Ninety thousand miles of wind

three

So everyone in the house turned to Ye Weiyang.The Taoist who practiced the Xinglin technique thought for a while, and said: "Actually, in my Tyranny Club, the head of the family has the toughest temper, but the military division is not far behind. It's just that these two people are so stubborn, but they rarely disagree. It's also amazing. Although there are many old stories, I will only tell a story about this time when I was escorting the darts."

"I heard that there were quite a lot of twists and turns on this trip to the army?" Cha Xiaoxia asked again.

"That's true." Ye Weiyang sighed, "That batch of bodyguards came from a special source. Although they were used for military pay, the source was a batch of treasures hidden by the old King Haining unearthed in the Zhongcaotang. There were many gold and jade playthings. It's not more than ordinary silver taels."

"I have also heard about the matter of the Chinese Herb Hall," the young man said, "Hallmaster Wang said that he is an outsider, and the treasures he unearthed are useless to him, and the Chinese Herbal Hall only relies on herbs to help the world and save people, when do we need these things? So they all donated to military expenses.”

"Although Hall Master Wang is so forthright, at that time the treasure was stolen." Old Chun Yi shook his head, "That means Hall Master Wang was good at planning, and Jiashi Misty Rain was fighting with him on the surface and helping him behind the scenes. , otherwise, how could the Chinese Herb Hall be able to steal the treasure in front of everyone? Speaking of which, it’s another wonderful story.”

Ye Weiyang nodded: "That's right. But I don't know the details, let's say we escorted the matter. This treasure passed by Zhongcaotang before, and there are many jealous people in Jianghu; don't mention it. There was still a group of those who advocated a peace negotiation, so they wanted to press the bodyguard back to the ground, and they didn't want to ask Tyranny to send it to the place. They are all deceitful soldiers, and the rest of the road in the middle will be personally escorted by the head of the family and the military division, and take the dry road to the capital. All of us, we are all ten times more careful, and we are afraid of any mistakes."

Cha Xiaoxia held her breath, and said, "—But this journey, I'm afraid it will not be smooth?"

"Naturally, if you can't catch a thief every night, everyone will feel as if something is missing in your heart, and you will feel powerless." Ye Weiyang sighed deeply, obviously still having lingering fears in retrospect.

"But Tyranny is also one of the best gangs in the Jianghu. I'm afraid that ordinary thieves can't walk back and forth in your hands?" Cha Xiaoxia laughed.

Ye Weiyang said solemnly: "It's easy to hide a spear in the open, but it's hard to defend against an arrow in the dark. We never thought that the most difficult thing to defend against is not the one who robs openly and stealthily. Seeing that we are about to arrive in the capital, even if we are more careful, we also think that after that Then the journey went smoothly. Unexpectedly, when we were one day away from the capital, we were stopped by an army."

"Army?" Elder Chun Yi was also taken aback for a moment, "I know that the Second Suzaku Xuanwu Army is now fighting in the northwest, and the Qinglong Army guarding the emperor can't easily come out... Could it be that the local army is blocking you?"

"At first, I thought so too. I thought it was the escort sent by the local state government—but I didn't expect that it turned out to be the troops of the Ministry of War."

Cha Xiaoxia was puzzled: "Is this here specially to meet you?"

"On the contrary." Ye Weiyang sighed, "Our military salary has always been to avoid the military department and send it directly to the Huangfeng camp in the capital. If we entered the military department, I'm afraid we would have to spend most of it in the political debates. But he couldn’t get to the Northwest Army. And Liu Shilang, who was the leader at that time, was very rude and asked our head and the military adviser to go over and ask questions. But Zhang Junshi was prepared for this situation, and actually returned the servant’s various requests. There is no leakage between the words, and he said that apart from Yang Cong and Bai Shu as stated in the imperial decree, this dart will never be handed over to a third person."

"The servant is extremely unwilling." The young man sighed.

"Naturally. He didn't say anything. He asked all of us to go to his villa to drink with him. He said it was a reward. But the military division had already sent out a contact sign, and he was just waiting for the people from the capital to come; Just say - what kind of feast is there, it's the same here." Ye Weiyang said.

"I'm afraid there will be no good banquet." Old Chun Yi looked serious.

