Chapter 3: The Great Evil
After this ambush, there was silence inside and outside the city, but Qingyunzhai stepped up the spy on the news. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 At the same time, according to Meng Wuji's arrangement, Liu Yunfeng and the others each led a part of the village to disperse and hide, in case the imperial court or the official army suddenly resorted to any unfavorable means against Qingyunzhai.
Twenty years ago, Meng Wuji received news from Eagle Hall that several suspicious masters had sneaked through Taiyuan City and were heading towards the hinterland of the Central Plains. These people, day and night, are very secretive. Meng Wuji was suspicious in his heart, and after he sent a message to Liu Yunfeng, he personally and the owner of the Eagle Hall, Shan Yingzhe, took a few good hands to follow him.
Exploring all the way, Meng Wuji and others discovered that among the mysterious people in this line, there were not only masters from the Northland, but also people from the Central Plains martial arts. Among them, there is also an envoy of the Northern Lord. Meng Wuji was vigilant, and while sending someone to report to Liu Yunfeng, he led people to continue tracking.
Before this month, after entering the territory of Wuzhi, the envoy of the North Lord and his entourage stopped, and was welcomed into a post station in Wuzhi. You must know that at this time, the Central Plains and the Northerners were at war, but the envoys of the Northerners entered the Central Plains Official Post, which made Meng Wuji feel that the matter was very important. So, he dispatched Qingyunzhai to set up a secret pile in the Wuzhi generation, and secretly infiltrated the post station to listen and take a closer look. This inquiry led to the discovery of a great conspiracy.
It turned out that the northern lord was stationed outside the city of Taiyuan, and after a long attack, the various tribes with the army gradually retreated. After all, most of these tribes, except for the people of the headquarters who were loyal to the Northern Lord, were coerced. The purpose of these tribes coming to fight the grass valley this time is just to go to the Central Plains to get some benefits as in previous years. Today, the Northern Army has conquered Datong, Shuozhou, Xinzhou and other places, and plundered countless people and property, far more than the gains in previous years, and the various tribes with the army have made great gains.
Now, for his own ambitions, Chen Bing outside the city of Taiyuan, not only to conquer Taiyuan, but also to lose thousands of men and horses, consume a large number of materials. Seeing that this loss-making trade would come to an end, these tribes gradually began to clamoring for a retreat.
Seeing that the army was attacking the city to no avail, the north lord sent people in the martial arts to assassinate and harass the enemy, and was also worried that if the confrontation continued for such a long time, it would not be able to suppress the other tribes, and he slowly retreated in his heart. However, this time the army was waved hundreds of miles from Datong to Taiyuan, and it consumed a lot. The northern army lost troops outside the city of Taiyuan, and also lost a large number of masters, this return to the north, it is necessary to spend a lot of things for rewards and pensions, etc., the north lord thought about it, to extort the Central Plains and then retreat.
Therefore, the northern lord secretly sent a messenger to contact Qin Mu, the prime minister in power in the Central Plains, in private, and informed Qin Mu of his intention to discuss and withdraw the army. Qin Mu was afraid that if he lost Taiyuan even if he lost it, he would implicate himself. In addition, the army was fighting, and countless daily grains and grass materials were consumed, and the imperial court gradually felt struggling. Seeing that the north lord had the intention of retiring from the army, Qin Mu was overjoyed, and hit it off with the proposal of the north lord, and asked the north lord to send a special envoy to meet secretly with the envoy he arranged to discuss specific matters.
A month ago, the North Lord sent his favorite youngest son with a group of masters, planning to sneak into the Central Plains secretly to meet with Qin Mu's people to discuss the specific matters of withdrawing from the army and discussing peace. The north lord was ruined, not to mention the big thing, and also lost the little prince he valued the most.
You must know that the northerners passed on the throne differently from the Central Plains. The northerners pass on the throne, do not follow the order of respecting the inferior and the young, and the great position is generally directly designated by the northern lord. Otherwise, a large group of princes will fight for themselves, each by their own strength.
