Chapter 157 The person who went to the grassland should also come back
Regarding the sword given to him by the translator, Wu Ma decided to bury the sword with the body in accordance with his last wish out of consideration for the deceased. But before burying it, he carefully looked at the sword from head to toe, remembering
He noticed the fine patterns on the hilt and the name that was never shown in the translation - Wang Erxiao. Anyway, Wang Erxiao's last words did not prohibit him from doing this.
Wang Erxiao's death gave Wu Ma more clues to analyze who was plotting against him along the way.
First of all, Princess Yicheng, who has been buried in the ancient cemetery, has a bad reputation even after her death, so it can basically be ruled out.
Shibi Khan, who was eager to join forces with Tang Gong, was no longer considered.
Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji and Chai Shao were still imprisoned in the Turkic Khan's court, waiting for the time agreed upon by both the Tujia and Jin sides before exchanging hostages at the border area. The three of them had no old grudges with Wu Ma.
Therefore, more possibilities are in Jinyang. Li Yuan, Li Shimin, Li Zhiyun, father and son, except Li Yuan, all have great motives.
Yuwen Jianxue is attracted to Li Shimin, while Wu Ma is more convinced that Li Zhiyun did it. Li Zhiyun has an urgent and necessary desire for the Tang Tower, and as the former captain, Wu Ma's philosophy of building the tower is not in harmony with him.
The skill lies in it, and he has the motive and reason to eradicate it. Moreover, it is difficult to say that Li Zhiyun did not contribute to Wu Ma's trip north to the Turks. At least he must have tried his best to persuade Tang Gong.
Therefore, Yuwen Jianxue once again persuaded Wu Ma to give up his plan to return to Jinyang. The world is so big that there is no place where he is not at home.
"I must go back." Wu Ma said, "And as long as we return to Jinyang City, everything will be safe."
What he said actually made sense. Whether it was Li Zhiyun or Li Shimin, it was a shameful act to send assassins to kill Wu Ma. You could still push others outside Jinyang City, but it would be too obvious to do it again after returning to Jinyang.
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In addition, Wu Ma has another reason to return to Jinyang City - he has saved enough three light balls to be promoted to the third level awakened disciple, and there are too many dazzling divine decree stars??, these are extremely lucky.
The things obtained must be in the Tang Pagoda to realize their own value.
Considering that the return route of the two people may have been exposed, Wu Ma decided to abandon the horse??, give up riding, take a detour, and reverse the day and night. When the sun sets and night falls, the first thing to do is to set off at dawn.
Then he stopped and climbed into the dense canopy of trees to hide his traces.
This trick really worked. It was only a long time later that he learned that Li Zhiyun's spirit eagle had flown through the forest several times, but he never found anything unusual.
When approaching Jinyang City, Wu Ma decided to grasp the information in the city first out of the idea of knowing ourselves and the enemy to be prepared.
The two people first found an inn, and originally planned to ambush a group of messengers to find out the news. Before that, they encountered a strange awakened disciple who was out of the city on business. He was a young man who was very aggressive and alert.
, took the initiative to attack the dancing horse without any communication, and was seriously injured by the dancing horse.
Wu Ma threatened his life and got some useful information from the other party:
This awakened disciple is a team member that Li Zhiyun has recently recruited to Datang Tower. At this time, the situation of Datang Tower is already very different from that before Wu Ma left -
Soon after taking over the position of captain, Li Zhiyun began to recruit awakened disciples from Taiyuan and surrounding areas. With Li Yuan's support, Li Zhiyun was promised a high-ranking official and generous salary, and in a short period of time, he recruited more than ten awakened disciples to serve.
There are many statues in the Tang Dynasty Pagoda, and they are majestic.
As the former captain of the dance horse, there is not much left in the Tang Tower. Except for his mediocre book sculpture, it is also crowded in the corner and is even more inconspicuous.
Almost no one among the new awakened disciples knew what he had done for the Jinyang Army and the construction of the Tang Tower. They only knew that the most inconspicuous book sculpture in the corner belonged to a male awakened disciple. At this time, he had gone north to the Turks.
I don't know what I'm going to do, but I don't know if I can come back alive.
A newly joined awakened disciple unreasonably took a fancy to the location of the book sculpture and attempted to replace it with his own statue of a panda. Every morning, early in the morning, or even when he couldn't sleep for most of the night, he would look at the location of the book sculpture before the awakened disciple on duty woke up.
