Two military horses from the City Defense Department ran through the city gate towards Beishan. Xuan Yue and An Nianjiu, dressed as Yunzhong Swords, had their hair flying and sand and stones flying under the horses' hooves.

"Thank you for borrowing the good horse, but I don't understand why you insist on following." Xuan Yue glanced sideways at An Nianjiu, who was keeping pace with her.

An Nianjiu replied: "After all, Mr. Yu has given me the kindness to rebuild. I can't just sit idly by and ignore Yu Yan's ambition."

After hearing this, Xuan Yue couldn't help frowning and questioning: "But what can you do for him? At this time, the suburbs of Beishan are probably all soldiers of the imperial court, but the people Mr. Yu wants to protect are rebellious."

"I know that my strength is not one ten thousandth that of Miss Xuan Yue, but I hope that he will be safe and sound the same as you."

"Do you know what I am willing to do for Mr. Yu?"

"I don't know what Miss Xuan Yue can do, because my knowledge is still too shallow. I couldn't imagine that kind of thing before I saw you fighting Lezheng Longhua and that Xi tribe woman. But...

An Nianjiu paused, and his tone became more solemn: "I hope Yu Yanzhi can survive, even if it costs me my own life."

Xuan Yue was silent for a moment and then said: "Is it just because of Mr. Zhong's kindness to you?"

"Mr. Zhong's kindness to me cannot be described by just two words."

"I mean, are you willing to die in order to repay your kindness?"

An Nianjiu smiled faintly on the horse and said in a affirmative tone: "Yes."

Xuan Yue moved her lips helplessly, and some strange thoughts suddenly appeared in her heart. She had speculations about the relationship between An Nianjiu and Yu Shiqi, and was also uneasy. However, she soon felt relieved. Since she had fought before

You have made up your mind to save people from Lian Ying even if you use the Yutian Sword. What are you still thinking about now?

It's better to be like Yu Shiqi, but follow your conscience and don't care about your future.

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In the main mausoleum area of ​​Beishan Imperial Tomb, Li Zhong, who finally defeated the "remnants" after a hard battle, led his team to the entrance of the collapsed imperial mausoleum. He glanced at the corpses scattered around and gave an order to the deputy general behind him with a sad expression:

"Go and see if Mr. Chen is inside!"

The deputy general understood this and raised his hand to summon a team of elite cavalry on the near side to follow him and gallop forward to inspect the dead bodies.

"General, just now Commander Xuanqi Lu sent someone to report that the princess was suspected to have been kidnapped by a rebel army..." A general came up and whispered in Li Zhong's ear.

"Lv Yan, you loser! Can't eight hundred knights stop a traitor with a girl?" Li Zhong cursed angrily.

The general looked horrified and added: "That rebel is probably Xiao Xihong, the former leader of the Golden Gun Squad."

"There are no soldiers or generals, so what if my father, Xiao Yanxun, is here! Send an order to Lu Yan to let him chase after him!"

"Commander Lu also said that he intercepted Chen Tingqiu."

"Kill him?" Li Zhong's expression softened slightly. Killing Chen Tingqiu and framing the blame on the rebels was also an important task for him during this trip.

"Before I could succeed, I was blocked by a swordsman." The general raised his head subconsciously and wiped his sweat.

Li Chongfang's mood, which had improved a little, suddenly sank to the bottom: "Swordsman... Huh, what a joke. It seems that the commander of Xuanqi needs to be replaced. Order the troops to continue searching and suppressing the remaining rebels, and the Guards Battalion will follow me!"

Before the general could react, Li Zhong's cavalry had already rushed out, followed by hundreds of lightly armored soldiers holding swords and shields trotting behind.

The Xuanqi and the Guards Battalion were considered to be the most elite among the 20,000 Northern troops. The general secretly sighed in his heart, wondering how skilled the swordsman must be to allow General Li to deal with him in such a grand manner.

Of course, if he and Lu Yan, the commander of Xuanqi, exchanged identities, these doubts would cease to exist.

At this moment, Lu Yan was desperately trying to maintain his dignity as a general. Although deep down he was filled with fear for the young swordsman in blood-red clothes trapped in the formation, he still ordered his men to continue the attack at the top of his lungs.

Xiao Xihong and the princess ran away, which already caused Xuanqi to lose face. If he couldn't kill this person here, he didn't know how to meet Li Zhong in Shangfeng.

Lu Yan glanced at a thick camphor tree behind the young swordsman, and what he saw frightened him. Chen Tingqiu was sitting dumbly under the tree, and there was a corpse lying three feet away from her.

Yu Shiqi could have left, at least as long as Yun Ti Feng Shen lasted, these people couldn't stop him. The reason why he stayed here was just because he was unwilling to leave Chen Tingqiu behind. Lu Yan's Xuan Qi also found out

Knowing this, they tried to target Chen Tingqiu to restrict Yu Shiqi's movements, but soon they found that even so, they could not get past the sword circle drawn by the man's hands.

