Gao Xianzhi was sitting in the study, gasping for breath, the messenger hurriedly said in a low voice: "There has been a quarrel in the court, His Majesty wants to punish you and General Feng for withdrawing troops, even Lord Ge Shuhan... also..."
"What did Guo Ziyi say?" Gao Xianzhi said in a deep voice.
The messenger is obviously Gao Xianzhi's letter to and from Chang'an and the border. Gao Xianzhi has been in business for many years, and naturally a lot of eyeliners have been placed in the DPRK and China. As soon as there is news, it will be delivered as soon as possible.
"I really don't know, Prime Minister Yang asked the two of you to leave quickly." The messenger said, "Otherwise, once Bian Lingcheng arrives at Tongguan with His Majesty's order, there may be disasters!"
Half a month ago, a large number of refugees and defeated troops who poured into Tongguan arrived in Chang'an. For a while, the city of Chang'an was screaming for land and panic, and a large number of officials who retreated westward cried to the court. The Ministry of War has always followed the military report and did not issue it. At this moment, Li Longji knew that Gao and the second general had abandoned Shan County and returned to Tongguan, and he was immediately furious. For many years in the imperial court, there were many people who had turned against Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing, and many of them fell into trouble.
At the court meeting that day, after careful analysis, the generals believed that Shan County was not invincible, and Gao Xianzhi withdrew his troops to ensure safety, but he was actually too cautious. There was another man called Bian Lingcheng, who used to work under Gao Xianzhi's command. He was resentful because of being whipped by Gao Xianzhi at first, so Li Longji listened to what the traitor said and ordered Bian Lingcheng to take the decree to Tongguan for questioning.
Gao Xianzhi was on good terms with Yang Guozhong at the beginning, but now Yang Guozhong's position in the court is in jeopardy, and he can't speak anymore.
Li Jinglong frowned deeply. I'm afraid this is also part of Yang Guozhong's strategy. Once the Tongguan guard becomes a deserter, An Lushan will definitely drive straight in. Now the special envoy Warden who was sent to inquire about the crime is already on his way, and will arrive at Tongguan tomorrow.
"Let him come!" Gao Xianzhi yelled angrily, "The general is out, the king's life will not be tolerated! I want to see what Bian Lingcheng can do?"
Li Jinglong was about to break in, but finally held back.
"Who is Bian Lingcheng?" Lu Xu asked in a low voice.
"Go back, let's go." Li Jinglong whispered, "Get ready, after tomorrow, this battle will be inevitable."
Bian Lingcheng wanted to directly question Feng Changqing and Gao Xianzhi, but he couldn't defend Tongguan. Li Jinglong guessed that there were nine out of ten possibilities. Bian Lingcheng wanted to use Li Longji's name to urge Gao Xianzhi to fight, retake Shan County, and repel Anlu Mountain.
In the dark night, Hong Jun woke up suddenly, drenched in sweat, with his underwear sticking to his back.
Since leaving Luoyang, Hong Jun has been dreaming every day, and countless nightmares have emerged one after another. Lu Xu tried his best to make him less painful when he woke up from the nightmare. But the dream was still there, he didn't tell Mo Zhigen, he just endured it all the way, in fact he didn't even want to sleep most of the time.
But that night, he had an extraordinary dream, dreaming that wolves were gnawing on a dead bone, and eating the little remaining meat. Surrounded by the prairie in the southwest of the Shiwei tribe, this is something he has never dreamed of while traveling north. And that dry bone is exuding bursts of devilish energy.
"What did you dream about?" Lu Xu's voice whispered in his ear.
Hong Jun was taken aback, and almost yelled "Ghost!" Lu Xu immediately said, "Shh, don't wake that guy up."
Hong Jun couldn't help panting, Lu Xu said again: "I'm not dead, don't worry, only you can hear me now."
When Hong Jun thought about it, Lu Xu felt it, and said, "I'm sorry, I understand what's on your mind."
Hong Jun immediately waved his hand, signaling that it's okay, Lu Xu felt his thoughts, and said, "You felt someone's dream in Shiwei."
