"There are not enough manpower," Xie An said to the map from Chang'an to Luoyang, as well as to Shouxian and Jiangnan. "Originally, His Majesty did not want to go to war, but he specifically instructed before departure that if you can, try not to fight."
"It's impossible not to fight," Chen Xing said. "Sooner or later, there will be a battle between the north and the south. Brother Xie, think in the best direction. Now you have an ally."
The spring in Luoyang is bright and beautiful. It is already the season when the flowers are full of flowers in February. After a while, when it comes to the Shangsi Festival, the spring in the Central Plains will become the most beautiful scenery in the world. It's been a few days since the night when he made a blood alliance with Murong. As soon as the sky clears, Chen Xing's whole body is warm, and his heart can't help but stir in this season of blooming flowers. . Xie An took him to the detailed plan again.
Originally, Xiang Shu planned to leave this matter to Xie An, but Xie An thought about it and was finally worried.
"Murong Chong formed an alliance because of the god of war," Xie An said helplessly. "Otherwise, how could he trust us Han people? Huan Wen and Wang Meng killed a lot of Xianbei people back then. Well, the most important thing in this plan is The first part is how to lure Fu Jian and Wang Ziye to Luoyang, as long as they leave the home stadium of Chang'an, everything will be hopeful."
Chen Xing gradually discovered that Xie An, a cheap senior brother, is quite powerful. Since he entered the Exorcism Division, everything has been arranged in an orderly manner, like a think tank. You can see through many dangerous undercurrents.
He vetoed Xiang Shu's proposal to destroy the army camp. After all, once the 300,000-strong army goes out of control, it will lead to serious consequences if the 300,000 army is rampant around Luoyang, and Wang Ziye may have set a trap in Longmen Mountain, just waiting They cast themselves into the net.
The best way is for everyone to wait patiently and act late.
Xie An arranged his troops many times, preparing to attack the silver cavalry army led by Murong Chong when the negotiation failed and Fu Jian was angry and sent troops to the south of the Yangtze River. , the comparison of forces is too disparity.
"Take your time and think about it." Chen Xing was dizzy by the marching route, garrison point, and decisive tactics in the valley and plain, so he decided to get up and look for Xiang Shu.
Xiang Shu was writing a letter in the study room of the post station. Feng Qianjun and several knights under his command were waiting by the side. When Chen Xing arrived, Xiang Shu happened to be painted and handed the three letters to others.
"Are you going to send a letter to Chi Lechuan?" Chen Xing asked.
Xiang Shu did not answer, but said to the messenger, "Even if one's life is not guaranteed, the letter cannot fall into the hands of others."
The messenger nodded and said yes, Feng Qianjun got one of them and said to Chen Xing, "See you later, Tianchi."
"What is he going to do?" Chen Xing asked blankly.
Xiang Shu still didn't answer, washed his hands, got up, and asked, "Where's Xiao Shan?"
Xiao Shan was lying on the outside yard basking in the sun, Chen Xing chased behind Xiang Shu and asked, "What do you want Brother Feng to do?"
Xiang Shu: "Let him find a way to restrain Fu Jian. Wolf cub, get up and work."
Xiao Shan rolled over lazily, then sat up with a sullen face, he still rarely spoke on weekdays, only being very docile to Xiang Shu and Chen Xing. Sometimes when Chen Xing sees Xiang Shu and Xiao Shan, he always thinks that they are like father and son. If one day Xiang Shu has a son, maybe they will get along like this.
"Where to go?" Chen Xing looked at the horses that Xiang Shu and Xiao Shan got on the station.
Xiang Shu was a little impatient and seemed to be waiting for him. Xiao Shan said blankly, "I don't know."
Xiang Shu: "Can't you come up? If you can't come up, I'll leave."
"Wait!" Chen Xing was busy chasing behind Xiang Shu. Xiang Shu rode his horse not far away and stopped to wait for Chen Xing. When Chen Xing caught up, Xiang Shu left. Chen Xing chased him on the street for a while, so he got angry and looked at Xiang Shu from a distance.
"Come up." Xiang Shu finally said.
