"This is the military rations and salaries that were transported to Xichuan City, what do you mean by forcibly intercepting them? These are the letters issued by the Yingzhou Prefecture and the Deng Xiang Defense Embassy, why did the Dragon Bird Army have to intercept us for inspection? What qualifications do you have, could it be that you are from the Linjiang Marquis Mansion, so you can see the king's law? ”

The ship escort officer in Yingzhou, a thin middle-aged man in his forties, with a sparse beard on his thin chin, lifted his blue robe, ran ashore with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and raised a stack of letters and roared at Li Chong violently.

Li Chong was sprayed with spit all over his face, and he only felt unlucky, regretting that he followed Han Qian to the side of the river embankment to see the excitement.

The systems of the Chu Dynasty were all imitated by the previous dynasty, and officials often wore civilian robes, and there was also a strict difference in color of clothing.

Only the third rank and above are qualified to wear purple, and the fourth and fifth grades are worn crimson, Li Chong joined the army as the secretary of the Dragon Bird Army, and the official residence was six grades, he wore a green robe in the cold armor to keep out the cold, but it was more magnificent than Han Qian, who was only qualified to wear a green robe, and it was no wonder that he was pointed at his nose by the Yingzhou Gang Gang and sprayed in the face.

"The military rations and food that are transported to Xichuan City, don't you know that the waterway to Xichuan City has been blocked by the Liang army? Or maybe you already know about this, and you deliberately transported these more than ten ships of supplies over so that these materials can be smoothly delivered to Liang Jun? Zhao Kuo, you will detain these suspects who are enemies for me, and they will be escorted to Xiangzhou City for interrogation. Han Qian had a gloomy face, stared at the Yingzhou Detention Officer, unceremoniously and directly deducted the charge of the enemy, signaled Zhao Kuo who followed behind him, and instructed his subordinates to detain the Yingzhou Detention Officer who ran ashore and spit on the stars first.

Zhao Kuo has not followed Han Qian directly for a long time, and in recent months, he has been by the side of Han Daoxun in Xuzhou, and he has not reacted for a while.

Xi Ying gave Xi Chang and Xi Fa'er a look, and the two of them were like wolves and tigers, and they personally pounced on the comers.

"You're spewing blood! If you let me go to see Lord Du, the defense envoy, I don't believe that you, the minions of the Linjiang Marquis Mansion, can fly to the sky! Intercept the military rations, cause the Xichuan generals to scatter their hearts and the city is not defended, and you have a few heads that are not enough to cut off! The Yingzhou official's face turned red, but he didn't expect the generals around Han Qian to rush over like wolves and tigers, twisting his arms, making him unable to move, and he had to let out an angry and terrible roar like a beast trapped in a cage.

Yingzhou is in the southeast of Xiangzhou, and the two states are close to each other.

Even if there were water bandits in the Han River in the past, at this time, the waterway from Yingzhou to Xiangzhou had large and small warships and grain ships passing through every day, and the Jiang bandits and water bandits were temporarily driven out of this area.

The fleet sent by Yingzhou to Xiangzhou this time was loaded with more than 5,000 stones, grain, grass and other materials, and the soldiers and horses were usually only thirty or forty people, and the others were all shipwrights and boatmen, who were gathered by Yang Qin and Feng Xuan to gather more than 200 elites and lead four sailing ships to the center of the river to intercept them, and they did not dare to force their way over, so they could only dock at the simple wharf on the side of the river beach to negotiate and protest with this side.

It's just that the Yingzhou Detention Officer didn't expect that Han Qian didn't mean to communicate with him at all, nor did he want to extort as much as he wanted, so he took over a hat of collaborating with the enemy and directly detained them.

At this time, Yao Xishui ran out of the city, and was shocked to see the soldiers and horses of Yingzhou being escorted to the city with their hands tied like prisoners of war, and couldn't guess what Han Qian was going to do, so he asked in a suppressed voice: "You are crazy, are you not afraid that the Xuzhou fleet will be retaliated by the local forces in Yingzhou when it passes through the territory of Yingzhou?" Aren't you afraid that Xia Zhen, Zheng Hui and others will put the responsibility for the defeat and loss of the city on your head? ”

Yingzhou controls the middle waterway of the Han River, and Han Qian has always been interested in promoting the new Junzhou and operating it, Yao Xishui is puzzled why Han Qian did not hesitate to tear his face with Yingzhou at this time, not to mention that Xia Zhen really wants to give up Xichuan City and flee south, and it is also possible to put the responsibility on this side to intercept military rations.

