If you ride a horse and run on the Yellow River, you may not be able to outrun the infantry.
After Zhang Hongfan shot a few arrows, he finally stopped chasing.
He rode back to the camp, but ignored the chaos around him and went straight back to his camp.
"Where are the people?"
"Put it in the big tent."
"You guys stay outside and don't let anyone in."
Zhang Hongfan strode into the tent with a cold face. He saw two of Li Heng's close soldiers being tied up in the tent.
"You are indeed a traitor who colluded with Li Xia. It's a pity that my manager still believed you."
"Oh, am I a traitor?"
"Isn't it? You have sent people to gather information from my house manager many times."
"Multiple times? Time and time again."
"..."
"puff."
"puff."
Zhang Hongfan wiped his hands and walked out of the tent, his face getting colder.
He recalled his interactions with Li Heng and vaguely understood when Li Heng started to become suspicious.
It was the third day of the first lunar month. The two of them were chatting. They talked about where Shi Tianze was going to move his camp. He said it was Fenyang Ferry, and Li Heng said it was Longmen Ferry. At that time, Li Heng's eyes looked a bit wrong.
So long ago, Li Heng had suspected Zhang Hongfan, but he never reported it to He Bichi.
Thinking about this, Zhang Hongfan walked into another tent.
Zhang Hongzheng has been detained here by him.
"Brother Ninth."
"I ask, you answer. If you dare to tell a lie, I will never let you go. Before the third day of the first lunar month, you asked Li Heng where Shi Tianze was going to move his camp. Li Heng said it was Longmen Ferry, right?"
"Yes Yes."
"Then why don't you tell him that the news I got is Fenyang Crossing."
Zhang Hongzheng said: "The news you got is different. It is obviously Shi Tianze who is cheating. I told him what to do."
He seemed to be fine and even yawned.
Zhang Hongfan asked again: "When did you start delivering news to Li Xia?"
"When we were in Jinan, do you remember the night when Li Fen failed to break through? Wang Xun was actually in your tent, Brother Jiu."
"Huh? In my account?"
"Yes. Now that Fifth Brother has spoken, I have to help him. Wang Xun said that nowhere else is safe, and your tent is the safest, so he left a man to deliver the message to me, but he was shot to death by Ninth Brother.
Already."
Zhang Hongfan was speechless.
Zhang Hongzheng added: "Later, didn't Li Heng go to help search for Wang Shu? At that time, Wang Shu planned to frame the details on him."
"Yeah?"
"Yes, they have been in Shandong for a long time. In terms of understanding Li Heng, Wang Xun is as good as Jiu Ge. Moreover, Wang Xun failed to win over Li Weizhong and Li Heng and his son at that time, and he hated them... So, let me use Jiu Ge's relationship,
Ask Li Heng for information and follow Li Heng's route. For example, if we just plan to send troops to Guanlong, I will immediately pass the news to Guanzhong. Li Xia already knows that we are going to march westward."
"Who delivered the news?"
"When he was in Shandong, Wang Xun had many spies. As soon as he arrived in Shanxi, he immediately arranged for someone to be next to Li Heng, the one Wu Laoliu and Ninth Brother had also seen, the one next to Li Deqing."
Zhang Hongfan was so angry that he smiled and said coldly: "You are afraid of death when fighting, but you are not afraid at all when doing this."
"Brother Ninth, please understand clearly. I am doing this because I have no future. If I had any future, I would compete for military glory and family fortune just like you."
"I'm not fighting for the family fortune!"
Zhang Hongfan was furious, slapped the table and shouted: "Do you know that I am protecting the family property?"
"oh."
Zhang Hongzheng finally became a little scared.
Zhang Hongfan picked him up and looked at his nonchalant expression, wishing he could slap him awake.
"So, when you go to the battlefield, you know you are afraid, but you are not afraid of His Majesty, is that right?"
"What do you have to be afraid of, Your Majesty? We have been back and forth with Li Xiamei for so long at home, but Your Majesty is fine."
"That's enough! You idiot!"
"Brother Ninth, don't be angry. It's really not a big deal. I actually didn't do anything. I just asked for some information and someone will hand it over. I don't need to worry about it. Li Xia's people have all been arranged. Look,
Now everyone doubts Li Heng, but no one doubts me."
Zhang Hongzheng looked a little proud and moved closer.
"Brother Ninth, do you know? There will be more inadvertent evidence in the future, which will definitely confirm Li Heng's guilt. No one will doubt me. Brother Five said that Li Xia can do things with confidence."
Zhang Hongfan closed his eyes and could see how Zhang Hongzheng was colluding with Li Xia right under his and Li Heng's noses.
"Brother Ninth, Brother Deqing, that's the King of Wu Village over there, would you like to go and have a look?"
"It's not easy to find an honest and obedient talent, but Brother Deqing snatches him away."
"Hey, where did Shi Shuai move his camp?"
