Chapter 0227 - Something Happened!

On the way back to Juxian Cloth Workshop from the Valley of Forgotten Worries, everyone was bathed in the moonlight, looking at the starry sky, and stepping on the bluestone slabs on the street, and they were in a very good mood, but Yang Yizhong seemed worried and walked alone at the end.

Zhao Bufan also found out, but he didn't rush to ask him, until he was close to Juxian Cloth Workshop, he slowed down a little and walked side by side with him.

"What's the matter?"

Yang Yizhong, who was silently pondering, came back to his senses, hesitated slightly, and finally couldn't help the worry in his heart, and replied in a low voice: "My lord, at present, the Mingjiao is raising troops in Muzhou, and it will reach Hangzhou in half a month at most, but Chen Jian, as an envoy to control the local soldiers and horses on the Liangzhejiang Road, not only did not be on the front line, but followed Zhu Mian to mess around, if the soldiers and horses of the Mingjiao expand rapidly, it will be troublesome!"

"Are you worried about this?"

Zhao Bufan smiled slightly, stared at the dark bluestone street in front of him, and asked leisurely after a long time: "Then do you have a way? Or do you think I have a way? Can I seize the military power? Or can you take the military power? Which of us has the right to command them?"

"But are we just watching like that?" Yang Yizhong asked puzzled.

"What can we do then? The whole party of Zhu Mian and his party is rotten, and it is a question of how many soldiers and horses on the Liangzhejiang Road can fight, and who dares to take over? I do not rule out that there are a few capable people who have elite soldiers under their command, but is it possible that we can defend the two dozen prefectures of Liangzhejiang Road and Jiangnan East Road by relying on these few elite troops alone?"

"But seeing the mountains and rivers broken, I can't do anything, this kind of ......" Yang Yizhong stopped talking, and the whole person was in anxiety.

Glancing at the young him, Zhao Bufan was very relieved, and gently patted him on the shoulder: "It's good to be responsible, but there is a saying called worry less about the ancients, what do you do with the responsibility you can't afford, with this spirit, it's better to do a good job in the moment, everything has to be done step by step, you don't have to worry too much about the affairs of Jiangnan, maybe your father and your grandfather will come soon, or maybe I will lead the troops to the battle!"

Yang Yizhong instantly became excited: "The imperial court will requisition the western army to conquer Fang La?"

Zhao Bufan smiled: "Then what's not? Wang Qing's rebellion has been reported to the capital, if as expected, the imperial court has already requisitioned the forbidden troops directly under the guards to go to the expedition, and the conventional forces around the capital can't be transferred too much, so if you want to recruit Fang La, or transfer the northern army, or transfer the western army, otherwise where will there be enough elite soldiers, could it be that they can't be drawn and assembled from all over the country? If that's the case, when they are assembled, I'm afraid that the two dozen or so prefectures of Liangzhejiang Road and Jiangnan East Road will all be gone!"

Orizuki Zhi, who was walking in front, heard this and paused abruptly.

"Is it possible that our Fold Army will also be transferred?"

Zhao Bufan shook his head: "This is not accurate!"

Zhiyuezhi was silent, and she didn't know what she was thinking......

Everyone quickly returned to Juxian Cloth Fang, rested for the night, and followed Zhao Bufan's arrangement the next morning and took their own actions.

In order to protect the evidence of Tong Guan's crimes as much as possible, Yan Wu, Yang Yizhong, Shang Kunyang, and Gongsun Sheng set off secretly, and accompanied by 50 brothers with good martial arts, they drove a merchant ship north along the Grand Canal, and were responsible for sending most of Tong Guan's incriminating evidence and Feng Erniang to Kaifeng, Tokyo.

Jian Qi is still in charge of the evacuation of the Mao Rabbit Hall, and at the same time, he also wants to bring Fang Jie back to the Juxian Village Main Hall.

Zhao Bufan was not in a hurry to leave, but stayed in Hangzhou for three days, took Zheyuezhi to play around, visited the West Lake, saw the Leifeng Pagoda, ate and drank, played and made trouble, but after three days of comfortable days, he did not leave Hangzhou quietly until the eve of dawn on the fourth day, and the reason for this was of course to cover Yang Yi and others who secretly went north.

It's just that in this way, Zhao Bufan and Zheyuezhi are also in a very dangerous situation, in order not to attract attention, they did not go to the post station to change horses on the road, and they did not even stay in the town, they hunted some game when they were hungry, and when they were sleepy, they looked for a place to rest in the wilderness.

The only thing is that the speed of the road is slower, and it took half a month to reach the territory of Chenliu County, Kaifeng Prefecture, at this time, it is only more than 100 miles away from Kaifeng City, Tokyo, and Zhao Bufan is naturally much more relaxed.

In the evening of this day, he and Zheyuezhi walked to the south of Chenliu County more than ten miles away, and saw that there was a barricade set up by the forbidden army at the narrow road in front of them, and they were checking the passers-by.

When he looked at it, he immediately shouted, "Get off the horse!"

