Hidden Sky Light

Shen Ci, see you in the city...

When Chen Ling read the letter, her face was still a bit ugly - this is something that an out-and-out lunatic can do.

Taking the bloodstain under the gauntlet, Shen Ci will always remember and keep it in his heart, and will never forget this opponent.

He just wanted to leave a deep impression on Shen Ci's impression.

Is provocation!

But it is not surprising that such a lunatic can drive Tan Jin into a corner, and capture Huaicheng before the food and grass arrives.

Harmia...

Chen Ling said the name again.

She thought that it must not only be Shen Ci, but Harmia should also escape from Tan Jin's hands.

This thought is extremely meticulous, and, knowing that Tan Jin is different, he still came, just to tell Tan Jin that he has the courage to come to see him, and he can get out of his hands. Now provoking Shen Ci again, it is arrogant, conceited, and arrogant to the extreme.

People who are provocative and flamboyant like this often don't end well, and they definitely won't be the only enemy of Yan Han...

Chen Ling lowered her eyes lightly.

She is not worried about Harmia, she is worried about Shen Ci.

In this way, Harmiya just wanted to provoke and anger Shen Ci first, so that Shen Ci would always remember this scene.

In the future, when they meet on the battlefield, he will be in a mess again.

Harmia can unite the five tribes on the west side of Xirong. In addition to ambition, warlikeness, and intelligence, he must also be good at calculating and attacking...

Chen Ling looked down at the letter in his hand again.

It was sent by Chi Hongying, and it was sent from Qucheng about half a month ago. Right now, he should be taking A Nian on the way to Miaocheng, and it will be half a month away.

Miaocheng is the capital of Pingnan County, only three or two days away from Zhencheng.

There is Pingnanhou Mansion there, it is very safe.

Chen Ling put down the letter in his hand, just in time for the inner courtier to enter, "Your Majesty, the Prince of Pingnan Hou is here again!"

"Come on." Chen Ling said softly.

As soon as the footsteps of the inner servant stopped, he heard Lu Mingjian's voice, "Your Majesty!"

If you haven't seen him, hear his voice first.

Chen Ling made a light hum, but did not look up at the fifteen or six-year-old boy in front of him.

"Your Majesty, Huaicheng has been besieged for so long, this is the last battle, you just let me go! I've been here in Zhencheng for so long, I can't stay under His Majesty's eyelids all the time, and I'll pay it back when I go back in the future. How do you explain to your father and mother~"

Chen Ling glanced at him, but was not in a hurry to interrupt.

Lu Mingjian really continued, "Your Majesty, I told my father and mother back then that I'm here to give Pingnan Hou's face this time~"

Chen Ling said in a low voice, "Well, if you don't get into trouble, you will have a long face."

Lu Mingjian was stunned: "..."

Chen Ling lowered his head and continued to look at the book in his hand.

Lu Mingjian really couldn't sit still, "Your Majesty, I have been here for two months and have been going around in Zhencheng. In the end, all the other garrison troops in Pingnan County have been on the battlefield, and their son is still playing around! Your Majesty ~You just let me go, if you don't go, Huaicheng will be finished! The day lilies are cold."

This time it should be over.

"Just kidding?" Chen Ling looked up at him, "Do you think war is fun?"

Only then did Lu Mingjian react and feel annoyed, "Your Majesty, I didn't mean it that way, I just felt that Kong had an ambition. When I came to Zhencheng, my father and mother had high hopes and hoped that I could be like the second brother..."

The second brother in Lu Mingjian's mouth was Shen Ci.

Lu Mingjian's mother was Mrs. Pingnanhou, the aunt of Shen Ci.

So Lu Mingjian kept calling the second brother Shen Ci.

Shen Ci was the emperor's companion earlier, and Lu Mingjian was also used to the word "second brother" that Chen Ling and the premise Shen Ci both used.

Chen Ling looked at him again, then lowered his head, and said softly, "Your second brother has never regarded war as a fun thing, and he will not think that it will be over if you don't go to war..."

Lu Mingjian's face flushed instantly!

In fact, Lu Mingjian is not very old, it is the time when he is full of enthusiasm.

Lu Mingjian had admired Shen Ci since he was a child. Later, Shen Qi left Licheng, and he also thought about going to the battlefield every day. If it weren't for the strong opposition from my parents, I'm afraid I would have packed up and went to Licheng.

"Your Majesty~" Lu Mingjian pleaded.

"How old is it?" Chen Ling asked coldly.

Lu Mingjian was surprised, "Ten...fifteen, sixteen soon!"

Lu Mingjian didn't understand the meaning.

