The news that Zhao Yun was imprisoned spread far and wide, and it spread in Yijing City, and women and children knew about it. Some say that Zhao Yun was wronged, and some say that Zhao Yun has different intentions, and there are mixed reviews. Whether Zhao Yun is loyal or traitorous, no one can say for a while, so he can only wait for time to give an answer.

At night, in a small farmhouse courtyard, a white carrier pigeon, with a small bamboo tube tied to its feet, and a note hidden in it, flapped its wings a few times, spread its wings and took off, soaring into the sky, and flying towards the south.

This is Zhen Yao's spy personnel passing on information, half a year ago, Yuan Mai gave Zhen Yao instructions to send spy personnel to infiltrate Yijing, pay attention to Zhao Yun's every move, and transmit information to Hanoi at any time. Zhen Yao got the instructions, and immediately sent the most powerful scouts, infiltrated Yijing's assassination intelligence early, and used the operation of small business as a cover, and successfully lurked in Yijing City to this day, still unaware.

The use of carrier pigeons to transmit information first appeared in the Warring States period. However, due to the lack of knowledge in this era, it is not an easy task to domesticate excellent carrier pigeons. Moreover, because the carrier pigeons of this era have not been improved, the ability to transmit information is generally not high, and there are often cases of getting lost, and even worse, some carrier pigeons will even transmit information to the hands of hostile forces. This is like a double-edged sword, if you use it well, it will be infinitely powerful, and if you don't use it well, you will hurt yourself, so many scouts do not dare to rashly use carrier pigeons to convey information.

And Zhen Yao is undoubtedly extremely talented in espionage, and the fifty carrier pigeons domesticated by himself are extremely sophisticated, and they rarely get lost, and most of their memory distances are about six hundred miles. The best carrier pigeons can even travel a thousand miles back. In the training of scouts, Zhen Yao also put a lot of effort into cultivating the 100 people under his command to be cautious and careful, and his anti-reconnaissance ability is superb. Therefore, Zhen Yao's intelligence work is invincible, and for many years, no one under his command has been caught, and his carrier pigeons have not been lost!

The artist was bold, and when other scouts were hesitant about whether to use carrier pigeons, Zhen Yao decisively equipped all his spy personnel with carrier pigeons, which greatly accelerated the transmission of intelligence. It is with this confidence. Zhen Yao dared to boast that his spy system was the best in the world!

From Yijing to Yecheng. At a distance of 800 miles, the carrier pigeon flew for a day and a night, and landed in the ancestral house of the Zhen family in the evening of the next day. After Zhen Yao read the creed, he immediately sent a fast horse. Take the Creed to Wye County. The spy was caught. The letter was leaked, and the news that Zhao Yun had been imprisoned was reported to Yuan Mai.

"Alas...... It would be nice if Yuan Xianyong could also receive carrier pigeons, so that the sky would not know how to receive information. Use fast horse passing. It's at least twice as slow! ”

Looking at the back of the fast horse, Zhen Yao shook his head and sighed. I have not yet played the role of the carrier pigeon to the maximum, can only receive it unilaterally, if we can do the use of carrier pigeons to communicate with each other, it is a proud thing! To do this, you need to work hard to develop smarter pigeons, so that it is possible to achieve this goal.

At dawn the next day, the scouts sent by Zhen Yao rode up all night, and the two mounts took turns riding along the way, trekking for 300 miles, and finally arrived at the "Pingxi General's Mansion" at dawn, and handed over the information to the hands of the prince Yuan Mai.

"Thank you for your hard work!" Yuan Mai took the letter, rewarded the scout with a silver ingot, and hurriedly opened the letter and read it. You don't need to read the content to know that this is a hundred thousand urgent information.

Prior to this, Yuan Mai and Zhen Yao made an agreement that if it was general information, it would not be indicated on the envelope; Draw one line on the envelope if it's urgent, two lines on the envelope if it's very urgent, and three lines on the envelope if it's urgent.

At this moment, there were three faint straight lines on the cover of the letterhead in Yuan Mai's hand, so Yuan Mai could conclude at a glance that this was a letter of urgent information.

The content of the intelligence is only a dozen words, but the content has been expressed in sufficient detail: the scouts sent have been captured, and the city gate has been beheaded. The matter is leaked, the cloud is in prison, the blessing and misfortune are uncertain, please make a decision quickly.

"Hiss......" Yuan Mai gasped, "How can this be?" This scout is too careless, isn't he? In case because of this incident, my Zilong General was killed by Gongsun Zhan, wouldn't it make people feel distressed to death? We have to find a way to rescue Zhao Yun from prison! ”

"Husband, I just brewed a pot of honey water, can you taste it?" With a sweet salutation, Zhao Zhi walked into Yuan Mai's study with a porcelain pot.

Two of the four ladies are pregnant, and Helan is about to give birth, Du's belly is also growing day by day, and the only ones left without movement in their stomachs are her and Lu Lingqi. Concubine Lu has a temper, and she is a martial artist, with a rough personality, but she can't do the careful work of serving her husband, so the heavy responsibility of serving her husband falls on Zhao Zhi's shoulders. Zhao Zhi loves her husband from the bottom of her heart, so she willingly serves her man without complaint.

When he walked to Yuan Mai's side, Zhao Zhi intentionally or unintentionally glanced at the urgent report in Yuan Mai's hand, and when he saw the content of the letter, he was so frightened that his face was discolored, and the porcelain pot in his hand was unstable, and he fell to the ground, with a crisp sound of "pop", and fell to pieces.

