Chapter 1: The city breaks

On the 18th day of the twelfth lunar month of the ninth year of Xiantong in the Tang Dynasty, in this cold night, the city of Lizhou, an important town in Shu was filled with fire, and people shouted and horses were neighing.

In the lobby of the war palace, the city lord Zhan Qingfeng looked pale, biting his lips tightly and paced back and forth, and his hands holding the hilt of the sword were trembling.

In front of him, a girl in a long gown in a light green robe knelt on the ground, her shoulders shaking and crying in a low voice.

I saw her clouds with thick clouds, apricot face, peach cheeks, eyebrows like crescent moon, red lips, and clear eyes like two pools of autumn water. She did not apply pink but the color was like the morning glow reflecting snow. She was really a beautiful woman who looked at the city and the country.

This woman is his only daughter, the only seedling of the old Zhan family, Zhan Wushuang.

The shouts of killing outside were getting closer and closer. Zhan Qingfeng wanted to fight out, but when he saw Wushuang crying in front of him, he felt like a knife was disturbed when he thought of this precious daughter who was so beautiful that she wanted to die with her.

Master, it will be too late if you don’t leave!A concubine behind him couldn't help but persuade.

Walk?Where to go?Why!If I had known today, why would I have been there?But there is no medicine for regret in this world. Although he regrets it at this time, he has no choice but to do anything.

The story starts a year ago. When Emperor Yizong Li Yan heard that the Lizhou chieftain Zhan Qingfeng gave birth to a beautiful daughter, he ordered him to send his daughter Zhan Wushuang to Chang'an and be named Qing Concubine.

But his beloved daughter was reluctant to give her away, and he felt that the emperor was far away, and no one could do anything to him through the mountains and ridges, so he threw the imperial edict aside.

Unexpectedly, the Jiannan Jiedushi Wang Jianzhong had long been attracted by Lizhou City, a fat piece that guarded Beichuan, so he suddenly attacked him by taking this as an excuse, and caught him off guard.

After being surrounded for six months, the city's food supply was cut off and fell.

Master, you are talking!Otherwise everyone will be finished!

Hearing the shouts of killing, he had already arrived at the gate of the courtyard. The concubine was so scared that she trembled like a sieve and kept urging her.

Zhan Qingfeng was already in a mess. Seeing that this concubine was so useless, he immediately vented all his anger on her and said viciously: If you want to escape, I will give you a ride.

Don't Ah...Master... The concubine screamed and stepped back, but was still one step late.

The sword had been unsheathed, and the sword's edge stabbed straight into her lower abdomen. Blood suddenly gushed out along the blood trough, dyeing her white silk short jacket red.

AhAh...Ah..., she let out a tragic howl, and the heart-wrenching pain in her belly made her no longer care about the sharpness of the sword. She directly reached out and held the sword body.

let go!

Zhan Qingfeng shouted loudly, shook the sword body, cut the eight fingers of the concubine's hands together, and then stabbed forward with force. The sword pierced her body and then penetrated from her back.

He ignored the pain of the concubine, and his facial features were twisted and his face was covered in sweat. He viciously stirred the sword, stirred her intestines and pulled it out.

Blood spurted out wildly, and I softened my body, kneeled in front of him, closed my arms, hugged his thighs with bloody broken hands, raised my head and stared at him with resentment, and cried and scolded: Zhan Qingfeng, I have been serving you with all my heart and strength in the past few years, but I didn't expect that this would end up... I... I... I... She said a few times in a row, but she couldn't speak anymore. She couldn't breathe, fell to the ground with a sob, and her limbs twitched randomly.

Seeing the concubine storming and struggling in pain in the pool of blood, moaning constantly, and suffering all the torture, but couldn't stop being angry for a while, the other concubines were so scared that they hid aside and never dared to talk too much.

Blood from the tip of the sword dripped to the ground, Zhan Qingfeng walked to the concubine with a heavy breath, stepped on her body and prevented her from moving, and then pointed it at the protruding place of her left chest and stabbed it.

As most of the sword body penetrated into her chest, the concubine made a few giggles in her throat. Suddenly, she kicked her legs, opened her mouth unwillingly and took a few breaths, then her head tilted to the side weakly and never moved again.