"Well, the teeth haven't even grown yet, so I'll stay in Zhencheng." Chen Ling made a final decision.

Lu Mingjian wailed, "Your Majesty!"

At that time, when the second brother was still studying with the East Palace, he was in Beijing. Because of the second brother, he often saw the emperor, which was the East Palace at that time.

So he was very close to the Son of Heaven a long time ago.

Even after the second brother went to Licheng, he often walked in front of the emperor.

In addition, he was young, and everyone around him knew that the Son of Heaven took care of him, so when the Son of Heaven came in and out, the inner courtier and Ziyiwei didn't stop him very much.

Right now, Chen Ling looked up at him, "Why, isn't my safety important?"

Just this sentence, Lu Mingjian suddenly stopped, "It's important, it's important~"

Chen Ling looked at him, "Is it more important for you to stay in Zhencheng and guard my safety, or is it more important for you to attack Huaicheng?"

Lu Mingjian was frustrated, "Of course, His Majesty's safety is important..."

Chen Ling bowed his head again, "Then go out."

Lu Mingjian was annoyed.

Everyone thought he was young! But a boy has his own juvenile courage, who said he couldn't kill Tan Jin with his own hands!

Lu Mingjian sighed, he wanted to go too...

Seeing Lu Mingjian's back exit the hall, Chen Ling sighed in her heart.

Lu Mingjian is the only seedling of the Pingnan Houfu generation. Not to mention the battlefield, I haven't been to the school a few times. This time, he came to rescue him without shouting. The hearts of Pingnan Hou and Mrs. Nanhou have been hanging in their throats. .

When she was a child, Lu Mingjian always followed Shen Ci, and she also watched Lu Mingjian from a young age, and she grew up to look like a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy.

In the few years when Shen Ci was not in Beijing, Lu Mingjian was still in Beijing and often ran to her.

Right now, looking at Lu Mingjian's back, Chen Ling suddenly remembered Shen Ci when he was fifteen or sixteen years old.

At that time, Shen Ci was also young, sunny and gentle, but much more rational and stable than Lu Mingjian in front of him...

Chen Ling stretched out his hand again and slapped the straw grasshopper.

wood.

***

Lu Mingjian walked out of the hall with a look of dejection on his face, but before he could go far, he saw Shi Huaiyuan and another general beside him, and hurried to see the emperor.

Lu Mingjian vaguely heard the words "Military Intelligence Report" and the words "Huaicheng"!

Is it the military situation in Huaicheng? !

Lu Mingjian stopped at his feet.

"Prince!" The two greeted, and Lu Ming nodded. Then Shi Huaiyuan said to the inner courtier, and the inner courtier entered the room to communicate, and soon, the emperor called him in.

Lu Mingjian subconsciously wanted to follow, but Ziyiwei at the door stopped him, "Prince."

Lu Mingjian could only **** up his ears outside the hall to listen.

"Prince!" Ziyiwei really gave him a headache.

Lu Mingjian swayed away, but suddenly swayed back again. When Ziyiwei was nervous, he swayed away again. As soon as Ziyiwei relaxed, he swayed back again, and then swayed away...

Ziyiwei wanted to die.

Outside the hall, in the hall, Shi Huaiyuan bowed his hands to the emperor, "Your Majesty, Tan Jin abandoned the city and escaped, taking only the elite around him, and Tan Jin left the entire Huai city behind!"

Chen Ling frowned slightly, "When did it happen?"

The general on Shi Huaiyuan's side said, "This morning the army attacked the city, and encountered the desperate resistance of the Tanzhou garrison in Huaicheng. From morning to noon, the Tanzhou garrison resisted, and for a while they fought back fiercely. But before and after, the Tanzhou garrison suddenly collapsed, the whole army was in chaos, and they didn't know how to resist. After that, the army quickly broke through Huaicheng."

Chen Ling was surprised.

She didn't tell Lu Mingjian that the battle had already started, because she was afraid that he would be clamoring to go.

Based on the fortifications of Huaicheng and the strength of the Tanzhou garrison, she initially told her that the battle would take two days, but she did not expect that Huaicheng would be captured before one day.

should not...

Where did something go wrong?

In Chen Ling's thoughts, Shi Huaiyuan continued, "After the city gate was breached, we discovered that Tan Jin had long since disappeared. Since morning, Fu Menci has been defending the city in Tan Jin's name. Earlier resistance , and there was a counterattack later, all to cover up people's eyes and ears and cover Tan Jin's escape."

Sure enough, Chen Ling frowned, "He ran away?"

