Sha Po Lang

Because of a Western envoy, people were dizzy due to the quarrel in the early morning. After the court was over, Chang Geng ignored the large group of people who wanted to spy on him with their own concerns, and helped the elderly Fenghan Gong out of the palace.

People in the capital were panicked, and there was a shortage of carriages and horses. Usually, Gu Yun asked Huo Dan to wait for him outside the palace with a horse, but this day Huo Dan was delayed by something, and he didn't see anyone for a while.

Chang Geng didn't pay attention at first, and walked side by side with the old dean of Lingshu Academy, walking back slowly.

Mr. Feng Han lives in the Lingshu Courtyard all day long, his eye sockets have sunken in, and his whole body looks like a radish that has been drained of water, leaving only a pair of radiant eyes, which look particularly toothache.

"It's hard for His Highness to have the patience to accompany us, an old man with bad legs and feet," Feng Han sighed, "Is there any news about the reinforcements, and when will they come?"

Chang Geng: "The rebellion in the four realms has blocked the five major military regions. You know what the local garrisons are like. Over the years, the military expenditures and purple gold quotas of each state have been reduced again and again. Basically, they can't afford a few heavy armors. They are all light fur and light. Although Qiu marched fast, dexterous and easy to mobilize, he was also easily blocked. Once the enemy army set up heavy armor or chariots along the way to intercept them, if the commander had little experience, it would be easy for the team to fall into the enemy's tight siege—foreigners even It doesn’t take many people.”

"Your Highness really makes me feel ashamed. The Lingshu Academy has not produced anything decent for several years," Zhang Fenghan shook his head mockingly, "I am a useless old man who is also a vegetarian in the corpse. Your Majesty is getting old, but unexpectedly encountering a national crisis, I'm afraid it will not end well."

Chang Geng said softly: "Feng Han's meritorious service will last forever, so don't underestimate yourself."

"Qianqiu... after Qianqiu, will there still be a big beam?" Zhang Fenghan pursed his mouth, "I thought that if I entered the Lingshu Academy, I would be able to ignore the outside world, deal with fire machines and steel armor for the rest of my life, and concentrate on being myself But it turns out that the world is bustling with people, even if gentlemen and villains go their own ways, they can always collide with each other. The more you don’t want to get involved in anything, the more you want to do something outstanding, the more you can’t do anything—— Even if you just want to be a scumbag full of mobile phone oil."

Chang Geng knew that Feng Hangong was just expressing his emotions and didn't want to hear his answer, so he smiled and didn't say anything.

Daliang has come to this point, the conflict between the imperial power and the military power for two generations is certainly the fuse, but it is not the most fundamental reason - the chronic disease has already doomed this problem when the treasury is getting more and more shabby every year. A dismal ending.

Zhang Fenghan: "The hidden stakes of the forbidden air network in Qiyuan Tower are adjusted every day. Those foreigners now only dare to drive military vehicles, and a large number of eagle armors dare not mount them. But the power in the hidden stakes is always limited. I heard that foreigners Pulling wooden kites with strings to 'fly kites' outside the city every day, I'm afraid that within a few days, the iron arrows stored in the hidden piles will be unsustainable, what should we do then, does Gu Shuai have any regulations?"

There are less than [-] Black Eagles in the North Camp, including those missing arms and legs. Once the air ban network fails, it may be the time when the city is destroyed.

Chang Geng: "Well, he knows and is trying to find a way."

Zhang Fenghan, who was full of worries, couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this. He didn't know whether to say that the king of Yanbei was "a boy born from a hero", or whether he should say that he was weak, as if even if the sky fell in front of him, the little prince would not say anything. Guan Ji generally "knows".

Zhang Fenghan deliberately lowered his voice and said, "Today, Commander Han of the Imperial Forest Army is missing from the court. Did the prince see it? Now there are rumors in the court that the emperor is annoyed at the Western envoys on the surface, but actually plans to move the capital."

