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The night gradually shrouded, and the cold wind howled outside Gubei City, and the wind rolled up the military flag and hit it on the flagpole, making a fierce sound.Ten miles outside the gate of Gubei City, the bonfire where the Dawan frontier army camped gradually ignited during this time.The dim light of the fire illuminated the night, and everyone around the campfire looked heavy.

Gubei City has been besieged for six days, during which time they have launched no less than ten attacks on Gubei City, but almost all of them have failed.The reputation of Gubei City as easy to defend and difficult to attack is not false. Even if the internal forces of Gubei City are only half of theirs, they can still defend the city for such a long time due to the terrain.

But it's just these few days, Gubei City doesn't have much food in storage, and it's besieged. If it doesn't get rid of it, it may be able to last for ten days, or half a month. How about a month or two, it will always kill them .

The Dawan Army outside Gubei City thought so, and so did the Yuan Family Army inside Gubei City.

"Fang Qianhu, how much food and grass do you have?" The captain temporarily took over Yuan Xiao's seat and sat in the tent to support the scene.Without Yuan Xiao's shock field, although he has been in contact with many of these things, he always feels a little uncertain and can't make up his mind.

"The food and grass delivered last time was much less than the quota, and there were 600 more people for no reason. It can last for another half a month." Fang Qianhu was very calm when he arrived at this time, and he didn't know if he was pretending .

"Tell me, what happened to General Yuan?"

"I don't know." The captain stood up, "It was snowing heavily that day, and it was too messy, so no one could tell what happened."

Outside the camp was the gradually blurred sky. A star rose from the west and hung on the treetops, making the night here more and more cold.

Zhao En exhaled a breath of hot air, and seeing the breath forming a white mist in front of his eyes, he blew out another breath to disperse the white mist.Behind him was a haystack made up of bales of dry long-stalked grass, holding a cup of hot goat milk tea in his hand, and looking up at the distant stars.

"Prince, everything is packed." A man eight feet tall came out of the tent not far away, and greeted Zhao En.

Zhao En freed one hand, waved at him twice, and said, "Tie Keyi, come here."

Although Tie Keyi didn't know what he was going to do, since Zhao En came back from the Central Plains, he could clearly see the difference between him and the two elder brothers. The eldest prince and the second prince often mocked him for being a woman from the Central Plains. Even the bloodiness of the prairie boy is gone, so it is normal to have some behaviors that the big boss can't understand.He stepped on the deep snow and walked towards Zhao En "creaking".

"Prince, what's the matter?" he asked.

"How long can our food and grass last?" Zhao En didn't answer his question, nor did he lower his head, but raised his head and asked him a word.

Tie Keyi frowned, pointed to the granary not far away and said, "It's still half a month. ——The eldest prince and the second prince are holding on to the granary and preventing it from being sent to the border. If this continues, Gubei City The Yuan Jiajun hasn’t collapsed yet, so let’s collapse first. Really!” At this point, he couldn’t help but waved his fist, which caused snow to fall from the haystack behind Zhao En.

"Tie Keyi, hold your breath."

"Prince, you can't hold your breath. If the people below know that we are running out of food and grass, the morale of the army will be unstable. The first prince and the second prince just want to see you defeated and go back, so that they can laugh at you."

"We don't have much food and grass, and the food and grass in Gubei City may not be able to support it. - Tell the people below not to rush to attack the city. It is now the stage of stalemate. It depends on who can hold their breath. The one who strikes first loses "Zhao En straightened up, splashed the remaining goat milk with a wave of his hand, turned and walked to the tent, "Let's go, Tie Keyi."

Tie Keyi followed behind him and added worriedly: "But the person on the other side is that Yuan Xiao, the general of the town, Yuan Xiao, if he commands, he will definitely not make mistakes."

"Yuan Xiao?" Zhao En stopped in his tracks and sneered, "I don't know where he is now. If it wasn't for him, even if there were [-] defenders in Gubei City, it wouldn't be enough."

"Ah? Prince, you..."

Zhao En raised his eyebrows, reached into his sleeve, found a jade medal, lowered his eyes and smiled: "The chapter of fortune and misfortune...it's really a good thing."

It was also the same night that two knights on two horses passed through the northern pass non-stop and set foot on the Great Plains of Gubei City.The horse's nose exhaled hot air, and the man on the horse crouched on the horse's back and lowered his body as low as possible. The fox fur hat faced the wind, and the cloak was blown by the north wind, raising a plump wing.

"Ku Taoist, are you sure this is the way to Gubei City?" Wang Chengqian leaned on his horse and shouted at Tang Yuan who was running ahead against the cold wind.

"Of course, after passing Gubei City Dayuan is Gubei City. According to the current form, there will be Dawan's army within thirty miles of Gubei City. If you are lucky, Zhao En will also be there."

The horse's hooves didn't stop when the two were talking, and even Tang Yuan felt that the horse was running too slowly and added two whips.

"Ku Taoist, don't you stop to rest for a while?" Wang Chengqian's breath was also white, and it looked as thunderous as the horse under him.

