The military top brass was ordered by the lieutenant to urgently gather more than 100 people. After spending Chinese New Year's Eve at home, these people bid farewell to their families on the first day of the new year, rode out of Zhongzhou on a fast horse first, and changed horses along the way to the post station where they received the notice, and arrived in Xiangzhou in only five days, while the chief catcher had just set off for a day.

After the military master met with the relevant personnel, in addition to tracking down the whereabouts of the madman, he also investigated the man in black who was taken away by the madman that night, that is, Shi Keqi.

But because Shi Keqi did not reveal his identity that day, he wore a headscarf to wrap his bald head, and his intention was vague, leaving very few clues, even if he invited a top portrayer, the portrait drawn according to the soldier's description was just a handsome young man, far from Shi Keqi, even if the whole city was plastered with bounty portraits, he was never found on his head, and the appearance of the madman was painted with two points of godliness, of course, the government would not use the title of madman, but called him a madman.

Xiangya Pavilion has started business on the 10th day of the first month, and the Zhenbei Martial Arts Hall has opened on the 17th day of the first month.

In the early morning of the twentieth day of the first lunar month, the sun rose as usual, and the military people continued to investigate the case, but more than ten days passed, and the scouts were also shooting at the same time to the surrounding prefectures and counties, and even the shadow of the madman was not found.

Shi Keqi is still the same, he should go to work, he should go to work and practice martial arts, of course, he is also prepared to be discovered, although he understands that the current level is found to be related to Li Sicheng's case, and it is definitely a dead end, but it is better to be prepared than nothing.

He would sometimes summon fireballs in remote corners to see if there was a way to increase the power of the fireballs, but unfortunately, he only returned to the original level of being able to shoot a dozen fireballs, and there was no progress, and the speed of firing fireballs was only slightly increased after many practices.

On the twenty-second day of the first month, a small incident occurred on the border of the Northern Zhou Empire, the cause of which was that the barbarian tribe broke through the defense line of the Great Wall of the border pass, entered Yanzhou and plundered, and was wiped out by the superior forces gathered by the border army. The imperial court was still very happy to receive the military report, rewarded meritorious soldiers, and sent a message to the twenty-four prefectures of eight prefectures to celebrate.

The barbarian royal court reacted violently, regardless of this season, and insisted on gathering some troops to retaliate. The Northern Zhou court was not very panicked, the barbarians and the Northern Zhou Dynasty had been at war for hundreds of years, the barbarian cavalry was invincible and the main attack, the Northern Zhou Dynasty had a strong wall and a high city, and the large and small ping pong had fought countless battles, although the Northern Zhou Dynasty lost more and won less, but the victory was in the number of people, and it was able to maintain a good and not bad situation for hundreds of years.

But the barbarians are no longer the original barbarians, it is becoming unprecedentedly powerful, the new generation of barbarian Khan Ukena with soldiers like a god, several years of conquest, the grassland was originally loose four tribes condensed into a rope, as long as he gives an order, the grassland soldiers can get a million troops, this is a force that changes the color of the world, the real elite iron cavalry is only 300,000, the heavy cavalry Tiefutu 30,000, the grassland ability of thousands.

The Northern Zhou Dynasty was still glad that the barbarians had not had a large-scale invasion for several years, that was the barbarian Khan who was busy unifying the grassland tribes and couldn't take care of the Northern Zhou.

The powerful foreign iron hoof vanguard was about to set foot on the fertile soil of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and at the same time, the young emperor Lin Rui of the Southern Dynasty worked hard to become strong. Can Beizhou really sit back and relax?

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I don't know if this story happened on the earth, or in another parallel space of the universe, there is a continent called Tonggu Continent, the continent has four distinct seasons, the temperature is suitable, the territory is vast, there are three human national forces, namely the Northern Zhou Empire, the Southern Empire and the Barbarian Royal Court, and there is a primeval forest stretching for thousands of miles in the southwest of the continent.

This year is the fourteenth year of Wude in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and the current emperor Yu Wenjian succeeded to the throne at the age of twenty-two, and changed the year name to the first year of Wude, and he has reigned for 14 years. The thirty-six-year-old emperor was in the prime of life, he had experienced a lot of ups and downs, no matter how difficult the process was, he survived, and the Northern Zhou Empire, which had existed for five hundred years, seemed to be able to continue.

The Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties were originally a country, but they were divided by a major event four hundred years ago, and the marshal Lin Tianyou won a key battle, and after returning to the Dynasty, he encountered the southern barbarians in rebellion.

The emperor then ordered him to take command and lead a patchwork army of 300,000 to the south, and it took three years to achieve complete success. Just when he was about to triumph, the young and strong Northern Zhou Emperor Yu Wentao died inexplicably, and he didn't have time to leave a will, leaving behind two princes who were still young, one was five years old and the other was two years old.

The eunuch Qiu Liang saw that there was an opportunity, colluded with some ambitious ministers to cause chaos, and fabricated a holy decree in the face of the world's disapproval, intending to set up the eldest son of the emperor who was only five years old to ascend the throne so as to control the government.

Who knew that after the praying mantis caught the cicada and the yellow finch, Yu Wentao's younger brother Yuwenhu took the opportunity to launch a mutiny, killed Qiu Liang and those ministers, and ascended the throne surrounded by sword and axe hands.

That night, there was a war of chaos, the queen and the two princes were killed, and Yuwen Hu claimed that Qiu Liang had killed them.

But Lin Tianyou didn't believe it, he thought that Yuwen Hu killed them, so he raised troops and called the emperor to seek justice. After some fighting, both sides were damaged.

