Chapter 8: The Way to Death!
When Zi Chen shot all the more than ten bundles of feather arrows, the morning sun had already appeared in the sky, the tiger's mouth was dripping with blood, and Zi Chen, who had no strength in his body, looked at the bright red sun in the sky, and then grabbed the pitch-black falling star bow, dragged his heavy body, and walked towards Xiliang City step by step.
The credit has also been snatched, and the celebration banquet has also been attended, Zilie, it's time to go, right?
"Brother Zichen, why are you here? The general has been looking for you for a night......" As soon as Zichen came to the city gate, he saw Lin Hu standing at the city gate, with an anxious face, as if he was waiting for himself, and witnessed Zichen's miraculous two arrows, Lin Hu and the others had already admired him.
If it weren't for Zi Chen's own promise to give the credit to Zi Lie, they would have been ready to desperately tell the court the truth.
"Well, go outside and practice archery... What is the general looking for me?" Zi Chen said with a smile.
"I don't know very well, you better go to the City Lord's Mansion first......" Lin Hu shook his head.
"En......"
A moment later, Zi Chen came to the City Lord's Mansion, and Ximen Zhan was already waiting in the hall.
"General, have you finally figured it out?" walked into the council hall with a big grin, and Zi Chen didn't wait for Ximen Zhan to greet him, and sat directly in his seat.
"Figured it out, what did you figure it out?" Ximen Zhan, who was about to speak, was puzzled by Zi Chen's words.
"Marry your daughter to me?"
"Get out, when is it, do you still have the heart to say this......" Seeing Zi Chen's appearance as a gentleman, Ximen Zhan was also speechless for a while, if he hadn't witnessed the two arrows with his own eyes yesterday, how could he believe that Zi Chen was a hidden master?
"It's sunny today, the weather is so good, what do you mean if you don't say this?" Zi Chen said indifferently.
"Zi Chen, I don't know why you made such a decision yesterday, but I know that you must have your own difficulties, I came to you, and I don't want to ask these reasons, you have your choice, but there is one thing, you must leave Xiliang City immediately......" Seeing Zi Chen's indifferent appearance, Ximen Zhan sighed secretly, and stopped talking nonsense with him, and got straight to the point.
"Leaving Xiliang City? why?" Zi Chen looked surprised.
"Zi Lie brought the military order of General Changsun Ce to garrison Xiliang City, from now on, he is the supreme commander of Xiliang City, even I have to accept his orders, I am worried that he will ......" Ximen Zhan did not continue, but Zi Chen already understood what he was going to say, he was worried that Zi Lie would take this opportunity to harm himself.
Thinking of this, Zi Chen's heart flowed through a warm current, it has been a long time since he came to Xiliang City, and he has been causing trouble during these times, but he has never blamed himself, and now he cares about his own comfort, in addition to his father, this is the first care he has experienced in this world.
He was about to speak, but there was a sound of heavy footsteps outside, and then he saw the middle-aged man who had been following Zi Lie striding in.
"General Ximen, Young Master Zichen, the young general has something important to discuss with the two of you. The man's eyes were full of disdain when he looked at Zi Chen.
"I know, we'll go over right away......" Ximen Zhan and Zi Chen glanced at each other, both seeing the shock in each other's eyes, Zi Lie started so quickly?
However, no matter what Zi Lie was going to do, he was now also the supreme commander of Xiliang City, and the two had to follow the sergeant to the place where Zi Lie lived.
Zi Lie did not live in the City Lord's Mansion, but led 10,000 Xuanyi Iron Cavalry to camp outside the city, he himself lived in the army, when Zi Chen and Ximen Zhan arrived, they saw Zi Lie standing in front of a huge sand table, his eyes kept staring at the sand table.
"General Ximen, little brother, you are here, Wanyan Bilie will know the news of Wanyan Bone's killing sooner or later, if I expected it to be good, in order to avenge his son, he will definitely attack Xiliang City again, but don't worry, from the time he knows the news, and then organize the army to attack Xiliang City, it will take half a month and a day at the earliest, and the 50,000 reinforcements sent by the general will arrive in two days, what I am worried about now is the 20,000 captives in the captive camp, if they make trouble inside when the golden Han attacks, it will be a big trouble, even if it is 20,000 demons without weapons, they are also demons, and their combat power should not be underestimated, So these 20,000 captives must be transported away, I have already contacted General Xiahou, it just so happens that he needs slave soldiers to deal with those Northern Barbarians, junior brother, I now appoint you as the Lieutenant of Zhenyuan Ling, responsible for escorting this group of slaves to Beiyun City, what do you think?" Zi Lie kept a faint and kind smile on his face, as if he really cared about Zi Chen.
Escorting slave soldiers is indeed not a very difficult task, and directly appointing Zi Chen as a mausoleum lieutenant seems to be a kind of care for him.
