of the two gentlemen, as well as the dejected eyes and scars of the remnants. I don't dare to say or believe it.

What if, when there is a thunderbolt on his head, what will he do?

The plan was interrupted, coupled with the atmosphere of defeat brought back by Fan Jia and Bank of China Heiqiu, Jia Sima lost his fighting spirit, and simply withdrew his troops while the night was not over.

This is the reason why Yu Xi probed all the way, only saw traces, and did not see ambushes.

This conspiracy, under the fear of the ignorant enemy of the "power of ghosts and gods", turned into a farce of anticlimactic snakes.

……

Half an hour after Yu Xi left, the orange-red autumn sun had risen.

Although Zhao Wuxian guessed that what he did last night would definitely be spread, who expected that Fan and Zhongxing's ambush soldiers would be frightened and retreat in embarrassment. also blame the other party's plan for being too hasty, it seems to be linked one link after another, but in fact, as long as one detail goes wrong, it will all be invalidated.

Wuxian didn't know that there were so many twists and turns, he was thinking hard about the other party's intentions, but he heard someone on the watchtower report: "Gentleman, there are hundreds of foot soldiers in the north going up the mountain!" ”

It stands to reason that it should be Yu Xi's reinforcements to greet him, but he is still cautious, and he let everyone put on their armor, hold their weapons tightly, and prepare to meet the enemy.

At this moment, the officers immediately took their positions, shouting careless orders as they ran.

Unlike the panic of the first battle last night, everyone now seems to be very orderly.

Leaning against the corner, the soldiers who were staggering and dozing off stood up one by one, and the people who heard the news also spontaneously gathered from nearby.

That is, in a moment, hundreds of people have already finished lining up, and in a short period of time, Chengxiang is full of forested weather, everyone is looking at Zhao Wuxian with their heads held high, as long as he raises his arms, he can fight at any time.

"A soldier who has seen blood is very different!"

Zhao Wuxian was very satisfied, after last night's incident, his already unattainable prestige rose again, if Chengxiang had prestige, then now it was definitely the worship of breaking through the sky.

The corpses at the back door were almost cleaned up, the captives were forcibly carried with earth and masonry, the door was blocked, a low female wall was erected, and the outside was refenced, so that even if it was really an enemy, they could fight!

At this time, the people on the opposite side could gradually see clearly: the fiery autumn sun occupied the center of the flag on a white background, and below it was a pure black bird soaring with its wings.

It is the totem of the Zhao family, and it is the Xuanniao flag of the hot sun! (To be continued.) )

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