On the fifth day of the sixth month, Zhenyi is located dozens of miles north of Pushui.

In the past, it was the old soil of the Kunwu clan and the ruins of the emperor. The history books contain: "In the spring of ten years, the Marquis of Qi, the Duke of Song, the Marquis of Chen, the Marquis of Wei, and the Bo Zheng will meet in Zhen. "Duke Qi Huan was a prince of the two sessions of Zhendi, and this is where he began to dominate.

One hundred and fifty years have passed since the lively Zhen Zhimeng, and now it is a Yangyi belonging to the Confucian family, the great doctor of the country, and is located more than 100 miles east of the capital Puyang.

Different from the sparsely populated south of Pushui, which is plagued by thieves, it is densely populated, the roads are full of pedestrians, and there are people from inside and outside the township from time to time. Hundreds of miles of fertile wilderness, rivers criss-crossed, is a land of ointment.

Zhenyi is a thousand-room middle town, with a circumference of two or three miles and a population of more than 8,000.

Because this place is located in the center of the "Meridian Road", it is a necessary place to go from Xinzheng and Puyang to the east of Lu, or from Shangqiu and Taoyi to the north of Gaotang of Qi. Therefore, there are frequent exchanges between merchants throughout the year, and there is a long queue at the gate of the city in the early morning.

The city wall is made of rammed loess, about three zhang high, two zhang wide at the base, and one zhang wide at the top, which can only accommodate three people walking side by side. The east, west, north and south respectively opened a Yi gate, and there was a five-zhang high corner tower on both sides of the door.

Decades of peace in the Central Plains after the meeting of the soldiers made the defense of the country relaxed, the moat outside Zhenyi was filled up, and the water had not completely dried up, but it had lost its effect. There were twenty or so guards standing loosely inside and outside the gates, and there were also an equal number of guards patrolling the walls of the city, but there were no other garrison measures.

The little official who guards the gate of the south of the city is named Zhen Jin's father, who is the son of the small sect of the local clan Zhen, and he is also very nourishing by extracting the gate tax of the city and the benefits he gets from time to time. Although the Wei Kingdom is now involved in the war between Qi and Jin, the main battlefield is still west of the Great River, and it has not been affected here for the time being, and it has not yet reached the extent that the Yimen is closed.

In the afternoon of this day, a group of twenty or thirty merchants came from the south, and the leader was a wicked-looking Song merchant. He was dressed in a coarse garment of arrowroot. The cloth crown, not luxurious but clean and decent, bowed to Zhen Jin's father from a distance: "Corporal Zhen, the villain is here again." ”

The merchant spoke in a Wei Yan mixed with a Song accent. Not long ago, he had passed through this place twice and went to the country of Lu in the east.

Zhen Jin's father remembered that this businessman was quite generous, and he could speak well and make people happy, plus his unbearable appearance, so he had some impressions.

"I remember your name was Feng Ji?"

He glanced at the convoy behind the merchants. He said in surprise: "I didn't have a few followers when I came last time, but I pulled up a convoy in less than two months, and there were a lot of followers, so I must have made a lot of money." It's still the old rule, each car draws half of the goods, and now that the Jin and Qi are at war, the Yi Shou has a new decree, and blades of more than one foot are not allowed to be brought into the Yi, so that your servants come and search your body. ”

Feng Rin, who is under the pseudonym Feng Ji, smiled cutely: "The villain is indeed running from time to time, and he defected to a doctor of Cao Guo to be his subordinate businessman." As for these subordinates......"

He looked back at Tian Ben and the twenty or so soldiers under him, turned his head and leaned closer, put his hand in his wide sleeve, and stuffed a few Qi Dao coins into Zhen Jian's father's hand: "Lei Ze and Oh Yezawa's thieves have become more and more rampant recently, and I'm afraid it's not safe to travel far away without some manpower to defend themselves, they are just some short cuts for self-defense, and there are no blades." ”

Zhen Jin's father weighed the weight of the coins, and then he let them go with satisfaction, and everyone was able to enter.

As everyone knows, in this short period of time. Tian Ben and the others had already squinted their eyes and recorded all the numbers and locations of the guards guarding the city.

Inside Zhenyi, there are people coming and going on the street, which is not as noisy as Shangqiu and Taoyi, but it is also very lively.

