Chapter Twenty-Eight: Soldiers' Speed
With the departure of the Night Terror Hall, the court in Yutan Villa suddenly became a little deserted.
Dongfang, who was originally high-spirited, suddenly lost interest in this kind of child-like game because of the lack of Xinyi Gongzi's watching.
And the Queen Mother, who is as dexterous as a butterfly, no longer works as hard as Fang Cai, and begins to lazily walk on the court to touch the fish, or think about life when she is alone, and see that Hongyu is in a hurry.
Xuanji Zhenren's only hobby is to drink a lot of wine, and he has little interest in this kind of exercise, so after returning to the villa, he came to the Dragon Washing Pool.
There are no outsiders in the large hot spring pool, and there is a small table on the edge of the bath, which is filled with snacks, drinks, and a few books.
The naked empress, half-soaked in the pool, reading carefully with a book in her hand, her demeanor graceful and noble, looked like a diligent son who did not forget to worry about state affairs when she was sick.
However, after Xuanji Zhenren entered, the empress naturally put away the book, pressed it under the serious book, and asked:
"Why is Shizun here?"
Xuanji Zhenren sat on the edge of the bath, picked up the flask and poured himself a glass:
"I went out for a stroll just now, and I met an acquaintance, the current king of the Winter Hades of the Western Sea Tribes, you should know, right?"
The Winter Hades Department is one of the four major departments of the Western Sea, although the distance is quite far, but as the Son of Heaven, it is impossible for the Empress to not even know the main forces over there.
The inheritance of the Xihai tribes is quite long, among which the Winter Hades and Xuanhao are said to be the descendants of the 'Zhuzong' who was responsible for sacrificing heaven and earth in ancient times, and the name is taken from the name of 'Xuanzhi, the name of the far-reaching; The underworld, the name of the lonely', until now the patriarch is called Zhuzong by the clansmen, and in other tribes, the patriarchs also have messy titles such as 'Sima, Sikong'.
Although the origins are very profound, after all, there are too many tribes in the Xihai tribes, and outsiders can't distinguish them at all, and because the people in the Xihai tribes are very strong and can't be provoked, so the merchants collectively call the heads of the tribes 'Great King', which is a kind of joking and honorific title, rather than the actual princes and princes.
When the empress heard the words, she thought about it a little:
"The Brahma of the Winter Hades? It seems that she only took over the Winter Hades a few years ago, why did she suddenly come to Yun'an? ”
Xuanji Zhenren took a sip of the wine glass: "The Xihai tribes are full of backbones, and all the departments want to divide the territory and rebuild the Northwest Royal Court, but because they are not convinced by each other, there is no one who can be the leader, and the Northern Liang is a hindrance, and it has not been able to become the climate."
"The Fan clan still has a deep grudge against Beiliang, and has been looking for the reason why the Tianlang King clan suddenly started a family, and it seems that they want to follow suit. Last time in Wuzhou, I accidentally bumped into the Night Terror Hall, and then I moved my mind, probably wanting to abduct the Night Terror Hall to the Xihai Tribes to be the princess......"
When the empress heard this, she shook her head and said:
"The rebellion of the Xihai tribes to build the Northern Liang is a good thing for Dawei, but it can't be given by the night terror, so let her not make a bad idea. The Winter Hades Department has a high prestige among the Western Sea Tribes, and it may be useful in the future, since it is here, the master should entertain it well, and don't snub others. ”
Xuanji Zhenren blinked his eyes and said with a smile:
"I have my own measure of this, except that she can't move around, what else does she want......"
……
After the master and apprentice chatted for a long time, footsteps suddenly sounded outside the Dragon Washing Pool.
Treading ......
Seeing this, Xuanji Zhenren stopped talking, got up and came to the garden outside the hot spring pool, but saw Dongfang Liren, who was still wearing a hunting suit, and hurriedly walked over.
Xuanji Zhenren looked at Dongfang Liren's face, and knew that the situation was wrong, so he came to him and asked:
"Someone left, something happened?"
