Chapter 242: The Wind Rises
readx;? Three hundred miles north of Dingbei Town, there is a "city" with hard soil piled up into four walls, this earthen city that occupies no more than a dozen miles of land, is now densely packed with thick tents, and among these tents are stationed 100,000 soldiers of the Holy Domain. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
This is the border defense camp responsible for guarding the northern frontier of the Sanctuary and preventing the invasion of the beasts at all times.
The border camp has four camp gates in the southeast, northwest and northwest, and the two camp gates in the north and south are the most largest, while the east and west camp gates are closed all the year round, and the reason why four camp gates are set up is to prevent the beast army from raiding the camp in case the beast domain army can give 100,000 soldiers more chances to successfully escape, so as not to be caught in the urn.
Between the north and south camp gates is a broad road that can accommodate eight carriages in parallel, all of which are paved with gravel, although it is uneven to walk, and even a little clumsy, but this also effectively avoids the embarrassment and trouble of the carriage falling into the mud when walking on rainy days. This road is called the North and South Camp Road.
The big camp is centered on this north-south camp road, symmetrically distributed from east to west, and there are 1,500 huge camp tents in the east and west rows near the east and west walls, which are called east camp and west camp. In the east and west battalions, there are also the largest main forces of the entire border defense battalion, with 90,000 soldiers.
The remaining 10,000 people were distributed on both sides of the camp road close to the north and south, and the camp tents were much smaller than the big tents just now, and the scattered ones were much more sparse, and there were 300 small tents erected on the left and right sides. Don't look at the camp tents here are small and few, but in these 300 small tents are stationed in the big battalion commander Chu Lingtian's cronies guards, it is said that Chu Lingtian took this group of cronies to fight and kill, and then repeatedly made military exploits, only then did he achieve the prominent position of the commander of the northern frontier defense camp today.
The guards are divided into three parts from south to north, and under normal circumstances, the 100 small tents near the south camp gate are called the front camp, the middle 100 small tents are the middle camp, and the northernmost 100 small tents are the rear camp. Of course, in the event of a war, it is not uncommon for the rear camp near the northernmost part to change into the front camp.
Further north of the rear camp are two huge school fields in the east and west, which are the places where the soldiers practice on weekdays. Ma Rufeng, who returned drunk back then, was drunk in the big camp, and he fought from the front camp to the middle camp.
There was no deliberate separation between the small tent where the cronies lived in the guards and the big tent where the main soldiers lived, so the soldiers walked around the camp at will on weekdays, ignoring the difference between the big tent and the small account.
And one thing that has to be mentioned is that in the center of the middle camp, a large tent of the Chinese army comparable to the palace stands proudly on the north and south camp roads, this tent is extremely large, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it can accommodate a thousand people. The Chinese army's big tent is extremely powerful, both the height and the width are far more domineering and powerful than other military tents, the image of the tent is a similar to the appearance of a tiger's head, and the whole big tent will also give people a kind of tiger roar ready to go from a distance.
The ultimate in domineering! The extreme in might! The extreme in solemnity!
This large tent of the Chinese army is like a palace divided into several separate spaces, and this is also the place where Chu Lingtian, the commander of the battalion, handles military affairs and lives and lives.
It was early in the morning, and it was the darkest stage before dawn, and the whole camp was silent, and the soldiers who were in charge of the night vigil on the sentry posts were bored and dozed off on their spears, and occasionally a line of patrols passing by them would wake them up suddenly, and then nod and say hello to each other, and then they were drowsy again.
The camp had been stationed here for many years, but the real chaos had not happened once, which made the night vigil soldiers naturally lazy and lazy, after all, the daily vigil had long since made them lose their vigil and sharpness.
At this moment, in the entire border camp, I am afraid that only the Chinese army tent is still brightly lit, and the rest of the military tents will be filled with occasional snoring, and there will be no other movement in the black pressure.
In the big tent of the Chinese army, directly in front of the general's platform, sat a short but unusually strong black-faced man, this person sat there the general's platform has almost blocked his chest, it can be seen that this person's height may not be more than six feet, unkempt hair and a black face that people dare not look at directly, it is not difficult to see that this person's temperament must be an unruly and rugged man, in addition to the charcoal-like black face is an unforgettable impression, the pair of big eyes like copper bells under the two thick eyebrows also look particularly mad.
The whites of this man's eyes are very few, two jet-black eyes occupy almost his entire eye socket, but they form a rather subtle fusion with the complexion of his face, under the high raised bridge of the nose is a rather beautiful eagle hook nose, the color of the two thin lips is neither red nor black, but a deep purple in between, at first glance people can't help but misunderstand that this person has no lips at all, and countless short hairs on his chin are inserted upside down like steel needles, and the feeling of toughness and toughness is achieved overnight. Although his figure is not burly, it gives people an extremely strong sense of heaviness, as if every inch of muscle in his body is as hard as iron, and contains endless strength, making people dare not show the slightest toughness in front of him.
