The setting sun shines through the clouds, the red shadows of the towers appear bright and dark, and the beautiful couple leans against each other.

There are countless dusk mountains, ten miles of plain grass and plains on the way home, where can a strong man secure the capital of King Jing?

The wind in the evening began to stir up the smoke and dust on the city wall, and Salyuhi, which had been silent for many years, was about to face the war for the first time in decades. There were only a few people on the streets, and the few pedestrians who came and went were all in a hurry.

Most of the houses have their doors closed, and there is quite a bit of noise in the desolate room.

Alvin thought hard but couldn't get it. He looked at the sky for no reason and began to hope that the little girl Kui Qing would arrive soon. He thought to himself: "My wealth and life are all in your hands. Kui Qing, don't leave."

You are kidding me."

At this time, Xia Ye brought a bag of bread newly baked by the "Tinglan" bakery to deliver to Alvin. This was the last batch of bread produced by this store in the past few days, because they would not be selling it in the next few days.

It was time to do business. He saw Onian taking a nap on Alvin's back, so he didn't disturb her.

In fact, Onian was already awake, but she just didn't want to get up.

"How's it going? Can you think of any good strategies to defend against the enemy?" O'Nian stretched out, stood up and dusted himself off.

"No, just take it one step at a time." Alvin shook his head and stood up.

Onian was going to ask about the latest developments of the Maine troops. Before leaving, she smelled the aroma of bread. She turned back and grabbed a piece from the bag before leaving, ignoring the surprised expression on Xia Ye's face.

"Xia Ye, I remember that your home should be in the outer city in the east, around the Old River store, right?" Alvin said, frowning and looking to the east of the city.

"Yes, Your Highness," Xia Ye nodded and looked at Alvin with some confusion, "Isn't that where we met?"

"I still remember your neighbor named Tini, right?" Alvin turned back and glanced at Xia Ye.

"Yes." Xia Ye nodded again. He was thinking about what happened to His Highness Alvin. Why did he bring her up so well? But at this time, when he thought of the little girl, he didn't feel so heartbroken.

It hurts, Xia Ye thought with some disappointment.

"I remember you said at the time that the girl's family was reduced to that because they were accused of blasphemy by the Guangzheng Church, right?" Alvin then asked.

"Hmm." Xia Ye couldn't understand more and more what Alvin wanted to ask.

"Then let me ask you, has the Guangzheng Sect arrested many people in your area?"

"Yes. In the past few years, people have been arrested by the Guangzheng Sect from time to time, and even some small nobles cannot escape."

The girl Tini who was enslaved, the dilapidated signboard of Jiuhe Restaurant, the Ganru root produced in Haldi, and the Guangzheng Sect who extorted money under false pretenses, these messy clues were intertwined in Alvin.

"I know, I finally know..." Alvin suddenly understood, his eyes widened, looking very horrified.

Seeing him like this, Xia Ye thought he had lost his mind and gone crazy.

Alvin turned around and chased O'Ni'an. He also grabbed the paper bag from Xia Ye's arms and took out a piece of bread while running.

Xia Ye froze on the spot, at a loss.

"Quick, quick..." Alvin turned around and shouted vaguely to Xia Ye while running.

Although Xia Ye didn't know what Alvin was planning to do, he knew from his look that it was important, so he took steps to follow him.

Then I saw two figures running on the tower, one of them holding a bag of bread in his arms.

When Alvin panted heavily and ran to Onian's side, the Sentinel Rider was sending back a message.

"Did the Maine Army disappear? Did they disappear?" Alvin didn't wait for the general who sent the message to speak, and shook his shoulders crazily and asked, "Is that so? Are you talking? Is that true?"

The general looked at Alvin in shock, fearing that he had met a madman.

Onian also looked at Alvin with a strange expression. She didn't understand what Alvin was talking about.

But what shocked her even more was what the general reported to her after breaking away from Alvin - the Maine Army disappeared ten miles away and its whereabouts are unknown.