Dongfang Liren's face was quite serious, and he first took Xuanji Zhenren to the nearby tea pavilion, and then said in a low voice:
"Just now, a chief arrester ran over and said that in the dark pile of Sanhe Town, a team of people was found to have settled in the town, among which it was confirmed that there was the second leader of the Hongshan Gang, the 'Flower Head Buddha', and the leader was a middle-aged man who looked polite, suspected to be Jiang Zahu......"
"Jiang Zahu ......"
When Xuanji Zhenren heard this, his face sank slightly, knowing that the situation was not good-Night Terror Hall had killed Jiang Zahu's sworn brother a few days ago, and the Hongshan Gang rushed to the capital at this time, and they must have been looking for Night Terror Hall to settle accounts.
Now that she and the Night Terror Hall are guarding the empress in shifts, if Jiang Zahu runs in to stir up the situation at this time, there may be a big mess.
Xuanji Zhenren thought for a moment: "The Hongshan Gang is just looking for personal revenge, and they don't have the courage to rebel, so I'll take someone to warn them." ”
Dongfang Liren thought for a while: "Jiang Zahu is cunning and does not show his head all year round. Now that he has appeared, either Shizun and the Night Terror Hall will pass and destroy him directly......"
Xuanji Zhenren shook his head:
"I've been patrolling the capital for the past two days, and I've found something unusual, the prince of Yan Wang may have a secret plan, and I and the Night Terror Hall are investigating, but we haven't figured out the exact intention yet. Now that the Night Terror Hall and Jiang Zahu have encountered, they will definitely fight, and whether they win or lose after the fight, they will be damaged, which is not good for the safety of the saint. I'll just drive Jiang Zahu away in the past, and I'll settle the account with him later. ”
Dongfang Liren frowned slightly, thought for a while, and said:
"Jiang Zahu has few rumors of fighting, and now his strength is unfathomable, and Shizun took Meng Jiao and them over. I'll call the Night Terror Hall back first, so that the Forbidden Army can step up their defenses......"
……
Jingle bell~
At dusk, the old streets of Guantou Town resounded with the crisp sound of camel bells.
At the window of a noodle restaurant, Bird raised his head, looked at the big camel walking in front of the door from the corner of the window, and turned around and shook his wings: "Twitter~" to the night terror, it seems that he has been in the capital for too long, and he misses the northwest desert a little.
Night Terror Hall sat at the window, wearing a hat, with a bowl of steaming eggs and green onion noodles in front of him, looking at the big camel walking slowly outside the door, and there was a little nostalgia in his eyes.
In the autumn of previous years, it was the peak season of the dart business, and he should be running to the sandbar with all kinds of goods at this time, and he would take the dart board guys to eat a roasted hump when he arrived at the place.
Because the food in Honghe Town is not very good, those days are basically equivalent to the New Year for the birds, and they are looking forward to it every day.
Seeing that the bird and the bird were not eating, staring directly at the big camel of the house, the night terror hall took the bird back and put it on the bench, and comforted:
"That's a camel transported by someone, you can't eat it, and when I'm done, I'll take you to eat roast suckling pig, the taste is no worse than roast camel."
"Twitter......"
Zhe Yunli sat opposite, took chopsticks and poached eggs and fed them to the bird's mouth, and then looked at the caravan outside, and whispered:
"Shocking cousin, I feel that this caravan is wrong, and I have been walking around the streets all afternoon, as if I am looking for someone."
The Night Terror Hall also noticed that several merchants dressed as sandbanks were not normal, but their whereabouts were not sneaky, to which they responded:
"It doesn't seem to be in a hurry, it is estimated that the companion has drunk too much somewhere and lost contact. When I used to walk darts, Lao Yang also liked to drink, and once he was too drunk and slept directly in the stable, and seven or eight of us almost turned the town over before we found ......"
"Really......"
……
After handing over to Xuanji Zhenren in the afternoon, the two of them and a bird were here staring at the goods in the carriage and horse shop, waiting for the big fish lurking behind the scenes to come and pick up the goods.
