Chapter 1: The Awakening of Shin Wang...

  Due to the sudden appearance of Zhao Jun, who came from a different time and space, the Jin army was repeatedly defeated by the righteous army. Zhao Jun contained and defeated a large number of Jin troops, making the situation relatively better for the righteous armies in other places, so the various righteous armies were still able to hold out against the Jin in the north.

  Apart from this, Zhao Kui proposed some strategies for the anti-Jin war in the enemy's rear to the righteous armies of all parties. He explained in detail the tactics of guerrilla warfare such as "retreating when the enemy advances and harassing when the enemy is tired" to the envoys of these various righteous armies.

  The meeting ended, and Zhao Dun arranged for the envoys of various righteous armies to rest. At this time, 800 miles away, Zhao Dun received a message from Ma Kuo in Dongjing, which was obtained through bribery and espionage. The envoy of Emperor Gaozong of Song had already set out for Wozhou and would arrive soon.

  Zhao Xun hastily pulled out the map, took a look, and smiled slightly. He muttered to himself: "Can't kill on my own turf, that's too obvious. Then I'll just kill at the border and pin it on the bandits. Zhao Cong, you can forget about delivering the imperial edict to Grandfather's hands. Even if it's delivered to my hands, I won't acknowledge it."

  Zhao Song ordered someone to find Zhao Xiaodao and Meng Shou, he wanted to discuss with the two personally, and he also wanted to lead the team to rob and kill in person. He wanted to see Gaozong's imperial edict with his own eyes before burning it directly.

  Zhaogou had some warriors in his hands, all of whom were high-ranking inner guards. These masters were all brought by Zhaogou's network, not that Zhaogou had such a powerful elite force in his hands. In fact, Zhaogou was captured by the Jin army who took advantage of him and chased after him. It is also impossible for Zhaogou to repeatedly turn danger into safety on his future escape route.

  Now, this elite group of warriors is the largest in number, so Emperor Gaozong Zhao Gou also sent out a portion to protect the envoys. His own envoy went to summon Zhao Chen, and naturally, the Jin State would not come to invade. However, there are bandits and thieves everywhere, and the safety of the envoys must be guaranteed.

  Zhao Zhong, was a strongest swordsman with super high martial arts skills under Zhao Gou's command. His original surname was Li and he was granted the surname Zhao. It is said that even the nobles of the Jin Dynasty knew his great name and were full of praise for his superb martial arts skills.

  This time, it was his disciples who escorted the heavenly envoy of Gaozong to find Xinfeng Zhao Chen and convey the imperial edict. These people who escorted the heavenly envoy were normally capable of killing twenty ordinary soldiers. Therefore, the swordsmen brought by Huang Weiting, the eunuch who was appointed by Gaozong to proclaim the edict, had a power equivalent to that of two thousand ordinary soldiers. They were not afraid of ordinary mountain bandits at all.

  A group of people had already left the mansion and were heading towards Ji Zhou, advancing towards Wo Zhou which was occupied by Xinyang's righteous army. Huang Weiting felt uneasy in his sedan chair, so he got out to ride a horse and observe the surroundings.

  Upon seeing this, Zhao Zhong's second son, the Lightning Sword Guest Zhuge Hou, said to the eunuch Huang Weiting who was responsible for conveying the imperial edict and being extremely cautious: "Don't worry, sir. With my brothers here, even if the most ferocious bandits or mountain thieves were to come, we would still be able to protect you and the carriage completely."

  Zhao Zhong had three great legitimate disciples. The eldest disciple, Wei Bo, was a eunuch who served as Zhao Cong's personal attendant and protected his safety. The second disciple, Zhu Ge Hou, was an orphan and also the most loyal to Zhao Zhong, whom he regarded as his confidant. If it weren't for the importance of this matter, Zhao Zhong would not have sent him out. It was also because of the importance of protecting the heavenly envoy who delivered the edict to Prince Xian that Zhao Zhong sent him out.

  Zhao Zhong's third son is who, can be said that there are not many people in the world who know. It is said to be a former noble lady of Liao State, whether or not? Only Zhao Hen himself knows.

  Eunuch Huang Weiting was reassured by Zhuge's words, he believed in Zhuge's swordsmanship. This person's swordsmanship is extremely high, ordinary people can't imagine it, he can use one sword to borrow the power of his waist to cut off a giant wooden stake as thick as a human waist.

