戌時.

The night had fallen for a while, and the gates of Yicheng had been closed.

But there was a bonfire in the city, and the soldiers were dressed in strong and stubborn clothes, their faces were expressionless, their bodies were tense, straight as loose, and they looked like they were facing a great enemy.

A middle-aged man suddenly walked from the castle tower, wearing a red fish-scale composite armor, and there was a round heart guard on the chest of the armor, which looked like a battle armor that only a general could wear.

He has a pair of red phoenix eyes, his face is red, it is the kind of jujube red after being drunk, and he has a pair of mustaches on his upper lip, and he is handsome in his martial arts.

He was followed by two others, the older of them, both in their fifties.

One of them was dressed in a scarlet official robe, a black gauze hat, gray hair, and a lot of wrinkles on his face.

The other person was wearing a composite armor with fish scales, a scarf on his head, a sword pressed on his waist with one hand, and a few small scars on his bronzed face.

One of these two is Xue Weimin, the Taishou of Yicheng County, and the other is Fu Yi, the general of Lingzhou.

The two of them were the most powerful people in Yicheng County, but now they can only honestly follow behind the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man said while inspecting: "I have polished the tricks for Ben, don't let go of any slight movement, even if it's a fly, don't let it fly over!" ”

Fu Yi said: "General Pan, rest assured, the brothers are all rotated every four hours, and the secret posts outside the city are also on guard at all times, and we will know about any disturbances outside." ”

The middle-aged man nodded and said, "General Fu is an old man in the army, he has led the army for many years, and the general can still be trusted." But ......"

He suddenly changed his words, and Fu Yi, who had just let go of his heart, hung his heart again.

Before the change, he naturally didn't have to be so cautious, and the surname Pan had to salute when he saw him.

But now it's different, Ning Hou now controls half of Lingzhou, and as Ning Hou's cheap father-in-law, the status of the surname Pan is naturally rising.

Yes, this General Pan is Pan Meng's biological father - Pan Chenlong.

Pan Chenlong accentuated his tone and said, "This time our enemy is extraordinary, the best at night battles and surprise attacks, a little relaxation of vigilance, may be broken by the other party in one fell swoop." ”

He didn't say who that person was, but Fu Yi also knew that person.

As a native of Lingzhou, Lingzhou has produced a world-famous general, how could he not know.

If he had a choice, of course he didn't want to be the enemy of the other party, but he didn't have a choice.

He secretly sighed in his heart that the path he chose was a road of no return, and he had no good end.

Don't look at the fact that Ninghou has already controlled half of Lingzhou, and he can attack Kyoto directly along the big river.

This move is indeed perfect, but don't forget, when today's son used this trick to kill the capital, how could he not prevent others from using this trick again?

At this moment, there was a sound of horses' hooves from outside the city, and several horsemen galloped towards them.

But when they were still a few dozen meters below the city, a rain of arrows forced them back.

"Who's coming?"

"The Fengzi Battalion will not accept Zhao Fei at night, and there is an urgent military situation to report!"

"Password!"

"Fight the tiger tonight!"

Listening to the one-on-one answer from the people in the city and under the city, Fu Yi nodded to Pan Chenlong and said, "It's our sentry horse." ”

"Let them in." Pan Chenlong said.

So Fu Yi immediately ordered the city gate to be opened and let Zhao Fei and the others enter the city.

Soon, Zhao Fei ascended the city tower, first saluted the three adults, and then said: "The Guangling Army has discovered the traces of the Imperial Forest Army and engaged them. At present, the Guangling army has surrounded all the Royal Forest Army, and those Royal Forest Army cannot last for three days. ”

"Good!"

Pan Chenlong couldn't help but clap his hands, and then sneered: "Just three thousand imperial forest troops dare to raid my Lingzhou, this Wang Cheng doesn't take us seriously." ”

After Fu Yi heard this, his heart became a little heavier.

As soon as the three thousand Imperial Forest Army entered the territory of Lingzhou, they were sniped by the Guangling Army, which can only show one problem, that is, every move of the Royal Forest Army is in the hands of Ning Hou.

It seems that Ning Hou has a deep influence in the court and the local area, otherwise it would be impossible to clearly know the specific dynamics of Wang Cheng.

He suddenly realized that Ning Hou dared to fight against the imperial court like this, and there were people in the imperial court and the local government who secretly supported Ning Hou.

Then this confrontation is no longer the so-called rebellion, but a continuation of the struggle for succession in the past.