Finally, Chen Xing got on the horse's back, hugged Xiang Shu's waist, and was led out of Luoyang by him, along the official road all the way north.
"The City Defense Army is monitoring us." Chen Xing said.
Xiang Shu: "I found out earlier, let them try to mess with me?"
Chen Xing guessed that Xiang Shu wanted to go to Longmen Mountain to investigate the situation. Sure enough, the three of them left Luoyang and drove for half a day before arriving in front of Longmen Gorge. Longmen was called Yique in ancient times. In the early spring, the mountains and forests were foggy and the water vapor was very cold. Going along the east bank of the Yishui River, I saw two mountains facing each other like a queer. The Yishui River was flowing, and there were thousands of miles of fertile fields at the foot of the mountain. The grass grew and the warbler flew.
"See what?" Xiang said.
"The leylines," Chen Xing said, "runs through the north and south of the leylines of Shenzhou."
Xiang Shu said: "From Karosha to Hala and Lin, to Chilechuan, it is the handle of the Big Dipper, and then to Yique, it enters the four places in the Central Plains."
Chen Xing replied immediately: "Yes, this is the connection point between the handle and the body of the spoon in the Myriad Spirit Formation."
The vague grievances gathered together, and along the Longmen Shuangshan, which penetrated into the clouds, a draught of wind blew through the halls through the north and south.
Xiang Shu unpacked from the horse, and the three sat down by the river bank with dry food in the bag.
"There are birds." Chen Xing always had a hunch, they ran to the rear of Wang Ziye, but this guy has not shown up so far, and he doesn't know what plans are behind his back.
"Xiao Shan." Xiang said.
Xiao Shan took out a slingshot, picked up the cobblestone and was about to aim, but the bird parked on the plain had already spread its wings and flew away.
"Don't be too nervous," Chen Xing said. "It's not a crow. I'm not worried that we will be monitored. Wang Ziye's strength has been damaged too much. I'm afraid..."
Chen Xing thought of what Gu Qing said before his death, Wang Ziye intends to open that "door", where is the door
Xiang Shu: "You are not afraid of death, but are you afraid of Wang Ziye?"
Chen Xing thought to himself that I was afraid that the plan would fail, but he didn't want to mention it again. After eating, Xiang Shu and Xiao Shan, one big and one small, stood on the bank of the river and picked up pebbles to float. Xiang Shu picked up the flat ones and began to teach Xiao Shan how to make the stones fly farther. During the past year, Xiao Shan has soared so much that his eyebrows are almost level with Chen Xing's, and he is about to reach Xiang Shu's shoulders.
After a few calculations, Chen Xing always felt that Xiao Shan was almost fourteen years old. If this goes on, he might even be taller than Xiang Shu by seventeen or eighteen. Usually, when Xiang Shu is free, he will accidentally compare a few tricks with Xiao Shan. From the very beginning, Xiao Shan was fiddled around by Xiang Shu, and he was dizzy and couldn't even reach the front of his robe. Now, he has gradually been able to deal with Xiang Shu. There are no more than three or two moves.
Suddenly, the two saw something on the shore and stopped at the same time.
"Don't touch it." Xiang Shu reminded.
"Chen Xing!" Xiao Shan said, "Come on!"
Chen Xing looked at a loss, got up and walked quickly to the bank of the river, and saw a rotten corpse downstream.
"It has to be fished up," Chen Xing said immediately. "Otherwise, if the water source is polluted, a plague will break out in the downstream villages."
Xiang Shu took the hook rope and dragged the corpse to the river bank. Chen Xing frowned and looked at it. He saw that the corpse was a Qin army, and its head was destroyed, as if something had punched it on the head.
"I was hit by a stone?" Chen Xing looked towards the upper reaches of Yishui, frowning deeply.
Xiao Shan raised his fist, drew a picture at the corpse, and looked at Xiang Shu again. Xiang Shu nodded and said, "Who has the strength to beat him with his fists?"
Saying that, Xiang Shu turned around, got on his horse, whistled, and carried Chen Xing upstream.
