Chapter 1146 Clarification
After only listening to the words of Feng Nandu and Yi Xiao, Bai Sheng could already deduce the general situation of the matter, this was the Jin army's surprise attack on Bianjing.
Although the Battle of Yanjing ended in a crushing defeat for the Jin army, there is still one doubt that cannot be explained after taking stock of the entire process of this battle, that is, the number of Jin soldiers annihilated by the Bai army is not right, and it is not the same as the total number of Jin troops originally besieged Yanjing, which is a difference of 100,000 people.
Since they did not die at the hands of the Bai family, where did the 100,000 Jin army go? Moreover, when counting the Jin army generals who were annihilated by their own side after the war, Jin Wushu, Ha Mi Chi, and Wanyan Zongxian, who was once captured and left, were not among them, so where did these people go?
However, now it seems that these questions are no longer a problem, and the interrogations of Feng Nandu and Yi Xiao have given accurate answers.
Compared with Bai Sheng's suddenness, Zhou Tong's heart was very uncomfortable. Di Lie's words relayed by Yi Xiao were too hurtful, saying that as long as Bai Sheng can be found, as long as Bai Sheng rushes to Bianjing, he will definitely be able to break the enemy army, in this case, what are you still looking for me Zhou Tong for? Is it to let Bai Sheng suppress me Zhou Dong?
Let Bai Sheng go back with you to break the enemy army, anyway, I have exhausted my internal strength, and I won't do anything if I return to Beijing.
Of course, Bai Sheng will not speculate on Zhou Dong's thoughts, Zhou Dong can think whatever he likes, since Brother Di Lie is called, then he is duty-bound.
Not to mention the great man who is a hero for the country and the people, just talking about the friendship between himself and Brother Di Lie, he must immediately rush back to the capital to fight side by side with the eldest brother, not to mention that he also needs to protect the safety of the two wives of Li Shishi and Zhao Fujin.
So he replied to Yi Xiao and said, "Since this is the case, let's go back to Bianliang, but it's just ......."
Speaking of this, he turned his face to look at Zhou Tong and said, "...... Before leaving, I still need to ask Pavilion Master Zhou for one more thing. ”
Fang La knew something was wrong when he heard this, of course he knew that Bai Sheng was going to ask Zhou Dong something, so he immediately interrupted: "Bai Sheng, don't be busy walking first, I see that your Tai Chi method is quite wonderful, I want to learn a thing or two with you, come on, let's live two tricks......"
Bai Sheng shook his head and said, "Father-in-law, I'm afraid that my son-in-law won't have time to talk to you." As he spoke, he pointed to Feng Nandu and said: "You also heard it, this Brother Feng brought the news of my eldest brother Di Lie, and the younger son-in-law is going to rush to Bianjing to discuss with Brother Di the plan to retreat from the enemy......"
"What nonsense!" Lingxing Zen Master interjected coldly, and said: "Obviously, it is you Bai Sheng who colluded with the Liao people to encroach on the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and you have already reached the territory of Dengfeng, but you deduce that it is the people of the Jin State who besieged Bianjing, and the Jin State and the Great Song Dynasty had no grudges in the past, and there is no enmity in the near future, how could they attack Bianliang? Are you really a fool of my fellow martial arts in the world?"
After saying this, without waiting for Bai Sheng to refute, he looked at Feng Nandu and Yi Xiao, and asked with a sneer: "At this moment, tens of thousands of Liaoguo iron horsemen are trampling on the entire territory of Dengfeng, and they will kill the Song people when they see them, I don't know where your two brothers came from?"
When the martial arts in the hall heard this, they all nodded, expressing their approval of Lingxing's inference.
The reason why people recognize Lingxing is because of the proclamation of Huiguang just now. Compared with the relatively unknown Fengnandu and Yixiao, people are more willing to believe in Master Huiguang, the presiding officer of the Shaolin Temple.
Although Huiguang's martial arts are mediocre, people believe in a conventional convention - monks do not speak. Before, Huiguang said that tens of thousands of Liaoguo iron horsemen came down from the mountain, and almost killed two or three hundred people who went to Juxianzhuang to investigate, this matter must not be false, since this is the case, then where did you Feng Nandu and Yi Xiao come from? Could it be that the Liaoguo iron horsemen only let the two of you not kill, and let you swagger to the Shaolin Temple?
Feng Nandu and Yi Xiao knew Lingxing, because the two of them, Luo Lida and Shui Ningzhu followed Bai Sheng's expedition to the west, and they had seen Lingxing standing on the side of Xixia in Yanzhou City, and even saw Bai Sheng beat Lingxing's master and apprentice with their own eyes, so Feng Yi and the two had a very bad impression of this Shaolin monk, and they didn't bother to refute Lingxing's false accusations, so they only looked at Bai Sheng.
