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The summer of the first year of the Tang Guangming was particularly hot, and most places in Yanmen Pass in Hedong were continuously hot. Especially in Yanmen, the throat of Yanmen in Hedong, the occasional shower could not reduce the hot high temperature at all. The entire Yanmen Town was listless and desolate under this heat.

Behind Yanmen Pass, in Yanmen City, Daizhou, Li Keyong's uncle and Li Kexiu's father Li Delin were lying on the bed. The disease had tormented him for too long. In his drowsiness, he heard the dull thunder outside and felt more and more light, as if he was about to rise into the sky with the thunder.

Li Delin and Li Guochang are brothers. In his early years, they were also powerful generals in Shatuo. They were brave and fought with their fathers many times. However, in a battle more than ten years ago, he was seriously injured and has been lingering in sickness since then. Many young generations of Shatuo tribes do not even remember that there was such an extremely brave elder in the clan. He had not gotten up from the bed for more than ten years. When he fell ill, it was the time when the Shatuo tribe was at its peak. He fell ill in bed for years, and watched the Shatuo tribe walk towards the direction of his brothers and nephews.

After a fork in the road, he went and went wrong. When he was lying down, he was always worried about two troubles. The first was that after his elder brother died, Shatuo was led by his nephew Keyong. Keyong was a brave general and marshal, but unfortunately he would never be a good patriarch. He was too sharp and just passed by. Shatuo would only be lost and unable to return under his leadership. The second was that it was not peaceful at this moment, and the Hu people and the Qin army had already fought on the territory of the Shatuo people in Daibei, but Keyong could not return in the river. I heard that the Hu people had the upper hand, but who knows the final result?

This terrible war was caused by Ke Yong's frequent troops in Hebei twice a year despite the opposition of his subordinates. It can be said that it was these wars that destroyed the vitality of the Shatu people. The Shatu generals died one after another, and even terrible internal strife broke out among the Shatu tribe. Throughout history, many tribes have been defeated and not destroyed. For example, the Shatu tribe once faced more difficult situations, but they all survived. What they were afraid of was internal strife. Many powerful tribes and even dynasties were destroyed inside rather than outside.

While Li Delin was lying on his sickbed, the people outside Yanmen City were still busy in the mountains. July was the hottest month. It was also Meng Qiu, also known as the ghost month. This was also the month with the least grain reserves in a year. Generally speaking, July was the month with the least war. But this year was a year of constant wars. In the year, there have been several wars, and the young and strong people have been recruited several times, and grain taxes have been imposed several times. The people's families have already lost their food. In order to survive, the remaining women, children, old and weak have to go out every day to find wild vegetables. The wild vegetables near the suburbs of the city have been long gone, and now everyone has to go further every day to pick wild vegetables that can barely make a living.

Suddenly, several people riding tall horses galloped past, breaking the quiet atmosphere in the fields.

Most ordinary people didn't care. The troops coming and going had seen too many. But there were several old men with uneasiness on their faces, and several disabled men with some excitement. They clearly saw that these people riding horses were wearing shiny breastplates and red cloaks. Disabled farmers who participated in the war knew that this was the standard Qin army uniform.

Immediately afterwards, a series of changes took place in Yanmen City. First, the city gate opened and closed at night and closed in the morning and then the black crow soldiers stationed on the city tower increased exponentially, and their expressions were serious and solemn. There were rumors on the streets and alleys that the Qin army captured Yanmen Pass and was about to fight here.

The next afternoon, the soldiers stationed in Yanmen City found that many small black dots appeared faintly on the vast plain in the distance. Soon, the outline of a cavalry gradually became clearer, and the soldiers immediately reported the situation to the generals guarding the city. When the generals guarding the city hurriedly climbed the city tower, the situation in front of him was shocked.

The green cavalry had already rushed to the city like a tide!

The troops are at the city!

There are thousands of people without any edges, and there are ten thousand people covering the sky! And these soldiers are all in the same outfit, with wolf heads, helmets, iron breasts, red cloaks, shiny sabres, and eight-foot guns!

