Liang Fangping's initial mistake was not to take it to heart when the granary caught fire, until this incident stabbed in front of the Son of Heaven, causing the Son of Heaven to be angry, and then sent a military supervision envoy to Hebei, Liang Fangping realized the seriousness of the matter.

Three days ago, Wang Hao told him in the form of a flying pigeon that three inspectors from the Military Prison had gone to Hebei and told him to prepare as soon as possible.

Liang Fangping is really worried, of course in his capacity he will not directly do such things as embezzling military rations and fraud, but he cannot guarantee that all his subordinates are honest, especially several officials in charge of warehouses pay him a lot of money every year, and it is self-evident where these benefits come from.

Once the problem is found below, his responsibility will be great, and this is likely to be Cai Jing's planning behind his back, once he is caught by the inspector, Cai Jing will spare himself?

Liang Fangping was really worried and paced back and forth in the room, at this time, his staff member Cui Mi suggested on the side: "Since the envoy is worried about the supervision of the accident, then find a way to make the supervision envoy unable to come to Hebei." ”

"But the inspector is divided into three ways, how can I get it?"

"Have you forgotten what the prince said in his letter? The military department is Wang Xianggong's person all the way, there is no need to worry, the Privy Council is all the way to Hejian Mansion, there are only three military warehouses in Hejian Mansion, there should be no big problem, the key is the Zhending Mansion this way, Li Yanqing is Liang Shicheng's person, he is the focus of this supervision, so it is better to make a fuss about him. ”

Liang Fangping stopped and said thoughtfully: "You mean, intercept Li Yanqing's branch?" ”

"Of course, it's not to let the envoys make a move, I remember that the team in Taihang Mountain has been favored by the envoys, and now it's time for them to contribute."

Liang Fangping nodded slowly, "I understand." ”

........

After Li Yanqing extracted 300 township soldiers with a silver medal in Anyang County, he continued to go north and entered the territory of Cizhou.

Wang Gui and Yue Fei each commanded a hundred people, and Li Yanqing also personally led a hundred township soldiers, and with the escort of the soldiers, the officials breathed a long sigh of relief, at least they didn't have to worry about the danger of encountering thieves.

Although the three hundred people are township soldiers, they have all experienced following Li Yanqing to suppress bandits in Hebei, plus Wang Gui is usually well-trained, the three hundred soldiers are neat, vigorous, and very full of spirit, they wear Fan Yang hats, leather armor, ash guns on their shoulders, and war knives at their waists, one hundred of them are also equipped with crossbows, and there are ten cavalrymen, who can't see that they are township soldiers at all, and they are even more powerful than the local army.

Wang Gui and Yue Fei both wore armor and rode war horses, Yue Fei's horse was given to him by Li Yanqing, which was the snow arrow white horse that Li Yanqing rode when he first entered Beijing, and the weapon was an iron spear given to him by his master Zhou Tong.

However, Yue Fei is not good at riding and shooting, he carried a divine arm crossbow, which is the standard crossbow of the Song army's crossbowmen, the bow body is three feet three, the string length is two feet five, the maximum range is as far as three hundred and forty steps, and the killing range is two hundred and forty steps, which can penetrate heavy armor.

Wang Gui made a sixty pound gold-backed tiger tooth knife, although his other martial arts are commonplace, but he has worked the knife technique, coupled with Zhou Dong's true biography, so that his knife skills are extremely powerful, and his war horse is the same as Li Yanqing, it is also given to him by the seed master, and it was captured on the battlefield of Western Xia, it is an extremely majestic black-maned horse, which can carry thousands of catties.

Wang Gui was not happy to be an official in Anyang, and he had always been a little depressed, but this time he followed Li Yanqing to the north, and he became energetic again, and he was listening to him scold Liang Fangping, the transfer envoy, all the way.

"I've never seen such a shameless person, a dignified and high-ranking official, who is actually untrustworthy, and even my little group training has to be calculated!"

Li Yanqing smiled: "What happened to make you hate him so much?" ”

Wang Gui snorted heavily and said, "Do you remember the 1,000 yuan per month training money I got last time I went to Beijing and asked you to help me?" At that time, Liang Fangping personally promised to give me at least half of it, damn it, he actually divided the 1,000 yuan evenly among the states, and I only got 50 yuan in the end, only 50 yuan per month! I have a thousand soldiers, why don't you hate him? ”

Li Yanqing smiled dumbly, he understood Wang Gui's mood very well, he worked hard for a few months, and finally made a wedding dress for others, but he didn't get anything, who can not be annoyed by such a result?

At this time, Yue Fei rode a horse to catch up with them, and whispered to Li Yanqing: "Beware of mountain bandits in Cizhou!" ”

Li Yanqing said strangely: "Aren't Tao Jun, the Mixed Mountain Tiger and Jia Jin, the Golden-eyed Eagle, already extinct?" How can there be mountain bandits? ”

Yue Fei shook his head and smiled: "It's not these two, they originally had a three-master who stayed in Cizhou, called Luo Jin, Jia Jin died in Handan County, Tao Jun went to Huang County in the Daimyo Mansion to station, Luo Jin took three hundred people to stay in Fushan, and was later defeated by officers and soldiers, and fled into Taihang Mountain. ”

'From Liangshan?' ’

Li Yanqing hurriedly asked, "What's your name?" ”

"It seems to be called Lu Fang, nicknamed Xiao Wenhou, who made a Fang Tian painting halberd, it is said that he single-handedly subdued the Taihang bandits, and now he is very popular."

