The horses' hooves trampled on the remnants of snow and galloped through the fields like black-brown waves, heading eastward.

This area, located at the junction of Linhao County and Yongyang County of Chuzhou, is located at the northern foot of the southern section of the Wujian Mountains.

The scouts sent by the defenders of Chuzhou to the northern foot of the Wujian Mountains to scout the horses, seeing this scene, all desperately destroyed the horses and returned to their respective camps to report the latest movements of the enemy.

It is a well-known fact that Xu Mingzhen, the envoy of Shouzhou Jiedu, personally led 20,000 cavalry and stationed in Anfeng County in the southeast corner of Shouzhou.

However, in terms of the previous situation, the vast majority of people believed that the role of the 20,000 cavalry was mainly to restrain the forbidden army from attacking Chaozhou City too fiercely, or to respond to the northward retreat of its Chaozhou defenders.

No one would think that Xu Mingzhen would be willing to play the most important hole card in his hand and take risks easily.

As long as the Huaixi Forbidden Army can successfully recover Chaozhou City, there are cities to defend from Chaozhou to Liyang, Chuzhou, Nanqiao, Yongyang and other places, and they are not afraid of what the more mobile 20,000 Shouzhou cavalry can do if they are interspersed.

Everything in front of them shows that the situation that everyone expected before has changed.

At present, in Chuzhou, in addition to Chuzhou City, there are garrisons in Tangyi, Yongyang, Liyang, and Nanqiao under the rule of the imperial court.

The remnant sun was slanting westward, and when Han Qian, Feng Yi, Xi Yi, Kong Xirong and others, who were pretending to be business travelers, were just about to enter the city, they heard the horses' hooves coming from behind them, and turned around to see several post riders desperately urging the horses under them to rush to Tangyi City.

Han Qian and the others avoided the side of the road and let the stagecoach go first.

The post horse galloped to the city gate, did not dismount, and took out a token for the leader, and shouted: "Eight hundred miles to step up the military intelligence in the history of Zhou Yi's assassination." ”

The little school on duty in front of the city gate did not dare to slack off, and let them pass into the city as soon as possible.

"This is Xu Mingzhen's side, right?" Feng Yi guessed.

"I guess so." Han Qian said.

Tangyi and Jinling face each other across the river, and there are 256 miles away from the main battlefield under Chaozhou City.

If Xu Mingzhen led 20,000 cavalry to the east, and the cities east of the Wujian Mountains could be threatened, the scouts in front of him would rush to Tangyi to deliver the message so urgently.

After Han Qian and Feng Yi entered the city, they waited in a single courtyard for not long before they saw Feng Yi and Zhou Yi hurrying over.

Time was very tight, and many things were too late to arrange, Han Qian had just asked Feng Yi to enter the city a little earlier than them, and found Zhou Yi to mention the meeting.

Seeing that Zhou Yi only brought two followers over to meet, Feng Yi relaxed a little, thinking that this guy had no ungrateful intentions.

"Is Lord Zhou surprised to see me in Tangyi?" Han Qian asked with a smile.

"Zhou Yan really has too many accidents and questions in his heart, and he wants to ask Hou Ye to understand." Zhou Yi said in a deep voice.

The father of Zhou Yi is the general of the former dynasty Dakou Qin Zongquan, the last year of the previous dynasty Qin Zongquan was defeated by Emperor Liang, three or four hundred thousand exile army was broken down, there are several remnants into the deep mountains and old forests around Nanyang, Zhou Yi's father created Miyun Village on the south bank of Danshui, and passed the throne to Zhou Yi after his death.

At this time, Zhou Yi was only thirty-five years old, thin and straight, giving a sense of humanity and politeness, and it was hard to imagine that he was a military general from the leader of the cottage.