"I didn't think so at the time, I just thought it was a false story in the officialdom. The waiter was very attentive, so he set up a banquet, and personally served a glass of wine to the two heroes. The military adviser immediately took the wine glass in front of the head of the family, and said: 'He is too light, so it is inevitable. Delay the business, and let me drink instead.' At that time, I felt that the face of the servant opposite was not good-looking, after all, I don’t know much, so I don’t know what’s going on.” Ye Weiyang also sighed at this point, “Until the drink After three rounds, the waiter nodded and said, "If you are obsessed with your obsession, you will have to drink a cup of fine wine." It was still a posture of fighting. We each performed the sword, but the other party was a soldier, and there were so many of them. Having already thought hard, killing one more is a profit. At this time, Zhang Jun said: "Although the servant is good at planning, don't you think this place is too close to the capital?" At that time, our two teams were parked by the roadside, Swords were drawn and crossed into a group, and when the military division said this, he heard the sound of horseshoes coming from the north. Eighteen black-clothed riders came, the first one was dressed as a civil servant in red clothes, and said: "Liu Shilang, what about this matter?" , you seem to be taking things a little too far.'”

Chun Yi shivered, and said: "—Could it be this person?"

"That's right, it's Ye Xiu's fellow brother." Thinking of the situation at that time, Ye Weiyang couldn't help showing a strange expression on his face, but he continued, "At that time, Ye Qiu only said: 'This matter, I [-] As soon as Fan came, I waited for the food. Thank you Liu Shilang for taking care of me.' The servant knew that his matter was considered dirty, so he exchanged some greetings in face, and finally took the soldiers away. As soon as we were relieved, we listened. The military adviser said, "Don't relax your vigilance even on the last journey." After saying that, he fell to the ground."

Everyone was shocked, Lan He's thoughts turned, and he said, "But is there poison in the wine?"

Ye Weiyang nodded: "Yes. I don't know who gave the assistant minister a plan. Although he used a pot, there are actually two centers in it. It's a pity that we only saw that the opposite was an official, so we lost our vigilance..."

But the young man thought about it, and said: "I'm afraid, Mr. Zhang should have seen it?"

"Even though we have concealed it from us, how could we have concealed it from the military advisor?" Ye Weiyang sighed, "It's just that he stood in front of it all by himself in order to delay the attack."

Everyone sighed for a while, and Cha Xiaoxia said: "Even if Tyranny Duo Xinglin's disciples have the detoxification method, they still hurt themselves by eight hundred... I'm afraid Master Han will be extremely angry?"

Ye Weiyang sighed: "It's more than that. In those few days, it was as if there was a dark cloud on his head, and wherever he went, it was overcast. Even if Zhang Junshi woke up and turned around to persuade him, it would not work. At that time we The darts were also delivered, so they stayed in the Huangfeng camp in the capital, waiting for Zhang Jiale and Lin Jingyan to come and join them. Three days later, Zhang Lin and Qin Muyun and Song Qiying all came. Han Dadang just sat in the hall and waited every day. They, seeing them coming, the first thing they say is: 'fuck you, come with me.'”

Everyone thought in their hearts that this is to murder the imperial court official?Seeing Ye Weiyang smile again, said: "At that time we were also startled, and we didn't dare to stop, so we followed the heads of the family from afar to the servant's mansion. The family of the servants came out to ask questions, and the head of the family only took out a piece of paper from his arms. Department of documents—I don’t know when he got them. He said that the house had been in disrepair for a long time, and he had to tear it down for fear of collapsing and hurting people. As he spoke, he punched a pillar in the front porch. Zhang Jiale had known the clue for a long time, and followed Shouting "Damn Flash", it actually sent out thunder and fire bombs like a rain of flowers. We were also happy, and we followed up and demolished it. In less than a moment, we razed the huge servant's mansion to the ground—the servant just When he ran out, he saw his main hall collapsing against his heels, which made him pee his pants. Han Dadang was standing in the courtyard, looking at him, and only said: "This house is not strong." Turn around and leave with us."

After saying this, everyone in the room laughed for a moment, and said: "Happy, happy." Cha Xiaoxia added: "I have always heard that Tyranny will do things neatly, but today, as expected, it is better than a good drink Have fun." Everyone laughed at the useless Beijing official again, and finally Lan He asked: "Little brother, since you came up from the city of reincarnation, everything you saw with your own eyes must be remarkable, why don't you tell us a thing or two ?”

The young man smiled shyly: "Of course there is, but it's a pity that it's not as satisfying as the stories of the seniors."

Everyone thought about the previous rumors, and said again: "Samsara was besieged for seven days this time, it must be extremely tragic."

The young man pondered for a moment, and said: "Actually, in the first few days, I relied on the city fortification, and prepared enough rolling logs, stones, kerosene, and other things. Everyone took turns, and it was still enough. The worst time was still on the fifth day."

four

Elder Chun Yi also intervened at this time, asking: "The news of the siege of Samsara City has been reported to the Suzaku Army on the third day. But it doesn't mean that the Yongzhou defenders are still at the forefront, and the flames of war will not affect Samsara. city?"

