Stirring up with the old enemy

In the 17th year of Yong'an, the eighth day of April.

The Marquis of Pingle and the General of the Xi Hussars, Hao Chun, ambushed in the middle of the Hangu Pass. The front and rear were all enemy soldiers. Capture Hao Chun alive.The leader of Ugul is Allah Khan, he was captured by Hao Chun last time, and he had a sworn enemy with Hao Chun, so he personally led Wutu's brave cavalry to besiege the east road.

Hao Chun shot with a red-tasseled gun until his snow-white war robe was stained with blood, and there was a murderous look in Yun Li's eyes.He led thousands of cavalry and fought and retreated. It seemed as if he was fighting for his life with great difficulty, and he made it to the outside of Hangu Pass.Lu Ji, who was guarding the gate, stayed behind closed doors, and the heavy stone gate was closed, cutting off his last chance of escape.

"Open the door! Open the door!"

Hao Chun's cronies repeatedly rode their horses into the stone gate, raised their heads and yelled at the soldiers guarding the gate, "Don't save yourself, don't you dare to treason?"

The soldiers guarding the gate above leaned over to look down, and also raised their voices. "Lord Lu has an order saying that Lord Pingle issued a military order before he set out to go on an expedition, and he can only come back if he wins!"

win?Who the hell doesn't want to win? !

Hao Chun turned around and looked at the dust rising gradually, Allah Khan was chasing him with tens of thousands of Wutu cavalry. He fled for four days and three nights, and Allah Khan chased him for four days and three nights.Now it's so easy that there are two stone gates away from the camp, but the gates refuse to open for him.

Hangu Pass, I'm afraid it will be the place where I will die.

Can not go back……

Hao Chun laughed at himself, looked around at the panicked cronies, there were about 300 people left following him. "Who's with the eagle?"

One person answered.

"Send the letter back to the camp, saying that this battle is not my master and I have missed the opportunity of the war, but that the reinforcements that I promised will not come!" Hao Chun gritted his teeth. This time he rushed thousands of miles, but when he saw that he was about to hit Huanglong, he was ambushed. , He led the crowd to the Boundary Valley Monument where the three armies and horses had agreed to meet, but there was not a single bird there.

The people who agreed to support him probably followed Lu Ji and joined Qin Dian, King of Anyang, and vowed to kill him.

Hao Chun wiped his face, and the two strands of hair on his sideburns fell from the silver eagle wing helmet, dripping with sweat, mixed with blood stains that hadn't fully dried yet. "Also, give it to...forget it, I will write it myself, sir."

Looking back, there were countless pursuers, and Lu Ji's soldiers who refused to open the city gate stood on the gate, and the smoke of the wolf ignited straight in the desert.Hao Chun was not convinced in the end, and bitterly wrote down what might be his last memorial in this life.

Hao Chun saw with his own eyes that the kite soldier took his memorial, turned his horse's head, bypassed the Hangu Pass camp, took the trail and sent the letter to Chang'an along the sandy road where horses and camels were traded.

With a pen in his mouth, he suddenly remembered that he hadn't written a letter to his family. If he really died outside the pass this trip, what should he do with the huge Pinglehou Mansion?Wang Lao's servant was given to him by the emperor, and he was originally expected to provide for the elderly!It's a pity that he is on the horse, and the time he can write home letters is very short.The shouts of the enemy army on the top of Hangu Pass were overwhelming, and there were echoes in the valley. It seemed that there were millions of people.But how many people can a Cheshi country have?Even if the Shiguo came out in full force, there would not be such a big commotion.I'm afraid it's still a plan of suspicion!

Hao Chun pondered his thoughts in his heart, and when he wrote the pen, he swayed for a moment, and actually wrote the word "Han Jun".

Han Jun is the character of that guy, and when he first met outside Fulong Temple, that guy always used this word as his name to fool him.He was confused and angry for four or five years, but now looking back, could it be that everything has a definite plan?When he met that guy in Fulong Temple, Ji Yang, a bald monk in the temple, was reciting scriptures, "The Curse of Rebirth".

"The Curse of Rebirth" is read to the dead.

He is now dying too.

Hao Chun sneered self-deprecatingly, the words on the tissue paper were rarely true.In a rare and calm way, he said to the guy——

[Mr. Han Jun, you and I are born at the wrong time, my young master, I have no other thoughts after I die.From now on, live well, the name of Mrs. Pingle Hou's Mansion cannot keep you.In the future, you will be friends with whomever you love. 】

The Utu cavalry brought by Allah Khan was close in sight, and the sound of horseshoes was like thunder.

