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Gao Changgong laughed dryly: "No, of course they didn't swim over. They rode over on horseback, just above the current."

"Above the water?"

"Yes, as you said just now, it is impossible to swim through this winter, but who would have thought that Cao Meng would have such courage and foresight..." Gao Changgong's eyes almost reflected the scene of the raid: "This year This winter is colder than usual, and this...is God’s chance to win for Cao Meng! If it weren’t for the freezing cold, how would he dare to lead his cavalry across the ice?”

Chapter 588 In a Dilemma

Some people are still calculating the cause and effect of this huge battle through clues, but some people have already known the whole picture from the detailed military report.

After nightfall, the sky over Jicheng is covered with thick and heavy clouds, like a big river pouring down, just like the worries in the hearts of the people, oppressive and heavy.

"What do you mean, Cao Meng didn't just demonstrate against my Mo family?"

The wick of the oil lamp was cut in half by scissors, but the flame did not dim, but became brighter. Behind the curtain made of bamboo mats, there was a thin silhouette with a bit of vicissitudes and a hoarse voice, like a bamboo forest at night. The bamboo leaves are blowing in the wind.

Outside the bamboo mat, a figure sitting in a wheelchair was half shrouded in darkness, but everyone knew that there was only one person in the Mohist court who was qualified to enter this hall and was sitting in a wheelchair, and that was Wang Xuanwei's student. Sun Boling.

"Yes." Sun Boling said slowly: "Although Cao Meng is bold and unrestrained by nature, he is by no means arrogant. If he sent Xiahou here just to ridicule my Mohists, I don't believe it. But if he is short of food and grass, he is eager to fight , that makes sense."

"Yes, Cao Meng is indeed a difficult opponent." Behind the curtain, the Mohist giant looked down at the military newspaper in his hand, and the movements of scrolling the bamboo slips were terrifyingly steady.

Although he is now sixty-eight, close to seventy years old, but as a rare Qi and blood master of the Mohist school, his aging speed is much slower than ordinary people.

He became famous decades ago, and the Mo School's Mo Shou sword is famous all over the world. Even in the hands of other young and young masters, no one dares to say that he can win in a direct confrontation with him.

Regrettably, even though he has a rare cultivation base in the world, what he has to face now is not a master practitioner from the rivers and lakes or another country, but the intricate government affairs and the general trend of the world. None of these things can be solved by the courage of one person alone.

Otherwise, he could cut through the mess with a sharp knife and make reforms on his own. Why would he do such a game in Jishang Academy to test the court?

"So, although Cao Meng captured Hongguan by surprise, food and grass are still in short supply, and it is difficult to fight for a long time, so he wants to use this method to force us to fight quickly?" The giant pondered for a moment, and suddenly said: "If it is a field battle, how can you fight?" How confident are you that you can beat Cao Meng?"

"Less than [-]%." Sun Boling opened his closed eyes and opened them with deep eyes, "In terms of strength in field battles, there is nothing in the world that can match Canghai. Whether it is the tiger and leopard cavalry or the barbarian light cavalry, they are all better than those of the Tang Kingdom. Xuanjia heavy cavalry. My Mohist black cavalry may be able to fight with all my strength, but I am not as good as Cao Meng in terms of numbers..."

Juzi nodded slowly, he was not surprised by this question, just sighed, and said: "Now it seems that it is really my fault... Xuanwei wrote many times to ask to expand the black knight, so that it To reach 25 people, to suppress the vanguard of the Canghai cavalry, I did not agree...otherwise, our Mohist army would not be so passive."

Sun Boling shook his head, not blaming Juzi for this, but hearing him mention Wang Xuanwei, he felt a little sad in his heart: "You don't have to blame yourself, there were several famines in the Mo family, the government was empty, and disaster relief was difficult, and it was even more difficult to expand the black cavalry. It is even more difficult, although the general's letter was rejected, he also understands your difficulties, Juzi."

"You don't need to comfort me at such a time. In my life, although I have some high-spirited moments, I have made many mistakes. There is nothing to say. Master Zhong has always said that there is nothing wrong with your father, but as a Momen You don’t have to follow his way.” The giant looked at the slightly flickering lights, and said slowly: “Then in your opinion, you should stick to it? But if I really do this, tomorrow the court will , how should I face the officials? How should I face the common people?"