But after a day and a night, there was nothing abnormal in the carriage and horse shop, until dusk, I saw a carriage coming from the direction of the capital, stopped outside the carriage and horse shop, and got down a middle-aged man dressed as a steward.
Night Terror Hall cheered up, and secretly observed with Zheyunli, and found that this person looked quite normal, and during the conversation, he lifted the oilcloth, took out a sauce cube from the wooden barrel and examined it carefully, and then hired a few people from the carriage and horse dealership, and began to load the horses.
Seeing this scene, the two wanted to secretly follow the convoy back to the capital and track the whereabouts of this batch of goods.
But before the goods on the carriage were moved, Night Terror noticed a fast horse running from upstream, and immediately sat a secret guard in civilian clothes, and when he arrived in the town, he began to search left and right.
Night Terror was afraid of startling the grass and snakes, so he quickly got up and left the noodle shop, came to the mouth of a laneway on the side of the street, and hooked his hand from afar.
Hoofs hooves dack......
The secret guard on the horse may have been told that after discovering the traces of the Night Terror Hall, he did not run to him with great fanfare, but just made a gesture from afar to let the Night Terror Hall return to the team quickly, and then turned the horse's head and left.
When Night Terror Hall saw this scene, he knew that Yutan Villa had something important to look for him, so he had to return to Yunli and instructed:
"I'm going back to Yutan Villa, you and Niaoniao are secretly following, remember not to act rashly, run directly if you have something." I'll come over when I'm done. ”
Zhe Yunli nodded, and with the birds, he quietly disappeared into the market crowd.
After the night terror saw Yunli leave, he didn't delay for half a minute, and galloped upstream along the river.
Guantou Town is nearly thirty miles away from Yutan Villa, but with the foot power of the Night Terror, it didn't take long to return to Yutan Villa at full speed.
In order to prevent the empress from going wrong, the Night Terror Hall and Xuanji Zhenren basically handed over seamlessly.
As soon as Night Terror Hall came to the Baishi Avenue outside the villa, he saw four people standing at the gate of the villa waiting, led by Xuanji Zhenren wearing a hat, and behind them were Meng Jiao, She Long, and the injury gradually left, looking like they were going out.
Night Terror came to him, slightly puzzled:
"What's wrong?"
Xuanji Zhenren pulled the Night Terror Hall aside, leaned into his ear and whispered softly, recounted the information he had just received, and then said:
"Shi Yanfeng is dead, Jiang Zahu will never give up, I will go and send people away first. Just stay in Yutan Villa, remember not to show your head and be found by the Hongshan Gang, you must preserve your strength at present, and everything is important for the safety of the saint. ”
Night Terror Hall didn't expect Jiang Zahu to kill him so quickly, a martial artist of Jiang Zahu's level, if he wants to run, a martial artist can't do anything in the past, and the two of them have no one to take charge of Yutan Villa in the past, he will inevitably have a fight, and at present, it can only be Xuanji Zhenren who will bring people over, and force Jiang Zahu away to wait for later.
With this in mind, Night Terror admonished:
"You go and go back quickly, don't drink on the way, don't do anything and go directly, no matter what the situation is, I don't believe that Jiang Zahu dares to chase you and fight."
"Of course I know."
After Xuanji Zhenren finished explaining, he did not delay, and left the villa with the three of them, and galloped towards the upper reaches of the Qingjiang River.
And when the Night Terror Hall entered the gate of the villa, he had just taken a few steps, and he felt that he and Xuanji Zhenren were really a little lacking in skills when they worked in two shifts, and they might make mistakes after a long time.
After pondering for a while, Night Terror turned around and came to the door again, and called a black yawat to catch quickly:
"Lao Wang, come over for a moment."
"Does the Night Lord have orders?"
"I don't have any orders, huh...... You take someone to the White Lion Bridge, and when you pass by on the bridge, talk about two sentences: 'The Yuquan estuary is a good nest, which is full of saury more than a foot long. ”
"Huh?"
