Luoshui Dongliu

During the day, Zhao Shen led people to patrol the four defenses, and secretly recruited some low-ranking confidantes to go in at critical places, and told them to "only keep their ears but not their mouths", and report directly if there is any discrepancy.After noon, scouts came to report that the Xiyan army outside the city had sent people to march around the city. Zhao Shen told the archers to go to the city, and no one else was allowed to move. The battalion officer strictly ordered everyone not to go out of the city to fight without orders.

When it was getting late, Zhou Gan whispered something into his ear, Zhao Shen nodded in response, and followed him to the prison cell.When they got to the door, Xie Rang was already waiting there with a few guards.On weekdays, most of the prisoners in the cell are military officers who have violated military regulations and are awaiting judgment. Zhao Shen leads troops with strict military discipline, and now that soldiers are approaching the city, who would dare to provoke trouble?The cell was empty, only a few sergeants guarding the prison, and when they saw the chief general and chief secretary in the battalion, they hurriedly saluted.Xie Rang asked them to inspect the door of the cell, and he led Zhao Shen straight to the innermost room.When he was able to get in, he saw a person lying on the straw couch against the wall. The person heard the sound and stood up against the wall and turned around. It was Lu Youzhi.

When they met each other for two times, Zhao Shen just kept his hands behind his back and didn't say a word, while Lu Youzhi also looked normal.The guards brought in two hut beds and a desk with pens and paper on it.Xie Rang pulled a bed beside the table and sat down. Seeing that Zhao and Lu were standing still, he didn't say much.The floor of this prison is not paved, it is very damp, cold and hard, so the guards set up a bed for the general, at this time, seeing one sitting and the other standing still, he didn't know why, so he couldn't help but glance at Xie Rang.Xie Rang said: "Go ahead..." Before he finished speaking, Zhao Shen said: "Slow down."

Seeing that Lu Youzhi was not wearing the white shirt he was wearing yesterday, he guessed that he had been beaten and didn't want to show the blood stains on his back, so he didn't know where he got this black robe to change into; combed.He knew that with Lu Youzhi's temper, he refused to show weakness, and deliberately put on this calm appearance in front of him.Seeing how aggressive he was, Zhao Shen laughed back, and said sarcastically, "Bring Lu Canjun a bed, and tell him to sit and talk." After speaking, he smiled bitterly and sat down.

Lu Youzhi's face changed slightly, and then he said: "Don't be presumptuous when dealing with the general, let's sit upright." After saying that, he knelt down and sat down.Not to mention the cushions on the ground, there is not even straw, and the knees hurt when they touch the ground.Fang sat upright as usual, but Lu Youzhi's eyes went dark from the pain.He didn't dare to sit upright, but when he sat upright, his hip and leg muscles had to work harder to keep his back straight, and the wound seemed to be more painful and uncomfortable.He didn't stand or sit like this, he just felt bitter, and just felt a little self-harm in his heart, he couldn't help but cursed himself that he deserved what he deserved, why should he be so hypocritical.With such strong self-endurance, the back is already covered with cold sweat.

Zhao Shen looked on coldly, raised his hand and sent the guards out.Xie Rang dipped his pen into the ink, his eyes swept across the faces of the two, and then turned back again.Just listen to Zhao Shen said: "Master Yuan, there is no need to waste words between you and me, I only ask you about your internal and external enemies, you have answered truthfully, and I don't want to make things difficult for you."

He still called Lu Youzhi's name, and his tone was gentle. Although he said it bluntly, he still meant to turn around slowly.Lu Youzhi looked at him and said: "I have never met (river crab) enemies."

Zhao Shen didn't feel annoyed after hearing this, and asked, "What's the matter with the stacked fan and the code word?"

Lu Youzhi said: "An old friend sent a message to invite me to meet in a wine shop. Since we haven't seen each other for many years, we agreed to meet each other with a poem on a folded fan."

Zhao Shendao: "When is your old friend?"

Lu Youzhi said: "An old friend from my study tour."

Zhao Shen smiled and said, "Master Yuan still knows the old man who climbed the wall with iron claws."

Lu Youzhi said lightly, "I don't know what he is doing now."

