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At dusk, the sky is full of red clouds, like fire, passing through the dim sky, reflecting half of the sky red. A group of black crows circling in the sky, screaming in desolately, and their blood-red eyes staring at the city that was about to fall.

The crows sensed a terrifying aura over the city below, waiting for the feast of the crows that was about to begin.

Suzhou, Shenwuchuan.

The Shatuo people have attached the settlements after the Tang Dynasty for decades. At this time, under the city gate, the crowds of people fleeing in a hurry were crowded with each other. Everyone gathered like a black ant array, along the dim twilight and vast wilderness. Even if they brought their families and dragged their children, they showed endless anxiety and fear on their faces, but no one dared to breathe loudly, as if a louder voice would attract countless powerful Qin cavalry to trample on and massacre.

Damage is coming, and human life is like grass.

"Who said that the people in troubled times are the most miserable? They at least have a chance to escape. Humph, I see, these people really don't know how many times better than us Qiuba." A city guard soldier holding a spear, leaning against the corner of the wall, and glancing at the crowd of escapees, sarcastically thrust at his companions beside him.

Behind his uneasy, the three words "Shenwuchuan" are engraved in the middle of the gate of the city tower, which are simple and sakura Sang.

Another soldier moved over and leaned over and whispered: "Have you heard it? It is said that this time, the Qin King Li Jing sent Zhang Zimian, the general of the court's left guard. He was known as a famous general of the court. He once asked Cui An to consent to Huang Chao Wang Xianzhi. In the southeast, he personally killed Wang Xianzhi's head and killed more than 30,000 thieves in one fell swoop. He was majestic and extremely vicious. Now he has defected to Li Jing and become the marshal of the Western Expedition. He is in a hurry to use our heads as a gift to advance. He dyed his official robe red with our blood. If our Shenwuchuan falls into his hands, it will be a great disaster."

The soldier before sighed, "Hey, we will suffer from anyone who comes to Qin Fan. Li Jing went to Daibei twice. No matter how many times he made it shaved three feet and plucked the hairs. Not to mention the army, even ordinary people, he would take it away, and even the cattle and sheep. Our king fought with Li Jing twice. Once, almost all the troops were wiped out and fled to Mobei. This second time, he almost wiped out his entire army and hid for more than half a year before he emerged. Now Li Siyuan has rebelled and leads the Qin army into Jin. Oh, it's us who are unlucky."

The latter soldier said in surprise: "Is that so? Didn't the king ask the Khitan 100,000 cavalry to go south to help clear the portal? Didn't Li Siyuan just flee to Yunzhou?"

"Li Siyuan was not escaping, but retreating. I heard Ma Dashao say yesterday that when he was delivering wine to Wang Zaiwei, he heard that Li Siyuan was afraid that his subordinates would rebel against him again, so he simply discussed with the Qin army that he would take his men to Yunzhou to help prevent the Hu people, and then hand it over to the Qin army to deal with the King of Jin."

"Then why are we still staying here?"

"Of course we have to guard it." A big man with an officer looked like an officer suddenly came over, staring at the two Shatu soldiers with a cold face, and said solemnly: "Li Sizhao and Li Siyuan betrayed the King of Jin, but we have always been loyal to the King. Now Li Siyuan colluded with the Qin army and came over. He ran to Yunzhou, but we were about to seize the Shenwuchuan occupation and guard the King's troops and horses."

Shenwuchuan is located in the southern part of Shuozhou to the north of Daizhou, and Yanmen Pass to the south.

Li Siyuan was mutinous and besieged by his subordinates at Yanmen Pass, and left behind the two Xin Dai Prefectures and retreated to this place. After discussing with the Qin army, Li Keyong continued to retreat north to Yunzhou and fought with the Qin army to fight the Hu people south. Zhang Zimian went south to Shuozhou himself, preparing to clear out the mutiny Shatuo soldiers.

The land of Daibei is now in chaos, with wandering soldiers everywhere. A group of soldiers who mutinied from Shuozhou originally planned to go south to Yanmen, but after passing by, the captain above planned to stay here, occupy Shenwuchuan and wait for the Yanmen soldiers to go north, which would have made great contributions by then.

The captain Li Keyong was loyal to him, and he couldn't help but feel a little lucky, thinking that the Qin army did not come so quickly, and that this place was very close to Yanmen Pass, so it was a good opportunity to have a chance.

The Shatuo soldiers at the city gate were silent to each other and secretly scolded their boss for fear of life.

At this moment, a riot started faintly beside the city gate.

A carriage burning with raging flames suddenly rumbled and rammed into the panicked crowd. The horse was slapped in a panic and screamed and rushed towards the city gate along the road. The crowd retreated to the sides like a tide. Just as the carriage was about to rush through the narrow city gate, the burning carriage suddenly exploded violently, with sounds shook the sky, fires rising, countless broken wood and gravel splashed, hurting a fugitive that they had no time to hide.

