Snake Tale

In October in Yanbei, the night snow is silent.Yang Tongyu sat alone in the room, frowning and thinking hard on the letter under the yellow light.Long before the Battle of Thorn Hill, he was ordered by Luo Yi to lurk inside the coalition forces, match wires, set up eyes and ears, and secretly inquire about the mastermind behind this war.As Luo Yi expected, this joint attack on Qi did not happen by accident.Yang Tongyu already had a vague guess about this, but because the matter was too bizarre, how to explain it clearly and concisely through a secret letter, so that the prince could respond to it, took a lot of thinking.That's why Yang Tongyu froze and grabbed the pen several times, and deleted, deleted, and revised it, but he didn't make a word.

At this moment, a knock on the door was heard.Yang Tongyu asked vigilantly, "Who?"

The servant outside the door respectfully said: "Mr. Yu, Young Master Qin asked you to go to the reception hall, saying that the 'adult' you want to see has arrived."

Yang Tongyu's heart skipped a beat, and he stood up abruptly: "Yes—yes, I'll come right away." It turned out that a few days ago he asked people to make connections many times, hoping to meet the big man who was regarded as the mastermind, I was just giving it a try with vague hopes, but I never imagined that my wish would be fulfilled on such a lonely and ordinary winter night.Surprised and delighted, he hastily lit the unwritten letter on the candle, then put on his fur coat and pushed open the door.

He walked through the corridor with the servant and arrived at the small hall where guests drank tea.It was midnight, but there were still a few people sitting in front of the desk talking and laughing.The floor-to-ceiling copper lamp was blocked by a screen, and one could only see a white-clothed young woman sitting on the right side. She was elegant and elegant, and said with a smile: "... Luo Yiben is already difficult enough, plus Duanmu and Shen Yuzhu have been traveling around the world recently, and they have been in a stalemate for nearly half a year. It is a pity that there is no taste in the east. If I were you, I would retreat bravely, instead of accompanying Beiyan Rongdi to gnaw on this chicken rib!" I don't know why! However, this person's voice is not as charming as his face, but has a kind of clear and ethereal that is not male and female.

There were two or three people sitting vaguely on the left side, their faces and expressions were indistinguishable, but the tall and tall man at the head laughed and said in a low voice: "You guys are making it clear that you want to earn me a fortune without spending a penny?"

The young man next to him also smiled and said: "Brother has the longest sequence, how can he not set an example and set an example for the disciples of Qingyan Mansion! Besides, this is the master... Haha, as the saying goes, 'If you have something to do, disciples do their best' , when Qin Wei was ordered to find me, I didn't evade like this!"

Everyone was laughing and talking to themselves, when the woman in white saw Yang Tong Yu in front of the court, she got up and said 'Excuse me' to her friends, walked down the stone steps gracefully, and smiled at Yang Tong Yu: "Mr. I'll come."

The moon is bright and the wind is wandering, and there is no one in it.The two of them walked through the veranda of the waterside pavilion one after the other, when the man in white in front of them suddenly stopped.Yang Tongyu raised his head, but saw a figure in a crane cloak reflected in the clear and huge full moon.The man's long hair was not tied up, and he was walking slowly on the white marble railing by the pool in a condescending manner.The belt of the wide-sleeved robe was blown by the cold wind, floating strangely like an exiled immortal.

A thin layer of slippery frost was condensed on the narrow railing. If you are careless, you will fall into the bone-chilling lotus pond water, and you will be pinched in a cold sweat just looking at it.And that person seemed to be unaware, and walked on the frost and snow with bare feet.Holding a withered lotus in his hand, he walked slowly with his head down and his hands behind his back, as if he was meditating on something.There is a saying in the Book of Changes, "When you walk on the frost, you know that the cold winter is coming"; there is another saying in the Book of Rites, "When the frost and dew fall, a gentleman walks on it, and remembers his relatives to feel the time"-then, this person is missing someone. The relatives who are far away, or are they foreseeing some kind of irreversible ending?

