At the last moment of dusk, for some reason, there were scattered raindrops in the sky, urging the already scattered pedestrians to flee in all directions. Heaven and earth just wanted to restore their primitive tranquility, but suddenly they were shattered by the sound of rumbling horses' hooves.

From the four gates of the east, west, north and south, dozens of war horses and fish penetrated into the city at the same time, gathered at the corner of the street in the city, and then went straight to the east of the city along the street that was not spacious.

There were about 100 horsemen, all of whom were carrying long swords, white scarves wrapped around their arms, holding four-inch-long mountain-breaking knives, and a bright red Chen character tattooed on their chests.

Duyun rides 12 people, each riding 100 people, all of them are good at one as ten. These 1,200 people formed the most cutting-edge army of the Dajing Dynasty, whether it was shaking Beiliang, shaking Xishu, or fixing the three eastern parts of Liao, and destroying the sixteen islands of Dongyi, they were everywhere. Before retiring, Chen Duyun selected 10 people from each of the 12 horsemen as his personal guards, a total of 120 people, all of whom were Chen Duyun's diehards.

The war horse neighed, and the king's flag was displayed.

At the gate of Chen's mansion, Chen Duyun held a long whip in his hand and sat on a horse. glanced at the one hundred and twenty soldiers kneeling on one knee in front of him, and waved his hand: "Let's go." ”

"No!"

The soldiers listened to the order to get on the horse, and at this moment, the dark clouds over the entire Qianyang City became thicker.

Chen Duyun's horse is an old horse that has followed Chen Duyun for 25 years, and has been raised in Houfu for three years, plus the first two years of lactation after birth, it is already 30 years old.

There is no difference between a horse to thirty and a man to seventy.

However, the horse that has been on the battlefield is the same as the man, and the pride in his bones will never allow it to be inferior to the bottom half of the people. The old horse galloped without a whip, and every step of the trampling into the muddy ground was carried with a strong killing intention.

Until he arrived at the door of Du Xingsheng, the secretary of the military department, Chen Duyun stopped his horse, and a group of soldiers went up to surround the gate of Dufu.

Du Xingsheng, the secretary of the military department, is fifty years old, and his official residence is from a product, and he is also one of the few rulers in the court. It's just that the head of the military department, who is in charge of the recruitment, dispatch, promotion and equipping of hundreds of thousands of troops in the country, has no prestige in the army, because he is a civilian official. Since ancient times, literature is literature, military is martial arts, and there is a difference between civil and military, and the flaws between civil officials and military attaches have been around for a long time, and it is not clear for a while.

Du Aohu, the steward of the Du family, has been pretending to be a tiger for many years, and he has always been looking at people through the cracks in the door, and he doesn't know who is so bold as to directly break open the middle door of the Du Mansion, and walked out with a scolding. At first glance, there was a black sword shadow standing at the door, and he slipped into the mansion again.

Chen Duyun raised his whip, pointed to the gate of the Du family and scolded: "Du Deaf, I count to three, if you don't appear in front of me again, don't blame the old man's iron horse on the threshold of your Du Mansion." ”

Du Xingsheng is a half-deaf person, one ear can be used, and the other ear is an ornament, which is known to almost everyone in the court. Some people dared to secretly shout his nickname behind his back, but no one dared to say it so bluntly in front of him, Chen Duyun was the first.

"One. ”

"II. ”

"I said who has such courage, it turned out to be Old Marquis Chen. I don't know what is wrong with the lower officials, who can make the Hou Ye work so hard. ”

After a while, Du Xingsheng, who was fat and greasy, almost breathed in one step, walked out with an iron face and a cold face, surrounded by a group of entourage.

Du Xingsheng didn't look down on Chen Duyun, who was born in the army. Look, this leader has conquered and destroyed sixteen or seventeen large and small countries, and has stooped to defend the country's frontier for more than 30 years on the bitter cold side.

Wang and Hou seem to be one word apart. But the king has the seal of the torn soil, and he can build his own military system, Hou, is really just a pension monkey kept in captivity by the imperial court.

