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Chapter 640 Behind Enemy Lines

Linhuang Prefecture was the capital of the Liao Kingdom, located in the Yingzhou area of ​​the previous life. In the history of the previous life, Yingzhou was the territory of the Tang Dynasty, but in this time and space, the territory of the Tang Dynasty only reached Youzhou.

This led to a very interesting situation. Chang'an was not far from Lingzhou on the border, so after the Liao ruler broke through Lingzhou, he went straight to Chang'an City.

Similarly, Linhuang Prefecture was not far from Youzhou, and the Tang Dynasty had sent troops out of Youzhou City many times to attack Linhuang Prefecture directly.

So over time, the six guards of the Northern Court of the Tang Emperor in Chang'an dared not move anymore and stayed in Chang'an to guard the city. Naturally, the Liao Kingdom also raised a large number of elite soldiers to guard Linhuang Prefecture to prevent the Tang Dynasty from making any moves.

Zhao Yushu originally asked the Grand Commander to launch an all-out attack and pretend to attack Linhuang Prefecture. He wanted to mobilize this large army and divert Linhuang Prefecture's attention to this side so that he could take advantage of the chaos to do something.

Now Lan Ling's Golden Wolf's random attack method can also achieve a similar effect. Coupled with the one thousand elite cavalrymen provided by the Grand Commander who come and go like the wind, it is enough to make the people of Linhuang Prefecture panic.

Theoretically, there should be garrisons of both countries on both sides of the Yalu River. According to Lan Ling, according to Tang law, there should be at least five first-class Zhechoufu soldiers stationed here, which means a full complement of 6,000 people. But Zhao Yushu was considered conscientious to have only half of them.

At the end of the dynasty, it was common to draw a salary without working. If Li Tong wanted to be the leader of the revival, she still had a long way to go. And if she wanted to build an empire of her dreams, she might not be able to complete it in her entire lifetime.

The long border line naturally could not stop the two monks. Zhao Yushu and Lan Ling easily crossed the river, bypassed the equally scattered Liao army defense line, entered the country from Kaizhou, turned all the way northwest, and set their first stop in Liaoyang Prefecture, the eastern capital of the Liao Kingdom.

The Liao Kingdom had four capitals. The political center or the birthplace of the Liao emperor was Shangjing Linhuangfu. But according to the customs of the Liao Kingdom, the Liao emperor would inspect the four capitals every year. Judging from the time, he should be in Linhuangfu now.

But Zhao Yushu still decided to go to Liaoyang Prefecture first. Since this is one of the four capitals, there are naturally many nobles here. The more nobles there are, the higher the probability of someone holding a golden wolf.

"Tsk tsk, you look pretty good dressed like a Westerner, especially this big beard. Who helped you choose it?"

Lan Ling looked at Zhao Yushu, who had changed into Alibaba, and pulled at his beard that almost completely covered his facial features, feeling a little curious.

"Third Senior Brother chose me to infiltrate Yizhou. This is Liao territory. I thought about it and decided that the Tang people are not suitable because they are at war. The Goguryeo and Japanese people are also not suitable because I cannot speak their language. Only the Western Region people who have traveled to Tang are the most suitable. After all, the accents of the Western Region people vary from place to place, but they can basically speak Chinese."

Lan Ling nodded in agreement, then pointed at herself and said, "What about me? I can't pretend to be from the Western Regions, can I? I've seen those Hu Jis, and they can't act like them at all."

Zhao Yushu narrowed his eyes and gave a mean smile: "Have you ever heard of the mute bride?"

At the gate of Liaoyang Prefecture, the soldiers guarding the city looked confused as they saw a bearded Westerner with a mute Goguryeo wife struggling to pay a dime of silver. They couldn't understand what they were saying, and the other party was talking in a bunch of gibberish, which they couldn't understand either. Fortunately, the other party could speak Chinese, and they could barely understand a little. Finally, they got the other party to take off a tattered scimitar and go into the city cursing.

"What did you say just now? Didn't you say you didn't understand the language of the Western Regions?"

"Shh, don't forget you are mute."

"roll!"