Yuwen Hu had just ascended the throne, and all kinds of speculation continued to add to the unstable foundation, although Lin Tianyou was known as the rebel army, and also set up another royal prince as the puppet emperor, but as a courtier, he usurped this matter, which made the army's morale unstable and low.

Neither side can help the other. In desperation, Lin Tianyou retreated back to the south, and a few years later abolished the puppet and established himself as emperor.

This is the origin of the Southern Dynasties, and since then, the two have fought endlessly, winning and losing each other, but neither has really defeated the other.

Four hundred years later, the Southern Dynasty has long held the existing territory, and the Lin family has also become a legitimate royal family, although the Yuwen family of the Northern Zhou Dynasty still calls it a traitor from time to time, but a little saliva can help something.

On the first day of the third month of the fifteenth year of Wude, the barbarian Khan Ukona sent the general Hatgen to lead 30,000 iron horsemen south to Youzhou. Four days later, the eight-hundred-mile expedited document was delivered by the riders to the heart of the empire------ the palace of Wangzhou.

Every few days, the news of the barbarian invasion reached Xiangzhou Mansion, and the entire Xiangzhou Mansion was in an uproar, and the army masters and chief catchers who searched for the madmen had been ordered to withdraw, and the barbarians had not launched an attack of more than 10,000 people for a long time, and many people thought that the days would be as calm as before. Almost all the people of Xiangzhou are talking about this topic, or they are impassioned, or foaming at the mouth, or worried about tax increases, but everyone is not too worried that the barbarians will kill Xiangzhou, after all, there is a state in the middle of nearly 2,000 miles.

Time back to the day of the opening of the North Martial Arts Pavilion in the seventeenth town of the first lunar month, Shi Keqi specially asked the cattle shopkeeper for a day off and came to the martial arts hall to help clean up, and Xue Shiliu brought a large bag of things early in the morning to congratulate.

After the seat doors and windows were scrubbed clean and everything was cleaned up, Shi Keqi found Yan Yanping, who was sorting out the weapon rack in the side hall, and said that he would borrow a wooden sword to practice.

Yan Yanping smiled and said: "What else to borrow, give you one, I'm afraid that you will dislike it, and the spare new wooden sword will run out." She pulled out a wooden sword from a rack dedicated to wooden weapons and handed it to him.

Shi Keqi took the wooden sword with both hands and said, "Then thank you, senior sister." ”

Yan Yanping's big eyes flashed a few times, and she said with some curiosity: "Senior Brother Shi, have you ever practiced swords before?"

"No, I've never touched it, here Master Yan always asked me to stand on the horse, I'm about to stand on the horse. Senior sister, during the Chinese New Year, I pondered a trick by myself, and I always felt that something was wrong, so you can help me see where there is a problem now, and I won't delay your time for a while. ”

The atmosphere suddenly became very weird, Xue Shiliu, who was holding a clean rag that had been wiping things for a long time, laughed uncontrollably as if he had heard the most ridiculous thing in the world, and covered his stomach while laughing and made a gesture of rolling on the ground.

Yan Yanping also froze just now, but seeing Xue Shiliu's smile so exaggerated, she glanced at him and said, "Is it so funny, no one teaches Senior Brother Shi, it's not normal for him to dance a few times by himself." ”

Shi Keqi said seriously: "Senior sister, it's not a flurry, I want to use a kitchen knife to sharpen a wooden stick and a wooden sword during the Chinese New Year, maybe I'm too stupid, cut it back and forth or cut it into a stick." I had to use this stick as a sword, and I found inspiration in my hand, and I immediately created a move, which I thought was very powerful. ”

Xue Shiliu was sharpened into a stick and used as a sword by Shi Keqi's sentence, and his stomach hurt when he really laughed, and he squatted on the ground and couldn't get up for a while. Yan Yanping also laughed out loud, and immediately stopped: "Shi Keqi, don't be so funny." ”

"It's true, senior sister, don't believe me to practice for you. ”

Without waiting for her to answer, Shi Keqi lifted the wooden sword, pulled a beautiful sword flower, looked around proudly, and said, "Senior sister, please give me advice." ”

Yan Yanping looked at him and looked like him, and she wanted to laugh a little, but it didn't mean the same, but it was clear in the eyes of connoisseurs. Look at his flat end wooden sword stab, although the speed is very fast, but I want to laugh even more, how can there be such a sword practice, come up and stab flatly, revealing several flaws, especially the most serious in the next plate. Here he forcibly endured not laughing, and over there Xue Shiliu was already laughing out of tears, laughing and shouting loudly.

Hearing Xue Shiliu's exaggerated laughter, Yan Yanping laughed embarrassedly and glared at him, but it had no effect, but the next scene made her unable to hold it back.

Shi Keqi stabbed and collected the sword, but he didn't know if it was too strong or the posture was wrong, he couldn't hold it, and the wooden sword was raised upward, flew out of his hand, and smashed on his forehead. He covered his forehead with his hand and exhaled in pain.

Yan Yanping bit her lip tightly, and after a breath, she suddenly laughed, as crisp as a silver bell. She leaned forward and asked him to take his hand away, and when she saw that her forehead was smashed out of the purple mark, she knew that it was not in the way. Picked up the wooden sword from the ground and said: "This is a one-handed sword, swordsmanship, stabbing, gridding, washing, splitting, chopping, teasing, pumping, belting, pointing, etc., the speed you just stabbed is okay, but the force is too strong to make the arm too straight, if the enemy sideways to give way to immediately attack you in the middle of the road, you will not be able to save it." ”

"The enemy can't dodge my sword, so you don't need to save it. Skech chuckled.

“......”

Xue Shiliu finally stopped laughing, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but say: "Hey, hey, everyone comes to see the swordsmanship genius, he has never practiced swords, and he actually wants to create moves." ”