During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Youzhou's military status was very prominent. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty built Linshuo Palace in Zhuojun as his palace. Seven years later, he sent troops to Goguryeo three times, all using Zhuojun as a base to gather troops, weapons, and grain reserves. In the 18th year of Tang Zhenguan's reign, he sent troops to Goguryeo, divided into land and water routes, and the land route also used Youzhou as the rear base camp.
In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the various tribes in the Northeast were powerful. In the second year of Xiantian, the Youzhou Jiedu envoy was placed here to control the Xi, Khitan and other tribes.
Now, in the twenty-eighth year of Kaiyuan, Youzhou is still a large state that has not yet been renamed Fanyang. It is an important military and commercial town in the north, and the current governor of Youzhou is the famous Hu An Lushan.
At this moment, in an inconspicuous tavern in Kaiyangfang in Youzhou City, Ye Sanlang and his party were sitting in a room, discussing countermeasures.
After entering Youzhou City, through questioning, they came to a surprising fact, that is, it is not actually the twenty-eighth year of Kaiyuan, but the end of December of the twenty-seventh year of Kaiyuan. A week's time.
After the initial shock, the three have now calmed down.
Li Sihan believed that a mutation must have occurred in the passage connecting the Boundless Forest to the present world, which changed the exit of time and space, leading them to Fan Yang a few weeks ago.
Now that they are here, they can only rest here for a while. Since there is still a week before the Lantern Festival, they should still be in Chang'an in this time and space. The incident at Taibai Restaurant should have happened in these few days. Ye Sanlang was promoted to It should be a few days later to supervise the censor. They can still rest in Youzhou for a few days. When the time is almost up, they can rush to Yangzhou. They can also arrive a few days in advance.
"However, there is one thing that I am worried about." Bai Lingfeng said suddenly.
"What's the matter?"
"A few days ago, the left prime minister Li Shizhi once impeached An Lushan for his treasonous intentions, but he was suppressed by Li Xiangguo. Moreover, An Lushan was very good at flattering others, and the emperor was extremely relieved of An Lushan. However, as you have just seen, the city of Youzhou is well defended and the Hu soldiers are very wary of outsiders. This is because there are secrets in the city."
"Perhaps you are overthinking it. Youzhou has been an important military town since ancient times. After all, there are so many border residents who are eyeing this place, so it is normal to be cautious."
"I would rather be too sensitive. An Lushan has 90,000 troops. This is only in name. Not counting the private army, he accounts for one-fifth of the troops of the top ten military governors in the world. The Central Plains underworld The army is empty. If An Lushan unites with foreigners to invade, our Tang Dynasty will be in danger!"
"In this way, since we can stay in Youzhou City for a few more days, Brother Bai and I will explore the details of Anlu Mountain."
"That's fine." Bai Lingfeng nodded. If he could find any evidence of crime, he could go to the emperor and report An Lushan.
The three of them rested for a night. The next day, when Li Sihan was still asleep, Ye Sanlang and Bai Lingfeng went out. At first, they walked around the city a few times and discovered some heavily guarded locations. Then, they set their sights on the sub-city of Youzhou City, where Anlu Mountain's Youzhou Cavalry was stationed, and where his Youzhou Jiedu Mansion was located. However, there were heavy troops stationed in the area just visible from the inner city and the sub-city. After discussion, they decided to explore the sub-city again at night.
Late at night, the huge Youzhou City fell into silence, and only the sporadic sounds of the old man and patrolling sentries could be heard.
On the roofs of each workshop, two black figures were moving swiftly back and forth. It was Ye Sanlang and Bai Lingfeng. With their skills, it was not a problem at all to enter and exit Youzhou City after putting on night clothes.
After a while, the two of them came to the roof of a house at the edge of Tongrenfang, the nearest city to Li city, lay down and looked towards the gate of Zicheng. Although the night was already very late, the Hu soldiers standing guard were in high spirits, which made Bai Lingfeng admire him very much. If it were the Yulin Army composed of the rich and powerful children in the capital, they would have found a place to take a nap at this time.
