The happy life of the devil and the devil

In the early morning of the next day, there were [-] more horses in Ling Yucheng's Xuanjia Guards, and Yuan Shao also gave a lot of things accordingly, among which were a few gorilla felt cloaks that were thick and smooth, and wouldn't melt when touched by snow. Especially delicate.Later, King Xi was coerced by his wife and concubines, so he secretly asked Ge Shuye if the material for this cloak was available in the inner palace. Ge Shuye shook his head, "Where did this kind of thing come from the inner palace?" On the side of his mouth, he quickly interjected: "It should be from Qingzhou Xingong..."

Borrowing the east wind from these cloaks, after the ice melted and the snow melted, some caravans traveled all over the grasslands with delicate and thick orangutan felt and soft and smooth feather satins.The emperor of Beiliang passed through the territory of the Xi clan and continued to march northeastward. After ten days or so, he reached the boundary of the Bohai Sea.

The brocade tents around Yu'erluo have long stretched as far as the eye can see.Since the Bohai tribe surrendered to Beiliang, it has been divided into two branches: one is called the Baishan tribe, and the current patriarch Li Xiancheng is magnificent in appearance and has extraordinary military strength; the other is called the Heishui tribe, and the patriarch Li Jinxing is about fifty years old. His beard and hair are all white, but the eldest son who is supporting him by the side is handsome and majestic, and when he bows down in front of Yuan Shao with the chiefs of the Black Water Department, big and small, there is always a bit of rebelliousness when kneeling together .

As soon as the big tent was erected, not only many nobles from the Xi clan and the Bohai tribe gathered, but also the small countries of Sushen and Wuluohu hundreds of miles away, and even the savages in Haixi sent people to the court.At that time, the ice melted and the snow melted, the migratory birds flew back, and beside the Dashuiluo formed by the confluence of the Yazi River and the Changchun River, the yellow-brown land and blue grass sprouts had already emerged from the ground.

Yuan Shao didn't wear armor that day, but only wore a crown and scarf, with a jade belt around his waist, and reined in his horse from the upper wind to look into the distance.Ling Yucheng was accompanied by him in a black military uniform that has never changed for thousands of years. He looked curiously at the people standing quietly around Shuiluo. They were all dressed in dark green clothes, with a chain hammer and a strange-shaped sword on their waists. The iron cone and a small container form a large circle five or six steps apart.Farther away, a group of cavalrymen wandered back and forth with colorful flags on their backs, stretching their necks, wondering what they were waiting for.

"Aren't you going to hunt swans?" Looking around, except for his own Xuanjia Guard, there was no one around to check the bows and arrows. Ling Yucheng couldn't help but feel a little strange, so he asked quietly.Yuan Shao gave him a hard look when he heard the words: "Where is the Haidongqing that I gave you earlier?"

"Leave it in the rear... Doesn't it mean that only His Majesty needs to release the eagle?"

"Hurry up and bring it!"

After exchanging only a few words, the horse's hooves in the distance suddenly rushed, and a probing horse came galloping.For a moment, the drums sounded like thunder, and the cavalry with colorful flags swarmed up, waving the flags in their hands vigorously, and shouting at the top of their voices.Amidst the thunderous noise, swans flew in flocks, and snow feathers soared from the water to form a white cloud.

Someone had already bowed down in front of Yuan Shao's horse, with his right arm raised high, and Hai Dongqing, who had a snowy feather and jade claw on his arm, stood proudly.Yuan Shao bent slightly from the horse's back, took the tamed handsome falcon, untied the thin chain on the falcon's feet, and took off the thick cowhide blindfold.Seeing that Hai Dongqing began to jump up and down excitedly, he urged the horse to run, and at the same time shook his arm vigorously: "Go!"

Under the watchful eyes of tens of thousands of people, the Haidongqing, who had carried Beiliang's auspicious luck for a year, spread its wings and soared into the sky.

Different from Panfei, a swan panicking, Haidongqing, who is also all white, flies like a sharp arrow piercing the sky.Ling Yucheng reined in his horse and looked up, watching the Haidongqing flying higher and higher, becoming a small white dot in the sky, then suddenly turned around, with its wings bundled, it swooped straight in front of the swan that was several times bigger than him go down!

At the moment of approaching, the swan, which was chosen as the prey by the heroic king of the sky, suddenly turned to the right side, just avoiding the imminent claw.And Hai Dongqing seemed to have been prepared for this kind of situation, and did not fight with it at all. He turned over in the air, spread his wings slightly, and swept down obliquely, just landing on another swan that was flying upwards. The iron claws tightly gripped the top of the swan's head, while the hook-shaped beak pecked hard at the back of the swan's slender neck.The swan fluttered its wings in a panic, but it was seriously injured and weak. It rolled and entangled with Hai Dongqing, and finally it gradually fell down.

