Chapter 412 Unspeakable

The night is deep, the upper left corner of the study is lit with a porcelain oil lamp, imitating the old Western Sichuan’s stacked porcelain lamp style, the lamp can be injected with water to hide the lips, the most suitable to save oil.

Young man sitting alone behind the table, browsing a long familiar content of the secret letter.

He has been to the rich Jiangnan Road, where the rich and noble families, families, long cheesecake high light beads and emeralds, quietly manifesting the peace of the world weather. He has also been to the world’s first good city of Tai’an, every festival, the capital city of each ridge are placed in lotus lamps, lights stretching, candlelight fluorescent brilliant, as if the army night march, the most spectacular. He has seen the same town after the night of the stars, the lights are sparse. Time and time again, passing through large and small villages, occasionally see a very small light, is an unexpected delight.

He put down the letter, got up and walked around the bookcase, came to the window, gently pushed open the window, the letter, not what important military affairs military documents, but Li Yanchao to reject the north city submitted a private nature of the secret letter, but did not go through the reject the north city military room, but directly sent to his young feudal king’s study desk.

The first vice marshal of the right cavalry used a very heavy pen, ink stains straight through the back of the paper.

Li Yanchao did not have trivial words to put into writing, only a simple two sentences, “Lu Dayuan should not die! No one in Northern Liang should ever consider the total annihilation of the left cavalry as a disgrace to the border army!”

In fact, Li Yanchao didn’t need to write this letter at all, he Xu Fengnian was far more familiar with how Lu Dayuan used his army and how he was as a person than Li Yanchao, and a general that Xu Snapdragon could still mention many times in the Qingliang Mountain Council Hall even after he was old, would he not be an ordinary person? Xu Snap from eight hundred old pawns out of Liaodong, forty years of military career, to the last hand holding three hundred thousand Northern Liang iron horsemen, once served under his command of the generals of the many, died on the battlefield a lot of people, and ultimately survived quite a lot of people, Lu Dayuan the root of this correct seedling of the full armor battalion cavalry generals, the older generation of the Xu family lineage of military generals almost no one knows, from the Yan Wenluan Chen Yuntui to the Zhoukang Yuan Nanting and then to the Liu Shunu Li Morfan, have had a sudden departure from the Lu family, and the Xu Snap is not a good person. Suddenly left the Northern Liang border army Lu Dayuan quite regret, that regret, not in the least than when Wu Qi Xu Pu two meritorious generals left.

Before Lu Dayuan left the residence to go to the battlefield, Lu Dayuan privately visited the study to find Xu Fengnian, had a heartfelt conversation. After all, to be the commander-in-chief of an army again, Lu Dayuan is not as easy and casual as it seems, on the contrary, following the Xu family’s iron cavalry grew up together, compared to Li Yanchao Ning Emei, these new generation of young and strong generals who have risen up outside of the Liangzhou Pass, compared to these young generation of generals who have become accustomed to the expression “Northern Liang Iron Cavalry”, Lu Dayuan is more familiar with hard battles, even more familiar with hard battles, even more familiar with the “Northern Liang Iron Cavalry”, and more familiar with the “Northern Liang Iron Cavalry”. More familiar with the bitter war hard battle, can even say that the year’s kind of pain and suffering, carved in the bones. So Lu Dayuan must be in front of the face of the young feudal king, all the words are clear, Lu Dayuan want to let Xu Fengyen rest assured, but also to let their own peace of mind.

That face-to-face long talk, Lu Dayuan that the two cavalry army more than 60,000 riders, absolutely can not be peacefully wandering in the more and more cramped outside the gap area, unless the left cavalry side retreated to the northern part of the Qingyuan military town, the right cavalry straight to the eastern part of the military town of Shigetsuka, in the northeast and southwest of the two places, completely stretched out the battle line, there is a real breathing room.