Everyone at the city gate was attracted by the sudden incident.

Suddenly, a figure jumped up to the city gate tower like lightning, held up a crossbow and pulled the knife repeatedly, shooting and killing nine soldiers in one fell swoop. Then when the general Shatuo, who was under the banner on the city gate tower reacted, he had already drawn out a sharp and fast sword on his back.

The sword energy is as fast as lightning.

"Stop him!" A trace of fear flashed in the general's eyes. He had experienced a long battle formation and could see that this was a master of swordsmanship. His move was as fast as thunder and lightning, and his move was fatal.

Several soldiers shouted and rushed straight with their guns. The swordsman snatched in. The first sword cut open the throat of the soldier who rushed in front, the second sword cut off a soldier's leg, and the third sword, and the long sword directly penetrated the soldier's chest.

The soldier held the blade in both hands, as if he wanted to stop the sword from stabbing in, but a sword tip had already been exposed behind him, and blood was still dripping on it.

The assassin did not draw the sword again, but instead stretched his hands down and took two seven-hole big dog-leg knives from his thighs. The black knife surface was not reflective at all, and it made her feel like a tiger holding it in the assassin's hand.

She held both swords in her hands and her steps were swift. She passed by like a butterfly. After she flashed, only corpses on the ground and half-dead soldiers with few arms and legs were left behind.

"Who are you!"

Seeing that he was doomed, General Shatuo roared and asked the last sentence.

The female assassin jumped into the air, like a tiger pounced on food, and inserted the two swords in his hand into the chest from the neck of Shatuo General.

Blood splattered, and general Shatuo's eyes gradually faded.

"Anyone who dares to be powerful in the Qin King will be punished even if it is far away, and even if it is strong, it will be killed!"

Shatuo's general's neckline was sprayed with blood, trying hard to make his eyes stare at the female assassin. "Who are you!"

"When I arrived at the underworld, I saw the King of Hell, tell him that you were dead under Murong Xue's knife!" After saying this, Murong Xue pulled back her swords, jumped into the air, and jumped down from the four-meter-high city tower in Shenwuchuan. When she was about to land, she suddenly threw a cable out of her hand and grabbed the battlement behind her. She landed smoothly and safely, and then disappeared.

The Shatu soldiers at the city gate had not yet come back from their shock at this time. They could not believe that someone had broken into the city with three thousand people in broad daylight, jumped to the city gate tower, and in an instant, they killed more than 20 soldiers and killed the main general of the three thousand soldiers on the city gate tower, and then they went away.

Their eyes were still staring at the city gate tower. Under the confused twilight, a bloody smell scattered on the Shenwu River. The rolling Shatuo flag suddenly fell like fallen leaves rolled up by the autumn wind.

From the soldiers looked at each other: "The chief general died like this, what should I do now?"

Do you want to chase the assassin? Several lieutenants were still in shock, their eyes were filled with ink-like sky, and they looked at the vast wilderness, and there was silence.

Before several lieutenants of Shatuo came to their senses from their fear, suddenly the smoke and dust rose in front of them, and the sound of hooves was like thunder.

The Shatuo Captains' expressions changed drastically, "No, I didn't expect the Qin army to come so quickly!" Before he finished speaking, the Shatuo people who fled with the elderly and the young instantly drifted like an ant swarm of scattered by the flood. Wherever the Qin vanguard and iron cavalry rushed over, there were constant crying for help. Many Shatuo people who were unable to dodge died tragically under the roaring and speeding horse hooves.

A young man from Shatuo at the gate of the city exclaimed: "Didn't it mean that the Qin army is the most kind, but a benevolent and righteous army of the king and never hurt the people?"

The former lieutenant Shatuo who reprimanded them said with a dark face: "No matter how kind the Qin army is, it is only for the Tang people. In their eyes, we Shatuo people are just alien races, not humans at all. Boy, see clearly that the Shatuo people can believe in only themselves, and only the swords in their hands can protect our tribesmen from massacre."

On the city, Shatu soldiers were desperately yelling the alarm bell.

The clanging alarm bell rang rapidly, like the howling of the injured wolf before his death.

I saw nearly a thousand Qin cavalry coming towards me, one by one like a wolf or a tiger, one by red helmet and red armor, a spear like a forest, a sabre of snow, and a thunder. It was the Qin vassal iron cavalry that rushed from Datong. More than a thousand cavalrymen were moving fast, and there was no breath except the sound of the iron hooves of war horses trampling on the earth. The discipline was so strict that it was amazing.

At the front of this team, a big flag was first floating in the wind, and a flying cavalry was written on it, and a flag was written on it, with the word Yang.

