Chapter 215 – Hearing Thunder In The Silence

There is no feast that won’t end, Zhao Ningshen was finally persuaded by Bai Yu to go down the mountain, Bai Yu’s eyes are not good and he didn’t send him away, on the occasion of parting, Bai Yu said to Zhao Ningshen that he might as well go to the Lung Mountain, where the dragon was beheaded and live in seclusion, and instructed Zhao Ningshen to not let the Dragon and Tiger Mountain get involved in waves for the time being, Tai’an City has a prime minister, Zhao Danping, who is the support for the Heavenly Masters’ Office, and Li Yang won’t be too hard on the Heavenly Masters’ Office. Zhao Ningshen is worried, obviously for Mr. White Lotus to become a hostage in Beiliang, Bai Yu is indifferent, comforted a few words, said that Xu Fengyen and Beiliang can cross the river are two to say, demolition of the bridge is still early.

After Zhao Ningshen went down the mountain alone, Xu Fengyen who had to change into a clean shirt appeared beside Bai Yu, Zhao Ningshen went to the first Taoist blessing of Lung Mountain to cultivate the matter, it is a private deal between him and Bai Yu, the Longhu Mountain has three times to count the Xu family, the first time is to do it under the old acacia tree in the capital under the Mawei stage pavilion to steal the qi, the second time is that the old celestial master who is as simple as a boy to return to the truth to personally go out and to kill him! Xu Fengyen, this time again Zhao Ningshen not hesitate to lose the life of the Golden Lotus traction flying sword, Xu Fengyen will not because Bai Yu stay in Beiliang to participate in the political affairs will be able to laugh it off, if not to see in the yellow barbarians master Zhao Xituan old real life, Xu Fengyen even if Zhao Ningshen to leave the Beiliang, then must be this and the country with the same name of the yellow violet nobility can not eat a pocket to go.

Bai Yu looked down at the mountain road, with his poor eyesight has long been unable to see Zhao Ningshen’s silhouette, softly said: ”According to His Majesty’s statement, the Earth Lung Mountain is not only a Taoist blessing, but also started in the north of the Liyang Zhao room to suppress the south of the rivers and mountains of the trunk of the location, hidden in the Dragon and Tiger Mountain of the Zhao Huangchao lost his efforts to lose the battle, the first is the Black Dragon was injured by Wudang Sect Leader Li Yu axe, and then even the Zhao Huangchao himself was killed by His Majesty. Kill, then condensation quietly into so far is still by the imperial court banned ground lung mountain, is tantamount to digging away from the Yang royal family wall root. This is something that no one else can really do, but only Zhao Ningshen is the most suitable. For one thing, his surname is Zhao, he has the advantage of being close to the water, and for another, Zhao Ningshen is a person who possesses the qi of a religion, and furthermore, now that the northern faction of the Liyang School of Qi Practitioners has lost all of its Qi practitioners, the last bit of Yuan Qi is consumed in the matter of the Dongyue Sword Pool’s sword casting, so it is difficult to notice this matter.”

Xu Fenian laughed: “Just allow Zhao family’s son of heaven to do something, not allow me, Xu Fenian, to disgust him? Mr. Bai Yu’s first time down the mountain, not an audience with the current son of heaven, but a private meeting with the son of the southern border Zhao cast, see the auger but not see the dragon, is not that the hope of creating the work of supporting the dragon, in one fell swoop to become a minister from the dragon?”

Mr. White Lotus smiled and said, “But now I have to be trapped in the north of Liang for two years, even if it is successful, this help auger into a dragon’s credit, inevitably will be greatly reduced. Your Highness has no indication?”