However, although the sentry guarded the city gate very seriously, such a small distance was not a problem for the two of them. They could jump directly from the roof on the side into the low wall.
Bai Lingfeng was about to jump up, but was caught by Ye Sanlang.
"Don't panic, I don't think it's that simple."
After saying that, he used his best skill to find Qi with his mind, and suddenly discovered that in the black and white world, the wall was surrounded by conspicuous energy barriers. It looked like a warning barrier for spells. Once someone jumped, After crossing the wall, the magician will know immediately.
"It was a close call. Fortunately, I caught you. It seems that there is something wrong with the undefended wall. There are warning spells on it."
"An is really careful, what should we do now? Give up infiltrating?"
"Of course not. It seems like he really has some problems. I just learned a spell a few days ago, and I can use it now. The alert spell can protect against ground and air defense, but not underground."
"What do you mean?" Before Bai Lingfeng could react, he saw Ye Sanlang forming a seal with his hands and shouted softly: "You kid, move it."
In an instant, he felt his eyes go dark, and then a large smell of earth came into his nose. Then he remembered that it was said that Taoist priests in Jianghu knew a kind of miraculous technique called "little ghost transportation", and the effect was that the ground was destroyed. Escape to escape the pursuit of monsters or villains. It seems that Ye Sanlang has also learned this trick, but it is not used to escape, but to sneak in.
A soft hand in front held him, and he walked slowly forward in the dark underground, and stopped from time to time to change the direction. Bai Lingfeng knew that he was exploring the ground to change the direction. It is not allowed to speak.
Suddenly, Ye Sanlang stopped. Then, the scenery in front of him suddenly changed, as if he suddenly emerged from the soil. When he got used to the brightness outside, Bai Lingfeng almost shouted.
It was like a warehouse in front of him. With the help of a few weak candles, he could barely see that the shelves around him were full of weapons. There seemed to be tens of thousands of weapons in the huge warehouse. He took a look and it seemed that It is a batch-cast knife.
"I passed several warehouses on the way. I took a quick look and saw that they were all weapons and food, especially food. It can feed at least 100,000 people for a year, and I estimate that this is not the total number. In the entire Youzhou, In addition to Youzhou City, other cities must also have accumulated reserves."
Bai Lingfeng's face was both happy and worried: "Okay, let's report it to the emperor as soon as possible."
"No, I think it's useless. With the emperor's methods, it's impossible not to know this. Although it seems to be a good reason, it can also be said that these are weapons and provisions accumulated for the Northern Expedition to the foreign tribes."
Yes, it seems that the reason is not sufficient. Only important correspondence is the most important evidence.
"So, you want to visit the Youzhou Jiedu Mansion in Anlu Mountain at night?"
"This is the only way to do it. There is still some time before dawn, and Youzhou Jiedu Mansion is not far from here. Let's go there."
After saying that, he started to use Imp Transport again, and the two of them got into the ground and disappeared soon.
At this time, a mouse hiding in the corner suddenly popped up and turned into a human form. Just when he was about to cast a spell to send a message, a hand suddenly appeared from the ground and grabbed his neck, and then another person appeared from the ground. Two people appeared, it was Ye Sanlang and Bai Lingfeng just now.
The man's eyes widened, filled with confusion and fear.
"Are you curious why we came back? I just found you underground. Unfortunately, you turned into a mouse at that time. It was not easy to catch, so I planned to leave first and have a look. As expected, you turned back into human form and wanted to report this. It’s time to catch you.”
After saying that, he showed a fierce expression and said: "How much do you know about An Lushan's conspiracy to rebel? If you don't tell me, I will kill you."
However, the other party showed an indifferent expression, which made Ye Sanlang very angry and broke his neck directly.
"Brother Ye, this, this is?"
"Some princes specially hired beast envoys to detect the enemy's situation and guard them, and there will definitely not be just one of them. Let's go quickly. His companions should have known when he changed."
After saying that, he quickly grabbed Bai Lingfeng and got into the ground again.
;
