Palace.

One is the Ming Emperor, and the other is the upstart of the rivers and lakes.

The two of them are going to do it.

Everyone knows that when His Majesty was still King Yong, he led the army to fight in the south and the north, and took the country into his pocket step by step, but it was more in terms of strategic planning, as for the real martial arts, very few people had seen him shoot, so when Zhu Liye decided to make a move, the tiger guards and the forbidden army also sweated in their hearts.

But the Son of Heaven said that the pride of the Son of Heaven made people dare not persuade him.

Xiao Jinyan still remembers Zhu Liye's slap that night, no matter the timing, strength or grasp of true qi, it was a perfect fire and reached the peak.

With his current martial arts, he is in the middle and upper realm, and there are not many people in the world who can seriously injure Xiao Jinyan with a palm, and Zhu Liye is one of them.

There are wolves in front and tigers in the back.

His heart was beating a drum.

However, behind him is Li Chuntie, he can't retreat, let alone admit defeat, once he loses, it will be a place of no return.

If he had a nameless gun, he might have the strength to fight.

But now he can only fight to the death, and the three strings run through the north and south of heaven and earth, up and down the world, preparing to have a palace duel with Zhu Liye.

Just when his full attention was on Zhu Liye, Xiao Jinyan's waist suddenly softened, and a thick true qi poured into his body.

Xiao Jinyan was suddenly shocked in his heart, the whole person's acupoint was restrained, and he couldn't move, and the "Li Chuntie" behind him pushed him to the ground.

A middle-aged strange man stood in front of him, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, looking at him coldly.

Fooled!

He is not Li Chuntie at all.

Xiao Jinyan complained bitterly in his heart.

Just rushed into the water prison, the lights were dim, and the other party was disheveled, and his face was full of dirty blood, so he couldn't see his face clearly.

No wonder rushing into the palace seemed so easy. It turned out that from the very beginning, he fell into the calculations of the other party.

There is no need to ask, the real Li Chuntie has long been transferred to another place by the emperor.

Zhu Liye said, "I made a bet with Yuxi, he expected you to come again, so he specially prepared a big gift, I don't know if you are satisfied?"

Xiao Jinyan tried to impact the acupoint, but the other party was also a person from the Elephant Realm, and the techniques used were unprecedented, and it was not a Central Plains martial art.

Thinking of Mr. Ping when he broke in last time, he quickly guessed that this middle-aged man should also be the one who forgot to worry about the pavilion.

Xiao Jinyan said, "I didn't expect that the dignified North Deserted Sorrow Pavilion would become the dog of the Zhu family." ”

The middle-aged man remained silent, slowly came to his side, and raised his hand with a punch.

Rumble!

This punch was extremely powerful, hitting Xiao Jinyan in the chest, and Xiao Jinyan seemed to hear the sound of broken ribs.

Pain!

Pain.

He bent down, and with a lot of effort, he managed to breathe and spat out a mouthful of blood.

The middle-aged man said: "Kneel!"

Xiao Jinyan laughed, "Lao Tzu was born to kneel to the sky, not to kneel to the ground, and not to kneel to the dog emperor in the middle." ”

Bang!

Another punch.

He was very measured and did not hurt his meridians, because he was useful to His Majesty, but the strength of his fist was not small, and two ribs were broken off after this punch.

Xiao Jinyan forcibly held it in one breath, staring at Zhu Liye with both eyes, and there was a ruthless look in his eyes.

"You have the ability to kill me!"

Zhu Liye was unhurried, paced to his side, and said with a smile, "You are of great use to me, how can I be willing to kill you?"

Xiao Jinyan was seriously injured, the acupuncture points were restricted, and the three strings seemed to be disturbed at the moment, and there was no chance to fight back at all.

Zhu Liye raised his hand and pressed Xiao Jinyan's head. Seeing this, Xiao Jinyan lowered his head and bit Zhu Liye's finger.

"Shh......h

Zhu Liye didn't expect that Xiao Jinyan would use this three indiscriminate moves to sneak attack, ten fingers connected to his heart, and he couldn't help but snort coldly.

"Loosen up. ”

Xiao Jinyan was willing to listen, his teeth clenched, and with a fierce force, he bit off the tail finger of Zhu Liye's right hand.

Zhu Liye finally couldn't help the pain and cried out.

What about the Image?

It still hurts.

The two eunuchs were so frightened that their faces turned pale, "Quickly pass on the imperial doctor!"

Zhu Liye said, "Give me back your finger!"

With the etheric medical skills, with the emperor's cultivation, you can still connect your fingers.

Xiao Jinyan was full of anger, and with force in his mouth, he chewed his fingers and spit on the ground, laughing wildly.

Now, he doesn't care about life and death.

Zhu Liye was furious and slapped his palm on Xiao Jinyan's head, Xiao Jinyan only felt that the world was spinning and he fainted.

