Chapter 197 Wind Rising in the Northwest Longshang (Up)

The wind rises in the north Liang Longshang.

In the Liangzhou Liuzhou border, a team of more than ten people slowly from east to west, there are lifted the curtain to sit outside the carriage of the old and thin old man, there are in the carriage near the careful protection of middle-aged knights, but also by the northwestern highland scenery attracted to young men and women, finally could not help but to start galloping horses to compete with each other riding, in the caravan of the first and last, there are two jianghu and recklessness of the heavy and stable men pay attention to their surroundings, to prevent unforeseen events. In order to prevent the unexpected. Apparently is the caravan backbone character of the white-haired old man softly lamented: “the summer solstice, the bucket points to the southeast, it should be all things grow up to this great season. Grass and trees are still so, but this person ah, but do not know how many to die.”

The horseman was an old man of about the same age, but because he was a martial arts master, his qi was much more lush compared to the old age of his best friend behind him. After hearing this sentiment from his old friend who had known him for most of his life, he did not say anything. In the bottom of his heart, he is very puzzled since his friend out of the mountain, why not choose in the city of Tai’an to show ambition, even if compared to the “my Cao not like the living beings,” slightly inferior, but certainly not far away, at least with the first six pavilion bachelor’s degree of science, Yao Baifeng is not the same. But since his old friend said he wanted to come to the military chaos of Beilang to take a walk, of course he will not refuse, without saying a word, with two with their own same disdain to participate in what the martial arts conference of the jianghu juniors, escorting his friend and his entourage from the Shangyin Palace of Learning to enter the northwestern frontier of the Beilang Road. But he also had his own bottom line, that is, if his old friend was heading straight to Qingliang Mountain in Liangzhou, then he would only escort them to the outside of the state capital of Liangzhou, and would definitely not enter the city by half a step. After all, back then, when the old Liang King led the Xu Family’s iron horseback riding on the rivers and lakes, among them was his clan. Even if so many years have passed, has long been washed his hands in gold and retired to the mountains, the old man’s knot is still not unraveled. Fortunately, on this trip to the northwest, they only strolled around outside of Xiaguang City at the mouth of the gourd in Youzhou, and then entered Liangzhou but bypassed Qingliang Mountain to rush to Qingcang City in Liuzhou. The Beiliang Royal Palace also intentionally or unintentionally turned a blind eye to this, did not harass them, although the Beiliang Second County Lord Xu Weixiong is still behind the good friend of Han Guzi’s one of the disciples, fleet of Xu Huang Sima Can Liu Duanmao a few people are her fellow disciples.

In the Shangyin Palace reputation directly after the great priest Qi Yanglong old man laughed softly: “Summer, this day, the emperor of Liyang routinely to lead the civil and military officials to go to the southern outskirts of Tai’an City to welcome the summer, whether it is in the past will inevitably wear the emperor of the emperor of the yellow dragon robe, or those who are in and out of the court are yellow and purple court ministers, in this day should be in the Ministry of Rites officials are not tired of reminding must be dressed in red dress, after the ceremony is over, the emperor will be wearing the red dress, the emperor will not be wearing the red dress. After the ceremony, the emperor will open the ice cellar in the palace, the ice stored in the last winter will be given to the officials who were evaluated by the Ministry of Justice as the best. Unfortunately, my unrecorded disciple Xu Gong, who serves as the minister of war, was somewhat implicated by his Xu Sister, and had to stay in the two Liao patrolling the border, otherwise there will certainly be a share of him. By the way, old Song, your hometown side have resigned spring into summer drink ‘farewell spring wine’ custom, right?”

The horseman nodded and said in a muffled voice: “The wine I brought with me when I set out has long since been finished, and under the proposal of that Lingshu buy rice assassin, alcohol is now banned everywhere within Northern Liang, and the most you can buy is that kind of green ant wine, which is, well, not something I’m happy to drink.”

Han Gu Zi helplessly said: “Song Xin Sheng ah Song Xin Sheng, you this old drunkard with green ant wine angry why? You’re not looking for pain yourself, if you’re really capable, go fight with that young Grandmaster surnamed Xu.”

The horseman became more and more annoyed and snorted coldly, “I can’t fight! If I could, I would have already drunk hundreds or thousands of kilograms of Green Ant Wine.”

In the two old men chatting, four or five riders galloped in the distance, in addition to that granddaughter of Han Gu Zi’s Han Xiu, the rest are the old man’s best disciples, the oldest man, in his forties, is recognized as a great master of the art of war but refuses to be amongst the temple’s Xu Huang, and there are also the early thirties of the vertical and horizontal master Sima Chan, the law school’s handsome Liu Duanmao, and that temperament of the cold sword-wearing woman is known as the “Living Wukong”. The woman with the cool temperament and sword is Jin Baoru, an extraordinary martial arts genius known as the “living martial arts library”, who has shown a stunning talent of unforgettable eyes since she was young, and has read the martial arts books of all the major clans in the world, but does not practice martial arts. Liu Duanmao’s appearance is the most unattractive, the top bone is sunken, the nose is sunken into the root of the mountain, the teeth show the root of the teeth, belongs to the destiny of early death and short life and poor face, especially when he stayed with the colorful posture of the Jin Bao room, even more ugly, the ordinary timid women look at a glance, may be at night to have nightmares.