Because they knew that Lingxing was Bai Sheng's enemy, and they also knew that Shaolin Temple was calculating Bai Sheng, but they didn't expect Bai Sheng to take the initiative to come to Shaolin Temple. As for whether to argue or fight at this time, just look at Bai Sheng's attitude, and they will follow.
In fact, before they left Bianjing this time, Di Lie had a warning, Di Lie's original words were: Shaolin Temple to deal with my Bai Sheng brothers, presumably Bai Sheng brothers will not fall into the net, you just need to invite Zhou Tong back.
Di Lie also said: It would be good if my Bai Sheng brother was here, with his wit and strategy, he would definitely be able to break the Jin army, so it doesn't matter if there is Zhou Dong or not, but it's a pity that I don't know where others are.
Originally, in Bianjing City, the news about Bai Sheng was still at the stage when Bai Sheng died on the Sky Island, but since the Shaolin Temple has invited the World Martial Arts Alliance to deal with Bai Sheng in recent days, it can be inferred that Bai Sheng is still alive, otherwise it is impossible for the Shaolin monk to go crazy and invite everyone to deal with a dead man.
It is precisely because Di Lie said such a thing that he will have the ecstasy of Yi Xiao just now, and he will not be able to get off the stage for Boss Zhou Tong without holding back.
The person Yi Xiao admires the most in this life is Bai Sheng, there is no one. His admiration for Bai Sheng even surpassed Di Lie, just because Bai Sheng's skills in archery surpassed him.
In today's world, he disobeys Hua Rong and Pang Wanchun, but he has to serve Bai Sheng, because he once shot with Bai Sheng in Yanzhou City, and shocked the 300,000 army of Western Xia, and Bai Sheng's archery skills surpassed his at that time, which is an indisputable fact under the attention of all people.
Back to the present, it was only said that Feng Yi and the two looked at Bai Sheng, Bai Sheng had not yet expressed his position, but Zhou Tong sighed and said very sadly: "I really didn't expect that the owner of the Di Pavilion would be in cahoots with Bai Sheng, and actually wanted to lure the old man into the Liao army...... You Di Lie are relatives of the emperor, the rivers and mountains of the Great Song Dynasty have a share of your Di family, how can you do such a thing!"
Although Di Lie was not present, Zhou Tong kept talking to Di Lie, obviously thinking that Feng Yi and the others were not worthy of reasoning with him.
Feng Yi and the two of them were immediately anxious when they heard this, they could ignore Lingxing, but they couldn't ignore Zhou Dong, after all, their head Di Lie was too low-key in the past, so that the prestige and influence of the martial arts in Bianjing were not as good as Zhou Dong, if Zhou Dong misunderstood, when he returned to the capital one day, people would believe it.
Just as he was about to confess, Bai Sheng spoke: "Pavilion Master Zhou, you can eat as much as you want, but you can't talk nonsense, it's just that you slander my reputation, I don't bother to explain to you, but you can't slander my reputation as Big Brother Di, I have to be more serious with you about this!"
Just as Yi Xiao admired him, Di Lie was the person he respected in the world, and there was no one in the same way. He could not care about anyone's opinion or evaluation of him, but he could not allow them to tarnish Dilli's reputation.
Zhou Tong had just been defeated by Bai Sheng's men, he was both defeated and slapped in the face, seeing Bai Sheng so aggressively ridiculed back, he couldn't help but be discouraged, he didn't know how to argue for a while, but he tasted Bai Sheng's power, even the bickering was too far away, and he seemed to always fall into Bai Sheng's trap but didn't realize it.
Feng Yi and the two of them were relieved to see that Bai Sheng had come forward as the head of the family, and they were both relieved in their hearts, the brother of the head of the family really did not have a relationship in vain, and it was enough to fight for righteousness! At the moment, the two remained silent, only to see how Bai Sheng clarified for the head of the family, if there was a lack of arguments, it would not be too late for his brother to provide him.
Of course, Bai Sheng didn't finish speaking, and continued: "I believe that there is an enemy force coming to Dengfeng right now, but it will definitely not be the people of the Liao State, it must be the ...... of the Jin State."
Speaking of this, he turned his face to look at Huiguang: "May I ask this great monk, can you distinguish the difference between the Liao people and the Jin people? Can you hear whether the enemy speaks Khitan or Jurchen?"
"Uh......" Huiguang was stammered by the question, not knowing how to answer. He really couldn't tell the difference between the people of Liao and Jin.
He had only seen the Yanyun Eighteen Cavalry led by Xiao Feng in the martial arts gathering in Shaomu Mountain for more than ten years, and he had seen the Liao people once, but even that time, with his identity and status at that time, he could only look at it from a distance, how could he remember it?
As for the Khitan dialect and the Jurchen dialect, not to mention, of course he could not distinguish between them.