Shi Huaiyuan nodded, "Yes. After Fu Menci was taken down, his tone of voice has been very tight, and he didn't say anything. He is currently escorting him to Zhencheng, and His Majesty can personally interrogate him. But according to a guard beside Fu Menci It was revealed that Tan Jin should have fled last night without even bringing Tan Guangsi with him... In fact, it was precisely because Tan Guangsi was still in Huaicheng that Tanzhou garrisoned troops... they thought Tan Jin was still there."

When Shi Huaiyuan stopped, the hall suddenly became quiet.

Chen Ling looked up at Shi Huaiyuan.

They escaped last night, and they are still defending today, and they pretended to fight back for a while, all to divert their attention and delay the time. In fact, people are no longer in Huaicheng...

No one would doubt that Tan Jin was willing to keep his own grandsons behind.

Tan Jin's mind is cruel enough.

Chen Ling got up and walked towards the sand table in the hall.

In the sand table, with Huaicheng as the center, the terrain, distance, and special features around each city are marked. If he had escaped from Huaicheng last night, it would be almost dusk now...

Almost all day and all night, people should have fled far away.

Chen Ling asked calmly, "Have you been chased?"

It is impossible to escape without a trace.

Shi Huaiyuan responded, "Back to Your Majesty, people have already been chased, and there are traces to follow. But Tan Jin is cautious, leaving traces in all directions, and I don't know which direction is Tan Jin, so they are chasing... …”

Chen Ling didn't find it strange. Tan Jin was originally an old fox. He had fought more battles than others had crossed.

Chen Ling instructed, "Continue chasing him, no matter where he is, I will find him."

"Yes!" Shi Huaiyuan and the generals beside him responded.

Just as soon as he finished speaking, Lu Mingjian made a "swoosh" like a loach, bypassing Ziyiwei and the inner courtier and slipping into the hall, "Your Majesty, let me go after him!"

Chen Ling Ling said, "Who let you in?"

Ziyiwei immediately knelt down on one knee, "Your Majesty forgive me."

In fact, Ziyiwei also gave Lu Mingjian a headache.

The Prince of Pingnan Hou wandered around in front of the Emperor all day long. If the Emperor did not want to see the Prince of Pingnan Hou, the Prince of Pingnan Hou would have been thrown out long ago. The Prince of Pingnan Hou Shizi was a shrewd person, and he tested the bottom line a little bit, and finally saw the timing, and slipped in like a loach.

Lu Mingjian was so frightened that he quickly knelt down and said eagerly, "Your Majesty, you just let me go, Tan Jin ran away in dismay, and the garrison next to me would not be in danger. Besides, Your Majesty, if I come to Zhencheng for a few days, I will do nothing. If I didn’t do it, how could I go back to see my father and mother, I’ll be laughed at when I go back to Beijing~ I’m already sixteen~”

Lu Ming said briefly, not to mention Chen Ling, Shi Huaiyuan and the generals on the side all followed suit.

Then Lu Mingjian suddenly looked at Shi Huaiyuan, and Shi Huaiyuan secretly said in his heart, "I'm sorry, it's not good, really, I heard the ancestors say, "General Shi is definitely not in danger with me."

Shi Huaiyuan: "..."

Chen Ling looked at him, and the word "nonsense" reached her throat, but she suddenly remembered that Shen Ci looked back at her earlier - Great General~ the border city outside the frontier, protect the family and defend the country.

Chen Ling suddenly became silent.

Both Lu Mingjian and Shi Huaiyuan were surprised.

Chen Ling looked back, "Huaiyuan, you go with him."

Shi Huaiyuan was stunned.

Lu Mingjian couldn't believe it, "Your Majesty~!"

"Go out, it's noisy!" Chen Ling said in a deep voice.

Lu Mingjian happily said, "Let's go, let's go right away, General Shi, let's go~"

Shi Huaiyuan was almost dragged out by him.

Chen Ling looked at Ziyiwei, "Tell Shi Huaiyuan to find a safe place."

Ziyiwei responded.

***

Lu Mingjian never thought that His Majesty agreed that he and General Shi Huaiyuan would come to pursue him, but it turned out to be Kuncheng next to Zhencheng.

Kuncheng is also the boundary of Pingnan County. It is between Zhencheng and Miaocheng. It is only about a day's journey from both places. Tan Jin will not escape here even if he wants to escape...

Lu Mingjian was riding a horse through the forest leisurely.

At first, he was still in high spirits, but now that a day has passed, the weather is calm, and he feels more and more that there will be no hidden people here.

Shi Huaiyuan looked at him and smiled, "Isn't the prince so excited that he wanted to chase Tan Jin?"

