Chapter Forty-Seven: The Phantom of Aldan City

"With this big victory, the Right Mighty Forbidden Army is the leader, without the deterrence of the Imperial Forbidden Army, it is impossible to win so easily" Dugu Tianxing first saluted the Captain of the Left Qin Chong, but when he heard this, Duan Yun couldn't help blushing even if he felt that his skin was thick and rough.

In the whole war, the right guard forbidden army did not put an arrow or cut a knife, the real role is to stand where to deter the enemy, even if not even a single enemy soldier rushed to the front of the forbidden army, but the forbidden army still had two recruits who were scratched by their comrades, and after the battle, they were waved by Dugu Tianxing's big hand and were wounded by the enemy.

In the end, the number of people allocated to the forbidden army was 18,000, Qin Chong did not want to accept it with a gloomy face, and the temple street team that sent the head was saying, "The head of a certain family said, if Qin Duwei does not accept it, please return to the Hailan Pao camp immediately."

Looking at the expectant eyes of his subordinate captains, Qin Chong had no choice but to accept it.

Yan and Tang have a system, kill ten enemies and give a hundred acres of land, and kill 100 enemies to seal the marquis.

There are more than 2,500 people in the 18,000 first ranks, more than six per person, how can it not make people warm.

Even if Duan Yungui is the son of the top ten generals, he is not the eldest grandson after all, although he has the shadow of the family and does not have to worry about food and clothing, but if he wants to have a good future, he has to think about it himself. Like Qin Chong, the son-in-law of the Qin family, although he is not the eldest son, although he is only twenty-seven years old now, he is already the captain of Zhichong, and in a few more years, the qualifications will be reached, and the marquis will be the general, and his eldest brother Qin Yong is already a loyal general, and the future general can be expected. Besides, even if you can't seal the marquis, it will be a windfall if you get a hundred acres of land.

Therefore, Duan Yun immediately put down the festival and happily discussed with his subordinates how to distribute the pie that fell from the sky.

There is a head send-off, so at this celebration banquet, Dugu Tianxing said that the forbidden army had the first military merit, so naturally it was no longer so abrupt.

Then there is the reward of the generals of the Far East, Duan Yun has always wondered, how can this merit have to be divided by the camp of the East Road, and these generals take it for granted that they have received the merits of Dugu Tianxing?

To say that Duan Yun is still in a daze, why did he win so easily in the wolf's den that day? Lieutenant Qin Chong organized several discussions among the captains of the forbidden army, analyzed and analyzed, and felt that it was too lucky to win this time.

The first is naturally that the Turks are too light on the enemy, and the 60,000 cavalry army cannot lose against the 30,000 infantry, so the Usumi reserve did not leave a single person, and the whole army attacked as soon as it came up, and there was no preparation for a stalemate at all.

Second, the Dugu Tianxing is too cunning, not to mention the Zhuge crossbow and thunderbolt cannon, the tripping horse cable arranged is too insidious, after the war, Duan Yun and Qin Chong went to check the battlefield, and found that the tripping horse rope hidden in the knee-high grass is not much thicker than a hair, four or five zhang in front of the formation, there is a row more than a zhang apart, and there is a row of thick wooden stakes at the mouth of the bowl deep into the ground, each of which is hidden tightly with grass, those wires have also been seen by the two, many blacksmith shop old craftsmen can pull out very thin iron wire and copper wire, and the chain mail is useful, Some people don't have gold thread wrapped around the hilt of the sword, so they go to buy this kind of copper and iron wire instead. Can it be used as a tripping horse? This wire is thousands of feet across the wolf's den for three or four miles, right? These wires are used to forge knives, and I am afraid that they can be equipped with a regiment.

However, the concealment was really good, and the forbidden army array was only a dozen feet away from the tripping horse line, but no one found it.

As for the third, Qin Chong and Duan Yun couldn't come up with it after thinking about it for a long time, so they could only be blessed by God.

