Song Mingyue

Chapter 179 Darkness Chen Cang
Cai Jingfu, bedroom.

Her husband Cai Jing was lying on a soft couch with his eyes slightly closed, listening to the reports from Cai Mao and Huiyou Pavilion attendant Wei Bochu.

"The Liao people and the pirates are attacking from both sides. The boy is destined to die in the sea and feed the fish. Although the Western Army is brave, what can they do at sea? Why don't they be obedient and capture them!"

"Whether it is a pirate or a Liao people, they will wear the armor and attire of the Jurchens... This can be said to kill two birds with one stone. It can not only get rid of our confidantes, but also put the blame on the Jurchens, or prevent the officials from joining forces. Policy."

"As soon as that child enters the Bohai Sea, he is doomed to go and never return. Please rest assured my husband!"

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There are countless ties between Cai Jing and the Liao people, and they have always advocated uniting the Liao to fight against the Jin. Now that Zhao Hao sent Jin, he just took the opportunity to let the Liao people dispatch their navy to chase and kill Zhao Hao at sea.

Wei Bochu was originally an old official of Cai Jing's sect. Back then, Cai Jing promoted Wei Bochu to be in charge of negotiating goods, and dedicated a million coupons of materials to Zhao Ji. Zhao Ji was overjoyed. Therefore, Wei Bochu was promoted to Huiyou Pavilion and was also Cai Jing's disciple. diehard.

Back then when Wei Bochu was in charge of negotiating goods, he colluded with one of the biggest pirates in the East China Sea, so even the pirates were mobilized.

The two talked to each other with joy, but Cai Jing remained motionless, with a thoughtful look in his eyes.

"Zhao Hao's son is not a member of Tongguan's party. He just acts rashly, and I sometimes appreciate it. It's just that he shouldn't block the marriage between Lao Wu and Di Ji..."

In order to ambush Zhao Hao, the Liao people dispatched an elite navy soldier, and the pirates came out in full force. For this, Cai Jing offered a price of [-] guan.

In their eyes, what Zhao Hao went to was not Liaodong, but Huangquan Road.

At this time, at the door of the bedroom, a young official broke in without waiting to report. It was Cai Jing's fifth son, Cai Wei.

"Father, something is wrong!" Cai Kuang looked a little annoyed.

Cai Jing frowned slightly, looked at Cai Wei with displeasure, and shouted angrily: "You are also an official of the fifth rank anyway, why are you so behaving in such a panic, how is it proper?"

Cai Kuang had no choice but to lower his voice and said with a mournful face, "I just received a secret report that the boy didn't go to the Bohai Sea at all, but went directly to the north. I'm afraid he has reached the border of Xingzhou now!"

"What?" Cai Jing and the others were completely confused.

It took a long time for Cai Mao to react, with a look of surprise on his face, hissed: "From the north through the hinterland of the Liao Kingdom, the journey is more than a thousand miles, and there are many checkpoints. Could it be that Zhao Hao is crazy?!"

Wei Bochu also said suspiciously: "There are only three hundred soldiers and horses. Even if the whole body is made of iron, how can it stop the thousands of troops of the Liao people? What's more, they are also carrying food, grass and luggage. Isn't it the end of the road?"

Cai Jing slowly closed his eyes, and after a long time he sighed slightly, with an extremely low voice: "The people of Liao are in troubled times, and there is a lot of smoke everywhere. The main force is fighting fiercely with the Jurchens in the area of ​​Huanglong Mansion, and all the soldiers and horses are concentrated in the northeast. Direction, there are not many defensive soldiers and horses in the south, and the hinterland is extremely empty. If someone who is familiar with the map of the Liao people bypasses the critical barriers and penetrates into the hinterland of the Liao Kingdom, as long as there is no trouble, they may not encounter many obstacles... Zhao Hao My son is prepared for this, I am afraid that the barriers of the Liao people may not be able to stop him..."

