Stirring up with the old enemy

The end of the hour.

Marquis of Pingle and General of the Western Hussars Hao Chun was inexplicably suppressed last night, and when he opened his eyes, he became more and more angry, angry with Chen Jingming, and angry with himself.Taking advantage of the time when Chen Jingming got up to get food, he put on his clothes and ran away.

He ignored no one when he got outside the tent, and hastily brought only about [-] cavalry, calling it a routine sentinel.As a result, shortly after leaving Haizi, I bumped into a small group of Wutu people.It was the moment when he was full of displeasure and wished to kill someone, so he couldn't bear it at all, so he immediately chased after him.Those Wutu people were like ghosts, deliberately hanging him, and every time they were about to chase him, they would hula and hide behind the sand hill.Later, the sand mountain went around the sand mountain, and after Haizi passed, it was still another Haizi. The sky changed at some point, and the sun was extremely pale.

Before the end of time, Hao Chun's inexplicable anger suppressed by Chen Jingming hadn't dissipated, but he was lost.

Hao Chun went around and walked half a mile along the desert when he suddenly felt something was wrong.There are not even seabuckthorn dates around here, and the horseshoes are trembling with cold under the bare sun.

"This is not the way we went to check out the sentry." Hao Chun reined in the horse suddenly, and said vigilantly: "Go, turn back!"

The small group of Wutu people disappeared long ago, in this strange land, even the old horse may not know the way, let alone people from the Central Plains like Yingtian.If he fell into the enemy's trap, it would be a loss for his wife and an army.

Ah bah, the lady in his tent lost her money.

Hao Chun endured the pain in his butt, full of anger, he quickly reined in his horse in the dark night, and said anxiously: "Hurry back to the camp!"

The voice of people in the desert was transmitted very far, and a bright moon shone in the sky. Hao Chun and the [-] cavalry he brought quickly gathered.The cavalry guarded Hao Chun, cautiously trying to exit this strange desert.

Whoosh, a cold arrow came from nowhere and went straight to Hao Chun's face.

"General!"

"General be careful!"

Hao Chun alertly rolled over and hid under the horse's belly, cursing in a low voice.

More cold arrows sprung up in the night like mushrooms after rain, and under the cold moon, a large black shadow loomed, with the unique sturdy iron clothes of Wutu people.The air was filled with a pungent bloody smell, and the cavalry surrounding Hao Chun kept crying and fell down.

"General?"

A dozen or so cavalry had to protect Hao Chun and retreat.

The right road of Haidao exits the border of Liuzhong County, 360 miles southeast to Shazhou, and the quicksand gradually rises.Hao Chun led the last seven or eight confidant cavalry to flee in a panic, but the damned Uguls chased after him, probably because they knew that Hao Chun was the General of Hussars sent by Yingtian.Ugur has alliances with Cheshi before and after, and now Yingtian is going to attack Cheshi's country, Ugur tribe also regards Hao Chun as an enemy.

Ugul is a nomadic people spread all over the northern border, Jiaohe, Loulan and Kunlun. Among them, the most sturdy cavalry are called Wutu people by Yingtian.

The Wutu people are the nightmare of all Yingtian soldiers.

When Hao Chun fled to Dashahai, it snowed in the night, and the moon in this ghost place was as big as the paper lanterns of the Lantern Festival in Chang'an City.The white sand is mixed with fine snow, and everything under the snow is as bright as day.All you can see along the way is sand moraine, and under the bright moon, phosphorous fires appear faintly. Those are abandoned human and animal bones and camel and horse dung.

"kill--!"

The shouts of killing after him were shocking, and Hao Chun had to turn around and fight from time to time to win a moment of escape.

The Wutu people didn't seem to want to encircle him on the spot, but were more willing to play the cat-and-mouse trick with him. As he fought and fled all the way, the Wutu people surrounded him one after another from various intersections. The most terrifying thing was The hooves of the horses sounded into pieces, and it was obvious that there were more than a thousand opponents.

