Maple Leaf Mountain is not high.
As a branch of the Zhoushan Mountains, it is only quite vast in depth.
Maple Leaf Mountain is not high but densely forested.
It's not the maple trees that have lost all their red leaves, but the many pines and cypresses in the mountains.
In a col in Maple Leaf Mountain, in a very secret cave, a dim light was shining.
The cave is quite large, extremely dry and warm inside, making it an excellent hiding place.
But it cannot hide five thousand people.
There were only about fifty people inside.
They are all Xia Yunhu's personal guards.
The lamp was now placed on a simple wooden table.
Xia Yunhu was looking at the old man in front of him... He was Mr. Ding Da!
Sitting next to Mr. Ding Da is a young man with a stern face and a gun on his back. His name is Changsun Han!
It was obvious that the two of them had come all the way from Pingjiang City.
At this moment, Mr. Ding's eyebrows were still hung with ice crystals that had not yet melted.
Coming in such a hurry, obviously there is something urgent.
What could it be?
Xia Yunhu didn't ask.
Because if Mr. Ding wants to say something, he will naturally say it.
Sure enough, after taking two sips of hot water, Mr. Ding held the cup and spoke:
"Zhou Dashan is dead!"
"The regent is coming to Feng County!"
"Arrived approximately the day after tomorrow!"
"He only had a thousand men with him!"
"Xiahou Zhuo will also arrive in two days!"
"Xia Houzhuo came all the way to fight and kill. Among his 30,000 people, there were 5,000 cavalry!"
"The more than 20,000 soldiers from Jiangnan Road who are on the way will also arrive in two days!"
"The commander of the fifty thousand soldiers is Commander Xie Jing!"
"Pingjiang City has been controlled by three thousand Yufeng Guards led by Wang Zheng Jinzhong. All officials in Pingjiang City have been sent to prison and are waiting to be sent to Kyoto for trial!"
"Your place must have been discovered by the spies of the Imperial City Department, because the thousand people who appeared next to Li Chenan came from Zhoushan, and the leader is General An Zizai'an from the Dingguo Marquis Mansion!"
"Li Chenan has already made arrangements... Since he dares to go to Feng County, Feng County must also have arrangements that I still don't know about!"
"To avoid any misunderstanding, I think you should reveal the identity of your team to the Regent!"
Mr. Ding Da said a lot in one breath.
The news was very complicated, but Xia Yunhu understood the key point——
Li Chenan's one hundred guards came to Feng County to deceive others, and at the same time, they attracted disloyal people to gather in Feng County to kill him.
He secretly ran away to Zhouzhuang!
Destroy Zhou Dashanren’s Zhou Garden!
At the same time, Wang Zheng Jinzhong of the Imperial City Department and three thousand Yufeng Guards took advantage of the emptiness of Pingjiang City to steal the backers of Jiangnan Road officials...
There will be no more big storms in the entire Jiangnan Road.
After the battle in Fengxian County, the biggest threat Xiahou Zhuo was eliminated, Ningguo's current crisis was temporarily over.
As for the fifty thousand soldiers...Xia Yunhu didn't take them seriously.
Because of the five thousand people in his hands, five hundred of them are the so-called water bandits who have been following him to rob Shuangjiao Lake!
They are soldiers trained by him!
He believed that these 500 soldiers could defeat 50,000 soldiers in one fell swoop!
As for the remaining 4,500 people...
These people were all former guards of Changle Palace.
The emperor died in Changle Palace, leaving the group of guards without a leader and nowhere to go.
He returned to Changle Palace and took away these 4,500 people.
These people cannot be said to have experienced hundreds of battles, but they were also strong men selected from many people back then.
His purpose of hiding in Maple Leaf Mountain with these people was to raid Xiahou Zhuo's army!
They wait for work.
Xia Houzhuo is in a hurry and has been on his way. They are tired troops!
With 5,000 people versus 30,000... our side occupies the right time and place.
As for Renhe, everyone doesn’t have it anyway.
But a fight.