Hong Jun thought: Just now, the devilish energy became more and more obvious. Although I am anxious to go back to Tongguan as soon as possible, but it has something to do with the demon, and it is Brother Gen's house, so I must not ignore it...
Lu Xu said: "I know you want to meddle in your own business, so go out and have a look."
So Hong Jun got up lightly, looked at Mo Zhigen who was sleeping soundly, got up and opened the door to go out.
In the dark corridor, the erratic demonic energy in the distance became more obvious. Hong Jun stretched out his hand, and found that there was some kind of induction between himself and this demonic energy, as if as long as he drove the demonic seeds in his body, the energy flowing between heaven and earth The magic energy will regard itself as the center of the vortex, and then gather.
"Why did you appear here?" Hong Jun said.
"Dream magic." Lu Xu replied, "White Deer can travel freely in everyone's dreams, but it is a special case for you. In order to protect you from nightmares, your dreams have my imprint, so I can Come in."
"Why didn't you come earlier!"
"Unless I have to, I don't want to bother you." Lu Xu said, "After all, some people don't like being peeped into their hearts, like that...forget it."
Hong Jun has never had anything ulterior to Lu Xu, or he treats everyone the same, even if anyone reads his heart, what he reads is open and aboveboard. He never shy away from others guessing his thoughts.
Hong Jun asked again: "How is the situation in Tongguan?"
Lu Xu didn't tell him that the situation was not good, but replied: "It's okay, there is a door in front..."
He walked along the energy flow, walked through the dark corridor, cut off the chain on a door with a throwing knife, passed through the stone corridor connecting the castle, and cut it lightly when he saw the chain, avoiding the patrolling room. Guard Wei came to the height of the central stone fort.
"Can you get into Brother Gen's heart?" Hong Jun asked.
"Who wants to get into his heart." Lu Xu replied casually, "He is so narrow-minded."
Hong Jun laughed and said, "Great, you should have come earlier..."
"Be careful." Lu Xu said in a low voice, "You don't need to speak, as long as you think about things, I can know."
Hong Jun saw that Lu Xu was by his side. Maybe Lu Xu used magic to create an illusion in order not to make him feel strange. This illusion can pass through doors and walls, and it is indeed very ghost-like.
The smell of incense is getting stronger and stronger, mixed with the smell of burning medicinal materials, and a door is ajar.
I saw King Shi Wei lying on the couch with his eyes closed, and a graceful woman covered in fur knelt in front of him, chanting words, King Shi Wei couldn't help twitching, as if he was experiencing a terrible nightmare. The woman chanted the mantra in a low voice, her voice was high and low, Hong Jun looked intently, and saw bursts of black air emanating from King Shi Wei.
"Who is this?" Lu Xu asked.
Your father-in-law. Hong Jun thought to himself.
Lu Xu: "..."
Lu Xu didn't know what happened before, because he finally couldn't hold back that night, and told Li Jinglong a part of the inside story bluntly, and then couldn't help but began to regret talking too much. After much deliberation, I decided that the prophet would call Hongjun, but I didn't expect that after entering Hongjun's dream, this strange thing happened.
"Don't touch the door!" Seeing that Hong Jun was always careless, Lu Xu hurriedly reminded.
Hong Jun was so surprised for a moment, he leaned inward a little, and when he pushed open the wooden door, he made a sound. But suddenly the woman stopped chanting and turned her head to look outside the door. It was too late to say it, and then he covered Hong Jun's mouth with one hand, led him to turn back quickly, and disappeared into the corridor.
The priestess walked towards the wooden door suspiciously, looked out, and closed the wooden door again.
Mo Zhigen and Hong Jun looked at each other in the dark place at the end of the corridor. At dawn, the dawn light came in. Lu Xu said: "I'm leaving, you should be careful, don't tell that stupid wolf that I have been here."
Hong Jun thought not to leave! But Lu Xu has disappeared.
"Who is that priest?" Hong Jun frowned.
"Shaman." Mo Rigen said in surprise, "The apprentice of the old shaman, Hong Jun, what did you see just now?"
