The book continues from the above, saying that Chu Mofeng successfully found the explosion buried next to the Tenglong lantern at the last moment when the lantern festival was about to start, and the lantern festival was held as scheduled.

On the sixteenth day of the first month of the eighth year of Wude, Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng reported the incident to Li Yuan in the court, and then Li Yuan was furious and ordered Pei Lin to be demoted to a commoner, and all the prisoners were executed to set an example.

However, because of this matter, the death of Princess Li Xiuning of Pingyang was involved, so Chu Mofeng protected the insider Mo Li Luoli, and then Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng went to Jing Zhao Yin Prison again to interrogate Mo Liluo and Steward Pei respectively.

Looking at the thin man in front of him, Mo Liluo thought for a moment, and said slowly: "Actually, I don't know the specific experience, I only know that when Liu Heimin borrowed troops from our Turks to go south, passing by Niangziguan repeated attacks had no effect, and then Liu Heimin was defeated and died, and when we were preparing to evacuate the team in charge of receiving outside Niangzi Pass, something suddenly happened......"

On the first day of the first month of the sixth year of Wude (the fifth day of the first month), Liu Heimin, who had been raging for a long time, led the remnants of the army into Raozhou, but Zhuge Dewei, the assassin of Raozhou, had secretly surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, so he designed to capture Liu Heimin and hand it over to the Tang Dynasty.

After the news of Liu Heimin's defeat and death came out, the Turkic army, which was originally responsible for receiving outside Niangzi Pass, decided to retreat quickly, but the night before preparing to retreat, a mysterious person came to the Turkic military tent.

At this time, Moliro was just a guard guarding outside the manager's tent, seeing that the man had not come out for a long time after entering the manager's tent, and the sky was dark at this time, Moliro was bored and a little curious, so he eavesdropped on the conversation in the room.

I only heard the mysterious man lower his voice and said: "The general was originally going to pick up Liu Heimin, if Liu Heimin is undefeated, maybe the general has already joined forces with him to capture Niangzi Pass now." ”

As soon as the voice fell, the lord said angrily: "You Han people just can't make a big deal, our Turks have supported him with so many iron horses, but Liu Heimin still can't capture your Jingshi, it's really a waste of our Turkic son's life." ”

"Since the general also feels a little unwilling, in order to show our sincerity, before the general leaves, we will give the general a big gift. I only heard the mysterious man in the room sneer, and then said slowly: "Are you still satisfied with the gift of Li Xiuning, the lady's guard?"

"You Han people really dare to do anything for your own purposes?" Hearing that the other party mentioned the word Li Xiuning, Hu Chi stood up suddenly, looked at the other party coldly and said: "Don't forget that it's a princess, you even dare to calculate princesses, aren't you afraid that your emperor will kill you after your emperor knows about it?"

"Emperor, once the true dragon ascends to the throne, the emperor is nothing. In a few days, your whole army will launch an attack on Niangzi Pass, and you won't have to worry about the rest. When the mysterious man heard what he said, he smiled disdainfully, and then got up and walked out the door.

Hearing that someone in the tent had come out, Moliro hurriedly stood up straight, lowered his head and waited quietly, but when the man came to the door, he suddenly said: "In addition, we will borrow a few soldiers from the general, which will be of great use in the future." ”

When Huchile heard this, he immediately shouted outside the tent, "Moliro, get in." ”

Hearing Huchile call him, Moliro hurriedly went into the big tent, saluted Huchile and said, "General, what needs to be done by the little one?"

"Moliro, you take eight brothers and follow this gentleman back to the Tang Kingdom, you must follow the gentleman's arrangement. Looking at the mysterious man at the door, Huchile said respectfully to him, "I hope Mr. Hope keeps his promise this time." ”

Hearing this, Moliro nodded, went out of the big tent and selected eight Turkic soldiers, returned to the Tang Dynasty with the mysterious man, and then hibernated in Zheng County.

After listening to Mo Liluo's narration, Chu Mofeng stood up and said with a solemn face: "It seems that this matter is ultimately a problem within our Datang, let me ask you again, is Steward Pei the mysterious person?"