Chang Geng smiled, his brows calm: "Your Majesty won't, and we haven't reached the point of no return. I saw the car of Lingshuyuan, and I'll help you up it... Well, Huo Bo is here?"

Huo Dan walked hurriedly, with a restless face, and came to Chang Geng: "This old slave is late today, my lord, please forgive me."

"No problem," Chang Geng waved his hand, "What delayed Huo Bo today?"

"..." Huo Dan glanced at his expression cautiously, "My Lord Hou was injured by a Westerner's arrow last night. I only heard about it early in the morning. I just went... Hey, my lord!"

Huo Dan and Zhang Fenghan were stunned, Chang Geng, who was still strolling just now, suddenly changed his expression, turned over and jumped on the horse, and disappeared like a gust of wind.

The smell of gunpowder smoke in front of the Nine Gates Formation hadn't dissipated yet, and the Western army retreated in silence at dawn, and Gu Yun was able to catch his breath for a while.

A piece of Xuan Tie's shoulder armor was dented, and the arrow had already been pulled out. Two military doctors surrounded Gu Yun, holding pliers and scissors, and carefully pried down his deformed shoulder armor. The clothes and flesh and blood inside had been mixed together. lump.

Chang Geng rushed in, his eyes fell on Gu Yun, and he couldn't help looking away, his face was even uglier than the injured one.

"Hiss..." Gu Yun took a deep breath, "I said, can you two have a better time? What about embroidery? How about it?"

Chang Geng didn't answer, he took a deep breath and stepped forward, waved the two military doctors back, bent down to carefully observe the piece of nails on Gu Yun's body that couldn't be broken off, took out a small iron tongs that were as long as a finger from his bosom, and hugged Gu Yun tightly. Yun's shoulder was cut off from the other side, his hands were extremely fast, the sharp pliers slashed the deformed shoulder armor like mud, and blood immediately stuck to his hand.

Chang Geng's cheeks tightened, and he couldn't breathe for a moment, he said in a low voice, "Why didn't you tell me when you got hurt like this?"

Gu Yun, who was still grinning just now, endured the pain and said through gritted teeth, "Small things—what did the Western envoys at the meeting say?"

"How can I put it this way, talking nonsense in the Golden Palace." Chang Geng moved his unsteady fingers, uncovering the broken armor that was stuck to Gu Yun's body with blood, "Let us lift the persecution and plunder of countries in the Western Regions." ’, give up the territory outside Jiayuguan to be the Wan Guo Commercial District, the laws and regulations in the commercial district shall follow their domestic rule of law, and..."

The deformed shoulder armor was completely peeled off, Chang Geng stared at Gu Yun's wound and took a deep breath, stood up straight with difficulty and took a moment to relax.

"And... what?" Gu Yun shuddered, sweating profusely, "I said doctor, why are you still dizzy with blood?"

Chang Geng's whole body was tense like an iron rod: "I'm dizzy with your blood."

He snatched Gu Yun's wine jug, and took two gulps of it. He felt dizzy and wanted to vomit, forced himself to breathe for a while, and then Chang Geng picked up the scissors on one side, and cut open the clothes that couldn't see the background color.

"In addition, the 36 counties in northern Xinjiang, Xijing to the north of the Youzhou line in Zhili were all allocated to the eighteen tribes, and the capital of Daliang was moved to the eastern capital of the Central Plains—and Princess Hening was sent to the eighteen tribes as a pledge. Eighteen ministries profess to be ministers, paying tribute every year..."

He Ning is Li Feng's only daughter, only seven years old.

Gu Yun said angrily: "Fart!"

As soon as he struggled, blood gushed out, and Chang Geng shouted unbearably: "Don't move!"

The two were relatively silent for a moment, Gu Yun's expression was cloudy, and after a while, he said: "...you continue."

