"Let's talk about business. Zong Xin said embarrassedly: "The poor monk still has a lot of things to transport, I don't know how many dart masters there are under my uncle's hands?"

"If necessary, I can also make up tens of thousands of people, anyway, all the bandits and bandits in this vicinity are my people, as long as they change their clothes, they are all dart masters. There are only a few hundred people who usually walk the darts. "Gu Guozhang didn't care about it, if he was just Master Zongxin, Gu Guozhang would definitely not dare to say this, but he is the son of Lei Hong, since everyone is on the same path, there is no need to hide it.

Zong Xin nodded and said, "That's enough, the poor monk still has important things to do, so he will leave." ”

"Leave so soon, stay for a meal. ”

"No, the poor monk wants to rush back to the Han Dynasty, the Khitan army is about to move south, if you go late, I'm afraid that Yelu Deguang will escape. This time, the poor monk wanted to take down the head of Yerod with his own hands. ”

"Go, go, go. Of course, Gu Guozhang also knew about this matter, and originally wanted to stay with Zongxin for a meal, but when it came to this matter, Gu Guozhang didn't care about any etiquette, and asked Zongxin to go quickly and prepare for a big event.

Zong Xin and his entourage said goodbye to Zhengyou Dart Bureau and rushed back to Weinan directly in a carriage. Gu Guozhang saw Zong Xin and his party leave, and he felt a lot of emotion in his heart.

"Hey~ It's a pity. Gu Guozhang said: "Zong Xin almost became my son-in-law, but he was preempted by Dugu Xingyue, and he knew that I would also go to Mount Tai, so it would be a kiss and a kiss." ”

"Dad, what are you talking about? Master Zongxin is my master, you can't think about it. ”

Gu Guozhang said: "Silly girl, that's why I said it's a little worse." I regret letting you worship Dugu Xingyue as a teacher now, if you don't worship her as a teacher, I will still shoehorn you into Zong Xin as a concubine, even if you stay by his side and be a maid. But not now, you can't serve a master and apprentice together. It's a pity, so it's a pity. ”

Gu Xiaoyue's face was flushed when she was said, Gu Guozhang had never talked about this kind of thing with Xiaoyue all this time, and as a woman in the rivers and lakes, Gu Xiaoyue was usually very arrogant, and she could say anything. But when it comes to this kind of thing, Gu Xiaoyue is still a little shy.

"There is one thing you must not know, Zong Xin turned out to be the son of my righteous brother Lei Hong, it stands to reason that you should marry him as a wife, and your master preempted him. Gu Guozhang sighed: "Don't say anything about this matter, otherwise our family's lives will not be guaranteed." Otherwise...... I'll find someone to kill your master, so that I have a reason to shoehorn you into Zongxin. ”

"Don't talk nonsense, I respect Master very much, and I am not allowed to do anything to her. Gu Xiaoyue said: "Aren't you afraid of the revenge of the people of the Dugu Valve? The people of the Dugu Valve are all crazy, you don't know this." ”

"So I didn't plan to do it myself, I said find someone to kill. Forget it, this thing can't be done anyway, and it's better for us to maintain good relations in the future. ”

The two turned around and walked home at the same time, and Gu Xiaoyue asked curiously, "My master is really Uncle Lei's son?"

"This matter is absolutely true, I have investigated the origin of Zongxin before, but I can't find out. And his special relationship with Rayhon, I find it strange. It wasn't until he took out the Night King's Order just now that I dared to be sure that he was Lei Tianyong, Lei Hong's third son. ”

Gu Xiaoyue nodded and said, "That's really a pity, if you find me a husband like Zongxin, I'm happy to marry." But now he is my master-in-law, so I have to find a new one, and I will never get married, and I have to find a son-in-law. ”

"Of course, how can my Gu Guozhang's daughter get married? Let's go home and discuss it again, by the way, how about you look at the kid next to Zong Xin, although he is a few years younger than you, he is Zong Xin's apprentice, and he is also the son of the general Guo Wei. And the age difference between you is not much, not as much as the difference between your master and master is 7 years old. ”

Gu Xiaoyue pouted and said, "Little broken child, you don't want to marry me, you don't have any hair." ”

"What about the other kid next to Zongxin? He is the second son of Zhao Valve, and he has always been with Zongxin, I suspect that Zongxin wants to assist him in ascending the throne and becoming emperor. Anyway, I guess the person Zong Xin wants to assist is either his own apprentice, or the kid surnamed Zhao next to him, one of these two people can be the emperor. ”

"This can be considered, if you can really be the emperor...... It's just a matter of consideration. Gu Xiaoyue is only 15 years old, and she is not in a hurry to get married. In the face of people with good conditions, she just thinks about it. Gu Xiaoyue is an only daughter, and her father loves her mother at home, so Gu Xiaoyue will never get married, and she must find a son-in-law.

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It took Zong Xin nearly two months to travel from Weinan to Jinling, but it only took half a month to return. In Dugu Valve made a car, Zongxin personally designed it for the workers to build, usually using eight horse-drawn carts, and when there is a real situation, he uses eight horses to pull the cart by wolves, and the speed is unimaginable to ordinary people.

Dugu Valve transports grain all year round, so Dugu Valve's car was originally good. The carriage designed by Zongxin has three pairs of wheels, the wheels and axles are made of fine iron, and a layer of cowhide tires are put on the outside of the wheels, and a lot of asbestos is placed in the tires to keep the tires off the ground and softer.

