Chapter Seventy-Nine: Beauty Showdown

When the raging fire in the Fox Ridge Fortress had just been ignited, it attracted the attention of the comfort in the regimental training camp.

However, the situation of An Yi in the north of Huling and Zhao Jizong's guard battalion is not very different, and it is impossible for the regimental training camp to retreat to Long'an Mansion or return directly to Chengdu like Zhao Jizong, because this fortress in the sea of fire is blocking their inevitable path.

Jiang Shang pointed to the map on several cases and said to An Yi: "We want to go back, there are only three ways." The first is the Fox Ridge Fortress, which looks like we won't be able to get through for a while; The second is to directly cross the Fox Ridge, but there are still more than 30,000 Wugu Sects on the ridge, and it is almost impossible to win with our current state of attacking; The third is to detour through Shaanxi Province, re-enter the territory of Long'an Mansion in Sichuan through Lintao Mansion, and then take the road back to Chengdu. ”

"Lintao Mansion? Isn't it controlled by the Liao people now? ”

An Yi heard him mention this familiar place name, and couldn't help asking,

Jiang Shang nodded unexpectedly, straightened up and looked at him and replied: "That's right, but adults should know that the Liao people are relatively similar to the Jurchens, and the way they occupy a place will not be like us Han people stationed in every city, but will only gather in some relatively large strongholds, so if we carefully bypass the Liao army's eyes, there should be no major problems." ”

Listening to him, Anyi should prefer the last way.

"Ming Yin, is there any news from the Guards Battalion?" An Yi turned his head and asked Jin Mingyin beside him

Jin Mingyin shook his head and said helplessly: "It's still not, now the fortress can't be passed, the surrounding ridges are all scouts of the Five Grains Sect, and our sentinels will be shot as soon as they leave the camp, and there is no way to find out the news." ”

"Scouts so often may be looking for us. If we don't make a quick decision, once we let the Wugu Sect find out where our camp is, then we will have no chance of winning in this place of Ma Pingchuan. ”

Jiang Shang interjected with some anxiety on his face, he was extremely sensitive to the battlefield situation, and he knew very well the meaning of this "scout net" that the other party had spread.

An Yi turned his face calmly and asked Jiang Shang,

"Brother Jiang, if we encounter the Liao people in Lintao Mansion, what are the chances of winning."

Jiang Shang pondered for a moment, and then spoke: "The Liao people are good at riding and shooting, and the north and south of Lintao Mansion are narrow and long, and the loess is the main one, which is conducive to our concealment. However, once we encounter the cavalry of the Liao, it doesn't take much, and five hundred cavalry is enough to make us doomed. ”

It sounds exaggerated, but Jiang Shang, who has been fighting with the Jurchens for many years, knows in his heart that the Liao people who are in their prime-fighting now will not be much worse than the Jurchens back then, and once they encounter it, it will definitely not be a confrontation of the same level on the northern slope.

It seems that this Lintao Mansion, the only place that can walk, is like dancing on the edge of a cliff, and if you are not careful, you will fall into the abyss.

An Yi thought so, but now there is no other way, so he can only try hard.

He nodded his head and said to the two people: "In this case, follow the third way that Brother Jiang said, and tell the brothers in the camp to pull out the camp immediately!" ”

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North of Fox Ridge

Fifty miles

The Five Grains Sect Camp

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Ning Er, who was dressed in a white mopping cigarette cage plum blossom baishui skirt, sat behind the handsome case of the first seat, holding the good news sent by Zhang Yu from Huling, with a satisfied smile on the corner of her delicate mouth.

She slowly raised her beautiful eyes and gave a faint order to the sect members kneeling in front of the camp: "Pass the order, let Hall Master Feng complete the encirclement as soon as possible, not a single fly can let them fly out of Fox Ridge." ”

"Yes!"

The congregation turned and took the command.

Ning Er saw the sect member go out, turned her hand and took a secret letter from a few cases, opened it and looked at it intently.

suddenly

She glanced in the direction behind her, then lifted the light gauze sleeves of the white water skirt, and raised her hand to the back of the handsome case, throwing out two cold rays.