After Xu Huang approached the carriage, he softly said: ”Sir, just now, three miles away in the north, we encountered the Northern Mang scouts, looking at the attire it should be the Black Fox Column under Liu Gui’s command, close to a full standard of men, it should be rushing at us, no surprise there will soon be a cavalry army to kill us. With Liang Mang’s similar scouting regulations, the cavalry behind us linked to the number of people in that standard horse column, there are at least a thousand or more people. And that Northern Liang cavalry army that is distantly following behind us has only five hundred riders, if we continue forward, they may not be able to enter the battlefield in time, are we heading south or turning back so that we can buy time for those five hundred Northern Liang cavalry?”

Han Guzi has a map of geomancy on his knee, and after looking around, he stretched out his palm, pinched his fingers quickly, and smiled, “It’s good trigrams, there’s no harm in it, let’s just continue forward in a dignified manner, even if the sky collapses, there’s someone to hold it up.”

Xu Huang smiled and stopped talking, not only him, all of them were convinced, the large-scale Northern Mang cavalry that was about to attack directly ignored. It wasn’t that they were blind or too reliant on the battle prowess of martial arts patriarch Song Xinsheng, but rather their teacher, Han Guzi, who was learned and budgeted for the world without fail. When Huang Longshi was still just an ordinary Shangyin Academy Jixi student, he was so conceited that there was a saying that “outside of Guzi, there are no more children in sight”.

The group of people so regarded the North Mang cavalry as nothing, swaggering westward into the flow of state, Jin Bao room can not resist the sticky pampering of Han Gu Xiu, only agreed to ride with a horse, they whispered some of the women’s boudoir of their own words, and even in the Palace of the Shangyin Academy and Xu Weixiong as cold and proud of the Jin Bao room, there are a few points of laughter. Liu Duanmao and two senior brothers Xu Huang Sima Can and drive side by side, curiously asked: “Xu senior brother, compared to Liangzhou Hu Tou City and Youzhou Huloukou two places in the war is in full swing, the flow of state Qingcang City area of the two armies confrontation seems exceptionally quiet, in addition to a small battle of light cavalry contact war, there is no more movement. So is this battle going to be fought or not?”

Xu Huang, who was well versed in military books, laughed, “This has to be asked to Sima Chan, asking me is actually useless.”

Liu Duanmao froze, and Sima Can, who was concentrating on the art of vertical and horizontal division, smiled and said, “Whether or not Liuzhou will be fought, it doesn’t depend on the Northern Liang Dragon Elephant Army or Northern Mang’s Great General Liu Gui, but rather on the Southern Dynasty’s temple further to the north. That Liu Gui, who was praised by the female emperor of Northern Mang as half of a human butcher, has now been reduced to the biggest laughing stock on the border of Liang Mang, and the Southern Dynasty Temple Hall of the Northern Barbarians is even more clamoring, with suggestions to remove Liu Gui’s position as the commander-in-chief of the Western Front, and to give way to the Grand King of the Northern Courtyard, Tuoba Bodhisattva. Just at this sensitive moment, the king of the northern Liang helped a big favor, we did not hear a few days ago, this young feudal king and previously already entered the flow state of the northern court king Tuoba Bodhisattva, a fierce fight, two martial arts assessment of the great masters, catching against each other to kill, turning thousands of miles of ah ……”

When Sima Can said here, the bearded Xu Huang twisted his beard and smiled, seems to be a bit mesmerized. Liu Duanmao, on the other hand, snorted coldly, obviously not impressed with the most powerful young feudal king of that dynasty. Sima Can continued: “Speaking of the three lines of North Mang, not to mention the South Court King Dong Zhuo’s center line, in the Hulukou side of the main general Yang Yuanzan, is a deep understanding of the rules of the temple of the old fox, took the initiative to absorb many of the North and South of the North and South of the North Mang valves of the children, acting as the vanguard of the attack on the city of the kind of sandalwood is a case in point, Yang Yuanzan is willing to apportion the military success, so although the soldiers and horses are seriously lost, but the court did not have What impeachment, otherwise died so many people, but only hit the Xiaguang city, long ago to the mouth drowned. In contrast, the oil and salt Liu Gui is not pleasing to the eye, but it’s good that Tuoba Bodhisattva himself rushed to the Northern Court for an audience with His Majesty under the eyes of all, especially since this Northern Mang Military God deliberately lowered his posture in the middle of the process, going out of his way to discuss military affairs with Liu Gui as a vice-commander of the Western Front with no signs of taking over the power at all, which only won this veteran general a precious chance to catch his breath.”