Lu Ming said sullenly, "Fang is just now, and now is the moment, Tan Jin will not take the road of Kuncheng without water in his mind. This road is not mentioned in the boundary of Pingnan, but it is close to the direction of Zhencheng, and there are guards everywhere. The garrison, the Imperial Army, and His Majesty's Ziyiwei, he will only rush here when his mind is flooded..."

Shi Huaiyuan smiled.

Lu Mingjian continued, "His Majesty was annoyed by me, so he chose this place for me to follow. This is the most impossible place."

Shi Huaiyuan patiently said, "But aren't there traces? Shizi, any place is possible, even if it's right in front of you, don't take it lightly. We're close to this place, so naturally we come here first."

Although Shi Huaiyuan said it made him feel more comfortable, Lu Mingjian still couldn't get his spirits up, stretched out his hand and yawned, and sighed, "Don't take it lightly, even if there are no wild boars here, how can there be Tan Jin? Where such wild boars don't come, what is Tan coming in for?"

Shi Huaiyuan said warmly, "Sir, the more dangerous the place is, the more likely it is to survive."

Sitting in the grass, Tan Jin didn't react when he heard the nonsense that the yellow-haired boy from Shi Huaiyuan said, but he frowned when he heard Shi Huaiyuan's words.

At least Shi Huaiyuan did not take it lightly.

They hid in the stone pit on the slope, covered with grass, and would not be easily discovered unless they checked a little bit.

Qu Guangtong clenched the saber in his hand, breathing hard.

I have escaped all the way to the vicinity of Kuncheng, and I have been very careful. The person chasing from the Huaicheng direction should not arrive. My uncle left traces everywhere to confuse the sight. Who would have thought that the emperor would really let that yellow-mouthed child from Lu Mingjian come here. Cope with it.

Soon, it should be over.

Tan Jin and Qu Guang have been on the battlefield for a long time. From the sound of horses' hoofs, you can tell that there are at least a thousand people in this team.

Right now, they only have a few dozen riders, and they can't fight recklessly.

If found, just run.

Tan Jin's complexion is much calmer than Qu Guangtong's. It is useless to be in a mess right now. He can only pray for the other party to pass safely. If he does not pass safely, he can only think about what to do next.

The hooves of the horses are bursting, walking forward, it should be fast.

Refraction took a deep breath.

Just suddenly, I heard Lu Mingjian's voice, "Wait, wait first."

Tan Jin and Qu Guangtong's expressions changed.

"Sir?" Shi Huaiyuan was puzzled.

Lu Mingjian smiled and said, "I just forgot, I can't hold back now, so let's solve it here."

Shi Huaiyuan breathed a sigh of relief, "The two of you, keep up."

Lu Mingjian got off the carriage, "Don't, it's just as far away."

When Lu Mingjian walked to the corner, he began to relax. The atmosphere below the entire stone **** froze. Qu Guangtong looked at the passing overhead... Qu Guangtong clenched his saber.

Tan Jin gritted his teeth.

He has never suffered such humiliation since he followed his father to the battlefield at the age of ten!

But right now...

Tan Jin clenched his palm tightly, if there was a teacup in his hand, it would definitely be crushed.

Lu Mingjian yawned again, then raised his trousers and turned around, Qu Guangtong looked at Tan Jin, full of humiliation in his heart.

Lu Mingjian left to a safe enough place, "General Shi, there are people there! Hide under the stone slope! I saw the sword light!"

This sentence of Lu Mingjian shocked everyone!

Including Tan Jin and Qu Guangtong!

In fact, when Lu Mingjian was yawning and raising his trousers to hide his eyes, his legs were trembling with fright, but he refrained from making a sound.

He was here by himself just now. If there is a conflict, even if he is not hacked to death, he will definitely be held as a hostage!

Although he has never been on the battlefield, the sword light can still be distinguished!

There are torches all around, and when he urinates, a knife light is reflected!

In an instant, there were all the sounds of drawing swords and swords.

"Protect the prince! Capture the thief Tan!" Shi Huaiyuan shouted.

There was fire light everywhere, and sword light everywhere. In an instant, people in front and back of Shipo erupted, and soon, the two sides met each other, accompanied by the sound of swords piercing the flesh.

Lu Mingjian was mentally prepared earlier, but now he couldn't help swallowing, and quickly hid behind Ziyiwei.

Omg!

So fast!

There were sounds of fighting everywhere, and he was really fighting for his life. Shi Huaiyuan also drew his sword to protect him.

The surrounding area was pitch black, and it was difficult to tell who was Tan Jin, but everyone was fighting in one place, and the first priority was to protect the safety of the Prince of Pingnan Hou. This was specially ordered by His Majesty!

