Sunset.

The mysterious twilight shrouds this secluded Yongping hunting ground with a layer of charming romance; Nowadays, in the depths of the canyon, the cold wind destroys, the leaves are bleak, with the rustling sound of the wind blowing the leaves, the sky crosses a night owl chirping, a black night owl, fluttering its wings and flying over the mountains, flying through the vast jungle, and finally landing at the end of the sky......

The dark and dreary hills and ravines were chaotic, and the mountains were full of apes, and the thick fog rose up, gradually spreading and encircling the gloomy hills; Immediately afterward, a large area of blue light suddenly lit up, completely igniting the bleak heaven and earth. In this strange blue light, there stood a steep and straight mountain peak about nine feet high, which seemed to fall from the nine heavens.

There, there is a mountain range located north of Yongping,—— "Mt. Ique".

Yique Mountain, look at Wuguan in the south, Yongping in the north, stretch for dozens of miles, the majestic and precipitous, although it is not as beautiful as the Qingliang Mountain, but the shape of its mountain is victorious, the tiger is standing in the dragon pan, but it is incomparable to the Qingliang Mountain.

The yellow dust is rolling, day and night overlapping, and a large number of heavily armored iron riders are riding along the Yique Mountain, galloping like thunder and galloping like lightning.

The wind blew strongly, raising a wall of sand and sweeping in, and the yellow sand gradually dispersed.

The wasteland connects with the mountains, the mountain gradually changes from gentle to steep, and on the cliffs at both ends, there are suddenly grown pine trees that are thin and vigorous, and they are in the air, which is really strange and unique.

At this moment, a majestic horse stood quietly in the dust and mist, and a handsome man sat right away, not someone else, it was Xiao Changling, who was dressed in white; In a few moments, Xiao Changling put one hand in front of him, shook the reins of the horse lightly with one hand, and clamped the horse's belly with his legs.

The canyon was as silent as death, and the sound of horses' hooves echoed lonely, one after another.

Not long after, Xiao Changling and his entourage climbed the foothills west of Yique, the mountain wind blew Xiao Changling's white clothes, he gently tugged on the reins, and Lu Zi immediately stopped, letting out a violent roar.

At the foot of the mountain, Xiao Changling rode his horse against the wind, gazing into the distance, in the distance, the mountains and mountains of Yique Mountain Range stretched endlessly under the cover of clouds and mist:

In the cold of winter, Yique Mountain is like a dark camel, lying horizontally outside the city of Yongping; I saw that the thick green pine trees, covering the wild grass all over the field, it was dusk, the twilight was vast, and the faint residual sun was mottled through the shadows of the trees, sprinkling an incomparably gorgeous aura. Hundreds of birds chirp in the mountains, and the branches of the trees shine with the glitter of various colors......

Xiao Changling didn't say a word.

Looking at the majestic mountains, Xiao Changling's gaze became more and more contemplative and secluded, as quiet as a glacial lake.

At this time, Xiao Changling's back was already full of prey, which was all the harvest of His Royal Highness King Qin in a day, and those heavy-armored "Tiefutu" who followed King Qin to hunt were counting the prey at the moment, elk, roe deer, pheasants, yellow sheep, falcons, foxes and other prey were quite abundant, of course, including the doe that Xiao Changling hunted first, as for other larks and hares, it is also innumerable.

The black-armored warriors of the Iron Floating Slaughter moved the prey to the Eagle Drying Platform in batches and displayed them one by one; Xiao Changling was dressed in white, standing high on the horse, slowly turning the horse's head, with a sharp gaze, with a touch of cold chill, reviewing the results of his hunting out of the city today.

At this moment, under the mountain pass, a large dull sound of horses' hooves sounded, Xiao Changling looked back, a pair of bright pupils, shot out countless piercing cold rays, and his eyes stared coldly at the past; As far as the king of Jingbei could see, he saw a heavily armed Tiefutu, surrounded by a general with heavy armor and riding a high-headed war horse, rushing from afar, and getting closer and closer......

The hooves of the galloping horses fell in the water, splashing the sound of "whooshing".

