The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

There is an elm forest in the Zhuangzi where Jianru and others live, and behind the forest is a hillside.There was no way there, so there were only five or six soldiers lying loosely on the ground to keep watch.Jianru Yang Anju is a generation with high martial arts skills, he lightly turned around and knocked out two of them, and arrested them into Zhuangzi.After a little questioning, they were all officers and soldiers of Chen State.The superiors said that Jiangyang bandits were hidden in this village, and they were ordered to keep watch. Tonight there will be a strong attack with artillery.

Yang An took a look at Jianru: "I really think highly of us. We don't even have firearms."

Jian Ru frowned: "We have a lot of manpower, if we go out like this, I'm afraid the enemy soldiers will come over."

Yang An started to find the gun bullets from Chen Bing, threw one to Jianru, and hid one in his arms. "That's it. Master, you take the sage to pretend to be a woodcutter and go out of the forest first, and then I will lead my brother Guangming out of Zhuangzi. Eunuch Guo is among the soldiers. They want a sage and money, and they will not stop us. Leave here first make plans."

Jianru pondered: "Is there some risk involved?"

Yang An said: "To this day, if you don't take risks, you are waiting for death." Seeing Jianru still hesitating, Yang An said, "Go early to be safe, the later the more dangerous."

Jianru gritted his teeth and said, "Forget it, I'll follow you." Yang An snapped his fingers.

The two went to see the saint together.When the sage heard that King Chen wanted to kill him for money, he was so frightened that he collapsed immediately, and grabbed Yang An: "General, save me!"

Yang An then arranged to talk to him. "Master Jianru's martial arts skills are much higher than mine. You should bring a musket. Since they are preparing to do it at night, we have a lot of time to retreat." The saint refused to listen, and held Yang An tightly.Yang An thought for a while and said, "Otherwise...you will have to go out training with us among the soldiers. I'm afraid that if you run too slowly, people will find out."

The sage said: "General Yang sent me out from behind. Master leads the army."

"Impossible." Yang An said, "All the people in King Chen know that I am the leader of the army. If I suddenly change to the leader of the master, they will definitely become suspicious, and the brothers may not be able to escape smoothly."

The sage said anxiously: "They are just soldiers, and it is useless for King Chen to want them."

"What if there is a fight? Chen Bing has firearms, but we don't. I'm afraid it will hurt the lives of the brothers." Yang An said solemnly, "They used to live a good life, even if they were poor, they could always survive. We recruited them with money. , causing this disaster. Saint, our soldiers are cold-blooded and ruthless to the enemy, and will not give up one of our own. The robes are all brothers."

Jian Ru couldn't help clapping his hands: "Well said!" The saint was immediately disappointed.

Yang An cupped his fists and said, "That's it. There's not much time, you two pack up your things and act immediately. There is a Zhang Fei Temple ten miles to the north, which is the turning point for our usual [-]-mile cross-country training. You are waiting there." Jianru unconsciously nodded in response.Yang An turned around and strode out.

There are more than 2000 soldiers hidden in this village, most of whom are farmers who have just been recruited.Yang An knows how to train soldiers, training them the same way he trains recruits in Malay country, and now he has fully learned to obey orders.Because he had already guessed that King Chen would not let go of this piece of fat after he got the arrest warrant from the state of Wu, Yang An often led people out for cross-country training, and people who practiced so well that King Chen was used to it.

Then he blew the summoning whistle for the little boss.Not long after the crowd gathered, Yang An said: "Immediately carry out field weight-bearing training. Let everyone bring food and supplies, just like the previous few quick transfers. Spend the night outside tonight."

A leader asked: "General, are you practicing camping in the wild?"

"No." Yang An said, "March in the field. I won't go back to Chen Country." Everyone was stunned.Yang An snorted, "Chen Wang is a hypocrite, Chen Guoqiong, the food and grass he gave us is [-]% more expensive than what we buy in the street market! We saints are annoyed, we don't want to play with him, and go elsewhere."

Another leader asked, "General, where are we going?"

Yang An smiled and said: "Just don't worry, the saint has plenty of money, buy a bigger and better Zhuangzi!"

"Oh—" the crowd cheered.So they dispersed separately, gathered their hands and packed their luggage.

Jianru and the saint walked for about two sticks of incense, but there was no movement outside, so they thought they escaped safely.Eunuch Guo tidied up, blackened his face and pretended to be a soldier.Not long after, Yang An led a large group of soldiers out of Zhuangzi on horseback, whistled and shouted slogans: "Don't be afraid of hardships and tiredness! Go all out! Fight bravely! Finish the training!" They usually shout this slogan and go there. way.Chen Jun stood still, anyway, what they wanted was not a young man.Besides, after a while these people have to come back exhausted like mud, every time.