Sun Boling's eyes were fixed, and he said in a low voice: "This is exactly the effect of Cao Meng. He made a lot of nonsense in the Jishang Academy, and then sent villains to spread the news of the fall of Hongguan in the city, just to disturb the hearts of the giants. Use the officials and the people to force the giant to fight quickly."

When he said this, Sun Boling's eyes became brighter and seemed to be a little angry, and at the same time he raised his voice and said in a low voice: "But! If the giant really does what Cao Meng wants, the Mo family will definitely lose for a while. Cao Meng will drive in until the foot of Jicheng, and my Mo family will be reduced to fish on his chopping board, allowing him to slaughter. I know the difficulties of a giant, but state affairs are the most important thing, please think twice!"

Sun Boling is not a practitioner, and his inherently weak body can hardly support him to do any practice, but this time, he almost exhausted all the strength in his chest, as if he drank all the energy and energy in his body .

And the giant behind the curtain was silent for a while, as if he was also infected by Sun Boling's firm voice, touching the bamboo slips of the military newspaper with some deep emotions, as if in the dark, he felt a wave from Yu Wang Xuanwei's mental strength.

That person has become a saint in the end, and sometimes Juzi even wonders if he is not dead at all, but just detached from the world, watching him quietly from a certain place.

But the giant is also very clear that this kind of thinking is just wishful thinking, and the difficulty of achieving the realm of a saint is no less than a small boat going upstream in a big river.

Wang Xuanwei may indeed have a very powerful talent in the field of cultivation, but if he wants to cross that threshold, he still needs to pay the price of his life.

The bamboo slips were unconsciously held tightly by the giant, and even the strings began to break because they couldn't bear the huge force.

The giant sighed softly from behind the curtain: "I know, the state affairs are like this. As a giant, I naturally have a duty to do so."

Sun Boling looked at the outline, and lowered his head in shame, "I'm guilty. If I didn't expect Cao Meng to take that ancient path, Juzi wouldn't have faced such a situation."

"There's no need to say such things." The giant shook his sleeves, as if to express comfort: "Even I, I didn't expect Cao Meng to hit the back of Hongguan from that ancient road. Speaking of which, even in this year's cold winter , but it is still difficult for the large group of people to pass the ancient road. I really don’t know how Cao Meng led people to walk there... In previous years, during the winter break, we would basically stop fighting and truce to raise troops. We also relaxed too much. Who would have thought that Cao Meng would do the opposite this time, but forced to march in such bad weather, the title of the Tiger of the North is really not in vain."

"The northern grassland is a place of bitter cold in the world. The barbarians in the north grew up in such a place, and their cold tolerance is better than that of Mohist men." Sun Boling also regretted it. He had left many military affairs behind, otherwise, with his deduction ability, he should have seen some clues.

"From this point of view, it was a wise move for Cao Meng to go north alone. He not only avoided the melee in the Central Plains, but also took the opportunity to subdue the grassland tribes. Based on this, he built such an invincible army." The giant sighed. Said: "Mohists have always looked down on these warriors who don't understand poetry and etiquette, but who would have thought that one day they would become generous and brave men in the sea?"

"Yes." Sun Boling responded in a low voice.

But at the next moment, Juzi changed the subject and talked about another important matter: "But what about the loyal and brave men of my Mo family? What about them?"

Of course, Sun Boling understood that Juzi was referring to the [-] Mohist troops who were captured by the Canghai Kingdom after Wen Liang died in battle. In fact, this was also his most troublesome point.

Since the start of the war, the Mo family and Canghai have fought at least [-] battles, big and small. Although Sun Boling suppressed the Canghai Navy in a steady and steady manner, and captured some prisoners, the total was less than three thousand, and this time Hongguan fell , [-] Mohist troops were reduced to military captives, and it was impossible to exchange those Mohist soldiers by exchanging prisoners.

But if Canghai used this as a threat and asked the Mohists to cede land or donate food and grass, what should we do?

There is absolutely no compromise in cede land. If anyone dares to do so, he will be nailed to the pillar of shame and become the eternal sinner of Mohism.

