After all, the family is a family.
The National War in the North came to an end, and the seven countries reorganized their national affairs and settled the disputes within their borders. Twenty years ago, there was a civil war between the north and the south of Yan State. Mu Suifeng suppressed the south with one shot. However, what Yan State needed to govern the world was not warriors like Mu Suifeng, but ministers from aristocratic families.
The rebellion in the Southern Territory can be managed by the seven cities in the Southern Territory, but the efforts of the noble families are still indispensable. The rebels who were suppressed by Mu Suifeng's cavalry killed only three but seven were saved. The remaining seven quickly changed their identities and took over the post again to replace the noble ministers who were executed during the civil war between the DPRK and China.
While King Yanyou was on the throne, the ministers did not dare to touch Mu Suifeng. But after King You died, the new king succeeded. In order to cultivate his power, he had to promote a group of noble officials who had been neglected before to replace the old king and the elders.
You must know that Mu Suifeng's horse riding in the four regions has offended not only the seven cities in the southern region. Even though Uncle Wang was supporting him in the royal city of Handan, and the Silver Armor Army had many forces rooted in the court, it still seemed weak in the end.
Even the ministers with ulterior motives secretly spread rumors in Handan, saying that Mu Suifeng covered the sky with one hand in the southern region, and that the north and south of the Yan Kingdom were traversed by Dushan Mountain, and there was only one Hulao Pass as a connecting link. If Mu Suifeng wanted to fight against the King of Yan and divide Yan, it would be easy with the power of the Silver Armor Army.
The King of Yan was already an unscrupulous king, and rumors like these made Mu Suifeng, who was already dissatisfied, wary of him in every possible way, wishing that his identity as the Lord of Heyang City and the general of the dynasty could be erased.
However, Mu Suifeng was so successful in the Qi Kingdom that King Yan had the intention but was powerless, so he had to secretly push the forces in the court that were hostile to Mu Suifeng to chip away at his minions bit by bit.
"Bai Ze, you have to help me!" Mu Qingling grabbed the young man's arm, "I want to return to Heyang City immediately and tell my father the news!"
"It's natural to help you." Bai Zemu has the power of mountain ghosts and can see at night. He saw Mu Qingling's somewhat panicked pretty face, "It's just that the Du family's demons can't be eliminated. With our strength, how can we be safe?" Return to Heyang?"
Mu Qingling opened her mouth, but the words never came out.
Bai Ze told her that if he wanted to kill Du Ming, one sword would be enough. But that sword must be Bai Ze's killer move, and he couldn't use it easily.
To take a step back, if Du Ming is killed with one sword here, can it be guaranteed that no other Zhiwei master will intercept and kill him on the way back to the city?
The fact that the Du family dared to attack her meant that even Mu Suifeng who was relying on her behind her had to be treated with caution. If the Southern Territory families join forces, returning to Heyang this time will inevitably lead to a bloody battle.
"Don't worry." Bai Ze comforted her, "Anyway, your father is also the number one general in the Yan Kingdom, so he's not that easy to deal with. For the current plan, let's get rid of the evil way first, and then we can leave Dushan." He looked at Linglu , "With Brother Lu here, we will take a detour and return to Heyang. It won't take long."
After hearing Bai Ze's words, the Nine-Colored Spirit Deer proudly raised its head and called out. After all, its reputation of traveling thousands of miles a day is not just for nothing.
"Then are you sure you can get rid of the demon in the Du family?" Mu Qingling looked at Bai Ze with wide eyes.
Bai Ze was struck by how cute she looked. He smiled confidently and said, "What's so difficult about this, right, Brother Lu?"
"Chirp!" Linglu scratched the ground with his front hooves and shook his head.
Mu Qingling saw that Bai Ze and Linglu were very familiar with each other, and she was confused, but she didn't ask after all.
At the same time, Yan State, Hulao Pass.
The Dushan Mountain Range stretches across the Three Kingdoms in the north, and within the territory of Dayan, Dushan Mountain is used as the boundary to divide the north and the south. Hulao Pass is the main transportation route between the north and the south of the Yan Kingdom. It is the chokepoint of the Yan Kingdom and one of the five northern passes.
The terrain of Hulao Pass is dangerous. Seventy years ago, during the Northern War, the Qi army captured the southern region of Yan. King Qi Cheng commanded his army to go north, hoping to break through the pass and capture Handan, the royal city of Yan. The 400,000-strong army was blocked in front of Hulao Pass for more than three months.
At that time, King Zhao of Yan personally went south and led his army to guard the gate. The two kings faced each other, and the war was protracted. After three battles, the two countries suffered more than 100,000 casualties. Corpses piled up like mountains, and crows danced wildly to eat the corpses, often covering the sky.
