Proudly follow your heart

War has always been inseparable from death, no matter the winner or the loser.

"Leader, there are brothers again..." Wen Rufeng stopped at this point, and did not continue.

Even people who are familiar with him may not be able to recognize that this man with dust and dried blood on his face is the self-proclaimed romantic Wen Rufeng back then.

Smiling, Wen Rufeng with a tense face held a weapon in his hand, with a serious and suspicious expression. The battlefield is not like the world, where a person is not facing one or a few opponents, but dozens or even hundreds. Master, if there is a slight mistake, there is a possibility of death.

There was someone sitting upright on the horse in front of him, with black clothes and black hair, his eyes turned cold, and he nodded slowly, "Got it."

The voice was slow, but he could hear the heaviness in it. This battle not only took away the peace of the people, but also took away the lives of many night owls with the heads of their opponents.

"It's a pity. There are so many masters in the Howling Eagle League, and these night owls are worth a hundred. If all of them are lost here, it will be a big blow to Yingshuai." Lu Feng followed all the way, not so much They came here with the intention of making friends with the Monarch Xisu, rather than coming to confirm whether the choice they made was correct.

He observed every battle to judge whether the two men who wanted to bring down Emperor Pingkang were credible and whether they really had that ability. This must have been ordered by the King of the West.

Hearing his irrelevant tone in his words, Jun Zhanran, who was beside Nangong Cangao, suddenly looked at him and smiled, "If you want to get out of the Xia Kingdom's control, but don't want to hurt yourself, the king of your country is really It’s a good account.”

It's better not to laugh than to laugh.

Lu Feng shrank his neck for no reason, feeling a sense of coldness, "It's easy to say, it's easy to say, Xisu is no better than Linnan, and the soldiers are stronger. We Xisu is a land of fish and rice. We are really not good at fighting such things. That's why I am a king. There will be many worries, I hope King Zhan will not misunderstand."

He turned around with a sincere face, "Emperor Pingkang's prestige is gone, and people's hearts have been lost. It is the general trend to change the dynasty. My king had a long-term vision, so he sent a villain to greet him, and conveyed his meaning to King Zhan. Xizu has no other requirements, I just hope that our countries can live in peace after this war is over."

The letter that the King of Xisu asked Lu Feng to bring was vague and did not intend to borrow troops to help, but only hinted that if the war started, he would not favor Daxia, let alone heed Pingkanghuang's order to borrow troops.

In fact, this is enough, Jun Zhanran never expected other countries to be like Linnan, and not all monarchs can be like King An Jia.

In fact, if King Anjia hadn't been poisoned, he wouldn't have made such a bold decision.

The poison that King An Jia was poisoned by was given by the six-fingered gentleman Ji Nantian, and Ji Nantian did it for him. Thinking of this, his black eyes slightly closed, covering the gloomy light beneath them.

"Your king has to protect himself. It's best to be a bystander. When the situation of the battle is settled, we will make peace and seek peace—" Nangong Cangao turned his eyes, "How could such a good thing happen?!"

With a sneer, Nangong Cang Ao's eyes were originally sharp, and after passing the battlefield, he added a sense of sternness, but now he stares like this, with that expression on his face, it would not be an exaggeration to say that Yan Luo is alive.

How could a mere messenger be able to resist, Lu Feng's feet softened, he took a step back, trying to calm down, but his voice trembled uncontrollably, "Commander Ying misunderstood, my king didn't mean that."

"What does that mean?" Nangong Cang Ao clasped his hands together, staring straight at Lu Feng, making cold sweat break out.

"Our small country is no match for Great Xia. Self-protection always comes first. Does Yingshuai not even know this?" Tie Mei was the one who spoke out to help, also as an envoy, Lan Dong's position was almost the same as Xi Su's, The failure of the westward journey is of no benefit to them.

"Sure enough, it's Xiao Hu's old acquaintance, he's quite courageous." Having said that, Nangong Cang Ao's tone didn't have any hint of anger, only interest.

Slowly looking between Tie Mei and Xiao Hu, Nangong Cang Ao's eyes flickered, and without saying anything, he suddenly changed his tone, "How do you feel?"

With this sudden sentence, others didn't know what he was asking, but Jun Zhanran seemed to understand it very well, and nodded, "It is indeed recovering, and it is not a big problem to use [-]%."

After speaking, raise your wrist.

