[Cehua] The wind and rain are like dark

The sun was setting.The golden and dazzling sunset shone quietly and silently, gradually sinking behind the city.On the contrary, the armor, weapons and even the bridles of the Wolf Fang army in the distance were shining brightly.The wind blew up at some point, sending waves of chills through people's bodies.There were a few soldiers in the city who didn't know what orders they had, they bent over and trotted back and forth, He Xiaoxiao looked at them blankly.Yao Jun squatted and moved a few steps, stuck to the edge of the city wall, poked his head out a little and took a look.He turned his head and waved to He Xiaoxiao, and He Xiaoxiao moved over in the same way, looking down a few times through the half-covered battlements.This posture is very awkward to squeeze and endure, but right now I don't care about that much.

An Sijie rode his horse and paced back and forth under the city.It was clearly midsummer, and the sun was harsh, but the sky and earth in the distance below the city were pale and yellow, as if there was no grass growing in the cold winter.The black army of Spikes in the distance and the sprawling Spike camp in the distance are as numerous as locusts. I don't know how many people there are, but it makes people's scalps tingle.This stretching army was unusually silent. From such a distance, one could almost make out the intermittent sound of An Sijie's horse stepping on the ground.After An Sijie yelled so loudly, he stopped talking, as if he was waiting for something.

Suddenly, a Spike soldier ran out from the line behind, still holding something in his hand.He ran to An Sijie's horse and put the things in his hand on the ground.The city was far away, so they couldn't see very clearly. It took a long time for everyone to distinguish it before they realized that it was a small white dog, all dirty, curled up in front of An Sijie's crotch and struggling to move. , It seems that the hind leg is injured, and it can barely move a few steps.

"What... what is he going to do?" He Xiaoxiao frowned and asked Yao Jun in a low voice, the latter shook his head, but his expression was not good.

"Hey—listen from the city!" An Sijie suddenly pulled the rein straight with one hand, and the horse under his crotch neighed and jumped up, which made the little white dirt dog in front of him move to the side tremblingly, "Listen, Zhou Shousong! You refuse to surrender, you have to wait until the end of the mountain! This area is hundreds of miles away, and it is already my land of Dayan! Zhou Shousong! Let's see how long you can last!"

The army of Spikes behind them made a booing sound in unison, tens of thousands of people booed like thunder, and the momentum was overwhelming.He Xiaoxiao turned his head to look, but none of the Tiance soldiers on the city reacted, but they all just stared at the city as if they were preparing for battle.An Sijie had suffered setbacks in attacking the city several times before, and he had already become angry from embarrassment, and he became more and more eager to scold and scold Zhou Shousong for three generations.It's just that no matter how much he yelled, the Tiance Army on the top of the wall seemed to have known it for a long time, and they were all indifferent, just letting him yell.

An Sijie yelled and cursed for a while, but it didn't have any effect, and he had to stop temporarily, riding his horse back and forth.The little white dog was still curled up nearby and shivering.

An Sijie walked for a while, and suddenly turned the spear in his hand, picking the little white dog into a somersault, then turned the tip of the gun, and drew a long rectangle around the white dog with force.

"What is he doing?"

There was finally some movement in the city, and He Xiaoxiao heard a soft sigh of incomprehension drifting around him.

"Hey—!"

Suddenly, there was a loud shout from under the city, and it was An Sijie who pulled the reins again, and the mount under his crotch rose again, accompanied by the roar of the tens of thousands of wolf teeth behind him.

An Sijie laughed loudly and said, "Brothers! Can you see clearly, what is this?!"

He Xiaoxiao looked out from the cracks in the battlements, and saw An Sijie immediately holding a gun, pointing the tip of the gun at the shivering little white dog in the drawn square in front of the horse.The wolf-fanged army behind him was restless for a while, and then laughed loudly. Although they were talking in a hurry, their voices were deafening, and the content of their words was also uniform. As soon as he walked up, he could feel the deafening laughter and ridicule piercing through the city wall, stabbing like thousands of sharp arrows.

"—It's a wolf! A wolf from Luoyang!"

