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Chapter 1213

Baozhou City.

Zhang Hongqing rode his horse to the front of Zhang's mansion, and asked softly a family general who came up to him.

Although he spoke Chinese, it seemed very jerky.

"he is?"

When he got an affirmative answer, he got off his horse and strode across the courtyards until he reached Zhang Rou's study.

The Zhang family's house is very large, and it took a long time to walk such a distance.

"Eleven Lang."

A few guards stood at the door, and when they saw him coming, they called out respectfully and stepped aside to the door.

Zhang Hongqing opened the door and entered the study, only to see Zhang Hongfan sitting behind the desk.

"Ninth Brother." Zhang Hongqing called out, speaking in Mongolian, "I sent the letter to Fifth Brother."

He was sent to Hara and Lin as a hostage at a very young age, and was appointed as the deputy commander of Shangdu Suwei Xigong at the age of 15. He is more like a Mongolian nobleman than many Mongolians.

"Zhang Hongdao replied to you?"

"Yes, he invited me to meet at Mount Qingdu tomorrow night."

Zhang Hongfan pursed his lips and asked, "Can you do it?"

"Do you have to kill Fifth Brother?"

"You think I do?" Zhang Hongfan asked back, "The lives of the whole family are in His Majesty's hands, what else can we do?"

Zhang Hongqing raised his hand and said with a smile: "Don't get excited, I don't care, I've only met him a few times? I just asked you a question, as long as you are sure, I will do it."

"Ah."

"Ninth Brother, I don't understand. Since His Majesty appointed you as the Marshal of the Mongol and Han Army, why didn't you let you lead the army to directly defeat the Tang Army?"

"It's my request to His Majesty, first try to see if I can use my method to force Li Xia to retreat." Zhang Hongfan said: "It is best to subdue others' soldiers without fighting."

Zhang Hongqing was still a little puzzled, and asked: "Ninth Brother, doesn't he think that Da Yuan can't beat Tang Jun if he really goes to war?"

"Don't forget that Baozhou is our hometown." Zhang Hongfan dismissed the matter with a single sentence, and said, "When Zhang Hongdao is killed, immediately send out a signal for King Zong to lead troops to attack the Tang army's camp."

"understood."

"Don't let Zhang Hongdao know that I've arrived, otherwise he will take precautions."

Zhang Hongqing said impatiently: "I'm not a child anymore..."

Suddenly, shouts came from outside the study.

"Who?!"

Zhang Hongfan's eyes immediately turned alert, and motioned Zhang Hongqing to take a look.

When Zhang Hongqing left the study, he saw several guards had drawn their knives.

"what happened?"

"Eleventh Lang, there is movement in the yard next door, and people have already sent people to watch it."

Zhang Hongqing frowned in displeasure, and walked to the next courtyard in person.

This is a practice room next to the study, where Zhang Rou used to wield knives and guns, and then go to the study to sleep and see the guests.

The yard is quite large, with two arrow stacks and a weapon rack in the practice room, but nothing else.

Zhang Hongqing was not at home since he was a child, and he was not familiar with this place, so he couldn't help looking around.

Within a short while, Zhang Hongfan also came.

"Someone?"

"I didn't see anyone, maybe the wild cat stepped on the weapon rack."

"That's right, in my own home, what irrelevant people can there be?" Zhang Hongfan said, "Go and do your work."

"I'm leaving."

Zhang Hongqing left as soon as he said, and his style was like a Mongolian.

Zhang Hongfan stood alone in the courtyard, glanced at the study room separated by a wall, and judged that the distance between the study room and the practice room must not be able to hear anything.

His gaze swept around again like lightning, and he suddenly thought of something.

He walked up to the practice room, pacing on the carpet step by step, with a look of memory in his eyes, as if he was measuring.

Finally, he leaned over, knocked on a floor tile, and heard an empty sound coming from inside.

Picking up a single knife from the weapon rack, pried it a few times into the cracks of the bricks, opened it, and there was indeed a secret passage inside.

Zhang Hongfan looked at the study next door again, and murmured: "I actually forgot..."

He was vigilant and searched the small courtyard more carefully.

Finally, he found a footprint on the courtyard wall.

The footprints were small, apparently left by a woman.

Zhang Hongfan was taken aback for a moment, then looked up at the wall, as if realizing something.

"Chase!"

……

The footsteps hurriedly chased through a long corridor, turned along the path, and saw a group of maidservants passing by in front of them.

Zhang Hongfan glanced at them quickly, and was about to stop them for interrogation, when he caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye, turned his head, and saw a petite figure dressed as a maid walking through the bamboo forest.

"stop!"

He immediately chased after him, even after two courtyard gates, he finally caught up with him.

"If you don't want to die, stop!"

Zhang Hongfan took out a dagger, threw it casually, and nailed it to a large pillar in front of the corridor, scaring the maid to stop.

"turn around!"

"I... I'm Sixi, the rough servant girl in the kitchen. I still have to go to the kitchen..."

Hearing this voice, Zhang Hongfan heaved a sigh of relief, shook his head and smiled, strode forward, and said, "Sixi, right? Do you recognize me?"

