Chapter 207 – Debt not paid, say it to the mountain ghosts

Xu Fengyen suddenly turned around and saw a group of familiar faces, Xu Huang who had a beautiful beard, Sima Can who always had a bright smile, Liu Duanmao who had an incisive look, Jin Baorou who had a cold look, and an unfamiliar middle-aged uncle who smelled of alcohol and had a long sword slung across his back, he should be that immortal in wine Chang Sui who was renowned in the scholarly circles of Liyang. Xu Huang laughed in a low voice and said, “I met Daoist Han by chance at the Purple Sun Palace, and when I heard that the king had arrived in the mountains, I turtled up once more, so I should find the king to say thank you anyhow.”

The original harmonious and courteous conversation was ruined by Chang Sui’s hooking up, this guy directly hooked up Xu Feng Nian’s shoulder and said with a big grin, “I went to the north of Jibei, and I realized that not only is the foot soldiers under Yan Wenluan’s command strong, but also the cavalry in Youzhou is not something that can be expected of the Leiyang Fengyi’s cavalry. Originally, it is estimated that our family that Mr. can not pull the old face to release, I then also good to find an excuse to say that they are not accustomed to the soil in your northern Liang vomiting and diarrhea, have to recuperate for three or four years, I did not think that Mr. this time out of the generous very much, and even Xu Huang these a few also a breath thrown to the northern Liang, so it is just right, our brothers and sisters are still a bunch of, but unfortunately, I went to great lengths to make it worse, the Thistle a goodbye, it should be the last time with Mr. this life! I should have followed you to Qingcang City in Liuzhou. Xu Fengnian, we’ll be hanging out with you from now on. Why don’t we take this opportunity to discuss something and help Xu Huang get a general? To be honest, the miscellaneous can not be, even if you can not be the Liangzhou border generals, Liuzhou Youzhou two places can be, with my brother Xu’s full of strategy, leading the army of 10,000 people, certainly more than enough. Sima Chan this kid, but can stay in Liangzhou assassin’s office as a four or five grade officer, if you have more courage, simply stuffed to Song Dongming as a helper, is to be careful that this kid seduced you Qingliang Mountain beautiful maids, the kid’s biggest problem is that he can’t control the crotch of the bird. As for senior brother Liu Duanmao and senior sister Jin Bao room, but there is no need to rush, there really is no official hat to them, then just find a place to sharpen for a year and a half ……”

Xu Huang looked helpless, Sima Can’s bright smile became far-fetched, and Liu Duanmao simply skimmed his head, just pretending that he didn’t recognize this senior brother. Jin Baorou stole a glance at Xu Fengnian with complicated eyes.

Returning the favor, since Mr. Han is so generous, the heart of the pleasantly surprised Xu Fengyen is not a small family man, on the spot to show a clan king’s thunder and lightning side, said in a deep voice: “Mr. Xu can go to Huai Yang Guan Palace of Protection, I will personally write a letter to Chu Lushan, Beiliang border military affairs have always been rigorous, not to be ashamed of it, I, Xu Fengyen, for the time being, I also do not dare to ensure that I Xu Fengnian can’t guarantee that Mr. Xu will be able to immediately become the main general of the Liangzhou army, but I won’t let Mr. Xu be over-utilized. Mr. Sima, you can go straight to Qingliang Mountain, assisting Deputy Secretary Song Dongming, of course, if you hate to give a hand is not good, you can also go to Liangzhou Assassin’s Office or Tiyou County in Lingzhou to serve, the Assassin’s Office has a vacant position of Cao Gong, and Tiyou County in Lingzhou has just been vacated by a governor, both of which are fourth-grade officials, depending on how Mr. Sima weighs it himself. As for Mr. Liu, I hope to be able to go to Lingzhou to help the assassin Xu Beihao, perhaps not a high official position at first, but I believe that with Mr. Liu’s knowledge and Xu Beihao’s vision, Mr. Liu will be able to quickly stand out. As for Miss Jin, really I have not thought about how to plan for the time being, allow me to think about it, but before I go down the mountain, no matter what I will give Miss Jin a satisfactory answer.”