Zhao Shendao: "Since I don't know his identity, it can be seen that I am not familiar with him. With Lu Canjun's prudence, why are you in such a hurry to meet him?"

Lu Youzhi smiled and said, "Depending on how the general suspects me, I won't admit anything without real evidence."

Xie Rang took the record and frowned slightly when he heard this section.Lu Youzhi's words are full of loopholes and are not worth refuting, but the outsider is indeed dead. There is no proof of this death, and it would be troublesome for Lu Youzhi to quibble.

Zhao Shen nodded and said: "The good one is solid evidence, the good one I doubt you." He stroked the animal pattern on the hook with his fingers, and said: "On the seventh day of last month, the spies reported that the Xiyan Army had a batch of grain and grass to pass through Deng County. The army set up an ambush, but the Xiyan army diverted and fled; on the [-]rd of last month, I sent twelve cavalry troops out of the city in three directions to ask for help, and none of them were left, and all were intercepted and killed by the Xiyan army; two days ago, the soldiers who went to the city to watch the night On the first day when the defense was changed, someone took advantage of the gap and came into the city: You are responsible for these incidents," he said as he continued to feel angry, and if it was someone else, he would have suspected something wrong, because he was "Yuanchang" himself only said that the planning was not thorough enough, and he didn't think about "spies" for a long time.Hearing that Lu Youzhi still spoke with certainty at this time, he couldn't help but sneered and said, "You don't have to worry about how to deny it. Today I will definitely ask you to confess how to contact the Xiyan Army and who in the city will help you. It's okay if you don't want to tell now, I have plenty. The means tell you to speak."

After he finished speaking this long paragraph, he stared at Lu Youzhi with a look of anger on his face.Lu Youzhi only faced each other silently, with neither humble nor overbearing expression.Zhao Shen had always admired him most for his demeanor of not changing his face when Mount Tai collapsed in front of him, but now he felt that he was so reckless and tough, so he couldn't help clasping his fingers tightly on the hook.Seeing that Xie Rang was already shaking his head and sighing, he gritted his teeth secretly and shouted: "Come on."

All of a sudden, a guard came in with a whip, but Lu Youzhi's face did not change, but his lips could not help but purse slightly.Xie Rang saw it, and persuaded: "Lu Canjun..."

Lu Youzhi shook his head and said, "Master, you don't need to persuade me." Xie Rang raised his eyebrows slightly, then glanced at Zhao Shen again, and said nothing.

Seeing this, the guard stepped forward and pushed his shoulder. Lu Youzhi knelt and sat for a long time, his legs had already lost strength, and he fell to the ground after a push.He knew in his heart that Zhao Shen would not be nice to him this time, and he might lose his life, and the previous torture seemed nothing.Knowing that people kill me with knives and fish, my heart is calm, but I don't prevent the guard from coming up to untie his belt.Lu Youzhi was startled and angrily stretched out his hand to stop him, only to hear Zhao Shen sneer and say, "Why?"

The voice was both mocking and resentful, and Lu Youzhi couldn't help being startled.At this moment, he understood that he was no longer Zhao Shen's guest, all the dignity and respect he enjoyed in this army, Zhao Shen would double ask for it back.

The guard lifted the hem of his robe, and removed his outer pants.Lu Youzhi fell on the ground, bit his teeth into his lower lip, and when he looked up, he could see Zhao Shen's robe hanging on the ground, his face turned red suddenly.After taking off their outer pants, several people in the room were all stunned.I saw that the middle clothes were completely soaked in blood, and the color was rusty, as if they were stuck together with the flesh.The guard didn't know what to do, he just looked at Zhao Shen, after a while he heard Zhao Shen say: "Take off."

The guards didn't know the severity, so they lifted their coats and took them off. Lu Youzhi was blushing in embarrassment, but suddenly he felt as if boiling oil had been splashed on his back, but his whole body seemed to be thrown into an ice cellar, and even his heart, liver and lungs were constricted.He trembled all over his body, panting and groaning on the ground for a long time before he felt the sharp pain go down a little bit along his limbs.

