The sound of horses' hooves sounded from far and near, which was particularly striking on the streets of Tongguancheng under the warm spring sun, and passers-by took refuge on both sides of the street. This ride with the sound of the wind whistling past the people, good people rushed to see, and saw that the horse that ran in a hurry had a small triangular apricot yellow flag on its back, and a bamboo tube on its shoulder, it turned out that this was a messenger passing through here from the capital.

"Quickly open and close the door." When the messenger of the capital came to the city gate, he shouted loudly to the Sui army guarding the gate at the city gate.

"Open and close the door." An officer on the tower of the city had already seen the messenger galloping, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers under the city. The defenders of the city hurriedly pushed open the heavy city gate, and when they were just able to cross the horse, the messenger did not slow down, and rushed out of the pass directly against the robes of the officers and soldiers defending the city.

"What a fucking bad luck!" The sergeant at the gate, who was almost brought down by his horse, straightened his crooked armor and cursed quietly. and a few colleagues hurriedly closed the door tightly.

"New general, it's been a long time since I've seen the messenger of the forbidden army sent by the capital to clear the customs, and the beacon on his back must be sent from the palace, and this way to the east, I don't know what's going on?" Master Shang looked at the messenger who was gradually moving away from the city wall, and whispered to Xin Wenli beside him.

"Alas! Some time ago, the king of the Jin Dynasty Chitose wrote to the prince that there would be war in the Central Plains after the beginning of spring, but I don't know if it's true or not? It is estimated that the prohibition of the messenger at this time has something to do with this. Xin Wenli replied in a low voice.

"When the younger brother was drinking in the wine shop yesterday, I heard a merchant in the capital say that the emperor has been in poor health recently, and he often can't do things, and the princelings have become bigger, and they have the intention of setting up the emperor. If there is civil turmoil in the capital, it is indispensable to dispatch the prince to lead the army to serve the king, and it will be meaningless for me to wait here to guard the pass, alas! Master Shang complained a little.

"General Shang doesn't need to worry, if there is something in the capital, just listen to the prince's dispatch. After the shift change, the younger brother invited Brother Shang to have a drink at home. ”

"Good! I wanted to try my younger sibling's cooking skills, but unfortunately Brother Huadao was not here. ”

"Huh! Do you still miss him? He is now stationed in Hetao and has 100,000 troops under his command, and the scenery is far more than you and me, even Sun Sheng, the marshal of Wuyuan City, is better than him. ”

"Hehehehe---- the two laughed and teamed up to patrol the city.

On Wagang Mountain, where the winter snow melts, spring is vibrant, and the mountains and flowers are blooming. When the snow melts, the trickle gathers into a clear spring that flows down the mountain. At this time, Yang Erzheng and Wang Dai, Chuchen, and Abeiyi were enjoying the spring scenery of the mountain stream in the wooden pavilion by the clear pond in the back mountain.

A clear stream rushes down from a high place to form a waterfall more than one zhang wide and 100 meters long. Below the waterfall is a pool of clear pool water more than 30 meters under Yang Er's feet. In front of Yang Er is a rainbow formed by the refraction of sunlight by water mist, which is very beautiful. With the roar of the water column falling into the pool, the women kept applauding.

From time to time, the lush jungles on both sides of the mountain stream and clear pond can be heard with bursts of bird chirping, which seem to be cheering for the arrival of spring. Abeyi didn't care about anything else, but buried himself in picking all kinds of colorful wildflowers around, and occasionally wore a few of them on his head. Wang Dai and Chuchen also ran over to snatch it from her when they saw it, and the three girls chattered like birds in the forest.

"Brother Shi, such a beautiful scenery is really rare to see, why not write a poem?" Zhong Jian was bored at this time, and he couldn't go to pick flowers with a few girls, so he came behind Yang Er and whispered.

"Huh! With you kid here, this beautiful scenery is also ruined. Yang Er shook the folding fan and looked up and said with a smile.

"Husband, what Zhong Jian said is right, there should be poetry at this time." Wang Dai held a bouquet of wildflowers in her hand and leaned over and said. The eyes behind him were shining, and they also looked expectant.

"Since the lady has an order, how dare the husband disobey? This brings me up. With that, he turned around and walked to the stone table in the pavilion, dipped the water on the table and wrote with his fingers as a pen on the table:

"Isn't there a god in the depths of the pond, but the clouds fly back when they see the chao. The clouds harvest the rain and the grass and trees are wet, and the water under the stream is empty. ”

"Good! Okay--- the three girls couldn't stop applauding as they read.

Seeing that the women applauded, I was also a little proud in my heart, and I wanted to show off again, so I thought about it and was about to write a poem. Suddenly, I saw Luo Cheng hurriedly running from the path by the pond to the wooden pavilion.

"Brother Xian, what's the alarm?"

"Big brother, there is an urgent letter in the capital, and please take a look at it." After that, he handed a bag in his hand to Yang Second-hand, and stood aside and waited.

