229, Chapter 229 (1/2)

Just as Captain Yang was taking the soldiers to check the situation, arrows suddenly flew from all around.

Captain Yang shouted: "Everyone, please be careful."

Those who can join the Royal Forest Army have good skills. Even if they have the connections to get in, the number is not high. Not to mention the soldiers in Yunxiang County, because there is nothing going on in Yunxiang County, so Qin Fang takes them to practice every day. This person usually fights with his own people, but now he finally meets him. Hands, but so excited.

Captain Yang shouted: "Come on."

Yu Nian also followed suit: "Leave fifty people to guard the carriage. The rest will follow me and kill them without leaving a scrap of armor behind."

However, when they saw the enemy's face clearly, they were shocked. Judging from Fang's clothes, it is obvious that he is not from Qi State, but...

Colonel Yang shouted: "Barbarian."

Barbarian? Yu Nian asked Colonel Yang, "Is this man a barbarian?"

Captain Yang said: "I have lived in Yongzhou for five or six years, and I am very familiar with the barbarians. Their clothes are the clothes of the barbarians. Damn it, why are the barbarians here?" Although this is not the capital, it is also the country of Qi. This place is in the center of the territory. How did the barbarian sneak in?

There is a traitor in the Yongzhou military camp.

This is Captain Yang’s idea.

So infuriating. While fighting, Lieutenant Yang called his subordinates: "Go back to Yunxiang County to find the general and tell him that it is the barbarians who robbed the gunpowder this time."

The subordinate immediately withdrew from the battlefield: "Yes." He quickly left as soon as he mounted his horse.

Barbarian wanted to stop Fang Fang, but Colonel Yang and his men immediately swarmed him, not giving them a chance to get close to Fang Fang. Moreover, the people who were stopped by Captain Yang were also capable, and they were not easily shot by them. At the moment, the barbarian tried to shoot down one of his subordinates with arrows, but the subordinates dodged the arrows neatly. In the blink of an eye, the horse had run away.

Because there were no live animals to carry, all the soldiers arrived in Yunxiang County three days later. It was daytime now, and Qin was in the military camp during the day, so the soldiers went directly to the military camp. "General...general..."

Qin was at the training ground. When he heard the voice, he turned around and saw soldiers running over in a hurry: "General, my subordinates followed Captain Yang to deliver fire medicine to the Yongzhou military camp. Something happened halfway."

"Oh?" Qin Fang was not in a hurry. He washed his face and changed his clothes. "Tell me carefully what's going on."

"Yes." The subordinate told him about the situation when he met the barbarian on the way.

"Barbarian?" Even though Qin Fang thought that someone would frame him with the idea of ​​setting fire to poison, he never thought that it would be a barbarian. Moreover, how could about two hundred barbarians enter the Yongzhou border? Unless... there is a traitor at the Yongzhou border. Although he thought so, Qin Fang was not nervous. He said, "Let's go, take me to the ‌‌." Unfortunately, it is the season for horses to be in heat. The sweaty BMW and the red handsome man are making horses at the racecourse, so they only ‌ You can ride Wu Shuai, otherwise, Red Shuai is faster.

Qin Fang set off directly from the military camp and sent people to the general's mansion to inform Yang Haiyan.

Two days later, he arrived at the scene of the incident, and ‌ subordinates were still chasing him. It would take another day, but he arrived early.

The place where the incident happened was a mess, some were healing, some were resting, and some were chatting. However, the carriage box that was previously transported from Yunxiang County has disappeared.

"General." When Qin Fang arrived, Colonel Yang breathed a sigh of relief. He stood up and stepped forward, "General, you are here."

"Brother Qin." Du Xingran also came over.

Qin Fang got off his horse and ignored Wu Shuai. Wu Shuai was very clever and would not run away. "How was it? How were the casualties?"

Captain Yang said: "Our soldiers are okay, only twenty-six of them were injured, and the Imperial Guards were injured for fifteen of them. If we hadn't used pyrotechnics to lure the enemy away, the outcome would have been uncertain. Barbarian His skills are extremely good.”

Qin Fang said: "Tell me more specifically."

Colonel Yang: "Yes. We arrived here six days after we set off, and encountered a roadblock. When I took people to check the surroundings, this barbarian appeared. According to your instructions, if the enemy appears Don't be reluctant to fight, delay for a while, but save your own life, then run away with the firewood, and give up the firewood when you can't escape. The same is true for us, run away for a while with the firewood, and then return after giving up the firewood. ‌‌The barbarians chased us when they saw us escaping with the fire. General, although these people were wearing barbarian clothes, they were probably trying to get rid of us. We misunderstood and led us, because the barbarians would not wear barbarian clothes to grab the medicine."

