Leng Kui was sitting in Leng Hua's tent. His master had given up his tent to King Liang, so now he was resting on Leng Hua's side.

The two of them lost their grandson and younger brother, and were heartbroken. Their dissatisfaction with Qin Canglan's family reached its peak.

"Grandfather, we can't go on like this. His Majesty sent Qin Canglan here only to intimidate Beiyan, not to let him fight in battle."

Although Leng Hua advocated war, he hoped that he, not Qin Canglan, would be the commander-in-chief.

Leng Kui said, "Do you think I am willing? That Prince Liang didn't come earlier or later, but he came at this time, ruining my plan!"

The King of Liang is the eldest son of the emperor. Who dares not to listen to him? Moreover, why did the King of Liang suddenly come to the border? Whether it was in accordance with the secret order of Your Majesty is still unknown.

Leng Hua said: "Today we will fight Beiyan. Beiyan's fighting power is only so strong. Even without Qin Canglan, my grandson can still beat them!"

He didn't even think about it. If Qin Canglan hadn't frightened the Northern Yan soldiers, how could he have shaken the morale of the Northern Yan so easily? He wouldn't admit it in his heart. He would only think that the Northern Yan was so weak to begin with, and he became more determined to advocate war.

Leng Kui glanced at him and said, "You are only facing Tuoba Lie. Don't forget that Beiyan also has Helian Ye."

Leng Hua disagreed and said, "Grandfather, why would you encourage others to be more ambitious and destroy your own prestige?"

Leng Kui said: "I am just talking about the facts. I don't want the Leng family to become the second Wei family. Besides, your majesty doesn't want to start a war."

Leng Hua frowned and said, "I have never understood why it was Your Majesty who was afraid when Beiyan lost five years ago?"

Leng Kui paused and said, "Because the price was too heavy. How many generals of the Wei family died, and the national treasury was so empty. Your Majesty even felt that if Qin Canglan had not been transferred away, he would have died at the hands of the Northern Yan people."

Leng Hua said, "I don't think so. A victory is a victory. There is no war without a price. Speaking of misery, isn't Beiyan more miserable? Your Majesty let out this anger, and it has boosted Beiyan's ambitions."

Leng Kui said sternly: "That's enough! Your Majesty, you have no right to interfere!"

"My grandson knows he was wrong." Leng Huayan admitted his mistake insincerely, "But grandfather, Your Majesty has already fought even if he doesn't want to. Once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back. Do you want to hand over this military achievement to the Duke of Protectorate?"

These words hit Leng Kui's sore spot.

He has guarded the border for many years and has made great contributions. It would be too unfair if he had to give up all the credit just because of a battle.

"But King Liang—"

"Grandfather, I have a plan."

Leng Kui looked at him.

Leng Hua got up and went outside the tent, asked the guard a few words, returned to his seat, and smiled at Leng Kui: "It's already late at night, Su Mo and Qin Su haven't come back yet, they left from the east gate."

"Did you go to Wancheng?" Leng Kui asked.

Leng Hua said: "It doesn't matter where we go. We just need to lie that the two of them were ambushed by the Beiyan people and let Qin Canglan lead the troops to rescue them. Of course, we can only take away the girl's Red Shadow Army. We can't let Qin Canglan squander our Leng family's military strength."

Leng Kui looked at him suspiciously: "Do you want to--"

Leng Hua sneered: "Pass the message to Tuoba Lie, tell him where Qin Canglan is, and let him lead the troops to encircle and suppress Qin Canglan."

Leng Kui was somewhat moved.

Because of the surprise attack, the initial peace talks were disrupted. If we can take this opportunity to do Tuoba Lie a favor, perhaps we can ease the relationship between the two sides and resume the possibility of peace talks.

He did this for the sake of the Great Zhou, not for his own selfish desires.

Leng Kui found a way to contact Tuoba Lie. He found his confidant and asked him to go to Xiaofeng Mountain.

He found Qin Canglan and told him about the "discovery" made by the Leng family scouts outside the East City.

"Northern Yan has about 5,000 troops."

I didn't say much because it would be too much. Qin Canglan needed a lot of troops. If he asked me to borrow troops, I had no reason not to lend them.