In contrast, Zhang Renliang Taoguang raised obscurity for 12 years, but he only wrote and wrote songs, raised his eunuchs, did not spend a single soldier, did not lose a single flesh and blood, and quietly became the uncrowned king of the Li Jing Dynasty, and almost all the Chinese courtiers and Confucian students were in awe and admiration for him, which can be called worship.

Chen Duyun naturally didn't pay attention to the weird hearts of these literati and Confucian scholars, and asked directly: "Let me ask you, do you want to set up a new army in the DPRK?"

Du Xingsheng pinched the beard that was not long under his lips, held his head high and said with a smile: "Yes, the imperial court has this plan recently, isn't this still in preparation, what, Hou Ye also wants to get involved? Want to enter this new army to relive his military career? If this is the case, why does Hou Ye have to come in person, find a little one to come and inform him, I think with Hou Ye's ability, it should be okay to be a centurion, hahahaha......"

Du Xingsheng was arrogant and didn't take Chen Duyun in his eyes at all.

Chen Duyun was silent for a moment, and looked at Du Xingsheng from afar with a wrinkled brow. The next moment, I saw one hundred and twenty generals behind Chen Duyun suddenly draw their swords, and the light of the swords flashed for a while. The first general had no scruples, stepped forward and kicked Du Xingsheng to the ground with the little guy behind him, stepped on Du Xingsheng's chest, raised his hand and put the bright blade against Du Xingsheng's neck, and said expressionlessly:

"Hou Ye will answer honestly whatever he asks, and if he says one more nonsense, he will die!"

Du Xingsheng's face was shocked, he endured the sharp pain in his chest, looked at Chen Duyun angrily, and scolded loudly: "It's the other way around, it's the other way around." Chen Duyun, do you know what you are doing now, you are an assassin of the imperial court, I think you don't even want to live a good life in your old age?"

Du Xingsheng has never joined the army or fought a war, and he underestimated the bottom line that these military people can be killed and not humiliated.

The general didn't talk nonsense, and suddenly the blade of the knife reversed, and suddenly cut a deep knife mark on Du Xingsheng's thigh, and blood splashed three feet away for a while.

"If you dare to say nonsense, the next time the knife cuts it, it's under your head. ”

Du Xingsheng let out a wail, glaring at the sword-wielding general, but he didn't dare to say anything.

At this time, Chen Duyun slowly let out a deep voice: "Let me ask you again, is it related to the frost sword that wants to build a new army this time?"

Du Xingsheng glanced at Chen Duyun, his mouth moved, and he didn't say a word.

The leader of the general raised his eyes and looked at Chen Duyun, Chen Duyun sighed slightly,

"It seems that some people really don't know how dead words are written. ”

"Old horseman, you dare!" Du Xingsheng was shocked, he didn't believe that a Hou Ye who just retired and resigned would really treat human life like a mustard.

"Hehe, you can try!"

Du Xingsheng was sweating profusely, and roared angrily: "Chen Duyun, don't be embarrassed, you really think you are still a character! You don't look at your own identity, now you are just a zombie worm that has gone away, but you can only survive by relying on the prestige you used to have, and you are old and immortal." ”

"Really?"

Chen Duyun smiled coldly, causing dark clouds to surge in the sky, and in the heavier and heavier rain, Chen Duyun, who was standing behind him with countless horsemen in iron armor, couldn't help but sigh in vain: "Probably everyone thinks that I am just a marquis who has lost power, but they have forgotten why the first emperor named me the Great Pillar Kingdom. The pillar country, the spine of the country, I am in one day, and the water of Dajing will not move. I am in one day, and the sky of Dajing will not fall.

Come to think of it, the old man joined the army at the age of 16, and in the spring and autumn of 57 years, there are no less than a million unjust souls who have died because of me, and there are hundreds of thousands of people who have lived because of me. The generals who have been cultivated by me and can take charge of the army alone are not 10,000 but also 5,000, and the generals who have been able to rise to the top through my single-handed promotion and now dominate the side are not 1,000 or 500, the old man licks more blood than he drinks, and the old man can't count the country that he destroyed with his hands together, and now there are 600,000 troops in the whole country, which army does not have my descendants, just because you, a junior, also want to play a score with the old man here?