I saw Mo Liluo shake his head and said: "This Steward Pei is the mysterious person we introduced, as for the mysterious person, since he always wears a mask, I have never seen his real appearance." ”

Hearing this, Chu Mofeng nodded, and said slowly to Mo Liluo: "Since this is the case, I have to wronged you for a while, from today onwards, you can live in this Jingzhaoyin prison with peace of mind, and when I come back from Niangzi Pass, I will release you back to the Turks." ”

After speaking, he turned around and left the prison, perhaps because of Chu Mofeng's explanation, Moliro's restraints were all lifted, and a brazier was raised in the cell, a cover and quilt were added, and the food was relatively better.

Chu Mofeng left Mo Liluo's cell and walked straight to the outside of the cell where Steward Pei was being held, only to see a group of Tiance soldiers and Jin Wuwei all guarding outside the cell, and bursts of terrible screams were coming from inside.

After a while, Li Shimin came out of the inside, and when he saw Chu Mofeng standing outside the door, he hurriedly picked up Chu Mofeng and walked outside. The two came to a lounge in Jing Zhaoyin, and after the servants served hot tea, Li Shimin said angrily: "After asking for a long time, I didn't say anything except that the matter of the lady had nothing to do with him." ”

"You're unlucky enough to ask for so long and only come up with this information?" After listening to Li Shimin's words, Chu Mofeng picked up the teacup and blew it gently, then took a sip and said: "I have a lot of information here, I will meet this housekeeper in a while, and I will go to Niangziguan with the flowers on the other side early tomorrow morning, as for the affairs of the house, you can take care of it more." ”

Li Shimin nodded and said: "Cheng, then you have to be more careful along the way, I will go back to the Chengqian Hall in a while, and remember to inform me if there is anything." ”

Waving his hand at Li Shimin, Chu Mofeng got up and walked towards the prison again, entered the cell where Steward Pei was imprisoned, looking at Steward Pei who had already been beaten and bruised, Chu Mofeng couldn't help frowning, coughed lightly and said: "I won't ask what His Royal Highness King Qin asked before, I just ask one sentence, and then answer after you think about it, if you still keep your mouth shut, I am not as merciful as His Royal Highness King Qin, you must know that I am always a Jianghu person, Jianghu people have Jianghu people's ways of doing things, think about your family!"

Originally, he was still disdainful of Chu Mofeng who walked in, but when he heard him mention his family, Steward Pei suddenly stared at Chu Mofeng with wide eyes and said, "You are the prince of the imperial court, how can you use my family members as a blackmail?

"Save it, if any of the officials of the Tang Dynasty come in to interrogate you now, maybe your words can deter them, but these words are of no use to me at all. Hearing that Steward Pei still wanted to use those high-sounding words to protect himself, Chu Mofeng looked at him with some disdain and said, "Don't talk nonsense, I'll only ask you one thing, who is the person who introduced you to Moliluo?"

"How did you know about this? Who told you that?" Suddenly hearing Chu Mofeng mention some mysterious person, Steward Pei was immediately shocked, and then said to himself as if he had thought of something: "Oh, by the way, it must be Moliro's treacherous thing, since you don't kill him, then he will inevitably increase his chips in order to survive." ”

"Okay, don't guess, that's what Moliro said, and there's more to it than I know. Looking at Steward Pei who was talking to himself, Chu Mofeng said with a smile: "Don't talk nonsense here, tell me when you think about it, I'll give you a stick of incense time, if you still refuse to say it after a stick of incense, then I can only send you to see Lord Yan." After speaking, the messenger moved a chair and sat down, and then lit a stick of incense and put it in front of Steward Pei.

Looking at the pillar of incense curling in front of him, Steward Pei endured the severe pain on his body and began a battle between heaven and man, as this pillar of incense slowly burned, Steward Pei almost wanted to speak but wanted to speak and stopped, and soon a stick of incense burned to the end, at this moment Chu Mofeng stood up, took out the dagger Huang Quan and said to Steward Pei: "When the time comes, it's not that I don't give you a chance, but you didn't seize it yourself, if you want to complain, go down and complain slowly." ”

Immediately, Chu Mofeng held Huangquan in his hand, slowly scraped a hole in Steward Pei's thigh, took the red-hot soldering iron that had been burned in the brazier, and pressed it vigorously on the wound, only to hear a heart-rending scream coming from Steward Pei's mouth.