"In addition, they also forced Li Feng to order Shen Yi to withdraw the southern Xinjiang garrison occupying the Nanyang Islands. The East China Sea Canal was divided into two rivers, the Jiangnan navy retreated to Hanoi, and the line outside the river and the East China Sea was assigned to the Western Far East " Chang Geng's eyes were heavy, but he wiped his wound very gently with his hands, paused, and said, "There is still compensation..."

Gu Yun tensed his muscles silently.

"In the early court, Li Feng wanted to kill the envoy, but was persuaded by the officials." Chang Geng held Gu Yun's uninjured shoulder, "I want to clean the wound, foster father, can you temporarily seal your consciousness?"

Gu Yun shook his head.

Chang Geng persuaded: "I only use a little medicine, you are highly resistant to medicine, you won't be able to sleep for long, if there is any change in the outer city, I will guard it for you..."

"Just wash it," Gu Yun interrupted him, "Don't talk nonsense."

Chang Geng glanced at him and realized that it was useless to reason with this person.

At this moment, Tan Hongfei ran over and said, "Marshal..."

As soon as Gu Yun turned his head, he smelled a strange fragrance. He inhaled it unpreparedly, and his whole body softened immediately.

The wise and mighty Marquis Anding never expected that His Highness the Duke of the County would use such unscrupulous quack tricks as "the world in his sleeves", and even use it on himself!

Gu Yun: "You..."

Without blinking, Chang Geng quickly inserted the needle into his acupuncture point, and then grabbed Gu Yun's unconscious body.

Tan Hongfei, who watched helplessly as the coach was brought down, was stunned at the door, staring at His Royal Highness, "..."

Chang Geng made a silence gesture at him without changing his expression, picked up Gu Yun and laid him flat, and began to wash his wound carefully.

Tan Hongfei was dumbfounded: "This...then..."

Chang Geng: "It's okay, let him sleep for a while, so as not to suffer."

Tan Hongfei blinked—a long time ago, he always thought that His Royal Highness Yanbei King was like a kind scholar, but later he found out that he could count, and he admired him very much, and he felt close... Until this moment, Tan Hongfei It was only then that the commander raised a raging reverence for him.

Tan Hongfei subconsciously stretched out his hand to touch his face - the scars on his face from Gu Yun's slap hadn't gone away - and said in his heart: "My lord is so courageous."

Chang Geng: "By the way, what's the matter?"

Only then did Tan Hongfei come to his senses, and hurriedly said: "Your Highness, the emperor is here, and the driver is behind, look..."

While speaking, the haggard-looking Li Feng arrived in casual clothes, with only Zhu Xiaojiao with him.

Li Feng looked down at the unconscious Gu Yun, then reached out to touch his forehead: "Is the emperor all right?"

"Flesh injury." Chang Geng bandaged the wound, put a layer of thin silk robe on Gu Yun's body, and packed his silver needle: "It's just that I gave him some anesthetic, he won't be able to wake up for a while, Brother Huang Don't be surprised."

After Chang Geng finished speaking, he got up and picked up Gu Yun's Wind Cutter, without wearing the armor, turned and walked outside.

Li Feng hurriedly asked: "What?"

"I'll guard the city for a while for my adoptive father," Chang Geng said, "Although the envoy is in Beijing, I'm afraid it's a maze of Westerners. Maybe they will attack the city when we relax our vigilance. It's better to be cautious."

Li Feng stood there blankly for a while, then suddenly grabbed a saber and followed him out, Zhu Xiaojiao was shocked: "Your Majesty!"

Li Feng ignored him and climbed up the city wall.

With the clairvoyance in his hand, Emperor Long An saw that not far away was the camp of the Western Army, and the fertile soil in the suburbs of Beijing was now completely devastated.In the past, the Nine Gates of the capital, where cars were flowing like water and horses were like dragons, was in a state of depression. The city wall that had collapsed at a corner was firmly supported by the scrapped black iron armor, crumbling and unyielding.