Just when Qin Fang was about to speak, Yu Nian, who had gone to Fangzhou, came over and said, "General Qin."

Qin Fang: "General Yu."

Yu Nian's expression was very bad. Although he was not injured, in his eyes, Captain Yang was shrinking from the battle, so he felt sorry for him. And this person's immediate boss is Qin Fang, so he is even more impressive to Qin Fang: "General Qin, you sent a hundred soldiers to accompany you, but what happened? This person Seeing the barbarians coming, he actually gave up his gunpowder and ran away. This is considered a deserter on the battlefield and is punishable by beheading.

Moreover, the emperor sent us to escort the pyrotechnics to Yongzhou Military Camp. Now that the pyrotechnics are gone, what do you think we should do? General Qin, I have a suspicion. When we first arrived, you said there was no fire. Could it be that you collaborated with the enemy for a few days and then asked the barbarians to intercept the fire? "Yu Nian has been thinking about it for two days, and he really can't imagine how Manzi could ambush here. To be precise, how did Manzi know about the fire medicine. If it wasn't them who leaked the news, or Qin Fang who leaked the news, Yu Nian wouldn't He will admit that it is his side, so he thinks it is Qin Fang's side.

Qin Fang was not angry. He said: "If General Yu suspected that I had leaked the news, why should I wait until today? If I want to transport the firewood out, I can finish it in the past two years. ”

In fact, Yu Nian was just angry and fast-talking. He also felt that Qin Fang was impossible. After all, he was in charge of the entire Yunxiang County. If he had any suspicion, the fire medicine would have been gone. But: "Of course I believe General Qin, but what about the people around General Qin?"

Qin Fang asked back: "In that case, why doesn't General Yu talk about the people around you?"

Of course Yu Nian would not admit it: "They are the emperor's royal guards. How could they do such a thing?"

Qin Fang said: "Throughout the ages, there have been rebels who opened the city gates."

Yu Nian: "You..."

Qin Fang did not argue with him: "General Yu, don't worry, the firewood will be delivered to the Yongzhou military camp on time. What you transported from Yunxiang County is not firewood."

As soon as Yu Nian came out, he suddenly understood: "Could it be that General Qin had suspicions for a long time?"

Qin Fang said: "That's not the case, it's just that my heart can sail for thousands of years."

Yu Nian: "Who is carrying the medicine?"

Qin Fang: "General Yu doesn't need to worry now. Let's investigate the situation at the scene, right? Did General Yu find anything here?"

Yu Nian said: "I have never come into contact with barbarians, but Colonel Yang said that this man is indeed a barbarian, not someone else pretending to be. General Qin came from the Yongzhou military camp. I don't know what General Qin has." ‌ Law?”

Qin Fang walked to Manzi's body and checked: "It is indeed Manzi. Manzi is different from us Qi people. Their appearance is deeper than us Qi people." According to Yang Haiyan, Manzi is of mixed blood, so ‌The facial features are relatively deep.

Yu Nian: "So, is this person really a barbarian?"

Qin Fang: "Aren't there any alive?"

Yu Nian: "Originally, there was, but he hid poison in his mouth and committed suicide by taking the poison. This person was well prepared when he came, and his bones are quite strong."

Qin Fang nodded and asked Colonel Yang, "Did you find anything else around?"

Colonel Yang said: "Yes, I found that the Royal Forest Army is missing two people."

Yu Nian was shocked: "What?"

Lieutenant General Yu Nian said: "General, not counting you, we have a total of one hundred people. Currently, there are fifteen of us, and there are still eighty-three. It is true that there are two less."

Before Yu Nian opened his mouth, Qin Fang said: "General Yu, it seems that the person leaking the news may be someone close to you."

Yu Nian said harshly: "Maybe they are somewhere else."

Qin Fang chuckled lightly and asked Captain Yang again: "Did you follow the traces and pursue him?"

Colonel Yang said: "We chased them, but they seemed to know that we would chase them, so they erased the traces. More importantly, they couldn't have gone far with ten boxes of pyrotechnics, so there must be people nearby. They were contacted, but we couldn't find them."

Qin Fang said: "No rush, we'll talk about it in the evening. But as you said, there must be someone nearby to help them, otherwise it would be difficult for them to hide their whereabouts with the pyrotechnics. And it can be seen that they chose to take action here. They are ready here. But why did you choose this path?" He asked Captain Yang.