The women of Wei Guoshuo, who like fashionable clothes, do not like wide and deep clothes. Instead, I love bright two-color skirts. Men wear scarves, or hair in buns, or scarves, or brown coats and swords. Occasionally, a scholar wearing a high crown and wide sleeves passed by in a cart driven by two oxen, which was driven by the Zhen clan, the most powerful clan in the region.

The streets of Eupzhong and Lilu are all separated by low walls or fences, and Feng Rin takes everyone around the avenue with ease. From the small road to the avenue, I finally came to the pavilion dedicated to the temporary residence of foreign merchants.

Although it is also called a housekeeper to the outside world, it is different from the management of small officials sent by the Jin State, and it is actually opened by a private person. Feng Rin was already familiar with the housekeeper the last time he came here, and even spent a few knife coins to taste the taste of his unmarried eldest daughter.

However, when he came back, Feng Rin pushed away the daughter of the housekeeper who threw him into his arms, and directly instructed the housekeeper to arrange a big house where twenty or thirty people would sleep together, and prepare food, hot water, wine, lamps and candles.

The housekeeper and his eldest daughter pouted when they heard this, this evil-looking merchant was generous when he came last time, lived in a first-class living room, slept on a soft couch, and even invited the ladies in the female palace to wait. But this time, although there were more people with him, he was stingy in vain.

Feng Rin naturally has a hard time, he came to Zhenyi this time to do great things and make great contributions, but it is not the time for pleasure and adultery.

As early as the first time Zhao Wuxian sent him to come, Feng Rin guessed that the gentleman was going to attack here, and sure enough, on the day when Taoyi's extravagant business opened, Zhao Wuxian summoned him again and asked him to be the leader of the trip.

"I want you to pretend to be a merchant again, take Tian Ben's soldiers to infiltrate Zhenyi, and cooperate with our troops to take the city in the city, if it can be done, you should be the first credit!"

After some persuasion by Zigong, Feng Rin also stayed desperately, seeing that this exile team had doubled in size during the Song and Cao periods, and had also solved the problem of financial resources, and would definitely recruit more talents in the future. Therefore, although it is dangerous to sneak into Zhenyi, it is also an opportunity for him to make great contributions to the gentleman and seek status!

Before leaving, Zhao Wuxian agreed with him: "You set off for one day first, and then you will enter Zhenyi on June 5, and we will lead our troops to cross the Pushui after nightfall, from the north bank to Zhenyi, and the night road can be reached for two hours, and I will take people to wait in the mulberry forest outside the city." ”

"If you can successfully blend into the city, you can let the soldiers seize the south gate at the third watch, and raise the fire as a signal. As soon as I see the fire, I will urge the army to advance at full speed, and if you are in civil strife, I will strike at it outside, and this city will definitely be able to fall with a drum! ”

Tian Ben is brave and invincible, with his cooperation with Feng Rin, coupled with Zhen Yi's lax garrison, the possibility of success is extremely high!

Feng Rin secretly pondered: "If it is a normal day, even if the gentleman can successfully seize this town." It will also be discovered by the guards, and a large army will soon be dispatched to encircle and suppress it, and no one among the princes will support us, which is a dead end. But now Jin and Wei are at war. The three secretaries of the Jin State are leading the army to attack and defend, if we take advantage of the situation to seize the city, we will not be considered a rebel, at least it is also a rebel army to help the Jin State! ”

However, Feng Rin felt that he wanted to return to the Jin Kingdom by virtue of winning Zhenyi. It's really unlikely. After all, except for the Zhao family, the rest of the Wuqing were all involved in the expulsion of Zhao Wuxian either explicitly or secretly, not to mention that the new subordinate army Zuo Fan Jishu and Zhao Wuxian had a murderous vendetta, and their backbone Fan Ying was also dying with a life, if he wanted to go back, at least let Wuqing have nothing to say.

Perhaps, the gentleman has another follow-up plan?

But this is no longer something that Feng Rin can participate in, and the details of it are only clear to the gentleman and his subordinates in the first conspiracy advocate Meng Tan, and even Zigong is not very clear.

……

It's nearly three watches in the night. In the big house arranged by the housekeeper, there were several beds of shabby bedding on the wall, and the rest were dried straw collected from outside the city, and a specially requested pottery lamp and candle shone in the center of the big house, the only light in the dark night.

