As we all know, there are four elite pillar ** teams in the Great Zhou Jijing, which can be called the world's most elite pillar ** team, namely the Eastern Army Shenwu Battalion under the control of the Liang Qiu family of the Donggong Mansion, the Southern Army Trap Camp under the control of the Lu family of the Nangong Mansion, the Beiwei Battalion of the Wen family of the Beigong Mansion, and the Western Army Relief Camp of the Han family of the Xigong Mansion. And in the four towns of Jijing, the most famous is the Shenwu Camp of the Eastern Army, which is a cavalry with guns, crossbows and knives, and it is not a pure cavalry, even if it is off the horse, it also has good combat power, according to legend, it is a more heroic light cavalry than the cavalry of the Northern Xinjiang, and the terrible army that directly led to the annihilation of the first Taiping Army twenty years ago is the sharpest spear of the Great Zhou military.

Compared with the Eastern Army, the prestige of the Southern Army is not inferior to the former, and the two spears and iron shields of the whole army are the best at defending the army in the world, and it is the most solid shield of the Great Zhou military. It is said that when the southern army was trapped in a camp and lined up, even the eastern army did not dare to take the tiger's whiskers lightly.

The name of the Northern Army Beiwei Battalion actually does not appear very much, because most of the time, the world often calls it by another name, the Forbidden Army!

Yes, the Praetorian Guards in the palace! The Praetorian Guards who have been responsible for the safety of the Imperial Palace for hundreds of years!

As for the Western Army's Relief Battalion, Xie An was not impressed by this army of soldiers and horses. Originally, in the forced palace incident that year, Xie An, as one of the experiencers, could have appreciated the strength of the Western Army, but in fact, due to the passive and perfunctory response of its commander Xixiang Hou Han Yi, the Western Army did not play its due strength at all, so it hastily surrendered under the fierce offensive of the Eastern Army.

It is these four armies that have been inherited from the early days of the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty to the present day, and are known as the four towns of Jijing by the world.

But almost no one knows that there is actually an elite army in the Great Zhou that has not been included in it, the soldiers and horses of the fifth town outside the four towns of Jijing, the Imperial Tomb Dragon Nuwei, an elite division composed of the children of the Li royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

In fact. Xie An had been in contact with the Imperial Tomb Dragon Slave Guard as early as three years ago, when he personally watched several soldiers of the Dragon Slave Guard take the fifth son of the Emperor Li Cheng out of Jijing to the Imperial Tomb, but at that time, Xie An obviously did not expect that this tomb guard army hidden in the Imperial Tomb would have such strength.

Six feudal ......

A total of tens of thousands of Wei Rong troops before and after. However, it was destroyed by the four or five thousand people of the Long Nu Guard, broke through the gate of the Feng Guo, and killed the feudal vassal king, this kind of strength is not inferior to any of the soldiers and horses in the four towns of Jijing, and what surprised Xie An even more was that every soldier in the Long Nu Wei seemed to have a good talent, looking at the soldiers of the Long Nu Wei commanding the Zhou soldiers to strengthen the defense of the camp, Xie An couldn't help but feel the inexplicable pressure.

"Is Lord Xie thinking? Is it really good to release such an army? ”

Suddenly, a slightly playful laugh came from behind Xie An.

Xie An, who was watching the dragon slave guards in the distance, turned his head when he heard this, only to realize that it was Li Cheng, the cousin of Li Cheng, the king of Anling, who spoke up.

"It turned out to be His Royal Highness Yan'......" Xie An bowed his hand, and his expression did not show too much.

glanced at Xie An deeply, and saw that there was a hint of vigilance in his eyes, and Li Yan was not surprised. Standing side by side with Xie An, he said with a smile. "The situation of our army, Lord Xie, as the current minister of the Son of Heaven of my Great Zhou, I'm afraid I know a little bit about it, right?"

Xie An thought for a moment, and said quietly, "I know roughly about it, but I don't know the specifics!" ”

"Huh. Looking at Xie An's words, he was really cautious, which was a little inconsistent with the rumors! Li Yan smiled and said with a little melancholy, "That's right! -- The dragon slave guards here and there. Whether it is the current Jijing Imperial Court or the current Son of Heaven, there is no good impression of it! The reason why he stepped out of the imperial mausoleum this time was nothing more than Ah Cheng...... Hmm, that is, the Fifth Highness in the mouth of Lord Xie persuaded me to wait, but even so, most of the people in the Imperial Tomb did not support sending troops to help! Among them, those old men are the majority...... It's no wonder, after all, we can be said to have been abandoned by the Li clan of the Great Zhou Dynasty......"