"—Yes!" An Sijie turned the tip of the gun, the little white dog was frightened, and shrank and crawled to the other side, but before it could climb out of the range An Sijie drew with the point of the gun, An Sijie He easily picked it up with a single shot.The little thing let out a whimper, rolled a few somersaults, and hid to the other side, "This is a wolf that was captured on Beimang Mountain when my army conquered Luoyang! I have heard that there are wolves in Beimang Mountain. They are cunning and brave. Take a look at the wolf of Dongdu in the city, is it still as rumored?!"

He Xiaoxiao frowned deeply, he had already heard the meaning of An Sijie's words.The atmosphere in the city was dead silent for a moment.He could see that he was by no means the only one who had understood An Sijie's meaning - he thought it was new before, and he had only heard Li Jin say in chats before that the two armies were at war, and sometimes they scolded each other, and their words were all kinds of strange If there is no commander to control, the morale of the army will easily fluctuate.Now seeing it for the first time, even if it was an eye-opener, I only heard about Li Jin scolding, but I have never seen someone like An Sijie who even used things to set up a stage to perform.When I was a teenager studying in the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers, I only heard of someone like An Sijie referring to a deer as a horse, but this was the first time I saw someone like An Sijie referring to a dog as a wolf.

This deliberate insult has already flowed around Tiance soldiers on the city wall like an undercurrent.Although under Zhou Shousong's order, no one spoke, let alone quarreled, but He Xiaoxiao could hear, apart from the sound of the wind, their breaths and heartbeats that gradually became heavier—maybe it wasn't someone else's, but his own, but He knew that in this situation, everyone must be the same.

The little white dog shivered and crawled in the circle, but An Sijie picked it back with the tip of the gun again and again, making it struggle endlessly within the range drawn by the tip of the gun.There was a terrible dead silence in the city, and He Xiaoxiao could hear the slight rattling sound of Yao Jun clenching his teeth beside him.He looked down at Yao Jun's hand, only to see the bulging veins on the back of the hand because of the tight squeeze.

The laughter of the Spike Army under the city was like thunder, accompanied by An Sijie's intermittent yelling.

"East Capital is vulnerable, and so are the wolves of Eastern Capital! Zhou Shousong! Even if you insist on not fighting, I am afraid that you will fail!" An Sijie shouted loudly, "Even if you insist on not fighting, it is just like this It’s like a dog! It’s not something I’ve shot, let me fiddle with it! Hahahaha—what a wolf of the Eastern Capital! It’s nothing more than that!”

As if in order to cooperate with this, An Sijie finished speaking with his long spear and picked the little white dog up and down several times, then curled up pitifully on one side, not knowing whether it was dead or alive.The Spike Army behind An Sijie burst into earth-shattering laughter again, the laughter was piercing, and there was a turbulent silence in the city.

He Xiaoxiao couldn't sit still anymore, An Sijie continued to yell, he looked at Yao Jun worriedly, but the latter stood up suddenly, He Xiaoxiao thought what was going to happen to him, and was so shocked that he reached out to hold him, who Looking at it again, Yao Jun just hugged another soldier next to him tightly. The man's face was flushed with anger. , let him struggle silently.

"General Zhou ordered us not to make a sound, don't act rashly!" He Xiaoxiao heard Yao Jun speak in a low voice, but the voice was already gnashing his teeth.If An Sijie continued to yell and scold like this, it was inevitable that some people would lose their temper sooner or later.The atmosphere in the city has been suppressed for a long time, and everyone is suffocating in their hearts. If they are provoked like this, they will easily change.Fortunately, this group of Tiance soldiers have been trained by Zhou Shousong for a long time on weekdays, they are all elite, no matter in any aspect, they are better than others, so at this time they can still stay in order and strictly abide by the general's orders.He Xiaoxiao quietly looked around, but he didn't see Li Jin, he couldn't help feeling anxious, but he could only remain motionless.

"Listen Zhou Shousong! That's all you can do! Send someone to do some petty theft! That little boy who was called Li Jin that day! Aren't you very good! If you have the ability, come out and fight with a sword and a gun !"

An Sijie yelled and cursed for a while, but the conversation suddenly turned to Li Jin.He Xiaoxiao was startled, looked around, but the surroundings were dead silent, but he could feel a slight commotion in the surroundings.Originally, Li Jin narrowly escaped death that day, and everyone in the city saw him, but after the thousands of defenders returned, Li Jin deliberately kept a low profile and concealed it intentionally. Many people still don't know who he is. When An Sijie shouted, doubts surfaced in his heart again, and he kept looking around.

