The mountains and rivers are quiet and broad

Battle No. 20 One day, the enemy's reinforcements arrived at the front line, but the night before, the advance army sent by Da Chen captured Xili City outside the frontier and pushed the battlefield to the enemy's doorstep.

The battle line was stretched, and Cao Dingkun was calm on the surface, but he was inevitably uneasy in his heart. They still had a surplus of food and troops, but they couldn't stand the long-term toss.

Food and grass will be exhausted, soldiers will die, and the war is too laborious and costly. I only hope that the war can end as soon as possible.

As a general, Cao Dingkun never expected to rely on his military exploits to become famous all over the world. He only hoped for peace, because he had been in the frontier for too long, and so did all the soldiers—to end the war as soon as possible and go home.

A solitary smoke in the desert, the sky and the earth are divided into two colors by a line. When there is no wind, it is a quiet and magnificent beauty.Chen Yikai walked up the city wall and stood beside Cao Dingkun.

"This city has to be defended."

"Yes. If we want to fight a protracted war, defending a city is also beneficial for offense and defense. Besides, there is such a large group of rocks behind Xili City."

"I've heard that this group of rocks is inaccessible and is called "Man-eating Devil's Rock". "

"What the hell is that?" Cao Dingkun clicked his tongue: "It doesn't matter what monsters and snakes, if you don't shoot, come one to kill one, come two to kill one pair."

"Kill a piece of armor without leaving it! Hahaha." Chen Yikai also laughed proudly, looking at the scenery outside the city gate with his hips on his hips.

Beautiful, but also barren.

"Before I left, my youngest son just knew how to call him Dad." Mentioning his son Chen Yikai, he showed a gentle smile, "When I go back, he may be taller than my legs."

"Oh, what can you eat to grow so fast?" Cao Dingkun curled his lips and teased: "The war will last for a year at most, and we have no food, how can they have it? Not to mention the place where the birds don't shit, I think the bird land is full of birds." No! See? It’s all sand! The wind is blowing, what else is there besides sand?

Unless they are living in sand, otherwise, they must want to make a quick decision in this battle.When you go back, your son is at most four years old, can he be as tall as your legs? "

Chen Yikai heard him slap, and waved his hands with a smile: "All right, all right, all right."

Cao Dingkun stared at him, but he didn't want to talk to him. After thinking about it, he asked, "Where's the prince?"

"It's time to eat."

Cao Dingkun nodded when he heard the words, but didn't answer any more.

After all, Xu Qingfeng broke out with the army and walked for a day to Xili City.

But this time Xu Qingfeng and Chen Ke both put on armor, and Xu Qingfeng acted freely and aboveboard as Chen Ke's bodyguard. Seeing Xu Qingfeng, Chen Yiyun who went ahead was just surprised, and Chen Yikai was the most disliked of the three. To put it bluntly: Who will protect whom in danger.And the guards.

He muttered softly, but Chen Ke still heard it, and Chen Yikai's face turned pale in fright, but Chen Ke didn't get angry, and just said lightly: "Protect him..."

They were all stunned, and the sergeant who was close was also a little stunned. What was even more surprising was that Xu Qingfeng suddenly pulled out his sword and pulled a sword flower on the ground. his impression.

After that, although Chen Ke still went back to have dinner with Xu Qingfeng, they didn't have such big prejudices anymore.In the end, they didn't dare to offend King Ni, but the two men fell in love, and no matter how they thought about it, they felt that they were at odds.

There are no embroidered pillows on the battlefield, so that's fine, but it's not a good thing for King Ren to value Mr. Xu so much. Chen Yiyun silently increased the number of guards on patrol, just for fear that Xu Qingfeng would fall into the enemy's hands and become a threat to them. handle.

"We've always speculated that they didn't have enough food, but I suddenly remembered something last night..." Xu Qingfeng put down his bowl and chopsticks, "The Blue and White Society had so much food at that time, who did it go to?"

Chen Ke handed him a handkerchief, watched him clean his face and hands, "It's not impossible."

It is not impossible for the Blue and White Society to provide weapons to the Demon Cult, and it is not impossible to provide food to the outsiders. This is not only driven by profit, Xu Qingfeng had always suspected that the Blue and White Society had a solid backer in the court.

So this is a deliberate game. Thinking about it this way, the chance of winning the battle seems to be reduced by a few percent.

"We should check it out." Xu Qingfeng and Chen Ke stood up together, and walked slowly along the house: "It's a pity that Guan Hongfeng's eye disease has not recovered, otherwise he can be sent to spy on the enemy."

"This matter will be arranged later, you don't have to worry about it."

The room is not big, and after a few rounds, Xu Qingfeng mentioned the picture he saw in the Stone of Life and Death: "Xinghualin, I think this must have a meaning."

"Well, otherwise you wouldn't have seen it."

"Think about it, we have come into contact with apricot blossom wine, which is related to apricot blossom wine. But what is related to apricot blossom wine..." Xu Qingfeng turned his head to look at Chen Ke: "There are only those two people."

Chen Ke shook his head, "What is the difference between your explanation and "thinking every day and dreaming at night"?The stone of life and death can control the world, since it gave you such a warning, there must be a special purpose. "

"But I can't think of it..." Xu Qingfeng couldn't help being a little frustrated when he went back to the original point.

Chen Ke didn't care, and thought for a while and said, "Perhaps, the master of the law doesn't want you to get a glimpse of the secret. We can speculate that the person in the court gave the Demon Sect instructions to use the Demon Sect to find the stone of life and death in the rivers and lakes. The root of all these things should be this stone. The stone of life and death, the stone of heaven and earth, the universe in the stone."

