Twilight War

Chapter 31 Kwai Qing

...I should have studied hard back then.

01

For several months, the Arthur Empire and the Huangxuan family have been in a stalemate.

The ships of the Arthur Empire were constantly patrolling the sea, and from time to time they would have an encounter with the Huangxuan family's scattered fleet at sea.Although the losses in each encounter were small, such frequent battles still made the Huangxuan family feel physically and mentally exhausted.

Huangxuan's family is not suitable for naval battles. All soldiers are used to fighting on land, and it is difficult to adapt to the environment at sea.

Tai Yi has never met the patrol ships of the Arthur Empire, but through Si Tianming's analysis of the recent encounters, the Arthur Empire has narrowed the encirclement, and may even know the location of Tai Yi.

The Huangxuan dead soldiers who stayed on the west coast also sneaked up on several important ports of the Arthur Empire from time to time. Although they also caused considerable losses to the Arthur Empire, they were still in a rather passive state overall.

"Declare war." Si Xuerou looked at the map in front of him, "The Huangxuan family is an iron cavalry born on land, such frequent sea battles will only slowly drag the Huangxuan family down."

Zichen frowned, "It's not appropriate for the Huangxuan family to go deep alone like this. After all, this is the territory of the Arthur Empire."

"Then let the dead soldiers of the Huangxuan family die at sea?" Si Xuerou looked at Zichen, "The Huangxuan family needs a dignified battle."

Zichen looked at the map in front of him and said, "I want to talk to the Arthur Empire."

"Didn't we talk about it last time?"

"It's not the same." Zichen shook his head and said, "The last time we entered Asgard alone was to save people. Although there was a coercion from the Shenyue Machinery Headquarters, we were still at a disadvantage. There was no way to negotiate with the Arthur Empire." One game."

"This negotiation can no longer go to Asgard, and we must choose another place."

Si Tianming clapped the fan on his hand, "Alright, where do you think is the most suitable place?"

Zichen bit his lip, no matter where they are, it is the territory of the Arthur Empire. They have no way to advance and no way to retreat.This road is too difficult for the Huangxuan family to walk.

"Here," Zichen pointed to a place on the map, "Kuiqing Plain, which is adjacent to the coast, is a wasteland. It is difficult for the Arthur Empire to ambush us on the road. And here is a wide view, don't worry about Arthur Sri Lanka set up an ambush. It is easy to retreat, and you will not be caught in a bitter battle. As long as we occupy the nearby ports in advance, it will be fine."

"How many people are you going to bring?"

"You don't need to bring too many people. After all, I just want to talk to the Arthur Empire. One thousand is enough. Most of the troops of the Arthur Empire are guarding the border. After all, the relationship between the Vana Empire and the Arthur Empire is still hostile. .And now that the ring spirits are not stopping, the Arthur Empire has to disperse some of its troops. There are almost 3000 Arthur soldiers guarding the Kuiqing Plain, and the Arthur Empire should not mobilize additional troops."

Si Tianming studied the map, "I don't know which leader Vihipel will send to talk to him. The leader of the Vana Empire, Weier, is fine. If it is Tang De, it is really difficult to deal with."

"It will be even worse." Zichen smiled lightly.

"What? There are generals in the Arthur Empire who are more difficult to deal with than Tang De?"

"I'm afraid Vehipel will come in person." Zichen said.

"Come here in person?" Si Tianming frowned and asked a little puzzled.

"Young Master Huangxuan went to fight in person, how could he not go?" Zichen chuckled. "Pass down the order, and three days later, the Sunflower Plain will fall."

02

Twilight, too number one.

Si Xuerou leaned on the short table and poured tea by herself.

Si Tianming walked over and sat next to Si Xuerou.

"Zichen is going to negotiate with the Arthur Empire in two days, why don't you help him as a consultant and come to me." Si Xuerou pushed the ice-cracked teacup in front of Si Tianming and said.

"Compared to Zichen, I'm more worried about you." Si Tianming picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea and said.

"Me? I'm fine here, there's nothing to worry about." Si Xuerou said with a light smile.

Si Tianming didn't speak but just looked at Si Xuerou, he knew that the woman could only survive until now by hanging on two strings like a puppet.

One is to find Zichen, and the other is to kill Vehipel.

Whenever these two lines are broken, this woman may not be able to hold on anymore.

