Chapter 9: The First Day of the Decade

Ma Ruhai stayed in Daizhou for a few days, resigned from his position as a military doctor, packed his bags and walked towards Taihang Mountain. On www.biquge.info the way, I met Lotte Zang and told him about the situation in Daishu Castle. Bidding farewell to Ma Ruhai, Lotte Zang decided to sneak back to Daizhou to rescue Lin Hanyan.

At night, Lotte Zang put the child to sleep, and was about to return to Daizhou City alone, when more than a dozen veiled people suddenly rushed in from outside the door. They couldn't help but say, holding their knives and slashing at Lottezo. Lotte Zang picked up Le Yiyang with one hand, quickly took out the sword placed next to the pillow with the other, and turned around to block the several sharp blades that had been chopped down. Thinking that these people were murdering for money, Lotte Zang raised his foot and kicked out of the table in the room, and one of them didn't have time to dodge, and flew out of the window with the table.

The rest of the people saw that Lotte had extraordinary martial arts, and they all opened their hands to signal that they were not attacking. Lotte Zang angrily asked, "Who are you?" The people were silent after hearing this, and they all killed them with an "ah" sound. Lotte Zang jumped into the air, everyone's knives stabbed in the air, he turned around and landed on the knife, his body was horizontal, he pressed the top of a person's head with his hands, and his feet rotated in mid-air for most of the half-circle, and everyone was knocked to the ground. Lotte Zang brushed the man's face and pulled his veil off, revealing that they were actually Du Chongwei's cronies who met outside the city that day.

Lotte Zang immediately cheered him up, covered the child's eyes with gauze, and before the man came back to his senses, he knocked him into the wall with one palm. The man fell to the bed, his head bowed, and he vomited blood and died. The others were lying on the ground, holding their hands on the ground, and slowly moved towards the door. Lotte Tibetan fast sword rose and fell, and more than ten people fell to the ground and died. He walked over to the last man, lifted his clothes and asked, "How is the general's wife now?"

The man sneered: "Lord Du admires her beauty, and he won't be embarrassed for her." Lotte Zang was about to ask again, when he suddenly felt a murderous aura behind him, and when he looked back, he saw the man who had just flown outside the house and stabbed him with a knife. He immediately let go of his hand and quickly turned sideways to avoid the blade, only to hear an "ah" sound, and the man on the ground had been pierced through the chest by his own knife, and blood was splattered on the ground. Seeing that he had killed his accomplice by mistake, the other man released the hilt of his sword with both hands and stood with a dull gaze, and Lotte Zang jumped up from the ground and swung his sword across the man's neck, and the man raised his fingers and wanted to say something, but his feet were weak, and he leaned back, and fell on his companion's body without saying a word.

Lotte Zang was worried about Lin Hanyan's safety, and rode away in the direction of Daizhou with the sleeping Le Yiyang. Lotte hid in the city, and while the patrolling soldiers were unprepared, he slipped into the Anxi Hou Mansion. The people in the house have dispersed, and only the maid Qiaoniang is still in the lady's room, silently wiping the tears in her eyes. Lotte Zang slowly pushed the door in, and Qiao Niang was startled by the voice. She turned to look at the person outside the door. Lotte Zang hurriedly motioned for her to be silent, handed her the child in his arms, and asked, "Where is the general's wife?"

Qiao Niang took Le Yiyang, pulled Le Tianzang's sleeve, and cried: "A person just came over and took Mrs. away." Lotte was stunned in his heart, and hurriedly said: "You are so good to take your son, I will go back when I go." ”

Lotte hid out of the Hou Mansion, flew all the way to the wall, and came to Du Chongwei's mansion. Du Chongwei had just finished sending the Khitan envoy and was sitting at the table drinking tea. Lotte Zang broke in directly, and Du Chongwei saw that there was an extra person in the house, so he got up and scolded loudly: "Don't you see that I'm resting!

Lotte Zang walked over to him, put the sword on the table, sat on the stool and said, "Lord Du, please calm your anger, come down just to pick up someone." Du Chongwei said coldly: "I don't know who you are talking about?" Lotte Zang replied: "The adult is really forgetful, naturally it is the general's wife." ”

Du Chongwei said solemnly: "Lin Hanyan is not in my house, you better go back." Lotte Zang sneered: "My lord, I won't take Madame today, I have to take your head." After hearing this, Du Chongwei glanced at Le Tianzang, and said with a sigh: "It turns out that you are here to avenge Le Yuan!"

Lotte Zang raised his sword to stab, the blade was already approaching his chest, and at this time, a black shadow jumped to Du Chongwei's side and said, "My lord, please leave first." Lotte Zang was shocked in his heart, and was about to stab at the man, only to see the man's right palm wave, and Lotte Zang's long sword immediately deviated to one side. Seeing that this person had deep internal strength, Lotte Zang did not dare to underestimate it, and flew to attack his right flank. The man clasped his hands together, grabbed the long sword, and pushed it back hard, and Lotte Zang used his strength to float backwards. The two dismantled dozens of moves, but they failed to outperform each other. Lotte Zang thought of Lin Hanyan in his heart, and didn't want to entangle with him anymore, so he raised his sword and cut through the window and turned out. The man did not chase after him, but still escaped from Lotte.

Du Chongwei came out to thank him, and the man said: "Lord Du doesn't have to be polite, since your brother-in-law Shi Jingjiao agreed to form an alliance with my Khitan to attack the Tang Dynasty, you and I are our own family." I will go to Taiyuan now to meet with the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, and there will be a period later. "Say goodbye and leave.

