Chapter 837: Bloodless Blades
In the afternoon, hundreds of Sui soldiers escorted a prisoner cart slowly past the city, and Sui soldiers kept shouting to the city: "This is Meng Haigong, your king, has been captured by the Sui army!" ”
The soldiers at the head of the city were in an uproar, and many people with good eyesight recognized that the person in the prisoner car was indeed their king Meng Haigong, and the rare wide forehead was his logo, at this time, Meng Xing stepped forward angrily with a bow and arrow in his hand, and shouted: "This is not the king, it is a fake person!" ”
After speaking, he stretched out his bow and set up an arrow, and an arrow was sent to the cage under the city, and his strength was so great that this arrow shot out a hundred and fifty steps, 'Dang! The sound of shooting on the iron cage caused an exclamation in the city, only to hear Meng Xing shouting angrily: "This fake king, do you understand?" ”
The soldiers were afraid of his force and were silent, but there was a very important question that Meng Xing did not explain clearly, that is-if the person in the cage was not the king, then where did the king go? The Sui army has arrived in the city, will the king still be in Wu County?
In fact, when the Sui army slaughtered Huiji County, many soldiers speculated that Meng Haigong was finished, if Meng Haigong was still there, the main force of the Sui army would not kill, this is an obvious thing, but Meng Xing just refused to admit it, he must fight to the death with the Sui army to the end, and issued a strict order, whoever dares to talk about peace will kill whoever else, so that the army dares to be angry and dare not speak. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The large camp of Yang Zhifu's army is located in the southwest corner of Huiji City, it is a medium-sized camp covering an area of nearly 500 acres, although it is far inferior to the large camp of Meng Xing's army, but the three thousand people stationed in Yang Zhifu himself are enough, and there is a small military camp not far away, only a few hundred people are stationed, and the soldiers inside are all sent by Meng Xing to monitor Yang Zhifu's every move.
At night, Yang Zhifu drank in the tavern next to the barracks as usual, for nearly a month, he visited this tavern almost every day, he had already become a regular customer, and he also had a special seat, he liked to sit in the corner, in his words, so that he had a sense of security, drinking and calming.
At this time, the shopkeeper walked over quickly with a food plate and said with a smile: "Yang joined the army, it's still the same today!" All the food and drinks are ready. ”
Yang Zhifu nodded, "Whatever!" ”
The shopkeeper put the food plate in front of him, knocked the wine jug with his fingers intentionally or unintentionally, and then turned to leave, Yang Zhifu drank slowly alone, and at the end, he took out a wax pill from the wine jug while he was unprepared, quickly put it in his pocket, got up and took the helmet and left.
Even if he was drinking, there were people in the tavern staring at Yang Zhifu, as long as Yang Zhifu had anything out of the ordinary, he would find an excuse for Meng Xing to kill him, but Meng Xing never dreamed that this tavern was actually opened by the Sui army scouts, and Yang Zhifu was rebelled by the Sui army scouts in this tavern.
Yang Zhifu returned to his big tent, and immediately got into the inner tent, he took out the wax pill and looked at it for a while, slowly cut it with a knife, and a note was revealed inside, Yang Zhifu opened the note and read it once, and was stunned, the payment under this note turned out to be Zhang Xuan, the king of Qi, Yang Zhifu suddenly became excited, he carefully read the note over and over again, for fear of missing a word, until finally he firmly remembered every word on the note.
Yang Zhifu immediately burned the note, pondered for a moment, walked out of the tent and said to a few pro-soldiers: "Four corrections, take twenty pairs of armor to the Shunfeng Tavern, and hand over the armor to the shopkeeper, remember to go out through the back door, and bring back twenty people from the back door together!" ”
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In the main tent, Meng Xing sat at the table and gently wiped the war knife, the cold knife light reflected his eyes, his eyes narrowed into a slit, bursting out of a terrifying killing machine, just now, he personally killed more than a dozen soldiers who spread rumors, and the blood marks on the knife were still there, which made him feel great satisfaction in his heart.
But this satisfaction is not obtained by killing people, but after spreading the head of the whole army, no one in the whole army dares to talk about Meng Haigong's affairs anymore, he likes this feeling of the army being intimidated, this is also the principle he has always believed in, only strength will make his subordinates obey him.
As long as he firmly controls this army, I believe that he will soon replace Meng Haigong and become the new lord in the hearts of all soldiers
At this time, a personal soldier reported at the door: "General Qiyu, Captain Ma is here!" ”
"Let him in!"
Soon walked in a shrewd and capable officer, this person's surname was Ma, and he was a military lieutenant, and Meng Xing specially sent him to monitor Yang Zhifu's every move.
"How is it, is there anything unusual about Yang Zhifu tonight?" Meng Xing asked coldly.
"General Hui, as usual, he went to the Shunfeng Tavern for dinner in the evening, and the brother who watched him in the tavern said that he had not seen anyone, and was very silent, and went back to the barracks after drinking, and did not come out after hearing that he had entered his big tent, and in short, he was quiet tonight, and there was nothing unusual about him."
Meng Xing pondered for a long time, which was a bit unexpected to him, but Yang Zhifu has always been very cautious, and he will not let people easily catch him, no matter what, now he needs to stabilize the morale of the army, do not move him for the time being, and wait for the Sui army to retreat before killing him.
Meng Xing immediately said to the captain: "Continue to monitor him, and you must not slack off in the slightest!" ”
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The next morning, Meng Xing went up to the city to inspect as usual, the Sui army still remained calm, there was no sign of siege, the tension of the soldiers at the head of the city eased slightly, but the morale of the army was declining, there was no longer the tense murderous aura of yesterday, but there was a kind of cringe, as if everyone was deliberately keeping something.
