Chapter 313: Boldness

If it was placed in the era of Temujin, this Menghu really dared not to take the edict of the Han official in his eyes, even now, with other Han officials, this Menghu would not dare to take it to heart, but he was a little jealous of Li Rui's words.

In the past few years, Li Rui forcibly implemented sinicization in Mengyuan, and some unsightly nobles obstructed him, and the lawsuit even went to Tuo Lei, and the result was that Li Rui won without exception - Tuo Lei also counted on Li Rui to collect money for him, plus Li Rui knew how to advance and retreat, even if he won, he never asked for anything other than official business. Those noble relatives still can't take Li Rui, not to mention that this Menghu is just a mere centurion.

With a wave of his hand, he slapped his interpreter in the face, causing him to spin around three times, his teeth spurting out with blood. Tang Fan looked at the guy with a smile, and the sarcasm on his face could be seen even by a fool.

Fang Menghu also gave him a slap in the face, and now he has returned it to the traitor.

"You...... You ......" The traitor was annoyed and ashamed, but he didn't dare to move around Centurion Menghu, and he hated Tang Fan in his heart. A traitor like him didn't want to be greedy at all, so he wanted to provoke Tang Fan first.

"This kid has to die." The traitor thought in his heart, his mind was desperately turning bad ideas, such a person, not enough to achieve, but more than enough bad things, on the way back, he racked his brains, and finally found a flaw.

Now under the high-pressure rule of Meng Yuan, the territory is not very peaceful, many are forced to go into exile in the wilderness, if they gather in one place with a large number of people, there will be few officers and soldiers to go out to encircle and suppress, but if only a few dozen people occupy a mountain, then who will be full of food to take care of this idle matter.

As a result, single business travelers are almost extinct.

Tang Fan is just an ordinary businessman, who went to Goryeo to collect cotton clothes alone, who can believe it? Among them, there must be something wrong, and besides, the pass order in his hand is not fake, if he touches this line, he may be able to find the line that issued him the pass order. Recently, because of Pang Yu's rebellion, didn't he make many Han officials detained, if he found a similar amount, he might be able to get a reward.

This traitor has ten guts, and he doesn't dare to suspect Polu and Li Rui, but he thinks that among the specific officials who are handling below, there must be Tang Fan's comrades.

Hearing him say this, the Mengren centurion felt that it was reasonable, but the time to ask for merit and reward had come, and if it was for this reason, he would have made a mistake, and Polu and Li Rui could only praise him for his prudence, but they would not blame him. Therefore, he immediately ordered men and horses, and hurried out of the city to chase them.

There was no danger of leaving Liaoyang, out of the city only three miles, Tang Fan abandoned the horse, stood on the bank of the Liao River, and after a while, only to see a small fishing boat coming from the reeds. Because of the distance, the boat was still just a small point, Tang Fan squinted his eyes and smiled.

As long as he gets on the boat, there is no problem with his safety, although Menghu has also built a naval army, but he wants to catch ships on this Liao River...... I'm afraid it's easier to fish.

By boat, you can go to the mouth of the Liao River, and then transfer to a sea boat at the mouth of the Liao River to rush back to Lin'an. I heard that it will be faster to take the train, and you can change to the train when you get to Huating Mansion. I haven't been back to Jiangnan for three years, everything in Jiangnan should be fine, at this time, it is the lotus red and willow green, Lin'an West Lake should be picturesque, if you catch up with the weekend rest day, the girls of those weaving factories and embroidery factories are dancing and smiling, and the students of Guozijian are drinking and reading in the green shade by the lake. On the royal street of Lin'an City, there should be a flow of people, the lights of the Sincere Department Store are not extinguished at night, and the drivers of tricycles and rickshaws gather in a corner of the square, waiting for their business......

Although he is not from Lin'an, he has long regarded Lin'an as his hometown, and he has also bought a house for himself in Lin'an City. After going back this time, he can get a large amount of reward, and the Son of Heaven treats people with the most generosity and misses the old, and he will not worry about it for the rest of his life. Raise a dog at home, take the dog around the West Lake after dinner every day, look at the lake and mountains, listen to the singing of the singers on the painting boat, if there is a suitable one, you can also marry a daughter-in-law, give birth to two or three children, and when it is twilight, you can boast with your grandchildren about your experience in Menghu......

However, at this moment, Tang Fan heard the sound of horses' hooves galloping behind him, and when he looked back, he saw dozens of horses galloping towards him.

"Hugh is gone!"

A voice shouted behind him, it was the voice of the traitor, but the guy had the worst riding skills and fell to the end.

