Chapter 40 Flooded Yan City

Qiu Yao looked up at the direction of Jingcha's evacuation with difficulty. Just as she wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, a pain suddenly came from the ankle of her left foot. Before she could shout the pain, a tall shadow circled in front of her and attracted all her attention.

Qiu Yao raised her head, but she couldn't see the white expression on the horse's back, but she could fully imagine the killing and anger of that expression.

At the critical moment, it was she who desperately rushed to Bai Qi and hit the bow and arrow that was about to leave the string. When she fell from the horse, she affected the old injury caused by crossing the wall in the past, but she knew that she would face far from this pain.

With a sharp horse hiss, the horse's front hooves suddenly lifted. Qiu Yao closed her eyes in fear and waited for the powerful horse's hoof to break her. She let go of the scene, which was the price.

She could almost feel the dust raised when the horse's hoof was raised. Just as the horse's hoof was only a short distance from Qiu Yao, the person on the horse suddenly tightened the reins. The horse withdrew its front hoof almost in an instant and reacted incredibly fast.

Qiu Yao opened her eyes in shock and dared not look up to welcome Bai Qi's sharp eyes that could kill people.

"Very good. You are much bolder than I thought. In this case, you should take a good look at what will happen next."

Le Ma, turn around, Bai Qi's movements are clean and neat, leaving no room.

Qiu Yao finally began to feel panic, which was different from the panic of being destroyed in an instant, but a kind of bottomless despair waiting for Ling Chi.

Bai Qi's canal repair project is still under way. Sooner or later, the people of Chu will find out their action, but in the end, even if they see all this clearly, it is too late.

Perhaps when they learned the news, they would immediately start to evacuate the soldiers and civilians and dig canals to divert the water. However, no matter what they did and worked hard, Qiu Yao knew that the final result was already doomed.

Qiu Yao was no longer summoned to Baiqi's camp, and the people in the camp here seemed to be deliberately alienating her. Except for the normal three meals a day, she had almost nothing else to do, and the so-called foot ban also changed from the original verbal order to a formal strict order.

The pain on her legs was getting worse day by day. There were no obvious scars on the surface, but the pain of muscles and bones inside tormented Qiu Yao day and night. She knew that this was a way for Bai Qi to torture herself, so she had to press all the pain in her heart. When her feet finally couldn't touch the ground, Qin Jun finally launched to flood the water. The city prepares for the last round of attack.

Previously, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Qin army went deep into the hinterland of the State of Chu, and the road attack near Yancheng has caused panic in the State of Chu. Although the strength of the State of Chu is more than ten times that of the State of Qin, Bai Qi's attack has indeed achieved a significant effect.

When Bai Qi rushed tens of thousands of Qin soldiers to Deng and led thousands of people to Xiling, Qiu Yao had a premonition of what the State of Chu was about to face. Thousands of soldiers and horses led by Bai Qi did not directly take Yan City, but attacked another pool under construction on the outskirts of Yan City.

When the hundred-mile long canal was found, it was close to completion. The only way to deal with the Chu army was to repair the canal and dredge it. The Qin army easily destroyed the ditches that had not yet fully formed with only a thousand people. With the first sound of chicken in the morning, the two floods flowed from the long valley of Xiling **, and the distance of four hundred miles was like two The team came the fierce plagiarism and rushed all the way to Yancheng.

The closed ancient city gate could not resist the turbulent valley water. After a trembling loud noise, the northeast corner of Yancheng collapsed, and the flood rushed into the capital. The former prosperous Yan City instantly turned into a vast ocean.

While being helped out of the tent, Qiu Yao had already guessed what she was about to face. However, when she really saw the Zetian, the shock in her heart was still unrecoverable. She could almost hear the crying and whimpers of the people in the city, and could see the floating corpses appearing on the water.

And the originator of all this is walking to her with arrogant and majestic steps.

