Chapter 244: Secret Stalking
Zhang Quanyue was slightly stunned, and then suddenly realized: "Caught, that kid was drinking flower wine with a few scholars in Yingxiang Pavilion at the time, and found out that he had tried to kidnap the top jade leaf girl in Yingxiang Pavilion, and after being arrested, he had already lost his fame and was now in prison." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info" Xiao Han said: "Take him out and I'll take a look." Zhang Quanyue immediately ordered someone to go to the prison to pick up people, and after a while, two messengers escorted a thin young man with a ragged and haggard face over.
Xiao Han glanced at him a few times, but this future Tang traitor was very handsome, a talent, but his eyes flickered, and he seemed to be empty-hearted. Xiao Han sighed and asked, "Your cousin died tragically, do you still have the heart to drink flower wine?" It can be seen that you are also a heartless person. ā
This person is Fan Ruoshui, who Xiao Hantuo asked Zhang Quanyue to arrest that day, and immediately protested when he heard this: "Corrupt officials are unreasonable, colluding with bullies to harm my cousin, I am sad in my heart, and I was dragged by my friends to persuade me, which royal law has been committed, and you actually removed my fame?
Fan Ruoshui's eyes were like ice, and Xiao Han was cold. Zhang Quanyue reprimanded sharply: "Be bold, dare to talk nonsense and beat you to death." Fan Ruoshui was shocked, his facial muscles trembled, and he slowly closed his mouth.
Xiao Han sighed secretly and said in a deep voice: "Good will be rewarded, evil will be rewarded, it's not that you don't report it, the time has not come." Whoever harms your cousin will be punished. However, you are indecent, as a scholar, it is reasonable for you to go in and out of Flower Street and Willow Lane, and be stripped of your fame. ā
Fan Ruoshui said loudly: "That's a frame-up, I haven't been to those places at all, and I haven't kidnapped any girls, if you want to add to the crime, why don't you excuse it?" Xiao Han snorted: "Right and wrong have their own opinions, this son saw you today, he took pity on you, and gave you a chance, I don't know if you are willing?"
Fan Ruoshui's eyes flickered, looked at Xiao Han and said, "You want to save me?" Xiao Han nodded slightly: "I need someone who can write and calculate, are you willing?" Fan Ruoshui was overjoyed, and immediately nodded and said: "The villain is willing." Xiao Han signaled to Zhang Quanyue, and Zhang Quanyue ordered the messenger to take down the torture equipment on his body, and the rest of the formalities were handled by his own subordinates.
Zhang Quanyue ordered someone to get a set of clothes from the tent for him to wear, Fan Ruoshui suddenly got out of trouble, as if in a dream, and knelt down to thank the two of them after a long time in a trance.
Jiang Dongge had already come over, standing quietly to the side and watching. Seeing that Xiao Han was a collector again, and he was a collector, I didn't know what he wanted to do.
After finishing the chores, Xiao Han ordered Fan Ruoshui to stay in the mansion with Chu Tianshu first, and then took Jiangdong Pavilion and Qingmei to the Xiangjun garrison outside Chizhou City.
Zheng Ren was already waiting inside, and the two of them didn't have any extra nonsense, and immediately picked out a battalion and handed it to Xiao Han. He also selected a mountain forest ten miles outside the city as a training ground, Xiao Han personally led a team to train there, and Zheng Ren sent an officer corps to watch the battle.
This training lasted for a month, and the phalanx of the queue had begun to take shape, and the bow and archery and marksmanship had also improved greatly. Xiao Han's five hundred people were all soldiers in the army carefully selected by Zheng Renze, and they were all like iron towers. Even so, after the forced training in January, more than 30 people were still physically exhausted, and two of them became deserters, who were arrested and executed in public.
Xiao Han lived in the camp these days, and every day before dawn, he got up and took the whole battalion out to exercise, usually running five kilometers, then having breakfast, gathering after dinner to learn the rules, and then practicing the line marksmanship. After lunch, he rested for three quarters, conducted archery and siege field training, and listened to Xiao Han's speech after dinner.
Xiao Han naturally talked about it as he had told Zhang Quanyue and He Chengyi earlier, but there were many historical stories and war examples from the past and present, and the sergeants were fascinated by it.
January passed in a blink of an eye, and Xiao Han still had important things to do, so he handed over the right of training to Zheng Renze and asked him to implement it in the whole army. In order to verify the effect of the training, Xiao Han asked Zheng Ren to carefully select a battalion from the army to compete with the battalion he trained.
Zheng Ren saw Xiao Han's new method training with his own eyes, and he was quite unimpressed, so he immediately selected a team of elite soldiers, and the two sides pulled them into the field, went to the head of the gun, and wrapped the head of the gun with lime according to Xiao Han's instructions, and then the two sides began to fight under the leadership of the battalion commander.
There was no suspense at all in this battle, and in less than half an hour, one of Zheng Renze's battalions was wiped out, and Xiao Han's battalion suffered only thirty percent casualties, which stunned the officer corps watching the battle.
Xiao Han had already written everything into a booklet, and all the members of the officer corps participated in Xiao Han's military training, and after reading it for a month, they were already familiar with it, and under the command of Zheng Renze, the whole army began to train with reference to Xiao Han's military training manual.
Xiao Han saw that Zheng Ren had already started training, so he prepared to return to Jinling. Zhang Quan asked him to stay for two more days, and King Zheng would come to Chizhou secretly in three days. Xiao Han was happy in his heart, King Zheng's return was just convenient for him, and the reason why he secretly went to Chizhou was naturally to discuss important matters with him.
In his memory, there seemed to be no major event in 961 AD, Zhao Kuangyin was busy stabilizing the country, releasing military power with a glass of wine, but to a certain extent, he temporarily weakened his expansion pace, and only after he digested it did he show his hideous face and start a unified war.
