In the middle of the night, a guard came to report, and a group of people appeared in Yucheng Pass. Ruan Xingtian, Huang Han, Xu Baicai, and He Jia stood up in shock: "What's the source of the other party!"
"It looks like a royal guard."
"Get the archers ready!"
He Jia walked out with his spear, Ruan Xingtian, Huang Han and Xu Baicai also strode out with their weapons. Is the evil party chasing after it
The four quickly boarded the city gate, the archers were already in place, the torches on the city wall drove away the darkness, and the warning horn sounded, telling the visitors that this was Yuchengguan, not a place where Huanwei or Yujinwei could do whatever they wanted. The hearts of the four are very anxious. The evil party has already chased after him, but the prince has not returned yet. Could something have happened to the prince? Thinking of this, Ruan Xingtian felt extremely guilty, he should be with the prince!
At this moment, there was a roar of anger from afar: "Let He Jia open the city gate! Lao Tzu is back!"
"My lord!"
Ruan Xingtian's heart trembled, Huang Han, Xu Baicai, and He Jia all looked happy, turned around and ran under the city wall.
"Open the city gate! Open the city gate! It's the prince! The prince is back! The prince is back!"
The archer retracted his bow, and the heavy city gate made a creaking sound and slowly opened. The four directly mounted their horses and took hundreds of soldiers out to greet them. Firelight came out of Yucheng Pass and lit up the road. The four people opened their eyes wide and looked ahead, and the sound of horse hooves could already be clearly heard. There were hundreds of people. The sound of the whip, both sides are so eager, eager to see each other clearly.
"Call-"
The person in the lead in the eagle robe of the Imperial Guard's pacifier stopped first. Seeing this man's face clearly, Ruan Xingtian, Huang Han, Xu Baicai, and He Jia all burst into tears with excitement.
"My lord!"
"My lord! You are back!"
"My lord, the road is fine."
The four jumped off the horse and surrounded the prince and asked this question and that. Huo Feng with a beard said solemnly, "This prince's life is not so easy to get."
Ruan Xingtian immediately said: "My lord, let's go back to Yidong immediately and have a long-term discussion. You can't be soft-hearted this time."
Huo Feng turned his horse's head slightly and looked back: "I want to wait for someone here. Don't worry, I won't hesitate any more this time."
"My lord, who are you waiting for?" Huang Han asked curiously.
"Yi Zhongren."
"Yi Zhongren?!"
Four exclamations.
"My lord, what are you waiting for?"
Huo Feng didn't answer, but whipped the horse's butt: "Get me something to eat, I'm starving. I'll boil the pot of water again, and I'll wash it well." Huo Feng didn't give his subordinates a chance to ask any more questions. Go straight to the city.
"Hey, this, why did the lord wait for Yi Zhongren?" Huang Han got on his horse and followed curiously.
Xu Baicai said: "Yi Zhongren humiliated the lord, the lord will definitely swallow his breath. If he will come, then just kill him, lest he harm others again."
Ruan Xingtian and He Jia looked at each other, is that so? The way the prince mentioned that man just now didn't sound like he wanted revenge. With all kinds of doubts, the four of them hurriedly followed.
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Lying in the bathtub, Huo Feng put one hand on his forehead and closed his eyes. Within a day, his home was gone, his wife was dead, and his two children were nowhere to be found. He was forced to the point of biting his tongue to the point of committing suicide.
- "You are a coward."
- "... The Prince of Yue, who has 700,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, is so uselessly bullied by me, the eunuch you talk about. You are not a coward, so what are you?"
- "I have always looked down on you, and now even more."
—“…But you, you are not even as good as eunuchs!”
Huo Feng's hand on his forehead gradually clenched into a fist, and the blue veins on the back of his hand bulged.
"You're a coward, a coward, a coward..."
"Even eunuchs might as well be better..."
In front of him was a man opening and closing his mouth, poking into his sore point word by word, brutally tearing open his wound.
"Wow!"
The water splashed everywhere, and Huo Feng's clenched fist smashed into the water, and his opened eyes were full of hatred and determination.
Yi Zhongren, the humiliation you have bet on this king, this king will get it back with even Ben Dai profit! Seemingly seeing those eyes again, those eyes full of ridicule and coldness, Huo Feng stood up from the tub, his eyes burning like torches.
Putting on clean clothes and shaving off his long beard, Huo Feng, who was thin and thin, recruited four of his subordinates. Huo Feng's cheeks were visibly sunken after a series of incidents and days of fleeing. But the will in his eyes was unprecedentedly firm. Seeing such a prince, Huang Han, Xu Baicai, Ruan Xingtian and He Jia were more determined to do something, and they would follow the prince to the death.
Huo Feng looked at Ruan Xingtian, who immediately understood. He explained the matter to Huang Han and Xu Baicai and told the prince completely. Huo Feng didn't say a word from beginning to end, calmly making his subordinates a little puzzled.
After speaking, Ruan Xingtian still asked worriedly, "Your Highness, are the first son and the young master really safe?"
Huo Feng seemed to be in some deep thought and did not respond. Ruan Xingtian said again: "I heard that the young master was taken away by Yi Zhongren. That man was cruel and the young master fell into his hands, I'm afraid..."
