Feng Tuo is the old man of the Xuanjia Army, and seriously speaking, he has a relationship with Xu Youchang.

Back then, Xu Youchang was transferred back to the Central Plains from the Zhenjiang Protectorate to join the Xuanjia Legion, and Feng Tuo happened to have just been transferred from elsewhere. And the place he came from was the Qilin Legion of Xu Youchang's grandfather, Xu Lie, and Old Man Xu.

Talking about the relationship between the Qilin Army or the Xu Jiajun, Feng Tuo naturally wanted to get closer to his new colleague Xu Youchang. However, Xu Youchang was not very interested in this senior. First, Feng Tuo belonged to a halfway monk, originally a civilian official, and later changed to a military position by chance, so whether it was martial arts or strategy, in short, he was not very good at anything related to fighting. Second, Feng Tuo likes to drill camps, especially good at speculation, where he can give him the opportunity to be promoted, he will try his best to run there, without the slightest concept of factions and factions in the army.

It is precisely because of this that Feng Tuocai hugged Xie Guang's thighs back then, and he was transferred from the Qilin Army to the Xuanjia Army, from the position of the captain to the steps of Sima.

In the years that followed, the Xuanjia Legion changed dramatically.

Although Feng Tuo experienced ups and downs with the troops, he also gradually gained a firm foothold in the Xuanjia Army with his extraordinary skills of slapping horses and beards. After a long time, many people have forgotten that this person is not good at leading troops to fight, but they only know that General Feng has won the favor of previous commanders, and the officials are getting bigger and bigger, and the soldiers are getting more and more.

Especially because of official business, he has always dealt with Di Xian, that is, the current King of Jin Li Jiong, and has a deep relationship. Therefore, the southern rebels developed and grew, and Feng Tuo was naturally reused by the King of Jin, rising from Sima all the way to a general, and was in charge of nearly 40,000 troops.

Previously, when Xu Youchang stormed the Xuancheng defense line, Feng Tuo's troops were arranged in the rear, so the combat power was preserved intact. Now Ye Rongcheng wants to send people to help Jinling, pick and choose, and finally name Feng Tuo.

What Ye Rongcheng thought was that Feng Tuo's soldiers were strong and strong, and he was a veteran of Xuanjia, so he would definitely not be bad in terms of ability. No matter how bad it is, at least it is much stronger than those local generals in Jiangnan who later joined the Jin army.

However, he still underestimated the extent of Feng Tuo's crotch.

After receiving the order, although Feng Tuo was also a little ambitious, thinking that he would have the opportunity to make great contributions and strive for another promotion. But a layman is a layman after all, even if he has been in the strongest legion of the Holy Tang for many years, his level has not improved much.

He didn't have much idea of his own, so he instructed his officers to deliberate overnight, and finally chose a relatively easy route to go.

Xu Youchang's main force chose the galloping road near the river, and it was expected to reach Jinling in three or four days, while Feng Tuo and the others could only take a shortcut if they wanted to take a step ahead. The best shortcut route chosen by the officers was to go north from Xuancheng, pass through Shijiu Lake, detour through Jiangning County, and enter Jinling.

Feng Tuo didn't think about this plan, he immediately agreed, and ordered the troops to set off at dawn, at least one day earlier than Xu Youchang's soldiers and horses.

"Brothers, as long as you arrive in Jinling one step ahead of the Zhenjiang army, it will be considered a great success. We only need to hold the city for three days, and General Ye's main force will be able to pocket the enemy's ass. When the time comes, the addition of officials to the knighthood will be indispensable for everyone's benefits! ”

Feng Tuo swore an oath, and his subordinates were also fooled by him. Before dawn, the mixed army of 40,000 foot cavalry left Xuancheng in a hurry and headed for Shijiu Lake in the north.

Relatively speaking, the road of Shijiu Lake is basically a wilderness, although the distance is shorter than that of Xu Youchang, but it is really not easy to walk. The cavalry is okay, after all, it has foot support, but for the infantry, it will be a constant offense.

Feng Tuo's heart was full of dreams of meritorious service and promotion, so he urged all the troops on the horse, so that the infantry would not procrastinate, and they would all run away. The procession stretched for miles, the cavalry whipped their horses, the infantry galloped wildly, and everywhere there was smoke and dust, and the eyes were full of people in a hurry.

After a day's work, the army traveled hundreds of miles and successfully arrived at the west shore of Shijiu Lake. At this rate, at most another day's walk, you can see the head of Jinling City.

The subordinates ran to Feng Tuo to ask for instructions on whether to camp by the lake, tell the tired infantry brothers to rest for a while, and wait for tomorrow morning before setting off.

Feng Tuo rejected this proposal on the spot: you have to fight hard! In order to catch up with Xu Youchang, all the troops marched overnight, and it was not too late to rest tomorrow when they arrived in Jiangning County.

The Lord will insist on this, and his subordinates will be helpless. Everyone had to cheer up, and they didn't even bother to eat dinner, and they were walking in the dark while nibbling on dry food.

Who knows, 40,000 soldiers and horses have only walked forward for less than two miles, and suddenly, the sound of killing sounded in the dense forest on the west bank of Shijiu Lake!

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"Did you really see that?" Cheng Wenxiu frowned lightly and asked in a deep voice.

"Returning to the queen's mother, it's true, and the miscellaneous family can see it clearly." The foreman of Fengyi Palace whispered: "There is a secret passage in the backyard of the Art Garden Hall, and the corpse that was lifted out of it was blurred in flesh and blood, and it was very terrifying. ”

Cheng Wen thought for a while, and then asked, "Your Majesty has also been there before?" ”

The foreman nodded repeatedly: "I've been there, and more than once." ”

"Who's the leader?"

