Steel Chang'an

Chapter 52

"Spring hunting?"

Mu Yun heard this word for the first time, and he still doesn't quite understand what these two words represent.

"This is a hunting game that has been particularly popular in Donglin in recent years, and it is usually held in spring." Li Jing said, "To be precise, it was Teng Wengong who invented this game to consolidate his knowledge of the seven cities of Donglin. rule."

Spring Hunting on Donglin Continent is somewhat similar to the annual knights' meeting in Chang'an City.Li Jing explained that the knights meeting in Chang'an City was held at Tongque Terrace, and there was only one venue like Tongque Terrace, but Donglin Chunshou's venues were not fixed, and there were many.

Every spring, the seven cities of Donglin not only send their knights to participate in the spring hunting, but also provide two to three venues for the spring hunting. These venues are usually a castle in the countryside, or some An important dock, or a stronghold above a mine, but each piece of land will be precisely measured to ensure they are all the same value.The duel between knights is carried out in the form of castle attack and defense. The knights sent by the lords guard their own castles and attack the opponent's castles. It will belong to the winning side.

Often during a spring hunt, some lords will harvest two or three castles with their own knights, harvesting a lot of wealth for themselves; For someone else's castle, this year's financial income will be somewhat bleak.Although the gain or loss of one or two castles will not affect anything, if there is no harvest in the spring hunting for several years in a row, and several castles and surrounding jurisdictions are lost one after another, then the lord's power will be greatly reduced. Donglin's status was also in jeopardy.

"This is why the big lords of Donglin place so much importance on Chunshou." Li Jing said, "People are always greedy, and Chunshou gives them the opportunity to gnaw a bite of meat from others, even if this The meat itself is not big, but it is better to have more meat than less. Even if some lords do not want to expand their territory, in order to prevent themselves from being gnawed into a skeleton by others, it takes a whole year to prepare Spring hunting in the coming year."

"So that's how it is." Mu Yun felt that she had come to understand a little bit. "This game invented by Teng Wengong made the great lords of Donglin busy biting each other, so they had no time to challenge his rule."

"On the contrary," Li Jing said, "Teng Wengong's purpose in doing this is to make these great lords feel that they have a chance to challenge his rule."

Mu Yun: "Huh?"

"Did you listen to me?" Li Jing shook his head and glanced at him, "I just said that the lords of the seven main cities of Donglin will send their knights to participate in the spring hunting, and of course Teng Duke Wen is included. Do you think those big lords in Donglin are fools? If it wasn’t for Teng Wengong, the biggest lord in Donglin, to participate in the spring hunt in person, why would they accompany them?”

"Teng Wengong will personally participate in the spring hunting?" Mu Yun scratched his head, "You mean..."

"That's right," Li Jing said, "Teng Wengong is the head of the Sky Guard Knights. Although the chief knight of the Sky Guard Knights is someone else, people often say that Teng Wengong is actually better than Zhou Yu, the chief knight of the Sky Guard Knights. He is the strongest knight of the Teng family, even the strongest knight of Donglin."

You know, the head of the knight order and the chief knight are completely two concepts.Taking the Chang'an Knights as an example, the former number one knight in the world, Li Jing, was naturally a well-deserved chief knight. He not only served as the main combat force of the Knights, but also played a tactical role in commanding the entire regiment in battle.But the head of the Chang'an Knights has never been Li Jing, nor any of the previous chief knights, but will always be the one who enters the Daming Palace.Just like the current head of the Chang'an Knights is the lady in Daming Palace, this identity represents her commanding power over the Chang'an Knights.

In this piece of Pangea Continent, the chief knight of each knight order may represent the strongest combat effectiveness of the knight order, but the leader of the knight order is usually assumed by the ruler. A symbol of power, not combat power.Therefore, when Mu Yun learned that Teng Wengong, the great lord of the Teng family in Donglin, was the head of the Tianshou Knights, he was not surprised, but as the head of the group, Teng Wengong was also the strongest knight of the Tianshou Knights , which somewhat surprised Mu Yun.

