Li Zhang

After Ling Yuncong turned to Liangjiashan, he released Sima Yi and Wang Xiang, untied them, and returned the weapons and bags.Sima Yi held Li Zhang's Longyuan sword in his hand, and did not let go for a long time.

He has calmed down.

He could never be really angry with Ling Yuncong.

He is not blind, so he can naturally see that Ling Yuncong's life is not going well, and he has already regretted the harsh words he said to Ling Yuncong before.

Ling Yuncong still had a sullen face and refused to look back, Sima Yi sighed and urged his horse forward, walking side by side with him.

"That winter, you and I were the same..."

"Humph!"

"Yun Cong still bears a grudge against this king! But this king has never hated Yun Cong..."

"……Humph."

"That's all! Li Zhang... Li's bodyguard and auspicious people have their own appearances, and this king... don't mention it anymore!"

Ling Yuncong still puffed his cheeks, but he didn't hum him any more.Sima Yi tilted his head to see it, and said narrowly: "Yun Cong looks like this, my king is itching again..."

"You!" Ling Yuncong's face turned red to the base of his neck, he hurriedly pulled his horse away from Sima Yi, and said in a low voice, "My lord is still so dishonest!"

Sima Yi smiled and said, "Aren't Yun Cong annoyed?"

Ling Yuncong lowered his head, feeling ashamed: "Yun Cong dare not annoy the prince..."

Sima Yi watched and didn't try to persuade him anymore, but he was completely relieved.

The two horses walked forward silently, and the desperate fight for more than a month seemed to be far away, Sima Yi narrowed his eyes comfortably.

"...Your lord, do you want to compete for the seat when you go back?" Ling Yuncong, who had been silent for a long time, asked in a low voice, asking the question that had been pressing in his heart.

Sima Yi raised his eyebrows, and asked unabashedly: "Do you think this king is easy to bully?"

"...Your Highness, take care!"

"Yun Cong doesn't intend to help the king?"

"...Forgive Yuncong for not following orders."

"Yun Cong doesn't believe in this king?"

"Yun Cong dare not!"

"If you help me, you will be a great general to protect the country in the future, isn't it better than the Yamen general who is subdued now?"

"But Yun Cong still has family members under his control!"

"General Ling, I'm really wronged."

"...My lord..."

"This king knows. This king doesn't blame you."

Sima Yi's words were extremely gentle, and he didn't mean to blame at all. Hearing Ling Yuncong's ears, he felt even more ashamed.Sima Yi reached out and patted his shoulder, and the two of them stopped talking quietly.

Due to the haste, the originally scheduled rendezvous at Liangjiashan could only continue northward to Balipo. Ling Yuncong watched Sima Yi summon the night owl, and he carefully released scouts to scout around to avoid the ubiquitous patrol team .

It was still early to go all the way to Balipo without incident.After Ling Yuncong sent out three rounds of guards, he sat down with Sima Yi on the ground.

"Yun Cong acted so carefully, this king was surprised."

"My father taught me. The Ling family's army has always been squeezed out, and the soldiers and food are the most scarce in the army. If my father is going to win, he can only start small."

"The Ling family's army is indeed the mainstay of Northern Xinjiang, and General Ling is indeed a rare general in this dynasty!"

Ling Yuncong sneered: "So what? It's still just a pawn being fiddled with!"

Sima Yi glanced at Ling Yuncong, who was aggrieved, pondered for a long time, and asked in a low voice, "Did the Second Emperor treat you well?"

Ling Yuncong let out a long breath, shook his head and said, "His Royal Highness is very sympathetic to my father, they are doing well now."

"What about you?"

"Me? I want to guard the frontier and kill the northern barbarians, raise the banner of the Ling family army again, and take back Jiuyuan and Yunzhong!"

"it is good!"

Sima Yi hugged Ling Yuncong, looking at his sharp and proud demeanor, he was very moved.This is his Ling Yuncong, the Ling Yuncong he really puts his heart into!