Xu Fengnian turned his head to play with the flavor: “Mr. This is unkind, now Zhao cast everywhere by the southern border of the first general Wu Chongxuan’s constraints, under the barely mobilizable troops, but also that the earliest north of the rebels of the two-thousand riders, most of which is still borrowed with Wu Chongxuan, Mr. This moment to stay in the side of Zhao cast, the ingenious woman is difficult to cook, in addition to the Yan Ci Wang Prince with the wide-eyed stare, what else can you do? What else can you do? Going early is not as good as going smart, I’m thinking about it for you, when you have accumulated enough prestige in Bei Liang, Zhao Casting will let you take charge of your own business, and it will be a done deal.”

Bai Yu smiled bitterly, “In that case I still have to thank the king for his good intentions.”

Xu Fengyen smiled and said, “We’ll be under one roof for the next two years, how tacky to say thank you or no thank you!”

As the two returned to the hut, Bai Yu took the initiative to speak up, “Tell me about the situation in Northern Liang, Your Highness, so that I can have a good idea in my heart, so that when I get to Qingliang Mountain, the Vice-Song Secretary, I will not be able to tell you anything, and I will be a joke to others. This pair of indisputable eyes of mine is not far from being blind.”

Xu Fengyen had a moment of disorientation, for no reason remembered that year Qingzhou Yongzi Lane, the blind chess player Lu Dang who gambled for a living. This person in the success of Zhao Xun to sit firmly in the position of King of Jing’an, as well as planning the rescue of thousands of miles of Guangling Road, to help Zhao Xun to win a piece of praise and the initial trust of the court of Liyang dynasty, finally attracted the attention of today’s son of heaven, kettle, simply called him to Tai’an City. For his own retention, Lu Fang did not promise to come to Beiliang, which is not strange, but Lu Fang frankly went to the capital let people can not figure out.

Xu Fengyen collected scattered thoughts, slowly said: ”Hutou city has Liu Yunu presiding over the military affairs, is my Beiliang days great fortune, and then die to defend half a year is not a problem, but the prerequisite is that the Huai Yang Guan Liu Bud Poria three towns do not do to divide the troops, if the flow of the state of Qingcang city or the state of Youxia City emergency, any one of the battle line into danger, most likely lead to the three lines of precariousness. At that time will have to let you state angle eagle lieutenant Luo Hongcai, or ling state pearl lieutenant yellow small fast such territory garrison, fire speed to the battlefield, but in the cool north of the scale is still in the tiger above the completion of the new city, such a large-scale and large-scale long-distance transportation of troops, food and grass scheduling of the pressure is really too great, afraid of the fear of fatigue not to mention that in the end, or far from the water can’t put out a fire near the end of the scene. So now it seems that, although on the battlefield my Northern Liang is steadily superior, but in the unseen battlefield, at most a Liang-Mang flat situation. On the Hulukou side, Xiaguang as the last big city on the border, Yan Wenluan has already given a military order to both Qingliang Mountain and the capital, saying that if Xiaguang City is broken by Northern Mang before Hutou City, then he, Yan Wenluan, will let Vice Marshal Chen Yuntui carry his head and send it to Huaiyang Pass.”

Xu Fengyen gently exhaled a breath, his face was grave, “North Mang probably did not expect Liangzhou Youzhou to be fought into such a stalemate, and is also struggling to find a breakthrough, so the South Court King Dong Zhuo let tens of thousands of Dong family private army run from Hutou City north to Liuju, but fortunately to Chu Lushan’s anticipation, to eight thousand riders deadlock Dong family cavalry, or else the consequences of the battle situation in Liuju are unimaginable. This enemy and I have not made a big fuss about the battle, in fact, since the Liangmang war, the most thrilling one, although their respective battle losses are relatively small, but as long as Chu Lushan eight thousand riders did not succeed, both to save their own troops, but also not to give the Dong family cavalry quickly break into the opportunity to flow into the state, otherwise even if Chu Lushan with a huge price of eight thousand people killed in battle, spelled out 20,000 cavalry army of the Dong family, as long as to give the rest of the 10,000 people infiltrated to the Liuzhou, once with Liu Gui army and Topaz Bodhisattva’s personal army convergence, Liuzhou is equal to no, Liangzhou western gate can only be open to let the North Mang subsequent cavalry wantonly gallop, not to mention that we Beiliang that the new city can not be built up, there are enough transport troops to cantonment with the North Mang, you can be a drum to start the offensive on Huaiyangguan. Of course, the situation is different now, so Mister and I won’t hide it anymore, that Kou Jianghuai, who has gained fame in the Guangling Road, is already our new Liuzhou General, and is smoothly leading the army to support Qingcang City.”

