In front of Jingxing Pass, there were vultures hovering and black crows flying around, just because there was a dying person hanging under the tall wooden pole.

The man was covered with two pieces of rags in his crotch, his whole body was covered with bloody mouths, his skin was blown by the wind and sun, and his whole body was pecked to death, his flesh and blood were blurred; his wrists were hung for a long time due to ropes, and he had been permanently ischemia and turned black and necrotic; his hair was like grass, covered with bird droppings, and his head was weak and hung down. The dry filth between his crotch was smelling hundreds of feet in the wind. From time to time, black crows suddenly pounced down, pecking at the swollen and purple body, and flew in a panic-shaking manner. Only then can it be confirmed that this person still has a breath.

In the early morning, a large number of people appeared in front of Jingxing Pass, and the sky was filled with smoke and dust, but the defenders were not panicked because they saw the two flags - the six-pointed star flag of the Tianzhu Army, and the gun-stinging flag with black background and white short spears and short spears crossed by the hunting camp.

Yes, eight hundred hunters were brave enough to spread the power of the Heshuo, and they were on the territory of the Jin people, and they went back and forth twice. The Jin army in various prefectures and counties along the way did not dare to show up. The Jin army did not dare to mess with the hunting soldiers, but the hunting soldiers did not let the Jin army go. When the hunting soldiers passed by Liyang, the Anli Army's capital, because the food was exhausted in five days (no one expected to chase the bank of the Yellow River when he set off), the soldiers surrounded Liyang and asked the defenders to provide food and grass.

Liyang is very close to Huazhou. Just when Liyang defenders were frightened, Huazhou sent a messenger to read out the right deputy marshal's order, urging Liyang Jin army to provide seven-day rations for the Tianzhu hunting soldiers and send the plague god out of bounds as soon as possible.

It was with the dedicated service and full cooperation of the Jin army, in late March, eight hundred hunters, more than one thousand five hundred war horses, and many of them returned in triumphant success.

The temporary guard general of Jingxing Pass left Kai (Zhang Xian had led 400 soldiers from the garrison battalion back to Taiyuan), and laughed out of the pass to welcome the triumphal warriors.

After a while, Ling Yuan's eyes swept to the person hanging on the high pole: "Who is this? Why are you tortured?"

Zuo Kai looked at Ling Yuan meaningfully and said three words. Seeing Ling Yuan was a little surprised and raised his eyebrows, he said, "This is the order given by the military commander. Sailors often have a punishment. Hang the traitor on the mast and let the scorching sun and sea breeze dry into dried meat. The wind on Jingxing Road is quite strong, suitable for bacon."

Ling Yuan slowly rode under the high pole and looked at the uninhabited skeleton face hidden by the messy hair. He could not overlap with the fleshy and violent and fierce face more than ten days ago.

It seemed that the sound of horse hooves was heard under him. The death row prisoner moved his head slightly and raised his eyelids. He turned his eyes, which were half blind due to the long-term exposure of the sun, looked at the blurry figure below, and said in a slight way: "No matter who... you are, please... kill me... in the next life... and repay each other..."

Ling Yuan could hear such a subtle voice clearly, but his answer was rejection: "Anyone in the Tianzhu Army can relieve you of this pain, but I can't!"

Why can't it? Ling Yuan didn't say anything, and the death row prisoner was unable to ask again.

Three days later, Kong Yanzhou, the last culprit of the invasion of Naihe Pass, was hanged to death in front of Jingxing Pass after seven days and seven nights of inhuman pain, becoming a specimen that shocked the Song and Jin armies.

...

At noon, the hunting soldiers returned to Naiheguan. Ling Yuan handed over the command to Liang Xing. After watching the eight hundred hunting soldiers leave, Ling Yuan entered Tianshu City and followed the guidance of Ye Die'er, the guards of Naiheguan, and went to the Xishan Yinglie Peak.

Following the steps that were trampled into the smooth and smooth, climbing to the peak of Hei Lieutenant. The mountain wind came gently, the pine waves were bursting, the camphor cypress was green, and the wild flowers were fragrant. Just after Qingming Festival, a faint smell of incense, candles and fireworks were still floating in the air of the Martyrs Cemetery. The tall and magnificent martyrs monuments and solemn stele forests still gave people a strong visual and psychological impact.

