A carrier pigeon came from the north and seemed to have flown for many days, until Bianjing, which slowed down. When it reached a magnificent place outside Bianjing City, it swooped down.

Overlooking this place, dozens of houses are built according to the topography, scattered and progressive. Ten steps in a room, a hundred steps in a pavilion, the east, west, north and south four pavilions respectively stand four sacred beasts, namely the Vermilion Bird, Xuanwu, Qingcang, and the White Tiger, and there are more verandahs to connect them.

The carrier pigeon swooped down and flew over the mountain gate on the north side of this place, and there was a gold lacquer plaque hanging above the mountain gate, and the three vigorous characters of 'Golden Knife Gate' were written on it.

No one knows how the Golden Daomen rose, and the people in the rivers and lakes just feel that the Golden Daomen has become famous in just a few months. In the past few months, Wang Yan, the master of the Golden Dao Sect, defeated dozens of masters in the northern realm of Qiyun in a row with a tiger-headed golden knife at hand, and became famous for a while, and then he opened a sect outside Bianjing.

Wang Yan, the master of the Golden Dao Gate, has not only incorporated some small sects into the northern realm of Qiyun since the Golden Dao Gate was famous, but also opened the sect wide to absorb talents from the rivers and lakes, many people in the martial arts rushed to worship the Golden Dao Gate first, these people are good and bad, including some scum of the rivers and lakes, but Wang Yan doesn't care at all, as long as the martial arts realm is high enough, even if this person does a lot of evil, he will not be wrong.

It is under Wang Yan's disregard for good and evil, the Golden Daomen has become another major faction in the rivers and lakes in just two years, and since then there is one more knife in the Qiyun Martial Arts of this temple, one view, two swords, and two swords, that is the Golden Daomen. In the past two years, the momentum of the Golden Dao Gate has even been chasing after the villa, and there is even a tendency to faintly cover it.

Then Wang Yan promoted the eight sword elders from among the Jianghu guests who entered the gate, guarding the four pavilions of Vermilion Bird, Xuanwu, Qingcang, and White Tiger respectively, and he lived in the East Vermilion Bird Pavilion of the Golden Sword Gate.

The pigeon flapped its wings and finally landed on a porch in the Suzaku Pavilion, and the pigeon paused to its feet, and just as it was combing its feathers with its beak, it was sucked into a room of the Suzaku Pavilion by an invisible force.

The interior of this room is extremely luxurious, with famous calligraphy and paintings, antique vases, and even the ground rotation is made of fine white jade.

In the east of this room, on an extremely precious Huanghuali chair, there is a person, dressed in a snow suit, wearing a wide robe embroidered with gold and black, and his long hair is tied in a bun on the top.

At this moment he was sitting in an extremely comfortable semi-recumbent position, leaning on the yellow pear chair, his dangling feet on a full lichen.

If you look closely at the lichen, you can see that it is made of a whole tiger skin, and this man's feet are stepping on the tiger's head.

The carrier pigeon from the north, is obediently in the hands of this person, this person stroked the pigeon, and then from the pigeon leg of the bamboo tube, take out a volume of secret letters, and then let go of the palm, the pigeon felt that the power to restrain himself disappeared, flapped its wings, quickly flew out of the window, towards the north, not long after, disappeared in the sky.

The man unfolded the volume of secret letters, which were densely covered with small letters, and if he did not come closer, he would not be able to see what was written, and the line at the end of the secret letter was particularly conspicuous.

'Wan Jun has been out of the north of the wild goose'.

The man gently stroked his chin and beard, a smug smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then he called, "Heng'er." ”

"Father." Hearing this man speak, out of the curtain behind his chair came a young man, about twenty years old, with a handsome face and a slender body, and the same snow coat, but he was not wearing a black robe, but a fur cloak was tied diagonally.

The young man walked quickly to his father's side and whispered, "What does my father command?" ”

The man did not speak, but handed the little secret letter in his hand to his son, and the young man took it, read it carefully, and returned it to his father, and then spoke.

"My father still has a way, this Wan Jun is too vigilant, Gao Lian has not succeeded three times or five times, and this time he finally left Yanbei City temporarily."

