After Huang Chao fell ill, the atmosphere became solemn and depressing in Chang'an City. The business of Pingkangli, which was originally full of lights and wine, and sang songs at night, has also become much sparse and cold with the patrols and checks on the streets. But there are also some people who are always exceptional.

For example, the palace attendant Yushi, the left attendant of the military department, and the guard captain Shaoqing Huang Siye, also rode a high-headed horse on the long street where the curfew was enforced, and went straight to Anyi Fang, where Pingkangli was located.

You must know most of the women in Pingkangli, but in the first half of his life, he never dared to imagine the existence of having the opportunity to kiss Fang Ze. Like them, the children of salt lords who are born hard and can't please their mother-in-law at an old age, those private prostitutes with loose skin and flesh in the Penghu earthen kiln are the best comfort on weekdays.

However, since the incident with the Yellow King, everything has been completely different. Although too many people have died along the way, the people who came out of the township of injustice have almost not survived one or two so far.

But those who survived also followed the Yellow King to enjoy the richest and most diverse sounds and horses and glitz and luxury in the world; Now it has entered Chang'an City and become one of the Yuan Cong heroes and clans of the founding of the new dynasty. Of course, even the clan ministers and the clan are different.

Compared with Huang Sihou, the palace army envoy among the brothers, or Luo Du who stayed behind to guard Huang Siye, he is undoubtedly more unknown; Even the Eight Sons of the Yellow Gate did not have a place for him; Even in the seniority of the previous dynasty, he stood in the outermost third class of courtiers.

However, among the next generation of the children of the Huang family, because he is careful and flexible and calculating, he has always played the role of the backbone of his peers who are responsible for using his brains and making suggestions.

After the rise of the great cause of the Yellow King and the beginning of the further appointment of relatives with the same surname, in a sense, he is long-sleeved and good at dancing and open-minded, which is also one of the important ties for the children of the Huang family to continue to maintain goodwill and harmony in private. He even took the lead in organizing an association for this purpose.

Because he is also among these relatives and relatives of the Huang clan who only know how to fight and kill, or are ruthless and brave; There are only a handful of discerning people who can see through the stakes. Or it was also instinctively felt that the demon monk who stole from the south was a natural threat to them, the Huang clan's relatives.

If this son was only outstanding and was entrusted with important positions in the military government, he would not mind being kind to him or even introducing him into his circle. But now that the other party is full-fledged, and Huang Wang has to marry a daughter to think that he is a knot and a cage, which makes people have to be jealous.

Not to mention that he infiltrated and made friends with many important people in the Great Qi court and military commanders through the abundant products and money and grain in the south, but he did not have the slightest relationship and benefit from the Huang clan, but as a son-in-law, he mastered the name that was enough to interfere with the succession of the new dynasty in the future.

Therefore, he had to do his best to gather forces to counteract and calculate under the natural sense of crisis. It's just that what he never expected was that he was far more than the only one who had ideas, and it seemed that things that were sure of ten would soon get out of the initial planning and control.

Huang Hao, one of the main members of the association who participated in his planning, actually abandoned his army on the northern route and defected to the old dynasty official army in Dasanguan; And Huang Cun, another person who held military power, simply died inexplicably in front of Dachang Pass in Shangluo Road because of his carelessness.

In addition, he secretly had secret transactions and invoked Concubine Liu Hui as an alliance, and after the Yellow King was imprisoned because of the incident; The remaining Huang family members led by him also had to hold their tails and keep a low profile, instead of holding all-night feasts in the mansion.

And he had to stay between the tricksters in Pingkangli, thinking that he was amusement and forgetfulness, and he didn't have to return home all day long. Because, compared to those children of the Huang family who kept many concubines in their mansions and many mansions, thinking that they were entertaining guests;

In his early years, he was rejected because of his ugly appearance, but what he liked was the kind of public place where the walls were transparent or the sky was admired, and in the eyes of the public, he enjoyed the taste of giving and giving on a whim anytime and anywhere.

Therefore, in addition to the three songs of Pingkangli, who are accustomed to laughing according to the door, he will also break into the official palaces and Gaomen houses of the old dynasty from time to time with his cousins Huang Sihou and Huang Siye, and enter the house to be the temporary master for a period of time.

Huang Siye thought about the recent gains and losses, and rode his horse close to the south gate of Pingkangfang, and suddenly the rider who drove the way not far away was frightened and fell to the ground one after another in a sudden neighing sound.

The swordsmen and guard archers who followed on foot also hurriedly rushed forward to control these chaotic scenes, but they were bumped and kicked by the scurrying startled horses.

