Chapter 57: Seeing Through
Soon after, Meng Tian and Zhang Tang and the two hundred Qin soldiers of the patrol battalion under them all cheered up, put on their armor, unsheathed their swords in their hands, and began to move.
Meng Tian and Zhang Tang walked out of the camp where they lived, and the two hundred Qin soldiers from the patrol camp brought by Zhang Tang also walked out of the camp one after another, all of them wearing neat armor and waiting for the operation to begin. Meng Tian and Zhang Tang walked to all the fronts, and Zhang Tang announced to the two hundred people that the password designed for this operation to be able to accurately distinguish the difference between Wei and himself was called a hunter, which means to be a hunter who specializes in shooting dark birds, and at the same time told everyone that anyone who gave the right password was his own person, and those who did not match it would be dealt with according to the spy. Because the Qin soldiers in Yiqu except for Wang Fei and a few other lieutenants who were sure that they had not defected and were assassinated by Wei killers in disguise, the rest of the people were not sure of the rest, so Meng Tian then said that all those who surrendered should be imprisoned first, and if they refused to surrender without the password, they would rather kill the wrong person than let go of a Wei spying.
After arranging everything, Meng Tian and Zhang Tang each led a hundred people quietly out of the barracks where they were stationed. For tonight's activities, Wang Fei and several lieutenants replaced the people guarding the barracks with their own subordinates, so everyone knew about it. The Qin soldiers guarding the barracks saw Meng Tian and Zhang Tang leaving the camp with the soldiers, so they opened the camp gate in advance and released them out of the camp.
After leaving the camp, Meng Tian and Zhang Tang walked not far with the people before they met Zi Yanran, who was waiting for them halfway. Meng Tian saw that Zi Yanran was safe and sound, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Zi Yanran saw Meng Tian coming over with the people and horses, and also got on the horse, walking side by side with Meng Tian.
Meng Tian asked as he walked, "How is it, has the thing I told you done?"
Zi Yanran replied: "Don't worry, I waited in the stables in the palace for a day to wait for the soldiers guarding the stables to change their guards and rest, and I poured all the laxatives into the pool where the horses drank water while they walked away." If these Wei people want to escape on horseback tonight, it is absolutely impossible, and I estimate that their horses will not have the strength to run for a mile. ”
After hearing this, Meng Tian asked, "Then have you seen my Black Wind, and how is it?"
"Don't worry, it seems that this group of Wei people are still knowledgeable, and they have enclosed your sweaty horse in a stable alone, because the horse is more strictly guarded, so I can only sneak a few glances on the roof, it seems that your sweaty horse is better than ours. ”
Meng Tian saw that Zi Yanran had eaten the vinegar of his own sweat and blood, and he didn't know what to say, so he had to say: "Yanran, don't misunderstand, you will always come first in my heart." I'm just concerned about the situation of the Black Wind, after all, it is the first treasure that the king has given me, so I attach so much importance to it, after all, it symbolizes the glory of our family. ”
Hearing Meng Tian's apology, Zi Yanran said: "I didn't misunderstand, I also like Black Wind, of course I hope it can be with us." Okay, let's not talk about Black Wind for now, let's go to the palace and rescue it first. ”
"Good. ”
Approaching the palace, today in charge of the security of the palace in the palace is a lieutenant who is very familiar with Wang Fei, named Zhang Yi, he is an old subordinate of Wang Shu Yingguang, and has been following Yingguang for more than ten years, so after hearing Wang Fei say to himself that Yingguang has been killed by the killers of Wei, Zhang Yi can't wait to pick up the guy at that time and go to the Wei killers who killed Yingguang and pretended to be Yingguang to deceive himself and such a Qin army brother, fortunately Wang Fei and several other captains stopped him, otherwise today's plan would be ruined in his hands. After being stopped, Zhang Yi also understood that his own strength alone was no match for those killers of the Wei State, Zhang Yi was a martial artist, but he did not lack brains, otherwise he would not be able to do the position of lieutenant just by relying on the incense with Yingguang. After learning of Meng Tian's plan, Zhang Yi was the first to immediately announce that he had joined, not only for something else, but also for Ying Guang, and he would also take revenge with his own hands to pay tribute to Ying Guang's spirit in the sky.
After asking the Qin soldiers who were following him for an hour, Zhang Yi took a few Qin soldiers around him to the door of the Yiqu Palace, pacing back and forth waiting for Meng Tian's arrival.
Not long after, Meng Tian rushed to the palace with people, and after meeting with Wang Fei, he told Wang Fei the interface password he used in the operation, and asked him to lead him to the place where the Yiqu people were imprisoned, and release the Yiqu people to act together.
At night, the Yiqu Palace's guards were still very tight, but under Wang Fei's guidance, Meng Tian and his party bypassed the courtyard where Fake Yingguang lived, and at the same time came to the room where the Yiqu people were held without disturbing the chief manager Gao Wei. Seeing Meng Tian with his people, Abra and the other fifty warriors untied the ropes on their bodies. Since they didn't see Gao Wei and Fake Yingguang during the day, Meng Tian and Zhang Tang didn't know the specific situation of the two, so they didn't do it directly and chose to act tonight.
After releasing Abra and the others, Meng Tian told Abra that he wanted him to take people to guard the rooftops around the palace, and work with Wang Fei to prevent the Wei killers from escaping, and he and Zhang Tang followed Zhang Yi to the residence of Fake Yingguang and Gao Wei, these two people seemed to be the killer organization leaders sent to Yiqu by Dark Bird this time, so in Meng Tian's plan, these two people were subdued first, and then they found out the other Wei killers lurking in Yiqu.