Hei Yazhu blinked quickly, a little inexplicable:
"Muddy nests? A saury in your early reaches? ”
"It doesn't matter. Go ahead, remember to be natural, don't be too deliberate. ”
"Understood, my subordinates will go."
After the night terror hall saw the black yayu run out of the door, he entered the door satisfied......
On the other side, above the Qing River.
The river breeze is gentle, and a small cargo ship full of cargo has its sails bulging and slowly sails upstream in the setting sun.
The cargo ship was flagged with the banner of the merchants of the capital, and only two people who looked like boatmen walked on the deck.
And in the small cabin under the cargo ship, the gray-haired Zhong Sun Yan, carrying a cloth bag in his hand, sprinkled the brownish powder between the many wooden barrels, and said:
"The evening breeze blows to the northeast, as long as a few fires are lit, the thin smoke blows straight down Yutan Mountain, and when the two thousand forbidden troops stationed near the mountain villa notice that something is wrong, there is already chaos......"
In the cabin, Fang Shijie, who had a goatee, looked at the Banshan Manor in the distance with a telescope, with three doubts between his eyebrows:
"I only noticed something strange last night, and I will do it directly today, will it be too hasty?"
Zhong Sun Yan shook his head and sighed: "The soldiers are very fast, you don't even understand this truth, you still want to support His Royal Highness the Prince to win the emperor's reign?"
"Thinking about the worst of things, if the river thief on the boat last night was a member of the imperial court, and the traces of the black feather grass had already been discovered, then one more day of delay would give the court one more day of opportunity to prepare.
"I've already arrived, and the weather is suitable, so if you don't do it now, what do you want to wait for?"
Fang Shijie thought for a while, frowned, and said: "Yutan Villa has a special secret room for refuge, and the Broken Dragon Stone can't be entered at all when it falls, which is enough to drag the garrison to come to the rescue; His Royal Highness the Prince originally meant that he would arrange for the dark pile to destroy the Broken Dragon Stone before he started, but now he hasn't found a chance, and if he does it directly, he can only work together to break the door, if he doesn't open it, ......"
"As long as I can stop the masters around the empress, I wait for so many people, and I can still be blocked by a stone?"
After Zhong Sun Yan arranged the lead, he stood up:
"The old man is an expert in the Yin people, he can see the situation clearly, and it is very risky to do it now, but there will definitely be no more suitable opportunity in the future than now. If you don't have the courage, let's just stop it, just as if nothing has happened, His Royal Highness is still the prince, I can also take the money and leave, no need to take this risk. ”
Fang Shijie rubbed his fingers lightly, and after a moment of silence, he sighed lightly:
"It's already on the bow, how can there be a reason to retreat."
Zhong Sun Yan bowed slightly, then took out the fire fold, lit a stick of incense, put it at the end of the lead, and then turned to leave......
On the other side, in a manor along the Qingjiang River.
The manor is the private property of the prince of Yanwang, who has been bought a few years ago, and you can see the Yutan Mountain and Furong Pond in the distance, and the scenery is extremely beautiful.
At this time, in the viewing building at the back of the manor, the elegant Oriental Shuoyue spread his arms at the window, let his subordinates wear dark golden armor, and looked through the bead curtain at the majestic mountain villa in the distance, which was the commanding heights of power in the world, and it was also the position he had sent people to the fence for ten years, and he longed to sit on it every night.
Now that success or failure is all in today's battle, Dongfang Shuoyue Rao has already made up his mind, and there is still a little uneasiness in his eyes, and he asked:
"Are you sure that the news you put can lure Xuanji real people away?"
The room was quite large, and outside the door were more than thirty warriors dressed in black, all of whom were masters and masters recruited by the green bandits.
Teng Tianyou, who is the connector of the green bandits, sat down behind the long case, with the architectural layout of Yutan Villa in front of him, and responded:
"There is eyeliner on it that is planted in the Hongshan Gang. On the day of Shi Yanfeng's accident, I sent the news to the Hongshan Gang. In order to save his brother, Jiang Zahu did bring the second master over, and it is said that he also brought 100,000 taels of silver tickets, probably to redeem Shi Yanfeng. I sent Jiang Zahu's whereabouts to the imperial court, if the imperial court doesn't care, will it be difficult to wait for Jiang Zahu to knock on the door of the Night Terror Hall?
