Three.

Chenguo North Outpost, Anlan City.

Fan Mengqiu suddenly appeared, Zhao Haoran didn't pay attention to it, because Wan Ying and the secret guard were familiar with each other, he also knew Fan Mengqiu, he just said that the secret guard had some new tasks, Fan Mengqiu came to Anlan to carry it out, and by the way, I came to see King Yuwen, after all, King Yuwen was kind to Fan Mengqiu, and it was reasonable. It's just that on the night Fan Mengqiu came, another secret guard came, and Zhao Haoran vaguely remembered that he seemed to be the ninth, and in the middle of the night, he didn't stay in his room, and he didn't know what to do in the Yuwen Wang's room.

Zhao Haoran was suspicious at this time, and immediately went back to the room to write a secret fold, he was weak since he was a child, and his father sent him to practice martial arts, although he joined the army at a young age, he still had some kung fu on his body, and he could hear that there were people on the roof. Zhao Haoran hurriedly put the fold into the black gold box, held the box in his arms, extinguished the candle, and lay on the bed. Lying quietly for a while, Zhao Haoran estimated that the people on the roof had left, then got up, lit the faint lamp, and began to write excerpts on the bed. After thinking about it, Zhao Haoran locked the tiger talisman and a handkerchief into the black gold box again.

So when Fan Mengqiu came to ask for the Xuanwu Tiger Talisman, Zhao Haoran pinched the purse given to him by Wanying with his left hand and looked at him coldly.

"Master Fan, no matter how many times you say it, I will not give you the Tiger Talisman." Zhao Haoran said.

"This is Your Majesty's will." Fan Mengqiu put the holy decree in front of him, "General Zhao should know that I am from Wucheng." ”

Coming from Wucheng, it may not be the meaning of King Ping. How easy is it? What's more, you Fan Mengqiu has extraordinary martial arts, and you have worked in the military camp for a few years, and Anlan also has many generals who are your old friends, you are going to leave the Tiger Fu, where can I still keep Anlan?

"If Your Majesty wants a tiger talisman, it will naturally pass the order to the right general, and the right general will pass the order to me, since ancient times, there is no reason for Your Majesty to directly order the tiger talisman, the Chen Kingdom is strictly hierarchical, and Lord Fan is in a key position, so he will not understand." Zhao Haoran said lightly, "Master Fan is tired of traveling and driving, go and rest." ”

Fan Mengqiu glanced at him deeply, but he didn't care, turned around and left.

When Fan Mengqiu walked away, Zhao Haoran couldn't support it anymore, he only felt that his heart hurt for a while, he covered his heart and said, "Chen Guyu!" ”

"General Zhao?" A man stepped out of the screen behind him. To say that this Chen Guyu can be regarded as having some background, he is Chen Hanshi's eldest brother, the eldest son of the Chen family, but at the age of nineteen, he gave up the glory and wealth of the family and resolutely joined the army, and was later transferred to Anlan to Zhao Haoran as a personal guard, and it has been many years. Chen Guyu is honest and helpful, and he is very popular in the army, and Zhao Haoran often asks him to do something.

"Send it back to Wucheng and hand it over to the national teacher!" Zhao Haoran stuffed a box into Chen Guyu's arms, "Death can't let it fall into the hands of others, it must be delivered safely, cough cough..."

"General!"

"Two days ago, I felt that my body couldn't exert my strength, and I couldn't tell the reason why I called the doctor to come and see it, and today Fan Mengqiu came to ask for the tiger talisman again, thinking that it must be the king of Yuwen who drugged me." Zhao Haoran stood up stiffly, "I'm fine, you ride a Dawan horse, take a small road out of the city, leave now, it's too late if you don't leave!" ”

Chen Guyu also heard the conversation just now, and he already understood a little in his heart, and saw that Zhao Haoran was already weak, but he planned to defend the city to the death, his heart was hot, he knelt down and kowtowed to him heavily, wiped his tears on his face, turned around and left.

Watching Chen Guyu leave, Zhao Hao collapsed on the stool in a dejected manner, not knowing what he was thinking.

Anlan City is the northern outpost of Chenguo, and there is no spring and summer, only autumn and winter. Anlan in winter is known as the ice city, it is said that this place was not called Anlan but the evil city in those days, because every winter the whole city will freeze, and many people will freeze to death. King Chenxian, the founding monarch of the Kingdom of Chen, renamed it Anlan, hoping that it would settle down and no longer plague the people.

The terrain of Chen country is high in the middle and low all around, the Guxi mountain range crosses the Chen country, at the foot of the Guxi mountain is the royal capital Wucheng, easy to defend and difficult to attack, there is still the mother river of the Chen country outside the Wucheng Lin Zhong River. The climate in Guxi Shanbei is harsh, so in the eyes of the prisoners, it is much better to be locked in a water prison than to be "exiled to Guxi Shanbei". In addition, the northeast of Guxi Mountain is close to the country of Si, and the border residents of the country are cruel and tyrannical, and they are exiled there, which is basically a dead end.

