Zuo Yuliang won a great victory in the south. After a short rest, he sent his army to the southeast and pointed his sword at Sangbichu. The whole country rejoiced.
According to custom, when the frontline soldiers are victorious, ordinary people will burn incense at home to pray for the soldiers, and will also bid farewell to those who died in the battle, which means that the whole country is united. As a royal family, there are also such etiquettes that need to be completed, which are even much larger than those for ordinary people.
However, in view of the current "big exam", this ceremonial activity of the royal family was not specially organized. Instead, the royal family members went to the altar of heaven and earth to pay homage and burn incense.
September 9th, sunny, morning, North Gate.
"The Spiritual King is out of the city! Passers-by should avoid it!"
The Spirit King rarely goes out with a guard of honor, which is not in line with his character and does not like him. He prefers to wear ordinary clothes and walk freely through the streets with his hands behind his back. But today he went out of the city to burn incense and offer sacrifices to heaven to celebrate a great victory, so he had to uphold the majesty of the royal family and not reduce it, otherwise it would be inconsistent with etiquette and would also damage the dignity of the royal family and the honor of the fallen soldiers in the south.
The road was opened in front, and people entering and leaving the city on both sides of the north gate moved to both sides to make way for the honor guard of the Spirit King to pass. Regardless of whether they had any complaints in their hearts, they had to get out of the way and wait for the honor guard to leave before they could continue their journey. .
Fortunately, the ceremonial guard of the Spirit King was not too long, and he passed the north gate in just a few dozen breaths, without causing a blockage in the city gate.
At this time, a soldier in military uniform on the north gate city wall, Qianhu, was holding the female wall with a cold face. He looked at the Lingwang's carriage passing through the city wall and calmly said to the adjutant beside him: "Notice King Qi, just say that King Ling has left through the north gate."
"My subordinate understands."
Half an hour after the adjutant went down, at the North City Gate, King Yang Feng of Qi arrived. Another hour later, two princes came one after another, it was King Yang Lin of Shou and King Yang Yong of Wu.
The towers of the city wall have now been under martial law for a long time. In addition to Huang Zishan's soldiers guarding the north gate, there are also internal guards of the three princes, guarding several floors inside and outside, and there is still an atmosphere of mutual vigilance. In short, there is tension in the weirdness.
The inside of the city tower is relatively simple. It is mainly the command center of the city guard. There are only tables and chairs. At most, a cup of tea is considered a preferential treatment for the three arriving princes.
King Qi sat at the top, King Shou and King Wu sat on the left and right. It's not that King Qi has a high position, but that the North Gate now has a new member of King Qi's command. King Qi is considered the master here, so he took the seat.
There were people standing behind the three princes, two royal guards were closely protecting them, and behind King Qi there was a Qianhu official in military uniform. It was the King of Qi who had watched King Ling's carriage leave at the edge of the female wall and asked someone to notify him.
"Huang Zishan, please tell the two princes about the situation." Yang Feng waved his hand, and the Qianhu officer in military uniform behind him bowed in response.
Huangzishan, with thousands of households guarding the north gate, was originally under the command of King Lu, but was later gathered by King Qi. At this time, the man held his hands to the left and right before saying: "So that the two princes will know that King Ling left the city when he first arrived. He was accompanied by a total of thirty-one riders and sixty-three infantry. King Ling's carriage In the center. The direction should be to go to the Heaven and Earth Altar."
As soon as Huang Zishan finished speaking, King Shou snorted, put down the tea cup in his hand, and sneered: "After waiting for so many days, it's finally here. What do you say?"
"How do you say it? There was a consensus before that once Yang Shu leaves the imperial city, it will be an opportunity for us, so we will naturally do what we said in advance. What? Does fifth brother have other opinions?" King Wu sipped his tea and did not move. In terms of appearance, they came here to deal with Yang Shu, but the three of them knew that they were also hostile to each other and were only temporarily cooperating, so they were very cold-hearted.
"I don't have any opinion. I'm just a little worried about whether you, Third Brother, will defect in the face of battle. After all, Third Brother had an incident in the past." King Shou curled his lips. He looked down upon Wu Wangyong. He always regarded him as a two-faced person. In the early years, There was a time when King Qian was stronger than King Jing, and Wu Wangyong followed King Qian like a bug. Later, King Jing became the lord and immediately ran behind King Jing as a follower. Disdainful.
This time the matter was so important that Shou Wang Yang Lin had to express his concern. At the same time, he was also giving a warning to the other party, meaning that I am on guard against you, so don’t mess around.
Wu Wang Yang Yong's face changed slightly. What he was most taboo about was people saying that he liked horizontal jumping, so he said: "It seems that fifth brother still remembers the things he was bullied by me in the past? Tsk tsk, he is already a lot of years old. , look away. If you are really afraid, go and beg Lao Qi to see if he will accept you."
Before Shou Wang Lin could speak again, Qi Wang Yang Feng interrupted with a smile: "Why are the two brothers arguing? Now at this critical moment, we should work together in the same boat. This time Yang Shu went out of the city to burn incense and pay homage. According to the royal rules, I am afraid that We can't come back until night, and the shortest way is the north gate. So according to what we said before, the action should be tonight.
I wonder if the two brothers are ready? "
Shou Wang Lin said with a smile: "It has been prepared for a long time. I am a monk in my 30s and the lowest cultivation level is in the first stage of concentration. Is this sincerity enough?" After saying this, he gave the opposite Qi Wangyong a cold look.
"I am a monk in my thirties, and my lowest level of cultivation is the first stage of gathering gods." King Wu glared back. The force in his hand was not as good as the Spirit King's Bundle, but it was not bad compared to the Shou Wang Lin.
After King Shou and King Wu finished speaking, they looked at King Qi.
"The two brothers are very powerful, and I am indeed not as good as them. They can only produce twenty monks, with the minimum cultivation level being the first stage of concentration. But when the time comes, Huang Zishan can form a formation to take action, and it will not hold back the two brothers. "
There is a gap in strength, but King Qi will not be able to collect even thirty monks, only twenty, and the other ten are made up of the garrison at the north gate.
When the three of them cooperate, no one wants to suffer.
"Okay, how to arrange manpower and how to ambush? Now come out with a charter."
"That's natural."
...
The words were divided into two parts. There was a lot of gongs and drums in the north gate tower. Far away in the north of the imperial city, the spirit kings who were burning incense at the altar of heaven and earth were not in a hurry. It was not until Xu Zheng that all the etiquette was completed, and then he went back home.
On the way back to the city, his subordinate's mastermind handed over a Thousand Miles Note with a code word written on it, which when interpreted was an ambush distribution similar to a military report.
"So they're ready?"
"Yes, Your Majesty, this is the secret message sent from Huang Zishan, and it contains the battle array prepared by the three of you tonight."
Yang Shu closed his eyes and leaned on the back of the carriage. He was silent for a while and then said: "Pass this to the people below so that they have a clear idea. At the same time, let the people lurking outside the north gate be prepared. Without my order, nothing will happen." Don’t act rashly. There are also our people hiding in the north gate, tell them to keep an eye on Huang Zishan and alert them immediately if there is any abnormal movement."