Zhan Qingfeng drew out his sword, sighed a long time, turned around and said to a beautiful woman in yellow shirt guarding the door: Qinglian, there is a ditch outside the backyard that leads directly to the city. If you ask Qingping to take Wushuang to escape from there, you go with me to block the enemy. If others want to escape, run away quickly.

The woman in yellow-clothed clothes named Qinglian was about to agree when she suddenly heard a crisp voice saying: Master, you said, "The city is in, the city is destroyed, and people are killed." If anyone fled without fighting, beheaded immediately.I wonder if Miss Wushuang is considered a person from Lizhou City?

The person who spoke was a maid wearing a coarse cotton coat and only a fifteen or sixteen-year-old, and it was the girl named Ye Qingping.I saw her eyebrows slightly raised and her almond eyes wide open. She was so heroic at such a young age.

How do you talk to the master? A bastard!

A loud slap hit the girl's left face, and her cheeks immediately swollen.

The girl was so beaten that she was dizzy, but she couldn't have an attack. The person who beat her was the real sister Ye Qinglian who had been dependent on her since childhood, wandering around and pulling her up.

Seeing five red fingerprints flowing from my sister's white little face, Ye Qinglian couldn't help feeling distressed and said in a slight tone: Ping'er, the master is as kind as a mountain to us sisters, we should repay them with death.Miss Wushuang is the only flesh and blood in the Zhan family, so you must protect her carefully.After leaving the city, you will walk west, the further you go, the better. Never come back, do you understand?

Ye Qingping nodded and said nothing. She naturally knew that this was her sister who had found a way out for her, but she had already had a scheming in her heart.

Zhan Wushuang and Ye Qinglian changed their clothes, but were reluctant to escape alone. Suddenly, they bowed in front of their father and cried and said: Dad, it was because of the unfilial daughter and the disaster caused by it. My daughter is willing to bear it alone. Please send me out. Maybe there is still a way out.

Silly child, what Wang Jianzhong wants is Lizhou City, how could he let us go for you?You are the only descendant of our Zhan family. If you can live well, raising incense for the Zhan family is the greatest filial piety to your father.

Zhan Qingfeng caressed his daughter's hair and couldn't help but burst into tears.

Miss, it’s time to leave, it’s too late if you don’t leave.

Under Ye Qinglian's urging, Zhan Wushuang kowtowed to his father three times before leaving step by step after Qingping's pull.

The two girls took advantage of the night to cover the backyard, walked in the woods for a while before coming to a black stinky ditch.

What should we do if this ditch is so smelly?

Wushuang turned his head and looked at Qingping helplessly.

She has been frugal since she was a child, but she didn't expect that she would be today. Looking at the stinking ditch, she covered her nose and frowned, but she didn't dare to jump down.

Ye Qingping crossed the knife in her hand and said coldly: When I was ten years old, my mother left us sisters and left. In order to find my father, we crossed thousands of mountains and rivers, and it took us three years to come to Lizhou.I wanted to eat, carry the body, and do all kinds of dirty and tiring work. My sister sold her whole life to give me some food. Several times I thought I was going to starve to death, but I survived by chance.Do you know what it feels like to be hungry?Yes, you are born with golden branches and jade leaves, and you can't understand these things when you open your mouth.

She said viciously, holding a long knife in her hand approaching step by step.

Wushuang was so scared that she lost her vigor and asked in a trembling voice: What are you...what are you going to do?

In the past three years, we have experienced all the hardships and sorrows of this world to live a life without worrying about starvation. I thought the heaven had eyes to make us happy, but now all this has been ruined. It is because of you, if you didn’t cry and make a fuss and couldn’t be the emperor’s bride, how could we have today’s disaster?I should have cut you with one knife to seek justice for the people in Lebanon who died because of you, but your father is kind to us, so I promised my sister to escort you out and spare your life this time.

After Ye Qingping said that, she flew up and kicked her in the stomach.

Wushuang screamed, her body lost her balance, and she fell back into the stinky ditch with a thumping sound.

Ye Qingping ignored her life and death and turned around and ran away.

