Chapter 186: Reversal of the situation
As soon as these words came out, the group of soldiers outside the door were surprised, they faintly felt that there was a big event today, before leaving, Cao Tian said to the soldiers of the Wei Mansion that Li Hao, the assassin of Tingzhou, intended to rebel, at first they did not believe it, Cao Tian took out tens of thousands of arrows in the arsenal, and used this as evidence to finally make the soldiers of the Wei Mansion believe.
However, Li Hao's words are also quite convincing, bringing 1,500 people and horses without permission is not a joke, it can definitely be condemned as a major crime of rebellion, and the soldiers of the Weifu don't know who to believe.
The establishment of the Zhichong Weifu is the largest in the regiment, each regiment has a captain, 200 people, a total of 2,000 people in Tingzhou Zhichong Weifu, there are ten captains, at this moment these ten captains don't know whose words are credible, they have no idea, but fortunately a captain is clever, and shouted: "Don't panic, everyone, listen to Wang Duwei!" The Wang Duwei in his mouth is naturally Wang Yuantai, the commander of Youguo Yi.
"Yes, listen to Wang Duwei."
"We only look forward to the king's captain!"
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Ten lieutenants shouted to obey Wang Yuantai's orders, Wang Yuantai usually always entertained them with good wine and meat, and invited them to visit the kiln, and now it is proved that his money was not spent in vain, but those are not his money, it has always been funded by Cao Tian, and he is only responsible for playing.
Wang Yuantai saw that the ten lieutenants all said that they listened to their orders, and suddenly felt that the villain was victorious, and his vanity was greatly satisfied, he raised the saber in his hand, quieted everyone, and said loudly: "Don't worry, everyone, and see what Cao Beijia and Li Tingshi have to say, we can't wronged good people." ”
"That's right! You can't wronged a good person! ”
"Listen to Wang Duwei!"
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In just a moment, Wang Yuantai transformed himself and became a pivotal figure in Tingzhou City, and now it can be said unceremoniously that if he helps either side, the other side is almost finished, although Li Hao has five hundred right guards, but they are all cavalry, under this kind of terrain, it is difficult to exert all the combat power, and it is almost impossible to fight against the three thousand five hundred army.
The same is true for Cao Tian, although he brought more than 1,500 people into the city, but Wang Yuantai has 2,000 people.
Cao Tian just wanted to speak, Li Hao suddenly clapped his hands and said loudly: "Lu Yun, bring someone for me!" ”
As soon as the words fell, Lu Yun escorted a prisoner in a white prison uniform to the field, Cao Tian was surprised when he saw this person, this was actually the leader he sent to the Longchang granary to burn grain, but he didn't expect to be captured by Li Haosheng.
Although the prisoner was wearing a prison uniform, his body was very neat and tidy, and there was even a smell of fat powder, Li Hao took out a piece of paper from his arms and said, "This is the prisoner's confession, and the official is here to read it to everyone." ”
He unfolded the paper as he spoke, and read it slowly: "I am Lei Hu, born as a horse thief, I was taken in by Cao Tian six years ago, as his subordinate, I have done many evil deeds for Cao Tian, the biggest of which is that in October of the tenth year of Zhenguan, I was ordered by Cao Tian to take fourteen of my subordinates to sneak into the house of Yao Jinzhong, the assassin of Tingzhou, and set it on fire, causing the Yao Assassin Shi family to die in the fire. In September of the twelfth year of Zhenguan, I was ordered by Cao Tian to take 14 people to the Longchang granary to set fire to the grain, and was defeated and captured. ”
After reading it, Li Hao handed the confession to Lei Hu, who was kneeling on the ground, and asked coldly: "Lei Hu, look at it, is this your confession?" ”
Lei Hu glanced at it and nodded vigorously: "Back to the adult, it's the villain's confession." ”
Li Hao nodded, turned his head to look at Cao Tian, and asked with a playful smile: "Cao Tian, murdering the imperial court official, and he is also a feudal official, how do you explain it?" ”
"Nonsense!" Cao Tian glared, "Do you think that if you find a prisoner to come out and pretend to be my subordinate, someone will believe it?" ”
"You have a point." Li Hao turned his head to look at Lei Hu, smacked his mouth, and said, "Lei Hu, I'm sorry, your master said that you are not his dog, and the official can't help it, so he can only ...... Hey....... ”
"Wait a minute!" Hearing this, Lei Hu suddenly shouted, "I have a way to prove that I am Cao Beijia's person!" ”
"Oh?" Li Hao raised his eyebrows and said, "Let's hear it, how to prove it?" ”
Lei Hu said loudly: "Cao Bei drove the people all these years, looted the passing caravans, and collected countless wealth, so many treasures naturally have to be properly collected, and don't tell anyone, once, I overheard him and his son talking, knowing that he buried the treasure in the ground in the backyard!" ”
Cao Tian shouted in panic when he heard this: "Nonsense, nonsense!" Li Hao, don't slander me! ”
"Whether it's slander or not, just go to your backyard and see." Li Hao smiled and said, "Wang Duwei, you have heard it, in the backyard of the Cao family, you don't take anyone to dig the ground." ”
"Don't go!" Cao Tian turned his head and shouted angrily at Wang Yuantai.
Wang Yuantai glared at him, and said coldly: "Is this your attitude when talking to Captain Bendu!" You're a suspect now! ”
"What?" Cao Tian was shocked when he heard this, and from Wang Yuantai's attitude, he suddenly felt that something was not quite right.