"I was speaking English. Do you know the English of the west, which is tens of thousands of miles west of the Western Regions? Although I don't know much, I just said to him: Son of the Beach, get out!"

Son of the Beach?

Lan Ling frowned. Why did it sound like nothing special, but she felt like it was not a good thing?

Even though Liaoyang Prefecture is the eastern capital, it is still far behind the Central Plains. Not to mention the two capitals of the Tang Dynasty, it is not even on the same level as Jiangning in the southeast and Yizhou in the southwest. It is even inferior to Nanyang City where my father-in-law works.

But it is still prosperous.

The Tang Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom fought for hundreds of years, but that does not mean there was no communication between the two countries. Moreover, as the two largest countries in the entire eastern continent, trade was more frequent than war.

Liaoyang was the first stop for goods from the Goguryeo Peninsula and commodities from Japan to enter the Liao Kingdom.

Therefore, although the combination of Zhao Yushu and his partner, a Western Region warrior and a Goguryeo wife, was incongruous, it did not attract too much attention.

If they changed into Tang Dynasty attire, although it was more common, they would definitely be detained and interrogated for a period of time, and the two Tang Dynasty monks would most likely become the focus of Liao people's attention, which would be very disadvantageous to their subsequent actions.

"Can you speak Chinese? That's good. One penny a night for a room. Sorry, we don't accept Tang Tongbao here."

The innkeeper looked very proud. This was an inn opened by a Tang person. Although the owner was a Tang person, his tone of voice was more like that of a Liao person. When he learned that Zhao Yushu did not have Liao currency, he directly asked for silver.

"expensive!"

"Please go somewhere else. I beg you to stay here?"

Damn, although people from the Western Regions are suitable for concealing their identities, whether it is the Tang Dynasty or the Liao Dynasty, whether it is the high-level officials or the common people, they really don’t regard people from the Western Regions as human beings.

So Zhao Yushu released some spiritual power appropriately.

"Oh, oh, it was my eye that was pecked out by an eagle. It's my fault. One penny for two nights!"

It took the shopkeeper less than a second to offer a 50% discount. After Zhao Yushu paid with satisfaction, he turned around and heard a low muttering behind him.

"Why the hell are there still monks in the Western Regions?"

The rooms in Liaoyang are naturally not as comfortable as those in the Central Plains. The upper rooms are just like ordinary rooms, and the service is naturally incomparable. You can even go so far as to ask the waiter to offer you tea, fruits and so on.

"I can speak now."

"Of course. I just checked. We are the only two monks in the whole inn."

"Come on, Master Thief Saint, we are in an unfamiliar place now, how are you going to find the Golden Wolf?"

"Old rule, alert the enemy."

"how to spell?"

"The mountain man has a clever plan."

In Linhuang Prefecture of the Liao Dynasty, in a manor that is as luxurious as any in the Central Plains and the south of the Yangtze River, an old man with gray hair and beard, wearing a thick fur cloak, is working at his desk processing memorials sent from the palace.

He had two tasks every day. One was to review and approve the memorials submitted by his subordinates after screening and then submit them to the palace. The other was to review the memorials sent back from the palace that had been signed and sealed by the Liao Emperor and select the ones he thought were appropriate before sending them off for execution.

This kind of behavior is already disrespectful to the emperor and is no different from that of a powerful minister.

But neither the Liao emperor nor the officials felt that there was anything wrong. It was because he was the imperial teacher of the Liao Dynasty. He was the one who planned the three-pronged attack on the Tang Dynasty with the Tubo. If he had not underestimated the two variables, Li Tong and Zhao Yushu, the Tang Dynasty, at least the area north of the Yangtze River and the two capitals in the east and west, would have been the territory of the Liao Dynasty by now.

"I am old after all."

The Imperial Master stretched lazily. In the eyes of outsiders, he only had the cultivation level of the third level, and he was very old, so he could only reach the fourth level at most in this life. But as he stretched like this, the spiritual energy around his body actually fluctuated, in and out like breathing. If there were any cultivators observing nearby, they would exclaim like Lord Xiao who was lurking in the Andong Protectorate.

"You are not the Third Heaven!"