Don't disturb me, I won't be a concubine

The door of the inn was closed. When the innkeeper saw Cui Qiyan and his companions coming down, he knew that they had gone out early in the morning in the past two days, so he came up to them and advised them, "Dear guests, please do not go out today. The Northern Di people are attacking the city. If they break in, they may hurt you."

After hearing this, the five people's faces turned serious.

"If Xizhou City is breached, we will probably suffer even if we hide in the inn." Tan Hao murmured.

Cui Qiyan listened to the faint shouting and killing coming from outside the city and said, "You stay here, I'll go out and take a look."

Ji Bai stepped forward and said, "I will go with you."

"You stay and protect them."

"Yes." Ji Bai accepted the order.

Dong Jiafu said, "Be careful outside."

"Don't worry, nothing will happen." Cui Qi Yan glanced at her and left the inn.

The streets were empty and Cui Qiyan rode his horse towards the city gate.

The closer we got to the city gate, the louder the fighting became.

When they arrived at the city gate, Cui Qiyan jumped off his horse and walked up to the city wall.

A sword suddenly blocked his way. Cui Qi Yan turned around and saw that it was Du Manting.

Du Manting's body was stained with the enemy's blood. She said with a stern face: "Stop! This is a battlefield, you can't go here, get off quickly, otherwise you will die without knowing how!"

"Take me to see the commander here." Cui Qi Yan's eyes were hooked.

Du Manting was startled. Why was there such a strong sense of oppression in his eyes? She grew up in a military camp, and no general had ever made her feel so strongly.

Du Manting calmed down and raised her chin and said, "Commander, can you see him whenever you want? How do I know if you are a spy for the enemy?"

When Cui Qi Yan saw a Beidi man climb up the city wall and kill a Xizhou soldier, his pupils shrank and he didn't want to waste any more time with her.

"I am the son of Duke Dingguo, the Minister of Justice Cui Qiyan, please get out of the way!"

"You, you are the prince of Duke Dingguo?" Du Manting was shocked.

Cui Qiyan brushed away her sword, picked up a knife from the ground, and walked over to kill the Beidi man who was fighting with the Xizhou soldiers. Then he turned around, locked his eyes on a man in armor who was commanding the soldiers to fight, and walked straight towards him.

"May I ask what is this general's name?"

The general turned his head and was stunned when he saw him, then his thick eyebrows knitted together.

"Are you a citizen of Xizhou? Who let you come up?"

Cui Qiyan took out his identity document and explained his identity.

The general took it suspiciously, but his attitude changed immediately after reading it.

"I am Sui Gang, the deputy general of the Xizhou Army. I didn't know you were Lord Cui. I'm sorry for the offense. I hope you can forgive me." Sui Gang returned the document to him with both hands.

Cui Qiyan took it back and said, "General Sui, there is no need to be so polite. I came to Xizhou for personal matters. I learned that the Northern Di were invading, so I came to help."

"It's great to have Lord Cui's help."

"What's going on now?" Cui Qiyan stood on the tower and looked down. He saw a Beidi man in black armor riding majestically on a horse. "Who is that man?"

General Sui gritted his teeth and said, "That is General Ao Ye of the Northern Di. He has become famous in the Northern Di in the past two years. He is young but ruthless. We have fought him several times. He never plays by the rules in battle. He will do anything to win, even disregarding the lives of his own soldiers."

"Lord Lu fell into his trap and was forced into his hands."

Ao Ye seemed to feel Cui Qi Yan's gaze and looked up at him.

"Hold on! Hold on!"

Du Manting's hoarse voice made Cui Qiyan look away, and he saw a lot of enemy troops suddenly attacking from one side of the city wall.

"Leave it to me." Cui Qi Yan said and rushed over with a knife.

Cui Qiyan’s swordsmanship was sharp and the Northern Di people were chopped to death by him in just a few moves.

With the joint defense of everyone, most of the Northern Di troops were wiped out.

Du Manting got a little breathing space, looked back and saw Cui Qiyan push down a Beidi man who was about to climb up with one palm, and killed an enemy soldier with his right hand at the same time.

She cleared away the Beidi people around her, walked over and said, "I have heard that the prince of Duke Dingguo is both civil and military, and it turns out that the rumors are true. The prince is indeed very skilled."

Cui Qiyan said casually: "Miss Du is a woman who is as good as any man."

Hearing his perfunctory tone, Du Manting could understand. After all, her attitude towards him had become even worse from yesterday to today.

She has always admired people who are stronger than her, so she took the initiative to seek reconciliation, "I didn't know you were the prince of Duke Dingguo before, and my words were a bit offensive. I apologize to you."

Cui Qi Yan didn't care about her attitude towards him at all, but what she said to Dong Jiafu made it impossible for him to be nice to her.

"Miss Du, you are too polite. Now is not the time to talk about these things. It is more important to guard the city gate."

The two said no more and continued to kill the enemy.

The number of Beidi troops was far greater than that of Xizhou troops. Just as they resisted one wave of attacks, more enemy troops came up from behind.

The bodies of the Northern Di people were piled up outside the city, and the Xizhou army also lost a lot of soldiers.

"General, we don't have many arrows left." A captain came to report.

Sui Gang's armor was stained with blood. "Kill! Even if there is only one arrow and one person left, we cannot let the Northern Di thieves enter our Xizhou City!"

"Yes!" The captain straightened his back and continued to go back to fight the enemy.

As the sun rose from the east to the middle of the sky, Cui Qiyan had already cut countless swords, and the color of his purple robe became darker.

Blood mixed with sweat slid down Du Manting's face. She had wounds on her arms and legs, but the sword in her hand did not loosen at all.

Ao Ye stood there and watched, with a bloodthirsty smile on the corner of his lips. After another wave of soldiers in front were killed, he raised his hand and ordered the next wave to take over, intending to use this round-robin battle to wear out the Xizhou Army.

Du Manting pulled the sword out of the enemy's body and panted, "Why can't we kill all these Beidi people?!"

Another hour passed, and the Xizhou army ran out of arrows, so the soldiers fought the Northern Di people in close combat with their weapons.

A general beside Ao Ye watched the battle on the tower and said with a smile: "General, they can't hold on any longer. Xizhou will soon belong to us Beidi!"

"Without their ever-victorious general, the Great Yin Army is like a pile of scattered sand, vulnerable to a single blow." Ao Ye snorted, "If the king had not wanted to persuade Lu Hao to surrender, I would have conquered Xizhou long ago, and why would I have waited until today."

Sui Gang found Cui Qiyan and Du Manting, "Master Cui, Miss Du, the situation is not good, you should leave quickly, don't give up your life here in vain--"

Cui Qiyan kicked a Beidi man to the ground and said, "Since I'm here, I have no intention of leaving."

"The same goes for me. If I could die on the battlefield, my life would not be in vain!" Du Manting followed.

"you……"

Sui Gang was about to persuade him again when he suddenly heard someone behind him shouting in surprise: "Reinforcements, our reinforcements are coming——"

Everyone looked into the distance and saw tens of thousands of troops charging at the enemy from behind, and the fluttering flag was the military flag of Great Yin.