The woman was dressed in a red silk dress, and now she didn't have to pretend to be that cold-eyed but gentle-looking young man like when Zichen was not around.

The long black hair half down made people feel inexplicably decadent, so beautiful that it was almost fragile.

"I shouldn't have left that fan in that peach blossom forest in the first place." The woman said suddenly.

Si Tianming knew that the woman was talking about her first encounter with Huang Xuanzhou back then.

Back then, Huangxuan was ordered to wipe out the Si family in Shu, but he saw a brocade fan left behind in the peach blossom forest before the war.

The peach blossoms are covered with snow, looking for each other.

"Sister, have you hated your brother-in-law for sending Zichen to the temple all these years?" Si Tianming asked.

The woman shook her head and smiled almost sadly, "I am the one who sent Zichen to Weichen Temple."

"why……"

"No mother wants her child to become a monster." Si Xuerou's eyes seemed to be full of mist, "I seem to have been competitive since I was a child, and I wanted to be the first in everything. But all of a sudden, I just hope that he can live his life in peace and stability."

"I know it will be painful to wash away Chi You's mad blood, but I hope that my child can live well." Si Xuerou said.

"That brother-in-law..."

"He always hoped that Zichen could pick up the sword, even if he relied on Chi You's mad blood, even if he turned himself into the most ferocious beast. Because he is the young master of the Huangxuan family." Si Xuerou fiddled with his hands Already drinking cold tea, "Others say that the successive heads of the Huangxuan family are all romantic, but I say that each of them is more foolish and loyal than the other."

"Shed my own blood to guard other people's lands. What did the emperor give them? It's just an honorable surname. For the word Huangxuan, I have to give up my everything."

"For this reason, you sent Zichen to Weichen Temple?"

"Yes, otherwise, what should we do? The members of the Huangxuan family are more stupid than the other, so, being a woman of the Huangxuan family, you have to take care of yourself." Si Xuerou lowered her head and looked at the man with the cracked ice on her hand. said the teacup.

Si Tianming looked at the woman, and he seemed to see the girl in red again, who was more arrogant than a peach blossom.

The huge keel boat sailed above the sea area, and the mist after the burning of the silver of the great abyss was blown into the sky in the wind.

Si Tianming looked out the window, it will be cloudy again tomorrow.

"Did you know? I once made long-lived noodles for Zichen." The woman holding the glass with cracked ice said suddenly.

Si Tianming turned his head to look at the woman. The woman lowered her eyes, without the awe-inspiring arrogance of the past, she seemed a little fragile.

"But I can't make it, so the longevity noodles that time were broken." The woman said: "Sometimes I would think, is it because I made the longevity noodles so badly that child would be so bad?" It's been so hard."

The woman lowered her head, her voice was very soft, Si Tianming even wondered if the woman was crying, but the woman just kept her head down.

"At the beginning, I should have studied hard."

……

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03

"Was it full of sunflowers before? It should be very spectacular."

Zichen looked around at the entire desolate sunflower plain. There used to be a large number of sunflowers blooming on this plain, but they were all annihilated in history and turned into ashes.

There is nothing else in this place today except failure and loneliness.

He was wearing a black black iron armor with a dark red ribbon, and the inner lining of the armor was embroidered with a ferocious and majestic chilong with dark golden silk thread.

On the black forehead belt, the coat of arms of reversed double swords, which looks like blood coagulated, is full of murderous aura.

The dead soldiers of Huangxuan behind him were all wearing black Xuanjia, and the blackness was like a dark cloud.

The Xuanzhu two-color general flag of the Huangxuan family, painted with the inverse double swords coat of arms, fluttered in the wind, like a spirit-calling banner with murderous intent.

Zichen held the rein of the horse, slightly raised his chin and tilted his head to look at the distance on the horizon. The red ribbon on his body fluttered in the air like a smear of blood in the ink.

Suddenly, there were bursts of sand and dust, and white smoke in the distance filled the air. Horseshoes broke through thousands of miles of wilderness, and a formation of white cavalry was drawn on the horizon, like a silver blade advancing at high speed, about to tear and cut everything.

The person at the front stopped his horse slowly a hundred meters away, his eyes as indifferent as the ice that would not melt for a thousand years on the Snow Mountain of Ace.He was wearing mithril armor and a white cloak slanted, as if he was a god.More than a thousand Arthur cavalry in silver-white armor stopped behind him.

