Chapter 32: The Secret of the World: Conquer the Holy City
The two jailers inside had already caught a glimpse of it, and they panicked to open the door. And the head of the cell said what had come of it, and gave another command, that he should go. While flattering the monk Dorai, the two jailers went to unlock the door of the inner cell.
Monk Dora was silent, threw two ingots of silver on the table, and bowed his head and went in. Yeli carried the cage and then entered.
The two jailers suddenly saw the big silver in white flowers, their eyes were shining, and they each grabbed a ingot, and on the one hand, they lit the brazier and roasted the fire, and on the other hand, they played carefully, so they were not excited.
The two stepped into the cell.
Yeli raised his eyes to look, and saw Yinghong reclining in a dim corner, ragged, as if he was sleeping.
Monk Duolai looked back at the outside of the cell door, and saw that the two jailers were holding the silver and looked at it, so he half-covered the small door, stepped forward, squatted down, and whispered in his ear, "Brother wake up, Xi'er sent someone to rescue you." As he spoke, he took the cage, opened the lid, and placed it at Yinghong's feet.
Since the sudden mutiny of Sukhumvit and the seizure of power, Kejing Hou Yinghong has been locked up in this cell, suffering for several months, gradually prostrating his body and his mental trance.
Suddenly, when he heard Monk Dorai speak, Yinghong came to his senses, opened his eyes and said, "Where is the person?"
"The night is here. Yeli stepped forward from behind Monk Dorai, bowed, and then took out the amber pendant and sent it to Yinghong.
Yinghong took the amber pendant and looked at it carefully in the faint light, but it was not the relic that his beloved wife gave to his daughter Zixi!
He held it for a long time, and said with mixed feelings: "The old man is looking forward to this time day and night! Sure enough, the truth of heaven is clear, evil does not prevail over righteousness, and the end of the old thief is approaching." ”
When Monk Dora heard this, he was puzzled and asked, "What do you mean by this, brother? Brother is still in a cage, and Xi'er is still outside the city of Stu, how can you say that the end of Sukhumvit is approaching?"
Yinghong handed over the pendant to Yeli, instructed to return Zixi, don't lose it, then stroked his long beard, coughed dryly twice, and said: "If Xi'er can't come back, I can only take this secret to the soil;
"What's the secret?" the monk was confused, and asked his brother to explain it. Monk Dora touched his head and said.
"Huh...... It's time to make it clear. The old thief only knew that he imprisoned me in this cell and forced him to ask for the 'Kejing Hou Seal', because without this 'Kejing Hou Seal', he, the Kejing Hou, was an impostor, but he didn't know that the old man kept this old life and waited for Xi'er to come back. ”
"Xi'er has already returned, what can I do?" Monk Duolai was full of question marks.
Yinghong took out a piece of steamed bun from the cage, took a bite hard, and said while chewing: "I'll wait for Xi'er to send someone into the city!
"Brother: You are so confused that the monk is confused. Monk Dorai was still confused, and said, "If there is any secret, brother, please tell me directly." ”
"Hehehehe......" Yinghong smiled faintly, and said very proudly: "After the arrogant attack on the city of Kestu, the old man thought about building a secret passage to the outside of the city, if the city of Stu was threatened by the extravagance again, he could save the strength of the Kejing people." This secret passage was built by the old man seven years ago, but he didn't expect it to be used today. ”
"Secret passages, there is a secret passage leading to the outside of the city, that is to say, the outside of the city can also lead to the inside of the city!" Monk Dori widened his pupils in surprise and sighed in surprise, "Brother, why didn't you tell the monk early when he came last time?"
"Xi'er didn't come back, what's the use of telling you?" Yinghong said, "I was suddenly kidnapped by the old thief that day, and I didn't have time to tell Xi'er, I just told her to hurry out of the city and go to Tatihu to move troops, and now Xi'er's soldiers are coming to the city and sending people again, this is the time that the old man has to wait!"
"My brother is thoughtful, and he has done such a big thing a long time ago, and the monk has thrown himself to the ground!"
The old man wanted to leave a way back for his children and grandchildren, but today he saved himself. Yinghong said, "It's just that after the army enters the city, you must beware of the old thief releasing the eight-headed little tapir." Those tapirs were originally monsters that were hybrids between savages and tapirs, with skin and flesh like steel, able to swallow iron and copper, not afraid of swords, and able to speak human language. The old thief relied on a strange book of "Bai Zetu" and obtained the method of training tapirs, so he dared to rebel. ”
"The monk also heard that Su Yong used a monster to be a pioneer, he can eat copper and iron, and he can't be sharp, it turns out to be this tapir!"
