Chapter 481 Night Visit

After dark, Fang Jie and others gathered together again.

"General, there are no people in the city!"

Nie Xiaoju said: "At least hundreds of yards were checked, no people were seen living there, and there were only rebels in Sui County."

"I found where the rebel general lived."

Mu Xiaoyao said: "A few people with good cultivation in the city gathered in the same place. Qingfan went in and looked at it. It was confirmed that it was the residence of the rebel general. This person's cultivation was not high, and he only had sixth grade cultivation at most. If he hadn't been afraid of affecting your plan, Qingfan could capture people at that time without being noticed."

Fang Jie nodded and said, "Eat some food first and go to meet him in the evening."

He took off the dry food bag and handed it to Mu Xiaoyao, and took a sip of water by himself: "Dao and I walked around the city, but we didn't find a place to store grain and grass, so we could only be in the camp. It's difficult to seize grain and grass. Even if we can open the city gate and let the cavalry kill in, there are tens of thousands of elite rebels in the city, and if we twisted it together, the losses will inevitably be huge."

He sat down on the earthen kang and quickly calculated how to get the food and grass in his mind.

"Now we need to figure out what is the purpose of Li Yuanshan's deployment of heavy troops behind Xiangcheng. Sui County is five hundred miles away from Xiangcheng, and there are still tens of thousands of elite troops stationed here, so it is difficult to ensure that there are no troops stationed in other places."

"Let's have a rest, and I'll go to the rebel general's house to explore late at night."

Although it was already the end of February, the cold night in the northwest was still so cold that it made people at a loss. Fortunately, these people were all people with good cultivation. If it were ordinary people who had changed to such a dilapidated house, they would have been trembling with cold. After the night was late, the north wind finally stopped, and the night sky seemed to be washed thoroughly. The moon was still hiding behind a cloud to hide, but the starry sky was extremely brilliant.

Fang Jie and the others calculated the time. It was estimated that the hour of You had passed. He asked Nie Xiaoju to wait outside. He and Chen Qingshan jumped into the outside of the wall of the guard's yard. Chen Qingshan came once after it was dark. Fang Jie followed her and found the guard's study without much effort.

There are secret whistles in the yard, but with their cultivation, unless they deliberately reveal their whereabouts, it will be difficult to find them with the ability of those secret whistles.

Fang Jie took a little under his feet and flew over the back of a clump of evergreen cypress trees. His palm was cut like a knife on the neck of a guard guarding outside the study room. The man fell down softly without even making a muffled groan. Fang Jie took the man's collar and threw it behind the cypress tree. Then he changed the man's cloak and armor as quickly as possible, put on his leather helmet and lowered the brim of the hat. He walked out and stood outside the study room blatantly.

Fifteen meters away from him was another guard, but the man was facing outside and didn't notice that his companion was being pushed over.

Fang Jie stood at the entrance of the study and listened, and found that there were at least three people in the room.

Judging from the shadows reflected on the windows of the lights, the one sitting was obviously the general of the rebels in Sui County.

"The inspector should arrive tomorrow."

Someone in the room sighed and said, "The King of Dingxi has arranged us here, and I don't know what the picture is. We have transferred all the mobs to the front line, but we stayed, which is really hard to understand. But there is no explanation for the order, and even if we guessed it, we couldn't guess the reason."

Another said, "Why bother General? Our soldiers are stationed in Sui County, Shang Huoxi's soldiers are in Le Town, and Qiu He's soldiers are in Guan County. We know that the King of Dingxi has arranged at least 30,000 elite troops within 150 miles. It is obvious that he has a great plan. If the King of Dingxi doesn't say it, he must be afraid that some rumors will be leaked in advance. We are still far from Xiangcheng, and the people of the court will not be able to fight this for a while. Now the first trouble is the inspector."

The person who spoke before said, "The King of Dingxi must have left a large number of troops west of Xiangcheng, and they are all elite troops. He sent inspectors to inspect counties and cities. The last inspector had only left for less than two months, and the second inspector was about to arrive again. The last time the Zhang man left with two thousand taels of silver, this time it was still the same amount."

One person said, "Those bastards took the military order of Dingxi King as a means of making money. I heard that Shang Huoxi did not give money at the beginning, and the inspector wrote a letter and sent someone back to Xiangcheng. He insisted that Shang Huoxi was ungrateful and could not bear the great responsibility. If Shang Huoxi's uncle was not the minister of the Ministry of War, Shang Jin, I was afraid that Shang Huoxi would not have any good endings."

The sitting man sighed: "We laughed at Yin Poshan and others for many years, but we were not valued at all. We led hundreds of thousands of mobs to be excluded. But now thinking about it, those of us who stayed by Dingxi are not as comfortable as Yin Poshan and the others. At least, there are no inspectors to exploit them."

"The power of the inspector is too great, which shows that the King of Dingxi does not have any trust in us. The inspector has the right to mobilize troops and replace defenses, and has the right to remove the military positions of a general of the army. Who dares to offend him!"

"Let's avoid disaster if you lose money, just pretend to be bitten by a mad dog."

One of them said: "I really hope that the inspector met a horse thief on the way and died completely!"