Under the bundled sleeves, slender and well-proportioned fingers spread quietly in front of Nangong Cang Ao's eyes, just like the first time I saw them, stable and dry, as if there was a layer of pale golden light.

It is more like a weapon that a skilled craftsman has spent a lifetime sculpting than like a pair of hands.

But they are indeed Jun Zhanran's hands, the hands of Ghost Hand Wushuang.

Nangong Cang Ao couldn't help holding up these hands and putting them in his palms, he didn't care at all that they were in the military camp at the moment, they had just returned from a big battle, they were resting around the bonfire, and there were others around them.

"I promise, I won't let it have any other scars. With me here, I can't."

With his fingertips, he could feel the warmth of Nangong Cang Ao's palm. Hearing these words, Jun Zhanran held him back and smiled. This kind of smile was completely different from what Lu Feng felt just now.

Is this the same person?Lu Feng yelled in his heart, only to hear Jun Zhanran continue: "Don't think this is enough, there is still my country, I want you to fight it with me."

He pointed far away——

The gunpowder smoke hadn't gone yet, the corpses were lying on the ground, blood was everywhere, and in the distance, the capital of the Great Xia Kingdom was already in sight.

Although it is in front of them, it is not easy to get to that step. There are still cities to seize and mountains to pass. The biggest problem is that their forces have been dispersed in order to guard the cities that have been captured.

"How about taking everyone back?" Jun Zhanran asked Yao Yao casually, pointing at their target.

Everyone knows what that means. Withdrawing the troops and increasing the troops in their hands is equivalent to giving up those cities. If they finally take down the imperial capital, if the city owners want to turn the tables and command the troops to besiege the imperial city again, that's not wrong. possible.

Put back what you already got?Nangong Cang Ao was a little surprised, and smiled a little more, "Zhan Ran knows what I'm talking about?"

"I know." Jun Zhanran put his hand behind his back, "I'm just betting, those city lords don't dare."

"Oh, dare not?" Nangong Cang Ao looked into the distance with him, seeming very interested in what he said.

"They dare not disobey me, dare not set off another bloodbath, dare not disobey my orders." The lips raised slightly, which was an unusually calm indifference.

He was sure.

Just like when Nangong Cang Ao picked up the sun-shading knife, he was so calm and sure.

Nangong Cang Ao looked at him for a while, and suddenly burst out laughing, Jun Zhanran asked him why he was laughing.

"But I still remember that at the beginning, what was held in this hand was not human life, but a pen, but now you are standing here—"

"Standing here, so what?" Jun Zhanran spread his arms, and the cold wind blew his sleeves and his black hair.

"Standing here, you are like the king of the Xia Kingdom. You say they dare not." His own appearance.

If there hadn't been any accident back then, he should have looked like this from the beginning.

Nangong Cang Ao's heart became hot, and suddenly there was a wild beating, and his eyes also became hot.

Jun Zhanran didn't look at him, brushed away his hair that was blown by the wind, and looked around the crowd, "Listen to the order, all the troops stationed in the capital will be withdrawn!"

"Yes!" Everyone bowed to accept the order, and did not raise their heads immediately. In their sights, they could see Nangong Cang Ao walking over suddenly. Time seemed to stand still for a while, and everything became silent.

So of course they didn't hear someone's muffled groan, nor did they hear the rubbing of the fabric, nor did they hear the ambiguous tone when their lips touched each other. After a while, when they slowly raised their heads, everything was as it was just now.

Those two people stood in place with normal expressions.

"Is there any news from Zhanli?" Jun Zhanran asked Xiao Hu. Xiao Hu was looking at Tiemei, frowning, as if he didn't hear it. When Nangong Cang Ao called out again, he turned his head suddenly.

"Go back to the landlord, there is a letter from Zhanjiazhuang." He actually forgot!How could he forget? !Hastily taking out the letterhead from his chest, Xiao Hu remembered that the sender was very anxious, if there was anything important in this letter...

Sweat dripped from his forehead, he handed over the letterhead, Jun Zhanran opened it and glanced at it, his face changed slightly, Xiao Hu understood the meaning of this expression, if it wasn't for a major event, the landlord would never have such a reaction!

"Yang Ling met someone on the way, wasted time, and is on his way now." Nangong Cang Ao finished reading the news from Zhan Li, but his face was equally gloomy.

