Just as Captain Yang was taking his soldiers to check the situation, arrows suddenly flew from all directions.
Captain Yang shouted, "Everyone, be careful."
Those who could join the Imperial Guards were quite skilled, and even if they had connections, they were not numerous. Not to mention the soldiers from Yunxiang County, because there was nothing to do in Yunxiang County, so Qin Fang took them to practice every day. These people usually fought with their own people, and now they finally met their own opponents, so they were very excited.
Captain Yang shouted, "Charge!"
Yu Nian also said: "Leave fifty people to guard the carriage, and the rest will follow me to kill them without leaving a single piece of armor."
However, when they saw the enemy's face clearly, they were stunned. From the clothes they wore, it was obvious that they were not from Qi, but...
Captain Yang yelled, "Barbarians."
Barbarian? Yu Nian asked Captain Yang: "Is this person a barbarian?"
Captain Yang said, "I have lived in Yongzhou for five or six years, and I am very familiar with the barbarians. Their clothes are the same as those of the barbarians. Damn it, why are the barbarians here?" Although this is not the capital, it is also a central place in the territory of Qi State. How did the barbarians get in
There is a traitor in the Yongzhou military camp.
This was Captain Yang's first idea.
It was so infuriating. While beating him, Captain Yang called his subordinates and said, "Go back to Yunxiang County and find the general. Tell him that the barbarians are the ones who robbed the gunpowder this time."
The subordinate immediately withdrew from the battlefield: "Yes." He got on his horse and left quickly.
The barbarian wanted to stop them, but Captain Yang and his men immediately rushed forward, not giving them the chance to get close to them. Moreover, the people Captain Yang stopped were also capable, and it was not easy for them to shoot them. At this moment, the barbarian tried to shoot down one of his subordinates with an arrow, and one of his subordinates dodged the arrow neatly, and in the blink of an eye, the horse had already run away.
Because there was no living thing to carry them, all the soldiers arrived at Yunxiang County three days later. It was daytime now, and Qin was in the barracks during the day, so all the soldiers went directly to the barracks. "General... General..."
Qin Fang was at the training ground. When he heard the voice, he turned around and saw a soldier running towards him: "General, I was with Captain Yang delivering medicine 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 recounted the encounter with the barbarians on the way.
"Barbarians?" Qin Fang had thought that someone would come up with a plan to frame him, but he had never thought that 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 the horse." Unfortunately, it was the rutting season for horses. The Ferghana horse Hong Shuai was building horses at the horse farm, so he could only ride Wu Shuai. Otherwise, Hong Shuai would be faster.
Qin Fang set out directly from the military camp and sent someone to the general's mansion to inform Yang Haiyan.
Two days later, he arrived at the scene of the incident. One of his subordinates was still chasing him and it would take another day, but he arrived ahead of time.
The scene of the incident was in a mess. Some were recovering from injuries, some were resting, and some were chatting. However, the carriage and boxes that had been transported from Yunxiang County were gone.
"General." Seeing Qin Fang, Captain Yang breathed a sigh of relief. He stood up and took a few steps forward. "General, you are here."
"Brother Qin." Du Xingran also came over.
Qin Fang got off his horse and ignored Wu Shuai, who was very smart and would not run away. "How is it? How many casualties?"
Captain Yang said: "Our soldiers are fine, only 26 were injured, and the Imperial Guards killed 15. If we hadn't used fire and poison to lure the enemy away, the outcome would have been uncertain. The barbarians are very skilled."
Qin Fang said: "Tell me more about it."
Captain Yang: "Yes. We arrived here six days after we set out, but we encountered a roadblock. When I was leading people to check the surroundings, these barbarians appeared. According to your instructions, if the enemy appears, do not fight, delay for a while, but save your life, and then escape with the medicine, and abandon the medicine when you can't escape. We did the same, escaping with the medicine for a while, and then gave up the medicine and came back. When the barbarians saw us escaping with the medicine, they chased us, and the Imperial Guards stopped them from blocking the way. General, although these people are wearing barbarian clothes, they are indeed barbarians. They should want us to misunderstand and lead us, because barbarians will not wear barbarian clothes to steal medicine."
