Queen Flower

Point soldiers and generals, Huicheng is densely covered with war shadows.

Yan Zhan is the commander-in-chief of the Northern Route Army. He is dressed in a military uniform, carrying phoenix wings and gold daggers. He has a dark horse and black armor standing in front of the battle with a stern face.

Jiang Lan is the head coach of the West Route Army. She rides on a battle horse, with white robes and white armor, a bright silver spear in her right hand, and a bully's whip in her left hand. The snow lotus, even though she is beautiful, she is more determined and brave, and there is a kind of soldier's spirit in her.

Xiao Yan stood behind her, dressed in black, with the Hengyue knife stuck behind her back, facing her army with her.

"We fight to defend Huicheng, we are not afraid of hardships, we fight for our beliefs, and we are not afraid of death. Today we go to war, we will fight with the enemy, and we will live and die together. We will achieve our wish and win and triumph." She said with internal strength, and began to fight. Inspiration before.

"Live and die together! Live and die together!" The soldiers shouted in unison, their voices resounding through the three armies, with great momentum and great morale.

The two armies were ready, Yan Zhan set off first, and Jiang Lan saw him off, "Be careful." In front of the sergeant, he could only be calm and restrained.

Yan Zhan nodded, "You too." He glanced at her carefully, then drew his heavy sword and pointed in the air, "Let's go."

He rode in the lead, the horses were mighty, the flag was hunting, and the mighty army went north.

When they were far away, Jiang Lan also ordered the expedition.

Murong Xiling and Chu Qingcheng stood on the high platform to see her off. She looked back at them, stretched out her hand and shook her head, Quan should say goodbye, "Let's go." Keeping them all fighting is the most important thing.

Xiao Yan followed her closely, his mission was not to fight, but to stay close to her. Protect Jiang Lan's safety at all times. Even if the entire army really perishes, she will be brought home. This is a secret that everyone knows, so he does not hold any position, not even wearing armor, but he can go anywhere freely. .

This army will go deep into King Xian's hinterland, camp at the junction, and prepare for the ensuing war.

Marching all the way, further west. The weather is getting drier and the temperature is getting lower.

At night, the camp was set up, and Xiao Yan, Cheng Chen and Jiang Lan were camped together. One person is responsible for safety and the other is responsible for daily care. Xiao Yan and Cheng Chen have always been cordial, so they get along well. Just because of this, Xiao Yan could only sigh at Jiang Lan. You can't get close outside, and you can't get close when you return to the camp.

King Xian was honest, and there was no movement after his surrender. It was estimated that he was watching the fire from the other side, neither sending troops to harass Huicheng, nor sending troops to attack King Jing. Sit back and watch the result, the worst thing is to surrender to King Jing or Murong Jian again and become a slave with three surnames. But his attitude was also in line with Murong Xiling's intention. Anyway, sooner or later, he will be cleaned up, and now it is a good thing to not stab him in the back.

The army finally reached the border and set up camp, with Ma Zheng as his deputy. Jiang Lan is also at ease, and many things are directly left to him.

The current situation is a lot like a confrontation between the two armies. But after a few days, the spies reported that everything was business as usual, and there was no war, which was very strange.

Jiang Lan called everyone to discuss, but no one could say why.

Since the enemy doesn't move and I don't move, Jiang Lan doesn't want to go to war first. If he can turn battles into jade and silk, it's naturally good, but it's not a problem to be stationed here for a long time. It's too expensive.

When Xia Henqiu arrived at the garrison with the second batch of supplies, there was still no movement. It felt like the other party was in a military exercise, and there was no plan to fight with you at all, but you couldn't leave rashly, you can only monitor and wait here. , maybe as soon as you turn around and leave, someone's buttocks will come up.

Jiang Lan then made a decision.

"Xia Henqiu, I will hand over the troops to you. I will go to King Jing to check the situation." Jiang Lan said, Xiao Yan naturally went with her, no need to say more.

Xia Henqiu clenched into a fist, "Is this too dangerous?"

"Know yourself and the enemy, and you will be safe in a hundred battles. We don't know what the situation is now. I want to see it with my own eyes." Jiang Lan insisted. Although it is unreasonable to leave the army as a commander and become a scout, she knows the world well. Too few, she needs her own eyes to judge.

"So, you have to be more careful." Xia Henqiu thought about it and didn't stop it, "But you can't leave for a long time, otherwise the military will be unstable, which is a big taboo, just three days, within three days. You must come back, you can go to the nearest border town, and you are not allowed to go deep."

"Okay." Jiang Lan agreed that she also wanted to go to the border town, and the main thing was to find out what King Jing meant. She left Cheng Chen, pretended that she was still in the handsome camp, and went straight to the border town with Xiao Yan.

The two disguised as ordinary couples and sneaked into the city gate. Fortunately, in this war between the warlords, there is no clear national boundary between regions, and ordinary people can pass through. Now the war has not broken out, and it has not reached the point where the grass and trees are all soldiers.