Huo Feng raised his eyes and clenched and loosened his two hands on his knees: "The child is only safe in Yi Zhongren's hands."
"Your Highness?!" Ruan Xingtian, the most calm of the four, looked shocked, Your Highness wasn't confused!
Huo Feng didn't explain, but then said something that shocked the four of them again: "If there is no accident, Yun Kai was also rescued by him ahead of time."
"Rescue? Yizhongren? Huanwei Qianhu Yizhongren? Wangye, you, are you..." Huang Han wanted to ask if his lord was mad.
Huo Feng clenched his teeth, took out something from his arms, and spread it out in front of the four of them.
"This is… "
Huo Feng said hoarsely, "This is Yun Kai's personal jade pendant, which was given to me by Yi Zhong."
"what?!"
Huo Feng looked at Yupei and said, "On the viewing platform, when Yi Zhongren came to understand my personal grudge, he stuffed it into my hand. He covered my mouth, but fed me 'Tianxin Pill'."
Ruan Xingtian suddenly thought of something, and immediately asked, "Your Highness, the rope on your body was also cut by Yi Zhongren, right?" He almost forgot, when he went to save the Lord, he broke away before he even shot the Lord. rope. It was so chaotic that he didn't think much of it. Now that I think about it, Wang Ye's martial arts should not be high enough to easily break free from the rope that Hu Anwei specially used to tie people.
Huo Feng answered with a question: "I don't understand, since he knew you would come to save me, why did he feed me 'Tianxin Dan', why did he quietly cut the rope."
Ruan Xingtian thought for a while, and said uncertainly: "Maybe, he didn't expect me to arrive in the capital so soon. Or, he has other plans. If he is the Yizhong person we know, since he wants to do it , it will make sure nothing is lost.”
At this time, Xu Baicai said, "No wonder I haven't fainted from the whip."
"How could it be him?" Huang Han's facial features were twisted, obviously unacceptable.
"This king didn't expect..." Huo Feng put away the jade pendant, "It would be him."
There was an eerie silence in the house. Ruan Xingtian quickly sorted out his thoughts and asked, "Your Highness, is the person you want to wait for, is he?"
Huo Feng nodded and said inexplicably: "He rescued me from Beijing, I can't let him go back and explain. As for why he did this, I will ask myself in the future."
He Jia said, "My lord, did Yi Zhongren say when he will send the prince and the young master over?"
Huo Feng saw the scene where the mute beside Yi Zhongren "snatched" the child from Yu'er's arms. He closed his eyes and said, "The war is about to start, and it is safer for the child to be by his side. I don't think he will send the child here."
"..." The four of them looked at each other, still unable to accept that Yi Zhongren had changed from a big villain to a good person who saved the prince and the fire.
Huo Feng said suddenly and sternly: "You must not say anything about this! If anyone reveals a word, they will be dealt with by military law!"
The four of them were shocked and said in unison, "We will never say a word!"
Next, Huo Feng no longer mentioned Yi Zhongren, but discussed important matters. He had a hunch that Yi Zhongren would definitely go to Yucheng Pass, and he had a strong desire to meet him. As for the reason why it is not easy for Yi Zhongren to go back and explain, it is just rhetoric. Huo Feng's heart was filled with clear and bright doubts. As soon as he left from the viewing platform, a name and a face with makeup would keep popping up in his mind. Thinking about it carefully, he seems to have never seen the real face of Yi Zhongren under makeup. It is said that Yi Zhongren is extremely handsome, and every time he sees a monster face that disgusts him. The feeling in Huo Feng's heart was very complicated, so complicated that before returning to Yidong, he had to see Yi Zhongren and see that person without a gauze cap.
After secretly discussing important matters with his subordinates, Huo Feng asked He Jia and Ruan Xingtian to go back to Yidong first. The 700,000 soldiers and horses are the key to his success, and he must not make any mistakes. At dawn, He Jia and Ruan Xingtian, who had not slept all night, rushed back to Yidong with several hundred soldiers. Fifty thousand elite soldiers were stationed at Yucheng Pass. Huang Han and Xu Baicai accompany the prince here and wait for others. They couldn't accept the sudden change of Yi Zhongren's identity, because it was too difficult to accept.
After He Jia and Ruan Xingtian left, Huo Feng returned to his barracks to rest for a while. He was very tired, but he couldn't sleep. As soon as you close your eyes, it's a scene of chaos. The capital, the imperial palace, the palace, the platform, the princess who committed suicide, and a cold and mocking makeup. Huo Feng has never been influenced by a person like this, but now, he is influenced by that Yi Zhong who he can't see through. Ruo Yizhong is a good man, but hundreds of people have died at his hands for so many years; if he is evil, why should he save him and his children
Could it be that he believes that he will rebel, and wants to defect to the new master? Immediately afterwards, Huo Feng shook his head in his heart. Even if he believes that he will rebel, how can Yi Zhongren believe that he will succeed? The power of the Iraqi Zhongren now can be said to be in full swing. As soon as Zhang Zhong died, he was the first eunuch in the palace, not to mention that he was the prince's savior, and Concubine Ru loved him so much, why did he need to take this risk
On one side is the loyal minister who died in the hands of Yi Zhongren; on the other side is the child who was rescued by Yi Zhongren and himself. Huo Feng couldn't wait to ask that person face to face why he did this and why he did it. But Huo Feng was very strangely clear that Yi Zhongren would not tell him. He even felt that this meeting at Yumenguan would be his last meeting with Yi Zhongren. Although that person saved him, he looked down on him.