"Isn't this a good thing?" Xiao Hu asked nervously.

"Do you know who caused Yang Ling to delay the time and delay the big event?" Holding the letter in his hand, Jun Zhanran asked him, Xiao Hu shook his head.

"Mu, Zhao, Xia." He looked at Xiao Hu word by word, and said the name, "This happened half a month ago, counting the time it took to upload the letter, Xiao Hu, when did you receive it?" To this letter?"

Xiao Hu's face turned pale, and he knelt down, "...three days ago."

"Three days." Jun Zhanran nodded, "Three days, how many variables can there be in three days, do you know what Mu Zhaoxia is going to do to stop Yang Ling? What is she planning to do when she escapes from Linnan?"

Xiao Hu could only shake his head.

"You don't know, none of us know. It took three days for you to remember such important news, Xiao Hu, what are you doing? You know that the battlefield is changing rapidly, and the difference between missing points is a thousand miles away." The truth?" Facing his cronies, Jun Zhanran's words were not much softer, and even harsher.

"Xiao Hu knows his mistake!" Kneeling in vain, Xiao Hu clenched his teeth tightly, with a complex expression on his face.

"Knowing your mistakes is enough? It's not that I haven't seen what's wrong with you recently. I wanted to wait for you to speak, but now it seems that you are not going to speak, are you?" The letter turned into powder in his hand, Jun Zhanran His face was stern, and his voice did not fluctuate.

Xiao Hu didn't answer, and everyone else frowned. Could it be that Xiao Hu secretly communicated with Xia Guo?But how is this possible?

As Jun Zhanran's confidant, Xiao Hu has followed him for many years. If he was a spy of the Xia Kingdom, Jun Zhanran would have found out a long time ago, but if he wasn't, how could he have made such a big mistake?

Xiao Hu himself didn't know either.

"For the past few days, you have been absent-minded, and other things have occupied all your thoughts, so you forgot to submit such important news." Nangong Cang Ao thoughtfully, secretly observing Tie Mei who was standing aside. , Tiemei looked suspicious, he hesitated to speak.

"It's because of her." These words suddenly came from above, Xiao Hu raised his head fiercely, Nangong Cangao's eyes were very sharp, as if he understood everything, he was taken aback for a moment.

"Eagle knows?"

"I didn't know at first, but after seeing your reaction, if I still can't guess it, I'm not Nangong Cang Ao." The famous arrester who once observed the subtleties and moved the world is now holding a long knife before thousands of troops. Nangong Cangao is still the original Nangong Cangao.

Jun Zhanran also had some guesses, but as he said, he wanted to wait for Xiao Hu to speak by himself.

"What did you see?" The situation was pressing, and he couldn't waste any more time.

"Actually, I didn't see anything. Xiao Hu didn't report it to the landlord, because I didn't see it with my own eyes. If I were to tell the landlord that Tie Mei might be the spy who poisoned the war horse, Xiao Hu couldn't do it!"

Gritting his teeth tightly, Xiao Hu spit out these words from between his teeth, Xiao Hu's eyes widened, even though he said so, but he struggled so much, didn't it mean that he already believed in his heart that Tie Mei was the one who poisoned the war horse?

"Little Tiger!" Tiemei frowned, "It's not me."

Xiao Hu raised his head and stared at Tie Mei carefully for a while, "...the first time I saw pigeons released from your tent was on our way here."

Tie Mei was silent, Xiao Hu looked at her and continued, "The second time I saw it, it was not a pigeon, but a mark. You drew a mark on the tree before we arrived at the camp."

"There is a third time. The third time I saw a person, a masked man in black. You said you were going to the toilet and went deep into the woods. I became suspicious and followed you all the way. You didn't go to anything." Woods, you met a man in black under the tree, and that man gave you a package..." Xiao Hu stopped here.

Yin Jiu, Wen Rufeng, Zhu Yan, Luo Qian, Lu Feng and the other soldiers all looked at Tie Mei. Speaking of this, why don't people doubt her?She is the envoy of Landong Kingdom, if Landong had joined forces with Daxia in secret...

"My king has a long-standing friendship with Emperor Yongsheng. If Emperor Yongsheng was killed by Huangde, how could he help Huangde?! No! My king has no intention of harming anyone, and I did not do the poisoning! Xiaohu You misunderstood me!"

