Ning Chen Ling Xiao

Cao Rongxuan burst into flames in half a month, hurriedly flipping through his ancestor's "Cao's Art of War" to find a countermeasure. When he left the imperial city, he brought 30 soldiers with him, and now his subordinates were killed. There are only a few 10 people left for the incorporation.

On the battlefield yesterday, Cao Rongxuan lost a team of talents and snatched a ballista from the northern army. He is ordering craftsmen from the imperial city to study what kind of material this ballista is made of and what method of force it is. It can actually take people's lives four hundred feet away. If Cao Rongxuan hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he really wouldn't believe that there would be such a magical weapon in this world.

The craftsmen from the imperial city are also proficient in ingenuity, but after all, they are thousands of years behind Ling Xiao in academic knowledge. They can imitate it but don't understand the mystery. Cao Rongxuan doesn't understand the artisans' understanding of this artifact. Shocking love, only urgently want them to create the same.

The craftsmen encountered difficulties, bowed and said: "It's okay to talk about this bronze. Although it is expensive, we can get it. If it doesn't work, we can replace it with iron, but this crossbow string... the general, please forgive me, I really don't know how to twist it. To achieve such a powerful force, even if it is made of iron and our crossbow strings according to this pattern... its range will never reach four hundred feet."

Cao Rongxuan was so angry that he wanted to drag this group of moaning people out and behead him. He said patiently, "How far is the shooting range?"

The craftsmen looked at each other and said in a low voice, "It's more than 200 zhang."

Cao Rongxuan was furious: "What's the use of that?! During the war, the rebels often launched thousands of ballistas and lined up in front of the formation. Our army couldn't get close at all. Even if we barely approached with heavy shields, these crossbows were extremely powerful. If you get too close, even the shield will be useless, it will all be destroyed on this ballista!"

The more Cao Rongxuan said, the more angry he became: "This general has countless formations in his chest and can't put them out! How powerful is King Ying? Doesn't it just depend on having a few good crossbow carts!"

The craftsmen didn't dare to say anything, they just waited for Cao Rongxuan to blow up enough evil fire.

Cao Rongxuan also had no choice but to let the craftsmen make whatever they could. He regained his sanity and ordered people to build the only bridge on the lake before Chu Yifeng's army arrived. It was destroyed, and the military adviser accompanying him tremblingly said: "Great... General... This bridge has gone through three dynasties, so it will be demolished like this..."

"Confused!" Cao Rongxuan said angrily, "The bridge or our army is more important?! I can't tell which is more important!"

"But..." The military adviser still did not give up, and continued, "If the Badai Bridge is destroyed, we will not be able to cross the Badai Lake, nor will we be able to retreat the rebels."

Cao Rongxuan didn't speak, he knew in his heart that according to this situation, it would be good to be able to defend Badai Lake, retreat... Cao Rongxuan is still thinking about strategy.

Chu Yijin in the imperial city was equally anxious, seeing that Chu Yifeng was about to fight, Cao Rongxuan was defeated again and again, and Chu Yifeng would be able to fight in within half a month.

The name is not right and the words are not right. Old Master Ling can't really take the people of the Ling family after making such a fuss. After all, the Tang Kanghou's mansion is on the surface of Chu Yijin's side. After thinking about it, Chu Yijin called his father-in-law's house. Rong Xianggong and Zuo Cheng came to have a secret talk, and they talked for half a day, but in the end there was no good way, so they could only send someone to negotiate peace first, since they can't win, then let's talk about it, as long as Chu Yifeng doesn't want this dragon chair, everything will be fine. You can give it to him first.

The important task of the peace talks was assigned to Zuo Cheng. Although Zuo Cheng secretly regretted being in the wrong team, but now he went to surrender to Chu Yifeng, he was afraid that he would not pay attention to him. Zuo Cheng sighed in his heart, and made a wrong move. Wrong, now there is only one way to go to the dark.

Two days later, Zuo Cheng slowly crossed Badai Lake in a flat boat. Many people in the army had heard of Zuo Cheng, so they didn't dare to be negligent, so they sent it to the big tent.

