Watch the sea

On the third day of June in the 11th year of Xuanxi, in Jixia, the Lanjiang plague was rampant for more than a month. Corpses floated for thousands of miles from the five counties in Nanjiang to the north city of Yinghai.

Jing Wang Lingyi took this as an excuse to point out that there is no way today, and even disasters come from the sky. He also used the celestial phenomenon of "white rainbow piercing the sun, Taibai Jingtian" as the name, and formally launched a war in Jiangjin City, Wanzhou, to Dingkang Zhou and Cangzhou. Headed by the Wufang family and the Lianyan Jiang family, half of the followers of the aristocratic families in the three states of Yunchangwan.

The next day, Jiang Di, the admiral of the left division of the East China Sea Navy, responded to King Jing's call and blatantly launched an army against Yinghai. Fifty miles away from Yinghai City, he confronted Changzhou Governor's Deputy General Xie Ji, and started the first battle of the rebellion.

At the same time, Yichong, Changzhou on the southeast coast of Dayin was defending against foreign enemies, fighting against the Japanese navy that suddenly invaded the country.Changzhou was completely in disarray, and the hearts of the people in Kyushu fluctuated for a while, and they were panicked.

Reporting to the imperial capital in a hurry for eight hundred miles of war, the government and the public were shaken.It is natural to be indignant when expressing one's position in public in the court, but it is not known how many of them are genuine scolders and how many are false.

At this juncture, the Son of Heaven was still as calm as before, and he didn't even show the slightest shock or anger. He only lightly ordered Gu Zheng, Marquis of Shuo'an, to lead the garrisons of the two prefectures of Zhongning and Ningxia to fight calmly, and refused to respect the king to the south of the Lanjiang River, and issued another order Yingguo's mansion presides over the battle in Changzhou, and the three armies are at their disposal.

All the ministers were not sure what the emperor wanted, but they were all sweating for Yinghai Sushi in their hearts.Right now, Changzhou is in chaos. Most of the families are watching the fire from the other side, only thinking of fishing in troubled waters. Although few family heads dare to stand in line to respect the king with great fanfare, except for the Yuchun Han family, there are very few who take the initiative to support Yinghai .

Who doesn't know that Yinghai City is currently plagued by plague, Jiang Di leads the East Sea Navy's left division to attack from the south, and Duke Ding's son Zhou Mincai uses Dingkang City as a base to intercept the Ningzhou garrison from the north who wants to cross the Lanjiang River to support Yinghai.There are plagues inside and military incidents outside, Jiangdi in the south and Dingkang in the north. Today's Yinghai seems to be besieged on all sides, and it will be destroyed in a hundred years.

Now part of the garrison in Changzhou is fighting to the death with the Dongying people in Yichong, and part of the garrison is in the same spirit as those aristocratic families who are watching the fire from the other side, and very few of them can be transferred to relieve the crisis in Yinghai.The emperor trusted the Duke Ying's mansion, and he had full power to decide the situation in Changzhou, but now that Yinghai and the Su Clan were too busy to take care of themselves, how could they fight against King Jing's rebels?

At the end of the Xuanzheng Hall, when the political discussions were over, all the ministers dispersed in worry or indignation, but the Ministry of War and Housekeeping, as well as the military generals in Beijing, large and small, stayed and continued to discuss the deployment of war in the side hall.

Xie Chu, the master of the Wuying Hall, and Ling Qi, the leader of the emperor's shadow guard, came to meet the saint at this time. Seeing that they came together, the emperor temporarily left the table and summoned the two of them alone in the study room of the apse.

Xie Chu's eyebrows were twisted into a pattern of Sichuan characters, and he presented a volume of ancient books and a written prescription with a dignified expression. Ling Ye took it and glanced at it, holding the prescription and asked, "How sure are you?"

Xie Chu shook his head, and said truthfully: "At most [-]%, Gu art is complex and changeable, Kyushu Martial Arts is not good at it. I led people to browse for a long time in Wuying Hall and Shiqu Pavilion, and drew up this prescription, but there is still not enough. grasp."

Once the cause of the Yinghai plague was found out, Su Lang naturally couldn't just sit still, he was powerless to deal with the Nanxi Gu art imperial doctor, he could only seek a breakthrough from the Kyushu martial arts sect.The situation was urgent. On the night when Su Lang found out the crux of the problem, he sent a message to the Wuying Temple in the imperial capital. At the same time, he sent people to ask for help from Nanshan Buddhist Temple, Yishan Academy, and Wuling Taoist sects.

It's probably time for some replies by now.

Ling Ye stared at the ancient book for a long time, stretched out his hand and pressed the four small characters in the ancient book, and sighed softly: "[-]% is still too little, it seems that Guangling must go."