Tang Fan's heart moved, and he didn't know what was wrong, he looked back at the river, the boat obviously sensed that something was wrong, and rowed faster. Tang Fan was so anxious that he couldn't wait for the boat to dock, so he jumped into the water by himself. He originally knew how to swim, but he hadn't swam much in the past few years, so he was a little disadvantageous when he first entered, but he soon swam very fast.

If he hadn't been in the water, he might still be a little suspicious, but by jumping into the water, he would have been convicted of his crimes.

Although the water of the Liao River at the end of April is not cold, and the current is not urgent, it is not easy to swim at the age of more than 100 years, and the centurion of Menghu is good at riding, sticking to the horse as if sticking, urging the horse to gallop quickly, and in an instant, it will arrive at the river.

Tang Fan glanced back in a panic, and saw that Namenghu was driving his subordinates into the water, and he fluttered faster. Although the Menghu centurion shouted fiercely, but few of his men knew how to water, and these Menghu horsemen were first-class good riders, but when they got off the horse, they could even sway when they walked, let alone go to the water to plop. Looking at it, the traitor who was so dead rushed over at this time, and was pointed at by the centurion: "You, go into the water!" ”

"I, I, I, I ......" The traitor panicked, although he had learned to dig twice with a dog, and he would not drown in a small ditch deep one person, but in this big river, not to mention catching people, it was difficult to swim over.

"Get into the water!"

Captain Monhu didn't care so much, and continued to press.

The traitor knew that these barbarians were the masters who turned their faces and did not recognize people, and if they did not go into the water, they were afraid that he would really be able to draw his sword and hack himself to death, after all, with the increasing number of Mongolians who could speak Chinese, the importance of goods like him had been greatly reduced.

He dragged off his clothes and wanted to go into the water, but he finally swam twice, and Tang Fan was already less than ten steps away from the boat. Seeing that the situation was urgent, the centurion took off his bow and squinted his eyes to shoot arrows, Tang Fan heard a careful sound on the boat, and realized in his heart that his first reaction was not to dive to protect himself, but to take off his hat and throw it out.

The hat arced through the air and almost fell into the water, but the captain of the boat poked out the penny and hooked it.

At this moment, the centurion released the arrow, his archery skills were very accurate, and with the sound of breaking the sky, the sharp arrow flew straight towards Tang Fan's neck. After Tang Fan threw out his hat, he immediately began to dive into the water, and the arrow pierced out of the water from where his figure disappeared, and after a while, Tang Fan climbed up on the side of the boat.

"Come on!" The captain tried his best to pull Tang Fan, and after pulling the wet Tang Fan up from the water, he was just about to speak, when he heard another string sound on the shore.

This time Tang Fan failed to dodge, the arrow passed through his back and came out of his chest, he straightened up, and blood spurted out of his mouth, just on the hat in the hand of the captain. The captain couldn't take care of him, picked up the oar and shook it desperately, rowing the boat away, while the Menghu on the shore shot arrows one after another, and chased after the river for a while.

Tang Fan turned his head back, watching the shore get farther and farther away, his hanging heart relaxed, he coughed violently twice, and blood kept flowing out of his throat and wound.

"It seems...... Can't go back......" Tang Fan didn't think of the secret letter hidden in his hat at this time, he thought of the scenery of Jiangnan.

The boat went down the river, it took two days to get to the mouth of the river, and it happened that on this day, the Great Song sailor went to the mouth of the river to "inspect", and after the captain got on the boat, he handed over a blood-stained hat to Yu Zhu on the boat.

"He's dead." The captain said in a trembling voice.

The scar on Yu Zhu's face lit up, and every ten days and a half months, he would go to the mouth of the Liaohe River to take a walk, not only to give Meng Yuan a kind of deterrent, but also to occasionally deliver news to the secret spies lurking in Meng Yuan's territory. Although he didn't know who the "Red Thunder" lurking in Mengyuan's territory was, in the past few years, he was also curious about the person he had never met. Originally, the task this time was to take the contact person back to Lin'an, but the person sent out took the living person over.

He looked at the shore, it was already night, gloomy, and the mountains in the distance were like sleeping beasts. Yu Zhu nodded, took the hat, and then ordered: "Fire." ”

According to the rules of the sea, such a heroic man should be sent off by cannons.

The bloodstained hat was sent to Lin'an in a total of five days, and Zhao Youju's expression immediately changed after looking at the secret letter taken out of the hat.

"Summons Zhao Shanxiang, Cui He, and Wei Liaoweng to Zheng Qingzhi." He ordered.

