〖Lin Tong, the master of Hongxia County, young daughter of Daizhou Hou Lin Yuanting, sister of Princess Jiaping, the master of the county is always favored by his parents and brothers and sisters as treasures, but the master loves martial arts, and often goes out alone. In the first year of Dayong Longsheng, in the 24th year of Northern Han Dynasty, Princess Jiaping went to Qinzhou to help the war. The barbarians attacked Yanmen very urgently. He led the army of the barbarians. Although the lord was young, he was majestic and brave, not inferior to his father and sister, so he won the support of everyone as a general to fight against the barbarians.
- "Yong Shi·Hongxia County Master Biography"〗
Lin Tong, dressed in red, stood on the top of Yanmenguan City, and quickly passed down military orders to defend against the barbarians who were attacking the city. It caused huge pressure on Yanmen Pass. In order to effectively kill the enemy, Lin Tong precisely chose the time to cast the rolling water and the beating stone. The enemy's attack is getting more and more fierce. Although the barbarians are good at riding and shooting, they have fought hard with the Daizhou army for many years, and they have also learned the skills of sieging the city. There are barbarians who are good at lassoing to the city with ropes. Lin Tong can feel that the barbarians are getting stronger and stronger these days. Presumably, the barbarian tribes in the entire grassland have assembled to cooperate to attack the city, broke through Yanmen Pass, drove straight in, and looted everything, so as to overcome the difficulties of lack of food rations this spring. Finally, the barbarians who suffered heavy losses began to retreat, and Lin Tong breathed a sigh of relief. She knew that it wouldn't be long before the barbarians would regroup their forces and come to attack. Even so, they finally got a short rest, which was enough to comfort them.
After many days of hard work, Lin Tong's appearance has been reduced, but her expression is very calm. In order to boost morale, she has not stepped down the tower for three days and three nights in a row. Her red clothes are like flames, always burning on the city. , inspiring the army to fight bloody battles. Since the elder brother was ambushed when he was out of the city and was shot and killed in front of the gate, his father became ill, and the elder brother Lin Chengyi could only fight. The army was rough and impulsive. Chief general. This was originally an expedient measure, but who knew that Lin Tong held up the overall situation with a delicate body, and commanded the battle in a proper manner, not inferior to a veteran in a hundred battles, so in just a few days, the military and civilians of Daizhou had already taken Lin Tong As the coach who can succeed Lin Bi.
Speaking of which, although Lin Tong has never commanded combat before, she is intelligent by nature and likes to ride horses and archery. She is very interested in battles on the battlefield. Although her parents and brothers and sisters have a tacit understanding not to let her experience war, she comes here on weekdays. I like to follow Lin Bi everywhere, so I am familiar with it, and I already know a lot about military strategy. After the East China Sea incident, Lin Tong suddenly grew up, and he was very attentive in military strategy. In addition, he accompanied Lin Yuanting to command at Yanmen Pass a few days ago. With his talent, knowledge and modesty, Lin Tong became a qualified commander in a short period of time. . Even if there are some small mistakes, with the help of Daizhou Jun's uncles and brothers, it is enough to make up for it, and Lin Tong is born with agility and has a very appropriate grasp of the battlefield, which is why Hongxia County Master's reputation is achieved. Of course, Lin Tong didn't care about these things at all at this moment, and he didn't realize that everyone had regarded her as a substitute for his sister, and just tried hard to think about how to deal with the barbarians.
Dragging a heavy pace, Lin Tong, regardless of fatigue, patrolled the city, inspected the defense, and offered condolences to the wounded sergeants. It was not until she finished the military affairs that she found a stomping mouth, sat down against the city wall, and wrapped the cloak around her body. , put his hands on his knees, ready to take a nap. Not long after, Lin Tong had fallen asleep. At this moment, she naturally did not know that there were a pair of eyes watching her silently.