"Report—!"

"General, the east corner can break through, and there is a narrow passage after bypassing Hangu Pass!"

The kite soldier who was going to deliver the booklets suddenly turned around and shouted loudly at Hao Chun: "General, hurry up! Follow the general to the northeast corner!"

With a pen in his mouth, Hao Chun hurriedly shook the reins, whipped the horse, and led the remnants to run wildly along the path pointed by the kite soldiers.About half an hour later, he saw that there was a narrow passage that seemed to be able to pass through this concave pass. Usually, when he was patrolling the camp, the narrow passage was covered by creepers. This spring, there was a severe drought and the water receded. , Only then did I see a way.

Hao Chun immediately lifted his spirits.

Once a person has a living head, there is no need to write these decadent things.He threw down the pen, rolled up the piece of tissue paper that he wrote to Chen Jingming just now, and threw it to the kite soldier who was passing the letter beside him. "Yes, this thing is also tied to the eagle's legs and sent to the lady in Chang'an City."

"Yes, Lord Hou!" The kite soldier answered loudly, his face covered with ashes and blood, and solemnly put the family letter Hao Chun wrote to Chen Jingming into his arms, raised his face, and asked a few more questions. "Does Hou Ye have any message to pass?"

Hao Chun turned the horse's head, and the man had already jumped out. Hearing the sound, he turned his head and shouted: "Just one sentence! I won't let him go."

Half an hour later, the narrow passage Hao Chun rushed into suddenly burst into thunder.The sound of thunder continued, Che Shiguo's ambush soldiers shouted and killed, and the flames shot into the sky.

Hao Chun and his trusted cavalry were all annihilated in the sea of ​​fire.

**

Changan.

In the early summer of Yong'an 17, strong winds swept across the desert in April, but the city of Chang'an was brightly lit. The kite soldiers who sent Hao Chun's booklets and family letters came from outside the pass and galloped towards Chang'an.

It's a pity that Chen Jingming is not at Yushitai, and at Pinglehou Mansion, he is on his way to the Western Regions to supervise grain.

In March last year, his mentor told him that Hao Chun specially wrote an excerpt for His Majesty, saying that he would never see him again from now on.Is the court going to send a food supervisor?Yes, but Chen Jingming cannot be sent.The booklet was withheld by Cheng Huaijing, his mentor, and handed it to him face to face.At that time, Chen Jingming was like a thunderbolt, and felt in a daze that he couldn't believe it. He pinched the document and asked again and again. This book...is it really Ping Lehou's own handwriting?

The mentor only smiled, and let him see by himself.

Chen Jingming read it, one by one, as if he didn't know the words, and then he raised his face and asked in a daze, if he really doesn't see me again from now on, teacher, what should I do?

Cheng Huaijing raised her long eyebrows and smiled at him very coldly.Mr. Han, have you forgotten that the two of you already have a marriage contract, even if the war delays, he can't rush back to Chang'an this year to marry you, can't you go to the Western Regions to find a husband?

There was a glimmer of hope in Chen Jingming's eyes.

Cheng Huaijing stood up and patted him on the shoulder, smiling meaningfully.Mr. Han, there are some things...you have to let him go.For example, since you have taken advantage of the name of the husband and wife, so what if you let him save face on the outside?

Thank you teacher for calling!Chen Jingming was suddenly cheerful at that time, and he was sincere and sincere, and the students were taught.

It has been more than a year since then.

Hao Chun, the Marquis of Pingle, used to be cruel, but he was so cold that he had nothing to say, and never sent him a letter.He has learned the method taught by his teacher Cheng Huaijing, and he will take the initiative to write to Hao Chun calmly during the New Year and holidays.Sometimes Liao Dan wrote a few lines, sometimes it was a special product of Chang'an City, and once the wintersweet bloomed in Pinglehou's mansion, he sealed a few petals of wintersweet and sent them to the border, so that the servant could also smell the fragrance of the flowers.

That guy used to love Gui Zixiang, but Gui Zixiang was used by Ruyu, a young girl from Chang'an City. Chen Jingming was not sure who that guy thought of when he received a bag of Gui Zixiang... Is it him, Chen Jingming, or that Jiao Didi? Your little girl is like jade?

Chen Jingming lowered his eyelids, and smiled self-deprecatingly.The wheels of the carriage twitched, and the scenery outside gradually turned into a desert.