Meng Tian and Zhang Tang divided their troops, with Zhang Tang leading a hundred people and a hundred people under Zhang Yi to Gao Wei's residence, and Meng Tian himself took the remaining one hundred and one hundred of Zhang Yi's own for two hundred Qin soldiers to the courtyard where Fake Yingguang lived. Because I saw that the courtyard of Fake Yingguang was full of Qin's hoplites, so Meng Tian and Zhang Yi didn't dare to be careless, for this kind of soldiers who can fight against the cavalry charge, it is a kind of killer here, even with Qin's current strong national strength, this kind of hoplite does not exceed 50,000, except for 10,000 in the palace who are responsible for the safety of the palace, and Wang Jian has more than 20,000 for the battlefield against the enemy cavalry, and the remaining 30,000 are distributed among the royal families and the generals above the Qin court. In the early years, after seeing the heavy soldiers under Wu Anjun Baiqi, Wang Yingji once said frankly: If the widow has hundreds of thousands of such Qin soldiers, the world can get it. This shows the great lethality of this kind of soldier.
In the courtyard where Ying Guang lived, there were a hundred heavily armed soldiers, all of whom wore heavy armor all day, and only took off when they slept at night, and all the weapons in their hands were the heaviest Changge in the Qin army, so it was impossible to attack without two or more times the number of troops.
"Stop, this is where the general lives, and no one is allowed to come here at night. Before he reached the gate of the courtyard, the Qin soldiers guarding the door found Meng Tian and his party and shouted to Meng Tian and the others.
Zhang Yi looked at Meng Tian, but Meng Tian had already put on the mask on his helmet, and after seeing Zhang Yi's gaze at him, Meng Tian nodded. Zhang Yi stepped forward and replied: "Captain Zhang Yi, I have an urgent matter to see the general, please report it." ”
The Qin soldiers guarding the door saw that the Qin soldiers behind Zhang Yi were all wearing armor and holding weapons in their hands, and they were alert in their hearts, and said: "The general has rested, Zhang Duwei has something to do, come back tomorrow morning." ”
Meng Tian took a step forward and said, "Please also ask the guard brother to go in and tell him, otherwise how will you explain to the general if something happens to him?"
The Qin soldiers guarding the door looked at Meng Tian and asked, "Who are you?"
"Well, I said that I am a ghost, and I came to ask the general for my life, do you believe it?" said Meng Tian, who put away the mask on his face, revealing his own face.
Through the firelight, the two Qin soldiers guarding the door recognized Meng Tian, who had come to visit the general a few days ago, with a ghostly expression on his face: "You...... You're not already ......"
"Dead, isn't it? Meng Tian took over and said, "It's a pity that God didn't take my life, and told me that it wasn't really the general who killed me, so he sent me here to find out the matter." ”
The soldiers guarding the gate only knew that after Meng Tian left that day, the general had issued a military order saying that Meng Tian had colluded with the Yiqu people to plot to split the Yiqu, so they used a stratagem to kill Meng Tian and a woman who came with Meng Tian, and the two did not even find the body in the end.
Although Meng Tian's reputation is already well-known in Xianyang City and Hanguguan and other places, Yiqu is located in a remote area, and little is known about Xianyang City, so many soldiers in Yiqu do not know who Meng Tian is, only know that he is a child of a family who became a general at a young age.
Zhang Yi walked to the side in front of Meng Tian and said loudly: "Commander of the Great Qin Mengjia Army, General Meng Tian asks to see His Royal Highness Ying Guang." ”
Zhang Yi's voice was very loud, especially in the quiet Yiqu Palace, which was silent in the middle of the night, such a loud voice could be heard even from half a mile away. Seeing Zhang Yi call out his identity, Meng Tian nodded and motioned for Zhang Yi to retreat, while ordering the soldiers to prepare to prevent a sudden attack from the enemy.
Fake Yingguang, who was pretending to be seriously injured in the house, heard the sound outside, and immediately woke up from his sleep, and there was a Wei killer disguised as a pharmacist in the house, and when he saw Fake Yingguang wake up, he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Master, isn't Meng Tian already dead, how is he still alive?"
Fake Yingguang sat on the bed, looked at the subordinates in front of him, and said, "Don't you think that this sentence should be asked by me? Didn't you say that after eating your poison, Meng Tian and that woman were bound to die? Why are you still alive today?"
The pharmacist said: "The villain checked that the two of them were indeed not breathing, thinking that they really took my medicine and died, and I don't know how they are still alive in the world?"
"Okay, now isn't the time to study this, go find Galway first, and then figure it out. Now it seems that our identity has been discovered by Meng Tian, and now it's okay, the big thing of the chief helmsman is bad in our hands, even if we can or go back, our fate will not be much better. "Thinking of the killers in his organization who treat things unfavorably, if Yingguang is not good, he has a chill in his back, that kind of pain is really not as good as death, at least he won't feel the pain when he dies.
Meng Tian and Zhang Yi waited outside for a long time, seeing that there was no movement in the courtyard and the house, Meng Tian understood that these assassins knew that they were alive and still here, so they should know that their whereabouts had been known, and now should be the time to think about how to escape. Meng Tian approached Zhang Yi and whispered something, Zhang Yi nodded, led dozens of soldiers with bows and arrows to the front of the team, lit the arrows, and drew their bows to shoot arrows into the courtyard.
The heavily armed Qin soldiers in the courtyard all came over after Zhang Yi shouted Meng Tian's name, and after hearing the words of the two of their own people at the door, they looked at Meng Tian who had come back from the dead, and they were all stunned on the spot, but when they saw the people outside the courtyard lighting their bows and arrows and preparing to shoot arrows into the courtyard, they all subconsciously raised their shields, although they didn't know whether what Meng Tian said was true or false, but as a soldier's instinct, they still raised their shields for defense.