Li Zhen didn't care about Wu Yizong's attitude, he came to Yangzhou for his own mission, Li Zhen pondered for a moment and said: "I suggest that we don't rush Yangzhou for the time being, let's see the movement in Yangzhou first, what does the general think?"

Although Wu Yizong is lustful, but in fact he is also an extremely shrewd and cunning person, he knows that Li Yuanjia is likely to rebel, if the state and county governments have been controlled by Li Yuanjia, then he will undoubtedly come to the door to die when he enters Yangzhou City, Li Zhen is right, first press the army and understand the situation

His face softened a lot, and he nodded and said, "Commander Li is right, you can't rush Yangzhou City."

Li Zhen saw that he agreed, and immediately said: "I looked at the map, and there is a place called Boyan Pavilion twenty miles ahead, about thirty miles away from Yangzhou City, where we can park our boats." ”

Wu Yizong walked to the table, 'Wow, swept all the cups and pots to the ground, pulled out a map from the jade bottle next to him, unfolded the map and looked at it carefully, he thought for a long time, and slowly nodded: "Just stop the boat there"

At dusk, the fleet slowly docked at the Boyan Pavilion, and Wu Yizong immediately sent more than a dozen personal soldiers to Yangzhou City to inquire about the news.

Boyan Pavilion is a small wharf in the north of Yangzhou, named because it is close to the smoke town, although it is a small town here, but it is just in the main road of water and land transportation, there are many merchants coming and going, the trade is very prosperous, standing on the bow of the ship, you can see the buildings of the town in the distance.

On the wharf, when the nearby villagers saw a fleet of boats docking, they immediately brought in all kinds of souvenirs to sell, and the wharf became lively for a while.

"Lao Li, have you found it?"

Di Yan looked at the villagers on the dock and said with a smile: "We were deserted all the way to the shore, but when we arrived in Yangzhou, all the villagers came to sell things, and the people here are very good at doing business." ”

"Yes, Yangzhou has a developed business, and these villagers are also very business-minded. ”

Li Zhen smiled and said, "Do you want us to go ashore and have a look?"

Di Yan had been on the boat for a few days, and she was already a little sleepy, and when she heard that she could go ashore, she suddenly perked up and said with a smile: "This is your best advice along the way, let's go quickly."

Di Yan took a bag of copper coins and pulled Li Zhen to get off the boat quickly, at this time the sun had set, but the night had not yet fallen, a round of faint shadow-like crescent moon hung in the east sky, dim and hazy, but the wharf was very lively, dozens of villagers with bamboo baskets and baskets on the wharf in two rows, full of fish, shrimp and aquatic products, shouting one after another.

"What is this?" Di Yan asked, crouching down in front of a small village girl, picking up a purple hard-shelled fruit with a few sharp horns.

Li Zhen knew this thing, and said with a smile: "This is water chestnut, it is very noodle when cooked." ”

"Go to"

Di Yan ignored him and asked Xiao Niang, "What is this?"

The little lady smiled in a crisp and sweet official dialect: "This big brother is right, it is water chestnut, last year's water chestnut was only ten pennies a catty." ”

Di Yan looked back at Li Zhen in surprise, "How do you know that you also have one in Dunhuang?"

"Dunhuang didn't, but Master told me when he taught me to read. ”

"Oh, of course your master does. ”

Di Yan pointed to the dozen or so white slender fish in the basket next to him and asked, "Then tell me, what kind of fish is this?"

"This is saury, a specialty of the Yangtze River, and I ate it at Gaofujun's house. ”

"Count you a little insightful"

Di Yan smiled at Xiao Niang: "I bought both your water chestnut and saury." ”

The little lady was overjoyed, and hurriedly packed the basket for them, and at this time, a Yu Shi laugh came from their voices, "Does Miss Di still cook fish?"

