The counterattack of the villains

Chapter 454

Unlike Beiliang, where there is less rain and more sunshine, the weather in Yongzhou hundreds of miles away is changeable, and the torrential rain falls in less than half an hour before disappearing.

It's just that the weather has not cleared up yet, it is still gloomy, as if a downpour is brewing, making the air feel a bit stuffy.

In the two prefectures of Yongquan and Beiliang bordering Beiliang, there are more than a dozen people with real power. Regardless of whether they are civil servants or generals, they are all hostile to Beiliang.

One-third of General Gu Jiantang's old troops were placed in these two prefectures. Within the territory of Yongzhou, there was only Yingchuang County, which was located on the border, and Liangma headed north.

After all, Yingyu County bordered Beiliang, and it was right under the eyes of the Beiliang army. If you didn't look up to Beiliang, you couldn't stand here at all.

But this is only limited to civil servants, military commanders don't buy into Beiliang's account.

Originally, all the officials of Yingzhuan County, big and small, were all [-] li away from the city, waiting patiently for His Highness the Crown Prince in a gazebo.

However, in order to take a shortcut, Xu Fengnian took a forest path, perfectly avoiding the waiting team.

The big and small officials who went out to welcome the civil servants were headed by Zheng Hanhai. This man was a fat and bloated sixtieth old man, and he was regarded as a die-hard supporter of Beiliang.

Tang Yinshan, the deputy captain of Dongjin, the military officer, took the lead, with a rank of three hundred stones, but his ability was not outstanding, and he only commanded two hundred soldiers.

However, in a small county town, two hundred troops in charge are considered real power figures. After all, there are only four hundred and five troops stationed in Yingzhuan County.

The territory of Yongzhou is different from that of the capital. After the end of the Spring and Autumn War, the Liyang Chaotang began to emphasize civility over martial arts.

The four palace scholars who were originally in high positions because of their military merits, seemed to have turned into civil servants who were born as Jinshi overnight.

But in Yongzhou, which is close to Beiliang, military generals still dominate the civilian officials.

Tang Yinshan's family was in decline in his early years, and he couldn't compare with those high-school scholars who were recommended by the rich and powerful in Yongzhou, and he couldn't read scriptures.

He resolutely abandoned his pen and joined the army, and joined the general Gu Jiantang's command, and was able to accumulate a lot of merit at the end of the Spring and Autumn National War, and boarded the last train.

Although he only got an official position and a mediocre salary, he was very satisfied with the deputy captain of the Eastern Jin Dynasty who held military power.

In the gazebo, civil servants and military generals stand separately.

Tang Yinshan looked down on the attitude of these civil servants who were all women with umbrellas, while Zheng Hanhai didn't like the arrogance of these reckless men leading soldiers in armor.

Now the world is peaceful, what use is it for you to wait for a martial artist who doesn't know a few big characters?

Soldiers are the weapons of the country. Millions of people died in the Spring and Autumn and Eight Kingdoms. Almost all of them were killed by you warriors who destroyed the country and the city in one go. What else?

The governance of the country and the security of the country on the back of the horse must be done by scholars.

Zheng Hanhai didn't give Tang Yinshan and his group of generals good looks, but he was quite polite with the literati and officials around him who were much lower in rank than him.

Sixtieth-year-old fat man Zheng Hanhai has been immersed in officialdom for most of his life, so how can he not understand that when the pen in his hand can no longer draw the finances of Yongzhou, it will be terrible for people to leave the tea.

At this time, if you don't lower your figure to make good friends, it will be too late when you retire and return home.

Jin Lanting, Duke of Yingxuan County, wiped the sweat from his neck with a silk scarf, and carefully smiled at Zheng Hanhai and asked: "Zheng Bocao, it will rain again today, but it will be heavy, I don't know His Royal Highness When will it arrive?"

Zheng Hanhai smiled and said: "Lanting, you don't understand now, it should rain heavily."

Jin Lanting wondered: "Oh? How do you say that?"

Zheng Hanhai said: "This time, His Royal Highness is here to welcome you. I managed to get you to let His Royal Highness live in your private house."

