The sky will be bright, and Yuwen Tianlu will wake up.

Xiao Jinyan stepped forward to greet him, Yuwen Tianlu said impatiently, "I can't die, when is it?" Xiao Jinyan looked at the sky, "Yin Mo." ”

At the end of the day, the sky will be bright, the east will be white, and everything will be silent.

Yuwen Tianlu pondered for a moment, pointed to a mountain peak not far away, and said, "Within half an hour, take me up!"

Xiao Jinyan was a little curious, "Aren't we going to Zhaoyao Mountain, we should go to the northwest, this way is wrong." ”

Yuwen Tianlu's face sank, "My daughter is waiting for me over there!"

When Xiao Jinyan heard this, he was immediately interested, bolted the horse, picked up Yuwen Tianlu on his back, walked like a fly, and ran to the top of the mountain. The mountain is less than three hundred zhang high, but the road is dangerous, and they are all sheep intestine paths, which do not seem to be high, and it is really laborious to walk, not to mention that there is a Yuwen Tianlu on the back.

After climbing to the top of the mountain, Xiao Jinyan finally breathed a sigh of relief and looked around, but there was no one else.

"Where's Miss Yuwen?"

Yuwen Tianlu said, "Lie to you." ”

Xiao Jinyan looked around, only to see a mist in the dark, halfway up the mountainside, clouds and mist. A moment, the east sees white, the sunrise in the east, a cloud steaming and the glow is magnificent, this scene is not inferior to the year to climb Mount Tai to see the sunrise.

Xiao Jinyan couldn't help but exclaim.

Yuwen Tianlu was unmoved by this situation, but his eyes looked to the southwest. As far as the eye can see, it is a first-line heavenly fortress more than ten miles away.

At this time, there was smoke rising in the sky, and above the city wall, the flames were soaring into the sky, and there were faint figures on it. Yuwen Tianlu's expression became a little solemn.

"Xiao Jinyan, in your eyes, what kind of person am I?"

Xiao Jinyan came to his side and looked at the middle-aged Confucian student, not knowing what he was selling at this time, so he said, "Yuwenshuang's father." ”

"What else?"

"The nemesis of the Denmon Temple. ”

Yuwen Tianlu said, "Your kid has three wrong views. ”

Xiao Jinyan said in his heart, "Don't hide it, most of you are overpowered by your martial arts, and you have the power of the world, but you act fiercely and viciously, greedy for ink, and murderous, you are an out-and-out person!"

Yuwen Tianlu actually laughed when he heard this.

Such a smile made Xiao Jinyan feel worried.

When he was learning art, every time Li Chuntie showed such a smile, what was waiting for him was inevitably a stormy care of his fists and feet.

Yuwen Tianlu said, "People in the world, there are so many people who think like you, but if you really dare to say it in front of me, I'm afraid you are the first person, Xiao Jinyan, you are not small." ”

"I'm just telling the truth. ”

Yuwen Tianlu sneered, "The truth? The truth you are talking about is just what you want to see, and it is not necessarily the truth. ”

"What is the truth?"

Yuwen Tianlu groaned slightly, "Li Shilang in Li Shangshu's family in Beijing, the teacher is famous, has good conduct, and looks dignified, and he sent someone to the house at the beginning of the year to propose marriage, I think it's very good." “

Xiao Jinyan smelled the smell of danger, only to see him slap his thigh, and said righteously: "I know the truth." Yuwen is the governor of both civil and military, has the talent of the world, is deeply favored and arrogant, although there are many murders, but all crimes deserve death, he is really a model for hundreds of officials, and an example of the rivers and lakes. Looking at the universe, the Confucian Saint ranks first, the Martial Saint ranks second, and the Yuwen Metropolitan Governor ranks third!"

Yuwen Tianlu said, "This bit of sycophant caught the old man off guard." ”

He smiled, "If you are ordinary, you have a steady personality, you behave quite politely, with Li Chuntie's character, you will definitely not teach a junior brother like you, with Shuang'er's character, you will definitely not like a stupid goose like you, I still wonder, has she changed her personality recently? Xiao Jinyan, these days, in order to please me, she has pretended to be very hard, right?"