Lieutenant Yang said frankly: "Yes, I thought it was safe to take the official route with the gunpowder, so after discussing with General Yu, I decided to take the official route."

Yu Nian also said at this time: "Indeed, we discussed this together. Fire and medicine are of great importance. If we go through the official channels, I don't think anyone would have the courage to rob us. But who would have known that the other side would actually choose Do it in the evening."

Qin Fang said: "Although it was disadvantageous for them in the evening, at night, they couldn't move with firewood, so they chose to take action in the evening."

Whether it is, who knows.

Du Xingran: "Brother Qin said it will be at night. Could there be any clues at night?"

Qin Fang didn't show off: "Yes, I was on guard originally, but I didn't expect that it would actually come in handy."

Du Xingran breathed a sigh of relief at his confident tone: "Brother Qin is still careful."

Qin Fang waved his hand: "I'm afraid. The emperor entrusted such an important matter to me, so I couldn't let him down." But he didn't expect that someone really dared to make a plan to use fire medicine, and he was a barbarian.

Speaking of which, this plan can be called vicious. If the fire medicine goes missing, Qin Fang will not have a big problem because he has already given the fire medicine to General Yu. However, it is inevitable that he will not be implicated. After all, the only person who could know the movement of Huo Yao, besides the Imperial Forest Army, was him. If the Royal Guardsmen were the Emperor's people and could not betray the Emperor, then someone with intentions might throw a knife at him.

In addition, there is a more important person who will be implicated, Yonghehou.

The fire medicine was transported to the Yongzhou military camp, which means that Yonghe Hou also knew about it. If the Yulin Army and Qin Fang didn't dislike it, then wouldn't Yonghe Hou be suspected? Moreover, it was the barbarian who robbed the medicine, and the barbarian came in from Yongzhou. Even if the Marquis of Yonghe was not suspected and allowed the barbarian to come in, he would still be guilty of dereliction of duty, and because of this dereliction of duty, the medicine was snatched away by the barbarian. , in this case, Yonghehou's crime will be serious.

The Yongzhou Military Camp will definitely change hands.

Qin Fang is no longer a newcomer to officialdom. If something happens to Marquis Yonghe, who will be implicated? Apart from the Yonghe Marquis Mansion, the second prince is the most direct person, because the young master of the Shizi family is the second prince's companion, and the Yonghe Marquis Mansion indirectly stands with the second prince's position.

So, does Fang Fu Yonghe want to abolish the power of the second prince?

Qin Fang didn't want to think too much. The battle in the court had nothing to do with him. He took out a pen and paper, wrote a letter immediately, and gave it to the soldier to deliver it to the capital.

night

Whether it is Qin Fang's soldiers or Yu Nian's Yulin Army, they are looking forward to the evening. No, as soon as night came, everyone turned to Qin Fang. Du Xingran: "Brother Qin, it's night, can you tell us this clue?" They really have no idea. Not only had the traces of the wheels been erased, but when they searched further, they found even deeper wheels. Logically speaking, the wheels of a carriage containing pyrotechnics would be deeper, but the wheels were so densely packed that it was impossible to find them. ‌Traces. He knew that this was Barbarian's intention.

Therefore, they really can't find it.

Moreover, there were mountains nearby and no one was there. They searched for two days but found nothing. Therefore, we can only stay with Qin Fang here.

Because of Captain Yang's intention, Qin Fang seemed to have a plan.

Qin Fang stood up and picked up a torch: "Let's go." He searched around the area and found it along the ground.

Everyone thought he was looking for traces of a carriage, and even Du Xingran did the same thing, so they couldn't help but said: "Brother Qin, are you looking for traces of a carriage?"

Qin Fang explained: "No, I tampered with the carriage... I found it, you guys." There was only a bright light on the ground. If you don't look carefully, you won't notice it at all. Even if you occasionally glance at it, you will think it is the light of fireflies. After all, there are already fireflies in the wild this season.

Lieutenant Yang lay down and dipped his finger into it: "Is this powder?"

Qin Fang said: "Well, the powder that glows at night... I learned from the officials of the Ministry of Industry. Let's look for it along these clues." He didn't even inform Captain Yang about this clue. It's not that he doesn't believe Captain Yang, but he's afraid that Captain Yang will reveal his flaws and be known by others. After all, he can't guarantee whether the enemy is among the soldiers and the imperial guards.