Li Ding stood firmly in the lobby of the Black Emperor Temple in Wu'an County. Except for Zhang Shiniang standing inside the door, there was no one else in the hall. There was only a brazier set up next to the sculpture of the Black Emperor in the hall, and the fire kept blowing in the wind.

The swaying, illuminated Black Emperor's face was uncertain.

Outside the hall is a huge school field, which is densely packed with tents that have just returned to the Wu'an Army. The surrounding permanent barracks are also filled with people. Thanks to the timing and location of Li Ding's interception of the troops, at this time, the Wu'an Army

The arrangements had already been made, and the huge military camp had become quiet early.

However, this kind of quietness did not last long. From the second half of the night, the sound of hooves and the ringing of bells continued around the Dahei Emperor Temple. Not only the sentry cavalry that had been released before were turning back one after another, but also there were messengers sent from various places to inquire about the news.

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This greatly disturbed Wu Anjun, who was actually still a little uneasy.

Only Li Ding was very strict in managing the army, but the soldiers did not dare to make any noise, and the generals did not dare to come over easily at night to inquire about the situation.

In fact, even Li Ding seemed to maintain a certain indifferent attitude. These envoys kept coming and going, but they only came to the threshold of the lobby to report and exchange information, while Mr. Li just stood in the hall to listen the whole time, without even looking back.

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As for the results of the news he heard, I can only say that the situation was worse than Li Ding thought, not that it was outrageous, but that it was terrible because Li Fujun did sense the danger.

"Is Zhang Gongshen a member of the gang?" Li Ding looked back and stared at his disciple. "There are reinforcements in Beidi and Northern Shanxi?"

"It should be." Su Jingfang was exhausted, looked haggard, and her voice was a little hoarse when she spoke. "I can't find out."

"That's why we walked from the northwest." Li Ding responded quietly and asked again. "Where is Bai Yousi? When did she set off?"

"It's hard to say, but judging from the situation, it should be the morning after I left, that is, early yesterday morning, I set out from Po Tai to the river mouth area. The ships, troops, and logistics were extremely well prepared, just waiting for my news.

If I don’t go, I will help other messengers go there.”

Li Ding nodded slightly and frowned again: "Something is wrong."

"Silang, what should I say?" Zhang Shiniang was very nervous.

"Something's going to happen." Li Ding sighed, but his tone was unexpectedly calm. "Something big is going to happen!"

Su Jingfang and Zhang Shiniang both became nervous. Li Silang suddenly shook his head: "Actually, it's not a big deal. There is no big deal now. It's just that the situation has changed bigger and faster, and then it has something to do with us."

The other two people didn't know why. However, after Li Silang sighed, he simply turned back and stared at the sculpture of Black Emperor again.

Su Jingfang was helpless when he saw this, but he wanted to say something. His actions this time were actually a bit sensitive. If it was the first time he went to seek help to report the news, it was Li Ding's instinctive act of resistance after being kidnapped, and it belonged to Li Fujun.

This time, Su Jingfang actually had a lot of autonomy in his own actions, and mostly followed his own wishes, so that the matter of gathering information was postponed to tipping off the information and the main messenger, otherwise it would not have been possible for Li

Su Jingfang could not tell the information until the four capitals came back. Therefore, Xiao Su was determined to explain something.

"Go down." At this moment, Zhang Shiniang suddenly noticed something and immediately stopped Su Jingfang with words. Then she looked eastward across the hall, but then nervously looked at her husband's back.

The wind outside the hall was blowing, and the fire on the brazier in the hall was flying in all directions, but there was no escape. Li Ding looked at the brazier with a gloomy face, not moving at all, but he said: "Shi Niang, please go down and wait." "

Su Jingfang and Zhang Shiniang knew the benefits, so they left together. As soon as they turned around, they saw a flash of silver light, and then, a man with gray beard suddenly appeared in front of the lobby door.

But it was none other than the British Duke and Grand Master Bai Hengqiu.

Bai Hengqiu landed in front of the hall, put away his energy, and watched Zhang Shiniang and Su Jingfang leave. He stopped to look at the huge Black Emperor's Hall, then walked in with his hands behind his hands, and came to the front of Li Ding. He actually showed respect to him. He leaned over and bowed to the clay wood carving of the Black Emperor, and then turned his head to look at the expressionless Li Ding.

"Mr. Bai also claims to be a dragon among men, and does he also worship ghosts and gods?" Li Ding, who seemed to have realized something, asked inexplicably.

"Where did the ghosts and gods come from? They are just living people who have become dragons." Bai Hengqiu seemed to understand what the other party meant, and just smiled with his hands behind his hands under the gaze of the Black Emperor. "Most of the stories about ghosts and gods are fabricated. They are both human beings and ancestors who built the world, so how can they not treat each other with courtesy?"