The young man nodded: "That was indeed the case at the beginning. I, as a group of Xingxin, mainly sent a special batch of crossbows on behalf of Baihuagu, because all the supplies at that time were in transit in Samsara City, so naturally we escorted the crossbows to Samsara As soon as I arrived in the city, I heard that the frontline defenders were defeated and dispersed. Within half a day, the remnants entered the city of reincarnation, saying that it was the elite of the Dang Ming, and they chased after them. Our Xuanwu army resisted and fought fiercely in Qinglong Gorge, Baishuitan, etc., and saw that we were in a stalemate; then we sent out a surprise army, trying to cross the south of Yongnan in order to outflank the rear of the army."

"If that's the case, then it's really..." As soon as these words came out, both Chun Yi and Lan He looked serious - they were moving towards Yongnan with the Vermilion Bird Army at that time, so they naturally knew how critical the situation was - if it wasn't for the reincarnation city to resist The Suzaku Army just couldn't turn around in time, and it was about to be outflanked by the Dangming Army.

"I just hate that the defenders of Yongzhou were incompetent at that time. They lost the front pass, and the defeated soldiers retreated into reincarnation. They even tried to support the reincarnation troops." The young man still said with some injustice, "At that time, the general basically lost half of his soldiers. Ma, he was still talking nonsense, but City Master Zhou and Deputy City Master Jiang were very good-tempered, they were listening there, and wanted to break up with him. The owner of my family heard this, and only said, "Such mediocre people can only harm the country"— — Then he shot him unconscious, found a cellar, and stuffed him in."

Ye Weiyang's eyes widened: "Is this possible? As expected of Ye Xiu, he did such unreliable things."

"At that time, the matter was urgent, so he had to follow the authority. He and the city lord Zhou made a plan to reorganize the remnant soldiers and disciples of the outer sect of reincarnation. As soon as they lined up on the city wall, they saw a line of smoke and dust rising from the valley outside: it was Dang Ming. A group of elite cavalry had already taken advantage of the situation. Fortunately, the gates of Samsara City were closed at this time, and antler barricades were placed in front of the pass. The soldiers and disciples patrolling the walls were all armed with the new crossbows made by Baihua Valley, so that the cavalry did not dare to enter rashly. First, delay for three days."

When the young man said this, Cha Xiaoxia also heaved a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, the owner of Zhou City, Zhuangzhu Ye, made a quick decision. If not, this cavalry advances, even if it is considered to be highly skilled in martial arts, it will not be able to stop it."

The young man nodded and replied, "It's just like what you said. On the fourth day, the Dangming infantry followed up and began to attack the city with ladders. They were knocked down by our strong crossbows and rolling logs and stones. At that time, we also The Vermilion Bird army sent a message, calculated that if they hold out for another three days, they will need support, at that time they thought they were able to hold out, and I felt a little lucky."

"Is there a change on the fifth day?"

Ye Weiyang remembered what the young man said at the beginning, saying.

"That's right." The young man took a deep breath and said after a while, "On the fifth day, the Dangming army actually pushed a hundred and ten people from Yongzhou who looted along the way to the front of the line, forcing Samsara to open the city. "

As soon as these words came out, everyone fell silent, and after a while, they heard Ye Weiyang bitterly say: "Such a beast!"

The young man also seemed to recall the tragic scene back then, his eyes were a little red, and he said: "Those people were driven forward by them, and they wanted to escape into the city, and the Dang Ming army followed behind, and even drove them with long spears. There was a cavalryman who picked up a child with the tip of his spear..." He didn't dare to continue when he said this.

At this moment, Cha Xiaoxia slowly asked: "—but Samsara has opened the city. Is that right or not?"

As soon as these words came out, Old Chun Yi, Ye Weiyang, and Lan He were all startled, and turned to look at the young man.The young man's expression was awe-inspiring at the moment, the previous shy look was gone, and he only said one word: "Yes."

"...If a soldier who is used to fighting daily, even a hundred or so people can bear it. However, the top ten sects in Jianghu all started when the world was in turmoil, and all of them were founded to protect the people of one side. Lipai, how can such a situation be cruel to the end." Cha Xiaoxia said slowly, "—but, this move is too risky."

The young man nodded and shook his head again: "Even if it's an adventure, it's better than not being able to sleep in a dream. Before going down to the city, Master Ye said that if we go, we will live and die with these hundred people. If we can't kill them A way of blood, even if we lose ourselves, we can't let the enemy go one step further. —Actually, according to his intentions, he refused to ask City Lord Zhou to go down."

Elder Chun Yi shook his head and said, "But City Lord Zhou will definitely not be able to sit still."

