The Collection of The End

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Dong Zhuo and Li Ru were originally hurting each other while patrolling the Wuwei market. As a result, first Dong Zhuo "predicted" [a fire in the backyard], and then a servant came to report that "an assassin has sneaked into the back house and has been killed by Miss Zhang." uniform", he had to rush back from his patrol mission to confirm what happened.

In this incident, a total of one small door lock on the side was lost, two plates were dropped in the center of the place, three sets of external herbal medicines, window paper was punctured, and some information about various places was lost.

There is no doubt that these "assassins" were sent by the imperial court or Shi Changshi because they were worried about him, the governor of Liangzhou, who had a rough background. Their original duties were to monitor and search for possible evidence of crime. It was found that Zhang Jie was purely Surprisingly, if they went back quietly to report the matter, they might even give Dong Zhuo a headache, but they were stupid enough to want to arrest him directly...

In the inner room, Dong Zhuo poked Dong Bai's bulging face: "Grandpa knows you are angry, but can you let them out first? Although I don't know the specific situation, the unlucky ghosts who have been swallowed by you are almost crazy with fear." Yes, grandpa still has something to ask them."

"Hmm..." Dong Bai puffed up his face and shook his head from side to side.

"The princess said, 'danger'." Lu Lingqi explained from the side.

"Oh?" Dong Zhuo was too lazy to correct the little girl's title. He touched his chin and began to think. Naturally, this "danger" does not refer to the two of them. She should mean that even if she has good skills and wears a full suit, " "Excellent" armor, these assassins still have ways to hurt him?

Jia Xu has already gone out. For detailed information about them, it seems that he can only ask Li Ru. Dong Zhuo looked at the garden outside.

"This time we didn't have enough protection, and an assassin sneaked into the house. Fortunately, Miss Zhang helped, and the two young ladies were safe. I'm very grateful." Li Ru was in the garden touting Zhang Jie, who obviously didn't know what was going on.

"It's a small effort, not worth mentioning - no!" Zhang Jie, who was wearing a pink double-breasted skirt, shook her head vigorously, her single ponytail tied with a pale pink bow swaying: "This is actually not my credit..."

"Hmm..." Li Ru looked at the glaring King Kong, who was just a light yellow whirlwind from the waist down, but had strong muscles and an unusually tall figure. Some of the clothes and accessories he wore had obvious traces of the Taiping Road, and expressed doubts in his eyes.

"This is the 'Taiping Warrior', which can only be summoned by high-ranking Taoists. I'm still a little short of it, but now that I'm in Liangzhou, all my uncles who might be able to do this have gone to save Qingniujiao. Tell me, who are you summoning?" Come out?" Zhang Jie hit the "strong man" twice, but the other party just glanced at her, completely unmoved.

No wonder she was so anxious. If there were other high-level officials secretly protecting her, wouldn't it mean that that person also broke into the back house without permission? What if Dong Zhuo refuses to assist Liangzhou Taiping Road in anger?

Since the girl's thoughts were almost on her face, Li Ru didn't even need to guess, but he couldn't say that Mr. Dong didn't care about this, so he turned to say: "Maybe your father has left some means of protection on you. This matter does not matter. It’s not important, now I want to ask Miss Zhang to describe the appearance, methods and words of the incoming assassin for the purpose of tracing.”

"Well... they are all women. You can't tell their age by their voices. They are wearing black clothes and covering their faces with black cloth. They used a kind of powder to eliminate my Taiping Taoism. They didn't notice it at all before they appeared. Ah, by the way, they They mentioned 'Diao Chan' when talking to each other, but I don't know if it was the name of one of them." Zhang Jie responded while thinking.

"Diao Chan?" Li Ru's face became a little serious.

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"Is this 'Diao Chan'... someone from the palace?" Dong Zhuo asked.

After letting Zhang Jie, who was a little uneasy, go to rest by herself, Li Ru came to the house to explain the ins and outs to Dong Zhuo and the two heroes who really solved the assassination incident.

"Father-in-law should know that according to Han law,

There are three official positions in the emperor's palace: Shizhong, Sanqi, and Changshi. Among them, the "Shizhong" cannot leave the palace unless he retires. Cao Mengde's grandfather once held this position; the "Sanqi" patrols and defends Luoyang, east and west. The 'deputies' in the north and south also belong to this position. If they are not permanent guards, they are not allowed to enter the palace. As for the 'permanent attendants'..." When Li Ruyan reached this point, he laughed and stopped explaining.

"Hmph...it's because the 'Ten Constant Attendants' can enter and leave the palace at will and can handle any order issued by the emperor. The emperor is too lazy to deal with such 'trivial matters' and has the support of the Sword Master, so he has the power he has now," Dong Zhuo snorted and said, "So, Diao Chan is their subordinate?"

"Yes, and no," Li Ru said, "My father-in-law lives in the northwest. Maybe he doesn't know the clothes of these servants. They all wear the word 'cicada' made of gold and jade on the front of their hats, and the tail of 'mink' on the suffix of their hats. The servants have cicada on the right and mink on the left. Waiting on the left is the cicada and the right is the mink."

"Well, then we don't have to worry about killing the wrong person," Dong Zhuo said. "If we kill those colleagues of Cao Mengde's grandfather, it will probably be difficult to meet him in the future."