When Xu Fengyen finished these words, not to mention Sima Can and Liu Duanmao looked at each other in disbelief, even Xu Huang was taken aback, while Jin Baorou pursed his lips tightly and glowed. Only Chang Sui, still in a dangling manner, lazily picked up his wine gourd and poured a mouthful of wine, wiped his mouth and laughed: “Painful!”

Xu Fenian sincerely said, “For all of you to stay in Northern Liang, of course I, Xu Fenian, welcome you to the utmost, and my second sister will be very happy as well.”

Chang Sui sighed softly, “Then apart from Eldest Senior Brother who has a grudge with the Xu family from the previous generation, and that Junior Senior Brother who had to stand against you, there are a total of eight disciples under Mr. Mister’s seat, and the next six of them are all working together in Beiliang. Life and death have destiny, wealth and fortune are in heaven, gathering and scattering is unpredictable, the six of us, we are already considered lucky.”

The last sentence, often Sui is obviously on the side of the still have a knot unresolved brother Liu Duanmao said, among the eight people, when Liu Duanmao and Prince Zhao Kai best personal relationship.

Liu Duanmao ignored it.

Next Chang Sui proposed to get together, the group together to taste the most authentic green ants under the sky wine, Xu Fengyen pulled out all the silver with the vendor to buy more than ten bottles of wine, and then led them to the hut not far away, the house is cleaned all the year round, although uninhabited, so it does not show the slightest decadence, and even the small vegetable beds behind the house are also full of greenery. Xu Fengyen familiar from the house to move out of bamboo chairs and stools, but also specially moved out of a table originally used for stacking books, thatched cottage is not far away from the washing pool, but the two a stark contrast between the movement and the static, which has a lot to do with the intention of Wudang Mountain. The group sat around the table in the open space in front of the house, Chang Sui was already drinking, Xu Huang and Liu Duanmao were sitting side by side, Jin Baorou was sitting opposite Chang Sui, sitting diagonally opposite Xu Fengyen.

Naturally, Xu Huang talked to Xu Fengyen about the Guangling water battle, when they met in the Liuzhou territory, in fact, it was just a civil war belonging to the Guangling water division, the two men had their own views, as Mr. Han said, the two men were right in half, Xu Huang guessed half of the battle, it was a quick battle, and Xu Fengyen guessed the end of the victory of the Western Chu. For the next situation in Guangling, Xu Fengyen and Xu Huang and there is a dispute, once several times traveled through the old Western Chu territory of the art of war Xu Huang, firmly believe that the next Liyang will soon be able to form a siege, and the breakthrough of the Western Chu is bound to be the seemingly unstoppable 100,000 elites of the southern border, the only way to win the strategic depth of the Western Chu, in the Jiangzuo and the southern border of the gap in the area of a firm foothold, the real play of the natural dangers of the Guangling River! The benefit of the river, although this is still difficult to escape the plight of Lu Shengxiang and Yan Zhi Wang’s north-south attack, but compared to the death of a corner of the capital of Western Chu, only destined to be eaten up by the Liyang court bit by bit, the situation will still be much better.

Xu Fengyen specially from the house to find out a map of the geomancy situation of the Guangling Road, slowly spread out on the table, Xu Huang a hand holding a glass of wine, one hand “pointing out the river and mountains”, narrated: “Landscape paintings talk about momentum, martial arts, but also talk about momentum. Then the national strength of Western Chu, in Xie Xijian Western Front defeated Yang Shen Xing Yan Zhenchun two members of the Spring and Autumn veterans, Kou Jianghuai in the Eastern Front shine and Cao Changqing a battle depending on the Guangling River, almost reached the peak. But ……”

Xu Huang poured wine into his cup that only had half of the wine left, and pointed to the bottle in his hand, “The power of the Western Chu Kingdom is no more than a cup of wine after all, while the power of Liyang is as big as a bottle of wine, Yang Shenxing’s Jizhou foot soldiers suffered a lot of casualties, Yan Zhenchun’s cavalry army was wiped out in a single battle, and even King Zhao Yi of Guangling’s navy was completely wiped out, and the wine in the bottle is still more, a lot more, than the wine in this cup. This is still only our paper, said that the number of troops only, away from the real power of the Yang, after the new emperor ascended the throne, away from the Yang people’s heart, is still solid, and can even be said to be more and more solid, Yong Hui Xiang Fu alternation, far from outsiders imagine that turbulent, so away from the Yang West Chu battle, the former can be a success, the latter is a failure to be rested!”

