Book 8 - Chapter 5 – Night Talk on Yangtze River (1/2)
Book 4 Chapter 5 – Peerless Yuwen
Three days passed in the blink of an eye The two boys were a bit reluctant to leave
In these three days, they felt like they had returned to the place where Fu Junchuo was buried, back to their previous hazy, blurry state ofOnly when they heard voices did they withdraw back to their hiding place
To be able to watch Ba Fenghan and Ouyang Xiyi’s shaking-to-the-core battle, the benefit they reaped was indeed no suidance in their training, just like a blind et an archer shot the arrow randomly
But this time they had clear direction and objective; they understood that spirit, true qi, and strategy, three factors ether before they could be true martial art experts
Even they themselves did not know that the qi cultivation principle they learned fro essence, qi, and spirit, the supreme marvelous , incidentally they grasped the essence of it, hence although it was abenefit of breakthrough in the martial art way
After further discussion, they decided to stay seven more days
It was precisely this decision thatshi+chong grew suspicious of the, and found out that the two boys had been with Du Fuwei, hence he knew that two treasures has just slipped away in front of his face Hastily he dispatched his itives everywhere, while at the saure within the Yuwen Clan who happened to be in the vicinity, to personally co County was turned upside down before they finally declared that the two boys had escaped far away
If this hunt and arrest operation was presided over by Du Fuwei, he would have known that the two boys were still re within the city walls But how could Yuwen shi+ have thought that the two boys could be that calm and not run away After five days, the search network spread over to the neighboring counties, and no longer focused on Dongping County
By earlythe sixth day, the two boys re
“Didn’t Niang say that the best way of training martial art is to advance intentionally without any intention?” Kou Zhong said, “These past two days we placed great care in training, but we feel a bit unsettled and ireed, “I was just thinking about the say we must have a strict control over body heat; cold and heatourselves in hard training, apparently ent too far; we’d better slon for the ti said, “In that case, we’d better i, I am afraid Susu Jie already met a mishap”
“We can’t just walked out of the city walls like this,” Xu Ziling said, “Can’t say for sure, but that governht have issued an order to arrest us Don’t forget that Shen Naitang knee are”
“Hu snorted coldly, “In the eyes of the imperial court, isn’t the old Shen in cahoots with the rebel thief Liang shi+dou? It’s just that other people didn’t know!”
After a short pause he continued, “Right now the weather is getting colder, we ought to buy so, and while we are at it, we s And then when the night coet out of the city It’s a foolproof plan”
The plan was decided, the two boys felt a little reluctant to leave this woodshed to kick-start their next er they leaped over the city wall to get out, just like a little bird leaving its cage After ascertaining the direction to Xingyang, they ran all night in the wilderness By daybreak, their body weary their strength exhausted
When they were seated, Kou Zhong laughed and said, “We are really stupid We actually forgot that we have ample riches Later on let’s buy two horses to ride instead of walk, won’t we avoid the hardshi+p of journeying on foot?”
Xu Ziling also laughed and said, “Riding horses is not as good as taking a boat Weboat, you and I can take turn steering the boat and sleeping and practicingshook his head and said, “You think we are on a scenic tour? Our destination is the nest of Wagang Aroing at will? Land route is a bit more dependable Ha, since you ree, so we can still take turn driving and resting Ha, we save ti can go wrong!”