Fang Jie, who wanted to go in, heard these words and hesitated for a moment, then quietly retreated. He gestured to Chen Qingfan, and the two of them jumped up to a tree to look at it. After a while, the door of the study opened, and two people came out of the study while talking in a low voice while walking out. Chen Qingfan and Fang Jie looked at each other, and then rushed out of the house.

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In the hiding house, the rebel general who was captured by Fang looked at the people in front of him with a pale face. He was knocked out from behind halfway out of the general's house to go home, and he had already arrived here when he woke up. Everyone in front of him covered his head and face with black scarves, which made him feel a little relieved. He was a horse thief and knew some habits in the Tao. For example, when he was doing business, he would not want to kill the captured people, but would use black scarves to cover his face. If he wanted to kill, there would be no need to cover up anything.

"What are your instructions?"

He swallowed hard and asked in a low voice. The tower-like man standing beside him put a huge pressure on him. He had no doubt at all that this man could slap himself in the face with just a slap.

"May I have your name."

The thinnest man sat on the earthen kang and asked him with a cold look.

"Zheng Duobao"

The rebel general quickly replied: "Don't worry, just ask if you have any questions. I won't shout loudly, I just want a few heroes not to kill me."

The skinny man nodded: "As long as you answer honestly, we will naturally not make things difficult for you. What we ask for is wealth and will not easily harm our lives."

“Yes Yes Yes”

Zheng Duobao nodded quickly.

"How many people are there in this city?"

The skinny man asked.

Zheng Duobao quickly replied: "One soldier, one soldier, 12,000 soldiers, two thousand auxiliary soldiers, and the total number of servants and others is less than 15,000."

"Who is the chief general?"

"Li Liao, this person is of the same clan as Li Yuanshan, but his relationship is not very close."

The skinny man asked, "Our brothers have a team, but they are still short of food and grass. Is there any way to get some out of the city?"

"ah?"

Zheng Duobao was so scared that he shivered: "It's not possible. The food and grass are all in the camp. No one has the right to call the food and grass without Li Liao's order. There are more than 10,000 people in the city. You are too brave. It would be easy to say if you only ask for money. I am willing to give out the property. I can also tell you that there are a lot of money in the general's yamen. As for the food and grass, it's really impossible to get it out."

The skinny man asked: "I have something very curious about it. Li Yuanshan mobilized a large number of troops to Xiangcheng, why not transfer you?"

"I really don't know this, even Li Zao doesn't know."

"All right"

The skinny man sighed and said, "It seems that you are not cooperating at all. Since that's the case, don't blame us for being merciless."

He reached out to pull off the black scarf on his face, and Zheng Duobao quickly lowered his head and did not dare to look at it: "No, no, I'm telling the truth. There must be many people in Xiangcheng who know why the King of Dingxi arranged this way, but no one here knows this, oh... the inspector should know."

"Who is the inspector?"

"It is not a fixed person. Every once in a while, Xiangcheng will send people to patrol the troops in each county. It has great power. The inspector even has the right to take down the commander of the army before reporting to the King of Dingxi. It is said that there are seven or eight people in total, each of whom patrolled back and forth between about ten counties, and then these people will be exchanged, so no one knows who the next inspector will be."

"You mean, there are garrisons in every county west of Xiangcheng?"

The skinny man spat and cursed, "Fuck, I thought Li Yuanshan had all his troops empty, so I pulled the team out and walked around. It turned out that he was hidden in various counties. It seemed that I had to go back as soon as possible. Don't end up not being able to steal the chicken, but being bitten by the weasel."

"right"

Zheng Duobao hurriedly said, "As far as I know, there are garrisons in each county and they are elite troops. You should not walk around randomly. A few heroes, I will say whatever I know. When will you let me go back?"

"It's not difficult for you."

The thin man said, "The last question is, when will the inspector come to you?"

"It's almost done. I guess I'll definitely arrive before night tomorrow, and it won't be more than noon the day after tomorrow. I heard that the inspector had arrived in Guan County, which was only more than one hundred miles away. The inspector was carrying three hundred elite cavalry, and the speed was very fast."

The skinny man nodded and said, "Goodbye."

“Goodbye bye”

Zheng Duobao stood up and wanted to turn around and run away. He didn't dare to see those people, for fear of arousing the other party's murderous intent.

"Seeing that you speak so happily, I'll give you some benefits."

The thin man suddenly stopped him and asked, "Is there any general in the army who has had a holiday with you? Say your name and we will go to his house to do a business tonight."

Zheng Duobao was stunned for a moment, and then said carefully: "There is... that guy Jiang Yunlai has been targeting me!"

"Lead the way"

The skinny man smiled: "If you search for more money from his house tonight, you will be immortal."

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That night, the rebel general Zheng Duobao sneaked into Jiang Yunlai's home for some reason and assassinated Jiang Yunlai. On the way to escape, he died of excessive blood loss due to serious injuries. The rebel general Li Liao certainly would not think that there was no hidden truth in this matter and immediately ordered the investigation into what was going on!

Just when it was almost dawn, Li Liao was also killed.
Chapter completed!