Jiang Ni stopped at the corner of the alley.
This way of fleeing, whether to stop or go, if you stop, how to play, whether to be superficial or not to die, it is all up to Xu Fengnian. Tonight is no exception.
Xu Fengnian, who walked out of the alley slowly, looked at the street, and sure enough, if he thought about the worst luck, it would be like that, which was very worry-free and trouble-free. With the best luck, Li Mibi and Tuoba Bodhisattva entered the city in the middle of the night. If they were unlucky, they had given up his bait and returned. Xu Fengnian sighed, then looked at her with complicated eyes.
Ginger paste just quietly waited for the following.
Xu Feng said in a young voice: "This time we don't follow the old rules. We have to watch Li Mibi and kill that old dog. The previous fights where Tuoba Bodhisattva was the target were actually just blindfolds. Now we have regained some vitality. The Tuoba Bodhisattva is determined to leave, and without Xu Yanbing and the others to stop us, we will not be able to stay. But as I said in advance, if the worst happens, you withdraw first, and I will be in the rear."
Jiang Ni was noncommittal, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Do you know why Bei Mang is so worried about Gu Jiantang's east line?"
Xu Fengnian asked back: "Isn't it because I'm sure that the Liyang court will stand still?"
Jiang Ni sneered, "So simple?"
Xu Fengnian leaned his back against the wall, and said softly: "There is news from the intelligence that a group of people in Tai'an City couldn't bear it anymore, and boldly suggested that the Liao and Liao frontier troops should not stare blankly, and they might as well echo Bei Liangyao. Of course, it is not a helping hand, but it can Like Yuan Tingshan in Jizhou, he made a lot of frontier merits, but this kind of voice was quickly suppressed by Gu Jiantang. Among them, Xu Gong, who was patrolling the border as a servant, had been fighting fiercely from the beginning, but suddenly turned against him without saying a word. The matter of taking the initiative to attack caused a lot of criticism in Tai'an City, and his reputation, which was not much at first, fell to the bottom. Some people even threatened to let the Minister of the Ministry of War be the servant of the frontier for the rest of his life. Fushuifang only knows Lu Sheng It seems that a letter was urgently sent to the capital for 800 miles, and it went directly to the imperial study room. As for what was said in the memorial, Fushuifang didn't have the supernatural ability to find out."
Jiang Ni hesitated to speak.
Xu Fengnian smiled and said: "Let's not talk about it. I'll just treat it as an accident on the east side. Anyway, I don't think I can control the life and death of the two Liaos. If the east line is corrupt, it will also be a headache for Gu Jiantang."
Jiang Ni didn't give an answer directly, "Who do you think hates Gu Jiantang the most?"
Xu Fengnian was stunned for a moment, "Gu Jiantang was able to become one of the four famous generals in the Spring and Autumn Period because of his achievements in destroying the country. Let alone Nan Tang, he didn't fight much at all. On the contrary, he captured Dongyue earlier and fought some remarkable things. The wonderful battle, the people who really have a deep-rooted national hatred and family hatred with Gu Jiantang, should only be the survivors of the East Vietnam."
Xu Fengnian said to himself: "But even the imperial family of Dongyue has been tidied up long ago, all the famous generals are almost dead, and the civil servants of Dongyue are the first group of people who surrendered to the Liyang Zhao family. Became Zhang Julu's pawn in the battle between Zhang and Gu in the early years, especially among the five subjects other than Yushitai and the Ministry of War, almost half of them were from Eastern Vietnam civil servants. The most famous father and son Yushi, ten years after Yonghui In China, Gu Jiantang's Ministry of War is impeached every year. But these people, to be honest, are just tickling Gu Jiantang, a big pillar country. Maybe Gu Jiantang of the Liangliao wants them to scold them more, otherwise he will not be able to sit still. When the general is away, he is never afraid of the civil servants in the inner court caring about trivial things, on the contrary, he is afraid that his reputation will be too good."
Jiang Ni sneered.
Xu Fengnian suddenly let out a sigh.
She wondered: "Did you really guess it?"
Xu Fengnian nodded.
Jiang Ni curled her lips, very disdainful.
Xu Fengnian said: "Isn't it Wang Sui?"
Her eyes widened.
Xu Fengnian blinked, "Really?"
She shook her head vigorously.
Xu Fengnian was helpless.
