Chapter 59: A Bloody Night
Wan Li led the army to Yong'an Town overnight, marching all the way, and came to the vicinity of the military camp outside Yong'an Town in the early morning.
On the way here, Wan Li discussed the plan with Zhang Yinghao, so as soon as he arrived at the place, Wan Li arranged for his deputy to take Zhang Yinghao and the army to the barracks, and first controlled the barracks.
He led his twenty masters and two hundred officers and soldiers to rush towards the town's co-leader's mansion.
At this time, it was still early to leave the city gate, so there were no pedestrians at the city gate, Wan Li appeared at the city gate with his men, and the cronies around him directly took his token and jumped on the city wall.
The defenders on the city wall were startled and were about to attack this person, but when they saw the token in this person's hand, they quickly bowed down and saluted, and they did not dare to breathe.
Seeing this, the cronies snorted coldly and shouted: "What are you doing in a daze? Why don't you hurry up and open the city gate to welcome Lord Wanli." ”
The defenders trembled and opened the city gate in a hurry.
Wan Li saw that the city gate had been opened, and he was not in the mood to care about these little minions at all, so he rushed straight into the city with the army and rushed towards the co-leader's mansion.
Before Wan left, he found out the specific location of the Co-Consulate Mansion and came to the Co-Consulate Mansion non-stop. Without looking back, he ordered: "Surround the Consul's Mansion, leave no one behind, kill me!"
As soon as the order was issued, the sergeants behind him received the order in unison and began to surround the co-consul's mansion.
Wang Xieling, who was originally sitting in the study waiting for Zhang Yinghao to come back to report the news, suddenly heard the sound of hurried footsteps outside, and was overjoyed, thinking that Zhang Yinghao had returned with the army of the captain.
Wang Zhen is still thinking in his heart that Zhang Yinghao is his right-hand man, and his work efficiency is high.
Sadly, before Wang Zhen could get out of the study, he heard a lot of screams coming from the courtyard, followed by the sound of the door opening, and then a huge shout of killing.
Wang Zhenxin said badly, hurriedly rushed out of the study, just came to the courtyard, before he could see the situation in front of him, he heard an angry shout: "Thief Wang Zhen, dare to collude with bandits and betray the court, today Lord Ben will get rid of you for the people!"
Wang Zhen was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and said in his heart, "How did I become a collusion bandit? Who is this slandering himself, and he just wanted to scold, but he saw a figure flashing on the other side, and when the other party appeared, he had already come to his side.
A snow-white sword light flashed, Wang Zhen's head flew away from his neck and into the sky, and the last thought in his mind was, King Li!
After Wan Li killed Wang Zhen, he shook off the blood on the sword with a wave of his right hand, looked around and ordered, "No one will be left!"
Thinking of twenty commands around him, he took dozens of people and began to search the house.
Before dawn, the huge co-consul's mansion was full of blood, and except for the army brought by Wan Li, there was not a single living mouth in the mansion.
Wan Li then instructed his subordinates to load the things they found and take them away, and then sent several of his right-hand men to the mayor's mansion and asked him to send someone over to clean up the mess.
Wan Li took the rest of the men and horses to the military camp outside the city, although Zhang Yinghao swore on the way here, but he was still not at ease.
When he came to the barracks outside the city, he found that there was already a neat line inside to welcome him, Wan Li was relieved when he saw this, stretched out his hand and called his deputy to inquire about the situation.
The deputy stepped forward and whispered: My lord, this Zhang Yinghao really has some means, after he returned to the barracks, he summoned several captains under his command and said that there was an urgent matter to discuss
After several captains came in, this person didn't say a word, and killed one person in an instant while the other party was not on guard, and the rest of the captains saw this, and actually took the initiative to help Zhang Yinghao kill another captain.
After the sergeant below learned of the situation, our army had already surrounded here, and then Zhang Yinghao and several captains came forward at the same time to explain to everyone that Wang Zhen colluded with the two captains to bandits.
and this time Lord Wanli personally came to kill the traitor Wang Zhen, just like that, Zhang Yinghao took control of this army with only two captains.
Wan Li nodded after hearing this, a hint of appreciation flashed in his eyes, "This kid is not bad, quite capable, let him be the co-leader, and choose a henchman for the position of deputy co-leader and let him come here to restrain Zhang Yinghao." ”
After hearing this, the deputy nodded slightly and went down to arrange the matter.
Wan Li came to Zhang Yinghao's side and praised: "It's a good job, what Lord Ben promised you at the beginning will definitely be done, and when the bandits are finished this time, you go to Lord Baihu, he has his own arrangements." ”
Zhang Yinghao knelt on the ground and was excited: "Thank you Lord Wanli for your support, Zhang Yinghao will do his best to suppress the bandits and repay Lord Wanli for his kindness." ”
Wan Li nodded with satisfaction after hearing this, "You go to integrate the team first, and after the integration is done, tell me in detail about the strength of this team and the matching of troops." I'm going to know what I know. ”
Zhang Yinghao didn't dare to slack off, and said respectfully, and hurriedly integrated the team with several captains behind him, ready to start at any time.