And giving food and grass... is equivalent to strengthening the enemy's prestige. What Canghai lacks most at the moment is food and grass. If it is given food and grass, Canghai might have to lay a foundation in Hongguan. In that case, wouldn't the Mo family have to be exposed to the prying eyes of tigers and wolves all the time? under?

This... is really a dilemma.

Chapter 589 The Cat Crows in the Middle of the Night

The night owl was wailing at the base of the wall, his shrill voice was like that of a hungry baby abandoned in the cold winter night, the cries sounded far away, but with the sound of falling stones, the two opponents in the dark finally confronted each other at the base of the wall.

The hair on their whole body exploded, their backs were arched like a bow being pulled up, their limbs and claws were tightly gripping the ground, and their four exquisite eyes shone brightly relative to each other.

In an instant, the cry of the baby turned into the roar of evil ghosts fighting, and the two shadows fluttered wantonly under the moonlight, sometimes merging and sometimes separating, like a hundred ghosts walking at night.

Qin Ke who was lying on the bed opened his eyes, and what he saw was darkness, and in the darkness, the woman's face had disappeared, leaving only the waterfall-like long hair still fluttering slightly in his eyes, she was calling out to him .

She said: come, come.

I can't remember exactly how many times I dreamed of this woman.

In fact, in Qin Ke's view, if this kind of strange dream is the so-called divine revelation, then the content of this divine revelation is as nonsense as those ghost plays performed on the Mid-Autumn Festival every year. Come on, what are you coming to?Or rather, where should I go?

Could it be to go to the vast expanse of starry sky?Or, to go into the woman's long hair like a black river?But Qin Ke didn't think there was any need to go to those places at all. On the contrary, every time he got closer in his dream, he felt colder and empty, as if it was endless but had nowhere to go.

But Qin Ke slowly saw many different pictures.

He saw a snow-white mountain, and there was a woman curled up in a huge and pure ice layer like a snow elf, her eyes were slightly closed, her brows trembled slightly, as if she was in pain, and shortly afterwards, there was a woman The tall figure slowly enveloped her;

He saw a piece of blue sea, a tens of feet long boat was breaking through the waves, a few huge blue fish were floating in the distance, a pair of bisexual men stood at the bow, the light of the setting sun reflected the tenderness between their lips and teeth ;

He saw the towering palace, women and men standing together holding hands, dressed in costumes, going up the white steps step by step;

He saw the top of the city, the man in full armor like a god, and countless fireballs that seemed to fall from the sky;

After seeing a lot, Qin Ke began to wonder, who are this man and woman?And why did it appear in my dreams?

But there is still no answer.

Gao Yishui couldn't answer this kind of question, Gao Changgong couldn't answer it, and even Zhuge Wanling couldn't give him an answer, so he could only hold his doubts, pretend that none of this had happened, and continue to live his life every day. Have a good time.

But obviously, Qin Ke's wish in troubled times is extravagant and naive.

Qin Ke listened quietly for a while, then sat up slowly from the bed, Xunfeng's technique subdued his voice, grabbed the coat hanging on the hanger and the cold Bodhisattva sword, he was as dexterous as a The cat gradually disappeared into the night.

The shadows swaying on the wall are not the ghosts of the night.

Qin Ke didn't know how many people entered the courtyard, but according to the movement he heard, there were no less than 20 people, and the strength of each person should not be underestimated. It is estimated that at the worst, there should be three realms of cultivation, or even several people. With a long breath and a strong heart, he may have entered the realm of a small master.

There are more than [-] master practitioners, whose subordinate is this?

Or, who are they targeting?Own?Luyue people?Or... Gao Changgong?

Thinking that Gao Changgong was at his weakest at this moment, his spirit suddenly tensed up, and the hand holding the Bodhisattva sword was also a little bit harder, then bent his back, and carefully sneaked into a courtyard along the base of the wall.

Gao Changgong lives in the quietest room in Lu's mansion, which is still far away from him, but the current situation is that even if he finds Gao Changgong, he may not be able to deal with it at all. It is only reasonable to find a few helpers.

