This tiger guard, known as the fifth master, only felt a cool mist rushing towards his face.

By the time he knew in his heart that something unusual was happening, it was too late.

A chill appeared from his neck.

And when the eternal night fell on him, he still didn't know what was happening.

The gray-white mist in the fog was like flowing water, and under the entire firmament, as if under the surface of the water, I don't know how many whirlpools of hidden danger were stirring rapidly.

In such a situation, the soldiers on the city wall did not discover these situations at the first time because of the obstruction of the sight of the fog.

Many people were still chatting enthusiastically in the midst of this rare fog.

It's the same as the previous tiger, the fifth master, and the seventh master.

It's just that in a short period of time, the killing machine hidden in the fog swallowed up these soldiers one by one.

The fog continued, but most of the life on this wall came to an end, stopping forever at the last moment.

If the fog clears, you can see that the scene on the city wall is extremely tragic, and there is basically not a single intact corpse left.

However, these soldiers, even the powerful Tiger Guards, did not notice any abnormalities when they were dying, nor did they feel too intense pain.

The reason for this is that everything happens so quickly when they die.

And the cause of their death came from that thin line around the neck.

A knife or a sword to cut the throat.

The exact weapon used is unknown.

But there is only one thing in common.

That is, this weapon is extremely sharp, and at the same time, the user's cultivation is extremely high, which is not something that ordinary people can do.

In the entire rivers and lakes, only the top part of the martial artists can do it so neatly.

The people in the fortress are just waking up.

The smoke curls and the smell of morning rice awakens the vitality of all soldiers.

It's just that today's fog prevents them from seeing the colleagues who patrolled the city walls as soon as they looked up.

Some experienced veterans told the recruits that this kind of fog is very common in such places, and once it is winter, it will cover the whole land almost every day, and this fog will last until noon, and the sun will not dissipate until midday.

But after that, it will also leave a satisfying dampness, and in the cold winter wax moon, this moisture will quickly condense into ice, making people cold to the bone marrow.

Therefore, on such a foggy day, people are not afraid of the lawless and mysterious unknown under the fog, but the chill that the sun melts and then freezes through the cold is the most unbearable.

Know that the soldiers are in armor, and if such a chill falls on their armor, their armor will turn into frozen ice slag that scares people to death.

Every moment it was like a knife pulling at their bodies.

When the veterans said this, the recruits naturally felt fear.

But what the veterans didn't say was that the experience was only possible at the border farther north.

There is a lot of fog here, yes, but there is not enough chill after the fog is negative to freeze the vapor from the fog into ice.

After all, this is not a northern cold place like the border pass.

The soldiers in the fort are practicing in the morning drill in full swing.

After the drill, they could have a hot breakfast and then go to the city wall to change the guard with their colleagues who had been standing guard all night.

It's just that today's changing of the guard must be much later, because it is really not clear.

The fort may be better, the fog has not invaded after all, and the visibility may be around ten zhang.

And on the city walls, it was really invincible.

No one knew about the unseen massacre that was taking place on a section of the city wall.

The scattered corpses don't look like they were killed by man.

It's more like being torn apart by some beast for Si Yao.

The fog is the best helper for the real murderers.

Without this fog, they would not have been able to launch such a ferocious offensive and take down a section of the wall in just a quarter of an hour.

It's a fortified fortress of good order.

In general, it takes at least five to ten times more troops to capture such a fortress.

And this section of the city wall can hold back more than 30 to 40 percent of the troops.

However, today, with the help of such foggy days, the attackers took this section of the wall at almost no cost.

Then, in the midst of the fog, a whirlpool was stirred up, and one by one shadows were hidden in the fog, and they charged towards the city walls.

Soon the entire city wall was occupied by this kind of black shadow, phantom or white shadow.

These shadows are tall or low, humanoid, or other strange shapes.

In short, if the previous five masters and seven masters were still alive, they would definitely shout when they saw this scene, it turned out that the legends that their parents told them were true, and there were really such monsters in the fog.

In the center of the fortress is a small castle made of stone.

Living in this small castle is our Duke of Shu.

Shu Guogong is a middle-aged man who is burly but not too tall.

His face can actually be seen to be very handsome when he was young, his facial features are three-dimensional and prominent, and his eyes are deep, this deep eye is not like what the Central Plains people can have, his ancestors must have the genes and blood of other races.

He was eating breakfast.

You can see that he is in a very good mood.

While biting the roast leg of lamb in his hand, he hummed a small tune while chatting passionately with the three people sitting across from him.

One of these three people is Shu Guogong's teacher and Shu Guogong's most trusted staff.

He was wearing a scholar's costume, but it could be seen that the material of his dress was absolutely of the highest quality.

He looked to be in his late fifties and sixties, but his real age was in his early seventies.

It's just that because of proper maintenance, it makes people look much younger.

He was also a well-known talent in the Zhengyang Dynasty, and he was once banned from entering the court as an official, but after only a few years, he felt that it was not interesting to be an official, so he resigned from his official position and returned home to live a life like idle clouds and wild cranes.