"I started from the thatched grass in Beiliang, and fought hundreds of battles. I am not afraid of hardships, and win more with less." At some point, Yuan Shao had already galloped back, surrounded by a circle of nobles and important officials, all of them Quietly staring at Costin and the swan that is several times the size of Costin: "Ancestral system, every spring, the emperor personally releases Costin to hunt swans, in order to inspire future generations to remember the courage of ancestors, Never be intimidated by the strength of the enemy."

While speaking, the courtier standing by the water had already separated the hunter from the prey, and ran up holding the disheveled and blood-stained swan and the exhausted Haidongqing.Yuan Shao took the iron awl from the courtier's hand, stabbed the swan to death with his own hands, took out the goose brain and fed it to Hai Dongqing who had made great contributions: "As long as we win with one blow, countless allies will naturally rush forward to divide the seemingly powerful for us. Enemy - as long as we win, we don't have to worry about not being able to overwhelm our opponent!"

"Long live, long live, long live!" Looking at the swan held high in the emperor's hand, all the courtiers and soldiers around bowed down together, and cheers shook the sky above the lake.

Amid the shouts from the mountains, Ling Yucheng subconsciously caressed the jade pendant on his waist—the Chunshui pendant that Yuan Shao personally tied on him after the first battle in the ring.There are two birds, one large and one small, on the jade pendant. The small one swoops down, while the big one flaps its wings to avoid.I have been engraving it for more than half a year. This jade pendant was obviously newly engraved when I got it that day, and the turning point of the line has been rubbed with fingertips.

The cheers gradually faded away, and the courtiers all around got up one after another, and many people were already eager to try with the eagle on their backs.Yuan Shao handed the swan to his courtiers, reined in his horse, turned around, smiled at Gu Ling Yucheng and said, "Where's the Haidongqing I gave you? Let it go!"

"Chen—" He actually wanted to use a bow and arrow, but Yuan Shao stared at him with a slight smile, the corners of his mouth turned up, and the voice that was restrained into a line by internal force reached his ears in a low voice: "My queen, You can’t even have a decent Costin!”

"..." Well, as a queen, the cost of food and clothing also represents His Majesty's face.The black fox cloaks on the left and right were also given by him, and the jade pendant around his waist was also given by him, and this falcon is not bad for a while, so he can do whatever he wants.Ling Yucheng resisted not to twitch the corners of his mouth, took Hai Dongqing from the eagle breeder running over, and waved his arms like Yuan Shao.The pure black goshawk soared into the sky, crashing into the snowy feathers all over the sky, and the messy black and white feathers smeared with blood flew down one after another.

"Ah, this kid is not bad, but unfortunately his strength is a bit weak..." Yuan Shao stood side by side with him on horseback, watching the Haidongqing and the swan wrestling in the air, and laughed and pointed out: "You still don't know what to do?" Won't you help me?"

"... Can this help too?"

"Otherwise, what are they doing with the chain hammer?...Oh," leaned slightly from the horse's back, shoulder to shoulder almost like Ling Yucheng, "show me your archery skills, how about it?"

He whispered to Ling Yucheng like this, his gestures were intimate, most of the courtiers around him turned their heads away and did not dare to look directly at him.Ling Yucheng didn't answer, just smiled back, turned around and took off the longbow on his back, clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and the horse naturally started trotting.Ling Yucheng sat firmly on the horse, with a black cloak fluttering behind his back, holding a bow in his left hand, and drawing three long arrows from his quiver with his right hand.The horse ran faster and faster, the moment the shadow of the first swan fell under the horse's hooves, Ling Yucheng clamped the horse's body with both knees, and suddenly fell sideways from the horse's back to the right, looked up at the sky, and bowed to the full moon.

One bow and three arrows were shot in succession, and the three strings rang, which almost became a sound in the ears of the surrounding audience.As soon as the arrow left the bowstring, Ling Yucheng didn't even look at it, he drew the bow and turned the horse around.Everyone's eyes were still following the trajectory of the arrow, Ling Yucheng had leisurely stepped on his horse and returned to Yuan Shao, bowing with a smile on his face: "Fortunately, life is not disgraceful."

In the shrill scream of Yujian, three groups of shadows fell down.Someone rushed over to pick it up and offered it, and everyone gathered around Yuan Shao's horse to watch together. The first arrow pierced the swan's abdomen and shot out through the spine. Ling Yucheng's own Haidongqing's claws grabbed the swan's head and neck, and fell together. The second arrow hit the lower jaw of another swan, and shot out from the brain, killing it with one arrow; The body of the arrow sank into the belly of another swan.I don't know how many soldiers and soldiers secretly asked themselves: Do I have the ability to shoot three arrows in a row while the horse is galloping?

"... Good arrow skills."