This person is the current commander of the defense battalion here, Chu Lingtian!
In addition to Chu Lingtian, there were still a few people sitting in the big tent, including Ma Rufeng and Yu'er, who had just rushed back to the camp. In addition, the rest are Chu Lingtian's cronies, and one of the middle-aged men with a goatee is Chu Lingtian's left deputy general, and he is also the military advisor he relies on the most, Fan Jiang!
"General, when the subordinates came back, they couldn't bring back the head of the person surnamed Liu, and I ask the general to forgive me!" Obviously, Ma Rufeng had already told Chu Lingtian what happened on the way back just now, and now he was kneeling down in front of Chu Lingtian's general's platform, and he pleaded guilty again and again with a guilty face.
"Stand up!" Chu Lingtian stretched out his hand and scratched his unkempt hair, and then said casually, "A big man kneels down at every turn, it's really not good at all!" Chu Lingtian's voice sounded quite gentle, far less rough than his appearance.
"One-eyed, tell me about the man in black who saved you!" Fan Jiang, who was sitting on the side, kept rolling his shrewd eyes in his sockets, only to see him gently pinching his goatee with his hand, and asked curiously, "That man in black really didn't tell you who he was?"
"Fan Jiang, I'll tell you again solemnly, it's to relieve the siege for me, not to save me!" Ma Rufeng accused quite dissatisfied, "Lao Tzu can deal with the surnamed Liu, and I don't need anyone to save me!"
"Okay, okay, I'll help you out of the siege!" Fan Jiang knew Ma Rufeng's temperament, but he didn't argue with him, and still asked with a smile, "Then you really don't know that person?"
"That's the person sent by Lord Lan, how can he know him?" Without waiting for Ma Rufeng to speak, Chu Lingtian was the first to open his mouth and say, "Since you said that you have already seen Prince Lan Chen in the Border Guard Mansion, then presumably the people sent by Lord Lan to pass on the order should also arrive together!"
"What does the general mean......" Fan Jiang looked at Chu Lingtian with a suspicious expression.
"Yu'er!" Chu Lingtian didn't pay attention to Fan Jiang's question, but instead turned his gaze directly to Yu'er who was standing behind Ma Rufeng, and then said with a gentle face, "Go back and tell Mrs. Zhao, just say that the people on Lord Lan's side have arrived, so that Mrs. Zhao can go back to the Beast Domain at any time to pass on her life! As soon as the news from Lord Lan's side arrives, the major event we have been preparing for so many years can officially begin!"
"Yes! Yu'er wrote it down!" Yu'er said but was not in a hurry to leave, but still stood there timidly, looking at her hesitant look, as if she wanted to say something but did not dare to say it.
"Yu'er, do you still have something to say?" Chu Lingtian frowned slightly, and then asked, such a gentle voice coming out of the mouth of such a fierce and vicious person always gave people an indescribable weirdness.
"General...... I...... I think I was arrested by the people of the border guard mansion this time, and the things that my wife explained were not done, but I was afraid that I would ...... I'm just afraid ......" Yu'er said several 'I'm afraid' in succession, but she couldn't continue to say the following words after all, but Rao is like this, Chu Lingtian, who understands it, has already understood.
"Haha...... Yu'er rest assured, General Ben will send someone to tell your wife and ask her not to punish you!" Chu Lingtian happily agreed, "As long as the big thing is completed, how many fresh hearts does she want? Why rush to this moment, you also tell her for me, now is the critical moment, everything must be based on the overall situation! If the big thing of Lord Lan is delayed, then she will never have a chance to fiddle with her beautiful face again!"
"Yes! Yu'er has written down all the general's words, so I'll go back and tell Madame," Yu'er couldn't help but feel happy, and then hurriedly owed a slight debt to Chu Lingtian, and then couldn't wait to turn around and leave the big tent of the Chinese army.
"General......
"Needless to say! You wait for yourself to go back and prepare, all battalions and departments are ready to fight, this time is going to reorganize military discipline, the so-called raising troops for a thousand days and using troops for a while, your place of use is about to arrive!" Chu Lingtian didn't give anyone a chance to ask any more questions, he suddenly stood up and said loudly, there was no longer the initial gentleness in his voice, replaced by an irresistible order, "Do you understand?"
"Yes!" all the generals stood up in unison and promised to Chu Lingtian together.
