The words were very heavy, and although Changsun Hong had a smile on his face, he was shivering with cold.

Li Zengbo couldn't help but clench his hands in a place that he couldn't see under the stone table, tensed his face nervously, and reluctantly laughed embarrassedly: "Heh, Lord Eldest Sun is too worried, in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, who dares to move a finger of the adult?" Adults are the pillars of the humerus in the eyes of the officials, and under the grace and rain and dew, how can they allow small nuisances to disturb adults? ”

Changsun Hong stared at him, suddenly smiled, reached over, and grabbed the tea bowl in front of Li Zengbo.

Li Zengbo jumped coldly, as if he was going to run, and after seeing that Changsun Hong just poured out the cold tea liquid in the tea bowl, he sat back on his buttocks.

The eldest grandson Hong used the teapot to refill the water for him, and replaced it with Tong Suo's undeceived smiling face, and said infinitely: "Yes, Lord Li is right, I may be neurotic when I do this, I have fought too many wars, and there are some such problems, haha, Lord Li don't need to panic, I will enter the city tomorrow, at most two or three hundred guards, and there will be no more than one, although Lord Li can rest assured." ”

Li Zengbo was very embarrassed by the surprise, his face was pale, he held the hot water warm tea bowl and said yes again and again, and said generously: "It turns out that the eldest grandson is joking, hehehe, I'll just say, the adult is bright and smart, how could he do something that makes Li embarrassed, but Li is too worried." Rest assured, Lord Eldest Sun, the Privy Council has already sent a message to me to ensure the safety of your lord on the road. ”

Eldest Sun Hong smiled and arched his hand: "In this case, then it will be troublesome to Master Li." ”

Li Zengbo muttered in his heart that the barbarian Changsun Hong was moody, a cold-eyed threat, and a moment as kind as a familiar friend, the sweat on his forehead came down, but his mouth did not change his face: "Where is it, don't worry, my lord, I have already arranged it, there are three thousand Jinghu elite soldiers who will enter Beijing with the adult, until Anqing, and then hand over the safety of the adult to the forbidden army waiting there, if the adult has anything wrong on the road, the first person to ask the blame is me Li, so ah, I and the eldest grandson are one." ”

The eldest grandson Hong laughed, the armor leaves on his body trembled with laughter, and he saw Li Zengbo looking sideways, and wanted to persuade him to take off this dazzling armor and change into normal clothes, but he swallowed it back again.

Come on, more is better than less.

The day after the meeting in the grass pavilion, Changsun Hong really only took three hundred black-armored ghost pawns, beat horses into the city, and put the barbarian army brigade of dozens of miles outside Fancheng.

Li Zengbo greeted at the city gate, hospitality, and stayed in the city for ten days, feasting in large rows, wine and delicacies flowed up, and called friends, attracting famous scholars in Jinghu, meeting and talking with Changsun Hong, and the enthusiasm was extraordinary.

Changsun Hong didn't mean to leave in a hurry at all, he said that the guests were as they pleased, and he lived in Xiangyang City for ten days with peace of mind, drinking and having fun every day, and he was very happy.

From Xiangfan to Lin'an, if you use the 800-mile expedited stagecoach to pass and change horses day and night, you can run back and forth in ten days.

Early in the morning of the 11th day, the east gate of Xiangyang City was opened, and the officers and soldiers of the brigade blocked the official road from the city gate to the Sailor Wharf, and all the idle people waited aside.

Three thousand Jinghu soldiers drove out of the city, boarded the giant ship there on the dock, and surrounded Changsun Hong to go south to Ezhou.

The official ships stretched, dozens of ships were strung into a line, the white sails ate the wind, and Pengcheng traveled thousands of miles with the waves.

The Yangtze River is mighty, rushing to the east, the boat catches the wind, goes down the water, and in the blink of an eye, it turns into a black spot in Li Zengbo's eyes that is gradually getting smaller.

Li Zengbo stood on the dock, his face gradually became serious, and the smile when he said goodbye to the eldest grandson Hong just now had long since disappeared.

In his mind, there was still a reply to a confidential letter from the Lin'an Privy Council late last night.

In the secret letter, the privy envoy Jia Yidao was extremely dissatisfied and criticized Li Zengbo's fearful character, and even used foul language.

"Hmph, Jia seems to say that you are not in Jinghu, of course you are not afraid, if you face tens of thousands of tiger and wolf soldiers in the city every day, you will not be able to sleep!" Li Zengbo thought hatefully, and glanced back in the direction of Fancheng to the north of Hanshui.

Naturally, there was nothing to see in the Gaogang River over there, but Li Zengbo knew that in the north of the Han River, which could not be seen here, a large number of black-armored barbarian troops were building forts and fortifications on the slopes not far from Fancheng, digging ditches and setting up trenches.

That battle was simply a blatant preparation for battle.

In particular, the black armor soldiers on both sides of Fancheng, built two huge earthen buildings, the earthen buildings are higher than the Fancheng city wall, on which you can overlook the entire Xiangfan's defense, if you put artillery arrows on the top......

Li Zengbo asked Changsun Hong about this matter for the first time, and Changsun Hong drank wine and said with a haha: "It's okay, Master Li, it's okay." The barbarians are rude and do not obey the king, and if they are not locked up in the camp, they will come out sooner or later to harm the place, so I ordered them to form a village and discipline themselves, and they are not allowed to come out if they have nothing to do, so as not to clash with the adult's men, which will not be good. ”

Li Zengbo said that it was better to transfer them back to Guanzhong.

Eldest Sun Hong continued to haha: "No, Lord Li, you know, I don't have any money in hand, and the imperial court hasn't paid me a salary for several months. The soldiers would not get the money and would be in the camp, and I could not hold them back, so I took them out and gave them a reason that I would personally go to the court to petition and state their statements, and when I returned, I would pay them before they could barely submit to them. If I transfer them back at this time, they know that I am delaying the army, and there will be changes immediately, and when the time comes, there will be chaos in Xiangfan, wouldn't it be dangerous? ”

Li Zengbo opened his mouth, dumbfounded, and said in his heart that such a special shameless thing can your eldest grandson Hong say?

No money? You Dali every day into the gold, the entire southwest business is your family doing, not to mention the salt profits, you from Dali, Sichuan every day out of the tea and cotton boatload after boat, and you don't pay taxes to the imperial court, you have no money?

Thinking of this, Li Zengbo's face was filled with black air and depressed.

On the evening after the inquiry, Li Zengbo sent a letter to Jia Rudao, while trying to keep the eldest grandson Hong at ease in Xiangyang to delay time; In the letter, he recounted the critical situation of Jinghu Lake, refused to kill Changsun Hong on the Yangtze River with the situation of a shipwreck accident on the Yangtze River when the black armor soldiers blocked the gate of Xiangfan, and explained that if he did this, Xiangfan would face great pressure.

Therefore, Jia Rudao quickly replied to the letter, and he would quarrel with Li Zengbo, but for this former colleague, Li Zengbo felt that it was safer to choose the latter between obeying Jia Nidao's secret request to make a killer and keeping Xiangfan safe.

After all, Li Zengbo is unwilling to be cannon fodder.

With a long breath, in Li Zengbo's field of vision, the string of distant black spots had gradually disappeared in the winter sun, he squinted and stood for a while, waved his sleeves, and returned to the city.

What he didn't know was that in addition to him and Jia Yidao, there was a third person who had read the two letters that were as fast as sparks. 繶䂕N୎ᰠ⩲㩧晎䭜ᴠg끥节ⱻN・17䵑㦍֖ژȰ