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Chapter 90
The thick clouds pressed down, covering the spring light of Xiaochuntai.
There was already chaos in the city, troops were launched from the south of the city, and the disaster spread in just two hours. Bandits and bandits were scattered and ambushed everywhere, and they were unable to catch them. They even took the opportunity to flee and kill many people.
Rumbling, thunder struck, a bolt of lightning struck the dark night sky, and rain poured down between breaths. At the end of the long street, a horse-riding team came in. There were only eleven people. The leader was unusually tall and brave, and it was Huo Linfeng with a red scarf wrapped around his arms.
Eleven elite riders came at night, and their armor was covered with a thick layer of mottled blood, which was washed away by the rain. Suddenly, another silver-light lightning pierced the sky, and the foal was startled, raised its front hooves and neighed to a stop.
"Applause!" Huo Linfeng stopped, facing the entrance of Xiaochuntai. The flag embroidered with the words "Xiaochuntai" was wet, and it was crumpled and stuck to the railing, looking extremely embarrassed.
The whole building is hidden behind a curtain of rain, and the windows are hidden, and don't know what kind of characters are hidden inside. As the wind galloped, three feathered arrows burst out of the wind, and they shot with lightning speed that could not cover the ears, and the eyes didn't have time to blink, three and three.
There was no one to dodge the fine horses on the horseback, and the sound of the sword was drawn in unison, and then, like a series of firecrackers, all the iron beak feathers and arrows were cut off and fell to the ground. No one was injured, Huo Linfeng ordered: "Patrol the streets, shoot."
The rest of the people obeyed their orders, spread the reins, and wandered the long, dank street as if going their separate ways.
The alleys were connected with traffic, and a fine horse passed by the alley, with only three or four hoofs, quickly retracted his knife, drew a red feather arrow from behind, and shot his bow loosely into the alley. In the dark alley, a black shadow staggered for half a step, let out a hurried groan, and died.
In an instant, the group of snakes were startled, and seven or eight shadows appeared on the walls and eaves.
Pfft, the movement of the iron arrow piercing the flesh and blood, two more beeps, one arrow penetrated the two, and the two arrows claimed four lives. The other few people stuck to the wall, disappeared into the darkness, leaped forward with light effort, and reached the entrance of the alley, shouting loudly and wanting to take the life of the Jingqi.
"Uh!" Before the blood splashed on the horse, there was a burst of hot blood.
Those people were lying down with arrows in their chests, and they were shot and killed by another Jingqi across the street. This group of people has always been like this, their eyes are eagle eyes, and they cooperated seamlessly.
The corpses were laid out all over the place, and at the moment when the lightning shone, the word "Huo" was engraved on the arrow on the chest. Huo Linfeng once told Rong Luoyun that there are many elite archers in the Huo family, and he is not even in the top ten.
Others demanded their lives along the street, Xiaochuntai stood in the thunderstorm, and Huo Linfeng broke the door alone. The two heavy door panels trembled, the cold wind poured in, and the copper candlesticks hanging in the building shook, extinguishing a few red candles.
Xiaochuntai was the first place to investigate. The secret guard of the Prime Minister's Mansion came here to report, indicating that the Jianghu people lurking here are the leaders of everyone. Huo Linfeng looked around the building, the doors were all closed, and there was no sound at all.
With a calm face, he took off his armor and walked lightly around a lacquer column. There was a woman leaning on the back of the pillar, her clothes were loose, and a dark red palm was printed on Bai Huahua's chest, and her body was already cold. This is the prostitute in the building. There are so many women in Fengyuechang who are helpless. At this moment, there are officers and soldiers coming, and those who should have fled long ago are screaming.
Unless the thieves are thrown away, there will be no other survivors in the building.
Huo Linfeng took off the step from the other party's hair. There were dozens of beads the size of red beans. He raised his eyes and looked upstairs, and with a flick of his finger, dozens of beads flew out, hitting every door with precision and force.
The people in the room waited for the opportunity, and immediately hit the plan, broke through the door and rushed out. Seeing this, Huo Linfeng jumped up to the second floor with his sword and fought with the two thieves who were close to him. The ones here are much more powerful than the thugs outside, and their moves are extremely vicious.
