Chapter 81: The Great War is Imminent
Zhong Xiong wondered: "Do the Kunlun monks dare to kill the king of Xiangyang? If they kill the king of Xiangyang, in what name will they raise troops?"
Hua Chong shook his head: "It's not to kill him, Kunlun monks have many ways to control the king of Xiangyang, and when they take over the world, it's just another yellow robe." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ infoβ
Zhong Xiong suddenly realized: "Yes, he can use medicine!"
Hua Chong said: "This person has quite a lot of achievements in pharmacology, and the man in black is one of his strange soldiers, if the King of Xiangyang is also mastered by him, it will be a little tricky." β
Bai Jintang on the side suddenly spoke: "I have always felt that Lord Hua seems to be more jealous of Kunlun Monk than King Xiangyang?"
"Well, the king of Xiangyang has endured for more than ten years, and what he is worried about is that his own strength is insufficient and he needs to borrow external forces, and Western Xia or Daliao cannot be controlled by him, it can only be a cooperative relationship, so what can be controlled by him is not only Xiangyang's own people and horses, that is, the mountains everywhere. β
Hua Chong frowned, and said with a wry smile: "But the Kunlun monk is in Western Xia, and it may even be the person who matched the alliance between Western Xia and the King of Xiangyang this time, with his ability, if Zhao Yuanhao, the king of Western Xia, and Zhao Jue, the king of Xiangyang, all become his puppets, then he will have more than 100,000 troops! The number of black-clothed people in his can be said to completely depend on how many medicines he can prepare, Western Xia and even the countries of the Western Regions behind Western Xia are rich in all kinds of medicines, once he makes or even improves medicines in large quantities, then how much stronger will the black-clothed people under him become? The consequences are unimaginable!"
Bai Jintang and the others were shocked when they heard it, and felt that what Hua Chong said was also very reasonable. Shen Zhongyuan thought for a while and said: "This matter is indeed a problem, but for us, this is a later story, for now, it is important to think about Xiangyang first, we are not safe here, you escape from the copper net array, Zhao Lin will definitely know, if he is searched for the whole city, it is very troublesome, it is important to get out of the city quickly." β
Hua Chong looked at Shen Zhongyuan and Zhong Xiong, and sneered: "What are you afraid of? You should have already had a way to retreat, right? Just now you said that you entered the palace through the tunnel, I thought that when the fourth brother came to Xiangyang before, he should have contacted Shen Hu, and you entered the palace at night, you should have contact with Shen Hu, so I only knew that we were here, and borrowed the second brother Han to go to Junshan, I'm afraid it was to use the tunnel of the king of Xiangyang to build another tunnel leading to here, right?"
Shen Zhongyuan said: "It's a pity that the cultivation is a little slow, I only finished it today, if you take a step earlier, you don't have to go to the Xiaolou to wade into danger." β
Hua Chong sighed and said: "Is it just a danger? Why don't you go in vain! King Xiangyang failed to catch it, and the alliance was also fake, so this crime was in vain." β
Bai Yutang said on the side: "It's not that there is no gain at all," said and shook the knife in his hand: "At least I got a treasure knife!"
With a snap, Shen Hu threw something on the table, and everyone looked at it, it turned out to be the alliance order! Hua Chong snatched the alliance order, opened it and saw that it was not empty, there were words!
The first name is Zhao Jue, the king of Xiangyang, and the next are: Zhao Yuanhao, the king of Western Xia, Lei Ying, Shen Zhongyuan, Liu Daotong, Ma Daoyuan, Sima Dexiu, etc......
Further back, there are some officials of the Great Song Dynasty, and even local officials such as prefects and general soldiers. Hua Chong was shocked: "Where did you get it from?"
"Chongxiao Tower, just the night before you came, Lei Ying quietly entered Chongxiao Tower alone, I don't know what he was going to do, when he left, I secretly went up to take a look, I didn't expect him to change the alliance order to the real one!"
"The previous alliance has always been fake?"
"Yes, the real alliance is in the hands of the King of Xiangyang himself, I don't know where to put it, and the Chongxiao Tower has always been a disguise. β
Hua Chong wondered, "Why did he suddenly change to a real alliance?"
Shen Zhongyuan stood up and said to Hua Chong: "There is only one possibility for this matter, the alliance was stolen by Lei Ying!"
"Stole?" Hua Chong was blinded, Lei Ying stole the King of Xiangyang? Why does this sound so strange, could it be that Lei Ying is also a member of their Imperial City Division?
Shen Zhongyuan explained: "There is only this one possibility, because the King of Xiangyang will definitely not be at ease to hand over such an important thing to Lei Ying. He should trust Kunlun Monk now, and Lei Ying was left in Xiangyang to assist Zhao Lin, and Kunlun Monk went to Guanzhong with King Xiangyang, which shows who is far away and who is near. Lei Ying must be afraid that the Kunlun monk will be in power in the future and will suppress himself, and with his identity, he should know where the alliance is placed, so he stole the alliance and put it in a place he thinks is safe, so as to protect himself. Even if the Kunlun monk intends to harm him, with this alliance list, even if he defects to the Great Song Dynasty, he can still get a life!"