The person who came was the number one tiger general in the Jingbei Army, known as "vulgar brave, like to fight, endure hunger, thirst and hardship" and crown the whole army, this time with Xiao Changling thousands of miles into Beijing Tiefutu Chinese Army deputy general - Long Xifeng.

Long Xifeng rode the horse, galloped up to the foot of the mountain where the tomb of King Xiao Changling of Qin was located, suddenly tightened the reins, turned over and dismounted, knelt in front of King Qin's horse on one knee, and clenched his fists with both hands.

"The King."

At this moment, the afterglow of the setting sun covered Xiao Changling's white face like jade, and under the gaze of the setting sun, it reflected the awe-inspiring majesty of this generation of heroes; Dressed in white, he was still sitting majestically on his horse, his eyes calmly looking at Long Xifeng.

"Zephyr, you're here."

"Yes, King." Long Xifeng responded.

"What's the matter?!" Xiao Changling opened his mouth lightly, and there was a chill in his voice.

Immediately, Long Xifeng stood up, took out a silk cylinder containing the secret letter from his arms, raised his hands high, and then said in a deep voice.

"Great King, the secret letter of the royal city."

"Bring it on!"

As soon as Xiao Changling waved his hand, an iron floating figure beside King Qin immediately stepped forward, took the secret letter in Long Xifeng's hand, and presented it to Xiao Changling; Xiao Changling slowly unfolded the secret letter, his expression was extremely cold, but he glanced at the contents of the secret letter with extreme indifference, and his eyes suddenly froze together, and instantly dimmed.

At this moment, Xiao Changling's eyes were filled with a cold light of the soul, like a sword light, crossing a cold arc; However, soon, in just an instant, the cold light condensed in the eyes of the commander of Jingbei finally became like a boulder entering the sea, and it was calm, and there were no more waves.

Xiao Changling, who calmed down, showed a sneer of disdain on his face, showing the shrinking and opening of his pupils, the light and thick of his eyes, and a slight hum at the end of his nose; Suddenly, his fingers strained slightly, and the secret letter slipped down between his fingers, and was blown by the deep winter wind, turning into floating powder.

"Hmph, idle chess Lengzi, it's a little interesting......"

"King, General Su Yi has sent a secret report, according to the king's hand, the eyeliner placed in the army by the imperial court has been found out." Long Xifeng wore a Jingbei knife on his waist, his left hand was pressed on the hilt, and his body was as straight as a spear.

Long Xifeng raised his head and looked directly at Xiao Changling who was on the horse. However, the moment he raised his eyes, he saw that the face of this King of Qin, with clear eyebrows, was still as calm as the snow of the Tianshan Mountains, and in his bright eyes, two cold and lightning-like eyes flashed, as if he wanted to swallow a round of sunset on the sky.

Xiao Changling stood on his horse in a daze, the wind swept up his white clothes, two slender fingers, habitually flicked the tough horsewhip in his hand, flicked away the dust of the whip, although his eyes were peaceful, but there was an indescribable fierceness.

"Everyone in the world has come against Lonely. My emperor's brother, that's all there is left. Unexpectedly, after all these years, our Majesty still hasn't grown at all! He thought ...... Just with a few ants in this mere area, I want to shake the lonely Jingbei army, the lonely army, no one wants to get involved! ”

The extremely cold words, like the thunder that resounded through the dark night outside the window, and like the pouring rain that hit the imperial city palace, were filled with a kind of contempt and contempt for the majestic imperial power, and a kind of strong self-confidence condensed in the whole body.

This is from the self-confidence of a generation of heroes, and it also comes from the confidence of being the king of Jingbei.

"Your Majesty, this matter ...... How to dispose of it? Please show it to the king. ”

"It's time for this game of chess to end." Xiao Changling's eyes had become calm, and Fang Cai's cold and murderous color was swept away and condensed like water, immobile like a mountain.

Without thinking, Xiao Changling flicked the index finger of the horsewhip slightly, and swiped it lightly in the air - this action, he did it so skillfully, just with a volley and a stroke, he easily judged the life and death of those royal eagle dogs in the hidden army, everything seemed to be so logical.

"Rectify the Fa on the spot."

The four words of understatement, like a shining knife converging on the blade, coldly squeezed out a very low voice from Xiao Changling's throat, and the voice was like ten thousand arrows in unison, shrouding the haze for thousands of miles.

