Daning City, east of Yanshan, is still quiet.

Li Tai, dressed in armor, stood behind the battlements of the city wall, pressing the hilt of the knife with his left hand, squinting his eyes at the inside and outside of the city wall. Everything you see with your eyes is so calm, but your heart is not at peace.

It is precisely because there is no movement in Daning City that it seems so unusual...... If Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, would follow the holy decree, he should now mobilize troops and horses, pack up his things and go to Liaodong, how could he act as if nothing happened?

Li Tai can't do anything, King Yan has already rebelled in Beiping! Sooner or later, Daning will have to do something!

At this moment, a general came up to the city wall, hugged his fists and said: "General, there is a person in the city who claims to be from the general's family, and he has to see the general." ”

"What kind of people?" Li Tai asked casually.

The general tilted his head and inhaled with a "hiss", "Wearing a robe, a bit like a literati, but not quite like it, speaking with a southern accent...... Her face looks like that of a woman. ”

Li Tai was about to say bring it up, but suddenly thought of something, and said, "I'll go down and see you." ”

Li Tai walked down the city, crossed the road and walked outside the city gate, and sure enough, he saw a person waiting there. The man really had a woman's face, but Li Tai didn't know him.

Seeing that there was only one person coming, still wearing a cloth robe, Li Tai raised his hand lightly and waved it back. The subordinate who came with him retreated in.

"You're ......," Li Tai began.

"It doesn't matter who I am, I'm just on an errand." Your Excellency is General Lee Tae Lee? Seeing Li Tai, the man nodded without hesitation, and asked, "Can you take a look at the seal?" ”

Li Tai frowned, and directly took out a round waist card and stretched it out in front of the man's eyes. The man took it out of his arms for a long time, took out a bamboo tube, and handed it over with both hands. Li Tai reached out and took it, just about to open the bamboo tube.

The man said: "Slow! ”

Li Tai suddenly stopped and looked up at him suspiciously. The man added, "This is not a place to see, let alone to speak. The general would better look at it later. I don't dare to enter the city, an hour later, the Shili Pavilion in the east, let's talk about it again? ”

The man said that, Li Tai was not allowed to answer, so he hugged his fists and said, "Farewell." ”

What is this thing? Li Tai took it into his arms, walked to the government office in the city, found a room to enter, and then opened it to see.

If you don't look at it, you will be shocked when you see it! Li Tai looked at it, and inside was a yellow silk embroidered with auspicious dragons, and two columns of words were written on it: Qing can judge urgency and act expediently.

His hands trembled, and he quickly hid it in his arms first, closed all the doors and windows tightly, and then took it out again to observe it carefully. That's right, Li Tai is the person who has seen the current Holy Emperor's approval, and after he took a closer look, he was sure that it was the Holy Master's own handwriting!

This is a secret edict, Lao Tzu has never seen a secret edict! Li Taixin said. A general of his level is extremely difficult to see even in front of the emperor, let alone give a secret decree.

After he checked it, he immediately carefully hid it in his dirty clothes, and his chest "......knock knock knock" sounded.

After finally surviving for half an hour, Li Tai took two horsemen and his henchmen and rode out of the city to the east.

The group of three people was very silent on the road, and hurried to the Shili Pavilion. Li Tai looked at it at a glance and saw that there was no one in Shili Pavilion, he looked left and right, and found that there was a person standing next to the small hill not far away, only one person and one horse, who was the person he had seen before.

Li Tai patted his horse over, and when he was dozens of paces away, he raised his hand to stop his soldiers and rode over alone.

Li Tai turned over and dismounted, bent his waist down, and hugged his fists and said, "What do you call Mr." ”

As soon as the words fell, suddenly two strings sounded "bang bang ......". Li Tai was taken aback, and when he looked back, he saw a cluster of arrows coming out of the throat of one of his own soldiers, and the flesh and blood were brought out, and the two soldiers fell from the back of their horses together.

"Ahh Li Tai stretched out his hand to touch the knife, and suddenly there was a "clang", and he saw that the sky was full of gold stars, and people also fainted.

…… When Li Taiyou woke up, he only felt that the light around him was dim, and it was already night, but he didn't know where he was. He struggled a little, and found that his hands and feet were tied, and his mouth was covered with some stinky cloth.

What's going on?

At this time, there was a sound of digging not far away, and then a voice said: "You damn it, tell you not to use arrows, what should I do if the people in Shili Pavilion come and go, and blood stains are found?" ”

Another voice said, "Don't be long-winded! Hurry up and dig a pit to bury the corpse and the guy, and go back to sleep with the money! ”

The voice just now said: "Brother, don't be afraid, that Li Tai is very stupid, he can't even see the fakes, it's too easy to trust people." ”

Lao Tzu is going to be buried alive? Li Tai was full of doubts and fears, and felt that he was going to die in vain.

Who are these people? Li Tai pondered, the accuracy of the arrow cluster during the day was very accurate, and it was an armor-piercing heavy arrow that could shoot directly through the neck...... Only the army uses that kind of heavy arrow cluster, and I'm afraid that only the god arm hand in the army has that archery method!

Li Tai pretended that he hadn't woken up, looked around with empty eyes, racking his brains.

He suddenly found a small wooden box next to the fire, which was the box containing money in the government treasury. He looked at it carefully for a while, and by the shaking firelight, although the seal on the box was torn, he could vaguely see that it was the seal of the Daning Mansion!

it! Why did the people of Daning kill Lao Tzu?