But this time is not every time.When the sun went down, he didn't come back.King Chen sent chariots and horses to pick up his fifth younger brother. The eunuch went into Zhuangzi to have a look: not only was there no human hair, but even most of the rice grain was empty.Li ordered people to search around, only to find two of their own people who were arrested.He chased after the footprints and horseshoe prints. After chasing to Zhang Fei Temple, the prints disappeared out of thin air, which must have been cleaned up.

King Chen was furious, so that Cha Shihe leaked the news.With the testimony of the accountant of the silver house and the fans of the brothel, it can be known that Yang An didn't pay attention when he wandered around the city, and all the arrest papers of Wu State were kept in the yamen without posting a single one. I really can't guess the reason.Chen Wang was so angry that he smashed everything in the house. "Babaer is cheaper than others!"

On the other side, Yang An led the soldiers to Zhang Fei Temple, gave up two horses to the saint and eunuch Guo, and ordered twelve cavalry to be at the end of the team to clean up the traces, and the rest rushed all the way. Infantry accounted for more than half of the more than 2000 people. They walked over mountains and ridges for three 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's better to hide in the alley."

Yang An said: "The big road is easy to walk and the small road is hard to walk. We didn't bring much food, so we can make up for our luggage cheaply on the big road. Besides, it's going to snow at any time, and it's very cold at night. It's fine for soldiers to sleep in tents; the saint is weak. Sleeping in tents is easy to get sick. Don’t be afraid of Yan Jun, I guarantee they won’t notice.” Guo eunuch argued again, Yang An waved his hand and said, “I don’t have time to discuss, I’m right to listen to the last 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, in the evening, I came to a small town for tipping, and let out a group of small leaders to sweep around and eat with money.Everyone had just finished eating, and they were discussing to find Zhuangzi outside the city to stay overnight, when a man who looked like a soldier came to see their leader.Yang An hurriedly strode out to greet him, but eunuch Guo was already scared and hid behind Jianru.

Yang An stood upright in front of Yan Bing and gave a military salute.The Yan Bing was slightly startled, and also replied.Yang An said: "Hello, brother. We are 130 Malay amphibious troops who came from the Malay country in Nanyang for military exchanges. They are doing a large-scale training in the field." He said, and took out two documents from his arms.One is the military official certificate of the Malay State, and the other is the pass issued to him by the Ministry of War when he arrived in the capital half a year ago.

Yan Bing took it over and took a look, it was all true.Nai smiled and nodded: "Thank you, General." Yang An smiled slightly.Yan Bing returned the certificate to him, and showed Yang An his own non-commissioned officer certificate, and asked casually, "What does the general think of Yan?"

Yang An said: "It's cold. We don't have such cold weather in our country, so we can't do field training under extremely cold conditions. Take this opportunity to practice more, and you won't be able to practice even if you want to go back." He returned the officer's certificate to the Yan soldier. .

Yan Bing wondered: "Since it's warm in your country, why do you do extreme cold training?"

Yang An said: "Soldiers don't know when and where to go to fight. For example, European countries often come to attack. Maybe one day our lord will be annoyed and ask us to fight to their hometown?"

Yan Bing nodded again and again: "The general is right." Then he saluted and said goodbye.

When Yang An returned to Jianru and the others, the soldiers rushed to ask, "General, how did you coax him to leave?"

Yang An said solemnly: "Why did I coax him? I really came from Malay country, and the pass I showed him must have been given by the military department of Yan Kingdom." Everyone burst into laughter.

Jianru smiled and said, "No wonder you said you weren't afraid of them, but you knew it well."

The sage's eyes flickered and he said, "Currently King Chen is beyond his reach, let's find a suitable place in Yan Kingdom for now." Others didn't feel that this was inappropriate, only Eunuch Guo gave him a hard look .

Yang An quietly hooked the corners of his mouth and said: "The general also thought that it would be better to wait until the spring of next year to make plans. It's too cold right now, and everything is inconvenient."

Eunuch Guo frowned and said, "Where is it placed? Yan Country?"

Yang Andao: "I have to admit that right now, the safest place for rich people is the Yan Kingdom. Their court is rich, and they don't have to worry about the people's money. And... they don't know about it. There are a few people in other countries who rob people The son of the phoenix and the grandson of the phoenix. Let alone the moment we left Chen Guo, no matter whether the document was made by King Chen or Lord Chen, the king of Chen would always have the villain to file a complaint first. By now, the messengers are probably on their way, and it won’t be long All the princes of the family will think that they have been deceived by Eunuch Guo. There is no king in the world, and all the princes regard themselves as the king. Eunuch Guo, it is a crime of deceiving the king! Who will let you go."

