Fang Jie went straight to Luo Yao for a showdown twice, both on the same day. After returning from Cangman Mountain, he confirmed that Luo Yao was the one who arranged everything back then. He and Mu Xiaoyao said that they should go directly to Luo Yao to ask for clarification. Before this matter was discussed, Cui Zhongzhen came. The whole night, Fang Jie didn't sleep well. The news that Cui Zhongzhen brought had relatively less impact, what really made him toss and turn was the relationship between himself and Luo Yao.
When Cui Zhongzhen arranged for someone to rush back to the Northwest at night, he lived in, and the two drank until the early morning. Fang Jie inquired about the battle situation in the Northwest in detail, and the scene from Cui Zhongzhen's mouth was the most intuitive and shocking. Cui Zhongzhen watched the big defeat happen, but his plain and unpretentious narration was even more touching.
Fang Jie could imagine the bloody scene, and he could also imagine the determination and despair of the Sui soldiers at the last moment.
Because of Li Yuanshan's rebellion, hundreds of thousands of elites were killed in the Northwest. On the two thousand miles of pastures, I am afraid that now we can still see corpses with only dry bones. Although the pagodas piled up with human heads have collapsed, it seems that the pagodas have been pressing down on the hearts of everyone who survived.
Including Cui Zhongzhen.
In the end, the man drank too much wine and cried, but Fang Jie didn't even know where to start to comfort him.
The enemy's war horse trampled over the corpse of his comrade, and what the horse's hooves stirred up was not dust and smoke but meat mud. How many ambitious men of the Sui Dynasty died in this way. At the moment they fell, they might still be looking back at the east, hoping to see their homeland. There are their parents and folks there.
Cui Zhongzhen, who was drunk, settled down and returned to his room to relieve his difficulty in falling asleep. When it was almost dawn, I barely fell asleep for a while, but when I fell asleep, I began to dream. For a while, he dreamed that Luo Yao handed him who was still in his infancy to Mu Xiaoyao, and his hands were still stained with the blood of Shen Qing's fellow disciple. After a while, he dreamed that Li Yuanshan was standing in front of the Mongolian Yuan cavalry with a ferocious smile, but the corpses lying on the ground were all Fan Gu's comrades and common people.
Even if he didn't sleep well, Fang Jie still got up on time to practice. In recent days, he has become more proficient at controlling the vitality of the world. Although the vitality he can control is still very weak, it is undeniable that he has made a qualitative leap.
Sweating all over, just as he was about to go back to his room to wash up, Chen Xiaoru walked over quickly to find him.
"My lord, Luo Yao sent someone here, it's Ye Jinnan."
"What's up?"
"Ye Jinnan refused to say, and brought a team of elite soldiers, and only said that he wanted to see you."
Fang Jie hummed and said, "Let him wait for me in the living room."
Fang Jie went back and changed his clothes, and when he got to the living room, he found that Ye Jinnan was wearing a piece of armor. Outside the door, dozens of soldiers stood on both sides of the corridor holding their swords. This posture was a bit unusual, and Fang Jie immediately thought of Cui Zhongzhen.
"I've seen Master Xiaofang."
Seeing Fang Jie's arrival, Ye Jinnan hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted.
"General Ye came to me so early, but what's the matter?"
"According to the general's order, I invite several colleagues from the northwest to discuss matters in the general's mansion."
Although Fang Jie had a faint premonition, he still couldn't help being surprised. Cui Zhongzhen and the others arrived yesterday, and they didn't go to see Luo Yao, and they didn't even reveal their identities. But early the next morning, Luo Yao actually sent someone to invite him. It has to be said that Luo Yao's control over Yongzhou has reached a daunting level.
"The general knows it very quickly."
Fang Xie knew he couldn't hide it, so he admitted it directly.
Ye Jinnan said: "When they entered the city, the officers and soldiers guarding the gate could tell that they were not ordinary people. Soldiers always have a distinctive temperament. Especially those who have just come down from the battlefield, even if they are walking They will always maintain vigilance and have a murderous look on their bodies. Their customs clearance certificates were issued by Huang Yangdao, although they used official certificates, but when checking the weapons they carried, the steel seals smashed on them could not be hidden."
