Chapter 130 No Wolf Smoke

Luo Taoist opened his eyes early in the morning, did not find sleepy disciple, strange, this little kid not to mention early, that is, get up gas is also too big, get up and look out over the past, only to find that the disciple carried a tree branch in the waterfront haphazardly set up the frame, haphazardly? Luo Daoren quickly take back this prejudice, hand in hand approach, see the bottom is not thin disciple a branch in hand, every time a little bit of condensation, the shot is a one-two punch, such as lifting the sword to walk the dragon snake, especially in the precious one or two points of swordsmanship everyone’s similarity to the God, Luo Daoren stared wide-eyed, dare to say that this child is really gifted enough to be able to look at the water to understand the sword, uneducated? But Luo Pingyang just remembered that he did not teach him the sword, not for fear of teaching the disciple starving master, but Luo Taoist would have been on the sword art of six out of seven, not know anything about it! Luo Daoren did not see Xu Gongzi figure, wait for the disciple swung a set, sweating stopped, only to see the ghost of the general puzzled and asked: “How will the sword art?”

This little black charcoal grunted, take the withered branch shaking a sword flower, grinning: “Xu Gongzi praised me for my bones, taught me this sword, I think when I return to the Yan Yang Guan, Qingyan brother will not be my opponent.”

Speaking of that on the basis of the age of the qi force big more on the basis of the master is the master of the same door senior brother, the child is particularly vindictive, always thinking of learning to become a world-class martial arts will beat him all over the place to look for teeth. Luo Taoist frowned and asked: “That Xu Gongzi also know swordplay?”

The child had an afterthought and shook his head, “I don’t think so, before he taught me this sword last night, he said that it was by chance from an ancient book with a missing page, I think he probably thought that he couldn’t learn it himself, so he simply taught it to me, and in the future, when I practiced to become a top-notch swordsman, he would also have face.”

The child remembered something, trotted to the riverside, picked up two pairs of straw shoes, smiled and said, “Master, this is what he gave us, before he left, he asked me to take a message to master, saying that he liked your poetic manuscripts, saying that what is the words of a benevolent person, and also said that the line about the sword moving the green mountain to make up for peace, the top is good and good. Finally he said thirty-two poems are memorized, back to read to his second sister to listen to, anyway, that guy nagging, but I remembered so much, hey, and then care about practicing the sword, and then forget some, anyway, also do not understand too much.”

The old Taoist gesture to fight, the child where will be afraid of this kind of see many years of bluffing, upside down to lift the branch as if holding a sword, push the straw shoes into the master’s arms, fawning: “I carry the book box to go. Master, remember ah, from now on I’m a swordsman, you just wait for me to move the green mountain with my sword in the future!”

Taoist Luo helplessly laughed, “Rabbit child, remember people’s good!”

The child darted forward with a clear laugh, “Got it!”

Taoist Luo looked down at the straw shoes in his hands, shook his head and sighed, “Farewell to the shoes when you go to bed, who knows that you will never meet again when you close your eyes.”

Xu Fengyen walked alone on the bank of the weak water, wearing a green python robe inside a red robe leisurely floating, Yin nature like water aversion to fire, Yin YuanYing see the water is happy phase is more happy, from time to time the head floats out of the water, the mouth are chewing a tail of river fish, face to the bank of Xu Fengyen, are all full of blood, Xu Fengyen is also too lazy to pay attention to, that the master and disciple naturally will not know that ferrying across the river if not for him to secretly block, hold up the goat-skin raft of the Hanzi will be Dragged into the water, to the Yin as a meal of meat, the child will be regarded as a water ghost, not wrong. Xu Fengyen night hand in hand to teach the child that sword, is a magnificent open Shu style, but estimated to the identity of the master and disciple two family background, the child even if the day to day practice sword, to the age of armor can not catch the sword of the five points of the essence of the martial arts practice, since ancient times is a master teacher is difficult to find, the master is even more difficult to find, into the martial arts husband four is a chasm, the second grade of the small master of the realm is a rift valley, the first grade is high as the Weiwei heavenly gates. Luo Taoist has been considered a person with heart, or a Taoist temple supervisor, poor his life, tirelessly seeking longevity, but so far it is still even the Longhu Mountain Tianshifu sweeping Taoist children have long been on top of the 12-story building, have not completed half, this is the real jianghu, some people are poor enough to touch a dangling money, and some people are rich enough to have a mountain of gold are not into the eyes.

