At Hanyang Pass, Xu Zhongxing and Su Donghe stood on the city tower, watching a huge flying boat slowly fly overhead and enter the Broken Realm.
Su Donghe Husheng sighed and said: "It has been three years, and this is the first flying boat to go outside the customs."
Xu Zhongxing narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "It seems that the imperial court is going to make a big move."
"You're not really going to have a fight with that side, are you?" Su Donghe asked.
Xu Zhongxing shook his head: "Don't you still know His Majesty's temperament? The louder the noise is now, the less he wants to fight. If we really want to fight, we must first secretly send Gao Xiu to assassinate him."
Su Donghe suddenly said: "Three years ago, we were beaten by the Wu clan and retreated all the way to the pass. Now the imperial court has finally reopened. It's a pity that we were not the first to open up."
At this point, Su Donghe suddenly thought of Xu Zhongnian's family and immediately stopped talking.
Xu Zhongxing smiled helplessly and said: "You and I have been working together for three years, but you still don't know what I am like? You are not from a noble family, and you are both bad and good. Unlike me, you have to do a lot of things you don't want to do, and a lot of things you want to do.
Nothing can be done."
Su Donghe asked in a deep voice: "I have never quite understood who is more important in your hearts, the court or the family."
Xu Zhongxing said: "We may all have different ideas, but in fact they are all the same. The imperial court and the clan are indistinguishable from each other. The imperial court appears on the outside, just like the human body, and the pillars of the family on the inside.
, like bones.”
Su Donghe listened silently and said no more.
After the airship in the sky passed Hanyang Pass, its speed slowed down. Si Zhou obviously became nervous and kept checking all key parts of the whole boat.
There were rows of soldiers sitting in the lower cabin, more than a thousand of them. At this time, a monk came over and said loudly: "We are about to enter the Broken Realm. Everyone, hold on to the ground to avoid injury!"
There is an iron ring on the ground next to each soldier. Now everyone uses the rope they carry with them to pass through the iron ring and fix themselves to the floor.
As the airship gradually penetrated into the Broken Realm, the bumps on the ship's hull became more and more severe. The sky was covered with dark clouds at some point, and thunder loomed in the clouds.
Si Zhou saw sweat on his forehead and ordered the crew to activate the boat protection formation to the maximum, then went to the upper cabin and knocked on the door respectfully.
The cabin door opened silently, and Si Zhou did not dare to enter without permission. He said at the door: "The Broken Realm is dangerous. Our ship has attracted thunder from the sky. At the critical moment, I will ask you to take action to protect the ship. In addition, Zhou
We are short of manpower, and if we want to activate the highest level formation, we will need twenty Taoist monks."
The cabin was very dark and filled with fog. A cold voice came from deep in the fog: "Let General Zhang deploy some officers to you. If you can't hold on for a while, I will take action."
The cabin door was closed again, Si Zhou did not dare to stay, and hurried to the lower level to find the officer.
The lead clouds in the sky are getting denser and lower, and the lightning flashes in the clouds are becoming more and more frequent. Suddenly, a shocking thunderbolt and a light green lightning cross the long sky and strike directly on the flying boat!
A bright light shield lit up around the spacecraft, blocking the lightning. However, the lightning was extremely powerful, splashing countless sparks like a shower of stars, and the light shield suddenly became a little darker.
The attack failed, and the thunder in the air seemed to be enraged. Light green lightning continued to fall down, causing sparks to rain down on the ship's shield.
At this time, someone snorted loudly, and then eight discs appeared around the flying boat. Each disc shot out a golden light and blasted into the clouds in the sky. The lead clouds were immediately scattered, revealing a large hole with a radius of thousands of feet.
But the lead cloud surged wildly in the sky, filling the hole in the blink of an eye. Then amidst the continuous thunder, a thick green lightning beam several feet thick fell down and hit the flying boat!
The light shield of the flying boat only resisted for a breath before it was completely extinguished. Then the cabin ignited a raging fire, and pieces of outer armor fell off.