It turned out to be a bandit in Liangshan, Li Yanqing knew that this Lu Fang must be the general of Lu Junyi's faction, and refused to accept Zhao'an, so he ran to Taihang Mountain to set up his own mountain.

"Lao Li, don't underestimate this guy, he still has some ability." Wang Gui said sullenly on the side.

Li Yanqing glanced at Wang Gui obliquely, "Listening to your tone, it seems that you have suffered his loss?" ”

"Don't mention it, mentioning this is a belly of fire!"

Wang Gui hated and said: "Originally, Xiangzhou and Cizhou teamed up to almost destroy Luo Jin, I led the township soldiers to burn the cottage of Fushan, Luo Jin was rescued by Lu Fang, the two led more than 100 people to retreat to Fukou Pass to re-establish the cottage, and said that the two states joined forces to completely exterminate them, as a result, Xiangzhou changed Zhizhou at this juncture, and the new Zhizhou refused to join forces with Cizhou again, Cizhou Zhang Zhizhou had to lead a thousand people into Fukou to suppress the bandits, and as a result, they were ambushed by Lu Fang, defeated and returned, and the bandits quickly recovered their vitality. It is even more unscrupulous to plague the people of Cizhou and Xingzhou. ”

Li Yanqing pointed to the official in front of him and said, "Could it be that we will also encounter mountain bandits robbing the road when we walk on the official road?" ”

Wang Gui shook his head, "It's hard to say, it's the New Year now, and it's just when the mountain bandits are rampant, but they are all dispatched in small groups, and we have three hundred township soldiers, so we shouldn't be afraid." ”

Yue Fei frowned, "It's better to be cautious, Handan County still has more than one hundred and thirty miles, and the middle is hilly, and the terrain is relatively complicated, or I will take a dozen brothers to explore the road in front!" See if there's a place to spend the night. ”

Li Yanqing looked at the sky, it was already afternoon, and said, "Be careful yourself, don't go too far, Zhang Ying, you and Yue Dutou go together." ”

"Obedience!"

Zhang Ying saluted, and then he and Yue Fei rushed to the front with ten cavalrymen.

Li Yanqing immediately ordered the team to slow down and not stretch too long, with the shield bearers on the periphery and the ox carts in the middle, and everyone tried to keep a phalanx forward.

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Cizhou is greatly influenced by the Taihang Mountain, the terrain is high in the west and the bottom in the east, three points of mountains, three points of hills and three points of plains, the official road is located in the middle of the hilly area, the famous Taihang Fukou is in the west of them.

Because the terrain is more complicated, so there are not many county seats in Cizhou, only the southernmost Fuyang County, which is also the seat of the state capital, in addition to Handan County in the north and Wu'an County in the northwest, Fuyang County is at least two hundred miles away from Handan County, and after walking through dozens of miles of plain areas from Fuyang to the north, it has entered the hilly area of more than 100 miles.

Due to the serious banditry, the people of Cizhou live around Fuyang County in the south and Handan County in the north, and the hilly area in the middle is vast and sparsely populated, with few villages and only a few small towns scattered in the middle.

Yue Fei took Zhang Ying and the cavalry out of twenty miles in one go, Yue Fei walked a few times, he was slightly familiar with the surrounding terrain, he remembered that there should be a mountain temple nearby, just enough for them to rest.

Yue Fei reined in his horse and looked around, "This mountain is called Cloud Turning Ridge, I remember that there should be a mountain temple here." ”

"Is it there?" Zhang Ying suddenly pointed to the distance on the left and shouted.

Yue Fei also saw that on a low hill hundreds of steps away, there was a small temple standing alone, surrounded by a circle of pine trees, because it was covered with snow, the small temple and the surroundings were integrated, and it was easy to be ignored.

"That's it, let's go check it out."

Yue Fei turned his horse's head and rushed into the snow, running towards the low mountain, when he was still dozens of steps away from the low mountain, he suddenly reined in the horse, and hurriedly waved his hand to the people behind, and the snow at the foot of the mountain was covered with footprints, extending into the small temple on the mountain.

Zhang Ying also saw it, he immediately pulled out his knife and held the shield in his hand, and the ten cavalrymen behind him also followed suit and blocked their bodies with shields.

Yue Fei didn't need a shield, it was enough for him to have a spear, he took out his spear and said to everyone: "You wait here, I'll go up and have a look." ”

"Yue Dutou, I'll go with you." Zhang Ying was also ready to follow him up the mountain.

"No, you should pay attention to the perimeter at the bottom of the mountain."

Yue Fei urged the horse to go up the low mountain, and cautiously walked into the small temple from a section of the collapsed wall, he knew in his heart that there was a light snow last night, if it was the footprints from before, it should be covered, but there was no snow on these footprints, which means that it only appeared today, and it was approaching the New Year, and the caravan had stopped moving, and twenty or thirty pairs of fresh footprints suddenly appeared, and he didn't have to think about who this person would be.

There is only one main hall and one side room in the small temple, Yue Fei walked around, there was no one in the temple, and a large number of footprints went out from the back door.

"Come in!"

Yue Fei shouted, "There is no one in the temple. ”

At this time, Yue Fei came out of the main hall and said to everyone solemnly: "The fire pond in the main hall is still hot, the mountain bandits should not go far, I want to investigate, you go to pick up Li Yushi." ”

Zhang Ying said: "I'll go with you!" ”

This time, Yue Fei did not refuse, and one more person was more conducive to probing the situation.

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