has become a demon

The old Kaipingwei was reduced to ashes along with the fire of King Su's mansion.

The new Kaiping Guard retreated more than a hundred miles to the south, entered the side wall, and erected a high wall at the guard at Dulongkou.The rammed-earth walls of the originally crowded village fortress were originally low, but hastily erected walls were superimposed on top of it, crooked like a piece of moldy tofu that would shatter when touched.

Dulongkou Castle is small and small, but a large number of civilians have poured into it.

The fields of these people are all in the old Kaipingwei. Even if Kaipingwei is moved, the land cannot be moved away. The arable land is precious, and the imperial court has no extra arable land to re-divide them.

So during the spring plowing, in order to earn enough food for their mouths, these people had no choice but to go out to dig the soil and sow seeds.Those who can't come back will set up a shed on the ground and live there for three to five days.Those who come back, enter and exit at the Dulongkou Pass.At dusk, a long queue formed outside the pass, waiting to enter.

Although the Tatars had an alliance with Daduan, they couldn't stand the plunder of the small tribes below who couldn't eat.

Inside the city wall, how many people waited, and if they saw their men come back, they would go home with a sigh of relief.Some people waited until it was dark and the city gates were closed, but they didn't wait for the person who was supposed to go home.

People recalled when King Su and Kaipingwei were still around, and they somewhat missed it.

At that time, Kaipingwei went deep into Monan, and the wedge was generally embedded in the Tatar territory.Before and after the spring plowing, the green and yellow were not harvested, but the Tatars were afraid of King Su and the Kaiping army, so they dared not come.

Unlike now, some people don't go to cultivate their own fields, maybe it's a farewell.

The fourth day of March.

The rain and hail that started ten days ago finally subsided.

Although the weather is still cold, many people think about the fields that have just been turned, the weeds that have been removed, and the seeds that are about to be sown.

There are a lot of people out of the city today.As soon as Maoshi passed, farmers gathered at the gate of the pass city to prepare to go out as companions.When the time of day passed and the sun came out, the city gate was bustling with farmers waiting to leave the customs.

At this moment, someone faintly heard the whistle.

It wasn't obvious at first, but gradually the whistle sounded louder, and someone yelled, "Did the Tartars come!"

Someone laughed: "How can a Tartar know how to play our army's flute?"

The whistle sounded louder.

Someone suddenly pointed to the outside of the pass and said, "Look over there! There is a team coming!"

After a commotion, someone soon saw that it was Da Duan's soldier costume.

The sentinel on the tower shouted: "Don't panic, it's Han Chinese! Close the door and ask people clearly before letting people in!"

Nothing can calm people's hearts more than this sentence, so these peasants blocking the gate of the city can see from the slowly closed gate and fence, from the low hillside winding to the distance of the road at the end of the sky. A team of cavalry is heading towards Dulongkou at full speed.

The number of people was not too many, no more than a few hundred, but most of the horses had colored flags behind them.

When the cavalry team was approaching and there were only a few hundred steps left outside Dulong's mouth, a man in black armor was dragged by a black horse and slowly walked out from the cavalry, standing in the middle of the queue, surrounded by soldiers protecting him.

He covered his face so that no one could see his face clearly.

At the same time, a milky white dragon pattern banner slowly rose from the colorful flag.

"...Su." The literate person looked carefully at the blood-red characters on the big banner, and shouted, "It's King Su!"

Before he finished speaking, everyone gasped.

Coming from the direction of the old Kaipingwei, they were still carrying the banner of King Su...but King Su was already dead, and the fire that burned Kaipingwei started from Prince Su's mansion, everyone remembers it clearly.

There were about 500 cavalrymen in that line, and they were still lining up outside.

For some reason, the person in the middle riding a horse and covering his face looks somewhat similar to Prince Su.

The crowd started to commotion, and some peasant households had already turned around and ran into the city, saying as they ran, "Prince Su came back from the underworld to collect debts!"

Wu Zhongxiao, who was on duty on the tower, said: "Stop the rumormongers!"

But there are hundreds of farmers at the gate, and they have scattered into the city, and there is no way to stop them.The following people stayed for a long time, and Qiqi Ai asked: "My lord, is it really—"

"Fart!" Wu Zhongxiao scolded, "We all watched with our own eyes when Prince Su died. Mr. Han went to Prince Su's mansion with the imperial decree. As soon as King Su came out, he was suppressed by the secret whistle arranged by our general soldier. What's the point? No words, Prince Su's head was beheaded at the gate of Prince Su's mansion!"

"Keep, but..." The man trembled and looked at the big banner with the word Su outside, "King Su died unjustly, maybe he came back."

"Too many unjust deaths." The other brought the chief king Yefu over and sighed, "I'm afraid I'm not willing to go to the Naihe Bridge."

"How can a dead person be resurrected? Even if a dead person can be resurrected, then King Su can come back without his head?" But at this point, Wu Zhongxiao hesitated.

