After being scolded by his father inexplicably, Changshi Xue Mo'er hurriedly explained: "Although he has an alliance with us, if the crown prince falls into his hands, it will be very disadvantageous to us. ”

Liang Wu sighed, but his heart was still confused, although Liang Shiyan had long been dead to this son, he still couldn't help but have a kind of hatred for iron and steel at this moment, thinking of the second son, the current Tongzheng County Gong, Jingzhou Thorn Shi Liang Gang, Liang Shiyan is even more headache, this son is the best of his five sons, and the greatest achievement, but he just disagrees with his Lao Tzu's proposition.

"No, the crown prince must be in the hands of this father." Liang Shiyan said fiercely, his beard fluttering under his chin.

"My lord, Liang Mo is not here, could it be that my lord wants to lead the team in person?" Xue Mo'er asked.

Liang Shiyan nodded, and Xue Mo'er reminded: "My lord, there are only five hundred cavalry in Puzhou now, and if you want to succeed, you must be ahead of Zhang Xu." ”

"Not bad." Liang Shiyan turned around and ordered: "Pass on the order of this duke, immediately gather the whole army and set off for Wanrong County." ”

"Yes." A general beside Liang Shiyan responded loudly.

As soon as Pei Tong walked out of the small courtyard where he lived, he immediately found that today's Assassin's Mansion was a little different from the past, and from time to time a sergeant walked past him, and he hurriedly grabbed a general and asked, "What happened?" ”

The famous general was suddenly grabbed and was about to be reprimanded, but when he saw that it was Pei Tong, he hurriedly changed his smiling face: "Back to the young master, the master received the prince's edict and wanted to lead the troops to Wanrong County to meet the prince." ”

"Vang Vieng County? The prince is in Vang Vieng County. Pei Tong's heart was shocked, and he was suddenly shocked: "It's not good, my uncle is going to kidnap the prince, what should I do?" He didn't know that the information he had passed up had reached Yang Yong's hands, so he couldn't help but be very anxious, the secret clothes guard was loyal to the court, and naturally he had to be loyal to the prince. Seeing that the prince is in trouble, how can there be any reason not to save him.

"Young Master Cousin, the small ones are still going to be assembled." Seeing that Pei Tong was a little unthinking, the general was secretly strange in his heart.

"Go ahead." Pei Tong waved his hand weakly.

After waiting for the famous general to leave, Pei Tong thought about it and said secretly: "No, I must also follow my uncle to Wanrong County." He made up his mind and immediately went in the direction where the sergeants had gathered.

Outside the Puzhou Rashi Mansion, 500 cavalry had already assembled. Liang Shiyan stood in front on horseback, holding a long, long white beard fluttering in the wind, although he was nearly seventy years old, he was old and strong, and the sergeants around him seemed to see the years when their land commander led himself to charge the enemy.

Liang Shiyan looked at his subordinates with satisfaction, half of these people were the elites who had followed him for many years. They are all between thirty and forty years old, but the other half is to absorb bandits from all over the world, choose their strength and record them, and their hands are stained with many lives, although they are not as good as his elite subordinates. But he is also a rare elite soldier, after he was transferred to Puzhou Assassin History, although he knew that Puzhou was not a place to raise soldiers. He still used his savings to form this army, and now it was harvest time. As long as you can catch the crown prince, everything is worth it.

Look at these soldiers. Liang Shiyan still has a little regret. It's a pity that Liang Mo and the other 500 soldiers are not in Puzhou, and they can't be recovered for a while. Otherwise, this operation will be even more foolproof.

"Let's go." Liang Shiyan stretched forward, and hundreds of people knocked the horse's body at the same time, and the sound of roaring hooves suddenly sounded.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute." Everyone turned around in astonishment, only to see a person riding a horse from the Raid Mansion and hurrying over.

"Who dares to be so bold?" Liang Shiyan is old, and his eyes are not good.

"My lord, it's my cousin." Xue Mo'er hurriedly returned.

Seeing that it was Pei Tong, the sergeant did not stop him, and while speaking, Pei Tong had already come to Liang Shiyan's side: "Uncle, I heard that the prince is in Wanrong, and Tong'er also wants to visit the prince in Wanrong County." ”

Liang Shiyan was about to refuse, but Xue Mo'er said softly in Liang Shiyan's ear: "Pei family." ”

What a big deal is a rebellion, even if Liang Shiyan and the Pei family are nephews and uncles, before they are completely sure, Liang Shiyan did not communicate with the Pei family, Xue Mo'er mentioned this point, Liang Shiyan immediately reacted, this move is undoubtedly the time to drag the Pei family into the water, if Pei Tong is also involved in the kidnapping of the prince this time, unless the Pei family does not want this son, it will definitely be complicated.

"Well, the prince is young and is about to associate with a young man like you." Liang Shiyan said with a smile on his face.

Pei Tong originally prepared a set of words, but he didn't expect his uncle to agree so easily, he only felt that his heart was beating hard, and he felt a burst of guilt, but he immediately put it behind, my uncle couldn't succeed, I was loyal to the Pei family and the court

Pei Tong's joining, only let the army stop for a while, and immediately start to set off again, the sound of horses' hooves of "splashing thorns, splashing" can be heard from afar, and the people on the official road have dodged, looking at the back of the cavalry in the distance, and there are many discussions, I don't know what happened, I need to lead the army to set off in person.

Liang Shiyan had asked Liang Mo to sneak in when he set off with his troops, so that no one knew, but this time he couldn't care about anything in order to be in a hurry, so he galloped in the city, and when he got out of the city gate, he was even faster, and he stayed overnight along the way, and rushed to the direction of Wanrong County.

In Wanrong County, Yang Yong, Lu Mulin, and Liu Hu were discussing the current situation, and Lu Mulin was full of joy: "Your Highness, Zhang Xu only has dozens of family members with him, and he will be able to rush to Wanrong County in another day." ”

"Okay, this palace estimates that Zhang Xu may not come to Wanrong County first, but will converge with the army in the valley, has there been any changes in the army in the valley in the past few days?"

"Your Highness put down, there is no change in the valley army, they have no leader, and they don't know how many men and horses we have, they probably still want to consume, but even so, they can't let Zhang Xu directly reach the valley mouth, otherwise let the valley army hear the shouting and killing, it is likely to risk death and break the valley, whether to send dozens of people to ambush in the distance first, and wait for Zhang Xu to arrive and then kill him by surprise."

"Well, this is possible, but the guards of the besieged area in the valley cannot be reduced, and only fifty people can be drawn from here to prepare." Yang Yong's eyes suddenly fell on Liu Hu: "Liu Hu, this time you will lead the team to ambush Zhang Xu, are you sure?" ”

Liu Hu got up from the chair, his face flushed: "Your Highness, rest assured, I am willing to write down the military order, if you don't catch Zhang Xu, I am willing to raise my head."

"Remember, live or die, sit down." Yang Yong gently patted Liu Hudi on the shoulder.

Liu Hu's eyes were red. Although his age is one year older than Yang Yong, but Yang Yong gives him a brotherly feeling everywhere, he is deeply grateful, and he wants to behave in front of Yang Yong, but he chased people away for the first time, although this person did not escape in the end, but it did not reduce his pressure and guilt, this time it was undoubtedly the prince who gave him the opportunity to make up for his merits.

"Yuwen, is there any news from Liang Shiyan?" Yang Yong had turned to Lu Mulin.

Lu Mulin shook his head. He said softly: "There is no news from the two of them yet." ”

Yang Yong had to put it down for the time being, and said, "Then wait for the news, and take Zhang Xu first." ”

Liang Shiyan's news did not make Yang Yong wait long, and in the afternoon of the same day, Lu Mulin came to Yang Yong with a secret report that Liang Shiyan had sent 500 troops.

After taking the secret report, Yang Yong was suddenly moved, and Liang Shiyan led the troops for decades. Experienced in a hundred battles, his subordinates are elite, even if the two sides have the same strength, Yang Yong does not dare to be sure that he will win, not to mention that now Yang Yong has only a hundred troops at hand. It's only one-fifth of Liang Shiyan's.

"How many days will Liang Shiyan have to reach Wanxian?"

"Back to His Highness, Liang Shiyan has been on the road non-stop, according to their previous steps. The day after tomorrow at the earliest, and the day after tomorrow at the latest. ”

"The day after tomorrow. Then it's only been a day, and it's really fast! Yang Yong couldn't help but sigh. Ground is true. Although Puzhou is connected to Hedong County, it is compared to Zhang Xu. The distance is at least twice as much, and he brings more people than Zhang Xu, if he can arrive the day after tomorrow, it is equivalent to only one day slower than Zhang Xu, which is indeed called speed.

"When will the army from Fenzhou arrive?" Yang Yong couldn't help pinning his hopes on reinforcements from Fenzhou.

Lu Mulin's face was heavy: "Back to Your Highness, the 2,000 men and horses in Fenzhou have already crossed the Fen River, but there are 1,500 foot soldiers, and it will take five days to reach Vaengeng." ”

"In this way, Wanrong County only needs to withstand Liang Shiyan's attack for three days, Liang Shiyan came all the way, three days I am afraid it will take at least two days to build siege equipment, although there are only a hundred people around the palace, but with the government service, government soldiers, Wanrong County has no difficulty in gathering thousands of people, Liang Shiyan wants to break the city in one day, that is delusional." Yang Yong's condensed eyebrows stretched.

Lu Mulin did not relax like Yang Yong, and asked a question: "Your Highness, if Liang Shiyan sees that Wanrong is prepared and contacts the defenders in the valley, with Duan Da, Yang Shi's two hundred guards will not be able to withstand the front and rear attacks at all, and His Highness will be in danger at that time, and he must be guarded against." ”

Yang Yong was awe-struck when he heard this, and he didn't subconsciously think that Liang Shiyan might know about the 2,000 men and horses in the valley, in case Liang Shiyan rescued these 2,000 people first, even if the reinforcements from Fenzhou arrived, I am afraid that they would not be able to resist the enemy, Yang Yong thought about it for a long time before saying: "If this is the case, the palace has to abandon Wanrong and go." ”

Hearing that the prince was willing to flee, Lu Mulin relieved himself, if the form was really so sinister at that time, the guards in the city would send the prince away first, and there would not be much danger, but the two hundred guards who stayed in the valley would probably suffer heavy casualties.

Just after the next day, there was a sound of "splashing, splashing" on the official road in the south of the city, a team of more than 20 sergeants galloped on the official road, straight to the direction of Wanrong County, strangely when there were more than 20 miles away from the city, the knight in front of him turned his horse's head and drove into the woods on the side of the road, and then everyone disappeared, if it was seen by the people of Wanrong County, they must know that these people drove into the area that was classified as a forbidden area by the county order a few years ago.

Of course, this team of people is Zhang Xu and his party, the Taishou Mansion of Hezhong County is more than 200 miles away from Wanrong County, and they rushed over from Fucheng in three days, and their speed is not slow.

Into the woods, although the middle road is still quite open, the speed of the group does not feel slowed down, the sky is bright early in July, everyone is early in the morning to hurry, at this time has actually been rushed for more than an hour of the road, no matter the people and horses are a little tired, there is no sun in the forest, the air is fresh, and it is almost to the ground, everyone is rare to relax, let the mount take their own slow walk.

"Lord Thorn Shi, you can reach the valley in ten miles." A staff member smiled and leaned over to Zhang Xu's side and said.

The staff and the more than twenty generals in front of him are all Zhang Xu's most trusted people, and they have been here several times, so they are no strangers to the valley, Zhang Xu snorted, which was a response.

The staff continued: "I really don't know why Yuwen has become so timid, if he had led the troops out earlier, the prince would have been in our grasp. ”

"Yu Wencheng is just a small county order, and in the face of the prince, it is common for him to lose ground in advance and retreat, and this credit is still a godsend to Lord Rashi." Another staff member patted the horse's ass.

Zhang Xu was about to answer, he suddenly felt that something was wrong around him, this feeling was like the feeling of being targeted by fierce beasts when he often climbed mountains and mountains with his brother Zhang Bin before he made his career, of course, whether it was his brother Zhang Bin or himself, he had a good martial arts and was not afraid of any fierce beasts.

"Stop." Zhang Xu raised his hand, and the generals who were moving forward pulled the reins and looked at Zhang Xu with puzzled eyes.

"My lord, what's going on?" One of the staff members couldn't help but ask.

"Listen, what is the sound?"

Everyone pricked up their ears, except for the gasps of the mounts under them, and there was a sudden silence around them, and one of the generals said, "Go back to your lordship, there is no sound." ”

This is summer, it is the most active season for all kinds of insects, how can there be no insect chirping, a staff member reacted: "My lord, retreat!" ”

As soon as the staff member's words fell, a voice sounded in the woods: "Shoot! ”