Although the Liao army has been lost in advance and retreat, trapped in the encirclement, but the Song army in each city has always stood still, behaving very calmly, Hejian County is the same, the soldiers are strictly standing guard, the residents in the city live in order as usual, there is no grain outside the city, but every household is planting pumpkins in front of the house and behind the house, and some open spaces are full of vegetables.

Although there was plenty of food in the warehouses, the city still implemented a food rationing system, each person could get half a liter of rice per day, a pound of salt per month, the catering industry basically stopped, only a few teahouses were open as usual, and at the same time sold alcohol, and there were no new breweries left, all of which were old and old.

Others, such as grocery stores, silk shops, cloth shops, quality stores, tooth shops, etc., are still open, and commerce is still maintaining a minimum internal circulation.

On this morning, Fanning patrolled the streets in a carriage as usual, and more than 20 soldiers escorted him, he was originally going to ride a horse, but everyone was resolutely opposed, mainly because the Liao State spies from Hejian Province had not yet been found, and everyone thought that Fanning was too dangerous to ride a horse.

Liu Kui was under a lot of pressure, although he was very successful in the capital, but the Hejian Mansion was not going well, knowing that there were spies of the Liao State hidden in the city, but they just couldn't find it, and after these spies stopped acting, they were no different from ordinary people.

Horse-drawn carriages traveled along the wide Baita Street, the main north-south thoroughfare, with a large number of shops on both sides of the street, although they were usually closed.

The streets were full of people and orderly, and when the carriage passed through the intersection of the north-south and east-west streets, suddenly a black shadow fell from the sky and rushed straight to Fanning's carriage, and a cavalryman was the first to notice it, and he shouted and stabbed at the black shadow with a spear.

'When! The black shadow slashed the spear with a knife and landed slightly on the carriage, and the surrounding soldiers were in a big confusion, and they all stabbed at the man in black.

The man in black turned over, dodged the stabbing of everyone, his body hung on the edge of the carriage, and he was about to get into the carriage through the window, at this moment, a long sword stabbed out of the carriage like lightning, the speed was too fast, the man in black was caught off guard, and was pierced in the left shoulder by a sword, the man in black screamed, and struggled to raise his hand and shoot at Fanning with a poisonous crossbow.

But it was too late, at this time Fanning had already blocked his vital point with a shield, and a big embroidered shoe stretched out of the car window, kicking the man in black out with a fierce kick, and the poisonous crossbow also lost its accuracy and shot into the sky.

The soldiers rushed up and pressed the assassin to the ground, only to see a tall female Taoist priest jumping out of the carriage, holding a bloody long sword, it was Jian Meizi, she was Fan Ning's personal bodyguard, as long as Fan Ning went out, she would inevitably be close to protection, so many years without an accident, but today she made a great contribution.

Kenmeiko didn't walk away, she stood on the roof of the car, looking warily in all directions, she was worried that the first assassin was just a decoy, diverting the soldiers away, and then a second assassination.

"Official, don't come down, it's not safe here!"

Jian Meizi shouted, and Fan Ning, who was about to get up and get out of the car, didn't dare to move again.

The carriage he was riding in was specially made, the carriage was wrapped with a thick layer of iron, and it was difficult to shoot through with the crossbow of the divine arm, and the only loophole was the left and right windows, so two iron shields were hidden in the rear seats, and once the danger was found, the two shields could be quickly pulled out to block both sides of the body, so that the poisonous arrows that shot into the windows were also blocked by the shields.

Jian Meizi checked for a moment, she felt that there was still a crisis around her, so she shouted to the soldiers, "Get out of here quickly!" ”

Several of the soldiers stood up regretfully, the assassin had already committed suicide by drinking poison,

The group quickly left the street with the corpse of the Assassin and escorted the carriage back to the barracks.

The news was tightly sealed, someone informed Liu Kui, Liu Kui quickly came, he said to Fan Ning with an apologetic face: "Despicable and incompetent, I failed to capture the Liao State spies in time, so as to threaten the safety of Xianggong." ”

Fanning waved his hand, "You don't want to take everything on yourself, the responsibility for this matter is not yours, but you can check it out and see if you can find any clues." ”

"I'm going to check it out."

"No need to look it up."

Kenmeizi walked into the tent, "I've found the assassin's whereabouts. ”

Fan Ning was overjoyed, "How did Sister Jian find out?" ”

Jian Meizi said lightly: "There are two groups of assassins, the man in black is just a decoy, and there is a person in a tavern who aimed a crossbow arrow at the door of the car, as long as the official gets out of the carriage, he will immediately shoot a crossbow arrow, this is the real assassin, I didn't alarm this person, and after he left, I followed and found his whereabouts." ”

Liu Kui hurriedly asked, "May I ask the kendo chief, where is the foothold?" ”

"Pingdu Pharmacy!" Jian Meizi said four words lightly.