"This tapir is so powerful that no one can kill it, so I just told Xi'er to expel the old thief from the city of Stu, and never fight the tapir. Once the old thief loses his lair, the good days will come to an end. Yinghong instructed.
When he heard that Yinghong secretly cultivated the secret path specifically to deal with his father's arrogance, his heart was mixed, and then when he heard about the tapir, his whole body was beating and his heart was anxious, but he was worried about his father. He pondered in his heart that he wanted to eradicate the eight-headed tapir as soon as possible and put down the Sukhumvit Rebellion.
Seeing that the two had discussed it properly, he suggested: "It is not advisable to stay here for a long time, so it is better to go out of the city as soon as possible, report this matter to the princess, and rescue Yinghou as soon as possible." ”
Yinghong nodded and said, "I will tell you the location of the secret passage now, and after leaving the city, quickly call Xi'er to lead the army into the city." After that, he told the two of them the place where the secret passage came in and out, and how to open it.
Yeli firmly remembered in his heart, said goodbye to Yinghong with the monk Dorai, and walked out of the prison of Stu City.
Monk Tori carried a tin rod, swaggered out of the prison, raised his eyes and glanced at the sun, then put on a sad face, and said to the cell leader: "I am sorry to report to the high priest, and he said that the monk has a negative entrustment, and he has no shame to go to see him again, and he has already returned to the temple." ”
The cell boss agreed, and then he flew like a fly and went to Jiuding Tower to report the news.
The monk patted the monk's robe and smiled at Yeli. The two of them walked out into the streets, hired a carriage, and staggered all the way back to the Sudi Temple.
The two of them entered the temple gate with their front feet, and Sukhumv's secret agents followed their heels, monitoring all the inside and outside of Sudi Temple.
Monk Duolai knew that at this time, the slightest disturbance would arouse the vigilance of the old thief. He couldn't meditate, meditated, and actually came up with a way, it turned out that the mountain behind the Sudi Temple was a cliff more than ten zhang high, and no one cared about it on weekdays, which was a way out.
So Monk Duolai took advantage of the sunset to quietly descend Yeli safely from the cliff, then patted his head and breathed a sigh of relief, returned to the ashram, and continued to meditate and chant the scriptures.
Ye Lishen unknowingly went out of the Sudi Temple and went straight to the north city gate.
Beneath the gates, night had covered the land, and torches had been lit on the city's heads, and the sky was red with candles. Soldiers still patrol and come and go.
In the second half of the night, he went up to the north city while the soldiers were tired, and rose and fell like a falcon along the old road, and went down the north city tower with only two vertical jumps.
Under the cover of night, the night left the cat's body quickly, and after a short time had returned to the front of the camp, just when he saw Yu Gen patrolling the camp and turned back, so the two walked together and came to the big tent of the Chinese army.
Yu Gen summoned the sergeant to quickly invite Elder Yanqi, Yan Qiwu and the princess to come and discuss important matters.
The hour has passed the ugly hour. Elder Yanqi, Yan Qiwu and the princess entered the handsome tent one after another and took their seats in batches.
Yan Qi's nap eyes were worried, and when he saw that Yeli's face was dirty and embarrassed, he didn't save Yinghou, so he smiled and said, "How did the second prince become so sloppy?"
Yeli was stunned for a moment, touched his face, and wiped the ashes from the bottom of the pot with one hand.
didn't wait for Ye Li to answer, Yan Qiwu laughed again: "The princess still praised your ability, but she only came back with a disgraced face." Where is Yinghou now?"
Yeli was ashamed, glanced at the princess and said, "Yeli is incompetent, and he has never rescued Yinghou, which disappointed the princess." ”
The princess knew that this trip had failed, and she was quite disappointed, and when she saw that Yeli was full of dirt and dirt, and her words were, and her heart was very distressed, she comforted him and said: "I knew that the city prison was tight, and it was not easy to save people, but if I didn't give it a try, my heart was always unsteady, and I worked hard for the second prince." ”
Yeli replied: "Don't worry, princess, although Yeli didn't rescue Yinghou, he brought back an amazing secret. ”
"Amazing secrets! What amazing secrets?" Elder Yanqi hurriedly asked, "Tell me quickly!"
Yan Qiwu rolled his eyes and said disapprerovingly: "There will be some amazing secrets! ”
As soon as he promised to leave the night, he told the story of entering the city and the secret passage from beginning to end.