But Zi Chen and Ximen Zhan both knew that Zi Lie would never be so kind, Zi Chen did not have any official position before, just the status of a strategist, and Ling Wei, this is already a seven-rank officer, and a county order is at the same level, in the Tang Empire, which is established by force, the authority of the seven-rank military attache is even greater than that of a county order.
But let's not talk about Zi Chen's merits, let's just say that this Ling Lieutenant can bring up to 2,000 soldiers, if it is to escort prisoners under normal circumstances, 2,000 soldiers are enough, after all, many times the number of prisoners will not exceed 1,000, but this time, there are enough 20,000 prisoners, and with 2,000 soldiers to escort ten times as many prisoners as himself, this is simply walking a tightrope with a time bomb.
The slightest carelessness is the end of being crushed.
"Major General, this ......"
"Thank you, big brother, for your support, and promise to complete the task. Ximen Zhan on the side was about to stand up and speak for Zi Chen, who would have expected Zi Chen to accept it, which made Ximen Zhan also stunned.
When did this guy Zi Chen become so honest? Can't he see that this was a ploy by Zi Lie? What the hell did he think?
"Hehe, I knew you would agree, and I didn't insult the prestige of my Zi family, but after all, there are a large number of these 20,000 captives, and the demons have a violent temperament, so in order not to bring any danger to the people in the hinterland of the empire, so this time the escort team is not allowed to go to the hinterland, and can only pass through the periphery of the Kunlun Mountains. Do you understand?" Zi Lie said lightly.
As soon as these words came out, Ximen Zhan's face became even more ugly, the Kunlun Mountains are like a huge moat, separating the grassland demon from the Tang Empire, it is with such a moat that the grassland demon has not been able to attack the hinterland of the Tang Empire for so many years.
Even Gengji Khan, the proud son of heaven more than a hundred years ago, only occupied the entire territory of the Western Wilderness of the Tang Empire, and his powerful iron cavalry only attacked the Xilun fortress and returned.
Now the Tang Empire is strong, and it is not satisfied with sticking to the Xilun Fortress, but to the west of the Xilun Fortress, that is, the periphery of the Kunlun Mountains, Xizhou, Xiliang, and Xiyue three important military towns have been built, and the Xilun Fortress is protected like a three-star arch moon, and the three important towns are the center, and the grasslands within a radius of 100 miles are included in the territory of the empire.
However, the cavalry of the Tang Empire is limited, in addition to guarding the areas around the three important towns, most of the areas are still within the attack range of the grassland demons, and the iron cavalry strength that is famous for the grassland demons is not able to break through the three major towns in one fell swoop, but it is still easy to sweep in other regions.
Zi Lie asked Zi Chen to escort these captives not to the east of the Kunlun Mountains, but to the periphery, which is simply to send Zi Chen to death, he wants to prevent not only these 20,000 captives, but also to guard against the iron cavalry coming from the grassland at any time, even if he is given a full brigade of 2,000 people, but to resist the iron cavalry of the grassland, it is also to send them to death?
Zi Lie made it clear that he wanted to put Zi Chen to death.
"Understood!" Zi Chen's face was joyless, as if it was just the most ordinary task.
"It's good to understand, as for the selection of the escort team, General Ximen, it's up to you to arrange it!" Zi Lie said lightly.
"Yes......" Although Zilie's official position is not as good as his own, he has the military order of General Changsun Ce in hand after all, and Ximen Zhan has no way to oppose it.
"It's not too early, let's leave as soon as possible......" Zi Lie waved his hand nonchalantly.
Ximen Zhan and Zi Chen didn't say much, arched their hands towards Zi Lie, turned around and retreated.
Soon after the two left, a figure in a black robe appeared in the tent, as if it appeared out of thin air.
"Young master, you have done it so obviously, aren't you worried about the general's anger?" Listening to that voice, it turned out to be a female voice.
"Hehe, what about being angry? Everything I do is official, even if he is angry, what can he do to me? Could it be that he will really kill my sister-in-law for a?" Zi Lie sneered.
That figure fell silent suddenly,? In your eyes, maybe he was just a, but he was definitely the general's favorite son, otherwise how could he disassemble his Purple Thunder War Knife and forge that longbow?
"Have you done everything I want you to do?" Zi Lie obviously didn't know what the black shadow was thinking, and spoke again.
"Young master, rest assured, Wanyan Bilie should have known the cause of his son's death by now, and also knew the route to escort the prisoners......" Black Shadow said coldly.
"Hehe, that's good, falling stars, falling stars?Daddy, for the sake of a cheap species, are you really willing to do it?" Thinking of the longbow in Zi Chen's hand, which was made of all starry steel, Zi Lie's eyes flashed with a blazing fire of jealousy.
If it weren't for the powerful and incomparable divine bow, with the strength of that scrap material, how could it be possible to kill the Prince of the Perfect Bone who was heavily protected?
Only this time, in the face of the revenge of the golden man, will you be able to survive again?