Chapter 267 – Chivalry (III)

Waiting until the old man’s one man and two horsemen disappeared from view, Xu Fengyen whistled, and the armor character cool horse flew at a furious pace and rolled onto the horse.

On the way to the new city together, Xu Yan Bing saw Xu Feng Nian was worried and couldn’t help but ask: “Big trouble?”

Xu Feng Nian smiled bitterly, “Not really, just some things are unexpected, both Gu Jiantang and Chen Zhi Bao’s side may have new variables.”

Xu Yan Bing said with some guilt, “At that time in Tai’an City, for one thing, Chen Zhi Bao was not willing to fight to the death, and for another, I myself didn’t dare to wholeheartedly force him to fight to the death for a battle, if I had known that, I should have split the victory and defeat with him right there.”

Xu Yan Bing’s so-called victory and defeat was of course life and death.

Xu Fenian turned his head and said helplessly, “Uncle Xu, if you say so, it’s really pretentious.”

Xu Yanbing was silent.

Xu Fenian softly said, “I thought about it, the variable that changes the situation of the two Liao, there is only one possibility, is the backlash of Yuan Tingshan of Jizhou, if it is true, this crazy dog is really going off the deep end, that is even the life and death honor and disgrace of the two daughter-in-laws and the two old husbands in-laws, all regardless of it.”

Xu Yan Bing did not have any unbelievable face, calmly said, “This kind of wallflower, doing anything is not surprising.”

Xu Fengnian nodded, “It really deserves the saying that there is nothing strange in the world, there are always some people that can do things that you can’t imagine.”

Xu Yan Bing asked, “I’ll go to Jizhou and slaughter him?”

Xu Fengnian shook his head and laughed, “No need, if he doesn’t beg for his own death, Han Fang and Yang Huchen, as his vice generals, won’t be able to rise to power easily instead. When he fails and flees, I might personally give him a ride.”

When the two riders were still a few miles away from the new city, several riders arrived in the dust.

Among them was Liu Wenbao, the bereaved dog of Shangyin Academy Palace, this scholar who had spent most of his life in a hundred and one ways, after defecting to Xu Fengnian, he went to Tai’an City and Qingliang Mountain successively, and was finally installed in that city in the western region, with the Whisking Water Room as his backer, he quickly stood out among the intertwined forces, at first, Liu Wenbao was just a cover for the ten thousand riders of Cao Wei, as well as a convenient way to secretly contact that Ragged Mountain Six Jeweled Bodhisattva, who had not thought of Qingcang City A battle, Liang Mang both sides of the bottom of the box of skills are used, Liu Wenbao in which the credit can not be ignored, now this old scholar has been the flow of the state’s newly established Lin Rumor County of the governor, full of dust and wind, but full of springtime.

Cao Wei, who failed to lead a 10,000-strong cavalry army straight into the hinterland of North Mang’s Southern Dynasty as expected, looks much worse, and this 10,000-strong elite cavalry army suffered a lot of losses outside of Qingcang City, and not long ago, he fought with General Kou Jianghuai of Liuzhou, as well as the Longxiang army, and had a very unpleasant fight for soldiers.

There is also a heroic beautiful woman, it is that famous widow in the western region, Sima family Mrs. Chai Chai Dongdi, when Xu Fengyen in the turmoil against the Sima family to give a helping hand to help her and the family to escape a disaster, and then sped to support the Qingcang city battle, remove as the main reinforcement of the monks of Ruodao Mountain, she and Liu Wenbao together to pull together a not to be underestimated nearly three thousand cavalry, half of which is the Sima family urgently gathered forces, half of which is the Sima family emergency! Half of them are the forces gathered by Sima family urgently, and half of them are the strong horse thieves tempted by Mrs. Chai with real money and silver. Of course, this troop is not worth mentioning in the front battle, but in the closing battle, the performance is quite outstanding, and this cavalry’s reward silver, this Mrs. Chai all in the name of the family, did not let the Beiliang Border Army and the Liuzhou side to pay out a penny.