I don't know when the father of Shu Guogong, the previous Shu Guogong, found this gentleman and asked him to go out of the mountain and teach his own son.

This friendship is thirty or forty years. Now he has become the most trusted staff of the Duke of Shu and the executor of many of his important decisions.

This time, he asked to come out with the Duke of Shu, and he did not approve of the Duke of Shu leaving the territory.

And the purpose of his coming here turned out to be just for a Jianghu sect.

For scholars, the most annoying thing is not eunuchs, not eunuchs, but those warriors who have no brains.

This teacher in Shu is scheming and has a lot of city.

At the same time, he is very good at arousing the emotions of the people.

With his help, the Duke of Shu integrated the entire Shu people, making them from loyal to the emperor to loyal to his Duke of Shu.

After all, it is in the territory of the Duke of Shu. All the people benefited from the Shu Mansion.

Although there are also some areas that are not included in their territory, but under the teachings of his teacher, the Duke of Shu should give out silver, silver, and manpower, and win people's hearts in various places.

Now in the entire Sichuan province, he Shu Guogong can also do the people's hearts and minds without saying a word.

Because of this, his teacher was called the future capital scholar by the rest of the loyal people who followed the Duke of Shu.

He was also very fond of such a title, and felt that he did have such qualifications.

And next to him was a middle-aged man who looked like a pot-bellied poop businessman.

And he is known by others as the head of the household, and he is also one of the important figures under the command of the Duke of Shu.

There is no other reason why he is called Hubu Shangshu, because he is the god of wealth of the Duke of Shu.

He holds one of the four major private silver horns in the world.

His family was originally a big businessman of the Zhengyang Dynasty.

After following the Duke of Shu, borrowing the power of the Duke of Shu has made the family business to a level that was once unimaginable.

And the transactions with the Beiban in the hands of the Duke of Shu were also responsible for him.

In his hands he had earned as much silver as two or three treasury dollars.

Of course, he can earn this silver not because of how superb his business skills are, but because the business he does is a million profits, or even the kind that has no profits.

Some people say that he is the God of Wealth, while others say that he is a vampire who oppresses the people.

And the God of Wealth, no matter what the people say, for the Duke of Shu, the God of Wealth he must not give up.

Although it is said that these properties of him are actually Shu Guogong, he can become not his with a slight movement in his thoughts.

But after all, he has this kind of mind, and if he were a different person, he might not be able to do it as well as him.

Before the real thing is done, the Duke of Shu still has to use people like him.

In fact, he also knew that the Duke of Shu looked down on him in his heart.

However, as a superior, Shu Guogong's self-cultivation is still very good, at least on the surface, he has never shown any dissatisfaction.

One person left. It can be regarded as his Ministry of Works.

It is always rumored in the rivers and lakes that there is a family called the Gongyi family.

This family is good at tricks, good at miracles and tricks.

But no one has actually seen this family for thousands of years.

In fact, this family really only exists in legends, because this family in real life is called the uncle family.

The uncle's family is good at carpentry, not mechanics.

However, at the request of Shu, he still expanded and successfully made their own thousand ox crossbows.

In fact, for carpenters, as long as they are skilled workers, have drawings, and have physical objects, they can be prevented, and the difficulty is not particularly high.

Because of the manufacture of a thousand oxen crossbows, the uncle became more and more proficient in the manufacture of weapons, so he made a lot of bows and arrows, crossbow arrows and other ordnance.

Help the Duke of Shu deploy his own army.

In addition to the 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Western Military Governor's Palace.

He also had an army of about fifty or sixty thousand men.

All the weapons of this army came from the uncle's family.

And the uncle's family and several refining families in Luoshen Villa are still in a relationship of generational marriage.

If there was no such relationship, the Duke of Shu would not have put the abacus on their family's head.

This is a family that is a carpenter, and it can be regarded as rising.

In just twenty or thirty years, there have been many talented people in the younger generation.

And this time he left Sichuan Province, and he also brought many rising stars in his family.

After all, what they want to do this time is to annex the Fallen God Villa.

Although it is said that their family has a very close relationship with the refining families of Luoshen Mountain Villa for generations, in the face of this kind of major right and wrong, to put it mildly, it is the righteous annihilation.

The point of the statement is that it is for the country and the people, and it has to be so, which is a great righteousness.

What he said was not at all unashamed, and he was even a little complacent, because after obtaining these family inheritances, their uncle's family might be able to go to the next level.

Of course, all this is based on the premise that those families are not interested and have to work against the Duke of Shu.

And Uncle Gong's heart has actually been faintly looking forward to them coming to a tough action against the Duke of Shu.

Under the suppression of the army's iron cavalry, the Jianghu Sect has no existence that can withstand it at all.

In addition to these three close ministers of the Duke of Shu, there is also a military secretary under the emblem of the Duke of Shu, who is also his right-hand man, and can be said to be the person he trusts the most.

But now he is not by his side, but outside with the 20,000 cavalry.

Those 20,000 cavalry are just claiming to be 20,000 cavalry, but they are not pure cavalry.