Xie Rang doesn't have much to say to Lu Youzhi on weekdays, and he only thinks that he is a young man with high talents and no deep friendship.But he is old, and he has the kindness of a good man.Seeing Lu Youzhi's embarrassment at this moment, I suddenly felt unbearable.Just as he was about to speak, he turned his head and saw Zhao Shen's expression was cold and hard, as if he was determined to ask for a confession.He felt that he couldn't interfere with the situation, so he turned his eyes away.

The guard's side had already whipped the whip down, and Lu Youzhi felt as if he was being bitten by the fangs and claws of a ferocious beast. Besides, the flowers on the bar couldn't bear it. After holding back for a long time, he still screamed out, but his throat seemed to be choked. They are all dumb.In the severe pain, he finally couldn't help but begged: "Don't hit me."

Zhao Shen waved his hand to tell the guard to stop, and said, "Are you willing to say it?"

Lu Youzhi closed his eyes and said, "I'm Xiyan Xizuo."

Zhao Shen said: "Go on."

Lu Youzhi stopped for half a day and said, "I want to drink water."

Zhao Shen slightly hesitated, handed the water bowl in his hand to the guard and said, "Give it to him."

Lu Youzhi was panting and choking, and it took him a long time to drink all the water in the bowl, and he felt that his whole body regained some strength.Knowing that Zhao Shen was waiting for him to speak, he secretly gritted his teeth and said in a low voice, "Let's fight again."

Zhao Shen heard him dawdling for a long time and finally said such a sentence, if he was playing himself for a fool, a surge of anger rushed to his head in an instant, and he kicked Lu Youzhi.As a military commander, he has great strength, but at this moment, he is dizzy and has no seriousness.Lu Youzhi was caught off guard, and rushed out, hitting his head on the ground, but he didn't feel any pain.After a long while, he felt something dripping from his forehead, he stretched out his trembling hand to caress it, only to realize that the corner of his forehead was broken, he looked at the blood on his finger, and thought in his heart, it is not a lie that blood is thicker than water, it is so bright and sticky thick.

Zhao Shen was also taken aback, he couldn't help but stretch out his hand to support his chin.I saw Lu Youzhi lowered his eyes, a ray of bright red flowed from his forehead, and his bun was untied. Against the backdrop of his pale face and long eyebrows reaching into the temples, he felt miserable and beautiful.Zhao Shen felt oppressed in his chest, turned his throat several times, and said in a low voice, "Why are you bothering?"

Lu Youzhi glanced at him, smiled wryly and said, "It's just a matter of loyalty, General Zhao, why do you want to guard Luocheng to the death?"

Zhao Shen turned his face back and said: "If you talk about loyalty, don't you mean that you joined the army in my camp? I think I treat you well, but how do you repay it?"

Lu Youzhi laughed suddenly: "Repay? You must remember the good deeds done by your father and Zhu Wen during the Rebellion. Now is the time to repay!"

Zhao Shen had never seen Lu Youzhi laugh so much before, and when he heard the words "Zhu Wen Zhichao", he was terrified.

The Zhu Wen Rebellion was a great change more than [-] years ago, and hundreds of thousands of people were killed.At that time, general Zhu Wen saw that Emperor Xuan was seriously ill, and Gao Yuanchong and Yuchi Fuji, who held military power, were both in the northwest to clean up the mess of the four towns. There was no one in the Central Plains for a while, so he took the opportunity to rebel. And the ministers are helpless.It is said that before the death of Emperor Xuan, he secretly summoned the prince and said that the only king in Keqin in the country is Zhao Jing, the lord of Luocheng. He will be grateful and grateful for the generous rewards.

Sure enough, the Zhu Wen Rebellion finally subsided under the iron hooves of Zhao Jing's cavalry.Zhu Wen and his [-] generals were forced to retreat to their old nest, Beicheng, and had to surrender.Zhao Jing went to the city to collect the weapons of the surrendered army and ordered him to wait outside the city.However, these [-] troops were besieged by Zhao Jing's cavalry regiments in a blink of an eye, and all of them were killed.That night, the soldiers who had put down their weapons were unarmed, and they could only let them be slaughtered in front of the cavalry. The cavalry spears picked up countless heads. The horse's hooves were dyed red, and there were stumps and broken bodies under the hooves. Bloody soaring, as straight as hell on earth.Zhu Wen was taken to the top of the city, and fell into the city in horror and died.When the news reached the capital, the government and the public were also shocked. Zhao Jing only said that Zhu Wen had too many troops, and it was difficult to reorganize at the moment.Even though the world criticized him, Emperor Jing was grateful for his great contribution to suppressing the rebellion, and the matter was finally settled.

