It was a man in black. Before Duan Ling could react, a cold light flickered in front of him, and a thin needle flew to the front door. Immediately after, Wu Du jumped and the two turned over and fell from the tower.
Three more flying needles, followed by a knife in front of him, and a man in black!
The two assassins slashed down at the same time with their knives. Duan Ling was in the air, stepped on the steps, turned over and fluttered, and protected Wu Du with his back. The two knives slashed on his back. robe. In this short moment, Wu Du had already hugged Duan Ling, stepped on the inner wall, and leaped over the assassin's head with the support of the wooden stake.
With a light sound, two powders flew out, and then the assassin fell.
Duan Ling didn't even see Wu Du's movements clearly, but Wu Du took his hand and ran down the stairs. Two men in black rushed out of the tower.
Sun Ting was instructing his men to rummage when he saw someone rushing out of the tower. He was startled and shouted, "There are assassins!"
The soldiers each drew their swords, and Wu Du shouted, "Get out of the way!"
The man in black galloped in front of him, Duan Ling immediately bent a bow and set up an arrow, and shot two arrows. The two assassins heard the sound of arrows breaking through the air. One turned over to dodge, and when they landed, they continued to run wildly, fleeing towards Xunshui. Just as he was about to jump into the river, he suddenly stumbled under his feet.
The two fell to the ground almost at the same time, Wu Du still stood, holding Duan Ling's hand, Duan Ling's heart was beating wildly, watching the two assassins struggling on the beach in pain, twitching, and finally curled up into a ball.
The soldiers stepped forward slowly, wondering where these two people came from.
"Don't touch them." Wu Du ordered, and approached Duan Ling.
"Is it your poison | medicine?" Duan Ling asked.
"Hmm." Wu Du frowned and hung the other's mask with a branch. Duan Ling asked, "Do you know him?"
Wu Du was puzzled, shook his head slowly, and replied, "It's not like the Yuan people."
"Could it be..." Duan Ling frowned, observing Wu Du's expression, and Wu Du looked at him.
"It's possible." Wu Du whispered.
Duan Ling meant whether it was someone sent by Cai Yan, and Wu Du also guessed this, so it was inconvenient for the two to say more in front of Sun Ting and others.
"Is it from the Yuan Dynasty?" Sun Ting asked, "I just thought it was really dangerous."
Duan Ling was still thinking, nodded and said, "Put it here, don't touch the corpse."
Duan Ling knew that Wu Du was afraid of danger just now, and the first shot was highly poisonous. The poison|medicine took effect so quickly. He had rarely seen his skills before, but he forgot that his housekeeping skills were poisoning.
"Do you still want to go up?" Wu Du asked.
"Yes." Duan Ling said.
When this happened, the atmosphere became heavy, but what should be done still had to be done. Sun Ting was going to investigate. Duan Ling wanted to stop it. After all, with their efforts, they really found that the assassin was not an opponent. But Wu Du gave a wink, indicating that he should let him go, and don't say it outright, lest the other party hurt his self-esteem.
After entering the tower, Wu Du said, "It should be a member of the shadow team."
Duan Ling asked, "How many people are there in the film team?"
Wu Du replied: "Exactly a hundred, it's like a ghost."
"It doesn't matter." Duan Ling said, "It's a blessing that you're emerging now, otherwise, if you find someone to kill you when you're not around, you might end up playing. What kind of poison was there just now?"
"The Eclipse of Life." Wu Du said, "If it touches the eyes, mouth, etc., it will be poisoned, and if you run a hundred steps, you will die."
"A lot?" Duan Ling asked.
"Not much." Wu Du replied, "It's one of the few medicines that can directly poison people."
When Duan Ling was with Wu Du, he was always nervous, for fear of knocking over some of his medicine bottles and killing him. Later, he found that Wu Du seldom released this kind of poisonous poison, so he relaxed his vigilance. When I saw it today, I was worried again.
"Are you all right?" Duan Ling asked.
He seemed to have seen Wu Du eject the poisonous powder with his hands just now.
Wu Du said: "Don't worry, the poisoning is done with internal energy, and when the poisonous powder is ejected from the internal force, it will not remain on the hands."