Xiao Jinyan smiled and waved his hand, "Serve my father-in-law." ”

Yuwen Tianlu raised his hand to give him a punch, remembering that he couldn't use his internal force, so he had to give up, "If it was twenty years ago, a person like you wanted to marry my daughter, there would be no door." ”

Xiao Jinyan looked forward to it, and made a deaf look, "What now?"

"There are no windows either!"

Xiao Jinyan was a little dissatisfied, "Senior, I carried you up from the bottom of the mountain, and I was so tired that I was out of breath, and you said this kind of thing to me when you came up?"

Yuwen Tianlu said, "Carry me all the way, you want to marry the old man's daughter, you kid can't help but think too much." ”

"Believe it or not, I left you here and walked away?"

"I don't believe it. ”

"Why?"

"Because I'm Yu Wenshuang's father. ”

Xiao Jinyan was pinched to death by him, and he didn't have any temper at all, "You got me here, didn't you just want to say these salty and indifferent things to me?"

"Of course not!" Yuwen Tianlu stood up, glanced at the sky, and muttered to himself, "Almost." ”

"What is almost?"

As soon as the words came out, Xiao Jinyan heard a rumbling sound in the distance, and looked at the sound, the sound came from the first-line heavenly barrier, but he didn't find anything abnormal.

Yuwen Tianlu said lightly, "Eight months ago, several Hu merchants transported a large number of iron tools from Hulukou to enter Western Chu, although they were only shovels, shovels, shovels and other ordinary farm tools, but the number far exceeded the number stipulated by the imperial court. Moreover, Western Chu was mainly nomadic, and these farm tools were not used at all, and these farm tools were detained by the military commander on duty, and those Hu merchants actually bribed the military commander with silver taels that exceeded the price of iron tools. The commander felt suspicious, accepted the bribe, let him go, and decided to send a person into Xichu to follow the iron, but he did not come back. ”

Xiao Jinyan was stunned, "Lai Ridan, the commander of the Western Eleventh Guard?"

Yuwen Tianlu was surprised, "You actually know him?"

Xiao Jinyan nodded, "It's the old man of the Fengzi Camp." ”

In Leijiazhuang, Xiao Jinyan heard Lei Zhenyu mention him, this person was originally a scout of the Fengzi Battalion, and he was Zhao Lanjiang's comrade back then, because he was not liked by his boss, he was demoted to the West Eleventh Wei as a military commander, and later disappeared in the West Eleventh Guard. Previously, when he was in Shuzhong, Yu Wenshuang also mentioned that this time he went to the West Eleventh Guard to investigate the disappearance of a legion commander.

Yuwen Tianlu said, "Yes, this person is a first-class scout of the Western Army, and it is most suitable for him to sneak into Western Chu to carry out this mission, but after entering, no news has come out." Until four months ago, a person who contacted Lai Ridan brought Lai Ridan's handwritten letter, on which two words were written: Shui Qi. ”

That night, the shadow of Xichu attacked the West Eleventh Guard and killed all the soldiers of the Eleventh Guard, but fortunately, those two words spread to the capital. ”

Xiao Jinyan knew about this, there was already a dispute about the location of the West Eleventh Guard, when the West Chu occupied the West Eleventh Guard, although the imperial court condemned it to the extreme, it did not make any military moves, and this incident caused a lot of sensation in the market.

Yuwen Tianlu continued: "Later, the person in charge of observing the wind and public opinion in Western Chu reported that the Western Chu Imperial Court actually made an unprecedented conscription in the country. ”

Xiao Jinyan said, "Western Chu is mainly nomadic and does not farm, so what do you do with conscription?"

"Claiming to be governing the Chishui River, the imperial court sent many scouts into Western Chu, but the other party was very strict, either there was no return, or did not find any valuable information, and then Yuwen Gui sent two masters to infiltrate, and after several twists and turns, it was discovered that these iron tools and the real purpose of conscription. ”

Xiao Jinyan was shocked.

In the Dengwen Academy, there was a map of mountains and rivers, and he had nothing to do at that time, so he studied the map with the deputy superintendent Vancouver, and then designated a place to do some things on paper.

