Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

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The death of Zhang Qian plunged his five hundred subordinates into chaos for a short time, and Shi Jin killed more than a dozen of them in an instant.

"Don't panic! Kill that big man!"

Zhao Neng immediately drew his waist knife, pointed at Shi Jin and shouted loudly.

At this moment, a group of cavalry suddenly came out from the chestnut grove, and the leader leaped on his horse with a gun, and went straight to Zhao Neng.

"Wu Na Niao Guan, I wish Biao to come too!"

Chapter 848 Hero Ximen Qing

The fate of the councilor Zhao Neng is tragic. He unfortunately met Zhu Biao who was holding back his madness.

After Zhu Biao learned martial arts from Luan Tingyu, Ximen Qing never took him around.

The robbers in Liangshan Boli were also killed. Zhu Biaokong has martial arts, but he has nowhere to display it.

This time, he finally seized the opportunity and stalked brother Ximenqing out to explore the rivers and lakes and gain experience. Zhu Biao was unwilling to let go of any opportunity.

Now the highest commander of the enemy is this Zhao Neng, and the fellow cavalry yelled and shouted, which attracted Zhu Biao to kill him excitedly.

"protect me!"

Zhao Neng yelled in fright, as a councilor, his martial arts were not as good as that of Zhang Qian whose head had been cut off, how dare he challenge Zhu Biao one-on-one?

However, Zhu Biao was approaching so fiercely that before the surrounding sergeants could react, he had already rushed in front of Zhao Neng and stabbed more than a dozen shots in one breath.

"Ah~~"

With Zhao Neng's cry of pain, more than a dozen holes had appeared on his body, and blood shot out like a fountain.Immediately afterwards, Zhao Neng fell off his horse like a torn bag.

Only at this time did two other shouts come from the direction of the chestnut forest: "Master Jiao Ting is here!" "Master Duan Jing lives here!"

Jiao Ting and Duan Jingzhu led a troop of cavalry out of the chestnut grove and charged at the soldiers of the Pingzhou army.

Beside Zuo Qigong and the others, "Jiuwenlong" Shi Jin was also extremely brave. He killed the Pingzhou army surrounding him and led a dozen men disguised as grooms to protect Zuo Qigong, Kang Gongbi and others. people.

The [-] sergeants brought by Zhang Qian lost the command of the chief general Zhang Qian and the councilor Zhao Neng successively, and they were already in chaos.The deaths of Zhang Qian and Zhao Neng also demoralized them.

Seeing that Shi Jin, Zhu Biao, Jiao Ting, and Duan Jingzhu were as brave as wolves and tigers, and many cavalry rushed out from the chestnut forest to surround them, these Pingzhou soldiers lost the will to resist and knelt down one after another. Surrender to beg for a living.

The four soldiers led by Shi Jin wiped out these Pingzhou troops, and then turned their attention to Li Shulin, and asked, "Brother Ximen, how should we deal with these bird officers and soldiers?"

Ximen Qing rode a horse, held a bow in his hand, and led a dozen guards out of the chestnut forest, and came to Shi Jin and others.

Ximen Qing had known for a long time that Zhang Jue would rebel when Zuo Qigong and others came to Pingzhou, so he specially brought Shi Jin, Zhu Biao, Jiao Ting, Duan Jingzhu, and five hundred Jingqi to sneak to Pingzhou to save people .

Ximenqing didn't want to prevent Zhang Jue from rebelling and affecting the course of history. He just wanted to save Zuo Qigong and other important Han officials in Yandi, and make them all owe him a big favor.

Ximenqing believed that letting these important ministers who owed him favors continue to serve as ministers in the Kingdom of Jin would definitely reward him handsomely in the future.

Furthermore, Ximen Qing remembered that there was a literary shabby in Beijing named Cao Xueqin who wrote a classic "Dream of Red Mansions" handed down from generation to generation.His ancestor was Cao Yongyi, Sikong of the Kingdom of Jin who was killed by Zhang Jue in Pingzhou at this time.

I saved Cao Yongyi's life, such a big event should be recorded in the Cao family's genealogy, right?In the future, Cao Xueqin, after reading the deeds of this high official, maybe he will write a masterpiece "Crossing the Water Margin: Ximen High Official", which will make this high official famous forever?

Therefore, Ximenqing thinks that it is worth taking the risk to save Zuo Qigong and others, both public and private.

In fact, Ximen Qing brought so many brothers with him, so it was not a big risk.

Ximenqing asked Shi Jin to lead his people to join Zuo Qigong and his party's horse team in Yanjing City, secretly protecting Zuo Qigong and others.

Meanwhile, Ximen Qing, Jiao Ting, Duan Jingzhu, and Zhu Biao led five hundred elite riders to sneak into Pingzhou ahead of time, waiting here for Zuo Qigong and his party to arrive.

Duan Jingzhu, a horse thief who is familiar with geography, leads the way. For Ximen Qing, this Yanjing area is a thoroughfare.Ximenqing and his party sneaked between Luanzhou and Pingzhou without anyone noticing.