There was an angry shout in the boat, and the eight discs reappeared. This time, all the golden light pillars fell on the dark green thunder and lightning. The two sides spent time with each other, and they fought for more than ten breaths before the dark green thunder pillars were exhausted, gradually became thinner, and even disappeared.
The man in the boat said angrily: "Sooner or later, this dog world will be replaced by you..." In the middle of his words, his voice suddenly became hoarse.
Ningxi Prefecture, Anzhao County, Dingbiancheng.
Dingbian City is located in Anzhao County among the four counties of Ningxi. It is the county seat and the seat of the state government. But at this moment, the state city is still a white land, with only countless tents on the ruins.
In a temporary wooden hall, Chen Dao and Yue Jinshan were looking at the sand table in front of them. One of the green light spots was particularly obvious. The west side of the sand table was dark green, which represented the Wu clan.
Yue Jinshan pointed at three places on the dark green edge in the west and said: "In these three places, we must set up border towns with at least 10,000 border troops in each to block the Wu tribe's eastward advance. After these three towns, we must also set up
A large camp should house at least 50,000 troops, preferably 100,000, with camera support, so that the border can be preserved. This large camp should be placed..."
Yue Jinshan's hand was hanging in the air, but he didn't click it for a long time.
Chen Dao smiled slightly, put his hand on the sand table, and said: "The best place is here. Why, General Yue is so unfamiliar with military skills recently that he is not as good as a scholar like me?"
Where Chen Dao pointed, it was seven hundred miles away from each of the three border towns. In an emergency, the army could arrive in one day. But the problem was that this place was only four hundred miles away from the cyan light spot.
Yue Jinshan frowned and said nothing.
Chen arrived and said: "General Yue, you and I will have to work together for a while. Your Majesty is determined to win this place, so we cannot avoid talking about it forever."
Yue Jinshan snorted and said: "To be honest, although I hate the old thief Xuan Yue, I still have a little admiration for this little guy. Even at the age when I was fearless, I would not have dared to set up a boundary stone at this place.
.I can’t do this, and you, Chen Dao, can’t do it. Now that others have done it, we are here to open a government and establish a county. What does this mean? What will the history books write?”
Chen Daodao: "I won't write anything in the history books."
Yue Jinshan was stunned and didn't understand what it meant.
Chen Dao said: "Historical books are also written by people, to be more precise, they were written by us. As long as the Great Tang Dynasty is not destroyed and the Western Jin Dynasty is still there, the history books will only record that you and I established a mansion and established a county and recovered the lost territory. As for who was the first to do so?
Those who set up the boundary stone will not say a single word."
Yue Jinshan was even more surprised: "Can you still act like this?" Chen Dao smiled and said: "How can you call this nonsense? The saints all wrote about the Spring and Autumn Period. We are just imitating the ancestors. Besides, it is just not written in the history books. You
It can be seen that there are many powerful ministers and sycophants in history. In fact, they are actually loyal people, but because of one or other reasons, they are written as traitors and will be infamy for thousands of years. Compared with those people, our things are insignificant."
Yue Jinshan frowned and said: "What is the reason for turning loyalty into traitor? Is it because I have offended you who write history?"
"They didn't offend a few history writers, but offended a group of people. And those people included history writers."
Chen Dao paused for a moment and then said: "Throughout the ages, even human kings have been afraid of historians, and a few powerful officials acted wantonly. It is not surprising that this ended."
Yue Jinshan's eyes widened when he heard this, and after a moment he said: "If I were a human king, I would kill all of you history writers!"
Chen Dao smiled and said: "There are tens of thousands of scholars in the world, can you kill them all?"
Yue Jinshan was speechless for a moment.
Seeing that Yue Jinshan's face was getting more and more ugly, Chen Dao laughed and said: "Although you and I are also considered to be feudal officials, which sounds very good. But being sealed in such a place where birds don't shit, the so-called state city is only one room now.
Wooden house. So the matter of leaving a name in Qingshi is still far away from us. We must first finish the immediate errands before we can worry about this."