The closer he got to the mountain, the stronger the resentment, and the more gloomy he felt. When there was no way to go down the mountain, Xiang Shu found a mountain road, so he turned up the mountainside. When they reached the heights, their grievances had almost condensed into white fog. Not far away, there was a battalion of Qin officers and soldiers, and there were intermittent coughing sounds.
"A living person." Chen Xing said.
It was previously rumored that Wang Ziye had set up a barracks here, and Fu Jian even sent people to guard it so that Jin's scouts would not get close, so it must be here. Further back, there is a vast forest area, with resentment on both sides of the strait, just north of the foot of the mountain that looks like a "Dragon Gate".
"Let's go." Xiang Shu detected the specific location and no longer wanted to approach it. Chen Xing sat on the back of a horse, but frowned at Yique, which looked like a giant gate with two mountains facing each other, thinking about the "door" Gu Qing knew from Wang Ziye's memory before he died.
"What?" Xiang Shu said, "Do you still want to go in and see?"
Chen Xing shook his head and said, "Nothing."
Suddenly he had a bold premonition, if the mana of heaven and earth is still there, under the influence of some special spell, will a bright door be opened here? !
The next day, Xie An's plan was drawn up. After telling everyone about it, Chen Xing knew that Xie An was the one who drew up the details. In fact, it was Xiang Shu who really decided to fight.
"According to the judgment of the god of war, we need to fight Fu Jian and Wang Ziye in Luoyang." Xie An said, "The most important first point is to attract Fu Jian and Wang Ziye. Earlier today, Helian Shuang has sent someone to inform us that Fu Jian will arrive in Luoyang on the day of the Duanyang Festival to meet us."
"Very good." Xiang Shu sat on the main seat of the inn.
Xie An said: "Feng Qianjun has not returned from his trip, what will happen to his three thousand people?"
"Don't wait for him," Xiang said, "he'll be back when the time comes, according to your plan."
Xie An said: "There are two possibilities for Wang Ziye, one is to accompany Fu Jian and show up together; the other is to hide in the dark. We need to mobilize our troops during the negotiation process, and detain them with lightning speed. Live in Fu Jian."
Xiang Shu said, "Yeah," Chen Xing thought to himself that you're doing too much. The house arrest of the ruler of a country is not a joke. Is this really possible? Will Fu Jian be surrounded by guards? However, if you think about it carefully, you can do it with Xiangshu's skills.
Chen Xing said: "In this way, Fu Jian won't be caught and used as Chi You's body. Detaining him is easy to say, but you have to consider the embargo..."
Xiang Shu replied, "Put it on me, don't worry."
Chen Xing said: "Fu Jian came to Luoyang to negotiate, at least 20,000 to 30,000 people around him."
Xiang Shu: "I said it! Don't worry! You don't understand?"
Xie An immediately said: "Once we succeed, let Murong Chong fight against Wang Ziye in the name of 'Qingjun's side'. Next, we will eradicate Wang Ziye's army. We have to allocate a part of the manpower to transfer away with Fu Jian. …”
Xiang Shu said: "Transfer to Jiankang? Take him to the streets?"
Xie An smiled and said: "What I promised you will naturally be done. It is impossible to hand him over to His Majesty and temporarily trap him in Shou County on the south bank of Feishui River."
Chen Xing knew that the relationship between Xiang Shu and Fu Jian was a bit old after all, and he didn't want to see Fu Jian being humiliated.
"Next, the Murong family has no choice but to follow Murong Chong to raise troops," Xie An said. "This was also part of our initial plan to persuade Murong Chong to form an alliance. We need to use their army to deal with Longmen together. The spies in the mountains don't know about you..."
"The specific location was detected," Xiang said.
Xie An said: "During the meeting, we arranged for Feng Qianjun's men to sneak in secretly first and use kerosene and burning cans to clean them up. When necessary, for the safety of the people, we have to set fire to the entire Longmen Mountain. This process may not be smooth. It is necessary to prepare in advance to prepare for the army to come out before it burns out. At this time, the army of the Murong family must be dispatched."