From the end of the formation, Si Xuerou rode the horse and walked slowly to Zichen's side. She was dressed in red without any armor, like a peach blossom that suddenly bloomed brilliantly on this ashen plain.

"His Royal Highness Wisipel really came to the battle in person." She turned her head and glanced at Zichen beside her.

"Of course he will come." Zichen said looking at the man who looked like a king in the distance.

The two armies of black and white faced each other in this huge wasteland, and the wind and dust were everywhere, and all the wolves were wiped out.

The two sides stood still and waited for the opponent's move, and the north wind rustled the flags of both sides.

Vihipel suddenly came slowly on his horse. He was already cold, but now he was wearing a mithril armor that looked like a god of war, and he had a strong sense of oppression.

That kind of majesty is like an emperor, and when he comes to the world, everyone should kneel down and worship him.All Arthur's men but himself remained behind.

The soldiers of the Huangxuan family all slowly drew their bows, aiming their sharp arrows at the man who was getting closer.

The man who was aimed at by countless arrows still came on horseback, without changing his face, he looked straight at the young master Huangxuan in black and red silk among the enemy troops.

He stopped at the very center of the formation of both sides, looked at the young master of the enemy and said, "I want to have a private talk with young master Huangxuan."

His voice was like cold broken jade, echoing in the empty and dead wasteland.

Zichen held the reins of the horse, the black gold wristbands on his wrists were cold and hard.

"Young Master." Bi Fang looked at him worriedly, wanting to go with him.

Zichen waved his hand, and riding the black horse under his seat, he slowly walked towards the people waiting between the two opposing armies.The red ribbon was reflected in Vichypel's indifferent and almost colorless pupils like residual blood.

Afraid of hurting the young master, Bi Fang signaled all the dead soldiers to put down their longbows, but clenched their long swords tightly, planning to rush forward if Vehipel dared to do anything to the young master.

"Your Highness wants to talk about something." Zichen said.

Wihipel looked around and said, "There used to be a lot of sunflowers here, but it's a pity that you and I came a bit late, so we can't see them now."

"I'm not here to discuss this with His Highness," Zichen said.

"I don't want blood here," Wihipel said.

Zichen lowered his head and poked his lips into a smile, "So Your Highness just let me flow rivers of blood in the south of the Yangtze River?"

Wisipel's voice was a little low, and he turned sideways to Zichen and said, "Little Huangniao, you know that all of this can be avoided."

"Yes, if His Highness has never been to Jiangnan, all of this can be avoided."

"Xiao Huangniao, what happened back then was my mistake, but I don't want any more blood." Wisipeljean said looking at the boy with a black forehead band in his hair.

"Okay, then, Your Highness, I just want His Highness to spare the Huangxuan family this time, so that the Huangxuan family can return to Donghuang safely. From now on, the Huangxuan family will have nothing to do with the Arthur Empire."

"You want to leave?" Wihipel looked at the boy.

"Yes, I am the young master of the Huangxuan family, and I must take the Huangxuan family back to the south of the Yangtze River." Zichen said while holding the rein in his hand, the rough rein hurt his palm.

"Young Master, don't you want to kill me?" Vihipel suddenly smiled and said, "Young Master wants to go back to Jiangnan, so he should kill me before going back."

Zichen lowered his head, his lips were bitten and almost lost their color, "Both Arthur and the Huangxuan family have already paid the price for that battle, and I don't want to get entangled in this kind of thing any longer."

"But I haven't paid the price yet, have I? The young master's account is not clear."

"...I don't want to settle it." The young man said, "There are some things that cannot be settled."

"But what if I want to settle it?" Wihipel stared at the boy, saying word by word.

"The Huangxuan family only asks His Royal Highness to allow the Huangxuan family to return to Donghuang safely." The young man said almost stubbornly.

"Do you want to go back to Donghuang, don't you?" Vihiper smiled almost sadly: "Okay, give me the jade talisman, and I won't embarrass the Huangxuan family any more. I will do whatever the Huangxuan family wants." I can give you whatever you want."

"What if my Huangxuan family wants my dead tens of thousands of heroic souls? What if my Huangxuan family wants to pay in blood?" Zichen looked up at Vichypel, his black eyes were like sharp obsidian.

"Xiao Huangniao, you know, as long as I can give you, I will give you." He still smiled sadly and looked at the serious-looking young man.

