Huo Quzhi put one hand on the low seat in front of him, thinking quickly.

Motively, the two armies are at war, and when one side is in a bad situation, it is not surprising that someone wants to surrender.

Especially in the northeast corner of the Han Dynasty, the secret forces want to seize the land of several counties, and they have obviously prepared for a long time, manpower, layout, and preliminary arrangements, and used huge resources.

But in this case, being attacked by Huo Quai, he choked the strategic key point and turned from active to passive.

From the moment Youbeiping County fell into the hands of Huo Quai, the plan of the secret forces and Huainan to join forces took a sharp turn.

The turmoil this has brought to the forces in the shadows and the blow to their confidence is bound to be very heavy.

Bai Nanyu saw clearly that the secret forces were not opponents of the Han Dynasty, which was logical and the timing was right.

Just like the emperor said, the other party has no unscrupulous generals, no matter how much he plans, it will be broken in one fight.

After Huo Quai's analysis, he still did not find any doubts about Bai Nanyu's return.

There was actually a little disappointment in my heart, if there was a problem, pretend not to know, and bring it down, the secret fighting game would be more exciting, and Huo Quzhi had enough grasp, means and resources to win.

He was thinking about things in his mind, and talked casually with Li Zhao, the lord of the Li family, and did not respond to Bai Nanyu's request for surrender.

The inheritance of each family was used by Huo Qubing to promote the military mansion, but at this moment, the heads of each family were full of gratitude, and happily took the things and left.

Bai Nanyu didn't wait for a reply, she also followed Zhuo Huai and Zhuo Qingke to go out.

After leaving Huofu, Zhuo Qingke was unhappy, while Zhuo Huai was the opposite, with a happy face.

Today, the Champion Hou Mansion held a banquet, and Huo Quzhi and Her Royal Highness the Princess were quite polite to him, which had a great role in promoting the status of the Zhuo clan in the clan.

After everyone went, Huo Quzhi and his wife returned to the back house.

"My husband said before that Bai Nanyu was suspicious, but I saw it with my own eyes today, have you ever been relieved?"

Liu Qing took off his shirt with a smile, revealing his extraordinary chest.

She was about to go to the bath, so she untied her skirt again, and showed her slender and straight legs wrapped in her middle coat, and her white feet poked out of her shoes, and changed into the soft embroidered shoes she wore in the dormitory.

Huo Quzhi smiled and took off his robe: "Bai Nanyu, you don't have any contact with her alone, if she comes to visit, you should also see her with Qin Daozun, there are some things, there is no big mistake in being careful."

I'll watch her for a while. ”

"Got it, is my husband going to bathe too?"

Liu Qing glanced at Huo Quzhi, who moved quickly, took off his coat, revealing Huo Quzhi, who was lean and well-organized: "Can I make a request...... Husband, can you not bless yourself tonight without your military strategy......"

"Why?"

"You don't need military tricks, the husband's military physique is about ...... I was able to sleep in the middle of the night, and I used military tactics...... Not really. "Her Royal Highness the Princess's voice is inaudible, and the little one is pitiful.

Although the husband and wife have been married for a long time, Her Royal Highness the princess is thin and shy about this kind of topic after all.

Huo Quzhi laughed, Liu Qing was noble on the outside and charming on the inside, and he inadvertently provoked people's kung fu.

This is one of the characteristics of the phoenix's nest physique, and the details are wonderful.

He led Her Royal Highness the princess to the clear pond in the back house.

The night is deep, and the water in the clear pond ripples like waves, overflowing from the pool, and the frequency of the surge gradually increases.

The snow flew outside the window, falling in the Hou Mansion one by one, continuously, for most of the night.

When Liu Qing fell asleep, Huo Qu got up and dressed, the formation lines under his feet flashed, and the person appeared directly in an alley outside the Hou Mansion.

This laneway is very wide, which is used to separate the surrounding buildings, forming an open space nearly ten zhang away to ensure the safety of the Hou Mansion.

And in the laneway, there are also forbidden troops on duty.

After Huo Qu came out of illness, he sensed it slightly, took another step, and came to an alley next door.

A graceful woman in a dark tunic robe walked out slowly.

"I've seen Master Hou."

The woman at night has a face as white as jade and moist peach blossom eyes, which is Bai Nanyu.

Huo Qu was expected to come over and come back in the evening.

And Bai Nanyu saw that he didn't respond at the time, and she also realized that she wanted to talk in detail later, so she came to the door again in the middle of the night.

"I wanted to infiltrate the Hou Mansion and show the Hou Ye the value of my ability, but the Hou Mansion was heavily defended, and I was afraid of causing misunderstanding, so I didn't go in."

Huo Quzhi said indifferently: "Your value is not whether you can enter my mansion.