Although Yanmen City was already prepared, the Qin army's troops to besiege Yanmen City actually had 20,000 cavalry and 30,000 auxiliary soldiers and civilians, which was unexpected. Although Li Delin issued an order to fight to the death, there were huge disparity between the masses. How could the Qin people's opponents with up to 50,000 troops left in Yanmen City?

This was a battle without any suspense. Even the Qin army just put a row of dark iron tubes under the city, and then a loud rumbling sound that shook the sky and the earth, the young and strong Han people who were forced to defend were already mutiny on the city. They took the initiative to put down the suspension bridge, opened the city gate, and welcomed the Qin army into the city.

The Qin army poured in, and Yanmen, Daizhou City fell, and the city guards were killed. All 1,800 Shatu people were killed. Then the Qin people began to occupy the entire Yanmen City in full. They controlled and sealed the granary, money warehouse, and silk warehouse, and quickly occupied and sealed the shops in various streets. Then they searched and detained the families of Shatu Army to the military camp for custody, and sent a team of soldiers to patrol the streets. Once they found that there were defeated soldiers who were robbed by fire, they immediately killed them on the spot to ensure discipline.

In just half a day, the Qin army had shocked all the Han people in the city with the bodies of thousands of Shatuo people.

Subsequently, the Qin army began to open warehouses and release grain to the people in the city. At the same time, they invited generations of wealthy families in Yanmen City to negotiate with them to establish a temporary team to manage post-war affairs on their behalf. On that day, the Qin army left behind a battalion of cavalry and 5,000 civilians and continued to move south. That night, Dongxing Pass, southeast of Yanmen City, guarded only 800 people, had already broken through.

Subsequently, the marshal of the Western Expedition, Zhang Zimian divided his troops into five divisions. Wang Yanzhang, Gao Siji, Yang Shihou, and Song Wen led their troops to attack in different ways and took advantage of the victory to attack the extremely empty and empty states of Xindai in Yanmen Town. Zhang Zimian led tens of thousands of civilians and 4,000 cavalry drawn from the four armies in Tanglin County between the two prefectures. The four routes of troops attacked in different ways, and the troops quickly took down Yanmen Pass, Dongxing Pass, Taixi Pass, Shiling Pass, Chitang Pass, and Loufan Pass one by one, and successively captured Yanmen Pass, Fanzhi City, Wutai City, Dongxian City, Tanglin City, Dingxiang City, Xiurong City, and Xinzhou City.

On July 20, Zhang Zimian successively recovered the two states of Xindai, killed more than ten Shatu generals and schoolmen, annihilated nearly 10,000 prisoners of Shatu soldiers, and captured nearly 100,000 Han soldiers and other related people. In this battle, Zhang Zimian uprooted the Shatu forces in Yanmen Town. None of them were let go.

When the Qin army's flags stood up and floated on the cities of Yanmen Town, the Shatuo people in Yanmen Town were completely trampled on their feet.

Wutai Mountain in Yanmen Town is named because of its five unique tops. It is also known as the mountain climate here, with a cool and cool temperature all year round. It is the same as outside the border. It is also called Qingliang Mountain. At the same time, Wutai Mountain is also a Buddhist holy place in the Tang Dynasty. There are nearly a thousand temples, Taoist temples and temples on the mountain. There are more than 10,000 monks, nuns and Taoist crowns.

Chengguan, the temple where Manjusri Bodhisattva is enshrined on Mount Wutai, the temple is small but famous. At this time, in the Great Hall, Li Delin, who is of great seniority in the Shatu tribe, held a dazzling bald head and wore a cassock, and stumbled towards the golden body of an arhat in front of him. This former Shatuo brave general who had been lying on the sickbed for more than ten years, used all his strength to grab the arhat and twisted him hard.

The Arhat statue finally turned and made a sound.

Immediately afterwards, the floor tiles under the Buddha statue suddenly sank, revealing a dark hole.

Li Delin lay weakly on the ground, panting, looked around, and rolled towards the black hole with all his strength.

As he was about to roll into the cave, a sound of breaking through the air suddenly came here. A bronze statue of Arhat was thrown over by someone and just hit the entrance of the cave, blocking most of the hole. He could not enter the remaining space at all.

A gloomy voice came from behind: "Don't move!"