"Bell! Clang! ”

Two stainless steel plum blossom darts flew out in response to the sound and were fixed on the wooden tent pillars.

"What people!"

Ning'er stood up, looked at the direction where the plum blossom dart was shot, and said coquettishly.

"Why should Ning Protector be so nervous."

A charming voice came, and a woman quietly appeared next to the originally empty tent pillar, the bright red long-gauze dress highlighted the delicate figure of the wonderful man, a delicate scimitar hung on the thin waist of Ying Yingying, and a delicate red lip on the white face, and the bright teeth said lightly,

"What? Doesn't Ning Protector plan to convey the sect leader's intentions? ”

The woman glanced at the secret letter in Ning'er's hand with her beautiful eyes like a crescent moon.

Ning Er saw that it was Liu Siyi, so she snorted coldly, and slowly sat back on the handsome case, "When did Liu Protector start to learn to be sneaky?" ”

She raised the secret letter in her hand towards Liu Siyi, and said lightly: "The sect leader and we will leave all the people who should stay, and only let that Zeng Ziren go back alone." ”

"Oh? So, what does the sect leader mean to leave the commander of the capital on Fox Ridge? Liu Siyi groaned,

Ning Er nodded lightly, and then looked at Liu Siyi with a hint of provocation, "That's right, and the sect leader has already promised me, after understanding this matter, let me become the guardian god of the Five Grains Sect, what it means, I don't think I need to explain it to you more, right?" ”

The so-called guardian god is also regarded by the Wugu sect as the incarnation of the god of the five grains, and to put it bluntly, he is the candidate for the next leader.

Liu Siyi listened to her words, his eyes were a little wandering, but he didn't seem to care much about who the sect leader was going to do the position of the protector, but he seemed a little reluctant to say anything about the order to besiege and kill the old commander.

Ning Er saw these in her eyes, thinking that Liu Siyi was displeased when she heard that the sect leader preferred her to be the guardian, and couldn't help but say a little proudly: "My good sister, don't we two sisters have the same position as the sect leader?" Why be unhappy. ”

"Ning'er, although the two of us have been fighting with each other openly and secretly for many years, you and I are both helpless orphans, so I have always treated you as my sister, I might as well say some things directly, do you feel that there is something unusual about the sect leader's recent actions?"

Liu Siyi suddenly said such a sentence, but Ning Er, who was complacent on the side, was stunned,

"What do you mean by that?"

Liu Siyi paused, as if he had made a difficult decision in a short period of time, and then replied: "A few days ago, I reported the news to me in the Political Envoy Department and the Zhufu Mansion, saying that the sect leader is now in frequent contact with people from the northwest. You should know that the emperor is in the northwest now, so this means that the sect leader has the heart to go to Wangjing. So, will those of us who stay in Sichuan become scabies in his heart? ”

Obviously, the sect leader in Liu Siyi and Ning Er's mouths is the political envoy of Sichuan Chengxuan's political envoy - Zhu Zongchen.

In fact, what she said was very vague, if Zhu Zongchen really wanted to make preparations for going to Wang Jing, the power center of the Great Xia Dynasty, it should be more beneficial to him to maintain a calm situation at this time, but he became the initiator of the troubled waters of Huling.

Liu Siyi is a bit like Jiang Ruyue at this point, she will have an almost stubborn impulse to find out the root of things that she can't figure out or that seems unreasonable, but she doesn't have the meticulous mind of "Jiang Xiucai".

However, Ning'er was a fanatical religious person, and her cult of personality for the Five Grains Sect and its leader, Zhu Zongchen, could make her lose all her mind, and she would never question any instructions from the person she had approved.

Therefore, although they were all orphans, they were discovered by Zhu Zongchen and incorporated into the Wugu Sect, but their different personalities also made the open and secret struggle between the two protectors of the Dharma never stopped.