The two turned around, only to see Wu Yizong standing behind them, followed by several bewitching young women, he did not hide the eagerness in his eyes, staring at Di Yan like a hook, Di Yan's beauty has always made him salivate, if it weren't for Li Zhen, he would have ordered his subordinates to rob people.

Di Yan's face suddenly sank, she was extremely disgusted in her heart, and ignored Wu Yizong, took out a few handfuls of money and stuffed it to Xiao Niang, and went back to the boat with the basket, but Wu Yizong didn't think so at all, stared at Di Yan's back, and sighed softly for a while.

Seeing him so rude, Li Zhen was really annoyed in his heart, and he said coldly: "It's not safe on the shore, the general had better go back to the ship."

"Will it be unsafe here?"

Wu Yizong looked up to the sky and laughed, "It's a joke, who dares to kill me"

As soon as the words fell, I only heard a faint sound of 'click, an arrow shot from the distant woods like lightning, the speed of the arrow was too fast, although Li Zhen saw it, he didn't have time to rescue, 'poof, the cold arrow was hitting Wu Yizong's thigh, Wu Yizong screamed miserably, and fell to the ground.

There was a sudden chaos on the dock, the villagers picked up baskets and scattered and fled, several bewitching women screamed hysterically in fright, more than a dozen Wu Yizong's personal soldiers quickly surrounded them, Li Zhen saw a figure flashing in the woods, he drew his sword and rushed towards the woods.

The woods were sixty paces away, and when he ran to the woods, the assassin was nowhere to be seen, and faintly heard the sound of horses' hooves galloping away, Li Zhen quickly looked around, only to see a note with a dagger stuck in a big tree, and a line of words was written on it, 'Warning you to return to Luoyang as soon as possible, otherwise you will die next time,

Li Zhen drew his dagger and walked back to the dock with a note, a military doctor accompanying the ship had already used a knife to rip the tip of the arrow out of Wu Yizong's leg, Li Zhen asked, "How is the injury?"

"Fortunately, the arrows are non-toxic, just a little flesh wound. ”

"Commander Li, have you caught the murderer?" Wu Yizong asked, his face deformed from the intense pain.

"No one found, only this"

Li Zhen handed the note in his hand to Wu Yizong, and after reading the note, Wu Yizong crumpled the note into a ball, gritted his teeth and said: "I will repay this arrow ten times the enemy."

When Di Yan heard that Wu Yizong had been assassinated, she was very happy in her heart, and smiled at Li Zhen: "This assassin is also stupid, put some poison and shoot him with one arrow, won't everything be fine?"

"Although I hate him too, if he really dies, I, the security guard, can't explain it, in fact, I teach him a lesson丨 It's exactly what I want"

Li Zhen smiled slightly: "Have you ever thought about who wants to teach him a lesson?"

"Is it Li Yuanjia?" Di Yan asked tentatively.

Li Zhen shook his head and said with certainty: "Li Yuanjia actually wants to know what Wu Yizong is doing in Yangzhou, he won't say anything like letting Wu Yizong go back to Luoyang, it won't be him."

"Wu Sansi? It is said that he and Wu Yizong are not the same faction, and the two have deep contradictions. ”

Li Zhen still shook his head, "Wu Sansi is a bystander in the Xingtang Hui case for the time being, he will not make a move easily, as for Princess Taiping, it is impossible to make a move, Li Dan and Li Xian are both paying attention to me, she will not cause me trouble." ”

Li Zhen did not hide his relationship with Li Xian and Li Dan from Di Yan, nor did he hide his true purpose for coming to Yangzhou this time, which made Di Yan very satisfied, she was willing to share hardships with Li Zhen, but the premise was that Li Zhen must be honest with her.

Di Yan laughed, "I know you will definitely say that it was done by Lai Junchen, and Lai Junchen threatened Wu Yizong and did not allow him to interfere in the Xingtang Society, right?"