Hua Chong felt that Shen Zhongyuan's analysis made some sense, and couldn't help but laugh and said: "It's a pity that Lei Ying didn't calculate that Zhao Lin would throw us into Chongxiao Tower! I'm afraid he is preparing to commit suicide now, and if such an important alliance falls into our hands, he will suffer the guilt." β
Shen Zhongyuan shook his head: "Not necessarily, he is not a fool, Shen Hu let you go, he can put this charge on Shen Hu's head, and say that the alliance was stolen by Shen Hu." β
Bai Yutang smiled on the side: "Then we can have a plan, separate them, and meet Lei Ying and Zhao Lin in the future, let's just say that Lei Ying put the real alliance in Chongxiao Tower, even if Zhao Lin doesn't believe it, he will probably have some suspicions." β
Shen Zhongyuan said: "This is good, but for now, let's not take care of each other, let's leave Xiangyang quickly." β
The stakes were very high, and everyone hurriedly packed up their things, and Han Zhang showed the way, and went out of the city through the tunnel. This tunnel relied on the tunnel originally built by the king of Xiangyang, and after entering the city, a fork was built to lead to the Lei Mansion.
After leaving the city, Han Zhang and Shen Zhongyuan led everyone straight to Danxi, where there were several warships. When everyone got on the warship, they were relieved. The leader of the team on the boat was a middle-aged man over forty years old, with bronze skin, a slightly long beard, and good facial features, not like a Jianghu person, but like a general leading troops.
Zhong Xiong stepped forward and said, "There is the master of Laowu Village waiting here. β
The man said: "Why does Zhong Taibao need to be so outside. β
Hua Chong was confused when he heard this, so he asked the man: "This village owner is not from Junshan?"
The man smiled: "Isn't this Lord Hua? We have never had a chance to meet, and Wu Wanfeng is also in the Lower Heishui Lake." β
This Wu Wanfeng is the second village master of Heishui Lake, and the big village owner of Heishui Lake is Wu Yuan, the noisy lake Jiao Wu Yuan who died in Hongze Lake, and the younger brother of Wu Ze, the owner of Hongze Lake. Wu Wanfeng is good at making a pair of double guns, known as "double gun generals" in the rivers and lakes, some names, Hua Chong has heard the name of this person for a long time, but he didn't expect him to come to Xiangyang, and he is actually his own person.
"Isn't the master of Wuzhai the head of Heishui Lake, how did he get to Xiangyang?"
"Lord Shen and Zhong Taibao of the Imperial City Division are invited, how can they not come?"
"The Lord of Wuzhai is also a member of the Imperial City Division?"
"Haha, when I went to the Southern Tang Dynasty, I was a soldier in Xia, and I was later selected by the Imperial City Division and became the owner of the village in the rivers and lakes. The matter in Xiangyang was urgent, so I brought the remnants of the defeated soldiers of Heishui Lake to help in the battle. β
Hua Chong introduced the people on his side to Wu Wanfeng again, Wu Wanfeng also introduced the people and horses he brought, he originally had a lot of people in the mountains, but in the battle of Hongze Lake, most of the troops in Heishui Lake were folded in, and there were less than a thousand people left.
Everyone entered the council hall of the warship together, and after taking their seats, Shen Zhongyuan said to Hua Chong: "Lord Hua, you are still in charge here, long live the will of my Imperial City Division to fully cooperate with the school captain's office, and now the situation is urgent, please ask Lord Hua to have an idea." β
Hua Chong saw that he threw the hot potato to himself, but he couldn't help but accept it, lowered his head and pondered for a while, then raised his head and said to everyone: "In my opinion, the situation here is urgent, and we have to make preparations with both hands." β
"I prepared four letters for help before I went to the palace, Jiang Fan, are the letters of the four of you still there?"
Jiang Fan and the other four immediately said: "The letters are all here." β
"Well, the original plan remains the same, and you still go and ask for help. But I can't let you go alone, now that there are more people, it's too dangerous for you to go alone. β
"Jiang Fan, you bring a letter to Beijing, Fifth Brother Bai, you go with him, the situation in Xiangyang, we have seen it together, you have to report to the emperor in person, you must play long live to send troops!"
Bai Yutang got up and said, "Okay!
"Fourth brother, you and Huang Mao go to Hongze Lake, if my father-in-law's men and horses have not withdrawn, I must ask him to send troops over, if they have returned to Beijing, chase along the road, as long as they do not reach the capital, they will pull the men and horses directly to Xiangyang!
Jiang Ping said: "Don't worry, my lord, with my mouth, as long as Master Pang doesn't enter Beijing, I will allow him to come to Xiangyang!"
"Brother Zhan, you and Han Jie go to Xiaopenglai in the East China Sea, you are familiar with my master and uncle, you must invite them to come to Xiangyang to help in the war, if you can say that the martial saint will go out in person, it will be better. After the Xiangyang incident, we are going to face the Kunlun monks, and only when they make a move, can we defeat it. You know more about the Kunlun monk and the man in black, you must explain the importance of this matter to them!"
Zhan Zhao said: "The stakes are very high, and Zhan will definitely live up to the trust." β
"Brother Ouyang, please take Du Shun to Shaolin in person, and ask Master Zhong Hui to send monks and soldiers to help in the battle, Shaolin people and horses are strong, and to deal with those Jianghu characters under Zhao Lin, non-Shaolin monks and soldiers can't fight. β
Ouyang Chun said: "Don't worry, Lord Hua, I will definitely persuade Shaolin to help." β
After arranging for help, Hua Chong said to Zhong Xiong again: "Zhong Taibao, before the arrival of foreign aid, your Dongting Lake is our base camp, and your men and horses are our only strength. β
Zhong Xiong saw that Hua Chong was arranged in an orderly manner, and secretly praised him in his heart, and when he saw him facing him, he spoke: "Don't worry, Lord Hua, Junshan people, from now on, you will be under the command of Lord Hua." But I wonder how Lord Hua wants to fight this battle?"
Hua Chong said coldly: "I plan to raid Xiangyang City!"