4-28 Admiral's Strength

Liu Ziguang came out of the palace wearing a python robe, which was similar to the dragon gon dress worn by the emperor, which was not among the official uniforms, but the eunuchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty were rewarded by En. It is considered a great honor to receive such a gift. In the previous dynasty, there were very few people who were qualified to wear python robes, but since the change of seizing the palace ten years ago, the gold content of python robes has declined, and the queen mother rewarded nine thousand years old, and finally made it possible for anyone with a little power to serve pythons. The high-ranking officers of the Jinyi Weidong Factory, the small leaders of the internal exercises, and the high-ranking and middle-level officials of the party who are attached to the eunuch party can basically be mixed.

Even the python robe has three, six, nine and so on, the prince uses apricot yellow and nine pythons, the king of the group uses purple and eight pythons, the first and second rank of the big people use red and five pythons, and the officials below use blue, stone blue, and five pythons. What Liu Ziguang was wearing was a relatively low-level blue python robe

, with a black veil on his head, a jade belt around his waist, and a golden python woven with gold thread on his body is no different from a dragon at first glance.

Wearing this dress is really enough to be offended, wearing gold and silver in the summer is like a singing, but the eyes of passers-by walking on the street are different, although it is a low-grade blue python that is also a symbol of respect, ordinary people can only hide when they see it.

Liu Ziguang rode on horseback on the street, followed by eight guards, the people on the street saw their style and avoided it, standing by the window on the second floor of the restaurant on the street, the Dongchang worshipper retracted his gaze, and asked the three brothers behind him: "According to you, is the snitch last night the same person as this person?" ”

"It looks like the body is very similar, but I observed it next to his horse just now, and there is not the slightest true qi flow on this person's body, if it is not very well hidden, it should be just an ordinary martial artist, with more brute strength than ordinary generals."

"Whether it's the snitch or not, this person is always a big trouble in Dongchang, since our brother has come out, we might as well solve this trouble for the Duke, and it will not be in vain for the Duke's kindness to us over the years."

"Even if it's not the snitch, there must be a lot of relationship between the two, let's move him, don't worry about the snitch who has great merit in the world not showing up."

"Okay, let's get rid of this evil for the governor today." The Great Offering listened to the discussion of the three brothers and made up his mind. The peerless light skill "Flying Immortals" they saw last night strongly stimulated the four of them, and after a sleepless night, they decided to find these two snitches no matter what, first, to snatch back the stolen Dongchang roster, and secondly, they coveted the secret book of this Flying Immortals outside the sky.

Liu Ziguang was walking majestically, and suddenly saw four figures jumping down from the restaurant in front of him, falling to the ground lightly like a feather, and naturally posing a diamond-shaped formation after landing, the noon in summer was hot and unbearable, and there was not the slightest wind, but the gray cloth clothes and white beards of these four people were unexpectedly windless, and an inexplicable aura of palpitations permeated the surroundings.

Liu Ziguang's horse also felt this murderous aura, and hissed a few times in the air with his front hooves, Liu Ziguang was furious, turned over and dismounted, and shouted at the four major offerings: "Why are you four old men blocking this official? Aren't you afraid of the government's punishment? ”

With a wave of the dust, Liu Ziguang and the guards' war horses were even more panicked, and they were restless and staggered on the spot, almost turning the knights upside down, but they didn't know that in addition to the steel wire, horse tail, and more than a dozen South China tiger whiskers in the dust, ordinary war horses were of course afraid when they smelled the smell of tigers.

"Immeasurable Buddha, poor and ridiculous. Dare to ask the person who came, but is it Lord Liu of the thousand households of the South Factory? "Da Worship was born in the whole body in his early years, and although he was later expelled from the sect, he still maintained some Taoist traditions.

"It's the governor, old man, if you have any grievances, you can wait for the yamen to build a case to deliver the complaint, and the governor will not accept the grievances on the street." In fact, Liu Ziguang had already recognized these four old guys as the four worshippers last night, but of course he had to pretend not to know.

"Yes, let me ask you, the person who trespassed on the Dongchang Library Building last night was assigned by you?"

