Late at night, except for the soldiers on patrol, all the soldiers and civilians in Xijingguan went to bed peacefully. Even Zhao Yiming, who was used to sleeping late, returned to his room early.
In a dark and silent corner, a man in black, with his whole body wrapped up and only a pair of eyes left, carefully avoided the patrol soldiers and dispersed to the rooms of several important generals and deputy generals.
After gently pushing the door open with a dagger, Xiao Qingyan, who had gone out personally, glanced in the direction of the bed, then walked over slowly with the knife in hand.
When he was only one step away from the bed, he raised the knife in his hand and chopped down with all his strength.
But the expected scene of the white knife in and the red knife out did not happen. He was stunned and immediately realized something. Sure enough, when he pulled back the quilt, there were only two pillows inside.
"Oh no, I've fallen into a trap." Just as he quickly turned around and wanted to leave, Zhao Yiming's slow voice came from the door.
"I didn't expect that even after changing his identity, my cousin is still so keen on stealing!"
Xiao Qingyan was furious at Zhao Yiming's insinuation, but faced with this situation, he was speechless for the moment. He just said, "Stop talking nonsense. Today, it's either you or me."
Zhao Yiming held the heavy sword in his hand and said disdainfully, "It seems that my cousin not only has a bad character, but also a bad memory! In that case, I will help you recall the lesson from last time."
Thinking of the last time Zhao Yiming not only destroyed his secret chamber but also left him seriously injured and bedridden for a long time, Xiao Qingyan became even more furious. "Since that's the case, let's settle both the new and old grudges together."
After saying that, he raised his knife and attacked Zhao Yiming.
The two of them fought back and forth, and in a short while they had already fought five rounds.
Zhao Yiming glanced at the broken tables, chairs and tea sets in the room, frowned, and quietly moved the battlefield.
The house had already been surrounded by three layers of enemies. Except for Xiao Qingyan, all the other men in black who went to assassinate him had been caught.
Looking at this scene, Xiao Qingyan suddenly felt despair, and in a panic, Zhao Yiming cut his arm.
Zhao Yiming put away his sword and raised his eyebrows. "Cousin, you're really careless! You can still distract yourself in this situation."
"you……"
Xiao Qingyan angrily raised his knife and attacked again. Jingyu and others on the side subconsciously wanted to step forward, but Zhao Yiming raised his hand to stop them.
Ever since he came back seriously injured after destroying the secret pavilion and made Tian An worried, he has paid more attention to improving his martial arts.
Xiao Qingyan is a rare master, and today I can use him to test how much I have improved over this period of time.
He was hesitant when he was inside the house just now, but now that he was outside, he could finally let go and compete with Xiao Qingyan.
However, after fighting for a while, Xiao Qingyan immediately felt that Zhao Yiming had obviously held back in the house.
He was shocked that this guy had made such progress in such a short time.
Thinking that he had barely recovered from his illness and his martial arts skills had deteriorated instead of improved, he couldn't help but feel panicked.
Am I really going to die here today?
Originally thinking that they could have a good fight, Zhao Yiming didn't expect that this guy would actually lose. He suddenly lost interest and had no mood to continue the fight.
With a sword flower in his hand, he picked up the cloth bag beside Xiao Qingyan and threw it to Jingyu, saying, "Light the flare!"
Xiao Qingyan's expression changed, and he said firmly, "You have planted spies in the Western Liao army camp?"
Zhao Yiming remained noncommittal. "If you can plant spies in the Tianling military camp, then it's no wonder I planted spies in the Xiliao military camp."
"cocoa……"
Zhao Yiming knew what he wanted to say and chuckled, "Are you trying to say that the people of Tianling and Xiliao look so different that it's hard for ordinary people to get in?
I will naturally have a way to solve this problem, but as to what the method is, I am not in a position to know it, my cousin."
The signal flare had been fired, and the Western Liao army that had been ambushing outside the city gate had already moved. Zhao Yiming didn't have time to argue with him anymore. He waved his hand and had him tied up.
Xiao Qingyan knew that he couldn't escape today, so the only option now was to surrender and save his life for the time being and wait for rescue.
However, he racked his brains but still couldn't figure out what method Zhao Yiming used to resolve the facial differences between the Tianling people and the Xiliao people. After all, as far as he knew, no matter how sophisticated the makeup skills were, they could only change the skin color and facial features a little.
But the eye colors of the Xiliao people and the Tianling people are different. Even if you change your facial features successfully, this alone can easily reveal the clues.
However, he didn't know that the biggest problem he thought was not a problem at all in Tian An's hands.
It’s just eye color, just a matter of a pair of colored contact lenses!
In order to be absolutely sure and make the fake look real, in addition to contact lenses, Tian An also customized a lot of disguise props such as fake noses, fake foreheads, fake beards, and even fake breasts and double eyelid stickers for the secret guards who were lurking in the Western Liao military camp.
Not to mention the Xiliao people, even turning them into aliens on the spot would not be a problem.
The drums of war sounded and the battle began. Jabbar, unaware of Xiao Qingyan's defeat, led his troops personally to the battle, just to capture Xijing Pass in one fell swoop.
But when the siege was about to begin, the soldiers discovered that their catapults had all malfunctioned and the ladders had been completely destroyed.
Jabbar was inexperienced to begin with, and by the time he realized he had fallen into a trap, Tianling's army had already surrounded them.
The commander panicked, and in a moment the soldiers were in complete chaos. Apart from instinctively raising their swords to kill the enemy, there was no formation or discipline at all.
The equipment for retreat had long been lost in the chaos. The enemy was extremely brave while their own army was already in disarray.
Jabar, who was afraid of death, actually abandoned tens of thousands of soldiers on the spot, regardless of their lives, and fled with only his personal soldiers.
In the darkness, the Western Liao soldiers, who had long been shrouded in the fear of death, did not know that their commander had abandoned them and fled, and they continued to swing their swords to kill the enemy.
Until Zhao Yiming shouted on the city wall using the loudspeaker Tian An gave him: "Your commander has fled. Surrender and you will not be killed."
Only then did they stop what they were doing and kept searching for Jabbar on the battlefield. After confirming that they were really abandoned, they dejectedly let go of their weapons and raised their hands above their heads.
Jabbar was chased by Jingyu and his men all the way. He was in danger several times. There were only a few of his personal soldiers left, and he suffered countless injuries of varying sizes. Just when he was at the end of his rope and thought he was about to die, he didn't expect that Zach, who was isolated and abandoned by him, actually led his troops to rescue him.
He also blocked a fatal arrow for him at the critical moment.
"General, go first, I will cover your rear." After Zack shouted this, he led his troops to meet the pursuers behind him despite his injury.
Jabbar was so moved that he just said "take care" and fled with the remaining soldiers without looking back.
However, what he didn't expect was that after he escaped, Zack and Jingyu, who were fighting fiercely, immediately stopped.
Zach pulled out the iron plate that was blocking his chest, glanced at the red mark underneath, and unceremoniously raised his hand to hammer Jingyu's shoulder. "You didn't even know how to hold back a little. I almost shot through the iron plate."
Jingyu rolled her eyes at him and said, "Isn't this nothing to wear?"
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