Instead of going directly to the front yard to find her sister, she ran to the cottage where she lived in the side yard, and she had to get something.

In the front yard, the fire was soaring into the sky, and the front hall and the rooms on both sides had turned into a sea of ​​fire. In order to stop the enemy, Zhan Qingfeng simply set a fire to burn his mansion.

At this time, he stood majestic in the yard with a big sword in his hand. Several corpses were upside down on the ground in front of him, all of which were chopped into two pieces by one knife.

However, he was also seriously injured. A large hole in his chest that was visible to the bone was covered in blood and two wolf-toothed arrows were inserted on his back.

He stayed at the site with his sword, so he barely stabilized his body and did not fall down.

He dared to fight Qingfeng and refused to surrender.Do you want your wife, children, and children to be buried with you?

The person who spoke was a female general wearing a red robe and carrying a black pin iron spear. The fatal injury on Zhan Qingfeng's chest was caused by her.

Will you let them go?Do you think I am a three-year-old?In order to obtain the city of Lizhou, you are a perfect rebel who has falsely passed the imperial edict and abandoned the troops.Try my life and dream!My life can only be taken away by myself!

After saying that, he laughed to the sky, suddenly turned around and jumped into the burning fire.

Catch the living!

The female general in red robe screamed, but it was too late. Zhan Qingfeng's figure was instantly swallowed by the flames and disappeared into the sea of ​​fire.

As soon as Zhan Qingfeng died, the old, young, women and children in the yard were crying and were forced into a corner by soldiers holding spears.

However, the resistance did not stop. A woman in a green silk skirt was facing the courtyard wall, fighting to the death against three.

The long sword in her hand danced into a white light, wide and elusive. The three besieged people screamed and couldn't break through her sword net.

One of the three was a bald man with a fat face, shirtless, and the military uniform of the general was tied to his waist like a belt. A ghost-headed sword in his hand made Huo Huo lively.

His martial arts skills were much higher than those of those two companions, but because of this, he received the most care. His left arm was dripping with blood, drooping to one side, and a long knife wound on his chest.

The female general in red frowned slightly and cursed in her heart: Useless things can't even be used to a little girl.

She stretched out her hand and waved her hand, and a team of archers stood in place, and just waited for her own people to return and fired the arrow.

At this moment, I could hear a strange sound from the backyard, as if something was crawling on the ground with chains, which made everyone feel chills.

The sound was getting closer and closer, and in a blink of an eye, we arrived at the door of the moon leading to the backyard.

With a bang, two semicircular door panels were smashed away. A girl rushed in from the backyard. Behind her, she was dragging a thick-backed axe with a length of fifty or sixty pounds. The clanging sound was made by the axe's back hitting the bluestone road.

The girl's face was raised and her eyebrows were starry eyes, and she was extremely delicate. She was no one else, but Ye Qingping.

As soon as Ye Qingping entered the yard, without saying a word, jumped up and swung the giant axe that was inconsistent with her petite figure and slashed at a female soldier who was blocking her.

The heavy giant axe flew through the air with her thin body, as if the axe was chopping it out by itself, and she was just an object hanging on it.

The female soldier was suddenly attacked and hurriedly raised his gun to block it. The axe and gun intersected with only a light click, the spear was broken into two pieces, and the giant axe cut into her left shoulder without any effect.

The heavy axe instantly slashed across her chest and stomach and broke out between her legs, slashing her and sitting on the ground. The female soldier was cut into two halves without even having time to make a scream.

Her eyes were still wide open, staring blankly in front of her, but her eyes that had lost their glory became empty, but she didn't know who she was killed until she died.

Blood squirted out of the female soldier's broken body, and it poured on Ye Qingping like a rainstorm, but she didn't realize it, rushed out of the bloody rain and rushed directly to the bald head. The soldiers standing in front of her were captured by the aura of the girl with natural divine power. They retreated aside and gave her a way out.

Qingping, don’t come over, run away quickly!The woman in green was Ye Qinglian who had changed clothes with Wushuang. When she saw her sister come back to die, she screamed in panic.

Shoot the arrow.

