Prefect Wen pursed his lips and stood up with the help of Master Zhang.
"Go to the South City Gate tomorrow morning and have them close it. No one is allowed to enter or leave."
After saying this, Wen Zhifu glanced at the dead rat on the ground and closed his eyes in panic.
"Get the rats off the... floor."
“.....Yes!” Master Zhang thought about it, but there was no better way.
We can only do as Chen Yong said first.
Looking at the rats on the ground with feces, urine and intestines flying everywhere, Master Zhang felt pain all over his body.
........
On the official road between the capital and Menglan City...
"General Fan, the post station is another twenty miles away."
Fan Jinchang gathered his cloak, listened to the spy's words, looked up at the dim sky, and frowned.
Twenty miles will take at least half an hour to walk.
His body can't handle violent shaking, so he can't go fast.
Besides, he rode his horse so fast that the infantry behind him could not keep up.
Fan Jinchang looked back at the soldiers stretching for miles behind him and sighed.
"Continue on your journey and rest at the post station."
The distance between the capital and Menglan City is really too far, because there are so many manors of various families outside the capital.
Everyone wants to set up a farm outside the capital, but this will push Menglan City far away.
It takes 6 days to walk from the capital to Menglan City. If you ride fast, you can get there in one day and one night.
However, his body is not strong enough to gallop.
There were only 2,000 cavalrymen in the 50,000-strong army, and the rest were running.
General Zhong on the side glanced at Fan Jinchang with disdain.
"General Fan, we can't go to war at this speed."
"By the time we get to Fire Extinguishing City, it will be Chinese New Year."
He had never seen an army that treated war like a spring outing.
It took a whole day to travel from the capital to Menglan City, but we only walked less than one-third of the distance.
It would take at least three days to reach Menglan City, and it was so slow that his buttocks were covered with calluses from riding the horse.
Looking at Fan Jinchang's pale face, he felt that it would take at least four days to reach Menglan City.
Fan Jinchang's face darkened, and he glanced at General Zhong.
"If General Zhong had not been so soft-hearted and deceived by the traitor Chen Yong, I would not have had to drag my injured body to the border town."
"General Zhong is so impatient, why don't you go ahead and persuade General Zhong to change his ways? This way, I won't have to make this trip."
He had always wanted to give face to the Zhong family, but this old man kept bullying him all the way.
Do you really think he is easy to bully?
After he arrives at Fire Extinguishing City and confirms that Zhong Erfei has rebelled, he will definitely report the Zhong family and ask the emperor to confiscate their property and exile them.
What the hell, if Zhong Erfei hadn't allowed Chen Yong to call himself the king in Fire Extinguishing City, would he have made such a big trip to this place?
If you think he is slow, go by yourself if you have the guts.
"You..." General Zhong gritted his teeth and glared at Fan Jinchang, "I know my son very well."
"Don't even mention that my son didn't rebel. Even if he did... he was bewitched by the Shen family's brat."
"My son has always been loyal and patriotic. How could he do such a ridiculous thing? Maybe Shen Yong deliberately spread false information in order to get the emperor to send someone to kill my son."
"General Fan, please don't forget what the emperor said. The emperor didn't say my son was rebelling."
Don’t think that just because the Fan family lost their son, they want to harm his son. That’s impossible.
Of course, General Zhong only muttered this in his heart, but he didn't dare to hurt Fan Jinchang in front of him.
The Zhong family is naturally not afraid of the Fan family, but Fan Jinchang has lost his son. If anyone dares to use this matter to poke him in the heart in front of him, Fan Jinchang will go crazy and kill people.
He only had 20 followers with him, but they were no match for Fan Jinchang.
Fan Jinchang gritted his teeth and stared at General Zhong.
The old man keeps calling me "my son". What a show-off.
Who doesn’t have a son? His son was so outstanding back then.
Thinking of his son who died young, Fan Jinchang felt a dull pain in his chest and became even more displeased with General Zhong.
He doesn't even have a son, so why should an old man still have a son to brag about.
Fan Jinchang's eyes dimmed, and the corners of his mouth trembled a few times.
"Then let's wait and see. Once we get to Fire Extinguishing City, everything will become clear."
Fan Jinchang raised his hand and rubbed his chest, took a deep breath, and looked forward.
"This general will go ahead to the post station, and you will follow."
Fan Jinchang gave instructions to the deputy general, then turned to the doctor who was following him and said,
"Follow me, this general has chest pains."
The old doctor riding on horseback with a medicine box on his back was stunned for a moment. Looking at Fan Jinchang who was riding away, he quickly squeezed the horse's belly and followed him.
Why!
This is really fatal. General Fan’s injury will take at least half a year to recover.
Leading troops to fight now would really be fatal.
He was just unlucky that he was chosen to join the army.
General Zhong looked coldly at Fan Jinchang and his group running away, curling his lips in disdain.
"You're just pretending. You can run so fast even though your chest hurts."
"When I go to the post station to rest, I can ride my horse as fast as I want, but when I'm on the road, I can't go any faster, tsk..."
General Zhong muttered something and then raised his hand to his followers and said,
"Let's go. I also want to go to the post station to rest. I'm old and the night is too cold to bear it."
There is no reason why his health is not good. He is so old, he can't live outside with these soldiers.
The lieutenants watched speechlessly as wave after wave of troops left.
I have never seen a general leading troops like this. He didn't care about the soldiers' food, drink or life, and went to the post station to rest first.
What is this?
It is true that there cannot be two tigers in one mountain. It is normal for an army to have two generals who dislike each other.
The lieutenants pursed their lips, looked up at the dim sky, turned around and shouted to the soldiers,
"Everyone, hurry up. There's an inn ahead. Let's take a rest near it when we get there."
It is absolutely impossible for an army of more than 50,000 people to live in the post station.
However, when they arrived at the post station, the soldiers could at least have a hot meal to warm their bodies.
There was also a lot of firewood in the post station, so the soldiers formed teams of more than ten people and built a fire to keep warm, so as to help them get through the long and cold night.
When the soldiers, whose necks were hunched due to the cold, heard this, they immediately cheered up and continued on their way.
Resting near the post station is better than resting in the wilderness. At least there is a pot to boil water to drink...
In the station....
"General Fan, you must not ride this bumpy ride again."
After the old doctor finished taking Fan Jinchang's pulse, his brows were furrowed so tightly that they could kill a fly.
With such a chaotic heart rate, he might die suddenly.
Before they even reached the border, the general leading the troops died in the rush, and the doctor accompanying the army would definitely not survive either.
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