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Sakuban Zhongliang 30,000 li.

――"The Epic of Beiming: Fu Yannian"

In the first year of Xinyue Renzhao, the weather often fell. In Layueli, the river blooms with snow and willows and spits buds, and the official road is muddy, like a gruel pot that has been overturned. However, in three or five days, it snowed heavily, flying all over the sky with hailstones, fluffy and accumulating half a foot thick.

"Damn it, drive the horses, give me a push!" The cotton curtain of the carriage, the scolding, the sound of the trumpet, the clatter of the whip, and the various noises of the horses' hooves rushing straight to the eardrums.

I rubbed my eyes and focused on the window along the cotton curtain that my grandfather had gently lifted:

A five-horse cart of Shilin's children collided with a flying fish and a prisoner car of the Ming Jian Division and fell into a quagmire.

The windows and doors of the carriage were deformed, and they could not enter or exit, and the eunuchs and family members in fur brocade clothes on it were noisy and crying. And the prisoner car of the Ming Jian Division was sealed airtightly, and no one could see the situation.

"Well, trouble is coming again." I sneered, looked at my grandfather, and spread out with long legs, "The national disaster is coming, and I was beaten by the little bit of Luo Wei and went straight to the eastern capital, which has moved the capital to Xijing, and I still have the heart to grab the road and squeeze each other." ”

My grandfather lowered the curtain, pulled his beard slightly, and said to me lovingly:

"Now that your father is in charge of the secret guard organization known as the whip of the imperial court, the Mingjian Division, you must always be careful and care everywhere, you don't have to be too troublesome, and carefully your father knows the family law."

I rolled my eyelids and didn't say anything.

The main road to Xijing has been blocked for an hour, and the cars that have been blocked before and after are like trapped beasts and horses, like dogs, shouting and urging everywhere.

The group of Shilin disciples, who were originally dissatisfied with the Ming Jian Division, ridiculed their father for being a sinister eunuch, a villain, and a rare favor of the country, even used the excuse to escort this group of stewards and captains who were ordered to move the capital to their families, and they were depressed.

Looking at the big-headed captain, he roared hoarsely, and the whip was crackling, and all the Praetorian Guards and the stewards of the Mingjian Division were so tired that they were leaning on the cart and panting.

I couldn't bear it, and I didn't care about my grandfather's advice, I got off the carriage, walked to the front of the two cars that collided and collapsed, looked at it carefully, and then walked to the side of a captain I knew, and said in a low voice: "Is there a brother here who is good at weaving?" ”

The acquaintance lieutenant with the mink hat low and the slanted eyebrows flashed slightly, and looked at me with a bewildered expression.

I couldn't help but say anything, but I put my hand under the black horse cushion beside him, pulled out several layers of cowhide below, and said to him, "Go and ask the migrants who have the needle and thread to sew the skin, and who has a good handmaid, and bring one here." ”

The lieutenant looked at me, shook the whip in his hand and said, "You, you, you, you are a big ghost, you wait." ”

said yes, but after a cup of tea, he came with a padded jacket with eyebrows and eyes.

I didn't look at the girl, but threw the cowhide to her, drew the sword at my waist, drew a draft of the air cushion in the snow, and then looked up and said to her, "How long will it take to sew like this?" ”

She groaned slightly, "If you go back to Gongzi, it's good for a moment." ”

"Go sew." With that, I led the captain to the scene of the accident.

"After she sewed it up, inflated it, filled the side, compacted it underneath, vacated a triangle, used a large pot as a fulcrum, coiled two long ropes on the air cushion, and prepared a spear to remove the head, two or three people held the gun and pressed, and the front coil rope was hung on the horse's drive, try to make it."

After speaking, he turned around and got back into the carriage, and met his grandfather's somewhat disgusted eyes. I watched the situation outside get better little by little.

"Beat the horses—" At the sound of the whip, the lass was pulled straight and tight, and the seven horses raised their manes and hoofs, snorting and struggling forward, and the guns and clubs were prying on the mats, and the rear wheels that were deep in the mud were padded.

