Steel Chang'an

Chapter 17

"Zhao Linhai and I discovered that the iron cavalry of these Northwest Blue Wolves were moving mysteriously. We followed them out of the city and came here to protect His Royal Highness Su Sheng." Zhuo Renyue said.

"Hehe, do you think I will believe it?" Although Li Jing was smiling, there was no smile in his eyes, and he said, "Only you in the Knights know that I opened this mecha shop, and the Northwest Wolf will know that Su Sheng is here. Here, of course, you leaked the news."

"Because the Northwest Wolf got the news from you, you can naturally know when they will act." Li Jing said with a sarcastic smile, "Look at you trailing people, horses and iron cavalry out of the city, and your mecha is equipped with chain blasters. Now, your purpose is pretty clear."

"How does Mr. Li know that my mecha is equipped with chain blasting bombs?" Zhuo Renyue was still smiling, but the smile was a bit forced.

Li Jing snorted and ignored his question, but continued: "You are members of the Chang'an Knights, of course you will not let Su Sheng fall into the hands of the Northwest Wolf. But you have never thought of letting him live , because now any faction may take advantage of Su Sheng's identity to dominate the northern border. And once Su Sheng dies, the northern border may have civil strife because the dragons have no leader. In this way, there will be one less force that can threaten Chang'an. You are happy to see it succeed. of."

Li Jing continued: "If Mu Yun didn't happen to enter this ghost street, you should plan to plant a chain of explosive bombs on this street, and wait for the Northwest Wolf's iron cavalry to kidnap Su Sheng, and then take the Northwest Wolf's iron cavalry and Su Sheng together. Sheng and the whole ghost street were blown up together. Of course, the Northwest Wolf would not suspect you. The first thing they would suspect was me who arranged Su Sheng here. It will also expose the fact that they hijacked the son of the Iron Alliance. The Northern Iron Alliance will definitely be dissatisfied with the Northwest Wolf. No matter who will be the iron alliance lord in the future, it will not be so easy for the Northwest Wolf to cooperate with the North.

"As for me, as a person who has been expelled from the Chang'an Knights, what I do has nothing to do with Chang'an, so the northern border will not blame Chang'an for the sake of the son. This is a wishful thinking, and it is very good. !"

"Li Gong's words are naturally very true." Zhuo Renyue regained a modest and polite smile on his handsome face, clasped his fists with both hands, and said with a slight bow.Looking at this handsome knight, Mu Yun thought that it was a skill for this person to smile so brilliantly no matter what the situation was.

"Hehe, the abacus is good, but it's a pity that your strength is too weak!" Li Jing narrowed his eyes, "If your strength is strong enough, even with Mu Yun as a variable, as long as you can control the field, you can still create Mu Yun and Northwest After the Canglang fire merged, both sides would suffer, and Mu Yun blew up his mecha, and you can even take this opportunity to arrange the chain blasting bombs so that no one will notice."

"It's a pity that instead of controlling the situation, you let Mu Yun count you in!" Li Jing stared at Zhuo Renyue's beautiful face, and continued to speak unhurriedly, "Mu Yun's mecha just now Self-explosion, your position should be behind Zhao Linhai, your mecha should not have been damaged so badly, the reason why you are in such a mess is because some of the chain blasting bombs you carried were unable to withstand the impact. Explosion. That's why I concluded that you definitely didn't come here to protect Su Sheng, but to kill someone!"

Mu Yun was also a little confused at first. After the explosion of the battle armor West Wind, Zhuo Renyue's mecha was obviously the farthest from the center of the explosion, but judging by his appearance, he was not much better than Zhao Linhai who was rushing in front. Only now did he understand that Zhuo Renyue Yue turned out to be self-inflicted.

Seeing Li Jing slapping her face with that unhurried tone, Zhuo Renyue still kept that extremely gracious smile, even Mu Yun felt a little sympathetic to this handsome but ruthless person The handsome knight.

"Hahahaha, so that's the case! I'm still wondering how Mr. Li can see through my intentions!" Zhuo Renyue looked up to the sky and laughed, but as soon as the laughter stopped, the smile on his face quickly faded, just like before. The smiling mask was suddenly taken off, and there was a bit of resentment on the handsome face carved from white jade, "Li Jing, you are right, I did leak the news about the mech shop, and I am also the iron cavalryman of the Northwest Canglang." Zhao Linhai and I came here to kill people, not to save them!"