Alvin also heard what the messenger general said, and kept muttering: "It's too late, it's too late..."

His crazy eyes reveal endless uneasiness. Now, in the eyes of others, he looks wandering and talks crazy.

What's even more funny is that he is holding a bag of bread in his arms, and he looks like a madman.

"Quick! Quick! Call everyone and come with me!" Alvin came back to his senses immediately, holding Onian's hand and said eagerly.

Onian knew that he must have a reason for saying such things at this time, and immediately ordered to the surrounding city defense teams: "All the soldiers on the city wall, follow me! Quick!"

The surrounding city defense teams thought that the count's only son was crazy. Could it be that the princess also went crazy? The Maine army was about to be ten miles away, so why did they abandon the outer city wall?

Alvin couldn't wait for everyone to gather and hurried down the city alone. Only then did he realize that he had been running with a bag of bread. In his annoyance, the poor bag of bread that had just come out of the oven was

He threw it horizontally.

After getting off the city, Alvin mounted his mount and headed straight to the east of the royal capital. He was now in the north of the outer city, and there was still a long way to go around. After all, everyone would think that the Maine army would come from the north along the provincial road.

After the attack, Onian also deployed more defenders on the northern city wall.

Onian and Xia Ye followed Alvin, followed by a large group of city defense teams.

"Where are we going? What on earth are you going to do?" Onian caught up with Alvin and asked him, pulling him.

"Did you know? On the day you returned to Saluhi, Lan Yu took me somewhere," Alvin said. "I thought she just wanted to have breakfast with me."

"Then what?" Onian asked with a frown.

"Maybe it was really just about having breakfast. But thinking about it afterwards, maybe it was a little girl who was dissatisfied with another little girl's pomp," Alvin said while glancing at Onian, "So she wanted to

Show off her strength, or the strength of her family, with someone she is willing to share with?"

"What do you mean? Where did she take you?" O'Nian was quite angry at this time. She really wanted to beat Alvin to death with a stick. Someone who said this in one piece could really put it into words.

People are dying.

"Do you know why the Guangzhengjiao has destroyed so many people over the years?" Alvin looked at her and continued to ask.

"Why? Is it for money?" O'Nian was even more puzzled at this time, why was it related to the Guangzheng Church again?

"I thought so before, but just now I figured it out, it's not just that." Alvin said, then his face changed, and he said something that shocked Onian, "They are trying to kill Salyuhi."

Dig through.”

"What?" Onian looked at him with wide eyes.

"Actually, the Guangzheng Church's goal has always been these people's houses. The tunnel in the east of the city had to pass under these people's houses. They were afraid of being discovered, so they had to use religious crimes to persecute these people until their families were destroyed. In the end, they wanted to take away these houses.

Got it." Alvin looked at her and said, "You know, Lan Yu told me that Prince Reza used to have a house to the east of the outer city. If my guess is right, there is a passage underneath the house.

The tunnel outside the city."

Thinking of the shopkeeper Jiuhe who had money to buy spices but no money to decorate his facade, he then sneered: "And it should be more than that. There should be a quite complicated network of secret passages underground to the east of the outer city. So Ayton doesn't know how to do it at all.

He will come to attack the city, and he will lead his people directly out of the city. This is why they are so confident that they can take Salyuhi, because Resa and the Guangzhengjiao laid out the situation a few years ago.

Already."

After hearing what he said, Onian couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, glared fiercely, and said only four words in a short while: "Wolf ambition."

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Naturally, this large group of people cannot go around in alleys and alleys like Lan Yu led Alvin. They went south along Phoenix Street, and then turned east when they reached the inner city. Now on the street

There were only a few people around, and one could indeed run wildly, but there was a lot of road between the two places. It was already dark when Alvin led the people to the east of the city.

There was no one on the long street, not even a single light, and the atmosphere was eerie and terrifying. The wooden signboard of the "Old River" restaurant on the corner was swaying back and forth in the wind, and the chain holding the wooden sign creaked.

Alvin looked warily at the courtyard that Lan Yu was pointing to at that time, and carefully stared at the dim depths of the courtyard.