"What? Don't dare! Wasn't he very powerful back then, with the ability to escape from death, why is he a coward now! He doesn't even dare to fart, huh?!" An Sijie's voice was narrow and harsh, He was attacked by Li Jin that day and found out the situation. Not to mention, he was robbed of a batch of things from under his nose. The tens of thousands of troops missed the opportunity and couldn't catch a person. Shooting down the horse, but letting him run away, An Sijie had been unable to capture the city for several months, and he already felt it was a great humiliation, plus Li Jin's incident, it was as uncomfortable as being slapped in the face, day and night He was restless, and now he had an opportunity, so he had to make up for it by talking about it anyway.After fighting for a long time before, there was suddenly no movement in the city. Spike Army spies and military advisers confirmed for a long time, and finally confirmed that the city had run out of arrows, so Zhou Shousong had to remain silent.Since this was the case, An Sijie felt even more confident, and it would be a matter of time before his ammunition ran out, so why should he be afraid of them anymore, it would be better to scold them.

"—Little boy named Li Jin, come out! Don't think I don't know about your old days!"

An Sijie's words suddenly gathered He Xiaoxiao's anxious and scattered thoughts. He turned his head and looked at the city in puzzlement.

"Back then—were you not the best at displaying the bravery of ordinary people!? Why are you laying still like a hatching egg now! Back then at Shilong Pass! You fought that battle, and you almost died of laughter!"

He Xiaoxiao frowned and turned his head puzzled.At the same time, Yao Jun also turned his head, and the eyes of the two met, and they both clearly read the puzzled expression in each other's eyes.

"He says……"

How did they know that An Sijie refused to accept this tone, and that day when Li escaped from death, the Spike Army shouted for him to report his name. .There are so many generals in the army, and most of them are from the north, and some of them spent a long time lingering in the central and central capitals before the Anlu Mountain uprising. Those old things about him back then, those details that he carefully concealed from He Xiaoxiao's eyes, were captured by An Sijie. Let's go down and inquire, and the truth will soon come to light in the Spike Army.

"Back then I was the most brave man, why don't I move at all now! At Shilong Pass, if it wasn't for you, how could I have suffered such a disastrous defeat, making me the laughing stock of the world!" An Sijie turned his horse's head back and forth, pacing non-stop. The voice shook the sky, "—Zhou Shousong! If you want to employ people, you can see who they are! I respect you as a general, and I kindly warn you——If you reuse this brainless little boy, be careful to fall into Shilongguan back then. Guard Qin Peiyang will suffer the same fate!"

An Sijie's words were like stones thrown into the calm water, waves of undercurrents spread out, and He Xiaoxiao could hear the unstoppable whispering around him.His heart seemed to be caught by something, and it sank suddenly - he couldn't understand what An Sijie was yelling, and neither could the people around him.But for no reason, he felt that what An Sijie said must be the truth, Zhou Shousong could understand it, and Li Jin himself could understand it.

Qin Peiyang, the guard of Shilong Gate.Qin Peiyang.An inexplicable sense of entanglement surged up from the bottom of his heart, He Xiaoxiao pressed his forehead, and he thought of Li Jin's long-standing inadvertent expression of refusal eyes and loneliness when he was alone.Qin Peiyang.Qin Peiyang.It was obviously the first time I heard this name, but there was always a strange sense of familiarity, as if I had seen it, heard it, or felt it somewhere.He intuitively felt that this was a very important sentence in An Sijie's scolding, but he didn't know what the importance was.The whispering voices around him fell silent, and gradually surged up again, making it difficult for him to distinguish between the distance and the proximity.He thought of the poems written on the letterhead that he had seen at Li Jin's place, as well as the old crown feathers.The things in these memories flashed before my eyes, and the picture disappeared like water streaks.He subconsciously wanted to catch it, but he vaguely heard a heavy panting in his ears, it was a sound that was suppressed with all his strength and was in great pain.