But in this case, although the 60,000 cavalry troops are surviving, but what about Refuse North City? Although the left and right cavalry can still hold back a certain number of North Mang cavalry, but to put it bluntly, the North Mang barbarians do not have to deploy the main force, casually threw us two as long as the number of people enough to the end of the flow of the cavalry, then we have to lie down on the back of a horse to watch the fun? I Lu Dayuan is a big old man, how to lead the troops to fight the war, back in the day are little by little with the general to learn, but also with Xu Pu Wu Qi or Yuan Zuozong Chen Zhi Bao these people to ask for advice, but always feel that in the end, not like a donkey not like a horse, are not as good as their own original set of smooth, and finally I only identified a reason, the cavalry once put into the battlefield, we have to breath to beat off the enemy’s most elite field main force, absolutely can not! Because of small losses, in order to the so-called overall situation to retain the strength, otherwise in a tough battle of disparity of forces, the more the war dragged to the end, will find that it is only more and more difficult to fight, will lose inexplicably, more reluctant. Hard to fight the war always have to be someone to fight, otherwise the guys are retreating again and again, it really can only wait for death, with the early years of Liyang Ministry of War Yamen that nest of old foxes and wolves what are the same?

Xu Fengyen stood at the window, autumn air full of lonely lamp cold, after opening the window, the coolness is heavier.

Xu Fengyen turned around, when the man was sitting on the chair in front of the book case, flat appearance, if not appearing in this study, but standing on the Guannei field sprawl, probably will be treated as a face to the soil back to the sky of the cropper.

“Your Highness, when the right cavalry and I march out at the same time, I will be the first to accelerate the northward assault after a day of staggering the distance between the two armies to attract Murong Baoding’s ministry to gather their main forces, if there is no accident, Murong Baoding will definitely hear about it, and request reinforcements from Baobao Prefecture Holding Order Wang Yong, and will most likely even temporarily deploy the Zojiran iron cavalry in order to respond to the Winter Thunder Private Cavalry, please rest assured your Highness, my left cavalry Even if we are caught in a heavy siege, we will still kill the enemy’s elite of at least 45,000 riders!”

“Your Highness, please trouble you with one thing, turn around and help me tell Old Marshal He that I’m sorry, tens of thousands of border army sons and daughters entrusted to my hands, but can only lead them to death, my conscience is not easy to be at peace, but I have to perform this matter, Lu Dayuan waited for the Old Marshal his old man under the ground, and then at that time to be beaten and scolded! However, it is best to let me wait for another ten or eight years, haha, by that time, the old marshal is expected to beat up people do not have much energy, a little bit of meaning a few times, I will be good to reincarnation to go.”

After this man got up, he looked at the young feudal king who also stood up at that time, and said in a deep voice: “If in the future it is proved that I, Lu Dayuan, have done wrong, in the future, no one will have to bring wine to the grave, and I don’t think I will be able to drink that heartless wine …… Of course, the premise is that if I still have a grave, then it is better to let me wait for another ten years or eight years. ”

The two of them walked together towards the entrance of the study, Lu Dayuan suddenly asked, “Your Majesty, do you think that after a few decades, there will still be someone who remembers us? Remember the battles that happened here?”

Xu Fengnian shook his head then and said, “Not necessarily.”

“Really fucking …… haha, Your Highness forgive me, I’m just a rough man, I can’t spit ivory out of a dog’s mouth.”

“It’s okay, Xu Snap is also, I have long gotten used to it.”

Everything was fresh in his mind, those words were more like still echoing in his ears for a long time.

Xu Fengyen pressed his hands on the window and leaned forward, Lu Dayuan who rushed to the battlefield with the heart of certain death, did not deliver his last words, if anything, it is too familiar, the young Shizi Your Highness, was able to hear it often, but only with a different name.

Xu Fengyen slowly turned his head and looked toward the entrance of the study.

