A ray of morning light pierced the darkness, and the sky began to turn white.
Several figures wandered around the camp from time to time.
Outside the tent, several guards had already set up the stove and started to light a fire for cooking.
The aroma of the broth was fragrant.
Overflowing.
Zhao Ziliang sniffed when he smelled the fragrance, stood up, lifted the curtain and walked out of the tent.
He looked at the red sun that had already revealed a corner, opened his arms and moved around, and there were bursts of crackling sounds coming from his body.
Footsteps came from behind, and a voice rang out: "Young master, please wash your face first when you wake up.
The meal will be ready soon."
Zhao Ziliang knew it was Liang Zhenwu without looking back.
He stopped, turned around, walked over, took the small washbasin from Liang Zhenwu's hand and put it on the ground.
While washing his face, he asked: "Have you sent someone to Adrianople to check the situation?"
"It has been sent over."
Before Liang Zhenwu finished speaking, he heard the sound of horse hooves in the distance.
He stopped and turned to look.
After seeing clearly, he said, "The people sent out are back."
Zhao Ziliang looked up, hurriedly wiped his face and stood up.
The sound of horse hooves was getting closer.
The person riding back was thinking of Phyllis.
Phyllis rode up to Zhao Ziliang and Liang Zhenwu, stopped, jumped off the horse and said, "You two, we are in trouble."
Liang Zhenwu immediately asked: "Why are Liu Chun and Duan San coming back alone?"
"We had just arrived at the Adrianople Pass on horseback.
When the dozen or so officers and soldiers guarding the gate saw the two of them with Oriental looks, they immediately surrounded them and caught them.
I was also caught by them.
I said I was not with them, and I had to stuff a few more silver coins into my pocket before I could get away, otherwise I would have been captured by the officers and soldiers."
"You didn't betray my two brothers, and then came back to stay with us and look for opportunities to catch us all."
Liang Zhenwu looked at Phyllis with a murderous look on his face as he spoke, and made a "clang" sound.
He pulled out a waist knife.
Phyllis was startled, took two steps back and shouted: "Hey, hey, hey, how can you doubt me so much?
I'm risking my life to be your guide."
Zhao Ziliang raised his hand to stop Liang Zhenwu, "Put the knife away.
If Felice wants to betray us, he won't come alone.
Instead, he will come with a large number of soldiers from Adrianople."
Liang Zhenwu put the knife back into its sheath, stared at Felice and said: "If I find out that you betrayed us, I will definitely let you die in an ugly way."
Zhao Ziliang smiled and patted Felice on the shoulder and said: "His brother was arrested, so he is very anxious and a little anxious.
Don't worry about it.
I know that this matter has nothing to do with you.
The government must have reported it to Orders were conveyed at various checkpoints along the way."
Phyllis sighed: "You are the only one who believes in me, thank you."
"You were invited by me, how could I not believe you?
Don't take this matter to heart," Zhao Ziliang said, turning around and walking towards the river.
At this time, almost all the guards around heard their conversation.
Liang Zhenwu and Felice saw Zhao Ziliang walking towards the river, and they quickly followed.
Zhao Ziliang walked slowly by the river, stepping on the river sand, looking at the turbulent and fast-moving river water and said: "From what you said, the defenders at the checkpoints along the way didn't know who they were trying to arrest.
They just got In order to detain and arrest all people with oriental faces, or more accurately, people from the Western Qin Dynasty, I guess even the pursuers behind them don’t know After all, except for a limited number of people, everyone who has seen us is dead, and those few people who know our identity and appearance should not betray us, otherwise there will be endless trouble waiting for them.
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You are not so stupid as to not even think of this.
All this is just a ridiculous order given by the young emperor in anger."
Liang Zhenwu also said: "Young Master is right, I think it should be the case.
But even so, we cannot take it lightly.
With the skills of Zhang Huchen and I, even if the Young Master does not take action, the five hundred armored cavalry may not cause much trouble to us.
The trouble is that the two hundred innate masters in the Ninth Royal Guards are not just soft persimmons."
Zhao Ziliang looked at the winding distance of the river and said: "In order to avoid causing greater trouble, I cannot take the initiative to attack the Ninth Royal Guards.
You and Zhang Huchen have almost no chance of winning against them, so before the pursuers catch up, We have to get out of the border and rescue the two detained brothers.
If that doesn't work, I can only force my way through the border to save people.
If the people of the Ninth Guard attack me, they are looking for death."
Phyllis finally understood.
He exclaimed exaggeratedly: "Oh, my God, look what I know.
You have offended the emperor.
Not only did the emperor send armored cavalry to chase him, You even dispatched 200 members of the Ninth Royal Guards.
Oh my god, why am I so unlucky?"
"Since you already know the whole story, it's too late for you to regret it now."
Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and asked: "Phyllis, how many people are there in Adrianople?"