Bai Yu said softly, “In that case, it seems that Chu Du Gui is really the nemesis of that Dong Zhuo from North Mang. Back then, during the first battle between Liyang and North Mang, if it wasn’t for Chu Du Gui spoiling Dong Zhuo’s good deed, perhaps he would have already become the youngest general in North Mang’s history at that time. Now it is again Chu Dugu personally leading eight thousand riders, as if the heavens had descended, making Dong Zhuo once again fail in his endeavors.”

Xu Fengyen nodded and joked, “The two fat men of South Chu and North Dong, probably because our Lord Du Gui is a bit fatter, so when they fight, they have the better advantage.”

Bai Yu suddenly expressed his heartfelt emotion, “I have never thought in my life that there will be a day like today, to be able to fight side by side with that Liu Yunu who is also extremely prestigious in the minds of the enemies of Northern Mang, Chu Lushan who is a great devil in Spring and Autumn, Yan Wenluan who is the commander of the Northern Liang infantry army, and Gu Dazu who is the number one of old Southern Tang and so on, alongside so many people who have stirred up the world.”

Xu Fengnian laughed, “It’s good to get used to it, I probably don’t quite have this kind of feeling like mister because I grew up here a long time ago.”

Bai Yu murmured in a low voice, “If one day you get used to being here and can’t leave it, what should you do?”

Xu Fengyen shook his head, “It’s hard.”

Bai Yu quickly realized the meaning of this, the chance of winning in Northern Liang is too small, no matter if he Bai Yu wants to stay in Northern Liang or not, he still can’t help it, maybe he will flee to the Central Plains with many scholars and scholars, behind him is the miserable battlefield in Northern Liang where thousands of miles of bloodshed is being shed and the souls are in danger of dying. What’s more, he Bai Yu ambition to occupy a place in the temple of the literary ministers, rather than the size of the martial arts side of the work, just this speech, but a momentary mood. So he gave a hmmm, “That’s true.”

Approaching the hut, Bai Yu asked, “Is there a geographic map of the Northern Liang situation in the house? At one time, the Heavenly Master’s Mansion did have a few, but they were all too old and rough, and Liuzhou was not among them.”

Xu Fengyen brought this Mr. White Lotus, who somehow became a member of the Northern Liang’s staff, in together, and turned out a map spread out on the table, it was already dusk, Xu Fengyen specially lit an oil lamp, Bai Yu simply carried that copper lamp on the table, and began to ask Xu Fengyen in detail about the distribution of the Northern Liang’s border passes and the troops within the territory, and even had to use ink and pen, asking and answering questions, speaking and remembering. The scholar does not go out to know the world, this sentence is not right, in the overall situation on the point of view of the river is barely feasible, but not enough to support a specific strategy, especially in the hidden tigers and dragons of Northern Liang, if Bai Yu wants to build on the border military affairs, you have to have a number in mind, to do a good idea, otherwise in the Song Dongming this kind of storage of the talents of the prime minister or Li Gongde this kind of officialdom in front of the blind fox, can only be Laughing and making a fool of himself.