Xu Fengyen suddenly stopped, squatting on the ground, the objects in the bookcase are moved out of the sun, is to take a Southern Zhao to go with the Western Shu orphaned in exchange for the Spring and Autumn sword, the sword of the foot, Xu Fengyen can only play ten of five or six. That time the rainy alley narrowly met, almost died in the blind female zither master’s Hu Jia beat. The black box with three ancient swords of Great Qin hidden in it, turned into the Qin Emperor’s Mausoleum by the Dragon Wall, that white coat.

A handful of spring thunder. The white fox child face ascends the stairs or not?

A knife spectrum, stopping at the knot green silk.

The body of that after two trips are sleeping not unloading armor soft armor. Twelve flying swords, the morning dew golden strand of too much sword tire full.

A pair of straw shoes that I don’t know if I can deliver yet. This task is learned from old Huang, remember the first time the old man with missing teeth handed over a pair of straw shoes, Xu Fengyen jumped to his feet and cursed this is also considered shoes? Later, he felt that straw shoes are better than walking barefoot, wearing wear will also become a habit of nature, that time just back to the Beiliang Royal Palace, re-wearing comfortable pads of jade boots, surprisingly, it is not accustomed to it.

As a hereditary concubine of the vassal king’s son, can get more rare things for no reason, but Xu Fengyen unknowingly also take the life to some things, but at the same time with the passage of time, will lose a lot of no matter how hard it can not be retained. How much suffering, this can not be said, said others will only think you lard blinded heart do not know enough, is in with the hungry man said meat greasy. So the encounter can only be said to have enjoyed a lot of blessings.

Xu Fengyen put back the bookcase one by one.

The Yin YuanYing came to the shore, tilted his head and looked at the guy with a compassionate phase.

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The Liyang dynasty once in Xu Snapdragon personally supervised the work, to create an unprecedented huge stagecoach system network, stagecoach station is the point, stagecoach road is the line, the line supplemented by beacon flints and military towns and E Fort, constructed into a piece, look at the people and daunting. Now the eastern border of Liyang almost completely copied the original framework, and absorb a large number of remnants of the Central Plains of the North Mang, also began to spare no effort to carve this proved to be incredibly effective war skeleton, in which the beacon flint smoke duns only Maolong is in the Long Waist State JiaYu County, there will be the size of a total of one hundred beacon flints, according to the distribution of the three lines, a ten-mile, stretched out looking at each other, the border beacons, every time the war, the smoke of wolves in order to rise four. The empress once patrolled the border at night, and when she felt like it, she boarded the beacon flints and burned four torches in person, so the next moment, the lights of the whole state were blazing, and the three beacon flint lines were like three fiery dragons, and that night, it was found that there was a beacon flint that was out of duty at the wrong time, and all the nine people, including the head and deputy flint marshals, were beheaded on the spot. Ten flint chiefs chopped off their arms, and a state flint commander was demoted to an ordinary flint, and ordered never to be promoted.

There are several lines of post roads in Northern Mang for military traffic only, once a powerful royal family member who privatized salt and iron collided with a group of southern cavalrymen in the territory of Longwai Prefecture and was killed, the news was leaked for some reason, and when the empress killed this nephew, she said that peddling salt and iron was not a punishable offense, and that horseback riding on a post road should be punished twice. Then the young son of this person was pulled out of his home and hanged alive. After that, there were no more people traveling on this kind of stage road.

Leigu military town that line of the post road has long been a bird of prey, the four thousand iron horsemen all the way to attack, the hoofs of the horses, the post and beacon flints are destroyed without exception, everyone knows that Leigu six thousand defenders have been a turtle in a jar, withdrawing not dare to withdraw, not dare to fight, Wazhou and Junzikan two towns is the previous lesson, Wazhou set up a posture of the initiative to attack, Leigu in the Maolong, before, have to assume the life for the life of the cruel to consume the lone army of the mission, can only pray that the temple of the Southern Dynasties, the temple of the South China. Mission, can only pray for the temple of the South Dynasty on the great generals can quickly give a response to the policy, after two wars, the former arrogance of the South Dynasty are no longer any military towns and the North Liang army elite combat power comparable to the flames of the Valley is facing a catastrophe, the people are terrified, coupled with the sealing of the town closed to the city, those who are not allowed to get out of the city of the children of the high families and big clans are not many either holding their heads and crying, or today there is a drink today drunk, tomorrow to die tomorrow death, tomorrow death. The people who are blindfolded are not aware of the situation. The people in the dark, because of martial law, but not as well-informed as the powerful gentry and gentry that heart as ash. Leaving the valley is not good, Maolong is also the death of the fox, many families in the city to take advantage of the city has not yet been sealed, are dragging their families to the north to escape, as when the Spring and Autumn scholars running north of the scene of the mourning dogs, but also that the Northern Liang army and the scourge of massacres!