, or in your sleep, open the door of the Tang Tower and walk to the location of the book sculpture to see if it is destroyed as you expected.
Since joining the Tang Pagoda, he has been looking forward to the book sculptures disappearing into ashes every day, but his hope has never turned into reality. So every day he curses the incompetent Turks who cannot even deal with a washed-up awakened disciple. Tang Gong
How can you be afraid of these stupid aliens?
This is almost the only awakened disciple besides Liu Wenjing who is still thinking about the dancing horse. But he doesn't even know the name of the dancing horse.
Another change in the Datang Tower is that its status in the entire Jinyang Army is becoming more and more important - the awakened disciples of the Datang Tower headed by Li Zhiyun have had the opportunity to prove themselves on the battlefield.
That was what happened on the day when the translator conveyed the news back to Jinyang City that Shibi Khan had agreed to negotiate peace. Li Yuan decided not to endure it any longer. He had endured it for too long????, and during those days he pretended to be incompetent.
, mediocre, lustful, greedy, and without ambition, it’s time to end it all.
Li Yuan's first target was Xihe County, located southwest of Jinyang. Xihe County's Prime Minister Gao Deru refused to obey Li Yuan's orders, and Xihe County unfortunately blocked the road from Jinyang to Daxing, making it a must for Li Yuan.
The first obstacle to be overcome.
As the commander-in-chief of the Jinyang Army, Li Yuan did not intend to take the lead personally. If defeated, it would be a heavy blow to his prestige.
Therefore, the future Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty and the current helmsman of the Datang Tower, Li Zhiyun, shared their father's worries and led the troops to the expedition. History has once again undergone a slight change - when he went to Xihe County, Li Shimin was still Li Shimin, but Li Zhiyun took his place.
Li Jiancheng.
This was originally a difficult test.
Most of the soldiers in Jinyang Army were newly recruited and had almost zero combat experience. Before leaving, Li Yuan said two sentences to Wen Dayou, the general accompanying him. The first sentence: My two sons are young, please bear with me.
Some. The second sentence: The success or failure of the army can be seen from this expedition.
Along the way, Li Shimin and Li Zhiyun shared the joys and sorrows with the soldiers. When they encountered the enemy, they took the lead and rushed forward.
They marched in strict discipline and never disturbed the people along the way. The fruits and vegetables they encountered were bought as needed. If the soldiers stole farm items, they immediately found their owners to compensate them and did not severely punish the soldiers who stole. When the army arrived at the gate of Xihe County, they encountered people who wanted to enter the city.
The people did not stop them and allowed them to enter the city. The people and soldiers praised the two sons of Duke Tang, and their prestige was gradually established.
Gao Deru, the prime minister of Xihe County, is also an awakened disciple. His natal monster is a huge ape monster that can control flying rocks. When the Jinyang army attacked the city, Gao Deru placed huge rocks everywhere in the city tower, and then summoned the ape monster.
, the boulders hit the Jinyang soldiers who were climbing the wall like raindrops, and screams were heard one after another.
The soldiers who were hit had their heads ripped open. Some were swatted to death like flies and stuck to the city wall, unable to come off. Most of them fell straight to the base of the city wall in despair, without any possibility of survival.
The siege troops suffered heavy losses, and the morale of the Jinyang army was at its lowest point. Even Li Shimin once doubted whether Xihe County could be taken down with this ape monster guarding it.
At the critical moment, it was Li Zhiyun who stepped forward to save the team that was almost in despair. His spiritual eagle streaked across the blood-stained battlefield like a shooting star in the daytime. It disappeared in a short period of time and reappeared wearing a
The dazzling golden light flapped its wings on the giant ape's chest, and its iron-like claws opened a bloody gash, and the heart of the ape monster was pulled out.
The ape monster turned into a phantom and disappeared. The next time it appeared would have to wait a day, when Gao Deru's awakening period ended, but Li Shimin would not give him any chance.
A flood of soldiers swarmed the city of Xijun. Gao Deru exhausted all his spiritual skills and was finally captured. Li Shimin planned to behead him in public, but Gao Deru was tied up with five flowers and the guillotine for beheading was raised high. Only then did he burst into tears and tremble all over.
It seems that I have discovered that I am full of attachment to this world, but it is already a little late.
The executioner gave a stern order, and the guillotine struck straight down. Outside the execution ground, the words "Save the person under the sword" that Wu Ma would have rolled his eyes suddenly rang out - things took a turn for the better, and Li Zhiyun developed a love for talents.