Two clusters of flames appeared in Huo Feng's eyes. Yizhong people!
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Huo Feng's guess was right. He just leaned on the bed and squinted for only half an hour, when Huang Han came to report in a very excited (excited) way that Yi Zhongren had arrived with Huanwei's troops. Huo Feng woke up almost instantly. Without taking off his shoes, he got out of bed and went out with his big knife.
When I came to the city wall, I saw at a glance that Yi Zhong, who was wearing enchanting makeup and wearing the palace uniform of the eunuch in charge of Hu'anwei. That person still had an icy expression on his face, and there was a faint sneer at the corner of his mouth. Seeing Huo Feng appear, he pulled out the soft sword from his waist. Behind him, half a horse's body, was a mute who followed Yi Zhongren's left and right, with a disfigured face that could not show his original appearance. Huo Feng couldn't help but take a few more glances at Mute. He was indeed taller and stronger than Yi Zhongren.
"The King of Yue."
Yi Zhongren spoke first, his voice showing a bit of exhaustion from chasing after days. Huo Feng held his big saber in one hand and hung the other by his side, looked down at Yi Zhongren with a blank expression, and said, "Yi Zhongren, you are one step late. There are 50,000 elite soldiers guarding Yucheng Pass, what do you do? Capture the king?"
Handing the broadsword to Xu Baicai, Huo Feng stepped forward and took his bow and arrows from an archer who was half-kneeling behind the fortifications of the city wall. Aiming neatly, the arrow in Huo Feng's hand flew.
There was a commotion in Hu'anwei's men, and everyone was so frightened that they tried to avoid the arrow that came from nowhere. However, Yi Zhongren did not move, looking up at Huo Feng like an old monk in meditation.
"Whoosh!"
The arrow whizzed past his ear, and a scream came from behind him. The man fell from the horse and shot through the heart. Hu'anwei's men became more turbulent, and regardless of Yi Zhongren's orders, they all turned their heads and retreated.
The gate of Yuchengguan opened from the inside, and someone in the Huan guards shouted: "Lord Qianhu! Let's evacuate!"
Yi Zhongren raised his hand, and the man who said to withdraw was immediately kicked off his horse with a whip. The whip wrapped around the man's neck, the dumb one exerted force, and the other's body was thrown directly into the air from the ground, and when he landed again, he died of exhaustion and his neck was strangled. Dumb retracted his whip, and no one dared to say "withdraw" again.
"Those who shake the heart of the army, this is the end!"
Glancing coldly at the dead subordinate, Yi Zhongren once again raised his head to look at the man standing on the city wall wearing armor - the general of the Southern Chu Kingdom, the King of Yue Huo Feng.
Behind the gate of Yuchengguan is the murderous Huo family army, led by Xu Baicai. Huo Feng drew the bow again and aimed. This time, his arrow flew straight out without any pause. Still whizzing past Yi Zhongren's ears, another Hu'an Guard minion died under Huo Feng's arrow, still an arrow pierced through the heart.
"kill!"
Xu Baicai's Xiaotianji reached to Yi Zhongren. Following his killing, the ten thousand Huo family elite soldiers behind him rushed towards the group of villainous minions together with him. Hu'anwei's men had already been frightened by the two arrows of the King of Yue, and now, facing the murderous army of soldiers, they were even more frightened. They would never have imagined that they would encounter such a recalcitrant opponent. Not caring about the unshakable spirit of the army, someone in the Huan guards turned their horses and fled. Yi Zhongren didn't stop him, he still looked up at the man on the city wall with an indifferent expression.
There were more and more Hu'an Guard minions fleeing, but the Huo Jiajun who rushed over chased the fleeing Hu'an Guard minions over the Yi Zhongren. And those who didn't have time to escape were surrounded by circles, and the sound of hacking and killing began.
At this time, the people on the city wall moved. Huo Feng jumped down from the dozens of feet high city wall with his flame-suppressing knife in hand. A white horse ran out of the city neighing, Huo Feng got on his horse and charged towards Yi Zhongren. At this time, Yi Zhongren also made a move, and he drove his horse to rush away from the Huo family army that surrounded him and headed towards Huo Feng. Dumb followed Yi Zhongren and was stopped by Xu Baicai.
Outside the encirclement, Huo Feng's sword collided with Yi Zhongren's sword. Flattery was a little restless because of the chilling atmosphere around him. Yi Zhongren dismounted directly, and Huo Feng also dismounted. The big sword is against the soft sword, and the king of Yue is against the father-in-law of Huanwei. Before, the two had a confrontation, and Huo Feng was defeated. The outcome of the second confrontation is uncertain.