He Xiaoxiao subconsciously turned his head to look behind him, even leading many people to turn their heads slightly.Among the group of people behind him, Li Jin stood up unsteadily while holding on to a battlement on one side.The light armor on his body was covered with war smoke, and his hair was also messed up, probably because of the previous battle.The sun still hadn't completely set in the west, and the golden rays of light scattered around quietly, they shone from the direction behind the city, against the light, He Xiaoxiao couldn't see Li Jin's face clearly, he could only see his slightly swaying figure.For a moment he wanted to stand up, but his legs and feet seemed to be frozen and he couldn't move. He could only watch helplessly as someone pushed aside the crowd and walked in front of Li Jin.It's Zhou Shousong.

There was silence all around, only An Sijie's continuous shouting and coaxing from the Spikes.Zhou Shousong walked up to Li Jin, and the golden and bloody setting sun shone from behind them, their bodies were like black silhouettes.

"Lieutenant Flying Cavalry, this is the end of the matter, do you still want to avoid the battle?"

Li Jin was silent and didn't speak, it took a long time for He Xiaoxiao to see that he seemed to reach out and take something from Zhou Shousong's hand.Then he turned around and walked towards the edge of the battlements in silence.

Except for the row of soldiers at the front who remained motionless, everyone turned their heads and stared at him intently.Li Jin walked over here step by step.In just a few short steps, he approached, and He Xiaoxiao could see his face clearly, against the scattered and fluttering black hair, his pale, dead face.Beacon smoke was engraved on his face, as if engraved on a pale stone statue.He Xiaoxiao didn't make any movement, but his heart went cold with shock.He had never seen Li Jin's expression like this before, what didn't match that pale complexion was his cold and sharp eyes.He Xiaoxiao saw clearly that he was holding a bow and arrow in his hand.He walked past He Xiaoxiao, but as if he hadn't seen him, he bowed silently and leaned against the corner behind the battlements of the city wall.

Everyone was still silent, and it was especially ear-piercing against the shouting and booing of the Wolf Fang Army on the opposite side.An Sijie still rode his horse back and forth, yelling curses and swearing, each sentence becoming more and more ugly.

The wind was blowing from behind, the fiery wind sticking to the skin, carrying the sweet smell of blood and the strange smell of fireworks.Li Jin silently took out one of the few feathered arrows left, and put it on the bowstring.No one spoke around.Using the cover of the battlements, he turned slightly sideways, letting the right elbow of the bow rest against the corner of the city wall behind him.The wind was blowing quietly, He Xiaoxiao saw his disheveled hair fluttering unceasingly, the expression on his face was still cold, cold to the bone, only slightly shining eyes reflected the color of blood condensed on the arrow The dancing light spots of the setting sun are still those emotions in his heart that he has never confessed before.The blood-stained bow was drawn into a full moon in his hand.

For the sake of caution, An Sijie has been staying outside the range of the feathered arrows at the top of the city.The setting sun was about to set, and the clouds in the west piled up, with one bright and one dark, and the sunlight kept shining and dancing on the arrow.Looking over from He Xiaoxiao's side, he could only see a faint spot of light on the arrow that could not be extinguished.Li Jinbai's slender face was more conspicuous than the feathered arrows on the bowstring he drew. He slowly adjusted his posture, and the wind was blowing from behind, which was very unstable, and the tail feathers of the arrows seemed to be trembling slightly.

An Sijie yelled and cursed for a long time, but there was still no movement in the city.The setting sun was about to sink completely behind the city, and the last ray of sunlight pierced through the clouds, with a little blood color, and suddenly shot directly from behind, and the surroundings suddenly became terribly quiet, except for the Tiance soldiers standing on the city, like a dead city.An Sijie suddenly felt a sense of extreme uneasiness. This uneasiness pierced through with the last rays of the setting sun, forcing him to suddenly change his face for no reason, and turned his horse's head to retreat.

It's too late.He Xiaoxiao saw that Li Jin's fingers that were tightly pinching the feather arrow feathers finally loosened.A little light on the tip of the arrow cut through the darkness brought about by the setting sun almost at the same time, and that little sound, blown by the wind, disappeared without a trace.No one could see clearly what was going on, but they saw An Sijie fall headlong under the horse, and immediately rolled and struggled on the ground.