Ye Xingyuan won the three-day gambling game, defeated Cha Khan and forced the barbarian army to retreat. When he returned to Xifeng Pass, he was of course welcomed like a hero. Zi Yan went out of the city himself to lead his horse.

Ye Xingyuan didn't dare to do anything, but Zi Yan insisted on doing so, and he couldn't refuse. After a few days of the banquet, Xifeng Guanzhong was filled with joy. The little wolf girl Kasli followed Ye Xingyuan into the city, naturally no one investigated.

Zi Yan was very respectful to him. The "Zi Yanzi Art of War" was presented to him without hesitation and did not return it, but apart from this, there was no sign of recognizing the treasure of the Five Virtues.

Ye Xingyuan was very confused, so he consulted with Mrs. Li, "This retreat to the barbarian army is more perfect than the Xifeng Pass battle in history. If Zi Yan used this method to recognize the successor of the Five Virtues Treasures, I think it would be impossible to do better. Now Cha Khan has retreated, but there is no news about the Five Virtues Treasures. What if it does?"

Mrs. Li said: "I think about this matter much in the city, but there is indeed no news about the Five Virtues. As I think, I am afraid that Ziyan's recognition is not as easy as Gao Huajun. His afterlife is not the only battle of Xifeng Pass, and we may not be able to get what we want this time."

Ye Xingyuan was confused and asked again: "What does this mean? After death, the world is the destination of the dead, why is there more than one person?"

Mrs. Li shook her head and said, "For the first time we arrived here, I felt a little suspicious when I saw it was Xifeng Pass rather than Kudu City. Now that I have successfully repelled the barbarians, I can be more sure that the battle of Xifeng Pass is just a prelude. If you want to completely gain Zi Yan's recognition, you must also go to Kudu City."

This is a chain of tests. If you can't even pass the simple difficulty of Xifeng Pass, you don't have to try Kudu City, which is difficult in hell. If Ye Xingyuan is patient, you can wait in the tomb. After his death, the world will run to Kudu City.

However, after discussing with Mrs. Li, he still planned to find another opportunity next time. After all, they now have two five virtue treasures in their hands, which can resonate with the opening of Ziyan's tomb twice. This time, Ye Xingyuan gained a lot of money, especially since "Ziyanzi Art of War" has already been bought, so it is better to retreat temporarily and wait until the real problem is solved.

I guess the world will come to an end after death. The next time I enter, it should be the bloody city of Kudu.

Therefore, Ye Xingyuan said goodbye to Zi Yan and left. Zi Yan stayed for several days and gave it to him a gift of gold and silver. Ye Xingyuan refused to accept it. Although it may not be an illusory thing, it was useless to take it out. Zi Yan praised his noble character and said goodbye.

When Ye Xingyuan and his friends left Ziyan's tomb, they returned to their tombstone to their original position. When they looked up, they had just risen. The morning light could be seen in the east, but the sky was not yet bright.

The little wolf girl Kasli said in a daze: "I didn't expect that after my death, the world had lived so many days, but it was just one night."

At this time, the military situation was urgent. Ye Xingyuan asked her clearly about her own way of action, but she did not send her. She asked Kasli to go back to the Mutton Valley to meet with her grandfather. The secrets of their grandparents and grandchildren will be explored in the future. He used his own earth escape magical power and returned to Qiongguan County before dawn.

While studying "Ziyanzi's Art of War", he digested the experience of defending the city in Ziyan's tomb. He had faced 100,000 barbarian soldiers, but now it seems that thousands of lonely troops under Qiongguan City do not put him heavy pressure like he did a few days ago.

However, we must despise the enemy strategically, but we must pay attention to the enemy tactical attention. Although the number of enemies besieged and there are no siege equipment, there are fewer soldiers in Qiongguan County, and there are not even the majestic city walls of Xifengguan. If you want to defend perfectly, you must still have perfect preparations.

While thinking, Ye Xingyuan wrote down dozens of strategies to defend the city, assigned people to implement them. Although he followed Zi Yan for less than a month, he had gained a lot and learned some of his orderly arrangements.

County Magistrate Qin was busy and worried, and he felt a bunch of blisters on his mouth, grinning in pain. However, seeing Ye Xingyuan as stable as Mount Tai, wise and precise commands sent down, he couldn't help but be infected by the sedation of the county magistrate, and finally became much more calm.

In the afternoon, he hurriedly came to Ye Xingyuan and reported to him: "Sir, there are brave scholars in the provincial capital here. They said they want to serve the city guarding. Do you have time to meet him?"

Ye Xingyuan was stunned. His reputation in Qiongguan County was already very high. The minor officials and scholars were extremely respectful to him, but there were constant controversy in the province. Ye Xingyuan also knew that the rumors did not say anything good to him.

If the young scholars in the county school volunteered, Ye Xingyuan was still as expected, but the people coming to the provincial capital were completely beyond his expectations.

"Which young man took the lead? Please come and see him." Ye Xingyuan thought for a while. This might be an isolated act. After all, there are also scholars with strong spirits. Perhaps they are not for Ye Xingyuan, but for the people of Qiongguan County.

The Qin County Magistrate was a little embarrassed and said, "My Lord said it's a bad thing. It's not a young man who came here, but Li Zongru, a famous Taoist scholar in the provincial capital. This man has always been hard and pedantic, and the officials did not expect that he had such blood."