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The two horses rushed to Snow Lotus City. After entering the city, the sound of the horseshoes knocking on the bluestone slabs seemed insignificant in the still noisy city that never sleeps. A few drunks were squatting on the street outside the wine shop, "talking about it", looking up inadvertently. Seeing the faces of the two knights reflected by the dim lights, I didn't pay much attention to it. I couldn't suppress my throat, and towards the direction of the two knights, there was a celestial girl scattering flowers. After vomiting heartily, I felt much more comfortable. It turned out that One of the snow-white-haired knights looked over coldly. The drunk man grinned and wiped his sleeves indiscriminately. He never thought that the thunder would stir the fire, and his abdomen was overwhelmed. He threw up with his hands on the ground, and then he After vomiting, he felt something was wrong, shook his head, and widened his eyes, only to see a pool of scarlet on the slate, and then his head hit the ground heavily, and there was no chance to open his eyes again. Drunk to death, the man just died so drunk. Regarding the old man's venting his anger, another middle-aged knight with a sluggish expression didn't say anything. Putting himself in the same situation, he might also have the intention of killing people indiscriminately. He made two big plans one after another. Almost half of the top masters in Beimang Jianghu were lost. The key point is that they failed to make meritorious deeds. The white-haired old man probably also realized his gaffe, laughed at himself, and said softly: "King of the North Courtyard, let me make one last gamble, betting that the one surnamed Xu won't be reconciled to a tie like this, and will personally risk himself. Waiting for us to take the bait, it will take Xu Yanbing and Tantai Pingping about six hours to arrive. During this period, if Xu Fengnian not only shows up on his own initiative, but also deliberately shows off his loopholes to make circles with us, I can promise you that no matter how once-in-a-lifetime the opportunity looks, I will stop and return to the north with peace of mind. I will evacuate Snow Lotus City before Xu Yanbing Tantai enters the city peacefully."
Tuoba Bodhisattva nodded. As far as he was concerned, the life-and-death struggle between the two of them had already come to an end when the sword flew. It's just another game of chess. Tuoba Bodhisattva experienced this battle, and the stones from other mountains can be used to attack jade, which greatly benefits both his state of mind and cultivation. Of course, it is inevitable that he becomes Xu Fengnian's whetstone to hone his skills in martial arts at the same time. In the future, the life-changing fight will only be more dangerous, and Tuoba Bodhisattva knows this well. But since Li Mibi had the grace to save his life, Tuoba Bodhisattva followed the shadow prime minister's wishes all the way south. Killing Xu Fengnian, Tuoba Bodhisattva will not have any knots, just like what he said to Xu Fengnian earlier, in his eyes, the world is never a big deal. Yuema Zhongyuan became the first person to be the founding hero of Xinbei Mang, and then became the well-deserved first person in "martial arts" in the history books of later generations. Over the past 800 years, the Great Qin lost its power, and countries competed for the throne. The Central Plains masters of war and famous generals emerged one after another. The outstanding ones are the three ZTE generals of the Great Feng Dynasty. Later, the twelve generals on the wall chart of Qingyun Pavilion, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Nine Kingdoms confronted each other for supremacy. Li Gonglin, the unparalleled Confucian general Han Yufu who led the cavalry several times to whip the desert, followed by the four famous generals of the Spring and Autumn Period, Rentu Xu Xiao, Western Chu soldier Jia Ye Baikui, Eastern Vietnam King Sui, and Gu Jiantang. Now there are Cao Changqing, Dong Zhuo, Lu Shengxiang and others who are starting to use hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of soldiers as pawns in their hands, leading the situation in the world while talking and laughing. Even young people such as Zhong Tan, Xie Xizhen, and Kou Jianghuai are also rising rapidly.
Li Mibi raised his head and looked at it. It was a tall building where the moonlight and lights were competing for brilliance. The old man suddenly laughed softly and said, "I heard that the king of the North Court has never liked arty things, but he only collected Dafengchao." A copybook of Yuan Fengshen, the hero of the founding of the country. Later generations like to arrange seats for their ancestors. Yuan Fengshen, who was hailed as the "Great Wall of the Frontier" by the founding emperor, died young. Compared with the generals of the same generation, Yuan Fengshen's reputation is not obvious Qingshi, so the ranking is extremely low, and Huang Sanjia, who is more ambitious than the sky, once had two regrets from military strategists. The 'Fate Strange' warrior."
Tuoba Bodhisattva has no liking or dislike for Li Mibi, so he doesn't need to be afraid or curry favor with him. In Beimang, there are only a handful of people who can achieve the mentality of Tuoba Bodhisattva with one hand. Xu Huainan, the former king of the North Academy, and Huang Songpu and Dong Zhuo, the two kings of the South Academy, couldn't do it. The old man who dedicated half his life to the great cause of Beimang said with emotion: "I never liked the world, probably it has something to do with what I saw and heard when I was young. Chu regarded it as a bird in a cage, Southern Tang regarded it as a swallow in front of the hall, and later Liyang also awarded those Jianghu grasslands a bag embroidered with a carp, the meaning is simple, you are just the carp in the pond of the Zhao family."
The old man let go of the rein, rubbed his hands together, sighed, and said with a smile: "Over the years, I've been like a fisherman, helping His Majesty take care of the small pond in front of the court. It's no wonder that Liyang people are conceited and always say Beimang No Jianghu, because they have Li Chungang, Wang Xianzhi, Deng Tai'a, Cao Changqing, and now there are a large group of rising stars led by Xu Fengnian, we do not have real Jianghu people in Beimang, and four of the five major sects are the skirts of His Majesty My servant, you, the king of the Northern Academy, is a military general, and Hong Jingyan is the co-lord of Rouran. After finally leaving Huyan Grand View and Luoyang, you also ran to Liyang. Even you, the military god of the Northern Mang, had to stay in the cold Before the Mang battle, I made a special trip to Liyang Jianghu for a walk, and went to Huishan to have a look."