The railing was painted with golden lotus entwined branches, blood splashed on it, and it fell downstairs tickingly. Huo Linfeng smashed one person deeply, so deep that the hilt of the sword was rubbed with fishy heat. Make a hole.
After killing three or two people, Huo Linfeng's cheeks were stained with blood, and his eyes flashed red. He pursed his thin lips and became angry, like a mad wolf.
This stance is unique to the battlefield, and it is dedicated to killing people. After a while, there is a sharp scream in the building.
The besieged people couldn't help but back away, panicked and trembling to avoid Huo Linfeng's approach. Huo Linfeng held the sword in one hand and the head that had just been cut off in the other, his blood spurted out like a small spring.
"Didn't Chen Ruoyin tell you when he sent you here?" he said, "This general likes to cut people's heads the most."
The other party was stunned, and had already retreated to the end of the corridor. Huo Linfeng said, "If you go out and pierce your heart, it's better to be caught here."
There were a few people who were aware of current affairs, crowded, throwing away their weapons and knelt down. Once people's hearts were shaken, they couldn't be contained, and more and more people disarmed and surrendered. Huo Linfeng threw the head in his hand, strode over, and slashed one person to death with his sword.
Everyone panicked immediately, Huo Linfeng took advantage of the panic and quickly shot, and in a blink of an eye, only a circle of dead bodies remained. He held down the last one, iron claws clasped his throat, and asked in a low voice, "Where is your boss?"
The other party was so pinched that he couldn't shout, and answered with difficulty: "Between the blue birds..."
Huo Linfeng twisted the opponent's neck, swept to the third floor, took off the gauze lamp in the porch, and smashed open the door.
A Taoist priest walked out from the door, wearing a dark gray robe, and holding a whisk with white-tailed fine hair in his right hand. Huo Linfeng frowned and looked at each other. He felt that this person was familiar. He recalled carefully that at that time, the Bufan Palace was recruiting people for the competition, and he had a relationship with the opponent on the competition stage.
If remember correctly...the so-called Tangshan Xiaoyuanzun.
Was it sent by Chen Ruoyin at the time, or did he join the sect later? In the competition, he lost within ten strokes. It seems that he is hiding his skills, and he doesn't know what his martial arts are.
The white smoke gradually faded away, Huo Linfeng stared angrily at the opponent, raised his sword to dash, but his footsteps fell heavily, he was half-kneeling on the ground, shaking his head, and the dizziness revealed uncontrollable pain.
Tangshan Xiaoyuanzun walked towards him, swaying with the dust, hiding a palm with internal strength in his wide sleeves.
When he got close to him, Huo Linfeng's eyes suddenly turned cold: "Stinky Taoist priest!" He stood up to attack him, gasping for relief, "Looking at the poison you put on it, it's my breath-holding technique!"
Tangshan Xiaoyuan Zun was startled abruptly, then he swayed to dodge it lightly, and threw two projectiles between his sleeves, which exploded on the ground, and a sweet and choking gas came out.
Huo Linfeng said: "I'm still a person who knows how to make drugs. What kind of immortal style?"
Tangshan Xiaoyuanzun smiled and said: "General Huo, a loyal and righteous man, didn't he also play tricks and cheat?"
Huo Linfeng said, "That's how the soldiers never tire of deceit."
After speaking, hold your breath, rush over, and force the other party to jump off the third floor. They fought and landed on the Qin Se stage, with their long swords facing Fu Chen, and gradually they fought more than forty strokes.
Tangshan Xiaoyuanzun's moves are different from people's. The moves are gentle, but the breaking moves are very violent, and the difference between retraction and release is huge. In an instant, Huo Linfeng made a "hiss", his arm was thrown by the whisk, and the cloth was torn open and injured his flesh.
The two stood still, three or five steps apart, Tangshan Xiaoyuanzun smiled.
"whatβ¦β¦"
Soon, his smile froze, and when he lowered his head, he realized that his abdomen was twitching, and a puff of blood spurted out. Huo Linfeng's sword was so fast that he didn't know when he stabbed it, but it was sheathed, and the blade was full of wet red.