As soon as Meng Xing went to the city, a soldier ran over and said, "General, General Yang has found an abnormality over there, please go over immediately." ”
"What anomaly?" Meng Xing asked with a frown.
The soldier whispered in his ear: "There are tunnels under the city!" ”
Meng Xing was taken aback, turned around sharply and walked to the city, there were twenty large vats buried under the west city wall, upside down in the soil, through the vats you could hear the echo of the underground, because the moat was not deep, less than one zhang, the Sui army could indeed dig holes into the city, so the soldiers defending the city were very tightly defended against this weakness, and the general Yang Zhifu was fully responsible.
Meng Xing walked quickly to the west city wall, Yang Zhifu hurriedly greeted him, Meng Xing asked, "Is it the tunnel dug by the Sui army?" ”
"I can't say for sure yet, but it doesn't feel like it, our soldiers have dug through the tunnels below, and it's a bit strange in the tunnels, and there are actually stone chambers in it."
"Stone room?"
Meng Xing was stunned and asked, "Where did the stone room come from?" ”
"I just found out that the humble position is still uncertain, so I can only decide whether to continue the investigation after the general comes to see it."
Meng Xing nodded, Yang Zhifu's caution made him quite satisfied, he walked quickly to a big pit that had just been dug, the big pit was two zhang deep, one zhang square, there was already a ladder to put down, Meng Xing looked down, and saw a big hole in the soil wall on the left, and a soldier just climbed out of it, holding a dustpan in his hand, and it seemed that there was a copper coin in it.
"Qi Qi joined the army, and the underground was full of some sporadic emperor money, all of which were rotten."
The soldier climbed up, and Meng Xing grabbed a handful of copper coins from the dustpan, and sure enough, they were a little rotten, and it seemed that they had been buried for some years.
"Has General Yang gone down to see it?"
"I went down and looked at it, and it was very spacious, a bit like the cellar of a large family, surrounded by stone walls, and twenty large copper chests were placed around it."
"What copper chest?" Meng Xing asked with interest.
"I don't know, there's a lock on it, and it's very heavy, it's too big to lift it out."
Meng Xing was a little tempted, he knew that their current position was originally Yu Shiji's main residence in Huiji County, which was burned down by Meng Haigong, could it be that the soldiers inadvertently discovered Yu Shiji's treasure?
One of Meng Xing's biggest weaknesses was greed for money, and his impatient personality made him a little impatient, so he said to a few of his own soldiers: "You guys go down with me to have a look!" ”
He said to the other soldiers: "You are on top of it, and no one is allowed to come near." ”
Meng Xing walked down the stairs quickly down the big pit, and several of his personal soldiers also followed him into the earth cave, Yang Zhifu showed a sneer on his face, if Meng Xing didn't want to go down to take a look, he wouldn't be Meng Xing, Yang Zhifu knew Meng Xing's weakness very well.
When Yang Zhifu saw that the time had come, he immediately coughed heavily, and more than a dozen soldiers hiding in the trench on the other side pulled three ropes violently, and the pillars in the hole were pulled off. With a bang, the earth cave collapsed, and a scream was faintly heard from the cave, and there was no more sound, and Meng Xing was buried alive in the cave.
Dozens of pro-soldiers did not notice the movement in the trench on the other side, they thought that the soil hole was not firm and collapsed, and they were suddenly shocked, and jumped down the pit to dig the soil Savior, Yang Zhifu shouted: "Come and save people!" ”
This is a signal, waiting around hundreds of soldiers rushed up together, opened their bows and shot arrows downward, and a scream immediately sounded below, after a round of arrows, more than 20 personal soldiers were all shot to death in the pit, all the soldiers worked together to fill the big pit with mud, Meng Xing and his personal soldiers were all buried alive in the pit.
The reason why Yang Zhifu used this strategy to lure Meng Xing into the pit was that on the one hand, he himself did not know martial arts, and he was a little afraid of Meng Xing's strong martial arts, afraid that he would not be able to kill him but be victimized by him, and secondly, he didn't know how many people wanted to surrender, in case everyone refused to surrender, but came to save Meng Xing, then he couldn't control the situation.
So Yang Zhifu took advantage of Meng Xing's weakness and buried Meng Xing alive in the hole with a poisonous trick, of course, if Meng Xing was not fooled, then he could only order his subordinates to fight hard.
Yang Zhifu saw that the plan had been successful, and he had to take advantage of the short time that Meng Xing had not yet been discovered, Yang Zhifu immediately turned around and shouted: "Pass my order, the army will be assembled immediately, and follow me to take over the West Gate!" ”
Yang Zhifu left 200 soldiers to guard the big pit, he led 3,000 people to the west gate, asking to take over the west city gate, without Meng Xing, Yang Zhifu is the highest military general in the city, the west city guard can not find Meng Xing, had to lead the army to evacuate the west city gate.
At this time, the West City Tower was ignited by the fire, Yang Zhifu sent out the agreed signal, the city gate slowly opened, the drawbridge was lowered, and the 20,000 cavalry gathered outside the city had been waiting for a long time. ”
Thousands of horses galloped, surging to the west city gate, Pei Xingyan took the lead, the first to rush into the county seat of Huiji, with 20,000 cavalry into the county, the Sui army occupied the last lair of Meng Haigong without blood. (To be continued.) )