Feng Rin didn't talk about sleeping, he was a little uneasy even sitting and standing, he got up and paced from time to time, staring at the hourglass.

Contrary to his restlessness, the bridge of the nose collapsed, and the vertebrae were bunned. Tian Ben, who had short beards on his lips and under his chin, and was wearing narrow sleeves and short beats, just sat cross-legged on the straw quietly, and kept rubbing the two murderous copper swords with his belt, and checked the sharpness by candlelight.

After the Battle of Chengxiang. He gradually regained his earlier status, and then followed Zhao Wuxian away from his homeland, and after walking around abroad, his knowledge and mind have broadened, and compared with a year ago, Tian Ben has become much calmer.

He is now the two horses of the thugs. The old brothers who originally went to the palace and became a township were dead and crippled, and there were only about a dozen people left, so half of the people brought this time were newly recruited light chivalrous and evil boys in the Song Kingdom.

Seeing those Song teenagers who didn't have any hair, Tian Ben seemed to see himself a year ago. Tian Ben's skills are good at beating people, he is frank and righteous, and he is still Zhao Wuxian's loyal dog, so he quickly threw these into the martial arts and will inevitably become a thorn in the Song State light man to clean up.

They do not participate in ordinary training, but are gathered in one place, and under the guidance of Tian Ben himself, they practice their old skills such as striking, assassination, climbing over walls, arson, surviving in the wild, and even stealing chickens and dogs.

After more than a month of training, they already have the ability to disrupt a small town, and even before leaving, they also committed several unnoticed burglaries in Taoyi as a drill.

"The third watch has arrived!" At this moment, Feng Rin, who had been staring at the hourglass, said dryly.

Tian Ben finally stared at the twin swords and ordered, "Check the blades and bring the flint for arson." ”

is different from what Feng Rin said to Zhen Jin's father who guarded the door, each of them brought weapons that they were good at. There are bronze short swords, daggers, halberds, bows and arrows carried on the cart, and even a few people with new weapons and one-armed crossbows, who have long been held in their hands one by one, which makes Feng Rin shocked.

Tian Ben stood up and looked at everyone, and said coldly: "Today's matter, I don't need to say more, the second and third sons are all light thieves in their hometowns, and if they do some stealing chickens and dogs, if the matter is exposed, they will be scolded by the villagers and arrested by the judges." But follow the gentleman, but we are big thieves, killing people and setting fires are small, if you want to do it, you can do this kind of big thing of attacking the city and seizing the city, and you will be a big husband! Of course, we are a gentleman's sword, and when a gentleman doesn't use it, he has to stay in the sheath honestly, and if he wants to use it today, he must immediately take it out of the sheath and stab it out! ”

The light heroes and the fierce soldiers agreed awe-inspiringly, Tian Ben said on the first day they were recruited, it was easy to say anything else with him, but there was only one thing that could not be missing, that is, the gentleman must be loyal to the gentleman and not tolerate the slightest betrayal.

Feng Rin's task this time is to bring more than 20 murderous beasts such as Tian Ben into the city, and the rest of the fight has nothing to do with him. At this time, seeing that Tian Ben and others were going to fight for their lives, he didn't know how many people he could return, so he had relatives in his heart, so he held the jar of Puyang wine that he wanted from the housekeeper, and poured it into the pottery bowl on the ground, so as to make a big move for everyone.

All the light warriors leaned over to take the wine one by one, and Tian Ben also stuffed a bowl into Feng Rin's hand.

More than twenty hands raised in the air, formed a circle, lowered their voices and said, "Drink this wine together!" ”

Feng Rin's bowl was just touching his lips, Tian Ben had already purred a few mouthfuls, and then threw the bowl on the haystack and scolded: "Fade out a bird, and have a taste with Pu Shui!" Wait for the brigade commander to take this city, 10,000 acres of fertile land are all owned, we will harvest corn to brew it ourselves, and then drink it happily! ”

The crowd chuckled and threw the bowl as he did.

"Wine strengthens the courage, strengthens the flesh, and kills well! The second and third sons, with Naigong, kill people and set fires, and go to a rich and noble place! ”

After that, Tian Ben and these more than twenty soldiers pushed the door out, and outside the door, it was the deep night of Zhen City. (To be continued.) )

PS: It's been a busy few days since the beginning of school, but it won't delay the update, and the book friends who rewarded it will wait for July to settle down and thank you

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