After being stunned for a while, Eunuch Guo stumbled and sighed, "I can't wash myself off even if I jumped into the Yellow River."

Yang Annai turned to Jianru and asked, "What do you think, Master?"

Jianru pondered for a long time and said, "I really have to settle down first. Huo.gun...you must come back."

Yang An raised his eyebrows and said, "Anyway, you have to find a way. I just want to save the lives of the soldiers, and I don't care about others." Nai stood up and ordered a few small leaders to go with him to a place outside the town for the night.

As soon as he walked out of the town, the two little bosses rushed to ask: "General, why did we flee from the Chen country? What happened to the saint and Eunuch Guo? Why did Eunuch Guo dare to stare at the saint? Why did he bully the king?" guilty?"

Yang An glanced at them with a smile: "Is there anything else?"

There was a man named Hou Ming, who was one of the card players who played cards with the saint Yang An earlier, and said: "The general said that every prince regards himself as a king. At that time, I thought Mr. Guo would say, isn't there a saint? How should I say it?" There is no king in the world? Who knows that he can only sigh and jump into the Yellow River to wash himself away."

Yang An said: "Since you have noticed this, you should 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?" After a long while, no one spoke.Yang Anai told him, "Eunuch Guo is not under the sage, but under the former king of Wu. However, the money was given to the sage by the empress dowager. Therefore, he must take the sage with him. You have also played cards with the sage. I can feel it a little bit. He is a gentle person, and he doesn't want to be the emperor. He has been out of the palace for two or three years. He opened a cosmetics shop in the capital, and the business is booming. A marriage was just arranged at the beginning of the year , I was going to marry a wife next year, but I was suddenly kidnapped and sent to Chen Guo."

Hou Ming was startled: "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 be willing to give so much money?"

"I'm confused." Hou Ming's eyes were full of doubts, "The money belongs to the Empress Dowager. Since 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 there is no way to transmit messages from inside and outside. The saint still wanted to be an emperor when he was in the palace, but he no longer wanted to be an emperor when he went out. The Empress Dowager didn't know that her grandson's ambition had changed, so she handed over the money to Eunuch Guo. Let him assist the sage to win the world. The sage was unwilling to leave the good life, so Eunuch Guo kidnapped him. Do you understand?"

Hou Ming thought for a while before he understood, and said: "So that's the case. Since Eunuch Guo got the money, why didn't he leave the little sage and run away?"

Yang An sighed: "Because Eunuch Guo's master, the former king of Wu who died in spring, felt that the Regent of Yan, Jia Cong, was not in the right mind and would turn against him sooner or later. So he ordered Eunuch Guo and Master Jianru to try to get him out."

Hou Ming blurted out: "Isn't this a dog meddling with a mouse? What does it have to do with Wu?"

"That's right!" Several people who couldn't get in the way agreed repeatedly.

Yang An said with a low smile: "It's nothing to meddle in other people's business. There are many people in the world who are nosy. I just think Wu Wang is stingy. He chose a monk and an eunuch to deal with a regent. Do they have that ability? After forcing them It’s a difficult thing, shouldn’t Wu Guo pay for it? But he didn’t say a word, and only let those two beg for alms. In the end, none of the princes was willing to pay, and only one person who had been paralyzed for many years was coaxed. Old lady, the poor saint was waiting to be the bridegroom officer, but was kidnapped by them to make a flagpole. If it weren't for the presence of the saint, I would definitely not vote for them."

A small 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 himself, and Eunuch Guo wants to work for the old master. Except for his dead old master, no one else cares about him."

Hou Ming had a friendship with the sage in playing cards, and after learning of his identity, he was quite complacent, and said indignantly, "I don't think eunuch Guo is a thing! Every time we practice, the sage doesn't have a smile on his face."

"According to the fact that the sage was born in the capital, he is from Yan. And Yan Guo ruled his cosmetics shop business well, and the regent has the ability to rule Yan country." Yang An sighed, "It is not the saint's intention to find the troubles of Yan country. In my opinion, it’s better to do business with the sage. Anyway, we only look at two things when we join the group: the sage and money. The money belongs to the sage’s grandmother. If you can’t buy firearms or guns, what can you use to fight Yan Jun.”

Hou Ming suddenly became wise: "Besides, the money will be spent! More than 2000 people need to eat, drink, and train soldiers. What should I do when I run out of money?"

"No way!" Several people said, "It's better to do business with the saint!"

Yang An watched their meeting, and suddenly gathered everyone together and said in a low voice, "Why don't we let Qing Jun side."