Situ Yun could have fought him to a draw, but after Situ An drank the soup, his physical endurance became much stronger than that of an ordinary person. As time went on, Situ Yun could no longer hold on.
With a bang, the dagger in Situ Yun's hand was chopped into pieces by Situ An.
He looked at the dagger in his hand in surprise, "How is that possible?"
He glared at me again and said, "How could your martial arts improve so much in such a short period of time? You have been hiding your abilities before, right?!" Otherwise, how could he have defeated me.
Situ An was too lazy to pay attention to his brother at this time. He just stepped forward and took the seal of the general. "In the military camp, martial arts have always been respected. Now if there is anyone who is not convinced, just come up and challenge me. If the winner wins, I will give him the position of general."
Situ An has already demonstrated his strength. Who among you who is so ignorant would dare to challenge him now?
"We subordinates must obey the orders of the general!" After one person knelt down, many others knelt down.
"Be careful!" Shen Qingqiu suddenly said.
Situ Yun pulled out a dagger from his boots and stabbed at Situ An with unstoppable force. However, Situ An, who had been tricked once before, was already prepared for his elder brother. He turned around and kicked the dagger to the ground, but Situ Yun had a backup plan and shot out a set of silver needles from his sleeves.
Situ An was unable to dodge, and Shen Qingqiu took two steps instead of three to get on the stage, then pulled down the cloth on the stage beside him to block Situ An, then shook his wrist vigorously, and the silver needle went in the direction it came from.
Three silver needles were shot into Situ Yun's murderer, and he died suddenly in a moment.
"Brother!" Situ An was shocked and hurried to call Situ Yun.
No matter how much hatred they had before, they were still brothers who had grown up together for more than 20 years. Seeing him dead now, Situ An couldn't help but feel sad. Shen Qingqiu stepped forward, wanting to check on Situ Yun.
Situ An stopped her, "My dear, please let my elder brother rest in peace."
Shen Qingqiu sneered, knowing that Situ An blamed her for killing his elder brother, she did not force him, but stood up and said, "Please open his chest and see if those silver needles are enough to kill him." She knew her own strength, and those silver needles would at most hit his bones, and would not pierce his heart and lungs.
Situ An ripped open Situ Yun's clothes, and one of the silver needles had fallen out.
It was enough to show that the silver needles were not deep enough to kill someone. And the silver needles were stained with Situ Yun's blood, which had turned black on the tips of the silver needles.
This silver needle is poisonous!
"It kills people instantly. I think only highly poisonous things can have such an effect." Shen Qingqiu said: "Situ An, you treat me like your big brother, but what I want from the beginning to the end is your life."
Situ An held the silver needle, cold sweat on his face, and looked at Situ Yun's face again.
Even the closest brothers would have estrangement after one or two plots against each other, not to mention that he wanted to kill him this time. The sadness was diluted, Situ An closed his eyes, turned back and said to Shen Qingqiu: "County lord, I am the one who bit Lu Dongbin."
Shen Qingqiu didn't care about these things and just said: "What are you going to do next?"
Situ An said: "No matter what, he is a villain of the Situ family. We cannot let his corpse lie exposed in the wilderness. After burying him, I will lead the Situ family's garrison to help Marquis Gu."
Shen Qingqiu would not urge him at this time, so he just nodded.
About three days later, all the funeral arrangements for Situ Yun were completed, and the two men took most of the troops and traveled day and night to the border.
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A lone smoke rises from the desert, and all you can see is endless yellow sand.
Gu Yong's troops had been here for more than half a month. Now, not only were there a shortage of food and grass, but the water supply was also decreasing day by day. Finally, one day, Gu Yong's generals fell to their knees and said, "My Lord, we are running out of water. We can't resist any longer!"
Gu Yong glared at them angrily, "If we can't resist head-on, are we going to let all the people in this city be killed by the bandits?"
The general looked at Gu Yong with red eyes, "My Lord, I am not afraid of death, but you are the commander-in-chief of the world. If you die, what will happen to this huge dynasty? Are you really going to ask those people in the court who are just sitting there doing nothing to negotiate peace with the people's hard-earned money?"
Gu Yong gritted his teeth. Who still had any expectations for the court today?
They were fighting on the front lines, but the imperial court's troops and food support were slow to arrive. If the emperor was just afraid of his power and troops, it would be fine, but they actually abandoned the lives of tens of millions of soldiers and civilians!
"My Gu family is full of loyal warriors. I, Gu Yong, am protecting the reputation of our ancestors and the people of our country. Even if it means a fight to the death, I will never be a deserter."
But now they can't even fight to the death. Gu Yong looked ahead. He couldn't bear to see the people die, and of course he couldn't bear to see his own soldiers die. "How much water is left?"
“The remaining water is only enough for three days at most.”
Gu Yong raised his head, his eyes cold, "If that's the case, then fight me!" He raised the sword in his hand, "Kill!"
"Kill them!"
All the soldiers shouted this sentence. They knew in their hearts that this battle was a sure death. The enemy had strong soldiers and horses, but there were many wounded soldiers trapped and there was a shortage of food and grass. But precisely because of this, they had no worries in their hearts. The worst that could happen was death! "Charge!"