Ye Xingyuan frowned. He had heard of Li Zongru's name. He had previously applied for funds from the province. He had asked the Jinyiwei to investigate. Mr. Li Zongru and Mr. Li were Ye Xingyuan's clear opponents. It was precisely because of his advice in front of the vassal state that Ye Xingyuan's subsidy application failed to be approved.

He hated Ye Xingyuan and expressed his disdain and disgust for this lucky winner in public several times. Ye Xingyuan was too lazy to care about him, but he also felt that he was different and did not make plans. But how could this old man come to Qiongguan County at this time?

Could it be that he is really a open-minded gentleman. Although he doesn’t like Ye Xingyuan, he comes for the people?

Ye Xingyuan thought for a while, feeling that he had to see him first, so he nodded and said, "Since he is a senior, I will go out to greet him. Now Qiongguan dangerous city, it is not easy for him to come here. There is no need to mention any grudges and entanglements in the past."

The Qin County Magistrate nodded and said yes, then followed Ye Xingyuan out of the yamen and went to the main entrance to greet him. Li Zongru was dressed in a veil dress, white head and gray beard, standing haggard and firmly on the open space in front of the county government, followed by a few students with different expressions.

As soon as he saw Ye Xingyuan, Li Zongru snorted coldly and said proudly: "In Qiongguan, I come to die. I hope Lord Ye will fulfill his wish!"

Ye Xingyuan smiled bitterly in his heart and thought to himself that in public, you, the old man, could you speak more auspiciously and say that you came to die? Could it be that if you believe that Qiongguan County will be destroyed? Wouldn't the people around him be panicked?

However, at this time, there was no way to slap in the face in person. Ye Xingyuan could only praise loudly: "I heard that Mr. Li's moral articles were all called in the world for a long time. When the old man came, his morale was greatly boosted. Qiongguan County was as solid as a decent person, and the barbarians could not come or go.

I also asked the old man to go to the yamen to stop and discuss the plan to defend the city."

Ye Xingyuan did not expect such a pedantic old man to have any good plans, but since he showed up, he was a good encouragement to the scholars and soldiers in the county town. Just pushing him up high is that he still needs to do superficial skills.

Li Zongru did not appreciate it and just sneered: "Mr. Ye, I am not here to agree with your character. I just couldn't bear to see the suffering of the people in this county, so I just threw this body here.

There is no need to go to the yamen. Anyway, I am old and have no military experience, so I can't come up with any useful way to defend the city. My father only wants to stick to the city wall and do his best, so he came to the county magistrate to seek convenience, so he went up to the city wall!"

The old man was extremely stubborn and refused to say much to Ye Xingyuan. He turned around and left. He took a few loyal disciples to garrison on the low walls of Qiongguan County, and refused to take another step.

Ye Xingyuan frowned, and Li Zongru's words and attitudes were a little strange. As a scholar, it was not surprising that he died for the people and had the intention of dying for the city. But firstly, Li Zongru was not a citizen of Qiongguan, nor was he an official here, and had no responsibility to defend the land. Secondly, he did not seem to want to die with the city together. Judging from his eager attitude, he seemed to be eager to die on the city wall as soon as possible.

There are so many demons and barbarians attacking the border on weekdays, and they have never heard of Mr. Li as righteous as hell. What exactly happened?

Ye Xingyuan sent Qin County Magistrate, recruited Lu Shiyi Niang, and ordered her to inquire again. Although Li Zongru was a stubborn old man who was determined to die, his disciples might not be willing to do so. They could always find something out from them.

However, before Lu Shiyi Niang could get back, the battle to defend the city began.

The barbarian cavalry outside Qiongguan County did not seem to have much patience. After gathering about two thousand people, they unified the command and forcibly attacked the northern gate of Qiongguan County.

Ye Xingyuan heard the sound of gongs on the city wall and received an alarm. He knew that he would not sit firmly on Diaoyutai at this time, so he led the Qin County Chief, Fang Dianshi and the other two to the city wall together and inspected and directed at the north gate.

Before this, Ye Xingyuan had ordered the use of huge rocks to block all the city gates on all sides. Fortunately, this was the case. Otherwise, under the impact of the powerful knights, the fragile city gates of Qiongguan County would have been broken by one attack.

Although the defense of the city gate is not as good as the thick wall, it is at least not simply enough to break open.

The barbarian cavalry did not take the troops guarding the city seriously, and just kept doing it. Dozens of knights gathered at the door, waved their weapons, and knocked on the city gate desperately, hoping to use the power of sprinting to break the blocked city gate by stones.

"Stone falls!" Ye Xingyuan saw that these knights were all wearing heavy armor and knew that the archers in the county might not be able to do anything to them, so he called the civilians to go up the wall and fell down with the prepared rock.

The young people bravely raised the stones as big as millstones and rolled down from directly above the city gate with difficulty. They bumped around with a loud bang, hitting several barbarian cavalry who were greedy for merit and advancing.

The power of this rock-beating force is extraordinary. Even wearing thick iron armor, he could not withstand the impact. The cavalry who was hit by the stone immediately fell to the ground. Several of them had their helmets smashed to pieces and seemed to be out of control.

The commander of the cavalry behind was furious. These heavy armored cavalry were also a minority in the barbarian army. They thought that it would be easy to attack a county town, so they were forced to show off their power. The death was a huge loss.
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