"Come with me." Han Qian suppressed his voice and said to Li Chong and Yao Xishui.

Yao Xishui glanced at Han Qian hesitantly.

She and Li Chong have been in Canglang City for several days, Han Qian ignores them, and sends people to keep an eye on their every move, and Han Qian will not inform them at all if he decides, but he doesn't know what baggage Han Qian has buried at this time, and what he has to say to them.

However, Yao Xishui and Li Chong dared to take two or three people to Canglang City, but they were not afraid of what Han Qian would do to them, so they went back to the city with Han Qian and got into his big tent.

"Let's all get busy!" Han Qian sent Zhao Kuo, Xi Chang, Guo Nu'er and the guards in the big tent away, leaving only Xi Ying by his side, took out a piece of rice paper from the wooden box and put it on the desk, and asked Li Chong and Yao Xishui, "Who do you think this person is?" ”

Yao Xishui saw that it was a portrait on the rice paper, but compared with the traditional portrait painting method, this portrait was much more delicate and realistic, and I don't know if it was the unique painting technique taught by Han Qian's master, as if the human mold was directly printed upside down.

The portrait is of a young man of about thirty years old, with a short mustache on his lips, an eagle nose and deep eyes, and he looks heroic, but he is wearing an ordinary robe and armor, and there is no special thing to see.

"Who is this man?" Yao Xishui asked.

"You really don't know this person?" Han Qian asked.

"Who knows where you got such a portrait from, how could we possibly know each other? Won't you have nothing to entertain us? Yao Xishui has an excellent memory, she is sure that she has not seen this person, stared at Han Qian and asked, I don't know what Han Qian is thinking in his stomach.

"Of course, it's unlikely that you've seen this person directly, but if you think about it, have you ever heard of anyone with this kind of facial trait?" Han Qian said.

"Zhu ......" Hearing Han Qian say this, Li Chong's mind seemed to be beaten into a spark, and he suddenly thought that a person's physiognomy and characteristics matched this portrait, but for a while he couldn't remember what the name was.

"Emperor Liang's second son, Zhu Yu, King Yong?" Yao Xishui blurted out in shock.

"It seems that the Late Red Mansion is also collecting information about Liang Guo." Han Qian said abruptly.

Only then did Yao Xishui and Li Chong realize that they had inadvertently leaked a secret of the Late Red Mansion, but Li Zhihe knew all these secrets, which confirmed that Li Zhihe did not reveal everything to Han Qian.

"If you're just trying to test something, then we'll take our leave." Li Chong said with a calm face.

"You really don't care, where did the secret agent sent by Zuo Si see Zhu Yu, King of Liang Yong?" Han Qian took the fire fold and lit the oil lamp, brought the portrait to the oil lamp and lit it, and threw the lit portrait into an iron bucket and burned it to ashes.

"Where are Zhu Yu's others?" Li Chong asked in shock.

At this time, the Liang army launched an offensive in winter, with Xuzhou Jiedu envoy Han Jian as the main commander, controlling the soldiers and horses of all roads, and the vanguard general who led his troops into the Nanyang Basin was Han Jian's nephew and Han Yuanqi, the general of the Liang army.

If Zhu Yu, the second son of Emperor Liang, who was the most trusted by Emperor Liang, who had made great contributions to the expansion of Liang's territory over the years, and personally commanded the first elite Xuanjia capital of Liang, appeared in Xuzhou or Ruzhou, it would mean that their previous judgment of this war was biased.

"Wancheng!" Han Qian said.

"How is that possible?" Yao Xishui couldn't help but say in a lost voice.

