Volume 1 Ancient Wusheng Smoke Cloud Chapter 9 Pigeon Harrier
"Then I fainted...... When she woke up, the princess was gone. Xiaobei collapsed on the ground like a deflated ball, his eyes fluttering to look at the prince and then at General Cao.
General Cao leaned down and looked at the corpse, and said to himself as he looked at it: "The knife technique is sharp, and the attack is clean and neat, not like an ordinary bandit." The wound is thin and thin, the knife edge is slightly shallow, the strength is slightly lacking, and it does not look like a soldier's armor. Then he drew another arrow, and looked at the end of the arrow with the pattern of a blade carved into it, and it was gilded. couldn't help but sigh: "This thief is so generous." ”
Su Xiaochen took it and looked at it, chuckled in his heart, and said to the prince: "Your Highness, in the past, under the guidance of Master Mengtai, the minister had seen this pattern, which is the emblem of the Imuran Blade Clan. I heard that the Golden Blade King, the chief of the Blade Clan, has become extravagant every day, so that he can use gold to decorate his weapons, and today he can see that it is not true. ”
The crown prince exclaimed: "Imuran country? This place is south of the Absolute Ling Mountain, where did the Imulans come from? Besides, there has been no war between my kingdom of Cangwu and the kingdom of Imuran, so why do you want to assassinate me? ”
Su Xiaochen scratched his head and said, "This... This minister couldn't figure it out for a while, so Prince Rong gave the minister some more time to ponder carefully. With that, he snapped off the tail of the arrow and carefully tucked it into his bosom.
It was night, the pulpit was closed, and the emergency countermeasures discussion was held. As soon as "Doctor Xun" heard that the princess was gone, he was so anxious that he almost fainted. This is the royal sister of the current Ming Emperor of Bihai Kingdom, and the wife of the Taishi of Cangwu Kingdom! Wherever the thunder and anger can take their own lives, now that the princess's life and death are uncertain, the mission stays at the junction of these two countries, in a dilemma, and it is really going to force people to death.
The prince was at a loss, and when he saw Su Xiaochen, he was also embarrassed, and he wanted to get angry and blame him for taking him to see some broken waterfall! Thinking that his brain was better in this group of people, and it was Mu Yunyou's tall feet, he couldn't help but suppress his temper and asked, "According to Master Su, what should I do next?" ”
Su Xiaochen knew that the matter of the waterfall was caused by himself, so he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly said: "The minister thinks about it, since it was the Imuran thief, it should have been premeditated in advance, so that he could succeed in one step." In the next step, whether the other party plans to ask for a sky-high price, or whether it is difficult for a strong man, although it is not yet known, but the princess is alive and useful to the thief, so her life should be fine. The minister suggested sending a horse to the east as soon as possible to deliver the news to Taiye City, and then send the human pigeon harrier to the capital of Wanhua Emperor, and ask the saint to show it. Although it is not a high-level theory, Su Xiaochen is only sixteen years old after all, and it is not easy for a fledgling to encounter such a major event.
The pigeon harrier is the treasure of the Cangwu country, only used to transmit emergency news at critical moments, flying from the Hanjiang River to the Wanhua Imperial Capital, passing through the three states and eleven capitals in only three days.
"Doctor Xun" complained bitterly: "Your Highness, when you arrive in the capital of Taiye Kingdom, if Emperor Bihai Ming knows that the princess was robbed because of our poor guards, what should we do if we ask the teacher for the crime?" It's better to find a reason to go back to the imperial capital first and then negotiate safely. "I have already made up my mind that as long as I return to the imperial capital, I will pretend to be sick and not be able to leave, and I don't want to let the old man step out of the door half a step.
The prince looked dazed, looking left and right, without any idea. When Su Xiaochen heard this, he immediately said, "No! First, the robbery of the princess was committed by the country of Imulan, although we were negligent, but the enemy was dark and I was clear, and we could not prevent it, which was really helpless. If you return to China like this, won't you seem to be weak-hearted, and how can you say it clearly in the future? Second, the two countries have good relations and have diplomatic exchanges, which have not been interrupted for decades, and if they turn back in the middle way before they meet because of this matter, the two countries will definitely fight......
"Doctor Xun" hurriedly interrupted Su Xiaochen's words: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants to listen to his nonsense, I am afraid that he will not be able to call Bihai Kingdom when I go back immediately!" "Su Xiaochen is the child of Xun Gui's boss, if Xun Gui is on weekdays, he will be even boasted, but now it is a matter of life and death, and Xun Gui has long lost such scruples.
Su Xiaochen sneered: "Then you just turn around and look at the Hanjiang River behind you, let's not say anything else, you tell me how you go back first." ”
In a word, all deflated. Without a ship with a blue sea, you really can't go back.
Su Xiaochen bowed deeply to the prince, and said with a straight face: "His Royal Highness the prince is the prince of my Cangwu country, and his deeds are upright, and the people praise him." On the way, Her Royal Highness the Princess suffered this catastrophe, and Her Royal Highness the Crown Prince was also in danger of being poisoned, all of them suffered for the country, what is there to be ashamed of? His Royal Highness should relax and continue to travel eastward, if the Emperor Ming asks, answer truthfully. Although the minister is not talented, he is willing to defend His Royal Highness in front of the Ming Emperor. ”
The prince saw that he couldn't go back to this vast Hanjiang River, and he was said by Su Xiaochen to suffer for the country, and he didn't know where a sense of pride came out, and he learned from the ancients to pull out his sword and shouted: "Okay!" I am the prince of Cangwu Guotang, I am upright, and I have a clear conscience in today's matter, am I still afraid! From today onwards, whoever mentions the matter of returning to China again will have such a case! "After speaking, a sword slashed down at the table, but the hand was weak, the corner of the table was not cut, and the sword was stuck in the table." Doctor Xun "made up the scene of the sword stuck in his neck, and couldn't help but shudder, and quickly shut up.
