Chapter 098 – Knife and Sword, Out of the Plateau

In the dead of night, a vast team of horses quietly galloped out from the north gate of Liangzhou city, among which there were both the eight hundred white horse volunteers who followed the new Liang King to move the world, as well as more than a hundred swordsmen of the Wu family who went to Liang, and more than a dozen Qi Practitioners of the South Sea Guanyin Sect. At the head of the several riders, were the current Northern Liang backbone Xu Fengyen in civilian clothes, Wu Liuding and Cuihua, a pair of sword-crowned sword attendants, Tantai Calm, the chief grandmaster of the Southern qi practitioners, and the sickly-looking white-browed old swordsman Sui Shiaogu, but the one who was riding alongside Xu Fengyen was not the above mentioned but Xu Beihuan, who should be presiding over the political affairs in Lingshou. Xu Fengyen on the sudden arrival of the orange, where will count what AWOL, happy not too late, the day, Qingliang mountain has some hidden gossip, said the dusty assassins of the lord boarded the door into the house, is the king personally end of the basin, and even the assassins of lingzhou wash face, our king also accompanied the smile, this is very much to let the house subordinates make a mistake, is it good to say that the king’s courtesy to the virtuous, or should I say that! Should we say that His Majesty is courteous and kind, or should we say that Xu Beihe is too hot to handle as a young official? In any case, the northern barbarian Xu Beihe, as the grandson of the northern court king Xu Huainan, has such a sensitive identity, but has been able to rise up in the officialdom in Beiliang, and outsiders have always been looking at flowers in the fog.

Xu Beihao piggybacked on a bad enough to be called bad news, thought the old Western Shu deceased Prince Su Shu headed by the Western Shu legacy party, the previous layout of the Northern Liang and a throw of money have hit the water not to mention that, invariably, also helped to raise the flames of Shu King Chen Zhi Bao, with the words of Xu Beihao described is the Northern Liang is not easy to fatten up a watchdog, not to say that meat, not to mention to watch the door for their own, and later, may have to He might even bite back later. Xu Fengyen was quite calm about this, when he found Su Shu and the old man Zhao Dingxiu in the small city of Beimang, after getting along with himself, he did not hold too much hope, for one thing, Su Shu that guy is too lazy, let him mix with the jianghu, maybe he will be ass-backwards to make the milk of the strength, but let him go to the temple counting to play with the mind, I believe that Su Shu as long as he can put down the challenge is definitely not ambiguous, relying on the kid to restore the country of Xishushu, compared to the year when the Northern Liang need to rely on their own this The son of the temple to carry the flag is still disappointing, simply desperate. Furthermore, Zhao Dingxiu as half of the emperor, as long as the restoration of the country, who is helping, and is not important, with the Northern Liang and his Xu Fengyen that point of the fire love, is not enough to let Zhao Dingxiu disregard the overall situation to go with Chen Zhi Bao arm wrestling. In the final analysis, when the Zhao family son of heaven let Zhao Kai hold bottle to the western region, aiming to first cut off the link between northern Liang and Shu Zhao, and then with the western region of the three together constitute a huge arc encirclement, but unfortunately in Xu Fengyen’s interception under the basket of spoils in the Tieguan, but Chen Zhi Bao’s entry into the king of Shu, the Zhao court established the great northwestern strategy to inherit, although Xu Fengyen took advantage of the opportunity to take the lead in the enlistment of the six beads of the masters, the western region launched extensive infiltration. Western region launched a wide range of penetration, but Chen Zhi Bao also quickly return the color, sitting in western Sichuan and look at the Southern Zhao, it can be said that the two sides in this encounter with each other, but on the other side of the Tai’an City, half an inch of the tongue of the Yuan Benxi, how to be earned, without the two Shu Zhao can be used to retreat in the war in unfavorable situations in the rear, northern Liang is equal to the strategic extension of the geographical location, which even if the battle is tight, can only be dead to the end of the war! The only way to get to the end of the battle is to use up all the money that the Xu family has saved up in the hands of Xu Snapdragon.