But this is the courtyard of the Luyue people. Qin Ke is a complete stranger here, and perhaps yelling loudly can wake up the people in the Lu Mansion, but in a place like the guest room, it should be difficult for the guards of the Lu Mansion to be there. arrive in the shortest possible time.

It would be bad if you accidentally startled the snake and provoked these people to do something uncontrollable.

"That's why I said that this kind of large courtyard is very troublesome, and the southeast, north, and west are too far apart." Qin Ke murmured in a low voice, and approached another room step by step in the darkness.

Abu's room is very close to his room, and the distance is only a dozen feet, but he has just passed a corner, but the scene in front of him makes his pupils shrink sharply, then he held his breath, and stepped back three steps in a row , shrank in the corner of the wall.

A man in black entered Abu's room.

Qin Ke didn't know the purpose of these men in black, but no matter what they thought, their target shouldn't be Abu, but even if their target wasn't Abu, who can guarantee that they wouldn't just take Abu, who was still sleeping soundly, erased?

Even if it is exposed, you can only bite the bullet!

Qin Ke's heart sank, knowing that he had no time to think any more, he opened his legs and ran towards Abu's door!

Before he hit the door of Abu's room, he heard a surprised voice suddenly came from Abu's room: "Who is it?"

A crash sounded in the room.

Qin Ke had just crashed into Abu's room door, and what he saw was the shadows of fists all over the sky. The two figures were wrestling together in the darkness, and it was already hard to tell you from me.

The moonlight shines through the window, mottled on the wall where the picture scroll was hung, the vase cracked, the ornaments fell, and the copper basin filled with water suddenly fell down.

Both of them acted out of desperation, and it was impossible to tell who was stronger and who was weaker in a short-term confrontation of cultivation base strength, but with Qin Ke's current eyesight, to a certain extent, Qin Ke could still distinguish the one on the left. Abu, and felt that he was constantly gaining the upper hand, and with the help of the blood that was already approaching the realm of the little master, he beat the man in black back and forth.

"Abu!" Qin Ke lowered his voice and whispered, facing such a chaotic situation, holding the Bodhisattva sword, he hesitated for a while.

But Abu didn't respond. He just let out a low shout during the fight, his arms ran through his arms, and he took three steps forward, directly crashing into the arms of the man in black.

Abu learned to lean close to the body when he was in the Imperial Academy. While the energy and blood gathered on the shoulders, the power penetrated into the chest of the man in black like paper, and with a muffled groan, the back of the man in black slammed into the table. On the flowerpot, the flowerpot was forcibly squeezed into pieces!

Countless soil and green orchids fell on the ground one after another, and even fragments of many flower pots pierced the man in black's waist and abdomen, spattering a few drops of blood.

"Bastard!" The man in black shouted angrily, and then he reached out to touch the dagger at his waist.

But then, a heavy scabbard came across the sky and hit him directly on the head, making a muffled sound.

With a bang, the man in black finally lost his eyes and fell to the ground and passed out.

"Heh..." Although he knocked out the man in black in a short period of time, Abu's breath seemed a little disordered. Seeing Qin Ke coming up to help him, he was about to say something when he suddenly heard a low voice coming from outside. sound.

"Zilu! What's going on, such a big commotion!"

Abu's relaxed expression tightened just now, and he subconsciously planned to grab the halberd in the corner, but Qin Ke firmly fixed him in place with both hands.

"Why..." As soon as Abu made a sound, Qin Ke covered his mouth with one hand.

Qin Ke glanced at Abu with serious eyes, shook his head to signal him not to speak, then looked at the half-open door, knowing that he and Abu were in a blind spot outside the door, so he took the opportunity to pick it up from the ground. A copper basin for washing your face.

He put his face into the copper basin and said: "It's nothing, just woke up one, it took a little effort to deal with him."

Qin Ke's intentionally distorted voice, coupled with the effect of the copper basin, suddenly became much lower, and the harsh voice also made people outside startled: "What's wrong with your voice?"

Qin Ke's heart tightened, and he felt a little flustered, but he still said in a calm voice: "I hit my neck in a fight just now, it's okay, I'll be here in a while."

The people outside the door seemed to really believe this reason, or because there was something important in their minds, they didn't think carefully, so they nodded, took a last look at the door, and said coldly: "Be careful next time, Don't wake up the people in the mansion again, you will delay the big event, go back and ask you to look good."

