"When will Ah Zhen fulfill her promise?" Shangguan Jinnian's voice was low but lingering, stirring up all her thoughts into confusion. She felt guilty and felt like a person who had lost all her belongings.
The poor people were forced to pay off their debts, but they couldn't get a single copper coin out of them.
"We captured Jiang Yucheng this time, how about we get married when we get back?" Shangguan Jinnian ignored her embarrassment and continued to whisper in her ear.
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His breath was stuck in her throat. She was speechless and couldn't even focus her eyes. She had to look left and right, looking for even the slightest sign of trouble as an excuse to escape temporarily.
The confrontation between the two armies, and the duel between Crane Wing and Turtle Shell, has reached a fever pitch. As a copper egg, the turtle shell array can no longer maintain a perfectly round shape.
But even so, it has no impact on the battle situation. As long as Heyi steps forward to attack, Turtle Shell will raise his shield, so that Heyi can't find any flaws. As long as Heyi retreats, Turtle Shell will remove his shield and use Song Ya
Shooting. The tortoise shell combines offense and defense, and can be used freely. The crane wings are invincible in attack and defense. After repeated attempts, the vigor is greatly reduced, and the menacing and arrogant momentum just now is no longer available.
An iron arrow stained with the poisonous Gelsemium can kill even a small piece of skin within half a stick of incense, not to mention the strongest horse and the strongest soldier.
The accuracy of the shots and the speed that caught people off guard. Every time the shield was removed, almost all the thousands of men and horses within a hundred steps of the Crane Wing Formation were destroyed. Even if the Crane Wing had 300,000 men and horses, how could it withstand it?
Such consumption.
Moreover, this kind of weapon that had never been seen before brought great fear to the Crane Wing Formation! Seeing the companions in front with their faces black and purple, their wounds gushing with blood as they fell off their horses, the soldiers behind them inevitably hesitated. Who would want to go forward and die in vain?
?On the battlefield, the most taboo thing is that the victory or defeat is not divided. Without morale, after a few times, Heyi's offensive is no longer fierce. Even the cavalry at the forefront does not dare to charge into the battle. Instead, it becomes more and more fierce.
Go further and further back.
A sharp, peerless sword was tortured by a copper egg into an immovable piece of embroidered iron.
The Zhongjun, who was protected by the tortoise shell in the center, was almost undamaged. Hua Fan was imprisoned in Shangguan Jinnian's arms, and her mind was filled with thoughts about the promise that she wanted to break no matter what. Outside the shield
The bloody storm was like watching the fire from afar to her.
She must admit that in the battle against Jiang Yucheng, she was the one who came to do it. Whether it was the formation or the weapons, they all came from Shangguan Jinnian. Without him, she would have been determined to deal with Yan Honglei even after getting the battle report.
There is no such a powerful Crane Wing Formation.
Outside the tortoise shell, blood flowed like a river. The faces of the soldiers who were poisoned by Gelsemium turned black and purple, and they fell off their horses one after another. After a moment of lingering for breath, more corpses were piled up among the layers of corpses.
I don't know when, the sun rising in the east has begun to head west, and the light covering the armor and shield seems to have been mixed with some blood, changing from strong gold to gentle orange.
The arrows inserted into the corpses turned pitch black due to the poison, like some abrupt and terrifying crosses drawn by black ink under the setting sun, killing tens of thousands of nameless soldiers.
, the majestic Crane Wing Formation, and the entire Jiangyu City were wiped out.
Looking at the Crane Wing Formation, which had no spare power to launch the next attack. Hua Fan, who didn't know much about the battlefield, also realized that this proved that some important moment was coming. She naturally pushed away the shield above her head and stood up.
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The strong smell of blood mixed with the smell of poison and rotten flesh made her breathing very painful. She felt miserable in her heart, but her eyes pretended not to be able to see this bloody hell on earth, forcing herself to raise her eyes.
But the wall of the low city was empty. Smokey Red Tears had left without knowing when.
"This is best." Hua Fan thought to herself, otherwise, she really didn't know how to face those blue eyes.
"Attack the city." Shangguan Jinnian ordered from behind her. He quickly got on his horse and without any explanation, he picked up Huafan, who was still staring blankly at the city wall, onto the horse's back.
After hearing the military order, the turtle formation quickly removed its shields, the infantry holding the arrows retreated, and the cavalry originally in the formation rushed forward. The sound of war drums sounded again, and Shangguan Jinnian's army was like a black flower.
Dark clouds swept over the ground filled with corpses. Ignoring the remnants of the Crane Wing Formation that dared not move rashly at the city gate, they rushed into Jiangyu City.
"Did we win?" Hua Fan asked Shangguan Jinnian behind him on horseback.
"As you wish." Shangguan Jinnian said.