"But what about Wang Ziye? He's not a vegetarian, and once he finds something wrong, he will fight with us." Chen Xing said, "Although the dragon has been removed by us, I suspect that he has other successors. , If he resurrects another big monster that is messy and has never seen before, it will be troublesome."
Xie An nodded and said: "Yes, this is the problem you need to face, and now he no longer has a king under his command. After detailed reconnaissance, we have not found that there are still officials in Luoyang city who are suspected to be officials in disguise. According to our inference, this Shihai's soldiers and generals are almost exhausted... Now the military camp in Longmen Mountain is the last piece of his family, and it is certain that he can control it, only Princess Qinghe is left."
Saying that, Xie An was also a little troubled, and frowned again: "The scouts of the Feng family have turned inside and out of Longmen Mountain except where the army camp is located, but they have not found any suspicious caves and altars, Wang Ziye. Where is the 'door' you are looking for?"
Chen Xing said: "Will you be in the camp?"
Xie An shook his head and said: "The camp is a canyon, and there is nothing abnormal except for resentment. The only thing that may change now is the 'door'. Don't let anything out of it at the last moment. Demons and monsters are coming."
Xiang Shu spreads out the picture, which is Zhang Liu's handwriting, and the center is the Yique opposite the two mountains.
"Since it's the place Zhang Liu once set," Xiang Shu said to himself, "there shouldn't be any monsters. I guess the place where Wang Ziye is going to go is most likely related to Dinghaizhu."
"Besides, suppose he resurrects some other monster," Xiang Shu added, "I don't think it will be more difficult to deal with than Jiao."
Chen Xing thought for a while and said, "Then how do we get Dinghaizhu back into his hands?"
The inn was quiet for a while, Xie An and Xiang Shu exchanged glances, and Xie An suddenly said, "Why do you have to give Ding Haizhu to him?"
Chen Xing said: "But if you don't do this, you won't be able to release your mana and get rid of Chiyou."
Xie An said: "Our goal is to make Wang Ziye go to pieces and not create any more evil. Since Wushen is sure to get rid of Wang Ziye in this battle, I don't think it is necessary to pay such a painful price..."
Xiang Shu interrupted Xie An's words and said: "At that time, I will act according to the opportunity. I can try to sacrifice Dinghaizhu, and then pretend to be unconscious because of the exhaustion of my soul. Prince Ye will take Dinghaizhu away. After being destroyed, the Murong family regards him as a mortal enemy, and Wang Ziye's tricks can no longer be played. This magic weapon has become his only hope."
"Well." Hearing this, Chen Xing thought it was reliable, and said, "After he gets Dinghaizhu, he will go back to the Magic Palace to resurrect Chiyou, because he has nowhere to go. Then, how do we determine the Magic Palace? Where is it? Otherwise, how can I get there?"
Obviously Xiang Shu hadn't thought about this part yet, and Chen Xing vaguely felt that Xiang Shu was coaxing him. In fact, he always felt that things were not so simple. Sure enough, Xiang Shu had never considered that night's proposal, even if it was he who said it first.
"Think about it again." Chen Xing whispered.
Xie An glanced at Xiang Shu, Xiang Shu knew that Chen Xing had already guessed his thoughts, so he had to be silent. Chen Xing didn't say anything serious. He knew that Xiang Shu might be more difficult than himself to make this decision, but he had to do it.
In the blink of an eye, it was March of Spring, and there was still less than a year and a half before he was twenty years old.
"According to what you have seen, Wang Ziye left several times through the leylines." Xie An said, "His soul can leave the body and attach to others, but if he carries the Sea Pearl, he must act in the flesh."
"The Magic Palace is in Feishui," Xiang Shu said in a deep voice, "Gu Qing said before he died, but Wang Ziye would not let anyone in except his own subordinates... With Ding Haizhu, sometimes I even doubt that the It's not a Dinghaizhu."
Xie An said: "If you think about my proposal carefully, you know that although it is risky, it should be feasible."
Xiang Shu said indifferently: "I won't let Chen Xing fall into his hands, so that although he will be taken to the Magic Palace, I can go in and meet him with the response of the heart lamp, but in case he Really dead, what's the point of what I'm doing now?"