However, if you just want to let Xu Fengyen sulk, Xu Beihao will not personally visit Qingliang Mountain, Lingshu governor of this trip in a hurry “audience”, bring a draft, is about the reform of the Beiliang officer, previously Xu Fengyen listen to Chen Xiliang’s advice, the Beiliang army carried out a series of drastic removal of the accumulated shortcomings, a large number of Lieutenants and as many as hairy miscellaneous generals are rolled up and rolled out, so that the original inconspicuous lieutenants in the three states of Liang Youling, a lieutenant position, only in a state under the three generals of the full weight of the authority of the martial arts hall, and then recovered a large number of the original for the meritorious ministers of the home retirement of the miscellaneous number of the honored officials, which shook the foundation of the many generals in the northern Liang family, the old generation of the generals and colonels to exit the border, but also want to think of as a heirloom to the children and grandchildren of the After the old generation of generals and colonels withdrew from the border, the honorary positions were swept into the waste basket of history, and most of the children in the family did not personally build up a career, which led to the emergence of an invisible chasm, as a family’s salary was passed on to the next generation, and the fuel wood was drained away.

Xu Beihao said that if in peaceful times, Qingliang Mountain robbing the rich to help the poor or even killing chickens to get the eggs, it does not hinder the Xu family’s position in Beiliang, but now is the critical juncture of the North Mang millions of troops pressing on the border, the will be seeded the family’s willingness to contribute to the effort, it is not to be fought for.

After leaving Liangzhou city, Xu Fengyen did not intervene from beginning to end, it was Xu Beihao who narrated the pros and cons, Xu Fengyen is not a person who can’t listen to the opinions, only that he does have some problems, to be precise, it is difficult to say.

If any other person put forward this matter, Xu Fengyen could adopt the implementation without hesitation, but from Xu Beihuan’s mouth, Xu Fengyen would have to think carefully.

Xu Beihuan didn’t care about Xu Fenian’s silence, he continued to talk about the big framework of Beiliang army in his mind, “The border army doesn’t need to add anything, just follow the old rules. The new and old lieutenants at the local level are also clear about their duties. But now Bei Liang needs more people to voluntarily go to the sands to kill, Liang Mang battle, spell leading generals, Bei Liang is slightly better, spell armor prima donna, Bei Liang is steadily on the upper hand, but the more so, the more can not be in the matter of toughness in the competition lost to Bei Mang is too much, we Bei Liang can not win ten battles dozens of battles, just because of a big battle lost lost to lose all the essence!”

Xu Bei Hoven’s eyes were resolute, said in a deep voice: “Beiliang’s base is not strong enough, nowadays the generals who have no hope of keeping their jobs are eager to leave Beiliang, it’s not true that these people are mostly assholes, but is it true that they can’t be transformed into Beiliang’s combat power? The battle between countries is always more than who can carry more beatings. In accordance with my vision, Beiliang set up Zhenping levy three big military honors general title, these twelve titles, destined to give the outstanding achievements of the border army in the best set up. But next school column school riding lieutenant two levels totaling twelve orders of military honors officers, and the two major civil honors of Zhengzhiqing and Zizhiqing. Is really to the wavering observers tailor-made, to those who are willing to contribute money and effort will be kind of gateway, as well as willing to come up with ideas for the readers, of course, these honored officials, you have to ensure that a prerequisite, must be away from the sun court recognized orthodox honored position, if possible, you also have to ask for an edict with the Ministry of the military of the city of Tai’an to be published in the world, requiring the Zhao family son of God and the Ministry of the Ministry of the military Ministry of Justice to not only recognize the Beiliang various ranks of the honored official, but also have to promise that any Northern Liang honored officials who wish to leave the country to serve as foreign officials can be lowered by one or two ranks to take up the position, and shall not use any excuses or reasons to shirk their refusal!”