"Wan Jun has been guarding Yanbei City for many years, even if he is not in Yanbei, I am afraid that the border defense map of the ten counties in Yanbei is not so easy to handle." The man took the superstition handed back by his son, walked to the burning stove in the room, released his palm, and the secret letter slowly fell into the fire, burning in an instant, and turned to ashes.

The young man's eyes revealed a trace of ruthless excitement, and he said: "Even if it is not easy to get it, Wan Jun's life will definitely stay in Lingzhou this time, and it will not be in vain for us to catch up with Liuzhuang in Jindaomen." ”

"Heng'er, you remember, Wan Jun's life is not important, even the life of the person in the capital is not important, the important thing is that one day, our father and son will help my lord Ma to step on Qiyun." The man stood with his hands in his hands, and the fire in his eyes danced extremely brightly.

"But father, isn't this order to intercept Wan Jun and let the third grandfather pass it from the one in Beijing? Aren't we the ones who have always obeyed the orders of Jingzhong? The young man was puzzled.

The man glanced at his son, his eyes revealing a hint of love, and then he commanded: "There are too many reasons involved in this. Another day, my father is talking to you in detail, Heng'er, you immediately send a letter to Lingzhou, let Fei Wei and Liu Piaopiao, try to find out Wan Jun's whereabouts, and intercept the killing, and still follow the order of the one in Beijing. ”

"In addition, send my order to Yanbei City again, and order them to explore the General's Mansion and find out the defense map." After saying this, the man seemed to remember something, and called out to his departing son.

"After doing this, I will go to Yaozhou again and send a message to Lord Gao, saying that I will visit you another day."

"Yes, father, I'll do it." Then the young man went out of the house.

The man looked at his son's departing figure, and his eyes were full of relief. Then he paced to the window, pushed the window and looked north, which was the direction of the Jin Kingdom, and the past came to the fore in this person's mind.

On that day, the crying in Changzhou City was still ringing in his ears, and General Chun Yu only had the physical strength to slowly come towards Changzhou City on his horse, and the soldiers of the Jin Kingdom wept for this famous general of Jin.

Until General Chunyu's body was carried off the horse by everyone, the crying stopped abruptly, from the generals of the Jin army to the people of Changzhou, they all tried their best to hold back the crying, just want General Chunyu to leave quietly.

When he retreated into Changzhou before, the young general who was trying to persuade the soldiers outside the city was watching with tears as the soldiers carried Chun Yumeng's body into the city slowly, he was not only sad in his heart, but also resentful, but the words of the general were still in his ears, 'Keep the soldiers who can fight, and assist our lord to step on the Central Plains again.' ’

The young general wiped away the tears in his eyes and secretly swore to Chun Yumeng's corpse that one day, he would fulfill General Chun Yu's wish.

After that, the young generals studied hard and practiced martial arts diligently, day and night.

Finally, one day, a person came to his mansion, raised his hand to help the young general who was about to kneel, and then withdrew from the crowd and said: "General Wang Yan, this palace is rashly visiting, and I ask General Wang to take care of me." ”

The young general was panicked, because the person in front of him was the prince of Jin, Zongyan, the lord of the country at this moment, since the defeat of the army and returned to Jin, he heard that his injuries were getting worse and worse, and he was afraid that his life was already on the line. If the lord of the country dies, the one in front of him will be the monarch of the Jin Kingdom, which makes the young general not panic.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can move here. Come to Weichen's humble house, it is really the last general... Wechen is honored. The young general was frightened, and his speech was already a little stammering.

When Zong Yu heard the young general's words, he laughed loudly, and then sat down at the young general's desk, looking at the scattered military books on the table, Zong Yu actually took matters into his own hands, closed the military books scattered on the table one by one, and put them away in turn.

Wang Yan hurriedly knelt on the ground and said in fear: "The mess of the ugly house has disturbed the prince, and I hope that His Royal Highness the prince will forgive his sins." ”

Zong Yu smiled, raised his eyes and saw a game of chess and Go endgame placed next to the table, although the chess is different, the chess momentum is indeed the same, they are all a long-lasting confrontation, Zong Yu did not speak, just sat at the table and observed the chess game.

