Chapter 189 – Battle of Two, Battle of Two Kingdoms (VIII)
Jiang Nai stopped at the corner of the alley.
This way to escape, whether to stop or go, if stopping and how to fight, whether to slapdash or not to die, it was all up to Xu Fengnian. Tonight is no exception.
Slowly stepping out of the alley Xu Fengyen looked at the street, really what things to the point of the worst luck to think about, it will be so, very provincial. The best luck would be if Li Mibi and Tuoba Bodhisattva entered the city half a day at night, and the average luck would be if the two had already discarded him as the bait and already returned. Xu Fengnian sighed, then looked at her with complicated eyes.
Jiang Nai just quietly waited for the following.
Xu Fengyen softly said: ”This time, we don’t follow the old rules, we have to keep an eye on Li Mibi’s old dog to kill him, the previous killings that took Tuoba Bodhisattva as the target were in fact nothing more than a blindfold. Now to recover a certain amount of energy Tuoba Bodhisattva iron heart want to go, without Xu Yan Bing they intercept, we can not stay. But as agreed beforehand, in case the worst happens, you withdraw first and I’ll take the rear.”
Jiang Nai was noncommittal and hesitated for a moment before asking, “Do you know why North Mang is so relieved that Gu Jiantang is sitting on the eastern front?”
Xu Fengnian asked in return, “Wasn’t it because it was certain that the Liyang court would press on?”
Jiang Nai sneered, “So simple?”
Xu Fengnian leaned his back against the wall and said softly, “There is news on the spies that there is a handful of people in Tai’an City who couldn’t stand it and boldly suggested that the two Liao border troops can’t do nothing, so they might as well echo with Northern Liang. Of course, can not be regarded as a helping hand, but can be like Jizhou Yuan Tingshan to get a lot of border credit, but this kind of voice soon gave Gu Jiantang directly bounced down. Among them, Xu Gong, who patrols the border in the capacity of a minister, from the beginning of the strong main war, suddenly reversed, and did not mention anything about the initiative to attack, and caused a lot of criticism on the side of Tai’an City, and the prestige, which was not much, completely dropped to the bottom, and some people even threatened to make this Lord Minister of the Ministry of War to be the Minister of the Borderland for life. Whisking water room only know Lu Shengxiang have a letter of eight hundred miles of expedited transmission into the capital, directly to the imperial study, as for the zhangzhang said what, whisking water room will not have that heavenly ability to figure out.”
Jiang Nai wanted to speak.
Xu Fengnian smiled, “Better not say it, I’ll take it as an accident on the eastern front side, anyway, the death or life of the two Liao’s, I want to care about it, but I can’t care about it, the eastern front, if it’s a rotten mess, it’s also a headache for Gu Jiantang.”
Jiang Nai did not give a direct answer, “Who do you think hates Gu Jiantang the most under the sky?”
Xu Fengyen froze for a moment, “Gu Jiantang was able to be one of the four great generals of the Spring and Autumn period because he had the merit of destroying the country, South Tang did not go to talk about it and did not fight much at all, but the previous attack on East Vietnam, fought some honorable and wonderful battles, and the only characters that really have a bone-deep hatred of the country and the family with Gu Jiantang should be the remnants of the East Vietnam.”
Xu Fengyen said to himself, “But that East Vietnam even the royal family has long been given to clean up the obedience, a little bit of famous military generals are almost dead, the East Vietnam civil ministers are the earliest to submit to the Leiyang Zhao room of the set of people, to become the pawns of Zhang Julu in the early years of the Zhang Gu two huts of the dispute, especially in the five sections of the Imperial Palace and the Ministry of the Army other than the give the matter, almost half of them are the East Vietnam civil ministers from the East Vietnam, the most famous of that pair of The most famous pair of Imperial Historians, father and son, impeached Gu Jiantang’s Ministry of War every year for ten years after Yonghui. But these people, when it comes down to it, they are just scratching the itch of Gu Jiantang, the great pillar state, and maybe Gu Jiantang of the two Liaojiao can’t wait for them to scold them more, otherwise they can’t sit in a stable position. The great general outside, never afraid of the inner court ministers to calculate that a little chicken skin, on the contrary, afraid of only afraid of reputation is too good.”
Jiang Nai snorted.
Xu Fengnian gave an oh with a dazed look on his face.
