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Since He Zheng and others arrived at the Northern Frontier military camp, Pei Yi soon received the imperial edict to withdraw the camp and return to the capital, leaving matters such as peace talks entirely to He Zheng. Of the 250,000 troops allocated by the court, only 200,000 remained after the war, and only 30,000 of the 50,000 Pei family troops were left, and they were temporarily left in the Northern Frontier camp to deter the Turks.

Because Liang Qixing was seriously injured and needed to recuperate, he was not suitable for marching, so he stayed in the Northern Frontier camp and returned together after the peace talks were over.

Pei Yi also kept Ye Guici as well.

He traveled lightly with Hua Manxi and Fan Xingyang, along with twenty personal guards, to return to the capital to report.

The journey was quite smooth and we soon arrived at Queshan in Lin County, a suburb of Beijing.

Hua Manxi saw Pei Yi was in deep thought all the way, so she asked him with a smile: "What's wrong with our General Pei? Seeing the flowers bloom, you are also thinking about love? Are you still thinking about the woman you met in the hot spring?"

Pei Yi ignored the joke in Hua Manxi's words and replied seriously: "This woman is very agile. If it was a close combat, even I might not be able to defeat her. If she is not a spy, why would she appear near the Northern Frontier military camp at this time?"

Hua Manxi smiled and said, "But Old Pei, we sent out all your 300 guards to search the forest roads within 5 kilometers. We also brought hunting dogs, but we didn't smell any scent of women. I think you didn't meet a fairy who came down to earth? She came to the earth to enjoy the scenery and then returned to heaven."

Fan Xingyang also said: "Yes, General, let alone the hound, you should believe in Zhuiyun's tracking skills, not to mention that the woman rode it, but even Zhuiyun couldn't find the person, you must have had a dream, right?"

Hua Manxi smiled and said, "That's what I said. When you go back this time, it's time for Old Pei to get married. When you get married, you won't be obsessed with the woman in the water anymore."

When Pei Yi heard Fan Xingyang talking about his dream, his face suddenly became gloomy and his lower abdomen tightened.

It’s all because of that damn dream!

After he returned that night, he sent all his personal guards out to look for the spies, and he waited in the tent for half the night. When there was no report from his personal guards, he lay down on the bed and fell asleep.

In a daze, I felt myself floating in warm water. Suddenly, a woman rose from the water, but I couldn't see her face clearly. I just felt that her skin was as white as snow.

The woman slowly approached him, then put her arms around his neck, and moved her face closer and closer. The touch of her smooth skin made him feel distracted. Just when he thought the woman was going to kiss him, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his lower body. The fear of physical separation made him sober up instantly. He stretched out his palm and slapped the woman in front of him away, gasping for breath and waking up from his dream.

Only then did I realize that the thrilling experience just now was just a dream.

Fan Xingyang and Hua Manxi were still teasing him.

"Our general looks like this, what noble lady can be worthy of him? If you ask me, those ladies who have been eyeing our general, if they compare their beauty with our general, they will all be thrown away."

"Old Pei's appearance is indeed - if we weren't afraid that the people in the army would be dissatisfied, we wouldn't have to stare at a big beard every day for the past few months. After returning home without the beard, I think he is much more pleasing to the eye."

Pei Yi, with a shaved beard, was dressed in a green brocade robe that fluttered in the wind. His jet-black hair was tied in an exquisite white jade crown with a jade hairpin inserted in it. He sat on the handsome Zhuiyun, standing tall and straight like a green pine or cypress. He lacked the fierceness of a general, but had more of the dignity and elegance of a nobleman.

Her eyebrows are like ink paintings, her eyes are like stars, her nose is high, her lips are distinct, and her deep eyes seem to be able to capture people's souls.

Fortunately, he likes to make a sour face. Otherwise, even if he really met a fairy from heaven with this smile, the fairy would probably fall in love with his beauty and be unable to extricate herself.

It is true that he looks a bit unpleasant.

Just as Hua Manxi and Fan Xingyang were chatting and laughing, Zhuiyun suddenly let out a long neigh, raised his horse's neck, and paced restlessly on the spot, unwilling to move forward another step.

Pei Yi immediately pulled the reins of the horse, touched Zhuiyun's neck soothingly, and said to Hua Manxi and Fan Xingyang, "Be careful, there is an ambush here." Zhuiyun's intuition has always been accurate and has never been wrong.

They were now walking on a mountain path in Queshan. After passing the canyon in front of them, they would reach the spacious official road.

If there really is someone in the capital who doesn't want him to return, this place will be the final ambush site.

Hua Manxi raised his head and glanced at the top of the canyon, frowning as well: "It's indeed a good place for an ambush."

Even Fan Xingyang, who always liked to compete with strength, couldn't help but think: "General, we only brought 20 people with us this time. If the enemy has more people and they set up an ambush, we might be in trouble."

But they had no other way to go. The nearby official road was covered with heavy snow and became slippery, with large rocks pressing down the road surface. It was only started to be rebuilt in the spring of this year, but it has not been completed yet and is still in an impassable state. If they wanted to get out of Queshan, they could only take the small path in the valley before them.

"Set up camp in the woods and leave after dark."

After receiving the order, everyone retreated into the dense forest and built a fire to prevent wild beasts from approaching. Everyone knew that there would be a fierce battle tonight.

When it got dark, there was no moon in the mountains.

Pei Yi and the others secretly breathed a sigh of relief. The less they could see, the better it was for them.

Pei Yi patted Zhuiyun's neck, put his forehead against its, and whispered, "Good Zhuiyun, I'm counting on you. Be sure to stay away and don't get hurt."

After saying that, he patted his horse's butt, and saw Zhuiyun running into the forest dragging a branch.

A group of horses followed behind, each dragging branches behind its tail. They galloped into the valley in a mighty procession, raising a cloud of dust. The only sound in the canyon was the sound of horses running.

Then there was the sound of rolling rocks and the painful neighing of horses as they were hit by rocks.

After a long while, the valley finally became quiet. Then Pei Yi's three personal soldiers were seen holding bows and arrows, shooting three arrows at the big tree opposite. The arrows hit three tree trunks respectively. There was an iron ring tied to the tail of the arrow, and a thin rope passed through the iron ring. The tail of the thin rope was put on another iron ring. The personal soldiers nailed the iron ring to a piece of wood that was one person tall and inserted the wood into the soil.

A few bodyguards brought in a few straw men wearing soldiers' armor and tied them to a thin rope between two iron rings. They pulled the thin rope, and when viewed from the top of the mountain, it looked like a group of people passing through the canyon.

Sure enough, the sound of arrows falling continuously was heard, piercing the straw man with a swish sound.

Pei Yi, Hua Manxi, Fan Xingyang and others, holding shields disguised with branches, stuck to the stone wall of the valley and slowly moved to the other end of the valley.