Chapter 334: Qiang Chaos
Luo Yao's sudden change of face caught Liu Xiu unexpectedly, and just now he was a little junior sister who called him affectionately, almost making Liu Xiu regard him as Senior Brother Linghu, and in a blink of an eye, he was about to take the surname of the little junior sister, and suddenly became Lin Pingzhi again, and this change of face was also faster.
Could it be that Sichuan's stunt face change came from here?
Liu Xiu has read a very good Xianxia novel "Moving the Mountain", which mentions that the Taoist priest extinguishes his feelings in order to cultivate the Great Dao, the so-called extinguishing of emotions is to let himself not have seven emotions and six desires, and it is said that the easiest way is to destroy the person closest to him.
This Luo Yao is almost common, no wonder this guy is the highest.
However, this is even more resolute Liu Xiu's plan to destroy him, this kind of guy who doesn't recognize his six relatives is definitely a scourge to stay in this world, what if he runs over and kills the little junior sister one day in order to cultivate the Great Dao, not to mention the indescribable feeling between him and Mrs. Lu, just say that he wants to use the Heavenly Master Dao to fight against Zhang Jiao, and he can't let Mrs. Lu have any damage.
Liu Xiu waved his hand quietly, Xu Yu and Guan Yu understood, and immediately scattered around, surrounding Luo Yao.
Luo Yao noticed their movements, turned his head, glanced at them contemptuously, and finally his gaze fell on Liu Xiu's face: "Want to kill me?" ”
"Yes." Liu Xiu honestly admitted: "You are too dangerous, since you can't be used by me, then I have no choice but to destroy you." ”
"You seem to have forgotten something." Luo Yao laughed, and smiled very easily: "There is no one here's martial arts above me. ”
"Yes." Liu Xiu nodded calmly: "But Tan Shi Huai, who is ten times more powerful than you, was killed by me." ”
"I'm not old, but I'm arrogant." Luo Yao's face sank, and his originally static figure suddenly moved, as fast as a gust of wind, rushing straight towards Liu Xiu. Originally, he and Liu Xiu were five or six steps away, but in the blink of an eye, he was in front of Liu Xiu. Even though Liu Xiu had been prepared, he was still half a step slower, and before the short knife in his hand could be raised, Luo Yao's hand grabbed his neck.
"Senior brother!" Mrs. Lu screamed, she didn't have time to think about it, she shook her body and pounced, and at the same time, Wang Zhi's long sword was unsheathed, and with a "bang", the tip of the sword pointed directly at Luo Yao's back.
Luo Yao had already pounced in front of Liu Xiu, but he flipped upside down like a tanuki's nimble volley, turned around to meet Mrs. Lu and Wang Zhi, and slapped his hands on the tip of Wang Zhi's sword with one palm, and slapped at Mrs. Lu with one palm. With a clear sound of "pop", he turned around in the air again, his body turned like a ghost, and rushed to Xu Yu again, his left hand shook, and his right hand pressed on Xu Yu's right hand like lightning. Before Xu Yu could react, he let Zhang Fei stab him with a spear and crashed into Guan Yu's arms.
Guan Yu suddenly showed a dazed expression, and then was hit by Luo Yao, his rushing body froze, he took a step back, and when he looked at Luo Yao again, there was a little more horror in his eyes.
In the blink of an eye, Luo Yao attacked Liu Xiu and the others one after another, which was staggeringly fast. Liu Xiu was also amazed when he saw it, and secretly exclaimed that this was the real dragon form, and it was not at all as fast as ordinary people could imagine. He has fought against people many times, and when he thinks about it, only Tanshi Huai has ever had such a speed.
"How?" Luo Yao stood calmly, looked at his hand narcissistically, and asked indifferently: "Do you still want to kill me?" ”
"Of course." Liu Xiu smiled.
Luo Yao turned his head and looked at Liu Xiu in surprise. Liu Xiu had a faint smile on his face, not the panic or fear he hoped to see, but a trace of disdain. Luo Yao didn't understand for a while, he thought for a while, and reminded: "You just touched the dragon-shaped doorway, but I reached this realm three years ago, and you are not my opponent." ”
"I know." Liu Xiu nodded: "You are faster than me, but it may not be that I can't cure you." He waved his hand, "Come on." ”
Luo Yao looked at him twice, and saw that he didn't look like he was joking, but really wanted to duel with him, so he couldn't help but sink his face, and without saying a word, he pounced again, and ran straight to Liu Xiu's neck with his left hand.
