Chapter Ninety-Nine: Arrest (Part II)
The commotion outside the west gate lasted only a short time before it subsided, and although they were not all done, the volunteers were gathered and lined up along the gate into the city, and after a brief screening, returned to their camp. Everyone's face was full of questions, but they didn't dare to talk nonsense.
Above the city tower, looking at the little Lori next to her, she still had a frustrated expression on her face, Liu Yu didn't know how to comfort her, tonight's action was very unsatisfactory from the point of view of the results, only two spies on the same team were caught in one fell swoop, and the remaining three were fiercer than one another.
The one at the north gate, when he was arrested, was quite smooth, who would have thought that this person was on the way to the government with his hands tied, he didn't know how to get rid of the rope, and he ran all the way to the vicinity of the small courtyard where the enemy was broadcasting, and he desperately wanted to break in under the obstruction of several health guards.
When he found it impossible, he almost kidnapped Gu Xixi, who was about to enter the hospital, if Liu Shiyong hadn't arrived in time and decisively killed him with an arrow, the consequences were really unimaginable. I heard that the servant girl beside Gu Xixi was desperately entangled with the person at a critical moment, and she was slightly injured.
Although this person's actions are very dangerous, after all, they have always been in the open, and the other one made Liu Yu a little speechless. This person was very vigilant, and before the forbidden army could arrive, he suddenly disappeared, causing thousands of forbidden troops to search house to house overnight, and reported it on the radio in the city.
With nowhere to hide and no hope of getting out of the city, this person actually infiltrated the Pingyi warehouse in the south of the city, killed two guards, and began to set fire to the warehouse. If it hadn't been for the plan from the two captured spies and sending men to surround the warehouse area, there would have been more than just a loss of burning down a granary.
As for the one who just ran out, it was Liu Yu's intention, there was a fire in the city, which was very conspicuous in the night, and he needed someone to give Boyan the exact news, although it was not their planned behavior, but in order to save his life, that person should know what to say.
The granary was still burning at the moment, and in order to enhance the effect, Liu Yu also ordered someone to pour fire oil into it, believing that as long as he was not blind, he could see it clearly. Standing on the tower of the west gate, the southwest direction of the city was full of fire, reflecting the sky red.
After receiving the call of the marshal, Xie Ruji did not dare to slack off, and took Xie Chenggui to ride around the city to the west of the city. The first to find out that there was a fire in the city was his son Xie Chenggui, hearing his son's speculation, he was first stunned, and then he was overjoyed, and even rode his horse to try to get as close to the city as possible to see clearly.
"Look, could that be where the announcer is?" Xie Ruji stopped more than ten steps away from the moat, turned his head and asked, did Guo Wei hear that damn voice, Xie Ruji was a little expectant.
"What I saw in Yi'er, it's not like, if it's as expected, it should be where the grain and grass warehouse in the city is located, the last time I entered the city, I heard from my subordinates that the place where the loudspeaker was placed was not far from the government office, and it should be somewhere in the city." Xie Chenggui stepped forward and looked at it carefully for a long time, but still shook his head, there is no way to fake this, if the voice sounds again after a while, won't it be immediately exposed.
"Granary, that's also the important place, if it's really your people who did it, the handsome will be rewarded. But if you are not very sure, remember not to speak falsely. Although Xie Ruji was a little regretful when he heard it, he immediately reacted, which is also a big credit.
All the way around the city, the soldiers of the major battalions besieging the city gathered and stood in the distance and pointed at the firelight. made Xie Ruji have a kind of "Ruzi can be taught" a little pride, and looked at Xie Chenggui's gaze a little softer.
When approaching the big tent of the Chinese army in Boyan, both of them dismounted outside the camp and walked to the door with the marshal's personal soldiers. The pro-soldier was about to open his mouth to spread the word, when he heard a miserable scream of "ah", Xie Ruji was puzzled, but Xie Chenggui's face immediately changed, because he heard that this was one of his cronies.
"Ru Ji, you came just in time, where is Ling Lang?" When Boyan heard that the two of them had arrived, he hurriedly called in, and Xie Ruji's father and son entered the account to greet him, and Boyan told him what he was looking for.
It turned out that the sentinels on the periphery of Simon's camp had spotted a man running from the city, and he could not see clearly in the darkness, so he shot him down with an arrow, which went through the man's calf, and the man was tied up and brought back on horseback. Listening to this person's tone, it seemed that it was a spy arranged by Xie Chenggui, and Boyan summoned his father and son without knowing whether it was true or not.
Hearing that the man was not dead, Xie Chenggui asked himself to take a look, Boyan waved his hand and asked him to go, and then took several generals in the camp out of the tent to see the scene in the city. The west of the city was quite far from there, but the red fire was still very clear against the background of the night.
