The Lantern Festival in the second year of Xiangfu, Youzhou, Beiliang Road, Changgeng City, the state city. At the beginning of the Chinese lanterns, the fireworks are brilliant. The whole city enjoys the fun, red lanterns are hung at the door of every household in the city, the city is noisy, there are many dazzling juggling, swallowing swords and cutting tongues, painting the land into rivers, pulling out wells and planting melons, it is an eye-opener for ordinary people who travel to enjoy the lanterns, especially the The Huanglong Transformation is the most eye-catching, giant whales transforming into dragons, water mermaids and insects are all over the ground. The officialdom in the prefecture is not very impressive, but from the status of a fifth-rank civil official, Youzhou will have as many species as a cow's hair. He Tang Wenzhen is just an assistant official from the Han clan, and his chief officer Hong Xinjia was able to break into it in recent years because of Gu Jiantang's blue eyes. It is just who Tang Wenzhen is, I am afraid that not many people even in Youzhou have heard of it, but the significance of Tang Wenzhen to Youzhou, especially the military significance of the sideline, cannot be underestimated. The Hulukou area is said to be enough to ruin ten The Wubao system of 50,000 to 60,000 northern barbarians owes a lot to Tang Wenzhen. It was he who followed Hong Xinjia all over Hulukou, and participated in a series of whole processes from geomancy drawing, Wubao site selection, groundbreaking, etc., even It can be said that Tang Wenzhen has the most meticulous and complete military map in his mind. Once the war in Youzhou starts, without Hong Xinjia and Tang Wenzhen in Hulukou, the effectiveness of the Wubao system will be greatly reduced. Years of exposure to the wind and sun outdoors made this civil servant with a good omen name dark skin, and the beautiful and fair wife from Yanzhi County beside him made Tang Wenzhen look like a big black charcoal.
Tang Wenzhen returned to Changgeng City from the border this time, to report the detailed military situation to General Huangfucheng of Youzhou. That is, Yin and Yang are separated forever. Although Tang Wenzhen is a civil servant, nine out of ten civil servants in Beiliang can kill the enemy by riding and shooting. Yanzhi County has been rich in beauties since ancient times. There is a saying in the wild history that the common people still talk about today. Tang Wenzhen married a girl from Yanzhi County, and she didn’t take concubines. She had been in harmony with each other for many years, but the fly in the ointment was that she had two daughters, and she hadn’t had a leader yet. , but Tang Wenzhen didn't feel regretful, and doted on his two daughters very much, but his wife always felt sorry for the old Tang family, so Tang Wenzhen often comforted her by jokingly telling her that the Wubao beacon towers in Hulukou were his sons. If it is not easy to describe parents as pulling their children up with a handful of feces and urine, then Tang Wenzhen, who specializes in trivial affairs, can indeed be called the real parent of the Hulukou defense line.
Tang Wenzhen has some solid martial arts skills. It is not difficult to kill three or four northern barbarians, and it is meaningful to use martial arts in the army to cooperate with the battle formation. Of course, it is not enough to deal with the top masters in the world. Tang Wenzhen is a literati with the feelings of repairing Qi Zhiping , In this life, I didn't plan to play or fight with any master. So Tang Wenzhen didn't know that there were no less than ten pairs of eyes paying attention to him in the crowded crowd. Those gazes were fleeting, experienced, and not even enough for Tang Wenzhen to have some kind of intuition. At most, he was just mistaken. He thought it was Deng Tuzi's covetousness for his wife beside him. Tang Wenzhen and his wife were each holding the little hand of a daughter. He was inevitably a little absent-minded, because his thoughts were all about the gourd mouth, thinking about which Wubao needed to strengthen the wall, which beacon needed more manpower, and which post road and which pass needed Send scouts to scout. In the Beiliang army, the young and strong civilians of the frontier, such as Hong Xinjia and Tang Wenzhen, as well as the new Honglu general Cao Xiaojiao, were forcibly classified into the "Chen family". In 2010, it was more influenced by the subtle influence of Chen Zhibao, the former Beiliang Governor, who relatively respected the details to determine the outcome of the battle. His understanding and execution of the war had a lot of differences with those veterans such as Yan Wenluan and Chen Yunchui. Once the emperor and the courtiers, many people were worried that they would be suppressed and purged. Fortunately, after Xu Fengnian came to power, he never touched the bottom line of this group of hardcore members. On the contrary, many of these people were more or less promoted. Cao Xiaojiao is undoubtedly a typical example, and they also reciprocate. They have a positive and affirmative attitude towards the eight-character policy of "pacifying the frontier army and mobilizing the state army" that Xu Fengnian acquiesced and Xu Beizhi and Chen Xiliang were responsible for implementing. Tang Wenzhen had no impression of the Northern Liang King, neither admiration nor disgust, as long as she didn't come to the Hulukou defense line in Youzhou to point fingers, Tang Wenzhen would continue to work hard without complaint.