"Check?" Zhao Bufan's eyes condensed slightly, and he asked suspiciously: "I am a genuine Kaifeng Mansion token, why should I check?"

Many soldiers instantly unsheathed their weapons, blocked the official road in array, and the head of the leader also drew his sword: "There is an order from above, anyone must show their identity documents!"

"Identity documents?" Zhao Bufan was stunned.

This thing is indeed everyone's own, there are names, portraits, places of origin and other detailed information, according to the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, people who enter the city, stay, accept the examination must show their identity documents, no one will be interrogated, serious and even temporarily detained, this is developed from the Qin Dynasty period of the photo post, is a person's identity certificate, if you want to leave the Great Song Dynasty, you also need to go to the government to handle the customs clearance documents.

But the Great Song Dynasty has been extremely chaotic in the past 20 years, coupled with the corruption of officials, the rampant thieves, natural and man-made disasters often occur, a large number of people have been displaced, and the imperial court has not ordered to update the identity documents in time, so the government has rarely checked this, unless you want to settle down in a place for permanent residence, or you must identify your identity, otherwise you can't use it, even Zhao Bufan didn't use this when he went to northern Xinjiang to serve in the army.

In fact, he does have an identity document, but he lost it when he was a beggar many years ago, and then followed the master to live in seclusion in the mountains, everything is handled by the master master, and he can't use it at all, and then he became an official, and he has a waist card or token to prove his identity, and he has a lot of privileges, and he didn't go to do any identity documents at all, where can he get it at this moment?

The head of the garrison seemed to see that he didn't, and quickly said, "If you don't have an identity document, can you have something else to prove your true identity?"

"The token of Kaifeng Mansion is not good?" Zhao Bufan became more and more puzzled.

Du Tou replied sharply: "The token is not good, at least you need an official waist card or seal, and you must be able to see clear identity information!"

"What's going on? Who ordered this?" Zhao Bufan frowned.

"I don't know, we are also acting on orders, no matter who your Excellency is, I hope to understand!"

Zhao Bufan was helpless, he didn't want to entangle with him more, and quickly took out the seal of Yushi Zhongcheng from his arms.

"I'm Zhao Bufan!"

In an instant, Nadu's eyes lit up, and after a while, he laughed and said: "It turned out to be Lord Zhao, please forgive the villain's disrespectful sin, please sit here and take a sip of tea before leaving!"

Zhao Bufan frowned: "Don't sit down, I'm in a hurry to go back to Beijing!"

"Why are you in such a hurry, let's take a break and then go!"

This made Zhao Bufan wonderful, he had never seen a soldier on duty with such an attitude, it was simply contrary to common sense, and he was slightly annoyed in his heart.

"Get out of the way!"

"Why should you be angry, how about we bring you some water to quench your thirst?" the head still laughed to himself.

If you can't detect the problem now, Zhao Bufan has been in vain for so many years, how can there be a soldier on duty with such an attitude, his face immediately turned cold, and he scolded sharply: "I'll say it one last time, get out of the way!"

Seeing that Zhao Bufan was alert, Nadu suddenly withdrew and retreated, his eyes shining cold.

"Shoot!"

"Whoosh!!" dozens of crossbow arrows struck from the jungle on the left.

Zhao Bufan and Zheyuezhi were caught off guard, and they didn't care about the horses under their crotches, so they jumped up, rolled several times in a row, and retreated.

But the two horses left behind were miserable, and in an instant they were shot like hedgehogs, and they fell to the ground with a high-pitched wail.

"You want to rebel?"

Zhao Bufan scolded angrily, and was about to attack, but another burst of crossbow arrows came from the dense forest on the right, forcing him back, and Zhiyuezhi next to him was furious, and shouted in surprise: "I don't know how many people are ambushed, let's go first!"

At this time, Zhao Bufan was also shocked, and without saying much, he mentioned Qinggong and Zheyuezhi and quickly retreated.

The head of the capital chased a few steps with the officers and soldiers, and saw that the two of them had extremely high martial arts skills, and it was difficult to catch up, so he shouted anxiously: "Go and inform the soldiers and horses of all departments that Zhao Bufan has appeared, and the martial arts have not been abolished, hurry up and close the net, and the brothers will also chase after me, if we kill Zhao Bufan, we can also wait for the general, and we can get a reward!"

"Yes!"

The majestic roar came from all directions, and there were hundreds of people in the dense forest on both sides.

Zhao Bufan, who fled quickly, was extremely shocked in his heart, and ran away with Zheyuezhi for a long time, temporarily getting rid of those forbidden officers and soldiers, and then stopped.

Zhi Yuezhi couldn't hold back her anger, and reprimanded in a coquettish voice: "These people use divine arm crossbows, and their armor and weapons are also extremely sophisticated, they are obviously forbidden officers and soldiers, and they dare to openly murder you, it's really bold!"

"No, no, it's not just trying to kill me, it's a big deal!"

