Wan Linggen has arranged Huang Wencai and Zhang Feng here, Zhao Liancheng and Zhang Huairen have already ordered their warriors to set up tents in the open space outside the village, they know that Mrs. Yurui and Sha Man are the people brought by Wan Linggen, so they specially arranged the two of them in the middle, next to Wan Linggen's tent.

The torches in the tent flickered, and Wan Linggen, Zhao Liancheng, and Zhang Huairen sat on the ground.

Wan Linggen said: "Huairen, Liancheng, old general, have they reached the edge of the Yellow River?" ”

Zhang Huairen said: "Marshal, the old general and General Yue have already arrived on the bank of the Yellow River, and Lord Yang's iron bull has also driven over. ”

Wan Linggen was overjoyed when he heard this, and the sullenness that had been suppressed for a long time was swept away, and he continued to ask, "Old general...... Did they start plotting to cross the river? ”

Zhao Liancheng said: "Marshal, the old general asked us to bring a message, I'm afraid the matter of crossing the river will have to be pushed back." ”

When Wan Linggen heard this, his heart was relieved, and his nervous expression relaxed, Zhang Huairen and Zhao Liancheng glanced at each other, and asked strangely: "Dashuai, did you expect that there would be a change in the matter of crossing the river?" ”

Wan Linggen smiled: "I only found out after I arrived here. By the way, did you meet Han Ping's uncle and nephew on the road? ”

Zhang Huairen said: "Is the marshal talking about the grassland bow god Han Ping and his nephew Han Shulin?" ”

Wan Linggen nodded.

Zhang Huairen said: "We met them near Taiyang City, and it was from them that we learned that Dashuai was coerced in the direction of Datong, so we hurriedly chased after them, but we still let Dashuai ...... Hurt. ”

Wan Linggen waved his hand and said, "My injury is nothing. Tell me about the old general's situation. ”

"Good!" Zhao Liancheng responded: "I'll talk about it." ”

It turned out that since the oath on that day, the old generals Zong Ze and Yue Fei and others led the army to the garden ferry on the bank of the Yellow River, and after a little adjustment, they gathered people from all walks of life to prepare to build fortifications across the river, but at this time a series of extremely strange things happened.

First of all, Gaozong Zhaogou's holy decree actually went directly to the front of the army, clearly ordering Zong Ze and Yue Fei to collect their troops, and disarming the south to Lin'an to listen to the order, of course Zong Ze and Yue Fei could not follow such an order. However, as if he knew that they would not obey the decree, Emperor Gaozong issued twelve holy decrees in succession for twelve consecutive days, and each of them was accompanied by a gold medal, which meant that if they continued to disobey the holy decree, it would be equivalent to a complete break with the imperial court. In fact, what is the relationship with the imperial court, whether it is the current Zong Ze or Yue Fei, they don't care very much, but the herald of the last holy decree is none other than Li Ruoshui, a privy historian who has been in the center, he brought a very bad news, Emperor Gaozong detained Yue Fei's mother and his family who had not been with the army, and Zong Ze's family members were also under house arrest.

Zong Ze and Yue Fei were naturally very anxious, Li Ruoshui comforted the two, the prince had already ordered someone to guard them closely, in fact, they were called guards, but they were actually protecting, which made them relax a little. Asked why the emperor suddenly was so attentive to them, Li Ruoshui said worriedly that at some point there were two Taoist priests who claimed to be Maoshan around the emperor, who were regarded as national teachers by Zhao Gou, and almost obeyed the two of them, and this series of things was done by those two people.

Zong Ze and Yue Fei were puzzled, what did this Taoist priest have to do with them? And what Li Ruo said next underwater made them even more puzzled. It turned out that Zhao Gou was ready to replace Zong Ze, the temporary Kaifeng Mansion Yin, but if he was willing to rebuild the two towers that were destroyed, not only would the official position not move, but he would also be allowed to take the position of Taishi. Zong Ze and Yue Fei faintly felt a clue, those two towers almost made the creatures of Wanlinggen and the entire territory of Kaifeng come to naught and rebuild? That's absolutely impossible!