On the top of the sentry tower, Duan Ling was still a little uneasy, so Wu Du washed his hands in the rainwater on the top of the tower, sat on the side, let Duan Ling sit on his lap, and the two looked into the distance.
"I don't know how many people the film team sent." Wu Du said, "Even Yecheng is not safe, so we have to find a chance to clean up all the people."
Duan Ling said: "Or send someone to send the body back to Jiangzhou, and if the imperial court can identify the body, it can also warn him."
Wu Du replied: "With Wuluohoumu here, the body will not be escorted back to Jiangzhou."
Duan Ling thought about it too, Lang Junxia would definitely take action to clean it up, presumably he was the best at killing people. Sending the corpse back to Jiangzhou will only kill the escort.
"You don't have to think about this anymore." Wu Du said, "This is what I should be bothered about."
Duan Ling nodded, knowing that with him by his side, there is nothing to be afraid of, all the wind and waves have passed, not bad for these assassins.
A gust of wind blows, and from the tower, you can see the mountains and plains on the other side of the river, which is really refreshing.
"If the Yuan people come from the north," Duan Ling said, "you can see it from the sentry tower."
"Well." Wu Du was still thinking about the assassin.
The sight in front of him confirmed Duan Ling's guess before he set off.
"There should be villages over there, and every village should have such a tower." Duan Ling added.
"I don't know, go take a look?" Wu Du returned to his senses and asked, "What do you want to do?"
"Let's go." Duan Ling pulled Wu Du down the tower and summoned the soldiers to go into the distance. Sure enough, nearly twelve miles away, there was another ruin. There was also a sentry tower here, and there was a bell tower on the tower. Nearby are four scattered tile-roofed houses and a large area of abandoned fields.
More than ten years ago, Chen Guo fought with the Liao country here. Whenever the Liao people invaded, the people would ring the bell to warn them. Later, the Chen army attacked, and the Liao army attacked again. They fought each other and became exhausted. Finally, the Liao people left, and the bell was melted into iron and turned into a weapon.
"No one lives here anymore," Wu Du said. "Otherwise, it would be a good idea to ring the bell to warn you."
Sun Ting said: "When the wind is strong, you can't hear the bell."
"You can see in the distance." Duan Ling said, "The distance between the two sentry towers is twelve miles away. You can see it if you light up the wolf smoke."
Duan Ling spread out the map and said to the soldiers, "Everyone move separately, find these towers, draw a general map, mark it on the map, go, go now!"
Duan Ling was very excited about this discovery. If he could use all the towers between Yecheng and Hejian to build a beacon-like outpost, it would mean a small Great Wall-like line of defense. Every time the Yuan army came over, they had to cross the Xun River, and whether they attacked Yecheng or Hejian, with the communication from these posts, they could give the Yuan people a fatal blow.
Wu Du, however, always had a serious look on his face, with a knot on his brow that couldn't be untied.
In addition to the sentry towers on the flat plains, temporary outposts can be built on the rolling hills and cliffs. Built on the mountain, the terrain is steep, and there is no need to worry about the danger of being pulled by the Yuan people.
It took Duan Ling an entire day to run half the route with Wu Du. When the soldiers came back at night, Duan Ling ate dry food and looked at the map in front of the fire.
"Have you come up with a solution?" Duan Ling asked Wu Duan.
"Not yet." Wu Du has temporarily given up on solving the shadow team, and said to Duan Ling, "What did you find?"
Duan Ling showed Wu Du a map. Above it was the sentry tower found by Sun Ting's subordinates. There were a total of 12 towers between the two cities, all of which were once villages, far from being enough to become a stronghold of Fengsui.
"Not enough." Wu Du said, "Several of them are too far away."
"If it's not enough, we can build it." Duan Ling said, "In these places, all of them are on the mountains, and pavilions are built one by one to serve as pavilions, and between sentinels in the mountains, bells are used to transmit messages, both beacon and fire. bells."
Yuanma is not suitable for taking the mountain road. There are many barren mountains in the south of Xunshui, but it has become a favorable area for building outposts. In this way, using the combination of the bell and the beacon, it is also possible to roughly determine which area the Yuanren invaded.
So in this way, I really let go of the big stone in my heart.
