Chiwuxing

Chapter [-] - Walking on the ice and setting fire to spies, eager to win but attacked in unison

Bowa, who was appointed by Hexuyi to deliver the news, traveled around and passed Zongzhengxi's password thousands of miles away to the garrison outside Liangu Pass.

"...That's what Chasa said in the original words."

Fu Chen lowered his eyes and buttoned the copper strap around his waist, and said lightly, "...I see."

Bowa saw the leather light armor on his hood, and said, "Then you still plan to lead troops out?"

"Not acting rashly doesn't mean there's no action," Fu Chen raised his eyes and glanced at him, "...I have a measure."

Bowa took a few steps forward and stopped in front of him: "What Chasa means is that you can't lose here, besides——"

The voice suddenly dropped a little: "Besides, if something really went wrong here, after the future is settled down, some people will make a fuss about it. It is not good for you to reveal your identity..."

"So because you are afraid of failure, you are afraid of your hands and feet?" Fu Chen pulled his lower lip, raised his hand and patted the shoulder of the Qiang youth, "No, what he meant was that he believed that I would not lose."

"What about you?" Bois frowned and stared at him, "Are you sure about it?"

Fu Chen's expression was still so indifferent that he couldn't tell whether he was happy or sad. He bowed down and took out the copper face from the cabinet, and wiped it with his fingers: "Why not?"

Bowa knew that he couldn't get a result on this question, and he couldn't persuade the young man to make a decision, so he sighed secretly at the side, and when he caught a glimpse of his hands, he said again: "...now it's not a war with the Yan people, Do you still wear a mask?"

"It's useful." Fu Chen reached out to put it on.

Bowa was about to sit down, but suddenly felt something was wrong, changed his movements, and raised his hand to attack the young man's back.

Fu Chen turned sideways, quickly grabbed Bowa's outstretched arm with his backhand, and stared slightly:

"what are you going to do?"

Bowa's eyes flickered, his lips trembled and he said, "You...you...are you...you can't see..."

Through the ostentatious lines of the red copper animal eyes, he met a pair of unexpectedly quiet and gloomy eyes.

The brows of the mask frowned, Fu Chen whispered: "...Obviously?"

Bowa's pupils were wide open, and he grabbed his arm: "You really..."

Fu Chen let go of him, lowered his eyes and said, "It's not yet completely invisible. During the day when the lights are bright, a little light can still leak out."

You blind man dares to lead troops into battle!

Bowa cursed angrily in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it openly at this time. He stepped forward and said to him: "Princess Xi asked me to come here with you, saying that she wanted me to help the wolf lord. To report the truth, you let me watch you at this time... to work hard? If there is something wrong, what should you do? When you came to Hu Qiang, you said that you have no relatives or old friends. Is it still possible to ignore everything at this time?"

"Then what do you want me to do, eat and drink on the bed and wait to die?" The hoarse voice became cold, and Fu Chen turned to Bowa's position and said, "Hushbowa, in terms of relatives, the blood in my body is also the same as yours. The bloodline of the Hu Qiang royal family. Do you want me to go downhill and forget about my duties? Or just give up in discouragement, tribal conflicts, ignore it from now on, and enjoy the title of the royal family for nothing in the future?"

The animal images on the mask seemed to be animated by the sound, Bowa was frightened by his questioning, and said in a low voice, "...then you shouldn't..."

"You think I'm overestimated," Fu Chen turned his eyes to the side, "but you don't know, ever since I knew my fate for only seven years, I have already begun to abandon my five senses and focus on my physical intuition. And from the moment I felt my eyesight go out, I trained day and night without opening my eyes."

"They always say that I am fast, which is rare in the world," he sneered, "but I don't know, it's because I never use my eyes when fighting in close quarters, but use my breath and heart... But these, you can understand What am I for?"

Bois was silent, and said after a long time: "But you won't tell everyone about this. Once you make a mistake, the consequences may become the reason for others to frame you. If it's time for you to reveal your identity, will you How to..."

Fu Chen raised his arm and interrupted his words: "You don't need to worry about these things. If I don't have this ability, I don't deserve to return to Hudi and the royal family with this identity."

After finishing speaking, he turned his back and lifted the curtain to come out.

The air in early spring is still cold, and the softness of the literati's pen is lost in the smoke and dust of the frontier.

On the field training field outside the tent, there were already Hu Qi standing in line, and it was densely covered with dark clouds.

"Report! One hundred fine riders! The lineup is over!"

Fu Chen got on his horse, the red copper horns flashed with the movement, and the black armor and green clothes were colorful.

"Scatter into groups, follow me to the mountains!"

The formation was complicated and turned, and quickly changed from a neat formation to a scattered small group, and they followed the frontmost people and marched towards the side of the camp.

