Chapter 238: Mount Dai

In this atmosphere that was acceptable to all parties, but not very harmonious, the day after leaving Danyang with Concubine Lian's honor guard, he left the road that went straight from Danyang to Yuhang, turned southwest, and headed towards Jinzhou first. Whether it is Dongping or Yunzhou, it will not be so simple to hand over Ye Tao's safety to Chunnan. Behind Ye Tao and his party, two small-scale armies quietly trailed behind them for a few hours at most. One of them is the A team of the special battalion, which is currently only one hundred and fifty people, and after the basic training is completed, it is an adjustment for them to carry out this kind of stealth march mission that seems to be happening; The other is one hundred and twenty-nine cavalry members drawn from the elite of the Tieyun Cavalry, the Jingyun Cavalry, the Frost Wolf Silver Wing, the Guards Cavalry Battalion, the Blood Qi Army, and the Forbidden Army.

And the task of these two troops is very simple, follow Ye Tao into Chunnan, and keep Ye Tao within a distance that they can arrive in an hour or so without being discovered by Chunnan, until Ye Tao embarks on the ship in Yuhang. This is a very challenging task. Compared with Dongping, it may be that Chunnan's army training and combat strength are relatively sparse, but that is in Chunnan, without supplies, it is not easy to sneak for a few months. But both of these small units took on the challenge with great pleasure, and it was precisely because of the difficulty of this kind of march that this type of marching mission was very interesting. In fact, the special battalion A began to deliberately misunderstand the mission as soon as they received it, and their understanding was that they could be found to be bandits, horse thieves, and robbers. Smuggling caravans, gangs, migrating outcasts...... Anyway, don't be treated as Dongping's army.

Perhaps out of the desire to strengthen the connection between the two sides, Sun Jin and Ye Tao walked together. For Concubine Lian and her party, for those who are scheduled to play an important role in the process of accompanying Chang Ling, Sun Jin is indeed dispensable for Concubine Lian and her party. In fact, too many people didn't understand why Chang Hongquan would marry Chang Huaiyin, who may not be particularly favored in the royal family, but no one questioned her grace and grace, and no one questioned her importance, to such an "insignificant" poor student. That's not what Chang Hongquan can explain by avoiding suspicion and not wanting to marry the children of the family to continue to attract the courtiers' jealousy of him.

And as Sun Jin accompanied Ye Tao on his journey, Chang Fu naturally had to send people to take care of Sun Jin's living and safety, and among the many people who came to Chang Fu this time, the real one in charge was the steward Chang Yong who had been cut by Ye Tao in the end.

The speed of Ye Tao and his party was different from that of Concubine Lian, who was slowly moving forward and slowly enjoying the admiration and admiration of the people along the way, and it only took them four days to enter the territory of Chunnan.

The location of Jinzhou is quite west of Chunnan, only 300 miles away from the border between Chunnan and Xiling. As a matter of fact. It is precisely because of the fact that the Juxian King Chang Hongquan has repeatedly become the mainstay of the region's defense against Xiling when Xiling invaded the land, and their position in Chunnan has always stood firm no matter how they struggle within the imperial court. Those who dare to move the line of King Juxian, I am afraid that the so-called crisis of land seizure may not really be eliminated, but it will lead to a comprehensive backlash from Golden State and the four states on the entire defense line west of Golden State. And that's not all. In the boundaries of several state capitals around Jinzhou, although Chang Hongquan, the king of Juxian, did not deliberately buy them, the people of the palace of Juxian also had a high level of influence. This point is very obvious to Ye Tao and others. There were still three days to go from the Golden State, and the envoys sent by Chang Yong in advance often only spoke to the magistrate. When Ye Tao and his entourage arrived, all arrangements were implemented in accordance with the highest standards. Chunnan is indeed rich, and he is a little extravagant, although Ye Tao doesn't necessarily like this feeling of extravagance and waste along the way, but since he doesn't pay for it himself, it doesn't seem to matter. He knew that the reception expenses along the way were also not paid by the Juxian Palace. Instead, it was all included in the cost of Chunnan's provincial reception.

This day came to Yizhou. This is the capital of a state with a peculiar topography in the central part of Chunnan. The vast majority of Yizhou is very flat, with lush plains deciduous broad-leaved forests and farmland, and agriculture and forestry are very developed.

However, Yizhou, which can almost be called a flat river, has three mountains on the landform that are extremely out of harmony. The pedestals of these three mountains are not large, but the height is considerable. Due to the steepness of the terrain and the good view, these three mountain villas have always been the best place for the wealthy families who control the boundaries of these three mountains to build mountain villa residences.

Due to the precipitous terrain of Tibetan Sword Peak, only an unknown Taoist sect has built a Taoist temple on the top of the mountain, and it hardly interacts with the outside world except for daily shopping. Since White Horse Mountain has never belonged to any family completely, from the top of the mountain to the middle of the mountain, there are many estates of wealthy families. Although it does not detract from the beauty of the plains from the mountains. But to settle a few hundred people, it is inevitably a bit complicated and trivial.