The ordinary soldiers of the Northern Camp all knew Chang Geng and came forward to pay respects, but they didn't know Li Feng, they just saw him well-dressed and handsome, so they thought he was a civil servant and called him vaguely "Master".

The two brothers of Li's family, who are both in appearance and in spirit, stand side by side on the city wall. They have no similarities in appearance or figure, and their kinship is as thin as a piece of window paper that can be pierced with a finger.

Li Feng suddenly said to Chang Geng: "Han Qi should be back in the afternoon, you can send a message to Uncle Huang and ask him to find someone he can trust to meet him."

Chang Geng didn't inquire about it, he didn't seem to be curious at all, he just replied casually: "Yes."

Li Feng: "Don't ask where I sent Han Qi to?"

Chang Geng lowered his eyes slightly, looked at the stone bricks of the city wall, and said after a moment of silence: "I have dispatched Ziliujin and military supplies in the household department for a while, and found that there are some doubts about the access of Ziliujin in the imperial court over the past few years...but it may be the emperor's brother. Make your own arrangements."

As soon as Emperor Long'an heard it, he knew that Chang Geng had already noticed the bit of Ziliujin that he had kept privately.

Li Feng said with some embarrassment: "Well, there is a secret road leading to Jinghua Garden in Deshengmen. I asked Han Qi to lead the troops out of the city from here, and opened the private warehouse of Jinghua Garden. There are...cough, The 16 catties of Ziliujin that I haven't had time to release—don't say anything, the people in the court are not stable right now, if you know about the secret way, I'm afraid some people's hearts will fluctuate."

Chang Geng nodded, not too surprised - Li Feng took out his family fortune.

It is impossible for a self-willed emperor like Long'an to lose his power and humiliate the country and become a vassal. He would rather be buried under the nine gates.

As soon as he was silent, there was nothing to talk between the two of them—in fact, it has always been the case, except for the polite nonsense about government affairs and greetings, there is really nothing to talk between the Li family brothers.

Li Feng: "How long have you known Uncle Huang?"

Chang Geng: "...The imaginary age is twelve."

Li Feng said with a "huh": "He didn't have a family, and he has been leading the army in the Northwest for a long time, so he probably doesn't know how to take care of you?"

Chang Geng's gaze fluctuated slightly: "No, he is very good at loving people."

Li Feng squinted his eyes and looked at the dim sky, remembering that he had grown up with Gu Yun. When he was a child, he occasionally envied his father who treated Gu Yun better and gentler, but most of the time he still felt that this little emperor uncle Don't play with them much, but nice people.

He also thought that this youthful affection could last a lifetime.

But it has only been more than ten years, and it has already been like this.

"Amin," Li Feng said, "If the city breaks down, I will pass it on to you. You take the harem and all the officials along the secret road first, and move the capital to Luoyang... and then slowly plan, there will always be a day of comeback."

Chang Geng finally took a look at him.

"If there is such a day," Li Feng continued, looking into the distance with flat eyes, "you don't have to be still in the crown prince, just let your nephews have a place to live."

Chang Geng didn't respond, and after a while, he said indifferently without any emotion: "Brother Huang is serious, not to that extent."

Li Feng looked at his younger brother, and vaguely remembered what he had heard from his mother when he was a child.

She said that the women from the northern barbarians are all monsters, who are the best at playing with poison and demagoguery, and that the monsters that will be born in the future will also tarnish Daliang's royal blood.

Later, Marquis An Ding took the fourth prince who had been living among the people for many years back to the palace. In the name of the late emperor's last wish and his benevolence, Li Feng kept him. .

And until this moment, Emperor Long An realized that he couldn't see through this young man.

Faced with national disasters and great enemies, he doesn't change his face, and the Ninth Five-Year Master can't touch his heart. The clothes on his body seem to be from last year, and the cuffs are worn out and he doesn't change them.

He is even more elusive than Master Liao in the Huguo Temple, and he doesn't love anything, as if nothing in this world can move him.