Xu Huang stretched out his fingers and successively pointed to a major town on the north bank of the Guangling River, and a pass on the south bank of the Jianzhou, said in a deep voice: “If I were that Cao Changqing, in the old general Wu Chongxuan led half of the army of the Southland across the river at the same time, sent a daring to fight a tough general to bring 10,000 elite troops south to this, to cut off the road of retreat, and then let a member of the old and good at defending the generals to die on the western front gateway to the Southland, so that 100,000 troops want to fight can not be fought. 100,000 troops can’t fight if they want to, and they can’t retreat comfortably if they want to.”

Xu Fengyen slightly leaned over and looked at the map, frowned and softly said, “My Beiliang Infantry Vice Commander Gu Dazu mentioned Wu Chongxuan, a veteran general, and believes that this person’s army management and leadership are far above Yang Shenxing and Yan Zhenchun, and he has many fierce generals under his command, and he will not fail to keep an eye on his own rear if he is to travel a long distance to fight in a different place.”

Xu Huang glanced at the side of the cross legged high melon seeds Sima Chan, the latter resentfully put down the hands of the cupped melon seeds, sitting down: “Wu Chongxuan and his side of the set of meritorious generals, are playing the old war experienced generation, will not be so negligent, but then, the book of war said that thousands of miles do not transport food, which is the potential of the southern frontier army is not a small hidden trouble, the more fatal defects, and more than Wu Chongxuan and other people can solve, that is, Wu Chongxuan and so on can be resolved, that is, again hot blooded and then exciting battle of the sands, is never the temple of the silent ripples of the struggle, since the first emperor of the Liyang, can not trust the Yan Zhi Wang Zhao Bing, today’s son of God is no exception, cut the clan to cut the clan, in the final analysis, is not to take the North Mang to cut the North Liang 300,000 iron riders of the clan, with the West Chu to cut the southern border of the two hundred thousand tiger and wolf of the division of the clan? If Wu Chongxuan easily beat Xichu, Tai’an City, the gang of officials are not afraid of people more than 200,000 southern barbarians, there is nothing to do, the trend of a breath of air to their noses to show off their power ah?”

Sima Chan couldn’t help but secretly pick up a handful of melon seeds from the desktop, while getting high on melon seeds while slurring, “The Northern Liang canal transportation is trapped, and the 100,000 troops in the Southern Border are not really comfortable. So this battle ah, Wu Chongxuan in case you can beat down Cao Changqing, that is he has heavenly ability, during this period of time the court will certainly also have to move their hands, with the original Yan Zhenchun had to ‘understand’ risky adventures is a reason. Fighting into a stalemate, the Liyang court is the happiest, losing, waiting to be the commander of the southern expedition Lu Shengxiang on the ground to integrate the receipt of it, a soldier and a pawn do not want to go back to the southern border, perhaps even Wu Chongxuan will have to go to the capital as an official, Tongxi Sword Immortal Lu Baijie is not just from the Ministry of War on the position of the Minister of the Ministry of War has been banished to be the Secretary of the Secretary for Well, Wu Chongxuan does not want to move? Do not want to compete with the still unstable foundation of the new Ministry of War Tang Tieshuang? You Tang young, military achievements are not good, fame is not as big as me, why with my old Wu grab position well …… Besides, the city of Tai’an do not say that do not want to be the chief minister of the civil official is not a good civil official, do not want to be the Secretary of the Ministry of War of the general is not a good general ah …… ”

