Chapter 139: Bad News
Although the wind and snow are cold, they are not as touching as the silver, and the soldiers who were originally tired and have not retreated are alive and vigorous at this time, full of blood and eager to fly with wings, and the horses under the crotch are driven to extreme speed.
Changing horses all the way and galloping, although everyone felt hard, but their hearts were hot, and they unconsciously stayed until late at night, and they had passed Taigu to the outside of Qi County.
Qi County is very small, but it is said that the city is high and the walls are thick, because there are many wealthy merchants, the big families inside and outside the city have built their own fortresses, and the protection is strict. Fortunately, Chang Yu's mind is not here.
Just a few miles away from Qi County, there were big villages and towns along the way, and Jinyiwei, who was leading the way in front, stopped, walked to a house and knocked on the door, and then walked in, Chang Yu knew that this place must be a liaison office of Jinyiwei.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for two people to walk out and come to Wu Mengming.
"Is there anything wrong?"
"My lord, before dark, there were no thieves within a radius of twenty miles, but we met many of our own people," said the two spies.
"Be careful, the thief spy will not have a thief written on his face, if you meet someone with suspicious deeds, make sure it is not your own side, try to kill it!" Wu Mengming is also a ruthless character.
The two of them should be, Wu Mengming waved his hand to let him retreat, and then looked at Chang Yu.
"Look at what I'm doing, let's go" Chang Yu took the lead, but he couldn't help grinning, although he was wearing thick clothes and riding a horse without grinding his crotch, but his ass was really turned upside down like a chrysanthemum.
It was a rush again, and there were three or four stops along the way, all of which were where Jinyiwei was spying, reporting signs around him, but fortunately, there was nothing unusual.
"Lao Wu, you have sent a lot of people!" Chang Yu suddenly felt that although Wu Mengming was greedy for money, he was very careful in his work.
"It's not a secret, for this business, all the Jinyi guards in Taiyuan City were transferred, and about 100 people were scattered, the so-called careful sailing of the 10,000-year-old boat!" Wu Mengming smiled.
Chang Yu gave him a thumbs up.
At dawn, people are sleepy and horses are lacking, everyone finally arrived outside Pingyao City, found a shelter from the soil pit and dismounted, drank water and swallowed dry food, at this time the wind and snow did not stop, there was no sole on the ground, and at this time it was only about 20 miles away from Zhangyuan Village.
Just when everyone was resting, Wu Mengming's subordinates had already contacted the local secret agents and brought a very bad news: the army of thieves was in front of them!
"The army of thieves is now camping in Yitang Town," the Jinyi guard spies simply drew a map in the snow
Yitang Town is a few miles southwest of Jiexiu, it is a three-fork road, to the west through Xiaoyi is Fenzhou Mansion, to the east a few miles away is Jiexiu all the way to Taiyuan in the north.
Jiexiu has fallen! Chang Yu was not surprised at all when he heard this news, and even the Jinyi Guard's secret agent said with a distorted expression that the thief army had not entered Jiexiu City at all, and when they opened the door and surrendered, Chang Yu did not blink his eyes.
"It's so fucking ridiculous, the thief army surrendered without even going to Jiexiu" Even Wu Mengming felt unreasonable, and couldn't help but burst into foul language.
Although Jiexiu surrendered, the thief army only sent a group of men and horses into the city to receive, and the army was still stationed in Yitang Town, because their goal was Fenzhou, as for Jiexiu, Pingyao, Xiaoyi, a small county under the jurisdiction of Fenzhou Prefecture, they did not pay attention to it at all, once Fenzhou was taken, these subordinates would naturally gather together to surrender, and the thieves would not be stupid to waste their troops to attack one by one, which is why he went all the way north from Pingyang Mansion, and when he arrived in Jiexiu, he did not take the nearest road north to Taiyuan, but suddenly turned around and went west to fight Fenzhou.
"Although the main force of the thief army is camped in Yitang, it is scattered many groups of people and horses in the territory of Jiexiu, taking the opportunity to loot, and the subordinates encountered at least three bands of thieves last night, ranging from more than 100 people in each department."
"The thieves actually did the looting, didn't I hear that his subordinate military advisor Li Yan had formulated a military order to buy the hearts of the army, strictly prohibiting disturbing the people......" Chunxiang looked at Chang Yu with some surprise.
Chang Yu rolled his eyes directly: "We are still officials" The implication of the words, who doesn't say one thing and do another, of course you have to do it during the day, how can you forget your old job in the dead of night, a thief is a thief, and a dog can't change to eat.
Besides, the thieves are mixed with dragons and snakes, the good and the bad are mixed, each is Pala Mountain, not to mention the others, it is Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Liu Zongmin, none of the three of them are convinced, not to mention the green forest leaders from the three mountains and five mountains, even if there is a military order, there are still some bold and reckless people who do it wantonly, and the thieves turn a blind eye most of the time in order to balance the powerful, so it is not enough for them to come out to rob.
The roast duck is in front of him, but there is a tiger on his side, his claws and teeth are sharp, is it not to eat, Wu Mengming is in a hurry, he loves money, so he followed Chang Yu from Datong to here, but he spared his life even more.
"What should I do?" Wu Mengming looked up at Chang Yu
But I saw that Chang Yu was contemplating from afar, at this time the sky was already bright, and the snow was gradually stopping, but the wind was tight, and the chill was even worse.
"What can I do? If it comes, it will be taken," Chang Yu said lightly.
"But it may be discovered by the thief army at any time" Wu Mengming was extremely entangled in his heart, he wanted silver, but he was afraid of wearing a thief army, after all, his subordinates ran errands to find out the news, and it was okay to catch someone or something, but the two armies fought against each other.
Chang Yu smiled slightly: "Lao Wu has at least 500,000 silver here, and you can get 8,000 if you get it, how can there be such a good thing if you think about it with so much silver these days, you can't sell it at this price even if you sell your ass."
Wu Mengming was immediately moved, and Chang Yu made him greedy again with just one sentence.
"And at this time, the sky is already bright, those thieves are tired from tossing all night, and they don't know where to hide to sleep, it is a good time for us to do it," Chang Yu said again.
"Do it in broad daylight?" Wu Mengming looked shocked, this is too arrogant, thieves know that they take advantage of the darkness to cover people's eyes and ears, don't Chang Yu understand this truth!
Otherwise, Chang Yu smiled: "Do you want to wait for dark, your subordinates have also reported to you, Zhang Yuanfan's house is a fortress, the wall is seven meters high, and there is a private army to defend, how can you attack it, with our more than 100 bows, I'm afraid that we won't even be able to open the door until dawn, and when it gets dark, the duck won't be our turn to eat, who knows what will happen between these days."
"Then, is it easy to fight during the day?" Wu Mengming thought about what Chang Yu said was very reasonable.
"Why do you use a strong attack during the day, just knock on the door and go in" Chang Yu smiled slightly, Wu Mengming knew that he had a way, and immediately stepped forward and whispered to Chang Yu.
After a while, Wu Mengming immediately ordered his subordinates to hurry up and rest, and set off an hour later, and at the same time ordered all the spies in the territory to be scattered, and be sure to keep an eye on the movements within a radius of ten miles from Zhangyuan Village.
An hour later, Chang Yu was woken up by Jiang Quan in a daze: "It's time for the boss."
Chang Yu got up and glanced around, everyone had already stepped on the saddle and got on the horse, so he didn't say a word of nonsense, turned over the horse, and hit the horse.
Twenty miles of the road was transferred, and in the distance I saw a fort standing a few miles east of the official road.
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