Evergreen Immortal

"What are you going to do?"

The face of the Wu Kingdom businessman almost turned the color of pig liver the moment Li Rui finished speaking.

He backed away in horror.

Looking at Li Rui.

The old man from Yu State in front of him was as unpredictable as the abyss of the sea.

He suddenly regretted it.

Looking at the people from the Wu Kingdom around him, they all took a step back almost at the same time and distanced themselves from him.

The businessman from the Wu Kingdom finally couldn't hold on:

"I, I was wrong, just listen to you."

He wanted to give in, but Li Rui's eyes were even colder.

The next moment.

The sword suddenly appeared.

The head of the Wu Kingdom merchant was flying high, and scarlet blood sprayed on the trees nearby, which was shocking.

Everyone gasped when they saw this scene.

So cruel!

It is said that the people of the Wu Kingdom are fierce and warlike, but today they understand that the people of the Yu Kingdom are truly ruthless.

The mountain forest fell into a dead silence.

Li Rui spoke slowly: "I don't know what you think, and I'm not interested in knowing, but I want to tell you something."

"This is a battlefield!"

Finished.

He continued to run in the designated direction without looking back.

Dao Mo looked at the corpse of the Wu Kingdom businessman on the ground with complicated eyes, gritted his teeth and followed him.

As Li Rui said, now is equivalent to war, all benevolent methods will only appear ineffective, and killing to establish power is the most efficient method now.

After that, no one dared to question Li Rui's decision along the way.

Until late at night.

Everyone climbed over a hill.

I saw the brightly lit city not far away.

Qinghe City.

When he saw Qinghe, Dao Mo's expression relaxed slightly.

He was about to speak.

Then I heard Li Rui ordering to Tan Hu on the side: "Ask two people to go down the mountain to investigate."

Tan Hu acted vigorously and immediately told the men riding the tiger to come down the mountain.

Xu Wen was silent all the way until he spoke:

"Master Li, this is close to Qinghe City. Who dares to attack here? Is it too cautious?"

Li Rui said expressionlessly: "Master Xu, does he know when swordsmen like to kill people?"

Xu Wen was stunned.

He didn't understand why Li Rui asked a question that was irrelevant to the current situation, but he still asked subconsciously: "When?"

“The moment you step into your home.”

Xu Wen's heart sank.

He understood what Li Rui meant.

Because at that time, vigilance is reduced to the lowest, which seems to be the safest, but is actually the most dangerous.

They are not in that situation now.

After a while.

The scout returns.

Tan Hu asked: "How is the situation?"

The scout told exactly what he was about to see.

Tan Hu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that no ambush enemies had been found.

He was about to ask Li Rui if he was going to the city now.

But he found that Li Rui's face became more solemn than ever before, and he heard Li Rui sigh: "Huzi, ask someone to go a mile away and shoot the arrows."

"!!"

Tan Hu's eyes widened with confusion on his face: "Brother Li, if there is no one around, why do you still need to shoot the arrow?"

Li Rui explained:

"Xiaohai just said that there is a group of caravans resting in the woods on the official road."

"But the county government has clearly issued an order banning caravans from traveling. Where did the caravans come from?"

Tan Hu was not a fool. He began to analyze: "Brother Li, could it be that those people went out of the city against the wind?"

Li Rui: "Are we going to risk our lives?"

Tan Hu was silent.

He immediately ordered to a soldier: "Take people one mile away and shoot loud arrows!"

The sounding arrow is a special sounding arrow made by the Anning Guard.

If it is released outside Anning City, not only a few guards will be alarmed, Jiang Linxian and Cao Wei will personally go out of the city to investigate.

Once abuse is confirmed, severe penalties will be imposed.

Li Rui is not decisive.

As for why he had to go a mile away.

Of course, this is to prevent the enemy from discovering the sounding arrow. If the opponent is too strong, they may be forcibly killed before Jiang Linxian or Cao Wei arrives.

Therefore, if you go a mile away, you can detect the enemy immediately and have time to evacuate.

Tan Hu did everything.

When he looked at Li Rui, his eyes became even more admiring.

He once stayed in the Northwest Frontier Army and knew very well how terrifying it is for people who can think carefully in this kind of crisis.

If it were him, he would have rushed into the city without even thinking.

I wouldn't have thought of it at all.

Whoosh!

A sharp roar echoed over Qinghe, leaving a trail of white smoke in the air that could not be dissipated.

An Ningwei in the west of Qinghe City came to life almost instantly.

A troop of cavalry galloped out of the city.

"grass!"

Outside the official road, in the woods.

Several people who looked like they were from the Yu Kingdom's caravan all looked up at the white smoke in the sky.

His face turned ugly.

"Rui Lao, us"

Several people turned to look at the old man who was still sitting on the stone.

They were the masters of the Southern Xinjiang Qi clan who were ambushing outside Qinghe City.

Unexpectedly, instead of waiting, the sounding arrow from An Ningwei came.

The old man Qi Rui stood up slowly:

"Let's go."

"We can no longer stay here. Jiang Linxian and Cao Wei join forces. I am no match for them."

After saying that, he stood up first.

Walking towards the depths of the mountain forest.

The other people looked at each other, and although they were unwilling to do so, they all followed.

On the official road.

The piles of goods were placed on the ground, rustling in the wind, and a streak of white appeared in the sky.

