Qin Shuhuai and the others stayed at the Shunyuan Inn for one night.

The next day, near noon, Qin Shuhuai was refining qi in the room, operating with the true qi of the familiar Zhongcheng realm.

There was a knock on the door.

"Boss, your family has come to relatives. ”

As soon as I heard it, it was Chu Dahai's voice.

Qin Shuhuai opened the door, and three people came in at the door.

"Qi Sheng, the subordinate Chengdu rudder master, see the sect leader!"

"The subordinate Chengdu rudder, the deputy helmsman, Wang Miao, see the sect leader. ”

"Subordinate Chu Dahai see the sect leader!"

Qin Shuhuai closed the door and said to them, "Get up and sit." ”

Qi Sheng, Wang Miao, and Chu Dahai sat down.

Qin Shuhuai knocked on the wall and motioned for Li Dingguo next door to come to his room.

Li Dingguo arrived soon and called Zhiren and Wang Datong as well.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Qin Shuhuai said to Qi Sheng and the others, "This seat called you here to inquire about the situation in Chengdu Mansion. Let's talk about the deployment of troops inside and outside the city. ”

Qi Sheng got up and said, "Sect Leader Qiqi, according to the report from my brothers who are mixed in the army, there are currently more than 80,000 troops stationed inside and outside Chengdu. Among them, the periphery, including the garrisons of the outer city wall and the surrounding important places, as long as it is the 50,000 elite soldiers led by Wu Yutian, and the 10,000 horses of the Chengdu Guard. The inner city, including the governor's yamen, the generals' mansions, the palace of the king of Shu and the inner city walls, was guarded by 20,000 guards led by Cao Guozhang's younger brother Cao Guoqing. ”

"Is Wu Yutian's Deputy Chief Soldier's Mansion also in the inner city?" Qin Shuhuai asked.

"That's right, the Wu Mansion is not far from the governor's yamen. ”

Qin Shuhuai groaned for a while, and then asked, "How many troops are there to garrison the Wu Mansion?"

Qi Sheng thought for a moment and said, "There is no one in my sect in the Wu Mansion. However, there are people in Li Zhongming's mansion who are in my sect, which can be used as a reference. In addition, a few days ago, in the name of protecting the general's family, Cao Guozhang sent about 200 additional men and horses to be stationed around the Li Mansion. It is said that there are many good players who are not lower than Xiaocheng Realm, and there are even one or two people from the Western Regions. The subordinates guessed that Wu Yutian, who was at the same level as Li Zhongming, should also be in this configuration. ”

Qin Shuhuai nodded slightly, expressing his approval of this guess.

Speaking of which, although this Cao Guozhang has decided to refuse to obey the edict, he is still very frightened in his heart, and he can't rest assured that any of his generals are at ease, and even Li Zhongming's family members want to control it.

After a deep groan, Qin Shuhuai asked, "By the way, Lord Qi Helm, how many brothers are there in our Chengdu City at present?"

"Returning to the sect leader, at present, we have more than 3,700 sect members in Chengdu City, of which more than 200 are in the army, and more than 500 elite sect disciples also have a lot of training on weekdays and can fight. However, the cultivation of the brothers is not very high, in addition to the subordinates and Vice Helmsman Wang are the ninth rank of the Xiaocheng Realm, there are more than 30 Xuantong Realm, and the others are ...... Most of them are no different from ordinary soldiers. ”

Qin Shuhuai said thoughtfully, "That means that there can be a total of seven hundred troops." ”

At this time, Wang Miao said, "Sect Master, although there are few brothers, they all have a heart to serve my religion to death, as long as the sect leader gives an order, we will die and never retreat!"

Qin Shuhuai smiled, "Vice helmsman Wang, the brothers know with their lives, but this seat is reluctant to let you 'resist death' casually, let's think about this matter in the long run." ”

Everyone smiled, and Qi Sheng and the others felt a little more relaxed when they saw that the sect leader was so easy-going.

Qin Shuhuai said again, "In this way, it is not difficult for us to snatch out the family members from the Wu Mansion, but the difficult thing is how to get out of the city." Now Chengdu is estimated to be full of soldiers, if you want to kill from the inner city to the outer city, and then from the outer city to the outside of the city, I am afraid it will be difficult to ascend to the sky. Li joins the army, what is your strategy?"