The maid turned her head, and it really was Zhang Wenwan.

"Ninth brother."

Zhang Wenwan was not surprised, she puffed her cheeks after shouting, looking a little angry.

When Zhang Hongfan saw her like this, he understood, and said to the guards who rushed over, "You all go down."

"Yes."

"Come with me." Zhang Hongfan recruited his sister, walked all the way to the small pavilion by the lake, and said, "You are so courageous. Your Majesty ordered you to go to Beijing, and you dare to escape."

"I just want to stay at my house, what's wrong? No? If you don't allow it, kill me!"

"What are you shouting, how could I kill you?"

"Who do you dare not kill? You are no longer the Ninth Brother I recognize."

"You heard what I said to Eleven Lang?"

"Are you afraid of being eavesdropped? If you are upright, who are you afraid of eavesdropping?"

Zhang Hongfan sighed, his eyes darkened, and he said, "There are some things you don't understand. I did this for the good of the Zhang family."

"Yes, Ninth Brother is the most capable. He can fight against the whole family and let his friends copy his home. It's a pity that his surname is not Bo'er."

"Do you think I want to?!"

Zhang Hongfan suddenly raised his voice, and shouted: "You think I don't want to surrender, and from then on I will serve the Han Dynasty and make contributions? It was your eldest sister and fifth brother who rebelled too early and aroused His Majesty's vigilance too early. Look at the historians, they have always hidden the desire to wait and see Xin, when the Tang army arrives at Zhending Mansion, everyone will surrender. Look at the Dong family again, if it weren’t for me, our Zhang family would be the end of the Dong family, understand?!”

Zhang Wenwan was taken aback for a moment.

Looking at Zhang Hongfan's suddenly angry face, she seemed to be frightened, and finally she squatted on the ground covering her face and burst into tears.

"Woo...why are you yelling at me? You're the one who wants to kill Fifth Brother. Am I wrong in scolding you? You're yelling at me..."

Zhang Hongfan closed his eyes, dismissed from his mind the scene of the Dong family being ransacked, and took two deep breaths.

He knew that he was not in the right mood recently, not as calm as before.

"Second sister, stop crying. Tell Ninth Brother, why are you at home? Why didn't you follow Second Brother and the others to Yanjing?"

"If you want to kill me, do it... Do it! If I, Zhang Wenwan, blink my eyes, I'm not a good guy."

"Don't cry, I won't kill you, everything I do is to protect the Zhang family, trust me."

"I don't believe you! Eldest sister wrote me a letter, she said that the brother-in-law has gathered an army and is about to take over the world. If you want to protect the Zhang family, you have to bring the family back..."

Zhang Hongfan sighed and shook his head, and said, "Aren't you determined to succeed? The whole family is in His Majesty's hands, how to submit? I thought about it with your eleventh brother, and finally I can only do this in order to save the lives of my father and the whole family." .”

Zhang Wen couldn't argue with him euphemistically, so he burst into tears.

Zhang Hongfan had no choice but to sit down by the lake, let Zhang Wenwan cry for a long time, and then ordered someone to take this brainless sister to take care of her.

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The next day.

Zhang Hongfan secretly went to see Zongwang Wugu with him, and after returning to Zhang's mansion, he has been writing hard.

It wasn't until nightfall, when it was time for Zhang Hongqing and Zhang Hongdao to meet, that he put down his brush and stood in front of the window thinking, while waiting for the information to come back.

In fact, he knew one thing very well in his heart, that is, if this battle really started, he had no confidence in winning it.

In fact, the arrogance of the Great Mongolian Kingdom that crushed everything in the past was lost earlier.What Zhang Hongfan remembers very clearly is that before the battle of Helan Mountain, he asked Kublai Khan why he didn't drive long to Longxi and turned around to find Li Xia for a decisive battle?

At that time, what Kublai Khan said was that artillery was placed on the top of the cities in Longxi. If they attacked by force, they would suffer great losses.

And now, during Li Xia's Northern Expedition, which city has he really stood firm to the end?
"Kuro!"

Someone rushed over and strode up to Zhang Hongfan.

"Kuro, it's done!"

"what?"

Zhang Hongfan's first reaction was a little confused, and he asked again: "What happened?"

"Eleventh Lang has shot and killed Zhang Hongdao, and King Zong has taken the opportunity to attack the Tang army's camp overnight..."

"You mean, Zhang Hongdao is dead?"

"Yes, Jiulang's clever plan."

Zhang Hongfan only felt that these words were a bit harsh, he helped his forehead, and it took a while before he came back to his senses.

He looked at the night sky and murmured, "Finally we can have a small victory."

God knows how difficult this small victory was, tonight it was a pain in the ass to get rid of that rebellious brother, and only then was he able to win this small victory.

"I'm going to see King Zong. You go and tell Mr. Hao that you can prepare to go to Tangying as an envoy."

"Go invite Mr. Hao overnight?"

"Hmm." Zhang Hongfan picked up the letter he had written so hard from the table, and said, "Give this to Mr. Hao, it will help him convince Li Xia..."

(End of this chapter)