Chapter 23: The Confrontation Between the Two Armies
At the end of the ugly time,
Niren Alley,
"There's still so much movement just now,"
"Why is it that the effort is gone after a while?"
At the mouth of the alley,
Under the oilcloth shed supported by bamboo outside a tea stall, a man dressed in a crimson official robe from the third grade was walking back and forth with a restless expression below, and from time to time he poked his head out to look back and forth in the direction of Luofu and Changning Street, and couldn't stop muttering to himself.
"Lord Luo, you can't have been poisoned by those thieves, right?"
Wang Ruling thought of this, and was inexplicably flustered in her heart, and the look on her face was even more entangled, and her front foot just wanted to leave the alley and get close to Luo's Mansion to find out, but the back foot unconsciously took it back.
According to his three-legged cat's kung fu, killing chickens and dogs is still handy, if it really bumps into those dead soldiers who regard death as home, I am afraid that it will be in vain.
"No, we can't wait!"
After another cup of tea, there was still no movement of fighting in the direction of Luo's Mansion, and only the sound of rain falling was left in the nearby long streets, but the sound of dripping rain was terrifyingly quiet in Wang Ruling's heart.
"Either way, we have to go and see it!"
Wang Ruling waited restlessly, walked to the edge of the tarpaulin shed, slammed his fist with his left hand, and hit the palm of his right hand fiercely, gritted his teeth, stepped into the rain, and rushed head-on in the direction of Na Luofu.
"Who is that man?"
"Lord Luo!"
Wang Ruling just walked a few steps,
Then he saw a figure walking outside the alley.
"It's really Lord Luo!"
Wang Ruling rubbed her eyes, looked at the familiar figure that walked out of the rain curtain and was stunned, after confirming her identity, she hurriedly took off the top strap on her head, grabbed her hair and picked up a few handfuls of sewage from the ground and poured it from the top of her head, and then took a step and ran towards the opposite side.
"Lord Luo, it's okay to see you,"
"The lower officials are at ease!"
Wang Ruling knelt down in front of Luo Congee and cried with joy.
"Wang Tongzhi, you are not at home to obey orders,"
"What is it that you are running here in a good way?"
Luo Congee looked at the unkempt figure kneeling on the ground and was also stunned, in his plan for tonight, all the old people in Jinyiwei were excluded, it stands to reason that after the matter of Feng Mansion, Wang Ruling is no exception, and he should rest at home at this time.
"Lord Luo, you don't know!"
"Xia Guan has been on an errand in the Jinyi Guard for more than 20 years, and he knows the vicious nature of those thieves, and after going home tonight, it is difficult to sleep and eat, so he wants to go to the guard to sleep all night, and he will be at ease not to say anything, so he can obey Lord Luo's instructions at any time!"
"But as soon as I arrived at the guard station, I saw a group of people standing in the dark on the school field, and Commander Ding said that he was on an errand and it was inconvenient to tell him about his orders, so he took people away."
"Xiaguan looked at the empty guard, worried about the safety of the adults, and even tossed and turned, and it was difficult to sleep, so he took it upon himself to come to Lord Luo's house to visit, and the lower officials braved the heavy rain and did not dare to stop for a moment along the way, but they didn't expect to bump into the adults on the road......"
Wang Ruling said with a handful of snot and tears.
"Oh?"
Luo Congee looked at the bitter scene in front of him, and was inexplicably familiar.
"Did the king hear any movement in other parts of the city on the way here?"
Luo Congee leaned over and looked at the spotless lining under Wang Ruling's stained official uniform and opened his mouth, but he still didn't say anything, bent down and helped Wang Ruling up with his own hands and asked.
"Xia Guan only remembers that when he went to the guard post earlier, he saw General Pei leading people to the direction of Feng Mansion, thinking that the fire there was too big, and he was leading people to investigate, so Xia Guan came in a hurry and didn't ask too much."
"Other than that, there's not much else going on."
Wang Ruling recalled.