The sergeants and the people who are guarding the pass are divided into two rounds. This round has already gone down to rest, and the sergeants and the people who have come to guard the pass have begun to accept the defense. The people of Daizhou are also trained according to the army standard, and they are organized into a corps. Everything is in an orderly manner. In progress. One of the teams is a little different. Their movements are obviously a little loose. This is a militia group of foreign counties requisitioned by the Daizhou Army. When the barbarians invade every year, the Daizhou Army will recruit young men from other counties to join the army, using the art of war. Constraints, one is to worry that there are barbarians and spies, and the other is to enhance the combat power. These people will be organized into military brigade, and the old army of Daizhou will be the corps commander. The veterans of Daizhou who are responsible for commanding and monitoring them are all experienced warriors on the battlefield. These people can be cowardly and greedy, but they have absolutely no chance to perform the duties of spies.
This 100-strong minstrel is a very brave man among the young men recruited this time, and he has no fear of going into battle to kill the enemy, so he was sent to Guanshang to assist the military and civilian defense of Daizhou, and was in charge of commanding this The name of the hundred-person team is Lin Yuanchong. He is thirty-nine years old this year. He is a descendant of the Lin family in Daizhou. In terms of seniority, he is the uncle of Lin Bi and Lin Tong. , is an excellent junior officer, and is very careful, and is most suitable for commanding and monitoring these brave people from other counties. He instructed everyone to start the defense. Although it was a little chaotic, it was still within an acceptable range. Besides, these people were all good players. After a while, guarding the gates could play a big role, so he was quite satisfied. His eyes inadvertently fell on a plain-looking boy. Lin Yuanchong frowned slightly. This young man Wang Dalang was the person he paid most attention to. Although his performance in the past few days was remarkable, although he was brave, he couldn't get along with him. On a par with Daizhou warriors, there is neither excessive fear nor abnormal excitement about killing, but with the perception of many years of fighting, Lin Yuanchong always feels that there is a faint danger in him, which makes him approach this person every time. There is a feeling of depression all around.
He secretly paid attention to this young man without any trace. In fact, when he looked closely, the facial features of this young man were all beautiful and handsome, but somehow they were put together, but they became plain and ordinary, and he still felt a little dejected. , but the slightly rough skin and agile and powerful limbs let him know that he is not weak. Although he does not show the mountains and waters on weekdays, he often has excellent performance in combat, obeying military orders, assisting his companions, and being able to overcome enemy warriors. These are the characteristics of people who have had a military career. He is taciturn on weekdays, but at critical moments, a sentence often has a deafening effect. All this has cast a layer of fog on this young man who came to Yanmen in the name of visiting relatives and friends a few days ago and was requisitioned.
Of course, Lin Yuanchong would never believe that this young man was a spy of the barbarians. I saw that he was a savage hand when he killed the enemy, and he helped him to command the crowd calmly. Unless the barbarians were fools, he would never send such a character undercover. Instead of letting him lead the way. Seeing that young man holding a horizontal knife and sitting there resting with his eyes slightly closed, this is again inconsistent with his identity. Only a battle-hardened fighter knows that he needs to try his best to maintain his physical strength in any spare time, not like the other few. She looked out nervously like a young child, worried that the enemy would attack. Lin Yuanchong withdrew his gaze, no matter what the strangeness of this person's identity was, as long as he was not a spy of the barbarians, then it didn't matter.