At that time in the city, Xu Fengyen and Tuoba Bodhisattva’s battle was imminent, she promised that as long as Xu Fengyen made a move to help the Sima family stabilize the situation, then she and the family would try their best to fight to the death for Northern Liang once. Probably neither Xu Fengyen nor Chai Dongdi thought that she was needed to honor her promise so quickly, and Xu Fengyen thought even less that this woman would actually just personally lead her people into battle.

A promise worth a thousand in gold.

These four words, there was no half water.

Chivalry, women also do it.

Chivalry, women also quite a lot.

Reunited at this time, not waiting for Xu Fengyen to open his mouth, Cao Wei asked with a stern face, “Your Highness, you let me go back to Liushu to fight that battle, I Cao Wei have no second thoughts, but now under my command 10,000 elite cavalry, less than half of the number left, you give a word of honor, when to make up for it?!”

Xu Fengnian asked with a smile, “Less than half? If not, I’ll go and take a look, and if there are a few less, I’ll personally ask the Liangzhou Border Army to help you replenish a few?”

Cao Wei suddenly smiled and said, “How can I trouble you, Your Highness, I can’t, I absolutely can’t, right now, the border army has several iron cavalry in sporadic numbers, I, Cao Wei, am not a person who doesn’t know the big picture, give me 4,000 cavalry would be enough, just 4,000 cavalry!”

Xu Fengyen said in no good humor, “The Lin Rou military town in the three towns of Liuzhou will be under your jurisdiction from now on, at the same time, the left cavalry army in Guanwai can only be drawn to give you 2,000 cavalry, and the monks from the western region can also give you 2,000, and are responsible for assisting in stationing the Lin Rou together, as for how many cavalry army you can pull together in Liuzhou in the next few days, it’s up to your own ability, but I will only give you 15,000 cavalry pay and foodstuffs, and more will depend on your own solution. ”

Seeing that Cao Wei still wanted to bargain, Xu Fengyen sneered, “Do you still want the two thousand left cavalry?”

Cao Wei was already laughing his ass off, hurriedly stretching out his palm to wipe his mouth, trying his best to hide his ecstasy. Two thousand left cavalry and two thousand monks a whole four thousand people not to mention, especially there is also the right to recruit within Liuzhou without any upper limit, this would be too tempting!

Xu Fengyen nodded to Liu Wenbao, then looked at that Mrs. Chai, “This time, the Sima family gave a helping hand in the attack and defense of Qingcang City, I, Beiliang, am grateful.”

Mrs. Chai smiled sweetly, reached out and straightened her temples, her charm flowing, softly said, “Compared to Your Majesty’s Northern Liang Iron Cavalry, there are more silver can’t be bought, we are all desperados in the Western Region, as long as the price is fair, we can afford to sell and buy. It so happens that Sima family in the western region rooted in several generations, the number of silver is still considerable, but this time we contribute to the silver, is considered to have repaid the king’s original righteousness to help each other, mutual non-reciprocity, so count, the king has no opinion?”

Xu Fengnian laughed: “Of course no opinion, in fact I took advantage of it.”

Cao Wei looked at the suave Beiliang King, and then looked at the charming Mrs. Chai, and muttered in a low voice: “Took advantage of what? Where did you take advantage of?”

Liu Wenbao coughed and turned his head to look at the scenery.

Mrs. Chai’s pretty face slightly red.

Xu Fengnian sneered, “Cao Wei, two thousand monks are gone! No discussion!”

Cao Wei rolled off his horse and hugged one of Xu Fenian’s thighs Hyun sobbing, “Your Highness, what you and Mrs. Chai did, I didn’t see anything ah, and I won’t say half a word about it ah ……”

Xu Fengyen became annoyed and said, “Two thousand left cavalry are gone too!”