The feast of the Aldan City Lord's Mansion was still going on, and Dugu Qiuqiu found a dozen dancing girls from nowhere who were dancing in front of the banquet.

After drinking too much, Dugu Tianxing clapped his hands and asked Dugu Qiuqiu to drive the dancing girl down, and took out a booklet, "Let's win Aldan this time, we have gained a lot, and the credit is false, only these gold and silver silk silks are real."

Dugu Tianxing squinted at Qin Duan and the others, "We're working hard to make our family live a good life, aren't we?" Therefore, except for the harvest left for the camp, the rest of us will go to collect it according to the book."

The people from the thirteen departments below naturally responded violently, Qin Chong looked at the scene enthusiastically, but with the conscience of a future general of the empire, he still gritted his teeth and asked, "Is this inappropriate?" The empire has a system, and the battlefield capture should be distributed by the supervising army"

"Haha, Qin Duwei doesn't know anything, there is an agreement with Dugu Dadu to protect them, the thirteen departments of the Far East will capture the city, and they will get what they get, of course, this time they will capture Ardan, and the soldiers of the forbidden army will be the first to take the lead, so the forbidden army will take the lead."

Qin Chong and Duan Yun had a chill, don't say that our forbidden army has the most credit, okay? We're going to blush.

"Besides, Ardan wasn't in the target of this expedition to the Mohe River, was he? We did it ourselves, which can be regarded as an unexpected gift for this expedition to Mohe. ”

Right Wei Wei Zhi Chong Du Lieutenant Qin Chong and Guo Yi Du Lieutenant Duan Yun were speechless.

Each of the generals present received a book and went away happily.

Even if he was prepared, when Duan Yun returned to the forbidden army garrison with what he had divided, Qin Chong was still taken aback, this was too much.

Duan Yun brought back more than fifty carts, most of which were leather goods, as well as two jewels. Duan Yun said proudly, those Lu Hanzi in the Far East only saw gold, silver and grain, how could these leather goods and jewelry be worthwhile.

There are thousands of various skins, dozens of tiger skins, nearly 100 bear skins, and everything like mink otters. Pearls of different colors are placed on the car in a wooden basin, each pearl is round and jade, jade agate is stacked at will, and a few huge dog's heads are particularly dazzling.

The lieutenants of the forbidden army surrounded and rummaged around, loudly estimating the valuation of these things in Kyoto, Qin Chong Qin Duwei's face was gloomy, and he gritted his teeth and rushed out of the camp and went straight to the Aldan City Lord's Mansion, Duan Yun hurriedly arranged for someone to collect the items and followed his own captain.

The warm pavilion of the City Lord's Mansion was noisy, Dugu Tianxing and several patriarchs of the Thirteen Far Eastern Divisions were sitting in a group, and Prince Keye of the Wandering Ghost Country was sitting opposite, and the four of them were playing games around a square table.

Duan Yun didn't remember that the people in Temple Street called this kind of game mahjong or horses, a bit like Kyoto leaf play, but the leaf play is a card, although it is carved with jade, but it is not as many cards as Dugu Tianxing they play.

One hundred and eight chapters on the table are square jade plates, pure white jade cutting, almost identical, the back is inlaid with yellow-brown cow bones, smooth and flat, there are patterns and words on the front, with blue and red colors, which is very eye-catching.

The people of the temple street call those words and patterns the tube Suowan, a tube two Suo 30,000 and the like, each category of four nine doors, as well as a few kinds of cards in the southeast and northwest, three in a sentence, called heaven, earth and people three talents in one, each family four sentences called the four seasons of fortune, another will, will be Yin and Yang and together, need to eat a word to get a card.

The people of Temple Street and the Thirteenth Division all say that this game was invented by the Demon Wolf Skystar.

It is a game, the Tang people like to gamble for fun, at this moment, the four people sitting at the table in the square have a wooden basin next to them, and there is actually Dongzhu inside, all of them are huge and full, and the color is round, Duan Yun can't help but swallow his saliva when he sees it, this one is enough for him to set up two tables in the Star Picking Building.