The man named Lu Dayuan, that time finally clasped his fists and said: ”Last general Lu Dayuan! Former cavalry general of the Full Armor Battalion, and current Vice Marshal of the Left Cavalry Army! Requesting war from the Great General!”

Xu Fengnian’s lips moved slightly at that time, and those two words, when they reached his mouth, he never managed to say them.

Quasi war!

Xu Fengyen’s hands violently pressed down heavily, the masonry along the window under his ten fingers shattered with a thud.

Xu Fengyen took a deep breath and waved his hand towards the dimness outside the window, signaling the dead soldiers of the water whisking room over there to be ignored.

He walked back to the bookcase and pulled out a piece of paper from a yellowed military book.

The content written on the paper is a man who participated in the construction of Reject North City far away from Guanwai, some broken words to his wife and children who have left his hometown in Lingzhou, this letter says that after the fall here, the day is not too cold, the sewn lasagna-soled cloth shoes are enough to be used, and the wear and tear is not too bad, and the clothes that were brought to the Reject North City at that time were enough to keep him warm, and I also bumped into two old townsmen in Longqing County in Lingzhou, who would go to the small town outside of the city to drink a couple of sips of wine when they had time, and the price was cheaper than that in Guanwai. The price is cheaper than in Guanzhou. I heard that we won the war in Liuzhou, and the wall of the city is so high that the barbarians from North Mang will not be able to come here for a year and a half, so she and her two sons can relax, and as long as they receive money every month, it means that there is no war in Guanwai, and it’s a peaceful world. Finally, the man told his daughter-in-law not to worry about the money and not to be distressed, the most important thing is for the children to study.

The letter was sent to a place in the Central Plains, the man’s ancestral home.

The paper was just a copy of the letter, the real letter was sent long ago.

After the man arrived at the pass, they can not read, can not write letters, is to find a marketplace of a poor and unknown scholar, to help write on behalf of.

Xu Fengnian through the dim light, looked down at the thin piece of paper laid flat on the bookcase.

This last letter was sent out right after Lu Dayuan left Reject North City.

On the first day Lu Dayuan re-entered the Border Army, the Northern Liang Water Flick Room had already investigated the man’s situation in the town of Longqing County in Lingzhou for more than ten years, and sent them one after another to the Residence of the Clan in Rejecting the North City, and then summarized them and placed them on the desk of this study. After that, Lu Dayuan’s every move in Reject North City or the Left Riding Army, the spies of the water whisking room recorded and filed everything in detail, Xu Fengyen did not stop this, it is by these seemingly unsympathetic and dark rules, Northern Liang died a lot fewer deaths on the battlefield. But on the matter of Lu Dayuan asking someone to write a letter on his behalf, Xu Fengyen made a special trip to the torture room, so that the head of the water whisking room in charge of the relevant matters not to interfere.

Only this letter, Xu Fengyen backtracked, let the water whisking room spies intercepted the family letter, but unfortunately, the elderly scholar who did the business of writing letters on behalf of the family, has also followed the team to leave the border. Really want to find, with the power of the customs whisk water room, also find, but Xu Fengyen thought about it or give up, think that since the hand has a family letter handwriting, with his calligraphy attainments and power, forging a letter every month, is not difficult.

But at this moment, Xu Fengyen regretted once again.

Because he realized that it was like he couldn’t lift his pen at all, even if he did it again and again after that, he fell down again, not to mention that he didn’t know how to write the content of the letter of home after January.

Xu Fengnian stood up, walked out of the study and came to the courtyard.

Still unable to completely calm his mind, Xu Fengyen’s figure rose up, long swept to the south wall of the refusal of the north wall of the road, gently leaped, sitting cross-legged on top of the wall.

Walking horse road far away soon came a burst of iron armor vibration sound, when those armored soldiers found that it is actually the young feudal king personally came to the city, quickly and silently retreated, although there is no head to head, but each found each other in the eyes of the hot.