During the confrontation between the two countries, King Yan Zhao wore armor on the city wall and beat the war drum himself. He was shot in the left eye by an arrow from Tian Dan, the general of the Qi army and one of the four war gods in the national war.
"Your Majesty!!" The eyes of all the civil and military officials at Hulao Pass were about to burst, and they rushed to King Yan Zhao's side despite the rain of arrows.
Unexpectedly, King Yan Zhao kept beating the drum with one hand, pulled out the arrow with the other hand, ate the left eye that was brought out by the arrow, and shouted angrily, "The emperor guards the gate of the country, the king dies for the country, and the ministers retreat!" Then he continued to beat the war drum with both hands.
All the officers and soldiers of the Yan Kingdom were shocked. Hulao Pass roared loudly and shook the sky. The soldiers guarding the pass shot back arrows in seventy-eight cases. When they were exhausted, their bows were broken and their fingers were broken.
King Qi Cheng watched the battlefield from a distance and heard King Yan Zhao's move. He sighed and said to his generals: "It's good for an emperor to guard the country's gates, but the king dies in the country. Yan has such a monarch at Hulao Pass, even if all 400,000 of our Qi soldiers are killed or wounded. It’s also difficult to conquer.”
King Qi Cheng immediately withdrew his troops and the two countries made a truce.
During the National War, the words of King Yan Zhao, "The emperor guards the gates of the country, and the king dies in the country" became a legend among the Seven Kingdoms. After that war, under the guidance of their fathers, the princes of the Seven Kingdoms all kept that sentence in mind, and determined that one day they would be able to conquer the country. The sword is ready to fight for the country.
Because of the words of King Yan Zhao of Zhenguan, the national war came to an end. The succeeding monarchs of the seven kingdoms were all masters of great talent and strategy. The northern border was also balanced by the seven kingdoms, and there was no national war for thirty years. In the northern kingdom, everyone regards King Zhao of Yan as a role model. His reputation is so good that even seventy years later, when people talk about it, scholars from the seven countries still praise the former monarch.
Now King Zhao of Yan has long since returned to dust, but his words, after the battle of Hulao Pass in Yanqi, were carved into couplets using flawless Dushan jade by Song and Yuan, the most famous craftsmen in the north, and they are still hanging on the tower of Hulao Pass.
After the heavy rain, Hulao Pass looked like a giant beast grinding its teeth and sucking blood, crawling in a gap in Dushan Mountain. The air was filled with the smell of earth, but the guarding soldiers no longer flinched from the rain of arrows. They all hurriedly hid in the tower despite the heavy rain.
The patrol commander climbed up to the tower late at night, and some of the soldiers were even sleeping soundly under the tower to take shelter from the rain.
"Get up!" the inspection commander roared, and the night watchmen woke up one after another. When they saw the person coming, they quickly adjusted their swords and armor. In the panic, some people didn't even have time to catch the sword. They stood still and shouted: "Commander Ye! "
"How dare you be so slack on such an important task of vigil!" Ye Xuan was furious. He looked at the sloppy military columns in front of him and drew his sword loudly. "If the enemy attacks, I'm afraid you won't even know how your heads fell off! You are on duty tonight." Where is the husband, you have neglected your duty and should be executed for your crime!"
"Commander Ye, spare your life, Commander Ye, spare your life!" At that moment, an armored soldier knelt down on the ground, grabbing the ground with his head, and burst into tears. Please spare my life, Commander Ye!"
"I'll spare your life today. If the enemy attacks tomorrow, who will spare my life, Dayan!" Ye Xuan glared at him angrily and raised his knife to chop him.
All the soldiers were as silent as cicadas.
But at this moment, a sudden change occurred! Ye Xuan's right hand holding the knife was trembling, and a standard saber showed signs of being released from his hand!
"What's going on?" Ye Xuan was shocked. His first reaction was an earthquake, but the tower did not shake, only the knife in his hand trembled.
In just an instant, the entire city tower and the weapons of all the soldiers trembled and let out an ominous wail!
The centurion who was kneeling on the ground also noticed something was wrong. The saber on his waist trembled violently, and he unsheathed it on his own and flew out of the tower with a whoosh!
"Drink!" Ye Xuan tried his best to hold the saber in his hand, but the other soldiers were not as skilled as him. For a moment, the weapons from their waists and hands flew out on their own, heading straight for the wilderness outside Hulao Pass.
Hundreds of weapons flew into the night sky, and Ye Xuan lost consciousness for a moment. The saber in his hand came out and ran away with the torrent of weapons.