Seeing that Lotte Zang dared to assassinate in the palace, Du Chongwei immediately ordered martial law to arrest the assassin in the whole city. In order to prevent Du Chongwei from sending people to chase and kill, he rushed back to the Anxi Hou Mansion, took Le Yiyang and Qiao Niang, and ran straight towards the Khitan border. The soldiers defending the city were shocked, dozens of people chased more than 60 miles, went up a hillside, looked down, the black pressure was all the camp tents of the Khitan army, and the people did not dare to get close to half a step, so they had to retreat their horses back.

Du Chongwei saw that now that the aid had been removed, and the Khitan had formed an alliance with his brother-in-law Shi Jingjiao, he was overjoyed, and within a few days, he transferred all the soldiers and horses of the Anxi army and Daizhou to Taiyuan to fight against the army of the imperial court.

Shi Jingjiao had the support of Du Chongwei's nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses, and his ambitions gradually swelled, and he even ignored the strong opposition of Shi Chonggui, Liu Zhiyuan, Xu Yuanfei and other cronies, and asked the Khitan army to send troops on the condition of "Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures", and invaded the Central Plains in one fell swoop to destroy the Tang Dynasty, and Li Congke and Yelubei were both killed in the Luoyang Mutiny. Shi Jingjiao proclaimed himself emperor in Luoyang, changed the name of the country to "Great Jin", and then sent the capital to Kaifeng Mansion in the south.

Fourteen years have passed, and now Shi Jingjiao's nephew Shi Chonggui is the emperor. Shi Chonggui could not bear the bullying of the Khitans, and deliberately disobeyed the will of the Khitans, as a result, Yelu Deguang personally led the troops to invade the Jin State in the south, and divided his troops all the way to the northwest border to invade and contain the 100,000 Jin Dynasty troops stationed in Hedong.

On the afternoon of this day, the northwest border of the Jin Kingdom was sunny and windy, and Le Yiyang was chatting with his friend Linghu Cheng on the grassland, when suddenly a team of black-pressed soldiers and horses rushed forward, about dozens of people. The two recognized that this was the Khitan army and hurriedly ran back to the village to report the news. How could the two of them outrun the Khitan horses, and while they were talking, five horsemen had surrounded the two of them.

Le Yiyang asked in Khitan dialect, "Why did you come to my Great Jin Land?" and one of them replied, "Today we will raze this land to the ground." After speaking, he waved his knife and slashed at the music. Le Yiyang didn't know martial arts, so he hurriedly lay down under the horse's belly and dodged, and the man stabbed him twice on the ground, but he couldn't hurt Le Yiyang at all. The man was annoyed and muttered a few words to the four people around him, and the others all waved their knives to make a lot of fun.

Ling Hucheng saw that Le Yiyang was worried about his life, so he couldn't take care of it too much at this time, pulled out the thin knife on his back and flew to block it, and said to Le Yiyang: "Brother Yang, a good man doesn't suffer losses in front of him, and thirty-six plans are the best plan." Le Yiyang nodded, handed the horse's leg hard, only to see the horse roar, raise its front feet and make the Khitan soldier fall to the ground, the two took the opportunity to grab the horse, and whipped towards the village.

These Khitan soldiers were furious and hurriedly chased after them. Le Yiyang and Linghu Cheng had just arrived in the village, and they didn't have time to tell the others that this group of Khitan soldiers had already arrived one after another. When they arrived in the village, they robbed everything they saw and killed anyone they met. Le Yiyang and Ling Hucheng gritted their teeth with hatred and stood up to block the way of the comers. Those Khitan soldiers were startled and saw that the two were the same two people just now, so they swung their knives and killed them. Ling Hucheng raised his knife and stabbed a person, and the man stretched out his hand to give Le Yiyang a palm on the back, and Le Yiyang choked forward and fell to the ground. Ling Hucheng returned the knife to kill the man, and stepped forward to help Le Yiyang, but in the blink of an eye, he was already surrounded by Khitan soldiers in the center.

Those Khitan cavalrymen raised their broadswords, and ran around Le Yiyang and Linghu Cheng, seeing that the two of them were worried about their lives, they suddenly shot two cold arrows, and the two Khitan soldiers in the lead fell to the ground in response. The rest of the people were shocked when they saw this, they all raised their big swords, and shot more than ten sharp arrows, and the Khitan soldiers fell to the ground. At this time, a middle-aged man in his thirties came out of the avenue and said: "The Khitan dog is arrogant, and he doesn't look at the place when he hits the grass valley!"

One or two of those Khitans who could understand Chinese, saw that this person had killed more than ten of his companions in a row, and he whispered insults and underestimated a few words to others, and flew to take his life. The man looked at the dozens of cavalry horses rushing forward, but he did not panic, and waited until the Khitan cavalry approached, then raised his knife and stabbed the ground, and his body swept the horse's legs, and in an instant, five or six horses had fallen to the ground, and the soldiers in the rear did not have time to stop their horses, and they were raised and thrown to the ground, and the ground was wailing for a while. The man said, "Go back and tell Yelu Deguang that if the Khitan dares to attack, be careful of the head on his neck." This group of Khitan soldiers suffered a dumb loss, although they were unwilling, but seeing that this person was righteous and awe-inspiring, and his martial arts were far above everyone, they returned to the Khitan military camp one by one.