The knife made a slash on top of Yu Xiao's head, and then returned to Fang Jie's back. Yu Xiao, who was lying on the ground in a humiliating posture, did not dare to raise his head. Fang Jie was facing away from the sun. He was afraid that something would sting his eyes if he raised his head.
"You might as well kill me."
He said
He didn't even realize that there was a bloody smell in his throat that kept rising.
With a bang, a puff of smoke exploded on the city wall, followed by a cannonball that blasted straight in this direction. Open, the shell exploded right behind Yu Xiao's butt. A few foreigners who thought they had succeeded cheered on the city wall, and when the smoke and dust cleared, they found that the enemy was still standing upright, only tens of meters away.
"That... is a person?"
A man from the Ross country pointed at Fang Jie with trembling fingers. No matter what, he did not believe that the enemy was still alive. He watched the shell explode beside the two people. According to common sense, the two people should be torn apart! However, the guy in the black robe is still alive and well.
"It's not... it's a person, right?"
Another Ross murmured.
Fang Jie walked up to Yu Xiao again and looked down at him.
"Are you trying to insult me?"
Yu Xiaowen
Fang Jie looked into his eyes: "You want to sneak attack me?"
Yu Xiao didn't answer, but his expression became even more depressed.
Fang Jie stretched out his hand to pinch Yu Xiao's veins, and carried him towards the city wall. The defenders on the city wall were all ready to shoot arrows as if they were facing a big enemy. But Fang Jie didn't seem to see them at all, and walked straight to the bottom of the city before stopping. An archer may be under too much pressure, and the feather arrow is released with a whoosh, which is like unplugging a bucket, and all the water in the bucket is poured out.
When one person shoots an arrow, many people subconsciously let go of the bowstring.
Hundreds of feathered arrows flew towards Fang Jie, but perhaps because of nervousness, the accuracy of the feathered arrows was really unsatisfactory, only six or seven feathered arrows were relatively accurate, and Fang Jie swung them away one after another with the Chaolu knife .
Yu Xiao, who was being carried away, was ashamed, as if all his vitality had been sucked away.
"You might as well kill me!"
This is the second time he has said this.
Fang Jie looked down at him, and smiled in a voice that only two people could hear: "I made a big show for you, wouldn't it be a pity if I killed you? I can't wait for two years, and you are also in Fengping?" Standing ground, I knew what you were thinking from the time you asked me to meet, so I said I would fulfill you. I will open the siege of the north gate tonight, and how many people I can take away depends on your ability. I think you did For the sake of this big show, if I don't kill you, you can go as far as you can."
Yu Xiao's face immediately changed, and he glanced at Fang Xie in disbelief.
"It's hard to live under the fence, I know."
Fang Jie said flatly, "You are smarter than I thought."
Yu Xiao smiled wryly, but his eyes regained a bit of vitality: "You keep your word?"
Fang Jie nodded his head, "A promise is as good as it gets."
He grabbed Yu Xiao's arm and swung it up, and Yu Xiao's body flew up. He spun in mid-air, climbed up the city wall twice with his hand, and then fell back to the top of the city. Fang Jie watched the figure fly back, twitched his lips, and walked back. The defenders on the city wall were a little dumbfounded. Everyone forgot to shoot their arrows this time. After walking for dozens of steps, Fang Jie stopped suddenly, searched the ground and picked up a stone, turned around and glanced at the city wall, and then threw the stone onto the city wall with a whoosh.
This blow was extremely powerful, the stone drew a straight trace in the air, and then smashed the head of a Ross countryman to pieces with a bang.
"I'm more accurate than you."
Fang Jie gestured a middle finger towards the city wall, not caring at all whether this gesture has international significance in this era.
"Grandpa... I've shamed you!"
Yu Xiao knelt down with a bitter face, and kowtowed to Zhu Chengtian: "The humble job has disgraced you and Feng Pingcheng, please punish me."
Zhu Chengtian didn't seem to be angry, and stretched out his hand to help Yu Xiao: "That's fine, you have a demon in your heart from the beginning to the end, and this demon is called unwillingness. You always feel that Fang Jie is not as good as you. After that, you should stop thinking about it. I remember telling you that having a strong enemy is not necessarily a bad thing, at least it can let you know where the target is."
"Humble job..."
Yu Xiao opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.
"Go back and rest, Fang Jie should not attack again today."
Zhu Bingtian waved his hand and said.
Yu Xiao got up, froze for a while, then turned and walked down the city. After walking a dozen or so steps, Zhu Chengtian stopped him again. He looked back and thought of Zhu Chengtian. The meticulous old man in armor shook his head at him and said in a heavy tone, "The second shot, I didn't order it to fire."
Yu Xiao was shocked, nodded, then turned and left.
Looking at his back, Zhu Chengtian sighed slightly, and then pointed to those Ross people: "Kill them all, it's useless to keep people, keep things first. There is only one cannon, which is powerless to change the situation of the battle. The things of these foreigners are good things. I think, how many years later, this kind of thing will become the main weapon on the battlefield? Maybe it will not be too many years, and the spears and feather arrows in your hands will be useless. If I have Hundreds of guns..."
He didn't continue talking, and seemed a little sad.
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The men and horses of the Black Banner Army welcomed Fang Xie back and turned back to the camp.
Wu Yiyi glanced at Fang Jie, hesitant to speak.
"Master Hou wants to ask me why I didn't kill him?"
Fang Jie asked with a smile.
Wu Yidao nodded: "This man is Yu Manlou's son. I know him quite well, and I also know Yu Manlou very well. To be honest, there is no similarity between his temperament and Yu Manlou's... Although Yu Manlou Rebellion, but it was because Prince Yi Yang Yin had great kindness to Yu Manlou, and Yu Manlou followed Prince Yi Yang Yin to rebel against him knowing that he would be defeated. It's really a pity. But his son... hmph."