Tangshan Xiaoyuanzun's footsteps softened, and he fell to his knees, sealing the meridians to stop the bleeding. This sword didn't want his life. He looked up at Huo Linfeng and asked, "Why don't you kill me..."
Huo Linfeng approached: "Jianghu people don't understand it, the government has to stay alive when it comes to affairs."
Approaching him, Tangshan Xiaoyuan Zun held the whisk and stabbed it violently, hiding a poisoned blade between the strands. Huo Linfeng's eyes were fast and his legs were fast. He kicked the person to the ground with one foot, the dust brush fell, and a few pills rolled out of the Taoist robe.
At this time, the subordinates came in from the door and reported: "General, a total of 139 people were shot and killed."
Huo Linfeng said, "Put him in jail and try again at another day." He leaned over to pick up the pills and looked around, "The incense and jade in the building are all gone. After the body is disposed of, Xiaochuntai will be sealed first."
A group of people left the long street and walked through the dark alleys, each in the cold rain.
Not long after, there was a sound of fighting not far away. The Dingbei Army was still strangling the thieves. Huo Linfeng led the Excalibur team to speed up the whip, and once again plunged into the fierce battle.
This storm and the current situation contrasted like a rock, and it did not stop all night.
When it was slightly dawn, Rong Luoyun got up in his clothes, pushed open the door and walked out of the wing. The courtyard has been washed clean, no blood stains can be seen, and the stench has been blown away by a strong wind overnight.
Sitting under the eaves, he took out the eagle-bone flute from the placket, carrying it all the time, it was warm. "Ow!" The wolf cub jumped up beside him, his claws stretched and shrank very sharply.
"I don't know what happened to your father." Rong Luoyun said, "It's been noisy all night, can you take a break now?"
It was so cold when the heavy winter rain invaded him. He really wanted to rush to the street to see Huo Linfeng. Just thinking about it, one person stepped into the courtyard door, wearing a robe and hat, and when he got closer, he saw that it was Zhang Weiren.
This is to report a letter, Rong Luoyun asked: "Come on, how is the situation outside?"
Zhang Weiren said: "After fighting all night, the general is the most slack in the morning, and the general is leading a fierce attack at this moment."
Rong Luoyun asked again, "Is he okay?"
Zhang Weiren replied: "Fortunately, there is no injury." Regarding the situation of the bandits, "Because the houses are easy to hide in the city, many households were killed by the thieves who rushed into their homes. Besides, these Jianghu people are Han people, from the folk, It is very easy to pretend to be ordinary people."
This is more complicated than the battle of bright swords and spears. Chen Ruoyin's move can not only hold back the troops, but also make the people of Saibei panic. Rong Luoyun sighed and asked, "From your point of view, how long does it take to suppress it?"
Zhang Weiren pondered: "It's about the people, the generals must be strict, and I'm afraid they won't relax within half a month."
Rong Luoyun nodded: "What about Mo Shang?"
Zhang Weiren said: "At the end of the fourth watch, the two armies officially went to war."
There is the real battlefield, Rong Luoyun's heart is suddenly tense, there are many things he wants to ask and understand, but he thinks it is useless. He picked up the wolf cub, and said coldly, a little vainly, "Tell General Huo that everything in the house is fine, so he can rest assured."
"Yes." Zhang Weiren responded and turned around to leave, but was stopped by Rong Luoyun just as he took a step. "That..." Rong Luoyun's expression was sluggish, "Has the Duke of Dingbei met Qin Xun?"
Zhang Weiren didn't say a word, just shook his head, whether he didn't meet or didn't know. Rong Luoyun didn't ask any more questions. When the other party left, he raised his face and stared at the rain dripping from the eaves alone.
He couldn't help but wonder, are father and mother watching all this from heaven?
If yes, how do you think about it? Looking for a result?
Rong Luoyun was a little stunned, the cold wind poured into the front of his clothes, and the corners of the robe were wet from the heavy rain, but he ignored it. After a long while, his shoulders suddenly warmed, and someone put a cloak on him.
"Madam?" He turned his face and saw Bai Shi calmly standing behind him, smiling... as if he liked him very much. He tightened his cloak and knocked the wolf cub unconscious, for fear of scaring him.