"Yes, my lord."

Reflecting the sunset in the west, Xiao Changling's smile was cold, exuding a thick murderous aura. Looking at this handsome smiling face, the muscles on Long Xifeng's face involuntarily tightened, this was not fear, but the general's deep awe of the commander.

Long Xifeng did not leave, but stood upright in place, still unfinished.

"Are you still in trouble?!"

Xiao Changling's gaze was like a shocking arrow, coldly shooting directly at the face of the general Long Xifeng; The King of Jingbei looked calm, just gently stroked the smooth horsewhip in his hand, and looked indifferent.

"Yes." Long Xifeng nodded.

"Military affairs?! Is it expanding and going south? Or is there a new move in the Rouran Royal Court? Xiao Changling asked casually, his tone was very casual.

"No, it's not Rouran, it's ...... Liaodong. ”

Liaodong?

When he heard these two words that had been absent for a long time, Xiao Changling put down his horsewhip and slowly raised his eyes, his eyes full of essence; Obviously, about the land of Liaodong, it immediately aroused the strong interest of this current hero.

Since the destruction of the country in Northern Chongqing, the Bohai King of Northern Chongqing, Gongsun Kang, Gongsun Qiong brothers, under the support of the Rouran people, cut Liaodong, and shrunk outside the pass, so far it has been three generations, and now, the successor to the throne of Bohai is the grandson of Gongsun Kang, the fourth generation of Bohai King of Northern Chongqing - Gongsun Shunnu; At the beginning, the remnants of Northern Chongqing flowed through Liaodong, refusing to obey the orders of the Great Zhou, but choosing to cling to Rouran, splitting the territory for a long time, a corner of peace, and Yangyi Di snorted, Liaodong has not changed for decades, and the Great Zhou Empire is also beyond the reach of the whip.

"Oh, Liaodong?! It's not surprising, let's hear it. Xiao Changling, dressed in white, sat proudly on horseback, and the cold and murderous aura in his eyes seemed to be condensed by a cold aura.

Long Xifeng straightened his spine.

"The king, Tan Malai newspaper, since the throne of Gongsun Shunnu, he has been indulgent, drunk and killed, wantonly slaughtered relatives, and suspicious of siblings, resulting in the destruction of the rivers and mountains of Liaodong and the destruction of life; Also, our army received a secret report that Feng Hong, the assassin of Yingzhou in Liaodong, was dissatisfied with the tyranny of Gongsun, and wanted to raise the three counties of Fuyu, Anshi, and Xuansu under the rule of Yingzhou, and led 100,000 soldiers and civilians under his jurisdiction to join our Jingbei army. ”

After listening to Long Xifeng's words, Xiao Changling was silent, at this moment, he had already slowly withdrawn his stinging gaze, continued to bow his head and play with the horsewhip, and suddenly spoke calmly and coldly.

"Attached?! The Gongsun clan has always been cunning, it can't be a fraud! ”

"Please rest assured, the news received by Wang Cheng is conclusive, this matter is true, General Hu Kun specially sent someone to investigate for this, it is reported that Gongsun Shun is widowed and talentless, narrow-minded, especially afraid of border generals, within a month, he actually sent a thousand Niu Wei to Feng Hong more than ten times to investigate, and did his best to make things difficult, Feng Hong was forced to be helpless, he could only cut his hair to apologize, and he was panicked all day; This time, Feng Hong begged to surrender and sincerely surrendered to the king, but because of his insufficient troops, he was afraid of being surrounded and suppressed by the Chongqing army, so he implored the king to send troops to respond. ”

"Alone soldiers!"

Accompanied by a cold baritone, Xiao Changling took the reins, circled the horse at the western foot of Yique, handed the horsewhip to his left hand, and rolled the tip of the whip, pointing directly at the layers of mist above the mountain tops in the distance, and waved it in a chic manner, without saying anything more; It seems that this far whip seems to have been whipped on the vast Liaodong Plain, which hangs in the far north.

In the waning western mountains, Xiao Changling's face was solemn, quietly staring at the Yique Jiuqian under the cover of the vast twilight, and all the mountains and rivers were in his eyes.

……

The night is getting deeper.