"Imprisoned in heaven, I will try him myself. ”

......

Xiao Jinyan woke up and turned around, only to see that it was dark all around, and he was locked in a small dark room, with no light around him.

Where is this?

Xiao Jinyan didn't know that the sharp pain in his chest still made his heart tremble, he touched his chest, and someone helped him bandage his wound during his coma.

The things he carried, the mountain and river luck map, and the silver ticket were all taken away, but fortunately, the secret decree that Xiao Hongyu gave him that day was put at home by him, otherwise, Zhao Lanjiang was afraid that he would be in danger.

He tried to exercise his skills, and the three strings in his body were still there, but the points in his body seemed to be imprisoned by some kind of force, and he couldn't mobilize the resonance of the strings and true qi at all.

He was defeated.

Utterly defeated.

originally wanted to take advantage of the daytime trouble to rescue Li Chuntie, but the emperor saw through it and came up with a plan to capture him.

He came to the door of the small black house and slammed on the iron door, and the guards nearby heard the movement, came to investigate, and did not make a sound, but beat him back with a burst of sticks.

Just tied up?

Xiao Jinyan is unwilling, he is not a person who easily admits defeat, as long as there is still a breath left, he can't give up.

Thinking of this, he meditated cross-legged, wanting to forcibly break through the prohibition with his true qi, but the prohibition imposed on him by the other party was too domineering, and the true yuan ran to the eight veins of the Qi Jing, encountered strong resistance, and a heart-rending pain came.

Sweat rained down.

If you force it to break through, even if you don't go mad, you are afraid that you will become a waste. Even Li Chuntie can't break this ban, let alone him?

Now he can't even beat the martial artists of Wenjing.

I don't know how long it took, hearing someone talking outside, to be exact, Xiao Jinyan crouched at the door, and vaguely heard the guards who came to tell him not to talk to him privately, and those who disobeyed the order would be killed.

The sound of a rooster crowing can be faintly heard.

Presumably it is already a Buddha.

Xiao Jinyan's heart was shocked, in the palace, it is impossible to raise chickens, where is this?

The prison of the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, or the edict of Jinyiwei should not be, because there are no other prisoners around.

After another hour and a half, someone brought food to eat, a bowl of brown rice, a basin of water, and two pickles, and the person who delivered the food did not speak, but brought it in through the small hole under the door.

Xiao Jinyan doesn't want to die, and he can't die.

Although he has no appetite, his desire to survive drives him to deliver rice to his stomach one bite at a time.

After a few more moments, the door opened, and three tiger guards entered, one with a torch, the other with a fork and the other with a fork, both of which were commonly used in prisons to control people.

Xiao Jinyan was about to resist, but the two of them came up and punched him at the wound in the chest, crossed him against the wall, and held his hand again.

Then another man entered.

It was the middle-aged man last night, Xiao Jinyan turned his back to him, "There is a kind of kill me, otherwise I will break your body into pieces if I go out!"

The middle-aged man sneered, "Even your emperor doesn't dare to talk to me in such a tone. ”

"You are nothing but the Emperor's lackeys. ”

"If it weren't for the fact that you are still useful, you would have died hundreds of times. ”

The middle-aged man ignored him, motioned for the two tiger guards to hold his arm, took out a thumb-sized knife, and cut a cut in his wrist.

Blood flowed down his wrist into a porcelain bowl.

When the porcelain bowl was filled, the middle-aged man commanded again, "Get him some supplements in the next two days to let him take care of his body." ”

With that, he left the little black room.

With a bang, the door slammed shut.

Xiao Jinyan was already injured, and he was put into a bowl of blood by that person just now, but he was extremely weak at the moment, and fatigue came to him.

He didn't dare to sleep, he was afraid that if he went on, he would never wake up.

He still has a lot of things to do, save his senior brother, and Yu Wenshuang, who is far away in Dingzhou, originally he promised to go and join her.

No, you have to go out.

He reluctantly stood up and groped his way through the darkness in a small dark room, looking for an opportunity.

The wall was forged with dark iron, Xiao Jinyan knocked tentatively, and judging by the echo, the wall was two feet thick.

That's it.

It was precisely because of this that the strings in his body could not resonate with heaven and earth, and if Yuwen Tianlu was here, he would definitely tell him that he was imprisoned in Faraday's cage.

In the next two days, the food became much better, but the middle-aged man in the Forget Worry Pavilion would come to take away his bowl of blood every day.

......

Outside Dingzhou.

Yuwen Tianlu held a spear in one arm and rode a horse to patrol the battlefield. In the canyon outside the mountain, the fire was blazing and the smoke was billowing out.

Outside the city, a fierce battle has just been experienced.

100,000 soldiers and horses of the Southern Army of Daming Ping were trapped in the canyon, ten days and ten nights, lack of water and food, and finally broke the halberd and sank into the sand, a defeat.

