Chapter 306: Counterattack
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Song Wei's marshal mansion is very majestic, with two rows of gorgeous halberds at the gate, and six flags are set up in front of the mansion. The six trees of the house, the double knots, and the halberd in front of the door are all the top signs of power.
The housekeeper went and returned, beckoning Li Jing to follow him into the house. In order to avoid attracting attention, Li Jing only brought Zhao Jiang and four special combat team members with him, and the rest of them all booked an inn to settle down temporarily.
followed all the way, and the butler took Li Jing to a main hall. Li Jing looked over and saw double flags hanging in front of the hall. It is five zhang with silk silk, the tiger is painted in powder, there is a copper dragon, the first winding flag, the purple silk is the bag, and the oil bag is the table. section, hanging painting wooden plate three, a few inches apart, the corner hangs red linen, and the rest is the same as Jing.
Reward with special rewards, and kill with special festivals.
The festival is the authority of the festival envoy, and the flag is raised when the reward is given, and the festival is taken out when the murderer is punished. As soon as he saw this double festival, Li Jing already knew that the hall here was the festival hall of all the festival marshals. In the Water Margin, the White Tiger Hall that Lin Chong entered was the Festival Hall. However, a white stone tiger sculpture was erected in front of the festival hall, and this habit had to start with Zhu Wen, the Later Liang Emperor who replaced the Tang Dynasty. At this time, tiger is still a shunning word for formal occasions, and it cannot be used indiscriminately.
As soon as he entered the festival hall, Li Jing immediately felt that more than a dozen targets in the hall were looking at him. Li Jing just glanced at it in a hurry, and saw that most of the owners of these eyes were military generals, all of whom had extraordinary bearings. The rest of the civil officials, dressed in robes and hats, were also in their fifties. I don't see a single one in my thirties. The eyes soon saw an acquaintance. It was Lei Gang, the judge of Jiedu who had just been separated from Dengzhou last time. Then there is the teacher Cui Yunqing, and then above, there are two half-hundred-year-old men with gray beards.
Looking at the seats of the two, Li Jing already knew in his heart that the one sitting first on the left must be Deputy Marshal Kang Chengzhi, and the one sitting on the top is also looking at him, needless to say, it is General Jinwu, the right servant of the inspector, and Wu Ninghou. The general of the town army, Wu Sanjie, Zhu Guo, Ziqing Ping, Lu Junjie, envoy and Qingzhou Thorn Shi Song Wei.
Li Jing hurriedly took a few steps forward and knelt down on one knee to salute Song Weixing: "Your subordinate Great Xie Qi suppressed the soldiers and horses Li Jing, meet the commander!" ”
Song Wei's expression was serious, not angry and arrogant. Li Jing knelt there and had already finished paying respects, but he didn't let Li Jing get up for a long time, and after a long while, he nodded, "It turns out that you are Li Jing and Li Jiyu." Yes, it's young. But there is a stock on the body that will be handsome. I thought that Li Sanlang, who dared to ask me for the position of Dengzhou assassin and the military envoy of Zhendong, would be a proud and arrogant person, but when I saw it today, it was beyond the expectations of the commander, not bad. ”
Song Wei used two good in a row, the impression on the first side is indeed very good, even the other generals are a little surprised, Song Wei is a bit rigid, and it is rare to see him praise a person like this. Especially after Li Jing made some excessive requests.
"Ben Shuai has already heard your request from Judge Lei, Dengzhou Assassin Shi, Zhendong Military Envoy, how dare you make such a request, and how do you think I will agree?"
Li Jing raised his head and looked at Song Wei, without the slightest fear: "Because my subordinates think that they can guard Dengzhou for the marshal, as long as the marshal hands over Dengzhou to me, I will obey the orders of the marshal more than now." Moreover, I can hand over more money and food than I can to the big boss now! ”
Song Wei just nodded slightly, and said, "I promise you, but the premise is that you have to do your best to eradicate Wang Jingwu first." ”
"That's what my career is here for!" Li Jing said, he told the things he found in Bochang City and his guesses and judgments in detail.
After listening, Song Wei and the others' faces were not very good, and after thinking about what Li Jing said, they knew what was going on with the invitation that Wang Jingwu had given them.