Among them, less than 10,000 actually had war horses, and the rest were infantry that assisted the cavalry in battle.

In fact, the purpose of sending the army was not to exterminate Roselle Villa, after all, the movement of the army was too big.

Once he was discovered by the imperial court in advance, or said that some rumors were gone, it was not a good thing for him.

What he has to do is to take Roselle Villa as soon as possible, get the batch of armaments hidden in Roselle Villa, once his army can be completely armed, he will no longer be afraid of the court discovering his attempt.

After all, as long as the time comes, it is not his family who will cause trouble in the whole world.

The world is about to be in turmoil, and the supreme position is, of course, occupied by the capable.

Shu Guogong felt that he could sit in that position.

"Ladies and gentlemen, do you know why I brought you out this time?

Obviously we can take advantage of the fisherman, why do we have to come out and run this trip in person? ”

The Duke of Shu drank a few glasses of wine in the morning, he was once a fierce general, and he fought on the battlefield with the Duke of Qin for several years, and made a great reputation.

His martial arts are not bad.

It can be said that it is completely in line with his status as a subordinate of the country, and he has not lost the bravery of his ancestors.

And his desire to be an emperor is completely out of empathy for his ancestors.

Of course, this is also the evil way that his teacher instilled in him.

Shu Guogong believed that since his ancestors had such cultural and martial arts, they did not need to be subservient to Emperor Wuyang.

It is completely possible to do it by himself, and the reason why Emperor Wuyang was able to regain the country and become a generation of emperors, sit on the throne of the emperor, and sit on the throne of the world.

It's all because his surname is An, a surname, is it that important?

The people told him it wasn't that important.

The people care about the emperor, not the emperor surnamed An, as long as the people can live and work in peace and contentment, and the people will not be able to eat and wear.

and the people will embrace it.

will recognize you as their master.

And it doesn't mean that if your surname is An, he will definitely admit and approve of you.

Once in his domain, his teacher took him to many places.

When you ask the poor, dying of hunger, the people who don't have enough food and clothing, the emperor's surname is An, they will only give you one, are you an idiot?

Such a look.

It was also from that time that the Duke of Shu made it clear that he really wanted to be the emperor in his heart.

Because he thinks that since he can give the people of Sichuan Province a chance to live and work in peace and contentment, he can make them love him more.

Then it's perfectly okay to be this emperor yourself.

He has the ability.

It's just that you have more territory.

Lin Zheng smiled and said nothing, this question was asked by him to this disciple, that's right, he has been secretly calling Shu Guogong a disciple in his heart.

Even if there is a difference between respect and inferiority, even if he is a teacher of the Duke of the State, he should also respect the other party as the Duke of Shu in terms of rules.

But in his heart, he always called him his most outstanding disciple.

When the Duke of Shu asked this question, the God of Wealth's eyes rolled slightly, and his eyes turned to the uncle on the side.

It would be better for the official secretary to answer this question.

The God of Wealth is known to everyone for his cunning and cunning.

Uncle Gong naturally won't be fooled and is silent.

Everyone didn't speak, and Shu Guogong knocked on the table and said:

"Uncle, you come to take a sample first.

The national public knows that you are only a shallow learner, and you are not good at this kind of literary search, so you might as well say it first, and it doesn't matter if you say it wrong. ”

Uncle smiled bitterly that he belonged to the country all his life, which marked him with a shallow talent, that is, a nail of no culture.

He wants to remove this nail, but it is not easy to pull it out.

However, since the Duke of Shu has spoken, he can't refuse, so he can only bite the bullet. Think about how to answer this question.

But in the next moment, he didn't have to answer the question anymore, because he flew in from nowhere and kept feathering arrows.

The speed of the feather arrow was too fast, and the Duke of Shu had already reacted and threw the wine glass in his hand, but it was still a beat slower.

Syllable! Burst!

The glass smashed against a pillar.

The feather arrow pierced the uncle's heart.

These two things happened at the same time.

The uncle looked at his chest in disbelief, where the tail feathers of an arrow were still trembling.

For this feathered arrow entered his chest, peeked through his back, and was nailed to the back of the wooden chair behind him.

"Damn it!"

Lin Zheng scolded angrily, his body was extremely athletic, and he didn't look like an old man in his seventies at all.

He slipped under his desk as soon as he slipped through the smoke.

This table must be made of solid wood, right? You should be able to withstand this kind of feathered arrow, right?

To be honest, he didn't know.

But the next moment he knew.

A feathered arrow struck again, easily piercing Lin Zheng's table, and the arrow made of fine iron shot towards his head.

However, this time the feather arrows failed to make a difference.

Because the Duke of Shu would not allow two people in front of him to be killed by the same means.

Bite!

Shu Guogong shook his hand with a sword, and directly split the wooden table where his teacher was.

As he split the wooden table, he knocked the feathered arrow away.

Lin Zheng, a poor generation of scholars, is seventy years old, but he was still scared to pee his pants and experienced the fun of childhood.

"Damn it!"

The Duke of Shu laughed angrily and looked outside.

His guards won't let this assailant shoot a third arrow!