Jiang Feng appeared at the gate of Yong'an Town early in the morning with his people, and Mayor Zhang, who had already received the notice, waited here with a group of squires before dawn, and when Jiang Feng appeared, everyone hurriedly stepped forward to welcome Lord Jiang into the mansion.
The spy of the Qiao family, who was hiding from a distance to monitor, hurriedly ran back to Qiao's house and reported the information he saw to Second Master Qiao, who had been busy in the past few days.
Because too many things have happened in Yong'an Town in the past two days, whether it is the frequent actions of the mayor or the blockade of the streets around the Co-Consulate's Mansion. It all made him feel a bad premonition.
He felt that Yong'an was about to have a storm, as if something big was happening.
He hadn't slept all night, and he just wanted to sleep for a while in the morning, but he was disturbed by someone before he could lie down.
Second Master Qiao suppressed his anger and asked, "What's the matter?"
The subordinate lowered his head and replied respectfully: "Master, the spy you sent out came back to say that there was something important to report. ”
Second Master Qiao's expression changed slightly after hearing this: "Hurry up and let him in." ”
The spies waiting outside heard the summons of the master, hurriedly walked in, and whispered in the master's ear: "Master, my subordinates have inquired, just now, Jiang Feng, the city lord of Blue Blood City, came to Yong'an with dozens of people, and he has been taken to the mayor's mansion by Mayor Zhang. ”
Second Master Qiao's heart tightened after hearing this, and he hurriedly asked, "Did you hear what they said?"
The spy looked a little embarrassed: "It's too far away, I can't hear what I said, I only heard Mayor Zhang say something like welcoming adults to come and guide." ”
After hearing this, Second Master Qiao asked the spies to continue to go out to investigate, and he sat on the chair and fell into deep thought, although the spies heard that Jiang Feng was here to inspect the work.
But many years of life licking blood made Second Master Qiao feel that things were not so simple, but he hated that there was no accurate information now, otherwise some problems could be seen from one point.
Thinking of this, Second Master Qiao fell into a tangle, and after pondering for a long time, he gritted his teeth and said, "It seems that you have to go out." ”
After speaking, he called the chief butler and asked him to take his handwritten letters and tokens to an old tavern in the West District, and asked him to hand them over to the shopkeeper there.
The butler put away the letters and tokens, walked out of the mansion, and walked towards the tavern in the west side.........
After Gao Sheng, the head of the Yamen of the town government, followed the mayor to pick up Lord Jiang, he hurriedly arranged the entourage brought by Lord Jiang with the master, and the two were busy from morning to noon, and Gao Sheng was able to be free.
For a person like him, who has no backing and no money, it is a miracle that he can become the head of the town government department and yamen manager at the age of forty.
Others say how hard he worked and how many big cases he solved, only he knows that the reason why he was able to sit in this position in such a short period of time is thanks to the help of a person, a person who helped him when he was down.
Gao Sheng, as usual, will come to this Ruyi tavern in the West District to sit as long as he has free time, this habit has not changed for so many years, and both his subordinates and his boss are very puzzled by his habit.
Gao Sheng's explanation to the outside is that he was taken care of by this tavern back then, so he had to repay the tavern after he developed to thank him for taking care of him back then.
Gao Sheng thought that today would be the same as usual, and hurry back to investigate the case after eating some wine and food, there have been a lot of cases in the town recently, and the manpower in the yamen is almost insufficient.
He didn't expect that after he finished the wine and food, he would come up with a letter and a token.
After Gao Sheng saw the token, his body was shocked, and his thoughts instantly returned to his youth, when he was still an ordinary catcher and escorted the bandits of Qinglongzhai to the Blue Blood City with a few companions.
Who knew that the bandits of Qinglongzhai came to save people halfway, and several of his companions were all killed by the bandits, and they escaped desperately, and passed out on the side of the road because of their injuries.
I had to meet my benefactor to help me, saved myself, and after hearing what happened to me, I took the initiative to help myself analyze, saying that I would definitely be punished if I went back like this, and the benefactor paid for himself to get through the relationship, so that he could be exempted from punishment, and also helped himself be promoted from a small catcher to a big team leader.
I was very grateful to him, so when the benefactor took out the token and told him that one day someone came to him with the token and asked him to help him complete something.
Gao Sheng agreed without thinking about it at the time, and as time went by, he knew that this benefactor was Qiao Erye, and only then did he know that he had fallen into the trap of the other party, but he had already gotten on the other party's thief ship, and he still had a handle in his hands, so he had to listen to his orders.
Fortunately, Second Master Qiao knows how to measure himself, and he hasn't looked for himself much over the years.
Thinking of this, Gao Sheng took the letter and put it in his arms, and said secretly in his heart: "I don't know what happened this time." Thinking of this, I was in no mood to eat, put down some money, got up and walked out of the tavern.