Han Qian was not busy with his arrival in Tangyi, so he invited Zhou Yi to sit down in the courtyard and asked first: "When we entered the city just now, we saw the post horse galloping to deliver a message, is the Shouzhou cavalry stationed in Anfeng moving east?" ”

"Thousands of cavalry, marching east from the north of Yongyang, at this time, the front of the Shouzhou cavalry may have captured Mopan Valley," Zhou Yi asked, "Is this related to Hou Ye's arrival in Tangyi?" ”

"The situation is so critical that it affects the whole body, of course it is related," Han Qian sighed, "I was actually near Jinling in late April......

Zhou Yan looked shocked, but he still listened patiently to Han Qian's continuation.

“…… The matter can be traced back to the assassination of Shang Wensheng," Han Qian recalled the entanglement inside, and couldn't help but sigh, and said lightly, "In order to prevent the clan lords from persecuting the people of Guangde Mansion too much, I have no choice but to instigate a civil rebellion in Sizhou. I thought that by pushing Xue Ruogu to take up a post in Lishui and investigating the truth of the assassination case, the situation would be eased, but in fact, when I arrived in Jinling in late April, Han Donghu and Su Lie were already planning a riot. At that time, the arrow was on the line, and I could not categorically stop it, so I could only set up another Chishan Society, thinking of finding a place west of Fanliang Lake to house the old headquarters of the Zuoguang German Army that had been seized of the land, so as not to really set off a monstrous sea of blood in the hinterland of Jianghuai. This is also the origin of the conspiracy between Xuzhou and Huaidong. As for Wen Ruilin, I have long noticed that there is something wrong with him, but I really know that when he instigated Li Pu to offer advice and attack Hongzepu with a sailor, the sailor's warship had already entered the ditch. In order to take care of the 10,000 congregations and families of the Chishan Society, and for the sake of taking care of the tens of thousands of old troops and families of the Zuoguang German Army, I just chose to sit back and watch the destruction of the Sailor Division......"

Han Qian told Zhou Yan about the situation after the assassination.

In addition to the fact that the Queen Mother and Han Jun had an affair and gave birth to a child, which can be said to be the ugliness of the Han family, Han Qian will also conspire with Lu Qingxia to obtain the secret edict of the Queen Mother, and the Xuzhou Water Camp will be able to enter the Yangtze River waterway within three or four days at the earliest.

"......" Zhou Yi sighed and said, "Hou Ye made a fortune for His Majesty, laid the foundation for the crown, and retired after success, and sent Zuo Guang's German army to the army. ”

To be honest, Feng Yi had very little contact with Zhou Yan, but he didn't expect Zhou Yan, who was born in a cottage, to have such an opinion, and he was secretly surprised, of course, he was completely relieved, and he was not worried that Zhou Yan would not cooperate with them.

"So, does Lord Hou want to use Tangyi to gather the Chishan congregation and the refugees who fled south, and use this as the base of the Xuzhou Water Camp in Jianghuai?" Zhou Yan asked again.

"Not bad." Han Qian admitted calmly.

"What happens after the crisis is over?" Zhou Yan stared at Han Qian and asked.

"It's hard to say when the crisis will be truly lifted, Han Qian only wishes for the peace of the country and the people," Han Qian looked at the twilight clouds above the sky with his hands in his sleeve, and said leisurely, "Even if you have to bear the infamy of the ages for this, Han Qian will bear it!" ”

"It's a good country and the people's peace, I hope Zhou Yi can help Hou Ye." Zhou Yi stood tall and said.

"Good!" Han Qian happily hugged Zhou Yan's arm, he didn't expect so much, but Zhou Yan's willingness to be used by Xuzhou can be said to be an unexpected result of this trip.

Seeing this scene, Xi Ying thought to himself, it is said that right and wrong have their own twists and turns, justice is at ease in the hearts of the people, and what Han Daoxun and Han Qian's father and son did, although countless people hate it, it is by no means that no one can understand their good intentions.

But think about it, too.

After Zhou Qian himself was the general of the Liumin Army, he shouldered the heavy responsibility of leading the old troops to struggle in the deep mountains of Danshui for more than ten years when he was young, and it was Han Qian who first thought of contacting the cottage forces after he arrived in Xiangzhou, and finally supported the establishment of miraculous achievements in order to defend Xichuan City and finally support the Tianyou Emperor to lead the army to help.