The sun was falling, reflecting on the dark armor of the Hu Qi, the original gloomy color suddenly brightened, but turned into a terrifying and irresistible rush.

Galloping horses neighed, and they went away in awe.

Bowa squeezed out from the gap in the camp tent, saw the scene of Hu Qi walking away, and there were some other emotions in his admiration.He pulled an older horse breeder next to him and asked, "...Why did they bring 100 people with them when they went to fight a surprise attack? Don't you know that the barbarians sent a reserve army after their defeat in the last battle?"

"Jia Sheng didn't plan to take people into the place where they camped," Nahu said, "This time, it should be just to make some small tricks."

"……Um?"

When Bois looked back again, no one was there.

"This is the outlet."

The spring breeze swayed.Fu Chen stood up on the slope, said to the people around him, then turned his hand and gestured to Hu Qi who was hiding in the forest behind him.The rest of the people understood and started to move quietly.

A barbarian next to the team leader nodded and said: "Then let's bury ourselves down along this line. When the wind blows and the fire ignites, the barbarians will definitely not be able to sit still."

Fu Chen lowered his eyes and recalled the situation of the mountains and rivers in his heart, pointed to the upper right direction obliquely, and asked in a low voice: "That direction, directly across the forest, can we reach the reserve camp of their barbarian army's food and grass?"

The barbarian next to him suddenly said: "Hey! That's right! It's really... But can the fire be burned so far..."

Fu Chen snorted softly: "If you have a direction, there is nothing you can't do... If you ask the two brothers to come with me, you may meet barbarians there, so don't be careless."

"Yes."

Fu Chen has a plan in mind, but he still can't help but repeatedly calculate this position in his heart.The spring breeze is dry, and there are dense forests vertically forming the tuyere, which is a good place to ignite.But further to the northwest is their own granary station in Qiannan. At this time, He Xuyi is being plotted by political, business and treacherous people in the court. Losing their own food and grass will only discredit all the barbarians in the garrison in the end.

This kind of mistake must not happen.

The young man under the mask looked serious, let out a breath slowly, and clenched his fists.

After a while, the barbarians were brought in.

Fu Chen told the three of them what he wanted to do, deliberately avoiding possible risk consequences.

"...Do you understand?"

The three nodded: "Understood."

"Only one thing," Fu Chen said in a deep voice, "Hold the knives in your hands firmly. Once you see a barbarian sentry appearing, make a quick decision and leave nothing behind."

Knowing the reason, those people responded, "Understood."

"Come with me."

On the land of Jiangbei, the Hu rebels stationed in Huangzhou and Maocheng were suddenly attacked by barbarians. Wu Masun learned that his main army was holding back the Hu tribe, so he took advantage of the vacancy and led his troops to capture the cities outside Huangling Pass. , and communicated the results of the battle to Yannan.

And all the troops in Le Jin gathered together, led by the Xie cavalry army led by Chao Er, first engulfed the surviving Hulan tribe, and then forced the fleeing Tie Nale tribe to the Yishui River, intending to conquer it again.

"Dry!"

In the military tent, a few bandit leaders disarmed and gathered together to celebrate with each other with their wine bowls up.

The man in the middle was not very old, but he had a cold demeanor and unruly brows. Even though the smell of blood had been washed away from his face, the stern eyes that he showed on the battlefield with hatred for the enemy still remained, and he was staring straight at the book at the door.

"Erlang, now we can avenge the eldest brother and the brothers who died in vain! What a fucking joy!"

Someone next to him continued: "The princess of the royal department told me not to wait and kill indiscriminately. Anyway, we have already killed those bosses and generals who are jumping around. I think we should restrain ourselves... In case they are barbarians In order to please our family members and turn against us again, then the gain outweighs the loss..."

"That's right, let's charge forward and serve as their swordsmen. If we don't admit it, we will be the ones with the most disparity in military strength..."

"You bastards!" Someone scolded, "For the sake of your own life, you are scared like a bird. Don't even think about it, now we have avenged our brothers, and we have a clear conscience when anyone talks about it What's more, the group of Hulan scum who were captured in the first place was already dissatisfied, so what's wrong with us following the rules?...Erlang, what do you think?"

Chao Er, who had been silent in the middle, opened his mouth and said briefly, "Kill."

"Then what if you ask?"

"They are rebels, and their minds are impure, so what if the people from the royal family come," Chao Er said coldly, "Maybe this is what they mean. If there is any change in the barbarian, let's take it directly." It’s time for Shangbing to go south and return to Yancheng. There are residences everywhere, so why bother to be tied up with the barbarians.”

The rest nodded in agreement, reeking of alcohol.

Someone said: "...Erlang, I heard you asked Hook to go out to do some business?"

Chao Er's expression froze, seeming displeased: "How do you know?"

"He sneaked back yesterday and said he couldn't do it, so he didn't dare to meet you face to face, for fear that you would get annoyed with him..."