"Pass my general order and order the Guangling army to attack day and night, and never give them the slightest respite. Three days later, I don't have a single Imperial Forest Army on the border of Lingzhou. ”

After giving the order, Pan Chenlong looked at Fu Yi again and said, "What does General Fu suggest?" ”

"The general's strategy is very good, and the last general has no objections." Fu Yidao.

Pan Chenlong's face was overjoyed, and he said: "I have been waiting here for nearly ten days, and today there is finally good news, congratulations!" Two adults, let's go down and have two drinks. ”

Then he should go down the city tower first, regardless of whether Fu Yi and Xue Weimin agreed or not.

Fu Yi and Xue Weimin glanced at each other, their eyes all revealing complicated meanings, but they still followed.

Just like Pan Chenlong said, they have been on guard in the whole city for almost ten days, and their nerves have not relaxed for a moment, and now that they have the opportunity to relax, they will naturally not refuse.

There is a room downstairs in the castle, spacious and clean, which is exactly where the general will be on duty.

The three of them sat in second, and soon several soldiers came in with food and wine.

"Two adults, the conditions are simple, let's make do with it first, and when Wang Cheng is destroyed in one fell swoop in the next day, I will celebrate with the two adults again!"

"Thank you, General!"

The three of them then began to eat, chatting, laughing, and laughing.

After drinking eight or nine glasses of wine, Fu Yi suddenly stopped, looked at Pan Chenlong and said: "General, drinking alcohol in the army is a taboo, and now that the enemy has not been eliminated, the last general thinks it is better to be cautious." ”

Pan Chenlong was drinking happily, and when he was interrupted like this, his face showed a little unhappiness, but he still nodded and said, "General Fu is right, be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years." ”

He put down his glass, and was about to have it all taken down, when a guard walked in.

This person walked straight to Pan Chenlong's side, leaned over and whispered a few words in his ear.

After hearing this, Pan Chenlong sneered on his face and said, "This old thing has finally thought about it." ”

Fu Yi and Xue Weimin glanced at each other, and then spoke in unison: "Who?" ”

"You'll find out later!"

Pan Chenlong sold a pass, and then said to the guards: "Go and bring people in." ”

Suddenly, the guards led the two of them in.

The first person was full of gray hair, tied with a straw rope at random, his face was old, wrinkled, and wearing a gray robe washed and whitened, he was completely an old peasant in the countryside.

However, as soon as this person walked in, Pan Chenlong and Taishou Xue Weimin all got up.

Even Pan Chenlong, who was sitting on the main seat, stood up and bowed slightly.

"Old General Gu!"

"Dingyuan Marquis!"

"Taifu!"

There are three different titles, but all of them reveal the identity of this person, the former Zhenxi general Gu Yanzhang.

Seeing that the three of them were saluting him, Gu Yanzhang hurriedly waved his hand and said, "I can't help it!" I can't help it! The old man is an idle person, and he can't afford such a heavy gift from the three adults. ”

When Pan Chenlong heard this, he stood up and said to the guard, "Why don't you go and prepare food and drinks for the old general?" ”

When the guard heard this, he hurried out of the room.

Pan Chenlong's face softened a little, and he turned to Gu Yanzhang and said, "Old general, please take a seat." ”

Gu Yanzhang didn't refuse, and walked straight to the empty table under Fu Yi.

Seeing this, Fu Yi hurriedly stepped forward to support Gu Yanzhang and led him to his position.

He didn't dare to let Gu Yanzhang sit under him, even if Gu Yanzhang had been idle at home for many years.

Gu Yanzhang joined the army at the age of eighteen, and is seventy-four years old this year, having been in the army for 56 years.

He became a general of Zhenxi at the age of forty-two, and he served in the position of general of Zhenxi for twenty years, and most of the generals who came out of the west of the Great Zhou were brought out by him, such as Pingxi Hou Liuyang, the current Left Guard General Song Huchen, and today's son.

With such deep qualifications and the relationship between today's sons, his career can be described as a smooth road, and there is more than one Zhenxi general from Sanpin.

When today's son wanted to promote him many times, he was verbally refused, and he didn't even do it as General Zhenxi, and wrote letters one after another asking to return to his hometown.

The Son of Heaven could not bear his request and allowed him to return to old age, but gave him the honorary position of Taifu, and took his hometown Dingyuan County as his food.

You must know that Dingyuan County is a large county in Yicheng County, with 30,000 households in the county alone, and 100,000 households in the entire Dingyuan County plus the surrounding villages and townships.

Gu Yanzhang naturally couldn't accept such a big reward, he repeatedly refused, and finally only accepted the reward of 5,000 households.

meritorious but not arrogant, noble but not domineering, all kinds of performances have pushed his prestige to a peak, not inferior to the right prime minister known as "Tai Lieutenant".

