Xianyue smiled slightly and said: "There may be a glimmer of hope if you go down the mountain, but being trapped on the mountain is a certain death situation. I don't want to sit back and wait for death!"
Hongli held her hand tightly and said, "I will protect you!"
Seeing that they had made up their mind, Liu Hu gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, then I'll try my best to rush down. If it doesn't work, I'll reveal my identity. I won't believe that those people dare to attack the emperor and the empress!"
After making up his mind, Liu Hu gathered all the remaining people around him and discussed the plan to go down the mountain later. It was already the middle of the month and it was the third watch. Since they were trapped here, they had not exhausted their water and rice, and they were exhausted.
This is the only chance. If they fail again, they will all die in this unknown lonely mountain.
Hongli and the others were worried about how to break out of the encirclement, and those below were also worried about how to catch them. The two were like two tigers in a stalemate, trying to see who would reveal his flaws first.
A man who looked like a leader walked around a few times and called out to a few people: "If you go up and have a look, you must kill those people!"
"Leader, they are very cunning. They have been taking advantage of the terrain to deal with us. The people we sent not only failed to kill them, but actually suffered a lot of losses!"
The leader stared at him and snorted: "What's wrong, are you afraid?"
"My subordinates don't mean that. I just think that since they are already trapped here, why not sit back and wait for them to starve to death? I don't believe they can survive on this mountain."
"Didn't you hear my lord's order clearly? If we want to resolve this matter in the shortest possible time, according to your words, how long will it take? When the lord blames me, will you be responsible for it?"
"I know my mistake." The man lowered his head and said tentatively: "Leader, do you know who they are? Why do you care so much about them and send people to reinforce us?"
The leader looked unkind and said: "Ask less and do more. Do you still need me to remind you about such a simple thing?"
"I am guilty," he said, cupping his hands and saying, "I will take all the people up the mountain to surround the nest, cut off their heads and present them to the leader."
The leader nodded and said, "As long as you do this well, I will definitely speak kindly for you in front of the adults."
"Thank you, leader." After saying this, the man ordered nearly ten people to go up the mountain with him. To avoid being discovered, he went up the mountain in the dark without a torch. When he walked to the mountainside, he heard the solemn sounds of the grass and trees next to him.
, at first they thought it was the wind, but soon found something was wrong, because not even their hair moved, so where was the wind coming from?
He made a gesture of silence, and then moved to the side. Someone reminded him that there was no road next to him, and it was all grass, trees and slopes. It would be very dangerous to pass by like this.
The man stopped, rolled his eyes slightly, and suddenly shouted, "If you still want to run away, stop right there!"
Before he finished speaking, the solemn voice beside him became urgent, and a faint groan could be heard. He immediately said: "Okay, it really is you, want to escape?! There is no door!" After that, he raised his voice.
He said to the bottom: "Be careful, they are planning to come down from another place, don't let them escape!"
"Oops, we've been discovered!" Liu Hu said as he took out the steel knife he snatched from the enemy, and said in a cold voice: "The only solution now is to fight with them!" After that, he said to Hongli:
"Your Majesty, my subordinates and others will try to clear a way later. Until then, you will protect the Queen and leave." They are at the end of their efforts. If they can't succeed this time, they may not have the strength to do it again.
The second time.
"Okay!" Hongli was not a mother-in-law person. He nodded immediately and agreed. He held Xianyue's hand tightly and walked down step by step with difficulty. Everyone around him had drawn out their swords and was on full alert.
.
When they were approaching the bottom of the mountain, those people were already surrounding them. The light of the torches made the darkness no longer able to provide them with cover. All that was waiting for them was a desperate fight!
"Kill!" Liu Hu raised his sword and rushed down first. The remaining dozen people used all their strength to follow him closely, hoping to use the downward momentum to carve out a bloody path!
Unfortunately, there were many people below, and their momentum was stopped. They fell into a hard fight. Hongli used his sword to block the attack of those people while protecting Xianyue. Although Liu Hu and others helped from time to time, it was still extremely difficult.
, not long after, someone slashed his back shoulder, and blood immediately flowed down his shoulder, staining the hands he and Xianyue held together red.
"Your Majesty, please let me go!" Hongli turned a deaf ear to Xianyue's words and just held her tightly without any intention of letting go.
This is his woman, the woman he married, the woman he said he would stay with for the rest of his life; he will never risk her life or death just to survive.
If we want to live, let's live together; if we want to die, let's die together!
Under the firelight, transparent tears dripped from Xianyue's eyes. How lucky she was to have Hongli protect her with her life; how sad she was that in this life-and-death struggle, she could only hide in Hongli and become his.
Burdened, seeing him hurt because of himself, but unable to do anything to help.
People continued to be injured or even died. After a while, only eight of the dozen or so people surrounding Hongli were left. They were gasping for air. It was obvious that their physical strength had been exhausted to the extreme and it was difficult to support them!
No, she couldn't just watch her side lose, let alone watch Hongli in danger. There must be... there must be a solution.
After another person fell to the ground, Xianyue suddenly shouted: "Stop, please stop me!"
She screamed three times in a row, and the leader just raised his hand and ordered the people under him to stop, and sneered: "What's wrong, do you want to tell your last words before you die?" In the chaos, he did not hear Xiayue's name clearly.
Xianyue said coldly: "It's you who should confess your last words!"
Hearing this, the person on the other side burst into laughter. The leader walked up to Xianyue and sneered: "Are you so scared that you are so scared that you actually asked us to tell you our last words?" After saying this, he shook his head and said: "
It’s so pitiful that such a beautiful woman has become a madman!”
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to touch Xianyue's face. Before he could touch it, the wind of a knife struck him. He quickly retracted his hand, and the blade of the knife almost touched his fingers. He was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat!
The leader stared at Hongli next to him with an ugly expression, "You are such a sinister rat, how dare you attack me?!"
Hong Li said with a gloomy face: "If you dare to touch her, I will chop you into pieces and feed you to the dogs!"
"You are uttering arrogant words when you are about to die. You really don't know whether to live or die. See who killed whom!" Just as the leader was furious and about to swing his sword away, the people next to him grabbed him and said, "Chief, I think I heard this."
This person calls himself...'I'."
"Me?" The next moment, the leader sneered: "You dare to call yourself this, it is an even greater crime, you deserve to die!"
"The damn person is you!" Xianyue shouted sharply: "Do you know that you have committed the crime of killing the nine tribes?!"