Although he closed his eyes slightly, everything around him was reflected in his heart, and he was watching the eager person from the gap between the exposed eyes. Chi Ji was not as calm as it seemed on the surface. Just using some small disguising methods and slightly modifying the facial features, the original handsome appearance has lost its luster, and deliberately not showing its edge. Although it is inevitable to show some color in this hundred-person team in order to fight, I believe in commanding all Lin Tong, who was guarding the Yanmen Gate, would not notice a small outsider. Chi Ji was infiltrated into the Daizhou Army in this way. With Lin Tong, he naturally knew that no one was suspicious of him, but he knew something about Daizhou and knew that as long as he didn't show signs that he might be a barbarian spy, no one would be suspicious. He cross-examined himself in detail, smiled slightly, and when the barbarians retreated, even if the Daizhou Army wanted to settle accounts in the autumn, it was irrelevant. If Lin Tong was still alive at that time, even if he killed himself, he would have no regrets. If Lin Tong died, Chi Ji felt a pain in his heart, and believed that he would also go with her. In this case, why should I be cautious everywhere? Anyway, although the young master hopes that he can go back to see him alive, Chi Ji himself has no such extravagant hope. Qiangzi came to Daizhou, and he can say that he has betrayed the son in a certain sense. As an eight horse, he will take the son's will as his own, and the moment he chose to fight alongside Lin Tong , his position as the head of the Eight Horses has been shaken. What's more, Dayong will not let the separatist rule of Daizhou, and Yong's army will definitely suppress Daizhou, and Chiji himself, absolutely does not want his sword to be contaminated with the blood of his beloved and his relatives.
After a while, Chi Ji was aroused, and it was his turn to monitor the situation of the enemy. He stood closed, his eyes staring into the distance, but his hands were doing the same job repeatedly, taking out the sharp arrows from the quiver beside him. , put down a gourd from the waist, then took out a square towel, took out a pair of deerskin gloves from his bosom and put it on, then poured out the black liquid from the gourd, soaked the square towel, wiped the arrow with the square towel, his The movements are agile and light. After the arrows are handled by him, the arrows appear gray-black, and when he is doing this, the young men around him tacitly block the eyes of others until he is done. these work.
Just after tying the gourd back to her waist, a hoarse voice came from behind and asked, "What are you doing?" Chi Ji's heart trembled, but there was no delay in his movements, and he turned around and said, "Little man. Poisoning arrows."
Lin Tongfeng said with a puzzled look in his eyes: "Why do you need to be poisoned, our army warriors, whose arrows can't take the enemy's life instantly, poisoning is time-consuming and labor-intensive, but it's not very useful."
Chi Ji said in a changed accent: "The villain is not a native of Daizhou, although he can shoot arrows, but his strength is not enough, often piercing the enemy's leather armor, he is no longer able to kill people, so the poison on the arrow is also good. To increase the possibility of killing the enemy."
Lin Tong suddenly said: "So it is!" She said with interest: "Who are you, how can you make poison, it is very troublesome to poison poison like you, but there is a way to make a lot of poison and make poison arrows quickly. Get up and talk. , stop kneeling."
Chi Ji heard the words, calmed down, stood up, bowed his head and said: "The villain Wang Dalang is a member of You Fanglang, and he also has some medical skills. This poison is prepared by villains, see blood and seal the throat, just use it. It is also very troublesome to get up, and the poison on the arrows cannot last for a long time, so the villain will only be poisoned now. The county master needs a lot of arrows, and making poisonous arrows is really time-consuming and laborious. However, as far as the villain knows, the Daizhou Bow and Arrow Workshop There are a lot of lacquers in them, and the lacquer is inherently toxic. If the county master orders a bundle of arrowheads to be dipped in the lacquer and then dried, if such arrows hurt someone, the wound will definitely itch. It's swollen, and it's hard to heal."
Lin Tong heard a move in his heart, and looked carefully at the young man in front of him, and saw that although he was neither humble nor arrogant, he lowered his head and lowered his eyebrows, and didn't look at himself, he seemed to be a very cautious person, but the words he said were not. It was with a touch of murderous maliciousness, which made one's heart chill, and couldn't help saying: "You raise your head."
Chi Ji raised her head slowly, Lin Tong looked at his face, a hint of confusion flashed in her eyes, the face in front of her was somewhat familiar, but she couldn't remember it, she was about to ask another question, the guard behind her said: "The county Lord, General Qi is here." Lin Tong relied heavily on this senior, and turned around to meet him. Halfway through, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in her heart, and she already remembered that the appearance of this young man was 90% similar to the person in her heart, but the difference in expression and the corners of her eyes and brows made herself unable to remember for a while, the appearance was so similar, It's not like that person is Chi Ji, Lin Tong paused. For a moment, Lin Tong sneered, how could he be Chi Ji? Dayong swallows the mountains and rivers, and the Marquis of Chu Xiang is glorious. He must be by his master's side and has a bright future. How could he come to this crisis-ridden Daizhou and Henan? The barbarians fight, and besides, since that man has the ability to hang out in the barbarian fields of Northern Han, he must have some ingenious skills. How could he appear in front of him with a face that is 90% similar, and he didn't even change his surname, so why should he think wildly.
