Chapter 98 The true widow brings up the baby Although Qu Shan has a violent temper, he still respects the talented people under his opponents, but he does not vent his anger on them. The stargazers obviously also know his nature very well, so they are a little afraid of him. , but not as trembling as the servants in Qu Mansion. The stargazers looked at each other, and the eldest among them handed over the astrology book. Can't hear clearly? Deaf, right? Then he won't suddenly become blind, right? Qu Shan's expression froze slightly. He paused for a moment, then raised his hand to open the astrology book and read it word by word, trying to find some horoscopes that might be misinterpreted. For a long time, the only sound in the hall was the sound of turning paper. "Bang!" Qu Shan suddenly closed the divination book with an angry look on his face. He raised his hand and was about to smash the thing in his hand, but when he saw the stargazer looking like he was dying, he held it back. If he hits it this time, he won't kill the old man, right? "Ha!" Qu Shan laughed angrily, his face distorted, "Ha ha ha ha! Destiny! Destiny! How ridiculous! I don't believe in fate! I, Qu Shan, will never succumb to a woman even if I die! Hahahahaha! !” The more he thought about it, the funnier he felt. He turned around and asked several stargazers: "Do you think it's funny or not?" "Ha ha." Several stargazers were stared at hard, and they laughed stiffly in unison.
For a time, all kinds of laughter burst out in the room, and people from outside thought something good had happened. The words "the weak eat the strong" are engraved in Qu Shan's bones and flowing in his blood. In his eyes, women are weak and at the bottom of the food chain. Not to mention assisting Xiao Hongfan, even this hexagram made him swallow flies. "What happened when the hexagram showed that I would die at Xiao Hongfan's hands?" Qu Shan laughed enough, calmed down, and his brain finally started to work again. Several stargazers looked at each other and shook their heads in unison to express ignorance. But in fact, they were thinking: You have a bad temper and have been working with people for a long time. It is normal for people to hate you and get killed, right? What is so difficult to understand? Qu Shan didn't feel that there was anything wrong with him at all, and he consciously saw through everything: "It's probably just a matter of hiding the birds and hiding the rabbits." Now that he knows the outcome, he will never let himself take this road of no return! It is imperative to get rid of Xiao Hongfan! Qu Shan was disrupted by this sudden astrological event. For the moment, he did not bother to pursue the master Xuan Ying. He only left the matter to others, and he began to make intensive plans to get rid of Cong Yannan. He even issued a gag order. If Liu Shuji, an old man, knew about this matter, he would definitely be suspicious, and he would probably become a different person by then. It rained softly and intermittently for a month. At the beginning, no one took this war too seriously. After all, Qu State had been either at war or on the road to war in recent years, and it had long been accustomed to it from top to bottom. However, what is unexpected is that the war not only did not stop, but spread like a prairie fire. Before Qu's army arrived, Xu took advantage of Qu's fatigue and lack of troops to capture four cities in one go. The location of these four cities is very good. They happen to be where the Lanjiang River and the Wuxian Mountains are connected. They can rely on each other and form a line of defense. Among them, Jiaozhou is close to the mountains and Huazhou is close to the water. They are both naturally dangerous and easy to defend but difficult to attack. These two states were taken by Xu State first when Qu State was unprepared. It can be seen from the layout and rhythm of the attack that Xu Guo has planned this battle for a long time. After they occupied four cities in a row, they stopped taking the initiative to attack. Instead, they began to deploy tight defenses and defended the city, as if they just wanted to take the opportunity to bite off a piece of Qu Guo's flesh. However, the victory in the first few battles was like a signal, allowing many interested people to discover that there was something wrong with the giant beast in Qu State, and they could take the opportunity to pounce on it and bite it.
A month later, battle reports came from the northwest. The 200,000 allied troops of the Chen Kingdom and Lu Chang came to the city. The Northwest Army lived up to the name of "magic soldier" and repelled the 200,000 troops with less than 100,000 troops. There was no defense of the city. Yu. However, the Northwest Army rushed 800 miles away to ask for help from the imperial court. Because the border between Dachen State and Qu State was very long, and there was a large stretch of plain, it was extremely difficult to defend. The coalition launched an attack on three cities at the same time. Two of them were only defended by a few thousand garrison troops at the time. When reinforcements arrived, At that time, the entire army was almost wiped out. Although the coalition forces were repulsed in this battle, the Northwest Army lost nearly 40,000 soldiers. There is no longer enough local population to expand the army, so we can only rely on the imperial court to dispatch more troops. There must be no loss in the northwest, otherwise the coalition forces of the two countries are very likely to march straight in and reach the capital. After some discussion, the monarch and his ministers decided to mobilize 60,000 people from several cities in the rear to support them. With this adjustment, something happened. The small anti-Qu forces that had been dormant in Qu State seemed to have smelled the opportunity, and secretly began to recruit troops. In just one month, they gathered nearly 10,000 people! For a time, the Northwest Army was attacked from both sides. On Shi Xuanying's side, several people have recovered half of their strength through unremitting efforts. Since Chen Jie's consciousness was 80% likely to be Xiao Hongfan's, and the time was right, they decided to go south together. Half a month ago, Yan Chu came to the Taoist Temple after receiving the news. At that time, he had a look of despair on his face, carrying a large bag and a small carrot head behind him. Except for Shi Xuanying, everyone else was dumbfounded - who is this married woman with a child? It is the first star from Yannan. Who comes from Yannan? Oh, it’s Yan Chu, the sword sect’s sword master. Banquet? ? ? ! ! ! No matter what Yan Chu's true nature is, the swordsman of the Sword Sect is very famous. In everyone's impression, he is a genius, a snow on the mountain and the moon on the horizon who pursues the art of swordsmanship untainted by the world! "Pfft haha!" Dongfang Zhentian laughed so hard that he couldn't stand up straight, pointing at the little carrot head, "She is really a widow with a baby!" The name of this little boy whose eyes were swollen from crying was Guan Xiang, the son of Cong Yannan. Zhuang Qiqi never expected that the widow who really brought up the baby would be him! Shi Xuanying pulled him aside and asked in a low voice: "Why did you bring him with you? We are going to the battlefield, not for an outing." Forget about taking Guan Xiang with him, Yan Chu had long forgotten that he had such a big, cheap son! Before he left, he casually told the maid next to him, and the boy found out. The child was only eight years old and had not seen his mother for more than half a month. As soon as he heard that his mother was going to abandon him and leave, he ran over crying and hugged his thigh, and would not let go even when he fell asleep. Yan Chu had countless ways to pull the child away, but he still took him with him: "His father is the general of the Southwest Army, you know, right?" Shi Xuanying nodded and instantly understood what he meant: "You want to..." Although the Southwest Army does not form a force like the Xiao Family Army, General Guan has been fighting for many years and naturally has many old troops. Normally, they might give Cong Yannan some face and take care of the General's widow, but if they talk about business, the widow's The identity is obviously not as useful as the general's only son.