Having said that, he changed his subject again: "But, did I do something wrong? Everything I did was for Chang'an, you, a knight who has been expelled from Chang'an, what right do you have to accuse me? "

"That's right, everything you have done is indeed for Chang'an." Li Jing said calmly, "You think I am old, and the knights I lead can no longer keep Chang'an. You think that in today's troubled times, the only The Northwest Wolf is strong enough to guard Chang'an City. You know very well that I will never agree to open the gate of Chang'an and welcome the Northwest Wolf into the city! So you encouraged the brothers of the Chang'an Knights to vote at the round table to expel me Go out of Chang'an, so as to welcome the northwestern wolf into the city.

"But you are also worried that the Northwest Wolf is too ambitious, and joining forces with the Chang'an shogunate is nothing more than hypocrisy. So you set up this game again, wanting to provoke a war between the Northern Iron Alliance and the Northwest Wolf, and check and balance this line from the rear. Bad wolf, make sure it doesn’t have the energy to swallow Chang’an in one gulp. But, is it really Chang’an city and its people that you want to protect? What you want to protect is the interests of the Chang’an shogunate and various powerful financial groups.”

"Hmph, is this wrong?" Zhuo Renyue snorted coldly, and said, "If Chang'an hadn't been decayed for many years, with gold and jade in it, and ruins in it, why should I be so scheming here?"

"Chang'an will be corrupted and degenerated to this point. It is precisely because the Chang'an shogunate has been engaged in power struggles for many years. It does not follow the right path. It only wants to protect the powerful consortium and retreat step by step. It will become more and more weak among the various factions in the mainland!" Li Jing Sighing, "And you, Zhuo Renyue, as a knight, are just like those politicians. You are devoted to power tactics. You must know that powerless schemes are just drinking poison to quench your thirst. You are so deliberate, but how long can you keep Chang'an safe? You Do you really think that you can curb the ambition of the Northwest Wolf by using these small tricks? Naive, arrogant!"

"As a knight, who doesn't want to gallop on the battlefield and defend the city with strength?" Zhuo Renyue said, showing resentment on his face again, and said loudly, "If you, Li Jing, are still in your prime, you can lead the knights like you did back then Keeping Chang'an, why should I deal with the Northwest wolf, lure the wolf into the house, and let the stench of this wolf stain the millennium prosperity of my Chang'an?"

"Oh?" Li Jing said lightly, "Why do you think I'm too old to keep Chang'an now?"

"Others may not be able to see it," Zhuo Renyue said, "I have followed you for many years, so why can't I see it?

"In the duel between you and Mu Yun, others may think that you still have the courage of the past, and you can take down the opponent with only one move. But I know that you only use one move because of your current physical strength and energy. , I can no longer operate heavy mechs for a long time, so I can only wait for work, find the right time, and strive to defeat the enemy in the shortest time with the least consumption!"

When Mu Yun heard this, he couldn't help being shocked, and looked at Li Jing.Although he was the opponent who was defeated by Li Jing with one move, he was still unwilling, but for some reason, after hearing Zhuo Renyue's words, he suddenly hoped that Li Jing would be the same as before, slapping Zhuo Renyue hard in the face with a few words!
However, Li Jing was silent. After a long time, he smiled wryly and said, "I thought I was covering up pretty well. So, is it so obvious?"

"Li Gong, I have always respected you," Zhuo Renyue stepped forward and said sincerely, "As a knight, in my heart, why don't I miss those days when I fought with you? It's just——

"It's just that you are old, and your era is over. With your way, you can no longer keep Chang'an!"

As Zhuo Renyue said, she waved her hand, and the direction was the main city of Chang'an.I saw the majestic buildings of Daming Palace exuding blue brilliance under the setting sun. It is the heart of Chang'an City, and it is also the most prosperous place in the entire Chang'an City——

"The heroic era of guarding a city with one man's strength is over. This is an era of heroes. If you want to guard this thousand-year-old city from those heroes who are eyeing Chang'an, you can only become a hero yourself, disturbing the world, and letting the world go. The heroes are fighting endlessly on the Pangu Continent, and Chang'an has a chance to survive!"

"Chang'an like this, it doesn't matter if we can't keep it!" A loud voice suddenly said on the quiet ghost street, but it was Mu Yun who had been silent all along.

His ambition is not lofty, he just wants to own a mecha of his own and become a real knight - because he promised that person to see more places in this continent for him.He didn't know what was happening on this continent had anything to do with him, so before Li Jing and Zhuo Renyue talked about the situation in the world, he just listened casually with the mentality of "the big things in the world are none of my business".But at the end, he really couldn't listen anymore——

In this world, there are actually people who would plunge the entire continent into war for the sake of a single city!

"In order to protect a city, you even did not hesitate to provoke a war in the entire Pangu Continent. It is easy for you to say, but do you know how many people will die in a war of this level? How many cities will be destroyed?"

