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The mountain road is winding and rugged, and the small group of messengers in black clothes also appears and disappears under the cover of dense forests. Only the crisp sound of horseshoes hitting sand and gravel is continuous, from far to near, like some kind of The drumbeat of the countdown.

"Report" The messenger flew off his horse, knelt half-kneeling in front of King Jin, "Jinyang has an urgent military report, please return to the camp quickly, the front line of Liaozhou..."

Without waiting for the messenger to finish speaking, King Jin suddenly raised his hand and interrupted the other party lightly: "Got it, let's talk when we go back."

Everyone knew the importance of the military aircraft, so they got on their horses and rushed down the mountain.After walking a few steps, King Jin stopped again, standing halfway up the mountain and looking around with a look of intoxication.

Contemplating, he felt a little puzzled: "Shou Zhi, what are you looking at?"

"Come and see, Nianqing," the King of Jin pointed at the distance with a horsewhip in his hand, "This is the scenery of my Jin land, the sun of the mountains, the majesty of the water, the dangerous and majestic pass, the uncanny workmanship, really good, really good..."

A group of people hurried back to the camp at the foot of the mountain, and all the generals and officers had already gathered in the large tent for discussion. King Jin took off his cloak and walked in, while calmly ordering: "What's the military situation, tell me carefully."

The subordinates hurriedly sent the official document: "My lord, a 30 imperial army suddenly attacked from Guangping Mansion to Jinyuan. Sun Changshi has no generals to send and no soldiers to send, now I ask the prince to show you."

This sudden news shocked everyone: "30 people? Why didn't the Jinyuan side know about such a large-scale mobilization of soldiers and horses? What method did the dog emperor use to transport this large army to Guangping Mansion silently?" ? Could it be that he has the ability to fly into the sky and escape from the ground?"

What is even more frustrating is that they have always invested a large amount of troops in Jiazhou, which was confronted with the Tatars, and Luzhou, which was confronted with the imperial army. Who would have thought that the first to be breached would be the Southeast line.

The subordinate bit the bullet and replied: "This summer, there was a flood in Liaodong. The imperial court sent civilians to deliver food, bricks and wood to relieve the victims and build water defenses. Because the number of troops sent each time was not too many, our army never took it seriously. It was only recently that I found out that they used this method to secretly move soldiers to Quang Binh Mansion in batches."

"Pretending to be a civilian husband? How long will it take?" King Jin couldn't help frowning slightly, "It seems that my nephew has been planning for a long time. As expected, I will leave you for three days. You should look at him with admiration."

The subordinate couldn't tell whether King Jin was asking him a question or talking to himself, so he just answered truthfully: "It took three months in total."

three months?A terrifying idea suddenly popped up in Shen Si's mind. Pushing forward three months, isn't it the day when he sneaked into the enemy camp alone, stole soldier amulets, took hostages, and set a three-month deadline with Wei You?Could it be... Could it be that it wasn't that Wei You was thinking about the old relationship and holding back, but that it was a complete plank road that was being cultivated in the dark?Was he using him to blind King Jin's eyes, lower King Jin's vigilance, and escape King Jin's eyes and ears?

Thinking of this meditation, he stood up abruptly, walked a few steps and asked in a trembling voice in front of his subordinates: "Let me ask you, which department does the surprise soldier killed from Guangping Mansion belong to?"

The subordinate bowed and replied, "It's the Liu Family Army under the command of Xiangfan County Wang Weiyou."

"Liu Family Army?" The generals below couldn't help looking at each other, "Didn't the Liu Family Army be transferred to Yaozhou to deal with the Tatars?"

"Report" was in doubt, when another scout horse came galloping outside the tent, "Report to the lord, the Tatars went to Yanzhou, and they were in a stalemate with the imperial soldiers and horses for several days, and suddenly turned their guns and went straight to the same state..."

Before the words were finished, a pot exploded in the big tent: "How could this be? Did wild dogs eat the brains of the Tatars? Let the Central Plains, which is at your fingertips, not want, but provoke the Jin army who repeatedly beat them to pieces. ?”

The subordinates who came to report the letter were full of righteous indignation: "You generals don't know something. It turned out that the dog emperor made a covenant with the Tatar thieves. The large territories north of Yuan and west of Jinyuan are all assigned to the Tatars!"

When the generals heard the words, they couldn't believe their ears: "As the son of the Han family, we will throw our heads and blood, and would rather die than give up an inch of land. As the king of a country, he is so good that he surrenders to others. It is really me!" Shame of the Great Zhou!"

Only Shen Si still persisted in asking the visitor: "Then, is the Liu family army stationed in Yaozhou?"

The subordinate nodded: "It is true that it is the Liu Family Army, but according to the report of the spies, the elite of the Liu Family Army did not rush to Yaozhou together, there were only some old, weak, sick and disabled and the young emperor dispatched from various places for the King of Xiangfan. .”

After listening to Shen Si, he slapped the table with his palm, knocking off a corner of the solid wood table, and then walked out with his sword in hand.

King Jin called him repeatedly from behind: "Nianqing, Nianqing, where are you going?"

Shen Si gritted his teeth and spat out a few words: "Go and kill Wei Shuyuan!"

Wei You's younger brother Wei Qian was imprisoned in solitary confinement in a secluded tent in the camp. The daily food expenses were not good, but not too mean.His hands are already crippled, and he can't lift heavier objects. Even trivial tasks such as chopsticks are very difficult. A guard is responsible for feeding him all the food and water.

