Chapter IX Ten Years One Day
Ma Ruhai stayed in Daizhou for a few days, resigned from his position as a military doctor, packed his bags and walked towards Taihang Mountain. On the way, he met Le Tianzang and told him about the situation in Daizhou City. Farewell to Ma Ruhai, Le Tianzang decided to sneak back to Daizhou to rescue Lin Hanyan.
At night, Le Tianzang coaxed the child to sleep. He was about to return to Daizhou City alone, but suddenly rushed into more than a dozen veiled people from outside the door. They held up their swords and slashed at Le Tianzang. Le Tianzang picked up Le Yiyang with one hand, quickly took out the sword next to the pillow with the other hand, and turned around to block the sharp blades that were chopped down. Le Tianzang thought these people were murdering for money, so he raised his feet and kicked out of the table in the house. One of them had no time to avoid it, and flew out of the window with the same table.
When the rest of the people saw that Letianzang had extraordinary martial arts, they all opened their hands to signal to prohibit the attack. Letianzang asked glaringly, "Who are you?" After hearing this, the people said nothing and killed them with a "ah". Letianzang jumped into the sky, and the sword stabbed the sky. He turned around and landed on the knife, pressed his body horizontally, pressed his head with his hands, and rotated his feet in the air for half a circle, and everyone was knocked to the ground. Letianzang brushed the man's face and pulled out his veil. It turned out that they were the confidants of Du Chongwei whom he met outside the city that day.
Letianzang suddenly exhale and covers the child's eyes with gauze. Before the man can come back to his senses, he beat him to the wall with one palm. The man landed on the bed, his head lowered, and his mouth was spitting blood. Everyone else lay on the ground, holding the ground with his hands and slowly moving towards the door. Letianzang's quick sword rises and falls, and more than ten people fell to the ground and die. He walked to the last man, raised his clothes and asked, "Tell me quickly, how is the general's wife good now?"
The man sneered, "Mr. Du loves her beauty, and it will not be difficult for her." Letianzang was about to ask again, but suddenly felt a murderous aura coming from behind him. He looked back and saw the man who had just flew outside the house and stabbed him. He immediately let go of his hand and quickly avoided the blade. With a "ah", the man on the ground had been pierced by his own knife, and blood splattered all over the ground. Seeing that he had killed his accomplice by mistake, the other man released the hilt of the knife with both hands and stood dumbly. Letianzang jumped up from the ground and swung his sword across the neck. The man raised his fingers and wanted to say something, but his feet were weak, his body leaned back and fell on his companion without saying a word.
Le Tianzang was worried about Lin Hanyan's safety, and rode his horse to the direction of Daizhou with sleeping Le Yiyang. Le Tianzang went to the city and sneaked into the Anxi Marquis' Mansion while the soldiers on patrol were unprepared. The people in the mansion had dispersed, and only the maid Qiaoniang was still guarding her wife's room, wiping the tears in her eyes silently. Le Tianzang slowly pushed the door in, and Qiaoniang was startled by the sound. She turned around and saw the person outside the door. Le Tianzang quickly signaled her not to make a sound, handed her the child in her arms to her, and asked, "Where is the general's wife?"
Qiao Niang took Le Yiyang, grabbed Le Tianzang's sleeve, and cried, "A man just came over and took his wife away." Le Tianzang was stunned and hurriedly said, "You are so lucky to take the young master, I'll go back."
Letian Zang left the Marquis' Mansion, and walked all the way through the eaves and walls to Du Chongwei's mansion. Du Chongwei had just finished sending the Khitan envoy and was sitting at the table drinking tea. Letian Zang broke into the door directly. When Du Chongwei saw that there was an extra person in the house, he stood up and scolded loudly, "Don't you see me resting? Why don't you go out quickly!"
Letianzang walked towards him, put the sword on the table, sat on the stool and said, "Please calm down, please come down just to pick up someone." Du Chongwei said coldly, "I wonder who you are talking about?" Letianzang replied, "Sir, I am forgetful, and naturally I am the wife of my general."
Du Chongwei said in a serious voice: "Lin Hanyan is not in my mansion, you might as well please go back." Letianzang sneered and said, "Sir, I won't take my wife away today, so I have to take your head away." After hearing this, Du Chongwei looked at Letianzang and sighed, "It turns out that you are here to avenge Le Yuan!"
Le Tianzang raised his sword and wanted to stab him. The sword blade was approaching his chest. At this time, a black shadow jumped to Du Chongwei and said, "Sir, please leave first." Le Tianzang was shocked and was about to stab at the man, but he saw that the man waved his right palm. Le Tianzang's long sword immediately turned to one side. Seeing that this man had a strong internal strength, Le Tianzang did not dare to underestimate him, he flew to attack his right flank. The man combined his hands, clamped the sword, and pushed it back with force. Le Tianzang used the force to float backwards. The two broke dozens of moves, but they were unable to beat the other. Le Tianzang was thinking about Lin Hanyan in his heart, and did not want to get involved with him anymore. He raised his sword to cut through the window and turned over. The man did not chase him, but still escaped by Le Tianzang.