Huang Siye was about to scold these seemingly useless guys angrily, and then suddenly there was a sound of wind in his head and a tight neck, and he couldn't continue to make a sound.

and in the exclamations and shouts that followed; It was like Huang Siye, who was grabbed by an invisible hand by the neck, dancing and struggling to be lifted into the air of the towering fang building by the invisible force from above.

The subordinates and relatives who have never seen such a strange event immediately jumped around as if they had blown up a nest. It wasn't until the nearest patrol team arrived that all they saw was a stiff corpse standing upright in mid-air, staring out and flowing down with incontinence.

When Zhao Zhang, who was on duty in the forbidden middle school, heard the news, he only sighed heavily in an uncertain way. After all, in a sense, some of the news and inside information were not released under his deliberate order.

In another place, Jingzhao Shaoyin Mengshu, who returned to the house with a tired face, also said calmly to Zhang Guihou, who was protected/placed under house arrest in disguise: "Is this your response? . . ”

"You've wronged me. Now that I'm like this, do I have a chance to do something? You know, even Gao Jinjuan is in this city, and the whole person who can't see anyone alive or dead is gone. ”

Zhang Guiba, who was drinking soju on the can, put down the cup and hugged it unexpectedly.

"Is there anyone who wants to use this to create trouble and plant filth on my generation? It's not good, it's not good. General Meng, don't you think that as this ruling Jinwu, there are too many things that have been kept in your bones? ”

- I am the dividing line between the north and the south -

As the southernmost prominent stronghold of the Taiping Army, it was subordinate to Wudun Village, one of the peripheral vassal forces of Runzhou. Gao Jichang, the Runzhou garrison envoy who led the way in sending troops and horses, was also quickly processing the news gathered from the front, and then focused on transferring it to the rear position.

At this time, someone stepped forward to report:

"Most of the leaders of the 37 docks in Taihu Lake have refused to go ashore to organize their households for the people, and accept the basic conditions of supervision and resettlement within ten years; And only I would like to respect the subordinate and act in cooperation with each other, in exchange for continuing to maintain a self-contained pattern between the countryside. ”

"As expected, there may have been various unavoidable reasons for Xiaoju to be Kou at the beginning; But after years of reciprocating and plagiarism, I am afraid that this generation has become accustomed to the cheap means of tyrannical parties with knives and guns in their hands, and they get it for nothing. ”

Gao Jichang raised his head without much surprise.

"After all, we have to do a good job, show our strength and might, and it is possible to dispel the luck and delusions of the other generation; However, this requires the cooperation and echo of the follow-up boatmaster. Send someone to confirm again, where has the river boat division with the army arrived? ”

And on the edge of Taihu Lake, where the Wang brothers traveled, a sudden battle had broken out. I saw a lot of small kes and rowers paddling on the wide water, and I saw them densely gathered on the shore, brandishing harpoons, bamboo spears, machetes and wicker cards, and swarming forward.

Then, in the eyes of all kinds of contempt and care for the disadvantaged, he was confused by the bows and crossbows that were slightly turned sideways in two rows of marching armies and arranged in a horizontal salvo; And with trembling arrow feathers full of penetration, they pounced on a batch.

Then a number of people were lifted in turn by the repeating crossbows, and they fell on the road of short sprints one after another. Then some people began to be frightened and stopped, and instinctively fled to the left and right;

But there were some self-reliant and brave enemies, who had gone around the flanks to the approach of this brigade of soldiers; However, just as they were about to enter the hand-to-hand encounter, they were greeted by a whole row of uneven spear tips that suddenly rose from the hanging ground.

Unable to dodge, he poked at the front row and couldn't stop his feet, or was pushed by someone to the front enemy, and immediately the blood splattered and screamed and the next batch fell; Then the firearms such as the three-eyed guns and short guns in the Taiping army's array also bombarded the exposed enemies in the back row with a bang; It was completely scattered and disrupted.

In a short period of time, this brigade of Taiping soldiers was like a turbulent and angular rocks washed by the tide on the shore of the lake; In the face of waves of rabble enemies who came ashore to attack and attack, they easily left behind scattered corpses with bows, crossbows, knives and guns.

However, before Wang Xianchao and the others, who were relieved, bandaged the wounds caused by the bamboo darts, the flagpole on the signal car changed again and issued a new police training.

Just as the battle was in full swing here, a group of men and horses wearing bamboo hats and straw clothes suddenly came out of the reeds in the distance, and went straight to the winding baggage carts and horses that had been stretched some distance in the rear.

Obviously, these water thieves who are attacking with their lives on the shore are nothing more than bait and diversion tactics. However, many of the peacekeepers, including the Wang brothers, were somewhat relieved when they saw this scene.

Tang remnant

Tang remnant