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Pingdu Pharmacy is one of the four major pharmacies in Hejian Province, but when the other pharmacies were opened, it unexpectedly closed its doors, and a notice was posted at the door saying that the reserves of medicinal herbs were insufficient, and everyone could understand it, so no one investigated the reason why it really closed down.

Just a quarter of an hour after Fanning's assassination, 2,000 soldiers surrounded the Pingdu Pharmacy from all sides, and 300 Flying Tiger soldiers with shields and short spears climbed over the wall and entered the pharmacy.

Just when a guy walked to the courtyard, he saw the soldiers who came in over the wall, and the guy immediately shouted in horror, "The Song army is here!" Song Jun is here! ”

Their identities were revealed in one sentence, and three hundred Song soldiers immediately threw themselves into the room, and more than a dozen men were so frightened that they lay on the ground.

"Split up and catch it!"

The battalion general shouted, and the three hundred soldiers were divided into more than a dozen groups to capture the Liao State spies.

'Bang! A few of them kicked open the shopkeeper's door.

I saw a middle-aged man burning paperwork in the room, and two soldiers rushed up and kicked the stove, knocking the middle-aged man to the ground.

At this time, a crossbow arrow was shot from the back room, a soldier could not dodge, was shot in the left shoulder by an arrow, more than 30 soldiers outside were furious, and released arrows into the room together, only to see a scream, a big man was hit by more than a dozen arrows, fell to the ground and died.

Soon, more than 30 Liao spies were escorted out of the courtyard, and the Song soldiers began to search the pharmacy comprehensively, and soon found that there were 500 pairs of armor hidden in the cellar of the pharmacy, with armor, war knives, spears, bows and arrows.

According to the confession, there were also 200 Liao soldiers hidden in the city, scattered all over the place.

By dawn the next day, the 200 Liao soldiers hiding in inns, houses and monasteries were all captured.

Once the Song army's defense was a little lax, they would seize the opportunity, and the assassination of Fanning was also a means for them to create chaos and take the opportunity to contact the outside world.

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At the same time as Hejian County was arresting the spies, an army of 5,000 people crossed Baigou in Xiongzhou, entered the territory of Yizhou, and quickly marched in the direction of Yixian.

This army is a garrison of 5,000 from Rencheng County, and Yang Wenguang of Yi County was urgently supported by Fan Ning's order, which was Di Qing's suggestion to him, of course, Zhao Ji, the Son of Heaven, also hoped that Fan Ning would increase his troops in Yi County, but the Son of Heaven's edict had not yet been delivered at this time.

Di Qing's worries are still reasonable, Yang Wenguang is impossible to mobilize the people in Yizhou to participate in the defense of the city, there may be people with ill intentions, not only can not mobilize the people, but also divide troops to monitor the city, which will lead to insufficient troops to defend the city, Fanning accepted Di Qing's suggestion and ordered 5,000 troops to support Yi County.

Yang Wenguang has occupied Yi County for five days, and he gradually won the hearts of the Han people in the city by distributing grain and the property of the Khitan nobles to the people, but when he wanted to recruit some people to help defend the city, Kong Ran, the county commander of Yi County, advised him not to use the people in the city, although the people in the city are Han people, but they have belonged to the Liao State for a hundred years, once the Liao soldiers come to attack, it is difficult for them to grasp their position.

If you don't work hard, it's still light, and you're afraid that you'll turn against each other, and it's too late to cry at that time.

Yang Wenguang thought so, so he gave up the idea of recruiting Han people's husbands.

On this morning, Yang Wenguang inspected the city, in terms of time, Emperor Liao should have known the news of the loss of Yi County, then three days later at the latest, the Liao army attacking Yi County will arrive, he checked the defenses again and again, and also looked forward to the arrival of the Liao army.

"Old General, look over there!"

A soldier pointed into the distance and shouted, "It looks like an army!" ”

Yang Wenguang took a closer look in the southeast direction of Yishui, and sure enough, he saw a long black line coming in the direction of Yixian.

"Ring the alarm, all the soldiers go to town."

'When! While! While! While! ’

The alarm bell rang loudly, and groups of soldiers rushed to the city, their swords unsheathed, and waited for battle.

A quarter of an hour later, the army in the distance slowly approached, and a soldier suddenly said: "It's the Yellow Dragon Banner of the Great Song Dynasty!" ”

Everyone can see clearly that this army is actually flying the Yellow Dragon banner of the Song Army.

Yang Wenguang shouted: "Don't be careless, you are not allowed to open the city gate without my order!" ”

The other party may be the Song army who came to support, but it may also be the Liao army who came to deceive the city, but the deception city is usually at night, and now it is daytime, and he is really a little puzzled in his heart.

After a while, the army came to the city, and a general stepped forward and shouted: "Old General Yang, the last general has come to support on the orders of Xiao Fan Xianggong." ”

Yang Wenguang immediately recognized that it was Ma Wei, who was in charge of Rencheng County, and this was not the Liao army's fraud of the city.

He immediately turned around and shouted, "Open the city gate quickly!" ”