"Don't you want to kill Zhao En?" Tang Yuan turned his head while holding the rein, "Yuan Xiao is more dangerous if you take a step slower!"

"This is the worst year I've ever lived." Wang Chengqian lowered his head and murmured, "I used to live with my father in Bafeng Villa..."

Tang Yuan's horse slowed down a bit, his hand stretched out from under the thick cloak, just in time to catch a snowflake floating in the sky, his voice also seemed to come from somewhere, mixed in the cold wind Unclear: "Is Chinese New Year so soon?"

The two people and the two horses looked extremely small in the vast wilderness of Gubei City, but it was such a small point that after stopping for two steps, they suddenly accelerated and went straight to Gubei City.

"The [-]th day of the first lunar month." Yuan Xiao drew another mark on the ice, propped himself up and stood up slowly against the ice wall.

He was only wearing a thin suit of clothes, half of the armor was removed by him, and two boards were removed to wrap around his legs. When he stood up, his legs hit the ice and he would frown in pain.

Yuan Xiao looked up and saw a narrow gap with ice walls standing on both sides. Only the line where he was standing could see the sky, and even birds could not fly in.The surrounding ice wall was very smooth. He tried several times to use his strength to jump up, but he couldn't do it. He looked up and saw that there were only marks left by the dagger in his hand when he fell down on the wall.It has also been five days now, and the traces of a few days ago have now turned into white spots.

If the ice walls on both sides continue to expand, Yuan Xiao won't be surprised even if he is frozen inside one day.

Yuan Xiao leaned on his sword and looked up at the sky. The faint starlight shone through a ray of sky, a bit like that night five days ago.It was the same that day, the stars were very sparse, and someone outside the camp suddenly reported.

"Report! Dawan's army has changed!"

It was only when Tang Yuan left the city that he saw a group of Dawan troops, as if sent to death, with less than a hundred people rushing towards them. Naturally, it was very simple to fight, but there must be a reason behind it.Yuan Xiao regretted thinking too much now, if he sticks to Gubei City, the current situation will not be so embarrassing.

That night, Yuan Xiao led a small group of less than ten people to the high cliff on the border of Dawan to investigate in light clothes. No one saw clearly.

Who is it?

Yuan Xiao closed his eyes and recalled the figure under the faint fire that night. He was dressed in black, tall and strong, with a black helmet on his head. He didn't know what material the helmet was painted with. Light never returns.The speed was extremely fast, and taking advantage of the sneak attack, Yuan Xiao didn't see clearly how the saber came out of its sheath.

When he realized it, the black-glowing blade had already slashed to his chest. He pushed the captain with all his strength, and hastily blocked the knife with the green steel sword.

The force of that knife was also extremely strong, when the sword hit each other, Yuan Xiao's arm was numb due to the force, and the pair of crazy eyes hidden behind the black helmet also made Yuan Xiao's scalp go numb, really a pair of devil-like eyes.

The eyes of normal people are either black or brown, and even those foreigners with strange eye colors do not have such terrifying eyes.The man's eyes were cloudy yellow, and the whites of the eyes were bloodshot, as if they were about to explode from their eye sockets.

Yuan Xiao's heart was shocked when he saw it, and he used some internal energy to break the black-clothed personality away, and turned around to shout at the captain, "Hurry back to the city!" Then he drew out the green steel sword and swung it at the black-clothed man.

It was too dark that night, and it was snowing heavily. The captain knew that his martial arts skills were low, and this kind of one-on-one sparring would not be of any help, so he could only turn around and run away.Neither he nor Yuan Xiao ever noticed that the ice layer under his feet was cracked due to the fierce fighting, let alone that there was a high cliff under the ice layer.

Yuan Xiao's martial arts is high, but in this kind of night, and it is such an enemy, the advantage of the lightsaber is quite limited, and the opponent's fighting style is almost desperate, even he can only fall off the cliff. In an instant, he seized the opportunity to remove the arm of the man in black.But he paid far more than the man in black. He was lucky to only hurt his leg when he fell from such a high cliff, but he couldn't climb up for a while.

This place is a natural crack in the ground, if you want to go up, you have to fly up like a bird. Now that he hurt his leg, he can't fly up, so he can only find another way out.

Fortunately, the space was not small twice. After walking along this crack for five days, Yuan Xiao finally came to a slightly spacious place on the fifth night. There is nothing wrong with coming in the direction.

Yuan Xiao sighed, sat down again, put the green steel sword in front of him, leaned against the ice wall and looked to his right.A cluster of tiny flowers grew from a crack in the ice wall, looking fragile and lovely in the fissure where there was no living thing around.

Yuan Xiao stretched out his hand to pick it off, then sighed and put down his hand, the delicate leaves of the flower bush trembled with his exhaled breath.

Yuan Xiao tapped his fingers on the icy wall, and his deep voice seemed to be talking to himself: "It's Chinese New Year..."

I don't know what the situation in Gubei City is like at the moment, whether the captain can take on this important task, and I don't know where Tang Yuan is at the moment, and whether he is safe or not.