Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 947

Kou Minglu glanced at Tuoba Lion, his sarcasm was undisguised, but he ignored Tuoba Lion, but looked at Yang Jiye, clasped his fists and said, "This official is about to report to the general, and I will lead people to investigate in the Qilian Mountains. To a secret road, although the road conditions are inconvenient, it can barely pass by the army. General, please refer to the map. The entrance of this secret road is located in a small valley a hundred miles southwest of Guzang County, Liangzhou. After entering from here... ……”

Since August [-], the area around Lanzhou has entered the rainy autumn rain season.For four or five days in a row, it was raining continuously, so that the Suzaku Legion and the Qinglong Legion who had just arrived were affected in the battle with the Tubo people, so they had to stop first and rest in their camps.Of course, under such weather, the Tubo people's plan to attack Gaizhu City was also greatly affected.

August [-]rd, Xiangfu Country, Yanzhou, Huayang County.

One moment there was no cloud in the sky, the next moment suddenly dark clouds covered the sky, and then heavy rain poured down from all directions from the blackened sky, hitting the smoky and dusty post road.One after another, the thunderbolts were getting closer and louder, accompanied by lightning bolts, tearing apart the dark sky.

Zhou Fangyang of the posthouse in Dashan Town stretched his neck from the door of the house. Seeing the rainwater pouring down from the eaves, the top of the wall, and the top of the tree, and flowing out from the yard along the cracks in the door and the gutter, he couldn't help cursing: "This Straight mother thief's weather."

Zhou Fangyang shook his head, and was about to retreat into the house, when he heard a few neighing sounds of horses from the post road.Zhou Fangyang was an old soldier who had retired from the battlefield. He knew from the sound that it was not an ordinary horse, but an excellent war horse.He hurriedly turned his head, waved to the inside of the house, and cursed: "Liu Laowu, quickly find the coir raincoat, an official is here."

Then someone in the room laughed and scolded: "Zhoutou, don't make fun of others, this weather..." While scolding, a middle-aged man came over with a coir raincoat and a bamboo hat. It is so strong, the rainy day in the northwest in August has begun to feel chilly, but this person is only wearing a kudzu robe under the coir raincoat, and the muscles on his body can be seen through the clothes, but one is missing. arm.

At this time, the one-armed middle-aged man named Liu Lao Wu had just walked to the door, Zhou Fangyang grabbed the coir raincoat and bamboo hat, put it on his body, and limped out in the heavy rain.Liu Laowu hurriedly poked his head out, only to see a carriage wrapped in rain, roaring towards it, and stopped outside the gate.Accompanying the carriage came more than a hundred knights on war horses, ten of them wore pitch-black military uniforms, and about a hundred other cavalry wore fiery red military robes. Liu Laowu participated in the Yinzhou battle with the Liao army last year A squad leader of the Xuanwu Legion who was retired from the army after being cut off by the Liao army at that time, naturally recognized the fiery red robe as the uniform of the Suzaku Legion.

At this time, although these knights were drenched by the heavy rain, they didn't seem to care about it at all, and there was a murderous air in every gesture.Liu Lao Wu was stunned for a moment, knowing that these people were the elite of the Suzaku Legion, but the ten knights who took the lead in the strange black military uniform looked even colder. People, I have seen mountains of swords and seas of corpses, but I still can't help feeling cold when I meet these people's eyes.He didn't know that these ten people belonged to the royal family, directly obeyed the emperor's orders, and were responsible for the safety of the royal family.

The leader of the black-clothed knight frowned when he saw only two people came out to meet him at the station, and shouted, "Which of you is the leader?"

Zhou Fangyang hurriedly laughed along with him, and replied: "The young one is the postman here, the adults call me Zhou Fangyang."

The knight glanced at him out of the corner of his eye, and shouted: "There are only two people in your inn? Why don't you call someone out to say hello..." He was cursing when he suddenly heard someone behind him shout: "Wang Sanbao, be more polite."

"Yes, son." Wang Sanbao replied, and turned his head away. Through the heavy rain, Zhou Fangyang saw a young man of seventeen or eighteen getting off the front carriage. Seeing them coming out, Wang Sanbao walked over quickly , while saying: "Young master, it's raining so hard, why did you come out?"

Listening to their conversation, Zhou Fangyang felt a thrill in his heart. The list that came down three days ago was just these two days. The new general judge of Lanzhou of the court, the famous His Majesty's personal disciple Mr. Kou Zhun Kou, was going to pass through the post station in Dashan Town!Could it be this one?He looked suspiciously at this young man with a calm expression that didn't look like a young man. It was really hard to tell what the identity of this lightly dressed and simple man was.

Just as he was thinking, the young man came over with an umbrella, glanced at him, and asked with a smile: "Is Zhou Yicheng originally from the Xuanwu Army?" On the third-class military merit medal on his chest, he said with a quick smile: "Young master has good eyesight." The young man glanced at his unsightly legs and feet again, and said with a smile: "The military merit medals of each of the nine imperial court regiments are different. , I once saw a soldier wearing the Xuanwu Legion military merit medal, so I wrote it down. General Zhan led [-] cavalry to Wuzhou of Liao State last year, smashing more than a dozen tribes in Liao State, and his power shocked the world! Zhou Yi Cheng has made third-class military exploits for the imperial court, you have worked hard."

