Xu Wenzu returned to the inn with his troops. What he brought with him was not the defenders of Yincheng, but the soldiers from the county military station in the southern suburbs of Yincheng.
The local official system of Yan State is a bit confusing. It is divided into real and vacuous officials. In addition, there are a lot of symbolic official positions used to reward and appease local powerful families, which always gives people a hodgepodge look.
However, the military system of the Yan State is very simple. It is divided into three armies. One is the Zhenbei Army under the jurisdiction of the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion, the second is the Forbidden Army in Beijing, and the third is always stationed in Yinlang County. The Jingnan Army.
These three armies can be regarded as the ace field army of the Yan Kingdom and are the cornerstone of the country.
The Zhenbei Army is controlled by the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion, and to a certain extent, they can even disobey Emperor Yan’s edicts, while the Forbidden Army and the Jingnan Army are the forbidden troops in the hands of successive Emperors of Yan.
Below these three armies are the county soldiers. The strength and equipment of the county soldiers vary greatly from county to county. Tiancheng County is a land in the capital, and the Tiancheng County soldiers are commanded by the eldest prince. Naturally, there are differences in loyalty and loyalty. In terms of equipment quality, they are all top-notch. However, the county soldiers in other counties have some unexplainable factors, both in terms of quality and the infiltration of local powerful families.
Further down, there are the purely local garrison troops, similar to the garrison at Hutou City and Zheng Fan’s current garrison at Cuiliu Fort in Yinlang County. To put it bluntly, more than 70% of them are It is the meat in the bowl of the local wealthy family. For example, Zuo Jiqian's Ji Tuibao was built entirely with the support of the Zuo family.
It stands to reason that when Xu Wenzu left, he must have gone to call someone. The one who should have called was the Yincheng garrison closest to the inn, but in the end, the Yincheng garrison did not come, and it was indeed Yincheng who came. The county soldiers in the Yinlang County military station outside.
There is something worth pondering here.
Just like the Hong Kong police in later generations, when people came, the matter was over, leaving only Blind Bei and Xue San lying on the ground with serious injuries.
Originally, Xu Wenzu planned to send Xue San and Xiazi Bei to a nearby medical officer for treatment, but Xiazi Bei refused, and Xiazi Bei insisted on returning to Cuiliu Fort.
Xu Wenzu agreed. He personally and two county soldiers led eight hundred county soldiers to Cuiliu Fort. Blind Bei Ze and Xue San were picked up by the subsequent carriage and also headed to Cuiliu Fort. march.
When the carriage that Blind Bei and Xue San rode arrived at Cuiliu Fort, it was already dawn. When the carriage drove into Cuiliu Fort, they happened to encounter a gloomy-looking Xu Wenzu leading his troops to leave. This direction should lead directly to Nanwang City.
A Ming and Liang Cheng hugged each other and carried the blind men Bei and Xue San, who were seriously injured in the carriage, into the room.
After dismissing the rest of the people,
Six Niang used scissors to cut all the clothes on Blind Bei’s upper body, then took out her needle and thread and started to help Blind Bei sew the horrible scar on his chest. of wounds.
Liang Cheng was helping Xue San set the bones and fix them, and at the same time told Fan Li to go outside and beat the stone slabs.
A Ming was not idle and told the blind man Bei the matter.
Blind Bei was thinking while listening.Si Niang, who was sewing up his wounds, said with some concern:
"Don't think about it anymore. Just rest after the sewing is done."
Blind Bei shook his head and said:
p>"I can't rest, at least, not yet. Has that hero Chen been sent to the fort?"
"Well, according to the Lord's instructions, he has been given a nap. I took some medicine, but didn’t do any other treatment. The master has already fallen asleep. He was probably taken out by the magic pill and his body was too exhausted.”
Blind Man Bei nodded. Said:
"That Daxia Chen, although he is a little naive, a little naive, and a little reckless, but he is still a good and honest man. The Lord did the right thing."
"What did you do right? Previously, the Lord asked A Ming to help him walk to the man, and he was almost dragged down by the man before he died."
Blind Bei shook his head and said:
"If you don't enter the tiger's den, you won't catch the tiger's cubs. If you don't let go of your children, you won't be able to trap the wolf. The Lord did this with deep intention."
"You are praising the Lord. Are you still comforting yourself?" A Ming asked.
