When Lieutenant Yang led the soldiers to check the situation, arrows suddenly flew from all directions.
Lieutenant Yang shouted, "Everyone be careful."
Those who can join the Yulin Army are all good at fighting. Even if some of them get in through connections, there are not many of them. Not to mention the soldiers from Yunxiang County, because there is nothing to do in Yunxiang County, Qin Fang takes them to practice every day. These people usually fight with their own people. Now they finally meet an opponent, so they are extremely excited.
Lieutenant Yang shouted, "Charge."
Yu Nian also said, "Leave fifty people to guard the carriage, and the rest of you will follow me to kill them without leaving a single piece of armor."
However, when they saw the enemy's face clearly, they were all stunned. Judging from their clothes, they are obviously not from Qi, but...
Captain Yang shouted: "Barbarians."
Barbarians? Yu Nian looked at Captain Yang: "Are these people barbarians?"
Captain Yang said: "I have lived in Yongzhou for five or six years, and I am familiar with barbarians. Their clothes are barbaric. Damn, how did barbarians get here?" Although this is not the capital, it is also a relatively central place in Qi. How did the barbarians get in? There
is a traitor in the Yongzhou military camp.
This is Captain Yang's first thought.
It's so infuriating. While fighting, Captain Yang called his subordinates: "Go back to Yunxiang County to find the general and tell him that it was the barbarians who robbed the gunpowder this time." The
subordinate immediately left the battlefield: "Yes." He left as soon as he got on the horse.
The barbarians wanted to stop them, but Captain Yang and others immediately rushed up and did not give them the opportunity to get close to them. And the people stopped by Captain Yang were also capable, and it was not so easy for them to shoot them. Seeing that the barbarians wanted to shoot down the subordinate with arrows, the subordinate dodged the arrow neatly, and in a blink of an eye, the horse had run away.
Because there was no living thing to carry, the soldier arrived in Yunxiang County three days later. It was daytime now, and Qin was in the barracks during the day, so the soldier went directly to the barracks. "General... General..."
Qin Fang was at the training ground. He turned around when he heard the voice and saw the soldiers rushing over: "General, I followed Lieutenant Yang to deliver gunpowder to the Yongzhou military camp, and something went wrong on the way."
"Oh?" Qin Fang was not in a hurry. He washed his face and changed his clothes. "Tell me in detail what happened."
"Yes." The subordinate told him about the encounter with the barbarians on the way.
"Barbarians?" Even if Qin Fang thought that someone would use gunpowder to frame him, he didn't think it would be barbarians. Moreover, how could about 200 barbarians enter the Yongzhou border? Unless... there was a traitor at the Yongzhou border. Although he thought so, Qin Fang was not nervous. He said, "Come on, take me to see it." Unfortunately, it was the estrus season, and the precious horse Hong Shuai was being trained at the stable, so he could only ride Wu Shuai. Otherwise, Hong Shuai would be faster.
Qin Fang set out directly from the barracks and sent someone to the general's mansion to inform Yang Haiyan.
Two days later, he arrived at the scene of the incident. The subordinate was still chasing after him, and it would take another day, but he arrived early.
The scene of the incident was a mess. The injured were recovering, the resting were resting, and some were chatting. However, the carriage box that was transported from Yunxiang County was gone.
"General." Captain Yang breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Qin Fang. He stood up and took a few steps forward. "General, you are here."
"Brother Qin." Du Xingran also came over.
Qin Fang turned over and dismounted, and did not care about Wu Shuai. Wu Shuai was very smart and would not run away. "How is it? How are the casualties?"
Captain Yang said, "Our soldiers are fine, only 26 were injured, and 15 of the Yu Lin army died. If we hadn't used gunpowder to lure the enemy away, the result would be uncertain. Those barbarians are very skilled."
Qin Fang said, "Tell me in detail."
Captain Yang: "Yes. We arrived here six days after we set out. First, we encountered Land Rover. When I took people to check the surroundings, these barbarians appeared. According to your instructions, if the enemy appears, don't fight, delay for a while, but save your life, and then escape with the gunpowder. If you can't escape, abandon the gunpowder. We did the same thing. We took the gunpowder and ran away for a while, then abandoned it and came back. When the barbarians saw us running away with the gunpowder, they chased us, and the Yulin Army stopped them and blocked their way. General, although these people are wearing barbarian clothes, they are indeed barbarians. They probably want us to misunderstand and lure us, thinking that barbarians will not wear barbarian clothes to steal gunpowder. "
Qin Fang was about to speak, and Yu Nian, who was going to the bathroom, came over: "General Qin."