"Master Chen, do you want to rest for a while?"

Chen Jingming opened the curtain of the carriage, looked out, frowned and asked, "How long will it take to reach Hangu Pass?"

"It's coming soon. It will take about half a month to get there. The main food and supplies will not go fast."

Chen Jingming frowned even tighter. After a moment of silence, he asked abruptly, "What if you escort the food and grass after me, and I go first?"

The person who spoke to Chen Jingming was Xiao Wang Wulang transferred from the Longhu Ben Army, one of the Chang'an dudes who had been with Hao Chunye at Fulong Temple for ten years in Yong'an, so he knew a lot about the relationship between Hao Chun and Chen Jingming. private affairs.Xiao Wang Wulang chuckled, and jokingly said, "Master Chen is in such a hurry? Why not wait half a month longer?"

Chen Jingming smiled in his lacquered eyes. "Well, it's that urgent."

After a pause, he said in a low voice, "Since ancient times, lovesickness is the most urgent."

**

On the first day of May, inside the Kowloon Hall.

Emperor Qin Su, who had never blushed before, and Da Sikong Cheng Huaijing were arguing in the hall.Cheng Huaijing gritted her teeth and sneered, and said angrily, "Are you blaming me for sending him to the Western Regions?"

Qin Su's thick brows were furrowed, and the memorials were clapping under his hands, his voice was extremely high. "Hao Chun is the new emperor in my favor, but what about you, what are you going to say? The Hao family army only recognizes people with the surname Hao. Now it's all over, his life is for nothing! Who will I choose? I Do you want to choose King Anyang's Zhongshan wolf as the new emperor?!"

Cheng Huaijing's chest heaved violently, her long hair was hanging down, and she was only wearing a Yuebai Chan dress, apparently just woke up from the bed.The anger of getting up and the arrogant temper made him unable to bear it even when he knew that he was wrong, his red and thin lips parted, and he sneered sneeringly, his words crackling and bursting endlessly. "That's right, you only have the new emperor in your heart, and only you Yingtian Jiangshan! Did I send Hao Chun to fight in the Western Regions to harm him? Now the situation in Chang'an City is treacherous, and everyone is staring at Your Majesty, your dragon who will be born a hundred years later!" As for Hao Chun's guts, if I don't send him to the Western Regions, should I keep him in Chang'an and wait for him to be killed by Anyang King Qin Dian?"

Qin Su panted heavily, staring at Cheng Huaijing with eagle eyes. "But now he's dead! Hao Chun! The emperor's heir that I love so much, he's only 22 years old this year. I haven't come to make arrangements for him on his 22nd birthday, but now he died in the Western Regions!"

The intelligence about Hao Chun's death in battle was placed on the desk in the Nine Dragon Hall, and the bright red cinnabar was shocking.

In the 17th year of Yong'an, Lu Jifeiyan, the superintendent of the Western Regions camp, sent a letter to report to Lord Pingle and General Hao Chun who was conquering the Western Hussars. The introduction of the medicine, the gunpowder buried the entire narrow road, and Pingle Hou Haochun died on the spot.

Yong'an Emperor Qin Su fought with Da Sikong Cheng Huaijing until his face was flushed, his sharp eagle eyes were reddish, and after a long while, he actually burst into tears.

"I'm going to kill Lu Ji!"

The color of Cheng Huaijing's angry face changed, and the bright red tear mole under Taohua's eyes slightly rippled. "Okay, okay, then you kill Lu Ji, and you also go and kill Anyang King Qin Dian."

Cheng Huaijing paused, then sneered again: "It was originally my intention to send him to the Western Regions. Your Majesty, you should kill me too! From now on, I will pay you my life!"

"...Qingqing," Emperor Yong'an Qin Su finally sensed that something was wrong, and realized that Cheng Huaijing was really angry, his tone softened instantly. "I... I don't mean to blame you."

"It's weird already," Cheng Huaijing grabbed his sleeves and sneered, got up and went to the desk, raised his hand to grind the ink, raised his jaw, and said to Emperor Yong'an Qin Su seriously: "Pingle Hou Haochun died for the country, it is a first-class merit. It should be a posthumous gift to Lord Pingle. And his funeral..."

"Well, it will be handled according to the national funeral ceremony." Emperor Yong'an Qin Su closed his eyes in pain, and said in a hoarse voice: "He was arrogant and willful in his lifetime, and he was always my son who was doted on in my hands. son."