The female general in red robe reached out and waved her hand heavily, and the arrow suddenly fell like rain.

Seeing that his sister was about to be shot into a hedgehog, Ye Qinglian couldn't care much anymore. She roared and jumped past the bald head, allowing him to slash on his back with a knife. A rise and fall had already come to her sister and covered her under her body.

In the rain of arrows, Ye Qinglian's delicate body trembled. Almost at the same time, more than ten wolf-toothed arrows shot on her back together, piercing her soft body and piercing her internal organs.

Blood flowed down the corner of his mouth, but Ye Qinglian didn't care about checking her injuries, but looked at her sister carefully and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that she was not injured.

Sister...you are injured...what should I do... Seeing that my sister's back was filled with arrow shafts like weeds, Qingping cried anxiously.

Escape quickly, Qingping... For the sake of my sister's life... Ye Qinglian only felt the internal organs in her body were as painful as fire, and she started vomiting blood without even saying a word.

No, I can't die yet, I want my sister to escape.

Ye Qinglian bit her steel teeth and was about to struggle to stand up and resist for a while. Suddenly, she felt a chill in her heart, and a heart-wrenching pain instantly drowned her.

Ye Qinglian lowered her head and looked at the tip of the knife that was pierced from her left chest in disbelief, and her eyes gradually became dark.

Sorry, Qingping, my sister can never help you anymore... Ye Qinglian stretched out her hand, trying to touch her sister's little face for the last time, but her hand was only halfway through and she slid down weakly.

After letting out a helpless breath, her body slowly fell forward.

Ye Qingping hugged her sister's soft body. This warm body was so familiar. They hugged each other together for warmth on countless cold nights, but this time no matter how she called and shook, she could never get any response.

A long ghost-headed knife penetrated Ye Qinglian from the back and pierced it out of her chest. Blood continued to flow out from the wound behind her, dyeing the green silk red.

Looking at the bald man with a grim smile not far away, and the row of arrows aimed at her with the cold light, Ye Qingping's eyes gradually turned into thick red, two lines of blood and tears flowed out from it, and the world in her eyes also turned into a strange red.

Again, me, sister, sister!

A thunderous roar exploded in the yard, shocking everyone's ears ache.

Under the reflection of the fire, a thin girl with terrifying bloody eyes was seen like an evil ghost rushing out of hell, holding the vicious weapon in both hands, and rushing towards the rain of arrows all over the sky.

Almost in an instant, she raised her speed to the extreme. People only felt that she had burst into sight. She had rushed forward, and the wolf-tooth arrows shot at her were either blocked by the giant axe that she was standing in front of her or fell behind her.

Go away!

The female general in red robe shouted loudly, but was one step late. Ye Qingping had swung the axe in her hand and swept it horizontally like a stick.

When the bald man joined the army and killed Ye Qinglian, he threw out the ghost-headed sword in his hand, and his hands were empty at this time.

He didn't expect that the little girl could move like the wind with her heavy weapon. Looking at the giant axe sweeping over, she couldn't dodge and could only close her eyes and wait for death.

At this moment, a slender hand grabbed his top around his waist and pulled him back more than a foot away.

The big axe almost stroked against his abdomen, and it was only half an inch before it broke his belly.

The archer beside him did not have such good luck. Although he tried his best to jump backward, he still couldn't avoid the sharp blade that was chasing the soul.

He was cut off in the air by a big axe, his lower body fell softly to the ground, while his upper body flew backwards.

Go to die!

Ye Qingping missed a blow, and was not discouraged. She jumped high again and slashed with an axe.

The bald general had just escaped from death. Seeing that the other party was pestering him relentlessly, he was so scared that he ran away. He shouted, "Oh my God, turned his head and ran away."

waste!

The woman in red robe standing behind him cursed and took a step forward. The spear in her hand was tilted from bottom to top, facing the mountain-piercing axe with the whistling wind that seemed to be about to split the entire earth in half.

With a loud clang, sparks flew everywhere, and the female general took a step back.

The big axe flew backwards with Ye Qingping and fell on the stone slab road more than ten feet away, causing the stone slabs on the ground to shatter.

