Chapter 132: Prisoners
The current Zhaofu Palace, that is, the original system of the Yamen is located on the Royal Street of Jiankang City, behind the side of the palace, and the prison under it is far away in the south of the city, relying on the Qinhuai River and the savings area of the Sihu warehouse. This is not an ordinary criminal who can live in this place, it is a matter of the county government, and only the prisoners with grades and the main culprits of the Qin murder case are qualified to be here.
To put it this way, the original "Mr. Chen" is now renamed Yang Xing Potential, which is locked up here, which can be regarded as a high-standard treatment. Liu Yu chose this place only because there were few people and it was quiet and easy to manage, in fact, there were no more than three prisoners in the entire prison even with Yang Xingqian at that time.
It's not as damp and dark as an ordinary prison, and there are only a dozen people locked up in the prison of Nuoda, all of them are single-person and single-roomed, which is a hundred times better than other places. But from the days of princely people who responded to every call, they suddenly fell to this, even if they were really given brocade clothes and food, how could they bear it?
Needless to say, Lu Wenhuan, who is the governor of the Great Yuan Dynasty, this is the title of the ruler, and when he is placed in the Great Song Dynasty, even the empress dowager of the official family has to be called the first class of the ministers. Even if it is the next little Xie Ruji, Fan Wenhu and others, one is tens of thousands of households in the Han army, and the other is the newly sealed governor of the two Zhejiang provinces and the right man of Zhongshu, who has suffered such a thing on weekdays.
In a cell in the back, Lu Wenhuan sat on the edge of the bed in a daze, his eyes were lifeless, and his expression had not changed since he was pushed in yesterday. It's only been a little more than a day, and the few black hairs on Lu Wenhuan's head have all turned snow-white, and the things that he has fought for all his life are gone
Among the several generals of the new attached army, the nephew Lu Shikui, who was shot into a hedgehog, swallowed his breath in his arms, and Chen Yi, the governor of the Yangtze River, who followed him, was also cut off by someone not long after, and tens of thousands of troops collapsed like this, and together with himself, he became someone else's trophy.
Why? He couldn't figure it out anyway, the Song army really had such strength, why did it fail to break the siege of Xiangyang by the Tartars in the first place, and besiege the city with an absolutely superior army until it was surrounded and annihilated by the defenders, such a joke can only be compared to the battle of Kunyang, which made Liu Xiuwei famous in the Xinmang period, thinking of this, Lu Wenhuan couldn't help laughing, his life is a joke.
Fan Wenhu, who was separated by a wall, didn't understand what he was laughing at, the whole army was wiped out and became a prisoner, what is there to be happy about, if it wasn't happy, then this sixth uncle must have lost his mind and gone crazy, what are you afraid of, the Song people will not kill people, otherwise what will they take to negotiate conditions with Dayuan. As long as you don't die, you can do it again, and wait for the next time Fan Wenhu's face became ruthless, and his hand was clenched into a fist.
Xie Ruji lived on the opposite side, looking at Lu Wenhuan, who was laughing wildly, he only glanced at it and ignored it, and his mind flew to the son in the army. Fortunately, he had already noticed that the kid had secretly changed into a soldier's costume before putting down his weapon, and with his cleverness, as long as he was careful not to be recognized, he should be able to escape with his life.
As for these people, as long as they don't kill, the most they can do is pay some ransom, after all, the living are more valuable than the dead, and the guard has not done it, if you want to talk about hatred, the few Mongolian thousand households next to you are more hateful than yourself. Xie Ruji comforted himself in his heart, and after a while, he heard the sound of the cell door being opened, and a line of footsteps came over.
It was almost noon, the sun shone in through the iron window above the high wall, and was illuminated on the ground by the gate of the cell, Liu Yu slept very early yesterday, and there was no pressure, this sleep was enough to get up until now, he came here not to be happy, but to find someone.
Because the standard of the prisoners is relatively high, the guards here are naturally not ordinary servants, and a commanded forbidden army temporarily plays the role of the cell leader, divided into several shifts to guard in turn, although they all recognize this guard, they still check the number plate according to the rules before being carried into the cell by the head of the city on duty.
"Who's laughing?" Not long after entering the door, there was a somewhat sharp laughter from the prison, echoing in the cell like a night owl, if it wasn't for the blue sky and daylight, it was really a little weird, Liu Yu couldn't help but ask the forbidden army in front of him.
Somehow, someone called a scribe, who searched for the roster in his hand for a while, stared in the direction of the sound for a while, and then turned his head and pointed out a name. Liu Yu saw that the traditional Chinese characters of these three Chinese characters had not changed much compared with the simplified Chinese, and he just happened to recognize them.
"Lu Wenhuan?" This name was known when I first read the famous martial arts novel "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", but unfortunately, this is a character who could have become a national hero, Liu Yu stood outside the door and looked at the old man with white hair, I don't know why he kept laughing.
"Huangkou Xiaoer, what are you doing staring at the old man?" Being stared at by Liu Yu's cold gaze for a while, Lu Wenhuan felt uncomfortable, stopped laughing, looked up, and found that there was a strange young man standing in front of him, looking himself up and down, and his eyes were quite unfriendly.
"While you can still laugh, laugh, the days are numbered, and you must not restrain them from eating." Liu Yu turned his head to Du Tou and said, he didn't plan to pay attention to this old man anymore, turned around and prepared to walk away.
"Who are you, why do you say that, your court will not kill the old man, they don't dare." Seeing that he was being ignored, Lu Wenhuan shouted loudly with some annoyance. He surrendered for a few years, and the Song court didn't even move his family in Lin'an, and the mansion didn't commit any crimes, how could he kill himself?
