Hearing these weeping words, even though Fang Ling's heart was as strong as iron, he couldn't help but be moved, he reached out and 'touched' the woman's hair, gently stroked it, and scolded with a smile: "You girl, haven't you seen me cry, so you want to make me cry to be satisfied?"

Song Ying'er had tears in her eyes, and said with a smile: "How dare you concubine......?"

Of course Fang Ling understood her words, she was talking about the woman Xiao Xue in her heart, he smiled slightly, and said calmly: "Have you forgotten my identity? I am the king, so no one is allowed to say no, let alone the woman I like!"

Feeling the domineering and arrogantness in Fang Ling's tone, Song Ying'er not only felt disgusted, but instead felt a sense of being protected, and was even more moved, she almost threw herself into Fang Ling's arms and cried.

And for Fang Ling, how important Song Ying'er is in his heart, he naturally knows that in the past three years, he has been getting along day and night, in order to save her, he did not hesitate to go deep into the underworld and redeem five years of yang life, her position in her heart has long been an inseparable existence, not to mention that now she has also stepped into the fairy gate, and she is also a fellow believer.

Therefore, even Xiao Xue will definitely not be able to change the fact that Song Ying'er is by her side!

At night, Shen Ling came to talk to Fang Ling, and told him to be careful when he went to Tancheng, Fang Ling thanked him, but he had his own little abacus in his heart, of course he would not tell Shen Ling his true purpose of going to Tancheng.

Although there is indeed an element of reconnaissance of the enemy, there is another important thing, that is, to find the deputy general Shi Baoliang who has the doppelganger mirror, if the thing is in Shi Baoliang's hands, then the matter will be easy≥ if he is not there, then it is good to dig out the new owner of the doppelganger mirror from his mouth.

The next day, Fang Ling and his party left Dongqiongguan and made a detour to Tancheng in the north of Xingzhou.

The place where Tancheng is located is in fact the border between Xuzhou and Xingzhou, and this area is a plain area formed by the impact of many rivers, although the terrain is flat, but the excessive river flow makes the city here mostly live near the water.

Originally, there was only a big river passing outside the city of Tancheng, and later the ancestors dug out a moat ditch that was up to 100 zhang wide outside the city, and there were fierce crocodiles in the ditch, and if you wanted to enter the city, you had to go through the wide bridge that was put down by the four city gates.

When Fang Ling and the others arrived in Tancheng, they witnessed the scene of a group of crocodiles outside the city, and the moat was densely packed with crocodiles, and there were hundreds of them, and one head was long.

The soldiers on the city walls were throwing horses into the river to feed the crocodiles, and under the powerful claws of the crocodiles, the huge boron was torn into pieces like pieces of paper, and the blood instantly stained a large area of the river red.

Seeing the crocodiles fighting for food, the soldiers all laughed and leaned back, thinking that this was a very funny thing, and the people from other places were so frightened that their faces turned pale when they saw this scene.

A wooden bridge laid down on the city gate is set up outside the city, the wooden bridge is enough for ten horses to go in parallel, it is very wide, it is made of thick whole wood, quite thick, there are several thick long cables tied on the wooden bridge, and the hole in the city wall is connected straightly, and the wooden bridge can be pulled up or put down through the gears in the hole.

On both sides of the wooden bridge, there are two rows of wooden fences ♀ three zhang high, crocodiles can not climb the bridge, no matter how crowded the people and horses on the bridge can not fall into the river, and once after evening, the bridge is pulled up and erected on the city wall, the whole pond city has become an island in the crocodile pond, as Huang Longhu said, it is impossible to cross the river without knowing it, after all, no matter how many people go down the river, it will become food for crocodiles.

Fang Ling slowly walked across the wooden bridge, observed all the details outside the city, came to the city gate, and handed over the road guide. The road guide is the proof of leaving the hometown, and all countries on the earth have this rule, and anyone who leaves the hometown for hundreds of miles needs to be given a document such as a pass by the local "government", which is the road guide, so that you can prove your identity.

Fang Ling's guide is naturally forged, to the point that the king has a lot of resources at his disposal, just one sentence, a pair of road guides issued by the official can easily fall into his hands, and it will not arouse the suspicion of others at all.

This road leads to indicate that Fang Ling is a person from Dingzhou in the north, his family is a prominent family, he has been doing business for generations, and the carriages brought by his entourage are also carrying more precious silk and other materials, because Tanzhou is mainly wary of people from Xingzhou, so Fang Ling and others entered the city without wings.

Tancheng is a relatively small county, the population of the entire county is only a few hundred thousand, as the county seat of Tancheng its population is only a hundred thousand, and now there is a sudden influx of 150,000 Yizhou troops, making the whole town seem quite crowded, and you can see patrolling soldiers everywhere.

After finding the inn where they were staying, and after the group chose a room, Fang Ling asked Lu Bei to take the waist card to find Huang Longhu's spies.

