The light of the sword is like the moon reflecting on Kyushu

Chapter 1808 Who will lead the army?

The sentry tower is also called a watchtower. It is 10 feet high and has an arrow tower on top. There are two sentinels on it. They can observe the enemy and shoot arrows. Of course, the most important thing is that they can send out smoke signals! This can also be seen as a simple beacon tower!

This kind of sentry tower is usually set up at a certain distance, about two or three miles apart. If it is too far away, the vision may be unclear and the signal cannot be effectively transmitted. If it is too close, there will be some overlap and waste.

This is the first Northern Han sentry tower Li Deming encountered!

The watchtower is on the right side of the road.

There were two rows of wildebeests lying across the middle of the road, about ten feet high, and the war horses couldn't jump over them at all!

Li Deming had no choice but to pull the reins to stop his mount. The wildebeests did not completely block the road, and there were swamps on both ends, so there was no way to put the wildebeests on the plane! If a person stepped on it, he would basically be trapped!

Behind the two rows of wildebeests stood a group of Northern Han infantrymen, about seven or eight in number. One of the infantrymen saw Li Deming and the others and shouted, "Who are you?"

Li Deming clasped his fists and said, "Li Deming of Xixia, I am invited by the Emperor of Northern Han to discuss important matters!"

The Northern Han soldier was in disbelief and sneered, "What the hell? You, Xixia people? Our emperor invited you? Damn, impossible!" In his opinion, the emperor's guests were so noble that they would not dare to go out without a team of ten or eight carriages? The Xixia king was dressed in ordinary clothes, his face was covered with dust, and he looked like a fugitive!

Li Deming was suddenly displeased, "This is the imperial edict of your emperor, take a look!" He took out an imperial edict and shook it with one hand, revealing the contents inside!

The Northern Han soldier raised his neck and said arrogantly: "Throw it over here, who can see it clearly from such a distance!"

Li Deming frowned. Isn't this too blind?

"Can you just throw away the emperor's edict? Can't you just come and take a look?"

The soldier said arrogantly, "I suspect you are a spy from the Song Dynasty, trying to sneak into our Han territory with a fake imperial edict! If you want to prove that the imperial edict is real, you'd better throw it to us first! If we judge that this imperial edict is real, we will naturally let you pass!"

What? What if?

Li Deming said angrily, "You are so arrogant? Aren't you afraid that I will report your deliberate harassment to the higher-ups?"

The Northern Han soldier sneered, "We strictly follow orders and will never let go of any suspicious person! You can report it if you want, so what? Not only will the higher-ups not blame us, but they will also report to the entire army to commend us for our strict discipline inspection!"

Depend on!

Li Deming was furious!

Li Qiangang tilted his ear and whispered, "These ants are too noisy, it's better to kill them!"

Li Deming raised his eyebrows and stared at Li Qiangang: "Are you kidding, uncle? We came all the way here just to kill a few of their soldiers? And then provoke their emperor to make enemies with us?"

Li Qiangang said angrily: "These blind guys are too arrogant! If this happened in Lingzhou, I would have chopped off their heads long ago!"

The Northern Han soldier's eyes suddenly became fierce, "What were you two mumbling just now? You want to kill us, right?" He shouted loudly, and the soldiers around him pointed their spears forward. He shouted again: "Old Four!"

The soldier on the watchtower responded: "What's wrong, Old Seven?"

The seventh infantryman shouted, "Send a signal and say there's a spy!"

The fourth sentry shouted from the arrow tower: "Okay!"

Suddenly Liu Miezhou raised the gold medal and shouted, "Don't move!"

Infantryman Lao Qi's eyes were sharp, "What? A fake gold medal suddenly appeared?"

Liu Miezhou said: "Look carefully, this is the waist badge of the Han Dynasty's forbidden palace. Don't you know the words on it?"

Infantryman Lao Qi sneered, "I don't know him!"

Liu Miezhou frowned and thought: There is obviously something wrong with these infantrymen. How can you conclude that they are fake without even taking a look?

Li Qiangang could no longer suppress his anger. "If the soldiers of the Northern Han Dynasty are at this level, then their combat effectiveness is probably not that high! If we cooperate with them, I'm afraid they will not only fail to help us, but may even drag us to death at a critical moment!" Such a pure pig teammate is far more harmful than a strong enemy! No matter how strong the enemy is, you know the opponent's offensive routine after all, and you have a general defense preparation! But a pig teammate is not like that. You don't know where he will get you! Hard to defend!

Liu Miezhou said: "If you check it this way, then absolutely no one can pass! But I don't believe that no one can pass! Tell me, how can we pass it?"

The seventh infantryman sneered, "I told you that you are spies, but you still don't believe me! If you were truly my people, wouldn't you know the toll?"

