There is an elm forest in the village where Jian Ru and others live, and behind the forest is a hillside. There is no road there, so there are only five or six soldiers scattered around to watch. Jian Ru and Yang An are both highly skilled in martial arts.
They knocked them unconscious in a circle and took them to Zhuangzi. After a brief inquiry, they were all Chen Guo officers and soldiers. The superiors said that there were illegal thieves hiding in this Zhuangzi, and they were ordered to guard them. There will be an artillery attack tonight.
Yang An glanced at Jianru: "You really think highly of us. We don't even have a musket."
Jianru frowned: "We have a lot of people. If we go out like this, we might attract enemy soldiers."
Yang An started to search for musket bullets from Chen Bing, threw a handful to Jianru, and hid a handful in his arms. "This way, master, you lead the saint to pretend to be a woodcutter and go out of the forest first, and then I will lead the brothers next to you to go out openly and openly."
Zhuangzi, Eunuch Guo is among the soldiers. What they want is saints and money, and they won't stop us. Leave here first and then make plans."
Jian Ru thought to himself, "Is there some danger involved?"
Yang An said: "Today, if you don't take risks, you are waiting to die." Seeing that Jianru was still hesitant, Yang An said, "The sooner you leave, the sooner you will be safe. The later you go, the more dangerous it will be."
Jianru gritted his teeth and said, "That's fine, I'll just follow you." Yang An snapped his fingers.
The two then went to see the sage together. When the sage heard that King Chen wanted to seek wealth and kill himself, he was so frightened that he immediately collapsed and grabbed Yang An: "General, save me!"
Yang An then explained the arrangement to him. "Master Jianru's martial arts skills are far superior to mine. You bring a musket. Since they are planning to attack at night, we have a lot of time to evacuate." The saint refused to listen and held Yang tightly.
Don't let it go. Yang An thought for a while and said, "Otherwise... you will have to mix with the soldiers and go out to practice with us. I'm afraid you will run too slow and someone will find out."
The sage said: "General Yang will send me out from behind. Master will lead the troops."
"No." Yang And said, "King Chen's people all know that I am leading the army. Suddenly it is the master who leads the army. They will become suspicious, and the brothers may not be able to escape smoothly."
The saint said anxiously: "They are just soldiers. King Chen wants them to be useless."
"What if a fight breaks out? Chen Bing has firearms, but we don't. I'm afraid the lives of our brothers will be damaged." Yang An said sternly, "They used to live a good life, even if they were poorer, they could still survive. We used money to recruit them
, caused this disaster. Saint, we soldiers are cold-blooded and ruthless to the enemy, and we will not give up any of our own people. We are all brothers and sisters."
Jianru couldn't help stroking his palms: "Well said!" The saint was immediately disappointed.
Yang An cupped his fists and said, "That's it. We don't have much time. You two pack your things and start immediately. There is a Zhang Fei Temple ten miles to the north, which is the turnaround point for our usual twenty-mile cross-country training. You can wait there."
Jianru nodded unconsciously. Yang An turned around and strode out.
There are more than 2,000 soldiers hidden in this village, most of them farmers who have just been recruited. Yang An knows how to train soldiers, just like training new recruits in Malay. Now they have learned to obey orders. Because he had guessed that King Chen would get it.
After Wu Guo's arrest warrant, he would not let go of this big piece of fat. Yang An often took people out for cross-country training, and the people who trained King Chen were used to it.
Then the little boss blew the summons whistle. After a while, everyone gathered around, and Yang And said: "We will start the outdoor load-bearing training immediately. Let everyone bring the baggage and food, just like the previous few quick transfer trainings. We will spend the night outside tonight.
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A leader asked: "General, are you practicing camping outdoors?"
"No." Yang An said, "We are marching in the wild. We will not return to Chen Kingdom." Everyone was stunned. Yang An hummed, "King Chen is hypocritical and Chen Guoqiong has given us food and grass that are 30% more expensive than what we bought in the market! We saints
I'm annoyed, don't play with him anymore, go somewhere else."
Another leader asked: "General, where are we going?"
Yang An smiled and said: "Don't worry, the saint has plenty of money to buy a bigger and better Zhuangzi!"
"Oh——" everyone cheered. Then they dispersed, gathered people, and packed their bags.
Jianru and the saint walked away for about two sticks of incense, but there was no movement outside, thinking that they had escaped safely. Eunuch Guo packed up, darkened his face and pretended to be a soldier. Not long after, Yang An led a large group of soldiers on horseback and marched out of Zhuangzi.
, blowing the whistle and shouting the slogan: "Don't be afraid of hardship! Go all out! Fight bravely! Complete the training!" They shouted this slogan during training on weekdays, and they always followed that path. Chen Jun stood still, after all, what they wanted was not a small man.
Besides, after a while these people will come back as tired as mud, as they do every time.
But this time was not every time. When the sun went down, he was surprised to see that he did not come back. King Chen sent chariots and horses to pick up his fifth brother. The eunuch came into the village and took a look: not only was there no human hair, but even the rice grain was empty.