"Dismount and be on guard." Onian ordered the guards behind him.

These city defense teams had no idea why the princess was leading them here, and most of them had impatient expressions on their faces. Xia Ye could tell that these people really had no fighting skills. They didn't even understand basic street fighting formations and were disorganized.

At a glance, his stance is full of flaws.

A "whoosh" sound came.

One of the guards groaned, looked at the crossbow arrow inserted into his neck in disbelief, and fell down.

His horse was also frightened, raised its hooves and neighed.

Then, from the dark depths of the streets and alleys, thousands of arrows shot out.

The horses were frightened all of a sudden and started neighing one after another. There were also screams from the city defense team.

They were like dancers with no skills, spinning in circles without any sense of beauty and falling to the ground one after another.

"All the troops raise their shields! Get the hell back to both sides of the street!" Alvin saw the miserable situation and quickly ordered, "Protect the princess!"

These soldiers immediately gathered up their formation as Alvin said, retreated from the alley to the street, held shields on both sides, and surrounded Onian in the middle.

"Be careful!" Alvin exclaimed, and he flashed to Onian's side with a rip in the air. The light shield lit up, and the general blocked the halberd outside the shield.

On the route of the flying halberd, the corpses of seven or eight guards were already lying. Alvin looked up along the route - it was the courtyard, the former residence of Prince Reza.

Onian also looked coldly into the dark depths of the courtyard.

A crimson flame lit up, lighting up the pair of green eyes, outlining that graceful figure. I saw Lan Yu wearing a black dress, and as the light and dark changed, the solemnity was actually filled with anger and anger.

A sultry charm. She was still looking at Alvin with a half-smile. Ayton, standing next to her, was also looking at Alvin with interest.

"This Alvin is really interesting." Ayton said with a smile, "How did he guess it?"

"Brother, go ahead and kill that white-haired fox." Lan Yu glanced at Ayton, telling him to stop staring at Alvin all the time.

"Hey, if you feel sorry for your little lover, just say so." Ayton teased, "But, brother feels that this Alvin is of no interest to you. Look, this is the first time he has saved that Onian

Yeah? Huh, this guy with no good intentions has hindered me several times, so it’s better to kill him with a halberd, right?"

"Brother, you..." Lan Yu pouted and complained.

"Okay, okay, let him live depending on the situation." Ayton comforted with a smile.

They were still talking and laughing here, but their expressions were tense over there.

Alvin withdrew the light shield and found that the wound on the palm of his right hand had collapsed, and blood was dripping down his fingertips.

"This is not easy to deal with." Alvin said softly to Onian behind him.

Before he could finish his words, Onian had already jumped into the air. As soon as the staff dropped from her hand, an invisible ring of light spread from the bottom of the staff, like a round of daylight in the middle of the night, lighting up the entire place.

Salyuhi.

Many people stuck their heads out of the windows and looked at the woman covered in light in the night, as if they were looking at a saint descending from the sky. The shame, humility, and helplessness in their eyes were intertwined in a ridiculous way.

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With the light that lit up the night, the city defense team could clearly see where the enemy was. They were so frightened that they almost couldn't hold their swords.

It turned out that these Maine elites were not only ambushing in the streets and alleys, but many of them had already leaned out from the second floors of the houses on both sides of the long street, pointing their bows and crossbows at the city defense troops.

Ayton stretched out his hand and held the painted halberd back in his hand. He glanced at the woman in the brilliant white light and lifted the halberd up.

With a wave of Lan Yu's staff, a huge ball of flame flew out from the courtyard and exploded directly among the guards. This officially sounded the clarion call for the Maine Army to attack. In an instant, arrows rained down from upstairs, and the alleys

There were shouts of murder everywhere.

Alvin dodged the fireball and dealt with arrows shot from all directions. He knew that if he continued like this, he would be shot to death like these guards, so he did not dare to stay on the long street anymore.

, abandoned everyone and flew into the air.
Chapter completed!