It's getting colder.

It hadn't started to snow yet, but sitting in the camp and holding the young and sleeping little emperor, the Empress Dowager could clearly see the white air spewing out evenly from her son's nostrils.

At this time, the camp was concentrated with firewood, and a raging fire was burning.

There is a big iron pot on top of the fire, and the beef soup is being roasted, which is the Queen Mother's favorite delicacy. Perhaps people in the Northwest like it, because they can't do without meat, and there is no shortage of meat.

I don't know why, recently, every time the Queen Mother of the Fire Roast Fire thinks of the prodigy of the Song Kingdom, and also thinks of the coke that can continue to burn for four hours.

"If there was that kind of thing, maybe the cold winter of Xixia wouldn't be too cold." The Empress Dowager muttered to herself.

In fact, she could really buy it. Just spend money, someone from the Iron Harrier Army has already bought some from Funing County and sent them to her as gadgets.

The Iron Harrier Army is the last legacy left by the male lord Li Yuanhao to the Empress Dowager Wuzang. A unit of the purest bloodline with total allegiance to the Emperor. Although there are only 3,000 people, they are brave and loyal, and have the most advanced cold-forged armor technology in this era, as well as the strongest divine arm crossbow. comparable to Li Shimin's Xuanjia soldiers.

It is strange that the influence of the Tang Dynasty is so huge, resulting in the fact that even in terms of architectural mode, Xingqing Mansion still has the style of the Tang Dynasty, and even the folk customs are somewhat similar. The experience of the Empress Dowager Qiang led her to like to compare herself to Wu Mei and the Iron Harrier Army to Li Shimin's elite cavalry.

The Guards are corrupted, and they are a gorgeous army of nobles, who are now largely unscrupulous. But that's just the appearance, the Empress Dowager knows better than anyone else where the interests are in the future, where is the strength, and where this group of undisciplined things will fall.

Speaking of the chiefs and nobles of various ethnic groups, if they didn't hear about it, it would have a great impact in the previous barbarian period, but in the past, the Western Xia did some efforts to sinicize, imitated the Song system to carry out military reform, and designed the "state and county system". It is not as good as the Song Kingdom, but under the reform of Li Yuanhao, a generation of male lords, it has basically completed the transition from feudal lordship and is transforming into a civilized "centralized government system".

As a result, tribal leaders are less influential than they once were. The Empress Dowager is clear: This is the charm of Sinicization and civilization.

Earlier, in the Western Xia, the emperor or king was just a big nobleman, and he divided a group of middle nobles, and the middle nobles continued to appoint minor nobles. When the assembly horn is blown during the war, the small nobles are a sign of the people, and the middle nobles are a sign of the small nobles. The situation of the complete mercenary system is probably like this.

Because of Li Yuanhao, the standing army system of Western Xia could only be completed by serving the reform of the country.

Of course, what worries the Empress Dowager is that most of the border guards with the largest establishment are now listening to the rumors. The imperial order is indeed in the hands of the Empress Dowager Wuzang, but there are many times when the imperial order is not to mention Xingqing Mansion, and it is difficult to leave the imperial city.

With the presence of the Iron Harrier Army, it's not that Pang can really block the imperial city, it's not like that.

It's just that the Sinicization reform of Western Xia was not thorough enough, so a large number of civilian children among the scholars were not used to participate in politics. The government is still in the hands of that group of hereditary nobles, so in the fight of the gods, it is not clear who will spend the power, and even if those bureaucrats receive orders, they will not carry them out.

They will not casually plot against the emperor's order, but not doing anything is the general rule in this special situation.

This is the reason for the chaos now, and the Empress Dowager Wuqiang, who is self-defeating, knows this very well.

Now, the Empress Dowager has decided to start a war with the Empress Dowager Wuqiang, and she has sent her confidant Li Shougui to the border army to publicly investigate the misfortune of the border army. As long as these things can be put on the body of Wu Qian under public conditions, he can be politically denied.