"You're right, the court doesn't dare, it's just that the life and death you are waiting for, the court doesn't count what you say, and it doesn't matter if you say so. Listen to it, a certain name is Liu Yu, he is in the underworld, don't call the wrong name. After a pause, Liu Yu walked away without looking back, and when he heard his words, Lu Wenhuan and several others who knew Chinese were stunned.
This is already the innermost cell, Liu Yu simply checked all the detainees all the way according to the roster, and when they talked like this, some of the people who had fallen asleep woke up, looking at him indifferently, until he stood still in front of a cell, and the prisoners inside fell asleep facing the wall, snoring thunderously, and such a big movement actually failed to wake him up.
"Wake him up, find two people to escort him out, and so-and-so will be taken away." Liu Yu checked the name, there was no mistake, it was the person he was looking for, so he closed the list, threw it to Dutou, and turned around and walked out first. All of them gave the order, turned around and called the two forbidden soldiers, took out the key to open the cell door, and pushed and pulled the man out of bed.
After being woken up, Cheng Pengfei stood on the ground in a daze, rubbing his eyes, letting the prison guards shackle him, and obediently followed them out of the prison door. I thought I was going to go to the hall or something, but who knew that he was taken all the way to a restaurant, until he raised his feet and entered the private room on the second floor, he was still confused.
There were already a few people in the building, and a young civil official sat in the middle, next to a big man more than six feet long, and a few other personal soldiers dressed as scattered around. Cheng Pengfei looked at these people suspiciously, not like he wanted to kill himself, nor did he seem to want to judge himself.
"At the beginning of the siege, you entered the city and handed over the letter of surrender, we saw it there in the solicitation, do you remember?" As soon as the young man spoke, Cheng Pengfei immediately remembered, indeed, no wonder he looked a little familiar. I just didn't understand his purpose, and I didn't speak, waiting for his next step.
"I don't know if I should call you Cheng Dutong, or Cheng Qianhu, before talking about business, there is something unclear, can you tell me?" Liu Yu didn't ask him to sit down, just stood in the middle in shackles, Cheng Pengfei heard his words, just nodded and still didn't speak.
"As far as I know, you and the thousands of people in your department are quite famous in the new annex army, why haven't you led the team forward in all the sieges?" Obviously didn't expect Liu Yu to ask this, Cheng Pengfei raised his head in some surprise, and then his eyes dimmed, and there was a hint of helplessness on his face.
"Cheng had no choice but to be a traitor, just to find a way to live for his brothers, after returning to the camp alive from the city that day, he asked Lu to participate in politics to ask for a messenger to transport grain, and he has always been in the rear army, so he has never participated in the siege of the city, but if Lu participates in politics or the marshal orders, they have to obey."
"In this case, this time they came to you to find a way out for you and your brothers, would you like to listen?" Liu Yu's fingers clasped on the tabletop, making a rhythmic sound, Cheng Pengfei's face changed a few times, and he seemed to struggle in his heart before nodding gently.
Seeing that he agreed, Liu Yu motioned to his soldiers to unshackle him, and brought him to the table to sit down, and the two soldiers stood behind him with the handle of the knife in hand, just in case. Jin Ming, who was tall, sat between him and Liu Yu, and tore off the cloth on the table, revealing what was underneath.
"This map is Jinghu Road!" Cheng Pengfei looked at it for a while, and as expected, he exclaimed, the picture was on Jin Ming's side, Liu Yu and Cheng Pengfei could only tilt their heads if they wanted to see it clearly, Cheng Pengfei saw such a delicate map, and he wanted to stand up when he was excited, but he was pressed down by the soldiers behind him.
"You're right, this is the map of the north and south roads of Jinghu Lake, and of course Jingnan South Road." In fact, there is only one Xiangyang Mansion and the surrounding area on Jingnan Road, as early as a few years ago, this system did not exist with the reduction of Lu Wenhuan's yuan, Liu Yu pointed to the Dajiang area with a metal whip while explaining.
"After the southern invasion of the Tartars, it was originally to Xiangyang as the www.biquge.info of the pen fun pavilion, after occupying most of my Jinghu North Road, its base camp was transferred to Ezhou, this defeat, Boyan and others not only left you foot soldiers, but also lost most of the naval army, yes or no?"
"Well, when the handsome Boyan led me down the river, Ezhou was guarded by Ali Hague, but I heard that he then led people to attack the area of Jiangling Mansion, as expected, you want to take advantage of the emptiness of their troops at this moment to fight the idea of Ezhou?"
After listening to Cheng Pengfei, Liu Yu and Jin Ming glanced at each other, this person's sense was very keen, Liu Yu just said a little bit about the shape of the tartar, and he immediately thought of the plan behind. Liu Yu didn't hide it from him, met his gaze without concessions, and nodded solemnly.
"In this case, it is very clear why I came here, yes, I and my brothers have been stationed in Ezhou for a long time, and they can go in and out with their eyes closed. But if you really occupy Ezhou, it is equivalent to cutting off the retreat of the Tartars, how can you hold on, their hundreds of thousands of troops in front and back? ”
"Defending the city? Is there anything more difficult to defend than this Jiankang City, if the Tartars want to attack, they have to cross this big river, without the water army, what do they use to cross the river, as long as they are blocked in the south of the Yangtze River, they don't need to fight, they can starve to death if they are hungry. Jin Ming took over the conversation rudely, slammed his fist on the table, and made a loud "bang".
Cheng Pengfei didn't speak again, staring at the map quietly, Liu Yu's plan is very risky but also has a great possibility of success, as long as the action is fast enough, Cheng Bu can directly deceive the city gate under the banner of the new annexed army. It's just that it is impossible to hold it with his thousands of men, where is the follow-up force? That's the key.