Qi Yu's face was extremely ugly.

After chasing for fifty miles, they were still let go.

He never expected that the Wu Kingdom's caravan would not follow the route on the defense map, but change the route in advance, and even abandon all the goods on the spot.

It was as if they had predicted it in advance.

"What happened?"

Qi Yu's mind was full of question marks.

Generally speaking, the routes on the defense map are strictly confirmed and will hardly change.

But the final result was.

The Wu Kingdom's caravan really disappeared from under their noses.

Liu Jiaoniang's smile faded, and she watched coldly.

Anyway, this time it was all planned by the Qi family in Southern Xinjiang, and they were just here to help, and it would not have any impact if they failed.

Qi Yu suddenly looked at Liu Jiaoniang fiercely:

"Did you leak the news?"

Liu Jiaoniang was so angry that she laughed: "Qi Yu, you are born in the year of the dog, you will bite everyone you see."

But she also murmured in her heart.

Today's incident, no matter how you look at it, it seems that someone has leaked the news.

Qi Yu was about to get angry.

When he heard Yuan Gao speak: "Who is the leader of the Yu State this time?"

Qi Yu's mind popped up a few names:

"Wu Shou Dao Mo, Supervisor Xu Wen, and An Ning Wei Lieutenant Li Rui."

When he heard Li Rui's name.

A strange color flashed in Liu Jiaoniang's eyes.

'He's not dead? ! '

She remembered that Li Rui was drugged by her charming slave, and the fairy spirit was found from that Yu State official.

Not only did he not die, but he was promoted to Lieutenant.

But Liu Jiaoniang didn't plan to speak. As I said, today's incident had nothing to do with her.

Talking more would only cause trouble for herself.

Yuan Gao looked at the goods and gave the final order:

"Take the goods away, and half of the mission will be completed. An Ning Guard will come soon. If it is Jiang Linxian, I may not be able to stop her."

Even if he was unwilling, Qi Yu understood.

Now it was a situation that could not be reversed.

Yu Guo could not find them in the mountains, and they were the same.

If they continued to stay, they might be surrounded by Jiang Linxian's troops. At that time, it might not be as simple as failing to complete the mission, but losing their lives.

He gritted his teeth:

"Move!"

The sun was shining, the sound of horses' hooves was rapid, and the stones on the ground were shaken up and down.

A line of troops appeared on the official road.

"We're here."

Xu Wen was the first to get off the horse.

This is the place where the goods were abandoned at that time.

At this moment, there was no goods in front of them, only bare yellow land.

Cao Wei and Yan Zhongxing got off the horse.

The two looked solemn.

Last night, Cao Wei saw the signal arrows and went out of the city to check. He first found two soldiers of the Tiger Riders, and then was led to find the large army of Dao Mo, Li Rui and others.

After asking about the situation.

He immediately led people with Yan Zhongxing to the place where the goods were abandoned.

Still too late.

"How dare you rob the army!"

Cao Wei's forehead was bulging with veins.

This was simply a slap in his face.

"Investigate!"

"We must find out who did it!"

At this time, some people in the Wu Kingdom caravan glanced at Li Rui intentionally or unintentionally.

Finally.

A Wu Kingdom merchant said: "General Cao, it was Lord Li's decision to abandon the goods and evacuate. If it was just a group of thieves, wouldn't the two countries lose face?"

Hearing this.

Li Rui still had a calm face.

The faces of several people in An Ningwei instantly became gloomy.

Li Rui had acted with lightning speed before, beheading a Wu merchant on the spot. At that time, the situation was urgent, and these Wu merchants did not dare to attack. Now that the crisis has passed, they have found the right opportunity to attack.

Yan Zhongxing was thoughtful.

Before coming, he had learned the whole process of the matter from Xu Wen.

To be honest.

It is not impossible.

After all, when Li Rui ordered to abandon the goods, he did not even see the enemy.

Dao Mo's heart sank.

As an official of Wu, he was almost certain that the princes of Wu would definitely take action. The only difference was which prince.

Although these merchants were from the same country as him, he despised such behavior of forgetting righteousness for the sake of profit and crossing the river to destroy the bridge.

He was about to speak.

Unexpectedly, Cao Wei took the lead and snorted coldly with a bad face: "Why, are you questioning the decision of my Yu country?"

The Wu merchant was stunned.

He did not expect Cao Wei to be so strong and raised the matter to the level of the country as soon as he opened his mouth. For a moment, he did not know what to say.

Cao Wei continued:

"I, An Ning Wei, will definitely find out the truth, but before we find out, if anyone dares to gossip, no matter which country they are from, I, Cao, will kill them!"

In front of outsiders, as the lieutenant general of An Ning Wei, he must stand by his men unconditionally, including Li Rui.

The Wu merchant shrank his neck and cursed in his heart:

"He is a brainless reckless man!"

He is a soldier, he is a merchant, whether in Yu or Wu, once he gets ruthless, he can't afford to offend him.

The atmosphere became tense.

Yan Zhongxing sighed and tried to mediate:

"The investigation can be postponed for the time being, but the trade is imminent and the goods are lost. Solving this problem now is the most important thing."

The Yu merchant came to the market and found that there was no goods.

The trade will become a joke.

Cao Wei also frowned slightly.

This matter is indeed difficult to handle.

Just when everyone fell into silence, Li Rui slowly spoke:

"In fact, there are still goods."