Say, your vote. ”

"Let's talk about Yu Chu, the messenger of the yellow car, his father and son are in the secret power, ranking first among the ten scholars. After his father Yu was chased and escaped by the secret investigators in Luoyang, Yu Chu did not hide there, but changed his face and sneaked back to Chang'an. ”

Bai Nanyu said with wonderful eyes: "Master Hou and I are going to a place, let's talk about it?" Or will I go home with the marquis? ”

"Let's go, go to your place." Huo went to the sick road.

In the next moment, Bai Nanyu flew up silently, disappearing out of thin air like a ghost.

She walked abruptly, passing through the house, and after more than a dozen breaths, she came to a quiet courtyard at the junction of Chang'an's southern urban area and DC district.

Bai Nanyu floated into the courtyard first, went straight into the main house, and turned on the light.

When she looked back, Huo Quzhi stood silently three feet behind her.

Bai Nanyu was slightly surprised in her heart.

She came along the road, and could feel Huo Quai's illness behind her, but she couldn't judge Huo Quai's exact location, her whole person fit the void, more like a ghost than her, a ghost mother, and there was no movement.

"Huo Hou is really bold, if this is a trap I have laid here, Huo Hou is so confident that he can deal with it?"

Huo Quzhi hooked the corners of his mouth, this woman was drawing closer to the relationship of mutual trust between the two without revealing a trace, indicating that she was seeing each other honestly and without two hearts.

Chang'an is the land of the Han Dynasty, and some people are secretly hiding in the city, which is the extreme, and they dare to do it in the city...... Hehe!

Huo Quai's identity as the leader of the 100,000 Chang'an Guards, the troops gathered in this city in an instant, can teach any opponent to be a new man.

"This is the courtyard I have secretly purchased, and when I have free time, I come here to think about something.

Huo Hou was the first guest to come here. Bai Nanyu's voice is warm and beautiful, with a unique magnetism of women.

The two of them are in a quiet room in an inner house, which is not large, only a yellow wood grain low mat, and the ground is also wooden, simple and natural.

There was a faint fragrance in the house.

Bai Nanyu asked Huo Quzhi to sit in the first place, and she sat with her in the side seat. This is the etiquette of subordinates, that is, in their own homes, they also let Shangguan sit in the main seat, which means self-humility and respect.

"What Huo Hou wants to know, I will never hide it."

The two met tonight, and Huo Quzhi was willing to come with her, which was already a sign of attitude and accepted her surrender.

In turn, it's time for her to show her value.

"Let's talk about the forces in the shadows." Huo Quzhi asked very broadly, and did not ask any specific point.

"The first vertical and horizontal path that Huo Hou pulled out is the name of the secret forces, but the vertical and horizontal path that was destroyed by Hou Ye is just a chess piece used to replace death, and it is far from the real whole picture of the vertical and horizontal road.

Its full name is the Spring and Autumn Period, which was originally formed by people in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Slowly developing, the Warring States period began to change, integrated and merged with each family, and secretly promoted a lot of things.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, the Zonghengdao tried to block the unification of Qin and maintain the growth soil of chaos in the world and vertical and horizontal, but was recognized by the Qin Emperor and suffered a heavy blow.

However, in the later period, Qin Li II died, and the world fell apart, which was also related to the planning of the vertical and horizontal road.

I have read an ancient book circulating in the Dao, at that time, someone around Emperor Qin should be a Zongheng Dao, and the collapse of Qin Zhi was related to his plan. ”

Bai Nanyu sat under Huo Qu's illness.

The close-fitting Hanfu that is easy to move in the night outlines her figure with ups and downs, which is attractive and attractive.

Huo Quai's secret thought: Can people who are vertical and horizontal can lurk around Emperor Qin without being discovered?

Bai Nanyu continued: "The person in power at the top of the Spring and Autumn Period is called 'Zi', which corresponds to the status of the sons of the hundred schools. ”

Huo Quzhi nodded slightly, he also knew that under the son, it was 'Zun', and borrowing the corpse to return the soul body was one of the 'Zun', which was called Yin Zun.

"In the heyday of Zonghengdao, there were three sons and nine respects."

The three sons and nine respects correspond to the official positions of the three princes and nine kings.

It can be seen that the ambition of Zonghengdao, they secretly regard themselves as a dynasty.

"All the affairs of Zonghengdao are handled by the three sons and the nine respects.

There are dozens of people under their respective commands, who are in different areas inside and outside the Han Dynasty, and master different affairs.

The people under the command of the three sons and nine kings, as well as soldiers and generals at all levels, also correspond to official positions at all levels, which is indeed similar to that of the DPRK and China.

Xiong Yan, who Huo Hou killed in Youbeiping County before, and Yu Chu, who I just mentioned, are respectively among the ten soldiers and the four generals.

The core personnel of the entire vertical and horizontal road are about three or four hundred people, and the rest can only be regarded as the periphery, and they do not understand the core composition of the vertical and horizontal road. ”

Bai Nanyu glanced at Huo Quai, her eyebrows and eyes were coquettish: "I am one of the nine."

