Devil’s Advent

Xu Wenzu returned to the station with his soldiers. What he brought was not the defenders of Yincheng, but the soldiers from the southern suburbs of Yincheng.

The local official system of Yan State is a bit chaotic, divided into real and virtual, plus a lot of symbolic official positions for rewarding and appeasing local powerful families, which always gives people a mixed impression.

However, Yan State's military system is very simple. It is divided into three major armies, one is the Zhenbei Army under the jurisdiction of the Zhenbei Hou Mansion, the other is the Jingzhong Forbidden Army, and the third is the Jingnan Army that has been stationed in Yinlang County.

These three armies can be called the ace field army of the Yan Kingdom, and they are the cornerstone of the country.

The Zhenbei Army is under the control of the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion, and to a certain extent, they can even disobey the Emperor Yan's edict, while the Forbidden Army and the Jingnan Army are forbidden in the hands of the Emperor Yan of all dynasties.

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 the land of the capital, and the eldest prince is in charge of the Tiancheng County soldiers. Naturally, they are both superior in terms of loyalty and equipment quality. And so on, and the soldiers of the other counties, whether in terms of quality or infiltration by local clans, have some unclear factors.

Below that is the purely local garrison, similar to the garrison of Hutou City and Zheng Fan's current garrison in Cuiliu Fort, Yinlang County. For example, Zuo Jiqian's Ji Tuipu is a stall propped up entirely with the support of Zuo's family.

It stands to reason that Xu Wenzu must have called for someone when he left in one step. The person who should have called was the Yincheng garrison who was closest to the station, but in the end, the Yincheng garrison did not come. The one who came was indeed the soldiers from Yinlang County outside Yincheng. The county soldiers in the office.

Here, there are things worth pondering.

Just like the Hong Kong police in later Hong Kong movies, when people came, the matter was over, and only the blind Bei and Xue San were lying on the ground with serious injuries.

Originally, Xu Wenzu planned to send Xue San and Blind Bei to a nearby medical officer for treatment, but Blind Bei refused, and Blind Bei insisted on returning to Green Willow Fort.

Xu Wenzu agreed, and he personally led 800 county soldiers to Green Willow Fort with two school lieutenants of the County Military Station, and Blind Bei Ze and Xue San were carried by the follow-up carriage and marched to Green Willow Castle.

When the carriage that Blind Bei and Xue San were in arrived at Green Willow Fort, it was early morning. When the carriage drove into Green Willow Fort, it happened to meet Xu Wenzu with a gloomy face leading his troops to leave. Judging from this direction, it should be a direct drive South Wangcheng.

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 screen the rest of the people,

Siniang cut off all the clothes on the blind man Bei's upper body with scissors, and then took out a needle and thread to help the blind man mend the terrible wound on his chest.

Liang Cheng was helping Xue San to set and fix the bones, and at the same time ordered Fan Li to go outside to dig stone slabs.

Ah Ming was not idle, and told the blind man Bei about the matter.

Blind Bei was thinking while listening, while Si Niang, who was mending his wound, said with some concern:

"Don't think about it any more, and rest when you're done mending."

Blind Bei shook his head and said:

"I can't rest, at least, I can't rest now. That Daxia Chen has also been sent to the fortress, right?"

"Well, according to the master's instructions, some medicine has been given to him, but no other treatment has been done. The master has already fallen asleep, probably because he was emptied by the magic pill, and he is too tired. "

The blind man Bei nodded and said:

"That Daxia Chen, although he is a little stupid, a little stupid, and a little reckless, but he is still a good and honest person. The master did the right thing."

"What did you do right? Earlier, the Lord asked A Ming to help him walk up to that person, and he was almost dragged down by that person before he died."

Blind Bei shook his head and said:

"If you don't enter the tiger's lair, you won't catch a tiger's cub. You don't want your child to be caught by a wolf. The Lord has deep intentions in doing this."

"Are you praising the Lord or comforting yourself?" A Ming asked.

"It's all there." Blind Bei paused, and gritted his teeth. Obviously, Si Niang's mending on his body was still very painful, but Blind Bei still tried his best to say, "A Ming, you immediately Contact the person in charge of the Sixth Prince's stay near us, and ask their caravan spies in Qianguo to investigate what is going on in Chahe Village, and tell that person that this matter is very important and must be resolved with the utmost care. Find out quickly."