Ling Yuan didn't have to bother searching and saw two familiar backs, one man and one woman.

The man is the military leader, the woman is... Well, it is Empress Zhu. The two were standing in front of a new tomb, standing silently and silently.

Ling Yuan took a deep breath and walked over straight. The guards on both sides watched Ling Yuan and saluted him. Ling Yuan nodded and returned the salute. In the guard, there was only a young man with a young face who ignored Ling Yuan's arrival, but just stared blankly at the corner monument that was as sharp as a sword to the sky, and the eight majestic gilded characters on the monument, and his eyes remained unmoved for a long time.

The footsteps alarmed the two highest leaders of Tianshu City. Looking back together, they saw Ling Yuan with different expressions.

Di Lie waved: "Ziyou, I guess you will be back today, so I will leave you a sacrifice." Di Lie did not ask Ling Yuan how he would be in pursuit of the murderer. As long as he saw Ling Yuan come back, he would know the result.

The tomb is simple and solemn, and is paved with green stones. There is only a line of words engraved on the stone tablet: The tomb of Zhu Wanting, commander of the Tianzhu Army Tianjiao Camp.

"This is Wanting's tomb. I chose two sets of clothes she liked most during her lifetime. One was the phoenix crown and robe when she entered the palace, and the other was the military uniform of a female soldier full of medals." Queen Zhu looked haggard and her eyes were swollen. In Tianshu City, no one was closer to Zhu Wanting than her - the one buried here was her cousin.

The moment Ling Yuan took the incense from Empress Zhu, Empress Zhu said softly: "Wanting once told me that she really wanted to put on the phoenix crown and robe for a person..."

Ling Yuan's hands trembled, almost unable to catch the incense, and he accused him repeatedly, turned his body and had tears drops of dust.

"Wanting, all the enemies and enemies who have attacked this time have been awarded the title. Please rest in peace. In the future, I... will come to see you often..."

While Ling Yuan was muttering, Di Lie and Empress Zhu both took a dozen steps back and avoided carefully.

After a long time, Ling Yuan, who had wet marks on his eyes, came to Di Lie and Queen Zhu, and presented Di Lie with a secret order found from Du Chong.

After seeing it, Di Lie smiled coldly and handed it to Queen Zhu.

The more Queen Zhu looked, the whiter her face became. She shook her delicate body and the two palace maids hurriedly supported her.

"Nine Kings, you are so cruel..." Queen Zhu bit her lips tightly, and a faint bloodshot oozing out.

"There is no need to condemn it." Di Lie was open-minded. "For any emperor, the dragon throne under his butt is the top priority. Even if he is a relative of my son, he has no mercy. What he did was a normal reaction he showed. We all underestimated his determination... Now you understand why I have been blocking you from Jianyan Dynasty?"

Empress Zhu lowered her head and speechlessly. The mountain breeze blew, and a grass stem danced with the wind, flying up to the head full of pearls and jade. Di Lie looked around, and most of them were Ling Yuan and the guards, and they looked sideways and did not dare to look at each other. After all, the queen could not pay attention at will. Only two palace maids had a bright look. But because the angle was wrong, the grass stem could not be seen.

So Di Lie had to do it himself - Queen Zhu seemed to have some sense of it, her originally pale face was flushed, and she instinctively took a step back. She looked weak and angry. She was about to scold her, but Di Lie shook her grass stems, then put it close to her lips and blew it away.

Empress Zhu swallowed the scolding and choked and coughed a few times. The two palace maids were so panicked that they beat their backs lightly: "Empress, the mountain wind is cold, should I go down the mountain?"

Di Lie also nodded and said, "Okay, go down the mountain."

Queen Zhu calmed down her mood and said softly: "City lord, can you go back to Taiyuan a little later?"

Di Lie said: "I won't go back to Taiyuan for the time being, and I will still go to Jingxing Pass to inspect."

"Well, can the city lord come to Jingxing Pass later?"

"If you have something to do, please tell me."

"I will call on the clan to discuss matters tonight and ask the city lord to be his companion, can I?"