In the tent, Chu Yifeng sat at the head, Ling Xiao sat at the bottom of Chu Yifeng, and the rest of the soldiers were separated on both sides. Seeing Zuo Cheng came, they did not show respect. Now everyone is loyal to a different master, and they have met each other for many days. It is necessary to be more polite.

Zuo Chengduan was saluting Chu Yifeng, got up and said, "Is the King of England safe? Is the young master safe?"

The two agreed indifferently, Chu Yifeng ordered someone to show Zuo Cheng a seat, Zuo Cheng sat down tremblingly after pleading guilty.

"After fighting for many days in a row, the lord and the king of Hui have never had a good talk. I am afraid that there may be some misunderstanding, so I asked the old minister to come." Zuo Cheng said sincerely, "The lord and the king of Hui are brothers in the first place, why are they making trouble? become today's scene?"

Zuo Cheng sighed lightly, and said coldly: "The bones of the first emperor are not yet cold, but the prince provoked all these disputes, how can I bear it?"

Before Chu Yifeng could answer, Ling Xiao smiled and said, "My lord said that my prince came from Hehesha in the north because of the funeral of the late emperor. What's wrong with his father's passing away and his son coming back to attend the funeral?! It's just that the royal heirs are dying now. The population is not prosperous, and I was afraid that something might happen to the prince's golden body, so I ordered the northern soldiers to follow, just to save the prince's life."

Seeing that Zuo Cheng was about to speak, Ling Xiao rushed to the front and said angrily: "Today you mentioned that the prince provoked so many disputes, I would like to ask Prince Hui! The prince just came back to attend the funeral for the late emperor, why did Prince Hui send 30 Wan Dajun was blocked by Longgui?! After many wars, the prince did not die at the hands of the traitor Zhang Ji! He did not die at the hands of the Huns and barbarians! But he almost died at the hands of his own army!"

"How dare you talk about real brothers now? Why didn't you say that you were real brothers when the 30 army almost killed us? Yes, things have changed now. It's our 20 army fighting against the [-] sergeants on the other side. At this time, King Hui remembered that King Ying is also a brother?"

Ling Xiao stood up and walked in front of Zuo Cheng, pressing him step by step: "You also know that the bones of the late emperor are not yet cold! So you encouraged King Hui to murder my prince's life, but you didn't know that you were not trying to kill the royal family for him!"

"No old minister!" Zuo Cheng hurriedly explained to himself that he had come this time to give Chu Yifeng a disgrace first, and then show his righteousness and promise Chu Yifeng to retreat. He knew that Chu Yifeng had poor eloquence since childhood, and He is soft-hearted, but he did not expect that after entering the big tent without saying a word to Chu Yifeng, Ling Xiao would first label him as a murderer of the royal family. It’s all for the Tian family to serve, how can you find what he thinks? Let me say something disrespectful, the old minister is now seventy-two, what does he want to do if he is conspired?”

"Most people in the world are busy for the children of the clan. Mr. Zuo Cheng can't afford this wealth, but he can still hide it from future generations." Ling Xiao said sarcastically, "It's not like my prince, who wants to do it several times at a young age. To die for one's country is to make a wedding dress for others in the end."

Zuo Cheng was about to cry, how could this Young Master Ling be more difficult than his grandfather, no matter how hard-hearted Old Master Ling was, at least he was still a tiger with a smiling face, this Ling Xiao really never gave anyone any face, and he would human life.

"Master Ling sees..." Zuo Cheng regretted endlessly. He shouldn't have run on Chu Yifeng in the first place. Everyone knew that Ling Xiao, a sycophant, was so tight in protecting Chu Yifeng. The king came to persuade me to make peace, the young master really misunderstood me."

Seeing that Zuo Cheng was subdued by Ling Xiao, he sneered and sat back on his seat. He dared to challenge Chu Yifeng, but he wanted to see who would give him the blow.