After everyone listened to it, it was like Jiutian Shao music in their ears, and the neon clothes and feathers were in their eyes, and they were all overjoyed and amazed.
This is really called: It is useless to spend all your efforts, it turns out that the sky has already arranged! Everyone gathered together happily, deliberated carefully, and finally decided: to break the city tomorrow.
There is a vein of hills stretching on the boundary of seven or eight miles away from the north gate of Situ City, and there is a miscellaneous forest distributed on the hill, and a large tomb is built in the miscellaneous forest, with walls and pavilions, but it seems that it has not been renovated for many years: the tomb is peeling off, the tombstone is broken, the surrounding is overgrown with weeds, and the scene is very barren.
But who would have expected that this tomb is the exit of the secret passage built by Yinghong!
At midnight the next day, Yeli and Princess Zixi and Yu Gen led more than 10,000 troops into the miscellaneous forest.
Yeli already knew this, and went directly to the big tomb, calling several strong men to turn the tombstone to the left with all their strength.
All the soldiers were very puzzled and stared wide-eyed.
And at the same time as it turned, the top of the tomb suddenly moved, like a lid slowly shrinking into the ground from right to left, and in a short time a large hole in the open sky was revealed, and the stone layers in it were visible, and it was indeed a secret passage!
All the soldiers were happy, and Princess Zixi was even more excited.
She shouted to all the soldiers: "Soldiers, success or failure is here! I hope everyone will work together to help me eradicate the old thief Sukhumvit." After the matter is completed, Zixi must thank him again. ”
In response, the soldiers shook their weapons in the air with a loud roar.
So Princess Zixi divided the soldiers and horses into three parts: the first part was led by Gen to attack the north city gate, and formed an internal and external attack with Yan Qiwu's siege men; the second part was led by Yeli to attack the prison and rescue Yinghou; and the third part was led by her to attack Jiuding Tower.
The generals took their own orders, and their emotions were high.
Yeli waved his hand and shouted, "Everyone come with me!" , that is, he first jumped into the secret passage, lit the torch and went forward.
Princess Zixi and Yu Gen also jumped down after him, and the soldiers behind scrambled to jump into the secret passage, holding torches and then advancing.
The secret passage was built very spacious, which could accommodate ten people in parallel, and the ground was very tidy, and nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses marched underground, not bustling and orderly, which shows that Yinghong had good intentions to operate such a scale.
The crowd marched forward in the secret passage with torches, and they did not know how long they walked, when suddenly the way was blocked in front of them.
When the night left, he knew that he had passed through the moat and the city walls, and came to the city. He turned around and said, "This is the exit, everyone be careful! I'll open the mechanism, and everyone will fight it out together!"
As I said, Yeli slowly turned the left wall foot machine.
All I heard was a rumbling sound, and the wall slowly rose upward.
Princess Zixi and Yu Gen were speechless when they fought with their weapons, and the soldiers clutched their weapons tightly in their hands and were eager to try.
When the mechanism was opened, several rockeries appeared above, and Princess Zixi and Yu Genshen rushed out of the secret passage.
Princess Zixi rushed out of the ground and raised her eyes to look, the surrounding scenery, including the rockery of Quchi, pavilions and pavilions, were all so familiar, but it was the back garden of her house!
The back garden was empty, deserted, and there was no one in sight, it turned out that Sukhumvit had already blocked off this place and had become an abandoned garden.
Princess Zixi and the generals secretly rejoiced, and quickly divided into three parts, pouring out of the back garden like ants coming out of their nests, each killing their targets.
Ye Li memorized the path of the prison by heart, so he led the men and horses to kill the prison.
The defenders and jailers had never dreamed of this, and rushed into battle, most of them were killed, some of them slipped away as fast as they could, and saved a small life.
The night left to kill the retreating defenders, went straight to the prison, rescued Kejing Hou Yinghong, and led the men and horses to kill Jiuding Tower, to help Princess Zixi.
Yu Gen was also familiar with the situation in the city, and led the crowd to the north gate and released fireworks to transmit the message.
Outside the city, Yan Qiqi had already been waiting for him at noon, but when he saw the smoke and flames rolling in the city, he ordered the soldiers to attack.
Nathan and the six Quan Davi were shocked, panicked and supervised the army to fight, but it was difficult to cope with the inside and outside, and the army was already collapsed after a short battle, so they had to lead hundreds of soldiers out of the battle group and move closer to Jiuding Tower.
So Yu Gen opened the city gate, and the soldiers and horses of Yan Qiwu were united, and then chased and killed, and also killed close to Jiuding Tower.