Dugu Tianxing was holding a cigar, rubbing the jade card in his hand, and when he saw the two captains of the forbidden army coming in, he didn't get up, but only shouted for Da Xiong to give up his seat.

Seeing that there were many people in the pavilion, it was inconvenient to speak, so he only kept a gloomy face and did not speak.

This game is the head of the Murowei tribe under Dugu Tianxing, Mo Hefu, the other three families each contributed five East Pearls, and the other tribe leaders Hu Dulu also muttered about the Kaiyuan Tongbao, and they were also bored with the village.

Patriarch Mohefu smiled and gave up his seat, "Are you in the mood to have fun with the two captains?" Gamble on mine. ”

"So-and-so came for that reward," Lieutenant Qin Chong gritted his teeth and said.

"Oh, but the numbers don't match? Shouldn't it? That's too little allocation? Dugu Tianxing asked, spitting out the smoke ring.

"Definitely"

"Understood, but it's not good to collect? It's easy to do, let Dugu Qiuqiu contact you, just a little fee, Far Eastern China Merchants Bank guarantees delivery to your homes in Kyoto. You can also directly find the China Merchants Bank to give the cash, report a certain name, and ensure fairness."

"That's a good feeling" Duan Yun hurriedly grabbed his own lieutenant, wanting to stop Qin Chong from talking nonsense.

But Qin Chong's force value far exceeded that of Duan Yundu, who was tired of training, Qin Chong pulled Duan Yun and continued, "A certain class is deserved, and it is not in line with the military system if it is privately divided, if it is verified by the prison army, it should be punished with death."

"Is there such a military system?" Dugu Tianxing washed the jade card with a cigarette in his mouth, the sound of the jade card colliding was extremely pleasant, and everyone present didn't care when they heard Qin Duwei's words, and continued to play hip-hop.

"Article 16 of the Seventeenth Prohibition: When the Lord is in charge of money and food, and when he gives rewards, he is intimate with his relatives and makes the soldiers grudge, which is called a bad army, and the offender is beheaded"

"Is there one?" Dugu Tianxing set up his own cards, "Captain Qin, look at it, although he is the captain of the Temple Street Zhichong Mansion, he has not yet reported to the Mohe Expeditionary Army, you see, these are the patriarchs of the Far East, this is the prince of the Wandering Ghost, his subordinates are mercenaries, you see, we are not imperial soldiers?" ”

"Twenty thousand" Dugu Tianxing threw out a jade card, "Captain Qin, there is no imperial army in our Aldan City except for your Right Guard Forbidden Army, we don't have any military regulations such as seventeen forbidden laws and fifty-four slashes."

"So, Qin Duwei, those things are given to you, if you want to keep them, let's have no such thing, why don't you accept them? Just throw it away, our thirteen departments and mercenaries fight for the empire, one doesn't want the military department to supply, and the other doesn't want the empire to reward and compensate, besides, now we are in the territory of the Turks, Qin Duwei, who are you using the Yantang military system to restrain you? ”

When Lieutenant Qin Chong heard this, his face became like the bottom of a pot, okay, he thought he was following a group of miscellaneous soldiers, but now it seems that he is following a group of wild soldiers.

But it was such a group of wild soldiers who did not belong to the imperial military department, defeated 60,000 cavalry of the Turkic Khanate, and captured a city equivalent to a county rule, thinking that there were 30,000 wild soldiers here who didn't care about the sky and the earth, Qin Chong and Duan Yun shuddered.

Demon Wolf Tianxing may have guessed what these two forbidden army captains were thinking, and continued to swallow slowly, "Don't worry, the two captains of the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate have reported our situation to the Ministry of War, and soon everyone's establishment will come down, you will be the soldiers of the Yantang Empire in the future, this time there are two Zhichong Mansion establishments, everyone, two Zhichong Captains, the reward of the five-grade guerrilla general, congratulations to you."

