In the afternoon, hundreds of Sui soldiers escorted a prison car and walked slowly past the city, and Sui soldiers kept shouting to the top of the city: "This is Meng Haigong, your king has been captured by the Sui army!"

The soldiers on the city wall were in an uproar, and talked loudly. Many people with good eyes recognized that the person in the prison car was indeed their king Meng Haigong, and his rare wide forehead was his logo. At this time, Meng Xing rushed forward with a bow and arrow in his hand and shouted: "This is not the king, but a fake person!"

After saying that, he took the bow and arrow, and one arrow was on the cage under the city. His power was very strong. The arrow shot out 150 steps. The sound of "Dang!" shot on the iron cage, causing a burst of exclamation on the top of the city. Meng Xing was yelling in anger: "Do you understand this fake king?"

The soldiers were speechless because of his force, but there was one very important question 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 was already at the city, would the king still be in Wujun?

In fact, when the Sui army rushed to Kuaiji County in large numbers, many soldiers speculated that Meng Haigong was finished. If Meng Haigong was still there, the main force of the Sui army would not come. This is very obvious, but Meng Xing just refused to admit that he must fight the Sui army to the end and issue strict orders. Whoever dares to talk about it again will kill him, so that the army will dare not speak out.

The camp of Yang Zhifu's army is located in the southwest corner of Kuaiji City. It is a medium-sized camp covering an area of ​​nearly 500 acres. Although it is far inferior to the camp of Meng Xing's army, the 3,000 people stationed by Yang Zhifu himself is enough. There is also a small camp not far away, with only a few hundred people stationed. The soldiers inside are all sent by Meng Xing to monitor Yang Zhifu's every move.

At night, Yang Zhifu drank in a tavern next to the military camp as usual. In the past month, he visited this tavern almost every day. He had already become a regular customer and had a special seat. He liked to sit in the corner. In his words, he felt safe and calm down.

At this time, the shopkeeper brought the food plate and walked over quickly, and said with a smile: "Yang Zongjun, you're still the same today! The wine and food are ready."

Yang Zhifu nodded, "Whatever!"

The shopkeeper placed the food plate in front of him, knocked the wine pot intentionally or unintentionally, and then turned around and left. Yang Zhifu drank slowly by himself. At the end, he took out a wax ball from the wine pot while the person was unprepared, quickly put it in his pocket, got up and took the helmet and left.

Even if he was drinking, someone in the tavern was staring at Yang Zhifu. As long as Yang Zhifu had any special features, he would find an excuse for Meng Xing to kill him. However, Meng Xing never dreamed that this tavern was actually opened by the Sui army scouts. Yang Zhifu was instigated by the Sui army scouts in this tavern.

When Yang Zhifu returned to his big tent, he immediately got into the inner tent. He took out the wax ball and looked at it for a while, and slowly cut it with a knife. A note was revealed inside. Yang Zhifu opened the note and read it, and was stunned. The signature under the note was actually Zhang Xuan, King of Qi. Yang Zhifu was immediately excited. He carefully read the note over and over again, for fear of missing a word, until in the end he remembered every word on the note.

Yang Zhifu immediately burned the note, pondered for a moment, walked out of the account and said to several personal soldiers: "Fourth correction, take twenty deputy soldiers to Shunfeng Tavern, and hand over the soldiers to the shopkeeper. Remember to go out through the back door, and the twenty people will also be brought back from the back door!"

In the main tent, Meng Xing sat at the table and gently wiped the sword. The cold sword light shone on his eyes. His eyes narrowed into a slit and burst out with horrifying murderous intent. Just now, he personally killed more than a dozen soldiers who spread rumors, and the blood marks on the sword were still there, which made him feel extremely satisfied.

But this satisfaction was not achieved by killing people, but after spreading the heads of the army, no one in the army dared to talk about Meng Haigong again. He liked this feeling of being shocked by the army. This is also the principle he always believed in. Only strength can 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 the soldiers.

At this time, a personal soldier reported at the door: "Report to General, Captain Ma is here!"

"Let him in!"

Soon a shrewd and capable officer came in. The man was named Ma and served as a captain. 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.

"Report to the general, he went to Shunfeng Tavern for dinner in the evening. The brothers who were monitoring him in the tavern said that he had not seen anyone, and was very silent. After drinking, he returned to the barracks. He heard that he had not come out after entering his tent. In short, he was very quiet tonight, without any abnormality."

Meng Xing pondered for a while, which was a bit beyond his expectations. However, Yang Zhifu has always been very cautious and will not easily get someone to catch him. Well, now he needs to stabilize the morale of the army and not move him for the time being. It is not too late to kill him after the Sui army withdrew.

Meng Xing immediately said to the captain: "Continue to monitor him, and do not slack off at all!"

The next morning, Meng Xing went up to the city to inspect as usual. The Sui army remained calm and showed no signs of siege. The tension of the soldiers on the city wall was slightly relieved, but the morale of the army was declining. There was no longer the tense murderous aura of yesterday. Instead, there was a kind of timidity, as if everyone was deliberately keeping something.