"At that time, the matter was urgent, and there was actually no room for discussion. It was only after we left the city that we saw City Lord Zhou following him - how could there be time to discuss it at that time? It was just a desperate fight." The young man said, seeming to see it again The tragic scene of the fight that day, "At that time, everyone was red-eyed. At the back, An Wenyi and Fang Minghua were guarding the door and busy letting the people in, but they couldn't help throwing the first aid Qianjin Fang; while the city master Zhou and the village master Ye each leaped to fight with their guns. In the end, seeing that everyone was about to enter, and Dangming's army was catching up, Mu Chengjie only held Tun Ri, regardless of the enemy's bow and crossbow, and shot down with arrows, trying to earn the final victory. There was a gap—but seeing the owner’s horse approaching the door, it suddenly neighed and collapsed—it turned out that someone who was chasing up had chopped off its hind legs with a long knife. The owner didn’t realize it, so he left the stirrup and sat on the saddle One or two arrows were still stuck in his back. However, the city lord of Zhou was about to enter the city, so he suddenly reined in his horse and swung his spear straight. After retreating a foot away, we turned back to the city together with the owner. At that moment, we saw the gate of the city closed tightly, and both Lord Zhou and Lord Ye arrived in the city. Only then did we realize that we were holding our breath. Dare to take a breath, and the clothes behind are completely soaked."

——The young man said so, and everyone in the room held their breath, and only breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the last moment.Lan He said: "Don't talk about seeing, even if I listen like this, my palms are also wet with sweat."

Cha Xiaoxia also said: "If it weren't for the boldness of City Master Zhou and Master Ye, it would be really..." After speaking, he also breathed a long sigh of relief.

"In that battle, everyone suffered great injuries." The young man said again, "City Lord Zhou's last move hurt the inside, and even a thousand gold prescriptions can't cure it, so we can only take care of it slowly. Fortunately, Dang Ming's army also helped us that day. The momentum is frightening, it is only said that the warriors of the Central Plains are powerful, one can be used against ten, or even one can be used against a hundred, and the attack will lose its vigor in the future, and it finally lasted until the Suzaku army came."

——At this time, after he finished talking about the great battle, he also relaxed, and returned to the shy look when he first met; You can hear the clank.In the end, it was Cha Xiaoxia who coughed and said:

"After talking for so long, I haven't asked the little brother's name yet."

The young man said "ah", smiled, cupped his hands and said, "I am Qiao Yifan of Xingxin Villa, who is called 'One Inch Ash' by people in the Jianghu."

五

After that, everyone in the house chatted miscellaneously, and did not say goodbye until the snow stopped in the morning—Chunyi Laolanhe continued to go south, Ye Weiyang went to Tyranny to take the helm, and Cha Xiaoxia continued to go to Beijing for a while On the way to inquire about news, while Qiao Yifan is crossing the river, he is going to find Gao Yingjie from the Chinese Herb Hall who joined him.He rode his horse slowly on the snowy road alone, but he couldn't help thinking of the time when the city was besieged by reincarnation.

After leaving the battlefield that day, everyone basically looked like a blood man.In the city, Wei Chen and Jiang Botao only went back and forth to direct the rolling logs and rocks, while Fang Minghua and An Wenyi, despite being exhausted, stuck the last few thousand gold squares on Ye Xiu and Zhou Zekai.

Ye Xiu waved his hand and told them to take care of others first. He walked up to Zhou Zekai with a few steps, and his face turned dark: "I told you, I told you not to come down... You are the master of the city of reincarnation, and you risked yourself , It's just nonsense."

Zhou Zekai was slowly adjusting his breath at that time. Hearing this sentence, he was not annoyed. He just raised his head and looked at Ye Xiu: "Can you stay in the city?"

Ye Xiu looked at him.At that time, everyone was also on the side, and they were all forced by their aura, and they couldn't say a word of persuasion-the two of them had a reason for this matter, but Qiao Yifan had never seen Ye Xiu's face like this, let alone Zhou Zekai was so determined.For a moment, he even felt that both of them seemed to want to fight——

But Ye Xiu only took a step forward and hugged Zhou Zekai tightly.

The hug was too fast and too short, even Qiao Yifan felt that his eyes were dazzled, so he heard Ye Xiu say again: "Find a clean room, I'll push the blood for you."

Zhou Zekai nodded and smiled, as if the brief quarrel just now had never happened.

However, when Qiao Yifan thought about that day again, the first thing that popped up in his mind was the image of those two people standing together in the city surrounded by blood.

——It seems that there are thousands of troops and horses, but they can't take a step forward.

He tightened the hood on his head and urged the horse forward again, but seeing that the sky was cloudy, it was another snowstorm.

But there is always someone waiting for him.

And the long winter will always pass.

[end]