Jin Bao room under the table a foot heavily stepped on the guy’s instep, Sima Can is clearly battered over the man, face does not change color heart does not jump, but finally not so cynical, “Although it is said that the court of the Zhao room Liyang acted hegemony, while watching the fire from the other side of the river to watch the Liang Mang war, but also to be personally involved in the battlefield with the Western Chu rebels over the trick, but also to play with the heart of the older generation of the king of the clan king But I Sima Can have to say, Liyang late emperor is really a wrist powerful king, throughout the history books, if we do not talk about the matter of the border, then how to be ranked in the top five, not to mention, only to say that the cutting of clans under the momentum, we may wish to fingers count, the north of the Liang side do not go to say that the king of the Huainan Zhao Ying, ran to the sands of the battlefield death, right? Jiaodong King Zhao Suo has been diligently guarding the northeast gateway for so many years, right? The hereditary king of Jing’an Zhao Xun also hate with the court heart, in his own head carved a big loyal word, is not it? So, ah, a spring and autumn history books, is the generals of the countries you side sing me on the stage, what the emperor what civil officials are cool to go, a page in the writing of the four words of the martial arts to save the country, and the spring of the permanent emblem, it is changed into the four words of the literati rule the country, Zhang Julu lead, outside of the Ministry of War, the five departments of the Secretary of the group of ideas, it is really a good meteorological ah. Even a thousand years from now, as long as one is a scholar, one will be proud of this glittering history.”

Sima Can suddenly made a pause, looked around like the storyteller who sells and shakes his baggage, and took a sip of his wine, “Then, the question arises! Why on the surface, the more Liyang drags, the greater the chance of winning, the more the North Mang consumes, the smaller the chance of winning, but the late emperor still insisted on letting the Guangling Road ignite, and then let the North Mang think that there is an opportunity to take advantage of it, and invade the south in a big way at this time? Fighting on two fronts, aren’t you afraid of squandering even the thickest of family funds?”

Chang Sui was overjoyed, carrying a wine gourd and pointing at this senior brother, “In the future, if you can’t make it in Beiliang, go to a restaurant as a storyteller, I’ll set the stage with you, and Jin Sister will collect the silver.”

Xu Fengyen smiled and gave an answer, “The world’s elite soldiers and horses, to maintain the heyday of twenty to thirty years is already the ultimate, and then will only deteriorate, the accumulated disadvantages of the gradual increase. As for my Northern Liang Iron Cavalry, it started in the Spring and Autumn period, and now it has been thirty years. Tai’an City is afraid that with the passage of time, my Northern Liang border army will not be able to face the Northern Mang, and I’m afraid that I, Xu Fengyen, will have bad intentions after I completely stabilize my seat and hold on to the power. A very simple example, my father back then, if he said with a voice with the Zhao family to rule the river, the army generals at least to immediately leave a small half, military disorganization. But if you change to the end of the Yong Hui, in the northern Liang has deep-rooted Xu Snapdragon and then mention this, 300,000 iron horsemen, are rooted in the northern Liang old man, can not go how many people. When I Xu Fengnian really take power for four or five years, the border army generals are gathered in the hands of the city of Tai’an has never had a good feeling about the Northern Liang, not to mention the spearhead pointed directly at the Liyang, in the northwestern borderlands of a country of their own, but also in the eyes of the capital of the common sense of the people, right?”

Chang Sui laughed, “What a common sense of man!”

Sima Can playfully asked, “Your Highness, really haven’t thought about this?”

Xu Fengnian shook his head and did not say anything.

Chang Sui finally opened his mouth to say something serious, his drunken eyes said, “When it comes to the various armies in the world, there are actually not many that can be called majestic armies, the old base is the Ji Nan foot soldiers of the Northern Han’s forbidden guards, which have already been spoiled for Yang Shen Xing. Yan Zhenchun’s cavalry army was originally the first-class elite cavalry army in Liyang, but unfortunately, the old general also died of suffocation, non-war. Now there are only a few left, the new Huainan Road Secretary Cai Nan, the original 60,000 soldiers and horses expanded to 80,000, but the war power fell quite a lot. Ministry of War Secretary Tang Tieshuang single-handedly built out of the Liaodong Duo Yan elite cavalry, not bad, LiaoXi clan king Zhao Suo’s Blackwater Iron Cavalry is also good, Wu ChongXuan’s south of the border ‘big armored’, claiming to be able to compete with Yan WenLuan’s YouZhou foot soldiers, YanChi King Zhao Bing himself led 40,000 no front army, has always been hidden, empty name, don’t know the real strength of the battlefield. As for the navy, a good Guangling navy was divided into two, there is no need to mention. Qingzhou sailors have long been to the Qing Party officials eroded to a mess, if you can fight with words, probably invincible. After counting, the only soldiers and horses that can truly keep their sharpness undiminished for a full thirty years are your Northern Liang Border Army.”