Qin Canglan didn't believe him at all.

He was afraid that as soon as he led the Red Shadow Army out, they would be ambushed by the Northern Yan army.

But Qin Canglan went anyway.

Because if some of Tuoba Lie's troops could be diverted away, the pressure on the precious granddaughter and Su Mo would be reduced.

There would be casualties in fighting during the day. Among the 10,000 Red Shadow Army soldiers, only 9,000 combat troops were left.

Qin Canglan led nine thousand troops out of the east gate of the city.

Zhang Yong asked: "Marshal, how are we going to fight tonight?"

Qin Canglan said calmly: "No fight."

Zhang Yong was startled: "Huh?"

Qin Canglan said nonchalantly: "Going around in circles until dawn."

…

In the military camp.

Tuoba Lie looked at the master in black robes in front of him and asked, "Are you sure Qin Canglan only brought 9,000 troops?"

The master said, "Sure, and they have no cavalry."

Without cavalry, the combat effectiveness would be greatly reduced. Today, Qin Canglan attacked too suddenly and the terrain was not suitable for cavalry combat. The cavalry of Beiyan did not exert much advantage. However, if they were outside, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry would be several times that of ordinary troops.

Ten thousand cavalrymen are more than enough to destroy nine thousand troops.

But to be cautious, Tuoba Lie brought a total of 30,000 troops.

When he thought about killing Qin Canglan, Tuoba Lie felt that his injuries had healed! Su Mo and Su Xiaoxiao carried Jing Yi out, and the camp seemed to be counting the troops. The originally tight defense suddenly had a flaw.

The two men hid behind a tent.

Su Xiaoxiao asked: "What's going on? Are they going to send troops?"

Su Mo hummed: "It seems so. Tuoba Lie also called away the assassins."

If the surrounding assassins had not been suddenly called away, they would not have been able to bring Jing Yi out so smoothly.

Su Xiaoxiao said thoughtfully, "Strange, who is Tuoba Lie going to attack in the middle of the night? It seems...he only took most of the troops with him?"

Su Mo also found it inexplicable, but no matter what, Tuoba Lie's army and assassins left too timely: "Let's go back first."

Su Xiaoxiao nodded: "Okay."

Su Xiaoxiao took out a cloak and put it on Jing Yi.

Su Mo asked curiously, "Didn't you throw away your cloak?"

Su Xiaoxiao said seriously: "Well, you read it wrong, I put it away."

Sent to the pharmacy.

Su Mo: "Oh."

Whatever my sister says is right.

The two men left the barracks.

The noise made by Tuoba Lie and his troops was so loud that their footsteps were completely masked, and everything went very smoothly.

However, just as they reached the foot of the mountain, they suddenly ran into a few ghost-faced assassins who had turned back.

They came back to guard Jing Yi, eight of them in total, each holding a ferocious wolf-tooth hammer in his hand.

It was this group of people who severely injured Jing Yi and took him away. They were cruel and had extremely high martial arts skills.

Things were getting worse. Su Mo put Su Xiaoxiao behind him and began to untie the rope around his waist: "I'll kill them, you take Jing Yi away first."

Su Xiaoxiao walked out from behind Su Mo and gestured to the eight people to stop with her silver-gloved hand: "Wait a minute! If you wear masks, we have to wear them too! This is fair!"

After that, she took out three gas masks from the pharmacy, put one on herself and Jing Yi, and the other on Su Mo.

The assassins had never seen such an eye-catching mask and were at a loss for a moment.

The next second, Su Xiaoxiao released the Five Tigers and took out the Snowy Gastrodia. The poisonous gas that had been sealed for several days suddenly spread out.

The eight people didn't understand what was going on at all, their legs went weak, and they fell to the ground one after another.

Su Mo, who was ready to fight to the death: "..."

"call!"

Su Xiaoxiao let out a long sigh and said, "Okay, okay, this thing is still very useful."

But it cannot be exposed to the cold wind for too long, as this will cause the Snowland Gastrodia to lose its activity.