Xu Fengyen clenched his fists, propped up on his legs, sitting north to south, looking out into the distant night.

A night of sitting withered.

Before dawn, he quietly returned to the clan residence, only in the study settled not long, a criminal room spy master came to report, Mao Shulang Cheng Baishuang JI Liu’an three southern border experts, is about to arrive at the south of the city of the town suddenly sparsely populated bazaar.

Xu Fengyen asked him to prepare a horse, and after spending half an hour dealing with the military and political affairs that gradually piled up on his desk last night, he left the city alone.

It wasn’t a special trip to greet the three Central Plains Patriarchs, Xu Fengyen mainly wanted to take a look at the bazaar without much reason.

Xu Fengyen rode his horse to the town, rolled over and dismounted, leading his horse slowly forward, wine shop teahouse inn, and those scattered stores of various colors, no long feet of course, can not go away, but the business is cold to the extreme, some stores simply closed down, which is reasonable, just half a decade will be withdrawn from the three to four thousand, not to mention a large number of people involved in the construction of the city has also begun to be escorted in the local garrison, returned to their hometowns in the pass in batches. As Xu Fengnian traveled along, there were sleepy-eyed shopkeepers squatting and yawning under the eaves of their houses, enjoying their busy schedules as their business plummeted. There are loud yelling servants moving goods to move south of the merchants, look worried. There are idly lying on the railing looking up at the red lanterns of the women in the green house, it is rare to get up so early. There are strong dartsmen who escorted the rare objects from Lingzhou to this place, they only care about the safety of the darts, and they don’t care about the sad face of the shopkeeper.

Xu Fengyen suddenly saw a cart at the end of the street to the south of the elderly Taoist priest, bone thin as a wood, weak arm, tricycle diagonally inserted with a pole soliciting business of burlap beckons, from top to bottom, meticulously written in two lines of regular characters, “Zi Wei Dou Shu, gossip six lines, still good,” “face palmistry, Qimen Dunjia , okay.” Xu Fengnian will smile, this fortune teller is really honest, holding the horse fast forward, stooping to help push the car.

The old man on the body that washed white robe is not classy, anyway, Xu Fengyen traveled away from the sun north of Mang, have not seen, it is not surprising, can be obtained from the imperial government ultimatum of the Taoist temples, the style of the robe are quite sophisticated, unauthorized forgeries in the community for sale, a county Yamen found that the crime is absolutely not small, Xu Fengyen’s first travels in the jianghu and rented with the robes, the same is not the right way and absolutely find the root of the robe. Can not find the root of the robe, even if the government stared, get to the bottom of the matter, it is difficult to convict. This person in front of me is obviously the same person as His Highness the Prince, who was in dire straits back then.

Barely known as the Taoist fortune teller narrowed his eyes and said, “This gentleman, certainly comes from a rich family ah, if the poor Tao is not bad, or his father’s generation in the Guanwai extremely powerful will be seeded children.”

Xu Fengyen said, “Mr. Xu is seeing that my mount is able to follow its master by itself after loosening the reins, it should be a Northern Liang war horse without error, plus the big battle is imminent, I even dared to bring a horse here to loiter, so he deduced that I am a general’s son and daughter, right?”

The fortune teller immediately smiled a far-fetched smile, and the bit of divine demeanor that had been squeezed out with great difficulty vanished and was knocked back to its original form.

Xu Fengnian lamented, “To be honest, in the early years, I was similar to Mr., in order to make a living, pretending to be a god, set up a stall as a fortune teller, Mr. than I would let that be a bit stronger, at least there is a tricycle.”

Xu Fengnian snickered, “But to be honest, Mr. This flag can be really cranky, can there be business?”

