Chapter 172: A few people don’t think about Xu

Xu Weixiong after Xu Fengyen came to Huaiyang Pass, the next day, he went south to return to Qingliang Mountain, stayed behind Xu Fengyen also began to live in deep simplicity, and did not have to direct the size of the affairs of the capital government. Residence in the Qingyuan line of Qi Dangguo will occasionally drive horses to help Xu Fengnian relieve boredom, the two often together out of the pass under the banner of hunting, with a few hundred elite riders slightly closer to Hutou City, looking at the smoke of war there, during the period of time, if you meet a small group of North Mang horse fence, as for Qi Dangguo under the command of those in the Northern Liang border army in the most skillful riding and shooting of White Feather Guards play toothpaste, the capital of the government since they do not dare to have any objections, but just Secretly spread out a lot of standardized white horse crossbowmen to the outside of the pass, just in case of accidents.

On this day, it is the spring equinox, the thunder in the sky, wheat plucking, the old saying that the Yang Qi rises 42,000 thousand miles in total. Xu Fengyen traveled alone in the early morning, in order not to add burden to the capital and the crossbowmen, did not go north to Hutou City, but to the east leisurely to Poria City. One of the fifty or so riders of the crossbowmen escorting a standard didn’t dare to disturb the King of Beiliang’s dispersion, but probably in order to be able to witness Xu Fengyen, one of the world’s four great masters, the standard bearer also put a little thought into it, letting the fifty or so riders of his men have the opportunity to wander to the nearest place two hundred paces away from Xu Fengyen, however, then make sure to gallop back or be dealt with according to the law of the land. This made Xu Fengyen cry and laugh as if he had invariably become a flower girl, but he also just pretended that he didn’t see anything. Xu Fengyen looked up at the bright sky, suddenly smiled, when I was a child, I did not understand why cloudless sky is considered good weather, I always feel that the sky is floating with clouds to look good, especially the kind of scenery is gorgeous burning clouds, when I was young in the DanTongGuan as a prison, every time you see it, you can be happy for several days, with the little beggar that I only knew it was ZhaoChu after a long time, the two children can look at it is a few hours also do not feel Since that parting, Xu Fengfeng has been very happy with his life. Since that parting, Xu Fengyen was always worried that the little beggar could not beg for food, maybe one day will starve and freeze to death in the street, but never thought that many years later in the spring god lake reunion, so many years have always lived well, but the little beggar changed into a hall of the southern frontier clan king’s son of the royal highness.

Xu Feng Nian suddenly stopped his horse, turned his head to look to the south, in the distance there were four riders heading north, then after discovering his silhouette steered his horse to run straight to them, before they arrived, that white horse travel crossbowman standard bearer took the lead to come to Xu Feng Nian’s side, dismounted and cupped his fists and respectfully said, “Your Majesty, those four riders are supposed to be the jianghu people who are screened by the Fish and Dragon Gang and heading to the border to join the army, do you need the last general to cut them off? them?”

Xu Fengnian shook his head and said, “No, you can withdraw to Huaiyang Pass first.”

The standard-bearer did not hesitate to take the order immediately, although it was the military affairs sent down by the capital government, but in the matter of who is the biggest in Beiliang, who should the 300,000 border troops follow orders from, even if they think with their asses, they all know it. In addition, who is our prince? Do you really need them to escort the crossbowmen? Only after the sturdy standard bearer mounted his horse, he said coyly and unprecedentedly, “Your Majesty, I dare to say, we have heard about what happened outside of Hulukou in Youzhou, and if there is an opportunity in the future, all of us Liangzhou crossbowmen would like to fight with your Majesty side by side once!”

Xu Fengnian smiled and nodded his head. The standard-bearer looked excited and shot his horse away, we are the one who has spoken to the King of Northern Liang, if we go back and tell the Lord Lieutenant and that bunch of brats, will they not be jealous of us? The chief of the label galloped out hundreds of paces, turned back and looked at the figure of a man and a horse, thinking that our king is really the world’s most elegant character ah, and this is such an easy-going nature, if this is put aside in the Central Plains, that would have to be how many young girls want to die? The standard chief was a little bit of a fight, although I heard that Qingliang Mountain has two yet to be explicitly married to the prospective king consort, the reputation is also good, but still too little well.

Waiting for the crossbowmen to stay away, the four horsemen arrived soon, after seeing Xu Fenian, the first horseman was a tall old man with gray hair but hale and hearty, the old man with a sword measured a few eyes and asked with a smile, “I don’t know if my little brother knows where Huaiyang Pass is?”

Xu Fengyen smiled and helped point out the road in a concise manner, the old man cupped his fists and thanked himself for his name, with the boldness of a jianghu recklessness, “I am from Jiangnan Qingsong County, and my friends in the jianghu sent me the nickname of ‘Sounding Heavenly Drums’. Dare I ask if little brother is the same as us, someone who came to join the army at the Northern Liang border?”