"okay."

Blind Bei opened his mouth again, endured the severe pain and continued:

"Daxia Chen, give him the best medicine, and then call in two young ladies from the house to take care of him day and night. The food and drink can't be stopped."

It's really hard for an ordinary person to give a guy who almost killed himself this kind of treatment.

"I see." Si Niang replied.

The little red maids she trained are still too young to go out to perform tasks, but this kind of caring work is still no problem.

"Ah Cheng, please tell the barbarians under the opponent. The fact that Shatuo Queshi and Chen Daxia are both in our fortress is absolutely not allowed to spread. You have already told Xu Wenzu that Chen Daxia was driven away by you. I think Xu Wenzu probably didn't believe it. , but he won't pursue it."

"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 caught by accident."

"Who will attack the Lord?" A Ming asked.

"How do I know? I'm not a god. Anyone can do it, but it depends on the next development of the situation. I can't do it. My energy is already exhausted. Later, people from the Secret Service may come to check the situation. Si Niang, you go and deal with it.

It is estimated that within a few days, the storm of this matter will come. "

"I see, you rest, I've made it up too."

Blind Bei lowered his head, looked at the wound on his chest that had been mended, and said with some dissatisfaction:

"Didn't they tell you to use beauty needles..."

"It's such a big and thick wound that I can't close it with other threads. It's okay. When the wound heals, a scar will form, which looks mighty."

"San'er..."

Xue San lay there without making a sound.

"San'er..."

"Shaqima?" (What's the matter)

Xue San didn't want to talk, his teeth were not leaking, it was a draft.

"After you are able to go to the ground, you command Fan Li to make...a prosthetic limb for Chen Daxia."

Xue San was neither angry nor puzzled,

He just said calmly:

"Whoosh." (received)

"For the two bowls of noodles that he had a few years ago, he can help him go to the country of Yan to take revenge.

We...we have to treat him doubly well, so that after he learns the truth, he will feel guilty, ashamed and indignant, and cannot live up to the foreshadowing made by the Lord at the risk of being killed. "

"Understood." Si Niang nodded.

"Understood." A Ming agreed.

"Also, and, the most important point, after the truth of the matter is found out, before telling him, pay attention..."

"Pay attention to what?" Liang Cheng asked.

"Be careful not to let this dude get too embarrassed and commit suicide directly!"

………

After Zheng Fan was taken back to the fortress, he only had time to give some instructions to Chen Daxia, and then fell into a coma.

This coma lasted three days and three nights.

The last time I was caught by the magic pill and killed the eighth-rank silver armor guard, I didn't go into a coma for so long. The reason for this long time is because my body was already overdrawn and seriously injured, and I rushed back to Green Willow Castle overnight with Chen Daxia Constantly fighting with the spirit of wits and courage.

After being in a coma for three days, Zheng Fan woke up. Thanks to Siniang's careful care, although his body was still hurting when he woke up, he was already in the recovery stage.

Xu Wenzu sent people from Nanwang City to Green Willow Castle every day to check on Zheng Fan's situation. When he learned that Zheng Fan had woken up, he came to Green Willow Castle in person the next day.

After the screen retreated left and right, Xu Wenzu knelt down directly facing Zheng Fan.

Zheng Fan didn't get out of bed to stop him. One was that he was inconvenient to move, and the other was that Zheng Fan knew that Xu Wenzu could let go of the thought of running away that night by asking Xu Wenzu to kneel in a down-to-earth manner.

After Xu Wenzu left, Zheng Fan was pushed by Siniang in a wheelchair and went outside to bask in the sun.

Together they came out to bask in the sun, as well as the blind Bei and Xue San who were sitting in wheelchairs.

Green Willow Fort can be renamed as Disabled Fort.

The winter sun is always so comfortable, Zheng Fan couldn't help but narrowed his eyes.

Afterwards, Zheng Fan turned his head to look at Blind Bei and Xue San.

Zheng Fan found that the wheelchairs of the three people were all suitable in size, especially Xue San, whose wheelchair was obviously small.

Both myself and Xue San’s wheelchairs have handles, which are convenient for you to turn and move the wheelchair forward, but Blind Bei’s wheelchair does not, because Blind Bei can push the wheelchair forward with his mind.

"Who made this wheelchair?" Zheng Fan asked.

Are you so considerate?