After hesitating for a while, Lin Tong stopped and asked, "Wang Dalang, do you have siblings?"
Chi Ji showed a somewhat bewildered look, and said, "Back to the county master, the villain has no brothers or sisters."
Lin Tong said sadly, "Is that so?" She turned around and continued to walk forward, she quickened her pace, raised a smile, took a few steps to meet Old General Qi, smiled and said, "Uncle Qi, could you please preside over the arrows? Are the arrows painted black?"
Looking at Lin Tong's agile back, a faint smile appeared on the corner of Chi Ji's mouth. Before leaving this time, the young master told himself that if he went to the battlefield, he would not be able to pay attention to his disguised appearance anytime, anywhere, rather than being seen through. It's better to just change some details of the appearance, and then deliberately change the tone and behavior. Sure enough, as a result, even Lin Tong, who was most familiar with him in the Daizhou Army, was just suspicious, and immediately because he had too many "weaknesses", he didn't think about his identity. Although Lin Tong would recognize him easily if they got along for a long time, Chi Ji believed that Lin Tong might have a grudge against him, so he should avoid him on purpose. Although there is a touch of pride, Chi Ji also has a touch of regret in his heart, so far away, what could be more frustrating than this.
After half an hour, when the lacquered poison arrow was half ready, a barbarian figure appeared outside Yanmen Pass covering the sky and covering the sun. After Chi Ji issued the warning, a cold light flashed in his eyes. Judging from the totems and costumes of the barbarian army this time, the eight tribes on the prairie have all arrived. This time, the barbarians are ready to start the general attack. The barbarians lined up according to their tribes, and one of the tribes suddenly erected a golden banner with a black wolf totem painted on it. A handsome young man in a yellow sweat king costume raised his arm, and then an earth-shattering cry came from outside Yanmen Pass, "Da Long live the sweat, long live the big sweat!" Thousands of people shouted in unison, making everyone pale when Yanmen closed. The golden wolf flag, the cry of long live the Khan, shows the reunification of the disintegrated tribes after the army of the Central Plains defeated the Prairie Khan Court in the early years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Chi Ji can estimate that there are 60,000 barbarians in front of him. When he remembered that when he was running around on the grasslands, the troops had already tended to reconcile. The handsome young man was originally Wanyan Najin, the chief of the Gele Department. The prairie has a prominent reputation and is known for being wise and decisive, brave and good at fighting, but most of the other chiefs are of the same age as his father. Chi Ji never thought that he would be able to dominate the grassland. Now that the barbarian Khan Court is rebuilt, Daizhou is only their first goal. Chi Ji is thinking nervously, and the sound of a sword falling is heard next to him, but a big man with him is pale and threatened by the barbarian voice. Unpossessed.
Chi Ji frowned and looked around, even the Daizhou Army was in a panic. Just thinking about how to boost morale, Lin Tong jumped lightly and jumped over a wall, pointing to the barbarian king flag and said loudly: "Are you all scared? These barbarians have scared your nerves. Listen, after Yanmen Pass, it's our family's flesh and blood. The warriors of Daizhou who are standing here wielding their swords, your parents, wife and children are all there. Looking at you from the back, now the imperial court is competing with Dayong for territory. We have no reinforcements outside of Daizhou, and we are empty inside. Except for us, no one can protect ourselves. If the barbarians break through Yanmen Pass, Daizhou will become a hell on earth. These guys are not as good as me, a little girl who is playing for the first time, even if we die, we will die first, which is better than watching the fathers and the villagers die under the butcher's knife."