Ye Qingping struggled to get up, and stars appeared in front of her. She lowered her head and looked at her hands, and found that the tiger's mouth had been shattered and blood was flowing. There was a huge gap in the axe blade, and the blood-stained axe handle became slippery and could no longer be grasped.

She gritted her teeth and endured the pain, tore off her patched sleeves and wrapped her hands, and then clenched the giant axe again.

The female general in red robe did not chase Ye Qinglian when she bandaged her wound, but stood there thinking.

She was extremely shocked. The axe just now far exceeded her expectations in terms of strength and speed. If she hadn't used the skill point to the weakest point of the axe blade, she might not have been able to take the axe.

What made her even more strange was that the girl seemed to be unable to do martial arts and only had brute force, but her monstrous aura when she slashed out an axe made people feel the urge to escape without fighting.

You should know that as the leader of the five tiger generals under Wang Jianzhong, her Jade Rakshasa murdered countless people in her life, and her heart had been trained as hard as a rock, but she was actually affected just now.

And those blood-red eyes, could that legend be true?

She had no time to think about it because Ye Qingping had jumped up again and was still slashed with an axe.

Ye Qingping's whole body was full of flaws. This time Yu Luosha no longer fought with her, but instead turned the gun to click it out casually.

The black gun passed under the axe blade like a swimming snake, stabbing firmly on Ye Qingping's lower abdomen.

Ye Qingping felt that her eyes were dark, and she felt a torn colic in her stomach. She screamed, and the giant axe took off her hand and fell to the ground. She covered her stomach with her hands and twitched all over and could not get up again.

The bald man had already snatched a Pu knife from someone else's hand. Seeing Ye Qingping fall down, he cursed, "Little thief, I've chopped you!"

Then he snatched it and slashed it with one knife.

Seeing that Ye Qingping was about to die under the knife, a black iron spear stretched out of thin air to hold Pu Dao.

The bald man was about to curse, but when he saw that it was Yu Luosha who was trying to attack, he didn't dare to do anything, so he had to hum twice and put away his knife and retreat.

Zhang Yun, did you just see that this girl’s eyes were red?

Jade Rakshasa asked.

The bald man named Zhang Yun was so scared that his soul flew away just now. He didn't remember these things. He said hesitantly: What are red eyes and green eyes? It's just a knife.

It’s useless waste, it’s useless to ask you. Take her away and wait for Chang'an. If you see that person, it’s just right to ask.You can do whatever you want. Don’t kill them all, leave a few beautiful ones for Lord Wang.

She pointed to Ye Qinglian's body on the ground and said: Clean Zhan Wushuang's head and bury it. I want to take it to Chang'an.

After she finished her order, she was about to leave when she suddenly heard Zhang Yun say: Sir, I heard that the war Wushuang was fifteen years old, and this woman is a little older.

Yu Luosha sneered and said: Zhang Chanjun has good eyesight. I am not as good as you. So I will only limit you to bring Zhan Wushuang's head before you leave tomorrow, otherwise don't blame me for using military law to serve you.

Zhang Yun did not dare to respond, so he slapped himself twice in the face, and smiled apologized: "It's Mo Jiang who is blind and misread."

He didn't dare to find his boss's bad luck anymore, so he walked to Ye Qinglian's body, stretched out his foot to step on her butt, held the hilt of the knife in his hand and pulled the ghost-headed knife out of her body.

Just as Jade Rakshasa was about to leave, I suddenly heard an intermittent sound behind me.

Don't leave...and...I...sister...sister...

Yu Luosha turned around in surprise, and saw Ye Qingping standing up shakingly, her legs tremblingly walking towards her with difficulty.

Her eyes had returned to clearness, but the resentment in her eyes had not diminished at all.

Grandma, a thief who can't die.

Zhang Yun shouted and slapped her back and slashed her on the back of her neck.

Ye Qingping rolled her eyes and fell to the ground face down, never moving again.

All perception slowly left her. She wanted to move, but she couldn't even control a finger.

Through her eyes that gradually became blurred, the last thing she saw was the bald man chopping off his sister's head with a knife, and then shattering his sister's body into several pieces in a storm, and then her world suddenly darkened.

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