"In that case, Mr. Du, your cousin should be Wang Yun's subordinate, but didn't we just kill Wang Yun?" Chen Xiaomu asked confused.
Du Fengxian stretched out his fingers and stroked his beard, "My cousin's name is Zhang Mingyun. He grew up with me. He likes to wield swords and guns. When he was sixteen years old, he was injured in a fight on the street. The son of a wealthy gentry, the government wanted to arrest him, so he secretly went to the army to eat food and serve as a soldier. When the state of E was occupied by the state of Chu, he had already become a centurion. When the state of Chu attacked the state of E, his son was captured by the Chu army. He was captured and used as a human shield, but was beaten to death. Today, his wife and daughter still live in Yangcheng, Hubei. Although he had a close friendship with Wang Yun, he always disagreed with Wang Yun's actions in matters of great right and wrong, such as when he was with Zheng Zheng. During the battle, the Chinese army was very disgusted with Wang Yun's way of attacking the Chu people, and drove the people of Zheng to serve as human shields for the army! He had discussed with me several times, and was ready to leave the Chu army and go home to reunite with his wife and daughter. But he was helpless He never drinks the blood of his soldiers or takes empty pay, so he is short of money and has no choice but to grit his teeth and continue working in the Chu army."
"But now we are directly killing his boss and friend! Can he let it go?" Chen Xiaomu asked worriedly.
"When he comes over later, you and the princess don't say anything, and I will explain this matter to him!" Du Fengxian said with confidence.
The three of them were talking when a rough voice suddenly came from outside the door, "Weijiang Zhang Yun will meet the guard master."
Chen Xiaomu and Ximen Ruoen, who were eating in the room, were startled when they heard the sound. They couldn't help but look at Du Fengxian!
Du Fengxian smiled and waved gently to them, then stood up and walked to the door and opened it.
"Cousin, the guard asked you to come to me, right?" A dark-faced man outside the door said as he stepped through the door.
Just as he kicked in and out of the door, he suddenly stopped and sniffed, "Cousin, why is there such a strong smell of blood in Lord Guard's room?"
"Master Guard is dead!" Du Fengxian said softly.
"What!" Zhang Yun's face suddenly changed. He stepped back from the door, took out his sword, pointed the tip of the sword at Du Fengxian, and shouted softly, "How did Lord Guard die? Tell me the truth!"
When Du Feng saw Zhang Yun's rebellion, his expression turned cold. He patted his chest and said, "I killed him! What can you do?"
Zhang Yun couldn't believe his ears. He was so angry that he stammered and asked Du Fengxian, "You, why do you want to kill Lord Guard? He is not mean to you."
Du Fengxian puffed up his chest, "I killed him for moral reasons, and he really deserves to die."
"Okay, tell me what bullshit moral reasons did you kill Lord Guards for?" Although Zhang Yun said this, he did not put down the knife in his hand, and the tip of the knife was still pointed directly at Du Fengxian's chest.
Du Feng glanced at him first and said, "Cousin, you know that cousin doesn't like people talking to him with a knife pointed at him."
Zhang Yun couldn't help but take a step back, "If you speak clearly, I will naturally put away the knife!"
Du Fengxian sneered, "Really? But don't regret it!" Before he finished speaking, Du Fengxian suddenly turned around, like a phantom, and disappeared in front of Zhang Yun in the blink of an eye. Just when Zhang Yun wanted to look back, he felt like he was being wrapped around his neck. An iron hoop was suddenly put on him, and he could hardly breathe for a moment, and then a gleaming dagger was pressed against his chest.
Zhang Yun hurriedly threw down the knife in his hand with a "clang", and forced out a smile that was uglier than crying, "Cousin, this is also the reason why I acted too hastily. Now let's put down the knife. Let's make things clear, okay? "
Du Feng snorted softly, then let go of his hand, put away the dagger, and walked towards the house without looking back.
Chen Xiaomu and Ximen Noen, who heard the sound and ran to the door to watch, were dumbfounded. They really couldn't believe that Du Fengxian, dressed as a scholar, had such incredible martial arts skills!
Zhang Yun, who originally wanted to follow Du Fengxian into the house, hesitated again when he looked up and saw two figures standing by the door.
Du Feng turned around and waved to him, "Come here and I'll introduce two friends to you."
Seeing what his cousin said, Zhang Yun had no choice but to follow him into the house. As soon as he entered the house, he was frightened by Wang Yun's separated body lying on the ground.
"Cousin, what is going on?" Zhang Yun approached Du Fengxian and lowered his voice, asking anxiously.
Du Fengxian gave him a gentle look, "Cousin, you should know who I really am!"
Zhang Yun nodded quickly, and Du Fengxian continued, "I remember that when my father was the prefect of Yangcheng Prefecture, he was deeply trusted by the emperor. Within two years, the emperor transferred his father to Yancheng, Kyoto, as the governor. At that time, my uncle passed away. You have been living in my house for a long time. It seems that you are also a person who has received the emperor's favor. It is not that you were a gangster on the street and maimed others. Your father wanted to arrest you, but you sneaked into the army to join the army. Maybe you were also killed when the Chu army came to my house and wiped out my family!"
Zhang Yun couldn't help but sigh after hearing this!
"But look at us, we are still helping the enemy who killed my father to attack the country of Zheng. You think we are both in trouble!"
Zhang Yun sighed, "Cousin, isn't this a temporary solution? You said we should leave this bird army. You and I don't know how to do bird business. When planting, the harvest is not as large as the seeds sown. We can't let my wife Children drink the northwest wind, right?"