"There are Zuo Lingjun and Zuo Xiaowei..."
It was only then that Fang Jie realized that Cui Zhongzhen and the others were all qualified soldiers, but they were far inferior to the secret spies at Ouchi's bodyguards in terms of security. If someone from Ouchi's bodyguard office did this, it would be absolutely impossible to find any clues. They even forgot to cover up the steel seals on the weapons, it can only be said that Cui Zhongzhen and the others came all the way too hastily.
"I'm still sleeping, please wait a moment, General Ye."
Fang Jie asked Ye Jinnan to sit down and poured tea himself: "Since the general already knows, can I take the liberty to ask, what does the general think about the war in the northwest?"
It has come to the present, there is no need to hide it anymore.
Ye Jinnan did not expect Fang Jie to ask such a straightforward question, he was silent for a while and then said seriously: "We are the knife in the hands of the general, and the general is the knife in the hands of your majesty, as long as the imperial court orders , the general will definitely lead the army northward. As a soldier, it is naturally duty-bound to fight the rebellion for the country."
"Last night I had a long talk with the people from the Northwest..."
Fang Jie sighed and said, "I'll go with you in a while, because the person here is an old friend I knew before entering the martial arts academy, so he came to see me first when he knew I was in the city, and I'm going to talk to the general Sue me."
"Also."
Ye Jinnan nodded, took a sip of tea and said suddenly: "After arriving at the General's Mansion, if there is anything that dissatisfies Mr. Fang, please restrain yourself. There are other guests in the General's Mansion today. It might be a little unpleasant to meet Mr. Xiaofang. Please, Mr. Fang, look at my weak side and try not to get angry."
"who?"
Fang asked.
Ye Jinnan hesitated for a moment but shook his head: "When we arrive at the General's Mansion, Master Xiao Fang will naturally know."
After listening to this sentence, Fang Jie smiled and said: "Everyone who comes to the General's Mansion is a guest, how can I be presumptuous if I am also a guest? Don't worry, General Ye, I will not talk and do things indiscriminately in Yongzhou City relying on my status as an imperial envoy." of."
He got up and walked to the door, ordering someone to invite Cui Zhongzhen. Then he whispered to the black boy Yan Kuang: "Go out and bring the Feiyu robe to cheer them up, and then tell Miss Mu to bring my Chaolu Knife!"
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When Fang Jie and the others arrived at the General's Mansion, they saw a few people standing outside the three-story stilt building opposite the small lake from a distance. They seemed to be soldiers of the Sui Dynasty in their attire, pacing back and forth, obviously waiting I'm a little impatient. Fang Jie didn't see anything, but Cui Zhongzhen's eyes immediately turned red.
"Rebels!"
His footsteps stopped abruptly, and he pointed to the opposite side of the small lake: "General Ye, what's going on! I didn't expect to see rebels appearing in the residence of General Zuo Qianwei! Today, you can either kill me to silence me, or you can kill me!" You have to give me an explanation! We worked hard to kill thieves in the northwest, but when we arrived in Yongzhou, the thieves became General Luo's guest!"
Ye Jinnan's expression was not good, and he smiled embarrassingly and explained: "When they came, they didn't say who they were, they just said that they were old friends of the general who asked to see... Well, it seems that the general doesn't know their details."
Fang Jie also stopped, looked at the people opposite and sneered, "Is that why General Ye told me not to mess around in the General's Mansion?"
Ye Jinnan became more and more embarrassed, not knowing how to explain it.
"Since the rebels are the general's guests, there is no need for us to stay."
Cui Zhongzhen clasped his fists at Ye Jinnan: "Let me leave now, please tell the general, we are waiting for the general on the northwest battlefield!"
This remark had a pun, and Ye Jinnan's face turned even more embarrassing. He was not familiar with Cui Zhongzhen, so he had to ask Fang Jie for help: "Master Fang, you also know that the general will never turn against you. The general must have reasons for the general when he sees them, please persuade this general Cui, I'll talk to the general later."