"It can also bring the dead back to life..." Xu Qingfeng took out the Life and Death Stone and held it up in front of his eyes. No matter how many times he felt that it was just an ordinary stone, it didn't meet his previous conjecture about "huge body". "What does he want the stone for?"

"I don't know." Chen Ke replied sharply: "The ability of the stone of life and death is not limited to this kind. If it is said to hold the universe, the few moves he played have already turned the world upside down. If it is said to travel through time and space, it is too much. Unbelievable, the most likely one should be the living dead.”

"But he doesn't know that the so-called "living dead flesh and bones" are actually traveling through time and space in disguise. "Xu Qingfeng felt that the walk was almost over, and if he continued walking, he might be hungry again.

"Perhaps he knows?"

"Huh? How?"

Chen Ke pondered and said: "I ordered people to go to southern Xinjiang to investigate before. There is no Xinghua village or Xinghua forest, and there is no Xinghua wine. There are poisonous insects and miasma, and the humidity is heavy. It is impossible to support large areas. Apricot trees. But in the small city of Lost City in the corner of southern Xinjiang, the local county annals recorded that there was a flourishing apricot forest about 900 years ago."

"More than 900 years ago?" Xu Qingfeng was dumbfounded, that was the time when the story his father told him happened.Xu Qingfeng shook his head, as if talking to himself: "Impossible, impossible, impossible."

Chen Ke also thought it was impossible, and the two went to the desk and sat down. After a cup of tea, the whole father-in-law came to knock on the door, and Chen Ke went to Cao Dingkun's big tent to discuss with them about spying on the enemy.

Xu Qingfeng didn't go with him. Although he could move around freely now, he always felt uncomfortable, so he rarely left King Ren's tent.

Xu Qingfeng sat alone for a while, got up and went to the military doctor's tent, he wanted to ask Aman, maybe Aman could know something else.

When Xu Qingfeng went, Aman was changing Guan Hongfeng's dressing, and Zuo Ming was sitting beside Guan Hongfeng.

Guan Hongfeng's eyes were injured by a plant called honeydew grass. What Aman did was to pull out the poison, use medicine to force out the toxin, and then pull out the poison every other day. Pull out, but the parts around the eyes are very sensitive.

So this process was extremely painful. When Xu Qingfeng entered the large medical tent, Guan Hongfeng was sweating profusely, tightly clutching Zuo Ming's hand, both of them turned white with such force.

Zuo Ming was very distressed and didn't notice Xu Qingfeng.

Xu Qingfeng didn't bother to make a sound, and waited for Aman to finish the treatment.Guan Hongfeng's lips turned pale, and his body trembled uncontrollably. Zuo Ming knew that this was a reaction of extreme pain. Whenever the golden needle pierced Guan Hongfeng's body, his body would cool down quickly. Zuo Ming held Guan Hongfeng's hand like holding with a piece of ice.

As the treatment came to an end, Aman slowly rotated the golden needle and pulled it out bit by bit. After pulling out, the tip of the golden needle was gray and the color was dull.

The power of the honeydew grass is very strong. When the poison was pulled out on the first day, the whole golden needle was dyed black. Aman looked at the golden needle carefully: "The effect is good, and the poison will be over after two more pullouts."

When the gold needle was pulled out, Guan Hongfeng also heaved a sigh of relief, his back was covered with sweat.Zuo Ming took the handkerchief to wipe his sweat for him, stood up and found Xu Qingfeng, he was too focused just now, Xu Qingfeng didn't even notice when he approached him.

"Son..."

Xu Qingfeng waved his hand, indicating that there is no need to salute, "Help Guan Hongfeng and go back to rest. The big battle is coming, and the health is important."

"Thank you sir."

Zuo Ming mixed with Guan Hongfeng and walked out slowly, knowing that they were out of the medical tent, Aman said: "Young Master, you are here to see me? But what's wrong?" As Aman said, he couldn't help but want to look behind Xu Qingfeng go.

"Cough. Who is this?" Xu Qingfeng coughed and looked curiously at Aman's side. It was a six or seven-year-old girl who had been holding the equipment respectfully during the treatment just now, cooperating obediently with Aman. .

"It's an orphan girl who was left in the city. Maybe she got lost with her family. She collapsed outside the camp. It was very pitiful to see her dying, so I picked it up."

Aman was a little uneasy, she kept this girl privately, she did not report, "She is called Tasiya, she is very obedient, very obedient, and can help me with my work, son, can you..."

Tasiya couldn't understand Chinese, but seeing Aman's expression, she also became nervous.

Xu Qingfeng smiled and nodded, jokingly said: "Keep it. Such a small person, can't eat much?"

"Yes, yes, I don't eat much."

"I came here to ask you something. Did your grandma mention anything about southern Xinjiang, or the apricot blossom forest?"

"Apricot blossom forest in southern Xinjiang?" Aman lowered his head when he heard the words, resting his chin with his right hand, thought carefully, and shook his head for a while, "We know very little about southern Xinjiang. From the far south, but there is no record in the clan, Grandma said that there was originally a clan book, which recorded all the history of the clan, but it was lost later.”

"lost?"

"Yes." Aman nodded: "I don't know when I lost it, I only know that there is such a family book."

"Okay." Xu Qingfeng was a little disappointed.

"My lord, I have another thing to say." Aman went to the shelf on the left, took out a scroll, opened one of the pages, pointed to the small characters in the corner and said: "Here is written the words "Millignathus and The growth environment of golden bells is similar, and the two plants may grow in the same place, since the Demon Cult has mellifera, would there be golden bells in Xiaoyao Township?"