Li Feng opened his mouth, and at this moment, Zhu Xiaojiao reminded him in a low voice, "Your Majesty, it's time to return to the palace."

Li Feng came back to his senses, handed the sword to the soldier beside him, patted Chang Geng's shoulder wordlessly, glanced at the tall and straight figure of the young man, turned and left.

After Li Feng left, a disheartened monk went up to the tower—it was Qingran.

The monks of Huguo Temple have all withdrawn into the city. Together with the abbot, he recites scriptures every day to pray for the fortune of the country, and secretly uses informants to investigate people around Li Feng at night.

Chang Geng glanced at him.

Liao Ran shook his head, gestured and said: "I checked around, and the history of the people around the emperor are all clean, and they didn't have close contacts with eighteen witches and their subordinates."

Chang Geng: "The emperor is suspicious by nature, he is not a person who can't hide things, our side has leaked secrets again and again, the insider must be his confidant - have you checked Eunuch Zhu?"

Liao Ran shook his head solemnly - checked, no problem.

Chang Geng frowned slightly.

At this moment, Gu Yun, who had been knocked down by Chang Geng with needles and medicine, finally woke up. He almost slept like he didn't know what was going on. It wasn't until the dull pain from the wound on his shoulder came that he belatedly remembered what had happened.

Gu Yun got up and put on his clothes, ready to settle accounts with Chang Geng.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he came out, he heard a loud noise from a distance, and the whole capital shook. Gu Yun supported the city wall, thinking: "Earthquake?"

Chang Geng on the city tower suddenly turned his head, and a dark look flashed across his brows—he always thought that the traitor in the imperial city was a palace man next to Li Feng, but Li Feng was cautious and suspicious, so how could he disclose the matter of Jinghua Garden to him? The servants around?

Gu Yun: "What's wrong?"

"I don't know," Chang Geng walked down quickly, "Li Feng came here just now and said that he asked Han Qi to start from the secret road and go to Jinghua Garden to transport Ziliujin... Is that the direction of the western suburbs?"

Gu Yun woke up with a jolt.

On the ninth day of May, the secret of Jinghua Garden was leaked, and the peace talks of the Westerners were indeed a cover, but instead of taking the opportunity to attack the city, they sent troops to detour to the west of Beijing to rob and kill Han Qi on the way.

After struggling to the death, Han Qi was finally defeated, so he made a quick decision and set a fire of one hundred thousand Ziliujin on fire, blowing up the secret passage directly, and destroying everything.

The fire engulfed the entire western suburbs like a prairie fire, and the inexhaustible Ziliujin seemed to be a karmic fire brought from the ground, which would escort Ziliujin's Imperial Forest Army, the Westerners who were caught off guard, and even the beautiful landscapes of Jinghua Garden, All the pavilions, terraces and pavilions were burned, and the special purple air reflected half of the sky like auspiciousness, like a thick and colorful glow flying down from the sky——

The heart of the earth is burning, and the entire capital is trembling.

The hot current stretches for dozens of miles, slowly flowing from the western suburbs into the rock-solid Nine Gates, and the cool early summer in the capital is like a stove in southern Xinjiang for a moment.

The originally faint and indistinguishable smell of Ziliujin diffused against the east wind, and everyone finally tasted that special taste—it turned out to be an indescribable fragrance.

It seems that rosin is mixed with a little greenery.

All the surviving heavy armors were mobilized by Gu Yun, and the strings of the white rainbow tightened.

As he expected, the Western army really moved at this time.

Gu Yun didn't know how many Western troops were destroyed by that fire, and he didn't know how long the Pope could last under such intense wear and tear.After many days of siege, both sides have reached their limit.

Just after the end of the day, the first wave of frenzied offensive arrived, with heavy armor and chariots moving alternately, artillery fire and white rainbow one after another, and there was almost no gap between the fierce artillery fire from both sides.