The early spring in Saibei came very late, and there was still a lot of snow on the plain. Mo Zhigen put the rope on the dogs, and several big dogs dragged a small sled to leave the stone castle Magus. The name of the city is Shiwei The meaning of "tomorrow". Hong Jun still couldn't help but look back and said, "That's your father!"
"There is no time!" Mo Zhigen insisted, "I am an exorcist now, and the mission of the exorcist is to lead you to find another magic weapon of Fudo Mingwang."
Hong Jun said: "If this is the case, I would rather not go."
Mo Zhigen stood by the sled and looked at Hong Jun, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Then what do you think of the people waiting for you in Tongguan?"
Hong Jun knew that this was an unsolvable problem. Mo Zhigen jumped on the sled, whistled, and said, "I will come back to deal with it when I get it. At least for me, our affairs are more important."
Having said that, Mo Zhigen was a little uneasy after all. The sleigh pulled them to the Daxianbei Mountains. Hong Jun was wrapped in a thick cloak and quietly watched the beautiful scenery on the grassland. To my former home.
"Actually, as long as you catch the priestess, maybe everything will be..."
"That's different." Mo Zhigen said, "It needs to be investigated in detail, and we can't do it just by saying it. We don't have time to waste it here."
Hong Jun still insisted, but Mo Zhigen said: "This is my home, Hong Jun, you have to listen to me."
The field of vision on the plain is wide. When the sun was three poles high, Hong Jun was already leaning on the sled and fell asleep. He felt the sled gradually stop. up weeds.
"Brother Gen?!" Hong Jun shouted.
Mo Zhigen was walking through the ruins, and when he heard Hong Jun's shout, he looked up at him and signaled to wait a moment. Hong Jun looked from a distance, he had never seen Mo Zhigen showing such an expression, his eyes were sad, but he seemed to be relieved.
He heard from Lu Xu that Mo Zhigen had also had demons, and speculated that this might be the hometown of Mo Zhigen's mother. However, Mo Zhigen didn't stay for too long, he just walked around the ruins a few times before getting on the sled again. He didn't find anything, and he didn't linger, as if it was just a simple consolation to himself.
"Brother Gen." Hong Jun wanted to say something to Mo Rigen.
"Well." Mo Zhigen looked down at the map in his hand and the comparison of several symbols, and said casually, "I know you understand me, Hong Jun. I think, maybe in the future, I can only regard the Exorcist as my Home." In fact, since Mo Zhigen left Shiwei and went to the Central Plains, he no longer missed Magus at the foot of Xianbei Mountain. He once wandered outside the Great Wall and told everyone that his name was Li Xingxing, just to start a new life. .
In the distance of the plain, the cloud-shrouded mountain was approaching. Hong Jun watched it for a while, but Mo Zhigen pulled the reins of the sled and went around the mountain.
"Is that it?" Hong Jun asked.
"Look from the other side." Mo Zhigen said, after a while, the sun set on the western mountain, and after a half circle around the mountain, a huge ice lake with nearly 100 acres of land appeared at the foot of the mountain. Mo Zhigen said: "What do you think it looks like when you look at it from here? I kept thinking about it that day, and it happened that the weather was just right today..."
Under the sunlight, the lonely mountain covered by clouds and mist has been revealed in its entirety, and the surrounding Daxianbei Mountains are endless. This is the only place on the grassland that is a lone peak, and there is a frozen lake under the mountain. Mo Zhigen held one of the symbols, turned around, and motioned Hong Jun to look. On the top is a sealed semicircle, and a broken line is drawn.
The semicircle almost completely coincides with the icy lake in front of it, and a stream on the top of the mountain is almost vertically poured into the lake on the ground. Now the weather is cold, the stream and waterfall are frozen, showing a nearly straight line of ice, shining in the sun , exactly matching the white line!
"This..." Hong Jun was shocked, and said, "It must be here! That's right!"
"In the past, this mountain could only be climbed when it thawed." Mo Zhigen said, "The entrance of the cave will be blocked by ice."