Fast, so fast that people's eyes can't keep up. Liu Xiu hadn't made any movement yet, his hand had already stuck on Liu Xiu's neck.
"Senior brother!" Mrs. Lu and Wang Zhi shouted.
"General!" Xu Yu, Guan Yu and others exclaimed.
Luo Yao's face showed a smile of contempt, but as soon as the smile bloomed, he was suddenly startled, and waved his right hand and smashed it into Liu Xiu's face. Liu Xiu sneered, raised his left hand, and just met Luo Yao's right fist, and with a close of his five fingers, he tightly clasped Luo Yao's right fist, and at the same time, his right fist struck out from under his ribs.
Luo Yao pulled out and wanted to retreat, but he couldn't retreat at all, his left hand was stuck by Liu Xiu's chin, and his right hand was firmly grasped by Liu Xiu, and he couldn't run if he wanted to, and he watched Liu Xiu's fist smash out with the sound of the wind.
"Boom" hit him in the chest.
"Ahh He gasped in pain and swallowed back the screams.
Liu Xiu's left hand clasped Luo Yao's right hand like an iron hook, and his right hand smashed at Luo Yao, although Luo Yao's body was fast and matchless, but now he was dragged by Liu Xiu, no matter how good his body was, it couldn't play a role. And although his left hand was let go, he couldn't stop Liu Xiu's successive slams, and after just a few strokes, he hung down his left arm weakly, and was flattened by Liu Xiuhai like a dead dog.
Liu Xiu beat his surname, picked up Luo Yao's body, threw it over, and threw it over, like picking up a sack, and slammed it the ground. Luo Yao, who was still flowing with thin wine just now, was as soft as a dead snake in two strokes, and he had no power to fight back.
Everyone was stunned, but Wang Zhi was the first to react, and hurriedly stepped forward to hug Liu Xiu: "General, general, don't fall, if you fall again, you will die." ”
"I just want his life." Liu Xiu was hugged by him, and he couldn't beat him anymore, but he refused to let go of Luo Yao, and grabbed Luo Yao's wrists with both hands.
"Don't ...... Stop it. Luo Yao's fairy wind bones were gone, the white robe on his body was already covered with dust and blood, his face was blue and purple, the corners of his eyes were broken, his nose was bleeding for a long time, and he lay on the ground as if he had been removed from his bones, and he couldn't lift his head, so he could only raise his left hand and shake weakly: "Don't fight...... Don't fight......"
"General, you can't fight anymore." Mrs. Lu also reacted and hurriedly came over to intercede.
"Tie me up." Liu Xiu snorted, and the two tiger warriors came over, took out the rope, and tied Luo Yao into a zongzi. They were afraid that Luo Yao would escape, so they used a cowhide rope and tied a dead buckle tied to the criminals in the army, except that Luo Yao could really get bigger and smaller like a dragon, otherwise he wouldn't be able to run away.
"Dragon-shaped?" Only then did Liu Xiu let go of Luo Yao's hand, clapped his palm, spit disdainfully, and said a crazy sentence in his mouth: "The pearl of rice grains also shines?" ”
Mrs. Lu and Wang Zhi looked at Luo Yao who looked like mud, they were really stupid, why did Luo Yao lose in the hands of Liu Xiu so easily, and he was so embarrassed. They wanted to ask Luo Yao, but Luo Yao only had air out and no air intake now, and it was a question whether he could live, and it was estimated that he would not have the energy to answer their questions. I want to ask Liu Xiu, but Liu Xiu may not be willing to tell them.
In fact, it was very simple, before Luo Yao made his first move, Liu Xiu found that he glanced at his neck, and before his body moved, his hand stretched out, and the target was the part he had just seen, so he guessed that although Luo Yao was skillful, he had very poor experience in fighting with people, otherwise he would not have made such a mentally retarded move. Before Luo Yao made a second move, he glanced at his neck again, so when Luo Yao's hand was stuck in his neck, he shrunk his neck, clasped Luo Yao's hand, and didn't let Luo Yao get out, and then clasped his right hand again and never let it go.
Luo Yao's strength is that he is fast, so fast that you can't catch it, and if you want to fight him, you may not even be able to eat a fart. But once he grabbed his wrist, his body could not be used, and the rest depended on whose fist was hard.