"...he's really capable," Chao Er said coldly, "If you can't handle things well, you'll also have the problem of shrinking."

"You can't blame him, you have such a temper now..." The man turned his head and said, "I said, before the hook got cold and injured in the snow, Erlang, you have to be considerate of his physical condition. Running around for days may not be able to bear it."

"I just knew that he was suffering from a serious illness, so I didn't ask him to join the battle to kill the enemy," Chao Er said, "We don't raise waste in our army, and since he doesn't dare to come to see me, I won't force him. Let’s go, and continue to do things that can’t be done. When can we go to all places and ask all over before we can talk about whether it can be done, don’t say things are difficult after walking for two days, I think he is thinking about being lazy.”

The brother next to him sighed: "This is a bit embarrassing...Gouzi's family originally opened a medicine shop, and he also knew some remedies for diseases. I heard what he meant and you told him that the disease had no cure. Yes, where does this make him go to seek medical advice..."

Chao Er snorted coldly: "The size of their drug store in the border town back then, could he be allowed to judge success or failure?"

"...Who on earth is suffering from that terminal illness? I don't think any of the brothers are that seriously ill and dying..."

"Don't ask more questions if you shouldn't," Chao Er said. "Ask Hook to investigate again, and tell me in person if you find the result. If you let me know that he came back secretly but avoided seeing me next time, I'll have to think about it." There is a way to punish him."

The person next to him sighed and swallowed silently.

Not long after, someone broke in from the military tent, it was He Xuyun who brought the army to meet up.

Several people thought that she was here to ask the teacher to inquire about the crime, and their expressions were flustered: "...Princess Hu."

After Huxun entered the tent, he took two steps forward unhurriedly. When he lowered his head, he saw a puddle of blood on the ground. Looking up the tent from the position of the blood puddle, he could see the sticker hanging on the tent at the entrance. The familiar head on the face was still dripping with blood.

Huxun raised his foot and stepped over, bent his lips and said, "Those who don't know thought it was you guys who wanted to show me off..."

"It's impossible," these bandit generals didn't dare to slap her face on the spot, and laughed, "It's just a victory..."

"Chao Er," He Xujun didn't like to make jokes with the others, and he knew who among them was right, he said directly, "Come out with me."

Chao Er gave her a lukewarm look, put down the things in his palm, got up and followed her out of the military tent.

"What advice does the princess have?"

The two walked along the rear camp to the wilderness, and He Xujun said: "I heard that you are facing the Podoro family this time. In addition to Santo, the culprit, there are many troops who surrendered, and many of them were also sought by you. Beheaded?"

"Everyone we kill deserves to be killed."

"Well said."

Chao Er turned his head and saw He Xujun smiling: "I know you have enemies with the Hulan tribe, so I let you take the lead, and I'm not afraid that you will attack them for selfish reasons."

"Princess is really honest," Chao Er was a little surprised, but was soon suppressed into a sneer by a plan of mutual use, "I just don't know what other barbarians around me will think when they hear this."

"It doesn't matter what they think, but there is one thing," Hexun said, "This kind of thing applies to the Hulan Department, and it is my reward for you, but other rebel departments cannot do this."

"Princess, what do you mean by this?" Chao Er said coldly, "Could it be that we will continue to be used as swordsmen in the future?... As far as I know, this is Hu Qiang's internal affairs, but the princess's men brought him from Le Jin The strength of the army is almost uninjured up to now."

"But you should also know the position on this matter," Hexun said frankly, "We can only be supplementary, and you must be the main force."

"The princess mentioned this matter again, what kind of letter did you get?"

Huxun nodded: "That's right, the leader of the Tienal tribe, Mu Zangzhu, came to discuss. The army stationed outside Huangling Pass behind them was attacked by barbarians, and more than half of them were killed or injured. If we can send troops to fight with his general After the barbarian army was wiped out, they said that all the remaining six tribes who defected were willing to disarm and obey the arrangement of the king's tribe."

Chao Er raised his eyebrows: "Since they are willing to surrender this time, the princess should be happy too."

"Sending troops to the barbarians is not a big deal, but I have something to remind you," Huxun said, "I won't pursue what has already happened. Many people in the Hulan tribe have been killed by you, and I don't want to make a fuss." The point where everyone is in danger is over."

Chao Er casually said: "The princess has already spoken, why don't we listen..."

Hu Xujun didn't ignore his inattention, stopped and said seriously to him: "I know, you and Jia Sheng are very close, you don't want to cause him any trouble, do you?"

Chao Er's complexion changed suddenly, he stared at her and said, "What do you mean?"

"That's the literal meaning," Huxun said coldly. "Before he left, he entrusted me to take care of what you did so that you wouldn't make a big mistake. You don't know the truth about some things, you act recklessly, and in the end you need others to clean up the mess for you." .”