The old man laughed loudly, “Actually it doesn’t matter, I earn money here mainly by writing letters for people, or peddling some small peace charms folded in yellow paper, three cents a piece, the business is not bad, when those Beiliang outsiders didn’t leave, it’s enough for me to eat meat and drink wine twice a day. The people like me, that is, ordinary people, we seek Buddha and worship God Bodhisattva kneeling all over, must be the first to seek peace, seek stability. Then, we will seek for marriage, seek for the time of the day. Finally, we will seek fame and fortune. Your Excellency, do you think it’s not this rough reasoning?”

Xu Fengnian nodded his head and said softly, “The common people are actually using the three pennies to seek peace of mind, Mr. is doing a good deed.”

Seemingly remembering those days of drinking and eating meat, the old man smiled, but soon couldn’t help but say angrily, “If our king was more powerful, my business would have been good for a few months, but I didn’t expect to give the North Mang barbarians the opportunity to fight in Rebel North City so early, and for nothing, I sold everything to get this profession, and I lost a lot of money. This time when I return to GuanNei, I will have a hard time.”

Xu Fengnian laughed: “The feudal king should be scolded, what martial arts evaluation of the great master, not useless.”

Probably realized that the son of the side of the son at least is also the son of the species, and the rise and fall of the Northern Liang Xu family is closely related to walking in the jianghu, too many words will be lost is the most important thing, the shallow words is also a taboo, so the old man quickly changed the tone of his own rounding up: “The words can not be said that, our Prince is not easy, to support such a large set of family, the luck is not too good, very soon, Northern Mang barbarian On the fight over, not even a chance to fart, the king and the border army, or …… still quite not easy.”

The old man Xing Xu really can’t make up, more and more embarrassed, looks tied up, the cart’s strength is also lack of power a few points.

Xu Fengnian gently increased the force, smiled and said: “Mr. This is a bit against the heart, don’t worry, although I’m a Northern Liang will be seeded children, but also counted to listen to other people’s words, good words and bad words, don’t care. Of course, it’s happier to hear good words.”

The old man and Xu Fenian together carted southward, soon to cross the bridge over the river, the old man turned back to look deeply at the lofty city wall, suddenly stomped his foot and said, “Some words, really hard to hold back, that is, sir, you take me to the refusal of the north of the city to ask for the crime, the little old man has to spit out for the sake of the quick!”

Xu Fengyen smiled bitterly and said, “Come on, it’s not a good word. Mr. despite what you say, I’ll pretend I didn’t hear anything.”

The old man hemmed and hawed, straightened his back, turned to the north, reached out and pointed to the refusal of the north city, “Prince, recently I have heard many rumors, all say that our king is too bold, put so many old generals do not use, but to use those who have not even grown up a little doll, this war, how to fight? Who won the first battle of Liangmang? Wasn’t it General Liu from Hutou City in Liangzhou? General Wang Lingbao of the Dragon Elephant Army in Liuzhou? Was it not by the Hulukou Reclining Bow and Luan Xiaguang of Youzhou, or the many lieutenants of the three cities who died in battle? Not by our most marvelous Great Snow Dragon Cavalry and the two heavy cavalry armies that have been built for many years in Northern Liang? How many young outsiders are there? Only Yu Luan Dao barely counts as one. If you ask me, don’t look at Liuzhou’s previous victories, but when it really comes to a critical situation, young people, they can’t be relied upon!”

The old man turned his head to look at the young man’s side face and asked, “Gongzi, what do you think?”

Xu Fengyen looked into the distance, “The old man has some sense, only that the world is a marvelous place, things that have some sense are not necessarily things that make sense.”

The old man’s eyes widened, “My lord, are you a scholar or a general’s son? How come the little old man can’t understand what you’re saying?”

Xu Fengnian sighed, “I can’t afford to be called a scholar. Saying that I’m a general’s son should be correct, I grew up drinking wind and sand and smelling horse dung and listening to the beating drums.”

After boldly expressing his thoughts, the old man appeared to be in a much lighter mood, and in a rare jest, he joked, “In addition to not being able to reason clearly, your son is actually quite good at talking, quite reasonable.”