"You have lotus flowers in the lake and plantains in the courtyard. If it doesn't rain, can His Highness hear the sound of the rain hitting the plantains in your house?"

"Furthermore, sincerity is only shown when welcoming guests in the rain."

Jin Lanting suddenly realized that he understood everything, but said: "I'm worried about Mr. Zheng's cold."

Not long after, the downpour suddenly came, and the raindrops the size of soybeans hit the military officer's armor with a loud sound.

Even those little lieutenants who were not qualified to stand in the pavilion remained indifferent and let the heavy rain pour over them.

They all belong to the ranking of the famous generals of the dynasty, second only to the old generals of the Dazhu Kingdom.

They deliberately wanted His Royal Highness, who was able to eat a feast of bells and lanterns, to take a look at it through the meritorious deeds of his father's generation. It is not only the 30 cavalry in Beiliang who are considered fierce soldiers.

No matter what these civil servants and military generals thought, all their actions were useless.

Thirty miles out of the city, Yingxuan officials braved the rain to welcome the No. [-] nobleman of Beiliang. In anxiety and panic, they only waited for a news from the postman, which made them look at each other in dismay.

His Royal Highness has taken the path to the city gate.

Zheng Hanhai shook his head with a wry smile, and said to Jin Lanting, "Let's go."

Tang Yinshan, deputy captain of Dongjin, spat hard on the ground, walked out of the pavilion and said angrily, "Go back to the city."

……

Xu Fengnian and his party were taken to the private residence of Jin Lanting, a refined scholar, amidst the humility and fear of the small officials in the city.

This house covers a large area with a deep courtyard, where geese are raised, lotuses are planted, and plantains are planted. It is indeed a clean and pleasant place.

Fortunately, a little Ying rafter was able to find such a not-cheesy geomantic treasure.

Xu Fengnian changed into a suit of clothes in the room, and Qingniao helped comb his hair.

As soon as Li Chungang arrived at the place, he couldn't wait to take a bath and change clothes.

Because his precious apprentice had spoken, if she wanted her to offer tea and kowtow, and officially become a teacher, she had to take care of herself clean and refreshed.

Zheng Zha and Luo Li didn't get a drop of rain from the beginning to the end. They didn't even get the slightest muddy water under their feet, so they naturally didn't need to take care of them.

Shu Shame and Lu Qiantang changed their wet clothes, and after tidying themselves up a bit, they consciously went to stand guard at the door.

Xu Fengnian is mainly here to rest, he is not interested in dealing with those officials.

Although Jin Lanting is an official from a wealthy local family, his literary popularity is more than that of officialdom, and he doesn't really look forward to climbing the officialdom.

On weekdays, they are more likely to climb high to compose poems, raise geese and pick chrysanthemums, and often sing poems with famous prostitutes in Yongzhou Qingliu.

Just hearing that the prince of Beiliang was going to stay in Yingzhuan, and the elder uncle Zheng Hanhai threw such a big pie for him, Jin Lanting's heart was rarely heated.

That's why he followed all the civil servants and went thirty miles away to meet His Royal Highness.

But a heavy rain made Jin Lanting's fiery thoughts cold, and a group of people didn't even see the figure of His Royal Highness.

When he got home, he was blocked by two attendants, a man and a woman, and was almost killed by a gang of warriors headed by Tang Yinshan.

Zheng Hanhai, who was still wet all over at that time, couldn't bear his old face, so he waved his sleeves and left on the spot.

Jin Lanting also wanted to be a literati, out of sight and out of mind, but this house belongs to him, where can he go?bear with it.

However, after Xu Fengnian and his party finished taking care of themselves, they all gathered in the hall except for Shuxiu Lu Qiantang who was on guard, preparing to witness the apprenticeship ceremony of the Old Sword God.

At this time, Li Chungang was dressed in an upright blue robe, and his messy hair and beard had been neatly groomed.

As Luo Li said before, Li Chungang, who held himself upside down, seemed to be a bit of a fairy.

Except for the empty left sleeve, which slightly affects its image, other aspects are perfect, and Jiang Ni is also very satisfied with this.