Tang Wenzhen smiled suddenly, a little proud, it is true that Hulukou spent a huge amount of Beiliang's food and salary, but he and General Hong were exchanging those stones for the lives of Beimanzi, no matter how calculated this deal is, we in Beiliang are not worth it loss.
The first emperor of Liyang, Zhao Dun, had an open-minded government. Although he lived a simple life with the empress, women all over the world could not help wearing pink and black clothes. The sky in Beiliang was high and the emperor was far away. During the festive season, rich and noble women compete for beauty, as long as they are rich and dare to wear them, even women are not restrained from wearing phoenix coronets and Xiapei. At this time, in the crowd, there was a young woman in the style of the "Tianbao makeup" of the old Southern Tang court women, with a graceful figure, and beside her was a personal servant girl who wore a bun. In order to protect her lady from disaster, the maid dropped several of the delicate combs of gold, silver, rhinoceros and jade from her bun, but it was still It was impossible to guard against, the young lady's delicate buttocks were still doomed, and she was patted lightly by a thin monkey with bright hands and feet and yellow teeth. Fainted, the high wall shoes took a series of small steps to escape in a panic. This scene happened to fall in the eyes of Tang Wenzhen's wife. Apart from being sympathetic and annoyed, she also felt a bit jealous and teasing, and said softly to her man: "You are dressed so fancy, and you don't have a healthy servant to protect you. Is it just attracting bees and butterflies? Who is to blame?"
Tang Wenzhen didn't care about these trivial things, and nodded casually, and she didn't have the intention of being a hero to save the beauty. Most of the cold women are tough and sturdy on the inside, not to lose to men. Don't look soft and timid on the surface, they are really angry , that can definitely roll up the sleeves and fight, scratching a bloody flower on someone's face. Isn't the daughter-in-law next to Tang Wenzhen the first time to participate in the Lantern Festival after marrying into Zhoucheng from a small place in Yanzhi County? Rewarded the prodigal for a ruthless kick
Not far away, a tall old man wearing a felt hat threw a string of copper coins as a reward to the dwarf who was performing fire-breathing.
At the same time, among the crowd was a walking monk, who was becoming more and more common in Beiliang nowadays, carrying a bamboo frame on which scriptures were placed.
There was a young couple in rough linen and linen clothes, who were asking for a bunch of candied haws for their children.
There is a prosperous Dongfu Temple in the northeast corner of the downtown area. On the top of the bell tower, you can overlook half of the market. There are luxuriously dressed young men and women chatting and laughing. There are poor scholars scratching their heads and thinking about reciting a song. He fell silent. There was a short Taoist man holding a horsetail fly whisk in the outer corridor of the attic. He glanced at the scenery where Tang Wenzhen was standing. In the light of the day, I saw the three characters Tang Wenzhen, and smiled softly: "Wenzhen, what a big name, I heard that in your Central Plains court, only rare court officials can get this beautiful posthumous posthumous posthumous posthumous posthumous title. Take it easy on your name."
Just as Taoist Fly Fu was talking to himself, a series of undetectable changes took place in the downtown area.
The "Tianbao makeup" lady who was thinned by the thin monkey fled a few steps away from Tang Wenzhen with her head bowed, her waist twisted, even in a difficult situation, she still had a natural charm. At some point, the maidservant in the wild bun took off a small silver hairpin from the top of her head. Originally, she should have flicked her wrist and flicked it along with the trend. The waist was tilted upwards, stabbing Tang Wenzhen's heart precisely. But at this moment, her wrist was firmly held by the thin monkey who was no different from an ordinary blue-skinned ruffian. The servant girl pretended to be panicked, and turned her left elbow outward, trying to hit the temple of the person who was blocking her, but In an instant, her body went limp.