Di Lie didn't understand that Empress Zhu was showing her own light action. He had no reason and could not refuse. He smiled slightly: "The Queen has an imperial edict, but she dared not refuse."

...

The Tianshu City Council Hall has been moved to Pingding and Taiyuan since the military and political center of Tianshu City has become a daily gathering point for the Zhao Zong royal family trapped in the city. They often discuss current affairs here and discuss political affairs in Tianshu City.

Di Lie welcomed this. It is better to have a private gathering than to have a private gathering. Commenting on political affairs is also the right to any resident of Tianshu City. As long as you have a good opinion, you can suggest to the government office - there is only one thing that you should not discuss military affairs in a rash way.

In Di Lie's eyes, these old and young people have a few tricks in literature, art, vocabulary, and government affairs, but in military affairs, they are as stupid as pigs. Di Lie can only listen to people's opinions and does not want to listen to pigs humming.

At this moment, in the conference hall, the atmosphere was solemn, and the prominent figures of the Zhao Song royal family were present: King Zhao Wei of Yue, King Zhao Xu of Ji, King Zhao Zhen of Xin, Duke Zhao of Prime Minister Zhao (after the hunting soldier Zhao of Hunting completed the mission of chasing Du Chong, he took leave to visit the sisters in Xingyuan, so he caught up), Duke Zhao of Yong'an County, Zhao Jing of Xiangcheng Bo Zhao Gong, etc., only some distant relatives of the royal family who had military positions were not present, such as Anyuan man Zhao Neng, Shuling envoy Zhao Zhong, etc.

Since the person sitting was a relative of the clan of his clan, in order to show that he had not seen each other, Empress Zhu removed the pearl curtain, phoenix crown and robe, covered her with a string of robe, and sat upright in the middle. Behind her was a screen, and the emperors and county lords sat quietly behind the screen to listen. On the left head of Empress Zhu, Di Lie and Ling Yuan sat and stood with equal serious expressions.

The solemn atmosphere was not only caused by the two most leaders of Tianshu City, but also from the volume of Jianyan's secret decree passed down by the children of the royal family, as well as the confession of Salihe and Kong Yanzhou. In the secret decree, Zhao Gou actually said it very vaguely. The general idea was that as long as Du Chong, Fan Qiong and Kong Yanzhou made the matter complete, the court would not hesitate to reward him heavily; but one of the sentences said that "it is possible to live, it is possible to die, it is necessary to see people in life, and it is necessary to see corpses when you die."

Who are these royal families? They are all masters of stinging words who can see from the words. The secret decree is written in ambiguous way. Combined with the invasion of Du Chong, Fan Qiong and Kong Yanzhou, it is not difficult to guess the sinister intention of the Emperor Jianyan.

After seeing the family, the expressions of the royal family were different. King Zhao Wei of Yue looked solemn and his eyebrows were twitching; King Ji Zhao Xu shook his head, sighed, and said nothing; Duke Zhao Jing of Yong'an County and Duke of Xiangcheng Zhao Gong, these two were drooping their eyes and looked dull.

Zhao Jun, who has always been radical, actually sat upright in military posture, without saying a word, but his eyes were filled with evil eyes; while Zhao Zhen, the king of letters, had a gloomy expression, and after reading it, he only smiled coldly, with an expression of "I knew it was like this".

Most of the royal family members, although angry, did not speak. After all, this royal dispute is not qualified for people at their level to discuss.

"Are you finished reading?" Empress Zhu's cold voice sounded after the cover of Zhenzhuyu. "The city lord originally proposed that King Yue and King Ji should be tried together in front of the clan of the country, Salihe and Kong Yanzhou, but was rejected by the palace - the family scandal should not be made public. I don't want this to be known to everyone. With this secret decree of the Nine Kings, the confession of the two thieves, and the fierce battle of life and death on the eighth day of the third month, his wolfish ambition is obvious."

The hall was silent, and only Queen Zhu's voice echoed: "In order to protect her sister, Yuan Sheng Shen, in order to protect her sister, uncle and brother, she sprinkled the last drop of blood on Naiheguan, transformed into a butterfly, leaving only her clothes. But as Wanting said during her lifetime, she was a female soldier and a female soldier. She died in the battlefield, and was her best destination. What I have to do is not let a sister who sacrificed herself to protect her relatives die in vain. In the future, anyone who says good things about the Southern Dynasties will not need the city lord to take action. I personally expel her, and do not say that she is not prepared for what she says!"