Now there are not as many people as there are nine people at the level of 'Venerable' in the vertical and horizontal path, and I judge that it should be between five or six, and the specific number is only known to the third son. ”

"Who is the third son?"

"I'm not sure, but I guess King Huainan is one of them."

This was somewhat unexpected.

"Huo Hou thinks that King Huainan was secretly lured by Zonghengdao, so he had the intention of rebellion?"

Bai Nanyu: "According to my judgment, the King of Huainan is the feudal king of the Han clan on the surface, and there is indeed a 'Venerable' who is responsible for inducing him to rebel.

But he is secretly one of the three sons with the highest status in the vertical and horizontal path, and the Venerable who seduces him does not know his true identity. ”

It sounds a little twisted, that is to say, the hidden identity of King Huainan is not even known at the level of the Venerable of the Vertical and Horizontal Dao.

Bai Nanyu made her own guess through some signs.

Huo Quzhi thought that if this was the case, it would be necessary to re-examine the King of Huainan.

The more you know about his identity, the more vague it becomes, and it is difficult to construct any accurate characteristics about the King of Huainan.

This man is one of the biggest black hands in the shadows?

Bai Nanyu said to herself: "My Bai family and Zhuo family are world friends, and I have known each other since childhood.

The eldest son of the Cheuk family, who was my nominal husband, was frail at an early age, and he died a few months after my marriage to Bai. ”

Bai Nanyu glanced at Huo Quai: "He died of illness, not my reason." ”

"The Zonghengdao itself is divided into different factions, and my faction has been headed by me since the death of my master...... There are a lot of people in the road who want to get their hands on me...... Our veins. Taking refuge in Huo Hou also means self-preservation. ”

Huo Quzhi was silent.

There is a high probability that what this woman said is true, at least he specializes in the keen sense of the spirit, and the Teng Snake and the Spirit Turtle Yuan Shen, which evolved from the Yin Fu Seven Techniques, did not have insight into the abnormality.

"In addition, in addition to me, there may be a Venerable-level person dormant in Chang'an.

That person may even be a 'son', or the head of the Nine Venerables, whose status is hardly weaker than that of the third son, and he is most likely a member of the clan or a relative, I suspect that he is from the Pingyang Mansion.

This is my judgment made by observing and accumulating some signs in Chang'an for many years. ”

Marquis of Ruyin...... Huo Quzhi skipped a name in his heart, and secretly thought that the lurker that Bai Nanyu said could be handed over to Ru Bohu to investigate, since he had a general direction, he didn't have to worry about finding someone.

This woman really knows everything, and what she says is the core secret of Zonghengdao.

"Where are the secret dormant sites of the two vertical and horizontal passages you mentioned?" Huo Quzhi's eyes were blazing.

"One of them is east of Buyeo, where soldiers and horses are trained on the vertical and horizontal roads, and the hidden identity is the Fushan Division, one of the tribes under the jurisdiction of Buyeo."

"There is another place, just in Lishan, hidden under the leyline, is a large tomb built by one of the overlords of the Spring and Autumn Period, with a cave secret realm transformed, can be hidden in the leyline, it is difficult to find, is the most important gathering point of the vertical and horizontal road.

At the level of the Three Sons and Nine Zuns, when they meet occasionally, they will choose there.

And there are two or more people stationed for a long time. ”

Bai Nanyu said: "This is also my greatest sincerity in surrendering to Huo Hou."

Destroying either of these two strongholds would be an irreparable loss to the Vertical and Horizontal Passage.

Based on my perception of the vertical and horizontal roads, their people are all one-line connections, and cutting off these two locations will make them lose the basis of contact with each other. For the crossway, it is devastating destruction.

It is enough to prove my sincerity in throwing myself to Huo Hou. ”

If these two places are destroyed, the vertical and horizontal road will be truly finished.

Lishan, the tomb of the First Emperor...... Huo Quzhi thought about it, got up and said, "Tomorrow, you can prepare, find an excuse to come out of Zhuo's house, and go to Beiguan with me." ”

Bai Nanyu was surprised and said: "Why don't Huo Hou first pull out the people who may be hiding in Chang'an?" ”

"This is Chang'an, and I don't have to be involved in everything."

In Chang'an to arrest people, Ru Bohu is enough.

And Huo Quzhi still didn't fully trust Bai Nanyu, taking it with him, and when he was rushing to the foundation of the vertical and horizontal road, letting her participate was the most intuitive way to check whether she had any problems.

The next morning, when Huo Qubing left Chang'an, in the bedroom in the backyard, Her Royal Highness the princess was still asleep and couldn't get up to see him off.

After the snow falls, the ground is white.

Huo Qubing only took more than 100 personal soldiers and rode out of the city, and a woman wearing a bronze mask quietly joined in halfway through.

Under the effect of the miraculous marching method, the whole team disappeared without a trace.

(End of chapter)