"Say what? Ben Governor didn't understand, quickly dodge the road, good dogs don't get in the way, how can you old people not even be as good as dogs. ”

Seeing Liu Ziguang messing around, the four worshippers no longer talked nonsense with him, and waved weapons around them, the four of them had extremely high martial arts cultivation, strange figures, and unpredictable moves, which were by no means comparable to ordinary martial arts masters. Liu Ziguang couldn't help but be a little flustered, and said to himself: "Could it be that the predecessors of the masters in the rivers and lakes are all bullying the small with the big and the enemy with the outnumbered?" ”

"Hmph, our brothers are four people together to deal with one person, and four people are also four people to deal with a hundred people, take your life!"

"Shameless! Lao Tzu will let you see what it means to be an enemy today! Of course, they can't retreat when they are bullied in front of their faces, and those guards behind them are definitely not their opponents, they can only be sent to death when they come up, Liu Ziguang waved his hand to stop them from stepping forward to help in the battle, and drew his sword alone to meet them.

The common people who watched from afar only saw four gray shadows circling around a blue-gold shadow, and the sound of weapons clashing was endless, and a vicious fight was carried out in broad daylight.

I have to say that the four major offerings are the strongest enemies Liu Ziguang has encountered, although they are not as imposing as the thousands of troops and horses of the Qing army, but the martial arts are high, the tricks are exquisite, plus the internal strength is profound, and the end is difficult to deal with, Liu Ziguang's transformed body can provide far ordinary people's observation and reaction, as the so-called invincible, but fast and unbreakable, a fast word to make up for the shortcomings of his not learned advanced martial arts, a few simple tricks to learn when he was a fighter, actually blocked the joint attack of the four major offerings.

The more they fight, the more bottomless they are, often they have invaded the subtle tricks of half a lifetime, and they are resolved by a simple and almost childish action of the opponent, and no matter how fast they move, how deep the internal force is, the opponent can always parry, dozens of moves down, the four offerings have been convinced that last night's snitch must be this young man in a python robe, looking at his face does not change, I am afraid that it will be okay to fight a few hundred more moves, the master moves are like this, if you can't win within ten moves, I'm afraid that only a few days and nights of practice can divide the victory, the sound of hurried footsteps and the sound of armor blades rubbing against the street came from the street, it seems that the people of the Five Cities Terracotta Division have arrived, and the four worshippers glanced at each other, each of them shook a move, rose from the ground, and stepped on the roof tiles of the buildings facing the street and left.

The team of soldiers and horses who rushed to reinforce is Liu Ziguang's guards called over the five-city soldiers and horses patrol team, since this group of Shandong soldiers came, the hard work of patrolling the streets and keeping vigil was handed over to them, the former five-city soldiers and horses made the famous hanger Langdang, tired and heavy, never wore armor, occasionally walked a few laps on the street in order to collect protection money, bullying the people, now this gang of people is good, not only the armor and robes are meticulous, the night patrol is also very serious, since they came, street brawls are basically extinct, Such capable and obedient subordinates are of course likable, but there is one thing that is not good, these Shandong soldiers do not enter the oil and salt, and in addition to normal orders, they have always turned a deaf ear to the suggestion of collusion. He still talked about Liu Dashuai at every turn, which made the heads of the various yamen of the Soldiers and Horses Division very unhappy, whether this is our soldier or Liu Ziguang's soldier.

Today's incident is very typical, the soldiers are in the yamen to accept the instructions of the commander of the Dongcheng Soldiers and Horses Division, or called brainwashing, the brainwashing has not been half washed, a guy ran in and shouted: "Lord Liu has encountered an ambush." These soldiers jumped up like cats with their tails trampled, grabbed their weapons and ran out, unable to stop them and their little bosses.

Li Hongjie, the new commander of the Dongcheng Soldiers and Horses Division, is the cousin and nephew of the Empress Dowager Li, who usually considers himself a thousand-mile horse of the Li family, and has just become a commander and is ready to make a new official to take office with three fires.