When Zhang Qian brought people to invite Zuo Qigong and others to attend the meeting on the west bank of the Luan River, Ximen Qing, who got the news, led his troops to the chestnut forest to ambush.

Ximen Qing can predict the future, and if he does calculations with his mind, is there any reason why he should not succeed in rescuing Zuo Qigong and others?

No matter how shrewd and cunning that Zhang Jue was, he would never have expected that he would miss when he sent Zhang Qian's five hundred soldiers to deal with a few literati who had no army protection.

Therefore, in a short period of time, Ximen Qing was not worried that Zhang Jue would find out the abnormality here, and sent a large army to besiege.

When Ximen Qing came in front of the crowd, Zuo Qigong and others saw that he was the leader of this group of mysterious rescuers, and they all stepped forward to thank Ximen Qing.

"This old man is Jin Guo Taifu and Zhongshu Ling Zuo Qigong. Thank you for saving your life! Dare I ask the hero Gao's name, where is he from? This old man should remember it in his heart and give him a ring in return."

Zuo Qigong was seventy years old, he saluted and thanked Ximen Qing tremblingly.

The official Ximen Qing is no longer the bully of Yanggu County in the past, but a person who respects the old and loves the young.Seeing Zuo Qigong bowing to him to salute, Ximen Qing hurriedly rolled off the saddle, held Zuo Qigong's hands, and returned a salute to him after he stood still.

"You don't need to be polite to the left! I have admired you for a long time, how can I let you be harmed by the younger generation! This is a small effort, no need to thank you. My surname is Ximen, and the single name is Qing. It is Dongyang, Song Dynasty. People from Gu County. These people are my closest brothers!"

Ximen Qing pointed at Shi Jin and the others, bowed to the left and said.

Of course, if you do something good, you must leave a name. Ximenqing is still looking forward to Cao Xueqin writing a biography for himself in the future!

"Are you waiting for someone sent by the Song Dynasty?"

When Zuo Qigong heard that Ximen Qing and others were from Song Dynasty, he suddenly became alert.

Although Jin and Song are still allies, firstly, Zuo Qigong and others were ministers of the Liao Kingdom and did not like the perfidious Song Dynasty. So Zuo Qigong looked at Ximen Qing and the others vigilantly.

Luanzhou and Pingzhou are both the territory of the Kingdom of Jin. How could the Song army suddenly appear outside Pingzhou?Could it be that the Song Dynasty was dissatisfied with the results of the negotiations between the two countries, and wanted to once again break their promises and attack the three states of Luan, Ping, and Ying?

Seeing Zuo Qigong's complexion change, Ximen Qing immediately understood that Zuo Qigong had misunderstood his team.

Ximen Qing laughed, took Zuo Qigong and the others to a secluded place, and said with a smile to Zuo Qigong: "Master Zuo, don't panic, we are not Song Jun. In fact, I, Ximen Qing, am from the Song Kingdom. I am also from the Kingdom of Jin, you and I are all from our own family.

To tell the truth, I am Ximen Qing, consort of the Kingdom of Jin, and I am married to Princess Wanyan Wulu of the Kingdom of Jin.Could it be that Zuo Xiang and Zhu Gong didn't hear Father Huang and Wanyan Zonghan mentioning me? "

"Ximen Qing... I just remembered that both Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Xiyin mentioned you! So it was Ximen's son-in-law who arrived! I thank Ximen's son-in-law for saving his life!"

Sikong Cao Yongyi was indeed Cao Xueqin's ancestor, he was the first among several old guys to recall the rumors of Ximen Qing in the chat, which also confirmed Ximen Qing's identity.

Ximen Qing said in his heart, Lao Cao is very sensible, it is not in vain that I, a senior official of Ximen, came to save your life.

Chapter 849 General Zhang Doesn't Need To Send Far Away

As soon as Cao Yongyi opened his mouth, Zuo Qigong, Yu Zhongwen, Kang Gongbi and the others also recalled that in Yanjing City, they had indeed heard the mention of Ximen Qing, the son-in-law of the Jin Dynasty, by the royal family and nobles of the Kingdom of Jin.

What did Wanyan Zonghan say?He said that Song Jun was all incompetent people, and he couldn't see a single hero.If there were more Song people like the Ximenqing brothers in the Song army, how could they be easily defeated by the Liao army, and their Jurchens would be required to clean up the mess.

Wanyan Xiyin also seems to have said that the people of Song Dynasty were not sincere in the negotiations, and the envoys of Song Dynasty Zhao Liangsi, Ma Kuo and others made strong arguments, which was really annoying.If it wasn't for the sake of their being friends with the son-in-law Ximenqing, Wanyan Xiyin would have turned his back on him long ago.

Knowing that his savior, Ximen Qing, is the son-in-law of Emperor Wanyan Aguda of the Kingdom of Jin, and the son-in-law of the Kingdom of Jin, Zuo Qigong and others no longer had any doubts in their hearts, and stepped forward to express their gratitude to Ximen Qing.

Ximen Qing waved his hand, and said to Zuo Qigong and the others: "My lords are not out of danger yet, this is not a place to talk, follow me to leave here quickly, and find a safe place."