When Yang Er heard that it was a letter from the capital, he couldn't help but be shocked. Hurriedly opened the brocade bag and pulled out a brocade silk, judging from the regulations of the brocade silk, Yang Er knew that this was a letter sent from the palace, and hurriedly opened it to see it.

"Oh? Everything! After reading it, Yang Er pinched the brocade silk into a ball and grabbed it in his hand. Turning around and coming to the pavilion, he looked at the colorful waterfall that flowed straight down, and was speechless for a while.

Seeing Yang Er's face change drastically, everyone, including Luo Cheng, didn't dare to speak, and the scene was embarrassing for a while.

When Wang Dai saw it, she hurriedly walked to Yang Er's side, grabbed Yang Er's arm, and asked in a low voice, "Husband, why are you angry?" Has there been a change in the capital? ”

"Alas! This letter was sent to my brother and the prince for his husband. Saying that, Yang Er turned around and continued to face everyone: "My father has not recovered for many days due to his physical illness, and he has not been able to go to the court, and now the harem is recuperated by Sun Shenyi, and now he wants to give the throne to the prince, and he is scheduled to perform the ceremony in the palace in the middle of next month, and the prince's brother must rush back to the palace to attend the ceremony." Yang Er's face was gloomy and he explained the reason for his anger, and then went in the direction of the front mountain, everyone was also stunned, and when they saw Yang Er leaving, they hurriedly followed, and returned with no intention of appreciating spring.

After returning to the small building on the top of the mountain, Yang Er locked himself in the house and pondered, shaking his head several times during this time. After the long test lasted for half an hour, he suddenly went out and said to Zhong Jian: "Go, find a clever point among the guards and wait in the outhouse." With that, he re-entered the inner chamber and closed the door.

Zhong Jian nodded hurriedly, turned around and went to find someone among the guards he was familiar with. Wang Dai and Chuchen had to watch blankly in the outhouse, not daring to go into the house to disturb.

Later, Zhong Jian took a family member who had been following him into the house and waited for Yang Er to go out again.

A moment later, the door to the inner room opened again, and Yang came out with a letter.

"Yang Yang, come here."

The member named Yang Yang hurriedly came to Yang Er's side with his family.

"This letter is very important, this king wants you to take two coerced servants, quickly go down the mountain through Zezhou to the Luzhou Mansion, and personally send it to the Inspector's Office Commander Zhang Heng, there must be no mistake! When you come back, hand over Lord Zhang's handwritten return to this king. Yang Er's expression was extremely serious and he said to this henchman who had been following him and had never left.

"The master can rest assured, the villain guarantees his life and will hand over this letter to Master Zhang." Yang Yang clenched his fists and swore.

"Hmmm! Tell Master Zhang to let him do what he said in the letter, and go! ”

Yang Yang took the letter with both hands, carefully put it in his arms, and then turned away.

"Big brother, this matter is very important, won't you go back to the capital to participate in the Zen ceremony?" Luo Cheng felt a hint of strangeness, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked anxiously. Liang Shitai also got the news, and he was also watching from the house at this time.

"Huh! If the king does not return, there will be no such thing as a concession, and the prince will not be allowed to ascend the throne. This is about the morale of millions of soldiers in my Jin army, how can it be so hasty? Let's wait for Zhang Heng's return. Yang Er returned to his former relaxed expression. After hearing this, everyone could only stop asking.

"Shi Tai and Brother Luo Xian went out for a walk with him." Although my mood calmed down for the time being, I thought of a solution, but how did it work? It is not yet known. I had to go out for a walk first.

"Shi Tai, the iron cannons and other firearms transferred from the Luzhou Treasury to the mountain a few days ago, will the soldiers on the mountain operate them? Sooner or later, the soldiers of the White Horse Battalion under Luo Xiandi will leave with this king. ”

"My lord, the original 4,000 soldiers on my mountain are now all equipped with sky-bombing fire thunder and crossbow fire thunder arrows, and they have already been proficient in drilling. It's just that the 200 iron cannons were fiddled by the 4,000 full-time gunners who followed them up the mountain, and my soldiers couldn't touch them. ”

"Oh? Hehe! Master Pei is meticulous and does not leak! The 200 cannons had a maximum of 1,000 gunners and loaders, and the extra 3,000 men were dedicated to protecting the cannons. That's fine, you'll have 4,000 more guards here. In addition, in addition to the advance distribution of grenades and fire thunder arrows in wartime, in peacetime, soldiers are not allowed to touch any firearms to avoid being taken by people to defect. Every time they run out, all the remaining firearms must be collected and put into storage, and no outsiders must be allowed to get them. ”

"Got it, don't worry, lord. There are 6 young generals who have recently graduated from the martial arts hall with the army this time, and the lowest military rank is captain, among which there is a full-time firearms inspector, and they are very serious! ”

"Okay, the captains and officers in the hands of General Han are not bad, so even if this king goes down the mountain and returns to Luzhou, he will be relieved, with this batch of firearms to protect the mountain, he can be the enemy with an army of 100,000."