The city of Dingzhou is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there is a moat to defend. After the Ming army entered the canyon, Yuwen Tianlu ordered to block the retreat with boulders.

For ten days, this canyon became a purgatory on earth. Faced with the dilemma of life and death, the general organized 31 breakouts in the middle of the mountain, and was repelled 31 times.

Ten days down, 80,000 soldiers and horses were consumed, and finally in desperation, he had to disarm and surrender, and he did not expect to cut off half of the mountain, he had received an order to attack a city that should have been gone twenty years ago, who expected that the army had not approached, and it ended up in this ending.

Intercepting the middle of the mountain has experienced a hundred battles, shocked the states in southern Xinjiang, has never suffered defeat, and has been arrogant and indulgent over the years, especially the fall of Yuwen Tianlu and Xue Huai's old age, thinking that the military power will inevitably fall into his hands in the future, and he did not put a small Dingzhou City in his eyes.

He thought that a handful of bandits or green forests occupied Dingzhou, and before going on the expedition, he also said that he would capture Dingzhou within one day, and send the head of the other party's guards to the capital to congratulate His Majesty on his birthday.

When he saw Yuwen Tianlu, he understood that he was not unjustly lost, but he couldn't figure out why Yuwen Tianlu, who had died in the western Xinjiang, was here at this moment?

"Yuwen Da...... Tianlu?"

Yuwen Tianlu's eyes fell on him, and he shook his head slightly, "I warned you back then, don't waste military training, the states of Southern Xinjiang are just carving insects, and the real external troubles of the Ming Dynasty are Western Chu and Northern Zhou, but you don't listen, this battle is not unjust." ”

"Does Your Majesty know you're still alive?"

Yuwen Tianlu said with a smile, "If he doesn't know, how can he send you to die?" It's just that he doesn't know that over the years, I have invested 400 million taels of silver in Dingzhou City, and even if Prince Xue comes to attack, he may not be able to defeat it within ten years. ”

"I am General Pingnan, you are the governor of the western expedition, although the rank is not as good as you, but they are all colleagues, do you know that this is treason?"

Yuwen Tianlu said, "When Zhu Liye seized the throne, and then bloodbathed the old ministers of the former dynasty and killed the envoy of Shujian Mountain, he was no longer the high-spirited His Royal Highness King Yong, but just a calculating monarch, I have been expelled from the court by him, how can I say treason?"

Thinking that he couldn't provoke him, he softened his tone and said, "Now that I have surrendered, can you place the generals first?"

Yuwen Tianlu pointed to the canyon, "I've already found a place for them to settle into." And, of course, yours. ”

Intercepting Banshan was about to speak, Yuwen Tianlu's spear had pierced him, and he didn't understand why he met Yuwen Tianlu here, why Yuwen Tianlu rebelled.

Yuwen Tianlu said coldly, "Don't leave any troops." ”

He also ordered the severed head to be cut off and put into a box. Back in the city, he simply packed up his salute and said to Yuwenshuang, "I'm going to go out of the gate, if there is any change in Shujian Mountain, I will open the formation." ”

"Where to go?"

"The capital. Yuwen Tianlu said, "Anyway, it was also a monarch and a minister back then, and the emperor was a birthday, and I, who was a courtier in the past, had to send him a congratulatory gift." ”

When Yu Wenshuang heard that he was going to the capital, he was worried about Xiao Jinyan and said, "I'll go with my father." ”

Yuwen Tianlu shook his head, "The formation here can't be without you, what's more, if I bring you, I'm afraid it's too late in time." ”

From Dingzhou to the capital, it is more than a thousand miles.

For Yuwen Tianlu, if he exerts his cultivation with all his might, it will only take three days, but if he brings Yuwen Shuang, he is afraid that he will not be able to arrive without half a moon.

Yuwen Tianlu instructed again, said goodbye to Yuwenshuang, and saw a figure flashing, already miles away.

Yu Wenshuang looked at the northeast direction, and said secretly in his heart, "Brother Xiao, you promised me that you would come back safely and marry me." ”

......

Palace.

The floor of the imperial study was in a mess, and Zhu Liye had just made a fire and almost demolished the entire imperial study.

The cabinet scholar and the secretary of the military department fell to his knees and did not dare to make a sound.

In the battle of Dingzhou, he was killed in the battle of Banshan, 100,000 soldiers and horses were slaughtered, and the battle report came, and the government and the opposition were in an uproar.

Especially in a few days, it will be his 60th birthday.

was going to use a victory to celebrate his birthday, but who expected that the good news did not come, but waited for such bad news.

"Rubbish, a bunch of rubbish!"

Zhu Liye scolded, "This is the thief marshal you recommended to me?

The ministers were silent.

The person was personally chosen by His Majesty, and now how can he be recommended by the Cabinet? But His Majesty is His Majesty, and he will never make a mistake.

It is always the courtier who makes mistakes.

They have to carry this pot.

Value!