Zhao Bufan was shocked, quickly thinking about the current situation in his mind, sorting out his thoughts and saying: "Zhizhi, these people have openly set up roadblocks to murder me, it is absolutely impossible for them to be just this place, they must be everywhere, otherwise how can they be sure that they can intercept me? This shows that the troops they dispatched are by no means a minority, they are large-scale military mobilizations, and they even dare to carry out them blatantly, not to mention how many people in the DPRK and China can do it, and more importantly, why is he not afraid of being reported, and he killed me so blatantly, who can still live?"

"Mutiny!!" Zhiyuezhi exclaimed.

"That's right! This is a mutiny! It must be a mutiny!" Zhao Bufan said anxiously: "At present, the only person who is at the end of the road is Tong Guan, and he is also one of the few people who can mobilize the forbidden army in such a large number, he is afraid that he already knows about Hangzhou, and knows that he is dead, and now he is dying to the death, trying to launch a mutiny, intercepting and killing me on the one hand, and holding the court hostage by force on the other!"

Zhi Yuezhi opened those big eyes and thought about it, and shook her head again and again: "The forbidden army near the capital belongs to the front division of the palace, the infantry division of the guards and the horse soldier division, although Gao Yu is a little worse, but he is loyal to the emperor and will definitely not tolerate it, Liu Zhongwu and Liu Yanqing are impossible, even if all the departments under their command have been installed by Tong Guan, but they must also have henchmen and cronies in their hands, how can they not stop this behavior?"

Zhao Bufan's expression changed, and he spit out two words in a daze: "Wang Qing!"

"You mean......" Zhi Yuezhi didn't dare to continue, she felt that if she continued to think like this, the consequences would be unimaginable, and it was simply a good opportunity for Tong Guan.

Zhao Bufan sighed and said worriedly: "We secretly reported the matter in Xiangzhou earlier, the imperial court will definitely send troops to crusade, and the most likely thing is to requisition the main forbidden army near Tokyo, this Wang Qing rebellion is not like the original Liangshan only stood on a mountain, but occupied Fuzhou everywhere, in order to quell the rebellion as soon as possible, to say the least, 100,000 people will be transferred, Liu Yanqing, Liu Zhongwu, will not use Tong Guan's people, must use people he can trust!"

In this way, the people who Tong Guan planted in the various armies were left, and the balance of forces near the capital was also broken, although Gao Yu was loyal enough to the saint, but he couldn't play Tong Guan, if Tong Guan really wanted to mutiny, first of all, the first one would control Gao Yu, and hold him hostage to hold the elite soldiers directly under the front division of the palace, in that way, there are really not many people who can restrain Tong Guan!"

"Then what should we do now?" Zhi Yuezhi was full of sadness, she was born into a military family after all, and she knew very well how terrible the mutiny was.

"Tong Guan must be stopped!" Zhao Bufan's eyes flashed cold, and he said sharply: "If the imperial court is in chaos, a large-scale melee will definitely break out, the northern Liao State, the Western Xia State and even the Jin State will take the opportunity to invade, millions of elite iron cavalry will divide their troops to the south, the border between the northern and western frontiers of the Great Song Dynasty stretches for nearly 10,000 miles, without the support of the entire Great Song Dynasty, which army can hold it?"

"But now we don't even know what's going on, how can we stop it?"

"Try to get into Beijing first!"

As soon as Zhao Bufan's words fell, a roar suddenly came from afar.

"General, there are two suspicious people ahead!"

Zhi Yuezhi and Zhao Bufan looked back, and suddenly saw that there were many soldiers on the path in front of them.

What Zhao Bufan didn't expect was that this siege was far more carefully planned than he imagined, he didn't expect Tong Guan to dare to mutiny, and he didn't expect Tong Guan to pay such a big price in order to kill him.

Two days later, a large number of ghost killers also joined in, they were better at tracking than the army, and gradually formed a huge encirclement, trapping Zhao Bufan and Zhiyuezhi in the wilderness of Chenliu County, and forced to hide in Tibet.

On the third day, when Zhao Bufan was taking the officers and soldiers in circles, he bumped into the Rakshasa ghost and more than a dozen ghost killers who were chasing after him, fortunately, now he and Zheyuezhi have made great progress in martial arts, and after quickly killing seven or eight people, they escaped before a large number of officers and soldiers caught up, and at this time he also found that the encirclement of officers and soldiers was gradually shrinking.

By the time he persisted until the seventh day, he and Zheyuezhi were already physically and mentally exhausted, and the range of activities they could move had changed from a radius of dozens of miles to a radius of several miles.

A strong sense of crisis that he hadn't felt for a long time gradually enveloped his body and mind.

At night, he and Zheyuezhi hid under a boulder by the stream, lit a faint bonfire, caught two fish and roasted them gently, the swaying firelight reflected Zheyuezhi's beautiful face, making Zhao Bufan inadvertently feel as if time had gone back a few years ago.

At that time, the two of them went south from Bazhou to report to the Daimyo's mansion, and they were also chased and killed, and they were also sitting quietly next to the bonfire, although the girl with a delicate face had really become a beautiful woman, but the bright eyes were still so clear, and the pure beauty of kindness and courage had not changed at all......