"It seems to be called Ouyang Lin, the person who rides the tiger and leopard in the forbidden army, but ...... This guy is very raw, I think he just transferred in. ”

"Ouyang Lin, Ouyang Lin......" Cheng Wen gently recited the unfamiliar name twice, and said to herself: "Recently, I did hear that there is a newcomer who has been summoned by His Majesty a few times, and it seems to be quite important. Could it be him? ”

"The miscellaneous family went to ask Jin Wuwei, and most of them knew it." The foreman replied.

Cheng Wen nodded: "Okay, you hurry up and ask, Bengong is waiting for a reply." ”

The foreman of the chamberlain agreed, turned around and walked away quickly.

Cheng Wen leaned on the cushion and secretly pondered: Wei Zixuan had mentioned before that the poisonous assassin at the wedding of Murong Xue and Li Xi was secretly detained by the emperor and sent someone to secretly detoxify and interrogate. Could the corpse carried out by the art garden hall be an assassin?

And this assassin, could it really be as Wei Zixuan said, sent by Li Jiangyao?

It stands to reason that with his relationship with Murong Xue, he should not have made such a big mess at his brother's wedding ceremony, not to mention that Xu Youchang and Dong Tianxing were also present at that time, so they would not be so ruthless.

But then again, dozens of important officials of the imperial court died tragically on the spot that day, but Murong Xue, Xu Youchang and Dong Tianxing were all safe and sound, and they didn't know about it a long time ago, so they would have taken precautions, or the assassin simply deliberately let them go.

Because of the rebellion against the southern expedition, the emperor needed to use Li Jiangyao and his Zhenjiang army, so he tolerated everywhere, so that the other party is now more and more arrogant. However, the emperor did not dare to provoke Li Jiangyao, but she, the empress, had no scruples.

Daddy's hatred, second brother's hatred, she must repay it!

At present, Wei Zixuan, the left minister, has nodded and agreed, as long as she is willing to make a move, the court will definitely help. So, how to deal with Li Jiangyao?

Cheng Wen picked up the scroll on the table and read it carefully. What is written on the volume is all the information about Li Jiangyao that Wei Zixuan secretly organized. Including the person's past experience, family and friend relationships, personality habits, strength in hand, etc., everything is small and everything.

According to these intelligence analysis, it is indeed not easy to kill the commander of the Zhenjiang Army.

Li Jiangyao studied under He Jingming, the commander of the Fierce Blade, and in terms of martial arts, he ranked among the top three in the Shengtang military, plus he himself was battle-hardened and brave, and he was surrounded by elite guards and dead soldiers, and it was difficult to succeed with assassination methods.

Fighting in court, convicting and going to prison, this road is also impassable. Prior to this, Wei Zixuan and others tried their best to fabricate charges against Li Jiangyao many times, some of which were framed out of thin air, and some of which were conclusive evidence, but no matter what, the emperor and the court were helpless against him.

In the final analysis, Li Jiangyao has both strength and resourcefulness, and there are many allies in the DPRK and China, and the key is that he is not controlled by anyone, and unless he and the Zhenjiang army openly rebel, no one can ask for guilt.

"It seems that we still have to start with the people around Li Jiangyao to have a chance." Cheng Wen muttered to herself, and raised her hand to look through the volume.

Suddenly, a name caught her eye: Xiahou Ninghan.

Jealousy and jealousy instantly surged into Cheng Wen's heart. When the emperor went to Yunyu with her that day, what he was talking about was this damn Xiahou Ninghan.

The next moment, Cheng Wen's eyes were full of cold light, and a vicious thought appeared in her mind.

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As the shouts of killing rang out in all directions, countless arrows shot out of the darkness, covering the entire team in the blink of an eye.

Feng Tuo's subordinates exclaimed again and again, and the screams of "there are enemies" and "there are ambushes" came and went.

In the blink of an eye, dense torches lit up in the dense forest, and as far as the eye could see, there were everywhere in the east, west, north and south, and there were too many to count.

"Long live our emperor! Kill! ”

The charging battle horn of the Zhenjiang Army, the rebels are already very familiar, once this voice sounds, it will be followed by the approaching of death!

Sure enough, before Feng Tuo and the others could react, thousands of soldiers and horses had already slaughtered from the surrounding dense forests and rushed straight to the rebels.

Carefully distinguish, those soldiers are wearing black armor and white cloaks on their shoulders, and they are the world-famous ghost-faced white-robed soldiers!

At this time, the rebels had been on the road for a whole day, and were in the stage of being sleepy and exhausted, when they suddenly ran into the top elite of Zhenjiang, which was more fierce than the wind, fire, and angry waves, and they were immediately panicked.

Not to mention a weak chicken like Feng Tuo, even if Ye Rongcheng and Xie Bao are here, I'm afraid they will only be beaten!

"Run!" "Hurry up and run, or you'll die!"

The frightened rebels shouted wildly, not caring whether the commander had given an order or not, and what kind of order was given, everyone just hugged their heads and ran around, without even the slightest intention of resisting, and dispersed in a blink of an eye.

Of course, this also includes Feng Tuo himself.

On the one hand, there is a trump card team that has been gathering momentum for a long time and ambushes and raids, and on the other hand, there are second-rate miscellaneous cards who are terrified and only care about fleeing for their lives. The battle has become unsuspenseful, and it is only a question of how many people to kill and how many to capture.