Most of the time, Li Ming's men searched everywhere and found only two of their own people who had been arrested. They followed the footprints and horse hoof prints and chased them. After they reached Zhang Fei Temple, the prints disappeared out of thin air, so they must have been swept away.
King Chen was furious and asked him to find out where the news was leaked. There were testimonies from the bank clerk and brothel fans, which showed that Yang An was not paying attention when he was wandering around the city, and all the arrest documents of Wu State were hidden in the Yamen without being posted.
One card was taken out, but I really couldn’t guess the reason. King Chen was so angry that he smashed a whole room of things. “Baba’er gave others an advantage!”
On the other end, Yang An led his soldiers to Zhang Fei Temple, gave up two horses to the saint and eunuch Guo, and ordered twelve cavalry to stay at the end of the team to clean up traces, and the rest rushed along. There were more than 2,000 people.
The infantrymen accounted for more than half of them, and they walked over mountains and ridges for three full days before entering the territory of Yan State.
Yang An immediately led the people to run onto the main road. Eunuch Guo said: "There are so many of us, it is better to hide in the small road."
Yang An said: "It's hard to walk on the big road but hard to walk on the small road. We didn't bring much food. It's cheap to make up supplies on the big road. Besides, it might snow at some time today, and it's very cold at night. The soldiers can just sleep in tents; the saint is weak.
, Sleeping in tents for too long can easily lead to illness. Don’t be afraid of the Yan army, I’ll make sure they won’t notice.” Eunuch Guo argued again, and Yang An waved his hand and said, “We don’t have time to discuss, so I listened to the general.”
The saint hurriedly said: "Listen to General Yang!"
Eunuch Guo looked at Jianru. Jianru also said: "General Yang is reliable." Eunuch Guo had no choice but to follow.
After walking for another day, I came to a small town in the evening and sent out a group of small bosses to raid around with money to eat. Everyone had just finished eating and was planning to go to Zhuangzi to stay overnight outside the city. A Yan Bing-like appearance came
The people wanted to see their leader. Yang An hurriedly stepped out to greet them. Eunuch Guo was already so frightened that he hid behind Jian Ru.
Yang An stood up straight in front of Yan Bing and saluted him as a military salute. The Yan Bing looked slightly startled and responded with one. Yang An said: "Hello, brother. We are two thousand and one people who came from the Malay Kingdom of Nanyang for military exchanges.
One hundred and thirty-two Malay amphibious troops are doing a large-scale training in the field." As he said that, he took out two documents from his arms. One was the Malay military officer's certificate, and the other was the Ministry of War when he arrived in the capital half a year ago.
A pass issued to him.
Yan Bing took it and took a look, it was all true. He nodded with a smile: "Thank you for your hard work, general." Yang An smiled slightly. Yan Bing returned the certificate to him, then showed Yang An his non-commissioned officer certificate, and asked casually
, "General, what do you think of Yan State?"
Yang An said: "It's cold. We don't have such cold weather in our country at all. We can't do outdoor training in extremely cold conditions. Take this opportunity to practice more. If you want to go back, you won't be able to practice." He returned the Yan soldier's sergeant certificate.
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Yan Bing asked curiously: "Since the weather in your country is warm, why do you do extreme cold training?"
Yang Andao: "Soldiers don't know when and where to fight. For example, European countries often invade. Maybe one day our ruler will get angry and ask us to fight against their hometowns?"
Yan Bing nodded repeatedly: "What the general said makes sense." Then he saluted and said goodbye.
When Yang An returned to Jian Ru and others, the soldiers rushed to ask: "General, how did you coax him to leave?"
Yang An said seriously: "Why did I try to coax him? I really am from Malay, and the pass I showed him was really given by the Ministry of War of Yan State." Everyone burst out laughing.
Jian Ru smiled and said: "No wonder you said you are not afraid of them, but you are so confident about it."
The saint's eyes flashed and he said: "Now King Chen is beyond reach, let's find a suitable place to settle in Yan State for the time being." No one else found this statement inappropriate, only Eunuch Guo gave him a fierce look.
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Yang An quietly raised the corners of his lips and said, "The general also thinks that it would be better to wait until next spring to make plans. It's really too cold right now and everything is inconvenient."
Eunuch Guo frowned and said: "Where will it be placed? In the Kingdom of Yan?"
Yang Andao: "I have to admit that for now, the safest place for rich people is Yan State. Their court is rich, so they don't need to worry about the people's money. And... they don't know it. There are a lot of people in other countries who rob people.
The phoenix and the grandson were born. Not to mention that as soon as we left Chen Guo, no matter whether the document was made by King Chen or Mr. Chen, King Chen would have to have a bad person complain first. The messengers are probably on their way by now, and it won’t take long
All the princes will think that they have been deceived by Eunuch Guo. There is no king in the world, and all the princes regard themselves as kings. Eunuch Guo, you are guilty of deceiving the emperor! Who will let you go?"