Qin Fang was about to speak when Yu Nian came over from the side and said, "General Qin."
Qin Fang: "General Yu."
Yu Nian looked very unhappy. Although he was not injured, in his eyes, Captain Yang was a coward, so he looked down on him. And his immediate superior was Qin Fang, so he looked down on Qin Fang even more: "General Qin, you sent a hundred soldiers to accompany you, and what happened? When these people saw the barbarians coming, they actually gave up their lives and ran away. This is a deserter on the battlefield, and they should be beheaded.
Moreover, the emperor sent us to escort the fire medicine to the Yongzhou military camp. Now the fire medicine is gone. What do you say we should do? General Qin, I have a doubt. When we first arrived, you said there was no fire medicine. Could it be that you have been collaborating with the enemy for a few days and then let the barbarians intercept the fire medicine here? "Yu Nian has been thinking about it for two days, and he really can't think of how the barbarians would ambush here. To be precise, how did the barbarians know about the fire medicine. If it wasn't their side that leaked the news, it was Qin Fang's side that leaked the news. 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 had leaked the news, why would I wait until today? If I wanted to transport the drugs out, I could have moved all of them in the past two years."
Yu Nian was just angry and spoke out of anger. He also felt that Qin Fang couldn't be the one. After all, he was in charge of the entire Yunxiang County. If he was suspected, he would have been killed long ago. However, "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 talk about the people around you?"
Of course, Yu Nian would not admit it: "They are the emperor's imperial guards, how could they do such a thing?"
Qin Fang said: "Throughout history, there have been traitors who opened city gates."
Yu Nian: “You…”
Qin Fang did not argue with him: "General Yu, don't worry. The ammunition will be delivered to the Yongzhou military camp on time. What you transported from Yunxiang County is not ammunition."
Yu Nian was shocked and immediately understood: "Could it be that General Qin has already had suspicions?"
Qin Fang said: "Not really, but it's better to be patient."
Yu Nian: "Who is transporting the medicine?"
Qin Fang: "General Yu, don't worry about this. Let's investigate the situation at the scene, shall we? Has General Yu found anything?"
Yu Nian said: "I have never met a barbarian, but Lieutenant Yang said that this man is indeed a barbarian, not someone pretending to be one. General Qin came from the Yongzhou military camp, I wonder what General Qin can do?"
Qin Fang walked to the barbarian's body and checked it out: "It is indeed a barbarian. Barbarians are different from us Qi people. Their looks are more profound than ours." According to Yang Haiyan, the barbarians are mixed-race, so their facial features are relatively profound.
Yu Nian: "So, this guy is really a barbarian?"
Qin Fang: "No one was captured alive?"
Yu Nian: "He had one originally, but he hid poison in his mouth and committed suicide by taking it. He was well prepared when he came here. He is quite tough."
Qin Fang nodded and turned to Captain Yang: "Did you find anything else?"
Captain Yang said, "Yes, I found that the Imperial Guards were missing two men."
Yu Nian was shocked: "What?"
Yu Nian's deputy general said: "General, you are not included. We have a total of one hundred people. We have lost fifteen people so far, and there are still eighty-three people. We are indeed short of two people."
Before Yu Nian could speak, Qin Fang said, "General Yu, it seems that the person who leaked the news might be someone close to you."
Yu Nian said stubbornly: "Maybe they are somewhere else."
Qin Fang chuckled and asked Captain Yang: "Did you follow the trail?"
Captain Yang said: "We chased them, but they seemed to know we would chase them, so they wiped out all traces. More importantly, they couldn't run far with ten boxes of explosives, so there must be someone nearby to meet them, but we didn't find them."
Qin Fang said: "No rush, let's talk about it at night. But what you said is right, there must be someone nearby to pick them up, otherwise it would be difficult for them to hide their whereabouts with the explosives. 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 turned to Captain Yang.
