[Sword Three] Mountain Ghost Ballad

Tiance Mansion is located in the north of Luoyang, the eastern capital, backed by Beiman Mountain and south by Jinshui River. The terrain is low in the south and high in the north.

It was built by Li Shimin when he came to the throne, relying on the location of the Chinese army's big tent when he set off. The buildings in the mansion are centered on the Qinwang Hall, and the buildings are scattered around. The towering and majestic buildings are a powerful barrier to protect Luoyang.

Since An Lushan rebelled against the Tang Dynasty in Fanyang, the Spike Army led by him has won many battles, and it can be said to be invincible. However, on the way to the west, they encountered stubborn resistance from the reinforcements led by General Tiance, which damaged the Spike Army. A lot of elite soldiers finally made An Lushan notice the difficult bone of Tiance Mansion.

Therefore, after An Lushan hid in the Daming Palace, he multiplied his original strength several times, and dispatched three elders from the Spike Army to Tiance Mansion to join up with the Spike Army there, intending to take it down in one fell swoop. Tiance is the strongest barrier in Tang Dynasty.

After receiving the urgent report and knowing that Tiance was in trouble, the various sects immediately sent out their disciples to support them. All the knights in the rivers and lakes also rushed to Luoyang after hearing about it, but they were still not as fast as the Spike Army. After the soldiers struggled for several months, the main gate of Tiance Mansion was finally breached.

At this time, in front of the main hall of Tiance Mansion, a female general in red and silver armor led several Tiance soldiers to stand with guns, forming a confrontation with the Wolf Fang rebels who were staring at each other.

And this female general is Cao Xueyang, the Xuanwei general who asked himself to stay behind after Tiance's army retreated.Her expression was serious, her eyes were full of determination, and she didn't show the slightest timidity in the face of the large number of enemy troops. Only when her eyes swept over the enemy leader on the opposite side, a trace of complexity flashed in her eyes.

Because the enemy leader in front of her is none other than the elder brother of her mother who had been separated for many years. His name is Cao Yanlie. Now he is one of the eight King Kongs in the Spike Army. He is known as "General Cao" of Mountain Wolf.

Cao Yanlie was dressed in a military uniform with a ferocious iron mask on his face. Looking at his younger sister Cao Xueyang who was still stubbornly resisting, his cold and resolute face showed a gloomy look, and he said in a deep voice: "Xueyang, you have hidden wounds on your body, and after many battles, your physical strength is still weak." It has already been exhausted, and today the main gate of the Ce Mansion has been broken, and the army of Spike Fang is overwhelming, and you are alone, so why bother to struggle, if you surrender now, I promise that no one will touch you!"

"Brother, when the military situation is urgent, what kind of person would you trust and stay after the military break for you?"

The heroic female general in red did not directly respond to the other party's words, but instead asked a seemingly irrelevant question.She clenched the silver gun tightly in her hand, and when she saw the other party's frown, she smiled fearlessly and said, "Since Xueyang joined Tiance, he has won the trust of Tiance's two commanders successively. Fighting hard, there is never a time to back down. Today, Ce Mansion is surrounded by Spike Army, facing the situation of life and death, since Xue Yang has decided to stay and protect Tiance's army to retreat, there is absolutely no reason to give up halfway, even if he dies in the Therefore, I will never take a step back!"

"Good! Good! As expected of my Cao Yanlie's good sister, my Cao family's good daughter!"

Cao Yanlie laughed out loud, but there was undisguised anger on his face. He never thought before that his only sister would have such deep feelings for Tiance Mansion. She would rather fight against his own brother than protect him. Tiance Mansion is comprehensive.Annoyed, he took a step forward with a halberd in his hand, and ordered the Spike soldiers around him: "This general is going to fight General Tiance Xuanwei, you don't need to intervene, protect the surrounding area to prevent the enemy from sneaking in!"

After the explanation, Cao Yanlie held the halberd in one hand, and said in a loud voice: "Xueyang, we haven't seen each other for more than [-] years, let me let you see today, what the Tiance Mansion has taught you!"