Lin Tong's fiery anger and words from the bottom of his heart made everyone look ashamed. Old General Qi raised his arms and said loudly: "The county master is so brave, how can our dignified men still be greedy for life and death? Unless I Not a single man from Daizhou is left, otherwise the barbarians will not be able to break the Yanmen Gate. If you fight to the death, I will be invincible." Everyone was in high spirits, and they all shouted: "I will not retreat, I am invincible." The sudden rise in momentum made the barbarians who were shouting long live looked at each other in dismay, and couldn't help but stop shouting.
At this time, under the king's flag, the king of Khan, Wanyan Najin, was trusted. When he raised his hand, a guard handed a giant bow as high as one person. Wanyan Najin rode his horse into battle. Yan Najin had already entered the battle alone. He rode his horse to a position five hundred paces close to Yanmen Pass. He held his bow while breathing and shot arrows. Almost in an instant, the first wolf tooth approached Lin Tong, Lin Tong turned over and fell, avoiding the first wolf tooth, pulled out his waist knife, and wanted to block the second wolf tooth, the wolf tooth was extremely powerful, Lin Tong I only felt that my arm was numb, and the wolf tooth actually shot through the hundred-forged steel knife, but the third wolf tooth was less than ten steps away from Lin Tong, but Lin Tong could no longer move his body, seeing that wolf tooth It is about to penetrate Lin Tong's delicate body.
In the exclamations of the crowd, as if they had traveled through endless time, a feathered arrow that appeared on the spot hit the wolf-toothed arrow, but the strength was obviously far away, and the feathered arrow bounced and fell, and everyone was eagerly looking into the air. Unable to sigh in unison, who knew that at the moment when the first feather arrow rebounded, the slightly deviated wolf tooth was shot to the arrow body by the second feather arrow, and then, the third, fourth, and fifth arrows. , the five feather arrows hit the powerful wolf tooth in sequence at almost a slight distance away, and the water droplet pierced through the stone. The wolf tooth arrow finally changed its direction and passed by Lin Tong's cheek, with a strand of blood, deep. Deep into the back wall.
Although these five arrows are not strong, their accuracy and speed are rare in the world. Not only did a thunderous applause sound from the Daizhou army, but also from the barbarians outside Yanmen Pass, there was a sound of praise. Lin Tong fell to the ground. Several guards were already protecting her with heavy shields. Lin Tong didn't care about the slight scars on her cheeks. Wujian, this time, no matter what he has changed to cover up, Lin Tong has already recognized his identity, two lines of clear tears dripped, and they were instantly dried by the wind from Yanmen Gate, Lin Tong softly but firmly shouted: "Children Ji!"
Chi Ji smiled bitterly. After his identity was revealed, he didn't need to hide any more. He took out a pill from the treasure bag around his waist and crushed it, wiped it on his face to remove the small amount of disguising medicine, and then smiled calmly. Said: "County Lord Hongxia, I haven't seen you for a long time." He added a bit of handsome appearance, as well as a handsome, slightly cynical smile, which made him reborn in an instant and stand out from the crowd. Everyone couldn't help but scream, this kind of fish and dragon change made them feel like a dream.
Only Lin Tong said without surprise: "Why are you here? Dayong has the upper hand, why do you need to be an undercover agent, what the hell is your master thinking?"
Everyone looked at Chi Ji in amazement. The original gratitude in their hearts immediately turned into doubts. He was Dayong's secret spy. Now that Princess Bi is fighting against Dayong, how could this person have any good intentions. The requisitioned young men standing beside Chi Ji stepped back, while the Daizhou army slowly surrounded him, but this man had just rescued Lin Tong, and those people hesitated in their hearts and did not want to act immediately. Tong looked away.