Xie An looked at Li Yan when he heard this, and said carefully, "I heard what His Royal Highness Fifth said yesterday, His Royal Highness Yan's father ...... Hmm, Lord Lingzun, could it be the sibling brother of the first emperor? In this way, His Royal Highness Yan and Li Bo, the prince of the King of Qiuyang, are actually ......"

A hint of color flashed in Li Yan's eyes, and he said lightly, "Yes, according to generation, I am uncle and brother Li Bonai!" -- His brother Li Yi, the king of Qiuyang, attached himself to my father at the beginning of that year, and later joined Li Ji's uncle...... That is, the first emperor, after the first emperor ascended the throne, according to the ancestral system, my father was punished for the crime of rebellion in the dynasty, and the title was removed, but fortunately he did not kill them all, but sent my father and son to the imperial tomb to guard the tomb, such as Ah Cheng, not the danger of the country, I must not take a step out of the imperial tomb without authorization, otherwise, I will be removed from the genealogy of the Li family of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and shall not be buried in the ancestral ......mausoleum after death" Speaking of this, he glanced at Xie An, and saw that his expression was puzzled, so he shook his head and said, "It's not offensive, but it is said that Lord Xie is from a poor family, and it is difficult to understand the bitterness when you think about it...... Removing the name from the genealogy and not being buried in the ancestral mausoleum after death is a great constraint for us! - Especially for the old men in the Imperial Tomb, who are half-cut into the ground! ”

"That's ......" Xie An smacked his lips and nodded as if he had suddenly realized.

"So, don't worry, Lord Xie, we won't do anything......" Looking up at the clear sky, Li Yan sighed faintly, "I was demoted to the imperial tomb when I was six years old, and now I am thirty and nine, and I have wasted more than thirty years in the imperial tomb......

"It is said that life in the Imperial Tomb is quite difficult?"

"That's not either," shaking his head, Li Yan said indifferently, "In fact, there are not only us and other dragon slaves in the imperial tomb, but also many former close ministers, henchmen or attendants, full of calculations, almost tens of thousands of people, these people are responsible for farming or purchasing living necessities, and besides, every year the treasury will secretly allocate a part of the money to my imperial tomb, nominally repairing the imperial tomb, in fact, ...... Hehe, on the whole, it's not bad, but compared with the scenery in Jijing, it's obviously incomparable...... It's like when Ah Cheng first arrived at the imperial tomb. Hahaha! -- It's a lot of fun to play with these newcomers! ”

Xie An opened his mouth in a daze, and it could be seen that most of these dragon slave guards were too idle in the imperial tomb on weekdays, and the idle space hurt, but now that they have a legitimate reason, they can come out to catch their breath. How will these people refuse?

The problem is that it is easy to please God and it is difficult to send God, so it is better not to make something happen at that time......

Xie An sighed secretly, perhaps, this is the problem he is most worried about, after all, these more than 4,000 dragon slave guards, each of them is a big man comparable to the prince and the prince, and this energy is far above the thirty-one branches of the Li royal family that Li Shen, the king of Qin, has wooed.

I chatted with Li Yan for a few words. Xie An saw that on the west side of the camp, Li Cheng, the king of Anling, had returned from the direction of Yuanmen with a large number of dragon slave guards, and it was obvious that His Royal Highness the fifth son of the emperor had just returned from the demonstration in Xiangyang.

Seeing this, Xie An took a few steps and stepped forward to greet Li Cheng.

"Your Highness...... I wonder what the situation is in Xiangyang? ”

Smiling and bowing to Xie An, the smile on Li Cheng's face gradually retracted, and said with a sneer. "I haven't seen Li Shen's house, so I must have been hiding. However, even if that guy hides in the inner city, this king can smell the smell of that guy! - By the way, that thunder is indeed a rare fierce general, as Xie Shangshu said, just now he pulled his bow in the city and wanted to shoot the king. The arrow flew out two hundred steps, if it weren't for my brother's spirit in the sky, I'm afraid this king would die under this person's arrow! ”

[Brother has a spirit in the sky......]

Xie An tugged at the corners of his mouth, and didn't answer very knowingly, after all, people in this era are still obsessed with ghosts. If you bluntly say to people that the soul is a non-existent thing, it seems that the eldest grandson Xiangyu, Liu Qing, Li Xian and other wise people can still accept it, but like the Fifth Prince of the Emperor in front of him, who is deeply obsessed with the friendship with his brother, he is absolutely unacceptable, after all, Li Cheng has always believed that his brother Li Wei is still attached to his body, and through his eyes, he witnessed the moment when Li Shen, the king of Qin, was defeated and died.

If Xie An said something unpleasant, it was very likely to annoy him.