Outside the house, Jin Wuwei and Tiance Jun heard the screams inside the house, and they were immediately shocked, only to see a Tiance army whisper: "This provokes the handsome man basically has no good end, and this surnamed Pei is too, you just have to explain honestly when you get to this point, you have to suffer like this again, I really can't think of it." ”

And a Jin Wuwei stepped forward and said to this Tiance army: "Brother, let me ask you something, are you handsome and usually harsh on you?"

Hearing this Jin Wuwei's words, all the Tiance soldiers laughed, only to see that the Tiance army who spoke just now said with a hint of sensitivity: "This, we recruited 10,000 people that year, and the marshal personally formulated an assessment, and the result was that there were only 1,000 of us left, and if we made a mistake in training, we would be whipped at the lightest, and hung directly on the flagpole of the camp for three days and three nights and were not allowed to put it down, do you say strict?"

As soon as the Tiance army's voice fell, all the Jin Wuwei shuddered, thinking that the grandfather of the country was strict in governing the army, and this question really deserved his reputation, and it seemed that he would have to be cautious in the future.

And just when everyone was chatting outside the door, the screams came from inside the door, and after a long time, there was no sound in the door, everyone was about to knock on the door to ask, only to see the door open, Chu Mofeng walked out slowly, and said to everyone: "From today on, Tiance Army and Jin Wuwei will each leave ten people, taking turns guarding the cell, no one is allowed to approach here without my order, not even His Royal Highness King Qin, the rest of Tiance Army An originally planned to go to Yiwu, as for Jin Wuwei to continue to inspect the entire capital." ”

When everyone heard this, they all hugged their fists and said yes, and then Chu Mofeng left the prison directly, and at this time, everyone looked towards the house, only to see that Steward Pei had already been tortured in an inhuman form, and there were still a smell of burnt paste in a few places on his body.

Chu Mofeng, who left Jing Zhaoyin, walked straight down the street, constantly rolling in his mind the words that Steward Pei said: wearing a mask, with a Fengzhou accent, over thirty years old, and a great figure, thinking of this, Chu Mofeng couldn't help but pull his hair, and said angrily: "Don't let me find out who this guy is, otherwise I will definitely kill this person." ”

And Mi Shanna, who has always been detained in the mansion by Yu Wenxiu, also waited for her parents as she wished, and then Shi Hanshuang and Mo Ziyao funded the purchase of a three-in, three-out house in Pingkangfang, Chang'an City, and gave it to Mishana to repay her for providing information.

After returning to the mansion, Chu Mofeng summoned Liu Feiyan and others, told them what had happened, and then instructed everyone to pack their bags and prepare to leave tomorrow.

In the early morning of the second day, Chu Mofeng, Liu Feiyan and Gu Zhen'er and others set off from Chunmingmen to leave Chang'an and head towards Jingcheng County, which is located under the rule of Jingzhou.

Wei Ze Pass, called Wei Ze Pass during the Sui Dynasty, and now because Pingyang Princess Li Xiuning once led 3,000 female soldiers to guard here, this place is called Niangzi Pass by the locals.

Located in the east of Taiyuan, Niangzi Pass, because of the dangerous terrain and the east gate of Shanxi, has always been a place where soldiers must fight, after Liu Wuzhou occupied Jinyang, repeatedly attacked Niangzi Pass, in a vain attempt to open it up so that the Turks could rush to help at any time, but they were all blocked back by Li Xiuning.

Then Liu Heimin raised troops twice, and repeatedly wanted to open up the Niangzi Pass, but at this time, the team under Li Xiuning's command had already grown and grown, and when Liu Heimin led the Turks south to carry out the second rebellion, he immediately thought of capturing the Niangzi Pass, but Li Xiuning relied on natural hazards, built fortifications, and strictly defended them, and resolutely did not give Liu Heimin a chance to take advantage of.