"All of them." Blind Bei paused and gritted his teeth. Obviously, the pain from Siniang's stitches on his body was still very strong, but Blind Bei still managed to gather his strength and said , "A Ming, you immediately contact the person responsible for liaison left by the Sixth Prince near our place, and ask their caravan spies in Qian Country to find out what is going on in Chahe Village, and tell that person about this matter. It's very important, we must find it out as quickly as possible."
"Well, okay."
Blind Bei opened his mouth again and continued, enduring the severe pain.< /p>
"Master Chen, give him the best medicine, and then send two young ladies from the house to serve him day and night. He will never stop eating and drinking."
Give It is really difficult for ordinary people to treat a guy who almost killed himself like this.
"I know." Siniang responded.
The little red girls she trained are still too young to go out on missions, but they are still capable of taking care of people.
"A Cheng, I have ordered the barbarians under my opponent that the news that Sha Tuo Que Shi and Chen Da Xia are both in our fortress must not be spread out. You have already told Xu Wenzu that Chen Da Xia was driven away by you. I don’t think Xu Wenzu fully believed it, but he won’t pursue this.”
“Okay,” Liang Cheng agreed.
"What happened this time is too weird. There are many forces involved. Although the target is our Lord, it is very likely that the Lord was just accidentally affected."
< p> "Who will take action against the Lord?" A Ming asked."How do I know? I'm not a god. It's possible for anyone. But it depends on how the situation develops. No way, I'm seriously exhausted. Later, the Secret Service may Someone will come over to check the situation. Siniang, go and deal with it.
I guess it won’t take a few days.A storm is coming. "
"I understand, you can rest, I will make up for it. "
Blind Bei lowered his head, looked at the wound on his chest that had been mended, and said with some dissatisfaction:
"Didn't I ask you to use beauty needles..."< /p>
“Such a big and thick wound cannot be closed with other threads. It’s okay. When the wound heals and a scar forms, it looks quite powerful. "
"San'er..."
Xue San lay there, silent.
"San'er..."
p>“Shaqima? "(What's going on)
Xue San doesn't want to talk. His teeth are not leaking, but they are drafty.
"When you can get to the ground, you command Fan Li to do... do it. A prosthetic limb for Chen Daxia. "
Xue San was neither angry nor puzzled.
He just said calmly:
"Swish it away. "(received)
"For the two bowls of noodles I had a few years ago, I helped him travel to the Yan Kingdom to avenge me.
We...we must be doubly kind to him, so that after he learns the truth, he will feel guilty, ashamed and angry, and cannot live up to the foreshadowing that the Lord risked being killed. "
"Understood. "Six Niang nodded.
" Got it. "A Ming agreed.
"Also, and the most important point is, after the truth of the matter is found out, before telling him, please pay attention..."
"Pay attention to what? Liang Cheng asked.
“Be careful not to let this guy get too embarrassed and angry and commit suicide directly!” ”
………
After Zheng Fan was taken back to the fortress, he only had time to give a few instructions to Master Chen, and then fell into a coma.
This coma lasted for three days and three nights.
The last time he was possessed by the magic pill, the eighth-grade silver-armored guard who was killed did not stay in coma for that long. The reason why it lasted so long this time was because of his overdraft. His body was still seriously injured, and he and Chen Daxia rushed back to Cuiliu Fort overnight, fighting with wits and courage.
After three days of coma, Zheng Fan woke up, thanks to four people. Thanks to my mother's careful care, although my body was still in pain when I woke up, I was already in the recovery stage.
Xu Wenzu sent people from Nanwang City to Cuiliu Castle to check on Zheng Fan every day. When he learned that Zheng Fan had woken up. After that, he came to Cuiliu Castle in person the next day.
After the screen retreated, Xu Wenzu knelt down directly in front of Zheng Fan.
Zheng Fan did not get out of bed to stop him. He had difficulty moving, and secondly, Zheng Fan knew that by asking Xu Wenzu to kneel once, Xu Wenzu could let go of his desire to run away first that night
After Xu Wenzu left, Zheng Fan was pushed by Siniang in a wheelchair , came outside to bask in the sun.
Bei and Xue San, who were also blind in wheelchairs, came out to bask in the sun.
Cuiliu Fort can be renamed Disabled.
The sunshine in winter is always so comfortable, Zheng Fan.He couldn't help but narrowed his eyes.
Then, Zheng Fan turned to look at Blind Bei and Xue San.
Zheng Fan found that the wheelchairs of the three people were all of the right size, especially Xue San, whose wheelchair was obviously a small one.
The wheelchairs of myself and Xue San both have handles, which are convenient for you to turn to make the wheelchair move forward, but there is no handle on Blind Bei's wheelchair, because Blind Bei can push the wheelchair forward with his mind.