Cai Yu said anxiously: "I have hated this child for a long time, and I wish I could eat his flesh raw. I also asked my father to send a fast horse [-] li to hurry up and inform the Liao people to gather troops and horses to wipe him out. Although they all rode on horses. , but traveling with luggage and going around the checkpoint, after all, it is nothing compared to a fast horse!"

Cai Jing waved his hand and said, "Take a pen, ink, paper and inkstone and my seal..."

……

Hebei, the boundary of Zhending Prefecture.

Thirty carriages opened the way ahead, and more than three hundred horsemen surrounded the big "Song" flag and walked slowly northward, billowing with smoke and dust.

"My lord, the frontier is the border of Liao and Song Dynasties." Yang Keshi said anxiously.

As soon as Zhao Hao reined in the horse, the war horse came to a stop abruptly, followed by the carriage team in front and the more than [-] elite soldiers behind them also stopped slowly.

Zhao Hao slowly turned his horse's head and faced the more than [-] elite soldiers behind him.

Abandoning the sea road and taking the dry road is a way of teaching.

The sea route is unpredictable, full of dangers, and in case something goes wrong, the vast sea, there is no place to escape. Although the dry road is still dangerous, at least you can fight, or you can run if you fail.

Moreover, walking on a dry road, by surprise, even if someone wants to do something on the road, it will be difficult to keep up with time.

The six valiant generals already knew about it, and although the elite soldiers behind them already knew what was going on, Zhao Hao felt that he should give the soldiers an explanation.

Three hundred elite soldiers stood in awe, silently watching Zhao Hao, waiting for his words.

Zhao Hao looked at the elite soldiers standing like a forest, full of murderous aura, and felt a little excited: "Brothers..."

As soon as these three words came out, the Jingqi, who were originally indifferent to life and death, suddenly became a little restless.

The Song Dynasty emphasized culture and despised military, even those high-ranking generals were not taken seriously by the scholar-bureaucrats and civil officials, and although these Qiu Ba were all elite soldiers, they were no different from lowly slaves in the eyes of the court officials.At this moment, this majestic and dignified fourth-rank court official, who is also a nobleman and a son of the clan with the most noble blood, said "brothers" as soon as he opened his mouth. These Qiu Ba almost thought that they had heard it wrong.

That's all for Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Liang Hongyu and Fang Baihua. After all, they have followed Zhao Hao for a long time, so it's not surprising.Han Shizhong's face was full of shock, and he showed a little more respect for Zhao Hao in his eyes.

The most shocking one was Yang Keshi. Among the six generals, he was the only one who was a high-ranking general and a famous general in the Western Army. He was the most uncomfortable with Zhao Hao's title. Looking at Zhao Hao's back, he opened his mouth. I wanted to say something, but I didn't say anything after all.

"Ming people don't do secret things. There is a saying, which should be made clear to all brothers: the front of you is the land of the Liao people. We are going to travel thousands of miles across the Liao land to Liaodong. There are high mountains and long rivers. There are many obstacles, and there may be heavy troops to intercept, and you will die! But if you don’t abandon the sea route, you will die ten times, and you have to do it as a last resort... But if you have any intention of retreating, you can raise it, and I will never blame you!"

Zhao Hao's voice was not loud, but his words were sonorous and powerful, full of awe-inspiring aura.

For a while, the audience was silent.

The first one to speak out was Yang Keshi: "I swear to follow the son to the death, and I will never give up!"

Immediately afterwards, there was a roar of response, and hundreds of knives and guns were raised together, reflecting each other brilliantly.

"I swear to follow the young master to the death, and I will never give up!"

"I swear to follow the young master to the death, and I will never give up!"

"I swear to follow the young master to the death, and I will never give up!"

At this moment, Zhao Hao laughed out loud with passion, and pointed his horsewhip to the north: "Okay, from today onwards, you will be my Zhao Hao's brother in life and death, and you will never let go of him, regardless of his wolves, tigers and leopards, mountains of swords and seas of fire!"

The sound of horseshoes sounded, and the smoke and dust billowed, heading north.

(End of this chapter)