Blind Bei smiled helplessly,

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"San'er did it."

Xue San, who was still talking while sitting in a wheelchair, looked at Zheng Fan hurriedly, and said with a pleading expression:

"My lord, does this wheelchair still fit?"

"It fits well, you made this in advance?"

Xue San was also transported back with serious injuries. Obviously, he couldn't start making wheelchairs immediately after his return.

"Isn't that right, my lord, you all had things to do for the past month, and I was too idle, so I thought I was idle, so I simply made seven wheelchairs according to the sizes and habits of the seven of us. "

"I have a heart."

"You're welcome, my lord, as long as you feel comfortable."

Zheng Fan really didn't know how to praise Xue San. What's the difference between making a wheelchair in advance and making shrouds in advance? Isn't this cursing one's own people?

But looking at it from another perspective, there are too many situations where everyone encounters danger and fights on a daily basis. It is really no problem to prepare in advance to facilitate the recovery of injuries.

"My lord, in the past few days, things have been brewing, and finally the wind has started."

Blind Bei woke up the next day, and then began to conduct intelligence analysis. As for the work of collecting intelligence, he still relied on the people of the Sixth Prince's caravan.

Building the fort is only the first step, and the "subsidy" from the sixth prince is actually still flowing. Just the weapons and armor piled up in the warehouse of the fort, and it is easy to pull five hundred people, but Zheng Fan listened to the blind man The suggestion is not to rush to violent soldiers.

As for information sharing, in this era, there is really nothing more informative than being a caravan. In fact, it is common for countries to place their own spies in the caravan to find out the news.

"Tell me."

Zheng Fan took a cup of tea from Si Niang and blew on it.

"The one who assassinated us that day was a group of people, but there were three elements. Daxia Chen was alone, the first batch of assassins was one element, and the puppet master came from the Tianji Pavilion of the Jin Kingdom. It is a department responsible for making utensils and war weapons for dignitaries."

"Yeah." Zheng Fan took a sip of his tea, he had actually heard Chen Daxia talk about this when he was riding in the carriage that night.

"Because the previous prefect and chief soldier of Nanwang City died strangely, and the Marquis of Jingnan led the Jingnan Army to take control of Nanwang City on the day of the funeral, this move is indeed too presumptuous.

Moreover, so far, the Jingnan Army has never moved its troops out of Nanwang City, and the Marquis of Jingnan even lived in Nanwang City.

Therefore, there are rumors outside that Jingnanhou was worried that Xu Wenzu, who came from the north, would be sent by the imperial court to Nanwangcheng as the commander-in-chief in order to check and balance him. kill. "

"No, it's me that the assassin shouted to kill."

"Xu Wenzu did report the truth, but judging from the reactions of all parties, Xu Wenzu and the imperial court deliberately said this in order to take care of the face of Jingnanhou. When the government was at odds with each other, he broke up with the Marquis of Jingnan.

Therefore, even though Xu Wenzu's memorial and other channels said that the target of the assassin is you, the Lord, but the forces and feedback from all parties directly believe that it is Xu Wenzu who is going to be killed. "

"Oh, I see, it's just that I'm too shameless, right?"

You have no face, and you don't even deserve to die.

A small fortress defending, has the qualifications to be assassinated with such fanfare?

"However, I have contacted Jingnan Hou twice. How should I put it, I don't think he is capable of assassinating people. If he wants to deal with Xu Wenzu, he should not use this method."

Zheng Fan has seen Jingnanhou's arrogance before. This kind of person wants to kill Xu Wenzu. What Zheng Fan imagined was that when Xu Wenzu came to Nanwang City, he was ordered by Jingnanhou to shoot directly under the city tower. Killed, and then cut off Xu Wenzu's meat to make bacon.

"The puppet master of the Tianji Pavilion in the Jin Kingdom, who was under the tutelage of the chief minister of the Tianji Pavilion in the Jin Kingdom, had a promising future, but he participated in this assassination and died in the Yan Kingdom.

Then, on the day of the assassination, it was the 70th birthday of the Patriarch of the Tian family, and the envoys of the Jin Kingdom also went to celebrate his birthday. On the congratulatory form sent, he wrote his son Tian Wujing as King Jingnan of the Kingdom of Yan instead of Marquis of Jingnan. "

"Prince Jingnan?" Zheng Fan smiled, "It's too deliberate."