Liu Ziguang's more than 1,000 soldiers transferred from Shandong this time were scattered and divided into five Terracotta Divisions, each of which had about 200 people, and the leader of these people under Li Hongjie was none other than Liu Ziguang's old subordinate Guizhou Fellow, who was asking Liu Ziguang with concern at the moment: "Is the handsome man injured, who is the thief who dares to treat you unfavorably, and his subordinates will bring people to tear down their old nest." ”

"It's okay, it's just a few thieves, as soon as you come, you'll be holding your head and running away, haha, it's Xiao Guizhou, you have two stars." Liu Ziguang patted Xiao Guizhou's shoulder and said. Although they changed into the armor of the Five Cities Terracotta Division, the honor of the Red Shirt Regiment, the rank of Sun, Moon and Star was still reluctant to take it, and they proudly wore it on their left chest.

"Bold Lu Ying, there is no general order to transfer troops without authorization, do you still have a general in your heart!" Li Hongjie rushed over angrily, followed by a group of soldiers and ruffians who also frowned.

"The situation is critical, and the standard is also a last resort, and the adults have no complaints no matter how they punish the standard." Little Guizhou Lu Ying simply took the responsibility on himself.

"I don't care what you did before, or what military exploits you have, as long as you are a soldier under my Li Hongjie, you have to be obedient! According to the military law of the Ming Dynasty, if you transfer more than 20 soldiers without authorization, you have to be beheaded, since you admit it, I will not be embarrassed for others, come here, take Lu Ying, and behead the public on the street! ”

Li Hongjie's stomach was full of anger, and his mind was full of thoughts of "Liwei, kill a hundred people", as for Liu Ziguang next to him, he just didn't see it.

"It's Commander Li, Lu Ying, they are also acting so recklessly to save Ben Du, you can give Ben Du a face, send his head for the time being, and atone for his sins in the future." In all fairness, Lu Ying's doing this is indeed wrong, no matter what, he has to save some face for his boss, but he is his old subordinate, if he is beheaded for saving himself, it will be something that Liu Ziguang will never allow. He only hopes that Li Hongjie can sell his face, get off the donkey down the steps, and beat him with a few sticks, after all, everyone now belongs to the post-party camp.

"Who are you sacred? Ben will discipline the department here, and it will not be the turn of outsiders to intervene. Li Hongjie turned his face to Liu Ziguang and said disdainfully.

Liu Ziguang's recent reputation can only be so loud, this guy actually pretended not to know, it seems that he is sincere in going against me, Liu Ziguang's face immediately pulled down.

"My general is the new commander of the Nanji Factory, the royal python robe and jade belt, and the big inner walk, these soldiers are also the old department of my general, how can they be regarded as outsiders." There is no need for Liu Ziguang to move his mouth, these words will naturally be said by the guards behind him.

"Who should I be, it turned out to be Liu Qianhu, and in a blink of an eye, he became the admiral, and the degree of promotion is dazzling, hum, what's wrong with the admiral of Nanchang, and what about the old department? As long as you don't become the commander of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, it won't be your turn to take care of this beach! After entering my Dongcheng Soldiers and Horses, there is still any old ministry to say, they are all soldiers of the imperial court, I am a soldier of Li, I say that I can kill it! Come! Do it! ”

Don't mention the Admiral of Nanchang, just mention this to arouse Li Hongjie's jealousy, and also wear a python robe and jade belt, and walk in the inside, all of this should have belonged to me Li Hongjie, but I actually let this outsider rob it!

Li Hongjie's entourage are all ruffians who have followed him for many years, and they all know that their master's cousin and aunt are the current queen mother, and the Li family is powerful, needless to say, if it is the people of Dongchang who are in conflict here today, they may retreat, but since it is a system, then there is no scruples, who can do anything to the cousin and nephew of the queen mother, so when they heard Li Hongjie's order, they immediately pounced, wiped their shoulders and tied Lu Ying with their arms, pushed them to the side of the road and kicked their knees, and kicked Lu Ying to his knees. This is where the knife begins.

The two hundred soldiers stood solemnly on the side and did not move, their nominal boss Li Hongjie and actual boss Liu Ziguang were here, so they couldn't take their turn to speak, but just looked at Liu Ziguang with a pair of anxious eyes, hoping that Liu Dashuai could save Lu Ying's life.