A large area of land in the north of Guxi Mountain, called Qingzhou, is under the jurisdiction of Qingzhou City, Anlan is on the edge of Qingzhou City, it is the military center of Guxi Mountain, raising 100,000 soldiers, Zhao Haoran calculated, as long as there is no tiger talisman, this 100,000 army, King Yuwen can not easily move.

Anlan's top general is Zhao Haoran himself, and he also has a general Zhong Yaofan who assists him in doing things, he is a native of Anlan, and he is respectful to Zhao Haoran on weekdays, except for being timid, he can't find anything wrong with him.

Zhao Haoran married Wang Wanying in her mother's womb, grew up together, and the two had no guesses, and when Zhao Haoran was nineteen years old, it was easy to marry her, and she didn't want to be transferred to Anlan by a paper order, so the matter of marrying Wanying was delayed. In another year, when his term of office expires, he will be able to fall back to Wucheng, he and the late cherry blossoms agreed that in the spring of the next year, when the cherry blossoms in Wucheng are the best, he will marry her, but now it seems that he can't.

Knowing the rebellion of King Yuwen, Zhao Haoran brought the determination to die, he knew that King Yuwen was resourceful, and the number nine brought by Fan Mengqiu was even smarter, if they used tactics to seize An Lan, he had no room for maneuver, he only asked the tiger talisman to return to Wucheng well, if he couldn't protect An Lan, he would be martyred.

It's just late cherry blossoms, late cherry blossoms......

Thinking of the evening cherry blossoms, Zhao Haoran's heart was depressed, his blood surged up, and he vomited a mouthful of blood.

It's night.

It was already late, but Zhao Haoran didn't sleep, he sat neatly dressed on a chair and waited for someone, waiting for King Yuwen to come to him, and sure enough, as soon as the time passed, King Yuwen came.

"Tiger Talisman." King Yuwen was also straightforward, straight to the point, without even a bit of nonsense.

"I have already told Lord Fan during the day that without the order of General You, I will not give the tiger talisman to anyone." Zhao Haoran is neither humble nor arrogant.

King Yuwen squinted: "Zhao Haoran, you don't want to get an inch." ”

"Zhen Ying exam in the sixteenth year of King Chenping, the palace exam is what you tried me, I was the fourth in the palace exam that year, according to the rules of Chenguo, I am your student, please don't force students to come here."

"Students?" King Yuwen sneered, "Are you the only student in my Song Gucheng?" Take him down. ”

Zhao Haoran was already weak, and King Yuwen ordered people to drug him every day, because of the trace amount, so Dr. Ren couldn't diagnose it, and when Zhao Haoran felt that he was sick, he was powerless. It's just that the pride of being a soldier does not allow Zhao Haoran to be soft on King Yuwen, he straightens his back and stares at King Yuwen.

Fan Mengqiu and No. 9 came in, Fan Mengqiu didn't even bring the sword of Si Ming, thinking about it, he felt that Zhao Haoran must be the turtle in the urn, he shot very fast, others didn't see it clearly, he had reached out and pointed at Zhao Haoran's acupuncture points, making him unable to move.

"Where's the Tiger Talisman?" King Gowen asked, "I'll ask you one last time. ”

"I don't know." Zhao Haoran smiled and said, "Even if you kill me, I will only give you one answer, I, no, know, and Tao." ”

"You don't say yes, do you? Meng Qiu, take him to be locked up. King Yuwen smiled, "General Zhong, search." ”

Zhong Yaofan walked out from behind the door and saluted King Yuwen, "Yes." When Zhao Haoran saw him, he immediately scolded: "Zhong is going to be fan, it's against you!" "General Zhao, Zhong is comfortable doing things under you, and he has always obeyed you, but I can't agree to this matter." Zhong Yaofan said expressionlessly, "Master Fan, I'm sorry for you." ”

Fan Mengqiu shrugged, lifted Zhao Haoran and flew out, locked Zhao Haoran in a firewood room, locked the door and went out. The more Zhao Haoran thought about it in the dark firewood room, the more angry he became, his heart ached, and he almost fainted. I don't know how long it took, but Zhong was going to come in. Seeing him coming, Zhao Haoran opened his mouth and scolded again, Zhong Yaofan said: "General Zhao, your life is short, it is better to save effort." You also know that Uncle Han Fu is going to be against after all. There will be a battle in Anlan, and in a war in Anlan, how many people will die under the sword and gun? I am from Anlan, I was born here and grew up here, how can I bear to let the people suffer such pain? It is better to descend to King Yuwen, save a big war for Anlan, and save the lives of the people. ”

"You, you ......" Zhao Haoran was angry, and vomited a mouthful of blood, "What nonsense!" Rebellion is rebellion, where did this remark come from? He pondered Zhong Yaofan's words, "You said that Emperor Han Fu rebelled?" "Yes, with the Yuwen King, a civil servant, how can he set off any waves in Anlan? There must be someone behind him, perhaps, he and Uncle Han Fuhuang are in a cooperative relationship, or maybe they are using the relationship...... The more Zhao Haoran thought about it, the more he felt that it was not good.