The three of them continued to walk forward slowly, and at this time, Luo Cheng, who had been holding back for a long time, could no longer control it, and asked urgently: "Big brother, this time Your Majesty wants to let the crown prince succeed to the throne, if you don't listen to you, what should I do if I cause the facts?" If the eldest brother can't ascend the throne, won't it disappoint the soldiers, and the younger brother is afraid that he will lose the morale of the army from now on! ”

"Brother Xian, don't worry! The father was sick but not critically ill, but he was bewitched by the villain, so he had the heart of Zen, which was not the original intention. For his brother, he sent a letter to ask Zhang Heng to enter Beijing for this matter, and when he said that his father had to take back his fate; ”

"Big brother, the princelings are powerful in the capital, and everyone in the world knows this. The eldest brother is not in the capital, if the princelings make trouble and do something usurpative, and the wood is already in the boat, what should be done with it? ”

"Humph! It's not impossible. Yang Er sneered and said. Then continue slowly. Luo Cheng and Liang Shitai saw that Yang Er's words were not finished, so they could only press their temperaments and look at each other and continue to follow.

"If you do the usurpation behind the back of this king, this king will lead 600,000 Jin troops into Beijing to see how he can sit safely?"

"So much for the best! The younger brother is willing to kill the chaotic party in the capital for the eldest brother. After Luo Cheng finally heard what he wanted to hear, he looked at Liang Shitai excitedly and said sharply. Liang Shitai couldn't help but nod when he heard this.

"Huh! No one who is the king wants to take it away, not even the crown prince. Yang Er stopped, looked at the western skyline and said.

In just two days, the henchman Yang Yang and the two followers did not have any rest halfway, and the three of them changed horses at the post stations along the way 6 times, and rushed back to Luzhou all the way. When all the officials of Luzhou Mansion were there, Yang Yang personally handed over the letter to Zhang Heng, and asked for a return to sign the receipt, and then returned to the post house with two entourages and spread them on the bed.

After Zhang Heng sent Yang Yang and the others away, in front of Pei Shiju, Pei Yun and other Luzhou officials, he opened the letter and read it. His face couldn't help but be gloomy, and Pei Shiju and Pei Yun on the side were also shocked when they saw this, just waiting for Zhang Heng to explain the matter.

"Hey, hey! That Yang Su made a good plan! took advantage of His Majesty's long-term bedriddenness, and asked His Majesty to give up the throne. With that, he held the short beard in one hand and handed the letter to Pei Shiju with the other.

After thinking for a while, Zhang Heng said sharply: "The main official letter said that in order to stop the Chan Rang ceremony, everything is subject to the opportunity of the official. ”

"Master Zhang, if you have something to say, please speak up, and we should do our best to assist." Pei Shiju heard Zhang Heng say this, and hurriedly handed the letter in his hand to Pei Yunying.

"Good! Please order General Li Jing and Li Daoxing, the general of Luzhou, to select 20,000 elite cavalry to enter Beijing with this official; Then ask Master Pei to go to Shuhetao Yuwen Chengdu General, and let him personally lead 50,000 troops to the south of Shuofang, and exert pressure on the princelings in the capital to make them dare not move. ”

"Good! The old man was ordered by Lord Zhang, so he asked people to go to the Wutang to transfer General Li Daoxing, and the soldiers of the Luzhou Chinese Army Battalion were selected at will. The old man from General Yuwen asked him to send a letter to him, asking him to personally lead the troops south to Shuofang, and let General Wei Wentong guard the river loop on his behalf. What else is needed? Master Zhang said. ”

"The next official also wants the Military Intelligence Department to go with Dong Ke, a thousand households in Hedong."

"Good! The official asked someone to call Dong Qianhu over. Liu Wenjing, the commander of the Luzhou Command of the Military Intelligence Department, immediately responded.

"Humph! That's enough, tomorrow the official will do it early in the morning, and the princes will wait here for good news. Zhang Heng said with a sneer. Everyone listened to it and felt a chill rise.

Early the next morning, Li Jing led the selected 20,000 elite cavalry early, neatly dressed and waiting outside the city. This time, the accompanying 10 young generals are all Li Jing personally selected by Li Jing to be dedicated to his own lord of the martial arts hall young generals, among which there is a ruthless person who is particularly powerful, this person has the surname Wei Chi single name Gong, the word respectful, 18 years old, the figure is grown, the tiger has a bear waist, and the weapon in his hand is an ancestral pair of bamboo double whips made of iron, each weighing 180 pounds, there is the courage of ten thousand people, and it is also the general that Li Jing and Han Baohu focus on cultivating in the martial arts hall.

When the hour arrived, the gate of Luzhou was wide open, and I saw Zhang Heng with Dong Ke, who was wearing the brocade clothes of thousands of households of the Military Intelligence Department, and 50 people accompanying the guards.

"My lord, I will wait here for a long time."

"Good! Let's go. We must rush to Tongguan Ferry to board the boat today. Zhang Heng said, just lead his subordinates to ride the horse forward. Li Jing let Zhang Heng and his entourage, and then gave the order to raise troops.

"Master Xi, who is this person? I don't have a good face. The lieutenant Chi Jingde behind him came to Li Jing's side and asked.