"Pei Xingwu, he also went to the Feng Mansion?"
Luo Congee recalled that the armored figure outside the main hall subconsciously frowned, and after that incident, he also checked his heels, he came out of the western frontier, unlike the chaotic northern frontier, the western frontier is not far from Kyoto, and it can even be said that it is under the nose of the imperial court.
There is no collusion between the feudal officials and court officials to raise their own respect, and there are some small countries in the west, although they are still fighting endlessly, but the soldiers there have always been invincible and invincible.
Pei Xingwu is also a three-grade pure martial artist who was killed from the bottom, and was later valued by the Son of Heaven, and took advantage of the rotation to secretly incorporate into the Beijing Division, and now he is responsible for the stability of Beijing, but I am afraid that there will be a conflict with those arrogant soldiers, and Ding Xiu can't withstand the pressure.
"Now that he's involved,"
"Then the official will also prepare a gift for him!"
After thinking for a moment, Luo Congee suddenly loosened his brows and muttered to himself, what should come is to come after all, and at present, this huge Shangjing City is not enough to cover the sky with one hand.
"My lord, what the hell is going on over there?"
Wang Ruling is still confused, these days Jinyiwei has been arranging himself intentionally or unintentionally, and the feeling of being marginalized is really worrying.
Luo Congee didn't answer, but turned around and pointed to the street where Luo's Mansion was located behind him, hesitated for a while, and then said, "There is the corpse of an old bald donkey in the middle of Chang Street outside the official mansion, you go and cut his head." ”
"The carcass of a bald donkey?"
Wang Ruling was surprised.
"Hmm."
Luo Congee nodded.
"Xiaguan, you will not disgrace your mission!"
Wang Ruling was shocked when she received Luo Congee's affirmative reply, and she couldn't care about continuing to complain bitterly, so she rushed to the direction of Luo's Mansion with a knife.
"That's it, that's it...... Since you want to hand in the name certificate three times and twice, then the official will give it to you today, and I hope that you will not disappoint the official in the future. Luo Congee looked at Wang Ruling's figure running wildly in the rain and muttered softly.
……
Changning Street,
Looking down from the sky, the long street is full of torches, crowded with people, and it has been blocked by thousands of people and horses.
However, in the center of the long street, there is a small gap left by the main gate of Xie Mansion, and the Weijing is distinct, and it turns out that the two parties are facing each other.
Take a closer look,
In the middle of the long street, the three or four hundred elite cavalry of the brocade guards wearing hats, wearing robes and holding wild goose swords, were surrounded by thousands of red-clothed and black-armored Praetorian Guards, unable to move.
"General Pei!"
"You have to stop me from handling the case?"
Ding Xiu looked at the general riding a tall horse in front of him and asked in a deep voice, as soon as he arrived here, he was surrounded by the Praetorian Guards who were waiting here early, and he didn't know what the situation of the six or seven hundred people on Yongle Street was.
"Block?"
"My general was ordered to lead the army to be stationed in the city, control all the guards in Shangjing, and suppress all the small roads to stabilize the situation in the city.
Pei Xingwu sat peacefully on horseback from beginning to end, without the slightest intention of speaking, but a young general beside him retorted.
"The envoy of this town was also ordered to come here to handle the case."
"Why should you bother?"
Ding Xiu frowned.
"On orders, on whose orders?"
"Handle the case, which case are you doing?"
That person played with taste, he was originally a confidant general who accompanied his own general to die in Western Xinjiang and was promoted to the Beijing division with Pei Xingwu, where can he see the court eagle dog who has long broken his claws.
Ding Xiu looked at the soldiers who did not retreat for half a step, and even were eager to try, did not continue to speak, but silently returned the Yanling knife in his hand to the sheath, and instead took out a slender Miao knife, holding the handle tightly with both hands.
This knife has been with him for many years, and if he really wants to kill people, it is obviously more convenient than the Yanling knife of the Jinyi Weili standard.