There was an eerie deathly silence in the empty city that made people's hearts tremble. Mr. Ya waved his hand and his men immediately dispersed to search the houses in the city.

Residential courtyards are built along the river in a winding and winding way. It is easy for outsiders to wander around and lose their way. Sometimes they will encounter some big rocks blocking the road, which makes the already puzzling terrain confusing.

It's becoming more and more confusing.

Mr. Ya had an ominous premonition in his heart, and suddenly began to regret his rashness.

At this moment, a Western soldier shouted, and everyone around him immediately became frightened. They drew their swords and drew their swords. Many steel armors quickly formed a circle, each holding a black muzzle.

Aiming at the big locust tree with strange shape,

I saw a Western soldier dangling from the locust tree. Half of his head had been blown off. I don’t know which battle he died in. A pale cake-faced mask was tied to his bloody head——

This time the mask turned into a crying face!

There was a roar. It turned out that a Western armored soldier was nervous for a moment and fired the short cannon. The corpse on the tree was suddenly blown into a pile of meat pieces and fell down with a crackle. Then, a creepy laughter sounded.

The Western soldiers retreated one after another as if facing a formidable enemy.

After a moment, a round-faced owl emerged from the tree crown, proudly looked around at the two-legged beasts under the tree, fluttered its wings straight into the sky, and spread its weird laughter everywhere.

Under the bright blue sky, I was so stunned that I broke into a cold sweat.

"Lord Jacobson, do you want to continue the search?"

Mr. Ya swallowed hard: "No... withdraw first, get out of here, quickly!"

Before he finished speaking, a sharp explosion suddenly sounded in the distance, followed by several screams, and several huge fireworks roared into the sky, exploding into a blaze of fireworks.

Suddenly someone changed their color and said: "We encountered an ambush!"

"withdraw!"

"Get out of there!"

The sound of cannons and arrows rang out together, and several explosions caused by unknown sources knocked down the already crumbling stone house. The messy stones were connected with the huge rocks that originally blocked the road, and the empty city became a big maze.

The map in the hands of the Westerners was a piece of waste paper. The disadvantage of outsiders not being familiar with the terrain was clearly revealed. A group of heavy armor and infantry were trapped in it for a while, and they were stuck for a while like headless chickens, but they couldn't get out!

In desperation, Mr. Ya had no choice but to blow his whistle to summon the Western Eagle Armor, which flew into the air to direct and guide the people.

The frightened Western army retreated to the city gate. I don’t know who touched what mechanism. Suddenly, there was a heart-breaking sound of gears at the city gate. For a moment, all the bows and arrows were opened, and thousands of arrows were ready to be fired.

On the tower, something slowly fell down...

Mr. Ya pushed aside the frightened guards and stepped forward to take a look. His nose was almost crooked with anger. It was actually a white-faced mask again, this time it was a grimace!

Mr. Ya: "..."

"Sir, let's... let's take a detour, right?"

Mr. Ya raised his hand to interrupt him and stood there for a moment with a sinister look on his face: "Your Majesty is right, Gu Yun has no trump card in his hand and can only rely on these inferior tricks. Are you going to be fooled by him using a few broken masks?"

Are you scared out of your wits? An ambush... ha!"

He laughed in anger and said coldly: "Pull down this city for me, and I'll see where they go!"

However, more than an hour later, Mr. Ya, who had razed the entire empty city to the ground, searched the ruins three times and finally had to admit that this ghost place where he wasted countless precious time and Ziliujin was really an empty city. The so-called

"Ambush" only has two masks and an owl that has flown away long ago!

Mr. Ya's gums almost bled from biting down: "Where's the Pathfinder Eagle? Chase me! Chase at full speed!"

At this time, on the only way from Dong'an to the capital, Gu Yun, who was hiding under a tree, took the clairvoyant from Tan Hongfei and watched as several pathfinding eagles whizzed past overhead and flew towards the capital.

He spat out the grass stem in his mouth and patted Lian Wei's wind-cutting blade behind him: "Old Lian, you have made a great contribution."

Tan Hongfei asked in a low voice: "What?"

"Did you see it?" Gu Yun said lazily, "The foreigner in charge must be dead or injured now. The person leading the troops now is obviously not familiar with the capital area, otherwise he would not have been so angry that he sent out explorers rashly.

The eagles are flying around."

The Imperial City is in the middle, and the capital city is always tightly guarded. No peeking is allowed. Even the Black Eagle does not dare to fly around. Even in extraordinary times, the Black Eagle only dares to stay at the Beida camp, remove its eagle armor, and then ride into the capital.

But most people don't know that the reason why Xuan Ying doesn't dare to fly is not because Xuan Tie Camp is particularly observant of the rules, but because Gu Yun knows that once Xuan Ying flies out of bounds, it will easily touch the "forbidden air"

net".

There is an invisible circle of "forbidden air net" outside the nine gates of the capital. It was built during the reign of Emperor Wu and took thirty years to complete. It is a masterpiece of Lingshu Academy. There are countless hidden stakes under the circle of the forbidden air net. The general dispatcher is here.

On the Yuan Tower."

The reason why the Qiyuan Tower is so high is that in addition to providing food, drink and entertainment for guests from all over the world, it also has a very important function - it is the main post of the forbidden air network. There is a "Tianyuan Local Pavilion" on the "Zhaixing Tower"

, it is usually heavily locked. The Lingshu Yuan has lost countless masters’ hair for this Tianyuan Pavilion. It will create a special circle of light net outside the nine doors. It is very fine, even at night.

Easily obscured by the stars, moon or firelight, it is almost invisible to the naked eye unless you are extremely talented.