Xu Fengnian shook his head and said, “I was originally from the border army, my father’s generation had already settled in Beiliang.”

The old man nodded his head and said, “So that’s how it is, it’s the old man who is being abrupt.”

The old man smiled somewhat helplessly, some self-deprecating: “Not the old man broken mouth, is really our line of four riders are unfamiliar with life, when I heard that the Northern Mang barbarians millions of troops south knocking on the customs, the old man was young, followed his father and the first teacher went to the north of Jibei in the plug to kill the barbarians, and now I can not hold my breath, and listen to rumors of the world’s top ten gangs of one of the fish and dragon gangs, can help us to introduce to these Beiliang outsiders, the north Liang border. Outsiders introduced to the Beiliang border army, which took three disciples rushed to Beiliang, the fish and dragon gang only helped us open four temporary road guide, this way north ate a lot of pain ……”

One of the young man with a long sword hanging from his waist said indignantly: “Master, we met that set of Beiliang border troops who are confident of their fighting strength, and look at us with the eyes of the barbarians, what is the difference?”

Xu Fengyen three trips to the rivers and lakes is not in vain, immediately heard the mystery, must be this group of people relying on martial arts style, and the Northern Liang border troops have had a conflict, otherwise there will not be “self reliance on the strength of the battlefield” such a prefix, but directly after that sentence. However, Xu Fengyen is curious about the Fish and Dragon Gang, open the door to absorb the rivers and lakes, this is the Wutong courtyard and the water room authorized, but most of the speculative end of the stream of masters, in the river and lake in Liyang can not hang out, only to roam to the Northern Liang to find a shelter, really willing to go to the border of Northern Liang to join the army on the battlefield, and indeed a few points of merit in the House of the Protector of the clear record of the archives, so far, only a few sixteen people, and this Xu Fengyen! Xu Fengyi has never heard of the “Sounding Heavenly Drum” aged swordsman, is a real small master realm, this kind of real master, not to mention in the Liyang rivers and lakes easily set up a sect, in a county within the martial arts, is to go to the capital Ministry of Justice to get a carp bag to hang on the waist is not difficult. Xu Fengyen lightly observed their four riders, those four people in addition to the second grade master of the master’s eyes are peaceful, the eyes of the remaining three people can be different, the young man wearing a sword on his waist with embroidered fringe arrogance, I have long heard that the Northern Liang generals are as many as the children, in front of the eyes of this strange people of the same age appearing on the border outside of the plug for no reason and do not wear armor and wear a sword, most likely to be one of them. The middle-aged swordsman should be that Jiangnan martial arts master’s great disciple, relatively old and dignified character, without revealing the trace of measuring Xu Fenian’s recumbent hand, trying to find out the traces of once practicing martial arts. His Jianghu experience was very rich, and he did not believe that at the moment when hundreds of thousands of Northern Mang troops were attacking Tiger Head City, there would be an unusual person riding solo in this neighborhood to take a break. As for the last woman in tight black who wore a drape on her head to hide her face, she was also curiously scrutinizing the gentleman in front of her who did not look like a Northern Mang man but more like a Jiangnan scholarly family.

Xu Fengyen smiled and spoke: ”It doesn’t matter how other people look at it, just do well for yourself. If you really want to talk about vision, hasn’t the Liyang dynasty and field been looking at my Beiliang for twenty years as if they were looking at barbarians?”

That young swordsman probably can barely stand the Northern Liang border army’s anger, but can’t stand this kind of Northern Liang’s same-age general’s son’s bird’s breath, on the spot, he burst into a rage, “Our master and disciple four people came to the shitless Northern Liang to join the army, to fight and kill the enemy, not to listen to your kind of person’s cynicism! If it wasn’t for the fact that my master and Hui Shan’s second guest secretary Hong Phyo are irreconcilable friends ……”

The old man’s face was stern, stopping his disciple from continuing to talk without fear: “Chong He!”

The young man called “Chonghe” looked away and sulked silently. He has been in the Jiangnan Jianghu is also gentle and elegant sword in the gentleman, should not be so rude and disrespectful, but to this barren North Liang customs, often horse riding wildly for a day do not see people, is really the soil and water, suffocating unbearable. Think that the Central Plains hometown, at this time should also be the misty rain charming season, there will be alleys selling apricot blossoms, there is that lake rafting, there is that the greenhouse song and dance night endlessly, even if nothing to do, in the courtyard of the deep home, with brothers and sisters to cut martial arts is also enjoyable, or better in the Northwest border to drink the wind and eat the sand and also suffer gas.

Xu Fengnian asked with a smile, “Or else I’ll lead the way for senior?”