Everyone in the world said that "killing captives is inauspicious", Baiqi Xiang Yu never ended well, and Zhao Jing's military exploits rolled out of the blade, never believed in karma.However, it seems that there is a ghost, five years ago Zhao Jing rode out of the city to hunt, the horse was startled by something, and it threw Zhao Jing off and dragged it for several tens of feet.Zhao Jing was seriously injured and died. It was the day when he strangled Zhu Wen to surrender his army.

Zhao Shen recalled his father's tragic situation before his death and felt his fingers were cold. He stared at Lu Youzhi and said, "Who are you?"

Lu Youzhi said slowly, "Zhu Wen is my grandfather, and I was in Beicheng that night."

With a flick of Zhao Shen's wrist, his fingers came out of Lu You's face.

Seeing how horrified he was, Lu Youzhi sneered and said, "My father and several uncles were killed in the rebellion. My mother and I were sold to Hu merchants by your father for two good horses! My mother was tortured on the way. Die, if I hadn't been rescued by General Yuchi's subordinates in Xijing, I would still be a slave of the Hu merchants!"

Zhao Shen listened silently, his face turned ashen.He clasped his fingers on his knees, calmed down and paused for a while, then forced himself to calm down and said, "I don't want to chatter with you, I just want you to confess." What can he say?

Lu Youzhi had exhausted all his energy just now when he was trying to rob him, so he raised his head and replied, "I will accompany you if the general has any other means."

Xie Rang knew that he usually had a cultivation level of not showing his emotions and anger, but when he saw such a fierce-tongued appearance today, he was shocked at first, and puzzled when he thought about it again.From Lu Youzhi's words, he and Zhao Shen are really enemies of the country and family, and there is no room for change.With Lu Youzhi's mind, how could he not have thought of this level?He will do everything like this, unless he only wants to die quickly.Thinking of this, Xie Rang couldn't help but move in his heart, and hurriedly said to Zhao Shen: "General, this is a big matter, don't be impatient..."

He didn't finish his sentence, but Lu Youzhi suddenly said: "You two don't need to act like this. The master wants to beg for mercy and be a good person at this time, and then come to talk to me in private? I can't bear soft or hard."

After finishing speaking, Xie Rang was stunned for a moment, then laughed out of anger, and said: "Come on, come on, if you want to repay that Yuchi Buji's kindness with death in a hurry, please go ahead, I won't say more."

The words had no other intentions, but Zhao Shen felt piercing when he heard the word "repaying kindness", and couldn't help sneering: "The master is right, but I also want to see your loyalty." After saying that, he waved for the guards, "then beat."

Seeing the guard approaching, Lu Youzhi had already hardened his heart, but now he still felt short of breath when he saw the horsewhip.He folded his head and face into the crooks of his arms, lowered his head and bit his sleeves.Hearing the crack of the horsewhip, Lu Youzhi couldn't help but gritted his teeth, the tip of his tongue was bitten in a hurry, and his mouth was bloody.At this time, the horsewhip had completely scoured the wound, tearing out blood grooves.During the boredom and suffering, Lu Youzhi felt as if his lower body was being pinched.Under the pain, he could only toss and struggle, as if he was alone in the sea of ​​blood, and there seemed to be countless people standing on the shore, but no one could save him to the shore.His dead father and brothers couldn't, and the Yuchi clan who sent him here couldn't.He looked up to the shore to look for Zhao Shen, but he saw that young general was like a warrior in the grottoes on Longhua Mountain, neither sad nor happy, his treasure was solemn.Gradually, the severe pain seemed to be blurred, Lu Youzhi was in a daze, and the corner of Zhao Shen's robe was still vaguely shaking in front of his eyes.His heart was half clear and half confused, but like a drowning man seeing a straw for life, he instinctively stretched out his hand to grab it, and passed out unconsciously.