Chang Sui stood up and slowly said, “Above the land of the Central Plains, relying on the heavenly dangers and cities is absolutely unable to block the iron hooves of the Northern Mang, so I want to stand here, stand in the only Northern Liang Border Army that can be outnumbered and still not retreat by half a step, and do my little bit to hold back for the Central Plains.”

Chang Sui tilted his head back and drank most of the gourd wine, “Youzhou Hulukou, two cities and hundreds of fortresses, when the hooves of the Northern Mang advance, it will only be after the Northern Liang defenders are dead!”

Chang Sui muttered, “When I have not personally visited the border, drunkenly writing that border poem, I always think the atmosphere is magnificent, and now I know that the real hundred battles on the border, not at all that the heroic dry clouds in the imagination of the scholar.”

Chang Sui said in a loud voice: “Why bother writing poems for the dead, why not die here and leave your last words!”

Sima Can said softly, “Second Senior Brother is truly drunk.”

Xu Huang got up violently, raised a cup of wine high, looked at Xu Fengnian, and said, “For Hulukou in Youzhou! For Liangzhou Tiger Head City! To Qingcang City in Liuzhou! A toast to Your Majesty!”

Sima Can, Liu Duanmao, and Jin Baorou also rose to raise their glasses.

Xu Fengnian rose and then said softly, “I can’t afford this toast, so you all take it as a toast to that twenty years of blameless Zhongyuan’s Northern Liang.”

The next drink is unrestrained, really do let go, during the Jin Bao room twice to go to wash the elephant pond side with the peddler to buy wine, anyway, Sima Chan to the end of the drink to the point to go under the table to find a wine glass, and Chang Sui also sing, but with that no one can not understand the hometown dialect humming, Xu Huang is also hard to escape, the most important style of the beautiful bearded man drank a beard full of wine, even the least drinking Jin Bao room also drank to blush, which is a good thing. His cheeks were flushed, which made Xu Fengyen, who drank the most but was always sober, a little embarrassed, after pulling Sima Can out from under the table once and looking up to see the smiling woman, Xu Fengyen blushed and said, “I’m the only one who isn’t drunk, it’s quite a sight.”

Drunken Xu Huang squinted and smiled, already tongue tied: “I heard Mr. said that the great general in that before the king, a certain time into the capital to reward, after the court outside the hall, flexing fingers knocking a big brother of the Ministry of War’s official hat, said that I Xu Snapdragon only have 600 or 700 people in my hands in your eyes is not even a piece of shit! When I have six or seven thousand men in my hand, whether I can see you or not depends on your mood. When I have 60,000 or 70,000 men in my hand, you’ll call me brother on the surface, but behind my back you’ll still call me a heartless old soldier. At the end of the day, when I accidentally have 200,000 to 300,000 soldiers in my hands, I will have destroyed six countries and slaughtered four emperors alone, so how about it? I call you an old brother today, but do you dare to say yes …… Hahaha, great general ah great general, I Xu Huang as a late generation of martial artists, also hope to be able to ride the sands like you, fast and furious!”

Xu Fengnian saw Jin Bao room casting inquiring eyes, whispered helplessly, “This is Liyang officials spreading falsehoods, there is no such thing, if there was, Xu Snap would have bragged about it to me hundreds of times.”

Chang Sui is also crazy, “The great general is indeed remarkable, but that with the scholar’s own strength to assist the great general, and ultimately to help the northern Liang with a place to fight the northern Mang a country, Li Yishan, and has not been inferior to half a point! It’s a pity that Li Yishan is dead, otherwise I would have been a little scholar for Mr. Li, what would I have done? It would be great to talk to you about the Spring and Autumn Annals!”

Liu Duanmao foolishly looked around in a daze, the wine cup in his hand has long been shaken and spilled, still murmuring there: “Where is the wine cup, where has the wine cup gone?”