Li Deming frowned, "Toll?" At the same time, he glanced at Liu Miezhou!

Liu Miezhou knew that Li Deming had begun to doubt him!

The three of them were from Western Xia, so it was understandable that they didn't know about the "toll". But as a Northern Han person like me, I didn't even know about the "toll". Wouldn't that make my identity very suspicious?

Liu Miezhou sneered, "Recently, these soldiers have been making up excuses and extorting money at an increasingly rampant rate. When the emperor found out, he was furious and set up a secret inspection team. I am one of them! The emperor said that if we find a case, we will investigate it! Anyone who resists and refuses to cooperate with the investigation will be killed!" He shook the gold medal in his hand, "Execute first and report later, with special permission from the emperor!" This is what he said when he saw Feng Jiuxiao showing the gold medal. He was very familiar with it, so it was very natural for him to say it today!

The seventh infantryman sneered, "There are only fifty-eight guards in the Forbidden Palace, and I know every one of them! I don't want to know who you are now! You can remain silent now, but from now on, everything you say will be used as evidence in court! Fourth, why haven't you sent out your signal yet?"

Just as the fourth brother was about to light the hay in his hand, a sharp arrow pierced his heart!

Infantryman Lao Qi and the Northern Han soldiers around him were suddenly shocked!

The purple-clothed man actually raised his hand and shot the fourth sentry to death with an arrow!

"Who are you?" The seventh infantryman was shocked and angry!

This man's arrow shooting speed is so fast that if he shoots me, I probably won't be able to dodge it!

Li Qiangang immediately rode his horse between Liu Miezhou and Li Deming, his whole body filled with internal energy, and he was on full alert!

The martial arts skills of this purple-clothed man were beyond his imagination!

He had just deliberately sensed Liu Miezhou's combat power halfway through the journey, and he judged that the opponent was definitely not above the peak of the ninth realm!

Now, he realized that the other party had been hiding his abilities!

Just based on that arrow I shot just now, I couldn't have made it so natural and untraceable!

Liu Miezhou looked at Li Qiangang and said calmly, "Are you here to seek cooperation?"

Li Qiangang said: "That's right! You are not from Northern Han? Why did you lie to us?"

Liu Miezhou stared into Li Qiangang's eyes and said seriously, "My surname is Liu, and I am a descendant of Liu Zhiyuan. I am the cousin of the Northern Han emperor. How could I have lied to you?"

Li Deming's eyes were burning. "Are you a descendant of Liu Zhiyuan, the emperor of the Later Han Dynasty?"

Liu Miezhou's eyes were gloomy and his voice was cold. "That's right! Your purpose in coming to Northern Han is nothing more than to unite with Northern Han to deal with the Song Dynasty. In this case, why don't you cooperate with me?"

Li Deming was a little puzzled. He suppressed the urge to laugh at the other party and said seriously: "Cooperate with you? Although you are a descendant of the Later Han Dynasty, you have no power and influence now. Why should I cooperate with you?"

Liu Miezhou said: "What you want is nothing more than the power of the Northern Han! But now you have also seen that the current Northern Han army is corrupt and incompetent, and has no fighting power at all. What is the benefit of cooperating with them?"

Li Qiangang seemed to understand something and narrowed his eyes slightly, "So what you mean is..."

Liu Miezhou showed a hint of pride on his face, "I will be the emperor of Northern Han! Let's cooperate!"

Li Qiangang's eyes flickered, "Are you joking, sir?"

Liu Miezhou had a blank expression on his face. "Do you think I'm joking?"

Li Deming said: "You are alone... and you want to rebel? Isn't this a bit unrealistic?" The Northern Han has at least hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, and the Khitan cavalry is always there to support them. Even if you are a martial arts master, it is impossible for you to defeat the Northern Han army alone, right?

Liu Miezhou said: "I think you have some misunderstandings about the transfer of imperial power. I plan to let the Emperor of Northern Han directly abdicate the throne to me without bloodshed, wouldn't it be great?"

Li Deming looked at Liu Miezhou and spoke after a while: "Your idea is really shocking... I wonder how long you plan to take to realize this ambition?"

Liu Miezhou said calmly: "It will take three days at the slowest and two days at the fastest! If we can reach the palace today, we can achieve it tomorrow!"

Li Qiangang's eyes flickered, "Are you planning to sneak into the palace and then hold the emperor hostage to force him to submit?"

Liu Miezhou said: "Not bad!"

Li Qiangang said: "Forgive me for being frank, but there are so many experts in the Northern Han Palace. Are you so sure that you will succeed?"

Liu Miezhou suddenly laughed, and his laugh was very mysterious, "Since the emperor and I are a family, do you think there are no supporters of me in the Northern Han Palace?" Li Qiangang was stunned!

It seems that this "Liu destroyed Song" had planned it all along!