"Ordinary people are not qualified to talk to Jiang Zahu, Night Terror Hall and Xuanji Zhenren must have to go over, if you are lucky, maybe both of them will pass, only the empress herself can sit in Yutan Villa, if the empress has no combat power, it will be equivalent to an empty city ......"
Dongfang Shuoyue shook her head and said: "According to the eunuch report of Yutan Villa, the Night Terror Hall and Xuanji real people patrol in shifts, and there is no gap. Usually the defense is so tight, the empress doesn't have any ability to protect herself, and the two Wu Kui will inevitably leave one by her side. If it is Xuanji real person who stays, what is the chance of Lu Daxia winning? ”
Opposite Teng Tianyou, there is also a long case, and behind the case sits an old man in a brocade robe with a cloak, his eyes are quite flat:
"If the old man does not spare his life, neither of the Night Terror Hall nor the Xuanji Zhenren is afraid, and the two of them are sure to stop it when they join forces."
The old man in the brocade robe spoke very wildly, and even a little arrogant, but everyone did not laugh, after all, the old man's name was Lu Jieyun, and he was the absolute overlord who ruled half of the rivers and lakes of Yanzhou.
Among the eight great kui, Lu Jieyun ranked first from the bottom, and he didn't even have the title of 'Sword Leader, Sword Saint', and respectfully called him 'Yanzhou Overlord' and 'Yanshan Eagle King', and the disrespectful ones were directly 'Lu Ran Run' and 'Lu Busheng'.
Because Lu Jieyun is good at light skills and body techniques, no one in the Eight Great Kui is sure to touch him, and he also does not dare to touch other Wu Kui, basically he is the first to meet anyone, and his reputation is not very good to be honest.
Lu Jieyun's 'late bloomer', at first he did everything to climb up like ordinary martial artists, and then relied on his light skills to stand alone in the world, and won the position of the eight leaders in his early thirties, and he should have been honored for his fame.
As a result, after hitting the top of the mountain, he found that he had become a 'phoenix tail', the eleventh among the top ten masters, and now he is the oldest and youngest among the eight great kui, and he doesn't even have a decent name, which is unacceptable for people who climb to the top of the mountain with strength.
For this reason, after Lu Jieyun sat in the position of the overlord of Yanzhou, he did not rest on his laurels, but continued to climb up, hoping that one day he could take a step forward, get rid of the name of the Bakui boss, and become the top three of the Bakui.
But this road is obviously difficult, Lu Jieyun got acquainted with King Yan when he couldn't find the direction, and learned the 'Dragon Elephant Diagram' from King Yan.
Lu Jieyun specializes in body and light skills, the number of paths has been qualitative, and the strength is definitely not strong, and the dragon elephant diagram belongs to the treasure that can be reborn, after Lu Jieyun learned it, the frontal combat power has indeed improved.
But the Ming Dragon Diagram also has the disadvantage that it takes too long, and there are obvious shortcomings in practicing one, such as the Dragon Elephant Diagram, if you practice for too long and the strength is too strong, the bones will not be able to hang the flesh, and it is possible to punch out and break your bones first.
Lu Jieyun got the Minglong diagram from King Yan, he couldn't pass the news out, and the imperial court couldn't give him the jade bone diagram.
Before embarking on this road of no return, Lu Jieyun, like all the pioneers, felt that with his own natural understanding, nothing would happen.
But after the fact, like all forerunners, by the time the problem is discovered, it is already too late.
Pondering the Minglong diagram by yourself, there is no such thing as only pondering one, because 'muscles, bones, skin, spirit, spirit' is a complete set, either practice three, or practice six, and only two cannot produce qualitative changes.
Lu Jieyun is not as greedy as the empress, and he only pondered the three pictures of his muscles, bones and skin, but he does not have the same good understanding as the empress, and the mistakes are much more obvious.