Cao Wei sat on his butt and howled, “The world is unfair!”

Xu Fengnian took a deep breath, “Get lost! Go and ask for 2,000 men from the Left Cavalry’s tent, He Zhonghu!”

Cao Wei climbed up with breathtakingly amazing speed, flipped onto his horse, pivoted his horse’s head and galloped away wildly, disappearing.

Liu Wenbao cautiously asked, “Your Majesty, then my humble servant will also return first?”

Xu Fengnian angrily said, “Roll together!”

Xu Fengnian intended to think that there was at least one Xu Yanbing left by his side, so he couldn’t talk about a lone man and woman.

Unexpectedly, Xu Yan Bing clamped the belly of the horse, slowly rubbing shoulders, not light or heavy put down a sentence, “Please rest assured, the king, I also saw nothing, nothing will be said.”

Xu Fengyen was dumbfounded, Mrs. Chai’s brows curved and smiled.

Xu Fengyen helplessly said, “Not a single thick-skinned person.”

Unlike Cao Wei and the others who were there to deliberately look at the joke, now Mrs. Chai had already collected her laughter, her eyes were clear and she said in a deep voice: “Your Highness, I have one thing to ask for, that is, is there any way to let our Sima family, to bring troops into the Fengxiang military town in the westernmost part of the Liujiu state, preferably to be able to have a town’s vice-general’s official status.”

Xu Fenian was surprised and asked, “Mrs. Chai, no regrets? This is tying up with Northern Liang, if Northern Liang loses the war in the future, the Sima family will have absolutely no room for maneuver.”

Lady Chai nodded, her expression firm.

Xu Fengnian asked curiously, “Why?”

Lady Chai suddenly laughed and asked rhetorically, “What does Your Highness think?”

Xu Fenian snickered, “It’s not that Lady Chai covets my beauty, is it?”

Lady Chai froze, then narrowed her eyes and laughed flirtatiously, “Your Highness, are you molesting a good woman in broad daylight? Aren’t you afraid that I will call out to someone? Is that escort not too far away? I believe there will be dead guards in the dark, right?”

Xu Fengyen’s face was as usual, smiling, “Mrs. Chai, don’t flirt with me, speak seriously.”

Mrs. Chai slightly tilted her head, not like a young woman who has already become a mother, but like a childish cardamom girl, what’s even more impressive is that this posture of hers, instead of giving people the slightest sense of ill will, has a strange charm of seduction.

Xu Fengyen took the lead to ride slowly, softly said: ”If Mrs. Chai is betting that I will win a great victory in Beiliang, so that Sima family will be able to take a place in the future Beiliang, or Liyang dynasty as a meritorious servant, then I can tell Mrs. Chai bluntly that I don’t need you to bet, I don’t need to pull the whole family close to this gambling table with many killing chances, if there is a day that the war is over, I definitely won’t treat Sima poorly. If the war ever comes to an end, I will certainly not treat the Sima family poorly. No matter what, I remember there was a stubborn little girl there who cut her own hand just to ask me, Xu Fenian, to sign her name ……”

Speaking here, Xu Fengyen turned his head to Mrs. Chai who was driving alongside him and smiled happily, “There are some complacency, I’m not good to say anything to that group of Northern Liang men, so as not to make them mentally unbalanced, just like Cao Wei, I’m more handsome than him, I’m better in martial arts, and the key is that I’m also taller than him, so if I were to irritate him any more, it’d seem too unkind. But in that Lady Chai is a woman, there is no harm in butting in.”

Mrs. Chai softly said, “Your Highness really doesn’t treat Chai Dongdi as an outsider ah.”

Xu Fenian raised his hands and bitterly begged for mercy, “Mrs. Chai, just let me go.”

Mrs. Chai laughed with her belly on the back of the horse.

From the corner of his eye, Xu Fengyen glanced over there intentionally or unintentionally.

The peaks were undulating ah.