Chu Yifeng ordered someone to help Zuo Cheng sit down, and said calmly, "What did my elder brother say?"

Zuo Cheng wiped the cold sweat off his face, Nuonuo said: "Prince Hui said, the prince can say whatever he wants, they are all his brothers, why is there such a fuss?"

Chu Yifeng glanced at Zuo Cheng, and said in a low voice: "I don't ask much, but I just want to send my father to die. Although my northern soldiers are guarding the frontier and are not favored by officials in the imperial city, they have been paid by the imperial court for a lifetime. In the end, I have to come to the imperial city to kowtow to be at ease."

Chu Yifeng said that other things were fine, but when it came to this, the soldiers in the tent couldn't help but think that he would kowtow in the future when Taizu died, Wu Ji and others couldn't help but their eyes turned red, Zuo Cheng himself couldn't help but sigh.

Zuo Cheng gritted his teeth, Chu Yifeng said he was going to the city to kowtow to the late emperor, but who knows what will happen after the kowtow?Said in a deep voice: "Now the prince is bringing an army of 20, isn't it appropriate to enter the city?"

Chu Yifeng smiled faintly: "Big brother will send someone to assassinate these people. If I don't bring a soldier into the city, I'm afraid that the bones of me and Ling will not be preserved."

"Why do you talk about assassination?" This Zuo Cheng really didn't know, and said blankly, "Someone came to assassinate the prince?"

"On the day my eldest brother ordered me not to return to court, an assassin ambushed in my mansion and injured Ling Xiao. If it weren't for Ling Xiaofu's great fate, I'm afraid that he would have met the first emperor by now, and the assassin was unbearable. He was sent by the elder brother " Every time Chu Yifeng thought of what happened that day, he still hated him like a knife, and said coldly, "Don't Master Zuo Cheng know?"

I don't know if this is true, Zuo Cheng complained in his heart, it must be Hui Wang who did something bad behind their backs!

Zuo Cheng cried, "I really don't know..."

Chu Yifeng smiled lightly: "If you don't know, you don't know."

Zuo Cheng almost had no face to stay any longer, but he had no choice but to shoulder a heavy mission, so he said helplessly, "My lord, why don't you want something else? This old minister has secretly admired your lord for a long time. No matter what your lord wants, this old minister will desperately want it from King Hui." .”

Zuo Cheng complained in his heart, whether he wanted land or people, please tell me.

Chu Yifeng was still calm: "This king said, I just need to go to the city to see my father die."

Zuo Cheng almost vomited blood, thinking that he had been in the officialdom for decades, but he was finally defeated by a fool. Zuo Cheng tried hard to persuade him for a long time to no avail, and finally had to leave, turned around and said: "The old minister is afraid that the prince is now angry. I don't understand in my heart, how about calming down by the lake for a few days, the two princes are quiet, and a truce for a few days?"

"Not good." Ling Xiao interjected, "Lord Zuo Cheng probably forgot that it will be the day of the late emperor's funeral in a short time, and the prince will not delay the day of seeing the late emperor off." What are you thinking?After the first emperor's funeral, the new emperor will be able to succeed. When Hui Wang ascends the throne, they will immediately become chaos and thieves, and the fool agrees.

Zuo Cheng glanced at Ling Xiao, knowing that he was thinking clearly, sighed, and boarded the boat.

At night when Zuo Cheng was sent away, Chu Yifeng and Ling Xiao analyzed the terrain. Cao Rongxuan, a prodigal son, had already destroyed the Batai Bridge before they arrived. , Batai Bridge is the closest place between the two banks of Badai Lake. It is impossible to cross the bridge. There are two ways left. One is to take a boat to go there, and the other is to detour. Mountains are not as good as the sea, the old saying is always good, there are many uncertain things in the water, and not many of our soldiers are familiar with water."

Ling Xiao looked at the map quietly and didn't speak. It was because he didn't think well at the beginning, because he crossed Badai Lake one step too late to recruit those rebels, and now the bridge was destroyed by Cao Rongxuan... the ferry would definitely not work, if It's another effort to detour...