Thousands of Wutu people? !This group of thieves and slaves has always been one against a thousand, and each of them killed without blinking an eye. Except for the time when Hao Chun's father was ordered to go to the Western Regions and was defeated in the reign of Emperor Lu, there has never been an army in Yingtian's history books that encountered thousands of Wutus. records.It took Hao Chun more than four years to find out that his father met a thousand Wutu people and was beheaded in Loulan.Even the bones were broken.

He will never go the way his father did!

Hao Chun bowed suddenly, jumped forward hundreds of feet, and shouted: "Entering the valley! There is a valley ahead!"

In an extremely dangerous situation, the moonlight is hidden under the boundless black sky, and a deep ditch can be vaguely seen.Into the depths of the valley, after Hao Chun led his men to run for more than half an hour, he saw that the road under his feet became narrower and narrower, and it was almost impossible for one person and one rider to pass.The canyons on both sides rise up from nowhere, bare with no vegetation, only red sand splashing, looking up, it is difficult to see the sun and the moon.

"General?" The cavalrymen running behind Hao Chun looked ashamed and panicked. "It's hundreds of miles away from the camp, we're going the wrong way."

Of course Hao Chun knew that they were going the wrong way. Ever since he met the small group of Wutu people, the other party had deliberately led him to go the wrong way.The most suspicious thing is that the opponent seems to be sure that he will be alone today, and he only has three hundred cavalry with him, and he will definitely chase after the Wutu people.

Who is the other party who actually understands him to such an extent? !

Hao Chun wiped the dust off his face, he fled for a whole day and night, adding to the absurdity of last night, his voice became extremely hoarse.The silver eagle helmet was covered with flying snow and fine sand, white steam came out of the nostrils when breathing, it was so fucking cold!Hao Chun raised a pair of jucui eyebrows, leaned over the horse's back, and cursed viciously. "Master, I don't believe it. Is it possible that I will be surrounded by squids tonight?"

It's not like he was young, at the age of 20, he fell into the gate of hell.

Hao Chun raised his whip and pointed to the depths of the valley, raised his head and raised his eyebrows, and his voice still showed the bright energy unique to young people. "A good man doesn't suffer from immediate losses! Let's go, we all go to hide there with the master first, and we can talk about it after dawn."

The intestines of the sheep in the deep valley were so rugged that the last few people had to walk with their horses.As they walked, the shouts of the Wutu people suddenly disappeared for some reason. When they got to the bottom of the valley, climbed ropes and fell down the cliff to seek refuge in a cave, the group of Wutu people did not appear.

Several horses paced restlessly on the edge of the cliff.Especially Hao Chunqi's Yuhuacong, with its head up and its hooves up, hissed non-stop, as if it didn't understand why Hao Chun wanted to abandon it.

"General, what should we do now?"

Hao Chunmao squatted at the entrance of the cave, looking out with his head.He fixed his eyes on Yuhuacong, raised his thick eyebrows and muttered something. "People can't hide here, we still have to find a place to hide."

"General?"

Hao Chun frowned and looked at the cavalryman who spoke, and then opened his eyes into the cave again, all of them looked disheartened.After fleeing overnight and being hungry, too many people died, and everyone's morale was low.

"I've seen this place before," Hao Chun said nonsense with his eyes open, and grinned, pretending to be indifferent. "There is a wonderful place in this valley called Dinggu Temple. There is a Buddha sitting on a bed in the temple."

Several cavalrymen looked up hopefully.

Hao Chun continued to write down with his eyes open, never mentioning that he had indeed seen this valley in the records of his father's expedition to the west during the years.According to the records, the Dinggu Temple is real, but God knows whether they will take refuge in the temple.

"Hehe, I heard that Buddha saves all sentient beings. If we go to him, he will definitely cover us. As soon as we catch our breath, we will go straight to the camp at dawn." Hao Chun said with a nose and eyes, Li raised her eyebrows slightly, as if she always had inexhaustible enthusiasm.

So the cavalrymen who survived the catastrophe believed it.Only one asked weakly. "General, can't we hide in this hole?"

