The wind swept the snowflakes, pushing several fast horses that were riding against the wind, and under the impetus of the wind and blizzard, the three fast horses rushed into Handan City like three lightning bolts.

The soldiers guarding the city gate saw the three men on horseback, all of them standing upright, and they didn't even dare to move.

When the three horses disappeared at the end of the street, more than a dozen Jizhou soldiers on the side of the city gate let out a long breath, and one of the younger Jizhou soldiers whispered to his companions on the side: "What is the king of Luoyang doing when he goes out of the city in this snowy sky?" ”

"The king of Luoyang acts, don't you want to tell you that I can't do it?" His companion did not answer his question, but pursed his lips and said to him, "I will wait for the pawn, and when I see the king, just stand up straight, and let them find their faults!" ”

was rushed by his companion, Xiao Bing flattened his mouth, looking unimpressed, but he really didn't say anything more.

Liu Wei took Guan Qing and Zhao Yun into the city, and when they rode their horses along the snow-covered and empty streets to the official mansion, in an attic on the side of the street, a man about thirty years old was standing at the window, his brows furrowed slightly, and he looked at the back of Liu Wei and the others galloping outside the window with a solemn face.

"The king of Luoyang has returned to the city, and I think the matter has failed!" Behind this man, there stood a man with a slightly purple face, who looked like he had lived at a relatively high altitude for a long time, and this man bowed slightly and whispered to the person standing at the window, "Do you want to send assassins again?" ”

"We sent dozens of people, but the king of Luoyang and his party did not have a servant, and now they have returned to the city safely, even if they send assassins again, what can they do?" The man standing at the window slowly shook his head, sighed lightly and said: "If the king of Luoyang does not die, I will not be able to eat and sleep, and the lord will be called the emperor, I am afraid it is also ......far away."

Standing in the room, the purple-faced man lowered his head, and didn't dare to answer this sentence, but he faintly felt a little regretful in his heart.

When they came to Handan this time, they camped everywhere, and finally got closer to Lu Bu through the relationship between Gongsun Lan. From Lu Bu, I learned that the king of Luoyang was going to go out of the city lightly recently, and they searched in many ways, spending countless manpower and financial resources to find out the route that Liu Wei was walking.

Liu Wei, who was galloping along the street on horseback, was also depressed. Along the way, he wondered who would set up an ambush in the middle of the way.

Although Gongsun Chan has a heart, it is categorically impossible to temporarily install people, Mo said that it is snowing all over the sky and snow everywhere, and it is inconvenient to transmit information back and forth, even on a sunny day, it will take some time to reach Handan from the northeast of Jizhou, and Gongsun Chan has no chance to do so.

Yuan Shao is still loyal to the Han family at the moment, mobilizing the soldiers and horses of the entire Jizhou, and fighting to the death with Gongsun Zhan, but also to get more benefits through him, the king of Luoyang.

As for Gongsun Lan, on the surface, she is probably the biggest. Once this matter is said, I'm afraid everyone will be suspicious of her.

But Liu Wei never thought that Gongsun Lan would do such a thing at such a time, since Gongsun Lan was committed to Lu Bu, he must have a deeper plan, killing Liu Wei would not have too direct benefits to the Gongsun family in Liaodong, but would allow Yuan Shao and others to find a reason to use troops in Liaodong.

In Handan City, all the people on the bright side have ruled out the possibility, and the only thing that can explain this matter at the moment is that there are more powerful forces in this city, but Liu Wei and the Luoyang Army don't know, and Yuan Shao and the Jizhou Army don't know either!

pondered all the way, but Liu Wei didn't figure out who was going to attack him. But the assassin was lying dormant beside him, and this feeling was not good after all. On the way back to Handan, Liu Wei had already made a plan, and he was determined to let Deng Zhan investigate clearly and uproot this potential hidden in the dark.