Ning Er said with a disdainful face: "Liu Siyi, I look at the sisters, so I don't think I heard your heresy, do you think I don't know your mind?" You are clearly jealous of my position as the protector of the Dharma! Listen, if you dare to be alarmist, confuse the army, and slander the sect leader, I will deal with you with the canon! ”

This is also one of the reasons why Liu Siyi was hesitant to tell Ning'er just now, and as she expected, Ning'er didn't even listen to a word she said.

Anyway, everyone has their own fate, why bother to force it, I have the heart to save her, but I was maliciously ridiculed, let her go.

Liu Siyi thought so, so he didn't say a word, turned around and wanted to walk towards the outside of the camp.

However, in the eyes of Ning Er, who has always had a sense of inferiority in front of Liu Siyi, this is undoubtedly a provocation and contempt for her, the incoming protector god.

"Stop!"

Since the two girls were sensible, Ning Er underwent special training and was sent to the Shu King's Mansion and became the personal maid of the Shu King's daughter, Gao Yingshu, while Liu Siyi was left by Zhu Zongchen's side, teaching calligraphy and painting, and teaching martial arts.

It is undeniable that the choice at the beginning does have a lot to do with Liu Siyi's outstanding appearance, which also planted the seeds of jealousy and inferiority in Ning'er's heart early.

But later facts did prove that Zhu Zongchen's vision of knowing people was still very unique, and Liu Siyi did not disappoint him.

Most of Zhu Zongchen's information came from Liu Siyi's Qianyun Tower, where nobles gathered. Moreover, the practice of collecting regular grain from the Wugu Sect and later only recruiting people in high positions into the religion was also from Liu Siyi's hands.

In other words, Zhu Zongchen relied on Liu Siyi to control almost all the important officials in the entire Sichuan officialdom.

It's just that sometimes for the instructions of the sect leader of Zhu Zongchen, because of the difference in the personalities of the two people, the lively Liu Siyi does not seem to be as vigorous and resolute as Ning Er's execution, which makes Ning Er step by step towards the center of the Five Grains Sect, relying on his loyalty and standing high in the position of protector of the Dharma.

When she finally reached a high position that she thought everyone should dream of with her own efforts, the person around her who was superior to herself in every way "disdainful" her achievements was so annoyed that she could never accept it.

Ning Er snorted, then turned over like an eagle harrier, tapped the handsome case in front of her with her delicate toes, pulled out the fish intestine thin sword in the ancient wooden box, and stabbed straight towards Liu Siyi's back.

Her fish intestine sword is obviously not ordinary, after being slammed open by Liu Siyi, who leaned back and touched the ground with one hand, with her dark blue scimitar that can destroy gold and jade, it was still dazzling, and there was not even a gap.

Liu Siyi straightened up with an annoyed face, pointed at Ning Er with a scimitar, frowned and said, "Ning Protector, what do you mean!" ”

Ning Er knew that Liu Siyi's martial arts were even higher than her, and she couldn't kill the Dharma protector in the sect for no reason, so the sword she just now was completely angry and willful.

She thrust the fish intestine sword in her hand into the ground, and a prominent place on her chest continued to rise and fall with the anger on her face.

"Liu Siyi! We'll see! If it falls into my hands one day, don't come to me! ”

Liu Siyi's face was also full of anger, he originally planned to dissuade Ning Er kindly, but he didn't expect her to be unappreciative and not say anything, and secretly did it to herself.

"If I come to beg you one day, let me be punished by the god of grains! Doom! ”

This punishment of the god of grains was actually transmitted to the Central Plains from the Western Regions, that is, a silver needle dipped in toner and a six-pointed star was pierced in the back of the victim.

Because in the culture of the Western Regions, the six-pointed star represents multiple suns, and when there are many suns in the sky, won't all the dealers on the earth die of drought? Therefore, in the Five Grains Religion, which uses the five grains as a totem, this is the most shameful criminal law.

After speaking, Liu Siyi put the scimitar into the scabbard at his waist, and walked out of the camp tent without looking back.