"If the second emperor brother can't give it to you, this king will give it to you!"

"...My lord!"

Sima Yihao was furious, looked at the capital with his hips on his hips, and uttered bold words: "This king will add new land to this country! Yun Cong will be the most powerful general in this dynasty, a general who has made more achievements than Duke Wei!"

Ling Yuncong stared blankly at Sima Yi, and it took him a while to understand the real meaning of the words, and he blushed immediately, making Sima Yi laugh out loud.

At this moment, the scouts came to report: "General Ling, Master Zhang's troops have been found in the southwest!"

"banner?"

"Sun!"

"distance?"

"About ten miles!"

"So fast! Could it be that something happened to Li Zhang? How long will Commander Mu arrive?" Ling Yuncong suddenly had a bad premonition, and Sima Yi, who was watching the soldiers dressed up, couldn't make up his mind.

"Yun Cong doesn't need to be embarrassed, I just need to move on."

Ling Yuncong thought for a while, nodded and said, "I'll let the scouts take you away!"

"it is good!"

Sima Yi and Wang Xiang quickly disappeared into the mountain road with the scouts. Ling Yuncong ordered the soldiers to scatter to search, and sat on a huge boulder on a high place, waiting for the arrival of Sun Duwei.

It was Zhang Lan and Yizhou Duwei Sun Qi who followed Ling Yuncong closely.

After Sima Yi and the others defeated the Mangshan sixteen geese formation in Nanba, Mangshan Qingsou was so angry that he came out to help Zhang Lan, vowing to fight the three of them again.The descendants of Mangshan Mountain are good at the skill of strange tracking, so no matter how careful the white deer is, he was still chased by them. Although they didn't block him immediately, they followed closely.After Zhang Lan stationed in Xieyuan, the area of ​​containment has been greatly reduced.Because Yao Taiqing was Qingsou's proud disciple, and Ling Yuncong happened to be stationed in Qingshiping, Zhang Lan vacated Qingshiping with peace of mind, and only searched around.

But Zhang Lan didn't wait for the report from Yao Taiqing and Ling Yuncong, and the descendants of Mangshan who searched everywhere also returned without success, but the last trace of the three was just a few miles away from Qingshiping.

Zhang Lan couldn't wait, so he decided to go to Qingshiping to find out, but when he arrived, he found that Ling Yuncong had led the team away, and only found Yao Taiqing who was yelling at Li Zhang in a residential building. Then he chased him out, and tied Li Zhang with him before leaving. Yao Taiqing was so angry that he jumped and scolded non-stop.

Zhang Lan quickly caught up with Ling Yuncong, his eyes swept over, and knowing that Sima Yi was not here, he couldn't help looking gloomy at Ling Yuncong who was sitting alone on the boulder looking down at him.

Ling Yuncong jumped off the boulder to salute Zhang Lan, and said in a loud voice: "My subordinates captured Queen Ning and were about to escort them to Xieyuan. On the way, they were attacked by ghost guards, and King Ning was accidentally robbed. The subordinates led their troops to track down here. Search around."

"Oh? Is that true? Why did General Ling not release King Ning until this afternoon after he was captured last night, and he never reported it?"

"Forgive me, my lord! Yun Cong wanted to ask for credit, and he didn't want to be at the hands of others, so he concealed it and delivered it himself."

"I've heard that General Ling and King Ning have a good friendship. Isn't General Ling just a way of escorting them under the guise of sending them off?!"

"My lord! At the beginning, King Ning could not help Yun Cong save his father, but instead took the opportunity... Yun Cong has long been under the command of His Royal Highness, so he should do his best for His Royal Highness!"

Seeing that Ling Yuncong spoke sincerely, even revealing his own scandalous scandal, Zhang Lan believed it a little bit.He thought of Li Zhang, waved someone to bring him here, and planned to interrogate himself to find out how much support Sima Yi still had.

