The military camp was not as good as the Xia Palace, nor the Zhou Palace. Gu Yun tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, but Zhou Ranzhuo slept peacefully. Gu Yun didn't even know when he turned off the lights.
"Your Majesty..." Gu Yun patted Zhou Ranzhuo but did not respond, "First cousin..."
"What are you going to do..." Zhou Ranzhuo replied in a daze, looked around with squinted eyes, and then asked: "Did you turn out the light?"
"Hmm..." Gu Yun agreed and was ready to be beaten. He actually forgot to light the lamp before calling Zhou Ranzhuo! Zhou Ranzhuo was so frightened by the dark that he was so scared!
"Oh." Zhou Ranzhuo was unfazed for the first time. He just replied and fell asleep again.
Gu Yun suddenly felt happy and quickly went to stir up Zhou Ranzhuo: "Young Master! You are not afraid of the dark!"
"If you make it louder, everyone in the military camp can hear it." Zhou Ranzhuo patted Gu Yun's hand on his shoulder, "I have been chasing Xia Jingyan all day today, and my bones are almost falling apart from fatigue. How can I have that?"
I'm afraid of my strength." Zhou Ranzhuo's voice was extremely tired.
Hearing the words "Xia Jingyan", Gu Yun suddenly felt a little disappointed. Originally, Xia Jingyan should indeed be Zhou Ranzhuo's prey, but he just couldn't get used to it.
Gu Yun felt depressed and panicked. He stepped forward and hugged Zhou Ranzhuo from behind, hugging him tightly.
"You are so bold! How dare you try to kill me by holding me in my arms while I am out of breath!" Zhou Ranzhuo said jokingly. As expected, he heard Gu Yun laugh as soon as he finished speaking and hugged him.
The strength of both hands was also lighter.
Zhou Ranzhuo stretched out his hand and patted Gu Yun's shoulder, and said softly, "What are you worried about? What's there to worry about? Go to sleep quickly."
Gu Yun made no sound and must have fallen asleep. Zhou Ranzhuo also felt relieved and fell asleep.
Get up early the next morning
"Wake up, little pig! You are really a model of someone who can't afford to sleep in the morning if you don't sleep at night!"
"Yeah! War!" Xia Jingyan suddenly woke up, "Really? Take me there?"
"What a beautiful idea you have!" Xia Jingxuan flicked Xia Jingyan's forehead, "We fight, you stay in the camp, I'll leave Zhao Qichen to accompany you."
What kind of war is the little girl fighting? If she gets hurt or something happens, these brothers will be very distressed!
"I knew..." Xia Jingyan was filled with disappointment. The little girl must be gentle and not fight.
Xia Jingyan climbed out of bed, jumped from the couch into Xia Jingxuan's arms, and pressed Xia Jingxuan so hard that he almost lost his waist.
"Advance the whole army!" The leader of the soldiers ordered the troops to move forward. Since carriages were inconvenient, Xia Jingxuan led Xia Jingyan on horseback to the front, followed by Xia Jingchen and Zhou Ranzhuo.
"Xia Jingxuan is nearby, I can't make a move..." Zhou Ranzhuo could not find any room to talk to Xia Jingyan, so he helplessly whispered to Gu Yun.
Xia Jingxuan guarded him more closely than he guarded against thieves!
According to Xia Jingxuan's inner thoughts: "No one can try to steal my sister from me!"
"Don't worry, cousin. I have arranged for people to follow the troops. As soon as the army stops and Xia Jingyan is about to leave the army, someone will immediately assassinate him." Gu Yun responded with a smirk.
"What about me?"
"Heroes save beauties!"
"It's this move again!" Zhou Ranzhuo felt disdainful for a while. Did Gu Yun think of another move?
"This trick is vulgar but it works!" Gu Yun responded, still remembering the last time, Xia Jingyan threw Zhou Ranzhuo down and kissed him! Although it was not intentional.
"Okay." Zhou Ranzhuo responded. After all, he had no idea about love, otherwise there would be no need to ask Gu Yun for advice.
The soldiers and horses continued to advance, and they stopped for a while after marching for half a day.
As expected, Xia Jingyan left the army for fun, and a dead soldier responded to the situation.
Obviously not even a leaf was moved! Even Zhou Ranzhuo and Gu Yun didn't realize that their dead warrior was coming. Xia Jingyan actually turned over and dodged the moment the dead warrior drew his sword.
In the eyes of outsiders, this must be due to Xia Jingyan's "high martial arts skills". To be honest... the sword of the dead soldier is a bit reflective...
Zhou Ranzhuo reacted immediately, drew his sword and stepped forward, but before his sword touched the dead man,...
"Get out of the way!" Xia Jingyan pushed Zhou Ranzhuo away and snatched Zhou Ranzhuo's sword. He quickly kicked his leg back and the dead man flew backwards. Xia Jingyan grabbed the hilt of the sword tightly and used the sword as a spear.
Throwing it out, it hit the dead man's collar and nailed him to the tree.
Although Xia Jingyan is the princess of Prince Xia's palace, she is different from other noble ladies. Out of interest, Xia Jingyan has practiced martial arts since she was a child.
He took the time to practice martial arts with Xia Jingyan in person, and now ordinary assassins can no longer hurt Xia Jingyan.
Zhou Ranzhuo didn't even have time to move! He stood there dumbfounded, asking countless questions in his heart: "Who am I? Where am I? What am I going to do?"
By the time Zhou Ranzhuo realized what he was doing, Xia Jingyan was already taking pictures of him.