After some private discussion with his second brother, he decided to include Gao Deru in the Tang Pagoda.
After hearing this story, Wu Ma thought that this was simply a play performed by Li Shimin and Li Zhiyun. The purpose, of course, was to make Gao Deru die. Obviously, they succeeded.
After this battle, Li Shimin's talent in leading troops began to show off. Datang Pagoda captured the team's divine order from Xihe County. Everyone who participated in the battle received varying amounts of divine order stars. Li Zhiyun's spiritual eagle awakening technique was in the hearts of Jinyang soldiers.
He left a god-like impression, and his prestige in the Tang Pagoda was completely established, becoming the well-deserved master of the Tang Pagoda.
Li Zhiyun smoothly implemented the new policies of the Tang Pagoda. Every awakening disciple's path to practice, choose and advance to awakening arts is like a drawn program map, determined in advance. The divine decree stars gained by individuals in team battles
It will also be handed over in strict accordance with the proportion, and then distributed according to needs, and the implementation will be meticulous.
Li Zhiyun had a very clear plan for the future of the Datang Tower. He identified a Siege Spirit that was urgently needed to be exchanged from the Datang Tower. However, adding up the Divine Will Stars that everyone turned in, he still couldn't make up the amount to exchange.
An awakened disciple asked Li Zhiyun if he could wait a little longer and win the next battle to get enough God's Will Stars.
Li Zhiyun said: "The man who went to the grassland should come back."
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The above is all the information that Wu Ma learned from the strange awakened disciples.
After hearing what Li Zhiyun said, Wu Ma understood and the other party made up his mind.
Although he fully understood Li Zhiyun's reasons for choosing to seize the Tang Pagoda for revenge, and the divine decree star floating above his head was now very wealthy, it was very unreasonable to hand it over for nothing. Moreover, it was very unreasonable to be handed over by a person with deep thoughts.
The vengeful wolf stares at me every day and targets me from time to time, which is really annoying.
What's more, if Li Zhiyun saw two light balls on his head, he might be asked to hand over Qingxia's light ball to the organization and leave it to those who need it most. After all, the captain has the right to decide this matter. As for
Who needs it most may be Li Zhiyun or someone else, but it won't be Dancing Horse after all.
"We won't give him a chance." Yuwen Jianxue said to Wu Ma.
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For the strange awakened disciple in front of him, Wu Ma should have simply cut off his life - that's what the opponent planned at the beginning of the fight.
But considering that once the awakened disciple dies, the corresponding statue will also be destroyed, and there is no guarantee that Li Zhiyun will not become alert. So, the two people made a cage using nearby tree trunks, buried the cage deep in the ground, and used a sufficient amount of drug addicts to
Conquer the awakened disciple and place him in a cage and tie him tightly. The best thing about this cage is that the awakened disciple's eyelids are connected with a hidden weapon mechanism. Once he opens his eyes after a day after removing the drug, the sharp blade
It will go through the temples, and the brain matter will splash out.
Wu Ma and Yuwen Jianxue erased the traces of the buried cage and decided to rush to Jinyang City as fast as possible.
On a night when the full moon hung high, they arrived outside Jinyang City. The dancing horse held up the "Dark Side of the Kasaya" and took Yuwen Jianxue with him. Taking advantage of the night patrol and the brief opening of the city gate, they broke into the city in one breath.
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Then, he sneaked towards the Tang Pagoda without hesitation, and finally arrived outside the wall of the Datang Pagoda near midnight.
At this time, the Datang Pagoda was completely different from what it was before Wu Ma left. It occupies a larger area, and the surrounding green brick walls are two feet high. Outsiders cannot see what is going on in the courtyard. Outside the walls,
There is a post every three steps and a sentry every five steps. The soldiers holding halberds all have solemn expressions and strict discipline. Others don't know it, or they may think that this yard is a prison for serious criminals.
Wu Ma knew that Li Zhiyun had not expected that he would sneak into Jinyang City secretly at this time, and found out the current duty rules of the Datang Pagoda from a strange awakened disciple, so he put on his cassock and jumped into the courtyard of the Datang Pagoda.
Two people sneaked into the tower and knocked out the awakened disciple on duty that night. The other party didn't even have time to see who the person who knocked them unconscious was.
The dancing horse went straight to the statue of his house. Three light balls floated on the statue. The light shone and the statue flashed a silver light. The long-lost friendly reminder of the Tang Pagoda flashed in front of his eyes:
[The ball reaches the third level, and the night has passed since then].
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