Chapter 723: Battle in Yangzhou (Part 2)
The room was dark and black, only two lanterns under the eaves in front of the door were lit, and light was cast in through the window frame. When the wind blew, the lanterns swayed, and the light in the room began to shake.
Qin Xinming, the smiling shopkeeper who had always looked like soft dough in his eyes, was wearing armor at this moment, and a horizontal knife was placed on his legs. He sat cross-legged on the cushion on the ground like Mei Jiu. In front of them, a row of armored soldiers held shields in their hands and sat cross-legged on the ground quietly.
Behind Mei Jiu and Qin Xinming, a family of Mei Jiu was sitting against the wall. At this moment, they were trembling one by one. Qin Xinming even heard the sound of the princesses of the women's teeth fighting.
"General Qin, since he knew that these thieves were coming, why not take action first and arrest them one by one, and insist on doing these actions to lead the king into the old man!" Mei Jiu said with some dissatisfaction.
Qin Xinming smiled, his mouth full of white teeth was particularly conspicuous in the darkness.
"Magic magistrate, I don't know how many spies are hidden in Yangzhou. Besides, Yangzhou is a place where merchants gather, and I don't know how many people come in every day. Since both sides have broken their faces this time, Gong Yunda must have tried his best to succeed with one blow, otherwise it will be detrimental to him."
“So what?”
"If we take action to catch, of course we can catch most of them, but there will inevitably be a small number of them who will receive news to hide. What is even more uneasy is that those unexposed guys will hide deeper and deeper. You think about it, only a thousand days of thieves can be used to prevent thieves, but they will gather all their strength to win one blow. If you lose the magistrate, Yangzhou will be without the leader. Without the magistrate, we can't stand this situation."
"That's the reason!" Mei Jiu was so happy that she was told by Qin Xinming. In the Yangzhou bureau, she was really the indispensable person.
"Don't worry, Lord Tuan, everything has been arranged, just wait for the thief to come!" Qin Xinming said.
"Where are those people in Su Bao?" Mei Jiu asked.
"Su Bao himself is a general, so we don't have to interfere. Some other important figures may be killed by the other party. We have arranged personnel and there will be no accidents." Qin Xinming said with a smile.
"That's good." Mei Jiu nodded: "But will you really come today? I've been waiting for three days in a row, but I'm fine, but my family really can't hold on."
"I guess...shush!" Qin Xinming suddenly put his fingers to his lips, and the man also grew up.
Mei Jiu suddenly became nervous...
More than a dozen anchor hooks were thrown from outside the high courtyard wall and hooked to the top of the wall. After a while, more than ten heads poked out from the courtyard wall. They jumped down from the wall like a cat, and went straight to the side door and gently opened the side door.
On the other side, a piece of lawn on the ground suddenly moved and moved away to the side. A man crawled out like a mouse. He looked around for a moment, turned around and made an action, and then he crawled out of the inside continuously.
In the pond in the backyard, bubbles emerged from the Gugu land, and several people with reeds in their heads and mouths emerged from the water, and then swam towards the shore. Dozens of people came out of the water one after another.
In a side room in the backyard, people walked in in the dark from time to time and whispered something to Ren Xiaonian. Ren Xiaonian opened his mouth wide in surprise. He really didn't expect that there were loopholes everywhere in this prefect's prefecture, like a sieve.
But thinking about Yangzhou was always in the hands of the Gong clan a few years ago, and Mei Jiu took office only three years ago. I am afraid he would not understand some of the ghost activities of this mansion.
"Tell the brothers outside the situation here and let them quickly find out the end of these secret passages. We have started to do something here, and the outsiders must be cleaned up, so don't let someone run away!" Ren Xiaonian ordered.
Several people sneaked in from different places, but the goal was very clear. Most of them came to the main house, and some of them were divided into side rooms. Looking at this, they were planning to kill all the old and young people in Meijiu.
Qin Xinming made a gesture, and the shield players in the room stood up in a flash, raised the shield in their hands. With a breath, the sound of crossbows suddenly sounded loudly outside, and dozens of crossbow arrows broke through the window.
"Sure!" Qin Xinming smiled.
As the crossbow arrow shot in, dozens of men in black kicked the door through the window and rushed in. Qin Xinming drew his sword and stood up, laughing and said, "It's our time!"
The shield hands raised one of their empty hands, but in that hand, they also held a crossbow machine.
The assassins came from outside and couldn't see the inside, but the inside was staring at the outside. Although the lights were dim, a person of such a big figure could see clearly.