Qin Su's words were so bleak, Cheng Huaijing's tone gradually faded, and the pen and ink in his hands were unfamiliar for a moment.

"His Majesty?"

"……Um."

"Perhaps I was really wrong," Cheng Huaijing's peach blossom eyes sparkled, and his red and thin lips were slightly desolate. "Now that the plan to kill Anyang King and the clan's little ones has been laid out for too long, it's time...to make an example."

Emperor Yong'an Qin Su suddenly punched the case table, and said with hatred in the dripping ink: "Kill them all, kill them all, and be buried with Hao Chun!"

**

May [-]th, Pei's Mansion.

Pei Yuan, who had already been dismissed from office, was rarely more energetic today, leaning on the imperial concubine's couch to listen to the music.

The tunes are old, but the lyrics are new ones written by him.When the actor was singing "Poor empty flower", a little Taoist rushed in from outside in a panic.The boy at the door stopped him from entering, and the little Taoist yelled loudly:

"Why don't you let it go? It's crazy outside. The general Zhengxi Hussars died in battle, and the whole army died. His Majesty knows about the white flags all the way from Hangu Pass. Why don't you let the poor and the poor?" What did your little man say?"

Pei Yuan was startled suddenly, and he still couldn't believe his ears, so he reprimanded sharply with a pale face: "What nonsense are you talking about?"

The little Taoist priest was only twelve or thirteen years old, and was stopped by several tall Pei family servants, jumping up and down.While jumping, his head was up and down, and his voice fell in Pei Yuan's ears, intermittently like the urging order of Lord Hades.

"General Zhengxi Hussars is dead! He died outside Hangu Pass. The intelligence report was sent to Yushitai yesterday, along with the obituary. After the morning was over this morning, every family in Chang'an City was sending people to buy funerals. If you don’t believe me, sir, just go to the Dongxi Market, there’s a lot of chatter, it’s being talked about everywhere!”

Pei Yuan's face was pale, and he struggled to make a sharp, soft voice as though he was desperately fighting for his life. "impossible!"

The little Taoist's face suddenly became panicked.

However, Pei Yuan was still staring straight at the little Taoist priest and said sharply: "I can't, cough cough, you, you are lying!"

The sound of trickling trickles rolled down Pei Yuanhuagui's Kesi blouse, tick-tock, and slowly merged into a bright red line along the cracks in the ground.

Pei Yuan lowered his head, only to realize that his clothes had already been stained red by the blood choking from his mouth.He coughed, and tried his best to hold the side of the imperial concubine's couch with his hands, just like he tried his best to catch that handsome young man Ping Lehou in the past 16 years.

16 years... He, Pei Yuan, is only sixteen this summer, and he is still a few days away from his seventeenth birthday.Before he got a word of truth from that person, that person was already dead.

No, he couldn't believe it.

In the huge Pei Mansion, the sound of the string music had already stopped.In the courtyard, there were densely packed people kneeling on the ground.Pei Yuan struggled to stand up, but his eyes turned black and his heart ached.

"You, you are all lying! Lu Ji is there, Lu Ji once promised to protect him...he...how could he die?!"

The blood in the ear was flowing extremely violently, and Pei Yuan could almost hear the whistling of the wind in his ear, and the whistling sound was turbulent, very much like the movement of flying sand and rocks in the desert in the legend.But after he said Lu Ji's name just now, he knew that he was wrong!He was dead wrong.

Lu Ji is here, so of course Hao Chun will die.

Lu Ji has such nasty thoughts about him, and is determined to win him, so he will definitely regard Hao Chun as a thorn in his side and a thorn in his flesh.When Lu Ji was in Chang'an before, he even said that he had to kill Hao Chun, so that he could never think about this man again, not to mention that now Hao Chun is under the control of Lu Ji everywhere in the Western Region?

In military affairs, it has always been just a single move of a chess piece that can make the opponent lose the whole game.

Lu Jiben is a very smart person.

"Lang Jun!"

"Xiao Lang-jun... blood..."

There was a lot of chatter in his ears, Pei Yuan didn't know what day it was, he couldn't even hear the voice clearly.The flowers in front of him were intertwined, and the sun shone on his eyelids, mottled into dark red blood shadows.

"Wow--!"

Pei Yuan couldn't bear it any longer, opened his mouth, and sprayed out a bloody arrow that was more than a foot long, and his whole body collapsed like a jade mountain.