[...... though]

Xie An looked at Li Cheng, the king of Anling, with a little surprise.

[What a look......]

Yesterday, when Li Cheng first arrived, Xie An didn't feel it, but looking at it today, he felt that Li Cheng was to some extent similar to the prince Li Wei of the year, no, it should be said that he was more charming and imposing than the prince Li Wei of the year.

[has surpassed his brother, the current Anling King Li Cheng......]

In the dark, Xie An felt as if he had seen the shadow of the former prince Li Wei from Li Cheng, the king of Anling, and he felt that Li Cheng's temperament now was even better than that of the crown prince Li Wei back then, and even Li Xian, the king of the Eight Sages, was difficult to compare.

[If Li Cheng also had this temperament three years ago, perhaps, he would be a more suitable candidate for the emperor than his brother Li Wei, Li Xian, the Eight Sages King, Li Shen, the Qin King, and Li Mao, the Yan King, right? ]

Shaking his head, leaving those cranky thoughts in his heart behind, Xie An pondered, and said with a straight face, "Your Highness said yesterday, please take Your Highness as the main leader in the future war, this mansion has the courage to speak a word or two, Xiangyang City has a lot of soldiers, I don't know what His Highness has to plan to break the city?" ”

Li Cheng smiled strangely when he heard this, and suddenly asked Xie Andao, "Lord Xie, do you know why this king didn't immediately lead his troops to Jiangling to support the trapped old eight after receiving the order in Jijing, but instead attacked the various feudal states along the way?" ”

Xie An was stunned when he heard this, and said suspiciously, "Isn't it to make the vassal kings and the Qin king Li Shen separate?" ――Attack the vassal king and seal the country, forcing him not to dare to continue to stay in Jingzhou to help Li Shen, the king of Qin! ”

"And that's just one of the points! What's more important is ......" Glancing at Xie An, Li Cheng said in a low voice, "Whether it is Xie Shangshu or Lao Ba, or the current king, none of them can force Li Shen's bargaining chips!" - Li Shen's guy is the most cautious, if he can't be cornered, he will never reveal his true body in person! As far as this king knows, Xie Shangshu is also playing with his stand-ins these days, right? ”

Xie An smiled bitterly and nodded, after all, these days, he and Liu Qing had murdered Li Shen twice, but all of them were stand-ins for Li Shen, the king of Qin, and even almost pushed the 100,000 Zhou army into the realm of nine deaths. Thinking of this, Xie An still has palpitations in his heart.

"In a few days, there will be news!" Glancing at Xie An, Li Cheng said with a smile.

"This ...... Forgive the stupidity of this house, how can you say this? ”

Li Cheng smiled and said nothing.

After a few days like this, the Zhou army naturally supervised the construction of wells and vehicles day and night, but there was no change on the side of Li Cheng, the king of Anling, which made Xie An really a little puzzled. After all, according to Li Cheng's hatred for Li Shen, it was hard for Xie An to imagine that this fifth prince could still sit still. Instead of attacking the city immediately, attacking the city at all costs.

Finally, on November 4, Xie An finally understood what Li Cheng, the king of Anling, was waiting for these days.

It was a sunny day, and Xie Anzheng was accompanying Li Cheng, the king of Anling, with Liu Qing and others in the tent. And when he was making all kinds of speculations about Li Cheng's strange behavior of standing still, suddenly, Dian Ying, the general of the Great Liang Army, walked in from outside the tent with a very strange expression.

"My lord, my lord...... There was a vote outside the camp gate...... Well, a vote of people said that they wanted to see His Royal Highness King Anling......"

"Is it finally here? Well, it's almost time to count! Under Xie An's puzzled gaze, Li Cheng, the king of Anling, chuckled. He raised his hand and said, "This general, please let those people in, and come here to speak!" ”

"Yes!" Glancing at Xie An, seeing Xie An nodding, Dian Ying clenched his fists and withdrew from the tent.

"Your Highness, what is this?" Xie An asked suspiciously.

"Xie Shangshu is a little restless. We'll see in a moment! Li Cheng said with a smile, staring at the tent with cold eyes.

Not much. Dian Ying led a group of people to the handsome tent, looking at the clothes of the people, they should be people from the rivers and lakes and green forests.

Seeing everyone in the tent, the big man who led the group knocked on the ground and clenched his fists and said, "Little Zhang Hu, knock on His Royal Highness King Anling." Knock on all the officials! ”

[Official?] What is this called? ]

Xie An frowned slightly, because he could see that this group of people was not only from the green forest, but also a group of people who rarely dealt with the government.

[Li Cheng is waiting for these people?] What is he waiting for these people to do? Anyway, when did he recruit these people? ]

A series of questions swept over Xie An's head.

