Chapter 126: Life and Death
It doesn't matter if you run into a wall everywhere, it doesn't matter if you are treated coldly, as long as those arrogant cultivators are willing to come out to help, or try to let Hao Jingnan know that the crisis is coming.
The one who led them in, wearing brown and black clothes, carrying a martial arts man, named Hao Wuhuai, had been speaking coldly to the prince during the process of entering the door, and was defeated by Qi Xuanyao in the big ring of Lingyun Pavilion, he was very angry, and he regarded the prince's request as a joke.
Hao Wuhuai asked: "Isn't it true that Your Highness never enters and leaves the door of a cultivator's house? Why did you participate in a poetry meeting in Longyuan Shengkou a few days ago, and now you are asking to see the patriarch of my clan, what does this mean, could it be that Your Highness wants to break his word and gain weight." ”
Jiu said: "Hey, boy, do you talk like this? In the end, do you go and ask the patriarch to come out, there is so much nonsense and nagging." ”
Hao Wuhuai said: "You are His Royal Highness's little follower, you have changed several batches of small followers, and the one who can stay by his side is not an extraordinary person." ”
Prince Zhaoming calmed down, endured his anger, and asked, "Do you want to go and ask the patriarch to come out, if something happens to Chongguang City, I'm afraid you can't afford it." ”
Hao Wuhuai said: "Scare me, I'm afraid it's not a good thing to come at night, there is a word called what, oh, 'twilight Huaijin'." ”
Even if the lights were not bright, and the wine passed sideways, it was vaguely visible that Prince Zhaoming's face was extremely ugly, so his brain said: "What do you kid want to do?" He grabbed the collar of the vast coat with both hands, lifted his body, and approached him, and was furious.
Hao Wuhuai calmly and calmly said: "I said that you are a good cultivator, if you want to be a dog, I am afraid that he recognizes you on the surface, but in his heart he rejects you very much. ”
The wine frothed at the mouth and said, "What's the matter with you, do you notify Hao Jingnan to come out?"
Hao Wuhuai said: "Let go first, let go first." He spread his hands leisurely.
The wine snorted and let go of his hands.
Hao Wuhuai said: "Okay, I'll help you?, but you also have to keep it in mind." Before going out on the street, be kind to us cultivators, especially us Hao, don't drink rotten wine and spit around. ”
The two good drinkers couldn't help but glare at each of them with a sharp look.
Hao Wuhuai dismissed, walked out of the hall slowly, and finally disappeared into a corner under the moonlight corridor.
Jiudian said to the prince: "This kid is very rampant, and the Hao people are really it? He opened a teacup, looked at it, then picked it up and shook it.
The prince said: "He has the ability to be arrogant, we are really just here to report the matter, and in the eyes of a large number of cultivators, it is not worth mentioning." ”
The wine was silent for a while.
The corridor outside was cold, but at this moment there was the sound of footsteps, and someone read: "The earth-shattering army has risen, and the prosperity of Luodu is empty in an instant." The noisy stork goose is the same as Cai, and the lost chicken and dog are different from Xinfeng. The smoke is green, and the beacon fire is hesitant and red. Where to recognize the old buildings, piled up in the sunset. ”
There were two people who entered the hall, one was the Hao Wuhuai of Fang Cai, and the other was not Hao Jingnan, but a well-known businessman Jia Hao Canglong, who was known to most people in Chongguang City.
Hao Canglong's status in the Hao clan can be regarded as a very heavyweight.
As soon as the prince saw him, he smiled politely and said, "Your Highness came to visit late at night, and I don't know what to say. ”
Jiudian said bluntly, "This guy didn't tell you. ”
The prince said: "It doesn't matter anything, coming here tonight, of course, there is something urgent, I hope you can listen to it." ”
Hao Canglong said a few words "good" in a row, shaking the cangyu fan, with an extraordinary temperament and a bit of grace. But he thought to himself: "What is it called, you are just a useless prince, what if you can master millions of soldiers and horses, in the eyes of our cultivators, it is not just soft tofu." ”
The prince observed that Hao Canglong's face was quite unkind, coupled with his bad reputation, and he was secretly talked about the history of profiteers by many big businessmen in the city, and the prince also knew some amazing insiders, but there were too many loopholes in the regulations in the "National Code", and Hao Canglong relied on these loopholes to counteract the businessmen who had always done the right thing, and made huge profits from them.
As a result, the ancestral regulations have been changed and changed, and the changes are continuous.
