In the second half of the eighth year of Taikang, in just a few months, the wind and clouds of the world first stirred in the north, and then the southwest became the center of the whirlpool.

In the final analysis, the cause of these two whirlpools is because of the high-ranking Taikang Heavenly Son.

After Li Xin received the letter from the southwest, he only delayed for half a day, and then rushed to the southwest day and night, because they were all riding horses, and the speed was still slow, and they had one or two hundred people, and most of them were from the army, and they carried bows and crossbows with them, and they were not afraid of any bandits, so they specially picked up the road to walk, and after seven or eight days, they had already walked out of two thousand miles.

That is, they have already walked more than half the way.

At night, Li Xin and the others didn't dare to go into the city to rest, worried that the people of the imperial court would block them along the road, but it was obvious that Ye Mao's side had done a good job, and until now, there was no obvious reaction from the imperial court, as if they had not found that Li Xin had left the northern frontier.

Most of them are from the forbidden army or Yulinwei, and setting up a camp tent is the basic skill, and at night they will find a suitable terrain to build a camp tent, try not to enter the city much, and send people into the city to buy food on weekdays.

Li Xin had not rested for several days, and after the tent was set up, he went into his tent, closed his eyes, and fell into a deep sleep.

In the middle of the night, Shen Gang, who was sent by Li Xin to his hometown in Yongzhou, returned from Yongzhou.

After Li Xin was woken up, he was tired, rubbing his sore eyes, and slowly spoke: "The matter is done?" ”

"That's it."

Shen Gang lowered his head and said, "The people of Yongzhou have all left for the southwest, but there are more than 200 of them, and I am afraid it will be difficult to enter the Hanzhou Mansion." ”

Li Xin's face was expressionless, and he said in a deep voice: "Then it depends on whether Mu Ying has the spare strength to take us into the city, at this time he should have received my letter, and when we enter the southwest, we will also rely on the Hanzhou army to enter Hanzhou City." ”

At this time, most of the Hanzhou City has been surrounded by the imperial army, Li Xin does not know how many people the imperial court has used to fight the Hanzhou Mansion this time, but he knows how many imperial court troops are in the southwest, according to the character of the Taikang Emperor, most of them will be used.

Shen Gang looked at Li Xin, whose eyes were bloodshot, and sighed slightly: "Master Hou, you go to sleep for a while, we have to go on our way tomorrow." ”

In the past seven or eight days, because there was basically not much time to rest, and he was worried about the relationship between Hanzhou City, the Marquis of Jing'an became very haggard, not only his face was a little yellow, but his hair was scattered, and his eyes were bloodshot at this time, which looked quite scary.

Li Xin closed his eyes, the swelling pain in his eyes eased a little, he lowered his head and said: "It's okay, when I crossed the Sky Ridge in the southwest before, it was much harder than at this time, I was able to bear it at that time, but now it's a small problem." ”

When Li Xin went to the southwest, he led 40,000 soldiers and horses to cross the Motianling, not only to overcome the steep terrain, but also to make a fire for cooking, for fear of open fire and smoke, which attracted the attention of the Pingnan army.

At this time, he rushed to the southwest day and night, and was much more comfortable than back then.

Shen Gang sighed and didn't say anything more.

Because of the cold weather, a group of people sat around a bonfire, everyone spit out white gas, and the Marquis of Jing'an sat in the middle, rubbed his hands, and began to arrange for Shen Gang and the others to do various things.

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After a long journey of thirteen days, Li Xin and the others finally entered the southwest border, because the southwest was at war, after entering the southwest border, they no longer took the official road, but picked up some small roads, and slowly approached the direction of Hanzhou City, and by the sixteenth day, they were only forty or fifty miles away from the Hanzhou capital.

At this distance, every move could easily attract the attention of the imperial court's soldiers and horses, and for the sake of safety, Li Xin only brought Shen Gang and Wang Tao and other dozen people, and the others scattered to places outside the Hanzhou Mansion on the spot.

After Li Xin and the others approached Hanzhou, the first thing they did was not to find a way to enter the city, but to find a mountain near Hanzhou and use a clairvoyant mirror to watch the recent situation of Hanzhou City.

