Chapter 181 The wind and cranes disappeared without a trace

The Bodhisattva didn't seem to hear Butcher Zhang's prayers, he returned home, every day he couldn't rest assured, he went to the gate of the barracks to take a turn, although the guards at the gate of the barracks, looking at his look, always a little strange, but he didn't care, if he really met an acquaintance, he had to ask clearly, lest he hang people in the air like this, and it was really uncomfortable to go up or down.

April 23, foggy.

There were three days left before the end of the ten-day holiday of the widow Ma's son, and on this day, Butcher Zhang had breakfast, threw the things in the shop to his son, and went out slowly, first went to the opposite tea shop to eat a cup of tea, and nourished his spirits, so he walked out of the city in a hurry.

The old king at the gate of the city, I don't know if it was because the cat urinated too much last night, or if he spent too much energy on his mother-in-law's belly, and looked a little lazy, he smiled and said hello to him, and the old king said a few words of gossip to him weakly, and returned to that languid look.

The military camp outside the city was about three or four miles away, and with his legs and feet, he didn't need to go there in half an hour. However, when he arrived, he found that there was something unusual about the day.

First of all, the two soldiers who guarded in front of the gate every day disappeared today, and he was stopped twice by these two soldiers, and he was really impressed by them, and he was really a little surprised to see that they were not there. Not to mention, when he came here at this time two days ago, he always heard a lot of movement in the barracks, the sound of passwords, footsteps, and even the sound of officers scolding non-commissioned officers, which made people feel a tense atmosphere when they heard it. And at this moment, the entire military camp was shrouded in fog, and it was quiet, as if those soldiers were asleep.

He was bold and walked into the barracks. No one, no one here, no one there, except for the traces of a lot of places, there is not even a single guard in this barracks, it is empty, I don't know when, these thousands of officers and soldiers actually pulled out of the camp and walked clean.

"These soldiers really drove away!" Butcher Zhang who came out of the barracks, a little lost his soul, pulled out of the camp overnight, and there will always be people who guard the camp, this kind of situation, it always looks a little weird, Butcher Zhang was disappointed, and suddenly thought that when he returned to the city, he asked Lao Wang, they are all soldiers, maybe they know some inside information, this good deal is lost, and I don't know if these soldiers will come back.

"The Wind Word Camp is gone?" Lao Wang was also surprised, "Didn't you hear any emergency military information?" ”

He is an old pawn who survived the Dengzhou Rebellion, and he is still more sensitive to this aspect, so he called a young soldier at the moment, "You help me take a look, I'll take a look outside the city!" ”

When he came back, the officials and people in Dengzhou City could almost be sure that the thousands of soldiers who had been stationed outside the city had really driven away, and the people were fine, but the officials in the city had a lot more unwarranted thoughts in their hearts.

Soon, the prefect's order came from the prefect's yamen, and the city gate was immediately closed. And the villagers who had been training in Dengzhou City also took their weapons one by one and climbed the city tower, and even the fire oil and stones that defended the city were opened in the treasury and moved out.

This movement soon caused panic among the people in the city, and when they saw the government as if they were facing a great enemy, the people did not know what was going on, and they began to speculate. To a large extent, the generation of rumors was generated in this situation. Soon, with false rumors, among the people, all kinds of strange rumors soon appeared, of course, this rumor, basically the protagonist is the Fengzi camp.

Among them, the most convincing statement of the people is that those who serve as soldiers outside the city have long been opposed, and the government is doing this to prevent them. If someone argues, if there is an antipathy, those who are soldiers enter the city in ordinary times, but no one stops them, and they want to rebel, and when the soldiers enter the city, wouldn't it be more reliable? As soon as these words came out, they were immediately refuted by everyone.

"Those soldiers entered the city on vacation, if they were all wearing armor and blades, who would not be on guard, this is also fortunate to be our soldiers in Shandong, if it is a guest army, do you see if the government will let people in? Thousands of people have come into the city, and you can figure it out! ”

There are also people who are a little strange, this Fengzi camp outside the city, it seems that there are only three or two thousand soldiers, this little soldier, it is okay to bully the people, if it is a rebellion, what will happen, when the army of the imperial court arrives, one person will drown them with a mouthful of spit. However, these people, these people dare not say it, no one dares to say it, these thousands of soldiers can't afford to make a mess, didn't Kong Youde only have a few thousand Liao soldiers at the beginning, and when he started a mess, didn't he pull up tens of thousands of horses in the blink of an eye? In the current world, there is really no shortage of those masters who ascend to the heights, let alone these people who are used to swords.

