The little heroine investigates a mysterious case

Finally, it was dawn. Zhao Xuan and Guo Da walked out of the cave and quietly came to a place halfway up Tianwu Mountain.

This place was very close to the camp of the Rongdi cavalry at the foot of the mountain. The two hid behind a huge rock. Zhao Xuan stuck out half of her face, just enough to see the situation on the battlefield not far away.

I saw that the Rongdi cavalry had already lined up and were ready for battle, and opposite them, the Xia army flags were fluttering in the cold wind.

Qin Shao, dressed in military uniform, raised his sword and shouted, "Charge!" He took the lead and charged towards the Rongdi cavalry. The soldiers then followed Qin Shao into the enemy formation.

The Rongdi cavalry were all fearless, but Qin Shao was as brave and invincible as a divine soldier sent from heaven. He waved his sword repeatedly and cut down the Rongdi cavalry.

Guo Da's blood boiled with excitement, and he couldn't help but praise: "If we talk about the best fighter in Xia Country, it has to be Qin Shao. With him, the North has no worries!"

Zhao Xuan pointed to the rear of the Rongdi cavalry camp, where she saw a cavalry squad of more than ten people, extremely brave, slowly approaching the direction where Qin Shao was fighting like a sharp sword.

"Uncle Guo, look!"

"This cavalry is so cruel! They don't care about the lives of their own people at all. They don't save them even if they can. Are they planning to... launch a surprise attack on Qin Shao?"

Zhao Xuan nodded: "The purpose of King Rongdi's war is to show Qin Shao his strength at all costs. If he can't capture him alive, he will be killed!"

"Then isn't Qin Shao in danger?"

Zhao Xuan looked intently at the battlefield. The cavalry squad quickly rushed to a place not far from Qin Shao, ruthlessly and decisively killing many soldiers who fought alongside Qin Shao. They gradually narrowed the encirclement and intended to isolate Qin Shao. However, Qin Shao was unaware of it and focused on fighting with the Rongdi cavalry in front of him. His armor was gradually stained with blood.

At this moment, two Rongdi cavalrymen surrounded Qin Shao from both sides and raised their swords to chop at him. Qin Shao raised his sword to block the attack, but was accidentally attacked by another Rongdi cavalryman behind him and was stabbed in the back.

Qin Shao roared, blocked the two Rongdi cavalrymen in front of him, and chopped the attacking cavalrymen off their horses. He continued to ride forward and rescued his next companion.

Zhao Xuan looked at the tragic scene in front of her, and saw that a cavalryman in the sneak attack team suddenly pulled out an arrow from the quiver behind him, put it on the bowstring, and aimed at Qin Shao.

Zhao Xuan was overwhelmed with thoughts for a moment. The death of her grandfather and her master might be related to Qin Shao. Now she has found out that the poisoned arrow that her master was hit by was probably from the Xia army. Even if Qin Shao was not involved, as the national defense general who held military power at that time, Qin Shao could not escape blame.

But could they simply watch the Rongdi kill Qin Shao? If Qin Shao were to suffer a fatal blow, how would the Xia Kingdom face the increasingly powerful Rongdi cavalry? Furthermore, the people of the northern border of the Xia Kingdom had been constantly harassed by the Rongdi for years. If Qin Shao died, the people of the northern border would be brutally slaughtered by the Rongdi again!

Thinking of this, Zhao Xuan no longer hesitated. She quickly took off the crossbow on her back, installed the crossbow arrow specially made for her by Huang Shuo, aimed at the archer, and then pulled the trigger.

Suddenly, the sound of a crossbow arrow breaking through the air was heard, and in the blink of an eye it shot into the archer's right arm that was drawing the bow.

The archer missed his aim and the arrow flew past Qin Shao's ear. Qin Shao subconsciously turned his head, turned his horse's head, raised his sword and galloped towards the archer.

The archer swayed on his horse, covered his right arm, looked in the direction of Zhao Xuan, his eyes seemed to be spitting fire, and then he fell off his horse. The cavalry around him hurriedly protected the archer. Someone reached out and pulled the archer onto the horse, and the group broke out of the formation.

Zhao Xuan, who was hiding behind a huge rock, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Qin Shao should be able to handle the current situation."

Guo Da quietly leaned forward and looked towards the battlefield.

"Luckily you took action, otherwise Qin Shao would have been in danger this time! I'm not afraid of killing the enemy head-on, but I'm afraid of sneak attacks from villains!"

Zhao Xuan curled her lips and muttered, "I thought I could see a good show, but I ended up ruining it myself. It's really boring."

Thousands of miles away, on the hillside of Xiu Yue Mountain, Hao Xiong and Dong Tian were hiding behind a huge rock, looking at the two people walking towards the mountain.