The people around them suddenly agreed, what their ancestors have been knighted by the imperial court for many generations, what their own family has accumulated virtue for many years of good deeds, what is grateful for the gifts of saints, and so on.

Qin Chongduwei's face turned pale, and he was speechless, so he had to surrender his hand and quit. Duan Yun stayed with a smile, saying that he wanted to learn this fun game, and he would show off when he returned to Kyoto.

As a famous gentleman in Chang'an, Kyoto, he has his own talent for playing, and after a while, the rules of mahjong are familiar, and the doorway inside is also touched, the more he ponders, the more he feels that the fun is endless, and after a while, he began to point out that this card should not be played, and it can be paired with it, and the card may be eaten by the next family to keep the card, and several patriarchs were stunned, Dugu Tianxing also smiled and said that we Duan Duwei genius also, and who will lose the book to take over.

As he was talking, the chubby Dugu Qiuqiu came in, whispering in Dugu Tianxing's ear, Dugu Tianxing smiled and let Duan Yun play to replace his own, saying that he had something to go out, and the gambling book was left with Duan Yun, and if he lost, he would let Duan Duwei take it away, and everyone continued to be happy.

Dugu Qiuqiu is the logistics captain of the wolf group, and the heavy responsibility of receiving Aldan City also falls on his head, and he began to look at the grain, grass and jewelry in a warehouse and couldn't help but be happy, and then fell into all kinds of headaches.

The prison of the city of Aldan is in the west of the city, and the gate is also carved with the image of a fierce carver, surrounded by stone walls on all sides, about five zhang high, and the head of the wall is spiked, and the end is extremely firm.

The Far Eastern tribes were stationed in Aldan, and most of the prisoners were Tang people, so they were naturally released, and some of the other alien races were killed and some were released, and now most of the cells are empty.

The place where the accident occurred was the underground stone prison, Dugu Tianxing took the big bear and dog Dugu Shen, followed Dugu Qiuqiu down the stone steps, and several Dugu Qiuqiu's subordinates were looking after their unconscious comrades.

Although the dungeon is now full of torches, it is cold to the bone, Dugu Tianxing looked at the unconscious wolf group soldiers a few times, a rune was drawn, and the three unconscious wolf group soldiers opened their eyes.

"If you are poisoned, carry it out to bask in the sun, guard the door, don't come in and don't allow others to come in," Dugu Tianxing commanded.

The dungeon is not big, there are more than 20 stone rooms, and the ground on the stone walls is full of moss, which seems to have been abandoned for a long time.

Dugu Tianxing took a dog bear Dugu God and Dugu Qiuqiu to walk inside, there was nothing unusual at first, and as he walked, he felt that the cold was getting stronger and stronger, and there were three or two stone houses close to the innermost room, and a dead air suddenly rose.

Dugu Tianxing stopped, Ah Dog Daxiong looked around vigilantly, and Dugu God's eyes lit up.

Dugu Tianxing and his closest brothers have all rolled through the sea of corpses and blood many times, even if Hailan Pao died in the battle of more than 100,000 people three years ago, they didn't feel such a strong death.

Dugu God and Demon Wolf Tianxing exchanged glances, maybe only the Blood Sculpture Ice Dragon had this momentum. Could it be that there is an unknown creature of the same level as the snow sculpture ice dragon in this place?

"It's a little interesting" Dugu Tianxing continued to move forward, and everyone followed.

This is a stone house that is not much different from other stone rooms. The damp stone walls are mottled with moss, and the low stone doors like other stone chambers are closed, but the difference is that there are no ventilation holes the size of bowls on the stone walls.

As soon as Tianxing turned his head, the big bear kicked at the stone gate, but the result was only a muffled sound, and the moss fell down a lot, and the iron bolt of the stone gate fell off, but the stone gate was not kicked open. The big bear kicked again, and still only heard the muffled sound.