"Ru Ji, you passed through the south of the city, what did Ling Lang say?" After looking at it for a while, Boyan turned his head and asked Xie Ruji, who was standing beside him, Xie Ruji didn't dare to hide it, and told Xie Chenggui's statement.
"The grain and grass were burned, it is indeed possible, such a fire, but I don't know how many percent of it was burned." After hearing this, Boyan muttered to himself, such a big city, the granary must be vast, if it really burns, it will be a stretch, I just want to have wings and go to see it clearly.
After a while, Xie Chenggui walked over with his subordinate, the man's arrow had been taken out, and the voice just now was that the camp doctor was taking arrows and healing his wounds, but he was currently limping. Xie Chenggui instructed the man to tell what had happened, and he stood on his father's side, the father and son looked at each other, and Xie Chenggui nodded slightly.
"What is it that is given to you in the city to eat? What, there is meat, vegetables and soup, and the rice is enough. After listening to the man's account, Boyan first asked the key question, they are just volunteers, and this kind of food is quite good, which can only show the abundance of grain in the city.
"Look closely, is that the granary of the city located?" It was Xie Ruji who asked out loud, he knew that Boyan was a little suspicious of the effect of this fire, and hurriedly wanted that person to prove it. The man didn't dare to get up immediately, raised his eyes and secretly looked at Boyan, and saw that the big man nodded, so he got up from the ground and walked to the front to try to identify it.
But it was so far away, and he didn't know who set the fire at all, and when his son-in-law asked just now, he had already insisted that he had organized someone to put it by himself, so he didn't dare to say clearly. I looked at it for a while with the curtain, and looked at the posture of the fire, which was not small anyway.
"Back to the marshal, it is indeed the granary in the city, this must be the small subordinates in the city, but unfortunately, only the small one came out, and the marshal was invited to call the shots." The man knelt on the ground and knocked his head desperately, and Boyan listened to him and motioned for his soldiers to help him up.
"If it is as you say, you will have made a great contribution, and you and those people will be rewarded by their names." Boyan didn't ask any more, how could it be beneficial for himself that there was a fire in the city, it really burned food, and with the population in this city, it was difficult to support it for a long time.
After waiting for so long, what Boyan wanted to hear most was that there was not enough food in the city, if this was the case, there would be no need to use a strong attack, simply surround the city, defeat the soldiers and horses that came to help, and then it would be much easier to attack again when the food in the city was exhausted. Thinking of this, I just think that the firelight is also quite wonderful.
A group of people enjoyed this rare beauty outside the camp, until the damn sound sounded again, and all kinds of ghosts and wolves howled in the middle of the night, Boyan shook his head helplessly, once the city was broken, the person who presided over this matter could not let it go no matter what.
When the first rays of sunlight in the morning hit the window lattice, Liu Yu also woke up, the guards outside the house were already neatly lined up for drills, last night's arrest and interrogation were very late, and the two people caught were recruited very simply without torture, after separate interrogation and comparison with each other, it has been determined that there are indeed only these five people who have infiltrated the city.
Unexpectedly, their main task would be to sabotage the broadcast, Liu Yu was a little happy while laughing, although there was a forbidden army guarding the small courtyard, but if these people really approached as volunteers, they might not let the defenders be paralyzed, so as to achieve a surprise effect.
It's not that he feels sorry for those equipment, but once the forbidden army at the door is solved, there are either weak female streamers or powerless scholars in the house, thinking about the consequences, Liu Yu shuddered a little. Fortunately, Zhang Dutong's accidental death was discovered, so that this small group could be cracked along the vine, it's really hard to say whether it's luck or something else.
The fact that the enemy attaches so much importance to the small courtyard also fully shows how effective the harassment policy is, Liu Yu is a little complacent, but it is just the idea of patting his head, but he didn't expect it to work, well, it needs to be strengthened again, and the enemy outside the city must be covered with his ears when he sleeps.
Liu Yu dressed neatly and walked out of the house, took out a ball of cotton in his ear and threw it on the ground, this hut was built temporarily, because the city tower was destroyed, in order to let him have a place to sleep, he built such a small house in the open space near the city wall.
He nodded to the sergeants who saluted him, looked around to call someone, and found that the fire in the south of the city was still burning, but there was no fire light in the daytime, only black smoke rushing into the sky, which was unusually conspicuous under the crisp sky.
"Taishou, according to your orders, a few of us led people to guard the fire and burned it all night, and they all wanted to ask, do you want to continue to burn?" A soldier with a tired face must have just returned from there, and his face was still a little gray.
"Well done, keep it burning like this, make it louder, empty the nearby granary, and then find something that can burn and throw it in, and burn the empty silo together. Someone else will go, and a few of you will go and rest and get a good night's sleep. ”
Liu Yu nodded and said approvingly.