The skinny monkey, who only looks obscene, grabbed the maid's wrist to death with one hand, and then suddenly exerted force with the other hand in front of him and the woman's back, just a foot away. He was good at beating with the mountain cannon, this beating directly broke the spine of the slender woman, and then he carried the maid on his shoulders, shouting loudly to marry a wife and go home, and ran all the way, looking around The common people laughed out loud, as if they had met a guy who was obsessed with sex and dared to molested him in the street, and afterwards he would go to the state government prison to eat his full meal.
The thin monkey who was running with the woman on his back had an obscene smile on his face, but his eyes were extremely deep. As the direct descendant of the "Number One Foreign Boxing" Liu family in Beiliang, although his name did not appear on the Liu family tree, But skill and mind are naturally the top choice. In fact, he is the first-class master who has been lurking in Changgeng City, Youzhou, in Fushuifang for many years. The "handmaid" who was thumped was not simple, she was a butterfly catcher from Beimang Spiderweb. After a successful blow, the thin monkey did not make any unnecessary moves, and directly withdrew from this alternative "battlefield". He clearly remembered that when he entered the industry, the senior Fushuifang who led the way only taught him a seemingly extremely simple truth, that there is a thin line between killing and being killed. After saying this, the senior smiled and asked him if he understood. Before he could nod, he flew upside down and lay on the bed for two months before he could get out of bed and walk, and then he understood a little bit. When working in the Fushuifang built by Chu Lushan, the rules are the most important. When and where to kill, what method is the fastest to kill, and when and where to withdraw. Remedial in secret, no one is allowed to make their own decisions, Fushuifang is the most taboo to be self-righteous, who dares to break the rules, the big boss Chu Lushan has a variety of rules to teach people to understand the rules, so after so many years, Fushuifang spies dead soldiers The assassination of anyone is very clean from beginning to end, without any muddy water. Over time, there are very few "accidents" happening.
The old man in the felt hat who had thrown a string of copper coins to the juggling dwarf before, after seeing the butterfly catcher was carried away, intentionally or unintentionally stood in front of the man and woman in sackcloth, preventing them from approaching Tang Wenzhen and his wife. The old man smiled and went up. He went forward to say hello, and seemed to see a junior who had a good friend in the world, and he joined hands with the young man six times in an instant, but in the end, the old man with a "smiling and kind face" hugged the latter's shoulder, and took advantage of the opportunity to insert a poisoned dagger into the young man. The waist of Ting catcher of Beimang, and quickly pulled out, and pierced again! The young woman in the disguise of a butterfly catcher looked at all this with a normal face, even if the old man in the felt hat helped her "husband" away from her quickly, she did not make any movement, but the corners of her mouth slightly turned up, until the old man in the felt hat realized When it was not good, his head seemed to be hit violently, and he leaned back. When the old man was dying, he saw that immature face but sinister eyes standing not far away. The child with an innocent face tilted his head and gently spit out the second hawthorn core.
Then the old man in the felt hat with blurred vision laughed, and the butterfly girl hurriedly squeezed into the crowd and disappeared instantly, but the "child" who couldn't guess the real age was left forever, with a stick originally used for Wooden stick with candied haws. The simple and honest old man who sells candied haws on the street picks up the child and walks quickly to the old man in the mink hat who is about to fall backwards. He inserts a wooden stick filled with candied haws on the top into the ground, and frees one hand to support the old friend. And that Fly Catcher who had already died of anger.
The old man in the felt hat was already speechless. Looking at his old friend who had been arguing for half his life, his lips trembled, but he was speechless.
The latter, with red eyes, wiped off the blood on his forehead first, then pulled his old friend's felt hat to cover his forehead, and said softly and hoarsely: "Old Rong, I will definitely bring you the pot of tea that Chu Da was in charge of last year. Give me good wine, go at ease."
The old man in the felt hat leaned against the stick of candied haws and slowly closed his eyes.
A dozen or so steps away from Tang Wenzhen's right hand side, a hawk from the Indus Academy who stood on the same hill as the peregrine falcon in Fushuifang, and the Ting catcher from Beimang died together. They both killed each other with daggers in their sleeves. The two sat side by side on the ground, as if The good brother who hugged his arms when he was drunk.