In just a few short breaths, the footsteps of the man in black outside the door seemed to have turned into a breeze in the night, gradually drifting away...

5 Chapter Ninety

At this moment, the two breathed a sigh of relief. Abu looked at the man in black on the ground, frowned and asked in confusion, "Ake, what are you doing? Someone sneaked into the mansion, shouldn't we stop him?"

Qin Ke shook his head and said in a low voice: "I really want to stop, but how do you stop more than twenty people? Not to mention that there may be a few little masters in there. ...You have also seen those guards in the Lu Mansion during the day, and you feel that even the concierge of the public loser is better than them...I'm afraid they can't help. "

"Twenty people?" Abu gasped and realized the seriousness of the situation, but who is going to harm the Lu family?

Abu whispered: "If the target of these twenty or so people is really someone in Lu's mansion, probably the Luyue people themselves can't resist it?"

Although they had seen Luyue people's miraculous healing methods before, he mentioned that his cultivation was not very outstanding among spiritual practitioners, and it was probably only equivalent to the realm of a small master of Qi and blood.In addition, he likes to be quiet, and as a doctor, he has no enemies, so there are no more than a dozen guards and servants in this house. Facing such a force, he is already at a disadvantage.

"I can't care too much. If it's really aimed at Mr. Lu, I just hope that the guards around him will be as brave as possible. If it can be delayed for a while, it will be a while."

Qin Ke walked up to the man in black, stretched out his hand and began to grope around the man in black, trying to find something that could prove their identity, "What I'm worried about now is not Master Lu, but Gao Changgong. If you go with Gao Changgong, then things will be bad."

Qin Ke's words also made Abu's face turn pale suddenly, and he immediately went to the corner to hold the halberd, ready to go with Qin Ke to save people all the way.

He always had this thought in his heart - even if he died, Gao Changgong would never die.

The man in black actually carried very few things, a dagger with a sheath, a jade pendant, and a black wooden belt.

Even if Qin Ke continued to search, he found nothing else. After that, he could only put the dagger under the moonlight and take a look. After finding out that he couldn't find any clues, he took the most important waist card and jade pendant. Observed against the moonlight.

The jade pendant is a good piece of jade, carved in the shape of a tiger, but there is nothing unusual about it, but the words on the black waist plate made Qin Ke frowned: "Gongzheng? Abu, you know this is from the Mohist school. What preparation?"

"Let me have a look!" Abu was startled at first, and then carefully read the words on the waist card, making sure that Qin Ke read it correctly, and then said: "Gong Zheng... seems to be the official in charge of daily inspections in the Mohist palace. Although the official position is not high, it is directly related to the safety of the Mohists...but why do they come to the Lu Mansion in black?"

The two of you looked at me and I looked at you, and they couldn't figure out what the cause of the sudden change in Lu's residence at night was. If it was related to the court... But as far as they knew, Master Lu was in charge of the Jishang Academy. The chief teacher of the doctor's family has never been involved in party disputes, and even eight out of ten days he lives in seclusion in the house. How can such a person have any enmity with anyone?

However, since you can't figure it out, you don't have to think about it anymore. At least the most important thing for the two of them now is to ensure Gao Changgong's safety.

"Those Qingzhou ghost riders sleep outside Brother Changgong's residence at night. With their cultivation base, they should be able to resist for a long time." Abu discussed with Qin Ke in a low voice: "Otherwise, you can go to Mr. Gao and Cai Yan , I'll go to Brother Chang Gong first."

"Okay." Thinking of the abilities of those Qingzhou ghost riders, Qin Ke felt relieved and nodded, "Well, I'll go find old Gao Caiyan. If it's convenient for you, hide Gao Changgong first, don't be brave. "

"Okay, I'll wait for you."

"I know." Qin Ke responded briefly, and jumped into the darkness again, while Abu clenched the halberd in his hand, took a deep breath, and sneaked into the darkness cautiously.

The two groups of people kept going back and forth in the darkness like cats and mice. Along the way, Qin Ke saw three men in black. They seemed to be looking for something, but they checked one by one in the guest room, but never made a move.