To be honest, she would not be surprised that Emperor Liang's second son was born in Xuzhou, or directly with Han Jian, the commander of the Liang army, - this time the Liang army's attack was indeed much more fierce than before, but the second son of Emperor Liang appeared in Wancheng, which means that Jinling's previous judgment of the Liang army's strategic intention to launch an offensive this time is very likely to be completely wrong.

Previously, everyone thought that Liang Jun's intention this time was to control the entire territory of Caizhou and part of Gwangju at the northern foot of Tongbai Mountain, and control the upper reaches of the Huai River, so as to have a strategic advantage over Shouzhou, which is located in the middle reaches of the Huai River, and Chuzhou, which is located in the lower reaches of the Huai River.

However, Wancheng is located in the heart of the Nanyang Basin.

Liang Jun, a figure with a higher status and prestige than Xuzhou Jiedu, secretly appeared in Wancheng, what does this mean?

Could it be that the Liang army is the most elite combat power, and the Xuanjia capital has also changed its clothes into the Nanyang Basin, and the Chu State is still unaware?

"I sent a secret agent to infiltrate Wancheng, and I saw this young man who appeared next to Han Yuanqi, the vanguard of the Liang army, dressed ordinarily, but some people's bearing was formed in daily life habits, except after special training, it is difficult to hide," Han Qian said, "This person is indeed the second son of Emperor Liang and Zhu Yu, the king of Yong, there is no doubt that this person also explains why the Liang army's attack along the Danjiang River in the first few days was so ferocious, but after being frustrated, it slowed down the offensive again." They were mainly worried that their combat intentions might be snooped on by Du Chongtao! ”

"What do you mean by telling us this?" Li Chong stared at Han Qian and asked.

When he saw Zhao Kuo and the others being sent out by Han Qian just now, they all had doubts on their faces, obviously they didn't know about it.

Yao Xishui saw that the portrait had been burned to ashes in the iron bucket, which meant that this secret seemed to be known only to a limited number of them, and Han Qian did not intend to tell this secret to more people; And there were a lot of ashes in the iron bucket, and I didn't know how many things were rotten in Han Qian's heart.

"I'll tell you two of Liang Jun's biggest secret this time, guess what's Liang Jun's strategic intention this time?" Han Qian asked Li Chong without impatience.

Since the strategic intentions of the Liang army that were judged before are very likely to be wrong, but what kind of strategic intentions did the second son of Emperor Liang secretly appear in the Nanyang Basin?

Although Li Chong hated Han Qian for being mysterious, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought at this time.

"Liang Guoyi in the entire Dengxiang region, and even further, control the Suiying Huangjing Prefectures, so that the soldiers and horses can directly drink water on the north bank of the Yangtze River!" Yao Xishui said in shock.

"Who's out there?" Xi Ying suddenly shouted.

"It's me," Zhao Kuo pushed the door in, and said in a proclamation, "The officials of Yingzhou are making a lot of noise, clamoring to see the young master. ”

If it weren't for Xi Jiao's sudden shouting, Han Qian didn't hear Zhao Kuo approaching at all, looked at Zhao Kuo suspiciously, and said, "I know." If there is any more trouble, they will be bound and stuffed with wooden beads. ”

Waving his hand to signal Zhao Kuo to go out, Han Qian thought for a while, then took out a letter from the desk and said to Xi Ying: "You give this letter to Zhao Kuo, and let him send it to Xuzhou immediately and hand it over to my father; Then let Zhao Wuji take a few people to secretly stare at Zhao Kuo. If Zhao Wuji returns halfway within two days, he will be killed; If there is no abnormality within two days, go with him. ”

"It turns out that not everyone around Lord Han can master it as he wants." Yao Xishui saw Xi Ying leave and said with a smile.

"Miss Yao is not a person in my room, and I am afraid that I don't need Miss Yao to worry about my affairs." Han Qian pushed back coldly.

Han Qian has always been uneasy about Zhao Kuo, but his father is not a person who will be easily deceived by anyone, since his father allowed Zhao Kuo to stay by his side, maybe there are other hidden secrets.

So Han Qian decided to let Zhao Wuji secretly observe Zhao Kuo for two days, and if there was nothing abnormal, he would send him back to Xuzhou.