Therefore, in the Great Zhou Dynasty, there has always been a saying of "looking east and west", and the two old generals can be called the pillars of the country.

The Wenchen military generals who came out of Lingzhou, no matter who they were, no one would be disrespectful to Gu Yanzhang, that was respect in the eyes of the heart.

After arranging Gu Yanzhang into his seat, Fu Yi couldn't wait to ask: "Old general, ...... this?"

His heart was full of doubts, could it be that this respected old general Gu also joined Ning Hou's command?

But as far as he knew, Ning Hou had personally visited Gu Yanzhang, but he was all blocked from the door, what was Gu Yanzhang here for tonight?

"I have been at home for many years, but my ears have never been quiet. This person likes to be quiet when he is old, and he will naturally lose his temper if he can't get it. ”

Gu Yanzhang looked kind, spread his hands, and looked at a few people: "Look, didn't the old man find this?" ”

When Pan Chenlong heard this, he said happily: "The old general can abandon the darkness and turn to the light, congratulations, Pan will ...... in the future."

At this point, he was suddenly stunned, looked at Gu Yanzhang and said, "What does the old general mean by this?" ”

"Naturally, it is to purge the traitors and rectify the dynasty!"

Suddenly, a loud shout broke the atmosphere in the room and drew everyone's attention.

Everyone looked at the man standing behind Gu Yanzhang, wanting to see something from this person.

With an unremarkable face, wearing a very simple black robe, standing behind Gu Yanzhang, he was completely like a servant waiting for Gu Yanzhang to eat, drink, and Lazar.

However, no one dares to underestimate this person anymore, and not everyone dares to shout here.

Pan Chenlong stared at him with a dead gaze and said in a deep voice, "Who are you?" ”

As soon as he said this, he suddenly felt that he could not be passive, and his feet rose from the ground and flew towards the opposite side.

He had a hellish look on his face, not in the slightest bit about where the power in his body was coming from.

However, he was still a martial artist in the end, a general who had led troops to fight, and after a brief loss of consciousness, he reacted.

A black light flashed around his body in an instant, and the black true yuan covered the surface of his body, and he opened the restraints on his body.

He didn't want to think about it, and he opened his mouth to shout.

But at this moment, a hand grabbed his neck, like an iron tong, tightly choked his throat, and pinched the sound that came to his mouth.

"Click!"

A cracking sound sounded, and Fu Yi and Xue Weimin were all nervous, and their eyes were fixed on Pan Chenlong.

I saw that Pan Chenlong was pinched into the air by a hand, and the person who pinched him was the man in black brought by Gu Yanzhang.

His throat was crushed, blood overflowed from the corner of Pan Chenlong's mouth, oxygen could not enter his body through the respiratory tract, his face was flushed purple, and his feet hung in the air and kicked randomly.

Suddenly, the movement of his struggle became smaller and smaller, his body became stiff, and his head drooped weakly.

He's dead!

Fu Yi and Xue Weimin all looked at the servant in black, their faces full of horror.

"How did you kill him? He is Ning Hou's father-in-law, how dare you kill him? ”

"It's over! As soon as he dies, we're all done! ”

The black-clothed servant casually threw Pan Chenlong away, as if he was throwing garbage, and said in a cold tone: "Chaotic ministers and thieves, it's not a pity to die!" ”

Fu Yi and Xue Weimin were all in a daze, and when they looked at this person again, their faces showed a deep sense of fear.

At this time, if anyone treats this person as a servant beside Gu Yanzhang anymore, he will be a fool, or the kind that is so stupid that he smokes.

Fu Yi boldly asked, "Who is Your Excellency?" ”

The man in black ignored the two, but walked to Gu Yanzhang's side and stretched out his hand to help the old man up.

Gu Yanzhang hurriedly dodged and got up numbly, looking like an old man of seventy or eighty years old.

He waved his hand and said, "I can't help it! I can't help it! The old man is just a rotten wood, where can he afford the gift of Wu Anhou? ”

"Wu'an Hou ?!!"

Fu Yi and Xue Weimin's faces changed on the spot, how could they not know what the three characters of Wu'anhou represented.

When the general of Chaozuo, there are 3,000 households in the food estate, Wang Cheng, the Marquis of Wu'an, and there are really few people who don't know about the Great Zhou.

Wang Cheng has arrived!

However, they had just received the news that the Guangling Army had surrounded the three thousand Imperial Forest Army in Fengyi, how could Wang Cheng appear here?

Moreover, this place has now been controlled by Ning Hou, how dare Wang Cheng come here alone?

What the hell is going on?