This answer is obviously correct, because the dragons in this world are more like the product of creatures assimilating the vitality of heaven and earth after acquiring and controlling the vitality of heaven and earth. From this perspective, as people continue to practice, they are essentially a process of transforming into dragons. , it’s just that humans belong to the dragon species.

"But these dragons are so tyrannical. They are so powerful that they ascend to the throne, defy the will of heaven, change fate, run rampant across the world, and control the world." Li Ding seemed not satisfied with this standard answer. "How many world trends have been manipulated by them, how many heroes have been manipulated by them. Heroes become puppets in their hands."

"That's true, but the situation today is no longer what it was thousands of years ago." Bai Hengqiu looked calm, as if he was just a guest, giving some life advice and some common sense to junior Hou Bu Hou. "Then. It is true that these few people were unscrupulous at the time, but looking at what happened later, they must have suffered a big setback, and they may have been punished by heaven until now. In addition, Sanhui is gaining momentum, so what if they have exhausted all their means? Really? Are heroes afraid of them? Shouldn't they fight with each other? To say the least, their methods are a little tougher. In the end, the people below will fight. Li Silang, if he is a real hero, he will be like this. No matter what kind of destiny these people are involved in, they can naturally break free and fight for the upper reaches, so why are they here blaming others?"

At this point, Bai Hengqiu paused for a moment: "The person in the world who suffers the most from the four emperors is the ancestor-emperor of that day. If the ancestor-emperor were born today and built the achievements of that day, based on the actions of the four emperors today, , can we still stop this person from becoming the Fifth Supreme Being? We people have no right to blame others."

"What Mr. Bai teaches is this." Li Ding nodded. "If God's will is high, you should only blame God, but it is useless to blame God; if the manpower is insufficient, you should blame yourself, blame yourself."

"Shang. Is this what Bai Gong means?"

"yes."

"Then Mr. Bai also thinks that this raid will fail?" Li Ding was not convinced.

"Of course it is." Bai Hengqiu spoke frankly. "If you don't take it, you don't take it. And it's not just the Dongdu of Hebei Province. Although Cao Lin was taken, he sent Dongdu to him before he died. It's not like that.

Victory."

"I mean, is it a fluke that Zhang Xing got the Fulong Seal before the battle?" Li Ding obviously talked a lot tonight. "Is it God's mercy that Cao Lin can find Sima Zheng when he is about to die?"

"If you ask whether the Supreme True Dragon directly intervened, I don't know. But if you say whether this is luck or God's will, I think it does." Bai Hengqiu nodded in reply.

Li Ding shook slightly and turned his head.

"But so what?" Bai Hengqiufu laughed again, and walked to the front of the hall with his hands behind his hands, looking at the night outside and sighing. "If you tell me from this point, I can be so clever in getting out of Hongshan.

, is it a fluke to seize the gang's vital point once? What kind of luck is it to stay in Taiyuan before the world is in chaos? To put it bluntly, I was born as Bai's son, and I have already surpassed 99% of the heroes in the world.

Li Silang, you are too young and you are a little arrogant."

After hearing this, Li Ding was silent for a long time, and then finally sighed: "Yes, I am also a son of the Li family. Zhang Xing was only a vanguard until seven or eight years ago. Looking back now, how did this guy get to this point in the past few years?

The biggest and best move was actually that day after the Three Conquests, he jumped out and killed Zhang Han without hesitation, and then ran to the east to find the powerful rebels in the hometown of Eastern Qi, and he also used the banner of the leader of the world's rebels.

It was really a wonderful move, but this move was all due to his vision and courage, and was a decision he always made from his heart; but I didn't dare to act at the time, and actually abandoned the soldiers and horses that Po Tai had pulled out by himself.

, fled back to Dongdu. With just this step, I deserved to be at a disadvantage."

"Zhang Xing and Cao Lin are not little people." Bai Hengqiu nodded in approval. "If you can easily win against people like this, the world will be really easy. Wouldn't it seem that many heroes in the past have suffered too much?

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The man paused and said again:

"Actually, I'm too greedy. If we just kill Cao Lin, take the Eastern Capital, and fight steadily, what's the point? But here in Hebei, Zhang Xing is not the only one who is cunning and has the strength to help his family. There are also countless other heroes, and their forces are even more intricate.

It was I who underestimated Hebei and the heroes of Hebei."

"Eastern Zhou and Western Zhou, Eastern Qi and Western Wei." When Li Ding heard this, he turned his hands and back to the hall door again, and his expression returned to a calm expression. "Since the Wei Dynasty has collapsed, Guanlong and Hebei will have to fight again.