After being carried over, Li Zhang fell to the ground and remained motionless.Zhang Lan frowned and asked someone to lift his face. Seeing that his face was pale and completely unconscious, he asked strangely, "Did you torture him?"

"Report, sir, no!"

"Then why is he like this?"

"The villain doesn't know!"

Ling Yuncong couldn't help but rushed over, examined his whole body carefully, and saw strange lights in Li Zhang's Fengchi, Shenque, and Ruzhong acupoints. When he touched it, it seemed that there were golden needles sealed in it, and he immediately felt it in his heart. Eighteen generations of Yao Taiqing's ancestors scolded him all over the place.

"Report my lord, he was tortured by Yao Taiqing!"

"Since that's the case, just wake him up."

"grown ups!"

"What? General Ling knows this person?"

"...I don't know."

Zhang Lan's face darkened: "General Ling acted rashly and caused King Ning to escape. I will report this matter to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. It is important that General Ling arrest King Ning as soon as possible!"

Ling Yuncong opened his mouth to argue, but Zhang Lan no longer paid attention to him, so he had to look at Li Zhang worriedly, then turned and left.

Li Zhang was forced by Yao Taiqing to interrogate the essence of Jiufanzhen and gave him an acupuncture treatment. The key points were restrained and the pain was unbearable, and his inner breath was blocked immediately.After being forcibly injected by Yao Taiqing's internal force, the meridians all over his body seemed to be bitten by countless ants and insects, and he was so uncomfortable that he almost went crazy.Originally, Yao Taiqing just wanted to ask what he wanted, and he kept his hands in order not to make Li Zhang unconscious. When Zhang Lan came, he tied Li Zhang and threw him on the back of the horse. Unable to bear it any longer, I passed out from the pain.At this time, the soldiers ordered by Zhang Lan thought it was troublesome to fetch water, so they took out their sharp knives and went to pry Li Zhang's nails. When the second one was pried off, Li Zhang woke up dripping with cold sweat.He was pinned down by the soldiers, shaking his head in a daze, his messy black hair was already drenched with cold sweat, and strands of it stuck to his face randomly, his skinny cheeks completely changed.

"what's your name?"

Li Zhang's lips moved slightly, but there was no sound.

"Give him some water."

The soldier took off the water bag and poured it heavily on Li Zhang. After Li Zhang finished drinking with a cough, his confused mind became clearer, and the pain in the meridian points became clear again. He gritted his teeth tremblingly.

"Let's talk about what arrangements King Ning has to make, and how will you meet up with King Ning."

Li Zhang shook his head slowly: "The villain... can't meet King Ning."

"Unable to rendezvous? What kind of formation is yours? What can you do without you? Or—— King Ning has a new support?!"

As Zhang Lan said, he leaned forward, staring at Li Zhang uncontrollably.

Zhang Lan couldn't see Li Zhang's always downcast eyes, and his tightly pursed lips had no intention of speaking.

Zhang Lan frowned, and snorted coldly: "I have heard too many exaggerated words about that formation along the way. If I abolish you, I wonder if this formation is still there?"

Li Zhang laughed when he heard the words, and his haggard and pale face suddenly glowed, stretching proudly like a neon after the rain.He spoke very slowly, word by word as if exhausting all his strength: "My lord doesn't know that this formation is the most basic formation of Ning Wang's guard camp, and anyone can form it."

"Then I'll break your bones bit by bit!"

"My lord tortures the villain to death, and the villain doesn't know about King Ning's arrangements."

"Then try!"

Zhang Lan threw up his sleeves, no longer caring about the blunt echo of the stick hitting his flesh and bones behind him and Li Zhang's uncontrollable painful panting, depressed and irritable, he asked the disciples of Mangshan who were following him to ask about the results of the investigation.The disciple was about to speak, when the spies suddenly reported: "Report to your lord! Found King Ning's whereabouts!"

"Quick! Catch up!"

"General Sun has already followed!"

"Okay! Send an order to block all paths within five miles with General Sun at the center!"