Thereupon. The place where they stayed in Yizhou was the Vanke Villa on the Zhendai Mountain, which belonged to the extremely famous Yizhou royal family. Vanke Villa is the old man of the Wang family, Wang Shi spent almost 20 years renovating and rebuilding when he was young, and finally had today's scale, hiding exquisiteness in the plain, layered dense building communities and mountains perfectly matched, taking into account the natural landscape, architectural beauty, practicality, safety and defense and the simplicity of daily maintenance, in the cumbersome and flashy architectural fashion of Chunnan, it can be regarded as an outlier. And after the old man Wang Shi ostentatiously led the viewing of Vanke Villa, Ye Tao privately withdrew the comment to Sun Jin that "there is no garden in Chunnan that is worth his visit", which can be regarded as a very high evaluation of the old man Wang Shi.

Old man Wang Shi has handed over the affairs of the family to his nephews and nephews, and he likes all kinds of things. , especially those subtle things. Wang Shi was overjoyed by Ye Tao's arrival, and there were three Tissot grandfather clocks from Ye's workshop that he had disassembled and failed to fully assemble in his study. Wang Shi bought a total of six table clocks, and except for three that were placed all over the villa, the other three were dismantled by him. He originally dismantled a table clock with an anchor escapement, but he couldn't install it, he wanted to buy another one for reference, but he didn't expect that the person below bought a second-generation table clock with a locust claw escapement, and when he disassembled it and didn't install it, he bought another one...... As a result, it was that Yip's workshop produced only a small number of table clocks with the latest models of coaxial escapements.

The lovely personality of Mr. Wang Shi and the great charm of Vanke Villa made Ye Tao decide to stay here for two more days. It can be regarded as letting the guards who are desperately following Chunnan who have not fallen behind take a breath and rest. At noon the next day, Bi Xiaoqing suddenly came to announce: "My lord, there is information from the special battalion that they were stationed in the forest in the northwest yesterday. There was movement in the woods, and they did not move at night in order not to be discovered. After investigating, it was found that after a battle in the forest, from the traces left behind, both sides should have chased and fled through the forest, and should have come in this direction. ”

Ye Tao frowned and said, "You tell everyone to be more careful." After all, this is Chunnan, as long as it doesn't really conflict with us, we try not to interfere in other people's internal affairs. ”

Bi Xiaoqing responded: "Yes." Don't worry, adults. "For these guards around Ye Tao, they have always been very vigilant, and their strong personal ability makes situations like double posts and double posts meaningless. Bi Xiaoqing only instructed that there might be a situation, so that everyone could keep an eye on it, and then sent a total of fifteen people divided into five groups to reconnoiter the surroundings of Vanke Villa in the name of hunting and playing. The two well-trained golden eagles they were carrying, which could be used to deliver messages and search the ground, were also released, ensuring that at least until night fell, there were no anomalies on the ground around them.

Although Bi Xiaoqing arranged these things in an extremely low-key manner, the movements of Ye Tao's guards still attracted the attention of Chunnan.

It didn't take long for Huo Dong, the commander of the Chunnan side, to find Bi Xiaoqing and cautiously ask what was going on.

Bi Xiaoqing weighed the situation for a while, thinking that anyway, as long as the people on the Chunnan side didn't find out about the special battalion or the escort cavalry, it didn't matter. The fact that the special battalion reported the situation to him was enough to prove that there must be something on their side that attracted their attention, and what happened in the woods where they lurked might not be so simple. However, how to explain it to Huo Dong? The golden eagle flashed in front of Bi Xiaoqing's eyes, and he immediately had an idea.

"General Huo, the eagle we brought with us found something in the forest in the north." Bi Xiaoqing also kindly explained: "This is an eagle trained by Yunzhou for battlefield reconnaissance and transmission of military information, and the scope of visiting the ground is particularly large. I should have seen something, it's far away from here, so I shouldn't be coming from here. However, if not prevention, at least let our brothers relax and go out for a run. ”

Bi Xiaoqing's words are very convincing. The real golden eagle flying in the air is the best footnote.

Huo Dong didn't think much about it, and naturally showed a worried look. Originally, he was just a middle-level officer in the Chunnan Forbidden Army, and at the age of almost forty-five, he still couldn't go up or down. I'm afraid he will have to retire from the army in a few years. This time for the escort mission, Ye Tao was quite easy to get along with, except for the tight grasp of the itinerary, he was very good at talking at other times. And Jinzhou is already in sight, so Huo Dong is indeed a little relaxed.

"Lord Bi, please be relieved, I will tell you to pay more attention. If someone disturbs Ye Jingluo, it will be bad. For Huo Dong, this is true, once something happens, then I'm afraid he, the captain of the forbidden army, will really not be able to be it.