Spell! ”

"If so, don't say it!" Chen Zilong turned his head to avoid letting the other party see the tears pouring out of his eyes, he snatched a wine jug from the table next to him and poured it full for Liu Rus: "Come, let's get drunk today!" With that, he took the flask and drank wildly. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Shengjing, Yongfu Palace.

"My lord, the angel of the Kyoshi has arrived!" Zhao Wende walked up to Liu Cheng and whispered to his ear.

"Well, it's finally here!" Liu Cheng nodded, and muttered: "The ugly daughter-in-law always wants to see her in-laws, it's okay, you take someone to lead her to the Phoenix Tower, and the guards should be tighter, don't let people collide, understand?" ”

"Don't worry, sir!" Zhao Wende smiled slightly: "Subordinates will never let angels see things that they shouldn't see!" ”

"Hmm!" Liu Cheng nodded with satisfaction, waved his hand to signal Zhao Wende to step back, and lowered his head in thought.

"Lord Chincha, please get on the horse!" Zhao Wende diligently stretched out his right hand and supported him weakly.

"Thank you!" Sun Chuanting lifted the front of his official robe and jumped on the horse quickly, he looked back and saw Zhao Wende looking at him in astonishment, so he explained with a smile: "Lord Zhao, I am a native of Daizhou Wuwei, and it is close to Saixia, although I am from Jinshi, I have also learned to ride and shoot since I was a child. ”

"My lord is really both civil and military!" Zhao Wende hurriedly patted the horse's ass, turned over on the horse himself, and carefully landed half of the horse's body behind Sun Chuanting. Sun Chuanting smiled: "Lord Zhao is Lord Hou's henchman, and there is no need to talk about literary talent, if you talk about martial arts, who in the world can compare with Hou Ye?" As he spoke, he habitually looked at both sides of the road, but found that there were ironclad knights on both sides, like two walls, blocking his sight tightly, he couldn't help frowning slightly, and turned back to Zhao Wende and asked in a deep voice: "What's going on?" ”

"Please forgive me, sir!" Zhao Wende pretended to be embarrassed, and said in a low voice: "After all, this is the nest that Dongyu has been painstakingly operating for more than ten years, and the Hou Ye is worried that some fanatics will collide with the angels, and it will be a great crime!" ”

"Hasn't the East been exterminated?" Sun Chuanting was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly asked.

"Lord-sama!" Zhao Wende pretended to be embarrassed, and said in a low voice: "That's what I said, but the hundred-legged insect is not stiff, and most of the tens of thousands of people in this city are the hearts and minds of the Eastern Capture Kingdom, and the Hou Ye can enter this city because of their infighting, and it is not easy to move them all away for a while." That's why-" Speaking of this, Zhao Wende stopped talking, and looked like he wanted to say something.

Seeing this, Sun Chuanting was also skeptical, these warriors who were almost wrapped in steel and leather were skillfully riding on horseback, they almost didn't need to use the reins, and they could convey their meaning to the war horse with their upper body and legs, as if they were connected with the mount under their crotch. In the knapsacks on either side of the horse are a variety of weapons: bows and arrows, swords, bones, spears. Sun Chuanting was so close to them that he could clearly see the heavy weight of these weapons. He compared it with the Ming army he had seen in Guannai, and he couldn't help but shake his head secretly. He thought about it for a while, then casually pointed to a knight on his right and asked, "Lord Zhao, are these the tiger warriors under the command of Wu'an Hou?" Extraordinary! ”

Zhao Wende smiled casually: "These are specially selected by the cowardly Xue army around Hou Ye to welcome the angels!" ”

"Cowardly Xue Jun?" Sun Chuanting was stunned when he heard this, and asked, "This doesn't seem to be the master of the imperial court, right?" ”

As soon as Zhao Wende's words came out, he regretted it, but since Qin Cha asked, he couldn't lie, otherwise it would be the crime of bullying the king, he thought about it and had to avoid the important and replied lightly: "Lord Qin Cha should know that Lord Hou selected elite people from various Mongolian tribes to choose the front, and he was famous for cowardice!" ”

"I see!" Sun Chuanting nodded, but there was a suspicion in his heart, he was able to be admitted to the Jinshi naturally because he was familiar with the history books, and knew that Cowardice was the meaning of the guard in Mongolian, and it was originally the Praetorian Guard established by Genghis Khan, and its duty was to take turns to be the Great Khan's guard. Zhao Wende's words just now avoided the important and trivialized, I am afraid that there are other hidden secrets behind it. It's just that now is not the time to ask, so I pretend that nothing happened.

Zhao Wende saw Sun Chuanting like this, and couldn't help but secretly regret in his heart, it turned out that after Liu Cheng entered Shengjing, he began to integrate the mixed army under his command, the first step was to establish a pro-army loyal to himself, and he selected about 8,000 elite men from the Mongolian tribes to form the cowardly Xue army; The four battalions of the Han infantry and artillery were organized into an army, which was called the immortal squad; In the end, it was also planned to select 10,000 people from the Houjin Eight Banners and the beggar charms to form the Baturu Army. These three armies will form Liu Cheng's old battalion in the future and become the core of the army.

