The fake daughter of a fallen ghost is reborn

Chapter 317: A sudden turn of events

Even until Shen Chiyan actually saw Huo Wuyou standing in front of him, covered in blood and pale, he still couldn't believe it.

"Marquis Lin'an, what are you doing..."

Huo Wuyou was seen wearing a dark coarse linen shirt, dressed like an ordinary citizen, but the smell of blood on his body was so strong that it was frightening. The whites of his phoenix eyes were swollen with blood, and his Adam's apple moved up and down uncomfortably. He propped himself up and found a place to sit down, then waved his hand, signaling others to leave.

He didn't speak until he and Shen Chiyan were the only ones left in the room: "After Yunqiao County was breached and I was captured, they put me in prison. Fortunately, the prison in Yunqiao County was weak, and I escaped."

Shen Chiyan was surprised, but soon he asked in confusion: "But Jiangzhou Prefecture is also heavily guarded, how did Lin'an Hou enter the city?"

Huo Wuyou replied, "There is an ancient road leading into Jiangzhou, which the Beidi people also discovered. However, they are not as familiar with that ancient road as I am. When I came to Jiangzhou to investigate a case last year, I had already explored that road thoroughly. It is still possible to use the natural dangers to avoid the pursuers."

Seeing Huo Wuyou's injuries, Shen Chiyan felt bad: "Marquis Lin'an should heal his wounds first, right?"

Huo Wuyou shook his head, propped himself up, moved to Shen Chiyan's desk, spread out a piece of rice paper, and picked up a pen to write.

His throat was itchy and he coughed a few times, only to smell a bloody taste in his mouth, but his hands did not stop and he soon wrote down a lot.

"General Shen, I am here to tell you this news."

Without knowing what was going on, Shen Chiyan picked up the paper that Huo Wuyou had written on. After just one glance, his face turned pale with shock: "This is..."

"The structure of the chariots used by the Northern Di people to attack cities, the military tactics commonly used by the Northern Di people, and the habits of the Northern Di war horses, and so on."

He had already memorized the book of military secrets that Huo Wuji gave him. During the days when he was defending Yunqiao County, Huo Wuji also told him a lot of what he had seen and heard in Beidi, especially since Huo Wuji had been a horse slave in Beidi for many years and knew the habits of their war horses best.

For example, although their horses are strong, the grass they eat is not available in the Central Plains, and their war horses are also in a state of shortage of grass... Huo Wuji even knows the commands to drive the Northern Di war horses.

The fighting spirit rekindled in Shen Chiyan's tired eyes. With these, there was still hope of breaking through the encirclement of Beidi.

……

Huajing.

When the victory news came from Jiangzhou, Shen Qingtang was in the palace accompanying Xue Zhiyi.

Originally, as an official's wife, she needed the emperor's permission to enter the palace. But now that Jiang Xu has been labeled a traitor, he has issued many decrees in the name of the emperor these days. Naturally, he would respond to such a small matter as Shen Qingtang's entry into the palace, which made her enter and leave the palace as if she were entering her own home.

Knowing that Shen Chiyan led his troops to break through the encirclement, Shen Qingtang's days of gloom were finally dispelled.

Not only that, the good news also brought back news about Huo Wuyou. After two months of uncertainty about his life or death, it was learned that he was in Jiangzhou Prefecture, and he had devised a plan to break through the siege of the Northern Di.

Reinforcements and food supplies were able to enter the city, and Dayong’s impending disaster was averted!

"Zhiyi, it's okay, did you hear that? They are all fine..." Shen Qingtang almost cried with joy.

Xue Zhiyi was also stunned for a long time before he came to his senses little by little, his eyes unconsciously moistened... Perhaps sensing her emotions, the baby in her belly also surged.

She knew that Huo Wuyou would be fine. He would live a long and blessed life and would not die so easily.

She stroked her already round belly. These days, she had been prepared to lose the child. She even couldn't bear to treat him as a life. She was afraid that she would be unwilling to give him up when she was in desperate situation... It was not until this moment that she felt the reality of the life in her belly.

She called out, "Qiuyun."

Qiu Yun quickly responded: "What do you want, Madam?"

"Get rid of that abortion drug quickly," she said.

……

Those days of fear and anxiety felt like years, but when the good news came, everyone in Huajing was jubilant.

Yangui got in touch with Huo Wuyou again, and his letters came to him one after another like snowflakes.

Huo Wuyou kept talking about his longing for home and how he wanted to go home. He also talked about how he disrupted the Northern Di army by giving commands to drive their war horses, and then defeated the enemy with a smaller force and broke out of the encirclement with the remaining soldiers of Jiangzhou Prefecture. Only then did he realize that the Northern Di were just bluffing, because the war horses did not have enough fodder, and their fighting power was not as strong as it seemed.

After this victory, food and grass were able to enter Jiangzhou Prefecture, and the remaining troops were able to join up with reinforcements. They then counterattacked all the way and reached Yunqiao County.

When the Beidi general guarding Yunqiao County saw Huo Wuyou attacking the city, he was dumbfounded, because he had always thought that Huo Wuyou was imprisoned by him, but he did not expect that the person in the cell was Huo Wuji, who looked very similar to Huo Wuyou.

Helian You, who came hurriedly to support, learned about this and sent the general away. He also took Huo Wuji hostage and forced Huo Wuyou to withdraw his troops.

He thought Huo Wuji was a useless man, but he didn't expect that Huo Wuji would use his left hand to snatch the sword and kill him when he was holding him hostage.

Huo Wuji was not a self-destructive person. He had been a horse slave in Beidi for many years. He had been sleeping on straw and tasting gall. He practiced martial arts with his left hand secretly every day, just for this moment, to kill the murderer of his father with a sword.

After beheading the enemy's prince, Dayong's morale was greatly boosted, and they retook the key pass of Yunqiao County in one go.

However, Huo Wuyou was still a little worried because the emperor had already made murderous intentions towards them. In response, Xue Zhiyi wrote back: they had already used some methods to "persuade" the emperor, and Huajing would fully support the border war from now on, and there would be no shortage of either reinforcements or food, so he could just rest assured.

So this time, the soldiers of Dayong were strong and they knew the terrain better than the Northern Di people. They quickly defeated the Northern Di people with a swift force and fled out of Yueling Pass in disgrace.

Not only that, they also occupied several cities of Beidi, and took back the territory that had been disputed with Beidi for a hundred years since the founding of Dayong.

In the golden autumn season, the grasslands in the northwest are all withered and yellow. The northern Di people abandoned large tracts of grassland and fled hundreds of miles to the west. It seems that if they want to restore their fighting power and attack Dayong again, they will have to recuperate for decades.

The people of Yueling Pass had been harassed for a hundred years, and this battle had seen countless casualties. Finally, the Northern Di were defeated. In the mountains and fields, and in front of the countless acres of withered graves, smoke was rising up, as the people were all paying homage to and comforting the deceased.

When they arrived at the burial place of the soldiers who had been killed in the past, Huo Wuyou and Huo Wuji dismounted and kowtowed.

For a long time afterwards, these wronged souls were no longer disturbed by the war and finally rested in peace.

On the way back to the capital, the people of Yueling Pass and Jiangzhou sang and saw them off.

On horseback, Huo Wuji said, "If our emperor sees this, he will surely be suspicious and say that we are too successful to be a threat to him."

"Let him be suspicious." Huo Wuyou's chuckle was chilling. "What if his suspicion comes true this time? He still has so many lives to live anyway."