The words of the black-eyed boy caused the people in the city to explode instantly.
However, amidst the chaos and noise, a woman's voice was suddenly heard, her tone full of contempt:
"The people in Suiyao City are all members of the Great Sheng Dynasty. Why do they respect a lowly person with the blood of the Di people as the royal family's orthodoxy?!"
Tuya followed the voice and saw that the person speaking was a woman standing on top of the city. She saw that she was wearing a golden-winged phoenix crown and brocade and colorful clothes, but her belly was slightly bulging, as if she was pregnant. There is a man wearing heavy armor standing next to the woman. I think these two people are the Lan Fei and Lan Boqi mentioned by Sa Xueqi.
The words from the other party's mouth were like steel needles, piercing the restricted area that Tuya cared about the most and that was least allowed to be touched by others, causing her body to tremble involuntarily.
Ever since her parents passed away, she had been looked down upon on the grasslands at a young age because of her southern blood. Even her closest brother regarded her as a bitch and an alien. Now when she thinks about entering the city, she will feel guilty again. The blood of the Di people on her body attracted countless criticisms. The girl felt as if she had been bitten by the most poisonous snake and scorpion in the Gobi. Her heartbeat accelerated, her breathing became rapid, and waves of numbness spread throughout her limbs.
However, what the girl didn't expect was that Jiang Yan beside him suddenly stretched out his hand, tightly grasped the cold hand of his wife who was trembling with inner anger, and shouted sternly:
"Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yubei has guarded the border of Dasheng for thousands of years, and built the majestic Suiyao City on the south bank of the Barren Pinjin River. However, war is short and peace is long. In your eyes, you only see that the two sides have been fighting for years and exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes. They have emerged one after another, and the exploitation of the people has continued for years, but they have forgotten that before the Shuodi Rebellion broke out, the northern border had a history of more than 300 years of "swords and guns were stored in storage, and soldiers were not guarding the border." At that time, the north People from the grasslands are free to go south and settle down on the south bank of the Pinjin River to farm and herd. People from the north in the south can also marry grassland people and raise children! Among all of you present today, who can guarantee that they don’t have a single bit of grassland in their possessions? Bloodline?”
The words of the black-eyed boy were like a stone thrown into the water. They immediately caused thousands of ripples and caused the people in the city to talk about it. Some of them nodded frequently, indicating that what they said was true.
However, Concubine Lan on the top of the city remained unmoved and continued confidently:
"So what? This girl has been eating and sleeping with the barbarians since she was a child, and she has not been educated in etiquette for a day! If she is allowed to enter the city today, if she has other intentions, wouldn't she be gambling with the lives of 100,000 people in the city? ?Have you forgotten that just a few months ago, the old king sent a large army to the north to conquer these people? How do you know that the other party is not here for revenge today?"
Jiang Yan squeezed his wife's hand again and refuted loudly again:
"Tuya's mother was Princess Ke Zun, whom the old king loved the most! She carefully taught Tuya the customs and etiquette of Yubei! The reason why we fought hard with Yubei was to protect Yanluo. Thousands of my subjects were safe in the past. Now, these Snow Riders around me are, like you all, citizens of Dasheng and Yubei people! They can choose to stand side by side with Tuya, a woman with the same bloodline as the prairie people. Why can't you do it under the city?!"
Hearing what young He Han said was reasonable and well-founded, the people below the city once again aroused an uproar. Lan Boqi on the top of the city couldn't help it and quickly took over the topic:
"What we are talking about right now is Yubei's society and orthodoxy!"
"We are not here to attack the city and kill people, let alone seek the throne of the north! Today, there are tens of thousands of man-eating beasts patrolling the northern grasslands, and they will cross the Pinjin River to attack Suiyao at any time!
How do you think Suiyao City can be kept safe with just the few thousand forbidden troops in the city now?"
Before the young man could speak again, Tuya suddenly raised her head, as if inspired by Jiang Yan's words, the hesitation and worry in her eyes were gone. After speaking, she waved her hand.
, a Red Flame military lieutenant in the formation immediately rode forward and threw a blood-stained cloth bag hanging on the horse's hip on the ground in front of the city gate - the cloth bag rolled open, and what was wrapped in it was actually a bullet.
Fight the big wolf head!
