The night that Zhang Jigeng agreed with Xiang Rong, the owner of the Jiangnan camp outside the city, finally came. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the agreed time is going to be the middle of the night, and the time to take over the post is also going to be at midnight, and it is still only dark, Zhang Peize can't wait, and leads a group of subordinates to line up early, ready to go to Chaoyang Gate in advance to be on duty.

Just about to leave the barracks, a messenger came to report, saying that it was his chief officer, Chen Guitang, the chief general and chief commander of the Chaoyangmen garrison, asked him to go to the Dongwang Courtyard and had something to explain.

He was startled, but quickly calmed down. It's almost the end of the month, and it's estimated that it's a routine arrangement.

He took Zhang Peijiang and Jin Shuben and prepared to rush to the other courtyard, halfway through, Jin Shuben suddenly said that his stomach hurt and he wanted to go to the toilet, but Zhang Peize asked him to go back by himself, and Zhang Peijiang and the two rushed to the other courtyard.

As a result, as soon as they entered the courtyard, the two were surrounded and tied up.

Zhang Peize looked up, and the person who was the leader surprised him, it turned out to be Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east!

Immediately afterwards, his boss and chief engineer Chen Guitang appeared, but he was also tied up by the Taiping sergeant and escorted in.

"Nine thousand years old, wronged. His subordinates were loyal to the kingdom of heaven and the king of the east, and they didn't know what crimes they had committed, and they were arrested for no reason. Chen Guitang shouted injustice.

Yang Xiuqing said angrily: "What crime you have committed, you know it in your own hearts!" It's not really recruited! ”

Zhang Peize was horrified, and in a panic in his heart, he fell to the ground and knelt down, saying, "Nine thousand years old, Kai Grace!" I was confused for a while, and I was nine thousand years old! ”

Cold sweat broke out on Chen Guitang's forehead, and he said, "Zhang Peize, what have you done, even Lao Tzu has been affected by you." ”

Yang Xiuqing snorted coldly: "Eating inside and out, colluding with the Qing Demon, plotting against the wrong, and preparing to open the Chaoyang Gate to let the Qing Demon enter the city!" What a daring! ”

Zhang Peize kowtowed again and again, blood flowed all over his forehead, and he cried for mercy.

Hou Yukuan, who was next to Yang Xiuqing, stepped forward and persuaded: "Nine thousand years old, it is better to let this person make meritorious contributions." As for Gui's cousin, he should be interrogated to see if he knows or not. ”

Yang Xiuqing nodded, asked a guard behind him to take three jujube-sized pills, and said, "Zhang Peize, for the sake of Brother Hou's intercession for you, this king will give you a chance to atone for your sins." You eat these poisons first, and when you kill and defeat the demons and make a contribution, this king will give you the antidote. If you are still obsessed, you will die three days later. ”

Zhang Peize's face was pale, but there was no other way, thinking that if he didn't agree now, he would immediately be divided into five horses or executed by Ling Chi, thinking about it, he felt that his legs were weak, he would rather die in battle and be poisoned than be tortured to death in the hands of the East King. So, he took the pill, threw it in his mouth, and swallowed it.

Seeing him so refreshing, Yang Xiuqing smiled, and asked the guard to take out six pills and hand them to Chen Guitang and Zhang Peijiang, Chen Guitang even grabbed three pills and swallowed them in order to show his loyalty. Zhang Peijiang also hurriedly swallowed it.

Yang Xiuqing interrogated at this time: "Zhang Peize, who did you instigate you confess first, and which of the Qing Demon's spies and accomplices, as well as which Taiping Army soldiers betrayed the Kingdom of Heaven, all of them are recruited by this king one by one!" ”

Yang Xiuqing's majesty made Zhang Peize tremble, and he said tremblingly: "Back to the king of the east, the name of the villain is Weng Yuefeng, who is the scribe in the villain's army. This Weng Yuefeng should have accomplices, according to what he said, the Qing Demon has planted many dead soldiers in Tianjing City, and is ready to seize the gate of Chaoyang Gate guarded by villains at the third watch tonight, and let the demon head outside the city lead the demon soldiers into the city. ”

After Zhang Peize finished speaking, Yang Xiuqing and Hou Yukuan were okay, they had already known such secrets, but the other Taiping Army generals and Yang Xiuqing's personal guards next to them were all dumbfounded, full of anger, but also scared for a while.

