Born of Worry

Half a month later, Dayin suddenly launched an attack on Tahan.

The attack came very suddenly, which caught Ta Han off guard, and he withdrew very suddenly. By the time the news reached Hu Lu's lonely ears, Dayin had already withdrawn his troops.

…It’s like, when you are sleeping, you are suddenly bitten by a mosquito, and when you feel the itch and want to kill it, it has already flown away.

Tahan killed thousands of people for no reason.

Not surprisingly, Hu Lugu was so angry that his seven orifices were filled with smoke, Xie Yan shook his fan, and his face was also very unkind.

"Da Yin, I'm afraid he is demonstrating against us..."

Xie Yan folded the fan, stood up and stood with his hands behind his back, "It seems that they are a little impatient."

——He only guessed [-]% right.

Blink of an eye to the first day of August.

The Tao Te Ching was spread out on the table, but Li Xian had no intention of copying it.

He held the pen in his hand, but couldn't put it down. The ink slowly fell down the tip of the pen, smeared on the paper, and stained a stain.

The wrinkles between his brows deepened, he simply put down the pen, and after sitting quietly for a while, his right hand gradually touched his lower back.

The skin there was no longer smooth, but a strangely shaped branded mark protruded.

That day...

"Your Majesty Khan! Your Majesty Khan!"

"What's the noise, what's the noise!"

Since Hu Lugu was attacked by Dayin for no reason and lost his troops, he has been very irritable for several days. Hearing the noise from his subordinates added fuel to the fire, and he almost didn't want to listen to a word: "If there is fart, no fart!"

"Uh..." The soldier was frightened by him, but he still had the courage to bend over and hold his fists, and said, "Khan, we caught the horse you asked us to catch earlier."

"What bullshit! When will I let you..."

He suddenly stopped talking, and suddenly remembered something, "You mean, the horse that followed Li Xian before?"

"Exactly!"

"Where is it? Come on, show me!"

The pen in Li Xian's hand slipped to the ground.

The commotion outside the account came to his ears, the soldiers were rumored that someone had caught an exotic horse, and they all came over to watch the fun.

Different horse... Could it be Feichen?

The more he thought about it, the more flustered he became, he simply got up and went out to see what happened.

Feichen... don't throw yourself into a trap.

"Hey--!"

The horse neighed up to the sky and snorted, but its four legs were locked by four ropes, and the four people held it tightly, no matter how hard it struggled, it was futile.

It kept neighing, its eyes were full of anger, its mane was messy, and its body was covered with red marks, but it was not just flame patterns, but also had a lot of bleeding wounds.

There were already a lot of soldiers around to watch the excitement, and it seemed to know that it was being surrounded by people, so it became even more ashamed and angry, and tried to struggle with all four hooves, but in return it pulled even harder.

The rope around the horse's neck was also tightened, and its strength was almost exhausted, and it was completely unable to move.

The crowd suddenly moved out of the way, Hu Lugu walked over, looked at it from a distance, and said, "Are you sure this is the horse beside Li Xian that day?"

"Khan, I'm absolutely sure! Look at the coat color pattern of this horse, where does Tahan have such a horse!"

Hu Lugu nodded, and slowly walked forward, "Okay, well done! There will be a reward for going down!"

"Thank you Khan!"

He walked up to the horse, patted the horse's back, but caused it to struggle violently, and even managed to move the rope that was pulling it by three points.Those people tightened the rope again, and the horse let out a painful neigh, and could no longer move an inch.

Hu Lugu walked around the horse for a few steps, and couldn't help admiring: "Good! What a good horse! It has a strong temper, I like it!" He laughed three times, "Come on, get the soldering iron!"

Soon someone presented a soldering iron and a brazier. The patterns on the soldering iron were so strange that it was impossible to tell what it was.He put the soldering iron in the brazier and burned it until it was red. He took it out to cool down a little, and then walked to the horse.

The horse also seemed to know that he would be branded soon, and became more disturbed, neighing and snorting frequently to warn him not to approach.But it couldn't struggle anymore, Hu Lugu took the soldering iron and stuck it on the horse's buttocks.

However, at this moment-

"stop!!"

When Li Xian squeezed through the crowd and saw clearly that the horse was Feichen, his mind went blank with a bang.

He saw Hu Lugu walking towards Feichen with a soldering iron, and his palms were sweating nervously.

How to do?How to do?

The body reacted before the brain, and just as the iron was about to be attached to the horse, he finally shouted:

"stop!!"

Taking advantage of Hu Lugu's stunned moment, he ran over at the fastest speed in his life and gave him a hard push.

Hu Lugu's skill is still good, he was not pushed down by him, but he retreated a few steps due to the strong impact before he stabilized his figure.

The soldering iron in his hand had fallen to the ground, scalding a small piece of grass on the ground until it was dry and charred.

"Li Xian!" He was furious, "Aren't you courageous again?! I haven't touched you for a few days, and your skin is itchy?!"

Li Xian trembled slightly, although he was afraid, he refused to back down, and stood in front of Feichen, "This is my horse, if you want to burn it, you should burn me first!"

Hearing his voice, Feichen neighed happily.

"you!"

Hu Lugu drew his knife and pointed at him: "Get out of the way!"

"No!"

"Step aside!"

Li Xian stiffened his neck and looked at him: "I won't let you die!"

Hu Lugu's lungs were almost blown out of anger, but he couldn't really kill him, so he had to withdraw the knife, but he suddenly rushed towards a guard next to him, the guard instinctively took a step back and raised his hand to resist, but Li Xian took advantage of it. At this time, he pulled out the saber from his waist, turned around and slashed at the rope that bound Feichen.