This little prince was originally the person who had been designated by the North Lord to inherit the throne. Now, the little prince died outside the city of Taiyuan, and the north lord was worried that after the princes who stayed in the north got the news, they would take advantage of the fact that they were leading the army outside to launch a battle to seize the heir, so the intention of retreating in his heart was even greater. This time, the North Lord sent an envoy to infiltrate the Central Plains again, which was eager to discuss the withdrawal of troops again.
It's just that the northern lord has wolf ambitions, and he knows that Qin Mu also wants to end the war as soon as possible, so the lion opened his mouth and put forward three main conditions for retreating.
First, the Central Plains ceded all the areas north of Datong to the north, and the northern army retreated from Taiyuan to Datong, and the Central Plains army was not allowed to pursue. Only this one, if it succeeds, the Central Plains will not only be abducted millions of people when the northerners retreat, and the same will be lost, the northerners have this border city as a forward position, and in the future, they can invade the Central Plains again at any time. This is equivalent to hanging a big knife that may be cut down at any time on the land of the Central Plains.
Second, the Central Plains compensated the northern military expenses of 10 million this time, and thereafter paid an annual tribute of 5 million yuan for ten consecutive years. You must know that at this time, the annual treasury income of the Central Plains Imperial Court was only 20 million. This time the compensation will pay half of the income of the rivers and mountains to the northerners. In the following decade, a quarter of the national treasury revenue was to be contributed to the northerners every year. I am afraid that in less than ten years, the Central Plains will be defeated without a fight.
Third, the main martial arts people who participated in the Battle of Taiyuan were arrested and questioned. As for those who participated in the ambush of the little prince, whether they were dead or alive, they had to be handed over to the northerners for disposal. Not only that, but the northern lord also demanded that all those who participated in this battle should be questioned by the Central Plains Imperial Court for their subordinate forces.
In order to prevent the Central Plains Imperial Court from repenting, the northern lord specially requested that after the envoys of the two sides agreed on all the specific matters in person, the agreed content would be written in handwriting on the spot, and stamped with the small seal of Qin Mu, and handed over to the northern lord as proof.
Qin Mu readily agreed, and even took the initiative to offer a plan to the northern lord, so that the northerners' army set up an ambush on the way back to Datong, and then Zheng Guanjin forced Zhang Xun to lead the army to pursue, so that it fell into the ambush of the northerners. In this way, all the crimes of defeat can be blamed on Zhang Xun. Second, after the ambush of the Central Plains army, the conditions proposed by the North Lord were easier to implement.
The hateful and treacherous minister Qin Mu, in order to protect Zheng Guanjin and for self-preservation, was generous to the country, not only accepted all the conditions proposed by the northern lord to lose power and humiliate the country, but also secretly colluded with the northerners to lose the Central Plains king division at the hands of the enemy.
In order to reassure the northern lord, Qin Mu sent his henchmen to Wuzhi with his small seal to meet with the northerners. After the two parties agree on the terms, they write a handwritten letter on the spot. The envoy of Qin Mu stamped the seal of Qin Mu and handed over the handwritten letter with the seal to the envoy of the north. Only after the special envoy of the northerners turns around and forwards the handwritten letter to the northern, the two sides will further formulate specific implementation steps.
When Meng Wuji found out about this news, he was furious, and urgently dispatched all the good players of Qingyunzhai distributed around Wuzhi, a total of one hundred and ten people, to set up an ambush circle outside Wuzhi City, vowing to intercept Qin Mu's treacherous plot.
After the special envoy of the northerners finished the discussion, the group joined hands in the book, and left Wuzhi County overnight that night and hurried in the direction of Taiyuan. Outside the county seat of Wuzhi, these people fell into an ambush circle laid by Meng Wuji.