Ye Xuan hurriedly lay on the city wall to take a look.
I saw the torrent rushing away, pointing directly at a strange black shadow in the wilderness outside the pass.
After the rain, the waning moon emerged from the clouds, and the moonlight shone. Ye Xuan's eyes widened, and he finally saw what the black shadow was.
The monster looked like a monkey with a white head and red feet. It opened its mouth and roared in the wilderness, and a torrent of weapons came in a moment, and was swallowed alive by it.
"Fierce, ferocious beast Zhu Yan!!" Ye Xuan shouted, panicking and heading straight to the general's mansion in Hulao Pass, where people were singing every night, with a horrified look on his face.
"What did Commander Ye say?" The night watchmen lay on the top of the city to watch.
The centurion jumped up and stared at the strange beast in the wilderness. He also shouted with a pale face, "It's Zhu Yan!"
The ferocious beast recorded in Kyushu's "Stories of Strange Beasts" is Zhu Yan! It looks like an ape, with a white head and red feet. If you see it, the world will be full of soldiers!
The ferocious beast Zhu Yan swallowed up the torrent of weapons and roared twice into the wilderness. The sound was like the clash of gold and iron, shocking the soul.
"Haha, this is just the beginning of the declaration of war." Ten miles away, an exquisitely carved carriage turned around and drove away. The carriage was pulled by two white deer. The carriage was covered with red curtains. The driver was wearing a raincoat and his eyes were straight.
The sound coming from the car is charming and captivating. It's a pity that the driver is deaf and can't hear.
The cold wind blows, and the moon shines like frost.
The woman driving in the car has hundreds of layers of skirts, and her black hair is like a waterfall. She was lying lazily on the soft silk bed covered with velvet in the carriage. She was picking a crystal clear green grape from the fruit plate and putting it into her mouth.
Those lips were absolutely gorgeous red lips. The strange woman smiled softly, her charming eyes like the scarlet fire moon.
It would never be too much to use the power of a city and a country on her.
After the ferocious beast Zhu Yan roared like a demonstrator, his figure gradually disappeared into the night. The coir raincoat driver drove the white deer carriage, heading south amidst the sound of wind chimes hanging from the eaves of the carriage.
At dawn, there was a gap in the door of Hulao Pass. Two riders rode Juechen, one rode straight to the royal city of Handan, and the other rode south to Heyang.
On this day, the ferocious beast Zhu Yan suddenly appeared in the Hulao Pass of the Yan Kingdom. It was said that the ominous beast would bring strife to the world once it appeared.
As soon as the news was sent to Heyang City, the whole city was shocked.
At the end of the court meeting the next day, thirteen horses were killed, and the Hulao Pass scout finally sent the secret report to Handan.
The royal city is full of horses, and they can ride as fast as they can.
Before the soldiers guarding the palace could yell at the scout who delivered the message to get off his horse, the scout had already fallen under his horse. The gatekeeper hurriedly stepped forward to check the situation. The scout struggled to hand the secret message in his arms into the hands of the gatekeeper. He only said eight words, "Hulao Pass is eight hundred miles away, urgently." Then he died of exhaustion.
King Yan's three-day court meeting ended early, dismissed the courtiers, and headed straight to Xining Palace with his personal eunuch Wang Yong. He was anxious and angry all the way, wishing he could spread his wings and spend another night with his fragrant concubine.
King Yan's steps were frivolous, and after running for a long time, he was sweating profusely. Regardless of his propriety, he tore off the king's royal crown directly in the palace and threw it to the eunuch Wang Yong, "Xiang Fei, my little baby, here comes the lonely king. Got it!"
"Your Majesty, slow down, slow down!" The chief eunuch, who has served King Yan for more than twenty years, is also getting older. He picked up the crown robe with less air in and out more, and trotted to follow.
The guard soldiers who entered the palace to deliver a message for the dead scouts and the retired civil and military ministers collided on the main road of the palace.
"Why are you in such a panic?" Shangqing He Zongtang stopped the guard. He was over fifty years old and was not angry. "I remember that you are a guard at the Suzaku Gate of the palace. Why did you break into the court without permission?"
"Your Excellency!" The guard knelt down and presented the secret message with both hands, "Urgent report from Hulao!"
On this day, King Yan just entered Xining Palace, took off his clothes, half hugged and half hugged the charming girl, and was about to have fun, but was disturbed by the loud ringing of the bell in the court.
"Who is ringing the bell, who is ringing the bell!" King Yan was furious. In the past twenty years, the court bell had only rang twice. The last time was when the Seven Cities were in rebellion.
The bells rang, the palace was solemn, and Handan was boiling.