The stick bent toward the ground, the noose tightened, and a strong wind was heard, and the clatter of the guns and sticks snapped in unison with the forward sound of the wheels turning and mud splashing, followed by a cheer from the guards.

Of course, there are many Shilin children:

"It's just a small thing."

"Not on the stage."

"What else can the Ming Jian Division do, naturally." of various evaluations.

My brows furrowed, and my heart was troubled.

It was not that they could not hear the scolding of those who were on opposite sides of each other, but that beyond the cheers and the sound of the slowly moving carriages and horses, an ominous but familiar rhythm came from the ears with more and more certainty.

I didn't listen carefully to what my grandfather had said many times.

I hurriedly interrupted my grandfather and hurriedly asked, "Didn't it mean that Luo Wei attacked the eastern capital, and the governor of East China, Huangfu Su, was ordered to lead the 300,000 East China army to defend the eastern capital?" ”

When my grandfather saw that my face was different, he seemed to be worried, and thought about it:

"yes. The battle in the eastern capital was stalemate, bleeding and drifting, and it was extremely tragic.

Isn't it because of this that your father ordered the commander-in-chief to lead the 100,000 Eastern Capital Forbidden Army, and the 50,000 Imperial City Imperial Forest Army, responsible for flanking and cooperating with the defense of the battle, and escorting the weak crown Xinyue Emperor, as well as a group of royal nobles and important ministers of the court, to transfer to Xijing. Didn't you go with us? ”

I urged my ears to listen carefully to the yoga inner rest method taught by my father, and I briefly fixed my mind: "I can't hear the number, but I hear that there is a team of Luo Wei light riders, stepping on the snow from the northeast." Didn't the Eastern Capital fall? ”

My grandfather's face changed, and after a little thought, he said, "No." ”

I could hear the sound of the sound coming personally, and I hurriedly said, "Should I go and warn the brothers outside anyway?" ”

As he said that, I was about to get up, but my grandfather firmly clasped my wrist with his hand, and the strength was not like that of a scribe:

"No, you forgot your father's words, you must not show up, don't you know your father's arrangements? Just now that you went out like this, there are already a lot of things that attract attention, and you can't risk your family's life and miss a big thing. ”

I was speechless for a moment, and I heard the fierce sound nearer, and the sound of the hurried arrows and bows in the wind was already in my ears, and my heart was depressed, until I lifted the curtain of the car, and let the falling snow pour into the carriage, as if I wanted to extinguish the flame in my heart, as if I wanted to see the shadows of those Luo Wei enemies earlier.

On the hill north of the official road, the horse's hoof wind gradually appeared, and the sunset reflecting the snow rendered the official road a strange gold.

The front team of scouts has changed the guard flag, the orange zhangliu banner that is preparing for battle is raised, and the three flags of each detachment are gradually raised, and all the escort team is draped on their horses, and the family team is protected in the middle, putting up a standard shield array, and the prisoner car of the Mingjian Division who has just had an accident is surrounded in the heart of the wall, guarded by heavy guards.

On the slope of the mountain to the north, the Qing Qing cavalry was arranged under the banner of the Luo Wei Sun, and the Luo Wei light armored cavalry with glowing armor was divided into two formations, and the three-eyed fire gun and light fire crossbow in their hands were shining in the snow.

Urging my eyes, I gritted my teeth and said, "There are as many as a thousand."

Looking back at the number of cavalry in our escort team again, my heart was a little wider, they dared to put on such a score with the number of one enemy and ten, even though we need to protect the families of women and children, but they are so arrogant, they really owe a beating. It's just that the enemy divides the troops, I don't know what it means?

Before I could ask my grandfather, I had already seen the clue for myself.

The two sides of the horsemen were separated, and one side of the column spread out, draped the heavily armored saddles on the horsebacks, and then mixed into the other group of light cavalry.

The armor of the heavily armored cavalry was glowing with dark colors, and the heart goggles were dazzling. Interspersed into the blue light armored cavalry, Hulala dangling a Tang knife.