After being stunned for a long time, Eunuch Guo stumbled and sighed: "You can't even wash yourself away if you jump into the Yellow River."
Yang Anai turned around and asked Jianru: "What do you think, master?"
Jian Ru thought for a long time and said: "We really have to settle down first. Musket... must come back."
Yang An raised his eyebrows and said, "Anyway, you guys should try to find a way. I just want to save the lives of the soldiers and don't care about anything else." Then he stood up and ordered a few small bosses to go with him to a place to stay outside the town.
Just after walking out of the town, the two little bosses rushed to ask: "General, why do we want to escape from Chen State? What happened to the saint and Eunuch Guo? Why did Eunuch Guo dare to glare at the saint? Why did he bully the king?
Guilty?"
Yang An looked at them with a smile: "Is there anything else?"
There was a man named Hou Ming, who was one of the poker friends who played cards with Sage Yang An earlier, and said: "The general said that the princes all regard themselves as kings. At that time, I thought Eunuch Guo would say, isn't there a saint? How can I say that?
Is there no king in the world? Who would have thought that he would only lament that he could not wash himself away by jumping into the Yellow River."
Yang Andao: "Since you have noticed this, you should be able to guess what happened."
Hou Ming touched the back of his head: "I can't guess."
Yang An looked at the others: "Can you guess it?" For a long time, no one said anything. Yang An told him, "Eunuch Guo is not a subordinate of the saint, but a subordinate of the former King Wu. However, the money was given to the saint by the Empress Dowager.
So he had to bring the saint with him. If you have played cards with the saint, you should have a sense of his temperament. He is a gentle man, and he does not want to be an emperor. He has been out of the palace for two or three years.
I opened a makeup shop in the capital, and the business is booming. I just got married at the beginning of the year, and I was supposed to get married next year. Who knew that I was suddenly kidnapped and taken to the Kingdom of Chen."
Hou Ming was shocked: "Kidnapping?!"
Yang An nodded: "Kidnapping. If she hadn't told the Empress Dowager that the saint outside the palace had joined the gang, how would she have been willing to give so much money?"
"I'm confused." Hou Ming's eyes were full of doubts. "The money belongs to the Empress Dowager. If she wants to give it to her grandson, what does she have to do with Eunuch Guo?"
Yang An explained: "The Forbidden City is heavily guarded and no messages can be sent inside or outside. When the saint was in the palace, he still wanted to be an emperor, but after he left, he no longer wanted to. The Queen Mother didn't know that her grandson's ambition had changed, so she gave the money to Eunuch Guo.
Let him assist the saint to conquer the world. The saint was unwilling to leave his good life, so Eunuch Guo kidnapped him. Do you understand?"
Hou Ming thought for a while before he finally figured it out and said: "I see. Since Eunuch Guo got the money, why didn't he leave the little saint and run away?"
Yang An sighed: "Because Eunuch Guo's master, the former King of Wu who died in the spring, felt that Jia Cong, the regent of Yan, had evil intentions and would rebel sooner or later. So he ordered Eunuch Guo and Master Jianru to try to get him down."
Hou Ming blurted out: "Isn't this a dog meddling in other people's business? What does it have to do with the state of Wu?"
"That's right!" Several people who couldn't get a word in were in agreement.
Yang An chuckled and said: "It's okay to be nosy. There are many people in the world who like to meddle. I just think the King of Wu is stingy. He chose a monk and an eunuch to deal with a regent. Do they have that ability? Even if they are forced to order them,
He had done something difficult, shouldn't Wu Guo pay for it? But he didn't say a word, and only allowed those two people to beg for help. In the end, none of the princes were willing to pay, and they only coaxed a man who had been paralyzed for many years.
Old woman. The poor saint was waiting to be the groom's official, but they kidnapped him and made him a flagpole. If it weren't for the saint's presence, I would never have voted for them."
A little leader said: "Aren't they just like Cao Mengde?"
Yang An thought for a while: "It's somewhat similar, but different. Cao Mengde wants to achieve great things for himself, while Eunuch Guo wants to do things for his old master. Except for his dead old master, no one else cares about him."
Hou Ming had a card-playing friendship with the saint. After learning his identity, he was quite proud of himself and said angrily: "I thought Eunuch Guo was nothing! Every time we practice, the saint has no smile at all on his face."
"It seems that the saint was born in the capital, and he is from Yan. His powder shop business will be good if the Yan State is in control. Only when the regent has the ability can the Yan state be in control." Yang An sighed, "It is not the saint's intention to cause trouble in the Yan State.
I think it’s better to go do business with the saint. Anyway, when we join the gang, we only care about two things: the saint and the money. The money belongs to the saint’s grandmother. We can’t even buy muskets, so what can we use to fight Yan’s army.”
Hou Ming suddenly became wise: "Besides, the money will be spent! More than two thousand people have to eat, drink, and train troops. What should we do after all the money is spent?"
"No!" Several people said, "It's better to do business with the saint!"
Yang An watched them for a while, then suddenly gathered everyone together and whispered: "How about, let's go to Qingjun's side."