Liu Ziguang looked at all this coldly, and was anxiously thinking in his heart, Li Hongjie is the cousin of the Queen Mother, he knows this very well, now is the time when he is in the mix, and it is very unfavorable for him to rashly clash with him, after the election, the big wedding is imminent, and a competition between the three forces is about to begin, and now tearing his face will affect the Queen Mother's trust in himself, and the past efforts will be wasted.

Li Hongjie's attendant took out the saber, gestured at Lu Ying's neck, and raised it high, seeing that it was about to be chopped down, Liu Ziguang suddenly made a move, his movements were as fast as lightning, and he drew his knife to hold the slashed saber.

The hand holding the knife was shocked to the point of numbness, if it weren't for the knife rope wrapped around the wrist, the knife would have flown away, Liu Ziguang's cold gaze swept over a few followers who held down Lu Ying, and they involuntarily took a few steps back, and watched Liu Ziguang walk towards Li Hongjie step by step with the steel knife.

"What are you going to do?" Li Hongjie asked aggressively. A few followers behind him immediately pulled out their swords to protect him, and when they drew their swords, Liu Ziguang's eight guards also unsheathed their knives, and the two hundred Shandong soldiers even drew their knives in unison.

The onlookers were so frightened that they had disappeared for a long time, and the empty streets were full of murderous armed soldiers, and for a while they were silent, and they could only hear Liu Ziguang's footsteps slowly walking towards Li Hongjie.

Li Hongjie also wanted to draw a knife, but his wrist didn't obey the call, and the knives of the attendants next to him were also trembling slightly, if they hadn't been surrounded, they might have run away a long time ago.

Liu Ziguang walked in front of Li Hongjie, he was breathless with the oppression of his scattered anger, and a pair of fierce eyes stared at him so much that he didn't dare to look at it directly, all kinds of rumors he had heard in the past suddenly appeared in Li Hongjie's mind, the white-robed young general broke the Qing army's chain of horses, killed the first fierce general of the Tartars in front of the battle, captured Dolgon on a single horse, and thirteen manpower to defeat five hundred Dongchang fans, such a fierce general really wants to rise, even if he grows ten more heads, it is not enough for him to cut it!

"You ....... you ......" Li Hongjie didn't say a whole sentence for a long time, Liu Ziguang stared at him for a while, and said: "I, Liu Ziguang, have worked hard from a slave to today's commander of Nanchang, all thanks to the help of these brothers, Lu Ying is a brother who has followed me from birth to death in the iron factory, I must not watch him being beheaded and ignore him." Today's incident is my fault, because I did not govern the army strictly and did not teach them well, and I made amends to Lord Li. After speaking, he threw the knife away, lifted the python robe and was about to kneel down to Li Hongjie.

"How does this work?" Li Hongjie was so frightened that he hurriedly stretched out his hand to help, as a freshly baked commander of Nanchang, he actually wanted to kneel down and apologize to himself for a small soldier, if he really suffered this worship, then this matter would be a big deal, not to mention that he would form a bond with Nanchang from now on, even the Queen Mother would reprimand herself for being ignorant. Li Hongjie, as the son of an official eunuch, still has this kind of heart, since people have sold such a big face, they will accept it if they don't see it well, but they don't know how to raise it. While supporting Liu Ziguang, he ordered his followers: "Don't untie Lu Ying's rope soon!" ”

Liu Ziguang just made a posture to kneel, Li Hongjie's hand didn't reach him yet, he got up, his face changed, and he laughed: "Lord Li is really bold, this governor admits your love, I have a treat tonight Gone with the Wind, let's not get drunk and don't return." ”

"Thanks, well, there are still some things in the evening, let's change the day, hehe." Li Hongjie smiled dryly and excused himself, so he was scared into a cold sweat, let alone going to Gone with the Wind at night, he didn't have the courage to go to the Queen Mother's peach banquet. ”

"In that case, let's meet again another day." Liu Ziguang's kind smile was as bright as the June sun, and he couldn't see the ruthlessness of the knife he was about to draw a knife to kill people just now.

On the way back, Li Hongjie wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said with a long breath: "It was really dangerous just now." ”