The vines opened, and Zhao Niannu also saw that amazing face, and she didn't know what she was thinking, so she took Zheng Lang's hand.

I didn't move into the cave before I got used to the darkness inside, but I saw it clearly this time, anyway, my identity was exposed, and Zheng Lang begged for a few women's clothes for Zhao Niannu to wear. However, there were still six Xixia people living in the cave, and Zheng Lang was afraid of an accident, so he deliberately let Zhao Niannu wear his hair and scatter it.

But I can see that it is a woman.

Equally strange, he asked, "Who is she?" ”

Zheng Lang shrugged and said, "She is Her Royal Highness the Princess." ”

"Your Highness the Princess?" Wu Yi's clan was startled at first, and then reacted, but the process in the middle was still unclear, and before they could speak, several Xixia people came over fiercely, separated them, pushed Zheng Lang, and said, "Boy, dare to approach the queen, die!" ”

Talking to his companions outside just now, he already knew the feelings of the Wu Yi clan for Zheng Lang.

This made several Xixia people very dissatisfied, no matter what, Wu Yi was the former queen of Western Xia, and was the idol in the hearts of many Xixia youth, why did he have an ambiguous relationship with this prime minister of the Song Dynasty?

Don't think that they are just warnings, in this claustrophobic environment, after staying for a long time, they are not in a good mood, they insult Zheng Lang many times, Zheng Langquan is the wind in their ears, and they also advise Zhao Niannu and Liang Huaiji not to provoke them.

secretly pinched Wu Yi's hand and motioned for her to stop talking.

However, the small hole is so big that it will not be able to walk away for a while, and it will become a problem to live. In fact, because of the inconvenience of life, Zhao Niannu wanted to die of shame many times, but fortunately, Zheng Lang persuaded him again and again to resolve the shame and anger in Zhao Niannu's heart.

The Tanguts had long been ready.

Relatively speaking, this area is relatively remote, and there are occasional barbarians who go to the small temple under the cliff to burn incense, and almost no outsiders come here. I didn't move to Huixi City for a few days, and the Xixia people had already made arrangements. I didn't make a move until the Moonless Festival was about to arrive, and I was afraid that I wouldn't rush back to celebrate the Moonless Festival. But secretly prepared well.

A few Tangut people, as well as a dozen reliable barbarians, quickly hung down some stones, plus soil, and a Tangut kicked the simple firewood door woven by Zheng Lang open, and then knocked down the rattan firewood wall, moving the nest for Zheng Lang and the three of them, moving them out.

A simple wall was built with stone and earth inside, a bed was moved, and a large number of daily necessities were moved, and the treatment was obviously much higher than Zheng Lang. Then he moved Zheng Lang's door and installed it, and shouted to Zheng Lang: "Dare to go in, die." ”

As he spoke, he wiped it on Zheng Lang's neck with a knife, but he didn't really wipe it, but the blade still wiped Zheng Lang's neck with a shallow bloodshot.

When the cave arrived, it was not wide, less than a meter and a half, and a simple chamber in the cave was quickly built. I didn't want Zheng Lang to lose the cheapness of the Yi family, in fact, this was a serious mistake, but at that time, including Zheng Lang, I didn't expect it.

There was no way, Zheng Lang had no choice but to build a wall with firewood and rattan with Liang Huaiji and move it out, but seeing the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the weather was not as cold as before. The reason why the wall was built was that Zhao Niannu was a daughter's family, and her life was inconvenient.

And Liang Huaiji.

But Liang Huaiji is a eunuch, what is the eunuch used for? Only Mother Li had a neurotic attack, thinking that Zhao Niannu and a eunuch had something to do. Yes, there is the relationship between the master and the servant, Liang Huaiji has served Zhao Niannu since he was a child, and Zhao Niannu regarded him as a relative. Ming Yingzong treats Wang Zhen as a relative and treats him in every way, is it possible that Ming Yingzong and Wang Zhen are comrades?

At this time, the stone chamber of the unmoved clan had been properly arranged, and the group left, and the six Xixian people re-lifted the stone thorns and blocked the entrance to the cave.

Wu Yishi poked the improvised wall with a wooden stick, and talked to Zheng Lang through the hole.

Speaking of words, the six Tanguts could not be silent. I was still unhappy in my heart, but there was no need to kill Zheng Lang because of this.

Zheng Lang only knew the news outside, and Zhang Kang forcibly went straight to Meishanman's avenue, which made him a little displeased. To conquer this place, force is indispensable, but force is the last resort to be used until it is absolutely necessary. If you use force, you must cause a vendetta. It can be used, and it can only be used after occupying morality. Even if a vendetta is formed, it is the fault of the barbarians, not the fault of the imperial court. Appeasement and division are at the heart of the policy. Just like Song Shouxin dealt with Peng Shixi, replaced by Zheng Lang, first alerted the notice, did not listen to the use of troops, and hurriedly used troops, causing a series of bad consequences.