She queried, “Really guessed it?”
Xu Fenian nodded.
Jiang Nai skimmed her lips in disdain.
Xu Fenian said, “It’s not just Wang Sui.”
She stared wide-eyed.
Xu Fenian blinked, “Still true?”
She shook her head vigorously.
Xu Fengyen was filled with helplessness.
The two riders ran to Snow Lotus City, after entering the city, the hooves of the horses knocked out the fine sound on the green stone boards, in the still noisy city of the night seems insignificant, a few drunks are squatting outside the liquor store by the side of the street “do not vomit”, inadvertently looked up and saw that the hazy lights reflecting the two riders’ faces, but not how to pay attention to it, could not repress the throat movement, towards the direction of the two riders is a flurry of heavenly maiden, the two riders are the direction of the two riders is a flurry of heavenly maidens. The direction of the two riders is a pass through the heavenly maiden, after a sound vomit, feel a lot of comfort, the results found that one of the white hair frosty snow rider cold look over, the drunkard grin, take the sleeve wiped haphazardly, do not want to heavenly lightning stirring the earth’s fire in general, the abdomen is again turned over, hands propped up on the ground on the vomit, and then he vomited and vomited feel a little bit wrong, shook his head, vigorously staring at the eyes, just to See a puddle of scarlet on the stone floor, and then his head hit the ground heavily, and never opened his eyes again. Drunken death drunken death, the Han died drunkenly just like that. For the old man’s venting of anger, the other middle-aged rider with a depressed look did not say anything, put yourself in his shoes, I’m afraid that he would also have the mind of killing people indiscriminately, successively two large layout, the last time was to kill Yan Wenluan, this time to kill Xu Fengyen, the top experts of the North Mang jianghu almost half of the loss, the key is that both failed to build success, that the spider’s web that spreads all the way from the South Dynasty to the North Liang is also to be involved in the fragmentation, the old man how to cultivate life and temperament, it is inevitable to be angry. The white-haired old man probably also realized that he had been a very angry man, but the old man’s anger was also very strong, so he was not able to avoid it. The white-haired old man probably also realized his own demeanor, laughed to himself and softly said: ”North court king, allow me to make a final bet, bet that surnamed Xu is not willing to just play a draw, he will personally risk, waiting for us to take the bait in this Snow Lotus City, Xu Yanbing and Tantai calmly need to be arrived in about six hours, during this period of time, if Xu Fengyin not only took the initiative to show up, but also intentionally sells a breakthrough to go around the circle with us, I can promise you that he will take the initiative to show up. During this period, if Xu Fengyen not only takes the initiative to show up, but also deliberately makes a fool of himself by going around in circles with us, I can promise you that no matter how rare the opportunity seems to be, I will stop and return north with peace of mind. Evacuate Snow Lotus City before Xu Yan Bing Tantai calmly enters the city.”
Tuoba Bodhisattva nodded, as far as he was concerned, this life and death battle between two people who had fought for thousands of miles had already ended when that sword flew, Tuoba Bodhisattva could afford to lose and also let go, the big deal was that he would fight again in the future with another game of chess. Tuoba Bodhisattva after this battle, the stone of other mountains can attack jade, whether it is the state of mind or cultivation, are greatly benefited. Of course, at the same time, he became Xu Fengnian sharpening martial arts to refine the number of grinding stone, it is inevitable, the future of the life-swapping fight, will only be more dangerous, Tuoba Bodhisattva has a good idea of this. But since Li Mibi had saved his life, Tuoba Bodhisattva also followed this shadow chancellor’s heart all the way south, he would not intentionally keep a tiger for that battle of two men who would fight for the world’s number one, if he could kill Xu Fenian early, Tuoba Bodhisattva would not have any knot in his heart, just like what he said to Xu Fenian earlier, in his eyes, the jianghu has never counted for anything. He became the first person to become the founder of the new North Mang, and then became the first person to become the “martial arts” in the history books of later generations. Over the past eight hundred years, Qin lost the tripod, countries by deer, the Central Plains masters of the art of war and the sands of the endless number of famous generals, the best of the best, such as the Dafeng Dynasty’s three generals, Dafeng dynasty before the destruction of the success of the double bikers, the founding of the state of Chu after the twelve generals hanging on the Qingyun Pavilion, the nine countries of the Spring and Autumn period confrontation of the war, the Hundred Schools of thought in the Zongheng and Hengshi and the military to take advantage of the situation, the two branches of the two branches of the same, the first period of the East Vietnam is claiming that the one man power to defeat the military god Li Li, who was the sole opponent of Chu In the first period, East Vietnam was known as a one-man army god Li Gonglin, led the cavalry several times to whip the desert of the peerless Confucian general Han Fisherman, followed by the four famous generals of the Spring and Autumn period, the human butcher Xu Snapdragon, the West Chu soldiers Ye Baikui, East Vietnam extra horse harnessed by the side of a team of harnessed by the side of a team of Wang Sui, Gu Jiantang. Now there are Cao Changqing, Dong Zhuo, Lu Shengxiang and others began to take hundreds of thousands of hundreds of thousands of soldiers as the hands of the chess pieces, laughing and leading the pattern of the river and mountain, and even the species of Tan, Xie Xijian, Kou Jianghuai, these young people are also the rapid rise.