More than a month ago, Yuan Zeliang died mysteriously and tragically the night before he arrived in the imperial capital. Ye Jianwei, the lord of the Eastern Capital, once handed him a secret letter by the hand of the emperor's shadow guard. Afterwards, he took out a letter and handed it to Ling Qi, and said: "Go to Guangling Lushui yourself, the sooner you do it, the better, this matter cannot be delayed."

Ling Qi accepted the order.

Ling Ye lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment, then tilted his head and asked, "Where is Duke Ying, Su Que?"

"Calculating the days and distance, it should not be far from Changzhou."

Ling Ye said "hmm": "If you can get in touch with the Shadow Guard who is going to the Northwest Silk Road, then tell Su Que not to leave Ningzhou in a hurry, there should be someone waiting to intercept and kill at the border of Ningchang Just in case, Chu Heng passed through Yichong."

Xie Chu: "The person King Jing sent to intercept Duke Ying is most likely Fang Hongzhen, Martial Venerable Cangwu."

"That's right." Ling Ye nodded, his eyes seemed to be filled with a pool of quiet water, and he said solemnly without changing his face: "Let the shadow guard watch Chu Heng, and don't let him get hurt easily."

Seeing the strangeness, Ling Qi accepted his orders and left calmly.Xie Chu who was next to him almost rolled his eyes to the sky - of course he rolled his eyes at what Chu Heng had done in the past.This kid used to pretend to be very good in the Hall of Martial Heroes, he couldn't carry his hands on his shoulders, he wished he couldn't even hold his sword steadily, his whole body was useless except for a particularly good-looking face.

Xie Chu saw that he was really a show-off, and he was afraid that he would be bullied by the group of brats in the Hall of Martial Arts who only knew how to look at faces and fight, so he specially took care of him.In the end, it was fine that he and His Majesty didn't know anything about it, but it was a waste of time that Xie Chu went to Wuying Hall three times a day to inspect it.Can't hold the sword?I am afraid that it will be difficult to find a weapon in the whole Kyushu, and it will be more difficult to control than the Ming Ji in Ji Wuyue's hand.Bullying bullying?Lishan Dongjun is thankful for not beating others.

After Xie Chu learned about this from Ling Qi, he was furious for three days.However, Chu Heng was quite conscientious, knowing that he was guilty, and had been avoiding him all these days, even going to the Hall of Martial Heroes in a sneaky way, Xie Chu blocked him several times but didn't catch anyone, so he just let it go.Zhong Pinghou's mansion is particularly low-key on Dongjun's matter, and Xie Chu is not good at publicizing it with great fanfare. Anyway, there is no rush to settle accounts. Once the matter of respecting the king happens, Chu Heng can't hide it. After those martial idiots knew about it, they were afraid that they would not be able to stop Chu Heng.

Xie Chu was thinking about how to catch Chu Heng in the Hall of Martial Ying, and then Ling Ye ordered again: "Let the Ningzhou garrison Chen Bing Huai Ze first, and tell Su Lang to stay steady, and if necessary, you can temporarily Back off, don’t be in a hurry to take down Jiang Di first. I want to see who is standing behind Jiang Di, how many of the grass on the wall watching the fire on the other side of the twelve cities in the south of the Yangtze River are really watching the fire, and how many have already fallen for Ling Yi ship."

Xie Chu was stunned, immediately nodded and said yes, and said: "Yishan Academy has already gone to the Changzhou garrison camp, but the time has not come, so it is not easy to make a move. Now let's see if Su Lang can stabilize Ying before Duke Ying arrives." the situation at sea."

Ling Ye remembered the Floating Cloud Diji handed over to Su Lang, tapped the book case twice with his fingers, and said nothing.

Changzhou, Yinghai.

In just a few days, Xie Ji's troops had fought against the left division of the Donghai Navy several times outside Yinghai City. Jiang Di obviously came prepared, and directly armed with Western firearms when attacking the city.

Fortunately, the defense of Yinghai City has always been tight, and it is easy to defend the city and difficult to attack the city. Xie Ji set up the Changhong artillery and did not let Jiang Di take advantage of it, and barely stabilized the battle situation.

However, after several days in a row, the disparity in troop strength still made Ying Hai slightly weak.Jiang Di seemed to have no money for gunpowder and armaments, and the offensive was almost frenzied, coming every few hours.

And because the Dongying people raided Yichong, Su Lang didn't dare to let the right division of the Donghai Navy join the Yinghai battle. He was not sure whether the Dongying people would wholeheartedly help King Jing, or take advantage of Dayin's civil turmoil and turn north to raid the East China Sea and invade Jiangnan.After all, no matter how many benefits King Jing promised, it was nothing compared to directly tearing a piece of meat from the land of Dayin by himself.

