What Lin Wangbei didn't know was that any of the imperial ministers in Jiankang City at this time would no longer be a frog in the well.
When the distress signal from the army under his command arose on this ship according to his thoughts, in the extremely distant Tuyuhun, Achai Chen, who controlled hundreds of thousands of troops, was standing in the wind and snow, waiting for someone
Personal arrival.
In the past month or so, Xia Baying's rule over the party has been very stable. In fact, what makes Achai Zhen jealous and sometimes laughable is that sometimes, compared with ability and dedication, luck and opportunity have the opposite effect.
decisive role.
The arrival of Lin Yi accelerated the process of Xia Baying's unification of the party, but Xia Baying established the dynasty as "Xia". The biggest reason why she was able to stabilize the dynasty she established so quickly was because the Southern Dynasties and the Northern Wei Dynasty had no power at all.
Come and take care of the affairs of Dangxiang and Tuyuhun.
The Southern Dynasty was thrown into chaos by the Demon Sect, and the monarch and his ministers were at odds. It was difficult for the border troops to ensure food and grass by themselves, not to mention that the states and counties in the Southern Dynasty were panic-stricken.
As for the Northern Wei Dynasty, it seemed to be even worse.
The Demon Sect had previously defected, and many Northern Wei troops also defected to the Southern Dynasties with him. The border garrison of the Northern Wei Dynasty was already incomplete, not to mention that the Demon Sect was controlled by the descendants of You Emperor and fought back.
Under such circumstances, let alone Xia Baying who only consolidated her dynasty in Dangxiang and Tuyuhun, even if she sent troops into the Southern Dynasty and Northern Wei Dynasty, the Southern Dynasty and Northern Wei Dynasty would not have the extra strength to pacify the western border.
Therefore, in the past month or so, even the arrogant literati in the Southern Dynasties seemed to have tacitly acknowledged the rising dynasty in the west.
Except for the Southern Dynasties and the Northern Wei Dynasty, they have even used Xixia to describe the emerging dynasty of Xia Ba Ying.
In past history books, for a rising dynasty to gain silent recognition from other dynasties, especially from literati like the Southern Dynasty, it had to pay the price of war.
A war made these existing Middle-earth dynasties discover that this emerging dynasty was almost as powerful as their own, and they had to recognize it.
But Xia Baying's dynasty is an exception.
Her timing is unique.
As agreed before, after Xiabaying established her own dynasty, she guaranteed certain interests for Achaizhen. Now Tuyuhun has been naturally included in her dynasty territory, but Achaizhen himself is not able to
What is understandable is that she did not interfere too much in Tuyuhun's rule.
Compared with before, Achaizhen now even has more actual control over Tuyuhun.
The key is that the Lingbing incident has alerted him enough, and he knows that Xia Baying absolutely does not trust him.
So he couldn't understand.
He would ponder the reasons for many things. At this time, while waiting for someone to arrive in the wind and snow, he couldn't help but think about this matter.
The wind and snow are getting stronger.
At this time, the sea area around Xingzhou where the Demon Sect is located is as warm as spring, but it is still bitterly cold in the middle of winter.
Although the place where he and thousands of cavalry troops were stationed was a hillside sheltered from the wind, the snowflakes kept falling, dyeing the clothes and helmets of him and these cavalry troops completely white.
He was so engrossed in his thoughts that the sound of warning arrows came from the wind and snow, and he finally realized that there were three riders on the edge of the snow-covered cliff in front of him.
Looking at these three figures who looked a little lonely, his brows slowly frowned.
The trails on the cliffs are inherently rugged and dangerous, and even those caravans who often travel on such roads will maintain enough respect for such roads. In the middle of winter, they will not try to walk at all.
However, these three riders seemed to be very leisurely as they walked through the wind and snow.
After the tea time, the three riders came to the bottom of the hillside where he was. Then the three riders abandoned their horses and walked towards him.
The three riders were wearing ordinary black cotton robes and bamboo hats, and their faces could not even be seen for a while.
When it comes to creating momentum, the army is definitely much better than ordinary practitioners. Achaizhen has no interest and does not want to waste time to make the opponent show more momentum. He said sarcastically from a distance: "
I'll wait for you here, you can hurry up."