Tie Mei was in a hurry to explain, what Xiao Hu wanted was her explanation, "Then you tell the host, who is the person who met you? What did that person give you?"

Seeing his hopeful face, Tie Mei opened his mouth, but couldn't speak, just shook his head, "What he gave me is a token, which has nothing to do with this war. It has nothing to do with you. It is entrusted to me by my king for safekeeping." s things."

Who would believe that?

"My king is curious. I don't know what is so important that it needs to be entrusted to an envoy abroad for safekeeping?" Jun Zhanran knew that there must be something strange.

Tie Mei still shook her head, "This is a matter of my Langdong Kingdom, please don't ask King Zhan."

"Meizi!" Xiao Hu remembered calling out her childhood name, "If you are not a spy, you should tell the host what the truth is. This not only concerns the lives of all of us, but also concerns the world and the common people! You Knowing how serious this matter is, why didn't you say it?!"

Tie Mei seemed to have made up her mind, she just shook her head blindly if she didn't say anything.

Whoosh——Suddenly a cold arrow shot.

Following the firelight on the arrow, a fire was ignited on the tree trunk, "Enemy attack!" Xiao Hu yelled two words, and looked at Tiemei fiercely.

"No, it's an ambush." ​​Nangong Cangao's eyes turned cold, "We just retreated here and just started to rest, when the Xia army came here. They already knew where we camped, and they had already prepared for it!"

So far, the two sides are evenly matched. Judging from the situation of the attrition of soldiers and horses, Jun Zhanran and Nangong Cang Ao are in a slightly better situation, and they still have a slight advantage. They only need to take back the soldiers and horses outside, and they can take advantage of the victory to pursue.

Now they are resting here, but the enemy seems to have been waiting here for a long time. A rain of arrows came with red-hot cloth strips, igniting their food and grass.

Jun Zhanran's face turned blue, and with a wave of his palm, he gathered ten success powers, and the red light was like fire, but it was not fire light, but palm wind.

The palm wind rolled up flames, which spread like skyfire, and swept away where the arrow came from.

The fire burned in the air, and with a bang, a piece of meat exploded. It was the enemy crushed by his palm. The corpses were all shriveled, like dry corpses. Xia Jun, who was hiding in the dark, had never seen such kung fu before. I have to rush out.

"Monster! He's a monster! This is magic!" How can a living person have such kung fu?This can only be sorcery!

"Witchcraft?" Smiling, the corners of her lips curled up in a strange arc, "That's right, let's treat it as witchcraft."

He swung his palm again, and the demon red palm swept towards them with flames, as if alive, and the screams followed.

When this palm was swung, Jun Zhanran's hands trembled, his chest heaved continuously, and the meridians on his wrists kept beating with his heartbeat, as if a ghost was about to break free from his wrist.

He pressed his wrist and sneered... a monster...

"What are you doing?!" With a roar, a black shadow flashed, and Nangong Cangao's hand pressed hard on his wrist, "Ten percent?! You can't bear it at all! You have good hands, so you learned that cheat book , your hand can only withstand seven successes of your power, are you trying to abolish it again?!"

The sun-shielding knife was dripping blood. He had killed more than a dozen people just now, and when he turned around, he saw such a scene, the palm wind, the fire light, and Jun Zhanran's sneer, "You won't be reconciled if you don't torture yourself, will you?" !!"

Jun Zhanran was startled, and he suddenly realized that unconsciously, at some point, he was used to, and liked to see Nangong Cangao furious because he was worried about him.

No longer so calm and calm, no longer free and easy, he is careful, gentle, and even conniving to him.

So he is not afraid of making trouble, because someone will always take care of him and worry about him.

Looking at Nangong Cangao's anxious eyes, Jun Zhanran was shocked by his discovery, and just as he was about to speak, a sword stabbed silently from the side.

"Be careful!" He waved his palm, his wrist hurt, and he couldn't exert any strength!

The damage to the meridians has just healed, how can he endure such nonsense, this movement, the palm strength has not yet been used, the opportunity has been lost, the blade of the sword is directed towards Gong Cangao.

The sword was so close and coming fast, Nangong Cangao heard his reminder that it was wrong, and it was too late to draw the sword. If he wanted to avoid Jun Zhanran, he would be the first to bear the brunt, so he hugged his side tightly and slid away from the edge of the sword go.

This blow was between lightning and flint, and the sword's edge broke through the black clothes, bringing out a bloody light.