“Kill!”
The Hun soldiers did not expect that Gu Yong's men would suddenly rush out, and they were caught off guard for a moment.
"It's just a fight between trapped beasts!"
Hu Yanlie, the general of the Xiongnu on the border, did not expect that the troops led by Gu Yong would be so powerful. They could fight after being trapped for several months. "It's a pity for this Gu Hou from the Central Plains. He is indeed a talent. If he were not from the Central Plains, I would definitely make him my best soldier!" In fact, he had to thank the Central Plains people for their internal strife, otherwise how could he have defeated the iron-clad Gu family army! Although Gu Yong was a martial arts expert, two fists could not beat four hands, not to mention the nomadic people who were good at horse fighting.
Gu Yong had already suffered many knife wounds and was about to fall off his horse.
"Leave his body intact. He is a hero after all." Hu Yanlie ordered with some regret.
But at this moment, a dagger flew out of nowhere, and a person wearing a black cloak stepped lightly over the heads of the crowd. Wherever she went, there was blood on the ground. In an instant, countless Huns fell to the ground, and she was like a killing god.
She knocked down the sword of the murderer who was about to stab Gu Yong, and with a flying slash of her dagger, she ended the man's life.
Gu Yongyongjian propped himself up and was about to thank her, but she had already taken off the hood of her cloak, "Dad, it's me."
“Qiu’er!” Gu Yong was shocked, and couldn’t help but his eyes turned red. “You… you’re still alive!” If he said that the thing he regretted most in this battle was taking his daughter with him, otherwise how could he have watched her fall into the mountain stream with his own eyes! “Dad, don’t be in a hurry to talk about this!” Shen Qingqiu looked at the wounds on his body, his eyebrows turned cold, his lips moved, and his smile was extremely cold. “Kill these people first, it’s not too late for us to talk slowly!” As he spoke, he had already rushed into the crowd.
Gu Yong was already at the end of his strength, but when he saw his daughter return safely, he was naturally excited and immediately joined the battle again.
Although he was injured, he was a martial arts master after all. Moreover, Shen Qingqiu was like a killing god. His head was chopped off like cutting a melon. The Huns were naturally afraid of being killed so many times. Soon, most of the people who dared to approach here were gone. Gu Yong naturally didn't have to worry about it.
Soon, the troops led by Situ An also arrived, "Charge! Support Marquis Gu!"
Shen Qingqiu's intrusion had already disrupted the battle situation, and now Situ An's troops had arrived, which had turned the entire battle situation around, and soon the Xiongnu troops were already in a state of defeat. And all this had happened in less than half a cup of tea from the beginning to now.
Hu Yanlie looked at the woman in the black cloak in the crowd, and rode his horse to charge in angrily, "Quick, kill that woman for me, kill that woman for me!" He naturally understood that the Gu family army suddenly became eager to fight because of the sudden appearance of this woman!
If he didn't speak, Shen Qingqiu wouldn't have noticed him. After hearing the voice, she curled the corners of her lips slightly, flew forward and cut off Hu Yanlie's head.
The person who was alive and making threats the previous second was dead the next second, and the generals who were originally escorting Hu Yanlie were all panicked.
The most terrible thing on the battlefield is having no leader. Now that Shen Qingqiu had killed the leader of the Huns, they relied on that group of scattered sand and turned the battle that was impossible to win into victory in less than half a day.
After the Xiongnu fled, Shen Qingqiu was surrounded by everyone, and everyone wanted to lift her up to celebrate the victory.
But he asked Gu Yong to block behind him, "Go! Stay away from her!" Of course, no matter how his daughter looked at her, it was fine. Even though he was covered in blood, Gu Yong didn't want to let these soldiers around him get close to him, "You are all smelly, sweaty and fishy, get out of here!"
Now that they had won the battle, the soldiers were no longer afraid of him. "My Lord, you are still talking about me. Look at the mud and blood on your body!"
Gu Yong lowered his head and saw that the Marquis no longer looked as precious as he was, and he couldn't help but smile.
Situ An led his troops to clean up the battlefield, and finally stepped forward to greet Gu Yong with his hands clasped and half-knelt, "Your subordinate Situ An greets the Marquis!"
Gu Yong naturally knew that the victory just now was due to the Situ family. He also knew that although the defeat that year was due to the Situ family, it was still an order from the court. He patted Situ An on the shoulder and said, "You have lived up to the reputation of our ancestors." Situ An knelt on the ground and bowed his head. "The tens of thousands of soldiers of the Situ family are willing to fight against the Huns with the Marquis!"
Now that Hu Yanlie is dead, the Xiongnu are leaderless. If we don’t defeat them now, when will we?
Things on the battlefield change rapidly. For example, the Gu family is leaderless without Gu Yong, and the Xiongnu is like a tiger without teeth without Hu Yanlie, vulnerable. And there is also a reaper like Shen Qingqiu holding the sickle of death. In just half a month, Gu Yong has recovered the three cities lost by the court.
But the people in the court didn't know all this yet. The information they had now stopped at the time when Gu Yong was defeated and trapped in the desert.
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