Once, they took Western Chu and Daming Hengduan Mountain as the boundary, Xiao Jinyan defended the frontier with 30,000 people, and Vancouver threatened that he could capture a line of heaven without a single soldier, as long as 3,000 soldiers.

Xiao Jinyan was not convinced.

Vancouver said, "The Chishui River is less than 30 miles away from the first line of sky, where the west is high and the east is low.

As he spoke, he also deduced it with his own hands, which made Xiao Jinyan speechless, so he still remembers it clearly.

However, this strategy, on the one hand, consumes a lot of material and financial resources, and on the other hand, the terrain of the Hengduan Mountains is complex, and it cannot be done unless there are people who are professional and understand water opinion. Thirdly, this matter is quite a big movement, and it is very easy to detect, and it is only necessary to withdraw the troops for 30 miles, wait for the water to recede, and reoccupy the first line of sky, so it is limited to empty talk on paper.

Xiao Jinyan asked, "Is it digging an embankment?"

Yuwen Tianlu nodded, "Three years ago, a warlock went to the capital to ask for a seal, when the Ministry of Rites received him, he was full of rumors, and arrogant, and was bombed out by the Ministry of Rites. Most of this plan to flood the sky came from him. At that time, the garrison was stationed in the first line of heaven, and with the help of the moat, the first-line sky was built into a pass that could not be opened, but it was unexpected, but it became a smooth road. ”

Xiao Jinyan was a little puzzled, "Since you know the other party's plan, why don't you withdraw from the first line of heaven?" If you are afraid of losing the pass, you can withdraw most of the soldiers and horses, and only keep part of the defenders, and once you are attacked, it is not too late to come back to support." ”

Yuwen Tianlu showed a solemn expression, "Do you know what kind of person you are today?"

Xiao Jinyan thought for a moment and shook his head.

He grew up in Dengwen Academy, as the emperor's most confidant spy agency, the emperor who has been in charge of the Ming Dynasty for 20 years, has never been to Dengwen Academy once, so Xiao Jinyan has never seen Zhu Liye.

Every year on the third festival, the palace will reward a lot of gifts and food boxes, Li Chuntie respectfully accepts them every time, and then distributes them to the people of the various departments of Dengwen Academy, and Xiao Jinyan and him only live in a thatched house in the northwest corner of Dengwen Academy.

Over the years, Li Chuntie rarely talked about the emperor, in addition to teaching martial arts every day, he drank alcohol, and then went crazy with alcohol, scolded Yuwen Tianlu in the Dengwen Academy, and his words were vulgar, cursing him for giving birth to a son without a fart eye, and giving birth to a daughter could not marry Yunyun.

Yuwen Tianlu said slowly, "Your Majesty is an opportunist. Back then, when he was still King Yong, he was the sixth heir to the throne, but after a lot of rain and clouds, he won the great treasure. In his eyes, 30,000 people, 100,000 people and 100,000 Western troops are just ants that he looks down on. ”

Although he didn't say it explicitly, Xiao Jinyan already felt that the 30,000 troops who marched to the west in the first line of heaven might become an abandoned son on the emperor's road to hegemony.

Xiao Jinyan was in a heavy mood, he felt a little angry, Yuwen Tianlu knew this, but he refused to make any changes, and for a while, he also had a bad feeling for Yuwen Tianlu.

He said coldly: "Back then, Dingzhou slaughtered the city, and the flooded Western Army in front of him, the Governor of Yuwen was the butcher knife in his hand?"

Yuwen Tianlu sighed, "After all, you will understand." ”

The roar in the distance grew louder and louder.

Heavy rain for several days, the water level of the Chishui River in Yinyang City has not risen, but the water level in the upper reaches has skyrocketed, when the Western Chu army dug the embankment, the water that had been stored for many days roared, with mud and stones, rushed towards the first line of sky.

Xiao Jinyan looked at it, and the beacon tower ignited red smoke, reaching into the sky, and there was chaos on the city.

In an instant, the entire line of heaven was clogged and submerged by the torrent.

Only a sun and moon flag remained, exposed in the water, fluttering.