Maolong Tizi Mountain Beacon Flint.

Built on the top of the hillock, rammed earth, sandwiched between the hard red willow branches cut through the huge wood, flint body tall, due to the proximity of this mountain border town of Maolong, ladder mountain beacon flint extra with beacon three, a flint within the twelve people. Some years ago, the state beacon regardless of the north court south dynasty, only use the north, the south dynasty people shall not take the beacon, only in the past two years to be able to enter the beacon, and then the two quickly equalized, for which the royal tent side complained greatly. Tizishan beacon twelve people just north and south half, flint marshal three people in the two bits are South Korean, another deputy flint marshal is a rough man, where to fight over the remaining two, was sidelined by a lot, which makes the Mang people beacon is very embarrassing, one day as bad as a day, before also dare to secretly drink a few mouthfuls of wine, and now once caught will have to suffer a whipping.

Ladder Hill seniority of an old beacon is typical of the Mang people, shaved hair braid, rough facial contours, body type is quite majestic, but unfortunately just a gutless wimp, in the past out of the flint after private drinking than anyone else is fierce, and now even simply even quit drinking, the two southern flint marshals nothing like to take him for fun, make such as a dog and pig, late at night on duty of hard work are Ann thrown to him, the old man also did not say anything, the only time to get angry is the old! The only time he got angry was when the old beacon’s pretty daughter came to visit, and gave the flint marshal a halfway stop to molest her, and dragged her into the grove in the middle of the mountain. The rest of the beacons watched the jokes, but also wondered how such a waste of time could have given birth to such a watery daughter, and if it was unfortunate that she looked just like her father, she wouldn’t be as big and thick as he did, and wouldn’t be able to get married in this life, and as for that time, the deputy marshal whether it was a triumph or a failure, outsiders could only make some guesses, and the southern beacons despised it. The South Beacon is despised, the North Court Beacon is loathed, the old man is not a person outside and inside, the life is lonely, only a new bird into the Ladder Mountain Fusilier Beacon, and this nicknamed boring gourd guy can still talk to. The newcomer who does not fit in with the group is named Yuan Samuel, Yuan in the Southern Dynasty is a B surname, but also belongs to a handful of big surnames, but no one thinks that the children of such big families will be happy to doomed to do not have military success of the beacons.

Yuan Huoi daytime do not need to duty, the old man since no longer go to the beacon flint outside the drink, there is no place to go, always shrinking feet standing in the beacon flint in the dark place to look out, look at some years is not tired, Yuan Huoi is a clear-eyed beacon, small waist slim with the pussy, ladder mountain, people know that the flint marshal to the meat and vegetables are not afraid of men and women eat all the same, are looking for this Yuan is not to take the ass in exchange for the identity of the beacon, the beacon. Beacon, although compared to the regular border army is neither oil and water nor future of the water job, but compared to many lines or to be comfortable, at least the sun does not starve, the monthly salary does not fall. Yuanhuai also did not look at the old beacon, asked: “How many beacon flints do you think there are in the Liyang Dynasty?”

The old beacons, who are not old but just pale in appearance, said hoarsely, “I’m not sure at this moment, but there must be 12,000 beacons in the first five or six years.”

Yuan Huai touched his green turban and curiously said, “I heard the flint marshal say that the Guanbei flints of the Liyang Dynasty would send out a torch on every day to report safety. Why don’t we follow it?”

The old beacon with a bitter face had a voice like wind sand grinding stone and said softly, “To pacify the eight Spring and Autumn states for fear of recurring civil strife, we have to rely on this peaceful fire to transmit messages to Tai’an City.”

Yuanhuai laughed: “That Liyang Emperor must be tired, one day did not see the peace fire, there is no sleep, but also the civil and military ministers called to the forbidden.”

The old beacon said flatly: “Do what not tired.”

Beacon flints throughout the territory of Beimang do not report peace fire, is the female emperor personally decides.

Only when there is no peace will the wolf smoke be lit, and I will still give you peace.

How conceited!

Yuan Hui sighed and rubbed his cheeks, which had gotten much darker and rougher since he became a beacon, “The steps of the ancestral hall at home must be covered with moss.”

Old Beacon Son did not say anything.

Yuanhuai said to himself, “If I were at home, I would like to catch candle bugs and put them in a bag to make a firefly bag, so that I can read at night without having to pick a lamp.”

He turned his head and joked, “Old man Xiang, your daughter is so beautiful, like a painted fairy, why don’t you marry me.”

The old man laughed in a rare moment and did not say yes or no.

Yuan Huoi glared, “Give a word, is it a big old man!”