"Call Deng Zhan immediately!" As soon as he returned to the official mansion, Liu Wei stepped into the front door of the official mansion and gave an order to an officer of Yulinwei who came up.

"No!" The officer of the Yulin Wei answered, and only after Liu Wei led Guan Qing and Zhao Yun straight into the backyard did he leave the gate of the official mansion and quickly ran towards the training ground of the Tiger Benwei.

A few days ago, the Tiger Benwei and the trapped camp fought, and the two armies were connected, although the Tiger Benwei was brave, but the coordination of the soldiers was obviously inferior to the trapped camp, and they were finally defeated in the hands of the trapped camp.

Although this was just a drill, all the Tiger Benwei soldiers and Deng Zhan regarded this defeat as the biggest humiliation since the establishment of the Tiger Benwei.

The snow was all over the sky, and the entire world was covered in silver. Although the days of falling snow are not as cold as those when the snow melts, training in the snow for a day is not something that ordinary people can endure after all. Including the barracks of the Dragoon Guard and the Yulin Guard, it was silent these days, except for the soldiers on duty, everyone else hid in the barracks, roasting the fire, enjoying a rare leisure.

In the Tiger Benwei military camp, at this time, the sound of killing shook the sky. Compared to the tranquility of other barracks, this barracks is much more noisy.

"Tuck your hips, straighten your waist, and use your arms hard!" With one hand pressing the hilt of the sword, Deng Zhan, who was dressed all over, walked back and forth in two columns of tiger guards holding simple knives and big shields, and shouted to the tiger guards as he walked: "The big knife stabbed out, you must use the strength of your wrist to use the strength of your wrist, and at the moment of standing out, you can suddenly exert force, so that you can penetrate the enemy's body!" ”

The Tiger Ben Guards, who practiced swordsmanship in formation, held a large shield in their left hand and stabbed out the Pu Dao Pingping with their right hand. Each of them had an indifferent look on their faces, and their expressions were as cold as frost.

Large snowflakes fell, and soon the shoulders and heads of the Tiger Ben Guards in the array were covered with a thin layer of white.

However, none of the soldiers moved, they didn't even blink their eyelids, and even though their bodies were covered with snow, they still maintained the posture of holding the Pu knife flat with one hand, trying to practice the movements that Deng Zhan had just taught to perfection.

Snow was flying in mid-air, and the barracks were covered in snow. The wind and snow stirred the robes of the Tiger Guards, and the crimson clothes flew in the wind, like a group of jumping flames, bringing a bit of warmth to this cold snowy day.

The orthodox sect was learning the combat skills of the Tiger Benwei, and Deng Zhan was just about to make them make the next move, when the Yulin officers who came to summon Deng Zhan on the order of Liu Wei ran into the barracks and ran towards him quickly.

With the rapid running, the bright red feather on the top of the head of the officer of the Yulin Guard trembled violently in the wind, and it was dazzling.

Running to Deng Zhan's approach, Officer Yu Linwei clasped his fists with both hands, bowed down and said to Deng Zhan: "General Deng, Your Highness is invited!" ”

"Your Highness is back?" Knowing that Liu Wei invited him, Deng Zhan was stunned for a moment, knowing that Liu Wei had just returned to Handan and asked him to go, he must have met something on the way, so he hurriedly waved his hand at the officer of the Yulin Guard, and said to him: "Quick, lead General Ben to meet His Highness!" ”

"No!" Officer Yu Linwei responded, stood sideways to the side, maintained a fist-hugging posture, and waited for Deng Zhan to go first.

"You wait to step up your practice, don't slack off!" Deng Zhan didn't immediately move his steps, he turned his head and shouted at the two thousand tiger guards who were lining up to practice behind him, and then turned around and walked towards the outside of the barracks.

Deng Zhan had only taken a few steps when a deep shout came from behind him. The Tiger Ben Guards, according to his teachings, practiced the tactics of charging into battle in the ice and snow.

