September 14 of the 6th year of the Holy A.D. Luan Yishuai's army was stationed in Zhongmu County for a month and thirteen days, and the horses visited along the river every other hour, but they never saw any trace of Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses.

However, according to the spy report, Yuan Shao should have appeared south of the river on August 23.

Luan Yi immediately sent a letter to Dong'a to find out the situation in Lu Bu, and the answer he got was the same as what he found - there was no trace of the main force of Yuan's army.

According to the conventions of the Church. The information station of the church's overseas branches shall send a report to the main church on the 15th of each month to confirm the operation of the branch to ensure safety. However, the Jizhou branch has not received a reply as time until now. Taking advantage of this, the thoughtful Guo Jia instantly felt that the situation had changed, and reported to Luan Yi and said: "The spy report obtained is false, and I am afraid that the movements of our army will be known by Yuan Shao." ”

Luan Yi also felt that something was wrong. Originally, he trusted the intelligence system he had built, especially in the way of cipher transmission that had never appeared in the Han Dynasty.

In his opinion, Yuan Shao couldn't crack such an information transmission model no matter what. Unless...... Guo Tu turned against the water?

The more he thought about it, the more likely it became. Once Guo Tu defects, the Jizhou church branch will definitely suffer a catastrophe. It is very likely that the spies in the church will not be able to endure the torture and confess the church's methods of preaching.

So...... All the spy reports coming back from the Hebei direction are fake.

Thinking of this, Luan Yi hurriedly sent Guo Jia an urgent letter of 800 miles, asking all church branches to immediately change the decoding book, no longer using the "Holy Mother Sutra" to compile espionage reports, but to use the first issue of "Holy Light News" to decode. At the same time, all churches in the diocese are required to be put on alert, especially the churches in villages and towns along the river to issue weapons to local young people and be ready to go to war at any time. At the same time, the situation on the riverbank should be observed at all times, and the enemy situation should be reported immediately if it is discovered.

In addition, he also realized that Bai Yuanshao was using a fake military situation to divert the tiger from the mountain. All the church troops were transferred to Yanzhou, while Yuan Shao crossed the river to attack other places, and Luan Yi was caught off guard. Take the opportunity to seize a large area of land in Henan and take it as a foothold.

Now it seems that the battlefield of Yuan Shao's main battle is gradually becoming clear, and it must be Qingzhou, which is now empty of troops.

Thinking of this, Luan Yi immediately made a decision, and ordered the 20,000 horses of the old marshal Lu Zhishuai's headquarters to continue to stick to Guandu, deploy defenses in the north of Yuzhou and the west of Yanzhou, and personally mention the Chinese army to Qingzhou.

Sure enough, three days later, an urgent report came from the branch church of Qingzhou, a large-scale enemy movement was found in Qingzhou, the important town of Puyang along the river fell, Beihai was besieged by enemy troops, and Linzi was in danger.

Upon hearing this news, he sent an urgent secret letter to the troops of Lu Bu and Guo Jia stationed on the East Road, ordering them to immediately adjust their defenses and send troops from Dong'e County, Dongping County to aid Qingzhou. At the same time, he urged the Chinese army to speed up its march and strive to travel thousands of miles to Linzi within eight days to support.

At the same time, after losing Puyang, Beihai County, which was besieged by tens of thousands of Yuan troops and garrisoned by only 800 church guards, rose up to resist with the full support of the residents of the county. Although there is the support of the people, most of the people are not trained, and they lack weapons, they are all armed with farm tools, and they do not play much role on the battlefield.

But even so, in such an unfavorable situation of the battle, in the face of the stormy blows of 30,000 Yuan troops, the Beihai civilians still defended the city for five days. With the collapse of the city gates, the North Sea fell.

In Yuan's army, the commander-in-chief of the main attack on Beihai soldiers and horses was Yan Liang, Han Meng was the deputy general, and Xin was rated as the military division. According to Yuan Shao's order, Yan Liang should have taken Beihai, which was short of troops, two days ago, but he never thought that the people in Beihai City would be so crazy and fight with the regular army without fear of death, causing Yan Liang to fail to achieve his goal at the specified time.

In this regard, Yan Liang held back the fire. After conquering Beihai, he immediately ordered the slaughter of the city.

Military advisor Xin Ping hurriedly advised, "General." The lord sent the general to fight this time in order to occupy the two states. If the general slaughters the city now, it will be the people under the rule of the lord. The people were all slaughtered, and in the future, the princess will govern Qingzhou, who else will govern? General Wang, think twice. ”

When Yan Liang heard this, he felt that what Xin Ping said was not unreasonable, and immediately canceled the slaughter of the city. However, although he stopped slaughtering the city, he indulged his soldiers to plunder in Beihai City.

Yuan Junjun, who lives in Hebei, has long heard that Qingzhou is rich, and any random people in Qingzhou are also the masters of thousands of dollars, and their savings are comparable to those of the landlords in Hebei. If you can go to Qingzhou to loot, how small can the harvest be?

So, a group of Yuan Jun broke into the house like crazy, and robbed when they broke in. But after looting, I was surprised to find that no matter whether it was a deep house compound or an ordinary people's house, there was not even a copper child, only a pile of paper with pictures.

At this time, Yuan Bing, who was plundering Xu Fan's family in Beihai City, encountered this problem.