But when the enemy army arrived at the tower, it would be too damaging to the morale of one's own side if they didn't go to fight. Wu Zhongxiao said: "Let the two general flags go out and try."

There was a general flag eager to fight for the attack, so he invited himself out of Dulongkou.

It didn't take a moment to die under the spear of the opponent's young major general.

Sweat broke out on Wu Zhongxiao's forehead, and he said, "Wang Yefu, go down, go down and explore the way."

The general king Yefu was stunned, but there was nothing he could do. He was ordered to go down the tower, he put on his armor, waited for the gate to be lowered, got on his horse and rushed out.

The battle on the tower above the city gate rang out, and the drumbeat was steady, which made Wang Yefu feel a little more at ease.

He raised his spear and rushed over, shouting: "I am Yefu, the chief king of Dulongkou!"

He is extremely fast and rushes in front of the enemy.

A knight in the opponent's queue stepped out, holding the magic sword with both hands, raising the sword and fighting.

Before he finished speaking, the other party didn't know how to get close to him. He stabbed in the chest, screamed, and fell to the ground without a sound.

The war drum on the city gate tower just beat twice, and the general of one's own side died in the field.

The soldier who was beating the drum was stunned, and then he beat for a while before stopping.

The entire battlefield became silent.

I saw the man in black who had killed someone with the swords of Dao and Demon retracted his swords, took his bow from his back, and shot arrows in the sky.

With a sound of "嗖——!", an arrow flew into the air, and then flew towards the city gate of Dulongkou. A group of people scattered in shock, but the arrow didn't aim at anyone.

There was only a muffled "thump", and the arrow feathers actually inserted into the plaque at the top of the city, and then penetrated through the three villages from behind the thick wooden plaque.

The three characters "Kaipingwei" were nailed through the middle, opening an ugly crack.

There was no sound at the city gate.

Wu Zhongxiao was stunned, and said with a trembling voice: "Hurry up and report to the commander-in-chief!"

The messenger got the order and trotted all the way down the tower, squeezed through the crowd, walked through the downtown area, and entered the yamen of the general army near the barracks.

Liu Changfu, general of the Kaiping army, had already received the news from the servants, changed into a suit of armor, entered the meeting hall of the yamen from the backyard, and saw the messengers coming.

After listening to his words, Liu Changfu's face became serious.

"My lord, what are we going to do?" The messenger asked tremblingly, "Everyone in the city gate is always terrified. Is it true that King Su is alive?"

When Han Chuanjun came to Kaiping to kill King Su, Liu Changfu was stained with blood. When he heard this, he was furious, and cursed: "You believe in ghosts and ghosts! Can there be ghosts in the blue sky?! People take arrows The plaque was shot through, and Lao Tzu's face was swollen. Can Wu Zhongxiao do something?!"

He took out the command arrow and threw it to the messenger: "Let this bastard Wu Zhongxiao open the city gates to meet the enemy. If he is a man or a ghost, he will know if he cuts off his head!"

Wu Zhongxiao accepted the order and glanced at the people below.

The team is obviously only 500 people, I don't know why, because the Xiao Ziqi and the Heijia people make people feel frightened.

"Sir, what should I do?"

The following people asked him.

Wu Zhongxiao gritted his teeth and said: "It's just a team of 500 people, what are you afraid of? Even if Mr. Han took away the big team, we have nearly 5000 people left behind in Dulongkou. I'm afraid he won't make it. Wait for me to go down and find out the truth. Come on. People, put on my armor, prepare for battle, and open the city gate!"

The drums sounded again.

This time the drum was beating quickly, and the sound lasted for a while, and it stopped abruptly when the general soldier Liu Changfu put on his armor and went up to the city wall of the pass.

He looked out.

He recognized Dao Demon Sword at a glance, and also recognized that the person below was Xie Taichu.

His heart was beating wildly, and he was about to give an early warning when he saw Wu Zhongxiao spurting blood from his neck, and he had fallen from his horse to the ground, he was out of breath, his feet caught on the treads, and he was dragged by the horse and trotted back to the city gate , dragged out a trail of blood, looking creepy.

It took less than half an hour from the time the soldiers were dispatched to the Zongbing Yamen to the time Wu Zhongxiao died in battle.

Xie Taichu changed into Taoist robes, dressed in black, and put on a waist-length armor. The silver armor is now stained with blood, even his cheeks are covered with blood.Let him be like Xueluo from hell.

If... this person is Xie Taichu.

that……

Liu Changfu thought of the arrest warrant that had just been posted.

Staring at the leading general with the black armor covering his face, he felt a chill seep up from his heels.At this time, I saw the black-armored general come out and slowly take off the mask on his face.

A young, stern face resembling that of Prince Su was revealed.

"Liu Changfu, do you recognize me?" He asked.

A county king who was sent to the capital at the age of 14 and grew up mediocre.

A man with disabled legs, deposed as a commoner, who should have died in Ningxia's bloodline of King Su.