He thought of the blood on the boy's white clothes when the White Horse City was broken, the wolf smoke in the yellow sand of the desert, the scorched body of the knight in the mecha, and the scorched mother who was still tightly protecting her young son in her arms... …

For a Chang'an city, how many cities will be destroyed, how many young men's white clothes will be stained with blood, how many soldiers will die on the battlefield, and how many mothers and children will be burned to death in the flames of war?

He believed that the continent that that person wanted him to see was not such a messy continent.

So he was very angry, even more angry than when he learned that he had helped Li Jing to work for nothing, and even more angry than when he witnessed the destruction of Baima City——

"No matter how prosperous and ancient Chang'an is, no matter how beautiful the city is, it's not worth sacrificing the entire continent to protect it! What's more, what you have to protect is only the interests of the Chang'an shogunate and the powerful consortium!"

Mu Yun said loudly: "The Chang'an you want to protect is only a minority's Chang'an. Such a city can't be defended!"

"That's right, such Chang'an, it doesn't matter if you can't keep it!"

After Mu Yun finished speaking, he felt that he was a little impulsive, but he didn't expect that there was a burst of applause.Mu Yun turned his head to look, and saw Li Jing leaning against a broken wall, lazily clapping his hands, watching Mu Yun's arrogance fade away, and his anger suddenly came up again.

"I didn't expect that this Muyun brother turned out to be my confidant, and he spoke out what was in my heart." Li Jing said, patted the ashes on his body, straightened up and said, "Zhuo Renyue, what you said just now I heard, I've seen enough of Chang'an you talked about, now I'm going to take Su Sheng and this Muyun brother away, do you have anything else to say?"

"You—" Zhuo Renyue laughed back angrily, and said, "Li Jing, do you think you are still the number one knight? Come as soon as you say, leave as soon as you say? You were expelled from the Chang'an Knights, and no one in the world will belong to you again All. Now the brothers of the knight order have surrounded the entire ghost street. You and Mu Yun are two knights without mechs, plus a cripple who will never become a knight. Do you think you can get out of this ghost street? ?"

"Even if I don't have a mecha, I'm still a knight." Li Jing said lightly, "Besides, do you think I'll just come here like this? I'm leaving now. You can try to see if you can stay." Hold me."

After finishing speaking, Li Jing put one hand on Su Sheng's shoulder, and greeted Mu Yun: "Let's go." Then he walked forward swaggeringly.

At that moment, Mu Yun felt that Li Jing's short and lazy figure looked a bit tall, so he couldn't help shaking his head, and followed quickly.

They didn't look back, and behind them, the mechas of the Chang'an Knights did not move. The huge mechas stood on both sides of the ghost street, as if paying attention to the three small figures, silently Watch as they walk out of Ghost Street.

"Mr. Zhuo," Zhao Linhai, who was always standing by Zhuo Renyue's side without saying a word, couldn't help but ask after watching Li Jing and the others disappear at the end of the ghost street, "Just let them go like this ?”

"I don't know what backhand Li Jing has left behind, and that White Horse City Muyun is not easy to deal with." Zhuoyue said with a gloomy face.He had to admit that he still had lingering fears about Mu Yun's self-destruction before, "Now that Li Jing has just been expelled, the hearts of the knights are unstable, so there should be no further compromises, this time it will be easier for them.

"Tell me what I say, and immediately let the world know that Li Jing was expelled from the Chang'an Knights. Mu Yun, a traitor in Baima City, defected again after joining the Northwest Wolf. The two are enemies of the Chang'an shogunate and the Northwest Canglang." Zhuo Renyue said coldly, "As for Su Mugan's son Su Sheng, as long as Li Jing and Mu Yun are not around, he is a useless person who can't even operate a mecha. Haven't you caught it yet?"

"Yes." Zhuo Renyue seemed to be in a bad mood, so Zhao Linhai immediately said respectfully, so as not to offend the new Chief of the Chang'an Knights.

But Zhuo Renyue glanced at him, and said: "Linhai, when you faced Mu Yun earlier, you ignored orders and rushed forward impulsively, which caused heavy losses to the two heavy mechs. Let's settle the score slowly when we go back."

"Yes." Zhao Linhai could only reply respectfully again, scolding himself in his heart, Zhuo Renyue must have been extremely upset after being slapped in the face by Li Jing for a long time, and he was going to hit the muzzle of the gun, he really has no eyesight.

Zhao Linhai made up his mind to pay attention. When working under the new chief in the future, he must pay attention to his face, and he can no longer be as casual and playful as Li Jing was when he was in charge.

It's just that even if this handsome knight is smiling, it doesn't necessarily mean that he is in a good mood. Not smiling can only mean that his mood is worse. It is really difficult to observe.

(End of this chapter)