If the East King hadn't discovered the conspiracy of these thieves, maybe he would have been attacked into the city by the Qing Demon.

Yang Xiuqing sent people to rush to the barracks and captured Weng Yuefeng and Zhang Peize's men. and urgently forced Weng Yuefeng to confess, Weng Yuefeng began to fight back, but after being cut off three fingers in a row, he couldn't resist it, and he told all the people he knew. But by this time, two hours had passed, and it was late in the evening.

"The leader is two people, one is named Ye Zhifa, and his real name is Zhang Jigeng, who is lurking in the Beiwang Mansion as a scribe. This person is the main one, and he is also responsible for contacting the demon head outside the city, and he is also the one who organizes and plans to dedicate the city. Another person, Wu Changsong, was in charge of the weaving camp, and I heard that thousands of weavers had been incited to storm the city gate tonight to assist the Qing demons in attacking the city. ”

"In addition, there are also Chen Guitang's scribes Jia Zhonglin and Xiao Baoan, and the gangsters in Tianjing City, Hu Enxie and Liu Yatou, all of whom are the leaders of the Qing Demon Internal Response, and they have organized two or three thousand Taiping soldiers and gangsters in the city to act as the internal response of the Qing Demon."

Yang Xiuqing was also secretly glad that if it weren't for Hou Yukuan's secret report, this time it would be really dangerous. He hurriedly ordered: "Quickly arrest all the above people." Temporarily imprisoned, wait for the first defeat of the demon, and then investigate well! What time is it? ”

"King Yudong, it's about to be the time of the son!"

"Prepare quickly, don't make too much noise, let the demons outside the city find out! The defenders of Chaoyangmen, all the personnel below the commander were replaced, and the original personnel on duty were imprisoned in the barracks to be guarded well, and they would be disposed of after the war! Then order the other city gates in the city, carefully defend, except for the Chaoyang Gate, any city gate is strictly forbidden to open the door without authorization, violators, behead! Yang Xiuqing gave the order, and everyone took the order to leave.

Soon, under Weng Yuefeng's identification, Zhang Jigeng and Wu Changsong were both arrested. The other Xiao Baoan and Hu Enxie and others were also captured at the beginning, and then both of them begged for mercy and were willing to make meritorious contributions. Only the scribes Jia Zhonglin and Liu Yatou were not captured.

Hu Enxie even explained that in Zhang Jigeng's plan, they were divided into two groups of dead soldiers to attack the two gates of Taiping Gate and Chaoyang Gate respectively. If the Taiping soldiers defending the city did not open the city gate, they would open the city gate and instigate the demons outside the city to attack the city.

Only then did Yang Xiuqing know that the Qing Demon turned out to be two city gates.

Taipingmen was not prepared, but in order not to make the demons outside the city suspicious, they couldn't say it, they had to really fight for a while.

Yang Xiuqing asked the guards to escort Zhang Jigeng and Wu Changsong, Xiao Baoan and Hu Enxie and others to Chaoyangmen, and he himself accompanied by Li Shouhui, Hou Yukuan, Tu Zhenxing, Chen Shizhang and other Taiping generals and personal guards, came to the original Mancheng City Tower next to Chaoyang Gate, the newly built Wengcheng City Tower, and waited for the Qing Demon to come.

After the two pillars of incense, the time has come. Yang Xiuqing gave an order, and the dense Taiping army on Weng City in the inner city all lay down and ambushed, while the Chaoyang Gate in the outer city slowly opened the city gate.