"Horses can't enter the cave." Hao Chun frowned for a moment, then quickly put down his melancholy, bared his two small canine teeth, and cursed with a smile. "The horse ran away, shall we walk back after dawn?"

That's true.

Everyone believed him completely, and climbed up the cliff again in disgrace, found their own horses, and continued to go to the Dinggu Temple that Hao Chun had mentioned.

**

At the beginning of Hai.

Chen Jingming waited for Hao Chun in the tent for a long time, worrying if something happened to him.But after thinking about it again, he suspected that Hao Chun was just not convinced and was suppressed, so he ran away with the excuse of whistle.

Candles were brightly lit in the tent, and Chen Jingming sat quietly in front of the desk, holding a scroll in his hand.A pair of lacquered eyes fell on the pages of the book, and they could recognize every word, but they couldn't read, and their thoughts drifted far away with the wind and snow outside the tent.For a while, it was the charming eyes of last night, and for a while, it was the beautiful eyebrows of that fellow. The strange thing is, the one that appeared more often in front of him was the first encounter with that fellow.

In the tenth year of Yong'an, Xia Haochun rushed into Fulong Temple in purple clothes and braved the rain. That night it was raining and dark, and someone stood there knocking on the door with a lantern on the porch, scolding him for his nose was not his nose, his eyes were not his eyes.Then that guy Hao Chun came straight into his line of sight head-on, his purple clothes were drenched in the rain, his brows were clear and handsome under the black gauze forehead mask, and Danfeng's eyes were sharp.

"Jun Han," Hao Chun rolled off his horse, walked up to him with a black whip, and teased him with a smile. "You wait for the young master to take a bath and change clothes."

At that time, he deceived that guy by using his name as a name. That guy was a high-ranking nobleman, and he was not very annoyed by being cheated by his poor family and poor scholar for some reason.Later, in Chang'an Xishi Husi, he was caught lying, and it was only a few disputes, and it passed.

It was the first time that guy kissed him in Hu Si in Chang'an West City.

Ah!

Chen Jingming couldn't help but curled his lips into a soft smile, lowered his eyes, and gradually became tired holding the scroll in his hand.That fellow is always like this. He looks like he is showing his teeth and claws, but he is actually very soft-hearted. He just needs to be coaxed a little, and he can immediately raise his eyebrows and smile energetically--two small canine teeth are slightly exposed, and Qiushui Danfeng's eyes are all his Chen Jingming's. reflection.

When that guy returns to camp this time, he must be coaxed well.

**

On the second day, Maozheng.Chen Jingming wandered outside Lu Ji's tent wrapped in silver fox fur.When he was drinking with Lu Ji before, his words were full of thorns, but now that Hao Chun is gone, he thought about it, but he had no choice but to look for Lu Ji.At most, I don't want to be shameless!

Chen Jingming plucked up his courage and walked to Lu Ji's tent, and said to the guard: "I have an official matter to discuss, please trouble..."

Before he finished speaking, Lu Ji's joy and anger came from inside. "Master Chen, please come in!"

Chen Jingming immediately lifted his clothes and went in.

Lu Ji was immersed in the copywriting in the tent without raising his head.Chen Jingming slightly arched his hands and went straight to the point. "I don't know if Lu Jianjun has any news from Lord Hou?"

Lu Ji sketched out the last few words, picked up the official seal from the desk and stamped it, and then lifted the thin letter paper to his lips and blew it. He didn't respond to Chen Jingming's question at all.After four or five breaths, Lu Jiyue dried up the new ink on the paper, then raised his eyelids and glanced at Chen Jingming, put down the letter, leaned back lazily, and smiled with his lips drawn. "Master Chen didn't mention it, but I forgot, Master Chen and Lord Pingle are the royal couple! Last night...you two have a bridal chamber, right?"

Chen Jingming: ...

He was turned into a salted fish by Lu Ji after he entered the account, and now he is spying on him and Hao Chun's bridal chamber.Oh, why!