, how can we pin our hopes on one war? If we don’t fight a big war, even if we succeed in the first war by luck, we will have to fight back several times in the future!”

"That's the truth." Bai Hengqiu nodded repeatedly. "Li Silang still has wisdom."

"You have wisdom but don't know destiny." Li Ding responded quietly. "You will be punished by heaven, but you always feel dissatisfied."

Bai Hengqiu couldn't help but laugh: "It's normal to be dissatisfied, but you can't commit it knowingly." Li Ding nodded.

Only then did Bai Hengqiu ask: "Did Qu Tuda run away?"

"Yes, on the night when the army broke out, he probably noticed Sun Shunde's movements, guessed that the gang was going to break out, and was afraid that he would become an abandoned son on the route of the gang's reinforcements, so he ran away." Li Ding immediately turned around and introduced Nan.

Line situation. "And it went south first, then west, avoiding the checkpoints and cities on the north side of Wuyang County."

"I am determined to leave." Bai Hengqiu narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Where are you now? Can you still catch up?"

"I don't know where I am. I just know that some people showed up in Yuancheng in the afternoon." "Is it so fast?"

"It doesn't matter whether it's fast or not. The key is, I think even if we catch up, it's difficult to stop us." Li Silang once said, "What do you mean?"

"Qutuda ordered his troops to be broken into parts, and he divided himself into three teams of 450 people, and headed back to the east.

All." Li Ding presented the information he had learned not long ago. "I wonder how many groups of people Bai Gong can stop when he is unable to establish a defense line?"

"Tsk." Bai Hengqiu repeated the sentence at the beginning. "I am determined to leave."

"Zheng Shanye is not in good condition either. I don't know if he reported it to Duke Bai." Li Ding continued to report. "Zheng Shanye brought more than eight or nine thousand people out of the camp, but it is said that only three or four thousand Dongdu troops returned to the camp. They all took advantage of the situation.

He fled directly under the darkness and heavy fog."

"The Dongdu Army no longer belongs to me." Bai Hengqiu concluded calmly. "I'm afraid the Dongdu Army will be in trouble."

"If the Dongdu Army belongs to Bai Gong, it will really be difficult for the Dongdu Army to leave." Li Ding said disapprovingly. "If we really forcefully cross the river to the Dongdu City at this time, there will still be tens of thousands of Dongdu Army with complex thoughts in the army. Sima Zheng

And if we unite with all the people in Dongdu, we are afraid that there will be another Qingzhang River siege, or even worse."

Bai Hengqiu nodded: "Well said, this kind of attempt is indispensable. The Dongdu Army, which cannot be counted on, will disperse as soon as it disperses. I will defeat Li Shu head-on, and then go directly to Guanxi."

"I'm afraid Li Shu won't be able to defeat him." Li Ding continued to report the military situation. "As far as I know, Li Shu has not come over."

Bai Hengqiu was finally surprised.

"I don't know the specific situation. Li Shu seems to have gone to the south. The only ones crossing the river are Dantonghai and a few battalions helping Ji Yinxingtai." Li Silang said calmly. "I originally fought hard, but now I know that we can relieve the siege.

I’m afraid I’ll have to run away immediately.”

Bai Hengqiu thought for a while and then laughed again: "It seems that the gang is not as neat as they thought. Li Shu is still dissatisfied with Zhang Xing, Wei Xuanding, Chen Bin, Dou Lide and the others. They are still incapable of wrangling and taking action."

"It depends on what you said." Li Silang disagreed. "Li Shu was so dissatisfied, but the people below still came to Hebei for rescue; Wei Xuanding's side, originally

I thought they would fall apart under the pressure of the army, but they are still able to hold on, and even the field soldiers below can rise up; Zhang Xing thought that they would be trapped in Chou City, but they can actually break out of the encirclement, which is already amazing."

Bai Hengqiu nodded in approval: "Zhang San can win people and help many heroes." Li Si did not speak.

Bai Hengqiufu came again and said: "But the people he got are all heroes from Hebei, and there are also a few remnants from Nanchen. As for the heroes of Guanlong, even Li Shu can't tolerate him, and he can't get them."

Li Ding understood what the other party meant and hesitated to speak. He simply turned around and looked at the night outside. "What?" Bai Hengqiu asked with squinted eyes. "Li Silang didn't think so."

"Yes." Li Ding didn't look back and just smiled calmly. "I think Mr. Bai was arbitrary. As far as I know, Bai Sanniang should have set off in the early morning yesterday, leading five or six battalions of Dengzhou and Wudi.

Ten thousand people, together with countless ordnance and supplies, formed a large fleet and set off from the mouth of the river to go north, whether to the Bohai Sea or the north, to meet this "Guanlong hero" after all, right?"
To be continued...