Zhao Wende was afraid that he would say the wrong thing again, so he leaked his breath, and remained silent on the rest of the road, while Sun Chuanting was also thinking about his own thoughts. The two of them entered the Yongfu Palace with their own hearts, and when they arrived at the Phoenix Tower, Zhao Wende jumped off the horse and said with a smile: "Wu'an Hou is upstairs, Lord Qincha, please come down!" ”

"It's hard work!" Sun Chuanting smiled and followed Zhao Wende up the steps. At this time, the middle door had already been opened, and the incense hall was placed in the hall, Liu Cheng was dressed in a robe, and bowed four times and said: "Weichen Liu Cheng sees the angel!" ”

Sun Chuanting walked to the east of the incense case, stood in the south direction, and read out the holy decree in a deep voice, Liu Cheng knelt on the ground and listened carefully. In the holy decree, Liu Cheng was first commended for his merits, and he was crowned as the Duke of Yueguo, and at the same time relieved him of the right to Xuanda General Army, the military commander of Zhuzhen, and recalled him to return to Beijing. Obviously, the purpose of this holy decree is to ascend and descend secretly, and cut off his military power, if he returns to Beijing, it will be a dragon and a shallow tiger falling to Pingchuan, and it will be difficult to come up with it again.

Thinking of this, Liu Cheng had already made up his mind, at this time Sun Chuanting had just finished reciting the holy decree, according to the etiquette Liu Cheng should first bow four times, dance three times, and bow four times, take the holy decree in the hands of the messenger, and enshrine it next to the incense case. But as soon as he got up from the ground, he screamed and fell to the ground, saving his right knee with a painful look on his face. Sun Chuanting was taken aback when he saw this: "Yue Guogong, what's wrong with you?" ”

"Excuse me!" Zhao Wende, who was kneeling on the side, hurriedly came over to support Liu Cheng, and said in a low voice: "Guogong was hit by an arrow in the right knee when he pacified Dongyu, and his injuries were quite serious, and he has not been able to heal. ”

"Is there such a thing?" Sun Chuanting was stunned when he saw this: "Why didn't it mention it in the Tang Daily?" ”

"Adults don't know!" Zhao Wende made a gesture, and the people in the hall retreated one after another, leaving only him, Liu Cheng, and Sun Chuanting in the room: "Although the Guogong pacified the Dongyu, there are still many fanatics who fled to the mountains and fields to disobey the king, and the Jurchens in the city are also secretly dissatisfied, but they are forced by the prestige of the Guogong, if the news of his injury spreads, I am afraid that internal and external troubles will break out, and the situation will be out of control!" ”

"Lord-sama!" Liu Cheng finally stood up with the help of Zhao Wende, Sun Chuanting noticed that a blood stain appeared on the pants on his right knee, and hurriedly said: "Yue Guogong, the wound on your knee should be torn, please ask the doctor to take a second look!" ”

"It's okay!" Liu Cheng shook his head: "Lord Qincha, in fact, these are trivial matters, but a few days ago, I heard that a shareholder of the remnant party went out of the border wall from Zhen'an Fort and went all the way to North Korea. You also know that the North Korean side is as weak as a joke. Although there are only more than 2,000 people in those remnants of the Eastern Captives, they are all stubborn fanatics, if they let them alarm the saints, Weichen really deserves death! ”

"To North Korea?" Hearing this, Sun Chuanting also panicked, this is another matter. He hesitated for a moment and asked, "Then did the lord go to the imperial court?" ”

"I only got the confirmed news a few days ago, and I have already written to the imperial court!" Liu Cheng said in a deep voice: "The holy decree asked Ben Shuai to resign from the general army of Xuanda and supervise the military duties of Zhuzhen. I immediately returned the seal to the angel. It's just that the situation in Liaodong is tense, and the general has to be guarded for a while, and the matter of returning to Beijing can only be postponed first! ”

When Sun Chuanting heard this, he also felt that something was wrong, and he immediately realized that Liu Cheng was probably trying to delay time. But he couldn't accuse Liu Cheng of disrespecting the decree in person, so he had to ask in a low voice: "If that's the case, how long will you delay it?" ”

"This is not possible, at least we have to wait for the situation to stabilize, otherwise we will lose all my efforts, how can I have the face to meet the Son of Heaven and the people of the world?" Liu Cheng smiled, and then seemed to be involved in the injured leg, the muscles on his face twitched twice, and said: "I have a lot of pain in my leg, come here, help me upstairs to recuperate first, Mr. Zhao, I will entertain Lord Qincha!" ”

Looking at Liu Cheng's back, Sun Chuanting couldn't help but have a wry smile on his face, he was already fifty or sixty percent sure that Liu Cheng was pretending to be injured, at least the injury would not be as serious as he appeared, but what was the use? He is just a messenger of the decree, and after the decree is delivered, he has no power. And around Liu Cheng is his army of 100,000 wolves and tigers, and the only thing he can do is to pretend to be confused.