"Some people are not worth waiting for, but some people are worth waiting for." One of the three people wearing bamboo hats laughed and said, "Of course we are worthy of the general's wait."
After saying this, the man didn't seem to want Achai Chen to feel any more unpleasant emotions. He raised his head, held up the bamboo hat on his head, and exposed most of his face.
His facial features are obviously very handsome, and his beard is shaved cleanly with a knife. In terms of appearance, he is definitely a handsome man in Jiankang City. However, it is an unruly and wild look that makes him look...
Extremely rough.
This kind of person seems to only appear in the wine shop where horse thieves often go, and he is definitely one of the people who will kill someone with a sword if they disagree.
He only showed most of his face, but the faces of many people standing quietly behind Achai Chen changed slightly.
They recognize this person.
In fact, they had seen this man in many military reports and many reward orders for many years. For the past twenty years, the Northern Wei Dynasty wanted this man's head very much, because whether it was to Tuguhun or Dangxiang, or even to the Southern Dynasties
Many of the ordnance, weapon refining materials, and even precious secret blueprints for heavy armor manufacturing were leaked through this person's hands.
"I didn't expect it was you."
Achai Chen's brows gradually loosened, but his eyes narrowed slightly, "Qi Shenfeng, one of the three major bandits of the Northern Wei Dynasty, no wonder the Northern Wei Dynasty spent so many years and put so much effort into not being able to catch you. It turns out you are
Because you are one of theirs, it’s like a den of snakes and rats.”
"The general is joking." The man's expression remained unchanged and he said with a smile.
"Then these other two guests, could they be the other two of the three major bandits of the Northern Wei Dynasty?" Achai Chen's eyes stayed on the other two people.
"That's not true."
Qi Shenfeng shook his head, suppressed his smile and said, "If they are all members of the same family, it would easily arouse suspicion. They are subordinates of General Guanlong."
After he said this, the other two people took off their bamboo hats and then bowed to Achai Chen.
The two faces exposed under the bamboo hat are at least ten years apart in age. The one on the left is a man in his thirties, while the man on the right looks to be at least in his forties, with some gray hair on his temples.
However, the two people's postures of picking bamboo hats and saluting were almost the same, and although both of them had peaceful faces at this time, there was naturally a chilling and iron-blooded aura between their brows.
This kind of aura is familiar to everyone, only generals in the army can have it.
Tuyuhun and Dangxiang were both frontier barbarians to the Southern Dynasties and Northern Wei, but as the most important general of Tuyuhun, especially a general who had never been content with just Tuyuhun, Achaizhen was no stranger to these two men.
"It turns out it's Military Advisor Qi and General Zhou." He was a little surprised, and then he bowed seriously and said, "I thought three people were too few at first, but now it seems that three people are enough."
"Since the general is satisfied, I will get straight to the point."
Qi Shenfeng was a famous bandit in the Northern Wei Dynasty. However, at this time, his status was higher than the two generals. He came not far in front of Achai Chen and said directly: "I know General
He used to be a member of Lord Demon Sect."
Achai Chen was not surprised. Instead, he showed a self-deprecating look on his lips and said, "What else do you know?"
"I also know that the general currently commands more than 400,000 troops in Tuyuhun, but 60,000 of them are not part of the Tuyuhun military establishment. These 60,000 troops are for you to use the remaining 300,000 troops to save money.
This army is the most well-equipped army in the entire Tuyuhun. It is not only equipped with the ordnance of our Northern Wei Dynasty, but also equipped with many firearms of the Xiaba tribe."
Qi Shenfeng smiled and said: "These 60,000 troops can only be interpreted as your direct orders. In fact, when you led the army and the party, you did not take away these 60,000 troops. As long as you give the order, the imperial city of Tuyuhun will be taken away at any time."
Your 60,000 troops conquered it."
"You do know a lot," Achai Chen said.
