The heavy snow fell for three days and three nights, the thick snow was more than one person deep, the entire northwest land was shrouded in this thick layer of snow, the earth was vast, all the roads in and out were blocked by this vast snow, in this snow field, Guzang City was like a child without clothes, shivering in the cold and biting wind.

Such extreme weather, as Xu Shu, who has lived in the south for a long time, will not be able to adapt to it for a while. In order to resist the cold, Xu Shu's whole person was tightly wrapped and looked very clumsy.

Even so, Xu Shu still felt cold, a biting cold, his hands and feet were cold, and he couldn't feel a trace of warmth on his body. Moreover, the oncoming wind is mixed with broken snow, which slaps on people's faces and makes people hurt.

At this moment, Xu Shu was standing on the tower of Guzang City, he was looking at everything outside the city, but the place his eyes touched was already white, all covered under the thick snow.

This sudden snowstorm exceeded everyone's expectations, and Xu Shu also inquired with the locals, which can be said to be a heavy snowfall once in ten years.

Even though the cold wind was biting, Xu Shu still gritted his teeth and insisted on standing here for a while, and in the past few days, his eyes have always been looking in one direction, that is, the southwest. At this moment, when the capital of the north is immersed in the atmosphere of the New Year, the southwest is still full of gunsmoke and war.

Since Ma Chao led an army of 100,000 to leave Liangzhou last year to attack Yizhou, it has been almost more than three months now, and it has been almost three months now, and it is also from that moment that the burden on Xu Shu's shoulders has become heavy, and the entire Liangzhou is managed by him alone.

And, what made him feel most depressed was. Almost all the officials in Liangzhou are Ma Chao's subordinates, and when Ma Chao was there, these people were polite to him, after Ma Chao left. Although they also left a message asking them to obey Xu Shu's jurisdiction, in fact, these people didn't take Xu Shu, a thin scholar, in their eyes at all.

It can be said that in the past three months, Xu Shu has been suffering every moment in Liangzhou. Most of those people are yang and yin.

"Alas!"

Xu Shu sighed heavily, a layer of frost had formed on his eyebrows, but he still stood there and was unwilling to leave, at this moment, it was the peace he couldn't ask for.

"When Ma Chao was there, I was pressed, I thought that after Ma Chao left, I would be able to show my strength, but what I never dreamed of was that Ma Chao was so powerful that he controlled the entire Liangzhou to death. I don't have any room for me to see the stitches at all, and if I continue like this, I'm afraid I'll fail the regent's trust!" ”

Xu Shu thought silently in his heart, his brows furrowed even tighter, and his heart was even more melancholy.

Nominally, he was sent by the regent to monitor Ma Chao's every move, but in fact, Ma Chao monitored him, and everyone he came into contact with was Ma Chao's person, and his every move was under the nose of the person appointed by Ma Chao. To put it bluntly, he is just a puppet.

Under such extreme conditions, how could Xu Shu replace Ma Chao and control the entire Liangzhou! No one wants to be there. If you want to have soldiers or not, it is estimated that he is the only one who can be mobilized.

Ma Chao has been gone for so long, Xu Shu has no way to start, and every decree he issued has received the same answer: everything will be decided after General Ma returns!

Over here. He's like a walking corpse, and wherever he goes, someone follows him. The matter of Yizhou being pacified had already been spread a year ago, and the regent asked Ma Chao to devote himself to the army of counterinsurgency in Nanzhong, only Xu Shu knew that this was the regent to buy himself more time.

I think that when I was strongly recommended by Pang Tong, I also made bold promises to the regent, but after such a long time, Xu Shu has achieved nothing, so what face will he have in the future to face his friends and face the regent?

It is precisely because of this that even if Xu Shu is suffering in pain, he has never had the idea of leaving here, if he doesn't do this, then his life will only be frozen here.

So, Xu Shu has made up his mind since he was aware of the bad environment he was in, his eyes saw some places that others can't see, in his opinion, there is no impermeable wall in the world, no matter how powerful the enemy is, there will be weaknesses, so he calmed down, and showed the daily step-by-step performance to those who monitored him, but secretly, he was observing, he was observing everyone around him, and he was also waiting for the opportunity. After a few months of subtle observation, Xu Shu finally found a key person who could be used as a breakthrough.

And Xu Shu also thought of a way to meet this key person, that is, the annual spring hunt!