"If your highness is only for the jade talisman, please forgive me for not being able to accompany you." Zichen turned his horse and walked back, "The days are short now, and the Huangxuan family wants to go back early."

"Huangxuanjin!" Wihipel looked at Zichen's back and said suddenly, "The jade talisman of the Huangxuan family is useless in your hands, right?"

Zichen's back suddenly stiffened, and the red silk behind him was like stagnant blood, pale and strong.

Vichypel rode up to Zichen, tilted his head and whispered in Zichen's ear, "You can't summon ghost soldiers. The Huangxuan Jade Talisman is no different to you than a stone." His breath Sweeping over Zichen's neck, it was like the ear-to-shoulder grinding every time in the past, but the words he said were as cruel as the blade of a knife.

Si Xuerou stretched out her hand to Lu Shu who was beside her. She was dressed in red silk, like a flame circulating on this barren plain.

Lu Shu put a strong bow in her hand.Si Xuerou was dressed in red, her eyes were as indifferent as frost, and she slowly drew her longbow towards the person in the middle of the huge wasteland in the distance.

Visipel was wearing a cold silver-white armor, and his long silver hair slid off the armor because of the movement of his head, "Little Huangniao, do you think that people in Donghuang really agree that a man who can't summon ghost soldiers really agrees?" Is the person with the sword the head of the house? You can't guard the Huangxuan family, let alone Donghuang." He lowered his voice, but his eyes were fixed on Zichen whose lips were turning pale.

"They can agree with you for a day, and they can approve you for a month, but when you lose to Huangxuan and Donghuang, you will eventually be abandoned." The silver-white war horse dug out scars on the huge wasteland, Vihipel The voice was a bit sinister, "You know, these are mortals, no matter what you have done for them, no matter how much blood you have shed for them, no matter whether you have fought for them or not. Once you fail, They will all abandon you."

"Little Huangniao, one day... you will know why this place is in ruins." The color of his lips was like a pale rose, and he lightly rubbed against Zichen's ears, his voice was almost trembling, "I don't want you to die again. See any... blood."

The strong bow in the distance moved slowly, Si Xuerou half-closed one eye, and stared at Vehipel in the silver armor with the other.

The two sides were facing each other on this barren plain, the battle flags were rustling, and even the air was almost stagnant, and everyone was staring at the two people in the center.

All the members of the Huangxuan family have drawn their swords out of their scabbards, and all the soldiers of the Arthur Empire are also ready to attack at any time.

"If the members of the Huangxuan family were afraid of blood, then it would be impossible for us to defend Jiangnan for 800 years. We don't desire war, but we don't fear war either." The young man said slowly, gritting his teeth.

"Little phoenix bird..."

Vehipel slowly approached Zichen, as if he wanted to kiss his neck, his eyes were rarely sad.

"Your Highness, I'm sorry I can't accompany you." Zichen almost resolutely rode his horse sideways and passed Visipel, his long silver hair slipped over his cold black iron armor.

Sudden!The sharp arrow pierced through the air!

The woman in red looked coldly at the center of the huge wasteland, and the chilling north wind blew layers of red gauze on her body.

The tense string suddenly broke!

The iron hooves broke through the huge and barren plain, and the blood was filled with fighting.The dead soldiers of the Huangxuan family drew out their sharp blades, and rushed into the formation as if they were going to die!

Black and white fight together, and the sound of fighting fills the sky.

Zichen turned his head suddenly, his vision turned endless red.

He only saw Wisipel gritted his teeth and looked up at him, his light blue eyes shattered like glaciers in winter.His leg was scratched by a sharp arrow, and his white military uniform was stained red with blood.

The vast wasteland is covered by dusk, and the setting sun in the sky is like blood covering the wasteland in ancient mythology.There used to be a lot of sunflowers admiring the sky, but now they are covered with blood from fighting.

Above the weeds is the killing of death.

"Young master!" Bi Fang's sword was stained with blood, "Young master, I will escort you back!"

Random arrows shot at Zichen suddenly, and all the chaos was like the ancient battle.

Wihipel cut off the random arrows, he looked at Zichen, and bit his almost colorless lips.

The black army retreated into the pre-arranged pass, and the white king was stained with red blood.

Wisipel clutched the new wound on his shoulder and watched Young Master Huangxuan being escorted to evacuate. His long silver hair was tangled into strands, and his blue eyes were the same color as emeralds.

The dusk fades away, and the fighting stops.