Chen Jingming's angry face turned pale, and his pair of lacquered eyes were raging with anger. After three breaths, he forced his jaw up and said coldly, "Master Lu asked what you mean by this:"

Lu Ji sat in the chair and looked at him with a sarcastic smile. "Well, the two of you have a strong relationship, so Mr. Chen's heart is always on that Ping Lehou. I can understand and sympathize with Mr. Chen. It's a pity..."

Lu Ji hesitated to speak deliberately, staring at Chen Jingming's angry appearance for a long time, as if he was maliciously playing with a piece of jade in order to raise his hand to break it.After a long time, he gloomily laughed again. "It's a pity, Mr. Chen, it's a big taboo for Yushitai to show favoritism! Didn't Mr. Chen forget that you came from Chang'an City this time, and you are only in charge of food supervision?"

"The food supervisor can't ask about military affairs?" Chen Jingming sneered back. "The commander-in-chief is gone, and the morale of the army is unstable, but so far the Lu supervisor has never said a single word. Could it be that the supervisor is not effective?"

With a sullen face on the spot, Lu Ji lifted up the letterhead on the desk, his words full of sarcasm. "Ineffective in supervising the army? The commander ran away privately. Could it be that Mr. Chen meant to blame me for not looking for him in person?"

"Shouldn't we go look for him?" Chen Jingming clenched his fists and asked sharply.

"Heh, heh heh!" Lu Ji sneered a few times, and sealed the letter with red wax in front of Chen Jingming.The red wax melted into Lu Ji's two slender fingers that had held pens and ink since childhood, and it was very hot. "To tell you the truth, Mr. Chen, I am writing a secret letter to Marquis Pingle. Lord Pingle's sentry failed this time. Instead, he made a fool of himself. I have sent three memorials in a row. Hou Haochun, Marquis of Pingle, missed the military plane. .”

Chen Jingming gasped, his jade-like eyebrows moved, and after a long time, he raised his eyebrows and stared at Lu Ji in disbelief. "Master Lu, you intend to put him to death?!"

Lu Ji pinched the sealed secret letter with his fingertips, and the corners of his lips curled gloomily, without answering him directly, he said coldly: "Since Mr. Chen must intervene in military matters, I will advise Mr. Chen as well." In a word, there are people from Cheshi Kingdom, Loulan, and Turks mixed here and there. My Yingtian soldiers are all from the Central Plains. They are not good at fighting the severe cold and riding in the desert. Ping Lehou went deep into the enemy's hinterland this time, and he only wanted to take risks. Making meritorious service is a taboo for military strategists."

When a complete set of Mandarin is smashed down, every word can kill people.

Chen Jingming stared straight at Lu Ji, clenched his fists and said with a sneer, "Why does Supervisor Lu have to talk so complicated. You and I know it well, you just want to kill him!"

Lu Ji also stared back at him, thinking of something, his snort suddenly became unsteady, his face became paler and greener, and he was extremely gloomy.After a long time, he sneered again. "It seems that I have to write another letter. The supervisor of the grain officer, Mr. Chen, you are selfish. You don't know the art of war and you are not in your position, but you talk about the three armies."

"……you!"

But Lu Ji ignored him, got up directly, raised his voice and yelled outside the tent. "see a visitor out!"

Several tooth generals came in together with Lu Ji's personal servant boy, and surrounded Chen Jingming.

"Master Chen, please go back."

Chen Jingming looked around, and was shocked to realize that he had no hands or anything to rely on this trip, and he was not as good as the last time he went to Jiangnan.If he insisted on fighting with Lu Ji, he might be ordered by this guy to throw him out.

Chen Jingming clenched his fist again, staring at Lu Ji unwillingly with his lacquered eyes, and snorted coldly. "Lu Jianjun, you are not the only one in this world who can write notes."

"I know that you are from Yushitai," Lu Ji said with a smile that was not a smile. "If Mr. Chen feels dissatisfied, he can join his office at any time."

He had said nothing, and if he stayed, it would be nothing more than a big fight with Lu Ji.

Quarreling cannot save Hao Chun.