The late emperor was about to go to the funeral, Ling Xiao didn't have time to waste time with them.

There is another way... Ling Xiao pointed to the Badai Bridge on the map and said, "How did this bridge get destroyed? Did you see it?"

"I took a look at it from a distance in the afternoon, and it was destroyed from the middle. It was originally a stone bridge, and it was smashed from the middle." Chu Yifeng looked at Ling Xiao and knew what he was thinking, and smiled, "You want to repair it, don't you?" I have thought about this, but there are more than [-] feet of damaged wood in the middle. If it is repaired, it will need at least [-] feet of wood. We can’t find such a long wood for a while. If we use spliced ​​wood, I’m afraid it won’t be able to hold it. There is no way .”

These Wuji also thought about it, nodded and said; "And we can connect it, but there is no bridge piers on the top, and there are no bridge piers below four feet... It's more dangerous after all."

Ling Xiao shook his head: "It's not wood, I want to use steel, bronze or something to repair it."

Chu Yifeng was stunned for a moment: "Where...where can such a long and large material be cast?"

Ling Xiao smiled: "It's not that I want to directly make such a long iron plate. Now you send people to buy long iron wires, steel wires, bronze wires, etc. from nearby houses and iron shops. The more the better, I'll try to see if I can fix it."

That is, Ling Xiao designed the bed crossbow, and Chu Yifeng witnessed Ling Xiao create another miracle.

Ling Xiao sent people to buy a large amount of metal, all of them were rod-shaped, some were more than ten feet long, and some were no more than a foot long.

Ling Xiao himself first made a support by tying thin bamboo poles with ropes, and then called a dozen or so strong-armed warriors in the army to come. It is built on the support of the building to form countless "well" structures, and then short steel wires are wound up from the gaps. The metal wires are intertwined and densely woven together. Ling Xiao asked the warriors to use all the metal they bought. In the end, the bamboo pole that Ling Xiao built at the beginning was unbearable, and it burst with a "pop".Ling Xiao pulled out the bamboo pole, and ordered someone to continue to twist it up with a thin metal wire until it could no longer be inserted into a gap.

Looking at Ling Xiao's achievements, Wuji was also shocked, but his heart was still pounding, and he turned his head to ask Chu Yifeng: "My lord...this one, without even a bridge pier, can it really withstand such a strong force?"

Chu Yifeng nodded: "Ling Xiang said that he has seen a five-hundred-foot-long bridge made of twisted metal, but it didn't even have a single bridge pier. It can also withstand the trampling of thousands of people. I think it's okay to come here."

Wu Ji couldn't help but widen his eyes: "Five hundred... Zhang? A bridge of five hundred Zhang... is the end of the world..." Hearing these words, Wu Ji was even more confused. He really hadn't heard of such a thing. There can be five hundred feet of bridges in the world.

Ling Xiao directed the warriors to fix the iron bridge, and he ordered people to take big steel nails, hemp ropes and other things, and turned around and smiled at Chu Yifeng: "That's almost it, everything is ready, and we will put it on tomorrow morning." Make up this bridge and go straight to the other side."

Chu Yifeng smiled: "Okay."

At daylight on the second day, Chu Yifeng led [-] vanguard troops to the Badai Bridge. Ling Xiao first ordered someone to drive foot-long steel nails into the stone bridge, and then connected the iron bridge to the four large steel nails with hemp rope. After completing the last step of the force, the warriors put the iron bridge in place, and Ling Xiao ordered someone to take the planks to lay it on. He took the lead in getting on the horse, and said with a smile: "I know you are beating drums in your heart, so I will run around to show you."

Chu Yifeng also got on his horse with a smile: "I'm with Ling Xiang."

Everyone immediately stopped them, but they had already boarded the iron bridge. Many soldiers raised their voices to their throats, but Ling Xiao and Chu Yifeng's horses ran steadily side by side on the bridge, and turned around when the stone bridge landed over there. When they came back, in the faint morning light, the two seemed to be the reborn God of War, fearless and fearless.