The prince did not take the Haocanglong profiteer who was respected on the surface, and the first was to avoid the second position of the Hao clan on the other side, which caused the incident to end badly. The second is that Bao Kaitai will find legal loopholes, eggs can be argued as duck eggs, if the other party is a small family and has no sense of law, he only needs to come to the door to threaten, with superb practice, others can not help him, so that even the money for the lawsuit is saved. The third is to use his case to amend the strict regulations of Chongguang City, so that significant progress has been made.
The prince went straight to the point and said: "There are no soldiers and horses in Chongguang City, and the bandits are coiled at the beginning of that piece, I estimate that they must inquire about the defense arrangement of my Chongguang City, if they get a real message, they will definitely attack our Chongguang, and then burn and loot, and disaster the pond fish, I hope you can recruit the children of the Hao clan to go to the city together and prepare for the battle." ”
Hao Wuhuai hurriedly said: "Your Highness really loves me and waits, help you defend the city, is there an army?" "He didn't give the future emperor any face.
Hao Canglong can be very mellow on that occasion. The feather fan in his right hand stopped in front of Hao Wuhuai's chest, making him not want to speak, and said slowly: "How is Your Highness sure?"
If it were intuition, this shrewd businessman would not have believed it, let alone said that it was a masterpiece from some well-intentioned person. The prince said: "The spies report." ”
Hao Canglong was slightly stunned, and Hao Wuhuai said: "There are more than 700,000 soldiers and horses in the city, so there is no need for me to wait." ”
The prince said: "The soldiers and horses in the city have all been transferred by the Qiu father and son, otherwise we would not have come up to the Hao clan to ask for help." ”
The two thought that the Qiu family and his son had taken over all the soldiers and horses in Chongguang City, but they didn't know why they were withdrawn.
The prince said in an unpolite tone: "Believe it or not, when the time comes, hundreds of thousands of mountain bandits will break through the city gates, people will die, and the rivers will be flooded." If you don't recruit the children of Haozhong, you won't be any better. ”
Hao Canglong said: "Since this is the case, then I will recruit people for you and inform the patriarch by the way." ”
The prince said: "Okay, then take your leave, don't move too much, in case there is chaos in the city." ”
On the street, after the prince came out of Hao's house, his chest breathed a sigh of relief, and he walked and walked, and unconsciously stopped in the alley where he went to the window of a room on the second floor of the brothel.
He only stopped for a moment, glanced at the past, and then walked without stopping, carrying wine to the city tower, and arranging the main garrison tasks at the edge of the battlements, most of the leaders of the soldiers still obeyed the words of the prince, and Lord Yu guaranteed to take over the deputy city lord, even if there was no jade seal of the city, no one dared to be dissatisfied with his arrangement.
He also asked in advance to report the attack of the Hao bandits.
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Sure enough, the spies sent by the bandits of Pansnake Mountain probed around Chongguang City and found that most of the Han army was moving in one direction, and immediately reported that the thief leader Yuan Shangli was robbing the village.
Yuan Shangli was the leader who commanded the robbery of the mountain this time, and he did not believe the report of the spies, and there was only one important information before going down the mountain, that is, Chongguang City invested 300,000 troops to conduct military exercises with Phoenix City, and there was no army of hundreds of thousands of troops to the west.
After the more than 100,000 thieves in the original hand robbed the villages and towns, he was hesitating to send troops into Chongguang City to rob again, after all, anyone in the fat land caused a reverie, and suddenly received a secret report, it was the fourth brother on the mountain who sent an urgent letter. It turned out that the movement of the autumn pine crane made the people of the Black Sin Mountain Villa find out in advance, and they sent an urgent message to Pansnake Mountain for help.
Xuanji led more than 200,000 people down the mountain, only 50,000 or 60,000 to aid the Black Sin Villa, while the other soldiers and horses all gathered in the original Shangli, and after the two sides met, they exchanged information and attacked the empty Chongguang City together.
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At the head of the city, Prince Zhaoming sensed that those bandits were not fuel-efficient lamps, and the spies trained had very sensitive noses, and they could smell the empty city after a while. If there is no Hao tribe's children to climb the city wall one after another, he will not be able to defend it with all his might, not to mention any old-fashioned empty city plan, once this group of bandits has conclusive information, after the soldiers come to the city, they will definitely send five or six thousand people to launch the most fierce attack, so as to test the reality of the city.