Chapter 65: The October Siege (8)
The days of fighting have made the entire Ruicheng panic, and it is difficult for the main street to return to the crowds of people in the past. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Walking through the streets with mixed smells, whether it was the people or the soldiers, everyone's faces were not very good, or worried, or dazed...... The Canglan Legion has been besieging the city for half a month, and every time the deafening war drums come from the distant sky, the people of Ruicheng are like frightened birds, running for their lives under the high eaves of the cellar, for fear that one of them will die tragically under the overwhelming stray arrows.
Especially recently, some bad rumors have spread in the city......
"Did you hear that King Canglan was able to fight from Cangshan and Erhai to Ruicheng so quickly, it was because the Immortal Saint had already given him all the dozens of cities in Younan......"
"Impossible...... The King of Canglan and the Immortal Saint are life-and-death relationships, how can they be so generous to give up dozens of cities in Younan?"
"Huh...... It took more than five years for the Canglan Legion to take Cangshan and Erhai, and after that, it was only a few months before they were able to march to Rui City, think about it for yourself......"
"However, why did the Immortal Saint give up dozens of cities in Younan to Liu Chen?"
"I heard from the officers and soldiers defending the city that because the war on the second front in the northwest was tight, there were too many soldiers of the Eastern Continental Alliance...... In order to be able to defend the Western Regions, the Immortal Saint had to give up Youzhou ......"
"No, I also saw that the masters of the Inquisition and several battalions of warriors of the Adjudicator Guard are staying in the Ruicheng Camp......"
"Huh...... Do you know that the Canglan Legion has more than 2 million armor, and there are even more ...... masters."
"Hey...... How's that to be?"
"How is it good?" The voices of the heads and ears were very low, and at this moment, in the streets and alleys of Ruicheng, the atmosphere was the same panic, "A lesson from the past, a teacher from the future...... The different fate of Wancheng and Kangcheng is in front of us, and King Canglan has already said that Shunchang will die...... Let's just wait for our heads to be piled up into a Jingguan......"
"Isn't there still the Zhang family?"
"Zhang's ...... A few days ago, someone saw that the daughters of the Zhang family and Tianjiao were protected by many masters and sent to Loulan overnight......"
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Gossip is like a planthopper on the old sick bed, cutting constantly, sorting out and messing, and the more it spreads, the more boundless it becomes...... In just a few days, Rui Cheng has been filled with all kinds of not very optimistic gossip.
Xicheng, inside Zhang's courtyard.
Wen Renhao, who was more and more calm, sat on the head, and frowned and thought hard while sipping tea. In front of him, the tall Zhang family advocate Chen was looking at the silent people in the hall with a gloomy face, his eyes spitting fire.
"A bunch of waste, it took so many days and so much energy that a few enemy spies couldn't find out...... What's the use of the old man raising you?"
"Lord Wang, please calm your anger, taking care of your body is the top priority!" In the end, a middle-aged scholar who was still standing at the front of the crowd said with a bitter smile, no way, Zhang Chen's current appearance is really like the title "King of Dian" given to him by Yu Taixuan, he is crazy and incurable.
On that day, there was a dung rain in Ruicheng, that day, the conversation between King Canglan and Zhang Chen reached the ears of every Ruicheng soldier and civilian, that day, Zhang Chen returned home angry, but he didn't want to wait for him was the news that his daughter-in-law committed suicide in shame...... In this way, the yellow mud rotten crotch is not Xiang, but also Xiang!
"Anger?" Zhang Chen's eyes were bloodshot, his appearance was indescribably haggard and fierce, and he stared at the middle-aged scholar with a bitter face for a long time before he gritted his teeth and said word by word: "How do you let the old man calm his anger?" Liu Chen's little bastard spies have all stirred Rui Cheng into a pot of porridge, and you haven't even caught a single hair until now...... If this continues, the old man's famous name will be ruined here!"
"You old squirt ashes have long been out of your reputation!" Zhang Chen's hysteria made the atmosphere in the room more solemn, and everyone lowered their heads, and there were all kinds of slanders in their hearts.
Seeing that everyone described it like this, Zhang Chen was angry for a while, and for a long time, he sighed heavily, and the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes also rippled like autumn waves, and the face that was originally quite upright seemed to be dozens of years old at this moment......
After Zhang Lingtian's widow committed suicide, people believed everything Liu Chen said that day, and when he looked back, it was true that every time he went to a town, Zhang Chen would take his daughter-in-law with him, so he protected and spoiled him, saying that if he didn't have a leg, it would definitely be a lie...... Even Wen Renhao, who had been watching coldly, asked Zhang Chen about this a few days ago, and the strange eyes of the National Sect Shaozong made Zhang Chen want to blow himself up on the spot to show his innocence......
Rumors can kill, especially after adding fuel to the dark conjectures that are deeply hidden in everyone's hearts...... Zhang Chen's sins are constantly being magnified, so big that he can barely bear them.
Liu Chen, who is far away on the other side of the battlefield, will not know that his nonsense can have such an effect, in the era of Confucianism and Taoism, the inferior character of the superior is definitely a fierce medicine that makes his subordinates deviate from morality......
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"Alright...... Uncle Shi will dissipate his anger first, and wait for the little nephew to come and give you a clue!"
After observing coldly for a long time, this slight inaudible gap in Zhang's camp did not escape Wen Renhao's eyes at all, and he laughed and roared in his heart, he slowly got up, paced to Zhang Chen's side, helped him to sit on the Taishi chair, smiled slightly, and said lightly: "If the palace is right, the secret agent who Liu Chen made to enter Rui City should be the long-disappeared Martial Spirit Palace......"
"Martial Spirit Palace?" Everyone in the room raised their heads in unison, and their eyes were full of doubts when they looked at Wen Renhao.
"After the birth of my family's holy venerable, the Martial Spirit Palace, a mysterious organization that has stirred the situation in Kyushu for countless years, gradually surfaced, and the biggest original intention of this organization secretly founded by the legendary masters of the human race led by Lu Xiu and Liu Bai was to deal with us...... Different from the rough and murderous thirst of the hidden guards, and not like the mysterious whereabouts of listening to the Xue Lou, Ruicheng's wind and rain today is the best thing for the secret agents of the Wuhun Palace, when I was in Chang'an before, the Wuhun Hall did not do much of these things, and the most important thing is that Liu Chen was once a member of the Wuhun Palace, and his insidious cunning, everyone here knows it deeply...... The so-called 'great hidden in the city' means that they, ordinary and ignorant people, can indeed hardly escape their demagoguery......"
"Then according to Shaozong's meaning, what should we do? Now this situation, I'm afraid it won't be long before it gets out of control!"
"Hehe!" Wen Renhao smiled, picked up the tea on the table with a face like a spring breeze, moistened his lips slightly, and chuckled: "Liu Chen's meaning is very simple, our Rui City is strong, and it will be difficult for him to break through for a while, so the only way to send the spies of the Martial Spirit Hall into the city is to incite the emotions of the people and intentionally cause civil strife...... As he expected, Rui Cheng really won't be able to drag on for too long, and if it goes on like this, what awaits us is only the end of internal and external troubles, and when the time comes, it will be much easier for him to attack the city again......"
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"What we have to do is very simple, just don't do what he wants, tomorrow, we will face the battle, go out of the city to play with them first, a small victory can solve Ruicheng's predicament today!" (To be continued.) )