And at this time. Li Cheng, the king of Anling, asked with a smile, "Zhang Hu, have you done what this king asked you to do?" ”

"Yes, His Royal Highness King Anling, the small one has been done!" Hugging his fists, Zhang Hu said in a deep voice, "As His Royal Highness King Anling said, the little one and the others acted according to their words, and they really found ......."

"Good, good! ――Where? Li Chengluo stood up with some excitement.

"This ......" Zhang Hu licked his lips and said in a low voice, "What His Highness wants, the small ones and others still do it, and I don't know the remuneration that was negotiated before...... I'm afraid Your Highness doesn't know that this time the little ones have lost a lot of brothers, this ......"

"Huh!" Li Cheng snorted lightly, turned his head and glanced at his cousin Li Yan, Li Yan understood, picked up a pocket from his side, and threw it in front of the tiger and the gangster. When the mouth of the bag fell to the ground, I saw the gold and jewels scattered all over the place in the bag, and the generals of the Zhou army in the tent also gasped in shock, not to mention that Zhang Hu, picked up those things with trembling hands, and swallowed saliva again and again.

Glancing at Zhang Hu, Li Cheng said in a deep voice, "Zhang Hu, this king's promise has been fulfilled, if you dare to deceive this king, this king can tell you that even if you escape to the ends of the earth, this king can find it, so that you can't survive and die!" ”

Xie An nodded secretly when he heard this, after all, Li Cheng, who said these cruel words, was the fifth son of the emperor Li Cheng in his memory.

"Yes, yes......" Zhang Hu nodded again and again.

"The reward has been paid to you by the king, so what does the king want?"

"Your Highness wait a minute, the little one will come out of the barracks and bring it in immediately, Your Highness rest assured, the little one will never deceive His Highness......" Zhang Hu hugged his fists, handed the bag in his hand to his brother, and said in a low voice, "Bring it in!" ”

"Yes, Boss!"

Looking at the back of the strong man leaving, Xie Anxin's mystery became even greater, and he asked suspiciously, "Fifth Highness, who are these people?" ”

"Huh!" Li Cheng smiled, glanced at Zhang Hu who was still in the tent, and said with a chuckle, "The bandits and robbers that this king met all the way when he was in Yuzhou have some skills, and they can be regarded as righteous people, so this king asked them to do something, as for those gold and jewelry, they were brought out from the palace of those royal uncles when this king attacked the country......"

"Oh, I wonder what His Highness has entrusted these people to do?"

"Hehehe," Li Cheng smiled, got up and walked to the three big wooden boxes, and said indifferently, "Didn't this king say it to Xie Shangshu yesterday?" We still lack the bargaining chips that can force Li Shen's gang to take the initiative to show up...... Li Shen was cautious, and when he learned that this king brought troops to help, he must have thought that this king would most likely not come to Jingzhou, but directly attack him to seal the country of Hanzhong and South Zheng! Therefore, there are several crucial people who he will never dare to place in Nanzheng, Hanzhong! -- In order to hide people's eyes and ears and avoid the harm of this king, Li Shen's wife will definitely choose some inconspicuous county towns and settle those who are very important......"

"People?" Xie An was slightly stunned.

And just then, the strong men returned, and brought in four women, each of whom was a beautiful woman, but three of them were already some years old, and only the beautiful woman who seemed to be only two or three years old in her arms was a little younger.

"Hiss......" Looking at the four women, Xie An gasped in shock, staring at the three women who seemed to be in their forties.

"Humph!" Seeing Xie An staring at the three elderly and beautiful women, Liu Qing felt very unhappy in her heart, and couldn't help but hit Xie An's ribs with her elbow, gritted her teeth, and whispered in a very sarcastic tone, "What? Does Xie Shangshu prefer older women? ”

"What nonsense!" To Liu Qing's surprise, Xie An scolded quite seriously, then looked at the three beautiful women, and whispered with a shocked face, "These three are ......."

"But what?" Liu Qing looked at Xie An suspiciously, after all, she gradually realized that Xie An was not surprised by the other party's appearance.

And at this moment, I saw Li Cheng, the king of Anling, stand up, look at the three beautiful women with a smile, and say with a chuckle, "It's been a long time, three aunts!" ”

"Auntie...... Aunt? Liu Qing was dumbfounded, and asked Xie Andao in a low voice, "......Who are they?"

Glancing at Li Cheng, the king of Anling, who didn't know whether to smile or sneer, Xie An took a deep breath.

"Yes, it is Li Shen, the king of Qin, Li Yan, the king of Chu, and Li Xiao, the king of Han...... The biological mother of the Three Kings! - Three court concubines ......" (to be continued......