Ximen Ruoen, who was sitting next to them, frowned and thought hard for a while, and suddenly shouted in surprise: "It turns out that you are the son of Lord Du Wenlongdu, Yin of Yancheng Prefecture!"
Du Feng quickly raised his hands and said, "Princess, I am right here."
"Princess?" Zhang Yun turned his head and looked at Ximen Ruoen with confusion.
Du Fengxian stretched out his hand and patted his head, "What are you looking at with these rogue eyes? She is the daughter of the late Emperor of our country, Her Royal Highness Princess Ximen Ruoen!"
"Oh, it turns out to be Her Royal Highness the Princess!" Zhang Yun was startled and quickly walked to Ximen Ruoen and knelt down to salute.
Du Fengxian asked him with a smile, "Cousin, do you think I was right or wrong in killing Wang Yun for the safety of our Princess of E?"
"Of course you are right. If it comes to me, I will definitely kill Wang Yun. Although we are all bastards, we are not so unconscionable!" Zhang Yun nodded like a woodpecker.
"This Wang Yun not only wants to capture the princess and ask for rewards from Emperor Chu, but if he hadn't said it himself, I wouldn't have believed that he was actually the mastermind behind the murder of the late Emperor's family!" Du Fengxian said angrily.
Zhang Yun was shocked, looked down at Wang Yun's body lying on the ground, and spat fiercely, "This traitor and traitor has such a vicious heart!"
''Cousin, I am planning to follow the princess and go against the Chu people in the future. What are you going to do? "Du Fengxian began to clarify the topic.
"I must have defected to the princess with my cousin. How can we two brothers be separated! It's just that my wife and daughter are still in Hubei, so I can't openly defect to the princess for the time being." Zhang Yun first vowed, and then said with some embarrassment. arrive.
"This is easy to handle. There is a lot of money hidden in Wang Yun's room, which he collected from his usual corruption and bribery. Find two cronies to bring more money and find a way to bring them to Xinhe County to live temporarily."
Zhang Yun shook his head, cousin, not to mention that Xinhe County has a right-wing commander who is from the Chu State, and has nearly 10,000 troops under his command. The Chu army that went to attack Tianquan County alone has nearly 300,000 troops and must be killed back. If so, it would probably flatten Xinhe County! "
Chen Xiaomu, who had been listening to the two of them talking, stood up and said with a smile: "General Zhang, please don't worry, the soldiers and horses of the Chu army attacking Tianquan County, I can guarantee that they will not come back in this life, and even if they can come back, they will be stragglers." , it won’t create a big situation, I think the top priority now is to get rid of this right-wing leader in Xinhe City and take control of his troops!"
How could 300,000 men and horses be just gone? Zhang Yun wouldn't believe it even if he beat him to death. He thought that Chen Xiaomu said this just to give him some relief. But no matter what these 300,000 men said, he would not be relieved until Chen Xiaomu dug out Wang Yun's body. Zhu Ping, deputy envoy of Xinyang Pass of Chu State, handed Wang Yun an urgent military letter to Wang Yun and handed it to Zhang Yun. Zhang Yun was relieved. He knew that if he had not been desperate, Zhu Ping, deputy envoy of Xinyang Pass, a second-rank official of Chu State, would never A rescue letter would be sent to a fifth-rank official like the Xinhe County Guard, not to mention that this fifth-rank official was a former surrendered general of the State of Hubei.
The threat in Tianquan County has been relieved. The next step is how to deal with the right commander of the Chu army in Xinhe County. According to Zhang Yun, the right commander of the Chu army is named Zhongtuo. He is in his forties and usually has a bad temper. Irritated, with his eyes above his head, he doesn't care about the defense at all. Wang Yun is said to be a Chu army. In fact, his men, including the two commanders, are all originally from the E state. The Chu army that is really from the Chu state only has more than a thousand people. The scholar army is the same as the Wang Xiao that Chen Xiaomu met at the Chu army camp last time. They failed repeatedly at home, and then relied on various nepotisms to get into the army to defraud various military merits. After returning, they would Relying on the defrauded military merits to avoid the test and get a small official position.
After listening to Zhang Yun's introduction to Zhong Tuo, the commander of the right capital in Xinhe City, Chen Xiaomu proposed to trap Zhong Tuo. Specifically, he used Zhong Tuo not knowing that Wang Yun had been killed, and Du Fengxian came forward to inform him to discuss the matter in the name of Wang Yun. , and then Zhang Yun mobilized fifty archers with good shooting skills to ambush on the surrounding roofs and in the rooms. As long as Zhong Tuo and his guards entered the courtyard, the archers heard Zhang Yun's two coughs. Immediately, they fired a volley of arrows and shot him to death in this courtyard.
As soon as Chen Xiaomu mentioned his idea, everyone agreed and immediately started preparations. In order to prevent Zhongtuo from missing Wang Yun, Chen Xiaomu specifically asked Du Feng to bring Zhu Ping's rescue letter to Wang Yun first.
Not long after Du Feng left first, the fifty archery masters transferred by Zhang Yun, each with a box full of arrows, were already in place. They began to set up their bows and arrows, waiting for Zhong Tuo to come and deliver their heads.
About half an hour later, Du Fengxian also rushed back, carrying a bulging cloth bag in his hand, but Zhong Tuo and his guards were nowhere to be seen behind him.
After Chen Xiaomu and Zhang Yun welcomed him in, they asked him eagerly, "Is Zhongtuo suspicious or unwilling to come?"
Du Fengxian smiled and shook his head, throwing the cloth bag in his hand towards Wang Yun's body, "He's here!"
