Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 3799 Mutiny?

The force of the rain and the force of the water are really a headache, but what is even more troublesome is that Luo Fengtang discovered that Wu Xiong and his gang were actually as he expected.
In order to escape for his life, he took the lead in this extremely bad weather and crossed the river in danger.

Just pass it, and cut off the only pontoon bridge with a backhand after passing it.

So Luo Fengtang stopped on the shore for a while, only seeing the half of the floating bridge rising and falling in the waves.

Luo Fengtang was so angry that the bones of his fist were almost crushed, and Vice General Xie came over.

"General, it's all my subordinates' fault. If my subordinates hadn't procrastinated, they wouldn't have let them escape." Vice General Xie stood behind Luo Fengtang with guilt on his face, with his head bowed to the point of extreme frustration.

The general is really good at predicting things, I am too bad.

If the general hadn't chased after him with a team of light cavalry, the team would have arrived by the river tomorrow...

"It's not all your fault."

Taking a deep breath, Luo Fengtang turned around.

With his hands behind his back, his rain-washed face was stern.

"The bridge is broken, and it will take at least three days for the brigade to cross the river by detour. By the time we cross the river, Wu Xiong's troops have already been supplied. We are exhausted, and we will definitely suffer losses in a confrontation."

"Deputy General Xie, you send two men with better water skills to wade across the river overnight and go to Minzhou,"

"Tianhai County is a county under the jurisdiction of Minzhou. You tell the prefect of Minzhou about our situation here, and ask him to dispatch food, grass, soldiers and horses to be ready to meet us at a safe place across the river!"

After crossing the river, is the real battle, the battle with the main force of the Han army.

So the support of local government is needed.

Vice General Xie cupped his hands and said: "General, this subordinate's water skills are good, plus this subordinate once had a relationship with the prefect of Fujian Province, this matter is of great importance, and this subordinate is willing to make this trip to pay off his merits!"

Vice Admiral Xie went to Minzhou to ask for help. On the other side, Luo Fengtang sent people to look for villages nearby, trying to see if he could get a boat through the villagers.

When Luo Fengtang was anxiously waiting by the river, standing by the river every day looking at the frowning stall of the surging river, Yang Ruoqing also left the cave with Wang Dalong.

Luo Fengtang waved his hand, and the soldier retreated.

Luo Fengtang looked at the place where the water and the sky meet, with a pensive look on his face.

At this time, a familiar voice came from the front, "General!"

Luo Fengtang turned around in surprise, and saw Deputy General Xie get off his horse and gallop towards this side.

"Why did you come back so soon? Have you ever met the prefect of Minzhou? What did he say?" Luo Fengtang came to Vice General Xie in three steps and asked.

Vice General Xie said: "General, this subordinate did not enter the city at all, because this subordinate met a secret envoy on the way,"

"The secret envoy handed this over to the subordinate, please take a look at it!"

What Vice General Xie handed over was a sealed kraft paper. The kraft paper was very small and covered with blood.

"Are you injured?" Luo Fengtang asked, looking at Vice General Xie.

Vice General Xie shook his head: "This subordinate is not injured. This is the blood of the secret envoy. The secret envoy was entrusted by the special envoy Mr. Lu to risk his life to send a letter out of the city to the general."

"When the subordinate received this letter, the secret envoy died, and the subordinate could only find a place to bury him hastily."

Luo Fengtang frowned, and gently opened the letter with his fingers to read the letter that was escorted out with other people's lives.

On the white paper is a blood book, signed with the name of the special envoy Mr. Lu and a seal representing his identity.

After reading the letter, Luo Fengtang's face turned gloomy, and he stood there without saying a word.

This made Vice General Xie beside him even more uneasy.

"General, what did Master Lu say in the letter?" Vice General Xie asked cautiously.

When Luo Fengtang handed the blood book in his hand to Vice General Xie, he sighed softly and said, "There is no need to go to the prefect of Minzhou for help, the prefect of Minzhou has already been in the same boat as Qin Hanqing and others."

After reading the blood book on the paper, Vice General Xie's heart sank to the bottom.

"General, what is Master Lu's origin? Why did he send you a letter, General?" Vice General Xie couldn't help but asked again.

Luo Fengtang said: "Lord Lu is the emperor's man. Back then we divided into three groups. My brother-in-law Da'an was a secret imperial envoy who came to Tianhai County to investigate and collect evidence."

"I am responsible for escorting the nine princesses, and I am ready to support the imperial envoy with troops at any time."

"As for Lord Lu, it is the third route. The emperor considered in advance that if there is a fight on our side, if we temporarily dispatch troops to other places, the distant water will not be able to save the nearby fire."

"And the number of the sending team is also limited. If we bring all the soldiers here to escort the princess to marry, such a big movement will definitely arouse the vigilance of Wu Xiong and others," he said.

Vice General Xie said: "That's for sure. Our brothers in the National Defense Army are all good. If we brought all the brothers here this time, Tianhai County would have been leveled. Consumed!"

Luo Fengtang nodded: "So, the emperor sent a special envoy, Mr. Lu, to Minzhou, and brought with him the emperor's imperial edict."

"Master Lu said in his letter that when the incident in Haijun came to Minzhou that day, Lord Lu immediately took out an imperial decree to see the prefect of Minzhou, and ordered the prefect of Minzhou to dispatch troops quickly to help in the name of the emperor. ,"

"However, the prefect of Minzhou not only did not obey the order, but instead imprisoned Mr. Lu and sent people to guard him strictly."

"Master Lu wrote a blood book, and it took a lot of trouble before it was finally sent out,"

"This blood letter is given to me to remind me that the prefect of Minzhou has betrayed me, and let me stop the scam of the prefect of Fujian Province!"

Hearing Luo Fengtang's words, Vice General Xie gritted his teeth angrily.

"The prefect of Minzhou is a bastard, when we enter the city of Minzhou, I will cut off his head and use it as a stool!"

"You're a scumbag, you bastard, taking the imperial salary but falling to the rebels, you're so daring!" Vice General Xie said angrily, his eyes were burning with anger.

Luo Fengtang said: "Now there is no time to be angry, the most urgent thing is to find a way to cross the river as soon as possible, if you can't cross the river, everything will be in vain!"

Vice General Xie said: "General, can you find ordinary people around here? Fishermen's families should have boats..."

When asked about this, Luo Fengtang casually summoned a soldier sent to inquire.

"Tell Vice General Xie everything you found out," he said.

The little soldier said to Deputy General Xie: "Responding to General Xie's words, the subordinates are in charge of going to investigate the situation. Within a radius of about ten miles, two villages were found. The villages are very small, and all the middle-aged people have gone out, so they stayed behind. A dozen or twenty old and weak women and children stayed in the village, not to mention a boat, and they couldn't even find a floating board."

Luo Fengtang waved his hand, and the soldier retreated.

He told Vice General Xie: "The young and middle-aged people in these villages are likely to be fooled away by the Han army. Even if they have a boat at home, they probably got the signal from the Han army before we arrived, and put the boat and raft away. Everything is destroyed."

"Right now, crossing the river is really a tricky thing!"

(End of this chapter)