But this is likely to cause sequelae, so this is the reason why the Empress Dowager left Xingqing Mansion during this period. There are too many people in the capital and too complicated, it seems to be lively and safe but it is actually full of dangers, coming out in the name of hunting, looking at the poor mountains and remote places everywhere on the contrary, it is simple, and simple means relatively safe.

Thinking about this, the fragrance is stronger, and the beef can be eaten, so the Empress Dowager Wu came back to her senses.

"Is Niangniang too anxious, it is not too late for the so-called gentleman to take revenge for ten years. At this time, you were in a hurry to confront Pang without a slander, and because of a letter from Pang, the former marshal of Shaanxi Province, the enemy country, sent someone to investigate Taishi. This will accelerate the division of the political landscape of our Western Xia and make others see the joke. As your hand-picked national teacher, the old monk has the responsibility to point it out. ”

King Ming Mopa does not participate in eating meat, and the form of a master who is not afraid of the cold in a single dress reminds him.

"King Ming thinks too much. Of course, there will be some labor pains, but I think that most people are just a bunch of undisciplined people, and they will listen to whoever is strong. Now it is necessary to respond with a statement to prove that the imperial power of Western Xia is still there, and the residual power of Li Yuanhao is still there. It is precisely because of the excessive cowardice and non-response that the orphans and widows are considered by them to be bullied, which causes them to slowly listen to the slander. The Queen Mother said emotionally.

"Have you considered the consequences of being accused of being 'cowardly to Song' by the entire Western Xia clan? The fact that our Western Xia was able to establish a country and be cohesive in a difficult environment was based on hatred and yearning for the Southern Dynasty. Politically, this belief has been lost, and in the future, the cohesion will decline. King Ming said.

The Queen Mother was stunned, and for the time being, she didn't think about why King Ming always openly sang the opposite tone in front of the Iron Harrier generals this time, but asked in amazement: "Does King Ming really believe this?" The so-called taking history as a mirror, isn't the cohesion of the Chinese people based on material abundance and food? Can you really feed the whole country by relying on war? ”

The eyes of the surrounding Iron Harrier generals were already very unfriendly, so King Ming Mopa didn't talk about this problem, but said: "The female Taoist priest Cao Qing who asked to see earlier is still under house arrest, she seems to have something to say, does the Queen Mother really not see her?" ”

The Empress Dowager was stunned again, and she couldn't understand why King Ming suddenly brought up this question again, but she didn't care, and waved her hand and said, "This palace doesn't want to see you." I don't like the Taoist priest's demonic words to confuse the public, this is how the crown prince Ning Ming went mad. In addition, there is news later that the female Taoist priest Cao Qing took refuge in Wu Qiang Pang, who knows what conspiracy she has. So resolutely no! ”

"The Queen Mother's ......"

King Ming continued to look like a master in the world, and said lightly: "Even if she is a person who has no slander, it doesn't matter if she sees it." Many times the enemy can also cooperate. I don't like Xiuzhenzhi's words, and I don't listen to her preaching. The important thing is that the old monk had an encounter with this female Taoist priest and paid attention to her, in fact, the old monk thinks that it is very likely that she is not a person who has no slander, but an undercover agent of the Song Kingdom, the descendant of Wang Yan. ”

Everyone knows that King Ming has been a master in the next world, and when he said this, he was very convincing.

And King Ming knew that this was an opportunity, if there was no one who was false, maybe it was Xixia's own people, at this time, he would be regarded as a potential enemy by the Queen Mother. If the Song people are Wang Yan's people, although they are hostile on the surface, they can be trusted by the Queen Mother during this special period of Western Xia pains.

For example, the letter written by Pang Ji really made the Queen Mother bloody.

King Ming is a very practical person, and he has already seen the situation in the future. Thinking that the queen mother will be defeated in this battle, the power must fall into the hands of the Taishi Wuzang, in order to benefit the Buddhist family in Xixia in the future, the king of Ming and the Wuzang Pang have reached a private tacit understanding.

