Chen Wan opened the window, and the first rays of sunlight in the morning poured into the room along with the cold air after the snow.

Yi Feng immediately woke up from his deep sleep, he wrapped the quilt tightly on his body, wiped his worried eyes, and asked Chen Wan who was standing by the window, "Is there any latest news?" Because of the hurried road for several days, and the bumpy carriage on the road every day, he had to constantly meet and discuss with many great Confucians he had invited. Often a person was sent away to see the other side immediately, and in many cases even had to meet with the officials of the states and counties passing by and the heads of the local clans and powerful families during those intervals. The anxiety and staying up late for many days made him look very haggard, his eyes were bloodshot, and his face became a little pale.

Chen Wan shook her head, Yi Feng was not at ease, and asked, "Is there no updated news from Huaihuang?" Flying pigeon urgent letter or 500 miles of urgent horse urgent mail, is there no news at all? ”

Chen Wan still shook her head, "No, Your Highness." You're too tired these days, let's rest for a while, we can get to Taiyuan tomorrow, since we haven't received any new news so far, it is estimated that the situation in Huaihuang is still very good. ”

Yi Feng was no longer sleepy, he lifted the quilt and got out of bed, put on his robe, got up and walked around the house repeatedly, his mind was full of the urgent report he had received before. Three days ago, he received a messenger from Huaihuang in Longmen, sending an urgent message. More than 200 miles northwest of Huaihuang, a large number of Tiele cavalry were found moving southward, and the number of cavalry may be six or seven thousand. After receiving this news, Yi Feng hurriedly ordered to set off immediately and continue north. The appearance of the Tiele cavalry in the northwest of Huaihuang at this time is already a fairly obvious signal.

Hundreds of miles away in the northwest direction of Huaihuang, there is an important passage from Mo Nan to Mo Bei. That is, it is the exit moraine of the southern end of the desert that connects the north and south of the desert. The moraine is thousands of miles away from the Wusha Fort in the northwesternmost corner of Huaihuang. To the north of the moraine is the endless vast sand sea desert, which is an important passage from the south of the desert to the north of the desert since ancient times. It is south of the moraine. Naturally, it is the Monan area, and from here it goes south. It is the white road of Yinshan, the white road is the Elechuan, also known as the Qiantao Plain, later generations also called the Tumut Plain, is a very fertile land, after the defeat of the Shabo strategy, the Sui Dynasty was attached, and the Khan Court was moved from Yudu Jin Mountain to the south of the Yinshan here, and the Khan Court was established on the Qiantao Plain. Today, this fertile plain has become the core center of the Eastern Turks, the stronghold of Dulan.

And to the southwest of the moraine. It is the Houtao Plain, that is, the left part of the horizontal part of the top of the Yellow River, which forms the East Set with the Qiantao area on the right, and the left section of the Yellow River is called the West Set, including the Lingwu line.

The Qiantao Plain is now occupied by Dulan, who established a Khan court in the area of the Qiantao Purple River and the Jinhe River. The Houtao Plain was controlled by the Sui Dynasty, where the imperial court set up Fengzhou and placed the Fengzhou Governor's Office. However, due to the peculiarities of geography. Due to the vast desert and Gobi area between the Hetao, especially the Dongtao and the Guanzhong Plain, the Houtao actually became an enclave of the imperial court after the former set was blue-controlled. It can only be passed through guò west set around Longyou to connect with Guanzhong. If it is in the hands of the imperial court in the former set, the Hetao area can also be connected to the east of the Guò River or Yulin and the Yunshuo area of Hedong or the northern Shaanxi Plateau. But after the front sleeve was in the hands of the Turks, the back sleeve was therefore lonely. It has become an enclave-like storage zài.

The southeast direction of the moraine mouth is the Huaihuang of Yifeng. Of course. The distance from the mouth to the Wusha Fort is thousands of miles, and after the Huaihuang Army established the Wusha Fort. The continuous sweeps also drove away the Hu people more than 100 miles away in the north, and further north, many Turkic tribes were nomadic herders.

There are also some Tiele tribes in Monan, but they are all small tribes that have migrated south from Mobei, and the Tiele cavalry that appeared this time is the cavalry of the Tiele tribe in Mobei, and it is not the soldiers and horses of a large tribe, but the forward cavalry of the major tribes of Tiele. There are many Tiele tribes in Mobei, and the power is strong, and the big tribes have tens of thousands of soldiers, some have 120,000 horses, and some have 35,000 victorious soldiers. If the Mobei Tiele troops send troops with all their might, they can gather a force of 100,000 soldiers and horses at any time, and even fully mobilize, and it is not impossible to get 200,000 horsemen to go south. Although Mobei and Monan are separated by a large desert, thousands of miles away, it is not an insurmountable natural hazard. If the army of Tiele is assembled and poured troops south, the pressure on Huaihuang will be great.

It has been three days since the news was sent, but there has been no follow-up news, and Yi Feng is very worried.

He was thinking rapidly in his mind, this Tiele vanguard of thousands of people, including all the troops, was obviously a joint force. Although there were not many soldiers, it revealed an important message, and this operation was a joint operation. Moreover, the Tiele tribes jointly sent troops, which was probably an action after receiving orders from the Turkic Khan.