The young man immediately muttered, “Being attentive to nothing, surely you don’t have good intentions, but you are still not misbehaving with your senior sister.”

The old man glared at this mouthy disciple, looked towards Xu Fengyen, and without any pretense, laughed and said, “That’s just right, when we arrive at the pass, after handing over the guidebook, we will definitely treat you to a few jins of that green ant wine. I’m not ashamed to say, this wine is the old monument has heard of ah, but when I tasted a mouthful, the taste …… do not dare to praise, do not think that now to your North Liang Road, drink drink, actually is more and more to drink more can not let go of it, this is not in the Liangzhou Longkouguan bought two pounds loaded in the wine bag, not two days on the bag is empty, and now the belly of this wine bugs are revolting to the powerful. ”

Five riders traveling together, the old man and Xu Fengyen chatting about the customs of Northern Liang, each other are very tacit agreement not to get to the bottom of the identity of the matter, the shallow words is walking in the jianghu taboo. However, the young swordsman soon could not hold back, his voice was not too light and not too heavy just enough for Xu Fenian to hear, and said, “Sister, the founding emperor of the Dafeng Dynasty once wrote a letter to the Lord of the Grassland Nomads, saying, ‘north and west of Jizhou, the land of the drawbows is subject to your orders’. And ‘south of Jizhou and east of it, the room of the crown and belt will be controlled by me, ten thousand people will plow and weave, the subjects and masters will be at peace with each other, and there will be no tyranny’.”

That young woman’s voice was soft, “Senior brother, didn’t you just say that when you entered Northern Liang territory?”

Xu Fengnian, who was in the front, laughed, “It was said to me, a Northern Liang barbarian west of Jizhou.”

The old man driving alongside Xu Fengnian smiled heartily at this, “Little brother has a good belly.”

Xu Fenian joked, “It’s also a little bit of boiling out, otherwise I would have suffocated my internal injuries.”

The young man called Chonghe obviously suffered serious injuries.

Xu Fenian suddenly said, “The Hong Pho who is familiar with senior, is it the Hong Pho who has recently become the vice general of the Rouge Heavy Cavalry Army?”

The old man hesitated for a moment and nodded, “Exactly this person.”

Xu Fengnian laughed: “Then senior handed over the road guide on the side of the capital government, and will have to travel south again for a while to the side of the heavy mound to find General Hong, at that time, I will ask someone to help senior to lead the way, otherwise it is really not certain that I will be able to see General Hong. It’s not that we Beiliang are being careful, it’s really that General Hong’s position is very special nowadays, not to mention you seniors, even many of Beiliang Border Army’s actual generals and leaders, it’s not like they can just see that heavy cavalry.”

Then the old man and Xu Fengnian smiled at each other, as much as they could.

The next two people talked about the anecdotes of the Central Plains and Jianghu, the old man was very knowledgeable and talkative, talking about the Hui Shan’s current light, talking about the rouge evaluation of the civil and military evaluation and the evaluation of the generals and the phases, but also could not repress his eyebrows, “With the eyes of the little brother, I am sure you know that this time the evaluation of the generals and the phases is placed at the end of the intention, which the evaluation of the generals includes the Liyang North Mang and your Beiliang, and the phases are only evaluated at the Liyang, I am afraid that this is the first time since the beginning of this year. I’m afraid that this is the most significant evaluation since the fall of the Dafeng Dynasty. There are ten people in the generals’ evaluation in no particular order, and there are four people in Liyang, Chen Zhi Bao, Cao Chang Qing, Gu Jiantang, and Lu Shengxiang. North Mang has three people, Dong Zhuo, Liu Gui, Yang Yuanzan. In Northern Liang, there are Yan Wenluan, Chu Lushan and Gu Dazu. At the end of the general commentary there is an additional commentary on Xie Xijian, Kou Jianghuai, Tuoba Qiyun, Seedan, and Song Kasa.”

Xu Fengnian joked, “Yuan Zuozong didn’t even make the list, I’m a bit unconvinced.”

The young swordsman, perhaps because he was born to collide with Xu Feng Nian, couldn’t help but come out again, “You guys in Northern Liang don’t know enough, there are three generals on the list, and if you add Chen Zhi Bao, who rode into Shu alone, then there are four of you, and you’re almost occupying half of the country. In addition to the martial arts evaluation and there is that young feudal lord among the four great masters, there is that suddenly appeared Xu Yan Bing. As for the phase evaluation, there is also from Beiliang’s major guard Chen Wang and Sun Yin at the same time on the evaluation list, and Yin Maochun this kind of famous ministers and public ministers side by side, you Beiliang what else do you want?”

Xu Fengyen laughed: “That’s why, we have good water and soil in Beiliang, not only can we produce barbarians, but we can also produce the kind of literati who can save the world and help the people.”