According to Dayan's rules, non-princes are not allowed to be crowned kings. They are as powerful as the Zhenbei Houfu, and they are still Marquises, and the Marquis is already the pinnacle of Dayan's lords with different surnames.

"The explanation given by the envoy of Jin State is that the congratulatory form was wrongly written, and the person who wrote the congratulatory form has been punished."

"hehe."

"There is one more thing, that is the first batch of assassins who entered the first-class courtyard of the post station. They are the officers and soldiers of the rear battalion of the Jingnan Army."

"Back camp?"

"It's like this, my lord, the Jingnan Army actually has 50,000 soldiers and horses, but it's still a bit too thin to guard the southern border of Yan Kingdom with only 50,000 soldiers and horses. Therefore, the Jingnan Army has its own rear camp, and usually Those who were dispersed for training or served as county soldiers were actually the reserve forces of the Jingnan Army.

Once the war broke out, these people would be immediately reorganized into the army by the Jingnan Army. "

"It's still too deliberate."

"After Xu Wenzu left the post station, he first went to the north gate of Yincheng to knock on the door. As a result, the guard at the north gate of Yincheng refused to open the door, nor let Xu Wenzu enter the city. Xu Wenzu had to go to the county military post and called for the county soldiers.

The North Gate Colonel of Yincheng used to be a soldier of the Marquis of Jingnan, but was released the year before last.

The captain committed suicide the next day without leaving a last word. "

"Tsk..."

"My lord, Yang Taiwei, the governor of the three sides of the Qian Kingdom, sent an official letter yesterday, hoping to have a meeting with the Marquis of Jingnan to resolve the current friction on the Yangan border, and hope that Yinlang County can be peaceful under the rule of the Marquis of Jingnan. The kingdom of Qian is peaceful as before."

Zheng Fan drank the tea in his hand,

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"In this way, no matter how fake it is, it is no different from the real thing."

"Yes, my lord, whether it's a conspiracy or a conspiracy, its purpose has been achieved. With the help of the Jin Kingdom, the approval of the Qian Kingdom, and the support of the Jingnan Army, all it needs is a set of dragon robes."

Zheng Fan nodded.

This is no longer a question of whether Yanhuang Ji Runhao is still talented and capable of accommodating others, because at this point in the matter, she is infinitely close to the addition of a yellow robe.

The rise and fall of the world, for the royal family and the emperor, he is playing a game where the whole family dies if he loses. Throughout the ages, there are almost no royal families who can die well. Even if you have abdicated, although you will be given preferential treatment on the surface, But the lineage of the imperial line is bound to end up as an extinct heir.

As for the family of ministers below, in fact, there is still a chance to shuffle the cards and start over, at worst, they can just change to another table and continue playing.

"I just don't know how the Marquis of Jingnan will choose to deal with it," Zheng Fan said.

Blind Bei nodded and echoed:

"The Tian family is the number one foreign relative of today, and the Tian family is also one of the powerful clans. If you take advantage of this limelight and make an effort when the imperial court and Zhenbeihou's mansion are confronting each other, even if you don't do anything, what will you do?" Even without mentioning it, Emperor Yan will definitely hold his nose and send a prince up."

At this time,

Liang Cheng walked in from the outside, holding a letter in his hand,

"My lord, the investigation results of Chahe Village in Gan Country came out, and the spies from the caravan rushed to send them back."

"look."

Zheng Fan pointed to the blind man.

Let the blind man read the letter, this is the unique style of Cuiliu Castle.

Liang Cheng handed the envelope to the blind man, and the blind man took the letter without opening it, but squeezed it with his hands, pondered for a moment, then turned to face Zheng Fan,

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"My lord, it is not difficult to investigate this matter, because there are many people involved."

"explain."

"It was a general from the Qian Kingdom who led the troops to chase after the Lord. On the way, he went to Chahe Village to collect supplies. There was a conflict with the villagers of Chahe Village, and the soldiers killed someone."

"Then what?"

"Then that general simply did not do anything, and directly slaughtered Chahe Village."

"So, is Daxia Chen really a bastard? When he saw a village disappear, he immediately thought that I slaughtered it, and he didn't know how to investigate it himself?"

"The general inscribed a line of words on the archway at the entrance of the village after he slaughtered the village.

Zheng Fan, the defender of Dayan Green Willow Fort, is here for a visit! "