Li Dingguo thought about it with a deep brow, and asked Qi Sheng again, "Lord Qi Helm, Chengdu is a big city, and the imperial court has been operating here for a long time, so it should have dug a secret way out of the city as usual, right?"

Almost all large cities have a secret passage out of the city, which is used as an emergency when the city is besieged by enemy troops.

Qi Sheng understood what Li Dingguo meant, but he said with a difficult face, "There is a secret passage out of the city, but the entrance to the secret passage is said to be in the governor's yamen, and it is even more difficult to enter the governor's yamen." Moreover, even if we attack the gate and attack the governor's yamen, it will be difficult to find the entrance for a while, and when the garrison of the inner city rushes over, we will be unable to fly again. ”

Li Dingguo smiled slightly and said, "There is a secret way out of the city to the governor's yamen, and there is another place. ”

"Where, where is it?" Zhiren couldn't help but ask.

Qin Shuhuai also looked at Li Dingguo curiously, thinking that this kid had never been to Chengdu, how could he know so much?

Li Dingguo calmly spit out three words: "Shu Wangfu".

Everyone suddenly realized.

The king of Shu is the vassal king of the imperial court in Sichuan. The current King of Shu is the tenth grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Zhishu, the eldest son of Zhu Fengquan, the king of Shugong.

Although after the successful rebellion of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, in order to prevent other vassal kings from following his example, he deprived the vassal kings of various places of military power and political participation, so that they could only have a false name, but the vassal kings of various places were still nominally the lords of a land. If the governor's yamen has a secret passage out of the city, then the Shu Wangfu must also have it - after all, under normal circumstances, if something happens to the king of Shu, the governor of Sichuan will definitely lose his head, so which governor dares to leave a way back for himself when digging a secret passage, but he does not dare to leave it for the king of Shu?

At this time, Zhiren said, "Li joins the army, do you mean, let's grab people from Wu Yutian's Mansion first, and then go to attack the Shu Palace, and then find a secret way? ”

Qin Shuhuai said with a smile, "Brother Zhiren, think about it again, does the Shu Wangfu still need us to attack?"

After a pause, he said to Li Dingguo, "Forget it, Li joins the army, let's make it clear, everyone in the province is wasting their minds." ”

Li Dingguo said, "Although the king of Shu has no real power, but the vassal kings of various places have always been responsible for guarding the land, if Sichuan refuses to obey the edict and the king of Shu does nothing, after Sichuan is pacified, the king of Shu will inevitably be held accountable by the imperial court." At the least, he was cut off and his house was demoted to a commoner, and at worst, he was escorted to the Beijing division and imprisoned in the prison. Moreover, the identity of the king of Shu is embarrassing, if Sichuan is really self-reliant, even if Cao Guozhang does not kill him, he will definitely not be able to live a good life. Therefore, the current King of Shu must be the most feared person in Chengdu. At this time, let's talk to him, and he should be able to listen. ”

Zhiren laughed, "That makes sense! I see, I didn't expect it for a while." ”

At this time, Wang Datong said, "Then will the Shu Palace's Mansion also be guarded by Cao Guozhang's people?"

Qi Sheng said, "As far as we know, Cao Guozhang on the side of the Shu Wangfu has indeed increased his troops, but there is no special statistics on the specific number of troops." ”

Li Dingguo said, "Cao Guozhang will definitely increase troops in the Shu King's Mansion to prevent the King of Shu from escaping, after all, pulling the King of Shu to 'refuse to obey the edict' will benefit him a lot." However, Cao Guozhang is now refusing to obey the edict in the name of the emperor's coercion, and it is not a rebellion, so he does not dare to directly imprison the king of Shu. Therefore, there should be many guards of the King of Shu in the Mansion of the King of Shu, so as long as we say that the King of Shu helps, we will definitely be able to open the door of the Mansion of the King of Shu. ”

Qin Shuhuai nodded, "Then, there is only one question left now, that is, how far is it from the Wu Mansion to the Shu Palace, and how many troops may be on the way." ”