"General, we've been waiting for this matter for so long, what are we waiting for?" Ma Rufeng asked with excitement in his eyes.
"What are you waiting for?" Chu Lingtian's gaze slowly fell into the darkness outside the tent door, "Wait for a person from the north! Now that the person has come, there is only one order left to do it!" After saying that, the corners of Chu Lingtian's mouth actually raised a strange smile that was incomprehensible.
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In the Border Guard Mansion, the courtyard where Lan Chen and his entourage lived was pitch black, only in the most corner room, at this moment, there was a dim candlelight, and the candlelight through the paper window also quietly reflected a slightly gaunt figure.
In the room, the man in black in a night suit was sitting panting at the tea table, at this moment his left arm supported the tea table to prevent his body from falling down, while his right hand was always tightly attached to his lower abdomen, and the black scarf in front of him was now completely soaked with blood.
"Boom ......"
He had been doing this for almost two hours, and only now did he feel a little better, and his left arm, which was holding the table, slowly stretched out, trying to reach for the teapot on the table, and just when his fingers touched the teapot, a sudden cramping pain in his lower abdomen made his left hand tremble, and then his arm knocked over the tea around the teapot one after another, making a crisp and piercing sound, which was extremely loud in the night.
"Whew!"
The man in black's head seemed to be soaked with sweat, and he slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air from his mouth, then held his breath again and stretched out his hand to straighten a teacup, and then with difficulty he picked up the teapot and slowly poured the already cold tea into the cup, and then brought it tremblingly in front of him.
Looking at this cup of herbal tea, the man in black finally slowly moved his right hand covering his lower abdomen, and then his cold five fingers gently grabbed the black scarf in front of him, and then his wrist flipped abruptly, and the blood-soaked black scarf was instantly removed from his face, and at the moment when the black scarf fell, an old face that Lu Yifan and several people were familiar with and could no longer be familiar with appeared in the dim candlelight, this person turned out to be the old butler who had been following Lan Chen's side, Hai Lao!
Hai Lao is the man in black who intercepted Liu Sandao, and it is no wonder that Liu Sandao just had an illusion of déjà vu. Hai Lao has never made a move in front of Liu Sandao, so it is not surprising that he was not directly recognized by Liu Sandao under his deliberate disguise tonight.
"This Liu Sandao...... It's really a ruthless character...... It's even more difficult to deal with than I imagined......" Hai Lao trembled and picked up the teacup, and slowly put a cup of herbal tea into his mouth, until the herbal tea went down to his stomach, he felt that his lower abdomen was slightly softened as if it was burned, "This person doesn't have any soul power in his body, but he is so powerful...... With brute force alone, my dantian was directly shattered...... It seems that without three to five months of pranayama, I am afraid that it will be difficult to fight with people again...... Alas, I have been in the world all my life, but when I am old, I am planted in the hands of such a descendant, and I am afraid that it will make people laugh when I say it...... Alas, Lan Shixun deserves to be able to do the position of the Duke of Zhenbei, and his worries are indeed right...... This Lu Yifan is really unkillable...... There are many strange things around this son, and sooner or later it will become a big trouble...... Ahem......"
After saying that, Hai Lao coughed a few times again, and he hurriedly mobilized his soul power to slowly breathe for himself.
"Bang! bang!"
Suddenly, a regular knock on the door suddenly sounded from outside Hai Lao's door, and the first thing Hai Lao did when he heard this sound was to quickly blow out the candles on the table, and the room was once again plunged into darkness.
"Is there a Hai Lao living in the room?" A faint voice suddenly sounded from outside the door, and after a pause for a moment, the voice sounded faintly again, "A pillar of the southern sky is in Tianyu Mountain!"
"Who are you?" Hai Lao couldn't help but change his eyes suddenly after hearing this secret sentence in the back, and then frowned slightly, forcibly endured the injuries in his body, and pretended to be calm and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Lord Lan's secret report to Hai Lao!" The voice outside the door sounded again, and then I saw a letter sealed with wax oil, and someone stuffed it through the crack in the door.
After the letter was stuffed in, there was no movement outside the door, if it weren't for the envelope lying quietly by the threshold, I was afraid that Hai Lao would have thought that it was just an illusion.
Hai Lao slowly stepped forward to pick up the letter on the ground, there was not a word on the envelope, and when Hai Lao opened the envelope and pulled out a thin piece of stationery, the four lines of small characters of dragons and phoenixes appeared in front of Hai Lao's eyes.
"In the past, everything is due to the east wind, and today the east wind is coming!"
And when the old man took the letter away from his face again, his eyes, which were originally weak, suddenly exuded a touch of indescribable excitement!
"This day has finally come......"
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