Xu Fengyen lying on the opposite side of the table, softly said: “in the situation theory originator Gu Dazu into the northern Liang, my master Li Yishan and his talk, the two finally finalized, will be divided into fourteen pieces of defense of the northern Liang heavy land, the territory such as corner eagle lieutenant Luo Hongcai due to one of the fourteen version of the garrison is responsible for, so the same as one of the territory lieutenants, the rank rank will be a level above the Lingzhou Huang Xiaofast and others. The rank of the officer is one level higher than that of Huang Xiaofei and others in Lingzhou. Nowadays, in addition to the garrison in the territory of Huangfu Ping such as a state general, after the last round of replacement from Chen Xiliang’s handwriting, this set of new rise to hold the real power of the lieutenant most of them are in the prime of life, and even a few are less than thirty years old, from the father’s generation will be loyal to the northern Liang, and the border work with great enthusiasm, to the father’s father to fight the river and mountain is relatively more cherished, so nowadays, some of the discussion around the academy, for example, said that I ostensibly rely on the scholar who went to Liang, vacating all the seats for them in the three levels of government offices from the state to the county to the county, but in fact, there is still prejudice, nepotism, and focusing on the general’s bloodline from the bottom of my heart, for this type of cross-examination, I admit it, after all, it’s a hopeless thing, the Northern Mang are hitting the doorstep, I can only, and only dare to promote these people.”

Bai Yu put aside his pen, narrowed his eyes and stared at the map, his finger stained with some ink slowly wiped across the map, and casually asked, “The grain and grass of the newly constructed Liuzhou are all under the responsibility of the assassin of Lingzhou, Xu Beihao?”

Xu Fengyen quickly pondered the potential meaning behind this question, but failed to come up with an explanation, so he nodded and said, “Mr. Xu must have heard of Xu Beihao’s nickname, and now Beiliang has long begun to buy grain with the neighboring states in a big way, and to be honest, many large families who are clearly war-weary and fled Beiliang’s territory have the hidden identity of a whisking water house spy, and have made a lot of achievements in the matter of buying grain. In the matter of buying grain, they have made a lot of contributions. The two states of Liang and Yu are sufficiently self-sufficient, so the matter of grain and grass in Liuzhou is far from being a pressing issue.”

Xu Fengnian laughed, “I’ve thought it over, if the Liyang court really wants to strangle the grain, the big deal is that we, Beiliang, will rob the grain openly, well, we should borrow the grain, not to mention the Huainan Road where Cai Nan’s 100,000 troops are stationed, or Chen Zhi Bao’s Xishu Road, I dare to rob it as well!”

After Yin Changgeng, Han Lin, who formed a tacit understanding with Beiliang, became the strategic ambassador of the Huainan Road, which is not a big or small good news. With Beiliang a sing white face a sing red face, Han Lin want to scholar Lin reputation, to set up in the temple of the mighty unyielding bone loyal subjects of the tall image, Beiliang give him is, how much to give how much! As for the reputation of the court, Xu Fengnian will care? Chen Zhi Bao, you do not want to go to the Central Plains, Xie Guan Ying, do not like to play a trick? Xu Yan Bing is now in the southern border of Lingzhou, together with his younger brother Han Laoshan, who has become the general of Lingzhou, without Chen Zhi Bao personally in the town, the northern gate of the Western Sichuan Road is difficult to stop the pace of the northern Liang’s borrowed grain, and as for the fire of this, Xu Fengyen believes in Han Laoshan.

Bai Yu stared at the territory of Liuzhou which seemed extraordinarily vast compared to the other three states, and asked: ”Yang Yuanzan is responsible for attacking the Hulukou which Beiliang has a heavenly danger to rely on, at least giving him even two cities of Crouching Bow and Luanhe, Liu Gui who is even more deserving of a heavy responsibility in the heart of Bei Mang’s female empress is fighting in the western front of Liuzhou, the main army has been pressing on, and has even done nothing to the point that he needs to let Bei Mang invite Tuo Bao Bodhisattva to enter the Liuzhou’s situation, and now it even made Dong Zhuo have to deploy his private army to rush to Liuzhou to break the stalemate, this Liu Gui, who is known as half Xu Snapdragon of Beimang, is so unbearable?”