Li Xin raised the clairvoyant mirror and looked towards Hanzhou City, at first glance, Hanzhou City was quiet and quiet, there seemed to be nothing unusual, and no one was attacking the city, but Li Xin quickly noticed a terrifying scene.

That is the city wall of Hanju City......

It's red!

At this time, the scarlet blood on the city wall has not faded, obviously there has been a big battle in Hanzhou City in recent days, but the army of the imperial court failed to gnaw Hanzhou City and temporarily retreated, so it seems that Hanzhou City is quiet at this time.

Li Xin slowly put down the clairvoyant mirror in his hand, his face expressionless.

After being silent for a long time, he took out a black scarf from his bosom and put it over his face.

"Let's go, let's go to the agreed place."

The Marquis of Jing'an covered his face, and he couldn't see the expression on his face clearly, but judging from his eyes, he was obviously in a very bad mood.

Wang Tao and the others didn't dare to ask more, so they could only bow down.

Previously, Li Xin agreed in his letter to Mu Ying to pick up Li Xin and others into the city on November 19, twenty miles west of Hanzhou City, which was November 18 in the eighth year of Taikang, which means that Li Xin arrived one day early.

After they went down the mountain, they got on their horses and went around to the west of the city, and along the way, they could also see some imperial army one after another, but these troops were all local garrisons in the southwest, and the discipline was not how strict, Li Xin and other more than a dozen horsemen, so swaggered around to the west of the city, and found a cave to rest on the hill in the west of the city.

The next morning, before dawn, they got up early, Li Xin rubbed his face to make himself sober, and then turned over on the ink horse, and after putting on the black scarf again, he said in a deep voice: "Let's go!" ”

"There is armor covered with armor, and the Hanzhou army goes out of the city to pick up people, and it is impossible for the people of the court to watch it, and most of them will fight after a while. Everyone pay attention to save their lives and try to enter Hanzhou City alive! ”

After speaking, Li Xin bowed his head and clenched his fists at these brothers.

"Li Xin is an official in the court, and my brothers should have followed me to enjoy happiness, but in the past few years, Li Xin has put everyone in danger again and again, and he really can't stand everyone."

He bowed his head slightly and took a deep breath.

"Brothers, rest assured, as long as everyone enters Hanzhou safely, Li Xin will definitely be able to let everyone return to the capital in peace!"

Wang Tao, Shen Gang and others all bowed deeply to Li Xin.

"Master Hou is polite."

"Although we are in danger, but Hou Ye is with us every time, Hou Ye's golden body is not afraid of death, and we rough people are even more afraid."

Li Xin didn't say anything more, just shook the reins and shouted in a low voice: "Brothers, let's go!" ”

More than a dozen men echoed in unison, followed behind Li Xin, and galloped in the direction of Hanzhou City.

In every decent city, there will be a Shili Pavilion outside the city, as a place to stop at the send-off, the same is true of Hanzhou City, the place agreed by Li Xin and Mu Ying is the Shili Pavilion in the west of Hanzhou City.

But this place was already occupied by the southwest garrison at this time, and as soon as Li Xin and the others entered, some foot soldiers in rudimentary armor ran over and shouted at them.

"What the hell!"

"The imperial court is quelling the rebellion here, the idlers leave quickly, otherwise the sword has no eyes, and you will all die here!"

Some people shouted like this, and some people saw the horses of Li Xin and the others, and wanted to rush up and snatch the horses of Li Xin and others.

The Marquis of Jing'an sat on horseback, ignoring the words of these foot soldiers, and just quietly looked in the direction of Hanzhou.

When these foot soldiers saw that these people did not agree to them, they were immediately furious, and they rushed up with their weapons and arrested all the dozen or so people for questioning.

As soon as they acted, they suddenly heard a thunderous voice from the side of Hanzhou City!

The sound of horses' hooves and shouts of killing came.

Li Xin and others drew out their weapons one after another, not to kill the enemy, but to protect themselves.

In the melee, a black-faced general rode on a red horse and killed him from the chaos, he rushed all the way to Li Xin's side, looked up and saw the black scarf on Li Xin's face, and laughed.

"Li Changan, I won't recognize you if you cover your face?"

Li Xin sat on the ink horse, his face calm.

"Don't talk nonsense, what's Li Changan here?"

He stretched out his finger and pointed to the black towel on his face, and reminded Mu Ying.

"I'm masked."