Li Tai thought to himself that he was a person who had been installed in Daning by the Jingshi Imperial Court a long time ago, in order to spy on King Ning. However, King Ning didn't seem to know...... It's hard to say!

Although the identity is hidden, how can people walk by the river without getting their shoes wet, it is estimated that they have already been noticed by King Ning. And the secret edict seen during the day is only possible for someone as noble as King Ning, how can the emperor casually give people a secret edict?

Besides, he is a general of Daning City, almost no one knows his true identity, who will kill him? Why kill him?

At this moment, Li Tai found a goose feather knife thrown under the tree next to him. He cautiously moved over there......

I don't know how long later, suddenly a loud cry came out of the night: "The man has run away!" ”

Li Tai had already skillfully turned on his horse, kicked the horse in the belly, and ran away! After a while, there was a "bang, bang, bang......" sound behind him. Li Tai leaned down and lay on his horse's back and galloped.

……

On a piece of land in the middle of the Yan Mountain, there is a village where more than 100 people live.

At night, the village is pitch black, with only a few faint beans of light. It was an ordinary and peaceful evening.

But all of a sudden, the dog's bark barked everywhere, and the horse's hooves "clicked". In the darkness of the night, there were groups of torches and houses were set on fire. Immediately the village was no longer dark, and there were fires everywhere.

"Bang bang bang ......" strings sounded in the night sky, and rockets flew wildly. The village soon became noisy, and many villagers ran out and fled in all directions.

The cavalry roared everywhere in the village, and the military flags with the word "Yan" could be seen everywhere, and I don't know how many people and horses came.

A large number of villagers fled from the village and ran up the hill in panic, the crying of children and the screaming and wailing of adults.

At this moment, a man shouted in the crowd: "King Yan's men and horses have come to Daning City!" The Yan army is short of food and plunders everywhere, don't run south, you will be killed! ”

"What should I do...... someone in the crowd cried.

Just now, the man shouted: "I am from Hegou Village, and I was robbed at night, and all the people in the village are about to be killed!" At this time, we can't go to Daning City, we have to run east! ”

"Yan Jun was red-eyed, and he didn't even let go of the dogs in the village, and the children were picked on guns and roasted and eaten, and if they didn't run, they would die ......"

The crowd was frightened, frightened, and at a loss, led by the man's shouting, they fled with him one after another. Everyone can't care about anything, so run away to save their lives.

……

Li Tai didn't know how long he had been running, and he had long since disappeared from the people who were chasing him. He took the torch and looked back again, and then he was relieved.

The road just now stretched from east to west, and Li Tai was running to the east. At this time, he thought about it, and if he returned to Daning, he would be sent to death! He didn't have anything with him, just a horse and a few things.

For today's plan, the only way to go east is to go east, pass Yizhou, and go to Guangning to find the King of Liao. Li Tai had already received the news that the King of Liao had received the decree and was about to return to Beijing by sea.

Towards daybreak, he saw that the torches were shining brightly on the south side, and there seemed to be a large crowd of people. Li Tai hurriedly dismounted, and after tethering the horse, he extinguished the torch again, and carefully walked to the dead wood by the roadside to hide.

After waiting for a while, it turned out to be a group of people dragging their families with their mouths. Some of them were wearing only dirty clothes, which was very embarrassing.

Li Tai breathed a sigh of relief, walked to the road, grabbed a man and asked, "Where are you from and why are you running?" ”

The man said: "Yan Bing is here, kill people, roast children and eat ......"

At this time, a man gasped and said, "Brother, aren't you Yan Bing?" ”

Li Tai looked down at his messy uniform, shook his head and said, "I am Daning's soldier." ”

The man said: "Didn't Daning's soldiers surrender?" Yan Bing is here! After the man finished speaking, he just ran east.

Li Tai calmed down, stopped a woman and shouted: "Bold, you dare to pretend and deceive the general!" If you don't tell the truth, Hugh blames the ruthlessness of the knife! ”

The woman softened, knelt on the ground and cried: "The military master spares his life!" We are from Gaoba Village in the south of Daning, and we were robbed by Yan soldiers and had no property...... We weren't deceived! ”

Li Tai left the woman and casually arrested a few more questions, these people are indeed ordinary people, old and weak, women and children, all young and strong, and their accents are also from Daning's side.

There is also an old man who is literate, saying that there are Yan Army flags everywhere!

Li Tai then left the fleeing group, walked back to fetch the horses, and continued eastward.

He was tired and hungry along the way, and he didn't dare to enter the city after Yizhou, so he got a people's clothes and walked eastward, but fortunately there was a water bag on the horse's back, so that he could get water and persevere.

Li Tai hid all the way east to Tibet and ran to Quang Ninh. Fortunately, the seal on his body was still there, so he entered the city to see the king of Liao.

The King of Liao heard that it was a military general from Daning, and he also met him. When Li Tai saw the King of Liao, he "pounced" and knelt on the ground and said, "King Ning is reversed!" King Ning is reversed! ”

King Liao was shocked and said: "This king only received the news from Daning yesterday, didn't King Ning stand still?" ”

"He's the opposite!" Li Tai said emotionally, "The last general has seen it with his own eyes, and he can't be wrong!" King Ning has put the Yan army into Daning, and he has deceived the king! ”

The king of Liao immediately sent people to the west to inquire about the situation.

A day later, there was a reply, and the scout who inquired about the news said that there were many people who had fled from Daning in Yiju. The king of Liao was in a hurry, and he hurried to get on the boat.