"Brother Ninth, Brother Deqing, what a coincidence, I was asking this idiot under my command if he knew how to fish in the Yellow River."
"Brother Deqing, are you on duty tonight? I'll help you."
This sentence, Zhang Hongzheng's nonchalant tone at that time, he didn't take it to heart at all.
Even though Li Heng suspected Zhang Hongfan, he never doubted Zhang Hongzheng.
Because I feel that Zhang Jiulang is already in charge of the Zhang family.
Shi Tianze and He Bichi also thought that Zhang Jiulang would not be able to control his younger brother. But no.
The Zhang family is not his decision at all.
His father's plan was profound, but he only considered how to preserve the family business for a few years, play both sides, and take advantage of local power. This was not feasible. What would happen if the world were to be unified in more than ten years? The younger generation needed to find a solution.
But his father didn't have such far-reaching considerations.
What about Zhang Wulang? It’s okay to defect on his own. It would be okay if he was as upright as Zhang Shijie, but he always reached back and took away the family property.
Zhang Juro was even more clueless and was deceived into making such a big mistake.
"You can continue talking about what you didn't finish that day... What else did Zhang Hongdao say?"
"Oh, Fifth Brother said, we can save the whole family without doing anything. But to help Kublai Khan, I'm afraid sooner or later the prince will not be able to do it. Wouldn't it be better to help Li Xia and become a relative of the emperor and the country?
Since ancient times, wealth has been sought in danger.”
Zhang Hongfan found that he still couldn't listen.
He interrupted Zhang Hongzheng again and asked: "What about me? Did he tell me what to do? I have gained His Majesty's trust, so I didn't pay the price?"
"Brother Jiu, just pretend you don't know."
In the middle of Zhang Hongzheng's words, he felt that Zhang Hongfan's eyes were a little scary, so he shrank his neck and said: "No one will know, no matter how they check, they can only find Li Heng..."
Throughout the conversation up to this point, Zhang Hongzheng still didn't think this was a serious matter.
He believed that his brother and sister-in-law would not harm him, and what they had to do was not difficult at all, just say a few words.
In the same way, if he told Ninth Brother frankly, Ninth Brother would not harm him. He just kept the secret in his heart, and it would not be too difficult for Ninth Brother.
There is nothing wrong in the world, so why should anyone bother themselves?
When Zhang Hongfan stepped out of this tent, he only had a sneer in his heart.
Zhang Wulang and Zhang Shilang didn't know how terrible Kublai Khan was.
Because these are two mediocre people.
The mediocre people had nothing to do with the military power of the Zhang family, so Kublai Khan's eyes had never been on these two mediocre people. Naturally, they could not feel the terrible pressure.
"The ignorant are fearless."
Zhang Hongfan muttered these words, spread out his palms, and saw that his palms were covered with cold sweat.
"what to do?"
An idea came to him, he hesitated for a moment and shook his head.
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Heyang Daying.
Li Xia got off his horse and walked into the tent, his steps immediately staggering.
After a while, Han Qi'an hurried in and saw that Li Xia had not yet been able to take off the armor on his body.
"Alang, what is this?"
"The blood is dry and stuck, please give me a hand."
"injured?"
"It's okay, it's a minor injury. Yue Weng, please help me apply the medicine. You don't need to let the soldiers know. Lin Zi is gone?"
"Yes, as soon as the news of the successful attack on the camp came back, Lin Zi immediately mobilized two thousand soldiers and horses from the lower reaches and rushed to Lantian for support."
Han Qi'an said: "Only less than 5,000 people are stationed at the three-hundred-mile Yellow River defense line in Guandong. As long as the Mongolian army attacks once, we will not be able to defend it."
Li Xia allowed Han Qi'an to treat his injuries, while the sweat on his forehead continued to trickle down.
Due to blood loss, the color of his lips also turned pale.
But he smiled and said: "Zhuge Liang also sang about the empty city strategy."
Although there is no "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" today, these short stories have been circulated for a long time. For example, the Empty City Strategy came from the notes of Jin people.
Han Qi'an also understood Li Xia's little joke.
He forced a smile, cut off the cloth from Li Xia's wound with a knife, clicked his tongue and said, "I hope this time I can temporarily defeat the Mongolian army."
"Li Heng is dead... I learned that his flag fell down, so I walked around to take a look. He should be dead."
"Then shouldn't we let the Mongolian army know that we still have intelligence sources in the near future?"
"yes."
Li Xia thought about deliberately pretending to be Li Heng in front of Yelu Xiliang, and when Yelu Zhu asked him carefully, he would inevitably wonder why he was so familiar with Li Heng and how he was able to confirm Li Heng's case.
"Wu Laoliu did a really good job this time."
"He Tai has come back, that's what he said. I think that these Shanxi men have made a great contribution to holding the east line of the Yellow River this time."
"Yes, Shanxi people have made great contributions!"