The two sides were getting closer and closer, looking at each other angrily, and they were also ready to rush and kill at any time. Neither side retreated, nor did any one rush to kill, and if two tigers stared, neither could survive first.

The banner of the escort army changed, and two teams of black and white cavalry stood in columns, and the black and white cavalry gradually inserted into the Fangyuan Bagua formation, and the formation marched towards the Luo Wei cavalry of the long snake formation.

The smoke of gunpowder erupted from the sound of firebolts and firebolts, and the circle was like a grinding plate, engulfing the long snakes and strangling each other, and the archers and rattan players who had not yet entered the battle continued to attack each other.

Their target was the man in the prisoner cart. And a group of guards and family members gathered outside the prisoner car.

I suddenly understood why the guards of the Ming Jian Division attached so much importance to the prisoner car.

The lieutenant who had just spoken to me had gradually moved from the rear to the front, and a Luo Wei warrior on a bantam horse with two gourd-colored rhinoceros horn-tipped armor on his head was strangled to the death.

The sun was setting, and in the night, fire and thunderbolts lit up half of the sky.

Looking at the warrior's bizarre armor: the armor glowed red, with four rhinoceros eyes the size of copper bells in the middle, and the large armor was sturdy and inlaid with a row of slippery reflectors, and the whole person was dazzlingly tight.

The warriors attached great importance to the samurai lineage, and the armor and weapons were the heirlooms of the samurai family and became a symbol of noble blood.

Looking at the six or seven light horsemen behind him, they seemed ordinary, but they were actually the guardians of the Shadow Guard Group.

-- This is a leader.

I finally couldn't hold back the fire in my heart, threw away my grandfather's hand, picked up my father's Lianyuan crossbow, and gradually used the excuse of being out of the family to stand close to the battle formation.

The warrior ran out of three guns, and had no time to reload the gunpowder, so he put away his sword and slashed the horse's neck with his right hand. The gurgling blood spurted straight out, splashing on the two people around them who were fighting in blood. With a wave of his arm, the bright elbow shield was about to smash into the captain's skull.

Unexpectedly, the lieutenant dodged away, and the soldiers who had joined the battle formation behind him took his place, only to see him jump backwards, ride on the back of the samurai's horse, and stab forward with his sword.

Seeing that he had succeeded, the Na Luo Wu warrior suddenly took a fire gun handed by the shadow guard, and a dazzling flame burst out in his hand, and in an explosion, the captain was blown up and spat blood, and fell to the ground reflexively.

When he was about to make up for it again, his body suddenly trembled, and his two hands kept scratching his head twice like crazy, and the whole person fell to the ground, convulsing and spraying blood foam in the Japanese language, and saying a sentence of breathlessness.

A short arrow pierced the samurai's head, killing him instantly, and lying beside him was the captain who was also dying.

Sure enough, in a moment of panic, the formation of the Luo Wei cavalry was slightly chaotic, and our battle formation had the upper hand, the number was superior, the supplies were sufficient, and the strangulation was only time.

Just when I was a little complacent, I heard a loud bang in the prisoner's cart among my family, which exploded and scattered.

The firelight was like a spell, and the Luo Wei cavalry instantly changed their flag and order, and fought and retreated. Leave a freeze-dried corpse on the ground.

I understood something, and in three steps and two steps, I found the driver who had just crashed in the ranks of family members who were screaming at the explosion, and the bow and crossbow were held in his hand, and like a galloping wind, the bowstring turned into a knife handle, and his neck was tightly clasped:

"Say, who told you to do it?!"

Before I could call the guards I knew, the coachman hung his head without resistance, his lips were smiling, and there were purple traces of poisoning, which was caused by the immediate crushing of his teeth.

In disgust, I threw the limp body to the ground and tossed off his cotton clothes.

The tiny tattoo on his neck was clearly visible to my eyes.

At that time, although I was only fifteen years old, I was not very familiar with the Japanese language, but I grew up in the army with my father since I was a child, and I knew those two common words clearly: