Chapter 178: Surprise and Masked Horseman

Jiang Feng naturally didn't know that ten days ago, the Tiqi in Beijing had already left Beijing quickly, conveying the will of the imperial city, and several guards in Beizhili and Laizhou were already preparing to march towards Qingzhou. A large number of people from Jinyiwei and Dongchang also entered Shandong.

In the yamen of the third division of Shandong, only Liu Shunhua received the news, and Mr. Meng, the master of the house, had already congratulated him in advance, saying that the master was about to be promoted again. But at such a moment, in order to be safe, Bachelor Liu was still low-key, and when the officials who said they were sick came out one after another, Liu Shunhua said here that he was sick and recuperating at home.

Now everyone avoids this topic, and those who have a little judgment know that the bold hundred households of Yantai Mountain Thousand Households will not be promoted this time.

Because of all of the above, Jiang Feng in the Thousand Households of Yantai Mountain didn't know all this, all he knew was that the culprit of the matter, the Hengwang Mansion in Qingzhou, had not been dealt with by the imperial court, so it felt very bad to be stared at by poisonous snakes all day long, and the whole of Yantai Mountain was in full swing to prepare.

However, the recent thing to do is to send Liu Shisan down the mountain, and the fleet to greet the Xia family, which has not been here for nearly a month and a half, and the goods on the mountain have been prepared by Xia Cuiyu in the capital of Dengzhou, and have been stacked in the simple warehouse near the port for a long time.

In the barracks at the foot of the mountain, there are only ten Iron Ding who are currently in charge of the training of more than a thousand recruits, and the rest are prepared in the dock fort, but fortunately, the weapon reserves are still quite sufficient, and all the Iron Ding has to do is to inspect and maintain them.

Liu 13 repeatedly persuaded Zhao Xiucai to leave the Yantai Mountain Thousand Households with him, in his eyes, these people in the Yantai Mountain Thousand Households Office were clearly bandits in official uniforms, and they were rude in their work, and this method of training soldiers was also a mess, as if they were children having fun.

I'm afraid that this hundred households will be the end, Liu Shisan has always felt that with the help of his brother, he will definitely not stay in the grass like this, and he will be more productive than this fierce Jiang Feng. Jiang Feng rode a horse in front to lead, and Liu Shisan and several of his guards in the back were a little depressed on the mountain, this time they went down the mountain quite refreshed, and they still argued with Zhao Xiucai there:

"Uncle, you better go back with me, what future is there with such a person, my brother has been thinking about you going back?"

Zhao Xiucai was also a little angry by his junior, and he sank his face there and didn't make a sound, Liu Shisan was a little stupid and didn't speak, Jiang Feng really wanted to recover these horses of the Liu family, but if he really couldn't submit to it, Jiang Feng didn't force it.

The training camp at the bottom of the mountain also has a watchtower made of wood, and the soldiers on duty on the upper floor on rotation saw Jiang Feng coming, and immediately informed the iron soldiers who were supervising below. Before the group could enter the door of the new barracks, they heard someone inside shouting:

"Stand, welcome thousands of officials!"

There was a very neat sound of heels staggering from inside, at least to people other than Jiang Feng, it was still very neat, Liu Shisan and his horses were startled, and they took a few steps back uneasily, and neighed. Liu 13 patted the horse's neck a few times before it quieted down.

He looked inside the barracks rather puzzled, but the wooden fence blocked his view, and he couldn't see anything clearly, and when they rode into the barracks, they saw the recruits standing neatly on both sides of the road. These young men have straight waists, their eyes looking ahead, and they are holding sticks or bamboo poles in their hands.

Although he was holding such rudimentary training equipment, there was naturally an awe-inspiring aura when he stood there, and everyone stood there quietly with solemn expressions. Invisibly, there was a feeling of slaughter, and when Liu Shisan started to enter the barracks, he thought that he would see the training of those so-called children.

But he didn't expect to see such a scene, although he was a ringing horse, but he also understood that these young people in front of him were already trained to be the shadow of some strong troops, how was this trained, is it just running below and standing in line to train?

After Liu Shisan's first day of training, although he didn't come to see it, his guards still came to take a look, but he saw it like this every day, so he didn't care, no one thought that he would see such an army today. Liu Shisan's horse walked slower and slower, and finally stopped at the exit of the new barracks.

Turning his head, he hesitated and said to Jiang Feng:

"Master Jiang, can you let these recruits rearrange their formation?"

He still didn't give up, thinking that maybe he could only maintain such a state just by standing, and he didn't know how to move, after all, it wasn't enough to stand still when fighting. Seeing Jiang Feng nodding, Tie Ding, who was following on the side, immediately ran to the queue and began to shout loud orders.

The recruits, who had only been training for more than ten days, moved quickly according to the order, and the scene became chaotic, Jiang Feng looked at the chaotic situation of his subordinates, which was far worse than the infantry phalanx he watched in modern times, even compared to the showmanship in those film and television dramas, it was much worse, and even more excessively, it was much worse than when he was in the military training of the secondary school.

But Liu Shisan on the side looked at it very seriously, now this kind of scattering is nothing to him, and it didn't take long for the recruits to form a large phalanx according to the order. Liu Shisan gasped in his heart, he actually had such an effect.

He had heard his brother say that the use of soldiers to gather and disperse is as usual, can the other party also do this with such a training method?

Liu Shisan was silent on the rest of the road, and according to the words of understanding, Jiang Feng and Zhao Xiucai were about to go back after sending them five miles away from the barracks. Zhao Xiucai was there looking at Liu Shisan's back, and was about to turn his horse's head back to Qianhu, when Liu Shisan, who was in front, suddenly turned around and shouted:

"Uncle, what you said about coming to Qianhusho, I will tell him what I heard and saw when I go back, and I will tell you a message as soon as possible!"

On this afternoon, the Xia family's fleet arrived at the port of Yantai Mountain Qianhusuo, and now Jiang Feng has ten ships in the fleet, and the sailors and iron dings on the ship got off the ship after loading and unloading the goods, and began to take over all kinds of security and security matters by the dock fort, and the recruit camp left ten iron soldiers, and the task was not to give the recruits a little time to rest, and they practiced fiercely until Jiang Feng came back.

The Xia family's fleet was also told not to spend too much time in the port of Wubao after the delivery of the silver money after loading the goods overnight.

Liu Fangrui and the Su sisters were escorted to Jinan by Zhao Xiucai and several old hunters - back to their parents' home, no matter what, now in Shandong, the power of Liu Shunhua, the right political participation of the political envoy department, can be regarded as not small, in the past, it was ranked in the top five, and now it can almost be expected to be ranked in the top two.

The Haiwu trading house near the gate of Qingzhou City, the quality of the goods is good, and there is little argument with the guests, although it has not been open for a long time, but it is very popular with people. Because it is more affordable, even restaurants and some large households are purchased here

But it is said that it has a good reputation, in the past, it was open until dark, but today all the people who came to buy seafood are strange, this store is closed very early, ask the neighbors on the side, all say that the owner of the store in the morning is not very good, and he is not worried about the guys to see the store, so he simply closes for a day today.

In front of the Hengwang Mansion in Qingzhou, there are still many people who come to pray for the blessing of King Heng and send gifts for visiting the patient, and Zhu Houqian, the son of King Heng, is still gentle and elegant at the door. repeatedly said that his father was not too seriously ill, but he was a little old and needed to be recuperated.

There are now many people around Hengwang's Mansion who are not paying attention, some of these people are merry traders, some are gentry from the edge of Qingzhou, and some are passers-by. But no one noticed them, because they spoke or behaved like they were born and raised in Qingzhou.

Luo Yi, the owner of a sick seafood trading house, pretended to be a probe outside to watch the excitement. He wanted to see the road around King Heng's Mansion clearly, but he always felt that something was wrong around him, and when he looked around, he couldn't see anything wrong, after all, he was just a martial artist who fought and killed. The people around him are all old spies, how could he find out. But fortunately, Luo Yi was standing in the outermost position, and no one had noticed him yet, and everyone was staring at the palace.

In the afternoon, the people gradually dispersed, and Zhu Houqian, the prince of Hengwang, was extremely anxious in the palace, although there was no news about the current situation, but there was something wrong. Despite the lack of warning, Zhu Houqian decided to launch ahead of schedule, and his men were sent out within three days to contact the Green Forest bandits loyal to him throughout Shandong. In the past few years, Qingzhou has been smooth, and he has done a lot of good evidence, but Zhu Houqian's plan is not so merciful, his plan is that the big families in Qingzhou have money and food, and when it is really time to start an incident, it will be robbed, which can be regarded as another situation of hiding wealth from the people.

A tea shop not far from the Hengwang Mansion was already closed in the evening, but there was a gap in the window leaning against the palace, and Jinyi Wei Lao Lin was lying on the gap to watch. The entrance of the palace with a big lantern was all in his field of vision, Lao Lin just felt that he was very confused by the hot tea stove behind him, and it was not uncommon for an ambitious vassal king like Hengwangfu to be.

Lao Lin thought rather boredly, didn't the person in charge inside know that the people he sent were intercepted thirty miles outside the city, and now Qingzhou is waiting for the surrounding guards to complete the deployment of troops, and then close the siege. Yawned, Lao Lin rubbed his eyes, felt that there was some movement at the gate of the palace opposite, and put his eyes on the gap to see, Lao Lin was suddenly stunned, I don't know when, the guards at the gate of the palace had fallen to the ground, and there were dozens of masked knights in dark clothes standing there!!