Chen Jingming suppressed his uneasiness, walked out of Lu Ji's tent with a cold face.

After breaking up this time, Lu Ji never came to support Chen Jingming again.He wanted to inquire about Hao Chun's news, so he could only take off his clothes and walk around the camp.The whereabouts of Pingle Houye and the commander of Zhengxi Hussar General Hao Chun are unknown, and none of the three armies know the secret. sentry.

How many days and nights can this exploration last?

Chen Jingming naturally didn't believe it.

On the fourth day, the uneasiness in Chen Jingming's heart became more and more intense. Before he knew it, he even went to the military camp seven times in one day.Seeing him again, the sergeants laughed jokingly inside and outside the words.

On this seventh trip, as soon as he arrived at the west gate of the barracks, he heard loud laughter all around.

"Look, look! That guy is here again."

"Our Lord Hou just hasn't come back for two days, so Mr. Chen must be in a hurry!"

Another sergeant who is not afraid of death roared loudly behind him. "Master Chen, if you really can't bear it, you can find some of our brothers!"

Chen Jingming turned his head suddenly, the crowd was full of the same Yingtian armor, but he couldn't find the sergeant who dared to tease him.Everywhere they looked, everyone had the same secretive smile on their mouths, and everyone didn't take him seriously from the bottom of their hearts.

Civil servants entering the military camp have always been like lambs entering the wolf's den.Hao Chun also looked down on him as a civil servant before.

Chen Jingming pursed his lips and looked quietly at the rows of Yingtian soldiers scattered in the camp. He didn't say anything, but his eyes were cold, and the laughter gradually stopped wherever his eyes passed.He stood on a high place in a silver fox fur, and a scarlet official robe, with no expression on his jade-like face, only those dark bottomless eyes staring at everyone.He waited until the laughter stopped and there was a dead silence in the camp, until the wind blowing sand in the field made people's skin hurt.

"The lord general is not here, and there is no one in the camp to look for it." Chen Jingming quietly looked down at the soldiers below. people. "Fortunately, you are still my soldiers!"

The closest to him were a few generals, who grinned and bared their teeth in displeasure when they heard this.

"Master Chen doesn't know something. Master Hou is used to his own actions. It's not that we don't want to look for it, but Master Hou doesn't like to be followed."

"That's right, this isn't the first time. Who doesn't know that our Marquis is a person who is desperate to steal military merits!"

"It's just..."

Chen Jingming raised his eyelids, and glanced at the faces of the speaking generals one by one, his thin lips were slightly drawn, and he actually smiled. "Wait, tell me your name."

The generals were stunned, and then subconsciously turned into anger, and roared at him:

"Who are you? I don't even care about those two brats, what I like to talk about, but you have a lot of shit!"

"You're just a food supervisor, so what's the point of reporting your name?"

"Well, I'm just a food supervisor." Chen Jingming closed the neckline of the silver fox fur, and quietly looked at the tooth general who spoke last. "Then why don't you dare to give your name?"

"...Fart, fart, who said I dare not report it."

Chen Jingming still stared at that person motionlessly, his eyes piercing his heart like a nail.

That Yajiang avoided his sight in fear, and hid behind the other people, still shouting endlessly. "Hey, there's no way to reason with something like your bitch."

The arc of Chen Jingming's thin lips was slightly higher, and his voice was clear and lingering. "Women?"

No one in Beijing dared to make fun of him.He is the first number one scholar from a poor family after Yingtian's restructuring. Since he served as the Yushitai for several times, the court officials secretly called him the cold-faced Hades.Oh, he is not in vain.

Chen Jingming waited quietly for another three breaths, curled his lips and said with a faint smile: "If no one tells his name today, I will have to write it all down, and say, in the Western Region Army..." He paused, deliberately The corners of his lips curled up again, it was almost a happy smile. "Under the supervision of the Lu Jianjun, the commander-in-chief was lost, but the army was only busy molesting the official."

"hiss……"

There was a lot of breathing in the audience, and then the whispering sound was like weeds.

"The coach is lost? Didn't Lord Hou go to check the post?"