He was not surprised this time, because he knew very well that many of the powerful weapons in his army came from the Northern Wei Dynasty, and many of them were handmade by this great bandit of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
"So in fact, you have been aware of the Mo Sect's layout in Tuyuhun and Dangxiang since many years ago, but you just followed the trend, you just followed his wishes, and then one day, you took what he left behind
Fruit?" The self-mockery on his lips became more intense. He shook his head and continued: "But it's no wonder, even the Demon Sect is a chess piece you laid out many years ago, and we are just the chess pieces of the chess piece."
Qi Shenfeng burst into laughter. His smile looked even more arrogant and hateful. It was the kind of smile that could easily lead people to attack him in the wine recipe of dragons and snakes. His words even made people laugh.
Some couldn't help but use force, "General, it's okay if that's what you think."
"But all this time, you seem to be just adjusting the world in secret, never showing up publicly or revealing your identity." Achai Chen also sarcastically said, "Then what makes you publicly reveal your identity?"
, is that woman named Helan Heiyun, a former subordinate of the Demon Sect?"
"Creatures that are too powerful will always make people fearful and common enemies, just like the dragon clan in ancient times. Even if it lives in the deep mountains and does not want to cause trouble, many powerful practitioners always want to slay dragons.
.Although we are indeed related to You Emperor, when thinking about the You Dynasty back then, we always don’t want to bring up the past, and we don’t want people to associate us too much with that dynasty. Even if we want to truly rule the world,
You can also change your name, so why bother mentioning You again? It’s just that the current situation forces us to mention it now.”
Qi Shenfeng looked at him and said: "No matter what the general thinks, the key depends on how the general is prepared to choose."
"You won't come to me if it's not necessary. I want to know what situation you are facing and what you want me to do." Achai Chen looked directly at him, his voice slightly cold.
"The Emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty now believed that we were the common enemy of the Southern Dynasty and the Northern Wei Dynasty. Regardless of whether he had reached an agreement with the Southern Dynasty or not, he seemed certain that the Southern Dynasty would not invade the Northern Wei Dynasty again during this period."
Qi Shenfeng said: "He has mobilized the border troops to attack Guanlong."
"Why, since your Guanlong He clan is far more powerful than the surface, can't you solve this problem?" Achaizhen looked at him with strange eyes and said: "If you can even use the Demon Sect, in my opinion
Come on, there is no need to use me at all, who is the emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty?"
"Using the Demon Sect and entering the Northern Wei Palace, we did not accomplish what we wanted to do." Qi Shenfeng raised his eyebrows slightly and said lightly: "But even so, in fact, if it is only targeted at practitioners, for
It is not a big deal to us, but the key point is that the killing of millions of troops is not something that only practitioners can decide. And without the second Demon Sect, no one can face and solve such a large number of armies.
.”
"So you want my hundreds of thousands of troops to join forces with you to defeat the Northern Wei Emperor's army."
Achai Chen looked at him intently, his expression even weirder, "But I don't want to negotiate terms with you first. I want to know first whether the Demon Sect is still alive?"
Qi Shenfeng nodded and said: "He is still alive, and he has become stronger and more difficult to control."
Achai Chen sneered: "Even you find it difficult to control, or you will not be able to control it at all in the future."
Qi Shenfeng laughed with emotion and said: "General, you have thought it through. The fact is that whether you can control it depends on whether you can stand with us."
Achai Chen felt that this sentence was very vague.
But Qi Shenfeng seemed to understand very well. He looked at Achai Chen and said, "You should also understand that since we can make a demon sect appear in the world, we can also make a second demon sect appear in the world."
He paused, looked at Achaizhen, and said slowly and word by word: "Unless General, you can refuse the temptation of becoming very powerful."
Before Achaizhen could reply, he had already continued speaking, but at a faster pace. He was just stating certain facts, and was no longer deliberately tempting.
"I don't think the general will refuse such a temptation. General, I'm afraid you should also understand that Xia Baying has never interfered in your affairs. She just wants to use your hand to deal with Tuyuhun. After your family became the dominant one, she
There will be very little trouble. She only needs to deal with you in the end, and then she can take over the Tuyuhun that you have dealt with. It is only a matter of time, unless you really turn your head and regard her as your king." (To be continued)