Without this use of troops, Zhang Pingmeng would not have been able to win over Juyan Pass, and without Juyan Pass for the Tangut people to hide, he would not have been able to escape the scout of the Song Dynasty, unless he disguised himself as a merchant and stayed in Chenpu City. So is there any chance of an ambush?

But there was a piece of news that made Zheng Lang a little worried.

Hearing that something happened to them, several Niangniang and Cui Xian rushed from the capital to Tanzhou, which was suppressed by Zhang Yong, otherwise they would have come to Chenzhou.

Feeling the dissatisfaction of the Tangut people, the two of them spoke in lower and lower voices.

Wu Yi only whispered Zhang Kang's arrangement, but when she spoke, she looked outside with her eyes, and she was faintly worried in her heart. It was worse than she had imagined, it was a cave, but the entrance to the cave was blocked, and there were not only thorns, but also stones, not in the flat ground, and it was knocked down by hitting the wood. This is in the middle of the cliff, there is nowhere to borrow strength, even if the Song army comes, if they want to push these stones away, it will take a while, and this time is enough for six Tanguts to kill four of them.

The only good news is that he successfully threw the square handkerchief down, which is a signal that Zheng Lang is still safe in the cave here.

"I was careless," Zheng Lang sighed.

"Why was Her Royal Highness the princess also arrested?" Wu asked curiously.

Suddenly, a big man outside walked in and shouted, "Don't speak, or you will be killed." ”

It was not until this time that the Song army knew that the Wuyi clan had an accident again, and sent people to search, but the identities were different, the treatment was different, and the Xixia people opened a small stove for the Wuyi clan, but the Song army was very sloppy with the Wuyi clan, and only sent a dozen soldiers to search the vicinity hastily and go back to the business.

Actually, no, this group of people was closely watched by Song Jun.

Arrangements were made in advance, and it also prevented the Tangut people from having the idea of killing the Wuyi clan, and made some plans, such as judging that the Tangut people did not want the living Wuyi clan, and when they were killed, a few hunters would suddenly appear.

After all, these people's identities are exposed to death, and there are outsiders who dare not move, and there is still a danger if they don't move, but this danger can be minimized.

Or the Tangut people were not interested in the Wuyi clan, and they also had some arrangements.

More than a dozen people retreated to the giant rock village, but did not move, for fear of an accident in the cave. Then he began to focus on this cave and the giant rock pass, and after confirming that there were no other suspicious people waiting to enter and exit, Zhang Kang began to attack. At the beginning of the large-scale search, the officials of Huixi City did not know the severity, but the people above knew the severity, and there must be a connection between the Wuyi clan and Zheng Lang's disappearance, and the truth on the surface. Not really.

A Song army searched under the cliff, there were Song troops and barbarians, suddenly there was a dispute, the two sides beaten, the leading generals did not listen, beating, scolding, and making a mess. Several Tangut people also looked out curiously through the gaps, watching it as a good show. But fierce battles are taking place in the village of Juyan Mountain.

The following must be noisy, the sound of fighting in the distance is covered, in fact it is really not far, only two miles to come, pull a straight line but more than a mile, if there is no big play, the cave must hear the sound of fierce battle in the giant rock village.

The main force of the 1,000 Song army came suddenly, the battle ended quickly, and a general also rushed under the cliff to retreat the two sides and search into the distance.

A large number of scouts arrived, sealing off all exits from the cave. But the ten people who stayed in the cave still didn't know, only Zheng Lang knew that the action was starting outside, but he wouldn't say it.

All the prisoners were not taken to Huixi City, but to a river valley in the south, where Zhang Kang began to interrogate.

Of the five Tanguts, two were killed, one committed suicide, two prisoners, and more than 200 people.

The Xiwei people were tried first, and the Xixia people did not confess, so they had to bring the people with them, these people did not go through the coins, practice, and they were not deliberately selected dead soldiers, under severe punishment, a people began to confess: "There are still public ...... in the cave"

"Stop!" Zhang Kang immediately shouted.

He may not be the smartest person in the Song Dynasty, but as a generation of famous generals, his wisdom is not weak, at least much higher than Zhang Pingmeng.

One is still not a big problem, and the other is not a big problem, and when I read the three words together, Zhang Kang realized that something was wrong. The princess escaped from the Pony's Mansion and searched for months, and all the places she could go had already been searched, so where else could she go?

It turned out that Zhang Kang also felt that something was wrong, the place where Zheng Langyuan stopped was not far from Huixi City, the green reeds by the river were pleasant, the Beijiang River flowed from the north to the east, surrounded by green mountains, and occasionally fishermen were fishing, the scenery was very good, but it was a place that could be seen at the head of Huixi City. But it's different to go inside, a few low mountains, the mountains are not high, but there are dense miscellaneous trees, the sight of Jiangxi New Town is blocked, the woods are dense, easy to ambush, although the bamboo forest in front is good, Zheng Lang has too few guards. Originally, I thought it was Zheng Lang's carelessness, but now I think it's not, it is estimated that the princess took the little eunuch all the way south and rushed to Huixi City, Zheng Lang was overjoyed when he heard it, forgot the environment and rushed over, and said something for a while, so he let Zhang Pingmeng set up an ambush successfully.

