"Come back, come back!" General Qian shouted.

As soon as he shouted that it didn't matter, more and more people chose to abandon the city and flee. Suddenly, one third of the more than 4,000 soldiers were gone. The remaining soldiers looked unsteady and hesitated whether to run with them.

Jimo Yuan said loudly, "Listen up, people of Xirong! Whoever hands over Sheng Qiyue to my hand, not only will I spare your life, but I will also reward you with a thousand taels of gold. I will keep my word."

Faced with absolute strength and huge temptation, the Xirong people ran away another third.

Lu Yanzhou and Shen Shaoyan have successfully found the place where Sheng Qiyue is imprisoned, a tunnel leading to the inside of the mountain, but there are many guards inside, and the two cannot avoid them to go in.

Lu Yanzhou said, "You lead some of the people to distract them, and I will take the rest in to rescue Qiyue."

Shen Shaoyan refused: "No, I'll go save Qiyue."

Lu Yanzhou said, "Now is not the time to argue about this. I am more familiar with the Xirong people than you are, so it will be easier for me to find Qiyue among them."

Shen Shaoyan snorted coldly, without rebutting, and led his men to deliberately expose themselves. When everyone inside came out, Lu Yanzhou led the remaining fifty people to run in.

"Be careful!" A big net fell from the sky, and Lu Yanzhou's face turned black. In such a short time, the Xirong people actually prepared a trap?

The door next to him opened, and General Wu appeared sitting in a wooden wheelchair. With a wave of his hand, two hundred soldiers surrounded Lu Yanzhou.

He looked at his former subordinate with a complicated look.

"Commander Lu, if you stop now and join us in fighting against Da Mo, I will spare your life."

"Okay." Lu Yanzhou smiled: "As long as you hand Sheng Qiyue over to me, I can continue to give you advice."

General Wu shook his head: "Sheng Qiyue is the one Marshal Qian wants. Even I dare not let her go easily."

"Then stop talking nonsense."

Fifty people against two hundred people is not an advantage, but fortunately, the people who came with Lu Yanzhou were carefully selected, and the people brought by General Wu were more or less injured.

Lu Yanzhou was also injured, with bloodstains of varying sizes appearing on his body as he moved.

Seeing more and more Xirong people falling, General Wu narrowed his eyes and slapped the stone slab beside him, "Boom boom!" A thick stone slab blocked the exit.

Everyone stopped fighting and stared at the stone slab in confusion.

"Mr. Wu, what did you do?"

Facing everyone's gaze, General Wu leaned back in his wheelchair with a strange smile on his face.

"This general knows we will definitely lose this night. Rather than dying on the battlefield with no one to collect my body, I'd rather drag a few of the Da Mo people with me to be buried with me."

After saying that, he slapped the mechanism again, the ground began to shake, and large and small pebbles fell from the top.

"Oh no, the tunnel is about to collapse!"

The scene was in chaos. Both the Xirong people and the Da Mo people were anxious to leave this place and escape.

"Tell me quickly, where is the exit? How can we get out?"

General Wu was being held by the neck, a fearless smile on his face: "You can't escape, none of you can escape, we will die here together."

The soldier slapped him in the face: "Tell me the exit!"

General Wu looked at the sealed area and said, "The entrance is the exit. This is the tomb I prepared for myself. If it's blocked, I can't get out."

When the ground began to shake, Lu Yanzhou knew something was wrong. While everyone was panicking, he slipped inside to look for Sheng Qiyue.

He encountered many traps on the way, and he didn't have time to crack them one by one, so he could only rush in as quickly as possible.

Sheng Qiyue was in a tomb. She collapsed on the ground, and more and more stones fell from above, hitting her feet with a deafening sound.

"July!" She heard Lu Yanzhou's voice.

Lu Yanzhou was covered in blood, with two broken arrows stuck in his chest. His body was shaking, and bright red blood was dripping from the wounds. The moment he saw Sheng Qiyue, a light appeared in his originally dead eyes.

"Lu, Lu Yanzhou." Sheng Qiyue's eyes were red: "Why did you become like this? Why did you come in? Are you... in pain?"

Lu Yanzhou smiled and shook his head. Another huge rock fell and was about to hit Sheng Qiyue. Lu Yanzhou rushed over and rolled her to the side.

"Don't panic." Blood flowed from the corners of his mouth: "I said, as long as you are with me, I will protect you."

Sheng Qiyue's tears welled up in her eyes. Lu Yanzhou wiped her tears lovingly and kissed her eyes. "Do you still mean what you said about marrying me?"

Sheng Qiyue's fair face was stained with red lipstick marks, and her eyes were blurred with tears: "It counts, it counts."

"I can't go out today." Lu Yanzhou placed his hands on her head and said, "In the next life, can you be my wife?"

The ground shook again, and a deep crack appeared on the top of the tomb. Lu Yanzhou groaned, his eyes red as he asked her stubbornly, "Will you be my wife?"

Sheng Qiyue nodded randomly, and Lu Yanzhou smiled. At the moment when the tomb completely collapsed, he gently pressed her sleeping point.

"Be good, I might look a little awkward later..."

The mountain collapsed, and Shen Shaoyan tried to rush inside, but was blocked by the heavy stone door. His eyes were bloodshot, and he punched the stone door again and again, wailing in despair.

"July, July—"

"Major General, hurry up!"

"No, I'm not leaving. July is still in there."

"Come here, take the Major General away."

The mountain collapsed completely, and Shen Shaoyan was pulled backward. When everything calmed down, he saw a pile of rocks and broken trees in front of him.

Shen Shaoyan's whole body was shaking violently, and his subordinates supported him: "Major General, maybe Madam Sheng is not in there."

When Jimo Yuan arrived, he saw Shen Shaoyan with disheveled hair, crying and digging at the rocks with his hands. The elite soldiers following him also looked solemn as if they were digging something.

"July!" Jimo Yuan jumped to the opposite side of Shen Shaoyan and asked him, "Where is July? Why can't I see July?"

Shen Shaoyan's eyes were dull and empty, and it was the captain of the elite soldiers who came over to answer: "Lu Yanzhou led fifty elite soldiers into the tunnel to rescue the lady, but the mountain collapsed, and none of them came out."

The pain that gnawed at his heart and rotted his bones swept over him. Jimo Yuan's face turned pale, his lips trembled twice, and he covered his chest to prevent himself from falling.

"Pass, pass on my order, all soldiers, come here and find Sheng Qiyue."

…………

Sheng Qiyue had a not-so-good dream.

Lu Yanzhou was wearing a red robe that he hadn't worn for a long time. He was handsome and smiling. He said goodbye to her with a smile, saying that he was going somewhere else and asked her to wait for him in the next life.

Sheng Qiyue opened her eyes and felt something wet on her eyelashes.

"You finally woke up!"

Sheng Qiyue raised her eyes weakly.

In the bright light, Jimo Yuan was wiping her with a wet handkerchief, while Chen Shaoyan was watching her without blinking.

{The main text is over, tomorrow will be the extra chapter}