The so-called tacit understanding: the monks have compassion in their hearts, and for the benefit of Buddhism, the king can compromise with the Taishi, but he will not openly participate in the assassination mission.

Now technically speaking, King Ming has named Cao Qing as a Song person and Wang Yan's person in front of the backbone of the Iron Harrier Army.

And the Queen Mother herself named Cao Qing as a person who did not slander Pang.

These let the most loyal Iron Harrier Army listen to their ears, and technically contributed to the informal meeting between the Queen Mother and Cao Qing, so once the assassination occurs, it has nothing to do with King Ming, Cao Qing is a person from the Song Dynasty is Wang Yan, or a person who has no slander. The floods of the Tangut regime had nothing to do with religion.

With their own thoughts, the scene entered silence, and the Queen Mother really thought that what King Ming said made some sense, so she looked at the two generals again.

The thinking of the two henchmen and generals was about the same as that of the Queen Mother, thinking that at this time, the people of the Song Kingdom were more trustworthy than the people of Xingqing Mansion themselves, so they looked left and right at the surrounding iron army, and the dense divine arm crossbow pressed the formation, and the problem would not get out of control, so they nodded slightly to the Empress Dowager.

"That's good, pass on the palace order and summon Cao Qing, a female Taoist priest of the Song Kingdom." The Empress Dowager gave the order.

Shaoqing, Cao Qing, who was firmly tied up by cow tendons, was brought up.

Things are changing!

As long as Cao Qing appeared on the stage, it was an opportunity, this girl didn't talk nonsense with the mud at all, and suddenly her legs exerted force, and when she was tied with cow tendons, she broke away from the pull of the two sergeants, and crashed into the Empress Dowager like a humanoid bomb.

The variables came too quickly, no one expected to be so efficient and direct, and I had never seen a head assassination?

But it's also effective because it's brutal and direct.

The situation completely disrupted the Iron Harriers' inherent security procedures, causing them to be a step slower to deal with, even though the overwhelming Divine Arm Crossbow had been raised, but they were unable to shoot. Because Cao Qing had already arrived near the Queen Mother and the Little Emperor.

King Dazang Ming moved like a phantom, stopped in front of the Queen Mother, and slapped it with one palm.

Cao Qing's body changed, turned around, and kicked his legs on King Ming's huge palm.

The strong force of the earthquake caused the surrounding air currents to stir. And King Ming consciously transmitted the deep and pure internal strength to Cao Qing's body through his legs, which was "undercover in internal strength", and Cao Qing's own strength was violently shocked.

Bang Bang Bang –

The tendons that were tied to Cao Qing's body were all broken.

As a result, Cao Qing entered a state of full blood. And King Ming also completed the "escort" move in front of the army quite loyally.

Even the firewood burning pile in the camp seems to be deliberately designed.

After Cao Qing got out of trouble, it swept like a whirlwind, and the overwhelming firewood and charcoal dust swept away towards King Ming, causing the single clothes on King Ming's body to catch fire in many places.

King Ming rolled on the spot to extinguish the fire, and technically gave up a Cao Qing's assassination channel!

These processes only happened in the blink of an eye, and there was no room for the Iron Harriers to rescue and judge.

Seeing that the Empress Dowager and the little emperor who had woken up were about to die, the ground suddenly exploded at the location where the firewood burned before.

Zhanzhao was not General Fei this time but Tuxingsun, and when he was wrapped in a blanket for heat insulation and protruding from the ground, the blanket was torn apart, and the heavenly knife was unsheathed at the same time, cutting off Cao Qing's imminent killing of the Empress Dowager Wuzang.

The surroundings are simply chaotic and unable to act, unexpectedly and variable, and there are masters?

Fortunately, although he doesn't know who this master is this time, he is preventing Cao Qing from carrying out an assassination, and it seems to be a friendly army?