He now concluded that this "Liu Mie Song" was definitely a fake name! At this point, it was no longer important whether he knew the other party's real name!

Liu Miezhou suddenly raised his hand and shot another arrow. Whoosh, the arrow killed another sentry on the watchtower who was about to light the hay!

The seventh infantryman suddenly turned around and ran!

Upon seeing this, several of his comrades immediately followed suit and ran away madly!

Liu Miezhou had a blank expression on his face. He raised his Lingbao bow, condensed his energy into arrows, and killed one person with one arrow. In an instant, all the soldiers in the entire outpost were wiped out!

Li Qiangang looked at the folding bow in Liu Miezhou's hand and suddenly asked in surprise: "Is this bow a spiritual treasure bow?"

Liu Miezhou said calmly: "Not bad! You know it too?"

Li Qiangang said: "When I was traveling in the martial arts world, I heard people talking about the ten famous bows. Your bow is elegant and agile, and extremely light. I was just guessing, but I didn't expect it to be a magical bow!"

Liu Miezhou put away his bow, drew out the Tiger Roar Sword, and slashed in the air. The sword energy was so strong that the wildebeest exploded into powder in an instant!

Feng Jiuxiao and others sat in the hall with their eyes closed, while Miss Du and others had already lit the sandalwood! The whole house was filled with a refreshing fragrance! The gold, silver and jewelry in the whole yard were looted, but the sandalwood and other special items were still there, mainly because no one cared about them. The bandits didn't know that those various incense burners were actually valuable treasures! There were Boshan incense burners, lotus incense burners, gui-style incense burners, bowl-style incense burners, crane-shaped incense burners, and goose-shaped incense burners in the house. Although they were made of bronze, they were very old. The oldest goose-shaped incense burner can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period!

Zeng Yong glanced around and said, "Bandits are just bandits. They don't know anything!"

Pang Shiwu asked, "What do you mean?"

Zeng Yong pointed to the goose-shaped incense burner and said, "Do you see this incense burner?"

Pang Shiwu said, "I saw it. It's a bronze ware. It's quite simple and ancient. What's wrong?"

Zeng Yong laughed and said, "Ha! You even came up with a word for it - simple and unsophisticated! Do you think this thing is valuable?"

As soon as Pang Shiwu heard the other party's tone, he knew that this thing was not cheap. He immediately became interested and walked to the goose-shaped furnace to take a closer look. If there was no wisp of sandalwood coming out of the bronze furnace, it would be a bronze goose ornament! The feathers were carved in detail, and the goose looked like it was singing with its neck stretched out, and its expression was lifelike!

"This thing is really good. How come those thieves didn't take it?"

Yuan Zishan coughed and asked, "Isn't it inappropriate for you to discuss this here?"

Zeng Yong's scalp immediately tightened and he couldn't help but cough dryly!

Yes! Miss Du's family was killed, and they were in grief and anger. It was wrong to talk about the value of the incense burner and the stupidity of the bandits in front of them! Your topic of conversation is precisely other people's pain!

Miss Du said, "It doesn't matter!" She has a strong character since she was a child, which is completely different from the delicate and delicate rich daughter in the eyes of the world! The past is gone, and the past cannot be retrieved. Everything can only be looked forward to! She has been open-minded since she was a child, so she lives a strong life!

"Anyway, there won't be any news for the whole afternoon. Young Master Long, why don't you take a rest first? You've worked hard all day to save us from this sea of ​​suffering!"

Feng Jiuxiao said: "It's just a piece of cake, not hard work, you should take good care of your sisters! They have been severely injured physically and mentally, you should try to enlighten them, otherwise some of them with poor mental health will easily go to extremes!"

Miss Du was startled and immediately said, "Oh, if you hadn't reminded me, I would have forgotten!" She turned around and walked out! If those little girls are not guided in time, some of them will really go to extremes! In this era where gossip can melt gold and accumulated criticism can destroy a person, a girl's reputation is more important than her life, so once her innocence is gone, she can hardly hold her head up and live a normal life. This is why there are so many chaste and heroic women!

Miss Du knew that people like Young Master Long were definitely tight-lipped people!

As long as the sisters keep this experience to themselves, it’s like nothing happened!

No matter what outsiders spread, everyone insisted that nothing happened! All rumors are just rumors, there is no evidence! All the bandits are dead, they are dead and there is no evidence! As long as everyone can get over this psychological barrier, there is nothing in the world that can stump them!

But Miss Du knows that not everyone can be as strong and free and easy as she is!

Some people just like to get stuck in a rut!

When she returned to the servant's residence, she heard crying inside before she even got close!

Another little sister committed suicide!

One of them has gone insane!

Miss Du clenched her fists and gritted her teeth! She had lost two more sisters!