That dude instantly suffered another internal injury.

The woman wearing the backdrop hat quietly covered her mouth with a smile.

The old man lamented, “For so many years, I have always been puzzled by one thing, with the manpower and material resources of Northern Liang, how can it support the 300,000 Border Iron Cavalry with the best combat power of the two countries.”

Xu Fengyen softly said, “In order to fight against Northern Mang, Liyang army and horses are claimed to be 800,000, especially better than the heyday of the Dafeng Dynasty, half in the two Liao and half in Northern Liang.”

I do not know why, master and disciple four people hear this sentence, full of eyes is that monotonous desolate northwest scenery, for no reason gave birth to a wave of unspeakable complex thoughts.

As they neared Huaiyang Pass, Xu Fengyen asked, “Elder, if you didn’t know Hong Pei, who was serving as a general in Beiliang, would you still come to Beiliang?”

The old man froze and said frankly, “Of course not.”

Xu Fengnian nodded lightly, his face did not change.

But the old man quickly laughed, “But since Xu Snap died, that muddled account of the ‘Injustice Spring and Autumn’ is also considered to be over, I believe that not only a bad old man with half of his body in the loess like Old Husband Da, who thinks this way, but many of the older generation are also like this. Since the young man surnamed Xu said that in the city of Tai’an, as long as it is not directly related to the blood feud, more outsiders, a lot of knots will be unraveled. After entering Beiliang, the old man also heard many things, only to realize that many things are very different from the imagination, later take the time to write to the hometown side of the old friends, to tell them a different Beiliang, the original here, there is also the sound of books, there are also dogs and chickens, but also ……”

When the old man said here, he suddenly couldn’t help but laugh out loud, “There is also that wine peddling little lady that makes me regret not coming thirty or forty years earlier.”

Xu Fengnian said in a serious manner, “The cool land woman is exactly like that green ant wine that enters the mouth like a burning fire, once you get addicted to it, it will be hard to change the wine again in this life.”

The young man grunted coldly again, “Then why did your Northern Liang King marry two foreign women?”

Xu Fengnian was dumbfounded for a moment, after a moment of silence, he turned his head and helplessly said, “This time …… counting on your outstanding sword skills to see blood, I admit defeat.”

That young man first had a smug face, then boarded up his face to play cold, but soon the corners of his mouth curled up, and then went to look at this abominable Northern Liang general seeded child, it is not so obtrusive.

Appeared in the field of vision of the five horsemen Huaiyang pass is different from the tiger head city, also different from the willow buds Poria, since the “pass” named, that means a man who is not open, also means that once the smoke of the wolf, this kind of place is the place where soldiers must fight for the death of the people. Those passes in the book of war, more so, no matter how big or small, as long as you want to quickly across the border, you must take down these established in the road hub geographically dangerous passes, in order to have no worries to drive straight into. On the contrary, many of the majestic towns, looks very powerful, but after the start of the war, you can go around the city and pass, away from the sun in the two Liao defense line there are many of these cities, but this is not to say that they appear on the meaningless, on the contrary, their existence, although the role of stalling the enemy army is not very big, but the existence of itself is a deterrent to the North Mang is a kind of chicken ribs, attacking, the loss of serious, bypassed, the food is at risk. The first thing that you need to do is to get rid of it. Only all the city is rooted and immobile, generals and military law is flexible, when it comes to the attacking and defending sides have to see who is high on the road and who is high on the devil.

Insufficient depth of the northern Liang, its greatest tragedy lies in that every inch of the territory is almost the kind of dead land that will bleed.

North Mang since the national force to attack Beiliang, is in the understanding that Beiliang will force them to inch by inch to scramble for territory under the premise, still want to rely on the strong national strength to crush and over.

At this time, outside the Huaiyang Pass Xu Fengnian some untimely worries, not worried about the raging North Mang army, but thinking about that the vernal equinox wheat up a moment worth a thousand gold in agricultural proverbs, thinking about this year, many of the people of Beiliang will be not much food, remembered that year when walking through the inverted horse pass when encountered those who are still in the private school of the children, more than half of them will be even more greedy for that thin-skinned stuffed meat buns, right?

At this time, the head of the backdrop cap of the delicate woman, hold back the shyness, quietly gazing at the unknown name of the Northern Liang man, her heart only one let himself embarrassed thought, if he is their longing for the young master, is the hometown of a lot of girlfriends adore the King of the Northern Liang, it would be good.

When I heard that she was coming to Northern Liang, a number of women who only know how to do women’s red, usually so gentle and gentle nature, can be almost with her to run to Liang.

The master laughed, this let the world of men chest thumping light, probably only many years ago Li ChunGang green shirt sword walking the riverside, only had.

Nowadays, ah, Jiangnan beautiful girl, how many people do not think Xu?