When Zhou Fangyang heard this, he couldn't help showing pride on his face, and said with a smile: "Young master has good eyesight."

At this time, Liu Laowu had already called the people in the posthouse to come out and lead the horses and chariots into the stable, and Zhou Fangyang hurriedly welcomed the group of people outside into the posthouse.The post station in Dashan Town is a medium-sized post station, so hundreds of people came in, plus the people who lived here and there, the whole post house suddenly seemed to be boiling, and everyone in the post station was in a hurry.Fortunately, the young man saw Zhou Fangyang's lame right leg and Liu Laowu's severed arm, and knew that the two were veterans who had made great contributions to the country. The boss breathed a sigh of relief.After a while of busy work, they settled down. The black-clothed guard specifically emphasized that the horses should be taken care of well. Zhou Fangyang didn't dare to neglect, so he went to the stables to look at the fodder himself.

As soon as he arrived at the stable, Liu Lao Wu approached him and asked, "Zhou Tou, who is this young man who came just now? Now that the imperial court is using troops in many places, when there is a shortage of soldiers, there is someone beside him. There are more than 100 fine cavalry acting as guards."

Zhou Fangyang patted him on the head and scolded: "What do you care about? Just be careful and wait on him."

Liu Laowu smiled and said, "None of my business. I just saw him so young and so kind. It's really rare. I've been working in the station for more than half a year, and I've never met him before."

Zhou Fangyang added some grass to the manger, and said, "You know what. This person's status doesn't require any domineering gesture."

Liu Laowu became more and more curious, and said with a smile: "Zhou Tou, I am more and more curious when you say that, who is this young master?"

Zhou Fangyang squinted at Liu Lao Wu, and said, "Take care of him carefully, and don't make any mistakes. Do you know who he is?"

"Didn't I just ask Zhou Tou?" Liu Lao Wu smiled.

Zhou Fangyang glanced at Liu Lao Wu with a straight face, and then looked around, seeing that no one was paying attention to him, he lowered his voice and said, "Who do you think he is? He is His Majesty's personal disciple, the youngest sixth rank in the imperial court." High official Kou Zhun!"

Liu Laowu couldn't help being stunned when he heard the name, and said: "It's the one who first established Shenshan Town by himself, and convinced more than 7 people from fifteen tribes, large and small, of the Qiang people to change their land and return them to the people, and later established Dangxiang Town by themselves. Kou Zhun from the state?"

Zhou Fangyang ignored him, touched the feeding horses in the stables, inspected them one by one, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, take good care of them, don't make any mistakes!" Everyone in the stables smiled and agreed. Some people ignored Zhou Fangyang and just murmured, "This is Hetao Dama..."

Zhou Fangyang looked at the crowd, shook his head unconsciously, and suddenly heard a thunderbolt, accompanied by a bolt of lightning, illuminating the dark sky pale and pale.For some reason, he suddenly felt an ominous feeling, and his right eyelid twitched continuously.He walked back and forth in the stable for a few more steps, always feeling uneasy, and was thinking of going to the front hall to take care of it, when suddenly a postman ran in hastily, seeing Zhou Fangyang, he pointed out with his finger, stammering He shouted: "Zhou... Zhou... Zhoutou... something... something happened."

Zhou Fangyang's heart sank, and he didn't care to finish listening, so he dragged one leg and walked to the front hall.Seeing something wrong with Liu Laowu's eyes, he hurriedly followed Zhou Fangyang and walked out in three steps at a time.As he walked, he tightly held the meritorious service bronze medal on his chest. The bronze medal was engraved with the words "Third Class Merit", and it was a reward he earned for his great service in Yinzhou last year.With this bronze medal, he does not need to kneel down for officials below the fourth rank.

Within a few minutes, the two arrived at the front porch of the post house.From a distance, all the people from the posthouse in the front hall were driven out, guarded by a few soldiers brought by Kou Zhun, and everyone was panicked.A few of Kou Zhun's personal soldiers stood at the entrance of the hall, their eyes fixed on each other, their faces full of evil spirits.Zhou Fangyang's heart skipped a beat, and he didn't know what happened, so he hurried a few steps, almost jogging along the corridor, and when he reached the door, he was stopped by the black-clothed guards: "Stop!" Don't you have eyes?"

Zhou Fangyang hurriedly laughed and said: "I am the postman here, I don't know..." The black-clothed guards didn't even look him in the eye, and then shouted: "What postman is not postman. The young master has orders, and the idlers wait Do not enter."

Zhou Fangyang was very annoyed, but still had a habitual smile on his face, and said bluntly: "The younger ones are not well served, and I hope the superiors will take care of them. Please let me know..." He didn't say anything After that, someone in the hall said: "Let them in, maybe I have something to ask them."

(End of this chapter)