For these Zhao Song royal families, the death of a former concubine who had been removed from their ancestral homes and was rebellious would not cause much trouble in their hearts, but the queen's angry warning did not allow them to be deeply warned.

At this time, Zhao Wei, the King of Yue, who is the most respected, spoke up: "The Nine Kings' move is disheartening, but it is not ruled out that there may be treacherous people in the middle, or even misunderstandings, which is unknown. Today, the queen and the Nine Kings are the supreme masters, and the two masters are vulnerable to each other, and their relatives are happy. It is a confusion among them, so it is advisable to send envoys to Hangzhou, question and explain them."

As soon as King Zhao Wei of Yue said this, a beautiful female voice sounded from behind the screen: "What the emperor said is extremely true, and it should be like this."

Di Lie could hear clearly that it was the voice of Emperor Roufu Ji Huanhuan. The brother-sister friendship was indeed better than that of sister-in-law.

The proposal of King Zhao Wei of Yue was immediately echoed by the Zhao Song royal family. This time, the gate of the Death was almost broken, and their people were almost wrapped in dumplings. I really don’t want to have a second time. I have become a mortal enemy of the Jin people, and I really don’t want to make enemies with Jianyan Dynasty again and make enemies on both sides.

King Zhao Wei of Yue was saying the same meaning to Di Lie: "Why are you fighting with each other in the same house? Jin and Jianyan are making enemies on both sides. This is really unwise, what do the city lord thinks?"

Go to Hangzhou, have a verbal battle, and resolve the dead knot that can never be broken? This is a life-and-death orthodox battle! What does the King of Yue Zhao Wei mean? Di Lie glanced at King of Yue Zhao Wei, and saw him winking at him, Di Lie blinked in confusion.

Ling Yuan bowed his head and whispered: "Strive for public opinion and disrupt Hangzhou."

Di Lie suddenly realized, yes, it would be nice to add to the trouble to Zhao Gou, who was being forced to be frustrated by the Jin army. Now there is no time to free up your hands to deal with you with force, so let's launch the first attack on Jianyan Dynasty in the form of literary battles.

Di Lie agreed, and of course Empress Zhu had nodding.

As for the candidates for the mission, Di Lie, Empress Zhu, and King Zhao Wei of Yue, who also belonged to Yong'an County Duke Zhao Jing and Xiang Cheng Bo Zhao Gong, both of them were very consistent with each other. However, these two Dukes refused to do something that was both dangerous and had no advantage. With these two identities and seniority, Empress Zhu and King Zhao Wei of Yue were not good at tying.

However, Zhao Jian volunteered: "Let me be an escort army envoy, I just need a team of hunters."

When Zhao Zhen, who had been wearing a dark face, had no idea what he thought, he also jumped out: "Zhao Zhengan is the deputy military envoy, assisting his 23rd brother. The military soldiers... it is best to have a hundred people."

Di Lie said coldly: "You two should take a break, this is on a mission, not a war."

Empress Zhu also scolded: "What kind of discipline does Gong Bo become the chief and deputy envoy, and the prince serves as the escort army envoy?"

Zhao Jun and Zhao Zhen retreated with slightest.

Di Lie was a little angry about Zhao Jing and Zhao Gong's grandsons. Suddenly, when Zhao Jing and Zhao Gong refused, they looked at King Ji Zhao Xu from time to time, while the latter had no expression on his face and no expression.

Di Lie's heart moved and realized something. After thinking for a while, he suddenly smiled and called Zhao Jing and Zhao Gong to come out with him.

Zhao Jing and Zhao Gong were frightened, but they didn't dare to refuse, so they had to follow each other.

No one knew what Di Lie said to these two uncles. When they came back, they looked surprised, as if the dog's tail was in full bloom. They took on the errand in front of the royal family in a very refreshing manner.

After Ling Yuan and the military leader walked out of the conference hall for a long time, they finally couldn't help asking: "Mr. Master, what have you done to them? How could they cooperate so actively?"
Chapter completed!