She decided to quit while she was ahead, put the Snowland Gastrodia back into the sealed bag and threw it into the pharmacy.

Seeing that the crisis had been resolved, Su Mo tied the rope around his waist tighter again.

Even when the two were about to move on, a slow series of slapping sounds came from the small hill behind them.

Snap, snap, snap.

“Wonderful, wonderful!”

The two of them paused and turned around following the sound.

Su Xiaoxiao fought in the canyon during the day and did not go deep into the rear of the enemy camp, but Su Mo fought against Tuoba Lie and his trusted men.

He recognized the other person at a glance; it was Qi Sheng, Tuoba Lie's trusted lieutenant general.

Qi Sheng was far away and was not poisoned by the Snowland Gastrodia elata.

He looked down at Su Xiaoxiao and Su Mo: "General Tuoba really guessed it right. Before he left, the general told me that once he led his troops away, someone would definitely take advantage of the situation to rescue this half-dead hostage. The general was very smart. One hostage became three. This deal is really worthwhile!"

Su Xiaoxiao asked: "Did you hurt Jing Yi?"

Qi Sheng laughed arrogantly: "Ah, you mean the whip wounds on his body? Yes, I did it, so what? This kid is really tough. If it were someone else, he would have died after two whips from me. But he was so badly injured, and he still has a breath left after seventy-seven or forty-nine whips."

Seventy-seven forty-nine lashes... Su Xiaoxiao's every bone was filled with murderous intent. She looked at him coldly and said word by word, "I will lash you back."

"Hahaha!" Qi Sheng seemed to have heard a huge joke. "You are about to become a prisoner, and you still want to whip this general. I think you might as well think about how to kneel down and beg for mercy so that this general will whip you less!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Su Mo shot a dart with his backhand, which passed by Qi Sheng's helmet.

Qi Sheng's cheek was cut and a trickle of scarlet blood flowed out.

He wiped the wound with his fingertips, looked at the blood, and his eyes turned cold: "You are looking for death! Come! Shoot me!"

At his command, the archers behind him lined up in unison, drew their bows and arrows and aimed at Su Xiaoxiao and Su Mo.

Just as they were about to release their arrows, a devastating rain of arrows came from the higher mountains.

Qi Sheng's archers fell to the ground one after another, wailing.

Qi Sheng was shocked and quickly drew his sword to cut off the arrow that almost hit him.

"Who is it? Who?"

He shouted angrily.

On the snow-capped mountains, ghostly figures emerged one after another, each holding a bow and crossbow, surrounding Qi Sheng's large army.

Qi Sheng was stunned.

The main force of the Great Zhou was clearly in Wengcheng, so where did these tens of thousands of troops come from? Then, he saw a tall figure standing on the top of a towering mountain, with the red drapes on his silver armor fluttering in the cold wind. He was like a god descending from heaven, and also like Yama walking out of purgatory.

Qi Sheng's face changed drastically: "Wei Ting?!"

He is in a completely bad state!

How could Wei Ting be here? And bring so many troops with him? Why didn't they have any news?

The two names that the Northern Yan soldiers fear the most are Qin Canglan and Wei Ting.

That year, all members of the Wei family died in the war, leaving only a young boy named Wei Ting. He was the top scholar in the imperial examination and no one took him seriously. However, this top scholar who was looked down upon by them gave up the comfort of the capital, went to the border to revitalize the Wei family army, snatched back the body of Wu'an Jun, and killed the Northern Yan without any chance of fighting back.

Qi Sheng was the only general who survived the battle. The others were all killed by Wei Ting! Qi Sheng was panicked.

General Tuoba went to kill Qin Canglan and took away 30,000 troops. Now there are only more than 20,000 troops left in the camp.

Wait, General Tuoba shouldn't have gone far——

Qi Sheng hurriedly took out fireworks to send a signal to Tuoba Lie.

Wei Ting pulled the longbow and shot the bamboo tube down with one arrow!

Wei Ting looked at Qi Sheng and the Northern Yan army behind him calmly, and ordered: "Kill them all, leave no one alive!"

Fei Zhang, you can vote for the monthly ticket and buy bird food for the Five Tigers.

(End of this chapter)