  A tree stump of a certain thickness is not something that anyone can split, it requires corresponding arm strength and waist strength to do so. An ordinary soldier versus Zhuge Hou, Zhuge Hou could kill him with one sword strike, splitting both the soldier and his sword in two.

  Huang Weiting shook his head and smiled bitterly. He wasn't worried about anything else, but he knew that this trip was not very dangerous. As the emperor's trusted aide, he also knew some inside information: Zhao Gou had secretly colluded with the Jin State, so on this trip to deliver the imperial edict to the north, he would absolutely not be killed by the Jin army.

  However, the Jin army would not kill them, but the bandits and mountain robbers would plunder their goods. After all, in order to lure Zhao Chen south, Zhao Gou had also paid a heavy price. Zhao Gou was afraid that Zhao Chen would not listen to his orders due to financial difficulties, so he paid out a large amount of money and grain. The hundreds of carts he brought were too valuable. Twenty carts of salt, sixty carts of food, ten carts of silk, and ten carts of gold and silver ingots.

  What a huge sum of money! It's enough to buy tens of thousands of livestock! Or, this is the largest deal that Zhao Gong has ever made.

  What benefits did Zhao Kuang gain from attacking and plundering the Jin country's tribes? It was just wealth and grain. But look at what he brought with him, although the Song country is in crisis now. After all, it is a country's emperor, and his generosity is great. Even the largest merchant cannot compare to this.

  With this wealth, one can go anywhere and become a big merchant. Therefore, Huang Weitingzi was very careful with these huge sums of money.

  Huang Weiting's worries were also known to Zhuge Hou. In fact, on the way, he had already sent away four teams of horse bandits and three mountain thieves, so he wasn't very worried. He thought that as long as it wasn't the Jin State army mobilizing, who could do anything to him? And the Jin State army, according to his master's whispers, wouldn't be mobilized. As for why, he couldn't ask or say. It was also because of his tight-lipped nature that his master had told him.

  Just then, Huang Weiting suddenly called out: "Master, Master..." Zhuge Hou said: "Don't worry..." They only saw the dust flying in the distance, which was a sign that someone was rushing towards here.

  Huang Weiting was just a eunuch, he had never seen such a scene before, and was already frightened stiff, feeling his lower body wet. He hastily said: "Master, there are many people this time... aren't we...". He wanted to say let's hurry up and run away.

  "Hahaha......" Zhuge Hou burst out laughing: "Let's see who has such a big nerve!" He was an old hand, and at a glance, he saw that the other side didn't have many people, roughly equal to their own. If it were a large troop, there wouldn't be just this little dust.

  "It seems..." The general in charge of guarding the two said: "Something's off..." When looking at a team, what you look for is the flag and attire.

  Bandits generally don't have a flag, so you can only look at their attire. However, bandits are usually not well-dressed. The cavalry coming from the opposite side is surprisingly wearing armor. They also recognize the golden armor of the Jin army, but the people on the opposite side do not have any flags. Are they Jin soldiers disguised as bandits?

  At this time, the beast leading the team roared: "Take off your masks." The knights took off their respective masks. In Zhao's army, many masks were made for the cavalry, but they were all very terrifying masks. There were ghost masks, crying masks, smiling masks, wolf masks, leopard masks, lion masks, tiger masks, Shura masks, Raksha masks, and so on.

  At that moment, a cavalryman emerged like a hundred ghosts, and in Zhao's words, "If you use this posture to deal with the enemy, wouldn't it scare them to death?"

  Zhuge Hou and others immediately drew their weapons, Huang Weiting hastily called out: "Wait a minute..." The enemy in front of them was not an ordinary person, each one wearing steel helmets and iron armor, fully armed. At first glance, they were all regular elite troops. If it could be settled with words, that would be for the best. Just by looking at them, Huang Weiting understood that these people were not easy to deal with. If something unexpected happened, it wouldn't be good.

  Zhuge Xuan and other masters had already placed their hands on the hilts of their weapons, with their swords positioned in front of them, ready to be drawn out at any moment.

  Zhao Ju's iron cavalry rushed to the front, Zhao Ju stopped his horse smoothly, and the knights behind him followed suit. Spears were lowered from the horses, pointing directly at Huang Weiting and his men.