Xu Fengnian slowly explained, “Liuzhou has no dangers to fall back on, if you want to fight, you can only fight openly and honestly, both sides are like this, as far as troop strength is concerned, Liu Gui’s army is definitely the absolute superiority, not to mention the 30,000 private troops, Wazhu Junzikan the four military towns south of Gusai Zhou are also pouring out their troops, those old Long Guan nobles of the Southern Dynasty have also cut out their meat and shelled out 30,000 foot soldiers, and the Gusai Zhou holders of the sectional order have befriended with Liu Gui, and they have also pulled out those eight thousand Qiang light cavalry, a hundred thousand soldiers, but the Qiang cavalry was eaten in one bite by the Longxiang army, so that makes the cavalry battle strength is already inferior to our Liuzhou Liu Gui army is more difficult. On the ground in Liuzhou, it is not important whether or not the city of Qingcang, the capital of Liuzhou, can be defended, but whether or not the main cavalry battle is won or lost is the key to determining the final victory or defeat. Taking more than 40,000 disorganized cavalry troops from various forces against the 30,000 Dragon Elephant Army that can abandon Qingcang City at the moment of necessity, it’s not because I’m conceited in Bei Liang, indeed Liu Gui doesn’t dare to act rashly.”

Bai Yu’s sight slowly wandered on the map of Liuzhou, “Not daring to act rashly is right, not moving is a fatal blow is also the meaning of the title.”

Xu Fengyen frowned, “There have been many discussions within the Huaiyang Pass Capital Office regarding speculations on how Liu Gui will win by surprise.”

In order to see the map clearly, the oil lamp in Bai Yu’s hand was unconsciously leaned too close to his right cheek, his right cheek was burning, he didn’t move and gently shifted it by a few points, nodding his head, “That’s of course. Chu Dugu eight thousand riders to complete the goal, Kou Jianghuai into the flow state as a general, the Dragon Elephant Army already has the king’s brother and Li Mo Fan Wang Lingbao such strength of the generals, coupled with the flow of the state assassin Yang Guangdou and the staff of the Chen Xiliang are first-class talent, the rear of the food and grass without worry, how to look at the situation than the Liangzhou Hu Tou City and the Hou Houkou of the state of Youzhou to be a lot better. But I think the more this is the case, the more Liu Gui will make a move, maybe Liu Gui, who has the least amount of troops on the three lines of the Northern Mang Southern Expedition, the reason why this person can be so patient is that he is waiting for Dong Zhuo’s central line and Yang Yuanzan’s eastern line to fall into an unfavorable situation ……”

Bai Yu shook his head and said to himself, “No, it’s not maybe, but definitely!”

Xu Fengnian was silent.

Bai Yu raised his head, his eyes gleaming, and asked in a deep voice, “If Liu Gui can use all 60,000 foot soldiers to die as bait, attack Qingcang City at any cost, deliberately put his back against the wall, and even give up even the straggling cavalry army together, and only use the Liu family’s cavalry army and the elite that Tuo Bao Bodhisattva brought with him as the real main force of the one-shot, can the 30,000 Dragon Elephant Army hold back and not take the bait? Even if the Dragon Elephant Army is willing to endure, can Kou Jianghuai, a newcomer to Liuzhou, endure? Once one of the parties falls into the trap, does the rest of the party have the big picture sense to see death and save the day?!”

Bai Yu looked at Xu Fengnian and finally asked, “I want to know, has Northern Liang gotten any spy reports similar to the Northern Mang female emperor’s shocking anger towards Liu Gui on the Western Front? Is there any news similar to the Southern Dynasty’s important ministers who are extremely dissatisfied with the Western Front’s turtling and have rallied against Liu Gui in the courtroom?!”

Xu Fengnian’s heart shook.

Bai Yu put down the oil lamp and said flatly, “Then Your Highness can do everything in your power to rush to aid Liuzhou.”

Bai Yu stopped speaking, and Xu Fengyen did not speak either.

The room was silent, except for the occasional few tiny sounds of the wick blowing up.