The sound of crossbow linoleum sounded, and the assassin who had just rushed in fell down like a leek.
At the same time, there were also shouting outside the house, and rockets shot down from the roof. Several large fires were lit in the backyard, but the yard was illuminated clearly.
The soldiers covered in armor surrounded the assassins from all directions and surrounded the rushing in.
Ren Xiaonian's face was as heavy as water. He choked and pulled out the horizontal knife and said coldly: "No one left, all will be killed!"
The assassination came suddenly, but it ended very quickly. With less than a stick of incense, nearly a hundred assassins who invaded the backyard, all of them were lying on the ground. Blood flowed between the courtyards of Gugu, slowly gathered into a stream, and Gugu land flowed into the pond in the courtyard. The clear water of the pond gradually turned red.
With Qin Xinming's company, Mei Jiu walked out of the main house and looked at the corpses in the courtyard, and couldn't help but feel nauseous.
"Clean it?" Qin Xinming looked at Ren Xiaonian walking towards him with a bloody horizontal knife.
"No one!" Ren Xiaonian said with a smile.
"I have to work hard as the general. I'm afraid you can't fall asleep tonight!" Qin Xinming smiled and said, "The final work here will be handed over to Mei Zhizhou."
"Where are you going?" Mei Jiu asked.
"The magistrate, the Yangzhou city also needs to be cleaned. The unclean things naturally have to be cleaned out earlier so that the Yangzhou city will be clear and peaceful, and everyone will be united!" Qin Xinmingchang smiled and bowed to Mei Jiu, and strode out of the magistrate's prefecture with Ren Xiaonian.
In fact, when the assassination began, the entire Yangzhou city was no longer peaceful. In many wealthy mansions, teams of Ding Yong rushed out and rushed towards their respective targets. But what was greeted were teams of fully armed troops, with both sides fighting on the streets and in the alleys.
When Ren Xiaonian walked out of the prefect's mansion, he took off a trumpet from his waist and blew it to the sky.
Accompanied by his trumpets, the sound of trumpets sounded from all directions of Yangzhou City, and spread out in all directions with him as the center.
Two horses on the rise and galloped forward, and behind them, hundreds of cavalry followed.
It was dawn and Yangzhou City once again returned to peace.
When the ordinary people who were terrified to push open the door and walk out, they saw teams of soldiers packing up corpses on the streets.
The soldiers lifted the bodies on the ground and threw them into the flat carriage that followed them all the way. After they were piled up, they walked out of the city.
After taking away the body, someone came over with bags of loess, spread the loess on the blood stains, and then swept the loess clean. Behind them, some others carried a load of clear water and poured it on the street. As the water flowed, the streets once again returned to their former neatness and cleanliness.
That night, a great purge was launched in Yangzhou City, and all those loyal to the commander Gong Yunda were killed.
Above the city, all the flags belonging to Huainan Jie Town have disappeared, leaving only one Tang-shaped flag, floating in the wind on the city wall.
On the banks of Baima Lake, Ge Cai looked at the small position in front of him, which was built with carriages and soldiers' corpses, and strode forward. Yesterday, the battle was fought. After a fierce battle, the Huainan army led by Gong Hao was defeated. After fleeing here, he was caught up by his opponent and had to set up this small position to defend.
Now, they have also ushered in their final moments.
Zhang Guangli, the new Yangzhou magistrate who had not yet taken office, was not lucky. He was taken to an arrow while fleeing last night and was dragged by Gong Hao to escape here. At this time, he was lying in the center of the position and had already vented more and had less energy.
Ge Cai rushed up, Liu Yuan rushed up, and Qin Crazi rushed up.
When Ge Cai stabbed Gong Hao's chest with a knife and kicked him away from a distance, Zhang Guangli, in the center of the position, let out his last breath, his head tilted, and he followed Gong Hao to report to King Yan.
"Send a message to Yangzhou City, and the Huainan army will be destroyed by one thousand! "Ge Cai dragged his knife and walked back, shouting loudly.
"Person Ge, how to deal with these seizures?" Qin Crazi chased after him and asked.
"Weapons and armors are confiscated." Ge Caitou did not reply: "Other property, well, this is the first battle, so I will reward all the soldiers. You can get one, and according to the size of the credit, you can divide it into three levels to pay the reward."
"I want to inspire you. This battle is just an appetizer. Next, Gong Yunda, who is angry, will launch a large-scale military force against Yangzhou. At that time, it will be just these thousands of people. I'm afraid we will face a large army of ten thousand, and it will be on both sides of land and land." Liu Yuan said.
Chapter completed!