  Zhao Ke shouted loudly: "I am the leader of the Great Eastern Mountain stronghold, and this is the sacred and inviolable land of the Great Eastern Mountains. Now, you have invaded our territory, and you need to pay a toll. And you must accept our detention and examination. If you listen, you can live. But if you utter even half a word of 'no'! Ah, ah, I'm only in charge of killing, not burying!"

  Upon hearing the other person's words, Huang Weiting secretly felt bitter. The person in front of him was clearly pretending, what sacred and inviolable Da Dong Mountain land? What nonsense about detention and investigation? It was all just making excuses.

  At this moment, several loud shouts were heard. One hundred fourteen- or fifteen-year-old boys riding horses galloped in a neat formation with incredible speed. The speed of the formation made people's scalps numb. From galloping to forming lines and raising guns, it was all done in the time it took Zhao Chen to say those few words. It was incredibly fast! It was as if one person was moving. Even everyone's movements were almost identical.

  "This gentleman..." Huang Weiting stepped forward and said: "I think, is there some kind of misunderstanding? We are honest businessmen!" As he spoke, one of his men came forward with a sleeve covering something and handed a bag of gold to Zhao Chen. Zhao Chen smiled and weighed it in his hand, inside were not only gold coins but at least three ingots of horse hoof gold.

  Generally speaking, facing such military strength, whether it's real mountain bandits or the army disguised as them, would have known better than to mess with them and retreated. Unfortunately, he didn't know that the person he encountered wasn't someone who could be bought off with just a few pieces of gold.

  "Are you a decent businessman?" Zhao Ze put away the money, looked coldly at this young man with a smiling face, and said: "This little bit of money can't prove that you're a decent person. It can't even prove that you're a living person, nor can it prove that you're human. Do you believe me? I can kill you in a very short time, eat you in the shortest time possible, and within three days, I'll turn you into shit. How's that?"

  Huang Weiting's head spun, no matter how he calculated, he couldn't have anticipated that a group of ruffians and bandits would appear on the road to block their way. Since they were already approaching the land occupied by Zhao Jun in Wozhou, with the connivance and assistance of the Jin army and many warriors. So he also couldn't imagine that a small team of just over a hundred people dared to come and rob them, most of whom were still young men.

  So, although Zhao Xun had over a hundred men under his command. Huang Weiting thought the other side still had reinforcements, he hesitated for a moment and said: "Sir, what do you want to do?"

  Zhao Cuoyang handed him a horse whip. Zhao Cuoyang's horse whip was not a good one, it was made of mountain rattan. Although the cost was very low, the workmanship was very fine, with a rope wrapped around the handle and coated with fish glue, wrapped in donkey skin. The tail of the whip had a ring made of horsehair that could be hung on the middle finger. On the tip of the whip, there were also horsehair-made rattles tied to it.

  With a "pa" sound, Huang Weiting's face immediately had an additional crimson handprint. "Hand over all your money and goods. Also, leave ten heads for me, and you can leave. As a manifestation of my benevolence, I can generously allow you to wear one piece of intimate clothing. Outerwear must be removed, your clothes are also valuable. And boots must be removed too, walking barefoot is very beneficial for you, look at how lazy you all look! You need exercise. How's that, isn't this a perfect display of benevolence?"

  "Sir, don't you think this is going too far?" Huang Weiting covered his face and retreated while speaking. He was in extreme pain, and following Zhao Gou, he had never suffered such a great loss before. He knew that things might not be able to end well, nor did he know what was happening, but suddenly there was an unreasonable bandit on this road.

  However, Huang Weiting guessed from the other's brutal speech that they were not people from the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty, whether it was a deserter or a righteous army, did not have such brutality and unreasonableness. Looking at this brutality, the opponent must be a Jin soldier who secretly came to take advantage of the situation without listening to orders. Looking at these soldiers' equipment, they were already armed to the teeth, how could they be ordinary Jin soldiers?

  Huang Weiting increasingly felt that the other side was Jin Bing. He knew that the bad Zhuge Hou and his party had already arrived in front of Zhao Chen and others. They slowly approached Zhao Chen and others, but because everyone in the Zhao Chen army wore masks, they didn't know what these people's expressions were like or what they were thinking.

  Zhao Xun's face revealed a hint of a smile, and he actually jumped off his horse. At the same time, he also shook his hand backwards. As soon as the gesture was made, one hundred young men instantly dismounted, while the fierce beast led thirty cavalrymen with a whistle, and the war horses galloped backwards with the thirty cavalrymen, retreating in an instant.