Yuan Bing surrounded Xu Fan's family with knives and guns, and the first captain in armor was busy sweating profusely, but he found nothing, and asked Xu Fan angrily, "Where is your family's money hidden?" ”

Xu Fan's mother-in-law was frightened and bloodless, nesting in the corner of the wall and praying. Xu Fan trembled and said, "I have found it, and what you have in your hand is money." ”

"Who are you fooling? When I don't recognize. Captain Yuan Jun blew his beard angrily and glared, "This is paper, teach the money quickly, or kill your whole family." ”

"That's real money!" Xu Fan looked bitter, "This is a banknote issued by the Holy Sect, which is specially used in the diocese. We call it a holy voucher. ”

"Paper money" Yuan Bing had also heard that the people of the Holy Mother Sect used a special kind of paper to exchange things, so he had no doubts. "And what about your family's gold and silver?"

The man was afraid of death, so he replied truthfully: "It's all in the church." If you keep a tael of silver in the church, you will get a voucher that can buy a tael of silver. Does this brother understand? ”

"Who's brother with you." Yuan Bing kicked the man to the ground, and gradually understood the holy voucher in his heart, and understood that all the real money and silver were piled up in the church. "Quick, take us to church to get the money."

Xu Fan's mother-in-law saw that Xu Fan was going to lead Yuan Bing to the vault, and she was in a hurry, stepped forward and grabbed Xu Fan's leg to prevent him from leaving, and exclaimed: "Husband, you can't take them there." Take them to anger the Virgin and go to hell. ”

"Less nonsense!" Yuan Bing kicked Aunt Xu Fan away and scolded angrily: "If you talk nonsense, I'll let you go to hell now." ”

Although Xu Fan has already joined the church, he is afraid of life and death. Now that the knife is on his neck, the lives of the family are all in the hands of Yuan Bing, and he can only do so. immediately led Yuan Bing to the vault in the hidden corner of the church.

As soon as they saw the door of the vault, the group of Yuan soldiers were like wolves that smelled flesh, their eyes were shining with a faint green light, as if they had seen the golden treasure inside the door through the thick door panel.

However, to their great disappointment, when they smashed open the door, they found that the vault was empty, and only a few five-baht copper coins were found in the cracks of the bricks that ordinary people did not check.

Captain Yuan was furious, pulling Xu Fan's collar and shouting, "Where's the money!" What about the money you're talking about? With that fierce and vicious look, Xu Fan peed his pants in fright.

Xu Fan's head buzzed, and he responded in a low voice in surprise, "It should exist here!" Why is it gone? ”

"I dare to play with Lao Tzu, I don't want to live."

Seeing that Captain Yuan raised his knife to kill himself, Xu Fan had a flash of inspiration at the critical moment, "I remember where the money went." ”

The lieutenant paused and asked, "Where did you go?" ”

Xu Fan replied in a panic: "The Beihai Church will send the gold and silver in the treasury to Linzi every once in a while, and store it in the saint?" Went down to the cathedral vault. Some time ago, there was a ...... of Yuan thief Well, if you don't have the news that Yuan Gong is going south, presumably the money in the treasury of Beihai Church has been transferred there. ”

"Linzi?" The lieutenant groaned for a moment and asked, "This is true." ”

Xu Fan affirmed: "It's true. Not only was the gold and silver of all the counties of Beihai transported to Linzi, but the wealth of other counties in Qingzhou was estimated to have also been transported there. ”

"You went to Linzi?" Captain Yuan's eyes rolled, and he had a plan in his heart, and laughed.

"This military master ......" Xu Fan said tentatively: "I have said everything that comes to mind." Can you spare the lives of my family? ”

"Put, of course. But......" the lieutenant's voice changed, "I remember that your mother-in-law is not bad. When Xu Fan was shocked by his words, he shouted at more than a dozen Yuan soldiers behind him: "Sons, Uncle Ben has to go to tell the boss in advance, and the little ladies will reward you first." Remember, don't get killed. I'll have to be comfortable when I look back! ”

"You!" Xu Fan was furious when he heard this, and raised his hand to punch the captain of the Yuan military academy.

Captain Yuan thought that Xu Fan would dare to resist, and he ate his fist solidly, and was beaten and dizzy. Seeing that Xu Fan dared to hit his own leader, several soldiers guarding the captain's side attacked in groups, knocked Xu Fan to the ground with three strikes and five divisions, and beat him half to death with kicks and blows.

Captain Yuan spat out the blood in his mouth, scolded and drew a long knife, and ended Xu Fan's life with one sword.

Poor Xu Fan, it was not until the last moment before he died that he realized that the wolf was not fed.

Leaving the church treasury, the captain of the Yuan military academy let his soldiers go to Xu Fan's house to be happy, and he rushed back to the Chinese army at a trot, and reported to Yan Liang that all the assets of Qingzhou counties and counties now exist in Linzi.

Yan Liang heard that all the wealth of Qingzhou was gathered in Linzi, and a pair of bull's eyes were open. An eerie smile instantly appeared on his face. He praised the captain of the school, "Li Rong, if it is really as you said, Linzi has a lot of wealth, and you should be the first to take the credit." When you capture Linzi, you will be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold...... Uh, no, 10,000 taels, plus a military rank. ”

"Xie Dashuai!" The lieutenant, who was called Li Rong, suddenly smiled. Ten thousand taels of gold are indeed good things, but what makes him even more happy is that level of military position. He is now a partial colonel, and he will be promoted to a lieutenant. I have soldiers under my command, and I am worried that I will not be able to make money in the future