As the last light in the sky gradually faded, darkness engulfed the entire mountain, and at this moment of alternating light and darkness, a thick fog rose, and the fog in the mountains was always so strange, coming and going in a hurry, and in a blink of an eye, it spread, gradually, gradually, everything became more and more blurry.

In the night of the same day, Tiefutu camped in Yique Mountain, a tent inside and outside the canyon, stretching for more than ten miles, Xiao Changling's line, set up in the fairy cave about three miles away from the valley mouth, this is a cave selected by Long Xifeng in advance, and it is also the temporary place of His Royal Highness King Qin.

At night, in the dark cave, the bonfire burned brighter and brighter, and the skinned doe was roasted on the fire, and sparks splashed for a while; At this moment, Xiao Changling took off the Xuanyan armor, put a cloak on his shoulders, and sat quietly by the campfire.

The cold wind was blowing, the bonfire was swaying, Xiao Changling's resolute face, under the reflection of a large piece of firelight, showed a very dignified copper red dark color, and his upright posture seemed to have added a new peak to the already majestic Yique Mountain, towering into the clouds.

At this time, Xiao Changling casually picked up a dry branch, gently stirred the ashes in the fire, and made a crisp sound of "crackling".

"King, it's too cold, take a sip of wine to warm up." Long Xifeng took off the wine bag, walked to Xiao Changling's side, and handed the wine bag over.

Xiao Changling took the wine bag, raised his head suddenly, poured down a mouthful of throat-burning lamb wine, only to feel a spicy taste from his lips to his intestines, and waved his hand to signal Long Xifeng to sit down.

"Come, Zephyr, sit down and roast the fire, and talk to Gu for a while by the way."

"Yes, my lord." Long Xifeng then sat down and added a few more dry sticks to the fire.

The fire became more and more vigorous, and Long Xifeng finally spoke, "King, you ...... Really decided? ”

Unexpectedly, Xiao Changling's facial expression did not change at all, and between his eyebrows, there was a trace of tranquility that was only revealed in the quiet snowy night; He was covered with frost and wrote and drew on the ground with dead branches.

"Well, yes, Lone has decided, Lone is going to attack Liaodong!"

Especially when it comes to the words "attack Liaodong" at the end, Xiao Changling's voice seems calm and powerful, as if it has gathered an unprecedented force, which is a kind of divine power like the vast universe.

"King, this ......" Long Xifeng muttered for a long time, and he didn't say anything about his ugliness for a long time.

Xiao Changling smiled slightly, the cold at the corners of his eyebrows and eyes was still there, and he actually outlined a cold and arrogant arc.

"You don't have to be surprised, Zephyr. In fact, this plan has been planned for three whole years. In the fourteenth year of Yongxing, in the battle of Shen'eryu, Lone defeated Kuangkuo, at that time, Lone planned to advance with a drum and take advantage of the situation to attack Liaodong, but he couldn't find a suitable opportunity; Now, Yingzhou has surrendered, lonely, why not take this opportunity to take Liaodong in one fell swoop and never be left behind. Besides, the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty has been nearly a Jiazi, if we let those remnants of the previous dynasty mess around, where is the face of my Great Zhou, and where is the military prestige of the 400,000 Jingbei Army! ”

Obviously, the attack on Liaodong is a foregone conclusion. The butcher's knife of the king of Jingbei is about to shine out of its sheath, and the iron hooves of the 400,000 Jingbei army are about to follow Xiao Changling's sword and set foot on the vast black land of Liaodong.

After listening to the words of His Royal Highness King Qin, Long Xifeng no longer worried, and said with a straight face.

"My lord, with all due respect, the imperial court has always regarded our Jingbei army as a tiger, and our army is full of the eyes and ears of the imperial court, besides, the Rouran barbarians have always been eyeing us; The royal family covets, foreign enemies are endless, the king, if we transfer troops outside the customs, our hometown is bound to be empty, if the royal family or Rouran people take advantage of the void at this time, we can't even go back to our hometown! ”

Word by word, like the dragon war drum in the Jingbei military camp, the sound of dong dong was loud, like the roaring wind in the mountains, blowing through Xiao Changling's ears; Suddenly, a strange smile appeared under the corner of his lips, and he stared at the majestic flame in front of him and smiled pleasantly.