The secret letter was passed in the hands of the four important ministers of the court one by one, and what Zhao and Ju showed them before were usually copies, but this time it was the original. When he saw some black marks on the letter, Zheng Qingzhi asked, "Why is this letter like this...... Is this bloodstained? ”

"A messenger I sent to lurk in the territory of Menghu, who was the one who contacted Ogedai in the first place, is now martyred." Zhao Heju pursed his lips: "This is the blood of the countryman, and I will definitely give it to the Martyrs' Shrine." ”

The Martyrs' Shrine is an ancestral hall built in the martial temple after the recovery of the Central Plains, said to be an ancestral hall, because Zhao and Ju attach great importance to it, and now it has become a continuous building complex. The first half of the building is open to the public, and the garrison, primary school and factories in Lin'an often organize people to go to sprinkle and worship. The second half is not easy to make public, and it stores many things that are very precious to the military of the Great Song Dynasty, such as Yue Fei's sword, the artillery that fired the first shot in the Battle of Taizhuang, and the relics of the fallen soldiers during the recovery of the Central Plains. Although it seems that with absolute superiority, the Great Song Dynasty has been invincible in the past few years, but the sacrifices and dedication made by the secret spies behind this are clear to Zhao and Ju, and this letter can be regarded as the silent people who have forgotten their names for the sake of the Great Song Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, can Menghu do this?"

Cui He frowned and asked Zhao Youju, he had also read a lot of books on wisdom over the years, and he had read a lot of geography, and he felt that it seemed feasible to take advantage of the ice to cross the northernmost strait and reach Dongshengzhou.

"Doing this with the strength of the whole country, although the casualties will be very heavy, but it should be able to get by." Zhao Youju knocked lightly on the table a few times and sighed.

If you send tens of thousands of people to Menghu to Dongshengzhou, and Dongsheng to the north of the country, those natives who have not yet established a country, I am afraid that they will not be able to stop Menghu. And the two princes of Menghu, whether it is Meng Ge or Kublai Khan, judging from the secret letter and the previous news, they all have the posture of heroic lords. In particular, Kublai Khan, in that letter, also confessed that this Kublai Khan had done something that is now unknown.

After learning the Song dialect well, this kid once sneaked into Xuzhou, and took advantage of the chaos after the war in the Central Plains to study in Xuzhou for a year and a half!

Zhao Youju has now sent someone to investigate this kid's grades in the elementary school, although the results have not yet arrived, but Zhao Youju can roughly guess that his grades will not be bad.

Except for Zhao and Ju, Cui and others did not notice this, they only felt that this was a Menghu barbarian, bold and reckless, but Zhao and Ju understood that this was clearly Peter who was born in advance, if Kublai Khan really took the throne and brought 350,000 people to Dongshengzhou, maybe something would really happen to him. A bold and heroic leader with primary education, with a group of vicious wolves eliminated by the Long March, broke into Beidong Shengzhou, which did not even have iron weapons......

Isn't this just asking for trouble for your own descendants!

"Your Majesty!" Zhao and Ju were in a daze, Cui He's question didn't pay attention, and after realizing that he was absent-minded, Cui He urged, and Zhao and Ju reacted.

"Oh...... The secret letter said that Menghu had prepared 200,000 young men, so that at least 350,000 people could arrive. Zhao Youju was not sure about this, he knew that the natives of Dongshengzhou came from Asia, and it is said that they passed through the Bering Strait, even if the Bering Strait did not have such thick ice in winter, but Menghu's shipbuilding level was not so bad that even such a narrow strait could not be crossed.

"Your Majesty summons the ministers and others, must you not want this matter to succeed?" Zhao Shanxiang said.

This is a matter of course, the legacy of the tiger is not Zhao Youju's style, in fact, Zhao Youju's treatment of his enemies is not cruel, but basically if he is defeated, he will not give the other party a chance to turn over, just like Shi Miyuan, if he does not completely lose his influence on the imperial court, he is afraid that he will still stay on Liuqiu Island to count coconuts at this time.

"Are you ready?" Zhao Heju restrained his thoughts and asked Zhao Shanxiang in a deep voice.

"20,000 people, everything is ready, just wait for the sailor." Zhao Shanxiang said.

The two of them played dumb riddles, and Wei Liaoweng couldn't help but ask: "Official, don't you have a countermeasure?" ”

"At the beginning, the Military Intelligence Counsellor Department drafted a provision for a general attack, that is, a large-scale sea transport, landing in Liaodong, and then quickly attacking Huanglong." Zhao and Ju said casually.

Large-scale cross-sea landing operations did not have much experience in the Great Song Dynasty. Planning such a big war, Zhao Shanxiang said that there were 20,000 people, but in fact, the relevant people involved were more than 200,000.