Ignoring the tidying up, he fell to his knees sobbing and begged: "Husband, it was I who wrote a letter that harmed my second brother, and he was sent to prison. You have to find a way to save him, if the second brother has a long and short, the concubine will be uneasy in this life! ”

"Concubine Zhao, please get up quickly!" Yuan Mai hurriedly stretched out his hand and pulled up Zhao Zhi, the weather was still cold, kneeling on the cold ground, it was not good for his knees, "I asked you to write the letter, even if Zilong has a long and short point, I won't do your business, I will take this responsibility!" In my opinion, the big war is imminent, and Gongsun Chan has no definite handle, so he should not harm Zilong, at most, he will be locked up in prison. When his father's army breaks through Yi Jing, he will naturally let Zilong out. ”

Zhao Zhi cried: "I heard others say that the high walls of Yijing City are thick, and the grain and grass in it are piled up, which is enough to support several years, if Yuan ...... If the father-in-law's men and horses can't be attacked for a long time, Gongsun Chan loses patience and sends someone to kill the second brother, but how can he be good? The concubine implored her husband to personally bring a group of men and horses to Yijing to help in the battle, so as to break through Yijing as soon as possible and rescue my second brother from prison! ”

After listening to Zhao Zhi's words, Yuan Mai felt that it was time for him to go out. Now that Zhao Yun is in prison, his movement is restricted, and he will definitely not be able to escape when the city is broken, and he will be locked in prison, and the blessings and disasters are unpredictable. He should find Zhao Yun who was imprisoned in prison as soon as the city was broken, so as to ensure that his life was safe.

felt the threat brought by Cao Cao, so Yuan Shao did not recruit border soldiers in this Northern Expedition. Let Yuan Mai continue to sit in Hanoi and Pingyang counties, in case Xiahou Yuan of Chang'an takes advantage of the situation. Leaving Zhang He to guard Liyang, against Cao Ren of Chen Liu, and guarding the south gate of Yecheng, Yuan Shang and Xian Pei led 30,000 horses to sit in Yecheng. It was only that 20,000 horses were requisitioned from Qingzhou and Bingzhou to come to Yecheng to listen to the order, and formed the Fifth Route Northern Expedition Army to recruit Gongsun. Therefore, there was no such thing as Yuan buying in this northern expedition.

This is really an undesirable thing for Yuan Mai, which can not only continue to increase his strength, but also avoid losing his troops. And now that Zhao Yun has been put in prison by Gongsun Zhan, the situation is different, if you want to take Zhao Yun, who has lost his freedom, under his command, he must personally go to Yijing, and strive to find Zhao Yun as soon as possible after the city is broken to ensure the safety of his life.

"Madame, rest assured, save the second brother, husband, I have no shirk, I will immediately pick up a group of men and horses and go north!" Yuan Mai stretched out his hand to caress Zhao Zhi's hair, comforted him softly, and was worried that even if he found Zhao Yun, he would not be obedient, and said: "I'm afraid that the second brother will be stubborn and refuse to serve under me. ”

"Xie Fujun, the concubine has this intention!" Zhao Zhi listened, Ying Ying bowed, and immediately agreed.

If you can't see the second brother, you are sitting on pins and needles in Huai County, so it is better to follow the team to the north, and you can see your brother as soon as possible. If he refuses to serve the Yuan family, he can also persuade him, the husband is a good man and an ambitious man, and it must be a correct choice to let the second brother follow him. Isn't it possible to let your man face off against his brother Changsha in the future? Zhao Zhi couldn't imagine this scene! In order to avoid this situation, he must do his best to persuade the second brother to serve his husband!

Yuan Mai made up his mind and ordered Zhang Liao and Wang Shuanger to lead 1,500 "Tiger Cavalry", 1,000 "White Feather Cavalry", plus 2,000 newly formed light cavalry to follow him, and Keri went north. There are no foot soldiers, which can ensure the maximum speed of the march, and the distance from Hanoi to Yi Jing is about 1,000 li or so, and it can be reached at full speed according to the calculation of the team's daily march of 200 li, and it will take four or five days to reach Yi Jing.

Huaixian County has Tian Feng, Gao Shun, Tian Chou, Zhuge Jin and others sitting in the town, there are civil and military, and the troops are sufficient, and each fortress has Xu Sheng, Hao Zhao, Zhao and other good generals to guard, it is bound to be as stable as Mount Tai; Pingyang County is guarded by Lu Yi, Fu Hu, and Wang Ling, so they should be safe, and they don't have to worry about what is behind them.

Before leaving, Lu Lingqi pestered Yuan Mai again, insisting on following him north to exercise his "chasing phoenix and white phoenix"; Yuan Mai couldn't resist her, so he had to agree. There are two women to accompany him, and he is lonely in his own army, with a female general by his side, which can be regarded as a beautiful scenery on the battlefield.

Four thousand five hundred horsemen left the Huaixian military camp and headed north. As soon as I went out five or six miles, I saw a fast horse chasing after me, and shouted loudly from afar: "Son, go slowly, stay for the time being, there will be something important to report at the end!" It was none other than Gao Shun who was riding a fast horse.

"Huh......" Hearing that Gao Shun was chasing after him, Yuan Mai hurriedly reined in his horse, full of suspicions, not knowing what was going on at home, so that he asked the lord to chase Gao Shun himself? (To be continued......)