"Of course, this is just people's speculation." Li Jing added, "Mr. Teng Wen is very smart. During the annual spring hunting, his knights are never the biggest winners. Sometimes he even deliberately loses one or two castles to let the The other lords of the Donglin feel that they have the hope of challenging the throne of the Lord of the Donglin, so that Chunshou can continue to do it year after year."

"Don't even you know how strong Teng Wengong is?" Mu Yun asked curiously.

"I haven't fought against him before, how would I know?" Li Jing raised one eyebrow, expressing his contempt for Mu Yun's question.He thought for a while, and then added, "But King Teng should know the true strength of his elder brother, so he would not hesitate to offend the Northwest Wolf and give me a chance to make a move."

"Will you be able to defeat Teng Wengong just by taking a shot?" Even though he was defeated by Li Jing himself, and has seen Li Jing's strength more than once, Mu Yun is not so sure that Li Jing is invincible in the world, after all, he was called the number one in the world back then. Li Jing of the knight is driving a [-]-ton special mech "One Man in the World", a god-level armor.Although Li Jing's strength will not be completely unavailable just because of a different mecha, a special mecha carefully prepared according to the knight's personal habits can make the knight's combat effectiveness the strongest. The mass-produced mecha A is completely incomparable with this.In this piece of Pangu Continent, Li Jing's skills are certainly strong, but a knight who can control a [-]-ton special mecha is already a master among knights, and a knight who can match a god-level armor is even a master among masters.If Li Jing can easily crush his opponent with a mass-produced mecha, then he really thinks the matter of the knight is too simple.Mu Yun is not so naive.

What's more, how much strength the current Li Jing can display as the number one knight in the world... This is what Mu Yun is more worried about.Li Jing's age is certainly old enough for a knight, but along the way, Mu Yun discovered that it was not his age that really affected Li Jing's performance, but that he seemed to have some kind of disease that prevented him from fighting for a long time .Although Li Jing usually used his lazy attitude to cover up his physical weakness, his extremely unhealthy pale complexion could not be concealed from others. In addition, the injuries he suffered in the dead castle were not serious. At this moment, Li Jing's His complexion is no better than that of a dead person.

It's just that Li Jing himself didn't seem to have any self-consciousness as a patient or wounded, and he poured one cup after another of small wine into his belly happily.Mu Yun went here and threw a dead moth into the wine jug that was said to be dead expensive. Although it was to force Li Jing to tell his plan, it was also to make him drink less in disguise.But Li Jing got worse, and ordered two more jugs of that expensive wine, and at the moment he was talking to Mu Yun, he had already drunk a jug of wine.The more he drank, the paler his face became, but the redder his lips were as if they had been smeared with blood. This way of drinking made Mu Yun feel a little terrified.

"Don't worry." Noticing Mu Yun's gaze on his face, Li Jing narrowed his eyes, "It doesn't matter whether I can defeat Teng Wengong with a move, what matters is that Little King Teng believes that as long as I make a move, I can defeat Teng Wengong. As for if my body has not recovered by then...then there is still you?"

"What do you mean?" Mu Yun scowled.He had a very bad premonition.

"It means that I will give you a special training so that you can play for me when necessary." Li Jing said slowly while drinking, "Hasn't it always been your dream to replace me and become the number one knight in the world?"

Don't just take my dream as a reason to give you a white job, okay?Mu Yun rolled her eyes in her heart and asked, "In the final analysis, why did Little King Teng give you a chance to deal with Teng Wengong? According to what you said before, only the Seven Cities of Donglin will send knights to participate in the spring hunting." , the city of Yongjiang where Teng Jiaxing is located is not among the seven cities of Donglin, and King Teng is not a lord, so what does he have to do with Chunshou, and what does Chunshou have to do with your plan?"