That day, the young woman in Baozhuang was indifferent to the changes around her, and her only goal was that Tang Wenzhen.
The spider web that Li Mibi painstakingly managed has a pair of cocoons, six poles, three hundred butterfly catchers, and eighty butterfly catchers. handle.
The premise is that she will kill Tang Wenzhen tonight. The sixteen Youzhou officials she personally killed before can't compare with one Tang Wenzhen.
Therefore, the deaths of those butterfly-catchers and butterfly-catchers were all worthwhile.
step.
There is only one step away from Tang Wenzhen, who is still in the dark.
Suddenly the unremarkable young woman next to Tang Wenzhen ran into her arms.
On the outer corridor of the clock tower, beside the short Taoist priest, there was a burly young man with a sword. He stood leaning forward, leaning his elbows on the fence, squinting at the ups and downs of the hidden fighting in the busy city, and curled his lips, "It's a failure."
The old Taoist priest withdrew his gaze, seemingly unwilling, but still put away the booklet, with the fly brush resting on his arm, and said flatly in the extremely awkward-sounding Liyang official dialect: "If you want to blame, blame your spider web for making mistakes. Even Tang Wenzhen's wife can't be found out that she is a spy from Beiliang."
The Liyang accent of the young man with a sword is much more pleasing to the ear, it sounds exactly like the people from the Central Plains, and he said casually: "I'm just a pole that does dirty work, and I'm not a god. To be honest, you, the sect of morality Master Lu is the one who is said to be a god."
The old man didn't get angry, "There are 135 targets in the booklet, and only 37 people have been killed now, not to mention the dead soldiers in the Jianghu, and those insignificant characters like scouts and rangers in Beiliang, but just It’s your spider web that already killed one pole lifter, twelve butterfly catchers and thirty-one butterfly catchers, isn’t the loss outweighed by the gain?”
Bei Mang raised the pole and did not speak.
Daoist sect leader Lu Zhenren frowned, "This trip to Changgeng City, we have no backup. Could it be that you joined forces with me to kill that heavily guarded general of Youzhou, Huangfuping?"
The swordsman who looked very young but had age spots on the back of his hand sneered and said, "Except for you Daodezong Cui Wazi, who ran with me to watch the excitement, the yin and yang face in Princess Grave, Da Yuefu in Chess Sword Yuefu, and The two on the magic master list didn't appear, so you don't wonder where they are? Why did you five masters make so few shots along the way? You must know that on the front line of Hulukou, it's not like Beiliang didn't send people to sit in the front line Half of the masters of Tingchao Pavilion dispatched are hiding there and waiting for rabbits."
In the Daodezong, the gods with extremely high seniority are very good at cultivating Taoism, but they are very incomprehensible to these shady and crooked intestines. It's just that Cui Wazi has a great reputation outside the Daodezong, but he is actually well-known in the sect. He is mediocre, his talent is mediocre, not to mention the master teacher Yuan Qingshan who has already proven his way to ascension, even the senior brother who has been dormant with Jiaolong in the dormant tank for 20 years in the small building in Xijing, it is difficult to compare, but This time, Her Majesty the Empress assigned tasks to the various sects, and it was her duty to do so, so the Taoist sect had no choice but to push him, the master of law, out. Cui Wazi also has self-knowledge. The spider web holding the pole beside him doesn't even know that he has not reached the realm of Zhixuan, and he doesn't even know whether he has reached the realm of Vajra. Xuan master. Therefore, among the five first-rank masters with jianghu identities, the other four clearly looked down on him, Cui Wazi, and he had no choice but to be reduced to the point of being an accountant.
The old man tentatively asked: "Could it be that Li Guoshi aimed at Huangfuping from the beginning?"
The old man quickly added, "Or is it Hu Kui, the governor of Youzhou who is more prestigious in the Northern Liang army?"
The spider web pole with superb disguise technique couldn't help but roll his eyes and said: "Play the piano with a cow."
Cui Wazi clenched the handle of the fly whisk, and said darkly: "Poverty respects Li Guoshi, not you! Don't push yourself too hard!"