Old Beacon shook his head.

Yuan Huai turned his head and muttered, “Cheap!”

Yuan Huai was a furtive nature in a burst of east and west, and immediately asked, “Old man Xiang, when do you think I can become a flint marshal?”

Old Beacon stared at him for a few moments, turned his head away and said, “You? No way.”

Yuanhuai said sharply, “Why can’t I?”

Old Fenzi said softly, “To be an official, you need to be deep and hidden, just like a woman’s breasts.”

Yuanhuai froze for a moment, raised his voice and laughed: “Yo, you still know reasoning?”

The old guy said flatly, “The great reasoning as long as it is an individual will understand a few, especially to my age old guy.”

Yuan Huai said with blank eyes, “Talking to you is just boring.”

A young Beacon stomped in and said to the old man, “Old man Xiang, go, carry a few jugs of wine to the marketplace with your master, and owe the money for the wine first.”

The old beacon son silent, will leave the beacon flint to buy wine for colleagues to go, as for these beacon son owed him wine money, accumulated over time, not to say fifty silver, thirty or forty two certainly can not escape, but he is a piece of mud, let people pinch used to. Yuan Huai can’t stand it, for the old man Xiang to round up, said he went. That take advantage of the Beacon as a natural right to look angrily at each other, see Yuan Huoi cheeky smile, palm-sized face, chin pointed, fine skin and tender flesh everywhere with the girls almost, the heart is not on fire, but he also felt that the lower abdomen to hold a group of evil fires, but this Yuan’s most likely is the flint marshal’s playthings, he dared not dare to wantonly, but can have a handful of addiction or good, licked his face and said good brother, to go to embrace his shoulder, by Yuan Huoi deftly lowered his hand. The shoulder, was Yuanhuai dexterous low body to avoid, slipped out. In the ladder mountain mixed eating and waiting for death beacon son great disappointment, staring hard at the Yuan boy’s ass under the hard cut a few eyes, the heart cursed himself really want to mother-in-law want to crazy, back to look at the old man and then look at that obscure goods, spit a thick phlegm, which swaggered walk out.

Tizishan beacon flint has two horses, one to the flint marshal temporary ride to the military town of Maolong, the market to sell wine has to be more than 20 miles away, Yuanhuai and guard the horse beacon said please all the brothers drink, will be able to ride down the mountain.

When descending the mountain, Yuan Huai and a small group of dangling border town cavalry brushed shoulders, the leader of a handsome boy and the beacon in the guy about the same morality, saw him, but also in the eyes of the playful, but also whistled, Yuan Wuai to endure the chills, fast horse whip.

The cavalry team totaled six riders, with the leader of the cavalry small leader only half a horse’s body of a member of the cavalry asked softly: “not to settle down?”

The small leader, who was cynical a moment ago, collected his expression, narrowed his eyes, and slightly shook his head, “Put it in the back to kill. Remember one thing, the beacon flints near the heavy town may not only have nine beacon sons.”

The handsome-looking cavalryman gave a heave, “Brother Hanlin, we’ve killed all the way, and we’ve smashed seven beacons alone, so we have a good count in our hearts!”

Li Hanlin, who grew colder and colder during the silence, exhaled, “Being careful is never a bad thing, brothers can’t afford to lose their lives in Northern Mang anymore. Getting rid of this beacon flint, there will be nothing for our brothers next. When we go back ……”

Li Hanlin did not continue.

How many people could return?

Li October bit his dry cracked lips, his eyes were grim, and he nodded heavily.

Half a mile from the ladder mountain beacon flint there is a barrier, a beacon is leaning against a tree in the shade dozing, even did not deliberately wrap the soft cloth of the sound of the horse’s hooves did not wake up, unfortunately, a crossbow arrow instantly through the skull, nailed into the tree trunks, the beacon died without pain, only the head back slightly shaking out of a magnitude. The cavalry intentionally stopped at the barrier, and then slowly up the hill, the beacon flint outside the smoke pier there are two southern dynasty beacon son in gags, are waiting for Yuanhuai to buy wine back to quench their appetite, see the cavalry clad in Maolong light armor lazily appeared in the field of vision, thought it was the military master to this side of the look for acquaintances, extrusion of a smile and go up to the front of the compliments of a few words, six riders dismounted at the same time, Li Hanlin smiled and a beacon son hooked shoulders towards the beacon flint, and casually asked: “Is your flint marshal in, I can hardly catch the opportunity to sneak out for a breath of fresh air, said we would go to Maolong tonight to drink flower wine together, don’t let go of the pigeon! In case of the North Liang really hit over, I am dead or alive are two say, this moment to hurry to find a few women to have a good time.”