Laughing and swearing, the two boys ran fast to the largest town nearby, bought a sie and two healthy horses to pull it along, and continued their journey
It was the first time that the two boys owned such an expensive and very useful means of transportation; they doted on the two horses very much The white horse they called it Bai’er [sirey]
Four days later, they arrived at Wagang City, where Zhai Rang raised his army in rebellion Only this moment the city already fell into the imperial army’s hands
The two boys barely entered the city, they already felt the tensed atmosphere Not only the city defense was reinforced, on the street they ca God knohere
After finding an inn, Kou Zhong tipped the inn assistant with specific thing in mind, he repeatedly told hiood care of their horses, while in passing, he inquired about the current situation
While having a meal at the restaurant attached to the inn, he said in low voice, “Turns out Li Mi originally wanted to attack the Eastern Capital Luoyang For soed to attacking Xingluo Cang [barn/warehouse] But the defender of Eastern Capital wang Yangdong has dispatched Liu Changgong to intercept hier Prison Pei Renji is prepared to trail Li Mi’s rear leg It seems that Li Mi’s circu was puzzled, “Isn’t Wagang Ar? Why is it that you open your mouth, you close yourshrugged his shoulders and said, “It was exactly what that inn assistant toldounded by that strange ain, ay! I really hope he is not killed by Li Mi”
Speaking to this point, the two boys’ heart was burning with anxiety; they really wished they could groings to fly to Xingyang
With a wry s said, “I just asked the inn assistant for direction to Xingyang, the assistant strongly urgedWu has becoer at any ti Ar across deserting government troops or perhaps defeated troops That would be er or wolves”
Recalling those killing and burning defeated ar suddenly grew excited; he whispered, “Now the world [tian xia] is becoinally a defender officer of Jincheng county istrate called Xue Ju, has raised an are/wiki/Xue_Ju)] He wanted to i [the first eht now he has taken Tianshui [prefecture, Gansu], and wanted to establish it as his capital I’ll say there is nothing exceptional about this Xue Ju If it were me, I wouldn’t be so foolish to impatiently declare myself an emperor It clearly shows that he looks down upon the other et of multitude of arrows”
“Where is Tianshui?” Xu Ziling asked
I replied, “Tianshui is outside Qinling [ plain and Han River], west of the Capital; no wonder you did not know”
assu Ar up the main forces at the Capital and the Eastern Capital, perhaps Xue Ju would not dare to revolt Other than him, there is also a fellow called Li Gui who also raises an army at Wuwei [also in Gansu], and bestowed hi] In just several short months there are two more militias; it seems to me the Sui dynasty’s days are nue said, other than Dou Jiande, Li Mi, wang Bo and our ol’ Die, I am afraid other people would not ahed and said, “Are you forgetting Li guy?”
Kou Zhong’s thick face turned red; he said, “Honestly, I do not want to reuy”
At that e of the stable ran toward the two boys’ table; he said in panic, “Two Shaoye, not good! So to steal your horse”
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By the time the two boys rushed toward the stable at the inn courtyard, Bai’er, Hui’er, and about a dozen other horses were led out of the stable by about a dozen soldiers; they were about to leave
Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling pounced forward to block the exit and shouted at them to stop Obviously the soldiers have never expected that someone would be so brazen like this, they all shouted back at the two boys, two of the soldiers even drew the saber hanging on their waists
Kou Zhong whispered to Xu Ziling, “Grab the horse, I’ll deal with the people Just watch Laozi’s i manner!”
There was a saber flash, one soldier’s broadsword chopped down on Kou Zhong’s neck; the soldier did not have any care in the world whether he would kill an innocent civilian or not
Kou Zhong’s eyes gleamed with sharp rays, his countenance turned incohan, as he watched the incoht hand shot out, unexpectedly he grabbed the saber’s hilt, while down below his leg also flew out as fast as lightning
The soldier screa away, and crashed against another soldier The two soldiers rolled around together in a jumble, and looked extremely miserable
The other soldiers could only stare blankly; they started to realize that they have met martial art experts
Chapter 5, Part 2
But Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling actually looked at each other; they both did not expect Kou Zhong’s kick would be that for tossed the saber in his hand into the air, and when it fell down, he caught it by the handle Ihan, he held it horizontally across his chest With a disdain look on his face he assumed a heroic air and coldly said, “You are officers and soldiers, yet you openly rob co?”
The soldiers were overwhel manner; unexpectedly no one dared torily shouted, “We are under the General’s order to collect horses Kid, you dare to disobey the i Still have not gotten lost?”
Kou Zhong hiht to this kind of emperor’s order that oppressed common people? Just now he made a move and was immediately triumphant, his excitement soared He took two steps forward until the distance between he and the leader was only about a zhang The entire power of his body was concentrated on the blade of the saber, while at the same time he quickly sent out the true qi in his body
A strea cold saber qi immediately appeared fro was that the entire saber seemed to it up
More than a dozen soldiers’ countenances changed at the same time The soldiers’ leader bore the brunt He was pushed by the surge of saber qi two steps back