As if to prove that what the princess said was true, a strong wind suddenly blew in the wilderness outside the city. The wind brought not only clearly identifiable and blood-curdling wolf howls, but also the sounds emitted by the pack of wolves,
It represents the stench and blood of death.
This incident was like a torch thrown into dead wood, completely igniting the already excited crowd below the city. They shouted in unison and asked for the door to be opened. Lan Boqi couldn't help but panic, but he grabbed the hand from the sergeant beside him.
A long bow was shot towards Tuya's heart, and she still spoke plausibly:
"It's all the conspiracy of you Di people! The ancient ferocious beasts have been driven into Lancang Mountain for many years and have disappeared. How can they go south again in groups! If the city gate is opened now, these Di people disguised as Saxue Riders will
People can march straight in! My sister already has the blood of the Luqiu family in her belly! If you believe this Di person, you are disloyal to the old king, and you are conspiring to usurp the throne and cut off my last hope of Yubei!"
With quick eyes and quick hands, Jiang Yanyan immediately drew out the Seven-foot Mo Dao, swung away the arrows with a sudden sound, and then stood up with the knife in his hand, pointing the black-gold blade directly at the Lan brothers and sisters on the top of the city:
"If we don't open the door today, when the more than 10,000 galloping wolves behind us come and kill us, not to mention Suiyao City, even the entire Yubei, and even the Great Sheng Dynasty will cease to exist. How can there be any hope? Now?
Ten households and nine empty houses in Yanluoyuan are all worshiping these evil wolves! But in our eyes, there is no distinction between Hua and Di in the world, let alone high and low! We only have the people we want to protect, and we want to achieve success.
thing!"
"Shut up! Hua Di has been inconsistent since ancient times——"
Lan Boqi had evil intentions. Seeing that he could not argue, he roared with foam at the mouth. However, as soon as he raised his head, he saw the billowing sand and dust brought by the galloping wolves over the horizon. He was stunned on the spot.
. Concubine Lan beside her was also frightened by the wolf head. Seeing this, she turned around and walked away. However, her bulging belly suddenly deflated, and a pillow embroidered with dragons and phoenixes rolled out from under her skirt.
"Is the princess——not pregnant with Zuoqiu's blood?"
The advancing soldiers on both sides were shocked. Seeing this situation, they even looked at each other, not knowing what to do.
"Don't open the door! Otherwise, I'll behead you on the spot!"
Lan Boqi had no choice but to draw out his saber and shouted sharply at the Suiyao City Forbidden Army beside him.
Seeing this, Jiang Yan understood that the other party was determined and would never open the door again no matter what, so he angrily took up the reins of the horse in his hand and ordered Wu Chen to turn the horse's head:
"Array, array!"
The black-eyed boy shouted loudly, and ordered the Red Flame Army and Sa Xueqi to form a long formation under the city - the galloping wolf has arrived, and any further talk will only be a waste of time. But now the only way to save himself, to save Tuya, is to
The only way to save the Yubei people under the city gate is to fight hard. At the moment, the only thing Jiang Yan hopes for is that the group of galloping wolves in the distance is not the one he encountered in the Dankli Desert before.
all.
Lan Boqi, who was on top of the city, saw this and hurriedly ordered the defenders to draw their strings and bend their bows. However, the sharp arrows were aimed at the back of the warriors who immediately resisted the enemy below the city:
"They are just beasts, so why should we be afraid? No matter whether they are wolves or humans, they will never come back!"
At this time, the people gathered under the city had also seen the yellow sand and dust rising in front of them from a distance. Seeing the Saxue Cavalry and the Red Flame Army turning around and opening up their formation with their backs to them, they finally understood that they were just
He was used by others as a human shield to block the opponent. Since he was an abandoned son, he had to fight for his own destiny. A roar broke out from the crowd, but instead of running away, they all headed towards the closed city.
The door launched an attack, and he yelled "open the door" in a loud and indignant voice. It seemed that the resentment of being rejected from the city gate for many days also burst out at this moment!
But how could the angry crowd easily break through Suiyao's heavy city gate? And the wolves on the horizon showed their ferocious fangs to the southern empire for the first time after hiding for decades.
"Knights, today we are not fighting for a certain king of a certain country, let alone a certain dynasty or emperor. Look carefully at the faces of the people standing around you! Today we are fighting for ourselves,
Fight for them too! Even if blood is spilled on the battlefield and our bodies are wrapped in horse leather, we will never bow our heads and tie our necks to those ugly and bloodthirsty beasts and surrender!"