Li Zhen just had this kind of thought, but at this time he hesitated a little, "You reminded me just now, today's assassination is very much like a false accusation, because I first thought of Lai Junchen, I believe that Wu Yizong is also like this, maybe someone is deliberately intensifying the relationship between Wu Yizong and Lai Junchen." ”

"Then what are you going to do, analyze the case with that disgusting Wu Yizong?"

Li Zhen smiled and said, "If the relationship between Wu Yizong and Lai Junchen intensifies because of this assassination, then I should be the happiest person." ”

A small assassination storm gave the fleet more reason to anchor in Yanzhen and not leave, and it gradually deepened, and the people of the fleet were already asleep, and fifty of Wu Yizong's personal soldiers and thirty internal guard warriors were under martial law on the shore, and they were distributed on the shore for two miles, guarding their respective ships.

At this moment, a dark shadow slowly approached the ship of the internal guard behind him, and an internal guard soldier immediately spotted him, raised his crossbow and shouted, "Who is it?"

"It's me, Han Yong of the second battalion, and Captain Lu sent me to deliver the letter"

Zhao Qiuniang took several internal guard warriors to immediately surround her, she recognized this person, it was also their internal guard warrior, it was Lu Jin's subordinate, at this time, Zhao Qiuniang glanced at the south, and the Wu Yizong soldiers patrolling two hundred steps away did not notice the movement here, she said in a low voice: "Don't make a noise, follow me"

She took the messenger warrior to Li Zhen's boat, at this time Li Zhen had not yet fallen asleep, the light in his cabin was still on, he was pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back, waiting for news from Yangzhou, this time going south to Yangzhou, although Li Xian and Li Dan both had high hopes for him, but Li Zhen himself did not know where to start.

persuaded Li Yuanjia to put the overall situation first and not to raise troops, but how could it be so easy, even Li Xian's advice had no effect, Li Yuanjia would listen to his Li Zhen's opinion

This time Wu Zetian's intention is very obvious, to ask Wu Yizong to go to Yangzhou to announce the summons of Li Yuanjia into Beijing, if Li Yuanjia is willing to be captured, follow Wu Yizong into Beijing, of course, it is the best, but if Li Yuanjia is unwilling to be captured, then Lou Shide's 30,000 elite army will enter Yangzhou, and how long can Li Yuanjia's thousands of rabble support?

But what worries Li Zhen the most is that once the war breaks out, like Li Jingye and Li Zhen raised troops back then, Wu Zetian will find an excuse to massacre the Li royal family and completely let the Wu family seize Li Tang's country, which is the real purpose of her recruiting Li Xian into Luoyang house arrest.

took advantage of the opportunity of the polo tournament to relax the control of Li Dan and Li Xian on the surface, and allowed them to form a polo team to participate in the competition, which seemed to be a great grace, but actually paralyzed Li Dan and Li Xian's vigilance, and then recalled Li Xian to Luoyang under house arrest, and controlled both of them in Luoyang, in fact, it was to make the final preparations for her to completely eradicate the Xingtang Society.

Li Zhen also deeply felt that Wu Zetian's methods were old and spicy, and she was far-sighted, she took every step of the way, and used Junchen to arrest Li Dezhao, Su Wei and others is to repair the plank road, attract the attention of the government and the opposition, and send Wu Yizong to Yangzhou is to secretly Chen Cang and force Li Yuanjia to rebel.

But Gao Yanfu told Li Zhen that in fact, Wu Zetian also had a trace of contradiction in his heart, and he didn't want the situation to get out of control, so he had Li Zhen's subtle choice to escort Wu Yizong south.

At this time, Zhao Qiuniang's voice came from outside the cabin door, "Commander Qiyu, Captain Lu sent someone"

Li Zhen was overjoyed, he was waiting for Lu Jin's news, and he hurriedly said, "Please come in."

The door opened, and Zhao Qiuniang led the messenger warrior into the cabin quickly, knelt down on one knee and saluted, "Han Yong see the commander"

"What's the information?"

Han Yong took out a piece of information and presented it to Li Zhen with both hands, "Please take a look."