Xu Fengnian laughed bitterly, “Orange, do you really think that Tai’an City’s Ministry of War is a small compound in my house? Although my relationship with Lu Baijie is okay, I’m sure this Tangxi Sword Immortal is going to fall on the ground when he receives the folding. Now the court in order to inhibit the local forces, even Yan Zhenchun Yang Shenxeng such old generals say thrown out to send to death thrown out, how can they hit their own mouth, when the time to take care of our Beiliang, Gu Jiantang also want to lion’s share of the words, you say the Ministry of the Army and the one who sits in the dragon chair is a yes or no?”

Xu Beihuan shook his head decisively and said, “It’s not the same, the Zhao family can’t take care of themselves, right now they are relying on Beiliang to fight with Northern Mang, this folding paper will have a 50% certainty when it’s handed over.”

Xu Fengnian also shook his head and sighed: “It’s not impossible to pass the folding, but you have to know one thing, last time, relying on Song Dongming’s proposal for Beiliang to send troops to pacify Guangling Road, already let the court pinch their noses to send grain, this time, I think it hangs ah.”

Xu Beihao loosened the reins of his horse, rubbed his hands together, and said softly, “The folders aren’t being sent to the Ministry of War right now. It’s up to Cao Changqing to see when he’s completely beaten the court to a pulp.”

Xu Fengnian nodded and suddenly asked, “Do you know what I’m thinking?”

Xu Beihao turned his head to look at him, his face calmly asking back, “Is it that you’re afraid that Chen Xiliang and I are on the same page? Each feeling that one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers?”

Xu Fengnian sighed in relief and joked, “It’s good that you know it in your heart. The two of you are both my friends and the diamonds in the rough that my master holds in such high regard, I’d be heartbroken to death without either of you.”

Xu Beihao also asked, “Do you know what I’m thinking?”

Xu Fengnian said with blank eyes, “You are a roundworm in my belly, but I am not a roundworm in your belly.”

Xu Beihao didn’t stab Xu Fenian a few times like usual, but said, “I think that once Liangmang starts the war, we have to find a reason not to give Gu Jiantang the chance to sit on the eastern front and watch the tigers fight.”

Xu Fenian froze for a moment and said, “Not only does this touch Yuan Benxi’s bottom line, I’m afraid that even Zhang Julu and Qi Yanglong won’t agree to it.”

Xu Beihao said blandly, “Even Wang Xianzhi would lose, there should be no one in the world who can win a hundred battles.”

Xu Fengnian was speechless.

I’m afraid that this is the biggest difference between Xu Beihao and Chen Xiliang, Chen Xiliang always likes to start from the smallest detail, and seldom makes a move to give the feeling of great openness and boldness. Xu Beihao is different, seems to be more high level, outline.

But there is no difference between the two.

At least for now, it seems so.

Xu Beihe smiled for no reason.

Xu Fengyen looked at this guy in confusion.

Under the moonlight, Xu Beihuan looked at the north and said with a soft smile, “When I was young, I always thought that one day I would follow grandpa to the south and fight Northern Liang, but I never thought that it would be upside down in the end.”

Xu Fenian curiously asked, “You really don’t have anyone you’re attached to in the Northern King’s Court side? For example, do you have any childhood sweethearts, any kindred spirits? Are there any assholes who particularly want to ride on his head to get out of trouble?”

Xu Beihao had a cloudy face and said softly, “No.”

A single stratagem could be worth a city, and a few words could set the foundation of the country.

Who would be the first strategist in Northern Liang who could afford such a statement, Xu Fengyen would wait and see.

At this time, one of the Wu Clan’s hundred swordsmen accelerated forward, crossing over Wu Liuding and the woman’s swordsman’s mount to Xu Fengnian’s side, clasping his fists, he said aloud, “I am Xie Cheng’an, a man of the deceased country, and I have the audacity to ask if Your Highness would be able to spar with Xie when you have a moment to spare?”