Du Chongwei came out to thank him, and the man said, "You don't have to be polite. Since your brother-in-law Shi Jingtang agreed to form an alliance with me, Khitan to attack the Tang Dynasty, you and I are your own family. I will go to Taiyuan to pay homage to the Hedong Jiedushi, and there will be a date later." After that, he left.
Seeing that Letianzang dared to assassinate in the mansion, Du Chongwei immediately ordered the whole city to arrest the assassin in martial law. Letianzang was unable to find anyone. In order to prevent Du Chongwei from sending people to chase him, he rushed back to the Anxi Marquis' Mansion, took Le Yiyang and Qiaoniang, and ran straight towards the Khitan border. The soldiers guarding the city were shocked. Dozens of people chased after him for more than 60 miles, climbed a hillside, and looked down. The black tent was covered with the Khitan army. A group of people did not dare to get closer, so they had to stop the horse and return.
Du Chongwei was overjoyed when he saw that Le Yuan had been removed and the Khitan had formed an alliance with his brother-in-law Shi Jingtang. After a few days, he transferred all the troops of the Anxi Army and Daizhou to Taiyuan to fight with the imperial army.
With the support of Du Chongwei's nearly 100,000 troops, Shi Jingtang gradually expanded his ambitions. He ignored the strong opposition of his confidants such as Shi Chonggui, Liu Zhiyuan, Xu Yuanfei and others. He requested the Khitan army to send troops on the condition of "Sixteen Prefectures in Yanyun" to attack the Central Plains and destroy the Tang Dynasty. Li Congke and Yelu Bei died in the Luoyang mutiny. Shi Jingtang called himself emperor in Luoyang and changed the country's name to "Da Jin", so he would take the capital to Kaifeng Prefecture in the south.
Fourteen years have passed in a flash, and now Shi Jingtang's nephew Shi Chonggui is now the emperor. Shi Chonggui cannot bear the bullying of the Khitans and intends to disobey the Khitan's will. As a result, Yelu Deguang personally led his troops to invade Jin State in the south, and then divided his troops to the northwest border to invade the 100,000 Jin Dynasty troops stationed in Hedong.
On that afternoon, the northwest border of Jin State was sunny and Le Yiyang was talking with his friend Linghu City on the grassland. Suddenly, a team of black soldiers rushed forward, with about dozens of people. The two realized that this was the Khitan army and hurried back to the village to report the news. The two could not escape the Khitan horses. As they spoke, five cavalry generals surrounded them.
Le Yiyang asked in Khitan dialect: "Why did you come to my territory of Jin?" One of them replied: "Today we will razend this area to the ground." After saying that, he waved his sword and chopped Le Yiyang. Le Yiyang could not do martial arts, so he hurriedly lay under the horse's belly to avoid it. The man stabbed the ground twice, but he couldn't hurt Le Yiyang. The man was so angry that he murmured to the four people around him, and the others waved their swords to hurt Le Yiyang.
Seeing that Le Yiyang was worried about his life, Linghu City didn't care too much at this time, she pulled out the thin knife on her back and flew over to block it, and said to Le Yiyang: "Brother Yang, a hero will not suffer any loss in front of him. Thirty-six strategies are the best way to leave." Le Yiyang nodded and handed the horse his legs hard. The horse whipped up his front foot and told the Khitan soldier to fall to the ground. The two took the opportunity to grab the horse and whipped the whip to the village.
These Khitan soldiers were extremely angry and hurriedly chased after them. Le Yiyang and Linghu City had just arrived in the village and had no time to tell others that these Khitan soldiers had arrived one after another. They arrived in the village, robbed things when they saw them, and killed them when they met. Le Yiyang and Linghu City both gritted their teeth and stood up to block the way for the people. The Khitan soldiers were shocked and saw that the two were the two of them just now, so they waved their swords to kill them. Linghu City raised their swords and stabbed one person. The man reached out to give Le Yiyang a palm behind him. Le Yiyang choked forward and threw him to the ground. Linghu City returned to the sword and shot the man to death, and stepped forward to help Le Yiyang up. In the blink of an eye, he was surrounded by Khitan soldiers in the center.
The Khitan cavalry raised their swords and said aloof words, running around Le Yiyang and Linghu City. Seeing that the two were worried about their lives, they suddenly shot two cold arrows. The two leading Khitan soldiers fell to the ground. The rest of the people were shocked to see this, and they raised their swords and shot more than ten sharp arrows. The Khitan soldiers fell to the ground. At this time, a middle-aged man in his thirties came out of the avenue and said, "The Khitan dog is so arrogant, and he doesn't look at the place when he hits the grass valley!"
Chapter completed!