Seeing this, General Cao hurriedly played a round: "Cough... Cough... Your Highness, rest assured, we will ensure that Your Highness is well-thought! ”
"I'll wait for your highness to be crushed!" A large line of soldiers behind him also shouted in unison, and in the middle of the night they woke up a pile of sleeping crows in the trees, and they flew away with a croak.
Flying pigeon biography in Cangwu country is no longer a new thing, when the ancestor raised troops to seek the world, many capable people came to vote, including the master of pigeon breeding. The early carrier pigeons were small, easy to be preyed on the way, and the flight distance was also short, at most the distance of three or five states.
Come to vote for the pigeon master surnamed Song, known as Song Sanlang, eat and live with the pigeon every day, know the habits, and the brain is clever, find someone to work hard to catch two crested male harriers from the Nanyang Gefang Island, bring and pigeon hybridization.
The pigeon is docile, but the crested harrier is extremely fierce. At first, the pigeon harrier was in the same cage for less than a moment and three moments, and the head of the hen was pecked into a pulp, and Song Saburo was not discouraged, and used various means to finally get seven or eight chicks in a year and a half.
But these seven or eight chicks have repeatedly performed miraculous feats. The crossed pigeon harrier flies high and steady, and its endurance is good, and it arrives in one day at a distance of three days for ordinary carrier pigeons.
In the following year, Gaozu met the 80,000 cavalry of Chang's cavalry with 40,000 cavalry and 100,000 infantry, and deployed at the foot of Wulan Mountain, with a battle line of more than 400 miles.
At that time, the founding Taishi Mu Yunxiao, Mu Yuncheng, and Mu Yunji were respectively in charge of the center, left, and right armies of the army, and the crane wings were swinging. Chang's army was divided into four armies, soap, white, red, and blue, and the formation was balanced and confronted.
The morale of the Chang clan in Zhangzhou was originally very high, and they wanted to rely on the strength to defeat the Li clan, charging with a horse, and the four armies took turns to assault, repeating the cycle, pecking out a gap in the enemy army like a woodpecker, wanting to use this gap to tear apart the opponent's formation, but these thoughts had already been seen by the third master of Mu Yun. Mu Yunxiao called his two younger brothers and discussed. After that, with these seven or eight pigeon harriers, he set up pigeon cages in each of the three armies, and he will count and divide the troops.
According to the art of war, when there were fewer soldiers than the enemy, it was taboo to divide the army. However, Mu Yunxiao did the opposite, taking the Chinese army with him and luring the enemy in front of the battle. Whenever the opponent attacked, he retreated more than ten miles to avoid its edge, and at the same time sent the pigeon harrier to the wings. As soon as Mu Yunxiao retreated like this, the soap-colored army that charged in the first formation of the Chang clan was immediately led to chase after him, leaving the white army in the second formation behind. At this time, Mu Yuncheng and Mu Yunji received a letter from the pigeon harrier, and pinched the right time to make the left and right armies pinch the tail of the soap-colored army like scissors.
This Chang clan's four-color army was originally linked from head to tail, taking care of each other, and there were no flaws. As soon as the third Taishi of Mu Yun retreated so sharply, and with a pinching attack, the Chang army was out of rhythm.
Mu Yuncheng and Mu Yunji are not in love with each other, and every time they cut it, they immediately retreat after eating a section. As soon as Mu Yunxiao saw that the enemy army was in disarray, he stopped and counterattacked, until the second wave of assault came, and he retreated more than ten miles, and the cycle began again. Like a fishhook, it fished the enemy army from east to west, and finally exhausted and collapsed.
During this period, it was all up to the pigeon harrier to transmit the military information in real time, when to march, when to retreat, and the three Taishi had the same mind, luring the enemy, flanking the attack, and counter-annihilating in one go.
Since then, the pigeon harrier has also been regarded as a treasure in Cangwu country, because it is not easy to reproduce, the descendants of the Song family have tried their best to raise only twenty or thirty so far, and this time the prince sent two to bring them.
Therefore, three days later, at night, Emperor Wen received a message about the catastrophe of Luoying Lake. Strangely, Emperor Wen received the letter without saying a word, just put the letter in a brocade box and went back to sleep. The next morning, it was as if nothing had happened.
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Taiye City.
The icy lake water is covered with countless withered yellow residual lotus leaves, and a bright moon reflects the deep and thick palace wall by the lake. The sound of frogs could no longer be heard in the bleak autumn wind, and there was silence.
On the head of the city outside the Liufang Gate, there is a vague figure standing to the west, wearing a cyan cloak, a pair of jade hands behind the back, and the Pisces gold silk crown on the top is shining in the moonlight, showing the dignity of the master.
"Is it done?" The man opened his mouth suddenly.
"Back to Her Royal Highness Princess Qingyu, everything is in order, and there is no difference." Out of nowhere, a shrill girl's voice was heard.
"What is the reaction of the envoy of the Cangwu Kingdom?"
"I didn't respond except to send letters to both sides, hehe."
"Is my aunt settled?"
"Yes, Her Royal Highness Princess Yinquan has temporarily settled in the Songlan Palace on Yaohuan Island, and will only wait for His Majesty Emperor Ming's will to welcome her back to Taiye City."
"Okay, I know, I'll go see the mother emperor now, you can step back first."
"Yes." Before the words fell, a small figure jumped up from the side of the city tower and disappeared into the night.
The man left to whisper to himself, "Boundless, you wait a little longer......." ”