Sima Chan slapped the table and replied, “Isn’t the cup on the ground, I just saw it under the table!”

Jin Baorou, who was only half-drunk, stretched his hand and rubbed his forehead, these brothers and sisters, can’t they be a little bit more reserved as readers? Usually in the Shangyin Palace, it is just, how come in the unfamiliar Northern Liang even more unrestrained.

Xu Fengnian laughed: “It seems that it’s still our Northern Liang’s Green Ant Wine, which is the most powerful.”

In the dusk, in the end, Chang Sui several in the end or not let Xu Fenian send off to the mountain, mutual assistance staggering to the Ziyang Palace, but Chang Sui also did not forget to deadbeat with Xu Fenian to take away that Northern Liang knife, Jin Bao room laughed and demolished the stage: “Senior brother must not really drunk, otherwise he every time he drinks high is to give away things, never have the habit of asking for things from people. ”

Chang Sui glared and said, “Elder brother doesn’t want his life, what’s wrong with asking for a knife?”

Then immediately drunkenly recited to himself, “Sword qi rushes to the sky not to think, well at least I Chang Sui can wine qi rushes to the bull. Xu Fengyen, your kid is not generous, the wine depends on the character, which has the reason that all people are drunk and you wake up alone, no, tomorrow and then look for you to drink a game, today it is my senior brothers and sisters dragging their feet for the sake of ……”

Jin Baorou did not have the good sense to say, “Okay, okay, tomorrow senior brother you can get credit with Wudang Mountain to pay for the wine before saying.”

Xu Fengnian smiled, “Then I won’t see you off.”

Jin Baoru nodded apologetically, “I’m sorry to see you laugh, senior brother they are usually not like this.”

Xu Fenian shook his head, “People of temperament are the best to deal with, and the Northern Liang water and soil are only suitable for such people.”

Jin Baorou somehow quietly slowed down his pace, turned his head and asked, “Is it really as rumored at the border that that Northern Mang Dong Zhuo had the Chess House, Sword House, and Music House set up the ‘Chess Board’, ‘Sword Circle’ before the formation, and the ‘Sitting and Standing’ three big formations? And also let that Tibing Mountain more than a hundred Kunlun slaves control the power equivalent to the immortal sword bed crossbow, and even the Taoist Sect’s talismanic formation ‘a line of heaven’ and the Princess Grave’s Dunhuang Flying Sky are also used? Just to block you from continuing to break the formation and move forward two hundred steps?”

Xu Fengnian laughed, “It was only after you said that after the fact that I realized that it sounded very impressive. But actually, when I was breaking out of the formation, I didn’t feel much, not to mention that there were still dozens of Wu Clan swordsmen riding behind me at the time to protect me.”

Jin Baoru whispered, “That’s so.”

Xu Fenian smiled and did not say anything.

The woman gently turned around, her voice light, “Observe the body with the body, observe the home with the home, observe the township with the township, observe the country with the country, and observe the world with the world. One view, one view, all view, leisurely and free.”

Xu Fengnian frowned and fell into deep thought.

As twilight came, Xu Fengyen returned to the front of the hut, cleaned up the mess, moved the tables, chairs and stools back into the house, and then went to the back of the house to look at the vegetable garden.

After squatting in front of the house for a while, he returned to the house, lit an oil lamp, and casually picked a martial arts book that he had moved from the martial arts storehouse and slowly flipped through it. Late at night, Xu Fengyen put down the book and walked outside the house.

In the eyes of those Qi Practitioners of Tantai Calm, Tai’an City, the King’s Qi was thick. Xiangfan City, ghostly aura. Jiangnan Road, Qing Yi Xiao Xiao.

Northern Liang men can not make border poems, and Northern Liang women have never had that girl’s complaint.

Death is death.

Xu Fengyen looked up into the night sky.

A general’s success is ten thousand bones withered, Xu Snapdragon owes to Chunqiu, I’ll pay it back. Xu Snapdragon, as a military general, can only kill people, can not talk about right or wrong. But how many people he killed in the Central Plains, I, as a son, have to save.

And what I, Xu Fengnian, owe to the 300,000 iron horsemen and the people of Beiliang, I may not be able to pay back in this lifetime.