Du Xingsheng's lips were swaying, and he almost wanted to grind out blood stains. Chen Duyun's voice was not high, but his sentences were deafening.

At this time, Chen Duyun raised his hand slightly: "Kill it, and then follow me to the palace of danger." ”

Du Xingsheng was shocked, around the imperial city, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, in front of the group of officials, he Chen Duyun really dared to kill the court officials so blatantly, this ...... It's insane. The leading general bowed his head slightly, and raised the long knife with a cold face to cut at Du Xingsheng's neck, just as the knife was cutting into the sky, and was about to fall, suddenly an urgent cry came from Du Fu: "Master Hou, please keep people under the knife." ”

The knife suddenly hung in the air, and the sound of the wind wrapped in the blade also came to an abrupt end.

At this time, a young man in Tsing Yi couldn't care about the dense drizzle, and ran out of the inner courtyard recklessly, immediately knelt on the ground, and begged for mercy: "I don't know where my father offended Master Hou, and I ask Lord Hou to forgive me and leave my father, who doesn't know what to do, to live." ”

Chen Duyun raised his eyes and looked over, but he was slightly stunned: "You are Du Youcai?"

The young man hurriedly nodded: "No, it's Du Youcai!"

Chen Duyun nodded slightly, looked at Du Xingsheng and sneered: "Du Deaf, you really gave birth to a good son?"

At this time, the blood on the ground mixed with the rain flowed down the river, and the more it flowed, the thicker and thicker. Du Xingsheng, who had lost too much blood, turned pale, and still glared at Chen Duyun angrily, as if he had used all his strength to barely scold the three words "old horseman", Du Youcai hurriedly interrupted: "Don't shut up yet, don't want to live anymore?"

Immediately, Du Youcai turned his head to look at Chen Duyun, arched his hand and said respectfully: "Old Hou Ye Chen, my father must have been seriously injured, which led to delirium, so he was confused for a while and collided with Hou Ye in words, and now he has been punished as he deserves. If the old marquis really wants to inquire about some news, the younger generation dares to invite Dazhuguo into the mansion to talk about it, the house has already prepared a little thin wine, I am willing to ask the wine to make amends, and answer the Hou Ye's questions truthfully!"

Chen Duyun shook his head, looked at Du Youcai and said, "No need, I just want to know if the unsuccessful son of my family wants to join this new army has something to do with you?"

Du Youcai's expression was awe-inspiring, and he said: "That's Ling Gongzi's own choice!"

Chen Duyun pondered for a long time before nodding slightly: "Okay, I understand!"

I don't know if Chen Duyun really understands or fakes, but he doesn't continue to ask.

Chen Duyun raised his hand, and the soldiers put their swords into their sheaths, and the leading general also put his feet back. At the moment when Lerma turned his head and was about to leave, Chen Duyun slowly turned his head and said sonorously: "Bring a message to Zhang Renliang for me, now my dog's iron heart wants to join the new army, I can't stop it." I don't care what the new army is for, whether it's the Frost Sword or some other ulterior secret, but if I let me know that my unfilial son is a little wronged in it and loses half of his fur, it will be because he Zhang Renliang wants to die, and the gods can't save it. ”

Du Youcai bowed to the ground: "Yes, the younger generation must convey it as promised." ”

The rain kept falling, and the chill of late autumn permeated every corner of Qianyang City. By the time Du Youcai got up, Chen Duyun had already led a group of soldiers to drape themselves with raindrops and gradually drifted away.

Du Xingsheng was still in a trance and at a loss. When he came to his senses, he endured the severe pain and scolded happily: "This old man is simply a madman." ”

Du Youcai shook his head: "He's not a madman, he's knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger this time." This time, Chen Ergou was introduced into the army, I am afraid that it is not a good move. ”