In the first few days, he didn't eat, drink or sleep, and spent almost all of his time on cursing and insulting in meditation, using extremely vicious words and filthy words, until his throat was broken and he was so hoarse that he couldn't make a sound, then he gradually calmed down down.

When he was meditating, Wei Qian was concentrating on observing a green-skinned grasshopper emerging from the straw pile.It's the beginning of autumn, the heat is gone, and the cool is coming, and its lifespan is up, and I think it won't be able to jump around for a few more days.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Wei Qian turned his head slowly, squinted his eyes and tried to focus on Shen Si's face, as if he didn't recognize him, and asked with his sticky lips, "Is my hour here?"

It's not like him to be able to be so calm when death is approaching. Shen Si looked down at Wei Qian, his eyes were burning with anger: "You should have died a long time ago!"

Wei Qian lowered his head and stared blankly at the grasshopper, watching it struggling to take off step by step, and falling down clumsily step by step, step by step, and finally found a gap that could lead to the outside of the tent. When climbing out, Wei Qian raised his foot abruptly and stomped down hard. The sole of the shoe was crushed repeatedly. When he moved his foot away, there was only a group of turquoise sticky powder left.Wei Qian stared at the disgusting ball of powder, and a weird smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

With a sound of "shua", Shen Si drew his sword in his hand, and just as he was about to swing it, Wei Qian suddenly asked, "Shen Nianqing, that night you hid on the crooked neck tree outside my bedroom, didn't you?"

The sword was hanging on Wei Qian's neck, and the sword energy even cut through the skin, leaving a bloodstain. Shen Si held the hilt firmly, frowned and looked at Wei Qian, but did not continue to chop.

There was a cunning in Wei Qian's eyes: "Heh, the barracks is important, where did you get such a bird?"

"Did you know that I was eavesdropping that night? Both you and Wei Boling knew that I was eavesdropping?" Shen Si withdrew his sword, then grabbed Wei Qian by the collar, picked him up and pressed him firmly against the stake superior.

Wei Qian answered irrelevantly: "Shen Nianqing, you have been classmates with my elder brother for several years, you should know his temperament very well, right?"

His pensive eyes moved slightly to the side, he didn't know the meaning of Wei Qian's words, so he didn't answer.

Wei Qian didn't intend to ask him to answer at all, but gave the answer directly himself: "My brother Wei Boling is thoughtful, deep in the city, and good at strategy and step by step. How could he not guess that you came to the appointment alone to fight to the end?" What's the idea?"

"You mean... what I heard that night, together with the subsequent assassination of me and being kidnapped by me as a hostage, were all calculated in advance by you? He was so cruel that he used his own brother's life to set a trap..." Meditation His arm softened and let go of Wei Qian, and he retreated a few steps one after another, a little unsteady, "What about the soldier talisman? It is impossible to fake a soldier talisman!"

Wei Qian slid along the wooden stake and sat on the ground. Because his hands were useless and he couldn't support his body, he could only lean there limply like a puppet: "Of course the soldier amulet is real, but if you don't get the imperial decree from the little emperor, How dare he easily steal the soldier talisman from others?"

Hearing the words in deep thought, he smiled wryly and said to himself: "Wei Boling, Wei Boling, I treat you with affection as a brother and sister. Even if I was an enemy before the battle, I never thought of taking your life. Why did you plot me so far..."

Wei Qian snorted, full of contempt: "A deep affection? Hahaha, compared with the 'world', what is affection? I have abolished the princes for many years to hide my strength and hide my courage, so that one day I can get revenge. Reported for the Ninth Five-Year Plan! Riweiyou is the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. It is recorded in poems and books and painted by Danqing.

"Yeah, what's the point..." Shen Si murmured, feeling a little dazed for a while.

Nianqing, life is as short as a white horse passing by, but a man should live a grand plan with wings spread, and leave a name in history... Nianqing, today I am like a trapped beast, and you are like a young eagle. , you will also become more and more wings, when I will sit in the Dragon Court and you will be in charge of thousands of troops, laughing and talking about the affairs of the world, and the world will be peaceful... Who said this?Is it Wei Boling?Shen Si shook his head, what happened in the past, what happened in the past, when he looked back, his eyes were full of "faults" and "wrongs".

Seeing that his pensive face was ashen and dejected, Wei Qian smiled more and more complacently: "In the past, people often said that the five young heroes of the Shen family used soldiers like gods, but now it seems that it is ridiculous and generous, just a stupid idiot like a pig. Have you ever thought that when your father was trapped in Runing and your elder brother wrote a secret letter to warn him, he knew that I tried my best to obstruct this matter, so why did he leave me alone in the study room with the secret letter?"

"Shut up!" There was a sharp pain in Shen Si's chest, like a needle prick, "Stop talking!"

But Wei Qian refused to let it go: "Have you ever thought that when you escaped from the capital hidden in the golden body of the Medicine King, why such a coincidence that the pursuers arrived at the moment you were about to escape? And why it was so coincidental that the officers and soldiers saw you Was it rescued by King Jin's men? Have you ever thought about..."

"I told you to shut up!" Shen Si roared, raised his sword and dropped it, the cold light rolled up Wei Qian's head and flew a few meters away, Gululu rolled into the dust, and after a while, the blood broke from Qishuashua A sudden jet came out from his neck, dyeing half of the tent red in the blink of an eye.

"Come here!" Two guards came in at the sound, and thoughtfully picked up the head with their toes and kicked it towards the guards, "soaked Wei Shuyuan's head in lime water, wrapped it in silk and sent it to the king of Xiangfan County as a laborer. The gift is said to be a gift from me in meditation!"