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"Governor Pei, I left a group of people for you. Take these corpses, their personal belongings and weapons and transport them back to Yangzhou. Governor Yang, you will take other people with you. The guy who killed these people may not have gone far. Let's go and meet them and see which god it is."

When Pei Li heard this arrangement, he didn't care about the fact that Sima Dekan actually had no right to assign him. He nodded slightly. He didn't want to stay at all now, just wanted to return to Yangzhou immediately.

Left Pei Li and eleven others, Yang Wei beat the vanguard, rode his tall black war horse, and took the lead in the woods to explore the way. Sima Dekan followed behind them, and behind them were forty guards of the royal palace.

The dusk gradually darkened, the sky lowered, gradually turned into a lead-gray dullness, and then fell into the dark side.

A few stars hang sparsely in the sky, and then half a new moon also rises, which makes them more convenient.

"We should hurry up!" Sima Dekan said, and the moon was almost rising to the middle.

"After rushing for a day, maybe we should have a rest first. If the people are tired, everyone will not be able to bear it." Yang Wei suggested.

Yang Weile stopped and then turned over and dismounted.

"Why did you stop?" Sima Dekan was dissatisfied with Yang Wei's self-decision. Although the two of them had been with each other for many years, he was the Grand Governor and Yang Wei was the General, so he should obey his orders.

"Something is not right!" Yang Wei looked away with a serious look on his face and murmured.

Sima Dekan immediately stopped. He believed in Yang Wei's feeling. He fought side by side countless times outside the Great Wall, relying on mutual trust.

He listened carefully, but only heard the rustling of the wind blowing the leaves. However, he still waved his hand to let everyone behind dismount. Then, he pulled out his own horizontal sword. Although this was not a treasure sword made by Master Yuwen himself, it was also the imperial sword in the imperial arsenal Weiwei Temple. It was the imperial sword that was personally awarded by the emperor when he was guarding the palace. The moonlight shone brightly on the shaking straight blade.

The guards of the King of Jin's mansion were carefully selected, and each one was a brave man. At this time, he quickly dismounted his horse, unsheathed his sword, and posed in a combat posture.

"Who is there!" Yang Wei shouted softly.

But what was responding to him was the rustling of leaves and the cry of the night owls flying from the treetops in the distance.

Just when everyone thought it was just a false alarm, Yang Wei suddenly saw a white figure passing through the woods. He turned his head and saw a white shadow in the darkness, and then disappeared.

The wind blew harder and the leaves were blowing louder.

Accompanied by the sound of the wind, countless sounds of breaking through the air suddenly sounded from all directions in the woods. Yang Wei and Sima Dekan gasped almost at the same time, "Enemy attack!" The two of them shouted loudly, while raising their shields and swinging their swords at almost the same time.

Holding a shield in one hand and a sword in the other, Sima Dekan bravely rushed forward in the rain of arrows.

"Who dares to fight someone!" He raised his sword and spoke with provocation. Facing the ambush from the enemy, he did not retreat, but bravely greeted him like he was on the grassland.

After a few rains of arrows, no damage was caused to the fierce royal guards. The forty guards rushed forward under the leadership of the two.

The white shadow appeared again. This time, Yang Wei saw it clearly that this was a young woman wearing white leather armor and a white veil and a veil. Yang Wei saw the eyes exposed under the veil, which were a pair of cold and deep eyes, which made people feel like it was a piece of burning ice. The woman gave people a sense of danger. Her eyes were staring at the sword that was also held high in her hand, which was a jade sword with jade ornaments. At this time, she was held in the hands of a cold woman.

That was a kind of deep hatred.

One by one, figures emerged from behind the trees, some were wearing white leather armor like women, while others were wearing black leather armor. If you look closely, those wearing white leather armor were all young women like that woman, with white gauze and leather armor. And those wearing black clothes were all tough men, with a sense of courage that crawled out of dead people all over their bodies.

Their number exceeded that of the guards. Yang Wei attacked with a sword. The two of them rushed closer, and the two swords fought each other, making a sound of gold and iron touching, sharp and thin.