"The rustle is like snow, and the horse is like wind!"
"Changge Liquor can save life and death!"
Saxue Cavalry and Red Flame Army each stood up with their swords raised and responded simultaneously with completely different languages. Even Tuya, who was not wearing any armor, stood in the formation holding a long sword that she found from nowhere.
As Xiao Tianmo, holding Yan high, slashed forward in the air, thousands of horses seemed to break through the chaos of heaven and earth like a ray of white and red light, pouring out on the black soil of the imperial capital highlands. At the same time, behind them,
On the top of the city, Lan Boqi's raised arm was waved down heavily!
However, not far after running out, the knight who had already made up his mind to die suddenly heard a burst of thunderous cheers erupting from the people under the city head behind him:
"The city gate is open!"
In just a moment, Jiang Yan's heart had experienced violent ups and downs from hope to disappointment, and then from despair to hope again. He did not dare to stop the horse easily, but hurriedly looked back, only to see that he was originally very proud.
Lan Boqi didn't know when someone inserted a short knife up to the hilt into his back. The tip of the knife broke out from the chest of the Marshal from the North, causing him to fall from the top of the city in an extremely twisted posture.
Next, there was still a look of extreme astonishment on his face.
Standing behind Lan Boqi was just a captain of the imperial army wearing leather armor. However, when he saw him assassinating Shangguan, no one of his colleagues stepped forward to stop him. Instead, someone shouted loudly with him:
"The city gate has been opened. Please return quickly, Your Royal Highness, Princess, to protect our people in Yubei!"
Young He Han then tightened the reins of his horse and blew the horn hanging on his waist. The charging army stopped and turned sharply, and even the shoes nailed under the horse's shoe were worn hot. As thousands of people followed
The army and horses galloped into the city, and the large group of galloping wolves that had been killed in the distance had also rushed to the city. The mountains and plains were covered in gray-brown, as dense as crucian carp crossing the river.
The gates of Suiyao City were finally closed again before the pack of wolves came to kill them, but the horses and antlers under the city had no time to recover. Jiang Yan and Tuya ran up to the city head one after another. What they heard and heard were everything.
It’s the alarm sound of a galloping wolf approaching quickly:
"There are more than three thousand galloping wolves, and we are less than a mile away from the city!"
"Five hundred steps, the wolves have entered five hundred steps!"
"Three hundred steps!"
This time, before the black-eyed boy could speak, the seemingly weak half-blood princess took the lead and shouted:
"Saxue Cavalry dismount quickly and enter the city! Their bows and arrows are fast and should be able to slow down the wolves!"
Tuya gave the order calmly, as if she had rehearsed these arrangements in her mind many times before. Before the captain of the imperial army on the opposite side could take the order, she immediately issued the second order:
"Send people to the city again to bring back all the old knights who were dismissed by Lan Boqi and re-register their military status. We must have their help in defending the city this time!"
Jiang Yan looked at his wife next to him in surprise. He didn't expect that Tuya, who had been silent before and was even on the verge of tears when the Lan brothers were humiliated, would become so decisive in an instant.
The mixed-race princess felt her ears burning. She turned around and met her husband's eyes, but she did not avoid them:
"Husband, are you wondering why my attitude changed so quickly?"
The black-eyed boy nodded: "I always thought that you didn't like Yubei. This time you went south, you just had no choice but to go south."
Tuya's tense face finally showed another expression:
"I have never liked the surname Zuoqiu, and I have never liked Yubei. But now, both Yubei people and grassland people are the same prey in the eyes of the beasts outside. And I just hope that thousands of people in this city
The common people can all have a chance to fight for themselves before being swallowed up by fate!"
The mixed-race princess was thoughtful, seeming to think of the experiences in the past that made her what she is today. Time seemed to slow down at this moment, and facing the impending death, a smile appeared on her face.
:
"It's you, why are you suddenly interested in my thoughts?"
"I'm from Yubei. If your grandfather had been like you and not fought so many wars with the prairie people, my family's life might have been passable. Maybe my father would have left with my mother, sister and me.
If you leave that poor fishing village, maybe you won’t..."
Jiang Yan said, but his eyes were cast into the distance, towards the hometown that had long been blurred deep in his memory...
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