The cold-forged steel armor they were proud of was as brittle as thin paper in front of the long sword with a black main body and a silvery edge as bright as snow.

"Up! Up again! Up again!" Lu Yan clenched his fists, his knuckles turning blue and white from excessive force.

However, the Black Knights were no longer as aggressive and sharp as they were at the beginning. The morale of the whole army plummeted, and the hands of the cavalrymen in the front row holding the reins were trembling slightly.

Yu Shiqi lowered his left arm and put Qiu Ye beside him. He raised his right hand and pointed Weiyin Hanfeng at Lu Yan who was shouting through the layers of cavalry: "If you don't take the lead, how can you make your subordinates willing to die?"

After the trapped beasts fought for a long time, Yu Shiqi’s voice was not loud, but the battlefield where the Xuanqi hesitated was completely silent, so these words still reached Lu Yan’s ears, making this knight with a reputation for bravery

The military commander's face turned red.

After a moment, he said angrily: "You... you are a traitor! Your colleagues have been completely destroyed, but you are surrounded by our own generals and are at your wits' end! You still dare to be so arrogant!"

You can't lose when you lose the battle. If you don't respond to this provocation, how will you be able to control the army in the future?

"I'm at the end of my rope and under heavy siege. General, why don't you come and take the traitor's head personally?" Yu Shiqi said with a dry laugh, and dropped the sword in his right hand and stuck it on the ground.

"Young Master Yu..." Chen Tingqiu came to her senses and didn't understand why he dropped his weapon at this time. She sincerely advised: "Leave me alone and escape on your own."

"It's too late, I can't escape now." Yu Shiqi shrugged with his back to her.

"I have implicated you, I'm sorry..."

Chen Tingqiu's apology was interrupted by the sudden sound of horse hooves. The stimulated Lu Yan saw Yu Shiqi put down his sword and could no longer hold back, so he rode out alone with his sword in hand.

Yu Shiqi ran towards the charging horse, and the distance between them instantly shortened. Lu Yan on the horse raised his sword, and Yu Shiqi jumped up on the ground. In the lightning, no one present could see clearly how he was doing

He dodged Lu Yan's sword in mid-air, only to hear Lu Yan's horse whine. Yu Qiyi stepped on the horse's head and jumped up again, turning over and landing behind Lu Yan.

The long knife fell to the ground, and the saddle was empty. Lu Yan, whose neck was held from behind, was lying on the ground. Before he could struggle, his right arm was removed.

"If you don't want your left hand to be dislocated, be honest! Let your people move away from the south road!" Yu Shiqi threatened.

Lu Yan gritted his teeth to stop his wailing, and squeezed out three words from between his teeth: "Impossible!"

"Get out of the way!" Yu Shiqi grabbed Lu Yan and stood up. He picked up the chopped half of the gun head on the ground with his toes and grabbed it in his hand. The blade of the gun was pressed against Lu Yan's throat.

The surrounding Xuanqi looked at each other in confusion. Although they were all shaken in their hearts, no one dared to take the initiative to withdraw from the siege without receiving military orders.

"Let... get out of the way." Feeling the increasingly intense tingling sensation in his throat, Lu Yan finally abandoned his dignity and ordered his subordinates to make way.

"Master Chen, you go first!" Yu Shiqi saw that the Xuanqi in the south had made way for a wide path, and immediately shouted to Chen Tingqiu.

Chen Tingqiu stood up from under the tree, picked up the two swords that Yu Shiqi had left there, came to his side, and put Qiu Ye and Wei Yin into the scabbards on his waist and back respectively.

"You..." She hesitated, then finally shook her head and bowed to Yu Shiqi.

"Mr. Chen, take care." Yu Shiqi smiled slightly.

Yu Shiqi held Lu Yan hostage and stayed there, watching Chen Tingqiu pass through the siege from the middle of the road that Xuan Qi gave way. Suddenly, there was a sharp sound of strings in the wind, and Chen Tingqiu, who was about to enter the forest, trembled and screamed in pain.

Fall to the ground.

A feathered arrow hit Chen Tingqiu's back under his right shoulder. Lu Yan, who was still holding the broken gun against his throat by Yu Shiqi, saw the peacock feathers at the tail of the arrow, and the fear in his heart became magnified again.

Xuan Qi in the north also gave way to a path at some point, and everyone lowered their heads and did not dare to look at the intruder.

Yu Shiqi gritted his teeth and looked back, seeing a fiery horse carrying a general holding a python bow driving towards him. The second arrow was already hanging on the bowstring.

"General Li..." Lu Yan's legs were weak and he showed such an ugly appearance in front of his general. He had a premonition that his career had ended early.

Li Zhong pulled out the bow string with an expressionless expression. The bumps of his mount did not seem to affect his aim at all, and the arrow flew out of the bow string thirty paces away.

Yu Shiqi felt a shock in front of him. When he came back to his senses, Lu Yan was already dead, and the arrow shot by Li Zhong hit him between the eyebrows without any deviation.

"You have no hostages anymore." Li Zhong stopped thirty steps away and said coldly.
Chapter completed!