"According to the practice of previous years, King Teng really doesn't need to participate in the spring hunting." Li Jing said, "It's just that Teng Wengong invented the game of spring hunting. It seems that the major lords win and lose every year, but the biggest winner does not need to participate. Chunshou's Teng Jiaxing, this makes some people can't stand it."

"Think about it, every year's spring hunting is equivalent to launching dozens of small-scale castle battles in various parts of Donglin, how many mechas and ammunition will be consumed, not to mention the preparation , How much money do those big lords need to spend to prepare these mechas and arms? Xiao Teng Wang is the largest arms dealer in the entire Donglin and even the mainland, and the Teng Jiahang that he sits on is the largest mecha storehouse in the entire Donglin and even the mainland. The best armorsmiths in Donglin were all recruited by him. If those big lords don't go to Tengjia to order mecha weapons, how can they be competitive in spring hunting? The profits generated by this are not all taken by the little Tengwang Did you earn it?"

"What's more, there will be a large number of viewers every year, whether it is live or live, which is like advertising for King Teng for free. Chunshou has become Teng Jiaxing's mecha weapon exhibition conference in disguise, and his own knights They have become other people's living advertisements, how much benefit King Teng has gained from this spring hunting, don't these big lords of Donglin know it well?"

"Because of this, it is not the first year that these big lords of Donglin have proposed to Teng Wengong, demanding that Teng Jiaxing must also take out three castles to participate in the spring hunting. They know that although Teng Jiaxing is the largest mech in Donglin and even the mainland There are all kinds of mecha weapons in the arsenal, but there is only one thing that Teng Jiaxing does not have, and that is the knight."

"The knights in Donglin are no better than those poor ghosts in Chang'an who have no titles of nobility." Li Jing shook his head self-deprecatingly, and said, "In Donglin, because of Spring Hunting, the income and status of knights have also been greatly improved. , the knights who can take down the opponent's castle in the spring hunting and do meritorious service for their own lords will often get generous rewards. It often happens that the castles they take down are rewarded to the knights. The purpose of this is to keep the knights firmly Therefore, in Donglin, outstanding knights have already had their own loyal lords, and it is not easy for the lords to poach each other's knights. Even if it is King Xiao Teng is rich and powerful, and he is willing to spend a lot of money. It is also difficult to find a knight who betrayed his lord to join him. It’s a kind of self-destructive thing, as for those hired knights who are willing to fight for money, their level may not be enough.”

"Thus, those big lords of the East Forest just saw that Little King Teng couldn't find any knights who could fight for him, so it was obvious that they wanted Teng Jiaxing to share a few castles and lands with them?" Mu Yunnao Scratching his head, the minds of these big lords are indeed dirty, but they don't care what happened to Mu Yun, not to mention that according to Li Jing, Teng Jiaxing has gained a lot of benefits from spring hunting these years. It's just the rhythm of "spit it out for me", in Mu Yun's view, it is completely "fuck my shit", I have heard the rhythm of being pulled down.He casually picked up a piece of deliciously grilled pork belly from Li Jing's appetizers, chewed it and asked, "Since Teng Wengong is the eldest brother of Little Teng King, naturally he won't agree to the request of those big lords? "

"In the past two years, Teng Wen did not agree, but this year, Teng Wengong agreed to let Teng Jiaxing join the Spring Hunting, but this news was delayed until one month before the Spring Hunting to tell Little King Teng." Li Jing Said.

"It's only a month... Wouldn't it be more difficult for Teng Jiaxing to recruit knights?" Mu Yun was a little puzzled, "Didn't Teng Wengong make it clear that he wanted to cheat his own brother?"