Hua Fan frowned. For some reason, she felt that what she wanted in her heart was not such an outcome.
The few people in Jiangyu City walked out of their homes and knelt down on the street to welcome the emperor. Just as Hua Fan guessed, there was no trace of smoke and red tears in the entire Jiangyu City. Shangguan Jinnian looked for
Without the shadow of smoky red tears, you can't find Xing in the flowers.
The shadow of the sky and the green embroidery. She felt like she had captured an empty city, or robbed something that others had discarded. The secret of this isolated island city did not seem to be revealed because she won the battle, but became more and more mysterious.
Escape more and more into the fog and abyss.
The most overwhelming thing was Shangguan Jinnian's suspicion. Although she had been forcing herself to ignore it, she could easily feel Shangguan Jinnian's suspicion and temptation from the moment she entered Jiang Yucheng.
"Where did he go? Why did the lord of the city suddenly leave in the middle of the battle and disappear without a trace?" Shangguan Jinnian sat on the seat of the warlord with red tears, teasing the golden cage.
A few black-feathered pigeons. He seemed to be talking to himself, but Hua Fanxin was like a mirror, and he was talking to himself.
Hua Fan's palms were so sweaty that she didn't dare to raise her eyes to look at the black-feathered homing pigeons.
Although she didn't have a very definite answer to the whereabouts of Yan Honglei, her understanding of Yan Honglei was enough to determine that the answer should be close to home.
But...she couldn't admit it, just like she couldn't admit that she was very familiar with these pigeons.
Shangguan Jinnian raised the corners of his mouth and gave a dry, bitter smile. He also knew very well that Hua Fan would not let go even if he was beaten to death.
"I heard that carrier pigeons know people and roads. As long as the carrier pigeons are released, they will follow the old path and find the person they have been sending messages to." Shangguan Jinnian then said to himself, his jade color
His fingers traced the door of the golden cage, as if he was about to open the cage and let the pigeons out in the next second.
Hua Fan's palms became even more moist, but her eyes still tried their best to express calmness. Every movement of his fingers seemed to her like endless torture. She guarded her own in miserably.
It's a secret, but this secret can be seen through and crushed by him at any time.
She watched as his fingers deftly hooked the cage door wrapped with gold wire, lifting it up bit by bit, and then lifted it up again. She saw the free black-feathered pigeons, like hungry wolves that had found food, rushing to pounce on them.
With its wings spread, it squeezed towards the door of the golden cage.
Hua Fan felt that it was simply squeezing her heart. She took a deep breath, as if it was the last breath she would take in her life.
At this moment, the finger holding the gold wire suddenly loosened, and the cage door fell instantly with a crisp sound.
Hua Fan exhaled the air she had just inhaled with relief, and then realized something again. She finally dared to look at Shangguan Jinnian's face.
But Shangguan Jinnian didn't look at him. His eyes were still looking at the golden pigeon cage thoughtfully, his expression was very bad, and there was that kind of disappointment in his eyes again. That was what Hua Fan was most afraid of.
Yes, at some point Hua Fan began to feel that Shangguan Jinnian's disappointment was more terrifying than his anger and was too overwhelming.
"Azhen...you haven't answered my question yet. Do I want to pursue it?" His eyes turned to her, and she could only look away in a hurry.
"No." Her tone was already very desolate. He already knew most of it, and the last bit of trust between them was gone. She was telling the truth. She didn't want him to pursue it, at least she wanted to keep the last bit of it.
A little bit of dignity.
"Okay." Shangguan Jinnian's answer was straightforward, "Then let's get married, as you promised."
Hua Fan took another deep breath and forced himself to calm down.
She messed up. She wanted to use expedient measures to get through, but he caught the fatal advantage.
"I don't want to." She told the truth again. Anyway, everything was smashed. She didn't want to hide anything anymore. She was tired.
"The promise I made at the beginning was not sincere." The truth felt like lying, and she became addicted when she said it. Her tone was as cold as ice, and there was no hope at all.
"How could you forget the feud between us? The day I don't know the truth about twenty years ago, the day you become my enemy. I am not heartless and cannot happily marry my enemy."
she said without looking into his eyes.
"I know what you think. You will think that I am using you, but that's actually the case. I can't defeat Shangguan Chiying. I have no chance of winning. I can never get back the Five-Colored Edict with my own strength. I can only unite with you.
Strength, there is no other way.”
The room was extremely quiet, with only the black-feathered pigeons cooing. The cooing sound was sad and miserable, as if mourning the departure of something.
Finally, Shangguan Jinnian's voice sounded. "I know everything." He said, "I have already noticed what you said. I just don't want to expose you." His voice was even colder than Hua Fan's.
Hua Fan raised his face, which was already covered with tears. Amidst the blur of tears, her sight could not find his face.