But the saber handle didn't pay attention to this respected and respected real person in charge of law at all. Instead, he turned around and stared at a weak and elegant woman who had been with a certain young man in brocade clothes before.
In the mansion of General Youzhou, Huangfu Ping Da Ma Jindao in official uniform was sitting on a red sandalwood chair. In the lobby, there was only an old swordsman with his eyes closed and resting his mind. He was carrying a heavy sword box. Mi Fengjie, the Master of Shen Jian Grotto, who was personally recruited by the King of Beiliang.
Compared with Cui Wazi who taught Taoism on the bell tower, Mi Fengjie's Zhixuan realm is to enter the Tao with the sword, and the latter can truly be called the world's top warrior.
Huang Fuping rapped on the table with one hand, held the tea lid in the other, and gently fanned the mist rising from the strong tea in the cup. This powerful general has mixed reputations in Beiliang, but no one can deny that he is the king of Beiliang and the front row. Among the famous celebrities in Youzhou, Huang Fuping is probably the only one who can afford the word "confidant". Huangfuping can drink, but he doesn't like to drink. He only drinks strong tea that is so bitter that it makes people's mouth full. Huang Fuping remained silent. According to the summary of intelligence from Wutongyuan and Fushuifang, Beimang spider webs and Jianghu forces penetrated into the hinterland of Youzhou this time, plucking away the early flowering on all sides, allowing the peregrine falcons in the dark and the peregrine falcons in the open. It can be said that the local garrison was exhausted and suffered heavy casualties. These desperadoes chose a southward route in the middle of the later period, and then turned abruptly. At the same time, under the cover of large-scale assassinations on the left and right sides, they went straight to Youzhou City Chang Gung City came, and the target of the assassination was obvious, either he, the general of Youzhou, or the governor Hu Kui.
In Changgung City, apart from Mi Fengjie, who has a hidden identity, sitting in the Youzhou General's Mansion, Hu Cishi's mansion also has many second-rank masters escorting Hu Kui.
There is also the lunatic Fan Xiaochai lurking in the city.
It seems very reasonable for Bei Mang to use his chopsticks in the heavily guarded but fat bait Chang Gung City. After all, the life and death of his Huang Fuping and Hu Kui can affect the structure of Youzhou.
Huangfuping suddenly covered the teacup and said in a deep voice, "That's not right!"
At the same time, on the outer corridor of the bell tower, Bei Mang, who realized that his identity was exposed, jumped forward without hesitation, leaving the Taoist sect leader Lu Zhenren alone to deal with the dangerous woman who was hiding deeply, and laughed loudly: " Cui Wazi, it's time for you to sacrifice your life for the country. When our spider web successfully kills Yan Wenluan, I will definitely send the pension from His Majesty to Daodezong with my own hands."
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General Yan Wenluan's command tent is not in the hinterland of Youzhou, it is only a hundred and five miles away from Hulukou. At first, after the Youzhou frontier army heard that a large number of assassins had infiltrated from Beimang, the area around the commander's tent was a hundred miles away. A scout of 50 men poured out a total of 20 bids. Gu Dazu was different from Chen Yunchui, who was also the deputy commander of the infantry but was stationed in Youzhou. Gu Dazu presided over the overall situation on the border of Liangzhou. An Wei, even asked Zhou Kang, the deputy commander of the cavalry army, to ask for the most elite crossbowmen of the three bids, completely disregarding Yan Wenluan's objection, and dispatched them to the old general's side to prevent accidents. With the continuous and rapid transmission of spies, it shows that Beimang assassins continue to go south, especially the camp of Chen Yunchui, the deputy commander of the infantry, suffered a fierce night attack, and the Youzhou army suffered heavy casualties. If there were not enough third-rank masters and Little Grandmaster, the consequences are disastrous. Although Yan Wenluan's vigilance has not weakened at the moment, everyone is obviously relieved.
This day happened to be the time when Beimang iron cavalry poured in frantically from the gourd mouth, and then the beacon fire was everywhere.
Yan Wenluan led a thousand cavalry to rush to the front line.
Around Qianqi, the three-marked white horse crossbowmen and the first-class scouts of the Youzhou infantry trooped cautiously and skilfully to reconnaissance.