  What surprised Zhuge and his group was that the hundred knights, who looked like young men in terms of height and build, dismounted their horses one after another to prepare for infantry combat. On the other hand, the giant knight led thirty cavalrymen with a hundred warhorses to retreat. What does this mean? Wouldn't it be better to use more powerful cavalry to fight them instead of using infantry? Are they underestimating us? Using one's weakness to attack the enemy's strength is ridiculous!

  A cavalry at that time was still very powerful. Knights riding on horses swung their weapons down to slash and kill, which was indeed a dominant thing, and also had the power to intimidate opponents psychologically.

  When the cavalry's warhorse gallops, that wind-like speed can be converted into destructive power. At such high speeds, you don't need to use force to chop and slash; just hold two knives in your hands, and the wind and horse will let them cut through the enemy on their own. Any human body or skeleton, even thin armor, will split apart under the knife's swift motion.

  Even the eunuch Huang Weiting knew the power of cavalry, but the other side gave it up, leaving him baffled. Did the other side look down on them? If so, then all the better.

  Zhao Song called back the cavalry, and in Zhuge Dan's eyes, this was an opportunity. The chance to kill this fake commander who might be a Jin general had arrived.

  So-called "shoot the horse before shooting the man", capture the bandit and capture the king. This principle, Zhuge Liang didn't know how many times he had been told by his own master.

  In Zhuge's view, he certainly had many ways to attack Zhao Song, but Zhao Song was also riding a horse and had a certain advantage of being in a superior position. He knew that since the other side was so confident, they must have sufficient strength.

  If he quickly drew his sword and attacked from below, he could indeed cut off Zhao Yun's or his horse's legs first, but Zhao Yun might also make a quick attack on his upper body.

  Just as he was thinking of how to kill Zhao Jun, Zhao Jun jumped off his horse. Seeing the opponent dismount, Zhuge Hou's eyes immediately flashed a cold light. He thought of killing him at once, in Zhuge Hou's view, just one sword would be enough to kill this leader.

  These people are not enough to make a way, wearing armor and masks to scare people. In the early years when Liao Guo was still there, Master had taken Xun'er, who was still young at that time, to travel in the northern land, and saw many Hu people and their customs. They wore animal bones on their heads, with disheveled hair, and their words and deeds were not much better than those of Zhao Yun's barbarians.

  "Is that too much?" Zhao Xun smiled and said, "I don't think so, I'm being very kind." As he spoke, he shamelessly patted his lower body and lewdly said, "If you have the ability, transform into a beautiful woman and come bite me!"

  Zhao Song's words immediately made everyone's face turn black. Even the ferocious beasts looked at Zhao Song in surprise. Zhao Song was a prince of the Great Song Dynasty, proficient in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and skilled in poetry and literature. But how could he say such lowly and despicable things? He deeply felt that he was not the savage one, but rather Zhao Song was.

  Zhao Ju said so, Huang Weiting felt even more that the other party was indeed a Jin person. Only a barbaric and shameless Jin person could speak and act in such a way. He shouted loudly: "A gentleman can be killed but not humiliated!"

  At this moment, Zhuge shouted loudly: "If anyone is to die, it will be you!" As he shouted, he swiftly drew his sword.

  The sword flashed like lightning! A cold light slashed from bottom to top, straight at the opponent's crotch. Downward slash, one sword came from below, cutting off descendants and leaving no offspring, sinister and ruthless, extremely vicious.

  Unfortunately, this sword move was directed at Zhao Chen. Who is Zhao Chen? He is a killing machine cultivated by the future Huaxia nation from a young age. In terms of martial arts, knowledge accumulated over 900 years allows him to stand far ahead in the forefront of this era's most advanced killing techniques. With his skills fully restored, Zhao Chen has reached an unprecedented peak in assassination techniques. To think that a simple downward slash could harm Zhao Chen - isn't that a joke?

  Zhao Ke took a step back, and his body suddenly moved. As he moved, Zhao Ke also made his move, his hand leaving the steel spear stuck in the ground, five fingers spread wide, like steel claws, instantly clamping down on Zhuge Hou's wrist. With this guy's speed and ability, Zhao Ke didn't need a weapon at all, he could take him down with just his bare hands.

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