Xie An said earnestly: "But this is the ideal of the younger brother, Da Chanyu, for so many years, they have never really stepped into the south. Do you know why?"
Xiang Shu looked at Xie An with an irritable look in his eyebrows.
Xie An smiled and said, "It's precisely because Fu Jian can't shake something that is close to belief."
With that said, Xie An sighed, got up and said: "After the Yongjia Rebellion, even if we can't see our fingers, there are still more than one Han Chinese who light the way for us in the dark. Anyway, is it very similar? I have seen the eyes of my junior brother in the eyes of many people, he is not the only one, they were born for this ideal, but they can also die for this ideal, sacrifice their lives for benevolence, sacrifice their lives for righteousness."
There was a loud noise from behind, Xiang Shu overturned the case, and turned around in a gust of wind. But just when he wanted to destroy something to vent his anger, he suddenly stopped and murmured, "Leave through the leylines?"
That night.
"Yours." Xiao Shan handed Chen Xing a letter.
Chen Xing: "???"
Someone actually sent me a letter? Chen Xing opened the letter and saw that there were a few lines of slightly jerky Chinese characters, and the signature was Tuoba Yan. I can't help but think that in the days in Chang'an, Tuoba Yan learned to write Chinese characters for the first time in his life, and it was exactly what made him write "Xing Xing Xing Xing".
Now Tuoba Yan has learned a lot of Chinese characters and can write a complete letter.
"Look, your senior brother's handwriting is better than yours." Chen Xing gave Xiao Shan a glance.
Xiao Shan asked, "Are you going?"
Chen Xing: "..."
That letter was written to him by Tuoba Yan, who wanted to ask him to meet.
"Now?" Chen Xing asked at a loss, but he didn't really want to go.
Xiao Shan motioned Chen Xing to look outside, meaning that Tuoba Yan had come.
"I'll go and listen to what he has to say," Chen Xing said. "Just a little while, no problem."
Xiao Shan hesitated for a moment, but Chen Xing had already gone out first. Xiao Shan was about to get up and chase after him, but Xiang Shu walked over from the hall. Xiao Shan was a little uneasy. Looking at Chen Xing's back, Xiang Shu frowned and turned around. go out.
The gentle moonlight shone on Luoyang, Tuoba Yan was standing under a tree waiting for him, and a tall man wearing a bamboo hat stood beside him, pressing down the edge of the hat, covering half of his face, but Chen Xing Just looking at that figure, you know it's Murong Chong.
"Come." Murong Chong said, "I'm leaving."
Tuoba Yan immediately turned around and smiled at Chen Xing.
"I knew you would come." Tuoba Yan stood by the Luoshui and smiled, which was really pleasing to the eyes.
Chen Xing said, "It seems that you are much better."
"You're right," Tuoba Yan said, "after the beginning of spring, things gradually got better."
Tuoba Yan has lost some weight, but he is still very heroic and his face looks much better. Instead, Chen Xing began to doubt his previous conclusions. Could it be that Xin Deng really helped Tuoba Yan and made him get better gradually
Chen Xing shook Tuoba Yan's wrist and injected the heart lamp into his body, but did not find any improvement, so he could not help frowning.
The poplar flowers along the river were like snow, flying around in the night wind, Chen Xingfang opened up Ba Yan's hand, and suddenly saw a figure, it was Xiang Shu who was talking with Murong Chong not far away.
Why did you follow me again... Chen Xing was a little absent-minded, and said to Tuoba Yan, "What do you want to say?"
"Let's go?" Tuoba Yan said actively.
After Murong Chong left, Xiang Shu followed. Chen Xing stood still and was about to say something to him, but Xiang Shu said coldly, "I won't listen to you, I'm twenty paces away from you."
"You go back first," Chen Xing said. "It will be all right for a while!"
However, Xiang Shu stubbornly followed the two of them. Chen Xing knew that he was obsessed with putting himself under surveillance, lest something happen to be suddenly taken away, so he had to give up.