Fenzi heart that envy salivation ah, mouth with a smile, said: “Right right, the military master is right, is to have a good time. If you can trust the military, I dare to help you lead the way, Maolong’s hook bar, I am familiar with the way.”

Step into the shadow of the beacon flint, Li Hanlin laughed loudly: “You kid on the road, master like.”

The way.

Is really on the road, the yellow spring road.

At the same time that Li Hanlin made his move, Li October also broke the neck of another beacon son. Li Hanlin gave a wink, Lu Dou mouth holding a dagger, waist hanging spear bag, high leap, hooked into the flint wall with both hands, upward and swiftly climb along, quietly turned and entered.

A standard fifty crossbowmen, can fight soldiers are only six people left. Li Hanlin, the captain of the army, Lu Dou, Li October, and three elite crossbowmen who have replaced the Liang knife with the Mang knife, of which Lu Dou, the heavy pupil, has simply not equipped with a knife.

Beacon flint, Li Hanlin killed red-eye, thought the dust had settled, ladder mountain beacon flint in addition to riding down the mountain of the woman disguised as a man of the beautiful beacon, has all killed, let Lu Dou and Li October search flint whether there is a dark room, did not expect an old beacon somehow in the hidden sneak attack Li Hanlin, when he was about to go to get some beacon text, the result is that the Ma Zhenzhai for him to block that poisonous knife, sharp knife will be eight feet north of the Liang! The man stabbed a through the heart, the beacon is obviously a master, a knife deadly, draw the knife also teased with an arc, the whole heart of a clatter to pull open, Ma Zhenzai died before he said to go back to Beiliang, on the silver piggyback to a few of the war dead brother’s parents, wife and children, the old beacon out of the knife quickly and fiercely, Li Hanlin difficult to fight, to the hands of the barbarians are not bad chopped in the shoulder, good yet to be strong, the old Er Yili beacon on the sound Lu Du rushed to the Lu Du a fist blast broken back, this is not enough, Lu Du pressed his head, smashed into the wall, the whole head like a fist pounding watermelon, fell to the ground bloody, completely unrecognizable face, Lu Du looked to Li Hanlin, the latter shook his head and said that it was fine.

Li Hanlin walked to the body of Ma Zhenzai crouched down in front of the body, to help him close his eyes.

Li October’s lips quirked, still did not make a sound.

Li Hanlin calmly said, “Lu Dou, you are good at tracking, get on my horse with the best footing and go after that Beacon son who went down the mountain, remember, only chase him for twenty miles, if you can’t catch him, then turn back immediately and meet up with us at the previous Beacon.”

Lu Dou walked out of the flint in silence.

Li October slammed his fist on the wall.

Li Hanlin raised his head and said, “Our Dragon Elephant Army has no intention of eating Li Gu, it depends on who will fall into this trap of Li Gu Maolong.”

Dong Zhuo personally led eight thousand cavalrymen to rush to Maolong by day and night.

He was prepared to abandon the Li Valley from the start.

Fatty Dong just looked fat, but in reality, he was one of those half-bloated stalwarts who rode at the head of the pack.

A constant stream of traveling riders came to give feedback on the military situation.

Dong Zhuo under the banner of the raven columns, the North Mang eighty columns are firmly in the first place.

Eight thousand of the South Dynasty’s premier elite cavalry were as powerful as a rainbow.

Dong Zhuo habitually knocked his teeth, and gloom emerged in his eyes.

Two quarters of an hour later, one hundred raven columns surprisingly returned without a single person.

Finally, a rider galloped in, covered in blood, his back full of crossbow arrows, Dong Zhuo fastened his horse and blocked him from rolling over and dismounting to report the military situation, “Sit down and talk.”

This dying crow bar son of blood seeping from the corner of the mouth, trying to bite the words clearly: “Three miles ahead, there are heavy ambush!”

After speaking, he died.

Dong Zhuo stretched out his arm to hold the body, preventing it from falling off the horse’s back, let out a long breath, clenched his fist and raised one arm.

The whole army stood at attention.

Battle spirit was high.

Dong Zhuo held his troops still.

A large flag with the word Dong is hunting in the wind.

Ahead, also known as the mouth of the gourd, is vast at both ends and narrow in the center.

A hundred crow bars must have died there.

Dong Zhuo’s patience had been good.

The opposite side knew that Dong Zhuo’s cavalry knew about the ambush, and seeing that he did not intend to push forward, they surged out of the mouth of the gourd.

The black pressurized array spread into a line of tide.

Four thousand Dragon Elephant Army.

Eight thousand Dong Zhuo troops.