The Great War is about to begin, will the Turks regard Huaihuang as the first target of attack?

It's been three days, and I still don't know anything about the situation in Huaihuang, which is too bad.

Yi Feng couldn't help but speak: "I want to know the news of Huaihuang, even if it's any news." ”

Chen Wan looked at him silently, she didn't know much about these wars, but she also knew that there was no news for three days, which was very abnormal. If there was no previous news, it would be nothing, but since there was that information from three days ago, there was no follow-up news until now, it seemed extremely abnormal. What's even more unusual is that after receiving the news three days ago, Yi Feng had already sent people to Huaihuang, but now three days have passed, Huaihuang has not sent anyone, and the people sent by Yi Feng have not come back at all.

It's terrible, Yi Feng thought, things are all messed up.

He cheered up and shouted outside, "Please come here." ”

Seeing that Yi Feng refused to rest, Chen Wan said helplessly: "The slave went to Sister Hongfu to chat for a while." ”

Yi Feng nodded, knowing that she was not used to seeing outsiders, and she didn't care.

Li Mi came in, and Yi Feng asked him, "Isn't there any news of Huai Famine?" ”

"Your Highness, I haven't received the news yet, and my subordinates suspect that Huaihuang may have sent someone over, but he was intercepted halfway."

"Don't talk nonsense. If this is to be spread without evidence, it will cause unnecessary trouble. Yi Feng interrupted him, he knew what Li Mi meant by his words. Li Mi was suspicious that the people of the Prefecture Governor's Office had intercepted Huai Huanglai's letters and messengers. This is a very likely guess, after all, Jingshi's assassination case has not yet been revealed. Although on the surface, Yang Guang is now the most suspicious, for which Yang Guang was also placed under house arrest in Beijing. But Yi Feng and his staff team have never believed that Yang Guang is the mastermind of the assassination. Like Yi Feng, they all thought that Yang Guang was probably planted, and then the emperor took the opportunity to put it together. When it comes to the assassination case, they believe that the biggest suspect is likely to be Yang Liang, the former governor of the state. Now Yang Liang has been reappointed as the governor of Jingzhou, which can be regarded as a trick for himself. But even if Yang Liang is reappointed to Jingzhou, after all, he has been in Bingzhou for two years, and he must have managed some of his own forces. If he secretly sent someone to trouble the grandson, it was not impossible.

"Your Highness, your subordinates risk death to speak. Please also ask Your Highness to be more vigilant. If the assassination case was really planned by King Han behind his back, then I am afraid that there will be a follow-up to this matter. It's not a big trouble to be intercepted for one or two letters, but what if they don't die of thieves and want to be unfavorable to His Highness? Your Highness, we are now in the territory of Bingzhou, and we are about to arrive in Taiyuan, which was originally the base camp of the King of Han, and if they want to engage in any conspiracy, we will be quite disadvantaged. ”

"Be careful, you'll be fine." Of course, Yi Feng also knows this. But he wanted to go back to Huaihuang immediately, so he had already ordered yesterday that they would not advance as originally planned today, and they would not go through the well into Hebei. Instead, it has to pass through Taiyuan. Continue to the north, from the Xin Dynasty Wei straight into Yanzhou, and finally directly to Wuzhou Huaihuang. did not go to Youzhou, but went directly to Huaihuang. The whole route is in the east of the river. Traveling through the entire southeast and north of the river, especially after passing Taiyuan. There are small roads along the road, and the road is dangerous. However, Yi Feng didn't move forward with a light car like last time, he was carrying an army of more than 10,000 people by his side. Not to mention whether Yang Liang has the courage or not, even if he really has the courage, he has to weigh his own ability.

Li Mi knew that he was speechless, and hurriedly said: "My subordinates are speechless, do you really want to change your plan and go all the way north to Huaifa?" ”

Yi Feng took a deep breath, "Well, if we go directly to the north, we can reach Huaihuang faster." However, we don't need to divert the tens of thousands of people together, the 10,000 horses and horses that Your Majesty pulled out to me plus my personal guards will go north with me, and the rest of the governors and their guards and people will go east to Hebei through Jingcheng, and we will part ways tomorrow. ”

"Your Highness, do you want to enter Taiyuan City?"

Yi Feng shook his head: "There's no need for that, just rest outside the city tonight, and march separately at dawn tomorrow, and we will go north directly to Huaihuang." ”

That night, the large army arrived at the outskirts of Taiyuan, and the officials of the Taiyuan City and the Prefecture Governor's Office came to welcome the imperial grandson and the commanders of the East Route Army and the newly appointed governors of Youzhou Mansion into the city, but they were rejected by Yi Feng, and the reception banquet was also unceremoniously refuted, bluntly saying that he was very tired and needed to rest. And the state government officials returned in a huff, and it didn't matter if Yi Feng was in trouble. Along the way, he met with those local officials and local heroes, but when he arrived in Taiyuan, he didn't give these people face, of course, there was a reason. The main thing is that he knows that no matter how he mixes it, there will be no results, so he doesn't bother to waste his expression and mental effort.

