see the gentleman

The wind and snow are getting worse day by day, the winter has come, and in a blink of an eye it is the annual winter sacrifice day.

Although the war has not yet subsided, this kind of sacrificial activity is not only necessary, but even more important at this time. After all, spiritual dependence is an important guide for action. In order to make the frontline soldiers feel at ease, a grand sacrifice prayer.

But in the final analysis, Winter Sacrifice is just a formality, and Ji Yun is not such a person who can't figure it out. During the war, everything is the front line. If it is for the sake of the royal family's face, it is either poisonous or stupid. Ji Yun ordered it to go down early. To keep it simple, the battle for this year's winter sacrifice is much smaller than in previous years, and only some important relatives of the emperor and individual ministers are present.

On that day, the guard of honor of the Son of Heaven set off from the Donghua Gate of the Imperial Palace, and half of the guards from the Imperial Guard Battalion and the City Defense Battalion each went to the Eastern Suburb Altar.

It is no longer snowing, and the snow on the roads has been cleared in advance, but the top of the capital is still a heavy iron gray.

Ji Yun was sitting in the car, holding a roll of parchment in his hand. This is the battle report that just arrived this morning. Before he had time to open it, he was tossed into the car.

King Liaodong and King Hanyang have been trapped for more than half a month, and their ambitions and food are almost exhausted. Now they are just carrying on.The imperial court has not sent troops to attack the city and cross the river, but it is because internal troubles are different from foreign troubles. After all, they are born from the same root. As a last resort, the court still wanted to surrender.

This letter is from Fan Ye who is in Heishui. The recent news is all good news. Unlike some time ago when the situation of the battle was unclear, Ji Yun's palms sweated as soon as he received the battle report. When I saw the situation, I was under too much psychological pressure and couldn't sleep well all night. My dreams were full of bloody battle reports.

Up to now, Ji Yun still habitually feels pressured. He took a deep breath, slowly untied the thread, and read each word. It mentioned that because of the cold winter, he was really cold and hungry, and people had already sneaked across the river one after another. Shore came, and even a lieutenant brought thousands of people to surrender.

The morale of the army has been dispersed like this, I am afraid there is no need to do anything here.

Before Ji Yun could relax completely, the name of the lieutenant general popped into his eyes: Yu Hong.

His eyes stopped, and Ji Yun took a closer look at the name, feeling that it was inexplicably familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

There was a sudden commotion outside the car, Ji Yun put down the parchment and said in a deep voice, "What's wrong?"

"Your Majesty, the road ahead is slippery after the snow, and a few horses have fallen, which disturbed Your Majesty. This subject deserves death."

Chen Yu's voice came from outside the car.

Since Chen Yu entered the guard camp, it happened that Fan Ye, Xun Yu and others had all gone to the front line, and the commander of the guard camp that was vacant fell on Chen Yu's head. He is also in charge of the guard today.

"Forget it," the weather is bad, these small accidents are unavoidable, Ji Yun didn't want to care about it, and said, "The injured people don't have to force them, let them retreat."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Chen Yu said, "I have already sent someone to replace you."

Ji Yun hummed lightly.

After such an interruption, the strange familiarity just now disappeared. Ji Yun picked up the parchment and looked at Yu Hong again, but she didn't see anything anymore, only saw the mention of "catch" below. The spy of the King of Liaodong, but before he could find out anything, the man committed suicide. When the spy flew to the capital and failed to intercept the letter, he frowned slightly.

The King of Liaodong is sending a letter to the capital... who is he trying to contact?

There was no extra time for Ji Yun to think, the guard of honor had reached the Shinto, and Ji Yun had to get out of the car and walk.

Followed by a series of complicated steps, Ji Yun followed the guidance of the priest, changed his clothes and hands, and walked to the altar on foot.

The altar is built with white jade steps on the 81st floor of Jiujiu. There are 81 stones on the first floor, and 80 yuan on the second floor... the number of floors goes down, and the highest No.80 floor has only one raised circle. The stone is arched in the center by the square stone steps on the [-]th floor below like stars holding the moon-this is the place where the supreme being in the world stands, unique and high above.

The priest wearing a ghost mask sang ancient and mysterious prayers, and Ji Yun closed his eyes and prayed in the center of the altar.

There are not many people who can go to the altar, except for Ji Yun and the priests, who are the guards who personally guard Ji Yun's safety. They stand around the railing around the altar, and the two passages to and from the altar are blocked by the guards.

This makes the altar completely closed, which can be said to be very safe, but it can also be said to be very dangerous.

The sound of blessings came to an abrupt end, and before Ji Yun could be confused, he heard a rush of wind, mixed with the sound of sharp blades piercing the air. He opened his eyes suddenly, and the priest wearing a mask with a strange shape and distorted color did not know what to do. Shi unexpectedly stepped on a round stone, only a few feet away from him, and the opponent held a blade as thin as a cicada's wing in his hand, and approached him with a sharp and vicious killing intent.

Ji Yun turned pale with fright, but he didn't know if he had been assassinated many times, his body reacted faster than his brain, and he tilted his head in a very dangerous way, avoiding the fatal blow.

When he missed the blow, the priest immediately came up again, trying to catch Ji Yun.

Ji Yun's ostentatious three moves and two moves, being able to dodge the blow just now is the ultimate explosion of survival desire, but now she wants to dodge again, but she has no luck like that.

Seeing that he was about to be caught, a long knife stabbed in obliquely, with the vigor to cut the person in half. Chen Yu swung the knife and slashed, forcing the priest to back up halfway, only to save himself an arm.

"Protect Your Majesty!"

Chen Yu stood in front of Ji Yun with a sword and yelled sharply.

The people who were stunned by the sudden change just now, seemed to have reacted at this time, and drew their swords one after another.

However, only part of the blade pointed at the priest, and the rest were all aimed at Ji Yun and Chen Yu.

It was the latter who even blocked the passage of the altar, obviously well prepared.

Suddenly, Chen Yu remembered that the road was wet and slippery just now, and those who fell were replaced by others, and he was responsible for following His Majesty. This kind of thing was only ordered and not checked-these were those who took advantage of troubled waters to replace them.

Chen Yu's expression turned ugly: "Who are you!?"