It is said that when Liu Heimin's troops attacked in a big way, Li Xiuning saw that the enemy was fierce, and on the one hand, he was anxious to defend the Tai Yuan, and on the other hand, he commanded the women's army and residents to defend it strictly. Due to the lack of military strength in the pass, the situation in Niangzi Pass is very dangerous. Faced with an army several times her size, Princess Pingyang was anxious, pacing anxiously on the city tower and waiting for reinforcements to arrive.

Looking at the rice waiting to be harvested in the distance, Li Xiuning had a plan to order someone to harvest it overnight and boil it into rice soup, and then pour it into the ravine in front of the gate at night.

The next day, the rice soup overflowed in the ravine in front of the Niangzi Pass, and after the enemy sentry found it, they suspected it to be horse urine and hurriedly reported it to the commander. The commander went out of the tent to watch, only to see the flags on the city tower, the soldiers and civilians shouting to the sky, and the war drums beating, so he mistakenly judged that the reinforcements had arrived, and because he was afraid of being ambushed, the enemy finally retreated without a fight.

Later, I learned that this was the timing of Princess Pingyang's suspicious soldiers, and she was about to attack on a large scale, but the reinforcements from Taiyuan had arrived, so she gave up.

After Li Xiuning's death, he was also a female general who took over his guard of Niangzi Pass, this person is Chai Shao's sister --- Chai Yunxiu, who was Li Xiuning's deputy general before, and has been by her side since Li Xiuning started the army.

The six of them ran for several days in a row, and finally arrived at Niangzi Pass on the 25th day of the first lunar month, looking at the traces of knives and axes on the wall, Chu Mofeng could clearly feel the tragedy of every battle at that time.

Came to the pass Chu Mofeng showed the holy decree issued by Li Yuan to the soldiers who received the pass, and then the six people were welcomed into the Niangzi Pass, only to see a female general who was dressed all over her body slowly coming to the face, with bright eyes and bright teeth, sword eyebrows and red lips, and a slightly heroic face in a face that captivated the country and the city, and couldn't help but make people's eyes shine, after this woman saw Chu Mofeng, she immediately led everyone to kneel down in front of Chu Mofeng and said: "Minister Chai Yunxiu greets Qincha, long live my emperor, long live, long live." ”

Seeing this, Chu Mofeng hurriedly turned over and dismounted and helped Chai Yunxiu up and said: "General Chai, please get up quickly, the general has been guarding the border all the year round, and there is no need to make this big gift." ”

And Gu Zhen'er on the side quietly whispered in Liu Feiyan's ear: "Look at it, look at it, I see that the parents of other people's daughters are beautiful, and they go up to help them in person, hey, this man is really dishonest." ”

I saw Liu Feiyan glance at Gu Zhen'er angrily and said, "I said Zhen'er, everyone has four children, and you still can't forget it?"

Who knew that Gu Zhen'er sighed, stretched out her hand and pointed back, and said, "I said cousin, do you think the last three have forgotten? ”

As soon as the voice fell, the youngest Chen Jingqing whispered: "Go, go, Gu Zhen'er, you big nymphomaniac, who said that we can't forget?" ”

While a few people were chatting, Chai Yunxiu looked at the masked women behind Chu Mofeng and said, "Dare to ask Lord Qincha, who are these people?"

"The general doesn't know that the official's title in the court is the Duke of Qi. Chu Mofeng didn't answer directly when he heard this, but reported his title.

Hearing the words 'Duke of Qi', Chai Yunxiu was stunned for a moment, and then the whole person took half a step back, and said in surprise: "Lord Qincha, isn't it Chu Mofeng, Duke of Qi?"

"It's this official, is it possible that the name of this official is also known in the land of Guanzhong?" Hearing Chai Yunxiu call out his name in an instant, Chu Mofeng couldn't help but be a little surprised.

"Grandpa Guo didn't know anything, and the general often mentioned Grandpa Guo's name when he was alive. Chai Yunxiu looked at Chu Mofeng, and already knew in her heart that the few women wearing masks behind her were the --- of the directly subordinate team under this person, and then said with a sad face: "The general often says that when it comes to marching and fighting, she admires you the most in her life, but now she ...... general."

