Zhao Qian's arrest did not attract the attention of the military camp, and it was usually not until the next morning that he did not show up, which would make people feel that something was wrong.

At night, the three black-clothed knights galloped all the way, and finally arrived at the west gate of Songcheng County, at this time the city gate was closed, and the first knight shouted to the city: "We are coming from the capital, there is urgent military affairs to report to the prefect Fan, please open the door quickly!" ”

Immediately, there were soldiers guarding the city to inform Gu Changwu, Gu Changwu got Fanning's instructions, and specially stayed at the city gate to wait for the news of the capital, he estimated that people from the capital would go to the west gate, so he deliberately stayed at the west city gate, and sure enough, the city gate was closed soon and waited.

Gu Changwu ran to the head of the city and asked loudly, "But to send items to Governor Fan's mansion?" ”

"Exactly, we were sent by Han Xianggong."

Gu Changwu immediately turned around and said, "Open the outer city!" ”

After a while, the drawbridge of the outer city gate was lowered, the city gate was opened, and three black-clothed knights rushed into the city, inside was the urn city, and there was an inner city gate to fully enter the city, Gu Changwu ran down from the Yongdao and said to the black-clothed knight who was the leader: "Please wait for a while, I have already gone to inform Governor Fan, he will arrive soon!" ”

The three black knights breathed a sigh of relief, they galloped all the way, changing horses three times in a row, and they were really exhausted.

Not long after, the inner city gate opened, and Fan Ning galloped on horseback, followed only by Zhu Bao, and the other three escorted Zhao Qian into Beijing secretly.

Fanning rolled over and dismounted and asked, "Where is the thing?" ”

The man in black knew Fan Ning, and he stepped forward and bowed, "Prime Minister Han ordered us to send this iron box to Governor Fan's mansion, and we don't have the key." ”

He took an iron box out of the package and presented it to Fanning.

Fan Ning took the iron box, and when he saw that it was locked, he pulled out his dagger and pried open the iron box, which contained the gold medal for troop mobilization wrapped in yellow silk, as well as a letter from Han Qi.

Fan Ning put away the gold medal, read the letter again, and then said to Gu Changwu: "Take a dozen people with me to the forbidden army camp!" ”

Time was pressing, Fan Ning couldn't wait for dawn, he got the gold medal, and immediately rushed to the forbidden army camp with Gu Changwu and more than a dozen soldiers.

The forbidden army barracks are located ten miles outside the north city, the Hongqing Palace that covers a magnificent area is facing Songcheng County, the right side is the forbidden army barracks covering an area of 2,000 acres, the guard is heavily guarded, there is a sentry at the gate, there is a sentry tower on both sides of the gate, the sentry can see dozens of steps away, there are patrol soldiers in the barracks constantly patrolling back and forth, if you enter the wartime state, there will be patrol cavalry outside the barracks, and you can find the enemy situation a few miles away, but now there is not.

Fanning rode at a gallop, and the sound of horses' hooves alarmed the guard tower soldiers, who shouted, "Who is it?" ”

"We are Yingtian Guanfu!"

Zhu Bao shouted, the soldiers on the sentry tower put down their crossbows, and after a while, Fan Ning and the others rushed to the gate of the barracks, Gu Changwu turned over and dismounted, and stepped forward to say to the soldiers standing guard: "Please inform General Linghu, just say that there is an emergency military situation in the prefect of Yingtianfan." ”

Hearing that it was Ying Tianzhi's mansion that came, the officer on duty did not dare to slack off and rushed to the barracks.

After a while, a tooth general came and said in a loud voice: "Governor Fan, General Linghu is invited!" ”

Fan Ning turned over and dismounted, and said to his entourage: "General Gu and Zhu Bao can accompany me, you wait outside the barracks." ”

After speaking, he took Gu Changwu and Zhu Bao to walk quickly to the barracks, and horses were not allowed to gallop in the barracks, and they walked all the way to the big tent of the Chinese army.

The system of the forbidden army is slightly different from that of the Xiang army, the Xiang army is the commander of the Jingdong Road pacification envoy, and the forbidden army has nine independent military camps on Jingdong Road, and there is no commander in the entire Jingdong Road, and the chief generals of the nine military camps are all subordinate to the Sanya, and at the same time subject to the control of the Privy Council.

Although the general Ling Hu Jin is a fourth-rank official, the status of the military general is lower than that of a civilian official, so Ling Hu Jin is extremely polite to Fan Ning and personally welcomes the big tent.

"Which incense wind blew Fan Zhifu to my small temple?"

Fan Ning said apologetically: "The incident happened suddenly, and I hope General Linghu will forgive me!" ”

Ling Hu Jin smiled and nodded, "Governor Fan is polite, just now I reported that Governor Fan has any urgent military affairs?" ”

Fan Ning took out the gold medal and put it in front of Ling Hu Jin, "Can General Ling Hu know this?" ”

Ling Hu Jin recognized this gold medal for the transfer of the forbidden army at a glance, and when he saw this gold medal like seeing the Son of Heaven, he was suddenly shocked, and knelt down on one knee to salute, "See the gold medal for the transfer of troops by the Son of Heaven!" ”

Fan Ning asked lightly: "This gold medal may command General Fox's army?" ”

"The prince of the government holds the gold medal and orders, and the humble post and 10,000 soldiers will absolutely obey the military order, and they will never give up!"