In case of accidents, Su Lang transferred most of the main force of the Donghai Right Division back to the coastal defense of Changzhou, and Yinghai City only left Xie Yu's troops and Huai Ze's navy to defend.He is not in a hurry to counterattack, what he has to do now is to try his best to hold Jiang Di back, and wait for an opportunity for each other to show their cards.

Mishaps come as they come.

When the military doctor came to report, Su Lang and Xie Kun had just resisted Jiang Di's third attack today and were discussing the battle situation in the camp.Su Lang heard that one of the wounded soldiers was infected with the disease, he exchanged a glance with Xie Kun, his eyebrows frowned.

He was aware of the epidemic, no matter how capable King Jing was, most of the people who contracted the epidemic were ordinary people.People who have practiced martial arts above the Pulse Shaping Realm, unless they are old or injured, will not easily get sick.Although the plague spread widely in Yinghai, it was largely contained in Beicheng.Some of the wounded soldiers are suddenly infected with the epidemic, and it can only be done by the nails buried in Yinghai City.

The Su family in Yinghai has a profound background, and the most important thing they need is money and food. Jiang Di has not gotten much benefit from the continuous attack for several days.If the outside doesn't work, start from the inside. The tricks are not afraid of getting old, as long as they are easy to use, they will work.

Su Lang only thought for a while before making a decision in his heart.

"Closed the city." Su Lang's tone was flat, but what he said made Su Zhang's expression change drastically: "Immediately bring heavy troops to blockade Yinghai North City, and don't let me release even a bird."

When Su Zhang heard this, he said anxiously: "But my son, respecting the king is a banner of the plague. The refugees in Yingbei are now in a state of war. Now they are raising troops to seal the city tightly. If one is not sure, civil strife may break out directly. We are now If there is another disturbance in the city..."

Su Lang interrupted him with a wave of his hand, without changing his face, he said: "Feng, just directly state that I gave the order. As long as anyone who takes the lead in making trouble, I will arrest one of them."

He paused for a moment, and said coldly: "The real refugees have nowhere to go except Ying Hai, and those who cause trouble have ulterior motives."

Yinghai cannot be lost, otherwise Yichong will be alone.Although the plague spread widely, it was largely contained in Yingbei.Some time ago, the Duke of Ying's Mansion said that it was sealing off Yingbei, but it only asked the generals and warriors in the mansion to strictly observe the order of entering and leaving Yingbei City, and did not completely seal off the city like Su Lang today.Su Zhang saw that his attitude was firm, although he hesitated, he also knew the urgency of the situation, so he walked away with his fists clenched.

The sun was scorching outside, and Su Lang was standing alone under a weeping willow in front of the gate of Yinghai City. The clusters of June snow beside the tree were in full bloom. He stared quietly at the flowers for a while, sighed very softly, and bent down He grabbed a handful of soil and held it in his hand.

Before the solution to the Gu epidemic came, he couldn't hide his weakness and worries, so he could only put all his eggs in one basket without hesitation——

Because he couldn't afford to bet on the lives of the people in Changzhou or the lives of the soldiers in front of him.He dared to bet on the emperor's trust, but he couldn't afford to bet on the madness of respecting the king.

Su Lang turned his head and glanced at Yinghai City under the scorching sun. When he turned around, the silhouette of Lishan Mountain flashed in front of his eyes. Calculating the distance, Xinghui should have arrived in Ningzhou long ago. There is a garrison in Ningzhou, and everything is safe.He settled down, closed his eyes, forced himself to calm down, and walked quickly to the barracks.

However, Ye Jiu at that time made Su Lang miscalculate, and he failed to take Xinghui to Lishan Mountain.

When Prince Yi Chong said "I'll help you go back", Ye Jiu knew it was a dead end.Sure enough, after hearing Xing Hui's resolute words, Ye Shuli's face darkened a bit, but he didn't stop him again.

It's just that when Su Lang sealed Xinghui's internal strength, he had a unique technique, and he used [-]% of his strength. Xiao Gaomin didn't dare to relieve Xinghui's acupuncture point by himself, and Ye Shuli stood by with a cold face and stood by. Even after crossing the border of Guangling, Xinghui's internal force still couldn't move at all.

This time, Xiao Gaomin and Ye Xinghui were not at war with each other. The two people who had always been at odds with each other rarely got along well.Ye Shuli kept his face sullen and silent, but Xiao Gaomin took care of Xinghui more this way.

There was a war in Changzhou, but Guangling nearby was relatively peaceful.Xiao Gaomin saw Xing Hui rode his horse forward without looking back, and hurriedly called out to him: "Wait a minute, you are running so fast, you are going the wrong way."

Xinghui shook his head, then swung his whip to speed up: "No, go to Lushui first."

The author says:

Xiao Xiao and Xinghui signed a temporary agreement on the establishment of diplomatic relations, which is expected to take effect before arriving in Yinghai. As for who will suddenly turn their faces and tear up the agreement, it is hard to say.