"Who made this wheelchair?" Zheng Fan asked.
Is this so considerate?
Blind Bei smiled helplessly,
said:
"San'er did it."
Sitting in a wheelchair and talking Xue San, who was still leaking, quickly looked at Zheng Fan and said with an expression asking for credit:
"Sir, does this wheelchair still fit?"
"It fits very well. This Did you do it in advance?"
Xue San was also seriously injured and was transported back. Obviously, he could not start making a wheelchair immediately after returning.
"Isn't that right? My lord, you all had something to do in the past month. I was too idle, so I just thought that being idle would be idle. I might as well follow the sizes and habits of the seven of us. , made seven wheelchairs.”
“I’m willing.”
“You’re welcome, Lord, as long as you feel comfortable.”
Zheng Fan. I really don’t know how to praise Xue San. What’s the difference between making a wheelchair in advance and making a shroud in advance for later generations? Isn’t this a curse on one’s own people?
But looking at it from another perspective, there are too many situations where people go to fight in danger. It is really no problem to prepare in advance to facilitate recovery.
"Lord, in the past few days, things have been brewing and things have finally begun to blow up."
Blind Bei woke up the next day and started to conduct intelligence analysis. As for the work of collecting intelligence, we still rely on the people in the Sixth Prince's caravan.
Building a fort is only the first step. The "funding" from the Sixth Prince is actually still flowing. With just the weapons and armor stacked in the fort's warehouse, it is easy to recruit 500 more troops. , it’s just that Zheng Fan listened to the blind man’s suggestion and didn’t rush to launch an army.
As for intelligence sharing, in this era, there is really no one who is more well-informed than a caravan. In fact, countries generally place their own spies in caravans to gather information.
“Tell me.”
Zheng Fan took a cup of tea from Siniang and blew on it.
"The people who assassinated us that day were a group of people, but they had three components. Daxia Chen was one person, the first batch of assassins were one component, and the puppet master came from Jin. The Tianji Pavilion is a department of the Jin State that is responsible for making artifacts and war weapons for dignitaries."
"Yes." Zheng Fan took a sip of tea. He had already done this that night. I heard Master Chen say this when we were riding in the carriage.
“Because the previous Nanwangcheng magistrateThe deaths of the government and the general soldiers were very strange, and the Marquis of Jingnan led the Jingnan army to occupy Nanwang City on the day of the funeral. This move was indeed too outrageous.
Moreover, so far, the Jingnan Army has not moved its troops out of Nanwang City, and the Marquis of Jingnan himself even lives in Nanwang City.
So, there are rumors outside that Jingnanhou was worried that Xu Wenzu, who came from the north, was sent to Nanwang City as the commander-in-chief by the imperial court to check and balance him, so he kept doing it and directly asked people to do it. Intercepted and killed him at Yincheng Station. "
"No, it's me who the assassin is shouting to kill. "
"Xu Wenzu did report it truthfully, but judging from the reactions from all parties, it was Xu Wenzu and the court who deliberately said this in order to save the face of Marquis Jingnan. What they are afraid of is this. At that moment, the imperial court was already in conflict with the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion, and it was at odds with the Jingnan Marquis.
So, even though Xu Wenzu’s memorial and the memorial from other channels stated that the assassin’s target is you, the Lord, all the forces and feedback from all parties directly believe that the one who wants to be killed is Xu Wenzu. "
"Oh, I know, I just have no cards, right? "
You have no cards, and you don't even deserve to die.
Does a small fortress garrison have the qualifications to be assassinated with such fanfare?
" However, I have met Marquis Jingnan twice. How can I put it this way? I don’t think he is a person capable of assassination. If he wants to deal with Xu Wenzu, he should not use this method. "
Zheng Fan has seen the arrogance and domineering power of Marquis Jingnan. He wanted to kill Xu Wenzu for this kind of person. What Zheng Fan imagined in his mind was that Xu Wenzu was killed by Jing when he came to Nanwang City. Nan Hou ordered Xu Wenzu to be shot directly under the city tower, and then his flesh was cut off to make bacon.
"The puppet master of Tianji Pavilion in Jin State was apprenticed to the great Sicheng of Tianji Pavilion in Jin State, and his future was uncertain. However, he participated in the assassination and died in Yan State.