It's like in the pre-liberation era, if you ask a young man who has never been out of school or gone to school in a remote mountainous area of China, and you ask him what is the difference between the Germans and the French? What is the difference between their languages? The answer is obvious, of course he does not know what Gaul is and what is Germanic, and German and French and English are the same and intelligible to him.
Bai Sheng was not too embarrassed by Huiguang, and said: "You don't know, but I can tell you that there is a clear difference between the clothing and hairstyles of the Jin people and the Liao people, and the Jin people have a pigtail on the back of their heads, and the clothes are mostly animal skins.
Bai Sheng was right, at that time, the Liao people had been sinicized for a long time, and had been transformed from a nomadic people to an agricultural people, and their clothing and hairstyle were not much different from the Song people, but the Jin people were different, and the Jin people still maintained their distinctive characteristics of nomads.
Bai Shengman thought that this alone would be able to confirm the innocence of himself and Di Lie, but Huiguang showed a blank look in his eyes, raised his hand and scratched the back of his head, and said: "They are wearing heavy armor and iron helmets on their heads, these two characteristics you mentioned...... How can a poor monk see it?"
Ling Xing wasted no time in sneering: "Bai Jushi, don't waste your efforts, you just say that you can't fool the martial arts heroes here even if you break the sky, the Great Song Dynasty has always been hostile to the Liao State, how can there be anything to do with the people of the Jin Kingdom? Besides, the Jin Kingdom is just a small country, not to mention that they can't have tens of thousands of iron horses, even if they have, how can they go on an expedition here? It's unreasonable!"
Speaking of this, he didn't wait for Bai Sheng to refute, then looked at Feng Yi and the two and said, "Besides, even if it is the Jin Guo Iron Cavalry, how did the two of you come to Shaomu Mountain? Could it be that the enemy came to know the two of you, and he let you go alone and didn't kill you?"
Hearing this, Feng Nandu couldn't help but say any longer: "Let us go and don't kill us?" To tell you the truth, the cavalry of the Ten Thousand Golden Kingdom under the mountain chased us all the way from outside Bianjing City, and they didn't want us to move reinforcements back!"
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but glance at Huiguang, who had said that tens of thousands of iron horsemen had come down from the mountain, but there were only 10,000 in Fengnandu's mouth, and they didn't know which of these two people was lying.
Huiguang was ashamed, in fact, he didn't know how many cavalry had come down from the mountain, as the so-called people were tens of thousands, boundless, and who had the time to count the total number of enemies when they met on a narrow road? There is no shame in one's own defeat if the enemy is strong, isn't it?
Bai Sheng smiled and said, "What's the difficulty in confirming whether it is the Jin soldiers or the Liao army under the mountain?
Of course, Lingxing already knew that Bai Sheng and Feng Yi were not lying, but he didn't want to let Bai Sheng leave, so he avoided Bai Sheng's words and continued to question Feng Nandu: "You said that people sent 10,000 iron horsemen just to hunt down and kill the two of you?
Feng Nandu looked at Lingxing coldly and said: "This time, the rescue team sent by His Royal Highness King Yun has a total of 800 people, including 100 disciples of the Royal Boxing Gym, 100 people from the Nanxia Boxing Gym, 100 people from my Wansheng Boxing Gym, 100 people from Kaifeng Mansion and 400 guards in front of the palace, and only 200 people were left after the Jin Soldier Battalion, and they were chased and killed by the Jin Army along the way, and there were only three people left when they arrived in Dengfeng!"
"What? You said you were sent by His Royal Highness King Yun?" Zhou Dong was already moved when he heard this, "And my subordinates from the Imperial Boxing Gym are here, are they all dead?"
Yi Xiao replied: "That's right, the last three remaining people besides our brother and your apprentice Cao Zheng, but we were separated when we entered the territory of Dengfeng. ”
When Zhou Dong heard this, he believed Liucheng and said: "It has not been separated so far, why did you get separated when you arrived in Dengfeng? Also, can you bring a token or letter from King Yun?"
Feng Nandu shook his head and said: "Our war horse is not able to outrun the war horse of the Jin people, and we were forced to abandon the horse at a long distance from Dengfeng, thanks to my Yixiao brother's superb archery skills, I can curb the enemy from approaching, but it is a pity that the light skills of the Cao Zheng brothers are poor, so the three of us have never been able to get rid of the enemy's tailing, so we can only get rid of the mountain in Dengfeng, Cao Zheng brothers...... He accidentally fell into a cliff. ”
Zhou Tong said in disbelief: "Well, it's somewhat credible, but why don't you have a token of King Yun?"
Bai Sheng sneered: "Pavilion Master Zhou, do you have a hole in your head? If Cao Zheng and your Imperial Boxing Gym are here, do you also need them to take out tokens to prove that they are not colluding with the Liao Army to lure you into the shortlist?"