"It's just that you took Anlan, do you think King Yuwen will be able to go south with a large army to capture Wucheng? Do you think that you are rebelling now, not to mention Your Majesty, you are not afraid of King Yuwen unloading and killing donkeys? Zhao Haoran sneered, "Anyway, I'm also a death, it's better to tell you, I have already sent someone to send the tiger talisman back to Wucheng, you can't get it anyway, but no matter how you torture me, I won't go along with you, you go." ”

"You sent the Tiger Talisman away?" Zhong Yaofan's face changed drastically.

"I already knew that you didn't have a good heart, do you just say that I, Zhao Haoran, am I an ordinary person?" Zhao Haoran said, "Uncle Han Fu and King Yuwen are talented, but since the first king has passed on the throne to His Majesty, they should do their best to assist, instead of being rebellious, unrighteous and disloyal. ”

Zhao Haoran used his last bit of strength, almost shouted these words, and the king of Yuwen outside the door was furious, "Push him out and shoot him to death with arrows." King Yuwen gritted his teeth, "I want him to pierce his heart with ten thousand arrows!" ”

In fact, Chen Guyu did not go out of the city immediately, because the deployment of the city gate was replaced by the people of the Yuwen King, Chen Guyu took a lot of thought and planned to go out of the city at night. Zhao Haoran also calculated this step, so he delayed time for Chen Guyu, when King Yuwen searched himself, the troops were all in the barracks, and the city gate was naturally empty, so Chen Guyu could go out. When King Yuwen seized power, Chen Guyu rode Zhao Haoran's Dawan horse given by King Ping with tears on his face, and galloped back to Wucheng all the way. Zhao Haoran deceived King Yuwen and deceived him very beautifully.

This year, in the twenty-first year of King Chenping, on the 19th day of the third month of the Chenguo calendar, Zhao Haoran was pushed to the city gate by Song Gucheng, the king of Yuwen, and ordered 5,000 soldiers to shoot arrows at the same time, and was killed by 10,000 arrows. As if this was not enough, he ordered the body to be hung at the gate of Anlan City for seven days.

Zhao Haoran was born arrogant, even if ten thousand arrows pierced his heart, the corpse still did not fall.

Some people secretly put clothes on General Zhao at night, and the next day King Yuwen was furious when he found out, and ordered the slaughter of the city, and after an hour he took back his order, and most of the remaining people in the city were silent and did not dare to resist again. King Yuwen's move surprised Zhong Yaofan, he wanted to surrender in exchange for the lives of the people, but he didn't expect King Yuwen to kill some of the people in the city. Zhong was angry and resentful, and King Yuwen knew that he would have another branch in the future, so he ordered Fan Mengqiu to kill him.

But what was amazing was that Fan Mengqiu saw with his own eyes that an immortal crane flew around Zhao Haoran's corpse several times, making a terrible hissing sound. He knew that it was the Golden Crow, the Golden Crow that King Ping had relieved the great drought in the world for 20 years. Fan Mengqiu looked at Jin Wu fixedly, not knowing why it appeared here, and thought that Chen Daochang was also there, so he ordered people to search around, but they couldn't find Chen Daochang's shadow.

Later generations passed on the cry of the golden crow in Anlan as if to say, "The general returns, the general returns", and later generations also called the crane the general bird.

There are even wild history records that General Zhao clutched the purse embroidered for him by Wang Wanying until he died.

This mutiny in Anlan City is known as the Anlan Mutiny, which opened the prelude to the civil war in Chen.

Four.

The capital of Chenguo, Wucheng, the royal palace Yangyue Palace.

"I was tired from crying, and I was hungry after not eating for a day, so I fainted." Sun Yuji said, "If the spirit collapses, the body naturally collapses." ”

I looked at the evening cherry blossoms with my eyes closed and my face stained with tears, and sighed deeply.

"The spy of Feng Ge's affair last time, it's hard to say that it's not Fan Mengqiu." Sun Yuji said, "He actually reversed, Yulan, he actually rebelled, I was really afraid when I thought about it." He is usually ordered to protect Princess Xiaoxiang, oh my God...... By the way, what else was in the box that Zhao Haoran sent back that made Wan Ying cry until she fainted? ”

I pulled out a handkerchief from the hand that I was clutching in the evening, "This." ”

Unfolded it, I saw Zhao Haoran's clean and powerful handwriting on it:

In March of the following year, when the cherry blossoms in Wucheng are blooming, I will marry you.

March is the time when the cherry blossoms in Wucheng are in full bloom, but there is no Zhao Haoran here, only a promise that can never be kept.