As soon as he entered the border town, Jiang Lan felt that there was a feeling that was obviously different from Huicheng and Dingcheng. There were many pedestrians and many women on the road. They moved freely. It didn't seem that there were more men than women, at least not so obvious. And so many people's faces are peaceful, and there is no fear of the army crushing the situation.

Jiang Lan stood in front of the street vendor and picked up things, but was thinking of other things.

"Isn't the girl a local?" The stall owner, an older woman, looked at her curiously. Although this woman had her face half covered with white gauze, her eyes were very beautiful, she was a beauty at first glance, and the man in black beside her was also very handsome, but she was a perfect match.

"Why do you say that?" Jiang Lan put down the things in her hand, she saw that she was a foreigner at a glance, and Jiang Xiao and both of them were a little wary.

The stall owner smiled, "I have no ill intentions, it's right for the girl to come here, only the people of Jingdi can survive in the entire Zun Kingdom."

Jiang Lan waited for him to continue explaining.

"Look, the girl is from out of town and needs to cover her face, but look at the women on the road, which one needs to be like you? We respect the country and have never heard of women covering their faces when they go out." She sighed , "If it weren't for the sins of the Murong boy in the north, our country would be good too."

Jiang Lan touched her face, she couldn't think of the reason, she understood in her heart, but she couldn't just take it off, "It turns out that this is the case, our husband and wife are here to defect to our relatives, but it looks like we are about to fight, I don't know how to respond. thing?"

The stall owner waved his hand, "It's alright, don't worry, King Jing is amazing, the new kid Murong is no match, so keep them and beat them back to their hometown."

"Is King Jing very powerful?" Jiang Lan then asked, it seems that King Jing's mass base is not very good.

"That's right, there's nothing we can do to the north. If King Jing didn't have that ambition, he would have unified the south long ago, and it would have been Prince Murong's turn." The stall owner smiled smugly, "Now the people of His Royal Highness King Jing have already When you come here, you will live in the inn, so you don't have to worry, go and find your relatives."

Xiao Yan and Jiang Lan glanced at each other and said to their hearts, King Jing's army is all confronting them, who else is here, perhaps to convey the latest instructions, it is necessary to explore.

Jiang Lan bought something casually and left with Xiao Yan.

"I'll go check the situation first. You can find a place to stay first, and you're not allowed to go out alone." Xiao Yan warned that since even passersby could see through her identity as a foreigner at a glance, then naturally she couldn't openly go to the post house to spy on her during the day. .

Jiang Lan nodded, asking Xia Hen to change his face in the autumn, I really regret it.

The two agreed to meet at the nearest inn, and Xiao Yan left alone.

This is an extremely ordinary and shabby old inn, even a bit shabby, the house is relatively old, some years old, there are some mottled marks on the wall, Jiang Lan stayed in the guest room and waited, and accidentally saw a lot of places under the wall. The gray-white thing suddenly reminded me of a book I had read before. The book said that this kind of thing is called crude nitrate, which is used to make explosives.

Jiang Lan suddenly thought, since those seniors who have passed through can make gunpowder, why can't she, if she really has such a thing, it will be much easier to deal with Murong Jian back.

She carefully scraped off the powder with a knife, carefully packaged it, and then decided to go out to the herbal store to buy sulfur. Anyway, she can develop it when she has time.

She found a pharmacy, bought what she needed, and bumped into someone as soon as she went out.

In fact, she can easily avoid it, but in this way, her martial arts skills are exposed. A foreigner with good martial arts skills is always not good at such a special time.

She bounced off the other person and was about to fall to the ground, but the man immediately stretched out his hand, fast, grabbed her arm, pulled her up easily, and stood firmly on the side .

She looked up and saw a young man, a light blue brocade gown, a white jade pendant on his waist, tall and long legs, twenty-eight or nine years old, with thick eyebrows and long eyes, a handsome face, a clear and elegant face, and a very handsome face. Calm, there are a few people behind him, who are staring at her with anger on their faces, and some people want to come up to block her.

Jiang Lan knew it in his heart. Seeing that their clothes and materials were very good, it was estimated that they had met a noble person in a border town, either a rich person or a powerful person. The people behind did not know, at least the previous martial arts foundation is not bad. , she immediately lowered her head to show weakness, "I'm sorry, thank you." When she came out just now, she clearly didn't see anyone, and she didn't know how she bumped into someone, and she was secretly vigilant.

When she looked up at them, the man was also looking at her, a masked woman in white, with a graceful figure, judging from the half of her face exposed, this was a very delicate person, with skin as white as snow and plump. There is a flower stamen on his forehead, those eyes are like the starry sky, shining with spirit. When he swept over at random, he felt that the water waves were rippling with infinite style, but the momentum of his followers changed immediately. , turned into a curious and amazed look.