At this time, she was holding a cup of tea, knelt down in front of Li Chungang, raised the tea cup above her head, and said crisply: "Master, please drink tea."

Li Chungang suppressed the excitement in his heart, took the teacup calmly, and said with satisfaction: "Good boy."

Jiang Ni kowtowed three times immediately, and all these simple apprenticeship ceremony were completed.

Then Xu Fengnian ordered Qingniao to tell the butler to prepare a banquet.

This kid was a jerk and slaughtered the big white geese raised by others, two in a row, and asked others to make him a famous Liaodong dish of stewed big geese in an iron pot.

This move naturally made Jin Lanting very angry, but he gritted his teeth and endured it, telling the housekeeper not to get involved in this matter.

At Jiang Ni's apprentice banquet, Xu Fengnian got his wish and ate big goose stewed in an iron pot.

In the afternoon, Li Chungang took up the responsibility of master and began to teach Jiang Ni all kinds of kendo knowledge.

Now Jiang Ni has just started to practice, and it is time to lay the foundation, and she does not want to learn the swordsmanship that requires hard work, but waits for her cultivation to be high enough to learn the art of controlling the sword with Luoli.

Li Chungang had no choice but to teach her some theoretical things, whether it was the way of swordsmanship or the art of controlling the sword.

He didn't expect Jiang Ni to master it immediately, he just needed her to remember it firmly first, and then slowly understand it later.

Xu Fengnian, as usual, read martial arts books for a period of time, asked Zheng Zha for advice, and then went back to his room to meditate and refine the true energy of the Rhubarb Court.

A group of people spent a day repairing at the mansion of Jin Lanting, and in the afternoon of the next day, Ning Emei rushed back from Lingzhou with the Fengziying, which was filled with a hundred people.

However, when they arrived outside Yingzhuan City, Tang Yinshan looked at Beiliang Qingqi Lincheng from a distance, and immediately asked the guards to close the city gate ahead of time.

Seeing this, Ning Emei's gaze froze, she knew that Gu Jiantang's old department was trying to give him a bad blow.

How can he bear this?When they were away from home, they represented the Beiliang army, and if they were disarmed, that would be disarming the 30 Beiliang cavalry.

So he didn't open his mouth to speak, Zhizhi reined in his horse and stopped when he was ten feet away from the city gate.

He silently took out a dozen short halberds from the large bag on his back, which were his long-range weapons.

Short halberds were thrown one after another, piercing into the city gate with a bang, this scene made a group of Yongzhou soldiers turn pale with horror.

It was not because of Ning Emei's strength, but because of the unscrupulousness of the Beiliang Army.

Ning Emei's behavior at this time can no longer be called provocation. It is not wronged to say that he deliberately created friction and intended to attack Yingzhu County.

Tang Yinshan's scalp was also numb. He didn't expect Ning Emei to be so bold that he dared to damage the city gate.

Moreover, he faintly felt that the opponent's throwing of the short halberd was like an ultimatum, because Ning Emei did not throw the short halberd quickly.

If he hadn't made a choice before the opponent's short halberd was thrown, I'm afraid the opponent would really start to attack the city gate and attack Ying rafter.

Ning Emei could be unscrupulous and unscrupulous, but Tang Yinshan didn't dare to really make a big deal, not to mention that if he insisted on breaking it, he would take the initiative to provoke others first.

So when Ning Emei hadn't finished throwing the short halberd, Tang Yinshan turned around and walked down the city wall, gritted his teeth and said, "Open the city gate."

"Glang..."

The heavy city gate finally opened, and Tang Yinshan was already riding on his horse, holding a shiny silver spear in his hand.

There was no change in expression on Ning Emei's face, she just silently put away the remaining short halberds, then raised the iron halberd for divination, and urged the horse to move forward.

The horse under his crotch trotted forward, Ning Emei stared fixedly at Tang Yinshan, and pointed the tip of the iron halberd obliquely at the ground.

Seeing Ning Emei's movement, Tang Yinshan's right hand holding the gun tightened, but he didn't dodge it.