Qin Fang: "General Yu."
Yu Nian's face was not good. Although he was not injured, in his eyes, Captain Yang and others were retreating in the face of the battle, so he looked down on these people. The boss of these people is Qin Fang, so he looked down on Qin Fang even more: "General Qin, you sent a hundred soldiers to accompany you, but what happened? When these people saw the barbarians coming, they actually abandoned the gunpowder and ran away. This is desertion on the battlefield and they should be beheaded.
Moreover, the emperor sent us to escort the gunpowder to the Yongzhou military camp. Now the gunpowder is gone. What do you say we should do? General Qin, I have a doubt. When we just arrived, you said there was no gunpowder. You didn't collude with the enemy in those few days and let the barbarians intercept the gunpowder here, right?" Yu Nian thought about it for two days, and he really couldn't think of how the barbarians would ambush here. To be precise, how did the barbarians know about the gunpowder. If the news didn't leak from their side, then it must have leaked from Qin Fang's side. Yu Nian would not admit that it was his side, so he thought it was Qin Fang's side.
Qin Fang was not angry. He said, "If General Yu suspected that I leaked the news, why would I wait until today? If I wanted to transport the gunpowder, I could have moved all the gunpowder in the past two years."
Yu Nian was actually just angry and talked too much. He also felt that Qin Fang couldn't have done it. After all, he was in charge of the entire Yunxiang County. If he was suspected, the gunpowder would have been gone long ago. But: "Of course I believe General Qin, but what about the people around General Qin?"
Qin Fang asked back: "In that case, why didn't General Yu say the people around you?"
Yu Nian would certainly not admit it: "They are all the emperor's Yu Lin army, how could they do such a thing?"
Qin Fang said: "Throughout history, there have been traitors who opened the city gates."
Yu Nian: "You..."
Qin Fang did not argue with him: "General Yu is not... " Don't worry, the gunpowder will be delivered to the Yongzhou military camp on time, and what you transported from Yunxiang County is not gunpowder."
Yu Nian heard it and immediately understood: "Could it be that General Qin has already suspected it?"
Qin Fang said: "That's not the case, but it's better to be safe than sorry."
Yu Nian: "Who transported the gunpowder?"
Qin Fang: "General Yu, don't worry about this, let's investigate the situation on the scene, right? General Yu, have you found anything here?"
Yu Nian said: "I have never come into contact with barbarians, but I heard from Captain Yang that these people are indeed barbarians, not others pretending to be barbarians. General Qin came from the Yongzhou military camp, I wonder what General Qin thinks?"
Qin Fang walked to the body of the barbarian and checked it out: "It is indeed a barbarian. The barbarians are different from us Qi people. Their looks are deeper than ours." According to Yang Haiyan, the barbarians are mixed-race, so their facial features are deeper.
Yu Nian: "So, these people are really barbarians?"
Qin Fang: "Did you capture them alive?"
Yu Nian: "There were some originally, but they hid poison in their mouths and committed suicide. They were prepared when they came, so they are quite tough."
Qin Fang nodded and looked at Captain Yang: "Did you find anything else?"
Captain Yang said: "Yes, I found that the Yu Lin Army is missing two people."
Yu Nian was shocked: "What?"
Yu Nian's deputy general said: "General, you are not included. We have a total of 100 people. Fifteen of us have died so far, and there are still 83 people. We are indeed missing two people."
Without waiting for Yu Nian to speak, Qin Fang said: "General Yu, it seems that the person who leaked the news may be someone from your side."
Yu Nian said stubbornly: "Maybe they died somewhere else."
Qin Fang chuckled, and looked at Captain Yang: "Did we follow the traces to chase them?"
Captain Yang said: "We did, but they seemed to know that we would chase them, so they erased all the traces. More importantly, they couldn't run far with ten boxes of gunpowder, so there must be someone nearby to pick them up, but we didn't find them."
Qin Fang said: "Don't worry, let's wait until night. But you are right, there must be someone nearby to pick them up, otherwise it would be difficult for them to hide their tracks with gunpowder. And the fact that they chose to act here also shows that they have made preparations here. But why did they choose this road? Did you choose this road?" As he said, he looked at Captain Yang.