Li Ruoshui didn't know the reason for this, seeing that the two of them looked desperate, and knew that they couldn't force them, so he stopped persuading and stayed in the barracks that night. Who knew that at night, assassins came to the barracks, and the targets were Zong Ze and Li Ruoshui. Rao is Zong Ze was brave and still almost injured, while Li Ruoshui was stabbed in the leg by the assassin, Yue Fei and others arrived in time and caught one person, and the rest were all killed on the spot. When the assassin's veil was lifted, everyone was shocked to see that this person turned out to be a Taoist priest!

The Taoist priest didn't need them to torture at all, so he said something like the way of heaven and the like, and then inflated and exploded like a balloon, leaving not even a single cloth behind, and disappeared into the air.

When Wan Linggen heard this, his heart was already clear. Zhao Liancheng continued: "The old general felt that this matter was very inappropriate, so he suspended the plan to cross the Yellow River north, and sent the two of us to lead a thousand cavalry from Taohuayu to find the marshal, explain the matter, and ask the marshal to be more careful of those Taoist priests who are unknown." ”

Wan Linggen said in a deep voice: "The sword wound on my body is due to them!" ”

Zhang Huairen frowned and said: "Those people seem to have demon magic, and they will blow themselves up." ”

Wan Linggen summoned the two of them and whispered, "They are indeed not from our place. He told the two of them what he knew, and Zhao Liancheng and Zhang Huairen were dumbfounded.

Zhao Liancheng opened his mouth wide and asked, "That little princess of Shaman is also one of theirs?" ”

Wan Linggen nodded, "Although they are from the same place, they are obviously not all the way, we can use the contradictions between them to achieve the purpose of clearing or balancing, otherwise we will be too passive in the face of such a group of completely unpredictable people." ”

Wan Linggen suddenly remembered something, "Liancheng, are you from Taiyang City?" ”

Zhao Liancheng smiled mysteriously: "Dashuai, just now I was going to tell you about this, we took down Taiyang City." ”

Wan Linggen was stunned when he heard this, "Take it down?" ”

Zhang Huairen nodded and said, "Yes, handsome." When we came from Wangwu Mountain, we saw that the terrain was dangerous, so we asked General Yue to send 500 men to guard there, and all the grain, grass and baggage were placed there. When we arrived at Taiyang City, we found that there was no ruler in the city, so the brothers took his gate without much effort. ”

Wan Linggen secretly laughed in his heart, "Do you know where the chief official of Taiyang City is?" ”

Zhao Liancheng and Zhang Huairen are such smart people, hearing him ask like this, he smiled and said, "Could it be here?" ”

Wan Linggen laughed, "That's right, this Lord Zhang Feng wants to send a few of us to King Hailing to ask for merit." ”

Zhao Liancheng and Zhang Huairen also laughed.

After laughing, Wan Linggen asked, "You have taken Taiyang City, who is there to defend the city?" ”

Zhao Liancheng said: "It's the little generals Yang Zaixing and Yue Yun. ”

As soon as Wan Linggen heard the name Yang Zaixing, he became nervous, how old is Yang Zaixing, I'm afraid he hasn't decided yet, how can he defend the city? Later, when he heard that Yue Yun was also there, he breathed a sigh of relief and put his mind at ease.

He rubbed his left leg that was a little numb and said: "I asked Han Ping and them to go back, mainly for this purpose, let the old general postpone the north, first deploy defenses along the Yellow River, to prevent the Jin soldiers from going south to invade the Central Plains again, I will lead people to make trouble for them in the enemy's hinterland, it seems that I and the old general are really smart, and you came over before their uncle and nephew arrived in the army." ”

Zhao Liancheng and Zhang Huairen said happily: "Is the big marshal planning to take us with you?" ”

Wan Linggen nodded, "Two thousand of your men are enough. According to your original arrangement, we will pretend to be businessmen during the day, and make decisions at night according to the situation, so that we cannot show our strength until the critical time. He remembered something again, and said, "Also, you must tell every brother that you don't have to be polite to those strange Taoist priests, if you really want to fight, you must do a single blow to make a meritorious achievement and break their soul beads." ”

"Soul Orbs?" Zhao Liancheng and Zhang Huairen asked puzzled.

Wan Linggen carefully told them what a soul bead was and how to deal with it, and the two of them said with strange expressions after hearing this: "It seems that our set of sword techniques is specially prepared for them!" After saying that, the two of them laughed sadly.