It's just that the casualties may be quite heavy.
The reason why Mr. Ding Da hurriedly came was because the Regent didn't know his true identity, and he was worried that the Regent still thought he was a traitor from the Imperial City Division.
That will definitely cause a big misunderstanding——
When his soldiers were fighting a life-and-death battle with Xia Houzhuo, if the regent's thousand men put someone on his back...
"Mr. Da, what is he doing in Feng County?"
Mr. Ding spread his hands and said, "How do I know?"
"It stands to reason that this situation is perfect. He can go to Pingjiang City quietly or go to Shuzhou, but I didn't expect him to come to Feng County!"
Xia Yunhu's whole body was in bad condition.
He was itching with hatred, thinking that you are already the regent, and you don't need any military merit. Aren't you too busy to cause trouble for me?
"But Lord Changsun once ordered his subordinates to remain the traitors of the Imperial City Division until Xi Wei's true identity is revealed!"
"I can't reveal my identity to the regent! Who knows who Xi Wei is? What if he is right next to him?"
Mr. Ding Da pondered for a moment, "In an inn in Feng County, I saw a secret message left by someone from the Imperial City Division..."
"Xiaohan,"
Xiaohan bowed his hands and said, "Mr. Da, please give me your orders!"
"You go to an inn, leave a secret note, and ask someone from the Imperial City Division to meet under the maple tree behind the inn!"
"But don't show your face. I just need to write a note and put it under the tree!"
"Junior, please obey!"
Mr. Ding Da took out a pen and ink and wrote a line of words and gave it to Changsun Han.
Changsun Han stood up and left, and then Mr. Ding Da spoke to Xia Yunhu again:
"Princess Liyang is dead."
"..." Xia Yunhu looked at Mr. Ding Da in shock, hesitated for a moment and asked: "So, Queen Lu's revenge is considered avenged?"
Mr. Ding Da stroked his long beard and frowned slightly: "I now suspect that the guess Changsun Jinghong told me is wrong."
"Why?"
"I have thought about it a lot, and if it is said that Princess Liyang was born with hatred due to love, and was used by Xi Wei to commit the major event that happened in the third year of Zhaohua... it is reasonable and reasonable."
"But Princess Liyang killed Queen Lu..."
Mr. Ding Da suddenly shook his head: "At that time, Princess Liyang and Queen Lu got along very harmoniously in the harem... She also knew the emperor's favor for Queen Lu... You said, she was jealous of the third lady of the Lu family, and she got involved. Queen Lu?"
Xia Yunhu knew what had happened. When he heard about it, he asked:
"Did you really have a disobedient heart when you entered the Chehou Mansion?"
Mr. Ding Da thought for a while, "There is no record of this matter in the Imperial City Department. If we want to find out the truth at that time..."
"I think Mrs. Fan must have known it because Mrs. Fan had a very good relationship with Lu Zhanxiao back then, but she is already dead."
"Then only Princess Yun'an knows... Lu Zhanxiao's eldest daughter-in-law Qu Xi was also the one who escaped from Meiyuan that night. She should also know who was involved."
"But after all these years, the Imperial City Division has not found their whereabouts."
Xia Yunhu pondered for three breaths and asked again: "On the night of the third year of Zhaohua, Ning Jingyu, who was imprisoned in Luoying Palace, also escaped. How is he now in the Yue Kingdom?"
Mr. Ding Da shook his head: "I have been away from the Imperial City Division for twenty years. I don't know if there is any news about Ning Jingyu in these years."
"Let's put these things aside for now."
Mr. Ding stood up and said, "What are your plans after the battle in Fengxian County?"
Xia Yunhu also stood up, "I'm thinking of going to Shuzhou."
"...Go to Shuzhou...to find the eldest prince?"
"Well, since Xi Wei handed over Ning Guo to Li Chenan, he probably won't let the eldest prince return to Kyoto alive!"
Mr. Ding Da pondered for a moment and suddenly said: "That's fine, by the way, protect the safety of the regent!"
