Chapter 515: Secrets in the Secret Room

Xiao Qi looked around, and suddenly stood in front of the statue of Fang La on a whim, and muttered in a low voice: "Fang La, Fang La, you used to be a famous person, but the current emperor is the son of heaven who inherited the mandate of heaven, but your descendants still want to rebel, this is very wrong, the fault of the descendants, you are also guilty of being an ancestor, and you should be beaten." ”

Thinking of this, Xiao Qi stretched out his right hand and involuntarily struck the head of the Fang La statue three times.

Although more than a hundred years have passed, among the members of the Heavenly Dao Alliance, Fang La is like a god-like existence, and no one dares or will knock on his statue, let alone the head of Fang La's statue.

Suddenly, there was a noise on the wall behind the statue. Suo Wusoul was startled, thinking that there was some hidden weapon, so he hurriedly raised his long sword and protected it in front of Xiao Qi, and the rest of the people were also cautious, each holding a blade, looking at this wall with all their attention. After a while, a secret door suddenly appeared in the wall, slowly opening inward.

Suo Wuxian turned around and glanced at Xiao Qi, and whispered, "My lord, my subordinates will go in first and have a look." ”

"Yes, be careful."

Suo Wuxian took a burning candle from the candlestick, held the candle in one hand and the sword in the other, and walked towards the secret door.

Inside the secret door was a small secret room, and it might be more appropriate to call it a storage room.

"My lord, come in."

"Okay."

Xiao Qi took two more candles, lit them and put them on a table in the secret room, under the light of the three candles, everything in the secret room was at a glance, and when he looked around, he saw that there was only a table in the room, a simple chair and an ordinary small box on the table.

With a wave of Suo Wusoul's long sword, he opened the lock on the box, and then picked open the box with the tip of the sword, took out a bookbook in the shape of an account book from it, and handed it to Xiao Qidao on the side: "This should be the secret of the Heavenly Dao Alliance, right?" ”

Xiao Qi said "um" and said, "Very likely." Immediately, Xiao Qi sat on the only chair in the secret room, opened the manual, and read it carefully.

"Hehe, Master Suo, it is indeed one of the secrets of the Heavenly Dao Alliance, this manual is written by Fang Chenqian, the current generation of the Heavenly Dao Alliance, and it records the sphere of influence of the four elders with different surnames of the Heavenly Dao Alliance, the Great Elder Divine Spear Invincible Wang Shangyuan, the two Zhejiang West Road, the four elders are red-faced and empty Mingtoutuo, Jiangnan East Road, the Seven Elders Splitting the Wind and the Knife Stone Meteor, the Two Zhejiang East Road, the Eight Elders Lianzhu Divine Shooting Pang Zeyao, Jiangnan West Road, and the main strongholds of the Four Roads are attached to the back." Xiao Qi continued to look down, and said excitedly as he watched, "I didn't expect that the Daci Mountain Lonely Han Temple outside Lin'an City was also one of the strongholds of the Heavenly Dao Alliance. ”

Suo Wuxian suddenly said: "My lord, my subordinates have heard the eldest brother say that after each generation of the Great Masters of the Heavenly Dao Alliance takes office, they will redefine the sphere of influence of elders with different surnames, it is said that it is still a rule set by Fang La, the ancestor of the Fang family, the purpose is to prevent these elders with different surnames from competing for territory with each other, in the Heavenly Dao Alliance, the Fang family can general, and the ordinary members of it are in the hands of the elders with different surnames, which is one of the reasons why the boss has lost control over the Heavenly Dao Alliance." It seems that the account in this manual is true. My lord, after the man in black retreated from the gunpowder prison, he should be heading northwest, my lord, take a look again, is there a stronghold of the Heavenly Dao Alliance in the northwest of Lin'an? ”

Xiao Qidao: "Lord Suo's meaning is ......"

Suo Wuxian nodded and said, "Yes, my lord." ”

After a while, Xiao Qi said: "Meilin Town, Ningguo Mansion." ”

"Ning Guofu?" Suo Wuxian thought for a while and said, "My lord, my subordinates suggest that I immediately send someone to send this manual to Lin'an, and ask Lord Shi Yanzhi and General Zhao Bao to send people to search the strongholds above one by one, and ask Lord Lan to send the imperial guards to Ningguo Mansion, and my lord will also rush to Ningguo Mansion with more than a thousand soldiers outside Gangyuan Village, and join forces with Lord Lan. ”

"Well, I also agree with Lord Suo's intentions, act immediately."

According to the practice of the Song Dynasty, all the places where the emperor lived before ascending the throne (then called Qiandi) or the place of birth were upgraded to the level of "Fu", and Ningguofu (now Xuancheng City, Anhui) was born from this. In the thirty-second year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1162 AD), Song Gaozong gave way to Zhao Yan for Song Xiaozong. Song Xiaozong Zhao Yan before entering the palace, had been stationed in the area under the jurisdiction of the Ningguo Army, in August of the second year of the Gandao (AD 1166), Song Xiaozong ordered, the Ningguo Army was promoted to the Ningguo Mansion.