By the time they reacted, Li Xian had already cut two ropes.Feichen freed his heels, jumped up and loosened the remaining three ropes, and Li Xian, regardless of everyone's swords and swords, managed to cut off the one around its neck.Feichen flicked the horse's head, exerted force on the back hoof, and let the front hoof fly into the air. With a long hiss, he broke free from the last two ropes.

Li Xian had already been knocked out of his weapon by them, and he knelt down on the ground with a sword on his neck. He yelled at Feichen, "Hurry up——!"

With a mournful long hiss, Feichen slammed into the crowd, ran, and then jumped up high, rushing out of the encirclement, but was still unavoidably wounded by the sword, and sprinted towards the vast grassland with blood splattered all the way. .

"What are you doing in a daze, hurry up and chase!!"

Hu Lugu was really furious, the horse he got just ran away, and the cooked duck just flew away.He looked at Li Xian with angry eyes, wishing he could kill him with one blow.

However, Li Xian also looked at him, his eyes were neither dodging nor flickering, but he had a clear conscience.

Hu Lugu walked half a circle around him, and with a wave of his hand, asked them to remove their swords, then picked up the soldering iron on the ground, squatted down, and held it in front of Li Xian.

"What did you just say? If you want to brand it, you should be branded first?" He sneered and turned the iron, "Do you know what is branded like this in Tahan? Tell you, it's disobedient beast, or slave."

Standing up again, he laughed and said, "Okay, Li Xian, then I'll burn you first today!"

He put the soldering iron in the fire again and it burned red. Li Xian was held down, unable to struggle, lowered his head and closed his eyes.

—the soldering iron stuck to his lower back.

Painful.

The right hand slowly rubbed the brand on the lower back.

Today, although the flesh there no longer hurts, but this brand has already been branded in his heart.

His left hand clenched into a fist until the knuckles turned white, and he refused to let go.

It was the first time in his life, Li Xian, that he hated someone.

Dendrobium Law Gu.

His treatment of him finally rose from disgust to hatred.

"It's really unexpected that Yin's emperor has become my Tahan's beast and slave? Hahahaha..."

Li Xian was trembling all over, his eyes were red, his left hand was still tightly clenched, and even the veins on his arms were protruding.

Hu Lugu, one day, I will make you regret everything you have done now.

The guard at the door came in, put a bowl of medicine in front of him, and said in unaccurate Chinese: "Drink the medicine!"

Li Xian looked at him, let go of his fists and relaxed his body. After his emotions calmed down, he suddenly felt a little strange. Usually, the old military doctor came to deliver medicines to him in person, why today...

Although he was puzzled, he still picked up the medicine bowl and used the method of clasping the bottom of the bowl, but his fingers touched something at the bottom of the bowl. In front of the body, first stretch out the index, middle, and ring fingers, with the palm facing up; then stretch out the thumb and little finger, with the palm facing down.

Three long and two short, ups and downs.This is the unique contact method of Xuanyu Intelligence Department.

The Xuanjia Army finally infiltrated.

He suddenly understood the purpose of Dayin's war against Tahan.

Li Xian turned his gaze back, remained calm, frowned and sniffed the medicine, seemed to find it hard to swallow, but still drank it up, put the medicine bowl back on the tray, and the guard picked it up and left.

After he left, Li Xian spread out his palms, and it turned out that the note at the bottom of the bowl had already been held in his hands.There was only one word on the note: ten.

Ten, it seems that there are a total of ten people mixed into Tahan this time.

He put the note on the candle and burned it, and heaved a long sigh of relief.

Finally, he is no longer fighting alone.

With the help of the Xuanjia Army, it became easier for Li Xian to collect information on Tahan.The tents of Hu Lugu and Xie Yan, which he had been unable to monitor before, were already guarded by someone.

Xuan Yu would give him the opportunity to deliver tea or medicine, stick the note on the bottom of the bowl and hand it to him, and then he would collect the information and use Feng Yu to send it to Dayin territory, and Jinshang would receive it and deliver it to Shen Xin .

It is worth mentioning that the old military doctor who treated his injuries was also bribed by Xuan Yu.

A large intelligence network has been quietly launched in the Tahan army.

only……

Xuan Yu can only help him collect information, but he will never be able to help him deal with Hu Lugu.

Ever since he was branded with that shameful mark, the wounds on his body have never healed.

Hu Lugu really regarded him as a slave to vent his emotions.If you are angry, kick him twice, if you are happy, you will whip him twice.

He, Li Xian, will always remember everything that happened today.

It is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge.

The weather has entered autumn.

On August [-]th, Tahan asked Dayin for Xinzhou, Yun, Dayin's army withdrew from Xinzhou, retreated to Jinyang, and Tahan entered.

This time, Dayin gave them half an empty city.

Why is it said to be a half empty city, because there are still no people in the city, but there are money and things.

Soldiers will be much happier with money and goods. They can plunder wantonly and save the trouble of massacring the city. Why not do it.

Although Xie Yan smelled Dayin's plot from it, Hu Lugu didn't want to hear it. He was very happy to have won a city and countless gold, silver and jewels.That night, a celebration banquet was held, and old wine was brought in, and sheep were killed to celebrate.

Once these barbarians drank too much wine, they would talk wildly, and with their tongues hanging out, it was even more difficult to hear what they were saying.Xie Yan got tired of hearing it, so he simply withdrew from the table and went back to the camp alone to rest.

Seeing him leaving alone, Hu Lu felt a little bored without anyone to accompany him, but he only drank half of the wine, and he felt a little reluctant to leave the table just like that. After much deliberation, he thought of someone.

——Li Xian.