With the skill of Tanshi Huai, he was still pierced by a spear, and Liu Xiu didn't believe that Luo Yao, a person with bad experience in dealing with the enemy, could resist the same attack as Xu Xu. Even if it was, it didn't matter, his short knife was in his waist, ready to be pulled out and cut him into ribs.
As he expected, after Luo Yao's quick body was controlled, he was no different from ordinary people, but he was relieved of his combat effectiveness with one punch and kick, and the next thing was just his performance time to vent.
Luo Yao was restrained, and the Taoist priests in the building were all dumbfounded, and they were at a loss one by one. Mrs. Lu and Wang Zhi stepped forward to appease them and told them that this General Liu is not a bad person, he came to ask your master for help, and they are just learning Taoism, not trying to kill your master. Those Taoist priests looked at Luo Yao, who was tied up strongly, and were very skeptical of Mrs. Lu's statement, but looking at those soldiers who were eyeing him closely, they held back their doubts.
They don't have Luo Yao's awesome skills.
When Mrs. Lu comforted the Taoist, Liu Xiu sat down to take a breath, just now in order to deal with Luo Yao, he used all his strength, if he couldn't entangle Luo Yao at the first time, and was run away by this guy, the basket would be bigger.
"General, you...... How did you get him? "Steady as Xu Yu, at this time, I can't suppress my gossip.
"It's simple." Liu Xiu smiled, "Generally speaking, people with fast speed have limited strength, while people with great strength are generally not too fast. He paused, and then said: "Tanshi Huai's thirty years of skill is only stronger than ours, and after killing dozens of people, his physical strength is almost consumed, and it is no different from us." Luo Yao is just a Taoist priest, he rarely works with people, what he can rely on is a quick body, and he must not pay as much attention to endurance as Sandalwood. He's fast, but as long as he doesn't hit the vital point, he can't actually kill anyone. Hitting him twice is enough to make up for the difference in speed. ”
Xu Yu suddenly realized, and Guan Yu and the others also nodded again and again. Guan Yu asked again: "General, then why did he suddenly disappear out of thin air just now?" ”
"Actually, it's not that he's gone, it's that he has entered the blind spot of your eyes." Liu Xiu simply explained the concept of blind spots, Guan Yu and the others were very curious, and tried them one by one, and let out an exclamation from time to time.
"General, what should you do with my Senior Brother Luo?" Mrs. Lu and Wang Zhi walked over and asked quietly.
"What do you say?" Liu Xiu frowned, he didn't beat Luo Yao to death all at once just now, and now he doesn't seem to be doing it well.
Mrs. Lu and Wang Zhi glanced at each other, pulled Liu Xiu to the side, and pointed to the ring on Liu Xiu's hand: "General, why don't you use this?" ”
Liu Xiu looked at the ring and understood that Mrs. Lu wanted him to use the magical function of the ring to impress Luo Yao mentally. Although he has always refused to believe in any gods, Mrs. Lu believes them, and she believes them from the bottom of her bones. In fact, except for Liu Xiu, everyone didn't think that this ring was an artifact. In order to retrieve this ring, Zhang Jiao did not hesitate to take a risk.
"Can it work?"
"It will work." Mrs. Lu said with confidence.
"That's good." Liu Xiu responded, followed Mrs. Lu into a room, dragged Luo Yao in, and locked everyone else out of the door. Wang Zhi massaged Luo Yao's body a few times, Luo Yao slowly woke up, moaning in pain, opening his swollen eyes, and looking at Liu Xiu and the three of them resentfully.
"Senior brother, you were really wrong this time." Mrs. Lu squatted down and untied the rope from Luo Yao's body. Luo Yao looked at her puzzled, sitting on the ground regardless of her image, rubbing her swollen and sore wrists, biting her lip, and looking at them without saying a word.
"Senior brother, the general is not an ordinary person, he is the messenger of the Yellow God, and he is the walking of the Emperor of Heaven in the world."
"Yellow God Emissary?" Luo Yao was stunned for a moment, and his eyes showed surprise.
"Exactly, otherwise how could we obey him." Mrs. Lu helped Luo Yao up and glanced at Wang Zhi. Wang Zhi walked up to the oil lamp, raised his palm and waved it, blowing out the oil lamp. The room was darkened, and only vague shadows could be seen. Liu Xiuqiang held back a smile, coughed, straightened his back, looked at Luo Yao with a straight face, and rubbed his thumb lightly on the ring.