At this time, the eyes of Wanyan Najin, who had been taken back to the formation by his own guards, gleamed in his eyes. Although he was separated by a long distance, the person standing alone at the head of Yanmenguan City was clearly someone he knew. He said: "Who this king thought it was, it turned out to be Mr. Wang, the divine doctor of Bole. Although you are also from the Central Plains, you are famous in my grassland. In the past, on the vast grassland, the chiefs of all the tribes treated you like a guest. You are not a Northern Han. Rather than being treated as an enemy above, it is better to come to serve under this king’s tent, and this king is willing to treat you like brothers and sisters, rich and noble, women’s gold and silk, whatever you want, what do you think?”
He blatantly surrendered like this, with a hint of instigation in his tone, even those young men from outside the county, who were not originally hostile, could not help but clenched their swords tightly and looked at Chi Ji with a tiger's gaze.
Chi Ji smiled bitterly, turned to look down, and said loudly: "Chief Wanyan, I was in your Gele Department in the past, and I was favored by you. I will heal your beloved horse for you. You taught me the art of riding and archery. My friends are friends, and the friendship is not shallow. However, personal relationships cannot harm justice. I was originally from Southern Chu, and now I am a citizen of Dayong. I have nothing to do with Northern Han, but whether it is Dayong, Northern Han or Southern Chu, I am a The lineage of the Central Plains, the Han family is orthodox. If your King Khan came to visit me in the Central Plains today, you would definitely treat each other with courtesy and treat them like VIPs, but now you are marching south and invading our Han family land, you are my mortal enemy. However, I would like to persuade King Khan that the Central Plains are about to be unified. Although King Khan is brave, he is not my enemy of Dayong. If King Khan really thinks about the various tribes of the grasslands, it is better to stop the army and stop the battle, so as not to lose his ambitions. , the grassland blood flowed into rivers."
Wanyan Najin sneered: "It's been a day since the Central Plains fell apart, and now there are civil wars again and again, where is there any strength to stop my army from going south, this king is not greedy, as long as you replace Daizhou, the people of the Central Plains will be powerless to stop me Iron cavalry is enough, if you don’t surrender, don’t blame this king’s men for being unfeeling.”
Chi Ji smiled coldly, took out a feather arrow, folded it into two pieces, and said loudly: "Today, I will break the arrow to make an oath, you and I will be gracious and righteous, even if King Khan comes to attack Yanmen, I will die under the arrow of King Khan. It is also dead without resentment, but if King Khan dies in my hands, don't blame me for being righteous."
Wanyan raised Jin Jian's eyebrows, and said loudly, "You're looking for a dead end, no wonder this king has started to attack the city!" Under his order, the barbarian army rushed towards Yanmen Pass.
After Chi Ji said these words, he looked back, and he was apprehensive, wondering if these people would accept him and fight side by side with them. When he turned around, a bag of feather arrows was stuffed into his hand, and he saw Lin Yuanchong's enthusiastic expression. Smiling, looking up and looking around, everyone's eyes are full of warmth, Chi Ji only feels tears in her eyes, but she is unable to speak. Everyone looked at Lin Tong. After all, whether Chi Ji could stay or not was still up to Lin Tong to decide. Lin Tong turned his face away, and said lightly: "If you don't go to defend the city, the barbarians will come." Chi Ji was excited, holding the bow and arrow tightly, tears rolled down her cheeks.
At this time, Wanyan Najin sighed softly. He knew Wang Ji quite well. When he met in the past, he felt that this man was very talented. Unfortunately, although he had ambitions at that time, he could not openly stay in the grassland due to lack of strength. Bole's genius doctor, whom everyone respects, can only be accepted with affection. This time, he took advantage of the severe disasters in the various ministries, and took the opportunity to use the hoarded food to control the ministries, forcing them to make blood alliances, rebuild the Khan Court, and restore the glory of the Wanyan family in the past, but Wang Ji had disappeared without a trace at that time. Just now, Wang Ji rescued Lin Tong and undermined his prestige. In addition to his anger, he wanted to use the conflict between him and the Yanmen defenders to destroy this person, so as not to cause harm to his plan to attack the state. The impact, unfortunately, fell short. Don't people from the Central Plains like to fight infighting the most? Wanyan Najin thought a little depressingly.