From Yonglong County to Ezhou, it is only three hundred miles away. The warships flow down the Han River. If there is a good wind, you can reach Ezhou day and night.

Since the founding of the Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty in Ezhou, the court has focused more on renovating the well-connected post roads. From Yonglong to Ezhou, the roads along the coast were originally smooth. The Ministry of Works also took advantage of the opportunity to strengthen the river embankment to pave roads and bridges on the river embankment south of the Han River, and built a more convenient and flat post road. The 3,000 cavalry led by Fan Qi marched along this post road, and the marching speed was even greater than that of sailboats in the water.

Three thousand iron cavalry whizzed past without any effort. Along the way, they encountered the post station, and without giving much explanation, they took the postmen away, threw the keys into the grass, and the spare grain and grass were empty.

In this way, when the forward arrived straight to Ezhou, just before the Ji Chi Chou opened the city, Fan Qi ordered the cavalry to rest in the Peashu Forest in Shilibao.

At this time, the military and civilians inside and outside the capital were still unaware of this cavalry. A few merchants who were resting in the Pear Shulin only thought that the imperial army was mobilized. Under the situation of Khitan soldiers, this was a common thing. Thanks to the widespread spread of news from the dibao, even the peddlers knew that today's situation was very different from that of Jingkang. The northern cities of Bianliang, Daming and other heroes were still defending, and the three camps in Jiangbei were all intact, especially the northern gateway Xiangyang was still firmly in the Song Dynasty.

In the hands of the army, Ezhou is still far away from the real war, and everyone is doing their own business as usual, without the feeling of panic. Before Fan Qi's troops could not wait for the horse pear forest, the Song army in Ezhou City did not notice it, and nearby hawkers came to hear the news and sold fruits, cooked cakes and other food to the official army. In order not to alarm the snake, Fan Qi ordered his subordinates to drive away the vendors and not to talk to them. Three thousand cavalry seized the time to rest their horsepower, just wait for the dawn to grab the city.

Years of life and gathering have made Ezhou seem to have a revival capital at this time.

It was dim and thousands of people had gathered outside the city gate.

The carts delivering vegetables and firewood, which exudes the smell of ink, are particularly conspicuous. Because the housing prices in Ezhou City are high, most of the news in the newspaper are printed outside the city. They are sent to Ezhou on the same day, and then they go to water and drought to send schools, schools, teahouses, wharfs, and stations in various prefectures and counties. Whether you can get a single point of news from Ezhou every day is already one of the most important differences between the Qingliu gentry and the local rich man. In this sense, the knowledge of the guards of the Ezhou City is comparable to that of a student in a remote prefecture and county.

The morning breeze brings the smell of smoke from cooking stoves, and the smoke from cooking stoves in the capital has an extremely stable smell.

In the pear forest less than ten miles away from the city gate, the cavalry had prepared war horses. After several hours of rest, the spirit of the people and horses had recovered a little.

It's time to open the city gate.

"General." The deputy general said to Fan Qi with a complicated expression, "Please give orders."

"Everyone got on the horse." Fan Qi nodded, and turned over and sat on the horse's back first. He looked around his subordinates who were getting on the horse and put on an iron helmet. Although he was just a rough man, Fan Qi's mood was a little complicated at this time. After all, he was attacking the capital of the Song Dynasty.

"Soldiers are very fast!" He calmed himself down and ordered in a deep voice, "With the enemy's unpreparedness, we will rush into the city from the west gate together. The first battalion guarded the west gate, the second, third and fourth battalion followed me to protect His Majesty, and Li Quan took the fifth and sixth battalions to attack the Prime Minister's Mansion."

"Will the great ZTE situation be destroyed by one thing?! A sinner forever!" Thinking of this, Deng Su felt sweet throat and dizzy, and had to support someone beside him before he stood firm.

"Prime Minister," Lan Shaozhong, the doctor of the Fangsi, said anxiously, "The rebels are in great power. Will they retreat outside the city for a temporary escape?"

Deng Su woke up from a trance and came back to his senses. He looked at Lan Shaozhong with bright eyes. The rebels suddenly came to the city. Fangshi, the Ministry of War, had dereliction of duty no matter what. However, looking at Lan Shaozhong's anxious expression on his face, it was not like a fake, Deng Su sighed. No one could do anything wrong. Lan Shaozhong was trained by him and was promoted from an ordinary Jinyan Mansion officer to a lieutenant of the Fangshi who was in charge of the spy. In less than two years, both Lan Shaozhong and Deng Su, the foundation was indeed too shallow. In the past few days, he used thunder to intimidate all parties, but now that the rebels rushed into Ezhou, no one was warning, which was also a cause and effect.

"Which army is fighting in the city? "Which company is the sign of the chaos?" After regaining his mind, countless thoughts flashed through Deng Su's mind.

When the whole country resisted Liao, who would be so vicious and foolish? Could it be that the Liao thief who led the wolf into the house?

"The flag is not clear yet, but," Lan Shaozhong said ashamed, "However, the rioters shouted "clear the king and protect Emperor Zhao." I guess it might be Grandpa Cao."

"Ninety-one is an old thief!" Deng Su interrupted him with a grim expression, "I never expected that the old thief was so stubborn that he was so stubborn that he was wronged, and he was also ruining his country!"

"What the lord said is." Lan Shaozhong nodded, took a step forward, and said again, the old thief has been planning for a long time, and now the plan is that the Prime Minister will avoid his edge for the time being."

Deng Su pondered for a while when he heard this, but before he could make a decision, the sound of guns suddenly sounded loud outside the Prime Minister's Mansion, and "bang bang bang" sounded like setting off firecrackers during the New Year.

Deng Su seemed to be surprised, and shook all over. He looked up at Lan Shaozhong. "This is the platoon of the imperial guards," Lan Shaozhong listened for a moment, and his face became even more worried. He said, "The strait soldiers are on the east side of Zhuque Street, only three streets away from the Prime Minister's Mansion." Deng Su nodded and was about to speak, but suddenly, there was another platoon of guns in the other direction. Lan Shaozhong looked surprised and said, "The strait soldiers are also attacking in the south. Wolf ambitions are coming. This is for Lord Gong. If you don't leave, it will be too late. Let the general escort the straits out of the city for a while." Deng Su's face was slightly dark, but Lan Shaozhong forced him out of the signing room without waiting for him to speak. There was already a circle of clerks outside. At this time, no one cared about the military documents thousands of miles away. They all looked complicated and looked at Deng Su and Lan Shaozhong with all eyes.

Lan Shaozhong paid attention to them and just pulled Deng Su to walk out with big strodes.
Chapter completed!