The officer of Yulinwei, who led the news, walked out of the barracks and walked two streets, Deng Zhan suddenly stopped, his ears were propped up, and he listened carefully to the movement on the side.

Officer Yu Linwei, who was following Deng Zhan, also stopped, pressed one hand on the hilt of the sword, and looked around with a very nervous expression.

The wind and snow were very urgent, and the sound of the "whirring" wind was endless, standing in the middle of the street, but Deng Zhan's brows were tightly locked.

Standing only one step behind Deng Zhan, Officer Yulinwei, although he couldn't hear anything except the wind, the intuition he had cultivated from countless battles on the battlefield made him feel that there was a dangerous aura on this street.

This breath is very strong, although ordinary people can't feel it, but the officer of Yulinwei, who has experienced countless battles on the battlefield, can clearly feel a little breathless by this suppressed breath.

"Since you're already here, why are you hiding your head and showing your tail?" Standing in the middle of the street, Deng Zhan pressed the hilt of the sword with one hand, a smile pulled up at the corner of his mouth, looked ahead, and shouted loudly.

"A swordsman is really a swordsman!" Before Deng Zhan's words fell, there was a voice behind the house on one side, which was like a night owl screaming and making people listen to a very uncomfortable voice: "I just don't know why Deng Zhan, the swordsman who dominated the world at the beginning, would surrender to the account of the king of Luoyang and be willing to be driven by others?" ”

As the voice came, a person walked out of the corner behind the house, stood in the middle of the street, and stood opposite Deng Zhan.

The person who came out was wearing a light blue dark coat, but his outfit was a little different from ordinary people.

The cuffs of his deep coat were tightly bound with twine, and the cuffs, which should have been very wide, were tightly wrapped around his wrists under the twine.

This person stood still in the middle of the street, tilted his head slightly, and looked at Deng Zhan with a strange smile. There was another sound of rustling footsteps behind Deng Zhan and Officer Yu Linwei, and more than a dozen men in snow-white dark clothes came out of another alley behind them, blocking their retreat.

The white-clothed men who rushed out of the alley were all holding long swords and a pair of eyes, staring at Deng Zhan deadly.

Perhaps knowing Deng Zhan's swordsmanship, this group of men in white looked a little nervous, and even two or three people showed a little fear in their eyes.

"Who is Your Excellency?" The road before and after was blocked by people, Deng Zhan not only did not panic at all, but said very indifferently to the blue-clothed swordsman who was blocking the way: "Do you think that just by relying on these people, you can block a certain way?" ”

"If you can't stop it, try it to know." The blue-shirted swordsman pursed his lips, his face showed a hint of disapproval, and said to Deng Zhan: "If you can compete with Mr. Deng, even if a blood is splashed on the spot today, you will not be a swordsman in vain!" ”

"Huh!" Before the blue-shirted swordsman's words fell, Deng Zhan shook his head and said with a disdainful smile: "Sword competition is a swordsman looking for an opponent in order to practice, in order to achieve the purpose of improving swordsmanship. Your Majesty is blocking and intercepting today, and it is clear that you want to put someone to death. A duel of life and death, how can you compare it? ”

Being ridiculed by Deng Zhan, the blue-shirted swordsman pursed his lips, the strange smile on his face became much more gloomy, and he did not respond to Deng Zhan's ridicule, but waved his hand towards the more than ten white-clothed men who stopped Deng Zhan and the Yulin guard from retreating.

Seeing the blue-shirted swordsman waving his hand, more than a dozen white-clothed men held long swords, and approached Deng Zhan and that Yu Lin Wei one after another.

"In the past, a certain Zeng taught swordsmanship!" The men in white leaned over, Deng Zhan slowly pulled out the long sword from his waist, and while drawing the sword, he said to the officer of the Yulin Guard: "You stand back, today I will teach you the art of fighting alone, open your eyes, you have to see clearly!" ”