The Shatuo Captain, who was commanding the people to retreat, changed his face and said in surprise: "The Flying Cavalry Army, the Flying Cavalry Army, Yang Shihou and Yang Tianxiong's Flying Cavalry Army!" The lieutenant once participated in the battle to attack Junduguan with Li Siyuan. That time, they easily captured Junduguan from Li Kuanwei. But within a day, it was Yang Shihou and Fu Shen who used human and sheep to raid and seize Junduguan. Li Siyuan led them to fight to the death, trying to persevere until the next day Liu's reinforcements arrived. But in the end, under the attack of the Flying Cavalry and the brigade cavalry, they only defended for half a night and were defeated and fled.

Now that I saw the Flying Cavalry and Yang Shihou's banner again, Shatuo's great man was suffering and knew that they could not defend Shenwuchuan. They only had 3,000 soldiers and horses, and the main general had just been assassinated in public, and the morale of the army was weak. The Qin army vanguard had already arrived, and the general who came was Li Jing's disciple like Yang Shihou.

Just looking at the marching of this vanguard, you can know that no wonder the Qin vassal army has been invincible in recent years. Just looking at the well-trained cavalry in front of you, they are no longer weaker than the Shatuo Army, which was known as the strongest cavalry in the world. Seeing that the Qin soldiers were getting closer and closer, and it seemed that the large troops behind were also coming in a steady stream. I am afraid that in a while, the subsequent army will arrive, and these 3,000 people will not even be able to defeat one of the waves and will be submerged under the iron hoof of the Qin army.

Several other lieutenants were still shouting loudly, directing their soldiers to close the door and guard the city, waiting for reinforcements. The strong man shook his head, sighed, and finally said to the young man Shatuo: "Boy, if you don't want to die here immediately, follow me!" After that, he turned his head without looking back and walked around the city south.

The two of them rode on their horses for more than an hour, and the dusk became darker, and they ran for another hour. They saw a small ruined temple under the moonlight, as quiet as empty.

The strong man stopped his horse and jumped down and said, "Let's rest here for a while, and then we will rush to Yanmen."

The boy said with some concern: "The Qin army is right behind. We stop at this time. What if they catch up?"

"Seeing that you are very smart, why do you ask such a stupid question? The more you have to hurry, the better you have to control your speed. If you just run wildly, you will start to run fast, but if you don't run for long, the horse will be useless. If you control your speed and then take a proper rest and drink horse feeding, you will be able to run further."

The strong man asked the boy to fetch water and drink horses, but he went out with a bow. After a while, the boy drank two horses and brought two large bags of water back. The strong man was already carrying two fat rabbits. The two were about to make a fire, but suddenly heard the sound of hooves outside the temple and the noise of people. He was shocked and hid aside.

I heard many people coming over, and one of them said, "Damn it, I ran for two hours in one breath, and I almost lost my anger. Let's take a breath here."

The strong man heard that they were all in Shatu accent, and his voice was very familiar, and he felt hesitant. The temple gate had been kicked open, and a group of people broke in in a mess. The boy looked at him, but he saw that the people were all dressed in black clothes of Shatu soldiers, mostly blood-stained, and very embarrassed. The leader was thick-browed and big-eyed, with a beard all over his face, and looked rough and generous. When the boy saw him, he was overjoyed and immediately jumped out from behind.

Seeing that the small temple was quiet, the group thought there was no one, but suddenly saw someone jumping out, and couldn't help panic. They retreated quickly, while working on various weapons defenses.

"Brother Mi, it's me." The man in the leader saw the boy's appearance through the moonlight, and was also very surprised, shouting: "Brother Kang, you are still alive. Lao Mi, I thought you had already been cut off by the Qin people and went to ask for me."

The young man was a soldier in Shatuo's army. His family was a Sogdian businessman and lived in the north of Dai. Last time, Li Siyuan recruited the army, and he was enlisted in the army at the age of fifteen. However, this time their lieutenant rebelled against Li Siyuan, so he had to follow him all the way south. The great man was the head of their capital. He usually read his youth and knew how to write, so he took good care of him.

The boy surnamed Soddie Kang came forward and asked, "Midou, why are you here?"

Mi Dutou yelled and said dejectedly: "Shenwuchuan has been lost, we have escaped all the way."

Kang Ping'an was shocked when he heard this. From the time when the Qin army appeared, only two hours later, the three thousand Shatuo soldiers guarded Shenwuchuan City and were defeated?

"How could it be so fast?"

Mi Dutou sighed, "The Qin army only fired one round of arrows and threw a few more thunders. The fucking cord immediately opened the Xicheng and led the Qin army into the city. As soon as the Xicheng Gate opened, Shenwuchuan fell.'

This is the man who also walked out from behind and said in a deep voice: "The Qin army had already sneaked into Shenwuchuan in the Eight Cities, and opened the Xicheng Gate during the chaos. We, Shatuo, don't have so many cords. What about the others?"

Mi Dutou recognized the man as one of the three thousand lieutenants, with a little surprised in his eyes, but he still said angrily: "The three thousand people are probably almost dead. Once the city is broken, it will be trampled by the Qin army's iron hooves. We have escaped after seeing the opportunity."
Chapter completed!