Looking across the shocked or thoughtful faces around him, Yuan Shao raised his head and gave Ling Yucheng a smile of appreciation without hesitation.Even in Beiliang, where the country is founded on bow and horse, there are very few warriors with such riding and archery skills.More importantly, this is the first time since entering Beiliang that Ling Yucheng showed his strength almost ostentatiously in front of everyone after half a year of deliberate forbearance——

The moment his horse galloped out, the sharp and bright aura on his body made Yuan Shao seem to have seen the black-clothed cavalry who held up the crossbow in the old Tingyue Tower to stop the Jinwu Guards and defend the dignity of the country at the expense of both; he saw Prince Rui's Mansion In the garden, the young general who was compelled by his murderous aura and remained calm, boasted that "the 30-thousand-thousand army is not good for the sword"; saw the young general committing suicide in the arena, and rushed towards the rain of arrows without fear or regret. Ling Yucheng.

Something is about to start... Inexplicably, a kind of awe-inspiring excitement rises down the spine.

Yuan Shao's premonition soon became a reality.

Yu Erluo’s activity of catching swans was not completed in one day. The emperor released Costinosaurus by himself. After hunting the first goose, he sacrificed the swans to the ancestral temple, and then held a banquet. Hunt swans and fight for victory.The steeds of Haidongqing, the bravery of the hounds, and even the shooting skills of the warriors under his command are all objects of secret rivalry.At the same time, the wealthy chieftains within thousands of miles came and went on pilgrimage, participating in feasts ranging from ten days to half a month. While offering tributes to the emperor of Beiliang, expressing their submission, and receiving rewards from the emperor at the same time, they also confirmed the relationship between the various tribes. power and territory.

On the third day of the feast, just after the bonfire was lit at night, a horse riding a horse suddenly rushed into the camp like desperately.The knight on the horse was travel-stained, and when he rolled off the horse, blood seeped out from under the dirty and messy bandages, quickly soaking a large area of ​​his clothes.

Before he fell into a coma, the knight yelled out a sentence at the top of his lungs: The Haixi savages rebelled!

Li Zhongcheng, the eldest son of the patriarch of the Black Water Department and also the general of the Black Water Guard, dropped his wine bowl on the spot.

The Haixi Savages rebelled.If placed a few decades ago, this is almost a joke.Who doesn't know that the savages in Haixi are poor ghosts. In summer, they live by chasing water and grass with bows and arrows on their backs. In winter, they dig a hole at the bottom of the mountain, put wood on it, and cover it with soil. The family and pigs huddle together in this hole—— —They don't even have decent clothes, they wear either tree bark or pigskin!However, in recent years, a few characters have emerged among the Haixi savages, making their entire tribe fierce, and even the Black Water Guards are often harassed by them, causing headaches, horses, bows and arrows, have lost a lot in the past two years up!

"How many traitors are there?"

"No, I don't know... At least tens of thousands..." After first aid, the messenger who woke up slowly spat out the answer with blood foam.

"It's my fault to make mere savages disturb Your Majesty's interest." Blackwater General Li Zhongcheng simply got up and bowed down: "I am willing to help His Majesty conquer Haixi!"

"Don't kill them all." Yuan Shao waved his hand indifferently: "Next year's Costin is still counting on them to pay tribute. Go!"

The well-trained Blackwater Guards in iron armor faced the wildlings wearing bark and holding horned bows. With the same number, no one thought that the wildlings of Haixi had any chance of winning.However, General Li Chengzhong of Heishui ordered [-] soldiers and horses, and set out to fight against rebellion with great ambition, but after more than half a month, a military report came: Heishuiwei was defeated in the ambush, and none of the soldiers and horses in his troops survived, and Li Zhongcheng was seriously injured. , the Haixi savages assembled an army of [-], and rushed towards Yuan Shao's account!

The atmosphere in the big tent was tense for a moment.Baishanwei, Xibu, Sushen, and Wuluohu generals all looked at Yuan Shao with fear and flinched.

The Haixi savages have always been known for their fierceness and vigor. The chiefs of the Northeast will hire a few warriors from Haixi. While enjoying their bravery, they are also secretly shocked by their ferocity.After each small-scale border conflict, the chiefs who took advantage or suffered a disadvantage would discuss in private: "Fortunately, those guys are few... they are invincible!"

"Could it be possible for me to go and deal with those savages myself!" Two thousand Jinwu Guards, two thousand Feather Forest Guards, winning is definitely not a problem, but it's his turn as the emperor himself... It's just a joke.

"Why do you need to use a sledgehammer to kill a chicken?" In the silence of the room, Ling Yucheng answered leisurely: "Your Majesty only cares about the banquet, and I will take the soldiers and horses of the headquarters for a walk."

One thousand mysterious guards against the highly motivated Haixi savages after the [-] victory?Yuan Shao turned his head to look, Ling Yucheng looked up at him, his eyes were full of confidence and desire like never before.

... Is this Haidongqing, which he personally captured and carefully domesticated for half a year, finally about to soar into the sky and fight against the sky?

The author has something to say: Haixi Jurchen, Jianzhou Jurchen, savage Jurchen... Well, I admit that I am lazy, and I will become a Haixi savage if I fight hard