This design is far more durable and faster than ordinary wooden wheels, and the biggest advantage is that there will not be too many bumps. When the road is uneven, sitting in the carriage is like suffering, and Soshin can't completely avoid the bumps, but it can reduce the amplitude of the bumps, and it is more comfortable to sit in the car.

After returning to Weinan, the first news Zong Xin heard was that the Khitan had gathered an army of 300,000 troops and waved their troops south, and they had reached the city of Cangzhou.

Zong Xin took a deep breath and asked, "So soon? Spring ploughing hasn't arrived yet." ”

"The soldier said treacherously, Jerod's surprise is indeed confusing. It was also three days before I got the news, and I don't know if Yelu Deguang would attack Cangzhou. The weak scholar sighed: "Master Zongxin, this matter has nothing to do with you, it has nothing to do with spring ploughing, if Yelu Deguang's army breaks through Cangzhou, I am afraid that it will be too late to gather troops." ”

The weak scholar said very clearly, Yelu Deguang's 300,000 troops pressed the border, which was something that no one expected. Most people thought that Yelu Deguang would not wave his army south, but some people knew that Yelu Deguang would definitely move his army south, and Zongxin had already made a plan to catch it all. But Zongxin said that it was after spring ploughing, and he didn't think that Yelu Deguang had arrived before spring ploughing, and if Yelu Deguang's army broke Cangzhou, then the Central Plains would not be protected.

Zong Xin sighed: "I'm afraid that Cangzhou has been broken by now, because Yelu Deguang has obtained the five-shaped formation diagram of Fu Yanqing, the king of Wei, as long as he sends someone to study it, and he takes it by surprise, I'm afraid that Fu Yanqing won't be able to hold it." Youyun Eighteen Riders obeyed the order and stayed in Weinan to take care of the wolf cubs, and the others followed me. ”

Youyun Eighteen Cavalry was excited and sad in his heart, excited that the Liao army had already invaded Cangzhou, and according to Zongxin, Cangzhou should have been breached, as long as it reached the Central Plains of the Beijing Division. It's good to look at this situation, but the Youyun Eighteen Cavalry can't help but be sad, because they feel that the Khitan Emperor is going to suffer this time, although they don't know why, but they have this feeling.

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At this time, under the city of Cangzhou, Fu Yanqing really didn't expect the Khitan army to move south as Zong Xin said, but Zong Xin said that after the spring ploughing, now the Khitan army has come to the city before the spring ploughing, and it has been attacking the city for three consecutive days.

Fu Yanqing's five-shaped array fire array was broken, the wooden array was pressed, and now the city is defended by the golden array and the earth array, seeing that the Khitan army has attacked the chop mouth several times, and it is only a small siege, and no army has been sent.

This is already the third day, Fu Yanqing has never been so embarrassed, he still thought that his five-shaped array was indestructible, how could he not have imagined that it was broken by Yelu Deguang twice, and the golden array and the forest array were only struggling to support, and the corpses under the city were all over the field. As the besieging side, Yerod Guang had already won a big victory, because there was not much difference in casualties between the two sides. But it stands to reason that the besieging side should have three times as many casualties, and this time Fu Yanqing has no choice.

In the early morning of the fourth day, everyone was woken up by the sound of the Khitan horn, and when they came to the outside of the city, they saw that the Khitan had assembled a large army and all kinds of siege equipment were well prepared. Faced with the pressure of the Khitan black, Fu Yanqing, a veteran who has been on the battlefield for a long time, also felt cold. Yerod is ready to attack, and today he will have no return.

"Pass the order to go down, prepare wolf smoke, and only wait for the wolf smoke to be lit at the time of the big war, so that the bones of this group of Khitan wolf cubs will be gone. "Fu Yanqing ordered people to prepare wolf smoke, and the enemy was outnumbered, but at this time, all the soldiers of Fu Yanqing were not afraid, because they were very confident in their generals.

The archers stood at the battlements and drew their bows and arrows, and people kept sending quivers, and the defenders of the city were naturally mainly long-range. There are also people in the city who are boiling asphalt and preparing stones. These things are most useful if the enemy attacks the city, as they can die if they fall, and then set the asphalt on fire, so that the enemy does not dare to advance half a step.

Finally, the archers were accompanied by shortsword soldiers, who had to clear the way for the archers with their swords and shields in order to ensure that the archers continued to shoot arrows if the enemy attacked the city.

Looking out from the inside of the city, it was really black. The Khitan soldiers were dressed in velvet armor, and the soldiers in front held halberds and long sickles, and in the middle were all siege equipment, guarded by long and short sword soldiers, and archers in the rear. The archers on the battlements are not afraid at all, because the enemy is low, and it is difficult for their archers to shoot accurately, not to mention that as long as there is danger, they can use the battlements as a shield, and they are not afraid of the long-range troops of the besieging side at all.

However, the Khitan side also prepared a catapult, which was what Fu Yanqing was most afraid of, and the catapult was difficult to make and even more difficult to operate. It takes a lot of people to transport boulders to get the catapult to work, and each attack is also very intervening, so it doesn't do much other than siege.

It's just that I didn't expect that the Khitan could make catapults, and it seems that they have to attack Cangzhou.

Although Fu Yanqing was afraid, he was very confident that he could defend it. It is necessary to delay time here, otherwise the news will just reach the ears of the other Jiedu histories, and before they have time to gather troops, they will be broken by Yerod Guang one by one, in which case the Central Plains will really be finished.