Dongtian lowered his voice and said, "It looks like a scholar and his servant."

Hao Xiong looked at the two of them carefully: "But why do these master and servant look so familiar to me... I feel like I've seen them somewhere..."

Dongtian teased, "You? You just learned to write your own name from the Little Medical Fairy, and you think you can be friends with a scholar?"

"Who said we were friends..."

At this point, Hao Xiong suddenly recalled that late autumn a year and a half ago. He and Huang Huacai, Xiaoling, and their group went to Fucheng to beg for porridge. It happened that the Fifth Prince was distributing porridge at the porridge stall that day. Not only did he give them porridge and steamed buns, he also handed him his own white rice...

Hao Xiong looked at the two of them intently, and saw the scholar unfolding a map and pointing at something on it with his servant boy, while looking back and forth at the mountain, seemingly unable to determine the exact direction.

Hao Xiong grabbed Dongtian and whispered in his ear, "What scholar or servant? Aren't these two the Fifth Prince and his guards?"

"Fifth Prince? Are you talking about His Royal Highness the Virtuous Prince, who was just personally appointed by the Emperor? What is he doing in our Xiuyue Mountain?"

Hao Xiong narrowed his eyes and carefully looked at Gu Zhanghua who was not far away, muttering in a low voice: "What a good man! He is handsome! And he is a prince! He must be rich..."

Dongtian nudged Hao Xiong with his elbow: "What are you mumbling about?"

"Let's go! Go back first!"

Hao Xiong and Dongtian left the boulder, one in front and one behind, and ran quietly towards Jiaoyang Valley.

Gu Zhanghua came to Xiu Yue Mountain in person with his secretary after careful consideration. As the saying goes, seeing is believing, he wanted to see the actual situation of Jiaoyang Valley with his own eyes before deciding whether to surrender.

For safety reasons, Gu Zhanghua and Shishu dressed up as a scholar and a servant, respectively, and pretended to go to Xiuyue Mountain for sightseeing.

Gu Zhanghua thought very clearly that even if Jiaoyang Valley was really occupied by a group of robbers as described in the letter from the Fucheng prefect, it should not be a problem for him, a weak scholar, to pay all his money to buy his life.

Besides, ever since Shishu became his personal servant, his mother has sent people to search for martial arts masters everywhere to teach Shishu martial arts. Over the years, although Shishu's martial arts skills are still far from the top masters, they are more than enough to deal with a group of robbers who occupy the mountains and act like kings.

Until dusk and sunset, Gu Zhanghua and Shishu still had not found the entrance to Jiaoyang Valley, but their stomachs were already growling with hunger.

"Your Highness..."

"Shh! Call me Master!"

Shishu frowned and said, "Yes, sir, should we continue searching today? It's almost dark."

Gu Zhanghua looked at the sky and said, "I think we should forget about it today. Let's go back to the inn and rest for a night. Tomorrow morning I will go to see Magistrate Wang and ask him to send us a guide who is familiar with the terrain of Xiuyue Mountain."

As Gu Zhanghua spoke, he and Shishu walked down the mountain. Just when they reached halfway up the mountain, a group of masked men suddenly jumped out of the woods nearby and blocked their way.

Shishu hurriedly flew forward and stood in front of Gu Zhanghua, drew the long sword from his waist, pointed it at the group of masked men, and shouted loudly.

"Who are you? How dare you block our way!"

The masked man in the lead took two steps towards Shishu and his servant, then suddenly knelt on the ground and hugged Shishu's thighs.

"Help me, please spare us! Please spare us! We are lost! I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

Shishu was instantly stunned by the masked man's actions.

Gu Zhanghua asked in confusion, "Are you lost? You're the residents of this mountain? Why are you wearing masks?"

The masked man kneeling on the ground suddenly waved his hand towards Shishu, and a cloud of white powder flew towards his face. Shishu subconsciously held his breath.

But the masked man's attack was beyond his expectation. Shishu felt dizzy. He struggled to protect Gu Zhanghua behind him and raised his sword to stab the masked man kneeling on the ground.

The masked man quickly stood up, took two steps back, and shouted to the secretary, "Fall!"

The secretary fell to the ground immediately.

Gu Zhanghua was horrified and just as he was about to say something, he fainted on the ground like the secretary.

The masked leader looked at the two people lying on the ground in front of him, clapped his hands and laughed, "Wow! You think you're so great because you have martial arts skills? You're just rookies with no social experience! You still dare to venture out into the martial arts world? No matter how high your martial arts skills are, they're useless! It's a piece of cake to deal with you two!"

The masked leader pulled off his veil, revealing Hao Xiong's smug face.