"Brother, don't be merciful. Xueyang would rather die with Tiance soldiers than bow down to the Spike Army!" As soon as Cao Xueyang finished speaking, he rushed forward, the silver gun in his hand reflected in the flames of battle. There was a faint red light below, fighting with Cao Yanlie who also rushed forward.

Although Cao Xueyang is a female general, her martial arts are not weak. Back then, she used a silver spear to overwhelm all the heroes in Tiance Academy. With injuries on his body and weak physical strength, he gradually showed his defeat under the fierce offensive of the opponent.

She stabbed the last shot, retreated fiercely, and opened a little distance from Cao Yanlie, but before she had time to catch her breath, she was chased by the opponent. She had no choice but to raise her right hand holding the gun, trying to forcibly receive the opponent's blow .But at this moment, one of the Tiance generals who were in charge of guarding behind her saw that she couldn't dodge in time, so he didn't care about other things at the moment. He stabbed out with a spear in his hand, abruptly deflecting away Cao Yanlie's halberd that was stabbing at Cao Xueyang, but fell down. In a second, he was pierced through the chest by the surrounding spiked bow/crossbow/hand arrow, and then he was hit in the chest by Cao Yanlie's halberd, and finally fell to the ground and spit out a mouthful of blood.

"You... Damn!"

Cao Xueyang gritted his teeth and stood up. His body, which was already exhausted at the moment, suddenly burst out with strength after seeing his companion die tragically trying to save her. He clenched his silver spear tightly and stabbed at Cao Yanlie who was not far away.

Cao Yanlie held a halberd to block Cao Xueyang's full blow, and persuaded him in the stalemate: "Xueyang, you are exhausted, don't make unnecessary struggles, as a descendant of Cao Mengde, your life should not be buried in this kind of place!"

Cao Xueyang didn't pay attention to the other party's persuasion, just stabbed fiercely several times one after another, fighting with the other party, completely ignoring the gradually increasing wounds on his body.And when Cao Yanlie saw Cao Xueyang's desperate style of play, after the initial shock, he finally took advantage of the opponent's attack fading, attacked the opponent's lower body, and pushed him hard.

"Xueyang, you are so stubborn to work for Datang, is it really worth it!"

Cao Yanlie saw that his sister was half kneeling on the ground, spitting blood, but still wanted to struggle to get up, the trace of admiration in his heart turned into anger.He put down the iron halberd in his hand, and ordered angrily: "Spike Generals obey the order, follow me to attack Tiance Mansion, if you encounter resistance, you can kill them on the spot, only General Xuanwei, catch me alive!"

As his voice fell, the surrounding Spike soldiers were ready to act, but at this moment, a sudden change occurred, and countless unknown objects with strange green smoke attacked the Spike soldiers, and then followed several There was a scream, and countless powerful arrows shot from the dark, and the shield that pierced through the Spike Army pierced their throats.

"This is--?"

Cao Yanlie swung his halberd to block the arrows from all directions, and just about to order his soldiers to line up, he found that most of the spike soldiers who followed him were already lying down in a thick green smoke. When his body also became a little weak due to inhaling the green smoke, he realized that the green smoke turned out to be poisonous smoke!

Due to the poisoning, his body gradually began to be unable to support himself. He managed to stabilize himself with the help of the halberd, but he was still staggering. He said: "This is... Tang Sect's poison brake mechanism? Damn it! Damn it!"

"Cough cough..."

Cao Xueyang was also choked by the poisonous smoke scattered in all directions. Just when she was feeling dizzy, she suddenly felt a force coming from her shoulder. She was startled, but she had no strength to resist.

"Don't panic, it's me..." A slightly familiar voice made Cao Xueyang stunned for a moment, but he was no longer full of vigilance, and when the other person reached out to feed her something, he swallowed it without thinking. What was handed to her mouth was a pill.After the pill was swallowed by her, she obviously felt that her body, which had been weakened by the poisonous smoke, had gradually started to turn around.

Only now did she have the strength to turn her head around, and looked at the person who appeared beside her at some time, but she was a little stunned by this look, and she couldn't help saying in surprise: "Tang Wule, why is it you!"

The person who came was dressed in dark blue clothes, with a tall and straight figure, with a small mechanism box hanging on his waist, but there was no mask on his face, revealing a handsome and unruly face, it was Tang Wule.