"In the past, Zhiboyao flooded Jinyang, but the whole army was destroyed by the Zhao army. I am not a stupid and short-tempered person like Zhi Boya, how can I make such a low-level mistake? After Yancheng is destroyed, Yingcheng is like a thing in a bag. Bai Qi looked down at Yancheng, which turned into Zetian, and his eyes were full of unconcealed pride. When he looked back and saw Qiu Yao's white face, the original comfort seemed to have become less intense. "Don't worry, I will..."

Before the words fell, Qiu Yao fell to the ground like a dead leaf. Her face changed slightly. Her eyes and hands quickly supported the collapsed Qiu Yao, and she shouted at her men and the military doctor.

After putting the light body that made me uneasy on the bed, the sudden panic was far beyond Bai Qi's expectation.

When did you get moved?

Since you are eccentric, why do you deliberately force her into such a situation?

He sent the best military doctor and bought the best medicinal materials. Bai Qi did not step into his tent. He slept in Sima Jin's account for two days in a row. Sima Jin knew that Bai Qi did not like to share accounts with others, and consciously slept in the accounts of several other generals. On that day, the soldiers who witnessed Bai Qi holding Qiu Yao into the account were tacit about it, so everyone in the army spontaneously kept silent about it.

Yancheng was hit so hard that there was no possibility of counterattacking. According to the common sense of the army, he must take advantage of the victory and pursue after the water attack. However, this time, Bai Qi did not give an order to attack the city with all his strength.

For a whole day, Bai Qi did not come out of the camp.

The soldiers guarding the tent only smelled the sound of sword dancing in the tent all day long. Another soldier approached strangely, followed by a military doctor.

The sound of sword dancing in the tent stopped abruptly.

"Come in." Perhaps because of fatigue, Bai Qi's voice sounded a little hoarse.

"Miss Xie has woken up, and the injury on her leg has accumulated to the bone for a long time. I'm afraid it will take a long time to recover, but the most worrying thing at present is her depression..."

"Prepare the horse, send someone to send her outside Yancheng." Bai Qi turned his back to the military doctor, and no one could see the expression on his face at this moment.

"But Miss Xie's body..."

"This is a military order." Bai Qi aggravated his tone, and the military doctor couldn't, so he had to resign.

The night was heavy. Qiu Yao was helped out of the tent wrapped in a thick and deep coat. An ordered soldier came forward and was about to carry her into the saddle, but was interrupted by the sudden appearance of Bai Qi.

"I'll do it."

He must be crazy.

Bai Qi thought that he had not ridden his horse so fast in his life. All the way through the winding mountain road, the body in the road was particularly terrible in the cold moonlight. There was a sparse light rain in the sky, and it seemed that the coolness would penetrate into people's bones with the help of the north wind.

Sixty miles outside Yancheng.

Fifty miles.

Forty-five miles.

Bai Qi looked at the faintly visible water trail in front of him, turned over and got off the horse. He took Qiu Yao off the horse, who had not yet fully recovered from Qingming, and carefully put her under a tree.

Just straightened up, an arrow passed by and sank into the trunk of the tree.

Bai Qi instinctively pulled out his sword and quickly waved the arrows that shot one after another. I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, an arrow came straight to Qiu Yao. Bai Qi quickly blocked it with a sword, and then jumped on the horse quickly. The horse's buttocks were hit by an arrow. After a hissing, he endured the pain and withdrew with Bai Qi to the original road. The same Shi Sima Jin took a small team of Qin soldiers to cover Bai Qi's retreat.

It seemed that he suddenly remembered something. Bai Qi suddenly stopped his horse, raised his hand holding the sword, and threw the sword in his hand in front of everyone. The goal was very clear. It was Qiu Yao, whom he had just sent back in person.

zheng——

A white figure suddenly appeared under the tree, and the sword that was about to hit the target was shot down, leaving only a crisp sound of a collision echoing in the night sky.

All the attacks suddenly stopped. Bai Qi looked deeply at Song Yu, who was standing with a sword, and returned to the camp with the rest of the generals.