Then, on the day of the assassination, it was the 70th birthday of the head of the Tian family. Envoys from the State of Jin also went to congratulate him. On the congratulatory form they sent, his son Tian Wujing was written as Yan Guojing. King of the South rather than Marquis of Jingnan. ”
“King Jingnan? Zheng Fan smiled and said, "It's too deliberate." ”
The rules of Dayan are that non-princes cannot be crowned kings. They are as powerful as the Marquis of Zhenbei. They are still marquises to this day, and the marquis is already the pinnacle of the opposite-sex lords of Dayan.
"The explanation given by the Jin envoy was that the congratulatory form was written incorrectly, and the person who wrote the congratulatory form has been punished. ”
“Haha. "
"There is another thing, that is, the first batch of assassins to break into the first-class courtyard of the post station. They are officers and soldiers of the rear camp of the Jingnan Army. ”
“Back camp? "
"That's it, Your Majesty, the Jingnan Army actually has 50,000 soldiers and horses, but just 50,000 soldiers and horses is still a bit too weak to guard the southern border of Yan State. Therefore, the Jingnan Army It has its own rear camp, which is usually scattered around for training or serving as county soldiers. In fact, it is a reserve force of the Jingnan Army.
In case of warStarting from now, these people will be immediately reorganized into the army by the Jingnan Army. ”
“It’s still too deliberate. "
"After Xu Wenzu left the inn, he first went to the north gate of Yincheng and knocked. As a result, the captain guarding the north gate of Yincheng refused to open the door and refused to let Xu Wenzu enter the city. Xu Wenzu had to go to the county military station and call out. The county soldiers were killed.
The captain of the North Gate of Yincheng was once a personal soldier of the Marquis of Jingnan, and was released the year before last.
The captain committed suicide the next day without leaving any last words. "
"Tsk..."
"Your Majesty, yesterday the governor of the three sides of the Qian Kingdom, Yang Taiwei, sent an official letter, hoping to meet with the Marquis of Jingnan to resolve the current situation. Yan-Qian border friction issues, and hope that Yinlang County can be in harmony with Qian Country under the rule of Jingnan Hou. "
Zheng Fan drank all the tea in his hand,
and said:
"In this way, no matter how false things are, they are already true. There is no difference. "
"Yes, Lord, whether it is a conspiracy or a conspiracy, its purpose has been achieved. The help of the Jin State, the recognition of the Qian State, and the support of the Jingnan Army were all that was missing. ”
Zheng Fan nodded.
This is no longer a question of whether Emperor Yan Ji Runhao is still talented and tolerant, because when things have reached this point, they are infinitely close to being crowned with a yellow robe.
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The rise and fall of the world, for the royal family and the emperor, he is playing a game in which as long as he loses, his whole family will die. Throughout the ages, there are almost no royal families who can die well. Even if you have abdicated, although it will appear on the surface I'll give you a preferential treatment, but the imperial lineage will definitely end in ruin.
As for the minister family below, there is actually a chance to start over. The worst is to change the table and continue playing.
“I just don’t know how Jingnanhou will choose to deal with it. "Zheng Fan said.
Blind Bei nodded and agreed:
"The Tian family is the first foreign relative today, and the Tian family is also one of the powerful families. If we use this Taking advantage of the limelight, he took advantage of the confrontation between the imperial court and the Zhenbei Hou Mansion to use his strength. Even if he didn't do anything or say anything, Emperor Yan would definitely hold his nose and send a prince to him. "
At this time,
Liang Cheng came in from outside, holding a letter in his hand,
"Your Majesty, from Qianguo Chahe Village, The investigation results came out, and the caravan's spies rushed back. ”
“Look. ”
Zheng Fan pointed at the blind man.
Let the blind man read the letter, which is the unique style of Cuiliu Castle.
Liang Cheng handed the envelope to Blind man, the blind man took the letter without opening it. He just squeezed it with his hands, pondered for a moment, turned to face Zheng Fan, and said:
"My lord, please investigate this matter." It’s not difficult because there are so many people involved. "
"Say. ”
“When a general from the Qian Kingdom led his troops to pursue the Lord, he went to Chahe Village to collect supplies on the way. He had a conflict with the villagers of Chahe Village.The soldier killed someone. "
"Then what? "
"Then the general just refused to do anything and slaughtered Chahe Village directly. ”
“So, is Master Chen really a scumbag? When he sees a village disappearing, he immediately thinks that it was me who killed it, and he doesn’t know how to investigate it himself?” "
"After massacring and looting the village, the general wrote a line of words on the archway at the entrance of the village.
Zheng Fan, the guard of Dayancui Liubao, is here for a visit! ”