Meng had no chance to lead the people of Qingyun Village to besiege the Beiren envoy and five people with a crowd of one hundred and ten people, but they couldn't take it down in an instant. After fighting for a while, Meng Wuji and the others learned that two of the five people in the other party's group were actually the famous black and white double-stricken. The other two, one is the Wanshi Mountain Wanshi Old Demon, and the other is the third disciple of the Beiren National Teacher. These four people are all masters among masters.
The black and white shuangsha are said to be twin brothers, crisscrossing the white water and black mountains of the north for decades, killing people and goods, and doing everything. This pair of brothers, strong in martial arts, and will be revenged, if they don't agree with each other, they will destroy the whole family, and they have a fierce reputation in the north that can stop children crying.
Wanshi Old Demon comes from Wanshi Mountain in Fujian. Decades ago, the old demon of Wanshi cultivated evil skills with the heart of a boy and a girl, and was hunted down and killed by decent people in martial arts. The old demon of Wanshi escaped after killing and injuring many people with a pair of blood demon hands, and disappeared. Five years later, the old demon of Wanshi reappeared in the rivers and lakes, took revenge on the people who participated in the siege back then, and set off a bloody storm in the martial arts along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang.
Later, the first seat of the South Shaolin Precept Academy and the first seat of the Luohan Hall went down the mountain hand in hand, subdued demons and eliminated demons, and injured the old demon of Wanshi. The two Southern Shaolin monks chased and killed them all the way, and finally escaped by the old demon of Wanshi. Since then, the old demon of Wanshi has disappeared again.
Although the Central Plains has never heard the news of his walking, the Beiren National Master is known as the first person in the Northland martial arts, and his descendants are naturally not to be underestimated.
As for that envoy, his martial arts skills are average, but he has a longbow in his hand, and even if everyone is fighting in the dark, this person will injure one person for every arrow. Judging by his amazing archery skills, this envoy of the Northern Lord should be one of the very few condor archers among the northerners.
As soon as they fought, Qingyunzhai folded a few heroes. Although Meng Wuji understood that if he continued to fight, the best result would be to lose both, but the matter was too important for him to feel sorry for the lives of his brothers. As a result, Meng Wuji could only order everyone to fight to the death, entangled the four of Black and White Shuangsha, Wanshi Old Demon and Totoer. Meng Wuji himself and Shan Yingzhe led a few good hands to concentrate on besieging the envoys of the northerners. After some fighting, Meng Wuji finally found an opportunity to stab the northerner envoy down with the judge's pen and snatch the handwritten letter on his body. After that, Meng Wuji whistled and led everyone to evacuate.
The remaining four of the enemy saw that the handwriting had been snatched away and pursued them to the death. The people of Qingyunzhai took advantage of the dark moon and high wind to disperse and evacuate. Under the cover of the sacrifice of many villagers, Meng Wuji and Shan Yingzhe fled all the way, and finally got rid of the four of them, including Black and White Shuangsha, temporarily.
Meng Wuji's original intention was to go back to Taiyuan City directly to meet Liu Yunfeng first. After the meeting, the leaders discussed the next step. Unexpectedly, as soon as the sky was clear, the four people including Black and White chased after them. Hunting down with them, there are also some other masters in the Central Plains who work for the Northern Lord.
Meng Wuji and the others fought to the death, and the people who accompanied them were almost killed and wounded, and even Shan Yingzhe was folded under the black and white wheels. Meng Wuji's left wrist was cut off by the old demon of Wanshi with a blood demon in this battle. Meng Wuji's back was also stabbed by Toto'er, and he was almost cut into two pieces, and he had to escape after nine deaths.
Seeing that it was impossible to go north to Taiyuan, Meng Wuji used the secret signal of Qingyunzhai to mobilize the brothers in the village along the road to respond, and at the same time laid many suspicious soldiers to confuse the enemy. Meng Wuji himself turned south, secretly escaped into Daqing Mountain, went around in circles, and after several turnovers, he finally returned to Qingyun Village.