Sima Can suddenly laughed heartily to himself, “But that group of official greaseballs in the Southern Dynasty who ate the closed door at Liu Gui’s doorstep in the first place are also not good with each other, this plan fails to give birth to another plan, but there was soon another gossip that came out, saying that the reason why that young feudal king did not hesitate to risk his own life to fight with the Northern Court’s great king for thousands of miles in the yellow sands of the desert was in order to keep Liu Gui’s marshalship, in order to In exchange for the peace and quiet of Liuzhou, or else replacing the overly conservative Liu Gui, the Northern Liang border would have to undergo the crushing of the Northern Mang’s iron hooves on three fronts at the same time. With the deaths of more than 100,000 northern barbarians, the two battlefields of Hutou City and Xiaguang City are still stalemated, and the North Mang army is full of grievances, Liu Gui, who presides over the military affairs of Liuzhou, has naturally become a target, and has become the best choice for the civil officials and military generals of the Southern Dynasty to vent their anger and grievances. To Liu Gui has been trusting the North Mang old woman, it is estimated that will not be because of these rumors and suspect the Eastern Front, the reason why did not suppress the rumors, but also to maintain the military heart of the helpless, I guess she privately must have had a secret letter to Liu Gui, a good deal of comfort.”

Sima Can looked into the distance with a grave expression, “Will Liuzhou without the majestic city and high walls fight? The answer is that it will definitely fight, but rather it will be exceptionally grueling! The speed of death on both sides will also definitely exceed that of Hutou City and Hulukou. As for when the fight would start, it would probably depend on when Tuo Bao Bodhisattva would quietly move to return to Liuzhou. A battlefield far away from the temple, even if it is thousands of miles away from the dragon chair, is never the blood-stained ‘lichen’ under that chair, and how much blood is to be shed on the blanket at the foot of the chair is decided by a single person, or that set of people near the chair.”

Liu Duanmao said softly, “Senior brother you should have gone to Tai’an City.”

Sima Can shook his head and laughed, “Senior Brother Xu should go, I shouldn’t.”

At this time, Jin Bao Room Korea Xiu’s ride came to the three men’s side, and Korea Xiu, who was at a wonderful age, smiled sweetly and asked, “Why ah?”

Sima Can laughed loudly, “Because Tai’an City is good at talking about troops on paper a lot of people, really know how to mobilize the army less, full of martial arts strategy brother Xu went there, soon can cone out of the bag. I, on the contrary, am more suited to Northern Liang, where there are many fierce generals but few strategists. It’s a pity that teacher didn’t take us to Qingliang Mountain, otherwise I’d have thought about how to catch up with Senior Sister Xu, and how to brag about myself with that Vice-Envoy of Strategy Song Dongming.”

Korea Xiu, who was sitting behind Jin Baoru, made a playful face and flirted, “Sima Can, no wonder grandpa said that your cheek thickness is enough to rank among the top ten masters in the world!”

Sima Can turned his head to shout playfully to the other side of the carriage, “Mr. You are also really, how do you like to praise people behind their backs, praise me to my face, I won’t be proud of it.”

Han Gu Zi, who is famous for teaching without discrimination and teaching according to one’s ability, said in a bad mood, “Get lost!”

Liu Duanmao, who was filled with resentment at the mere mention of Beiliang and that young feudal lord, also brightened up.

At this moment, in the north, the figure of the Northern Mang Black Fox Column has been vaguely visible, and in front of the caravan, appeared unknown friend or foe of the road blocking a ride.

Located at the front of the caravan is responsible for opening the road that jianghu man, although it is martial arts master Song Xinsheng’s junior, but the realm is not low, has one foot into the threshold of the second grade small master, and because of the famous divine weapon in the hand, has the strength to defeat the first grade of the vajra realm masters of the feat of a hundred strokes undefeated. The man who wore the family heirloom sword “forbidden fire” subconsciously as if he was facing a great enemy, full of qi, but soon realized that the qi of that ride was not horrifying weather, but to be careful, he still tensed his whole body muscles, reached out to hold the hilt of the sword.

Han Gu Zi told Song Xin Sheng to stop the carriage, then stood up and laughed at the horseman in the lead, “Tao Duan Yang, there’s no need to be nervous.”

The horse in front did not stop its hooves, getting closer and closer, Han Gu Zi’s head peeked out from the side of Jin Bao Room’s back, only to see a handsome young man sitting on the horse’s back, she turned her head to Liu Duan Mao and joked, “Take a look at the person’s appearance, maybe it’s your long-lost blood brother oh.”

Liu Duanmao almost died from holding his breath.

The rider came near the carriage, and on the horseback, he respectfully cupped his fists and said, “Old Mr. Han, there are 3,000 Northern Mang cavalry in the north, so I’ve come to escort them on a ride.”

Upon hearing that there were three thousand Northern Mang cavalry, Han Guo Xiu was not afraid of the sky and the earth, and still had the heart to joke, “Your kid’s cheek can be ah, sure you’re not in a hurry to be reincarnated?”

Then she turned her head and yelled, “Sima Chan Sima Chan, you’ve met the same top ten experts! Hurry up and cut the face skin divine skill!”