On the battlefield of the Spring and Autumn National War, Tang Yinshan is naturally not a weak hand if he has accumulated enough military merits by killing the enemy and obtained his current official position.

Moreover, in order to show fairness, Ning Emei didn't fully urge the horse to run, and used the horse's momentum to suppress him.

Now that trot, naturally there is no horse power to speak of.

Just when the two were about to cross each other, Ning Emei yelled violently, and the divination iron halberd angrily slammed towards Tangyin Mountain with a numbing sound.

Tang Yinshan's face changed slightly, his arms clenched the barrel of the gun, and he blocked the halberd above his head.

"when"

When the weapons collided, there was a crisp metal sound, but Tang Yinshan's face changed drastically.

A strong force that Pei Mo could not resist hit, he only felt his arms go numb, he almost lost consciousness, and the divination iron halberd pressed down on the barrel of the gun and fell.

In a critical moment, Tang Yinshan tilted his head and put the spear on his shoulder, able to withstand the halberd, and then used all his strength to lift the iron halberd several inches.

However, after Ning Emei smashed the halberd, she was not affected.

When he turned the iron halberd, the hook sickle on the side hooked Tang Yinshan's spear, and with another swipe, Tang Yinshan was lifted from the horse's back and fell off the horse heavily.

After a halberd knocked Tang Yinshan off his horse, who considered himself not weak in force, Ning Emei reined in his horse and stopped, and the iron halberd pressed against the chest of the deputy captain of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, preventing him from moving.

Such behavior can be described as extremely humiliating, but Tang Yinshan's face turned green and pale at this time, and he lost all face today.

Originally, the Yongzhou soldiers under Tang Yinshan's subordinates wanted to come up to rescue their boss.

But following the iron cavalry of the Baifengzi Battalion, they were shocked by a murderous and evil spirit, afraid of attracting the attention of these evil stars.

When Feng Ziying arrived behind her, Ning Emei took back the divination iron halberd, squinted at Tangyin Mountain on the ground, and said coldly: "Trash, you dare to provoke my Beiliang iron cavalry, hum."

After he finished speaking, he ordered his soldiers to retrieve the short halberd from the city gate, and then walked straight away. Tang Yinshan spat out a mouthful of blood on the spot, and he didn't know whether he was injured or angry.

When Ning Emei saw Xu Fengnian again, he had an attitude of pleading guilty again, and reported what happened at the city gate in detail, and finally said: "The last general is reckless, please punish me."

If the things he did were jointly signed by those old gang of Gu Jiantang, and they took part in his book, it would be unavoidable that there would be some irrelevant troubles.

As a general of Beiliang, Ning Emei naturally didn't need to pay attention to such trivial matters.

But if His Highness Shizi felt that he was acting recklessly, he would really send him back to Beiliang, but he would really feel sorry for those more than forty casualties.

Unexpectedly, after he finished speaking, Xu Fengnian turned his head to the blue bird's ear, and whispered something to her.

After the blue bird left, Xu Fengnian looked at Ning Emei, and said with a soft smile: "General Ning, if you overthrow the Vice-Captain of the East Command with a halberd, will you be venting your anger?"

"Huh?" Ning Emei looked at Xu Fengnian with a look of surprise on her face.

Xu Fengnian's smile remained unchanged, and he continued: "If I were there, you would have to strip him of his armor and hang him on the city gate for public display."

Speaking of this, he put away his smile, and said seriously: "The Beiliang army should not be insulted lightly. This is the reason that no matter how big the world is."

"If you think it's overdone and you're afraid of causing me trouble, that's fine, take your soldiers back to Beiliang now. If you want to avoid trouble, it's best to stay at home."

"But if you still feel uneasy, then this prince will treat you to a good wine today."

While he was speaking, Qingniao had already come out holding a jar of fine wine from Jin Lanting.

Ning Emei suddenly felt a sense of heroism and high spirits, and the way she looked at Xu Fengnian was quite different from before.

There was no trace of contempt or disdain in his eyes anymore, a kind of mood that maybe he didn't realize was slowly growing.

"Okay, the last general must drink ten bowls from him today."

(End of this chapter)