This layer of light network is thirty feet away from the ground and will not affect the movement of people and animals on the ground. If someone flies by in an eagle armor, they will definitely be spotted by the Nine Gates guards at a low altitude of thirty feet. There will be white rainbow arrows waiting for them. Once the eagle flies,

If the height exceeds 30 feet, it will touch the forbidden air net.

The encountered light net will be refracted back to Tianyuan Local Pavilion, and then shot back to the underground hidden piles in the forbidden air net area through special mirrors. Those hidden piles will pop up along with the light signal from the sky, locking the location of the intruder, and at the same time, from eight

Shoot arrows in various directions. If the eagle dodges, he will find that within the scope of the forbidden air net, there are hidden stakes everywhere he hides, followed by open spears and hidden arrows.

Only on New Year's Eve, when the Tianyuan District Pavilion is undergoing annual maintenance, the air traffic control network will be temporarily closed and the sentry on the red-headed kite will take over.

"The Pathfinder Eagle has gone and never returned. The foreign commanders will soon remember the legendary Forbidden Sky Net. Under the beacon fire order, all red-headed kites will fly into the sky, and the position of the Forbidden Sky Net will also be adjusted accordingly. They will not be able to figure it out for a while.

What has changed? The closer we get to the capital, the less we dare to put the eagle armor too high..." Gu Yun whispered to Tan Hongfei, "Send the order and let the brothers have a good rest. We will start at night. Xuan Ying will go first and press down from a high place.

Once stopped, the light cavalry will attack from the two wings again, breaking up the enemy formation. Don't be too eager to fight, and leave with one strike to avoid being trapped. The chariots and soldiers will pretend to cut off their retreat, and then let them retreat after two or three rounds of bombing. Don't force the opponent to die.

We don’t have enough troops.”

Tan Hongfei asked in a low voice: "Commander, why don't we ambush you in the city?"

"Who ambushed me in broad daylight?" Gu Yun rolled his eyes, "Is there something wrong with your brain?"

...Mr. Ya must have sneezed twice in a row.

Tan Hongfei thought about it humbly for a while, and felt it made sense, so he asked again: "Commander, how do you know they will come here at night?"

Gu Yun: "Your King Yanbei did the calculation, and if he calculated it wrong, he was fined with his salary. Anyway, his little New Year's money is worth half a year's salary to me."

Chang Geng was sitting on the side repairing the leather grip of the iron bow. After fighting for a long time, it was a little worn. He took out a knife, file and a small piece of leather from nowhere. His fingers were extremely dexterous and dazzling. Suddenly,

When his name was called, Chang Geng smiled at Tan Hongfei without raising his head and said: "Anyway, everything inside and outside is on the Hou Mansion's account."

Tan Hongfei was a rough man, "Everyone who works with me is a brother and sister." After fighting side by side, he had already regarded him as King Yanbei as one of his own, and he no longer cared who his mother was. After hearing this, he immediately joked without restraint.

He said: "Our prince and the commander are indistinguishable from each other. It would be great if they were princesses. We might have as many princess tents in Xuantie Camp as we did back then."

Gu Yun: "..."

He couldn't help but lick the roots of his itchy teeth.

Chang Geng paused his hand and followed Commander Tan's words and said: "It's a pity that I don't have a beautiful face, and the commander who throws the fruit and surplus car refuses to take it."

Tan Hongfei said carelessly: "Oh no, the emperor usually calls our commander 'uncle', there is a seniority difference!"

Gu Yun: "...Get out of here!"

Commander Tan, who was just joking, and King Yanbei, who had an ulterior motive, looked at each other and laughed.

At night, a cuckoo's cry was heard not far away, which was a signal that the enemy troops had entered the forest. As soon as Tan Hongfei moved, he was pressed down by Gu Yun.

"Wait a little longer." Gu Yun whispered, "Wait until the fourth watch."

His eyes were frighteningly bright in the dark night, like a pair of magic weapons who saw blood.

Tan Hongfei couldn't help but licked his chapped lips: "How did the prince plan it? It's really..."

Gu Yun was about to say, "His teacher is General Zhong," but Chang Geng, who had come over at some point, suddenly said from behind, "I have practiced carefully all day long."

Tan Hongfei: "What?"

Chang Geng glanced at Gu Yun: "I want to save a dowry so that I can marry the general."

Gu Yun: "It's over for you two, right?"

Tan Hongfei laughed "hehe", and Gu Yun was helpless for this kind of dog who was responsible for "which pot was not opened" and "spending no effort to add a brick to the commander's heart" - I don't know when to start

, that kid Chang Geng became more and more careless in front of him. Gu Yun advised him to "carry less baggage" in the hot spring courtyard at that time, and they actually listened to him, and as expected, he "packed lightly" for him.

Chang Geng knew the way forward and retreat well. After cooking Gu Yun, he immediately went back and added, "Father, I'm joking, don't be angry."

Tan Hongfei: "Our commander-in-chief is not that grandiose. In all these years, I, Old Tan, only saw him having an attack once in the palace..."

As soon as these words came out, even Tan Hongfei realized that he had said the wrong thing and fell silent.

The look on Gu Yun's face immediately faded.

Tan Hongfei couldn't hold back his words. After a while, he couldn't help but said: "Commander, that matter..."

Gu Yun interrupted him: "Tell Xuan Ying to prepare!"

Tan Hongfei clenched his teeth and finally had no choice but to sigh.

Chang Geng patted his shoulder: "I'll go."

The night is getting darker, the moon is fading, and the light is rising. It is the darkest time before dawn.
To be continued...