Seeing this, Chu Mofeng whispered to Chai Yunxiu: "General Chai, can we talk in a different place?"

Chai Yunxiu patted his head when he saw this, and said shyly: "You see that I forgot about this hurry, please talk in the room quickly." After speaking, he made a gesture of invitation to Chu Mofeng and the others.

Everyone followed Chai Yunxiu into the meeting hall, Chai Yunxiu immediately ordered his soldiers to serve tea, and then retreated left and right under Chu Mofeng's signal, and then said slowly to Chu Mofeng: "Lord Qiqi Qincha, the last general has always had doubts about the cause of General Li's death, but it is inconvenient to investigate, so he has always felt guilty, I don't know why Lord Qincha came to Niangziguan this time?"

"Your General Li, the third sister of my wife, was not actually killed in battle, but was murdered, and I came here to investigate this matter. Looking at Chai Yunxiu, who was looking guilty, Chu Mofeng looked directly at her and said, "I wonder if General Chai will be able to make this official believe you?"

As soon as the words fell, I saw Chai Yunxiu get up and kneel in front of Chu Mofeng, and said solemnly: "Heaven and earth can be learned, the last general has always followed the left and right since the day General Li raised the army, and the two of us are obviously subordinate and subordinate relationships, but in fact they are really sister-in-law relationships, just ask me how I can assassinate my own sister-in-law, I hope Lord Qincha will see this matter clearly." ”

Seeing Chai Yunxiu kneeling down again, Chu Mofeng hurriedly motioned for Liu Feiyan to step forward and help her up, and after Chai Yunxiu sat down, he said slowly: "What is General Chai doing? This official did not say that it was General Li that you assassinated, but this matter was related to a major case cracked in the capital of Shangyuan Festival, so this official had to be careful, and I hope General Chai will not be surprised." After listening to Chu Mofeng's words, Chai Yunxiu slowly said what he knew.

It turned out that not long after Liu Heimin's death, Li Xiuning had already found out about 2,000 Turkic soldiers outside the pass, under the leadership of a man named Hu Chile, who was always waiting to meet Liu Heimin, originally thought that Liu Heimin had died, then these Turks were bound to retreat without a fight, who knew that the night before the accident, the lady locked up a mysterious person, showed a token and went straight to see Li Xiuning.

As Li Xiuning's deputy general at that time, Chai Yunxiu, who was supposed to protect his side, was also invited out, and then the two talked in the house for a long time, during which there was a quarrel, and then after the mysterious person left, Li Xiuning did not mention the matter again.

Who knew that on the second day, the Turks outside the pass suddenly sent troops to knock on the pass, Li Xiuning saw this and hurriedly led his soldiers out of the city to meet the battle, the two armies fought in the dark, and later relied on the powerful bows and arrows and infantry of the Tang Dynasty to defeat those Turkic soldiers, but Li Xiuning was killed by a stray arrow in the battle.

Chai Yunxiu, who always followed Li Xiuning's side, clearly remembered that the tributary arrow was shot from his rear, because when cleaning up Li Xiuning's body, the tail of the arrow was tightly attached to Li Xiuning's back, which proved that the arrow was definitely not Turkic, after all, the arrow shaft was clearly printed with the word 'Tang'.

After listening to Chai Yunxiu's narration, combined with Mo Liluo's confession, Chu Mofeng immediately concluded that this matter must be the mysterious person who contacted the Turks, and went straight to see Li Xiuning after entering the customs from elsewhere, and it is unknown what specific requirements were made to Li Xiuning, in short, according to Li Xiuning's character, if the other party's request harms the interests of Datang or endangers the safety of her relatives, Li Xiuning will categorically not agree.

Then the two talked about it, and the mysterious man should have an undercover agent in Niangzi Pass, and then ordered the undercover agent to secretly shoot Li Xiuning with a bow and arrow when the Turks knocked on the second day.

Thinking of this, Chu Mofeng said to Chai Yunxiu: "General Chai, are the generals who followed General Li out of the city to fight now all in the city, and this official wants to ask them one by one from tomorrow, I wonder if General Chai can arrange it?"