After coming out of the Shenggong Cave, Xiao Qi ordered the entrance of the cave to be re-sealed for the time being, and then hurriedly returned to the mountain temple outside Bangyuan Village. On the desk of the mountain temple, Xiao Qi took out the hard pen in his arms, wrote a letter, put the letter and Fang Chenqian's manual together, and handed it to a commander of the Jinyi Guard, ordering him to lead ten Jinyi Guards and a regular army of Du (the establishment of the Song army, generally with 100 people as a capital, equivalent to a company in later generations), immediately returned to Lin'an, and together with Suo Wuxian, he led the remaining more than 1,000 soldiers to the south in a rapid march.

Ningguo Mansion is located in the southeast of Anhui Province, bordering Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, its long history, humanities gathering, profound cultural heritage, the name of the tomb in the Spring and Autumn Period, is the place where the ancient Yue people settled, to the Qin Dynasty period of the formal establishment of the county, since the Western Han Dynasty, it has been a large county in Jiangdong, an important town in southern Anhui.

A few days later, in Tianmu Village, ten miles away from Meilin Town, Ningguo Mansion, Xiao Qi and the others converged with the hundred imperial guards sent by Lan Yu, Lan Yu was in charge of the guards in the palace, so naturally he couldn't come in person, but he sent two commanders at once, Yun Zhongfei and Zhang Zijian, for the sake of insurance, the dragon tooth masters Suo Wuji and Yao Zhaohui also came with them, and with the special approval of the Queen Mother, these hundred guards each carried a throwing bomb.

Xiao Qi, as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and the celebrity around the emperor, naturally became the supreme commander of this mixed army. Xiao Qi was humble, knew that his ability and experience were limited, and he was not arbitrary, so he summoned the main generals of each ministry to discuss the next action plan in the eighteen families of Zhengxiao in Tianmu Village.

After listening to Xiao Eighteen's introduction to Meishan Town, Suo Wuji, who has the most experience, first said: "Commander Wei, my lords, there is only one road from Meishan Town to Xiaomeishan, but Xiaomeishan is extremely wide and the terrain is quite steep. ”

Zhang Zijian said: "Mr. Suo's words are very reasonable, and my imperial guards are willing to be the vanguard of the assault. ”

After some deliberation by everyone, Xiao Qi finally ordered: "Jinyiwei, control Meishan Town, the people in the town are allowed to enter but not leave, the soldiers of the thirteenth and sixteenth battalions block the road to Xiaomeishan, Suo Wuxian and Yun Zhongfei go up the mountain to investigate the situation first, Suo Wuji, Zhang Zijian led the imperial guards and a group of masters to prepare for an assault. ”

When he set off, Xiao Qi left ten brocade guards and fifty officers and soldiers to garrison Tianmu Village, and they were also allowed to enter but not leave, in case there were people in black in the village. Li Zheng Xiao 18 personally led the way and brought more than 1,000 people including Xiao Qi to the outside of Meilin Town.

A quarter of an hour later, Xiao Eighteen said: "My lord, turn left in front of you and you will be Meilin Town." ”

Xiao Qidong said: "Okay, Xiao Lizheng, thank you, if our army can successfully exterminate the man in black, then you are also a meritorious person, and this commander will definitely go to the court to reward you." ”

"Adults, the small ones are the people of the Great Song Dynasty, since they should be like this, how can they need any rewards."

"Xiao Lizheng, the meritorious are rewarded, and the guilty are punished, this is what the emperor said. Okay, Xiao Lizheng, there may be some regional things that will trouble you in the future, so you can stay with us for the time being. ”

"Yes, sir."

"Lord Suo, Lord Yun, you go into the mountain immediately, be careful."

"Okay."

After Suo Wuxian and Yun Zhong flew away, Xiao Qi said again: "Jinyiwei, run forward, surround Meilin Town, and ask Mr. Mayor to come to the gate of the town for a while." ”

"Yes, sir." A commander of the Jinyi Guard said.

"Mr. Suo, Lord Zhang, you lead the imperial guards and others to rush to the entrance of Xiaomei Mountain immediately, and observe the terrain at the entrance, if there is a suspect, take it down first."

"Yes, Lord Wei."

"Brothers of the thirteenth and sixteenth battalions, you go to the entrance of Xiaomei Mountain with the imperial guards, look for a cool place, and rest first."

"Yes, sir." The two battalions commanded the envoys.

After Xiao Qi finished his order, he came to the gate of Merlin Town surrounded by more than a dozen brocade guards.

After a while, Jin Yiwei brought a man in his fifties and said, "My lord, this is Ding Yuanzhi, the mayor of Meilin Town. ”

"Mayor Ding, the next official is Wei Xiaoqi, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, who came to chase and suppress the rebels on the orders of the imperial court, according to the information that our army has, Xiaomeishan north of Meilin Town is one of the strongholds of the rebels."

"Huh?" Ding Yuanzhi was surprised, "My lord, I, Ding, am a good citizen of my dynasty." ”

"Mayor Ding, the lower official didn't say that you are a traitor, you don't have to panic, the lower official asked you, these days, have you seen or heard that there are about thousands of people around your town?"

"No, no." Although Ding Yuanzhi stammered a little, he was very sure.

Xiao Qi continued to ask: "Mayor Ding, think about it, or is there something strange?" ”

"Back to my lord, it doesn't seem to be anything, but, but ......"

"What do you say, Xia Guan believes that Mayor Ding must not be a gang of rebels."

"Yes, yes, sir. A few days ago, Ding heard that the two rice shops in the town were sold out in half a day, and Ding was still very puzzled at that time, this situation only appeared when the Mongols invaded our dynasty more than ten years ago, could it be that the Mongols called again? ”