A desperado who actually revived from the ashes, repelled the Yexing tribe, and was wanted by the emperor.

Seeing this face that resembled King Su, he remembered the conspiracy instigated by Han Chuanjun.

That day, as soon as Prince Su Zhao Hong came out of the palace to greet him, his adjutant tied his hands behind his back and allowed him to struggle, and directly chopped off his head.

Then they rushed into the palace, and nearly a thousand people in Prince Su's mansion were all killed.

Su Wang Shizi led nearly 300 people with his personal guards, and led [-] personal guards to fight in the street with the Han family army and the Kaiping Weifu army in Kaipingwei.

The two armies were at a stalemate.

Probably the blood stained the eyes, and the treasures found in Prince Su's mansion were not enough for everyone to share equally. Han Chuanjun almost tacitly instructed, and began to massacre the city for seven consecutive days.

Finally Prince Su's army was defeated, and Han's army won.

All those who were still alive were beheaded for public display.

Then Kaipingwei was set on fire...

"Zhao, Zhao... Zhao Yuan..." Liu Changfu looked at him and said with a trembling voice.

At this moment, he even felt in a trance that if Zhao Hong's ghost took his life, it would be better than Zhao Yuan's revenge.In this world, ghosts are not scary, but people are much more terrifying than ghosts.

"General! The three-eyed gun is ready! Do you want to shoot?!" The subordinate asked him.

From the gate of Dulongkou to where Zhao Yuan was, it was only a few hundred steps, the three-eyed blunderbuss fired continuously, and Zhao Yuan was within range.

But before he could give the order, Xie Taichu drew his bow and arrows again.

"What is he going to do?!" Liu Changfu asked in a panic.

The subordinates were stunned for a moment, but before they could speak, Xie Taichu's arrow flew out, making a sharp cry in the air, and rushed towards Liu Changfu in an instant.

It's not that he didn't have blood on his hands, he carried countless lives on his back.

The arrow seemed to come from hell, as if it wanted to kill him, he screamed and fell to the ground.

The fatal arrow never shot through his head, but shot into the plaque again, and the plaque cracked in two along the crack, and fell down with a creaking sound, hitting both sides of Liu Changfu.

Liu Changfu shivered, and after a while, he realized that his crotch was wet.

"It has nothing to do with me, it has nothing to do with me." He babbled, "It's all Han Chuanjun's fault, Han Chuanjun instigated it!"

"My lord! My lord! You must—"

"Close the city gate! Put down the iron gate!" Liu Changfu hurriedly said with trembling voice, "Raise the suspension bridge!"

"Can--"

"No one is allowed to enter the city!" Liu Changfu stared abruptly, grabbed the hem of his subordinate's clothes and said viciously, "Do you fucking understand, this is a warning! This is Zhao Yuan's warning to kill me! No one Get out of town! Got it!

"

It was getting brighter.

But I don't know why it rained again.

In the rain, the iron gate of Dulongkou rumbled down, and the suspension bridge was pulled up again, standing huddled in the wind and rain.

After everything quieted down, Prince Su's five hundred cavalry left without haste.

Seeing their figures going away, Liu Changfu breathed a sigh of relief.

"They saw that there were only 500 people, and they didn't know how many people were lurking. We only had a few thousand people. If we left the city, we would be ambushed. A few thousand people...isn't enough for Zhao Yuan's teeth." Liu Changfu said with emotion , "Fortunately, fortunately."

On the way back to the old Kaipingwei, Zhao Yuan remained silent until the charred and black city wall of Kaipingwei came into view.

"Liu Changfu should have been frightened." Xie Taichu said, "He is a fool, timid and suspicious. With this warning, when we fight Han Chuanjun, he will not dare to drive Dulong. Han Chuan’s army will not have any reinforcements at the pass. Dulongkou is behind the old Kaiping, so we have less worries. Don’t worry, Your Highness.”

Zhao Yuan came back to his senses and smiled: "I'm fine, you don't have to worry about me in the beginning. It's just... I haven't come back for more than ten years, and everything I see is scorched... I feel bad."

There are more fields on both sides.

Sporadic farmers lived in the straw huts around, and they came out curiously to look around.

As we got closer and closer to Ping, the number of people gradually increased.At first they were very confused when they saw the big banner with the word Su... But gradually some people suddenly realized that it was the banner of King Su.

Suddenly someone shouted in the distance: "Prince Su is back!"

Finally, those ordinary farmers were awakened.

They knelt down and bowed their heads one after another, and kowtowed to the army in the fields where green grass and buds grew.

Loudly said: "The prince is back! The prince is back!"

Xie Taichu said to him: "Your Highness is wrong, here is not just scorched earth... there is new life."

Zhao Yuan lowered his head, and it took him a while to raise his head.

He didn't cry, although his eyes were red, but there was more joy in his eyes.

"You're right, Taichu." He said in a slightly hoarse voice, "There is people's livelihood here. Where there is people's livelihood, there will be new life."