Hearing Chu Mofeng's request, Chai Yunxiu thought for a moment and said: "Except for Deputy General Dou who led people to the customs to escort grain and grass, the rest of the people are here, and the Japanese officials will arrange it tomorrow." ”

"Vice General Dou, who is this person ...... Empress Taimu?" Since Chu Mofeng had disciplined the emperor's relatives in Chang'an for a period of time, he heard the same surname as the emperor's relatives, and he couldn't help but ask.

"Lord Qincha guessed correctly, this person is the niece of Empress Taimu, and General Li came when he was guarding Niangzi Pass. Referring to this Deputy General Dou, Chai Yunxiu couldn't help but sigh and said: "After General Li died, I originally thought that the post of town guard would be handed over to Vice General Dou, but who knew that His Majesty directly ordered the last general to take over the post of town guard, so this Vice General Dou and the last general have always been at odds with each other. ”

After listening to Chai Yunxiu's words, Chu Mofeng couldn't help but become interested in this Vice General Dou, and then asked, "What is Vice General Dou's full name?"

"Dou Jingyan, don't look at the name, she looks smoky and flattering, but this person does have some ability, he can shoot a four-stone bow, and he is also a good hand at leading the army to fight, and she and I were both General Li's adjutant generals. Speaking of Dou Jingyan, Chai Yunxiu hurriedly told what she knew.

Chu Mofeng nodded when he heard this, and said, "Since this is the case, then please ask General Chai to arrange it tomorrow, and give me a portrait of Vice General Dou." ”

Chai Yunxiu nodded, and then arranged Chu Mofeng and the others into the guest room in the pass, and learned that the Tang God of War came to Niangzi Pass in person, and the Niangzi Pass was suddenly like an oil pot poured into water, and it boiled in an instant.

Since noon, the threshold of the room where Chu Mofeng lived was about to be broken, and many generals came to ask Chu Mofeng for advice, and in the face of the group of female porridge, Chu Mofeng had to be patient and answer the questions raised by the other party one by one.

It was night Chai Yunxiu set up a banquet for Chu Mofeng and others to pick up the wind and wash the dust, and when Chu Mofeng returned to the room, he was about to lie down and rest, but at this time there was a knock on the door, Chu Mofeng stepped forward to open the door, and saw Liu Feiyan standing outside the door.

Seeing this, Chu Mofeng dragged her into the house, Liu Feiyan was frightened by this sudden drag, thinking that Chu Mofeng was going to do something, and he was afraid and faintly looked forward to it, who knew that after Chu Mofeng pressed her to the chair, he put the portrait of Dou Jingyan in front of her, and said slowly: " Non-smoke, tomorrow you take Xiu'er to Jinyang, if you escort grain and grass, Jinyang is the closest stop to Niangzi Pass, when you arrive in Jinyang, carefully investigate the information called Dou Jingyan, once there is news at any time, fly pigeons to report the book. ”

At this time, Liu Feiyan hadn't reacted, and his mind was confused, and he suddenly said: "Brother Chu, it turns out that you didn't want anything when you dragged me in?"

"What's that?" Chu Mofeng stretched out his hand and nodded Liu Feiyan's forehead, and said with a smile: "Do you think that I just drank wine and will take the opportunity to do that kind of thing to you by getting drunk?" Don't worry, I don't have that kind of thought." Don't forget what I've told you, and go to rest now. After speaking, he grabbed Liu Feiyan, slowly pushed him out of the door, and then quickly closed the door.

Blown by the cold wind outside the door, Liu Feiyan came to his senses, then his cheeks turned red, patted his cheek and said, "Miss Liu, what are you thinking?" and then ran back to his room shyly.

In the early morning of the second day, Liu Feiyan and Yu Wenxiu took advantage of the darkness to leave Niangzi Pass and drive towards Jinyang......

As the saying goes, you always have to pay it back, and look at Chu Mofeng's lady's investigation of the case, and then watch the Turks fight the other side of the flower, I want to know what will happen next, and listen to the next decomposition......