"That's right, this time, it was indeed Duke Wen of Teng who arranged for the little King Teng." Li Jing said while drinking, "I think, seeing Teng Jiaxing sitting in Yongjiang City day by day, not only the great lords of Donglin They couldn't sit still, and even Teng Wengong might not be able to sit still. Although Yongjiang City is not one of the seven main cities of Donglin, the prosperity of Yongjiang is even just across the river and between Donglin. Lord Teng Wengong's castle towers are not comparable."

"So, the little King Teng gave you a chance to make a move, and he asked you to fight for him in this Donglin Spring Hunting and defend at least one of the three castles belonging to Teng Jiaxing?" Mu Yun thoughtfully. Said, "Because Teng Wengong will personally participate in the spring hunting, so the little king Teng wants you to deal with him? I always feel that things are not that simple..."

"If Teng Wengong only wanted those three castles, I'm afraid the little King Teng would not feel sorry for giving them to him directly." Li Jing said, "But what Teng Wengong only wants are the three castles of Teng Jiaxing?"

"It is said that King Teng is actually a very smart person. He knew that the dispute over the patriarch of the Teng family made Teng Wengong very wary of his younger brother who was called a genius. Therefore, after Duke Teng Wen ruled Donglin, King Teng Deliberately indulging in debauchery and not taking care of Teng Jiaxing, the purpose is not to make Teng Jiaxing bigger and arouse the vigilance of Teng Wengong."

"But even if Little King Teng didn't want to make Teng Jiaxing bigger, but Teng Wengong took advantage of Chunshou to deliberately make Teng Jiaxing bigger, and caused other lords in Donglin to be dissatisfied with Little Teng King?" Mu Yun said slowly.He was originally not good at this kind of intrigue thinking on the political level, but the situation in Donglin is not complicated. Under Li Jing's guidance, even Mu Yun gradually grasped the train of thought: "So this time Teng Wengong ordered Teng Jiaxing Joining Chunshou can be regarded as a signal that Teng Wengong wants to attack King Teng. It is because of this that King Teng will not hesitate to offend the Northwest Canglang, and he will give you a chance to make a move. His purpose is neither To defend those three castles, it is not for you to defeat Teng Wengong, but to use you...to kill Teng Wengong!"

"That's right," Li Jing said, "that's why I said, whether I can really defeat Teng Wengong, or even kill him, is not important to the little Teng King. As long as I can fight, I have considerable strength and Teng Wengong The bus driver and dragged him into a hard fight, so that he would not be distracted for a while, then the little King Teng would naturally make other arrangements to ensure that Teng Wengong died in an accident in the battle."

Thinking of the method Ji Steward used to deal with the young wolf master's wolf cavalry on the Blind Mountain at the exit of the Dead Castle, Mu Yun couldn't help saying: "If Teng Wengong is still using the mecha provided by Teng Jiahang, then Little Teng King will be more sure to let Teng Duke Wen died accidentally during the battle."

"Hehe, if Teng Wengong, who can invent a game like Chunshou, is so easy to deal with, is there still a chance for us to take action?" Li Jing shook his head, "It was Teng Wengong who dragged Teng Jiaxing into Chunshou. So they prepared a series of means to attack Teng Jiaxing. The other big lords in Donglin probably seemed like vultures who smelled the stench of corpses at this moment, and they were going to take the opportunity to peck a piece of meat off Teng Jiaxing's body. Yongjiang City where Teng Jiaxing was located On the surface, it looks like singing and dancing are peaceful, but I’m afraid there are already rough waves under the water, otherwise Steward Ji wouldn’t be so anxious to ask us to come to Yongjiang City.”

"Teng Wengong wants to use this spring hunt to kill Teng Jiaxing, and Little Teng King wants to use this spring hunt to kill Teng Wengong." Mu Yun rubbed his chin, "And your plan is to use this spring hunt to kill Teng Jiaxing. In the battle between brothers, help Little Teng King kill his elder brother Teng Wengong and ascend to the throne of the Lord of the Eastern Forest, in exchange for Little Teng King's promise to send troops to the north?"

(End of this chapter)