Chao Er frowned: "What do you want to say?"

"I want to say, take a step back," Huxun said, "It's not for my sake, but for his."

"What does it have to do with him?"

"You'll find out later."

In the next few days, with the help of the royal army, Wumasun's first army, which was originally immersed in the victory of the siege, was defeated one after another due to the excessive dispersion of troops and the lack of consideration of the Hu people's quick call for reinforcements.

The barbarian army's trip coincidentally led to the unity of the Hu and Qiang internal rebels and the headquarters. The Hu people had to fight side by side again and work together. 100 people fled to the riverside.

"General... There is also a ferry in our family, let's get on the boat quickly..."

Wu Masun stared at the river that was just about to break through the ice, the helmet on his head fell somewhere, and his face was covered with blood: "Crossing over... so what?... According to the nature of the Lord, I am already doomed, let alone I I have no face to go back and meet him again..."

All the barbarians waited in the boat, and one of them said: "General, the situation is critical at this time, the lord may not care about this...we can't seek our own death..."

"Let's go," Wu Masun stared, "I won't go."

Others continued to persuade: "General, you have a relationship with the Lord who raised you since childhood, and the Lord has always valued you. Now if you choose to commit suicide because of fear of sin, I am afraid that you will be pitied by the Lord..."

Time was running out, and several people followed suit to persuade them. Seeing that Wu Masun's expression was relaxed, they hurriedly pushed and squeezed onto the board with him.

Then 100 people rushed onto the boat scatteredly and crossed to the Yanluo Mountain on the south bank.

When they disembarked, it was already dusk. The barbarians had well-developed water transportation and strong warships. However, since they were divided into two places with the Hu people, they had not yet had the opportunity to take advantage of this advantage.

When they arrived at the city at midnight, Fu Xuan had already heard about the situation of their party in the palace, and ordered the soldiers to be placed in the barracks outside the palace, so that Wu Masun entered the palace to meet.

Wu Masun dragged his steps into the hall, before he could raise his head, a gust of wind hit his face, followed by a pain in his forehead, the broken porcelain at his feet bounced to the edge of the bronze armor knee pads on his legs, there was a sudden clanging sound, It was very loud in the empty night room.

He squatted down to pick up the broken blue and white porcelain, and some new red had accumulated in the vortex of the porcelain.

"come over."

With a distance of more than ten steps, the voice was always unreal, Wu Masun felt dizzy for a while, walked to the center of the room with his eyes down, and landed on his knees.

Taking advantage of the moment just now, Fu Xuan retracted her short-term gaffe. At this time, she looked at her with heavy eyes, and she was still as usual calm and pretentious:

"...Gu Wang still remembers that when you were a child, you would feel sullen for a long time when you lost in a martial arts competition with the warriors in your clan. Others told you not to go to eat. How come now that you have grown up, the self-esteem of these children , The pride is gone, the lonely king is getting bored looking at it now."

Wu Masun was in a trance for a moment. Among the barbarians, it was the barbarian king who knew him deeply and knew what kind of words could most accurately poke his pain.Blood dazzled the eyes.

"Wuma Sun pleaded guilty," he said, "If the lord wants to take my life, he can behead himself now."

"You made so many troubles for the Lonely King, and then tried to claim your own bliss," Fu Xuan said with a smile, "Wuma, you are going too far."

"Don't dare."

"The facts are already in front of the lonely king," Fu Xuan said, "The lonely king is not obsessed with the land and soldiers that no longer exist. It's just that the old army organized by their group of Yan people is still clamoring at the door. A few days ago when Rong Ze went to meet him and suffered several defeats, what do you think?"

"If the Lord can trust—"

"The lonely king doesn't trust you," Fu Xuan said coldly, "Wuma, even if the lonely king wants to be held accountable this time, it's not that you were defeated in the fight against Hu Jun, but that you didn't listen to the lonely king and you at first." As I said in advance, keep the land well and don’t act rashly. Even if you won the group of barbarians and seized several cities in a row, and even sent someone to announce the good news to the lonely king, but this matter, you were wrong from here on.”

"Even if you failed so badly without you, the lonely king will still punish you when we see you again." Fu Xuan said, "If you can decide the winner on the battlefield only by force, why do you think the lonely king will come in person? Yandi came to oversee the army? But look, the lonely king still can't control you here, if you just sit back and relax, who knows what disaster you will do to the lonely king."

Wu Masun apologized: "The crime will disappoint the love of the Lord."

"Go to the camp to find Rong Ze, and ask him to explain the military affairs to you," Fu Xuan said, "Wuma, you have to be a forward, not a general."

The spring night is soft and warm, and the tranquil fragrance of flowers wanders.

Wu Masun looked gloomy, and retreated after accepting the order.