Hong Jun immediately said: "My spell can be unsealed."
"It takes one night to go up the mountain." Mo Zhigen said, "Go up after a night's rest?"
Hong Jun just wanted to hurry up, he straightened the hook rope, and said, "Let's go now." After speaking, he remembered that he had a demon binding rope, so he took out the demon binding rope, changed the hook head, and hung it on the rope. Mo Zhigen said: "Don't force it, after all, after going up, you have to find..."
Suddenly Mo Zhigen became quiet, and Hong Jun also realized that something was wrong. A gust of wind blew around, as if something was rustling.
Hong Jun looked at Mo Rigen, and Mo Rigen made a "shh" motion, protecting him towards the forest down the mountain. In all directions, on the plains, in the woods by the lake, Shiwei assassins with powerful crossbows suddenly appeared.
Hong Jun looked back, and after seeing the plain and sand dunes, there were many more people in an instant.
There were more and more people, scattered everywhere, and surrounded them.
The Shiwei priestess came out of the woods and said in Chinese: "Kong Hongjun."
Mo Zhigen immediately protected Hong Jun behind him, and Shen Sheng said something in Shiwei's voice, with anger in his voice, Hong Jun knew that it was a simple rebuke. He gently put his hand on Mo Zhigen's shoulder, and said in a low voice, "Did An Lushan ask you to come?"
The priestess said stiffly, "What do you want to find here?"
"Ehha!" A young man in the Assassin team spoke, and then he said a series of words quickly. Hong Jun looked over and saw that it was Mo Zhigen's younger brother!
"Qiluoer!" Mo Zhigen yelled angrily again, "Withdraw your people!"
Hong Jun and Mo Zhigen were back to back, and he could probably guess without explaining that this priestess was probably a monster named An Lushan who had been planted in the Shiwei clan. After he and Mo Zhigen arrived last night, An Lushan knew that the two of them whereabouts!
Mo Zhigen panted and touched the longbow behind his back, but Qi Luoer shouted in Chinese: "Dare to do it! Let's shoot now!"
Hong Jun has five colors of divine light, and he is not afraid of ordinary arrows. He asked, "What should I do?"
"Fight." Mo Zhigen said, "I'll deal with the shaman, you..."
"I don't want to hurt your relatives." Hong Jun said.
He really didn't want to see blood splattered five steps on the grassland, otherwise Mo Zhigen would be even more disturbed. Mo Zhigen said: "Then what should we do? I said do it, let's break through? Maybe they won't shoot arrows..."
"Flee to the mountains." Hong Jun replied.
Mo Zhigen said: "You give the order."
Hong Jun scanned the entire encirclement and said, "Let's go."
In an instant, Hong Jun turned over and jumped, shaking the five-color divine light in the air, Mo Zhigen turned over and turned into a wolf, and the arc of Hong Jun's jump just caught the wolf's mane. A wolf roar sounded, and the wolf slammed into the surrounding circle by the lake, knocking people flying around, and rushed towards the lake!
Hong Jun first blocked the back of the wolf, and then released the divine light to block the front of him, but the wolf was shocked instantly.
"Are you okay?!" Hong Jun shouted.
He couldn't completely envelop the two of them with the five-color divine light, which would hinder the wolf's movement. A steel arrow hit the wolf's shoulder in an instant, and a cloud of blood burst out. With a slip of his body, he led Hong Jun to slide into the depths of the icy lake.
Immediately after it turned around, it became furious and let out another wolf howl!
Hong Jun was so shocked that he almost fell off the back of the wolf. The roar formed a storm and swept up. The pursuers rushed to the ice. The female shaman drank a sentence of unknown meaning. After hearing it, the wolf was enraged again , the hair on his body stood up, and he took a deep breath.
Hong Jun immediately covered his ears, and then the shock spread, causing his chest to surge with blood. The wolf's roar and wolf power swept away along the lake, and the solid ice suddenly shattered, and the lake water spurted out, catching up with The assassins are all trapped!
Hong Jun hurriedly said: "Let's go!"