With the slow opening of the city gate, Yang Xiuqing's heart also raised his throat, although he had been in battle for a long time, but this time, at the cost of the safety of Tianjing City, it was very critical to destroy the main force of the Qing Demon in the Jiangnan camp in one fell swoop, and Rao is Yang Xiuqing couldn't help but worry.

And Zhang Jigeng, who was on the city tower, was even more bitter, he never expected that a long-brewing plot, his carefully planned plan to break the city, was leaked out and fell short. At this time, he just wanted the officers and soldiers of the court to break the appointment and not to attack the city again.

At the same time, outside the city, Xiang Rong, the minister of the Qin Mission and the master of the Jiangnan battalion who was ordered to form a siege of Tianjing City, said to his two fierce generals, Zhang Guoliang and Deng Shaoliang: "You two, one person at one city gate!" Deputy General Zhang, you fought bravely and led 5,000 troops to attack Chaoyangmen; Deng Zongbing, you have a way to control the army, and lead 5,000 troops to attack Taipingmen; The rest of the men accompanied the Governor out of the camp to watch the battle and support them at any time. ”

The deputy general Zhang Guoliang and the chief soldier of Shouchun Town, Deng Shaoliang, led the troops away.

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The gate of Chaoyang Gate has slowly opened to the maximum, and the Qing army still has not moved at all. Yang Xiuqing slowly became anxious, shouldn't it, could it be that the Qing Demon already knew his plan? He did not give up, and ordered Zhang Jigeng on the city tower to come forward, showing his back, and shaking the torch on the city tower, making a secret signal, signaling the Qing army outside the city to enter the city.

But Zhang Jigeng sighed heavily. The officers and soldiers did not come!

Just as Yang Xiuqing was about to order the city gate to be closed and the whole army returned to the camp, suddenly, there was a rush of horses' hooves and killing shouts, and more than a hundred steps outside the city, a large group of Qing demons rushed over.

The Qing soldiers are finally here!

The leader is the short stature, but the strong and powerful Dusi Feng Zicai. He was the first brave general under Zhang Guoliang, who was also a native of Liangguang, and was ordered by Zhang Guoliang to be the vanguard, leading a thousand Guangyong to rush to Chaoyangmen.

The Chaoyang Gate was wide open, but behind the city gate it was pitch black like a huge beast opening its mouth wide, quietly a little abnormal, Feng Zicai felt a little strange, and was about to order his subordinates to stop charging, but saw several torches lit up in the city tower, and a thief head dressed in a long-haired thief and a Xiucai stood side by side, and the thief and Xiucai shouted at him together: It's his own people!

Feng Zicai put his mind at ease.

rushed into the city, but there were more than 100 long-haired thieves shouting "Qing Demon is attacking the city!" He came to resist, but was slashed and killed by Feng Zicai's subordinates, and fled in all directions after a few clicks.

More than 100 Taiping soldiers at the city gate threw down their blades one after another and shouted in unison: "My own people! Own! We are ordered by Zhang Jigeng to open the city gate to welcome the officials and soldiers! ”

Feng Zicai couldn't help but secretly say that this Zhang Jigeng was really thoughtful, and if he was able to break the city this time, the first merit was estimated to be snatched by him.

Rushing into the city, it was a wall, and it was the wall that filled the city.

And under the city wall, two strong men led more than 200 people wearing miscellaneous costumes, and shouted: "Is it the official army of the imperial court?" The villain is a common man in the city, who was assigned by Mr. Zhang Jigeng Zhang to greet the officials and soldiers here and guide the way for the officers and soldiers. Come with the villain, I'm afraid that the long-haired thieves will come to support soon! After saying that, the two sturdy men each led a hundred men, divided into two teams, and ran around the city to both sides.

When Feng Zicai heard this, he did not doubt him, and urgently ordered his 1,000 Qing soldiers to divide into two groups and rush into the city.