Ling Xiao and Chu Yifeng dismounted, and Chu Yifeng made the final arrangements.

Chu Yifeng ordered the crossbowmen to dispatch [-] ballistas to get ready. As long as the enemy on the other side approached, they would shoot them to death. Make sure that the soldiers had enough time to cross the bridge. The heavy ballistas passed first, followed by the cavalry, and finally It's infantry. After the infantry pass, the [-] bed crossbows in front will be ready, and then the front bed ballistas will cover the rear, and the rear [-] ballistas will pass to cover the final charge.

Both Chu Yifeng and Ling Xiao were vanguard cavalry, with the help of the bed crossbow's offensive and the Qianghu's horses, they defeated Cao Rongxuan's soldiers within three hours of this battle, and at night they had chased them to fifty miles outside the imperial city. In Chaierzhuang, Ling Xiao has been closely following Chu Yifeng all the way, seeing the sunset all over the sky, he said loudly: "My lord! My lord! It's too late! Besides, there are too many people in Chaierzhuang, so it's not suitable to fight any more! "

Chu Yifeng turned back to Ling Xiao, a trace of unwillingness flashed in his eyes, Ling Xiao understood in his heart, wiped the blood from his face, pulled the rein tightly, and persuaded loudly: "My lord! The whole army has been fighting for a day, and there is no drop of water. There is no need to fight any more, why rush to make a big deal?!"

Chu Yifeng looked at Ling Xiao's bewildered situation, nodded, and when he was about to send an order, an arrow shot towards Ling Xiao with the sound of the wind!Ling Xiao still didn't realize it, Chu Yifeng's eyes were bloodshot, he raised the knife and blocked it, but the tip of the knife only swept a little away from the arrow feather, which could relieve the arrow's strength by three points, it was too late and then too fast, Ling Xiao subconsciously Turning his head, the arrow came straight at him, Ling Xiao turned around suddenly and still didn't dodge quickly, the arrow brushed Ling Xiao's left shoulder and passed, blood spurted out instantly!

"Bastards!!" Chu Yifeng's eyes were filled with rage, he turned around and glanced at the eagle, grabbed the sword with his backhand and threw it in the direction of the enemy with all his might, and shot it like an arrow into the enemy, passing several soldiers and slicing off the head of an archer. go!Chu Yifeng actually took the life of the person who shot the arrow just across the shot.

Ling Xiao couldn't bear the force and fell off the horse, Chu Yifeng quickly jumped off the horse and rushed to Ling Xiao's side, Ling Xiao tried his best to sit up and said with a smile: "It's nothing, it didn't hurt any bones."

Chu Yifeng lowered his head and embraced Ling Xiao, letting him lean into his arms, and said in a low voice: "Hold on..." As he spoke, he lifted Ling Xiao's left arm and twisted it, knowing that he didn't hurt his muscles, he was relieved, and hissed when he turned his head Shouted: "Military doctor!!"

Ling Xiao forced a smile: "I was careless, nothing... nothing, I'll get on my horse, let's set up camp right here?"

Chu Yifeng didn't answer, and ordered his soldiers to help Ling Xiao go to the tent to be treated by the military doctor who accompanied him. He got on his horse and shouted loudly: "Boys! Ling Xiang was injured by the thief!"

Most of the soldiers around Chu Yifeng were brought from the north, and their families all benefited from Ling Xiao's benevolent government, and they were grateful in their hearts. Now hearing that Ling Xiao was injured and he didn't know whether he was going to die or not, his blood was aroused, and he shouted and responded to Chu Yifeng in grief and indignation.

"Boys! Killed for a day! Are you tired?!"

The sergeants responded loudly and they were not tired, Chu Yifeng said angrily: "It's good if you are not tired! Come with me, boys and girls, today we will go to the imperial city! Avenge Ling Xiang!!"

The sergeants raised their heads and shouted loudly, followed by Chu Yifeng's left and right strikes after a hiss, like a pack of wild wolves, they went straight to the imperial city!