Li Xia held the sword in his hand and took another step forward, stepping on the fifth stone brick in front of the door.

His face looked tired.

Since moving to Dali for more than two months, Qingfu's army has not suffered any major casualties, and everything seems to be going smoothly.

Few people have thought that this kind of success is the result of how much effort Li Xia put in.

He always kept in mind what the Art of War said: "The winner is the one with more temples before the battle begins." He immersed himself in the map day and night, analyzing the situation and formulating strategies.

How many variables will be encountered in each choice and how to deal with various variables are all things he has painstakingly considered over and over again.

But no matter how much you calculate, what you fear most is the accident.

In this troubled world, no one knows whether the accident or tomorrow will come first.

"Ah." Duan Xingzhi exclaimed softly.

"Click."

Three crossbow arrows fired.

The sound of breaking the wind has reached Li Xia's eyes.

In the midst of lightning and flint, Li Xia swiped the long sword in his hand and knocked down a crossbow arrow.

"Ding!"

"Puff, puff..."

There was still a crossbow arrow that shot hard into the leather between Li Xia's shawl and sleeve armor.

His arm went numb and he heard a cry of pain.

Xu Tudiao was next to Li Xia when he was hit by an arrow in his shoulder blade. He took two steps back and fell to the ground.

"Protect the county captain..."

"Bang!" There was another loud sound.

The moment Zheng Huiyuan pressed the secret button, she sneered and slammed her head against the wall.

She hit it with all her strength, and the whole room seemed to shake.

Zheng Huiyuan suffered a head injury and bleeding, and fell to the ground dead.

Without words or nostalgia, she died decisively.

"Hui Niang..."

Duan Xingzhi opened his mouth, wanting to cry or howl, but he couldn't.

Fear has overwhelmed his love for Zheng Huiyuan over the years. At this moment, he felt guilty, sad, but also lucky.

He felt heartbroken, but he felt that... at least she wouldn't have to suffer anymore, so it would be nice to just let her think they could be a pair of desperate mandarin ducks.

The more important thing now is to wait for Li Xia to die from the poison...

"Huiniang, why are you doing this? Why are you doing this?"

Duan Xingzhi murmured and turned to Li Xia.

He first saw the sword in Li Xia's hand, and thinking of the swiftness of the sword splitting the crossbow arrows, he finally burst into tears and cried loudly.

I really didn't expect Li Xia to have such flexible skills, but just one arrow was enough.

Duan Xingzhi quickly glanced at the blood on his arm and lowered his head...

"Bitch thief! You are so brave!" The surrounding Qingfu Army soldiers were furious, and they came forward with their swords in hand and forced Duan Xingzhi towards him.

"Stop." Li Xia ordered, "Save his life for now."

Having said that, he stepped forward with his sword and stabbed Duan Xingzhi's thigh again, causing it to stir.

"ah!"

As Duan Xingzhi cried out in pain, Li Xia stared into his eyes and said: "You guessed right, you are still useful, I won't kill you. But it will make you suffer more than death. Take out the talisman honestly.

We have to go."

"Okay, okay... don't kill me. It's really not my fault. Hui Niang is the love of my life, the love of my life, but she... I will take you away from Dali..."

Li Xia gradually felt dizzy. He shook his head.

He turned his head and saw Xu Tuduo's lips turned white.

"The arrows are poisonous."

Li Xia murmured, leaned over to pick up the crossbow arrow that he had knocked down, and put it in front of Duan Xingzhi's neck.

"Antidote."

"I, I, I..."

"If you don't give it, you will die." Li Xia handed over his hand.

Duan Xingzhi felt the cold crossbow arrow sticking to his skin, and his body couldn't help but tremble.

He met Li Xia's eyes and felt that Li Xia really wanted to kill him.

After many calculations, Duan Xingzhi was extremely horrified and finally murmured: "No... there is no antidote... but it's really not me..."

"Then let's die together."

Everything happens in an instant.

Li Xia entered the door, but after taking only five steps, a crossbow arrow was fired at him. Gao Mingyue followed him before stepping onto the threshold. Seeing that he was injured again, he was stunned for a while before he realized what he was doing.

She looked at Li Xia with tears in her eyes and saw that he was holding a crossbow arrow, but it did not penetrate Duan Xingzhi's throat.

"Mingyue."

Gao Mingyue hurriedly stepped forward, wanting to help Li Xia, but saw him wave his hand, sit down on the ground, pull out the dagger from his waist, and cut open the skirt of the wound.

"I'm here to help you..." Gao Mingyue was crying and stretched out her hand, but it was shaking violently.

The next moment, Asha stepped forward, took the dagger from Li Xia's hand, and dug out the arrowhead without hesitation.

"Cut...cut." Li Xia gritted his teeth and squeezed out a sound from between his teeth, saying: "The dagger...burned..."

Gao Mingyue cried hard and hurriedly took out the fire folds and lit the bedding in the room.

"Uuuu... Auntie, you have to save him... you have to save him."

Asha did not say anything, but took the dagger and burned it in the fire.

Some soldiers also took out daggers and prepared to treat Xu Toutiao's wounds.

Li Xia's lips became whiter and she murmured: "Ming Yue...leave Dali City as soon as possible...Duan Xingzhi is temporarily useful...to keep you...keep you...calm, you have to calm down...ah!"

In the middle of Li Xia's words, Asha had no hesitation in cutting off the flesh of Li Xia's wound with a red-hot dagger.

He was sweating profusely from the pain.

There were also many bald ladles screaming in pain in the house.

Li Xia collapsed and felt dizzy. He held on and said, "Mingyue, calm down..."

His eyelids sank and he fainted.

Hong Aliu was originally guarding the gate of the General Manager's Mansion with his people, but when he saw that Li Xia did not come out on time, he went to the main house and took a look, and he couldn't help but be shocked.

Everyone gathered around Li Xia and were busy treating his injuries, and no one had time to pay attention to him.

Hong Ahliu panicked, and turned around again, only to see Yang Ben leaning against the wall, reaching out to touch the three arrow holes on the wall, and then reaching out to press on the hidden compartment.

"Don't press it randomly!" Hong Aliu was horrified and shouted quickly to stop.

"Don't worry, General. This mechanism can only fire an arrow once."

Yang Ben murmured and pressed it to himself.

"Ah." Hong Ahliu jumped away and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that everything was fine.

Yang Ben stared at the wall for a while, then suddenly took off a landscape painting on the wall.

There is a square iron bar on the wall with a small hole in it.

He searched for it, disassembled the scroll, found another iron bar and inserted it into the hole. The two iron bars formed a "ten" handle.

Yang Ben turned the nail hard, and with the sound, the secret door was slowly opened.

Duan Xingzhi was surrounded by soldiers. Seeing this scene, he opened his mouth but was speechless.

Yang Ben glanced at him coldly, leaned over and took out a stack of letters and a talisman from the secret compartment.

He groped for a while, but couldn't find the antidote he expected, so he frowned and walked towards Duan Xingzhi.

"Where's the antidote?"

Duan Xingzhi turned his eyes to Zheng Huiyuan's body at Yang Ben's feet, dumbfounded.

He didn't dare to respond and said: "It is true that I set up the secret grid here, but what happened today was really Hui Niang's own initiative. I had no idea about it, nor did I expect... that she would be so fierce."

Duan Xingzhi pointed to the talisman in Yang Ben's hand and said: "This talisman was put into the secret compartment by Hui Niang. I asked her where she was, but she didn't tell me. I didn't know until Li County Lieutenant came in that Hui Niang wanted to
To be continued...