Li Mibi raised his head to look, that is a tall building at the eaves of the moonlight lamps compete with each other, the old man suddenly laughed softly: “I heard that the king of the North Court has always been not preferred to attach to elegance of that set, but the only collection of the founding minister of the Dafeng Dynasty, Yuan Fengshen’s a posters. Later generations of good people like to give the ancestor of the ranking, by the founding emperor of Dafeng known as the ‘Great Wall of the Frontier’ Yuan Fengshen, because of the early death, compared to the same generation of military generals, the reputation is not obvious in history, so the ranking is extremely back, the heart of the mind is higher than the sky of the Huang Sangua also had two regrets of the military, Yuan Fengshen and the crown of the age of the order to hold the lifeblood of the country in the hands of the emperor, and the prince-equal of the imperial team, Wang Sui. Wang Sui, the prince in harness of a horse’s side, and listed them as ‘fateful and strange’ martial artists whose time is not waiting for me.”
Tuoba Bodhisattva did not have good or bad feelings towards Li Mibi this person, no need to fear, no need to curry favor. In North Mang, the characters who could achieve this kind of mindset of Tuoba Bodhisattva, one hand, a handful. The former king of the Northern Court, Xu Huainan, and the two successive kings of the Southern Court, Huang Songpu and Dong Zhuo, could not do so. The old man, who has devoted half of his life to the cause of North Mang, lamented: “I have never liked any jianghu, probably related to what I saw and heard when I was young and traveling for school. Spring and Autumn Nine States, on the jurisdiction of the jianghu people have recruited, Chu as a caged sparrow, the South Tang see as a swallow in front of the hall, and later Liyang also issued to those jianghu reckless an embroidered carp of the bag, the meaning of the shallow, you guys are just the Zhao family’s carp between the pools.”
The old man loosened the reins of his horse, rubbed his hands together, puffed out his breath, and smiled, “Over the years, I’ve been like a fisherman, helping His Majesty take care of that small pond in front of the court. No wonder the Liyang people are conceited, always saying that there is no jianghu in Northern Mang, because they have Li Chungang, Wang Xianzhi, Deng Tai’a, Cao Changqing, and now there is a large group of rising stars led by Xu Fengyin, we indeed have no real jianghu people in Northern Mang, four out of the five major clans, are all under the skirt of His Majesty, you, the Great King of the Northern Courtyard, is a military general, and Hong Jingyan is a Zojiran co-owner, and it was not easy to go out of the Hoyan Daguan and Luoyang, and also they have all run away to the Liyang Go. Causing even you, the North Mang Military God, to have to make a special trip to go to Liyang to walk around the rivers and lakes before the Liang Mang Great War, to visit that Hui Mountain.”