It didn't take long for Lubei to come back with a lean young man, who was only twenty-seven or eighteen years old, and looked as thin as a monkey, but he walked briskly, which showed that he was quite accomplished in light skills.

Fang Ling couldn't help but secretly appreciate, he had already read the list of spies, and he felt that Huang Longhu still had some capable people, this young man's name was Hou Qi, he was a lieutenant in the army, and he was good at light espionage and shouldered the task of espionage in Tancheng.

As soon as the young man entered the door, he immediately knelt on the ground and shouted respectfully, "Hou Qi greets your lord!"

As soon as Fang Ling heard this, he knew that Huang Longhu's secret letter to the spies did not mention his identity, so it was okay, the less people knew about the fact that he was the King of Shicheng, after all, this was in the camp of hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, and the slightest leak of the news would cause death.

He waved his hand slightly and said, "It seems that Brother Hou has received a secret letter from General Huang, so I won't have to explain." ”

Hou Qigong arched his hand and said: "The general's secret letter instructed me and my twenty-nine spies to obey the orders of the adults. ”

Fang Ling bowed his head and said: "Very good, then Brother Hou, you can tell me about the distribution of the enemy army in Tancheng." ”

Hou Qi 'touched' a prepared map of Tancheng from his arms, spread it out in front of the table, and then pointed while saying: "Your Excellency, the total strength of the enemy army is currently about 150,000, commanded by the southern general Chang Bai, Chang Bai lives in the county lord's mansion, there are 3,000 defenders inside and outside the mansion, which is very tight, there are two major military camps on the left and right sides of the mansion, with a total of 40,000 troops, 10,000 troops are stationed at each of the four city gates, and the remaining 60,000 troops are scattered in important parts of the city. ”

Fang Ling nodded again and again when he heard this, and said, "It seems that this General Chang is also very cautious, there are more than 40,000 people in the place where he lives, and it is only very troublesome to assassinate him." ”

Hou Qi said approvingly: "Exactly, Chang Bai is a non-important person, since the capture of Tancheng, he has always lived in a simple house, and because of the heavy guards, we have no way to detect his whereabouts, let alone plan to assassinate him." ”

Fang Ling smiled when he heard this, he just said something to test it, it seems that Huang Longhu really had the idea of assassination, which shows that this General Huang is not a vegetarian, so he continued to ask: "What about the arrangement of soldiers and horses around Tan City?"

Hou Qi replied: "The nearest county to Tancheng is Bai'an County, where 100,000 horses of the Dongzhou National Army are stationed, and it is only half a day's journey from here. ”

Fang Ling 'touched' his chin and said to himself: "If you want to solve the 100,000 soldiers and horses in Tancheng, and you have to return to Dongqiongguan before the Dongzhou army comes, it will only take half a day, this is really a problem." He groaned for a while, stretched out his fingers and tapped on the handle of the chair, and then asked, "What generals and lieutenants are under Chang Bai? Have these people investigated clearly?"

Hou Qi replied: "General Chang has a total of six generals under the second, third and fourth grades, and each general has more than two deputy generals by his side. As he spoke, he told all the things about the ages and characteristics of these generals.

Fang Ling couldn't help but secretly praise them for their careful investigation, and judging from the investigation, these generals were not without shortcomings, either greedy for money and lust, or eager for success and profit, and in the end, the matter naturally came to Shi Baoliang.

I only heard Hou Qi say: "Shi Baoliang is the deputy general of Liu Tan, the general of the fourth grade, although this person is only in his thirties, but it is said that he is a distant relative of Chang Bai, and he is deeply respected by him, and he can be called a confidant ♀ who is very conceited, and likes to collect money. ”

Fang Ling asked intentionally or unintentionally, "I heard that this person also likes to show the looted treasures to outsiders?"

Hou Qi nodded and said: "This person likes to show off, especially he doesn't like others to overshadow his limelight, fortunately, he is a relative of General Chang, so General Chang also turns a blind eye to him and lets him go, after all, he has made a lot of military exploits." ”

Fang Ling continued to ask some questions, and then let Hou Qi leave, and when only his own people were left in the house, he smiled and said, "Ying'er, let's go to Shi Baoliang's mansion now and take a look, and see what treasures he has looted?"

Song Ying'er smiled, nodded obediently, and took out the night clothes from her bag to change into Fang Ling.

Shi Baoliang occupies the mansion of a famous family in Tancheng, and the house is full of his henchmen and soldiers, with a total of several hundred people, but these people do not pose any threat to Fang Ling and Song Ying'er.

The two quietly slipped into the mansion and looked around, and soon found that the backyard was heavily guarded, and Fang Ling guessed that this should be the place where Shi Baoliang stored his treasures.

Fang Ling's plan is very simple, first of all, he doesn't need to have direct contact with Shi Baoliang, but first go to his treasure place to take a look, if he finds the doppelganger mirror directly, then it is the best situation, it will be done at once, but if he can't find it, then he can only contact Shi Baoliang.