"Because of this, Gu Cai wants to capture Liaodong even more."

"Why is that?" Long Xifeng is incomprehensible.

After the silence, Xiao Changling suddenly became more energetic, swept away the fatigue of hunting today, and his eyes were as calm as water; His body leaned forward slightly, slowly moving his gaze to the sand, and the branches in his hands gently drew three circles of different sizes.

The fluttering firelight, flickering in the silent fairy cave, was silent, only Xiao Changling's handsome face, sharp eyes like a knife and a proud expression, swaying under the bonfire, faintly showing the spirit and rebelliousness of the lord of Jingbei.

Xiao Changling waved the branch, pointed directly at the three circles, and said calmly.

"This is the north, this is Rouran, this is ...... Liaodong. Our 400,000-strong army, located in Sanzhou, confronted the Rouran people, and Liaodong was just sandwiched between us and Rouran, fighting for the soldiers. As long as Liaodong is under the control of the Gongsun clan for a day, it will be a sharp knife inserted in the back of my Jingbei army; If one day, they hook up with the Rouran people, once something happens, within half a month, the expansion will transport troops from Liaodong to the northern towns, and the Rouran Iron Cavalry will go south again at this moment, and then the belly and back will be affected by the enemy, and the lonely Jingbei army will not become fish and meat on the chopping board! Isn't the northern border the second Liaodong! ”

Syllable!

With a soft sound, Xiao Changling's wrist was slightly forced, and the branch was immediately broken into two; Then, Xiao Changling casually threw the two dead branches into the fire, and the flames instantly swallowed the branches, and after two sounds, they returned to calm.

"Moreover, Lone remembers that back then, the first emperor once said, 'Liaodong, fertile fields for thousands of miles, according to the sea in the east, the Yan Dynasty in the north, and the people of the desert, can fight for the world', if we have laid down Liaodong, then the north and Liaodong will be connected together, and within ten years, Lone can expand the army by 200,000 on the basis of 400,000 troops, and at that time, Lone will want to see, the world, who dares to compete with me!"

Although at this time, the majesty and strategy of His Royal Highness King Qin had already made Long Xifeng's eyes full of blood, but he still had a trace of worry.

"It's just that the king ......, the imperial court has already complained about our occupation of the three states, and the Son of Heaven has long had the intention of cutting the domain, and now you are in the capital; If we send troops to attack Liao, won't we fall into their trap! ”

On a cold night in the mountains, the wind suddenly blows, and the wolves howl in the distance.

The wind howled outside the cave, and although the bonfire burned fiercely, it could not withstand the cold; Xiao Changling got up suddenly, gathered the cloak on his shoulders, and the night wind like a knife cut on Xiao Changling's frosty face, but it did not make him feel uncomfortable, and between Yingting's eyebrows, a touch of fanaticism was frequently added.

"Zephyr, why don't you understand?! Is it for himself to attack Liaodong alone?! No! No! Lone did this completely for the sake of the future of our Jingbei Army. In fact, Gu had already figured it out, what General Tianzhu, General Sima, was just a false name, and Xiao Changyao turned his face once, and he was nothing. What is imaginary and what is real, these hundreds of thousands of soldiers, as well as the city and land under their feet, are real things. As long as we have the vast fertile land of Liaodong, from now on, whether it is the court, Rouran, or the expansion of the outline, we must take a look at our Jingbei Army and dare not act rashly. Only in this way can we have the qualifications to fight against the imperial court, do you understand? ”

"The king is far away, and the last general sighs to himself." Long Xifeng was enlightened.

The wind is getting stronger.

On such an extremely unusual night, Xiao Changling put his hands behind his back, Qing Lingling's eyes, looking lonely at Yique Mountain pouring down in the night, under his resolute lips, leaving a touch of arrogant arc; In an instant, the scorching brilliance shining in the eyes of a generation of heroes, the majesty of the man, the masculinity and wildness of the general, quickly converged into a cavity of wolf blood.

"In this land, within three or five years, I won't beat anyone, I'll ......, see who dares to beat me!"

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With the morning light gradually dewing in the east, a new day has arrived in the deep winter of the first year of the Heavenly Sage.