Spring hunting is a kind of hunting activity set by Ma Chao, once a year, has been held for three consecutive years, year after year, day after day, three years have never been interrupted, no matter what the reason, can not interrupt the day's activities.

The day of the spring hunt is the first day of the third month, but a month before the first day of the third month, all the officials of Liangzhou must go to Guzang for a collective meeting to discuss the scope of the hunt, the hunting method, and the specific rewards.

This year's spring hunt, due to Ma Chao's absence, Pang De and Ma Dai also followed Ma Chao to the southwest, so Xu Shu presided over it, so Xu Shu was particularly important to this event, and he also hoped to see the person he wanted to see the most in this event. For this reason, Xu Shu sent an invitation letter as early as half a month ago, hoping to arrive in Guzang today to discuss spring hunting.

Originally, the plan was perfect, but no one would have thought that a sudden snowstorm disrupted Xu Shu's entire deployment and made his plan all fall through.

"God don't bless me!" Xu Shu suddenly raised his head to the sky and let out a hysterical cry to show his great dissatisfaction and anger in his heart, and also shouted out his unfair heart to the sky.

The entourage who followed Xu Shu to the city wall were frightened by Xu Shu's shouts in this life, in their memory, Xu Shu was a weak and unruly, gentle and elegant literati image, and he was also very polite to others, with a docile temper and a gentle personality, and never drank alcohol, nor did he have any bad habits, he was an impeccable person.

But today's shout made them see another Xu Shu, they didn't know what happened to Xu Shu, whether he was crazy, or what's wrong, and the soldiers standing guard beside Xu Shu also cast strange glances.

"Are you alright, sir?" Xu Shu's entourage walked over cautiously and asked cautiously.

Xu Shu sneered, didn't say anything, just waved his hand, turned around and prepared to go down the city tower.

Xu Shu dragged his cold body and slowly walked to the steps of the city tower, and was about to raise his legs to walk down the city tower, but suddenly heard the soldiers behind him shouting: "My lord, look, there are people in the blizzard!" ”

As soon as he heard this, Xu Shu stopped, turned his head, he could clearly see the scene outside the city from the city tower, on the blizzard raging land, a strange thing was moving rapidly on the snow, due to the wind rolling snowflakes, blocking part of his vision, not very clearly, can only vaguely see, a person standing on a large wooden board, a large white cloth erected on the board, the white cloth was blown out of the wind for a long distance, like a sail, Pushing the plank forward, it was fast.

In just a moment, that person took the unknown vehicle, getting closer and closer to Guzang City, and soon drove clearly into everyone's sight.

But at this time, everyone still couldn't see who this person really was, because this person was fully armed, with a white cloth wrapped around his face, and only a slightly open eye was revealed, and no face could be seen at all.

Before everyone could react, the man used the wind to urge the plank under his feet, and had already rushed to the city gate, but because the wind was too strong, he was not under his control at all, and he crashed into the city gate, making a huge crashing sound, and before that, the man had jumped off the plank, but because the snow was too deep, the whole person fell into the snow nest at once, only exposing the head above the neck.

Since Ma Chao left, the territory of Liangzhou has not been very peaceful, and I don't know if he is deliberately going against Xu Shu, there are often horse bandits near Guzang, Xu Shu sent troops to encircle and suppress it several times, but they failed to wipe it out. Therefore, the soldiers in Guzang City are all very nervous at this moment, for fear that it will be a horse bandit attack.

On the city of Guzang, the soldiers defending the city were tense one after another, and someone immediately rushed down and shouted: "Who is so bold that he dares to approach the city!" Hurry back or you'll be killed! ”

The man under the city unhurriedly took off the white cloth covering his face, revealing a resolute face, and when everyone saw this face, they all breathed a sigh of relief, because they all knew this person, this person was the first strategist under Ma Chao's account, Yang Fu!

After Xu Shu saw Yang Fu, he was also inexplicably excited, because this person was the person he wanted to meet, he thought that the snowstorm blocked the road, and Yang Fu would not come, but he didn't expect Yang Fu to come as promised in such extremely bad weather, which is really gratifying!

"Quick! Quickly open the city gate and let Yang Changshi enter the city! Xu Shu smiled happily and hurriedly shouted at the soldiers guarding the city. (To be continued.) )

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