Xu Fengnian helplessly said, “Old sir, is this a compliment or a disparagement?”

The old man laughed loudly, “Your Excellency, just pick the good words to listen to, and you’ll be right.”

Xu Fengyen followed suit with a lighter mood, the haze between his brows gradually faded away, and he smiled heartily and said, “I’ve been taught.”

The old man did not let Xu Fenian help push the car onto the bridge, and pushed the car to the south alone, lowering his voice and muttering to himself, “If only the Great General were still alive, where would the barbarians of the Northern Mang dare to move to our side, and the Northern Liangs would not be able to fight at all, so what if they win the war nowadays, but it’s not like they are still going to die so many people. I heard that behind Qingliang Mountain there are 300,000 stone monuments, all are vain things, can live, how is it better than leaving a name after death, right?”

Xu Fengnian stood still, silent.

The old man definitely would not guess the identity of the young man, he would not think that a martial arts appraisal master would help him push the cart, so he continued to ramble on and complained, “If I see it, since the Central Plains court is not a good thing, instead of having our Beiliang border soldiers die in battle outside the pass, and not fall into a good reputation, it would be better to directly open the gate and let the North Mang barbarians enter the pass, as long as it is agreed beforehand that both sides should not bump into each other inside and outside the Beiliang Dao pass. As long as it is agreed in advance that the two sides will not bump into each other inside and outside of the Beiliang Road Pass, I’m sure everything will be fine, so that the group of white-eyed wolves in the Central Plains to suffer, and we, the common people of Beiliang, to live our peaceful days, how worrying and saving energy. I just can’t see that young feudal king, otherwise I must advise him not to act rashly, listen to the old man’s advice, don’t mess around and play the hero.”

Xu Fengyen narrowed his eyes and tilted his head, the autumn wind blowing the young man’s hair at the temples.

Maybe he was bitter, maybe he had a guilty conscience, or maybe it was both, so from beginning to end, the young feudal lord did not say a word.

On the south side of the bridge, the old man’s back was getting farther and farther away.

Xu Fengyen seemed to remember something, and shouted at the top of his voice: “Mr. Lao, don’t be in a hurry to go south, and don’t forget that within two decades, the people can borrow the three post roads leading from Reject North City to Liangzhou Pass without having to take a long detour!”

That old fortune teller, actually seemed like he really heard this shouting, paused slightly, about to indicate to the young man that he knew, and then continued southward.

After the completion of the residence, the study will receive confidential spy reports from inside and outside the customs every day, whisking the water room to raise the eagle room have, the Northern Liang spy reports have always been in accordance with the priority of the three classes, the original qualification to send to the study desk of the spy only A word spy, but the young king of the clan asked for more than a first class, not the second class B word, but the end of the word C word spy, in fact, not much military and political significance, but the new king of the Liang used to ease the tension, the new king of the Liang, the new king of the Liang, the new King of the Liang, the new King of the Liang. Although the two houses must have done a certain degree of screening, can not really all sent to the residence of the study, but the number is still large, mostly related to the situation of the Guannai Academy or the scholar’s opinion. The content is varied, including some of the young readers of the radical statements, the young king never just browse and not approved red.

One of the comments, the young king himself copied down, as a daily open book introspection.

“Virtue is thin but the position is honored, wisdom is small but the plan is big, strength is small but the task is heavy, this kind of mediocrity vassal king sits on the border, the Northern Liang border army will lose without a doubt!”

The army is under pressure, my father’s wishes, the bitter cold hometown, the court constraints, the beautiful Central Plains, the innocent people, and the Heavenly Dao is pressing on the top.

All are heavy burdens, layers upon layers.

The north side of the bridge, that in fact and the crown to take the word less than four years of young people, slowly crouched down, squatting at the river, will be a licorice dusted off, put in the mouth and gently chewed.

The mouth is full of sweetness.