In Jinling City, in an ordinary house, a young man was gently tapping the table with a fan, and a handsome maid and two young people stood next to him. The young man said casually, "Has it been done?" and a young man bowed and said, "It's done." ā
The young man said again: "I heard that he sent Zuo Longxing to invite that mouse, but is there such a thing?" Another young man said: "I have already sent someone to follow, Zuo Longxing has already left the fortress and gone in the direction of Changbai Mountain." Childe snorted lightly: "He really cares, what about the golden key?"
The young man said: "At the foot of Song Mountain, Xiao Han made an agreement with him, Xiao Han exchanged Chai Xinyue back, and he got two golden keys. Previously, he took people to Hengshan in Shanxi and returned empty-handed, but he heard that Zuo Longxing found the third one in Huashan, and now he has three in his hand. ā
Childe sighed and said: "Treasure touches people's hearts, but red and white things are the worst people's hearts, let him find it, as long as we do that thing well, everything will fall into place." ā
The beautiful maid suddenly said, "What should Xiao Han do?" Childe was slightly stunned, slowly closed the fan, closed his eyes, and the room was terrifyingly quiet. Gongzi Fang opened his eyes and said softly: "It is rare to have a bosom friend in the world, this person has learned the past and the present, and has seen and heard a lot, but it is a pity that he has entered the three sects, which makes me embarrassed." ā
The latter young man said, "Since there are people following him, don't disturb our plans, just ignore him." I heard that the second prince was very angry that he killed the palace master of the Earth Ghost Palace, Bao Laogong, and had already given the order to kill Xiao Han. The maid said softly: "Miss Murong doesn't know where to go, Shen Zidu is looking for her all over the rivers and lakes, it seems to be the order of the sect leader." ā
Childe's face changed slightly, and he didn't speak again. The three of them did not dare to speak, and stood to the side with their hands down. Childe suddenly sighed and said softly, "I'm happy when she's happy." Then he waved his hand lightly and said, "You guys go about it." The three of them bowed and retreated, and only Gongzi was left in the room, and he stared at the picture of the lady on the fan, sad.
At the same time, in the underground secret room of a jade shop by the Qinhuai River in Jinling City, a middle-aged man with a big belly sat at the table looking at a letter, and two men stood opposite, both young people about twenty years old.
The room was quiet, for a long time, after reading the letter, the fat man put the paper on the oil lamp and burned it, and then said to the two people opposite: "The lord of Jiangnan moved south to Hongzhou, and King Wu was named the crown prince and supervised the country, these have already been sent to Jiangbei, you two will go again tonight, and tell the brothers on the other side that the Chizhou Xiang army is under the command of Zheng Renze to secretly train the army, I don't know what the intention is? It seems that there is a special person to guide it, as for who it is, Chizhou's brothers are inquiring." ā
The two nodded silently, and the fat man said again: "Also, King Zheng seems to have an old relationship with Xiao Han, the head of the Wudang faction, after King Zheng sent an envoy, Xiao Han disappeared, tell them that I am sending someone to keep an eye on them, and if there is any change, I will inform the above to know." ā
After the fat man finished speaking, he waved his hand gently, and the two bowed slightly, turned around and left. The fat man watched them go out, frowned and said to himself: "A character in the rivers and lakes, why would he have a close relationship with King Zheng?"
The two young men got out of the jade shop, bent around Jinling City a few times, and did not find the tail after several observations, and then walked separately towards the Yangtze River. Several figures suddenly flashed out of a dark corner, silently following behind the two.
Xiao Han asked Zhang Quan for about 400 taels of silver, and sent Jiangdong Pavilion to take the drawings drawn earlier to blacksmiths in Jinling City to make steel ball gun parts. Money can make ghosts grind, and three days later, Jiang Dongge came back with a bag of parts and handed it to him. Xiao Han assembled it for a long time, successfully assembled one, and tried it in the back garden when Zhang Quanyue went out, but it broke after only three shots. One is that the barrel is not well sealed, and the other is that there is no good spring, which is a chicken rib. Thinking that the last two guns had fired more than a dozen shots, it was still Jinling's craftsmen who were skilled, and let him waste four hundred taels of silver in vain.
Facts have also proved how absurd those novels that travel to the past at every turn and make guns and cannons dominate the world, and advanced science and technology can never escape the limitations of the times. I can't die by thunder, and I still learned kung fu in the era of cold weapons, and I didn't see myself becoming a hero and invincible, killing all sides, but on the verge of despair several times.
At night, King Zheng secretly entered the house through the back door and made an appointment to meet Xiao Han and Zhang Quan in the underground secret room. Li Congshan's first words after seeing Xiao Han were: "The Great Song Dynasty is really training the navy." Deng Shi shocked Zhang Quanyue's face to change.
Li Congshan glanced at him and sneered: "What's so terrible about this, aren't we also training soldiers?" Zhang Quan said: "The Great Song Dynasty trained the water army, and it was clear that it wanted to be unfavorable to me, and what we started training now was the infantry army." ā
Li Congshan ignored him, turned his head to look at Xiao Han, and suddenly said: "Da Song has a big incident now, and it may have something to do with Master Xiao." Xiao Han shook his head and smiled: "I don't have any friendship with Da Song, even if something happens to them, it has nothing to do with me." Li Congshan glanced at him meaningfully, and said with a smile: "It may really have nothing to do with you, the Great Song Dynasty wants to recruit relatives for the princess on the fifth day of the fourth month, and it is not an ordinary recruitment, it is a sensational competition to recruit relatives." ā
Xiao Han stood up suddenly, his face instantly turned pale, and he stammered, "Which princess is recruiting for you?"