Xu Fengnian laughed: “Is it for you Xie Half Sword yourself, or for Western Shu?”

Xie Chengan, who once lost only half a sword to the Western Shu Sword Emperor, frankly said, “Both.”

Xu Fengyen pulled the reins of his horse with both hands, rubbing salt in the wounds of a certain hundred year old aged swordsman, lazily said, “Sui senior, this is not someone looking for me to compete with a sword, so what, shouldn’t I have asked your old man first?”

Sui Shiaogu, who was indeed Xu Fengyen’s latest underling, was so angry that his two white eyebrows fluttered recklessly, snorted coldly, but did not refuse.

The withered face Xie Chengan said in a calm voice: “I know that I am not the king’s opponent, but if I don’t come out of this sword in this life, I can’t rest my conscience.”

Cuihua, who was resting her eyes with her eyes closed, opened her mouth and asked in a cold voice, “Xie Cheng’an, after entering the mound, what ‘own sword’ do you have to say?”

Xie Half-Sword instantly looked gloomy and wanted to speak.

Wu Liuding laughed, “It’s alright, since we have left that deadly place, we don’t need to be too particular about the rules and regulations, Grandpa Xie said it’s a sparring match, not life and death, I believe that the King of Beilang has a great deal of respect, it’s not right not to fight in an invincible battle!”

Xu Fengyen turned his head to look at the Wu family’s Sword Crown that he had never dealt with, “Alright, let’s spar too?”

Wu Liuding gave a heave and said angrily, “Afraid of you? You pick the place, I’ll pick the time!”

Xu Fengyen said, “Right here.”

Wu Liuding shamelessly said, “One hundred years later!”

Most of the faces of the Wu family swordsmen were a bit odd, it was a disgrace to show up with such a leading young master.

A middle-aged swordsman also accelerated his horse’s hooves and asked with a smile, “I heard that the King of Beiliang’s martial arts training started from practicing swords?”

Xu Feng Nian asked with a smile, “What, you Zhang Luan Tai went to the peak battle before the Wu Family Sword Mound and was losing to Gu Jiantang, now you’re thinking of getting back from me who also practiced swords?”

Zhang Luan Tai was also honest, nodding his head and saying, “I think so, but it’s just a bit hard to get to heaven.”

The rouge appraised beauty swordsman who was called Auntie Nalan by Wu Liuding didn’t come forward to join in the fun but cleared her throat and asked with a loud laugh, “Your Highness, I won’t make a fool out of myself by competing with you in a sword match, I just want to ask a small question, Your Highness, you’re looking so handsome, if I’m a dozen or two decades younger, can you live a life together?”

Xu Fengnian turned his head and said with a smile, “This sister, why don’t you be a nursemaid for my child in the future?”

The woman’s breasts with the horse’s back ups and downs bumps that call a gas surge, after hearing the words are not angry, flirting: “I knew that I should have gone to the king’s consort, dead face recognized a sister or something, maybe now you can be called by the king of that what it.”

Xu Fengnian helplessly said, “Luckily you didn’t recognize a sister with my mother twenty years ago.”

The likes of Helian Sword Fool, Sword Monk Cui Mei Gong, and these oldest swordsmen in the Wu Family’s Sword Mound all smiled heartily.

After a burst of laughter, Xu Fengyen said, “All of you are famous masters with swords, just compare swords with me even if, I won’t agree.”

On this trip, Xu Fengyen only wore a cool sword on his waist, his fingers rubbed the hilt of the sword on his waist, tilted his head to look at the sky, smiled and said, “When we arrive at the border, you may as well take a look at the best sword under the sky, in the end, how is it a good method.”

Winter snow, cool knife out of the sheath, horizontal put vertical blade, no one when cutting snow.

When someone cuts the head and drinks blood.