"Master Sun, please come down!" Zhao Wende stood behind Sun Chuanting with a smile: "The banquet to catch the wind is ready, naturally it is not as good as the flavor of Jingshi, please also invite your Excellency Haihan!" ”

Jingshi, Qianqing Palace, Warm Pavilion.

"Mr. Yang, what do you think?" Chongzhen tapped several documents in front of him with his fingers, all of which had been painted red with a red pen, which looked particularly dazzling in the light.

"There is truth and falsehood, truth and falsehood, and truth in falsehood!"

"What do you mean by that?" Chongzhen frowned.

"It is true that the remnants of the East invaded North Korea, and the situation should be unstable, but I am afraid that Liu Cheng's injuries may not be true, and its purpose is obviously to delay time!" Yang Sichang's expression was a little blank, but his speed of speech was not slow, and his words were very clear.

"Mr. Hou, what do you think?" Chongzhen turned his gaze to Hou Sui on the side, although he was nearly fifty years old, he was very well maintained, his face was fair, his hair was black, and his face had no wrinkles except for the corners of his eyes, and he looked like he was only in his thirties. When he heard Chongzhen's question, he smiled reservedly and replied in a deep voice: "Weichen has just entered the Beijing Division, and he doesn't know much about Liao affairs, but Liu Chengnai was simply pulled out by Yang Xianggong, and he must also be a loyal minister, why would he act like this?" ”

Yang Sichang glanced at his colleagues coldly, but Hou Sui was still smiling and groaning, and Yang Sichang owed his body: "Liu Cheng is like a god in his army, although he is a famous general in ancient times." If Your Majesty wants to restore Liaodong, you can't do without him. Even without Weichen, he can rise to the top. However, this person is very ambitious, and he has won the heart of Qiang Hu, and he is not an ordinary person who can control it, when I asked the saint to seal Ezhe as the king of Shunyi, I wanted to divide Liu Cheng's momentum, so as not to lose his tail! ”

"Hmm!" Chongzhen nodded: "Mr. Yang doesn't need to say it, Liu Cheng's matter is not to blame you, if it weren't for him, how could he pacify Dongyu so quickly." No one would have imagined that he would die like this, this is the destiny of heaven, and it can be done by non-personnel! ”

"What the Holy One said is very true!" Hou Sui hurriedly smiled and said: "It's just that Liu Cheng is so heavily in charge of troops, and he doesn't have a name, it's not a long-term solution, right?" ”

"The minister thought that he should send a minister of the imperial court to Liaodong to comfort the ministers and lead his army on behalf of Liu Cheng!" Yang Sichang said in a deep voice: "At the same time, send a unit from the Guanning army to North Korea to eliminate the remnants of the Dongyu Party!" ”

"Not bad!" Chongzhen nodded with satisfaction: "Then who does Mr. Yang think can take on this important task?" ”

"Since Mr. Fang Caihou said that Liu Cheng was pulled out by Weichen Jian, Weichen is naturally responsible for this matter!" Speaking of this, Yang Sichang's eyes turned to Hou Sui's face on the side, Rao is face is not thin, and he also felt a fever.

Lushun.

"Guest officer, guest officer, the front is Lushunkou!"

Hearing the boatman's voice, Li Guo struggled to get up from the bed, his legs weakened, and he almost knelt down. Born inland, it was the first time he took a sea boat, and not only did he vomit out the bowls of noodles he had eaten before he got on the boat, but he was about to vomit out all the bile. Rao is his iron-clad man, and now he is also a puddle of mud.

"Shipowner, this is Lushunkou?" Li Guo, who finally climbed to the hatch, looked out, only to see that the east side was a continuous mountain range, the west side was a dragging and winding peninsula, and the southwest side was also a towering mountain peak, and between the two mountains was a sea area no more than a few hundred steps wide.

"Yes, this is Lushunkou, also known as Tiger's Mouth!" The boatman was quite talkative, pointing to the surrounding terrain and saying: "As soon as you go ashore here, it is Liaodong, with the Golden Mountain in the east, the Lao Tie Mountain in the west, and the tiger's tail over there. ”

As he spoke, the boat was getting closer and closer to the shore, and the boatman suddenly sighed: "It's strange, when did there be so many houses and forts here, could it be that which townsman camped here to fight?" ”

Li Guo heard the boatman say this, and hurriedly looked to the shore, sure enough, the forts under construction could be vaguely seen on the hills on both sides of the channel, and the bay was also full of people under construction, afraid that there were not three or four thousand people, Li Guo saw it in his eyes, and couldn't help but be secretly surprised. I was ordered by my uncle to secretly come to see Liu Cheng, in order not to be discovered by others, I picked this most deserted road, is it here that people intercept it?