Seeing Cao Xueyang's scarred and distressed appearance, Tang Wule frowned all of a sudden, stretched out his hand to help her, and handed her some emergency medicine. He obviously wanted to express his concern, but the helpless words turned into irony. : "General Xuanwei has always been a hero among women, why did he make himself like this? Are all the men in your Tiance Mansion dead, and you want a woman to stay behind!"

"you……"

Cao Xueyang glared at him with some annoyance, but then felt a little helpless, presumably he had gotten used to the other person's appearance, and said weakly, "How come you came this time? Could it be that the support from fellow Jianghu has already arrived?"

"Why can't this young master come? If it weren't for this young master, at this moment you are blindly waiting for those rescues who are slower than turtles, and you probably don't know where you are!"

Tang Wule was somewhat dissatisfied with the other party's attitude, but when he saw Cao Xueyang's tired face, and his military uniform was already stained red with blood, he couldn't bear it, so he comforted him, "Don't worry, I ordered my disciples to bring many The small and highly poisonous mechs are now all thrown into the Spike Army outside the main gate of Tiance Mansion, and it is estimated that there are not many people left outside, so you should deal with the wounds on your body first, and we will talk about other things later."

"No, the military division and the others have led people to the north to retreat. I heard that the enemy army is also attacking from the back mountain of Beimang. I must join them immediately!" Cao Xueyang saw that the field was filled with poisonous smoke, and all the Spike Army had fallen to the ground He was unconscious, and even Cao Yanlie's consciousness was vague. While he was slightly relaxed, he felt worried when he thought of Zhu Jianqiu and the others who didn't know what was going on.

"There is almost no good place on your body, and you still want to run to support!"

Tang Wule couldn't help saying angrily: "You are a woman, why bother to be so competitive! You leave me a wound to bandage it right now, and don't worry about other things. I came all the way to save you, I didn't want you to stay I will die with my life!"

After saying that, Tang Wule seemed to realize that he had missed something, and immediately closed his mouth, with an unnatural expression on his face. Cao Xueyang saw it, but was a little moved.

Cao Xueyang and Tang Wule didn't know each other at first, even if they got to know each other later because of some accidents, the relationship was really not good. She didn't expect that the one who saved her in danger this time would be Tang Wule.

The entanglement between her and Tang Wule was never too early, and it was never too late.In her early years, she was the chief intelligence officer of the Tiance Mansion, and she was always good at the art of disguise detection, and her subordinates were spread all over the country, and she also placed many of them in the major factions, including the Tang Sect.

Originally, there were not a few people who were good at spying on intelligence, but there were not many people like Cao Xueyang who were good at training and cultivating eyeliners.Therefore, under her training, many dark threads under her are connected into one faction, and the news from south to north is very well-informed. Compared with Yinyuanhui's actions, it is more hidden. She was always at ease about revealing her identity, but in the end, what she didn't expect was that many years later, there would be a problem with Tangmen's arrangement.

Because the Tang Sect in the middle of Sichuan is proficient in assassination and intelligence gathering, Cao Xueyang sent the most capable assistants around him when he placed his eyeliner in the Tang Sect. In the first few years, there was indeed no problem. The latter spy she sent to the Tang Sect came back seriously injured, and his speech was found to be flawed, but I don't know if the other party suspected Tiance.

After Cao Xueyang found out, it was quite a headache during that time. Although there were quite a few sects who did what she did, none of them would put this on the surface, or be caught by others.She didn't want to mess with the Tang Sect at first, but because when she was clearing out the thieves in Tiance, she discovered a Tang Sect's eyeliner planted in Tiance. She needs to pay attention to Tang Sect's movements.

Since the spy sent to Tangmen was caught, Cao Xueyang began to pay close attention to the movement of Tangmen.Sure enough, during that time, there were more and more people spying on the news around Tiance Mansion, and their whereabouts were secretive, and the identity of the other party could not be found out at all, but Cao Xueyang knew in his heart that the other party must be sent by the Tang Sect, because he did not want to conflict with the Tang Sect , so during that time she restrained her subordinates, thinking that she would plan after the wind had passed.