Tuoba Bodhisattva was a little surprised, under the impression that Li Mi Bi had always been a man behind the scenes who believed that a hundred words were better than a single silence. He walked into that palace city for the first time by virtue of his war achievements, and saw two elders with gray temples sitting on the steps outside the palace nibbling on jujubes, of which Xu Huainan, who held half of the country’s troops and horses in his hands, was not unfamiliar to him, and when he was young, he was able to rock up in the North Court army, and stood out among the group of dignitaries and powerful men with the two major family names of Muyong Yelu, Xu Huainan’s impartiality in standing by and doing nothing played a big role. That audience with His Majesty the Emperor, most of the time outside the temple patiently waiting, the most vivid memory is that with Xu Huainan together with the old man swallowed the dates, after seeing him, the old man that kind of slanting glance scrutinizing eyes, as a coiled in the dark corner of the snake spitting out the letter, especially cold. From beginning to end, is a person under ten thousand people XuHuainan in the pleasant and pleasant with him pleasantries, the other old man, rare from the humid cave slipped out of the sunshine of the old snake, so expressionless one bite bite nibble dry jujubes, wait until the top of the Bodhisattva was summoned to face the saint of the great hall, the back of the spine is still gusts of cold.
Li Mibi probably will not know that he once gave the future of the North Mang military god brought that kind of shock feeling, turned his head and laughed: “Spring and Autumn at the end of that Hongjia north run, I North Mang reap the benefits of the fisherman, but many of the survivors of the people are considered to be rootless floating ping pong, and want to return to their homeland, even if you can’t do it in life, but also want to be dead, the descendants will bring the ashes to the south. I, Li Mi Bi, like Xu Huainan, is also a relic, only they have the intention to return to their homeland, I have never had this thought, there is a plant in the medical books, treating poisonous insects and snakebites, called dandelion, the seeds leave the branches and leaves and float far away with the wind, and when they fall to the ground they are rooted, and wherever they fall, that is the hometown.”
Although Tuoba Bodhisattva never involved in the North Mang two surnames “family matters” for the female emperor trust and respect, but the North Court of the South Dynasty these years, Tuoba Bodhisattva is not unaware of the wind blowing grass. LiMiPi’s words, top trek bodhisattva roughly guessed the deep meaning of it, in fact, twenty years, the north court big clan suppression of the south dynasty those who are the backward into the A and B two class of the creamy Chinese, mostly is the use of this kind of tactics, catching the wind and splashing the dirty water is very familiar with. Just from the mouth of Li Mibi as the ancestor of the Northern Mang spies, Tuoba Bodhisattva will have to pay attention to it.
The old man tugged on the horse’s reins, the mount slowed down, worried: ”Over the years, just do two things, openly looking after the fish pond, secretly sweeping the courtyard leaves, the latter can be said to be capturing those who break the cocoon of butterflies in other countries, one by one into the cage, I have always been happy with it, but unfortunately the results are not very big, in the end, even His Majesty think it is me who made a big fuss, although still Not so much as to be suspicious into that raise the enemy to self-importance, but these years more and more lack of interest, especially Xu Huainan’s death, let his majesty is very sad, I know, his majesty for this matter is guilty and grudges, guilt is the gentleman and the minister two failed to good end, let Xu Huainan died, grudges are towards me, because it is my guard and suspicion, let that young man surnamed Xu to take advantage of the opportunity to take away Xu Huainan’s head, let the whole north court shame. the entire Northern Court to be disgraced. But I have an intuition that even though I dug for twenty years and did not dig out a single bamboo shoot whip, there must be so many ill-intentioned leaky fish in the royal court and the southern dynasty that are hiding extremely deeply, waiting painstakingly for a certain moment.”
Tuoba Bodhisattva frowned and said, “Since even Mister couldn’t dig it out, even if there really are a few leaky fish, it’s already been twenty years between them, how can they make it happen?”
The old man slowed down his tone and laughed, “I am not as good as that Order of the Peace, nor am I like you, Tuoba Bodhisattva and Dong Zhuo, I am an amateur in both military and political affairs, not to mention any foresight, but doing those dirty jobs that seem to happen under my nose for many years, I have cultivated a not-so-small good habit of making sure to figure out all the people and things that are close at hand first, or else I will be I couldn’t sleep or eat. I’m focused on the ups and downs of the great clans, unlike many of you, who are still fighting the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry, and have already set their sights on Tai’an City, the Central Plains, and the Guangling River further south. There’s something I’ve always wanted to ask, but couldn’t, and today there are only the two of us, the Great King of the Northern Courtyard and I. I wonder if I can clear up the confusion?”
Tuoba Bodhisattva said in a deep voice, “Please ask, sir.”
Li Mibi’s tone was extraordinarily hard, “Could it be that besides me, Li Mibi, no one has ever thought that Northern Liang would win and Northern Mang would lose?”