Chapter 448 Debts Must Be Paid

Lulong Mountain Road.

The only way from Pingjun to Fanyang.

In the night, the soldiers of the palace passed by quietly.

At this time, a bright moon hung in the sky, and the moonlight poured down from the branches of the trees, leaving behind the shadows of the trees.

"Coo..."

Just then, accompanied by the sound of flapping wings, the sound of pigeons suddenly came.

Chang Wei raised his head and saw a black shadow passing over the moon.

"General, what's wrong?" Lu Chang saw Chang Wei suddenly stop and couldn't help asking.

"Where did the pigeons come from in the middle of the night?" Chang Wei looked puzzled.

"Isn't it normal to have pigeons in the mountains?" Lu Chang didn't care, "The general is now more and more cautious like His Highness."

Chang Wei glared at Lu Chang, "Be careful and you will be safe. Do you think everyone is like you, with paste in their heads?"

He looked suspiciously in the direction where the pigeon flew for a while, and ordered a team of soldiers to investigate.

Not long after, the soldiers came back and found nothing unusual.

Frowning, Chang Wei sent out several more teams of scouts to patrol.

At this moment, in the night sky.

The flying pigeon went straight to Fanyang City. The next morning, the pigeon landed in front of the door of the Yuan family mansion.

The Yuan family servant who went out to clean up immediately found the pigeon and noticed the bamboo tube tied to the pigeon's leg.

Pulling out the note from the bamboo tube, the servant's face changed drastically, and he immediately hurried to find Yuan Li.

"The Yan Wang's troops are heading towards Fanyang?" Yuan Li was eating breakfast, and when he heard it, his chopsticks fell on the table with a "clang".

Quickly getting up and coming to the servant, Yuan Li read the note over and over again, and immediately beads of sweat appeared on his head.

"Who is helping me? Is this news true or false?" Yuan Li's mind was lingering with two questions.

Although their Yuan family had their own spies.

But during this period, the Yuan family spies did not go to Lulong Mountain.

It's not the Yuan family's spy. Who is watching the movements of the Yan Wang's troops and passing this news to me?

I really can't think of who it is, so Yuan Li decided to put this matter behind him.

At the moment, it's more important to stay alive.

This time, the Yan Wang sent a large army to Fanyang for fun.

Although his plan of pretending to be a forbidden army is perfect, no one can find evidence related to him.

But the Yan Wang must be the first to suspect himself.

If he goes crazy and takes advantage of this chaos to kill him first, he will definitely not be able to escape.

"Call Yuan Feng immediately." Yuan Li's palms were sweating.

Lulong Mountain is only more than half a day's journey from Fanyang.

If it is as the note says, the Yan Wang's troops hide during the day and travel at night.

When he wakes up tomorrow morning, the entire Fanyang City will be surrounded by the Yan Wang's troops.

In the last battle of Yanguan, the Yan Wang's 30,000 troops beat the Yuan family's elite back to Fanyang.

This time he is even less likely to be their opponent.

Even if they fight to the death, they can only injure the King of Yan by three points, and his Yuan family will have no chance of survival.

Yuan Feng arrived in a cup of tea.

He was also shocked to learn that the King of Yan's army was about to arrive.

"Master, what can we do? Although the nobles have supported a lot of private soldiers to join the Yuan family army during this period, these soldiers are mixed. How can they be the opponent of the King of Yan's troops?" Yuan Feng said.

Yuan Li said seriously, "So, you should immediately take the elite troops of the Yuan family with me to Qizhou and surrender to Han Qi."

He sighed and said, "I, Yuan Li, have high aspirations. I have planned for so many years just to be on par with the eight powerful families and occupy a place in Dasong. I didn't expect that I would have to rely on his Han family in the end."

Since the King of Yan sent troops to kill him, it means that he no longer cares about the court and the emperor.

That's right.

Now the northwest of Dasong has become a mess. No one can tell what the situation of Dasong will be in the future.