Captain Yang said frankly, "Yes, I thought it was safer to take the official road with gunpowder, so after discussing with General Yu, we decided to take the official road."
Yu Nian also said at this time, "Indeed, this is what we discussed together. Gunpowder is a serious matter. If we take the official road, I don't think anyone will be brave enough to rob us, but how could we know that the other party would choose to do it in the evening."
Qin Fang said, "Although the evening is not good for them, it is not convenient for them to move with gunpowder at night, so they choose to do it in the evening."
Who knows whether it is true or not.
Du Xingran: "Brother Qin mentioned the evening, could there be any clues at night?"
Qin Fang did not keep the secret: "Yes, I was also on guard, but I didn't expect it to come in handy."
Du Xingran was relieved when he heard his confident tone: "Brother Qin is still careful."
Qin Fang waved his hands: "No, I am afraid. The emperor entrusted such an important matter to me, I naturally cannot let him down." But I didn't expect that someone would really dare to have the idea of gunpowder, and it was a barbarian. Speaking of it
, this plan can be called vicious. If the gunpowder is missing, Qin Fang will not have a big problem, because he has already handed the gunpowder to General Yu, but it is inevitable that he will be implicated. After all, the only one who can know the movements of gunpowder is him, except for Yu Linjun. If it is said that Yu Linjun is the emperor's man and it is impossible for him to betray the emperor, then someone with ulterior motives might throw a knife at him.
In addition, there is another more important person who will be implicated, the Marquis of Yonghe.
The gunpowder was transported to the Yongzhou military camp, which means that the Marquis of Yonghe also knew about it. If it is said that Yu Linjun and Qin Fang did not dislike it, then would the Marquis of Yonghe not be suspected? Moreover, the gunpowder was stolen by the barbarians, and the barbarians came from Yongzhou. Even if the Marquis of Yonghe would not be suspected, he would not be able to escape the crime of dereliction of duty if he allowed the barbarians to come in. And because of this dereliction of duty, the gunpowder was stolen by the barbarians. In this way, the Marquis of Yonghe would be guilty of a serious crime.
The Yongzhou military camp will definitely change its owner.
Qin Fang is no longer a newcomer to the officialdom. If something happens to Yonghe Marquis, who will be implicated? In addition to Yonghe Marquis Mansion, the second prince is the most direct person, because the young master of the prince's family is the second prince's companion, and Yonghe Marquis Mansion is indirectly standing with the second prince's position.
So, is the other party dealing with Yonghe Marquis to abolish the power of the second prince?
Qin Fang didn't want to think too much. These court struggles had nothing to do with him. He took out paper and pen, wrote a letter immediately, handed it to the soldiers, and asked them to deliver the letter to the capital.
Evening
Whether it is Qin Fang's soldiers or Yu Nian and other soldiers in the forest army, they are looking forward to the evening. No, as soon as it was evening, everyone looked at Qin Fang. Du Xingran: "Brother Qin, it's evening, can you tell us this clue?" They really have no idea at all. Not only were the traces of the wheels erased, but when they searched further, they found more wheels. Logically, the wheels of a carriage loaded with gunpowder would be deeper, but there was no trace of this on those densely packed wheels. He knew that this was intentional by the barbarians.
Therefore, they really had no way to find it.
Moreover, there were mountains all around, and no one was even seen. They searched for two days and found nothing. Therefore, they could only wait for Qin Fang here.
Because from what Captain Yang said, Qin Fang seemed to have some plans.
Qin Fang stood up and picked up a torch: "Let's go." He searched around the area, searching along the ground.
Everyone thought he was looking for traces of a carriage, including Du Xingran, so he couldn't help but ask, "Brother Qin, are you looking for traces of a carriage?"
Qin Fang explained, "No, I tampered with the carriage... I found it, look." There was some light on the ground. If you don't look carefully, you won't notice it at all. Even if you occasionally glanced at it, you would think it was the light of fireflies, after all, there are already fireflies in the wild at this season.
Captain Yang got down to look and touched some with his finger: "Is this powder?"
Qin Fang said: "Yes, it is a powder that glows at night... I learned it from the officials of the Ministry of Industry. We will follow this clue to find it." He did not even tell Captain Yang about this clue. It was not that he did not trust Captain Yang, but he was afraid that Captain Yang would reveal his true identity and be known by others. After all, he could not guarantee whether the enemy was mixed in with the soldiers and the Yulin Army.
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