Bai Shi was seated next to her, and she heard everything Zhang Weiren said. She was so bored that she simply blew the wind and looked at the rain. It was just that the silence became even more depressing. She asked, "Have you been outside all these years?"
Rong Luoyun replied, "I'm with some brothers that I have made friends with." At that time, the three sisters and brothers of the Tang family must have known each other, "My brother died while fleeing, and my sister and I depended on each other for life."
Shi Bai tightened the veil: "You must have suffered a lot. Your sister is in Xiganling now? Is there a Xu family?"
Rong Luoyun lowered his eyes: "No, in order to spy on the news of the exchanges, my sister stayed in the brothel on the bright side." ."
The wife of the Duke of Dingbei is dignified and dignified, how could she have thought that a good daughter would fall into the dust? She looked at Rong Luoyun, the grandfather's son, who had been a companion to the prince since childhood, and her own sister should be a lady in Chang'an City, but it's a pity that she was a fool.
Bai Shi secretly regretted it, but Rong Luoyun turned his head to look at her with a look of disappointment in his eyes. "Madam," Rong Luoyun thought of what Huo Zhao said to him before leaving, "Are you... worried about the Duke of Dingbei?"
He asked nonsense, but Bai Shi laughed: "I understand what you mean, I am worried about any of the three men in the Huo family, but I've gotten used to it over the years."
It is difficult to be a person in the family of an emperor. Who would have expected the door to be even more dangerous, and even the Taifu may have unwarranted disasters. After all, ordinary people are still happy.
Rong Luoyun stared at the pattering rain, praying that the end would be peaceful, that the great revenge would be avenged, and that he would be able to break up with Huo Linfeng and return to the fields.
The situation in the city is as Zhang Weiren said, and there is no slack for several days. The bustling city in the past is filled with murderous aura. In Moshang, the Dingbei army and the Turkic army fought.
However, the so-called Chi Na army never showed up.
Qin Xun, the old man, never showed up.
Nearly half a month later, seven or eight Qi Ji from the Blue Lake Barracks came out of the coach's tent and went to send orders to the soldiers. Inside the tent, Huo Zhao and Huo Jinghai stood behind the sand map, and both father and son stared at a spot on the map.
"Father," Huo Jinghai pointed at the place, "attacking Luoye Mountain is too close to the Turkic tribe, should we think about it again?"
Huo Zhao said, "The order has been sent to prepare, what are you thinking about?" He glanced at Huo Jinghai and said unceremoniously, "You are too prudent, and you are not as brave as your brother."
Huo Jinghai was not annoyed: "But the terrain of Mount Luo Ye is complicated, and it is very likely that he will be besieged by barbarians and will not be able to break through. Besides, if the front line is long, the troops and horses will be weak, so there is really no chance of winning."
Huo Zhao retorted: "You are wrong, you will definitely win."
He stood with his hands behind his back, his tone suddenly cold: "It's been nearly half a month, and Chi Na's army can't escape, it's dragging and draining my energy, the longer the time goes on, the more tired I'll be from playing, and then Qin Xun will wait for the rest. more difficult to deal with.β
In addition, this party delays time, waits for the riot in the city to calm down a little, and Huo Linfeng returns, is it not in the middle of Chen Ruoyin's trick.Huo Zhao said: "We must attack Luo Ye Mountain and force Chi's army to show up to fight."
Huo Jinghai said worriedly, "Butβ"
Huo Zhao interrupted: "If I win, I will eradicate the serious trouble. If I lose, I will definitely damage the vitality of the Turkic core troops. After that, the Dingbei Army will take advantage of the situation to pursue, and the odds of winning will increase a lot."
He doesn't seem to mind his own life and death, and he considers it completely from the perspective of the overall situation: "So I said, I will definitely win."
Huo Jinghai was speechless, fighting for half a month.He swallowed everything, turned to Huo Zhao, his subordinate to the general and his son to his father, clasped his fists and gave a military salute.
Between father and son, there was no quarrel.
Two days later, Huo Zhao set off toward Luoye Mountain with three thousand fine horses.