"Wang Jingwu set up a Hongmen banquet for us!" Kang Chengzhi said angrily.
Cui Yunqing also took a long breath: "This Wang Jingwu is so insidious, he is going to start first as Ji Yu said." ”
The banquet was just after dark, when the sun had already set, and there was only a little light left between heaven and earth, and it would not take half an hour for the sky to get dark. In less than an hour at most, the Wang family's banquet will begin. It is conceivable that the palace must be ambushed by the palace now, full of swords and axes, waiting for them to come to the door.
Song Wei was shocked to sweat in his heart, all along, he felt that Wang Jingwu would never dare to make the first move. If it weren't for Li Jing's reminder, he would really be on guard.
"What now?" Kang Chengzhi looked at Song Wei, although he is a deputy marshal, Kang Chengzhi can be a fierce general, but he is not a wise general, let alone a handsome talent. He can be the deputy marshal entirely because of his loyalty to Song Wei and his prestige and qualifications among Song Wei's subordinates. "It's better for us to just start first, kill it directly, and kill Wang Jingwu first."
"No, it's definitely too late for our men to assemble now. Wang Jingwu will not only be ambushed in the palace at this time, it is estimated that he has already begun to mobilize troops and horses. Cui Yunqing shook his head and said, although they have more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, but in fact, there are only 3,000 soldiers from the Shuaifu and 3,000 guards in the city, and the 5,000 Dengzhou unity soldiers are stationed in the unity camp ten miles north of the city at this time. Even the greater part of the six thousand men and horses in this city were in the outer city.
"Ji Yu, where are your soldiers and horses?"
"When I came, I had already asked the sailor to stay in Bochang, and let the remaining five battalions of soldiers and horses come day and night."
Song Wei frowned a little disappointed: "Bochang is here for three hundred miles, it's okay for you to come with a small number of people, but if you have most of them, it is estimated that you won't be able to reach them in three days." ”
"In less than three days, the soldiers and horses I brought this time will not only have cavalry and horses, but also infantry will also be equipped with horses, all of them are mounted infantry. And considering the ever-changing battlefield, all of them are deliberately equipped with double horses. But the march of the great army could not match my speed, and I estimate that they will arrive as early as tomorrow morning, and at noon to-morrow at the latest. Li Jing said that this time Li Jing has invested a lot of money, and the whole army has two horses, and the mobility of the entire army has been raised to the highest. Moreover, the whole army carried canned food and refined green fodder, which saved the trouble of cooking on the march. Centaurs can maximize their mobility.
"Wang Jingwu won't wait until tomorrow to do it. Now Ji Yu's 5,000 soldiers and horses and the 5,000 soldiers of the Qingzhou Unity Battalion are useless. Kang Chengyu sighed.
Lei Gang also looked bitter. thought that this was a good time to deal with Wang Jingwu, but he never expected that Wang Jingwu would be the first to attack. "Not only that, but if it is dark to-day, the gates of the city are closed, and not only the gates of the outer city leading to the gates are closed, but also the gates of the inner city leading to the outer city are closed. On the side of Zhang Jianjun's envoy, the three thousand guards of his prison army can all be stationed in the Dongda Camp in the outer city. ”
First 10,000, then 3,000. After all the calculations, there were only three thousand of Song Wei's guards left in the inner city at this time. However, although these 3,000 guards were fully equipped, they had been recruited and trained for less than a year, and only 500 of them were combat veterans brought by Song Wei.
This result was even worse than Li Jing expected, and he couldn't help but say: "It's better to avoid the edge for the time being, let's contact the military envoy Zhang Jian first, and then break out of the outer city together, and then go out of the city and go straight to the unity barracks after meeting the guards of the Zhang military envoy, as long as we hold on until tomorrow, as soon as my soldiers and horses arrive." There should be no problem, and it will not be too late to go back and clean up Wang Jingwu then. "Although this plan has many loopholes. But Li Jing thought about it, and he had to fight like this. Continue to stay here, wait for the sky to get dark, as soon as Wang Jingwu makes a move, Li Jing doesn't think that the 3,000 personal soldiers can stop the tens of thousands of soldiers in Qingzhou.