Yue Jinshan thought so and looked at the sand table again, but no matter how he looked at it, there was that green light spot in his field of vision, which was getting more and more dazzling.
"Master Yue, there seems to be a mystery in the appointment list above." Chen Dao reminded intentionally.
"I haven't had time to take a closer look at the list of civil servants. What, is there any problem?"
Chen Dao stretched out his hand and pointed on the map and said: "Yuan Qingyan, the governor of Ningxi County, is an upright man, with a fiery temperament and a tough approach. He never forms a party for personal gain. The county seat is located in Quliu Town."
Then he clicked on the map again, this time directly on the edge of the green light: "The magistrate Niu Jinbao, appointed Yong'an County."
"Yong'an? Is there such a county?" Although Yue Jinshan does not pay attention to civil servant appointments, the topography is the basis for marching operations, so he knows all the cities and counties in Ningxi. However, it has never been mentioned in any topography materials before.
There is Yong'an County.
Chen Dao said: "Originally there was no Yong'an. Later, refugees were recruited from the border areas and the refugees gathered together to form Yong'an City. When the imperial court learned of the news, it established a new county in Yong'an and appointed the county magistrate. The county magistrate Niu Jinbao was formerly the right minister's personal
The guard is said to have saved the life of the Right Prime Minister, and he probably used this as a promotion to become a county magistrate."
"What's the temperament of this Niu Jinbao?" Yue Jinshan asked.
Chen Dao said meaningfully: "What kind of good temper can a guard have?"
Yue Jinshan thought thoughtfully: "Where did the Right Prime Minister put his savior..."
Chen Dao did not answer the call and just let Yue Jinshan figure it out for himself.
At this time, on the land of the Broken Realm, a team was slowly heading west. The window of the carriage was opened, and a head poked out from inside, asking: "How long will it take to reach Yong'an?"
The officer on horseback next to the car replied: "Sir Hui Niu, it should be five hundred miles away. We have to find a place to camp and rest tonight."
"Didn't you see a village or something on the way?"
"I saw two in villages and towns, but they were both deserted and there was no one inside."
"This place is really a ghost. There is not even a person for hundreds of miles! I heard that there are many people in Yong'an. When I take office, I will have to relax!"
The officer said: "Master Niu, this seems to be against the law."
The man glared: "Bullshit law! I saved the life of the right minister, and the king saw it. What kind of law can control me?"
The officer did not dare to say anything more. The group of people continued to move forward, moving slowly on the green land.
Quliu Town.
The town was uncharacteristically quiet today, and the doors of the Xu family's mansions were all closed. The walls of the courtyard seemed empty, but in fact there were many figures hidden among the walls.
The originally bustling commercial street is now very deserted. All the shops belonging to the Xu family are not open. Shops from other factions were originally open, but they sensed that the atmosphere was not right and closed one after another. But a few shops
The shopkeepers all hid behind the door and peeked, wanting to see what was going on.
At this time, the ground began to shake slightly. In a blink of an eye, the vibration was very obvious, and the dishes and cups on the table were clinking.
The road into the town was shrouded in fog, and something seemed to be approaching in the thick fog. Finally, a giant black horse broke through the fog and appeared in front of the townspeople.
The knight on horseback put on a silver ghost face, immediately raised his gun, and shouted: "The Zhantian Gang is here! Everyone stand where they are, anyone who dares to move will die!"
However, many of the people in Quliu Town were bloodthirsty people. At that moment, someone yelled and cursed: "What the hell! Pretending to be a ghost!"
The knight didn't say much, and pointed his spear at the man. The man suddenly screamed, as if being held by an invisible big hand, he kept deforming and shrinking in front of everyone's eyes, and was crushed into a puddle of cylindrical flesh!
That man was also a Daoji monk and a somewhat respectable figure in the town. He died so silently and in such a strange way that the onlookers didn't even know how he died!
Behind the ghost-faced knight, one horse after another came out of the fog, surrounding Quliu Town.
Chapter completed!