Li Delin supported the ground with both hands and knelt there, stunned as if he was as stupid as a chicken. It took him a long time to turn his head.

At the door behind him, only a few feet away, the tall attacker was staring at him through the candlelight in the hall. He was wide, tall and fierce. Next to him, there was a man standing, an old man with gray and sparse hair, with his eyes slightly narrowed, looking like a blind man.

The middle-aged man took off the crossbow machine from his back and pointed the crossbow arrow at Li Delin.

"You shouldn't run!" There was a Hebei accent in his voice, "Do you think we can't recognize you if you hand over a bald head and put on a cassock? Now, tell us honestly where the thing is!"

"I don't understand what you are talking about?" Li Delin said with a pale face, trying his best to disguise.

The blind man who had been squinting his eyes, no, the blind old man opened his eyes, his eyes sharp, staring at him, "Li Delin, we know everything about you. Now, hand over the Shatu crown, we can save you from death."

Li Delin was surprised, how did they discover their identity?

He laughed twice: "The Crown of Shatu is a holy object of the Shatu clan, don't you want to possess him!"

"Tonight it will belong to the King of Qin. If you want to survive, tell us where the thing is hidden." The vicious man pointed the crossbow arrow at Li Delin's forehead, "Do you want to die for this thing?"

Li Delin's face was gray, but his eyes were determined.

"Even if I die, I won't tell you. Kill me, the Shatu people are not afraid of death. You kill me now, but in the future, Ke Yong will kill you back to avenge me. The Shatu crown is in the hands of the Shatu king!"

The blind old man sneered, "Yes, the lies are pretty good, but we knew that Li Keyong did not carry that crown."

"Since I don't want to say it, then keep your secret and die. I believe there is still someone who is willing to tell this secret and take action." The old blind man turned to Dong Dong of Song Wen.

Song Wendong aimed the crossbow arrow at Li Delin's forehead, and this arrow would kill him immediately.

Li Delin closed his eyes, his mind was in chaos, and he was extremely afraid and regretful.

The sound of crossbow arrows breaking through the air came, and then the sound of arrows entering the flesh.

Li Delin suddenly opened his eyes. The man swept his crossbow machine and laughed twice, "Damn, I used him to smash the head of a Shatuo dog just now, but I didn't expect to smash the correct head." He reached out to get the arrow, but after thinking about it, he sneered at Li Delin, "Anyway, this guy can't survive."

Li Delin looked down and saw the crossbow arrow on his cassock. The crossbow arrow shot into a few feet below the sternum, and was covered with blood. His abdomen was shot, but the crossbow arrow did not shoot into his forehead, but shot into his abdomen. But as a warrior who once fought in all directions, he knew very well that this injury would be enough for about half an hour if no one was treated. Because this arrow injury not only hurts his stomach but also his intestines. Now he is not only bleeding from outside, but also his stomach and intestines are broken.

"Slowly wait for death here, and wait for death with your secret." After the man said that, he left with the old blind man.

Now, Li Delin was the only one left in the hall. He turned his head and stared at the door again, where there was no one. But he knew that there must be many Qin troops outside, and no one would come to save him. After a while, he would die.

Then, what scared him now was not death, but the secret of the Shatu Crown.

He must keep the secret of the Tibet of the Crown, otherwise the Shatu tribe will lose their Crown forever.

He stood up tremblingly.

He must come up with a solution.

But there was no one around him. He stared at the empty hall, his body getting colder and colder.

About half an hour later, the old blind man took Song Wendong back to the hall.

The hall was still extremely quiet. Li Delin was already dead and could no longer die on the ground. Blood flowed all over the ground, dyeing his monk's robe red.

Song Wendong looked at the entrance of the cave, and the old blind man said lightly: "The crown will not be hidden there, it is just a hiding place." Song Wendong was a little unbelievable. He lifted the Buddha statue that he had thrown here before and jumped down. After a while, he carried a package. In addition to a pile of gold and silver, there were only a few silver notes from the money house, which were issued by Qin Fan.

Although these things are worth a lot of money, Song Wendong was very disappointed that there was nothing he wanted here.
Chapter completed!