"It's too late!" Song Wei's face was a little ugly, he was a veteran of the war, he understood the current situation very well, and clearly knew what would happen next. If he was Wang Jingwu, he would definitely use the convenience of controlling the city defense to isolate the inner and outer cities at the moment. Then lay an ambush in the palace, so that he and the marshal's mansion and those big families in other cities could be directly controlled at the first time. As a result, he and Zhang Wanrong's soldiers and horses immediately became a group of dragons without a leader, and they were scattered. At that time, Wang Jingwu could easily defeat the various departments and easily control Qingzhou.
If you want to run now, it must be too late, and the city gates must have been heavily guarded at this time.
Li Jing was also turning his brain quickly, he came three hundred miles, but he didn't come to be caught in the urn.
"Since we can't go, then we won't go. In my opinion, it's better to have a plan and go straight to the nest! Li Jing was ruthless and said.
Although Song Wei didn't panic at this time, he couldn't think of any good way for a while, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but say to Li Jing: "Ji Yu has any good plans, you might as well say it directly." ”
Li Jing gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "The so-called wise man has a thousand thoughts, and there must be a mistake." That Wang Jingwu's plan is really good, one ring after another. When he set up a banquet, he was able to wipe out all the important characters in the entire Qingzhou City, which was quite vicious. However, there is a loophole in this trick. Li Jing smiled: "Now that we know Wang Jingwu's plan, then we can use his plan instead." ”
"You think, we can take the opportunity of the feast to enter the palace. At that time, we can come to a preemptive strike and do it directly in the Wang family, as long as we capture the thief and capture the king, and take Wang Jingwu, you say, is there a chance to turn things around? ”
Song Wei's eyes lit up, although this plan was very risky, there was no other way to do it at the moment. If Wang Jingwu can really be held, then it is indeed possible to bring the situation back. "The Shuaifu pro-military camp can't move, and it must be under Wang Jingwu's surveillance now. If you want to hold Wang Jingwu, you will definitely not be able to do it without soldiers, where will we get another batch of people out now? ”
Li Jing said loudly: "Dashuai, I came with two hundred elites this time, and at this time I am in an inn not far from Shuai's mansion, and I can greet you at any time." ”
Other generals and officials also opened their mouths, saying that they could draw dozens or hundreds of families from the government. In this way, there are actually two or three thousand people.
Li Jing said: "Each person will bring about twenty people to the banquet, and the rest will wait in the palace first, once we start, we will set fire in the palace at that time, and then the families of each province will send reinforcements." In addition, it is necessary to immediately send someone to contact the military envoy of Zhang Jian and the military camp of the Shuaifu, so that they can also start together at that time and join the palace. As long as we hold Wang Jingwu and hold on for one more night, things will be successful. ”
"There are also unity battalions outside the city, we have to find a way to inform them, let them come, there is no need to really attack the city, just light more torches under the city, saying that I have led the Dengzhou soldiers to arrive, so that it can also contain some of Wang Jingwu's troops. Wait until tomorrow when our army arrives, and then we can really attack. ”
This plan was thought out in a hurry, and there are still many loopholes, but now that time is pressing, there is no time to think about it. No one raised the question of what to do if Wang Jingwu could not be caught, and what would happen if Wang Jingwu was not allowed to be brought in, such as the guards brought by everyone. At this time, there is no time to think about these details, and you can only respond to the situation at the right time.
After everyone returned home, Song Wei said to Li Jing: "Ji Yu, if someone asks about your identity in a while, you will say that it is my nephew, named Song Yu and Song Sanlang." Li Jing nodded, only Song Wei and Li Jing were left in the hall, Cui Yunqing, Kang Chengyu, Lei Gang and others had already gone home to decorate. After a period of silence, Song Wei suddenly turned his head and patted Li Jing's shoulder, and said, "If this matter can be successful, there will be no problem with the position of Dengzhou Assassin and the military number and military envoy of the Zhendong Army that you requested." ”
"Don't worry, Wang Jingwu can't make waves, and it's impossible to succeed!" Li Jing said very calmly.
Song Wei patted Li Jing's shoulder again, turned his head, and sighed, "You are very good!" "This is the third time Song Wei has praised Li Jing very well tonight. (To be continued......)