Yes, he didn't expect to meet Tan Jin here!

This wave of people is the Tanzhou Garrison!

"Kill ah~" shouted loudly everywhere, attracting attention everywhere.

This gang must be the elite following Tan Jin, so they know how to distract their opponents.

"Where is Tan Jin?" Lu Mingjian was flustered and excited, but suppressed his nervousness.

Shi Huaiyuan said solemnly, "Wherever the horse is scrambled, Tan Jin is there!"

After Shi Huaiyuan finished speaking, Lu Mingjian suddenly realized, that's right!

They must not have enough manpower. If they can't beat this place, they can only run. If they want to run, they can only grab the horses, yes!

Lu Mingjian was excited again.

"Keep an eye on me!" Shi Huaiyuan said loudly.

"Yes!" Ziyiwei responded.

At the same time, Qu Guangtong dragged one person off the horse, "Uncle! Go!"

"Department!" Tan Jin was also injured in the melee, and he knew that there was only one idea left at the moment.

"Uncle go first! Leave the green hills behind, and uncle can make a comeback one day. Take your uncle to go first!" Qu Guangtong stretched out his hand and dragged one person off the horse.

"Here!" Some Ziyiwei found a few people in the chaos.

"It's Tan Jin!" Lu Mingjian shouted.

The people around rushed up.

"Let's go, uncle!" Qu Guangtong and the remaining twenty loyal servants stood guard at the necessary place.

Tan Jinyue mounts his horse and signs the public!

"Drive!" Tan Jin hit the horse and whipped the whip, and there were only less than ten horses following him.

"Tan Jin has run away! Release the arrow! Release the arrow!" The leader of the purple-clothed guard shouted, and in an instant, Tan Jin fell behind him like a rain of arrows, and the horses running behind him were all accompanied by horses. turn down.

Tan Jin was galloping in the night, and he couldn't help but look back, only to see that Qu Guang's peers had turned into a sea of ​​blood in the rain of arrows.

Chen Ling! Lu Mingjian!

He was forced into such a situation by these yellow-haired boys!

Huluo and Pingyang were bullied by dogs, think what a hero Tan Jin was back then!

Today is going to be reduced to such a situation!

But right now, grief and anger have no effect. There are still a steady stream of chasing soldiers behind him. If he is escorted this time, there will only be five cavalry on his side, and it is impossible to escape. He cannot stop!

Behind him there was the sound of arrows "whoosh", and some arrows passed by and hit the guards on one side.

There were also flares blaring overhead.

But until the last moment, he will not be cornered!

If you want his life, you have to trade it for it!

Tan Jin's eyes were scarlet.

The horses were still galloping in the dark night, Tan Jin clenched his saber tightly, and the one riding in front of him opened the way, one on the left and right, and one behind the pad.

Don't give him a chance to escape, just give him a chance to escape, and one day he will be able to crush Chen Ling's neck!

Tan Jin gritted his teeth, and in his thoughts, a dense fire suddenly appeared in front of him. Tan Jin was startled, and the horse that was running in front of him didn't have time to stop his horse, and tripped on the ground by the suddenly pulled reins.

Even people and horses fell out, and they vomited blood directly.

Tan Jin and the two riders on the left and right only had time to restrain their horses, but because they were too close, even if they restrained their horses, they would turn their horses on their backs.

how come!

Tan Jin raised his head and looked in front of him in disbelief. How could someone still be ambushed here? !

Tan Jin stood up with his broken left arm in a state of embarrassment. His body was also covered with the wounds he had been slashed in the chaos when he met with Lu Mingjian and Shi Huaiyuan earlier.

Tan Jin got up in embarrassment, but Ling Lie's fierce eyes stopped at Shen Ci in front of him, and he sneered with surprise, "Shen Ci?!"

Seemingly stimulated by the scene in front of him, he couldn't help laughing, "It's you! Impossible, how did you know I was here! Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

Tan Jin's eyes were scarlet. Compared with the current situation, it was more difficult for him to accept that his luck was not good, and he ran into Shen Ci here.

Shen Ci said in a low voice, "On the way back to Fuyang County, I read all the battlefield records about King Tan. You have been defeated ten times in total, seven of which were forced to flee for your life, and five of these seven times. Second, you were hiding your eyes and ears and fled by the location of the opponent's coach. I was just wondering if Tan Wang would also follow Zhencheng to go to Kuncheng this time, so he adjusted the route. I saw a signal flare on the way just now. I was prepared, but I didn't expect to meet King Tan here..."

Tan Jin froze!

Soon, Tan Jin burst out laughing again, "Okay...Okay...Okay, your remarks!"