Phyllis said: "One thousand people because this is an extremely important pass in the Thracian region, so the elite troops deployed here are all elite troops.
Their weapons and armor are the most sophisticated in the entire Thracian military region.
The number of bows and arrows There are far more than other checkpoints.”
"Come on, take me to see the condition of the back of Adrianople's hand."
Zhao Ziliang and others were not even late for breakfast, and rode towards Adrianople, which was a few miles away.
They soon arrived near Adrianople.
Under the leadership of Felice, Zhao Ziliang and Liang Zhenwu took several guards to a higher mountain top near the pass to observe the situation.
Looking down from the top of the mountain, a huge towering castle blocks the intersection of two rivers, one is the Maritsa River and the other is the Densa River.
This castle is the Adrianople, to the south and west of the fortress.
There is a bridge across the Maritsa River and the Densa River each.
Not to mention the current summer flood season, even in the winter dry season, there is no way to get through without walking across the river bridge.
There is not even a small boat on these two rivers.
No sampan could be found.
In this season, it is impossible to cross the river by water.
If you enter the water, you will definitely be washed away by the rapids and buried in the belly of the fish.
Zhao Ziliang sighed after observing for a while: "It seems that we can only force our way through."
Phyllis immediately shouted: "Oh, God, force your way through, are you crazy?
Don't hold me back if you want to die.
I don't want to die yet.
I'm only in my twenties.
I'm not married yet and I don't even have a child."
No" Zhao Ziliang stretched out his hand to Liang Zhenwu and said, "Bring me the money."
Hearing this, Liang Zhenwu reached out and took out a small cloth bag containing gold coins and handed it to Zhao Ziliang.
Zhao Ziliang took it and weighed it in his hand and handed it to Felice, saying: "Without a wife and children, there is no care.
You are working hard now."
When you have a wife and children, you will have scruples about working hard.
Don’t even think about making such big money again.
When I have the opportunity, I plan to send some people to sneak into the castle to rescue our two imprisoned brothers and then make a big noise to attract the attention of the defenders.
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I will then lead the remaining people to rush in from the front.
After the two sides meet in the city, they will go directly from the other side.
While rushing out, we don’t know the situation in Adrianople, so we need you.”
Phyllis squeezed the money bag in his hand and immediately estimated the number of gold coins in it.
However, he knew that what Zhao Ziliang said was too dangerous.
The worst outcome would be that his head would be missing, but now he had all the money in his hands.
However, he wanted to return it to Zhao Ziliang but was reluctant to do so.
As Zhao Ziliang said, this was a big deal.
Since he entered the mercenary industry, Since the beginning of the industry, I have never received such a generous remuneration.
You must know that these days, paying for a person's life is only a few gold coins.
Human life is not valuable at all, and labor is not valuable.
What is in the cloth bag in my hand?
There are at least fifty gold coins, which is definitely a lot of money.
As long as he completes this business, he can live without having to work for several years.
Zhao Ziliang saw that he instinctively wanted to refuse this dangerous commission, but he was reluctant to part with the money he had already received, so he added another straw: "This is only half of the reward, as long as we can break out of Adrianople and reach the other side of the river. , I will give you the other half of the reward.”
This straw completely crushed Felice's inner cowardice and allowed his greed to take over.
He gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I promise you, what do you want me to do?"
Zhao Ziliang pointed at Adrianople and said: "I see that there are many residents in the fort besides the defenders.
There should be a market.
You first have to go in alone to purchase a batch of supplies.
We can't run very far without supplies.
We need salt, grain, dried meat, horse feed, oil and other materials.
You watch the purchase and then you find a carriage to load the purchased materials, hitch two mules and horses and wait within the hour."
Phyllis nodded: "Okay, I remember."
Zhao Ziliang turned to Liang Zhenwu and said: "Xiao Liang, you and Zhang Huchen each take five people to find an uninhabited place to climb over the city wall and sneak into the castle.
I see that the soldiers standing guard and patrolling are all wearing armor, and even their helmets have masks.
You sneak in After that, they each attacked the patrol, put on their armor and weapons, disposed of the corpses, and then went to the market to find Felice.
Felice, you are an Eastern Roman.
We need you to find out about our two detained brothers.
Where are you being held?
We want to rescue them.
Liang Zhenwu, you lead people to follow Felice to rescue people.
Let Zhang Huchen lead another group of people to cause trouble in various parts of the castle, killing people and setting fires.
The bigger and more violent the trouble, the better.
When the trouble breaks out in the castle, guard the city.
After the army's attention was attracted, After that, I will take the remaining people to fight in from the east gate.
Then we will meet at the gate of the west gate, and then fight out of the west gate to rescue.
The mission must be completed as soon as possible, and we must pass through as quickly as possible.
Hemuqiao, leave before the pursuers arrive”: