Today, the vicinity of Chang'an City has long become a large military camp. There are more than a dozen troops ordered to mobilize in Chang'an, and they usually practice at the station. It is very common for some personnel to be transferred. Unless this force can be tightly attached
Thieves, watch them enter that military camp with your own eyes, otherwise it would be tantamount to wishful thinking to try to identify who the murderer is based on the movement of soldiers afterwards.
Fang Jun frowned and asked: "How many people are carrying this enemy, and will they be thrown away?"
The soldier replied: "I have a group of scouts. Except for one of my subordinates who came back to report, the other four of them followed. However, the Ziwu Road is too narrow and dangerous. We can only follow the thieves after they pass by. We cannot follow them."
There is an ambush ahead of time if we pass halfway. And if the thieves are too cautious and simply leave a brigade of soldiers behind, it will be impossible to attack them."
Fang Jun suddenly realized.
There is a long section of the plank road built on the cliffs from Ziwu Road. Only two or three people can pass through the narrow place side by side. If there is a strong force guarding the exit of the plank road, it is really "one man can guard the gate and ten thousand people can't open it".
No amount of scouts are of any use.
How can you catch up if you can't get through it at all?
Gao Kan said in a deep voice: "The thieves came well prepared. Although they almost entered our trap, they must have a safe evacuation strategy. They will definitely leave people on Ziwu Road to guard the exit of the plank road."
There is no luck in this kind of thing. Since a few of them suddenly wanted to get it and they came here with a premeditated plan, how could they not see this opportunity to cut off the pursuing soldiers and scouts?
There is no need to doubt that tomorrow morning, all armies will be at full strength, and not even a single flaw will be exposed...
Princess Changle frowned and asked: "Then this matter is just settled?"
Although she didn't want Fang Jun to take risks and have a large-scale conflict with the thief, but the thief came so rampantly and was still able to escape unscathed afterwards. She didn't even know what the thief looked like. If she got a chance to see him in the future, wouldn't it be?
Would he still carry out such an assassination?
Fang Jun also had a big headache: "Wei Chen was a little negligent. I didn't expect them to dare to cross Ziwu Road on a rainy night."
Naturally he was more worried.
If the thieves mobilized ordinary dead soldiers to come, he would not be so worried. Raising and training dead soldiers at home is a consistent style of the Guanlong nobles. It can even be called a tradition. It has been passed down for more than a hundred years. Now even the Jiangnan nobles
, Shandong aristocratic families also follow the same example. Any powerful family will raise some dead men to do those shady activities.
But the elite of the dead warriors lies in their proficiency in the art of assassination and poisoning. They often choose people to eat in the darkness like poisonous snakes, hitting them with one blow and escaping thousands of miles away.
Once the opponent has good defense skills and tight security, and there are no opportunities to take advantage of, the role of dead soldiers will not be great.
However, the military is different.
There are strict orders and prohibitions in the army, and the formation is strictly prohibited. If a strong attack is launched, the power of a brigade of warriors is enough to rival a number of dead soldiers several times larger than one's own. With a sudden attack and a head-on collision, everything can be crushed into powder.
Therefore, no matter how many dead soldiers Fang Jun was, he was not afraid, but the other party could mobilize an army at will to kill him at any time, but it was like maggots in the tarsal bones, making him terrified and unable to sleep at night.
If you are not careful, you will be completely crushed...
"Don't worry, Your Highness, if others don't know, you have to do it yourself. Since the thief is a soldier, there must be traces to follow when he is mobilized under orders."
Fang Jun was worried in his heart, but his face was calm, and he said slowly: "And even if we don't know which army this soldier belongs to, the mastermind behind the scenes is there and can't escape."
Princess Changle was shocked and asked: "What do you want to do?"
Fang Jun said with a smile: "You can't just mobilize soldiers to kill me, and I should just pretend that nothing happened, right? Since he is in the first year of junior high school, don't blame me for being in the fifteenth year!"
Princess Changle couldn't help but wonder: "The chief envoy is naturally Duke Zhao... But Duke Zhao has handed over military power for more than ten years and does not have a single soldier or general under his command. Even if you come to question him, he will naturally push you away."
, what can you do?"
This is the brilliance of Changsun Wuji. In order to avoid His Majesty Li Er's suspicion, he handed over military power as early as the early years of Zhenguan and only talked about government affairs and not military affairs.
Now even if you know that it is Changsun Wuji who sent troops to surround and kill Fang Jun, but he can be dismissed by saying "I have not been in charge of the army for many years", what can you do to him?
Fang Jun smiled and said: "How can it be so cheap? Although the Duke of Zhao's palace does not have an army, there are always dead soldiers, right?"