The room suddenly shone brightly, and a bright fire appeared behind Liu Xiu, the flames swayed, there was no sound, no heat, but it illuminated Luo Yao's face clearly.
In the void, a majestic voice came to mind: "Ignorant Luo Yao, the Yellow God Messenger has appeared, and you are not kneeling yet!" ”
Luo Yao's eyes widened, he held his breath, looking at Liu Xiu, who was as solemn as a god under the firelight, his legs were weak, he knelt on the ground, kowtowed again and again, and said urgently: "Luo Yao visits the envoy, and I would like to hear the envoy's decree." ”
Luo Yao, who was suppressed by the "artifact", immediately showed his true colors as a senior religious person, and no longer dared to have any disrespect for Liu Xiu. He and Liu Xiu came to Chang'an, and according to Liu Xiu's instructions, he summoned the believers to Guanzhong Tuntian, and after arranging it, he also pleaded sincerely, General, I will be a close servant like Senior Brother Wang.
Liu Xiu didn't promise him, Luo Yao's Taoist skills were excellent, but his martial arts skills were too bad, and he was not a qualified servant. However, he gave Luo Yao an honorable task. You go to the vicinity of Luoyang to inquire about the news for me, especially with some people in the Daomen, to see if there is any news of Yingzi, and by the way, see what Zhang Jiao has done.
Luo Yao agreed without saying a word. Before leaving, he told Liu Xiu the key to the dragon form, he said, the dragon form is changed from the monkey and tiger shapes, among the twelve forms of the Five Elements Technique, the dragon form is the final destination, and the other eleven forms are practiced to the extreme, they will become dragon shapes, and the speed is extreme, but the effects of different forms are different, such as the tiger shape into the dragon shape, it will have the power of the tiger, the monkey shape into the dragon shape, it will have the dexterity of the monkey, the crane shape will become the dragon shape, and it will have the lightness of the crane. He evolved into a dragon form after practicing the crane form for more than 20 years. His Burmese Concealment Technique was also perfected after entering the dragon form.
…… In the blink of an eye, the New Year of Light and Four Years is coming. After many bargains, Xun Yu and Wang Yun finally reached an agreement with the wealthy families in Guanzhong, according to the practice of merging the state, Liu Xiu gave up the profits of salt and iron in Guanzhong to encourage industry and commerce, and the wealthy families borrowed some money and grain to help him tide over the difficulties in front of him according to the agreement, and began large-scale tuntian after the beginning of spring. In addition to the land they owned now, Liu Xiu contracted the idle fields to them, and the harvest was distributed according to a certain proportion when the time came.
The agreement was reached, and Liu Xiu invited these people to dinner and imagined a better tomorrow together. Just when everyone was immersed in joy, Ma Teng rushed back from the Northland and reported bad news to Liu Xiu.
Yuan Shu was entangled by the Qiang people and is now surrounded in the area of Shegu Mountain.
Liu Xiu was taken aback, weren't the Qiang people in the northern area beaten to death, how could Yuan Shu be surrounded by them? This time, the Yuan family spent a lot of money in order to make Yuan Shu as meritorious as Yuan Shao. The Fufeng Ma family alone provided five hundred elites, not to mention the nearly 1,000 private troops composed of ranger swordsmen brought by Yuan Shu from Luoyang, plus the officials and troops of the imperial court, Yuan Shu had more than 5,000 people under his command, and the equipment was good, how could he be surrounded by a few rebels?
Liu Xiu asked Ma Teng, Ma Teng couldn't say clearly, he only knew that there were many Qiang people in the north, and Yuan Shu fought very smoothly at first, and it didn't take much effort to beat the Qiang people in all directions, but when they chased them to Shegu Mountain, countless Qiang people suddenly poured out of nowhere, and as a result, Yuan Shu was surrounded.
"My lord, please hurry up and save the general, if you don't go, he will die." Ma Teng was so anxious that tears came out. The Ma family's support for Yuan Shu is adhering to Ma Lun's meaning, if Yuan Shu wins this battle, he is likely to be recognized by Yuan Kui and succeeded to Yuan Kui's room, so that Yuan Shu is fully qualified to compete with Yuan Shao. Of course, the Ma family who supported him would also benefit. Ma Teng is a branch of the Ma family, and he also pointed to meritorious service and officially became a member of the core of the Ma family.