About ten years ago, Lu Jieyun found that there was a dull pain in the bones all over his body, and then bone spurs began to grow, some of which even pierced the internal organs.
In the case of certain death, he had to take a risk, and deduced the fire bath diagram, and then every once in a while, he cut open the skin and flesh, file off the bone spurs, and then use the fire bath diagram to recover from the injury.
How terrifying the pain of skin and bone fracture is, ordinary people can't imagine at all, Lu Jieyun wants to turn back, but his body has changed, and he can't return to his original state at all, either he can find the Ming Dragon Diagram to repair the flaws in his body, or he is completely crazy in the skin and bone fracture again and again, and this premise has to be done by other Ming Dragon Diagrams.
Lu Jieyun knew that now was not the time to seize the unification, but he was already in his sixties and couldn't afford to wait, so he could only carry King Yan behind his back, conspire with the prince of King Yan and the green bandits, and come to the capital to fight to the death.
After Lu Jieyun finished speaking, he looked at Dongfang Shuoyue again and asked:
"But after a desperate fight, the old man may not live long. If the prince is sure that the empress is dead, he will be able to get the jade bone map? ”
Dongfang Shuoyue nodded: "The empress has no heirs, as long as she dies violently, the Great Wei will be a group of dragons without a leader, I have sent someone to inform my father, the matter has come to this point, my father can't wait if he wants to, so he can only quickly lead troops into Beijing to compete for the throne." As long as my father arrives in the capital, the overall situation has been decided, and borrowing the jade bone map is not a matter of one sentence......"
There are still two young people standing behind Lu Jieyun, one is Lu Jieyun's closed disciple Xu Tianying, the young master of the Jieyun Palace, Lu Jieyun's recognized heir, who is less than thirty years old and is already known as the future overlord of Yanzhou.
And the other beside him is Tang Yudan, who has just returned from Tiannan, the second senior brother of Jieyun Palace, who is older than Xu Tianying, but his strength is weaker, and he is generally cultivated towards the master in charge of financial communication, which is also a descendant.
Tang Yudan heard several people discussing success or failure, and after being silent for a long time, he suddenly interjected:
"When I came back from Tiannan, Cao Aning said, 'I'd rather meet Fengguan City than see the Night Hades', saying that the Night Terror Hall is very lucky to pass through the Heavenly Evil Gate, let's be careful. I asked him to come to the capital as well, and he said that unless the night terror hall died, he would never set foot in the capital for half a step......"
Dongfang Shuoyue put on a dark golden mask and looked back:
"Cao Aning is a scheming person, timid and afraid of things, but he doesn't dare to take risks. If Night Terror Hall is really as powerful as he said, how did he walk out of the capital with his subordinates safe and sound last time? ”
Teng Tianyou stood up when he saw that the sky was getting dark:
"It's almost time, it's useless to talk too much, let's go. I hope that tomorrow morning, you will all come back safe and sound to celebrate. ”
Lu Jieyun put on his cloak and got up, looked at the Yutan Villa in the distance, and spoke after a moment of silence:
"Tianying, Yudan, don't follow, go to Guankou Town and wait to receive His Royal Highness the Prince. If you don't go back to the teacher, go to Beiliang to settle down, don't think about revenge, people like Night Terror Hall, you can't kill the teacher, you will never be able to kill it, don't take the old road of being a teacher. ”
Xu Tianying actually didn't advise the master to take risks from the beginning, but he also knew that the master had no way out, so he just bowed down and retreated with his junior brother.
And Dongfang Shuoyue, wearing dark golden armor, took a long Shuo from the hand of the attendant, wiped his fingers over the black Shuofeng, and sighed softly:
"If you succeed, you will be the prince, if you fail, Yan will not return, and if you are defeated, you will be buried in Yun'an, and this hard life will be reversed anyway. Let's go meet my two cousins......"
Knock knock knock......
The footsteps were like muffled thunder, and in the huge courtyard, people were empty in a few moments......
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