When Princess Changle was confused, Fang Jun had already turned to Gao Kan and ordered: "Go to the prison of the Ministry of War to pick up a death row prisoner, and do all the tricks so that no one can find anything. He will have his own use."
"Here!"
Gao Kan quickly agreed without asking a single question.
Fang Jun did not even avoid the soldiers and scouts on the side. He had full confidence in the entire Youtun Guards.
Of course, properly knowing some inside information is also a way to cultivate confidants...
Princess Changle was startled and said angrily: "Don't do this nonsense! In the worst case, I will go to my father and ask him to beat Zhao Guogong more to make him throw away the rat. But if you mess around, if you can't end it, then
It’s a huge mess!”
She knew Fang Jun's temperament very well.
The outside world says that he is a stickman, but in fact this person often makes decisions and then moves forward, refusing to give anyone any real clues; however, when outsiders think that he is a calm and strategic person, he often does things very crazy...
****
At dawn, the drizzle has not stopped all night. Although there is no sign of increasing, the clouds in the sky are still thick and show no sign of stopping.
In the Dragon Palace, His Majesty Li Er looked out the window, feeling very depressed and anxious.
Generally speaking, the time of worshiping the sky is strictly controlled, usually seven quarters before sunrise. However, due to the unpredictable weather, in order to prevent the long-prepared ceremony from being unable to be held due to extreme weather such as rain, snow, strong winds, etc.
Therefore, we will set up a few more hours to accommodate.
But at the latest, it cannot exceed noon, otherwise it will be regarded as unlucky, and the ceremony can only be canceled and held on another day.
If it were to be held during the winter solstice, the ceremony would have to be postponed or even canceled altogether.
After all, it happens every year, so it’s nothing unusual. As long as the imperial power is stable, just let those Confucian and Taoist priests talk about "sympathy between heaven and man", and there will be no missing piece of meat...
But today's ceremony must not be cancelled.
Today's ceremony to offer sacrifices to heaven is to announce to heaven that the emperor, as the "Son of Heaven", will lead his people in a personal expedition in order to obtain the blessings of God Haotian, so that he can win the victory. If this had to be done due to the weather,
How will the world comment on postponement or cancellation?
War is a major matter of the country, a place of life and death. Even God prohibits brazen wars, which will lead to the destruction of all living beings. If the emperor insists on having his own way, he will be ignorant and cruel, and he seems to be a ruthless and stern person...
That is absolutely impossible!
Not to mention that His Majesty Li Er has great ambitions in his heart, vowing to conquer Goguryeo and create an unprecedented foundation, surpass the Qin Emperor and Han Dynasty and achieve the eternal hegemony of one emperor. Just using the power of the whole country to assemble a million troops and fight against Liaodong, how can it mean to withdraw from Liaodong?
Can it be withdrawn?
Even if Emperor Haotian comes to His Majesty Li Er in person at this moment and tells him that this Eastern Expedition cannot be fought, he must fight on with all his strength.
Otherwise, all kinds of hidden conflicts in the country will break out in an instant. Although it will not endanger his rule as an emperor, the prosperous age created by Zhenguan for more than ten years will probably be destroyed in one day.
Your Majesty Li Er will never allow that to happen!
He turned his head, looked at Wang De, the steward of the chamberlain, who stood solemnly behind him, and said in a deep voice: "Where is Li Chunfeng? The Taishi Bureau speculated that today's Si hour is an auspicious hour, but now Mao hour has almost passed, but the rain still doesn't stop. This
Is this what he calls an auspicious time? Call him to me quickly, I want his explanation!"
"Here!"
Wang De naturally knew how important it would be if the rain didn't stop. He quickly bowed and pushed out of the hall, intending to run to the Taishi Bureau to find Li Chunfeng who came to see him.
I didn't want to see Li Junxian, whose military uniform had been soaked by the rain, unable to fight him just after leaving the palace gate. He asked from a distance: "Is your Majesty in the palace?"
Wang De said hurriedly: "Your Majesty is here. General Li, please go on your own. I have something important to do."
Although he knew that Li Junxian entered the palace so urgently to see His Majesty, something important must have happened, but he also had a task on his own and did not dare to delay. He suppressed his curiosity and strode to the Taishi Bureau.
Li Junxian didn't know why Wang De was in a hurry and didn't lead him into the hall, so he had to enter the hall by himself. When he saw His Majesty Li Er standing in front of the window with his hands behind his hands and looking into the distance, he hurriedly walked forward and saluted: "I will see you at last, Your Majesty."
!Your Majesty, yesterday the Duke of Yue State was supervising the layout of the circle outside the city. Later, he went to the Zhongnan Mountain Taoist Temple with His Highness Changle and did not return all night..."
His Majesty Li Er was stunned for a moment, and then his eyebrows stood up in a "swish" manner!