Fang Jie sneered: "What capacity should I use to persuade him? A friend of the general, an imperial envoy sent by His Majesty to Yongzhou, or a citizen of the Sui Dynasty?"
Cui Zhongzhen said coldly: "Let's go."
But Fang Jie waved his hand: "Let's go? Let the rebels run us away, I can't afford to lose this person. This is still a matter on the ground in the Sui Dynasty. If it is rumored that I met the rebels, I'm afraid. I was scolded and bent my spine!"
After saying this, he strode towards Luo Yao's three-story tall building. Ye Jinnan wanted to stop him but couldn't do it, so he had to follow behind and try to persuade him.
"Master Xiao Fang, you should trust the General!"
Fang Jie said nothing, and his pace became faster and faster.
Cui Zhongzhen followed behind him, tightly holding the handle of the horizontal knife at his waist. Dozens of guards from the Ouchi Guard Office in brocade and flying fish robes followed behind, their bright red cloaks fluttering in the wind. Shen Qingshan walked with his hands behind his back, while Mu Xiaoyao held Chaolu Knife in his arms.
"Who, stop!"
When they got to the front of the high-footed building, several soldiers immediately came out to stop them. Fang Xie glanced at them: "If you dare to kill, I will draw the knife, if you dare not kill, then get out."
These words startled the guards, and subconsciously looked at Ye Jinnan. Ye Jinnan shook his head, and the soldiers retreated immediately.
When Fang Jie passed by those rebels, he glanced coldly, and found that they were still wearing the standard leather armor of the Sui Dynasty, but the livery inside was replaced with khaki. The livery of the Sui army was dark blue, no wonder Cui Zhongzhen could tell they were rebels at a glance.
The rebel soldiers didn't know Fang Xie, and he felt a little shy when he saw him, subconsciously took a few steps back. Fang Jie walked into the high-rise building quickly, and the silver-armored warrior in the dark was stopped by Ye Jinnan from showing up. Several people went inside, and at a glance they saw a rebel general standing in the open door talking in a low voice with a smile on his face.
Fang Jie stepped in and glanced at Luo Yao who was sitting behind the desk.
Luo Yao frowned slightly, what he disliked the most was someone entering his study without permission. But he didn't have a seizure, instead he stood up and smiled and said, "Lord Xiao Fang came just in time, this is General Wu from the northwest."
He said to General Wu again: "This imperial envoy sent by the imperial court to Yongzhou, Fang Xie."
"Fang Jie?"
The rebel general surnamed Wu took a look at Fang Jie, his face became a little ugly, but he still clasped his fists and said, "I have admired your name for a long time, and my governor, Mr. Wu, often mentions you."
"Wu Peizhi?"
Fang asked.
The general surnamed Wu was a little displeased: "It's taboo to call my Governor-General by his first name, isn't Mr. Xiaofang a little rude?!"
"There are more rude ones."
Fang Jie smiled, and suddenly rushed forward with his feet, hitting General Wu's face with his fist. The punch was so sudden and powerful that Ye Jinnan, who was standing beside him, was a little slow to stop it. The general surnamed Wu was the nephew of Wu Peizhi, the governor of Hebei Province, and he didn't know much about martial arts. He didn't expect that Fang Xie would do it when they met, and he accidentally got his nose smashed. This punch was like knocking over a soy sauce bottle on his face, and the blood gushing from his nose immediately stained his face.
With a bang, the general surnamed Wu fell to the ground.
"Master Xiaofang, what's your attitude?"
Luo Yao, who was standing behind the desk with his hands behind his back, asked in a cold voice.
"Knife!"
As soon as Fang Jie stretched out his hand, Mu Xiaoyao immediately handed over Chao Lu Dao. He took a step forward and chopped off the head of the general surnamed Wu with a single knife, and with a flick of his wrist, he penetrated the fallen head and slowly lifted it up.
He looked at Luo Yao and said word by word: "That's the attitude!"