"Did you send a letter from Liangzhou Thorn History?" Liu Xiu remembered that Zhou Hong, the assassin of Liangzhou, was Yuan Kui's former official, and Yuan Shu was in trouble, so Zhou Hong could not sit idly by. "And Captain Huqiang, did you send someone there?"
"It's all sent." Ma Teng said, "But General Hou said that if the general doesn't go, everyone else can't be trusted." There are too many Qiang people. ”
Liu Xiu felt that this didn't seem to be right, this was the task of Liangzhou, he was ordered by the Son of Heaven to dispatch this war, just to do some backup work, it was impossible to fight in person, this kind of thing happened, it should be Liangzhou to appear, why did Yuan Shu have to ask him to come forward? Just because Yuan Shu trusted his abilities?
Liu Xiu did not dare to slack off, and while making preparations for the army, he sent a fast horse to deliver a letter to Luoyang. Chang'an to Luoyang is less than a thousand miles, and there is a gallop road to connect, and the fast horse can be reached overnight.
Three days later, Liu Xiu received an edict from the Son of Heaven, and it was Guanglu's doctor Ma Yueyan, who would go with Liu Xiu as a prisoner of the army. The Son of Heaven authorized Liu Xiu to command the Liangzhou Assassin Zhou Hong, the Bingzhou Assassin Zhao Yun, the Qiang Commander Zhang Ze, and the Xiongnu Zhonglang General Tian Yan, to take full charge of the affairs of the Qiang people and quell the Qiang rebellion as soon as possible.
Liu Xiu remembered the gossip that Bi Lan told him, and it seemed that the Son of Heaven really planned to teach him a lesson, not one money would be given, one would not increase the number of soldiers, and he would also want him to pacify the chaos, Lao Tzu is a god descending to earth? It's obviously a small shoe. Maybe the Son of Heaven didn't want him to rescue Yuan Shu, it's better to die, Yuan Shu is dead, the Yuan family will definitely refuse to give up, the Son of Heaven just dismissed his official position logically, which not only taught him a lesson, but also made the Yuan family suffer a dumb loss.
It's a two-pronged solution.
"Master Ma, we don't have enough soldiers." Liu Xiu said tentatively to Ma Yueyan. He is also telling the truth, he now has less than 2,000 troops, as well as more than 2,000 people in the Huya Battalion and Fufeng Battalion, plus the garrison in Zhuguan, he has at most five or six thousand people on hand. If there are countless Qiang people as Ma Teng said, his thousands of people will be in vain.
Ma Yueyan gritted his teeth, "Don't worry, my lord, I will come forward to ask the clans in Guanzhong to support your lord, and it shouldn't be a problem to get together another one or two thousand people." ”
Liu Xiu scolded secretly, is this Guanzhong of the imperial court or the Guanzhong of the family. He said that it was one or two thousand, naturally not all, and when these people arrived on the battlefield, they would only listen to Yuan Shu, not him, and the credit for winning the battle was also Yuan Shu's.
Fuck, if you don't have the strength, you can't do it, it seems that you have to establish a strong private force as soon as possible, time is not waiting, and if you delay it any longer, the daylily will be cold.
Liu Xiu agreed, Ma Yueyan personally came out to ask for help from various families, Liu Xiu was not idle, and asked the Song family for help, Song Xiao and Song Guo gave him more than 300 people, which is all the strength of the Song family, seeing that there were fifteen or sixteen-year-old children in the team, Liu Xiu was sad.
In the first month of the fourth year of Guanghe, Liu Xiu rushed to the north with more than 8,000 people pieced together. As soon as he arrived in Qi County, he received the news sent by Xu Rong that Zhou Hong, the assassin of Liangzhou, led the army to rescue Yuan Shu, and encountered the Qiang people in Didao, and unfortunately died in battle. Zhang Ze, the captain of Huqiang who was traveling with him, led his army to break through the siege and fled to Xiaoguan, where he suffered heavy losses.
Liu Xiu was dumbfounded, he had limited troops at hand, and he was still pointing at Zhou Hong and Zhang Ze's men and horses, this is good, there is no war yet, Zhou Hong is dead, and Zhang Ze is disabled.
Liu Xiu didn't dare to slack off, urged the army to advance quickly, and rushed to Xiaoguan two days later and met Xu Rong. Xu Rong was still so unfazed, but Zhang Ze was very angry, and when he saw Liu Xiu, he said angrily: "I want to go to the Son of Heaven, the people of Liangzhou and the Qiang people collude with each other and have bad intentions." ”
(To be continued)