Zhou Yi and Chen Jingzhou, the generals who were born in the cottage, were originally unable to urinate in the same pot as the clan lords, and the princes of the court were also able to use Chen Jingzhou's decision to know the Guangde Mansion to alleviate the situation.

Again, on the eve of the Jinling Incident, Li Pu was thinking about fleeing to Qiuhu Mountain with the families of the Xinchang Marquis Mansion, or Feng Yi sent people to inform the families of Zhou Yi, Chen Jingzhou and other cottage generals to gather in Danjing Lane and then break through the Donghua Gate Water Pass and leave the city together, so as to protect their families from falling into the hands of Anning Palace and being tortured and slaughtered.

Of course, Zhou Yi can be so happy, and it has a lot to do with the edict of the Queen Mother.

Otherwise, no matter how disappointed Zhou Yi was in Yang Yuanpu, he would have to take into account the safety of the family he was still staying in Jinling City at this time.

With the edict of the Queen Mother, there is a name for righteousness, and no matter how sinister the previous struggle was, there was no fear that the family would suddenly suffer a catastrophe.

Feng Yi, Feng Yi, and Kong Xirong are even more happy, and if Zhou Yi can fully cooperate, many things will be much more convenient.

Han Qian, Feng Yi, Feng Yi, and Kong Xirong first rushed to the county government compound where Zhou Yi acted as his guard, and then Zhou Yi ordered Jiangzhou soldiers to take over the defense of Tangyi City and impose martial law on the whole city.

When Han Donghu led more than 500 men and horses to enter Tangyi City before dark, Zhou Yi summoned all the generals in the city, and Chun Thirteen Niang came forward to read the Empress Dowager's edict on behalf of Changchun Palace:

"The Empress Dowager said: Your Majesty is young and vigorous, deceived by traitors, and the light division moves recklessly, causing the left and right Wuya armies to suffer heavy hardships, heavy deaths, and the destruction of vehicles and ships. Han Qian, the Marquis of Qianyang, was resourceful, repeatedly saved his family and country in danger, and even won the trust of the mourning family, so he gave this edict, and Han Qian, the Marquis of Qianyang, recruited the generals and led the Xuzhou soldiers and horses to fight the east into the Jianghuai to resist the enemy, thinking that the Great Chu Domain. Chin this. ”

"Rebellion, you are rebellion!"

Tangyi County Ling Liu Zishu's face changed dramatically and exclaimed.

After the Jinling War, Liu Zishu once served as the Guangde Mansion Hu Cao joined the army, and he participated in the most of the seizure of land, and when Yang Yuanpu transferred Chen Jingzhou out of the Guangde Mansion, he realized that the situation had undergone subtle changes. He was worried that he had done too many evil things before, and he would be overturned, taking advantage of the fact that the forbidden army needed a group of officials to fill the prefectures and counties in Chu, Chao and other places, he followed Wei Zhen to Chuzhou and served as the county commander of Tangyi, where did he think it would still fall into the hands of Han Qian.

Han Qian didn't have any impression of a character like Liu Zishu, listening to him make a lot of nonsense, his face was gloomy, and he stared at him fiercely: "You said that the secret edict is fake, but someone Han forged it?" “

In addition to the seal letter, there is also a female official of Changchun Palace, and Liu Zishu is not allowed to question the authenticity of the edict, he argued in horror: "Your Majesty has a purpose to ...... first"

Han Qian said sharply: "Even if the Empress Dowager's edict is true, even Your Majesty is in awe of the Empress Dowager, and you obey her orders, you are talking nonsense here, and you dare to accuse the Empress Dowager of rebellion, and you should be thirty years old!" ”

Han Qian couldn't remember such a role as Liu Zishu, but Lin Jiang and the others hated him to the core, and after listening to Han Qian's orders, they didn't care about decency, so they went up and grabbed Liu Zishu, picked off his official robe, and dragged him to the front of the lobby porch, and slapped him in the face with a wooden stick!