For some reason, an ominous premonition surged in Yang Tongyu's heart.Qin Wei beside him noticed his strangeness, and said with a smile, "What's wrong?"

Yang Tongyu hesitated and said, "Please forgive me for my gaffe...I...I just..."

The people on the Yulan seemed to have noticed the movement, and turned to look here.That person's face was washed by snow and moonlight, and there was a layer of jade-like halo.After seeing clearly the faint smile on his face, Yang Tongyu felt more and more immobilized icy cold, as if all internal organs were exquisitely carved into the color of snow.

Qin Wei said leisurely: "Mr. Yu, do you feel that my master's face - looks like someone I know?"

Yang Tongyu's mouthpiece froze suddenly, and began to tremble uncontrollably, but Qin Wei smiled softly in his ear and said:

"—like your lord, isn't it?"

...Yang Tongyu realized that his unfinished letter might never reach Junhou's hands.

Due to the stalemate in the battle against Qi and the secret maneuvers of Qi's forces, starting from October, all countries withdrew their troops from the alliance one after another, leaving Yan alone, still insisting on fighting with Qi.Although the Yan army had announced early in the morning that they wanted to cut off Qi's ancestral temple sacrifices, the Yan's offensive was getting weaker and weaker day by day.Luo Yi, the leader of the army, not only gained a firm foothold in the two cities of Jimo and Juqu, but also used treacherous and unpredictable tactics and a brave and brave momentum to command the Qi people to counterattack and recalcitrant, gaining lost ground along the way.Today, the two armies of Yan and Qi are connected in a line with the five cities of Gaowan, Qiuping and Pingping, forming a confrontation between east and west.For the Qi army, capturing this front meant driving the Yan army back to the barbarian land of Yanzhi Mountain.However, the military strength of the Yan army is far greater than that of Qi, and it has set up impregnable barriers along the five cities, posing a posture of protracted warfare.The Yan army has seen through the weakness of the Qi army's unsustainable food and grass, and only waits for the winter snow to come, and the Qi people have completely exhausted their supplies and have to slow down their offensive. Completely wiped out.

The sky was gloomy, and the Yan army lined up on the vast plain. General Yan Xun reined in his reins and looked into the distance.On this day, the Qi army sent another small team to Youcheng where he was stationed to yell and harass.He listened to the general's advice, reversed his strategy of refusing to fight a few days ago, and suddenly opened the door to counterattack, which caught the Qi army by surprise and fled in all directions, leaving scattered corpses outside the city.Lian Xun rectified his army and chased after the victory, all the way to the bank of the Qianji River, but the generals under his command had disagreements, so they could only rein in their horses and stop and wait and see.

His subordinate General Pang Can anxiously persuaded by his side: "General, the Qi army was defeated in this battle, and the victory came too suddenly. We must not pursue any more." Forget it, there are rumors that the Qi army has recruited a force of vagrants and will rush to this place today. I think today's small victory is a trick of the Qi people to lure the enemy, and there must be an ambush ahead!"

Another Liang Shen general sneered at his cautiousness, and mocked: "General Pang Shen really thinks so, he has fallen into Luo Yi's bluff trick. The so-called reinforcements are nothing. Luo Yi has been concentrating his forces for the past few days." Attacking Gaowan City, which is at the core of the five-city defense line, is lacking in military skills, so how can you free up troops to set up an ambush for us? General, this opportunity must not be missed, please take advantage of the momentum and pursue it!"

Both arguments are valid.Lian Xun pondered for a while, and made people climb to a high place to look at the military situation in the distance, and reported that there were indeed yellow sands all over the place several miles away, as if tens of thousands of horses were galloping towards them.Lian Xun secretly said "Lucky!", and ordered all the troops to return to Youcheng immediately to avoid a direct conflict with the Qi army.

Yan Jun turned his horse's head and returned to Youcheng.The corpses of the Qi army that had been beheaded before were still densely packed along the old road.The Yan army was waiting to ride their horses around, when suddenly a whistle sounded from the group of "corpses", and dozens of "corpses" suddenly jumped up, swiping their white knives and slashing at Yan Jun's horse's legs!