Later, the number of sneaky people around Tiance Mansion decreased, and there was no movement in Tang Sect, so Cao Xueyang let this matter go, but he secretly thought that he must be more careful in his actions in the future.

Until the fourth year of Tianbao, when the riots of the Red Clothes Sect were exposed, under the planning of the mansion lord Li Chengen and military adviser Zhu Jianqiu, the Tiance Mansion mobilized most of the elites to destroy the Red Clothes Sect. He was ordered to lead the army to the vicinity of Luoyang to wipe out the remnants of the Red Clothes Sect.

Afterwards, because he needed to contact the Haoqi League, he detoured to the Haoqi League camp in Jinshui Town, but accidentally rescued a woman from the Tang clan named Tang Hongling from two bandits, and found out that she came to Jinshui Town to help her elope. Ye Fan and Tang Xiaowan.Although Cao Xueyang does not give in to men, she often feels the same about her daughter's family. Ye Fan and Tang Xiaowan elope. , she agreed without much hesitation.

Unexpectedly, when she arrived at Guluo Island, the area around Quting Mountain was already empty. Ye Fan and Tang Xiaowan failed to save Tang Wule, who was seriously injured.

Cao Xueyang looked at Tang Wule with helplessness on his face. He was about to say something when he suddenly heard a booming sound. He raised his head in astonishment and saw many mech beasts slowly appearing at the gate of Tiance Mansion. He was surprised at the moment Said: "These are... mecha beasts? Could it be that disciple Wanhua is also here?"

Seeing the mecha beast coming, Tang Wule felt a little relieved. Hearing what Cao Xueyang said, he raised his eyebrows dissatisfied and said, "Is Wanhua the only one who knows mecha art? My Tang Sect's mecha art is not inferior either." To those idiots!"

Cao Xueyang didn't refute when he heard the words, but tried to stand up from the ground with difficulty, and was staggered by Tang Wule, who only heard him say dissatisfiedly: "Didn't I tell you to rest, the rebels ahead, I will lead People go, you don't have to worry about it!"

Tang Wule stared at the red-clothed and silver-armored female general in front of him, full of depression.

He has always thought that the cutest woman should be a woman like his sister Tang Xiaowan who is obedient and waiting to be loved by others, and a woman like Cao Xueyang who sounds like a heroine at best, but is a dominatrix at worst. It is to keep them at a respectful distance, not to mention marrying them back to be a wife, even talking to them, he is worried that his ears will be deafened by the other party.

But what he never expected was that after experiencing two failed relationships before they even started, the object of his heart again turned out to be this woman in front of him who did not meet his criteria for marrying a wife at all.

Although Tang Wule usually acts like a dandy, he is actually the leader of the Tang Clan's assassination organization and also in charge of the intelligence department. With experience, it is precisely because of his existence that Tangmen is rarely mixed into the eyeliner, and he has always been quite proud of this matter.Unfortunately, what annoyed him was that under his strict defense, there was still an eyeliner planted elsewhere in Tangmen, who had been lurking for several years without being noticed. He slapped him, and what annoyed him even more was that the eyeliner managed to escape in the end.

So, he became angry and searched around, and finally found Cao Xueyang, the Xuanwei general of Tiance Mansion, but he couldn't go to question him because he hadn't caught the other party's handle, so for a long time, he was on Tang Wule's murder list The No.1 in the novel has always been this female general who does not give way to a man.

It's a pity that it is a pity that Tang Wule died in Jinshui Town earlier because of the matter of Ye Fan and Tang Xiaowan, and the one who finally rescued him was his imaginary enemy Cao Xueyang for many years.

Thinking about it now, Tang Wule couldn't help but feel that maybe he didn't fall in love with Cao Xueyang at that time, but it must be at that time that he started to have a good impression of her, and then from the initial hostility, to the secret rivalry with the other party, and finally There are more and more eyes on the other party, so let's just fall into it?

It was also at this time that he realized that when he really fell in love with someone, whether the other person was his ideal was no longer important.

Just as Tang Wule and Cao Xueyang fell into a brief silence, a slightly funny voice suddenly came from not far away, breaking the silence between the two.

"Brother Wule, if you want to show your affection, you have to choose a place, right?"

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