Xu Fengyen actually had no distractions in his mind, some of them were memorialized, some of them were in vain.

Mrs. Chai suddenly straightened her back and looked over to the new city, murmuring: ”It’s certainly not true that I’m throwing my weight around, wanting to get an official position for the Sima family, who doesn’t think that their family can be a hairpin for generations? I, Chai Dongdi, am just a woman, but I have read books, and my vision is a little longer than that of ordinary women in the countryside. Since I married into the Sima family, I want to be able to stand up to the Sima family, and the king said that not only Northern Liang, but also the Western Region in the future, would be a paradise, with private schools and the sound of reading, with old people enjoying their twilight years in their homes, and women raising their children at ease in their homes. The world would be a paradise. Such a day, really good ah. Even thinking about it, it can make one happy.”

Xu Fengnian hmmmed.

Mrs. Chai suddenly laughed, blinked her eyes, turned her head and playfully said, “I am a woman whose posture …… is still passable, no matter how I think about the king, I still think about what can make a man like me, especially the kind of man who isn’t thinking about hungry tigers at the first sight of me, if he’s decent at all times. In the heart, it will be lost. Just like the king said that some complacency can only be said with certain women, these very ungentlemanly words of mine can only be said with the king.”

Xu Fengnian was speechless.

When young, drunkenly whipping a famous horse was all about how to pretend to be heroic.

After truly maturing, in fact, many times it is to be alone on the floor.

There is no one around you, but you are alone on the upper floors.

Mrs. Chai looked at the young feudal king’s side face and gently asked, “North Mang will attack Beiliang again with all the strength of the country?”

Xu Fengnian hesitated and said, “Originally, but now that there are signs of civil unrest in Northern Mang, there is a possibility that the two Murong Yelu family names will split, and of course, I will try to push the envelope as much as I can. Only this possibility is not big, I can’t hope for it, I can only plan for the worst in all things, Gu Jiantang took the initiative to attack earlier, it is very likely that he saw this trace, fearing that the Yelu family name will occupy the North Mang dynastic hall, and then consider the two Liao as a breakthrough for the army’s southward march. Otherwise, with Gu Jiantang’s temperament, he would never strike so quickly. Mrs. Chai, these words, as you have heard them, do not say them to the public.”

Mrs. Chai nodded her head and said, “This is of course, I know the lightness and power of this.”

Xu Fengyen lifted his horse whip and pointed remotely to the north, his face was heavy, “After Tiger Head City was captured by Dong Zhuo, it was destroyed for the most part, what’s more important is that after the various armies of Northern Mang withdrew to a faraway place, but this Great King of the Southern Courtyard’s 100,000 or so Dong family private army and Topaz Bodhisattva’s elite cavalry army joined hands and still eyeing on the borderline, it is to prevent my Beiliang from making all-out efforts to repair Tiger Head City, and the next Liang-Mang great battle Once that happens, the tug-of-war centered on Tiger’s Head City and the Dragon’s Eye Plains is destined to be fierce, not even inferior to Qingcang City. Then there is the heavy mound Willow Bud Poria frontline centered on Huai Yang Pass, followed by He Zhonghu’s Left Cavalry Army, which will truly commit its entire army to the battlefield and defend the northern zone of the new city to the death. Than the previous three-front war, the next North Mang will not be distracted Youzhou Huloukou, North Liang has used those Jing Guan and Yang Yuanzan and other people’s heads, proving that in that battlefield, the North Mang into the can not get out of the way, so that not only the Liangzhou Pass outside the smoke, the entire flow of the state defense line will also have to bear a very heavy burden, of course, the Youzhou Yan Wenluan great generals and the new cavalry army main general Yu Luan knife will be transferred to the Liangzhou, the same will make the North Mang army everywhere, and a lot of people will have to die everywhere.”