Wang Yuantai turned his head to look at Long Qi on the side, and ordered loudly: "Captain Long, you take two hundred people to dig in the backyard of the Cao family to see if it is really as Lei Hu said, there are a lot of treasures hidden in the ground, remember, it is a matter of rebellion, you must not be blinded by gold and jewelry, that is going to lose your head!" ”
"Don't worry!" Long Qi hugged his fists and took orders, and he was about to set off when he prepared his people.
Wang Yuantai reminded again: "Captain Long, if anyone dares to stop him, he will be killed, and if something happens, Captain Bendu will bear it." ”
"Yes!" Long Qi was extremely excited, and set off with two hundred people.
Can Long Qi not be excited, there are ten captains in the Wei Mansion, and the rest of the nine people are all tied to Yun Meng and Cao Tian, only he has a bad temper, does not climb the power and attaches himself to the nobles, and is more invested in Wang Yuantai, so the two of them have been suppressed by Cao Tian for several years, and now they finally have the opportunity to bring down Cao Tian, he doesn't know how happy he is.
At this moment, Cao Tian finally realized that he had been tricked, it turned out that from the very beginning, Wang Yuantai was a chess piece under Li Haobu, but he naively thought that Wang Yuantai was his own chess piece, and spent money to let him buy people's hearts in the Wei Mansion, and finally actually lifted a stone and hit his own feet, he was angry, quite angry, why he couldn't play Li Hao regardless of whether he played bright or dark, the other party was obviously just a teenage hairy boy, why did he have so many fancy intestines in his stomach.
Now he already knew that he could only run away, but now that Wang Yuantai's 1,800 Weifu army was watching, how could he escape easily, at this time, a middle-aged man dressed in black walked up to Cao Tian and asked in a low voice: "Cao Tian, didn't you say that the two thousand soldiers of the Mansion are all your people, why are you ...... now?"
"Don't talk about it." Cao Tian's mouth didn't move much, but his voice could be made, this is a ventriloquist technique, "Wang Yuantai, the leader of the government soldiers, is anti-water, something is wrong, hurry up and find a way to get out." ”
"You ......" The man was so angry that he wanted to go crazy when he heard this, but when he saw Li Hao and Wang Yuantai and they were all watching from the sidelines, he didn't dare to attack, and slowly retreated.
The scene has been deadlocked, and the people of Tingzhou have been hiding in the distance to look at the side of the Thorn Shi Mansion, not knowing what is going on here, but so many people and horses gathered here, it must be a big deal, so no one dares to approach.
Time passed bit by bit, Li Hao and Wang Yuantai waited patiently, they were waiting for news from Long Qi, because it was important evidence to convict Cao Tian.
Gradually, the day dawned, the sun slowly rose from the eastern sky, this toss was a night, there were nearly 100 people in the east suddenly, it was Long Qi, Long Qi came to the front of the fist to report: "Qi Yu Wang Duwei, the humble leader led people to dig in the backyard of the Cao family for a night, digging the ground, and finally dug out a large number of treasures, preliminary counting, 30,000 taels of gold, 120,000 taels of silver, countless jewels!" His subordinates have sent 100 people to confine Cao Tian's family and wait for Wang Duwei to fall. ”
"Hiss-" Li Hao gasped when he heard this, suddenly gave Cao Tian a thumbs up, and said, "Cao Tian, you can, I said how can the terrain of Tingzhou be so low, it turns out that the land has all been scraped by you, the ancients often said that you scrape the ground three feet, you are scraping the ground!" ”
Cao Tian's face was like ashes when he heard this, and at this moment, he also knew that his crime was confirmed.
"Everybody's on orders!" Li Hao drank coldly, pointed at Cao Tian and said, "Tingzhou, don't drive Cao Tian, it's a big rebellion, and the intention is to rebel, but whoever can be punished or captured, this official will personally report to the court, give a generous reward, be promoted to make a fortune, and glorify the ancestors, just around the corner!" ”
Wang Yuantai also said loudly when he heard this: "Everyone has heard it, the opportunity to be promoted and make a fortune, and the opportunity to glorify the ancestors has come, how many such opportunities can there be in this life, brothers, capture Cao Tian alive!" ”
At the sound of the order, all the government soldiers roared excitedly, raised their weapons and rushed towards Cao Tian.
Seeing this, Cao Tian hurriedly turned over and fled, and the 1,500 men and horses he brought also fled, but the streets were narrow and there were too many people, how could he run for a while, he was caught up by the government soldiers, and he was killed indiscriminately, and there were hundreds of people on the spot in an instant.
Li Hao sent the right guard out of the Assassin's Mansion and rode to the south gate, but unfortunately he was still a step too slow, after all, the gate of the Assassin's Mansion was too small, and the five hundred people delayed a lot of time just by going out.
Among the men and horses brought by Cao Tian, there were only more than 600 cavalry, and half of them were horse thieves, and the other 900 were infantry, and they could not escape, and were caught up by the right Xiaowei riding horses, they only cared about fleeing for their lives, and even forgot to resist, and were killed without leaving a piece of armor, and the streets were full of corpses and blood, which was extremely hideous, and the people of Tingzhou were so frightened that they all hid at home and did not dare to go out.
Cao Tian successfully opened the city gate and escaped, running straight south, where was the direction of Gaochang, Peng Hai led the right Xiaowei to pursue more than 50 miles, killing more than 300 people, and finally Cao Tian escaped.
Li Hao came to Caofu with more than 20 special forces, only to see a huge hole dug out of the backyard, and gold, silver and jewelry were piled up on the ground next to it, like a hill.
Seeing so much gold, silver and jewelry, Li Hao couldn't be happy at all, and finally got rid of Cao Tian, but he knew that what he had to face next might be a bigger disaster.