The more so, the more disturbed Yan Wenluan's guard commander felt when ten people stood in the way of a thousand riders with their arms like a cart.
At the end of the road, the first person in the middle is a woman with a white gauze covering half of her face.
Beside her stood a middle-aged Confucian scholar with narrow eyes and long beard, with a loose scarf on his head and a deep purple bamboo flute around his waist, looking suave and suave.
They are Princess Grave and Xiao Nim Tou respectively.
Chess Sword Yuefu, Da Yuefu.
Behind them are two of the ten giants of the Beimang Demon Dao, a dwarf squatting on the giant's shoulders, a treacherous scene.
The Northern Mang Jianghu only know their nicknames, "Iron Rider" and "Thirst", the latter is particularly notorious, similar to Xie Ling, the same demon leader who likes to eat people's hearts and livers, and has a penchant for sucking the blood of living people.
In the back seat, which seemed to be the most out of gregarious, a white-haired old woman was coughing heavily, with a delicate and beautiful flower stuck on her head.
The remaining five people are all first-class masters who are outstanding in the Beimang Jianghu.
Yan Wenluan raised his arm, and the thousand riders stopped suddenly. The old general laughed and said, "This time the northern barbarian has a lot of appetite."
The cavalry general who led the army was worried, and rode his horse to Yan Wenluan's side, but before he could speak, Yan Wenluan smiled and said: "Don't worry, we have nothing to do today, just appreciate it. The world After all, there are those ten thousand enemies, and those of us generals who rely on the strength of our soldiers and horses must not be convinced."
In the confusion of the cavalry generals, one of the cavalry troops went out silently.
A man with a long gun took off his helmet.
This man, who was hailed as the enemy of ten thousand by Yan Wenluan, the famous general in the world, started to charge forward slowly after he came out of the battle.
Many years ago, in the era when the sword god Li Chungang won the championship, there was a man from Beiliang, one man, one horse, one gun, and several times on the grassland of Beimang, he felt as if he had entered the land of no one.
His name is Gun Immortal King Xiu.
Afterwards, the world only knew that Wang Xiu taught an apprentice who was better than blue than blue, Chen Zhibao in white.
But even the people of Beiliang, even Xu Fengnian, the king of Beiliang, didn't know the reason why Chen Zhibao killed his master Wang Xiu back then, but failed to take away the famous gun "Shina" in the end.
Someone blocked Chen Zhibao who was holding the "Mei Ziqing" with an ordinary wooden gun.
Looking at the seemingly unremarkable charge of the cavalry, Da Yuefu, standing at the forefront of the team, let out a helpless sigh, "It's Xu Yanbing. Our previous layout has become a joke."
A gust of wind blew beside him and Princess Fen Xiao Niantou.
Da Yuefu was even more helpless, "You're courting death."
Seeing the burly cavalry galloping past them like thunder, the dwarf laughed fiercely.
At a distance of about fifty steps between the two sides, Thirsty'er kicked hard on the giant man's shoulders with both legs, and took advantage of the momentum to rush forward.
The trajectory of that thin figure in the air is very ghostly and fancy.
The result was just a passing.
Behind Yan Wenluan, Qianqi didn't even see how the man with the gun fired his gun, he only saw the dwarf who looked like a demon exploded into a cloud of blood mist in the air, and then the burly giant turned around and fled desperately. I didn't see how the gunman on horseback was fiddling with the spear, but the enemy didn't dare to run in a straight line, they circled around in a panic, and the next scene was even more unimaginable. The Beimang demon, nicknamed Tieqier, seemed to be cornered out of nowhere, turned around again, and headed towards the cavalry to collide.
In the end, he hit the tip of the gun like a fool committing suicide, and let the spear pass through his head.
Xu Yanbing shook his wrist lightly, and threw the huge corpse out.
Keep charging.
It's not that Thirsty and Tieqier are too weak for a single blow, but that as long as the opponent they choose shoots, there is no possibility for both of them to survive.
Back then, when Wang Xiu, one of the four great masters, fought against others, even though many opponents were not much different from his realm, there were still very few enemies who matched him. This is the reason.
Xu Yanbing has surpassed Wang Xiu's peak state by a lot.
Even more so!
This means that in the future battle between Xu Yanbing and Chen Zhibao, it is doomed that there will be only one shot.