"But Lu Jianjun said..."

Seeing that the wind had been released successfully and the harsh words were finished, Chen Jingming didn't stop for a moment, swung the silver fox fur, turned around and left.

Today, take the supervising army's inability to make a raft, and let's see how Lu Ji smooths things over!

At about three moments later, Lu Ji rode past Hao Chunshuai's tent wrapped in cold air, without turning his head.Chen Jingming heard the sound of horses, hurriedly opened the curtain and went out, and saw that Lu Ji was wearing a military uniform with a bow and knife on his waist. He was dressed as a member of the Huanghuang family, obviously just returned from the camp.

"Master Lu!" Chen Jingming hurriedly called him.

Lu and the others were on horseback, looked down at him condescendingly, and laughed gloomily. "Isn't Mr. Chen writing the memorandum of the official? Why do you have time, and the memo is finished?"

Chen Jingming raised his hand to grab the reins, and pursed his thin lips slightly. "It's been the fourth day since Ping Lehou disappeared. I don't know what Lu Jianjun's plan is?"

"How do you plan?" Lu Ji snorted angrily from his nostrils. "Master Chen, did you misunderstand me?"

Lu Ji raised his eyebrows and smiled very gloomyly. His originally handsome face was shrouded under the iron armor and silver helmet, and an inexplicable chill appeared. "You and I are both officials of the imperial court. I was ordered to supervise the war, and I had to do my best. Pinglehou went out to spy privately this time, but he never returned. Instead, Che Shiguo and the Wutu people were aroused. Today, we joined hands to call in front of my camp, saying that our Marquis Pingle captured their general. Marquis Pingle is not here, and I don’t know anything about the war on his side. These things... shouldn’t I be Is it fair to play the court?"

Chen Jingming was furious, clenched his fists under the sleeves of the official robe, and said in a cold voice: "Master Hou is missing, shouldn't the first priority be to send troops to find Lord Hou?"

"I'm very busy." The corners of Lu Ji's lips twitched, he reined in the horse's head and turned around on the spot, looking down at Chen Jingming. "Send troops? Master Chen thinks that the soldiers in this battalion are all surnamed Hao Bucheng?"

This sentence is really insidious.Hao Chun's blood flowed from the Qin royal family, and he was favored by Emperor Yong'an. If he wanted to fight for the position of emperor's heir, maybe he would really have nothing to do with Qin Dian, King of Anyang.

Chen Jingming recalled that the old servant Wang in Pinglehou's Mansion in Chang'an once warned him that the position and status of Lord Hou was like being roasted on fire.No, he can't cause trouble for Hao Chun.So he stared straight at Lu Ji, and his fingers were almost bleeding from the reins, and he refused to move away. "Lu Jianjun, you and I both know what it means to be missing in this desert."

"Oh? What does it mean?" Lu Ji looked at him with a smile, the circles under his eyes were darkened, which made his originally handsome face look extraordinarily cold now.

Chen Jingming looked at him, and said word by word, solemnly: "It means, death."

"It's death, so what?" Unexpectedly, Lu Ji raised his eyebrows and laughed, and there was no joy or anger in his words. "My lord, I should have returned the body shrouded in horse leather."

……hiss!

Chen Jingming glared and pinched his fingers, the reins between his fingers almost bleed from his slender fingertips.Standing outside the barracks, he raised his head and stared at Lu Ji on the horseback. He couldn't believe it, but he couldn't believe it. He said coldly, "Do you dare to kill him?"

Lu Ji didn't answer him this time, but leaned over and stared at him condescendingly.

I don't know how long it took, Lu Ji walked restlessly on his horse, and spewed out two streams of white air from his big nostrils.The cold sun shone on Lu Ji's silver armor and iron armor, and the knife on his waist also reflected cold light.

Lu Ji finally spoke.

"Yes."

He admitted it bluntly.

The author has something to say:

Chen Jingming (looking down and hooking lips, smiling slightly): You must coax him well.

Hao Chun: Fuck my ass hurts╭(╯^╰)╮