Xiao Ding, Sun Dasheng, Luo Dafeng, and Fan Sanpang and a group of four people rode horses for about ten days and finally arrived at Yuqingmen.

After discussing with the people of Yuqingmen, everyone decided to rush to Jiaozhou together tomorrow.

Leaving aside how the people of Yuqingmen prepared to mention, the four of them rested in Yuqingmen for one night, and after eating fasting the next day, they were all ready to set off on the road.

Yue Yurou was going to lead half of the Yuqing Sect disciples to Jiaozhou this time. Leaving four old Dao Gu and the other half of the disciples to guard the mountain gate.

There are fewer people in Yuqing Gate, and there are more than 40 people in total. This time, half of them were taken away, and there were about twenty people. Among them are Yu Yingzi and other four old Taoist aunts.

Because they were going to go on a long trip, the people of Yuqingmen, including Yue Yurou, all changed into the clothes of Daogu. Most of their underage female disciples couldn't ride horses, so they had to drive two carts to pull these female disciples.

Since these young disciples were too young to even catch a car, Sun Dasheng and Fan Sanpang made a temporary cameo appearance as a coachman to help the disciples of Yuqingmen drive.

Yue Yurou was riding on a horse, parallel to Xiao Ding. Luo Dafeng and several old Taoist aunts also rode horses and walked with the car.

Because of the horse-drawn carriage, the speed of the journey was much slower.

They drove all the way along the official road towards Jizhou.

This official road connecting Jizhou and Jinzhou, when Xiao Ding returned from Zhongzhou before, he encountered heavy snowfall, and as a result, a section of the road was blocked by an avalanche, so Xiao Ding made a detour to Bingzhou.

Now it's past the Dragon Boat Festival. The snow blocked by the avalanche on the road must have already melted, so Xiao Ding and Yue Yurou drove all the way along the official road towards Jizhou.

Sure enough, as Xiao Ding expected, the snow along the way had already melted. They only walked for less than ten days, and they had already arrived in Jizhou City.

After entering the city, Xiao Ding thought of the King Kong Gate in Jizhou, and the Meng Po of the Spirit Castle that he had met here, but unfortunately he was not able to kill her that time, and he didn't know where this Meng Po ran away to harm people.

Since he remembered the Vajra Gate, Xiao Ding also remembered the master of Xuanku, who always recited the Buddha before speaking. He planned to take a trip to the King Kong Gate, and it was best to call the people who went to the King Kong Gate to rush to Jiaozhou together.

Therefore, after the group of them found a good inn to live in, Xiao Ding rode alone to the King Kong Temple. When he asked the gatekeeper about Master Xuanku, the doorkeeper told him that Master Xuanku had already gone to Jiaozhou with the people of Vajra Gate and had been on the road for several days.

Xiao Ding saw that he was a step late, so he stopped entering the temple and returned to the inn directly.

After explaining the situation of the Vajra Temple to everyone in the inn, everyone had to sigh helplessly, if they left a few days earlier, maybe they could go with the monks of their Vajra Gate.

However, it doesn't matter if you go by yourself, nothing happens to the group along the way!

The next stop is Yanzhou City. Xiao Ding has walked this road, which is more familiar, and there may be places where you can't catch up with the villages and towns on the way, so Xiao Ding told everyone that it is best for everyone to buy some things for road applications tonight, and you can also buy another carriage for special loading of materials.

Yu Yingzi listened to Xiao Ding's suggestion, so she took the initiative to take this matter, she called two little Taoist aunts to follow her to the night market to shop, and at the same time, Xiao Ding also took some silver and handed it to Luo Dafeng, so that she could also follow Yu Yingzi to buy some supplies.

It didn't take much time for the people who went to the night market to buy supplies to come back, and they really bought another carriage, and at the same time hired three coachmen to come back, saying that they would help drive the car to the next stop, Yanzhou City, and if it was farther, they would not agree.

Although the driver only agreed to help drive the car to Yanzhou, Sun Dasheng and Fan Sanpang also jumped up happily.

How can there be freedom to ride a horse, so Sun Dasheng and Fan Sanpang are more willing to ride a horse to drive than to sit on the wheel all the time to catch a car.

The next morning, everyone had finished freshening up, had breakfast, and then continued on the road.

On the way, there was a coachman to help catch the car, and Sun Dasheng and Fan Sanpang returned to the horse.

Everyone was talking and laughing all the way and walking, when Xiao Ding suddenly heard the roar of horses' hooves coming from behind him.

Xiao Ding was startled, with his experience on the battlefield, he could hear it as soon as he heard it, this was the sound of the advance of the large army. He hurriedly looked back.

At this time, his Tiankai eyes have already been achieved, so his vision is extremely far, and this area of Jizhou belongs to the plain area, so Xiao Ding can see from a distance that on the road on the horizon, there is a group of people galloping in his direction.

Gradually, as the group approached. Xiao Ding had also seen clearly that the team was the military uniform of the Great Song Kingdom, and the flag had a big "Ji" written on it.

Could it be a Jizhou soldier? Xiao Ding was puzzled.

As far as Xiao Ding knows, every state in the Great Song Kingdom has a Xiang army unit, which is used to assist in governing the state and county and defending the state city, and it belongs to the local army. It's just that the number of box troops in each state is different, and states in border areas will raise more box soldiers, usually used to defend the border. In the inland state cities, the number of troops will be smaller, because they don't need to defend the border.

Local governments are usually self-sufficient in the cost of the soldiers, so officials in inland state capitals are reluctant to raise more soldiers. They did not receive funding from the imperial court, so they were naturally unwilling to allocate funds from the state treasury to raise soldiers.

However, the state capital on the frontier can get the imperial court's appropriation every year, and these appropriations are used to support the border soldiers. Therefore, the state capitals of the frontier usually have more van troops. For example, the large battalions in the north and south of Yongzhou have a total of 100,000 soldiers. With so many people, without the appropriation of the imperial court, it would not be possible to support it with the finances of the local government alone.

It didn't take long for the team of soldiers and horses behind to catch up with Xiao Ding's team.

Xiao Ding hurriedly asked the coachman to drive the three carriages to the side of the road, and the others also stopped on the side of the road to make way for the large army behind.

There were as many as two or three thousand soldiers and horses, hundreds of cavalry in front, and all the infantry were behind.

The soldiers and horses passed by Xiao Ding's team. Continue in the direction of Yanzhou.

Xiao Ding was wondering, what are the troops from Jizhou going to Yanzhou for?

Xiao Ding was puzzled, seeing the large army gradually moving away, and the hour was out of sight, he secretly thought in his heart, could something happen?

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