Tuoba Bodhisattva was a little surprised. In his impression, Li Mibi had always been a behind-the-scenes person who believed that silence is worse than words. It was the first time I walked into the palace city with my military exploits, and I saw two gray-haired elders sitting on the steps outside the hall, eating jujubes. Among them, Xu Huainan, who was holding half a country's soldiers and horses, was no stranger to him. , Tuoba Bodhisattva was able to rise up in the Beiting army when he was young, and stood out from the group of nobles with the two surnames of Murong and Yelu on their heads. Xu Huainan's impartiality from the sidelines played a big role. That meeting with His Majesty the Emperor, I spent most of the time waiting patiently outside the palace. The most memorable one was the old man who swallowed jujubes with Xu Huainan. After seeing him, the old man’s squinting glance was like a tail entrenched in a dark corner. The snake that vomits letters is especially cold. From the beginning to the end, Xu Huainan, who is under one person and above ten thousand people, greeted him in a friendly manner, and the other old man, who rarely slipped out of the wet hole to bask in the sun, just gnawed on it expressionlessly. Holding dried dates, when Tuoba Bodhisattva was called into the main hall to face the saint, his back and spine were still chills.
Li Mibi probably didn't know that he had brought such a shocking feeling to the future Beimang Army God, so he turned his head and said with a smile: "At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, when Hong Jia ran northward, I was in Beimang to reap the benefits of a fisherman, but many survivors They all think that they have no roots, and they only want to return to their homeland. Even if they can't do it alive, they have to bring their ashes to the south after death. I, Li Mibi, are also survivors like Xu Huainan, but they want to return to their roots. I never had this idea, there is a plant in the medical books, called dandelion, which treats poisonous insects and snake wounds, the seeds leave the branches and leaves, drift with the wind, and take root when they fall to the ground, wherever they fall, that is their hometown.”
Although Tuoba Bodhisattva believed that she never got involved in the "family affairs" of the two surnames in Beimang and trusted her highly, but Tuoba Bodhisattva was not unaware of the turmoil in the Northern Court and Southern Dynasties these years. Tuoba Bodhisattva can roughly guess the deep meaning of Li Mibi's implication. In fact, in the past twenty years, the Beiting clan suppressed those wealthy Chinese who were backward and became second-class in the Southern Dynasty. Most of them used this kind of tricks. is familiar. Just from the mouth of Li Mibi, the ancestor of the Northern Mang spies, Tuoba Bodhisattva had to take it very seriously.
The old man tugged at the reins, the mount slowed down, and said worriedly: "Over the years, I have done two things, one is to take care of the fish pond on the bright side, and the other is to clean the fallen leaves in the courtyard secretly. I kept them in cages one by one. I have always enjoyed it, but unfortunately the results were not great. In the end, even Your Majesty felt that I was making a fuss. The more lack of interest, especially the death of Xu Huainan, made His Majesty very sad. I know that His Majesty has guilt and complaints about this matter. The guilt is that the two of you, the monarch and his ministers, failed to start well and end well, and Xu Huainan died unexpectedly. The complaints are aimed at me. I came here, because it was my vigilance and suspicion that gave the young man surnamed Xu an opportunity to take away Xu Huainan's head and shame the entire Beiting. But I have an intuition that even if I dug I haven't dug up a single bamboo shoot in twenty years, but in Wang Ting and the Southern Dynasty, there must be a few fish that slipped through the net with ulterior motives, hiding very deeply, and waiting for a certain time."
Tuoba Bodhisattva frowned and said, "Since you can't even dig out the master, even if there are a few fish that slipped through the net, it's been twenty years apart, how can they succeed?"
The old man eased his tone and said with a smile: "I can't compare to that Taiping Ling, and I'm also different from you Tuoba Bodhisattva and Dong Zhuo. They are laymen in both military and political affairs, let alone far-sighted. Dirty work that happened under my nose, I have developed a good habit of not being too big or too small, that is, to try to figure out the people and things that are close at hand, otherwise I will have trouble sleeping and eating. I just stared at those people The ups and downs of the rich and powerful, unlike many of you who are still fighting with the Beiliang iron cavalry, have already set their sights on Tai'an City, the Central Plains, and the Guangling River in the south. There is a saying I have always thought about Ask, but you can't ask, today there are only me and the king of the North Courtyard, I wonder if you can solve the problem?"
Tuoba Bodhisattva said in a deep voice, "Excuse me, sir."
Li Mibi's tone was particularly blunt, "Except for me, Li Mibi, no one thought that Beiliang would win and Beimang would lose?"