She hugged the little girl who started to talk nonsense, tears in her eyes, "Everyone listen to me..."

Yuan Zishan said: "I think we should go to the back and take a look!"

Feng Jiuxiao asked: "Why?"

Yuan Zishan's eyes were filled with worry. "On the way, I felt that several girls were in a bad mental state and could easily collapse!"

Feng Jiuxiao said, "Why don't you go! If they really can't make sense, use the golden needles to erase their memories!" He knew that her golden needles had reached a very high level, and could erase a person's memory for half a year! This was the minimum time period! Her goal was to be accurate to the day! But it could only be accurate to the year! Half a year was her limit! In other words, as long as she used the golden needles to acupuncture, no matter how lenient she was, the other person's memory of at least one year would disappear! There was no upper limit! One needle could send a person back to the fetal breathing state!

Yuan Zishan secretly practiced acupuncture to study how to improve her combat power, so sometimes when she encountered a small group of bandits, she would personally go to the battlefield! Those bandits were her test subjects! Different techniques, different strengths, different sequences, constantly piercing these rubbish, and then observing their reactions at any time!

Through countless experiments and combining medical classics from past dynasties, she confirmed that Fengfu, Baihui and Jiaosun acupoints are beneficial to improving memory; Sishencong acupoint can improve people's emotions; Shaohai acupoint can calm the mind and soothe the nerves; combined with Sanyinjiao, Neiguan and other acupoints, it can cure forgetfulness.

The different forces at the acupoints behind the auricle, temple, and Baihui point can cause nerve damage, resulting in coma and amnesia at the mildest, and death at the worst.

She discovered that as long as she used her Qi properly, she could keep people from falling into a coma but make them lose their memory!

This is a new discovery!

When she excitedly shared it with Feng Jiuxiao, Feng Jiuxiao smiled and said: Some people drink to relieve their worries, so your unique skill should be called "Forgetting Worry"!

Yuan Zishan said: "I went."

Chili said: "Miss, I will go with you!"

Yuan Zishan said: "Well, let's go!"

The two ran straight to the backyard.

Chang Zijin said, "Wait for me." Since Yuan Zishan was broad-minded enough to care for those little girls, how could she be at a disadvantage?

Erni said, "I'll go too!" She looked at Zeng Yong. Zeng Yong nodded slightly, and she immediately rushed out!

Zeng Yong sighed: "What a sin!"

Pang Shiwu said coldly: "That Mr. Xiao Du is mine, no one can take it away from me!"

Feng Jiuxiao rolled his eyes at him, "The eldest lady of the Du family hasn't spoken yet? Why are you so anxious?"

Pang Shiwu said angrily, "Aren't I just worried about her?"

Inside the Chuigong Hall of the Imperial Palace of the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhao Guangyi has now been crowned with a dragon robe, feeling very proud and satisfied. He is now sitting on the dragon throne, looking down at the ministers below him!

Civil officials and military generals are all at your feet! Looking at it from this angle, your state of mind is indeed different!

The feeling of dominating all living beings in the world is so cool!

Of course, one cannot show his emotions on his face! The emperor's dignity must be maintained!

"Tell me, who is the best person to lead the attack on Northern Han?"

The ministers below the stage looked at each other in bewilderment.

Taifu Gao Li stood up and bowed, saying, "Your Majesty, now that Southern Han has just been pacified and Western Shu has just been settled, our Song army is scattered all over the place and it is not appropriate to withdraw them at once. Once they are mobilized, I am afraid there will be another wave of unrest in the two places!"

Zhao Guangyi looked at this "three-dynasty old minister" who had served Zhou Shizong, Song Taizu and himself, and said with a smile: "Grandmaster, you worry too much! Li Yu of Southern Tang is now in the capital of our Great Song Dynasty. He, the ruler of Southern Tang, is in our hands. Who in the entire Southern Tang dares to act rashly? Whoever dares to raise an army is a conspirator who wants to kill Li Yu and is the number one public enemy of Southern Tang! We don't need to do anything, someone will strangle him in the bud!

As for the Southern Han, the people are grateful to us now! The previous tyrant actually ate people alive, which people didn't hate him? If we go there, the people will live and work in peace, who will rebel? So it's okay to leave a small number of troops behind!"

Gao Li did not expect Zhao Guangyi to personally "fight", which was completely different from Zhao Kuangyin's style! No matter what Zhao Kuangyin thought in his heart, he would not express his opinion first. At most, he would hint to someone to speak for him, and the ministers would debate, and he would make the final decision when the time was right!

The emperor has set the tone since he came to power, so who would dare to take advantage of him later?

It is imperative to withdraw troops to attack Northern Han, there is no need to discuss it further!

So the question now is, who will be the leader?

Thank you Yudong for your strong support and encouragement!