Wang Yan bowed his head and bowed to the ground, Zong Yu didn't speak, how dare he get up, only heard the sound of 'pop' and 'pop' in his ears.

Although it was only past the tea hour, Wang Yan felt that a few days had passed, and his back was soaked with sweat, and he finally heard Zong Yu chuckle and said, "General Wang, please get up." ”

After Wang Yan got up, he caught a glimpse of the chessboard, the endgame that had been bothering him for a long time had broken the game, and it had become a killing trend.

I couldn't help but be surprised, when I looked up, I saw His Royal Highness the Crown Prince looking at him with a smile, and I heard His Royal Highness the Crown Prince speak: "If you want to break the situation, you must know how to give up. Chun Yumeng used his life to teach you this trick. ”

Hearing that the crown prince mentioned General Chunyu, Wang Yan's chest couldn't help but rise and fall violently. He knelt on the ground and prostrated himself.

The crown prince took Wang Yan's actions in his eyes, then looked away and said slowly: "General Chunyu also taught me how to use soldiers... It's a pity that he has been buried in the ground, but he has recommended you before me. ”

"General Chun Yu recommended me?" Wang Yan is just a general who can no longer be biased under the account, although he has talked to himself a few times on weekdays, but he has never had much intersection with himself, how can he remember himself as a little person, and how can he talk about himself in front of the prince, but if it is not mentioned by General Chunyu, how could His Royal Highness the prince come to his own little-known little general's mansion.

Wang Yan was a little in a trance, but he heard the prince Zongyu continue to speak: "This palace originally thought that you should continue to study the book of soldiers, and when my Jin country has the ability to send troops again, I will entrust you with a heavy responsibility." ”

His eyes moved slightly, glancing at Wang Yan, Zong Yu seemed to see through the young general in front of him, and after a long time, seeing that Wang Yan was just kneeling silently, Zong Yan sighed lightly: "It's just that my country has been injured after the battle of no return, and the soldiers of the Jin State have been afraid of that Qi Lin, and in the next few years, our country will no longer be able to use troops." ”

Seeing that Wang Yan was still silent, Zong Yu picked up the chess pieces in front of him, slowly made a move, and said to himself: "If you don't enter the tiger's den, you can get the tiger." There is a pawn who crossed the river in this palace, but after the pawn crosses the river, he can only move forward, not retreat, if he wants to make a killing game..."

I saw the future king of the Jin Dynasty, the horse in his hand, gently dropped, only to see the river pawn to lead the other party to eat the child, the horse in the hand went down, the enemy ate the pawn but cut off the back road, cut off the back road of the handsome man, formed a stuffy killing situation, and then had no power to return to the sky.

Zong Yu raised his head and stared at Wang Yan, stretched out his fingers to twist the horse in his hand, played with it, and then handed the horse to Wang Yan and said, "I don't know what General Wang wants." ”

Only then did Wang Yan understand the meaning of Zong's delusion, and wanted to let himself be the horse that killed him, so he immediately kowtowed and said, "Wang Yan takes the order." ”

"Well, Hongu didn't look at the wrong person. Back then, I had installed a fine worker in Qiyun, and now this person is getting higher and higher, and this palace feels more and more difficult to control. This time you go, I will only pass on the order to him, let you assist him, and he will understand the intention of this palace. But you need to keep in mind that in addition to the main palace, at critical moments, his life can be sacrificed at will, without retribution. ”

"You are here, just accept talents for my dynasty to prepare for the future. Also, can you do something out of the ordinary from time to time to observe the reaction of the pawn, and if he admonishes you, it means that he is still somewhat faithful, and if he lets you go, you can cut him down immediately, can you write it down? ”

"Wang Yan is willing to be the stuffy horse, assist my master, and then set foot on the Central Plains."

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On the Suzaku Pavilion of the Golden Knife Gate, Wang Yan, who was looking north, recalled this, and slowly took out a chess piece from his sleeve, which had already been polished by rubbing, and it was a 'horse' in chess.

Looking back, a person wearing a cloak appeared behind Wang Yan, who was the Wang butler in Fan Mou's mansion.

"Uncle, don't worry, you don't need to say it, I have asked Heng'er to stop those things."

Wang Yan held the chess pieces tightly in his hands.