Sima Dekan also fought with a tall man, and the other guards also found opponents. For a moment, the swords and irons in the woods were intertwined, and the sound of the sound continued, and the shouts continued.

The woman in white had a very fast sword. Yang Wei was not as good as a move and had already been hit by a sword in her abdomen.

"Where is Ji Yao, where is Yi Feng!"

The woman in white did not take the opportunity to kill him, but suddenly asked him a strange word.

Yang Wei roared angrily, holding the sword in his belly with one hand and pulling it out, holding his sword with the other hand, waving it wildly with all his strength.

"Speak out Ji Yao, Yi Feng's whereabouts, I'll give you a pleasure!" The woman in white blocked his fierce attack and asked again.

"I don't know what you are saying, but you dare to ambush the guards of King Jin. This is a way to kill yourself!" Yang Wei gritted his teeth and shouted angrily. At this time, he was extremely frightened. He had never seen such a powerful woman. Although he looked weak, his swordsmanship was beyond his ordinary skills and was completely better than him. At this time, he had already believed that these people were the ones who killed the eighteen men in black, but he didn't know where these people came from.

The name of the King of Jin's mansion did not scare the woman. Her sword was extremely fast, and a few wounds were quickly added to him. He was already unable to support his body and was about to die under her sword.

At this moment, suddenly a sound of horns sounded in the woods, followed by the sound of horse hooves galloping. Yang Wei was happy. This was the sound of horns contacting the guards of the royal palace.

The group of black and white ambushers who had the upper hand on the field heard the trumpets and horse hooves, and immediately whistled a few times. Then, they all heard the news and retreated, coming quickly and retreating faster.

Sima Dekan's tired voice came from beside him, "Don't chase!"

A moment later, in the mountains, except for a group of injured royal guards, there was no ambush in the woods under the trees.

The moon slowly poked out the dark sky, stayed at the treetops, and leaked a little bit of silver.

Sima Dekan was lying under a tree several feet away, blood flowing out of his legs, his face was extremely pale. Yang Wei dragged his injured body to his side and leaned against the tree behind him. The two looked at each other and smiled bitterly, thinking about how many storms and waves they had seen in the grassland outside the border, but they didn't expect that they would capsize in the small gutter in the south of the Yangtze River in the end.

The sound of horse hooves as if it were storms and rainstorms finally approached, and the one who rode a horse in front was Pei Li, who unexpectedly made Sima and Yang Wei.

Not only Pei Li came, but all ten people left behind came, and hundreds of escorts were followed by the brigade.

"Why are you here?"

"When the King of Jin saw that you were out for several days and did not return, he sent us out to find you. He happened to meet Governor Pei. Fortunately, he caught up with him. Who was so bold that he was so brave that he ambushed the guards of the King of Jin's mansion here?" Governor Yuwen Gai was shocked when he saw the tragic situation of the two.

"I don't know, but I was caught off guard. These people are very good, and there are hundreds of people, all of them are tough." Sima Dekan pressed the wound on his leg and replied powerlessly. "The man in black who was asked by the King of Jin to investigate before seemed to be killed by them."

Yang Wei added, "The one who fought with me just now was a young woman who was about 10 years old and had excellent swordsmanship. She just kept asking me a question, asking me to tell you what Ji Yao and Yi Feng's whereabouts."

"Ji Yao, Yi Feng? Are you sure?" Yuwen Gai asked in confusion.

"She asked twice. If she hadn't asked about this, she would have died of her sword just now." At this point, Yang Wei was still a little scared. If she really died under a woman's sword, it would be a great humiliation.

"Yi Feng, Ji Yao, who is this? Has anyone ever heard of these two people?"

Everyone present shook their heads and signaled that they didn't know. Only Pei Li in the darkness changed his face when he heard the word Yi Feng. However, he quickly calmed down and shook his head and said that he had never heard of it. But his heart began to churn violently. Yi Feng, how could it be Yi Feng!

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PS: During the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui, the grassroots organization of the military was generally 50 people, one brigade of 100 people, and one brigade of 200 people. The corresponding military chief officers were the governor, the commander general, and the general general. In addition to the grassroots office of the government soldiers, these three governors were also the lowest three official ranks of the Sui Xun official.
Chapter completed!