After Duan Ling decided to go back, he would divide the post area and set thirty posts, with five soldiers stationed at each post, and the post on the plain could also grow some food by himself, and he was entitled to subsidize the rations.
The next day, he and Wu Du went to Hejian City, and he could see that Wu Du was very nervous about the turbulence around him, and he was always on guard.
"Master Wang." The general named Qin called Qin Long and saluted Duan Ling.
Qin Taki had already been taught a lesson by Wu Du that day. This man had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he looked like a talented person. He took his subordinates to apologize to Duan Ling in person, and prepared food and hot water for Duan Ling and Wu Du to rest.
Hejian is more prosperous than Yecheng. It used to be a heavy city in Hebei facing the Liao people. In the center of the city is the school commander's mansion - the official residence of Wudu. In order to fight against the Liao people, the school commander's mansion is convenient to mobilize the army, so it is permanently stationed in Hejian. Unexpectedly, after you sang and I came on stage for so many years, Ye Cheng turned into a striker instead.
"Actually, you have always guarded Hejian well." Duan Ling wiped his hands with a hot towel, Qin Taki served him personally, and replied, "Your Excellency is wrong, it's just because Yuan people don't often travel the Hejian Road. ."
Hejian is different from Yecheng. Before the last Colonel General died in battle, the two cities were governed independently. The army in the city was nominally subordinate to Colonel Hejian, but in fact it was Qin Taki's private army. As soon as Duan Ling saw Qin Taki, he knew that this person was full of scheming, and that he would defy yin and yin. Maybe he had already seen him and Wu Du in the city that night, but he deliberately stayed silent.
When Okuotai attacked this spring, the previous colonel took the lead, but in the end, he was not able to wait for the rescue of his own soldiers and horses, and died by the enemy.
If Wu did not come alone, Qin Long would be the most qualified to be promoted to Colonel General.
"Where's the county magistrate?" Wu Du suddenly asked.
Duan Ling knew that Wu Du also felt that although Qin Taki was a general, he was actually equivalent to the city lord of Hejian City. When welcoming the prefect and the general, the county magistrate never showed up, and only Qin Taki was the one who received him. Most of the county magistrates were sent away by Qin Taki, so as not to get in the way.
Sooner or later, this person will have to be eliminated, but now it is not possible to directly kill him with a knife. It is necessary to figure out what countermeasures he will have. Although it is easy to get rid of Qin Taki, but in this way, he and Wu Du are both separated |
Sure enough, Qin Taki replied: "Master Lin went out to inspect the village, Master Unknown and the general came, and I have sent someone to summon him."
Duan Ling thought to himself, okay, I'll allow you to hold the power for a while, and I'll take care of you when I'm done.
Another general was at home, and Wu Du didn't ask much, but only questioned Qin Long about the deployment of the army, army pay, supplies, and personnel transfers. Different from Yecheng, Qin Long did not cry about being poor. When talking about rations, he only replied that he would solve it properly.
"Is it enough?" Duan Ling asked.
"Enough, enough." Qin Long said with a smile, "You can't let the adults pay for the army themselves. Hejian hasn't fought many wars in the past few years, and the brothers are barely enough to live."
"It's not enough for you to speak to me." Duan Ling said, "General Qin, don't be embarrassed to speak."
"Master Wang loves the people like a son." Qin Taki said, "It's a blessing for Hebei, and now I just hope that the master can move to Hejian as soon as possible. Governing Zemin is everyone's vision."
Duan Ling replied: "The move to the mansion is the plan of the predecessor, Master Lu. Naturally, he will not move when he comes to me."
The previous prefect a few times disliked Yecheng’s poor geographical location and strong wind and sand, and hoped to move to Hejian, but it was just paper exchanges, and it took too long. Delayed.
Duan Ling knew that Qin Taki could not hope that he would move the prefecture from Yecheng to Hejian, but it was just a test. He doesn't want to move, but he really doesn't like this kind of clever subordinate. If it is superior or equal, it's okay to play tricks. Egg-laying city, what are you doing here
"Master Qin, do you want to call back?" Duan Ling thought to write a letter in the beginning of spring, transfer him back, and send a buddy from Yecheng to manage Hejian.