But you can't make it public.

So in a big cave, Zheng Lang is not a eunuch, what will happen if he stays alone with men and widows?

Even if it doesn't happen, will outsiders think so? The doctor in the court has a powerful mouth, and Zhang Kang has tried it himself. Zheng Lang's career is in danger, and the royal family's face is not very bright.

still had to be interrogated, but Zhang Kang sent the idle people and others down, leaving only a few cronies, and continued to torture and interrogate, and came out after being forced to interrogate.

First of all, Zhang Pingmeng used 1,000 taels of silver to come to the village and bought the owner. This made Zhang Kang sneer, Zheng Lang's identity is only worth a thousand taels of silver? You can't buy it for 10 million taels of silver! However, considering these Xiaotong eyesight problems, it can be understood.

Then thirteen Tangut people infiltrated the giant rock pass, Zhang Kang heard that it was wrong, the number was wrong, but he soon knew what was wrong, one Xixia man went to the capital, and another followed Zhang Pingmeng as a herald.

Then the ambush was successful, because the Xixia people came to Tanzhou as merchants, brought some huge sums of money, and gave Juyan Pass 1,000 taels of silver and 200 taels of gold, which originally had hatred for the imperial court, plus so much silver and gold, Juyan Pass was bought by Zhang Pingmeng together.

In the end, even Zhao Niannu had to sleep with Zheng Lang to keep warm due to the cold in the cave.

Zhang Kang smiled bitterly when he heard this, this matter made a big fuss, and repeatedly instructed several cronies not to spread the word and continue to interrogate.

But when I heard a bad news, after being locked up for so long, to replenish supplies and daily necessities, some filth Six Western Xia soldiers crawled out to deal with it by themselves, but they didn't dare to go too far, and these materials had to be transported.

In order to prevent failure, there are passwords up and down, and they are very secretive, such as where to eat, where to drag another, even Zheng Lang has been in the cave for so long, he didn't notice it. Forced into the cave without a password, the people in the cave began to carry out the order of killing.

The idea was taken by Zhang Pingmeng, and the Tangut people adopted it, but its leader was afraid that Zhang Pingmeng would run around outside and run to Zheng Lang plus a Song Dynasty princess in his hands, and his hand was to grasp the password in his own hands, and the password was only known to him and the six Tangut people in the cave.

The Song army suddenly encircled and suppressed Juyan Village, and when they saw that it was not good, they suspected that the Xixia people had committed suicide.

Zhang Kang smiled bitterly again, this trick still came from Zheng Lang's idea, to prevent accidents in the spy battalion, most of them are one-line contacts, and it is not possible to see people, and there must be some secret passwords to be able to contact and ensure that the scouts on the front line will not cause heavy losses due to the appearance of traitors.

This one is a headache.

Originally, he wanted to use these captives and use their relatives as hostages to force them to lure the people in the cave to take Zheng Lang and his party out, or they had to use the people in the cave to enter the cave, mix in it, and suddenly attack and kill the enemy. However, because of a county order, several plans designed in advance all failed.

Zhang Kang had to wait for Zhang Ping Meng to come.

Zhang Pingmeng took the initiative to ask for a recommendation again, went to Wushan and Tian to investigate, and was ready to lead people to escape, and he himself had to be familiar with the escape terrain route. In order not to startle the snake, Yang Guiguo allowed him. The encirclement and suppression of Juyan Pass began, and Zhang Pingmeng was also ordered to be arrested.

On the third day, Zhang Pingmeng was brought back.

Zhang Kang continued to torture to extract a confession, and showed Zhang Pingmeng the oral statement written by his wife.

Zhang Pingmeng laughed miserably: "I really don't know the password, and the supply is once every eight days, today is the sixth day, if the remaining two days of supply are not sent in, Zheng Xianggong will definitely die." ”

Not only did there be only two days left, but another Tangut man absconded. Although the roads leading to the cliff were blocked, but the mountains were lush and forested, who could not protect the Xixia man from sneaking to the bottom of the cliff to inform?

Zhang Kang said angrily: "If you make such a big mistake out of your own anger, not only you, your wife and son, but also the clansmen who really help your family, what will happen to them?" ”

In Zhao Zhen's hands, there will be no extermination of the Nine Clans, but these people will definitely be implicated.

Zhang Pingmeng did not speak.

Zhang Kang said angrily: "Take it down and serve it severely." ”

That is, to go down, or to beat hard. But this is not the solution, the key is to save people.

Zhang Kang, Chong Ge, Zhang Ding, Peng Siyong, Li Suzhi, Li Zhang and other officials and generals arrived here at this time.

After thinking about it for a long time, there really wasn't much time, so I came up with a very risky method. There are a lot of things that Zhang Kang didn't say, especially the matter of Zhao Niannu, but there is no need to hide the matter of the unmoved clan, and it will still hinder Zheng Lang's reputation if it is spread out, so he can only choose the big and give up the small.

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