"..." Li Ru forcefully resisted asking questions such as "When will my father-in-law plan to enter Luoyang?" He paused for a few breaths before saying, "That's true."

"Continue to say, 'Diao Chan'." Dong Zhuo urged without realizing that he said something that needed to be taken care of.

"My son-in-law has not been to Luoyang for a long time. Maybe he knows something wrong," Li Ru said: "The duty of this female official named 'Diao Chan' is to take care of the officials when they take off their hats, or to help straighten them when they put on their hats. 'Servant in the middle' They both have the authority to order them as well as the 'Constant Attendants', so although they are likely to be under the 'Ten Permanent Attendants', they cannot be sure that they do not belong to a certain attendant."

"Hmm... maybe just like the 'Ten Permanent Attendants' taught by the Sword Master, they should also be trained to turn 'sneaking' into 'assassination' at any time." Dong Zhuo turned to look at Dong Bai's bulging cheeks and said.

"Because she is a female official in the palace, in order to prevent the emperor from having a whim when he meets her occasionally," Li Ru looked at Dong Bai and Lu Lingqi who were listening carefully, and finally changed his title: "Those selected as 'Diao Chan' usually have rough skin. Ugly appearance.”

"!!" Dong Bai's eyes suddenly widened, and then he started chewing in his mouth.

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Some kind of faint scream that came from nowhere made Li Ru wipe away the cold sweat.

"Uh-huh--" Dong Bai stopped chewing, continued to puff up his face, and raised his little finger to point at Li Ru.

"The princess said, 'You lied'." Lu Lingqi translated.

"Yes, really? That's good." Li Ru was already incoherent.

"Don't think too much, those 'Diao Chan' are not in A Bai's mouth." Dong Zhuo, who couldn't stand it anymore, interrupted.

He has seen that little girl Dong Bai has normal shell teeth and uvula. There is nothing strange except that she is particularly edible. But when "Wushuang" is activated, her mouth will turn into a deep and terrifying darkness, which can ignore the size. Or the material directly "swallows" or "spits out" the target. What she was chewing just now was probably the "connection" needed to "spit out" those "diao cicadas". Can she not scream in fear?

"How is it? They have been frightened for so long. They should not dare to make mistakes after being released." Dong Zhuo turned to his granddaughter and asked.

Dong Bai frowned and thought for a moment, then shook his head.

"The princess said that we must wait for Master Lu Bu to come back." Lu Lingqi said.

She didn't make a sound at all just now!

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Northeast of Wuwei, there is a deserted Gobi.

A Liangzhou army of 50,000, led by generals such as Lu Bu, Gao Shun, Hua Xiong, Zhang Ke, Guan Hai, etc., including 20,000 [trapped camp], attacked about 20,000 people, but there were no powerful generals. He only thought that what he had to deal with was the Huns reinforcements of about 10,000 "Taiping Army".

Even describing this battle as "destroying" or "powerful" is a disparagement of the Liangzhou Army.

"Huh, boring." Lu Bu looked at the fierce Liangzhou soldiers who continued to hunt down the remnants of the Huns because they had not yet obtained any military exploits. He reined in his horse in boredom and turned to Gao Shun, who was following him: "What are Li Wenyou's next actions?"

Because this operation was generally too simple, Li Ru did not sit in front of the Chinese army as usual and sent countless messengers to make tactical adjustments based on the battle situation. It would be better to say that there was no "Chinese army" at all in this operation.

He made a series of "if...then" and "else...then" arrangements. Although each general only had three branch choices at most, Lu Bu still refused to remember those things.

"If we successfully repulse the Huns reinforcements before dark..." Gao Shun, who could only shoulder this burden, thought for a while and replied: "Go to 'rescue' the escort team that has just been kidnapped. Be sure to let the other party see clearly. Lord Lu Bu’s appearance.”

"Then withdraw." To Gao Shun's expectation, Lu Bu turned the horse's head without any objection, "I feel that Lingqi is missing me."

...Lord Lu Bu really doesn't refer to himself as "my uncle" only when referring to young ladies.

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Thirty miles further north from where Lu Bu withdrew his troops, there was the main force of the Xiongnu who led the army to come to the rescue this time - the main force that was already half-disabled. Due to the decisive and timely retreat, they still maintained their organizational structure for the time being.

Having learned the lesson of setting up a camp directly near the Han people's city and being wiped out, this time they established a camp far away from the destination of the operation. As long as they can get there to defend, they may be able to wait for subsequent reinforcements...

"Boom! Snap!"

When the remnant Xiongnu army approached the camp, they heard the sound of two cannons, and a large flag with the word "Jia" was erected in the camp. Nearly a thousand Han troops poured out of the camp, and then a "feather fan, silk scarf, majestic appearance" "The counselor appeared on the low wall of the camp, pointing at the remnants and laughing.

Although there are still nearly ten thousand Xiongnu remnant troops, they have no fighting spirit. They built the camp themselves, and they know very well how to facilitate defense, so the Xiongnu general directly ordered to turn around and abandon this "support escort team to deal with it" "Way of Peace" action.

"I remember the appearance of the counselor who cut off people's retreat." The Huns general retreated around the camp while looking at the figure above the earthen wall of the temporary camp fiercely: "In addition, the man next to him didn't do it twice. The guy who asked us to deal with Taiping Road, but ended up getting us ambushed twice?”