In the blink of an eye, the situation has changed again!

The Iron Harrier Army, who can't get close to the rat trap for the time being, seems that Zhanzhao may not be a friendly army. Because King Ming, who had completed the feat of extinguishing the fire, shouted like a lion's roar: "Song family madman, it is a capital crime to approach my Empress Dowager of Western Xia!" ”

The King of Ming made a comeback, and the string of steel beads on his neck attacked Zhanzhao like a meteor hammer and fought together.

Taking advantage of King Ming's water release traction, Cao Qing once again assaulted the opportunity!

Chop!

Zhan Zhao went out and took King Ming's Buddha beads with his bare hands, causing his entire body to tremble violently as if he was electrocuted, but he still split his knife and cut off Cao Qing's offensive for the second time.

"What did you do, shit!"

Cao Qing looked like she was enchanted, and she had already entered a state of rage, as if she was in Funing County, and she began to attack Zhanzhao with all her strength. Once again, she thinks that Zhanzhao has rebelled!

"Neither is a good thing, both are assassins, my Buddha is merciful, but I also want to subdue demons and subdue demons!"

King Ming roared on one side of the lion's roar, and he also joined the battle group strongly. Now it seems to be a three-way melee, but in fact, there is a dark energy in the battlefield, and it is two masters who are attacking Zhanzhao.

Since Dacheng, Zhanzhao has never been caught in such a bitter battle, and he is frightened every step of the way, and almost every second is in the place of life and death.

But it also happened to stimulate his true twelve-point potential, and he entered his own ultimate state-Heavenly Sword State.

As for Cao Qing, she always wants to kill the demon woman, but she can't reach it if she wants to hurry.

And King Ming has a ghost in his heart, and helping Cao Qing can't be too obvious, which is also a state of distraction.

At this point, Zhanzhao was really temporarily caught by the two first-line masters, and the potential of the big cat made the big cat himself afraid, but he didn't fall behind, and fought with them together!

The Empress Dowager, who was in danger at close range, looked so excited that she even forgot about the danger. Although almost every half breath, in this incomprehensible three-person scuffle, there will be Cao Qing's killing moves, but there will also be a knife to save himself and the emperor.

Over the years, the Queen Mother has not received such care and protection.

It seems that the move is dangerous, and his life is in danger, but this young and handsome flying general resists every time?

In addition to the physical confrontation, it is also a "halo confrontation" between three first-line masters.

King Ming's attribute talent is soul-striking.

Zhanzhao's attribute is aggression like fire, which can make people feel as if they were cut by a knife in their thinking. So there is no secret to the big cat confrontation, it is to hurt each other to see who can bear it.

Cao Qing has no aura, her attribute is Dao Heart, exempt from other people's aura.

In terms of martial arts, King Ming couldn't be too obvious, so soon after the hand-to-hand battle, it evolved into a more bizarre tactic, Zhanzhao physically hardened Cao Qing, and mentally consumed King Ming.

Cao Qing's skill cultivation is a little behind Zhanzhao, and after being constantly broken by Zhanzhao's aggressive internal strength, the accumulated internal injuries are getting more and more serious. And King Ming's entire cheek was red as if he had been burned, and it was obvious that the mental pressure had reached the limit of what he could bear.

In this battle of life and death, King Ming couldn't help but sigh, no wonder Nanxia Zhan Zhao can be called invincible in the world, he has unlimited potential, this world, there can be such a master!

Zhanzhao himself couldn't bear it anymore, his face was in estrus like a zombie, and he was about to be schizophrenic by King Ming's soul-stirring ability!

In the midst of such sword light and sword shadows, at a certain moment, the three of them were finally exhausted together, and they all softened to the ground one after another.

“……”

No one could have imagined that this was the end of this assassination, and in the end, it seemed that the three of them were exhausted together without even figuring out who the assassins were?