Xu Fengnian gripped his horsewhip, “Compared to my previous indignation, it is actually much better now, because this trip to the capital, I know that not everyone, takes our Northern Liang’s deadly battles and deaths in battle, as a matter of natural justice. There are still many people, who are angry for Northern Liang.”

Mrs. Chai said softly, “Is that alone enough for Northern Liang?”

Xu Fengnian shook his head and said, “Not contented, but when we, the people of Beiliang, face the north and die, and realize that behind us is not only cynicism, but also someone who is filled with grief and guilt, then it is not so …….”

For some reason, Xu Fengnian did not continue.

Xu Fengnian softly said, “I Xu Fengnian is the son of Xu Snapdragon, in this life there is no qualification at all to feel sorry for myself, this is my heart, do not lie. But I hope ……”

Xu Feng Nian paused for a moment, his eyes resolute, “Back then, before the deadly battle with Tuoba Bodhisattva, the Six Jeweled Bodhisattva of Rotten Mountain sent me a sword and a sword, of which the sword’s sword name was, well, really good. The sword is called ‘Release the Sound’. So I hope that the people of the Central Plains, do not expect them to be grateful, not to mention that they do not expect them to enter the Liang to fight, I only hope that the entire Central Plains, can hear my North Liang 300,000 iron cavalry in the northwestern border pass to the north, in the earth above the heavy sound of hoofbeats, to hear this magnificent ‘letting go of the sound’, to be able to let them one day, no longer do mute and pretend to be deaf. ”

Mrs. Chai pursed up her lips and looked at him fondly.

Xu Fenian suddenly laughed, “It’s here.”

Approaching the new city, Xu Yanbing and Liu Wenbao’s two horsemen were waiting quietly not far away.

Mrs. Chai stopped her horse, “Your Majesty, I won’t go to the new city, just take it as Your Majesty’s promise to give our Sima family a vice general of the Fengxiang military town.”

Xu Fenian followed suit and stopped his horse, turning his head helplessly, “Alright.”

Xu Fengyen clasped his fists to see him off, then he slowly moved forward.

Coldly, Mrs. Chai gently shouted behind her, “Xu Fenian.”

Xu Fenian did not turn his head at all and sped up his horse.

Mrs. Chai smiled and shouted, “I, Chai Dongdi, will wait for you in the Western Region! I’m going to give you children!”

Xu Fenian fled.

Xu Yan Bing looked at the oncoming young vassal king who seemed to be sweating profusely and stifled his laughter to stick out his thumb.

Liu Wenbao followed suit and stuck out his thumb.

However, when the king’s murderous eyes glared at him, this Lin Rhythm County Guardian Lord resentfully retracted his thumb.

But I don’t know where the bravado comes from, but Liu Wenbao, who was so generous that he went to his death, suddenly stretched out his thumb again and refused to put it down again.

Many, many years later, a city in the western region of Fengzhou, after the snow stopped, the woman has white head, sitting in a wheelchair, knees resting on a warm, heavy blanket, looking into the distance with a smile, eyes closed and sleep.

In a trance, it seems to have waited for many years.

The old woman’s eyes were tearful and she murmured in a small voice.

In her last moments, she suddenly tried her best to open her eyes.

She finally smiled.

Her vision was blurred, and she looked with all her heart and strength at the person squatting beside her, hoarsely saying, “It’s a bit late.”

The man nodded, “I’ve kept you waiting.”

She shook her head slightly and tried to raise her hand, as if she was thinking of straightening the hair on her temples and cheeks.

But she really didn’t have that essence anymore.

So she was a little sorry.

The man helped her gather the blanket and softly said, “Don’t worry, you still look good.”

She lowered her head and her lips moved slightly.

He hmmmed and said, “Okay.”

She said.

Next life.

She closed her eyes.

The first time she saw him, he was so gentle, and the last time she saw him, he was still so.

Whether there was a next life or not, it didn’t matter.

The sun was setting over the city.

Old man, her name is Chai Dongdi.

Old man, his name is Xu Fenian.