In short, there are all rumors in the market, and gradually, people's hearts have begun to become unstable, and there are even those ruffians who are unwilling to be lonely and want to fish in troubled waters, and they also take the opportunity to make noise and incite everyone, seeing that the situation outside the city is unknown, and the city is about to be chaotic.

Fortunately, the government is still on guard against this situation, as soon as these people come up, they are shaken off the iron rope one by one by the messengers who have been waiting for them, and a few of them have sharp teeth and sharp mouths, and they were even beaten with scabbards by the messengers, and all their teeth were lost. Seeing that the government is so strict, these scoundrels gradually stopped, they are all local to Dengzhou, these poor people know their roots, if they are more serious, they are in this city, where to hide is useless, the poor people will always find their den, and arrest them in prison.

This is the case in the market, and in the Futai Yamen, this tense atmosphere is much thicker than that in the market. Knowing the changes outside the city, the Dengzhou prefect reacted immediately, but if he is the most bottomless in his heart, he is really counted among the officials in Dengzhou.

The guerrilla town of this Fengzi battalion guards Dengzhou, for him, these soldiers are dispensable, to guard, but also to have a large army to guard it, no matter how Dengzhou is said, it is also the important place of the imperial court, although there has been no use of troops in Liaodong in the past two years, the imperial court does not pay much attention to here, but it is also an important town, if there is chaos, it must be from the sea, these three or two thousand locally recruited soldiers, what is the use of those fierce gods and evil gods from the sea. These soldiers, stationed outside the city, may not be useful when there is something, but harassing the place may be a good hand.

He has always had an attitude that his father does not hurt and his grandmother does not love the three or two thousand soldiers outside the city, and he ignores the guerrilla aftermaze, and has no good feelings, a literati, mixed with those rough men who are soldiers, what kind of character can he be, the gentleman has six arts, but the sage did not tell all the scholars in the world to put down the sage books in their hands and go to be the vulgar martial arts.

And that Yu Feng is also interesting, except for the routine business exchanges, he came to the city so many times, basically either nested in the barracks, or in his hometown in Lingshan, basically a low-key martial artist with eyes, so the relationship between the two is ordinary, but on the scene, each other is passable. In addition, he restrained his soldiers very strictly, rarely harmed the people, and basically did not cause any public resentment, so the prefect reluctantly accepted the fact that this soldier and horse were stationed outside the city.

However, the premise of accepting that there was a soldier stationed outside the city was that this was a military horse of the imperial court and was ordered by the imperial court. This document without the transfer of troops, the second did not inform the locality, the people's grain and grass were transferred, and even the parents and officials of his station, did not get any news, this was silent, and a whole army and horse disappeared without a trace, even if the prefect was bold, he had to be scared into a cold sweat. And there are so many rebellious ministers and thieves today, who dares to guarantee that these people with knives and guns in their hands will not have a hot brain and do bold things, this is not a mess, if there is a mess, for him, for the entire Dengzhou City, it will be a catastrophe!

"Any news?" He asked the family who had come to report the news. As soon as he sent out people to inquire about the news, he even asked them to ride their horses around twenty miles for a circle, and at this time, no one dared to believe it except for his own family. When he asked this, he was still faintly expecting in his heart, this was just the afterglow of madness, and suddenly he pulled his soldiers out into the field to practice, which was a false alarm for himself.

The family member who returned the report shook his head tiredly, and his expression was a little weak.

"No, sir, I haven't seen Lord Yu's soldiers and horses for twenty miles outside the city......!" He paused for a moment, and said with some hesitation: "However, none of the ships of the sailor are there, and the little one asked some people, as if someone saw that when the day dawned, there was a large army heading towards the sailor?" ”

"You mean they might have gone to sea?" The prefect asked suspiciously, holding a few strands of long beard under his chin. Immediately, he shook his head again: "Impossible, the sailor's boats, only three or two can be used, and the rest are small boats that cannot be put on the table, so many people, how can this little ship be carried away?" ”

"Besides, even if they can be transported, where will they go? Liaodong? Tianjin? They are my soldiers stationed in Dengzhou, and they are the ones who privately allocated military horses, and according to the style of the army, they are not wronged to cut off the guerrilla remnants! ”

In his opinion, it is extremely ridiculous for the Fengzi Battalion to go to sea, and besides, in addition to Dengzhou, these thousands of soldiers and horses, is there still a place in the world to go? He has now determined from various channels that this time the Fengzi Battalion's actions are without the instructions from above, and he does not believe that such a soldier and horse, thousands of people, if they have different intentions, will not fight the idea of Dengzhou, which is all at hand, but run to the sea with one mind.

However, his guess was not correct, because in addition to Liaodong and Tianjin, in fact, these ships still have another choice, that is, North Korea!