Fan Ning nodded, "I want to disarm the three thousand Xiang Army, please General Linghu immediately transfer troops to surround the Xiang Army barracks!" ”

"Obey the order!"

Linghu Jin immediately ordered: "Drum assembly!" ”

'Boom! Boom! Boom! ’

The earth-shattering drum beat of the gathering of troops was loud, and it spread extremely far away in the middle of the night, which was shocking.

Fan Ning didn't stop it, he couldn't wait for dawn, and it was estimated that Zhang Yaozuo's express letter would also be delivered.

At this time, Ling Hu Jin asked Fan Ning in a low voice, "But something happened to Zhao Qian?" ”

He is very shrewd, since he wants to surround the camp of the Xiang army, it must be Zhao Qian who has an accident.

Fan Ning nodded and said: "The Son of Heaven gave me a secret decree to arrest Zhao Qian, I am afraid that Zhao Qian will be killed if he holds military power, causing unnecessary turmoil, so I must disarm the Xiang army and eliminate Zhao Qian's supporters." ”

Ling Hu Jin agreed: "Fu Jun's worries are very reasonable, Jiang Chenghua is Zhao Qian's son-in-law, this person is easy to be impulsive, and it is indeed necessary to disarm the Xiang army." ”

The assembly of the forbidden army is not as fast as the border army soldiers, it took a long time for all the soldiers to assemble, many soldiers are not in order, and they are yawning, although they are nominally 10,000 soldiers, but in fact there are only 9,000 people, and the gap of 1,000 people is naturally the welfare of generals at all levels in the army, which is a common phenomenon in the army, and Fanning also relies on it.

With Ling Hu Jin's order, a team of 9,000 people swept out of the camp gate and killed the Xiang army camp three miles away.

At the same time that the forbidden army was assembled, the messengers sent by Zhang Yaozuo also arrived at the Xiangjun barracks, and they were led to the camp, and they were all commanded to make Jiang Chenghua receive them.

Zhao Qian is a civilian official after all, although he is also the commander of the Xiang Army, but the actual leader is his son-in-law Jiang Chenghua.

Jiang Chenghua is about 30 years old, a native of Gushu County, with a big waist and a round waist, a very strong physique, he is strong in martial arts, in a very short period of time, he was promoted from a small soldier to the team, was favored by Zhao Qian, and gave his widowed second daughter to him as his wife, Jiang Chenghua then soared, and was promoted to the commander of the capital in only two years, in charge of the 3,000 troops of Ying Tianfu.

Jiang Chenghua didn't see Zhao Qian this afternoon, he was a little strange, usually at dusk, even if his father-in-law Zhao Qian didn't come, he would send a personal soldier to deliver a letter to him, telling him whether he would continue to guard Zhang's grain store tomorrow, otherwise it would be a little too late to deploy tomorrow morning.

Jiang Chenghua couldn't wait for his father-in-law and his own soldiers, so he sent someone to look for him in the house, saying that the master had not returned to the house, and he had gone to several other possible places, and he was nowhere to be seen, and he began to have an uneasy feeling in his heart, would something happen to his father-in-law?

You must know that the relationship between his father-in-law and Fan Ning has been very stiff in the past few days, and he did not hesitate to break the rule that the Xiang army did not enter the city, which seriously violated the interests of Ying Tianfu, Jiang Chenghua felt that something would happen to his father-in-law and Fan Ning sooner or later.

At this time, the sound of drums from the promise of the forbidden army was tightened for a while, which made Jiang Chenghua's uneasiness even stronger, and he couldn't hold back anymore and opened this 100,000 urgent letter.

The first sentence of the letter made him jump, and the official family ordered Fanning to secretly arrest his father-in-law.

Jiang Chenghua immediately understood, why did his father-in-law disappear, he must have been secretly arrested by Fan Ning, so where would he be held? His instinct told him that he was most likely imprisoned in the government.

He hurriedly read the rest of the content, and he was immediately anxious, and immediately shouted: "The commanders of the various battalions will immediately come to my big tent to discuss the emergency military situation." ”

The infantry of the forbidden army consisted of 500 people as a battalion, and the commander of the army was the commander and Jiang Chenghua's direct subordinate.

At this time, Jiang Chenghua did not realize that the gathering of the forbidden army had something to do with him, and his idea was to immediately enter the city and snatch his father-in-law back.

Not long after, six commanders rushed to the big tent, "Will, what's going on?" ”

"The pacification envoy has disappeared and is likely to be held in Fanning's custody."

This sentence suddenly made the big tent fry, and the generals were furious, and the small prefects dared to arrest the pacifier and eat the leopard's gall?

"Everything, what are we going to do?"

"Will, give the order!"

Jiang Chenghua did not tell the truth to the generals, he was vague, so that the generals thought that the personal contradiction between Fan Ning and the pacification envoy escalated, although the Xiang army could not provoke the forbidden army, but the local township soldiers have always been disdainful, the leader of the township army dared to arrest the leader of the Xiang army, and the proud self-esteem of the generals made them unacceptable.

Jiang Chenghua nodded, "I mean to go into the city and snatch the pacification envoy back, if not, we will arrest Fan Ning and force him to hand over the pacification envoy, if we wait for dawn, I'm afraid it's too late, we must enter the city tonight." ”

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