That night, Yi Feng summoned the generals and recounted his decision, and the generals finally agreed.

In the middle of the night, Jia Xiong, director of the East Department of the Special Branch, quietly asked to see him.

"Sue me for what happened to me these three days!" Yi Feng was very unhappy when he saw Jia Xiong in the tent.

Jia Xiong wiped his sweat and looked uneasy, "There was something unexpected about the matter, and our Hedong Division investigated for a long time, and finally found the problem." "He was originally a recorder in the Yali of Huazhou County, Henan, and an official who did not enter the stream. has a good relationship with Shan Xiongxin, Zhai Rang, Huang Junhan, Xu Gai and other people, and can be regarded as a member of that circle. When Yi Feng went north, he also made friends with Yi Tong, and later went north together. Later, Yi Feng established the special department, and he was also inserted into it, and now Jia Xiong, a dog-headed military division, has become the director of the special branch Hedong Division.

"What the hell is going on?"

Jia Xiong hurriedly told the whole story, things were beyond Yi Feng's expectations, something did happen in the past three days, but nothing big happened.

After Yi Feng got the news of Huaihuang three days ago, he sent people to Huaihuang first, but the people he sent disappeared outside Taiyuan City.

As Yi Feng's intelligence agency stationed in the state, Tek quickly began to investigate, and soon found out that the missing messenger was most likely ambushed and captured by the people in the state capital, or more precisely, it was Yang Liang's people who captured Yi Feng's messenger. After these people captured Yi Feng's messenger, they also sent people to set up ambushes on various roads outside Taiyuan City, preparing to intercept all the messengers on both sides of Yi Feng and Huaihuang.

After Jia Xiong and other special personnel of the Hedong Division found out the news, they were quite solemn. Ling Jing, the senior intelligence officer of the Hedong Division, analyzed to Jia Xiong that Yang Liang's people were probably planning a conspiracy and an operation. According to the information available, it is not difficult to find that Yang Liang's people are very likely to be preparing to deal with the imperial grandson. After hearing this analysis, Jia Xiong immediately wanted to go south to report to Yi Feng in person, but Ling Jing persuaded him. He believes that they should be calm and adapt, and pretend not to know the plan first, so as not to startle the snake, and they can lure the snake out of the hole, and finally catch the other party. After all, there are only a thousand days to be a thief, and there is no thousand days to prevent thieves. Acting too early will only make the other person hide. It's better to wait for them to show their heads, and then catch them all.

Jia Xiong finally boldly agreed to Ling Jing's plan, did not send someone to inform Yi Feng to remind him, and did not care about Yang Liang's people to completely cut off the connection between Yi Feng and Huaihuang for three days. Anyway, there is really no big deal in the past three days, and Hedong Division is very clear about Huaihuang's situation, and letting the other party cut off the contact for these three days is also to harm the other party, and at the same time, he can also find out more useful information.

Hearing that Huai Huang was indeed fine, Yi Feng breathed a sigh of relief.

"The cavalry fought a great victory in the north of Wusha Castle, and successively annihilated and captured nearly 6,000 Tiele troops?"

"Yes, the brethren of the cavalry were very brave, and the battle was fought quite well, and the cavalry basically suffered no losses. Now that the cavalry had withdrawn to Wusha Fort, the battle plan was proposed by Li Jing, and then commanded by Generals Shan Xiongxin and Zhang Jincheng. Jia Xiong confirmed.

"Very good, Li Jing is really good, it's not just on paper, the second brother is also powerful, this battle is beautiful." Yi Feng was also quite happy to hear this result, destroying six thousand enemies, and almost undamaged himself, which had completely met his expectations. In particular, he was even happier when he heard that this battle was planned by Li Jing and commanded by Shan Xiongxin and Zhang Jincheng, and that the ambush and surprise attack tactics adopted were won, which proved that Li Jing, Shan Xiongxin and others had indeed grown up like the Suspicious Cavalry and could take charge on their own. On the other hand, the Huaihuang cavalry still did not fight recklessly in the case of superior forces, but adopted tactics such as ambush, which made him even more satisfied. He is afraid of the kind of person who has a little achievement, and then he will despise the enemy and arrogant soldiers. Now the Huaihuang army and the generals of Huaihuang are quite satisfied with him.

"Your Highness, our Hedong Division has found out that the people who are plotting against His Highness are Wang Xuba, Song Jingang, Wei Dao'er, Zhen Zhai'er and other Black Mountain thieves, but we believe that these four people are just clowns in front of the stage, and the real mastermind behind the scenes should be Han Wang Yang Liang, and the person responsible for liaising with the Black Mountain thieves is Wang Cheng and Xiao Maha of the Governor of the Prefecture to consult the army." It took Jia Xiong a lot of effort to get this information at hand, but in front of Yi Feng, he acted as if the Hedong Division had successfully discovered the enemy's conspiracy without much effort.

Hearing the names of Wang Cheng and Xiao Maha, Yi Feng also basically believed what Jia Xiong said that Yang Liang was the person behind the scenes, and Wang Hao and Xiao Maha were Yang Liang's henchmen and generals. (To be continued......) R1292