Captain Yang said frankly, "Yes, I think it is safer to take the medicine via the official road, 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. The matter of fire and medicine is of great importance. If we take the official road, I don't think anyone would be so bold to rob us. But who would have known that the other party would choose to act in the evening."
Qin Fang said: "Although it is disadvantageous for them in the evening, it will be difficult for them to move with the explosives at night, so we choose to act in the evening."
Who knows whether it is true or not.
Du Xingran: "Brother Qin mentioned evening, could there be some clues at night?"
Qin Fang did not keep the secret: "Yes, I was on guard at first, but I didn't expect it to come in handy."
Du Xingran heaved a sigh of relief after hearing his confident tone: "Brother Qin is really careful."
Qin Fang waved his hands: "No, I'm just afraid. The emperor entrusted me with such an important matter, I naturally cannot let him down." He just didn't expect that someone would really dare to take advantage of the situation, and it was a barbarian.
In fact, this plan was so vicious. If Huo Yao disappeared, Qin Fang would not have much of a problem because he had already handed Huo Yao over to General Yu. However, he would inevitably be implicated. After all, the only person who knew about Huo Yao's movements was him, besides the Imperial Guards. If the Imperial Guards were the emperor's men and could not betray him, someone with ulterior motives might try to kill him.
In addition, there is a more important person who will be implicated, Marquis Yonghe.
The medicine was transported to the Yongzhou military camp, which means that Yonghe Hou also knew about it. If the Imperial Guards and Qin Fang did not dislike it, then wouldn't Yonghe Hou be suspected? Moreover, it was the barbarians who stole the medicine, and the barbarians came in from Yongzhou. Even if Yonghe Hou was not suspected, he would be guilty of dereliction of duty if he allowed the barbarians to come in. And because of this dereliction of duty, the medicine was snatched away by the barbarians. In this way, Yonghe Hou was guilty of a serious crime.
The Yongzhou military camp will definitely change hands.
Qin Fang is no longer a newcomer to the officialdom. If something happens to Yonghe Marquis, who will be implicated? Apart from the Yonghe Marquis's Mansion, the Second Prince is the most direct person, because the young master of the Prince's family is the Second Prince's companion, so the Yonghe Marquis's Mansion indirectly stands on the same side as the Second Prince.
So, by appointing Marquis Yonghe, does that mean he wants to abolish the second prince's power
Qin Fang didn't want to think too much about it. The struggle in the court had nothing to do with him. He took out a pen and paper, wrote a letter immediately, and gave it to the soldier, asking him to deliver the letter to the capital.
night
Whether it was Qin Fang's soldiers or Yu Nian's Imperial Guards, they were all looking forward to the night. As soon as the night came, everyone turned to Qin Fang. Du Xingran: "Brother Qin, it's night now, can you tell us this clue?" They really had no idea. Not only were the marks of the wheels erased, but when they searched further, they found even deeper wheels. Logically, the wheels of a carriage loaded with explosives would be deeper, but there were no marks on the densely packed wheels. He knew that the barbarian did this on purpose.
Therefore, they really had no way of finding it.
Moreover, there were mountains nearby, and they couldn't even find anyone. They searched for two days but found nothing. Therefore, they could only wait for Qin Fang here.
Because of Captain Yang's intention, Qin Fang seemed to have some plans.
Qin Fang stood up and picked up a torch: "Let's go." He looked around the area, searching along the ground.
Everyone thought he was looking for traces of a carriage, even Du Xingran did the same, so they 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, you guys go." There was a 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 knelt down and dipped his finger in the liquid. "Is this powder?"
Qin Fang said: "Well, the powder that glows at night... I got it from the officials of the Ministry of Works. We will follow these clues to find it." He didn't even tell Captain Yang about this clue. It's not that he didn't trust Captain Yang, but he was afraid that Captain Yang would reveal his tracks and be known to others. After all, he couldn't guarantee whether the enemy was mixed in with the soldiers and the imperial guards.