If Zhao Heng is captured, Dasong will definitely fall into chaos.

In such a chaotic situation, even if he is the King of Yan, he will take the opportunity to get rid of the enemy who is lying on his bed.

"As the saying goes, as long as the green mountains are there, there is no fear of running out of firewood. The 60,000 elite soldiers of the Yuan family will always be loyal to the master of the family." Yuan Feng said.

Yuan Li nodded slowly, "You will mobilize the troops and set off immediately. Only the county soldiers and the private soldiers of the nobles will be left in Fanyang City."

He still held a glimmer of hope in his heart.

If the Yan Wang's troops were not here to kill him, he could come back.

If the Yan Wang really came to kill him, he would not feel sorry for the death of the county soldiers and the private soldiers of the nobles.

Yuan Feng replied yes and turned away.

At this moment, the housekeeper suddenly came to report that the Yuan family's spies found that the Yan Wang's troops had arrived forty miles away from Fanyang City.

"Why so fast? Aren't they hiding during the day and moving at night?" Yuan Li trembled.

After that, he stamped his feet and immediately asked the housekeeper to pack up and flee south.

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Fanyang County, south of Wen'an County.

The royal family's troops are rushing towards Fanyang.

Immediately, Chang Wei's face was serious.

He thought about it for half the night, but he was still worried.

Originally, he was going to lead the soldiers to find a place to rest for a night.

But to be on the safe side, he decided to rush to Fanyang first.

After the siege, let the soldiers rest.

If their actions were discovered as he suspected, Yuan Li would definitely escape.

An hour and a half later, the exhausted Wangfu soldiers arrived at the foot of Fanyang.

But when he saw the panicked soldiers wearing colorful military uniforms on the top of the city, and the city without any defense, his heart sank.

I'm afraid Yuan Li has already escaped.

"The one below is General Chang. I wonder what General Chang is doing in Fanyang?" A noble official on the top of the city said tremblingly.

Yuan Li and Yuan Feng both fled, and the other core members of the Yuan family also left.

Only these unimportant noble officials were left in Fanyang City to test the intentions of the Yan Wang's troops.

"Your Highness the Yan Wang captured the Beidi spy Zhuo Ge, who confessed that Yuan Li colluded with the Beidi, falsely conveyed the imperial edict, and pretended to be a royal guard. This crime is equivalent to treason. Your Highness specially ordered me to arrest him." Chang Wei said proudly, "So, you guys should open the city gate quickly, otherwise, when I capture the city, you will all be punished for treason."

The officials and generals on the city heard this, and those who knew the inside story turned pale and were scared out of their wits.

The Yuan family did do these two treasonous things.

"Are you deaf? Open the city gate quickly." Lu Chang took the opportunity to roar.

His loud voice made the Yuan family officials and generals on the city tremble again.

But although they were afraid, no one wanted to take the risk and hand over Fanyang City to the Yan Wang's troops.

Chang Wei snorted coldly, and was too lazy to talk nonsense with these officials and generals, and immediately called for artillery.

Yuan Li fled, so naturally there was no time to arrange defenses inside and outside Fanyang City.

Therefore, he had to use artillery to blow open the gate of Fanyang City.

Before he set out, King Yan and him discussed two possibilities with him, and also imagined the situation that Yuan Li discovered in advance and escaped from Fanyang.

According to King Yan.

It is good that Yuan Li is in Fanyang, and he can take him down.

If he is not there, it will not affect anything.

This time, he led his troops south to deal with Yuan Li, and he also had an important task.

This task was to take the opportunity to strike the nobles of Yanzhou in the three southern counties in the name of clearing up the rebellion and rescue the people from the land of the nobles.

Didn't Yuan Li play a conspiracy to let the nobles of Ping County and Liao County flee south and take away a lot of wealth from the two counties?

This time, he wants to take it all back, and double it.

Thinking of this, Chang Wei roared, "Let them taste the power of artillery."