"Hey! Are you okay? Are you scared out of your mind?"
"Ah!" Zhou Ran woke up suddenly, which shocked Xia Jingyan.
"Hey, give it back to you." Xia Jingyan held the collar of the dead soldier in his hand and returned it to Zhou Ranzhuo with the sword in his other hand.
"Well..." Zhou Ranzhuo took the sword, still in a state of shock.
Oh my god, does Xia Jingyan still need his protection?
Xia Jingyan didn't take this seriously and walked away with the dead man's collar. Not far away, Xia Jingxuan and Xia Jingchen were watching the show and even waved to Xia Jingyan!
"I changed my plan." Zhou Ran said to Gu Yun behind him with a livid face.
"How to change it?" Gu Yun asked.
"It's still the hero who saves the beauty, but she protects me instead."
"ah?"
Zhou Ranzhuo had already put away his sword and left, leaving Gu Yun alone in place.
According to their imagination, Xia Jingyan, as a high-ranking family member and a princess, must be a coquettish, well-educated little girl, but they didn't expect...
I finally know why Xia Jingsheng dared to let Xia Jingyan go out to fight. It was too powerful to destroy a dead soldier in three moves!
The army continued to move forward, and Xia Jingchen did not bother to discuss the war issues at all, not knowing what Xia Jingxuan was talking about there.
The original intention of this time was to go out for fun, otherwise no royal family would invite a general and a marquis besides a bandit! The palace was really bored, so it was just a matter of finding a reason to come out and breathe some air.
Xia Jingxuan was just having fun. He was not discussing the war, he was clearly listening to the generals chatting.
I heard that the bandit leader robbed Lingyuan Villa and made it his stronghold. There was a white-bearded Taoist priest who called himself "Immortal" living there. He fooled the people down the mountain to tell fortunes and buy talismans all day long. It didn't have any impact, and the government didn't.
No matter what, he was doing well, but when the bandits came, the "old god" was so frightened that he packed up and ran away that night. It is said that he went to preach in the next city and lived a leisurely life! This can be considered an interesting thing.
Walking to the vicinity of Lingyuan Villa, I realized that the place is spacious, with dozens more huts than when the "old god" was there before, and dozens of stacks of grain and grass, which is quite abundant. The only strange thing is:
As the lair here, the bandits who stayed behind and went to reconnoiter only had about fifty soldiers, which was not as many as the previous sneak attack!
"He's just a rough and rude man in the mountains. He has no experience in fighting, yet he still has the nerve to form his own faction." Xia Jingchen was scornful.
"General, Lord Marquis, please take the people in and get rid of them." Zhao Qiechen said.
"No need." Xia Jingchen took a step forward on his horse, "I'm about to go, it's just a good time to stretch my muscles."
"You stay and look after Yan'er while I go help Jingchen." Xia Jingxuan told Zhao Qichen and then drove his horse into the villa.
After a long trip out of the house, you can’t gain nothing, right?
Two teams of horses and nearly thirty people entered the villa.
The smell of blood came from the villa, and there must be a killing inside. When Zhao Qichen saw Xia Jingyan covering his nose and wanting to vomit, he drove his horse between the villa and Xia Jingyan.
"Yan'er, why don't you go back to the camp first? I'll take care of the affairs in the army."
Xia Jingyan shook his head, and Zhao Qichen said nothing more, only blocking her from seeing the blood.
Zhou Ranzhuo watched the two armies fighting and suddenly thought about the past.
It must have been the same scene when the Xia Jiajun massacred Yihe. No one was left alive, and it was bloody. More than ten years later, the water of the Yihe River is still glowing red.
Xia Jingchen killed many people in the formation, but gradually realized something was wrong. He killed at least ten people, and the same was true for Xia Jingxuan. The soldiers who accompanied him also killed dozens of people, but there were only fifty people in the villa. How could he kill more and more people?
ah?
Looking back at Xia Jingxuan, he also looked at the bandit with the same confusion. Both of them were thinking in their hearts, and they instantly realized: OK! They have been tricked!
While Xia Jingchen was thinking about it, the bandits underground had also made preparations. Qin Suan was sitting on a hillside not far away, looking up at this interesting scene.
I'm afraid Zhou Ranzhuo didn't expect that Qin Suan, the "good prime minister" in his court, would come to increase his presence again, looking for trouble every day.
Qin Suan waved his hand, and the so-called "bandits" understood and rushed out from the surrounding huts, water tanks, and even the ground. A "bandit" jumped from the tree in front of Xia Jingchen. Before Xia Jingchen could react, he
The knife in his hand had already penetrated the war horse's neck, and the war horse fell down with a roar. Xia Jingchen also fell down.
"Jingchen!" Xia Jingxuan, who also realized that he had been tricked, came on horseback. Unfortunately, he didn't pay attention to the stumbling rope in front of him. He also fell off the horse. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and landed smoothly with the help of the saddle. Otherwise, he would have died if he broke his neck.
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"Brother!" Xia Jingchen didn't fall too hard and quickly stood up and shouted. Xia Jingxuan immediately understood.
The two brothers rushed together, clasping each other's hands and leaping up to repel the onrushing bandits.
"Young man, you are quite good at using tricks!" Xia Jingchen snorted coldly, and he and Xia Jingxuan stood back to back, waiting for the next wave of bandits to arrive, and the two of them went out with each other on their backs.
As long as the strength is top-notch, what's the problem if there is no war horse?