As soon as Meng Xing came up to the top of the city, a soldier ran over and said, "General, General Yang found an abnormality. Please go over immediately."

"What's abnormal?" Meng Xing asked with a frown.

The soldier whispered in his ear: "There are authentic things under the city!"

Meng Xing was shocked and turned around and walked down the city. Twenty large tanks were buried under the west city wall, and they were pressed upside down in the soil. Through the large tank, you could hear the echoes underground. Since the moat was not deep, less than one meter, the Sui army could indeed dig holes into the city, so the soldiers guarding the city had a very strict defense against this weakness, and the general Yang Zhifu was fully responsible.

Meng Xing quickly walked under the west city wall. Yang Zhifu hurriedly came up to meet him. Meng Xing asked, "Is it the tunnel dug by the Sui army?"

"I can't be sure, but the Beiyi doesn't feel very similar. Our soldiers have dug through the tunnel below. It's really weird inside, and there is a stone chamber inside."

"Stone Room?"

Meng Xing was stunned and asked, "Where did the stone chamber come from?"

"I just found out that the humble position is not sure yet, 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 quickly walked to a big pit that had just been dug. The big pit was two meters deep and ten meters square, and there was a ladder that had been put down. Meng Xing leaned his head down and saw a big hole in the soil wall on the left. A soldier happened to climb out of it, holding a dustpan in his hand, and there seemed to be copper coins inside the dustpan.

"You reported to join the army, and there were some sporadic Kaihuang money underground, and it was all bad."

The soldier climbed up, and Meng Xing grabbed a handful of copper coins from the dustpan. As expected, they were a little rotten, as if they had been buried for some years.

"Have you seen it when General Yang goes down?"

"I went down to see it. It was very spacious inside, a bit like a large-scale cellar. It was surrounded by stone walls and twenty large copper boxes were placed around it."

"What copper box?" Meng Xing asked interested.

"I don't know, there are locks on it, and they are very heavy, too big to lift it out."

Meng Xing was a little moved. He knew that their current seat was originally Yu Shiji's main house in Kuaiji County, but was burned by Meng Haigong. Did the soldiers accidentally discover Yu Shiji's treasure?

Meng Xing's biggest weakness was his greed for money and his impatient personality. He couldn't wait, so he said to several personal soldiers: "You guys come down with me to take a look!"

He said to the other soldiers: "You are guarding above and no one is allowed to approach."

Meng Xing quickly walked down the big pit along the stairs, and several of his personal soldiers followed him into the cave. Yang Zhifu showed a sneer on his face. If Meng Xing didn't want to go down and take a look, he wouldn't be Meng Xing. Yang Zhifu knew Meng Xing's weakness very well.

Seeing the time coming, Yang Zhifu immediately coughed heavily. More than a dozen soldiers hiding in the trench on the other side pulled three ropes. The pillars in the hole were pulled off. With a sound of "boom!", the cave collapsed. He faintly heard a scream from the hole, and then there was no more noise. Meng Xing was buried alive in the cave.

Dozens of personal soldiers did not notice the movements in the trench on the other side. They thought the earth hole collapsed because it was not solid. They were shocked and jumped out of the big pit to dig the soil to save the lord. Yang Zhifu shouted: "Come and save people!"

This was a signal. Hundreds of soldiers waiting around rushed up together, arched their bows and shot arrows downwards, and screams immediately sounded below. After a round of arrows, more than 20 personal soldiers were shot to death in the big pit. The soldiers took action together and filled the big pit. Meng Xing and his personal soldiers were buried alive in the pit.

The reason why Yang Zhifu used this strategy to lure Meng Xing into the trap was, on the one hand, that he himself did not know martial arts and was a little afraid of Meng Xing's excellent martial arts skills, and was afraid that he would not be killed by him. Secondly, he didn't know how many people wanted to surrender. If everyone refused to surrender and came to save Meng Xing, then he would be unable to control the situation.

So Yang Zhifu took advantage of Meng Xing's weakness and used a vicious trick to bury Meng Xing in the cave. Of course, if Meng Xing was not deceived, he could only order his subordinates to fight hard.

Seeing that the plan had been successful, Yang Zhifu had to take advantage of Meng Xing's short action that had not been discovered. Yang Zhifu immediately turned around and ordered: "Tell me my order, the army will gather immediately and follow me to take over Ximen!"

Yang Zhifu left two hundred soldiers to guard the big pit. He led 3,000 people to run towards the west gate and demanded to take over the Xicheng Gate. Without Meng Xing, Yang Zhifu was the highest-ranking general in the city. The Xicheng Gate could not find Meng Xing, so he had no choice but to lead his army to evacuate the Xicheng Gate.

At this time, the West City Tower was ignited by a fire. Yang Zhifu sent out the agreed signal. The city gate slowly opened and the suspension bridge was lowered. The 20,000 cavalry gathered outside the city had been waiting for a long time. Pei Xingyan waved his sword and said, "Get into the city!"
Chapter completed!