Da Xiong looked at the stone gate in wonder, with his King Kong power, such a stone gate should be kicked away to meet his imagination.

"Stop, stop" Dugu Tianxing stopped the big bear's further movements and probed the stone house.

The stone walls of the stone prison are all made of heavy bluestone, which is polished smoothly and neatly, and the gap knife cannot be inserted.

Dugu Qiuqiu carried a long knife, Dugu Tianxing took the long knife, scraped off the moss and dirt in a place on the stone wall, revealing a few finger-thick lines, dark and scarlet, no need to guess, it should be painted with the blood of an unlucky ghost.

Dugu Tianxing scraped out of the high place, and the lines on the stone wall formed a strange pattern.

Dugu Qiuqiu stretched out the torch and looked at it, "What kind of ghost draw talisman?" ”

"Hey, it's a ghost talisman drawn by the Khanate stick shaman" Dugu Tianxing motioned for the Dugu ball to let go, stretched out his fingers, and a small fireball shot towards one of the lines intersection point, only to hear a bang, the fireball burst out and several lines of fire spread along the line.

After a while, there was a pattern composed of fire lines on the stone wall, Dugu Tianxing held his chin and looked at it, stretched out his hand again, drew twice, there were a few more lines on the pattern, and he heard a sudden sound, the wind rose on the ground, and all the fire lines contracted into a fireball, which was extinguished with a crackle.

"It's okay" Tianxing motioned for the big bear to kick the door again, and sure enough, this time, before the big bear could kick the door, the strong wind swept open the stone door.

The stone gate was not as close to the waist of the big bear, and Dugu Tianxing stopped the big bear from bending down and wanting to go in.

"The distinguished guests inside can come out," Dugu Tianxing shouted inside.

There was silence in the stone room, and just when everyone thought that there was no living thing inside, a note came from inside, "Gast Emodend"

Dugu Tianxing smiled, and also spit out a string of notes "Worit"

Dugu Qiuqiu and Ah Dog Big Bear looked at their boss adoringly, although they didn't understand the meaning of these two strings of notes, but it didn't prevent them from thinking that their boss was powerful.

After a dozen or so breaths, a figure appeared.

This is a human figure, half a head taller than Dugu Tianxing, under the light of the fire, waist-length silver-white hair is crystal clear, wearing a black water robe made of unknown materials, his face is pale but round, and his beard is neatly attached to his chin, although he doesn't know how long he has been in the stone prison, he still looks polite like a gentleman when he has just been released from prison, but the crow's feet on his forehead reveal that this is an old man.

The old prisoner bent down slightly, put one hand on his abdomen, "three kes"

Dugu Tianxing looked at "Ku Ah You" with a smile

The old prisoner looked up at the five people in front of him, the tall bear was wrapped in a bearskin half-arm robe, the short Ah Dog squatted and looked at himself with blinking bright eyes, the cold Ah Shen had sharp eyes, as if he was looking at his throat, the fat Dugu Qiuqiu held a torch and dragged a long knife to open his mouth and did not move, and the one in front was draped in black hair and a lazy light robe.

"Love, mother... The old prisoner smiled strangely, and suddenly his arm stretched out for no reason, and his five fingers probed Dugu Tianxing's neck like sharp claws.

Dugu Tianxing's smile remained unchanged, ignoring the sharp claws that attacked him, not caring that maybe the next moment he would become a chicken under the claws of the eagle.

The claw stretched out two feet in front of Dugu Tianxing, and a sword light resisted the heart of the claw, and Dugu God made a move.

The prisoner's eyes lit up, and he suddenly retracted his arms, and his whole body slowly rose into the air, his arms opened, and his black robe stretched, like a bat in the night.

The sword light flashed again, and the old man floated like a ghost in the stone room.

Dugu Shen stabbed out a few swords, fell back in front of Dugu Tianxing, and when he checked the tip of his sword, his pupils shrank, and the tip of the sword was shiny, but there was no blood.