"Um?"
Fang Jie was not clear about these things: "Is Yang Yin kind to Yu Manlou?"
"yes."
Wu Yidao recalled it for a while and said: "Yu Manlou cared about two people most in his life, his wife and Yu Xiao. His wife was weak and sick, but in order to continue the Yu family's offspring, she secretly conceived a child. Yu Xiao knew about it." At that time, she had been pregnant for several months. When it was time to give birth, his wife went to the gate of hell. If Yang Yin hadn't sent someone to send the elixir to continue her life, she might have died of dystocia. Since then, The Yu family and Yang Yin have a very close relationship, of course, it is a secret thing in private, after all, the late emperor was very taboo about courtiers and princes being close friends."
"However, although Yu Manlou's wife survived, her body became weaker. In order to win over Yu Manlou, Yang Yin invited many doctors to treat and give away many genius treasures. At that time, Yang Yin was still the prince, and he wanted to climb the When he came to the throne, Yu Manlou was already a great general holding a heavy army. Whoever he supported would naturally have a heavy bargaining chip in his hands. Later, Yang Yin invited a well-trained quack to teach Yu Xiao how to practice. Treat Yu Xiao like you would treat your own child."
"Although Yu Manlou's wife died of illness after only living a few years longer, she has always been very grateful to Yang Yin. Later, Yu Manlou was almost imprisoned because of her involvement in Jiangdu's case. It was Yang Yin who pleaded for mercy many times in front of the late emperor. The first emperor didn't want to deal with him at first, so he went down this step and didn't pursue it. Yu Manlou was even more grateful to Yang Yin, which is why there was a mutiny that he knew he would lose later."
Fang Jie nodded: "I haven't heard of these things, but I have always heard that Yu Manlou is a kind-hearted person."
Wu Daodao hummed: "I said the second son is vicious, and he doesn't look like his father at all. It's because of what happened later... After Prince Yi's defeat, Yu Manlou's house was ransacked and his family was wiped out. Since Yu Manlou already knew that the mutiny was wrong It will succeed, so naturally he made arrangements early. Before the mutiny, he arranged for Yu Xiao and his sister to escape, including Yu Xiao's three concubine children."
"This Yu Xiao..."
Wu Yidao spat: "In order to allow him to escape smoothly, he deliberately exposed the whereabouts of his sister and Yu Manlou's bastards, but he took the opportunity to escape. He let out the wind to reveal his whereabouts. The people took down his sister and others, and he managed to sneak out of Chang'an. He knew that the possibility of everyone leaving the city together was very small, so he used his sister and those brothers as shields and exchanged his life. "
Fang Jie's eyes changed, and he nodded: "I remember."
Wu Yidao continued: "Later, the guards in Da Nei got very annoyed because they didn't catch him, and searched the whole city. Before he escaped, he deliberately told his sister and others that he was going to a certain place. Sure enough, those people were not caught. After being tortured, the people from the Ouchi guards flocked away, but they were all in vain. That was what he did on purpose, and he didn't go there at all. Later, the emperor asked more closely, and the people from the Ouchi guards There was no other way, so I found a prisoner on death row to replace Yu Xiao, and reported to the court that he had been caught."
"I still listen to what Luo Weiran said about these things."
Wu Yidao sighed slightly: "That's why I said, how can someone as bright and upright as Yu Manlou have such a wolf-hearted son!"
Fang Jie was silent for a while, then suddenly smiled: "That's why I put him back."
Wu Yidao didn't understand: "This is exactly what my subordinates don't understand. Such a person should be killed immediately. Why did the lord put him back?"
"Although I don't know that he has such a past..."
Fang Jie smiled and said: "But when I was in the Academy of Martial Arts, I could tell what kind of character this person is. He asked me to meet this time, why is he trying to kill me?"
Wu Yidao was stunned for a moment, and suddenly understood: "He came to Feng Ping to join Zhu Chengtian, firstly because he was far away from Da Sui, secondly because this person didn't know his details, and thirdly because Zhu Chengtian had a strong army. It’s better to say that he came to seek refuge than to say that he came to speculate. He must have the intention of killing Zhu Chengtian and replacing him. If we didn’t attack the city, maybe he would do it in two or three years at most.”
"This kind of person has such a vicious mind, but he treats himself very well. He saw the army besieging the city, and after calculating, he felt that Feng Ping couldn't hold it, so he began to prepare for the way out. He asked the lord to meet him in order to paralyze Zhu Bingtian! He didn't want to Accompanying Zhu Chengtian and Feng Ping to be buried, how can someone who can even abandon his relatives care about his feelings? He wants to escape, but he lacks the opportunity."
"Um."
Fang Jie nodded: "He didn't try his best, so I guessed his intention. The soldier talisman must be in Zhu Bingtian's hands. He wanted to leave, but he was unwilling to go by himself. He wanted to take Zhu Bingtian's men and horses with him. .So he can only kill Zhu Chengtian, and then mobilize troops with soldiers and escape from Fengping. Heaven thought that his cultivation was no more than this, so he had a chance."
"If there is no accident, he will assassinate Zhu Chengtian tonight, steal the soldier talisman, and escape from Fengping. So I told him to open a hole in the north gate tonight."
"Chen Dingnan."
Fang Jie turned his head and ordered: "Take your men and horses and wait at the Fengping South Gate tonight. Kill as many as you come out, don't keep any of them."
"Here!"
Chen Dingnan agreed, but couldn't help muttering in his heart: Didn't the general say to open an opening at the north gate tonight? Why did he set up an ambush at the south gate